Mikofox’s Cabin Fever Blog

Algonquins claim Ottawa and Montreal as their territory
Wed, 2010-04-21 13:55.
Brian Lilley, Newstalk 1010
 
A declaration written on buckskin and signed by 8 Algonquin chiefs was delivered to Parliament Hill today. The chiefs were there to tell politicians that the land the Parliament Buildings stand on is Algonquin land and so is much of Ontario and Quebec.

A map distributed with the declaration shows an area stretching from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Drummondville, Quebec as belonging to the Algonquins, the area includes cities such as North Bay, Ottawa, Montreal and Trois-Rivieres.

Grand Chief Lucien Wabanonik says this is not a land claim it is a statement of fact. "We will not be entering into the current land claim process devised by the government," says Wabanonik in a statement, "because these lands are ours." Wabanonik says that the government land claims process is not about recognizing rights but extinguishing them.

The declaration says that the Algonquin will no longer allow development within their territory "without our free, informed and written consent." Wabanonik says he and his people are willing to cooperate and share resources but that they clearly own all the land in question, including homes in cities like Montreal and Ottawa. He says any development on Algonquin land, including homes, is an infringement of their rights and title.

Representatives from the Liberal Party and the NDP attended the rally and addressed the crowd of several hundred. Liberal Aboriginal Affairs Critic Todd Russell telling those assembled, "I accept your statement, I accept your statement of self-government." Russell also said he accepts the map and territory claimed by the Algonquin and encouraged the Conservative government to sit down and negotiate nation to nation with the chiefs.

New Democrat Charlie Angus who represents part of the area claimed says he understands the frustration of first nations as they try to get compensation or consultation from companies looking to set up mines or other resource extracting industries.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl were invited to attend but did not show up, instead a bureaucrat from Strahl’s office arrived to accept the buckskin declaration, he did not offer any comments.

Declaration of the Algonquin Anishinabeg First Nation communities of:
Abitibiwinni, Eagle Village, Kitcisakik, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, Long Point,
Lac Simon and Wahgoshig assert that:

Our homeland is comprised of our historical attachment and occupation of our ancestral territories as defined through our continuous exercise of nationhood;

We are rooted in the same territorial soils of our ancestors since the time of creation, drawing from the water, animals, fish, birds, plants and natural resources for sustenance;

The Creator has provided us with unparalleled spiritual beliefs and with a unique language, attached to an environmental covenant shaping our collective understanding of our obligations as caretakers of Mother Earth with whom we continue to share a relationship;

Our natural order of protocols in our kinship with nature originates form our holistic connection to the Creator, and deeply rooted principles of tradition forbid us to cede, release, surrender or extinguish our underlining inheritance as well as those of our future generations;

That words: "to cede" "to abandon" "to abolish" or "to extinguish our rights" this concept does not exist in our language, which is the Anishinabe language.

We have always held steadfast in the ways of our ancestors and therefore in our sacred duty to preserve and maintain our ancestral lands for the present and future generations;

We maintain that it has been by force and not by right that the surface and subsurface resources of our territory have since time of contact been continuously exploited for the benefit of others;

We maintain that our territory is continuously being infringed by resource developments such as mining, forestry, hydro development, road construction, tourism and urban developments all in a slow but deliberate attempt to aggressively encroach on our entitlement and to stop and eradicate our people’s ancestral social order;

We have title and undeniable human rights to define our territory and with the collective will of our nationhood anchored within the sovereignty of the Creator, we will summon the character of cultural value to exercise and assert our rights within the soils of our Anishinabe territory;

That in the spirit and necessity for peaceful co-existence, we are not opposed to a co-operative, fair and sustainable development approach that will create respectful discussions and chart a process for total inclusion in being fully consulted and accommodated in all present and future resource development within the soils of our defined territory;

We have the right to meaningful compensation and redress with regards to our collective lands/resources which have been confiscated without just cause and which continue to be occupied and ravaged on a daily basis;

That our brothers and sisters who live in North-Eastern Ontario always understood that they would share their natural resources in exchange of some other benefit of the Crown.

We collectively agree to take all necessary balanced and informed actions in no longer allowing development upon the soils of our Anishinabe territory without our free, informed and written consent;

We agree to support and work together to defend and uphold this Declaration for the present and future benefit of all our Anishinabe Nation.

As tragic as the Haitian calamity is, it is merely symptomatic of a far deeper tragedy that’s completely ignored, namely self-inflicted poverty.
…

The biggest reason for Haiti being one of the world’s poorest countries is its restrictions on economic liberty.
…

President Rene Preval is not enthusiastic about free markets; his heroes are none other than the hemisphere’s two brutal communist tyrants: Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

via Walter Williams.

How could the United States become Norway? The first step is for the government to enact massive government programs, such as Obamacare and cap-and-trade legislation, to increase dramatically the number of people who depend on the government. European socialist governments have used the same method to entrench themselves in power. Once the government forces people to depend on it for their health, livelihood, and welfare, the chances that the voters will reelect those on whose largess their life prospects depend increase significantly. Thus, contrary to appearances, the government's intrusion in people's lives is not entirely ideological, nor is it motivated by the desire to advance the public good. The aim of these moves is to expand and consolidate domestic political power.

via American Thinker: I Don’t Want to Be a Norwegian.

Copenhagen was the last-chance saloon not for the planet, which does not need saving, but for the UN’s world-government wannabes. They blew it, big-time, by believing their own overspun propaganda about planetary peril and thinking they had “world leaders” where they wanted them. They overreached themselves, and have paid the price.

Even though next year is an el Nino year accompanied by fast-recovering solar activity, 2010 may not, after all, set a new global-temperature record to overtop that which was set in 1998, the year of the Great el Nino. By the time the next yackfest takes place in Mexico City in December 2010, the steam will have gone out of the “global warming” scare. We should not let our guard down, but Copenhagen is more than the end of the beginning for Green fascism: it is the beginning of the end. The eco-Nazis’ attempt at global bureaucratic coup d’etat has failed, and no such attempt is likely to succeed again. Too many of you are watching.

via Parturient montes: nascetur ridiculus mus | The SPPI Blog.

This week has been truly historic. It has marked the beginning of the landslide that is collapsing the whole AGW imposture. The pseudo-science of global warming is a global laughing stock and Copenhagen is a farce. In the warmist camp the Main Man is a railway engineer with huge investments in the carbon industry. That says it all. The world’s boiler being heroically damped down by the Fat Controller. Al Gore, occupant of the only private house that can be seen from space, so huge is its energy consumption, wanted to charge punters $1,200 to be photographed with him at Copenhagen. There is a man who is really worried about the planet’s future.

via Copenhagen climate summit: ‘most important paper in the world’ is a glorified UN press release – Telegraph Blogs.

A leaked draft version of the agreement on the table at the Copenhagen climate conference reveals plans for a massive transfer of wealth out of Canada. This transfer will come in the form of new taxes and the establishment of a new world government body for climate change housed in the World Bank.

Lord Christopher Monckton is reported to have obtained a working copy of the draft agreement. He warns that the secretive draft version of the Copen-hagen climate change treaty represents a global government power grab on an "unimaginable scale," and mandates the creation of 700 new bureaucracies as well as a colossal raft of new taxes including two per cent levies on GDP and a two per cent tax on every international financial transaction.

The draft agreement also reportedly contains a provision for a "uniform global levy of $2 per tonne of CO2 for all fossil fuel emissions," as well as an additional tax on every commercial plane journey, except ones that go in or out of poorer countries.

Of course, in addition to these various taxes, the draft agreement, reportedly pushed by President Barack Obama, the U.K. and Denmark, would require auctioning of allowances to emit carbon dioxide — a cap-and-tax scheme. Failing to purchase permits would be met with financial penalties or outright prohibitions against such emissions.

The two per cent tax on GDP alone would cost Canada some $26 billion. The $2-a-tonne tax would add up to $500 million per year. And the tax on international financial transactions would soak untold billions. This total tax grab is at least $26.5 billion, or over $3,000 a year for every Canadian family — not including the tax on financial transactions or plane trips.

This idea would be bad enough even if the cash was meant to stay in Canada. But it is not. The scheme is designed to send this cash to 49 developing nations for them to reduce their CO2 emissions and to create so-called green projects. These 49 countries include the likes of Uganda, Burundi and Sudan.

via Climate plan a $3,000 con – Nova Scotia News – TheChronicleHerald.ca.

In the not-so-distant past, this nation was organized around Judeo-Christian values. Sexual deviance from the norm, especially towards children, was roundly condemned as an abomination. And there were paths to redemption. The sinner could cleanse his or her soul by praying for forgiveness from a merciful God. But with religion maligned, there is no balm for brokenness. Consequently, these deviants turn to Plan B: corrupt everyone around them. Flaunt depravity and sully others, especially unspoiled children. Increase the number of degenerates by bringing impressionable youths down into their netherworld.

via American Thinker: The Left’s Corruption of Youth.

"Anthropogenic global warming" will go the way of its predecessors, having achieved what was meant for it, in its season: the extortion of huge amounts of money by the parasites clustered around all the existing environmentalist spigots; the sinking of new bungholes into the public accounts; the creation of new big-brotherly bureaucracies to feed new vested interests; and, untold riches and prestige for the "settled scientists" who work the system for patronage.

via The scare tacticians.

This man is just great! That’s exactly how these dolts need to be confronted. The mainstream media could learn a lot from Lord Monckton regarding interviews.

Global-warming’s guru Gore is a guy whose Harvard classmates remember him remember him “spending a notable amount of time in the Dunster House basement lounge shooting pool, watching television, eating hamburgers and occasionally smoking marijuana.” As the Washington Times noted in 2000, Gore received a D in Earth Science at Harvard, and 5 Fs including a failing mark in the class “Earth in the Balance” at Vanderbilt Divinity school.

via When Al Freezes Over | UNCOVERAGE.net.

My daughter was required to see the movie An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. As time went on, she began to argue with me and told me I was provincial, unsophisticated, and a "flat-earther" because I do not accept that carbon dioxide is a dangerous chemical which is warming the earth. The science teacher was not only preaching the "Earth is GAIA" philosophy to her students, but she was also giving her young thinkers "attack words" for talking points. She drove a wedge of disrespect between me and my children which continues even though they have now graduated. On the topic of "climate change," my daughter still has an arrogance and disdain for deniers. The public school teacher, abetted by her administration and protected by her activist teachers’s union, interfered in my relationship with my child and taught her that it was not only acceptable, but admirable to disrespect parental values.

via American Thinker: Get Global Warming Out of Our Schools.

Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N’s global warming guru, who in one 19-month period flew 443,243 miles — including trips to have dinner at Washington’s Brookings Institution and one memorable overnighter to attend a cricket match — but now wants the rest of us to be forced into a "carbon allowance."

What goes little commented on, however, is the reason for the vehemence of these calls for CO2 sacrifice on the part of the U.S.: a desire to take our economy down.

Having decisively lost the great debate between capitalism and socialism, the only way the global warming socialists can do this is by imposing restrictions on U.S. output in response to the ginned-up "emergency" of global warming.

via Investors.com – Greens’ Real Target: U.S. Economy.

Whatever the results of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, one thing is for sure: Draconian reductions on carbon emissions will be tacitly accepted by the most developed economies and sloughed off by many developing ones. In essence, emerging economies get to cut their "carbon" intensity–a natural product of their economic evolution–while we get to cut our throats.

via Forbes.com – Magazine Article.

The story of manmade global warming is over. In reality it never existed except in the minds and hearts of grant-seeking scientists and academics, ratings-obsessed television networks and their misinformed viewers and opportunistic eco-activists.

Art Horn is a meteorologist who has worked for CBS, NBC and ABC

via Energy Tribune- The End of Global Warming.

The United Nations fits the Cuckoo’s Nest paradigm perfectly. It is ostensibly dedicated to some of mankind’s loftiest ideals. The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights affirms: "Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person." "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest." "No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property." "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion," etc.

In practice, though, the U.N. welcomes, legitimizes, and empowers regimes that systematically trample those rights. U.N. officials readily betray the welfare and liberty of billions of individuals in their pursuit of world government. With cynical irony, the U.N. extends the voting privilege to regimes who would never permit an honest democratic vote in their own countries. Also, because the major obstacle to global government is a strong, sovereign United States, U.N. delegates from illiberal regimes routinely gang up to vote against our interests.

via American Thinker: The Cuckoo’s Nest Visits Copenhagen.

It is very doubtful that Americans are aware that they have been paying billions for green lawsuits, many of which were intended to stop various forms of development, i.e. jobs, or to encumber agricultural activity.

Who has grown wealthy from the greening of America? In November, the Capitol Research Center compiled a list based on budget figures from environmental groups.

Nature Conservancy, $910.7 million.

Wildlife Conservation Society, $197.4 million,

World Wildlife Fund, $169.5 million.

Environmental Defense Fund, $108 million.

Natural Resources Defense Fund, $122.8 million.

Natural Resources Defense Council, $108 million.

National Audubon Society, $92.7 million.

Natural Wildlife Federation, $90.1 million.

Sierra Club, $81.8 million.

Sierra Club Foundation, $29.9 million.

Greenpeace, Inc, $26.3 million.

via UN Climate Treaty: A Sneak Attack on Humanity.

Oxfam (or was it Oxscam?) is calling on Canada to commit between $300-million and $400-million to the fund that will help 49 of the least developed countries, including Haiti, Afghanistan, Maldives and 33 African nations, deal with the droughts, flooding, unpredictable storms and mass migration that are anticipated to occur because of a warmer planet.

Canada also has a sound economy, which makes the country more able to provide money for the world’s poorest nations, Fried said.

"This is caused by our pollution.
Our emissions are killing the poorest people in the world and destroying their livelihoods."

via Ottawa urged to pay more into global climate fund – thestar.com.

Problems in the collection of atmospheric CO2 data parallel other absurdities in the global warming fraud. The Climategate scandal is exposing the massive and systematic fraud behind the fabrication of the worldwide temperature record necessary to make the case for global warming. But what about the record of atmospheric CO2?

The U.S. NOAA openly admits to producing a CO2 record which "contains no actual data." NOAA temperature stations sited in ways that artificially inflate temperatures have been exposed over the past two years. CO2 observatories have similar flaws. Two of the five NOAA "baseline" stations are downwind from erupting volcanoes. All five are subject to localized or regional CO2 sources.

via American Thinker: Greenhouse Gas Observatories Downwind from Erupting Volcanoes.

Modern Liberals are fortunate children. They emerged in the late 19th century as children of the wealthy. They were ashamed of their crude fathers, who came up from nothing. They wanted to be refined, unlike Father. They wanted to help the poor, but with other people’s money. They wanted to give the poor an education, but with other people’s money. They wanted to do creative work, and they wanted tenure.

via American Thinker: Palin and the Future.

Advocates and sympathetic politicians claiming that man-made global warming from use of carbon-based energy sources mandates international controls on economically prosperous nations were already worried that their victory is slipping. Now another blow has been struck against the basic "science" used to support their case. Following an extensive theoretical analysis, two German physicists have determined that the term greenhouse gas is a misnomer and that the greenhouse effect appears to violate basic laws of physics.

via American Thinker: Politics and Greenhouse Gases.

The government doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat on the eve it wishes to commit another act of treason. Not only did Gordon Brown sign Britain into the clutches of the EU without the nation’s consent, but he is also to attend the summit to again sign us over to another foreign power – this time the UN. By any country’s law, this is outright treason. Obama will do the same thing – and that, too, is treason. But, everyone seems to think it is okay. By ‘everyone’ I mean all those who are allowed to speak by government. Those who dissent are silenced or simply ignored.

via Climate – Still Not Getting It!.

Lord Christopher Monckton’s Presentation on the Worst Scientific Fraud and Political Betrayal of our Generation
in St. Paul, October 14th, 2009 – Updated with Slides

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zOXmJ4jd-8

If you don’t have the time, watch at least the conclusion of his presentation to understand what the conference in Copenhagen is about.

Conclusion of Lord Christopher Monckton’s Presentation in St. Paul, October 14th, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quLVgNVEmrs&feature=channel

Get Active! The Time is Running Out!

The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.  (LOL, how expensive are harddrives nowadays?)

The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU’s director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data. In a statement on its website, the CRU said:

“We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added quality controlled and homogenised data.” (meaning doctored data)

via Climate change data dumped – Times Online.

The immensely respected former British chancellor of the exchequer, Nigel Lawson, had great difficulty finding a publisher for his expose of these matters, An Appeal To Reason, A Cool Look at Global Warming, such is the pressure the eco-lobby can assert. He believes Green is the new Red, the anti-capitalists taking over the relatively inoffensive tandem bicycle of naturalists, and turning it into a nihilistic juggernaut, the treads having been blown off their great Red Marxist tank that careened through the world for most of the last century. The ecoextremists allow the conservationists and butterfly collectors and Sierra Clubs to front their activities, just as the pacifist naifs were often the witless dupes and "useful idiots" (in Lenin’s words), of the Communists.

As Lord Lawson wrote in his book, those worried about imminent environmental catastrophe, as compared, for examples, to nuclear terrorism or even large meteoric collisions, "need not worry about saving this planet. They are already living on another one … We appear to have entered a new age of unreason … It is from this, above all, that we really need to save the planet."

via The great green fraud.