Thursday, January 26, 2006

The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress


The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is one of my favorite Heinlein novels along with Stranger in a Strange Land. Its about a revolt of a moon colony and their reorganization as an anarchist society. One of its characters Manny a technician worker who is an communist (well a Cold War Russian at least).

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is similar to Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) in that both describe social upheavals, and both contain a strong streak of irony. In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, the irony is that although the lunar colony is, at the beginning of the story, theoretically a kind of prison ruled by a tyrannical Warden, in reality the Warden seldom interferes in lunar society, which is portrayed as a kind of libertarian utopia. When the revolution succeeds, the new lunar government succumbs to its own worst instincts to regulate society to the hilt. The novel is notable stylistically for its use of an invented Lunar dialect consisting predominantly of English words but strongly influenced by Russian grammar (cf. Nadsat slang from Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess).


Well today Russia announced is planning to build a base on the moon for industrialization rather than weaponization of space.

Russia plans to put a mine on the Moon to help boost energy supply
Independent -
Russia has staked out plans to recapture its Soviet-era space-race glory and start mining the Moon for a promising energy resource that scientists say could meet the Earth's power needs for more than a thousand years.

Russian Rocket Builder Aims for Moon Base by 2015, Reports Say Space.com


Bloody well about time too. That someone used the space race for something other than weapons systems, spy sattelites and 500 channels on TV.

We should have had a viable space station orbiting in the L5 years ago, with regular missions to the moon, ala 2001 A Space Odessy.

But the Space Race was part of the Cold War and after that it was part of the American privatization of NASA at any cost program around the Space Shuttle. A cost which was measured in lives lost rather than missions accomplished.

After the umpteenth mission we know the space orbiter works, now do something with it like build a space station, one that won't come crashing down after a decade. But that opportunity is lost too. Won't be no more Space Shuttle missions, the point of which was what? Waste in space.

Really once the Reagan regime got the Space Weapons bug thats all the Space Shuttle missions were for, but seeing that no Weaponization systems could be put up well the Space shuttle went up and down, sometimes with horrendous accidents.

We should have one global space agency always should have. NASA the EU Space Program, the Japanese, Canadian, and all the other space programs and yes the Russians and Chinese should be part of a global space program. But sigh that is too much Star Trek for the liking of the Star Wars mentality around the Pentagon.

Now the Russians are onto something. Mining the moon, just like in the Moon Is A Harsh Mistress. One word of advice, from the novel, don't rely on prison labour for the miners or they may revolt and that would be Anarchy in space.

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Aren't you sorry you sold your shares

That should be the question going through all our minds as shareholders in fact former owners of Petro Canada, the Liberals sold off the last of our shares to pay for their 2004 election promises. Too bad. Had they waited they could have paid them off on the interest the shares earned this past year.

Petro-Canada earns $1.8B in 2005, plans new upgrader near Edmonton
CBC News - 5 hours ago
CALGARY (CP) - Petro-Canada (TSX:PCA) posted record annual earnings of $1.8 billion Thursday, up slightly over 2004, and announced it will build its new oilsands upgrader just northeast of Edmonton.

Petro-Canada profit rises 62% Globe and Mail



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Harper's First Broken Promise

Well here it is the first Conservative broken promise and the election is barely cold and Harper is still only PM designate. And already they can't deliver on their capital gains tax cut. Why not. Well it will cost to much.

Don't expect to get those promised tax cuts right away Toronto Star
Experts doubt quick capital gains tax cut
Tory government may have to rewrite or delay its plan to eliminate capital gains taxes

Opps this is one of those budget items they threw into the pot in the last days of the election. One of those that they didn't budget for. Funny that it was Monte Solberg that assured us all the costing had been done when it hadn't. So why believe him now.

Tax cuts non-negotiable for new Conservative government, says Solberg

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Klein Dares Harper


During the election Stephen Harper made no bones about it he defended the Canada Health Act. Well now he will get his chance. Becuase his good friend from Calgary, Ralph Klein has drawn the line in the sand and has shoved Harper with a dare ya challenge. Klein intends to violate the Canada Health Act with the hope that the newly elected Conservative goverment will not do anything. Caught in a quandry Mr. Harper is. Does he defend provincial government autonomy to do as it pleases or does he defend the Canada Health Act. This will be a test of his Prime Ministership. Gee it doesn't get any better than this, challenged by Klein within 72 hours of being elected. Now if it had been a Liberal government, well Klein would have never had dared. He has waited since 1999 for a sympathetic Conservative government in Ottawa.

Alberta to push ahead private health care bill

Edmonton — The Alberta government is moving ahead with its long-stated intention to allow more private health care.

Premier Ralph Klein says the party caucus has agreed unanimously to bring in legislation that would, among other things, allow people to buy private insurance for some procedures.

Another of the so-called “third way” reforms would allow doctors to practise in both the public and private health systems.

Mr. Klein admits that some of the changes might violate the Canada Health Act, but says that remains to be seen.ad1

He also says it remains to be seen how the new Conservative minority government of Stephen Harper will react.

Mr. Klein says his government will likely table its new health law in the upcoming session of the legislature, which begins next month.


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Hamas Win Stuns World But Not Me

Watching Lou Dobbs on CNN I have discovered that America is stunned at the Hamas victory in the Palestinian elections. George Bush looked stunned when his much touted Democratic revolution resulted in a Hamas victory. Even PM designate Stephen Harper seemed stunned at the election results and announced that Hamas had to disavow terrorism, that is armed self defense and armed struggle, to be recognized as the government of Palestine.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Hamas 'secures stunning victory'

CNN's Lou Dobbs asserts that this was an intelligence break down by the CIA and Mossad. Really?! I knew Hamas was going to win the other day, it was a given in the middle eastern media. Which is why I wrote Green Eggs and Hamas. Guess this is another case of bloggers being in the know more than the MSM and the CIA.

That being said all Hamas has to do now is to integrate their armed forces into the Palestinian authority and claim they no longer are an independent armed force. However the world is demanding that they do more. World governments will not recognize them unless Hamas renounces its belief that Israel has no right to exist.Can Hamas Change Its Ways?

Well fine. But gee wasn't that George Bush who said democracy would free the Middle East. Well these were democratic elections. And Palestinians like Canadians voted for the only party that was an alternative to the corruption of Fatah. While the US supported, with CIA funding, Fatah. Opps.

Is democracy empowering Islamists?



Finally as I wrote here about the need for Arab Anarchism once again we see that it is patriarchical power that Hamas represents . Notice that whenever there is a rally in an Islamic country women are nowhere to be seen. Just guys. In the case of Palestine, male children and teenagers.

Q&A: What the Hamas victory means


Here's a look at what the Hamas victory could mean for Palestinian relations, Middle East peacemaking and Palestinian politics.

Q: How did Hamas pull off this shocking upset?

A: Hamas exploited public discontent with the corruption-tainted Fatah Party, which has dominated Palestinian politics for four decades.

While reiterating its commitment to "resistance" against Israel, Hamas focused its campaign on internal Palestinian issues, promising better public services, honesty in government and an end to lawlessness.




Hamas win shatters status quo
from the January 27, 2006 edition

(Photograph)
VICTORY: Hamas leader, and top candidate for the Palestinian parliamentary elections, Ismail Hanieh, salutes supporters outside his house in Gaza City.
HATEM MOUSSA/AP

Hamas win shatters status quo
Islamic militant group gains the upper hand in Palestinian politics.
By Ilene R. Prusher | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
JERUSALEM – The Islamic group Hamas staged a stunning upset of the ruling Fatah faction in Palestinian parliamentary polls Wednesday, winning a solid outright majority of the total 132 seats and making the strongest ever showing of an Islamist movement in the Arab world.

With such a decisive win, Hamas is unlikely to need a coalition partner, sidelining the Palestine Liberation Organization's Fatah Party and promising to redefine the troubled Middle East peace process.





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Pinochet Tax Evader

Pinochet may never face trial for his Coup and the deaths of thousands of Chileans under his regime of terror, but he and his family face tax evasion charges. Reminds me Al Capone. The government may not get ya for murder but they will hunt you down like a dog to get them taxes.


Pinochet daughter seeks US asylum

9.20AM, Thu Jan 26 2006

A daughter of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is seeking asylum in the US after being arrested at Washington's Dulles airport.

Lucia Pinochet has been indicted by a Chilean judge on tax evasion and false passport charges and a warrant was issued for her arrest.

She was detained after she got off a plane in the US from Argentina.

Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker said he ordered his country's consul in Washington, Felipe Cousino, to try to interview Lucia Pinochet.

He said she apparently has three alternatives, to have US authorities send her back to the country from which she arrived, Argentina; to voluntarily return to Chile and appear in court; or go back to Argentina by herself, which would open the way for an extradition request by Chile.

Lucia Pinochet and several members of her family are implicated in a scandal involving the now-defunct Riggs Bank of Washington.

Congressional investigators alleged that General Pinochet worked with bank managers to set up phoney offshore companies to hide the existence of about $8 million at the bank.

A subsequent judicial investigation in Chile determined that Pinochet had deposited as much as $28 million in accounts in several countries.

Last year, Gen. Pinochet issued a statement denying any wrongdoing and claiming his advisers had paid all of his outstanding taxes.

Investigators say the defendants together evaded $2.05 million in taxes.


Daily Journal		Pinochet family out on bail
Daily Journal, Venezuela - 24 Jan 2006
SANTIAGO – Augusto Pinochet’s wife and three of his five children were released on bail Tuesday, after a judge ordered them to stand trial for tax evasion. ...

Santiago Times
PINOCHET’S DAUGHTER ON THE RUN IN CHILE
Santiago Times (subscription), Chile - 24 Jan 2006
25, 2006) Former dictator Augusto Pinochet’s eldest daughter failed to appear before the Santiago Appeals Court Tuesday morning with her mother and four ...
Pinochet's wife and children arrested
Swissinfo, Switzerland - 23 Jan 2006
SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - The wife and five children of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet were arrested on Monday on tax evasion and fraud charges as ...

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Che Meets Benedict

During WWII it is said that those who survived the Nazi Concentration Camps were the Communists and those whose religious faith was unshakable. Today the new Catholic Pope Benedict XVI made his first papal encyclical declaring that God is Love, God is Solidarity. So in that light I thought it a good idea to compare the idea of love of social love and solidarity, between these two ideologies Communism and Catholicism. Between Che Guevera and Pope Benedict.

Che Guevera

Socialism and the New Man

The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.

Our task is to prevent the present generation, torn asunder by its conflicts, from becoming perverted and from perverting new generations. We must not bring into being either docile servant of official thought or scholarship students who live at the expense of the state— practising "freedom." Already there are revolutionaries coming who will sing the song of the new man in the true voice of the people. This is a process, which takes time.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.

In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Of course there are dangers in the present situation, and not only that of dogmatism, not only that of weakening the ties with the masses midway in the great task. There is also the danger of weaknesses. If a man thinks that dedicating his entire life to the revolution means, that in return he should not have such worries as that his son lacks certain things, or that his children's shoes are worn out, or that his family lacks some necessity, then he is entering into rationalisations which open his mind to infection by the seeds of future corruption.

In our case we have maintained that our children should have or should go without those things that the children of the average man have or go without, and that our families should understand this and strive to uphold this standard. The revolution is made through man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit day by day.



An unexpected letter of love from the Pope to his church

The open papal letter to the church is titled Deus Caritas Est -- God is love. Before its publication, the Pope said his intention was "to show the concept of love in its different dimensions. I hope it might illuminate and help our Christian life."

In particular his objective appears to be to identify a common thread running through the Greek words eros -- human sexual love -- and agape -- spiritual love.

He writes that sexual love "is neither planned nor willed, but somehow imposes itself upon human beings." He says: "True eros tends to rise in ecstasy towards the Divine, to lead us beyond ourselves . . . [on] a path of ascent, renunciation, purification and healing.

"Even if eros is at first mainly covetous . . . a fascination for the great promise of happiness in drawing near to the other, it [becomes] less and less concerned with itself, increasingly seeks the happiness of the other, is concerned more and more with the beloved, bestows itself and wants 'to be there' for the other.

"The element of agape thus enters this love, for otherwise eros is impoverished and even loses its own nature. . . . Fundamentally 'love' is a single reality, but with different dimensions; at different times, one or other dimension may emerge more clearly."

Benedict says sexual love is rooted in every human being. He acknowledges that Christianity in the past was often criticized for being "opposed to the body," and he says: "It is quite true that tendencies of this sort have always existed.

"Yet the contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive. Eros, reduced to pure sex, has become a commodity, a mere 'thing' to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity. This is hardly man's great 'yes' to the body."

He then challenges the conventional opposing definitions of spiritual love and sexual love and argues that they are the same, that even God manifests a love for humanity that is sexual but also totally spiritual -- a love that is personal but exists with the aim of healing the whole human race.

In the Pope's words

Excerpts from Pope Benedict's first encyclical:

"Today, the term 'love' has become one of the most frequently used and misused of words. . . . We speak of love of country, love of one's profession, love between friends, love of work, love between parents and children, love of neighbour and love of God. Amid this multiplicity of meanings, however, one in particular stands out: love between man and woman, where body and soul are inseparably joined and human beings glimpse an apparently irresistible promise of happiness."

". . . Love for widows and orphans, prisoners, and the sick and needy of every kind, is as essential to her [the church] as ministry of the sacraments and preaching of the Gospel. . . . For the church, charity is not a kind of welfare activity which could equally be left to others, but is a part of her nature, an indispensable expression of her very being."


Sounds like Benedict has been reading the Post Structuralists, especially his comments on the body and its commodification. "Yet the contemporary way of exalting the body is deceptive. Eros, reduced to pure sex, has become a commodity, a mere 'thing' to be bought and sold, or rather, man himself becomes a commodity. This is hardly man's great 'yes' to the body

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Prisons Need Police Society Needs Mediators

In this article the assumption is that primates need social controls, policing, authority figures in order to maintain community.

Primate police prevent monkeying around
Chaos can descend on human societies without policing. The authority figures are also needed to maintain social stability among primates, say researchers who studied captive animals.

This tells us nothing about the nature of these primates when in their natural environment. And definitions of leadership and authority as policing and social control are subject to interpretation.

While this news item has traveled around, the link abouve is to the CBC report, the Scientific American article,below, gives the best description of the study.

If we change the terminology, not just for semantic but ideological purposes, from policing to mediation the role played by the mediator takes on a more positive light.

It reflects what we know of human societies and the role of elders and shamans. Often social control is exerted as mediation rather than force. And if you read this carefully you will see that our cousins here use mediation rather than force.

Anarchy breaks out not when mediation is removed but when mediation and mediators are present. In other words social consensus versus force.

While this research will be sure to be used by those who believe in domination, authority, policing and control, it actually shows that organic organization of community is more about mediation than 'force' which is what authority and policing implies.

And while the study apparently removed three alpha males, there are also alpha females in this primate society. No discussion here of what their role is or was.

Monkey Police Provide Social Stability

Science Image: macaque, monkey, pigtailed

Of the 21 species of macaque monkeys, pigtailed macaques live in societies that fall somewhere between the despotic and egalitarian extremes. A dominant male and female run the show but conflict among other monkeys is common, if rarely extreme. Most such conflicts end with a third party intervening, usually in favor of one or the other opponent. But sometimes the most powerful monkeys literally stand between the two combatants and, occasionally without even threatening them, impartially resolve the conflict. It is this occasional policing that allows pigtailed macaque society to be more diverse instead of breaking down into warring cliques, according to new research.

Without the peacemakers, some macaques also become more violent, Jessica Flack of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico and her colleagues report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

"Policing not only controls conflict, we find it significantly influences the structure of networks that constitute essential social resources in gregarious primate societies," the researchers wrote.

"The structure of such networks plays a critical role in infant survivorship, emergence and spread of co-operative behaviour, social learning and cultural traditions."

"We tend to associate power with privilege, but both in human and animal society it also entails a constructive contribution, or at least ought to. Through their stabilising presence and active peacekeeping, the dominant males contribute to a more cooperative society.


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Anarchism and Authority


Primate Man


For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing

The Right To Be Greedy


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Globalization=Contracting Out


Canada's ruthless corporate ruling class is not satisfied with record profits and its ability to hire and fire at will. Nor its ability to contract out and privatize our jobs. Nope it wants more and more from us, in order to feed its rapacious addiction to profits.

And if you are unionized you are under threat of contracting out, lock out and ultimately giving concessions like the Telus workers, the Air Canada workers, the Autoworkers all have faced this past year.

And the Conference Board of Canada says this is business as usual in the new globalized economy.


Globalization is reshaping labour relations in Canada 
 "Globalization is transforming the dynamics of labour relations in
Canada," said Prem Benimadhu, Vice-President, Organizational Performance.
"Faced with global competition, management is increasingly determined to hold
its ground by demanding concessions or resorting to lockouts.
"Unions are faced with the difficult choice of accepting concessions or
watching jobs go to lower-cost countries. At the same time, unions are looking
to maintain their power by building the international labour movement in these
same countries.

Today in the neo-liberal economy its ratcheting down workers wages and benefits in order to keep stock prices high. It has been occuring since the 1980's and the labour movement is barely able to keep itself fighting defensive battles in this order to keep running on the spot. Because as usual the business unions fail to understand this is not a battle over bread and butter issues but Class War.

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This is Class War

Gone is the Keynesian Social Contract that kept the Welfare State booming.
It's a little thing Herr Dr. Marx called the falling rate of profit.

After the long boom after World War Two, it would seem that capital did indeed come up against a crisis in the falling rate of profit and overproduction of capital, leading to the crisis of the late 1960s and the opening up of a period of “stagflation” in the 1970s.

So in an era of riches the workers once again are asked to take crumbs from the table. And even the booming economy can mean profit failure for some industries while we create untold riches for others.

Strongest Canadian dollar in 14 years hinders Q4 results

Canadian Oil Sands Trust announces strong financial results for the fourth quarter of 2005 and a distribution of $1.00 per Unit

Shell Canada announces record earnings of $2 billion


But Canada is not alone in this situation. While profits soar and trillions of dollars, fictious capital, travel in the market place making money off of money, work, the actual source of profit, continues to decline as it gets automated and outsourced. It is not just Canada's problem but is actually the crisis of globalization itself. As capital moves out of the industrialized countries, or hires workers out of the underground immigrant communities in the industrialized countries; the sans papiers, those without papers, and as it replaces labour with technology we face not a leisure society with abundance for all . Au contraire we face a growing crisis of employment. Such as we have not seen since the depression of the 1930's. And why it is greater is that it is global. There are no longer peasant societies anywhere in the world. There is a global proletariat, the multitude if you like. And there is a crisis of employment.

ILO Director-General warns of 'unprecedented jobs crisis' [ILO]


Companies get tough in bargaining
Toronto Star - 18 hours ago
Fierce worldwide competition is making companies more militant during contract negotiations, while unions are pushing back by globalizing the labour movement, according to a report released yesterday by the Conference Board of Canada.
'Militancy' the new catchword for employers Globe and Mail
Globalization holding down Canadian union wages, Conference Board ... CBC News
Calgary Sun - National Union of Public and General Employees - Ottawa Sun - all 30 related »

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Outlaw Working Alone

Once again a worker a teenage girl on a night shift has been killed while working alone.

Girl, 17, killed on first night shift at Montreal store

A 17-year-old female clerk was killed overnight inside a gas station convenience store in the St-Léonard area of Montreal, police said on Wednesday morning.

Last year it was a young woman again working alone this time in Ontario that was killed. And the McGuinty government downplayed the need for safer working conditions. The safest would be to have no-one work alone in a retail outlet during the night shift. But of course that would cut into the bottomline.

 Working Alone Kills
Body in Ottawa identified as missing 18-year-old Exhausted after more than a week of torturous uncertainty, her brother and others had no public words to offer about the vivacious Jennifer, a student and soccer goalie who chatted with friends on the walk home from her late shift at a fast food restaurant, then disappeared. Ms. Teague's friends are also, understandably, distraught

 McGuinty Denies Workers Safety
Late night laws unnecessary: McGuinty Canadian Press September 21, 2005 TORONTO -- Premier Dalton McGuinty does not think legislation is necessary to ensure young workers in Ontario get homtee safely from their late night jobs. McGuinty is calling on businesses to "be good corporate citizens" and ensure they have a voluntary plan in place to assist employees who work late.


In Alberta it took a number of attacks on women working alone and finally a death of a young woman in a Calgary Sub shop to get the Alberta Government to introduce its, toothless, Working Alone legislation. Which of course the big retail chains like 7-11 lobbied against. And of course this always occurs in a non-union workplace.

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Old Kate Snivels


Old Kate the voice of the Republican arm of the Conservatives over at Sniveling Dead Animals was whinning again, or is that whinnying, about how the media has a liberal left bias in Canada.

Really could have fooled me. Watching CPAC with its cross country coverage of Talk Shows during the elction one gets the feeling that every single radio host must be a subscriber to the National Review in order to get hired. And being a loud mouth right winger is defined as 'controversial'. I would think that with such a plethora of right wingers on talk shows it would be more controversial to have a left wing host.

Last time I checked the Sun chain was right wing, and the Canada.com chain carries both liberal and conservative commentators. The National Post is the very essence of the voice of the right. The Globe and Mail also has its fair share of Right Wing nutbars. Macleans now is the Alberta Report reborn. Go here for a break down of the Election coverage and its Conservative Bias.

So the if the media is the mirror that Kate wants to see her reflection in it certainly is there. Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the most right wing of all. While the Left in Canada is the real political force that is on the outside, with small circulation publications like Canadian Dimension and from Kats home province; Briarpatch.

And even CBC has the likes of Ezra Levant on to comment, has a columnist from the right on its web page and hired Rick Anderson of the Reform party to be its masked insider commentator on the Canadian Election.

Old Kate also wants to see taxpayers quit funding liberal think tanks. How about if we quit funding the more influential right wing think tanks like the C.D. Howe Institute, The Fraser Institute and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies.
The media in Canada has gone through a seismic shift since the eighties when Lubor Zink was the lone voice of the looney right wailing about the liberal left media, ok him and Peter Worthington.

So where has Kate been? Even in Saskatchewan the Canada.com papers there spin the editorials and opinion pages to the right.

But hey Kate isn't satisfied until we have Faux news here. With its ever objective Bill O' Reilly as a commentator. You see to the right wing its only free speech if you can lie, slander and denigrate your oponents while saying, don't you agree.

Without acknowledging error, O'Reilly modified false Abramoff claim; attacked "organized terror" from "far-left websites"

Summary: Bill O'Reilly modified his previous false claim that lobbyist Jack Abramoff donated money to both Republicans and Democrats, saying: "His personal donations were to Republicans." However, O'Reilly made no admission of his previous error, and went on to attack "far-left websites" for "put[ting] out a fatwa" against him and Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell, further claiming the websites engage in "organized terror."

On the January 23 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly modified a false claim he made three days before that former lobbyist Jack Abramoff donated money to both Democrats and Republicans, saying: "His personal donations were to Republicans." In modifying his claim, however, O'Reilly made no admission of his previous error, nor did he apologize for having berated a caller to his nationally syndicated radio show for correctly noting that Democrats received no money directly from Abramoff. O'Reilly went on to attack the "far-left websites" for "put[ting] out a fatwa" against him and Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell and and to claim that the websites engage in "organized terror.


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CTV is NOT the CBC

CTV/G&M Showing Conservative Bias


CTV Liberal Bias


This is Fearmongering?


The Revolving door at the National Pest


Macleans the New Alberta Report


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US Planned to Invade Canada

Well will wonders never cease. Here is a secret plan for the U.S. to invade Canada. Now couple that with secret biological chemical warfare tests done in Winnipeg, and again during the Viet Nam war in New Brunswick, the current Agent Orange scandal, and one can see that the Conservatives are right to want to secure Canadian Soverignty by expanding our military. And arming border guards. And eliminating the gun registery so every Canadian can be armed. And there you just thought the Conservatives were patsy's for the U.S.

Plan to invade Canada unveiled

12/30/05

Start by capturing Halifax, seize Canadian Power plants near Niagara Falls, follow up with Army troops invading on three fronts.

That was the opening strategy in 1930 in the event of a U.S. invasion of Canada, according to The Washington Post.

The paper quotes from War Plan Red, declassified in 1974. The plan's official planners stated the goal in capital letters: ULTIMATELY TO GAIN COMPLETE CONTROL.

The strategy for an invasion of Canada was part of War Plan Red's design for a possible war with England over international trade.

According to the Washington Post, American planners thought England might use Canada as a launching pad in the event of war with the U.S.

War Plan Red was approved by the War Department in 1930 and updated in 1934 and 1935, the declassified documents show.

After seizing Halifax and plunging Canada into darkness by disabling its power plants, the plan called for U.S. Army troops to invade:
  • From Vermont to take Montreal and Quebec
  • From North Dakota to capture railroad facilities in Winnipeg
  • From the Midwest to seize Ontario's nickel mines.

    The planners noted that if England and Canada won the war with the U.S., Canada was likely to demand the award of Alaska to Canadian territory.

    The Washington Post story says there was also a 1935 plan to build three military airfield near the Canadian border and disguise them as civilian airports.

    And the U.S. wasn't alone in drawing up war plans targeting the world's longest undefended border: the story says Canadian military strategists had a plan for invading the U.S. in 1921.

    Canadian psychology professor Floyd Rudmin has long maintained the U.S. has a plan to invade Canada including use of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.

    Fort Drum spokesman Ben Abel is quoted in the story as saying "We most certainly are not preparing to invade Canada."


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