Kyoto: "Bull's Eye", Cocaine in river, Media Bias, JTF2 commando, Pesky Facts: Muslim Rioters

Why, it's asymmetrical

Bull's-eye on our backs -- Feds plan to make West foot bill on Kyoto fiasco Ezra Levant, Calgary Sun, Nov. 7, 05 via Jack's Newswatch

While the nation's eyes were on AdScam, federal Environment Minister Stephane Dion quietly made an announcement about the Kyoto Protocol. [. . . . ]

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Quebec's senior Liberal, Jean Lapierre, announced
Dion explained the plan
Alberta and Saskatchewan



rabble.ca: Gomery? Election? Minority government? Huh? Angry in T.O. Nov. 7, 05

What were the media's concerns on Jack Layton's Big Day? Check this!



Media: How does information get out?

Who introduced, who controls and who enforces CanWest’s chain editorials? By David Hawkins & Judi McLeod, Monday, November 7, 2005

How else do we explain the day Gomery Report I was published--before its contents could be digested--the headlines of CanWest Global newspaper, the National Post, blared in strips the full length of the front page "…Chrétien blamed, Martin cleared…"?

Are the CanWest minders praising Martin? The man is either corrupt or incompetent.[. . . . ]

Monitoring Media

Alexandre Trudeau W5 – “The Fence” CTV (Bias by Selection of Sources, Bias by Omission). For its W5 current affairs program, CTV assigned an unseasoned and ... -- Dishonest Reporting Canada Awards

CBC is a winner, too.



Elections won on dirty money?

The Gomery Report: The 18 Club [Updated] -- "Eighteen ridings where kickback money was spent to defeat Bloc candidates." Angry in T.O, Nov. 7, 05 via Which one of them cheated? Kevin Libin, Shotgun, Nov. 7, 05


From the newsroom to the backroom -- trackback Kevin Libin, Nov. 7, 05


Update: Stephen Harper asks lawyer to look at Scott Brison comments on lobbying

There is an editorial in the National Post this morning on Scott Brison's error. We are not amused.


Layton rejects Liberal health-care proposal -- "Harper said he expects Layton is continuing to negotiate with the Liberals."


Military: JTF2 commando

Military judge won't order secret trial -- Government asks court to force officer to try JTF2 suspect in closed sessions David Publiese, Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 7, 05, via Jack's Newswatch

In what is believed to be a legal first, the federal government and the Defence Department have gone to court to force the top military judge to take part in a court-martial in which details of the alleged offence are secret.

Critics say the highly unusual move by federal authorities is a continuation of the culture of secrecy that has become the hallmark of Prime Minister Paul Martin's government. [. . . . ]

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The unprecedented legal battle revolves around
trying to "arm twist" Col. Carter
concerns about the independence that military judges actually have



Bingo!

Troubling “Facts” of the Paris Riots -- How our newspapers might turn bias to balance.

The media's techniques for smuggling opinion into what are supposed to be news stories are so pervasive that often we don't even notice when they are at work. [. . . . ]

As Dr Jack Wheeler puts it, “The problem is not that these Moslem kids are unemployed, but that they are unemployable. They are illiterate, unskilled except in crime, don't speak French well, refuse to assimilate into French culture and think being Moslem is more important than being French. Worse, they are paid by the French welfare state not to work, living well off the dole (and crime). The problem was epitomized by these words of a young Moslem rioter to a French reporter: 'In the day we sleep, go see our girlfriends, and play video games. And in the evening we have a good time: we go and fight the police.'” [. . . . ]

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Coming to a river near you

Drugs don't affect you? Think again.

The Thames: awash with cocaine -- "after cocaine had passed through users' bodies and sewage treatment plants, an estimated 2kg - 80,000 lines - of the drug went into the river each day." By Nina Goswami and James Orr, (Filed: 06/11/2005)

If Paul Martin and team want to do something positive for the environment, they could start with the drug trade . . . protecting our border security for example and not allowing drug thugs and criminal gangs to operate at will in our country. The courts could help if they did the job they're supposed to do. Punish the offenders, not the citizenry, by putting away violent drug criminal gangs away for a long, long time.


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River of cocaine -- "four out of every 100 people regularly taking cocaine, or up to 250,000 of the capital's six million residents." By James Orr and Nina Goswami, Nov. 6, 05

[. . . . ] Chemical compounds of the narcotic do not break down easily, making it relatively simple to test for.

[. . . . ] Dr Chiara Chiabrando, Dr Sara Castiglioni and Dr Ettore Zuccato had previously found the equivalent of 4kg of cocaine per day flowing down the River Po in northern Italy after testing for cocaine and its metabolic by-product, benzoylecgonine. [. . . . ]

Financial contributions to parties July 1-Sept. 30, 2005

Conservatives out-fundraise governing Liberals, again -- The Tories have so far raised $10-million. The governing Liberals have raised only $4.9-million. Bea Vongdouangchanh, The Hill Times, November 7th, 2005

Don't miss the contribution figures at the end -- names listed.

23 out of 28 donations of $5,000 each to the Liberals come from Edmonton, Alberta? Is it Deputy PM Anne McLellan's area?

Jean Chretien's gift that keeps on giving, Campaign Finance Bill C-24, may have had an influence. There is an editorial against C-24 in the Financial Post today -- another perspective on why Bill C-24 is not as positive as most would think.


Alexander Panetta: Harper makes ethics election issue -- Is this the end of the "$5,000-a-ticket cocktail parties"? Nov. 5, 05

[. . . . ] -Create a public-appointments commission to set merit-based requirements for appointments to government boards, commissions and agencies.

-Broaden the auditor general's role, allowing her not just to investigate government spending but also to follow the money trail to political parties. [. . . . ]

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