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Obama sends another US aircraft carrier to Iran's doorstep

2010-10-20T12:27:00.000-07:00

A military blog from Israel is reporting that Barack Obama has dispatched another US aircraft carrier to Iran's doorstep. According to some tallies, this would be the 5th US carrier off Iran's coastline. Each carrier travels with a fleet of US missile cruisers, destroyers, and carries large contingents of US Marines and warplanes. One US carrier alone could inflict serious damage on Iran.

NAACP can't prove its anti-T.E.A. allegations, so it makes even more far-fetched accusations

2010-10-20T12:23:00.000-07:00

Will The Real Anti-Semites Please Stand Up
The far-left attack dogs at the NAACP released a report yesterday accusing Americans concerned about the Democrats' $14 Trillion national debt, otherwise known as the Taxed Enough Already party, of being linked to anti-Semites. This follows their bogus racist attacks on the tea party movement back in July that created a national uproar. The NAACP accused those who support the low-tax, living within your means message of being, somehow, racist. The NAACP was then challenged to prove its allegations of racism, which it was not able to do. Now, the attention-starved group is making an entirely new set of ridiculous accusations.

However, many pundits are raising an eyebrow at the NAACP's desperate bid for free advertising as their organization has close links to professional racists and anti-Semites, such as the far-left radical, Louis Farrakhan.

The story continues here (with video of anti-Semitism at the NAACP):
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/10/oops-naacp-accuses-tea-party-of-jew-bashing-forgets-to-scrub-anti-semites-from-website/

Yahoo falsely blames Canada for terrorist attack on United States

2010-10-15T21:02:00.001-07:00

On October 15, 2010, Yahoo! news online falsely claimed that Omar Khadr, a Muslim extremist terrorist who attacked American citizens, killing one, was born in Canada. This is false. The Muslim terrorist, Omar Khadr, was not born in Canada, but was able to obtain Canadian citizenship under liberal government policies in Canada.

Trudeau era government plotted to deny citizens of inalienable human rights

2010-10-15T20:53:00.000-07:00

The CBC, which is financed by Canadian taxpayers against their will, has uncovered evidence that the Canadian government, at the time of radical left-wing prime minister Trudeau, plotted to arrest and detain Canadian citizens in violation of their fundamental human and legal rights.

A former provincial attorney general was among thousands of Communists and sympathizers from across Canada slated to be watched and even detained at internment camps under a Cold War-era plan, a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation found.
Roland Penner, who served in cabinet under Manitoba's NDP government throughout the 1980s, was monitored by the government program PROFUNC over the span of two decades starting in the 1950s. It's unclear whether they continued to monitor him after he was elected to office in 1981.
Roland Penner, who served in cabinet under Manitoba's NDP government throughout the 1980s, was monitored by the government program PROFUNC. (Manitoba Historical Society) "I've reason to believe … that it continued even when I was attorney general. Now, when it stopped, I don't know," Roland told The Fifth Estate.
He has obtained the thick security file the RCMP compiled on him, but most of it is redacted. Though he knows his Communist ties prompted police surveillance, he had no idea about the government's secret internment plan.
The CBC's The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada's Enquete investigative programs unearthed troubling details about the three-decades-long secret government contingency plan dubbed PROFUNC, which stands for PROminent FUNCtionaries of the Communist Party.
At the plan's outset in 1950, about 16,000 suspected Communists and 50,000 sympathizers were listed as PROFUNC targets to be monitored and possibly interned in the advent of a national security threat.
Penner's inclusion on the list is perhaps not surprising. He followed in the footsteps of his parents, becoming a leading communist in the province. He ran for federal election under a communist banner in the early 1950s but later joined the New Democrats.
His father, Jacob Penner, had a hand in founding the Communist Party of Canada. Both of Penner's parents were also on the PROFUNC list.
Under the PROFUNC plan, sealed envelopes were placed in RCMP detachments across the country containing names and details about potential internees.

A separate arrest document, known formally as a C-215 form, was written up for each potential internee. Each form detailed the person's name, age, physical description, photos of the person, information on their vehicles and homes, including location of doors to be used in potential escapes. The lists of targets included their children.
Over the decades, the documents in the envelopes were regularly reviewed and updated.
In the advent of a national security crisis, RCMP detachments across the country would begin a massive roundup they referred to as M-Day, or Mobilization Day. Police commanders were secretly briefed on preparations for the day.
Special uniformed teams were to be deployed in residential neighbourhoods, taking up tactical positions and rounding up the targets. Those arrested would then be transported to temporary "reception centres."
Early lists suggested reception centres be set up in locations across the country, including Toronto's historic Casa Loma, a country club in Port Arthur, Ont., and Grandstand Exhibition Grounds in Regina.
Internees would later be transferred to more formal detention facilities such as penitentiaries.
Men would be kept at camps across the country, women would be sent to one of two facilities in the Niagara Peninsula or Kelowna, B.C. Children would either be sent to relatives or interned with parents.
An 11-page document outlines the harsh rules for internees at the camps. Internees could be held indefinitely and shot if caught trying to escape.
Internees also faced harsh punishment if they broke the strict rules of the camps, such as the following: "No internee shall converse with any person, other than an officer guard or staff member, unless he is permitted to do so under these regulations or is given special permission to do so by an officer."
The PROFUNC files were regularly updated until the program's demise in 1983, prompted by administrative changes introduced by Robert Kaplan, Canada's solicitor general at the time.
The former Toronto Liberal MP said he knew nothing of the plan’s existence during his time as minister in the early 1980s. Kaplan says he learned of the program — and his inadvertent role in shutting it down — from the CBC.
He unwittingly ended the program when he ordered the RCMP to discontinue whatever was causing a number of superannuated Communists to encounter problems entering the United States. Irate constituents had alerted him to the problem.
Kaplan said he was appalled to hear that the Canadian government had been involved in such a plan: "I just can’t believe it had any government authorization behind it."

Paper: Harry Reid, waffling Democrat Senator, lost to T.E.A. candidate

2010-10-15T17:45:00.000-07:00

Reid lost the debate to Angle

By Jon Ralston (contact)

Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.

Let’s get the easy part out of the way first:
Sharron Angle won The Big Debate.
Angle won because she looked relatively credible, appearing not to be the Wicked Witch of the West (Christine O’Donnell is the good witch of the Tea Party) and scoring many more rhetorical points. And she won because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid looked as if he could barely stay on a linear argument, abruptly switching gears and failing to effectively parry or thrust.
Whether the debate affects the outcome — I believe very few Nevadans are undecided — it also perfectly encapsulated the race: An aging senator who has mastered the inside political game but fundamentally does not seem to care about his public role (and is terrible at it) versus an ever-smiling political climber who can deliver message points but sometimes changes her message or denies a previous one even existed.
Look upon these works, ye mighty, and despair.
As I watched the debate, I felt all the years that Nevada has striven to surmount its seamy image fading away as the nation watched this sad spectacle. As Slate’s John Dickerson wryly put it on Twitter: “After watching the Nevada Senate debate I really wish that what happens in Vegas could stay in Vegas.”
I know we Nevadans get our backs up when the national media condescends. We are a proud bunch; we love our state. But as I surveyed the post-mortems in the 140-character world, where concision often yields brutal truth, you could almost sense the head-shaking as the national types opined:
NBC’s Chuck Todd: “Reid’s problem tonight is that while Angle wasn’t great, his performance made her look passable.”
Politico’s Dave Catanese: “Utterly subpar.”
Political Wire’s Taegan Goddard: “Reid didn’t knock out Angle but she had him on the ropes. Have to give the edge to Angle ...”
Political writer Taylor Marsh may have summed it up best: “Sharron Angle passed the ‘I’m not crazy test’ with flying colors. Focused too. This lady just might pull this off. Reid didn’t take her out.”
But did he take himself out, once and for all, with his dismissiveness, his sarcastic and loopy use of “my friend” and Senatese, his shifting of subjects in the middle of thoughts, beginning with his opening statements?
It is difficult to say beyond CSPAN watchers being appalled across the country — and probably sending checks to The $14 Million Woman as they watched — if the debate had any electoral effect. But Reid, as he did with a veterinarian named John Ensign 12 years ago, seemed almost in disbelief that he was on the same stage with Angle. If it was possible, I think he would have had a Bush 41 look-at-my-watch moment.
There was much revisionist history in the debate by both candidates, but, as usual, mostly from Angle. Reid called a man he once all but called a liar (Gen. David Petraeus) and a man he did call a liar and loser (Bush 43) his friends. But he also used that collegial term to refer to Angle, as if he were speaking to some senator he despises (they do that on the floor).
But Angle, as she often does, when confronted with previous positions from abolishing the Education Department to phasing out Social Security and Medicare, just plows ahead as if her reinvention project is perfectly believable. If she says she never said it, maybe she never did — unless, as has so often happens but could not Thursday, someone plays Warner Wolf and goes to the videotape.
The most striking example was when moderator Mitch Fox asked her about calling the unemployed “spoiled.” Angle claimed Reid “mischaracterized” what she had said. What? She has apologized for making the comment.
My guess, though, is no one noticed as Reid didn’t point that out (hello, debate prep) and didn’t effectively deconstruct many of her automaton-like message points. She just kept coming and coming — Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare — the Tea Party’s and Nevada’s Energizer Bunny who never, ever stops running.
I still find it incredible that more has not been made of Angle’s most egregious statement this campaign — and it didn’t even come up Thursday — which was her assertion in Mesquite this month that Sharia law had been imposed in two American cities, one of which doesn’t even exist. This Muslim-baiting, noxious construction has been ignored by all but a few news outlets (kudos to CNN), and her answer is almost more astounding: She read it somewhere so she repeated it.
That is crazy, folks. But that’s not how she came across Thursday, as Reid failed to call her on that and many other topics, making it more likely he has to make an unthinkable call to her on Election Night.

Obama admin set to release Muslim terrorist who killed US hero

2010-10-15T17:42:00.000-07:00

A plea deal that would reportedly keep a Guantanamo prisoner in custody for eight more years isn't sitting well with a key witness against him: a former Army sergeant who was partially blinded and lost a friend in the firefight that led to the alleged al-Qaida militant's capture. Layne Morris said Friday that Omar Khadr should get at least 20 years in prison, and perhaps much longer.
"They ought to lock him up until he's no longer a threat, and if that's for the rest of his life, so be it," Morris said in an interview with The Associated Press a day after Khadr's lawyers disclosed they were negotiating a possible plea deal.
Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured following the firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, was originally scheduled to go on trial Monday at the U.S. base in Cuba. He faces war crimes charges that include murder for allegedly throwing a grenade that killed Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a special forces medic from Albuquerque, New Mexico. If convicted, he faces a maximum life sentence.
The trial began in August but was put on hold when Khadr's defense lawyer fell ill and collapsed in the courtroom.
With plea talks under way, a military judge postponed the resumption of the trial, the first at Guantanamo under President Barack Obama. The war crimes tribunal is scheduled to reconvene Oct. 25 — but that could turn into a sentencing hearing if an agreement is reached.
Khadr's lawyers and U.S. officials declined to release details about any proposed agreement. But the Toronto Star reported that a proposal already approved by the military would impose a sentence of less than 10 years, on top of the time he has already been in custody. Postmedia News said he would get eight, with one more in Guantanamo and the rest in his native country. Both cited anonymous sources.
There have been plea talks before, but Khadr himself has resisted, saying it would excuse the harsh treatment he endured during captivity. He also denies throwing the grenade that killed Speer.
The Khadr case is problematic for the U.S. because of his age and the fact that his father, who was killed in 2003, had close ties to senior al-Qaida leaders. His lawyers and human rights groups say Khadr was a child soldier, essentially brainwashed by his family, who should be sent home and rehabilitated.
But unlike most war crimes cases at Guantanamo, his involves specific American victims.
Morris, now retired from the Army and living in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah, is scheduled to travel to Guantanamo to testify as a witness. He said he appreciates the challenge that prosecutors face with the case but nevertheless hopes for a longer sentence.
"Knowing the facts of the case, I would think your average American would be disappointed that somebody who had demonstrated the capacity and the willingness to kill American soldiers would get a mere eight years," he said in a phone interview. "That seems short to me."
Morris was blinded in his right eye during the assault on the militant stronghold in which Speer was killed. He said he doesn't seek a longer sentence out of vengeance but for the sake of his comrade's family and because he believes Khadr, now 24, remains a danger to the U.S. It wouldn't matter to him whether Khadr serves prison time in Guantanamo or somewhere in the U.S.
"He should get 20 years and then be evaluated to see if he is still a security threat," Morris said.

An American government unimaginably steals a baby because father swears to follow US Constitution

2010-10-15T17:38:00.000-07:00

By Bob Unruh
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Johnathon Irish, fiancé and baby

A tiny baby girl snatched from her parents' custody a week ago when her father was accused of being an "Oath Keeper" was returned to her parents today.
According to WND sources close to the case, the accusations against the father, Johnathon Irish, whose fiancée, Stephanie Taylor, is the mother of Cheyenne, have been dropped.
WND originally reported on the case last weekend when the state took the baby, ordering the father to stand with his hands behind his back and frisking him while social workers took the child. The affidavit supporting the actions cited the father's affiliation with the patriotic organization Oath Keepers.
Irish, reached today by telephone by WND, said New Hampshire state law prevents disclosure of details of family court disputes. But the WND source confirmed that the little girl had been returned to the family and there were no future court dates scheduled in the case.
Officials with the state Family Court system could not be reached by WND.
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Just hours earlier a protest was held outside the court where the hearing was going on, and as WND reported, officials with Oath Keepers submitted a demand letter to the state's social services agency to remove the reference in the affidavit in the Irish case.
The organization collects affirmations from soldiers and peace officers that they would refuse orders that violate the U.S. Constitution in light of what they perceive as the advance of socialism in the U.S.
Irish had told WND that an affidavit signed by Child Protective Service worker Dana Bickford seeking government custody of newborn Cheyenne a week ago said the agency "became aware and confirmed that Mr. Irish associated with a militia known as the 'Oath Keepers.'"
While officials with Oath Keepers confirmed that there were other issues involved in the case, they were stunned to learn that the court ruling had described their organization as a militia and had referenced participation with them as an accusation.
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"This poorly conducted investigation used unsubstantiated and unsupported information regarding our organization. A journey to our website, and a reading of our bylaws, could have easily confirmed what we are and are not," said the Oath Keepers letter, delivered today to state officials. "We are an association of currently serving and retired police, military, and emergency personnel. We are not a militia. Our goal is simply to educate all current service personnel on their obligations under the law and in particular our Constitution."

WND reported earlier when the dispute erupted, including when Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes wrote on his website that the citation of his organization sends a seriously troubling message.
Details of the resolution of the case were withheld behind the curtain of Family Court restrictions. But Rhodes described it as a "fundamental point" to have government agencies condemning defendants for their political affiliations.
"Talk about chilling speech! If this is allowed to continue, it will chill the speech of not just Mr. Irish, but all Oath Keepers and it will serve as the camel [nose] under the tent for other associations being considered too risky for parents to dare," he continued. "'Don't you dare associate with such and such group, or you could be on 'the list' and then child protective services might come take your kids.'"
While Oath Keepers is not a militia, he said, it would make no difference if it was.
"A parent associating with a militia is not engaged in child endangerment and is not evidence of child endangerment," he said.
Oath Keepers' members promise not to obey any order "to disarm the American people," conduct warrantless searches, "detain American citizens as 'unlawful enemy combatants,'" work to impose martial law, invade or subjugate any state, blockade American cities, put Americans in detention camps or "make war against our own people."
Rhodes himself was a U.S. Army paratrooper injured in an parachuting accident, a former firearms instructor and a former member of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's Washington staff.
The organization's board of directors includes Army veteran Sgt. Dave Freeman, Army veteran Capt. Chauncey Normandin, Navy veteran Capt. Gregory Gooch, Celia S. Hyde of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, all retired.
Others are Marines, members of the Air Force, local law enforcement and even of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
The demand letter apparently was addressed by the court's action, although Rhodes said he'd been given no direct response to the concerns. It said, "As police officers, we have been called all manner of vile names by criminal suspects, but nothing compares to the offensive assertion that to associate with us and our military counterparts is child endangerment. We respectfully request that any reference to Oath Keepers be removed from your affidavit by whatever mechanism New Hampshire law allows or requires."
The letter continued, "On behalf of all of the active duty and retired police and sheriff personnel within our organization, as well as our military and firefighter brothers and sisters, we demand that you remove the offensive verbiage in the affidavit filed by your investigator, Dana Bickford, which states, 'the Division became aware and confirmed that Mr. Irish associated with a militia known as the 'Oath Keepers …''
"By so listing the political associations of a parent as a reason to take a newborn baby from her mother's arms, the affidavit politicizes child protective services. That politicization was unfortunately furthered by the judge in this case who adopted Bickford’s entire affidavit as the Court's 'findings of fact' setting forth the reasons for issuing the order to take the baby."
The letter explains Oath Keepers members "have seen first-hand the heart-rending abuse that children can suffer at the hands of dysfunctional adults. It is to prevent such abuse that child protective services is given great latitude and power. Politics has no place in this process precisely because of the immense power you wield. All that should matter is the welfare of the children, not the politics of the parents. Such politicization not only hurts the families and children involved, but also chills the speech of other parents who now will worry that their political affiliations will be used as grounds for taking their children."
It was signed by Capt. Chauncey Normandin, retired, from the Lowell, Mass., police department; Sgt. David Freeman, retired, from the Las Vegas police department; Chief Celia S. Hyde, retired, of the Bolton, Mass., police department; retired Graham County, Ariz., Sheriff Richard Mack; and almost half a dozen actively serving law enforcement officers in Texas, Pennsylvania, Utah and others.
According to the original court documents, copies of which were posted by Oath Keepers, "Mr. Irish was court ordered to attend Ending the Violence with Scott Hampton, however, to date, has not completed this program." The court affidavit continued, "The Epsom Police Department stated they were very familiar with Mr. Irish, as they have responded to multiple calls, which involved Mr. Irish and firearms, one of which resulted in a pending charge for possession of a concealed weapon without a permit.
"The division became aware and confirmed that Mr. Irish associated with a militia known as the 'Oath Keepers,' and had purchase several different types of weapons including a rifle, handgun and taser," the court documents said.

Conservative Government responds to far-left Toronto Star hackjob

2010-10-15T17:35:00.000-07:00

Earlier this week, the far-left wing paper, the Toronto Star, obtained a first draft memo written by a bureaucrat in the civil service. The TorStar ran this first draft memo and attributed its contents to the Conservative government, whom had not written the memo, read the memo, and had not been made aware of its existence by the rogue bureaucrat. Now, a cabinet minister of the Conservative government corrects the record after the Toronto Star created such disinformation.

Federal officials denied Thursday they were ever seriously considering advertising for strippers, escorts and chat line agents on a taxpayer-funded jobs website.
A spokesman for federal Human Resources minister Diane Finley says a draft memo about such a proposal was the product of junior-level discussions and was never seriously considered.
Ryan Sparrow said the first time the minister heard of the discussion was when a Toronto newspaper reported on it Thursday morning.
"I can assure you this does not reflect any policy or policy direction of the government," said Ryan Sparrow. "These are junior officials at the department of HRDC on a working group with the Ontario government on Canada Job Bank. The draft notice is completely unacceptable and does not reflect any policy considered by our government."
Despite the blunt denial from the federal government, an indignant Ontario cabinet minister was moved to write a letter expressing deep concern.
John Milloy, the province's minister of training, colleges and universities, declared himself "deeply concerned" in the missive to Finley Thursday.
"We will not be posting ads for strippers or escorts or chat line agents on the Job Bank," he concluded.
In an interview, Milloy later put an even finer point on it.
"If a final directive of this nature comes forward, we're going to ignore it," he said. "And if the federal government wants to sue me over it, they can."
Milloy further explained: "I don't want to cast aspersions on individual's career choices. But at the same time we're talking about a taxpayer funded system. I don't think it's appropriate to be recruiting strippers and escorts through a taxpayer-funded system."
Charles McVety, president of the Canada Christian College, said he suspected the policy discussion emerged from low-level bureaucratic circles.
"This would be a full scale betrayal of the (family values) mandate this government was given," he said. "If this is a policy of the Conservative government, I would ask them to remove the name Conservative from their party."
Sparrow didn't want to guess how the apparently low-level discussions were obtained by a journalist.

Canada accepts Israel's request to take up diplomatic mission in anti-Semitic Venezuela

2010-10-15T17:31:00.000-07:00

Canada is the eyes and ears of Israel in Venezuela

Israel has asked Canada to represent its interests in Venezuela after the regime of Hugo Chavez had severed diplomatic relations with Israel in the wake of the bombing of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army in 2008 and 2009.

Outrageous left-wing MP surrenders, admits distorting the truth

2010-10-15T17:29:00.000-07:00

Liberal MP surrenders, issues apology to Conservative staffer after baseless, partisan attack

By Gary Dimmock, The Ottawa Citizen October 15, 2010

Liberal MP Mark Holland has apologized to John Baird’s former chief of staff for implying in 2008 that the ex-aide tried to influence the Ontario Provincial Police anti-rackets squad to reverse its decision to forward the Larry O’Brien bribery dossier to the Mounties so they could probe the cabinet minister in the affair.
The apology is part of a last-minute, out-of-court settlement to avert a $3-million libel suit launched by Chris Froggatt, the ex-aide, against Holland.
“I made certain statements regarding Chris Froggatt, then Chief of Staff to Canada’s Minister of Environment, and communications between Mr. Froggatt and the Ontario Provincial Police.
“I have since determined that my concerns regarding Mr. Froggatt were unwarranted. I apologize to Mr. Froggatt and retract the statements that may have caused grief to him and to his family. This action has now been settled to the mutual satisfaction of both parties,” Holland said in a statement.
Baird had been interviewed twice by OPP detectives working on the O’Brien case, which ended in acquittal at last year’s criminal trial.
A day after O’Brien was charged, Baird’s then chief of staff made a series of telephone calls to a detective and the superintendent of the anti-rackets unit. The telephone calls were made while Baird was in Bali to attend international meetings on climate change.
In 2008, a top OPP superintendent told the Citizen and The Ottawa Sun in separate interviews — one of them taped — that he was going to forward the dossier to the Mounties as a matter of course, but a day later insisted he never said anything of the sort.
According to a statement of defence against Froggatt’s lawsuit, Holland’s lawyers stated: “The Prime Minister’s Office advised Baird that should Baird become subject to an RCMP investigation, he would be ousted from cabinet.”
But the cabinet minister’s office says the PMO told them no such thing.
Froggatt, now working for a public relations firm, said he simply made the calls to the OPP after getting “inquiries” from “media representatives.”
The details of the telephone calls from the cabinet minister’s office to police are documented in a March 7 lawyer’s letter drafted on behalf of Froggatt and sent to Holland demanding an apology for suggesting in a media interview that he interfered with a criminal investigation by contacting the OPP.
Holland’s office said he couldn’t comment. Froggatt’s lawyer and Holland’s lawyers alos said they couldn’t comment.

Separatist Canadian leader preaches The End

2010-10-15T17:26:00.000-07:00

Quebec independence ‘by no means settled,’ Duceppe tells Americans

From the Globe and Mail

Daniel Leblanc

October 15, 2010 9:55AM EDT

In a speech to a U.S. audience, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe insists that Quebec sovereignty remains in the cards and says it would be a win-win for everyone in North America – except for those who still believe in the “Canadian dream.”
Mr. Duceppe said the Liberal government in Quebec can be expected to lose the next election at the hands of the Parti Québécois and he predicted the Bloc will continue to dominate the federal landscape in Quebec.

“I am here to tell you that the question of Quebec’s political future is by no means settled,” he told the Woodrow Wilson Centre and Hudson Institute as part of a two-day visit to Washington.
“A sovereign Quebec will be a win-win outcome for Quebeckers, Canada, the United States and the world – for everyone except those who are nostalgic for a Canadian dream that no longer exists in reality.”
The Bloc Leader is urging the American government to stay out of Quebec’s internal politics but to move quickly to recognize an independent Quebec in the event that a third referendum on sovereignty succeeds.
“What we hope to see from the United States government is, first and foremost, no interference in our domestic affairs when Quebeckers make their decision,” Mr. Duceppe said, without mentioning specifically former U.S. president Bill Clinton's clear statements in favour of the federalist option in the 1990s.
“Secondly, I am counting on the United States to be a decisive player in the event that the ‘Yes’ side wins a referendum, and to push for negotiations and a quick and orderly resolution between Canada and Quebec,” Mr. Duceppe said.

The Globe and Mail dabbles in radical left wing libel-trashing

2010-10-15T17:21:00.000-07:00

The Globe and Mail printed a left wing unintelligent, factually antithetical garb today that makes intelligent folk question the moral and ethical integrity of the left-wing Globe and Mail. Take a look:

Exporting death: Another popular Harper foreign policy

Gerald Caplan

Disclaimer: The following is a radical left wing rant. The opinions expressed within should not be considered factual, but merely the misguided opinions of the author. The opening paragraph of the below article makes use of legal doctrine and well defined phraseology. The accusations contained therein are the outrageous allegations of a radical ideologue.

What do you call a country that deliberately sells products abroad that will kill many people? You call it Canada. What do you call it when a state action kills a large numbers of defenseless people? You call it a crime against humanity. So how can exporting death by Canadian asbestos not be a crime against humanity and how can a state that does so not be guilty of committing such a crime

Why does the International Criminal Court not issue warrants for those Canadian and Quebec government officials who are promoting the sale of deadly asbestos to poor countries where the death of many people is guaranteed? The reputation of the young court has been sorely undermined by its focus solely on Africans accused of terrible crimes. Canada's promotion of asbestos offers an opportunity to redress the balance.
It’s also nothing less than criminal that we need yet another column on this issue. Every lethal aspect of the asbestos trade has been comprehensively exposed. It’s received prominent coverage by the mainstream media throughout the country, including Quebec, where the only asbestos mine is now located. In this newspaper, devastating articles setting out the unanswerable case against asbestos have appeared by Jeffrey Simpson and André Picard. Kathleen Ruff, an expert on the issue, has been mobilizing indefatigably to stop all asbestos exports to countries like India, Bangladesh and Indonesia.
The case needs no further documentation. Except for some corporate interests and the paid hacks who shamelessly support them, no one doubts that asbestos, of whatever variety, is a cancer-causing killer. Here’s the bottom line: Asbestos can never again be used in Canada and 52 countries have banned it outright.
Every health organization you’ve ever heard of has condemned both the Canadian and the Quebec governments for actively promoting asbestos exports. According to the World Health Organization, more than 100,000 people worldwide die of occupational exposure to asbestos each year. As one of the top five asbestos exporters in the world, Canada is a major contributor to the carnage. Yet it continues, with the active support of Stephen Harper and Jean Charest.
And that’s really the only question still outstanding: Why in the world do both governments continue to promote the sale of asbestos in the face of all the evidence? Both know perfectly well the consequences of their actions. It makes no sense at all.
Can it really be about wining or losing a seat or possibly two in Quebec? Must countless poor Indians die for this unworthy end? Even I don’t attribute such immoral cynicism to Mr. Harper or Mr. Charest. But then, why their utter intransigence?
Nationally, Mr. Harper was not always alone in his perverse and lethal stubbornness. But in the past couple of years, thank heavens, the NDP and the federal Liberals and Canadian unions outside Quebec have all come to their senses and now demand that mining and exporting Quebec asbestos must end. This year NDP deputy leader Thomas Mulcair became the first Quebec MP ever to speak out against asbestos mining. The Bloc’s Gilles Duceppe finally acknowledges that Quebec's asbestos is hazardous and should only be used for very restricted purposes.
Yet even now the Quebec government is actively considering a subsidy of $58-million to re-open and massively expand the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, with the explicit purpose of significantly increasing asbestos exports to Asia, South America and Africa. When will we ever stop exploiting poor Africa for our own enrichment?
As for Ottawa, asbestos remains yet another case where science and evidence mean nothing to Stephen Harper. Despite everything, the Prime Minister remains a fan of asbestos and his Minister of Health refuses to meet with the leading health experts, deferring instead to the junk science and discredited propaganda of the asbestos lobby.
In fact despite his vaunted hostility to lobbyists, the Prime Minister – like Mr. Charest – actually funds the industry’s registered lobby group, the Chrysotile Institute, to the tune of $250,000 a year. Indeed, he quietly boasts to them that his government will continue at the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous substances to refuse to have asbestos placed on an international list of such substances.
Once again the Harper government embraces truthiness and repudiates truth. It allows the Chrysotile Institute to set our country’s health policy on asbestos. According to the well-connected Bernard Coulombe, a director of the CI and owner of the bankrupt Jeffrey Mine, chrysotile asbestos does not cause mesothelioma, which is much like asserting filter-tipped cigarettes are harmless. When over a hundred prestigious scientists from 28 countries wrote to Mr. Charest detailing why Quebec's export of asbestos is indefensible, the CI issued a press release calling these scientists "loufoque," a slang insult meaning wacko or nutty. Recall that this “institute” uses public funds to issue such statements.
Cynically yet shrewdly, the asbestos lobby has gotten away with painting any criticism of asbestos as being anti-Quebec. Let me note with profound personal disappointment that the fight to ban asbestos exports is complicated by the support given by Quebec trade unions to the discredited asbestos lobby and its denialist “science.” Inexcusably too, apparently not a single international development or human rights group in Quebec has taken a stand on the issue. I have to admit that I can’t begin to fathom what political calculations might account for this betrayal of poor workers abroad.
Many Quebeckers react with anger when other Canadians condemn the province’s support for asbestos. Canadian unions, who have been outspoken recently against asbestos, are curtly told by their brothers and sisters in Quebec to butt out.
Many Quebeckers were deeply offended recently when Maclean's magazine described the province as the most corrupt in Canada. I fear – no, I fervently hope – that they will have cause to become even angrier. The asbestos business deeply dishonors Quebec, Canada and all who either support it or remain silent bystanders.
I hope countless thousands of Canadians write their MPs about this scandal and that unions and civil society groups outside Quebec continue to make their voices heard loud and clear on this issue.
The Harper government (not Canada) was humiliated this week when its bid for a Security Council seat was rebuffed. A legion of retrograde foreign policies were responsible for this powerful rebuke, but for those who knew, the government’s support for asbestos exports was reason enough to vote against it. Has Stephen Harper learned a single lesson from this major disgrace? Have not enough of its foreign policy chickens now come home to roost? Only a tiny handful of self-interested people would object if he did the right thing about exporting deadly asbestos. Tens of thousands would applaud. What an opportunity for this government.

Hillary Clinton attacks Canadian sovereignty, then asks for Canada's help

2010-03-29T18:04:00.000-07:00

In a bizarre turn of events, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left a summit of Arctic coastal countries Monday after criticizing Canada for not inviting more people to the event. Having left the meeting, Clinton then appeared on a Canadian news program, Power Play with Tom Clark, where she stated that the Obama administration wants Canada to ignore its own parliamentary mission-end date in Afghanistan.

This request of Canada has not been discussed with the Prime Minister or the Minister of National Defence.

Clinton was in Ottawa for discussion on Arctic boundaries. Both the United States and the newly aggressive Russia have refused to acknowledge Canada's sovereignty in the Canadian Northwest Passage.

As much as one-quarter of Earth's undiscovered oil and gas is believed to be in the Arctic and climate changes are causing the Americans and Russians to eye Canada's untapped wealth with greed.

After making it clear that the Obama administration would rather have Canada's wealth for itself, Clinton began pushing the government to ignore a democratic resolution to end military operations in Afghanistan in 2011. Canada has been the third largest military and aid contributor to Afghanistan for 10 years.

Clinton's strange form of 'diplomacy' raise many eyebrows in Canada.

South Korea backtracks on torpedoed ship; does not want to respond to this act of war

2010-03-29T17:51:00.000-07:00

Initial reports that North Korea sank a South Korean navy ship had spooked Wall Street on Friday. Share prices dipped partly on geopolitical concerns, and the South Korean currency dropped.

South Korea admits that "the reason for the accident has not been determined yet," a senior government official was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency, but even without knowing the cause of the ships demise, SKorea is adamantly insisting North Korea was not responsible.

The ship suffered its demise off the North Korean waters to the West of the Korean peninsula. Initial reports indicated it had been torpedoed by a North Korean ship. A second South Korean navy vessel was seen firings its canons toward an unidentified object fleeing back to North Korea.

As many as 46 South Korean sailors may have perished.

Canada's Liberal Party calls for higher taxes amid global recession

2010-03-29T17:44:00.000-07:00

The Liberal Party's recent policy meeting went down without much of a stir. The party was reeling from a string of recent embarrassments and the media paid little attention to the opposition party's planning of Canada's 150th birthday party -- which is still seven years away.

The Liberal Party even ended with party leader Michael Ignatieff demanding higher corporate taxes in Canada. He has previously called for the national sales tax, the GST, to be increased from 5% to 7% -- a move which economists have warned would disproportionately harm low income families.

The Liberal finance critic, John McCallum, has begun singing to Ignatieff's tune and says that any future Liberal government would raise personal income taxes on Canadians.

Today during the House of Commons Question Period, the 45 minutes each day where the opposition is granted an opportunity to embarrass the government, the Liberals were resoundingly defeated by Conservative Minister John Baird.

Tony Clement called it a “tax-a-palooza” conference; Transport Minister John Baird referred to it as a “thinking, spending, taxing conference” and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty described the Liberal thinkers’ conference as “oxymoronic.”

The Conservatives were all over the Liberals today in Question Period, mocking their weekend policy confab in Montreal. In particular, they were focused on Michael Ignatieff’s call yesterday at the conference conclusion for an increase of corporate taxes.

First, Mr. Baird, who can’t resist a good jab, mocked the economically unfriendly policies the Liberals have adopted. “The Liberal Party certainly had a taxing weekend,” he joked, to much laughter from Members of Parliament.

Baird then condemned the Liberal's for repeatedly calling for a carbon tax on Canadian families after the idea was voted down by Canadians in 2008.

“And now they come out and want to raise taxes on job creators, raise taxes on investment. That will not help job creation,” Mr. Baird said.

“We strongly support competitive tax rates. We want Canada to be a bright light when it comes to new investments,” Mr. Baird said. “We have a fragile recovery setting in and the worst thing that we could is raise taxes.”

Son of Pierre Trudeau throws childish hissy fit during interview

2010-03-29T17:32:00.000-07:00

The son of deceased Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the man once suspected by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation as being a secret communist, has once again caused a media stir with immaturity and ignorance.

Justin Trudeau refused to allow a Conservative Member of Parliament to speak during an interview. Trudeau, a member of the Liberal Party, cut off Ms. Glover every time she was asked a question on CTV News.

“Justin is one of the worst examples of lack of decorum and lack of professionalism and lack of maturity that I have ever seen.” Ms. Glover said when the Globe and Mail asked her about Trudeau's shockingly childish behavior.

Viewers of the interview were reportedly infuriated at the juvenile attitude displayed by the Liberal MP -- and equally annoyed at the CTV News host, Jane Taber -- often regarded as holding a Liberal bias -- for not asking the Liberal MP to act like an adult and a professional.

Ms. Glover, the Conservative Member of Parliament who was subjected to the Liberal's childishness, was calm and politely asked the Liberal many times to allow her to simply answer the questions she was asked by the host.

The Conservative MP was asked a question and began to answer when the Liberal began talking over the top of her in a chauvinistic manner.

Liberal: Shelly, you went to an election campaign...
Conservative: Can I finish? Would you mind if I finished, because I certainly didn't interrupt you, Justin.
Liberal: Shelly, you're totally...
Conservative: I would like to finish if that's okay. You need a leader. And your leader didn't even hang around after a failed motion that divided your party.
Liberal: You're ridiculous.
Conservative: I'm not going to insult you, Mr. Trudeau, I think that's absolutely, it's insulting, it's not polite...
Liberal: We're building with courage.
Conservative: May I finish?
Liberal: You guys are running and hiding.
Conservative: Mr. Trudeau...

The embarrassment comes as unfortunate news for the Liberal Party of Canada who recently held a policy conference in which their leader endorsed raising taxes on Canadian businesses and average and lower income Canadians.

Last week, the Liberal Party's MPs accidentally voted against their party's own attempts to force the Canadian government to fund abortions internationally.

Barack Obama treats Jewish state leader with utter disdain, tries to divide Jerusalem

2010-03-25T15:02:00.000-07:00

The Obama regime is the first in six decades not to view Israel as a vital ally of the United States. A remarkable deviance from America's ties to Israel is underway as Obama and his vanguard have relentlessly attacked the Jewish state in playground style bickering.

Obama's aides went on a week long assault against the democratic state of Israel after a mid-level bureaucrat in Israel announced housing construction plans had passed stage 4 of a 7-stage approval process. Taking ire over such a meaningless announcement in Israel can only be viewed as an Obama regime desperate for any excuse to retract support for the only democracy in the Middle East.

Israel's Prime Minister has come to Washington this week to patch things up with Obama. Though, the left-wing American politician seems determined to have poor relations with Israel.

Obama refused to pose for a picture with the Israeli prime minister -- a shockingly juvenile move which irked many US congressional representatives. Then, Obama refused to allow the media to videotape himself with the leader of the Jewish state. Now, we have learned that Barack Obama made dinner plans with the Israeli Prime Minister only to stand him up -- behavior more commonly found in the relations of teenage boys, not the US President.

Israeli media reports on a trip have expressed shock in Jerusalem tonight at the disastrous humiliation Obama has inflicted on the entire Jewish nation.

“It was awful,” one US congressman said.

An Israeli newspaper called the meeting “a hazing in stages”, which has insulted Israel's diplomatic mission. Another newspaper said that the Prime Minister had received the treatment America reserves for dictators and despots -- hardly the manner in which a democratically elected Prime Minister should be treated.

An Israeli official told the press that Israeli government officials left the White House because there was a suspicion the Obama regime was monitoring their communications equipment.

Israeli sources confirm that Barack Obama has demanded Jews not be permitted to thrive in the eastern sections of Israel's capital city, Jerusalem. Obama and his ideological pals on the far-left insist that Israel must abide by the demands of terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, who seek East Jerusalem as a base for their operations.

Obama had suggested that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his staff stay at the White House to consider his demand to surrender East Jerusalem to Hezbollah, so that if he changed his mind he could make the surrender in person. “I’m still around,” the Yediot Ahronot daily quoted Mr Obama saying. “Let me know if there is anything new.”

With the atmosphere so soured by the end of the evening, the Israelis decided that they could not trust the phone line they had been lent. Prime Minister Netanyahu retired with his Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, to the Israeli Embassy to ensure the Obama vanguard was not wiretapping their communications.

No American politician has ever treated the Israeli's so poorly since the Jewish nation secured its freedom from tyranny in 1948.

Russian Royal finds conquering Canada not so easy

2010-03-24T17:57:00.000-07:00

Life couldn't be more difficult for Michael Ignatieff. The grandson of a Russian Count, who is legally able to call himself Count Ignatieff in Russia, spent many years living in Britain before adopting the United States as his home country. After 20 years of calling America his home, "Iffy" went on to Canada where he launched a bid to become that countries Prime Minister and head of government before he even landed in Toronto's airport.

With a vast army of political nerds and backstabbers, Ignatieff was able to take down the accident-prone leader of the Liberal Party.

Ignatieff ran into hardship earlier this month when he openly referenced British constitutional systems seemingly not realizing that Canada's Constitution is entirely different from Britain's. Ignatieff had the misfortune of repeating his assertions later, prompting the media to point out that he's seeking to be the Prime Minister of a nation he knows very little about.

Yesterday, Ignatieff's Liberal party attempted to embarrass the government by defeating the Conservatives in the Parliament on a measure to fund abortions all over the world. It seems Ignatieff failed to discuss the issue with his own Members of Parliament who didn't support the move and in fact, deliberately saw to its defeat in parliament.

This stunning embarrassment for the Liberals was followed by utter chaos as Liberal MPs broke ranks and accidentally voted against their own positions on a series of votes.

Obama might be the AntiChrist, many Americans believe

2010-03-24T17:45:00.000-07:00

Almost a quarter of Republicans think Obama 'might be the Antichrist'

A new poll shows that almost a quarter of self-labeling Republicans believe the Democrat president 'may be the Antichrist', according to a survey.

A large number of those polled believe that Obama holds fascist tenets within his ideology.

Mr Obama was jubilant this week after his $1.2 Trillion dollar health care plan was narrowly passed despite bipartisan opposition to the government takeover.

The health bill seems only to have inflamed his critics among the evangelical Christians from America's heartland. Evangelicals are not to be scoffed at, after all, they are credited with keeping former President George Bush in office for two terms -- something which Obama admits he may not be able to achieve.

More than half of the self-labeled Republicans polled by Harris Poll believed the president was secretly Muslim, something Obama hasn't been entirely honest about given that he was a Muslim at one point in his life.

Though, Obama claims to be a Christian now, he slipped up in 2009 and casually admitted to having a Muslim faith in a television interview.

And 70% of those claiming to be Republican supporters told pollsters that they believe Obama meets the definition of a socialist.

This new data shows that an increasing number of Americans view Obama's ideology as dangerous and inconsistent with American values.

Iran: Israel preparing for the inevitable war

2010-02-16T10:07:00.000-08:00

Iran's president said on Tuesday that Iran has obtained intelligence which shows that Israel is preparing for war against the totalitarian Islamic regime in either the "spring or summer." Iran has frequently called for the total destruction of Israel and has a nuclear weapons program which most observers believe is inspired by the Iranian desire of a nuclear holocaust against the Jewish state.

Ahmadinejad said: "According to information we have they (Israel) are seeking to start a war next spring or summer, although their decision is not final yet."

Iran sponsors terrorist groups in Lebanon, the palestinian territories, and Syria is an Iranian client-state. If Israel does launch a pre-emptive war to defend itself from Iran, these groups have announced their orders from Iran to destabilize the entire Middle East region.

Left-wing Toronto Star shamelessly attacks Canadian aid

2010-02-16T09:53:00.000-08:00

James Travers takes no issue with his reputation as a hack-journalist for the Liberal Party. In fact, such a reputation is well deserved, when readers consider his shameless attack on Canada's contributions to Haiti in today's left-wing Toronto Star.

Travers opens up his spinster commentary with a stunning attack on Canada's generosity in Haiti. While our prime minister has traveled to the troubled nation to assist in rebuilding efforts, the left-wing can only muster mean-spirited attacks. The Haiti visit is "premature at best and a political diversion at worst" says Travers.

His article goes on to list the many ways in which the prime minister and the Canadian government have worked diligently to support Haiti over the years. Seemingly, Traver's opening line and headline are unjustified attacks intended to grab attention, rather than legitimate commentary.

For shame.

Wolf! And the sky is falling, too!

2010-02-16T06:26:00.000-08:00

In the age of global alarmism, nothing is more political than the weather.

Take Washington, where Democrats have been pointing to specific weather events for years as proof of global warming. Al Gore was even audacious enough to claim that hurricane Katrina was the result of global warming, despite no scientific evidence to support his grandiose claims. Now, Republicans are mocking those Democrats by pointing to Snowmageddon as proof that global warming is a crock. “It's going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries ‘uncle,' ” mocked one US Senator last week. Of course, the Snowmageddon claims are in jest.

Inconveniently, this is what alarmists have been doing for years. Even those whom the media present as holier than thou scientists, such as David Suzuki, who has attributed this year's snowless winter in Vancouver to – guess what! – global warming. “I've watched in horror as the snow has just melted away from Cypress Mountain,” he said last month. (Note to Suzuki: Vancouver is in the Pacific region.)

Gone are the days of unquestioned global warming statements and demands of huge tax increases in the name of the global warming religion.

As we now know, not from journalists by from Russian computer hackers, there has not been any evidence of global warming for the last 15 years. The alarmists have been "hiding" the true data, lying about numbers, and making demonstrably false claims all the while claiming "the science is settled."

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which set itself up as the final authority – has been caught in several embarrassing attempts to misrepresent the facts on climate issues to the world.

The Global Warming religion has been exposed as nothing more than the awkward boys who repeatedly cry "Wolf! And the sky is falling, too!"

Severe privacy concerns from nude-body scanners

2010-02-09T09:09:00.000-08:00

The nude body scanners have only been installed in airports for a matter of days but they've already been used to print out and distribute scans of genitals and nude images of travelers, notably Bollywood movie star Sharukh Khan.

Officials at London's Heathrow Airport are investigating an incident in which the movie star's nude image was printed off and widely distributed to airport staff.

Government officials have claimed that it is impossible to retain images or print them from the nude body scanners, though that claim is evidently a falsehood.

BREAKING NEWS: Iran militia forces launch an attack on Embassy of Italy

2010-02-09T08:59:00.000-08:00

Approximately 100 members of Iran's religious militia attacked the Italian Embassy in Tehran today. Militia forces were also present outside the French Embassy and the Netherlands' Embassy in Iran.

Debka.com is reporting that intelligence sources believe the Iranian government is behind the attacks at the highest levels, with more attacks on Western nations expected over the coming days.

Iran threatens to "punch" the Western powers on Feb 11, 2010

2010-02-08T12:13:00.000-08:00

Iran's Muslim leader declared today that Iran will "punch" the Western powers on the anniversary of the Islamic revolt on February 11, 2010. Days ago, the president of Iran declared that Iran will stun the world on February 11. While Iran offers little details about what its shocking punches may be, Iran is known to be developing a nuclear weapons program and regularly sponsors terrorism against Israel and Western coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Former US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, tells Fox News that he believes a military conflict with Iran is increasingly likely.

City TV's headline bias against all Canadian Tories

2010-02-07T18:28:00.000-08:00

Over at CityTV's website they are displaying a textbook example of left-wing bias by taking the actions of one man and applying them to the entire Conservative Party of Canada.

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/national/article/69591--tories-blocked-full-release-of-sensitive-report

NB Premier seeks 'payday loan' from Quebec, short term gain, long term pain

2010-02-07T08:44:00.000-08:00

Despite a high level of public opposition and the resignation of one of the most experienced Assemblymen in his cabinet, New Brunswick's rookie Premier Shawn Graham says he’s plowing ahead with the sale of the NB Power utility because he sees short term gains -- while the people, his own caucus, and neighboring premier's see long term pains for New Brunswick and the region.

Graham's government has lost 3 cabinet ministers since negotiations began, and at least 2 backbench members of his caucus have expressed their intention to vote against the sale of NB Power.

Jamieson a man with 23 years of public service experience, says that the government has no mandate to make such a drastic change in the province. He believes the $3.2-billion agreement to sell 10 power plants to Hydro-Quebec should be put to a public referendum.

The government made the changes following a public outcry and open dissent within the Liberal caucus.

A number of caucus members, including Social Development Minister Kelly Lamrock and Saint John-Lancaster member Abel LeBlanc, said they could not vote in favour of the original deal.

"We listened to what the MLAs were saying, and they made the error of talking publicly about what we were discussing behind closed doors, but the difference here today is that Stuart Jamieson — a cabinet minister — has made a decision that he cannot support the revised deal," Graham said.

With just seven months to go until a scheduled provincial election, Graham said there’s no need for a referendum.

Over two decades ago, the province of Newfoundland signed a power agreement with Quebec in which they were robbed of over $30 billion per year by Quebec. The Premiers of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia have cautioned Graham that Quebec is giving him a similar raw deal.

"Reforms like equal opportunity, and reforms like official languages — those reforms were not taken to the people in a referendum," Graham said. "It was the courage of a government of the day to see them through and today New Brunswickers have that benefit."

But Conservative Opposition Leader David Alward said Graham’s Liberal government is collapsing like a house of cards.

"Over the last several days we’ve heard of more discontent within the Liberal caucus," Alward said Saturday. "The premier is trying to manage a crisis, and he’s not managing the province."

Fire destroys CTV News Ottawa offices

2010-02-07T08:04:00.000-08:00

(CTV) Firefighters are on the scene of an overnight fire that ripped through CTV Ottawa's newsroom and caused more than $2.5 million in damage.

Flames began on the second floor of the Merivale Road building sometime before 4:30 Sunday morning.

It took 70 firefighters and 18 fire trucks more than two hours to bring the blaze under control.

"Crews did an excellent job holding it," said District Fire Chief Jim Corrigan.

"We managed to contain the fire to the second-storey of the building. However, smoke migration made it to the fifth floor."

Corrigan says $2.5 million is a preliminary estimate. Damage could be much higher due to the building's expensive content.

An overnight security guard was working when the blaze broke out. He suffered no injuries and no other injuries have been reported. The cause of the fire is unknown.

An ongoing investigation means it could be days before staff can return. However, plans to continue production from the A Channel building in the Byward Market are moving forward.

"Our management team had put in place a very comprehensive plan to deal with emergencies like this," said CTV Ottawa's General Manager Louis Douville. "They are things we prepare for but hope will never happen."

Building still standing

One reporter was notified when a friend called and said flames were shooting from the building and "crews were rushing to the scene."

"I knew it must have been bad because he kept saying he was sorry and that the building had burned down," said reporter Stefan Keyes. "I only live a four-minute drive away so I got dressed and headed out."

Keyes says when he arrived at the scene dozens of firefighters were there and paramedics were standing by. Broken windows revealed the newsroom was charred.

"Damages looked bad but the building is still standing. Thank God."

A stretch of Merivale Road has been blocked in front of the building. There is no vehicle access to Merivale between Clyde and Baseline Roads.

The newsroom hosts several workstations for reporters, producers, editorial staff and video editors. It means several computers, televisions, phones and personal belongings would have been destroyed in the fire.

Among the devastating property losses are the local news archives of this city's history and the 37-year video history of anchor Max Keeping who is set to retire on April 1.

Story by CTV News

http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100207/OTT_Fire_CTV_100207/20100207?hub=Ottawa

Barack Hussein Obama: the Anti-Kennedy

2010-02-06T21:40:00.000-08:00

John F. Kennedy smartly believed that broad tax cuts would alleviate the stresses government places on citizens. Through his tax cuts, Kennedy improved the lives of millions of Americans while also increasing government revenue. That is, though the government was grabbing a smaller percentage of the hard earned dollars in America, citizens were able to do more with their money which contributed to an economic boom -- giving more for the government and more for the people who actually generate wealth.

Obama believes that wealth is generated by the government.

Kennedy also believed in technological advancements, in science, and in the space program "Not because these things are easy, but because they are difficult." Obama believes in rigidly following his ideology, proclaiming outright lies to be "settled science" as a vehicle to enact his socialist ideas. He's also canceled all future missions to the moon.

JFK was a true American hero who could stand up with notes scribbled on a page and deliver an impeccable speech with perfect delivery. Obama has not yet given a speech without two teleprompters telling him what to say. On one occasion, an error with the teleprompter caused Obama to request his speech be 'rolled back' so that he would not have to speak without the aid of spin doctors. Just last week, Obama delivered a speech in a school classroom with a handful of pre-teens and a teacher -- he required two teleprompters for the occasion.

John F. Kennedy twice stared down the Evil Empire as nuclear war threatened to bring down all of Western civilization. Kennedy, masterfully, saved the world from a conflict, maintained the peace, and pushed the evil socialists back into their corner of the world. Obama, in contrast, can't even get the Russians to agree on a methodology for counting missiles. Not to mention the fact that while Kennedy pushed the socialists away, Obama can't hold a staff meeting without socialists in the room. Especially if he shows up himself.

Kennedy kept his brother Robert close and knew of the importance of family. Obama's aunt faces deportation back to Kenya, and little Barry won't drop her a phone call.

Kennedy embraced his Irish-Catholic heritage. Obama refuses to discuss his religious faith but has openly mocked the Bible and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

Kennedy famously spoke of a global elite, seeking to entrench themselves at the expense of others, for their own benefit with military, economic, political, and media utilities at their disposal. Obama re-appointed Ben Bernanke, promoted Tim Geitner, hired Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, and continues to work closely with Barney Frank -- four of the most guilty officials, responsible for either watching the American economy collapse while doing nothing to stop it, or actively causing the collapse. Obama has 14 NBC, CBS and New York Times "journalists" working in his administration and has used borrowed cash to bail out General Electric, the parent company of NBC.

Kennedy believed in the greatness of the United States, the liberty of the individual, and in expanding freedom across the globe. Obama says the he 'does not believe in American exceptionalism,' he smiles happily for the cameras when standing with fascist dictators, but scowls when seen with elected heads of government. Where Kennedy believed in inalienable rights, Obama believes in overriding the Constitution as a means to an end.

John F. Kennedy was a great political leader with enormous potential. Obama has the lowest approval ratings of any US president in the history of political polling.

He's no JFK, but he makes one heck of a good Jimmy Carter.

Bad joke? Most radical left wing president -- ever -- says "I am not an ideologue"

2010-02-06T21:15:00.000-08:00

In what can only be described as a stunningly pitiful disregard for the truth, Barack Obama claimed on live television "I am not an ideologue." Obama was rated "the most liberal US Senator" while representing Illinois and as president he has hired 36 former lobbyists to work in his administration, breached the US Constitution with over 40 unelected "Czars," one of whom had to resign after it became public knowledge that he is a communist, another fell under scrutiny when it became apparent that he is abusing his post to preach a radical anti-Christian doctrine in American schools, and a third Obama appointee was forced to resign after openly expressing her appreciation and admiration for the communist mass murderer, Mao Tse Tung.

Obama has sought to subvert the Constitution, mortgage the future of America's children, and borrow unprecedented debt levels to fund his left wing ideology.

To suggest that he is not an ideologue, the president either doesn't understand the term, or is exceptionally willing to outright lie to the American people.

Global Warming dumps unprecedented snow on American South

2010-02-06T16:42:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON -- Americans were buried Saturday from a record-setting blizzard that Global Warming-believing Barack Obama was forced to call the storm "Snowmageddon" while the High Pope of Global Warming, Al Gore, was buried by the record cold and snow in his multi-million dollar estate house.

The snow was falling too quickly in the nation's capital for crews to keep up, and officials begged residents to stay home and out of the way so that roads might be cleared in time for everyone to return to work Monday. The usually traffic-snarled roads were mostly barren, and Washington's familiar sites and monuments were covered with nearly 2 feet of snow.

Tihana and Jarrett Blanc had given up on digging, instead taking their dog, Hector, for a walk through northwest Washington during what forecasters said could be the biggest storm for the nation's capital in modern history.

"Our car is stuck. We're not even trying," said Tihana, 36.
The storm toppled trees and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in Washington, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The situation was the same in West Virginia, where some 400 National Guard troops were helping with snow removal.
Though the focal point remained the nation's capital, people from Pittsburgh, across Pennsylvania to Philadelphia, New Jersey and West Virginia were dealing with snow being measured in feet instead of inches. It was still snowing Saturday in Philadelphia, virtually shutting down the nation's sixth-largest city.

Walt Gursky, 28, braved the roads to go to the Philadelphia International Auto Show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center downtown. The event was a ghost town.
"Last year when I came, there was a line getting in," Gursky said in the normally mobbed facility. "Much more relaxing in here -- you can actually see what you want."

Hundreds of car wrecks were reported across the region, though only two deaths were reported -- a father and son who died while helping another motorist in Virginia. By Saturday, most people couldn't drive anywhere because their cars and roads were buried.

In Ellicott City, Md., Christine Benkoski said she was trying to dig out from at least 2 feet. As she tried to clear her driveway, she said she uncovered how the storm had transitioned from snow, to ice, then back to snow.

"I feel like an archaeologist," Benkoski said.

"I've been out here for an hour, and my only goal is to get to the street."
And President Barack Obama, a snow veteran from his days in Chicago, didn't have a smooth day. He walked out of the White House midmorning to find the South Lawn, his backyard, looking nearly like an untouched wilderness. Instead of the familiar scenes of manicured lawns and clipped hedges, snow had piled on every shrub and the backyard was almost colorless.

First, there was a small fender bender on the White House south lawn. Then a tree branch, overcome with snow, cracked and fell on a motorcade vehicle with press inside when the president was coming back from a speech at the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting in town.

Instead of a presidential limo, Obama rode in a black SUV covered with presidential seals.

Obama thanked Democrats for being "willing to brave a blizzard. Snowmageddon here in D.C."
Noting the president's hometown, DNC chairman Tim Kaine said "It's like an April day in Chicago."
After all that, the White House announced Obama would have no more outings for the day.
Meanwhile, cabin fever had set in for many of the patrons packed inside Bob and Edith's Diner in Arlington, Va.
"I couldn't take being in the house anymore," said Shaela Linn, 29, who walked with a roommate to the 24-hour restaurant about five blocks away. "We had fun, we played beer pong, made a fire, cooked dinner, but you can only take so much being inside."

Airlines canceled flights, churches called off weekend services, and Amtrak and commuter trains ground to a halt. Some people wondered if they would be stuck at home for several days.

At Dulles International Airport, part of a hangar roof collapsed and damaged some of the private jets housed inside, though no one was hurt. A northeast D.C. church also collapsed when a tree fell on it, though no one was inside and no one was hurt.

The snow comes less than two months after a Dec. 19 storm dumped more than 16 inches on Washington. Snowfalls of this magnitude -- let alone two in one season -- are rare in the area. According to the National Weather Service, Washington has gotten more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870.

The heaviest on record was 28 inches in January 1922. The biggest snowfall for the Washington-Baltimore area is believed to have been in 1772, before official records were kept, when as much as 3 feet fell, which George Washington and Thomas Jefferson penned in their diaries.

Despite the onslaught, some ventured outside for a chance to play. Snowballs were flying in normally bustling DuPont Circle, a major Washington thoroughfare. Hundreds of people gathered for a snowball fight with word spreading through Facebook, Twitter and TV commentators.

Carolyn Matuska, on the other hand, was loving the solitude during her morning run along Washington's National Mall.

"Oh, it's spectacular out," she said. "It's so beautiful. The temperature's perfect, it's quiet, there's nobody out, it's a beautiful day."

Authoritarian surrender: Pierre Trudeau would like to see your naked spread

2010-02-06T15:18:00.000-08:00

Nude body-scanning has commenced at Canada's Pierre Trudeau International Airport. An irony for sure that the most intrusive and liberty-defying government scanners first appeared in the airport named for Canada's most authoritarian prime minister.

The first scanners was installed this week at the airport and were used on some U.S.-bound passengers. Although only U.S.-bound passengers may be scanned, not all of them will be.

The nude-body scanners are capable of seeing through clothing and have prompted concerns after it was discovered that the photos can be uploaded onto the internet.

US pundit James Carville said of the scanners "You can measure my penis." Photos created of the device show security officials will receive highly intimate photo's of the men and women whom they arbitrarily single out for the nude-scanning.

UN "glomal warming" chief: if you believe in fact over fiction, drop dead

2010-02-06T15:11:00.000-08:00

It's hard not to feel sorry for the UN's chief of global warming propaganda. After all, the UN's fascist aspirations for a global government and global socialism were almost realized when Barack Obama arrived on the scene -- but then those pesky facts came out and proved the whole show was smoke, mirrors, and strategies taken right out of Hitler's diary.

Rajendra Pachauri, the besieged head of the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change, is under heavy fire after indisputable evidence has come forward indicating that the global warming hoax was little more than a socialist, global government plot. Some are having a hard time letting go, however, and Pachauri told the Financial Times on Wednesday that he is the victim here -- the victim of not having his lies believed -- and if you choose to believe in the facts rather than his gulp fictions, he wants to see you choking on asbestos.

That's right, the UN chief of global warming propaganda wants you to get cancer if you're smarter than the global warming theologians.

Pachauri's remarks came as pressure and scrutiny are mounting against the IPCC's hallmark Fourth Assessment Report, which laid out the case for man-made climate change over a thousand sprawling pages.

The report contained misleading data about the melting rate of glaciers in the Himalayas and is riddled with citations to data furnished by activist groups, non-scientific journals and material that was never peer-reviewed.

Pachauri called the furor over errors in the assessment report "a blip that is going to pass," and reiterated his intention to remain in place as the chief of the world's most powerful climate body.

"I'm not a quitter. Some people would want me to be; some people would probably say that I should go, but I am not going to oblige them. I have no desire to leave at all," he said.

His critics in the business world, he told the paper, "see climate change as a threat to their own comforts, their own convenience and the generation of easy profits." He accused them of establishing a network of lobbyists in D.C. "trying to write all kinds of malicious articles and indulge in invective."

"It's all part of a pattern," he continued. "But let me clarify. I have no proof. I can only presume something like this is at work," he said. (Typical). Don't worry, pal, Hitler gives mad props for attempting to carry out his agenda.

IPCC: the least popular religion of them all

2010-02-06T15:00:00.000-08:00

In 2007, the UN IPCC issued a report filled with shocking claims: The Himalayan glaciers could melt away as soon as 2035, The Netherlands would soon be under water, New York City would soon be under water, rain-forests would disappear, and the apocalyptic ramblings went on and on.

But these claims were all garbage, and the world's top climatologists all knew it.

It was based not on rigorously peer-reviewed science but on an anecdotal report by the WWF itself. When its background came to light on the eve of Copenhagen, Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the IPCC, shrugged it off. But now, even leading scientists and environmental groups admit the IPCC is facing a crisis of credibility that makes the Climategate affair look like small change.

“The global warming movement as we have known it is dead,” the brilliant analyst Walter Russell Mead says in his blog on The American Interest. It was done in by a combination of bad science and bad politics.

The impetus for the Copenhagen conference was that the science makes it imperative for us to act. But even if that were true – and even if we knew what to do – a global deal was never in the cards. As Mr. Mead writes, “The global warming movement proposed a complex set of international agreements involving vast transfers of funds, intrusive regulations in national economies, and substantial changes to the domestic political economies of most countries on the planet.” Copenhagen was never going to produce a breakthrough. It was a dead end.

And now, the science scandals just keep on coming. First there was the vast cache of e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia, home of a crucial research unit responsible for collecting temperature data. Although not fatal to the science, they revealed a snakepit of scheming to keep contradictory research from being published, make imperfect data look better, and withhold information from unfriendly third parties. If science is supposed to be open and transparent, these guys acted as if they had a lot to hide.

Despite widespread efforts to play down the Climategate e-mails, they were very damaging. An investigation by the British newspaper The Guardian – among the most aggressive advocates for action on climate change – has found that a series of measurements from Chinese weather stations were seriously flawed, and that documents relating to them could not be produced.

Nowadays, the IPCC – the body widely regarded, until now, as the ultimate authority on climate science – has less credibility on so-called global warming than George Bush. After it was forced to retract its claim about melting glaciers, Mr. Pachauri dismissed the error as nothing newsworthy. But most IPCC claims have turned out to be just as groundless.

For example, it warned that large tracts of the Amazon rain forest might be wiped out by global warming because they are extremely susceptible to even modest decreases in rainfall. The sole source for that claim, reports The Sunday Times of London, was a magazine article written by a pair of climate activists, one of whom worked for the WWF. One scientist contacted by the Times, a specialist in tropical forest ecology, called the article “a mess.”

Worse still, the Times has discovered that Mr. Pachauri's own Energy and Resources Unit, based in New Delhi, has collected millions in grants to study the effects of glacial melting – all on the strength of that bogus glacier claim, which happens to have been endorsed by the same scientist who now runs the unit that got the money. Even so, the IPCC chief is hanging tough. He insists the attacks on him are being orchestrated by companies facing lower profits.

Until now, anyone who questioned the credibility of the IPCC was labelled as a climate skeptic, or worse. But many climate scientists now sense a sinking ship, and they're bailing out. Among them is Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria who acknowledges that the climate body has crossed the line into advocacy. Even Britain's Greenpeace has called for Mr. Pachauri's resignation. India says it will establish its own body to monitor the effects of global warming because it “cannot rely” on the IPCC.

None of this is to say that global warming isn't real, or that human activity doesn't play a role, or that the IPCC is entirely wrong, or that measures to curb greenhouse-gas emissions aren't valid. But the strategy pursued by activists (including scientists who have crossed the line into advocacy) has turned out to be fatally flawed.

By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited the entire climate-change movement. The political damage will be severe. As Mr. Mead succinctly puts it: “Skeptics up, Obama down, cap-and-trade dead.” That also goes for Canada, whose climate policies are inevitably tied to those of the United States.

“I don't think it's healthy to dismiss proper skepticism,” says John Beddington, the chief scientific adviser to the British government. He is a staunch believer in man-made climate change, but he also points out the complexity of climate science. “Science grows and improves in the light of criticism. There is a fundamental uncertainty about climate change prediction that can't be changed.” In his view, it's time to stop circling the wagons and throw open the doors. How much the public will keep caring is another matter.

Environmental terrorists attack fishermen

2010-02-06T14:53:00.000-08:00

SYDNEY — The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica on Saturday — the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides.
No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. The U.S.-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship, but it was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger of sinking.

Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone that the Japanese ship rammed the Bob Barker — named after the U.S. game show host who donated millions to buy it for Sea Shepherd — as it blocked the slipway of the Japanese fleet's factory ship.
Watson's claim that the Bob Barker was deliberately hit could not be independently verified.
Japanese Fisheries Agency official Takashi Mori said officials were trying to confirm details of a reported clash.

Saturday's collision was the second this year between a Sea Shepherd boat and the Japanese fleet.

On Jan. 6, a Japanese whaler struck Sea Shepherd's high-tech speed boat Ady Gil and sheared off its nose. The Bob Barker then came to rescue the crew of the Ady Gil, which sank a day later.

Sea Shepherd and the whalers have faced off in Antarctic waters for the past few years over Japan's annual whale hunt, with each side accusing the other of acting in increasingly dangerous ways.

Sea Shepherd activists try to block the whalers from firing harpoons, and they dangle ropes in the water to try to snarl the Japanese ships' propellers. They also hurl packets of stinking rancid butter at their rivals. The whalers have responded by firing water cannons and sonar devices meant to disorient the activists. Collisions have occurred occasionally.

Japan aims to take hundreds of whales each year under a program that is allowed despite the international moratorium on killing whales because it is done in the name of science. Critics say the scientific program is a front for commercial whaling, and much of the meat is eaten.
On Saturday, the Bob Barker found the whaling fleet for the first time since the time of the Ady Gil clash, Watson said.

The Bob Barker took up a position behind the Nisshin Maru — the Japanese factory ship where dead whales are hauled aboard and butchered — so the four harpoon vessels could not reach it, he said.

"The harpoon ships started circling like sharks," Watson told The Associated Press from his ship, the Steve Irwin. "They were making near passes to the stern and the bow of the Bob Barker, then the Yushin Maru 3 intentionally rammed the Bob Barker."

The Bob Barker sustained a 3-ft. long, 4-inch wide (1-meter long, 10-centimeter) gash in its hull. Welders aboard the ship were already working on patching the hole, and the Bob Barker would resume its pursuit of the whalers, Watson said.

Video shot from the Bob Barker and released by Sea Shepherd shows the two ships side by side moving quickly through the water. The ships come closer together and the Japanese ship then appears to turn away, but its stern swings sharply toward the Bob Barker. The collision is obscured by spray, but a loud clanging noise can be heard before the vessels separate.
Watson said the Yushin Maru 3 appeared to stop moving after the collision and had not been seen by the Bob Barker's crew to have moved since, suggesting it also may have been damaged.

The governments of Australia and New Zealand, which have responsibility for maritime rescue in the area where the hunt is usually conducted, say the fight between the two sides is becoming increasingly dangerous and have repeatedly urged them to tone it down.

(See the original story at FoxNews.com)

Global Warming: A Science Fiction

2010-02-06T14:41:00.000-08:00

Top climatologists warn the UN's IPCC that if it continues to exaggerate or completely falsify climate date no government will ever pass cap and tax type measures.

Robert Watson, chief scientist at Defra, the environment ministry, who chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from 1997 to 2002, was speaking after more potential inaccuracies emerged in the IPCC’s 2007 benchmark report on global warming.

Most of the claims made by the UN body on so-called "global warming" have now been proving to be either entirely false, made up, or taken from ridiculous sources.

While the UN, and its chief spokesman Al Gore, have all claimed that the science is settled, peer reviewed, and undeniable -- the truth has shown that the science is often disputed, authored by questionable persons of questionable motivations, and the conclusions drawn are directly at odds with the data. (Which is occasionally deleted).

Central to the UN's worldwide socialism plans was a claim that global warming could cut rain-fed north African crop production by up to 50% by 2020, a remarkably short time for such a dramatic change. The claim has been quoted in speeches by Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman, and by Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general.

This weekend Professor Chris Field, the new lead author of the IPCC’s climate impacts team, told The Sunday Times that he could find nothing in the report to support the claim. The revelation follows the IPCC’s retraction of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035.

This report is the IPCC’s most politically sensitive publication, distilling its most important science into a form accessible to politicians and policy makers. Its lead authors include Pachauri himself.

In it he wrote: “By 2020, in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised.” The same claims have since been cited in speeches to world leaders by Pachauri and Ban.

Speaking at the 2008 global climate talks in Poznan, Poland, Pachauri said: “In some countries of Africa, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by 50% by 2020.” In a speech last July, Ban said: “Yields from rain-fed agriculture could fall by half in some African countries over the next 10 years.”

Speaking this weekend, Field said: “I was not an author on the Synthesis Report but on reading it I cannot find support for the statement about African crop yield declines.”

Watson said such claims should be based on hard evidence. “Any such projection should be based on peer-reviewed literature from computer modeling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change. I can see no such data supporting the IPCC report,” he said.

The claims in the Synthesis Report go back to the IPCC’s report on the global impacts of climate change. It warns that all Africa faces a long-term threat from farmland turning to desert and then says of north Africa, “additional risks that could be exacerbated by climate change include greater erosion, deficiencies in yields from rain-fed agriculture of up to 50% during the 2000-20 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003)”.

“Agoumi” refers to a 2003 policy paper written for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a Canadian think tank. The paper was not peer-reviewed.

Its author was Professor Ali Agoumi, a Moroccan climate expert who looked at the potential impacts of climate change on Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria. His report refers to the risk of “deficient yields from rain-based agriculture of up to 50% during the 2000–20 period”.

These claims refer to other reports prepared by civil servants in each of the three countries as submissions to the UN. These do not appear to have been peer-reviewed either.

The major tenets of the global warming religion are almost entirely refuted, now. Claims of glaciers disappearing were based upon the observations of un-trained mountain climbers who 'expected' to find more snow, prompting dramatic claims by the UN about warming trends. Horror stories of disappearing rain-forests, while supposedly top peer reviewed science, was actually based on the writings of an environmental lobby group seeking more government funding. And of course, the most troubling reality for adherents to global warming's religion, most data collected round the world does not indicate a warming trend.

The IPCC is also facing criticism over its reports on how sea level rise might affect Holland. Dutch ministers have demanded that it correct a claim that more than half of the Netherlands lies below sea level when, in reality, it is about a quarter.

The errors seem likely to bring about change at the IPCC. Field said: “The IPCC needs to investigate a more sophisticated approach for dealing with emerging errors.”

(Original story from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment)/article7017907.ece

Obama's curiously strange Homeland Security Secretary

2010-02-06T11:04:00.000-08:00

Barack Obama's Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, has made headlines across the world for her strange behavior. Both Democrat and GOP Senators have called for her resignation for what many deem to be a radical left-wing ideology coupled with plain incompetence. Following the attempted Islamic terrorist attack on Christmas day, in which the system utterly and completely failed to prevent a known Muslim terrorist from boarding a US bound plane, Napolitano declared "The system worked" causing other government officials to overturn her assessment.

But the strangeness doesn't stop there.

Napolitano has issued warnings to police services across the United States to be on the lookouts for people who "Quote the United States Constitution," which she has sworn to uphold and defend, and has now declared "global warming" to be one of the biggest threats to the United States -- a country involved in two wars and which was directly challenged by Iran just last week.

Weapon of Mass Destruction found in Iraq: Bush was right

2010-02-06T10:54:00.000-08:00

A Weapon of Mass Destruction has been found by coalition forces in Iraq. While the media have elected to ignore the discovery completely, it is noteworthy that coalition forces have found a WMD buried in the sand in Iraq. This particular weapon would reportedly have taken far too long to deploy for it to be a threat to high tech nations such as Israel, although this does prove that Saddam Hussein had a weapons of mass destruction program prior to his ouster by US forces.

(Story by the Daily Mail, United Kingdom)

CBC, Toronto Star, Editorial pages deliberately mislead Canadians on parliament

2010-02-06T09:46:00.000-08:00

If Canadians could ever be so foolish as to expect fair and balanced coverage from the ~~Communist Broadcasting Channel~~ CBC, the great mother-channel has showed once again that her colors are deep red with a touch of orange. The CBC is now into its second month of hard mis-information and dis-information on parliament. Allied with its left-wing tag-along, The Toronto Star, the CBC has monotonously attempted to indoctrinate Canadians into a belief that delaying 22 days of parliamentary name-calling and heckling by opposition MPs until after the olympics has somehow derailed Canada and relegated us into a Venezuela type "democracy."

Such would be laughable if it were not so dangerous. Telling Canadians that their democracy has been revoked is akin to screaming fire in a crowded theater. Of course, parliament is prorogued on a regular basis by Liberal prime minister's and CBC never bothered to utter a word. But you can't expect them to treat a Conservative the same way, they were once investigated by the RCMP for communist infiltration, after all.

The CBC has tried relentlessly to convince Canadians that the executive branch and the legislative branch are the same thing, and that neither can act without daily Question Period. Not so, not so. And they know that -- at least they would had they gone to university, eh Mansbridge?

The CBC's blatant anti-conservative bias is annoying to most, but this time they've crossed a line. They have actively engaged in MSNBC-type indoctrination where the facts become the first victim in favor of their fiction story-telling. CBC's credibility is measured in half-pennies while its cost is counted in billions to the taxpayers. That's a deficit many Canadians hope to see eradicated in the near future.

Anti Semitism and Hippies

2010-02-06T09:25:00.000-08:00

Anti Semitism didn't bite the bullet in 1945. In fact, it seems to be thriving quite well even in countries such as Canada and the United States. With the upcoming Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, some left-wing radicals have jumped at the opportunity to declare an imminent attack on Canadian soil, perpetrated by Mossad -- the foreign intelligence service from Israel.

Israel is the nation that the left wing loves to hate. Recently, the Canadian government cracked down on government funded groups with anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel views.

Particularly, a YouTube channel under the name "TheTrutherGirls" (truther is a reference to the conspiracy theory that George W. Bush, the CIA, and others, plotted the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks on New York City. As well, truthers believe that the 7/7 Islamic terrorist attacks on London were caused by "the Jews.") This particular "truther" also states her belief that the RCMP and the Canadian government 'made-up' the Islamic terrorist group arrested in 2006 known as "The Toronto 18." Although, no evidence is offered to support any of these claims.

Videos produced by TheTrutherGirls indicate that Canadians should be on "Red Alert" for an attack during the February 2010 Winter Olympics. In their estimation, an attack is imminent because a private security firm hired to assist at the olympics is headed up by a Jewish man. Any attempts to comment on these videos or to complain about the anti-Semitic hate speech draws fire from radical left-wingers who insist a Jewish conspiracy is afoot, and non-believers are less intelligent than the hippies espousing this remarkable hatred.

Interestingly, TheTrutherGirls claim that the vast Jewish conspiracy directly involves the Canadian government, who are assisting in the attack on Vancouver by proroguing parliament -- further evidence, if any was needed, that left-wingers don't know what proroguing parliament means.

Left wing media hopes for collapse of Progressive Conservative Party

2010-02-06T09:10:00.000-08:00

The left wing media is salivating at the thought of the Progressive Conservative Party's near half century long dominion in Alberta coming to an end. Chantal Hebert, national affairs correspondent for the left wing Toronto Star, couldn't help but connect dots to the Prime Minister's Conservative Party of Canada, dropping the "Progressive" from the Alberta party's name, Hebert goes on to conclude that the rise of the conservative Wildrose Party of Alberta somehow spells trouble for the Conservative Party of Canada.

Rookie New Brunswick Premier ignites regional tensions: is defeat around the corner?

2010-02-06T09:05:00.000-08:00

Rookie New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham, a former high school gym teacher and leader of the Liberal Party of New Brunswick, has ignited a regional firestorm in Atlantic Canada that has involved Governors of the New England states, and has some Canadian Senators calling for federal government involvement in Graham's attempt to sell New Brunswick Power stations to the Canadian Province of Quebec.

Graham has been accused of dealing in bad faith by members of his own party and he's lost three members of his cabinet since negotiations began with Quebec. The Premier's of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, two neighboring provinces, have publicly rebuked Graham's deal as terribly short-sighted, and selling out his province's future.

Graham faces a general election campaign within months, this rookie will be fighting for his life and one thing is for certain: all his neighbors, Canadian and American, want him to go down in defeat -- the standard exceptions apply for Quebec, who stand to gain at Atlantic Canada's expense under the deal.

Everyone loves Jack Layton

2010-02-06T09:00:00.000-08:00

Jack Layton announced on Feb 5, 2010 that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, vows to win his fight against cancer and to continue standing up for the issues he believes in.

A non partisan Facebook group has been created in honor of Layton's health struggles. Canada stands behind you, Jack, all the best!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=291126018874&ref=mf

Iffy's Stiffy: Michael Ignatieff resorts to age old Liberal tactics: cry abortion for attention

2010-02-06T08:58:00.000-08:00

Michael Ignatieff chooses his words more carefully than his battles. Never, ever saying, “abortion,” the present Opposition Leader has drawn ire for attempting once again to ignite an abortion debate in Canada, ignoring the number one issue for Canadians -- the economy.

Earlier this week, Mr. Ignatieff, surrounded by female Liberal MPs, held a press scrum, expressing his concerns about the Prime Minister’s pledge to make maternal health a priority of this summer’s G8 summit in Muskoka.

Noting that former U.S. president's have banned federal funding to international groups that performed abortions or provided information about abortion, Mr. Ignatieff said: “We don’t want us to go that way. We want to make sure that women have access to all the contraceptive methods available to control their fertility.”
Women’s reproductive rights have proved to be a good issue for the Liberals in the past.

It has also pushed the Harper Conservatives off message. The issue dogged them in the 2004 election campaign, when Mr. Harper, then opposition leader, said he would not introduce legislation amending the abortion law but that Conservative MPs had a right to their own beliefs, leaving the door open for private member’s bills. This also led to concerns among the electorate that Mr. Harper had a hidden agenda.
By the 2008 election campaign, Mr. Harper left no light between his views and that of his caucus, saying he did not intend to reopen the abortion debate and that his cabinet ministers would be instructed not to support any private member’s bills that would.

So what are the Ignatieff Liberals up to – a little rattling of the cage?

“Listen, I’m not going to tell you that there was no thought at all given to the fact that some of their people will come out,” the Ignatieff official said. “… Are some of them going to be reacting? I have no doubt that they will.”

The abortion issue was settled decades ago in Canada, but some newcomers might not yet be aware...

(Original story by Jane Taber of The globe and mail).

India becomes the first nation to abandon the embattled UN IPCC alarmists

2010-02-06T08:54:00.000-08:00

The move is a significant snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear.
The body and its chairman have faced growing criticism ever since as questions have been raised on the credibility of their work and the rigour with which climate change claims are assessed.
In India the false claims have heightened tensions between Dr Pachauri and the government, which had earlier questioned his glacial melting claims. In Autumn, its environment minister Mr Jairam Ramesh said while glacial melting in the Himalayas was a real concern, there was evidence that some were actually advancing despite global warming. Dr Pachauri had dismissed challenges like these as based on “voodoo science”, but last night Mr Ramesh effectively marginalized the IPC chairman even further.
He announced the Indian government will established a separate National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology to monitor the effects of climate change on the world’s ‘third ice cap’, and an ‘Indian IPCC’ to use ‘climate science’ to assess the impact of global warming throughout the country.
“There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am for climate science. I think people misused [the] IPCC report, [the] IPCC doesn’t do the original research which is one of the weaknesses… they just take published literature and then they derive assessments, so we had goof-ups on Amazon forest, glaciers, snow peaks.
“I respect the IPCC but India is a very large country and cannot depend only on [the] IPCC and so we have launched the Indian Network on Comprehensive Climate Change Assessment (INCCA),” he said.
It will bring together 125 research institutions throughout India, work with international bodies and operate as a “sort of Indian IPCC,” he added.
The body, which he said will not rival the UN’s panel, will publish its own climate assessment in November this year, with reports on the Himalayas, India’s long coastline, the Western Ghat highlands and the north-eastern region close to the borders with Bangladesh, Burma, China and Nepal. “Through these we will demonstrate our commitment to climate science,” he said.
The UN panel’s claims of glacial meltdown by 2035 “was clearly out of place and didn’t have any scientific basis,” he said, while stressing the government remained concerned about the health of the Himalayan ice flows. “Most glaciers are melting, they are retreating, some glaciers, like the Siachen glacier, are advancing. But overall one can say incontrovertibly that the debris on our glaciers is very high the snow balance is very low. We have to be very cautious because of the water security particularly in north India which depends on the health of the Himalayan glaciers,” he added.
The new National Institute of Himalayan Glaciology will be based in Dehradun, in Uttarakhand, and will monitor glacial changes and compare results with those from glaciers in Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.

Obama health care takeover on ice

2010-02-06T08:51:00.001-08:00

Barack Obama is now openly confessing that his health care takeover plans have stalled and possibly will end in total failure. With only 20% of Americans supporting the Democrat government take over of 1/6th of the US economy, and nearly 60% of Americans opposed to the takeover, Democrat spinsters are finally facing the realization that in only eight months, one third of the US Senate seats and the House of Representatives will be up for grabs. With Scott Brown taking prime Democrat territory away from Obama last month, Democrats are suddenly fearful of the anger most Americans hold toward their unprecedented government borrowing, expansion, and recklessness.

Barack Obama is well on his way to being rated as 'just as bad, or worse' than failed US President Jimmy Carter.