Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Van der Sloot Sold Natalee Holloway for 10 Thousand Dollars

Joran Van Der Sloot appeared on Fox News program, "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren.  Joran sold Greta that he "sold" Natalee to a Venezuelan man for ten thousand dollars.  He came to the program with evidence, in the form of a digital recording,  that showed his father knew the facts of the case.  He further related that his Father had "paid off" two police officers who had knowledge of the case. 


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Natalee Sold? Her Last Moments
Van der Sloot's Near Walkout
Police Cover-up?








In an interview with the US news channel, he claimed he repeatedly met the man in a casino. The Venezuelan offered him 10,000 US dollars.

Joran van der Sloot told how he watched Natalee, who was drunk, being hauled on board a vessel chartered by the Venezuelan. There was no struggle or anything, he said.


Natalee vanished on the Caribbean island of Aruba - part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands - on 30 May 2005. Joran van der Sloot has been arrested twice in connection with her disappearance, but without conclusive evidence he has never been brought to trial.


He now lives in Thailand, where he has come under suspicion of being involved in sex trafficking.


Joran van der Sloot said in the interview that he was helped by the two brothers Deepak and Sateesh who were briefly detained by Aruba police when Ms Holloway had gone missing.







NowPublic Coverage on the Natalee Holloway Case:



  1. Van Der Sloot Confesses to Natalee Holloway Death

  2. Three Years--Still No Justice for Natalee Holloway

  3. Tips renew hopes of solving Holloway case--Or More False Hopes?

  4. Joran Van der Sloot--A Man Without a Country

  5. Joran Van der Sloot--A Man Without a Country Part II

  6. Is Joran Van Der Sloot Trafficking Women?




Recent Media Coverage of Joran Van Der Sloot:



  1. Holloway suspect says he lied again

  2. Former Suspect In Holloway Disappearance Linked To Thai Sex Ring?

  3. Who's Lying About the Holloway Case?






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Citi (TaxPayers) Field Name Safe, According to Mets

Baseball is America's favorite past time, so it sounds like a great deal for American Taxpayers to foot the Bill for a 400 million dollar name rights to the new Mets Stadium.  That's right Citigroup still intends to go through with the deal it cut with the New York Mets to name the new Stadium, "Citi Field".  They are going through with it despite the fact they have laid off thousands of workers, decreased the credit Limits of hundreds of thousands of  credit accounts, and will be receiving a massive bailout by you the taxpayers.  Here's the problem, I don't want to pay for The New York Mets Stadium name rights as I am a Atlanta Braves Fan.  Wouldn't it be appropriate for the name to read, "Taxpayers Field"?  Might not be a bad time to call your Congressman and Senators and say No to Citi Field. 





Just over two years ago, the New York Mets announced that they had reached an agreement with Citigroup for the naming rights to their new ballpark slated to open in 2009 for a record $400 million over 20 years, or $20 million annually.


The extraordinary deal highlighted the power of MLB and naming rights allure in the New York market. And, even at $20 million annually over 20 years, it has a provision by which the parties can extend the deal for up to 35 years, showing the investment and returns that Citigroup saw in the Mets' new stadium. Given that naming rights for new Yankee Stadium were not up for grabs, the Citigroup deal was seen by many as the next best thing.


It was a staggering deal, eclipsing the record amount for a naming rights deal brokered by the NFL Houston Texans and Reliant Energy for $10 million annually to 2032. The deal brokered in 2002 is $100 million less than the Mets will pull in from Citigroup.


The deal with the Mets was before the economic downturn. Even before the heavy slide in the credit market, Citigroup had begun to cut costs, reducing their assets by 20 percent since the first quarter of this year.


Today, Citigroup announced that 53,000 workers will be laid-off – a staggering sum totaling 20 percent of their workforce.


According to The Associated Press, “a Citigroup spokesman said that while certain regions and businesses might have higher concentrations of job cuts, they would generally be across the entire company and around the world.”


And while the steep declines in the financial sector have Citigroup deeply entrenched within it, in the naming rights world, one is reminded of the self-inflicted collapse of Enron that cut short the deal that the energy giant had with the Houston Astros for the name of their stadium.


So, the question is, will the steep losses at Citigroup scuttle the most lucrative naming rights deal in American sports history with the Mets?


The answer from the Mets is, no.


Reached for comment, Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz simply replied that the deal with Citigroup is not in peril.


“Everything is fine with our naming rights deal for Citi Field,” Horwitz replied by email.


With cuts being made by Citigroup over the course of the year, and today's announcement, if the Mets' comments are true, it may be that nothing short of a total collapse by Citigroup will derail the record naming rights deal.






  Seems like New York Politicians Read NowPublic!




Staten Island Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo, who sit on New York’s City Council, are suggesting a name change for the Mets new ballpark.


The two politicians say that in light of the government bailout of Citigroup, the ballpark’s name should be changed to Citi/Taxpayer Field. Both the Mets and Citigroup say that there are no plans to alter the naming-rights deal.






Others want Txpayers Field or Joe Six Pack Field-



How about John Q. Taxpayer Field? Or Joe Sixpack Park, in honor of all the people paying for it who have no chance of ever sitting in one of its 40,000 high-priced seats? Bailout Ballpark, anyone?





SEE ALSO Jon Azpiri story- NY Politicians Propose to Change Name of NY Mets New Stadium To Citi/Taxpayers Field





Well, it seems that politisite isn't alone. 


Now that Citigroup is getting billions of dollars in federal aid, Staten Island Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo say the ballpark’s name should be changed to Citi/Taxpayer Field.


Source: sports.yahoo.com







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Monday, November 24, 2008

Who are the Obama Economic Team Members

President Elect Obama provided short Biographies of his economic team on his transition website today. 





Chicago -- President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden officially announced key members of their economic team today, naming Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Lawrence Summers as Director of the National Economic Council. Obama and Biden also named Christina Romer as Chair of the Council of Economic advisors, and named Melody Barnes and Heather Higginbottom to serve as Director and Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council.


"Vice President-elect Biden and I have assembled an economic team with the vision and expertise to stabilize our economy, create jobs, and get America back on track. Even as we face great economic challenges, we know that great opportunity is at hand -- if we act swiftly and boldly. That's the mission our economic team will take on," said President-elect Obama.


The economic team members announced today are listed below:


Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury
Timothy Geithner currently serves as president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he has played a key role in formulating the nation's monetary policy. He joined the Department of the Treasury in 1988 and has served three presidents. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Following that post he served as director of the Policy Development and Review Department at the International Monetary Fund until 2003. Geithner is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.


Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council
Lawrence Summers is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. Summers served as 71st Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006. Before being appointed Secretary, Summers served as Deputy and Under Secretary of the Treasury and as the World Bank's top economist. Summers has taught economics at Harvard and MIT, and is a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the American economist under 40 judged to have made the most significant contribution to economics. Summers played a key advisory role during the 2008 presidential campaign.


Christina D. Romer, Director of the Council of Economic Advisors
Christina Romer is the Class of 1957 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught and researched since 1988. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, Romer was an assistant professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Romer is co-director of the Program in Monetary Economics at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visiting scholar at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.


Melody C. Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Melody Barnes is co-director of the Agency Review Working Group for the Obama-Biden Transition Team, and served as the Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to Obama for America. Barnes previously served as Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress and as chief counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee from December 1995 until March 2003.


Heather A. Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Heather Higginbottom served as Policy Director for Obama for America, overseeing all aspects of policy development. From 1999 to 2007, Higginbottom served as Senator John Kerry's Legislative Director. She also served as the Deputy National Policy Director for the Kerry-Edwards Presidential Campaign for the primary and general elections. After the 2004 election, Higginbottom founded and served as Executive Director of the American Security Project, a national security think tank. She started her career as an advocate at the national non-profit organization Communities in Schools.







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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Disturbing Issue of JFK's Secret Illness

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

New Facts come to light that US President John F Kennedy suffered daily from a Host of Ailments and was in excruciating pain because of it. Guess, just not excruciating enough to keep his "pecker in his pants" while "Banging Babes in the White House" while holding the Nations Highest Office, employing fixers to get him trysts on the public payroll, in his eternal quest to give "Free Baloney Pony Rides" to any young woman or Hollywood starlet who was within eye distance, much to the embarrassment to wife, his family a Nation and American voters as President of the United States.


Funny how History makes a Holier than Thou of someone, when Joe Public would be hauled into court or jail for doing the same thing. The old adage, "Money Talks, Bullsh*t Walks" certainly applies! One wonders if US President Bill Clinton ever broke JFK's Record?


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3D71630F935A35753C1A964958260

THE DOCTOR'S WORLD; Disturbing Issue of Kennedy's Secret Illness

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.,

Published: October 6, 1992

An issue that has to be raised every Presidential campaign is the health of the candidates. The reason is that many Presidents have suffered serious illnesses while in the White House. All too often they, their families and aides have misled, if not lied to, the public about their health, with the malady becoming known only many years later.


Yet another instance of such reticence about Presidential disease is being published this week in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Two pathologists at the autopsy of John F. Kennedy have broken a long silence and stated that the President's adrenal glands were found to be almost completely gone. The glands produce key regulatory hormones, and their absence, if they are not replaced, can cause wasting and death.


This establishes that contrary to repeated denials from Kennedy and his family, and cleverly worded cover stories issued by his aides, Kennedy did suffer for many years from adrenal insufficiency, or Addison's disease. The pathologists were persuaded to talk about the case by the journal's editor, Dr. George D. Lundberg, as part of his seven-year effort to answer lingering questions about the Kennedy autopsy and to help rebut conspiracy theories.


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Burundi abolishes death penalty, criminalizes homosexuality

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Yeah, guess baby steps are better than nothing. But then considering this African Country continues to suckle on the generous Teats of Western World Aid, I wonder how they would feel if the Head of the World Aid group was Gay? Would these Government Wonks refuse that billions of dollars in aid in which it is assured many in power sock away a portion of that monetary aid into a swiss bank account or to maintain their palatial mansions? Hell No! These government officials would not refuse the aid, they'd be rushing in line to cup the ball sack with their chin of the Gay World Aid President if it meant maintaining their life of luxury, the common folk can only dream of.


http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f5ebf949-2088-4581-b042-48308d2459b9

Burundi abolishes death penalty, criminalizes homosexuality

Esdras Ndikumana, AFP

Published: Saturday, November 22, 2008


BUJUMBURA - Burundi's parliament on Saturday adopted a new set of laws abolishing the death penalty for the first time in the troubled central African country.


The new penal law also incorporates elements of international law on genocide and crimes against humanity but criminalizes homosexuality.


The law overwhelmingly passed by Burundi's MPs still needs to be approved by the senate and promulgated by President Pierre Nkurunziza, both steps seen as a "I would like to thank the Burundian lawmakers who have achieved a historic landmark by adopting a new penal law by 90 votes for, no votes against and 10 abstentions," Speaker Pie Ntavyohanyuma said.


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Canada: Stoned driver who killed 2 people gets 4-year sentence

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Yep, anyone who says marijuana should be legalized, and lefty ass bandit advocates who say Police administering drug tests to drivers violates their Human Rights, should be looking the victims families square in the eye when they say it. But we know cowards that they are won't!


I have added undated stock photos to this story to stress the other side of Marijuana


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/11/21/edm-sentence-marijuana-driver.html

Stoned driver who killed 2 people gets 4-year sentence

Last Updated: Friday, November 21, 2008 | 6:44 PM MT

CBC News

An Edmonton man, found guilty of killing two people and injuring two others while he was driving high on marijuana, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison — reduced to 37 months after the judge gave him credit for time served.


James McIlwrick, 36, was found guilty in September on two counts of impaired driving causing death and two counts of impaired driving causing bodily harm.


McIlwrick slammed head-on into an SUV carrying four people around 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 25, 2003. He had smoked two marijuana joints before heading off for work that day.


Tammy Engelking, 27, and Henry Yao, 40, died in the crash, while two others in the SUV were injured.


McIlwrick showed no emotion as the judge sentenced him, but his mother and girlfriend burst into tears.


Engelking's sister, Shelleen Shultz, expressed relief outside court that the long process is finally over.


"This has been a long time coming and I think we're all relieved that Mr. McIlwrick is finally going to be paying for what he did," she said. "It doesn't get any better even after five years, but I think there's going to finally be some closure."


In sentencing submissions last week, Crown prosecutor Greg Merchant had asked the judge to impose a prison sentence of four to five years.


McIlwrick's lawyer, Bill Tatarchuk, asked for a two-year sentence to be served in the community.


Tatarchuk told the court McIlwrick smokes marijuana to help him deal with pain from medical problems, and told the judge his client posed no danger to the community as long as he doesn't drive.


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Obama's "I have a Dream" Will Be a Nightmare~!

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Obama, a man of smarts and intellect whose "Yes We Can" job creation plan may be good on paper, but Obama has yet to see the Presidents Inbox, which I assume in the current economic crisis must be pretty friggin overflowing thanks to to Bush/Cheney Fiasco, and many Corporates who will be a calling with Cap in Hand, in which Obama will inherit as President.


Surely Obama cannot claim ignorance to this fact, yet despite a overflowing Presidential Inbox, Obama has promised the Moon, with subsidized or free health care, housing, drug plans, generous welfare etc, etc, and other election goodies, has his plan to get Americans to work, may have those Americans who voted for him to counter "No we Ain't" cause with all these Freebies you promised us, "What the Hell do we need Jobs for?" 


Yep, I see a dream no one will want to wake up from, cause when they take a look at reality, they'll soon realise being awake is a nightmare for anyone who takes the nations highest office!

Corporates will want money for Job Creation, cause let's face it!  Everyone wants something for Nothing, especially those who voted for Obama! 


2009 and the next 4 years will be an interesting turn of events in the good ole US of A.


http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081122/obama_jobplan_081122/20081122?hub=World Obama outlines rebuilding plans to create jobs


Updated Sat. Nov. 22 2008


7:33 AM ET The Associated Press


WASHINGTON -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday outlined his plan to create 2.5 million jobs in coming years to rebuild roads and bridges and modernize schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.


"These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis; these are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long," Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address.


The economic recovery plan being developed by his staff aims to create 2.5 million jobs by January 2011, and he wants to get it through Congress quickly and sign it soon after taking office.


He called the plan "big enough to meet the challenges we face" and said that it will jump-start job creation but also "lay the foundation for a strong and growing economy." Aides said the economic plan outlined Saturday went further that the president-elect has gone before.


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Somalia Piracy, What to do? Does Anyone Care?

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Some critics say, "Nuke their Country back to the Stone Age" to which I counter, "they are already in the Stone Age". Though I bet their country would look pretty from space as a big chunk of "Decorative Glass"!


http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20081121%2fpirates_somalia_081122 New brand of pirates lured by easy cash and girls They've made headlines around the world, collected millions of dollars in ransom, and terrorized the high seas.


By Parminder Parmar


But despite their notoriety, little is known about the pirates who have been hijacking ships off the coast of Somalia for the past decade.


The relatively lawless nature of Somali society, where a functioning federal government has been all but missing for more than a decade, has created a lack of knowledge about who is behind the spate of ship hijackings in recent months.


Even one of the world's foremost experts on international piracy says there is limited information about the makeup of the pirate ships because most of their crews come from isolated villages in a remote part of Somalia, the quasi-independent region called Puntland. But Peter Lehr, a professor of terrorism studies, says scholars and security experts have concluded that most of the crew members on the Somali pirate ships are not what most people would imagine pirates to be from the movies or novels.


Forget images of seafaring bearded men with eye patches and hooks for hands, he says. Instead, the crews on the Somali boats are sometimes no older than pubescent boys.


They generally range in age from teenagers to men in their thirties. And the phrase "pirate" is probably not the most accurate term for people who have generally spent their lives as fishermen. Ironically, that's what makes them good pirates.


"(They) have very good maritime skills because of their fishing background," Lehr told CTV.ca by phone from Britain. At one time, those skills would have allowed the men to provide for their families.


But Somalia's collapse into near anarchy since the 1990s has left the country's economy in shambles.


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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Senior Officials: Obama Offered Clinton Secretary Of State Position





President-elect Barack Obama offered Sen. Hillary Clinton the position of Secretary of State during their meeting Thursday in Chicago, according to two senior Democratic officials. She requested time to consider the offer, the officials said.


Multiple reports have indicated that Clinton was under serious consideration for the nation's top diplomatic post, in addition to Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, the Republican Senator from Nebraska.


A longtime aide to the New York Senator argued to the Huffington Post that there are strong reasons why Obama would be inclined to make the post worth Clinton's time.


"She is a beloved figure around the world. She has visited over 80 countries, as first lady and senator together," the aide told the Huffington Post. Noting the fact that Clinton learned as first lady how to be effective as a "backdoor diplomat," the former White House assistant said Clinton mastered "a lot of the intricacies of these issues before ever joining the Senate's Armed Services committee. She's tough; she had meetings with some Prime Ministers and Presidents where she had to deliver some blunt messages for us."







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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Jessie Foster Case to be Aired on America's Most Wanted




Free-Spirited Young Woman Disappears From Vegas Home Overview Jessie Foster went missing from the North Las Vegas home she shared with her boyfriend in late-March/early-April 2006.
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Canadian-born Jessie Foster was a beautiful, free-spirited young woman, who cops say got mixed up with the wrong crowd.


After visiting the United States in 2005, she eventually moved in with a man almost twice her age on the outskirts of Sin City.


The man lived in the swanky suburb of North Las Vegas and, according to reports, he drove a number of expensive cars. 


Jessie told her family that he was independently wealthy, but cops believe he was a pimp -- and Jessie may have become one of his prostitutes.


The petite blonde last called her mother on March 24, 2006, planning to come visit her at home in Canada a few days later.


But that trip never took place, and cops believe Jessie disappeared for good between March 28 and April 3, 2006.


Jessie Foster was last known to be at the home she shared with her boyfriend/pimp, and she has not been seen or heard from ever since.


Now, cops need your help to piece together the mystery surrounding her bizarre disappearance.


Three of the women were dismembered, and their remains had been dumped just off of remote stretches of highway. Cops Try To Determine Link Between Missing And Murdered Prostitutes Overview Jessie Foster's mysterious disappearance has raised some red flags among investigators. Her physical traits are quite similar to those of three other Vegas-area prostitutes who went missing and were ultimately murdered in between March 2003 and April 2006.   View Larger

Due to the demographic that Jessie fits in, cops feel that there are numerous similarities between her and three other Vegas prostitutes who were discovered dead and dismembered since 2003.


Between March 2003 and April 2006, Misty Marie Saens, Jodi Marie Brewer, Lindsay Marie Harris and Jessica Edith Louise Foster all disappeared under similarly suspicious circumstances.


All were white, skinny and pretty, with strawberry blonde hair and ranging in age from 19 to 26. Each girl ranged in height between 5'4" and 5'6", and all of their boyfriends or pimps were black males.  Three of the girls' middle names were "Marie."


Three of the women were dismembered, and their remains had been dumped just off of remote stretches of highway. Two of them were found near industrial areas, and the body of the fourth woman, Jessie Foster, has never even been found.


Are all of their similarities mere coincidence, or is there someone out there abducting and viciously taking the lives of Las Vegas-area prostitutes?


Cops are actively pouring over all of the evidence and are hellbent on finding the culprit or culprits, though leads are few and far between.


If you know anything about the brutal, cold-blooded murders of Misty Saens, Jodi Brewer or Lindsay Harris, as well as the disappearance of Jessie Foster, you've got to call our hotline right away at 1-800-CRIME-TV.







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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

9 Injured in a 2nd School Collapse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A second school has collapsed in central Port-AU-Prince, Haiti, a top Red Cross official has confirmed. 


CNN is reporting that a Red Cross Official has stated that another school has collapsed in Central Port-Au-Prince.  Our contact is a Mission to Haiti Missionary who has built schools in the area.  Following this tragedy one wonders if the 3 hurricanes this season caused some structural damage.


Update 2100 hrs ET -





PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A second school in Haiti has partially collapsed, injuring nine people.


Portions of the Grace Divine school in Canape Vert came crashing down Wednesday while class was in session, authorities said.


Port-au-Prince Building Inspector Edouard Ernseau said two students were hospitalized with severe head injuries.


Seven others outside the school suffered minor injuries. No one was trapped in the rubble.








Update 12:49 pm ET - 9 injured in 2nd Haiti school collapse





Portions of the Grace Divine school in Port-au-Prince came crashing down Wednesday while class was in session.


Port-au-Prince Building Inspector Edouard Ernseau says two students were hospitalized with severe head injuries.


Seven others outside the school suffered minor injuries. No one was trapped in the rubble.


The cause was not immediately known. But Haiti's president recently warned that many buildings in the country are at risk because of poor construction and lax oversight.







Update 12:33 pm ET- Haitian Radio speculates that the collapse comes following heavy rains on Tuesday.


Update- 12:29 pm ET-





PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNN) -- A second school collapsed in Haiti on Wednesday in central Port-au-Prince, a top Red Cross official has confirmed.


Dr. Jean Pierre Guiteau, executive officer of the Haitian Red Cross, told CNN there are casualties at the Grace Divine Primary and Secondary School.


No further information was available.







Update 12:28 ET -Second school collapses in Haiti: reports





PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — A second school collapsed in Haitian city of Port-au-Prince on Wednesda radio reports said


The reports said people had been injured in the new collapse


The accident came after heavy rains hit the capital late on Tuesday in what is one of the world's poorest countries.







More structures could collapse in Haiti




andscape, and many fear the recent school collapse is a sign of things to come. President Rene Préval said constant turnover in the government and poor oversight by inspectors are responsible for the collapse. "There is a code already, but they don't follow it," he said. "What we need is political stability." Toronto Star, The (11/10)





Other Haiti related stories on NowPublic:


82 children dead in Haitian school collapse

School collapses in Haiti: 30 dead

Saving Mud-Covered Haiti's Crops – And Mountains


Haiti Struggles After Violent Storm Season

Flooding From Ike Kills 58 In Rain-Soaked Haiti


Haiti Hurricane Recovery Effort at Ti Goave


School collapse CF5 9 Injured in a 2nd School Collapse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti School collapse Haiti Death Toll Near 70,  Mud Slides Mission To Haiti : Touching Lives

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Monday, November 10, 2008

Obama Executive Orders Will fund Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Conservatives had concerns about Obama's views on Abortion and Embryonic Stem Cell Research but thought that any change would have to be approved by Congress.  Not the case as President Elect Obama has stated that one of his first acts as President will by by executive order.  He will fund Abortion and Embryonic Stem Cell Research with American Tax dollars.  Americans who have moral issues will be forced to fund these programs.


The Authority of the President to issue executive orders is wholly based on Article II of the U.S. Constitution.  The President's power is limited by Article II.  The President's authority to issue an executive order cannot interfere with any other branch of Governments authority.  Funding the government and it's programs through taxation are left for Congress and Congress only.  President Barack Obama may meet his first Constitutional law issue.


A couple of Questions for the reader to consider


1. Is it right to force folks with religious issues to fund Abortion or Embryonic Stem Cell Research? 


2. Is it appropriate for a President to change how taxes are spent  by executive order?






Members of the team Barack Obama has put together confirmed over the weekend that the incoming president will immediately overturn executive orders President Bush put in place as soon as possible after he takes office. The Bush orders have protected taxpayers on key pro-life issues.


The advisors confirm the concerns pro-life advocates had during the presidential election campaign.


They indicated Obama would overturn a Bush policy that prevents forcing taxpayers to fund groups that perform or promote abortions in other countries. Known as the Mexico City Policy and first instituted during the Reagan administration, President Bush expanded the policy to make sure no State Department funding goes to the pro-abortion groups.


Obama would also overturn President Bush's policy against funding any new embryonic stem cell research.


Put in place in August 2001, the policy prevents taxpayers from paying for new embryonic research that involves the destruction of human life. Bush directed most of the public funding for the science to adult stem cells, which are more ethical and have proven more effective than their embryonic counterparts.


Embryonic stem cells, in addition to including the destruction of days-old unborn children, has yet to work in humans because of significant problems after they are injected into the body -- ranging from the growth of tumors to immune system rejection issues.


The Washington Post reports that the transition team members are working with top special interest groups and leading pro-abortion members of Congress on prioritizing the executive orders that Obama will reverse.


President Bill Clinton overturned the Mexico City Policy on his first day in office and the reports indicated Obama will too.


Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion business, told the Post that she expects Obama to rescind the protections on taxpayer-funded abortions and abortion counseling immediately after his inauguration.


"We have been communicating with his transition staff" almost daily, Richards said. "We expect to see a real change."







Not worried about those issues?  Your pet issue may be overturned by one strike of the pen as well. Obama will  target Bush executive orders in first days





Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.


A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition.


In some instances, Obama would be quickly delivering on promises he made during his two-year campaign, while in others he would be embracing Clinton-era policies upended by President Bush during his eight years in office.







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Obama 'to reverse Bush decisions'

Obama's Plans for Health Care Reform: New FDS, Stem Cell Law Veto


Obama: 600 Million Dollars Later Is the Question Still Above Your Pay Grade?Obama's Health Care Plan Covers Abortion, Requires Tax-Funding

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Executive Orders 101






For the Death Penalty?  Vote Obama Obama, McCain and Abortion___  Regular Session Illinois Senate Transcript With Commentary And Analysis

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Follow McCain's Example in Defeat





Lee Judge’s cartoon (11/6, Opinion) showing the White House with the caption “How many houses does John McCain own? One less than he thought” is just one more jab at an American hero.


No, John McCain will not be “owning” the White House, but neither will Barack Obama. The presidents are guests there during their time of service. In his concession speech, McCain was very gracious. It was an inspiring and well-written speech — the best concession speech ever, at least for the last three elections.


McCain was respectful in his loss. Unfortunately, The Star has decided to not do so in its victory. Yes, the media won. Their candidate was elected. To be so gloating is tasteless. To be a sore loser is one thing, but a sore winner is worse.


Let us respect the candidates, win or lose, for their service to democracy. May we all move forward to do our best for America.







Follow McCain's Example in Defeat

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Sunday, November 09, 2008

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Saturday, November 08, 2008

20 Dead in Nuclear Powered Submarine Accident

Breaking- An accident aboard a nuclear-powered submarine has killed more than 20 people, according to Russian news agencies.


Reuters World News Highlights 0200 GMT, Nov 9




MOSCOW - More than 20 people were killed and another 21 injured in an accident aboard a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific Ocean, the navy said on Sunday, in the worst submarine disaster since the Kursk sank eight years ago.





Deaths in Russia submarine accident





At least 20 people have died and another 21 were injured in an accident on board a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, Russan news agencies said.

The incident on Saturday involved the failure of a fire extinguishing system.

A naval spokesman confirmed the reports, adding that 208 people were on board.


A firefighting system went off during testing of a nuclear submarine in Russia's Pacific Fleet, a senior navy official was quoted as saying by the Russian Itar-Tass news agency.

"During sea trials of a nuclear-powered submarine of the Pacific Fleet the firefighting system went off unsanctioned, killing over 20 people, including servicemen and workers," Igor Dygalo, the Russian Pacific Fleet spokesman, said.


"The submarine is not damaged, its reactor works as normal, and radiation levels on the submarine are normal," Dygalo said.

Investigation underway

The submarine, whose name and whereabouts have not been disclosed, has been ordered to suspend sea trials and return to port in the far eastern Primorye territory, he said.

Anatoly Serdyukov, Russia's defence minister, reported the incident to Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, who had ordered a "full and meticulous" investigation and "all possible aid and support to the victims' families," according to the report.

Military prosecutors are investigating the incident.







Fire on Russian nuclear submarine kills at least 20





At least 20 sailors and shipyard workers have died following a fire on a Russian nuclear-powered submarine which was undergoing sea trials. A further 21 were injured when a fire extinguishing system in the bow of the vessel failed, and they have been ferried ashore by support vessels.


The submarine has been ordered to suspend trials and return immediately to port in Russia's far-eastern Primorye territory.


The name and class of the vessel, and its location when fire broke out, have not been released. But it was assisted by the Russian destroyer Admiral Tributs,which is normally based at Vladivostok, Russia's main Far Eastern naval port on the Sea of Japan.


The fire broke out in the nose of the vessel and its nuclear reactor, situated in the stern, was not affected by the fire, said Russian Pacific Fleet spokesman Captain Igor Dygalo. There were no radiation leaks, he added.


"I declare with full responsibility that the reactor compartment on the nuclear-powered submarine is working normally and the radiation background is normal," he said.Of the 208 people on board when the fire broke out, 81 were servicemen.


The Admiral Tributs took some of the injured back to port.







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Friday, November 07, 2008

Obama Gaff, Apologizes to Nancy Reagan for 'Seance' Comment





WASHINGTON -- President-elect Obama called Nancy Reagan on Friday to apologize for joking that she held seances in the White House.


At a news conference in Chicago, Obama said he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepares to take office in January. Then he smiled and said, "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances."


The 87-year-old former first lady had consulted with astrologers during her husband's presidency. But she did not hold conversations with the dead.


Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said the president-elect later called Mrs. Reagan "to apologize for the careless and offhanded remark." She said Obama "expressed his admiration and affection for Mrs. Reagan that so many Americans share, and they had a warm conversation."


It actually wasn't Nancy Reagan who was linked to conversations with the dead; it was Obama's top Democratic challenger for the presidency, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
In either case, use of the word "seance" might be overstated.


Nancy Reagan consulted an astrologer to help set her husband's schedule, wrote former White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan. The revelation created a furor and President Reagan even broke with his policy of not commenting on books by former White House staffers.


"No policy or decision in my mind has ever been influenced by astrology," Reagan said.


In his book "The Choice," Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward described how Clinton consulted with a spiritual adviser who led her through imaginary conversations with her personal hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. Newsweek magazine, which was promoting the book, characterized the visits as "seances," a term that White House officials quickly tried to squelch.


"These were people who were helping her laugh, helping her think," said Neel Lattimore, Clinton's spokeswoman. "These were not seances."







Obama Gaff, Apologizes to Nancy Reagan for 'Seance' Comment

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Nope, No Media Bias Here, Made-up Journalism by Drunk Reporter

British Journalist Works for Obama Campaign and Quits his Job See Video






A British journalist for The Birmingham Mail newspaper was caught on tape, slumped on a Miami sidewalk, attempting to file plagiarized copy for his paper on a laptop, and ultimately telling his boss back home F"*&@ you!"


British Journalist Drunkenly Quits Post

Adam Smith, who repeatedly identifies himself as a "hard news journalist" in a clip that appeared on YouTube, tells the person behind the camera that he has taken a week off from work to volunteer for the Obama campaign in Miami, Fl, "because that's where the party is." He goes on to admit that the story he's about to file is nothing more than a cut-and-paste job from the BBC's web site.


After stating the obvious that, "I'm a bit of an idiot" and "Obama all the way baby!", Smith then resigns spectacularly from his job by telling his editor back home, "F&*@ you, I'm doing what I want to."







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Who is Harry Reid says 30% of Democrats, Pelosi has 53% Unfavorable Rating

Congress still has an unfavorable rating nearly 13 points lower then the Unpopular President Bush.  30% of Democrats don't know who the Majority Leader of the Senate is.  Speaker Pelosi enjoys a 40% favorability rating slightly above President Bush's Rating.





Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters rate the current Democratic-led Congress’ job performance as poor in a new Rasmussen Reports survey taken the night after Election Day. Just 11% think Congress is doing a good or excellent job.


Republicans give Congress poor marks by two-to-one over Democrats – 74% to 37%. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of unaffiliated voters agree.


But just 19% of Democrats say Congress is doing a good or excellent job, as do 11% of unaffiliated voters. Three percent (3%) of GOP voters rate their performance as good only.


Congress has consistently scored lower this year in voter approval than even President Bush who has hit record lows for his presidency. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters, given the option in early October of keeping or replacing the entire Congress, said they would like to throw them all out and start over again.


In Tuesday’s elections, Democrats added at least six seats to their majority in the Senate and 19 or more to their majority in the House, so voters clearly took out their unhappiness with Congress more on Republicans. With a Democrat in the White House, it will be interesting to see whether voter perceptions of Congress change.


As of now, however, voters generally view the Democrats’ top congressional leadership unfavorably, too. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wasn’t even known to a sizable percentage of his own party members.


In a separate survey on Election Day, 42% of voters had an unfavorable view of Reid, including 27% who said their view of him was Very Unfavorable. Twenty-eight percent (28%) had a favorable view of the Democratic senator from Nevada, but just six percent (6%) said that opinion was Very Favorable.


Over one-quarter of voters (27%) on Election Day said they didn’t know who Reid was. Even 30% of Democrats didn’t know him, compared to 23% of Republicans and 29% of unaffiliated voters.


Then there’s House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the outspoken San Francisco Democrat. Forty percent (40%) had a favorable view of her, but 53% regarded her unfavorably. Fourteen percent (14%) had a Very Favorable view of Pelosi, compared to 39% who had a Very Unfavorable opinion of her.







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Obama Chief of Staff Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

Obama's Chief of Staff Pick a Freddie Mac Alum - Will Media Notice?






He’s President-elect Barack Obama’s new chief of staff, according to various Nov. 6 media reports, but Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., also has some baggage pertaining to the financial crisis. Will anyone in the media take note?


 


     Emanuel, who was a senior adviser for former President Bill Clinton throughout the 1990s, was appointed to the board of Freddie Mac upon his departure from the Clinton administration.


 


     “Clinton’s going-away gift to Emanuel was a seat on the quasi-governmental Freddie Mac board, which paid him $231,655 in director’s fees in 2001 and $31,060 in 2000,” Lynn Sweet wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times on Jan. 3, 2002.


 


     During the time Emanuel spent on the board, Freddie Mac was plagued with scandal involving campaign contributions and accounting irregularities. Freddie Mac and its sister organization Fannie Mae were taken over by the federal government in September 2008 after years of mismanagement and scandal. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson put the two beleaguered GSEs into a conservatorship, stripping common stock shareholders of their rights to govern the companies.


 


     In 2006, Freddie Mac was forced to pay a $3.8 million fine to the Federal Election Commission to settle allegations it illegally contributed to congressional candidates between 2000 and 2003 – while Emanuel was on the board and running for and serving in Congress.







ABC News has been a thorn in Obama's side this election.  The campaign refused to provide segregates during the election.  Why?  Fair Reporting?







President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac at a time when scandal was brewing at the troubled agency and the board failed to spot "red flags," according to government reports reviewed by ABCNews.com. Collapse

According to a complaint later filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Freddie Mac, known formally as the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.

Emanuel was not named in the SEC complaint (click here to read) but the entire board was later accused by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) (click here to read) of having "failed in its duty to follow up on matters brought to its attention."
In a statement to ABCNews.com, a spokesperson said Emanuel served on the board for "13 months-a relatively short period of time."

The spokesperson said that while on the board, Emanuel "believed that Freddie Mac needed to address concerns raised by Congressional critics."

Freddie Mac agreed to pay a $50 million penalty in 2007 to settle the SEC complaint and four top executives of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation were charged with negligent conduct and, like the company, agreed to settle the case without admitting or denying the allegations.

The actions by Freddie Mac are cited by some economists as the beginning of the country's economic meltdown.







Obama Chief of Staff  Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal

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OHIO DJFS Chief on leave over Illegal Records Search on "Joe the Plumber"





Gov. Ted Strickland said today he is placing Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, on paid administrative leave "due to the possibility, as yet unconfirmed, that a state computer or state e-mail account was used to assist in political fund-raising."


Strickland's office said the matter surfaced in a review of agency e-mail in response to a public-records request. The governor has asked Inspector General Tom Charles to include it in his current, ongoing investigation of confidential state records being accessed involving Samuel J. Wurzelbacher, otherwise known as "Joe the Plumber" of suburban Toledo.


Cabinet Secretary Jan Allen has been asked to serve as acting director of the agency.







Voting rights and wrongs





What's not fair game is for employees of Ohio's Democratic governor to search through state databases looking for information that might be used to smear Wurzelbacher. After McCain invoked Joe's name in the final presidential debate, the head of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services sent underlings on a snooping expedition, The Columbus Dispatch reported. The agency searched to find out whether Joe owed child support or unemployment taxes or was on public assistance.


When caught by reporters, the agency head insisted that this was all routine and that when someone is thrust into the public spotlight, "we often take a look." A spokesman for Gov. Ted Strickland shrugged off the snooping, too. Now, the state's inspector general is investigating to see whether laws or rules were broken. He should.







Looks like the Clinton era War Room is Back! Home of the Pre-emptive Strike, Joe the Plumber sign of the times







Joe the Plumber’s speedy journey from anonymity to fame to martyr at the hands of the media says volumes about modern American culture and politics. Witness Joe’s sudden rise, a la American Idol, from nobody to superstar. Last week, less than three weeks after his chat on taxes with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, Samuel J. “Joe” Wurzelbacher was so inundated with media attention he was forced to hire a publicist. (The Associated Press)


http://www.toledoblade.com/...03/NEWS09/811030293







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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

NEWSFLASH! Canada Immigration & Gun Law are Working,

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Well this newstory will make most citizens sleep soundly, knowing Immigration and Gun Laws in Canada are a total Farce.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/11/05/7310586-sun.html


Visitor with gun upset Keg was closed


By ROB LAMBERTI, SUN MEDIA 


TORONTO -- A visitor from Mexico faces weapons charges after a would-be restaurant customer threatened workers with a pistol at a downtown eatery because the establishment was closed.


Toronto Police also arrested a woman who was with the man in the Monday afternoon incident at the Keg Mansion on Jarvis St., near Wellesley St. Police said yesterday a man waved the pistol around 3:30 p.m. when he was told meals wouldn't be available for at least 30 minutes.


The man demanded to be served and became aggravated when told he had to wait. He pulled out a handgun and waved it around, police said.


The weapon wasn't pointed at anyone during the drama, police said. Staff members also spotted a second pistol tucked into the man's pants waistband, police said. 


THREE GUNS Officers, who made the arrest, found a third handgun, small quantities of crystal meth and cocaine and $200,000 US cash, police said. 


Two of the handguns were .357-magnum pistols and the other was a 9-mm semi-automatic pistol. Police said none of the handguns were loaded. Julio Cesar Araujo Figueroa, 23, of Mexico, who has a visitor's visa to be in Canada until December, has been charged with three counts each of unauthorized possession of a firearm, possessing a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized, careless storage and possessing a firearm obtained by crime, and single counts of careless storage of ammunition and threatening death.


Toronto Councillors worry about paper Coffee cups, Below


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/11/05/7310591-sun.html


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BC's Olympic 2010: Terror, Mentally Ill Threaten Games

Barry Artiste Op/Ed Well DUH! As I warned time and time again in my stories on Now Public, British Columbia touted by a National magazine as a World Crime Superpower, this is a no brainer, in a province where police are handcuffed at every turn by incompetent courts and justice system, as well as considering it's complacent citizens feel safe,comfy and cozy while the underworld envelops around them.




Crime we have now is a Fantasy World compared to after the 2010 Olympics when visiting Criminal Organizations to British Columbia see an eternal Gold Mine of lawlessness in this province and decide to make British Columbia, Home Base Central, due in a Big Part by incompetent provincial courts, judges and justice system along with "Nancy laws" meted out by the Judges to criminals with no end in sight. 


One certainly didn't need bother to apply to access of freedom of information to get that little Jewel of Obvious Information that every British Columbian knows already!


http://my.nowpublic.com/world/b-c-now-world-crime-superpower



http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/11/05/7306756-sun.html


Wed, November 5, 2008


Terror, mentally ill threaten Games


By KATHLEEN HARRIS, NATIONAL BUREAU CHIEF


Canada is facing the threat of terrorist attacks, disruption from mentally disturbed people and corruption from organized criminals as it plays host to the 2010 Olympic Games.


Documents obtained by Sun Media through Access to Information show officials are also bracing for potential cost overruns, public health disasters and protests during the international sporting event in Vancouver-Whistler.


One May 2007 RCMP threat assessment report warns that a thwarted terrorist plot to attack sites in Canada last year serves as a reminder that "not only must we monitor international terrorist plots directed toward the Olympics, but as well, those originating within Canada." The perception that Canada has shifted away from being a peacekeeping nation with a combat role in Afghanistan might increase the risk of becoming a target, the report suggests.


But the documents, heavily censored and stamped "secret," suggest the most likely and immediate risk to Canada lies in financial security, with corruption the "inevitable byproduct" of vast sums of money and multi-million dollar profits associated with the Games.


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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Hey it's Sunday, Let's go Kill a Scotsman! : Archaic British Laws

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


As I previously reported about Britain introducing Sharia Law on the books, it brought to mind some Archaic British Laws on the books, some even on the books today, though never used anymore as most people read them and laugh at what was touted as a Progressive society a few hundred years ago and up to the 19 century.


I hope some will enjoy reading these Laws of Insanity. 


Certainly shows how far we have progressed into a modern society, versus some who still cling to brutal old ways a millennium ago.  


Certainly one can see why Monty Python was invented!




The Big Book of British Laws




  • Under the reign of Elizabeth I, any person found guilty of "harboring a Catholic priest" would be tortured or even hanged. Any priest of the Catholic faith that was caught would be hanged, drawn, and quartered.

  • With the exception of carrots, most goods may not be sold on Sunday.

  • All English males over the age 14 are to carry out 2 or so hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy. Explanation: This law dates from the middle ages when there was no standing army, so in times of war each gentry was required to produce a quota (depending on its size) of knights, archers, infantry, etc. As the church was the only centralized instrument of bureauacracy (the lords were independent for the most part), they were used for such tasks.

  • London Hackney Carriages (taxis/cabs) must carry a bale of hay and a sack of oats. Explanation: The London Hackney Carriage Laws covers hackneys in other towns too and have remained unaltered for over 100 years. Firms have been known to manufacture very small bales of hay to carry in a taxi during disputes during local councils (who license the hackneys everywhere except London). Also the vehicle has to be tethered at a taxi rank, and the council have to supply a water trough at said ranks (that could be fun on a Saturday night!). The one about urinating against the back wheel is a Hackney Carriage Law too, and has also been done, on mass, during taxi/council disputes (allegedly).

  • The severest Penaltys will be suffered by any commoner who doth permit his animal to have carnal knowledge of a pet of the Royal House (enacted by George I).

  • It is illegal to be drunk on Licensed Premises (in a pub or bar).

  • It is illegal for two adult men to have sex in the same house as a third person. Explanation: Introduced to outlaw "molly houses" which began to appear in the big cities of England in the late 16th Century. In these bordellos, homosexuals engaged in sex, sado -masochism, transvestitism etc., and they were perceived as a threat to public morality, and so outlawed.

  • Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end will be sentenced to 24 hours in the village stocks (enacted by Edward VI).

  • It is illegal to stand within one hundred yards of the reigning monarch when not wearing socks (enacted by Edward VI).

  • Chelsea Pensioners may not be impersonated. Explanation: Chelsea Pensioners are entitled to enhanced state benefits and subsidized accommodation, so pretending to be one is simply fraud!

  • A bed may not be hung out of a window.

  • It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.

  • Mince pies can not be eaten on Christmas day. Explanation: Ingredients of mince pies and plum puddings were pagan in origin, and their consumption part of ancient fertility rituals. The law dates from the Puritan era, the same time that dancing in church, maypoles, and holly and ivy decorations were outlawed. The laws were never officially repealed because upon the restoration of the monarchy, (in the form of Charles II) all laws formed under the protectorate were ignored as invalid.

  • Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked mannequin.

  • It is illegal to leave baggage unattended. Explanation: Many terrorists in the UK favor the practice of placing a bomb in a bag, then leaving the bag to explode later. Since this became a real threat, this law was passed to deter the crime and prosecute those who commit it.

  • Picking up abandoned baggage is an act of terrorism. See above.

  • It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour. Explanation: The law dates from the renegotiation of royal/political power on the accession of Charles II, designed to stop the MPs storming the house if it makes a decision they disapprove of. The Monarch is not allowed to enter the House of Commons (the legislative house) for similar reasons

  • Destroying or defacing money is illegal.

  • If a steam locomotive is driven on roads, a man must walk in front of the vehicle with a red flag during the day and a red lantern at night to warn passersby.

  • All steam locomotives are limited to 4mph on roads.

  • Anal sex is prohibited.

  • You may not make out in public.

  • It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle. Explanation: One of many Hackney Carriage Laws that have been unaltered for over 100 years, and it has alledgedly been done on mass during taxi/council disputes.

  • Committing suicide is classified as a capital crime.

  • Interfering with the mail or sleeping with the consort of the Queen is classed as treason, and as such, carries a maximum penalty of death.

  • Placing a postage stamp that bears the Queen (or King) upside down is considered treason.

  • One may not "blemish the peace".

  • A license is required to keep a lunatic.

  • Damaging the grass is illegal.

  • In Chester, you can only shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow inside the city walls and after midnight.

  • You may not shoot a Welsh person on Sunday with a longbow in the Cathedral Close in Hereford.

  • In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless in public except as a clerk in a tropical fish store.

  • In London, companies may vote in local elections.

  • In York, excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.




 


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Amnesty: Rape girl, 13, killed for adultery: Somalia Islamic Militia

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


When I say, as I have previously stated in my past stories. Islam, in fact most major religions are in place to solidify that it has always been a Man's World, no ifs, ands, or buts, Get used to it Ladies.


It just seems in a modern society Islamic Zealots have taken it to the nth degree. One can be sure moderate followers of Islam would like nothing better than for this to go away.  It  feels like they are weeding out the non Islamic or not as Zealous Herd!


As these undated photos attest, certainly a country which needs a collective Bitch Slap.


The Somali people are starving and dying, aid rarely reaches them, either the corrupt Government  (We support with Aid) steals it or the Islamic militants and other so called Freedom Fighters steal it for themselves.


Is it any wonder the World feel no empathy to a country in which it's own citizens clearly will not stand up to stop ever changing regimes and off shoot militias, preferring Western Armies to lay down their lives on their behalf?  Par for the course if you ask me!


It is clear Islamists in Somalia have only one goal and it isn't peace or helping the citizenry. What many may ask themselves, if indeed Islam is one of the worlds largest Ideologies, why are these zealots who preach death and destruction are allowed to do so?


Why are these Zealot Clerics not found by fellow Muslims, stripped of their vestments and status, jailed or put to the sword? Lead me to believe either they do not care, or perhaps like  wheat in the windy field, the undecided will join whoever is the victor in all this ongoing horrendous situation, hence being part of the Worldwide problem instead of a Global Solution! 


Why is it always Westerners who must help and intervene, why not YOU!  It is your people and culture, your ideology!  


Riding on our Safe and Secure coattails of Democracy is not the answer if you refuse to be part of it!


If you are a billion strong, then perhaps you should be pulling your weight on the international stage and stop this!


It seems every time we read a media report on Islam, it's not good, leaving many to believe, perhaps this is not an exception to the rule anymore, as time and time again stories like this keep hitting the presses.  Currently in the World today the majority of countries under Islam seem to be engaged either in War or Crisis and have been for decades.  Do you see where I am going with this?  Hello! What does this tell you!  Islam ain't seem to be working! And Britain is introducing Islamic Law into it's Court system? Holy Hitler! WTF are they thinking?


Time for Muslims to act and stop those who misinterpret Islam. Muslims know who these Clerics are, as Mosques where they preach are pretty easy to spot in any town or city.


Bottom line, if you know where they are stop them!


If a group in Canada were doing this to people like in Somalia, you can bet your life, Canada would stop it in it's tracks and hunt the offenders down Pronto!.


Again, I direct you to the recent introduction of Sharia Law being integrated in British Courts. Eventually it is only a matter of time, perhaps in a decade or so before a British Male Judge misinterprets in favour of man and thus begins the downward slant into oblivion of women's rights, gay rights, etc.


Will someone stand up and stop it? I fear by then it will be too late! Cause it ain't stopping in other countries it seems.


But then religious leaders of all faiths it seems, have fond memories when "Religion was King versus centuries ago when King was Religion"! and today it seems a reversal of fortune for some religious leaders of Islam.


http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/01/amnesty.rape.somalia.ap/index.html


November 1, 2008 -- Updated 1539 GMT (2339 HKT)


Amnesty: Rape girl, 13, killed for adultery


MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants, a human rights group said.


Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses.


The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.


Initial local media reports said Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.


Calls to Somali government officials and the local administration in Kismayo rang unanswered Saturday. "This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo," David Copeman, Amnesty International's Somalia campaigner, said in a statement Friday.


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Saturday, November 01, 2008

Vancouver Tenant seeks injunction to stop neighbour smoking: The Plight of BC's Ongoing Shoddy Building Practices!

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


A recent story this week whereby a tenant in an apartment complex complained of health problems from cigarette smoke coming from an adjoining suite by another tenant.


The affected tenant complains cigarette smoke was coming from electrical outlets, under the shared wall between the two suites etc.


If in fact this is found to be true, then someone has some "splain'in to do Lucy!", I would be ripping a new arse hole out of the city building inspectors for compensation to fix my suite. The I would be filing a lawsuit against the architect, developer to fix my suite in an all too common practice of screw the homeowner for the almighty buck. 


Directing a lawsuit to a adjoining tenant is misplaced, as well designed suite, should never cross contaminate an adjoining suite with any odour. Including under the door of a shared hallway!


Brings to mind my previous stories on Now Public when I stated "Strongly" the shoddy Building practices in this province with Municipal Building Inspectors looking the other way obviously.


Vancouver has one of the highest prices in the country for living space, where a 500 square foot apartment in Vancouver can set you back close to a half million dollars.


Certainly at that price you would think you would get a well built suite, but don't and most likely never will. 

Next time you are driving around a neighborhood, take a good hard look at the tradesmen!  You will notice most of them with Chainsaws! Chainsaws used to build homes, sometimes in a scant three or four weeks.  Wow, how accurate is that?


Then, do you notice all that lumber stacked outside the home? Is that lumber raised off the ground and covered to keep from getting wet? Of course Not, paying 15 dollars for a common tarp to keep that lumber from getting wet and going right into your home would be common sense.


No wonder the friggin homes leak like a Sieve or are full of mold!


Chainsaws are for cutting trees, wet lumber inside your walls, is not what one would think of when Developers state We build quality 1 million dollar 800 -1,100 square foot Homes at breakneck speed.


Like I always say, you get what you pay for!


For the last 40 years US/Canadian Building Codes state "Adjoining Suites with shared walls "MUST" have a "90 minute" Fire Barrier between shared wall, no ifs, ands, or buts!


A fire barrier is a wall sealed from the floor to ceiling as well as shared piping and electrical outlets.


If this guy can smell cigarette smoke in his suite, that is the least of his worries, cause obviously the building is substandard and the Municipal Building Inspectors we pay taxes for are either incompetent, or crooked in bed with developers. You decide! 

In a Mindless BC Culture, where else but in British Columbia, can a Developer Slap up a Building at Light Speed with throngs of eager Buyers lining around the Block? 


During the Boom Times in the 80's and early 90's Money was flush in this province and anyone with a hammer and a chainsaw  was out here building homes for buyers, many of these trades, developers had no knowledge or didn't bother to learn about West Coast Wet Climates, or Seismic building codes in case of Earthquakes! 


Ever notice a lot of homes in this province all look the same, same design, same construction, almost looking cookie cutter?


It is said among Construction trade circles in British Columbia that is because they are all from the same blueprint, some architect drew up.  Blueprints drawn by architects are single use only and are not to be used to build another home,  Architects normally charge upwards of 20 thousand dollars to design a home.


  Builders on the other hand see fit not to pay 10-20 thousand dollars for  a blueprint for every home they build.  Hence who some call these homes  "Pink Palaces", why because most likely the homes were designed by some poor shmuck of an Architect in Asia, who is not getting paid royalties on his designs and construction companies and builders who know that lawsuits for using one time blueprints over and over again is against the law in most countries.


But since this architect is back in Asia, good luck trying to launch a copyright lawsuit in British Columbia against Builders using his designs.


Just because a Pink Palace works nicely in Asia, doesn't mean it will work in British Columbia, especially with our wet weather.  And a Province will have a hard time launching a lawsuit against a Architect in Asia anyways, especially of that Architect had no knowledge his designs are being copied in British Columbia!


With many buildings with claims of building envelope problems, water ingress, mold and falling balconies the Provincial government sits on their Moist asses for the last 25 years and does nothing, but whine to the Federal Government for Financial Relief from Canadian Taxpayers, tired of paying for Provincial Incompetence at all levels.


Why one would think the Province would go after the Developers? What a silly concept when your best pals have skipped town or the country!  Now who is being silly?


Many do not realise, that before the Provincial Home Warranty Act, there were and some say still are many developers, especially small construction firms in order to get out of warranty issues with newly constructed buildings, form a numbered company, and once the building is completed and sold, immediately fold their company, and start a new company under a new Corporate Number.


Nice Scam eh?  Guess what, you have no warranty! You are SOL, unless your home is recent and covered under the Governments Homeownership Protection Act. Even then Good luck!


Many Condo's up for sale in this province are Stratas, whereby everyone pays a couple of hundred dollars a month for common services, grass cutting, cleaning and building repairs.


Because of shoddy building construction, many are faced with a bill of a few thousand dollars, say for roof repair, with many going to the bank to take out a loan, or as many condo owners do, is sell their condo to an unsuspecting buyer, who when taking possession, gets an immediate bill, some amounting to 40 thousand dollars to pay for the building repairs, they knew nothing about from the previous owner, for obvious reasons. 


Would I buy a Condo in this city? Certainly not a Condo over 5 years old I wouldn't, and make damn sure I sell it before the warranty is over. Gee, this is just like used cars with over 100, 000 miles on the odometer.


Condo's, "a Money Pit that never stops taking in most cases in this province."


And all under the Blind eyes of Municipalities and Provincial Government Watchdogs, or I should say Guide Dogs.   

Anyone who thinks your government at any level is looking out for your interests, certainly needs a well place Slap Upside the Head!


Bottom line; "If cigarette smoke can get through, so can Fire, in my opinion the Building is a Fire Trap waiting to happen!"


I hope this Op/Ed piece has informed and educated many when knowing what to look for in buying a home, best advice, buy a home from the 1930's to the 1970s or earlier, cause those homes were built n an age  when tradesmen took Pride in their Craftsmenship!


http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=43e1b9d8-e0c4-4f2c-9181-521f467f681f


Tenant seeks injunction to stop neighbour smoking Retired actor with bronchial woes says smoke seeps into suite


Keith Fraser, The Province Published: Friday, October 31, 2008


A retired Vancouver actor wants a court injunction to prevent his next- door neighbour from smoking in their West End apartment building.


In a statement of claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Mina Erian Mina, 74, says that since October 2006 his neighbour, Christine Jestadt, has "created a nuisance" with her smoking.


Mina says the smoke has come through electrical wall sockets, windows and other access points in his suite in the Performing Arts Lodge (PAL) building on Cardero Street.


He claims he's suffered various health problems, including respiratory injuries, bronchospasm, reduced chest expansion, chest tightness, aggravation of coronary artery disease, loss of sleep, fatigue and anxiety.


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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Is the Economy that Scary? Halloween sales are Up!





FAYETTEVILLE - Buying a Halloween costume can get expensive. The average cost of an adult costume is around $40, and kid's costumes aren't much cheaper.


In such a scary economy, you wouldn't expect people to be spending that kind of money, especially for one night. But Dave Mendelsohn, the owner of Spirit Halloween in Fayetteville, says his sales are even higher than last year.


So what is it about Halloween that's making people spend?


"It's a night of escape, you know uh, even if things are going rough, it's just a night to have a little fun and put on a different mask and be someone else, so everybody likes that, I mean, you can always find money for that," said Mendelsohn.


Sarah Sullivan says her entire family is dressing up, and their front yard is filled with Halloween decor. She says it'll take a lot more than a weak economy to keep them from celebrating.


"Everybody loves Halloween. No matter you know if we have to go without for a little while, we're going to spend the money for Halloween," says Sullivan.







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AP FACT CHECK: Obama “Infomercial” Avoids Budget Realities




Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office. Obama’s assertion that “I’ve offered spending cuts above and beyond” the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by “eliminating programs that don’t work” masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are — beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. . A sampling of what voters heard in the ad, and what he didn’t tell them:

THE SPIN: “That’s why my health care plan includes improving information technology, requires coverage for preventive care and pre-existing conditions and lowers health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.”


THE FACTS: His plan does not lower premiums by $2,500, or any set amount. Obama hopes that by spending $50 billion over five years on electronic medical records and by improving access to proven disease management programs, among other steps, consumers will end up saving money. He uses an optimistic analysis to suggest cost reductions in national health care spending could amount to the equivalent of $2,500 for a family of four. Many economists are skeptical those savings can be achieved, but even if they are, it’s not a certainty that every dollar would be passed on to consumers in the form of lower premiums.


THE SPIN: “I also believe every American has a right to affordable health care.”


THE FACTS: That belief should not be confused with a guarantee of health coverage for all. He makes no such promise. Obama hinted as much in the ad when he said about the problem of the uninsured: “I want to start doing something about it.” He would mandate coverage for children but not adults. His program is aimed at making insurance more affordable by offering the choice of government-subsidized coverage similar to that in a plan for federal employees and other steps, including requiring larger employers to share costs of insuring workers.


THE SPIN: “I’ve offered spending cuts above and beyond their cost.”


THE FACTS: Independent analysts say Obama would deepen the deficit. The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates Obama’s policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years — and that analysis accepts the savings he claims will come from some unspecified “spending cuts“. The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, whose other findings have been quoted approvingly by the Obama campaign, says: “Both John McCain and Barack Obama have proposed tax plans that would substantially increase the national debt over the next 10 years.” The analysis goes on to say: “Neither candidate’s plan would significantly increase economic growth unless offset by spending cuts or tax increases that the campaigns have not specified.”


THE SPIN: “Here’s what I’ll do. Cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year. Give businesses a tax credit for every new employee that they hire right here in the U.S. over the next two years and eliminate tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. Help homeowners who are making a good faith effort to pay their mortgages, by freezing foreclosures for 90 days. And just like after 9-11, we’ll provide low-cost loans to help small businesses pay their workers and keep their doors open. “


THE FACTS: His proposals — the tax cuts, the low-cost loans, the $15 billion a year he promises for alternative energy, and more — cost money, and the country could be facing a record $1 trillion deficit next year. Indeed, Obama recently acknowledged — although not in his commercial – that: “The next president will have to scale back his agenda and some of his proposals.”







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Gallup Daily: Obama Lead Among Likely Voters 5 to 7 Points






PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama holds a statistically significant lead over John McCain in both Gallup likely voter models, according to Oct. 27-29 Gallup Poll Daily tracking. In the traditional model, which defines likely voters based on current voting intention and past voting behavior, Obama holds a 50% to 45% lead. In the expanded model, in which only current voting intentions are considered, his lead is 51% to 44%.



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As in any election, the final outcome, in large part, hinges on who turns out to vote and who does not. If all registered voters participated, Obama would probably win comfortably. He leads McCain by 50% to 42% in the latest estimate of registered voter preferences, and has averaged a nine percentage point lead since Oct. 1. (To view the complete trend since March 7, 2008, click here.)







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No Cash of Titans: Kicking Potential Canadian Politicians in the Money Bags

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Corporations and Wealthy Individuals fronting Politicians to the tune of millions of dollars during election periods are always seen to be looking to Curry Favour with Politicians through Fundraising, Single Donations to a political party in the Millions of Dollars will stop once Parliament Resumes.


That puts failed Liberal Leader Stephane Dion in the Red, Liberal Red Big Time.


It is said he borrowed up to $500,000.00 in the last failed Election Bid for Prime Minister. Now it is time to pay it back.


Once Parliament resumes, there will be no more borrowing, as ethically any potential Politician if elected would be beholden to their Creditor, resulting in questions if the Politician really has Canadians interests at heart or his Financier.


With the Liberal Leadership now in question, potential Liberal Leaders may be far and few between if they are limited to a paltry individual donation of a one time $1,000 per person, corporation or wealthy organization including Unions. 


That means Politicians will be forced to mingle with the little folk across the country and attend numerous pancake breakfasts, baby kissing, community events etc.  What does that all mean?


It means Politicians will have to give more face time with the voters, including the ones who have complaints o plenty.  Gone will be the unseen faces of voter content, because someone saved the Politician the embarrassment of knocking on every door, if they  loan or give them $500,000 dollars for their campaign.


Guess it is time for Voters to put their money where their mouth is when the next election comes a calling and politicians are knocking on your door for a few bucks to keep them solvent.


http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2008/10/29/7246091-sun.html


Thu, October 30, 2008


No cash of titans?


Debt, donation rules make life tough for wannabe Liberal leaders


By GREG WESTON


When the newly re-elected Conservative government recalls Parliament sometime late next month, one of the first orders of business will probably be to kick the leaderless Liberals where it hurts -- squarely in the bank account.


A senior government official says Stephen Harper's administration will move quickly to bar political candidates and parties from accepting loans as a way to dodge electoral financing laws.


The move could leave the already cash-strapped Liberals trying to run their coming leadership race on pennies, hot air and used buttons. Too bad, so sad.


The loophole makes a mockery of everything political financing reforms were supposed to achieve. Current federal law bans political donations from corporations and unions, and limits individual contributions to $1,100 a year.


Instead, the last Liberal leadership contest that crowned Stephane Dion was fuelled by millions of dollars in IOUs, many of them five-figure loans to individual candidates from banks, private corporations and wealthy individuals.


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Quebec demands immigrants sign-off on 'shared values'

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Starting next January, all immigrants coming to Quebec will have to sign a declaration saying they will respect Quebec's common values.


Many feel this is a Ballsy move by Premier Charest and the Liberal Party of Quebec, versus any other Political party across Canada.


This Ballsy move is riding the wave of sentiment of Quebecers who align themselves with the Town of Herouxville, whose Councillor and it's citizens started it all when they made the first Ballsy move to push a similar bill forward.


Herouxville once they implemented this Herouxville Town Charter, was derided by many in Canada, but the majority of responses around the world were positive.


Premier Jean Charest and the world chastised the town of Herouxville as bigotted, when clearly all Herouxville want is to maintain their 400 year old Quebec Culture like anyone else and do not wish it to change.


Now with a Provincial Election is soon, Premier Jean Charest needs to save his political Bacon and his party, and has listened to the majority of Quebecers who want a similar bill that Herouxville and Town Councillor Andre Drouin implemented for their Town of Herouxville.


Many have the misconception that Immigration is a Right, when clearly it is a Privilege.


Perhaps a move towards letting those know who wish to come and live in this great county called Canada that when in Rome.....................


Many of the measures announced today were suggested by the Bouchard-Taylor commission on reasonable accommodation.


Disagree or not, the People of Quebec have laid it out what they expect of those who wish to make Quebec, Canada their home.


Photo Inset Yolande James, Quebec Immigration and Minister for Cultural Communities is certainly going to suffer the slings and arrows of discontent among the immigrant community.


http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=917563


Quebec demands immigrants sign-off on 'shared values'


Graeme Hamilton, National Post Published: Wednesday, October 29, 2008


MONTREAL -- Future immigrants to Quebec will be required to sign a declaration promising to learn French and respect Quebec's "shared values," the government announced on Wednesday.


In a document with echoes of the controversial code adopted last year by the rural town of Hérouxville, immigrants will be informed that Quebec is a democracy where men and women are equal and violence is prohibited.


"Quebecers have said yes to immigration, but they said yes to immigration on the condition that these immigrants integrate into our society," Immigration Minister Yolande James said as she announced the policy, which takes effect in January.


She added that immigrating to Quebec "is a privilege not a right." With Liberal Premier Jean Charest expected to call an election next week, critics denounced the initiative as an attempt to undermine the opposition Action Démocratique du Québec and Parti Québécois, which have both made defence of "the Quebec identity" a battle cry.


Quebec declaration


Quebec: Women can perform whatever trade or profession they choose. They are present in such decision-making positions as members of the legislature, mayors, municipal councillors administrators and managers of large companies.


Quebec: Freedoms and fundamental rights are exercised respecting the rights and freedoms of others, public order, the general welfare of citizens and Quebec's democratic values. The use of violence is prohibited.


Quebec: The expression of hateful behaviour, whether it is of a political religious or ethnic nature, is not tolerated. Quebec society favours resolving conflicts through negotiation.


Quebec: Whether they are joined in common-law, civil or formal marriage, spouses - of the same sex or different sexes - remain equal before the law. The responsibilities of parents toward their children are the same.


Quebec: The Quebec state and its institutions are secular. Their decisions and their actions are independent of religious powers. ... Denominational religious teaching is not part of the public school program.


Graeme Hamilton, National Post


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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

NDP leader says voter fatigue a hurdle in B.C. byelections

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


With the upcoming Provincial Elections in 2009 , The NDP leader Carole James promise of an Economic windfall spending of 2.5 Billion dollars for the British Columbians leaves many to wonder what she has been smoking?


Does Miss. Spendy for your Votes not realise in these tough economic times all over the world, one does not spend and promise to throw out 2.5 Billion Dollars of taxpayers money to bail out your Provincial infrastructure to boost your budgetary bank balance and keep government civil servants in the gravy and employed?


Cause dollars to donuts, ya think we are in an economic crisis now, just wait till we are really, really in the hole with 2.5 Billion dollar tax bill knocking at our future paycheques. 


Perhaps Carole feels we all forgot when they were in power a few years back, with them there 1 billion dollar Pacific FastCat Ferries they built, only to find out they were not suitable to our waters and sold them to an American firm for a paltry $20 million dollars.  Yep, that made economic sense!


As for the little old lady's remark of Too Late, I think it is appropriate!


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2008/10/29/7238151-cp.html


NDP leader says voter fatigue a hurdle in B.C. byelections


By Dirk Meissner, THE CANADIAN PRESS


VICTORIA, B.C. - B.C. New Democrat Leader Carole James says voters are worn out, making it difficult to campaign for Wednesday's two provincial byelections.


James said she's encountered voter fatigue in dramatic fashion while door-knocking in the vacant Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Fairview ridings.


One elderly Vancouver woman welcomed her into her home but politely told her she was too late for the Oct. 14 federal election, James said.


"There's voter fatigue, there's no question about that," she said. James said the elderly woman told her: "Oh, it's wonderful to see you dear, I'm really glad you're here, but you're a little late." She said the woman had no idea the B.C. New Democrat leader was campaigning for two provincial byelections.


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China to hold talks with Dalai Lama envoys

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Since it has been reported the Dalai Lama gave up hope of ever getting a state of their own, China has handed out a olive branch. Lets hope China is serious this time.


China should know the World will be watching.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/29/7238016-ap.html


China to hold talks with Dalai Lama envoys


By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


BEIJING - China will hold a new round of talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama, state media reported Wednesday, days after the exiled spiritual leader said he had given up on persuading Beijing to allow greater autonomy for Tibet. T


he Xinhua News Agency said the meeting would be held "in the near future" but did not give a specific date.


Discussions will take place despite anti-government riots this spring in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and "some serious disruptions and sabotages to the Beijing Olympic Games by a handful of 'Tibet independence' secessionists," the report said, citing an unnamed Chinese government official.


It did not elaborate. The Dalai Lama and his government should "treasure this opportunity and make a positive response to the requirements set forth by the central authorities," the official said.


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Soldiers, UN peacekeepers retreat as rebel forces advance in Congo

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Is it only me, or has this gone on far too long? UN kissy face diplomacy which brought us the Rwanda Genocide once again is about to be replayed again. Perhaps Diplomacy has run it's course and more stronger lethal measures need to be enforced as 200,000 innocents flee for their lives.


Photo Inset. United Nations peacekeepers ride APC's past displaced people in the village of Kibati some 12 kilometers north of Goma in eastern Congo. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Karel Prinsloo


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/28/7227906-ap.html

Soldiers, UN peacekeepers retreat as rebel forces advance in Congo

By MICHELLE FAUL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KILIMANYOKA, Congo - Bombs, rockets and mortar shells exploded in volatile eastern Congo on Wednesday, and the Congolese army claimed it was attacked by troops from neighboring Rwanda.


The bombardments, heard by journalists at an army camp, appeared to be taking place less than five miles (eight kilometers) from a village where thousands of refugees have sought protection from rebels who have advanced through the area toward Goma, a city of 600,00 people 20 kilometers (13 miles) to the south.


Jeeps carrying officers sped along the road early Wednesday, stopping to give instructions to soldiers carrying rocket launchers and assault rifles.


Neighboring Rwanda's Tutsi-led government denies Congo's accusation that it has sent troops across the nearby border to help the fighters of renegade Gen. Laurent Nkunda, who says he is fighting to protect the region's tiny Tutsi minority.


Nkunda has threatened to take Goma, the provincial capital, despite calls from the U.N. Security Council for him to respect a cease-fire brokered by the U.N. in January.


The United Nations has 17,000 peacekeepers in Congo - the agency's biggest mission in the world - trying to halt the rebellion and protect the local population.


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Israeli troops gun down Palestinian sheep farmer

Barry Artiste Op/Ed An elderly Palestinian Farmer protecting his flock of sheep was gunned down in a nightime raid by Israeli Forces, certainly Israel needs to get their friggin act together when gunning down 70 year old sheep farmers in their quest to kill insurgents. With modern technology today including night vision goggles, there is no excuse. I am sure Israeli forces should be able to tell the difference between Sheep and Militants, otherwise someone should take away their guns and give them paper Fast food hats. http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/29/7238036-ap.html Israeli troops kill Palestinian farmer By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NABLUS, West Bank - Palestinians say Israeli troops have killed a 70-year-old farmer in a nighttime raid in the West Bank. The Israeli military says the man was armed with a shotgun and opened fire at the soldiers before he was killed. Taher Abahreh says his father was guarding his livestock outside the town of Yamoun early Wednesday when he was shot. He says troops were unsuccessfully trying to treat Muhammad Abahreh when he arrived about an hour after neighbors heard gunfire.


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Canada Youth Offender Act Needs to Give out Serious Time for Serious Crime.

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

A big Federal Election issue, which may have played a small part in the Conservative Minority Government for Prime Minister Stephen Harper was increasing jail terms for young offender, including dropping the age requirements and publicizing the offenders names.


Certainly the Toronto parents of this child stabbed to death over a pair of $1.00 gloves would agree with the Prime Minister, when many of us witness rampant crime feel enough is enough!


The only deterrent is Jail, and More Jail, cause clearly Group Hugs to Criminals in the way of behavior modification isn't working.


A youth even at 14 years old know right from wrong, including taking one life for a pair of $1.00 gloves.


The media, video games, movies and rap music portraying "Gangsta lifestyle" as Cool , gives many youth the false impression their mortality is forever.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/10/28/7229571-sun.html


T.O. teen knifed for $1 gloves


By BRETT CLARKSON, Sun Media


A fight over a cheap pair of gloves nearly cost a 15-year-old boy his life Tuesday.


The Grade 9 student was brazenly stabbed in the stomach in front of at least 50 students in a busy hallway at Don Mills Collegiate Institute, witnesses said.


According to friends who were close by, the stunned victim didn't say a word as a pool of blood began to seep through his white shirt. He pulled the shirt up to reveal a hole in his stomach and muscle matter hanging from the wound.


"He was stunned," a 13-year-old friend said. "He stood there -- there was a hole in his shirt.


He lifted up his shirt and you could see like, his muscle hanging out of his stomach.


Then he turned around and started walking. It didn't sound like he was hurt at all. Then he was like, 'call the ambulance.' "


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Canada's 1st Islamic Terrorist gets Guilty Verdict Today in Ottawa Landmark Trial

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


Canada's First Islamic Terrorist Momin Khawaja charged in a landmark Terrorist Case for complicity in bombing London landmarks, clubs etc faced 7 charges of Terrorism. Today an Ottawa, Ontario Judge took 15 minutes to render a Guilty Verdict and will pronounce sentencing November 18 , 2008.


http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/features/khawajatrial/story.html?id=7b661d70-bd92-4fcb-be50-c87a2a244531


Momin's accomplices in England are all currently serving life sentences. It will be interesting to see how Canadian Justice plays out in this case and if the same sentence is meted out to Momin.


Many are gobsmacked including his close friends who knew nothing of his Dark side or how this Canadian Man could carry out the deaths of hundreds of innocent, while it seems his supporters have dwindled to a handful as insurmountable evidence points to his acts of terrorism.


Many wonder how his views on Islam were warped by those who motives were killing anyone and every non believer.


One cannot understand how his parents are coping at the loss of freedom of their son, who at one time was a typical fun loving teenager in Canada. Certainly not the ideals and values their parents brought with them when they came to Canada in the late 1960s.


http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2008/10/29/7236441-sun.html


Wed, October 29, 2008


Verdict in landmark trial Judge to expected to rule in Canada's first terrorism court case today, setting legal precedent


By DONNA CASEY, SUN MEDIA


After a four-year legal odyssey, a judge will deliver his verdict today in the terrorism case of Mohammad Momin Khawaja.


At 10 a.m. this morning, Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford will rule on the seven charges the 29-year-old Orleans man faces under Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act provisions of the Criminal Code.


The former computer programmer and self-avowed Islamic extremist is charged with facilitating, financing and participating in a U.K. terror group that plotted to explode fertilizer bombs in 2004 at several U.K. locations, including a nightclub and a shopping complex.


Federal Crown prosecutors say Khawaja designed and built a remote-controlled detonator -- which he dubbed the Hi-Fi Digimonster -- for the terrorist cell.


FACES LIFE IN PRISON


Convictions on three of the seven charges carry life sentences. Guilty verdicts on three other charges carry 10-year prison sentences.


Another charge carries a 14-year prison term.


In today's decision, Rutherford will rule on the Crown's claim that the charges go beyond the bomb plot -- which aimed to use 600 kg of ammonium nitrate to blow up major gas and electric facilities in England and Wales -- and include Khawaja's desire to wage "violent jihad" in Afghanistan.


http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2008/10/29/7236436-sun.html


Regina V. Momin Khawaja


By DONNA CASEY, SUN MEDIA


Count 1: MAKING THE DETONATOR That Momin Khawaja between July 13, 2003 and March 30, 2004 at or near Ottawa, London and the town of Slough, U.K., worked on the development of a device to activate a detonator with the intent to cause an explosion of an explosive substance likely to cause serious bodily harm or death to persons and that he committed the offence at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group. Maximum sentence: Life


Count 2: POSSESSION OF DETONATOR That Khawaja had in his possession or under his care or control an explosive substance to endanger life or to cause serious damage to property and that he committed the offence at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group. Maximum sentence: Life


Count 3: PARTICIPATING IN TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP IN PAKISTAN That Khawaja between Jan. 12, 2002 and March 30, 2004 at or near Ottawa and Pakistan knowingly participated or contributed to the activity of a terrorist group. Maximum sentence: 10 years


Count 4: FINANCING TERRORISM -- WIRING MONEY That Khawaja between Jan. 12, 2003 and March 30, 2004 at or near Ottawa, London and the town of Slough, U.K., instructed Zenab Armandpisheh to open a bank account and conduct financial transactions for a terrorist group. Maximum sentence: Life


Count 5: MAKING PROPERTY AVAILABLE FOR TERRORIST ACTIVITY -- HOUSE IN RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN That Khawaja between Sept. 1, 2002 and March 30, 2004 at or near Ottawa, London and Pakistan made property and financial services available to others for terrorist purposes. Maximum sentence: 10 years


Count 6: PARTICIPATING IN THE ACTIVITY OF A TERRORIST GROUP -- TRIPS TO LONDON That Khawaja between Jan. 1, 2002 and March 30, 2004 at or near Ottawa, London and Slough, U.K. met and exchanged information relating to the development of an explosive device intending to endanger life or cause serous damage to property. Maximum sentence: 10 years


Count 7: FACILITATING TERRORISM That Khawaja on or between Jan. 12, 202 and March 30, 2004 at or near Ottawa, London and Slough, U.K. and Pakistan facilitated a terrorist activity. Maximum sentence: 14 years


Timeline on Momin Khawaja...The Life and Times of Momin and events leading up to his terrorist bent.


http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/thecanadian.html


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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

North Korea Threatens South Korea, We will turn you into "Debris"

The Great Leader, Kim Jong Il, leading the country from his hospital room,  has made hostile comments on the eve of almost every U.S. Election in recent years, has stated that if South Korea does not stop its confrontational activity's on the border that it will turn the country into "debris".  This is not unexpected as stated before, North Korea seems to interject itself into the U.S. Election every 4 years to gain some leverage into the next administration.






SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean soldier has defected to South Korea through the heavily fortified border dividing the two countries, an official from the South's spy agency said today, in only the second such defection in a decade.


Meanwhile, North Korea warned it would turn South Korea into "debris" and break off all relations if Seoul does not halt "confrontational" activities against the communist country.







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If Palin was Black would a 'Hanging Palin' for Halloween be called free speech?

It has been reported by the AFP and other news outlets that a resident in California is displaying a Governor Sarah Palin hanging by a Noose in from of their home.  Folks in the area, especially those supporting Democratic candidate Barack Obama, say the display is protected free speech. 


I have seen displays like this at other times in my life of a Black man being hung from a tree.  The outrage was clear, Free speech goes only so far and calls that a hanging black man, even during Halloween, is beyond what the founders meant by free speech.  Any figure that has a hanging person, is saying that the figure should be dead. 


For Black Americans, especially in the south, certinally have an issue with hanging as it was one of the preferred methods to incite terror among southern blacks during the racist south noosing of African-American's.  Even though they have a history that brings back memories of a racist environment, isn't in inappropriate for anyone to display a known person hanging? 


Free speech has it's limits, Shouting fire in a crowded movie theator is not protected. (See Schenck v. United States)  Nor is  some student speech (see Bong hits for Jesus)  Limits to speech have also been put into law as in campaign finace resorm and University Students finance of elections (See Flint vs. UMT)  While there is no case about this specfic situation, there has been public outrage in other noose related events. 


Is hanging a noosed Sarah Palin Protected?  What if it were Obama?








LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A Halloween display showing a figure resembling Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin hanging by a noose has caused uproar in the Californian city of West Hollywood, leading to condemnation Monday from the local mayor.


Chad Michael Morrisette has the effigy, wearing Palin's trademark red jacket, glasses, high heels and a wig, hanging from the roof of his house in the city to the west of Los Angeles.


"It should be seen as art and it should be seen within the month of October. It is Halloween. It's time to be scary. It's time to be spooky," he told local television channel KCAL9.


Mayor Jeffrey Prang issued a statement condemning the display, in which a disfigured model of presidential candidate John McCain can also be seen surrounded by flames.


"While these residents have the legal right to the display of Senator McCain and Governor Palin, I strong oppose political speech that references violence -- real or perceived," he said.


"I urge these residents to take down their display and find more constructive ways to express their opinion," he continued.


West Hollywood is one of the main gay areas of the United States. About 500,000 people are expected there Friday for one of the biggest Halloween carnivals in the country.


Halloween is rooted in pagan Celtic and Christian feasts and sees Americans decorate their homes with ghoulish displays of ghosts, witches and other monsters.







If Palin was Black would a 'Hanging Palin' for Halloween be called free speech? Racism in Ohio - Obama Effigy Racist Ohioan Mike Lunsford Hangs Obama Effigy from Noose in Tree(2) UPDATE: CBS picked it up_ west hollywood(phone_mpeg) - October 24, 2008, 07:26 AM Obama mob lynches 'Sarah Palin' -- 10_27_08 If Palin was Black would a 'Hanging Palin' for Halloween be called free speech? If Palin was Black would a 'Hanging Palin' for Halloween be called free speech? If Palin was Black would a 'Hanging Palin' for Halloween be called free speech?

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Islam is a Man's World Get Used To It !: Somali Woman Stoned to Death for Adultery

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


The recent story by a Islamic cleric on how to Beat your Wife incensed me to no end, as well as todays story in which a group of Somalian Islamic Whackjobs took it upon themselves to place a terrified 23 year old woman on trumped up charges neck deep in the sand and play "Boccie Ball" with her head until it turned into a bloody pulp leaving her dead, as well as an innocent child who was machine gunned down in a blaze of Islam by a Islamic Militant who felt 5 year olds were threatening.


Notice the groups of people sitting around doing nothing to prevent this, my point exactly, when those who will not lay down their lives for change, deserve what they get.


Of course these Countries have no problem whatsoever requesting our Country to Lay Down our Lives to help them now do they?  Or when they plead for Western countries to give them billions in Welfare Aid, with the bulk of it going to the Regime to slaughter their own women and children!  Certainly the adage "Teach a Man to Fish is lost on these Cultures"!  


Saudi's on the other hand, just lop off your head, quick and painless for charges which in Western Society would not get a second glance, such as being Gay or having a wild haircut, bikini or holding hands in public.  Wow, how's that for Embracing the Rich Multicultural Rainbow of Diversity?


We are so deep in this Cultural Diversity Crap, we need to get out of it, because we cannot pick and choose which Multi-Culture to integrate into our Western Society, that would be discrimination!


So best we choose one Culture! Ours!  Our Country, our Laws, Our Culture!  You can still maintain your Culture, this is not what this story is all about, just don't try and place your culture above ours, after all if we chose to live in your country, we certainly would never chose to replace or change your culture to suit ours.


I truly believe anyone who wishes to live among us is more than Welcome, Just know what your getting into when coming here!


It is beyond belief we as a western nation even do business let alone give monetary aid to these countries who historically never help themselves or even wish to change their brutal regimes, including trying to kill us here and abroad, leaves me to believe that perhaps their time on earth should be limited and let their own god sort out this god forsaken mess they have brought upon themselves. 


Helping these countries is so well beyond comprehension that at times I am speechless, when their brutality flies in the face of our moral code and decency. Yet for the almighty buck our Politicians Kowtow and look the other way.


Our Politicians now in order to get elected, suck up for the cultural vote, regardless if they believe in the cultural ideology or not, that should tell you something, there is no whore like an old whore to borrow a phrase from Brian Mulroney. Yet we vote them into office anyway. Now how f**ked up is that?


Many state in Western Circles we should leave it alone, stop being critical of other cultures, embrace others cultures regardless if they are oppressive or against Gays, Women, or any other list of Donny Do's and Debbie Don'ts.


Many in the Politically Correct Crowd state certain cultures are misunderstood, and are an exception to the rule when brought into Western Civilization.  Many say "Assimilation into Western Society is Bad", everyone should embrace another's culture's rich individuality, cause just plain is not acceptable in our politically correct society, when many lefty's state the rainbow of cultural ideology of multicultural goodness is more pleasing to the palette.


Many in the "Left Wing" state to deride another cultural ideology is racist and immoral, no matter what their good book says to the contrary.


Of course many religious ideologies brought into Western countries we are told are benevolent and righteous, with some cultural groups who wish their ideology to be brought into our Laws, as some cultures feel our current laws which were established over a century or more are just not suitable to another cultures moral code of ethics.


Does this not fly into the face of logic?  Especially when it seems that these cultures fled their own countries in terror with only the clothes on their backs, seem to long for the good old terror days from the old country after settling in their new Western Country which opened it's arm and embraced them into the Western fold.


Britain for example has embraced Sharia Law, which, when understood states equality for women as well. If that is the case why have Shari Law replace British Law?  British Law also stated Equality for Women as well!  Sharia Law if understood word for word does state equality of the sexes, it is just some Whackjob Cleric's misinterpretation that disallows womens rights.


History has shown though that in many cases Shari Law is rarely followed when it comes to women's rights. Because after all it is a Man's world in some Cultures, when women like so many Cattle are treated more so as Breeding stock for Men, in order to have lots of sons.


One Cultures Communist Manifesto's one child policy was proof of that, as is the case of many cultures who either abort the female species, honour killings, take another wife, or dispose of that wife for another in favour of a wife who will bear them a son.


England's Henry VIII going through women, like some go through snot rags was proof of that, but then medical science was just not attuned to let men know that it is once again the MAN's Genes who determines the Sex of the child, never the woman.


Science today is discounted by many religions, including ours, even with proof positive, religions or should I say Ideology, because let's face having an imaginary friend to worship is just that Idol worship, much like Elvis.


Bottom Line is this!  You are now living in a Western Culture, we did not force you to come here, you chose to, it is not like you did not know what our Western Culture was all about, unless you were living in a cave or rock!   You should know all about us by now if you within the first day living in our country haven't figured it out.


I mean, I am sure you have witnessed your countrymen burning enough of our countries flags and political figures in Effigy to figure it out.


Our country is a series of laws and morals with a Constitution we implemented in stating everyone is equal, there is no misinterpretation or quaint cultural misunderstanding about it. 


Granted our laws are not perfect, but then our Country has not been in a Civil War with itself for at least 120 years. 


So though our laws are not perfect, they are our Laws drafted by us the people where all are equal, including you!


So one thing you really, really, really have to get through your thick head is this, Women are as smart, capable and valued as much as any Man, Women make great Teachers, Engineers, Plumbers, Policewomen, Doctors, Lawyers and Combat Soldiers, as well as valued mothers, daughters, wives and girlfriends.


To think otherwise means you are just not with the cultural human rights program, and perhaps this Western country of ours that we hold dear, is just not for you, so best leave immediately whence you came, cause changing our laws to suit your 1,500 year old cultural dark age ideologies ain't gonna fly, so get used to it.


We fought and died for our rights and for this country, you on the other hand, if just arriving to our great country, just happened to be lucky enough to ride our coat tails to Democracy. One thing you should know, our citizens of this great country, do not have military or tanks on every corner blowing us out of existence or roving bands of religious nutjobs dispensing public beheadings or hangings, so you see we would have a problem with that and never stand for such atrocities.  We also have Free Elections! How is that for a Concept?


Oh yeah one more thing, we have Gay people in this country, a called North America, you know about them I am sure, as you have hung and executed enough of them in your country. YAY GOD!


Love us or leave us, the choice is yours ~ When in Rome........"Assimilate or get the hell outta Dodge"!


Below is yesterdays opinion piece I wrote on a Saudi cleric on Saudi TV espousing the best way to kick the crap out of your wife. You really, really have to watch the video and read my opinion piece on this to fully understand what this story is all about, especially when Britain now has accepted Sharia Law in that Country.


http://my.nowpublic.com/world/saudi-cleric-lectures-muslim-young-men-how-beat-their-wives-beat-her-lady#comment-223233


I have also posted a undated photo of a Middle Eastern Woman for clarity on what is involved in burying them neck deep in the sand, the look on her terrified face of what is to become of her is evident.


Below is the Reuters story and photos on a horrified Somali woman stoned to death in Kismayu, Somalia


http://www.france24.com/en/20081028-woman-stoned-death-adultery-somalia


Execution - Somalia Woman stoned to death for adultery Tuesday 28 October 2008


A 23-year-old woman was stoned to death by Somali Islamists in Kismayu. A child was also shot and killed when gunmen opened fire as a relative of the accused woman ran forward towards the execution.


Somali Islamists have stoned to death a woman accused of adultery in the first such public killing by the militants for about two years.


The 23-year-old woman was executed late on Monday in front of hundreds of people in the southern port of Kismayu, which the Islamist insurgents captured in August, witnesses said.


Guards opened fire when a relative ran forward, killing a child, they said. "A woman in green veil and black mask was brought in a car as we waited to watch the merciless act of stoning," one local resident, Abdullahi Aden, told Reuters.


"We were told she submitted herself to be punished, yet we could see her screaming as she was forcefully bound, legs and hands.


A relative of hers ran towards her, but the Islamists opened fire and killed a child."


The Islamists last carried out public executions when they ruled Mogadishu and most of south Somalia for half of 2006.


Allied Ethiopian and Somali government forces toppled them at the end of that year, but they have waged an Iraq-style guerrilla campaign since then, gradually taking territory back.


As when they ruled Mogadishu in 2006, the Islamists now controlling the Kismayu area are again providing much-needed security, but also imposing fundamentalist practices such as banning entertainment seen as anti-Islamic.


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Monday, October 27, 2008

Military Ballots Being Rejected in Virginia




Fairfax County Registrar Rokey Suleman is disqualifying an overwhelming majority of the military federal write-in absentee ballots received in his county on the basis that no address had been given for those witnessing the voter signatures on the ballots. According to Springfield District Supervisor Pat Herrity and four former members of the military who held a press conference on Thursday, over 98 percent of these military absentee ballots in Fairfax County are being rejected.

“The federal write-in absentee ballot is a federally mandated ballot that allows military service members and their dependents to cast an absentee ballot when they haven’t received a [state] ballot before the election,” Herrity said. “For them it’s a safety net. It allows them to vote if the mail truck hasn’t reached his or her remote base in Iran or Afghanistan in time to cast a regular absentee ballot.”

When asked how many ballots had been rejected, Herrity responded, “Out of the 260 military federal write-in ballots received to date, only five included an address for the witness. The other 255 have been set aside for rejection.”





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Saudi Cleric lectures Muslim young men on how to beat their wives : BEAT HER LIKE A LADY

Barry Artiste Op/Ed




Below is a story presented to me by a Muslim friend of mine Tarek Fatah, who knows all too well, Whackjob Clerics who profess Islam as a kind benevolent ideology. Is adored by Wife Beaters everywhere, who says first give your wife a chance to obey, before slapping her around.


But we have all read in the media about honour killings, or impatience by some who just go Berzerk and to the quick, not wanting to bother to discuss options and just "kick the ever living shit" out or their wives, cause it is written somewhere it is okay to do.


Talk Show medium Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-'Arifi sort of like a cross between "Dr.Phil and Oprah on Acid, with a smattering of The View and Maury Povich" gives what the Saudi Public want, and professes to know what Women Want! A good beatin.


If ever there was a Saudi Redneck, he is one fine example.


One should know, this above statement is an exception to the rule as there more Muslims who treat their wives and daughter with respect and abhor at the thought of violence towards them.


But if Western Society were allowed to showcase such a Ideology on National Television, one can be sure Protests and Human Rights lawsuits would be immediate and swift, but in the middle east, well, let's just say that is another animal. 

Of course, this is on the heels of British Law, which now allows Sharia Law in the British Judicial System, one can be sure British Women will sleep soundly in their beds if their spouse happens to be an avid watcher of Muhammad al-Arifi.


http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1594.htm


Saudi Cleric lectures Muslim young men on how to beat their wives


BEAT HER LIKE A LADY


From a television program aired last year in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during which cleric Muhammad al-’Arifi advised young men on how to discipline their wives.


Translated from the Arabic by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute. "Men beat women more often than women beat men.


Allah created women delicate, fragile, supple, and soft because they use their emotions more than they use their bodies.


While a man may use beating to discipline his wife, she sometimes uses her tears to discipline him. For men, women’s emotions may be fiercer than the strike of a sword.


"Before you beat a woman, first admonish her—once, twice, three times, four times, or ten.


If this doesn’t help, you must turn to the teaching “refuse to share their beds.” Thus, a husband distances himself from his wife in bed and in conversation.


If a husband comes to eat a meal and his wife asks him, “How are you? Do you want anything?” he must not answer.


The husband should not sleep with his wife. He should sleep in another room. "If this does not help, then the husband’s third option is to beat his wife lightly so it will not leave a mark.


He must not make her face ugly. Beating in the face is forbidden. Even if you want your camel or donkey to walk faster, you are not allowed to beat it in the face.


If this is true for animals, it is all the more true for humans. If a man is angry with his wife—if he says to her, “Watch out, the child has fallen next to the stove,” and she says, “I’m busy”—then the husband should beat his wife with a toothpick or something like it.


He should not beat her with a bottle of water, a plate, or a knife. Notice how gentle the toothpick used for beating is—this shows you that the purpose is not to inflict pain.


When you beat an animal, you intend to cause it pain so that it will obey you, because a camel would not understand if you said, “Camel, come on, start moving.” A donkey understands nothing but beatings, but to a wife, a light beating conveys, “Woman, you have gone too far.”


"A husband should not beat his wife like he would a child, slapping it right and left. Unfortunately, many husbands beat their wives only when they get angry, and when they start the beating, they use both hands and sometimes their feet, as if they are punching a wall.


Remember, brother, this is forbidden; your wife is a human being.


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Bill Clinton - Al Gore and the Glass Seagall Repeal: Did the Democrats Crash the World Economy?

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


(Photo Inset)  Then President Bill Clinton, smiling with Greenspan and Bankers and Wall Street as he signs back in the Glass Seagall Repeal Act.


Since I took a bath on the Stock Market recently as most the world did when they count on the US economy as a benchmark in Economic stability.


I started to do some research into why it all went into the toilet. What I found out surprised even me. I wanted to know more behind the subprime crash and the downturn in the current stock market crash the world is experiencing today.


I wanted to know who was responsible in all this, cause let's face it, it is not like this was not an all of a sudden occurrence.


Many Americans in this election season will be comforted to know, Then President Bill Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore, both under the Democrats, were pushed and cajoled and got Greenspan, who was the United States Money Man, to hop onboard to sign off the GlassSteagall repeal (Resolution 10) authourizing Banks to get into the Speculative market, signing a Bill into Law to allow Banks and the Stock Market to be bestest pals.


Problem is, a similar scheme was tried in the early 1900s whereby people could buy stocks with little or no money down speculating on the world stock market.


This pyramid scheme resulted in a stock market crash around 1904 and the World Disaster Stock Crash of 1929 or Black Thursday.


An excerpt of the 1929 crash and the resulting investigation thoroughly analyzed why the economy was unsound in 1929.


America in the 1920s had corporate structures that encouraged frauds, imposters, grafters and swindlers.


It was a “flood tide of corporate larceny,” wrote Galbraith. The banking system was inherently weak — when one bank failed, the assets of other banks were immediately frozen, leading to investor panic and a domino effect of bank failures.


Lastly, the idea of using deficit spending to jump-start the economy had not yet been accepted. President Hoover’s advisors were urging him to balance the budget instead of spending more money to relieve a distressed economy or reducing taxes to alleviate the drop in wages.


Wow, doesn't this sound real familiar to what is happening today in 2008?


In the 1990s under then President Bill Clinton, when the investment industry pressured Bill Clinton to allow Investment houses to get their investors, who by an large as Investors were to say the least not very investment savy and bought buy securities of companies which the banks and the Investment houses were aligned with.


This way both the investment house and whoever the securities institution could collect huge commissions, all off the backs of the unsuspecting investor who put his trust and money into this unethical practice.


Guess Bill Clinton was not adverse to sticking it just to Monica with Cohibas, but to the American Public as well.


Speculators smelling an opportunity would buy default insurance on these investments made by others, in the hopes if investors defaulted the Speculators could collect BIG TIME.


Sort of like buying Life Insurance on your Elderly Neighbour, knowing he will most likely die soon. This resulted in a run or opportunity for both the stock exchange, Speculators, Banks, Investment Houses, who along with compounded by income tax evasion on Bonuses and Insurmountable Earnings by investment bankers.


The Horrific Ethics displayed by these Investment Houses and Banks to con their depositors and investors to use their Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink, affiliate security and investment advisors, has resulting in the quandary the World Financial Markets are currently in.


Perhaps something to think about come this election time, there is a reason why the Democvratic symbol is a "Jackass"!


Many blamed the Republicans and George Bush, when in fact it was the democrats who initiated it all along. Boy, isn't that a "Kick in the proverbial Nuts" or as Holier than Thou Al Gore would say in part an Economic "Inconvenient Truth" as History repeats itself all over again.


Guess one never learns from past mistakes, or do they $ ????


Today (Photo Inset) the Asian Markets which has always been pretty stable took a real nosedive today,


I would provide all the links to my research on this, but I tell it would fill a half page of links, so I will post the link below on the Glass Seagall Repeal which explains it in the nutshell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act


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Is Halloween a pedophile's favourite holiday?

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

The United States have laws requiring Pedophiles to post such signs.

Some wonder if Canada would pass a law requiring Pedophiles to post signs stating "No Candy at this Residence". Would British Columbia pass such as law, highly unlikely. They should also be required to state "No Puppies" in their White Van too !

Civil Liberty Organizations state it is unfair. Best thing is for parents to accompany children.


http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=9d913512-fa78-4cb0-9d18-8f3d93eff828

Is Halloween a pedophile's favourite holiday?

Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun columnist

Published: Sunday, October 26, 2008


Many American states require convicted sex offenders to observe a curfew on Halloween or post a sign saying, "No candy at this residence." With all the tough talk about crime in Canada, can we be far behind?


Knock-knock: Is Halloween really a pedophile's favourite holiday?


After 364 days of telling their kids not to talk to strangers, many parents next week will turn their children loose to blithely approach anyone's door with the invitation: Trick or treat?


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HO-HO-Hoping to Lure Back Customers: Canadian retailers slash prices

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


World Market Crashes has retailers in Canada slashing prices on virtually everything in order to salvage what little business they hope to get this upcoming Christmas.


With the dollar in nose dive mode, Retailers most likely will see Bread and Butter Luxury items gathering dust on department store shelves, as Canadians "Grinch" themselves this holiday season with uncertainty whether to buy food or gifts.


Retailers hoping to stave off their own bankruptcy and maintain a semblence of solvency are hoping to match prices with their US retailer counterparts in getting "tight fisted shoppers" back into the shopping malls.


One wonders what a lean Santa will look like as kids ask for anything and everything, as harried parents look on and shake their heads at Santa, putting the ball in Santa's court to explain the Elfs may not be able to fulfil every kids Christmas wish.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/10/26/7211826-cp.html


Canadian retailers slash prices


By David Friend, THE CANADIAN PRESS


TORONTO - Canadian retailers are getting a dose of yuletide fear this fall as many of them slash prices early with anticipation that this holiday shopping season could be one of the most painful in recent memory.


Economists and analysts have a dismal outlook for the fourth quarter as the latest sales numbers and data suggests confidence is plummeting at an alarming rate.


"From our discussions with retailers across the country, it is safe to predict that (the) fourth quarter of 2008 will be the worst in over two decades," said Perry Caicco, an analyst at CIBC World Markets in his outlook on the busiest shopping period of the year.


"For Canadian retailers and consumer companies, the everyday sales challenges are now enormous."


It only takes a walk around any of the country's major shopping malls to see store fronts plastered with signs proclaiming major markdowns on clothing items, electronics and household decor - some of them as much as 70 per cent off the regular retail price.


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Jennifer Hudson offers $100,000 reward for safe return of missing nephew

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


American Idol's Jennifer Hudson, who lost her family to a deranged murderer, is giving out a 100,000 dollar reward for the safe return of her nephew, who may have been an eyewitness to the murders.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/26/7211076-ap.html 




Jennifer Hudson offers $100,000 reward for safe return of missing nephew


By Rupa Shenoy, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


CHICAGO - Jennifer Hudson and her family offered a $100,000 reward Sunday for the safe return of her missing nephew, as investigators looked for forensic evidence near the home where her mother and brother were found shot to death.


Mourners dressed in their Sunday best milled outside the childhood home of the singer and Oscar-winning actress, along with investigators seeking clues to the whereabouts of seven-year-old Julian King, the son of Jennifer Hudson's sister, Julia.


In a statement Sunday evening from publicist Lisa Kasteler, Jennifer Hudson appealed to the public for its help, offering the reward and asking that any information be given to Chicago police.


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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Help find Jessie Foster, Nevada Search





One of the members of NowPublic, JessiesMomGlendene is still searching for her missing daughter Jessie Foster.


She just received word yesterday that Frank Mahoney from the National Centre for Missing Loved Ones in Las Vegas is going back out into the Nevada desert to search for the body of Jessie Foster.


The missing posters are up in Las Vegas and the search is back on, but volunteers are needed and so if you are in the Las Vegas area and can help out, please get in touch and do so.


Jessie Foster has been missing since April 9, 2006, so it has been a long and trying time for her family and everyone involved in the case. She disappeared only a few months after leaving Kamloops BC to be with her boyfriend in Las Vegas. It is unknown what happened to her, but her family has never given up hope she will show up alive.


This is an ongoing news story, so I am putting the word out there again for help and assistance in this difficult time.


Some added information:


ATV's would be good if you have them. If not you can walk with the rest of us.
We have a request from the mother of a missing woman, Jessie Foster (North Las Vegas Police case 2006) to check an area in the desert for her remains.


We will meet next Sat Nov 1, 2008 at 9am at the corner of Lamb and Centennial Pwky .
Dress for walking and the weather.


Direction: 215 to Lamb south on Lamb one block 15 to west on 215 to Lamb l/south to Centennial Pkwy
RVSP to Frank Mahoney at 702-564-1466







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That's Unpossible: Corrupt Politicians in British Columbia? How Ludicrous!

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

I find it hard to believe political candidates in this Province are corrupt, immoral, incompetent, there has to be a mistake!

I am sure our political leaders will get to the bottom of all this and correct this horrific myth, after all this is British Columbia, where even our Efficient Courts and highly respected Justice System who are quick to release criminals, because rapists, murderers and drug dealers, because Judges here find all criminals are either misunderstood or only commit crimes because they have low blood sugar.


Certainly all is well in British Columbia, where even the Homeless get homes and drive solid gold cadillacs, because let's face it, British Columbia as our Politicians state, is we are a model for the rest of the world to follow.


These are facts, we can all take to the bank, along with our Carbon Neutral Tax cheque!


I have to go now and take a hot shower, and wash my mouth out with bleach, I feel so dirty.


Below is our Man- Jagmohan Bhandari and his illustrious Resume, certainly anyone who reads it, knows the untruths in this scandal of a story. I mean my God, the man is a standing "Member of Technology and Ethics"!


http://www.century21.ca/jagmohan.bhandari


In ending, I think News Media should leave the man alone, and concentrate on more serious issues such as how come there are not enough Starbucks in this Province?

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=6127e63e-64c6-48c3-9014-ff41990d4b93

Dual candidate has checkered past

He wasn't allowed to work in insurance, mortgage industries

Clare Ogilvie, The Province

Published: Sunday, October 26, 2008


WHISTLER - A Surrey man who is simultaneously running for mayor of Whistler and for council in his hometown was at one time barred from working as an insurance agent for being untrustworthy.


An Insurance Council of B.C. decision from July 2002 says Jagmohan Bhandari "failed to act in a trustworthy and competent manner, in good faith and in accordance with the usual practice of the business of insurance."


The comments stem from an investigation of Bhandari by the council into activities he performed after switching employment from American Income Life Insurance to London Life Insurance.


The decision also states: "The Council determined that the nature of [Bhandari's] contact with the Clients indicated that his insurance recommendations were motivated by personal gain and not the best interests of each Client."


Insurance agents receive commissions for their work.


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Credit crunch hits Saudi Arabia, $2.7 billion spent shoring economy: Kraft Dinner Now Saudi Gold?

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

 You know the world economy is in trouble when the Saudi's , who have more money than God are feeling the pinch. There are many unanswered questions, how Saudi Arabia spendy Billion dollar Resort projects may be in jeopardy, especially since these resorts were for the well heeled westerners to visit, who now are in the same boat.


Heaven forbid, there may be a run on Kraft Dinner at the local Saudi Grocery store, with Vacations in Economy Class to the desert resorts, like Somalia, because that is most likely as cheap a vacation a Saudi can get.


Will Chevy Mini Van's replace Bentleys on Saudi Streets, if so perhaps GM can finally get out of it's financial woes and Charge the Saudi's 100,000 dollars for a Minivan, just tell em supply and demand by soccer Moms in North America, as Saudi belt tightening is to become the norm, maybe it is high time we put it to em, after all fair is fair.


Of course it is possible that this may just mean the average joe Saudi who abhors getting their hands dirty with manual labor, will have to let go all of their third world labourers who they have always hired to clean their toilets, groom their backyard and cook their meals. 


What is the world coming to when a Well Heeled Saudi now, may have to cut their own grass or make themselves their own sandwich or switch TV channels with a remote? A travesty, I tells ya!




http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d32aa2e1-384b-4491-8ad1-9af78a3dc48f


Credit crunch even hits Saudi Arabia as $2.7 billion spent shoring economy


Reuters Published: Sunday, October 26, 2008


DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia plans to extend 10 billion riyals ($2.7 billion) in credit to low-income citizens as Gulf Arab oil-producers step up efforts to contain the fallout from the global financial crisis.


Saudi King Abdullah ordered that the additional funds be deposited in the Saudi Credit Bank, which was established to extend interest-free loans to Saudi citizens with limited resources to help them overcome financial difficulties.


The move comes on the heels of an emergency meeting of Gulf finance ministers and central bankers held in Riyadh on Saturday which was aimed at better coordinating the response to a global downturn that threatens to brake their region's six-year economic boom.


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BREAKING NEWS: Dalai Lama has 'given up' Says campaign for more Tibetan autonomy fruitless

Barry Artiste Op/Ed


China 1-Tibet 0 - Canada 1.  A sad game in which many in the world were hoping for a better outcome. 


A small consulation is in 2007 Canada's Conservative Prime Minister  Stephen Harper and the people  of  Canada, bestowed Canadian Citizenship on the Dalai Lama, so the  Religious Leader is stateless no more and has a Canadian home to come to.


In the 50 or so years Tibet has fought the good fight, for naught.  As the Dragon douses the flames of freedom for Tibet, as is par for the course in anything the Dragon tramples on.


http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/10/26/7207036-sun.html


Dalai Lama has 'given up' Says campaign for more Tibetan autonomy fruitless


By ASHWINI BHATIA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


DHARMSALA, India -- The Dalai Lama said yesterday he has given up on efforts to persuade Beijing to allow greater autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule.


The Tibetan spiritual leader said he would now ask the Tibetan people to decide how to take the dialogue forward.


China has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of leading a campaign to split Tibet from the rest of the country.


The Dalai Lama has denied the allegations, saying he is only seeking greater autonomy for the Himalayan region to protect its unique Buddhist culture -- a policy he calls the "middle way." "I have been sincerely pursuing the middle way approach in dealing with China for a long time now but there hasn't been any positive response from the Chinese side," he said yesterday in Dharmsala, the north Indian town that is home to Tibet's government-in-exile. "As far as I'm concerned I have given up," he said.


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Dalai Lama has 'given up':Says campaign for more Tibetan autonomy fruitless

Barry Artiste Op/Ed

China 1 Tibet 0. Sad way to be,

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/National/2008/10/26/7207036-sun.html

Sun, October 26, 2008

Dalai Lama has 'given up'Says campaign for more Tibetan autonomy fruitless

By ASHWINI BHATIA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DHARMSALA, India -- The Dalai Lama said yesterday he has given up on efforts to persuade Beijing to allow greater autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule.


The Tibetan spiritual leader said he would now ask the Tibetan people to decide how to take the dialogue forward.


China has repeatedly accused the Dalai Lama of leading a campaign to split Tibet from the rest of the country. The Dalai Lama has denied the allegations, saying he is only seeking greater autonomy for the Himalayan region to protect its unique Buddhist culture -- a policy he calls the "middle way."


"I have been sincerely pursuing the middle way approach in dealing with China for a long time now but there hasn't been any positive response from the Chinese side," he said yesterday in Dharmsala, the north Indian town that is home to Tibet's government-in-exile.


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