statism watch

It was only a matter of time before this eugenics nonsense came back to Canada – it’s already infected the minds of the British upper crust, and has been exposed as a sort of religion of micromanagement treasured by global elites. Let’s not forget the fact, Diane, that China’s policy – while presented as a voluntary educational campaign at first – was swiftly implemented by forced abortion, infanticide, and compulsory sterilization. So, Diane, anything else about Canada you don’t like that should be subject to ‘planetary law’? Just keep on ignoring the fact that birthrates plummet in industrialized countries and we look forward to hearing more of this socialist claptrap from you in the near future.

Flashback: Baby emissions fuel global warming | Aging Shanghai pushes for more babies | Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures | Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation | David Attenborough becomes patron for population reduction | UK population must fall to 30m: Optimum Population Trust | Don’t blame right-wing thugs for eugenics – Socialists made it fashionable | Do Swiss parents need a childrearing licence? | Population control thinktank to Britons: Have less children

Diane Francis, National Post
December 8, 2009

The whole world needs to adopt China’s one-child policy

The “inconvenient truth” overhanging the UN’s Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.

A planetary law, such as China’s one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.

The world’s other species, vegetation, resources, oceans, arable land, water supplies and atmosphere are being destroyed and pushed out of existence as a result of humanity’s soaring reproduction rate.

Ironically, China, despite its dirty coal plants, is the world’s leader in terms of fashioning policy to combat environmental degradation, thanks to its one-child-only edict.

The intelligence behind this is the following:

• If only one child per female was born as of now, the world’s population would drop from its current 6.5 billion to 5.5 billion by 2050, according to a study done for scientific academy Vienna Institute of Demography.
• By 2075, there would be 3.43 billion humans on the planet. This would have immediate positive effects on the world’s forests, other species, the oceans, atmospheric quality and living standards.
• Doing nothing, by contrast, will result in an unsustainable population of nine billion by 2050.

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Handing control of ‘climate change finance’ – a global tax, really – to the World Bank, itself a consortium of private central banks, has been the plan all along. There’s little wonder that developing nations are up in arms about this, given it’s the World Banks predatory lending practices that have ensured their perennial ‘developing’ status. However, they could have seen this coming if they’d taken the time to read a few newspapers. Or a blog or two – Christopher Monckton, a British peer, has been blowing the whistle on these documents since mid October.

Flashback: Canada agrees to contribute to $10-billion climate change fund | UK: Brown proposes global fund to kick-start Copenhagen climate change process | Leaked G20 Documents Shed Light on Global Carbon Tax | Everyone in Britain could be given a personal ‘carbon allowance’ | Czech President: Copenhagen to be ‘Largest tax increase in world history’ | Friends of the Earth attacks carbon trading as banker scam | Oil Companies Support Global Warming Alarmists, Not Skeptics | Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate, downgrades CO2 threat | EU agrees to pay developing countries ‘climate aid’ to pass Copenhagen | Copenhagen’s Plans for a New ‘Government’ are Scary | Copenhagen, carbon, and the global corporate agenda | Lord Nicholas Stern: The world’s future is being decided this weekend | Thatcher science adviser: Copenhagen goal is world government | German Scientists Call for ‘World Climate Bank’ | G8 Summit: Rich nations to pay green tab | US Congress Passes the 1,200-page Climate Bill that it was not allowed to read | Climate Cops To Fine “Wasteful” Homeowners & Businesses | Obama targets US public with call for climate action | Obama to stake reputation on fast-tracked climate bill | The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment? | Ontario unveils cap-and-trade legislation | Economic stabilization may rely on carbon economy, economist says | Climate panel presses for federal cap-and-trade system | NRTEE Carbon Market Panel is ‘Round Table on Socialist Planning’ | Obama, Gore, tied to Chicago carbon exchange | U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy | U.N. Environment Head Wants Global Warming Tax | Time to emulate Roosevelt’s New Deal and create green jobs | EU calls for global carbon trading system to fight climate change

John Vidal, The Guardian
December 8, 2009

Developing countries react furiously to leaked draft agreement that would hand more power to rich nations, sideline the UN’s negotiating role and abandon the Kyoto protocol

A Haitian delegation rests before the second-day session begins in Copenhagen. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN’s role in all future climate change negotiations.

The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals.

The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as “the circle of commitment” — but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark — has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week.

The agreement, leaked to the Guardian, is a departure from the Kyoto protocol’s principle that rich nations, which have emitted the bulk of the CO2, should take on firm and binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gases, while poorer nations were not compelled to act. The draft hands effective control of climate change finance to the World Bank; would abandon the Kyoto protocol — the only legally binding treaty that the world has on emissions reductions; and would make any money to help poor countries adapt to climate change dependent on them taking a range of actions.

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Everyone knows the fix is in.

Flashback: Climategate: Investigations into climate fraud fixed | ‘Independent’ United Nations panel to examine Climategate evidence | Bombshell UN Climate Documents Reveal Planned “End Run” Around National Sovereignty | Climategate: Global Warming scientists placed under investigation | Latest Climategate revelation: Climate change data dumped | Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation | Obama’s ‘Science Czar’ John Holdren Friend of Climate Deception Lab | “Climategate”: Peer-Review System Was Hijacked By Warming Alarmists | Top Climatology Lab Hacked, E-Mails Reveal Biased Science | Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out | IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0 | IPCC case for global warming melts on multiple fronts | Obama Science Advisor Called For “Planetary Regime” To Enforce Totalitarian Population Control Measures | IPCC caught with false figures, doubt cast on accuracy of global temperature record

The Telegraph
December 8, 2009

The past decade has been the warmest on record, according to the data presented by the Met Office at the Copenhagen climate change summit.

The figures, which indicate that 2009 was the fifith hottest year since the 1850s, prove that the world is getting warmer, according to researchers.

“These figures highlight that the world continues to see global temperature rise most of which is due to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and clearly shows that the argument that global warming has stopped is flawed,” Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice, said.

The global surface temperature record for the last 160 years is maintained jointly by the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

However this year their report will come under unprecedented scrutiny because of the continuing scandal surrounding the leaked ‘climategate’ emails.

Global warming sceptics claim that emails stolen from UEA prove that scientists were willing to manipulate climate change data to show an increase in global warming and question the reliability of the latest data.

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That’s just how we do business in Toronto. (Justice demands an appeal.)

Flashback: Toronto Police Union picks controversial new president Michael McCormack | Three Toronto cops to stand trial on corruption charges | Police corruption preliminary probe ends

Peter Small, Toronto Star
December 7, 2009

A judge has thrown out corruption charges against retired Detective-Constable William McCormack, son of a former Toronto police chief.

The lead investigator in one of Toronto’s major corruption trials is being blamed for much of the delay that led to charges being tossed Monday against two former high-profile police officers.

After almost six years, Superior Court Justice Bonnie Croll stayed the charges against Det.-Const. William McCormack — son of a former Toronto police chief — and Const. Rick McIntosh, once the popular president of the Toronto police union, ruling that delays had breached their right to a fair trial.

McCormack and McIntosh were accused of shaking down bar owners in the Entertainment District.

Croll ruled that Staff Insp. Bryce Evans sparked time-consuming legal problems by the way he managed his informants, “triggered a lengthy adjournment … delayed the examination of witnesses” and created repeated conflicts with defence lawyers’ schedules.

The case, which led to the officers’ arrests in 2004, involved disturbing allegations and afforded a unique glimpse into the murky world of Toronto’s club scene:

• Police officers being paid off by nightclub owners to obtain liquor licences and avoid liquor and overcrowding charges.
• Secretly recorded conversations of club operators, some with mob ties, describing officers being given free meals and cash payments.
• A police informant, Neil Peluso, alleged to have high-ranking mob ties, out to get corrupt officers.
• Investigators on the case intimidating witnesses to the point where one fled town.

This is the second major Toronto police corruption case in two years thrown off course by Crown delays.

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Flashback: Taser inquiry wraps up in Vancouver with legal squabbles | Canadian police adopt new TASER directive | RCMP actions ‘gratuitous, ‘violent,’ BC needs own police lawyer tells inquiry | Braidwood inquiry reopens, RCMP bickers over preplanned TASER use | TASER files court motion to quash Braidwood probe’s findings | Mounties have no choice but to comply with TASER ruling | Justice says changes needed in Taser use | Mounties discussed Tasing Dziekanski prior to altercation | Judge: B.C. taser probe can rule on Mountie misconduct issue | Mounties want to bar Taser inquiry from finding misconduct | RCMP spokesman told to hold off correcting false details of Dziekanski incident, inquiry hears | RCMP supervising officer contradicts earlier testimony in Dziekanski inquiry | RCMP to face no charges in case of TASERed Polish immigrant: Report | Mountie involved in fatal crash was supervisor at time of airport Taser death | Perjury: Is it different for cops? | Mounties censor Taser report | Witness blames RCMP, Vancouver airport for death of Tasered man

Petti Fong, Toronto Star
December 8, 2009

The four RCMP officers involved in the Tasering of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski failed to de-escalate the situation and used the Taser weapon prematurely and inappropriately, the office for public complaints against the force has found.

Following a two-year investigation, Commissioner Paul Kennedy made some harsh criticisms of the RCMP in its handling of the case. Dziekanski was fired upon, within 24 seconds of four RCMP officers arriving at the scene, five times with the Taser weapon. He died minutes later on the floor of the international arrivals area at the Vancouver International Airport Oct. 14, 2007.

The incident has dogged the RCMP since, especially following the release of a video shot by a bystander which clearly showed that Dziekanski was not combative and no warning was given before the weapon was deployed.

“Overall I found that the conduct of the responding members fell short of that expected of members of the RCMP,” wrote Kennedy in his report. Earlier this month, Kennedy’s contract as head of the commission, an oversight body, was not renewed.

“The members demonstrated no meaningful attempt to de-escalate the situation, nor did they approach the situation with a measured, coordinated and appropriate response,” he wrote.

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