Oct. 6, 2006: Bud Talkinghorn

When are we going to stop arming our enemies?

Unless we wean ourselves from our gas dependency, the West is doomed to feeding the countries that despise us and want to see democracy's champion, America, destroyed. At present, the West has to pretend that the Saudis are not using our billions to finance crazy Wahhabi schools all over the world. It is these schools that preach the Islamofascism that fuels the terrorist attacks. Saudi Arabia only came on board the anti-jihad train when they were attacked internally. Before that, the Saudis wouldn't even allow the FBI to investigate the Khobar Towers massacre of U.S. Marines. The same goes for the Gulf States--where a strong minority of the Kuwaitis hate America. They have scary short-term memories obviously for who saved them from Saddam. As for the Euro-socialists, do they really believe that democracy can survive with a prostate America?

Having to depend on these ideological enemies in the Middle East is one thing; but now we have to put up with Hugo Chavez and his demogogic buddies in South America too. Watching Chavez foaming at the mouth in his U.N. anti-America/Great Britain speech was instructive. Morales of Bolivia--that leader with six years of formal schooling--is going to nationalize his natural gas fields, as well as legalize coca production. The latter only for home consumption he promises. There has been a steady drift from democratic governments to totalitarianism. The old military dictators have given way to some far more frightening, the peasant populist hordes. As they drive their countries into penury, they will become more desperate. The wealth-producing people will leave--with their loot--and the despots' anti-West rhetoric will reach hysterical levels.

Compounding our problems is the thirst for oil that the Communist Chinese have to keep their economy afloat. For them, besides the oil pool Venezuela represents, Chavez has the right ideological bent. Russia is another, who supports the "visionary" leader of Iran, purely for the oil, of course. This support of the Iranian Muslim fanaticism does not extend to their Islamic Chechen brothers. Grozny cum-Dresden has become the symbol of that divide.

So long as I wouldn't have to traverse the highways in my smart car shadowed by behemoth pick-ups and SUVs, I would support minimalizing our vehicles. The Americans can abandon their trillion dollar lost war in Iraq and pump it into their Gulf of Mexico finds and the Alberta tar sands. Along with this, the West can tax the gas dragons off the road. The majority of these never get closer to the wild then the local mall parking lot anyway. Only then may we say "adieu" to our treacherous allies.

© Bud Talkinghorn




Freedom of speech is coming back in vogue

Thanks to the Conservatives we may actually see a bill to protect freedom of speech. It is needed to protect people who either do not want to deal with gays or who criticize their lifestyles. The Liberals and NDP have set up a cultural petting zoo, where gays, Muslims, and aboriginals are exempted from any statement that might hurt their delicate feelings. Naturally, even to suggest that these groups have an agenda is anathema to the human rights clique. This proposed legislation would be aimed specificallly at the religious prohibitions against homosexuality that most faiths hold. Islam favours direct action against gays, namely killing or imprisoning them. Most Christian faiths content themselves with the belief these people will answer to God.

Just how selective the human rights crowd can be was seen in London a few years ago. Police stood guard outside a soccer stadium, while inside an imam was exhorting 6,000 Muslims to murder homosexuals. The only person arrested was a white Englishman, who was picketting with an anti-Muslim placard. So much for Britain's vaunted "hate speech " laws. The only thing missing from our current social engineering edicts is a Royal Commission on how many socialists can dance on the head of a pin.

Already, our freedom of speech is being threatened by Muslim fundamentalists. Plays are cancelled in Holland, operas in Germany, cartoons deleted from newspapers in Canada, because the Islamic populous might be offended. A few death threats against the producers helped convince them. Of course, back in their home countries there is no freedom of speech. To speak out against a government-approved play could lead to their deaths. Even the Pope has made what was taken as an apology for quoting a 14th century bishop about the barbarous massacre that befell Constantinople when the Muslim invaders conguered it. Now, historical fact is verboten if it offends ... Muslims.

We cannot afford to lose our precious right to speak our truths. That is happening more and more in our politically correct-speak universities. Either hew to the leftist prof's nostrums, or watch your grades slip. The left has taken to classifying any social statement they consider inflammatory as "bozo eruptions". That effectively, (although it shouldn't) silences most public figures. Every Conservative politician knows better than to proclaim his Christian convictions. Yet, the NDP can state the most appalling nonsense about rampant homophobia and "institutionized racism" without a blip of criticism. [It might be apropos here to mention Ann Coulter's book on liberalism as a religion. Check further on NewsMax. FHTR]

While it is a given that this freedom of speech legislation will meet ferocious opposition from the left of the political spectrum, it is worth proposing. Let Trudeau's Charter of Rights gang try to defend why this legislation should be judged illegal. As for the Liberals' core belief that The Charter cannot be changed, perhaps they can be reminded of Paul Martin's publicly stating that he would rip the notwithstanding clause out of the The Charter, so no one could invoke it. I am looking forward to the upcoming debate. It will be a battle that might enlighten Canadians as to the plight of free speech in this country.

© Bud Talkinghorn



"Lost in the Struggle"--A critique of the CBC program

Immediately, I was infuriated by these portrayals of three young thugs from the Jane-Finch projects in Toronto. It opened with a 20 year old Vietnamese-Canadian, who bragged about his long juvenile criminal record, topped up by one as an adult offender. Assault with a weapon figured prominently. Why, I asked myself is this thug out on the street? That pistol he keeps waving, is that registered? Has the Toronto justice system collapsed completely? Another, a teenager of Bangladeshi background, is actively involved with passing counterfeit money. Dealing drugs and/or robbing drug dealers appeared to be the job of choice for two of them. Yet another kid, this one black, is on probation; yet, in the documentary is shown smoking dope and musing about how he might have to do something legitimate. This one is on strict home arrest while on probation. However, everytime the parole office shows up at his home, he is gone. He and his single mom grouse about how the cops are hassling him. When he finally turns himself in, he is released to his supposedly responsible mother. [I must say, Bud, this infuriated me too. The documentary filmmakers are filming this; I would be turning these young criminals in and testifying against them. FHTR]

What comes across forcefully is how incredibly brazen these gangsters are about their crimes. They don't seem to mind being recorded doing their various nafarious deeds. Obviously, they have no fear of judicial punishment. As far as their bogus claims to want to go straight, one is later seen involved in dealing marijuana, the Bangla-Canadian kid is still passing off fake money and admitting that the next step up is credit card fraud. The black boy is enraged because he can't get a job with his record and lack of education. Maybe the fact that he can't conclude a sentence without the F-world in it might be a drawback ... or, when unduly agitated, stringing F nouns, creatively backed up with F adjectives to a resounding F-strenthening adverb to his concluding F verb. Yet, when one employer takes a chance on him, he quits within two weeks. However, he has an expectant "baby momma" to support. One doesn't have to guess what his next job will be, or where, even with our shamefully lax court system, he will eventually end up. Personally, I'm putting my money on jail or six feet under.

© Bud Talkinghorn



The never-ending CBC hatchet job & Rabinovitch's missing report

Despite their dismal audience numbers, the CBC continues to let itself become an anti-Conservative vehicle. Recently it was revealed in The Globe and Mail that Mr. Rabinovitch, the CBC president, has not released a special report on whether CBC is biased in their coverage. The Heritage Ministry claims that he never sent it to them. Rabinovitch maintains he did. The case of the missing report is informative. The president is fully aware of how left-wing the corporation has become. If anything, the CBC has become naked in its attacks on all things conservative. Tonight's Thursday National news was a classic example. The first three top news items were sliced and diced to show the opposition to the the government budget cuts. Boo hoo, the Status of Women is unhappy about the cuts to their activist agendas. How can you bash the patriarchy if government--that is, taxpayers--won't pay for it? Kyoto, its the gold standard for the Opposition, but they couldn't stop the Liberals from allowing Canada to exceed its pollution promise by 34%. Those who live in toxic houses shouldn't throw carbon dioxide. However, that doesn't stop them from trying to pin Rona Ambrose as the architect of climate destruction. This is the type of bias that will alienate the general public. If the Friends of the CBC want this tripe let them pay for it. I check it out sporadically to see what the enemy is saying. But as one media commentaor said. "What, CBC was on strike? I'm so sorry I didn't notice. The endless re-runs of old stuff seemed par for the course."

Rabinovitch must have a second copy of the bias report, so why is he not providing it to the Minister Bev Oda and the Heritage Ministry, hence to us? After all, we do pay for this socialist dreck.

While the CBC doesn't admit its personal prejucices, it has come to this critical website numerous times. I hope they come to read this post.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Bud, Mr. Rabinovitch must be ... what's that Parliamentary word for it? ... dissembling? ... misspeaking oneself? ... If the word dissembling is good enough for the extremists claiming to follow Mohammed, it's good enough for the head of the D***** CBC.......That's Dismal CBC for those of you whose minds descended to the gutter ... or thought mine had. FHTR

Oct. 6, 2006: What is behind this concern?

Bumped up.

Update added Oct. 10, 06:

Related post: Oct. 4, 2006: The Senate -- Is the home of the recipients of Liberal sinecures in danger? [The Senate has mainly Liberal senators since appointing has been mainly the purview of Liberal Prime Ministers for many many years.]

A correspondent mentioned not finding the section to which I referred on the Captain's Quarters website:

See Comments , Captain's Quarters, April 10, 2005

www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004220.php

1. To find the reference to what Serge Joyal is reported to have said, search in the comments for: "The following is an extract from pp. 2-3" or see the relevant section below.

2. Note also:

The Family Compact.
Paul Desmarais' Web of Influence Over Canada -- Desmarais reputed to have huge influence on current and past Prime Ministers"

3. That article has these references at the bottom:

See Power Corporation's website
www.powercorporation.com/index.php?lang=eng

See also
Saturday Night magazine, February 1996
The Globe and Mail August 5, 1994
The Toronto Star May 11, 1996
Diane Francis in The Financial Post April 1 and April 17, 2003

The relevant section is reproduced here to save readers time:

The following is an extract from pp. 2-3 of J. V. Andrew's book, "Enough!" one of the underground books in the collection mentioned in a previous post. (I'll take the word of these writers over the bumph of governmnent mouthpieces any day, expecially given the consistency from one writer to another.) Now this blog program does not have provision for boldface or italic type. Accordingly, I wil use codes that appear on a WordPerfect 5.1 or 5.2 Reveal Codes screeen; viz., {Bold] = Begin boldface; [bold] end boldface. I wil use the same format for anything italicized.

Take a look at thes excerpts from a speech made by Trudeau's last Secretary of State. The speech was made in French to The Acadian Association of Nova Scotia on November 13, 1982. (This Association is funded to the amount of half-a-million dollars per year by you the Canadian taxpayer.) A copy of the speech which, was not printed in any English newspaper, was sent to me by one of the few members of Canada's Parliament who had any inkling of what was happening in Canada, or cared.

The relevant excerpt fom Mr. Joyal's speech are as follows:

"My role as Secretary of State of Canada is first and foremost to ensure that my French compatriots feel with deep conviction, as I do that [Bold] this is their country and that it reflects their image." [bold]

"I too had some difficult years as a politician; I'm still having them, in fact, [Bold] because everything we undertake and everything we are doing to make Canada a French state is a part of a venture I have shared for many years with a number of people I would like to mention...."

"You know, the idea, the challenge, the ambition of making Canada a French country both inside and outside Quebec -- an idea some people consider a bit crazy -- is something a little beyond the ordinary imagination." [bold]

"The Canada of minorities is the Canada of tomorrow."

"As hard as it was in the seventies for some of our fellow Canadians who speak the other language to accept the fact that Canada is a French state..."

"We must avoid all politicizing the issue...The greatest risk that Francophone associations take and will take for French status in Canada is politicizing the debate in a partisan manner. We have to find ways to shelter ourselves from changes in government."

End extract.

This [Italics] de facto [italics] traitor/war criminal currently sits in Canada's Senate.

End of update added Oct. 10, 06



Court Challenges Program:

Serge Joyal, appointed Senator and Francophone rights activist, and his proposal

The Senate: Motion to Urge Government to Reconsider Decision to Discontinue the Court Challenges Program -- Hon. Serge Joyal: "Between 1982-92, 77 cases have been supported through the Court Challenges Programs, 39 of which dealt with official minority language issues."

Hon. Serge Joyal, pursuant to notice of September 28, 2006, moved:

That the Senate urge the Government of Canada to reconsider its decision to discontinue the Court Challenges Program which has enabled citizens to seek redress and assert their rights guaranteed under the Constitution and particularly the Charter of Rights and Freedoms;

That the Standing Senate Committee on Official Languages be authorized to study and report on the benefits and results that have been achieved through the Court Challenges Program; [a job for the languages tzar and her bureaucracy, Dyane Adam ........ ]

[....]

To allow honourable senators to reflect on that program, I feel there is nothing more eloquent than to quote from a book published in 2005, with the help of some senators in this chamber, entitled Canada's Francophone Minority Communities, published by Professor Michael Behiels.

I had the privilege of writing the foreword of that book, the first two paragraphs of which read as follows:

The recognition of minority rights has been at the core of our identity as a nation.

No, Senator Joyal, francophone rights have been at the core of your and francophone identity and politics since you worked with Pierre Trudeau, maybe much before that, IMHO. See Captain's Quarters.

It is what makes Canada unique.

No, what has made Canada unique is that great English common law tradition with its concept of fairness that gave you and your linguistic group the increasing power to push upon the rest of us your wishes for language for the rest of us.

The representatives of the four colonies from which the Canada of today emerged recognized the need to guarantee the rights of the French-and English-speaking minorities. A vision of minority rights inspired our federal structure of government.

Senator Serge Joyal's concern has been with French speaking minorities so I struck a line through English speaking. Outside Quebec, it is becoming even more difficult, if not impossible, for English speakers who comprise approximately 70% of Canadians to work for their own government in anything but a low-paid capacity. See below for more on this.

(1550)
[....]

Senator Joyal: I thank honourable senators.

[.... Cue the violins for the call to aid in women's rights, visible minorities, etc. until he gets to the meat, language. IMHO ....]

The first case deals with systemic racism in employment practice, [.... Give your proof for this. After all the years of Liberal preferential hiring, there is still a problem with racism? Why? ....]

As well, honourable senators, there are issues dealing with Indians and, in particular, Metis. One case dealing with Metis concerned the exclusion of the Metis from the operation of the specific claims policy. There is a system to deal with claims policies for Indians but it excluded the Metis. As honourable senators are aware, the Metis have territorial rights established by recent decisions in law. Another case concerned the recognition of equality rights for Aboriginal women and another, equality rights of Aboriginal members living off-reserve.

[....] There are numerous cases on minority language rights. If I may, I will read 10 of them so that honourable senators will have a better sense of the importance of this motion. The first is the right to an education of equal quality, a case in Newfoundland and Labrador; second, the right to homogenous school programs, a case in Nova Scotia; third, the continuity of language instruction, a case in Quebec; fourth, the language of work communication and service delivery, a case in New Brunswick; fifth, the delegation of federal government powers and language rights, a case in Ontario; sixth, the territorial government linguistic obligation, a case in the Northwest Territories and Yukon; seventh, judicial rights, a case in Manitoba; eighth, the language of municipal bylaws, a case in New Brunswick; ninth, the underlying constitutional principle of protection for minorities [usually code for linguistic rights for francophones, redress, complaints, expansion of enforced French language use, and the like], a case in Ontario; and tenth, the importance of language and culture in the context of instructions.

[....] Honourable senators, this issue calls upon the very nature of our country, a place where the status of one minority reflects on the status of other minorities; where the commitment to support visible minority rights and remedial initiatives to establish them in their home country with the pride of being in Canada exists as much for Metis, for Indians, for the handicapped, for women, for francophones and for anglophones. Honourable senators, this is an extremely important issue.

I beg to differ with you, appointed Senator Serge Joyal; you have worked behind the scenes for years to push your particular linguistic minority group; what you said above now has a line through it because I don't believe you. You have latched onto using other minority groups so as to split Canada into factions simply to get your way with your own language group (IMHO). Your words just don't cut it with this member of the group you could NOT care less about, the English-speaking majority.

I do not want to impugn motive for the reason for that decision to discontinue the CCP. However, I will ask honourable senators for the opportunity to review and reconsider the impact of the program openly and in an objective context by referring the matter to committee or committees of the Senate. That is the best approach. [....]

Mr. Joyal, you are a Liberal partisan and particularly one for francophones and you know it. Stop trying to pull the wool over our eyes.



Who is Serge Joyal? What does he really want? For whom has he worked for years?

Memory Lane with help from Captain's Quarters

Frost Hits the Rhubarb December 19, 2005: Follow the Yellow--Red--Brick Road #6 -- Linguistic Development of a Heritage Language

This is worth reading from the perspective on how aboriginals and their linguistic rights fit in -- which leads to FHTR June 29, 05


If you read nothing else, read this one at Captain's Quarters to know Senator Serge Joyal's perspective and his overriding concern.

Captain's Quarters, April 10, 2005 -- a speech by Serge Joyal

Take a look at these excerpts from a speech made by Trudeau's last Secretary of State [Serge Joyal]. The speech was made in French to The Acadian Association of Nova Scotia on November 13, 1982. (This Association is funded to the amount of half-a-million dollars per year by you the Canadian taxpayer.) A copy of the speech which, was not printed in any English newspaper, was sent to me by one of the few members of Canada's Parliament who had any inkling of what was happening in Canada, or cared. The relevant excerpt fom Mr. Joyal's speech are as follows: [. . . . ]

"The Canada of minorities is the Canada of tomorrow." [. . . . ]

Do not miss reading the rest.

FHTR week of June 26, 2005

http://
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_06_26_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

The Canadian Geographic: Global Citizen edition, Nov./Dec. 2004
Education: Language of love

Why are there more students of Inuktitut in Paris than in Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver? Ask their teacher, a feisty Quebecer

by Michel Arseneault, 132

[Michele] Therrien learned Inuktitut in an odd way. When she first went to northern Quebec in 1969, Quebec's Ministry of Education was setting up schools to counter federal English-only institutions. The new provincial schools were eager to teach Inuit children in their own language, but there were no Inuktitut-speaking teachers around. So the Ministry recruited francophones, including the young Therrien, who ended up in the little town of Salluit on the northern Ungava coast. She taught all her lessons in French, and an interpreter translated every word. "I'm not sure that my pupils learned very much," she confesses. "But by hearing my own words repeated over and over again, I ended up learning Inuktitut." [. . . . ]

French President Jacques Chirac was the first head of state to visit Nunavut, barely five months after it was created in April 1999. [. . . . ]

Search: Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales



I await "Canada's African aid: PM [Paul Martin] & Team's humanitarian series" to get into full swing. . . . Perhaps it has already . . . Search: Africa Workshop [below]

Scroll to one of the examples of humanitarian initiatives and who benefit: Compare: "Pulp MIll Workers Urged to Build Arts Industry" & UNB: World Bank, Industry, Educ. Ambassadorial Reps "Working with Africa Workshop" [ACOA] , FHTR Mar 12, 2005 (FHTR Mar3-05 to Mar12-05)

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2005_03_06_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

FHTR July 17, 2005

Committee sends child porn bill to Senate with 'observations' -- "concern the bill tramples artistic freedom and constitutional rights."

[. . . . ] Liberal Senator Serge Joyal. Mr. Joyal has repeatedly expressed strong reservations about the bill's expanded definition of child pornography and its narrowing of the existing "artistic merit" defence to also require an artist to prove that he or she had a "legitimate purpose" in creating the artistic work. [. . . . ]

These are related in that they concern law, the courts, and the group who have run things for years, and their continuing efforts to mould Canada in their image, with help from their networks both within and without Canada.

Oct. 3, 2006: Bud Talkinghorn: What is ... The Law Commission of Canada, anyway?

Oct. 3, 2006: Let's look at the Law Commission's Experts

Oct. 4, 2006: The Senate

Is the home of the recipients of Liberal sinecures in danger?

CTV News has learned that Senator Raymond Lavigne, who was sued for using staff to cut down trees near his cottage, wants taypayers to pay for his legal bills. -- "estimated at almost $90,000", CTV.ca, Oct. 5, 06. With a report by CTV's Graham Richardson in Ottawa

news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/
ContentPosting.aspx?newsitemid=
CTVNews%2f20061004%2ftaxpayers_senators_061004&
feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True

[....] Critics of the Senate already question whether being a senator is actually a full-time job, requiring such high budgets.

Liberal Senator Marie-P. Poulin has almost managed to complete her full-time law degree while still sitting in the Senate. [....]

There is more fun weekend reading so read it all.

I personally know of a man who worked full time in Quebec who would leave, ostensibly to visit another branch of ... but he would attend university in Montreal during his workday. His secretary fielded enquiries. He subsequently received the degree he wished and was hired by CIDA at a considerable increase in salary. Strange how the unethical thrive, isn't it? Of course, the good senator may be attending classes at night and working on the weekend for the good of Canadian citizenry, in that she will become more valuable.



"The Government is not looking for a report. We are seeking action. Honourable Senators, years of delay on Senate reform must come to an end. And it will. For the Senate must change."

- Prime Minister Stephen Harper, September 7th, 2006

The introduction of Bill S-4, An Act to Amend the Constitution Act, 1867, an Act that proposes to limit Senate terms to eight years for new Senators, is the first practical and achievable step toward that reform.

Prime Minister Harper also pledged before the Senate Committee to introduce, in the future, a bill in the House of Commons that would seek to create a process to choose elected Senators.

Ordinary taxpayers and families applauded the Prime Minister's efforts to bring about reform to an institution badly in need of it. Liberal elites, however, scoffed. They like the Senate the way it is: unelected, unaccountable, and increasingly obstructionist.

As we have seen this summer and fall, the Liberal-dominated Senate is holding up the passing of the Federal Accountability Act. Having lost an election on the issue of accountability, the Liberals refuse to acknowledge the fact that Canadians want clean and transparent government. Who knows how many other Commons-approved Bills will meet the same fate in a Liberal-dominated Senate?

Liberal Senators and MPs need to understand that the people of Canada will not take no for an answer on Senate reform. Add your voice and help us change Ottawa. [....]

It is time to call or write to your Senator that you would like them to help clean up the corruption revealed and that which may be found yet.

Oct. 6, 2006: Bits & Pieces #2

Tories plan to protect same-sex opponents -- If government loses bid to reopen debate, Defence of Religions Act is next option , By John Ibbitson, Bill Curry, Brian Laghi, Globe and Mail, Oct. 4, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RT
GAM.20061004.wsamesex03/BNStory/Front

["Introducing a Defence of Religions Act"....] While refusing to discuss specifics, Justice Minister Vic Toews confirmed the government's intentions yesterday in an interview.

“The nature of the concerns that are being raised with me are relating to freedom of religion and freedom to practice religion [and] freedom of expression,” he said.

[....] Sources say the government is considering measures to protect individuals who oppose homosexual marriages or even relationships from human rights' complaints.

The measures would seek to ensure, for example, that churches cannot be forced to rent their halls for same-sex marriage receptions, or that a justice of the peace cannot be compelled to marry a same-sex couple in violation of his or her religious beliefs.

... the rights of individuals to criticize homosexual activity because it contravenes religious teachings, or to refuse to do business with organizations whose purposes he or she disagrees with, without being brought before a human-rights tribunal. [....]

.... Prime Minister Stephen Harper repeated his government's determination to protect the rights of gay and lesbian citizens.

“At the same time,” he added, “we also defend the right of people of religious faith to practise their religion and to express their religious views.” [....]

Some people still don't understand that people may live and let live but they will NOT be forced to celebrate certain lifestyles. It's a fact of life Jim and John, Ashley and Keesha, or whoever. We don't want to see your gay parade bare butts or whatever, any more than many of us would want you to see us in a heterosexual parade, blatantly displaying our ... whatevers. You might want to consider this a blessing. Accord us the same, and we'll have no problems.


Which brings us to this:

900 Protest in Vancouver Over Homosexual Activist Control of Gay Curriculum in Schools -- Parents may even lose right to withdraw children from gay indoctrination program , posted by gordholio, 9/30/2006 22:37:43 -- "Protest in Vancouver"

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/12723.html

www.lifesitenews.com

VANCOUVER, August 28, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Changes to the BC high school curriculum are under fire Saturday by parents who picketed the constituency office of Premier, Gordon Campbell. Over 900 protested the lack of public input in the proposed revision to the curriculum to include information on homosexuality.

After a long effort through the Human Rights Tribunals, two homosexual activists have succeeded in having the high school curriculum revised to include endorsement of homosexuality as a normal lifestyle. The CBC reports that classroom materials will also be used to assert that homosexuality is normal and acceptable.

Parents however, do not want their children indoctrinated in the sexual orthodoxies of the gay movement and have demanded input in the curriculum revision.

LifeSiteNews.com spoke with K. John Cheung, head of the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association (CASJAFVA), who said that the rally was to bring to public attention the fact that changes will be implemented by the end of September without significant public input. [....]

Update and related: News Junkie Canada August 17, 2003 under the heading, "Canada's First Muslim Terrorist" -- From a link which no longer works on that webpage, perhaps compliments of the Gremlins:

It was the Charter that brought you the right for crooks, murderers, and other illegal aliens to come into Canada and to fight with Canadian taxpayers’ money any attempt to kick them out, and [even then, IMHO, Jean Chretien] still [hoped it would] provide more Liberal voters in future in the gay married community. Just wait for the et ceteras it will bring us. [....]

Ministers have right to know who asks for info, committee hears, Vancouver Province

www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=
6f17680b-5759-4ece-91b1-1ca8795366d6&k=50230

Federal cabinet ministers have the right, if they so choose, to see the names of anyone who submits an access to information request to their departments, two senior Treasury Board officials revealed Wednesday. [....]

And citizens have a right to know exactly where the money goes. Which NGO's get how much money and how is it spent? The same for the Liberal set-up foundations, agencies and councils, etc. which became conduits for taxpayer dollars.



Fraser's Parliament audit proposal greeted with mixed reactions, CanWest, Oct. 5, 06

www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=
7a425c4b-37c7-4bc5-9947-e98c93a1a3c8&k=38692

Auditor General Sheila Fraser is proposing the first audit of Parliament in 15 years but resistance is already building among MPs over the access Fraser, who audits the entire government for Parliament, should have to their own spending details. [....]

American wins Nobel Prize for chemistry , Mattias Karen and Matt Moore, AP, Oct. 4, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2006
1004.wnobel1004/BNStory/International/home

Roger Kornberg's studies showed how cells take information from genes to produce proteins; his father won the Nobel for medicine in 1959

Mr. Kornberg was the first to create an actual picture of this process at the molecular level, in the important group of organisms called eukaryotes — which, as opposed to bacteria, have well-defined cell nuclei. Mammals, as well as ordinary yeast, belong to this group of organisms. [....]

This year's Nobel announcements began Monday, with the Nobel Prize in medicine going to Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello for discovering a powerful way to turn off the effect of specific genes, opening a potential new avenue for fighting diseases as diverse as cancer and AIDS.

On Tuesday, Americans John Mather and George Smoot won the physics prize for work that helped cement the big-bang theory of how the universe was created and deepen understanding of the origin of galaxies and stars. [....]

BBC's Jordon defects to Al Jazeera -- Another high-profile British journalist, Darren Jordon, has been poached by Al Jazeera International.

www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/051006
/bbc_jordan_defects_to_al_jazeera

CBC types need not worry about work; their political stance and the lure of filthy lucre will provide. Do look up Al Jazeera's telephone number.


A college professor with guts -- or here



Minister wants Muslims unveiled , Michael Holden in London, October 06, 2006
via: news.com.au

www.telgraph.co.uk/

A SENIOR British cabinet minister said today it would be better if Muslim women did not wear full veils, inflaming anger among the country's Islamic community and sparking heated debate on social integration.

Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw ... the wearing of veils made community relations "more difficult" as they acted as "a visible statement of separation and difference".

"I'm not talking about being prescriptive," .... "But with all the caveats, yes I would rather (women did not wear full veils)."

[....] Two weeks ago Home Secretary John Reid, a possible successor to Prime Minister Tony Blair who is to quit the job within a year, vowed to prevent Muslim extremists setting up "no-go" ghettos.

On Wednesday, Conservative opposition leader David Cameron said many communities were growing up living "parallel lives" and that only better contact would overcome differences.

Straw said: "Communities are bound together by informal chance relations between strangers. That is just made more difficult if people are wearing a veil."

Britain is home to about 1.8 million Muslims [....]

I suppose the outrage is in full spate ... I turned off CBC so I wouldn't have to listen to how they play this one up.


Straw extends attack on veils , (Filed: 06/10/2006)

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Jack Straw has extended his attack on the veils worn by some Muslim women after yesterday disclosing that he asked visitors in his Blackburn constituency to reveal their faces during meetings.

The Leader of the Commons said today that he thought the garment should be discarded altogether and highlighted the difference in opinions among Islamic scholars over the necessity of women concealing everything but their eyes when in public. [....]

Sheik Ibrahim Nogra, of the Muslim Council of Britain, hit out at that suggestion yesterday: "On the one hand he says this is a free country. On the other, he is denying that free choice to a woman who chooses to wear the veil. [Do they choose or is it imposed upon them, Sheik?]

"Does Mr Straw mean that people should give up certain cultural and religious customs and practices simply because a vast majority of the country do not share them? "That is calling for assimilation. That is saying that one culture or one way of life is superior to another."

In answer to that last paragraph, yes, Western culture and way of life are superior. That is why Muslims came in the beginning. You don't see a race to live in the Muslim world from anywhere in the West. It is time for us to take a stand. What goes on in France and Britain comes to Canada, eventually.


What the Koran says, (Filed: 06/10/2006)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=
/news/2006/10/06/nveils306.xml



Is it possible to have gone too far with multiculturalism?

Race riots in Windsor , By Jamie Pyatt, October 06, 2006

www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006460449,00.html

EXTRA police officers were drafted into the royal town of Windsor yesterday as residents braced themselves for a fourth night of race violence.

Gangs of Asian and white youths have clashed after a mum and daughter said they were attacked by 20 Asians armed with bats and a pitchfork.

A Muslim-run dairy, which may become a mosque, was firebombed. [....]

A key question for this week -- re: The land of Stalin standing up to Russia , Rosemarie59

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www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2381887,00.html

A key question for this week will be whether the G-7 leaders make clear that undermining neighboring democracies is not an acceptable policy. France and Germany will be reluctant to allow principle to interfere with commercial interests, which lie with Russia, not some tiny nation to the south. So it will be up to Bush.

Slippery slope

Muslim cop gets his own way , By Mike Sullivan, Crime Editor, October 05, 2006, posted by starboardside

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THE decision to excuse a Muslim cop from guarding the Israeli Embassy was last night branded “the beginning of the end for British policing”.

PC Alexander Omar Basha told chiefs he was unable to carry out duties at the London embassy — a top terror target — due to moral grounds after Israeli bombings in Lebanon.

Top brass granted his request last week, but ... ordered an immediate inquiry after our story broke. ....

Critics slammed the decision. Ex-Met Flying Squad commander John O’Connor said: “This is the beginning of the end for British policing.

“If they can allow this, surely they’ll have to accept a Jewish officer not wanting to work at an Islamic national embassy? Will Catholic cops be let off working at Protestant churches? Where will it end? [....]

PC Basha, attached to the Met’s Diplomatic Protection Group, asked for special dispensation not to work at the embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens, Central London. The officer, in his late 20s, has taken part in recent anti-war protests. [....]

Sliding down the slippery slope ...

Most Czechs afraid of Islam

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Prague, Oct 3 (CTK) - Some three-quarters of Czechs have a negative attitude to Islam, while 60 percent are afraid of it, according to a poll conducted by the STEM polling agency and published by the daily Hospodarske noviny (HN) Tuesday.

The fears may have been enhanced by the recent report of a threat of terrorist attack in the Czech Republic.

[....] The daily Pravo wrote Tuesday that the Centre of Islamic Communities has asked for a permit to teach Islam at schools, to establish religious schools and to hold Islamic weddings.

However, it does not fulfil two legal conditions: it has not been registered for over 10 years and it cannot submit 10,000 signatures of those for whom it would ensure the religious rituals as required by law.

[....] The secret services, too, are against it, Pravo writes.

The Justice Ministry is afraid of radicalisation of Islam, and the Education and Defence ministries have also voiced negative positions, Pravo writes.

More slippery slopes

The case is Eklund vs. Byron Union School District, 05-1539.


There's a personal story here: Update on treaty rights -- see comments.

[Coyote:] [....] Need I say, NO charges were laid and even a nod of approval was directed at the Ukrainians.

Again, a public fishery, being used for commercial purposes by "natives"!

[Alberta Rifleman:] We are talking about poachers. They are eradicating ENTIRE fisheries in Alberta. We aren't talking about drunks, or druggies or small time crime. These guys are screwing us, future generations, and ultimately themselves. And when they are done, they are going to blame whitey for it.

Oct. 6, 2006: Bits & Pieces

France in BIG trouble -- Muslims are waging civil war against us, claims police union, Telegraph, By David Rennie, Europe Correspondent, (Filed: 05/10/2006), [david.rennie@telegraph.co.uk] posted by starboardside

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Radical Muslims in France's housing estates are waging an undeclared "intifada" against the police, with violent clashes injuring an average of 14 officers each day.

Interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy was warned of an 'intifada'

As the interior ministry said that nearly 2,500 officers had been wounded this year, a police union declared that its members were "in a state of civil war" with Muslims in the most depressed "banlieue" estates which are heavily populated by unemployed youths of north African origin.

[....] Senior officers insisted that the problem was essentially criminal in nature, with crime bosses on the estates fighting back against tough tactics.

The interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the leading centre-Right candidate for the presidency, has sent heavily equipped units into areas with orders to regain control from drug smuggling gangs and other organised crime rings. Such aggressive raids were "disrupting the underground economy in the estates", one senior official told Le Figaro.

However, not all officers on the ground accept that essentially secular interpretation. Michel Thoomis, the secretary general of the hardline Action Police trade union, has written to Mr Sarkozy warning of an "intifada" on the estates and demanding that officers be given armoured cars in the most dangerous areas. [....]

Minister wants Muslims unveiled , Michael Holden in London, October 06, 2006
via: news.com.au

www.telgraph.co.uk/

A SENIOR British cabinet minister said today it would be better if Muslim women did not wear full veils, inflaming anger among the country's Islamic community and sparking heated debate on social integration.

Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw ... the wearing of veils made community relations "more difficult" as they acted as "a visible statement of separation and difference".

"I'm not talking about being prescriptive," .... "But with all the caveats, yes I would rather (women did not wear full veils)."

[....] Two weeks ago Home Secretary John Reid, a possible successor to Prime Minister Tony Blair who is to quit the job within a year, vowed to prevent Muslim extremists setting up "no-go" ghettos.

On Wednesday, Conservative opposition leader David Cameron said many communities were growing up living "parallel lives" and that only better contact would overcome differences.

Straw said: "Communities are bound together by informal chance relations between strangers. That is just made more difficult if people are wearing a veil."
Britain is home to about 1.8 million Muslims [....]

BBC's Jordon defects to Al Jazeera -- Another high-profile British journalist, Darren Jordon, has been poached by Al Jazeera International.

www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/051006
/bbc_jordan_defects_to_al_jazeera

CBC types need not worry about work; their political stance and the lure of filthy lucre will provide.



Forbidden love -- What began as a marriage led to a murder conspiracy on two continents --possibly involving the bride's own family , Bob McKeown, about a program that aired on Dateline

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14606778/from/RSS/

I saw this program whether on Dateline or via TV in Canada, I don't remember, but this is worth reading and, if shown again, see it.

Deb Devos: She said she saw him in the crowd, she said their eyes met and she fell in love and it was love at first sight.

That first glance was all it took. Jassi and Mithu were still just teenagers when they both gazed across that crowded room and came to the realization they were made for one another.

Devos: She just was drawn to him and wanted to be with him, but said that her family wouldn’t approve of it.

What began so innocently, became a battle of wills, pitting one generation against another—modern values against a centuries-old culture. Soon, it would be headline news on two continents and lead to one overriding question: is someone getting away with murder? [....]

Pinheads, Froggy Ruminations via newsbeat1

froggyruminations.blogspot.com
/2006/09/pinheads.html

I’ve heard the argument that Iraq was not directly linked to Al-Queada. Whether they were or not, they were a state sponsor of terror – proven fact. I know people who have done raids in Iraq that have produced intelligence directly leading to prosecutions and convictions in the US. Saddam was hosting known terrorists and paying the families of suicide bombers. And while we have not yet uncovered large amounts of WMD’s we have uncovered over 500 chemical munitions that were being hidden from inspectors, and we do know that there was illegal trade taking place under food for oil that involved munitions, dual use technology and chemical precursors.

Moral clarity allows us to shine light in dark corners and recognize what we find there. Moral courage allows us to deal with what we find in there. [....]

NATO Fights the Jihadis , by Daniel Pipes, New York Sun, October 3, 2006 [NY Sun title "NATO vs. Radical Islamists"]

www.danielpipes.org/article/4025

[....] From its founding in 1949 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO served as the main instrument to contain Soviet expansionism. After vanquishing the Soviet threat, its mission changed. In the 1990s, NATO became a vehicle for voluntarily sending forces to promote regional security in places like Bosnia and Kosovo. And what now, post-9/11?

In a short, brilliant, and operational study, NATO: An Alliance for Freedom, published by Mr. Aznar's think-tank, Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales, or FAES, we learn that containing the Soviet Union was not the organization's founding principle. Rather, NATO was imbued with the more positive goal "to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of [the member states'] peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." [....]

One indication of what NATO's new focus should be came a day after September 11, when NATO for the first time ever in its 52-year history invoked Article V of its founding treaty, with its provision proclaiming that an attack on one is an attack on all. Thus did NATO, after a decade of "war as social work," abruptly awake to the threat of radical Islam. [....]

Suggestions for NATO are included. Worth reading.



Money Laundering and Drugs: lengthy, detailed, a must read

Canada's money-laundering king -- Exclusive look inside a secret world , Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, May 20, 2006

www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.ht
ml?id=4450d02f-0d09-4c01-8363-c93cb9c76496

[....] $201 million over a three-year period for Asian and Latino gangs that imported cocaine and exported B.C. bud.

Khuc, 38, ran a dial-a-dope operation, using a married couple in their 50s as couriers to deliver cocaine like pizzas. He was a high-level wholesaler, one step below the importer, selling up to 12 kilograms at a time, according to a statement of facts filed in B.C. Supreme Court.

When Khuc ran out of cocaine, he would place an order for more "beer" from Adalberto Silva Rivas, a Mexican national who was living in fancy home at 7380 Burris St. in Burnaby.

Silva Rivas came to Canada illegally and managed to smuggle more than 300 kg of cocaine over a three-year period, most of which ended up being sold on Vancouver streets.

[....] Tran and his wife, Thi Bac Hoa (Kim) Phan, ran Kim's Currency Exchange out of their home at 4250 Brant St. in Vancouver.

... exchanging $300,000 US a day for the drug gangs. [....]

Does anyone remember that under the Liberals, several border RCMP detachments were closed? I believe that applied not just to Quebec, but check.

Oct. 5, 2006: Various

Update added to this post: Oct. 3, 2006: Let's look at the Law Commission's Experts, entitled "JUDGES PARTY WITH HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS".

newsjunkiecanada.blogspot.com
/2003_09_14_newsjunkiecanada_archive.html

The correct link (Gremlins, again):
www.realwomenca.com/newsletter
/2003_july_aug/article_4.html




Rex Murphy's Review of Heart Matters by Adrienne Clarkson

Simply a delight to read

Adrienne Clarkson: the personal and the political , by Rex Murphy, Globe and Mail, Sept. 23, 06, Page D12 -- or here

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www.anticorruption.ca/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=4162

Heart Matters
By Adrienne Clarkson
Viking Canada, 257 pages, $38

[....] In the old days of luxuriant titles, this section of Heart Matters might have carried the scroll: An Apology for the Office of the Governor-General of Canada and My Contributions to It, Together with Some Observations on the Worth of Politicians, the Male of the Species, the Conduct of Some Others in Lesser Office, and a Return of Fire to the Last Prime Minister But One, Mr. Paul Martin. for His Imperfect Treatment of the G-G.

Clarkson thinks very highly of the office of governor-general, an opinion that any reading of Heart Matters will confirm is not entirely unhinged from the fact that she held it.

[....] Does not discretion adhere to the office so late venerated and vacated? [....]

But Her Excellency? Why such haste to ventilate?

We now know how highly she thinks of Jean Chretien and his wife Aline, and begrudge her none of that obliging warmth. But the gratitude describes a self-serving loop. Chretien appointed her, and it would be a rude doyenne of Rideau Hall who did not see the wisdom of the man who set her there. I wonder, now that an ex-governor-general has set the illustrious example, how long we shall have to wait for the aides, valets, caterers and assorted functionaries of Rideau Hall to oil up their laptops and give us the view from below the stairs of the Clarkson-Ralston Saul era. [....]

We await the downstairs maid's tell-all book ... for historical accuracy.



Neil Reynolds' review of Eddie Goldenberg's book: The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa

Chrétien's Machiavelli -- "Brutus was successful in stabbing Caesar, but remember that it badly hurt his reputation for the next 2,000 years."

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.2006
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The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa
By Eddie Goldenberg
McClelland & Stewart,
402 pages. $36.99

Neil Reynolds is national affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail's Report on Business. He is the former editor of The Ottawa Citizen and The Vancouver Sun.

[....] Alas, Goldenberg mostly limits his revelations to process, as the title candidly confesses. Here is a splendid manual on the art of politics and the art of government from a very discreet Machiavellian manager. For an understanding of Chrétien, though, you probably can't do better than this self-portrait from Chrétien himself: "The art of politics is walking with your back to the wall, your elbows high, a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights. If you don't learn that, you're finished."

Goldenberg does write viscerally on Paul Martin, Chrétien's implacable antagonist and, during his prime ministerial years, his indispensable partner.

[....] Goldenberg appears to take another ethical shortcut with the private foundations that Chrétien and Martin established to help spend the huge budget surpluses that began to emerge in 1997. Goldenberg was deeply involved in the design of these foundations; indeed, he managed the process, from the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation through the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and the Canada Health Infoway -- 15 of them in all, none of them accountable either to the government or to Parliament. In her 2005 report, Fraser found that these foundations held, sitting unspent in their bank accounts, more than $7.7-billion. [....]

Vandals target native lobster traps, Wednesday, October 4, 2006 CBC News

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Native fishermen in Cape Breton suspect they've become the target of disgruntled non-native fishermen after hundreds of their lobster traps were damaged. Fishermen with the Chapel Island First Nation set out last week to haul their traps as part of the community's food fishery, which is a treaty right.

But when they got to the dock in St. Peters, they discovered 300 lobster traps were broken, slashed and cut. [....]

Laundry firm hit with claims of dirty tricks -- Allegations of financial wrongdoings stain linen company co-owned by 22 hospitals -- "allegations of kickbacks and financial mismanagement", Paul Waldie, Globe and Mail, Oct. 2, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2006
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[....] The controversy centres on Booth Centennial Healthcare Linen Services, a non-profit business that is co-owned by 22 hospitals [....]

What was once expected to be a $10-million project has cost at least $33-million and Booth officials are still adding up the full expense. Even more seriously, allegations have surfaced recently in court that some costs were inflated by as much as 20 per cent to pay for kickbacks to the company's long-time chief executive, Jean-Pierre Viau, who died in 2004. There are also allegations that hospitals were billed more than $4-million last year for linen they didn't need and that Booth was in such poor financial shape this year that the CEO recommended it be sold. On top of all that, four senior executives have quit or been fired in the past year. [....]

Mr. Kleine says he warned Booth's board of directors in 2004 that the mega-plant was not viable. "I said, 'This financially doesn't make any sense and this is taxpayers' money.' "[....]

The Philosopher and the Fatwa, By Robert Spencer, FrontPageMagazine.com October 2, 2006

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It has happened again. On the heels of global Muslim rage against Pope Benedict XVI – which led to riots and three killings of Christians – a teacher in France has gone into hiding after receiving death threats. His offense? He published a column in the French newspaper Le Figaro in which he characterized the Muslim prophet Muhammad as “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist.”

Redeker said that one of the threats he received stated: “You will never feel secure on this earth. One billion, three hundred thousand Muslims are ready to kill you.” As the death threats poured in, everyone abandoned Redeker. The teacher himself noted that France’s education ministry “has not even contacted me, has not deigned to get in touch to see if I need any help.” The senior editor of Le Figaro, Pierre Rousselin, declared on Al-Jazeera that he had been mistaken to publish Redeker’s article, and hastened to assure the Islamic world that the article did not reflect the opinion of the paper.

It was unclear what exactly those who are threatening Redeker are upset about. Were they contending that he had lied about Muhammad? If so, they must contend with the fact that many Muslims around the world seem to agree, unapologetically, that Muhammad was “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist.” As I explain in my forthcoming book The Truth About Muhammad, mujahedin throughout the world see the Prophet of Islam as the personification of the qualities they are trying to embody. They have provided abundant evidence of this in recent years: [....]

The threats to Redeker, following so closely on the global outrage at the Pope, are yet another example of the jihadist attempt to frighten and intimidate the West into chastened silence.

That makes it all the more crucial, in these perilous times, for free people to speak out.

Detailed and worth reading.



Tres bien, SteveHarper goes against the Francophonie flow, By Ezra Levant, posted by Rosemarie, Oct. 2, 06

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[....] Created in 1970 as a counterweight to the British Commonwealth of Nations, the Francophonie has 53 members -- France, its former colonies, and other jurisdictions where French is spoken. So of course Francophonie "summits" were a favourite junket of prime ministers Jean Chretien and Paul Martin. Unlike at the UN, the U.S. has no veto over resolutions passed at the Francophonie (they are not a member).

The Francophonie is a Liberal's dream -- a France-centric attempt at world government. It was a favourite of politicians ranging from Pierre Pettigrew to Saddam Hussein. It accomplished very little, but in French.

Last week, Stephen Harper attended his first Francophonie summit, held in Romania (official language: Romanian; secondary languages: Hungarian and German). .... (It is a precious conceit of Quebec and New Brunswick premiers to attend Francophonie summits as participants. How else would the likes of Bernard Lord and Charest ever get to fly to Romania on the taxpayers' dime?) [....]

Who killed 80,000 Muslims ... , Sept. 26, 06

Who killed 80,000 Muslims recently, imprisoned thousand more and brutally occupied and de-facto annexed their country? Israel? no. USA? Try again. Remarkably, no UN debate ensued. [....]

The country is [....]

Worth reading.



Who makes terrorists hate us?, David Limbaugh, September 30, 2006

www.washingtontimes.com/commentary
/20060929-083614-1162r.htm

What other nation in history has obsessively investigated itself during time of war? When will we quit beating ourselves up and move down the road?

[....] When will these tone-deaf people get it through their heads that Islamic extremists have hated us since before the Flood (figuratively, of course)? When will they comprehend that Osama attacked us before we attacked Iraq?

Besides, who would expect our attack on Iraq would endear us to the enemy? It's not like we sent them a love letter. But if Iraq were not a terrorist-supporting state, why would the terrorists care? Why have they invested so many of their resources to disrupt the Iraqi freedom experiment? Why are they trying to foment a civil war there if Iraq has nothing to do with the global jihad?

More important, why does the left keep dredging this stuff up? The answer is they have no alternative plan for Iraq and figure the only way they can make headway on the national security issue is to continue to paint President Bush as a liar. That brings me to the main point. [....]

Spying on the spies, Sept. 30, 06

www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed
/20060930-094522-9598r.htm

"The September 11 attacks are rightly regarded as a reflection of staggering U.S. intelligence failures in the years leading up to the terrorist strikes," Bill Gertz, defense and national security reporter for The Washington Times, observes in his latest book, "Enemies: How America's Foes Steal Our Vital Secrets -- And How We Let It Happen." Perhaps even more disturbing is the principal conclusion: "What's most frightening about America's counterintelligence failures is that they have become even more pronounced in the years after [emphasis in original] 9/11. In the five years since September 11," Mr. Gertz says, "government agencies have actually made counterintelligence less of a priority, when it should be at the core of our efforts to protect U.S. national security." [....]

Mr. Gertz describes counterintelligence as "the practice of identifying and exploiting the activities of foreign spies"; "the vital technique that represents the best way to discover our adversaries' true intentions and, if necessary, to thwart dangerous plans before they are executed"; and "the art and science of identifying and thwarting enemy spies." [....]

Search: defeating one's enemy without firing a shot , China has been extremely successful , businesswoman Katrina Leung , the "Red Flower" case , a Los Angeles spy ring



An injury to human rights -- Counterpoint, Phil Fontaine, National Post, October 03, 2006

Phil Fontaine is the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

It is astonishing that anyone would be proud to argue against respecting human rights. Yet that is the position taken on Friday by the National Post in its editorial "Hard-headed on the native file," which supports the government of Canada and the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs in their fight against the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [....]

I have mentioned before the import, the ramifications, of the UN / UNESCO protocol signed by Paul Martin in November 2005 (23?) before he was defeated. It is the wedge that France and Franco-Canadian elites, the UN/UNESCO, assorted networked organizations (e.g. aboriginals, No One Is Illegal, etc.) and countries (many of them Muslim) around the globe are driving into Canada on the road to satisfying several different groups ... splitting Canada into factions / linguistic groups so that one Canada does not exist ... on the road to global governance ... which may amount to control by those pulling the strings.




An old sin and a bad new law , Terence Corcoran, Financial Post, Oct. 3, 06

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=101747ec-8d41-42f5-9209-1236e3ced739

[....] Technically, Internet gambling is illegal in the United States -- and in Canada. Gambling can only be enjoyed through government-regulated operations and, in many cases, government-owned operations. While tens of thousands of Canadians gamble through Internet facilities, it is illegal and contrary to the Criminal Code. That would change, of course, if the provinces or Ottawa were to set up their own government-run Internet gaming operations.

So far, Ottawa apparently has no plans to crack down on Internet gaming operators. Since Internet gaming firms all appear to be based in Europe or elsewhere, Canadian and U.S. law-enforcement agencies have no way to enforce their national laws abroad. The alternative would be to try to hunt down the actual gamblers. That would mean, absurdly, police raids on college dorms and home computer rooms where people are actually playing online poker. [....]

Would this bill run afoul of World Trade Organization rules? Trade officials have said the U.S. government's attempt to stop Internet gambling from offshore firms is a form of trade protectionism. [....]

Trade protectionism: see the UN protocol on protecting cultural diversity, part of that protocol to which Phil Fontaine (above) would turn for backing.



U.S. anti-gaming law to hit Canadian firms -- Restructurings likely , Peter Nowak, Financial Post, October 03, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.ht
ml?id=a1b3a734-7ab1-4099-a72d-2fdf1d9f28af

[....] Toronto-based CryptoLogic Inc. and Oakville, Ont.-based Parlay Entertainment Inc. are particularly vulnerable to the surprise legislation, passed at the weekend, that bans credit card companies from taking payments for online gambling sites. Calgary-based Chartwell Technologies Inc. is also exposed, to a lesser extent.

All three companies supply the software such sites run on, with CryptoLogic and Parlay having big exposure to U.S. gamblers -- about 30% and 60% of respective revenue rely on bets placed in the United States. Chartwell garners only about 5% of its revenue from U.S. bets.

Paradigm Capital analyst Gabriel Leung called the move, expected to be signed into law by President George W. Bush this week, a "scorched earth" scenario -- one in which U.S. revenue for these firms completely vanishes.

[....] Shares in the three companies plummeted on the Toronto Stock Exchange yesterday, with CryptoLogic falling 19% to $19.87, Parlay sliding 29% to $1.06 and Chartwell sinking 16% to $1.80. [....]

Bricklin expects deal with Chery despite Chrysler , Reuters, October 03, 2006

DETROIT - Entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin Monday said he expected to close a delayed deal with Chery Automobile even as the Chinese automaker finalizes the terms of a partnership with auto giant DaimlerChrysler AG.

DaimlerChrysler has also acknowledged discussions with Chery, in a move toward a tie-up analysts said could jump-start the Chinese automaker's efforts to crack the U.S. market and boost its credibility.

[....] But Mr. Bricklin said a DaimlerChrysler deal with Chery would not prevent the Chinese automaker from negotiating a separate joint-venture with Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles to sell cars in the United States. [....]

Oct. 4, 2006: Various

Ottawa finds $5-billion in suspicious transactions -- Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) figures, Scott Deveau, Globe and Mail, Oct. 4, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.2006
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The federal government's money-laundering watchdog found nearly $5-billion in suspicious transaction suspected of being linked to money-laundering, terrorism, or threats to national security last year, more than double the amount found in the previous year.

The figures come from annual report from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), which produces financial intelligence on money laundering, terrorist activity financing and threats to the security of Canada. The centre tracked more than 37 million transaction for the report tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.

During the fiscal year 2005-2006, the centre increased the size and scope of its financial intelligence output, deliberately focusing on identifying larger, more complex cases, the organization said in a statement Wednesday.

Its efforts resulted in the reporting of 168 suspicious cases to authorities, including 134 suspected money-laundering cases, 33 related to suspected terrorist financing and other threats to national security, and one case in which money-laundering, terror financing and threats to national security were all involved. [....]

Cut flow of dirty money, Ottawa is urged -- "The size and scope of the problem is much more . . . than we expected," , Steve Chase, Oct. 4, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story
/LAC.20061004.LAUNDER04/TPStory

[....] The Senate banking, trade and commerce committee [....]

In 2005, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, flagged more than $2-billion worth of dirty-money transactions. [See the figure in the article above.]

The report lists gaps in Canada's dirty-cash detecting system, saying there are a host of sectors ripe for abuse by money launderers and terrorist fundraisers from diamonds to no-name bank machines and independently owned and operated pubs.

[....] The Senate committee ... require dealers in precious metals, gemstones and jewellery to [....]

Lawyers have long fought efforts by Ottawa to get them to spy on clients and supply information about their finances.

[....] Chris Walker, president of About Business Crime Solutions [....]

Mr. Walker said unlabelled bank machines -- which anyone can buy -- are the "perfect vehicle" for whitewashing money because there's no monitoring of who loads them with bills.[....]

Changes promised after IRB sex scandal , Brian Laghi, Oct. 4, 06, Globe and Mail

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Immigration Minister Monte Solberg pledged yesterday to ensure that future appointees to the Immigration and Refugee Board are fit for duty after an IRB member was suspended over complaints that he offered a favourable ruling to a woman in return for sex.

[....] During Question Period yesterday, NDP MP Olivia Chow demanded that the system be changed and a new level of appeals created to shear individual board members of some of their power.

"This is not just about a personal scandal, but a national disgrace," she said. "This will not be solved by replacing a Liberal crony with a Conservative crony. That will not work."

Mr. Solberg responded that simply adding another level of appeal to the process won't necessarily work either. "When bad people decide to do these things, it does not matter how many levels of appeal there are, it means that these people have tremendous power." [....]

Terrorists' mail still not monitored -- Prison system yet to crack down on incarcerated terrorists, report finds, By Jim Popkin, Rich Gardella, NBC News Investigative Unit, Oct 3, 2006

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WASHINGTON - Convicted terrorists locked up in U.S. prisons can still use mail and verbal communications to conduct terrorist or criminal activities, according to a report issued Tuesday by the Department of Justice's inspector general.

The inspector general launched a review after a series of NBC News Investigative Unit reports in February and March 2005 revealed that jailed terrorists — even those responsible for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center — were continuing to support jihadists and encourage violence around the world.

[....] In addition to inmates' mail, the inspector general's report revealed another related security problem: The prison bureau "is unable to effectively monitor high-risk inmates' verbal communications, which include telephone calls, visits with family and friends, and cell block conversations."

The report found that bureau staff often do not listen to or translate calls in a foreign language by inmates on monitoring lists, including calls placed by inmates identified as posing the greatest risk of being engaged in illegal or suspicious activity. For example, the inspector general's report found that at Supermax, 50 percent of such calls each month were not monitored.

URL: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15120480

Some rights for prisoners are wrong for the society. The prisoners chose to act outside the society's norms, to become criminals. Why should they have rights to write and talk in a language not commonly used in the institution?




The health of small business -- Private health plans a good way to cut paperwork

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For many Canadians, the most attractive perk of employment is coverage under a health-care plan. Usually with large employers, they enter into such plans with insurers and cover all or part of the employee premiums. These are called private health services plans or PHSPs.

For purposes of the Income Tax Act, a PHSP is defined as a contract of insurance in respect of hospital expenses, medical expenses or any combination of such expenses, or a medical-care insurance plan or hospital-care insurance plan, or any combination of such plans. [....]

But what happens if the employer for whatever reason does not have such a plan, or has a plan that covers only some employees, such as those working full time, but not others?

In a recent ruling, the Canada Revenue Agency seems to offer a reasonable substitute. [....]

Russian spy sues Ottawa for being left out in cold , Marina Jimenez, Globe and Mail, Oct. 4, 06

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A former Russian undercover agent who lived under a false name in Toronto and spied for the Russian government is suing Canada's immigration department for refusing to allow her to return here as a landed immigrant.

Elena Miller, a 43-year-old ex-spy, was deported in 1996 after her cover was blown by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Her second husband, Toronto physician Peter Miller, has tried for eight years to sponsor his attractive wife with the mysterious past, only to be stonewalled by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. [....]

Dr. and Ms. Miller recently relocated to Switzerland [....]

Get on the lawsuit bandwagon ...



Citizenship of convenience? Precedent and slippery slope?

Canada and Immigrants -- re: dual citizenship , Ellwood_P_Dowd. 10/04/2006 09:27:40

[In response to this:] "I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags, fighting foreign battles on our soil, making Canadians change to suit their religions and cultures, and wanting to change our country's fabric by claiming discrimination when we do not give in to their demands."

[....Comment:] It's too convenient to be a Canadian today. If this Arar lawsuit ends up awarding him millions it will get even more convenient.

[....] I mean that precedents have a way of becoming a slippery slope.

This is still bothering people. I posted on the book a little while ago but it is important to take back our schools and curriculum from activists.

Protest in Vancouver, Cnews Forum, posted by thierryt64, 10/01/2006 11:43:55 -- Disgustingly Graphic Girls’ Sex Ed Book Urging Lesbianism Coming to Manitoba Schools Posted on 09/19/2006 4:24:43 PM PDT by wagglebee

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, September 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - High school girls in Manitoba may soon be reading detailed instructions on lesbian sex acts as part of their normal sex education curriculum, after the Ministry of Education accepted a manual emphasizing homosexuality as an optional resource for high school educators.

The Little Black Book--A Book on Healthy Sexuality Written by Grrrls [sic] for Grrrls claims to be a youth-friendly guide to teenage sexuality, offering girls advice and information.

In reality it reads like a guide to lesbian pornography, with section titles such as “My First Time F***ing a Girl” and “How to Use a Dental Dam” (a “safe sex” device for oral/anal sex).

The guide contains dangerously inaccurate information on “safe sex” practices, assuring girls that using devices to reduce sexually transmitted infections offers reliable protection, without including warnings of the failure rates of such devices. The World Health Organization warns that condoms, even when used properly, have a failure rate of 20 percent, crucial information missing from the manual.

“This is one of the most irresponsible and obscene school documents that we have ever seen,” said Joseph Ben-Ami, executive director for the Institute for Canadian Values, in a press release. “Using this as a guide to healthy sexuality for teenage girls would be one of the most potentially harmful decisions that any school could make.”

Ben-Ami called the book a “veiled propaganda piece,” saying it “undermines healthy parent-child relationships, substitutes voodoo myths for actual science, and provides advice that, if followed, will certainly result in real and serious harm to those who follow it.”

The guide encourages girls to explore lesbian sexuality, making the unfounded claim that only 10 percent of the population is heterosexual, with 80 percent being “mixed” or bi-sexual.

“The guide does not just endorse homosexual practice--it virtually promotes it, and portrays those who object to such practices, particularly parents, as being homophobes, stating that ‘A lot of parents are homophobic, and so are their children until they get minds of their own,” said Ben-Ami.

Read further there and Read coverage by Institute for Canadian Values:

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[....] The Institute for Family Values will send whatever evidence they have of the offending material to those who send an email with their contact information to:
noblackbook@canadianvalues.ca

[Comment on the Cnews Forum thread] Parents must be willing to oppose the governments intrusion into parental rights. Schools need to focus on core subjects and forget about the social engineering and PC nonsense. Math, science, writing, physical fitness etc. All controversial subjects (sex ed, politics, religion ) should be deemed non core and the parents given the right to remove their kids from these classes.

At least in Canada parents still have the right to homeschool or put kids in the separate school system. Parents in other countries are losing that right already.

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