Nov. 4, 2006: Obsession - & - Figure skating

Program: Obsession - video clips here

How determined to kill you is radical Islam? -- FOX News Channel Sat. and Sun.

www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,226482,00.html

How determined to kill you is radical Islam? This weekend, FOX News Channel examines the full scope of the threat to the United States, with the help of documentarian Wayne Kopping. This hour-long program exposes the stunning and explicit threats made against the West made by Islamic leaders. It features interviews with former terrorists, shocking Islamic news video never before broadcast in America, and undercover footage taken inside suicide bomber initiations and secret jihadist meetings.

The special will air Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET, and will be repeated Sunday at 1 a.m. ET, 5 a.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET.

Update: The article is a must read one.



Figure Skating

Note: don't forget figure skating today -- CTV / ATV. Check the schedule but late this afternoon, I think the ice dancers Dubreuil and Lauzon are on. They are superb.

Nov. 4, 2006: Arar has "explaining to do"

Note: the link is for the first item only.

It looks as though Arar Has Some Explaining To Do , November 3, 2006

strongconservative.blogspot.com/2006/11/
arar-has-some-explaining-to-do.html

Despite the media's portrayal of Maher Arar as an innocent victim of an over-zealous intelligence investigation by the FBI, CIA, CSIS, and RCMP, new evidence shows that Mr. Arar has some serious explaining to do.

[.... a brief summary here]

.... Mr. Arar.... became a figure of interest to the RCMP only after he was spotted talking to Mr. Almalki. [emphasis added](source) [....]

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20061103.wxkhadr03/BNStory/National/home

Search: vacation pictures , in the rain , family mysteriously





Funding for the RCMP had been reduced over years. The Mounties didn't have the manpower to go on wild goose chases. There had to be something that brought Arar to their attention and there was ... Remember, all is alleged, at this time.

Documents tie Khadr to tortured pair
Terror suspect fighting extradition to U.S. on charges of supplying arms to al-Qaeda, Colin Freeze, Nov. 3, 06, Globe and Mail

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20061103.wxkhadr03/BNStory/National/home

TORONTO — The case of terror suspect Abdullah Khadr suggests there is a connection between his notorious family and a series of highly publicized detentions of Canadian citizens in Syria, newly released court documents show.

In the documents Mr. Khadr said his father, an al-Qaeda leader who was killed in Pakistan, once bought radio equipment from Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki, who would go on to become a major target of an RCMP investigation.

[....] Maher Arar

[....] Project A/O Canada

[....] The Mounties visited Pakistan last year to speak to Mr. Khadr. .... two-way radios .... bought in Canada. .... went to "local fighters" in Afghanistan.

"I think he bought them from Abdullah Almalki, [....]

Perhaps the problem is that the Americans shipped Mr. Arar off too quickly.



'I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda' , Colin Freeze, Nov, 3, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
LAC.20061103.KHADRTIES03/TPStory

Asked by the Mounties if he were part of al-Qaeda, Abdullah Khadr responded, "No, I only buy and sell weapons for al-Qaeda."

Over the course of five interviews with the RCMP last year, the 25-year-old terrorism suspect admitted that he "knows everybody" in al-Qaeda and ran guns for the organization to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. But he also insisted that if any terrorist "had anything planned for Canada, I'd be the first one to stop it." [....]

Search: extradition , tainted , one of the most famous families

Lest we forget, Freeze gives a brief memory-jogging summary on each:

Abdullah Khadr: procuring weapons , a global-positioning-system unit to map co-ordinates , Pakistan's Prime Minister

His late father, Ahmed Said Khadr:
His younger brother Omar:
His sister Zaynab:
Osama bin Laden:
Amer El-Maati:
Amer El-Maati's brother, Ahmed,
The Hindy family:
Mahmoud Jaballah:



Omar Khadr had ear of al-Qaeda -- brother: May explain U.S. interest in Guantanamo Bay's Canadian prisoner , Adrian Humphreys; with files from Allison Hanes, National Post Published: Friday, November 03, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
8c8cc203-ecb4-4cf0-9ef6-2c3e0c31eaa4&k=47549

[....] The fact that [Abu Laith al-Libi] remains at large and continues to exhort violence on behalf of al-Qaeda -- including a call earlier this year for a continued holy war to reinstate the Taliban regime -- likely adds urgency to the interest U.S. authorities have in Omar.

[....] for Libi between Arabic and the languages of other fighters at Miram Shah, which is in Pakistan but near its border with Afghanistan.

Despite Libi being a military commander, Omar's duties were to be more social than martial, Abdullah said.

"In Miram Shah ... you translate between people sitting in a house and the house owner," Abdullah said. [....]

Search: Abu Laith al-Libi , Omar Khadr , Guantanamo Bay , Toronto-born man , a spokesman in Afghanistan for al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups , an "enemy combatant" in Guantanamo Bay , facing life in prison for murder , Colonel Morris Davis , filed this week in an Ontario court by Canada's Department of Justice , reputed al-Qaeda financier

Nov. 3, 2006: Various #2

Khadr

Buying guns like tomatoes, Khadr says -- Transcripts of RCMP interview submitted to extradition hearing , Adrian Humphreys, with files from Allison Hanes, National Post. Published: Tuesday, October 31, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
7681316e-55bb-424a-aac1-46b9134b7319

[....] "I got some walkie-talkies then some light machine guns for the locals," [....]

"If you want to buy a weapon it is, it takes you the same progress if you want to go and buy tomatoes from the market."

He made about $7,000 profit selling Kalashnikov rifles, other machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and ammunition, he said. He made so little because he sold the guns cheap. [....]

Macleans has improved

Apparently, it has the courage to publish the truth.

The future belongs to Islam

The Muslim world has youth, numbers and global ambitions. The West is growing old and enfeebled, and lacks the will to rebuff those who would supplant it. It's the end of the world as we've known it. An excerpt from 'America Alone'., by Mark Steyn, Oct. 20, 06. Reprinted by permission of Regnery Publishing from America Alone © 2006 by Mark Steyn. To comment, email letters@macleans.ca

www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=
20061023_134898_134898

[....] Let's start with demography, because everything does:

[....] Likewise, if you want to launch a revolution, it's not very likely if you've only got seven revolutionaries. And they're all over 80. But, if you've got two million and seven revolutionaries and they're all under 30 you're in business.

For example, I wonder how many pontificators on the "Middle East peace process" ever run this number:

The median age in the Gaza Strip is 15.8 years.

Once you know that, all the rest is details. If you were a "moderate Palestinian" leader, would you want to try to persuade a nation -- or pseudo-nation -- of unemployed poorly educated teenage boys raised in a UN-supervised European-funded death cult to see sense? Any analysis of the "Palestinian problem" that doesn't take into account the most important determinant on the ground is a waste of time.

Likewise, the salient feature of Europe, Canada, Japan and Russia is that they're running out of babies. [....]

Now, check this: Fatwa on Mark Steyn
and, should you wish to act, there is information on that website.

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
903&mforum=elwoodpdowd

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CAIR threatens Macleans magazine , 2006/11/02, Halls of Macadamia

Didn't we hear accusations just this week about how the Blogging Tories were being unduly influenced by the Conservative Party? [....]

CAIR is basically saying, "If Macleans won't censor Mark Steyn, we'll do what we can to damage the company financially." [....]

Read it and act if it seems appropriate.



A comment from AnnieO from the website above, punted posters:

..........In June 2006, a 54-year-old Flemish train conductor called Guido Demoor got on the Number 23 bus in Antwerp to go to work. Six -- what's that word again? -- "youths" boarded the bus and commenced intimidating the other riders. There were some 40 passengers aboard. But the "youths" were youthful and the other passengers less so. Nonetheless, Mr. Demoor asked the lads to cut it out and so they turned on him, thumping and kicking him. Of those 40 other passengers, none intervened "..............."

This whole passage could read like this "In November 9, 1938 a 54-year-old Jewish train conductor called.....

Note: "youths"

Youths challenge the French state -- here, David Rennie in Paris, Last Updated: 2:52am GMT 03/11/2006 first published Nov. 1, 06 telegraph.co.uk

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=
/news/2006/11/02/wfrance02.xml

[....] Hardly a night passes without gangs many of them from immigrant families attacking police cars, buses and emergency rescue teams.

... Le Nouvel Observateur published a confidential report ... trade union, the CGT ... scores of eye-witness accounts of brutal attacks on public servants who work in the worst suburbs, or "banlieues" ...

Its publication follows the revelation that attacks on police have soared this year, with some 14 a day, and a growing number of incidents in which officers have been lured into ambushes.

This has prompted a warning that the day France witnesses the lynching of a policeman is not far off.

The CGT report painted a graphic picture of violence: blocks of cement dropped on paramedic crews; washing machines pushed off balconies on to fire engines; electricity company agents too scared to cut off customers who have not paid bills, after being attacked with knives, guns and fists. [....]

But a leaked report by the French police intelligence service, the Renseignements Généraux (RG), concluded last year that Islamists had "no role in setting off the violence", which it described as a "popular revolt" against the authorities.

... rumours of angry youths in different suburbs linking up in organised networks were not true. [....]

Search: Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister , the Communist mayor of Sevran

Disinformation? Afraid?



Google: "France and Africa Summits - 23rd Conference of Heads of State of ... Presentation of the Conferences of Heads of State of France and Africa ... Africa’s current challenge - its youth - is also its future asset, if we are able ... "


Background: Riot anniversary puts French police on high alert, AP, Oct. 27, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20061027.wfrance1027/BNStory/International

Clichy-sous-Bois, France — Police fanned out around the outskirts of Paris amid fears of renewed violence Friday as mourners marked the deaths a year ago of two teenagers that ignited three weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France.

The outburst of anger at the accidental deaths of the youths, electrocuted in a power substation while hiding from police, grew into a broader challenge against the French state that has continued to simmer.

Attackers have torched four buses after forcing off passengers in the outskirts of Paris in recent days, and police have been ambushed in several organized attacks in recent weeks, raising fears of a new wave of violence around the anniversary. [....]

Women and the African online press

Sexual equality 'goes against nature', Mona Salem , Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 20, 05, Mail & Guardian online

www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=
254237&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/

The news is advertised as "The Mail & Guardian Online... South Africa's oldest quality news source on the web and Africa's first online newspaper, offering breaking news and in-depth, ...", from Cape Town, Western Cape, but the IP is registered in Lusaka, Zambia to the Zambian Telecommunications Company ... Zambia: that is where Maurice Strong registered his OneWorld network. There must be something about Zambia which is drawing in business ... perhaps the enlightened leadership.

I wondered about the source so I checked further. A brief aside:

"MTC Group celebrates 2 million customers in Sudan -- Less than six months after acquiring the Mobitel network in Sudan, Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) said it had passed the two million mark for subscribers, with latest figures showing the total had reached 2.2 million. , August 08 - 2006

"MTC .... acquired full control of Mobitel in February 2006" .... "Khaled Muhtadi, General Manager of Mobitel, said, 'The parent company has promoted network upgrading and undertaken significant expansion operations by extending its geographic coverage to western and southern areas in Sudan.'" .... "Mobitel, which now has the largest customer base in Sudan; The 2.2 million figure is also the second largest base among the companies owned by MTC Group, which owns and runs 20 licenses in the Middle East and Africa and in total serves 23million subscribers."

Africa is rapidly becoming mobilized and companies like RIM with its Blackberry / Pearl could make a bundle were it to get in on the action in Africa ... providing internet access to all for a small amount, if the product could be produced cheaply ... say, in China ... or in beautiful downtown Khartoum. Soon the news and views will flow around the world. Can Bolivia's Morales be far behind in communicating his vision ... for coca production ... not cocaine, just coca production ... perhaps a South American version of qat? There is business out there.

Now, to the article:

[....] Makarem al-Deiri is standing for election to the Egyptian Parliament next month after a long academic career, but she makes no bones about her view that a woman's place is in the home.

The only woman candidate backed by Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood, the 55-year-old mother of seven insists there is no point arguing for sexual equality, as such a demand "goes against nature".
[....] "We believe that domestic chores are not less [than other types of work] and we oppose battling against men's superiority to women."

The widow of the late Muslim Brotherhood leader Ibrahim Sharaf, who was jailed from 1965 to 1974, Deiri is standing against a male candidate from the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) -- Mustafa al-Sallab, a millionaire businessman in the ceramic industry.

She is standing as an independent because the Brotherhood remains barred from fielding candidates of its own, even though it is generally considered Egypt's leading opposition force. [....]

It makes you wish for a return of ... oh, say, the dictator that brung ya.




Military -- Support Our Troops

A Soldiers Story - Dealing with being home from Kandahar , October 19, 2006, 02:07:08 PM

This is very affecting; the letter reveals a sense of brotherhood that most of us could only wish for ... deep friendship and care for each other.

Music for our troops from a Maritimer from NB, one who has been to Afghanistan five times to entertain: Julian Austin: Red and White . Source: army.ca forums

video
via punted posters forum , starboardside

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
916&mforum=elwoodpdowd




Could we replace BBC with CBC and this would still make sense?

The BBC's commitment to bias is no laughing matter, By Tom Leonard, Last Updated: 12:01am BST 27/10/2006
www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/
main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/27/do2701.xml&sSheet=
/opinion/2006/10/27/ixopinion.html

It's fair to say the message is finally getting through: the BBC has a problem with impartiality. The row over BBC bias has been rumbling on longer than war in Sudan and always seemed just as unresolvable. The format was always the same: take a bunch of Left-leaning, liberal-minded television executives and a bunch of Right-leaning politics wonks with obsessions about BBC reporting of the Middle East, the EU and the Tory party. Then they hit each other over the head with rolled up, heavily underlined copies of programme transcripts from Newsnight or Today.

And this is a battle that the BBC has become very adept at fighting. Every time the clamour of bias on some particularly hard news issue, such as Israel, Iraq, or Brussels, gets too loud, the corporation commissions some research that finds no bias, or – next best – evidence of bias on both sides.

But no matter how much BBC bosses swear blind there is no problem, the issue refuses to go away. Why? Because for many licence-payers, the BBC's skewed assumptions about what the world is about and how its inhabitants should think is the most annoying thing about it – more annoying than dumbing down, .... particularly infuriating when the BBC denies it outright, as did Michael Grade, the BBC chairman, in an article published a few days before a governors' impartiality summit a month ago. [....]

CBC, do read this. Do you recognize your problem?

Nov. 3, 2006: Persistent problems

Hizbollah rebuilds its military force under nose of UN, By Michael Hirst, Last Updated: 2:42am GMT 31/10/2006, telegraph.co.uk

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
882&mforum=elwoodpdowd

[....] He said cables and telecommunications equipment had been installed and the number of trucks delivering aid and supplies made it easy to disguise weapons smuggling.

[....] "They have a security network of hundreds of motorcycles, linked up by walkie-talkies. Wherever outsiders move in the south they are followed. You don't see guns, but Hizbollah knows exactly where you are." On the crater-lined streets of Bint Jbeil, there was evidence of substantial reconstruction and young men on motorcycles, but it was impossible to discern whether any were Hizbollah fighters.

Another resident said: "Hizbollah is everywhere. But after the war the fighters put away their guns and uniforms and went back to being school teachers, engineers, farmers and business people." [....]

The UN, Rwanda, genocide, Belgium and Major General Romeo Dallaire

Now, he is Senator Dallaire.

Belgium’s war crime: Dereliction of duty allowed 1994 Rwanda genocide , Frank Warner, April 07, 2004 in Current Affairs.

frankwarner.typepad.com/free_frank_warner/
2004/04/belgiums_war_cr.html

The former premier and parliament of Belgium share responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity in allowing the 1994 genocide that took the lives of 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda.

But a decade later, the Belgians, who often seem too eager to file charges against Americans who liberate whole populations from genocidal tyrants, have yet to bring to justice the Belgians who knowingly delivered Rwanda to 100 days of blood and horror.

Jean-Luc Dehaene, who was prime minister in 1994, and all other elected Belgian officials who held office that year knew of the Hutu plans for the mass slaughter. They also had the power to stop it, and they turned the other way.

[....] In January 1994, three months before the killings, Major General Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian commander of the U.N. peacekeepers in Rwanda, informed the Belgian government that the Hutus were preparing for a large-scale slaughter of Tutsis. Despite repeated warnings, the Belgians refused to provide or request further assistance.

[....] General Dallaire, commander of the UNAMIR force, later said he could have halted the killing in the first days with only 5,000 troops. But instead of sending him reinforcements to confront the killers, the Belgians wanted all peacekeepers to go. [....]

SEE ALSO: David Corn and Rwanda: The “Left” again insists on U.S. unilateralism (“Clinton Lied…and Hundreds of Thousands Died”).

Nov. 3, 2006: Do we really believe that ...

These minds are capable of being changed?

Leftists are urging acceptance of people from the terrorist-sponsoring countries, people who think as do the imams and men in articles mentioned today. Do they really think that they will rehabilitate these minds? That they are capable of reason? Of tolerance? Of treating women as equals? Where do the feminists of the Status of Women (SOW) stand on the following?


Egyptians are horrified by the news that women have been assaulted by hordes of young men in the centre of the capital, Cairo., timwest 11/01/2006 22:57:48

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/13090.html

Blogs broke the story that has scandalised Egyptians.

The incidents were first reported online by Egyptian bloggers, some of whom saw large number of men harassing the women and ripping off their clothes.

It all happened over the Eid al-Fitr period starting on 23 October, as thousands of young men thronged the streets of central Cairo to celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

[....] A psychologist, Amr Abu Khaleel, attributed the predatory behaviour to the possible use of drugs and the breakdown of traditional values.

One prominent writer and journalist, Nabeel Sharaf al-Deen, said that such behaviour was the symptom of a deeper malaise in Egyptian society and warned that such incidents were the first stirrings of much bigger social unrest. [....]

I do not believe this is a recent phenomenon. Despicable treatment of women has been a problem for women for years; e.g. female travellers in the North Africa area. It is just now being reported more, particularly since men with these attitudes have moved to the West. Do you really want to support No One Is Illegal? More "refugees" mouthing lies in order to stay? A refugee appeal system that allows even the worst to stay and to fight deportation using taxpayer money? Keep reading.




Women not meat: men not animals , The Gazette, October 30, 2006

www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=
1a24bbd0-4bde-4e44-9dbe-0451d3871e3e

Australia's most senior Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching for three months, time enough, the Australian mosque association believes, for Sheikh Taj el-Din al-Hilali to reconsider the error of his thinking.

A lifetime ban is what is required. Hilali apologized but has shown little real understanding of why his remarks raised such controversy around the world. The failure of the Australian Muslim community to remove him permanently, and his intransigence about his suspension, reveal the problem which views such as his create for all Muslims.

[....] In a sermon to 500 people in Sydney, marking the end of Ramadan, Hilali, 65, spoke of women who appear in public without a hijab (which is not in fact a religious requirement) this way: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street ... and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it? The cats or the uncovered meat?" [....]

Another imam reveals a barbaric attitudes toward women. Why would the countries of the West allow people like this to enter, to instruct?



Background: Muslim Rape, Feminist Silence, By Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com , Nov. 1, 2006

frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=25226

Unveiled women who get raped deserve it.

That’s the pedagogy preached by the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, who recently sparked an international stir by pronouncing that women who do not veil themselves, and allow themselves to be “uncovered meat”, are at fault if they are raped.

This is nothing new, of course, and it is somewhat mysterious why the Sheikh’s comments have caused any shock at all, since his view is legitimized by various Islamic texts and numerous social and legal Islamic structures. And that is why back in September 2004 in Denmark, al-Hilali’s Australian counterpart, the Mufti Shahid Mehdi, declared exactly the same thing, stating that unveiled women are “asking for rape.”

All of this, in turn, explains the skyrocketing epidemic of Muslim rape in non-Islamic countries. Muslim newcomers are significantly overrepresented among convicted rapists and rape suspects throughout European nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. [....]

Search: smiley [This is NOT funny, though you should know what it is.]

Just read it. It is unbelievable that a Western country would allow people like this to immigrate or to enter as imams, to preach. It is time for that to change.



Where do Canadian feminists, the Status of Women (SOW) stand on this subject?

Yesterday I read that, finally, a Muslim father in Florida was being punished for mutilating the clitoris of his 2 year old with scissors; he got 10 years in jail.

Ethiopian immigrant convicted in daughter's genital mutilation gets 10 years

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/11/01/2198075-ap.html

In a case in Canada, St. Catherines, I believe, the parents sent a girl "home" (perhaps with or to grandparents) and a cliterectomy was performed -- so they actually got away with it -- no jail time.

If we bring barbarism here, our homeland will become barbaric. Reconsider immigration from those Muslim countries still performing clitorectomies, still treating girls like this and their women as though they were occasions of sin. Already, as detailed in the article mentioned above, Europe is reaping the fruits of its Muslim immigration. Should we not learn from it and act accordingly? Comments?



An Unveiling: Separate, but acceptable? An NRO Symposium , National Review Online, October 25, 2006

article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=
NDNkNjE0ODBkMDNiYjk4OGIyNjJhYTk4MzdlNjJmZTg

“Muslim women veiling has become the subject of intense controversy in Britain in recent days, with Prime Minister Tony Blair calling the veil a “mark of separation.” National Review Online asked a group of commentators — including Bill Bennett, Mona Charen, Phyllis Chesler, Andrew McCarthy, Emanuele Ottolenghi, and Daniel Pipes, to weigh in on the questions: Should the nikab be banned? CAN it be?” [nikab / niqab]

The full range of answers can be read at

http://
article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=
NDNkNjE0ODBkMDNiYjk4OGIyNjJhYTk4MzdlNjJmZTg .

Here is mine [Daniel Pipes]:

The nikab, which leaves only a woman’s eyes showing, is the second most extreme Muslim covering of women after the burka (which covers the entire head, including the eyes). Both garments have become the topic of debate in Europe in recent years; in “Europe’s Burqa Wars,” for example, I catalogue some efforts to penalize or render illegal the burka. Thanks to a statement by Labour politician Jack Straw, the nikab has in recent weeks become the center of furious dispute in Great Britain. To a lesser extent, it is already debated in the United States, such as the case of Sultaana Freeman, who wanted to wear a nikab for her driving license picture, or Ginnnah Muhammad, who had her lawsuit thrown out of court because she refused to take off her nikab.

I see the nikab or burka doing immense damage to male/female and Muslim/non-Muslim relations, but in those areas an American’s right to freedom-of-expression prevails. On grounds of security, however, I believe that both coverings should be banned, as one cannot have face-less persons walking the streets, driving cars, or otherwise entering public spaces. [....]

Comment from a correspondent ... drawing attention to who fund the left: Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left, Ben Johnson, FrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2004

Ben Johnson is Managing Editor of FrontPage Magazine and author of the book 57 Varieties of Radical Causes: Teresa Heinz Kerry's Charitable Giving

www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12187

Perhaps this circular rotation of cash and endorsements should not surprise anyone. The grant-making institutions of the Left and their feverish recipients ultimately form an amorphous, leftist entity. One never needs to search very far to find connections between a leftist foundation and extreme advocacy groups. Teresa Heinz Kerry, George Soros, Bill Moyers and the Ford Foundation fund the Tides Foundation/Center; Tides funds the National Lawyers Guild, CAIR, MoveOn.org and United for Peace and Justice; those organizations then unite in fluid coalitions to protest against their common political enemies (Republicans). Ultimately, their representatives end up on Bill Moyers' PBS programs or active within the Democratic campaigns of their fundraisers. [....]

The writer suggested that the same thing is occurring on in Canada, except, instead of private donations supporting these radical groups, it's taxpayers' money, the CCP, Gays, the anti-poverty coalition -- all sucking off the taxpayer teat. The writer also suggested that immigration is the most troubling; leftists are urging acceptance of people from the terrorist-sponsoring countries, people who think as do the imams and men in articles mentioned today. Do they really think that they will rehabilitate these minds? That they are capable of reason? Their inability to see any view but their own does not render them fit to live in the West.

More on this topic later.

Comment if you wish. No, I cannot tell who writes from comments. I do get to choose whether the writer is sensibly commenting or just spewing vitriol at me, in which case, it won't be published. Google/Blogger has made it that simple.

Nov. 3, 2006: Various #1

Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Workopolis, TorStar, BCE, Desmarais and Power

National Recruitment for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games kicks-off at workopolis.com, CNW Telbec / workopolis.com

www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/October2006/03/c4081.html

<< "Corporate athletes" wanted for 1,200 full-time, 3,500 temporary and 25,000 volunteer Games positions >>

TORONTO, Oct. 3 /CNW/ - Workopolis, Canada's leading provider of Internet recruiting, career and job search solutions, today announced it has been selected as the exclusive Official Supplier of Online Recruitment for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). [....]

Workopolis is a unique and complementary partnership of three Canadian media companies, The Globe and Mail division of Bell Globemedia, Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. and Gesca Ltd., the newspaper publishing subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada. Workopolis has offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Guelph, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Isn't it cozy to have a Desmarais daughter-in-law and Jean Chretien's daughter, France, on the board for the Olympics? ... access ... power ... results ... or maybe it is coincidental ...



'My Dream? The World' , Sunday October 8, 2006, The Observer

observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1889950,00.html

After her sister, Helene, married Paul Desmarais Jr, the son of Paul Desmarais, head of the Power Corporation of Canada and worth an estimated $3.9bn according to Forbes magazine [....]

I don't believe we travel in the same circles.



Maurice Strong, Eleanor Clitheroe, Ontario Hydro

Chairman Mo resurfaces to blow horn, By Judi McLeod, October 18, 2006

www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover101806.htm

[....] "I was the one who lured Clitheroe into Ontario Hydro," Strong recalled in an article published in Canadian Business (October 9-22).....(A government contract subsequently led Clitheroe to Ontario's Ministry of Finance, where she became deputy minister.) ....

This from the same guy who would entreat us that Kofi and Kojo are on the up and up. [....]

While [Maurice] Strong boasts about his one-dollar salary, he neglects to mention the fact that he used millions of Hydro dollars to sink into a Costa Rican rainforest. [....]

I don't recall reading that in the mainstream media. Strange.




Tories pulled off leak-free announcement, Alexander Panetta, Nov. 1, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/11/01/2198084-cp.html

[....] The prime minister told his troops that an income-splitting announcement would mean significant tax savings for many senior citizens and help them enjoy their retirement. [....]

Update on Basi's Boys ...

How much do you want to bet that justice will prevail? ... Will the system will kick in ... in the service of those who gain from it?

B.C. attorney general expresses concern that premier wiretapped by RCMP , Scott Sutherland, Nov. 1, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2006/11/01/2198086-cp.html

[....] The court heard police obtained a wiretap for a government cellular phone without telling the authorizing judge it was a government phone.

That led to police inadvertently eavesdropping on a conversation between Basi's boss, then-finance minister Gary Collins and the premier. [....]

Remember, Collins moved from government to BC Rail, I believe. It must have been a sure thing to leave a ministerial position.



Possible mistrial raised in corruption case linked to B.C. legislature raid -- re: Dave Basi, Bobby Virk, BC Rail privatization , Terri Theodore, Nov. 2, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2006/08/29/1784232-cp.html

[....] Bolton and other defence lawyers want access to the RCMP project room where the evidence is kept.

[....] Those privileged documents were taken from the legislature during a raid by RCMP officers looking for evidence in December 2003.

Police searched the offices of Dave Basi and Bobby Virk. [....] [....]

You did know this was coming, surely?

Too much English on Net, warns expert, The Australian — This story is from our news.com.au network Source: From correspondents in Vouliagmeni, Greece, November 02, 2006 -- posted by starboardside Nov 01, 2006

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
893&mforum=elwoodpdowd

EXPERTS at a UN forum on internet governance warned that the predominant use of English on the worldwide web needs to be checked before it crowds out other languages.

They fear forms of cultural knowledge accumulated over centuries of human progress could be lost for ever.

“Some 90 per cent of 6000 languages (at use today) are not represented on the internet,” said Yoshinori Imai of NHK, Japan's Broadcasting Corporation. [....]

You did realize that the UN's Cultural Diversity Protocol so eagerly wanted by the language industry and others encompassed much more than culture and language, didn't you? If not, it might be wise to catch up. Dyane Adam, Canada's last language tzar was away ahead of the rest of the citizenry in understanding the implications ... Think a trip to China, Paul Martin's signature on the UN Cultural Diversity Protocol Nov. 2005, the desperation on the part of the Heritage Department (website in PQ at that time) to work for its ratification, the UN/UNESCO influence in PQ, Heritage, DFAIT ... Paris ... etc.

There have been several posts on this topic, one group here for a start: FHTR Jan. 29 - Feb. 3, 2006

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_01_29_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Scroll to:

No Indoctrination 1, No Element of Coercion, No Global Aspirations
No Indoctrination 2: No Outside Influences?
No Indoctrination 3: No Coercion, Helping the Poor of Africa & the World
No Indoctrination 4: Francophone Countries Gain
No Indoctrination 5: Summit's Outcome Important for Islamic Countries
No Indoctrination 6: Control & the CRTC, Protection, Language, Industries & the CRTC [added Feb. 5, 06 -- scroll down past #5 for it.]
...
No Indoctrination -&- Six Features of Socialism
No Indoctrination: Elections Canada & Student Vote? [That question mark indicated my questioning how such indoctrination was allowed in some schools, some classrooms.]




Corrections: Prisoners

Violent prisoners paid to play Scrabble , Richard Ford, Oct. 18, 06

www.timesonline.co.uk/article/
0,,29389-2409034_1,00.html

VIOLENT and disruptive prisoners are being paid by the Prison Service to play Scrabble, look after fish tanks and learn the guitar, according to a jail watchdog report published today.

Offenders with a long history of causing trouble in prisons are being paid to undertake a range of activities in a “jail within a jail” at Whitemoor top-security prison. [....]

Online ID fraud growing

Online fraud risk growing: Cavoukian -- Microsoft exploring safe identity cards, Oct. 19, 2006. 05:54 AM, Surya Bhattacharya, Business reporter

www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=
thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&amp;amp;c=Article&cid=
1161208213356&call_pageid=968350072197

[....] Info cards are being designed to better protect users against online identity theft and Internet fraud. [note how benign what I italicized is]

The "virtual wallet" will be a series of online cards, called info cards, that will be used instead of typing in sensitive personal information for every purchase made online. [....]

Info cards will help bypass retailers who hold onto personal information indefinitely, making them attractive targets for hackers. [....]

Microsoft will launch Cardspace, an inter-operable program that enables the use of info cards, when it introduces Microsoft Vista, its new operating system, early next year. [....]

Who would have access to and/or control the "Info cards"? Microsoft? Who work for Microsoft? Is there any outsourcing to workers in other countries? Think about it. Give us an operating system developed in the free West, a company which employs their own citizens and does not outsource anything as esoteric (to most users) as the computer coding to aliens. Some young computer whiz should think of that for a business. Or is it too late to fight against the power of the MS/OS behemoth?




Is this lawsuit continuing?

I heard that Kerry apologized but didn't hear to whom nor for what.

POW Lawsuit Could Force Kerry To Come Clean On Vietnam ‘War Crimes’ Charges - by George "Bud" Day, Chairman, Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, (10/15/2006)

Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.,) was a POW in North Vietnam for five years, seven months and 13 days. He served in three wars (WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) and earned the Medal of Honor. He is the Air Force’s most decorated living veteran. He is the Director and President of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, Inc., an organization created to better educate and inform the public about the Vietnam War, its events, its history, and the men and women who sacrificed to serve their country.

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723704/posts
www.oldwardogs.us/2006/10/col_bud_day_pow.htm
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722992/posts
http://www.oldwardogs.us/2006/10/col_bud_day_pow.html
http://www.vvlf.org/default.php?page_id=77

Thirty five years ago John Kerry slandered an entire generation of men who fought in Vietnam branding them as a "war criminals." Today, much of the same thing is being said about our young men and women in Iraq.

Now, a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia’s Court of Common Pleas will test the very foundation of Kerry’s anti-war persona for the first time. .... This time Kerry may finally be forced to answer for the events that launched his public career, one that made him an anti-war hero for many American liberals and a turncoat for millions of Vietnam veterans.

The lawsuit (Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, et al. v. Kenneth Campbell, et al.) challenges the basis, the factual accuracy of then-Lt. (j.g.) Kerry’s acrimonious testimony before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971. It was there Kerry’s public career was catapulted with his now ubiquitous portrayal of American soldiers as murderers, rapists and torturers "who ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam . . . [and] razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan."

Kerry said then his accusations were based on the so-called "testimony" of "150 honorably discharged" Vietnam veterans who, like himself, claimed to have committed or witnessed "war crimes, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." [....]

Bureaucracy or Parents?

Garth Turner on spending taxpayer money to set up a daycare bureaucracy or on the parents of children, posted by IamCanadian, Oct. 18, 06

www.canadawebpages.com/pc-forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7554

[....] Instead of having every parent get this money, Halton Region wants the federal and provincial governments to hand over $23.1 million (of your tax dollars) to create just 600 new child care spaces. This would leave 34,400 children in Halton with no new child care spaces. It would leave more than 15,000 families with no extra money at all to help defray family expenses. But this cash would create new Halton Region employees who would run the child care. [....]

Nov. 2, 2006: CBC & Income Trusts

Update Nov. 3, 06:

In the long term, Ottawa is right to move on income trusts , November 02, 2006, From Thursday's Globe and Mail, Gwyn Morgan, retired founding CEO of EnCana

When I was asked to write about Tuesday's income-trust announcement, my first reaction was that there is much more downside than upside in wading into these financially and emotionally roiling waters.

If doing so requires just an ounce of courage on my part, then the courage required by Jim Flaherty must be measured in tonnes. And this goes for his boss, Stephen Harper, as well. [....]

But for foreign investors, Canadian trusts have been a tax bonanza. This is because, except for aminimal withholding tax, the cash payouts are pretty much tax free. This is where the real leakage is occurring, with foreigners getting a free ride from taxpayers. [....]

At the federal level, most of this leakage is made up by higher capital gains tax inflows from trust conversions; the real leakage occurs at the provincial level. [....]

Worth reading.



Nov. 2, 06

CBC news tonight: Save yourself some time; it's all anti-Conservative government all the time.

There is always an NDP'er--usually Jack Layton--to talk ... if he's not available, another NDP'er will be ... tonight (?) MacPhail from BC, an ex-Minister was available ... all negative.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day was interviewed on the gun registry waste of taxpayer money and the AG's Report -- understated, calm, clear, believable -- He is more impressive each time I listen to him. In response to news about the Auditor General's latest report on the gun registry, ex-Public Safety Min. and Deputy PM Anne McLellan denied misleading Parliament -- said something about accounting methods (check further). If you check Hansard--at least what I read on the weekend from a year ago--Ms. McLellan evaded answering ... proficiently ... which amounts to the same thing as misleading ... when it would hurt her government for the true figures for the gun registry fiasco to be revealed.

Re income trusts: My guess is that a number of the lads (part of the network of business, media--BCE, for example--politics, Liberals, the former government ... ) had organized to bring on the income trusts so they could make a lot of money and, just incidentally, hurt the Conservative government at the same time--and that, once the Conservative government realized what they were about to do, the Finance Minister acted for the good of the country's ability to pay for what is needed. Bill Graham had another hissy fit and flounced up to Jane Tabor (I think it was) to put on his outraged act on leaving the House. The MSM never disappoint; they are fast to promote and protect the left/Libs/NDP ... not so fast on journalistic investigations ... which is why the rest of us can't stand their faux news reporting while omitting what is really important. (More later or tomorrow)

Elsewhere, I read that what has happened will help the elderly, seniors, and is fairer all around. How would I know? Better read some more.

Remember the pre-Christmas and pre-election trust stories of a year ago?

Related:
Oct. 22, 2006: Various #2, has a bit on the bank act

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/10/
oct-22-2006-various-2.html

Related: Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 13, 2006: Friday the thirteenth ... -- BCE income trusts, RIM's BlackBerry / Pearl, Jim Balsillie ..."Bell Globemedia, owner of The Globe and Mail and the CTV television network, along with an investment in Telesat Holdings Inc."

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/10
/oct-13-2006-friday-thirteenth.html

Nov. 2, 2006: Program: Obsession - Fox News

Program: Obsession - video clips here

How determined to kill you is radical Islam? -- FOX News Channel Sat. and Sun.

www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,226482,00.html

How determined to kill you is radical Islam? This weekend, FOX News Channel examines the full scope of the threat to the United States, with the help of documentarian Wayne Kopping. This hour-long program exposes the stunning and explicit threats made against the West made by Islamic leaders. It features interviews with former terrorists, shocking Islamic news video never before broadcast in America, and undercover footage taken inside suicide bomber initiations and secret jihadist meetings.

The special will air Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET, and will be repeated Sunday at 1 a.m. ET, 5 a.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET.

Update: The article is a must read one.

Nov. 2, 2006: Various #1

CTV’s Robert Fife explains Global Warming... , Proud to be Canadian

www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog/index/weblog/5766/

Global warming will devastate economy: report

After listening to Robert Fife explain global warming, no one needs to read any of the following stories, or see the eight reports on CTV’s website, all covering the environmentalist’s point of view, or the link to Al (I invented the internet) Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” hokum.

[....] Global National’s Kevin Newman dramatically and breathlessly reports that this new report is “climate calamity” and an apocalyptic warning” to the world.

Related Stories - ones that expose the myth of global warming and the true cost of these proposals

West shouldn’t feel guilty about wanting bang for its buck
Playing Chicken Little
Climate change report has a political history

You will have to link to the website for the urls for those items.



Officials initial major native treaty in Prince George, B.C.; worth $13m plus land, Oct. 29, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/29/2165833-cp.html

This relates to a post today by Bud Talkinghorn on the Charter and natives

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. (CP) - A major land claims treaty in British Columbia is one step closer to reality.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, federal Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice and officials from the Lheidli T'enneh band took part in an official signing ceremony.

The treaty includes a sockeye salmon fishing agreement, rights to more than 43 square kilometres of land near Prince George, and more than $13 million in cash while the 315 band members relinquish their tax-exempt status.

[....] The agreement must be ratified by the band, as well as the federal and provincial governments

[....] initialling [....]

Good intentions, gone awry -- re: multiculturalism , George Jonas, National Post, June 15, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/
story.html?id=3ddfe4c3-a35c-4a61-a93c-d05d84fe8b29

[....] By encouraging hyphenation, multiculturalism was said to build on an earlier Canadian tradition, the so-called "cultural mosaic." In contrast to the American "melting pot," with its gung-ho patriotism and crude pressures of assimilation, the cultural mosaic had the appearance of a more elegant and decorative model of nationhood. The political fashion of the pre-war period saw it producing a richer royal tapestry for the Crown in Canada than America's republican monochrome. In reality, the notion of a mosaic had less to do with elegance than with British (and French) standoffishness -- the reluctance of the founding nations to share the country with the riff-raff of the world on a completely equal footing. The hint of apartheid built into the concept of a "mosaic" was there to ensure the dominant position of the founding groups.

Multiculturalism aimed for the very opposite: It was to do away not just with the British-French, but the essentially European or First World character of Canada as a nation. Trudeau's ambitious, unannounced, possibly unexamined and merely intuitive design would, within two or three generations, take Canada out of the ambit of Christendom altogether and establish it as an advance pawn of the Third World in the Western Hemisphere. [....]

In that, Trudeau succeeded ... much to the sorrow of many Canadians.



Shut Up, You Right Wing Extremist Nut, October 25, 2006, Posted by Russ Wilcox on 08:27:59 2006/10/27

canadiancoalition.com/forum/messages/19681.shtml

There have been many articles lately about attempts by those on the left to silence their opponents. Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe, Peggy Noonan at the Opinion Journal and Victor Davis Hanson at Real Clear Politics, to name three such journalists, claim that the problem that exists is that liberals have been out of office for so long that they have become increasingly angry and frustrated and that it is this anger and frustration that leads them to try to shut down or shout down any opposing viewpoints than their own.

I disagree. I think the whole history of events since the Communist Manifesto is filled with examples of leftists trying and often succeeding in shutting up anyone who disagrees. I remember my own experience while teaching at [....]

Related: Free Dominion site

www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/
viewtopic.php?p=359494&sid=
576ec27e68f23b56a35af7dfd52a96d0

here

www.lyingliberals.ca/

here

www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=22896




Ship-jumping sailors spook Arctic port -- "This is an issue of Arctic sovereignty," he said. -- or ... is calling for more security at the northern port after two Turkish sailors trying to ... The night the men left their ship, the customs agent was leading a ..., Joe Friesen, Globe and Mail, Oct. 30, 06

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20061030.wxchurchill30/BNStory/National/home

[....]The two men, Erkan Yilmaz and Serdar Demirci, were described as engine-room hands on the Cenk Katanoglu, a ship with a Turkish crew that was taking on a cargo of wheat. One had joined the crew just a month before while it was docked in Ireland, while the other had been on the ship for six months, according to the ship's first officer, Gokhan Alicanoglu.

Some time after 8 p.m. on Oct. 24, the men left the ship and travelled a short distance to the town Via station, where Jodi Grosbrink was working behind the ticket counter. [....]

Immigration is a hot topic right now. Refugees should be a hot topic, as well, particularly the part about, as someone wrote, "letting in any old liar who comes along" ... which segues into the next post.



Immigration: What happens to history in the internet era?

If a search engine doesn't bring useable results in the first couple of pages, if the search engine doesn't have it at all, or if it is hidden after reams of the puff pieces [Search the Aga Khan, for example] ... say, on page 21 of search results, does the story just go away ... into file 13? Or is the object that the searcher quit?

On the way to something else, I came across my post on this case and I wondered what was the result of the trial? Was there a trial? Plea bargain? I checked Google. On that day, there was nada on Diane Serre after a few links to the reports of charges from two years ago ...

Immigration fraud: What happened with this case?

News Junkie Canada Dec. 2004

Immigration fraud - re: Diane Serre

newsjunkiecanada.blogspot.com/2004/12/
sinclair-stephens-wins-immigration.html

Diane Serre [also Diane Serré], 34, is charged with 13 counts of fraud upon the government, eight counts of breach of trust by a public officer, and one count of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and possession of property obtained by crime.

Also facing various charges are Issam Dakik, 44, Vivian Badaan-Dakik, 33, Roger Harper, 38, and Ali Naser, 43, all of Ottawa. [....]

Is this a photo of the Diane Serre / Diane Serré who was charged?

cwisdb.kuleuven.be/persdb-bin/persdb?lang=
E&oproep=persoon&fnaam=29961
Photo: Diane Serre / Diane Serré

Try searching first with the English spelling, then with its French spelling, then each individual involved:

Search in this order and see which name(s) brings the most information on what happened in the end.

1. Diane Serre
2. Vivian Badaan-Dakik
3. Diane Serre / Diane Serré
4. Roger Harper [boyfriend of Serre / Serré]
5. Ali Nasser
6. Issam Dakik

One of the five is Immigration Canada's director of operations, Diane Serré. The five are accused of having facilitated the granting of permanent resident ...

www.wednesday-night.com/Immigration.asp

Diane Serre, the 34-year-old operations manager for Ottawa's CIC office, has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, breach of trust and various other ...

www.visalaw.com/news/globeandmail

See also: here

www.amerique-immigration.com/nev200/suite.php?newsid=77

here

www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/article/
article_complet.php?path=/actualites/
article/17/1,63,0,122004,869493.php

Nov. 2, 2006: Bud Talkinghorn

The fat police are coming to get ya

A few years ago, the reviled smokers of North America thought they saw a celestial sign that they were only the vanguard of a massive attack on personal behaviour. Even before the New York City decision to ban trans fats, we had the NDP's, Pat Martin, demanding it for all of Canada. The government nannies think that we are hopelessly unhealthy and addicted to junk food. Therefore they must put us on a diet. I rarely eat fast foods, but if I ate it every day it would not be not the government's business. They should be doing all in their power to wean the young tubbies off their ruinous diet of junk food. The epidemic of obesity is horrendous. Subsidize healthy food, encourage amateur sports, and mount an advertising campaign, but call off the food police.

The New York Health Authority has declared that henceforth all doctors and labs have to report the results of blood sugar tests to them. Surveys have shown that a number of diabetics are consuming too much of the sugary foods. Presumably, these errant diabetics will be contacted to amend their ways. Police might have to storm their premises to confiscate their frosted flakes and stash of deep-fried Mars bars. There goes the doctor-patient confidentiality understanding. If you let your mind wander the possibilities are endless. Why not track sexual infections and teens and unwed mothers seeking advice? You may often feel that nobody cares about you, but the government is interested in your most intimate secrets. It is always couched in terms of your own best interests. You simply need a strong nudge from your government to get into "self" improvments.

© Bud Talkinghorn--I recently read that the London borough of Richmond has started charging SUV owners double the amount for curbside parking in front of their own houses. The Labour council thought that the plutocrat class should suffer for their gaseous excesses. Coming to a neighbourhood near you, should the NDP ever win power.


Frost Hits the Rhubarb: Overweight students and sports teams

Might I suggest, also, Bud, that in encouraging activity for those who need it most, schools forget the sports teams. The members of the school teams are usually in the best shape; it is the kid who doesn't move off his/her butt who needs activity, sport, games, all kinds of movement, not to be marked as the kid not chosen because he/she is not good at games, nor does that student need the rejection that comes with being seen as a failure -- because, as a member of a sports team, he/she would have a negative effect on the team's ability to win. Team sports emphasizing competition from school to school or in a league are the last thing chunky children need. Their failure to be chosen as a part of a team simply makes them feel ... like going for a triple ice-cream ... or some other gucky comfort food. FHTR



The Charter gets a face lift

Recently a judge in Manitoba ruled that the natives should not have an exemption from the no-smoking rule for public places. While the province's bars were hurting because of the ban, the natives were hauling them in to their smoky bars and casinos. As an ostracized smoker, I have made it a point not to waste money on bar drinks anymore. I'll sit home and imbibe, while smoking to my heart's content. However, if we must have no-smoking laws, let them be applied equally. This judge said "enough" of this two-tier law. If the non-natives can't smoke publicly, then the natives can't either. The native lobby was outraged. One went so far as to say that The Charter was constructed to give the "disadvantaged" a special legal break. Basically he was saying--as with Orwell--that all are equal, but some are more equal than others. We have already seen this theory played out in native criminal sentencing cases.

The $9.1 billion to keep the natives going yearly doesn't seem to count. In fact, Phil Fontaine doesn't think it is adequate. "Where is that extra $5 billlion wampum to permanently fix the native malaise?", he wants to know. Phil Fontaine really likes the Charter. His take on it is truly interesting. For him, it promises endless largesse from a guilt-ridden populous. Didn't the Great White Father, Trudeau, envision this when he authored The Charter? Sorry. but all I can muster is the good judge's admonishment, "enough".

© Bud Talkinghorn--I had to restrain myself from italicizing that joke line "permanently fix the native problem".

Nov. 1, 2006: #1

Whistleblower sounds warning, Licia Corbella, Nov. 1, 06

calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2006/11/01/2196476.html

[....] corporate chill [....]

... moved from the executive suites into [....]

... clear the books were cooked to hide debt and prop up ...

"You've got to listen to your gut and never fall into group think," she warned ...

When asked to participate in a questionable activity at work, everyone should take the "Three M test," she said. [....]

Search: mentor , Christian




Marry your sister - how some slip into Canada
Bogus marriage to your sister, brother or even your mother is a common tactic to fool officials , Jessica Nadeau / Gabriel Zimmerman, Sun Media, Nov. 1, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/11/01/2197223-sun.html

[....] Our reporters met at least 30 recent immigrants who claim to know at least one person who gained entry to Canada this way. All requested anonymity, fearing personal retribution. [....]

* Organize a false wedding ceremony and take plenty of pictures. Pictures of the happy wedded couple kissing on the mouth are particularly helpful.

Conservative-tolerant Toronto Sun (Sun Media) up up and away! Liberal media rags down. , October 31, 2006, Posted by Joel Johannesen

www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog/index/weblog/5768/


North West Passage, AncientUno, 10/31/2006 18:14:33

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/13067.html

***The USA says that the North West Passage is not part of Canada ! Well what do you all think of that!***

The US isn't the only country that thinks the same. Russia, and I believe Denmark and few European countries have the same view. Nothing much has been done in the because it has been frozen over most of time. But if global warming keeps the NW passage open most of the year, like some think will happen, Canada better get a pretty big Navy in hurry if it wants to defend what it says is [theirs]. [....]

Oct. 31, 2006: Happy Hallowe'en

Hallowe'en buns for the politically incorrect

I just couldn't resist ... the devil made me post it.


Update: I could not attribute this, nor the pumpkins I posted in "Oct. 29, 2006: Scary" to any artist. The above pumpkin came to me as a joke from a friend, along with the others. However, here are some links:

Outside the lines via newsbeat1

www.outside-the-lines.com/artist.html

Check here


These are wonderful examples of ingenuity with a pumpkin.

Pumpkin art by Scott Cummins of Perryton, Texas

pumpkingutter.com/

Oct. 31, 2006: Updates & security-related

3. Update -- Scroll down for it.



Updates and related:

1. An update added today: (Search "Judd") or Update Oct. 31, 06:

2. The following items update or are related to security, hacking and Oct. 30, 2006: Various #1: -- Hamas doesn't want to destroy Israel' ... [Spain's] Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief ....

Scroll to: Security, Hackers, Spain, Javier Solana -- today's update



With talk of North Korea in the news ...

On April 19 2005, Strong said he was stepping down as UN envoy in North Korea, Judi McLeod, January 9, 2006. Posted by styky

www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=
34934&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=285

[....] On June 3 2005, Strong was interviewed for emagazine.com, "the Online Home of E/The Environmental Magazine.

"I’ve got a variety of titles," Strong boasted to San Francisco-based freelance writer Michael Stoll. "The one I like best is honorary professor at the University of Beijing in China and at the Environmental Management College of China. I’m very active in China; I spend a lot of time there, because what happens in China is going to matter to the whole world. There’s a whole new environmental renaissance in China. It’s a little late coming, but it’s absolutely necessary for the future of China, and absolutely necessary for the future of all of us who want a sustainable way of life to be maintained on our planet." [....]

www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover010906.htm

There are many more articles with links to even more information in the several pages of this Free Dominion thread: "The Oil-for-Food Scandal – the Canadian Connection". For example:

Search: Strong Implications

www.nationalreview.com/rosett/rosett200601102128.asp

See also Maurice Strong's Yellow Brick Road to Global Governance

www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/aug/040830a.html


This is part of a series:
Inside the Chinese Hack Attack -- How a ring of hackers, codenamed Titan Rain by investigators, probed U.S. government computers, by Nathan Thornburgh, Aug. 25, 05

www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html


The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them) (TIME In Depth) An exclusive look at how the hackers called TITAN RAIN are stealing U.S. secrets

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1098961,00.html


Tongsun Park, Maurice Strong, Reid Morden at Atomic Energy of Canada, By Judi McLeod, Friday, June 30, 2006, re: Oil for food, Canada

www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover063006.htm

Search:

[....] Joining the dots also leads to another Canadian connection: [....]

Does the above put a different complexion on the following?

Security, Hackers, Spain, Javier Solana -- today's update

Is Mo's ManyOne.net ready for hack attack on world wide web?, by By David Hawkins, January 19, 2006, posted by styky, 01/ 19/ 06 5:04 pm

www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=
34934&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=300

[Originally posted here but no longer online:
www.canadafreepress.com/2006/hawkins011906.htm]

Short of a cataclysmic event, Canadians will ... begin discovering the world wide reach of the UN Oil-for-Food kickback network, allegedly built for Maurice Strong by Saddam's bankers, BNP Paribas.

Three days before Spain's 2004 election, there was a cataclysmic event.

Al-Qaeda SWAT teams bombed Madrid's main railway station, shooting voters into the arms of Socialists who promptly pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq.

Running a typical protection racket, [....]

... Canadian Auditor General, Sheila Fraser, [....]

On Tuesday, Maurice Strong launched 'http://ManyOne.net' ... Lockheed Martin ... (former Democrat U.S. presidential hopeful and fired ex-NATO boss in Europe, who nearly started World War III in Kosvo).

... can deploy hackers ... cyberespionage ring codenamed 'Titan Rain'.

... scanner program ... test the hackers' ability to sabotage U.S. military systems, including those built by Strong's partner Lockheed Martin.

www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1098371,00.html [....]

3. Update -- possibly of interest also:

Frost Hits the Rhubarb, Dec. 11-17, 2005

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_12_11_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Scroll to: Updated: Li Ka-shing Benefactor, CSL & CITIC -&- Follow the Yellow--Red--Brick Road #1 to #7

Scroll down the whole week's postings.

If pressed for time: Frost Hits the Rhubarb, Dec. 16, 05 which is an introduction to a seven-part post.

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/12/
updated-li-ka-shing-benefactor-csl.html




VOIP , CRTC & More -- Satellite radios: Why did this happen?

FHTR May 8, 2006 #2
Review VoIP RULING, CRTC told, (in the comments) on “Market forces”? Snarf! That ain’t liberal! -- by Joel Johannesen on 05/06/06 on Proud to be Canadian -- comments: Posted by The Patriot from Winnipeg, Manitoba on 05/06 at 08:41 AM
[www.proudtobecanadian.ca/blog/index/weblog/4402/]

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006/05/may-8-2006-2.html

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

On the same FHTR webpage search:

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

[....] 1972, when the Churchill Falls hydroelectric dam was completed with Quebec's help.

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

...

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

[....] Their involvement is often below the radar screen. Bombardier, an Oglivys client, just signed a big deal in China, for example. [....]




More on security:

Frost Hits the Rhubarb September 3, 2005
Update 1: Memo to PM & Canada-China Business Council, Security? Extradition, Military Clawback & Organized Crime in Canada

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/09/
update-1-memo-to-pm-canada-china.html

Search:

Tech Transfer Notes PDF -- Security Awareness For Employees July 2005

Part I: Thefts of U.S. technology boost China's weaponry by Bill Gertz

[....]

* Chinese spy exposes Chinese espionage network in Europe
By Huang Zhenzhen, Central News Agency

* Chinese students believed to be running industrial ‘spy network' across Europe

* At risk offshore -- U.S. companies outsourcing their software development offshore can get stung by industrial espionage and poor intellectual property safeguards Condensed from an article by Michael Fitzgerald

[....]

Extradition: To whose benefit?

Gotcha! Canadian Business, David Baines, 2003-09-29 re:undercover work and Cpl. Bill Majcher of the Vancouver RCMP Integrated Proceeds of Crime Unit [....]

Military:

Liberals Break Promise on Accelerating Purchase of Search and . . . . Air force sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say the statement of requirements has been written and rewritten at least four times over the past year at the request of officials in the office of Defence Minister Bill Graham. (National Post, September 1, 2005) Posted by James Hunter on 12:31:39 2005/09/01

[....]

Organized Crime in Canada: A Quarterly Summary January to March, 2005 [....]

A global anti-counterfeit group claims Canada is home to an estimated $20 billion-per-year industry