Eason Jordan is building a resumé conservatives love to hate.
First, CNN gained the reputation as the Clinton News Network. Then one month after coalition forces went into Iraq in 2003, Eason Jordan confessed that CNN's reporting from Iraq had been less than complete:
I came to know several Iraqi officials well enough that they confided in me that Saddam Hussein was a maniac who had to be removed. One Foreign Ministry officer told me of a colleague who, finding out his brother had been executed by the regime, was forced, as a test of loyalty, to write a letter of congratulations on the act to Saddam Hussein. An aide to Uday once told me why he had no front teeth: henchmen had ripped them out with pliers and told him never to wear dentures, so he would always remember the price to be paid for upsetting his boss. Again, we could not broadcast anything these men said to us.
Just last year, a Pew Research Center report found that CNN was the Democrats' news channel: [. . . . ]
CBC: Some Beliefs More Politically Correct than Others?
CHARLOTTETOWN – The Maritime Christian College in Charlottetown is upset that CBC TV won't play one of its commercials.
The public broadcaster turned away the business saying it violates the CBC's ad policy.
College officials wanted to promote an upcoming lecture. [. . . . ]
Fred Osborne, president of the college, said his commercial, and the lecture, are about the problems all families face, and not just Christian families.
Imagine the outrage if a media outlet refused to sell an ad to a minority group -- say Jews, or Muslims, or even gays. Well, no need to imagine, actually -- Canada has plenty of human rights decisions punishing any such media, even if they are privately owned media.
So where is the peep of protest when the CBC refuses to run an ad for a lecture about families, held at a Christian college? The ad makes no reference to Christianity. It's not a missionary event -- it's a lecture. But the CBC refused it.
[. . . . ] Well, I do believe the CBC is endorsing a certain religion: militant secular humanism, utterly intolerant of anyone who dares hold conservative religious views, especially Christians.
The Knights and the lesbians: Exhibit A in same-sex uproar -- when a religious group's rights come up against the currently favoured minority group. . .
It is the same thing with businesses. Remember the printer and his refusal to print gay material?
[. . . . ] Prime Minister Paul Martin defended the bill, insisting that no religious organization will be forced to perform homosexual marriages if their teaching is opposed to them. But he also said that "Canada is a country where minorities are protected" -- a claim the Tories sought to turn against him by saying the debate on same-sex marriage will be all about protecting Canadians' religious freedoms.
The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has just finished hearing Ms. Chymyshyn and Ms. Smith's claim that the Knights, a Roman Catholic men's fraternal and philanthropic society, discriminated against the couple by refusing to rent the hall to them after learning it was for a same-sex wedding reception. [. . . . ]
Knights' lawyer George Macintosh said the Catholic Church owns the hall, and membership in the Knights is limited to practising Catholics.
"If it's lawful to say no to [performing] a same-sex marriage, it's lawful to say no to celebrating the event. To celebrate an event against your religious belief is the same as conducting the event yourself." [. . . . ]
Guess which protected group lost? I believe I caught that in some news program but I do not have a reference. Check this. Oh, it was the religious group that lost -- but you knew that, didn't you?
But Western media and governments are also handicapped in dealing with Iraq by a peculiar double standard regarding the very status of the Iraqi Arab Sunnis as a formerly-ruling, and oppressive, minority. Twenty years ago, nobody would have listened to the argument that dismantling of the apartheid regime in South Africa and the holding of elections there should be blocked out of fairness to the white minority in that country. Few today listen to those who declare that fair elections and the forging of a new political system in Northern Ireland should be delayed out of concern for the feelings of the Protestant minority. [. . . . ]
Condolezza Rice left this morning to visit all countries that were with us in the Iraq war. She should be back in -- oh, about half an hour. . .
Thanks to JK in California.
Canadian Flags Will no Longer be Made in China -- "The federal Liberals are the Trailer Park Boys of Ottawa"
The government was caught -- Does anyone remember a story posted on this site (I don't remember the exact date) concerning a BC company that was paid to make Canadian flags or pins but none had to produced--just accept the contract? Who was currying favour with ***** to further business? To whose benefit?
[. . . . ] New Democrat MP Charlie Angus . . . . complained Wednesday that Canadian flag lapel pins bought for MPs and senators to give out were made in China. He demanded that future contracts be awarded to a Canadian supplier.
Public Works Minister Scott Brison seemed flustered by the question
Brison announced Friday that all new flag pins will be made in Canada. [. . . ]
. . . Those stately Parliament buildings sometimes seem like just another trailer park to Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski.
He told the Commons on Friday that he's discovered an interesting trend in recent issues such as favours for strippers, taxpayer subsidized tattoos for convicts and decriminalization of marijuana.
"The federal Liberals are the Trailer Park Boys of Ottawa," he said. [. . . . ]
Ottawa prepares final report on uranium mine that created Village of Widows -- Nuclear Shadow -- and Canada will be mining uranium again -- uranium mining contract-China-PM's recent business partnerships trip
"Gaudet estimates cancer kills someone in his tightly-knit village of 650 nearly every six months and has done so for two decades."
Think about this and then the contract with the Chinese to develop uranium mining that has been inked -- Paul Martin's 'partnerships' tour to China / tsunami tour to Tamil Tiger territory and . . .
(CP) - The dark, nuclear shadow . . . . Great Bear Lake. The harmonious community of Port Radium built around a government-owned mine. . . .
But then Betsidea learned that the dusty gunnysacks she and her sister played with had once been full of radioactive uranium ore, that the sandbox she dug in was filled with ground-up mine tailings.
Then her father, who used to barge that ore down the Mackenzie River to nuclear programs in the United States and Canada, died of cancer. Her sister, her aunts and her cousins met the same fate.
Finally, her new home of Deline, N.W.T., across the lake on the ore transport route, lost so many of its men to the same disease it became known as the Village of Widows.
[. . . . ] A report due this spring will outline options for healing the land. Closing the mine's entrances and removing the tailings could cost up to $10 million.
[. . . ] nuclear shadow. . . . cancer . . . . there's always this lingering fear."
Uranium mining at Port Radium . . . . weapons development. . . . [. . . . ]
IMET's law-order spectacle puts Bay St. on notice: we mean business
TORONTO (CP) - In a rarefied world of pinstripes and Porsches, it had all the subtlety of a brick through a Bay Street boardroom window: a refitted 12-metre RV emblazoned with RCMP logos and brimming with stone-faced cops, lawyers and forensic accountants.
Armed with a 60-day search warrant, they marched into the corporate headquarters of Bank of Nova Scotia and began collecting more than eight years worth of data central to an ongoing probe of troubled plastics maker Royal Group Technologies Ltd.
It was a high-profile coming out of sorts for a $30-million-a-year initiative the federal Liberal government launched in November 2003 to boost global confidence in Canadian financial markets in the wake of prominent U.S. flameouts like WorldCom and Enron.
They were members of an Integrated Market Enforcement Team, crack detachments of law enforcement officials and securities experts now in place in four cities across Canada with a mandate from Ottawa to sniff out corporate fraudsters.
Once investigators had commandeered a boardroom, changed the locks and swept for listening devices, the "mobile command post" pulled out after it spent two days parked directly in front of Canada's second-largest bank.
[. . . . ] "It's good politics for the government to be against (corporate fraud), because everybody is," he said. [. . . . ]
Indonesia: Kissing vs Jihadi Violence -- No Contest for the Mullahs
[. . . . ] But they would also impose penalties on unwed couples who kiss in public, while permitting police raids on the homes of those suspected of living together out of wedlock.
Pornography and public displays of "certain sensual body parts" would be outlawed and media, movies and songs censored.
Penalties for law breakers would range from fines as high as 300 million rupiah, or about $40,000 Cdn, to up to 10 years imprisonment, according to the daily. [. . . . ]
No details about which body parts -- but it appears to be an effort to end Hollywood's influence through movie/videos. I hate much of what Hollywood produces, particularly the violence and the unnecessary prurience, but still, I would rather see kissing--evem more--than ever live under mullah rule and threats of jihadi violence.
That is one of the problems with rules and regulations -- curtailment of personal freedom over actions. Kissing is not in itself harmful to society, and certainly it beats Al-Jazeera's Al Qaeda propaganda and dwelling over / publicizing images of fanatical Islamist carnage. I do think all of us should demand that the Hollywood film industry curb the excess of sexuality and violence. Somehow, though, I think that is not the mullahs' real point; their efforts are designed to tighten mullah rule. Another Muslim state down the tube?
Shamil Basayev, the Chechnyan Islamic fascist who masterminded the Beslan child massacre, says all Russians are legitimate targets under shari’a law, and promises there will be more atrocities like Beslan: [. . . . ]
For reference as to what the government is really accomplishing on entry to Canada of guns and terrorists see Feb. 3 and 4 Hansard. The Tamil Tigers is only one terrorist group that the present government is soft on. Their entry means other terrorists may enter in the same way. The guns? If you are a law-abiding citizen where would you find the greatest number of guns to protect yourself? Check a criminal or a terrorist. They don't register.
