19 Replies to “Reader Tips – Wednesday, Sep 28/05”

  1. Two excellent articles:
    1) “Heart of Darkness: From Zarqawi to the man on the street, Sunni Arabs fear Shiite emancipation”, BY FOUAD AJAMI, Wall Street Journal, September 28
    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007326
    Excerpts:
    ‘The remarkable thing about the terror in Iraq is the silence with which it is greeted in other Arab lands. Grant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi his due: He has been skilled at exposing the pitilessness on the loose in that fabled Arab street and the moral emptiness of so much of official Arab life…
    There is a clich� that distinguishes between cultures of shame and cultures of guilt, and by that crude distinction, it has always been said that the Arab world is a “shame culture.” But in truth there is precious little shame in Arab life about the role of the Arabs in the great struggle for and within Iraq. What is one to make of the Damascus-based Union of Arab Writers that has refused to grant membership in its ranks to Iraqi authors? The pretext that Iraqi writers can’t be “accredited” because their country is under American occupation is as good an illustration as it gets of the sordid condition of Arab culture…
    The drumbeats against Iraq that originate from the League of Arab States and its Egyptian apparatchiks betray the panic of an old Arab political class afraid that there is something new unfolding in Iraq–a different understanding of political power and citizenship, a possible break with the culture of tyranny and the cult of Big Men disposing of the affairs–and the treasure–of nations. It is pitiable that an Egyptian political class that has abdicated its own dream of modernity and bent to the will of a pharaonic regime is obsessed with the doings in Iraq…
    Nor ought we be taken in by warnings from Jordan, made by King Abdullah II, of a “Shia crescent” spanning Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. This is a piece of bigotry and simplification unworthy of a Hashemite ruler, for in the scheme of Arab history the Hashemites have been possessed of moderation and tolerance…
    We have not always been brilliant in the war we have waged, for these are lands we did not fully know. But our work has been noble and necessary, and we can’t call a halt to it in midstream. We bought time for reform to take root in several Arab and Muslim realms. Leave aside the rescue of Afghanistan, Kuwait and Qatar have done well by our protection, and Lebanon has retrieved much of its freedom. The three larger realms of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria are more difficult settings, but there, too, the established orders of power will have to accommodate the yearnings for change…’
    2) “Marching against War–and Jews”, By David Frum’, National Post, September 27
    http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23254,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
    Excerpts:
    ‘In Washington last weekend, tens of thousands of people gathered in the largest protest to date against the Iraq war…
    Byron York of National Review described one group of protesters, college students, who marched from a subway station to the Ellipse, near the White House. They chanted: “From Palestine to New Orleans, No more money for the war machine!” Then, as they got more excited, they changed their slogan to: “How are Israeli soldiers paid? Only through U.S. aid!”
    York continued: “Someone in the group carried a sign advertising a Web site, nowarforisrael.com. The site’s homepage carried the headline, “Meet just a few of your Jewish Supremacist Warmongers,” above photos of William Kristol, Richard Perle, Ari Fleischer, Ariel Sharon, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams and Douglas Feith…
    One would like to believe that characters like Galloway, Stewart and Shehadeh are fringe figures in the anti-war movement. It is troubling to imagine that one could find thousands of Americans willing to be represented in such a way. But if they are fringe characters, why are they speaking from the rostrum?
    Yet it could also be said that by featuring such people, the anti-war movement in the United States is performing a true public service. It is revealing something that it is important for all of society to know. It is revealing that at the core of these so-called peace marches you will find a leadership that strongly supports acts of war targeted against Americans and Jews. You will see that the radical left and extremist Islam–while they may disagree ideologically–can find common cause, as the hard leftist Lynne Stewart found common cause with Sheik Rahman…
    And Hitchens’ reply to those words [of Galloway’s] at Baruch should stand as the ultimate verdict on the true purposes of the strange coalition of hard leftists, jihadists and eternal anti-Semites who now claim to speak for “peace”: “This is masochism. But it is masochism offered to you by sadists.”‘
    Mark
    Ottawa

  3. Two new posts from Lost Budgie Blog….
    http://lostbudgie.blogspot.com/
    Full Posts & Supporting links online at Lost Budgie Blog
    1/ Executed Chinese in Toronto Body Worlds Show?
    2/ Lost Budgie Blog Banned in Communist China.
    1/ Executed Chinese in Toronto Body Worlds Show?
    A travelling collection of dissected and skinned
    cadavers being displayed at the Ontario Science Centre
    possibly includes the bodies of people executed by
    Communist China.
    2/ Lost Budgie Blog Banned in Communist China.
    Lost Budgie received word today that our friends connected to
    ChinaNet in Hubei Province, Communist China, are no
    longer able to access the Lost Budgie Blog through any
    of the local internet cafes or educational networks.
    Our friends believe that our site has been placed on
    “The List”.

  5. Ding-Dong, Dingwall’s gone . . . well almost
    “Ottawa �
    David Dingwall is set to resign as President of the Royal Canadian Mint, two senior government sources told The Globe and Mail Wednesday.
    The former Liberal cabinet minister has become embroiled in controversy after it was recently revealed he failed to register as a lobbyist for a Toronto pharmaceutical company.
    Mr. Dingwall will resign early Wednesday afternoon amid controversy about his lobbying activities, before his appointment to the Mint as well as questions about his expenses while heading up the Crown corporation.
    His lobbying activities on behalf of Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. are under scrutiny by Industry Canada.
    In May, 2000, Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. agreed to pay Mr. Dingwall $350,000 if the company were successful in getting at least $15-million under the department’s Technology Partnerships Canada program, The Globe and Mail reported.
    TPC rules forbid payment of contingency fees to lobbyists.”
    How about the RCMP get off their Liberal supporting butts and investigate this guy for robbing the public treasury. He has been slopping at the public trough so long, he might appreciate few more years of time at one of our jails . . .
    Another one of Chretien’s pals . . .

  7. At NRO an article about the U.N. wanting to take over control of the internet. “World Wide (Web) Takeover” By Carlos Romos-Mrosovsky and Joseph Barollari. An excerpt…
    “(Houlin) Zhao, a director of the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and a former senior Chinese-government official, is the leader in the United Nations’s effort to supplant the United States government in the supervision of the Internet. At a series of conferences called the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held under aegis of the ITU, and set to culminate in Tunis this November, the U.N. has floated a series of proposals for doing exactly that.
    The U.N.’s profeeed goals, which include expanding Internet access in developing countries and fighting spam, are laudable. However the substance of its proposals – shifting Internet governance from the U.S. to a U.N. body – would produce an Intenet in which regulations smother free speach, strangle net-driven economic growth and threaten America’s online security.
    A typical U.N. enterprise in other words.”
    I wish I could do this easier. I hope and pray I have not offended anyones copyright sensibilities. If so it is all my fault an has nothing to do with this sight.

  11. The most interesting thing I have seen all day is the article on free republic about the NO police.

    There are now reports that the reason so many NO cops did not show up for work during the disaster is that they DO NOT EXIST.

    FBI is supposed to be looking into it.

    Maybe the mayor was talking about thousands dead in the hope that the fake cops and their payroll records were all washed out to sea.

  12. Wonderful Freudian slips from our little CBC quislings caught and published at the Black Rod.
    If this is the air-head barbie politics that run the CBC, its no wonder their political coverage has degenerated to primary school level.

  13. wednesday, september 28, 2005
    Breaking: Pataki Nixes IFC
    Pataki Ousts Freedom Center From Ground Zero! (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
    (New York -AP, Sept. 28, 2005) – Gov. George Pataki on Wednesday ousted a proposed freedom museum from its site at ground zero, declaring that the International Freedom Center has generated �too much opposition, too much controversy� to remain.
    The decision follows months of acrimony over the Freedom Center, with furious families and politicians saying that the museum would dishonor the memory of the 2,749 people who died at the World Trade Center.
    �We must move forward with our first priority, the creation of an inspiring memorial to pay tribute to our lost loved ones and tell their stories to the world,� Pataki said in a statement.>>> LGF
    http://www.rapp.org/url/?B0X01MWL

  17. Blackrod’s “CBC Bloggers” post is another heaping serving of clarity. Getting a chance to look behind the curtain and see the kind of world view that we are funding to the tune of a billion a year helps to explain a lot of things.

  18. “Liberal bias? It’s not just the CBC”, Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun, Sept. 29:
    http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Goldstein_Lorrie/2005/09/29/1240075.html
    Excerpts:
    ‘According to a recent study by two Ryerson University journalism professors:
    * Almost half of all Canadian television news directors, the individuals who have the most influence in determining what political news is covered on your favourite nightly newscast and how it is reported, vote Liberal.
    * A TV news director working at the tax-funded CBC is almost three times more likely to vote for the NDP in federal elections, compared to his or her counterpart in the private sector.
    * When this research was compiled in 2002, just over one in 10 (11.4%) of all private sector news directors said they would vote for the Canadian Alliance. However, not one news director at the CBC described himself (or herself) as an Alliance voter…
    …they concluded, is that “journalists at Canada’s public broadcaster, the CBC, share a different profile and are more likely to hold left-of-centre political views.” Uh … duh.
    I’d argue, however, that Barber and Rauhala’s research gives Kent plenty of ammunition to make his case of a pro-liberal, or, more accurately, an anti-conservative bias in the media, well beyond the CBC, which is bad enough given the CBC’s disproportionate influence in setting the national political agenda and how journalists and politicians react to it.
    But beyond that, Barber and Rauhala also found that the most influential person in Canadian TV newsrooms — both public and private sector — in determining how political news is covered, is a Liberal voter almost half the time. By contrast, he or she is (was) a supporter of the former Alliance party, with which Conservative Leader Stephen Harper is most closely identified, only one time in 10. And at the CBC, zero times in 10.’
    Mark
    Ottawa

  19. I always like new & innovative ideas on how to squander my tax dollars
    MAKE LEGAL SERVICES FREE, RETIRED JUDGE SUGGESTS
    By RICHARD BLACKWELL
    September 29, 2005
    A basic level of legal services should be free to every Canadian, in the same manner that health care is provided to all, a former Supreme Court judge said yesterday.
    Claire L’Heureux-Dub�, who retired from the top court last year, told a conference on legal aid in Toronto that “legal services, like health care, should be free in an ideal society”…..
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050929/JUSTICE29/National/Idx

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