As the title suggests, my hands are busy elsewhere today – my punishment for being a little too aggressive with the base clear.
So, drop your tips in the comments.
Our tax dollars at work I’ve received a private note advising that CBC and its lawyers are combing the blogs looking for CBC clips with the objective of filing suit . (Why do I think they’re more likely to be combing right-leaning sites than left?) If someone at CBC can confirm or deny, drop me a line privately.
In a WaPo interview, gun control poster couple Jim and Sarah Brady have “[repudiated] many proposals which the Brady Campaign (formerly known as Handgun Control, Inc., and before that known as the National Committee to Control Handguns) has previously advocated.”
The US is pressuring China to respond to reports of organ harvesting from imprisoned Falun Gong.
Bob Tarantino spots a good one in the Star ;
“I’m willing to bet there’s journalists out there who wonder why people think they’re pushing their own agenda; I’m willing to bet those same journalists will read that quote and hardly bat an eye.”
Breaking – April 1, 2006: reports of a mushroom cloud sighted over scheduled Juno host Pamela Anderson have turned out to be erronious. A spokesperson for Ms. Anderson has stated it was not an explosion, but a “nasty hydraulic leak”.
A reminder – please refrain from dropping unrelated links in threads dedicated to specific topics. And stay on topic. This is not a chat board, and I’ll begin removing comments if the privilege is being abused.
Miss Kate. Wonderful news. The always urbane and erudite Robert McClelland has been named director of communications for the New Disney Party.
The Busted Link is hilarious. One possible replacement being Rita McNeil, the Pamela Anderson of Cape Breton Island. ROTFLMAO. Reminds me of a joke. Rita McNeil is diagnosed with flesh-eating disease, the doctors give her 20 years to live.
Lets see here… April Fool’s Day and Pammy’s boob suffers a blowout. If this isn’t a joke then it has to be the best coincidence I have ever seen. You know the real sad part is that if you saw Pamela Anderson’s before pictures you would see that she didn’t need any “enhancement” in the first place. Just a waste of good saline as far as I’m concerned.
BTW: CBC Lawyer, just move on. There is no reference to Mother (f***ing) Corp here.
So that’s why the Mulroney-Turner debate was pulled from BT-TV.
Sample comments from voy.com re IGGY’S Speech:
Author: Dave.
“We are a serious people.”
“�It beats writing traffic tickets in Saskatoon.� ”
“We are a serious people.”
“For a long time, however, we haven�t taken ourselves seriously enough. ”
“The Canadian Arctic is a crucial piece of the global refrigeration system. This system is breaking down. ”
“We are a serious people.”
(This guy sounds totally nutzoid….a kook !!! A scary kook at that. Now would anyone really want this guy running our country ??? I don’t think so !!!
The old thread is getting too long so here’s a new outlet to discuss Michael Ignieff before the board crashes ! Anyone besides Nola think that Iggy is a great new visionary leader ??? I think we should send him back to Boston. He’s obviously spent way too long in certain circles…..discuss !? +
http://www.voy.com/178771/9907.html +
Here is a sample of drool from Cerberus, the 3-headed dog-guardian of Hull/Ottawa:
Cerberus: Mr. Ignatieff’s speech
I don’t think Michael Ignatieff dispelled all his critics with his speech yesterday in Ottawa, but it is clear that he is a deep thinker, great orator, …
canadiancerberus.blogspot.com/2006/03/mr-ignatieffs-speech.html – 30k – 31 Mar 2006 –
Surely the Pamela Anderson incident happened at dinner last night – not an April Fool joke but March going out with a bang.
Liberal Party voted Canada’s biggest fools by the Comedy Network
The Liberals (34%) were voted Canada’s biggest fools of the past year, outpolling Celine Dion (27%), the CBC (13%) and the underachieving Canadian Olympic men’s hockey team (11%). +
via nealenews.com
and I heard that Pammy leaked seal oil, BABY seal oil, all over the table & into her soup.
When PETA finds out, her animal lovin goose is cooked and she’ll be outted as a meat lover.
Pammy a meat loving animal hater????
Go gFgure
While I do believe it could be true, I am quite sure that the CBC lawyer bit is your April Fools joke. Good one Kate.
Happy for Pammy. Who knows what could have happend if there had been a real nucular blast, with radiation. What type of mutation would occur between all that silicon & flesh?
“Canadian Boob creature flatens LA” details at 6:00.
Organ Harvesting…. you mean from dead people? ah, no… from “living people”, who then become “dead people…”
I read a very small article in the National Post regarding the concentration camps in China the other day, but it seems to be an under reported story if there ever was one. For the past few weeks, The Epoch Times has been following this, it almost seems the story is too bizarre for the MSM to print. In the current Epoch Times online there are +3 stories and 1 opinion piece related to this. The print edition is not available in all markets, but as it is a FREE newspaper, and totally committed to the destruction of communisum, it’s worth a read.
Its “9 Commentaries on the Communist Party” are a must read.
http://english.epochtimes.com/index11.html
I wish this was the april fool’s joke, but it isn’t.
The CBC mention is not an April Fools joke – I received it a couple of days ago.
Now, is not the CBC the same group that is calling foul over PM Harper not allowing his cabinet ministers to hold scrums? Talk about Big Brother watching over you.
A few weeks ago I heard Janice Mckinnon on As It Happens saying that the Romanow government had the exact same policy when they took office in 1991. You could hear the CBC reports jaw drop over the radio.
Kate:
Are they looking for actual downloadable files or are they refering to download LINKS.
I think this would be another case of:
“Knee in your Package”
courtesy of your tax disbursements to CBC.
http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/backissues.php
See the “Hand in my pocket spoof ad”
Yep, mainland China a bastion of freedom.
If you don’t believe in the communist system, we will show you place of detention and make sure we have enough organs for our aging apparatchiks.
It brings back such warm memories of the police chief types who the ex-pats referred to as “Dr. Laser Beam” in Czechslovakia, and of course those bastions of police correctness the East German border guards with their numerous shepherd dogs and gaggle of machine pistols.
Of course they needed all these people to keep the bad capitalists out of the “Worker’s Paradise”.
I wonder how Karl Marx would respond to their “theory-praxis GAP”? Probably shoot him I suspect.
Lets see now:
National Socialism under Hitler approximately 40 Million lives lost in conflict or extermination.
Communist system in Russia since 1917 oh about 60 million.
Communist system in China oh say what 70 million and counting.
People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong’s regime (1949-1975): 40 000 000 [make link]
Agence France Press (25 Sept. 1999) citing at length from Courtois, Stephane, Le Livre Noir du Communism:
Rural purges, 1946-49: 2-5M deaths
Urban purges, 1950-57: 1M
Great Leap Forward: 20-43M
Cultural Revolution: 2-7M
Labor Camps: 20M
Tibet: 0.6-1.2M
TOTAL: 44.5 to 72M
Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts : Mao’s Secret Famine (1996)
Estimates of the death toll from the Great Leap Forward, 1959-61:
Judith Banister, China’s Changing Population (1984): 30M excess deaths (acc2 Becker: “the most reliable estimate we have”)
Wang Weizhi, Contemporary Chinese Population (1988): 19.5M deaths
Jin Hui (1993): 40M population loss due to “abnormal deaths and reduced births”
Chen Yizi of the System Reform Inst.: 43-46M deaths
Brzezinski:
Forcible collectivization: 27 million peasants
Cultural Revolution: 1-2 million
TOTAL: 29 million deaths under Mao
Daniel Chirot:
Land reform, 1949-56
According to Zhou Enlai: 830,000
According to Mao Zedong: 2-3M
Great Leap Forward: 20-40 million deaths.
Cultural Revolution: 1-20 million
Jung Chang, Mao: the Unknown Story (2005)
Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries, 1950-51: 3M by execution, mob or suicide
Three-Anti Campaign, 1952-53: 200,000-300,000 suicides
Great Leap Forward, 1958-61: 38M of starvation and overwork
Cultural Revolution, 1966-76: > 3M died violent deaths
Laogai camp deaths, 1949-76: 27M
TOTAL under Mao: 70M
Dictionary of 20C World History: around a half million died in Cultural Rev.
Eckhardt:
Govt executes landlords (1950-51): 1,000,000
Cultural Revolution (1967-68): 50,000
Gilbert:
1958-61 Famine: 30 million deaths.
Kurt Glaser and Stephan Possony, Victims of Politics (1979):
They estimate the body count under Mao to be 38,000,000 to 67,000,000.
Cited by G & P:
Walker Report (see below): 44.3M to 63.8M deaths.
The Government Information Office of Taiwan (18 Sept. 1970): 37M deaths in the PRC.
A Radio Moscow report (7 Apr. 1969): 26.4M people had been exterminated in China.
(NOTE: Obviously the Soviets and Taiwanese would, as enemies, be strongly motivated to exaggerate.)
Guinness Book of World Records:
Although nowadays they don’t come right out and declare Mao to be the Top Dog in the Mass Killings category, earlier editions (such as 1978) did, and they cited sources which are similar, but not identical, to the Glaser & Possony sources:
On 7 Apr. 1969 the Soviet government radio reported that 26,300,000 people were killed in China, 1949-65.
In April 1971 the cabinet of the government of Taiwan reported 39,940,000 deaths for the years 1949-69.
The Walker Report (see below): between 32,2500,000 and 61,700,000.
Harff and Gurr:
KMT cadre, rich peasants, landlords (1950-51): 800,000-3,000,000
Cultural Revolution (1966-75): 400,000-850,000
John Heidenrich, How to Prevent Genocide: A Guide for Policymakers, Scholars, and the Concerned Citizen: 27M death toll, incl. 2M in Cultural Revolution
Paul Johnson doesn’t give an overall total, but he gives estimates for the principle individual mass dyings of the Mao years:
Land reform, first years of PRC: at least 2 million people perished.
Great Leap Forward: “how many millions died … is a matter of conjecture.”
Cultural Revolution: 400,000, calling the 3 Feb. 1979 estimate by Agence France Presse, “The most widely respected figure”.
Meisner, Maurice, Mao’s China and After (1986), doesn’t give an overall total either, but he does give estimates for the three principle mass dyings of the Mao years:
Terror against the counterrevolutionaries: 2 million people executed during the first three years of the PRC.
Great Leap Forward: 10-20 million famine-related deaths.
Cultural Revolution: 400,000, citing a 1979 estimate by Agence France Presse.
R. J. Rummel:
Estimate:
Democide: 34,361,000 (1949-75)
The principle episodes being…
All movements (1949-58): 11,813,000
incl. Land Reform (1949-53): 4,500,000
Cult. Rev. (1964-75): 1,613,000
Forced Labor (1949-75): 15,000,000
Great Leap Forward (1959-63): 5,680,000 democides
War: 3,399,000
Famine: 34,500,000
Great Leap Forward: 27M famine deaths
TOTAL: 72,260,000
Cited in Rummel:
Li, Cheng-Chung (Republic of China, 1979): 78.86M direct/indirect deaths.
World Anti-Communist League, True Facts of Maoist Tyranny (1971): 64.5M
Glaser & Possony: 38 to 67M (see above)
Walker Report, 1971 (see below): 31.75M to 58.5M casualties of Communism (excluding Korean War).
Current Death Toll of International Communism (1979): 39.9M
Stephen R. Shalom (1984), Center for Asian Studies, Deaths in China Due To Communism: 3M to 4M death toll, excluding famine.
Walker, Robert L., The Human Cost of Communism in China (1971, report to the US Senate Committee of the Judiciary) “Casualties to Communism” (deaths):
1st Civil War (1927-36): .25-.5M
Fighting during Sino-Japanese War (1937-45): 50,000
2nd Civil War (1945-49): 1.25M
Land Reform prior to Liberation: 0.5-1.0M
Political liquidation campaigns: 15-30M
Korean War: 0.5-1.234M
Great Leap Forward: 1-2M
Struggle with minorities: 0.5-1.0M
Cultural Revolution: .25-.5M
Deaths in labor camps: 15-25M
TOTAL: 34.3M to 63.784M
TOTAL FOR PRC: 32M to 59.5M
July 17, 1994, Washington Post (Great Leap Forward 1959-61)
Shanghai University journal, Society: > 40 million
Cong Jin: 40 million
Chen Yizi: 43 million in the famine. 80 million total as a result of Mao’s policies.
Weekly Standard, 29 Sept. 1997, “The Laogai Archipelago” by D. Aikman:
Between 1949 and 1997, 50M prisoners passed through the labor camps, and 15,000,000 died (citing Harry Wu)
WHPSI: 1,633,319 political executions and 25,961 deaths from political violence, 1948-77. TOTAL: 1,659,280
Analysis: If we line up the 14 sources which claim to be complete, the median falls in the 45.75 to 52.5 million range, so you probably can’t go wrong picking a final number from this neighborhood. Depending on how you want to count some of the incomplete estimates (such as Becker and Meisner) and whether to count a source twice (or thrice, as with Walker) if it’s referenced by two different authorities, you can slide the median up and down the scale by many millions. Keep in mind, however, that official Chinese records are hidden from scrutiny, so most of these numbers are pure guesses. It’s pointless to get attached to any one of them, because the real number could easily be half or twice any number here.
Perhaps a better way of estimating would be to add up the individual components. The medians here are:
Purges, etc. during the first few years: 2M (10 estimates)
Great Leap Forward: 31-33M (14 estimates)
Cultural Revolution: 1M (13 estimates)
Ethnic Minorities, primarily Tibetans: 750-900T (8 estimates, see below)
Labor Camps: 20M (5 estimates)
This produces a total of some 54,750,000 to 56,900,000 deaths. The weak link in this calculation is in the Labor Camp numbers for which we only have 5 estimates.
Notice that many early body counts (such as Walker) completely miss the famine during the Great Leap Forward, which was largely unknown in the west until around 1980. There are two contradictory ways to assess those early estimates which ignore the famine:
“If these are the numbers that they came up with without the famine, imagine how high the true number will be once you add the famine deaths.”
“Can we trust any of these numbers? After all, if they missed such a huge famine, they can’t have known very much about what was going on inside China.”
… so this line of reasoning will get us nowhere. In fact, the median of the 7 estimate that predate 1980 is 45.7M, which is almost the same as the median of the 7 estimates that post-date 1980 — 58M. (At this scale, a 12M difference counts as “almost the same”.)
Yep, a whole lot of killing going on.
The communists want us to believe them? NOT FREAKING LIKELY, which part of HELL would you like to inhabit?
For more fun and games with excess destruction by governments who are “responsible” try the following link:
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
Warning: Try not to get depressed.
I like you Hans. We have to keep the Lefties in their place.
Pam?…CBC?…kate any other day of the year we would not be so doubtful! Now which one to believe…??? Ok ..if the CBC is ‘watching’ us they really should check out joel at ‘proud to be canadian’…really ‘good’ stuff on what we are getting from CBC there…no fooling!
busted? They really couldn’t make that up right?
Thanks for the laughs!
What I find gross. Is the fact so many Colleges & Univercitys have Socialist or Communist studies.
Can you Imagine a department of Nazism.There would be howels head into the next century & rightfuly so. Why is COmmunism different. Why its the hobby horse of acidemics who live in a coddled world.
As Hans Rupprecht shows ( which despite his many facts is just a start of the atrocities by the slave state soviet gulags) Communism has been the greatist killer in history. We have a monument in Edmonton for both the Jews & Ukranians. One killed by the Communists, the other by Nazis. Both are more than 6 million deaths by gas & starvation. Bullet & blugeon.
Why should we have whole departments devoted to such abominations as dialetical materalism & other Socialist myths? Why unless to revile this destortion of History & humanity. It fell apart because it was in conflict with human nature. Reality caught up with the Utopian dream. The dream drenched in the blood of millions.
See, I told you in the thread on sealing that Pamela Anderson was somewhat “plastic”.
I didn’t think we would get a live demonstration though!!
OK people…I’m going to bite…who is Revnant Dream?…haven’t seen it before on SDA…”univercitys” has triggered a thought on my end…anyone else feeling the same thing??
Revenant Dream:
The hobby horse is the one mentioned in the Book of Apocalypse.
Communist studies can be reduced more or less accurately as the study of “high speed lead poisioning”.
Sorry Kate…you did say it wasn’t a chat line…should have run it by you first.
Islamists: Captives in The religion of the sword.
Islam is now a gulag, says Salim Mansur.
“It is amazing to note how lib-left multiculturalists in Canada are willing to placate Muslim fundamentalists by supporting their demand for importing sharia in return for votes.” Mansur. +
A history of conflict
Toronto Sun ^ | 2006-04-01 | Salim Mansur
Posted on 04/01/2006 3:29:37 PM PST by Clive
The story of Abdul Rahman, released into exile in Rome from an Afghan prison where he was facing death as an apostate for converting from Islam to Christianity, is about a conflict as old as Islam at the heart of the Muslim world.
This conflict has tormented countless Muslims, silenced dissent, and incrementally turned what once was a lively Islamic culture into a gulag.
The Koran, as the sacred revelation to Mohammed intended for pagan Arabs, bore a message that had also been revealed to others at earlier times in different places. The quintessence of the message is revealed in the story of Moses and his people in Egypt, and their flight to freedom from captivity.
“The origin of freedom lies in breathing,” wrote Elias Canetti (1905-94), the Bulgarian-born Jewish writer and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Koran tells of God fashioning man out of mud and breathing His spirit into him. This divine breath as the soul of men and women is destined to be free, and eventually return to its source. But that return journey of the divine spirit in human beings is filled with peril as was the flight of Moses and his people from captivity to freedom.
The reason, as told in the Koran, is simple. When God told the assembled angels to acknowledge the merit of man shaped from mud, yet carrying inside of him His spirit, they did, except for Satan. His disobedience set him apart as the evil seducer of men, willfully turned against God by trampling upon freedom divinely gifted to humans.
The Koran was an invitation to pagan Arabs to find freedom through submission to God — Lord of the Day of Reckoning — by abandoning false gods made of wood or stone, or conceived through tyrannical ideas. In delivering this message Mohammed was ridiculed, threatened with death, forced into exile, and attacked by armies.
Mohammed and his followers eventually triumphed over pagan Arabs to fashion a society in keeping with the Koran’s ethics of freedom and responsibility. Soon after Mohammed’s demise, the oldest conflict between freedom and tyranny surfaced among Muslims.
The Koran as the message of freedom — for instance, “there is no compulsion in religion” — was twisted into an ideology of power by some of Mohammed’s successors as rulers of an expanding realm.
Then blood was shed. The earliest victims of usurpers in Arab-Muslim history were members of Mohammed’s family.
Tyranny became the norm and the first among Muslim intellectuals — religious scholars or the ulema –devised the legal system, sharia, to legitimize and regulate the authority of those who murdered their way to power.
The Muslim collective mind-set has been shaped by this history. Muslims seeking freedom are often denounced as heretics and apostates by religious scholars in terms of the sharia, and punished by rulers.
It is amazing to note how lib-left multiculturalists in Canada are willing to placate Muslim fundamentalists by supporting their demand for importing sharia in return for votes.
The silence of the vast majority of Muslims over Abdul Rahman’s plight indicates how Islamic history imprisons them in a pre-modern psychology, which views freedom suspiciously as indulgence in corrupt practices, or worse, apostasy.
The passage to freedom is through a valley of tears, and Muslims cannot set forth in sufficient numbers without first admitting their complicity in the making of their own captivity. +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607612/posts
Pam was upset that PM Harper would not meet her on Monday, after the awards show. The media jumped all over his supposed snub. Isn’t he going to be rather busy that day, with the opening of Parliament. Re the boycott of cdn seafood. This reminds me of a full page ad in the Lethbridge Herald a few years ago, listing all the clubs, organizations, groups etc who supported no smoking in public. My son and I spent many hours tracing these org, and phoning the Pres of all we could find. I happened to be Pres of one included, so knew the whole thing was false. We asked for membership lists, copies of motions made at meetings to support this action, and other info. Guess what, none of those we contacted had any idea what we were talking about. The sponsors of the ad had just got a list from Consumer & Corporate affairs of all org in Alberta, and just published them, saying they all supported this. The paper would not correct the info, saying it was paid for and they had no duty to check for truth. What other lies are out there. And what are seal oil capsules used for. Costco is pulling them, will they also pull all seafood products.
Documents to indict Saddam ready
Gulf Daily News ^ | 2nd April 2006
Posted on 04/01/2006 3:14:46 PM PST by april15Bendovr
Documents to indict Saddam ready Published: 2nd April 2006
BAGHDAD: The chief prosecutor in the Saddam Hussein trial said yesterday that documents depicting the ex-president’s role in the killings of around 180,000 people, mostly Kurds, in the Anfal campaign were ready.
“The dossier has been completed and it will take two days to examine it and then it will be presented to the tribunal,” said Jaafar al-Mussawi.
Around 180,000 Kurds were killed and 4,500 villages destroyed during the 1987-1989 campaign known as Anfal, which means “spoils of war.” Saddam, who is currently on trial for a 1982 massacre of 148 Shi’ite villagers from the town of Dujail, is expected to be tried later for the Anfal killings, though no trial date has been set.
Saddam and his seven former aides are being tried on charges of crimes against humanity and could face the death penalty if found guilty.
Mussawi also said that new documents have come to light in the ongoing case against Saddam.
“They involve communications and messages exchanged between high officials” of the previous regime over the Dujail affair, Mussawi said.
“These documents implicate the accused and they will be submitted to the tribunal,” he added.
Iraqi High Tribunal chief judge Rauf Abdel Rahman had ordered during the March 15 session that all previous documents be authenticated by experts after defendants questioned the authenticity of documents linking them to the Dujail massacre. +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607605/posts
I hate to say this maz2. The reasons are fairly straight forward.
Islam is never going to change until or unless. They have there own versions of the “War of Religions” Right after the Reformation.
That was what freed Europe from an unholy alliance of Clergy, & Secular Authorities.
It took rivers of human blood, to sicken people to the idea of forcing faith or there beliefs on others.
Its why a lot of our Proginators fled or moved here. In the North American phyche its become almost genetic. This idea of religious fredom. None more so than Christians who have seen what happens to spirituality, wedded to worldly power.
That does not conflict with people of faith voting or pushing agendas. They are filtered by public opinion like all other changes.
In the West we have gone the extra ten miles to disapate power from many competing groups. in order that individuals & familys have freedom & liberties.So no matter what, there religion or lack of one will not impinge on a persons rights.
That includes the freedom to convert to what ever Religion one is attracted too.
As stated this did not come about because folks where full of whats right or love. It came about because of the toll in death it took for all to worship as they please.
There was no hero or group better than the others. Its just the way the 15nth to the 17nth centuries where like. Life was even cheaper than even our own judicuary makes it now.There mindset could not even understand our views. Most would think even our stand on slavery was madness. If we can come that far so can the East.
Islam will need both a reformation & stand for that reformation. War is probably inevatable
Author: Liberal sons and Daughters: Lucky that they are increasing the forces.
Ottawa stops funding One Tonne Challenge
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
The new Conservative government in Ottawa has abruptly stopped funding groups across the country that have been promoting the One Tonne Challenge, the quirky program to persuade Canadians to do their bit to help the environment by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.
The Conservatives are also reviewing about 100 other climate-change programs set up by the previous Liberal government.
The One Tonne Challenge is likely the best known of the dozens of federal government efforts to fight global warming. It has been heavily publicized through television ads featuring comedian Rick Mercer as pitch man for a program that urged people to drive less, turn down their thermostats and take other steps to forestall climate change.
Environmental groups that received contracts to urge people in local communities to participate in the challenge were hastily contacted by Environment Canada officials earlier this week, and told that as of this morning, their efforts were no longer being funded.
�I received a call [Thursday] from Environment Canada that indicated that as of April 1st, they have no budget or directives to continue funding� local activities for the challenge program, said Stephane Thorson with Toronto’s Clean Air Foundation.
The story was similar in Quebec. �We got clear indications from the Ministry of Environment that we cannot publicize the One Tonne Challenge, so all the material we had printed, all the advertisements we had, had to be put on hold,� said Hugo S�guin, a member of Equiterre, an environmental group overseeing the program in Quebec. + more
http://www.voy.com/178771/10003.html +
Revnant Dream: Yes/no?
The end of religious wars between European states:
Treaty of Westphalia – Global Policy Forum – Nations and States
Treaty of Westphalia. Peace Treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France and their respective Allies. In. October 24, 1648 ..
Why in the would the CBC be upset with the use of their clips?
Is it because it shows Mulroney kicking Liberal butt?
Seriously?? Why the hell is a publicly run media channel allowed to act like a private corporation?
So you’re telling me that we are never allowed to make reference to their archived clips every again?
Treaty of Westphalia – Global Policy Forum – Nations and States
Treaty of Westphalia. Peace Treaty between the Holy Roman Emperor and the King of France and their respective Allies. In. October 24, 1648 ..
The former sounds like a Socialist convention on “How to rule the World”. The latter is the ticket if you think religion is confined to stated creeds. I myself think Atheism is as much a faith, as belief in God. Just as Secular Humanism is as well. Both those duked it out till 1990 when Communism & official Atheism was sundered. Human Secularism Married to socialism has beeen accendant till recently.
That has changed to Conservatism of late. Hopefully this means a return to political orintation going back to the middle class & familys from the rabid left fring.
Honesty, transparency, forethought. Have become the political vison. I pray it stays that way. We almost fell over into the abyss with the Liberals.
By the way for those who wonder why I am posting here. Its none of anybodies buisness but mine.
I will though for Kate since its her Board give some background.
I have been online for ten years. On AOL for all of that time. I used the monicker Rhaines@aol.com. I used the NEWS chat room.If one wants too see any posts I made. I used the Canadian Political board mostly. If you check there consistent with those I have put on here.
I just got off dial up & AOL for reasons of concience. AOL has become America offline. Its chat rooms segragaded by Country. Eventualy its political boards as well. Like paying for a plasma TV with 2 channels. Oh yeah. I am a terrible speller.
I live in Edmonton Alberta
Revnant dream — blah blah blah, what have you done lately? Oh man, I have said this for the second time today — hot air disipates.
Gee morison You unfunny clown in a glitter-sprinkled dunce cap! You’re a clueless gimp, aren’t you?
From CTV…
… Anderson called the harvest “violent” and “unnecessary,” but admitted she has not met with a commercial fisherman involved in the hunt.
She added banning the hunt would be a good opportunity for Harper to become popular with Canada’s youth.
“There’s not one young person, I think, in Canada that agrees with the seal hunt,” she said.
What a generalizing statement. What I want to know is, if I were to present myself as proof to the contrary, would I be dismissed because I’m not young enough to be “young” (I’m 16), or because I’m too morally corrupt to be a “person” in their morally-high, bigoted, condescending, anti-working-class-seafarer eyes?
Maybe we could control the seal population by adopting them out! I highly reccommend that Sir Paul, Bridget and Pam take 10,000 home each. Then they will find out exactly how many fish these little suckers eat!(They multiply like rats and rabbits)
“Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not. The people who kidnapped me and murdered Allan Enwiya are criminals, at best. They robbed Allan of his life and devastated his family. They put me, my family and my friends–and all those around the world, who have prayed so fervently for my release–through a horrific experience. I was, and remain, deeply angry with the people who did this.”
Jill Carroll Statement
…sad how we as a society are navel gazing with boobie stars (speaking of sir paul also) protesting seal hunts but China and body part harvesting – nawwww.
But is it all China’s fault? Not wanting to like an airhead Marxist – capitalism is just as dangerous – the law of supply and demand knows no morals or boundries.
We tend to forget these prisoners body parts were jailed for wanting freedom and religion, but hey, went it deals with our health (oh never mind about cheap jeans and running shoes) we tend to look the other way.
Remember acid washed jeans? How many sweatshops had guys or kids jumping inside barrels full of this crap stomping around with their unprotected feet and legs to give us that acid look. Hey we saved $50 right?
So who’s more disgusting, Chinese who meet our lust for cheap goods, or us buying them?
Ah never mind, gotta get over to Walmart before the smily tag sale is over…
The Big Carnival: MSM Exploitation of Freelancers
David Paulin looks at the Jill Carroll hostage story from a different angle�the mainstream media�s collective role in her kidnapping and the murder of her translator, due to the use (and misuse) of freelance reporters: A black eye for the mainstream media�s use of freelancers.
Carroll freelanced for The Christian Science Monitor and several other publications � in other words, she got paid per article. I don�t know what she was earning. But as a former freelance foreign correspondent who has written for some of the same publications as Carroll, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and Platts Oilgram News, I assume she got a few hundred dollars per article. It�s really not much for a multi-source showcase piece, written from a war zone amid myriad inconveniences and risks: electrical outages, irregular phone service, and vicious Muslim terrorists not inclined to look kindly upon an American woman writing for a paper called The Christian Science Monitor, for which she�d be working on assignment.
Clearly, idealism, ambition, and a spirit of adventure are the motivating forces driving Carroll and other freelancers working abroad. And more than a few are encouraged by editors who suggest their freelancing may eventually lead to staff positions with a regular salary and usual benefits � the very things one expects in any decent job, whether an office or coal mine.
Carroll would have enjoyed none of the benefits enjoyed by staff writers in Iraq: No bullet-proof vests; no war-zone training; no armed guards. Forget about insurance of any kind. (The Christian Science Monitor, to be sure, has yet to comment publicly on these issues; however, it appears she was not treated like a typical freelancer.) Even so, she was on her own, living in what The New York Times described as a modest �threadbare� room � all for the love of journalism.
There�s a certain hypocrisy at play when one compares the media�s attitude toward freelancers like Carroll against the values it professes as a noble and vigilant watchdog of the public�s trust. Consider the mining accident at the Sago mine in West Virginia, which occurred just days before Carroll�s kidnapping. The mainstream media raised its collective voice in anger over even a hint of safety violations at the mine. Yet when it comes to journalists like Carroll, it tolerates and even encourages the same abuses it would gleefully excoriate in those who fall into its journalistic cross hairs.
The public hasn�t a clue about what�s going on. The average reader would never suspect Carroll�s freelance status by looking at her byline in The Christian Science Monitor or other publications for which she wrote. Most would assume she was part of the paper�s foreign staff.+
via LGF
So, apparently our good buddy David Ahenakew is appealing his conviction for hate speech on the basis that his words were taped as a private conversation. The fact that he was talking to someone he knew was a journalist (by his own admission) rendering his defense completely useless aside…
… can someone give me a good reason why private conversations are exempted from hate speech laws? If I say that all blacks should be killed, for example, it shouldn’t matter whether I said it in private or in public. Either way, I should be prosecuted for the same offense Ahenakew was. That should apply especially if someone has the kind of mini-celebrity status that Ahenakew had.
Taping private conversations for purposes of collection of evidence would be deemed to be an unreasonable invasion of privacy according to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of our Charter of Rights & Freedoms, even if the person recording the conversation is part of that conversation.
These protections are built into the Charter to protect citizens from police and/or the government going on “fishing trips” for evidence against citizens. This kind of protection is generally unnecessary as our government and police are usually honest… however, as the Sponsorship Scandal showed, our public institutes are corruptable. It’s not nice to think of average citizens needing protection against government or police but it only takes one corrupt official to justify those protections.
In the Ahenakew case, however, the purpose of taping the conversation wasn’t collection of evidence and Ahenakew was fully aware he was being recorded. Therefore, the journalist’s tape won’t be subject to the same tests of evidence under the Charter.
In the case of Gurmant Grewal (Tory MP) who secretly recorded conversations with Ujjal Dosanjh & Tim Murphy where they discussed possible rewards for crossing the floor to prop up the Martin minority, Grewal’s actions were illegal & unethical. If Grewal had approached police and followed their advice, that situation might have turned out completely differently.
Andersoon booed over seal comments at Junos
CBC.ca – 3 hours ago
Actress Pamela Anderson used her hosting opportunity at Sunday night’s Juno Awards to argue against the seal hunt � although the crowd returned more jeers than cheers. “I don’t even mind a little blood on … googlenews
Buzz is preparing a statement/press release:
CAW…CAW…CAW…
BREAKING! GMAC has been sold
GMAC | 3 April 2006 | Inside source
Posted on 04/03/2006 6:16:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Sorry for not sourcing this, but I have just learned from an inside source that 51% of GMAC has been sold to a consortium including Cerberos.
GM has also reached an agreement with the UAW to reduce health care costs by 25%. Hopefully this will help them recover… +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608215/posts
Did ya get this in yer e-mail? +
For those with little else to clutter your mind … I have this bit of information!
On Wednesday of next week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the
morning . . . .
the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
That won’t ever happen again.
You may now return to your (normal ?) life. +