UNSCAM

Is Kyoto one sided since it doesn't look like this situation is going to change any time soon?

Odious Spies

"People of Chinese origin are Canada's largest minority, numbering more than 1 million. After English and French, Chinese is now this country's third language.

Canada will also purchase $21 billion worth of goods from China this year, and we have $700 million invested there.

By any measure, our relationship has been a friendly and growing one.

So it is more than offensive to be told that Chinese Canadians in Toronto and other cities are being spied on and harassed by agents of the People's Republic of China. If true, this is an affront to Canada, an attack on our sovereignty and citizenry, and a serious cause of friction that will do neither country any good.".....

More on the spying

The more they talk about transparency , the more they keep the public in the dark-why is there still no effective whistleblower legislation?

"Access to Information Commissioner John Reid's term is up on June 30, but the government still hasn't decided who will take over. MPs say that stinks.
The federal government is not treating the office of the Information Commissioner with respect, says access to information expert Ken Rubin.

"The treatment of the office is wrong and disrespectful," Mr. Rubin told The Hill Times last week, explaining that if the government took the role seriously, they wouldn't deal with the end of current Information Commissioner John Reid's term in such a "disgusting" and "pathetic" way--behind closed doors.

The House Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, last week tabled its report recommending that Mr. Reid's term, which ends June 30, be extended by one year. The House voted overwhelmingly to adopt the report but opposition MPs said the Liberal government intends to ignore the recommendation and appoint a new commissioner."

Perhaps they should be skeptical of "useful fools"

Re:Holocaust denial.................

Spreading Democratic and Secular Concepts and Curricula Will Pave the Way to Stop Any Act of Extermination in the Future

"The cooperation of all of humanity in getting rid of the Nazi monster, in prosecuting its senior officials, in compensating its victims and commemorating them should serve as an example when facing all of the tragedies of mass extermination that have visited various peoples in recent history as one of the means of preventing their recurrence in the future...

"The failure of the international community up to now in stopping acts of extermination around the world does not lessen the importance ... of creating public opinion against their recurrence and of enacting laws to punish their perpetrators. The U.N. was right to establish the international criminal court of law and to prosecute those responsible for the ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, as well as when it acted responsibly to prevent the continuation of the slaughter in Darfour, in Sudan.

"Spreading democratic and secular concepts and curricula around the world and educating the coming generations to respect human life and other people who are different from them in politics, ethnicity, or creed; likewise, turning disagreements into a culture of dialogue, peaceful competition, symbiosis of civilizations and cultures and the ending of conflicts among them; [all of this would] pave the way ... for the international community to bring its force to bear as quickly as possible in order to stop any [act of] extermination that may occur in the future..."

Bush wasn't charismatic but he still won two elections.Harper doesn't need a charisma makeover ,he just has to get around the country more .

"Reading the papers, last week, all of us noted that the Conservative party has decided to get Stephen Harper out on the political barbecue circuit to help other Canadians see what my family and I saw: He's honest, he's decent, and he's not a vindictive old man.

As one of those so-called political strategists, I'd say it's a good strategy. While I personally would not have advised talking about the charm offensive strategy so openly to the press -- because that simply draws a voter's attention back to the problem one is attempting to solve -- the campaign itself is long overdue."

Suicide bomber posing as patient caught on way to blow up hospital

"The IDF thwarted a suicide bomb attack Monday morning when soldiers caught a young woman, Wafa Samir Ibrahim Bas, 20, wearing explosives strapped into her underwear at the Erez crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, it was released for publication.

Apparently the young woman took advantage of the fact that she had been issued a permit by Israel allowing her entry into Israeli territory for humanitarian assistance, IDF officials said. ......

Bas told investigators that she was recruited by the Fatah Al-Aksa Brigades' in northern Gaza, owing to her easy accessibility to Israel, and was instructed to blow up in Israel at the Soroka Medical Center in a crowded".....

That gun registry is working like a charm........

- for the crooks.That $1.5 billion for the gun registry could have gone towards hiring police- the RCMP alone are undermanned by at least 2200 officers.

The crooks know about the shortage of officers, the police know and the government knows.Sooner or later the public will also know.

Mr. Kevin Sorenson: We know that CSIS, for example, had somewhere between 2,800 and 2,900, and it was cut back to 1,800. The RCMP, in the mid-1990s, lost 2,200 positions. Did CSE have cuts then?

John Bolton

In the world of high-stakes diplomacy, ambiguity is dangerous. This may seem obvious but for the United States to be effective in the world, it has to understand and communicate its interests clearly. John Bolton will not disguise or camouflage the president’s interests. With John Bolton, there will be no question where the United States stands, which will of course threaten the defenders of the status quo in the U.N.

Bolton, who has been working U.N. issues for many years, is a bold figure who has the intelligence, courage, and determination to try to make a real difference and would therefore be exactly the right U.N. ambassador at this time for American interests. He has been confirmed for senior government positions four times before. He has served in those posts with distinction during three administrations, untainted by even a hint of scandal.

If the American people are ever going to have any sense of reliance on the U.N., it will be because of straightforward and tough reformers like John Bolton demanding profound change.

Retrieve the Memorial........

Real Americans, after all, have no trouble recalling that Ground Zero is the site of an unspeakable atrocity committed against them. They'll wonder by what perverted logic is it appropriate to use the spot to dredge up shameful, painful episodes in American history that have nothing to do with 9/11.


Also Take Back the Memorial via LGF

Ralph Peters

The hard-liners are going to pull out all the stops to elect their man in the run-off — voter intimidation, bribes, phony ballots, miscounts and every other ruse they can think of. But in a paradoxical turn of events, pro-democracy Iranians now have a critical chance to make a difference

Mark Steyn

Iraq's oil reserves

OPEC Revenues fact sheet