Mid-Week Post

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I wonder why that is:

On Wednesday, the pollster released the results of their popular quarterly premier survey which suggests both of the premiers' approval ratings are on the decline.

Premier Wynne now has a rating of 34 per cent. That's down four percentage points from September 2013, the last time Angus Reid conducted this survey.

Marois' popularity has dropped a whopping seven points to 32 percent.

A Canadian convert to Islam (RE: expendable) is killed in Syria:

Mustafa al-Gharib, a 22-year-old Canadian-born Muslim convert who left Calgary for Syria in November 2012, has been killed by Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces during rebel infighting, CBC News has confirmed.

According to sources in Syria and Canada, al-Gharib was injured in battle, and subsequently captured and killed by an unknown faction of the FSA in the city of Aleppo.

Born in Nova Scotia as Damian Clairmont, al-Gharib was reportedly fighting with Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda-affiliated rebel group consisting of largely foreign extremists.

Jabhat al-Nusra was designated a terrorist group by the Canadian government in November 2013. 

What exactly is being done to completely dismantle Trudeau's faulty idea of multiculturalism and combat Islamism? I suppose one can start by not sending money to any country that routinely targets Christians for death. 

(Paws up)


Video? What video?

Minutes after the American consulate in Benghazi came under assault on Sept. 11, 2012, the nation's top civilian and uniformed defense officials -- headed for a previously scheduled Oval Office session with President Obama -- were informed that the event was a "terrorist attack," declassified documents show. The new evidence raises the question of why the top military men, one of whom was a member of the president's Cabinet, allowed him and other senior Obama administration officials to press a false narrative of the Benghazi attacks for two weeks afterward.

(Merci beaucoup)

Also:

Gates also confirms that Lee Myung Bak had intended to carry out a “disproportional” response using “both aircraft and artillery” after North Korea’s attacks of 2010, but that the Obama Administration forced Lee to call off the strikes. - See more at: http://freekorea.us/2014/01/14/gates-roh-moo-hyun-was-anti-american-and-a-little-crazy-and-lee-myung-bak-wanted-to-bomb-the-crap-out-of-kim-jong-il/#sthash.kvHKikTQ.dpuf

Gates also confirms that Lee Myung Bak had intended to carry out a “disproportional” response using “both aircraft and artillery” after North Korea’s attacks of 2010, but that the Obama Administration forced Lee to call off the strikes.

 

(Kamsahamnida)

I don't think the Irish remember the Famine and the various other methods in which the English persecuted and murdered them in terms of possible reparation but in a wistful, self-pitying sort of way. If the Irish were to go that route, it would be a self-defeating declaration of weakness and uselessness. Hardly a tribute to the Irish who made something of themselves and contributed positively to Western civilisation:

So how close are the Irish to winning the ethnic-cleansing sweepstakes? They got their official apology from Tony Blair in 1997—always the key first step, but we’re well into a new century and those checks aren’t even in the mail. What gives?

(Sidebar: comparing the Irish to the Italians is incredibly offensive. No self-respecting Irish housewife would cover her furniture in plastic or include Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a Nativity scene. It's just not done.)

So went Japan, so goes China:

Substitute Communist China for imperial Japan and the same thing is now occurring in the Pacific. China believes it is finally time to make its military reflect its enormous economic power.

Chinese armed forces are growing while America’s are shrinking. China does not like visiting American blowhards — most recently, Vice President Joe Biden — lecturing them on human rights, especially when American power, both military and economic, appears to be waning.

If the Japanese of the 1930s once talked of Western decadence and American frivolity, so too the Chinese now sense that American global influence is not being earned by the current generation of Americans, who enjoy the high life on $17 trillion in borrowed money, much of it from China.

China likewise senses growing American isolationism, hears parlor talk about the U.S. reducing its nuclear arsenal, and notices America’s new habit of distancing itself from allies.

Americans once talked tough about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. But China tuned out that empty rhetoric and instead noted that we abandoned Iraq after the successful surge, are exhausted by Afghanistan, were humiliated by Bashar Assad in Syria, and were seemingly paid back with Benghazi after removing Moammar Qaddafi in Libya. China is reassured that what America says and what America does are not quite the same thing.

More important, the Chinese also appear to hate the Japanese in the same way the latter despised the former in the 1930s. China resents Japan’s undeniable lack of contrition over the approximately 15 million Chinese killed by Japanese aggression in World War II. The Chinese also sense that Japan may be a has-been power, with an aging, shrinking population; energy woes; a sluggish, deflationary economy; and increasingly without its once-ubiquitous American patron at its side.

China accepts that the U.N., like the old League of Nations, is useless in solving global tensions, and prefers that it be so. 

Add everything up and China seems about as confident of the future as Japan once was in the 1930s. It is as eager to teach Japan a lesson as Japan once did China.

 This is why, in the stead of a waning American power, a pan-Asian conglomerate with WMDs is important. It is also important to sever trade with this human-rights abusing polluter.


A priest confirms that Reuters can't handle the truth.


Why Celebrity Apartheid Week matters:

Meryl Streep calls out Walt Disney as an anti-Semite (based purely on anecdotal evidence) all the while praising a real anti-Semite such as Emma Thompson who tried to get an Israel  acting group is-invited from performing in Hebrew Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” at the Globe Theatre in London. - See more at: http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2014/01/14/actress-meryl-streep-blasts-walt-disney-as-anti-semitic-zoa-condemns-actress-emma-thompson/#sthash.csol8ip6.dpuf

Meryl Streep calls out Walt Disney as an anti-Semite (based purely on anecdotal evidence) all the while praising a real anti-Semite such as Emma Thompson who tried to get an Israel  acting group is-invited from performing in Hebrew Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” at the Globe Theatre in London. - See more at: http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2014/01/14/actress-meryl-streep-blasts-walt-disney-as-anti-semitic-zoa-condemns-actress-emma-thompson/#sthash.csol8ip6.dpuf

Meryl Streep calls out Walt Disney as an anti-Semite (based purely on anecdotal evidence) all the while praising a real anti-Semite such as Emma Thompson who tried to get an Israel  acting group is-invited from performing in Hebrew Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” at the Globe Theatre in London. 

And now, pie-cone. Enjoy.