May 16, 2006: #2 Updated

Update: Nasty, Political CBC

Tonight I wanted to watch this marvellous skating pair, Brasseur & Eisler: A Farewell Celebration, which was incorrectly listed as to time in the newspaper I checked. Instead, I caught the last few minutes and then, this series of vicious Air Farce skits against the PM and his government, the Queen, Prince Charles, Pres. Bush, Min. Emerson, etc. That they would pull out all the stops in attacking the Harper government was forecast on CBC's Sunday Morning (MacNeil and Solomon), but this style of unrelenting attack nastiness was never used on either Paul Martin or Jean Chretien.

Minister Oda, it is time to cut the CBC gang off taxpayer funding. They are purely political, and Air Farce is not funny except to the Liberals in whose service they toil, pretending to be funny while doing their masters' bidding.

CBC waste of taxpayer money

Royal Canadian Air Farce: The ads below misrepresented how much of the programs would be attacking the government and PM

The first of two new episodes of Air Farce airing back-to-back tonight. Skits include Rex Murphy's E-Speak; Peter McKay's bootylicious meeting with Condi Rice; Queen's royal wrinkles turn 80; Driving with Alan Park. More ...

[....] Skits for this new episode include: Stephen Harper's Oz-tawa; Bird Flu security system; Ebb & Flo go for broke; Banker Gangs; Tom Cruise's delivery room nightmare. More ...

End of Update





CTV.ca Poll on the gun registry -- only a shot in time early in the day







Memory Lane: Auditor General 2004

Auditor General: Gun Registry Cost to Exceed One Billion Dollars

Report states that Parliament was kept in the dark" on "astronomical" cost overruns
Cost to taxpayers more than eleven times the original 1995 estimate of $85 Million Taxpayers Federation / taxpayer.com, Dec. 4, 2004 via newsbeat1


Music

Cafe Salsa: A Spicy Mix of Hot Rhythms and Latin Spirit



Puppets of Beijing Kevin Steele, May 30, 06 -- excellent 4 page article -- more on China below



Debating Maurice Vellacott -- Informed sources NatPost, May 16, 06

On May 7, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott aroused controversy when he declared: "I don't think it is the role of [Canadian judges] to play the position of God." [....]

[.... Marni Soupcoff] Were the judges merely following judge-made guidelines, as is appropriate in a common law country like ours, then there would be no cause for debate. But our Supreme Court goes further. What I suspect Mr. Vellacott objects to -- even if he wasn't able to articulate it without going over the top -- is our high court blithely creating new precedent based on what seems to be little more than the justices' own personal ideological sense of what is right. [....]

The PM is not Ontario's enemy John Geiger, National Post, May 16, 2006

[....] Having temporarily ceded its traditional role as chief repository of anti-Conservative bias, the Toronto Star responded fiercely last week with a series of stories with headlines of a size once reserved for the death of the sovereign. One demanded "Is PM reneging on Ontario deal?" Another proclaimed, "Pick a fight -- pay a price" -- the story that followed amounting to self-serving admonitions by federal Liberal leadership candidates, including Toronto MP Carolyn Bennett, who declared Harper's abridged meeting with McGuinty represented "an insult to the people of Ontario," adding the Tories "don't think they have a responsibility to ... the people who didn't vote for them."

In fact, nearly two million Ontarians voted for the Conservatives in January's federal election -- roughly the same number who voted for McGuinty's Liberals in the last Ontario election. In other words, this federal government is every bit as representative of Ontarians as is the government at Queen's Park. [....]

Russia, China: Don't use force in Iran Charles Hutzler, AP

Posted by Tinsnips, May 16, 06 who commented: "And if anyone wondered if Communists and Radical Islamists were on the same page, this should disspell all doubts. Oh, and that precious Iranian Oil too."

BEIJING (AP) -- Russia and China will not vote for the use of force in resolving the Iranian nuclear dispute, [....]

In addition to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear issues, Lavrov said he and Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing agreed to coordinate their diplomacy toward Iraq, Afghanistan and efforts to reform the United Nations.

The two signed agreements Tuesday: one on building a bridge over the Argun River that marks part of their border, and the other on setting up a working commission on immigration. Chinese workers have flooded into Russia's far eastern provinces in recent years, becoming a vital part of the economy but sparking an anti-immigration backlash among some Russians.

Much of their meetings concerned preparations for the mid-June summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, whose members are China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Iran, along with India, Pakistan and Mongolia, are observers. [....]

And the Liberals wanted us to look to the UN for ethical guidance ........ How green was their valley? And I'm not referring to Kyoto.




A Letter from a Slave to an Illegal Alien by Herman Cain, May 15, 2006, via newsbeat1, May 16, 06

Dear Illegal Alien

[....] Therein lies your biggest problem. The public perception is that you want a different set of laws, and you want to ignore current laws. You even want an accommodation of your language in our national anthem, and some of your people are flaunting flags other than the flag of the USA.

As a reminder, USA stands for United States of America. It does not stand for "Under Special Assumptions." [....]

Attacks by gang in Brazil 'deadliest' in history -- or Stan Lehman, AP/Globe and Mail, 15 May 2006

SAO PAULO -- A notorious criminal gang unleashed a second wave of attacks against police yesterday, bringing to at least 52 the number of people killed in what one official said was the deadliest assault of its kind in Brazil's history.

At the same time, related rebellions broke out at 33 prisons, bringing the number of uprisings across the state of Sao Paulo to 51 -- affecting more than one-third of Brazil's 144 prisons. Inmates were holding 244 prison guards hostage.

[....] Enio Lucciola, a spokesperson for the Public Safety Department, said the attacks and prison rebellions, planned by the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese initials PCC, "were the most vicious and deadliest attacks on public security forces that have ever taken place in Brazil."

The attacks were in response to the transfer of eight imprisoned PCC leaders, a practice authorities use to sever prisoners' ties to gang members outside prison.

[....] During a 10-day period in November of 2003, the PCC attacked more than 50 police stations with machine guns, homemade bombs, shotguns and pistols, killing three officers and injuring 12. Those attacks apparently were planned by jailed PCC leaders trying to pressure authorities to improve prison conditions.

"The PCC has declared war on the State of Sao Paulo," Walter Fanganiello Maierovitch, an expert on organized crime and Brazil's former drug czar, wrote yesterday in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

Also:
Full Coverage: Brazilian gang members killed in ... News on 360000 topics, ... Notorious Brazilian gang attacks police again. The Globe and Mail 3 hrs ago ...
www.topix.net/?full=c8c0e63c0d - 20k - 14 May 2006

A Rio businessman reportedly once said that the Brazilian police used to round up thieves who were ruining the tourist industry in Rio and shoot them before morning ... Not legal, not right ... according to the rule of law ... but what if your country is about to be overrun by vicious thugs who can make more money in drugs and other crimes than police have the money or resources to keep up with ... and the rule of law is not part of their vocabulary? Would it come under the heading of war?

Look, I'm just asking; don't shoot!



Influence anxiety: China's role in Africa 15 May 2006, By Simon Roughneen in Nairobi for ISN Security Watch (15/05/06) via newsbeat1

[....] In the Mao era, China dealt with Africa as part of a show of solidarity with countries that shared some of China’s experience of Western oppression. However, [....]

In the 1960s and 1970s, China's engagement with Africa was politically driven: doctors, engineers, teachers, and weapons were sent to support newly independent countries and liberation movements. Today, Chinese officials touring the continent are flanked by businesspeople and bankers. Chinese engagement with Africa is predicated on an unprecedented business boom, driven by China's increasing hunger for raw materials to power a market-driven economy growing at over 9 per cent per year, which analysts predict will overtake the US as the world’s largest economy by 2030.

Oil: Scraping the bottom of the barrel?

China now gets 30 per cent of its oil from Africa, mainly from Sudan, Angola, and Congo-Brazzaville. Chinese interests in this sector seem set to grow. [....]

Perhaps most telling are the cases of Sudan and Zimbabwe, two countries that have been engaged in long-standing human rights abuses of their own citizens. China is actively and unconditionally engaging with both.

CNOCC [Would that be the same as CNOOC?] won an oil exploitation bid in Sudan in 1995, and when Washington cut ties two years later, the Chinese filled the void left by retreating Western oil companies. [....]

Search: Mining resources, undermining development? , China has since displaced the US as , an apparent genocide continuing in Darfur, and funded by Chinese oil purchases

Pressured by people (Canadians -- Remember Talisman) who live under the rule of law ... oil companies fled ... China has no such qualms.



10 Reasons ........ .......... why you can't blame Bush for his political undoing. -- posted by Tinsnips, May 15, 2006




"If anyone is interested this is a Fraser Insitute article on our beloved Supreme Arrogances:" link on SmallDeadAnimals, May. 8, 06 [Mar?]




What, me worry? -- Judges / SCOC with godlike powers -- also divorce where the wife became a lesbian




Comments from maz2 re Bob Rae who is running for the Liberal leadership / MP Vellacott and different msm responses



Videos on jihadis in Sweden -- The videos are available for download on infovlad.net




Activists in Toronto -- TDRC

Begging her to leave: "Yesterday's action only demonstrates how threatened the TDRC folk feel by anything that might take their homeless pawns off the streets." Sue-Ann Levy, May 16, 06

My esteemed Sun colleague Peter Worthington got it wrong recently, I'm afraid, when he claimed that the panhandlers infesting this city are a bunch of bums and predators.

I'd take the behaviour of a bellicose beggar any day over the horde of bums -- i.e., the so-called homeless advocates -- who endeavoured to hijack yet another meeting of the city's homeless advisory committee yesterday and are proving more each day just how irrelevant they are. [....]

Search: mayoralty candidate Jane Pitfield.