October 28, 2006

Oct. 28, 2006: Al Qaeda warns CA & the band plays on

Update: Screen captures added below


Al-Qaeda warns Canada -- Quit Afghan mission or endure attack like 9/11, threat says , Stewart Bell, National Post, Saturday, October 28, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
e9f20f44-ec19-470c-9ac3-6c79218d4d91


OTTAWA - An al-Qaeda strategist has warned Canada to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or face terrorist attacks similar to 9/11, Madrid and the London transit bombings.

The threat, attributed to a member of the al-Qaeda information and strategy committee [Hossam Abdul Raouf], condemns Prime Minister Stephen Harper for refusing to pull out of Afghanistan. [How convenient for the leftists and Liberals ... hmm... Do you suppose it was orchestrated for that reason? Not a spontaneous eruption of genuine feeling? ... Ah, I'm a cynic.]

It also refers to Canada's "fanatic adherence to Christianity" as well as its purported attempts to "damage the Muslims" and its support for the "Christian Crusade" against al-Qaeda.

[....] "They will either be forced to withdraw their forces or face an operation similar to New York, Madrid, London and their sisters, with the help of Allah." [....]




Reaction? ... so far, seemingly, no worries, mate ...

Update: Later reports from CTV Newsnet have the "protest" in 37 cities, although, in the metropolis of Toronto, there were only about 500 protesters. Would that include the MSM reporters and photogrphers? The rent-a-funded-mob gang? Was Jaggi Singh there? The No One Is Illegal crowd?

Who are the Canadian Coalition ... against the war (I think is the full name. Check) with a spokesman I've heard twice at least, a (?) Jackson. NDP leader Jack Layton followed him so maybe it is a member of their international network.

Earlier: I listened to the protesters -- it sounded as though there weren't many. The mainstream media/MSM have been advertising this rally all day. Oh, they pretended to be reporting; yet, first they announced that there would be one, then, they told everyone where the protests would be -- to get the protesters out; then they interviewed a few-repeatedly--a young man, Francisco Juarez, who had left the Canadian military reserves this summer because he is so against the war in Afghanistan. (I heard him twice.). Jack Layton's words against helping Afghanistan were repeated several times. Finally, the MSM have "reported" the news of the protests ... at least 10 or more times, at a conservtive estimate, since I began listening to television around noon.


This is propaganda, not news reporting, nor was there any analysis of what is arguably a debatable venture, nor questioning of who would have organized the protests across the country. Who / what organization(s) organized and funded these protest groups? They certainly were not spontaneous.

I have listened to CTV news and I have never heard mention of the Al Qaeda threat to Canada. At least the article is in the National Post. However, check the feature.






Which would you publicize?...The threat or the protest

Globe and Mail:


Globe and Mail, Oct. 28, 2006: [Some] Canadians protest troops in Afghanistan

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
RTGAM.20061028.wprotest28/BNStory/Afghanistan/home

National Post:


National Post, Oct. 28, 2006: front page photo of the protest and this Feature: Rallies across country demand return of troops

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
874d69c4-5476-4e3a-ada3-12032dea7c3b&k=59344


Toronto Sun, Oct. 28, 2006: Rallies across country urge Ottawa to bring troops home from Afghanistan

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/28/2155711-cp.html

Oct. 28, 2006: CIDA, Kenny, Hansard, Chretien & Martin & ...

CIDA's Malaria Meltdown -- Why is the Canadian International Development Agency perpetuating malaria deaths?, By Amir Attaran, Thursday, October 26, 2006 -- Bednets, DDT, Malaria.

www.canadafreepress.com/2006/attaran102606.htm



[....] As a biologist and lawyer who studies the problems of the world's poorest people, I have watched the politics and science of malaria programs for a decade. Never have I found a bednet program that is as efficient at saving children's lives as that of the Canadian Red Cross. The reason for their success is simple: unlike UNICEF, which in Ethiopia plans to sell bednets to families whose household income is often only a dollar a day, the Canadian Red Cross gives them away free.

This is really true: UNICEF's elite, highly paid, tax-exempt staff have turned humanitarianism into a business of selling things to people who have no money. Predictably, it doesn't work. Five years after spearheading a campaign to put 60% of Africa's children under properly treated bednets, UNICEF had to admit that only 3% of African children are covered. [....]



"The problem is with CIDA"

CIDA: The liberally funded, Liberal-staffed gift that keeps on ... stalling ... or dissembling ... or hiding ... or what? ... My assessment is that they are marking time until the ones they do business with so happily, return ... perhaps the ones they used to work with or for ... a Liberal government. I was so pleased to read this article ... to understand what happened to the committee headed by Senator Kenny -- the Dubai story.

In the Senators Defense, Kevin Steele, Western Standard



The Senate Committee on National Security and Defence has been taking a drubbing lately over the cost of their recent trip to Dubai. I take the position that this trip was well-intended and ended up being inadvertently sidetracked by the then-ongoing Operation Medusa. Sure, hammer away at the expense, but let's not lose sight of the larger issue and the greater expense. The Senators were trying to get to Afghanistan to find out what the h-ll is going on with our foreign aid.

The problem is with CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency).


Search: Dubai Ports World , unsatisfactory state of port security in Canada , Port of Vancouver , THE MOST IMPORTANT MISSED POINT: WHY WE WERE THERE , Dubai Ports Police , Dubai Ports Intelligence , WHAT HAS ALL THAT GOT TO DO WITH AFGHANISTAN AND KANDAHAR? , whether the development pillar , SO WHERE AND HOW DID THE BEST-LAID PLAN GO AWRY? , WHAT DID WE PROPOSE TO DO ABOUT IT? , COME FLY DUBAI , The Renaissance , THE COUNT, PLEASE , check their sources , “leak” and “revealed”

Check the comments, particularly those of "Justzumgai Oct 26, 2006 9:58:31 PM"


There is much more in Kevin Steele's lengthy and detailed article--here, I make a plug here for the Western Standard. I have included the Hansard excerpt because it is so important that what is reported be correct ... or corrected, where there has been an error of fact or implication.




Search in Hansard for:

Hau Sing Tse, Vice-President, Asia Branch, Canadian International Development Agency:

Phillip Baker, Director General, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka Division, Canadian International Development Agency:


If you have the time, start with:

Hon. Josée Verner, P.C., MP, Minister of International Cooperation:




Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence

Issue 2 - Evidence
, OTTAWA, Monday, May 29, 2006

www.parl.gc.ca/39/1/parlbus/commbus/senate
/Com-e/defe-e/02ev-e.htm?Language=
E&Parl=39&Ses=1&comm_id=76

The Standing Committee on National Security and Defence met this day at 10 a.m. to examine and report on the national security policy of Canada.

Senator Colin Kenny (Chairman) in the chair. [....]

The Chairman: We have been making inquiries of CIDA for a number of weeks to provide this kind of information so as to make this a more productive meeting. Thus far, we have been unable to obtain this information.
Perhaps we are asking at the wrong place and you would be good enough to tell us where we should make our inquiries, or perhaps this is new information in the last week or so?

[....] Our Committee has a collective suspicion that the Development piece of the effort is not being properly-funded; that the development efforts are not being pursued as assiduously as would be prudent; and that there might be some sort of bureaucratic entanglement that is contributing to that problem. In Afghanistan, Canada is operating in and has had a special responsibility for the Province of Kandahar. We have repeatedly asked the Government to tell us how much Canadian development money is being spent in Kandahar. They have told us how much money is being spent in Afghanistan. “That”, we said, “is not the question. How much Canadian development money is being spent IN KANDAHAR please?”.

We cannot get an answer. [....]



Puff Piece for Liberal Friends Jean Chretien and Paul Martin ... and their methods

The title (All roads lead to China - except the Tories') is somewhat misleading; read and note the tone, as well as this little piece of missing information -- Not mentioned anywhere is that Lawrence Martin (lmartin@globeandmail.com) is writing a book on Jean Chretien. Martin, then, has access and the "right" attitude. Would that not influence the content and tone of this article, the tone of approval of the these ex-Prime ministers, the business-savvy Jean Chretien (business trips China, Kazakhastan and ...) and Paul Martin (China and ...). My question is what would be their business success if they had not been in government and able to ..... well, whatever they gerrymandered ... in helping ... themselves and their network.

All roads lead to China -- except the Tories', Lawrence Martin, Print Edition 26/10/06 Page A21

www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
LAC.20061026.COMARTIN26/TPStory/?query=Lawrence+Martin


On his way out of the Ottawa restaurant, Jean Chretien spots me and some other journalist hack, pulls up a chair.''You're looking fit,'' I say.''Fifty push-ups every morning.'' [....]

[Chretien] Gotta stay in shape, ... all these China trips.

[Paul Martin] ... big grin, bounding into the Chateau Laurier dining room .... He's just returned from Africa and is planning a China trip. .... Increase substantially our percentage of China's and India's growing market.


[.... Tibet, Taiwan, Dalai Lama ....] Mr. MacKay's high-profile condemnation of human-rights abuses in Tibet. No follow-up on Liberal plans to create 20 new Chinese trade offices. The apparent pushing off to the side of the "strategic partnership" relationship put in place by the Martin government.

[That last paragraph is the key. There is mention of Pat Carney just back from Beijing as part of a parliamentary delegation to Beijing. ]

The Harperites are free traders by definition, but they are also big defenders of democratic rights, and it appears that the continued crackdown in the one-party state is trumping all else.



It's nostalgia time for the good old days with both Liberals appearing and one Red Tory ... It's folksy and warm and a reminder of the time when making money was the only thing that mattered for the governments and/or the corruptos at the trough ... whoever they were/are ... a pre-election, feel good about the past era article for those who don't want the system to change ... the system that has served that gang ... so well for so many years ... the era of taxpayer money sluiced via the Canadian government (grants, initiatives, business loans, the usual agencies, foundations ... whatever) so business may soar all the way to Asia. Whose businesses? Whose prosperity?

This article absolutely infuriated me ... the good ol' boys club ... waiting ... and the mainstream media aiding them. The tone of this article is decidedly pro-Liberal with a soupcon of Red Tory realpolitick. There is a broad hint to Liberal readers: play up any differences between the pro-business Minister Emerson and Minister MacKay-- re: pro-business vs an ethical stance.

Remember: Lawrence Martin, a veteran of both The Globe and Mail and Southam News, is writing the second volume of his biography of Jean Chretien. ..., The BCTF Newsroom > Media monitor > Globe and Mail, Martin article



Related: Below is a list with urls -- an idea of what is in that week's posts.

Frost Hits the Rhubarb: June 12, 2005

Hansard: June 16/05 & Question Period -- Too Important Not to Read -- & More

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_06_12_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html
or
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/06
/hansard-june-1605-question-period-too.html

Debate on C-48 (NDP Budget) Hansard excerpts - June 16/05 newsbeat1

Note: Search topics

National Security
Border Security
Government Appointments -- Do not miss this one
Whistleblower Legislation
Firearms Registry
Foreign Affairs

Question Period- Hansard excerpts- June 16/05

Mr. Guy Lauzon (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, CPC): Mr. Speaker, the Conservative Party, along with every stakeholder and expert, has consistently demanded an independent office to protect whistleblowers and investigate their disclosures. [See the whistleblower entry just below today, Oct. 28, 06]

[....]

Subcommittee on Public Safety and National Security of the Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness -- EVIDENCE -- CONTENTS Wednesday, May 4, 2005 -- or read the excerpt: Chinese spying- rest assured?- government takes these matters very, very seriously? newsbeat1, June 17, 05

www.parl.gc.ca/infocomdoc/38/1/SNSN/
Meetings/Evidence/SNSNEV11-E.HTM

newsbeat1.com/2005/06/
chinese-spying-rest-assured-government.html

To read the FHTR Hansard entry:
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/06/
hansard-june-1605-question-period-too.html

*** Note: There is an error in the June 16, 2005 entry ... corrected elsewhere also ...


[....] In paragraph 16, the story said single refugees are eligible for $1,890 from Ottawa as a "start-up allowance, along with a $580 monthly social assistance, depending on how soon the person is able to find employment."

[....] Actually, the $1,890 "start-up allowance" - including a $580 monthly social assistance cheque from Ottawa - was a one-time payment for basic household needs such as furnishings, pots and linens. The furniture is used.


[....]

Governance 1: Hansard June 15/05, Whistleblowing, Arar, Gomery-Spin, Blind Trusts, Grewel Tapes, Public Accounts--AG, Inuit, Scandal, Global Warming

www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/
debates/116_2005-06-15/ques116-E.htm
Question Period- Hansard excerpts-June 15/05
or
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/06/
governance-1-hansard-june-1505.html

[....]

Judge Gomery: "the word is spin."



Another related item:

UN & the Communist Bloc

Bolton's Bravery
by Ion Mihai Pacepa -- or the original article here [nationalreview.com/comment/pacepa200506160738.asp]

newsbeat1.com/2005/06/boltons-bravery-by-ion-mihai-pacepa.html


Frost Hits the Rhubarb: Appointing, Pandering, Criticizing, Spying ...Left - Wing Monster : Ceausescu - - Canadian Connection Ion Mihai Pacepa ... Hansard. MP : Email. AG - Rpts. QP. PWGSC. Transfers04. DrugsBibliog. CdnTaxFed ...

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2006/02/
appointing-pandering-criticizing.html

Oct. 28, 2006: RCMP whistleblowers

RCMP whistleblowers get Day's protection, Kathleen Harris, Ottawa Sun, Oct. 28, 06

torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/10/28/2155512-sun.html

[....] Goldring said the officers have information that the RCMP did not adequately investigate alleged sexual abuse in the 1990s by a former Mountie at the Kingsclear school in New Brunswick. No charges were laid against the officer despite numerous complaints.

'RED FLAGS'

RCMP Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli headed the criminal division in New Brunswick at the time
. [....]

Oct.28, 2006: Aga Khan Interview Today

Note: Check for yourself; I may have it wrong because I listen to but don't watch much TV. I checked late.


Mansbridge: Interview with the Aga Khan, Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims

www.cbc.ca/mansbridge/

CBC Newsworld this weekend at the following times:

Saturday at 4:30pm and 9:30pm
Sunday at 12:30am and 3:30pm


And on the main CBC Television network Sunday at 3:00pm

(All times Eastern)

Oct. 28, 2006: Various

Harper meets new Mexican leader

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/26/2135380-cp.html


[....] "I think we've said repeatedly as a country in our relations with the United States that we share the Americans' concerns for safe and secure borders," Harper said. "We believe that is ultimately in all our economic interests, as well. We're prepared to work with the United States on that.

[....] "It is deplorable to go ahead with this decision of the wall at the border," Calderon said after a morning meeting on Parliament Hill. "The wall will not solve any problem. [....]


Search further: Eduardo del Buey of the Canadian Foundation of the Americas



Harper forced to tiptoe around fence -- PM cautious about U.S. move to erect barrier at Mexican border

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
dcc851b0-1bf8-4400-ba21-a2ee2ebba32b


[....] There were over 400 deaths [at the border] last year and this will increase the number of fatalities," [Felipe Calderon, the Mexican president-elect] said.

[....] It's unclear how far Canada will go to back Mexico. The Organization of American States said this week that 28 countries opposed the proposed barrier -- every country in the hemisphere except Canada and the U.S. The Prime Minister's Office confirmed last night that Canada would not formally join with the other OAS countries.

[....] a bilateral trading relationship worth $20-billion a year [....]

Mexico is pushing to have the agricultural "guest-worker" program in Canada expanded to include such industries as construction and fast food. Harper said he would be prepared to work with Mexico in areas where there are labour shortages in Canada. This is crucial for Calderon, who says he can't imagine a true free trade and free investment market in North America without free movement of labour.[....]




"keeping secret a list of passengers"

Tories won't reveal who flew on DND jet , Glen McGregor, CanWest, October 27, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
32a09e9c-dc64-4e42-bd94-0286695dd962


OTTAWA - [....] the passenger list was not released because the Conservative party paid for the cost of the flight.

"The trip in February was not a government event, and the government of Canada has been fully reimbursed,"
she wrote in an e-mail. "Therefore, as the trip was not paid for by the government of Canada (taxpayer), it was blacked out." [....]

The flight to Halifax is the second known time the Conservative party has paid for flights aboard the executive jets.


Who cares? Is this intended to create suspicion? The one who pays for the cab owes nobody an explanation for the names of the passengers. It is the same with a jet. Do the MSM not understand that most people pay for what they use or do, themselves--that it is normal, not something suspicious?




Actually, it is the Liberal-appointed Senate which is stalling legislation

Opposition parties blame Tories for stalling parliament , Alexander Panetta

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2006/10/26/2135498-cp.html


OTTAWA (CP) - The Conservatives' weakening grip on the minority Parliament was laid bare Thursday as they resorted to opposition-style stall tactics to stop their foes from setting the country's legislative agenda.

The Tories have managed to pass only four bills since taking office this year - three money bills and the expansion of agricultural marketing programs.

Their efforts to kill the long-gun registry, pass a series of law-and-order bills, and introduce a controversial environmental plan are being thwarted. [....]

Prime Minister Stephen Harper accused the Liberal-dominated Senate of intentionally slowing down the passage of his federal accountability act. [....]


"weakening grip"? PM Harper has not lost his grip on his own party ... so why the editorializing? Legislation must go through the Senate ........... where it is stalled. Would that have anything to do with the Liberal appointees left in place to obstruct at every turn?

The senate, the courts, the civil service, the agencies, foundations, boards, et cetera were filled with those whose loyalties are to the former Liberal government -- left to work against any change in the system which served corruptos so well. Have you ever heard of the Liberal party paying for a plane trip because it wasn't for government business?

I caught Bill Graham's hissy-fit in the House; unfortunately, he never sounds genuine. He appears to be acting, but I must be unfair in this assessment. Maybe TV brings out the histrionics. Is it because of the need for TV sound bites? Is television becoming a detriment to good governance? I am beginning to think so. I suspect it wastes time that could be better spent if Canadians would read Hansard or at least, a newspaper -- and if there were less concentration of ownership with the need to survive on advertising -- hence the hype over non-news.



Chirac's Chinese trip nets $10B in business -- Airbus snags huge order as EU urged to lift arms embargo , Tim Hepher and Elizabeth Pineau, Reuters, October 27, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
c5c848d8-fe18-4af9-b3ab-3ab5bde70cdc


BEIJING - Jacques Chirac called on Europe to lift its arms embargo on China yesterday as Beijing rolled out the red carpet for the French President and French firms landed deals with the Chinese government worth more than US$10-billion.

The deals -- dominated by a record-matching order for 150 Airbus jets worth US$9.9-billion at list prices -- came during a pomp-filled state visit to a country whose growth Mr. Chirac said will "change the face of the world."

Mr. Chirac was welcomed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and a 21-gun military salute at Tiananmen Square, where protests triggered a bloody crackdown in 1989 that led to a EU ban on arms exports to China that Mr. Chirac is campaigning to have lifted. [....]



Search: Airbus and Boeing , first non-European assembly plant in Tianjin , French engineer Alstom , supply 500 locomotives , develop nuclear power plants , a 1-billion 30-year water services deal




Unfair trade, desertification, blamed for increase in world hunger in 2005, cnews.com , Oct. 27, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/10/26/2144400-ap.html


UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A UN rights advocate said Thursday millions more of the world's poor suffered malnutrition last year, charging trade practices of wealthy countries and desert encroachment aggravated the problem.

Jean Ziegler, a UN expert on food rights, said some 852 million people were "gravely, permanently undernourished on this planet" at the end of 2005, an increase of 11 million from the year earlier. [....]


A prelude to a global tax ... to be administered by the UN ... for the good of ... the usual recipients.



Interview with Mark Steyn

The man who likes to poke the world in the eye -- Journalist Mark Steyn says being offensive has its merits, Linda Frum, National Post, October 14, 2006



[....] LF Is there a quick answer as to why you live in New Hampshire of all places?

MS Long ago I was on an Amtrak overnight train from Montreal to New York and it broke down halfway, and they tossed us all off the train in the middle of the night. They sent a little bus to take us to a neighbouring inn, and I woke up the following morning and thought, "Actually, it's quite nice around here." I like New Hampshire because it doesn't have a state income tax or a state sales tax, and it has a very limited government done at a very local level, which is my preference. On the other hand, there are great disadvantages. If you want to get a decent dinner, your best bet is to drive an hour and a quarter up

I-91 and eat in almost any small Quebec town.

LF Let no one say you are a self-hating Canadian. What a terrific endorsement for our cuisine.

MS I love Quebec. I'm not opposed to Quebec independence. I think it would be a huge laugh. The fact of the matter is they have a ridiculous independence movement, and they're never going to go. Even if you threw a sovereign state at them, they'd refuse to take it. They're no different from the Palestinians in that respect. [....]





Memory Lane: AIRPORT INSECURITY

Now, the Harper Conservative government is attempting to ameliorate the situation, to tighten security, protect whistleblowers, etc. and it is being stymied by stalling. Would some people prefer that our security not be improved?

Security: Pearson Airport Q4_2003

www.yorku.ca/nathanson/CurrentEvents/2003_Q4.htm


Daniele Cappa, 42, of Maple, Ont., has pleaded guilty in a Virginia court to strapping $180,000 (U.S.) to his body on three occasions and secretly carrying the cash through customs and security checkpoints while working as a supervisor at Toronto’s Pearson Airport. [....]

Between February and August of 1998, individuals involved with the ring smuggled money from Canada to the U.S. by car on three occasions and three more through Pearson, with events unfolding in a similar pattern. The cocaine was transported from Florida to Canada, where it was sold. The cash proceeds were then smuggled back to Florida to purchase more cocaine. The scheme began to fall apart on July 28, 1998, when Mark Matheys, the brother of Brench and one of the cocaine couriers, was arrested after his train stopped briefly at Union Station in Washington, D.C., and police discovered 10 kilograms of cocaine in his bags. Meanwhile, the RCMP in Toronto were already closing in on Fonseca, who they said did not belong to a larger organized crime group. A two-year joint investigation between the RCMP and the FBI was then undertaken, which culminated on January 12, 2000 with the arrest of six people involved in the cash and cocaine smuggling operation.

Drug squad officers at both the RCMP and Toronto Police Service said cases like this one probably represent only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to drug-related corruption among Pearson employees. They said the problem is difficult to detect and even harder to prevent because of one simple factor.

Police are concerned that if drug smugglers can pierce the airport security through corrupt airport employees, the same can be used by terrorists to smuggle aboard an explosive device. "It's high time Transport Canada recognizes it has serious problems at our airports that are compromising national security and that this is a multi-faceted threat," said Staff Inspector Dan Hayes, who heads the Toronto Police drug squad. "They're sticking their heads in the sand and sooner or later this is going to blow up. It's a question of when, not if." [....]

October 27, 2006

Oct. 27, 2006: Various

A largely Liberal appointed Senate is stalling -- more than 100 amendments -- "Legislation accountability act likely to die, mp says" , Jack Aubry, CanWest, October 26, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
8b43ff50-9176-4d12-aa3a-e11ae6223633


[....] Mr. [Pat] Martin also said recent comments by Judge John Gomery about the government's failure to act on his report into the sponsorship scandal are not "helpful" because the Accountability Act has not yet been approved.

He believes the Accountability Act covers at least three of Judge Gomery's 19 recommendations and Parliament has enough to deal with in the large, sweeping act.

Treasury Board president John Baird said if the bill is not passed by the Senate, the Tories will make it an issue in the next election. [....]




Retroactive extortion , Terence Corcoran, Financial Post, October 26, 2006

canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=
4f455d50-0321-4db6-af08-f984493aa8eb


If there are real crooks in Canada's financial markets, the country's top regulators have demonstrated an uncanny ability to not find them. Instead, the record is littered with petty enforcement of undefined crimes and ill-defined rules, along with over-the-top prosecutions of people who have done little or no wrong. We're thinking here of the Ontario Securities Commission's jihad against David Rankin, Scott Paterson and mutual fund operators, as well as the recent Sears takeover intervention and the attempt to interrogate Nortel's Frank Dunn in ways that threaten his Charter rights. [....]




The Rape of Europe, by Paul Belien, October 26, 2006

www.canadafreepress.com/2006/brussels102606.htm


The German author Henryk M. Broder recently told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant (12 October) that young Europeans who love freedom, better emigrate. Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now. [....]


David Frum- .................because the ref's (MSM) wearing their jersey, David Frum, via newsbeat1

frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=
ZTliOWQ0ZmRjNmUxZTE1YjMyNGI4NTE4NzUxM2Y5N2M=


Captain's Quarters: "Europe as we know it will no longer exist 20 years from now."..........

www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008367.php



IMMIGRATION FROM ...
A BORDER PATROLMAN’S HOLSTER: THIRD WORLD MOMENTUM GROWING IN UNITED STATES , PART II, By Frosty Wooldridge, July 25, 2005, NewsWithViews.com

http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty68.htm

Frosty Wooldridge has guest lectured at Cornell University ...


Third World corruption overwhelms any chance for a balanced or civil society. Mexico stands as an excellent example of ‘el Grande’ corruption. In John W. Slagle’s book, ‘ILLEGAL ENTRIES’, every aspect of Mexican life suffers from corruption. It’s rampant at the lowest levels of society. Mailmen take bribes to ensure patrons receive their mail. If citizens don’t pay, no mail is delivered. Thievery is a given. Patrons are robbed while eating a meal at a restaurant!

Unfortunately, Third World corruption pours into [....]

Like a metastasizing cancer, illegal migration into the United States grew at break neck speeds in the 1990s. According to Time Magazine, three million a year illegally jump America’s fences from Canada and Mexico. The numbers indicated a growing crisis of human misery in home countries. Civic Hispanic groups such as MALDf, La Raza AND LULAC grow in power and protest enforcement of immigration laws in communities across the USA. If a BICE agent arrests illegals within five blocks of a church or school, Hispanics erupt from the woodwork exclaiming the aliens were, “Dragged from the school or apprehended while praying.” [Does that last part ring any bells?]

This illustrates ‘ethnic enclaving’ or ‘ethnic sympathy’ that circumvents law and order

[....] Do you ever wonder how Third World corruption may affect you? After 34 years of the Drug War and one-half trillion dollars of your taxes spent--drug use and drug availability remain better than before. Any kid in any city in America can score whatever drug and amounts 24/7. “Many drug shipments appear to be escorted or guarded by Mexican authorities,” Slagle said. “Narcotics organizations pay millions of dollars in bribes to corrupt Mexican military officers who command ‘anti-drug’ troops along the border as well as police agencies. The ‘mordita’ bribery system in Mexico has never been resolved by Washington, DC or Mexico’s [ex-] President Fox.” [....]

It might be noted that Vancouver, British Columbia has imported so many Chinese, both legally and illegally, into that city that it looks more like Beijing than Canada. Their Indo-Canadian drug gangs and growing power leave Canada at risk of losing any control over its own country as the new immigrants enclave into political power and ‘ethnic sympathy’. [....]

His latest book. ‘IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION—DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.’ [....]




Fascinating: The spy who never came in from the cold, by Gordon Thomas, Oct. 25, 06

www.canadafreepress.com/2006/thomas102506.htm

Gordon Thomas is the author of Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. He specializes in international intelligence matters.


[....] Known as a "burn bag", it was intended at a twist of the key clockwise, the usual way of opening or closing a bag, to incinerate the contents by triggering flames from a ring of gas jets built into the base. [....]

Later, as we came to know one another better, he convinced me that secret intelligence is the key to fully understanding international relations, global politics and terrorism. [....]

There had been a rumour that Buckley had been transferred to a Hezbollah redoubt out in the Beka'a Valley. Another rumour said he had been secretly flown to Tehran for interrogation. [....]


Search: Midwestern virtues , a battered van out of West Beirut heading for the Beka'a Valley


via CNEWS Forum: inviting rape? , buck2thrice, 10/26/2006 10:46:03 -- Australian Muslim cleric blames women for rape , Oct. 26 2006 11:21 AM ET, CTV.ca News Staff

www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061026
/australia_cleric_061026/20061026?hub=TopStories


Australia's most senior Islamic cleric has set off a firestorm of controversy after comparing women without headscarves to "uncovered meat" inviting sexual assault, comments that he has since apologized for.

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside ... without cover, and the cats come to eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's?" Sheik Taj Aldin al Hilali was quoted as saying in a sermon to some 500 worshippers in Sydney last month.

"The uncovered meat is the problem," he was quoted as saying in The Australian newspaper.

"If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred," he said, referring to the headdress worn by some Muslim women.

Hilal also suggested women who "sway suggestively" and wear cosmetic makeup, implying they attracted sexual attack. [....]


What do you suppose that does to race relations?

Does anyone remember a prof who taught at a Canadian university who suggested that any young woman who goes to a student drinking party in one of the campus residences, is invited up to a room by one of the males and goes ... and later claims rape ... [figure it out] Well, I believe he retired early.



London Muslims face discrimination, report charges , Reuters, October 25, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/archives
/story.html?id=
d26b0769-592f-410c-a94e-6dc904a5c8e3


LONDON - Muslims must play a greater role in London's politics and the economy to help stem prejudice and discrimination, a report said yesterday.

Muslims make up 8.5% of the capital's population, but are under-represented on its councils and among its workforce, adds the Muslims in London report.

Mayor [Red] Ken Livingstone [....]

Mr. Abdul Bari blamed Muslim unemployment and deprivation for tensions. [....]




The latte cut and run crew that prefers women uneducated and basically second class citizens in Afghanistan-because that's the result of a cut and, newsbeat1



Eldest Trudeau son, former Ontario premier dip toes in Quebec nation debate, by Les Perreaux, Oct. 26, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/26/2135688-cp.html


MONTREAL (CP) - Justin Trudeau [....] started the day with a backhanded dig at Ignatieff, calling nationalism an "old idea from the 19th century." [....]

Former Ontario premier David Peterson said in an interview that Ignatieff is recognizing a fact that is widely accepted, especially in Quebec.

He also pointed out that Trudeau, a former teacher and current environmental activist, is not exactly a constitutional expert.

"I don't know that he's spent a lot of time on constitutional matters," said Peterson, who backed the failed Meech Lake constitutional deal that would have recognized Quebec as a distinct society. [....]

Make a guess at who is "a potential political star for the future".

Peterson apparently doesn't realize that the Liberal party is looking for "charisma". Could we say that Stephane Dion will forge ahead now ... given his stance on Quebec and nationhood?




CSIS rapped over info obtained under duress, Jim Bronskill

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/26/2135217-cp.html


[....] Arar came under RCMP scrutiny in Ottawa in October 2001 through his contact with Almalki, a prime target of an anti-terrorism investigation dubbed Project A-O Canada.

O'Connor said the cases of Almalki, El Maati and Nureddin, all three of whom were also imprisoned in Damascus, raised troubling questions about the role of Canadian officials.

He recommended the cases be reviewed through an independent and credible process. [....]


Who would be part of that new process? Some of the same guys who have stymied the current government's anti-crime legislation? The ones who let our security services slide so dismally?

Oct. 27, 2006: Astute and witty

Mark Steyn: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It

www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/25/205814.shtml?s=us

This book isn't an argument for more war, more bombing, or more killing, but for more will. In a culturally confident age, the British in India were faced with the practice of "suttee" - the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands. General Sir Charles Napier was impeccably multicultural: "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." [....]


I think a lively dinner party would include Mark Steyn and Theodore Dalrymple. Out of curiosity, who would you invite? Leave a comment.

October 26, 2006

Oct. 26, 2006: Bombardier wins in France

Update and related:

FHTR November 11, 2005
via Need Inquiry into CSL/Earnscliffe Strategies etc -- written November 09, 2005 by Beryl P. Wajsman -- A reader posted a few items in CNEWSForum -- via Small Dead Animals

[. . . . ] Nor why there is no Inquiry into the $1.5 billion dollars in guarantees awarded under Mr. Martin’s watch as Finance Minister in favour of Bombardier whose lobbyist was Mike Robinson, a principal in Earnscliffe and national campaign co-chair for Mr. Martin, who admitted on CTV to having talked with Mr. Martin’s Chief of Staff on this file.


Look for mention of:

Canada Steamship Lines contracts

contracts awarded to Earnscliffe Strategies

according to Radio- Canada’s “Enjeux” documentary, avoided $300,000,000 of taxes

not “mad as hell” [....]





Bombardier won with "a price that was well below the others"

Think about that in considering that winning the contract in France comes after Bombardier has had many infusions of Canadian taxpayers' dollars. There is mention of 'components' and 'China' in the following.

Bombardier wins $5.7B contract for French trains -- Beats out Alstom and Siemens , AFP, October 26, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.ht
ml?id=e4b137d3-ba15-4270-8f91-d7724a687690

[....] All of the trains awarded to Bombardier will be built in France, according to Jean-Paul Huchon, a senior member of the opposition Socialist party who heads the council and transport authority for the region around Paris called Ile-de-France.

A spokesman for Bombardier later said 85% of the cars would be made in France. [....]


Search: sub-contract , Alstom chairman Patrick Kron , China , components

Related: here, Oct. 24, 2006

Search: What is going on with Bombardier? , Update Oct. 25, 06

October 25, 2006

Oct. 25, 2006: Various #2

Tory crime-fighting bill gutted by combined opposition forces, Jim Brown, NatPost / CP, October 24, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
30865e30-1470-4c47-8815-913a0642b751&k=4068

OTTAWA -- Justice Minister Vic Toews is lambasting the three federal opposition parties for banding together to gut a Conservative bill aimed at severely curbing the ability of judges to sentence convicted criminals to house arrest rather than jail time.

“What it means is that very serious crimes are still open to house arrest - including crimes like break and enter into people’s dwelling houses, arson, robberies,” [Justice Minister Vic] Toews said Tuesday.

Bill C-9, introduced in May, was trumpeted by the Tories as a key part of their law-and-order legislative agenda. [....]

The house arrest bill was coupled at its introduction last spring with another piece of legislation that would impose mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes. [....]



Prime Minister Harper on Women’s History Month

[....] This year, Women’s History Month is focusing on Aboriginal Women

“Canada’s New Government is also making history. For too long Canadian law has denied equality to native women living on reserves by failing to recognize their matrimonial property rights. Our government is now taking action to right this historical wrong and make sure that Aboriginal women living on reserves have the same matrimonial property rights as all Canadian women. [....]




Former Alberta bureaucrat to plead guilty to money laundering, Charles Rusnell, CanWest News Service; Edmonton Journal, October 22, 2006

www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=
d93b6793-99de-439e-9d34-422ad9c5de77&k=55721

EDMONTON - Flamboyant Edmonton businessman Michael Ritter is expected to plead guilty Friday to charges related to what is believed to be the largest money laundering case in Alberta's history and a massive $270-million US Ponzi scheme in California.

In return for his guilty plea to two new charges sworn in provincial court last week, Ritter, who is Alberta's former chief parliamentary counsel, will no longer face extradition to Los Angeles where, if convicted, the 49-year-old would likely have died in prison. [....]



Margaret Trudeau urges Ottawa to increase foreign aid to 0.7% of GDP, CanWest, October 24, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
9ed48b41-3d2f-4158-8e3e-3345299e895e


[....] a charity that digs wells in small African villages, she has just returned from an 11-day tour of some of the poorest places on Earth. [....] [....]


I love it. Margaret's heart was touched ... or she was a paid spokeswoman for the charitable agency and her fare was paid. Anyway, her heart extends to other people's money--a good Liberal. She came home, having been affected ... and wants taxpayers to pay more.

What has been accomplished with the millions of taxpayers money sent to Africa for the poorest over years ? Not much. Other than marrying and divorcing Pierre Trudeau, what has Margaret Trudeau accomplished in her life ... that Canadians should listen to her, as opposed to a neighbour, about how much aid should be given or whether to even continue in the same ineffective manner? [Think how little AIDS information has changed behaviour.] Her plea is leftist / Liberal politicking, nothing more. She may be a loving mother and a caring person ... but I am bored with celebrity spokespeople. Think Hollywood. Think Madonna as adoptive mother, example to the world. We are able to read, listen, view documentaries / films and choose our own charitable endeavours without help from celebrities.



Muslims and Doctors in France...., October 23, 2006

gayandright.blogspot.com/2006/10
/muslims-and-doctors-in-france.html

France's leading gynecologists have challenged hard-line Muslims to bow to France's secular, "modern" rules of society and to stop insisting that female doctors examine their wives. [....]

The college said: "Thirty years ago, Muslim women came into our hospitals without any alarm at being taken into the care of doctors, most of whom were men, and there were none of these difficulties. [....]

Oct. 25, 2006: Funding terrorists from Canada against Cdn. troops

The link is for the first item, only.


Security Minister Day: Afghani Islamists banned by Ottawa as terrorists

Group gets funds here to kill our troops

"this is the first indication that some Canadians have been actively bankrolling the fight to oust Canada's military from the country."
, Oct. 25, 06, via newsbeat1.

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.ht
ml?id=3c4d4c4f-d015-4b9a-b25c-db90ad2bbb4a&k=35377

[....] "It was important that we do this," [outlaw the HIG, Canada's Security Minister Day] said. "We know that the group itself, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, is involved in terrorist activities, a very violent anti-Western group with a violent ideology. They are trying to disrupt the situation in Afghanistan and take out the legitimate government there."

He added that the Afghan group [Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, or HIG] had been "working closely" with other terrorist groups, including Al-Ittihad Al-Islam, a Somali terrorist group that is also outlawed by Canada. The Post revealed last week that a Somali-Canadian living in Mogadishu was working closely with the founder of Al-Ittihad, Sheikh Hasan Dahir Aweys. [....]




Drugs and Taliban

38 insurgents killed in fighting in Kandahar's Panjwaii, Zhair districts, Fishnik Abrashi, Oct. 25, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/10/25/2124458-ap.html

[....] Opium cultivation has surged since the ouster of the Taliban in late 2001. The Taliban had enforced an effective ban on poppy growing by threatening to jail farmers - virtually eradicating the crop in 2000.

But Afghan and western counter-narcotics officials say Taliban-led militants are now implicated in the drug trade, encouraging poppy cultivation and using the proceeds to help fund their insurgency. [....]




Video Documenting Car Bomb Attack, October 25, 2006, MEMRI, Islamist Websites Monitor No. 13

memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD133406

This six-minute video, titled "The Abu Hajir Al-'Aziz Al-Muqrin Attack" (http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ai=214&ar=M4-007&ak=null ), features a minute-by-minute documentation of a car bomb attack carried out in Iraq, along with instructions for operating a car bomb.

[....] According to Al-'Ali, there are two major ways to attain the goals of jihad. First, the Muslims must "purge the Islamic lands of the occupying armies by driving the tyrannical Western Zionist-Crusader Imperialism" out [of these lands]. Secondly, the Muslims must fight the Islamic regimes which have turned away from Islam (murtaddun) and force them to revoke their United Nations membership.

At the end of his sermon, Al-'Ali urges Muslims to hold themselves to high religious standards, and calls upon Allah to unleash His wrath upon the enemies of Islam.


The Boy Inside
The world of a bright, but lonely 11 year-old autistic boy and his Mother’s heroic efforts on his behalf.
, documentary October 25, 2006, 1:00 a.m. The Lens

www.cbc.ca/thelens/theboyinside/

Repeat: October 28 at 10 PM ET/PT on CBC Newsworld

Filmmaker Marianne Kaplan turns the camera on her own family, creating a rare and intimate first-hand portrait of living with Asperger Syndrome (AS)-a form of high-functioning autism characterized by socially and emotionally inappropriate behavior, and an inability to interact successfully with others

The film follows Kaplan's son Adam, a sufferer of AS, as he makes his way through Grade 7. His condition creates many challenges for him among his schoolmates and he is painfully aware of his separateness, "I have no clue, really… Am I retarded? [He appeared to be highly intelligent. ....]


More here -- and here

This is affecting for the viewer and wrenching for a parent. Worth watching.




Venezuela is proposing its ally Bolivia as an alternative candidate for the UN Security Council in hopes of breaking a deadlock with U.S.-backed Guatemala, top Venezuelan diplomats said Wednesday. , Oct. 25, 06

cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2006/10/25/2125100-ap.html


What does the Rockford Register Star’s annual Big Fish list have to do with the economy?, Freakonomics, Oct. 22, 06, via Small Dead Animals.

Well, since 2000, the total number of Big Fish called into the paper to be published on Sundays has tracked perfectly with the jobless rate.

Oct. 25, 2006: Aga Khan

Aga Khan visiting Canada Oct. 25, 2006


October 24, 2006
Ottawa, Ontario

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that His Highness the Aga Khan, the 49th Hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, will visit Canada on October 25, 2006.


Do you suppose the MSM will report his words? I remember on the occasion of Prime Minister Howard's speech to Parliament, the broadcast on CBC was interrupted for another story. With tape, both could have been run, one after the other, but no. Why? Howard is too conservative, it seems. See what happens today. What are the odds of a fawning MSM account?

The fact that Paul Martin's government gave the Aga Khan $30 million taxpayer dollars for his Peace Center/Centre in Ottawa last year should get taxpayers' attention. After all, the Aga Khan's fortune is estimated at $6-billion Euros. [see below]

In 2005, at about the same time as the Liberal government gave $30-million, the Aga Khan was able to contribute to another endeavour:
Aga Khan gives £27m to Chantilly restoration -- " to help restore France's largest privately owned estate", Jon Henley in Paris, Thursday March 3, 2005, The Guardian

www.guardian.co.uk/france/story
/0,11882,1429268,00.html?gusrc=rss



"The Aga Khan is to donate €40m [Euros] (£27.4m) [£27,400,000.00 -- GBP / United Kingdom Pounds = $57,987,992.04 CAD ***] of his fortune to help restore France's largest privately owned estate, which includes a park, a Renaissance chateau, a racecourse and the biggest classical art collection in the country outside the Louvre.

The billionaire businessman and racehorse owner, who is a British citizen [elsewhere reported as a French or a Swiss citizen], will provide more than half of a €70m [Euros] fund set up with the French state, the Institut de France - which owns the magnificent but badly decayed Chantilly estate - and local authorities. [.... more details on the estate here]

The Aga Khan, 68, spiritual leader of the world's 15m Ismaili Muslims, has lived and stabled his horses on the nearby Aiglemont estate for years. He became interested in Chantilly's fortunes a decade ago, when there was talk of its racecourse being closed. [....]

The Aga Khan, whose fortune has been estimated at €6bn [Euros 6,000,000,000] [....]


*** Previously checked and the rate on that date was 1 Euro = 1.4370 / 1.44 CAD Currency converter


I welcome the Aga Khan as the leader of an important and large group of Muslims.

Oct. 25, 2006: Various

Under-reported story and details

Yesterday, I waited for it, but the CBC did not mention this and I listened to TV most of the afternoon. Have the rest of the MSM mentioned this story ... repeatedly ... as happens with the concern over: security certificate / anti-terror law , Momin Kawaja , Maher Arar, doggy-gate, same-sex marriage, emphasis upon US failure in Iraq? ... I heard anything but this story.

More sponsorship scandal charges possible , author contends in new book: Hubert Bauch, CanWest News Service, October 24, 2006

www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=382fb7ad-9f53-4336-9723-1ddd017dc322&k=75304

I mentioned this book previously, but this has more background for those who have forgotten ... and not been reminded by the mainstream media, particularly TV.

[....] The MaChouette in the title is the code name used by a well-connected source who fed Leblanc key information on the sponsorship program in the course of a journalistic investigation that first brought the scandal to light. Leblanc later learned her real name, but does not disclose it.

Leblanc quotes his source as saying numerous guilty parties have escaped prosecution or scrutiny, and that some are laughing up their sleeves with illicit millions lining their pockets.

... $250-million program ... Jean Chretien

... $100 million ... links to the federal Liberal party ... padded their bills or simply submitted fictitious invoices ...

... more than $1 million was kicked back to the Quebec wing of the federal Liberal party ...

[....] Leblanc reports that the RCMP had Morselli, a close associate of former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano, under investigation for an unrelated (and unspecified) matter even before the sponsorship investigation began, and that a wiretap on Morselli's phone at the time revealed he accepted a $100,000 offer from Brault to steer him a federal contract for his Groupaction ad firm.

... Morselli, ... his death ''disappointed a lot of people at the RCMP.''

... a paid informer, a former Groupaction employee identified only as X, ... $1,500 and $3,000 a month ... three years.





Panamanians vote to expand famous canal to spur growth, National Post, Oct. 23, 06

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
2d99877a-168a-4d20-a2f2-c6544bd33486

This has implications and ramifications in various areas, I expect. What company is checking the cargo at either end of the ports? Li Ka-shing's company (Hutchison Whampoa or another of his companies) controls both ports but which company is tasked with checking what is shipped via the canal? What are the implications of that? Think of China's connections to Latin America for oil and to Hugo Chavez, in particular. What is being planned? Also, China is courting more Latin American leftists. Minerals? Influence? Check further into the implications of this vital canal controlled out of Asia. ... Or is it the Barbados? Is the Dubai-based company which bought out the P & O and which is charged with security checks at several ports also tasked with security for the Panama Canal Ports? What are the implications for flora and fauna in enlarging the canal? -- a mixing of Pacific Ocean and Caribbean waters. What are the related problems, if any? Who would make the decisions on any of this? ...



There has been great concern over decorum in the House, by CBC and from Layton and others, concern which did not surface a year ago in outraged comments for TV over the ridiculous answers given in Hansard and I don't remember such a furor over the yelling free for alls, catcalls, swearing (if any), etc. Yesterday on CBC there were audios repeated ... and repeated, of two insults both emanating from the right wing--naturally--of the political spectrum, one from a Reformer out of the West (Darryl Stinson?). It seems that NDP'ers and Liberals never act like barroom hooligans ... or never were caught so their words could be replayed ... or the tapes were lost or damaged ... or they never, ever said anything that would bring the decorum of Parliament into disrepute. Balderdash!

Related: Earl Mcrae-........Dissing knitters, Oct. 24, 06, via newsbeat1

www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/McRae_Earl
/2006/10/24/2114353-sun.html

Perfect example!

Exhibit A of why the public holds politicians in low esteem

For about $140,000/yr/MP this is the best they can do for the nation's business......







Campus Jihad , Anthony Glees, Oct. 23, 06. Page A15

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB116155302363600240-lMyQjAxMDE2NjIxMzUyNTMzWj.html

Mr. Glees is director for the Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies.

LONDON -- U.K. intelligence officials have just provided a chilling assessment of the terrorist threat Britain faces. The country has become "al Qaeda target No. 1," security sources told me, confirming last week's press reports. Intelligence services now judge Britain's "home grown" terrorists to be organized, trained and controlled either directly from Pakistan or via Pakistani networks in Britain.

[....] MI5 has hugely upped its game, as recent arrests show. But MI5 also believes that the number of extremists is rising and not just because it now knows better where to look for them. MI5 keeps very close tabs on more than 1,000 extremists; 14,000 British Muslims are considered potential terrorist threats, security sources told me.

[....] Government minister Ruth Kelly two weeks ago urged universities to monitor their students more carefully and report signs of extremism to the security services. But many British universities are reluctant to step up security.

But British universities prefer burying their heads in the sand of political correctness. When the Foreign Office invited 100 academics to bid for £1.3 million of government funds to participate in a counter-radicalization program, the academics said no. [....]





The enemy of our enemy , National Post, Oct. 23, 06

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/editorialsletters
/story.html?id=2f2877dc-1faa-4c6b-ae25-a28763ec9fba

[....] Speaking on the anniversary of the revelation of the Koran to the Prophet Muhammad, Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak made various boilerplate comments about how the West had "wrong perceptions" about Islam, which he said was under "ferocious attack."

But then, Mr. Mubarak took things in another direction. "Don't we Muslims share part of the responsibility for the wrong perceptions about Islam?" he asked pointedly. "Have we done our duty in correcting the image of Islam and Muslims? ... Isn't it the time for a new religious discourse, which teaches people the correct things in their religion ... and promotes the values of tolerance against those of extremism and radicalism?" [....]


Search: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .... "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" , Gaza , Lebanon , Hezbollah terrorists , Iraq's democratic government , Only in Afghanistan , "Ahmadinejads, Nasrallahs and bin Ladens"




Italian imam calls lawmaker 'an infidel' during televised debate -- An Italian politician will be put under police protection after a fundamentalist imam shouted at her during a televised debate on the Islamic veil, National Post, Oct. 23, 06

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
a4ee1e06-076c-4821-a4f3-24ab7410f0d1

or
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
a70fbbe9-c322-4df4-b429-4d4d84c218c5

[....] The lawmaker said the veil was not required by the Koran, but she was strongly contradicted by Ali Abu Shwaima, imam of the Segrate Mosque near Milan, in a live broadcast on Friday on the private channel Sky. "It is not true. I will not allow the ignorant to talk about Islam," the imam said. "The veil is an obligation required by God. Those who do not believe that are not Muslims," he added before calling the deputy "an infidel," [....]


Search elsewhere for the book on the living conditions of Muslim women called Woman Denied by Daniela Santanche.



Howls over highball hijinks -- Banff questions happy hour culture after bar brawl turns into near-riot -- How a sense of community helped the police, Adrian Humphries, NatPost, Oct. 23, 06

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
de85612d-dfde-4091-93cf-76f05a3781fb&p=2

[....] Ms. Boutilier Gerrie said the behaviour of the crowd was shocking but the response from her neighbours was not.

"I've lived here for 35 years and I can't begin to tell you what a wonderful sense of community we have. Most people would say they are your competitors. They're not. We are all part of the same community," she said.

By early Wednesday morning, the incident was over. Police had arrested six men and two women. All are from Quebec but for one, who is from France. They face 31 charges [....]


It was competitors and members of the community who helped the police. Good show!




Numbers don't lie, Lorne Gunter, National Post, Oct. 23, 06

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas
/story.html?id=9b059e9a-7f95-48bb-8017-9d9de5b2c4c1



No Islamic Law in Minnesota, for Now , by Daniel Pipes, FrontPageMagazine.com , October 16, 2006

A week ago, it appeared likely that Muslim taxi drivers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport would win special dispensation to avoid transporting alcohol-carrying passengers. The Metropolitan Airports Commission had proposed to give those Shar'i-minded drivers an off-colored light atop their cabs, allowing them to remain in queue while customers with bottles found other cabs.
[.... opposition, Australia and England , backlash , 400 e-mails and phone calls.]

[....] The Free Muslims Coalition announced it is "disgusted" by the Muslim drivers' behavior, on two grounds:

[....] For now, taxi drivers who refuse fares so as to avoid transporting alcohol will continue, as has been the case, to forfeit their place in the airport taxi queue and must return to the back of the line, in keeping with a MAC ordinance. But the Free Muslims Coalition correctly argues that this does not suffice. Cab drivers who discriminate against passengers with bottles of alcohol, it holds, "should be banned altogether from picking up passengers at the airport" and their hack permits should be cancelled.

Exactly. Islamists need to understand that the Constitution rules in the United States, not Shari'a, and Americans will vigorously ensure that it continues to do so.
[....]





The making of a negative image
By tethering Stephen Harper too tightly to the political thinkers with whom he's studied or worked, pundits have projected simplistic -- and often incorrect -- analyses on his ideas, Robert Sibley argues
, Robert Sibley, The Ottawa Citizen, February 05, 2006 (Part 1 of 4)

www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=
34caafb3-e86e-4838-a603-b9e3ed3937d4&p=1

Worth reading.



Known by the friends he keeps

For a seat on the U.N. Security Council, now Hugo Chavez is promoting Bolivia, run by Pres. Morales ... but check the rest of Chavez' friends.

Chavez claims victory of sorts at U.N. , By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER, Sun Oct 22, 9:48 PM ET -- posted by starboardside, Oct. 23, 06

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=727&mforum=elwoodpdowd

President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela achieved its objective at the United Nations by preventing Washington's preferred candidate from winning a seat on the U.N. Security Council.

[....] Chavez — a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro — has promised to use a seat on the council as a platform to speak out against the U.S.

Chavez has claimed that the U.S. has tried to coerce nations into voting for Guatemala.

In recent months, Chavez collected pledges of support as he visited about a dozen countries including Russia, Belarus, Iran, Vietnam, Qatar, Mali, Benin, China, Malaysia and Syria. Top Guatemalan officials and U.S. diplomats also have been busy with their own international lobbying efforts.

Venezuelan opposition leaders accuse Chavez of squandering millions of dollars in an effort to garner international backing for Venezuela's bid, saying he has neglected domestic problems such as rampant crime and widespread poverty. [....]




Scroll down for this comment by WL Mackenzie REdux: Crisis in Re-Education -- comment, October 21st, 2006 at 9:25 am

www.dustmybroom.com/?p=4800

“The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education ”

More appropriately titled ” Turtle island lodge of revisionist fictionalization, indoctrination and re-education”adorning its ramparts are the gold star on the blood red background ( depicting the institute’s founding mentors from the school of fabian shining path revelutionaries [sic])

The red star banner hangs over the institute’s sconcheon arch in which the Motto: “from each according to his ability to dupe to each according to his need to be blinded”

The opinions and ideologoes [sic] I can glean from my scan of this “institute” seem to be unrepentant and open about their intent to fill the 10 pillars of the communist manifesto… which provides the template for modern politically correct activism: [....]



Worth reading.



Diversion: Telemarketer's Nightmare! , via puntedposters. Comments indicate it is funny.



Mainstream Media Time and Blog Time, John Podhoretz, NY Times, Oct. 24, 06. via newsbeat1 / smalldeadanimals

www.nypost.com/seven/10242006/postopinion/opedcolumnists
/battling_predictions_opedcolumnists_john_podhoretz.htm?page=0

[....] If the bloggers get it right this time, this really will be yet another crisis point for Mainstream Media Time - a point at which their most loyal consumers will be compelled to wonder why they're bothering to pay attention to writers and editors whose sense of America is so completely out of whack. Especially if there is another force out there that ate the mainstream media's lunch.

If, however, the bloggers are getting it wrong, this will be the first major blow in their wildly successful rush this decade to dominate the way political news is made, reported and consumed. [....]

October 24, 2006

Oct. 24, 2006: Bombardier and related

Update Oct. 25, 2006: three parts

1. CBC has mentioned repeatedly the loss of Quebec jobs but why is there no investigation of why Bombardier, after numerous infusions of taxpayer dollars, is able to (move offshore?) create a wholly-owned business in China, and is thriving there and, apparently, throughout Southeast Asia. Yet Canadians have propped up this business with tax dollars. Investigate and explain to the Canadian taxpayers why this is happening and why taxpayers don't have an interest in Bombardier's foreign business(es).


This might help in investigating: There are more links further down, as well.

2. I inadvertently omitted a link to Apr. 20, 2005.

In exploring why Bombardier in Canada is laying off workers, considering that it seems to own Bombardier Global Express and/or Skyjet International and has work in China, check:

FHTR Apr. 17-22, 2005

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_04_17_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Scroll to Apr. 20, 2005:
Bombardier Nortel China to Tibet & More, Vietnamese Truckers, Drug Lords, Triads, Gamblers & Kingpins, Refugees & Immigration--Why the Liberal Haste?

...a wholly-owned venture in Shanghai Bombardier Railway Transportation Equipment (Shanghai) Co Ltd. ... Tibet ... Northeast China‘s Jilin province and eastern Jiangsu province ....

Bombardier's BB Credit Rating & Funding for C-series Regional Jets

Bombardier sells credit unit to GE -- Gets US$1.4B for heart of unit


FHTR October 13, 2005: Bombardier adds jets to order re: Delta ... SkyWest

and much more.


3. Date corrected: FHTR May 15-21, 2005 for the whole week's posts. The link was all right.

End of update



CBC news with Nancy Wilson at noon: Bombardier [The emphasis was the same all day with other news readers.]

The emphasis in the introduction by Nancy Wilson to the news was on loss of Bombardier jobs not the creation of 600 Bombardier jobs in Toronto. Finally, another news reader mentioned it.

Wilson also talked animatedly about the gay marriage issue and, of course, the decision on the terrorism security certificates -- something to do with the definition of terrorism. Check further.

Bombardier aerospace: [Creating 800 jobs in Toronto] -- cutting 1,330 jobs in Montreal and Belfast, as it reduces production of its regional jets to contend with flagging demand.





While the shift in production means a loss of more than 1,300 jobs in Montreal and Belfast, it could mean a creation of 800 jobs at Bombardier Aerospace in Toronto.

The low cost Q400 turboprops are being used by Porter Airlines, which began flying this week out of Toronto's Island Airport.


At their leadership convention, undoubtedly, Liberals will make promises about "initiatives" in Quebec and then, there are always the China / other Southeast Asia deals ... if only they are returned to power.


What is going on with Bombardier? Note that Bombardier has Bombardier Global Express and/or Skyjet International ... so what is failing? Only the work in Canada? Not getting the funds from government? See the Technology Partnerships entry. Check the following.

Bombardier adds jets to order

The New Light of Myanmar, Burma -- Bombardier Global Express

Yangon [Rangoon, Burma], 7 Jan [2003] - Under the arrangement of Air Security International Co in Bangkok, Thailand, and Gold Backed Travels & Tours Co Ltd in Myanmar, 10 tourists arrived here yesterday by Bombardier Global Express (Reg No N 421 SZ) of Eagle Flight Service.


Skyjet International -- Myanmar = Burma

One World. One Vision [PDF]

Skyjet International is [or was] wholly owned by Bombardier, the world’s ... MYANMAR. THAILAND. KAMPUCHEA. VIETNAM. SRI LANKA. LAOS. MALAYSIA. BRUNEI. PHILIPPINES ...




More: FHTR May 15-21, 2005 for the whole week's posts. There are many more items than are listed. [correced date]

Specific items: Search Bombardier in each

Update Oct. 25, 06: This was inadvertently omitted

Melting Moment, IMET, Myanmar / Burma, Business & China -- Search: Bombardier


Canada shipbuilding in Shanghai -- CONNECTING THE POWER -- Search: Bombardier


Bombardier Pork Billions: Technology Partnerships Program, Export Development Canada EDC, Etc.

Also scroll down further for:

Winning in Business in Canada: More Tripping Along the Yellow Brick Road

Mr Desmarais is also a Director of CITIC Pacific Ltd. and Bombardier Inc.

In addition, Mr. Desmarais is Chairman of the Canada China Business Council; ....


End of posts from FHTR May 15-21, 2005

Oct. 24, 2006: Updates and related items

Related to security and other items currently in the news:

Update to this post: Oct. 23, 2006: Dubai-based ring & Hawala Banks

A Mideast Money-Laundering Bust -- In a sting dubbed "Operation Khyber Pass," Italian officials have cracked a Dubai-based ring that exploits the hawala system of funds transfer



Related: FHTR Oct. 8-13, 2006

Scroll to the following:

Debbie Schlussel: Western Union: Hawala for Illegal Alien Paymasters

That's how illegal immigrants became "undocumented workers" and global warming became a certainty.

Senator Colin Kenny .... security shortcomings

CBC whose bias coverage during Adscam ...

an obvious Hoax [Kyoto]


Oct. 12, 06: Crime, Business & Politics in Asia



Kyoto may not have died for leftist mainstream media today, but it never started in China.

Sept. 2005: Kyoto & Liberals: China won't agree to target for cutting greenhouse emissions, says Dion -- "not even in the post-2012 phase of the Kyoto climate pact."

Why bring these things up? I have listened to the news and the tone today.

CBC is hardly unbiased in news it chooses to report.

CBC / Liberal Propaganda Organ network: Friends? For a Taxpayer-Funded Broadcaster?

Satellite Radio: Do you believe this poll from Ipsos Reid which conveniently states what Friends of Canadian Broadcasting and the Heritage Minister from Quebec want? . . . especially when you read at bottom, SOURCE: FRIENDS OF CANADIAN BROADCASTING