Updated: Nuclear Iran, A Q Khan, & a Canadian Connection?

Note: The best article I've seen lately on daycare is in this morning's Globe and Mail by Margaret Wente, "The Baby and the Bathwater" on A17 -- information from a Quebec doctor -- excellent.

Security update: Note "disabling the Global Positioning System"


CNEWS: Atlanta-area men plotted terror attack in Toronto: FBI agent -- "In March 2006, Ahmed then told agents they had met with extremists and plotted how to disrupt military and commercial communications and traffic by disabling the Global Positioning System, the affidavit said. He was arrested March 23."

ATLANTA (AP) - A 21-year-old Georgia Tech student and another man travelled to Toronto to meet with Islamic extremists to discuss "strategic locations in the United States suitable for a terrorist strike," an affidavit made public Friday said.

Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, both U.S. citizens who grew up in the Atlanta area, met with at least three other targets of FBI terrorism investigations during a trip to Toronto in March 2005, an FBI agent's affidavit said. [. . . . ]

Nuclear Jihad -- several webpages CBC




CTV: Chinese ambassador rejects espionage claims -- Ambassador Lu Shumin declared: "There is no Chinese espionage in Canada." Apr. 20 2006

[....] CSIS intelligence

Intelligence files reportedly suggest that an estimated 1,000 Chinese agents and informants operate in Canada. Many of them are visiting students, scientists and business people, told to steal cutting-edge technology.

One example MacKay pointed out was China's Redberry -- an imitation of the BlackBerry portable e-mail device -- created by Waterloo, Ont.-based Research in Motion Ltd.

According to a 2003-2004 CSIS report to Parliament, foreign spies are trying to uncover "Canada's scientific and technological developments, critical economic and information infrastructure, military and other classified information, putting at risk Canada's national security."

Several articles -- e.g. Further details revealed about Hong Kong `scam'


May we rest easy now?

End of update



Do you suppose Canada will get honourable mention in this whole thing?

Iran Completes Secret Uranium Plant Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com, Friday, April 21, 2006

[....] A large agricultural center was constructed overhead to disguise the existence of the buried plant, the sources said. A similar disguise was initially used to hide the existence of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant to the southwest of Tehran, before a foreign government revealed its existence to the IAEA.

[....] The IAEA has verified previously clandestine production in Iran of the P1 centrifuge, an older design copied by Pakistan from plans acquired in Europe in the late 1970s by Dr. A.Q. Khan.

Search: military analyst Homayoun Moghaddam , Shahid Moradian center , Belarus and Ukraine [. . . . ]



Canadian Connection for Dr. A. Q. Khan

Canada-trained Pakistani nuclear scientists 'defecting' Asia Pacific Post, January 16 2003 -- or here

From a search: Dr. A. Q. Khan, Pakistan, nuclear, Canada

[. . . . ] At least five of nine Pakistani nuclear scientists who have 'secretly' left their country to seek more money and better working conditions were trained in Canada, The Asian Pacific Post has learned.

Another top scientist, Dr. A.Q. Khan, the man who made Pakistan's nuclear bomb and who has been linked to assisting Iran, Iraq and North Korea weapons programs, was also hosted by the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, (AECL). [. . . . ]

Search: Chinese-assisted CHASNUPP reactor , In December 1987, a Canadian of Pakistan origin , hard steel , Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed , a French-Canadian nuclear engineer who was working on Canadian Candu reactors in South Korea , A second unidentified Canadian, who was working on the Candu reactors in South Korea

This is lengthy with more information worth reading.

The playboy philosophy,

much like its photographers, airbrushes out the blemishes. [Hugh] Hefner never mentions, and is rarely asked, about the role of his philosophy in creating a society of disposable marriages, wives and children. The link between pornography and sexual abuse and assault is unremarked. The staggering rebellion of nature against the playboy's promiscuous practices, measured in the astonishing spread of sexually transmitted diseases, is kept discreetly out of sight, like an ugly girl who shows up at Hefner's mansion.

The detritus left in the wake of the Playboy philosophy is most evident in the lives of those at the margins -- the poor single mothers who have been abandoned by the men in their lives; the girls enticed into the seedy world of pornography, where walking the street is a more likely outcome than strolling the corridors of the Playboy Mansion; the children who have learned that their needs are secondary to the sophisticated needs of their playboy fathers.

I had posted a link to this article by Father de Souza a couple of days ago. Today, I read this from it and I was struck by it anew. It bothers me, perhaps because I know of someone who was in thrall to the "playboy philosophy". I wonder what happened in the end to his children. It wasn't a good prognosis the last time I saw them. Today I read of a young Maritime woman, a drug addict, who was willing to prostitute herself for $20 to buy drugs. Is this not something we should be very concerned about?

To those who think I am too hard on the champagne socialists who go on about world problems such as AIDS in Africa--UN types like Stephen Lewis--flying all over Canada and the world to whip up our guilt about living so well when there are problems we should be giving $$$ to fix, I see immediate problems closer to home which I believe must be addressed right now. I think we should straighten out our own house first.

April 21, 2006: Various

Cops raid native protest camp and related articles:

Critics question crackdown on protesters
Politicians point fingers as native frustration builds
Quebec Mohawks support Ontario natives
Aboriginal standoffs in Canada

CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP) - A native group is holding up train traffic in eastern Ontario to show support for native protesters maintaining barricades in Caledonia, south of Hamilton.

Tyendinaga Mohawk protesters lit bonfires around midnight beside CN Rail tracks on their territory about 20 kilometres east of Belleville, Ont. [. . . . ]

Geoff Matthews: When protest crosses the line -- "My beef is with people who, when they feel legal means have failed them, resort to lawlessness to get their own way. Apr. 21, 06

[. . . . ] And when the strike -- or the protest or the occupation -- is over, well we're just expected to shrug and forget about it, because if we dare to lay charges and hold the instigators accountable to the law, the whole process will start all over again. Why is it that the very people who insist on flexing their own rights have so little regard for the rest of us?

As a point of interest, why are there no consequences?



Apartheid, Quebec-style -- The Dream Is Indeed Dead Letter to the editor of the National Post, Apr. 20, 06

[....] The cleansing of Quebec and the application of draconian social laws has been studiously ignored by my government in Ottawa. Worse, the mildest protesting reference creates frenzied knee-jerk reactions from the huddled tribe, most certainly from its media. If one serenely opines that the laws and the situation are fundamentally racist and that the English-speaking community is treated with a genteel but real Canadian brand of apartheid, one is greeted with embarrassed silence, or worse.

No one wants to be reminded. Ottawa prefers to tutor Afghans on democracy rather than consider its own elephant in the corner, quietly hoping that the problem -- via death and migration -- will just go away.

Separatism is neither dead nor out of fashion. It has muted into the de facto status quo. This is to the clear relief of our government and intelligentsia, who blithely ignore a state of affairs that in any other province would be considered tragic and unacceptable.

Roman Jarymowycz, Beaconsfield, Que.

Decadence -- a must read

Oh to be in England -- It’s This Bad Theodore Dalrymple via newsbeat1

Returning briefly to England from France for a speaking engagement, I bought three of the major dailies to catch up on the latest developments in my native land. The impression they gave was of a country in the grip of a thoroughgoing moral frivolity. In a strange inversion of proper priorities, important matters are taken lightly and trivial ones taken seriously.

This is not the charming or uplifting frivolity of Feydeau’s farces or Oscar Wilde’s comedies; it is the frivolity of real decadence, bespeaking a profound failure of nerve bound to have disastrous consequences for the country’s quality of life. The newspapers portrayed frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination. [. . . . ]

Check television after 7pm at night for the concern with celebrities. Utterly mindless ..... decadent.



Medical Marijuana -- "FDA Statement" April 20, 2006, posted by Tinsnips

Inter-Agency Advisory Regarding Claims That Smoked Marijuana Is a Medicine

Claims have been advanced asserting smoked marijuana has a value in treating various medical conditions. Some have argued that herbal marijuana is a safe and effective medication and that it should be made available to people who suffer from a number of ailments upon a doctor's recommendation, even though it is not an approved drug [. . . . ]

And another view on the same webpage: Medical Marijuana -- "A Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp

Our Challenge to the World: Try to Prove Us Wrong!" From "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer posted by Uplink, Apr. 20, 06 -- here for the original



Sylvan Laroque: Harper promises Quebec autonomy -- New respect for Harper in Quebec NatPost, Apr. 21, 06

Quebec complains of a fiscal imbalance that gives Ottawa too much spending power at the provinces' expense? The Conservatives feel its pain and will tackle the problem. "Fiscal imbalance impacts almost all Canadian provinces and municipalities, and it is a threat to the proper functioning of the Canadian federation," Mr. Harper said. At a news conference, he specified that he expects to make progress on fiscal imbalance before the end of the year.

Quebec feels its interests are not being adequately defended in international forums? Mr. Harper said "common sense" dictates that Quebec should have an enhanced role in UNESCO, "an organization where its unique linguistic and cultural concerns may be at stake."

"That is what open federalism is all about -- a stronger Quebec in a better Canada, and that is what this new national government intends to deliver."

My problem with Quebec and UNESCO involves the ties I delineated in January on this site. Note the Arab world and Muslim input and influence in Canada through UNESCO, the UN, and France via Quebec.

For another example, listen to the Stephen Lewis audio, particularly how students should get active and how -- toward the end of the audio. (Link below)



Harper helping separatists reach their goal: Duceppe Jennifer Ditchburn, CP, March 15, 2006

[. . . . ] "If he delivers and Quebec has a voice at UNESCO, that would be good for a sovereign Quebec in the future,'' Duceppe said outside a caucus meeting Wednesday.

He also applauded Quebec's role as co-host and co-organizer of the Francophonie summit in Quebec City in 2008.

"All sovereigntists are supporting the fact Quebec is having an international presence at the francophone summit,'' he said.

"It's a plus. ... It's preparing us for the day when we'll be a sovereign country and be present everywhere.'' [. . . . ]

Duceppe says Harper is effectively doing the opposite of fixing the fiscal imbalance. Scrapping the national child-care program could cost Quebec $806 million, he said. [. . . . ]

"Jay Epworth, Emerson's [Liberal] legislative assistant when he was industry minister in the Paul Martin government, told the Toronto Star that Emerson's main complaints are that the government is too partisan and tightly controlled under Harper." -- "PM rejects claims Emerson frustrated with Tories"

CTV.ca, Apr. 20, 06

Prime Minister Stephen Harper dismissed claims from David Emerson's former aide that the trade minister is privately complaining he is frustrated as a member of the Conservative government.

"Minister Emerson said no such thing, this was said by the Liberal party," Harper told reporters in Montreal on Thursday.[. . . . ]

Colby cosh: Making a mockery of legal equality Apr. 19, 06, NatPost

It's time for provincial legislatures to re-examine the scope of human rights laws that were introduced primarily on the promise that they would redress difficulties faced by minorities in seeking housing and employment. Few if any of the premiers who pioneered these laws could have foreseen that they would be used in attempts to [. . . . ]

Terence Corcoran: Review the science Financial Post, April 20, 2006

[....] The Skeptic 60 letter can be found at www.canada.com/nationalpost/ financialpost/story.html?id=3711460 e-bd5a-475d-a6be-4db87559d605. [The Skeptic 60 letter]

We have clear evidence of scientific disagreement, and that's just in Canada. Internationally, the debate over climate-change theory intensifies daily. Two major conferences, one in Europe and the other in New Mexico, will explore the growing scientific conflict over climate change as it moves to new levels of understanding.

In London in June, the HOLIVAR 2006 Open Science Meeting will examine natural climate variability and global warming. The conference program says "not everyone accepts that the observed warming of the last few decades is caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses associated with human activity." Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, the HOLIVAR conference will look at non-human causes of climate variation over the last 11,500 years.

Climate change solutions for Canada and the world -- I found this on the way to something else. It comes from 2003 but it has a list of several companies and government involved in the past.

Is fear of a pandemic realistic? Overblown? thread -- "Stupid Polls (no - not Poles!)" -- more information

Bird Flu "Pandemic" Antidote: Wash Hands -- Bird Flu scare is overblown. The disease is too fast and deadly to grow pandemically. Government and pharmaceutical opportunism a greater threat. by Paul Noel, RN, Greater Things News Service, 2005

Skeptics warn bird flu fears are overblown

Chicken Little alert? Hysteria could sap money from worse health threats



Iranian group seeks British suicide bombers Robert Tait in Tehran and Ewen MacAskill, April 19, 2006, The Guardian

Relations between the west and the hardline Iranian regime are set to worsen after a Tehran-based group claimed yesterday it was trying to recruit Iranians and other Muslims in Britain to carry out suicide bombings against Israel.

The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, which claims to be independent but has the backing of the regime, said it is targeting potential recruits in Britain because of the relative ease with which UK passport-holders can enter Israel.

[....] "Britain and other European countries have a lot of disaffected Muslims who are ready. We understand the suspicion with which Britain, America and other western countries regard their Muslim populations. We don't condemn them for this because we believe every Muslim has the potential to turn into a bomb against the west."

Mr Samadi said recruits would not be told to attack British cities. "With the exception of Israel, we do not target civilians," he said. "They would definitely not be sent to carry out an attack on London unless it was to kill Salman Rushdie." [. . . . ]

Oh, selected killing only ..... Then everything is fine ...........



Telephoning the Enemy by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, April 18, 2006

[....] the Government Emergency Telecommunications Service (GETS).

A bit of background on GETS: In times of extreme telecommunications congestion, such as during a national emergency, it offers a calling card that permits those "responsible for the command and control functions critical to management of and response to national security and emergency situations," including members of Congress, law enforcement, and the military, to benefit from priority status when making calls. Private organizations with roles to play in emergency response also may receive cards.

[....] This month, the group [CAIR] applied for GETS status, claiming to serve as an important point of contact with Muslims following September 11, 2001.

CAIR's request was denied in less than three hours.

GETS reportedly turned down CAIR because it did not qualify for the status. But it would have been on solid ground denying the request based on CAIR's telephonic connections to persons suspected of links to terrorists, as CAIR helpfully has detailed in its own court filings. [. . . . ]

Unbelievable gall -- and its ilk brought to Canada by ........ Fill it in for yourself.


Background: CAIR had sued Andrew Whitehead of Anti-CAIR

http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3511
CAIR Backs Down from Anti-CAIR
by Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com
April 21, 2006

In March 2006, shortly before a scheduled court hearing to decide on several of Whitehead's requests (compelling CAIR to disclose its financial data, to answer questions about its relationship with Hamas and other Islamists, and to provide information regarding its leaders' activities and intentions), the case was settled and then dismissed with prejudice by stipulation (meaning, the plaintiff has agreed to forever drop all of the claims that were in, or could have been in, the complaint).

More Stephen Lewis & the Global Guilt & Governance Gang

It will cost only $25.00 to hear a representative of the UN Global Guilt Gang, one of the Champagne Socialists, Stephen Lewis who will be in Fredericton at the Wilmot United Church speaking on "The Politics of Compassion" April 28-29, 06.

Stephen Lewis Seminar Daily Gleaner, page A3 -- The proposed AGENDA for the Stephen Lewis event is available. -- flyer (pdf format) to download and print.



Google: GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP SEMINAR SERIES JANUARY to MARCH 2006 ... Stephen Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, ... 19 Apr 2006

Stephen Lewis is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, a post he’s held since June 2001. He is also a Commissioner for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, ... a director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to easing the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa.

.... From 1995 to 1999, Mr. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization’s global headquarters in New York.

In 1997, in addition to his work at UNICEF, Mr. Lewis was appointed by the Organization of African Unity to a Panel of Eminent Personalities to Investigate the Genocide in Rwanda. The ‘Rwanda Report’ was issued in June of 2000.

In 1993, Mr. Lewis became coordinator for the international study — known as the Graça Machel study — on the “Consequences of Armed Conflict on Children”. The report was tabled in the United Nations in 1995.

From 1984 through 1988, Stephen Lewis was Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. In this capacity, he chaired the Committee that drafted the Five-Year UN Programme on African Economic Recovery. He also chaired the first International Conference on Climate Change, which drew up the first comprehensive policy on global warming. [....]

And what did the UN achieve in Rwanda?



Listen to Lewis here Audio: Stephen Lewis: “World Issues - Local Impact.” Feb 6th, 2006, Chan Shun Concert Hall, Chan Centre, UBC

Americans, you might note who are described as "pre-Paleolithic neaderthals" practising "titular self-aggrandizement", among other things.

As usual, Lewis is anti-American and a powerful speaker -- which does not make him right. What has been the success rate with AIDS and the UN in Africa up to this point? Lewis wants money for AIDS in Africa in particular.

As I listen to Lewis at UBC, he is speaking of Darfur -- also of the sexual abuse of children in Africa (He hasn't mentioned the UN peacekeepers' part in this as yet.) -- a catalogue of crimes against humanity. What has the UN accomplished that should continue? That Canadians should continue to contribute to? He is now speaking of the Security Council and the Milennium Goals. Lewis is a barn burner for the same old gang.


FHTR Memory Lane: Compassion & the Global Guilt Gang January 16, 06

Search:

"The global guilt crowd ... saving the world ... "

"Strong Road to Global Governance"

I am listening to Lewis speaking of men's sexual behaviour which places the health of their wives at risk. He could start in Canada, with Toronto perhaps -- with those like the woman mentioned in the article above who contracted AIDS from her profligate with his seed--and his disease--partner. He could start by talking to our own girls in high school who need someone to get the reality of AIDS across to them. Respect for their own bodies and themselves is another lesson they need -- not the UN approach to choice and sexual health which euphemistically means freer access to abortion but no talk of self-control nor developing their minds instead of their sexual freedom.

My impression is that Mr. Lewis is suckering the young, particularly university students by engaging their emotions, not their minds. Where is the science? The statistics on what works? Much of what he mentioned have been UN failures. It seems we should be questioning the effectiveness of the UN rather than throwing more money at the same old problems.

You might note also that Lewis recommends that students write to the Prime Minister but especially to Industry Min. Emerson at whose expense Lewis makes more than one joke. He is politically active for the left and for CIDA. What had the Liberals set in place through CIDA which Lewis wants continued? More champagne socialism?

Climate Change -&- Queen vs Playboy, Etc.

A Must Read

Terence Corcoran: Review the science April 20, 2006

[....] In the scientists' words, "we urge you and your government to develop an effective national strategy" to deal with climate change. But eight of the signators are employees of Environment Canada, Ottawa's leading climate bureaucracy. Under what bureaucratic regime do civil servants -- members of the government -- sign letters urging the government to take action?

At least another 11 of the scientists work for other government agencies, such as Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the federal department responsible for policies and programs in support of Canada's oceans and inland waters. Another agency heavily represented is the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, along with the Pacific Fisheries Conservation Council. [. . . . ]

Still another nine signators are recipients of Canada Chairs, federal government-funded academic appointments at universities across Canada. And five of the scientists who call for action and more government funding are big recipients of government funding. Chief among this group is Gordon McBean, head of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.

The Climate 90 letter, in fact, was released through Mr. McBean's government-funded foundation. [. . . . ]

Search: environmental activists, members of the United Nations climate assessment team or ........

This is worth reading in its entirety as an example of how everywhere a government turns, there are the entrails of the previous Liberal government's use of networks, the UN, other international ties, funding to universities, foundations, agencies .... etc, and taxpayer money to keep Liberal/leftist influence in place.

I believe I have mentioned before the overweaning influence of the UN in Canada. Check out UNESCO for influence and the plans, as well -- a Liberal gift that keeps on giving ....... or should that be "taking"?




Excellent

Smut's savvy peddler -- "The older wisdom disdained the playboy as just that -- one who played liked a boy instead of assuming the responsibilities of a man. Hefner's philosophy was to recast the playboy not as a dissolute cad, but a refined sophisticate." Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, April 20, 2006

When Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born to the Duke and Duchess of York on April 21, 1926, it would not have been expected that she would, by her 80th birthday tomorrow, have served as Queen Elizabeth II for nearly 55 years, presiding over the transformation of Empire to Commonwealth with skill and diplomacy, over five decades of public life with elegance and dignity, [....]

Born the same month in Chicago was Hugh Marston Hefner, an ordinary boy born into an ordinary family, who would, in time, preside over a vast pornography and commercial empire. He marked his 80th birthday (April 9) in Hefner style -- a grand pajama party in which the girls were cheap and the self-congratulation lavish. Respectable news outlets covered Hefner's birthday in, well, respectable fashion.

And why not? The stigma of pornography is much diminished. [. . . . ]

26 arrested in Quebec drug bust April 20, 2006

OTTAWA - Twenty-six people, including 14 members of an Algonquin reserve 130 kilometres north of Ottawa, have been charged in Quebec's biggest drug bust this year. Police Chief Gordon McGregor of the Kitigan Zibi reserve said yesterday that 14 Algonquins allegedly controlled an organized-crime business exporting marijuana, hashish and Ecstasy to the United States -- and they were the same people who had earlier filed complaints against local police. [. . . . ]

Search: made false allegations against police officers , 126 drug and weapons offences




B.C. port shutdown looms -- Deadline expires tonight Jason Kirby, Financial Post, apr. 20, 06

[. . . . ] "There are 400 people that aren't in the union, and they can shut down the Port of Vancouver, and our 600 members will honour their picket lines," Mr. Shields said. "So one way or the other, those ports are going to be shut down this summer."

Last summer's 47-day-long shutdown caused cargo containers to pile up at the port and led to a $500-million hit to the economy. The so-called strike, which involved gunfire at one truck yard, also damaged Vancouver's reputation as a port of call for shippers and stained the city's claim to be the gateway to the Pacific. [. . . . ]

Kinsella gets it!

Warren Kinsella: What's in a name? -- on one of the utterly petty concerns of a press -- what PM Harper's wife calls herself ... The MSM is unused to digging for really important news perhaps, having been fed their Liberal sound bites for years. NatPost, Apr. 20, 06



Barry Critchley: Big payoff for private casino owners

By definition, transactions involving a public company and a private company in which management of the public company has a stake set off some alarm bells.

Those alarm bells were ringing loudly this week as Gateway Casinos Income Fund filed a final prospectus for a $35-million offering of 5.35% convertible debentures -- the second financing the issuer has done to fund the $106-million acquisition of Cascades Langley Casino and Hotel. [. . . . ]

Barbara Schecter: CRTC quashes radio rules

Cable companies such as Rogers Communications Inc. will no longer be compelled by the CRTC to carry commercial radio stations on their services.
The regulator granted a request yesterday to take the 30-year-old requirement off the books, except in the case of campus, native and community radio stations and a single French and English CBC radio station. [. . . . ]

Now, if we could just get rid of the leftist / Liberals' Propaganda Organ ......

China, Russia, UN, Sudan, Iran & Oil Lust

Oil greases China's new UN direction -- Sudan has significant reserves, while Iran's are enormous Steven Edwards, National Post, April 19, 2006

AT THE UNITED NATIONS - An indication China may become the biggest obstacle to halting Iran's suspected nuclear bomb program comes from a diplomatic standoff over Sudan.

[....] Russia joined China on Monday in opposing Security Council action against the Sudanese officials. Both countries have also said they will oppose any effort to impose sanctions against Iran if Tehran continues to defy a Security Council ruling last month to limit its nuclear program.

[....] Controversy over doing business with Sudan in the southern Greater Nile Oil Project forced Canada's Talisman Energy to sell its 25% stake in 2003. But China not only remained engaged, it turned the African country into its largest overseas oil project, building a partnership that has delivered billions of dollars in oil-equipment investments, oil revenues and weapons.

[....] China recently negotiated a US$100-billion deal to help develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field. [. . . . ]

And every Westerner who wants to make money in China is helping to suppress any democratic impulses there.

A few items

These are a few of the items which drew my attention:

I am going through severe withdrawal symptoms at not having my paper copy of the National Post each morning. Online doesn't cut it unless you have a laptop for your favourite armchair, along with morning coffee.

Andrew Coyne: We've created a monster -- on the PM and the media Apr. 19, 06

Didn't we just go through an election in which the Conservative leader was loudly praised for riding herd on his sometimes restive caucus, ruthlessly suppressing those who went "off message" on such touchy subjects as abortion? And who was it leading the hosannas? The media, that's who. Even as we were chattering happily about the need for more free votes and a relaxation of Canada's stifling system of party discipline, we were rewarding those who practiced the opposite. Indeed, that's what we always do.

Can we blame them for taking the hint? Every time somebody actually speaks their mind in politics, we come down on them like a ton of bricks, shrieking "divisions" and "disarray." Eventually they get the message.

John Lawrence: Have we forsaken our daughters? Apr. 18, 06, Canada Free Press

Parents should be interested in this. Probably because of this article, I tried to find the following article which I had referenced last year and it is no longer available, except as cached by Google. For those interested, it is worth noting.

Homosexual ‘Marriage’ a Health Risk Doctors Warn Parliamentarians Apr. 19, 06 -- Scroll down for it.

OTTAWA, February 17, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A group of physicians has presented to Canadian Parliamentarians scientific evidence that Homosexual marriage is a health risk to Canadians. The heavily referenced brief titled "Gay Marriage and Homosexuality, Some Medical Comments" warns that the new law will result in the further normalization of Homosexual sex which has already resulted in severe health risks and related costs to care for and treat persons affected by risky sexual behaviour.

The document, signed by doctors in different disciplines from family medicine, dermatology and neurology, warns that anal sex as practiced by most gay men, has a large number of diseases associated with it, “many of which are rare or even unknown in the heterosexual population” such as: anal cancer, Chlamydia trachomatis, Cryptosporidium, Giardia lamblia, Herpes simplex virus, HIV, Human papilloma virus, Isospora belli, Microsporidia, Gonorrhoea, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and C and others. [....]

Think of the wonderful array of diseases to which our "anything goes" society would expose our children ... under the guise of sexual freedom.



NICHOLAS KOHLER AND BARBARA RIGHTON: Overeaters, smokers and drinkers: the doctor won't see you now -- Health care is meant to be open to everyone equally. But some doctors question, even deny, treatment to those with certain vices. April 18, 2006, Macleans

Once government gets involved ..... You knew it was coming, didn't you? Some lifestyles get punished, some don't. Some are even a right according to some people, and of course, the taxpayer-funded news organ.


The Federal Initiative to address HIV/AIDS in Canada: Canada's Report on HIV/AIDS 2004

[....] Canada's Epidemic is Growing and Changing

In Canada, the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow despite the efforts of governments, community-based organizations, national non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the health care sector, researchers and a legion of committed and dedicated volunteers across the country.

The Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (CIDPC) estimates that 56 000 people in Canada were living with HIV infection at the end of 2002 - a 12 per cent increase from previous estimates in 1999. [3] Men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be the most affected group, accounting for an estimated 58 per cent of all infections. [....]



Nathan Tabor: What is the Best Way to Prevent Abortions? May 26, 2005 -- a year old but still worth reading in its entirety.

Many sexually promiscuous teens become depressed, and some either attempt or commit suicide. Why? Well, according to Dr. Armand Nicholi of Harvard Medical School, our contemporary acceptance of casual sex "has often led to empty relationships, feelings of self-contempt and worthlessness," instead of the liberation, fulfillment and happiness implied by the suggestive Abercrombie and Fitch ads targeting teens.

Funny, you’d never guess that’s true from watching all those slick ads that glorify sex, like the new pornographic Paris Hilton commercial for Hardee’s hamburgers. Hollywood movies, TV sitcoms, and glossy magazines . . . everything in our popular culture screams SEX — JUST DO IT! Why not? Everybody else is. [....]

Because you just might get an incurable disease? -- herpes? -- feel like crap because you've been treated as something with little self-respect? ..... Fill in your own blanks. We are complex human beings who need something more than that.

We must help to protect our children. Canada needs parents with time to talk with their children and who will be home and looking out for their children and teens. Is it time to pay a salary to a mother or father, one of whom would be willing to stay at home and actually parent? I think so.

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)

I am concerned about the proliferation of drugs in Canada and particularly about how many of our children try drugs and have no idea of their provenance -- and how they are cut with cleansing products, etc. so drug dealers may make more money.



Joe Warmington: This ciry's a dump and smells like one -- on Toronto, counting the homeless and what they have wrought Apr. 18, 06

Interestingly enough, apparently, reporters are not to be around photographing as the homeless are counted -- privacy concerns. Now, isn't that ironic?




Muslim newspaper to launch in 4 cities -- in Canada -- Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Montreal from a Muslim perspective -- just what Canada needs.

Related: Islamist Fifth Column in Canada's Foreign Affairs? -- from Canadian Coalition for Democracies
-- follow the complete thread including the commentary after this: Re: Daniel Pipes on Muslim Working Group in Cndn FA

Time to fight fire with fire Beryl Wajsman, Institute for Public Affairs of Montreal, April 17, 2006

Western Europe is rolling over in total submission at every level of society in order to pander to Islamist coercion, Muslim votes and Arab money.

Muslim Brotherhood Children's Website: America Aspires to Control the Muslim World – & Our Role is to Prepare Ourselves for Jihad Against the Enemies of Allah; Murdering Children is Part of Judaism MEMRI via newsbeat1

One example: "Did you know that the corruption and deviance widespread in the world today are the result of activity and planning by the Jews, who are interested in leading people astray, away from the path of Allah?"



Heather MacDonald:
Postmodern “Rights” en Los Estados Unidos -- “I am here,” so deal with it. April 17, 2006

It is easy to understand why the multicultural lobby, with its antagonism to American identity, is pushing so hard for illegal-alien rights. It is less easy to understand why many conservatives, who otherwise stand for unfettered American sovereignty in all matters international, are so eager to dissolve not just our immigration laws but the principle of lawmaking behind them. They may soon discover that a postmodern conception of rights leads to a postmodern conception of nationhood.

Senator Jeff Sessions: Don’t Pass Just Anything -- The Senate immigration “compromise” won’t do. via newsbeat1, April 18, 2006.

When the U.S. Senate returns later this month from spring recess, it will get a second chance to pass meaningful immigration reform. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) has promised to hold new hearings and report out a revised bill by May 4. The committee's starting point will be the so-called Hagel-Martinez "compromise" bill that failed to pass the Senate earlier this month.

That bill, however, is fatally flawed, and I would like to point out several reasons why the committee should either rewrite it substantially or start from a clean slate. Among the problems with the compromise proposal: [....]

Worth reading: for example, "The bill reverses current law and allows illegal aliens to be eligible for in-state tuition rates, and compete with U.S. citizens and legal residents for Stafford loans, and other types of federal financial aid, such as work study."

So much for any advantage to citizenship, it seems.


CFP: Immigration, border security -- various articles including: Signs of the times John Burtis, April 17, 2006

The Intimidation of America Barry Zell, April 16, 2006

Global Commission on International Migration -- The United Nations and US Immigration Policy -- "Self-righteous globalists preach that no human being is illegal." Joseph Klein, April 11, 2006

A New York-based global technology attorney for more than 30 years, Joseph Klein is the author of Global Deception.

Growing disparities in standards of living are driving workers from the world’s poorest countries to cross national borders in search of better opportunities. The United States is not alone among the developed countries in having to deal with the consequences [....]

The Joys of Belonging to the EU?

Farmland 'must go back to the Middle Ages' By Charles Clover, Environment Editor, (Filed: 18/04/2006) via Jack's Newswatch

Half the arable farmland in the east of the country must be converted to grass within six years to avoid huge fines for pollution from the European Court, the Government has been warned.

Researchers have concluded that the land must go back to what it was in the Middle Ages if new EU rules on reducing nitrate pollution in water are not to be breached. [....]

William Gairdner: Cons, So-Cons, and Fis-Cons -- and commentary from Stephen Gray below his article Western Standard, April 18, 06 -- Gray's Info:



Accountability

Accountability act would infringe on rights Darcey on April 18, 2006 in Aboriginal Issues

I knew this was coming:

The proposed federal accountability act will infringe on native rights, an Alberta aboriginal leader says.[....]

Don't miss the comments: e.g. from jema54j and from Justzumgai who commented:

[....] There is no possible way to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse. Welfare still harms the recipient and the "donor", and it does not become fair and it certainly won't become effective no matter how many auditors you pay to check the books.

And aboriginal policy is only the most blatant example of this. Go right down the list of every single major spending program and the same rules apply. Ripping tax money out of the hands of the owner of a profitable hotel and putting it into the hands of the owner of an unprofitable hotel is still a ripoff, even if auditors ensure that the recipient is not a friend of the prime minister, or a thief, or an arsonist. And so on for government "insurance" all kinds (employment, crops, pensions ...), crown corporations, health, education, immigration, culture ...

Canada is really just a big Indian reservation, and the inhabitants have been sniffing socialist glue for so long that they don't even know it.

I couldn't have said it better. Bang on!

Illegal Aliens

I cannot believe that any country allows illegals to demand anything, let alone that they be allowed to remain. They claim that they are not illegals, that they are simply doing work US citizens do not want to do. So what? Either a sovereign nation controls its own borders or it is not sovereign.

Lately, CBC presented a sympathetic portrayal of the poor illegal migrants to the US -- under the guise of reporting the news. Guess what they're priming the illegal aliens in Canada to do? That they be allowed to remain in Canada to vote Librano$, of course. CBC priming the pump for a Librano$ return. Why are Canadians forced to pay for this bilge-spewing leftist/Liberal propaganda organ?


I received the following from my friend J who, I suspect, knows a bit about the situation of illegal aliens in his home state of California. Thanks, J.

If you are ready for the adventure of a lifetime, TRY THIS.

Enter Mexico illegally. Never mind immigration quotas, visas, international law, or any of that nonsense.

Once there, demand that the local Mexican government provide free medical care for you and your entire family.

Demand bilingual nurses and doctors.

Demand free bilingual local government forms, bulletins, etc.

Procreate abundantly. Deflect any criticism of this allegedly irresponsible reproductive behavior with, "It is a cultural thing. You would not understand.

Keep your American identity strong. Fly Old Glory from your rooftop, or proudly display it in your front window or on your car bumper.

Speak only English at home and in public and insist that your children do likewise.

Demand classes on American culture in the Mexican school system.

Demand a local Mexican driver's license. This will afford other legal rights and will go far to legitimize your unauthorized, illegal, presence in Mexico

Drive around with no liability insurance and ignore local traffic laws.

Insist that local Mexican law enforcement teach English to all its officers.

Good luck, You'll be demanding for the rest of time! Most probably from a jail
Cell.

It will not happen in Mexico or any other country in the world EXCEPT right here in the United States. Land of the naive and bleeding hearts!

If you agree, pass it on. If you don't, go ahead and try the above in Mexico.