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In an interesting thread under this post at Harry's Place, a series of commenters take informed issue with post author Edmund Standing's rather David Frum-y, fence sitting, "nice guy" analysis of what he calls "the 'Islamisation' Myth."

Britain discovers that shrinking government is a lot harder than expanding it. But the problem is hardly limited to the UK.

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/21_3_otbie-uk-govt-spending.html

If you like this I have a copy of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band triple album with the original grand old opry stars. The title is Will The Circle Be Unbroken. Timeless, all the old boys and girls sing a version of the song. I can't find it on you tube, but !!

David Frost was on Gaddafi's payroll. Blood money from the Lockerbie bomber's financier.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8613991/Sir-David-Frost-paid-to-promote-Gaddafi.html

Interesting,

"Parts of the manifesto written by the suspect in Norway's terrorist attack were taken almost word for word from the writings of "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski."

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/jul/24/norway-suspect-borrowed-from-unabombers/

Via Instapundit.

CBC has once again proven their excellence in journalism.
A couple of days the first war criminal from the list released by immigration was caught.
His name, Cristobal Gonzalez-Ramirez.
Yesterday,another one was caught.
His name, Arshad Muhammad .

CBC has allowed comments on only one of the captures. No prize for guessing which one is closed to comments.
They also managed to find a lawyer who strongly disagrees with publishing the 'wanted' list,and let him dump on the gov't.

The Globe & Mail and others are heaping blame on Mark Steyn for the mass murder in Norway. Steyn, rightfully, chooses to defend himself against such libel.

The deaths of so many innocent young people caused by this insane individual in Norway can be laid at the feet of the inept police.

The POS surrendered the instant the police showed up after at least an hour after he had started killing. The island was only seconds away by helicopter from Oslo and a news helicopter was filming the man walking among the dead and dying yet where were the police? Norwegians should be furious about this as it is indicative of what would happen to them if an organized group of terrorists attacked their country

Just plain unforgivable of the Norwegian authorities yet we shouldn't be complacent in Canada as our police are constantly paralysed, as we see in Caledonia, Ipperwash, the G20, the Tamils or Vancouver, by inaction and lack of political will to do their jobs.

Left-socialism & its political correctness.

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"Norway suspect's hearing closed to public"

"OSLO - Anders Behring Breivik wants to tell Norway and the world why he killed at least 93 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage, but a judge ruled that Monday’s custody hearing would be closed to the public."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/07/25/18464546.html

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"Norwegian Tragedy And Absence Of Debate"

"Lacking real debate, society is forced, even raped, to the point of disappearing, dissolving the people and replacing it with another one - and whoever refuses is treated as a racist. If this continues, we should not be surprised to see other tragedies occur."

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/4773

The deaths of so many innocent young people caused by this insane individual in Norway can be laid at the feet of the inept police.

The POS surrendered the instant the police showed up after at least an hour after he had started killing. The island was only seconds away by helicopter from Oslo and a news helicopter was filming the man walking among the dead and dying yet where were the police? Norwegians should be furious about this as it is indicative of what would happen to them if an organized group of terrorists attacked their country

Just plain unforgivable of the Norwegian authorities yet we shouldn't be complacent in Canada as our police are constantly paralysed, as we see in Caledonia, Ipperwash, the G20, the Tamils or Vancouver, by inaction and lack of political will to do their jobs.

Re Breivik's supposed "Christianity" by Jonathan Kay in the National Post:

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/07/24/jonathan-kay-on-breiviks-norwegian-massacre-and-the-turner-diaries-how-a-2011-crime-was-plucked-straight-from-a-1978-novel/

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Breivik also promises that in his future utopia, “Embracing Christendom will be voluntary … People who choose to be atheists will enjoy the same rights” (though he also seeks a return to the religious policies of the mid-20th centuries, when Christian faiths had the status of official state creeds in many Western countries). This almost precisely follows the pattern of McVeigh, a lapsed Catholic-turned-agnostic who declared “science is my religion.”

The same was true of the fictional Turner [in the 1978 sci-fi novel The Turner Diaries], who is described as someone who “has never been religious.” Though, like Breivik, Turner is made to occasionally throw around vague references to God and the divine order, he never cites Bible verses or Christian theories of holy war to justify his terrorism. In fact, his attitude toward Christianity is negative [emphasis mine]: “The Christians are a mixed bag. Some of them are among our most devoted and courageous members … But all the ones who are still affiliated with major churches are against us.” (In 1978, the same year he wrote The Turner Diaries, Pierce abandoned Christianity for a self-created pantheistic religion called “Cosmotheism” based on the principle of eugenics, white racism and National Socialism.)

The idea that right-wing extremists such as Pierce, McVeigh and Breivik are simply the Christian version of Osama bin Laden is entirely wrong, in other words. Islamist terrorists take (misguided) inspiration from their religious texts in the act of slaughter — explicitly linking their motivation to religion. Mass murdering terrorists with a Christian background (and this includes the IRA, incidentally) typically do no such thing, even if the religious-inspired themes of martyrdom and purification tend to animate their doctrines. Not that this makes mass murder any less hideous or destructive — but it does show it to be a different kind of animal.

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macd quotes from the Brussels Journal "Lacking real debate, society is forced, even raped, to the point of disappearing, dissolving the people and replacing it with another one - and whoever refuses is treated as a racist. If this continues, we should not be surprised to see other tragedies occur."

This is already happening here. See Robert's comment @ 3:32.

The events in Norway will serve to stifle debate regarding open immigration even further.

Only in Canada can I watch Fox News channel and see commercials extolling the CBC inserted by the cable provider. These commercials are almost as disgusting as the feminine hygiene or Bob's enhancement commercials.

Big Nanny State: What to do, what to do, ...

"The hikers carried three canisters of bear spray,".

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"Ottawa moves to ban cadmium in children's jewelry
CTV.ca"

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>>> "Alaska Wildlife Troopers and state Department of Fish and Game biologists are discussing what to do about the bear, which troopers were still looking for Sunday afternoon, Peters said."

"The grizzly mauled the teen, attacked another group member, then returned to the first victim, Palmer said.

"It sounds like it was moving around within the group," Palmer said. The hikers carried three canisters of bear spray, but there was no initial indication that the hikers used the repellent, Palmer said."

http://www.adn.com/2011/07/24/1983379/grizzly-sow-attacks-group-of-seven.html

Mao Stlong Lepolt.

H/T Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae, Uncle Mo Strong's nephew.

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"Bombardier falls after Chinese train crash"

"A high-speed train crash in China that killed at least 38 people is dragging down shares of Bombardier Inc.

While the cause of the worst rail disaster in the country since 2008 is still unknown, the trains were built by a joint venture between Bombardier and China Southern Locomotive. The signaling system was manufactured by General Electric Co.

Shares of Montreal-based Bombardier fell more than 5% to $5.80 in Monday morning trading, but some Chinese railway equipment companies declined double-digits."

http://www.cbc.ca/fp/story/2011/07/25/5155038.html

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"China's spectacular real estate bubble is about to go pop"

"So you thought that UK housing was unaffordable. Try Beijing and Shanghai, where as can be seen from the graphic below, prices are off the scale relative to income, the commonly used yardstick for measuring affordability. OK, so these are the boom cities of the Chinese economic miracle, but even on a nationwide basis, affordability is no lower than in the UK."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jeremywarner/100011023/chinas-spectacular-real-estate-bubble-is-about-to-go-pop/

What media bias?
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The document's title page depicts a red cross - the symbol Christian medieval knights and warriors wore during the Crusades in their violent bid to retake Jerusalem from Muslim control

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2011/07/24/18463251.html

Jihad Watch: Anders Breivik stole the counterjihad movement from freedom fighters -- we're stealing it back:

Gunnar Thorenfeldt, staff writer for the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet asks Robert Spencer: "Have you ever been in contact with Anders Behring Breivik? What do you think about being listed as an inspiration for his work?"

To which Spencer replies: "I have never been in contact with Anders Behring Breivik.

"If I was indeed an inspiration for his work, I feel the way the Beatles must have felt when they learned that Charles Manson had committed murder after being inspired by messages he thought he heard in their song lyrics. There were no such messages. Nor is there, for any sane person, any inspiration for harming anyone in my work, which has been consistently dedicated to defending human rights for all people."

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/07/anders-breivik-stole-the-counterjihad-movement-from-freedom-fighters----were-stealing-it-back.html

Of Taliban Jacques Bloc Separatist.

If a socialist falls in TO on his way home from a massage parlour in Chinatown, is anyone listening?

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"Cloned trees raised in separate places react differently to drought
Montreal Gazette"

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"Jack Layton's announcement spurs speculation"

"NDP Leader Jack Layton is scheduled to make what is being billed as a major announcement at 2 p.m. ET Monday in downtown Toronto, the party says."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/25/layton-ndp.html

"http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Norway-Anders-Behring-Breivik-Was-On-Intelligence-Watch-List-After-Buying-Chemicals-"

Apparently Breivik was on the "watch list" of Norway's version of MI-5 since March of this year.

He was found buying chemicals illegally from Poland,but the Security Service didn't think it was "relevant".

btw,the article says the number of dead has been lowered to 76,with 50 missing.

Socialist brothers Red Joe and Brown Adolf's contribution* to noveldom.

Adolf and Joe were co-authors along with Vasily Grossman.

Of the socialist death-struggle.

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"Jonathan Kay:

Breivik and Turner Diaries: How 2011 Norwegian massacre echoes 1978 American novel"

http://www.newswatchcanada.ca/

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*Ooops, not a novel:

"Vasily Grossman: The Hell Called Treblinka"

"The site of Treblinka, further north, was reached by other troops from the Ist Belorussian Front almost at the same time as Maydanek. This was the first Aktion-Reinhard extermination camp to be reached, but the SS, on Himmler's direct order, had attempted to destroy all traces of its existence. The Red Army managed to locate about forty survivors from the camp — some were hiding in the surrounding pine forests. Grossman, who was allowed to go there, lost no time in interviewing these survivors and also local Polish peasants. His account, a careful reconstruction from these interviews of the experience undergone by the 800,000 vicims, is generally regarded as his most powerful piece of writing. [...] The article was published in November [1944] in Znamya under the title 'The Hell Called Treblinka'. It was quoted later at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal."

"The three statements below from Beevor and Vinogradova outline the foundation of Vasily Grossman's sterling reputation:

When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the front lines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians alike. Witnessing some of the most savage fighting of the war, Grossman saw firsthand the repeated early defeats of the Red Army, the brutal street fighting in Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk (the largest tank engagement in history), the defense of Moscow, the battles in Ukraine, the atrocities at Treblinka, and much more.

Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova have taken Grossman's raw notebooks and fashioned them into a gripping narrrative, providing one of the most even-handed descriptions — at once unflinching and sensitive — we have ever had of what Grossman called "the ruthless truth of war."

http://www.xoxol.org/dem/grossman01.html

For Davenport and Alex:

Discussion: What does their reaction to the Norway tragedies tell us about the left?

" ... what disturbs me and disgusts me almost as much as Friday’s mass murders was the left’s rush to morally equate isolated lone acts of so-called “Christian” extremism with the routine, coordinated, global terror attacks carried about by jihadis in the name of “Allah” ... "

http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2011/07/25/discussion-what-does-their-reaction-to-the-oslo-tragedies-tell-us-about-the-left/

Battleground Europe.

Socialism's brotherly blood feud has lasted 100 years.

Red communism vs fascist Brown.

The Greens are allied with the Red.

Which faction will be dominant in Europe's "economic government."?

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"Blogging Hate
Anders Breivik's Roots in Right-Wing Populism

He was a prolific contributor to extremist blogs and had ties to right-wing populists: The murderer from Norway did not, it would seem, come out of nowhere. Rather, he had found an ideological home among those seeking to cleanse Europe of Islam and multi-culturalism. They are seeking to distance themselves. By Frank Patalong more..."

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"Outcome of Brussels Summit
Europe Takes Step Closer to Economic Government

With the new aid package for Greece, Europe's leaders have not ended the battle for the euro, but they have given Athens time. The new bailout also takes the euro zone a step closer to having an economic government."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/

Ogabe tells the truth for once - he wishes he was Castro
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"The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, I promise you, not just on immigration reform. But that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions," Obama told the National Council of La Raza.

"Profiles of the 30 men the government believes have committed war crimes or crimes against humanity, many of whom are believed to be living in the Greater Toronto Area, can be viewed at:"

www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/wc-cg/menu-eng.html.

"Going public with war criminals ID's a 'pilot project'"

"This was a pilot to see what the public reaction would be, and to see whether that is going to be an effective strategy," said Mike Patton, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. "If it is, we're going to look at possibly expanding the program.

"Clearly it's been excellent thus far."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/07/25/18467656-qmi.html