Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records.

Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time.

Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time.

Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time.

United Arab Emirates votes against the US.. 70% of the time.

Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.

Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.

Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time

Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.

Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time

Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.

Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.

Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.

Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.

India votes against the United States 81% of the time.

Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.

Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of! the time.

US Foreign Aid to those that hate us:

Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.

Jordan votes 71% against the United States and receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

Pakistan votes 75% against the United States receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

India votes 81% against the United States receives $143,699,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/international/middleeast/07cnd-food.html

Oil-for-Food Report Says U.N. Needs Total Overhaul

By WARREN HOGE
Published: September 7, 2005

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 7 - Secretary General Kofi Annan and the members of the Security Council received an 860-page report today excoriating their management of the oil-for-food program and saying the United Nations must be extensively overhauled if it is to earn global credibility and meet its 21st-century obligations.

...

"Most notable among the United Nations' structural faults is a grievous absence of effective auditing and management controls," it said.

It recommended four principal management reforms:

Clarifying the purpose and criteria of programs at the outset and establishing clear lines of responsibility.

Creating the new post of chief operating officer, part of whose job would be to guarantee personnel practices that would "emphasize professional and administrative talent over political convenience."

Establishing a new independent auditing board with wide ranging powers.

Coordinating programs that extend over many United Nations agencies with memoranda of understanding and common accounting standards.

I received a package from Unicef asking if our company would like to purchase Christmas cards through them. I printed one of the child abuse stories that was on the news and stuffed it in the reply envelope and mailed it back to them. Don't worry, I paid the postage.

Kate, If I'm not mistaken, Stock Day had been hammering the Liberals in the house about the UN Oil-for-food/Strong/Desmarais/Powercor/PMO connection to PNB Paribas/Pertofina-ELF/Desmaris/Saddam Money laundering network.

Stock pretty much laid out the powercor-PMO-UN carpet bagging cabal....all this was eclipsed by Gomery.

I recall Dianne Francis wrote a column in FP a few years ago exposing the the Powercor global patronage elite and the UN contract scamming.....yet this is still one of the best kept secrets in the MSM.

Do you seriously think that Harper could get published in the MSM (who are dependent or owned by this existing Powercor-PMO-Liberal cartel)taking a run at Canada's unofficial ruling cartel?

As more and more of the Powercor alumnus (Strong/PNB Paribas) connection to UN scamming was made public by the US investigations, the silence was defening up here.

The only mention I saw of it was an article in McLeans by some payrolled myopic boob who denied the Canadian links to Saddam's money laundering network existed...all without evidence ...just simple denial of the evidence the "malicious neo-con American" congress investigating committee had uncovered.

The Stench from the corporate/political/UN insider cartel in Canada is choking but all the Kanukistan MSM will do is deny there's any stink at all.

The U.N. obviously needs to reform. Where will it get the money? Here:
U.N. Wants $845 Billion From U.S.
http://www.theonerepublic.com/archives/Columns/Kincaid/20050907Kincaid845.html

Canadian MSM, in this instance the Toronto Globe & Mail, aka the Liberal party, continues to bash Alberta: notice the word "poached"in the lead sentence.

Poach:To take or appropriate something unfairly or illegally. (webdictionary)

Globe and Mail is insinuating that Alberta is acting as criminals/cheaters in hiring a surgeon. Gob & Pail will be calling for a law to outlaw Alberta from hiring other Canadians, yes?
Sour grapes/envy/ & etc. from TO/GTA/GlobeMail.
Tough...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Alberta hospital lures third specialist from Sick Kids
Globe and Mail - 8 hours ago
By OLIVER MOORE. Another top doctor has been poached from the Hospital for Sick Children, the third this summer to pull up stakes for a hospital connected to the University of Alberta. Orthopedic surgeon Douglas ..>>> more
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Corporate Canadian MSM media will soon have vigourously to distance itself from the corrupt Liberal governance in Canada or be recognized on the world stage as nothing more than willing enablers of government corruption.

On the Dr. item; like these guys can't figure out for themselves that they get to keep more of their salaries in Alberta?!

The above subject line of that sort is used in MSM headlines to manipulate short-attention-span citizens who don't read the articles, let alone near the end where the whole truth somehow ends up. For many, the headlines are everything. Notice over the years headlines make Liberals look good when they're bad while they make Conservatives look bad when they're good?

I remember during the '97 election when Preston Manning visited the local area. Next day the Telegraph Journal had the headline: "Reform would deport violent criminals". Why that headline? To make people think we're a one-issue party, apparently. If it had been Chretien, the headline would be like "Cheers greet PM on visit" if just two syncophants cheered and no one else seemed to really care.

Besides, in perspective, we at my company have to fire people all the time, even very nice people, if they don't ultimately contribute to the improvement of the bottom line. Harper is merely doing something similar and necessary. The MSM wants us to think otherwise.

"A small cadre of obscure international bureaucrats are hard at work devising a system of 'global governance' that is slowly gaining control...Maurice Strong, a 68-year-old Canadian, is the 'indespensible man' at the center of this creeping UN power grab."

That quote is from the National Review, in September 1997. Forward eight years, and the Canadian media are pretty much burying Volcker's recent discoveries for "political implications", as Kate said.

When Volcker described "a systematic attempt by Louise Frechette to block results of audits into the Oil-For-Food program from the security council", Frechette may have been acting in her official role as Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, but prior to her demonstration of audit blocking abilities, she had already demonstrated sufficient aptitude so as to allow her to be appointed Associate Deputy Minister in Canada's Department of Finance, under the Liberals. That's the sort of U.N./Liberal connection you rarely see in the Canadian media.

And speaking of connections, Maurice Strong, who recently lost his job as U.N. envoy because of Oil-For-Food shenanigans, is the quintessential Liberal -- he just never ran as one. But (NR,'97): "He early made friends in high places in Canada's Liberal party...he cultivated ...well-connected young people -- like Paul Martin Jr., Canada's present finance minister and the smart money's bet to succeed Jean Chretien as Prime Minister, and salted them throughout his various political and business networks to form a virtual private intelligence service...and he always seemed to know what the next political trend would be -- foreign aid, Canadian economic nationalism, environmentalism.."

And maybe even globally-connected governmental crime. But if things like the involvement of Liberal movers-and-shakers in a prolonged bout of dubious LPC-style transactions at the U.N. is not newsworthy, compared to the bombshell that the Conservatives are changing a couple of staff members, or are getting new toner for their printer, we just need to look south, where publishers are journalists, and keep reading blogs such as Kate's.

Oh, and send a couple of Western Standard gift subscriptions to your friends and familiy down east. Seriously.

Alberta's relationship with physicians is best in the country. Most other provinces are struggling to impose salaries over fee for service. In fact, most have reinvented the wheel so many times, millions have been squandered on top heavy management of healthcare. Alberta gives the docs what they need and leaves them alone to do it. State of the art research facilities, too. B.C. has been struggling for years to keep docs here, but the relations between docs and the province - both with NDP and Lib governments - have been toxic. Not about money so much as being able to provide care. Most provinces ration operating room time to curb costs, which means docs (surgeons in particular) have a hard time maintaining their skills because in some cases, they're only getting 6 hours of OR time a week. Young docs who do residencies in the US come back to find they've gone from state-of-the-art PET scans to begging for MRI time for patients. Canada, Cuba, Turkey, and Portugal have the lease number of MRIs per capita in the industrialized world.

Perhaps a little of the threads topic, but with regards to the focus of the Conservative platform in the next election, my thought is to keep it extremely simple.

1)Expand Autditor Generals power.
Sound bite "Every tax dollar will be audited and accounted for."

2)All fuel taxes collected will be spent on building and repairing transportation infrastructure.

3)Change laws to make convicted criminals serve their entire sentence. Child molesters get life without parole.

Key issues that affect virtually everyone and that will be difficult to be spun negative by the Libs and media. More than three and I think the average Canadian has lost interest. And stay on message. The first point should be mentioned everytime a Conservative opens their mouth.

Wow. Well written. Good Article. No wonder I don't watch TV News or read a Newspaper anymore.

Ward
I know you want to keep it simple but here's one that should attract some Ontario/ Toronto votes.
*Ten years no deals if you are caught using a gun or a replica gun in a crime.

Harper is simply trying to gather some polished and capable team members around him. So far the team seems lackluster. Aside from four CPC TV spots on their website, I have not been aware of a single positive or inspiring note from them at all yet. Ya gotta reach out man.... eh? 73s TG

Maybe Mr. Harper should send me an email?