Citizen Journalist Michael Yon, Hirsi Ali & Sharia, Stewart Bell: The Martyr's Oath, Coyne: Mocking GG Office, Pandemic, Uniforms Stolen

Citizen Journalist Michael Yon

PunditReview.com interview with independent writer in Iraq, Michael Yon, whose website is MichaelYon.blogspot.com

Yon is an ex-military man who questioned the reporting of the news on Iraq. He went to Iraq not as a journalist, simply as a man who writes. He did find that there was a disconnect between what was reported in the mainstream media and what was actually going on in Iraq.

You may listen to citizen journalists on WRKO in Boston. Concerning Pundit Review,

Remember, you can check out Kevin & Gregg on Pundit Review Radio every Sunday evening at 9pm at WRKO where we will be giving voice to the new media. Each week we will bring you interiews with leaders in the citizen journalist movement, people like Michael Yon who you will hear no where else but Pundit Review Radio.

You may read Michael Yon's written dispatches on his own website.




Pandemic could trigger second Depression: firm

Search: Some of the repercussions , those who have saved their money would be able to , The World Health Organization and public health leaders , the H5N1 avian flu ravaging poultry flocks of Southeast Asia

This concerns avian flu; check Aug. 15 for mention of ebola in Clinton Lawyers: Mohamed Atta Off-Limits, Ebola in China? Answer to an Apologist for Chinese Dictatorship. Whether it is ebola or something else has not been confirmed, but if ebola has reached China, that is scary. A World Health Organization doctor says it is not pig flu as the Chinese claim, but ebola. Search for more information.



Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Unfree Under Islam -- Shariah endangers women's rights, from Iraq to Canada. "Muslim women across the world are caught in a terrible predicament. They aspire to live by their faith as best they can, but their faith robs them of their rights." Townhall.com, Aug. 16, 05

Ms. Hirsi Ali, a member of the Dutch parliament for the Liberal Party, was born in Somalia. She took refuge in the Netherlands in 1992 to escape an arranged marriage, and has had armed bodyguards after receiving death threats from Muslim extremists. She writes at http://www.ayaanhirsiali.web-log.nl/.

This is a wake-up article for those not already familiar with Hirsi Ali's story and with sharia as it is in practice.

Would someone send this to Dalton McGuinty who is pursuing the idea of sharia/shariah law in Ontario and to Mohammed Elmasry, as well? Elmasry is the self-appointed head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, which he started. Whether he represents many Muslims is not clear. He gets media attention which may be as good. There is nothing like giving yourself a forum--a 'congress', no less--from which to beat your drum. This is the man who has expressed support for plural wives in Canada.

Watch his demands for special concessions for Muslims grow. Check the Canadian Coalition for Democracies for updates on his burgeoning use of Canadians' fear of being called anti-Islamic and/or racist. He's trying to beat us with our own tolerance.

I do not fear those epithets nor should you. I believe free speech, the free expression of one's thoughts and ideas based on reading and observation, is crucial to democracy and even more, crucial to our security.

So I write.



Theft of firefighters' uniforms -- What would be the purpose? Scary, isn't it? WFAA, Dallas-Fort Worth, Aug. 16, 05

The terrorist crazies are in North America already, so you might want to read this.




Selecting for Security -- The key to guarding against terrorism lies in making vigilant, not blind, choices of whom to monitor and how Brian Michael Jenkins, originally published in Newsday, July 26, 05


Kevin Restivo: Sheridan Scott urges no limits to foreign control -- Cable, telecom ownership Financial Post, Aug. 17

BCE supports this. At present, foreigners are limited to 47.?% ownership. I have read before that, for Americans, deregulation has lowered telephone prices. I would simply like more businesses involved so we are not held to ransom by one or two government-favoured businesses. There is nothing like freedom of choice.




Andrew Coyne: Making a mockery of the GG's office National Post, Aug. 17, 05

Let's start by attempting a few analogies. Suppose Prince Charles had chosen for a wife a woman whose idea of a good time was to go down the pub with a few mates from the IRA. Now suppose Charles himself, at one of these gatherings, raised a glass to the cause. [. . . . ]

Stewart Bell's book The Martyr's Oath -- Read an excerpt on Mohammed Mansour Jabarah an Al Qaeda from St. Catharines, Ontario who became an informer after he had been with Al Qaeda -- entitled "Al-Qaeda agent given night on the town in T.O. -- Went to strip club: New book discloses ex-St. Catharines student agreed to surrender to U.S.".

This title is somewhat misleading in that sometimes, to get information, security services have to spend money. Besides, Jabarah had to consent to "being transferred to a U.S. prison" in order to pay his debt to society and to start afresh; his handlers had to convince him and to keep him positive about his future if he talked. Read why he was not charged in Canada at the time.

The Martyr's Oath: The Apprenticeship of a Homegrown Terrorist Stewart Bell, August 2005

Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism to the World Stewart Bell, John Wiley & Sons Canada, February 2004




Bruce Thornton: Broadcasting Grief -- We should remember that misery breeds anger, not wisdom. -- re: Cindy Sheehan August 16, 2005

[. . . . Speaking of the past] Daily physical pain, early death, famine, malnutrition, chronic disease, violence from fellow humans and nature –– all were simply non-negotiable realities of life that had to be endured. Suffering didn't make you special; it just made you human, like everybody else.

We moderns, of course, have eliminated many of those evils, while magnifying and dramatizing what suffering remains. And this success has created a monumental change in how we view life and its possibilities: rather than accepting that suffering is a necessity, we view it as an anomaly, a glitch in the system that should be corrected and that, given how litigious we are, someone is responsible for. The result is our outrageous expectations about human life and its risks and costs. We still want to achieve our various noble aims and good intentions –– peace, freedom, security, and prosperity for all –– but only if we can do so without making anybody suffer or even feel bad, including our enemies. We want utopia, a world in which everyone is well fed, secure, and happy, but we want it on the cheap. [. . . . ]

No-one wants to lose a family member in a war situation, no matter how noble the cause; nevertheless, Cindy Sheehan's son re-enlisted in the US military of his own volition. He was not forced; unfortunately, he died. How many of the mothers of men who enlisted to fight in the two world wars, then were killed, camped outside the President's or Prime Minister's home demanding a meeting? Sometimes, for the freedoms we enjoy today, a price has been paid by individuals who fought and by their families.

There is a price to be paid today. Canada's government just has not recognized it for Iraq yet. Our soldiers have been sent to Afghanistan and militry have been involved with ships off the coast and one officer even commands or commanded US and other troops in Iraq. Our government will try to ignore what they do except when a photo op for the PM is necessary.

Our NGO's are reported to be remaining neutral; I read that they will have nothing to do with these military personnel. The men may die in the effort to protect the NGO's but our NGO's will remain "untainted" by any connnection with the military, it seems. Must pacify our EU "friends".




UNREPRESENTED, RE: Gas $1.14 A Litre! CNEWS Forum

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/0026A2DD-CA5E-4776-B4B4-91933C4F058B.htm

Oil prices are not high because of a shortage UNDERGROUND, but a shortage of several factors ABOVE ground. . . .

It was of course because it was not economic to make investments when the price of oil had fallen from $25 bbl, where infrastructure investment could make a profit, to $10 bbl.

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