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  1. Has anyone else heard Obama being referred to as “the leader of the free world”? I heard it on a CBC radio news update this afternoon and find it rather disturbing.

  2. A nation anxiously awaits to find out who’ll govern us. It all depends on the flick of Michael Ignatieff’s wrist: the Toronto Star says his disinclination to go to the polls is “the latest sign that he will keep the minority Conservative government in power.” (emph. mine)
    He’s got government of Canada / in his hands / he’s got your brothers and sisters / in his hands / he’s got all the taxpayers in his hands / he’s got the whole nation in his hands.
    And he’s never even been elected, even as Liberal leader.
    “…it’s up to me to judge in the name of Canadians if (Harper) has shown good judgment.”
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/574764
    In who’s name? Where have we heard this before?

  5. Interesting read in the JPOST about a Canadian citizen of Iraqi origans being charged with spying for Saddam Hussien.
    It’s a US court so I wonder how this will play out here with Layton and company?

  11. I was pleasantly surprised to see on CBCNews.ca that the vast majority of comments on the Geert Wilders story were condemning the Dutch government. That’s got to be a once in a lifetime event, or were things slow today here and SDA regulars swarmed over there?

  12. Thirsty?
    Here’s an index of articles on Israel & WATER at Camera (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America). I see that the first item (which I haven’t read yet) asks the question: Does Israel use “Palestinian” Water.
    I’ve noticed that in skilful Arabist hands the “water cannon” often silences pro-Israel debaters who don’t have enough information to launch a viable rebuttal.
    CAMERA: Water and the Arab-Israeli conflict
    From a quick initial scan I see that some of the usual pro-jihadist suspects show up: AFP, BBC, NPR, NYT.

  15. Peter, I agree with you that “white males” are by far the most despised group by officialdom in North America but I just ignore such twits.
    What will be much more interesting is to see if the African American Permanent Victim Industry goes out of business. Let’s hope so. And in saying that, I firmly believe that this will be the very best for Black Americans.
    What will also be interesting is when some pull out the race card when pundits do criticize Obama. I already have a question I’m dying to ask of those who criticize me in this way: “How long will Obama have to be in power before he can be criticized?” It’s a trick question, of course, because if they choose to give me a number then it immediately shows how deeply steeped they are in the racial divide.

  16. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/iainmartin/4295219/Gordon-Brown-brings-Britain-to-the-edge-of-bankruptcy.html
    “Gordon Brown brings Britain to the edge of bankruptcy
    Iain Martin says the Prime Minister hasn’t ‘saved the world’ and now faces disgrace in the history books
    They don’t know what they’re doing, do they? With every step taken by the Government as it tries frantically to prop up the British banking system, this central truth becomes ever more obvious.
    Yesterday marked a new low for all involved, even by the standards of this crisis. Britons woke to news of the enormity of the fresh horrors in store. Despite all the sophistry and outdated boom-era terminology from experts, I think a far greater number of people than is imagined grasp at root what is happening here.
    The country stands on the precipice. We are at risk of utter humiliation, of London becoming a Reykjavik on Thames and Britain going under. Thanks to the arrogance, hubristic strutting and serial incompetence of the Government and a group of bankers, the possibility of national bankruptcy is not unrealistic.
    The political impact will be seismic; anger will rage. The haunted looks on the faces of those in supporting roles, such as the Chancellor, suggest they have worked out that a tragedy is unfolding here. Gordon Brown is engaged no longer in a standard battle for re-election; instead he is fighting to avoid going down in history disgraced completely.”…
    And so the grand farce ends, the resolute Britons who won WWII, are now bankrupted on their own petard.
    It is truly, “My Big Fat Greek Tragedy”. The wizards of finance have set themselves in the garrote.
    Stiff upper lip, then lads.
    Cheers,
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, 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”

  19. For those having YouTube video problems, ie. “This video no longer available”, and site access denied, the problem is this. YouTube uses cookies to redirect your access to alternate sources. If one of these cookies is on your computer your browser will stop access to prevent continual redirection. Solution: delete YouTube cookies.
    Hope that explanation is adequate.

  20. I heard something during the inaugural that really made me laugh, it went something like this … “on the stage, there are ten people, and it’s quite remarkable, seven of them are people of colour, and of the people of non-colour, two are women.”
    Just can’t quite get it together to admit that a white male was still out there, I guess.
    So what am I, a person of non-colour, a non-person of colour, a non-person of non-colour, or just a HONKY?
    Honk, honk.

  21. It is rather bizarre how completely obsessed with race the Left is. I’ve met many white Canadian Liberals who go on & on about how multicultural they are. By this they mean that they’ve made sure to acquire a few non-white acquaintances; percentages based on current polling.
    I just smile, knowing that for 30+ years I’ve had friends of every ethnicity and religion.

  23. Re-Do for Bozo.
    George the Dummy Sworn In Again.
    Chimpy failed the test.
    His quip after Do-Over? If Dionky gets 4 do-overs, how many does Me get?
    George The Dummy.
    His motto: Monkey say, monkey re-do.
    This not from Letterman is hilarious: ““We decided it was so much fun,” Obama, 47, joked before taking the oath again.”
    ..-
    “Obama Sworn in Again After Error in the Oath at Inauguration
    Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama was sworn in yesterday for a second time by Chief Justice John Roberts, a cautionary do-over that occurred because they bungled the constitutional oath of office at the Jan. 20 inauguration.
    Roberts went to the White House for the second swearing-in at 7:35 p.m. Washington time in the Map Room of the main residence.
    At the inauguration ceremony witnessed by more than 1 million people on the National Mall and millions more worldwide, Roberts misstated the oath as “execute the office of president of the United States faithfully” and Obama followed suit.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8PEkkW.8rx0&refer=home

  24. DeadTree TV is going the way of the print media, aka MSM.
    Stated reason: “dollars are increasingly migrating to cable.”
    Real reason: Internet/blogs have driven the cliched stake into the heart of the MSM.
    …-
    “TV networks float idea of shutting smaller stations
    Canada’s major television networks are considering the drastic step of shutting smaller stations across the country, fearing that some local markets may never again be profitable in a TV industry where dollars are increasingly migrating to cable.
    Such a move would have been unthinkable only five years ago, but the possibility is being discussed behind the scenes at CTV Television Network and CanWest Global Communications Corp. as a way to stem losses in small-market conventional television.”
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/cz96du

  25. O is a control freak? That is BIG.
    MSM refuses to be manipulated by O & his Democrats?
    That is BIG.
    …-
    “3 news agencies refuse to distribute Obama photo
    Associated Press | 1/22/2009 | DAVID BAUDER
    NEW YORK (AP) — Three news agencies refused to distribute White House-provided photos of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday, arguing that access should have been provided to news photographers.
    The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse said the White House was breaking with long-standing tradition in not allowing news photographers to capture the president at work in the Oval Office on his first day.
    “We are not distributing what are, in effect, visual press releases,” said Michael Oreskes, managing editor for U.S. news at the AP.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2169409/posts

  26. The radio “funsters” are at it.
    Obama proved he’s really Oirish by taking the oath twice “To be sure, to be sure.”
    Seems he’s also very green and into re-cycling by using the same oath twice.
    Also,apparently, papers were passed around the crowd telling them not to heckle … They didn’t want anybody to “Barrack” Obama.
    Just in case it’s a “foreign word over there …
    (barrack (2)- shout at somebody in protest: to shout at somebody in criticism or protest)

  27. All pollution sucks.
    Or does it?
    From http://www.physorg.com
    “Nile Delta grows dramatically thanks to runoff sewage fertilizers”.
    Fish landings have increased to 3.5 times the rate in the Delta before the Aswan Dam was built and prevented the natural annual flooding of the Nile Delta.
    Calling all Pollution Busters. Lizzy, Davey, Ally.
    We must stop these people from feeding themselves.

  28. If handled properly, I don’t think it’ll be so much Gert Wilders on trial as the hate of the Quran and the Islamic ideology.
    It may prove to be an excellent platform to expose the whole cult, it’s prophet and it’s history.
    This depends on his ability to raise money, hire the best lawyers and the honesty of the court in allowing him to defend himself.
    The whole ‘insulting Islam’ charge is a sham and shameful. It can and must be proven that Islam does more than insult all non-Muslims, it commands their dhimmitude or death.

  29. irwin daisy at January 22, 2009 8:05 AM, I agree with your comment, and when you even have lefties like
    Lilianne Ploumen     making bold statements about being fed-up with Islam, my bet would be that Wilders will walk away a hero.

  30. On the Hill-ctv.ca
    discussion with Jason Kenney,Bob Rae & Paul Dewar
    First topics Obama/Canada relations, At the 6:00Min mark the discussion turns to Canada’s boy terrorist.
    Rae & Dewar defend Khadr and say he should be brought home.
    Bob & Paul should have a look at today’s Poll in the G&M.

  31. NEW YORK — When Rick Stengel joined Time in 1981, every story in progress filled a thick binder — the reporter’s version, the editor’s rewritten version, the top editors’ version, the fact-checked version — that would be unimaginable in today’s cut-to-the-bone corporate culture.
    Many of the recently laid-off staffers, Stengel says, “were people whose jobs really didn’t exist anymore.”
    When Jon Meacham joined Newsweek in 1995, “there was a phrase in the culture — ‘We need to get something in on X’ — that we never use anymore,” he says. The days of a “newsmagazine of record,” Meacham says, are long gone.
    The rival editors are turning out weeklies that are smaller, more serious, more opinionated and, though they are loath to admit it, more liberal. They are pursuing a more elite audience, in print and on the Web, abandoning the old Henry Luce notion of catering to the masses. It is nothing less than a survival strategy.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011802181_pf.html

  33. And over at Bourque and The Red Star/Hate Harper/National Newswatch, its Iggy time everybody. Get down and get jiggy with Iggy, oh the MSM

  34. (Via Spengler’s Forum) Dr. Paul Kengor, “Media Lied, People Died”
    It is the claim about Iraq that strikes me, which, I’ve come to learn, is a dominant perception among the American left. Many liberals believe the media gave George W. Bush a pass on the war, especially by not challenging his assertion that Iraq had WMDs. Many are convinced Bush lied about WMDs: “Bush Lied, Kids Died,” as the refrain from the left goes.
    In truth, this is an upside-down understanding of reality.
    Here’s the undeniable fact: It wasn’t that the media first heard about suspected Iraqi WMDs from George W. Bush. To the contrary, George W. Bush first heard about suspected Iraqi WMDs from the media…

  37. Hummmmmmm….the Goracle must be heading up to the prairies/Ab soon. +11C Monday,now -15/WC -32,and snow.Yeahhhhhh

  39. me no dhimmi
    Thanks for the CAMERA link. I guess you noticed our friend bring up the Israel doesn’t share water canard. Loved the pictures of Arab kids enjoying swimming pools in the West Bank.
    irwin,
    “If handled properly, I don’t think it’ll be so much Gert Wilders on trial as the hate of the Quran and the Islamic ideology.”
    from your mouth to God’s ear.

  40. (Via SWJ) Siobhan Gorman, Intelligence Agencies’ Databases Set to Be Linked
    U.S. spy agencies’ sensitive data should soon be linked by Google-like search systems, nearly five years after the intelligence community was rebuked by the 9/11 Commission for failing to “connect the dots” and detect the attack…
    After years of bureaucratic snafus, intelligence analysts will be able to search through secret intelligence files the same way they can search public data on the Internet.
    Mr. McConnell’s new technology program is also addressing a more basic problem: Spies often have trouble emailing colleagues in other U.S. intelligence agencies, because email addresses aren’t readily accessible, and messages sometimes get eaten by security filters. Mr. McConnell aims to solve that by uniting the agencies’ email systems into a single system with a full directory that links names, expertise and addresses…

  42. (PDF warning) Lt. Col. (ret.) Raymond Millen, Aligning a Counterinsurgency Strategy for Afghanistan
    Of all the challenges that beset Afghanistan, the most dramatic is the lack of an integrated counterinsurgency strategy. Objectively, the coalition and the international community have provided admirable assistance to Afghanistan. Without exaggeration, Afghanistan’s political, economic, and social situation has improved exponentially. Nevertheless, three interrelated challenges require resolution before Afghanistan can continue on its forward path—the insurgency, warlordism, and the neglect of the local communities…
    As this article reveals, the principle of Subsidiarity forms the underlying approach to a counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan. In essence, Subsidiarity embraces decentralization of governance to the lowest level. Because this form of federalism has a long-standing tradition in Afghanistan (as well as the West), the populace readily accepts the concept. This concept permits the central government to focus on national issues. However, it does not signify neglect. Rather, it permits federal, international, and coalition agencies to empower local communities in a decentralized manner without deleterious intrusion from above. In short, it shifts the counterinsurgency effort to the local communities…

  43. “Fidel Believe’s in Obama”
    G&M 01/21/09
    Man that must load off Obama’s mind, Approval from Fidel.
    Must read comments on this.
    another must read is
    “Ottawa Reassessing Khadr’s case, Mackay says”
    with a bonus of looney comments from the insane, But dont try to comment because they are Closed.

  44. No, sorry but if you use a lie and repeat a lie, you’re party to that lie, even if you didn’t author it.
    I’d feel a lot less antipathy towards the Bush administration and the war in Iraq if they’d merely said: “Look, Saddam’s a bad guy and we should have finished what we started in ’91”, rather than spinning that elaborate web of BS, including that snarky bitch Condi Rice snarling out that sophomoric soundbite about not wanting the next smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud! Give me a frigging break!
    BTW as much as I didn’t care for Bush, I did NOT want to see Gore win in 2000, and I still wouldn’t turn the clock back on that one. So we have two liars…one lied about WMDs and the other lies about “global warming”…which is worse? I think the global warming lie is more insidious and it carries with it a cost that is incalculable, including a hidden but enormous cost in human lives.

  46. The G&M poll “Given Barack Obama’s desire to close Guantanamo, do you think it’s time for Ottawa to bring home Omar Khadr?” is now Yes at 33% and No at 70%. The Yes side is increasing so there must be some kind of concerted effort doing that (or the G&M is fooling with their own poll…they do that somethimes). Time to jam some “NO” votes into that poll.

  47. me no dimmi and ex-liberal, the ‘Israel doesn’t share water’ isn’t a ‘canard’ but a fact. I suggest you move out of your fictional beliefs about Israel and into reality. I’ve provided many links but I don’t think that you access them.
    Try the usual beginning, and triple w. Then,
    globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9597
    And here’s a quote from:
    “The acquisition of territory to augment water supply is not the only basis for viewing water as a strategic goal. As noted in Chapter 6, much of the conflict over water between the Palestinians and the Israelis relates to the blatant discrimination in water pricing, allocation, and delivery systems. Water is priced 3 to 7 times higher to Palestinians in the Territories than it is to Jewish settlers. And, to no one’s surprise, per-capita water consumption of the settlers is many times that of Palestinians. Water is available to Palestinian villagers only one or two days a week (and is otherwise stored in water tanks on the roofs of houses), whereas it is made available daily to Israeli settlements. These discriminatory practices are enforced through the application of Israeli military orders to the West Bank and Gaza and, although this may be a more subtle use of water as a strategic goal, it certainly is an example of using available water for Israeli interests at the expense of the Palestinian population. These examples also illustrate the third water/security link, that of resource inequities.”
    This article also explains the Israeli concerns about withdrawal from the West Bank; these concerns are heavily focused on water control.
    “The West Bank — Roughly 500 Mm3 of water is taken annually from the Mountain Aquifer by Israel, with most of the wells inside the Green Line. The Tahal–Jaffee report concludes that Israeli separation from the West Bank without a prior Palestinian commitment for joint water management would be the worst possible outcome (Schiff 1993). ”
    Try the usual setup and then, idrc.ca/en/ev-29781-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
    Water supplies and control are a major political issue in every country in the ME. The populations of all these countries have increased while the water supply has remained as it was 2,000 years ago. Water is a major issue between Israel and Syria, Israel and Jordan. Israel and Jordan have come to agreements but not with Syria. And Israel controls the water supplies available to Palestinians. There is no factual confirmation that the water is equally shared; indeed, the opposite is the case and is a proven fact.
    The 1967 war, which was focused around control of the Jordan River water, gave Israel exclusive control of the West Bank waters and sea of Galilee. The modern use of water in Israel, ie, in irrigation agriculture, which uses 56% of the water, means that water and the control of water is a key, if not a major, political determinant.
    I note also that the greenhouse industry in Gaza failed because Israel cut off not only the hydro but also the water, as well as sealing the borders to the exporting of the produce.
    Try also the usual and then,
    aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Israel%E2%80%99s_Water_War.asp
    So, I think that both of you could do some more research into the area of water in the ME, its necessity in a modern economy, and the nature of ‘sharing’.
    What you have in the ME is a transition from a non-industrial economy, based around small populations and sustenance agriculture, to large populations and the necessity for industrial, in this case, irrigation agriculture. The control of water is vital.
    For the ME to function properly, all peoples must have equal access to water; otherwise, you are reducing one population to a sustenance lifestyle. BUT, this requires peace, collaboration and co-operation. Not an easy task when all parties distrust and dislike each other.

  48. I think a thorough and excellent critique of the Dutch claim against Wilders for hate speech can be found at Ezra Levant’s web site.
    Ezra
    Really thorough and devastating to the claim.

  49. “If Israel killed only .3 percent of all Muslims who have been died in conflicts, then who killed the other 99.7%? Maybe the reason we don’t want to ask the question is we don’t want to hear the answer.”
    …-
    “The invisible man
    You’ve all heard about the massacre of almost 200 people in the Congo, on Christmas Day, 2008 right? And you know every detail of the Lebanese Army’s assault on the Lebanese army’s assault on Nar el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, correct? Richard Landes had a discussion with an Oxford PhD student about how some deaths are more equal than others.
    I recently had an email exchange with a PhD student at Oxford who saw my posting about the study of war casualties in which I pointed out that .06 percent of those killed in wars since 1950 died in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and .3 percent of the Muslims killed in conflicts since then were killed by Israelis. He was struck by how his colleagues could talk of nothing but Israelis killing Gazans, despite the extraordinary violence to be found the world over, much of it really intentional. As he put it in a subsequent email:
    […]
    “One of the worst effects of meme-driven journalism is that it cheapens Third World deaths that are not linked to some sexy Western issue. Unless a story can be linked to a political hot button item in the West, it goes unnoticed. The Christmas Day massacre in the Congo is a perfect example. Who cares about dead Africans if you can’t connect it to Global Warming or George W. Bush?”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/01/21/the-invisible-man/

  50. Aunty-Nuke will go critical on this. Will a meltdown be reached?
    …-
    “L&T in pact with Canadian firm AECL
    Mumbai , Jan 22 Engineering giant Larsen and Toubro today said it has entered into an agreement with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) for heavy water reactors.
    This agreement is subject to final approval by the governments of India and Canada and a bilateral Nuclear Co-operation Agreement between the two countries, L&t said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.”
    http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/484229/Business/4/20/4

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