You can actually see 2 of them under Top Stories (on the right) here:

http://tinyurl.com/2zqc3j

What the hell is going on with the Navy? Hosting a naval exercise and not being able to participate...this is an international embarrassment:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/01/26/navy-nato.html

From the party that wants to build armed ice breakers and patrol the arctic.

Adrian who? Looks like Mark Wartman is Chinas' new bestest friend.

Sandi Rinaldo actually gave false and misleading info on national tv last night when she said 'the Conservative government' produced the ads. proudtobecandian.ca has the video.
Does she not know the difference? sorry to say but I know too many 'mainstream viewers' who will now believe that their tax money is going toward CPC projects...'cuz Sandi said so!
Hopefully Sandra Buckler noticed.

The cons have said these ads are to counteract the "free ride" M. Dion has been getting in the MSM on the environment. "Free ride" is putting it mildly.

A good idea since any enviro measure proposed by Harper will be instantly dismissed solely on the basis of who is proposing it.

So the only thing one can do is to expose the incompetence and hypocrisy of your critics. It's difficult to run ads criticizing the MSM or Greenie clergy like David Suzuki.

But M. Dion does inhabit the same bubble and the spotlight of "so what are you gonna do about it Stephane?" will eventually shine on him.

These ads will speed up the process.

ural, the tiny url link is bad.
Kate, the hyperlink on the ads leads to a page full of code.

Nuke Time _ 5 minutes to go

[You have to wonder about the sanity of Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs promising to wipe Israel from the map when there are 26,000 Nukes available to deter any such action. = TG]

Victoria Samson is a research analyst for the Center for Defense Information, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C., that focuses on military and security issues. www.cdi.org.

Samson writes . . . **So it is rather jarring to be reminded that the United States and Russia still have 26,000 nuclear weapons between them. That North Korea’s recent arrival in the nuclear weapons club and Iran’s impending arrival have rendered international security even shakier than it was during the height of the Cold War.

Finally, rubbing salt into the wound, we are reminded that tons of material that could be used to make even more nuclear weapons are dangerously under-secured. ** = V.S.

http://www.petroleumworld.com/sati07012701.htm

= TG

"Bono demands that promises are kept"

http://www.developmentcrossing.com/development_crossing/2007/01/bono_demands_th.html

Um, or else ... what?

How long does it take to get an advertising spot on the Super Bowl. What are the negotiations, and I know that 30 seconds can cost millions. These ads will run during the game in Canada. Must make liberals seeth to know the conservative party has that much extra money, and they gave all their stolen money out in paper bags. All that Harper has to do is tell the truth and let dion and his dream team help him. Video clips of Dryden saying they failed is priceless. Dion telling iggy he doesn't know how hard it is to set and meet targets. Telling the truth is not an attack, aiming a gun and firing, soldiers and guns in the street, those are attack ads.
Dion said the ads will backfire when questioned about them. Was Harper questioned re the guns in the street. Dion told a blatant lie today re Bush and Kyoto, and Andrew let him get away with it. Maybe he will be the next one to disappear from the screen. A few more complaints from the communication lady might do the trick. We need to e-mail her, instead of the crtc (or both) when we see these lies. Anyone know her e-mail address.
Tomorrow question period should be interesting.

rg, or else he'll produce another 70 minutes of crap.

I posted clips at YouTube of Kathy Shaidle's appearance on Behind The Scenes.

w3 youtube.com/watch?v=jw0izexl3mQ

[deleted - clean up your language. ED]

Doug,

try going to canada.com -- > national topics

It's still under Top Stories of the right hand side

BTW: The link works for me.

Retraction, or lawsuit, or license in the bin. This is what the Librano brand means: underhanded at every turn. Scum.

BBC has a story debunking the Stern Report

"But expert critics of the review now claim that it overestimates the risk of severe global warming, and underestimates the cost of acting to stop it."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6295021.stm

Also the Washington Post has a great article "5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601589_3.html

When did the BBC and Washington Post start offering balanced coverage?

If the elimination of the cwb means china will no longer be able to buy quality grain from Canada, why is that. Will farmers stop growing it, will grades go down, have they been artificially overgraded for years. No, what it means is they will have to pay fair market prices for grain they import. Yes, we have sold millions of tonnes of grain to china over the years, but how much of it was paid for by the chinese. Remember when the government loaned money to countries to buy our grain. Was any or all of it paid back, with interest. Those books need to be audited.
And why is China turning to corn as a crop, any connection to ethanol or carbon credits.

Kate, you really should have said how silly the video was - especially that bozo who announced that the conservatives are afraid of Dion. Just as the clip began, I had a drink of a very nice single malt. I hooted when that clown came on; I ALMOST coughed up the scotch.

Let's ban water!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw&NR

I think this whole ad thing is brilliant. Global has the broadcast of the game. We have cbc and ctv advertising the ads ... the rags should have it tomorrow.

I can't see any downside of ads showing dions "dream team" debating him.

Who wants to bet on whether Wartman was paraphrasing/glossing or not when he said china doesn't want an "American-style open market."

I bet those were the exact words of the Chinese trade spokesmen. *rolls eyes*

Who wants to bet on whether Wartman was paraphrasing/glossing or not when he said china doesn't want an "American-style open market."

I bet those were the exact words of the Chinese trade spokesmen. *rolls eyes*

You don't just buy Superbowl advertising, they purchased it months ago, to bad the opposition parties weren't smart enough. Desperation? No, just being smart.

Watch as they tell Canadians that it’s the Conservative GOVERNMENT ...

Did you also notice that they referred to their poll about "Who do you think would do a better job of protecting the environment?" and mentioned the Green Party first! They weren't even listed as an option. FYI - Conservatives were 1st by a 2X margin See: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/HTMLTemplate?&tf=ctv/generic/hubs/ctvNewsSub.html&cf=ctv/generic/hubs/ctvNews.cfg&id=50213&pollid=50213&save=_save&show_vote_always=no&poll=CTVNewsTopStories&hub=TopStories&subhub=VoteResult

Planning for these ads, during the Super Bowl probably started last year right after the end of the 2006 game. The only question was, what would they be. It takes months to produce them, agree to them etc. You have to buy time the time months before so Global has known about them for ages. I would like to see all the ads that were prepared, we will most likely see them during the campaign. Dion with his foot in mouth ailment and the chosen leader made the cut. Wonder what the ones featuring Iggy and other candidates were like. Dion has been blindsided, along with cbc and ctv again. Does anyone doubt that Harper is ready, willing and waiting for an election. He is saying an election now would result in another minority. Planting the seed in voters mind to pay attention to what is being done, not what the media says. And, with it out about the ads, viewership will increase for Global, instead of watching on a US station. Dion is a football fan, will he watch, knowing millions of cdns will see him and his dream team attacking each other. Is that what the media means by attack ads, liberals attacking liberals. Love it.

Planning for these ads, during the Super Bowl probably started last year right after the end of the 2006 game. The only question was, what would they be. It takes months to produce them, agree to them etc. You have to buy time the time months before so Global has known about them for ages. I would like to see all the ads that were prepared, we will most likely see them during the campaign. Dion with his foot in mouth ailment and the chosen leader made the cut. Wonder what the ones featuring Iggy and other candidates were like. Dion has been blindsided, along with cbc and ctv again. Does anyone doubt that Harper is ready, willing and waiting for an election. He is saying an election now would result in another minority. Planting the seed in voters mind to pay attention to what is being done, not what the media says. And, with it out about the ads, viewership will increase for Global, instead of watching on a US station. Dion is a football fan, will he watch, knowing millions of cdns will see him and his dream team attacking each other. Is that what the media means by attack ads, liberals attacking liberals. Love it.

Planning for these ads, during the Super Bowl probably started last year right after the end of the 2006 game. The only question was, what would they be. It takes months to produce them, agree to them etc. You have to buy time the time months before so Global has known about them for ages. I would like to see all the ads that were prepared, we will most likely see them during the campaign. Dion with his foot in mouth ailment and the chosen leader made the cut. Wonder what the ones featuring Iggy and other candidates were like. Dion has been blindsided, along with cbc and ctv again. Does anyone doubt that Harper is ready, willing and waiting for an election. He is saying an election now would result in another minority. Planting the seed in voters mind to pay attention to what is being done, not what the media says. And, with it out about the ads, viewership will increase for Global, instead of watching on a US station. Dion is a football fan, will he watch, knowing millions of cdns will see him and his dream team attacking each other. Is that what the media means by attack ads, liberals attacking liberals. Love it.

mary T.,

Unless someone has a US satellite setup, it doesn't matter what channel you watch the game on - it will be Global ads. We don't get to see the US ads.

It is much easier and cheaper to get a Global Super Bowl spot.

When does the arrogance and duplicitousness of the MSM--in this case CTV--ever end?

CTV and the CBC, as far as I can tell, are merely propaganda machines for the Liberal Party of Canada. I guess they've got too used to their perks and privileges, being cheerleaders for one of the most corrupt governments Canada has ever had.

It's scandalous that Canadians are being so ill-served by corrupt media outlets that seem to have lost the ability to tell facts from fiction.

I'm now writing to the CTV to challenge their reporting: the CPC will pay for the ads NOT the Canadian GOVERNMENT. They know that, of course.

Twelve-year-old is world's youngest sex-change patient.

Who was the Liberal Enviro Minister for the Librano$ at the time? Green-Greed Kyoto Dion....-

Audit finds serious faults in $32.3-million climate program

DEAN BEEBY
Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Natural Resources Canada has ordered a flurry of audits after its bureaucrats botched a multimillion-dollar climate-change program for the trucking industry.

The program director has been fired, at least one grant agreement has been cancelled, and the department is revamping the way it hands out money for all its programs, says one newly released audit.

The deeply troubled program is likely to provide more fodder for the Conservative government's campaign to paint the Liberal record on the environment as an abject failure.

“Management considers the findings of this audit to be very serious,” says one document obtained under the Access to Information Act.

The audit uncovered serious faults in the $32.3-million Commercial Transportation Energy Efficiency and Fuels Initiative, or CTEEFI, announced by the former Liberal government in August 2003. (national newswatch)

Iraqi cult leader killed in Najaf battle

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - The leader of an Iraqi cult who claimed to be the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure in Islam, was killed in a battle on Sunday near Najaf with hundreds of his followers, Iraq's national security minister said on Monday.

Women and children who joined 600-700 of his "Soldiers of Heaven" on the outskirts of the Shi'ite holy city may be among the casualties, Shirwan al-Waeli told Reuters. All those people not killed were in detention, many of them wounded.

Authorities were on alert on Monday as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims massed in the area to commemorate Ashura, the highpoint of their religious calendar, amid fears of attacks by Sunni Arab insurgents linked to al Qaeda.

But Sunday's battle involved a group of a different sort.

The final casualty toll, put by other Iraqi officials at 300 gunmen, was still being calculated, Waeli said, putting the initial figure at about 200. Searchers were still scouring the area where U.S. tanks, helicopters and jets reinforced Iraqi troops during some 24 hours of fighting.

"He claimed to be the Mahdi," Waeli said of the cult's leader, adding that he had used the full name Mahdi bin Ali bin Ali bin Abi Taleb, claiming descent from the Prophet Mohammad.

He was believed to be a 40-year-old from the nearby Shi'ite city of Diwaniya: "He was killed," Waeli said.

The group, which other Iraqi officials said included both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims as well as foreigners, had planned an attack on the Shi'ite clerical establishment in Najaf on Monday, the climax of Ashura.

"One of the signs of the coming of the Mahdi was to be the killing of the Ulema (hierarchy) in Najaf," Waeli said. "This was a perverse claim. No sane person could believe it." ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775417/posts

The Ads are making clever use of what the main players in the Librano leadership think of their own Party accomplishments. Dion looks incredibly silly in the exchange with Iggy.

Yes BATB, we all need to write CTV on this one.
This is the type of media reporting that can take down a country. It is the modus operandi of Banana Republics where there is no truth.
What a pack of Ba****ds. GRRRRRRR!

So, I read this story in the media about the ads and they end it with a hit-piece from some professor at the U of T.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=63aae676-54c2-46e0-9ea5-f22ae27428b9&k=66842

"The ads are risky, said Nelson Wiseman, a politics professor at the University of Toronto.

"If you've got the NDP attacking Dion on the environment, it is more credible because the NDP has environmental credentials and the Conservatives don't ," he said. "So if you're trying to move people [on the basis] of the environment -- that's probably not going to work. You could try to move people on the basis of: 'You just can't trust these guys' but that's what you ran the last election on."

So I'm thinking "how left is this guy" so I google him. I get this:

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/polsci/faculty_staff/ourfaculty/nelson_wiseman.htm

Interests: Canadian government and politics. Recent publications: “Going Nowhere: Conservatism and the Conservative Party”, in M. Charlton and P. Barker, eds., Crosscurrents (2006); "Social Democracy in a Neo-Conservative Age: The Politics of Manitoba and Saskatchewan"

The papers around here in London Ontario always quote Dr. Nesbitt-Larking who is a prof at Huron College UWO. I had this prof when I went to Huron. He was militantly left then and nothing has changed. He goes door-to-door canvassing for the NDP during elections. But he's used as a media expert rather than a partisan activist by the press.

These profs should look up the meaning of "CONFLICT OF INTEREST" and procure some ethics.

My previous comment got caught in the filter.

Check out the earlier Globe and Mail poll about the political importance of climate change. The poll looks like it was either manipulated by the editors or subject to an onslaught by an organized group. When I last checked (somewhere in the mid-30,000 range of respondents), the response "in the top 5" was the lowest percentage of all responses (12%, as I recall). Now it is by and far the largest percentage.

And the response "not very important" previously had the highest percentage (40%, as I recall), while now it is quite low.

I can't imagine that this can adequately be explained by the random nature of honest polling.

Not that I'm terribly worried about the validity of the poll, but it does indicate some form of manipulation...and manipulation in a way that is so blatant. Whomsoever is/are manipulating the polls isn't/aren't very bright.

Ural: Guess I forgot that not everyone lives close to the border. My cable has 42 CHANNELS, including cbc, ctv, and global. When we were on the farm, our antenna brought in cbs, abc and nbc.
Moving to the city meant we had to start paying for these. Still, it is a feather in Harpers hat to get time time during the game. Used to have friends down when games were blacked out in Calgary. And how much free publicity are they getting from ctv and cbc, in showing them all the time. Liberals attacking liberals, great.

These aren't Conservative attack ads. They are Liberals attacking Liberals. And given the Liberal penchant for wanting to be on TV all the time, I'm sure there are a lot more clips where that came from.

The only problem with the ad is that the Conservatives shouldn't have told the viewer what to think, ie. Stephane Dion is not a leader. That is self evident. They should have allowed the viewer to come to that conclusion on their own.

Otherwise, the ad points out the obvious, Dion is a failure on the environment, why trust him again? If they keep the pressure on him, he'll be forced to confront the truth of his failure, or change his platform. He can't lie his way out of this one.

One 30 second ad on Global during the superbowl is about $30 - 40k. The production wouldn't have cost more than $10 -15k. The free Liberal media hype surrounding the ad will probably end up being worth around $200k. Heh.

Or, as the old Mastercard campaign would have written it:

Production of Conservative commercial - $10,000

30 second one time buy on the Superbowl - $40,000

Liberal news media running the spot for free - Priceless.

Re: the attack ads, CBC News was indicating an upcoming bit on "attack ads in general" that I haven't been able to catch yet.

I suspect that this is their way of deflecting the impact of the attack ads by claiming that "all sides do it and its reprehensible". I'm willing to bet that they will go into specifics on the Conservative ads but gloss over any previous attack ads from the Liberals.

Typical...and obvious. They're so transparent its silly.

Our TV Ads

http://www.conservative.ca/EN/4579#
...-

The three ads are now posted on the Tory Web site.

They're intention is not to throw a whole lot of facts and policy at people. There's only so much you can do with a 30-second spot. Instead, the ads are clearly meant to instill in Canadians an image of Stéphane Dion that they have yet to see through the media. The Stéphane Dion the Tories want you to see is someone: ...-
via secondthotsblogspot

Over 300 comments re the ads in the g&m. Newman talking liberals and reporters on them. Still calling the ads attack ads. They are, liberals attacking liberals, from their own mouths. GTA voters can't handle the truth. One commentator even brought up that Harper had to confer with Dion re the nation thing. Dion finally had to recant that stmt, but the lie stuck in lib minds. Harper has to get the truth out there. Now, when the campaign starts, does that mean liberals, being outraged by these ads will not run negative ads. I doubt it. The up side is that we now have the cbc and ctv bringing up that the ads attack the liberal record, and Susan Bonar just said, the liberals had 13 years and did nothing. What is really getting them is that as there is no campaign on, the cost will not be included in campaign costs. Some wonder who did the ads, american or cdn firms, and if american further proof of cozing up to the US. Who brought in the leader of the democratic party as main speaker at their convention. Some are saying Harpers plan, of seeming to fear Dion the most, worked and the quebec liberals elected him. Wonder what the french ads say. Will Dion explode when questioned about them.

My goodness........Sandy's body language says it all.
The hatred is easly seen. Just unbelievable!!!

RE:Sandy's body language,
is it the shaking head, the naunce of the voice,the liberal red shirt, the Stephane Dion button in her lapel?

'I'm so sick of running'
Canada says no to U.S. deserter

By PATRICK MALONEY, FREE PRESS REPORTER

London Free Press
Mon, January 29, 2007

Matt Lowell is one of the unlucky 13. That's how many U.S. soldiers have bolted their homeland in protest of the Iraq war and applied for refugee protection in Canada, Ottawa says. So far, all the claims have been rejected. Lowell, a quiet Michigan native who arrived in London by accident, just received the Immigration and Refugee Board's decision on his case. ...

During the first of three times he went AWOL from his duty station in Fort Lewis, Wash.
[...]

Oh, boo-hoo-hoo - save it for your up-coming Trial ya whining traitorous yellow bastard !!!

BTW, sorry about the vile London Free Press' typical apppallingly leftist slant but, hey, figured folks would like hearing this 'sad' news & it's not as if similar commie 'journalism' is unknown Stateside, eh?
(... although, even by the LFP's all too familiar low standards, the article's author must have pictures of his editor with a goat to get away with the 'included advertisement' crap above ???)

Anyway, bottom line UNDER CANADA'S NEW CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT:

"So far, all the claims have been rejected. " !!!
...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775524/posts

Maz2, Thanks for the link, as the Mastercard ad. goes these are just priceless. Thanks again.

We're not afraid of Stephane Dion. We are just afraid that Canadians are not getting the truth about him and the Liberals. We are afraid that Canadians have not yet realized how stupid they are to keep voting Liberal. Yes, absolutely Stupid. With a capital S.

Go over and read Ezra Levant in todays Calgary Sun and you will see why these ads are out now. Big liberal supporter, Jim Patterson, is head of the organization that vents all tv ads, and last year refused to allow conservative ads to counter the "guns in our street"
The cbc and ctv and global have to give permission for any of their footage to be used in an ad, and cbc denied permission and laid a complaint last campaign. And we wondered why some conservative ads were so blah. The liberals and the networks refuse to allow ads showing the truth, during a campaign. Harper has done an end run with these ads and caught all the culprits in the headlights.
As for body language and hate, notice how Susan Bohnar has aged this past year. Notice how dion has a habit of licking his lips, very lightly, when asked a question he isn't expecting or doesn't want to answer.
Bloggers, utube and the net will counter all the dirty tricks by the liberals to keep the truth from the voters. I thanked the cbc for giving all the attention, for free, to the ads showing liberals attacking liberals. Watch question period today and Newman. I suppose the msm and liberals will try to blame Harper for the tarsands problem.

that sense of scale thing again.

at 53 cu.miles per year I get a raise of .7 ft in a 100 years.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/29/climate.report.ap/index.html

Just an aside on the ads, take note of the exchange between 'Iggy' and 'Steffie'. The true mark of a Liberal statesman is 'Steffie's' whine "That's not fair". This is what the MSM would have as the next leader of this country, it is so tragic that it is criminal.

Sorry quote should have been "This is unfair!"

Susan Bohnar actually said, these ads showing liberals attacking liberals, then showing dions response that is posted on their web site.
She also said they attack dion and liberals for not doing anything for 13 years. Oh, the ads are working, regardless of dion, newman, boag, and others saying they will backfire.

I love how the Liberal crowd laughs at Dion when he sputters "That's not fair!" and then says "Do you think it's easy to make priorities?" More laughter from the Liberal crowd. Priceless.

Ehem, a commie regime wants CWB to stay? That's a perfect reason to do the opposite, even if there are no other reasons.

to be fair to Borat Dion -

the statements that the ads used are some of the more intelligable in English. they could have used some stumbles.

having Iggy deliver the punch line is priceless. and having Dryden there like a big goofy Ed McMahon , Iggy even has the Johnny Carson eyeball look, just before he used to break into tears.

From the Australian Herald-Sun:

A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.

Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination.

The university and Islamic leaders have defended the washrooms as vital to Muslim students' prayer rituals.

A university student, who did not want to be identified, raised the issue with the Sunday Herald Sun this week.

Australian Family Council spokesman Bill Muehlenberg said concerns over the exclusive facilities were valid.

"Do we have a Christian washroom or an atheist washroom?" he said. "The whole thing is madness."

Mr Muehlenberg said the separate facilities were divisive.

"If Muslims are saying 'we are good Australians and want to integrate', why are they insisting on separate washrooms?" he said.

Australia, just ahead of us in Canada. Muslim no go areas. Muslim washrooms. Muslim prayer rooms. Muslim Sharia law. Muslim politicians. It doesn't take long.

Reminds me of the WHITE ONLY drinking fountains, washrooms, restaurants ect that MLK fought against.

Iberia says
What the hell is going on with the Navy? Hosting a naval exercise and not being able to participate...this is an international embarrassment:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/01/26/navy-nato.html

From the party that wants to build armed ice breakers and patrol the arctic.

As usual a left wing loon spouts off about a topic he thinks he is in the know about because CBC said so. This is a plannned NATO exercise that has been planned for some time, one that initially did not include any Canadian participation. We don't commence our NATO NorLant commitment until July. We were going to send out three ships as a training exercise last minute. When the funding crunch hit us we decided to leave them tied up instead. The CBC makes it sound like we had to pull out the ships out of the exercise and send them home. But then again, I don't expect honesty or integrity from the CBC.

Iberia says
What the hell is going on with the Navy? Hosting a naval exercise and not being able to participate...this is an international embarrassment:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2007/01/26/navy-nato.html

From the party that wants to build armed ice breakers and patrol the arctic.

As usual a left wing loon spouts off about a topic he thinks he is in the know about because CBC said so. This is a plannned NATO exercise that has been planned for some time, one that initially did not include any Canadian participation. We don't commence our NATO NorLant commitment until July. We were going to send out three ships as a training exercise last minute. When the funding crunch hit us we decided to leave them tied up instead. The CBC makes it sound like we had to pull out the ships out of the exercise and send them home. But then again, I don't expect honesty or integrity from the CBC.

Holy Smokes.........I did not know this was happening!!!

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Levant_Ezra/2007/01/29/3473262.html

...i used to have a 'crush' on Sandi...now I'm glad I didn't marry her, seems like she's got a constant T.O.M.

Correction re my post at 12.01 that should be tarponds, not tarsands.

Doomsday: Pick One. Compare and contrast. ...-

Take # 1:

Major Climate Change Report Looks Set To Alarm

The most important report on the science of climate change for six years is set for release on Friday 2 February, and leaks suggest it will be an alarming read. The minimum predicted temperature and sea level rises will jump, according to media reports, while the blame will be pinned firmly on greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Its leading line is expected to be "there is a 90% chance humans are responsible for climate change", mostly due to the burning of fossil...-

Take # 2:

U.S.-Iran tensions could trigger accidental war, military and analysts say
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Tensions between the United States and Iran have risen to the point where a war could be kicked off by mistake, an outcome that neither Tehran nor Washington wants, U.S. military officials and private analysts say. A U.S. military official here likened the current U.S.-Iran standoff to the buildup in hostility in Europe before World War I, when a duke's assassination triggered a tragic war that engulfed a continent. "A mistake could be made and you could end up in something that neither side ever really wanted, and suddenly it's August 1914 all over again," the...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse

The best article I've yet read on the Islamic immigration question. It succinctly explains the left/right divide that we recently saw flare up in Kate's 'Baby boomer' picture post.

Translator’s note: In this article, author and philosopher Kai Sørlander writes about the divide between the proponents of multiculturalism and immigration, whom he calls optimists, and the xenophobes and Islamophobes, here labelled pessimists. Below is my translation of the article.

Naïvists and Human Nature

Kai Sørlander, Author and Philosopher

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When democracy let the optimists succeed in classifying the pessimists as xenophobes and Islamophobes, it embarked upon a catastrophic course. And the media who have aided to maintain the illusion bear a particular part of the blame, says the writer.

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Political discussions often take place on two levels: a substantial level where the parties have differing opinions about some concrete issue, and a secondary level, where the aim is to get your political opponent classified in a way that implies that you yourself are right on the substantial level.

The rest is at gatesofvienna.blogspot.com

Kyoto Dion's hatchetman is Mark Marrisen, henchman
of AdScam Martin. Where will Marrisen lead Doggy Dion? Mush Librano$, mu$h for ca$h; in brown envelope$. ...-

EX FED. B.C. LIBERAL PREZ TO TESTIFY AT BREACH OF TRUST TRIAL

Former Liberal president to testify
By BILL TIELEMAN, 24 HOURS
The president of the Liberal Party of Canada's B.C. branch was under subpoena for over three months to testify in the upcoming breach of trust trial of former provincial government aides David Basi and Bob Virk before resigning his position in January.

Lobbyist Jamie Elmhirst quit as president Jan. 15 but was subpoenaed by police Oct. 4, 2006 to testify. His letter of resignation to the party makes no mention of the subpoena, instead stating he was leaving to concentrate on his business and upcoming wedding.

Elmhirst, a former aide to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and former federal Liberal cabinet minister David Anderson, was a business partner of Erik Bornmann and Brian Kieran in the now-defunct Victoria lobby firm Pilothouse Public Affairs. ...-
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2007/01/29/3473285-sun.html

babble: Globe & Mail article on Tuesday's cabinet shuffle
Is Paul Martin trying to prove that he's even dumber than the people of ... with Mark Marrisen and Christy Clark, with Eric Bornman and David Basi and Bob ...
rabble.ca/babble

Who owns the CBC, isn't it a government funded corporation. Therefore do not the cdn taxpayers, of all political stripes own it. If that is true, doesn't that mean that all their footage is ours,or in the public domain, and therefore they have no right to refuse anyone to use it. Shouldn't we the people have a right to demand they tell both sides of any story and allow liberals to lie on tv, as dion did yesterday, re Bush and Kyoto. Did they overstep their authority when they refused, and laid a complaint with telecaster.
And consider that dion wants to increase ethanol from 5% to 10%, does that mean he wants to starve more children in Mexico.

Watching question period, dion is MAD. Newman and Susan did their best to spin negatively the reason for the ads, they are scared of dion.
Dion was appointed environment minister in spring of 2004 and took till spring of 2005 to come up with a plan, and never acted on it. Rona took about a year to come up with a plan and is blasted for taking so long. Iggy spoke, again using that look and voice that says, I am so much smarter than all of you, and I should be the leader. Harper responding to dion, You didn't get it done.

And around and around we go...

First global warming (circa 1900ish NYT) then global cooling (circa 1970's Newsweek and NYT) then the current global warming mass hysteria (circa 2006 everywhere) and now...

...back to the next global cooling!

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/archives/story.html?id=eabbe10d-3891-41eb-9ee1-a59b71743bec

just got done watching Politics with Don Newman on Newsworld. Not surprisingly the new Tory ads were the topic.

Both Newman and Bonner went back and forth, making not the Liberals' record, and Dion in particular, the main topic for debate, but what they see as the "desperation" by the Conservatives.

Newman then ran a series of clips from "both sides" (or was it?)

The first clip was of Peter MacKay going into the house, being chased down by Julie Van Dusen. MacKay's comments were all of 10 seconds.

The next clip was John Godfrey, who spoke on the issue, attacking the Conservatives for over a minute.

The next clip was of Ralph Goodale, also attacking the Conservatives. This one went on and on for about 2 minutes.

The next clip was a representative from Greenpeace, attacking the Conservatives, saying they have no right to attack the previous Liberal gov't, and Dion in particular, on green house gases emissions. He said that the Conservatives "obstructed the Liberals" on greenhouse gases. (Fact: the Liberals had a majority in 12 of their 13 years in power. They obstructed progress on reducing green house gas emissions ALL BY THEMSELVES.)

The next clip was another environmentalist, attacking the conservatives, calling them hypocrits. This speaker as well went on for about a minute.

In total, there was about 4-5 minutes of clips, with only 10 seconds devoted to comments of those critical of Dion.

It's apparent that the MSM, through it's slanted coverage, is circling the wagons around Dion, trying to make the Conservatives' ads the main focus to avoid the discussion being Dion's sorry record on the environment and that of his party when they were in gov't.

rg: '"Bono demands that promises are kept"

Um, or else ... what?'

Oh, I just had to add this:

> > Bono is at a U2 concert in Halifax, Nova Scotia,
> > when he asks the audience for some quiet. Then, in
>the silence, he starts to slowly claps his hands.
>
> > He says into the microphone, in a deep solemn voice
> >
> > "Just for a moment, think outside yourself ...
> > outside this arena. Every time I clap my hands, a
>child in Africa dies."
> >
> > A loud Newfy voice from in the front pierces the
> > moment
> >
> > "Well, Lard tunderin jasus, ya stupid arse, stop yer
> > fockin' clappin', then!"

BAM!!! Baird slams false info on cbc in Question Period! LOVE IT! Maybe one can hope Van Dolten and Newman will be the first to go.

Jon, you have identified the reasons for the ads, besides being flush in cash and realizing negative ads do work.

The CPC (not the government, Sandi @ CTV), feel, with some validity, that the MSM (CBC, CTV, G&M and TorStar) are giving Dion a free ride; in fact, some are accusing MSM of airbrushing him.

The ads seek to show Dion in an unfiltered light; frankly, to raise doubts about the man among the electorate.

It is also a shot across the bow - we have more money and material than you to launch negative ads, so watch it.

I have another theory. A collateral benefit of these ads is to bolster the NDP, whose performance has been moribund the past few months (some say this is so because they are negotiating with Tories on environmental policy). By exposing Dion as an angry ditherer (who seems to have great difficulty setting priorities), soft Liberal supporters who would never vote Conservative may look at NDP.

Thus, CPC can split the left-centre vote, which could give them a majority. IMHO, they are not there yet, simply because they must make inroads in major urban centres. They must follow with a superb budget that has across-the-board appeal and then sell it directly to Canadians.

Also, Harper is taking no chances with Liberals going for snap election. He is controlling their agenda, using their words, basically daring them to call election.

I wonder if Telestar/Patterson will try to stop these ads. There is noise (read Ezra Levant) that will happen. Fine with me, it will make Dion and Libs look really bad, and SCARED!

The MSM can circle the wagons all they want. They don't have that much influence anyway. The public will decide if they approve of these ads and wish to change their vote.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/29/miami.castro.ap/index.html

Is Sacha Trudeau invited?

re: China and the CWB.

"115 million tonnes sold to China since the 1960's".

Some quick arithmetic: let's be charitable and start at 1970. 115 m tonnes in 36 years = 3 m tonnes/year. 3 million tonnes = 6 billion pounds.
6 billion pounds/1 billion people = 6 pounds per person per year. 6 pounds per year = 0.5 pounds per month = 227 grammes/month. 227 grammes/30 days = 7.5 grammes/day. That's enough flour to make a cookie per week.

Is this really a significant market for Cdn wheat? (And I'm asking, because I don't know.)

Another collateral benefit,

the ads expose the press.

It's like looking at the before and after airbrush photos on Vanity Fair. Ever since seeing those every time I look at a cover I think "I wonder what she looks like in the morning".

After seeing the MSM Dion airbrush, folks look at him unedited and realize what kind of crap the press has been feeding us.

Liberals attacking liberals, liberals laughing at liberals, love it.
Media running scared, they are being exposed as biased liars re liberals. I missed Bairds response in QP today, but caught the end, and he looked mad.

"Remember headlines late last year such as "Greenhouse gases help make 2006 warmest year ever"?
What didn't get reported was the fact those doom-laden records were based on only the first 11 months of last year.
When the temperatures for December were added to the mix last week, 2006 turned out to be the coolest year in the past five."
...-

National Post | Lorne Gunter: Preaching the climate catechism

On Friday, the United Nations’ global warming spin factory will switch into high gear with the release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report.

Actually, the spin will come mostly in the Summary for Policy Makers. The report itself, running to several hundred pages, will consist mostly of dry scientific papers that are usually far less definitive about the causes and effects of climate change.

Expect the summary — which is not written by scientists, but by politicians and activists — to be highly alarmist. It will almost certainly insist that since the last report in 2001, proof of a coming man-made climate disaster has mounted and the scientific consensus has grown stronger....
You've no doubt heard there is an international scientific consensus that the planet is warming, that the warming will likely be catastrophic and it is being caused by human-produced emissions. The IPCC shows how this vaunted consensus is reached, not by getting all scientists to agree, but by defaming or ignoring those with opinions and research cast doubt on the dogma.

That's not science, it's shunning, the ancient religious punishment for heretics....-
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=34b2c4eb-1788-4242-a04d-eaa286afa9c7

An advisory for an upcoming gov't/corporate/real estate/banking consortium to target long overdue market corrections for mortgage rates/rental rates by at least 50 PERCENT. Median home in 1970s at approx. 60,000 compared to same median home today (three bedroom boxed bungalow) at approx. $300,000.

CEOs reportedly on the "fast track" over the weekend. Time for derailing "the untouchables" to date. Reversing pay the mortgage or feed the kids dilemna of decades.

SDA represents maximum exposure

Thanks for the forum.

BTW, juxtaposition of the cocaine run across the border versus Dion's support of B.C's safe injection sites -- more than apropos, absolutely priceless. A repeat run from time to time would help keep the drug issue front and centre.

Well at least one Liberal agrees that the MSM is pro Liberal (commenting on the Conserverative ads):

"It is very dangerous and my hope lies in both the media, the Lib party and Canadians rejecting the condesending attitude. I fear it needs to be pointed out however. We consume media without thought nor debate now it seems. That is frightening."

From that 'spectacularly obtuse' catnip blog.

"both the media, the Lib party and Canadians"

Telling words; the word "both" unites "the media" and the "Lib party" into an entity, aka the Media-Lib party, or is it the Lib-Media Party? Same difference.

Rewrite: both the Lib-Media-Media-Lib Party and Canadians.

Just watched the three CPC Ads featuring Le Rat and am still laughing. It's so unfunny it's.......... "Unfair".

Pat

SUZUKI TO LAUNCH ELECTION-STYLE ENVIRONMENT TOUR
David Suzuki is launching an election-style, national tour this week -- starting on the East Coast -- to urge Canadians to make the environment their top political issue. ...- national newswatch

Suzuki is a modern Canadian Johann Tetzel; selling indulgences, i.e., Kyoto carbon credit$$$$, for the anti-Pope from China, Mao Strong I, of the Red-Green religion.

Abbe Dion, Mao Strong's cure, today, in the Canadian Parliament charged/attempted to brand PM Harper as being a heretic.

The Red-Green religion has started its war of propaganda against the heretics. ...-

Indulgence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luther had already preached against indulgences, but he wrote the 95 Theses partly in reaction to the promotion of indulgences by Johann Tetzel, ..

95 theses, I thought it was 95 feces! boy do I feel dumb after that reenactment gone terribly wrong.

Welcome to the future. Particularly Ontario & Quebec. People still think we have no problem? I mean do you liberals or lefties actually think this group of murders are going too stop if we leave in defeat . Your as nuts as the Eurabians than.

Quran becomes top selling book in Denmark
Berlin, Jan 29, IRNA
Germany-Denmark-Quran
The holy scripture of Islam - the Quran - has become the top selling book in Denmark one year after the blasphemous caricature crisis shook up the Danish society and the Muslim world, the Munich-based Focus news magazine reported Monday.

The Quran was ranked second during the important Christmas book sales period.

Buyers of the Quran include many young Muslims who grew up in Denmark but do not speak Arabic.

The Danish government has stepped up efforts in recent months to reach out to the Muslim community by hosting international Islam conferences and holding inter-religious dialogue seminars.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjMyNTY4MjJjMjhmYWU1ZWFiMGVjODJkOWNiNGIzMmQ=

The Bible has been translated into many languages. Has the koran ever been translated into anything but the bunch of scribbles it appears to be.

Israel should bomb Gaza quickly, Palestinian blogger says

Eilat suicide bombing prompts journalist Fadi Abu Sada to publish blog on Palestinian News Network; Abu Sada says, ‘If Israel attacks houses in Gaza and attempts to target the leaders of the Palestinian resistance, this would be the only solution to stop the fighting’

Following the suicide bombing in Eilat Monday, Palestinian journalist Fadi Abu Sada offered his two cents on the attack and the infighting in Gaza through his blog on Palestinian News Network :

“Israel poising to respond on Eilat attack, it could be by the aerial bombardment and artillery, or perhaps they will try to assassinate Palestinian resistance leaders, what a ironically, we really want that to happen quickly, it might be the only solution to stop the bloody fighting between brothers in the Gaza Strip. ...-
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3358590,00.html

Confused? Wanna waste some time? Read this. ...-

Nigeria: The Weather is Confused

Extract:

Canada is also a culprit in GHG consumption. ...

This had hardly settled down when two Canadians
renounced their citizenship because they felt "betrayed' by their country which had not done anything concrete to ratify the Kyoto protocol on climate change. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1775858/posts

The Name Is ‘Power’ and It Fits

Excerpt:
And the family connections, he added, were often coincidental. André married France Chrétien long before it was obvious her father, Jean, would become prime minister. Paul Martin, another former Liberal prime minister, was already a Power executive when Paul Desmarais bought the company. Brian Mulroney, a long-serving Conservative prime minister, was Power’s outside labor lawyer well before he entered politics....-
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/business/26fund.html

Desmarais + Chretien + Martin + Mulroney = Power.

Forty years of Librano$: fascism in Canada.

Stephen Harper is not mentioned. Harper is blocking the road for the Power bus. Will Harper survive? Powerful forces, with Power's money, are ranged against the Conservative Party.

Who is missing from the lineup?
Hint: His initials are: MS. ...-

so whats the status of ms rinaldo's complete revision of the separation between 'government of the day' and 'various political parties'?

also, memo: dont make huge investments in time and money building on land whut aint yers....

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/cottage_land_dispute

I blame ye olde dept of indian affairs for most of this, the balance in the lap of the gullible and presumptuous soon-to-be-former cottage owners who thought they were 'getting a deal' by not having to buy the land as well as the materials that went into the buildings, and oh, say, the equivalent of the price of a candy bar on the part of the natives who didnt fight fair and instead used tactics common to the owners of retail property who routinely boot established businesses from the premises in an attempt to extort ever more rent.

The Health Nazis are on the rampage; the New-Old Fatheads. ...-

CALGARY MULLS TRANS FATS BAN
Calgary could become the first Canadian city to ban trans fats from its restaurants, the local health authority has announced. (national newswatch)

Meanwhile:

Trans fat alternative may have its own problems
Reuters ^ | January 24, 2007 | Amy Norton

Cholesterol-raising trans fats may be disappearing from supermarket shelves and restaurants, but one type of fat taking their place may be no healthier, new research suggests.

Artificial trans fats are formed when food manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil to make it solidify, in a process called hydrogenation. Partially hydrogenated oil boosts the stability of a food's flavor, as well as its shelf life, and the oils have long been a key ingredient in baked and fried foods.

Research has shown that trans fats in these oils may be even worse for heart health than the saturated fat found in foods like meat and butter. Not only do trans fats raise "bad" LDL cholesterol, as saturated fat does, but they also lower heart-healthy HDL cholesterol.

With trans fats so out of favor -- New York City recently banned them from restaurants, and other cities may follow suit -- the search for alternatives is on.

However, one of those replacement fats -- so-called interesterified fats -- may carry their own health threats, according to a study published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism. ...-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1773503/posts

martin luther was anti-semitic.

apparently forgot Christ Himself is JEWISH.

as is The Old Man.....

cant win 'em all eh marty??!!

KKK types and of that ilk likewise forget who The Boss favours.....

Direct quote from The Strong Conservative Blog

"universal health care still intact (unfortunately)

either Jan.25/26

Vancouverites in midst of 1982 recession effectively planned a total boycott of mortgage/rental rate payments and billboards, signs were mass advertized across entire city. Neither MSM print or broadcast picked it up. The feed was essentially cut. Blogosphere obviously wasn't up yet. Neither did any other city across Canada afford coverage.

Boycotts work when applied enmasse.

Google plans on offering every book/text on planet within the decade:

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/070205fa_fact_toobin

Ah, finally... the Ten Smartest Female Canadian Bloggers

"So, to recap... Libnip and Kinsella, the self annointed judges of all that is good, smart and female in the Canadian Blogosphere, will soon grace us with their decision about the very smartest Canadian womyn bloggers."

I read your link Neo, too funny. "I won't talk about Kate, neither will all of my 10 bloggers".
What an idiot.

Newspaper giant Torstar helps launch free online classified site LiveDeal.ca

Canadian Press
Published: Monday, January 16, 2006

TORONTO (CP) - Newspaper giant Torstar (TSX:TS.NV.B) launched a free Canadian online classified site Monday as part of its $3-million-US joint venture with California-based LiveDeal.com.

Canadian counterpart LiveDeal.ca derives its classified content from Torstar dailies to provide a *comprehensive* online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers, the newspaper company said.

*I think the principal difference between it and current newspaper sites is that it has a lot more functionality,* said Tomer Strolight, president of Torstar Digital.
. . . .

*Local e-commerce is the next wave of the Internet, and LiveDeal.ca and Torstar are leading the charge, leveraging the power of the Internet to enhance classifieds,* said Simon Jennings, general manager of LiveDeal.ca.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2hg526

= TG