I’m leaving for Denver in a couple of hours, and blogging will be light (if that) until I return on Tuesday.
I’ll be out of the loop, news wise, so I’ll invite readers to use this to pass along tips and links. Please keep chatter to a minimum – or better yet, get out and enjoy the weekend!
This from the Ottawa Citizen story, July 28, “MP Parrish furious over Afghanistan mission”:
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=5a72eaa1-42fa-4a18-8e35-2164d864e940
‘Meanwhile, the opinionated MP spoke harshly about Canada’s new role in Afghanistan.
“We’re sending in armed troops to kill people (in Afghanistan). This is a drastic change in direction…”‘
Ms Parrish doesn’t seem to realize that the Canadian Forces’ initial deployment to Afghanistan in 2002 was in a combat, not peacekeeping, role. How short are memories in this country?
By the way, the air forces of the testosterone-charged Dutch and Belgians have fighters flying combat missions in Afghanistan right now–and the air force of the Yankee-wary French will be joining them–under NATO command. (“Nearly Ready: Communications Deemed Critical to Future NATO Response Forces”, Aviation Week, July 1.
Mark
Ottawa
Have fun in Denver. It’s a great city. If you get a chance to go west on the I-70 take it. At one point you are at 11,992 feet above sea level. I always get a kick out of that because the ceiling on a Cessna is 10,000 feet and I ‘ve been to 12,000 feet in a Freightliner…maybe you have to drive truck to get that.
Make sure to visit downtown Boulder (Berekely Lite) and pick up some of the ‘alternative’ papers.
Higher forms of entertainment.
Enjoy your trip. Say hi to Jeff Goldstein. You are Canada’s Goldstein.
Rural Revolution
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In August the Rural Revolution begins to mobilize Western Ontario with speaking engagements in Manitoulin Island, Owen Sound,Tillsonburg and other locations.
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A great article by Mark Steyn in the July 28 Spectator: “Wake up, folks � it�s war!”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=6422&issue=2005-07-30
About equally applicable to Canada as the UK. Note refugee/welfare angle.
Mark
Ottawa
R. Hillier: You are beast with an excess of testosterone who needs to be muzzled.
Carolyn P.
Parrish Bares All—Loses Booby Prize!!!!
>>>>>>>>>http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
thursday, july 28, 2005
Zombie: Breasts Not Bombs in Berkeley
LGF operative zombie risked permanent psychic damage last weekend, covering the uncovered loons at the Breasts Not Bombs �rally� in Berkeley.
Warning: R-rated images. And not pretty ones, either.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Go here to gaze & awe at C. Parrish, the Boobie bird:
http://goaustralia.about.com/cs/animalsandbirds/l/blpicboo1.htm
i would recommend to you to shut…
Um…different tangent
http://habamusrodentum.blogspot.com/2005/07/martin-meets-with-imams.html
If you want to see the face of an internal enemy, read this column from today’s LA Times: “Brutality that boomerangs”, by Saree Makdisi, Saree Makdisi, a professor of English literature at UCLA, is teaching in London for the summer.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-makdisi29jul29,0,5509950.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
Mark
Ottawa
A proof is a statement is a proof is statement…
Martin is getting as bad as Chretien:
‘TORONTO (CP) –
Prime Minister Paul Martin met with Canadian Islamic leaders Thursday night and praised them for their statement last week condemning extremism.
“It is very important that the government respond, to show the importance of that statement and that we recognize the truth of their statement so we can build on that statement,” Martin said…’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050729/ca_pr_on_na/martin_imams
Mark
Ottawa
Excerpts from the LA Times column by by Saree Makdisi:
‘…Few have noticed that suicide bombing is merely a tactic used by those who lack other means of delivering explosives. Fewer still seem to notice that what happened in London is what occurs every time a U.S. or British warplane unloads its bombs on an Iraqi village.
But, you may say, our forces don’t deliberately target civilians. Perhaps not. But they have consistently shown themselves to be indifferent to the civilian casualties produced by their operations….
Our governments dismiss out of hand any connection between the London bombings and the war in Iraq. Such attacks, they say, predate 2003. But Iraq was first invaded in 1991 [nice one, that], not 2003. Then a decade of sanctions against that country killed a million Iraqis, including 500,000 children. Over the same period, unwavering support for Israel has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinians and the total paralysis of an entire people. Tens of thousands have been slaughtered by U.S. and British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001…
This is not a war between “civilization” and “barbarism” but a war between one form of zealotry and another, one form of ignorance and another, one form of barbarism and another…’
Mark
Ottawa
Cut from “Captain’s Quarters”:
Good link, Mark. I’m curious about the curriculum of the English Literature classes that Saree Makdisi teaches. A quick google brought these results:
http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2026
Makdisi, a nephew of the late pro-Palestinian activist and academic Edward Said, is likewise a supporter of the Palestinian cause.
Posted by: Canucklehead [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 29, 2005 09:46 AM
Fast Eddie Said was one of the great “intellectual” charlatans of our times. Through his book “Orientalism” he made a whole generation of Westeners feel guilty about European approaches to Islam, and Arabs in particular. Without mentioning that throughout most of period he was writing about the Arabs were actually under the rule of the Ottoman Turks. Against who some eventually revolted during WW I.
He bet on our society’s ignorance of history, and he won big.
Mark
Ottawa
DND News Release excerpts:
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=1706
‘Canada Sends Armoured Vehicles for African Union Mission in Sudan
NR-05.061 – July 28, 2005
OTTAWA � Canada is providing 105 armoured vehicles, training and maintenance assistance, and personal protective equipment in support of the efforts of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to bring peace and stability to the Darfur region. The loan of the armoured vehicles, which includes the provision of spare parts, is for a period of one year.
An implementation team of up to 80 Canadian Forces personnel will also deploy to Senegal, which will host the vehicle staging base in Dakar, and a training centre in Thi�s. The implementation team will provide the African Union (AU) soldiers with training in the operation and maintenance of the armoured vehicles. This training is expected to commence in early August and will be completed in mid-September.
The 100 �Grizzly� general purpose armoured vehicles and five �Husky� armoured recovery vehicles will be moved from Dakar, Senegal, to the Darfur region of Sudan, and are expected to be operational by mid-September. The vehicles will be used by AU troops from Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal…
The 100 �Grizzly� general purpose armoured vehicles and five �Husky� armoured recovery vehicles will be moved from Dakar, Senegal, to the Darfur region of Sudan, and are expected to be operational by mid-September. The vehicles will be used by AU troops from Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal…’
So the vehicles will no doubt almost all be sent by sea to Senegal (Canada has no strategic airlift)–on the other side of Africa from Darfur. Which means they will take abouta month to get there. Then they will somehow have to be moved to Darfur (presumably by someone else’s aircraft). And Canadian troops will be in Senegal, not Darfur.
What a Rube Goldberg/Heath Robinson way to give military aid. Reminds me of Mackenzie King’s efforts early in WW II essentially to limit Canada’s participation to training in Canada aircrew from other countries of the Empire.
But I’m sure Carolyn Parrish will love it. No Canadian troops in any danger. Hell, they won’t even be trying to keep, much less make, any peace at all. Rather being good Canadian Tire mechanics.
Mark
Ottawa
UNSCAM UPDATE: Claudia Rosett has more on the ever-expanding oil-for-food scandals:
As investigations proliferate into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, one of the more intriguing mysteries involves a former French diplomat with a direct link to the U.N.�s executive suite: Jean-Bernard Merimee. . . .
Nonetheless, the Merimee-Saddam connection could spell yet more trouble for Secretary-General Annan, who from 1997-2003 presided over the management of Oil-for-Food, and is already close to the scandal on several fronts. . . .
Until this week, Merimee figured on the U.N. Web site�s list of �Special and Personal Representatives and Envoys of the Secretary-General,� with the rank of Under Secretary-General. Following a query this past Tuesday into Merimee�s whereabouts, the United Nations quietly removed his name from the list.
Read the whole thing.
>>>>>>> at instapundit link
Arrests in London:
Police brutality: teargas used in violent assault;
Muslims humiliated: forced undressed into public view.
The horror! The horror!
Mark
Ottawa
Meet your black rock at Mecca/Medina: it’s a meteorite, black;from outer space; given by the angel Gabriel to Ishmael; not from Krypton, where Superman was born. That old Mohammed was a conman, for sure. As David Hume would say, och, aye, laddie, he was a conman.
newsbeat1.com
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Iran’s new President glorifies martyrdom
Ahmadi-Nejad on the Art of Martyrdom
The following are excerpts from a speech by Iranian President-Elect Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, which aired July 25, 2005 on Iranian Channel 1. In it, he praises martyrdom operations and states that Islam will conquer the world. (To view this clip, visit http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=782.)
>>>”Rural Revolution” 7/28/2005 10:13 PM >>>
Rural Revolution Mobilizes Western Ontario
Due to the continued success and momentum against excessive government
intrusion and over regulation of private rural landowners; The Lanark
Landowners Association (LLA) has received numerous requests from rural
groups and people wishing to join the Rural Revolution.
Beginning July 31 the LLA and other rural associations will campaign to
re-create Carleton County and eliminate the problems created by the
amalgamated City of Ottawa. In addition the formation of the Carleton County
landowners association will be announced.
On August 8th the Rural Revolution travels to the farm of Ross Laycock
(highway 26 between Meaford and Owen Sound), for a Landowners rally. Hosted
by the Grey-Bruce Cattleman’s association. The newly formed Grey-Bruce
Landowners Association (GBLA) will have a membership table and literature
available. In addition Bill Murdoch, MPP for the area will be speaking.
Liberal MPPS have yet to reply to their invitation. (contact John Armstrong
519-378-7665 for meeting info, or John Hallman GBLA president 519-794-2410)
On August 9th the Rural Revolution primes the Tri-County area for the
inaugural meeting of the Norfolk-Oxford -Elgin Landowners association
meeting. The meeting will be held at the Cortland community center (between
Tillsonburg and Delhi) The LLA has a significant following in Tobacco
country from all sectors of the farming community, rural residents, and
local business owners. Tillsonburg was the site of the first “All Four- One,
Stop The Destruction Convoys” in January 2005. Contact John Vandeale
519-842-2537 for further info
August 10-11 the Rural Revolution meets with individuals and groups from
Halton-Peel, and Chatham-Kent to begin landowner associations in these
counties. Further details will be announced.
The week of August 22 sees the Rural Revolution tide sweep Manitoulin Island
with a public rally in support of property Rights and rural resistance.
Hosted by groups representing aquaculture, Tourists lodges, farming, and the
friends of Manitoulin Island. More details will be announced shortly.
As the summer draws to an end the LLA and the Rural Revolution is prepared
for a new campaign against unaccountable- and corrupt governments. These
urban politicians and incompetent bureaucracies who seek to destroy our
rural heritage, culture and economy through arbitrary and unjust legislation
and regulations are our targets. The rural revolution will tighten the noose
and punch back with much greater weight, and not stop until corrupt
governments end their legalized theft, and a new rural province is created.
For further info contact
Randy Hillier 613-267-6661, 613-264-3370
Or JohnVanderspank 613-259-2784, 613-880-8480
Or Merle Bowes 613-257-7968
Randy Hillier
President, Lanark Landowners Association
Tel 613-267-6661
Fax 613-259-2741
http://www.ruralrevolution.com
I do not accept e-mail attachments
As Barnum & Bailey would have it:
See the Lady With Three Arms!!! Link below:
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TRADING RANGE: Shares of gun makers shot up yesterday on news that the U.S. Senate passed a bill that shields companies like Smith & Wesson from lawsuits by gunshot victims. Photo: NY Post: Jennifer Weisbord
Wall Street went gun crazy yesterday in one of the year’s steepest buying frenzies.
After the US Senate approved legislation protecting gun makers from getting sued, shares of the nation’s two big arms manufacturers shot to new highs in frantic trading � at around 3,000 percent higher than usual levels.
Smith & Wesson’s price soared 28%, while Sturm, Ruger & Co. jumped nearly 13% on the news.
Many investors in the two companies were caught off guard because they held large bets that firearms shares would continue to sag in the face of gun control rhetoric.
The new law also would protect retail gun dealers and distributors from negligence lawsuits as well, giving the beleaguered firearms industry one of its biggest marketing boosts in years to satisfy growing demand from enthusiasts for firearms.
For gun lovers and firearms lobbyists, it was a long fought victory. And for investors who happened earlier to snap up the cheap shares for longer gains, it was a windfall session.
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453715/posts
As far as I can see there is not one story in the major Canadian media today on the sending of surplus aroured vehicles and Canadian troops to Senegal, for the benefit of African Union troops who will eventually use the vehicles in Darfur.
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/Newsroom/view_news_e.asp?id=1706
Yet in the middle of May the issue of Canadian military aid for Darfur was all over the media.
CTV News May 14:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1115906977933_111316177/?hub=Canada
‘Canadian military personnel and equipment are headed to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, as part of a $170-milllion military and humanitarian assistance package announced today…
As part of his government’s two-year, $170-million pledge, the prime minister said Canada will provide airlift capabilities, humanitarian aid and diplomatic support.
Up to 100 military personnel will also be dispatched to train local forces, he said…’
Yet now Canada is sending no personnel or airlift capacity to Darfur. And the vehicles (and training on them) are going via Senegal–hardly what was promised by the PM in May.
I would think in most other countries these glaring discrepancies would be the subject of considerable media comment. I would also think that at the very least the announcement of the Senegal operation itself would be widely reported.
What’s up?
Mark
Ottawa
Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out
Sunday Times-Britain ^ | July 31, 2005
Posted on 07/30/2005 5:46:03 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Over the past fortnight Israeli intelligence agents have noticed something distinctly odd happening on the internet. One by one, Al-Qaeda�s affiliated websites have vanished until only a handful remain, write Uzi Mahnaimi and Alex Pell.
>>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1453972/posts
Someone has cut the line of communication between the spiritual leaders of international terrorism and their supporters. Since 9/11 the websites have been the main links to disseminate propaganda and information.
The Israelis detect the hand of British intelligence, determined to torpedo the websites after the London attacks of July 7.
The web has become the new battleground of terrorism, permitting a freedom of communication denied to such organisations as the IRA a couple of decades ago
Mark, Comments like this one are very interesting. I can not shed any light on your question, and even if you get no answers, the info is worth reading anyway.
I wonder if the Armoured *Grizzley* vehicles for AU troops are from the Grizzley Company in North Vancouver.
Long shot. Probably U.S. made.
I didn’t miss the points you made, by the way.
73s TG
James Gordon’s story in the Ottawa Citizen, July 31, “‘Honest detainee’ admits to jihad against Soviets” (July 31) contains these two paragraphs:
“None of the allegations has been proven in court, but it appears Mr. Slahi told the tribunal each was correct.
The catch is in the timing, however. He said all events took place between 1990 and 1992, when he was fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.”
http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=f766187e-5f39-4ee0-93ef-08bd67d09ae6
In fact the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989. I am sure the members of the tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, where Mr Slahi is being held, know this. I am, however, bemused that Mr Gordon, apparently does not. Knowing when the Soviets actually withdrew might have helped Mr Gordon’s reporting on Mr. Slahi’s credibility. I suspect Mr Slahi is not quite the “honest detainee” of the story’s headline.
How typical of a Canadian journalist to have such a dismal knowledge of even recent history.
Mark
Ottawa
I should have included this from the Citizen story:
“Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who lived at a Montreal mosque in 1999, is one of three terrorism suspects with Canadian links jailed as “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
Mark
Ottawa
“gunfire rang out..” Such a cute phrase; ring your guns; ring your hands; ring for Annie “Got-Your-Guns” McLellan, aka Librano$$$$$$$$$$$ Fire Arms Registry; $2,000,000,000 of Canadians’ taxes = dead money. Have another drink. Flee, flee…
>canoenews
12 hours ago
TORONTO (CP) – Hundreds of people dropped their drinks and kicked off their sandals and flip-flops to flee the scene after gunfire rang out at a jammed public square early Sunday…
Maz2: Sounds like Caribana weekend in Toronto. Should be easy to solve all these shootings in TO this week with that expensive gun registry. Oops. Forgot. It’s the Americans’ fault for having lax gun laws. Funny, but Scotland Yard can round up terrorists and their associates in a matter of a week, and Canadians are still blaming the Yanks for home-grown crime. Ah, to be Canadian.
Speaking of the Librano$$$$$$$$$$, here is a load of bullsh*t from the Communist Press: By what/whose criteria is this pool frolic a success?
Low attendance; a $4,000,0000 deficit & etc. The bald, barefaced lying CP is abominable. Who will be paying for this? You, Canadian taxpayers/suckers to the tune of $4,000,000 and more. The former head of this boondoogle committed suicide when “financial irregularities” were found. That is, the money was stolen.The Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ pooled the monies.
Everyone into the pool!
>>>>>>>>
Aquatic meet a success despite low attendance, $4 million deficit
Bill Beacon
Canadian Press
Sunday, July 31, 2005
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MONTREAL (CP) – There will be bills to pay and there were some empty seats, but few connected with the world aquatic championships call it anything but a resounding success.
The 15-day meeting of 1,784 swimmers, divers and water polo players ended Sunday in a stream of praise for the organization, the site and the competitions.
“I think Montreal and Canada can be proud of what they have accomplished at this event,” said Mustapha Larfaoui, president of FINA, the world governing body for aquatic … [blah, blah, blah…]
cnews
People in authority with their heads screwed on correctly–read this from “Tube bomb suspect fled Britain by Eurostar [train]”, Daily Telegraph, August 1:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/01/nbomb01.xml
‘Hazel Blears, the Home Office minister, defended police plans to pick out young Muslims for stop-and-search as part of the security response to the bombings.
Miss Blears, who is in charge of the department while Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, is on holiday, told the BBC that she believed the Muslim community would accept such searches as a necessary response.
Ian Johnston, the chief constable of British Transport Police, made clear in a newspaper interview that his officers would not shy away from concentrating on those groups most likely to present the greatest danger.
He told the Mail on Sunday: “We should not bottle out over this. We should not waste time searching old white ladies.”‘
Mark
Ottawa
Article from Daily Telegraph: “Fanatics around the world dream of the Caliph’s return”
By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor
(Filed: 01/08/2005)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=Z43SYMJGKEERLQFIQMFCM54AVCBQYJVC?xml=/news/2005/08/01/wislam101.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/01/ixnewstop.html
Excerpts:
‘…From the London Underground to the streets of Baghdad and the hotels of Sharm el-Sheikh, the Muslim fanatics who blow themselves up in the name of Islam believe their “jihad” will ultimately defeat the infidel West and restore a Caliph to rule the billion-strong Islamic nation, or umma, according to Islamic law, or sharia…
As a religion that grew with Muslim conquest, Islam does not distinguish between the spiritual and the temporal. Islamists claim that after centuries of Islamic jurisprudence, “Islam has all the answers”. But they have yet to resolve the question of how the Islamic state can be achieved: by preaching, political action or holy war? And if jihad is waged, what should be its targets and methods?…
For much of the last century, the idea of Islam as a political cause seemed consigned to history as nationalists had the upper hand from Turkey to Egypt, Persia and Pakistan.
Mustafa Kemal, or Ataturk, went the furthest. Having abolished the Caliphate, he turned the rump of the Ottoman empire into the secular republic of Turkey and forced through the wholesale adoption of European legal codes, writing and calendar.
In Egypt, nationalists agitated against British colonialism. Later, Gamal Abdel Nasser’s coup in 1952 led to the rise of strident Arab nationalism that demanded the creation of a single Arab state.
Islamists reviled nationalists for fragmenting the “land of Islam”, elevating the laws of man above those of God, and worshipping national sovereignty as a false “idol”…
After the fall of Kabul to the Mujahideen in 1992, Arab fighters returning home ignited bloody insurrections, particularly in Egypt and Algeria.
But as these insurgencies were crushed, more militants became convinced that the only way to get rid of the impious governments was to attack the “faraway enemy” that supported them. The 1993 lorry bombing of the World Trade Centre, carried out by followers of the blind Egyptian sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, was the first attempt to take the war to American soil. Five years later, from their refuge in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad, announced their merger to create the “World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders”. They issued a fatwa declaring that “to kill Americans and their allies, civilians, and military is an individual duty of every Muslim who is able.”
Their attacks – which saw the suicide bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, and the crippling of the USS Cole in Aden in 2002 – climaxed with September 11. Declaring a “global war on terrorism”, President George W Bush quickly toppled the Taliban in Kabul and scattered al-Qa’eda’s leadership. However al-Qa’eda fragments or its sympathisers have since carried out a succession of bombings – many of them suicide missions – against western targets in Tunisia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Spain, Iraq, Egypt and now Britain…
Zawahiri [bin Laden’s #2] said jihadis should not lose sight of the ultimate goal – the creation of an Islamic state in the heart of the Muslim world, notably in Egypt, as a base from which to “lead the Islamic world in a jihad against the West” and recreate the Caliphate…’
Mark
Ottawa
Thanks Mark, I printed your last two comments off as a reference. Now I don’t have to read the whole book..he he.
Also printed off info from others like Maz2, Mcallister and others on things like the latest F22 and F33 US weapons policies and laws protecting US gun makers like Smith and Wesson from potential lawsuits.
You packed a lot into your summary. Thanks. 73s TG