Spent the day standing on concrete, and don’t have much energy left for blogging – much less sifting through the 30 or so “tips” that arrived in my inbox while I was out.
So, use the comments for this evening if you have something so urgent everyone must know about. But, eh… if it’s already been on Nealenews or already raging about the Toryshere, I’d guess most people have seen it.
Tomorrow.
I know how you feel. I married off my first born this weekend. Great day but very tiring.
Summer will do that to you all right. That’s why the libscammers have chosen this time to slip stuff past us. Here is a note you may find interesting and the Anticorruption.ca site is worth checking.
Dear Link & Craig,
AntiCorruption.ca is a masterstroke website.
The most effective anti-dote to revenues theft and waste is Bill C-11, the Whistle-Blower Protections bill.
A search of the site on Citizenscentre.com turns up nothing on Bill-C11
I understand the singular focus of Citizenscentre.com was the SSM Bill C-38. I understand the strengths in keeping the focus singular.
Your Websites are excellent and I feel very much on the same page, however wihout support and discussion of Bill C-11, there seems to be a glaring omission.
See if you think so at BendGovt.blog.ca
Martin is trying and suceeding in placing lifetime muzzels on appoximately 6,000 bureaucrats in 14 government departments.
The Newspaper Association, in a letter to the Justice Department, expressed alarm at secrecy being added when public confidence in the government is at an all time low. The reasons are supposedly connected with anti-terrorism.
Canada.com News – Ottawa Citizen Sunday August 14,2005 *Bureaucrats face Lifetime Secrecy Oath on National Security* by James Gordon.
The Newspaper Association asked the decision be suspended pending further public discussion. There was a 30 day window allowed for proposed additions.
The Newspaper Association’s letter was the ONLY submission.
Why do I feel so victimized by a fraudulent minority government consolidating it’s power with impunity?
Where is the opposition? Any opposition at all.
73s Anthony Robinson also BendGovernment.blogspot.com
my open letter to Mr. Cheney (vice.president@whitehouse.gov) on my site in case he hasn’t been paying attention to our politics
http://wakinguponplanetx.blogspot.com/2005/08/dear-mr-cheney.html
I have discovered a strange angle between a Communist propaganda film made by a foreign born North Korean citizen named Alejandro Cao de Benos, and a tourist attraction video released on the D.P.R.K’s offical website.
The two are one in the same, basically.
It speaks volumes about North Korean society, I think.
http://ashesoftyranny.blogspot.com/
Standing on concrete is better than standing in it.
People, I have here some concrete evidence that the Libranos and the civil service have been conspiring to financially ruin private-sector contractors. Talk about corruption spreading from the political overlords to the civil service (not so civil now, is it)?
I wonder how many more examples there are out there than are mentioned on this link, and what are the political connections of the firms harmed by the gov’t and bureaucracy. Wouldn’t it be a blast to uncover conspiracy to destroy businesses that refuse to be connected to the Librano mob?
http://www.politicswatch.com/bureaucrats-aug19-2005.htm
More Librano fascism:
Liberals plan to dictate what we can and cannot eat:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2005/23/c2232.html
What is with this Librano fetish with attempting to control virtually everything we do?
Death knell for the CBC?
Check out “Fade to Black” in today’s National Post Sports section.
I heard (but haven’t found the stats) that Saturday night’s CFL game on CBC, without play-by-play, drew higher ratings than normal….
A couple of very good articles on Islam/Jihadism.
1) Daily Telegraph: ” British Muslims forgetting their roots”, by Mihir Bose
(Filed: 23/08/2005)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/08/23/do2302.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/08/23/ixop.html
Excerpts:
‘Sunday’s Panorama programme presented the wretched spectacle of Sir Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, wriggling on a hook of his own making. Asked why he had boycotted the Holocaust Memorial Day but attended the memorial service to Sheikh Yassin, the ideological chief of Hamas and grand justifier of suicide bombing, Sir Iqbal could not answer. He did little better when asked what he would do if Salman Rushdie had published The Satanic Verses now (back then he said that death would be “a bit too easy for him”). His answer was that the upcoming law against religious hatred would see to the book’s withdrawal…
…in the climate of rage and fear unleashed by the Mutiny of 1857, Muslims became highly suspect in British eyes – so much so that some of the British even floated the idea of tearing down the Taj Mahal and converting it into a dance floor.
It was in the depth of this Muslim despair that Syed Ahmed Khan emerged.
His ancestors had served the Mughal court for generations but during the 1857 revolt Khan supported the British. And now he worked hard to convince the imperial rulers that they should not condemn the entire Muslim community.
His fellow Muslims were arguing that as India was now ruled by non-Muslims this made the country Dar-al-Harb, the land of strife, and that this imposed an obligation on all Muslims to fight and destroy the unbelievers and return the country to Islamic rule. Khan countered that as long as the British respected Islam and Islamic laws then India should not be considered Dar-al Harb – that there could be coexistence between the rulers and ruled.
Khan also encouraged Muslims to take to western education and free the community from customs and beliefs that were outdated and hidebound. He had to face the wrath of his fellow Muslims, who condemned him as a stooge of the West. But his tactics worked. By the end of the 19th century, the British and the Muslims were reconciled – so much so that Muslims became Britain’s ally against the Hindus when the first demands for self-rule began…
Today it is rich Saudis who assiduously propagate pan-Islamism. The result has been that British Muslims have become alienated from their roots, both Indian/Pakistani and British. They have been encouraged to forget they belong to a very different cultural strain than the Saudis. They are mostly converts from Hinduism and there is large measure of the gentle Sufi tradition in them. But, influenced by imams, themselves financed by Middle Eastern money, many try to prove they are as Muslim as their co-religionists from the Middle East…’
2) Le Monde diplomatique, August 2005: “Britain: homegrown terror: What did those who bombed London on 7 and 21 July want? The real goals of Islamist terrorism are the provocation of a clash of cultures and the destruction of political integration”, by Olivier Roy
http://mondediplo.com/2005/08/05terror
Excerpts:
‘BRITAIN has been astonished to discover that the terrorists responsible for the London bombings on 7 July were British citizens, born there and apparently well integrated. One was even a convert to Islam. Yet that fits the profile of most of the second generation of al-Qaida terrorists that emerged at the end of the 1990s…
But radical imams such as Abu Hamza, Abu Qatada and Omar Bakri, who specifically address second-generation Muslims and play on their sense of alienation and uprootedness, are in quite a different category. For such preachers, no existing country is truly Islamic: the ummah exists wherever there are Muslims. The uprootedness of young Muslims is seen as an advantage, since it removes them from the influence of the cultural and traditional Islam of their parents and countries of origin. These imams want to radicalise young Muslims in their countries of residence and enlist them in a worldwide jihad. And for that, anywhere will do. Let them go to Afghanistan, Kashmir or Yemen (the way that Abu Hamza�s son did), or just stay in London…
These radicals are not fighting for a specific national cause. They are part of the contemporary global jihad: Bosnia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir and now Iraq. Their enemy is the US and the West in general. They are not fighting to establish an Islamic state in Iraq or Palestine. They are not concerned with solidarity networks or fundraising; nor are they involved in the conflicts and practical problems of Muslim populations in Europe…
The �near enemy/far enemy� theory (according to which the radicals first sought to change the regimes in the countries of the Middle East and only then began to attack the West on the grounds that it was keeping those regimes in place) does not stand up to chronological examination, except in the case of the small group of Egyptians led by Ayman al-Zawahiri. The jihadist militants have always been internationalists, such as al-Qaida�s precursor, Abdallah Azzam, who deliberately abandoned the fight for the liberation of Palestine not because of the strength of the US or Israel but because he considered the nationalistic character of the struggle detrimental to the cause of Islam. As for the present generation of al-Qaida activists, they were radicalised in a context of globalisation and uprootedness, rather than struggle to establish an Islamic state in any given country…
Bin Laden will always invoke �objective� reasons to gain popularity for his actions among the Muslim masses, but it is not those causes that radicalise the terrorists. The case of Mohammed Bouyeri, who killed the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, shows that Iraq and Palestine have little to do with it. They are invoked by Bin Laden for purposes of propaganda, not for recruitment, which began before the military interventions and will continue even in the event of military withdrawal…
…Most of all, al-Qaida is concerned to smash the political common front and confine Muslims to a purely religious or ethnic identity that most of them want nothing to do with. It is deliberately out to provoke a clash of cultures, perhaps because, at bottom, the real problem of the radicalised youth is their relation to culture of any kind…’
Mark
Ottawa
Candace, Your open letter to Cheney on WakingUponPlanetx.blogspot.com is worth following through, coffe in hand. Some of the links you provide are an interesting eye-opener.
Thanks for your effort.
Let’s hope there is no NEP2. 73s TG
Mark Steyn on the Gaza pullout. He’s adding to the Frum / Warren one-two.
http://www.steynonline.com/index2.cfm?edit_id=24
In Britain since July 7th, political figures have twisted themselves into pretzels trying to explain how suicide bombers in London are somehow different from suicide bombers in Tel Aviv � unwilling, even as the double-deckers are exploding across Bloomsbury, to abandon their fetishization of the Palestinian cause, and unable to see that in an ever more Islamified continent the Europeans are the new Jews. Maybe an Islamist statelet on the Mediterranean will concentrate even European minds.
FRUM: (Secret of Gaza) http://www.davidfrum.com/archive.asp?YEAR=2005
WARREN: http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/index.php?artID=502
I don’t find it odd that some bombers were born British.The Russian spies that were British were upper class people that were born there,raised there and went to high end English universities.The people that caught them were the children of lower class parents.
Stephen McAllister,
I emailed Romeo St.Martin that he had forgotten the government relocation contract in his story.From personal phone conversations with Romeo, I know he is aware of this contract, so I was surprised that there was no mention of it. The parent company of the winning relocation company is a major contributor to the Liberal Party. Since 2003, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal have twice ruled that the contract was unfairly awarded. This spring, the CITT ordered PWGSC to re-examine the bids and to use a brand new team in doing so. Scott Brison, Minister of PWGSC, ordered his people to take the ruling to Federal Court. His people, either deliberately ,or through bureacratic bumbling, didn’t file the necessary documents before the Federal Court broke for summer recess. The next opportunity will be in September 2005. After the filing, there is a 30 day waiting period before the court has to set a hearing date. Insiders figure that date will be sometime in 2006.This is a Billion $ plus contract under which the relocation company gets to move all military, all RCMP and all civil servants. All these people who are requiring a mortgage upon moving are directed, on paper, to consult about mortgages with a mortgage company owned by the CIBC.
Are you surprised by this?
A very good column by Paul Wells on the GG-designate: “Too late now: Micha�lle Jean’s appointment raised complex questions that deserved to be talked about” (August 23)
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/politics/article.jsp?content=20050829_111223_111223
And an interesting comment from Norman Spector’s webstite:
“If my recollection is right, the PMO dropped this line to explain the now famous toast to independence by our new G.G.: “It wasn’t about Quebec, it was about Martinique”.
I’m wondering how the French government, an ally within the G8, feels about Canada having a head of state that is/was sympathetic to Martinique’s independence, as confirmed by the PMO.
I would love to read the briefing note on that quote from the French embassy in Ottawa…
Wells has written one the best pieces on the Jean nomination to date:
http://www.macleans.ca/ topstorie…9_111223_111223
Jacques | 08.23.05 – 9:02 am”
And, I would note, Michaelle Jean is a now French citizen. Does she still support independence for Martinique and thus secession from France? Is she a separatist with respect to both her citizenships? Has she no loyalty?
Mark
Ottawa
Rusty Smith, that doesn’t surprise me at all. The relocation contract thing rings a bell, but I admit I had probably paid little attention to it or perhaps the MSM deemphasized the issue. It all fits the pattern of unprecedented corruption and aggression I’ve witnessed over the life of this federal regime.
Thank you for your contribution to this important matter. I wonder what other examples of this unnecessary, aggressive state strong-arming and pushiness will pop up? Wonder who esle knows of more of this bad Liberal behavior?
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New Governor General Anti-Canadian Military?
By Garth Pritchard
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Kandahar, Afghanistan– Word of the appointment of the controversial Haitian-born, Quebec separatist-supporting Micha�lle Jean as Canada’s new Governor General by Prime Minister Paul Martin has reached Canadian troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Canada Free Press reporter Garth Pritchard, embedded with the troops in Kandahar, for one, is not amused.
The following is a message, Pritchard, an award-wining documentary filmmaker sent back to the home front.
Canadian troops are in Afghanistan to help with security for the elections being held in September.
Our soon-to-be Governor General, Ms. Micha�lle Jean, will become the Commander in Chief of Canada�s Military.
I am a Canadian documentary filmmaker. I feel it necessary to point out that on numerous occasions we have attempted to have documentaries featuring Canada�s spectacular positive military contributions in hot spots around the world broadcast on The Passionate Eye � the very one with which Ms. Jean was affiliated.
CBC is our national broadcaster, whose mandate is to show Canadians about Canadians, and Ms. Jean was host of The Passionate Eye a CBC vehicle to broadcast documentaries from Canada and around the world.
We produce documentaries showcasing the superb work that our Canadian military men and women perform around the globe.
In spite of fitting directly within their published parameters, we were met with consistent refusals from Ms. Jean�s The Passionate Eye to broadcast these award-winning Canadian documentaries. Acquiring Producer Jerry McIntosh refers to them as ‘propaganda’ and will not run them.
Once she takes office as Governor General, Micha�lle Jean will become Commander in Chief of Canada�s military.
I have great respect for the office of Canada�s Governor General, and I take serious issue with Ms. Jean�s apparent anti-military sentiments.
Canada Free Press columnist Garth Pritchard, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker living in Alberta.
Garth Pritchard nails it; another reason Michaelle Jean is not fit to be GG.
Mark
Ottawa
So… are we actually going to have a raging left-wing extremist as Governor General, as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, as the one who hands out the Order of Canada…?
Paul is truly Mad Man Martin.
I cannot link to Angry in the Great White North. I have tried every avenue I can think of to connect to his wesite. I am beginning to feel ‘icky’ about this – like Pastrnak in USSR, when he wrote Dr. Zhivago -leading to years in a hell on earth. Please tell me what I am thinking is not so.
If Garth Pritchard was an award winning documentary film maker in Quebec, his films would no doubt be all over the CBC.
Not necessarily. Perhaps he’s not a leftist documentary filmmaker, therefore the CBC would refuse to give him the time of day… after all, Mme Jean herself told him to feck off, right?
Martin to keep election promise
REGINA (CP) – Prime Minister Paul Martin insisted Tuesday he will keep his promise to call a federal election within 30 days of the final report into the sponsorship scandal expected later this year…>>>
He “insisted”…. that he was not a crook, too. Oh, wait: that was Chretien, ex-pm.
Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Stephen McAllister,
You and I are probably the only ones interested in this matter. Notice the lack of comments agreeing or dis-agreeing with your post.Perhaps this is just another example of what Canadians will accept from their government. Pity!
Rusty, I noticed. And this is the sort of thing into which it is the job of the MSM to investigate (the RCMP sure as hell won’t!). The MSM isn’t doing its job. Looks like for now it’s up to average citizens who care and have observed or rec’d intel from credible sources to share it however they can, like here on the blogs. Perhaps it’s a matter of timing when it comes to getting attention for important things like this. Eventually it’ll come out. Of course, it won’t be pretty.
Maz2, Us ex-president Nixon started that * I am not a crook* habit. Look where it got him. Anyone stupid enough to say that is probably washed up.
It’s like the question, *when did you stop beating your wife?* Any answer at all will land you firmly in quicksand. 73s TG