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A report on anti-Semitism in the UK;
We conclude that calls to boycott contact with academics working in Israel are an assault on academic freedom and intellectual exchange. We recommend that pro-democracy lecturers in the new University and College Lecturers Union are given every support to combat such selective boycotts that are anti-Jewish in practice. We would urge the new union's executive and leadership to oppose the boycott.
Making Sars look like gingivitis.
The National Citizens Coalition has something for NDP MP Jean Crowder.
Advertising's best kept secret - it takes a graphic artist about 2 hours to come up with one of these - if they're good at what they do. The rest of the time is spent writing after-the-fact bafflegab that speaks to the "brand", to distract the client from the $3 million/hr design rate.
Thanks for all the items you've sent - if I didn't use yours, feel free to share it in the comments.
TORONTO -- The Ontario Crown agency that manages the province's casinos has become embroiled in controversy for spending up to $6-million in taxpayers' money to re-brand the corporation.
Mr. Brown was also grilled about why the lottery corporation's contract with the advertising agency that created Premier Dalton McGuinty's campaign ads more than doubled after the 2003 election.
What is the proper term again for someone who stands by or even aids someone else commiting an illegal act?
Enabler?...abettor?...complicitor?...or how about cohort?
Come on Ontario voters,you're killing the rest of us with your blindly stubborn support of the long-time corrupt,inept and arrogant liberals,both provincial and federal.WAKE UP and smell the corruption!
You won't believe this total Bull Shiite:
New poll says most Canadians blame U.S. for 9/11 attacks
Money quote:
Quebec and Ontario. That's good enough for me!
Now imported into Toronto...."An extremely deadly strain of Tuberculosis has appeared in South Africa, killing 52 of 53 people diagnosed with it so far.
All the more reason to stop the mania of the Great Unwashed illegally overrunning our borders. A century ago you couldn't leave Ellis Island without a physical exam. What would we do if this or some disease as nasty ever took hold among the millions of illegals here? How could we possibly quarantine them with no fixed address?
Just waiting for some lame lefty to counter how racist and intolerant my attitude is towards foreign bacteria and viruses.
So, the liberanos have moved corruption from Quebec to Ontario. No wonder 80% of cdns hate TO.
Gee, am I glad my father left the Kingdom of Lesotho (surrounded by SA) a number of years ago.
Didn't SA also stonewall on the seriousness of AIDS, only to have it claim Nelson Mandela's son?
Great, now we are going to have immuno compromised bringing a new strain of bacteria to a hospital near you. I suspect that this won't do anybody, like my son who is already got type 1 diabetes, any good.
Well he managed to dodge the SARS outbreak, so I hope to God that he will dodge this deadly TB bateria too.
I would gather the immuno-compromised would be among the first victims, for the new super bug.
As the World increasingly becomes anti-Jewish, the illusionists try bizarre & more vapid means to deny it.
Six hallmarks of any declining civilization into a dark age have already happened.
1) Mass migration into civilized Nations by barbarians at the Society’s behest. Usually because of failing birth rates in the Dominate cultures.
2) Lack of fertility with an increase in perversion & "alternate lifestyles". The lack of progeny insures there demise.
3) An unreal judgment of realism with a corresponding leap of faith in dogma & ideology. Of the Cultures dominant beliefs, religious, cosmological & scientific understanding. In other words they themselves fall prey to superstition (Not religion) & traditional beliefs are discarded.
4) The Arts & other institutions, including academic ones become ossified if not denigrated. Indeed they begin to show cruder style with no new forms developed. Science becomes a function of need instead of exploration. Truth is subverted for political advantage.
5) An abiding arrogance that they are above physical attack. That there Civilization will never wane.
6) Anti Semitism against Jews by States to evade there own malfeasance & just plain hate. Usually ending up in mass murder of said people.
Its profoundly disturbing where in a last stage in the now & here. Its never inevitable any culture dies. Its the decisions that polity makes that will determine the outcome. Unfortunately mental blindness from a corrupt elite, regularly wins the day. Misjudgments abound & justice is lost as is upward mobility, with a corresponding increase of statism. Loses the war, for civility against the strongman totalitarian evil. Just my opinion.
Frankly I wonder if we have lost already to the Hezzies & Hamies with other jihadist world would be rulers. By our own folly of not seeing a threat because of our own triumphism?
Is Joe throwing in the towel? Is Joe in hiding?
Where's Joe? Joe Who? ...-
http://joevolpe.ca/
I think I heard Avi Lewis, on an ad for his CBC show, say "Are you tired of yelling at the TV "You don't speak for me?"
I don't se why people are getting upset with the NDP comparing our troops to terrorists.Once the dippers convince themselves that the soldiers are terrorists it won't be long before they start backing them.
Certainly much anti-semitism these days is coming from sectors of the academic left. These are the same folks who from time to time denounce human rights (e.g., freedom of speech) as "tools of the oppressor", and nod approvingly at totalitarianism in Asia and Africa so long as it's not by people of white European descent.
Why do parts of the academic left look so fascist these days?
I think you did, too, concrete, and so did I last night on the CBC. Avi Lewis, Stephen Lewis' and the lovely Michelle Landsberg's son. Canadian nepotism: so predictable, so decadent, so "no new forms developed," as Revnant Dream puts the putrification of "the Arts" in the dying days of a civilization.
As for Canadian Observer's lament: "Come on Ontario voters,you're killing the rest of us with your blindly stubborn support of the long-time corrupt,inept and arrogant liberals,both provincial and federal.WAKE UP and smell the corruption!" I, as an Ontario voter, couldn't agree more!
Sorry, CO, my vote never seems to count. As for Duh-lton McGuilty, I can't even make contact with him. I've written him countless e-mails asking questions about Caledonia, and don't even know if he's received them because he doesn't answer questions from the voters of Ontario.
In fact, I haven't seen McGuilty anywhere. He seems to have totally disappeared and is "running Ontario" (into the ground) from behind the Wizard's curtain. He's the phantom of the inoperable. No one's home. McGuilty's gone AWOL. Man overboard!
I'm at my wit's end with this idiot--and with my fellow-Ontarians who, you are perfectly correct, are totally asleep at the wheel. Screaming and yelling does no good. Educating does no good. Countering lies and misrepresentations with the truth and with facts does no good. Going to the polls seems to do no good.
I'm left with prayer--which is where I and everybody else should have begun a long time ago. Totally prostrate in the wilderness, saying "Kyrie Eleison. Lord, have mercy."
New poll says most Canadians blame U.S. for 9/11 attacks
A majority of Canadians believe U.S. foreign policy was one of the root causes that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Quebecers are quicker to criticize the U.S. administration for its international actions than other Canadians, a recent poll suggests.
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The poll suggests that 77 per cent of Quebecers polled primarily blame American foreign policy for the Sept. 11 attacks. The results suggest 57 per cent in Ontario hold a similar view.
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Canadian opinions have hardened against the United States and its role on the world stage, said Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have contributed to a change of heart among people, he said.
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Léger Marketing interviewed 1,508 Canadian adults from Aug. 22 to Aug. 27. The poll results are considered accurate within 2.5 percentage points 19 times out of 20.
ca.news.yahoo.com/s/07092006/3/canada-new-poll-says-most-canadians-blame-u-s-9.html
Avi, Stephen and Michelle Landsberg will never speak for me..! I still remember the hatchet (job) young Avi used in ambushing Preston Manning on City t.v. a few years back...quite the smarmy little family of fellow travellers..
77 per cent of Quebecers.....
So what. They are French. Is there anything in their inglorious spineless ethnic history that would put them on the right side of it now?
57 per cent in Ontario.....
The Toronto latte crowd? So what. And a 1,508 sampling is pathetic by any metric. It's one of those convenient little MSM fluff polls.
Bob, keep swinging for it, one of these days you'll make contact with the ball.
Of course, who can trust pollsters these days?
Polling co. owner pleads guilty to fraud
SEP. 7 12:08 P.M. ET The owner of DataUSA Inc., a company that conducted political polls for the campaigns of President Bush, Sen. Joe Lieberman and other candidates, pleaded guilty to fraud for making up survey and poll results
www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8K047T00.htm?sub=apn_home_up&chan=db
Prime Minister Harper visits the "other place".
Memorable lines from Prime Minister Harper.
At last, a Prime Minister; a leader, a Conservative leader not to be bullied by Liberal senators (Munson, a former MSM reporter; appointed by AdScam Chretien two days before Chretien resigned). ...-
Harper promises bill to elect senators (cbc)
Extract:
But Liberal senators have said they will not be bullied by the Tory government into making a hasty review.
Liberal Senator Jim Munson questioned Harper about the possibility that he would "fight an election on the backs of the Senate."
"Well, don't give me the opportunity," Harper replied. He said there would be political consequences if Canadians become convinced that any kind of Senate reform became impossible.
Munson said Harper sounded like Pierre Trudeau when the former prime minister uttered the line: "Just watch me," in regards to dealing with the FLQ during the October Crisis.
Munson also questioned if Harper's proposals would lead to the "Americanization" of the Senate, which is elected in the United States.
"I don't think the Americans have particular monopoly on democracy," Harper said.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-9-7/45714.html
Chinese Regime Talks Peace but Supports Terror
Terrorists and rogue states find friend in Chinese regime
By Ben Kaminsky
Epoch Times Israel Staff
Sep 07, 2006
An Iranian Noor missile is launched during military manoeuvres at Jask peninsula in the Gulf. (-/AFP/Getty Images)
Is China a possible partner in the war against terror, as it depicts itself? Or is it on the other side of this war?
In a meeting between President Bush and the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Jiang Zemin in February 2002, Jiang made a clear point of being against terror, and assisting the global efforts against terror. In a meeting in April 2006 between President Bush and the current head of the CCP, Hu Jintao, Hu made similar statements. However, a look at the CCP's actions offers a different picture.
Made in China
It is widely known that Hezbollah's Fajr, Zelzal, and C-802/Noor missiles came from Iran. However, many of the ballistic and cruise missiles Iran has are either Chinese or were developed with the assistance of the Chinese regime.
The C-802 (or Noor) missile, which was launched by Hezbollah and hit the Israeli ship "Hanit" and an Egyptian ship in the recent Lebanon war, is known to be provided to Hezbollah by Iran. "C-802" is actually the export name of the Chinese Ying Ji 82. [1] Following the Gulf War in 1991, Iran imported the 120km range turbojet-propelled C-802 antiship cruise missile from China. According to the International Assessment and Strategy Center, in the mid-1990s the Chinese regime began enabling Iran to co-produce the C-802, which Iran code-named Noor.
The Fajr and Zelzal missiles that threatened Israel during the Lebanon War were reportedly developed by Iran with the assistance of Chinese and North Korean regimes, and are based on Chinese technology—e.g., their solid-fuel propellant technology. [2]
According to some reports, the Fajr-5 is in fact a variation of the Chinese WS-1 missile, which Iran imported from China in the late 1980s or early 1990s. [3]
The Chinese regime is also known to support Iran's efforts to upgrade its Scud missiles, [4] which were developed by China's proxy, North Korea. There are also reports of the Chinese regime supplying technical and manufacturing assistance to a number of indigenous Iranian missile programs. According to a CIA report, China and Iran signed a $3 billion deal in August 1996 that included the sale of Chinese ballistic missiles, missile guidance technology and missile production equipment. [5] The CIA's 1997 report to Congress also stated that China continued to help Iran's missile programs.
According to Bates Gill, the director of the East Asian Nonproliferation Project (Monterrey Institute of International Studies), The Chinese arms trade with Iran started in the early 1980s, and involves conventional, missile, nuclear, and chemical weapons. [6]
More fun and games in the weapons for trade space.
Read the rest at the link for more amusement, on why the UNSC is a dead letter office.
According to the NY Times (ok, a suspect source), the annual cost of treating an HIV+/AIDS patient is over $38,000 US; easily over $40,000 Cdn. So, with 150 new "refugees", it's going to cost us $6 million a year in health costs (not to mention what we'll give to these people for food/shelter/clothing, etc.).
The next time your local hospital can't buy a CAT scanner, or even a new X-ray machine, I'm sure you'll be happy that these 150 activists are being well cared for.
Dumbed down citizenry is right.
A recent poll suggested North American women were in heavy favour of withdrawing troops from the ME.
Women are expressing an emotional and uninformed opinion.
If they understood the gravity of letting Terrorism go unchallenged and the consequences of abandoning women and children to the Taliban, their opinion would be exactly opposite.
Women are so busy with so many various duties these days, there can be little time to become properly informed.
It*s natural then to trust to emotion and preference rather than logic born out of knowledge and the poll reflects that.
The MSM and the defeatist leftist spin of the CBC for example is not helping us to be informed.
We in the informed blogosphere are a very small slice of the population pie.
Does it take million$ to get the MSM to clarify the truth to the overly busy public?
The MSM is delinquent in properly informing the public. The price for this could be vast losses of lives and freedoms.= TG
All my modern sophisticated Canadian women friends were very busy in the late 90s circulating a global internet petition demanding something be done about the Taliban in Afghanistan. It gave a detailed description of the horrors of life under the Taliban. I wonder what happened to that petition? I wonder what changed their minds about the Taliban? Maybe the BDS epidemic? (BushDerangementSyndrome)
Ah, I just googled "internet petition Taliban" and got the scoop on it from Snopes, including a link to the website of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). As Snopes says, the petition itself was a useless piece of internet spam (although it made a big impression on the well educated Canadian career women who circulated it to me, I guess it seemed like a good idea to them, fighting the Taliban over the internet.)
MESSAGE TO THE NDP: GET AN IGGY OF YOUR OWN!
Why doesn't the NDP spruce it up a bit, yeah?
Get the environmental elite to cash into a giant "FUR-BALL".
//how 'bout something on the bleading edge: the new wave party; exclusivity,
Hi-tech, artSy, expensive: e.g. corporate enviro-sponsors/elite
Academic involvement and acheivement, legitimately recognized and rewarded.
After all, Universal Education, right?
Why not have some x-treme debate in the house...
HARPER
IGGY
NDP_IGGY
Certainly add some spice to Canadian politics, No?
http://nebulix.blogspot.com/
"New poll says most Canadians blame U.S. for 9/11 attacks."
No doubt there are those who would happily blame the Jews for the Holocaust. You know, root causes and all that stuff.
"Yes, what Hitler did was terrible but the Jews have only themselves to blame, blah, blah, etc., etc.,..."
GO Transit has more trouble getting crews to show up for shifts on Fridays than any other day...
..."Now it seems very interesting this only happens on a Friday"...
tinyurl.com/lpkk5
Duh.
As a GO transit rider, I find Mondays to be the worst. You can always tell when someone sleeps in: the late train is blamed on a signal or switch problem.
"Most Canadians blame US for 9/11"
"The poll suggests that 77%...."
Next paragraph.........
"When participants were given the option of choosing more than one cause for the attacks, two-thirds blamed Islamic fundamentalists and their anti-Western views, while a third pointed the finger at Israel and its position in the Middle East"
Am I missing something here or is this another CBC screw job..."given the option of choosing more than one cause for the attacks"...wtf???
What was the original poll question?... Choose one of the following:
1. US's fault
2. US's fault
3. No opinion
I'm interpreting what I read as 67% of respondents blame Islamofascism for 9/11!
But I'm open to suggestions....
Re: above comment....Never mind......very late night..reading comprehension of a troll today.
Although, as a GTA resident, I find that 33% would cite the US and Israel as complicit and fundamentalist Islam without blame both sickening and not in the bit surprising.
Once again; a poll of only about 1500 persons.
Once again no listing of the preamble or the exact question. Why would we attach any worth to such a tiny mysterious poll?
That tiny group opinion could be opposite if taken in the GTA compared to the Ottawa area.
Polls. . . A Canadian political fraud. = TG
Do any of those who were polled ever read a newspaper or watch anything other than CSI, StarTreck, CBC News or Reality TV?