Don't Blame the Cleaners!

Looking at the stories of the RCMP's tazering the unfortunate individual at YVR, it seems that all the media types are missing the point. Review the history of the RCMP, and you'll find they were founded for the same role we see repeated here.

While we pretend to be a functioning democracy, Canada is a fascist state, controlled by an iron beaurocracy that has been in power since Trudeau managed to blunder away control of the functions of government. Prime Ministers come and go, but the mandarins are eternal.

The RCMP was founded to clean up a mess, and still see this as their primary purpose. With their allegiance to the bearucrats in Ottawa, the needs and wants of the common citizens aren't even on the radar.

Getting back to the YVR incident, the ball was dropped at least nine hours before the RCMP got involved. Ask yourself, under our supposedly secure system, how did a foreign person get off a manifested international flight and not make it through customs for ten hours? Suppose this was a terrorist targeting another flight, picking up preplanted weapons or explosives to end up on the other flight? There's a lot of expensive real estate within ten hours of YVR.

Would it not be reasonable to designate one person on each shift in the secure area, (its not like everyone and his dog has access), to sweep the area at least once an hour and check up on individual still there. A call for a translator, or even a staff member or a customer that speaks a common language, would have cleared this up in minutes, not hours.

As is often the case, the RCMP was called for a specific purpose. "We have a psychotic individual with no english, he's unruly, and we have a couple of hundred real customers coming through those doors in a few minutes".

As usual 'drop yer coffee, feet off the desk,' we got some trash to collect!

As they say, 'the rest is history'.

Ian

Thanks and Praise

Michael Yon has posted a photo that is utterly outstanding-

View full size here, and read the important details!

The Economics of Nuclear Power

An interesting paper on nuclear power costs vs. assorted other fuels-

The Economics of Nuclear Power
Briefing Paper 8

June 2007

* Nuclear power is cost competitive with other forms of electricity generation, except where there is direct access to low-cost fossil fuels.
* Fuel costs for nuclear plants are a minor proportion of total generating costs, though capital costs are greater than those for coal-fired plants.
* In assessing the cost competitiveness of nuclear energy, decommissioning and waste disposal costs are taken into account.

The relative costs of generating electricity from coal, gas and nuclear plants vary considerably depending on location. Coal is, and will probably remain, economically attractive in countries such as China, the USA and Australia with abundant and accessible domestic coal resources as long as carbon emissions are cost-free. Gas is also competitive for base-load power in many places, particularly using combined-cycle plants, though rising gas prices have removed much of the advantage.

Nuclear energy is, in many places, competitive with fossil fuel for electricity generation, despite relatively high capital costs and the need to internalise all waste disposal and decommissioning costs. If the social, health and environmental costs of fossil fuels are also taken into account, nuclear is outstanding.

The rest from the Australian Uranium Association