Updates 1 & 2: China, Cyberterrorism, Communist Rise, Fulford: Learning to bear the unbearable, Alberta Municipal $$$ to Liberals

Update 2

New posts from Bud Talkinghorn have been added below this post.


Update 1:

China's hackers are out in full force, as are what I assume are members of their network. Is there some truth on this site that these people don't like? I have left the China posts at the top for a reason. NJC



"Most of the attempted incursions originated in the People's Republic of China"

Dot-Commie Investors Business Daily, Sept. 9, 05

National Security: Chinese cyberattacks on American computer systems are on the rise. Is China's purchase of a U.S. computer company part of preparation for an electronic Pearl Harbor?

[. . . . ] The report noted that the People's Liberation Army sees computer network operations as "critical to seize the initiative" in establishing "electronic dominance" in a conflict with a potential enemy.

High technology is our military's greatest strength, but potentially its greatest weakness. [. . . . ]

Search: logged over 79,000 , temporarily reduced the Army's , shut down by the Chinese government , 40,000 Internet police , information warfare units to develop viruses , information warfare , cybertarget list includes , "You've got mail."




"100 per cent for the east."

Ex-communists set for comeback in eastern Germany

PIRNA, Germany (AP) - Katja Kipping, stumping for votes in Germany's former communist east, is a rising star in the new Left Party as it fights to return to parliament in the Sept. 18 election.

The red-haired Kipping, 27, stresses her ex-communist party's uncompromising commitment to opposing efforts to trim the welfare state as she seeks to restore its place on the national stage.

[. . . . ] Schroeder's pro-business attempts to cut welfare-state benefits have galvanized Germany's traditionalist left, prompting the ex-communists to merge with a western-based group of disgruntled former Social Democrats to form the Left Party. In the east, however, people still simply call it the PDS. [. . . . ]

Robert Fulford: Learning to bear the unbearable National Post, Saturday, September 10, 2005

It's a war we didn't expect, didn't know how to fight, and have never accepted as a part of our destiny. As an idea it's too uncomfortable, too far outside the range of our understanding. Canadians can't begin to think of it as a war we will fight the way we have fought others, with wholehearted passion. Most people in the West, and in fact many Americans, share that reluctance. Why even call it a war? A war has an end as well as a beginning. When and how could this one end?

We do know that the events of Sept. 11, 2001, split the population of the West into two factions, those who believe we are engaged in a war (because the other side declared war) and those who believe we are not.

[. . . . ]

Search: "They have brought murder with them, and violence" , a form of national suicide , will continue to arouse suspicions , literature confronts 9/11 , Hundred Years' War , emergency services , scandal of slow response



tangle2foot: "Just in case you're interested in some good reads on "our " current government here are some more good ones."




Albertans: your municipal tax $$$ to Liberals -- whether you like it or not

No quid pro quo, of course

CONTRIBUTIONS TO FEDERAL PARTIES BY ALBERTA MUNICIPAL ORGANIZATIONS timwest, Sept. 10, 05

Sample organizations:

City of Edmonton

Economic Development Edmonton

Heritage Park (Calgary)

Calgary Science Centre

Calgary Zoo

Enmax (Calgary-owned utility)

Link for the rest of the list and for the amounts.




No Shrinking Violet

Aug. 30, I had posted US Illegal Immigration: Two Responses

In wandering the blogosphere, I found related comments. Today on the anniversary of 9/11, what do you think, given what has transpired since?

This guy doesn't want to fool around with US border security -- “News Flash For Imbeciles: Terrorists Exploit Immigration Laws”

-- Comment by Heliotrope — 08.30.05

Make illegal/undocumented aliens a federal expense. Withhold federal funds from localities who do not arrest them and turn them over to the feds. Reimburse the expenses of the local jurisdictions.

Impound the rounded up illegal/undocumented aliens in regional camps (closed military bases?). Send the felons, gang members, and others back home (by C-111’s) after thoroughly documenting them. For those who have established homes and jobs here, give them a fine, document them and order them to learn English and study for citizenship before releasing them.

Those that countries will not take or those who declare no country of origin will end up in “Camp Limbo” where the Red Cross and the ACLU can scrap over them. [. . . . ]

Further down, guess which agency is being described:

over run with politics and it is a paper mill where government union employees are free to vegetate. The government bureaucracy in general is communistic in nature; they have eternal job security and little performance motivation. They can rarely be fired. They put so many systems of redundancy in place that the gears barely turn. [. . . . ]

On Canada:

Don’t forget the Canadian border! Our good friends in Canada who won’t lift a finger to help us.

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