Networks, Trojan Horses & Compliant Mainstream Media

I wondered why the views of "activists" are treated with such respect and their positions are mentioned without question in all mainstream media reports critical of the Conservative government's approach to Kyoto/global climate change--if there is, in reality, great change--and so, I started looking up information on groups mentioned. Of course, I never finished but I did find enough that someone else might wish to pursue this further.

Examples: news items with little if any background information so readers may judge where these experts get their expertise and who funds them to carry on their activism.

Ambrose urged to resign post at climate talks Bill Curry, G&M, May 11, 06

OTTAWA -- Environment Minister Rona Ambrose will chair an international climate-change meeting in Germany next week even as Canadian environmentalists [see below] are calling for her to step down from the post.

Six environmental leaders yesterday called on Ms. Ambrose to resign as chair of the United Nations climate-change process [....]

John Bennett, the chair of the Climate Action Network. [....]

[....] Today we are going to release Canada's greenhouse-gas inventory and it will show that Canada now is 35 per cent higher than the Kyoto targets that the Liberals set," Ms. Ambrose said in response to a question from a Liberal MP. [It didn't happen just since the Jan. 23 election. ]

[....] The other groups calling on Ms. Ambrose to resign include the David Suzuki Foundation, the Pembina Institute, Greenpeace Canada, Toxics Watch Society and the World Wildlife Fund Canada. [See posts on the WWF over the last week -- see list below.] [....]

MP Rona Ambrose wants Canada to set realistic targets--unlike the Liberals' unrealistic targets--and actually achieve success on those realistic targets, which was not achieved under the previous governments.



Ottawa wants Kyoto softened -- In report to UN, Tories argue second phase of climate pact should be more lenient Bill Curry, May 12, 06

[....] "Frankly, when Canada makes up 2 per cent of the global emissions, I believe that the best way for Canada to participate in the global environment is by developing and deploying clean technologies to those countries that actually are the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions; that is the United States, China and India," Ms. Ambrose said.

[....] "Any future approaches to commitments should reflect a country's specific national circumstances. Considerations such as the nature of a country's economy (e.g. resource-based and/or energy intensive) temperature and distance between urban centres are important. Some countries are also net energy exporters whose exports provide other countries with opportunities to switch to cleaner sources of fuel."

Search: "Bonn, Germany" , United Nations Convention on Climate Change , voluntary , Louise Comeau of the Sage Centre, one of several environmentalists , encouraged , government's comments in the House about investing in green technology.



Google: Sage Centre

Results:

sage centre
(Sage Centre and Tides Canada Foundation). Board of Directors. James Morrisey ... sage centre 680 — 220 Cambie St. Vancouver, BC V6B 2M9 T: 604-647-6611 ...
www.sagecentre.org/sage/page1284.cfm

Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), UW ...
Supporting SAGE ... Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. Planet People Possibilities. Too Hot Not to Handle HBO Documentary ...
www.sage.wisc.edu/

Google: Tides Canada Foundation
You will find mention of David Suzuki, World Peace Forum -- think Maurice Strong, UN and .........

WORLD PEACE FORUM 2006 [Search this and Maurice Strong]
File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML
I Want to contribute to the World Peace Forum of Tides Canada Foundation ... Yes, I authorize Tides Canada Foundation to withdraw $___________ from my ...
www.worldpeaceforum.ca/
get-involved/ donations/
donor20information-1.doc[DOC] [Place on one line.]

Tides Foundation partners with donors to increase and organize resources for social change. We deliver effective grantmaking programs, create opportunities ...
www.tidesfoundation.org/ - 16k

David T. Suzuki Independent World Television
While awaiting charitable status, IWT has partnered with Tides Canada Foundation, a Canadian registered charity. Canadian donors to the IWT Fund at Tides ...
www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/suzuki

Search: activists, want, ambrose, out, UN, climate, talks
(Activists want ambrose out of un climate talks, an article in May 11, Globe and Mail)

Result: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:VxbaGsN_g7sJ:
www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
+activists+want+ambrose+out+of+UN
+climate+talks&hl=en&gl=ca&ct=clnk&cd=1 [Place on one line.]

http://www.itsgettinghotinhere.org/
It's getting hot in here (org) which is funded by the leaders of Global Youth Climate Movement.

Search who funds that and ........




The Liberals left their propaganda ducks in a row, always ready to complain about anything the Conservative government does or attempts. All in the service of returning to power those who know how things are supposed to work (to continue the involvment of and reward the right people ). The mainstream media of course tell readers practically nothing about those speaking out against Min. Ambrose and her government on Kyoto, etc.

There is more if you but search with Google or another search engine.

FHTR May 5-May 12, 2006

May 11, 2006: #1 -- This makes the cynic in me question .....
Kyoto gets some surprising support from Canadian industry Mike De Souza, CanWest, Saturday, May 06, 2006"

May 10, 2006 Update 2 -- several items including mention of another activist group, "the Globe Foundation here: www.globe2006.com/" and "John [Jack] Wiebe, President and Chief Executive Officer, GLOBE Foundation of Canada"
http://frosthits
therhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/05/
may-10-2006-update-2_10.html

FHTR: Apr. 30-May 6, 2006 Scroll for:

May 6, 2006 -- Update [ to May 5, 2006: #2 -- Coincidence ]
May 5, 2006: #2 -- Coincidence
May 5. 2006: #1 -- Scroll to
Maurice Strong & Friends

UN Internationalist & Global Arranger/Fixer/Do-Gooder/Authoritarian ... and More
WWF accepts nuclear reality Herald Sun, Australia, 04 May 06

World Wildlife Fund, Inc., is an arm of World Wildlife Fund International



Sheer enjoyment

Forum: Make your own video/screen grab **TUTORIAL** You may have to sign up first but it looks informative.
via http://forum.infotecbsi.com/


Photos wildlife: hummingbirds -- delightful
If you like hummingbirds, don't miss these. Then, check the other wildlife photos.

May 11, 2006: #2 Updated June 6, 06

Preview of AG's Report posted by Sensaregreat, 5/11/2006 07:33:44 There is no link.



Update to Raid ends in child porn bust -- Toronto man accused of photographing 2 underage Oshawa girls and sexual assault posted May 5, 06 -- or here for the original by Jonathan Jenkins, TorSun, May 4, 06
[ http://frost
hitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_05_07_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html ]





Pulse24.com: Posing A Danger

Related: How to spot a modelling scam Source: Ont. Ministry of Government Services & U.S. Federal Trade Commission, May 3, 2006


Bail for accused lurer Sam Pazzano, May 5, 06

The 37-year-old [Karim Remtulla] is free on $100,000 bail and living under house arrest. He faces eight charges, including sexual assault, and making and possessing child pornography.

Toronto and Durham police descended on Remtulla's home on a cul-de-sac near Lawrence Ave. and Port Union Rd. on March 29. Details of the raid weren't released until Wednesday.

Staff-Insp. Jane Wilcox, head of Toronto's sex crimes unit, said police believe at least two Oshawa girls between 14 and 18 were photographed at the home and possibly in GTA hotel rooms by a man they contacted through a modelling website. One of the teens was plied with alcohol and sexually assaulted.

Is this Karim Remtulla the same person as a U of T Grad Studies doctoral student of that name, or is the name an unfortunate coincidence?
[ http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/english/currentcourses.asp ]

Update: As of June 6, 06.
Someone placed a comment at the end of this post and I want people to notice it so I am repeating it here in my own words.

Anonymous said that the Karim Remtulla of U of T Grad Studies, a doctoral student, is NOT the Karim Remtulla mentioned in the article above, the one facing charges -- so having the same name is an unfortunate coincidence.



Want to retire to Mexico?

From J in California:

... the pitfalls of retiring in Mexico? Well, I just read some horror stories about that. I won't go into details, but, after careful research into conditions, people had expensive house investments turned into dust, with no help at all from the authorities. In fact some retirees even got jailed; others got away with mere GO HOME YANKEE graffiti. Never take money into Mexico. (I haven't seen any GO HOME WETBACK graffiti here.)

Michael Coren spills the beans -- re CBC cancelling his appearance

Related comments from Behind The Scenes At CBC, sda, May 10, 06

Canadian Observer

I must say it is heartening to see so many others expressing their disgust with the MSM in our country,especially those gems at CBC.

I have been aware of this general trend for years,but honestly,it was only recently I really fathomed the depth of it.Subversion is the word that keeps coming back to me.
The Conservatives,led by Mr.Harper,were democratically elected by Canadian voters to lead this country,minority or not.The CBC in particular seems to be actively attempting nothing less than sabotaging our current government.I would call that the very definition of treason!

Jema54

Canadian Observer, I too have watched the antics of the incredably stupid juvinile reporters and commentators that the MSM hires. I have asked myself "what is in it for the MSM owners to hire and pay these goofs to spout 'wrong wing' vomit? It has to be 'kick backs' from taxpayers via gument. I do not belive that MSM owners would invest in such losers if they were personally losing money.

Then I read Solzinitzn's Archipelligo Gulags. The story is right there - as the noose tightens around the neck of the people the press gang demonizes anyone who does not agree with the "King Makers" Communist elitist's (billionares) agendas. Compare the life style of Stalin to the life style of George Bush. Stalin 'owned' Russia as no Tsar ever had - and he did it by hiring a snearing nasty press gang of souless monsters to twist the thoughts of the people. I think the press gang must be 'watched' and hauled on the carpet every time they open their collective yaps.

What hope for HUMINT? -- "Despite being the most culturally diverse free nation in the world, we seem to send blond-haired, blue-eyed people to do intelligence field work." By Daniel Gallington, May 9, 2006, via newsbeat1

Whatever led to Porter Goss' departure from the CIA, he had inherited a swarming nest of imbedded political operatives and world-class leakers -- bent on embarrassing the Bush administration and threatening important relationships worldwide.

Assuming Mike Hayden is confirmed as the new director, basic CIA "housecleaning" should continue -- happening at the same time will be significant budgetary shifts from high-tech "remote-sensing" intelligence operations, to human-intelligence collection, the traditional CIA mission. [. . . . ]

Very interesting critique of what has been done in the past.



Fools: "paying for the apparatchiks of a terrorist organization" May 10, 2006, Laughing Into 1939 by Baron Bodissey

The United Nations, U.S., European Union and Russia agreed to provide direct aid to Palestinians, bypassing their Hamas-controlled government, after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas warned that assistance is needed to prevent the collapse of his administration.

So here we have a political entity, so recently and proudly proclaimed to be self-governing, whose officials must be paid by the taxpayers of the United States and Europe. That’s you and me, folks.

We don’t pay the salaries of, say, Finland’s civil servants. Why not? After all, it would advance the peace process between Finland and Russia, helping to expedite a final accord on the disposition of Karelian territory.

A must read.



John Hawkins: An Obligatory Post On The NSA Data Mining Program

"The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.

...Customers' names, street addresses and other personal information are not being handed over as part of NSA's domestic program, the sources said. But the phone numbers the NSA collects can easily be cross-checked with other databases to obtain that information. [. . . . ]

RightWingNews: Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Favorite Columnists (2006 Edition) via newsbeat1



Guite's contracts 'highly unusual' Les Perreaux, May 10, 06

[....] Former Groupaction executive Jean Lambert testified one $330,000 contract related to the federal gun registry was phoney. He said Guite suggested Groupaction could say work was destroyed if anyone asked questions.

Testimony Wednesday gave a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the internal mayhem triggered in the federal bureaucracy in early 2002 when a Globe and Mail reporter called to ask for a $550,000 report approved by Guite that did not exist.

After an extensive search found nothing, Guy Bedard, the bureaucrat who replaced Guite at the head of government advertising and sponsorship, testified he gave every document related to the phantom report to the reporter.

The Globe inquiry and subsequent story triggered a firestorm in the House of Commons and two reports by the auditor general. [....]

30,000 Internet Censors In China To Be Defeated By 3 Hackers In Canada? from the the-battle-continues dept

May 11, 2006: #1

More foreign spy muscle needed: Public Safety Minister Day Jim Bronskill, May 10, 06

Stockwell Day told a conference on national security Wednesday the government would either create a new spy agency or expand the mandate of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

[....] Day suggested the money needed to launch a new service - expected to be tens of millions of dollars - would not be a barrier.

"We're putting safety and security first, recognizing that there will be an investment required," he said after the meeting. [....]

Search: "foreign intelligence"



Another perspective on grow-ops

Help drug police waste time -- Stop the Grow Tippers before they stop You! by Rafeala Palmieri (18 Jul, 2005)

[....] Well, I guess I don't have to wonder anymore, and I am unproud to say that "nark on your neighbor programs" long active in the USA have moved north to my beloved country of Canada.

I just saw a press conference given by what the lapdog mainstream journalists call Vancouver's "anti-grow-op granny," 67-year-old Chris Taulu, who loves to go around snooping on people and then calling the police to get them busted for weed. [....]

"Here these [pot grower] idiots are, living with a baby whose lungs and body are supposed to be developing," says Taulu, a 33-year resident of the Collingwood section of Vancouver, who lives with her proud husband Ian. "It's terrible what people are exposing their kids to. The problem is huge. I had a grow-op behind me, a grow op up my street, and a grow op down my street. The police took the one down behind me, and then teased me that I didn't find it first."

The grandlady seeks to become a media star with her pogrom [yes, pogrom] against us pot growers. She's releasing a new video, a real tear-jerker, called "Growing up in a Grow Operation," that shows the suffering of little kids growing up with parents who like indoor gardening.

Taulu is almost a police officer herself. She directs the Collingwood Community Policing Center. If you read about the rise of Hitler's internal secret police forces, you will see many parallels between the neighborhood centers Hitler convened to try to ferret out hidden Jews and their hiders, and this woman and her Center. Substitute pot plants and/or pot grower for Jewish person or Jewish collaborator, and Taulu for the civilian Germans who assisted the SS and Gestapo to identify people hiding in their homes, and the parallels are anything but abstract. [....]

Women ... becoming empowered ... an idea whose time has come ... perhaps even women who don't care whether they are seen as "nice"? My word!

Search: Growbusters police program

Remember, this article is written from a pro-pot perspective {cannabis culture}.

As for the parallel he suggests with neighbours identifying Jewish and non-Jewish neighbours whom they simply wanted to eliminate, that worked for France; it's still taken seriously over 65 years after WW2, despite their collaboration with the Germans. Most French pretend that the collaboration didn't happen. ... The official line after the war? Collective denial that it happened. How often have you heard that there were only a handful of collaborators vs a multitude of Maquis, resistance fighters? Not so. The opposite is the case. As was revealed in a six-hour documentary by a French journalist, the level of collaboration was vast and it didn't just extend to the Jews. They collaborated to turn each other in ... to the point where the Gestapo had to tell residents that if they falsely accused a neighbour of being Jewish or hiding Jews, then they would be sent to the concentration camps. The usual reason for doing that was to seize the neighbour's land or to eliminate him as an economic competitor, so I've learned.



Organized Crime in Canada:
A Quarterly Summary
October to December, 2005 Nathanson Centre for the study of organized crime, Jim Bronskill

Organized Crime Activities

* Drugs
* * Cocaine
* * Ecstasy
* * Ketamine
* * Marijuana

* Fraud - Credit Card
* Human Smuggling and Trafficking
* Money Laundering
* Smuggling
* Tobacco Production and Trafficking

Organized Crime Genres
* Cyber-Gangs
* Indo-Canadian
* Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
* Street Gangs

Enforcement

This makes the cynic in me question .....

Kyoto gets some surprising support from Canadian industry Mike De Souza, CanWest, Saturday, May 06, 2006

The Liberals had many years to perfect leaving behind appointees, potentially lucrative situations / contracts and people who would be unhappy with Conservative changes. (Fill in your own favourites from court appointees and high level positions in the civil service, foundations and agencies, deals promised but only to be delivered after a Liberal election win, "friendship" and business associations (think hard on that one), Olympic plans in BC and maybe elsewhere, African aid sinecures, UNESCO perquisites related to protocol(s) signed .... and more.) Is this one more of them?

OTTAWA -- The Kyoto Protocol is getting some surprising endorsements from Canadian industry leaders who are growing impatient with the uncertainty surrounding the new Conservative government's approach to climate change.

Shell Canada President and CEO Clive Mather, [....]

Canadian Netherlands Business and Professional Association in Toronto. [....]

Environmentalists [....]

The Liberals had proposed to open the market in Canada with a promise to cap the cost of credits at $15 per tonne with a fund to compensate companies that spend more.

Is that the crux of it? That companies would get taxpayer money?

Aluminum producer Alcan, .... Daniel Gagnier, Alcan's senior vice-president of corporate and external affairs. [....]

Gagnier was also skeptical about suggestions the Conservative government is looking at joining the six countries in the Asia-Pacific Partnership agreement on climate change to replace its Kyoto commitments.

"Even the Chinese have said you need both," [....]

And the Chinese would be paid with Canadian taxpayer money for pollution credits ... a good reason to support.....

Let's see now, if I googled a few of the companies and principals speaking out, would I find $$$ contributors to the Liberal Party, recipients of taxpayer money--or hoping to be recipients, friends of previous Liberal government(s), members of councils like the China-Canada Business ... Asia-Pacific Business ... and more who have many ties to the previous governments? The trojan horses ready and willing to speak with the mainstream media to hint at displeasure?

(Metaphoric slap on my hand .... much too cynical on my part.)



New Information: re WWF -- from a comment May 10, 06

(Note: I had typed in error WWW, above -- corrected May 16.)

May 5. 2006: #1 -- See comments on WWF and nuclear power from Grant

Grant has left a new comment on your post "May 5. 2006: #1 [Scroll down for "WWF accepts nuclear reality Herald Sun, Australia, 04 May 06" and check the comments posted at the end.]

He includes several links to more information on the WWF and nuclear power in Australia.

Thanks, Grant, for writing to set the record straight on WWF in Australia.

Revenge of the nerds
Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes Andrew Chung, May 7, 2006, via newsbeat1

They are self-confessed computer "geeks." They don't go to the gym much, or see much sunlight. They talk about "routers" and "nodes" and "secure socket layers" like they were saying, "Hello," or "How are you?"

But the computer smarts of Ron Deibert, Nart Villeneuve, and Michael Hull, combined with their passion for politics and free expression, have led them to develop a highly anticipated software program that allows Internet users inside China and other countries, such as Iran, Saudi Arabia and Burma, to get around repressive censorship and not get caught.

Their innovation is called Psiphon, and it's being launched at the end of this month.

"It's enormous," says Deibert, 41, a nerd-meets-aging-punker kind of guy who directs the Citizen Lab at the U of T's Munk Centre for International Studies, where the trio work. "If it works the way we hope it does and is distributed worldwide, it will have a huge impact on freedom of speech."

[....] But there are possible problems for Psiphon, [U of Ottawa's Michael] Geist and others warn.

One is that many people in a place like China are not even aware they're being censored, says Geist.

[....] the "trusted networks" philosophy on which Psiphon is based could be problematic, since trust was a concept shattered during the Cultural Revolution, when even family members were convinced to turn each other in. [. . . . ]

Suffer Little Children ....
Thanks G.

1. Dear God,
Please put another holiday between Christmas and Easter.
There is nothing good in there now.
Amanda

2. Dear God,
Thank you for the baby brother but what I asked for was a puppy.
I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.
Joyce

3. Dear Mr. God,
I wish you would not make it so easy for people to come apart.
I had to have 3 stitches and a shot.
Janet

4. Dear God,
is it true my father won't get in Heaven if
he uses his golf words in the house?
Anita

5. Dear God,
I bet it's very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world.
There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
Nancy

6. Dear God,
I like the story about Noah the best of all of them.
You really made up some good ones.
I like walking on water, too.
Glenn

7. Dear God,
My Grandpa says you were around when he was a little boy.
How far back do you go?
Love, Dennis

8. Dear God,
Do you draw the lines around the countries?
If you don't, who does?
Nathan

9. Dear God,
Did you mean for giraffes to look like that or was it an accident?
Norma

10. Dear God,
How come you did all those miracles in the old days
and don't do any now?
Billy

11. Dear God,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much
if they each had their own rooms.
It works out OK with me and my brother.
Larry

12. Dear God,
I keep waiting for spring, but it never did come yet.
What's up? Don't forget.
Mark

13. Dear God,
My brother told me about how you are born
but it just doesn't sound right.
What do you say?
Marsha

14. Dear God,
Is Reverend Coe a friend of yours,
or do you just know him through the business?
Donny

15. Dear God,
It is great the way you always get the stars in the right place.
Why can't you do that with the moon?
Jeff

16. Dear God,
I didn't think orange went with purple
until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday night.
That was really cool.
Thomas

For Enjoyment

Thanks for these.

Baby Kangaroo

The perfect companion for lonely geeks via uplink, CNEWS/Forum




Julian Beever drawings

Julian Beever is an English artist who is famous for his [chalk] art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. Its peculiarity? Beever gives his drawings an anamorphosis view, his images are drawn in such a way which gives them three dimensionality when viewing from the correct angle. It's amazing !!!

When all else fails, have a Kit-Kat

Bud Talkinghorn: South Africa -&- the Supremes

Cry the Beloved Country--South Africa at the crossroads

One hardly knows where to begin when chronicling the woes of this country. Blessed with the highest standard of living in Africa when apartheid collapsed, it is relentlessly marching to folly. South Africa has diamonds, gold and a superb wine-making climate. Finally, the country's infrastructure is the envy of other African nations. However, it also has the greatest rape rate in the world, while millions are infected with AIDS. It has President Mbeki, who scoffed at the HIV infection as the cause of AIDS. For years he held to the belief that the cause was "poverty". He supports his cretinous thug neighbour, Robert Mugabe, who has single-handedly created a famine with his anti-white policies and total corruption. Then to round off his record, Mbeki has backed his top ANC buddies' chicanery. The latest is Jacob Zuma, who was on trial for raping some young woman. Zuma has been heralded as the successor to Mbeki. The trial is a classic case of "he said...consensual sex...she said flat-out rape". It seems that she knows something about rape, as she claims that it had happened to her before in the ANC camps.

Zuma is nothing if not inventive in his reasoning for why a woman less than half his age would seduce him. Feminist liberal apologists for this regime take note: She showed a fraction of skin above the knee, and he was duty-bound to have intercourse with her because he could tell she was aroused. Mbeki has allowed the trial to be turned into a circus, with Zuma supporters harassing the witnesses and the prosecution team. According to the defense, there is evidence of a pathology of false rape accusations. However, the woman's lawyers pointed out that a rape is committed (often of children) every 26 seconds in South Africa. Only a small fraction of these are ever successfully prosecuted. Violence against women in general is prevalent.

The ripple effect of this trial is that sordid truths have emerged. Rape of young girls was a familiar occurence in the secret ANC camps, as testified to by numerous anti-apartheid and ANC activists. Secondly, unbelievably, Zuma is the head of the National AIDS Council. Yet, he testifed in open court that he thought the girl was HIV-positive. He said that, "He had unprotected sex with her, because he thought he had little risk of infection." That moronic mentality is what has led to the catastrophic AIDS epidemic in the first place. It is tantamount to a politician in charge of narcotics suppression saying, "Well, I only do crystal meth on the weekends, so I wouldn't become addicted." This is the level of rationalization that has destroyed so much of Africa.

The whites--like them or not--built up all the impressive economic infastructure and they are still the backbone of a progressive political ideology. They are leaving in droves, partly because they are being passed over for blacks, or the crime situation has reached horrendous proportions. They jokingly refer to the rampant car-jackings as "affirmative driving". Thousands of white farmers have been murdered (often after being tortured) and the rest fear that fate or being forcibly evicted like their Zimbabwean compatriots. The white urbanites are trapped because nobody want to buy businesses at fair market value. To sell their homes, they highlight the security devices like "safe rooms", razor wire fences and guard posts. Because of violent home invasions many have turned their homes into mini-fortresses. Millions that would have been invested in South Africa are being sent to foreign banks -- the first step for whites' future escape.

Among the rapidly decaying quality of life, the government corruption / inefficiency and the AIDS epidemic there is little hope for this former jewel of Africa. Maybe it is time for the liberal media scribes to admit this. Don't repeat your apologia for the Castro era's excesses.

The latest? On Tuesday Zuma was acquitted. He immediately said he will pursue the presidency. However, he has another trial coming up for bribery and influence peddling. If he survives that one too and gets elected as president, you can stick a fork in the "Beloved Country"--cuz it's done.

© Bud Talkinghorn



The "God-like Supremes"

Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott has been pilloried by the liberal media and the leftist political parties. His crime is that he dared suggest that the Supreme Court has given itself unlimited powers to "write-in" laws. Of course, he is simply articulating what vast numbers of large and small "C" folk have believed. How we are to believe that a court, appointed mostly by the Liberal PM's, is unbiased is beyond us. Various studies show that not only do the Justices themselves have leftist prejudices, so do the underlings who work up their cases. Then there is the question of who is qualified to be an intervenor in their march to judgement. Those positions are mostly stacked in favour of those with a left-wing agenda. NAC got to be an intevenor in a case about women's rights, while the REAL women organization was disallowed status. To remove a Supreme there must be a majority at the Commons and Senate levels. Since the majority of Senators were appointed by Liberal PMs, that idea will never see daylight. Allowed to hang in until age 75, the liberal make-up of Canda's Supreme Court would take numerous Conservative victories to change.

The day that a group, who have the power that the Supremes have, cannot be criticized is the day that democracy is in serious peril. Conversely, the judgements of the Supreme Court should be closely scrutinized. That they can mandate that natives be given a two-tier (lighter) sentence for crimes committed is outrageous. The Supremes decided that their "disadvantages" should be considered in sentences. The fact that the majority of native criminals' victims are themselves natives didn't logically resonate with the judges. On the other hand, the right of Canadian citizens to be free from criminal immigrants has never been dealt with by them. Known fraudulent refugees / immigrants are allowed to stay on for decades, fighting their cases through appeal after appeal--usually, with taxpayers' dollars. Isn't personal security one of The Charter's key rights -- one of the reasons we receive refugees?

Chief Justice Beverley McLachin may not "have God-like" powers, but she has the responsibility to fully explain to the Canadian people how she and her buds make culture-changing decisions. Lord Acton's admonition stands: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." The price of great power should be great scrutiny.

© Bud Talkinghorn

May 10, 2006 Update 3

Just heard: CBC reports Maurice Vellacott will resign as chair of the aboriginal affairs committee, I believe. There is no free speech in Canada. He is not liked by the aboriginals who see the Liberal giveaways-for-votes changing so ... Furthermore, he said what countless numbers of Canadians think about the God-like Supremes; that was the capper. CBC makes sure you don't forget it. The Supremes are so useful under Liberal management. Dear me, have I gone too far in my speech? So dismiss me ... or diss me.



Today's lesson, all you little people? Don't ever question the influences on ... or is that the impartiality ... of the Supremes

Burning Maurice by MP Garth Turner

Mostly my thought is this: If an MP, an educated and experienced MP, is not elected to come to this town and talk plainly about how we are governed, then what the hell is he here for? Canadians expect us to be legislators, not apologists. If the courts (unelected) or the PMO (also unelected) try to steal too much power, then who else is there to speak out? The country belongs to the people. We, the MPs, are their eyes, ears and, yeah, their voice.

And the MP's mentioned speak for many of us on this issue! The Supremes have overstepped their roles too much. We have MP's to tell them so (and people like me to whinge). When I hear or read how normally intelligent people all but abase themselves in praising these very human supreme court justices, I cringe for what Canada has become ... wimps afraid of saying what they think in the face of the Lib/CBC media/propaganda juggernaut and their social engineering of correct speak over many years. I am outraged at the fear of speaking out in this country.

There are plenty of comments pro and con on Garth's website.



Justice McLachlin's interview with the Western Standard

Supreme Supremes? Or are the elected Parliamentarians supreme? Or do the two jockey back and forth? ... depending upon whether the Liberals are in power or not? Rights expand under Librano$ rule (gays, natives, etc) and contract under conservatives, I gather. The CBC is there to fight for a return of the natural governing party that mostly, appoints the Supremes who seem to be appointed forever ... and you who disagree may pay for the whole ruling and propaganda system.


The charter is dead -- But was it ever alive in the first place? Kevin Libin, Apr. 24, 06

[....] No, the charter doesn't say "this is it forever" It is amendable. If Parliament wants to add new clauses, it can do so, using democratic means ... But then, if our Constitution is so "flexible" that it can be changed anytime a group of nine jurists deem it appropriate, what exactly is the point of having one in the first place?

May 10, 2006 Update 2

Updates related to these posts from last week: May 5, 2006: #2 -- Coincidence

Found on the way to searching something or other, I found the following which mentions Maurice Strong and the Aga Khan, among many others.

Maurice Strong & Friends

UN Internationalist & Global Arranger/Fixer/Do-Gooder/Authoritarian ... and More




Updates: May 10, 06

The Champagne Socialist and Global Stirrer, Himself

Where does Maurice Strong get the kind of money that allows him to guide the world from $1500 a night hotel rooms? ... Over a million dollars (a gift?) from Tongsun Park would hardly maintain his lifestyle. He seems to have his fingers in several pies.

Greens of the World, Unite -- With Kyoto failing, Maurice Strong, the father of the accord, says it's time for an all-out environmental revolution Western Standard, May 8, 06 via China_e-news

What we really need are massive incentives for the right kind of behaviour," Strong explained at one seminar to an audience of roughly 400. "Economic incentives, but also moral incentives, ethical incentives, psychological incentives ... fear."

What kind of fear? Of the uprising masses, of course. .... massive "people's movements" [....]

Strong has never been one to shy away from considering authoritarian solutions to societal problems.

Why does he make me think of Evo Morales of Bolivia, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, along with this quotation from the article: "Beijing-style population-control policies, suggesting that Canadians should have to obtain a licence to have children"?



Wanted, Mr. Good Sperm

Now that I think of it, after listening to what some of our children have been up to lately--bank robbing, killing, burning added to the drugs and internet porn in which they, themselves sometimes star for a monetary consideration or for fifteen minutes of celebrity--has Maurice Strong's time come?

Think "reproductive health and responsible reproduction" ... or is the problem one that devolves to the parents? Perhaps to the whole self-centred, amoral society?

Last night I read a New York Times Magazine article (Wanted: A Few Good Sperm, Jennifer Egan, Mar. 19, 06) on women of a certain desperate-to-have-children age deciding to fulfil their greatest desire by being artificially inseminated. After all, 1/3 or more marriages end in divorce and the splits can be messy ... and costly ... given women's careers and higher net worth--property--and the desire not to have to round their corners--to compromise with another human being in the course of the day-to-day living together. It makes sense ... if you don't consider the child's need for a parent of the opposite sex, for a male and a female role model to make input. Have we created a society so anti-male (think advertising), so selfish or self-centred, that we can no longer make the compromises necessary to live with another person as a parent and partner ... that we have become so self-centred we don't even want to?

Brave new world.

Is it any wonder the little darlings our society produces behave monstrously sometimes. FHTR March 5, 2005: Bud Talkinghorn: The coming of the teeny psychopath on a book about them.




Canada looking at six-nation climate change pact -- Google search May 2, 06

Also speaking in the House yesterday, Environment Minister Rona Ambrose stated the targets that were set by the previous Liberal government are unachievable and unrealistic.

“The difference between the Liberal Kyoto plan and our made in Canada solution is that the Liberals were planning on spending billions of dollars to reach targets that are unachievable and most of the money would be spent overseas. We refuse to do that. We will invest in Canadian solutions and in Canadian communities.”

Minister Ambrose also indicated that Canada would bring in regulations that to a greater degree mirror U.S. environmental rules. "They are beating us in every industry on pollution control, so we don’t want to just catch up. We want to compete. We want to outperform,"

Kevin Steel: Question Period: How do you feel about the fact that Kyoto will economically benefit heavy-polluting developing economies, such as China, while punishing their cleaner, global competitors in the West?

Maurice Strong's position as Chairman, technology and environmental advisory board, Visionary Vehicles, has, of course, no influence on his position on important issues ... the environment, China, China Canada Business Council, Earth Council, UN University of Peace ... etc.



The Globe Foundation was mentioned: UN Principles for Responsible Investment launched

NEW YORK, May 2, 2006 (GLOBE-Net)- The heads of some of the world's largest institutional investors signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment last week. The guidelines encouraging the use of environmental, social and governance analysis by investors could have profound impact on global financial markets and corporate investment standards.

Note also, the Globe Foundation here: www.globe2006.com/

Would there be any overlap ... support [$$$]of the Liberal government/party and the moneyed supporters of the Globe 2006 conference in Vancouver? (Check the website for their logos) The ability to dispense other people's money by government(s) and the attendance of participants? ... Too cynical on my part, I suppose.

The power circle remains unbroken: John [Jack] Wiebe, President and Chief Executive Officer, GLOBE Foundation of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada, "elected as a Liberal in a 1971 by-election". "In 2000, he was appointed by Jean Chrétien to the Senate representing the senatorial division of Saskatchewan. A Liberal, he resigned in 2004."
[ http://www.answers.com/topic/jack-wiebe ]



I checked for other posts on the UN, UNESCO, influences and globalization inroads being made at the urging of Mr. Strong and his worldly, sophisticated fellows. What I found included the UN and women's rights, rape and abortion, as well as jpegs of screen captures.

Memory Lane: UN/UNESCO, Global Governance, Maurice Strong, Etc.

FHTR: Jan. 8 - 14, 2006

Updated: Maurice Strong--Paul Martin's dangerous friend [Jan. 14, 06]

Updates: Tongsun Park in Canada? "Des Notables", Terrorist Quietly Deported [Jan. 13, 06]

Leaders' Debate, A Man Needs a Little Madness -&- Tongsun Park Arrested & More [Jan. 9, 06]

Scroll to: "UN, Oil for food, Maurice Strong, Martin & ...

"Tongsun Park Arrested" [ http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003291.html ]

FHTR: Jan. 15, 06

Global Ministry of Truth [Jan. 20, 06: http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/01/global-ministry-of-truth.html ]

Orwellian black is white? ... "women’s empowerment."

ManyOne "We are setting the stage for the next evolutionary advancement of electronic media"-- Joseph Firmage, CEO and Founder, ManyOne Networks
The Foundation
[ http://www.manyone.net/about/foundations/ ]

Out of Pakistan, Romania & ... other hotbeds of freedom and the free flow of information ...

No advertising, no naughty pictures, no business ... so soothing ... so comforting ... so safe for children ... so insidious

Google search: OneWorld and UNESCO



Google: Maurice Strong OneWorld and this appears, "Inside Global Civil Society: How it Networks"

FHTR: Jan. 19, 2006

OneWorld, Maurice Strong, UNESCO & The Global Governance Gang

Search also: "One World Home Page

This home page happens to be in Zambia"

Updated: Our Freedom alert! Maurice Strong, Internet, Democracy Watch

Scroll to: The Global Governance Gang and the Internet


FHTR Jan. 15, 06

Compassion & the Global Guilt Gang [Jan. 16, 06: http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/01/compassion-global-guilt-gang.html ]

Scroll to:

Canadians & the Global Guilt Mafia

Strong Road to Global Governance

Re: Maurice Strong's Yellow Brick Road to Global Governance -- "The result would be decisions reached by self-selecting elites.... People who hate actual people but love Mankind and seek to improve it no matter what.... " Posted by Elizabeth Nickson on 18:55:02 2006/01/12, via LifeSite

Strong Revamped Oil-for-Food

Strong Neck Deep in Suspect Money Trail to Oil for Food Scandal Posted by Terry Vanderheyden



CFP: The Digital Solidarity Fund: An Internet tax in disguise [Feb. 3, 06]

Joseph A. Klein, a Harvard Law graduate who has worked as a global technology attorney for more than 30 years, is the author of Global Deception: The UN's Stealth Assault on America's Freedom. January 30, 2006

Search: Maurice Strong , OneWorldMany? [radio/TV]

No Indoctrination 2: No Outside Influences? [Feb. 3, 06]

No Indoctrination 3: No Coercion, Helping the Poor of Africa & the World [Feb. 3, 06]

Search: "Maurice Strong's ManyOne.net? Or is it OneMany.net or .ca? headquartered in Zambia?"



FHTR Jan. 29 - Feb. 06

No Indoctrination 1, No Element of Coercion, No Global Aspirations [Feb. 3, 06]



FHTR: Feb. 27 - Mar. 5 , 05 [Canada is influenced by the UN definition of refugees and rights.]

Canadian Patsies: Illegal Aliens - Refugee Crack Dealers, Founder-Marijuana Party Now a Liberal, Drug Trafficking Ring-Pearson International Airport

Catenacci --"drug trafficking ring" -- Daniele Cappa, former senior operations manager, at Pearson International Airport.



FHTR: Mar. 2, 05

Note This! UN -- Women's Rights -- or Wrongs? -- Appropriate Moral Authority? -- & Petition

U.N. Wrong Forum for Women's Rights March 02, 2005, Wendy McElroy

The shadows of children allegedly raped by United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo and the women allegedly molested by a top U.N. official fall across the 49th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women [....]

May 10, 2006 updated

Update: I just heard this first one on TV -- a must read article

Ex-'chemist' blows the whistle on crystal meth Kathy Tomlinson, CTV News, May 10, 06

[....] "The current climate legally in Canada allows us to pretty much do whatever we want," Hanson said. "Criminals have free rein in Canada. [....]

Hanson told CTV the crystal meth business in British Columbia is huge and growing very fast. The manufacturers bring in the precursor chemicals from abroad and then produce the drug in homes no one lives in -- they are outfitted strictly as high production labs.

He told CTV the group he worked for brings in the precursor ephedrine from China in containers coming into Vancouver's port. He claims criminals can get a container of chemicals delivered for about $400,000.

"Whether it's people from China, whether it's precursors or whether it's a stackload of AK47s from the Taliban -- $400,000 will pass you right through." [....]

Note below Joel Johannesen's (proudtobecanadian.ca) "Best solution to these problems"



Jim Judd, head of CSIS: Al Qaeda attack on Canada 'probable': CSIS

[....] "The threat of further attacks by Sunni Islamic extremists and other like-minded groups continues, bringing with it elevated demands on the service's resources," says the report, which covers the year 2004-05.

[....] A declassified copy of the top secret report was obtained Tuesday by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act.

It was first delivered in late November to then-public safety minister Anne McLellan [....]

Globe and Mail articles worth reading:

Allan Hutchinson: There's nothing wrong with criticizing the Supreme Court

Roy MacGregor: This country -- A school teacher speaks on a distant, ailing system and her decision to leave it


Also: but I have no link -- Edward Luttwak: Signs of Hope: Iraq's civil war


End of updates




Papa Stronach praises Harper -- "A poll released yesterday pegs the Conservatives at 41%, creeping steadily into majority-government territory and opening up a 12-point lead over the Liberals." Don Martin, NatPost, May 12, 06

"He's off to a good start," he allows. "There's many things, but most of it is on the right track by the government." Magna's boss likes the sound of the armed-forces buildup, the tough-love approach to violent crime and the business-friendly tax policy.

Michael Coren: Blacklisted by the CBC NatPost, May 10, 06

It's the fault of a culture that we have allowed, by our indifference and our tax dollars, to smother what could have been a balanced public broadcaster.

People used to run away to sea. Now they run away to the CBC.

So, conservatives get cancelled--hated by the union--and all Canadians, even conservatives, are forced to pay for this?



Best solution to these problems

RCMP commissioner says organized crime and terrorists working closely

Terrorists work with gangs: RCMP -- "froce stretched thin"

Joel Johannesen has posts on both (May 9, 06) and a solution.

Terrorism is here. So is the CBC. Which would you rather have?

Possible sources of cash to defend our nation and its families who built it: the one BILLION dollars per year that funds the leftist state-run media, the CBC, which should be banned in Canada and the ban enshrined as such in our Constitution, and which makes Canadians dumber every minute they watch it.

Excellent idea since CBC has become a propaganda organ for one side of the political spectrum.



I noted there was a link missing so here it is.

FHTR Jan. 29 - Feb. 3, 06 -- with this: A vote of confidence -- MP vows to aid ailing production Tom Van Dusen, Ottawa Sun, Jan 26, 2006 [Is he related to Julie Van Dusen of the CBC Hate Harper and all Conservatives team?]

Concerns funding the arts

Search: "the failed Francoscenie production of L'echo d'un peuple" , "The Department of Foreign Affairs budgeted for international touring; the funding would keep rising."

It is this kind of situation that leaves the arts groups in Canada very unhappy when they don't get more funding (travel opportunities lost?)



Guite connects ex-PM to sponsorship scandal May 8, 06

[....] On his first day questioning Crown witnesses at his trial, Guite introduced the possibility of political influence over the sponsorship contracts that left him facing fraud charges.

Guite used his first witness to raise the name of Jacques Corriveau, a former Liberal and close associate of Chretien whose influence, according to testimony, could virtually guarantee an ad firm would win contracts.

Search: no work was done in return , federal firearms registry , contracts were phoney



Suicide bombers recruited on Web site hosted in Montreal -- Linked to Palestinian terrorist group May 10, 06

A Farsi-language Web site that glorifies suicide bombers and appears to be based out of Iran was uncovered yesterday on the server of a Montreal-based Internet provider.

Featuring photos of masked gunmen and "martyrs" wearing headbands, the site provides a link to a Web portal for the military wing of Hamas, a hardline Palestinian political party that has been classified a terrorist group in Canada. [....]

The English version of the website was not working, according to the article ( www.esteshhad.com/index.php). Why was it not working if the French language site was?



'CANOE live' will open door to public Ian Robertson, Toronto Sun

By tapping canoelive.canoe.ca, Internet users can surf a free offering of everything from traditional news, sports, showbiz and commentary to contributions from "citizen journalists."

Public recruits are invited to voluntarily transmit their videos, still photos, hot topics and comments "on everything" that interests them, Holladay said.

Champions of Human Rights? Only in the UN

New UN rights body same as the old -- critics: Abusers hold seats Steven Edwards, NatPost, May 10, 06

UNITED NATIONS - China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia and Saudi Arabia were elected to the new Human Rights Council at the United Nations [....]

The UN created the 47-seat council to take the place of its discredited Human Rights Commission [....]

Election required 96 votes in the General Assembly, consisting of all 191 UN member governments, and was based on a geographic distribution. Africa and Asia each got 13 seats; Latin America and the Caribbean, eight; North America and Western Europe, seven, and Eastern Europe, six. [....]

You know that saying from Pres. Johnson ... something along the lines of ... I'd rather have them inside the tent ****ing out than outside ****ing in? Isn't the above taking it a bit too far? Is there a tent left?


"I do have some anxiety," said Adam, who was appointed by the previous Liberal government and whose mandate is set to expire. -- Would her biggest anxiety be losing her own appointment? -- "Tory bilingual record blasted" by Alexander Panetta, Ottawa Citizen, May 10, 06

Josee Verner points out she's already signed 13 deals guaranteeing provinces and territories $1 billion in federal funding for minority-language instruction.

"The prime minister has been crystal clear on the importance he ascribes to both official languages," Verner said in an interview. "He considers it a source of wealth for Canadian society. . . There is nothing to fear here."

Would Dyane Adam ever be satisfied? What does a languages tzar do when her appointment ends? Many Canadians have some suggestions.



CHIEF JUSTICE MAKES A GRAB FOR MORE POWER Reality, Volume XXV Issue No.1 January/February 2006

The Truth About Judicial Appointments

Judges in Canada are appointed because they or their law firms have paid large sums of money to the party in power, or, alternately, these judges have personally worked diligently to service the party. This was made clear in the Gomery hearings, which disclosed that lawyers in Quebec were handsomely rewarded with judicial appointments for supporting the Liberal party. This practice, however, is not limited to appointments in Quebec, but occurs right across the Canada. (See Reality July/August, 2005 "The Squalor of Our Judicial Appointments", p.5).

For those who believe that this analysis is too critical of the judicial appointment process, it should be noted that, in the two years that Paul Martin and his Minister of Justice, Irwin Cotler were in power, the following individuals were appointed to the Bench: [....]

Just check the list of the Cotler/Martin appointments ... and he was around a short time, comparatively.



Protecting your pc via newsbeat1



I do not have a link for this: it was sent to me by a friend.

CRYBABIES OUT IN FORCE
Ottawa Sun, May 08, 2006

[.... Carolyn] Bennett had some harsh words about Harper's child-care plan after the budget was tabled.

Calling the Conservative approach "spiteful," Bennett added: "There's actually no plan for early learning and child-care spaces. So it's a good job they're putting more money for prisons in the budget, because we're going to need them if we don't get this early childhood right."

Got that, mom and dad? If you two incompetents are left on your own to raise your kids, they're headed for prison!

[....] Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler later accused Harper of fighting an imaginary crime wave by building more prison cells at the expense of the Liberal child-care plan. Funny, wasn't Cotler trying to convince Canadians that the Grits were tough on crime during the last election?

May 9, 2006 Nfld & Air Canada -&- Justice

Canada's National Airline Abandons Newfoundland Route -- "between St. John's, Newfoundland and London’s Heathrow" Myles Higgins, May 6, 2006

In addition to the tourism industry, the move will impact the province’s growing oil and gas industry. Oil rigs, ships and service vehicles often require parts and supplies from overseas and until now those supplies could generally be gotten overnight. With the departure of Air Canada from the direct European route, those supplies will now need to be de-planed in Halifax and an alternate delivery method found. This is expected to cause delays and additional expense for the companies involved. [. . . . ]

Good for NS supply business and bad for Newfoundland/Labrador.



Justice, MP Velacott & Justice McLachlin

Memory Lane: Background re Jan. 23, 06 election and MP Vellacott

FHTR Jan 15, 06
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006_01_15_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Latest Liberal attack! ... How low can they go?

During the debate show, a caller called in and accused Conservative Candidate Maurice Vellacott of sexual assault on a church secretary. Vellacott immediately asked for the name and number of the caller for legal action and they had an idea of who this person was. I didn't catch the name, but it was in the news brief. When they ran a reverse lookup of the number, they came up with the Liberal campaign headquarters of Chris Axworthy.[riding of Saskatoon-Wanuskewin] from OfficiallyScrewed.com via Andrew Coyne, Angry in the Great White North, CNEWS Forum's casper34, Jan. 19, 06

Yesterday, I posted this link on the brouhaha: Black Rod to CBC: Gotcha May 08, 2006 -- re: Saskatchewan Conservative MP, Maurice Vellacourt, had criticized the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Judge, Beverley McLachlin, had fired back.


Assume [....] after each. I just included a bit so readers would get an idea of the topic.

I searched: Justice McLachlin, speech, NZ A few sources for more information follow:

Chief Justice McLachlin gave a speech in New Zealand in December 2005: "Unwritten Constitutional Principles: What is going on?" -- from this website: Lang Michener: Eugene Meehan Q.C. Supreme Court Law See scrolling menu at left for the pdf file on Justice McLachlin's speech.


McLachlin urges judges to go beyond letter of law Janice Tibbetts, The Ottawa Citizen, Published: Monday, December 05, 2005 -- or here

Courts should defy legislation to protect rights, chief justice says.

"The rule of law requires judges to uphold unwritten constitutional norms, even in the face of clearly enacted laws or hostile public opinion," said a prepared text of the lecture Chief Justice McLachlin gave to law students at Victoria University of Wellington late last week.

"There is certainly no guarantee or presumption that a given list of constitutional principles is complete, even assuming the good faith intention of the drafters to provide such a catalogue."

Examples cited:

[....] In 1998, the Supreme Court of Canada broke new ground by invoking unwritten constitutional principles in a historic opinion on whether Quebec could unilaterally secede from Canada, she said. The Canadian Constitution is silent on whether a government can secede. So the unanimous court invoked the unwritten principles of [....]

In 2001, the Ontario Court of Appeal [....] Ottawa's only French hospital, the Montfort.

Chief Justice McLachlin listed several unwritten constitutional norms that have evolved into entrenched rights [....]

In another ruling that has been described as one of the Supreme Court's boldest, the judges used unwritten constitutional principles in 1997 to order provincial governments to [....]

The next item is lengthy and worth reading.

CHIEF JUSTICE MAKES A GRAB FOR MORE POWER Reality, Volume XXV Issue No.1 January/February 2006

Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada was in Wellington, New Zealand at the end of November, when she gave an astonishing speech to the law students at the University of Wellington. According to this speech, the Chief Justice is of the belief that judges, upon their appointment to the Bench, acquire such wisdom and knowledge that they are able to determine with certainty what is best for all Canadians.

This conclusion is based on the fact that Judge McLachlin asserted in her speech that judges can render their opinions based on "unwritten" Constitutional norms, even in the face of clearly enacted laws or hostile public opinion. She defined her unwritten norms as those "essential to a nation's history, identity, values and legal systems". Such norms, according to Judge McLachlin, can only be properly understood and interpreted by appointed judges.

She bases this claim on the premise that there exist fundamental norms of justice so basic that they form part of the legal structure that must be upheld by the courts, even though they are not written into the law.

[....]

However, Judge McLachlin believes that only judges know how to accurately interpret these unwritten concepts. She skirts around the problem that these concepts have a wide variety of interpretations by stating that judges can look to guidelines provided by international treaties and commitments for direction in interpreting them. This ignores however, the profoundly significant fact that Canada's international commitments i.e. treaties, are determined solely at the discretion and whim of the Prime Minister. They are not debated or approved by Parliament, and in no way can they be recognized as a reflection of Canadian "values". These are the values of the government in power - yes - but not necessarily those of its citizens. A court, appointed by the government looking to these treaties for guidance is merely making an arbitrary decision, based on policies determined by that elitist government that has by-passed the democratic process. What a cozy arrangement.

Justice McLachlin also claims that judges have a legitimate role to play in determining "unwritten" laws because she argues that judges have a "judicial conscience" which is founded on the judges' "sworn commitment to uphold the rule of law".

[....]

House of Justice Committee Reviews Appointment Process

Recently retired from the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, Madam Justice, Constance Glube, appeared before the House of Commons Justice Committee, which was reviewing judicial appointments, on November 15, 2005. She stated in her testimony, that the judicial appointment system must be changed because these appointments are based not on merit, but rather on political considerations. This marked the first time that a chief justice in Canada has publicly challenged the appointment system of judges. She gave, as an example of an inappropriate appointment, a "very serious incident" in 1998 which related to the Liberal Justice Minister of the day, Anne McLellan, appointing Liberal party organizer and fundraiser Heather Robertson to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. [....]

Madam Justice Roberston, by the way was enraged that the political strings she had pulled for her appointment had been publicly exposed. She demanded a public apology for "this unforgivable attack on a sitting judge." No apology was given. (Lawyers Weekly, January 20, 2006) [....]

FHTR December 28, 2005:
Scroll to: "Quick Links -&- Happy New Year" and then scroll down it for the following.

Perhaps our SCOC should do a little reassessing? I have read that, for reasons best known to those who understand the fine points of the law, that this is a good decision -- but the little people (including me) fail to see it.


Canada new destination of choice for pedophiles? High court ruling legalized group-sex clubs with 14-year-olds James L. Lambert, Dec. 27, 2005, wnd.com
[ http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48075 ] ....

FHTR December 8, 2005

Scary SCOC Goddess Supreme
aka Chief Justice McLachlin

A truly scary person in Canadian politics CNEWS Forum, 12/05/2005
[ http://www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/6468.html ]

Put rights before Constitution -- Chief Justice: McLachlin tells judges to be bold 'even in the face of clearly enacted laws'
[ http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=273c95d2-0674-45c8-b5c5-86fac02d0c84 ]

A truly scary person in Canadian politics casper34, (excerpts)
[ http://angrygwn.mu.nu/archives/141541.php ] .........

December 06, 2005 Hostile public opinion Steve Janke / AngryGWN

Our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court believes that she and her eight colleagues have a duty to ignore the written law passed by the people's legislators when a simple majority of them think that 25 million Canadians and their 300 representatives just aren't smart enough to get it.

December 05, 2005 Judicial activism is necessary, says Canadian Chief Justice and one comment by Anonalogue will lead to this comment from John Godfrey:

www.thehilltimes.ca/members/login.php?fail=2&destination=/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2005/december/5/constitution/&c=2

Judicial impartiality with Joe Comartin and Deborah Coyne

As Joe Comartin said, lawyers with other than Liberal connections don't even bother to apply for judicial positions. They KNOW that it is pointless. He did suggest that, once appointed, justices are impartial and I will concede that perhaps they try. But that they succeed all the time? No.

[....] One example that has the appearance of questionable partiality to me, is the following, since Supremes do not deign to stoop so low as to explain their reasoning:

Supreme Court At It Again
[ http://www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/8007.html ]


OTTAWA (CP) - The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal by whistleblower Margaret Haydon for her five-day suspension from Health Canada in 2002.

October 13, 2005 SCOC Choice Panel

Paul Martin: More Appearance of Democracy without Substance

The National Post reported today, Oct. 13, that there is a push for an aboriginal appointee. MP Vic Toews wants to choose based on merit, not gender nor ethnicity.

Guess what the PM will choose.

Cotler names panel to choose SCOC vacancy AP, Oct. 12, 05 [...]

May 9, 2006: Illegal Aliens

Thanks to J in California for this article detailing Percentages.

Note: I checked the CIS and the percentages appear to have come from there. I had no time to check further. (whether copied with no omissions, same order, etc.)

www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscal.html

The High Cost of Cheap Labor
Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget
Executive Summary

Not every criminal crossing into America is coming here to pick lettuce and fulfill the American dream.

The percentages: Here are some facts you should know Center for Immigration Studies

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare.

40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.

95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.

Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish
Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

The cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE.

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

Just thought you should know who will be running the USA in the future if we don't put a stop to this madness!

In addition:

Keep forwarding this message in the hopes that it will spread enough to entice enough U.S. Citizens to relay to our congressmen that we will not tolerate this horrid situation any longer. This is one of the small things you can do to force our government to do what is right and preserve our future.

May 8, 2006 #2

Update and a must read:

There was great huffing and puffing on CBC today over the purity / sanctity /impartiality or whatever it is called when Canadians consider our Supremes and their activism. The Supremes are supposed to be above reproach or something like that -- certainly this fine quality of .... is not to be questioned by any of the great unwashed conservatives in the land. Anyway, thanks to R who provided this:

Black Rod to CBC: Gotcha -- re our SCOC Beverley May 8, 06

re: Justice Beverley McClachlin (not McLachlin)

[....] The speech was titled "Unwritten Constitutional Principles: What is Going On?" You can read it for yourself at:

http://www.eugenemeehan.com/
english/speeches/UnwrittenConstitutionalPrinciples.pdf
[Place the above url on one line.]
McClachlin told her N.Z. audience that judges must unearth the "unwritten principles" behind the laws of the land. It is their duty, then, to use these unwritten principles to supercede written laws whenever they see a discrepency.

They are not bound by legal precedents; they must create precedents.

The judge's response to Vellacott is disingenuous. [....]

There is much more on Blackrod's site.

End of update



Nfld decides no partner needed for power project CNEWS, May 8, 06

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Newfoundland's financial strength and confidence has increased to the point that it doesn't need a partner to develop a multibillion-dollar hydroelectric project on Labrador's lower Churchill River, Premier Danny Williams says.

[....] The desire to build more power plants on the river in central Labrador can be traced back to 1972, when the Churchill Falls hydroelectric dam was completed with Quebec's help.

Under that much-maligned deal, Quebec has reaped nearly $1 billion in profit while Newfoundland has gained little.

[....] The $4-billion proposal would include construction of hydroelectric generating stations at Gull Island and Muskrat Falls on the eastern section of the Churchill River, downstream from the Churchill Falls dam

New Brunswick Mounties' tactics 'faulty' in investigation of officer -- Internal report in harassment suit calls probe 'excessive' Gary Dimmock, The Ottawa Citizen, May 08, 2006

Internal RCMP documents show that senior Mounties launched "unlawful" surveillance techniques and altered investigation reports in a plot to discredit a fellow member who was promoted over one of their colleagues.

The documents, highlighted in a judge's decision as part of a staff sergeant's harassment suit against the national police force, show the officers targeted Ken Smith after he was appointed to head the drug unit in New Brunswick, a post they thought should have been awarded to someone else.

So they started building a case against him -- going so far as to form a three-member team to watch him over three months in 2002. [....]

[....] Chief Supt. Bill Vye [....]

In his complaint, the Mountie said his boss was "an overzealous individual who has been looking for a way to discredit me, remove me from my position and back-fill my position with a member of his choice [....]

[....] An RCMP inspector was ordered to investigate [....]

Chief Supt. Jim Payne [....]

Insp. [D.A.] Nugent refused to make significant changes to his report [....]

[....] filed another harassment complaint against Supt. Lefebvre.

Commander S. Graham then requested Supt. J.V. Mair to explore [....]

Justice Paulette Garnett ruled that the RCMP had failed the staff sergeant, who now works in a gun registration unit.

"Smith says that the system is so flawed that he has been deprived of any meaningful remedy for the wrongs that have been done to him. He has presented compelling evidence, most of which was gathered by members of the RCMP, that, in his case, the scheme failed repeatedly. He has lost faith in its fairness and so have I," Justice Garnett ruled.

Ogilvys' new ambassador -- Firm gains Burney, loses Vancouver, Farley and Black both roasted Sandra Rubin, Financial Post, April 26, 2006

Very readable and dripping with names.

[....] Ogilvy Renault sent out an internal e-mail yesterday announcing that Derek Burney, Canada's former ambassador to the United States, has joined the firm as a senior strategic adviser.

[....] He's the lead director of Shell Canada, a director of TransCanada Pipelines, chairman of the board of New Brunswick Power, and a director of CanWest Global Communications (so we can't be too naughty. Not that there's reason to be, we hasten to add).

[....] was directly involved in the negotiation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He was ambassador to the United States from 1989 to 1993 ...

[....] "Derek Burney's incredibly well connected, he has a formidable track record and is well-versed in the workings of the corridors of power," [....]

"How does all this translate into business? That's a bit of a murky area. It's the same with Brian Mulroney, Brian Tobin [at Fraser Milner Casgrain], Jean Chretien [Heenan Blaikie] and Frank McKenna [former counsel at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt and McInnes Cooper]. Their involvement is often below the radar screen. Bombardier, an Oglivys client, just signed a big deal in China, for example. [....]

[....] Look at it this way: Diplomats are people who do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. Lawyers are people who bill for it. It's a marriage made in heaven. [....]

Cops: Kennedy Was Under Influence -- "Kennedy was driven home by police, who did not administer any field sobriety tests to the six-term congressman."-- Note a copy of the police report TheSmokingGun

Why? What happens if you, John Q Public are DUI? What happened with Margaret Trudeau's DUI? Nothing. She was on TV being interviewed about her bi-polar disorder (later, I heard it was depression. May 8, G&M has an article; is it anorexia now? check) ... setting the record straight. Justin must be thinking of entering the Liberal leadership fray or positioning himself to run for the Liberal crown after the next one.

Position has its priviliges ... For the rest, life's a b***h and then you die ... no special privileges. We might as well get over it; it's the way of the world.



Separate laws for Muslims in Sweden?

Muslims in Sweden want 'separate laws' -- Sweden's largest Muslim organization has demanded that Sweden introduce separate laws for Muslims. -- what the world needs now ....... more sharia -- via R


A must read
Muslim rapes of non-Muslim girls an epidemic

The following will show that because of their timidity and political correctness, the major news media can no longer be relied upon to broadcast news. Especially news of a vital and critical nature.

To the left you will see an image of an infidel candidate for Muslim rape. Her face is exposed! Her hair is uncovered as well as her arms and neck! She strikes a provocative pose! How can any self-respecting Muslim male refrain from raping her if the opportunity presents itself? Her t-shirt ridicules Islam so she must be murdered after being raped. All in the name of Islam. Allah be praised! [. . . . ]

Something very remarkable is happening around the globe and, if you want the short version, a Muslim demonstrator in Toronto the other day put it very well:
''We won't stop the protests until the world obeys Islamic law.''

Jamie Glazov: Islamic Imperialism FrontPageMag, May 5, 06

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Efraim Karsh, the author of the new book Islamic Imperialism: A History. He is a professor and head of the Mediterranean Studies Programme, King’s College, University of London. He has published extensively and often served as a consultant on Middle Eastern affairs, Soviet foreign policy, and European neutrality. His books include Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789-1923 and Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography

Some of the questions (there are more):

FP: If the Left hates imperialism so much, where is it moral indignation regarding Islamic imperialism?

FP: Christianity and Islam are very different in terms of making distinctions between temporal and religious powers, no? And isn’t this rooted in the behavior of Jesus and Muhammad?

Karsh: It has long been a staple of anti-Israel propaganda that Arabs and Muslims have never had anything against Judaism or Jews but only against Zionism and Zionists. After all, did not Muslims treat their Jewish minorities far better than their European counterparts? Did not Arabs and Jews coexist harmoniously for centuries prior to the advent of the Zionist movement?

This idyllic picture is at odds with the historical record. [....]

The truth of the matter is that, for all their protestations to the contrary, Arabs and Muslims have never really distinguished among Zionists, Israelis, and Jews, and often use these terms interchangeably. [....]

FP: What really lies behind the Arabs’ rejection of the Jewish state? For some reason I have a feeling it has very little to do with concern for the Palestinians.

FP: Will Europe may come under Islamic domination by the end of the twenty-first century?

Karsh: It really depends on whether Europeans [....]

Only last month Mu’ammar Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, predicted [....]

Hijacked by the Left

I believe I have mentioned before that socialism is on the march. Who funds these characters? The travel--not cheap--the signs, the ability to appear at every possible venue with their signs? Do they also have jobs or is their job to agitate?

Actually, years ago a friend gave a drive to a hitch hiker travelling from Montreal to Toronto and guess what? He was an activist out of Quebec going to TO to be an activist for ... well, what do you think?

Michelle Malkin: More Borders, What Borders? -- "More pictures you didn't see in the NYTimes or WashPost or LATimes..." May 2, 06

Photojournalist Byron Dazey has a stunning photo collection of the Illegal Alien Strike in Seattle. Here's a sample, but be sure to visit Creative Flashes to see the whole album. [....]

Updated: The Pictures You Won't See

Creative Flashes: Photos from A Day Without Immigrants May 1st Rally in Seattle -- "hijacked by the Amercian Communist Party" comments by Alan

I don't know if the illegals realize it, or not, but it seems to me that their "cause" has been hijacked. The plethora of Socialist/Communist/Leftist signs on display (at both events) made it difficult to sympathize with the aims of the marchers. Frankly, leftists of this ilk don't have the best interests of the country as a whole in mind, and that distorts any collateral message they're associated with, in my view. I'm guessing that I'm hardly unique in thinking that as long as I'm seeing Che likenesses, I won't be taking your message as anything more than anti-United States ranting.

Note that one sign says: Today we march. Tomorrow we vote , Dazey_060501_0182

Immigration: Letter Of The Day: Businesses That Shut Down Today? They Need To Be Investigated May 1, 06, RightWingNews

[. . . . ] Too often, we presume that fault lies with the illegal migrant worker, but we need to recognize that the employer broke the law by hiring the illegal alien. We believe the Federal government has an obligation to enforce the nation's immigration laws and must actively investigate any and all instances where it is apparent industries have knowingly and willingly hired those who entered this country illegally. [. . . . ]

Memory Lane: "human rights codes"

David Warren: The French Connection (How long before Muslims in Canada start to riot?) Western Standard, December 12, 2005 [posted by NZerFromHK]

[. . . . ] Like France, Canada currently lacks the intellectual and moral equipment to grasp the profound contradictions between the cultural norms of Islam, and those we have inherited through the Christian tradition. Our very inability to discuss these conflicts openly makes us defenceless against any future challenge to what we are and how we live. And our proliferating "human rights codes" were almost designed to prevent our waking up.

Example of question: "Is it possible to be both a faithful practising Muslim, and a loyal citizen of the secular Canadian state?" A lot of learned Muslims would say no.

So, yes, in short, we should expect what we are now seeing in Europe to explode, sooner or later, in Canada, too. When, is an open question, but the precedent that has now been set in all the major cities of France will probably make it sooner.

Scroll to: Betrayal & Deceit: The Politics of Canadian Immigration -- "We no longer protect refugees. We just let in any liar that comes along." a review of a book by Charles M. Campbell -- or
http://
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006/01/bud-fulford-do-not-disturb-campbell.html

Note: 1978 , 1983 , Asian heroin trade , Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Freedoms , "The "Ice Queen", Lee Chau-Ping, who was on the run from her massive crystal meth smuggling between China and Hong Kong"


UN: CLEANING UP WITH KOFI NYPost, May 5, 06, via newsbeat1

May 5, 2006 -- What's the going rate to guarantee yourself a top job at the United Nations these days? $500,000 [. . . . ]

Search: Achim Steiner was a judge , "Zayed Prize for Global Environmental Leadership, presented by the crown prince of Dubai" , Oil-for-Food



Many Manitobans echo Mackintosh's support -- for Min. of Justice Vic Toews' proposed crime bills Paul Turenne & Dean Pritchard, May 5, 06

[....] Jack McLaughlin, a director with Winnipeg-based People for Justice, [....]

"I think it's wonderful," McLaughlin said yesterday. "I think it's about time a party that governs this country has the balls to stand up and take control of our streets. This is what we've been championing for five years."

Winnipeg police agreed. [. . . . ]

Marijuana is not medicine -- Marijuana pro and con


Welfare bums -- humour


For what it is worth, a comment on CNEWS forum: Windsor Police Officer dead in shoot out -- "He described him [the man who was running ] as a White gang banger type, with a "Tupac" gold chain around his neck. A product of the disgusting Gangsta Rap culture, no doubt. " Tinsnips, May 7., 06



Review VoIP RULING, CRTC told

The Patriot says:

Caution. If you are planning on purchasing a satellite radio, do so in the good ol’ USA. Satellite radios for sale in Canada are manufactured specifically so that they are incapable of receiving a very wide range of US originating radio signals. This is as a result of an agreement between the Canadian broadcast industry (government funded) and the US manufacturers. Buy it in the USA and have unlimited access to satellite radio signals.

Posted by The Patriot from on 05/06 at 08:41 AM