CANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES ASSN. TURNS A BLIND EYE TO CALEDONIA RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.

http://tinyurl.com/2fpkkr

"I have never heard back from the CCLA regarding my request to meet with them. They simply refuse to respond.

I’ve called, faxed, emailed and finally, delivered the evidence in person, (...) Apparently, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association doesn’t give a damn about the civil rights of innocent people caught up in land claims through no fault of their own.

The CCLA will defend drug dealers, panhandlers, and a guy who was charged for putting up posters on hydro poles, but they absolutely refuse to even meet and listen to innocent victims of systemic race-based policing and landclaim lawlessness from Caledonia. ""

Palestinian Aid and the Peace Process

The billions in new aid provided or promised includes record donations through UNRWA, direct US aid to the PA, G8 nation pledges of annual assistance, EU contributions, UN assistance, American Jewish donations of greenhouses, etc., etc....

And what has been the result? Here is what Condoleezza Rice acknowledged last week....

You think we have two tier justice? Check out Australia, where nine aboriginal males get off without convictions after gang-raping a 10-year-old girl.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2007/12/10/4716802-ap.html

David Warren - Abolish the HRC and defend Mark Steyn:

"For more than twenty years, in this column and elsewhere, I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant's right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgments on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover, "the process is the punishment" in these star chambers -- for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing."

"My hope is that this case against Mark Steyn and Maclean's will be fruitful. It will be, if it inspires enough people -- especially journalists, of all political persuasions -- to express outrage at what has been done; and inspires Canada's free citizens into the necessary political action to put an end to the human rights commissions themselves. The worst possible result is if the case fails to produce this response."

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=c3af9c5e-5867-4d5c-9e84-ede2bf92eda6&p=2

GUNS DONT KILL PEOPLE DO and if some dumb cement headed liberal pussy pants cant get that into their head then they should just retire from politics and GET A LIFE

Re: The TO SUN's reality challenged sensationalizing over the confiscated Desert Eagle .50...

A rich kid's ego toy...inherently inaccurate, slow cycling, prohibitive recoil, poor choice for a defesive or offensive weapon,...made primarily as a compensative device for small penis syndrome....

.... and where the hell is someone who owns one of these cannons going to get the rare as hen's teeth ammo without sending off alarm bells?

My take is the goblin that had this thing on him has never fired it and it still has the original 7 rounds in the clip it came with when he bought it from the smuggler.

The fact that low life street hoods can afford and get custom made vanity guns on the black market after we have spent 2 billion dollars to prevent this shows something is amiss...while the cops want to pull off police fishing expeditions of senior citizen duck hunter's homes who have registered their duck guns.

Does anyone else see the Police politics flogging a straw man here? Why is this dyslexic police function always seem endemic in Ontario?

Re David Warren's fine comments--thanks, penny--I'm cross posting these comments I made earlier today:

"I believe another category of law abiding Canadians who are being targeted by the HRCs are Christians. [I'm sure that David, who is a devout, practising Roman Catholic, would concur.]

"I just hope that the HRC going after Macleans and making this--I HOPE--front page news, Canadians will abandon their complacency and start to pay attention to the "clear and present danger" our regulators pose to all of us. E.g., I have many intelligent friends, who not only have no clue about the injustices of the HRCs, but blithely live their lives as if these star chambers didn't exist. Furthermore, as criticizing the HRCs is considered controversial and "not nice", most Canadians, it seems, don't WANT to know, but prefer to live within the confines of their own little comfort zones.

"Canadians need to wake up and smarten up or . . . well, they'll get what they deserve. And, being Canadians, they'll whimper, 'How did THIS happen?'

"Being all too willing to tolerate the intolerable, I think the people of this country have some rude awakenings coming up."

In the same category is the MSMs' propensity to blatantly LIE to Canadians, who, again, seem willing, most of the time, to take it. E.g., When I point out the MSM's consistent dishonesty re such topics as Kyoto, the Conservatives, etc., my friends who watch CBC, CTV, and read the Globe and Mail--and, even worse, the Star!--figuratively shrug. Unless something--9/11 didn't do it--wakes these people up, this unintelligent, "see no evil, hear no evil", head in the sand attitude will, quite literally, be the death of us.

I find it very discouraging.

No Nukes protester changes her tune over at Instapundit.A good read for those wanting to know where their "base load" comes from.Mr. Fruitfly listen up.

I'm liveblogging the Conrad Black sentencing right now.

http://conradblacktrial.blogspot.com

For those of you out there that pay Union dues, here's the latest from the Public service Alliance of Canada.
How would you feel having $100,000 of your Union fund donated to this "cause"?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 10, 2007

Unions call on government to halt the anti-equality agenda

Ottawa—Several major unions are stepping forward to give financial support to women’s organizations that have been punished under the Conservative government’s anti-equality agenda. Their announcement coincides with the 26th anniversary of Canada’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women.

“This government’s decision to stop funding research and advocacy by women’s organizations was short sighted, and our unions will continue to push for its reversal,” says John Gordon, Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) National President. “In the meantime, it’s imperative these groups stay alive.”

PSAC has donated $100,000 and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has donated $25,000 to be divided equally among four national women’s organizations: the Centre for Research on the Advancement of Women, the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) and the Feminist Association for International Action. PSAC is also contributing $15,000 to the Fédération des femmes du Québec, the key women's equality organization in Québec.

WLMackenzie: "Does anyone else see the Police politics flogging a straw man here? Why is this dyslexic police function always seem endemic in Ontario?"

See my earlier story: Surrounding the wrong building.
I think raiding the homes of elderly duck hunters is an important element in retaining the GC bureaucracy with all it's power and prestige for the leaders. Just think: what would the public reaction be to the multiple gang gun fights with no seemingly "police" action? They have to appear to be doing something and that something has to appeal to an ignorant press.
Out here in the Left Coast we have an annual Gun Amnesty every June. Our esteemed Attorney General puffed his chest out to the press and declared that they were taking guns off the street! I don't think they collected a single Norinco, the gun choice of criminals.
To their credit, Vancouver has formed a task force that is targeting the "homes" of known criminals and collecting plenty of street guns.

Latest word from the sentencing: Conrad faces a 6-to-8 year sentencing guideline.

Not including the obstruction-of-justice charge.

is this more than the 4.2 years /body that willy pickton gets or the 4 years/body that karla homolka got.

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2007/12/10/conradsentence.html

@cal2: Welcome to the world o' law.

Liberal-socialist Citoyen Dion is a saboteur.
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"Someone appears determined to make life difficult for the Canadian government at Bali.

The government plans to make a feel-good funding announcement every day of the summit, and someone has been leaking the entire schedule to the opposition Liberals.

An aide to Stephane Dion held up his Blackberry to show multimillion-dollar announcements on aid for poor countries, for Canadian communities struggling with climate-change problems, and on cash for the UN's Clean Development Mechanism.

He joked that Dion, a former environment minister, still has many friends at the summit." ...-
http://tinyurl.com/2tyg5o (canpress)

>>>>> The HDS rap sheet from the MSM/enviros:

The head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, called Canada's Conservatives a government of climate-change skeptics.

The head of the German delegation said the Canadian position is not constructive.

A senior Chinese diplomat has called the Canadians and Japanese the most unco-operative of all countries.

A hall of shame at the conference site - where environmental groups hand out a so-called fossil award for each day's three worst performers - is sprinkled with maple leaves.

Last weekend, Canada won all three fossil awards on the same day.

One European journalist who spotted a group of Canadian colleagues jokingly quipped: How does it feel to be the bad guy?

Someone appears determined to make life difficult for the Canadian government at Bali.

The government plans to make a feel-good funding announcement every day of the summit, and someone has been leaking the entire schedule to the opposition Liberals.

An aide to Stephane Dion held up his Blackberry to show multimillion-dollar announcements on aid for poor countries, for Canadian communities struggling with climate-change problems, and on cash for the UN's Clean Development Mechanism.

He joked that Dion, a former environment minister, still has many friends at the summit.

Thanks for the link, Kate. I have to admit that it's more exciting than the world of coins.

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Muslims have much to thank Britain for

Around this time of the year, my mum, Jena, a devout Shia Muslim, who died last year, would ask to be taken to see the Christmas lights in town, and when dropped off back home would entreat in Kutchi, our home language: "Say something nice in your newspaper article, time for that. It's their Christmas. Don't make people upset. This is a good country for us, you know."

I can hear her mellow voice today, and do as she bid. For in many ways, she is right. This is a good country for us and we Muslims don't say that often enough. Mea culpa.

Even now, in the riven world, our lives here are more secure, treated as more precious, than they are in most Muslim and European countries, the US, Australia and the Far East. British Muslims, or at least the most vocal of them, have never acknowledged the fact that "infidels" – Christians, atheists, Jews, secularists, Hindus and Sikhs – campaign ceaselessly to guard our fundamental rights as citizens of this nation....

Conrad's sentence: 6 1/2 years, a $125,000 fine and a $6.1 million forfeiture.

Goreacle - Saving the planet by pocketing $6,000 per minute of hot air delivered.

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Al Gore has come under fire for making personal gain from his mission to save the planet – after charging £3,300 a minute to deliver a poorly received speech.

The former American Vice-President was also accused of being "precious" at the London event, demanding his own VIP room and ejecting journalists, despite hopes the star-studded gathering would generate publicity for the fight against global warming.

Many of the audience at last month's Fortune Forum summit were restless as Mr Gore, who has won both a Nobel Peace Prize and an Oscar for his campaigning work this year, delivered the half-hour speech that netted him £100,000.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=500586&in_page_id=1770

Concerned Liberal defence experts:

'If upgrades to the air force's Aurora maritime patrol planes are stalled it could hurt the military's surveillance capabilities, the Liberal party's defence critic argued Monday.

In reaffirming the Liberals' position that there's plenty of life left in the nearly 30-year-old planes, Denis Coderre said surveillance on the East and West coasts, as well as in the Arctic, could be at risk.

"Those planes have a capacity to be perfect up to 2025,'' Coderre told a news conference, where he was joined by Nova Scotia MPs Geoff Regan, Scott Brison and Michael Savage.

"If we are replacing them ... and we're stalling those other (upgrades), you will have kind of a gap in some years when Canada won't be able to fulfil its own military duty. That's a problem in itself.''..'

Mark
Ottawa

More:

'Some 2,000 jobs could be lost in Nova Scotia if the projects are called off, said Coderre.

Brison said the Liberals awarded the contracts because they provided the best value for taxpayers, security for the military and industrial benefits.

"Nothing has changed in terms of the benefits,'' said Brison, the party's industry critic...'

Mark
Ottawa

OttRob

The really funny bit in this article is Gore's claim that he "donates" a portion of all his appearance fees to The Alliance for Climate Protection.

The board of directors of said alliance can be found here:

http://www.climateprotect.org/board

F&*king brilliant. I wonder if Revenue Canada will recognize my charitable donations to The Syncrodox Institute of Self Promotion.

Syncro

this sounds worse than maher arar

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071210/nfld_doctor_071210/20071210?hub=Canada

Gordon Brown tells troops "your war is over":
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article563496.ece
Basra combat operations are to stop within two weeks...

Ezra*s Email...

Dear friends,

As you know, the Western Standard stopped publishing our print edition last month.

But I'm happy to announce that one of the Western Standard's founders, Matthew Johnston, has assembled a small team of our former staff, and they're going to revive our magazine's websites.

Working with other long-time Western Standard staff like writer Kevin Steel and sales manager Josh Frederick, they're going to try to make a go of it online — and I wish them good luck. They loved the magazine and I'm sure they'll do a great job of the new venture.

I'm moving on to other projects, but Matthew and his team have invited me to continue to blog from time to time on the site, and I'm sure I will.

So make sure to visit www.westernstandard.ca to see what the new team is up to — and keep an eye peeled for their e-mail updates.

Join with me in wishing them good luck!

Yours truly,
Ezra Levant
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= TG

its not your fathers oldmobile but maybe your grandfathers.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071210/libs_auroras_071210/20071210?hub=Politics

the last few paragraphs are real interesting,

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071210/human_evolution_071210/20071210?hub=TopStories

Taking care of business. More, please; and, faster.
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Forces Capture Numerous Terrorist Suspects in Iraq
American Forces Press Service ^

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2007 – Coalition forces captured several wanted individuals and dozens of additional suspects during operations over the past several days targeting al Qaeda networks throughout Iraq.

Coalition forces captured a wanted individual in Mosul believed to be a foreign terrorist facilitator associated with senior facilitators operating in and outside of Iraq. The wanted individual reportedly is involved in facilitating supplies and finances for use in attacks against coalition forces.

As the ground force entered the target building, the wanted individual attempted to leave through the back door. Coalition forces engaged to stop his movement, wounding and subsequently detaining him. The individual was treated and transported to a nearby military medical facility. In addition to the wanted individual, six suspects were detained.

“Iraq is still a violent place beset by many challenges,” said Navy Capt. Vic Beck, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “We will continue to conduct operations that diminish al Qaeda’s ability to attack innocent Iraqis.”

In operations yesterday:

-- Coalition forces captured a wanted individual and one additional suspect during an operation in Baghdad. The wanted individual allegedly is involved in al Qaeda propaganda and media operations.

-- Coalition forces captured an alleged al Qaeda leader in Taji also involved in Baghdad terrorist networks. Reports indicate he is a close associate of senior terrorists in northern Baghdad. This network is responsible for the majority of car-bombing and improvised–explosive-device attacks in the area and is involved in extortion, intimidation, weapons trafficking and facilitating foreign terrorists. One additional suspect was detained during the operation.

-- Coalition forces captured a wanted individual allegedly associated with the al Qaeda network operating in Muqdadiyah and involved in foreign terrorist facilitation. The wanted individual is reportedly an associate of several al Qaeda members previously detained by coalition forces in the Diyala River Valley. ...- More:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937599/posts

so who will get the longer sentence;

willie pickton for 6 2nd degree murder charges

or the

cement truck driver who killed 5 in Calgary?

Self-righteous McGuinty is going after his usual whipping boy:

http://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20071210_181552_4380

Has he been caught out on something recently?

Troops Kill Militants, Detain 10 in Afghanistan Operation
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2007 – Afghan and coalition forces yesterday targeted insurgent networks in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, killing several militants and detaining 10 others. Two civilians were wounded in the operation.

The combined force searched compounds in the Musa Qaleh district targeting people associated with a weapons facilitator believed to have been killed in an earlier coalition precision strike in the area.

The combined force detained 10 people suspected of having links to insurgent weapons-facilitation networks. The detainees will be questioned regarding their involvement in weapons facilitation operations, as well as other extremist activities, officials said.

Afghan and coalition forces came under small-arms fire from several militants on one of the compounds while conducting their search of the area. The combined force returned fire, killing the militants.

Afghan and coalition forces also assessed the precision munitions strike, finding several dead militants at the impact site. Two teenage males who had suffered injuries during the course of the precision munitions strike also were found during the assessment. Afghan and coalition forces transported the wounded boys to a medical facility for treatment.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the wounded for a speedy recovery," said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman....-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937603/posts

"Military historian Victor Davis Hanson discusses the current war against radical Islam, calling it a true world war and comparing it to the epic global struggles of the 20th century"

In 5 parts, here at National Review online.

Why the human race is growing apart

Races have evolved away from each other over the past 10,000 years, according to new research that challenges standard ideas about the biological significance of ethnicity.

A genetic analysis of human evolution has shown that rather than slowing to a standstill it has speeded up, with different pressures on different populations pushing racial groups further apart. Scientists behind the findings suggest that European, African and Asian populations grew genetically more distinct from each other over several thousand years, as their environments took them down different evolutionary paths.

This would call into question the popular scientific view that race has little or no biological meaning, as the genetic similarities between ethnic groups greatly outweigh differences....

"10 days after the Atlantic hurricane season ended." Puny humans blather about the weather.

Hurricanes obey Nature's own laws; not the arbitrary laws/pigeon holes/slots of humans. Nature says, "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'*"
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Subtropical storm Olga forms over Virgin Islands
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
"MIAMI - Subtropical storm Olga has formed over the Virgin Islands, 10 days after the Atlantic hurricane season ended." (canoe news) ...-

(H/T Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley)

See Vancouver Sun - Dec 10

Another deportation gone very wrong. Who in the hell is in control of our country?

More than a year after Flaherty and Harper's fiasco regarding income trusts, they have managed to try and promote their good buddy Carney who seems to have come up with the whole idea in the first place. Or so he seems to be claiming. He shouldn't be so proud, as Diane Francis points out in yesterday's Financial Post.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/francis/archive/2007/12/09/carney-flaherty-harper-sell-out-canada-deloitte.aspx

from ctv.ca
"More than one in three Canadians says that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world today, according to a new poll conducted for CTV and The Globe and Mail.....36 per cent of those surveyed think global warming is the world's biggest threat...."
So...... 64% of those surveyed DO NOT think global warming is a threat ;D