Chavez Denounces Anti-Semitism

Earlier this year the Zionist press and their right wing synchophants in North America released a scurrilous accusation that President Chavez of Venezuela made Anti-Semitic remarks in his Christmas speech. To which I replied here.

Now here is the latest news about Chavez and the Jewish community in Venezuala.

Of course don't expect the likes of Colby Cosh to admit they were wrong, or that they failed in their journalistic duty to actually follow up the original accusations rather than just link and comment on them.

Chavez asks Jewish community in Venezuela to join social interest projects

VHeadline.com News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue writes: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has met with members of the Jewish Community in Venezuela, clarifying alleged anti-Semitic remarks made by the former last Christmas.

Confederation of Israeli Associations president, Fred Pressner says President Chavez Frias has been asked to extend his rejection of anti-Jewish remarks to other instances of government.

Pressner says the community is deeply concerned about racial remarks made in Venezuelan media.

The President is said to have been "receptive" to a petition to penalize discrimination in any of its forms, among which is anti-Semitism

According to Jewish community representatives, there have no differences with the Venezuelan government.

"President Chavez Frias was clear in attacking anti-Semitism during his national rendering of accounts at the National Assembly but we want this to filter down into all government instances."

The President has gone a step further requesting the Jewish community to collaborate or develop projects of social interest.

Speaking on Sunday, Chavez Frias criticized the opposition press for blowing the incident out of all proportions and insisting on supporting a policy of promoting co-existence between Israel and Palestine.

The Jewish community has condemned the originator of the scandal, the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Also see:

A Libertarian Defense of the Left Wing in Latin America

Chavez

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The Prophet of Death

For all those liberals who have blogged that we should understand Islam as a religion of peace and understanding, one that is tolerant and blah, blah, blah I submit for your consideration these two items.

Do Dogs Have More Love For The Messenger Of Allah Than Do Muslims?
Feb 07, 2006

By Abu Haitham Al-Hijazee

As the Muslim world erupts over the blatant act of ridicule and blasphemy by European newspapers against the Prophet (pbuh), Islamic history scholar Abu Haitham Al-Hijazee turns to the times past for answers and weighs in on this latest attack on Islam.

Reviling and insulting Allah or His messenger is very serious offense that carries the death penalty. If such offense is committed by a Muslim, he becomes an apostate because of it and his blood becomes lawful immediately and no apology or repentance is accepted from him. The verdict of Allah is very clear.

Two killed as Afghans stage new protests over cartoons

State Religions, organized religion that carries with it the power of the State and is the State is the very enemy of freedom. All monothiestic religons are by their nature state religions, they have come into existance by the suppresion of peoples spiritual beliefs, rites and customs. They justify intolerance, torture and death of those who opposed them. They have grown by the forced conversion of peoples. All will be assimilated. Those who oppose religious tyranny cannot defend Islam in the name of freedom of religion.

Anarchists demand freedom from religion. No God! No Master! is our watchword. "Ni dieu ni maître!"--Neither God nor master!--is a phrase coined by the socialist Auguste Blanqui in 1880, when he published a journal by that name. It became an anarchist slogan.

Religion is Tyranny.

Nature created neither servants nor masters. I want neither to rule nor to be ruled.
La Nature n‘a fait ni serviteurs ni maîtres, je ne veux donner ni recevoir d‘ordres.

In this I find myself once again agreeing with Christopher Hitchens. Who has mocked religion on more than one occasion himself. Truth is blasphemous. Blasphemy is truth.

Also see:

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Blasphemy is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ibn Khaldun 14th Century Arab Libertarian

Jewish Anti-Zionism

The Need for Arab Anarchism

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Edmonton Left Out In The Cold, Again

Redmonton did not get any representation in Cabinet. None. Zip. Nada. Sorry but Rona Ambrose does not count as being from Edmonton. As I wrote in my comment to Daveberta;

She is not from Edmonton, she is from Spruce Grove. Damn hyphenated ridings. Well ok she lives in Edmonton Strathcona but she represents Spruce Grove that's like saying the MP from Airdrie represents Calgary or the guy from Oshawa represents Toronto. Hmm yeah the Harper did do that to.

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A One Day Wonder

Well was the optics and bad press that Harper got over Emerson, Fortier, and the Liberals are trying to pin him with O'Conner, worth it. Of course this is parlimentary politics folks. The elections are over. The rules of the game change. Now you are a minority in the house you play by the house rules. Which is maintian power, build a government and governing party and perpare for the next election.Maintain droits as the RCMP say.

That's what this was all about. However it's not a one day wonder or a one day issue.A Tory Radio Talk Show host from Ottawa on Duffy's show on CTV said its going to last four days and that's it. Smug bastard. One day headline or four day headline, it will be a matter that will get raised again in Question Period.

And then Harper ran away from reporters today, avoiding the traditional entering the house photo op. I guess this is the change he brings to the house. Secrecy and paranoia. Tommorow cabinet hides at Meech Lake and plots its strategy.

My what arrogance, truly a sign of being the ruling party, the government. Even after twelve years out of power, the arrogance comes back so quickly. And those who thought the politics of arrogance and entitlement were limited to the Liberals, failed to appreciate they are the trappings of power of any party that makes government under our British Parlimentary System. They may run on being from the outside Ottawa, but once in power the game is to stay in power.

And as much as I would like to agree with Blogging Tory Greg Staples, call me cyncial but all the disappointed BT's and Conservatives will swollow their dissapointment, idealism, and vote Conservative again, cause well the ends justify the means.

Political Capital

Conservative strategists have called this controversy a "one-day wonder". It better be. This better have been the one-day the Conservatives play games like this because a large chunk of us voted for politics as unusual and if we don't get it now don't think we won't look elsewhere.

This Ottawa Citizen has the funniest headline which gives new meaning to ironic. Followed by the carefully neutral headline of the Star Phoenix. Followed by the understaement of the year, on the front page of the Montreal Gazette.


And then there is the Ottawa Sun which sums it up nicely, they don't care whose in power as long as Canada's capital doesn't move to Calgary, like all the headoffices have.




Here's Todays other papers and their Headlines.

It will be more than a one day blow over.


Toronto Star

Shock and awe, Tory style

Feb. 7, 2006. 01:00 AM

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government has landed in Canada with a series of defiant bangs. SusanDelacourt and Sean Gordon report.












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Icky Icke

David Icke is a new age anti-semitic conspiracy nut. He is clever in that in his new age, feel good, self help books he hid his message in the final chapters. A sort of final chapter on the final solution.

His conspiracy theory is that the world is controled by the Illuminati, nothing new there. And the Illuminati is of course the ruling class and the bankers. ditto again. And of course many of them are Jewish. ditto, ditto, ditto.

And then taking off from science fiction writer and cult pop psychologist extrodinaire L. Ron Hubbard, whose Illuminati theory was that they were Thetans from space, Ickes says that his Illuminati are actually 4000 year old lizards from space! Yoiks shades ofthe sci-fi TV show V!

But while he believes in 4000 year old 12ft. Lizards he also promotes Anti-Semitism.

Beset by lizards

David Icke, one-time goalkeeper, TV presenter and self-proclaimed Son of God, has re-invented himself as a travelling guru. Would Canada take seriously his warnings of power-hungry extraterrestrial reptiles or would he be dismissed as an anti-Semitic bigot?

Jon Ronson
Saturday March 17, 2001
The Guardian

Then when I googling news the other day I found this, which just goes to show you how off the wall this Icke is. WAS HITLER A ROTHSCHILD?

And of all places it was on French Indymedia. See what we have to put up with in the name of free speech. (actually we don't its just lazy moderation)

Of course he is in good company with folks like this

Of course the real Illuminati,the secret chiefs, the hidden masters, have been around a lot longer than 4000 years. And they aren't 12 ft. Lizards. Nor Thetans.

They have been controling humans to their own ends since the begining of recorded time. It is well known that we are their servants and always have been.

Apparently they decided to show themselves the other day in Brussels head of the EU and next site of the WTO Meetings. Not far from Davos.

Reuters - Sun Feb 5, 10:38 AM ET

People display their cats during an international feline beauty contest in Brussels February 5, 2006. The contest took place with an exhibition of the cutest cats from all over Europe. REUTERS/Yves Herman

But again, after a long time of this, the cats sat down and said, "Oh Great Bast, we love this world but we are children of a god and that makes us godlings. Make us someone to serve us!" Bast laughed at their presumptuousness, but their request amused her so She made the cats a people to serve them. The servants of cats walked on two legs, all the better to have their arms free to carry a cat so that it did not dirty its paws upon the ground. At rest, the creatures folded neatly at the hips and knees to make a platform on which a cat could sit. The creatures had fingers which would tickle and stroke a cat and a voice with which to worship the cat and tell it how beautiful it is. And for a long time all was well. HOW BAST CREATED CAT-KIND

Chinese legends say that cats were put in charge of the world and had the power of speech. The cats soon delegated this job to humans so that felines could laze about. That is why cats can no longer speak and why they wear supercilious expressions when they see us scurrying about!

FELINE FOLKTAILS - CATS IN FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION
Copyright 1994, 1995, Sarah Hartwell

Oh yes and Cats just hate Lizards.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Raven

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.
Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore."
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! -- quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted---nevermore!

The other day my partner said something I found very worriesome. Something that had been tapping at the back of my mind like Poe's Raven.

We were watching Question Period and she said, the unspeakable, the thought that dare not speak it's name.....she said " I think Paul Martin is planning a comeback".

I of course dismissed this out of hand, despite that damned tap, tap, tapping of the Raven in my mind.

I dismissed it with a shudder. Because I knew that the optics of his stepping down but remaining party leader were Deja Vu.

"Trudeau did it" she said. That did it. Now a ghostly shudder ran up my spine, that spectral dread when you know those dangerous thoughts are forming a solidity in reality.

"So maybe thats what Martin is going to do." she insisted on reveling in her Ravenesque toying with me.

I dismissed it. I dismissed it as too horrible to face. Like a picture of Dorian Grey.

"Nah he's too tired,to worn out, besides Shelia won't let him", I said with just a hint of shudder and falseto in my voice. Dismissed. Done. That horrible thought locked away.

I thought I had gotten the damned thing safely locked away in the basement with my Cask of Amontillado.

When what should appear in my email but a column by my Left Coast pal Bill Tielman. He writes a column in 24 hours The Sun's Vancouver daily free paper on the Left Coast.

Quickly I ran downstairs and found the door ajar the damned Raven perched on the top of door mantle and the cask well drained.

So here is his column because tommorow it will probably be gone off the 24 hours website.

At least he could have left me some of the Amontillado, rather than the damned bird.

Hi all - here is today's 24 hours newspaper column - my look at whether Liberal Leader Paul Martin might replace Paul Martin, as all the leading contenders for the Liberal leadership find other things to do.

Given the shocking move by former federal Liberal cabinet minister David Emerson to switch parties yesterday and join the Conservative cabinet, the opening quote in today's column is even more appropriate, as is the idea of replacing yourself!

Regards,

Bill Tieleman West Star Communications

February 7, 2006

Will Martin replace Martin?

By BILL TIELEMAN

Ambition never comes to an end.

- Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia

A Liberal prime minister from Quebec is defeated by a new western-based Conservative leader, who wins a narrow minority government.

The outgoing prime minister resigns as Liberal leader and the party plans a leadership convention. But the new Conservative government is soon in deep trouble with its controversial policies.

The opposition parties combine forces to defeat the suddenly unpopular Tories but the Liberals are still leaderless going into an unexpected election.

Lacking a dynamic new leader, the Liberals beg the former prime minister to lead them into the election. Still sitting as a Montreal MP, he accepts their draft.

It's the story of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Joe Clark in 1979-1980.

But is it also the story of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper in 2005-2006?

As the top Liberal leadership candidates drop out, the odds of Martin replacing himself as leader increase.

And Liberal dissidents note that Paul Martin did not resign as Liberal leader, instead merely giving former Defence Minister Bill Graham his parliamentary but not party duties.

They also see that the Martin forces which pushed Prime Minister Jean Chretien out of power still control the party machinery. Martin's chief of staff Tim Murphy was reportedly slated to be Graham's top aide - until some party officials strongly objected.

Even non-Liberals like ex-Reform Party strategist Rick Anderson think Martin may return.

"There may be some pressure for him to come back," Anderson told CBC TV after the election. "The result wasn't quite as negative as seemed to be likely, and maybe he moved a little bit hastily."

The party has a problem after Liberal frontrunner Frank McKenna, the former New Brunswick premier and ambassador to the U.S., and ex-cabinet ministers Brian Tobin, John Manley and Allan Rock all declined to run. Did they sense a fix?

Other leadership candidates are flawed. Belinda Stronach, a former Conservative Party leadership challenger, is little more than the Paris Hilton of Canadian politics, minus the video.

Scott Brison, another turncoat Tory, also ran for the Conservative leadership before jumping to the Liberals.

MP Ken Dryden, the former Montreal Canadien goalie, is well-known but a wooden speaker lacking leadership potential. New MP Michael Ignatieff is a Harvard professor who supports the war in Iraq and lived in the U.S. the last 30 years.

Some mischievous Liberals even suggest Bob Rae, the former Ontario NDP premier who is still despised in that province.

And none of them is a Quebec francophone, which many Liberals say is a requirement, since the party has alternated anglophone and francophone leaders.

That leaves names like Martin Cauchon and Stephane Dion - former cabinet ministers with less public recognition than losing Canadian Idol contestants.

It's Paul Martin time again - he's retired, he's rested and he's ready!

Bill Tieleman is president of West Star Communications.

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Google Redux

I received the following email from *Alexandre ISRAËL * as a comment on my Google articles here and here. I thought I would post it as I think it is an interesting alternative to boycotting Google, Yahoo, MSN, and those search engines which do the States dirty working by censoring the internet.

A campaign to demand that search engines make a commitment to provide a warranty for transparency and responsibility to their users, us. Very simple; Give Us A Reason To Trust You. Very libertarian.

I particularly liked this part of his statement

Ethics:

And as you know it: governments might help or block your access to a market. But governments are not Your Market: make your choices carefully. Maybe the market will forget your mistakes and your priorities. Maybe it won’t.

Hi,

After reading your article concerning Gogle stock crash, I wanted to put a
comment: But I do not want to create a Blogger account for that :-( . So I
decide to send you this mail and put a link to your article on my French
version blog :-).
After Google launched its new portal in China, I decided to start a blog to
claim for Ethical Search Engine, Now!

*Alexandre ISRAËL *

This is not boycotting: But it is an active call for answers.
I propose to ask every Search Engines' management to give us their position
on Ethics, to give us warranties and to describe us a modus operandi
concerning Transparency.

The message is quite simple: You take into accounts a few governements'
needs and priorities - We the users come to you to ask you to take into
account ours needs and priorities! The purpose is to make everybody happy -
in other words: to receive reasonable and acceptable answers from these
actors.

Please visit the Blog for more details. If you agree with the call, please
talk about it around you. And participate: Every idea is welcome.

English version hosted by WPcom: http://ethicalsearch.wordpress.com/

French version hosted by TPfrance: http://ethicalsearch.typepad.com/

Wiki (en & fr) hosted by CraoWiki :
http://wiki.crao.net/index.php/EthicalSearch

Do not hesitate to contact me, I will be glad to give you more information
about this. http://www.alexisrael.net/

I would encourage folks to check it out. Alexander is also supportive but critical of Reporters Sans Frontieres demand that governments, in this case the U.S. government, lobby for privacy rights for search engines and the internet.

As everyone will understand, my wish is to find a solution without having to call US government and legislators for help. I agree with the wish (that is why I signed) - but I do not believe in the choosen mean: I am sorry but I am not a believer! And I do not understand why I should talk to US governement to resolve a case in China.

Like I said I believe this is a Libertarian response to the issue of these private search engine companies who rely on us to use them to make them their profit, to demand that they answer to their users. Especially companies whose motto is 'Do No Evil'.

Internet spins spy web for China
The Age - 13 hours ago
GOOGLE has just announced its top search words or phrases, and the top 10 gainers, for last year. Top of the list was Janet Jackson, no doubt because users were keen to relive her costume "malfunction" during the previous year's Super Bowl.
Internet giants try to find a way to live and grow in China Asia Pacific Media Network
The Lesser of Two Googles: Reactions from the Worldwide Web AXcess News
Times Online - New York Times - eWeek - TIME - all 47 related »

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V for Vendetta

Well a year after I first blogged excitedly about V for Vendata the Movie it will be released March 17. I hope it can live up to the truly anarchist tale the comic was.
But wait this is Hollywood after all. Hollywood under Bush. Yep I think it might just make the transistion from comic to big screen with all its anarchist irony.




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Alberta and Wyoming The Happy Gay Couple

Brokeback Mountain Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal have a lifelong love affair.

Alberta? Embracing gay cowboys?()

The Wild Rose province, the 'stunt double' for Wyoming, should be the one to benefit from Brokeback Mountain's success, tourism marketers say

There is an uncomfortable irony in all this.

Homophobic Alberta fought hard against gay human rights, with the Vriend case. Opposed Same Sex Marriage, and cabinet never did recognize k.d. lang as an honorary Albertan cause she was a lesbian.

Homophobic Wyoming is where Matthew Shepard was brutally murdered for being gay.

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Not Your Daddies Conservative Party, well maybe...

Actually we can see that since coming to power this Conservative party is far closer to the old one than it is to the Reform party from whence it came.

Guess who's back?(31)

Mulroney and his people play key role

Their presence is seen both as an effort by Mr. Harper to solidify the loyalty of the PC side of the party and to find professionals who know what it's like to build a new government largely from scratch. They include people like former Mulroney chief of staff Derek Burney and Maurice Archdeacon, a former inspector-general at CSIS who served in the Privy Council Office under Mr. Mulroney.

Camille Guibault, a former deputy chief of staff to Mr. Mulroney, is also on the team, taking a key role in helping to find staff, sources say. Also on the team is Elizabeth Roscoe, a former chief of staff to Mulroney heavyweight cabinet minister Barbara McDougall.

Sources say that most of Mr. Mulroney's influence is exerted through those who used to be around him.

But the former PM was also active during the recently completed campaign, speaking to Mr. Harper, but more often getting his points across through Senator Marjory LeBreton, his former appointments secretary, who travelled with Mr. Harper.

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