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It's too bad Ron Leech wasn't black or otherwise not caucasian. Then people would have cheered him for claiming white people have a natural advantage due to their inherent 'whiteness'. That's the irony of the situation - point it out if you're not white, then you're just acknowledging a truth. point it out if you're white, and you're being a racist. Weird, huh?

Whatever happened to these guys?

http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.ca/

Here's a tip: don't antagonize Israeli regular forces in the West Bank. As a Canadian, I'm struggling over the moral quandary of two minute minor or 5 and a game misconduct.

You know who was to blame for that earthquake?

Oh, it is an outrage Marco. The soldier ought to know how a machine gun is used, and should have blown out what passed for the little scumbag's brains at the first sign of trouble.

Within 24 hours the Israeli government ought to have called the Danish ambassador on the carpet, demanded an explanation and ordered him to go to Copenhagen and return ready to brief the Israeli government on Denmark's proposed methods for preventing Danish nationals from interfering in Israeli politics within 48 hours, or not at all. Failure to comply should have resulted in the internment of all Danish nationals known to be on Israeli soil (and unable to prove Jewish heritage to the authorities' satisfaction), their summary deportation and confiscation of their Israeli assets.

You'd maybe have to do that twice before this sort of nonsense stopped for good.

Here's a laughable reply I received from the left-wing CBC:

from: Esther Enkin
Esther.Enkin@cbc.ca
to: -------@gmail.com
cc: CBC Ombudsman
date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:47 PM
subject: re: CBCNews.ca story posted on April 10 under the headline, “Canadians OK with higher taxes to fight inequality”
mailed-by: cbc.ca

Dear Mr. :

Thank you for your e-mail of April 10 addressed to Kirk LaPointe, CBC Ombudsman, drawing our attention to what you take to be “bias” in a CBCNews.ca story posted on April 10 under the headline, “Canadians OK with higher taxes to fight inequality”. You asked why CBC had reported on a “bogus ‘left-wing’ survey/poll, but never on a ‘right-wing’ survey”. Since CBC falls in my remit, I would like to reply.

While I sincerely regret you are disappointed in CBC, I must tell you – and I do so with respect – that your view in this matter is not one that I share, although you do highlight one thing that runs counter to CBC News practice. Allow me to explain what I mean.

Just to be clear, the story was about a survey conducted by the respected Environics Research Group for the Broadbent Institute that found that a majority of Canadians were prepared to pay slightly more in taxes to protect things like healthcare, education and pensions. In another section, the survey indicated that over 80 percent of Canadians favour increasing taxes on the wealthy. Ed Broadbent, the former NDP leader, said the survey “goes against Conservative mythology” and concluded Canadians are “really disturbed by the degree of inequality” they see in society. This, of course, comes at a time when governments are cutting jobs and expenditures, including in social programs, in order to balance their books.

Let me emphasize that this is one story and that the views expressed are Mr. Broadbent’s. Other CBC News stories have included a range of different views on the issue, including, among others, those of the Conservative government, the official opposition and the Liberal Party. And, yes, if you are a regular visitor to the CBC News Internet pages, you will know that other stories have included the results of surveys conducted for, say, the Fraser Institute and the Conference Board of Canada.

It is CBC’s mandate, part of its obligation under the federal Broadcasting Act, to carry different points of view on controversial matters of public interest and concern like this one. Indeed, allowing the expression of the widest possible range of views is at the heart of the notion of fairness and balance in journalism. It is CBC’s obligation to present differing views fairly and accurately affording Canadians the opportunity and the information they need to make up their own minds about the nature or quality of the views expressed. And I believe we are doing that.

You also pointed out that the story described the Broadbent Institute as “left-leaning”. The use of such political characterizations – terms like, “left of centre” and “right of centre” or “right-wing” and “left-wing” or “right-leaning” and “left-leaning” – to describe organizations like this is counter to long-established CBC News practice because such terms may be inaccurate or misleading.

I have drawn our senior editors’ attention to your e-mail, and directly reminded them that it is our practice not to use such characterizations.

On a broader front, I want to assure you that by any measure, the CBC’s journalistic code of ethics is considered to be rigorous, comprehensive, and detailed. It is formulated in our own handbook of Journalistic Standards and Practices, which stresses accuracy, integrity and lack of bias in reporting. It is distributed to our journalists, producers, editors and managers at all levels of the Corporation in Canada and abroad. We expect them to be familiar with and follow it scrupulously. If you wish to read it, it is also publicly available on the CBC website. You can find it here: http://cbc-radio-canada.ca/docs/policies/journalistic/

Thank you again for your e-mail. I hope my reply has reassured you of the continuing integrity of our news service.

It is also my responsibility to inform you that if you are not satisfied with this response, you may wish to submit the matter for review by the CBC Ombudsman. The Office of the Ombudsman, an independent and impartial body reporting directly to the President, is responsible for evaluating program compliance with the CBC's journalistic policies. The Ombudsman may be reached by mail at the address shown below, or by fax at (416) 205-2825, or by e-mail at ombudsman@cbc.ca.

Sincerely,

Esther Enkin

Executive Editor
CBC News
Box 500, Station “A”,
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1E6

cc. Kirk LaPointe, CBC Ombudsman

Thanks for that Black Mamba!!!

Re: Quake:

Isn't that the year they started drilling for oil in Alberta?

It's a fracking fact.

Blowed up real good?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/17/explosives-may-be-used-to-dislodge-frozen-cows/#more-61545

O & O'narcissist.

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"Oprahism and the Church of Obama"

"Many people have noted that Obama's rhetoric often feels off, but fewer have looked into why that is so. A great part of Obama's success has been his ability to invoke values detached from belief systems. To break away symbols and ideals from religious and national value systems, and mix and match them into his own soundbites. Like the famous Hope poster, that mixed patriotic color schemes with socialist realism, or Obama's own logo, which mixed corporate branding with national politics-- Obama's "brand" was built out of a barely coherent mishmash of clashing elements. The only thing they all have in common is that they are bricks in the wall of Obama's image. They all combine together to promote him."

http://sultanknish.blogspot.ca/2012/04/oprahism-and-church-of-obama.html

Our CBC's Meltdown Continues.

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"Poor outlook for Canadian hockey teams set to hit CBC in the pocket"

"At a time when the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. needs one of its top money makers the most, the broadcaster stands to miss out on millions of dollars because of the way it decided to sell advertising on its Stanley Cup playoffs coverage.

While rival Bell Media Inc. has locked down advertisers for all of the playoff games it will show on TSN, the CBC has sold out only the first round of Hockey Night in Canada. It kept ad slots in later rounds open, the idea being to sell them as the playoffs progress and interest grows. But with both Canadian teams struggling and the fan favourite Pittsburgh Penguins flirting with elimination, the broadcaster is facing a ratings letdown."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/poor-outlook-for-canadian-hockey-teams-set-to-hit-cbc-in-the-pocket/article2406116/

" If the (Alison) Redford PCs have a shred of democratic decency left, they will immediately give back all the illegal donations they've collected over the last several years, and only finance their campaign with legal donations -- if they have any," she said."

" Elections Alberta last month began a review of 73 files of alleged illegal political contributions from prohibited corporations."

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2012/04/20120418-071833.html

If Elections Alberta works like Elections Canada,I do not expect any findings to be released until after next Monday. The cbc will avoid the story because it is an ongoing investigation,just like they have done with the robocall BS.

Oh,wait.....

Diana Mehta of the Canadian Press marks Sun News' first anniversary with a typical hit piece with babblings from a U of t prof for filler.

http://tinyurl.com/6utfeuu

"There is always in every audience, whether it's in the U.S., Canada or any other country, a core of older white males who are chronically pissed off. That's who Fox News appeals to and I assume that Sun Media was looking to tap into that as well,” said Jeffery Dvorkin, University of Toronto.

The article goes on to point out that the "incident" where Krista Erickson asks dancer Margie Gillis about receiving government money was appropriate, as a hit on Sun's credibility. color me an old bitter cracker but I thought that actually gave Sun more credibility not less.

"and no one knows why".

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"New Brunswick town plagued for weeks by ‘earthquake swarm’ — and no one knows why"

"McAdam, New Brunswick, has been struck by over 35 minor tremours — called an “earthquake swarm” — in the past five weeks."

"Springtime in McAdam, a tiny village in southwestern New Brunswick not far from the Maine border, is like springtime in most other parts of Canada. Locals chatter about the NHL playoffs, the garden they are planting, the grass that needs to be cut, the fish they can’t wait to catch and the cottage they can’t wait to get to, once the warm weather really settles in.

Lately, however, an interloper has elbowed its way into the community’s daily dialogue. Pushing aside the playoffs. Pushing its way to the very top of the talking points.

“Everybody is talking about the earthquakes,” says David Blair, a retired science teacher and lifetime McAdam resident from his home on Old Harvey Road, just east of downtown."

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/17/new-brunswick-town-plagued-for-weeks-by-earthquake-swarm-and-no-one-know-why/

Tim Berners-Lee urges government to stop the snooping bill

Obama gov't asks Canadian Gov't to bring Khadr home..cbc gets thrill up it's leg!

Black woman shoots white woman and steals her new-born baby. Cue Sharpton and Jessie Jackson for their outrage in 3..2..1.. Just another black on white crime, nothing to see here, move on...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131352/Verna-Deann-McClain-Nurse-shot-Kayla-Marie-Golden-ripped-baby-son-arms.html

Hmmmm,G&M cowards have shut down comments re the Khadr return to Canada..apparently too many were "offensive!"

PET Cemetery Report.

"all of those warped ideas spring from the ideology of multiculturalism."

H/T National Socialism.

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"Breivik: a monster made by multiculturalism"

"The dark irony in Anders Behring Breivik’s courtoom ranting about multiculturalism is that his own worldview is riddled with that divisive ideology. Breivik poses as a one-man army against the evils of multiculturalism and the “Cultural Marxists” who have foisted it upon us. Yet in everything from his plea to respect “my culture” to his paranoid belief that “his culture” is under threat from both uncaring officials and uncouth plebs, Breivik reveals that he is in fact an adherent to the multicultural outlook. His view of himself as a threatened “culture”, his cloying self-pity, his paranoia about his traditions being trampled underfoot by Others – all of those warped ideas spring from the ideology of multiculturalism.

Breivik is not so different from the “Cultural Marxists” he loves to hate. Like them, he uses academic lingo such as “deconstruct” and “cultural identity” to describe what he thinks is happening to Europe. In the rambling 12-minute video he posted on YouTube just before his killing spree last year, he talks about the “deconstruction of European cultures”. He has said that he wants to uphold the “white Christian identity” and in court yesterday he lamented the disrespect shown to “my culture”. This obsession with one’s own cultural identity, and the desire to erect a forcefield around it so that it is never threatened by external forces, is pure, unadulterated multiculturalism, the same thinking that motivates the modern multicultural machine and its mission to enforce respect for various “identities”."

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/brendanoneill2/100151677/breivik-a-monster-made-by-multiculturalism/

Let's raise a glass to a worthwhile anniversary.

Sun News,one year old today.

Cheers to a real network.

"The right-wing Sun News Network launched Monday afternoon with a slogan of "hard news and straight talk."

Dubbed "Fox News North" by critics, the TV station features on-air personalities such as conservative author Ezra Levant and Winnipeg-based talk-radio host Charles Adler." ---from the cbc.

" "Through no fault of his own, he has been at Guantanamo since he was a 15-year-old,"

Yeah,from a cbc article on sweet little Omar coming back to Canada. The article and comments are more of the same old.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/04/18/pol-omar-khadr-transfer-request.html

Including the Mayor - who promptly went back to sleep.

Yeah, his house was on bedrock.

A CBC poll that needs a little help:
"Should Omar Khadr be allowed to return to Canada?"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/04/should-omar-khadr-be-allowed-to-return-to-canada.html

10,9,8,7,6,......

I hope he went smiling.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/dick-clark-entertainment-icon-nicknamed-americas-oldest-teenager/story?id=16076252

Mao Stlong* Lepolt.

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"Dozens under arrest in China in connection with Bo Xilai scandal"

"China has detained dozens people with connections to Bo Xilai, it was claimed as the Communist party pledged to "thoroughly investigate" the politician and his wife's alleged role in the death of British businessman Neil Heywood."

"At least 39 people are thought to be being held, alongside Mr Bo, in the seaside town of Beidaihe, a favourite retreat for Communist party leaders.

"The detainees include Xu Ming, who had a very special relationship with Mr Bo, and some of the people who worked with him," said Wang Kang, a well-connected independent scholar and public figure in Chongqing who is the only person with inside information on Mr Bo's removal from power to go on the record.

"The detainees are mainly people from Dalian and other places, not from Chongqing," he added. Mr Xu is one of China's richest men, a billionaire who heads the Dalian Shide industrial conglomerate. The 41-year-old has not been seen at the company since mid-March.

One of the people in custody is Xia Deling, the former party chief of Nan'an district in Chongqing, the area in which Mr Heywood's body was discovered, on November 15, in the Nanshan Lijing Holiday Hotel.

Mr Xia has been rumoured to have supplied the cyanide that killed Mr Heywood."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9212258/Dozens-under-arrest-in-China-in-connection-with-Bo-Xilai-scandal.html

*Liberal leader Rae's uncle Mo Strong, c/o Red China.

Deja vu for Alberta’s Progressives

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2012/04/16/deja-vu-for-albertas-progressives

Our CBC Chronicle: National Ex-Poseurs.

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"CBC Radio trims live concert recording by two-thirds"

"Facilities in Ottawa and other centres to close down, staffers laid off"

"OTTAWA — Canada’s national broadcaster is cutting two-thirds of its live concert recording services.

“We’re definitely and regrettably reducing the amount of live music that we’ll be recording,” said Chris Boyce, executive director of radio and audio at CBC English. These cuts come into effect immediately. “These were difficult cuts to make.”

The CBC is reducing the number of live recordings from about 300 per year to as few as 100. Boyce said CBC will also cut several staffers who provide these services. And it will close recording facilities and mobile studios in Ottawa, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, and St. John’s. It will continue to do live concert recordings in all of these locations using different technology and on a reduced scale.

“It’ll be very sad to see these services go,” said John Geggie, an Ottawa-based jazz musician. “The CBC has been very instrumental in getting Canadian musicians to play their music.”

“All you have to do is go down the list of Canadian artists who started off doing recordings for CBC and see where they are now. The CBC was a jumping off point for them,” he said.

Geggie said that being broadcast by the CBC greatly helped his own musical career. “I was given a great number of really fantastic opportunities.” This national exposure led to other projects that propelled his career."

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Radio+trims+live+concert+recording+thirds/6480500/story.html