The Truth About The Media

Deadly serious incompetence, betrayal and organized corruption.

"Many of the media outlets that dramatically trumpeted the killing of [***blank****] are deathly silent today. They didn't inform the public about the ongoing controversy about the legitimacy of the story, and didn't attend the recent trials.

The quoted text above is from the following article. It is a damning indictment of mainstream media.

National Post: A French judge confirms what many have long suspected: The 'martyrdom' of a now-famous famous Palestinian child may well have been a lurid propaganda stunt

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On May 21, 2008, at the Palais de Justice, 11th Chamber of the Court of Appeals, presiding judge Laurence Trebucq announced the verdict: Philippe Karsenty is acquitted; the plaintiff's claims are dismissed. France 2 counsel Maitre Benedicte Amblard blanched, shrugged her shoulders and disappeared into thin air. Mr. Karsenty celebrated the decision as an admonition to reckless media who provoke violence with falsified inflammatory news.

[read it all and be afraid [p1...] [p2....]

We Are Sooooo Embarassed...................please!

I am beginning to think the main qualification to become a journalist include being a first class a**hole. The Maxime Bernier non-story of the week reveals a lot about the priorities of the exempt media. Real news stories which might educate and enlighten people are scrapped as the failing exempt media pursue more gossip, more innuendo, and more agenda.

When I read that the federal Liberals were worried Canada might be embarrassed around the world (in 24 countries no less), I could only conclude that if Canada was embarrassed it was because our exempt media and liberal politicians are a total disgrace.

It is quite common to meet people who never read the news, never watch the news and never have a clue about anything that is going on in the world. They seem blissfully happy. Maybe they know something?

......left to "gasp for breath for ten minutes on the side of a sink" until they die......

Several years ago I read a medical news report from the UK that contained a story about babies who survived the abortion procedure, they cried constantly before they died, and how doctors and nurses were unable to cope. When I read this latest story, I know it is only the tip of the iceberg. Progress really is death for so many.

LifeSiteNews.com

The venerable Spectator, a leading British magazine of political news and commentary, has published excerpts from a letter from a British nurse who, in 2005, described babies surviving late-term abortions who are left to "gasp for breath for ten minutes on the side of a sink" until they die.

The nurse, identified only as "Kay" in a newspaper column, said, "I know of two nurses who went off work with stress as a result of their experience with late terminations. I suffered horrendous nightmares and guilt for months. The guilt comes from the fact that you as a nurse cut the umbilical cord and, as dramatic as it sounds, we felt like murderers." In Britain, late term is defined as those abortions committed after 20 weeks gestation.

The Spectator's Fraser Nelson wrote that Sun newspaper columnist Jane Moore had written a column about the nurse's letter but declined to discuss the matter on a television talk show with Andrew Marr because it was "unsuitable" to be talked about on air. Moore's March 2005 column did not publish the full text of the letter. Nelson, political editor of the Spectator, however, said that given the ongoing debates over the lowering of the gestational age limit for legal abortion in Parliament he would publish an edited version of Moore's column this Sunday.

Is it an abortion when the baby survives the procedure and left to die beside a sink? When a baby cries from the pain of being dismembered after the "procedure" and before gasping for its last breath, was the child alive at any point? Human rights?

In my books, it was murder.

Near my town, murder is practiced openly and with the support of most progressives. Redrum!

The Future of Multiculturalism In One Quote

Further to the brouhaha created by Québec's Bouchard-Taylor report on accommodating new citizens (read-Muslims), the following quote from a leading Toronto area Muslim cleric (of sorts), Aly Hindy, tells the braindead multiculturalists the dead truth:

"This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion," he [Hindy] said. "If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that."

Tell me again why we need Muslim immigrants? No, really, tell me again!


h/t Jack's Newswatch

The Bouchard -Taylor Baby Gift: Québec's Death Rattle

"If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business." — Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I love Québec, but I sense its impending death. It's not Québec's declining birth rate that will be the probable cause, it's the inability of Québec intellectuals, scholars, popular elites and politicians to admit that they don't know a damn thing about truth. These same 'leaders' flog words that are dishonest. They won't admit or maybe don't know the profound failure that is "state secularism" as practiced in Europe and elsewhere. They won't ever admit that there are no places on earth where successful "interculturalism" occurs and they couldn't possibly know that pursuing "harmonisation" practices will lead to a weakening of, and not a strengthening of, Québec culture. No, they are all being far too dishonest with themselves, what they know and what they don't know. The Bouchard-Taylor report is Québec's death trap. It suggests, among other things, fake solutions while ignoring the elephant dans la salle bleu - Islam. The report also sets the stage for Québec's future death by a thousand cuts. The Bouchard-Taylor report should be titled: Au revoir Québec: au revoir les québecois.

Using the "symbolic" idea of removing the crucifix from the National Assembly and sending it to a museum to lord over all that was and is quétaine, the report authors reveal much about who also co-wrote their report. Their report was co-written by people with their own agenda.

One of the silliest recommendations had to have come from one of the silent co-authors. Using the now standard Muslim defensive reasoning routine - the report recommends increasing research resources to investigate the fake term - Islamophobia. By also adding a plea for more research resources into anti-Semitism, the silent hand was trying to hide their agenda. If anti-Semitism is on the rise in Québec, it is because there are more Muslims in the province who openly practice that shame. French-speaking Québecers are being further victimized by the report authors by falsely laying blame on them while completely ignoring facts about Islam, Muslims and anti-Semitism.

The report also recommends more funding for the Québec Human Rights Commission. Obviously Mr Bouchard and Mr Taylor are living in an academic vacuum or their silent writing partners are again pursuing an agenda. Giving more money to Human Rights Commissions is like adding fuel to the proverbial fire. French-speaking Québecers are going to get hounded to death by the very agendas now at work in the province.

There is also a recommendation to create an office for “intercultural harmonization.” That new layer of bureaucracy would facilitate a new era in sensitivity training while promoting dialogue. Could the report authors sound anymore phony? Yeesh! The only people, I know, who need sensitivity training are the very people who irritate the hell out of everyone else. The very Muslims who whine on and on about not being understood anywhere else in the world should be the first ones to take up sensitivity training. While they are at their taxpayer paid sensitivity workshops could they also dialogue some Jews and Zionists? Yeah, I hear ya.

I could go on and on. The Bouchard Taylor report is an attempt to kill Québec by turning it into a place that its ancestors would not recognize. I only hope enough Québecers wake up before the death rattle holds its way.

vive le Québec

Red Like Hot and Yellow Like Pissed

"We are the Borg, resistance is futile. You will be assimilated." Those are the words that come to mind when I read another story about personality testing or how to hire Mr Wonderful, delightful, incredible. It seems, these days, that many HR professionals haven't got a clue about people, can't figure them out and can't trust the old fashioned 'look them in the eye and watch them answer' approach to interviews. Job interviews have become boring rituals in which the interviewer is hopelessly lost but hanging onto a map of questions which lead to nowhereland. I know, I've been there, time and time again.

You see, I have a disease. I am a red/yellow highly personable, confident and challenging man. That makes others puke in response. I wish I was a little more blue/green - they are my favorite colours, but I am burdened with personality plus. I wish I could add some concrete plans and details after I have thought of something innovative or creative, but details bore me. I'm so I I I I I. I wish I could tolerate the slow-witted and bastard types who seem to work everywhere these days, but I am so impatient to get things done. So what if I make a few boo boos or errors along the road to wonder. WTFCs!

Personality tests and traditional job interviews (you know - past behaviors matter) are the byproduct of flawed understanding and appreciation of people - they do not make the users better persons or better interviewers, they make everyone conform to muddled nothingness. You know, mealy-mouthed nobodies who have no ideas, no love for their fellow man and no personality. And, I bet, those same types like the damn Green party! Losers!

Recently I was interviewed by two nice, disorganized women with a prepared list of behavioral questions. One was older and polite while the one was way too young (but pretty) to hold a training job that required experience and age to deal effectively with various levels of the company. I wanted to puke when the subject of red/yellow came up. I just sat there and muttered to myself - go f*** yourself you green/blue boring, boneheads. Gee, I didn't get the job. Thank you Jesus!

Every day I encounter the worst people working in the people professions. Every day I read and hear stories about bureaucratic meltdowns and companies going under. Every day I encounter people who have more in common with the Borg than they do with humans - and those are the ones who work in customer service.

I like people, most people, unless they are a drug user, alcoholic or braindead liberal. Every where I go, I meet people who are sound asleep and completely unaware that there is beauty everywhere around them. Those folks scare me.

I like interviews if I am doing the interviewing because I make them fun, lively and entertaining. And, I give out the questions in advance.

There is a reason why there are so many stories out there about how to hire Mr Wonderful - all the people doing the hiring these days haven't got a freakin' clue!

Excuse me while I go pee.

Shooting the Qur'an Is A Good Idea - Reading It Is Bad

I read the story first at BBC and then at CTV - an American soldier used the Qur'an for target practice (or so they say). Thousands are dead in Mayanar while thousands more are rotting to death while the liberal elites of the UN world figure out a way to help. That might be important, but nothing is as important as the sensibilities of the worlds satanic helpers - those always offended Muslims.

I won't waste time linking to the BBC or CTV story, but I will quote the current Prime Minister of Iraq: Mr Maliki's office said in a statement: "The American president apologised on behalf of the United States... promising to present the soldier to the courts."

Really? A soldier can end up in court because he shoots a book? Wow!

Islam really is a cult - a satanic cult.

No Praying Please, We're Progressive

"This country has a history of the separation of church and state. Time to start practising it in Saguenay." from a comment at CBC.ca in response to this story:

Quebec's human rights commission has asked the city of Saguenay to stop praying before council meetings.

The commission says the prayer goes against the city's obligation as a public entity to remain neutral on questions of religion, and violates religious freedom.

The advisory follows a 2006 ruling involving Laval, Que., that found such prayers infringe individual rights.

The commission says in a news release that it won't push the case to a costly tribunal because of the clear precedent set in 2006 with the Laval case.

Two Saguenay residents complained to the commission about the prayer.

The city's mayor, Jean Tremblay, has been an outspoken defender of Quebec's Roman Catholic roots, and said he has no intention of cancelling the prayer.

Some people are so thick in the head they actually believe they are enlightened. Perhaps those thickheads should read Canada's constitution: "Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law."

Usually, I read similar comments over and over and over by people who post at the Globe and Mail. CBC enjoys the same clientele. The progressive thickheads are also in full control of Canada's collection of deHuman Rights Commissions in Canada. The same progressive types are in leadership roles in government and use their power to reject prayer and all aspects of Canada's Christian heritage. Some days I wonder - what is it about Christianity and our Judeo-Christian heritage that frightens those, so called, educated people?

This latest insult at Canada's (especially Quebec's) heritage proves that Human rights commissions are unCanadian and need more than an administrative overhaul - they need to be shut down in any manner possible!

Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us,
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Will the real second class citizens please stand up

Denis Coderre is a little man, he's a liberal and he's not very bright. But, most liberals are like him.

Canada.com:

A private member's bill to be tabled Thursday by Liberal MP Denis Coderre, would amend the law to require judges on Canada's top court to be able to understand cases pleaded in either of Canada's two official languages.

Coderre says he is tabling the bill because it is important for all Canadians to have equal access to justice, regardless of whether they speak English or French.

"I don't think that I am a second-class citizen," said Coderre, MP for the north-end Montreal riding of Bourassa. "I think that as a francophone I have the right to make sure that I have access to all the tools to work with and they will provide me with resources including a full understanding of my case."

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I don't think he is going far enough. I propose that all judges be vetted using the following criteria:

1. Does the candidate have relevant experience being a Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, Pagan, Atheist and Buddhist?
2. Does the candidate have experience living under Sharia Law?
   
3. Does the candidate have experience with menstrual cycles or mood swings?
4. Does the candidate have experience riding a bicycle, motorcycle, scooter or a car?
5. Does the candidate have experience living as a conservative, liberal, socialist, fascist and communist?
6. Does the candidate have experience being gay, transgendered and bisexual?
7. Does the candidate have experience being a criminal and a police officer?
8. Does the candidate have experience being a smoker, drug user and beer drinker?
9. Does the candidate have experience living in a small house and a big house?
10. Does the candidate matter?

Denis Codere is a trouble maker, a dunce and a typical modern liberal - he will do anything to advance stupidity.

Be Pissed in this place --------- Updated

Once upon a time......

We knew who the criminals were in our town, we knew who the bad-ass teenagers were by name. These days few know who the local drug dealers are, the petty thieves and the trouble makers. If someone is under the age of 18, and sentenced to any form of incarceration, their identity is sealed.

Telegraph Journal:

ST. STEPHEN - A cry of frustration swept the room Thursday when police told the border community that the 33 alleged members of a gun-smuggling crime ring they arrested this week were set free.

"We don't feel protected," yelled a member of the audience. "They are back on the street corners and you don't know what to expect. You are on pins and needles waiting. Put them in jail where they belong."

Members of police organizations across the province lined up on Thursday morning in front of a string of cameras and an even bigger group of citizens, to explain searches at seven homes in St. Stephen, two in Mayfield, two in Saint John, one in Mohannes and 33 arrests that neighbours had whispered about throughout the week.

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Some people are angry and they have lashed out at the police, again. Yep, blame the cops for trying to do their jobs properly. Blame the cops who have been hamstrung by the Charter of Rights (yep, I said that) and a liberal court system. Trouble is, most of the problems with crime can be traced to a prevailing attitude within society that citizens need not act like good citizens. Far too many people care little about their neighbors or who lives within their community. Far too many people have become accepting of the drug culture while expecting the police to do something when trouble arises. Far, far too many people expect the police, the school system and the government to raise their children while they themselves enjoy a life mimicking a beer commercial. When things go bad we blame the police, the school system and the government. We rarely ever take the blame. I know several young people who are drug dealers, their parent(s) knows nothing and suspects nothing because that parent is always too busy doing whatever.

As long as the drug culture is accepted by a wink and a lot of indifference, there will be many more arrests. And, if the supporters of drug culture get their way and legalize many of the substances things will get worse. These same concerned people better get used to the following terms - deranged violence and mental illness.

I understand my co-citizens frustration that criminal suspects aren't named. It drives me crazy that many, many people are arrested and their names are not released until months or years later. By then, no one remembers the original arrest or allegations. Suspected terrorists aren't named, drug dealers aren't named and organized crime figures aren't named so why should we expect the local thugs to be named?

Soon, in the near future, things are going to get worse..........

CTV.ca (read the comments on the article and learn why things will only get worse. Potheads and their supporters are plain dumb!)

Drug-related crimes committed by youths aged 12 to 17 climbed dramatically between 1996 and 2006, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.

In 2006, close to 18,000 youth -- or 693 of every 100,000 young people -- were accused of drug-related offences.

The rate was nearly double, about 97 per cent, of what it was a decade earlier. The vast majority of youth -- 84 per cent -- were accused of cannabis-related crimes.

However, the proportion accused of cocaine and other drug offences also doubled in the 10-year period.

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More liberal insanity from Canada's Supreme Court - you appoint weak thinkers, you get weak thinking. Ottawa Citizen:

The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a key element of Canada's youth-crime laws on Friday, ruling that it violates the constitutional rights of young people to make it the norm to impose adult sentences for violent crimes.

In a deeply divided ruling, the majority underscored the need for separate justice systems for juveniles and adults and that young people are "differently accountable" for their crimes.

[...]

Justice Marshall Rothstein, writing for the four dissenting judges, strongly disagreed with the majority, concluding that the presumption that violent youths should be sentenced as adults should remain intact.

"It was entirely appropriate for Parliament to consider the competing interests, on the one and, of young persons to have their reduced moral blameworthiness taken into account, and, on the other, to be protected from violent young offenders and to have confidence that the youth justice system ensures the accountability of violent young offenders."

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Like I said earlier, things are only going to get worse, far worse.

The French are falling, the French are falling........

Please, Mr Premier, shut up! If you can't "get 'er done" yourself, please, please don't go on and on about how Ottawa politicians [ err - conservatives] are not running with your latest agenda. You might also learn that no one in New Brunswick gives a rat's ass about your 'latest' three funding demands. For one, your baby cry about replacing Acadians with Algerians is a dumb strategy - you might want to read America Alone by Mark Steyn and learn why your strategy to replace childless Acadians might bring about cultural changes that are far worse than the decline of French speaking Acadian citizens. Oh, and could you or your legion of policy wonks explain to me why the New Brunswick government's strategy includes a racist settlement program for French only immigrants? Are ye goin' to find some Irish too? Or are you interested only in French types? But, I digress.

I'm sure the average New Brunswicker is confused when they read the big three demands. After all, didn't we have a big highway announcement earlier last year? Um, yes we did. Also, anyone living any where near CFB Gagetown knows that the place is booming with spending projects. So, the big worry is really about the French. The French are falling, the French are falling..........

Telegraph Journal:

Premier Shawn Graham says it's time for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government to "get the job done" for New Brunswick.

Unwilling to describe himself as frustrated with the Conservatives in Ottawa, Graham nonetheless lengthened the list of key funding requests he's counting on - yet grown impatient about.

Graham said that 18 months after he took office, he understands voters want to see concrete outcomes from federal-provincial co-operation.

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Graham said he has "been dogged" in focusing on three funding requests.

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They are:

* $137.5 million from Ottawa's Atlantic Gateway fund to twin 55 kilometres of Route1 en route to the St. Stephen border crossing;

* $5 million a year for three years to develop an advanced training centre at CFB Gagetown built around computer simulations for military and police personnel;

* $5.8 million a year for three years to help recruit and offer settlement services to francophone immigrants destined for rural and small-town New Brunswick.

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Weak leaders shift the burden of responsibility from themselves to others -it's the mantra of the liberal classes. When you cannot get it done yourself, you need to blame someone else. When you can't fathom a vision, complain there are no eye doctors available. And, if you really don't have a comprehensive strategy, whine about and pick on the guy that does.

You get the damn job done Mr Premier - you've been at the job for awhile. If getting it done in New Brunswick means Ottawa doing everything, then let's eliminate provincial governments - starting with New Brunswick.

"Colouring" While More Dead, Many Dead, Dead, Dead

It's sad, really! While piles and piles of bodies are rotting in Myanmar and in China, many more bodies will rot watching the film, Sex and the City. The film about the sexual exploits of four gay men, and played by four women, is the latest must see event in Decadentville. The usually vulgar plot is everything the progressive mind needs to escape reality while ignoring the odor of rot. It's sad, really.

Timeonline:

There may be a problem with a film when a narrator constantly tells you the meaning of what you have just seen, gift-wrapping each scene with a moral.

There may be a problem with characters who shop with such conviction while the audience looks up from the trough of a credit crunch.

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The dialogue was still sharp even if, to an audience now rather more used to women characters talking frankly about sex, it may no longer seem so daring.

There were still attempts to shock. Now they were talking about sex in front of a child, referring to the act euphemistically as “colouring”. How often did Miranda do colouring? Not nearly enough. Samantha, the goddess single of older women, of course liked to use all the crayons, while Carrie Bradshaw, our narrator and lead, said that when Big coloured “he doesn’t always stay inside the lines.”

Perhaps the child was needed to remind us that this was shocking, because since the series began, we have all become a lot more grown up.

If the atmosphere inside the cinema bordered on the devotional and the theatre was filled with the sounds of women emoting, outside the atmosphere was hysterical.

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ED: emphasis added

Once upon a time people attended church to learn moral lessons. These days, moral lessons are scripted conversations presented in many art forms and include sex, euphemisms for sex, metaphors for sex, and allegories alluding to sexual content.

Hartford Connecticut Courant:

On Monday, as news of an earthquake in China rippled across the global media, the United Nations estimate of the deaths from the May 3 Myanmar cyclone had climbed to somewhere between 62,000 and 100,000.

The Myanmar death toll could be half of the fatalities that followed the devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but the amount of money donated to help has been a fraction of what was raised in the first week following the Indian Ocean disaster.

Charitable organizations tracking donations for the Myanmar disaster blame a lack of media coverage, which has been tightly controlled by the secretive government. And disaster relief groups say that the Chinese earthquake could siphon future donor dollars, as it moves to dominate the news.

"If you don't see it, you don't react," says Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, a coalition of U.S.-based aid agencies focused on the world's poor. InterAction is coordinating efforts among more than 2,000 staff workers from various agencies in Myanmar.
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The DONOTHINGS of humanity

Many people don't care about anyone other than themselves. If these same 'donothings' raise their voices over an human issue, it is usually to bash America. When the 'donothings' do anything, it is to count dead bodies, plan, prepare and then analyze their numbers, plans and preparations. The 'donothings' talk a lot, but react very, very slowly.

The Sunday Times:

What are we waiting for? Where now is liberal interventionism? More than 100,000 people are dead after a cyclone in the Irrawaddy delta and the United Nations has declared that up to 2m people, deprived of aid for a week, are at risk of death. Barely 10% are reported to have received any help. The world stands ready to save them. The warehouses of Asia are crammed with supplies. Ships and planes are on station. Nothing happens.
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It may be the case that diplomatic pressure on the regime might soon force it to reverse its negligence - though at present this is unlikely. Indeed the West’s policy of merely hurling abuse at it looks counterproductive. A regime that turns away the Red Cross or even listen to a friendly superpower, China, seems immune to pressure.

There is no justification under the UN charter for intervening to topple the Burmese military regime. That task would rightly be opposed by other powers in the region and must one day be performed by the Burmese themselves. But aid drops over the Irrawaddy delta are nothing to do with that case. The outside world has waited a week, and protested to no effect.

Either way some enforced intervention must surely be planned. The British aid minister, Douglas Alexander, said last week it would be “incendiary”. He did not explain why a “dump-and-run” of emergency supplies in the delta would be incendiary - compared, for instance, with his antics in Afghanistan.

He cannot hold to the thesis that Burma is not ripe for “liberal intervention” because the loss of life is the result of a natural disaster rather than political or military oppression. What is this fine distinction between a massacre and what the military are now inflicting on the Burmese people? A corpse is a corpse.

This catastrophe is not past but continuing. A western world adept at intervening elsewhere on a humanitarian pretext is suddenly inert. Why? I suspect the reason is that it has too much intervention on its plate already. The Burmese must die because we are too busy pretending to save Afghans and Iraqis. To such cynicism has liberal intervention sunk.

ed: emphasis added

h/t jacksnewswatch

The 'donothings' know all about hurricane Katrina. They know what should, could, would've been done if they ran the world (or the USA) - many more dead to help save the planet. The fact remains that most left leaning 'persons' are lazy, selfish and uncaring hypocrites. The world can go to hell in a handbasket before they ever do anything.

Where are the liberals, NDPers, and compassionate Muslim rich nations.... ***********silence*********

Economic Development or Evidence of Brain Drain?

It's sad really, highly educated men and women devoting their lives to building a[nother] casino. Yep, that's what we need to to stir the hearts and minds of Maritimers.

Telegraph Journal:

Finance Minister Victor Boudreau announced Thursday that Sonco Gaming New Brunswick Ltd. was selected over three other proponents to design, build and operate the casino, slated to open in Magnetic Hill in 2010.

After a "rigorous evaluation process" that included assessing the capabilities of the proponents and the economic merits of each proposal, Sonco rose to the top, Boudreau said.

"This is the project that provided the overall better economic benefit, better feasibility for the province," he said. [...]

You know there is something lacking in the province when the best our chosen leaders can do is create a gambling facility as a means to economic development. There is something entirely sick about that. I guess there are no other options unless the government decides to open a brothel or pot cafe, and that's been tried elsewhere. Maybe there are no ideas left? Perhaps all the good workable ideas have been implemented? But then again, when you elect, hire and promote people who are lacking creativity and innovation skills, the best you can hope for are lackeys.

Building a casino as a means to economic development only reinforces my view that New Brunswick will never be a place where things happen. It's a good thing the Trans Canada highway has been completed.

Kosovo: Harvesting Christians

It's been said that Christians are the world's best donors, but this story is sick:

Human Right's Watch:

"Serious and credible allegations have emerged about horrible abuses in Kosovo and Albania after the war," said Fred Abrahams, senior emergencies researcher at Human Rights Watch, who investigated human rights violations in Kosovo and Albania for the organization from 1993-2000. "The Prishtina and Tirana governments can show their commitment to justice and the rule of law by conducting proper investigations."
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According to the journalists’ information, the abducted individuals were held in warehouses and other buildings, including facilities in Kukes and Tropoje. In comparison to other captives, some of the sources said, some of the younger, healthier detainees were fed, examined by doctors, and never beaten. These abducted individuals – an unknown number – were allegedly transferred to a yellow house in or around the Albanian town of Burrel, where doctors extracted the captives’ internal organs. These organs were then transported out of Albania via the airport near the capital Tirana. Most of the alleged victims were Serbs who went missing after the arrival of UN and NATO forces in Kosovo. But other captives were women from Kosovo, Albania, Russia, and other Slavic countries.

“The information on organ trafficking is suggestive but far from complete,” said Abrahams. “But the fact remains that hundreds of people, most of them Serbs, are reported to have gone missing after the war. The Kosovo and Albanian governments should try to determine the fates of these people by launching serious investigations with adequate witness protection.”

According to the information obtained by the ICTY, the bodies of some of the abducted individuals were buried near the yellow house and a nearby graveyard about 20 kilometers south of Burrel. Investigators from the tribunal and the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), accompanied by an Albanian prosecutor, inspected the house in February 2004. The house had been painted white but, in a photo of the investigation site viewed by Human Rights Watch, a yellow strip was visible at the house’s base.

According to Del Ponte, near the house investigators found medical equipment used in surgery – syringes, gauze, drip bags, and medicine vials for muscle relaxant often used in surgery. Using a chemical spray, the team found evidence of significant blood stains on the walls and floor of one room, except for a clear six-foot by two-foot rectangle on the floor.
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Yep, those ethnic/moderate/Muslim/Albanians who now control Kosovo are so human. We did bomb the wrong side and history will prove that fact time and time again. Tell me why Canada is going along with violating international law by recognizing that evil-inspired regime in Pristina?

More from BBC:

Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into claims that ethnic Albanians in Kosovo abducted and killed Serbs and may have sold their organs.

The claims, relating to 1999, had been set out in a book by former UN war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte.

Human Rights Watch said it had new evidence to back up the allegations.

But Albanian PM Sali Berisha said the claims were like "an Agatha Christie novel" and had been investigated by national and international prosecutors.

Kosovo's assembly is due to convene in the coming weeks to discuss whether to sue Ms Del Ponte for allegedly tarnishing the image of Kosovo.

'Clear investigation'

Ms Del Ponte said in her book that she had learned that organs were being sold from "credible journalists".

She said the sources had told her that between 100 and 300 mostly Serb civilians were taken from Kosovo into Albania where "doctors extracted the captives' internal organs".

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Espritdecorps -Scott Taylor:

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Let's start by taking the emotional issues off the table and examine the background. Kosovo is a tiny, land-locked, mountainous, underdeveloped province in the centre of the Balkans. It is located between Serbia and Albania, and not surprisingly, its population of two million is a mix of Serbs (10 per cent) and Albanians (90 per cent). Over the past several centuries, Kosovo has been the battleground for clashing empires. Yet, despite the ebb and flow of invaders and the exodus and influx of ethnic groups, this impoverished province has always remained the religious heartland of Serbia's Orthodox Church. It is for this reason that the Serbian political leadership in Belgrade cannot concede the loss of Kosovo from its sovereign territory.

As retired major-general Lewis MacKenzie has opined, denying Kosovo to the Serbs would be akin to denying the Jews access to Jerusalem. The bloodshed and inter-ethnic violence we have witnessed in Kosovo over the past decade illustrates clearly the strength of this emotional bond.

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This now costs the European Union an average of 450 million Euros per year in aid money, which constitutes the bulk of Kosovo's legitimate revenue. Underground criminal activity has made Kosovo the illegal drug capital of Europe, and the region boasts the highest number of prostitutes per capita in the world. The unemployment rate in Kosovo stands at 50 per cent, and those who are working make an average annual income of just 1,800 Euros (Cdn$2,400). Nearly half of those lucky enough to have a job in Kosovo work directly for either international administrators or in support of the 17,000 foreign troops stationed there.

Despite the presence of NATO soldiers, the Albanian majority has continued to mount attacks against protected ethnic Serbian enclaves. The largest of these was a three-day bloodbath in March 2004, which left three dozen people dead, hundreds injured, 800 houses burned and a number of Serbian Orthodox churches destroyed. As a result of the ethnic cleansing of all non-Albanians from the region since 1999, Kosovo is now one of the most racially "pure" territories in the entire world.

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AND, I have no doubt that it is true that Albanians killed Christians to harvest their organs because Islam is Satan's club - always has been always will be.

Oh, those racist, intolerant white bastards

Gee, how wonderful the world would be if there were no white people - none, zip, zero. There would be harmony in Africa, Asia, middle East, Europe and the Americas. There would be no poverty, no wars, no hatred, no troubles. The world would be better too if all the Christians were gone, especially the white ones. Yep, no white Christians in the world would free gay persons from the emotional burden of being gay. Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Atheists could all escape the burden of their being if there were no white Christians. And, God forbid, let's make sure there are no white males left on the earth at all. Being white skinned equals racism, intolerance, hatred, uneducated and offensive. White people, and Christian white people, are all losers and the source of all ills of the world. Poverty is caused by white people, hunger is caused by white people, and white people invented the damn automobile that causes all the damn global warming, smog and pollution. White people.......arggggggg! Christians....eeekkkkkk!

Five, four, three, two one....ahhhh, I feel better now. I had to get that out of me. It's so tough being a white, Christian male. I try to get darker every year, but nothing works, Come winter, I'm all white again. I read a lot, but I am still so damn stupid and intolerant. I try to appreciate other cultures, but I just don't get tribal warfare, throwing babies off roof tops, female genital mutilation, gay marriage, women in costumes, and eating dog. I'm sorry. I like hot dogs though. Maybe that's a starting point for my enlightenment? Hot dogs - what a wonderful invention. Hot dogs - a possible self-help 'tool' that could lead to world peace. Imagine the workshops, the hot dog leadership manuals and hot dog books. Hot dogs: a leadership primer. Hot dogs: Understanding and being human. Hot dogs: 7 habits of highly effective humans. But, I digress - ADD or ADHD or MWS (male white syndrome).

In the letter, Mr. Gilchrist stated ‘most’ immigrants do not bring even a modest understanding of Canadian history or values and added many bring old country feuds and hatreds that are re-fought on Canadian soil. He also mentioned some of the 800,000 Muslims who now call Canada home, are extremists; Indian immigrants who blow up aircraft in order to settle old foreign scores; gun-toting Jamaicans who prefer to settle scores by bullets on the streets rather than by Canadian law in the courts; Sri Lankan Tamils who use Canada as a source of funds for homeland rebellion; and Canadian passport-carrying Lebanese residents who demand the country save them when their homeland goes up in flames.

Gee, that was nasty. White men are always saying nasty, racist things. Bad whitey.

But there is hope, or the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.

The federally funded CRRF describes its mission as being dedicated to bringing about "a more harmonious Canada that acknowledges its racist past, recognizes the pervasiveness of racism today, and is committed to creating a future in which all Canadians are treated equitably and fairly."

Yep, Canada is and was a racist backwater. Nothing good came from Canada and its racist history.

But, wait a minute. Are the uppity white folks the only racists in Canada? Not according to the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Canadian Identity, Jason, aka whitey, Kenney.

Mr. Kenney also urged the foundation to devote attention to the "important new challenge" of rising racism within Canada's immigrant communities, where he said some newcomers were bringing with them to Canada their "ancient enmities."

"One challenge that I see emerging, given my frequent daily contact with members of our cultural community and new Canadians, is the challenge of intolerance or sometimes, frankly, hatred, that exists between immigrant communities, often from the same countries of origin," he said.

"I am very disturbed when I … go to a particular community and one of the first issues they raise is, 'Why are you letting 'X' into this country, why are you letting people of that faith into this country, why are you letting people of that region of my country of origin into Canada…. I could go to a mosque or a temple or a gurdwara or a community centre or a church, and not infrequently I hear those remarks."

That was nasty. Could it be true? Nah, whites are the problem. Christians are pure evil. His remarks are out of line. Other cultural communities may have troubles, but that is because white folks caused them. If there were no white people, no Christians and no white males, there would never be any problems in the world.

"Mr. Gilchrist's comments reflect some of the very basic stereotypes and xenophobia that the Foundation finds deeply offensive, and completely ignores the vast contributions which immigrants make that allow him to maintain his privileged way of life.

Imagine saying those things about some immigrants? Nasty white man. Nasty bastard. Nasty white bastard. Nasty white, male, Christian bastard. Nasty.

Ottawa Citizen:

In my five weeks of absence from this space, I was saddened to learn that the assault on free speech and press in Canada has been escalated. In addition to the very ugly cases that have been brought before various so-called "human rights commissions," to silence such "politically incorrect" Canadian writers as Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, frivolous lawsuits have now been brought against several prominent journalists and bloggers for their efforts in exposing how the human rights commissions work, and for their audacity in mocking ludicrous behaviour by members of the HRC's "Anti-Hate Teams."
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Damn whitey!

Toronto Sun:

There was a time, long ago, when sanity ruled. When people could disagree with each other without malice and nobody was silenced for having unfashionable opinions.

If you don't like something on television or radio, we were told, don't watch it. If you don't like a particular newspaper or magazine, don't read it. And if you don't like the values of certain employers, don't work for them.

But that was before the good Pierre Trudeau and his followers told us that we had never before enjoyed human rights. Times had changed, we were instructed, and from now on we would be free, happy and diverse. That was an order.

If you doubt it, speak to members of a group by the name of Christian Horizons in Kitchener, Ont. It operates homes for the disabled across the province and do extraordinary work for people who often have little or nothing. Work, in fact, that most people refuse to do.

Being evangelical Christians, however, they require employees to sign a morality statement in which they agree not to engage in extra-marital or pre-marital sex, not to view pornography and not to get drunk or lie. They also agree not to engage in homosexuality.

One would have thought that clients of the organization would rather approve of being helped by people who don't lie, cheat, watch porn, drink or run around on their spouses. Not according to our betters in the highly lucrative human rights industry.

They have insisted that Christian Horizons remove the morality statement and instead introduce an anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy and start a human rights training program. The reason? Three guesses.

LESBIAN

Yes, you got it in one. One employee announced to colleagues that she was a lesbian and began discussing her sexuality. Eventually she was let go. She complained to the Human Rights Commission, which fined Christian Horizons and demanded the change. Demanded, in fact, that they not be Christian.

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Damn Christians!

Damn white people, damn Christains, damn men, damn white male Christians. Damn them all, those racist bastards. Damn it.

The "In and Out" Credibility of Elections Canada - Mass Firings to Ensue?

It was a sad 'spectacle' raiding Conservative headquarters, but it now appears that Elections Canada [EC] may have done themselves dirty. Yesterday, a National Post editorial raised some important questions while Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre introduced evidence of EC rule breaking. Ottawa Citizen reporter John Robson might have written the clearest analysis of EC declining credibility. Maybe mass firing of EC staff might have to occur before any of us will trust Elections Canada again, and that's sad. What is it about liberal leaning persons that their orientation in life and work is always self-interest?

Ottawa Citizen:

In the battle pitting the federal Conservatives against Elections Canada, the opposition and the press, a typical Ottawa competition to see who can perform most discreditably, my money was on the Tories. Until I made a crucial blunder: I did research.
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It has been suggested that this dispute reflects hostility between Elections Canada and the prime minister going back to his former life as libertarian head of the National Citizens' Coalition, waging court battles against what the coalition (rightly, in my view) called election "gag laws."

But if so, it doesn't prove the primary fault lies with the Tories. I want a court to rule whether the dramatic police raid on Conservative party headquarters was necessary. And I'd certainly like to know how not only journalists but Liberal staffers heard of it in time to film it.

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National Post:

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But why has Elections Canada been so aggressive in the pursuit of the Tories, even apparently violating the procedures set out for spending investigations under the Elections Act? Why did they search the Tories' offices before, apparently, they had given the Conservatives the notification required under law? Why were armed police involved in the search? And how did the media and the Liberals find out about the search so that they arrived at Conservative HQ just moments after the police and Elections Canada investigators?
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Why? Whether or not Elections Canada means to leave the appearance of bias against the Tories, it has. Its actions look like those of an agency with a vendetta against the Tories and their leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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SteveJanke:

Until now, the debate on the significance over the apparent decision not to follow its own internal rules governing investigations and search warrants with regards to the Conservative Party In-and-Out issue has been limited to the blogosphere. That changed yesterday when Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre raised the issue in the House of Commons.
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The more I read about the raid on Conservative party headquarters the more I believe that Elections Canada is or has become corrupt. That is hardly surprising considering the number of Chretien appointees at EC headquarters. I suggest the RCMP raid EC headquarters and question a few staffers.

The 'Up & Down' Flood Watch

The roar is unmistakable, the St. John River flood waters are racing downstream. Last night I stood outside in the dark just to listen to the river. It's impressive. The river sounds a lot like waters that are about to crash over a cliff or water fall.

I'm high and dry overlooking the river. Burton is located (mostly) on high land across the river from Maugerville and Sheffield - the worst hit areas. An impressive looking command post is located across from the Burton courthouse, providing around the clock resources courtesy of the Oromocto fire department, Canadian military, Red Cross and the RCMP while also allowing the exempt media special access to the flood zones. Everybody who is anyone is in Burton these days.

Last weekend I had to laugh after reading CBC New Brunswick's web site and their reports that Emergency Measures Officials thought the river was going to crest. Anyone who had traveled up river knew and knows that ice and record snow were still melting. In fact, 22 kilometers north of Fredericton there were several tiny lakes and river inlets that had ice cover last Friday. Anyone traveling into the woods knows that there is still a lot of snow. Anyone who thinks the flood is another example of the effects of global warming better swim for their lives. Around here people know what lots of snow does to the St. John River.

A view from across the river.