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  5. it’s always, ALWAYS passed off as being in the ‘intwests of nashnal securrrrrrity’
    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/united-states-of-secrets/
    hilarious. white house needs a new sycophant @ the DOJ to review the legality, so once the dude is shown the top top top secret presidential order, he balks.
    etc etc.
    this stuff is EXACTLY the same as the very worst categories of communism. use the available technology to spy on MILLIONS of your OWN citizens, unimpeded by the checks and balances and inconvenient legalities.
    pure right wing fascistic extremism. right down your alley eh Kate?

  8. Russia summons Polish ambassador to protest removal of Soviet era statue
    MOSCOW/WARSAW | By Lidia Kelly
    Russia summoned Poland’s ambassador on Thursday to protest at the removal of a Soviet-era statue in a Polish town on the 76th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, highlighting increased tensions between the neighbours.
    Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz, Warsaw’s envoy in Moscow, was called to the Russian Foreign Ministry to explain the dismantling on Thursday of a statue of Soviet General Ivan Chernyakhovsky in the Polish town of Pieniezno.
    Chernyakhovsky was the youngest ever general in the Red Army and a decorated commander in its massive westward advance on Nazi Germany that helped end World War Two. He was killed in action at age 38 in February 1945.
    Pelczynska-Nalecz said after the meeting that the Russian side objected to the statue’s removal and asked for the process to stop.
    http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/09/17/uk-russia-poland-diplomacy-idUKKCN0RH2PH20150917

  12. frotto. As in polls around the previous debate, Harper wins (55%) and Mulcair (10%) is last. Vancouver Island is NDP territory too; Liz May got 13% and she wasn’t even in the debate! Apparently she was “on line” somewhere. It seems BC voters are getting a bellyful of Mulcair and they don’t like it much.
    Oh right, it’s not “scientific” unlike the other polls where the range in support between the main leaders is less than the margin of error, aka statistically invalid. I think the negative impression of Mulcair will continue but he’s trapped in his own rhetoric and watermelon ideology.
    Shout over Harper or be soundly defeated by the PMs grasp of the issues and the intentions of the NDP around things like pipelines and “carbon pricing.” Mulcair saying Harper hadn’t laid any pipeline was really rich, given the way he & his ilk have tried everything in their power to stop pipelines and will continue to do so after the election, regardless of the result as their “manifesto” clearly describes. That is the millstone around their neck in BC which scuttled their provincial counterparts, despite “leading” in their polls too.
    Mulcair’s boorish behaviour, shouting down Mr Harper so rudely will not play well with the voter sick of negative politics. It was like a protest rally, I was waiting for him to shout “hey hey ho ho, Harper must go.” Next time Mulcair complains about “400,000 lost manufacturing jobs” Harper should tell him to bitch at Wynne and the unions who supported her, &/or Trudeau’s present advisor Gerald Butts, who are the architects of those lost jobs. Trudeau was a true lightweight, his grasp of the issues is abysmal. Both of them, along with the watermelons manifesto writers, pretend the green infrastructure economy will be the key as we move to less carbon intensive industries like social work and day care, where the high paying jobs are, along with many branches of the “infrastructure bank.”
    Why wouldn’t Mulcair let PMSH finish his answers? Because Harper operates in reality, executing his policies now, not four years from now. Mulcair can’t debate Harper on reality; he needs memes and false narratives bounded in pure emotion, with a “fact” thrown in to feign credibility. The Torstar calls reality fear mongering for cripes sake, better to live in pixie dust as money land.
    Get a load of this NDP nonsense:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/18/ndp-surplus-balanced-budget-mulcair-ei_n_8155344.html
    Using outdated numbers. Assuming over $3.7b revenue from corporate tax hikes? Sorry, you’re in negative marginal tax return territory. Stealth taxation of oil & gas by “internalizing” their cost, sorry ending “subsidies” (carbon taxes not charged), and another $500mill for some nonsense called “tax integrity.”
    Look at his expenditure list: “helping families get ahead;” and “help where it’s needed most,” to name the two most ridiculous. They left out “transforming capitalism.” and “equally shared misery.”
    Simply laughable; but that’s why he shouts down Harper, he can’t defend his own nonsense or counter Harper’s economic logic.

  13. Your honour, please remove my travel restrictions so I can visit my family in Syria …… Oh, I mean Scarborough:
    Judge rules Omar Khadr can visit his grandparents in Toronto
    “The Toronto-born Khadr, now 29, was 15 when he was captured following a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, and became the youngest prisoner and lone Westerner at the time to be held in Guantanamo.”
    He pleaded guilty in 2010 to several war crimes, including the murder of an American soldier, and a United States military commission sentenced him to another eight years behind bars. He was transferred to Canada in 2012.”
    Khadr later said he only pleaded guilty to get out of the notorious prison.”
    Well of course, guilty people never make that claim. Was he lying then, or is he lying now?
    Actually – let him go – anywhere he wants, to anyone who will take him. Tell him to get lost. I’ll chip in for his plane ticket, as long as I get to tell him to frig off as he forever departs our soil.
    http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/judge-rules-omar-khadr-can-visit-his-grandparents-in-toronto-1.2569388

  17. frotto, the CFAX polls shows what all the media straw polls do, Harper is the winner and Mulcair is the loser. In spite of that the idiots at CFAX remarked Harper “hit himself” with his “old stock Canadians” remark. Talk about being out of touch. The mediocracy are in for a big bitch slap from the electorate.

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