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1. Red Mao Stlong say: PLA is People’s Libelation Almy. Mao say: Hullay for libelation of people. (Libelation: Modern Chinese joke meaning Mao killed 100 million “hostile elements”.)
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   Chinese Defense Minister Warns Against Barrack State and Non-political Military
   PLA to conduct massive joint military exercise with Russia next month
   Cao Gangchuan, China’s Defense Minister, warned on Jul. 16 that hostile elements want to pull PLA out of party’s control by westernizing and dividing PLA, promoting a barrack state.
   With the 80th anniversary of PLA’s founding not far away, he pointed out in his essay published at Qiushi, communist party newspaper, that there are elements who want to make the military non-party, non-political entity.
   He made it clear that PLA is an armed group which has to carry out communist party’s political mission, and emphasized that PLA should follow the party’s lead.
   However, he did not specify who are the hostile elements. …-
   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867082/posts

2. Well Well WEll Just had this sent to me.
   Kevin Dougherty, The Gazette
   Published: Sunday, July 15
   Some of the troops will defend provincial reconstruction teams, building schools and other projects, as well as aiding Afghan civil authorities. (Non-combat roles?)
   But the bulk of the troops will be based at the Kandahar Airport, at a base run by the U.S. company Halliburton Kellogg Brown & Root. (Non-combat role protecting US construction workers?)
   Now we know the reason for those air-conditioned tanks

3. From the “I Told You” department: the economic centre of Canada has shifted westward. TO-Montreal-Ottawa elites are bitterly crying foul. They still remember/weep/cry over the 1948 Grey Cup win by Calgary.
   TO Red Star speaks for the latte socialists/liberals.
   It’s the old trick/card of the socialist-liberals: divide and conquer. Eastern rednecks are cheering the West on. Ignore the TO Red Star; its message will wither and die.
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   Interest rates made in Alberta
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   In reality, the bank cannot significantly cut growth in Alberta. Instead, it is the Alberta government which has the means to slow the pace of oil-sands development if it wanted to do so. But Alberta is unwilling to apply any breaks to its economy, with the result that Ontario is now being made to pay through lost jobs and a weakened economy.
   The Bank of Canada needs to acknowledge that fact, and stop punishing this province for the choices Alberta has made. …-
   http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/236525

4. “Girl loses fight to wear ‘purity ring’ at school
   Reuter
   July 17, 2007
   London — A teenager whose teachers had stopped her wearing a “purity ring” at school to symbolize her commitment to virginity lost a high-court fight against the ban yesterday. Lydia Playfoot, 16, says her silver ring is an expression of her faith and had argued in court that it should be exempt from school regulations banning the wearing of jewellery.
   Ms. Playfoot’s parents are key members of the British arm of the Silver Ring Thing, a U.S. religious group that urges abstinence among young people. Those who sign up wear a ring on the third finger of the left hand. It is inscribed with “Thess. 4:3-4,” a reference to a biblical passage from Thessalonians that reads: “God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin.”
   from
   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070717.WORLDREPORT17-2/TPStory/Education
   Double standard?

5. With all due respect to our proud military, why is the MSM making such a big deal of sending the Van Doos over to Afgan?
   http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070716/vandoos_afghanistan_070717/20070717?hub=TopStories
   We have sent over troops from all parts of Canada with much less fanfare. The only connection I can make is that the province of Quebec has the highest dis-approval rating of the Afgan conflict in Canada.
   The Van Doos are very willing to do their part and look forward to making a positive contribution. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were wondering why they are getting so much attention from the media. I don’t have anything against this kind of attention but I wish that all our troops were treated this way.

6. The Horror of Russia’s “Nashi” Youth Cult, Revealed in English for the First Time
   Through the good offices of La Russophobe’s translator we are able to open a window into neo-Soviet Russia that would otherwise be closed to the non-Russian speaking world. In our “Articles” blog, you will find extensive translated extracts from the unabridged Nashi manifesto direct from Nashi’s website. You can see the unabridged version in Russian, the juicy bits from which are translated below, here, and the shortened, brochure-like screed in Russian is here (a comic book version of the manifesto has been published and distributed by Nashi as a propaganda leaflet; it was translated into English here, but then the translation was mysteriously withdrawn; the Nashi website itself, as we previously reported, was blocked for a time from Western browser access, but at least for now is available; our prior commentary about the leaflet version is here). Click here to read Nashi’s propaganda in its full, horrifying glory in our Articles blog. Just for instance, Nashi claims that the USSR simply “decided” to give up the arms race because of its own enlightenment, and likewise “decided” to allow German reunification on the same basis (and note too its obsessive focus on the idea of counterrevolution, now styled as “colored revolution,” and the demonization of the U.S., linking Russia’s “liberals” to foreign spies looking to subvert Russian independence). It attempts to take sole credit for the defeat of Hitler for Russia, implying that Russia saved Europe, yet does not mention Stalin’s secret deal with Hitler selling Europe down the river.
   As you see Vladimir Putin channel the ideology of Vladimir “Lenin” Ulyanov, creating a brand-new “Komsomol” organization for youth indoctrination in ideology, you see the final nail struck into the Neo-Soviet coffin of Russia. Some have misled us, claiming that the new Russian dicatatorship lacks the ideological underpinnings of the old USSR. Nobody can read this translation and still think so. How long before this ideology makes its way into text books, how long before a “party” requires indoctrination in this ideology before assuming the mantle of power? How long before it becomes a crime, punishable by gulag, to publicly criticize this ideology or those who espouse it? NOTE: If you are interested in reading translations straight from the pages of the Russian press, check out LR Translations, La Russophobe’s translations library, which contains nearly two dozen articles from the Russian press that you will find nowhere else. If any Russian-speaking reader is aware of Russian material that is a good candidate for translation, please let us know….-
   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867449/posts

7. No more tax money for this green hoax. Let this “backbone” sink into dust.
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   Green network faces funding crisis as minister Baird ponders dollars
   OTTAWA (CP) – The Canadian Environmental Network, a backbone of communications within Canada’s environmental movement, has warned its staff they may be laid off next week because of federal funding cuts. (canoe news)

8. The Goreacle is under the microscope. Its every move, twitch, spasm, gulp is recorded/analyzed/mounted as a trophy.
   The conclusion; it’s a new species of mutant virus: The Goreacle Green Hyper-Hypocrite.
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   Gore’s message loses bite (Served endangered species at daughter’s wedding)
   ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter’s wedding in Beverly Hills.
   Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass – arguably one of the world’s most threatened fish species.
   Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.
   The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching of this species.
   Working with non-government organisations, the Humane Society International’s focus is now on pursuit of illegal fishing operators who, in the rush to cash in on the highly valued species, plunder stocks with no regard for sustainability.
   It has been estimated that more than 50 per cent of toothfish traded is illegally caught, and includes juveniles vital to the ongoing toothfish population. …-
   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867471/posts
   [Free Republic had it 2 days earlier:]
   Brokaw explores the vanishing Chilean sea bass (Al Gore Feasts on Vanishing Species!)
   PMSNBC ^ | 24 May 2006 | Tom Brokaw
   Posted on 07/15/2007 6:32:51 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
   From time to time, Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC’s “Nightly News,” is going to stop by and bring us a story that captures his attention. This time, he has a fish tale that will likely hit you right where your taste buds are, and might have you looking twice at the menu. For his report for “Today,” Tom talks to G. Bruce Knecht author of “Hooked: A True Story of Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish,” about how this popular fish has been so overfished that it is now disappearing from the world’s oceans. …-
   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866415/posts

9. What does Warren Kinsella have to say about the TO urban landowners?
   Will Kinsella label the TO urban landowners as “those “knuckle-dragging, mouth breathing*” landowners”?
   The Urban Bigot
   http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/006185.html
   Colby Cosh: David Miller’s Defeat
   National Post – 3 hours ago
   Torontonians can breathe a sigh of relief: They fought successfully to make their voices heard on the issue of the Mayor’s land-transfer tax, holding enough of his council allies hostage to earn an important victory….-