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November 26, 2007

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Posted by Kate at November 26, 2007 10:26 AM
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If I had time to blog, this would be a starting point: The UN's record of "Manufacturing one crisis after another" courtesy of Lorne Gunter. Enjoy!

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=123369

Posted by: mark peters at November 26, 2007 11:03 AM

Nice to see the cbc continues on it's tradition of 'fair and balanced'programs for your viewing pleasure.Satellite tv coverage on cbc last wk.showed the Fifth Estate doc.on Mulroney/Schreiber affair pretty much every nite,then again last nite on the Newsworld channel.This am,just saw ad for tonites unbiased viewing,the program 'Blue Helmets-Peace and Dishonor'..the ad hypes how the 'peacekeepers' became the problem.
CBC..the network that works hard to slam anything military.

Posted by: Sammy at November 26, 2007 11:11 AM

heres one, as well.
forever there will be poverty, because the definition is based on what percentile your income is on the national scale. if everyone were a millionare , some one would be in the btm 10 percentile. its statistics


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/11/26/child-poverty.html

CBCpravda All Ridiculous ,All the Time


but it was good for Olivia Chow to comment now she and taliban jack are out of subsidized housing.

Posted by: cak2 at November 26, 2007 11:31 AM

a point to ponder ,

double names.

Karlheinz Schreiber
Robert Willy Pickton
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau

Id say avoid these types.


Posted by: cal2 at November 26, 2007 11:37 AM

British teacher faces lashes in Sudan after class teddy bear is named 'Muhammad'

A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad....

Under Sudan's Sharia law blasphemy could attract a large fine, 40 lashes or a jail term of up to six months.

Thinking the Unthinkable: How would a nuclear war between Israel and Iran play out?

Posted by: Charles MacDonald at November 26, 2007 11:38 AM

Democracy Watch doing news conference on ctv now...accusing PMSH/Nicholson of 'conflict of interest,in Mulroney affair,and agenda of 'protecting their own reputations.Lots of bs being flung about.
Question whether Nicholson has 'violated' conflict of interest,want PMSH/Nicholson investigated for 'past actions'

Posted by: Sammy at November 26, 2007 11:47 AM

FINALLY SOME RESPONSIBILITY AND SELF RESPECT RETURNS TO CAMPUS:

http://concealedcampus.org/about.htm

"Students for Concealed Carry on campus is a non-partisan, grassroots organization comprised of over 8,500 college students, faculty members, parents, and concerned citizens (about 90% college students and 10% faculty, parents, and concerned citizens) who support the right of concealed handgun license holders to carry concealed handguns on college campuses.

In the wake of recent school shootings, such as the massacre at Virginia Tech, SCCC contends it is now abundantly clear that “gun free zones” serve to disarm only those law-abiding citizens who might be able to mitigate such tragedies.""

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at November 26, 2007 11:57 AM

Don't know if this is the place, but congratulations to all Rider fans, across the country, for NOT RIOTING, CAUSING DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, STARTING ANY FIRES etc.
Same goes for the Bomber fans for not taking their frustration out on property.

Posted by: MaryT at November 26, 2007 12:15 PM

Check out Melanie Phillips's latest article, "Losing Faith in Reason".

http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=551

In this article, among other things, she, a Jew, lauds both the foundational role of Christianity in establishing and maintaining Western civilization and the deleterious effect of the “Brownshirts” of secularism, which/who has/have done so much to degrade a once noble culture.

She’s a fine writer and makes her case compellingly. Freedom House has downgraded Canada from a grade of 1 to 2, re religious freedom. ALL Canadians of goodwill should be concerned about this. Melanie Phillips provides an excellent short analysis.

Posted by: lookout at November 26, 2007 12:38 PM

Re Democracy Watch ....
A group that despite it's fine sounding moniker has proven itself more concerned about promoting absurd revelations (inventions?)as if they are matters of great concern. And of course, justifying their own existence.

Where DO these people get their funding?

Posted by: OMMAG at November 26, 2007 1:04 PM

two truths

scientists figure out fizz water and announce it to the world.


http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/11/26/science-climate.html


majors in english write stories and dont know what the he11 they are talking about.

Posted by: cak2 at November 26, 2007 1:19 PM

I just missed it.

Dizzy Miss Lizzy May was on Rutherford, can anyone report on Miss Coyless Interuptus?

If Alberta can help Canada with its "grin 'ouse giz targets" by leaving confederation, count me in.

FREE THE WEST

Posted by: cal2 at November 26, 2007 2:03 PM

Catch 22:"'There, there', and all Snowden can say is 'I'm cold, I'm cold'; Yossarian overhears a woman repeatedly begging 'please don't, please don't';*"
Dion Dion, aka Dion Dion Dion Dion: That's not fair, that's not fair. I'm an egghead, I'm an egghead.
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The Dion Curse 23: It’s Lonely At the Top

There are some interesting observations on Stéphane Dion from The Hill Times’ Angelo Persichilli. (His HT column is behind a subscriber firewall, but the column also appears on his website here.) On the surface, there’s a suggestion that Dion has blown it so badly that, in the words of Spamalot’s King Arthur, he’s all alone: [...]

The same source told The Hill Times that Dion “doesn’t pay attention neither to his campaign team, nor to the people in his office. This is very serious mistake from a person who has never run a campaign in his life but believes he can do everything because he’s an academic.” ...-
http://phantomobserver.com/blog/?p=86
(*H/T Catch 22, Joseph Heller)

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 2:09 PM

CBC climate science coverage will be the first under the microscope. You don't really think they will find any bias, do you?

http://www.nrsp.com/releases/release-07.11.26.html

Posted by: Marcia at November 26, 2007 2:12 PM

Cak2, more on this:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/economy/poverty-line.html

Posted by: jcl at November 26, 2007 2:17 PM

Funny how Schreiber and Mulroney had a meeting in Switzerland over 10 years ago, and the CBC's "Fifth Esate" was able to determine that they had pumpernickel and smoked salmon for lunch. Do you recall what you had for lunch ten years ago??
Yet when Adscam was unfolding, the CBC's huge media staff that vegetate on parliament hill couldn't spot any of the "brown" (Tsk Tsk) envelopes that the Liberals were exchaning down the hallway, and across the river into Quebec.
Ever calculate how many brown (or were they white?) envelopes it took to transfer 100 million of Liberal payola??
Now the CBC is offering free air time for Jean Chretien. Seems his new book needs a boost, or is it to drive a dagger into Brian?? You be the judge?? And by the way, I wonder if anyone at CBC has ever accepted a "brown envelope" in exchange for some "QT" on a Liberal scam??

Posted by: Johnny Jesus at November 26, 2007 2:33 PM

To Johnny Jesus: I think it was Sheila Fraser who broke the "QT" on the Adscam. The CBC were too busy chasing rainbows in Swtizerland, and covering "same sex" weddings in "Vaseline Alley."

Posted by: Willie Wonga at November 26, 2007 2:38 PM

CanPress/MSM has elevated Red-Green Party to an "Opposition Parties" status even though the Mays are seatless.
PM Harper has united the socialists into one party. Good work.
BTW, Citoyen Dion is not mentioned in this agit-prop.
...-

Opposition parties pile on Harper over his climate-change stand
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Quotes:
They say Harper is out of step with Canadians and has shamed the country.
Bernard Bigras of the Bloc Quebecois says Harper acted "like an environmental criminal."
May of the Green Party says Canada has become an environmental saboteur, obstructing progress. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2xhds9

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 2:44 PM

Yes, Maz2, notice how they're using climate change and Kyoto interchangeably, hoping nobody will notice. Question Period was laughable with Ignatieff huffing about "they didn't get it done" at Uganda, and by not buying hook line and sinker into the Rodriguez Kyoto-gambit, they're actually sabotaging Bali. Hmm, Harper won the day at Commonwealth, getting attention of India and others. Then opposition tried the, well, Europe did it why can't we. Answer - Europe had plan (truth is they used economists and scientists to ensure they could comply, while Chretien and Dion sent environmentalists and their "we must de-industrialize" mantra). Baird could have asked a simple question to the Grits and Bloc, show us your Kyoto-compliance plan. Truth is, there never was one, and one certainly does not exist today, unless you want to buy credits from India and China so they can develop clean energy technologies.

Yeah, right. Once again, the left opposition has totally misread the mind of the voter, who has already signalled they don't want to take shorter showers, let alone the real pain Kyoto compliance would bring. As usual they huff and puff, and "don't get it done."

ET's comments about the professor in the seminar room apply here. The left, mark will words, will wear Kyoto around their necks like a millstone, come election time.

Posted by: Shamrock at November 26, 2007 3:28 PM

thanks jcl.

interesting graphs, the "reduction in poverty" graph is far more convincing than any earth temperature graph over the past one hundred years. I would say about 15% would be a good estimate, certainly not flat. even the biggest falsefied hockey stick global warming graph doesnt have as big of a differential.

the MSM is used to having the sheeple listen and not calculate.

one has to love the blogs, for every English major writing a story that they have not a fog about, they have to face the scrutiny of hundreds if not thousands of readers. we can finally talk back and not just yell at the radio "you dont speak for me"


thanks Kate , looks like 7 million sometime this week.

Posted by: cal2 at November 26, 2007 3:29 PM

I'm wondering what is going on in politics.

We have Democracy Watch with their insane comment that Harper had no right to appoint Dr. Johnston to come up with terms of the Mulroney-Schreiber Inquiry, because he is in a 'conflict of interest'. WHAT??????

What conflict of interest? The events took place over 15 years ago, during a different government. The party in question was the PC party (Progressive Conservative) not the CPC party (Conservative Party of Canada). What conflict of interest?

Then, you have the NDP's Don Martin insisting that Schreiber not be extradited, that he stay in Canada. I'm puzzled. The NDP aren't after the CPC; their agenda is to take out the Liberals. Are they hoping that Schreiber will implicate the Liberals?

I get the sense that both the NDP and the Liberals are using Schreiber. Or more correctly, being used by him. Schreiber has one and only one goal. Remaining out of Germany. He doesn't have any interest or even ability to speak or know the truth. He will say and do anything to remain in Canada.

I've said that Schreiber and the Liberals had made a deal; he will recant his previous sworn testimony about Mulroney's private deal of 300,000 and say it took place during his last two days in office.
[Note; this was not taxpayer money unlike the Liberal Adscam; it was a private deal. And two days before? Who cares.]
In return, the Liberals will guarantee his non-extradition.
The Liberals will use Schreiber's statements to somehow implicate Harper. Somehow..

Is Schreiber now linking up with the NDP? Does he think the Liberals can't pull it off? Is he suggesting that he'll tell stuff against the Liberals, if the NDP can assure his remaining in Canada?

Think about it. Think about the different agendas.
Schreiber: One agenda. Stay in Canada.
Liberals. One agenda. Smear Harper.
NDP: One agenda. Smear Liberals.
CPC: One agenda. Govern Canaada properly.

We have three corrupt agendas. Only one agenda that involves the welfare and betterment of Canadians - that's the CPC agenda.

While Schreiber, the Liberals and NDP have been screaming and plotting and ranting over the past week, the govt has:

:set up an enormous northern environmental reserve
-kicked Pakistan out of the commonwealth for its rejection of democracy;
- moved the Commonwealth environmental program to a realistic and collaborative agenda rather than a utopian and unreachable agenda
- millions of aid to Africa
-partnership with Gates etc on AIDS vaccine
- identity theft legislation
- crime bills
- infrastructural devt in Quebec, the Maritimes, the West....
http://www.gc.ca/whats/whaind_e.html

That's just one day.

Does the MSM comment on these developments? Rarely. Their focus is on the screaming tabloid junk of the Liberals/NDP.

What is going on?

That's just in the past two weeks.

Posted by: ET at November 26, 2007 4:16 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av7SO1GSoFk

Posted by: allan at November 26, 2007 4:22 PM

L'horroribull Chef de la Socialist Opposition, Citoyen Dion:

Uoi. C'eszt moi. Poverty Steffi. You like my headbonnet? It's gift (bribe) from Chief Fill Fountain.
Dat bully 'Arper gets da credit for di$$$$$$? Incroyable! It's not 'is, it's not 'is. It's Moi's, Moi's. Moi gets da credit for di$$$$$$; and Jeancula and Pauly. Moi! I'se gets da credit. Not dat 'Arper. Non, it's Moi's.
...-

Ottawa pays $45.6M to lawyers involved in [Indian] residential school cases ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2wa4qr

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 4:53 PM

ET, I'd rather the Cons let the clock run out and the KHS extradition order be expedited.

KHS has had lots of time to "spill the beans". Heck he could probably get the CBC and DION in one room and do it "in-camera", for a LIVE CBC special, one on one with his baldness The Mansbridge, and DION taking notes in the background.

Posted by: aj in calgary at November 26, 2007 6:19 PM

Da judge gets it right. By George, you've got it. Da proof is da proof and when .... it's proven*. Da proof: "Judges view this kind of legislation as a slap in the face." Slap them some more.
Case dismissed.
...-
National Newswatch headline-link >>> Tories' crime bill shows 'mistrust of judiciary': Gomery

Canwest headline:
Judges resent 'implied criticism' of mandatory minimum sentences: Gomery

John Gomery says the Harper government's plan to create mandatory minimum jail terms for drug crimes is a "slap in the face" to judges and suggests the Conservatives don't trust them to craft appropriate sentences for individual cases. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/262t9l

Here's da witness for da Judge, aka Aunty-American, her of the BDS:

Judge says: "In the last couple of decades, the U.S. has gone the way of mandatory sentencing for a whole bunch of crimes and the result is their prisons are jammed.

"I find it hard to understand how the richest country in the world has one of - if not the - highest prison population in the world. There's something wrong there, and the problem is mandatory sentences. I'm disappointed to see Canada drifting in that direction."...-

*H/T Jeancula's Law Logic.

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 6:27 PM

Mind-bender alert! A Monty Python moment in the WOT.

We’ll Do It Again: Annapolis Shall Not Rescue Their Metropolis

I wasn’t drinking or nuthin’, but I did laugh out loud reading this story. Let’s face it al-Qaeda is not an especially reliable source of mirth, but this piece -- which essentially excoriates the Jooooos for propagating those ubiquitous 9/11 conspiracy theories in order to discredit Muslim competence – is pretty hilarious.

Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at November 26, 2007 6:44 PM

From the article at the link below;
"Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility"
I wondered how long it would take for different brands of evil to seek each other out.
There seems to be a diabolical fit; generous financing partnered with those who are willing to die in order to strike at the U.S. to satisfy a mutual goal.
In the future, we may see more of this.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071126/NATION/111260034/1001

Posted by: Rich at November 26, 2007 6:47 PM

Nuance is everywhere. Find nuance in Ass. Press's propaganda bull below.
Best definition of nuance ever was found at Chucker Canuck:
" Greg said...
I never realised that nuance was an acronym until now, Nothing Useful And Nothing Constructive Either." ...-


Climate forecast bleak, gobal talks challenging as world heads to Bali summit
By Charles J. Hanley, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [...]
"Behind closed doors on the resort island of Bali, that turbulent future will be the backdrop to sessions in which negotiators will tinker with and test language and nuance. Some words - "commitments," "binding," "voluntary" - could set off storms of argument by the end of the Dec. 3-14 conference." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/23bn6o

Meanwhile at Chucker Canuck:

Monday, November 26, 2007
Harper in Africa
Another great day to be a Canadian. Thank you, Prime Minister.

Of course, I fully expect Stephane Dion to issue a press release blasting the Prime Minister with a logic that goes something like this:

"If he cares about Africa, the Prime Minister should have had dinner with Bono!!!!" ...-
http://tinyurl.com/pxj7d

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 6:49 PM

'A point to ponder - double names.'

Do you realize that if it had been Pierre Trudeau Elliot, we would have all been legislated to wear kilts?

And wear sporrans.

Brrrrrr!

Posted by: rockyt at November 26, 2007 7:17 PM

now Im thinking Lester Bowels Pearson instead of Bowles.

the man that caused Pierre Elliot Trudeau

and Boutros Boutros Ghali


Posted by: cal2 at November 26, 2007 7:34 PM

Sieg Heil: Marx-Lenin-Adolf- Il Duce-Mao-Castro-Trudeau-Dion: SS.
...-

The Nazis Were Marxists
By Bruce Walker

The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe. Nazis, Bolsheviks, the Ku Klux Klan, Maoists, radical Islam and Facists -- all are on the Left, something that should be increasingly apparent to decent, honorable people in our times. The Big Lie which places Nazis on some mythical Far Right was created specifically so that there would be a bogeyman manacled on the wrists of those who wish us to move "too far" in the direction of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater.

The truth about the Nazis was that they were the antithesis of Reagan and Goldwater. Let us consider the original Nazi movement and its evolution. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2tq5w7

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 7:50 PM

Islamic State of Iraq's Bad Gay Wedding(Not that there is anything wrong with that...)
Jawa Report/CNN
Posted on 11/26/2007 4:26:36 PM PST by Dog
BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Soldiers manning a checkpoint near Baghdad stopped a wedding convoy to find that the purported bride and groom were wanted terror suspects, an Iraqi Defense Ministry official said Monday. The Army set up the checkpoint last week in the Taji area, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
The soldiers became suspicious of the convoy because its members -- save the "bride" -- were all male and because one of the cars in the convoy did not heed orders to stop, the official said....
...Upon inspecting the convoy, soldiers found a stubbly-faced man, Haider al-Bahadli, decked out in a white bride's dress and veil.
Bahadli was wanted on terror-related charges, as was his groom, Abbas al-Dobbi, the official said.
Bwhahahahaha! Caption contest time. Write the vows for the happy young couple.
...-
http://tinyurl.com/3dvlwy
Scroll down to pic:
The Bride...

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 8:00 PM

Disagree,Maz2, the author confuses authoritarianism, and possibly totalitarianism, with marxism. While marxism is certainly authoritarian, so are lots of other ideologies, including fascism and its cousin naziism.

Hitler was not marxist because, as a Nazi, he allowed private ownership, but with government control over output. Marxists, actually socialists, believe both in central control and ownership. In Germany you could be told what to produce, but still own the factory and reap the profits; not so with socialism/marxism.

Yes, marxism is an authoritarian ideology and socialism, while attempting the "perfection" of communism, becomes totalitarian, where all media, assembly and political opinion, are required to conform to the state ideal. Equally, even more, dangerous, yes, but still not the same as naziism.

Posted by: Shamrock at November 26, 2007 8:09 PM

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 7:50 PM

May I also draw your attention to maz2's link at the above post. Remembering some of the dreary left-right debates here, The Nazis Were Marxists is most enlightening -- and accurate. Makes one a bit sad to think of those brave idealists who went off to fight the fascists in Spain in '36.

Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at November 26, 2007 8:09 PM

Uh oh!

Posted by: Me No Dhimmi at November 26, 2007 8:22 PM

The long shadow of Alinsky: was he a socialist? a Nazi? a communist? an nihilist? a KKK? Whatever, or, all, and more.
Power is the game; nihilism is the name. The end justifies the means.
This explains why the Left has allied with Muslim Islamism. If they together ever land on top of our civilization there will be no contest; the Islamists will liquidate/slaughter the Left. It's the nightmare incarnate in Hillary/Obama.
...-

Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky

MOST AMERICANS [and Canadians] never heard of Saul Alinsky. Yet his shadow darkens our coming election. Democrat frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both worship at the altar of Alinskyism.

In a 1971 book called Rules for Radicals, Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.

Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties.

In his native Chicago, Alinsky courted power wherever he found it. His alliance with prominent Catholic clerics, such as Bishop Bernard Sheil, gave him respectability. His friendship with crime bosses such as Frank Nitti – Al Capone’s second-in-command – gave Alinsky clout on the street.

In our book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Siezed Control of the Democratic Party, my co-author David Horowitz and I trace the rise of Alinsky’s political influence since the 1930s.

He excelled at wooing wealthy funders. Start-up money for his Industrial Areas Foundation – a training school for radical organizers – came from department-store mogul Marshall Field III, Sears Roebuck heiress Adele Rosenwald Levy, and Gardiner Howland Shaw, an assistant secretary of state for Franklin Roosevelt.

Alinsky once boasted, “I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.”

One Alinsky benefactor was Wall Street investment banker Eugene Meyer, who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. Meyer and his wife Agnes co-owned The Washington Post. They used their newspaper to promote Alinsky.

Agnes Meyer personally wrote a six-part series in 1945, praising Alinsky’s work in Chicago slums. Her series, called “The Orderly Revolution”, made Alinsky famous. President Truman ordered 100 reprints of it.

During the Sixties, Alinsky wielded tremendous power behind the scenes.

When President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, Alinsky allies infiltrated the program, steering federal money into Alinsky projects.

In 1966, Senator Robert Kennedy allied himself with union leader Cesar Chavez, an Alinsky disciple. Chavez had worked ten years for Alinsky, beginning in 1952. Kennedy soon drifted into Alinsky’s circle.

After race riots shook Rochester, New York, Alinsky descended on the city and began pressuring Eastman-Kodak to hire more blacks. Kennedy supported Alinsky’s shakedown. The two men had an “understanding”, Alinsky later wrote.

Alinsky’s crowning achievement was his recruitment of a young high school student named Hillary Rodham. She met Alinsky through a radical church group. Hillary wrote an analysis of Alinsky’s methods for her senior thesis at Wellesley College. They remained friends until Alinsky’s death in 1972.

Alinsky tried to hire Hillary as a community organizer, but she chose instead to attend Yale Law School. Nonetheless, Alinsky’s network continued guiding Hillary’s career.

Fresh out of law school at age 26, Hillary received a prestigious appointment to the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigative team in 1974. She got the job on the recommendation of Peter and Marian Wright Edelman.

The Edelmans have been trusted mentors of Hillary since 1969. New Republic editor Martin Peretz called Marian “Hillary’s closest sister and ideological soulmate”. Marian Wright Edelman also happens to be an Alinskyite, having served on the Board of Trustees of Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation.

Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/229ngh

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 8:34 PM

naughty naught blackwater !!!

Blackwater probe stifled by conflicts - Post Media Reply
By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON - The State Department's acerbic top auditor wasn't happy when Justice Department officials told one of his aides to leave the room so they could discuss a criminal investigation of Blackwater Worldwide, the contractor protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq.

The episode reveals the badly strained relationship between Bush administration officials over the probe into whether Blackwater smuggled weapons into Iraq that could have gotten into insurgents' hands.

As a result of the bureaucratic crosscurrents between State's top auditor and Justice, the investigation has been bogged down for months.

A key date was July 11, when Howard Krongard, State's inspector general, sent an e-mail to one of his assistant inspector generals, telling him to "IMMEDIATELY" stop work on the Blackwater investigation. That lead to criticisms by Democrats that Krongard has tried to protect Blackwater and block investigations into contractor-related wrongdoing in Iraq.

"Instead of cooperating, Mr. Krongard apparently created a series of obstacles to the inquiry," said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee examining Krongard's performance as the State Department official responsible for stamping out waste, fraud and abuse.

Krongard, whose credibility was damaged by the recent disclosure that his brother had a business affiliation with Blackwater, has disputed the charge, though he recused himself from Blackwater matters after the potential conflict of interest emerged."


give them till the end of the week to clear out then turn all the weaponry on THEIR asses. send THEM back in the body bags. let THEIR loved ones weep at the loss.

Posted by: allhailelohim at November 26, 2007 10:19 PM

Goreacle's tentacles reach from Davy Jones' locker to Ontario farmers. It's a worldwide conspiracy with the MSM covering up the CO2 from the Goreacles.
...-
No ID on eco warriors by media:

Al Gore buddy owner of sunken ship that left huge carbon footprint on Antarctic Ocean floor
By Judi McLeod

You’d never read this in the mainstream media: The owner of MS Explorer that sank, leaving a huge carbon footprint at the bottom of the Antarctic Ocean Friday is an acolyte of teensy-weensy carbon footprint crusader Al Gore.

G.A.P. Adventures CEO and Explorer owner, Bruce Poon Tip and Gore have similar ideals, “filling their schedules with speaking engagements on environmental change to educate global audiences.” And that’s straight off of www.gapadventures.com. In fact, as recently as last April, both Poon Tip and Gore gave presentations at the Green Living Show in Toronto.

Bruce Poon Tip and Al Gore“I expressed my admiration for Mr. Gore’s commitment and leadership which spans more than 20 years,” commented Poon Tip. “I also invited him aboard our legendary polar expedition ship, the MS Explorer to visit the Arctic.” [...]

There was little mention in the mainstream media that the passengers were comprised of eco warriors or that they had spent thousands of dollars to see ice at a much closer range than they ever dreamed. ...-
http://tinyurl.com/3agscx

More: The Goreacle's apostles spread the gospel of Gaia.
...-
Ethanol production 'problematic,' audience told
By NICK GARDINER

A Montreal environmentalist trained in Al Gore's Climate Project questioned the benefits of ethanol production in reducing climate change during a presentation to 30 people at the Brockville Public Library on Sunday.

Responding to an audience question following a lengthy presentation with slides from Gore's Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, Danielle Schami said efforts to replace fossil fuels with ethanol production are "problematic." [...]

Schami acknowledged the skepticism of some people towards the catastrophic effects of climate change and anticipated a reporter's question about last week's revelation that the United Nations vastly overestimated the number of AIDS cases around the world.

"The fact that 3,000 scientists can come together on a consensus is very different," she said, noting the United Nations sponsors the international panel that came to that conclusion on climate change, but it didn't write the report.
http://tinyurl.com/2m7axs

Posted by: maz2 at November 26, 2007 10:20 PM

The Nazis were Marxists, no matter what our tainted academia and corrupt media wishes us to believe."

that'd be the 'national SOCIALIST party'.

'nuff said.

Posted by: allhailelohim at November 26, 2007 10:30 PM

Kate, you'll want to add this Telegraph Article to your "Settled Science" series:

NASA reports temperatures falling since 1998

Posted by: Christoph at November 26, 2007 11:37 PM
Vera Micheles Dean in her 1939 book, Europe in Retreat, written before the Second World War began, said that the Nazis had introduced into Germany a form of graduated Bolshevism, focusing first upon Jewish bankers, industrialists and businessmen, but then upon other businesses, noting that the Nazi goal, from which it had not deviated, was to establish an egalitarian society in which everyone is equal and subordinate to the state. The same year Time Magazine wrote that the "most cruel joke of all" has been how Hitler treated those capitalists and small businessmen who thought National Socialism would save them from radicalism. Some businesses had been expropriated; some were subjected to a capital tax; all had profits strictly controlled; and all were subjected to intense government regulation.

Thanks for the link, maz2.

Posted by: Daniel M. Ryan at November 27, 2007 12:21 AM
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