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The chatter here in Vancouver amongst my friends & colleagues about all the snow is beyond disbelief! People JUST can't believe it's still coming down!!

And now attention is turning to our new socialist mayor, Gregor Robertson:
- No garbage pickup for most people for 3+ weeks
- 47 snow plows available but they won't use more than 15 of them any night - can you say "union contracts"

God Help us when the Olympics arrives!!!

Oh relax Robert.Hollywood North(yeah,that's Vancouver) can naval gaze at the Golden Globes next Sunday. Socialist mayor? Socialists in B.C.? Next to Morontario,yup.

Hoe government intrusion hits all families.

Divorced from Reality

“We’re from the Government, and We’re Here to End Your Marriage.”

by Stephen Baskerville

The decline of the family has now reached critical and truly dangerous proportions. Family breakdown touches virtually every family and every American. It is not only the major source of social instability in the Western world today but also seriously threatens civic freedom and constitutional government.

G. K. Chesterton once observed that the family serves as the principal check on government power, and he suggested that someday the family and the state would confront one another. That day has arrived.

http://touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=22-01-019-f

I know that folks outside of the lower mainland can't understand it - it's terrible here. I took off about the same time the first flake fell tonight. 15 minutes in I knew it was a mistake, it took 2 1/2 hours to get back.

Here Mark Steyn makes an interesting, but sad point:

"Fatah prioritizes kleptocracy, Hamas prioritizes Jew-killing. If you want to loot the public treasury, you sign up with the former; if you want to launch rockets at the Zionist Entity, you sign up with the latter. But, if you're interested in economic policy or governing ideology, there's nowhere to go."

Hamas "executes" 35 and tortures 75 of, sort of, their own people in Gaza. News at 11:00. Actually, I guess no news of this at 11:00 or any other time in the Western MSM:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230733155685&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

An interesting story, sans spin. Must be a new reporter, I can't see him lasting long. Too bad the Cons enjoy getting their nuts rubbed as much as the Libranos....

Canwest CEO Leonard Asper kept communication lines open with Ottawa in November
By Charlie Smith

In the month of November, CanWest Global Communications Corp. CEO Leonard Asper communicated with Minister of Canadian Heritage James Moore and then-Industry Minister James Prentice, as well as the chairman and the secretary general of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. The communications are revealed on the Web page of the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada. Under the law, Asper is not required to divulge details about the nature of the communications, apart from listing a broad category.....

The November communications with the CRTC officials and Moore and Prentice came after Canwest Global Communications Corp. shares fell below $1 for the first time in history.....Asper and his sister Gail have both registered in connection with communications with government officials.

However, their deceased father, former Canwest chairman Izzy Asper, never registered as a lobbyist, even though a new book by Peter C. Newman reports that Izzy Asper met with then-prime minister Jean Chretien to discuss government capital financing for a museum of human rights that Asper was promoting in Winnipeg.

Eventually, the project was declared a Crown corporation. The Harper government agreed to provide annual operating funds in addition to capital funding, and Harper recently joined Izzy Asper's daughter Gail for a sod-turning ceremony in Winnipeg.

Prorogue Liberals roasted. What a farce these Liberals are; all cue, no balls.
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"McGuinty to prorogue the provincial legislature?

Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Murdoch predicts the provincial Liberals will prorogue the provincial legislature after federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty introduces his new budget later this month."
(nnw)

MSM Martin agrees with yours truly. As has been said here, Iggy wears the albatross 'round his neck.
What is the composition of the Albatross?
This dead bird, the Separatist Coalition, has 3 parts:
Taliban Jack NDP, communist DuceppeBloc, and Dionky-Iggy Liberal.
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"He may feel he doesn't have to, considering all the negative publicity over the coalition. Mr. Ignatieff is in a bind on this. It isn't exactly a sponsorship scandal he has been handed, as was the case for Paul Martin. But it's an albatross just the same."

"Ignatieff is a man of magnitude. So where is he?"
http://tinyurl.com/a3s3w4 (G-M)

Here's a fine article by Melanie Phillips on the Gaza situation:

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=636

She writes, ". . . the brutal fact is that tiny, besieged Israel is damned if it does and dead if it doesn’t."

The double standard and duplicity of the West is despicable, especially, as Phillips points out, because Israel is our proxy: "Israel may or may not eventually manage to stop the Hamas rockets. But the Middle East conflict will not end until and unless the West comes to realise that Israel is in the frontline of the West’s own fight for survival, and starts properly defending the country struggling to defend civilisation instead of siding with those waging holy war against it."

She's got that right. Will we?

No Al-Oscar for Adel, Abu say.
He's no longer Arab Adel.
Tsk.
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"Top Arab movie star blames Hamas for fighting

Jerusalem Post ^ | KHALED ABU TOAMEH
The Arab world's most prominent comedian and movie star, Egyptian actor Adel Imam, has shocked many of his fans by expressing understanding for Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip."
More from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158904/posts

an ode to the new Vancouver mayor . . . a good little rich socialist. It came from Seattle but fits perfectly.

Waiting for Metro, we can build a snowman
and pretend our bus is gonna come
and watch the hard-packed surface get the sandman
which works for 15 minutes, and then some!
...
Instead of school, we will build a snowman
while the ambulances slip and slide
We'll feel so grateful when our hero Firefighters
reach any streets the city happened to plough with pride

Yes, liberalism is a mental disease.
Case study at Angry's blog.
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"The Stephen Harper Fire Engine Conspiracy Theory

Critics of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper are often marked by their penchant for hyperbole. Harper is often compared to a dictator (either generically or to specific historic figures - I don't think I need to name them). Harper is excoriated for his support of Israel, for his environmental policies, or for the economic direction he is following.
The criticisms are defensible (there are always two sides), and if these people could learn to stop throwing in references to Attila the Hun (or much worse) in their comments, more people might listen.

But my friendly advice would be useless for one person. The commentary on this blog, if not some sort of strange and humourless joke, is disturbing, and if you removed the weird stuff, there'd be nothing left.

Seriously, this one rings an alarm bell for me. That's actually a bit of a joke on my part, since as you will see, alarms figure prominently in this story.
[...]

Connie Missipi is a Canadian citizen who seems to have recently returned from Hong Kong. She is a published author (nothing you would have heard of, likely), and is convinced that Prime Minister Harper is part of a conspiracy to drive her mad with the use of Toronto's fire and ambulance services.

Huh?"
http://stevejanke.com/archives/280586.php

Spengler, Overcoming ethnicity

The decisive divide in today's world lies between nations that have a future, and nations that don't. Contrary to the prevailing pragmatism, which demands that we take every society on its own terms, an objective criteria (sic) has emerged that does not easily fade in the wash, namely the desire to live...

John R. Bolton, The Three-State Option

War in the Gaza Strip demonstrates yet again that the current governance paradigm for the Palestinian people has failed. Terrorists financed and supplied by Iran control Gaza; the Palestinian Authority is broken, probably irretrievably; and economic development is stalled in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians are suffering the consequences of regional power struggles played out through them as surrogates...

Given this landscape, we should ask why we still advocate the "two-state solution," with Israel and "Palestine" living side by side in peace, as the mantra goes. We are obviously not progressing, and are probably going backward. We continue poring over the Middle East "road map" because that is all we have, faute de mieux, as they say in Foggy Bottom.

The logic to this position is long past its expiration date...

lookout - no, I disagree. The I-P situation could be solved (!?) and that wouldn't make Islamic fascism disappear. That's because the basic causes of each are different. Solving the I-P situation won't end Islamic fascism.

The only way to end Islamic fascism is a two-fold strategy. In the Arab/Persian states, the tribal political-economic infrastructure has to end to be replaced by democracy. Democracy rests on the emergence of a middle class (tribalism has only two classes). The middle class is the empowered class; it has the power to 'enable the economy'; it governs via its will. Tribalism empowers only a small hereditary elite.

In the West, you demolish Islamic fascism by rejecting the relativism of multiculturalism, insisting on the democratic heritage of each nation in language, in equal rights, in the rule of law, democracy, the role of reason, separation of church and state.

I agree with Mark Steyn's view of both Fatah and Hamas. The corruption of Fatah is a basic reason why Gaza voted for the Hamas.

John Bolton's outline is very interesting; the two state solution now seems impossible to achieve. However, as he points out, having Egypt take over Gaza (which is what Israel seems to also want) isn't acceptable to Egypt. Egypt doesn't want Hamas fundamentalists in their midst. And having Jordan take over the West Bank is, in my view, unacceptable not only to Jordan but above all to Israel, which wants the West Bank for itself.

But certainly, the two state solution seems impossible to achive, and Bolton is exactly right to open discussion on what's next. Gaza can't survive except as an appendage to another larger economy such as Israel or Egypt; neither one wants it, because of Hamas.

How do you get rid of Hamas? I don't think that bombing Gaza will do it; that will only bring in more rabid recruits. My view is that Islamic fascism has to be confronted by enabling democracy and a middle class in the other Arab states. It's a strategy of 'going in by the back door' rather than the front.

But Bolton is right; it's time to openly discuss other roads.

maz2 I've read Iggy is finishing a book on his family history. I think he is trying to get it published while he is still head of something. Doesn't say much about HIS difficulty with priorities.

Further to Bolton's concerns (from September 2008):

Giora Eiland, Rethinking the Two-State Solution

Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, former head of Israel's National Security Council, examines the current agenda of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations and offers the provocative assessment that a conventional two-state approach may never succeed, given the cumulative weight of the compromises required from each side. If negotiations were challenging in 2000, he argues, they will be even more difficult today, with Hamas's ascendancy in Gaza and the injection of new technology -- such as short-range rocketry -- having entered into the strategic equation. In place of a diplomatic approach that has repeatedly failed to produce peace, General Eiland offers two new proposals -- a modified "Jordanian option" and a new "regional solution" -- that could bypass the growing political and security obstacles that have impeded peacemaking for so many years.

The CBC has sunk to an all time low, or, how to keep their hands into the taxpayer's pockets without pending money to get the news.

Silly me. I flipped un the idiot box this morning and as it was on the hour, tried to get some news. My first mistake was to land on CBC Newsworld where I was bombarded by video after video of injured, maimed and dead children, supposedly from Gaza all the while listening to the CBC' eyes on the ground, a reporter from Al Jezeera.

Flip over to Fox News and I listen to their reporter on the ground, someone from the Israeli Foreign Affairs Department, and a Palistinian UN delegate. A little more fair and balanced from Fox.

I really wish more Canadians knew exactly how their views on news and events around the world were being manipulated by the MSM.

btw, I thought people who were in a position of public trust (like police, RCMP, military and the like) were not supposed to be commenting on government policy or anything political. Via the Labradorian, a Corporal MacKinnon has a column piece on PM Harper and the Constitiution. WTF? I was taught that as long as you were wearing the uniform you were a representative of the Queen and government.

Ex-Corporal Keith MacKinnon:

"... he [PM Harper} has hunkered down in his Reform Party bunker where he's raising the threat of western alienation to impose his ideas of Senate reform - and his ideas alone - on the entire country.

No wonder he fails time after time."
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"Harper versus the Constitution of Canada"
http://www.thelabradorian.ca/index.cfm?sid=207056&sc=350

It's a good thing this Corporal MacKinnon isn't on the PM's security detail. And I mean that very seriously.

He's a disgrace to the rest of the officers who wear the uniform.

charles macdonald - I don't think that it's accurate to call John Bolton's suggestion a 'three-state solution' for it really is only a one-state solution; the state of Israel.

Bolton suggests that Jordan take over the West Bank and that Egypt take over Gaza. That ends any notion of a 'state of Palestine'. My own view is that the real sticking point in the notion of a Palestinian state is that Israel has no intention of giving up the West Bank, and the WB, after all, is the prime land.

Of course, Jordan doesn't want the West Bank anyway, and Egypt doesn't want Gaza. And Gaza can't exist on its own; it can only economically operate as an appendage to an industrial economy; it requires imports of energy (gas, hydro) and it exports its products (fresh fruit/vegetables, clothing, furniture).

I think, however, given the current two realities; one, that Israel won't give up the West Bank, and two, that Hamas has taken over Gaza - any idea of a future Palestinian state is finished.

Are the 2008 weblog awards open for voting? I cruised past the site hoping to throw my support to Kate, but didn't see any way to actually vote for a blog.

Might be my browser/settings, I'll try on another computer later, but I'd just like to know if anyone else has been able to vote.

Not at all: Jordan is Arab Palestine, just ruled by the Hashemites rather than the Husseini kleptocracy. It was removed from the Palestine Mandate -- i.e., the Jewish National Home -- without authorisation in one of the most grievous sins of Winston Churchill's long career.

It's the "Palestinians" the Jordanians don't want, not the West Bank. And the Egyptians learned from Cleopatra what it means to "nurse a viper"....

Over at CBC, they're wetting their pants, having a contest about which playlist to send Obama: 49 pieces--I guess for the 49th parallel or, maybe because he's 49 years old: whatever it is, it must be REALLY important because this is OBAMA. I only listen to Tempo, from ten to three, on CBC now, so I've heard some of the selections that might be chosen from the classical playlist. But ALL the programs are going include a few selections. The host of Tempo, Julie Nasrellah, is just SO EXCITED about all of this and is interviewing Canadian classical artists from Canada and anywhere else in the world: everyone's SO ENTHUSIASTIC!

But not me . . . I phoned and left a Grinch-like message (1-877-8166) and I've also sent an email , here:

"As if I needed reminding why I almost never listen to CBC anymore. (I never watch CBC TV.) CBC’s left-wing political bias is a scandal: all Canadians pay taxes, but only those on the left hear their point of view—all day, every day. (After the Heather Mallick fiasco, John Cruickshank ADMITTED CBC bias and promised a change, e.g., that there would be more balance. Whatever happened to that idea?)

"Up until now, I wasn’t aware that Tempo is a political program: it’s the last outpost for my CBC listening—for now. (I think I’ll head over to BBC 3 in a few minutes . . .) Of course, CBC thinks this little activity is cute and clever. I find it preening and juvenile. Obamah’s not a Canadian politician, so how come all this obeisance?

"So, CBC, continue playing your self-referential, biased, not at all inclusive little games, that you think are “fun”: Julie’s told us to have fun. Like most Canadians—about 93%, I believe, who are not part of the CBC’s audience share—I’ll pass."

Jack Layton is demanding that all those involved in the recording of the caucus meeting to arrange their approaching coup attempt, be handed over for possible legal charges.
Had one of his people been erroneously sent an invite to a Conservative caucus telephone meeting,
we all know he wouldn't have had someone attend and record.

During the election he constantly badgered Harper to do more for recording artists.

Re our Corporal Keith MacKinnon: I sent a comment to the Labradorian, and received this reply:

Please revisit our website. The column on senate reform was incorrectly tagged as being written by Corporal Keith MacKinnon when it was actually written by a columnist Michael Johansen.

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Lorie O’Halloran
Editor, The Labradorian
Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL

In response to my link to an article by Melanie Phillips, ET writes, “lookout - no, I disagree. The I-P situation could be solved (!?) and that wouldn't make Islamic fascism disappear. That's because the basic causes of each are different. Solving the I-P situation won't end Islamic fascism.”

I don’t think that Phillips has suggested any such thing. Her penultimate paragraph states, “Most important of all, this war is not actually about Israel and the Palestinians. Hamas is controlled by Iran. Unless Hamas is stopped, Iran’s growing influence in the region will be entrenched and put Britain and the West in even greater danger from Islamist aggression and blackmail.” She does not suggest that acting boldly in the present situation will “end Islamic fascism”. It will, however, move us closer to that goal.

With all due respect, ET, I cannot agree with you about Israel: I never have. And I believe you turn far too many facts into pretzels in order to gerrymander your thesis. Sorry, because I usually respect your viewpoint. (It seems that credit where credit is due, to Christianity and Israel, is a real stretch for you—and one you're obstinately unwilling to make. What's this all about?)

P.S. Phillips doesn't mention the danger to all of Europe, but just mentions "Britain". She writes for a London newspaper: I'm quite sure she'd include all of Europe in the polities that will be "in even greater danger" if Hamas, Iran's proxy, is not stopped in Gaza—by Israel, the proxy of the West.

Charles MacDonald,
it is useless trying to get ET to see that Jordan is Arab Palestine - she just will not accept this fact. Also I don't know what she means about the West Bank being "prime land" - what I saw of Judea was desert with a few places where Jews had worked up some area for agriculture. Judea and Samaria are "prime" because of their non-material significance - Jerico, Hebron/cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, Shechem/Joseph's tomb - those are Hebrew names not Arabic, and the land is the heart of the heart of biblical Israel. Israel in control of Jerusalem/Judea seems to bother people - especially those for whom the Bible is meaningless

Commenter #22, Peter Boston, has this to say at Belmont Club* re O, Richardson, et al.

"We should never elect to public office - anywhere - any person who has ever attended Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Columbia. The only way to keep the patricians out of State and Treasury is to break the pathway of their appointments."

In Canada, a Harvard patrician, Ignatieff, is attempting to ride the pathway to the highest public office, Prime Minister of Canada.

STOPIGGY.
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*http://tinyurl.com/95ye9a
"“You’ve got your dingus”"

Correction:

"Harper versus the Constitution of Canada print this article
IN OTHER WORDS
MICHAEL JOHANSEN Michael Johansen RSS Feed
The Labradorian"
http://www.thelabradorian.ca/index.cfm?sid=207056&sc=350

National News Watch had this up earlier; however, it's disappeared into Google cache*.
NNW has it now corrected without the Harper/Mountie slur**.

>>>> "**Mountie Gets His Man:
Harper versus the Constitution of Canada
Corporal Keith MacKinnon: Instead of opening up a national debate and finding out that he might have a lot in common with Liberals and easterners on the issue, he has hunkered down in his Reform Party bunker where he's raising the threat of western alienation to impose his ideas..."
*http://tinyurl.com/8olc5a

But, NNW has this "secret" link up for your consolation prize/edumacation:
"Kinsella: Secret Liberal Caucus Talking Points"

Yes, here's what William F. Buckley had to say about that: "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."

I'll bet he'd have quite happily included the other universities as well!

And, yes, Prince Iggy's a Harvard man. I know what I'm going to do.

lookout - I don't think that Islamic fascism is due to the imperialist agenda of Iran. That agenda, which is quite real, is yet another facet in the complex situation of the ME.

I think it is dangerous to reduce any of these forces to one. That is, ie, the force of I-P or the problem of enabling'two states'; the force of Islamic fascism which emerged from outdated tribalism; and the force of Iran's imperial desires. They are all separate; they will use each other as the opportunity arises, but solving one won't solve the others.

Therefore, in my view, Israel's current attack on Hamas in Gaza will actually result in more radicalization of the youth both there and elsewhere in the ME. The only way to deal with Islamic fascism is to go in 'by the back door', which is Bush's policy of democratization.

ex-liberal, the names you use are those given by Jews; Arabs have other names for the same areas. There's no privileging the one versus the other. Since I'm an atheist, I'm not involved in any theistic texts having any legal validity over political realities. And of course, I don't accept 'First Footprint' as providing any essential rights to a land base (that would mean that Canada/America would have to be returned to the indigeneous). Nor do I accept any theistic statement (god gave us the land). Land sovereignty is strictly a political, ie, manmade decision.

The West Bank, which is about 5,600 sq km (compare with Gaza at 340 sq km) has more arable land (about 17%) and the highlands are important resource for aquifer water. There's also grassland areas. And land for settlements.

lookout - I'm not sure what you mean by 'credit due to Christianity and Israel'.

Obama wants $500 tax cut for most workers

By PHILIP ELLIOTT – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama, commencing face to face consultations with congressional leaders Monday, is embracing an unexpectedly large tax cut of up to $300 billion. Obama said the country faces an "extraordinary economic challenge." Besides $500 tax cuts for most workers and $1,000 for couples, the Obama proposal includes more than $100 billion for businesses, an Obama transition official said. The total value of the tax cuts would be significantly higher than had been signaled earlier...."

Wonder what the commies at Pravda and Tass are going to say about this? Ignore it maybe?

Too bad the Cons wouldn't think about reducing the size of government, even when they did have the chance at it enjoying a $38 billion in cumulative surplus...

Posted by: ET at January 5, 2009 2:30 PM

Regarding the ME and Isreal in particular, it is complex, nuanced, and age spoken in terms of millennia.

You should really learn a whole lot more about the socio-political landscape of the region before you comment on it. But, that has never stopped you before.

Repeating ignorance or laying down uni-dimensional prescripts is a fool's errand. Especially to a conflict that centers upon religion and nationalism.

Bless you, ET, I didn't say that, to quote you,"quoting" me, "Islamic fascism is due to the imperialist agenda of Iran". I agree that Iran's imperialistic agenda is but one strand of the Islamofacsist problem.

I beleive that Bush's policy of democratization is one part of the solution. I also think that destroying or seriously disabling Iran's proxy, Hamas, in Gaza is another part of the solution. (The area is already an enraged bull. Waving a few more red flags can't make it any more vicious than it already is, IMO.)

Sally Adee, The Revolution Will Be Prosthetized

Darpa's prosthetic arm gives amputees new hope

Armiger’s research is part of a nationwide effort to create a neurally controlled prosthetic arm. That arm has been the focus of much media attention, but that focus obscures the truly groundbreaking research typical of the Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 (RP2009) program.

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pouring at least US $71.2 million into the program in the hope that it will let amputees do what most people take for granted: make gestures, test the water in a teacup, turn a key, even peel the shell off an egg. Words like bionic and thought-controlled have been thrown at the project, but they don’t do justice to the sheer ordinariness of its purpose. DARPA isn’t looking for a superstrong “Six Million Dollar Man” arm; it just wants an arm that moves exactly like a real one does.

Yet even making just a garden-variety arm requires a herculean effort, not only in the field of mechatronics but in neuroscience, electrical engineering, cognitive science, signal processing, battery design, nanotechnology, and even behavioral science. This four-year project is wildly ambitious even by the standards of the Pentagon’s mad-science wing. After the program concludes at the end of 2009, many of the arm’s various technologies will go into FDA clinical trials and then out into the world...

Kate,

"Just some guy in my neighbourhood" has the following comments in a Huffington Post piece on Obama's cabinet picks.

"but then again I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General..."

Amongst other gems, he offers that "Teacher accountability, relentless standardized testing, school closings, and privatization -- this is what the dogmatists and true-believers of the right call "reform."" Of course, why would any right-thinking leftist want accountability?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-ayers/obama-and-education-refor_b_154857.html

time to kick some galactic a$$

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090105/milky_way_090105/20090105?hub=SciTech

Let me be the to first to offer then new "Andromeda Gravity Off-sets"!!! Yes. For a mere donation of 50 bucks(45 yank),I will start the work on slowing down Andrameda's spin,thus weakening her gravity and by-passing that nasty collision that's ONLY 2-3 billion years away.

"Staged Photos Pouring Out of Gaza

Media | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:54:28 am PST

We should not forget that every television image and every news photograph coming out of Gaza right now is filtered through Hamas. The photographers filing pictures for Reuters, Associated Press, and Agence France Presse are all Palestinians, and all propagandists for Hamas—or they wouldn’t be allowed to take pictures in Gaza.

With that in mind, here’s yet another example of news photographs staged for propaganda purposes by terrorists and their allies: CAMERA Snapshots: Green Helmet’s Successor?

UPDATE at 1/5/09 11:06:16 am:

Israellycool has another example: the same injured child being paraded around by two different men.

Here are the two images at Daylife.com:

A Palestinian father carries his wounded baby daughter into a hospital in Gaza City...

A Palestinian carries a child into the Shifa hospital in Gaza City..."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32360_Staged_Photos_Pouring_Out_of_Gaza

Prime Minister tonight on TSN pre-game!

Good stuff:) He was free to be himself during the interview.

maz2....sorta like that Muslim broad that keeps popping up all over,holding UNSPENT bullets in her,while stating they were being shot at her house. But then I guess in a society that has no science,this little error probably never crosses their minds.

Since the Islamists are so fond of human shields lets send our own.
Marines form the USA, & some Princess Pats from Canada.
Let them try to drop a nuke on Israel with our troops there. Jihadists, Iran, Syria, all would bring literal hell down on themselves.

Why not actually support our Israeli ally for once with some boots on the ground to help?
They are Our frontline in this Religious war. Yes Religious. Frankly I am sick of pretending otherwise for the delicate feelings of others. Islam wants to rule the World. Not all Muslims, just most. They are killing anyone on the Planet all spewing the same hate. Assassination, with no remorse. Attended by mutilations with bombs strapped to children. The sauce of this malice being the Koran. The killing floor there false pervert prophet. If there not slaughtering others than they do it to themselves. Do I hate them? No. Just pity the Women there slavery, the men there ignorance of a life dedicated to violence. World domination being its goal for Utopia

What I fear is the utter lack of Western Understanding of how ingrained the madness is in this cult. That it is a perpetual machine for chaos, mixed with carnage & sadism. I keep asking with no answer. Why again are we importing a culture that is the anti-thesis of western culture? Why do we let those who despise us in our Country, who‘s avowed meaning in life is to exterminate us infidels?
JMO

Re: Staged Photos Pouring Out of Gaza

(PDF warning) Cori E. Dauber, The Truth Is Out There: Responding to Insurgent Disinformation and Deception Operations

ET,

"The only way to deal with Islamic fascism is to go in 'by the back door', which is Bush's policy of democratization."

We'll see, once the US pulls out of Iraq.

Iran claims that it is a democracy as well. So does Pakistan, etc.

Shariah is the antithesis of western democracy, based as it is on Islamic law. No personal liberty, justice, or freedom, including religious freedom is allowed. Shariah is the absolute law in all of these so-called democratic countries.

Once again ET, this is not reality in a petrie dish, observed from the 30.000 foot level.

George Bush is famous for parroting that "Islam is a religion of peace," as well. That's certainly not believable either.

"ex-liberal, the names you use are those given by Jews; Arabs have other names for the same areas. There's no privileging the one versus the other. Since I'm an atheist, I'm not involved in any theistic texts having any legal validity over political realities."

Well then ET, If Israel did as the Muslim hordes did and conquered the Palestinians, forcing them to convert, accept dhimmitude, or die. And then completely demolished and renamed whatever pathetic (and hijacked) cultural icons they have, robbing them of their possessions and selling their daughters into slavery - would you accept that solution?

In the meantime, you might consider that Islam is still lamenting the loss of Andalusia, Greece, etc., and want these once Muslim countries back. Despite the fact they were stolen in the first place.

Is there some sort of demarcation line of final ownership that you privately hold that you'd like to share with us?

You should really stop falsely recasting what people say as well. (Lookout @ 2:46) You do this all too often.

Tolerance,a true Canadian value.
Ontario union calls for ban on Israeli professors
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1144758

"Western Media - “You Lie!”"

At about 1:10 on Sunday, December 28, 2008, the BBC anchor Peter Dobbie found out, along with his audience, that there were 40 Egyptian ambulances ready to evacuate wounded, and lorries full of medical goods sent by Qatar to restock Gazan hospitals, waiting at the border crossing in Egypt. (According to another source there were also Egyptian doctors ready to go into the Strip to help.) Since Dobbie and his audience had heard the repeated complaint from the people in Gaza that the hospitals were overwhelmed by the injured and desperately lacking in supplies, one would have expected the border to be full of purposeful activity. Instead, nothing was happening. The Gazan side lay silent.

A real journalist, someone with a smell for revealing anomalies, would have immediately recognized this as an important story to follow up on. After all, Dobbie had not hesitated to interrupt and challenge Israeli spokesmen on precisely the issues at stake: the disproportion between Israeli-caused fatalities and Israeli-suffered fatalities, the inevitable suffering of innocent civilians when such a bombing campaign takes place in so densely populated an area. “The math doesn’t work,” said Dobbie, implying what commentators emphasized elsewhere — the “disproportionate use of force” the Israelis were employing.

So here was a perfect issue with which to challenge Hamas spokesmen: If they were so distraught at the loss of life of their own people, why didn’t they take care of them? What on earth would possess Hamas not to avail themselves of what they pleadingly told the world they so desperately needed? As the honest and courageous Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey put it, “My head hurts.”

Alas, the BBC did nothing of the sort. The next six hours saw nothing but canned footage repeating Palestinian complaints, voiced not only by Hamas spokesmen and BBC reporters, but UN officials like Chris Gunning and human rights advocates, and, of course, others in the Western MSM.

Indeed, one might characterize the basic “frame” of the MSM Gaza story: Israeli Goliath creates Palestinian David humanitarian crisis. Four out of five stories tell this story in one way or another, including the interviews with Israeli officials asking them to justify their deed. (Ironically, that’s about the ratio of Hamas men to civilian casualties in the first days.)

Too bad. Had the BBC behaved like real journalists instead of parroting Palestinian narratives, they might have taken the “golden” (read excremental) thread that leads out of the labyrinth and straight to the “real story.” That story, of course, is the dreadful Palestinian strategy, taken to new heights by Hamas in the early 21st century — play the victim card at any cost. In this case, create a genuine humanitarian crisis.
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http://jacksnewswatch.com/2009/01/05/western-media-you-lie-1/
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"Revealing Silence at the Gaza-Egypt Border

Why does Hamas victimize its own people? And why doesn't the media call them on it?"
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/revealing-silence-at-the-gaza-egypt-border/