Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Stuff


There’s quite a bit of it.




Aboriginals from British Columbia have asked China's president to quiz Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Canada's human rights record during his visit to the Asian country.
The Yinka Dene Alliance, a group of five First Nations that represent several thousand people in north-central B.C., has sent open letters to Chinese President Hu Jintao and to the Chinese media.


Maybe they can go to China themselves and be stateless persons like the children of North Korean refugees who would be shot on sight or sent back to North Korea where a certain death awaits them. It’s all nutted out. Because if anyone knows about human rights, it’s China. And if anyone knows about living without government hand-outs, it’s the First Nations and the corrupt band chiefs therein.  Yes, those guys deserve each other.


If I were Harper, I would play it safe and pull the ambassador out of Syria. Killing children is no problem for Bashar Assad. He may feel the same way about killing a Canadian:


The official Opposition wants Canada's ambassador recalled from Syria, but the government says he will stay in the besieged country to blast President Bashar Assad for his attacks on domestic dissenters.

NDP foreign affairs critic Helene Laverdiere urged the government to recall the envoy because she said it would send a strong message to Assad, who has waged a bloody 11-month crackdown on dissent in his country that has left thousands dead.

A Syrian military offensive against people in the city of Homs has entered its third straight day.


I do not believe the NDP have a sound reason for demanding the ambassador's withdrawal. I believe the best reason would be a safety one.


England gave us William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare and Christopher Wren. Now, it churns out total morons like these judges:


Both men pleaded guilty to possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Judge Peter Rook QC sentenced Emde to 16 months imprisonment and Baum to just 12 months imprisonment.

Both men have already spent 193 days in custody and are to be deported after serving their sentences. Judge Rook told Baum that he had "effectively already served your sentence" while Emde will be released in about two months.

"Clearly the documents are of a kind likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism," said the judge.

"The material, particularly Inspire magazine, makes chilling reading. Only one sentence is appropriate and that is an immediate custodial sentence.

"All terrorist offences are serious. However this falls at the low end of seriousness. It is accepted there was no evidence to suggest that any of this material was going to be used for a terrorist purpose. It is accepted this material was widely available on the internet."


God for Harry, ect….


Related:  Elizabeth II has screwed others out of their place on the throne for a good sixty years. Good for her.







But a fair-minded assessment of recent events and trends leads to the conclusion that the scale and severity of Islamophobia pales in comparison with the bloody Christophobia currently coursing through Muslim-majority nations from one end of the globe to the other. The conspiracy of silence surrounding this violent expression of religious intolerance has to stop. Nothing less than the fate of Christianity—and ultimately of all religious minorities—in the Islamic world is at stake.









“Occupy…” is a gift that keeps on giving, as Occupy DC can attest.



Mrs. Florence Green, the last surviving WWI veteran, has passed away at age one hundred and ten






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