I realize this is coming a little later, my apologies. Going out to see Geert Wilders live was so exciting, it has taken me a few days to regroup…
Vlad Tepes has posted some excellent videos. Here is his interview with Geert Wilders.
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Michael Geist: What does the Conservative majority mean for digital policies?
May 3, 2011 — xanthippaIn Dr. Geist’s assessment, the Conservatives’ newly won majority is a good-news/bad-news story when it comes to digital policies:
“The Conservatives have focused consistently on improving Canadian competition and opening the market is the right place to start to address both Internet access (including UBB) and wireless services.
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The copyright bill is – as I described at its introduction last June – flawed but fixable.
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Much more troubling is the lawful access package which raises major civil liberties concerns and could be placed on the fast track. “
Read the full assessment here.
Assange: ‘My greatest enemy is ignorance’
May 3, 2011 — xanthippaHere is an interesting interview of Julian Assange by RT.
No wonder this guy is being hunted down: he is speaking truth to power!
(Via Hacker News, I4U News and TNW)
Boeing builds $2B plant – forbidden to use it
May 2, 2011 — xanthippaTo the best of my understanding, this is the order of ‘relevant’ events:
- Boeing builds planes in its Seattle, WA, plant – in a unionized environment
- in 2008, there is some labour unrest, during which Boeing publicly speculates about relocating the plant to a ‘right-to-work’ state
- the Seattle plant is not relocated – to the contrary, it is running at full tilt
- Boeing needs to make more planes and builds a new plant for $2Billion – locating in in South Carolina….which happens to be ‘right-to-work’ state
- AFTER the plant is built and ready to hire 1,000 people, Obama’s National Labour Relations Board (NLRB) shuts the whole thing down because they deem it to be an anti-union move – and therefore ILLEGAL
That is right!
The plant is not ‘unsafe’ – for either the workers or the environment…
The labour unions are miffed that it is located in a state where they are not permitted to have a monopoly in the workplace: so NLRB says that opening the plant would be illegal!!!
And you wonder why employers are not flocking into the US?!?!?
‘National Economic Suicide’ is a correct assessment:
The NLRB simply said that it could block Boeing from using the new plant as Boeing’s decision to locate it in South Carolina was in part based on a desire to avoid work stoppages and strikes, and this rationale was harmful to unions and thus an illegal act.
In related news: at this point in time, there is not enough stuff – publicly AND privately owned – in the USA to pay off the US debt; perhaps it is now Mathematically impossible to pay the debt off!
Fake ‘dead Osama’ photo
May 2, 2011 — xanthippaWell, well, well…
It looks like the widely circulated ‘photo’ of the ‘dead Osama bin Laden’ is a fake.
Let the conspiracy theories begin!
Update: not really an update of the story – just came across an interesting link I thought I’d throw in. I just love conspiracy theories!
Obama: Osama bin Laden is dead!!!
May 2, 2011 — xanthippaObama announces that Osama bin Laden is dead – and that the Americans have done the killing and have ‘custody’ of his body!!!
AP version of the announcement is here.
H/T: DU
UPDATE: Americans are celebrating/digesting the news that the Islamist leader, Osama bin Laden, is dead!
Kaffir Kanuck also brings a new perspective to the news.
Upperdate: Thunderf00t has words of wisdom
Getting to know the NDP – 2011-style
May 1, 2011 — xanthippaLet’s face it: elections can be won – or they can be lost.
Just think of the past Ontario election: Dalton McGuilty was so incredibly unpopular, it seemed impossible for him to win even his own seat, much less form the next government. In comes the Conservative’s John Tory – showing such unlimited incompetence and ignorance during the campaign that he manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
Ontario has been paying the price ever since…
Coming up to this – 2011 – Federal election, it looked like the Conservatives could finally win that coveted majority!
Except that…
The things he has been up to lately have made it impossible for many ‘little c’ conservatives to, in good conscience, vote for him.
And that G-20 thing… (no, not the spending or associated corruption – the suspension of basic civil liberties!)
And that copyright thing…
But that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
With most of their non-partisan core constituents abandoning the Harper Conservatives, and the unelectability of the Ignatieff Liberals, the NDP rose up – higher than ever before.
And, despite the revelations about Mr. Layton’s mob-controlled ‘massage parlour’ habit – and the potential for blackmail this carries with it – we are likely to see a lot more ‘Dippers’ in the Parliament very, very shortly.
Ezra Levant has penned a piece to let us know a bit more about them.
UPDATE: The ever-awesome BCF has info on ‘Tug-liban Jack’s’ favourite ‘community clinic’, the ‘Velvet Touch Massage Parlour’.
Kaffir Kanuck: Fantino’s Billion Dollar Legacy
May 1, 2011 — xanthippaFantino is a big part of the reason why the Conservatives’ fortunes have seen a downturn: the ‘law&order’ conservatives who form a core of his constituency are not pleased. I suspect that if the Conservatives are returned to power in tomorrow’s election, it will be by a very different group of voters than originally.
Why would Harper associate himself with someone so despised in Ontario is beyond me…
The State itself, the government of Ontario has been repeatedly implicated in its interference in the application of the law against both the occupiers and the taxpaying citizen. Compliant and rebuked by Ontario courts have been the Ontario Provincial Police where their actions and inaction have allowed Canadian citizens to be terrorized.
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On the 28th of February, 2006, early in the DCE development stage, trespassers who later were aided by anarchists, union agitators and activists hailing from the left spectrum of politics as partially detailed here by Gary McHale, occupied the DCE. The rightful owners, Henco Industries Ltd, who purchased the land from the Crown, were subsequently denied access by the new strong arm for Native protesters, the OPP.
There has been a deliberate attempt to silence the truth. The conspiracy of silence which has denied a voice to the real victims of the occupation will eventually come to an end.…
By refusing to acknowledge the pain of the victims, both native and non-native, victimizes the victims twice.
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And this is why conservatives are disappointed with PM Harper for embracing Julian Fantino into the CPC…
Michael Geist: Wikileaks confirms US pressured Canada on copyright laws
April 30, 2011 — xanthippaWell, well. well – I am not surprised, but, it’s good to have it confirmed.
What the Jack?!?!?
April 30, 2011 — xanthippaSome women who come to Canada get trapped by the system – and become exploited as sex workers.
No, not all.
Some women choose to prostitute themselves – and they should be free to do so, and safely (as in, within the law, so they feel free to call police if they are robbed or assaulted – just like everyone else).
But, until our anti-prostitution laws are thrown out, some women – especially some immigrant women – will be trapped ‘by the system’ and will become, in a very real way, sex-slaves. In ‘therapeutic massage’ places and strip clubs and so on…
How?
Their sponsors (whom they owe money for transportation here) take away their ‘papers’ and force them to ‘work off the debt’… Except that, once they start working in the illegal sex industry, they are told that since they broke the laws, they must continue to work as sex slaves or they would be ‘turned over to the authorities’ – something most 3rd world immigrant women fear, as they come from countries where ‘authorities’ do not treat women in jail very well.
So, while I think that prostitution should be legal – until it is, I cannot condone anyone paing for the services of 3rd world immigrants trapped in the ‘massage parlour’ sex trade. It’s not the sex that bothers me – it is that these customers are actively helping to enslave women who would are not in this line of work voluntarily.
So much has been written about it that one would have to try very, very hard not to be aware of this.
Except, perhaps, Mr. Layton.
Or, perhaps not!
Mr. Layton – if you want to get your jollies off, good for you. But don’t abuse the most vulnerable in our society in order to do it!!!
P.S. – I should be more clear on what I mean: I don’t care if Mr. Layon got a massage or a massage with a ‘happy ending’ – I have a problem with the fact that he would financially support an illegal bawdy house.
Update: things keep getting more and more incriminating.
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