Not Politicized: Justice, IRB, China-CRTC-Rogers TV, Cuba, Ports, Cartoons, Etc

Police arrest two men in St. John's sex ring, may widen case beyond Newfoundland -- Prostitution, teen porn ring produces 35 charges -- "Mehnad Mahmoud Shablak, 30, and Shawn James Newman, 32, face more than 30 charges in connection with what police have dubbed Operation Rescue." Brian Callahan, The Telegram, February 24, 2006




The Real Cuba: Since the days of Pierre Trudeau, Canadians have idealized Cuba as a beleaguered socialist utopia. As this insider shows, the truth is very different



No! No! No!

Rogers to offer China's propaganda package -- "A decision from the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) on whether the channels should be allowed to broadcast unedited is pending." Joel Chipkar, Special to the Financial Post, February 24, 2006

[. . . . ] The fundamental news source for these nine channels is the Xinhua News Agency, dubbed "the World's Biggest Propaganda Agency" by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). [. . . . ]

How Western companies are selling their souls for a piece of the massive Chinese market -- Yes, Master Steve Maich, February 20, 2006

[....] Chris Smith, the Republican representative from New Jersey who chairs the congressional subcommittee on human rights, has been one of the industry's most ardent critics, and is sponsoring a draft bill that would require Web companies to establish a code of conduct for operating in repressive regimes, prohibiting them from facilitating unreasonable censorship or co-operating in the abuse of human rights. But getting companies to reverse themselves may prove more easily said than done. China's trade deals with Canada, the U.S. and the European Union give it enormous bargaining power whenever talk turns to sanctions and restrictions, and with every year of supercharged economic growth, its clout increases. [....]

.... Several Canadian companies, including Montreal engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, Acres International, Hydro-Québec and Dominion Bridge Inc., have been involved in various aspects of the Three Gorges endeavour, many of them backed by taxpayer money through Export Development Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. But, as the project steamed ahead in the mid-1990s, and "Team Canada" trade missions trudged across the Chinese countryside promoting closer ties, few stopped to consider the forced evacuation of roughly two million people living in low-lying areas to be flooded by the dam.

Stop 9 Chinese TVs from broadcasting propaganda in Canada Joan Quain and M.Makina, Between Heaven and Earth

Related Links:

How China's Propaganda Machine Works
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/7/3/134334.shtml

China Controls the People by Keeping Them Ignorant
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/7/7/133353.shtml

How China's Propaganda Machine Tries to Fool the World
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/7/8/133729.shtml



Communist Spy TV: Phoenix television rises -- Liu Changle--one of China's biggest tycoons Tony Wong, February 19, 2006

Many people in Chinese communities claim that Liu Changle's real identity is a spy from the Chinese military. It wouldn't be surprising as four Phoenix TV employees were charged with stealing military secrets in the US last year. Read more on this (at the end) and Phoenix TV's role in inciting hatred against Falun Gong in the excerpt below from The Real Story of China's Jiang Zemin - Chapter 13

[....] Liu Changle, CEO of the Hong Kong-based Phoenix Satellite Television, was (or is) an undercover agent under the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the People's Liberation Army. [3]

[....] It is an open secret that this state controlled TV is a mouthpiece for the Chinese Communist Party but it’s much more than that—it is yet another Chinese espionage network operating in our own backyard! So we get two in one—great glossy package Liu! Please let’s not be so naïve. It’s time for Rogers to allow homegrown New Tang Dynasty TV on the Canadian airwaves for true balanced reporting.

[Related links on that website]

Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring
CI Centre: See Related Articles towards the end
Epoch Times: Coming to Canada: China Spy TV?

Bolivian Foreign Minister, David Choquehuanca, touts health benefits of cocaine plant AFP, February 24, 2006

[. . . . ] has confessed to having stopped reading books since he discovered his Aymara heritage and claims to get his knowledge from reading the wrinkles of his ancestors. [. . . . ]

Justice Rothstein


Rothstein's 7 rules to intellectual success -- address at Oxford University last June.



For more information on the Government’s reformed process to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice John Major



For the full dossier being provided to members of the Ad Hoc Committee to Review a Nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada


Osgoode Professors on Supreme Court Appointment Process



New Canadian Supreme Court Nominee Ruled Against Same Sex Benefits John-Henry Westen

[....] Prime Minister Harper has previously stressed that he was looking to nominate a judge who strictly interpreted the law rather than an activist who would make new laws.

[....] REAL Women notes that in the two-year period that former Prime Minister Paul Martin and his Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler, were in power, the following individuals were given judicial appointments:

- Michael Brown, Mr. Cotler's executive assistant and policy advisor;
- Yves de Montigny, Mr. Cotler's Chief of Staff;
- Randall Echlin, the Legal Counsel to the Ontario Liberal Party;
- Rosalie Abella, (appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada), wife of Mr. Cotler's close friend, Irving Abella;
- Marsha Erb, Alberta Liberal fundraiser, a close personal friend of Cotler's former Cabinet colleague, Anne McLellan;
- John J. Gill, Co-chair of the 2004 Alberta federal Liberal campaign;
- Vital Ouellette, an unsuccessful Alberta provincial Liberal candidate in 1997 and 2000 elections;
- Bryan Mahoney, federal Liberal candidate who lost twice to federal Conservative MP Myron Thompson;
- Edmond Blanchard, former Liberal New Brunswick Minister of Finance [. . . . ]

Of course, Canadian justice is NOT POLITICIZED!



Just as the Immigration & Refugee Board is NOT POLITICIZED!

Refugee Board stacked with Liberals. How can you tell?
#1133 - Thu Sep 02 2004

The Immigration and Refugee Board is stacked with Liberal Party patronage appointees -- amateurs who know nothing about immigration, crime, sociology, psychology, history, police-work, justice, law, common sense, gangs, logic, the public's appetite for being murdered, or most anything else. As I said, they are Liberal Party patronage appointees.

So stories like this, below, happen all the time. Repeatedly. Over and over. It's the Homer Simpson school of refugee management. It's liberal, it's Canadian. Go Canada.

Sri Lankan gangster gets to stay
Judge fears 'hardship' for son of man caught with AK-47
Stewart Bell
National Post [. . . . ]

Making Canada a terrorist haven -- Sri lankan gangster gets to stay -- Judge fears 'hardship' for son of man caught with AK-47 Stewart Bell, National Post, September 02, 2004, Posted by Al Gordon on 09:06:04 2004/09/02

[. . . . ] Although the judge said Sanththijesvaran Kathiravelu, 31, was convicted of a serious crime and was a member of AK-Kannan, an ethnic Tamil gang responsible for killings, assaults, extortion and drug trafficking, he ruled he should not be deported for the time being.

Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) member Egya Sangmuah wrote in his decision that since his arrest, Kathiravelu has married and fathered a son in Canada, and takes his family to the mall and cinema. Deporting him would cause undue hardship to the family, he ruled. [. . . . ]

Team Graham -- the list -- Even though there are only 25 Conservative cabinet ministers, the Liberals will have 41 critics and 38 associate critics in the upcoming session of Parliament Romeo St. Martin, PoliticsWatch, February 22, 2006




Lou Dobbs transcript -- "White House Refuses to Back Down on UAE Ports Deal; Jon Corzine Speaks Out on Port Deal ... " also, trade deficit with China, etc.

The trade deficit is a function of a lot of different factors. Most economists well till you, right, left or center, Republican or Democrat, it's mostly the macroeconomic issues including our low savings rate, their high savings rate.

We have a zero savings rate among households and they have a 50 percent savings rate.

DOBBS: We have to talk about the fact that the savings rate is low because this country is borrowing so much capital to support our runaway imports which is an $800 billion lost opportunity for this country every year. [. . . . ]

The bill always comes due. Would it be possible to severely curtail the offer of credit to young people? They are in debt before they even start their adult lives. Bad move!



No Safe Harbor From Politics Feb. 22, 06

[. . . . ] Our MBA president also knows that it's just the parent company, Dubai Ports World, that's domiciled in the UAE. The company that will actually manage the ports is Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co., a venerable British firm whose personnel already manage the ports in New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, New Orleans and Miami. Dubai Ports World is merely buying the P&O, for $6.8 billion.

So it's really just a matter of who owns the port management company's capital — not whether we'll have al-Qaida-friendly Arab overseers calling the shots. Security will still be handled, as it always has, by the U.S. government. [. . . . ]

By giving these politicians an extra year in office, McGuinty is undermining local democracy and making it even easier for out-of-touch "career" municipal politicians to remain in power long past their due date (as many already have). .... he's already planning to give councillors more authority and more taxation powers, through his City of Toronto Act.



Prime Minister announces appointment of new Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Mr. Kevin G. Lynch, Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Ph.D., Economics, McMaster University February 21, 2006



Danish Cartoons: Manipulation or Capitulation? -- Translated from the French: Caricatures danoises : l’intolérable manipulation face à l’inacceptable capitulation Feb. 23, 06, Excellent summary: via CCD

[....] The use of inflammatory fake images has been a well-known strategy to whip up the Middle East into a frenzy. One notorious example is of course the fake footage by French State Television France 2 cameraman Talal Abou Ramah purporting to show the alleged death of a Palestinian child at the beginning of the second Intifada, shown on French TV on September 30, 2000, and redistributed worldwide, to predictable results: an exacerbation of anger and violence in the Palestinian territories, whipped into a murderous frenzy by a conveniently made-up "martyr." [....]

A noteworthy analysis of this situation was published by Olivier Roy in Le Monde on February 9, 2006: "The Arab regimes have always tried to use European immigration as a useful diaspora which they can mobilize for national causes. The Maghreb countries consider that even the second French-born generations automatically retain their parents' nationality. Their Consulates act as arbitrators in case of religious tensions, and campaigned heavily to control the elections to the CFCM (Conseil Français du Culte Musulman, the representative body of French Muslims.) [....]

Search: The manipulation campaign was crowned by the scandalous statement by Mr. Ihsanoglu , May Allah accept our commitment , Political and trade consequences , The staged broadcast of young Mohamed Al-Dura's alleged death