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  1. Mao Stlong say, China uber alles on Evelest. Canada, land of cowards, appeasers.
    …-
    “‘O Canada’—Censored
    OTTAWA—When is it okay to ban someone from playing “O Canada” in our nation’s capital? When the clothing they wear might upset Chinese communists.
    That’s exactly what happened at the Canadian Tulip Festival in Ottawa on Friday evening.
    Having invited the Tian Guo Marching Band to perform “O Canada,” and “The Maple Leaf Forever,” the band was barred from the stage mere minutes before the opening ceremony was to begin.
    Band members were told that if they wanted to perform, they had to remove their hats, scarves and jackets that display the words “Falun Dafa.”
    However, soon after that the band was informed that their performance was cancelled altogether and the police were called.
    The problem? The Chinese embassy had a tent at the festival, and festival organizers were concerned that the presence of the band, which is composed of Falun Gong practitioners, would “upset” embassy officials.”
    http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-5-5/70247.html
    …-
    “ExplorersWeb Week in Review”
    […]
    “The Everest Olympic torch soap opera continues to surprise with increasingly surreal episodes. Not the least funny is the worst story ExWeb has researched yet; about China’s organ transplant business.
    The south side of Everest now seems to be closed for climbing, until the torch team summits. There are approx. 120 tents in C1 and about 80 tents in C2, with check-points along the ascent. Word from Rimpoche monastery was that more army troops (about 30 men) were approaching BC last week. This in addition to the police already there, including Chinese army personnel. A banner seals off the Lhotse wall and a small police post guards camp 2, with a soldier doing the rounds each day with a sniper rifle. AC told NZ media they even had to pay thousands of dollars to feed the soldiers on the mountain. “It is insane. It is extortion to pay for your own persecutors,” leader Guy Cutter told Stuff (NZ). Radio restrictions were enforced between BC and high camps. “The Army alleges security reasons we can’t really understand; what we do know for sure is that our Sherpas are far from safe, risking their lives without contact with BC,” said Gnaro.
    On the north side, journalists are cold, altitude sick, miserable, and left to interview only Chinese-conditioned Tibetans with no word about the torch. The Chinese should however be done this upcoming week, if forecasts are right.”
    http://www.k2climb.net/news.php?id=17251

  2. Mark Steyn is going to be on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin on Tuesday at 8 pm. He’s asked to go face-to-face with the sock puppet three.
    I’ll be capping it.

  4. The NP comes through again: “A voice of moderation
    Islam’s message of peace overshadowed by politics, author Tarek Fatah says”
    ….”He said Arab domination has overshadowed the message of peace and brought a strain of fanaticism that will be the ruin of everyone. And because so much Saudi money is used to finance Islamic organizations, including mosques, in the West, the situation is dire, he argues.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=492293&p=1

  5. Welcome to China, reason I put that on here is that your comments page mentioning your visit to Beijing will not come up here. Don’t know if other people are having the same problem outside China

  6. Yes Pissedoff,
    after hitting submit. . . a blank page and using *Firefox* the tab reads http:/…s.cgi
    a first for SDA. = TG

  7. “Defending the policy change, Mr. Harper cited academic Alasdair Roberts, an expert on freedom of information who first made the CAIRS database available to the public online by requesting the electronic records through his own Access to Information Act request.
    “The database in question was created by the previous Liberal government. It was called ‘the product of a political system in which centralized control is an obsession,’ and that’s why the government got rid of it,” Mr. Harper said, citing a 2003 opinion piece by Mr. Roberts.”
    Posted by: summom bonum at May 5, 2008 5:34 PM
    ———————
    Deceivin’ Stephen at it again and the public falling for it. Will The Media ever stand up to this guy and do their job? Not likely.
    First, it was created by Mulroney in 1989. I’m sure that can’t possibly have been a deliberate attempt to make another petty attack on the Liberals, but was certainly – yes, certainly – just an honest to goodness mistake.
    Second, it has lied – outright lied – about Mr. Roberts has said. Roberts fired back that the problem he identified with CAIRS was that it was not open enough and should be expanded and made public because it was a useful tool in keeping government accountable: “They really don’t care what I think about CAIRS or any other aspect of ATI. If they did they would have taken my advice about CAIRS a few years ago when I said they ought to switch on the capacity to make the entire thing publicly accessible.” [Source: http://tinyurl.com/5llsy4%5D
    This is like Van Loan lying about Democracy Watch, claiming that they supported their illegal In-and-Out scam. In fact, the truth is the exact opposite and Democracy Watch has called on the Conservatives to apologize for lying: http://tinyurl.com/69ehnb.
    Recognize a pattern anyone?
    No wonder Deceivin’ Stephen “Mr. Accountability” Harper wants to shut CAIRS down. No point in giving the public a tool to find out what the government is doing with our own money, now is there?

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