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but but but, the MSM said there was no link between Iraq and terrorists.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070616/iraq_offensive_070616/20070616?hub=TopStories

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While Hamas beats Gaza with the big freakin' stick... it looks
like the West Bank is gonna get some major carrot...

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Say goodbye to Salman Rushdie, say hello to "Sir Salman". A well-deserved knighthood if ever there was one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6756149.stm

I watched a little blurb about mikey's newest fiction where the 9/11 fellas were taken to cuba for treatment and that got the hamsters running upstairs. First off,health care is free in american prisons,all american prisons not just G-Bay. Second,what are the chances that any american military facility would allow the fat bastard to use them to mock the U.S. IMHO,he took them to a private cuban clinic and then edited the film to make it appear that they were being treated at G-Bay.But mikey would never do that,would he?

More thieving Liberals.

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2007/06/15/4262216-sun.html

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/clintons-convert-stocks-into-cash/2007/06/15/1181414540444.html#

Clintons convert stocks into cash

Brisbane Times | June 16, 2007

CONCERNED that their personal finances might become a political liability again, Bill and Hillary Clinton have sold the stocks held by their blind trust after becoming aware they included oil and pharmaceutical companies, military contractors and the US retail giant Wal-Mart.
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By disposing of their stocks, which were valued at between $US5 million ($5.97 million) and $US25 million, Senator Clinton will also avoid holding financial stakes in companies — such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, the owner of Fox News — that could draw criticism from some Democratic voters
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The Clintons sold the stock as they prepared to disclose their holdings under ethics rules for presidential candidates.
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The disclosure forms reveal details about Mr Clinton's investments in Yucaipa Cos, a Californian equity firm controlled by Ron Burkle, one of Senator Clinton's top fund-raisers.

UK Daily Mail | June 15, 2007
BLAIR ATTEMPTS TO SIGN SECRET EU DEAL

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=462138&in_page_id=1770

Tony Blair has been engulfed in a row over Europe after it became clear he is under huge pressure to sign a "son of constitution" treaty next week.

A leaked letter by current EU president Angela Merkel revealed that a deal is being drafted to revive almost all the controversial elements of the flopped European Constitution.

My debate with Liberal candidate Steven Fishman
http://splatto.net/blog/?p=680

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/06/16/4266013-ap.html

For those bloggers here, esp. KM, who were worried that Fidel Castro was wasting away, lonely and friendless, in a Cuban hospital,the second finest health care system in the world.

Rest assured FC is getting lots of attention from good and true friends, such as Daniel Ortega.

'For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!
The Kenyan economics expert James Shikwati, 35, says that aid to Africa does more harm than good. The avid proponent of globalization spoke with SPIEGEL about the disastrous effects of Western development policy in Africa, corrupt rulers, and the tendency to overstate the AIDS problem.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html

http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070616/BCMASON16/Headlines/headdex/headdexEnvironment/2/2/4/

Al Gore's exploitation of Mt.Kilimanjaro as a victim of AGW, refuted by an African scientist.

Paying $$thousands for a piece of paper could reward farmers with $millions.

Anymore proof needed of Canada's 'reward failure, punish success' method ??

[ Here is the offer that dairy farmers cannot refuse.

First, the government agrees to buy back, from the farmers, the country's entire stock of dairy quota - the licences that farmers need to milk cows. The cost to the Treasury would be significant. (A licence to milk one cow sells for $25,000 to $30,000 and Canada has one million working cows. Hence, the buyout would cost the Treasury as much as $30-billion. Since the average dairy farm has 66 cows, the average dairy farmer would get upward of $2-million.) But the cost would be worth every penny - simultaneously freeing our dairy farmers and our trade negotiators from antiquated Fortress Canada economics.] G&M

http://www.globeinvestor.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070615.wreynolds0615/GIStory/

I was taking a look at my old riding - Toronto Centre - and checking out the competition for the Tories. The NDP candidate there is El-Farouk Khaki. Here's a selective bio of him:

- He was forced to resign from the Muslim Canadian Congress for allegedly marching in a protest under the Hezbollah flag

- He said that Canada, the UK, US bring terrorist attacks on themselves

- He accused the Canadian Jewish Congress of having "undue influence" on the NDP

I would pay to see the reception he gets when he starts going door-to-door in Rosedale.

[* FYI: too many links to post. click on my name above and just copy them from there]

Thanks Robert: This is what we need from every blogger, infor on who is running where. This should alert voters in other parts of Canada that the NDP is supporting candidates that support the terrorists. Could stop a lot of protest votes going their way.

New fast cash trend with Organized crime or Russia, [foreign organized crime]?

A few days ago, personal data records vanished with the Courier driver working between credit unions here in Courtenay.

This morning in the news a similar story about social security and other personal data hijacked from a hospital by courier in the U.S.A.

The banks want you to remain confident about account security and quietly absorb ident theft losses. They do not cover one to two years of inconvenience though.

Two similar style data thefts in days. If data theft occurs at your bank, they have an obligation to let you know so you can take steps.

Steps like moving any fair sized *checking* amount to a new bank.

It will be interesting to see if more courier data bag thefts make the news.= TG

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL-Rally- STOLEN FROM AFRICA
May 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3rnfmSDjgA

Tony Blair, now in his final days as Prime Minister, spoke to the Reuters Institute in a rather straightforward manner on a variety of media-related issues, including the media's own responsibility for the cynicism people feel about politics.

He strikes polite blows from a variety of angles against a media culture that increasingly and now almost completely mistakes their opinion for the news.

Excerpt: "There is now again a debate about why Parliament is not considered more important, and as ever the government is held to blame. But we actually haven't altered any of the lines of accountability between Parliament and the executive. What has changed in the way Parliament is reported, or not reported...Tell me, how many maiden speeches are listened to? How many excellent second reading speeches of sommittee speeches are covered? Except when they generate controversy, they aren't. If you are a backbench MP today you learn to give a good press release first and a good parliamentary speech second."

He describes some of the consequences of the new pressures facing the traditional media: Controversy beats reporting; attacking motive is more "potent" than attacking judgement; fear of "missing out" causes media to think alike, to hunt in packs.

But it's this next point which perfectly describes the exact reason for the rotting and ultimately unrepairable foundations of CBC/CTV's "journalism":

"Rather than just report news, the new technique is commentary on the news being as important, if not more important, than the news itself. So for example there will often be as much interpretation of what a politician is saying as there is coverage of them actually saying it."

(In the Canadian case of Boag, Hunter, Fife, etc., it's not merely that there is "as much" commentary as there is news being commented on; the ratio of "reporters'" interpretations/editorializing -- what these networks call "the story" -- to actual coverage of politicians saying the things that's being analyzed/editorialized has to be fifty or sixty to one.)

"...This leads to the incredibly frustrating pastime of expending a large amount of energy, rebutting claims about the significance of things said that bear little or no relation to what was intended....this leads to a fifth point, which is the confusion of news and commentary. Comment is a perfectly respectable part of journalism, but it is supposed to be separate. Opinion and fact should be clearly divisible. The truth is a large part of the media today, not merely elides the two, but does so now as a matter of course. In other words this is not exceptional, it is routine."

www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11923.asp

For weeks and weeks the media "prepared" us for the coming calamity of 'build-an-ark' floods in BC.

Do you emember seeing any headlines such as;

MEDIA WAS OUT TO LUNCH ON NOAH ??

Nope, just this;

[ Sandbag scare a warning to B.C., flood experts say. G&M}
More like 'Media fearmongering a hoax'

[ VANCOUVER — British Columbia's narrow escape from an expected disaster this spring is proof positive that flooding is unpredictable.]
'Unpredictable'. The thinking Canadian has known this all along.

[ “The goofy thing about all of this is that flooding really depends on weather. It depends on what happens to happen,” said Trevor Murdock, associate director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at the University of Victoria. ]
The goofy thing is that our tax $$s pay for this bafflegarb.

[ However, Mr. Murdock said, there are plenty of reasons to start thinking about how climate change could affect the frequency of flooding in the province. To begin with, he said, most climate-change models predict that by 2050, winters in British Columbia will be much wetter, a forecast echoed by several scientists.]
The so-called "experts" cannot predict the weather a few months in advance but we are supposed to believe their 45 year forcast ??
Many scientists are also predicting more droughts.

[ “We're going to see temperatures continue to increase in all seasons ] Stewart Cohen of Environment Canada's adaptation and impacts research division.
How does he know that ?? Did he ask Albert Gore ??

[ One of the most drastic predictions is that flooding could increase on the lower Fraser River by 60 to 90 per cent as a result of the mountain-pine beetle's devastation of the tree stands that protect watersheds such as the Chilcotin, the Nechako and the Upper Fraser Rivers.]Dr. Younes Alila of the University of British Columbia's forestry faculty.
Aww, soo !! The pine beetle's fault. Because the climate is 0.7 degrees warmer ?? So then, I suppose for every 200 or so kilometers that one goes south(another 0.7C warmer) one would find more pine beetle destruction ?? True ??
Or could it be that the lowly pine beetle is just evolving ?? Adapting ?? Getting better at it ?? Insects are the best at it, ya see.

[ One of the most drastic predictions is that flooding could increase on the lower Fraser River by 60 to 90 per cent ]Dr. Younes Alila
Predictions ---- guess.

[ He says that at the time of the record flood in 1894, the pines that the beetles are attacking were saplings, and didn't afford any ground cover. ]
There were no trees before 1894 ?? Also, Suzuki has been saying the climate is more severe now ??

[ This year, flooding is not caused by the beetle, Dr. Alila said.]
But from now on they will be --- so look out.

[ All the same, if Dr. Alila's predictions are correct, the kind of floods that would have occurred every 20 years or so might come every three or four years.]
'If correct'. 'Might come'.

A list of the 'qualifires', ass-coverers in the piece; -- expected disaster -- could make -- it depends on what happens to happen -- one might expect -- expected to increase -- impossible to predict -- could increase -- might come.
Wiggle roomers ?? Sure narrows it down :)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070615.wflood16/BNStory/National/home

In the last 3 wks I have received 4 mailings from my bank. They all state, In an effort to maintain security blah blah, we have noticed that you have never used the daily, weekly, amt allowed for withdrawal, etc. Therefore, we have reduced your limit to protect you. Got same info re my CC.
So far there has never been any news of any data theft from this bank, so what is up. Anyway, I decided my PIN number will be changed more often.
When was the last time you changed your PIN number. I don't think many of us do. Too hard to remember a new one.

Well Ron, we don't know for sure what's going to happen, but we DO know, with one hundred percent certainty, that some of the predictions are drastic. We need to take action based on this certainty. Depending on the weather...

"As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity now in ambitious environmentalism, not in communism. This ideology wants to replace the free and spontaneous evolution of manking by a sort of central (now global) planning."

"Let us resist the politicization of science, and oppose the term 'scientific consensus', which is always achieved only by a loud minority, never by a silent majority."

-- Vaclav Klaus, in the Financial Times.

http://flaggman.wordpress.com/
(scroll to June 14)

From today's Montreal Gazette children's book section, a very positive review of a book about a young australian girl who decides to wear a hijab ("funny, smart, serious, and fun"). Full text of the review at my post here:
http://contrariancanadian.blogspot.com/2007/06/nancy-drew-eat-your-heart-out.html

The problem with the predicted catastophic flooding in the Fraser Valley is that the beurocracy screwed up and the media are too lazy to do any fact checking.

First of all the Thompson River flows into the Fraser river in central B.C. which means that the level of water in the Fraser is dependant on both rivers. But mysteriously, the snow pack in the Thompson dissapeared early so, of course,no major flooding. But why did the snow pack dissapear early? After all B.C. supposedly had 140% of normal snow. Could it be that they miscalculated the snow pack in the Thompson water shed?

One more point. Just because the snow pack is bigger tihs year doesn't mean there will be a greater volume of water. Snow can 0nly melt at a certain rate (excluding heavy rain of course) So a bigger snow pack means a longer runoff.

Those in charge screwed up-plain and simple. And caused untoward financial outlay as well as major anxiety for those close to the river. But I guess better safe than sorry-unless it wastes 100's of millions of dollars.Kinda like Global warming.

Horny Toad

The liberals have started a caucus implementation plan to protect cultural workplaces and places of worship. They say Harper will not defend these places or some such drivel,the fella that does the talking is about as easy to understand as dion. Link to http://www.liberal.ca/players/player_e.aspx?id239 for the announcement. Hope the link works.

Nifong just went down hard. I agree with chairman Williamson: the system failed, but the backup system worked.

durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2007/06/findings.html

Just heard a news report they think they have the weapon that killed Jordan Manner's. It was in the possession of one of the gang members arrested during this weeks raids.

What's really sad. They are reporting the gang member is the boyfriend of Manner's sister, who was also arrested.

Good for Tony Blair for telling it like it is on the state of the media. It's a rampant, raging pattern of behavior and it's taken the media down to the level of a snake's outlet.

Forget the news,the actual facts, they should preface all reports with "this is my opinion and it's the opinion you gotta believe". Trouble is they don't, they pass it off as news.
They're part of the Socialist, Leftist hordes who are bent on pushing their agendas.
There is a glimmer of hope, more and more people are onto their tactics.

We're quitting newspapers in droves and tuning out the prime time news or watching it with much skepticism.

A CBC report on the celebration of the Queen's official 81st birthday, which ends with a mention of Prince Harry being stationed in Alberta.

"but but but, the MSM said there was no link between Iraq and terrorists."

Well there wasn't until the Bushies made it so.

Also, a report on a counterattack by Fatah in the West Bank. They're relying on the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. It also mentions that Yassir Arafat's house has been plundered, by a crowd o' locals.

Taleban commander Jack Layton-NDP oughta be court-martialed; or, have his moustache ripped off, one follicle at a time.
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Taleban failed to mount spring offensive: NATO

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - The Taleban failed to mount their long-threatened spring offensive in Afghanistan, and indications are the guerrillas may have trouble recruiting fighters after the harvest, a NATO commander said.

‘The only spring offensive that has taken place this year is the one that NATO has conducted,’ British Brigadier John Lorimer, the one-star general who commands NATO’s forces in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, told Reuters. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850613/posts

Update: Fat's Peace prize stolen. Check e-bay.
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Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize

Jerusalem Post ^ | 06/17/07 | Khaled Abu Toameh
Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City. "They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize medal," said Ramallah-based Fatah spokesman Ahmed Abdel Rahman. "Hamas militiamen and gangsters blew up the main entrance to the house before storming it. They stole many of Arafat's documents and files, gifts he had received from world leaders and even his military outfits." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851429/posts

"CAIR had just been named an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a Hamas financing case put forward by the United States government."

About time. Hopefully a conviction will follow.

Daniel Pipes says Prince Charlie silently converted to Islam.

I can understand somebody converting to the religion of imbeciles at the point of the sword to save their life, but otherwise?

If true, the man is not intellectually suitable for the throne.

Mohammad bin Windsor

Daniel Pipes is a liar. I'd say he's lost his mind but he never had one to lose.

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You silly-billys out west think you're so special...
well let me set the record stra... ah, queer.

'Tourism Toronto announced plans yesterday to
woo gay travellers in the U.S. -- by letting them
know this city is "as gay as it gets."'

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$5 for the PP - I assume it'll come up on E-Bay pretty soon.

Daniel Pipes is serious well-informed commentator. PC is a first-order fruitcake.

Was IowaHawk the first to know?????

"but he never had one to lose."

You strike me as an expert in this field. Please eleaborate and show us what it is like to have no mind to begin with, please.

Speaking of being forced to convert to Islam, anyone know how those ABC reporters are following the religion of peace.

"Daniel Pipes says Prince Charlie silently converted to Islam.
I can understand somebody converting to the religion of imbeciles at the point of the sword to save their life, but otherwise?
If true, the man is not intellectually suitable for the throne.
Mohammad bin Windsor
Posted by: irwin daisy at June 16, 2007 7:07 PM"

Irwin, if this is true, he can't be eligible for the throne. He is supposed to be "Defender of the Faith" - and that term doesn't refer to Islam. The King of England is the nominal head of the Church of England.

Not that it means that much anymore. The Church of England is almost as dhimmi as Prince Bat-ears himself.

Liz J: "Daniel Pipes is a liar. I'd say he's lost his mind but he never had one to lose."
REALLY? I think his mind is first rate.

BLAIR
Must disagree with above comments about the ham actor soon to be the former PM, Tony Blair: up to his usual bullshit I see: a) Parliament has basically been replaced by Brussels (about 50% of legistation is imported wholesale from the EU and b) he allowed GB to become the principal jihad base in the West. Churchillian rhetoric, Chamberlianian "action".

And he blames the media, eh?

Blair and Clinton: 3rd-way Phonies. 3rd-rate actors.

For those who, like me, are curious about chasing down details on the suggestion by Daniel Pipes that the heir to the British throne may have secretly converted to Islam, you can find Pipes' original November 9, 2003 article and its numerous updates (up to May 26, 2007) here:

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/119

I was particularly surprised to read the following:

"Sep. 4, 2005 update: Prince Charles revealed in a letter leaked to the Daily Telegraph that he had strained relations with George Carey, then archbishop of Canterbury, over his attitude toward Islam. Particularly contentious was his expressed intent, on becoming king and supreme governor of the Church of England, to ditch the centuries' old defender of the faith title and replace it with 'defender of faith' and 'defender of the Divine'. The letter reveals the archbishop's reaction.

'I wish you'd been there for the archbishop! Didn't really appreciate what I was getting at by talking about "the Divine" and felt that I had said far more about Islam than I did about Christianity - and was therefore worried about my development as a Christian.'

According to royal aides, Charles did not much respect Lord Carey's views and the feelings were reciprocated."

Sadly, the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is a politically correct multi culti appeaser and would probably have no difficulty agreeing with Charles.

To take a line from Handel's coronation anthem, "Zadok the Priest": I am praying "May the Queen live forever". That may also be Britain's only hope!

On the other hand Daniel Pipes could be drawing on his comical side.

Any thoughts out there on what the US Justice System will hand Conrad Black?
Diane Francis has opined he will get jail time.
She's speaking as a Chicagoan and it is a blue collar city, if that should play any part is up for debate.
Black's world is not blue collar and it's hard to fathom how a jury not of his peers will decide his fate.

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Doesn't that cheapen it a little... if winning this
prize is contingent on who you sleep with?

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@LizJ:

My own forecast of the trial's outcome is here.

Liz J: He will do time. Libby and Martha Stewart were essentially innocent of the ORIGINAL charge which mutated into another charge for which they were found "guilty" and did time.

Black's behaviour is at the very least morally and ethically dubious and there's the added problem of his delicious arrogance which will have to be punished: therefore he will be found guilty and do time.

Note to SDA community: while I'm hoping I'm wrong, I'll hit the paypal for $100 if I am.

From: Commentary's site, Contentions: Brilliant piece showing exactly how the UN morphed into the marxist "automatic 3rd world majority" entity it became -- how terrorism got re-defined and Israel's self defence became a "crime". In only 7 pages.

How the PLO Was Legitimized
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick – July 1989
http://tinyurl.com/2olthl

Liz J: Co-incidentally just before your comment on Pipes, I had finished his piece from 1990 in the Weekend Reading section of this site.

Can the Palestinians Make Peace?
Daniel Pipes – April 1990

Did Ban Ki Moon just blame Darfur on climate change?

http://tinyurl.com/2mr8z5

Sure did.

Script written by that Canadian behind the curtain ??

From the land of ice and snow ???

Where almost two thirds are sure global warming would be a good thing for Canada ??

Many leading climatologists also believe that the Earth will likely cool in the next 20 or 30 years. By then the Kyoto Kult's Hoax will be a distant fairy tale.

@ron in keowna:

Why do you think the recent conservative "converts" are dragging their feet with regard to implementation?

It's actually the perfect strategy for fending off eager stock salespeople. Once you hear the prediction of where gold/the market/the stock/etc. is going, you respond: "Well then, call me about 6 months after the date you gave me. There should be a buying-opportunity pullback about then, going by what you said."

If punishing arrogance becomes just cause, the lawyers will be salivating. Wouldn't be surprised though, the Law is already an ass in so may cases.

In my opinion, Black will appeal to the ends of the earth and will never do the time. It's not surprising he has many enemies in Canada, a country taken very far Left and as a result it is bent on eating it's own, especially those who are successful. Black was to the Manor born but did not rest on his luck by birth, he contributed a great deal.

Personally, I'm sick of all the picayune complaining about the lifestyle he lives. He's not a poor person, he's not going to live as a poor person.
Sad we've come to this. He is also a talented writer. His main downfall is he is CONSERVATIVE politically. I'll take him ahead of the man named Chretien who enabled Adscam, the biggest in our history.