Not only is this article informative, but it is funny, when you consider all the words wasted on blaming . . . everyone from every angle.
Kashechewaste: Government responses to the First Nation water problem were a fiasco. Expert private water providers are the answer Financial Post, Nov. 9, 05
Michaelle Jean says she is being targeted -- "she is mystified by the uproar in Quebec over her humourous performance at the press dinner, held on Oct. 22." Jack Aubry, NP, Nov. 9, 05
I provided a link to the GG's performance at the dinner on Nov. 2, 05--see below; someone thought she seemed inebriated but I thought she was simply hilarious.
The timing of her delivery didn't indicate any over-indulgence; it was perfect, almost as if she intended to keep everyone on the edge of their seats to see if she would falter. It got my laugh though I noticed a few sickly grimaces from one or two members of her audience, one of them a former party leader.
Maybe Jean needed a glass of wine to perform but, goodness, could any of us stand the constant scrutiny . . . and being filmed during the performance without one?I still think she and her husband
could be closet separatists but that has nothing to do with the criticism Jean mentions of her performance; it was a show for a dinner at which everyone tries to be outrageous in hope that it will be
funny memorable.
Jean was definitely funny memorable.Of course, I was not invited and could be wrong about her performance. Next time, invite me and a few more of the
great unwashed and we'll comment more adequately. Judge for yourself.
Originally, this was posted on Frost Hits the Rhubarb, within this post,
"The only saint in the brothel" -&- a video of our GG -- The video is here:
Video: Canada's Governor General has a sense of humour! National Post: "Harper wavers on vote" -- Actually, it is Jack Layton wavering -- no bias evident in that misleading headline, of course National Post, Nov. 9, 05
Jack Layton needs to keep his face in front of the cameras and the MSM will play along.
He is at the nadir of his power to command attention and, in giving it, the MSM are giving us the appearance of democracy for a little while and until the "right people" get back in -- by featuring this
NDP leader -- the "defender of the poor and downtrodden" who can be bought by a corrupt PM and team -- if he can just keep his face in the media -- frightening the Librano$ leader desperate to stay in the seat of power -- dispensing pork with your money and his "charismatic" leadership. Media keep talking about it, telling Canadians we need
charisma in our leadership. I can only assume this is what they are talking about when they feature JL and PM, but seldom show Stephen Harper except to be negative about him or his message.
MSM keep pushing a man who cannot make up his mind to bring down the present corrupt and tired government -- featuring him and thus egging him on to make a deal with the other man who dithers; I can only conclude that this is what the mainstream media mean; they both must be charismatic.
Shocked! "Unaware"? -- Dissembling? Duplicitous?Australia says 2 " were competing to become the first to stage a major bombing "-- 17 suspects -- Melbourne and Sydney -- Muslims "shocked" though if you listen to a radical imam from Algeria preach, are you "unaware"? Duplicitous? Dissembling? From CTV/AP, Nov. 9, 05
SYDNEY, Australia — [. . . . ] Prime Minister John Howard on Wednesday assured Muslims they were not being targeted. [. . . . ]
Ameer Ali, president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, said the country's nearly 300,000-member Muslim community was shocked at the number of arrests and that all the suspects appeared to be Muslims. [. . . . ]
Search: racial profiling , cleric Abu Bakr, an Australian who was born in
Algeria , stockpiling the same kind of
chemicals used in , camp northeast of Melbourne ,
pleading for permission to become a martyr Why do I think now that I could write boilerplate that would fit every news article to be published after a police raid and series of arrests in the Muslim Islamist communities in the Western world? Should I hasten to add that these are not the same as your average Muslim community in the West -- that they have nothing to do with each other and that "peaceful" Muslims are "shocked and appalled" . . . but not much else? They demand respect and no "racial profiling".* Why is there usually a Muslim
cleric from away involved -- preaching, leading prayers?
* Why are
imams imported described as "from" one of the world's Islamist training grounds or sinkholes? Is there no-one in each of the Muslim communities around the world capable of preaching or leading prayers?
* Why do I sense that use of the words "
peaceful" and "
prayer" in the Muslim community are hiding something? That they
signal some ineffable something that the rest of us must take heed?
Does the evidence mislead? Convince me otherwise.
Come to think of it, the evident and pervasive
debasement of language rendering it divorced from meaning--not intended for anything but smokescreen until the problem goes away--continues apace.
Do you believe the person issuing any of these phrases means anything at all or are these simply mantras trotted out -- boilerplate for politicians to soothe or to signal another buy--whether of time, votes, or whatever? For example:
It is a priority
initiative
investment
I / we will get to the bottom of
Let me make myself clear
We have been clear on this
Falluja-Sur-Seine? "Amir Taheri noted in the New York Post that the French have already heard from people who claim that they can negotiate an end to the violence." --
"There's a reason the media is reluctant to connect the dots on the French riots." by
Edward Morrissey of Captain's Quarters writing in the Weekly Standard, Nov. 9, 05
[Source of
Taheri "noted" ]
[. . . . ] France averaged 80 cars a day lost to arson this year even before the riots began, and they assumed the riots meant little.
After a few straight days of increasing violence, however, the only people still believing that comforting line appeared to be members of the French government and the media, who insisted on doing everything they could to miss the story. Twelve days into the riots, even after they had spread across France and inspired violence in Germany and Belgium, the media for the most part still could not bring itself to mention the "M" or "I" words: Muslim and Islamist. The lack of even any suggestion that radical Islamists might have initiated the violence, or at least be taking advantage of it, boggles the imagination.
[. . . . ] It is, in effect, a land-for-peace proposal aimed at the heart of France and Christendom. [. . . . ]
Search: "youths" , In September, the Algerian Islamist terror group GSPC , recruiting French citizens to train ,
"underground railroad" , jihad zone
It would be fruitful to read what I left out.
Rioting Spreads to 300 Towns in France Angela Doland, Nov. 7, 05, AP
Associated Press writers Emmanuel Georges-Picot in Paris, Thierry Boinet in Grenoble and Jan Sliva in Strasbourg contributed to this report.[. . . . ] On Sunday night, vandals burned more than 1,400 vehicles, and clashes around the country left 36 police injured, setting a new high for overnight arson and violence since rioting started Oct. 27, Michel Gaudin told a news conference.
[. . . . ] Attacks overnight Sunday to Monday were reported in 274 towns, and police made 395 arrests, Gaudin said.
[. . . . ] France's biggest Muslim fundamentalist organization, the Union for Islamic Organizations of France, issued a fatwa, or religious decree. It forbade all those "who seek divine grace from taking part in any action that blindly strikes private or public property or can harm others."
Caveat: I do not listen to the CBC/LPO all day so this
only what I saw/heard in the time I did tune in to TV.
During all the upheaval in Europe, what was our distrusted, duplicitous Liberal Propaganda Organ, aka the CBC, spending an inordinate amount of television time on? Why, the wonders of multiculturalism and immigration. I saw the wonders of
Chinese filming in the Carcross area of the Yukon and how many people would be reached by the result of this
Survivor-like film effort -- something like
500,000,000 people. Paulie's Propagandists want you to salivate at all those $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ to be made.Then, last evening later, I was treated to the SUCCESS (with that beaming, smiling tone that says "
The Liberal immigration and refugee system has been right all along . . . and we want more! . . . Canadians are going to get it anyway so here is how you're supposed to view it.") of the Somalian
refugee women--no men involved--in their learning--mouthing the right words anyway--on integration to Canadian tolerance and understanding which these Somalians (I think they were refugees) were learning in a school, MacDonald? Hamilton? What riches in terms of immigration we have now and have had under the Librano$ ! Cue the perky tone, the smarmy delivery.
Mentioned more than once yesterday was that, of course,
Paul Martin and team just need more time to govern, to pass those bills which will squeeze the pork out over the land -- from all those $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ that over-taxation brought to Librano$ . . . who know how to schmooze with your money. Left unmentioned were any questions that might rouse any. . . uh, negative emotions:* Why would Canadians want and need an election? Hint to CBC: it's the corruption, the sleaze already exposed and the rest that we know is there but which has not yet been exposed.
Surely, this should be explored by any serious news organization . . . but CBC has forfeited its claim to be considered serious or balanced. Cue the interviews with NDP and Lieberals, the photos of PM and kids. . . blah, blah, blah.
* What will be the effect upon the rest of us of massive migration of people whose life experience has been living under authoritarianism and/or sharia?* Why is our media remiss on this? If several
news reports state and show proof that China has been sending
spies into the West, why is this not discussed before PM and team carry out more Chinese immigration and
business people imports?
* What will be
the effect of immigration from China and SE Asia
on intellectual property for Canadian business, given what has happened in the past? On government
information that should remain
secret?
* How many imported women who've been downtrodden and treated as second-class does it take
to alter the balance in the West on attitudes toward women, considering their penchant for having babies?
* How many
male immigrants come who believe in jihad, sharia, women's lower status and barbaric punishments for transgressions that are not transgressions in the West? How many is enough to change our country? And when will this point be reached? Has anyone considered it or the numbers? The political implications of the numbers?
*
Will any of this favour Paulie's Puppies whose interest is in maintaining their place at the trough and/or making money? * What will the Muslim males attached to these female immigrants but
not in the positive CBC presentation want in Canada? And
why were they not in the picture?
Is it only women embracing tolerance? *
Who is making money from imported film-makers working in Carcross, Yukon and other areas? Chinese? Natives? The arts community -- actors and technicians?
* Is there any
espionage component to all this interest in Canada?
Those questions came out of just what I watched; I could come up with more but I would have to watch more LibPropOrg and I cannot.
I am cynical this morning, but I resent being manipulated by a taxpayer funded media organization devoted to maintaining the sleazy status quo and evidently trying to convince Canadians like me to want more of the same with includes funding this bloated, self-satisfied, self-congratulatory, political propaganda tool.
First they came for . . . "With two synagogues already damaged during 12 days of Muslim riots, French Jews fear they’ll be specifically targeted with further, more intense hostility over the coming days". . . [media] "reduce coverage of the riots" -- "French Jews targeted next?", Nov. 8, 05
Where does this leave the victims? Eurabian Nights Posted 11/7/2005
[. . . . ] As we've noted for years, there's another bomb going off in Europe, a demographic time bomb. It's already having unintended geopolitical consequences as Muslim immigrants descend on a declining Europe desperate for "cheap" and abundant labor.
Indigenous Europeans are a dying breed. To sustain a population requires each woman on average to have 2.1 children. In the European Union, the birth rate is 1.5 and falling. To keep its working population stable, Europe must import 1.35 million people a year. Most are Muslim. Not all are friendly. [. . . . ]
Media Neglect and Islamist self-confidence and contemptTony Blankley: Islamist threat in France Nov. 9, 05 -- or read
this on Newsbeat1
[. . . . ] The big networks have consistently given only headline coverage to the story. I was in Russia last week (lecturing and doing media on my book) and actually timed the BBC coverage of the French Muslim violence story at about a minute and a half, while in the same broadcast the post-Pakistani earthquake-relief story was given over fifteen minutes. CNN International proportioned its coverage similarly. [. . . . ]
Just read it and pay particular attention to
mention of various media and the quotations from Paul BelienSuggestion: Listen to
various news broadcasts in Canada and
note the subject and amount of time devoted to it. The news is simply not making it to the one-horse towns and smaller cities in the boonies, particularly those with few media outlets such as newspapers because of the low population, single owners controlling the press (Irvings in NB, for example) or the sources for news are run by interests which want to keep a lid on some knowledge until another election passes . . .
and maybe the issue will go away?
Book:Tony Blankley "The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?" (Regnery Publishing, Washington D.C. September 11, 2005)
I have written before on
Saudi Wahhabist money and influence in the West:
Saudi Arabia's influence and
here Media BiasPhotos keep the issue alive, and generate sympathy for opposition to the barrier On November 5, two Canadian newspapers — the Regina Leader-Post and the Windsor Star — published photos alongside articles about Israel. While the articles were about the anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, the photos were entirely unrelated. They showed protesters confronting Israeli soldiers at the site of Israel's security barrier [the fence] near the West Bank village of Bilin.
The Getty Images press release on the grant describes Israel's separation fence as a monstrous barrier to peace, akin to the Berlin Wall:A representative of
Getty Images apologized, explaining "We recognize that our recent press materials failed to note that comments describing the focus and intent of each photographer's work are taken directly from the project applications."
Unfortunately, most people do not get to see this response to bringing the above to their attention.
Ironically,
"Russian security experts want to build a security fence along the Chechen border and met with Israeli officials to learn more" Robert Spencer: Jihad in Europe? FrontPageMagazine.com , Nov. 8, 2005
Has an intifada begun in France — an all-out jihad? Are the French facing what is by now, as the riots are well into their second week and have engulfed virtually the entire country [. . . . ]
• Postings on Muslim weblogs indicate that the riots are not spontaneous outpourings of rage, but carefully planned endeavors. Some revealed not only the planning involved in the riots, which have now swept all across France and have spread also to Denmark, Belgium and Germany, but also the Islamic supremacist goal behind them. One wrote: “The cops are petrified of us, everything must burn, starting Monday, the operation ‘Midnight Sun’ starts, tell everyone else, rendezvous for Momo and Abdul in Zone 4 ... jihad Islamia Allah Akhbar.” Another added: “You don’t really think that we’re going to stop now? Are you stupid? It will continue, non-stop. We aren’t going to let up. The French won’t do anything and soon, we will be in the majority here.”
A "war against modernity"
Roy Clancy: Cloud darkens Nov. 3, 05
[. . . . ] The biggest threat to Western countries these days is from homegrown radicals indoctrinated to believe terrorism is the way to achieve their fanatical ends.
Canada's CSIS director Jim Judd told a Senate committee this week that homegrown radicals pose a grave threat because they often fall under the radar of intelligence organizations. [. . . . ]
Search: destabilize and take control , Attacks on the U.S. and Britain , facilities such as
Alberta's oilpatch We had better hope there is agreement, in Toronto and elsewhere.
Done Deal -- "tentative" and no details yet -- negotiating committee -- Toronto police agreement Nov. 8, 05
