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Support our troops: Rally on Parliament Hill, Friday, Sept. 22; God bless CFRA, Ottawa.
http://www.cfra.com/red-fridays/index.asp?id=8

"News Talk Radio 580 CFRA is proud to support the grassroots effort brought to Petawawa by the wives of two men serving in the Canadian Forces. The concept of wearing something red - whether a red shirt, jacket, cap, bandana or whatever - every Friday is meant to let the soldiers and their spouses and children know they are not alone.
We appreciate the sacrifices they are making on our behalf. We thank them for their service to our country and their fight for peace and justice wherever in the world they are sent.

With that in mind, CFRA invites you to attend a massive "Red Friday" public rally. This is a non-partisan, non-political rally in support of Canadian troops and their families:

* Friday Sept 22, 2006
* Parliament Hill, Ottawa
* 12:00 Noon - 1:00 pm

Police officers, firefighters, city staff, politicians of all stripes, OC Transpo staff, paramedics, united way workers, private colourful parade of veterans as they show respect and thanks in a very public way.

PLEASE SHARE THIS PAGE WITH EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. HELP SPREAD THE WORD, AND WEAR RED THIS FRIDAY!

For more information on supporting our troops, visit http://www.marriedtothecanadianforces.com

To order support our troops merchandise, visit: http://www.cfpsa.com"

Mark
Ottawa

http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2006/09/anti-terrorist-fish.html

Here's something I could never have imagined.

The latest battle in the war to shut up and shut down the Pope and the Catholic Church is just warming up.

Watch closely now. Here comes an Islamofacist peace parade. /sarc

Cue the youts.

The following excerpt is from the always informative and educational website islamonline.net,

Qaradawi Urges "Peaceful" Anger Day

By IOL Staff


He stopped short of apologizing and the real apology is to retract his remarks, which should be omitted from the lecture, Qaradawi said.

CAIRO — Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi has called on Muslims worldwide to hold a day of "peaceful" anger next Friday to protest the offensive remarks made by Pope Benedict VXI, saying that the pontiff's expression of sorrow for the crisis still fell far short of an apology.

"I urge Muslims to take to the streets on the last Friday in the month of Shaban, to express their anger in a peaceful and rational manner," Qaradawi, chairman of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS), told Al-Jazeera's Al-Shari`ah and Life program late on Sunday, September 17.

"Muslims should be wise in their anger," he stressed, warning against attacking churches, individuals or property.

The prominent scholar regretted that some Christian places of worship had been attacked over the past few days.

"It is unfortunate that such a mistake was made by a man who represents one of the largest denominations in Christianity," Qaradawi said.

BBC online has a brief article about the number of women in Iranian universities - outstripping the men, and how this demographics is inevitably going to change Iranian society.

The tribal mindset of Islam, frozen as it is in the 7th century, can't sustain its exponentially growing population on oil forever; and it certainly can't return to the peasant agriculture of Pure Islam (see the results of such a tactic in Zimbabwe). The economy has to modernize, and with that, the political system, and with that, the religious ideology.

Bush is right; democracy is the catalyst for the ME area. Now, the questions arise - which nations will control this new ME industrialism? Can they all collaborate or, is it the old agenda of One Power? Iran's agenda is for it to be 'Top Gun'. That means destabilizing Iraq,and Saudi Arabia.

Notice how France is slithering in to hold hands with Iran. Before Iran, France was cheek-to-cheek with Iraq. Now that Iraq has slipped its net, France is also moving into Lebanon, controlled by Iran (don't think for a second that France is interested in helping Lebanon; France has only one self-image, a Napoleonic Gaullist empire.

One way to control the area is to prevent industrial dev't in other countries. That's why Iran is behind the insurgency in Iraq, why Iran is behind the destabilization in Lebanon and Israel.
Another way to control the area is by propaganda, the insistence that people function wihtin emotions rather than reason. Iran is very skilled at that. But, if it wanted to keep its population within a Taliban style regime, then, it wouldn't permit the education of women.

Therefore, my point is that democracy and industrial dev't in the ME is inevitable. Key areas of concern emerge within the idea of the fight for 'Top Gun' control of this industrial dev't - and Iran is well on the road with that agenda. Is Saudi Arabia worried? Others? United Arab Emirates?

Another key area of concern is, of course, the West, which is absorbing the fundamentalist flock of the ME, who are all moving out of the ME but, who are not moving into an industrial and democratic mode because of the multicultural isolationism of Europe/Canada leftists and because these immigrants are operating within an unevolved, rabid Islamic fascism, kept alive by ME imams - This 'infection' in the West weakens the Western economy and mind.

That's what Benedict was talking about.

scientist fired for refusing to use harper newspeak

PM LIED, CITIZENS RIOT.

People in Hungary riot because their PM lied !! Huh. And we refer to Hungary as Third World !!??
And Canada is supposed to be "First World" ?? Well, when our Political Leaders lie, steal, corrupt, ect, we Canadians just don't riot, we,.. we,.. well, we just re-elect them. Oh dear. Maybe Hungary is gradually WINNING their Democracy and Canada is gradually LOSING it's.

All readership:

As Kate notified "connection extremely flakey." I've noticed same since Google introduced new format in the google history box. The slow loads are particularly significant.

Obviously, it slows down blogosphere transmissions and connectivity.

I'm quickly coming to conclusion IPs and Google are doing the democratic base a disservice.

Also UN Security reporting on CNN has failed to provide audience to ALL SPEECHES including Kofi Annan whose just come out of Non-alliance meeting.

We need some legitimate broadcast, print better internet connectivity. ARE WE EVER GOING TO GET IT? Thoughts anyone?

I would like to see link on every serious blog regarding full list of terrorist incidents such as Islamreligionofpeace provides.

Bush's speech just started..ttyl

Fournier and the CBC crap, Literally !!

Best line in PTBC's commnents: "CBC is the ring around the bowl of Canadian Media".
Exactually. With their $Billion per year subsidy they have the resources to call the shots, control other media orgs. a la Julie Van Dusen's control of the, now defunct, Paliamentary Press Gallery.

President Bush has a tip(s) for Iran and anyone who has ears to hear, eyes to see.

The operative word is: "consequences". ...-

Bush Warns Iran Anew Over Nuclear Plans

Townhall ^ | 09/18/06 | Unknown
President Bush, poised to outline to world leaders his vision of a 21st century framework for global security, pressed Iran once more Tuesday to immediately begin negotiations on its nuclear program. Just before going to the United Nations to address the General Assembly, Bush warned that any delay on the part of Tehran would bring consequences. President Bush meets with French President Jacques Chirac during bilateral meetings related to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Iran's defiant pursuit of a nuclear program was at the top of the agenda when Bush...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704258/posts

Tanks rolling into central Bangkok (CNN just now)
Posted by Eurotwit
On 09/19/2006 8:17:24 AM PDT · 182 replies · 8,567+ views

CNN ^ | September 19, 2006 | CNN
Tanks rolling into central Bangkok. Army has taken over the regular TV broadcast in Thailand. Rumours of a military takeover. ...-
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The Calgary Sun reports:

"Students make spirited return".

Of course that's the Dawson students. What courage! What guts! Such heroic behaviour!

Where's my barf bucket?

First reaction to fifteen minute address of Bush at UN Security Council. Note: Ahmadinejad wasn't present.

At base of speech is need for leadership, corporatists, banking, real estate to see to the need for regional working economies where societies firstly, can eat and have viable living, working communities.

Onus is directly placed on world leaderships to address and REFORM their economies. Specifically Persian and Arab leadership to financially address their individual economies for the working base.

And now the IPs, Google, et. al. straighten out the slow feed thing, or I, for one with boycott your business until you rectify the matter.

If you're in it "for the buck ONLY" your short-circuiting yourselves of the availability of the buck is going to occur more rapidly than you can imagine.

It's not so hard Olly, (Corporatists) to do ethical business. Olly, get the message, it increases business, and, therefore, revitalizes an economy. Waiting for other reactions...give it a go all.

Food on the table enables one to walk to the polls for legitimate leadership.

Kudos to Prime Minister Harper for immediately making statement on Mike Duffy Live broadcast at end of first day of parliamentary business on floor.

Canada has unique opportunity now to "mean business" on the ground with Nato. One thousand Taleban down, 14,000 to go. Get it done with all expediency because it's doable. Corporatists listen up good the domestic agenda must be addressed and you're on the 'hot seat' as you determine to do it the right way.

Best Case - Worse Case Video

ht tp: /tinyurl.com/mr7vx

Bolton, speaking to U.N. reporters, said: "The discussions with Iran appear to have come to a stop -- in the sense that Mr. Larijani, whom we expected in New York, is not here."

The United States, which gave Larijani a visa for the trip, has repeatedly delayed pushing for U.N. sanctions on Iran while Larijani held preliminary talks with Solana. But Bolton said time was running out.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Untied States had acted in good faith by granting a visa to Larijani and he suggested the Iranians were "playing for time" by repeatedly rescheduling meetings with Solana.

"It is a well-known tactic that they have," McCormack told reporters.

=== CNN === TG

Way to go.. Mark,

Parliament Hill rally for the good guys. . .

* Friday Sept 22, 2006
* Parliament Hill, Ottawa
* 12:00 Noon - 1:00 pm

Support? Indeed! =TG

Pulitzer Prize for Felony Murder.......
" the Associated Press, rather than expressing any embarrassment that it has been publishing propaganda photos taken by an apparent associate of al Qaeda in Iraq, is campaigning for Hussein's release, saying that it is normal for journalists to have "relationships with people that others might find unsavory."

3w.powerlineblog.com/archives/015301.php

Today the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives has concluded that a Canadian soldier is statistically 6 times more likely to be killed in Afghanistan than an American soldier is in Iraq. Stephen Staples and the org. he represents have figured this out by taking the rate of casualties Canadian troops are experiencing since Feb. of this year.

Video:
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=bd3a1120-e9de-4758-a24d-54c0db97f53e&k=24966#

Prime Minister Harper sends an uneqivocal, unnuanced message to Jack "Taliban" Layton" and Bob "Cut'n Run" Rae. ...-

Only Exit Condition from Afghanistan is Success: Harper
Josh Pringle
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the exit strategy from Afghanistan is "success." ...-
cfra.com

Mark Collins:

Great to see this. "Support our Troops Rally" on Hill. It should travel through blogosphere like wildfire and across Canada. MSM Coverage? Broadcast and print will likely respond in big way. Afghanistan is as tough a theatre rivalling Viet Nam if not exceeding it.

I hope part of message entails. 1000 Taleban down, 14,000 to go. It's doable

and

Support our Troops - join them.

and

Canadian Troops mean business -- successes scored to date (Operation Medussa)

Question:

Will it ever be possible for liberals to "get it"?

There may be hope for some....

3w.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-harris18sep18,0,622365.story

the madman rides again

...the lack of any criminal charges -- let alone much information about what Bilal Hussein did to merit five months behind bars -- hasn't stopped these wingers from convicting him, and the Associated Press along with it, of being a terrorist.

www.attytood.com/archives/003740.html

Calls are being made for RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli to resign.

Who appointed Zaccardelli?*

Report clears Maher Arar of al-Qaida ties
Edmonton Sun - 11 hours ago
By JORGE BARRERA, SUN MEDIA. OTTAWA -- Maher Arar tearfully faced reporters yesterday after his name was cleared by a censored report into police and government actions surrounding his torture in a Syrian dungeon. ...-

*AdScam Jean Chretien.

More:

Official Report * 2005 * Number 116 (Official Version)
The recently appointed RCMP commissioner, Mr. Zaccardelli, expressed some fears with regard to the corruption of politicians. This is not coming from me, ...
www.parl.gc.ca/36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/116_2000-09-18/han116_2005-e.htm

Fournier is gonzo...-

CBC chairman facing ridicule in Quebec (Liberal appointee opines on bestiality, bowel movements)

National Post - Canada ^ | Tuesday, September 19, 2006 | Graeme Hamilton
CBC chairman facing ridicule in Quebec Comments about bestiality and bowel movements cause uproar Graeme Hamilton National Post Tuesday, September 19, 2006 MONTREAL - CBC chairman Guy Fournier has become the target of anger and derision in his home province after falsely claiming that Lebanon permits bestiality and for granting a lengthy interview on the joys of bowel movements. CREDIT: Pierre Obendrauf, CanWest News Service CBC chairman Guy Fournier recently told a French-language radiostation that bowel movements are better than sex. He also infuriatedLebanese Canadians when he claimed that Lebanon permits bestiality. On Sunday night, Mr. Fournier, appeared on...
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... and now your weather report from the the Dominion Observatory Time Signal . At the start of.... the softwood deal passed easily. ...-

CBC CHAIRMAN GUY FOURNIER RESIGNS (FIRED)
CBCCBC chairman Guy Fournier has resigned after controversial comments he made about bestiality and bowel movements.

SOFTWOOD DEAL PASSES EASILY
HarperThe House of Commons voted 172-116 in favour of a ways and means motion -- the first step in the formal approval process.

Afstan: The truth will out.

Letter today in the Edmonton Journal:

'U.S. not in control

The Edmonton Journal
'Published: Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Re: "Fighting won't provide solution to morass in Afghanistan," Opinion, Sept. 17.

The column states that "the U.S. is still running the Afghan campaign." That is not accurate. Canadian troops are serving under NATO's International Security Assistance Force. The U.S. is not running ISAF.

ISAF's mission is mandated by the UN Security Council. On Sept. 12 the council voted unanimously to extend ISAF's mandate, and specifically called "upon member states to contribute personnel, equipment and other resources to ISAF."

Mark Collins, Ottawa'

Mark
Ottawa

PS: Ignore *Pull-out-Jack*. Quitting Afgfhanistan means schools bombed, children and teachers killed. Men hanging from soccer field goal posts.

The Taliban can not rely on educated kids to be reliable walking bombs.

Guess National Dipstick Party, Jack, thinks one more Darfur would be nice. = TG

Maz2, that should be Taliban Jack and Cut'n'Rae

Socialist government will fall.

Long live free Hungary. ...-

Riot police rush to Hungary's capital as protesters mass for 3rd straight night
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungarian mounted police charged bottle-hurling protesters outside Socialist party headquarters early Wednesday, in renewed unrest fomented by the prime minister's leaked admission his government had repeatedly lied to the public about the economy. ...-

The Hungarian Uprising Redux
TIME - 3 hours ago
"We screwed up," the prime minister tells the nation, trying to prepare it for economic austerity. Instead he sparks street protests reminiscent of 1956. Next month is the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian ...-

George Jonas | Hungary's 'poet-king'
The website of author and journalist George Jonas. Find recent columns, reviews, and articles, as well as a bibliography and biography for George Jonas.
www.georgejonas.ca/recent_writing.cfm?id=456

I'm a dinner jacket's speech
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Well, I sat through the whole painful affair. It was classic rhetoric. Starting with grand proclamations of principal, but presented as rhetorical questions and allusions to "some states", it got down to the nitty-gritty of bad Israel and the millions of poor disposessed Palestinians, then reform of the UN Security Council. It winds up with a recap of the grand rhetoric.

What makes this a beautiful example of hypocricy is the grand rhetoric, based upon Western values of TRUTH and JUSTICE; something his regime, and fellow travellers of his ideology, really aren't toooo interested in. In fact, I am sure a diligent researcher can dig up speeches where he has decried these very same Western, imperialist, concepts.

As to his facts on the "palestinians" and lebanon, he is just repeating the usual propaganda, completely ignoring the facts.

I.E:

Millions of muslims were NOT displaced in 1948. In fact, more Jews were kicked out of Arab countries. There were only a few hundred thousand arabs displaced, and that at the encouragement of the surrounding arab states. Palestine at the time included what is now Jordan; there were no "palestinians" as the UN now has created in their terrorist training camps. The arabs who stayed in Israel lead a reasonable life.

He talks of the foreign involvement in the Lebanon war, while forgetting to add that it was his war.

So, his speech was full of crap, but very well crafted crap.

One thing I am annoyed at CNN for is that they praised Ahmadinejad's timing of his speech to be in primetime, while Bush didn't. Ignorant people. Bush spoke in middle East primetime, his target audience.

Can't make the rally, but have been wearing red for several weeks. SHOULD TALIBAN JACK OR ANY OTHER NDP, show up at this rally, boo him loudly. He should be a little upset today after NB election and no seats and losing 2% popular vote, 7% to 5%. Watching him during ?period he looks a little beaten. Quite a yelling match there today. Hope all lumber companies and employees remember that libranos and dippers voted against their economic well being. All the outrage at the Harper govt re Arar, by the libranos and dippers, was funny. Chretain and martin were in office when this all started. And, any muslim who travels thru the US, and is a dual citizen, should have known that it would be dangerous. Too bad so many cdns think other countries are as lenient as we are, when it comes to doing bad things. Anyone travelling to any mideast country for whatever reason better change their plans. We will rescue you once only.

Re: the Duquesne University shooting....

Duquesne University, a Catholic insitution in Pittsburgh and the site of the shooting of two young men this past week, has a general student union, the Duquesne Students' Union, and the separate Duquesne Black Students' Union. It was the latter organization that sponsored the dance to which armed malefactors were admitted. Almost all the American news outlets correctly identified the sponsors of the dance, but not the CBC, which, if I heard correctly, noted that the dance had been sponsored by "the student union".

wimpy canadian - I'll disagree with some of your points on Ahmadinejab's speech to the UN. For example, Palestine did exist prior to 1948; it was a British governed area, as I'm sure you know.

And there were a lot of Palestinians displaced and not just at the behest of other Arab states; the emerging Jewish nation did not want them there, for the new nation was defined as operating within a Jewish majority. I have long wondered why this fictional tale is promoted, or either the inhabitants left because the Arab states asked them to (and not Israel) and another scenario which saw Palestine as almost an 'empty land' with no-one 'really' living there, ignoring the farms that had been there fore centuries; the people governed by the Ottomans and the British actually existed - and were about 700,000. And, they weren't really Jordanians - another myth.

The fact that there was 'no nation called Palestine' is irrelevant, for at one time, there was no nation called Canada. Does that mean that Canada has no right, now, to exist? And I'm against the occupation..

However, that's not the point. My point is that the other Arab states, and that includes Iran, dont' give a damn about Palestine. They never have and I've come more and more to the conclusion that it wasn't merely Israel that wasn't recognizing the right of the Palestinians to their own state (and they haven't; Oslo wasn't a state). It's the Arab States that didn't want Palestine as a nation.

The reason, is that Palestine would be, as a new state, a democracy. And that is something that the Arab States have been against, for years. They don't want a democracy in their midst; that includes Israel but above all, they don't want an Arab, a Muslim democracy, intheir midst.

I'm speculating that the key reason Palestine doesn't exist as a state, now, is the Arab States. If they had worked on it, accepted Israel AND accepted Palestine, they could have forced Israel NOT to occupy, not to settle the occupied lands, and Palestine would be a state.

Iran knows this. All that rhetoric about Palestine is empty nonsense. The real agenda of Iran has nothing to do with Palestine - and Palestinians are viewed with contempt by many Muslims in the ME, viewed as illiterate peasants. The real agenda of Iran is to be Top Dog in the ME, controlling Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, even SA. That's their agenda - and the Palestinian situation is a front for advancing that ME empire. Note how France is moving in to help.

check out the latest issue of frank magazine under 'house of wax' (aka house of commons)

something for everybody.

newly minted green leaders chances of winning a seat deep in bloc territory are analysed.

some conny conny conservatist, conny conny con servatist, servatist self servatist with a funny name has his history recounted including the mike harris moves to (quoting now) 'beat up on welfare moms'.

and the leading horse ignatief gets lots of copy too.

etc etc