Tips thread is open for Friday.
(I have lots on plate here, so posting will be slow through the end of the weekend.)
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David Suzuki (Pleas please! Peess be upon him.) writes in the latest (April 14, 2008) Maclean’s MAIL BAG (complete with Icon!)…
“I did not call “for politicians who disagreed with [me] on ‘climate change’ to be thrown in jail.””
Lifesitenews.com reports somewhat contradictory words spoken at McGill…
“What I would challenge you to do,” said Suzuki to the gathered students, during the section of his speech dealing with climate change, and those who deny its existence, “is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act.”
“It’s an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years.”
Earlier (U of T) …
“[Governments] should go to jail for what they’re not doing right now,” said Suzuki on the occasion. “What our government is not doing, is a criminal act.”
Which report do I believe? Who stick-handles temperature data? If you can catch the big drift with a hokey, hockey stick.
Cyber-Slapp. A not completely dissimilar threat to those faced by Kate et al to a New Hampshire blogger named Kathleen Seidel…
Phrase ‘o the Day: Proof by assertion
Proof by assertion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proof by assertion is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction. Sometimes this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (argumentum ad nauseam). In other cases its repetition may be cited as evidence of its truth, in a variant of the appeal to authority or appeal to belief fallacies.
This logical fallacy is sometimes used as a form of rhetoric by politicians. In its extreme form, it can also be a form of brainwashing. Modern politics contains many examples of proof by assertions. This practice can be observed in the use of political slogans, and the distribution of “talking points,” which are collections of short phrases that are issued to members of modern political parties for recitation to achieve maximum message repetition. The technique is also sometimes used in advertising.
The technique is described in a saying, often attributed to Lenin, as “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”, although the user may not be intentionally promoting a lie and may just believe an illogical or faulty proposition.
See also
* Big Lie
* Talking points
* Brainwashing
* Weasel Word
* Denialism
Oh hi folks, it’s Vitruvius here. Well, after well over a dozen hours of thinking about and working on this specific essay, I have now refined my opinions on the matter of the Warman suit to the point where I am ready to defend them in public. And, since I’m disagreeing with about 19 out of 20 people who have written on this matter to date, I expect that some people are going to want to yell at me. That’s fine, however, in this case, I would like to ask that you do so on my dime, not Kate’s. Therefore, for the first time ever I have enabled comments on an article at the Sagacious Iconoclast. If you wish to yell at me, please do so there, so as not to hijack this Reader Tips thread: sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/04/oscj-file-08-cv-35297sr.html
Found this at Hot Air
The vido is mostly on free expression. The tradagy of the day now. This guy should be running an HRC in Canada . His beliefs are creeply simular to those of this Inquisition of thought police . As are his views of freeedom of thought. Just exchange socialist for Islam & its just the same retoric.
This guy has a soul mate in Canada. Perhaps they should be dating.
Which brings up the question of who is behind this assult on freedom of thought & are they connected enough to jump this shark now in the hopes of absolute control of all Canadian content or thought? http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1734.htm
All that stuff from Suzoki and cohorts falls under the catagory “IF YOU CAN`T DAZZLE THE WITH YOUR BRILLIANCE BAFFLE THEM WITH YOUR BULL SH*T” and we have way to many gullible people buying it
There’s a rumour circulating that this blog will be yanked from the bloggingtories site.
Vit, well written, but me thinks you missed out on one point, CONTEXT, and by extention, intent.You did infer the “sucker” element and there in lies the context (ask and you will recieve:-))))
http://www.financialpost.com/newsletter/story.html?id=436641
Loblaw execs live in fear of [muslim] supplier
The death-threats are just an Iranian way of talking — it’s all one big multicultural misunderstanding !!
File under: joys of multiculturalism
Lamas Misdeal Land
Anagrams, because evil lefty haters have made us tense.
Liberal leader Citoyen Dion’s Proof by Ass-ertion. It’s proven; it’s “progressive”.
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“”I will choose my time in keeping in my mind the necessity to give to Canadians in an optimal situation the possibility to have a progressive Liberal government that will replace this bad bill by a good law and that will replace this bad government by a good government,” stammered Liberal leader Stephane Dion yesterday.”
Anyone know anything about this? http://www.connexions.org/SafeLearning.htm
It’s making the rounds online but I can’t find a reputable source. Very Orwellian. The “Alumni for responsible speech” are trying to ban speech if “it is used to state facts which are unpleasant and which might, if stated publicly, make some members of the university community uncomfortable.”
It is at the U of T, so prohibiting speech that “make some members of the university community uncomfortable” means that they’re pretty much trying to ban all talking… and probably some expressive noises.
OK, viturvius, I’ve gone to your site. But I think the causes of Warman’s lawsuit are complex.
First, I don’t think that he can prove that his reputation has suffered. After all, admitting that he posted to blogs as ‘Lucy’ hardly raises one’s esteem for him. And it must be noted that he tried to avoid admitting that by relying on semantic slithering of the term ‘guest’ and ‘only to view’.
His track record of third party complaints to the HRCs, with himself reaping financial benefits, is also hardly conducive to admiration.
So, I think it would be difficult to show any loss of reputation due to the comments on this or other blogs.
And, I think that ‘fair comment’ is a valid defense. He put himself in the public eye with his misuse of the HRCs and his testimony.
Certainly, Warman is a controller; he insists on controlling what others think of him, but I think that the ‘network of perpetrators’ is larger than Warman himself.
I, myself, with no evidence, think that the whole scenario is a Revenge Scheme, hatched by Kinsella against those whom he considers his enemies. That includes the National Post as well as Kate, Kathy, Ezra.
Michael Yon, Let’s ‘Surge’ Some More
It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.
I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous…
Stephen Schwartz, CAIR vs. the NYPD
LAST YEAR THE New York Police Department (NYPD) issued a clear-sighted and path-breaking document titled Radicalization in the West: The Home-Grown Threat. Prepared by Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt of the NYPD Intelligence Division, the report was serious, well-researched, and articulate. It traced radical Sunni Muslim activities in non-Muslim countries to the “jihadi-Salafi” ideology, better known as Wahhabism, created in Saudi Arabia and supported by major extremist resources in Pakistan (the jihadist movement of Mawdudi) and Egypt (the Muslim Brotherhood). It was posted on the internet by Republican congressman Pete Hoekstra of Michigan and may be read here. Radicalization in the West met with enthusiastic approval from anti-extremist, moderate Muslims, but with predictable condemnation from the “Wahhabi lobby” represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies…
I see Susan Riley is at it again, with her Goon Squad column. (nnw) I also notice that Fife was back on ctv last night.
RE brodie’s “someone needs to stop this!” — Brodie’s link is to an environmental group protesting a textbook’s handling of the global warming issue — they seem to want textbooks only to include the “alarmists” side of the issue. They have set up an automated (or semi-automated) letter to the company protesting — with copies going to government representatives. The form does invite you to edit the letter — so I did, congratulating the textbook for taking an important step towards objectivity. If the process is entirely automated, my letter may slip through, but if they are vetting letters, I am sure it will be deleted. If nothing else — sending our own letters from this site will sure cause them a lot of extra work and they may drop the project. Do send your own letter at http://action.foe.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24133
A female version of Warman in the USA! The plaintiff, Vanessa Willock is currently an EEO Compliance Representative with the Office of Equal Opportunity where she investigates claims of discrimination and sexual harassment. The New Mexico Human Rights court sentenced Christian photographer Elaine Huguenin a fine of $6,637.94 for refusing to photograph a gay commitment ceremony. read the rest here
MaryT
I saw Riley’s column and this really irks me…
“Dion is regarded as decent and intelligent. So the message seems to be that decency isn’t highly regarded in our political culture”
She natters on about people judging him because of appearances. I’ve submitted a comment to ask why the media is so sure that he’s so intelligent. Where is the evidence of this superior intellect? My contention is that it’s actually the media who have decided to frame him based on surface qualities. ie: He has a degree and he looks like a nerd. Selling him as this brooding intellectual will be easy. Education is a product of opportunity, not of intellect.
If you visit the Nose (see link above), don’t forget to view the Nine Least-Known Things about Richard Warman – including “1. Feels very inadequate because…because…well, let’s just say that if he had a blog it would be named “3 Inches of Fury.””
I also was annoyed by Susan Riley’s column — though I can only blame myself for bothering to read it, since her anti-Conservative bias is invariable apparent — increasingly I don’t bother reading it.
What was annoying about this column was the suggestion that this particular back-bencher’s comments are typical of Conservatives (going so far as to speculate that Conservatives would have been poking fun of Pearson for his lisp). I see no justification for remarks of this type except to feed her own anti-Conservative convictions.
Having said that, I was not sure what to make of the remarks, which (if they are accurate) are not exactly a stellar example of meaningful Parliamentary discourse. What I am not sure of is what might have precipitated the remarks and whether or not they might have been taken out of context — or maybe they are just an example of typical back-and-forth nastiness, or maybe indeed this guy was unusually nasty in his attack. In any event, it does seem unnecessary to hop on the Conservatives for nasty partisanship when we routinely have the Liberals and NDP jumping on trivial issues in an attempt to smear Conservatives (the latest being a remark by Jason Kenny — 8 years ago — in a conference call.) Did Reily comment at all on the “hang ‘en high” comment (maybe she did, and maybe I missed it during my Reily boycott.) I am pretty sure that she had nothing to say when Stockwell Day was being ridiculed for his religious convictions (o.k. to poke fun at religious beliefs, just not academics) and I am pretty sure she also said nothing when Preston Manning was being made fun of for his glasses, hair cut, voice, etc. (both Parliamentarians and the media were culprits in those ignorant attacks.) Yet the Conservatives in her mind is the party that “would have” made fun of Lester Pearson’s lisp. If she is serious about wanting to raise the tone in the House, I think that she needs first to acknowledge that this is a two-way street.
“Tibet monks face starvation siege”
“Tibetans cremate “dead bodies” in a mock cremation ceremony in Dharamsala to remember those killed in Tibet.”
“”Tibetan Olympics” to be held in Dharamsala in May.” http://tinyurl.com/56sd57 (theage)
Same old, same old for Riley et al. While deriding the Conservatives as “name callers”, she’s the one who labels them the Goon Squad! Go figure…
“Calgary snowfall breaks 88-year-old record”
“”a symposium on natural disasters was taking place in Calgary.
Canadian municipalities and residents are being warned to be better prepared for severe weather.”
(calherald)
BREAKING US to admit officially that Saddam WMDs were moved to Syria in a report to come !!!!!
Jerusalem Post ^ | 04 11 2008 http://tinyurl.com/5ybmm3
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“Russia Hid Saddam’s WMDs
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
Washington Times | Thursday, October 02, 2003” http://tinyurl.com/67appn
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TO PiperPaul
Thanks for that! I read your first line (from Wikipedia), but some cerebral synapse transmogrified it.
“Proof by assertion is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.”
“Proof by insertion is a logical phallacy in which a position is properly repeated regardless of contraindication.”
This really isn’t like me, it really isn’t! But my doctor (who saved, and saves my life) while making an incision not that long ago introduced me to SDA. The words “contraindication” and “contradiction” must have crossed at some synapse. Sorry.
maz2:
You need to give a little more meat in your last post.
The recent Israeli strike in Syria would be consistent with the thesis of Saddam’s “Sarindar” or WMD exit plan.
Cheers
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Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North” http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=31404B53-B0E7-49C0-A9BE-E5F8B53CD2A7
Russia Hid Saddam’s WMDs
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
Washington Times | 10/2/2003
“On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the U.S.-led “aggression” against Iraq as “unwarranted” and “unjustifiable.” Three days later, Pravda said that an anonymous Russian “military expert” was predicting that the United States would fabricate finding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov immediately started plying the idea abroad, and it has taken hold around the world ever since.
As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take orders from the Soviet KGB, it is perfectly obvious to me that Russia is behind the evanescence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place. The Soviet Union and all its bloc states always had a standard operating procedure for deep sixing weapons of mass destruction — in Romanian it was codenamed “Sarindar, meaning “emergency exit.” I implemented it in Libya. It was for ridding Third World despots of all trace of their chemical weapons if the Western imperialists ever got near them. We wanted to make sure they would never be traced back to us, and we also wanted to frustrate the West by not giving them anything they could make propaganda with.
All chemical weapons were to be immediately burned or buried deep at sea. Technological documentation, however, would be preserved in microfiche buried in waterproof containers for future reconstruction. Chemical weapons, especially those produced in Third World countries, which lack sophisticated production facilities, often do not retain lethal properties after a few months on the shelf and are routinely dumped anyway. And all chemical weapons plants had a civilian cover making detection difficult, regardless of the circumstances.
The plan included an elaborate propaganda routine. Anyone accusing Moammar Gadhafi of possessing chemical weapons would be ridiculed. Lies, all lies! Come to Libya and see! Our Western left-wing organizations, like the World Peace Council, existed for sole purpose of spreading the propaganda we gave them. These very same groups bray the exact same themes to this day. We always relied on their expertise at organizing large street demonstrations in Western Europe over America’s “war-mongering” whenever we wanted to distract world attention from the crimes of the vicious regimes we sponsored.
Iraq, in my view, had its own “Sarindar” plan in effect direct from Moscow. It certainly had one in the past. Nicolae Ceausescu told me so, and he heard it from Leonid Brezhnev. KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Gen. Yevgeny Primakov, told me so, too. In the late 1970s, Gen. Primakov ran Saddam’s weapons programs. After that, as you may recall, he was promoted to head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service in 1990, to Russia’s minister of foreign affairs in 1996, and in 1998, to prime minister. What you may not know is that Primakov hates Israel and has always championed Arab radicalism. He was a personal friend of Saddam’s and has repeatedly visited Baghdad after 1991, quietly helping Saddam play his game of hide-and-seek.
The Soviet bloc not only sold Saddam its WMDs, but it showed them how to make them “disappear.” Russia is still at it. Primakov was in Baghdad from December until a couple of days before the war, along with a team of Russian military experts led by two of Russia’s topnotch “retired”generals: Vladislav Achalov, a former deputy defense minister, and Igor Maltsev, a former air defense chief of staff. They were all there receiving honorary medals from the Iraqi defense minister. They clearly were not there to give Saddam military advice for the upcoming war—Saddam’s Katyusha launchers were of World War II vintage, and his T-72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes were all obviously useless against America. “I did not fly to Baghdad to drink coffee,” was what Gen. Achalov told the media afterward. They were there orchestrating Iraq’s “Sarindar” plan.
The U.S. military in fact, has already found the only thing that would have been allowed to survive under the classic Soviet “Sarindar” plan to liquidate weapons arsenals in the event of defeat in war — the technological documents showing how to reproduce weapons stocks in just a few weeks.
Such a plan has undoubtedly been in place since August 1995 — when Saddam’s son-in-law, Gen. Hussein Kamel, who ran Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological programs for 10 years, defected to Jordan. That August, UNSCOM and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors searched a chicken farm owned by Kamel’s family and found more than one hundred metal trunks and boxes containing documentation dealing with all categories of weapons, including nuclear. Caught red-handed, Iraq at last admitted to its “extensive biological warfare program, including weaponization,” issued a “Full, Final and Complete Disclosure Report” and turned over documents about the nerve agent VX and nuclear weapons. ”
Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc.
Maz2, great info. on the Syrian-Saddam connection. This widens it:
“…The battle in the Middle East is not against a rogue regime or two. The battle is against a Russian-led alliance that refrains from publicly announcing its own existence. The longstanding coordination between Baghdad, Damascus, Tehran and Moscow should be famous. But who wants to acknowledge the truth? Who dares to understand? Even the president doesn’t want to admit what the U.S. is up against in Iraq. And here comes an Iraqi general with information about Iraqi WMDs going to Syria. What chance does the poor man have?…” – originally posted Jan 28th/06. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567170/posts
Kate,
comments on Husky Iceberg post shows error page not found.
Otherwise,
White Rose production still backed up by icebergs
ST. JOHN’S April 11, 2008
Husky Energy says production will likely remain shut down for another 24 to 36 hours due to heavy ice conditions.
Production has been halted since Monday because pack ice is surrounding the Sea Rose production vessel, and the drilling rig has been moved to an area with less ice.
Husky said there are about six icebergs in the area of the Sea Rose, and that safety is their primary concern.
The White Rose oilfield is about 350 kilometres southeast of St. John’s.
The company said that production would resume when conditions improve, but can’t say when that will be. They said factors such as weather, ice conditions, and forecasts all affect the decision to shut down.
When in production, the Sea Rose is capable of extracting 130,000 barrels of oil per day.
The Telegram
(PDF warning) Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience
Contrary to popular belief, conventional armies can indeed defeat terrorist insurgencies. This study will detail the six basic conditions which, if met, enable an army to fight and win the war against terrorism…
Xinjiang Province – The Islamic Jihad Battlefront in China
By Janet Levy, American Thinker
To curtail incidents like those cited above of a potentially burgeoning Islamist threat, the Chinese government maintains strict supervision over Xinjiang and has dealt harshly with terrorist activity. China has successfully altered the demography of the region by repopulating it with Han Chinese, now the majority. To curb the influence of Islam, the government engages in surveillance of mosques, restricts the participation of youth and women in mosque activities, monitors the content of services and curtails participation in the Haj. Muslim clerics or imams who serve in the region must complete their training at a state-controlled seminary and teach “moderate” Islam under the leadership of the state.
A heavy police presence around the mosques and the military exists at the border to prevent smuggling of people and weapons. Police routinely cordon off areas in which terrorist incidents or rioting occurs and remove and imprison the agitators before they reopen the area.
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As has been evident in other parts of the world, Islamists deftly graft their agenda onto regional political struggles to form unholy alliances and advance their pan-Islamist agenda. We should not be deceived by our zeal to focus on human rights abuses in China or focus entirely on Tibet and the separatists. Instead, this important component of unrest in Central Asia needs its own specific analysis, political action and focused response. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/xinjiang_province_the_islamic.html
What Canadian bloggers should do to thwart the crypto fascist HRC’s – a suggestion via Ghost of a Flea:
Have the websites on US servers. When the HRC’s bring an action ignore them. When they try to enforce their actions, sue them(the officials) personally in a US court. They will have to spend a lot of money to defend themselves or risk a summary judgment. That judgment can then be domesticated in Canada. And enforced there.
It will cost some money, getting Canadian and American attorneys to structure it (the sting) correctly but it should be doable.
“Poles honour Warsaw Ghetto uprising”
“WARSAW, Poland – Polish legislators honoured the memory Friday of the more than 200 young Jewish fighters who led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi soldiers in 1943.” http://tinyurl.com/4p2ktg (TOStar)
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A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (“Antek”) http://tinyurl.com/56dsjp (google books – limited preview)
The Islamists together with their allies the UN and the HRC’s are out to end freedom of speech. Why? Well, it would be the end of Islam. But let a scholar and an Imam explain:
(via Jihadwatch) Excerpts from an interview with Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid, which aired on Al-Majd TV on March 30, 2008.
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The problem is that they want to open a debate on whether Islam is true or not, and on whether Judaism and Christianity are false or not. In other words, they want to open up everything for debate. Now they want to open up all issues for debate. That’s it. It begins with freedom of thought, it continues with freedom of speech, and it ends up with freedom of belief. So where’s the conspiracy? They say: Let’s have freedom of thought in Islam. Well, what do they want? They say: I think, therefore I want to express my thoughts. I want to express myself, I want to talk and say, for example, that there are loopholes in Islam, or that Christianity is the truth. Then they will talk about freedom of belief, and say that anyone is entitled to believe in whatever he wants… If you want to become an apostate – go ahead. Fancy Buddhism? Leave Islam, and join Buddhism. No problem. That’s what freedom of belief is all about. They want freedom of everything. What they want is very dangerous.
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Freedom of thought, within some constraints, is blessed. Islam calls for thinking, for interpretation, and for the use of the mind. But as for freedom of heresy, which allows anyone to criticize whatever he wants in Islam, saying, for example, that he does not like the punishment for apostasy, that he doesn’t like the punishment for drinking alcohol, or that he does not like the punishment of stoning adulterers – this is barbarism. They ask: Why should a thief have his hand chopped off? Some of them say that this is “too much.” Two-three much on you and your rotten mind. If you abolish this punishment, you will see the rise in thefts. On the other hand, people feel their property is secure because of this punishment.
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This line needs repeating: “saying, for example, that he does not like the punishment for apostasy, that he doesn’t like the punishment for drinking alcohol, or that he does not like the punishment of stoning adulterers – this is barbarism.”
BARBARISM? Up is down, right is wrong, left is right and the HRC’s, the UN and the Moonbat Global Alliance agrees with him.
Liberal MP, Ujjal Dosanjh speaks out on female feticide.
He now has the left in a dither, not because of the feticide, but because he wants women to make some guarantee that they are not buying the Gender ID Kit to mark out the females for abortion.
“Sex selection abortion is a serious problem in Canada and around the world — and free access to gender ID kits encourages this abhorrent practice.”
“Sex selection for the purpose of committing female feticide is one of the most heinous acts of violence and hatred inflicted on women. It is a practice rooted in misogyny, and it is a practice that we have spoken out against both in Canada and during travels in India.”
“…. In some instances, after a female is born, she is mistreated, abused, or – in the most tragic situations – murdered simply on the basis of her sex.”
“In certain areas of Canada, such as Surrey, B.C., we are beginning to see statistics of similarly skewed gender imbalances – where, for instance, studies show that for every 108 boys there are only 100 girls being born.”
“During our lives in India and Canada, we have witnessed horrific examples of violence and discrimination against women. It is true that Indian culture has often turned a blind eye to female feticide, infanticide, neglect, malnourishment and death of young females. We have seen abuse and killings of women during marriage, dowry killings and otherwise.”
“We will continue to advocate for a woman’s right to choose, but we will never support those who abuse that right – whether or not they are employing gender ID kits – to prevent the births of baby girls on the basis of sex alone.” http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=1fdf2310-c7b5-4f46-a7f1-e6bd2b9f1d48
I trust he reported the acts of abuse he witnessed.
With annual deaths from malaria on the rise:
Scientists ask ‘where is all the money going?’ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000172/posts
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Bring back Rachel Carson; put her in the dock for murder.
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Rachel Carson – Environmentalist Queen of Green Genocide
Rachel Carson… I wonder how she must feel these days – in the afterlife or limbo or reincarnated or nonexistence or whatever – knowing that her hysterically screaming campaign begun by Silent Spring to stop the use of DDT has succeeded.
Succeeded in murdering more than 50 million people, that is.
Most of them children. Poor, Third World villagers. Oh well, rich eco-celebrities can’t spare all those five minutes for you wretches!
All for the sake of Mother Gaia and her little bald eagle chicks.” http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/rachel-carson-environmentalist-queen-of-green-genocide/
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2008/04/11/5259586.html
WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT! NDP ARE AT IT AGAIN!
Vehicles older than the 1995 model year will not be allowed to be imported to Manitoba for resale. As years go by, that rule will change to allow regulation that any vehicle older than 10 years old cannot be imported.
Antique and “classic” vehicles will be exempt.
I too, do not agree with the Iron Fist policies of the National Dipstick Government. This is a better approach. . .
HEADLINE: Battery-run vehicles to become cheaper
BYLINE: Amitabh Shukla, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Apr. 9–NEW DELHI — Battery-operated cars and bikes will soon be cheaper in the Capital, with the Delhi government deciding to give subsidy for the purchase of such vehicles.
A Cabinet note, prepared by the Environment Department, is ready and is likely to be passed in the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.
“The ambient air quality of Delhi has been a source of concern. As part of an appropriate strategy to combat air pollution in Delhi, it is imperative that zero pollution vehicles like battery operated ones, are given encouragement and support by the Delhi government,” the note said. The note said the subsidy would allow the citizens of Delhi to have access to clean-fuelled vehicle and allow them to contribute their bit in cleaning up the air quality of the city.
So far, the governments of Karnataka and Rajasthan have exempted battery-operated vehicles from road tax. Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Orissa, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh have provided VAT exemption to battery-operated vehicles.
According to the data compiled by the Environment Department, United Kingdom has provided 100 percent depreciation, free parking and exemption of congestion tax in London on these vehicles. Government of Japan, Norway, Sweden and Ireland have given subsidy of varying amounts. United States and Italy too have given subsidy on electric cars according to the data.
www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=101846&topicId=103840033&docId=l:772764143
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Hummm, No mention of Canada . . yet.=TG
I too, do not agree with the Iron Fist policies of the National Dipstick Government. This is a better approach. . .
HEADLINE: Battery-run vehicles to become cheaper
BYLINE: Amitabh Shukla, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Apr. 9–NEW DELHI — Battery-operated cars and bikes will soon be cheaper in the Capital, with the Delhi government deciding to give subsidy for the purchase of such vehicles.
A Cabinet note, prepared by the Environment Department, is ready and is likely to be passed in the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.
* * The ambient air quality of Delhi has been a source of concern. As part of an appropriate strategy to combat air pollution in Delhi, it is imperative that zero pollution vehicles like battery operated ones, are given encouragement and support by the Delhi government,* *
The note said the subsidy would allow the citizens of Delhi to have access to clean-fuelled vehicle and allow them to contribute their bit in cleaning up the air quality of the city.
So far, the governments of Karnataka and Rajasthan have exempted battery-operated vehicles from road tax. Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Orissa, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh have provided VAT exemption to battery-operated vehicles.
According to the data compiled by the Environment Department, United Kingdom has provided 100 percent depreciation, free parking and exemption of congestion tax in London on these vehicles. Government of Japan, Norway, Sweden and Ireland have given subsidy of varying amounts. United States and Italy too have given subsidy on electric cars according to the data. http://tinyurl.com/5oqwre
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Hummm, No mention of Canada . . yet.=TG
CFRA Polls
In 2006 the $50,000 needle hunter program picked up 1381 discarded drug injection needles. That’s less than 0.5% of the number handed out by the $280,000 needle exchange program. Councillor Holmes is proposing an additional $200,000 to increase needle recovery through pickups & an information campaign aimed at drug users.
Ban needle exchange & take the province to court to stop it 72.7%
I agree with Ms. Holmes, we must recover the needles 2.27%
Don’t give drug users a new needle unless they “exchange” a used needle 24.1%
Other 0.81%
Total Votes: 1231
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“The Hunt Expands for Drug Needles
The City of Ottawa is looking to expand the Needle Hunter Program.” http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=56245
This report from Canadian Press/MSM omits the fact that Labrador MP Todd Russell is a Liberal MP.
The fact that Russell is a Liberal MP is 100% relevant to this report.
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“Labrador [Liberal] MP to participate in seal hunt”
“Labrador [Liberal] MP Todd Russell”
““I’m doing it to send a message to all of those who disparage our people who participate in this valid hunt,” said Russell.
“That there are other voices, voices from the House of Commons, from Parliament, people who sit as MPs, and in this particular case, myself, that this is a valid hunt, a sustainable hunt, one based on conservation and tradition.”
Added Russell: “It’s important to our culture and we’re going to continue it.”
The MP adds that he expects to face opposition for taking part in the hunt.” http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9006237.html
This little tidbit is in Suzuki’s latest mailing for donations.” Poll after poll tells us that Canadians are worried about global warming.Our government has to start listening to its people.We’ve heard enough rhetoric and seen enough smoke and mirrors. We need strong leadership so Canadians can be proud of what our country does for the enviroment. It’s time for real change.” Does that sound like political meddling to anyone else?
“‘Canada has been a drain on Newfoundland and Labrador’
Despite all that NL contributes to the country, there are still those who see only a welfare ghetto populated by beggars
By JOAN FORSEY
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Hi. I’m a “Newf,” i.e., a “surly islander” from what “is probably the most vast and scenic welfare ghetto in the world.” My home province, Newfoundland and Labrador, is also “the biggest sinkhole in the country” where “beggars can be choosers.” Worse, we bite the hand that feeds us. Nevertheless, the government of this “welfare ghetto,” is richer than Ontario’s.”
“In short, Canadian government policy (in one instance along with Quebec’s) has stripped Newfoundland and Labrador of most of the benefits of three of its major resource industries — the cod fishery, hydroelectricity and oil and gas.
So it’s hardly surprising that this province has the highest unemployment rate in the country, the highest net debt per capita (more than twice the national average) and the lowest per capita incomes.
What is surprising is that, despite all that Newfoundland and Labrador contributes to Canada, there are still those who see only a welfare ghetto or sinkhole populated by beggars.
And what is startling is that anyone — given the adverse effects of Canada’s policies on the provincial economy — could suggest, in a nearly national newspaper, that the province is richer than Ontario.
Joan Forsey, a Newfoundlander living in Toronto, has been researching and writing about Canadian economic and political affairs for more than 30 years, including seven years as a writer on the staff of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau.” http://www.theindependent.ca/article.asp?id=1155
David Suzuki (Pleas please! Peess be upon him.) writes in the latest (April 14, 2008) Maclean’s MAIL BAG (complete with Icon!)…
“I did not call “for politicians who disagreed with [me] on ‘climate change’ to be thrown in jail.””
Lifesitenews.com reports somewhat contradictory words spoken at McGill…
“What I would challenge you to do,” said Suzuki to the gathered students, during the section of his speech dealing with climate change, and those who deny its existence, “is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there’s a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they’re doing is a criminal act.”
“It’s an intergenerational crime in the face of all the knowledge and science from over 20 years.”
Earlier (U of T) …
“[Governments] should go to jail for what they’re not doing right now,” said Suzuki on the occasion. “What our government is not doing, is a criminal act.”
Which report do I believe? Who stick-handles temperature data? If you can catch the big drift with a hokey, hockey stick.
Cyber-Slapp. A not completely dissimilar threat to those faced by Kate et al to a New Hampshire blogger named Kathleen Seidel…
Phrase ‘o the Day:
Proof by assertion
Proof by assertion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proof by assertion is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction. Sometimes this may be repeated until challenges dry up, at which point it is asserted as fact due to its not being contradicted (argumentum ad nauseam). In other cases its repetition may be cited as evidence of its truth, in a variant of the appeal to authority or appeal to belief fallacies.
This logical fallacy is sometimes used as a form of rhetoric by politicians. In its extreme form, it can also be a form of brainwashing. Modern politics contains many examples of proof by assertions. This practice can be observed in the use of political slogans, and the distribution of “talking points,” which are collections of short phrases that are issued to members of modern political parties for recitation to achieve maximum message repetition. The technique is also sometimes used in advertising.
The technique is described in a saying, often attributed to Lenin, as “A lie told often enough becomes the truth”, although the user may not be intentionally promoting a lie and may just believe an illogical or faulty proposition.
See also
* Big Lie
* Talking points
* Brainwashing
* Weasel Word
* Denialism
Oh hi folks, it’s Vitruvius here. Well, after well over a dozen hours of thinking about and working on this specific essay, I have now refined my opinions on the matter of the Warman suit to the point where I am ready to defend them in public. And, since I’m disagreeing with about 19 out of 20 people who have written on this matter to date, I expect that some people are going to want to yell at me. That’s fine, however, in this case, I would like to ask that you do so on my dime, not Kate’s. Therefore, for the first time ever I have enabled comments on an article at the Sagacious Iconoclast. If you wish to yell at me, please do so there, so as not to hijack this Reader Tips thread:
sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2008/04/oscj-file-08-cv-35297sr.html
Found this at Hot Air
The vido is mostly on free expression. The tradagy of the day now. This guy should be running an HRC in Canada . His beliefs are creeply simular to those of this Inquisition of thought police . As are his views of freeedom of thought. Just exchange socialist for Islam & its just the same retoric.
This guy has a soul mate in Canada. Perhaps they should be dating.
Which brings up the question of who is behind this assult on freedom of thought & are they connected enough to jump this shark now in the hopes of absolute control of all Canadian content or thought?
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1734.htm
All that stuff from Suzoki and cohorts falls under the catagory “IF YOU CAN`T DAZZLE THE WITH YOUR BRILLIANCE BAFFLE THEM WITH YOUR BULL SH*T” and we have way to many gullible people buying it
There’s a rumour circulating that this blog will be yanked from the bloggingtories site.
Vit, well written, but me thinks you missed out on one point, CONTEXT, and by extention, intent.You did infer the “sucker” element and there in lies the context (ask and you will recieve:-))))
someone needs to stop this!
http://action.foe.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24133
or write opposite letters to congressmen and governors telling them to let it stand the way it is
http://www.financialpost.com/newsletter/story.html?id=436641
Loblaw execs live in fear of [muslim] supplier
The death-threats are just an Iranian way of talking — it’s all one big multicultural misunderstanding !!
File under: joys of multiculturalism
While not specifically related to your latest torment, the National Post has more ammunition against those who would deny our ‘right to maximally offend’ [to paraphrase] …
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/04/10/davin-burlingham.aspx
Lamas Misdeal Land
Anagrams, because evil lefty haters have made us tense.
Liberal leader Citoyen Dion’s Proof by Ass-ertion. It’s proven; it’s “progressive”.
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“”I will choose my time in keeping in my mind the necessity to give to Canadians in an optimal situation the possibility to have a progressive Liberal government that will replace this bad bill by a good law and that will replace this bad government by a good government,” stammered Liberal leader Stephane Dion yesterday.”
Anyone know anything about this? http://www.connexions.org/SafeLearning.htm
It’s making the rounds online but I can’t find a reputable source. Very Orwellian. The “Alumni for responsible speech” are trying to ban speech if “it is used to state facts which are unpleasant and which might, if stated publicly, make some members of the university community uncomfortable.”
It is at the U of T, so prohibiting speech that “make some members of the university community uncomfortable” means that they’re pretty much trying to ban all talking… and probably some expressive noises.
OK, viturvius, I’ve gone to your site. But I think the causes of Warman’s lawsuit are complex.
First, I don’t think that he can prove that his reputation has suffered. After all, admitting that he posted to blogs as ‘Lucy’ hardly raises one’s esteem for him. And it must be noted that he tried to avoid admitting that by relying on semantic slithering of the term ‘guest’ and ‘only to view’.
His track record of third party complaints to the HRCs, with himself reaping financial benefits, is also hardly conducive to admiration.
So, I think it would be difficult to show any loss of reputation due to the comments on this or other blogs.
And, I think that ‘fair comment’ is a valid defense. He put himself in the public eye with his misuse of the HRCs and his testimony.
Certainly, Warman is a controller; he insists on controlling what others think of him, but I think that the ‘network of perpetrators’ is larger than Warman himself.
I, myself, with no evidence, think that the whole scenario is a Revenge Scheme, hatched by Kinsella against those whom he considers his enemies. That includes the National Post as well as Kate, Kathy, Ezra.
Michael Yon, Let’s ‘Surge’ Some More
It is said that generals always fight the last war. But when David Petraeus came to town it was senators – on both sides of the aisle – who battled over the Iraq war of 2004-2006. That war has little in common with the war we are fighting today.
I may well have spent more time embedded with combat units in Iraq than any other journalist alive. I have seen this war – and our part in it – at its brutal worst. And I say the transformation over the last 14 months is little short of miraculous…
Stephen Schwartz, CAIR vs. the NYPD
LAST YEAR THE New York Police Department (NYPD) issued a clear-sighted and path-breaking document titled Radicalization in the West: The Home-Grown Threat. Prepared by Mitchell D. Silber and Arvin Bhatt of the NYPD Intelligence Division, the report was serious, well-researched, and articulate. It traced radical Sunni Muslim activities in non-Muslim countries to the “jihadi-Salafi” ideology, better known as Wahhabism, created in Saudi Arabia and supported by major extremist resources in Pakistan (the jihadist movement of Mawdudi) and Egypt (the Muslim Brotherhood). It was posted on the internet by Republican congressman Pete Hoekstra of Michigan and may be read here.
Radicalization in the West met with enthusiastic approval from anti-extremist, moderate Muslims, but with predictable condemnation from the “Wahhabi lobby” represented by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its allies…
I see Susan Riley is at it again, with her Goon Squad column. (nnw) I also notice that Fife was back on ctv last night.
RE brodie’s “someone needs to stop this!” — Brodie’s link is to an environmental group protesting a textbook’s handling of the global warming issue — they seem to want textbooks only to include the “alarmists” side of the issue. They have set up an automated (or semi-automated) letter to the company protesting — with copies going to government representatives. The form does invite you to edit the letter — so I did, congratulating the textbook for taking an important step towards objectivity. If the process is entirely automated, my letter may slip through, but if they are vetting letters, I am sure it will be deleted. If nothing else — sending our own letters from this site will sure cause them a lot of extra work and they may drop the project. Do send your own letter at http://action.foe.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24133
“corner gas is closing”
The Nose On Your Face – the funniest blog on the Net, has gone all poetic on our friend Lucy (Richard Warman)
http://www.thenoseonyourface.com/poetry/richard-harman-esquire-a-dr-seuss-from-beyond-the-grave-tale/#comment-125622
It’s a combination of Beowulf and Hat if the Cat. Very funny! And they link directly to Kate, Kathy and the rest of the Canadian 6. Please visit and donate to the cause at those sites.
A female version of Warman in the USA!
The plaintiff, Vanessa Willock is currently an EEO Compliance Representative with the Office of Equal Opportunity where she investigates claims of discrimination and sexual harassment.
The New Mexico Human Rights court sentenced Christian photographer Elaine Huguenin a fine of $6,637.94 for refusing to photograph a gay commitment ceremony.
read the rest here
MaryT
I saw Riley’s column and this really irks me…
“Dion is regarded as decent and intelligent. So the message seems to be that decency isn’t highly regarded in our political culture”
She natters on about people judging him because of appearances. I’ve submitted a comment to ask why the media is so sure that he’s so intelligent. Where is the evidence of this superior intellect? My contention is that it’s actually the media who have decided to frame him based on surface qualities. ie: He has a degree and he looks like a nerd. Selling him as this brooding intellectual will be easy. Education is a product of opportunity, not of intellect.
If you visit the Nose (see link above), don’t forget to view the Nine Least-Known Things about Richard Warman – including “1. Feels very inadequate because…because…well, let’s just say that if he had a blog it would be named “3 Inches of Fury.””
I also was annoyed by Susan Riley’s column — though I can only blame myself for bothering to read it, since her anti-Conservative bias is invariable apparent — increasingly I don’t bother reading it.
What was annoying about this column was the suggestion that this particular back-bencher’s comments are typical of Conservatives (going so far as to speculate that Conservatives would have been poking fun of Pearson for his lisp). I see no justification for remarks of this type except to feed her own anti-Conservative convictions.
Having said that, I was not sure what to make of the remarks, which (if they are accurate) are not exactly a stellar example of meaningful Parliamentary discourse. What I am not sure of is what might have precipitated the remarks and whether or not they might have been taken out of context — or maybe they are just an example of typical back-and-forth nastiness, or maybe indeed this guy was unusually nasty in his attack. In any event, it does seem unnecessary to hop on the Conservatives for nasty partisanship when we routinely have the Liberals and NDP jumping on trivial issues in an attempt to smear Conservatives (the latest being a remark by Jason Kenny — 8 years ago — in a conference call.) Did Reily comment at all on the “hang ‘en high” comment (maybe she did, and maybe I missed it during my Reily boycott.) I am pretty sure that she had nothing to say when Stockwell Day was being ridiculed for his religious convictions (o.k. to poke fun at religious beliefs, just not academics) and I am pretty sure she also said nothing when Preston Manning was being made fun of for his glasses, hair cut, voice, etc. (both Parliamentarians and the media were culprits in those ignorant attacks.) Yet the Conservatives in her mind is the party that “would have” made fun of Lester Pearson’s lisp. If she is serious about wanting to raise the tone in the House, I think that she needs first to acknowledge that this is a two-way street.
“Tibet monks face starvation siege”
“Tibetans cremate “dead bodies” in a mock cremation ceremony in Dharamsala to remember those killed in Tibet.”
“”Tibetan Olympics” to be held in Dharamsala in May.”
http://tinyurl.com/56sd57 (theage)
If the multi-cult HRC’s in Canada had their way, Sharia family law would be a real hit in our country:
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2008/04/10/pf-5242786.html
I imagine the judge REALLY took some time to reflect on islamic cultural norms before making a decision.
Same old, same old for Riley et al. While deriding the Conservatives as “name callers”, she’s the one who labels them the Goon Squad! Go figure…
“Calgary snowfall breaks 88-year-old record”
“”a symposium on natural disasters was taking place in Calgary.
Canadian municipalities and residents are being warned to be better prepared for severe weather.”
(calherald)
BREAKING US to admit officially that Saddam WMDs were moved to Syria in a report to come !!!!!
Jerusalem Post ^ | 04 11 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5ybmm3
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“Russia Hid Saddam’s WMDs
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
Washington Times | Thursday, October 02, 2003”
http://tinyurl.com/67appn
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Englands police will soon have a chip “in” thier shoulder.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=558597&in_page_id=1770
Do visible minorities ever use the racism sensibility to advance their causes? Now if you wonder if they do, then you are a racist right? No right?
Yes.
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=61e93c71-44d8-4f73-96b4-f68a75dbfcc3&p=1
TO PiperPaul
Thanks for that! I read your first line (from Wikipedia), but some cerebral synapse transmogrified it.
“Proof by assertion is a logical fallacy in which a proposition is repeatedly restated regardless of contradiction.”
“Proof by insertion is a logical phallacy in which a position is properly repeated regardless of contraindication.”
This really isn’t like me, it really isn’t! But my doctor (who saved, and saves my life) while making an incision not that long ago introduced me to SDA. The words “contraindication” and “contradiction” must have crossed at some synapse. Sorry.
maz2:
You need to give a little more meat in your last post.
The recent Israeli strike in Syria would be consistent with the thesis of Saddam’s “Sarindar” or WMD exit plan.
Cheers
Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP
Commander in Chief
Frankenstein Battalion
2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
Knecht Rupprecht Division
Hans Corps
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=31404B53-B0E7-49C0-A9BE-E5F8B53CD2A7
Russia Hid Saddam’s WMDs
By Ion Mihai Pacepa
Washington Times | 10/2/2003
“On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced the U.S.-led “aggression” against Iraq as “unwarranted” and “unjustifiable.” Three days later, Pravda said that an anonymous Russian “military expert” was predicting that the United States would fabricate finding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov immediately started plying the idea abroad, and it has taken hold around the world ever since.
As a former Romanian spy chief who used to take orders from the Soviet KGB, it is perfectly obvious to me that Russia is behind the evanescence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. After all, Russia helped Saddam get his hands on them in the first place. The Soviet Union and all its bloc states always had a standard operating procedure for deep sixing weapons of mass destruction — in Romanian it was codenamed “Sarindar, meaning “emergency exit.” I implemented it in Libya. It was for ridding Third World despots of all trace of their chemical weapons if the Western imperialists ever got near them. We wanted to make sure they would never be traced back to us, and we also wanted to frustrate the West by not giving them anything they could make propaganda with.
All chemical weapons were to be immediately burned or buried deep at sea. Technological documentation, however, would be preserved in microfiche buried in waterproof containers for future reconstruction. Chemical weapons, especially those produced in Third World countries, which lack sophisticated production facilities, often do not retain lethal properties after a few months on the shelf and are routinely dumped anyway. And all chemical weapons plants had a civilian cover making detection difficult, regardless of the circumstances.
The plan included an elaborate propaganda routine. Anyone accusing Moammar Gadhafi of possessing chemical weapons would be ridiculed. Lies, all lies! Come to Libya and see! Our Western left-wing organizations, like the World Peace Council, existed for sole purpose of spreading the propaganda we gave them. These very same groups bray the exact same themes to this day. We always relied on their expertise at organizing large street demonstrations in Western Europe over America’s “war-mongering” whenever we wanted to distract world attention from the crimes of the vicious regimes we sponsored.
Iraq, in my view, had its own “Sarindar” plan in effect direct from Moscow. It certainly had one in the past. Nicolae Ceausescu told me so, and he heard it from Leonid Brezhnev. KGB chairman Yury Andropov, and later, Gen. Yevgeny Primakov, told me so, too. In the late 1970s, Gen. Primakov ran Saddam’s weapons programs. After that, as you may recall, he was promoted to head of the Soviet foreign intelligence service in 1990, to Russia’s minister of foreign affairs in 1996, and in 1998, to prime minister. What you may not know is that Primakov hates Israel and has always championed Arab radicalism. He was a personal friend of Saddam’s and has repeatedly visited Baghdad after 1991, quietly helping Saddam play his game of hide-and-seek.
The Soviet bloc not only sold Saddam its WMDs, but it showed them how to make them “disappear.” Russia is still at it. Primakov was in Baghdad from December until a couple of days before the war, along with a team of Russian military experts led by two of Russia’s topnotch “retired”generals: Vladislav Achalov, a former deputy defense minister, and Igor Maltsev, a former air defense chief of staff. They were all there receiving honorary medals from the Iraqi defense minister. They clearly were not there to give Saddam military advice for the upcoming war—Saddam’s Katyusha launchers were of World War II vintage, and his T-72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes were all obviously useless against America. “I did not fly to Baghdad to drink coffee,” was what Gen. Achalov told the media afterward. They were there orchestrating Iraq’s “Sarindar” plan.
The U.S. military in fact, has already found the only thing that would have been allowed to survive under the classic Soviet “Sarindar” plan to liquidate weapons arsenals in the event of defeat in war — the technological documents showing how to reproduce weapons stocks in just a few weeks.
Such a plan has undoubtedly been in place since August 1995 — when Saddam’s son-in-law, Gen. Hussein Kamel, who ran Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological programs for 10 years, defected to Jordan. That August, UNSCOM and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors searched a chicken farm owned by Kamel’s family and found more than one hundred metal trunks and boxes containing documentation dealing with all categories of weapons, including nuclear. Caught red-handed, Iraq at last admitted to its “extensive biological warfare program, including weaponization,” issued a “Full, Final and Complete Disclosure Report” and turned over documents about the nerve agent VX and nuclear weapons. ”
Lt. Gen. Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc.
Maz2, great info. on the Syrian-Saddam connection. This widens it:
“…The battle in the Middle East is not against a rogue regime or two. The battle is against a Russian-led alliance that refrains from publicly announcing its own existence. The longstanding coordination between Baghdad, Damascus, Tehran and Moscow should be famous. But who wants to acknowledge the truth? Who dares to understand? Even the president doesn’t want to admit what the U.S. is up against in Iraq. And here comes an Iraqi general with information about Iraqi WMDs going to Syria. What chance does the poor man have?…” – originally posted Jan 28th/06.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1567170/posts
Kate,
comments on Husky Iceberg post shows error page not found.
Otherwise,
White Rose production still backed up by icebergs
ST. JOHN’S April 11, 2008
Husky Energy says production will likely remain shut down for another 24 to 36 hours due to heavy ice conditions.
Production has been halted since Monday because pack ice is surrounding the Sea Rose production vessel, and the drilling rig has been moved to an area with less ice.
Husky said there are about six icebergs in the area of the Sea Rose, and that safety is their primary concern.
The White Rose oilfield is about 350 kilometres southeast of St. John’s.
The company said that production would resume when conditions improve, but can’t say when that will be. They said factors such as weather, ice conditions, and forecasts all affect the decision to shut down.
When in production, the Sea Rose is capable of extracting 130,000 barrels of oil per day.
The Telegram
(PDF warning) Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience
Contrary to popular belief, conventional armies can indeed defeat terrorist insurgencies. This study will detail the six basic conditions which, if met, enable an army to fight and win the war against terrorism…
Xinjiang Province – The Islamic Jihad Battlefront in China
By Janet Levy, American Thinker
To curtail incidents like those cited above of a potentially burgeoning Islamist threat, the Chinese government maintains strict supervision over Xinjiang and has dealt harshly with terrorist activity. China has successfully altered the demography of the region by repopulating it with Han Chinese, now the majority. To curb the influence of Islam, the government engages in surveillance of mosques, restricts the participation of youth and women in mosque activities, monitors the content of services and curtails participation in the Haj. Muslim clerics or imams who serve in the region must complete their training at a state-controlled seminary and teach “moderate” Islam under the leadership of the state.
A heavy police presence around the mosques and the military exists at the border to prevent smuggling of people and weapons. Police routinely cordon off areas in which terrorist incidents or rioting occurs and remove and imprison the agitators before they reopen the area.
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As has been evident in other parts of the world, Islamists deftly graft their agenda onto regional political struggles to form unholy alliances and advance their pan-Islamist agenda. We should not be deceived by our zeal to focus on human rights abuses in China or focus entirely on Tibet and the separatists. Instead, this important component of unrest in Central Asia needs its own specific analysis, political action and focused response.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/xinjiang_province_the_islamic.html
What Canadian bloggers should do to thwart the crypto fascist HRC’s – a suggestion via Ghost of a Flea:
Have the websites on US servers. When the HRC’s bring an action ignore them. When they try to enforce their actions, sue them(the officials) personally in a US court. They will have to spend a lot of money to defend themselves or risk a summary judgment. That judgment can then be domesticated in Canada. And enforced there.
It will cost some money, getting Canadian and American attorneys to structure it (the sting) correctly but it should be doable.
“Poles honour Warsaw Ghetto uprising”
“WARSAW, Poland – Polish legislators honoured the memory Friday of the more than 200 young Jewish fighters who led the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi soldiers in 1943.”
http://tinyurl.com/4p2ktg (TOStar)
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A Surplus of Memory: Chronicle of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (“Antek”)
http://tinyurl.com/56dsjp (google books – limited preview)
The Islamists together with their allies the UN and the HRC’s are out to end freedom of speech. Why? Well, it would be the end of Islam. But let a scholar and an Imam explain:
(via Jihadwatch) Excerpts from an interview with Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid, which aired on Al-Majd TV on March 30, 2008.
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The problem is that they want to open a debate on whether Islam is true or not, and on whether Judaism and Christianity are false or not. In other words, they want to open up everything for debate. Now they want to open up all issues for debate. That’s it. It begins with freedom of thought, it continues with freedom of speech, and it ends up with freedom of belief. So where’s the conspiracy? They say: Let’s have freedom of thought in Islam. Well, what do they want? They say: I think, therefore I want to express my thoughts. I want to express myself, I want to talk and say, for example, that there are loopholes in Islam, or that Christianity is the truth. Then they will talk about freedom of belief, and say that anyone is entitled to believe in whatever he wants… If you want to become an apostate – go ahead. Fancy Buddhism? Leave Islam, and join Buddhism. No problem. That’s what freedom of belief is all about. They want freedom of everything. What they want is very dangerous.
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Freedom of thought, within some constraints, is blessed. Islam calls for thinking, for interpretation, and for the use of the mind. But as for freedom of heresy, which allows anyone to criticize whatever he wants in Islam, saying, for example, that he does not like the punishment for apostasy, that he doesn’t like the punishment for drinking alcohol, or that he does not like the punishment of stoning adulterers – this is barbarism. They ask: Why should a thief have his hand chopped off? Some of them say that this is “too much.” Two-three much on you and your rotten mind. If you abolish this punishment, you will see the rise in thefts. On the other hand, people feel their property is secure because of this punishment.
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This line needs repeating: “saying, for example, that he does not like the punishment for apostasy, that he doesn’t like the punishment for drinking alcohol, or that he does not like the punishment of stoning adulterers – this is barbarism.”
BARBARISM? Up is down, right is wrong, left is right and the HRC’s, the UN and the Moonbat Global Alliance agrees with him.
Liberal MP, Ujjal Dosanjh speaks out on female feticide.
He now has the left in a dither, not because of the feticide, but because he wants women to make some guarantee that they are not buying the Gender ID Kit to mark out the females for abortion.
“Sex selection abortion is a serious problem in Canada and around the world — and free access to gender ID kits encourages this abhorrent practice.”
“Sex selection for the purpose of committing female feticide is one of the most heinous acts of violence and hatred inflicted on women. It is a practice rooted in misogyny, and it is a practice that we have spoken out against both in Canada and during travels in India.”
“…. In some instances, after a female is born, she is mistreated, abused, or – in the most tragic situations – murdered simply on the basis of her sex.”
“In certain areas of Canada, such as Surrey, B.C., we are beginning to see statistics of similarly skewed gender imbalances – where, for instance, studies show that for every 108 boys there are only 100 girls being born.”
“During our lives in India and Canada, we have witnessed horrific examples of violence and discrimination against women. It is true that Indian culture has often turned a blind eye to female feticide, infanticide, neglect, malnourishment and death of young females. We have seen abuse and killings of women during marriage, dowry killings and otherwise.”
“We will continue to advocate for a woman’s right to choose, but we will never support those who abuse that right – whether or not they are employing gender ID kits – to prevent the births of baby girls on the basis of sex alone.”
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=1fdf2310-c7b5-4f46-a7f1-e6bd2b9f1d48
I trust he reported the acts of abuse he witnessed.
With annual deaths from malaria on the rise:
Scientists ask ‘where is all the money going?’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000172/posts
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Bring back Rachel Carson; put her in the dock for murder.
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Rachel Carson – Environmentalist Queen of Green Genocide
Rachel Carson… I wonder how she must feel these days – in the afterlife or limbo or reincarnated or nonexistence or whatever – knowing that her hysterically screaming campaign begun by Silent Spring to stop the use of DDT has succeeded.
Succeeded in murdering more than 50 million people, that is.
Most of them children. Poor, Third World villagers. Oh well, rich eco-celebrities can’t spare all those five minutes for you wretches!
All for the sake of Mother Gaia and her little bald eagle chicks.”
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/rachel-carson-environmentalist-queen-of-green-genocide/
http://www.winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2008/04/11/5259586.html
WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT! NDP ARE AT IT AGAIN!
Vehicles older than the 1995 model year will not be allowed to be imported to Manitoba for resale. As years go by, that rule will change to allow regulation that any vehicle older than 10 years old cannot be imported.
Antique and “classic” vehicles will be exempt.
I too, do not agree with the Iron Fist policies of the National Dipstick Government. This is a better approach. . .
HEADLINE: Battery-run vehicles to become cheaper
BYLINE: Amitabh Shukla, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Apr. 9–NEW DELHI — Battery-operated cars and bikes will soon be cheaper in the Capital, with the Delhi government deciding to give subsidy for the purchase of such vehicles.
A Cabinet note, prepared by the Environment Department, is ready and is likely to be passed in the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.
“The ambient air quality of Delhi has been a source of concern. As part of an appropriate strategy to combat air pollution in Delhi, it is imperative that zero pollution vehicles like battery operated ones, are given encouragement and support by the Delhi government,” the note said. The note said the subsidy would allow the citizens of Delhi to have access to clean-fuelled vehicle and allow them to contribute their bit in cleaning up the air quality of the city.
So far, the governments of Karnataka and Rajasthan have exempted battery-operated vehicles from road tax. Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Orissa, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh have provided VAT exemption to battery-operated vehicles.
According to the data compiled by the Environment Department, United Kingdom has provided 100 percent depreciation, free parking and exemption of congestion tax in London on these vehicles. Government of Japan, Norway, Sweden and Ireland have given subsidy of varying amounts. United States and Italy too have given subsidy on electric cars according to the data.
www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=101846&topicId=103840033&docId=l:772764143
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Hummm, No mention of Canada . . yet.=TG
I too, do not agree with the Iron Fist policies of the National Dipstick Government. This is a better approach. . .
HEADLINE: Battery-run vehicles to become cheaper
BYLINE: Amitabh Shukla, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Apr. 9–NEW DELHI — Battery-operated cars and bikes will soon be cheaper in the Capital, with the Delhi government deciding to give subsidy for the purchase of such vehicles.
A Cabinet note, prepared by the Environment Department, is ready and is likely to be passed in the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.
* * The ambient air quality of Delhi has been a source of concern. As part of an appropriate strategy to combat air pollution in Delhi, it is imperative that zero pollution vehicles like battery operated ones, are given encouragement and support by the Delhi government,* *
The note said the subsidy would allow the citizens of Delhi to have access to clean-fuelled vehicle and allow them to contribute their bit in cleaning up the air quality of the city.
So far, the governments of Karnataka and Rajasthan have exempted battery-operated vehicles from road tax. Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Orissa, Pondicherry, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Chandigarh have provided VAT exemption to battery-operated vehicles.
According to the data compiled by the Environment Department, United Kingdom has provided 100 percent depreciation, free parking and exemption of congestion tax in London on these vehicles. Government of Japan, Norway, Sweden and Ireland have given subsidy of varying amounts. United States and Italy too have given subsidy on electric cars according to the data.
http://tinyurl.com/5oqwre
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Hummm, No mention of Canada . . yet.=TG
CFRA Polls
In 2006 the $50,000 needle hunter program picked up 1381 discarded drug injection needles. That’s less than 0.5% of the number handed out by the $280,000 needle exchange program. Councillor Holmes is proposing an additional $200,000 to increase needle recovery through pickups & an information campaign aimed at drug users.
Ban needle exchange & take the province to court to stop it 72.7%
I agree with Ms. Holmes, we must recover the needles 2.27%
Don’t give drug users a new needle unless they “exchange” a used needle 24.1%
Other 0.81%
Total Votes: 1231
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“The Hunt Expands for Drug Needles
The City of Ottawa is looking to expand the Needle Hunter Program.”
http://www.cfra.com/?cat=1&nid=56245
This report from Canadian Press/MSM omits the fact that Labrador MP Todd Russell is a Liberal MP.
The fact that Russell is a Liberal MP is 100% relevant to this report.
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“Labrador [Liberal] MP to participate in seal hunt”
“Labrador [Liberal] MP Todd Russell”
““I’m doing it to send a message to all of those who disparage our people who participate in this valid hunt,” said Russell.
“That there are other voices, voices from the House of Commons, from Parliament, people who sit as MPs, and in this particular case, myself, that this is a valid hunt, a sustainable hunt, one based on conservation and tradition.”
Added Russell: “It’s important to our culture and we’re going to continue it.”
The MP adds that he expects to face opposition for taking part in the hunt.”
http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/9006237.html
This little tidbit is in Suzuki’s latest mailing for donations.” Poll after poll tells us that Canadians are worried about global warming.Our government has to start listening to its people.We’ve heard enough rhetoric and seen enough smoke and mirrors. We need strong leadership so Canadians can be proud of what our country does for the enviroment. It’s time for real change.” Does that sound like political meddling to anyone else?
“‘Canada has been a drain on Newfoundland and Labrador’
Despite all that NL contributes to the country, there are still those who see only a welfare ghetto populated by beggars
By JOAN FORSEY
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Hi. I’m a “Newf,” i.e., a “surly islander” from what “is probably the most vast and scenic welfare ghetto in the world.” My home province, Newfoundland and Labrador, is also “the biggest sinkhole in the country” where “beggars can be choosers.” Worse, we bite the hand that feeds us. Nevertheless, the government of this “welfare ghetto,” is richer than Ontario’s.”
“In short, Canadian government policy (in one instance along with Quebec’s) has stripped Newfoundland and Labrador of most of the benefits of three of its major resource industries — the cod fishery, hydroelectricity and oil and gas.
So it’s hardly surprising that this province has the highest unemployment rate in the country, the highest net debt per capita (more than twice the national average) and the lowest per capita incomes.
What is surprising is that, despite all that Newfoundland and Labrador contributes to Canada, there are still those who see only a welfare ghetto or sinkhole populated by beggars.
And what is startling is that anyone — given the adverse effects of Canada’s policies on the provincial economy — could suggest, in a nearly national newspaper, that the province is richer than Ontario.
Joan Forsey, a Newfoundlander living in Toronto, has been researching and writing about Canadian economic and political affairs for more than 30 years, including seven years as a writer on the staff of the late prime minister Pierre Trudeau.”
http://www.theindependent.ca/article.asp?id=1155