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From Michael Rosenberg at the Detroit Free Press... "Journalism Rules-The Secrets"
Rule 1. Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted; then, after the afflicted become comfortable, afflict them again. This should provide an endless supply of news stories...
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070604/NEWS05/706040321/10

US DOLLAR COLLAPSE OMMINENT IF DEBT NOT SERVICED.

http://pressesc.com/01180629622_dollar_falls

"The United States dollar is facing imminent collapse in the face of an unsustainable debt, the United Nations warned today.

United States debt, which had now deepened to well over $3 trillion, might turn out to be unsustainable in the rest of 2007 or next, putting further downward pressure on the United States dollar, Rob Vos, the Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference. "

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so we are niot seeing a rise in the looney as much as a fall in the greenback..our 95 cent exchange rate could go higher...then the trade headaches.

An editorial in the Canada Free Press hints that, since 2004, Ontario's been governed by a fanatic, thanks to a major promise that the same fellow claimed, on two different occasions, was broken and not-broken. The title of the editorial in question is "Dalton McRadler: 'I'm telling the truth this time'"

Check out the headline in today's TorontoRedStar.
"VICTORY PUTS KHADR IN LIMBO". Victory? For who, the Taliban?

Listen to the balance of CBC radio "news" reporting the Omar Khadr story. I never cease to be jaded by the CBC's extreme leftism:
http://no-libs.com/?p=1766

WLMR: Re: US $ collapse.

Pardon the intended pun, but I wouldn't put too much stock in UN disinformation campaigns.

When the UN gets its Human Rights dept. in order; they may have a little more credibility.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP's taliban caucus loses 24 members.
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Estimated 24 Taliban fighters killed in Afghan battle

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A gunbattle and air strikes killed an estimated two dozen Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/War_Terror/2007/06/05/4235062-ap.html

"The United States dollar is facing imminent collapse in the face of an unsustainable debt, the United Nations warned today."

The ultimate irony.

The UN giving the USA advice on finance.

The best thing the USA could do is stop funding the UN, pull out and force them to hell out of the country and world affairs.

The UN has evolved into nothing more than a haven for corruption and and a boars nest of evil third world tyrants living off western nations' taxdollars.

thanx joe...you beat me to it. get the UN out, probably save a trillion right there. hans is. would be a good re-location spot. arrogant bastards.

"The United States dollar is facing imminent collapse in the face of an unsustainable debt, the United Nations warned today."
I think the journalist is dyslexic as they have transposed United States with United Nations.

BTW, if PM Harper jumps in to give government aid and assistance to that upstanding Canadian citizen Khadr then he will have lost a couple more voters forever.

I caught an item on one of the national news broadcasts last night concerning the Conservatives move to introduce Driving While Drugged legislation . The network dragged out the spokespuppet from the Canadian Safety Council who tried every angle to shoot down the bill's sensibility. Would I be correct in thinking that the Canadian Safety Council receives the lion's share of it's funding from the alcohol industry in Canada?

WL Mackenzie Redux

The US needs to immediatly stop funding the UN and all foreign aid I mena the world hates the USA so the money can't buy me love. err luv of the USA so screw em.

The EU sez NO! to democracy,
http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/?p=539

Scooter Libby just got 2 1/2 years in prison. Details here.

Spike. What the hell do you want to pawn the Usless Nations of on us for? Can you just imagine what it would cost taxpayers to set up the "standard" they expect? Lybia , Sudan, Nigera,Zimbabyay, there are many optionional locations availlable.

More on Libby: he was also dinged with a $250,000 fine. What got the book thrown at him, accoring to CBC's Henry Champ, was lack of suitable remorse. The sentence is being appealed.

Taliban Jack Layton-NDP says, Don't worry, Mohammed. We're sending reinforcements from TO.
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Afghan forces sink boat carrying Taliban fleeing attack

KABUL (AP) - Afghan forces sank a boat carrying suspected Taliban fighters fleeing an attack, and more than 20 drowned, officials said Tuesday, as a separate gunbattle and air strikes killed an estimated two dozen militants in southern Afghanistan. [...]

On Friday, a makeshift boat carrying fighters fleeing a battle sank, killing an estimated 60 Taliban, Azimi said. ...-
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/06/05/4236064-ap.html

A lighter item: a Vermont secessionist movement is gaining ground.

No link, I'm afraid (and I looked), but a Reuters photo printed in Monday's "24hrs" (the freebie hand-out from the Sun newspapers) of the G*8 protesters in Rostock, Germany showed the usual group, this time with paper cut-out masks of the world leaders. One of them was wearing a Paul Martin mask.
I suppose it is too much to ask of those who would take us back to the stone age to keep current on who's who.

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I guess Al Sharpton was busy.

Be it resolved: That guns, drugs and marginalised thugs
are the fault of "a racist white society."

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Working to get Khadr back to Canada will not be a move we're likely to see from the Conservatives but the pressure is already on and it's coming from Iggy himself.

If he is by some fluke or grave political error allowed back we can expect a demand for compensation as a next move.
The Khadr family were a special interest to Chretien, he went to bat for the sire of the terrorist sons when he was held by Pakistan.

Oh those insightful Liberals! What a mess they've left.

Spike:

Careful about any UN relocation scams to Hans Island.

Any Danes displaying Viking tendencies will be repulsed with maximum vigour.

BTW Hell has been canceled until further notice.

The last time I checked up on Hell, it was of the telephone variety with the following message:

"Hello this is Beelzebub. I'm not at my furnace right now, but if you leave a message I'll get back to you when HELL FREEZES OVER."

Given that Hans Island is part of the TRUE NORTH, STRONG AND FREE, we can summon up all the freezing HELL wants.

By order of

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP

Commander in Chief

Frankenstein Battalion

Knecht Rupprecht Division

Hans Corps

1st Saint Nicolaas Army

Army Group “True North”

Editor Admits: We Slanted the News [Israeli Media Admits Anti-War Agenda]

(IsraelNN.com) A former Israel Broadcasting Authority news editor admits: "We slanted the news towards a withdrawal from Lebanon - because we had sons there."

Speaking at the Haifa Radio Conference on Monday, several former and current news broadcasters on Voice of Israel and Army Radio discussed the tremendous influence they nearly all agreed they had on Israel's national agenda.

Dr. Chanan Naveh, who edited the Israel Broadcasting Authority radio's news desk in late 1990's and early 2000's, was particularly bombastic about his pervasive reach: "The morning audience, stuck in traffic jams or at work, is simply captive - they're ours." He also mentioned, with no regrets, two examples in which he and his colleagues made a concerted effort to change public opinion:

"Three broadcasters - Carmela Menashe, Shelly Yechimovich [now a Labor party Knesset Member - ed.], and I - pushed in every way possible the withdrawal from Lebanon towards 2000. In our newsroom, three of the editors had sons in Lebanon, and we took it upon ourselves as a mission - possibly not stated - to get the IDF out of Lebanon... I have no doubt that we promoted an agenda of withdrawal that was a matter of public dispute." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845213/posts

Um whatever happened to the Bourque-linked Leger poll that had Dion at 12% in Quebec, behind the other three leaders? Did it get buried?

Khadr should make us ashamed to be Canadian

By Doug Aldridge, The Right Side
Canada Free Fress
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

That Omar Khadr and his family are Canadians, is an insult to decent Canadians from ALL segments of society.

Decent Canadian citizens don't sneak away to join bands of foreign fanatics for the express purpose of killing people who are our friends and allies.

Decent Canadians don't cheer on the foreign fanatics when they massacre other Canadians as they did on 9/11.

Decent Canadians don't show up in court as cheerleaders, to support the treasonous, home-grown, would-be-terrorists, inspired by the foreign fanatics who pose as spiritual leaders in order to get into this country. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845269/posts

IRISH ENVIRONMENTALISM

Bad news reaches a Prague tourist information centre:

"Since your President Vaclav Klaus has declared people are not responsible for global warming, we have decided to go to Malta rather than to the Czech Republic,” an Irish couple has written.

Since this pair believe people are responsible for global warming, why are they travelling anywhere? Let alone to Malta, which is – ahem – about 1,000 kilometres further from Ireland than Prague.

timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/irish_environmentalism/

"From Wacky to Insane"

Elizabeth May is stating that the Green Party will impose a .12 per Litre Gas tax & is imploring Prime Minister Stephen Harper to steal her Ideas & implement them.(ctv.ca 06/07)

Now this is really scary as she is in bed with Dion & the Liberals, Is this also Dions thoughts? How will Canadians that are struggling Now with the high Prices at the pumps take that.
Let the new adds begin, Expose these 2 for what they realy are.

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Sure, let's get Omar Khadr back...
and hang him for treason.

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Winnie Mandella refused Visa to Canada. Oh my someone in Ottawa had their brain turned on.

Bryanr, a 12 cent per litre carbon tax will not come close to helping Canada achieve Kyoto compliance. International carbon credits are the only way, and they are unacceptable to Canadians.

Go ahead, Dionsky, make my day - tell Canadians, at 2% of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions, what your program is. Better plan on two or three dollars per litre of gas carbon tax. Total non-starter, Canadians will warm up to Harper's plan real quick, especially given his leadership at G8 and European petulance (they made darned sure they could comply before they ever agreed to Kyoto).

Chretien, on the other hand, volunteered Canada for the toughest standards, ignoring our northern climate, sheer size and energy producer status. That's why Grits only want to talk about election, not actually have one.

Headline from CP, aka Communist Press:

Big-names press Harper to pass climate, native bills
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U-Know Who, Tonto?

Ughly socialist parasites, Kemo Sabay.

The Trio: Dave, Phil, and "anti-poverty crusader Gerry Barr". Gerry Who?

Fear is here, alone. Her big sister, hope, is absent.

"The trio fears the legislation will die if Harper decides to end the current session of Parliament and call a throne speech for the fall."

Mug shots of Dave-Phil here: Where's AdScam Paul Martin, Jr.?

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/06/05/4236549-cp.html

History's Worst Losers Whining Again

On the anniversary of the Six Day War, Arab nations and organizations like the Arab League are whining at a fever pitch about how horrible everything is now, and how much better it would be if they’d been allowed to wipe out the Jews: Arabs blame problems on 1967 war defeat.

Even sex would be better. [...]

Egyptian columnist Wael Abdel Fattah wrote in the independent weekly Al-Fagr newspaper that Arabs blame the defeat for “everything” — from “price hikes, dictatorship, religious extremism, sectarian strife, even sexual impotence.”
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

Chucker Canuck:
I knew Stockwell Day and Mr. Dion, you're no Stockwell Day

Now, being a sort of semi-news / mostly malarchy aggregator, I thought it helpful to summarize how Liberal bloggers are reacting to news that Jack Layton and Stephane Dion are pretty much tied for Canadians' esteem - and those ain't good numbers for Jack. ...-

It's RoundUp the usual suspects. Chucker has them parodied. Velly funny.

Sample for your edification:

Jason Cherniak. To my way of thinking, these rock-bottom poll numbers translate into smart, smart politics. ...

Red Tory. I conducted a poll of all the women I know and they all responded by saying they loathed Stephen Harper and positively worshipped Stephane Dion. It was a totally random query,...

Calgary Grit. Uhhhhhh. Ahhhhh. Uhhhhh. There's a huge Facebook scandal. Please, please, please, can we talk about the Facebook scandal? ...

Paul Wellsssss ... and more:

http://chuckercanuck.blogspot.com/

P.S. PunK is not on the list; lawsuit coming.

Macadamia has the pooh on Winnie. The Pooh!
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2007/06/05
Canadian Press somehow loses...

The criminal record of Saint Winnie Mandela.

-- Canadian Press -- TORONTO -- The former wife of anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela will not be the guest speaker at a gala fundraiser tonight in Toronto after organizers say she was denied a visa by the Canadian government.

Canadian immigration authorities could not be reached for comment.

I guess the Immigration people didn't want to slag St. Winnie either.

That's ok... I have the skinny right here.

Madikizela-Mandela was sentenced ...-
http://hallsofmacadamia.blogspot.com/2007/06/canadian-press-somehow-loses.html

Big Bro/Sis/Da/Mom in Merrie Olde England: cams in every room of your walk-up, flat, house; Palaces, too? Statist control: thru your liver.

What is it? Why are these people allowing this to happen? The people have been lobotomized; the zombie nation. Maybe it is the fluoride in the water/toothpaste from China.

Next up: Mandatory Cork Sniffing/Inspectors.
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Crackdown on middle class wine drinkers
Times Online (UK)

Middle-class wine drinkers will be the focus of government plans to make drunkenness as socially unacceptable as smoking, The Times has learnt.
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“We want to target older drinkers, those that are maybe drinking one or two bottles of wine at home each evening,” a Whitehall source said. “They do not realise the damage they are doing to their health and that they risk developing liver disease. We are not talking here about the traditional wino.”...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845445/posts

Polish girl's Holocaust diary unveiled

Polish girl's Holocaust diary unveiled By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 4, 7:01 PM ET

JERUSALEM - The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl dubbed the "Polish Anne Frank" was unveiled on Monday, chronicling the horrors she witnessed in a Jewish ghetto — at one point watching a Nazi soldier tear a Jewish baby away from his mother and kill him with his bare hands. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845441/posts

National Newswatch:

Ukrainian mass Jewish grave found

A mass grave believed to contain the bodies of several thousand Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in Ukraine. ...-

The Mourner's Kaddish

Magnified and sanctified be God's great name in the world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingdom soon, in our lifetime. Let us say: Amen.

May His great name be praised to all eternity.

Hallowed and honored, extolled and exalted, adored and acclaimed be the name of the Holy One, though He is above all the praises, hymns, and songs of adoration which men can utter. Let us say: Amen.

May God grant abundant peace and life to us and to all Israel. Let us say: Amen.

May He who ordains harmony in the universe grant peace to us and to all Israel. Let us say: Amen.

http://tinyurl.com/2q9shx
( google link to a New York Times - Science url )

"A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat

PULLMAN, Wash. — It is a gleaming prize for wheat farmers, and environmentally correct, to boot: a perennial food plant that requires plowing only once every three to five years and prevents dust storms, stems soil erosion and even absorbs carbon to help mitigate climate change.

The latest search for perennial wheat, which comes up each year, began a decade ago here at Washington State University, said Dr. Stephen Jones, a geneticist, with a big question: What are the genetics that govern a plant’s annual nature?

“That life-and-death question was fairly simple to answer,” Dr. Jones said recently, standing in a thicket of greenhouse-raised experimental wheat plants that towered over him. “It’s only a single gene that convinces a plant not to die.” Once that gene is bypassed through breeding, “the question is, Does it have what it takes to live?”

That answer is considerably more difficult. A successful perennial wheat not only has to live, but it also has to do it in the right ways: it has to enter a dormant cycle in the fall and then return to life in the spring; it has to look like wheat, have a satisfactory yield and thresh cleanly.

Dr. Jones and his graduate students overrode the “death” gene in the late 1990s — through old-fashioned breeding techniques that crossed wheat with wild grass, not genetic modification — but it takes years, allowing plants to breed at their natural pace to make sure the wheat ends up with the right characteristics..."

Via Free Republic:

Fed up with Google? Try Scroogle.org

Powerful search tool without privacy violations

As more Internet users grow cautious about Google's seemingly unquenchable desire for the private, personal data of its users, one entrepreneur is using the search engine giant's own algorithms to offer consumers a choice.

It's called Scroogle – located at Scroogle.org – and offers searchers all the power of Google but none of the privacy concerns.

One of Google's fiercest critics is Daniel Brandt. He runs Google Watch, which, among other things, tracks the growing number of privacy concerns about the company and its practices.

His latest endeavor, however, actually offers Internet users the opportunity to use Google's powerful search tools without personal data being collected by the company.

Scroogle filters searches through Brandt's servers before hitting Google. It effectively hides the address of the searcher. ...-

The BBC reports that the EU carbon trading scheme has been a failure which has caused both increased energy costs AND an increased carbon emissions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

The BBC reports that the EU carbon trading scheme has been a failure which has caused both energy costs AND carbon emissions to soar.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

The BBC reports that the EU carbon trading scheme has been a failure which has caused both energy costs AND carbon emissions to soar.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/file_on_4/6720119.stm

Healthy-looking Fidel Castro gives long TV interview
HAVANA (AP) - Speaking slowly and focusing on past memories, rather than his recovery and future, a healthier looking Cuban President Fidel Castro appeared on television Tuesday, giving the world its first long look at him since he fell ill and gave up power last summer. (canoe news)...-

Fidel's fireside chat:

Excerpts:

Si. Pierre and Papa and me cot the biggest fish 'tween Avana and Miami. Pierre wanted it mounted; sent to Montreal; Papa said no. It was hell for a while between them two amigos. Papa writ about it later, 'fore he got a bucket of lead from Raoul. Si.

'Nother time was Nikky calling, saying nuke Jack.
Stalled Nikky for 7 days; Jack thanked me for that. Sent 2 boatloads of Havanas to Jack; 'twas just before we got Jack. Si.

Then, there was Bugsy at the casino ...-

Layfield comes out swinging against ratings critic

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"In the past, Kiefl has privately emailed InsideCBC.com his opinions and research countering CBC positions, but I chose to not publish them because he asked to remain an unattributed source."

http://www.insidethecbc.com/layfieldvskiefl

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UPDATE: CTV has now included Winnie's woes

The article now includes a light touch about Winnie's criminal past...
and a bonus... apparently Stephane Dion is okay with a little
kidnapping and murder.

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oops! sorry for the triple post Kate, I didn't think the 1st 2 went through.

http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5917

A very long but worthwhile read about the role of grief and the dead in politics. And the dangers of ignoring the dead.

An excerpt:
Still, even the most ardent modernist might feel some misgivings about a rejection of the dead as complete as San Francisco’s. And such misgivings reflect, however dimly, a deep political insight—for a city without cemeteries has failed at one of the first reasons for having cities at all. Somewhere in those banished graveyards was a metaphysical ground for politics, and buried in them was a truth that too much of modern political theory seems to have forgotten: The living give us crowds. The dead give us communities.

(1) The losses human beings suffer are the deepest reason for culture,
(2) The fundamental pattern for any community is a congregation at a funeral,
(3) A healthy society requires a lively sense of the reality and continuing presence of the dead.

50 Million gallon a year ethanol plant

This video is informative and saves you the time it would take to read a small book.

http://tinyurl.com/2jb44a

autobloggreen.com/2007/05/30/abg-visits-50-million-gallon-per-year-ethanol-plant-video/

Plants like this one are far more numerous than one may think. Brazil is 80% mobile on bio-fuels, 20% on gasoline.

They use higher efficiency sugar cane and far less corn. = TG

A Nova Scotia MP shows some backbone and votes against Harper's promise-breaking budget because it goes against signed agreements made with his province on equalization.

The Ottawa Citizen puts it this way:

"Mr. Casey, 62, objected to the budget on grounds that it breaks Mr. Harper's 2006 election campaign promise to honour the terms of the 2005 Atlantic Accord. The accord excluded 100 per cent of offshore resource revenues in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador from the equalization formula used to redistribute wealth among the provinces.

Meanwhile, people in Saskatchewan, where both the Governing NDP and the Opposition Sask Party have criticized Harper for breaking his campaign equalization commitment to the province, are wondering at the silence of the twelve boneless wonders that make up the Sask Federal Conservative caucus.

If Nova Scotia's Casey can show enough spine to stand up for his own province, why can't Saskatchewan's Conservative MPs do the same?

Stephane, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, would allow Winnie into the county? Where then do we draw the line? Do we say come on in to all felons? Murderers, kidnappers, rapists, come on in?

It's beginning to look like Dion is merely brainlessly opposing. If the Harper government allowed her in, he'd be yowling they shouldn't.

It's beginning to look like he's operating with half a brain, the other half is called Iggy and together they comprise the dog and pony show they play out in QP.