From “pack journalism” to “social orthodoxy” to an “exaggerated tendency toward pessimism”, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist , and Chairman of Dow Jones says “The Media Is in Need of Some Mending”.
As it turns out, Associated Press has been in the fantasy news business for a long time.
Kofi Annan, translated.
Blah blah blah blah blah, blah blah blah. Sometimes I just like talking. It sounds good, don’t you agree? Here’s a sack of flour, dirty tragic dying person. Someone will be around to study your plight shortly.
Top 10 things Stephane Dion has done for Kyoto.
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The Media is indeed a huge and powerful(misguided) force in our lives. It is essential that we have a huge and powerful Media Auditor. IPO time ?
Speaking of .. Will the Canadian Media ever give as much attention to the corrupt workings of the UN, oil-for-food, limos, Annan, Strong, Kyoto Fraud,.. as they do to, er, say, .. well, as they did to the dogone Belinda alleged, maybe story ??
Speaking of which, today I had to, again, in Chapters Book Store, bring the most important, crucial book of our times, from the bottom shelf and place it in front of hers, the least important. A weekly chore.
Poor dog. As bad as a ‘Boy-Named-Sue”
Kyoto should just be allowed to pee on the Kyotohydrant. Would do a world of good.
The most important, crucial book of our times ?? ‘America Alone’ by Mark Steyn
Explains why Tony Blair has just made a big, unexpected U-turn on Multi-Culturalism.
B. Hoax Aware says, “The most important, crucial book of our times ?? ‘America Alone’ by Mark Steyn.”
I guess that explains why Mark Steyn has never, to my knowledge, appeared on CBC’s The National or on any other Canadian news or interview show: TVO? Allan Gregg? Mike Duffy Live? Taber and Oliver’s Q & A? The Hour?…
We’ve got an internationally syndicated political commentator of wit, charm, grit, and little-known facts Canadians should know about and, bibbity-bobbity-boo, the members of the Canadian media turn him into a pumpkin.
The Canadian MSM want to shield Canadians from reality–only left/lib spin will do–which I guess is why this Canadian icon has been getting such a cold shoulder from them.
Typical Sad Canada: ‘You famous? ‘You excellent? ‘You raising the bar? ‘You think you’re pretty smart?
Don’t expect us to take any notice or to invite you onto our shows. Get lost.
And speaking of trying to influence instead of broadcasting the news, I see that the CBC dug up old Irish Eyes Mulrooney for his spin on what the conservatives have to do in order to get re-elected. Nothing like trying to associate the CPC with the old PC party and Mulrooney to mess up the weak minds of the Canadian voter. I guess Dief wasn’t available.
China’s banks are the Achilles heel of the global boom
The Telegraph
If you are not keeping a close eye on the Chinese banking system, perhaps you should be.
Bill McDonough, the ex-chief of New York Federal Reserve, let slip at a conference in Italy this week that China’s rickety credit structure was the biggest single menace to the world economy.
It was Mr McDonough, now an adviser to Lehman Brothers, who rescued the hedge fund Long Term Capital Management after it made an $80bn bad bet on Danish, Swedish and south European bonds in August 1998. He orchestrated three rate cuts, admitting afterwards that some $1,300bn in derivatives had threatened to…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752721/posts
Here is human activity which would cause global cooling/warming, aka Death.
It would “have an unprecedented effect on global climate.”
“Global climate and the environment would be drastically…”?
Human lives would not be effected?
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What happens when two nations battle with nukes?
news@nature.com
A regional nuclear war would have long-lasting effects on the planet. 100 Hiroshima-sized bombs would have an unprecedented effect on global climate.
… More than 20 years ago, it was theorized that “a nuclear winter” would occur in the event of a superpower war using nuclear weapons. Now new computers, better climate-modeling techniques, and comparisons to natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, shows that even a regional conflict would throw the planet into turmoil. Global climate and the environment would be drastically…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752715/posts
ADS Poll Questions: Liberal foreign policy.
1.Should Euro-Weenie S. Dion, citizen of France, advise France-Jacques Chirac to bring back the franc?
2. Should M. Dion sell his Euros now?
3. Should M. Dion buy $US?
Poll results correct neuf(9) out of trente(30) times. Results are cooked like books.
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THE EURO: A doomed currency
The Daily Telegraph ^ | December 13, 2006 | Staff
The achievement of economic and monetary union by 11 European countries in 1999 was based on a deal: Germany, the strongest member, gave up the Deutschemark on the understanding that the others would not debauch the new common currency, the euro. Nearly eight years on, that inherently doomed project is coming apart at the seams.The fundamental problem is that the economies of the “Germanic” members have diverged so far from those of the “Latin” bloc that the single interest rate set by the European Central Bank (ECB) is becoming a huge political liability. An inkling of this came last year,…-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752714/posts
Happy Birthday, Kate! Thank you for spreading the truth and providing an open forum. You are the epitomy of “true Canadian values”.
Lead headline/story(?) from the fabulists/liars at: http://cnews.canoe.ca/.
Large CAPS: Notice dateline is Tuesday.
Biased? Sans doubt, mais oui. The website is owned/operated by Quebecor Inc.
This is the party line from/on behalf of:
Cut’N-Run Taliban Stephane Dion, Librano$.
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NATO: Cdn troops accidentally kill Afghan civilian
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) – An Afghan citizen was accidentally killed Tuesday by Canadian troops in Kandahar City.
Smell the Kofi: Buy shares here!
Recommended by Garth Green-Greed Turner: Buy now.*
Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Mao Group, is Kofi’s corporate governance/best practices guru. Consultants: AdScam Chretien-Martin Inc.
Kofi is CEO of KofiCo Oil Vouchers Ltd. …-
Iowahawk: Kofi Talk
Iowahawk is the best dumpster-diver in the biz, and tonight he’s been digging at 48th and FDR Drive: iowahawk: Kofi Talk.
Nearly 50 years ago, when I arrived in Minnesota as a student fresh from Africa, I had much to learn. For example, the concept of “connecting flights,” because I was actually supposed to be going to California. My cab had already plowed through several miles of Minneapolis snowdrifts before I realized my horrible mistake, but I decided to make the best of it. Over the next few years I adapted to the quaint arctic customs of the indigenous Minnesotans — wearing their colorful earmuffs, training my gag reflex to against their cruel lutefisk. Still, lesson learned: I vowed, with God as my witness, that I would never fly coach again. All my life since has been a learning experience. Now I want to pass on five other lessons I have learned during 10 years as secretary general of the United Nations, as well as CEO of KofiCo Oil Vouchers Ltd. …-
LGF
*Testimonial from S. Kyoto Dion at liberal.ca. Euros only.
Anyone else notice? Rosemary Thompson on CTV in place of Giggles Taber last few days? Thompson seems to be able to hide her facial expression bias better than Taber.
Fairest Duffy replacement so far – Rutherford and Richardson.
Thompson – so so.
Taber – uber Lib biased.
Just my view.
I was thinking of voting again in the Weblog Awards but then decided to check out My Blahg. One quick read of the lead article was all I needed to confirm why it doesn’t hold a candle to SDA.
They relate a study done long ago suggesting that people will do the most terrible things when they are not held personally responsible for their actions…but then foolishly conclude that this would only apply to Conservatives…presumably for the sole reason that the author is not Conservative. What utter nonsense.
Keep up the good work, Kate…you’re the best!
too bad for the dude whose kid drown in a rescue attempt:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1165963812166&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
seems the incident outed him as a tamil terrorist.
STAY OFF THE EARLY ICE.
and stay OUT of terrorist organizations sirrah, and also stay OUT of Canada.
Hi all.
I’ve just recently become the new Medals Distribution supervisor at DHR and was informed that there are a number of Dag Hammarskjöld Medals that DHR was unable to find the appropriate recipients for. I started to think that with the large community on this site we might be able to find some relatives and get these medals to where they belong.
The Dag Hammarskjöld Medal is presented by the United Nations to the families of those who gave their lives in the service of the United Nations. DHR has presented over 100 of these but were unable to find the NOK for the following pers.
[u]Rank / Name / Date of Death / UN Mission[/u]
F/O Richard Vaughan EDWARDS 28 April 1966 UNEF
CPL Joseph Paul Réal HUDON 26 December 1985 UNDOF
PTE Denis Auguste Joseph LAMOTHE 16 March 1966 UNEF
MCPL Joseph Raymond LESSARD 01 December 1972 UNFICYP
CPL Emanuel OLIVIER 09 December 1961 UNEF
PTE Joseph Lionel Gilbert PERRON 06 August 1974 UNFICYP
F/O Joseph M.L.P. PICARD 30 April 1966 UNEF
TPR Reginald James WILEY 07 September 1961 UNEF
You can find all the information on the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal at http://hr.ottawa-hull.mil.ca/dhh/honours_awards/engraph/chart_display_e.asp?cat=3&ref=DagHammarskjöld.
If you have any information on any of the following please post it here.
Thanks,
Zip
P.S. Kate I hope you don’t mind.
I’m surprised we haven’t seen more debate on Finance Minister Flaherty’s calculation formula of “net” zero debt by 2020. The utopian status quo pundits hate this calculation because there’s so much disclosure in it and they dismissed out of hand. It is about disclosure at the 3 levels of government.
For example, the “net” calculation will disclose the $120 billion in debt that Quebec has run up in its ill-conceived extreme socialist policies and its submission to corrupt big unions in the Province.
It will also show that Mayor Miller is running a deficit of $200 million and he too is beholding to big unions and developers who are now running Toronto.
The good side of this neat calculation of Flaherty’s will be announcing to the OECD and anybody who’ll listen that Canada looks pretty good on off balance sheet (hidden) items such as our funded pensions; as compared to Mark Steyn’s demographically imploding Europe. Only Australia and a couple of other countries will look as good, which is a good marketing tool, once we get Quebec straightened out. Harper and Charest will get Quebec to fall into line quickly once the public stops being lied to by the MSM.
-If Your Birthday Is Today
Actor Jamie Foxx (1967) shares your birthday today. You’re intelligent and very perceptive. You’re excellent with details to the point of perfection. Many of you will finely hone your craft. You always take a long-range view of everything — your partnerships and your job. You have big ideas and major goals. Increased solitude this year will help you learn something important.-
Increased solitude? That is a tough one for yous guys from Sask. /s
I recently received via Canada Post a small parcel (small enough to go regular delivery) sent by a friend, who lives 30 miles away. It took 10 days to arrive.
Canada Post is an abysmal performer. What is the experience of others?
shaken – I fully agree with your remarks about Canada Post. Anything outside of the main centres, such as Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver etc can take days, weeks. For example, from Toronto to a small town in Quebec or vice versa -well, that will be weeks.
Our own postman in our area – hmmm – oh, the days that he takes off, for ‘sick leave’ (always a Friday or Monday). These are civil service, unionized, guaranteed jobs – and they exploit it to the umpteenth.
Quite the difference in the US. They even get Saturday delivery. And, you can mail a letter via the postman; if you see him walking by, you just give him your stamped letter; he’s also a ‘mailbox’.
Lapierre: c’est fini …
Lib MP Jean Lapierre: Stick a fork in me .
Bourque…
Rumours that Paul Who? will not re-run in Lasalle-Emard?
Stephane Dion to run in Montreal? Office in the French consulate?
Brian Mulrooney to run on 3 cylindres; knocking in the other 13 cylinders. Wants green shamrocks/socks taxed 500%. Green cravats and blarney exempted. Scotch outlawed: Irish Whiskey free.
Irish eyes are taxing…-
mazz2 the problem is it leaves open spaces for the bufoons Treadooooohs to stand
A dissection of former pretender-to-the-Presidency Jimmie Carter from, of all places, the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, written by one of their two columnists who aren’t barking moonbats.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/12/13/cstillwell.DTL
“The embattled minister, who has faced sharp criticism over her handling of the environment file,” [from whom? the enviro-wackos, e.g. Citizen Kyoto Green Dion, et al.]
CP, aka Can. Press, inserts the above into the report. Why? It’s the left-bias of the MSM.
Here’s to CP, aka liberal-left socialist mouthpiece: CAW, CAW, caw, caw …-
Automakers given six months to pen plan targeting harmful mercury switches
Environment Minister Rona Ambrose gives a press conference at an auto recycling yard. (CP PHOTO/Nathan Denette)
KITCHENER, Ont. (CP) – Canadian automakers have six months to figure out a way to get rid of most of the harmful mercury switches still found in millions of cars.
Environment Minister Rona Ambrose announced the initiative Wednesday that’s aimed at reducing by 90 per cent the number of mercury switches headed to the junkyard. The embattled minister, who has faced sharp criticism over her handling of the environment file, said the announcement shows the Conservatives are serious about cleaning up the environment. (cnews)
Camel sacrificed by airport staff
Airline maintenance workers in Turkey celebrated a successful job by sacrificing a camel at Istanbul airport….
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=29277&in_page_id=2
The Dual over Dual Citizenship
> Dual loyalities & Multiple loyalities
> $85M to evacuate Lebanese
> What will Ontario look like in 15 years?: the biggest push for immigration will be from the poorest of the poor countries…
Andrew Coyne, Garth Turner…
tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoutils/globalfiles/VideoPop.cfm?spot_id=921µsitefolder=theagenda
Like my daughter used to say Kate: Happy Doo!
Death to the MSM 😉
I wish dogy style Dion would keep his mutt Kyoto from taking a dump in my car,my home and my tax return.
Civil war within Islam.
Islam: Muslims killing Muslims.
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Internal Fighting Resumes Among Palestinians
New York Times – 4 hours ago
By GREG MYRE. JERUSALEM, Dec. 13 –
In renewed internal fighting among Palestinians,
gunmen today shot a prominent Hamas militant dead
just outside the courthouse in the southern Gaza Strip where he worked. …- (google news)
nomdenet, I’d sure like to think you’re right about “Harper and Charest [getting] Quebec to fall into line quickly once the public stops being lied to by the MSM.”
What makes you think that the public’s going to stop being lied to by the MSM–and when is this going to happen?
Can I contribute to the cause?
Reuters slays the evil dragon of Life.
Life, death, abortion, blindness, in the European Union, Kyoto Dion’s other country.
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Catholic Poland mulls tighter abortion laws By Gabriela Baczynska
Wed Dec 13, 9:37 AM ET
WARSAW (Reuters) – Even under Poland’s strict laws, Alicja Tysiac says she should have been allowed an abortion.
When Tysiac, who suffers from an acute eye disease, found she was pregnant for a third time in 2000, she was told by a doctor that the pregnancy, if carried to term, could leave her blind.
She asked for an abortion but approval was delayed until she had passed the 12-week limit for the procedure.
After the birth of her third child, Tysiac’s eyesight degenerated
until she was almost totally blind, unable to care for her children.
Now 36, she is registered as disabled.
Tysiac has taken Poland to the European Court of Human Rights saying her rights were violated.
But even as she fights her case,
a movement within overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Poland
wants to make having an abortion more difficult….-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753087/posts
PARTNERS IN HATE:
CBC IGNORES LIBERAL ANTI-SEMITISM
December 13, 2006 at 12:37
A few nights ago, Keith Boag had little difficulty trying to pin the surprising longevity of ex-RCMP commissioner Zachardelli on the possible bonus election effects that income trust investigation had Conservative election fortunes.
And while Canwest’s Don Martin and Boag report the conspiracy theory as fact, Boag and his political reporting underlings continue to ignore the disturbing story of Liberal Party convention intolerance. (Strange how CBC’s investigative trail went cold when Scott Brison turned up as a possible suspect). …-
http://www.aggregator.ca/content/view/468/
Disclosure: Arafat Paid Off Neturei Karta Leader 23:58 Dec 13, ’06 / 22 Kislev 5767
(IsraelNN.com) Documents disclosed by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (CSS) reveal that former arch-terrorist and Arab leader Yasser Arafat paid tens of thousands of dollars to
Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, the “foreign minister” of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect.
CSS stated that documents uncovered during Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin show that Arafat paid $25,000 and $30,000 in January and February 2002 for “expenses for activities.” Neturei Karta frequently supported Arafat and served as a propaganda tool for him, CSS noted. …-
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1753104/posts
Been around the block,
Let me rephrase that. Sure … the MSM will still be twisting the news to suit their agenda. But the neat thing about the “net” debt calculation formula is that it will force a lot of important debt and deficit data to be tabled on the 3 levels of government. The MSM has been saying the formual is too complicated, that’s because it will wake people up and cause change and the utopian media likes the status quo. I don’t think the “net” formula will be beyond most peoples’ comprehension and it will show us the complete picture of what our fiscal situation looks like. Bad news that unlike the USA where States don’t run up massive debts , we do; but it will also show us comparitively well funded on pensions relative to Japan and Old Europe … ergo a good place to invest.
So I hope Flaherty doesn’t let the MSM carry on with the meme that it’s too complicated and get him to back off. Let’s see all the asset and liability data, both sides of the balance sheet, for all 3 levels of government .. Ottawa, the Provinces and the mega-cities which are up against the wall. The data doesn’t lie.
Gaza tensions escalate: Grenade thrown at Hamas rally
Ynetnews – 4 hours ago
Two Hamas activists injured after Fatah member throws grenade on rally held by Hamas in Nuseirat refugee camp in heart of Strip.
According to reports, Fatah gunmen are deploying across Gaza. (google news)
Islam says inshallah, if allah wills it; complete fatalism; English has no equivalent. …-
Flaherty Issues Warning on Equalization
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty admits he is not optimist the provinces can reach an agreement on equalization.
Flaherty will meet with his provincial counterparts this week to discuss the equalization formula in Vancouver.
Flaherty is warning the provinces have one last chance this week to agree on equalization reforms
or the federal government will overhaul the
12-billion dollar program on its own.
If no agreement emerges by the end of the meeting, Flaherty says he’ll give ministers some indication of the direction the government intends to go, with details to follow shortly. …-
cfra.com
Thanks, nomdenet. I see where you’re coming from, and I sure hope you’re right!
The most poignant moment during the NATO meetings in November came
when Afghanistan’s national security adviser spoke of the debt the West owed his country.
“You wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for us,” Zalmai Rassoul told a room full of Europeans.
They knew what he meant.
If Afghan freedom fighters hadn’t upended their Red Army occupiers,
who withdrew in disgrace in early 1989,
the chain of events that led to the Berlin Wall’s fall, Baltic liberation and Soviet collapse may not have followed.
His appeal went further.
“You abandoned us after we defeated the Soviets,” he told me.
“We warned you about the dangers of the Taliban, but you ignored us.
You paid for that on 9/11.
If you abandon Afghanistan again, you will pay again.” …-
http://www.aggregator.ca/content/view/456/137/
Two modern progressives and their view of marriage:
They (Stephane Dion and Janine Krieber) wanted an international adoption, but to do that they first had to get married, something neither had thought of until then.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/politics/story.html?id=64bd19e5-711c-4a61-835a-d49620ce9c5f&k=52972&p=1
“I feel marriage has become redundant. So many people get divorced, why bother?” – Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/people/169158,CST-FTR-scurry12.article
1st version of this, Flaherty laughed;
2nd version, he smiled;
now he shruggs.
Every hour or so, the reporter describes different reactions. Is anyone keeping track of this fantasy reporting?
Trust expansion rules coming within days: Flaherty
STEVEN CHASE
Globe and Mail Update
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty yesterday shrugged off significant expansion plans unveiled by income trusts – announcements made despite the fact Ottawa has yet to decree how much these investment vehicles can grow over the next four years.
He also said he plans to release within days the rules that will govern how trusts can expand until they start being taxed in 2011.
The AP is like the horns of a steer a point here a point there and a lot of bull in between
This KOFFI ANNN Yahoo fluants our gun control laws while calling for us to surrender our guns and our 2nd amendment rights SCREW KOFFI ANNAN and SCREW THE UN