The Toronto Star’s business columnist David Olive is clearly backing the Unions when he calls for the Nationalization of the Caterpillar owned bought and paid for Locomotive plant. Why? After a struggle to persuade unionized workers to accept wage and benefit concessions, Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar said on Friday the closing and laying off at least 450 workers is taking place because the cost structure of the operation is not sustainable. 

The Toronto Star’s Olive suggests nationalization, or as a fallback, a prohibitive tariff on all Caterpillar imports. As Olive sees it, “that might eventually bring Athabasca tarsands production, heavily reliant on Caterpillar equipment, to a halt.”

….read Caterpillar’s EMD facility never really was ‘our’ plant HERE

Famous Green Leader goes skeptical of Climate Change in New Book. Says IPCC’s work sloppy. Were the Billions (Trillions) spent on CO2 reduction instead of debt reduction or services squandered for no reason at all?

Germany in skeptical turmoil on both Climate and Solar/Windfarms

 
One of the fathers of Germany’s modern green movement, Professor Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a social democrat and green activist, decided to author a climate science skeptical book together with geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning. Vahrenholt’s skepticism started when he was asked to review an IPCC report on renewable energy. He found hundreds of errors. When he pointed them out, IPCC officials simply brushed them aside. Stunned, he asked himself, “Is this the way they approached the climate assessment reports?”
 
Vahrenholt decided to do some digging. His colleague Dr. Lüning also gave him a copy of Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion. He was horrified by the sloppiness and deception he found. Well-connected to Hoffmann & Campe, he and Lüning decided to write the book. Die kalte Sonne cites 800 sources and has over 80 charts and figures.

….read more HERE

The Thomas de Quincey school of Canadian gun control

Somewhat like my fellow National Post columnist Lorne Gunter who has written on the trial of Ontario homeowner Ian Thomson, I am perplexed beyond puzzlement why the Crown is prosecuting this man. For the benefit of those who have escaped the news of this bizarre and sad tale, Mr. Thomson is being tried for picayune charges relating to the handling and storage of firearms in regard to an incident in which — let me use Mr. Gunter’s words — “masked thugs began lobbing Molotov cocktails at his secluded rural home, while also shouting death threats in a pre-dawn assault.”

This was in August 2010, at which time Mr. Thomson successfully defended himself against the attempt to incinerate him and his home by shooting several warning shots well away from those seeking to do harm to him and his home.

….read more HERE

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