"This watch costs more than your net income in one year" pic.twitter.com/rdKlD1NsMg

— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) September 4, 2015

This evening's RT selection is Keith Richards with Eric Clapton at the Crossroads Guitar Festival (2013) - Key To The Highway. Your tips in the comments.

Donate $20 and #TeamTrudeau will send you an #AylanKurdi fridge magnet. https://t.co/B0LcdnbXP9

— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 5, 2015

Hope, change, duck, and cover;

When the Cold War ended, people forgot about that stuff, to the point that when I teach Cold War material in my Constitutional Law or National Security Law courses, I find that my law students, except for a few military veterans or emergency-services types, know nothing about basic nuclear weapons facts that almost everyone knew as late as the 1980s. But now it may be time for that knowledge to come back.

@katewerk @CTVNews So in the middle of a war & desperate refuge situation he travels hundreds of Kms, with 2 caskets, to Kobani, no problem

— Tea Leaf LaCampagne (@TillyLaCampagne) September 4, 2015

Indeed.

Update. Another CTV poll goes horribly wrong.

The plight of people in Syria and Iraq is real but if you are moved by the photo of the boy on the beach then you should do two things - support the fight against ISIS and other terror groups creating the refugee crisis and sponsor refugees to come here privately.

Agenda 2030;

"This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history," Figueres, who heads up the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, told reporters in February.

"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for the at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution," Figueres said.

It could work.

h/t Robert of Ottawa

Busy day, but I found you something after all. They closed the museum a few years ago, but luckily there's still Youtube. Roy Rogers sings "DON'T FENCE ME IN" in "Hollywood Canteen" with Trigger at his side.

Thread open for tips.

Without any help: How can Canada best address the migrant crisis?

Current status...

Oh, and it turns out the family hadn't applied to come to Canada, after all.

Statement from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada on the Kurdi family #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/vW3aUHms26

— Don Peat (@reporterdonpeat) September 3, 2015

Update. (h/t Mark)

But does she still work there?

I asked Ifill and the NewsHour for a response and explanation. She explained, in an email to me and in a tweet to many others, that she was "RT'ing a @TheIranDeal tweet," and added that she "should have been clearer that it was their argument, not mine."

One would have to lean way over backwards to give her the benefit of the doubt that she was simply shedding light on the administration's view of portions of Netanyahu's arguments. But to personalize it by saying, "Take that, Bibi" is, in my book, inexcusable for an experienced journalist who is the co-anchor of a nightly news program watched by millions of people over the course of any week.

Because Hillary's private server was completely legal.

A staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton's private email server while she was secretary of State is expected to plead the Fifth rather than testify before Congress.

Lawyers for Bryan Pagliano indicated the former IT employee will assert his constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment not to answer questions from the House Select Committee on Benghazi, citing the "current political environment."

Pagliano is scheduled to appear before the House Benghazi Committee on Sept. 10.

So now that the legal system has 'cleared' Brady to to play, I wonder if the NFL can use the legal system to charge him with destroying evidence?

Does anyone in the US have any morals? Are the examples of the political class, the sports class, the famous class indicative of Americans in general?

No wonder the place is going to pot. Related

Electric Grid Reliability Fears Remain in Wake of Climate Rule.

That moment in the election in which Canadian media use a dead child in a game of political Buzkashi.

. @CBCNEWS My dog won National Specialty, wants to bite Mulcair. Have your people call my people. #cdnpoli #elxn42 https://t.co/d1cgltX2qG

— Katewerk (@katewerk) September 3, 2015

Fox News;

Since 2009, Abengoa and its subsidiaries, according to estimates, have received $2.9 billion in grants and loan guarantees through the Department of Energy to undertake solar projects in California and Arizona -- as well as the construction of a cellulosic ethanol plant in Kansas.

But in the space of less than a year, Abengoa's financial health has become critical, leading investors to worry whether the company can survive.

The company's stock price on NASDAQ has swooned -- from $29.32 on Sept. 2, 2014 to $5.62 on Tuesday...

Thread open.

We all know CBC moderates comments. Most media outlets will. We do at The Rebel, we may be free speechers but there are people that say things that can get us sued, they spew profanity, they can do all kinds of things. So we moderate, every media outlet does.
So why on earth is CBC doing a story on the Conservative Party moderating comments on their social media feeds, other than the obvious answer - to make the Conservatives look bad.

While the Tories, the NDP and the Liberals all have active Instagram feeds, Meg Sinclair, a spokeswoman for Facebook Canada, said Harper's account is the only one that has launched ads to date.

--snip--

Many of the early comments on the sponsored posts were critical of Harper and his government's policies. Those comments have since disappeared.

Who the hell cares on than CBC? This is only about showing the Conservatives in a bad light.

Try this out, go to CBC's site and leave rude and profane comments and see if they stay up or are deleted. Then drop me a line in the comments to let me know what happens.

These ghost homes are the most visible sign of human retreat in a country where the population peaked a half-decade ago and is forecast to fall by a third over the next 50 years. The demographic pressure has weighed on the Japanese economy, as a smaller workforce struggles to support a growing proportion of the old, and has prompted intense debate over long-term proposals to boost immigration or encourage women to have more children.

For now, though, after decades during which it struggled with overcrowding, Japan is confronting the opposite problem: When a society shrinks, what should be done with the buildings it no longer needs?

"People who commit cultural genocide will mass-murder humans. War is inevitable."

Rollcall;

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski announced Wednesday she's supporting the international agreement with Iran regarding its nuclear capabilities. In doing so, the Maryland Democrat gives the Obama administration a veto override-proof list of 34 Senate supporters, all from the Democratic caucus.

Update: Scratch a PBS journo, find an anti-Semite.

Rigzone;

The American Petroleum Institute (API) on Monday criticized the Obama administration for its early start of its final review of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed rule to reduce the allowable concentration of ozone air pollution.

The administration is just now starting the review only one month before a court ordered due date of Oct. 1; the process normally takes 60 to 90 days. API is concerned that the Obama Administration is limiting interagency review of the rule, which could become the most expensive regulation in U.S. history.

The proposed new standards would impose unachievable emission reduction requirements on virtually every part of the United States, including rural and undeveloped areas.

Related: Hidden emails reveal a secret anti-fossil fuel network involving the White House, Democrat governors, wealthy donors and foundations, and front groups

h/t Adrian

Telegraph:

The European Union could be forced to bring back border controls in the wake of the migrant crisis, Angela Merkel said last night.

The German Chancellor said for the first time that the Schengen zone, which allows passport-free travel across mainland Europe, cannot continue in its current form unless other EU countries accept their share of migrants.

If you build it, they will come.

This looks like a little story out of New Brunswick, a man busted for buying cheap beer in Quebec and taking it home. It's more than that, this is about free trade inside Canada, what our constitution actually says - not the Charter - and what politicians are going to do about it.
I got Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair to comment - okay a Mulcair staffer - and now I welcome your comments.

Michael Totten;

Two months ago, an ISIS-inspired nutcase named Seifeddine Rezgui strolled up the beach with a Kalashnikov in his hand and murdered 38 people, most of them tourists from Britain.

The police shot him, of course. There was never going to be any other ending than that one. And before the police arrived, local Tunisians formed a protective human shield around Rezgui's would-be foreign victims. "Kill us! Kill us, not these people!" shouted Mohamed Amine. According to survivor John Yeoman, hotel staff members charged the gunman and said, "We won't let you through. You'll have to go through us."

Tunisia's hospitality and customer service are deservedly legendary, but that was truly above and beyond. It's how Tunisia rolls, but in the end, it doesn't matter. Tourists are not going back.

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Tonight on the SDA Learning Channel: Conclusive evidence that a crow is smarter than Justin Trudeau.

Your tips thread is open.

As of today, the Aboriginal Affairs website shows that 197 First Nations, or roughly 33 per cent, of the bands required to file had not yet complied. That is significantly higher than the number that missed the deadline last year, when 98 per cent of bands complied with the new law.

Awkward.

Politico;

As the United States and Russia eye new shipping routes in the melting Arctic, political and military leaders in Washington are pointing to a crucial gap in the one type of vessel that can turn frozen waters into reliable lanes for commerce or national defense.

Icebreakers -- the ships that smash through sea ice, opening routes for other craft and rescuing trapped vessels -- are increasingly important to navigating in the far north. Russia has 40 of them, including nuclear-powered craft painted an intimidating red and black.

Meanwhile, the U.S. icebreaker fleet? Two.

It's all about priorities.

The Scotsman;

Renewables use sun, water, wind; energy sources that won't run out. Non-renewables come from things like gas, coal and uranium that one day will. But unless electricity and motorised transport are abandoned altogether, all "renewables" need huge areas of land or sea and require raw materials that are drilled, transported, mined, bulldozed and these will run out. Wind turbine towers are constructed from steel manufactured in a blast furnace from mined iron ore and modified coal (coke). Turbine blades are composed of oil-derived resins and glass fibre. The nacelle encloses a magnet containing about one third of a tonne of the rare earth metals, neodymium and dysprosium. Large neodymium magnets also help propel electric cars.

Currently China provides 95 per cent of rare earths; proven reserves of dysprosium will likely run out in 2020. Processing one tonne of ore generates about one tonne of radioactive waste, 12 million litres of waste gas containing dust concentrate, hydrofluoric acid, sulphur dioxide, sulphuric acid and 75 thousand litres of waste water. Baotou, in China, mines and processes much of the rare earth ores. The town abuts a five-mile-wide, toxic, lifeless, radioactive lake of processed wastewater. Local inhabitants have unusually high rates of cancer (particularly in children), osteoporosis, skin and respiratory disease. This unseen environmental destruction may be far off but no less damaging.

h/t Kevin B

Chipotle sued over GMO-free menu claims

In her lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, the plaintiff Colleen Gallagher also alleged that Chipotle violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act because its food labeling is false and misleading, and deceived diners into paying more for their food.

"As Chipotle told consumers it was 'G-M-Over it,' the opposite was true," the Piedmont, California resident said. "In fact, Chipotle's menu as never been at any time free of GMOs."

Related: A fool and their veggies.

Never seen so many RCMP guarding an event for third party leader. 15-20? pic.twitter.com/JVIJoVj3YQ

— David Akin (@davidakin) September 1, 2015

"Memo on Impeaching Clarence Thomas."

Police evacuate Budapest station as migrants try to board trains to western Europe http://t.co/iDc2DiLLeL Pic: AP pic.twitter.com/ZJL7zcGcuH

— The Australian (@australian) September 1, 2015

Financial Post: Tragic story in Alberta government's first fiscal update

The new government, convinced that its dominant oil sector wasn't paying its fair share, was banking on higher oil and gas royalties.

Last Friday it put those plans on hold until 2017 after watching oil investment plummet by 30 per cent and unemployment grow to 5.7 per cent, including 35,000 jobs lost in the oil industry alone.

h/t peterj