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China's energy thirst

There are polls and then there are polls.............

"Sixty percent of respondents said news organizations were politically biased, up from 53% two years ago. When asked what news outlets cared about most, a whopping 75% said attracting the biggest audience, compared to 19% who believed it was keeping them informed."

The Greatest Generation.................

"In this new century, a new generation will prevail. We will prevail because the American people — still the last, best hope of mankind — have the strength, the resilience and the determination required to prevail.

The front lines of this war are in Iraq. In Iraq — and only in Iraq — an al Qaeda commander is murdering innocent people virtually every day.

Some are urging us to withdraw from Iraq, to withdraw from the front lines of this war. But we will not be forced to retreat. We will not surrender — and pretend it’s just an “exit strategy.”

I have confidence that you understand that if we were to allow our enemies to destroy our will to fight, if we were to let our enemies defeat us on the battlefield in Iraq, that would not be the end of the war"..........

What I saw at Gitmo.........

"Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity, openly bragging of their desire to kill Americans. One has promised that, if released, he would find MPs in their homes through the internet, break into their houses at night, and “cut the throats of them and their families like sheep.”

The gun registry is working like a charm

.....and still no effective whistleblower legislation. Why not?

"Stockwell Day, Official Opposition Foreign Affairs Critic, is to hand over to the Auditor General documents brought to him by a Passport Canada employee, which alleges serious breaches of security and procedure.

"This employee apparently tried to get superiors to consider the extensive catalogue of improprieties within the Passport Office," said Day. "When officials found out that this person had met with me as a Member of Parliament, the employee was then subjected to a series of highly questionable repercussions."

Day said the whole matter requires a serious review by people in the Auditor General's Office who are equipped to handle high level allegations of this nature."

One would think the media would be interested in effective whistleblower legislation and Access to Information and keeping an effective Information Commissioner on the job for another year, but they don't seem to be too interested in these matters of open , transparent democracy.

Growing numbers question media's fairness

Gertz: China - Part II

"China's spies use as many as 3,200 front companies -- many run by groups linked to the Chinese military -- that are set up to covertly obtain information, equipment and technology, U.S. officials say.....

The model that China has for its intelligence, in general, is to collect a small amount of information from a large amount of people," Mr. Moore said during a conference of security specialists held by the National Security Institute, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm".....

Why the Mounties can't get their men

"The Mounties' lustre can also be restored by ensuring the service is fully independent of political interference. The commissioner should become an officer of Parliament rather than a bureaucratic appointee. His or her selection should be made by an all-party committee, rather than by Cabinet."

Amir Taheri - Iran's new leader