There was a lot of topics I wanted to write about today but in the end, I feel I really need to come back around to NATO military occupations around the world. They’ve found another supposed Al-Qaeda “treasure trove” of information, failed attacks, evil plans, etc. It reads like a
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bastard.logic: Dueling Ledes (Compare & Contrast), Redux
AP video, Feb 15, 2011: A recent [US] government report states the terrorist threat from Canada is greater than from Mexico, and that only 50 kilometres of the border is adequately patrolled. CBC News, today: Major job cuts at the Canada Border Services Agency could undermine national security and public
Continue readingRusty Idols: Pandering to Hate
Throughout his career, whenever his job was on the line French president Nicolas Sarkozy has never shied away from pandering to the worst instincts of the French people. With the polls showing that the French are abandoning the political center and that the more xenophobic have begin to flock to
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: No more "nuclear ambiguity"
As tensions continue to rise in the Middle East about what Iran is up to with its nuclear program, a reasonable person cannot be in much doubt. With the large number of centrifuges it’s more than obvious that Iran wants a bomb. And there can only be one intended target
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: It’s called ministerial responsibility, Toews!
“Sit down, my son. We don’t read most of the bills. Do you really know what that would entail — if we were to read every bill that we passed? Well, the good thing, it would slow down the legislative process.” Rep. John Conyers (D — MI 14) to Michael
Continue readingObama re-election could spawn increase in domestic terrorism
#gop #obama #terrorism I’ll just call it right now – if Obama is re-elected and the Democrats re-take congress, you will see a dramatic increase in far-right domestic terrorism. Unfair? True! Look for a dramatic large scale terror attack on the scale of Oklahoma City or worse. I say this
Continue readingRedBedHead: Tory Terrorists More Dangerous Than Child Pornographers
The Tories’ “Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act” has more to do with suppressing dissent than with stopping child pornographers. I mean, where is the evidence that child pornography is such a major problem that it requires the introduction of a piece of legislation that is a serious intrusion into
Continue readingMontreal Simon: John Baird and the Minister of Margaritas
I’ve always had my doubts about the wisdom of making John Baird our Foreign Affairs Minister, instead of the Minister of Margaritas. But now I feel that even more strongly. “Hitler wrote Mein Kampf more than a decade before he became Chancellor of Germany and they take these issues pretty
Continue readingFrom the “WTF Is Wrong With People?” file
Speaking of right-wing terrorism, here’s a little item that will reaffirm your faith in the inherent goodness of the human race… NOT. Yesterday the campaign manager for Arkansas Democrat Ken Aden arrived home with his kids to find the family cat dead on the porch, with the word “LIBERAL” scrawled
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Another disappointment from U.S. President Barrack Obama. On New Year’s Eve, perhaps a time when he thought his nation was sufficiently distracted, he signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 which includes a clause granting the executive branch the power to indefinitely detain any person, including American
Continue readingHellberta: The Great Oil War [Chapter 2] : Iran
In chapter 1 of what now may be considered the beginnings of a World-War III we discussed what was then the active military action against Libya. We covered economic hitmen and the typical approach taken by western nations to overthrow or at least get nations to play along with their game. Of
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Our fears of airplanes, and terrorism
Many of us have a fear of flying; it ranges from a mild discomfort to a paralyzing fear. For the most part, this fear is not rationally founded. On a per kilometer basis, flying is far safer than driving which usually elicits no fear among us at all. It is
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: North Korea: Moving the doomsday clock closer to midnight
It’s been a little over thirty six hours since North Korea revealed that Kim Jong Il died from an apparent heart attack on Saturday. It was well known that Kim was in ill health for years but his passing poses a huge risk for the West. Having dealt with Libya
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-12-11 02:07:00
PERSONAL MOLLY DEBATES THE INSANE Most of Molly’s “action” is now over at her Facebook site. Over there there is an interesting “debate” if you can call it such. The substance concerens the “torching” of a cop car by supposed anarchists at a recent demonstration about the rigged Russian election.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Will I Be Deemed High Risk for Terror, Crime or Immigration Fraud ?
I have a confession to make. Since January of 2010, my wife and I have visited Cuba four times. So what, one might ask? Cuba has always been a popular destination for Canadians seeking some respite from harsh Canadian winters. What harm is there in that? Well, potentially a great
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The Authoritative Conservative-to-English Dictionary
Conservative-speak can be confusing for the less practice ear. I know, I know, it sounds like English, but perhaps it is just a different dialect? And it just all sounds so good; surely fixing the deficit, creating jobs, and promoting freedom and democracy is a good thing? To aid in
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: The myopic terrorism lens
One of the main failures of western understanding of the Middle East and South Asia, and the subsequent failures of actions taken by the west in these regions, stems from viewing these regions through the lens of terrorism. This terrorism-centric view…
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Breaking gun registry news from the pre-internet era
Canada’s unregistered gun lobby says that repealing the long gun registry will “lighten the legislative burden sports shooters and hunters face every day”.They fail to note that the last terrorist murder in Canada was committed with a shotgun.To be fai…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Wagging the dog, Mexican style
It’s been a little over 24 hours since the United States announced it had arrested an Iranian operative who was picked up in Mexico for wanting to try to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US. If even half of it is true then it s…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Top 10 under-reported facts about a decade of war in Afghanistan
Top 10 under-reported facts about a decade of war in Afghanistan | rabble.caExcerpt regarding “Women’s Rights”The “women’s rights” rationale has been exposed as a cynical sham. I’m not sure who really takes this fraud seriously anymore, but it’s import…
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