Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are Les Dissonances performing the Allegro from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, K.525, also known as Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (or as we call it here in the SDA LNR studios: A Little Late Nite Music), at the Fontainbleau Theater (2005, 5:47, and the flirt at 3:00 is delightful too).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Kudos to the folks in Winnipeg who were ready to chase the Westboro gang out of the city if the dared to get close to Tim Macleans memorial.
http://www.torontosun.com/News/Canada/2008/08/10/6402771-sun.html
There is a riot in montreal-nord right now.
The stupid police killed 1 innocent guy with a GUN.
now there is revenge.
peace now. BAN ALL GUNS.
look, ma, no conductors!
Yeah, I also noticed that, Eugene. All strings too.
It’s almost like some sort of big string quartet.
Is Reuters staging fake photos again?
very curious… and I wonder why?
http://russia-insider.livejournal.com/25329.html
Oops. To be specific, I should have said all bowed strings. Sorry.
Well, q.s then let’s ban the police in Quebec and propane in Toronto. Easy.
Vitruvius (and other classy classical enthusiasts).
My daughter, a violist, brought this home on a recent visit. Check it out: it’s absolutely superb.
In Search of Mozart (DVD) Filmmaker:
Phil Grabsky
I was wondering if anyone has input on the explosion that happened in the arctic a couple weeks ago?
http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=74db4d3a-0911-4cbf-abf7-2df2ea477ae1
Speculation runs from a crashed plane, a foreign submarine accident, a comet – even a volcano!
One thing to keep in mind is that ‘black smoke’ comes from burning hydrocarbons, meaning oils, and likely man-made.
Any discussion?
Warning; don’t play this one before bedtime. The Warriors of Wotan will get you. MAN I LOVE THE SMELL OF NAPALM IN THE MORNING
>>>>> Global warming shill falls. Who/what is next?
Notice the three different titles used for the Warmite: “Well-known senior scientist”; “a senior political scientist and author”; “social scientist”.
Here is the Warmite’s No-S**t Statement:
“The center also taught that society is a key component of the climate system.”
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“NCAR shuts down climate impacts center
Well-known senior scientist loses job
Michael Glantz, a senior political scientist and author who has studied the impacts of climate on society since the early 1970s, is one of the world’s most sought-after authorities on the societal impacts of climate.
He was the first social scientist the National Center for Atmospheric Research hired when he came on 34 years ago. In 2005, he became the director of NCAR’s Center for Capacity Building.
But starting Monday, he added unemployed to that list.”
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/aug/07/Boulder-ncar-shuts-down-climate-impacts-center/
Islamic Taliban murderers go down: Dead.
Good work.
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“US coalition kills 25 militants, 8 Afghan hostages
KABUL, Afghanistan – A series of clashes and an airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed 25 militants and eight civilians held hostage by insurgents, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement Monday.
Militants ambushed the coalition and Afghan troops along a road in the southern province of Uruzgan on Sunday, triggering gunbattles during which militants moved into a compound and took 11 civilians hostage, the statement said.
“Coalition troops called in close-air support to engage the militants hiding in the structure. They did not have knowledge of noncombatants in the buildings at that time,” the coalition statement said.
As a result, eight civilians were killed and three were wounded, the coalition said. The wounded civilians were taken to a coalition base for treatment.”
http://tinyurl.com/5e5cfj (asspress)
Lorne Gunter’s column in the national Post in Issues and Ideas section, today:”A story of two Chinas” is telling it as it is. Agree with him “the IOC is becoming China’s chief enabler”.
We know politics is heavily involved when we have our Liberal MSM and Liberals in general hooting endlessly about Harper not being there for the opening.
Liz J: More here re Canadian Mao Stlong! The entire article is a block-buster by a Marxist wordmeister.
“He knows perfectly well what used to happen to Iraq’s oil wealth, which was prostituted through a U.N. program”.
Canadian Mao Stlong $ PET $ PetroCan $ NEP $ Desmarais $ Power Corp $ Bob-John Rae $ Ad$Cam Chretien-MartinJr-Citoyen Dion $ Total, etc = Liberal Party of Canada.
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“There will be time enough for that to happen, since Iraq’s vast resources are back in the hands of its own people and are no longer “privatized” as the personal property of a psychopathic crime family. Sen. Levin, who with Sen. John Warner, R-Va., requested the original report from the Government Accountability Office on Iraq’s finances, was the ranking Democrat on the Senate subcommittee investigating the “oil for food” outrage. He knows perfectly well what used to happen to Iraq’s oil wealth, which was prostituted through a U.N. program and diverted to such noble causes as the subsidy of suicide bombers in Gaza and the financing of pro-Saddam and “anti-war” politicians in London, Paris, and Moscow. While this criminal enrichment of Iraqi and overseas elites was taking place, the population of the country was living on garbage and drinking tainted water as a result of the U.N.-mandated international sanctions.”
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“”Iraq’s Budget Surplus Scandal
Why do we have such a hard time hearing good news from Baghdad?
By Christopher Hitchens
One day I will publish my entire collection of upside-down Iraq headlines, where the true purport of the story is the inverse of the intended one. (Top billing thus far would go to the greatest downer of them all: the tale of Iraq’s unemployed gravediggers, their always-insecure standard of living newly imperiled by the falling murder rate. You don’t believe me? Wait for the forthcoming anthology.) While you wait, you might consider last week’s astonishing report about the Iraqi budget surplus and the way in which the report was reported.”
http://www.slate.com/id/2197007/
Basic Accounting: Lesson One, Pt. 1: “Cash Flow”.
“”It’s because of cash flow.””
That’s it: 2 words. The brevity of it is copious.
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“Media Outlets Losing Money From a Lack of Auto Ads (Dinosaur Media DeathWatch™)
The New York Times ^ | August 11, 2008 | Tim Arango and Stuart Elliott
The flight of advertising dollars to the Internet is one explanation for the pain felt by traditional media.
Another culprit that is increasingly to blame is Detroit.
For all the discussion of new media’s role in hurting profits and revenues at traditional media outlets — newspapers, magazines, broadcast television and radio — the sharp downturn in the auto industry is another big culprit, and is taking an increasing toll on the advertising revenue generated by the media.
In the first quarter alone, the auto industry spent $414 million less on advertising than in last year’s first quarter, according to TNS Media Intelligence.
And it’s not just the local newspaper or television station that is hurting from cutbacks in advertising by the local car dealerships.
In recent earnings reports from the major media companies, like Viacom and Time Warner, executives mentioned the downturn in the auto industry as one reason for lagging revenue at cable networks and magazines.
Newspapers were the hardest hit, losing $131 million in auto advertising, much of the decline coming from local dealerships that are having trouble moving cars off their lots.
“You’re talking about cars sitting on lots for 90 days,” said Mort Goldstrom, vice president for advertising at the Newspaper Association of America. “The dealers are saying, ‘I have cars that won’t move. And I can’t advertise.’ It’s because of cash flow.””
(link to Slimes here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059833/posts)
We will have to wait for the report by the provincial police force, by the Montreal police were apparently surrounded by a large group of youths and the officer who shot the young man thought his partner was in danger of his life.
In any case does this justify damaging three fire trucks, breaking into many stores and trashing lots of parked cars?
Miss Ogyny Award goes to Nikki.
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“Emily’s List Condemns Memphis Democrat Nikki Tinker’s Ads
Lots of people are condemning Democratic Nikki Tinker — first for a race-baiting ad and now for an ad folks are calling anti-semitic. Tinker is Steve Cohen’s Democratic primary rival. The African American female candidate has gotten so much bad national press, she’s pulled the latest ad off the internet. Emily’s List, which never should have endorsed her in the first place condemns both ads:”
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2008/08/emilys-list-condemns-memphis-democrat.html
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“Jewish rep. wins big in Tennessee despite anti-Semitic ads
The ads may have been ugly, but they were ineffective.
After a Democratic primary campaign featuring what some characterized as an anti-Semitic smear campaign, the incumbent Jewish congressman in Tennessee’s Ninth District, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), trounced his opponent, Nikki Tinker, by 79 percent to 19 percent in Thursday’s primary.
In the closing days of the race, Tinker, who is black, aired a TV ad suggesting that Cohen’s religion made him an outsider in the district, which includes most of Memphis and is majority African American.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059865/posts
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The comments at GorillaWomen (re Edwards) are worth looking into:
Snip:
“How would you judge a person who had signed a business contract and then broke that contract? Would that person be unethical, untrustworthy, dishonest? My answer is yes.
And as far as “standing by your man”….why keep bending over and grabbing your ankles? Sorry, but public humiliation and betrayal do not inspire loyalty in me.
Connie Graham”
Also from the Gunter column in the Post he mentions another stupendous insult to our intelligence: the head of IOC’s medical commission saying “the haze over Beijing was not smog but a “mist” brought on by heat and humidity”. Better beware of the foggy, foggy dew.
Speaking of ‘Mao Stlong’, has he ever been dubbed as dangerous or are they sticking with he’s a kind old man out to help the oppressed like Demarais and Power Corps, etc?
NT:”the Montreal police were apparently surrounded by a large group of youths”
What does this statement mean, exactly? Does anyone know anything about these so-called “youths”? Who are they? What was their motive?
Will we, the great, unwashed public, ever know?
Further to the police shooting “a youth” who was part of the “large group of youths” swarming them, it should not be the police on the defensive and in the dock.
I’m sick and tired of thugs on a rampage, when shot at, crying foul and saying the police should have been “more thoughtful,” or “more circumspect,” or “less aggressive.”
Sorry. The shoe should be on the other foot. If large groups swarming the police don’t want to be shot at, they might look to being “more thoughtful,” “more circumspect,” and “less aggressive.”
Enough with the “poor” youths who swarmed the police. How “unfair” that they got shot at and that one of them is dead.
I’m sad for the family of the young person, but what was he doing as part of a gang that was swarming the police, for G*d’s sake? Other gangs may think twice…
Jack’s Newswatch’s fave epithet for Liberal Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is: McShifty.
How did Jack know this?
Jack read their horoscopes?
Liberal MP David McGuinty is a brother of Dalton McShifty.
Now it’s Dalton & David McShifty.
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“David McGuinty can’t keep Green Shifts straight”
I’ve been idly checking out references to Jennifer Wright’s website greenshift.ca, the site that supports her company Green Shift Inc. The Liberals under Stephane Dion decided that the name “Green Shift” should really have been theirs, and so named their carbon tax plan The Green Shift, supported with a website thegreenshift.ca.
The reason I’ve been checking is to see whether Jennifer Wright is correct in her assertion that the Liberals are damaging her brand. The Liberals say that no one is going to be confused and that the two entities can easily coexist.
The problem is that I find evidence, over and over again, of confusion. This time from the Liberal’s own environment critic, David McGuinty.”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/270396.php
Stanley Kurtz, Barack Obama’s Lost Years
Barack Obama’s neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, has a longstanding tradition of opening its pages to elected officials-from Chicago aldermen to state legislators to U.S. senators. Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title “Springfield Report,” between 1996 and 2004. Read in isolation, Obama’s columns from the state capital tell us little. Placed in the context of political and policy battles then raging in Illinois, however, the young legislator’s dispatches powerfully illuminate his political beliefs. Even more revealing are hundreds of articles chronicling Obama’s early political and legislative activities in the pages not only of the Hyde Park Herald, but also of another South Side fixture, the Chicago Defender…
What they portray is a Barack Obama sharply at variance with the image of the post-racial, post-ideological, bipartisan, culture-war-shunning politician familiar from current media coverage and purveyed by the Obama campaign…
Some of the dinosaurs see the asteroid coming.
(Via Contentions) Tim Rutten, Old media dethroned
When John Edwards admitted Friday that he lied about his affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, a former employee of his campaign, he may have ended his public life but he certainly ratified an end to the era in which traditional media set the agenda for national political journalism.
From the start, the Edwards scandal has belonged entirely to the alternative and new media. The tabloid National Enquirer has done all the significant reporting on it — reporting that turns out to be largely correct — and bloggers and online commentators have refused to let the story sputter into oblivion…
Confucius did not say, The worm has turned.
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“Mr Ai described the ceremony as “a recycling of the rubbish of fake classical culture tradition; a sacrilegious visual garbage dump and an insult to the spirit of liberty; low class sound play that’s just noise pollution”.
He was directly critical of China’s ruling communist party, characterising the ceremony as “a showcase of the reincarnation of the Marxist imperialism; the ultimate paragon of an all embracing culture of fascist totalitarianism; an encyclopaedia that encompasses total defeat in intellectual spirit.”
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“Parts of the spectacular Beijing Olympics opening ceremony were faked, it has emerged.”
“The ceremony has also been strongly criticised by architect Ai Weiwei, who helped design the Bird’s Nest stadium. […]
Mr Ai helped design the stadium alongside Swiss architect firm, Herzog and de Meuron.
But since then, he has become an outspoken blogger against the Olympics and the Chinese regime. Unusually, he has not been censored by the authorities.”
Organiser said that the footprint fireworks were there for real, but thought it unsafe to try to film them – so they recreated them instead.”
http://tinyurl.com/6r5ljo (skynews)
(Via Contentions) Tim Rutten, Old media dethroned
When John Edwards admitted Friday that he lied about his affair with filmmaker Rielle Hunter, a former employee of his campaign, he may have ended his public life but he certainly ratified an end to the era in which traditional media set the agenda for national political journalism.
From the start, the Edwards scandal has belonged entirely to the alternative and new media. The tabloid National Enquirer has done all the significant reporting on it — reporting that turns out to be largely correct — and bloggers and on@#$% commentators have refused to let the story sputter into oblivion…
Spengler, Sufism, sodomy and Satan
Goethe’s creepily convincing portrait of a pederastic devil in Faust (1832) drew on the poet’s earlier study of Persian love poetry of the High Middle Ages, where “as a rule, the beloved is not a woman, but a young man”, according to the leading Persian historian Ehsan Yar-Shater. Islamic mysticism (Sufism) of the High Middle Ages is the only case in which a mainstream current of a major world religion preached pederasty as a path to spiritual enlightenment. A vast literature documents this…
Good pick, Vit. Thank you.
Great music, indeed, for any era.
Ariel Cohen, The Russian-Georgian War: A Challenge for the U.S. and the World
Russia’s goals for the war with Georgia are far-reaching and include:
Michael Rubin, Erdogan, Ergenekon, and the Struggle for Turkey
Last month, Turkish prosecutors issued a 2,455 page indictment detailing an alleged plot to overthrow Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by an elaborate network of retired military officers, journalists, academics, businessmen, and other secular opponents of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Although the precise facts of the case are not yet clear, the so-called Ergenekon conspiracy appears to be a largely fictionalized construct, with an ongoing investigation geared mainly to warding off constitutional challenges to the ruling party, not coups.
STOPIGGY, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada: Date of Birth: May 12, 1947.
Age: 61 years.
Liberal MP Thibault say, “”If they wanted to take me out, I would think you’d get someone who’s looking forward to building a political career, not somebody who’s at the age where he’s considering retirement,” said Mr. Thibault.”
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“SEXAGENARIAN POLITICIANS
The new prime of life
At age 48, Liberal MP Robert Thibault is by most standards a man in the prime of life. By rights he should have 25 productive years left, possibly much longer, given the vitality of today’s “seniors.” But if Mr. Thibault’s own old-fashioned criterion for old age is applied, he is in fact already into his twilight years. Dotage awaits in just 12 more years. He will be “considering retirement” – or forced to. He will have no place “building for the future,” because he will be a relic of the past. He will have to occupy himself instead with lawn bowling, casino bus outings, all the stereotypical activities of the aged.
Mr. Thibault revealed his dated concept of old age in an interview with the Halifax Chronicle Herald, during an attack on Greg Kerr, age 60, the Conservative challenger for the Nova Scotia riding of West Nova. “If they wanted to take me out, I would think you’d get someone who’s looking forward to building a political career, not somebody who’s at the age where he’s considering retirement,” said Mr. Thibault. “You’re not building for the future here. This is a candidate who’s lost provincially, lost federally and is what, 62, 63 years old.” This is guaranteed to go over really well in Nova Scotia, a province with a median age higher than any other.”
http://tinyurl.com/6d8623 (g-m)
Russian Robber Barron Pays CDN$800 million for a French home.
To cross metaphors, a fools money comes easy, goes easy.
About the riot and the shooting of a “youth” in Montreal North,
So far I can only find very sanitized information on the shooting incident, but since I live about 3 miles from Montreal city and have been in the north part of Montreal many times including once as recently as last week
I can tell you what I know of that part of Montreal.
I may not know much about the incident but I know this,
The North of Montreal city is a sort of ghetto where most people are either black or middle eastern looking.
No where else in Montreal will you see as many women in hijab and other Muslim “attire”.
You definitely do not see many whites there.
I drove trough that part of Montreal last week and my girlfriend who is a mild liberal and mildly pro multiculturalism said,
” I feel like we are in a different country looking at all those people ”
that gives you an idea of what kind of “youths” live in the North part Montreal…
It is a part of Montreal where street gangs rule and the police is nervous when they have to go there.
So if any of you are finding the word “youth” suspect, you are right, youth in this case seems to mean either black or Muslim.
But as I said details are hard to find…so far.
Forgot the link:
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/overseas/article4499716.ece
A mysterious Russian billionaire has trumped his big-spending rivals and broken a world record by splashing out €500 million (£392 million) on one of the most sumptuous villas on the French Riviera.
The price of the Villa Leopolda, a Belle Époque mansion on the heights of Villefrance, has amazed estate agents but fuelled local worries that the invasion of Russian money on the Côte d’Azur is getting out of hand.
Since the early 1990s, Russian oligarchs, drawn by memories of the Riviera-mad old Russian aristocracy, have been piling into seaside properties at Cap Ferrat, Cap d’Antibes, Saint-Tropez and the other great playgrounds.
None, however, has come near the price with which the unnamed Russian clinched the Leopolda deal with Lily Safra, the widow of Edmond Safra, a Lebanese banker who was killed by an arsonist’s fire in Switzerland in 2003.
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Friend of USA. Gee what a surprise , (who’d a thunk it). Thanks
ALERT. Anyone watching CPAC today covering Szabo in the chair convening over one of the worst spectacles to date, and that’s saying a lot. Kangaroo court is in session in the guise of a Parliamentary Committee. We should all be UPSET.
Another fine example of hysterical (non)-reporting on global warming. And some wonder why the MSM is swirling down the bowl!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange
“Well, Garth Turner leaps to Stephane Dion’s defense.”
This post by Angry is a first in the blogosphere. Go, Angry.
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“Garth Turner vents his spleen on a senior citizen on long-term disability — and prepares to backtrack
A letter from Jon C Coates of Halifax is getting a lot of attention. In it, he describes how he is going to suffer as a result of Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion’s carbon tax.
Well, Garth Turner is the communications guru handling the carbon tax file. So he reveals on his blog that (1) Jon C Coates is a liar, and (2) Jon C Coates probably doesn’t exist.
Jon C Coates, according to Garth Turner, is likely a fiction concocted by the Prime Minister’s Office, and Garth Turner is pulling back the curtain to reveal the ugly truth.
OK, so I called Jon C Coates*, and we had a long conversation.”
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[From comments:]
“simon said(sic):
“Mr Turner
In the past we’ve seen you repeatedly get your tit in the wringer and now we’ve been treated to a show of the impossible…namely putting your dick in the fan.
Way to go Garth’ the entertainment value of your deluded antics far surpasses anything television could hope to put out as prime time comedy!
You da man Garth….You da man !!”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/270433.php
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“The Carbon Tax Rumble?
Liberal Citoyen Dion say, It’s not fair!”
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“Letter 2. Jon C. Coates*,
70 Ridgevalley Rd
Halifax NS
B3P 2J9”
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/009267.html#comments
“* Jon C. Coates
First, let me thank you for attempting to prove that I am more than a figment of someone’s imagination dwelling in the PMO. My name is Jon Coates and the C in the middle stands for Clarence – who would make up a middle name like that? According to the Green Shift calculator, we will receive $600 in welfare called the GIS!!!
Another funny thing: comments on Garth’s web site don’t always seem to arrive there. My brother in law Jan was so outraged he set a message several hours ago but it hasn’t shown up on Garth’s site. . . . . . . . . yet.
While I was talking with Garth I asked him if I could find a website address where the wages and benefits of MPs are listed. He didn’t answer the question but went into the old dodge about how much of a sacrifice public service is. He told me that he couldn’t make ends meet on his base salary of $155,800 per year. Poor Baby!!!!!
Got to go.
Jon C. Coates – apparently the man who never was”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/270433.php
George Jonas has a marvellous column on the Canadian Kangaroo Courts, the HRC.
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=710747
And there’s an editorial as well.
It’s incredible, that we have in Canada, as Jonas points out, a government agency that is overlooking what we say and write. China has nothing on us.
“Liberal MP “Hedy says that the carbon tax will be on gasoline. I guess she missed the memo.”
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“Alberta Ardvark: Hedy Fry “Clarifies” the green shift
It is no great surprise that the Liberals are having a difficult time trying to sell their carbon tax to Canadians. Almost daily we find examples of Liberals confusing people with the details or just contradicting each other and their leader on the plan. With that in mind Liberal MP Hedy Fry was on with Dave Rutherford last Tuesday to talk about Dion’s carbon tax and to help clarify some of the confusion about the green shift for Canadians.
Wow, Hedy clarified alright, but I am not sure that Stephane Dion and the rest of the Liberals will agree with her definition of clarity after some of the wild claims she made that directly contradict what those others have been saying about the green shift.
And what did Hedy clarify for us?: Fry= blue. Dave Rutherford = brown. My comments in black
The green shift WILL tax gasoline. Yes you did read that right; Hedy says that the carbon tax will be on gasoline. I guess she missed the memo.”
“Wait, Hedy isn’t finished with the breaking news announcements just yet.
Did you know that:
The green shift will not be providing tax breaks as previously stated by everyone else who has spoken on this so far, but rather Hedy announced the news that the Liberals will be issuing cheques to Canadians instead. “Wait a second. You are going to give Canadians cheques? “Yes”. and later confirming this again when questioned by Rutherford about the cheques; “This is new. Hedy you are going to be giving cheques to people. I did not know this”. “Yes””
http://thealbertaardvark.blogspot.com/2008/08/hedy-fry-clarifies-green-shift-and.html
Looking at the Liberals/Dippers/Bloc in this current Parliamentary committee would make one puke.
ET, you are right,China has nothing on us. The fine line has been crossed big time in this latest round chaired by the stammering, pondering phony show put on by one Paul Szabo.
Really, like the HRC’s they have to go and pronto!
Thanks for your comments maz2, they need to be spread far and wide.
“Gunter: a story of two Chinas
“The Olympics has revealed two Chinas. There is the one the Chinese government, the IOC and the CBC are doing their darnedest to portray — modern, confident, competent, out-reaching. It is a very real and very genuine China. Yet it exists simultaneously with another very real China, the one no one wants to admit to — violent, dictatorial, repressive.”
“The other China is old. It is the China of pollution, Internet censorship, political executions, authoritarianism, suppression of Falun Gong and Tibet and the Uyghurs of Xinjiang province. It has secret police, fires missiles at Taiwan and props up tyrannies in places such as Sudan, North Korea, Burma and Zimbabwe.”
http://jacksnewswatch.com/2008/08/11/gunter-a-story-of-two-chinas/
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China’s Gulag:
“Introduction to China’s Laogai
By their nature, all totalitarian political systems will establish a repressive mechanism aimed at eliminating political dissent and consolidating their power so that absolute control may be maintained. From ancient to modem times, history provides us with no exceptions to this rule. Two examples from this century illustrate this point: the concentration camps run by the Nazi Party in Hitler’s Germany and the gulag system in Stalin’s Soviet Union. Both systems resulted from the actions of party leaders operating within a single ideology, catalyzed by the will of a single leader.
The Laogai camps were established by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong. The Laogai has outlived Mao, just as the Soviet gulag continued long after Stalin’s death. The Laogai, like the gulag, has continued as an instrument of Party rule. The gulag only ended when the Soviet Union itself collapsed.
Despite many societal advances in the People’s Republic of China, the dictators in Beijing continue to depend upon its Laogai system as a tool for suppression. Far from abandoning it, the Chinese Communist party is constantly strengthening its forced labor system.
“Laogai,” “Prison” and the Chinese Communist Party: A Lesson in Semantics”
http://www.laogai.org/hdbook/hb_intro.htm
Transvestite wedding busted for no obvious reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSleqd9J4KI
Did the quebecois separatiste guy get religion? Apparently he’s no longer an atheiste …
I suspect he’s merely decided that Rene Levesque is God…