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Canadian Sanctions "Boomerang": Cancels Russia-based Spy Satellite Launch
The Conservative Canadian government’s hard line on sanctions against Russia has scuttled the launch of a key Canadian military satellite that was to be put into orbit by a Russian rocket. As The Ottawa Citizen reports, on the heels of Russia expelling a Canadian diplomat in Moscow, labelling him a spy, Canadian Space Agency spokeswoman Maya-Olivia Eyssen said the spy satellite, which was to have been launched from Russia’s facilities in Kazakhstan, is now trying to find another country or private company willing to send it into space. Russia has indicated it is more than willing to launch the Canadian satellites, say sources.
The Conservative government’s hard line on sanctions against Russia has scuttled the launch of a key Canadian military satellite that was to be put into orbit by a Russian rocket.
Officials with the Canadian Space Agency and the spacecraft’s builder, Com Dev, are now trying to find another country or private company willing to send the surveillance satellite into space.
The move to cancel the June 19 launch of the satellite comes as the Canadian government continues with sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine.
But as The Ottawa Citizen notes, this is a decision by Canada...
In its statement, Com Dev noted it was the Canadian government that decided not to proceed with the planned launch.
Russia has indicated it is more than willing to launch the Canadian satellites, say sources.
Somewhat shooting the nation's space indutsry in the foot...
The Canadian government’s sanctions against Russia could put Canada’s space industry in a bind as there are a limited number of nations and private companies capable of launching satellites.
As Putin said about the Americans...
“The US is certainly one of the world’s leaders. At some point it seemed that it was the only leader and a uni-polar system was in place. Today it appears that is not the case. Everything in the world is interdependent and once you try to punish someone, in the end you will cut off your nose to spite your face,” he said.
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Canadian geeks... What did you expect... Fucking retards.
The Canadian government certainly is a disgusting bunch of suck-ups.
Dozens of Russian wives in Montreal and Winnipeg have been confiscated and are being privately questioned and searched for evidence.
Hopefully the Canucks haven't already delivered the satellite into Russian hands.
If so, good luck on getting it back.
Obama at least knows hes a compromised globalist lackey, who just does what he's told.
Harper is actually dumb enough to believe this anti-Putin/Russian crap.
Make no mistake ... this shit isnt about Ukraine, or democracy, or sovereignty, or freedom ... this about money, power and control ... it always is
This is about taking the failed Iraq/Syria/Iran/Ukraine WOAR 3.0 hot so the american oligarchs can run for cover behind the fog of woar. And Steve "where's my dick" Harper is so fucking stoopid he thinks this is a diplomatic rub and tug
I am likewise puzzled by the PM's recent behaviour, which is costing him a great deal of support at home. In the past, he has been an accomplished, fair-minded statesman, respected widely. Lately, he is a different person. Canada's reputation as peacekeeper is jeopardized. The timing of our new role as aggressor and invader seems to coincide with changes in the PMO.
he like any careerist politician, now in his waning years, is legacy obsessed. Chretein was the same and so on. It's like these guys have politician cards under their bed instead of hockey cards and they obsess over their own vanity as a "statesman" and "shaper of history". He's a fucking wank, end of story.
Harper was/is sucking up to Barry expecting the Keystone accomodation. Barry has responded by pissing on Steve's pantleg.
The Canadian Military have to get the Russians to fly their birds....really?
Stiff Scotch time....
Found out tother day the Brits are very reliant on Russia for coal.....
Expect any time now to discover the minerals and gas exported by Australia really comes from Russia
Getting quite depressing, think I'll take a bottle and go for a sail down the Bay.....
And what are you? An American jerk? Screw you cowboy punk. Russians are exposing you for the little pussies you are.
Our housing bubble is bigger than yours, yo. So there's that.
The state of the art spy satellite capable of discerning the difference between a cigarette and a joint from a distance of 50,000 Km was to be launched into geosynchronous orbit above Canada...
Well, it's a good thing the USA still has its space program!
USA! Number 1!!111!1!!!11!
I don't have any high hopes that numbers 2-5 will be any better at fucking things up.
Exactly. How is that shuttle replacement doing?
So Russia still won the space race.
How do you seppo's screw things up so badly ?
The Acorn government is really getting it done for us.
well I assume they mean a geosynchronous orbit along a path that gave it the most travel time over Canada but yea, confusing statement.
Geosynchronous orbit means it don't go nowhere. Just stays Putin one spot!
None of those spots are over Canada.
Might be line-of-sight from Canada, but they're all over the equator.
Then just sstand on the north side of your house when you light up.
ROFL!! It's all so fuckin' stupid eh? more ROFL!
Personally, I just like saying "geosynchronous"
Try it.
Geosynchronous
See? You can't help but feel good.
Too bad about the spy satellite, kinda ruins my weekend. But whatever.
BTW, I've heard of really LEGIT source (my buddy) that canadian soldiers are being told to be on stand by to be deployed to Ukraine... So I don't know if it's for a non-planned exercise to spook Russia or something else really fucking stupid... But one thing is sure, Putin went to his ``spiritual counselor`` for 3 days in a row...usually politicians do something REALLY STUPID after doing that kind of thing... New Moon on April 29... this will be an interesting week, bet on it.
Well, they only war when futures can be ramped to ass fuck us all over oil. I am sure tomorrow at 8AM EST there will be some more bullshit being flung.....just before open. Should be good for a S&P ramp...gold raped, you know the deal.
Please don't tell me that Putin is not only a narcissist but also contains a big bag of mixed nuts...
I've lived in Vancouver my whole life and never witnessed a navy vessel leaving port, until 2 weeks ago. You have to understand, this is not the US, you don't see military hardware of any kind roaming around Canada, except for the odd truck packed with a bunch of 18 year old new recruits going somewhere for basic training.
Watching a navy vessel cruising out of port had everyone on the seawall I was walking on stopped at attention. Not that Russia has anything at all to worry about due to Canada's military....
One vessel...
Not that Canada has been living under an umbrella or anything...
Years ago I visited Winnipeg and the army guys would drink at the same bar as the local biker gang of the time--fights all the time.
They are both groups of faggots.
Wife has miltary clients (we live in Canada) that tell similar stories though always prefaced with "I'm not supposed to say this." Rumour is the bane of any military enterprise, yo.
Not surprising: Canada participates in all or nearly all UN peacekeeping missions. A UN peacekeeping/observation force in east Ukraine doesn't seem farfetched given the uncertainty about who's behind what over there and the dangerous tensions that are building.
Yes, I know that including the magic downvote-magnet letters "UN" someone's going to start ranting about the NWO. Whatever. Having neutral people in place to witness, maybe even stop, violence in disputed areas occasionally works to deter it from happening in the first place, although it's generally reserved for places with such a breakdown of law and order that the locals are bound and determined to kill each other no matter who else is around.
Go fuck yourself and your satellite, eh?
Fucking satellites, lol... What the fuck would we need a SPY satellite for? Just hire a few Eskimos in the high Arctic to fly some kites with some cheap London Drugs sports cameras and a GPS from Canadian Tire attached to it. The fucking NSA will hack into it and give us all the info anyway.
And by the way Harper, one of your JTF2 boys is not who you think he is.
NO REFUNDS!
A waste of taxpayers money, building a military satellite, especially if you can't get ot off the ground without having to go to another country to do it.
What is it going to be spying on, Canadians?
Other Canadians.
Tim Hortons' competitors and polar bears.
Alex,Geddy,Neil,RM. The only Canadians worth listening to !
I can't believe you forgot the Biebster and Celine Dion. Must be an oversight.
Little known fact, Rush seeded $100,000 to The Canadian Museum Of Human Rights just a few years ago. Rush is officially 40 this year.
Enjoy your comments 813, keep raisin' a little hell! Is that av Mick Jagger or George Thorogood or?
I think that's Spinal Tap
The av is of English rock god Nigel Tufnel.
Thanks for the love Mr. Mean, and keep on rockin' in the free world.
We're only making plans for Nigel? lol
Don't forget Gordon Lightfoot.
not "Radical" enough ; )
Lots of great artists but it's ironic that in the industrial music biz (it's a MEAN business) it was three frost-bitten Ontario boys that refused to "sell out" and went on to work their way to the very top. Only The Stones and The Beatles have more gold records than Rush.
Very interesting posts Goose, keep 'em coming
Bet the Sex Pistols sold more records over all, though...
And still sound fucking badass...
Rush sounds a little too "rock for aging Dungeons and Dragons enthusiasts" these days. Not exactly aging like wine...more like cheese.
Pistols age like pure vinegar and gasoline. What's not to love?
"A cheap holiday in other peoples misery!
I don't wanna holiday in the sun
I wanna go to New Belsen
I wanna see some history
'Cause now I got a reasonable economy
Now I got a reason, now I got a reason
Now I got a reason and I'm still waiting
Now I got a reason, now I got reason to be waiting
The Berlin Wall
In Sensurround sound in a two inch wall
Well I was waiting for the communist call
I didn't ask for sunshine and I got World War III
I'm looking over the wall and they're looking at me..."
Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, robbie robertson and adopted son Levon Helm as members of THE BAND. And don't you forget it
The Band, Joni Mitchell,The Guess Who, even Keith McKie, etc: the philosphers and ploughman that opened the furrow to plant the Rush seed. Je me souviens.
Here's a little fact: The man that recorded John Lennon/ Yoko Ono Give Peace A Chance in Montreal, Andre Perry, went on to build a recording studio in Morin Heights Quebec where Rush recorded eight of their gold records. It stands abandoned now yet still houses a grand piano seen in a Nazareth video.
Quality comments from you Sir, thanks.
appreciate the music facts Mean Business (am a big Lennon fan too originally I am from Liverpool).
Global Hunter, funny how it all ties together.... Another artist to record at Le Studio was Sting, did a song called Russians ("if the Russians love their children too"), an end the Cold War 1.0 anthem.
The answer to Sting's question is YES. So much so that Putin is in the process of proving that fact to the whole world by standing up for their future. These tests (Snowden, Syria, Ukraine, with more to come) will prepare Putin for Paris 2015 where he will present facts and present 'Obama' with a choice. The citizens of the world will isolate and neuter North America if it must. It's a matter of survival.
C'est la vie
Robbie Robertson. Missed that.
..... Rush ROCKS!!! (sorry......it was there....)
..... one of my all time favorite Canuck rock bands is The Mathew Good Band..... music lost on the average ewe....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnQ-Ixnqpe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVxmWYN-D0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V9AIyzQDdA
no need to apologize ; ) Just ask the folks at Rush in Rio
And gotta love The Tragically Hip: "Hey North! You're South! Shut your big mouth! You gotta do what you feel is real..."
Three words that induce instant gag reflex from the icy north.
Alanis Fucking Morissette
To be fair, the US has turned out way more gag worthy fem-rock wannabes.
Plus, the Canadians made up for it with that hottie that sang "Black Velvet".
She was scotching hot and sang much better.
Alannah Myles. and unknowns like the very "pneumatic" Lisa Dalbello. It's a MEAN business, as in cruel, when you think you're headed for the stars only to realize that "the moment of glory is over before it's begun". Whether you like Rush music or not, I hope ZHrs will appreciate that they started from nowhere and survived a very mean, often spirit crushing business. If only our governments worked as hard and as smart! Still writing and recording, still touring and selling out, playing with The Clockwork Angels String Ensemble these days! (Nigel Kennedy eat your heart out lol)
Barring the unforeseen Rush will likely carry on and overtake The Beatles and Stones for most gold records. In the biz those records on the wall is what tells the story. A The Clash had huge cultural influence and large unit sales but when the new material stops coming and the tours stop then it's game over : (
I wonder what The Little B will be doing 35 years from now...
Thanks Indy : )
BTW, I meant to note the irony in my above of Sting and the Give Peace A Chance connection as it pertains to the situation with the Russians today. Does Peace stand a hope in hell??? YES, I think it's gonna break out about 2015.75 in Paris ; )
And I just about forgot The Box comprised of Quebecers who did "Ordinary People" about 30 years ago a la Sting's Russians (but way more fun!)
Holy musical toroidal vortex!
Don't forget this one: Lee Aaron.
more work for (French) Guiana Space Centre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiana_Space_Centre
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/04/27/russian-official-under-us-san...
Russian rocket engine technology has been superior to ours for decades.
We'll catch up by copying them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180
"Despite the availability of necessary documentation and legal rights for producing RD-180 in the United States, NASA is considering development of an indigenous core stage engine that would be "capable of generating high levels of thrust approximately equal to or exceeding the performance of the Russian-built engine." NASA considered in 2010 to produce a fully operational engine by 2020 or sooner, depending an partnership with the U.S. Defense Department."
They advanced conventional heavy lift rocket technology while we blew the budget on shuttle craft that no longer fly. They are about fifteen years ahead of us in metallurgy too. First to deploy reactive armour and titanium hulled submarines. They quickly discovered that a titanium hulled submarine was not a good thing however. Cracks.
It is my official proclamation, as a former submariner, that cracks in your boat are bad. Take my word for it. :)
Never buy a British sub with a screen door.
Those backwards Russians have this beauty also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval
The speed of the VA-111 far exceeds that of any standard torpedo currently fielded by NATO. This speed is a result of supercavitation: the torpedo is, in effect, flying in a gas bubble created by outward deflection of water by its specially shaped nose cone and the expansion of gases from its engine. By keeping water from coming into contact with the surface of the body of the torpedo, drag is significantly reduced, allowing extremely high speeds.
Launched from 533 mm torpedo tubes, the VA-111 exits the tube at 50 knots (93 km/h). Shortly afterwards, its liquid-fuel rocket ignites and propels it to speeds of up to 200 knots (370 km/h). Some reports indicate that speeds of 250+ knots may be achieved, and that work on a 300-knot (560 km/h) version was underway.[2] The rocket engine uses a combination of high test peroxide and kerosene; the propellant tanks contain about 1500 kg of hydrogen peroxide and 500 kg of kerosene.[3]
Early designs may have relied solely on an inertial guidance system.[4][5] The initial design was intended for nuclear warhead delivery. Later designs reportedly include terminal guidance and conventional warheads of 210 kg (460 lb).[6]
The torpedo controls its direction using four fins that skim the inner surface of the supercavitation envelope. To change direction, the fin or fins on the inside of the desired turn are extended, and the opposing fins are retracted. To make faster turns, the push plate on the nose can be used to control the shape of the bubble the missile is traveling in.
It certainly helps, since they have all the fucking titanium! Russians could make soda cans out of the stuff.
You're the best, Harper! Keep banning that vodka, sir. Whadda they call vodka and koolaid again? Sputnik Piss?
Now all we have is...
...Molson Black Ice and Maple syrup?
World leaders are acting like a pack of 5th grade girls who decided to shun a classmate for no reason, other than the fact that the "cool" girl told them to. It's appalling to see adults behave so childishly.
Welcome to politics, you must be new.
I say we all take this shit to the ice!
Six hockey teams.
Israeli Beaks, Ukrainian Blitzkriegers, Russian Bears, American Rhinos, Chinese Shitizens and the Mighty Canucks.
Swiss refs. Best outta three moves on. Winner take all.
The NWO works for Putin. Their military just adores his buff posters.
Somethin don't seem right here.
Obama brings in thousands of Russian special forces to work with the DHS. The US colleges are filled with Russian students. Nato depends on Russian rockets.
And the fucking Chinese own all the properties surrounding US power plants.
Can you guess what is going on?
Duh.
I suspect there is agreement that the Crimea can go with the Russians, but that is it. The rest is theatrics... unless Putin really wants to upset the applecart.
The simple fact is the world is becoming very integrated ans small.
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/04/18/visit-orsis-factory-russia/
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/04/21/marines-training-finland/
Always need to look at the latest from Knob Creek:
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/04/18/knox-creek-2014-shoot-phot...
Not that I doubt it one bit, but do you have a link for the DHS/Russkie bit?
I read DHS hired an ex East German Stasi big wig for some "Consulting"...and we already have the legacy of the Reich here with Paperclip.
Maybe DHS aims to be multicultural in their tyranny?
Idiot Harper can ask North Korea to help.
Yeah, what is going to become of the ISS, now that the DC US can only launch military hardware?!
Obama: "I thought you thought of that."
Kerry: "I thought you thought of that."
Obama, Kerry: "Let's put it all on Hillary again. Yeah!"
Corrupt politicians doing what they are told by their handlers. What other country/s does this remind us of?
Sovereignty is a myth. For all of us.
My sovereignty lies between them and I and goes by the name of AK,
Is Canada ever going to grow balls, or will they do whatever America wants, and eventually be annexed?
It works like this: There's a different cultural approach to politics between the US and Canada. US politicians get away with shit by turning politics into a well-produced show that's entertaining as all hell, but spun hard to mislead. Canadian politicians get away with shit by making our politics so boring and insipid that nobody pays attention. Canadians consume US entertainment, and US politics...far more than their own. So the average Canadian agrees with whatever political view is presented by the US MSM, and knows nothing about what's happening here.
So yes, we will do whatever America wants, because their political presentation is far more entertaining.
Holy shit. It's worse than I thought, then.
I'd really like to apologize.
Spot on.
In his book 'Climate Wars' Gwynne Dyer (historian, military analyst) gives the annexation scenario as it goes down in about 2035-40. C'est la vie.
It's what Dyer says in the book about 2175 that is disturbing...
I'll just be old enough to still fight back and not care about dying. Oh wait. Never-mind.
Ya, don't blink or you'll miss it. Just a formality really. Now about that Canfield Ocean Mr Dyer is talking about...
I thought Harper joined up with Israel- eliminating the middle man.
Canada gave up its sovereignty decades ago. Our political system is more smoke and mirrors than anything else. With the exception of some domestic policies (ie:Health care and gun control) we take our marching orders from London and Washington. We have no gold reserves (big fat zero) and our dollar is backed by nothing more than the US economy. Sadly. Our monetary policy and foreign policy are dictated to us mostly by the Fed and Washington. With no control over fundamental monetary policy or foreign policy we are little more than a puppet state. An "independant Nation" with all the window dressing of sovereingty and a "seperate" culture but with none of the necessary substance to create the foundation or bedrock for true freedom. We are Gaul to Rome. Nothing more. Nothing less. Heil Caesar.
Sanctions against Russia really work! <insert laugh track here>.
The fact that I voted for this government should not be held against me, the alternative was unconscionable. However, the blatant toadying is beyond even my ken. Please world, you must understand that the Canadian citizenry does not condone these kiss ass government policies.
We are very sorry, eh?
I hold it against you. There are only two reasons to have voted for Harper: (1) pure ignorance, or in other words you base your vote on ads you see on TV and ignored the damning evidence aginst Harper being a sell out to Canadian interests or (2) short sighted greed, or in other words, you vote for the party that will cut your taxes and fuck everyone else.
I guess it's short sighted greed on my part. I am sick and tired of paying tax so some eastern wanker can work twenty weeks a year and get pogey for the rest while I bust my balls growing a farm and working a full time job.
But I'm not voting for our current cocksuckers in gov either. They have lost me with this Ukraine business.
Fucking Canada could be #1 country in the world if led right, maybe we need another strong Quebecer for a leader, to tell the Empire to fuck off.
Stack On
and when Alberta wasn't in boom times how did you feel then about handouts coming YOUR way? Maybe not you personally but people where you live.
That's the point of BEING in Canada, is none of us are destroyed by economic turmoil so long as the safety net is there.
It could easily be too strict or too lax & it's up to us to avoid both extremes.
Being American would be the worst possible outcome: no safety net and exporting a large amount of productive benefit/profit to Israel.
your statement is ignorant on so many levels, but just what canadian interests are you talking about
YOUR statement is one of complete ignorance. Harper's doing everything he can to sell out property, rights & rule of law to the G7, G8, G20, to Israel & to America.
If the Toronto G20 beatings of citizens singing the National Anthem didn't clue you in, nothing will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQylP5i3zyg
This is on HARPER Federally, on the RCMP, on the Toronto Police and other attending terrorist forces and it's on "Liberal" provincial Premiere McGuinty. Period.
These actions are government terrorism against the people, strictly unlawful in every sense, in every jurisdiction.
Voted? That's funny, in both Canada or the DC US.
Elections are really a giant survey where the pols, crats and banksters inquire as to how many are still asleep. When you 'vote' you answer, "Yes, still asleep."
"At the Canadian border, when my guillotine was asked about the nature of its visit, it said, "Clean up."
voted for the Canadian FEDERAL conservative party? Unconscionable??
It's the worse possible choice, always has been.
Conservatives under Mulroney, maybe not so bad, but HARPER? Worse possible, absolute vote to destroy Canada, period.
Green, NDP would have easily been a million times smarter & more moral. Better with money, better with honesty.
Liberal Party, not so much, just now a conservative-party-clone under another colour & party-name.
I would absolutely hold this nonsense against you. A vote for Harper is always a vote to end Canada. Never has been anything else.
This is actually a huge plus for the private launch industry. Russia's entire space industry has been riding on western coattails for 20 years. Subsidizing their Strategic
Rocket Forces and National Security apparatus was conditional on their good behavior. We put up with Russia using the ISS as an orbitting luxury suite for western billionaires but those days are over and its back to paying your own way into space Vlad!
You're an idiot.
The Soyuz is what's ferrying crew & cargo to the ISS meaning everyone else is running on RUSSIA'S COAT TAILS.
You seem to have backwards-vision.
"A Canadian military satelite" .....now there's an oxymoron for ya. And why would they need one of those?
Because Canada has a GDP 3/4's of the size of Russia's and by next year probably a larger one.
Oil up North. Plus, the Northwest Passage is going to be open year-round within a couple years. Maybe they'll use satellite coverage and open water to change rules so a second drill platform is not needed in case someone blows a BOP deepwater drilling. I mean, they took humpback whales off endagered species list so oil tankers can come into the fjords, so why not?
..".open year-round within a couple years"
That's fucking hilarious. Truly.
Antarctica will be the new Iowa, too. Amber waves and all....
You obviously haven't seen the existing photos of all the open water & melting ice. It's happening. 2 years is certainly possible.
What the fuck ever.
Chicago will be a Glacier in 20 yrs.
only if glaciers form at 35 C / 95 F.
If runaway climate change is for real, I think it could go either way.
Either the Arctic will open up and get exploited, or Thermohaline Circulation will shut down, sending North America and Northern Europe into deep freeze.
EDIT: and I apologize, that top post should be "ice-free Arctic in the summer in a couple years". Year round is probably a few decades away, or never in the case of Thermohaline shutdown.
True, I wouldn't rule out the thermohaline circulation shut-down. Problem with that is... adding in very heavy (mass) moving liquids in this as well as temperature is even more of a crazy guess. Once it does happen, if it does, permanent / long-term freezing isn't guaranteed then. Once momentum is added back in from tidal forces and from the storms above maybe something else happens. Could be very chaotic.
It's likely all about votes. Almost two and a half times more Ukranian Canadians than Russian Canadians:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_origins_of_people_in_Canada
Plus, they are much more politically active than any other Eastern European Canadians, and they are particularly numerous and politically influential in the prairie provinces, traditionally a Conservative stronghold.
Why would they support their country being torn apart to fullfull the geopolitical interests of global elites? No matter if the west or Russia ends up "winning" this spat over Ukraine, I can guarantee you that biggest losers will be the people that live in Ukraine.
Because most Ukrainians are like most thoughtless sheeple of any ethnicity. They watch TV and swallow the authorized narrative.
It's because they are strong like bull.
Unless it's all just bullshit....
Well that's great. First destroy the scientific progams and now the space industry.
What a moron!
Oil good. Science bad.
With the melting in the Arctic, the satellite was likely heading for orbit over the polar region. This is an area Putin is going after too, so the Russians probably were not real excited to launch this satellite anyway. Given the strategic importance of satellites to the US military and the US economy, the decision to shutdown NASA and the Space Shuttle will come back to haunt us.
WMM II
I predict that you will continue to make predictions.
Oh, and on the Ukrainian/Russian/NWO thing- I predict it will be another European clusterfuck. There is no "pure" blood in a continent that has been run over endlessly from west to east and east to west by invading armies. Neo-Nazis are the same as Russian "provocateurs"- just different armbands.
thanks kayman. its too bad that, as zh has changed hands, zh has cut the time within which to go back into past comments to check out how accurate people are in their predictions. that was an added value to zh that, i predict, will never come back.
:)
Anyone else here think that looks like a V-2..?
This sounds like a job for Space X
Let's hope his rockets are better than his cars.
Since we're talkin about Canadian Satellites. Interesting little tidbit between Canadian startup company URtheCast has a sweet deal with the Russians. Russians pretty much paid for everything URtheCast gets all the revenues - just has to share data with the Russians.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/fidelty-backed-urthecast-soars-...
"Under the deal with the Russians, the space agency agreed to pay for the launch, installation and maintenance of UrtheCast’s cameras. Russia gets pictures of its own territory and UrtheCast gets the right to use -- and sell -- any other images the cameras produce."
Canada just copying the American deal with China. Set up your factories here so we can copy all your technology for free. Now what politican could refuse such an obvious beneficial deal?
"Say Kiiiiiiidzz, what TIME is it?!??"
"It's REPUDIATE THE DEBT TIME, Buffalo Bob...!!!"
"That's right boys and girls...And now a word from our Sponsors, Gruel Helper and King Harvey the Frogg's Radiation Bandages..."
Kind of unimaginative, aren't they, these governments...? They just follow-the-leader all the time...kneejerk
Harper is joe-boy to America and America's master - the Zionists in Israel
Watch how Harper sings his love song to Israel - I cringe when I see this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/virals/10589471/Canadian-Prime...
Rothschild and Associates control the USG thru Israel.
Those Canadian idiots must have realized that the Russians would also be plugged in, so whatever the Canadians were going to spy on, would also be available to the Russians.
As someone once said, we live in an age of guided missiles and misguided men.
Most Americans have probably never heard the name PAUL DESMARAIS. However, DESMARAIS is the CANADIAN TYCOON who is said to front for THE ROTHSCHILD FAMILY in running the wealthy and influential POWER CORPORATION OF CANADA. Desmarais has also reportedly been the power-behind-the-throne for at least five Canadian Prime Ministers: Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien (whose daughter is married to Desmarais's son Andre), Paul Martin, and ZIOCON Stephen Harper....
Desmarais is also a close friend and supporter of French President Nicolas MOSSAD Sarkozy, who scrapped the Gaullist policy of supporting sovereignty for FRENCH-SPEAKING QUEBEC, abandoned the policy. Desmarais is vehemently opposed to independence for Quebec. Desmarais has used his influence and wealth to ensure the loyalty of at least two pro-federal Quebec Premiers, former Premier Daniel Johnson and current Premier Jean Charest.
DESMARAIS founded the CANADA CHINA BUSINESS COUNCIL and struck up a personal friendship with Bo while he was mayor of Dalian.
Desmarais, through his son ANDRE, who took over as president of POWER CORPORATION, the tycoon's relationship was maintained with Bo when he became Communist party First Secretary in Chongqing. Chretien and Canada's far right-wing evangelical former Trade and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day also maintained close contact with Bo through the Desmarais lobbying operation in China.
Harper has also been close to Bo and the demotion of the Chinese Communist regional leader is a blow to Harper's business outreach to China, which has included an offer for Alberta tar sands oil since the moratorium by the Obama administration on the Keystone pipeline project from Canada to Texas.
Chretien served on the board of Power Corporation's Consolidated Bathurst Ltd. and he and his son-in-law, ANDRE DESMARAIS, who is married to Chretien's daughter France and owns MANULIFE INSURANCE and CIRQUE DU SOLEIL, were keen to land power plant deals in China, with the assistance of Bo. Chretien's nephew, RAYMOND CHRETIEN, was named CANADA'S AMBASSADOR TO CHINA to help facilitate energy deals between Power Corporation and China.
Desmarais, who has been less-than-candid about his religious affiliation, is a strong influence on the Harper government's strong support for the right-wing government of Israel. In fact, the "Marais" in "Desmarais" is the historically Jewish neighborhood of Paris. And PAUL DESMARAIS is known to associate with the Jewish upper crust in Palm Beach, Florida, where he maintains one of his homes.
Another close associate of Desmarais is MAURICE STRONG, who once served as President of Power Corporation before he became a UN senior bureaucrat who became the LEADING PROPONENT of GREENHOUSE GAS CARBON CREDITS under the KYOTO CLIMATE CHANGE CONTROL PROTOCOLS. Desmarais, the Rothschilds, and Soros has also feathered the nest of Bo's son, BO GUAGUA, who attended ELITE PREPARATORY SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, as well as OXFORD, a pre-requisite for what Desmarais and the Rothschilds hoped would be the beginning of a BILDERBERG GROUP / COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR) stranglehold on China. BO GUAGUA was also a member of the OXFORD EMERGING MARKETS STUDENT CLUB, a training ground for Rothschild/Soros implants in targeted nations.
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There does seem to be something fishy about Strong's role in AGW history but does it alter the scientific knowledge base in 2014?
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Notwithstanding your stuff- and Paul Desmarais is dead.
Guess the Canadians are trying be as stupid as we are here in the USA, lofty goal.
I knew Canada was in trouble when I saw a photo of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper with some sort of stupid little hat on the top of his head. It wasn't much of a hat. More like a covering for the bald spot on the crown of the head. He was addressing a group of men with similar hats.
WTF was that about?
He also has the 'special' handshake, too...
Blowjob Barry can fix this. Really, she can.
Morons sanctioned themselves LOL
Bath House:
"We must punish Russia! Just today, I have learned they intentionally interfered with a Canadian Weather satellite launch, a satellite which could have help millions with its forecasts! More sanctions will be needed. Russia is now hurting Space Exploration! What will they do next?"
India/China? I think not. Get France to do it and just hope the thing dosen't blow on its way up. Else, get the US Military to do it for double/triple the price.
Welcome to the new normal "FOOLS GAME" hahaha.
Also, bitches when things normalize, we want Rubles, Gold or Oil as payment not your stupid CAD. hahaha.
Harper is the worst Canadian Prime Minister ever. Really he is more like the Govener of a fly over state. It was the liberals who balanced the books and paid off more than 30% of Canada's debt. Harpers economic success was simple, spend a coupld of hundred billion. The only thing that can stop him.
http://thinkingaboot.blogspot.ca/2014/04/rangar-lothbrok-progressive.html
If you want to know Harper
http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/04/the-harperland-spring-and-big-c...
I think there have been many "worst" PM's over the years. Trudeau, Chretien, Mulroney et all have all contributed to the destruction of our sovereignty and fundamental freedoms. A lot of our PM's over the years were lawyers. Maybe this explains things?
Harper, Cameron, Abbott, Obama. English speaking people are pretty much doomed.
Seen hanging on the Space Station,
Yankee go home !
Yeah, wadda buncha hosers, eh?