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Krawetz took an image from a 2006 al Qaeda video of Ayman al-Zawahiri (above right), a senior member of the terrorist organization. The image shows al-Zawahiri sitting in front of a desk and banner with writing on it. But after conducting his error analysis Krawetz was able to determine that al-Zawahiri’s image was superimposed in front of the background — and was most likely videotaped in front of a black sheet.

It’s the stupid people, stupid.
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST: Jamaat ul-Fuqra
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  1. Well thats an eye opener?
    Well the question is now how do we combat this. We know that the state refuses to confront them, and for all we know is even in cahoots with them at the highest levels of the burocracy! (Well I’m pretty certain neither country would let most of us get away with such things, especially being conservative in mindset)
    I can think of only one answer but it doesn’t seem that that there is any level of organization among the free citizenry of either canada or the united states to stand against such a foe!
    I think we need ideas followed up by some kind of action! And it doesn’t seem like our fearless leaders are up to the challenge, all granted that the story is as true as it poses, it just seems surreal.

  2. Well thats an eye opener?
    Well the question is now how do we combat this. We know that the state refuses to confront them, and for all we know is even in cahoots with them at the highest levels of the burocracy! (Well I’m pretty certain neither country would let most of us get away with such things, especially being conservative in mindset)
    I can think of only one answer but it doesn’t seem that that there is any level of organization among the free citizenry of either canada or the united states to stand against such a foe!
    I think we need ideas followed up by some kind of action! And it doesn’t seem like our fearless leaders are up to the challenge, all granted that the story is as true as it poses, it just seems surreal.

  3. Mac: UNbelieveable…
    Showing their usual amount of courage and leadership, the UN are preparing to prove, once again, they’re a bunch of surrender-monkeys. It’s easy to see why leftists all love the UN, isn’t it?
    -Mac
    UN urged to withdraw Iraq staff
    The United Nations should withdraw all of its workers from Iraq until the security situation improves, the body’s staff union has said.
    The union believes UN personnel will not be properly protected by US-led forces in the country.
    The call comes as UN officials prepare to pass a draft resolution giving the organisation an expanded role in Iraq.
    The UN has had a low-key presence there since a truck bomb devastated its Baghdad headquarters in August 2003.
    The world body swept most of its personnel out of the Iraqi capital after the blast, and currently allows a maximum of 65 overseas workers to reside in the country.
    But the draft resolution, backed by the US and UK, would raise the upper limit on workers to 95….-
    http://jacksnewswatch.com/2007/08/07/mac-unbelieveable/#comments

  4. “It’s on video, believe it or not, and even presented as a selling point to peddle their services by Cohen & Grigsby Law Firm. That’s right, this group of attorneys put an entire seminar on how to screw over the American worker on YouTube. Imagine that, a seminar from lawyers on how to make sure one doesn’t have to hire an American worker!”
    http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/18/22435/0365
    On behalf of all American white males with IQs in excess of 140 I spit on each and every one of you.

  5. Red Mao China is mocked/castigated/ripped by Chinese bloggers: “O senior officials” are likened to wolves, worse than the foreign wolves.
    …-
    Feeling the Heat, Not Breathing Fire
    […]
    “O senior officials of the Chinese government, please do not be fooled by sweet-talking wolves dressed in human skin,” said one of seven scathing Internet postings compiled by an anonymous blogger on Sina.com, a Chinese Web site. “The foreign reserves are the product of the sweat and blood of the people of China, please invest them with more care!” […]
    “It is really alarming the speed with which the Chinese government entered into this investment,” read one, signed “anonymous person 586215,” which remained on Sina.com Thursday night. […]
    The same online writer who warned of wolves in human skin, for instance, also cautioned, “These fierce wolves are similar to the foreign thieves who pillaged our forefathers, only they are all the more cunning and manipulative, but their goal of pillaging China does not change with the centuries.” …-
    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/business/03backlash.html?em&ex=1186286400&en=ea2e956ab3b907c1&ei=5087

  9. This suggestion isn’t exactly a reader tip, but it was inspired by the number of comments two threads back: asking SDA readers which Canadian journalist ticks them off the most, and why. If conscience tugs, kudos can be added.

  10. Dion as Canada’s new Bobby Gimby..photo at Bourque..can you put that one up Kate? It’s a beauty!

  13. A more conventional reader tip: Anyone who thinks that the Government of Canada and Canada’s provincial governments have a special knack for cost overruns should read “The Peculiar History of Arthurdale.” In addition to pointing out the flaws of a much-ballyhooed government “development” project c. New Deal time, it hints that the problem with such projects – from whence the bulk of the uninteneded consequences come – is that the subjects of such experiments basically do as they’re told, including filling in the blanks when not given specific instructions. In addition, this article has some tips for anyone fancying to get into real estate development, whether public or private.
    I came away from it wondering if “people over profits” is a euphemistic cover-up for “costs over profits.”
    http://www.mises.org/story/2645

  14. The Globe & Mail, “Canada’s GTA Newspaper”, had a story yesterday about a man who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The headline — “Suicide sparks questions about gun-range safety” — suggests that the man had no intention of killing himself, but that the gun simply went crazy and turned on him.
    (Next week, a series of stories questioning the safety of steak knives, exhaust pipes, and third-story balconies.)
    Love the opening line, too: “The Wild West Shooting Centre is a popular place for birthdays, stags and people just looking to blow off steam by firing a few rounds.”
    Yeszz. Because that’s why people target-shoot: To release pent-up rage.

  15. Oh, the c-17… I can’t wait until they stop by Winnipeg. I’d love to work of those in the circuit!

  17. “at the Butovo firing range” = Soviet “killing fields”.
    Communism, aka socialism, aka Stalin-lberia, shot dead their own people on a “firing range”. These were not suicides.
    …-
    Stalin’s victims honoured in emotional memorial
    BUTOVO, Russia (Reuters) – Relatives of Stalin’s victims gathered at a new memorial outside Moscow on Wednesday beside a firing range which became one of the most notorious killing fields during the era of Soviet repression.
    A new 12 metre wooden cross, built on the gulag island of Bolshoi Solovetsky near the Arctic circle, was blessed during an emotional Russian Orthodox service held on the 70th anniversary of the start of the murders at the site.
    Relatives shed tears and laid flowers as they recalled how their loved ones had perished.
    Records at the site show at least 20,760 people were killed and buried in mass graves at the Butovo firing range in the two years from 1937 to 1939. Many of the dead were priests.
    On the first day of the killings, Aug. 8 1937, 91 people were shot dead, while the daily toll peaked at 562 on Feb. 28, 1938.
    Across Russia, millions more died during Stalin’s purges, most in prison or forced labour camps, known as gulags, which were spread across the Soviet Union. …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878175/posts

  19. And the msm hit another one out of the park,with the deep,thot provoking article (courtesy of G&M):
    Women prefer men with thick lips,and feminine features.
    Where in the world do they come up with this garbage?Maybe metrosexuals in TO are flattered with this crap,but out here in the real world,women prefer REAL men.I for one,prefer not to share my eyeliner with my spouse,or have to fight over who gets the pretty purse (another article in Post featured ‘man-purses’,on wk-end).I just don’t get it!Maybe being the spouse of a hard-rock old tramp-miner has blurred my opinion,but I for one,want my man to be just that..A MAN.What do you think ladies?

  20. So he can dance and he can sing, his talents know no bounds. Question is can he sing in both Official Languages and has he got the right beat?
    Nice to see him out and about, was beginning to think his cross country get-to-know-moi trek was a phantom exercise. Might know he’ll spend time in safe territory, Toronto and environs, sucking up to the usuals.

  21. Maz2 at 6:09 AM… ( sheesh that’s early )
    Given the choice of having any the UN parasites in Iraq and causing problems VS having NONE of them there……

  22. Let Us Spray.
    …-
    Church ministers sue Ottawa for pot privilege
    Just as it is acceptable to sip wine at the altar, marijuana should also be allowed to be toked at church, say two ordained ministers who have launched a multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit against Ottawa.(national newswatch)…-
    Cannabis spray is OK
    Edmonton Sun – 10 hours ago
    By NICKI THOMAS, SUN MEDIA Health Canada recently approved a medication derived from components of the cannabis plant that will provide patients with advanced cancer another option when it comes to dealing with pain….-
    Say, Amen, Lorne. Amen.

  23. Interesting link over at Lemons blog,to comments re cbc series on Afghanada..their fans have turned on their beloved network because of some favorable coverage.Delightful to read.

  24. How many “Islamburgs” are set up right here in Canada is something to ponder. Pretty dangerous and scary stuff. Problem in Canada , the Charter would prevent us from infringing on their “rights”.
    Rebuilding New Orleans without many changes is a risky business. How many times will they expect to be rescued and rebuilt? It’s as bad a living near a dam site in an active earthquake zone.

  25. I don’t know, Andrew, this woman worked for McDonalds for 23 years and was only getting $9.75 per hour or some such. Her case was that they could have been a bit creative in finding some alternative work for her, and she even had some suggestions. So I think McDonald’s treated her rather shabbily and she deserved some sort of compensation. I also don’t think $50,000 is that much. It’s not much more than $2000 for each year worked — a basic severence pkg. — most of our corporates and politicos get a whole lot more than that, and how many of them are particularly deserving? More likely they are just entitled to their entitlements.

  27. Warning: Repulsive reading.
    Which foreigner visited Democrat President Clinton at the White House more often than any other foreigner while Clinton was President?
    …-
    The Real Arafat
    Read about Yassar Arafat, the real story that only an ex-KGB agent could tell …-
    Link at :
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878269/posts
    Comment # 14:
    Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak referred to him once as “a son of a dog.” A Syrian defense minister called him the “son of 60,000 whores.” [26] Even his Soviet Bloc handlers found him repulsive: “I’ve never before seen so much cleverness, blood and filth all together in one man” Romanian General Constantin Munteaunu was reputed to have said. Ion Pacepa added: “I felt a compulsion to take a shower whenever I had been kissed by Arafat or even just shaken his hand.”[27]
    BWHAHAHA! What a swell guy….-

  28. Cannabis spray is OK
    Edmonton Sun – 10 hours ago
    “By NICKI THOMAS, SUN MEDIA Health Canada recently approved a medication derived from components of the cannabis plant that will provide patients with advanced cancer another option when it comes to dealing with pain….-
    Say, Amen, Lorne. Amen.
    Posted by: maz2 at August 8, 2007 2:08 PM”
    So pot is wrong until a pharmaceutical company can make money off of it. After they’ve interfered with it turning it from a natural substance into a man made (probably into a carcinogenic) substance of course. The hypocrisy of the Harper government knows no end.

  30. LindaL (3:14pm) I don’t disagree that the restaurant shouldn’t have tried to make accomodations for her, however I would question how many people would knowingly frequent a restaurant where one of the employees was allowed to work without washing his or her hands. I would also question why it went before the Human Rights Tribunal rather than the courts, unless BC Labour Law was followed in her release.
    Do you really want to live in a country where you can technically follow the law and still be punished for your actions?

  33. Twenty million dead albatrosses ’round the necks of the socialists/environmentalists.
    Socialism/environmentalism: the Parasite of humanity; gorged on Death.
    …-
    National Geographic Acknowledges Huge Loss of Life to Malaria and Need for DDT
    LifeSiteNews
    August 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – National Geographic (NG), a leading environmentalist, de-population supporting magazine, has published a major cover story by Michael Finkel on the extraordinarily deadly and complex malaria parasite. The July 2007 NG edition article discusses possible solutions to the disease but also uncharacteristically acknowledges a leading expert’s contention that the international ban on DDT was a terrible mistake which may have cost many millions of lives, especially in poor African nations. Environmental ideologues have been quick to slam Finkel’s article as being flawed and damaging to the their past success in convincing the world to ban the DDT pesticide.
    The article, Malaria, Stopping a Global Killer, states, “This year malaria will strike up to a half billion people. At least a million will die, most of them under age five, the vast majority living in Africa. That’s more than twice the annual toll a generation ago.”
    Finkel writes that Robert Gwadz, a malaria specialist at the US National Institutes of Health, says the worldwide ban on DDT that eventually followed the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which condemned use of the chemical, “may have killed 20 million children.” …-
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1878341/posts

  34. I referenced this article in another thread, but wanted to post again with another comment. It looks like “climate change” is at the TOP of the list of items to be discussed at the Premier’s conference.
    (CTV article: http://tinyurl.com/2amtcr ). I find this just bizarre since we know that Canada’s CO2 contributions are NOT significant and will do nothing to affect climate change. In Canada, this is a largely symbolic issue, so why is it considered important enough to top their list? What about aging infrastructure, aging populations, health care, gang violence, terrorism, food safety, homelessness etc.?? Are these not REAL issues that need to be dealt with in the short term — like before 2050? What could be their motivation for putting an issue that they can’t possibly solve at the top of their list? I think they are simply seeking an opportunity to make themselves look good by putting themselves on what they perceive to be the politically correct side of an issue that gets a lot of media hype. Meanwhile,the Canadian public is being swindled and tax dollars wasted while real issues go unaddressed.

  35. Read in the news headlines in my office elevator that Obama referred to Stephen Harper as President. Boy is he ever green. No he’s black and also I suppose I shouldn’t use ‘boy’.
    re Macdonalds I think that they were wrong and could have been more accomodating.

  36. Canada backs Taiwan’s push for role in WHO
    The Harper government has quietly provided a high-level boost to Taiwan’s campaign for a role in the World Health Organization in a move that some experts say will place another burr under its relationship with China. …-
    (jack’s newswatch)
    …-
    Speaking of Mao: Commentary magazine is Mocking Mao’s foreign policy….-
    Mao Bites Dog
    A pet shop owner in Yongin, Korea, about 25 miles south of Seoul, set off an international incident recently with an advertising sign featuring . . . a puppy. In the sign, a dog’s head replaces that of Mao Zedong in the portrait hanging at the northern end of Tiananmen Square. Last Tuesday, China’s Foreign Ministry summoned a South Korean diplomat to protest, and the shop’s owner immediately pulled down the sign and apologized to Beijing.
    What’s wrong with this picture? First, China’s authoritarian state tried to censor an image appearing in a democracy—and the democracy bowed. Yet there is something even more far-reaching and disturbing in this incident. Since 1954, the People’s Republic has maintained that the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence—mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in others’ internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence—are essential to its foreign policy. …-
    Link here:
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877736/posts

  37. Sorry, I was on holidays, so I missed out on this topic brought up in the CS Monitor article. Too bad, because it is actually something that I know a bit about. I am in the middle of University level astronomy course.
    re:
    “That’s how Dr. Ziurys and her colleagues in Tucson, Ariz., found something that should not be happening around the giant star VY Canis Majoris some 5,000 light years away. It’s one of the brightest celestial objects when viewed by infrared light. But observations with infrared or visible light have not revealed what radio tracking of molecules now shows. Two molecule-rich jets shoot out from the star. It’s the kind of chemistry expected around relatively nearby stars that are rich in carbon and poor in oxygen. VY Canis Majoris, however, has twice as much oxygen as carbon. As explained in the university’s announcement of this research last week, this discovery shows that there are far more sources of complex molecules to enrich the interstellar dust from which planets form than astronomers have suspected.”
    Here’s my two cents worth regarding this ‘discovery’ and how it may or may not relate to the origins of life. Correct me if I am wrong anyone who knows more about this subject:
    This star, VY Canis Majoris must be a red giant star since it is one of the brightest objects when observed in the infrared. This is a result of red giants being much cooler than main sequence stars (thus the longer wavelength maximum). It is also logical and possible that molecule rich jets could be emanating from this star because of the low temperature of the star. Here’s the rub, though. This discussion has no relevance to the origins of life because when a star enters the red giant stage of its life, it has already lived out at least 90% of its lifespan. In any young star system, where we may presume that life may be starting, that star is much too hot to be emanating any kind of molecules from itself because the temperatures are so hot that atoms within any molecules become too excited and break free from their bonds. Also, if this star is so massive and luminous, it may well have been a massive star when it was on the main sequence, and if this is the case, then it is probably only tens or maybe 100 million years old (massive stars have very low lifspans compared to our Sun’s 10 billion year lifespan). Again this points to the irrelevance of this to the origin of life, because presumably life would take billion(s) of years to evolve and we are talking about a star that only has a lifespan in the millions of years.
    Hope some of the above makes sense!
    Eric

  38. Rewriting History in the Making
    http://www.history.ca/ontv/default.aspx?schedtod=eve&DateDelta=0
    History Television TV Schedule
    Monday, August 06, 2007: All Times ET/PT
    8:00 PM ET/PT
    JAPAN’S WAR IN COLOUR
    Faith in Victory(CC)
    9:00 PM ET/PT
    JAPAN’S WAR IN COLOUR
    Enduring the Unendurable(CC)
    Wednesday, August 08, 2007: All Times ET/PT
    8:00 PM ET/PT
    COLOUR OF WAR III AMERICAN STORY
    Wrath(CC)
    9:00 PM ET/PT
    COLOUR OF WAR III AMERICAN STORY
    Triumph(CC)
    When I read the titles of these programs.
    Why do I get the funny feeling that Clint Eastwood is writing the titles?

  39. Can’t be. AGW has the ice on the run. Memo to “federal scientist”: Don’t worry; youse will get your gubmint $$$$$$$$, ICE or no ICE.
    …-
    National Post | ICE MAY THWART MISSION TO CLAIM ARCTIC TERRITORY
    The federal scientist leading an urgent effort to gather sea floor data to back Canada’s territorial claims in the Arctic is warning that his mission will be “in trouble” if ice conditions seriously disrupt fieldwork before the UN’s 2013 deadline….-
    (jack’s newswatch)

  40. Liz J, hoping you’ll read this: No, I don’t think that Canadian Islambergs can invoke the Charter. There is a law, I am sure it’s the CC, that states that it is unauthorized training or drills are illegal. I am sure it applies to the firearms/explosives/military training.
    If we only knew exactly where the compounds were, we could embark on the path to demolishing them right away.

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