Sept. 9, 2006: NDP voted to pull soldiers out of Afghanistan

newsbeat1.com/2006/09/ndp-vote-was-basically-against.html

The NDP vote was basically against Canadian soldiers and siding with the Taliban who prefer women covered head to foot, with no education.

Sept. 9, 2006: #2 "Firesign Theatre" Re-issue

Firesign Theatre's "Communist Martyrs High" -- re-issued under the NDP label

Coming to turntables this weekend -- re-education camps next -- or are they being handled by the CBC/MSM commissariat?

NDP plans, posted by ejoudrey, 9/06/2006 09:51:53

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12287.html

[....] THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that a NDP government socialize all major primary resource industries in Canada over a period of several years through the payment of low-interest, long-term bonds; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a NDP government place all new public enterprises under democratic control by their workers, instituting direct election of plant managers and enterprise directors, with the right of recall by their electors, and have significant and meaningful participation in decision-making by consumers, environmental groups and local communities;

OAKVILLE NDP [....]

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the NDP is committed to actively campaign for and implement social ownership, including but not limited to the following industries: banking, communications, energy, health care, insurance, manufacturing, mass media, medical drugs, natural resources, transportation; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that these industries be democratically controlled and managed by their workers, by instituting direct election of plant managers and enterprise directors, with the right of recall by their electors, and integrate significant and meaningful consumer participation in the decision-making process.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that a NDP government place the telecommunications industry (including phone and cable companies) under social ownership through the payment to the former owners of low-interest, long-term bonds over a period of several years; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the new publicly owned industries be democratically controlled by their workers, instituting direct election of managers and enterprise directors, with the right of recall by their electors, and have significant and meaningful consumer and community participation in the decision-making process.

TRINITY-SPADINA NDP

DURHAM NDP [....]

These, presumably, will be discussed at the NDP convention in Quebec this weekend.

Practice, everybody: "Jack, tear down that wall" ...



Redirect: Counter policies from paxos , ,/06/2006 14:56:41
www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12287.html

WHEREAS all of these policies were adopted by the former Soviet Union and [at] various points throughout its history and

WHEREAS the Soviet Union folded up and ceased to exist after causing [untold] hardship and suffering to its [peoples] as a result of these policies and

WHEREAS no society has ever survived the socalization of its industries to the betterment of its peoples,

BE IT RESOLVED by the sane and productive people of Canada that Jack Layton and the New Democratic Party are communists and idiots and should, henceforth, be completly ignored by all but the lunatic extreme left wing psychos of the country.

All In Favour?

Sept. 9, 2006: #1 Intelligence

Hint for the good prof

Please hide this study, Prof. Rushton, before the SoW's network use this to go after more tax $$$ because women are not getting a fair show ... again.

Cue the drums for the SoW beat "gimme, gimme" based on Rushton's study: 'Glass ceiling' reflects women's innate shortcomings', In the past, "Philippe Rushton scandalized with race-based theories", Lance Crossley, CanWest, September 08, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=d3a1a5bd-3f53-47c6-87ed-1a22d195d47d

[....] "We have to find the truth about the normal distribution in society," said the professor, whose study is published in the September issue of the academic journal Intelligence. "It's not right to simply say, 'It must be discrimination and don't dare say anything else.' One should really look at the facts."

Prof. Rushton co-authored a study that analyzed 100,000 scholastic aptitude tests (SATs) written by American teens, aged 17 and 18. Researchers focused on the general intelligence factor -- which relates to how quickly an individual can grasp a concept and is widely considered the most crucial ingredient for high IQ scores -- and discovered males scored the equivalent of 3.63 IQ points greater than their female counterparts. [....]

Prof. Rushton's past race claims about Asians being more intelligent than whites .... [ex Ont. Premier] David Peterson once said he would have Prof. Rushton fired if ....

That is how the left would handle / handles dissent, differing opinions, scientific studies which don't come to the "right" conclusions, inconvenient truths (think about the Kyoto accord scientists' who couldn't get a hearing in Canada's MSM) ... anyone with whom they differ. Outlaw anything they don't like, e.g. using "hate crimes" legislation and money from wealthy supporters. They try and sometimes succeed in not letting the authors of inconvenient studies work ... et cetera.

Inconvenient truth sample:

The Left ♥ CAIR, MPAC, et al. .... the far-left Tides Foundation announces that is is funding CAIR's "Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes" ... to "decrease tolerance for anti-Muslim hate crimes"
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/06
/june-9-06-video-clips-more.html

I love these guys; they can talk all they want and produce studies proving men's superiority but men fall for women's wiles every time ... so I'm told ... so who are more intelligent? I'm all for calling it a draw.

After all, men and women are different ... else how would they have s** and babies ... and one will nag and ... be ignored ... and then get all hurt and weepy ... and need comforting ... and more s** ... and it all makes the world go round. Trust me on that; a friend told me.

... and while he's snoozing or snoring, she's thinking ... and ...

Philippe, don't screw up a good thing by getting all scientific over us. It isn't the tiny difference found by your science that is crucial; it's the s** ... and ... Well any teenager could have told him that.

Sept. 7, 2006: #12

Advertised this evening

Unbelievably, on the eve of the 9/11 catastrophe--one that took the lives of close to 3,000 people, the CBC will be presenting a Terence McKenna special How America Totally Screwed Up. Oh, its official title may be somewhat different, but this covers the general idea. This kind of negative tripe from CBC programming will set back Canadian-American relations by a decade. And to think that the CBC dares advertises itself as the kind, caring, sympathetic voice of Canada ... cue the violins. CBC makes me ashamed to be a Canadian. From the ivory towers of the CBC, they cannot intuit how the confused response to such a tragedy will offend our fellow North Americans and our friends, the United States. Do CBC decision makers not remember the number of Canadians who died on 9/11? They should not be made the material of a leftwing propaganda organ by this omission of remembrance of their deaths at the hands of terrorists.

News flash from the CBC: the Toronto Film Festival (or is it a documentary film festival?) will be showing a number of provocative, insightful and daring documentaries. Now, of course, anybody who follows the scene, knows that almost all of them will be filmed from a leftist stance, at least, the ones advertised or mentioned on the CBC. They will show the ravages that Western civilization has wreaked on the benighted of the world.

May I mention tonight's portrayal on the CBC of the plight of Muslims in Spain after the bombing of the Madrid trains last year. For some unknown reason, that bombing has caused distrust of many followers of Allah in Spain, Muslims claim. The investigation that showed the widespread links among many Muslim groups in the country was omitted ... or I must have left the room. Too, CBC managed tonight on the National to have a shot of someone asking "Who, exactly is a terrorist?" and this will be explored in one or more documentaries. CBC advertising for itself again, it appears.

The CBC is committing hari kiri because they have pursued the left side of the road in most, if not all, their documentary programming. Sometimes, it is vacuous, harmless or mildly entertaining; other times, it is leftist social engineering. Having heard of some of the CBC programming to come this year, I can only conclude that it will push the sword clear through ... from spasms to a merciful demise ... It will be a painless death ... for the rest of us.

I rarely agree with much in the Globe and Mail but today, John Doyle's characterization of CBC as Fort Dork is dead on.

Sept. 7, 2006: #11 Bubba goes ballistic

This is mini series everyone will want to know about ... A lawsuit concentrates public interest remarkably , via this forum from the New York Post, Sept. 7, 06
www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/
viewtopic.php?t=216&mforum=elwoodpdowd

I shall omit the part that would make you run to check in favour of the following:

"Many of the people who have expressed opinions about the film have yet to see it in its entirety or in its final broadcast form," he said. "We hope viewers will watch the entire broadcast before forming their own opinion."

Executive producer Marc Platt told The Washington Post that he worked "very hard to be fair. If individuals feel they're wrongly portrayed, that's obviously of concern. We've portrayed the essence of the truth of these events. Our intention was not in any way to be political or present a point of view."

That will be a relief to the subject.

Sept. 7, 2006: #10 Our place on the World's Stage

Our place on the World's Stage
www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/
viewtopic.php?t=214&mforum=elwoodpdowd

Book sources: Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union, Paper 077352276X, Cloth 0773522751 -- or here
www.mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=211

www.amazon.ca/Canadian-policy-toward-
Khrushchevs-Soviet/dp/077352276X

"Based on extensive access to previously closed files in the National Archives of Canada, Canadian Policy toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union is the first ..."

In his new book, Canadian Policy Toward Khrushchev's Soviet Union, author Jamie Glazov deals with this remarkable, but frightening, epoch, rendering a detailed account of Canadian foreign policy towards post-Stalinist Russia. The book covers the decade 1953-1963, which contained such pivotal Cold War events as the Soviet 20th Party Congress, the Suez Crisis, the Soviet invasion of Hungary and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The author, who holds a Ph.D. in history with a specialty in American and Canadian foreign policy, is the managing editor of [....]

There is much more information if you link ...

Sept. 7, 2006: #9 Michelle Malkin

Utterly barbaric!

I am gaining great respect Malkin. I don't know how she manages to find so much good information but ...

A journalist beheaded: Guess why?, via newsbeat1
michellemalkin.com/archives/005874.htm

Mohammed Taha, editor-in-chief of the Sudanese private daily Al-Wifaq, was found decapitated on a Khartoum street Wednesday. [....]

What did Taha do that cost him his life? [....]

Make a guess ... Then, read the details, note links to more, and the photo, as well as comments from Robert Spencer.

And Jack Layton would like to hold discussions with the Taliban -- of similar bent?

Sept. 7, 2006: #8 PM reform -- elect senators

Prime Minister Moves To Limit Senate Terms, Cindy Clyne, September 7, 2006 mich71, 9/07/2006 14:39:05
www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the time has come to reform the upper house.

Appearing before a Senate Committee Thursday afternoon, Harper said he will bring in legislation this fall to create a process to elect senators.

Sept. 7, 2006: #7 Hip, hip, hooray

Licia Corbella: Hip, hip, hooray , Sept. 6, 06
calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/
Corbella_Licia/2006/09/07/1810060.html

John Carpay, executive director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which is supporting Murray's claim, says the purpose of this lawsuit is to do away with "bad laws in Alberta and other provinces which makes it illegal for Canadians to spend their own after-tax dollars to preserve their own health."

Fur will fly in the West over this. Quebec Liberals at a meeting in Laval discussed and accepted a resolution on the right to health care--I vaguely remember, but check for the details which I forget. I could have it wrong. If not, it might be a snowball is starting on the right to pay for the right to health care if you have the money.

Sept. 7, 2006: #6 Greg Weston

Greg Weston's article is a hoot! The land of pipe dreams , Sept. 7, 06
www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/
Weston_Greg/2006/09/07/1810058.htm

To tell you more would spoil it. One has to respect the man who wrote this ... besides loving the article.

Sept. 7, 2006: #5 Meeting in Ottawa tonight

Make your views known ... from a correspondent.

There will be a FLSAC meeting tonight at Ottawa City Hall (Laurier & Elgin) to discuss the language requirement for the new police chief. The President of the Police Services Committee said that bilingualism will not be a "pre-required qualification" but the FSLAC is very anxious to make certain that this be a requirement. This will be the topic of discussion tonight. The meeting will be at 7:00 pm at City Hall. Please come if you can.

Caroline Andrews (co-President of FLSAC) was interviewed by Steve Madely [Ottawa radio, CFRA, I believe] this morning and [Ms. Andrews] said that the FLSAC feels that the Francophones are not being well-served for recreational purposes and want the City to give them $250,000 to mount an "awareness" campaign to tell the French-speakers about the various programs that are available in French ... to make sure that certain programs are available in French even though the French are not signing up for them. Steve said that these programs are already available and if the French-speakers don't sign up for them, whose fault is that?

You might want to attend -- Ottawa, tonight. It might even be a spirited meeting. Express your views, as this Sun News poll indicates Canadians did ... in a poll where it didn't count, a self-selected group which usually means they were interested enough to vote. At least one news agency is willing to run a poll; most pretend in the MSM that almost any other topic is worthy of a poll, but not this.

Sept. 7, 2006: #4 Victim? Terrorist? Or ...

Something else?

Perhaps this is what happens as a result of a Canadian education now. See below for more commentary on this education, if you don't understand already ... but first, check this.

But then, how else to be hired? ... What other qualifications appear to be necessary to work there? What qualifications would exclude a prospective employee?

Sept. 7, 2006: #3

Part of Dion environmental plan changed after blog report (Comment) , Sept. 5, 06
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20060905.wdion0905/BNStory/National/home

Liberal leadership candidate Stephane Dion's campaign hastily changed part of the candidate's environmental platform as posted on his Web site today after a blog reported that parts of it were almost identical copies — without attribution — of a David Suzuki Foundation paper published the previous week.

Ooh, that's not kosher. Maybe he forgot. Liberal MP's are honourable; I read that yesterday somewhere in the MSM, so it must be true.



Very good -- worth reading

Paul Wells on the press and Harper -- key points, via rosemarie59
www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/
viewtopic.php?t=201&mforum=elwoodpdowd


Full series of three articles: Shop Talk: Paul Wells on the Ottawa Press Corps
weblogs.macleans.ca/paulwells/archives/
week_2006_09_03-2006_09_09.asp#002579



Addicts are not criminals , Adam Radwanski, National Post, Published: Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Actually, yes, each is taking part in a criminal act he/she first decides to take illegal drugs such as heroin ... or have I missed the latest legal interpretation from some Canadian court?

[....] "So long as the drug laws remain on the books, the government cannot simply do as it likes, selectively enforcing prohibitions here while openly ignoring them there," Marni Soupcoff wrote in these pages last year. "At least not without a price." That price, she argued, is the authorities encouraging a disrespect for all laws by itself flouting the ones that it finds inconvenient.

[....] The numbers from that one facility alone suggest it has already saved its share of lives. While too early to know just how many AIDS/HIV infections it's prevented, an RCMP report found that it's helped addicts learn how to inject themselves more safely and to prevent overdoses. For those who have overdoses while at the facility -- 453 of them over a two-year period in which it averaged 607 visits daily -- Insite has had the wherewithal to ensure that not a single one of them died. And the New England Journal of Medicine has reported that users who go there are more likely to go into rehab -- analysis born out by the 4,083 referrals handed out by Insite over that same two-year period, 40% of which were for addiction counselling.

If every city had its own version of Insite -- or ideally, several versions of Insite -- fewer Canadians would be killing themselves with drugs. [....]

Obviously, addiction is not their fault ... and I always thought it was they who chose to try drugs. How old-fashioned of me. So many of us are just not au courant with the latest theories on why evil happens to really good people. We still think everyone has free will ... As any confirmed smoker will tell you, it's not their fault ... Fiddlesticks! They/We are weak and self-indulgent! Some even want to divorce themselves from reality--can you imagine?-- with strange and imported drugs. ... They're hurting, obviously. We must do something.

Now, if government really wants to help, perhaps it could open non-drug, non-smoking camps for those who want to quit ... somewhere with cabins and a lake, a fishing pole and a boat, a little libation to get us over the hard parts ... Oh, just let me plan it. It would be in the wilderness ... with red-neck luxury.




Staying alive is a good reason not to trust Muslims

Muslims feel like victims. The West feels guilty. Is the world going mad? -- It takes courage for leaders to expose flaws in their society. But some are willing to do it, Gerard Baker, The Times, September 01, 2006
canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/18718.shtml

[....] It takes courage for leaders to expose the weaknesses in their own society. But there are some willing to do it. Last week their ranks were augmented from an unlikely source. No less a figure than Ghazi Hamad, the spokesman for the terrorist-supporting Hamas Government in the Palestinian Authority, wrote in an Arabic newspaper about the real causes of the mayhem in Gaza since the Israeli occupation ended last year.

"We're always afraid to talk about our mistakes," he said. "We're used to blaming our mistakes on others. What is the relationship between the chaos, anarchy, lawlessness, indiscriminate murders, theft of land, family rivalries, transgression on public lands and unorganised traffic and the occupation? We are still trapped by the mentality of conspiracy theories, one that has limited our capability to think." [....]

And the blind will lead us ...

Motorist who navigated British roundabout had no eyes, police officer says -- Omed Aziz, who lost both his eyes in a bomb blast and is also deaf ... , NatPost, Sept. 5, 06

Is this an improvement over the leadership of the imam they call The Hook (Al Hamza)?




Gold May Rise for Second Week as Jewelry Demand Outpaces Growth in Supply, Bloomberg, Sept. 4, 06, Pham-Duy Nguyen
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082
&sid=a7UXPZhkhGmA&refer=canada

Gold may rise for a second straight week on speculation demand from jewelers and investors this month will recover, outpacing production from the world's mines.

[....] The metal has fallen only nine times in the month of September since gold began trading on public exchanges in 1975. [....]

Jailed Bank of China Managers Say They Were Framed (Update1), By Matthew R. Miller, Sept. 5, 06 (Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601109&sid=a20epNwPxZKQ&refer=home

Two former managers at Bank of China Ltd., jailed in Las Vegas on racketeering and money-laundering charges stemming from the alleged theft of $485 million, say they're being framed to cover up corruption and incompetence at the state-owned lender.

``The Chinese government made up evidence and used it to make me look responsible,'' Xu Chaofan said in an Aug. 10 jailhouse interview. ``We feel we're scapegoats,'' said former colleague Xu Guojun, who's in a separate detention center. ``The bank's management was in turmoil and there were huge losses to account for.''

The two men, in their first interviews since fleeing China five years ago, said they're being blamed for lax supervision at China's second-biggest lender. Their trial will offer a rare look inside a banking system that has been plagued by inadequate internal controls, graft and theft, said Victor Shih, a China scholar at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [....]

Parents opting for private over public schools, Caroline Alphonso, G & M, Sept. 5, 06
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/RTGAM.20060905.wxmiddle05/BNStory/National/home

[....] There's smaller classes, and it's more challenging and it's all girls."

That's exactly what her parents want to hear. With the onset of puberty, seismic social pressures and emotional changes that occur in the late preteen years, the Wells family and some others are turning from the public-school system.

If you have a child, consider this. It is not a panacea but there is a chance that some or all of this may help your child avoid life-long repercussions from their hormone-driven teen years.

* smaller classes -- more individual attention and there is the possibility that non-performing teachers might be fired, instead of given tenure -- not always in reality, but a bit more likely especially if parents are involved and complain.

* one sex only -- fewer distractions, hopefully, the idea being that inability to see / talk with the opposite sex will enable the student to concentrate on the work at hand -- not foolproof but better than the alternative in some ways and for a time

* strict(er) discipline -- People who pay for something appreciate it more and the child who wants to attend the school, generally, co-operates -- not fool-proof but it has a better chance than public schools which must keep all, no matter how distracting they are to children who want to learn. The need to make money causes some administrations to accept behaviour from certain students that they should kick out! But life is a series of compromises ... even in schools.

* emphasis upon learning and high standards in education -- the assumption being that those who pay "want" an education, are not being forced, and are going on to tertiary schooling; therefore, the student knows he/she needs to work and will co-operate. There is greater emphasis upon taking personal responsibility for learning, as opposed to having fun. Teachers won't be exhorted from all sides to make learning fun. (ideally but reality is somewhat different) Children who learn feel successful; that is fun. The other is a sham.


I used to believe in public education but now, it is social engineering and, in too many ways, is failing to educate ... except in "correct thought". The object seems not to produce an individual who is able to read and think for himself. Schools and universities too often indoctrinate, but do not educate ... at least, not from what I can find out. Only motivated individuals within the system educate themselves, despite the system.



From J. Thanks and perhaps it fits in here.

Political Science for Dummies, new version

DEMOCRATIC
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.

REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION
You have one cow.
The cow is schizophrenic.
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk.
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy.

FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegals.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.


Which corporation are you?

Sept. 7, 2006: #2 Bud Talkinghorn

Small "L" code words revealed

John Ibbitson wrote a weighty column "Canada's tolerance conundrum" for The Globe and Mail (Wed. 6, A-4). It was a classic piece about how we will always have cultural harmony because of the wisdom of the Big "L" liberal government's immigration policies. Supposedly, that is the vast diversity of immigrant backgrounds, so that no single immigrant group becomes a dominant bloc. However, there is one caveat which pops up. That is when Ibbitson states: "In fact, our biggest priority in immigration right now should be to boost the intake from Latin America, to counterbalance the the huge numbers coming from East and South Asia." I'm not a cryptographer, but that sounds like code for let's keep those Islamic fanatics from settling here in "huge" numbers. For a liberal, he receives an A for his nuanced warning. For having the guts to simply and openly state the obvious, I give him an F.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Islamic terrorism--Obviously it's all the West's fault

At least that is the line of reasoning that Sheema Khan takes in her Globe and Mail column (Tuesday, Sept. 5, A-13). Her arguments are so scattered it is hard to rebut everything. Therefore, I am forced to reply in a similar scattered form.

She takes the statement of one British suicide bomber, who said, "Your democratically elected government continuously perpetrates atrocities against my people all over the world. And your support of them makes you directly responsible...until we feel security, you will always be our targets." This video was made by one of the London tube bombers. Even born in an economically-advanced, tolerant, secure country, and educated there, he still doesn't understand democracy. Or is his version the theocracy that runs Iran and disqualified hundreds of reformist candidates, because they "weren't pure enough." And where did he get that line about Britain "continuously perpetrating atrocities against his people (he wasn't even Iraqi or Afghani) all over the world." If Sheema Khan thinks he is making a valid point, she is blinded by her fundamentalist ideology. The jihadi had a quaint view of "security" and "world-wide". First, the world-wide conflict between Muslims and Westerners is located in just two countries. If he wants to see world-wide violence he has only to look at radical Islam's attacks on "infidels" stretching from Indonesia to Pakistan. Secondly, the "security" he claims would descend on the Muslims if the West bowed out is illusionary. Before the Second War with Iran, Saddam and his fascist Baath Party managed to kill or wound a million Iranians, while losing around 750,000 of his own people. He then gassed thousands of his Kurdish subjects in the north and in 1991-2 massacred hundreds of thousands of Shia in the south. The number of his Kumaiti victims, who simply disappeared, will never be known. The Coalition's attempt to bring democracy and economic prosperity drew out the anti-progress Allahu Akbar crowd from all over the Middle East. Content for a while to blow-up anything that represented the elected govenment and the American forces, they have recently morphed into terroists who target anything Shia. I always find it bizarre that you can call yourself a religious martyr, yet pick mosques as your truck bomb targets. Mind you, marketplaces and even school sports fields are also "legitimate" sites. Can't Ms. Khan see that whether the British are in Iraq or not, the current blood tide is only a step away from a full bore civil war between the competing sects?

She thinks that the West should change its foreign policy, presumably so the Taliban can return to Afghanistan and then invite al-Qaeda back for more terrorist training. Iraq should have been left in the thuggish hands of Saddam and his Baathist dictatorship. Or maybe the Coalition should retreat now, so that security can reign in Iraq? Another of her statements (attributed to Robert Pape) is that the terrorist attacks are really rooted in nationalism. Is that why they always shout "Allahu akbar!" after each new atrocity? When did Allah become a nation? I guess Ms. Khan didn't hear Zahwiri's latest missive to the America. "Americans must become Muslims"...left unsaid, but understood, is you deserve to be attacked if unconverted. It seems that Zawahiri has consulted a wise old imam who says that ten million infidel victims wouldn't be excessive. That barbaric vision cannot be reasoned with, it must be ruthlessly stamped out. I suspect Khan would agree with that fool, Jack Layton, who talked about negotiatiing with the Taliban. Oh, lest we forget our "blanket support of Israel" is also a cause for our own Muslims citizens to rise up against us. Sorry about that, but democracies support other democracies. We don't support fascist theocracies, or Orwellian states like Syria or Saddam's Iraq.

Ms. Khan would do her fellow Muslims a favour if she pointed out the abysmal state of most of the Islamic world. She could start with why they tend to hog the bottom of the UN's Human desirability index [or whatever that index is called -- NJC]. Or why 22 Muslim countries combined don't have a GDP equal to Spain's. Or for that matter, why Spain's output of literature is greater than the entire Islamic world's. A small treatise on how the Islamic community is going to resolve the genocide of black Muslims in Darfur would be appreciated. Or perhaps she could give us the Islamic justification for why harmless Christians in southern Indonesia are being attacked and forced into refugee camps by Muslim extremists, while the Indonesian government is doing nothing to stop it. Slavery in Mauritania and Mali could be a good kick-off for a talk on pure Islamic values--she could yoke that topic to the freedom that Islam affords women. The list of Islamic topics is nearly inexhaustable.

Rarely has an article infuriated me more. Even the fuzzy allusion to Joe Lieberman's defeat contradicts her main thesis. It reminds me of the "debates" between Westerners and Arabs. They don't seem to be arguing from the same planet. The Arabs simply will not concede a point, no matter how logical it is. Along with this are the preposterous conspiracy ideas, i.e. The CIA or Mossad was the culprit in 9/11. When all else fails, the Arab analysts trot out Israeli's Zionist aggressions. It is though we have to answer for every policy that that country adopts. Sheer nonsense. It would like attacking Syria's position in Iraq by bringing up the Algerian civil war.

Finally, Khan's concludes with a call for decency, justice, and equity in our foreign policy. She leaves no doubt that the Harper government is incapable of those qualities. "Our government is accountable to the electorate--not to violent usurpers of our democratic system". Gee, I thought that the Conservatives had been elected to office, not seized it in a military coup. Or maybe the CIA and Mossad helped illegally swing the vote? Her ending was at least consistent with the rest of her garbled message.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Going to the feminists' dark side

From the early yelpings of the feminist movement, basically, I had signed on. Why in hell shouldn't a woman doing the same job as a man not be paid the same? I was also influenced by a particular "guidance counsellor", who didn't believe that women should be doctors. "No man wants a woman tampering with his body" was a direct quote to his date, the one I had lined up for him, erroneously. "You want to enter medicine, girls, then become a nurse." That was over-the-top, but reflected a wide-spread feeling among a minority of men. However, they were not about to apply a Gamil Gharbi (a.k.a. Marc Lepine) solution to female engineers, Still it surely wasn't a progressive attitude. Anyway, I went along with the early mission statements that the feminist leadership put out. Their main point was that women should be treated equally in all fields. One of their initial thrusts was to bar all advertising that degraded or stereotyped women, i.e. the hot pants-clad bimbos in beer commercials. "Equality and respect" was their war cry. Oh, yes and pornography was to be banned as totallly demeaning to women.

However, one of their founding mothers was Ms. Andrea Dworkin. Ugly as sin, but right up their with the uber-babe Gloria Steinem. Then her more shocking statements appeared, such as "All heterosexual sex is rape". This dictum was backed up by her homosexual? / neutered? / common law hubbie. Not to seem a total prude, she authored a short story that featured a lesbian sex romp that featured a bloody metal-studded glove. Wow! I found that a tad sadistic, but not a murmur of criticism came from the sisterhood. Dworkin might be a vicious bull dyke, but she was their bull dyke. In fact, rather than being drummed out, Dworkin remained an elder stateswoman of the movement. She died recently, so now she has acquired sainthood. I was becoming confused about the feminists' stated ideals.

A decade ago came their "Saving Ophelia" front. Girl students were supposedly being ignored in our schools. Brute paternalism was the culprit. Fine, except that hue and cry is still heard, even though female students have vastly overtaken males in the high school graduation honours roll, and make up about 60% of recipients of all university degrees conferred. Their silence about affirmative action to ramrod women into top positions in business and the bureaucracy was simply good fem politics. Don't gloat when you've just won. Ophelia obviously learned how to kick butt. My last hope was that at least they meant that line about abolishing sexual stereotypes in the ad world. That hope too has been dashed. Consider the endless examples of TV ads showing men to be complete boobs--fattish, balding, and clueless, while the wives / girlfriends appear as a race of svelte, attractive know-it-alls, who can only roll their eyes at their men's endless buffonery. Rather than complain about these absurd male stereotypes, their silence suggests they relish it. It makes me wonder if that epigram about power is true. "The ranks of the prosecutors are always filled best from the ranks of the formally persecuted."

And no critique of the feminist movement would be complete without exposing the "Marc Lepine blood libel". Thanks to collective amnesia, the fems and the liberal media have forgotten that "Marc Lepine" was actually born Gamil Gharbi, the son of an Algerian wife-beater. Uppity women were not to be tolerated was dad's message. It is the hidden shame of most Islamic countries that violence against women is common and officially overlooked. However, from the second day of the massacre onward Gamil morphed into your everyday Canadian boy, Marc Lepine--a name he adopted in his mid teens. The feminists considered that slaughtering female engineering students was an abiding fantasy of your average Canadian male. Gharbi's crime was the albatross that we men must all hang around our necks. The plain fact is that no Canadian male has since mowed down females in droves. Granted, they will have Robert Pickton's crimes to pin on males, if Gamil / Marc grows too hoary or absurd to exploit. The Gharbi massacre was simply our first taste of what the fanatical Muslim mind is capable of. You want to see mass rape and slaughter of young women, just check out the rampages of the Algerian Islamic extremists. Afterwards, they would throw the bodies into the village wells to pollute them forever. Gamil didn't fall far from that extremist branch. However it fits the mindset of the radical feminists and their university Feminist Theory fifth column to universalize his twisted misogyny. But today's women are intelligent enough to see through such nonsense. Small wonder feminist groups like NAC have to break out their begging bowls. Tired of their irrelevance to Canadian women, even the Liberals smashed NAC off the government tit. Maybe it is time the feminist movement changed the channel.

© Bud Talkinghorn--Quick! Name the current head of NAC. Or any of the ones from the past imported from the US, for that matter.



Bud's pot shots

Why was Israel singled out as a "war criminal" by Louise Arbour of the UN Human Rights Commission, when Hezbollah purposely started the conflict and targetted civilians with its ballbearing-laden missiles? Thus destroying Lebanon's fragile redevelopment.

Why has the biggest study of the child care system been suppressed by the media? Could it be because the results showed that kids in long-term care turn out to be four times as aggressive as kids who aren't? Did you ever wonder where Harris and Kliebold came from?

While the press and public are agitated by the pedophiles allowed to get out of jail, nobody seems concerned about five suspected Muslim terrorists getting bail. These are people implicated in the most horrendous attempted mass murder conspiracy in Canadian history. And to discover that a Justice of the Peace could sign them off is more amazing. Doesn't their level of legal expertise end at performing weddings and notarizing wills?

Jack Layton called for the withdrawal of Canadian troops from Afghanistan. Co-incidentally, this coinsides with his big up-coming NDP convention in Quebec. Jack certainly knows his audience. Even his party understood that appearing at a Hezbollah support rally in Montreal wouldn't hurt them in this province. But in his CBC announcement Jack stressed that the NDP "stands foursquare against the terrorist threat". Comforting words those.

© Bud Talkinghorn

Is he schizoid? Besides, not all in Quebec are pro-Hezbollah. They see through Jack Layton and the politics ... also, Hezbollah. CBC? Same old lefties -- always managing to feature Jack Layton and other lefties, anything anti-US and anti-Pres. Bush, any negatives such as a soldier killed in Afghanistan but not Canada's military successes--at least that I have heard. NJC

Sept. 7, 2006 #1 Global Good Will ... Continued

This must be worth reading since I have had numerous problems with Google today. Every time I post on certain topics things go awry ...... There's a lesson there. Anybody want to host this blog? Write a comment. Now, to my post ... if the planets align correctly ... and the usual cabal don't have a friend working for them ... and against certain bloggers.



Social engineering on a global scale ... and it is going on in Canada. You won't get an expose in the MSM.

This post is related to two posts this week which add to information posted previously. Note the second item refers to events in Montreal.

1. Sept. 6, 2006: #2 -- re: the UN and Global Governance, the networks, etc. -- Scroll down for it if you have not already read it.
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com
/2006/09/sept-6-2006-2.html

It begins with an article on the US but the implications extend to Canada, entitled: "The global governance gang: "hostile to U.S. sovereignty", "demanding that American taxpayers turn over $140 billion per year to his global welfare bureaucracy", and funded in the shadows by George Soros."

(David Horowitz has a new book out, The Shadow Party, available through NewsMax.com .)

2. Sept. 4, 2006: #2 Initiative de resistance internationaliste ...
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/09
/sept-4-2006-2-initiative-de-resistance.html


If you want some idea of where the leftists, the organizations interested in "social justice", "the environment", "the poor", the "undocumented" / illegal aliens (e.g. No One Is Illegal, Status, etc.) and more are headed, with the help of the UN, NGO's, Maurice Strong's network and assorted others, read this article. (search terms: "OneWorld ManyOne net")

Online Tools for a Sustainable Collaborative Economy by Gary Alexander -- or this
sustainability.open.ac.uk/gary/papers/onlinetools.doc

Introduction

An image of a radically different future has been forming in response to the various environmental, social and economic problems facing the world. It is exemplified by such documents as Agenda 21 and the Earth Charter and the many submissions by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002 (Petkova, Maurer, Henninger and Irwin 2002, Sachs 2002). Global governance is a theme of some work (Esty and Ivanovna, 2002), with some using an explicit systems perspective as in this paper (Madron and Jopling, 2003). [....]

The core element of such a future would be a changed relationship between people, moving towards a collaborative world based upon trust and away from competition. Much of this paper will look at online tools to help build and maintain such relationships.

This new relationship—for those taking it up—would be the basis for the growth of new forms of economic activity. These would begin to be driven directly by environmental and social need rather than determined by money flows. (For example: a farmer who, through connection with local consumers, could aim to farm his land to best maintain its fertility and beauty, while providing local organic food that suited the tastes of his/her customers, rather than simply farming to maximize income from the food distribution industry.)

The pressures created by a need to maximize money flows are a dominant reason for the continuing environmental destruction and advancing poverty and inequality. (Douthwaite, 1996) The nature of an economy with this correct driving force—environmental and social need—is the other key issue this paper will develop, giving principles, existing examples, and future possibilities.

The change to such a future ... through grassroots and civil society initiatives linking together, ...

Central to this vision is collaboration and the linking of groups. This means that it will need a communications infrastructure, and moreover, one that is capable of matching the diversity and changing needs of the participating population. [....]

The purpose of this paper is to further develop the economic aspects of this image of the future, showing how online systems could enable and support it. It will give practical examples and develop theoretical principles. [....]

Linking up Existing Groups [You apply to join -- Obviously, exclusionary -- excluding some countries, ideas -- Then there is tracking the individual ... Think of the implications of that.]

[....] the next level of linking, [....] Each organization has its own online database of members that are not easily linked. Individuals have multiple, incompatible online identities with each organization to which they belong. However, there are now many initiatives aimed at overcoming these barriers.

One World – Linking the Major NGOs [Sounds suspiciously like a return to Communism to me ... ]

One World (oneworld.net) is a network of over 1,500 organisations in 90 countries that “is dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the Internet to promote human rights and sustainable development” and has “a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs.” [Which group / who would oversee this? ]

Many One – the Ethical Alternative to AOL

ManyOne (manyone.net) is designing a platform that will enable the linking of groups and individuals with social and environmental concerns. It is developing a slick multi-media browser that provides educational features and enables trade and communication.

Persistent Identity and the Augmented Social Network Project

The Augmented Social Network (ASN) project (Jordan, Hauser and Foster, 2003) was announced at a recent conference on Networking a Sustainable Future (www.planetwork.net) and was acclaimed there as the technical solution to linking groups and individuals that everyone had been looking for. Its purpose is to extend the functionality of the Internet through open standards and software development to provide ‘persistent identity’ online. Persistent identity provides an alternative to an individual having a separate, incompatible identity, password, and personal profile with every online organization of which they are a part. Instead, you are registered with an ‘identity broker’, who controls your online profile. When you log-on to a group, the id and password are automatically referred back to your identity broker to be checked. [and tracked ... Who will be one's "identity broker"? .... ]

Support for Connection and Relationship

If the basis for Planetary Citizenship is a changed relationship between people, then considerable support will be needed for that. Co-operation and mutual support require skills of communication and organization [....]

The most radical part of the picture given in the examples is the move away from an economy driven by money and towards an economy driven by goals of service towards the environment and the community. It remains to be seen how far in that direction we can go.

In ManyOne and other systems, local currencies are often limited to a discount on conventional monetary prices. In Keith K’s world, for local transactions there was a choice of national or local currency or community service. The point of that was to encourage a group to move towards service as it became able to. More distant exchange was based upon Fair Trade, which puts social and environmental concerns before lowest price or highest profit. These are all useful but limited steps, still a long way from a complete change of goals for the economy.

You must belong to the network(s) and login. There will no be Google searches (Microsoft searches? Has Microsoft not become involved in this leftist initiative? Remember, "George Soros, money, Bill Gates" Look it up.) You will be able to be tracked with that persistent identity. There will be an exclusionary aspect ... Make a guess as to which countries will be excluded. Where does the UN Protocol on Cultural Diversity fit in vis a vis the "protection of human rights" which will include and enforce certain language provisions--culture--backed up by the UN, if enough nations sign on. There will be a UN global tax, it appears, if the UN gets its way, according to other reports on UN plans. See the articles on the UN and Ambassador Bolton. (posted Sept. 6, 06)

There is much more to the above article and there are others. Check Canada Free Press, Claudia Rosset, Eye on the UN. There are other sources, as well.


More on OneWorld here -- or here

www.benton.org/OneWorldUS/oneworlduserguide.htm

OneWorld.net is a global portal that provides a comprehensive overview of current world events and issues through the eyes of over 1500 partner organizations working in human rights and sustainable development worldwide. [If you do not belong, your views are not included, it appears. Think of the debate over climate, Kyoto, and numerous other topics where reasonable people differ such the efficacy of giving aid money when it goes through corrupt local officials or dictators, HIV/AIDS, etc.]

Started as an NGO web site in 1995, OneWorld provides daily news coverage, thematic guides, radio and video programs and weekly reports from Africa, Asia, Europe, United States and Latin America in order to support and give voice to the struggles of the poor to better their lives.

The OneWorld User Guide provides descriptions and links to news, research, multimedia and other resources available in OneWorld. [....]

3. Open Knowledge Network (OKN) [How "open" to other points of view is it?]
www.openknowledge.net/

Recognizing the diversity and richness of initiatives to collect and disseminate local content which already exist in many parts of the South, the OKN represents an attempt to 'join up the dots', in order to increase their capacity and impact. It is best thought of as a flexible framework or dynamic to link and support information initiatives among poor and marginalized communities though shared standards and values: local content, local people, local languages. OKN is an initiative of the DOTForce: the Digital Opportunity Task Force set up by the G8 Heads of State to make decisive contribution to bridging the digital divide. OKN has since been adopted by the UN ICT Task Force. [....] [I believe ICAAN's days are intended to be numbered.]

2. Global Campaigns—Current campaigns include: climate change, debt relief, digital divide, education, and trade. [Was much of this not part of the Liberal campaign Paul Martin's government ran? Deja vu ....... ]
www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/231/231

3. OneWorld Partnership—Organizations working in human rights and sustainable development can apply to become a OneWorld partner. [Exclusionary]
us.oneworld.net/article/view/48825

For more information, email Roshani Kothari, Partnership and Promotion Manager

More links:

· AIDS http://www.aidschannel.org [ in case you haven't learned enough from the MSM reports of the AIDS Conference in Toronto ]
· Debt Relief http://www.debtchannel.org
· Digital Opportunity http://www.digitalopportunity.org
· Education http://www.learningchannel.org

For your edification ... or to whip up the guilt necessary to fully appreciate the selected information ... or whatever, check: OneWorld country guides
us.oneworld.net/guides/countries

I believe Canada's SchoolNet is part of this global network, but check. If so, aren't you glad your child will be taught early by selected experts and/or volunteers who write articles for OneWorld / ManyOne.net. Dangerous influences will be kept out. What a relief!


Memory Lane -- articles to check, some links.

Entity behind Kyoto conned public, by Judi McLeod & David Hawkins Thursday, April 21, 2005

Stale Kofi -- Annan wants to "reform" the U.N. again. He must be in trouble. Claudia Rosett, April 20, 2005

In Reply to: Re: Maurice Strong caught stealing at U.N. (again) posted by Wall Street Journal Posted by Walrus on 12:16:48 2005/04/20 -- Blind Trust -- How much do we really know about Canada's next Prime Minister? Marci McDonald, The Walrus Magazine (http://walrusmagazine.com/), June 21, 04

The Roots of enviro-hysteria, Financial Post, no longer online but ... see these links for some.
newsjunkiecanada.blogspot.com/www.canada.com/.../
nationalpost/financialpost/%20columnists/story.ht
ml?id=1ad21858-4b6b-4043-b904-c61c8856d6b0

The Roots of enviro-hysteria. June 2, 04, National Post, Peter Foster. [Fill in the obvious missing letters in f***france below -- Yes, it works, or did work.]
www.f***france.com/read.html?postid=681983&replies=0

Maurice Strong and Kofi Annan -- Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future!

Concerns based on alleged "greed" and the notion that developed nations consume more than their "fair share" of resources are examples of hunter-gatherer economics, which lie behind the mushy but appealing concept of "sustainability."

On Maurice Strong: The new guy in your future! Henry Lamb, Jan. 1977
www.schema-root.org/people/career/business/maurice_strong/

www.sovereignty.net/p/sd/strong.html

Turtle Bay's Latest Coverup -- The U.N. investigates itself--again. June 16, 04, Claudia Rosett

[. . . . ] There is also a lot of discussion about such details as the differences between answers in English and French, including the whimsically delightful detail that "unfortunately and unbeknownst to Deloitte Consulting, the French language questionnaire file was corrupted." A portion of the data was thus irretrievably lost--a footnote that might be of some interest to those concerned about U.N. handling of data vis-à-vis Oil-for-Food.

Do you trust the usual gang / network/ UN to run the world? Any economy? Social justice? Peacekeeping? Disarming? Human rights? (Who comprise the Human Rights Council?) ......... Anything you care about?


More Memories along Memory Lane: Note the aspect of "hate crime" to be addressed

The Left ♥ CAIR, MPAC, et al. .... the far-left Tides Foundation announces that is is funding CAIR's "Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes" ... to "decrease tolerance for anti-Muslim hate crimes"
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/06
/june-9-06-video-clips-more.html

May 12, 2006 update: Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress addressed the Marxism-2006 conference in Toronto and told the assembled leftists:

Now, for the first time in history, the political left is working with conservative Muslims on issues of social justice, with the long-term goal of building a world that lives by peace, through justice. Communists, Marxists, socialists, and nationalists are working with civil libertarians, liberals, and conservatives to achieve this urgent goal together. [Would those "conservatives" be red? ... Liberals?]

Doesn't that combination just warm the cockles of your heart? Note, they're not worried about Muslim-on-others hate crimes / bombings / jihad. No! The big crime is that Canadians might note how many Muslims are involved in hate crimes ... maybe even say so. [hate crime alert ... ] [www.danielpipes.org/blog/83]

There is a Tides Foundation connection (scroll or search for it, starting with the US ... the left in Canada with a US connection? ... oh, not a Pres. Bush connection ... everything fine ... ) under the heading: Sept. 4, 2006: #1 Update AIDS Refugees & More ... The mainstream media omitted the connection between the spokesman from FCJ Refugee Centre and No One Is Illegal in writing of the AIDS Refugees
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/09/
sept-4-2006-1-update-aids-refugees.html

[....] Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants -- [and illegal aliens ] -- March on Ottawa: An op-ed piece by Heather Lash of the FCJ Refugee Centre, about the recent No One Is Illegal March on Ottawa., announced in a press release, June 16th , 2005.
www.ocasi.org/index.php?qid=754&catid=144

[....] Solidarity Across Borders

[....] No-One is Illegal [ *** Do you really want Canada contributing to that? ]

[....] STATUS [for illegal aliens]

[....] The Maytree Foundation , re: Alan Broadbent, Chairman ... [who is also] a Director of the Tides Foundation (Canada), the Canadian Institute of International Affairs ....

There is more, should you care to look.

Sept. 6, 2006: #3 A failure to communicate ... & More

There is an update below, complete with a screen capture of information.


Obviously, there has been a failure to communicate that Canadian citizenship actually means something, that Canadians have rights to certain services not intended as rights for non-Canadians nor for illegal aliens. We may offer charity but we do not "owe" the world whenever they ask. Response to a comment on this post: Sept. 1, 2006: #2 150 AIDS Delegates Remain--Refugees -- "AIDS delegates won't leave Toronto -- Up to 150 delegates to last month's T.O. conference have filed refugee claims", Tom Godfrey, TorSun, Sept. 1, 06
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada
/2006/09/01/1792499-sun.html

Dear Anonymous

Does being born in Canada, having worked and contributed to Canada, including after naturalization, not mean that you are a Canadian citizen with certain rights, duties and privileges that include, at this time, access to a physician and at least a minimal level of treatment--whether that system provides all that the citizen wants or somewhat less? Were those on your list born here? Then, they're Canadians; ergo, they have a right to the social services. Perhaps in your zeal for the AIDS refugees you misunderstood.

Access to the rights, duties, and privileges of citizenship should not be available to illegal aliens just because they come here and say "refugee", particularly, the world's sick or about-to-be, who want free treatment at Canadians' expense, never having contributed anything to Canada, nor to its health care funding.

The AIDS Conference refugees particulaly, are illegal aliens who were not supposed to be staying in Canada, or they would not have been allowed to enter. They were helped by some people abroad and in Canada. Some already have HIV/AIDS so they will be a drain on Canadians' health care dollars, money that rightfully should be used for Canadians.

Or are you one of those leftists / activists who are trying to remove barriers to anyone who wants to come to Canada to batten on those who worked, particularly on the already over-burdened health care system.

I have heard that the number of Canadians who do not have a personal physician approaches a million. Whether correct figures or not, all of us know that we are lacking medical personnel for those who have already contributed tax dollars. Are you willing to forego treatment for yourself or a family member so an AIDS patient may be treated with those dollars? Those who are not willing to do that have a right to express that opinion.

I am saying birth and/or Canadian citizenship should still mean something. I do not think we should beggar our own house--Canada--for some leftist idea of global citizenship coming out of the UN and other groups like No One Is Illegal. (Check Sept. 4, 06 for more on that.) Then Canada could be a destination for anyone who is able to hop a plane or a ship, simply to garner the health care treatment dollars that rightly belong to Canadian citizens. At that, I balk, as do others.

Perhaps you should read what I and others have written on AIDS, how it is contracted, how to prevent any new cases, that it results from behaviour choices (except for infants born with it, those who have contracted it through blood transfusions, and those who were raped), and why throwing money at people who continue foolhardy behaviours which may lead to HIV/AIDS, is a waste of money. Those dollars could be better spent on treating diseases which affect many and are not the result of careless behaviours. Think of malaria -- provided you can get the treatment to those needing it, that they take it, and that your own family has been taken care of, the first duty of a parent ... or a government.

As for the rape victims, are you suggesting we should bring them here for treatment? What is the cut-off point? Perhaps you could do something yourself about the cause in South Africa, for example. You might like to donate to that charitable endeavour yourself, while other Canadians make their own choices about which charities they wish to fund at a personal level. Is up to governments elsewhere to inform their citizens concerning the real cause of HIV/AIDS, instead of taking charitable donations from the world and continuing to spout ignorance about diseases.

This article might interest anyone as concerned about his/her fellow man and disease as you appear to be.

Canadian aid sold on Nigerian black market -- Vitamins for children: President says stolen pills are an 'embarrassment', by Tom Blackwell, National Post, September 05, 2006 [see below]
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=331b50af-acaa-4880-84b9-dd52d1e541a0

Obviously, you feel very strongly about the AIDS refugees, so do consider contributing to any charity of your choice which will get the money to the countries you believe are most in need of it. Or sign up to work educating those who need it, in Africa, for instance ... using your own money to get there, of course. Not mine. Incidentally, I do contribute to charity ... here ... so I know whether my contributions go where I wish and don't add to some dictator's or thug's bank account or to the black market. Every dollar counts, even to them.

Update: As luck would have it, I found some information which might be of interest to you.

Volunteer in Africa via Mauice Strong's One World Net -- There are "exciting opportunities for Volunteers in OneWorld Africa Education Support Network"
africa.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/151/509

You might want to learn something about "traditional healing" for HIV/AIDS before you go (see screen capture). Also, note that there appears to be an East African Submarine Cable System planned or under construction (Check Global Crossing which might be involved for more information.); at least there was a "stakeholder meeting" in Lusaka, Zambia Aug. 17, 06 (see screen capture) so you will be able to access Mr. Strong's network and the "experts" and "scientists" who will work with his network.





Canadian aid sold on Nigerian black market -- Vitamins for children: President says stolen pills are an 'embarrassment' , Tom Blackwell, National Post, September 05, 2006

[....] An international-relations expert says the theft should come as no surprise, given Nigeria's mammoth corruption problem, and questions why Canada is providing aid to the country.

The free distribution of the high-dose capsules to children and nursing mothers is aimed at combatting vitamin-A deficiency, a condition that can lead to blindness and undermine the immune system with deadly consequences. The World Health Organization estimates that four million children worldwide have a severe deficiency.

Through UNICEF, the Canadian agency annually provides Nigeria with 100 million pills, worth $25-million, according to Nigerian officials. They are passed out by local clinics on what are called national immunization days.

Nigeria's National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), which is investigating the theft, suspects the pilfering was done by local officials after the vitamins had been distributed to the various states, Mr. Jimoh said. [....]

Search: CIDA , Nigeria, which, by developing-world standards at least, are relatively wealthy, as well as being corrupt.

Have I mentioned that aid given to intermediaries can be found on black markets all over the world? Not just in Nigeria. Have you ever bought goods in a market ... you know, the necessities of travel life like a bottle of your favourite liquor--for medicinal purposes--and wondered why you could buy it on the street at a stall but not where you would normally be expected to get it? Black market.




The missing link, indeed , Alastair Gordon, president, Canadian Coalition for Democracies, Wednesday, September 6, 2006, Page A16

Toronto -- Sheema Khan argues that Islamic terror is driven by foreign policy (The Missing Link Between Foreign Policy And Resentment -- Sept. 5), claiming that Londoners and Spaniards were killed because of their countries' involvement in Iraq; that thousands perished on 9/11 because of America's support for Israel and its presence in the Middle East; and that Canada has it coming because of our role in liberating Afghanistan from Islamist tyranny and our belief that Israel has a right to defend its citizens against terror.

Liberal senators in no rush to pass ethics package, Joan Bryden, Sept. 5, 06
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada
/2006/06/27/1656609-cp.html

[....] The act changes dozens of statutes and tightens restrictions on lobbyists and political donations; creates an independent public prosecutor to investigate bureaucrats and politicians who breach federal law; protects civil servants who blow the whistle on wrongdoing; and beefs up the powers of the auditor general and ethics commissioner.

"When you get a bill that's this long you have to expect there will be some delay in getting it through," said Day.

Senator Donald Oliver, the Conservative chairman of the committee, said he'll be "disappointed" if Liberals drag out the hearings beyond the agreed upon deadline of Sept. 26.

"Surely, after all that's happened with Gomery, I am sure the Liberals will want to keep the timeline they promised," Oliver said, referring to the Gomery inquiry into the sponsorship mess.

"After all, we are all honourable members." [....]

When I read that last sentence, I'm afraid I snorted.

Note: "a term limit of eight years on senators"



Death toll in Afghanistan , NatPost, Sept. 5, 06

Thirty-two Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have been killed since the Canadian military deployed to Afghanistan in early 2002.

The names of those who have died since April 17, 2002 and a brief description of where and how they died are in this article.



How Xstrata won Falconbridge -- Some of the world's most powerful miners took part in the prolonged battle for Canada's metals giant , Drew Hasselback and Carrie Tait, Financial Post, September 05, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.ht
ml?id=2c7b0cfe-14be-40dc-8d92-8a74685e9782&k=1880

Lengthy and detailed

Sept. 6, 2006: #2

The link is for the first item only.

The global governance gang: "hostile to U.S. sovereignty", "demanding that American taxpayers turn over $140 billion per year to his global welfare bureaucracy", and funded in the shadows by George Soros. -- Who said something along the line of "Money talks and what it usually says is 'Bend over' " ... It seems appropos here.

UN -- KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BOLTON VOTE
atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2006/09/keep_your_eye_o.html

[....]THE BOLTON VOTE IS COMING

Chances are that you're going to be hearing from a group called Citizens for Global Solutions in opposing John Bolton's confirmation as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. A vote has been scheduled in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on September 7. What you will probably not be told is that Citizens for Global Solutions is the new name of the old World Federalist Association, a group favoring world government. [...]

Speaking of baggage, Citizens for Global Solutions has so much of it that the group changed its name, so that the public could be deceived about its real agenda. Doesn't a "global solution" sound more appealing than world government? While Bolton may be somewhat hostile to the U.N., Citizens for Global Solutions is absolutely hostile to U.S. sovereignty.

Related -- a must read: from the above article: Soros Stealing America -- This is how money aligned with UN operatives works with many more links on this site.

www.typepad.com/t/trackback/5828117

atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2006/08/soros_stealing__1.html

[....] Soros has bought the Democratic Party lock, stock, and barrel thanks to John McCain's-McCain/Feingold Finance Reform.

Soros pays off the media as journalists have been exposed on the U.N. Payroll churning out UN propaganda. Soros and Ted Turner have gone sofar as to pay for journalism prizes.

Soros is all over the UN. Mark Malloch Brown, the Deputy Secretary General, lives in a house Soros rents to him at below-market rates. In violation UN staff regulations.

[....] George Soros is working through the UN to negotiate a treaty that will ban private ownership of firearms on a worldwide basis.

Soros Shadow party means to take America. This is a wildly alarming piece. [frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24073]

[....] A long-time Soros operative named Jeffrey Sachs has been placed in charge of the United Nations Millennium Project – a global war on poverty designed to transfer wealth from rich countries to poor ones. Sachs is currently demanding that American taxpayers turn over $140 billion per year to his global welfare bureaucracy.

On the political front, Soros has poured massive funding into such groups as the ACLU, which uses lawsuits to hamstring the War on Terror. Soros also funds Amnesty International, whose US executive director has called for the arrest of President Bush as a war criminal. Another Soros-funded group, The Center for Constitutional Rights, has drawn up detailed articles of impeachment against the President. [....]

Is it time to buy a gun?

Did those in Canada who would use our tolerance and democratic system against us to further their own agendas take lessons from Soros? (Hint: think of those most likely to cry "victimization", "racism", and that security efforts are "anti-Moslem" when evidence leads to the rounding up and charging of Muslim individuals, especially, when security certificates are used after evidence has been collected.) Do you think the proliferation of "activists" is accidental? Who funds them? Do you note any ties to the UN? To international activist groups that must be funded by those with deep pockets? Is there any evidence of a coalescing of leftist groups in Canada. Did ex-SCOC member and justice appointed to the world court in the Hague, Louise Arbour, not suggest that Israel might be committing war crimes in defending herself? She was appointed to the UN "World Court" which failed to convict Mislosovic before he died. That trial was only the beginning of what is planned, I surmise.



UN steps up: Declaration by the Director-General of UNESCO -- "It goes without saying that UNESCO will participate fully in the reconstruction operations that will be carried out by the United Nations System once this becomes possible.” "
portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=
34220&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


And then, there is the UN reality.

Sample UN concern: "For the children", as long as they're not Israeli children.

UNESCO to assist Lebanese early recovery in culture and education, 31 08 2006
portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=
31850&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

UNESCO will assist the Lebanese government by providing support for vocational education, children and youth traumatized by recent events, and helping to preserve the country’s rich cultural heritage. These areas of immediate assistance, which will be part of the government’s early recovery efforts, were identified during a UNESCO mission to Lebanon last week led by the Director of the Organization’s Beirut Office, Abdel Moneim Osman.

Kofi's bias has been showing, as well (scroll down for photos revealing UN impartiality ).
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/09/
sept-3-2006-1-terror-un-human-rights.html

Do you notice any countries being marginalized by the UN and its various tentacles? Israel? Israeli children? Taiwan? The ramping up of anti-US rhetoric? The CBC propaganda organ is doing its part for the left, as well?




Scum abound, it seems

Firebombing of Jewish school a 'hate crime': CJC, Updated Tue. Sep. 5 2006 11:37 PM ET, CTV.ca News Staff
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews
/20060904/firebombing_montreal_060905/20060905/

[....] Police are still seeking a masked man captured on a surveillance tape as he lobbed a Molotov cocktail at the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish Boys school in Montreal's Outremont borough on Saturday morning. [....]

"As you can see, we do have a video and there are ways of enhancing that video, and therefore we hope that we will be able to catch the perpetrator." [....]

Photo: "shows the alleged perpetrator taking off a mask covering his face following the incident" -- ctv.ca link.

Montreal does seem to be increasingly a home for activists and hate. Why?



Sept. 4, 2006: #2 Initiative de resistance internationaliste ... Car bomb in Montreal ... -- "Oil industry spokesman's car blown up -- Montreal blast: Little-known group claims it planted explosives in vehicle" , Graeme Hamilton, National Post, September 02, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=a5289db0-5d33-4d92-ad0a-dba90a21d688


Carleton student says she funnelled cash to terror cell
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGA
M.20060905.wxkhawaja05/BNStory/National/home



UN/UNESCO concerns

UNESCO: Culturally appropriate and gender-sensitive reporting on HIV and AIDS in the Caucasus Region
portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=
31846&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Tbilisi, Georgia 18 09 2006 - 22 09 2006 This sub-regional training-of-trainers workshop will highlight socio-cultural issues such as traditions, beliefs, gender norms, practices and religions related to HIV and AIDS in order to improve skills in reporting on the pandemic within the region.

Note: "in reporting on the pandemic" -- It's a pandemic and they're worried about how to report it? Not how to stop it, not how to cure HIV/AIDS, but how to report it?



Language is a pressing problem for the UN/UNESCO, in getting aboriginal and francophone groups onside, an initiative pushed by France and the language industry in Canada, principally in Quebec. Language and leftism combined, perhaps in oil-rich areas ... Mis-titled as "Nurturing the democratic debate" when it is designed to placate some members who are concerned with language -- "UNESCO and Indigenous Peoples: Partnership to Promote Cultural Diversity" pdf
unesdoc.unesco.org/images/
0013/001356/135656M.pdf



Just do what Moslems like Sheema Khan want ... so we won't be bombed?

Sheema Khan: The missing link between foreign policy and resentment, Globe and Mail, September 05, 2006

Don't get involved in stamping out Al Qaeda nor helping to bring democracy to Muslim lands; let the imams and the madness continue. Let the men treat their women like chattel ... as lesser beings ... Let the men who rape be allowed to live while the female victim is stoned to death ... "She probably enticed the rapist anyway" ... Treat women's word as so worthless that it takes four men to corroborate her tale of rape ... Live subject to shariah and a Mohammed-era body of beliefs, unchangeable, unable to be updated, no matter how unsuited to the twenty-first century. Have it interpreted by self-selected imams, even self-appointed leaders whose education may have consisted of a narrow focus on reciting the Koran. Sounds like a perfect way to maintain failed states. Think of the Middle East's failed states known more for bombing and killing than for economic, technological or scientific progress. I'm still waiting for the most productive ... anything ... to be reported in the world's press. No largest pumpkin in the Middle East as yet ... though they might win for largest number of adherents taught to love death, to become jihadi killers in their pursuit of those ephemeral virgins in the afterlife. What a belief system ... or perversion of such! Obviously, questioning and intellectual activity are not encouraged ... which may account for the numbers involved in computer science and math-related studies dealing with numbers (an oversimplification, I realize), as opposed to the humanities. Is it also schooling for sabotage somewhere, maybe, in that jihadi quest?

Where do drugs fit into the rising instability in the West? Who would benefit, aside from the usual criminal gangs?


Today Liberal Defence Critic Ujjal Dosanjh joined with his former friends in the NDP and called for an opening of negotiations with the Taliban. First the Liberals wanted to open a dialogue with Hezbollah, now they want to open negotiations with the Taliban. Who's next?: , September 1, 2006
canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/18719.shtml

[....]* Is Dosanjh interested in hearing the Taliban's views on women's rights? Does he want to discuss their relationship with Al Qaida or their record of human rights abuses while in control of Afghanistan? Does he want to negotiate over the burning down of schools and the killing of teachers? Does Dosanjh want to hear about the Tabliban's promise to kill Canadian soldiers? Does he want to discuss their views of those who don't conform to their beliefs?

* Exactly what does Dosanjh think that he can negotiate with the Taliban over?

U.K. Police Trained at Islamic School at Center of Terror Probe -- U.K. police officers were given ``diversity training'' at an Islamic school southeast of London that's now at the center of a terrorism investigation. , By Nick Allen, Sept. 4, 06, Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=
20601102&sid=azHPHez0q.CI&refer=uk

[....] The campus was brought to the attention of U.K. authorities in 1999, when Yemen's ambassador to the U.K. alleged it was used to train young Islamic extremists, the Daily Telegraph reported. Police concluded at the time that the allegation was ``totally unsubstantiated,'' and then-Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said there had been no breach of British law, the newspaper reported.

[....] Jameah Islameah, a school for Muslim boys age 11-16, charges 900 pounds a year ($1,714) including room and board and is set in 54 acres of countryside, according to its Web site. It offers courses including memorizing and reciting the Koran and aims to produce ``pious scholars.'' It also offers accommodation for single people seeking a ``strict Islamic environment.'' [....]