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  1. [Canadian] Troops* capture Taliban’s birthplace
    Two Canadians slain in fierce battle that drove insurgents – some of whom used children as shields – from their historic enclave
    […]
    “None of the previous operations left lasting security in Sangisar, however, so the Canadians decided to tackle a more difficult task: seizing a strategic point among the hostile villages and building a new police station. They attempted the first phase with only three platoons of infantry, five teams of snipers and reconnaissance specialists, and a small contingent of Afghan soldiers, in a zone where locals have reported hundreds of insurgents.” […]
    “Estimates of the number of Taliban killed varied widely but most officials guessed at numbers in the double digits; Kandahar’s police chief said 20 Taliban died, while another provincial official put the figure at 40.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071119.wafghandeaths19/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
    *St. Crispen’s Day Sppech
    William Shakespeare, 1599
    […]
    We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
    For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
    Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
    This day shall gentle his condition;
    And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
    …-

  2. steve janke of Angry in the Great White North has some very compelling arguments for sending Schreiber back to Germany. These arguments include the legally valid reasons for Canada’s refusing to extradite him – and none of these reasons fit Schreiber’s case.
    The Liberals are misinforming the public that the decision to extradite is up to the Justice Minister’s ‘sole discretion’. That means, the JM acts on his own personal or political agenda, not according to the rule of law. The Liberals are misleading us; Canada is not a dictatorship; we operate by the accountable rule of law. The JM does not have the authority to act on personal whim. There is therefore, no reason to keep Schreiber in this country.
    Go read Janke’s analysis. It’s excellent. And, Ian MacDonald of the Gazette asks a pertinent question. Who is running this country? Our government (Harper) or Schreiber? It is obvious Schreiber will do, say, lie, manipulate anything to get out of facing criminal charges in Germany. he is currently using extortion against us: If you ship me back to Germany, I won’t testify in your inquiry.
    Ship him back. There are no legal or other reasons to keep him here. And, our govt runs this country. Not a blackmailer in a jail cell.

  4. Try writing history without us!
    Via Israpundit: Shattering conventional wisdom about Saddam’s WMD’s
    Finally, there are some definitive answers to the mystery of the missing WMD. Civilian volunteers, mostly retired intelligence officers belonging to the non-partisan IntelligenceSummit.org, have been poring over the secret archives captured from Saddam Hussein. The inescapable conclusion is this: Saddam really did have WMD after all, but not in the way the Bush administration believed. A 9,000 word research paper with citations to each captured document has been posted online at LoftusReport.com, along with translations of the captured Iraqi documents, courtesy of Mr. Ryan Mauro and his friends.

  5. Taliban Jack Layton-NDP’s buddies/vultures at work. Jack backs the rippers.
    …-
    Taliban Militants Hang Mutilated Bodies of 5 Abducted Policemen in Southern Afghanistan
    KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Taliban militants slashed the hands and legs of five abducted policemen in southern Afghanistan and hung their mutilated bodies from trees in a warning to villagers against working with the government, officials said Sunday. …-
    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312121,00.html

  6. And, Dion wants ‘the PM’s office’ investigated in The Inquiry about what/why/ etc they did with Schreiber’s letter. Why didn’t Harper receive or answer the letter?
    The PCO answer’s Don Martin’s weekend suggestion that the letter..hmmm…’went missing’. The PCO in today’s NP said Martin was ‘misinforming the public’ (aka, lying); the letter didn’t go missing. The PCO does not, as a matter of rule, forward to the PMO any issues dealing with litigation affairs. The political branch of a country cannot, ever, interfere in the legal branch. Despite what the Liberals say.
    But Schreiber also wrote to the NDP. They didn’t reply. Why doesn’t Dion ask that they be investigated? Or…does his agenda really have nothing to do with the ‘welfare’ of Schreiber, or the truth of a situation, but is really an attempt, however juvenile and nonfactual, of smearing Harper? Is that Dion’s agenda?

  7. The Libs/Dips/BQ are digging a hole to make a mountain out of a molehill.
    What will be their cry when the courts order Schrieber out of the country and the Justice Minister does nothing?
    Wow, Liberal courts applying the law! (eight yrs late)
    DION et al just keep looking Dumb and Dumber…

  8. “Chrétien also suggested that a public inquiry, such as the one Mulroney has requested and was promised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week, might not be the best way to get to the bottom of the Mulroney-Schreiber affair.
    “Inquiries are not the best way to solve problems,” he said. “We have police for these things.”
    This moment of high comedy is brought to you by the Winnipeg Free Press, at national Newswatch.

  9. I am waiting patiently for the MSM to start asking the Dippers/Libs,what they think of Khadr now..will they still be in a big hurry to have him brought back to Canada?I found it interesting that both cbc,and ctv newsnet actually covered the cbs/60 Minutes show of last eve.Will the howls of faux outrage in Question Period continue?

  10. Pakistan clashes with his tie
    Paul Wells | November 19, 2007 | 10:03:26 | Permalink
    paul.wells@macleans.rogers.com
    Canada’s dapper foreign minister, Maxime Bernier, won’t be popping by an emergency meeting on the emergency in Pakistan. He’ll be represented instead by the super-capable Helena Guergis, so what’s your problem? Instead Mr. Bernier is off to Laos for a meeting of foreign ministers of la Francophonie.
    Let me pause here to say Bernier’s choice is, if I try really hard, slightly defensible. Quebec City will host next year’s Francophone Summit as part of the 400th-anniversary celebration of Quebec City’s founding — a far bigger deal than most of us have yet realized. The delicate negotiations over how to mark the occasion have preoccupied tippy-top staffers in the offices of three prime ministers (Chrétien, Martin, Take-a-Punch), sixteen or eighteen Quebec premiers (Parizeau through Charest), two Presidents de la République (Escroc, Sarko), one Queen (your Majesty), four Quebec City mayors, assorted Popes and the National Parks Commission. Even if PM Harper wasn’t looking for his majority in the hills around Quebec City, anything francophone and Quebec-City-oriented would be getting a lot of attention from any federal government right now.
    Besides, when you consider that nobody in France noticed Maxime Bernier was in Paris on Friday, will it really matter if he shows up in Uganda?
    Harper used to campaign on promises of “foreign policy decisions that are not only independent, but are actually noticed by other powers around the world.” And to be fair, not showing up is a surefire way to get noticed.
    ————
    Link: forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?mod=for&act=dip&pid=88832&tid=88832&eid=43&so=1&ps=0&sb=1

  11. Ron Paul’s Truth shall set you free. That’s the truth. BTW, who’s Hitler?
    …-
    Muslims discover Ron Paul (Anti-Zionists encouraged to register republican and send Paul money)
    After the Republican debate on Tuesday evening in Dearborn, Mich., a reporter from the Arab-American News asked Ron Paul what he thought of the term “Islamic fascism.”
    “It’s a false term to make people think we’re fighting Hitler,” Paul responded. “It’s war propaganda designed to generate fear so that the war has to be spread.”
    The call has gone out to all the Muslim Americans to hurry up and register to vote Republican so that they can vote in the Republican Primary to support Ron Paul, the anti-interventionist, non-isolationist candidate for President of the United States. Muslims are opening their wallets and joining teaparty07.com as well.
    An anonymous Ron Paul supporter posted the following message on the internet: “Muslims and Americans have an unique window of opportunity for the 2008 election. There is a candidate running as a Republican that would work to completely cut off the funding to Israel, remove ALL US troops from Arab lands, and repeal the Patriot Act. He’s a Republican with Libertarian views named Ron Paul. Ron Paul’s policies ranging from monetary to foreign are top notch. Till now Muslims and Americans have not had an American Presidential candidate that really suited their best interests. This election is unique in that we have a man running as a Republican that speaks the truth…
    …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927811/posts
    Commenter said:
    Islamic militants, neo-Nazis, goldbugs, Sheehanites, 9/11 Truthers – they are all flocking to the Ron Paul standard.
    Lyndon LaRouche is filing an injunction against the Paul campaign for alienation of affection.

  12. Anyone watch Goldhawk last night on CPAC? He had a fine slate of Liberal leaning folks on and got told off by the callers.
    People like Lawrence Martin, Susan Riley and Stevie Cameron, she wrote a book about Schreiber, sure aren’t friends of Mulroney or any Conservative past or present.
    Now we have Chretien getting in on the act. According to Hubert Bauch in his National Post column,”We believed Mulroney, Chretien says”. Chretch is now suggesting he and his government were misled by Mulroney.
    It’s gonna be a good Inquiry, the main subjects are both accused of lying, and accusing each other of the same.

  13. I caught a bit of a news report on Canadian TV on the weekend not sure if it was CBC or what.
    However, the gist of the report was that upon the closing of the most recent IPCC meetings our environment minister Jim Baird was reported to have praised the IPCC and committed Canada to following their lead.
    Now I cannot find any reference to this!
    So what’s the deal? Was this bogus reporting on the heels of this IPCC event trying to get a little extra spin? Was it a factual report and quote?
    Baffling………

  14. Hey down here in the lower 48 its comming time for THANKSGIVING and you know how this idiots from PETA react they will go to major supermarkets and hand out their stupid veggie recipe books and urge us all to go vagan for thanksgiving WELL THE PILGRIMS WERE NOT VAGANS SO TELL PETA TO TAKE A HIKE

  15. Poverty in Toronto:
    Toronto public housing stock includes $961,000 home
    Friday, November 16, 2007
    …Toronto’s cash-strapped social housing agency owns at least 20 properties worth more than $500,000, including a row of waterfront duplexes in The Beach and one home assessed at nearly $1-million, the National Post has learned…
    communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/toronto/default.aspx

  16. *
    Canadians take Sangisar
    Guess what, progressive dipshits… sometimes
    the answer isn’t “blowin’ in the wind.”
    Choke on it, Jacko.
    *

  17. I think when I return to the Great White North I will learn to fix and repair band wagons. I mean the way the Lieberals, Dippers and MSM all jump on the band wagon for any little thing, I figure they will need fixing. The only thing worse than those piling on are the Lion, Argo and Maple Leaf fans all jumping off.

  18. Do you think there is any truth to the rumour that the entire manuscript for Jean Cretien’s book was written on cocktail napkins? Maybe we need an inquiry?

  19. In America you may end up bankrupt but alive, in Britain your estate will be in left in good health.
    Breast cancer: Britain, 54 per cent survival rate, America, 75 per cent.
    Prostate cancer: Britain, 43 per cent survival rate, America 81 per cent
    “American healthcare is expensive. It is true, too, that the financial burden on people is awesomely unequal; but not in the way you might expect. The seriously poor do not get the worst of it. They get treated for free.….. The poor might not get showered with as many diagnostic tests as those with full insurance, but they get treated and without the delays that are normal in Britain.”
    To borrow a line from CBC: Sounds Like Canada
    http://www.harrysnews.com/tgDieinBritain.htm

  20. CTV.ca
    KHS poll Gone,Kapoot, Auf Wiedersehen, has been Banished to past polls status.
    Stay 39%
    get out, Don’t let the the door hit you on the way out, we have enough slime over staying their welcome here.
    61%
    When will the MSM & liberals learn “This is what Canadians Want”

  21. Hey Liz, I caught that Lib Lovefest on Goldhawk last eve as well.I was especially heartened when a fellow from Ont.called in to berate (at quite a good volume) the way Lawrence Martin,and the ever slimey Susan Riley were grinning/laughing about all BM’s troubles.I cannot tolerate riley,and her sh*t-eating grin.I used to find Goldhawk somewhat interesting to watch,but it has deteriorated to just another Lib.love-in.Interesting as well,that they talked about L.Ian MacDonald,and his ‘partisan’ columns(in support of Mulroney)I guess they aren’t partisan in the right Lib.friendly way.I just hope,that BM does go hard after the media,and it was so cute,the way Stevie Cameron kept saying,she was “just a pig-farmer now”,in reference to her covering the Pickton trial.I didn’t find it humorous,for her to make light of that horror.

  22. I’m suggesting that the Liberals have made a deal with Schreiber. ‘Cook up some dirt about Mulroney that we can link to Harper’ – and we’ll make sure you don’t get sent back to Germany.
    After all, that ‘two days after’ was previously sworn testimony. Now, it’s ‘two days before’..and frankly, who cares. Certainly Chretien and Martin were busy organizing Life After PM well before they stepped down. It would have been foolish business sense not to do so.
    But, there are no good reasons to keep Schreiber, and, as Steve Janke points out in his Angry in the Great White North blog today, no legal reasons to keep him. The Justice Minister of Canada cannot act on whim; the law is outside the reach of politicians.
    Furthermore, Canadians cannot be held to ransom by a criminal. Schreiber’s statement that he won’t talk if he’s sent to Germany doesn’t mean a thing in reliability. He may very well talk when he’s in Canada. He’s already done so – contradicting his sworn testimony. So, he’ll continue to contradict, lie, recant..and do whatever it takes. To keep him out of Germany. Since when is a nation held to ransom by a crook?
    I’m betting that the Liberals are desperate for two things.
    One – a limited inquiry that will only deal with Dion’s agenda: Mulroney and somehow, link Harper to Mulroney. Not a full inquiry that would explore Chretien and Martin’s dealings with Schreiber. Not a full inquiry that would explore Liberal Party high officials and their dealings with Schreiber: Allan McEachan, Marc Lalonde, Thibault…
    Two- fulfilling their ‘promise’. To keep Schreiber out of Germany. Question: What will Schreiber do to the Liberals if they fail in this agenda? What if he’s indeed sent back to Germany? How will Schreiber punish the Liberals for this?

  24. Re; Ron Paul and the Paulians ….. Birds of a Feather!
    I wonder how long before Denis Kucinich throws his support behind RP??

  25. You recall the staged Israel / Hamas shooting drama where father and son were keeping cover by a rain barrel?
    aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/The_al_Durah_Blood_Libel.asp
    (Wed. Nov. 14, 2007) I am in Paris where I have attended the Court of Appeal special session called to witness the 27 minutes of hitherto unseen footage of the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah which the court had required France 2 to produce.
    For readers who are unfamiliar with this scandal, I wrote about it…
    Suffice it to say here that the iconic image of the child Mohammed al Durah, pictured crouching with his father behind a barrel next to a concrete wall in an apparently vain attempt to shelter from the gun-battle between Israel and the Palestinians that was raging around them before he was allegedly shot dead by the Israelis, served to incite terrorist violence and atrocities around the world after it was transmitted by France 2 at the beginning of the second intifada.
    Yet it is clear to anyone looking at this in detail that the whole thing was staged, not least from the devastating evidence here which shows the boy raising his arm and peeping through his fingers seconds after the France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin said he had been shot dead.
    ============ aish.com
    Similar to Canada, the French dump gobs of cash into lawyer and judge bank accounts to rehash what is already well known to the general public. = TG

  27. A re-post:
    1) On its “Freedom of Religion” scale, Freedom House has downgraded Canada from a rating of 1 to 2. Denyse O’Leary, at her blog, “Mindful Hack” (accessible at http://tinyurl.com/3y8sb6), discusses this issue with Paul Marshall of Freedom House.
    I was unable, for technical reasons, to post my comment at “Mindful Hack”. So, I’ll post it here:
    “Many thanks to Denyse O’Leary for her clear thinking and succinct summary of this crucial issue.
    “Remember Pastor Neimoeller’s comments about Nazi Germany: ‘First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Next they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
    ‘Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.’
    “I’m a public board teacher whose freedom of speech and association have been severely truncated by the present, politically correct dispensation: unlike twenty years ago, when I was free to state my negative views about the distortions and excesses of feminism and the homosexual lifestyle in the public square, without fear of reprisal, I now live in fear of the board for which I work knowing what MY true “feelings” are on these issues. (Of course, to this altogether hypocritical PC board, the feelings of “people like me”—people not worth the dignity that “victims” are accorded—count for nothing.) In order not to be hauled before a hearing about my “subversive” views (which have nothing to do with my exemplary day to day professional duties), I keep my head down and my mouth shut. I believe I have a compelling case re the above issues, which I’m more than capable of defending publicly. However, if I did—as I used to—I’d no longer have a pay cheque because I’d be indicted and driven out of my profession.
    “’Serious stuff, indeed.
    “Of course, as the world goes, Canada still has a fairly high Freedom House rating re religious freedom. But that’s no reason for complacency: we’re definitely on a very steep and slippery slope.”
    Although many people here are libertarians, we should all be worried when the rights of any group of fellow citizens, e.g., Christians, are seriously threatened by the state. I hope there will be some serious discussion about this turn of events.
    2) Re my comments about “MY Feelings”: this was in connection with Denyse O’Leary’s astute comments about the bogus weight given to feelings by the Nanny State jackboots.
    O’Leary’s comments:
    “I gather that the problem that justly concerns Freedom House is the local obsession with the question of whether people FEEL offended, as opposed to whether anything objectively bad has happened to them.
    “Law can’t really take into account everyone’s feelings about everything so, apart from a desire to oppress a minority, law has traditionally focused on objective harm rather than feelings of hurt.
    “(For example: If you think my kid is stupid compared with your kid, does that make you a criminal because I am really, really upset with you?)
    “I hope the trend toward making feelings a key issue in contentious social situations does NOT spread. It’s just too subjective. We cannot live in each others’ minds, after all.”
    3) It seems reasonable to me that libertarians and Christians, as well as others, who believe that the rule of law and our freedoms are important, would be interested in this issue.

  29. By the way – isn’t it true that Dion is attempting to interfere with an official inquiry, by writing Johnston, and attempting to define the nature of that inquiry? Even the PM, Harper, didn’t do that; he left it up to Johnston. But Dion has written Johnston. Isn’t that political interference?
    What about Dion’s insistence that the Justice Minister insist that Schreiber not be deported to Germany, despite all the courts having so ruled that he must be deported. Isn’t that political interference with our legal system? Isn’t Dion openly advocating that politics trumps the rule of law?

  30. US TV going digital February 2009.
    Now let’s get started with this week’s topic on the concerns over the upcoming U.S. Government mandate of all TV signals going digital.
    The concerns over the analog-to-digital TV signal switch on February 17, 2009 (in the United States only) is probably one of the most frequently submitted questions to this newsletter.
    And while it seems that 2009 is pretty far away, let’s address it now rather than later. For one thing, don’t panic! I’m sure there will be a lot of buzz surrounding this topic way before this deadline approaches, and everyone in the U.S. will have time to prepare for it.
    I would just like to clarify a couple of things about the digital signal switch in the U.S. First, to the people who all already subscribe to cable or satellite, this will not affect you. It’s the people who rely on an antenna to receive *over-the-air* analog broadcasts who must acquire a digital tuner to continue receiving TV shows.
    Second of all, if you recently purchased a TV, more than likely your TV is already digital ready and will be able to receive over-the-air digital signals. For those who don’t have digital-ready TVs, no worries, when the time comes, you will just have to acquire a digital receiver box to get TV signals.
    =========== C!Net members NewsLetter
    = TG

  31. Barf Alert!
    The TO Slop-Pail is running over with excrement. Mao Stlong say: Goody stuff from my pals at Slop-Pail.
    Nuance is back: Slop-Pail doesn’t nuance, however:
    “It suggests a far more nuanced and cautious view of China than the sharply critical views often expressed by Conservative politicians in recent years.” Liberal-Willy the Graham wrote this; his drivel is all over it.
    Slop-Pail is an MSM mouthpiece for Citoyen Dion, Boob Rae aka Mao Stlong’s nephew, et al.
    Publish the “report” Slop-Pail.
    BTW, where is STOPIGGY?
    …-
    China’s human-rights record improving, report by Canadian diplomats says
    Document reveals foreign-service officials hold much rosier view of Beijing than does Harper cabinet
    […]
    There have been growing signs of a rift between the Harper cabinet and the diplomatic service. Earlier this year, Mr. Harper’s office criticized Canadian diplomats in Beijing for failing to attend the trial of a Canadian citizen accused of terrorism. A few weeks later, Mr. Harper reportedly complained that Canada’s diplomats are sometimes failing to follow the government’s policies. Around the same time, the Foreign Affairs Department ordered its diplomats to “align” themselves with the Harper government’s priorities. …-
    (Slop-Pail/MSM)

  32. Woman told ‘too large for NZ’
    A WOMAN has been told to lose weight if she wants to emigrate with her husband.
    thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article474252.ece
    Boeing bosses spy on workers
    …”enterprise” investigators, has permission to read the private e-mails of employees, follow them and collect video footage or photos of them. Investigators can also secretly watch employee computer screens in real time and reproduce every keystroke a worker makes, the Seattle P-I has learned…
    seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/339881_boeingsurveillance16.html

  33. Right, Sammy, that was the most obvious Liberal love-in on Goldhawk I’ve seen in a long time.
    Goldhawk is obviously high on himself at the best of times. He invites guests and has a nice little conflab about THEIR opinions while the callers are waiting on hold for most of the show.
    Last night was the most disgusting ever, it was almost unbelievable when he announced his guests, all Liberal hacks. IMHO Stevie should take up real pig farming although I’d feel sorry for the pigs. She was disgusting last night.

  34. We have been advised that Tasers are now officially …. “Controversial Tasers”
    As CP tells us this makes the purchase of the devices by police forces “controversial” and newsworthy as well.
    I know this because Canadian Press told me so !

  35. Multiculturalism’s bastards: Racists are poverty worms?
    …-
    Full Comment
    Jonathan Kay: Adventures among the anti-racists
    One of the nice things about writing an op-ed column for this newspaper is that you get invited to speak on a lot of “media panels” at academic conferences. I flatter myself to think people are genuinely interested in what I have to say. But I suspect the main reason I get invited is that I provide “balance”: Even when a confab is wall-to-wall campus lefties and CBC types, the words National Post on my podium placard signal there’s at least one right-wing maniac in the house.
    Which is to say, I’m used to being the odd man out. But I’ve never felt quite so odd as I did last week at Combating Hatred, a day-long biennial anti-racism conference hosted by the University of Toronto for the benefit of the city’s lawyers, judges, police officers, educators and government workers.
    My panel (“The Media: Part of the problem or part of the solution”) didn’t start till the late morning. But I showed up a few hours early to enjoy the free breakfast and listen to the keynote speaker, a native activist and lawyer named Donald Worme.
    And I’m glad I did, because a large part of Worme’s speech was dedicated to the delightful theme Why Jonathan Kay Is a Racist.
    Worme warmed up the crowd with a few jokes (“My Indian name is ‘Dances With Worms.’”) …-
    http://communities.canada.com/nationalpost/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2007/11/18/jonathan-kay-adventures-among-the-anti-racists.aspx
    …-
    Editorial: Disturbing trend in poverty rates
    Why do newcomers to Canada not fare as well in the job market as they have in the past? One group representing Ontario’s African, Chinese, Hispanic, South Asian and Southeast Asian communities thinks the answer has a lot to do with race and has launched a Colour of Poverty Campaign to raise awareness of the issue.
    Central to their argument is the fact visible minorities are experiencing a disproportionately high level of poverty. In Toronto, they are three times more likely to be poor than others, the group says, because of the barriers and challenges they face in finding and keeping jobs.
    Many factors are clearly at play in the rise of immigrant poverty, of which race is probably one. How they fit together, though, requires a thorough examination before provincial and federal policy-makers settle on a particular course of action to deal with the problem. …(jack’s newswatch)

  36. AP, aka Ass. Press, writes about itself. AP’s Spinning Wheel is spinning in overtime.
    AP is on trial.
    …-
    US Plans Case Against AP Photographer
    NEW YORK (AP) – The U.S. military plans to seek a criminal case in an Iraqi court against an award-winning Associated Press photographer but is refusing to disclose what evidence or accusations would be presented. An AP attorney on Monday strongly protested the decision, calling the U.S. military plans a “sham of due process.” The journalist, Bilal Hussein, has already been imprisoned without charges for more than 19 months.
    A public affairs officer notified the AP on Sunday that the military intends to submit a written complaint against Hussein that would bring the case into the Iraqi justice system as early as Nov. 29. Under Iraqi codes, an investigative magistrate will decide whether there are grounds to try Hussein, 36, who was seized in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on April 12, 2006.
    Dave Tomlin, associate general counsel for the AP, said the defense for Hussein is being forced to work “totally in the dark.”
    The military has not yet defined the specific charges against Hussein. Previously, the military has pointed to a range of suspicions that attempt to link him to insurgent activity.
    The AP rejects all the allegations and contends it has been blocked by the military from mounting a wide-ranging defense for Hussein, who was part of the AP’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo team in 2005. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928050/posts

  37. BigFire, as per your request,
    fotosearch.com/comp/dgv/dgv093/radioactive-storage-drum-with-smoke-~-200531972-001.jpg
    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Friday blocked a plan to store more radioactive waste at a nuclear power plant, ruling that federal regulators must …
    washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/02/AR2006060201035.html
    According to Tajik officials, both Vostokredmet and the radioactive storage facilities are under strict control. However, local media say some of the dumps …
    eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp041103.shtml
    NO RADIOACTIVE STORAGE IN. THESE REEFERS! Portable chest freezers. (2 @ 7 ft. 3. ) check if needed_______ …. RADIOACTIVE STORAGE IS NOT ALLOWED IN ANY OF …
    shipops.oregonstate.edu/ops/wecoma/appendix_08.pdf
    radioactive storage as below. •. High-level core that cannot be stored in the main core … stored in a purpose designed built radioactive storage area. …
    pir.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/11794/GTS-P-M-0040-2_0.pdf
    ==========================
    Personal first hand experience with radioactive containment happened in the early 80s. Working part time for Arrow transfer in North Vancouver.
    My job was to truck a small radioactive source to Vancouver*s General Hospital at 4AM.
    4am because the protective container was as big as a house and wires had to be lifted down Broadway all the way to Cambie and then 10th ave to clear the container and the low bed.
    Even *lead-lined* hot-nuke storage is massive and expensive.
    Containment is a big profitable industry, hence you will easily find lots of links touting the total safety of long term nuclear storage. . .Caution, with a grain of salt. = TG

  40. Jack: Trudeau
    “Not once have we have we had two PM’s in my life that are so similar and yet so different. Both with their goals — both working towards the same thing.”…-
    (jack’s newswatch)

  41. TO Red Star puts this up? What is going on? Why is TO Red Star running this?
    …-
    Freed Taliban hostage hunted all over again
    Mustafa Barakzai, 20, was forced to watch as a friend was beheaded.
    Mitch Potter
    TORONTO STAR
    KABUL–Held captive by the Taliban for 18 days, only to win back his freedom in exchange for much of his family’s wealth, one might imagine the worst is behind Mustafa Barakzai.
    The 20-year-old Afghan computer college student is immeasurably more fortunate, after all, than one of his dearest childhood friends, whose beheading Barakzai was forced to witness during their September kidnap ordeal. At the time, he was certain he would be next.
    And Barakzai’s family can claim a victory of sorts, if only because the initial demands of his captors – that his mother resign her seat as the only female member of parliament for Kandahar and denounce the government – were never met.
    Instead, they hawked the family Lexus, the gold and whatever else could be found to scrounge together a ransom of about $100,000.
    But this nightmare is most decidedly not over, because having enriched themselves once at the family’s expense, the militants who held Barakzai just keep calling. They are hunting their man all over again. …-
    http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/277680

  42. Rrrrrrinnnggg: Trudeau to Castro:”Por que no te callas?” Translation: Why don’t you call me?
    …-
    Spain’s King Juan Carlos telling Chavez to ‘shut up’ becomes ringtone hit
    By Mar Roman, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    MADRID, Spain – Many Spaniards were so amused when their king told Venezuela’s president to “shut up” they want to hear the words every time their phone rings.
    About half a million people have downloaded a mobile phone ringtone featuring the phrase “Por que no te callas?” or “Why don’t you shut up?” leading Madrid daily El Pais reported on its website Monday. …-
    http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/11/19/4668974-ap.html
    More: Here is the essence of Lizzy May’s Red-Green Party: Anarchic communism …
    “The Venezuelan leader [Idiot Chavez) says the changes would empower neighbourhood-based assemblies and advance the country’s transition to socialism.”

  43. My tip is for the police to quit tasering people – you dumbasses; you would think God gave you enough brains to realize that when you taser someone, they can die. After the first few deaths, didn’t you guys get a bloody clue. Life and death situation, fine, but otherwise, you are willfully murdering people when you have the knowledge that the taser could possible kill the person you are trying to subdue – maybe the cops should work out a little more. Taking a life IS a big deal!

  44. PM Harper: On Jeancula, Boob, and Citoyen Dion, aka The Three Positions of the Liberal Party. Who is the Leader of the Liberal Party? Does the Liberal Party have one, two leaders, or a troika of leaders? The Liberal Party has 3 heads. One other leader is MIA: Where is STOPIGGY? There has been nothing about him in the MSM for weeks.
    PM Harper’s line here is priceless:
    ” “I’m sure one of these Liberal positions will be adopted.”
    …-
    “I don’t know whether he’ll accept the position of the current leader of the Liberal Party that there be an unlimited inquiry, or of the past leader of the Liberal Party that there be no public inquiry or the future leader of the Liberal Party who said there should be a limited public inquiry,” Mr. Harper said to a roar from his colleagues. “I’m sure one of these Liberal positions will be adopted.” …-
    Conservatives mum on Schreiber extradition decision
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071119.wscreiber1119/BNStory/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20071119.wscreiber1119
    More about that mum: “Mr. Nicholson responded that it would be inappropriate for him to comment on an extradition case.
    “I take my responsibilities as Justice Minister and Attorney-General of this country very seriously,” he said. “In accordance with the practice of other justice ministers, we don’t comment on extradition matters.”

  46. Joanne I hate to sound jaded but I believe it’s just a matter of money. Death benefit, lawsuit even, compared to risk of injury and death of an officer their cost of rehap and retraining or life long disability is much much, I believe.
    Also wonder if these tasers have settings to offer milder zaps, like in a small succession for these incidents and individuals that once even mildly distracted can be tackled. Not to mention you need tazers in some cases, some people are just physically animalistic when drunk/high. Now add the risk of AIDS as the crazed person sinks their teeth into someone’s hand, arm, etc.
    Yes this man’s death was tragic but we’re not responsible for every single person that walks in the door really messed up and dies as a result of his own initiated hostile actions.
    Just saying.

  47. ops, second ‘much’ should be ‘more’.
    {Was told “‘much much’ is too much ‘much'”}
    :`)

  49. which country doesnt belong to the following list:
    Germany,
    Ireland,
    England,
    Pakistan,
    India,
    Nicaragua,
    Canada,
    Israel,
    USA,
    Argentina,
    Turkey.
    bonus points for telling why.

  50. Breast cancer: Britain, 54 per cent survival rate, America, 75 per cent.
    Prostate cancer: Britain, 43 per cent survival rate, America 81 per cent
    I wonder if the above stats are mostly limited to the detected cases, the ones the patient can afford to pay for the test and then get treated as opposed to all kinds of cases in the usa that go undetected and left untreated until the autopsy and since they were never treated ‘slip thru the cracks’ in the reporting process . . .

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