Then there's Hippo McQuaig on water:
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"By the time the public finds out what's going on, it may be too late."
Quick, tell Lou Dobbs:
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"Tonight: "North American Union"
The poll:
"Do you believe the Security and Prosperity Partnership threatens our sovereignty?
Yes 97% 9630
No 3% 267
Total Votes: 9897"
Mark
Ottawa
And the CBC is, as usual, ably assisting the lunatics. Several estimates, including that of the police, put the crowd of protesters at around 200 when Harper commented that it was all a bit sad. The CBC insists there were 1,200. Slip of the keyboard? I don't think so.
Maude Barlow et al get massive coverage compared to their actual numbers and representativeness. Why? Because we are "blessed" with the CBC: a collection of left-Liberal ("L" intentional) lemming-like thinkers who have no loyalty to the country or the mass of Canadians who are forced to pay their wages. These intellectually lazy leaches are free to prattle and indocrinate whilst the great majority are forced to listen in silent rage. That the CBC deliberately spreads the conspiracy theories of the so-called protesters is even more reprehensible. The net effect, which is surely what they want, is to weaken faith in democracy and elected representatives. Soon the "Vanguard of the Pewople", as Lenin had it, think they will come to power. Think again, Boys and Girls, think again!
That Dion is also peddling a conspiracy about water sales, and is calling Harper and senior civil servants liars when they deny any such discussion, is the truly sad thing. I hold absolutely no brief for the Liberal Party of Canada, but it is still a shame to see a once-successful institution reduced to smoking rubble by an academic lefty like Dion. Mind you, another academic is waiting impatiently in the wings to complete the destruction.
The Canadian Action Party? Isn't that Paul Hellyer and the aliens (and I don't mean Mexicans)?
Posted at 2007-08-21 09:20:10 [PermaLink]"the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force,"
Force... or farce?
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"Faceless Minion of the New World Order" is SO gonna be my next username...
Posted at 2007-08-21 09:24:19 [PermaLink]CAP's platform is a collection of re-hashed agrarianism and old social credit conservatism of the 30s & 40s.
Compare the messages here:
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To this:
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I was in downtown Ottawa around the time of the protests on Sunday, and you would almost need a CSI team to determine that anything had happened. The whole thing was almost over before it began, and there hardly seemed more than the average number of Usual Suspects milling around Sparks and Rideau immediately afterward. The photos in the papers were apparently pretty tight shots of the crowd.
Posted at 2007-08-21 09:34:48 [PermaLink]You want moronic? Listen to some of the comments - hatred - being spewed on some talk shows.
Or read the comments in the CBC Your View site:
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"...The Canadian Action Party". Now THERE'S an oxymoron.
Posted at 2007-08-21 09:53:08 [PermaLink]Don't care about Maude Barlow, Pat Boone, Naomi, the CBC or any of the others in favour of this convergence.
Just a week ago Mark Collins wrote a lament for anglo Quebeckers forced to leave town after having been swamped by Quebec's 50s baby-boom.
Your institutions were francicised, your language criminalised and your community eviscerated. You and Reed Scowen now come back, sip beer on a terrace, bask in feelings of nostalgia and chat about the good ole days.
Now in light of the demographic shift taking place all over the American South West, and in light of the anglophone *recule* that we're witnessing from Texas to California, I'd just like to ask you this: have the lessons of francophone nationalism and language politics taught you anything at all?
And while we're on the subject of moronic convergences....and Montebello would certainly class as one.... what does anyone have to say about Bush holding hands and kissing the crowned heads of Saudi Arabia, the country that produced most of the 911 highjackers?
When gov'ts are reduced to mere clearing houses for the financial interests of a tiny group of greedy, anomymous, *apatride* individuals, then those gov'ts loose ALL legitimacy in the eyes of most citizens.
Yes! Montebello is a "moronic convergence" all 'round, on EVERY level.
Both Left and Right.
"Pat Boone make common cause with anarchists and Maude Barlow."
Pat Boone in bed with Maude Barlow. My head hurts just thinking about it.
Terry Glavin decides that executive action is needed:
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"A "recipe for transnational socialism" (check). A "master plan" (check). Blueprints for a top-secret superhighway from Mexico to Alaska (check). A trojan horse (check), containing people intent upon carrying off a coup de tat (check), elaborately planned by a shadowy elite (check).
Pat Boone and Maude Barlow are smarter than we thought. Even Ron Paul's on to us.
Clearly, they will all have to be killed:.."
Mark
Ottawa
The European Union has evolved, step by soft step, into a bureaucratic monstrosity that leaves national parliaments with little real power (see for example the UK blog "EUReferendum"). I believe it has been called a "coup by the executive branch." It does not necessarily seem paranoid to me to be concerned about something similar happening in North America. Though in Canada's case the coup by the executive branch has apparently already occurred.
Posted at 2007-08-21 15:58:07 [PermaLink]Mark, Damian, heed well what good Mr. Palubiski said.
"Union" isn't the correct term. There is indeed an incremental effort, guided mostly by big business towards complete trade barrier and cultural barrier elimination.
Big government is no different than big business of any type, especially when smaller government and personal choices are reduced as a result. Call it Fascism, call it Communism, call it Capitalism... it's all the same "big power" alliances that are at play.
On this front, I agree whole heartedly with some of our wacked-out Leftie neighbors: They may indeed be psychotic, but the fact is big business is out to get them by allying itself (alloying, rather) to big government. Look at the history of European economic "co-operation" and simultaneously examine the plight of competitive small industries in Europe.
That is EXACTLY the model Hillary and her Ilk are hoping to import here. You like Starbuck's mochalattecrappes? Great! Have you any clue just how much of that brew is being diverted to Clinton's campaign?
Back in '86(?) I supported Mulroney's Free Trade efforts. Another sin for atonement.
Seems like the cops are part of the convergence too:
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That's CEP President Dave Coles (with my friend Bob Hatfield beside him) telling some seedy individuals to bugger off. The latter eventually penetrated the police lines--but no arrests were recorded.
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Ran, I had a very unfortunate experience years ago that turns me off the present crop of political leaders.
In Jan. 1965 I got the mumps and had to stay home from school. My dad took time off work and stayed with me.
Together we watched Churchill's funeral on T.V.
As he was floated down the Thames my dad ( a WWII vet.) explained who he was, what he had done and the heroism he'd shown over the years.
I was impresed.
I may have been only 6 or 7 but the lessons stuck with me, and so I can't help holding up that political yard-stick to the likes of Bush and Clinton and all the others and finding that every last one of 'em comes up way, WAY short.
The gang at Montebello, are just vote-whores, cultural pathologies whose economic deals amount to a fast buck.....and civilisational suicide.
To Mark in Ottawa: You've got a checklist and so do I.
St James St now St Jacques (check!)
Dorchester BLVD now Réné Lévesque (check!)
MacGregor now Docteuuuur Penfield (check!)
English, your FIRST language, a CRIMINALISED abomination (check!)
Remember the days, Mark, when Montréal had three (count'em) english language dailies?
And you're now going to give us advice on how to prop a shrinking angloshpere?
Bush is acquiring many of the attributes we usually assign to P.E. Trudeau, vote whore par excellence!
He's fond of massive immigration and multiculturalism, and he is also in the business of promoting what is ( for now) a minority language.
How many here understand Spanish, and how many are aware of the guy's hispanic double-speak?
It's all about power, about quashing the little guy, and about destroying initiative and creativity. It's about giving a leg-up to "BIG".
Fitting, too, that Pat Boone was there. The guy's biggest hit is a ditty called "Speedy Gonzales", a light-hearted chuckle aimed at Hispanics and written at a time when Hispanics in the Southwest were mostly rare curiosities.
Singing that tune nowadays, at least in its original version, would no doubt threaten social "peace" in *Mexico's Northwest* and would thus be classed as hate-speech by anglos in Washington.
Just as those opposed to massive, uncontrolled immigration are inevitabley classed racist.
That said, I see nothing wrong with selling fresh water to the Americans....just as long as it gets Maude's knockers in a knot!
"That said, I see nothing wrong with selling fresh water to the Americans"
But, but... John, that water is s'posed to flow into the Hudson's Bay for the polar bears to drown in. What about the bears, John?! Think of the polar bears!!!
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Posted at 2007-08-22 09:49:39 [PermaLink]Water flows where ever you can make it flow.
There's nothing wrong with water sales to the U.S..
Why the hell not?
Besides, I wanna see Maude break down and cry.
And just to twist the knife, I'd collect her tears in a bucket and sell 'em to the Americans.
Dan, I agree. Profit while saving the bears. And considering how many Canadians use those golf courses....
Seriously, though, like the Las Vegas area is beginning to see, once you put a high price tag on water, golf courses in desert locations reduce their water use and begin sustainable systems, like reusing waste water on the greens and using more natural setting for the fairways.
Of course, with the melting glaciers around the world (except Antartica), there should be plenty of fresh (and cold) water for everyone.
Why the hell would anybody in Mexico City want to drive to Fairbanks? Or Yellowknife, for that matter?
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