Homeland Security to screen Canadians for flights over US

As of December of 2010 no passenger on a Canadian airline who is flying to a US destinations, or even over US airspace enroute to another destination, will be allowed on board the aircraft until the US Department of Homeland Security has checked that person against their list of suspected terrorists and given clearance to that passenger.

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Copenhagen ‘fails’, major players make their own deal

Media and environmental groups are describing the Copenhagen conference as a failure. Following resignation of the conference chair, many changes of plans, and widespread inability of delegates to reach agreement on just about everything, by ending time things were in almost complete disarray.

Obama arrived at 9am on the final day, expecting to sign a done deal. But after a marathan session that saw heads of state negotiating until 2am, no such deal was on the horizon. Obama, bent on rescuing the talks and salvaging something, went looking for the Chinese premier, who was reported to have already left. But Wen had not left. He was found in a private meeting with the heads of India, Brazil and South Africa. Obama crashed that meeting, uninvited, and the five sat down to draft their own deal, which they now hope other conference delegates — who have now left — will eventually sign.

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Tricked again — the green trap has sprung

Copenhagen love-in obscures global governance treaty.

While tens of thousands converge on Copenhagen, all anxious to pressure the world into their pet version of climate-change action, the real meaning and purpose of the summit remains hidden. Most think the objective of the conference is to consolidate the many divergent opinions on climate change into a global consensus. But behind closed doors something more is taking place.

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Scientists challenge Copenhagen climate agenda

Causes of climate change not ’settled’: scientists. UN challenged to provide sound evidence for catastrophic forecasts.

International Climate Science Coalition.

The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC – see http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/) today released the names of over 140 leading climate experts from 17 countries who are asking the United Nations and other supporters of this month’s Climate Change Conference to produce convincing OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE for their claims of dangerous human-caused global warming (AGW) and other changes in climate.

The COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHALLENGE demands that the UN publicly substantiate each of ten fundamental assertions that underlie current climate concerns – see http://www.copenhagenclimatechallenge.org/.

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What pandemic? — a call to revise the International Health Regulations and reform WHO

It looks like the mainstream media are finally on WHO’s case, calling for an accounting of what some call a fraudulent pandemic. Bloomberg.com questions whether the whole WHO pandemic was overblown for profit. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086

Others report that the incidence of swine flu has been declining since late November, and one of Canada’s largest news providers, Canwest, is saying that the flu was a bust and is over. http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/H1N1+pandemic+ending+with+whimper+bang/2304630/story.html

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Copenhagen conference opens

While there may be little evidence of human-caused global warming thus far, that may be about to change. The Copenhagen conference on climate change has opened today and promises to generate enough hot air and heated discussion to cause more than a little ‘global warming’ and ‘climate change’. Centrists and freedom lovers the world around clash over how to deal with global warming, whether it is anthropogenic (human caused), and even whether the world is actually warming or cooling.

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Russia could withdraw from WHO over flu-scare corruption

A November 27 article on the Russian-language news site Новости России (newsru.com) reports that a deputy in the Dumas has called for Russia to withdraw from the WHO if an investigation into the alleged collusion between the WHO and pharmaceutical companies on the swine flu scandal proves to be accurate.

Россия может остановить членство в ВОЗ в случае подтверждения сговора организации с фармкомпаниями http://www.newsru.com/russia/27nov2009/vozz.html

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Copenhagen climate change conference, a hidden agenda?

On his recent return from the APEC summit in Singapore, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that there was “a pretty strong consensus at the meeting this morning that countries of the world remain a long way from a binding, legal treaty on climate change.” Some 3000 unagreed sections of the working document need to somehow be molded into a consensus. This stands in stark contrast to the stated objectives of the conference to reach such a near-impossible agreement.

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Who is dying from the flu?

How serious is the flu situation now in BC? ShuNews has been following this story since the outset, and we will try to summarize the situation in realistic terms as it now stands.

Firstly, it is important to realize that despite all the hype and misinformation the so-called swine flu or novel pandemic flu, now officially called H1N1 (the traditional name for seasonal flu), is just another strain of seasonal flu. While some are saying that it is the dominant strain of seasonal flu this year, it appears actually to account for somewhere between 2% and 20% of cases, with normal seasonal flu accounting for the rest.

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Softwood for China — Shanghai code opens doors

Shanghai code approval opens up market to Canadian wood.

Ministry of Forests and Range.

Shanghai’s approval of a new wood-frame building code is a major step forward in the growing demand for Canadian wood products in China, the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, and British Columbia’s Forests and Range Minister Pat Bell announced today.

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