If only our Immigration officials followed the lead of their US counterparts

Syed Hussan of the nutcase illegal alien advocacy group No One is Illegal is an immigrant to Canada.

Syed Hussan shows his gratitude
for being allowed to immigrate to Canada

His appreciation for this country providing him a safe haven takes many forms, including  disrespecting peace officers and his organization's efforts to help others circumvent Canada's generous immigration policies that he was able to use to his advantage, as well as activity that led to his arrest for being an organizer of violent protests during last year's G20 conference in Toronto,

He wrote a column recently at rabble.ca complaining of his treatment by US Homeland Security and Customs and Immigration agents. They held him at the border for 9 hours and then turned him back.

It shouldn't have taken as long as 9 hours, but Immigration Canada could learn a lesson there.

Egypt's revolution: fanatical Islamists vs bigoted, hateful secularists

Thousands of fresh faces poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday, July 29, packing the hot concrete plaza all the way to its metal barriers, as speeches and chants echoed into nearby neighborhoods. The demonstration was more than three times the size of the crowds in recent weeks, when youth activists had maintained a sit-in. But the event — ostensibly a rally for national unity — may have thrown a wrench into the plans and dampened the pride of the young liberals who have steadfastly clung to the square demanding fulfillment of their "revolutionary demands." That's because most of Friday's protesters weren't liberals.

"We came because we want Islamic law to be implemented," said Amgad Ali, a Cairo lawyer.

... More than a dozen non-Islamist parties were represented in the demonstration, but many nonetheless expressed a feeling of being outnumbered. "Welcome to the infidel section," shouted Rania Rifaat sarcastically to visitors. "I'm upset," she added, looking past the tents into the crowd. "We, the youth, did the revolution. We didn't say that it should be Islamic or whatever. And people felt good. They felt relaxed here. And then suddenly these Islamic liars came, and they want us to go back 300 years....they are like the Jews — they always break their promises," she said of the Islamists. 

Interestingly, this is what Time Magazine characterizes as an Egyptian "liberal." Should be fun times ahead in Egypt. No matter who ends up running it, it'll be a backwards outhouse of a nation.

Barry Rubin at Pajamas Media has some interesting observations about this development.

Multiculturalism didn't work out so well for these folks...

Check out a comic that makes proponents of multiculturalism very angry

Sort of related: The thought police at rabble.ca want to ban a t-shirt

One of the leaders of Canada's radical left acknowledges they are acting out from emotional damage

Anyone who has interacted with radical leftists will notice certain consistent attributes among them.

They are highly emotional and irrational. Their conclusions are not based on logical assessments of a situation, but on their personal identification with one party and the projection of their own emotional damage into incommensurable issues.

One can easily observe this phenomenon repeated over and over. It is evident in the histrionic behavior of Code Pink activist Sandra Ruch and the rest of her crew during their failed effort to sail The Sea Hitler to Gaza to try to break an embargo against the terrorist group Hamas. It's evident in the unbalanced behaviour of OCAP activists who disrupted a Toronto City Council meeting a few months ago. It's evident among radical university professors who are mired in marginal areas of study, such as "Critical Race Theory" "Gender Studies" and others permeated with self-absorbed nonsense that bears little relevance to the rest of the world.

While people not directly involved with radical, anti-capitalist politics recognize the absurdities of that movement, it is interesting to note that some rare self-insight has been exhibited by the Godmother of Canadian radicalism, Judy Rebick.

In an article at rabble.ca, the radical leftist website she founded, Rebick wrote:

In addition to the sadness about the state of society and of nature, almost all of us whatever oppression we might have experienced for social or economic reasons suffer from some kind of deep personal wounds. And if we don't face that sadness, that pain, we will inflict it on ourselves and others in a way that is hurtful. Much of the dysfunction on the Left comes not from political differences which can be creative and productive but from people acting out this pain. We become part of the problem instead of the part of the solution.

I was in therapy at the time when I was most busy and most recognized as an activist. I went through a lot of change both from the activism and from the therapy but I kept the therapy private. Only a few close friends knew what I was going through. We have privatized our emotional problems.

When psychiatrists assess people with mental illness, one of the considerations in the diagnosis that is a predictor of an individual's capability to respond to treatment is their insight into their condition. Rebick frequently makes statements that suggest that she is detached from reality, but she is not unintelligent.  Most of her cohorts in the radical left lack her intellect, such as it is, but have an even lesser degree of understanding of their own issues, to say nothing of the political postures they uncomprehendingly assume.

Whether or not the radical anti-capitalist movement can recognize that a great deal of what they do is an unfortunate outgrowth of their tainted psyches, Rebick's admission contributes the basis for understanding what really drives the Far Left.

Muslim Brotherhood leads massive demonstration calling for Islamic state in Egypt

So it begins.

Truth in Advertising: Cowboys & Aliens Does in Fact Offer Cowboys and Aliens

"Picture the cast of Unforgiven suddenly discovering they’re in Independence Day ..."

A good review of what sounds like a fun time-waster from John Boot at Pajamas Media

Canadian Islamic Congress brags about CBC's anti-Israel bias

The anti-Israel, anti-Conservative bias at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been one of the hallmarks of our tax-supported national media network.

The Ceeb goes to pains to protest a professed even-handedness, and sometimes, on rare occasion, they may actually present a news item that isn't overwhelmingly slanted in a neo-socialist, regressive direction.

But their protestations are being undermined by their friends. The anti-Semitic Canadian Islamic Congress, whose founding President notoriously pronounced that all Israeli Jews are fair targets for murder, is crowing about the bias at the CBC in favour of the Sea Hitler flotilla that attempted to break Israel's arms embargo against Gaza.

In a link on the Canadian Islamic Congress' website, they have an item " CBC’S BIASED PORTRAYAL OF GAZA AID PARTICIPANTS"

Could it be that the CIC was referring to one of the rare instances when the CBC wasn't portraying Israeli defensive measures against Palestinian and Iranian terrorism as some sort of modern day imperialism?

Not at all!



The bias they were talking about was the CBC National’s one-sided bias in its sympathetic portrayal of participants with the Canadian boat to Gaza.

Things are bad when they've gotten to the point when the Canadian Islamic Congress is prepared to publicize bias in their favour!










Here's the CBC report the CIC endorses as being biased against Israel:

NDP's Socialist Caucus sees a silver lining in Layton's cancer diagnosis

The NDP's Socialist Caucus is a manifesto-driven group of fanatics who want to drive the agenda of Canada's Official Opposition in Parliament.

Jack Layton was able to translate his personal popularity into major gains for his party in Quebec, and was the glue that held the party's disparate moderates and the radical socialists together. Layton's recent announcement that he is taking a leave of absence to fight cancer for the second time bodes as badly for his party as it does for him personally.

Without anyone who comes close to Layton's popularity or ability to moderate the NDP, an internecine, knives-drawn free-for-all is all but inevitable. Layton made an aged, uncharismatic former labour leader from Quebec as interim leader, anticipating his return, but realistically, a second cancer battle is a journey that leaves that likelihood remote.

The NDP's Socialist Caucus is still resentful that the party attempted to remove the word "socialist" from its charter and has fought bitterly to introduce its agenda of anti-capitalist, anti-Israel, pro-Castro Cuba socialism to prominence.

Could it be just a coincidence that only a few days after Layton announced he was stepping down to fight cancer that the Socialist Caucus presented its revitalized website and campaign to move the NDP firmly into the anti-Capitalist camp.

Without a strong leader, this could be a golden opportunity for this faction to insinuate itself  as a force in the national NDP. This group co-sponsored a rally calling for violent revolution in Canada, they want to abolish private ownership of industry and property ,and wants to destroy democratic Israel while celebrating totalitarian, Communist Cuba.

The head Commissar of the NDP's Socialist Caucus is one Barry Weisleder, a substitute teacher with the Toronto District School Board.

Like anti-Israel fanatic Judy Rebick, Weisleder thinks Layton's NDP has gone too mainstream, so while offering condolences whose sincerity can only be guessed at, they assuredly welcome the chance that the absence of a strong mainstream leader presents to them.

Obama's debt-ceiling posturing all about protecting himself in the 2012 election campaign

The president is holding out for a "grand bargain" to solve the debt problem for a couple of years rather than just a few months.

That sounds statesmanlike — until you understand what lies beneath it. If Washington raises the debt ceiling only enough to last a few months, then it will have to revisit the issue next year, during a presidential election campaign.

A good editorial from the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Why are socialist moral relativists silent in the wake of the Norwegian terrorist attack?

After the al-Qaida bombings on 9/11, moral relativists like Noam Chomsky rushed to condemn, not the perpetrators of that horrific atrocity, but the United States of America, for ostensibly having done something to anger the terrorists enough to murder 2977 innocent people.

Rather than outright condemnation of the perpetrators of this abominable mass murder, Chomsky, on the very next day, before the bodies of the victims of Jihadi terror were cold, wrote:

"we can seek to understand what may have led to the crimes, which means making an effort to enter the minds of the likely perpetrators. If we choose the latter course, we can do no better, I think, than to listen to the words of Robert Fisk, whose direct knowledge and insight into affairs of the region is unmatched after many years of distinguished reporting. Describing "The wickedness and awesome cruelty of a crushed and humiliated people," he writes that "this is not the war of democracy versus terror that the world will be asked to believe in the coming days. It is also about American missiles smashing into Palestinian homes and US helicopters firing missiles into a Lebanese ambulance in 1996 and American shells crashing into a village called Qana and about a Lebanese militia - paid and uniformed by America's Israeli ally - hacking and raping and murdering their way through refugee camps." And much more.

Again, we have a choice: we may try to understand, or refuse to do so, contributing to the likelihood that much worse lies ahead."

Chomsky was not alone is his morally relativistic justification of Jihad, or even worse, those like Robert Fisk, Richard Falk, Michael Keefer and a cast of irrational or malevolent anti-Capitalists and Jihad apologists who, like Holocaust deniers, strove to deny, and this defend the real perpetrators of the crime against humanity that was committed on September 11, 2001. In some cases, the 9-11 terrorists were even celebrated as heroes, as they were by throngs of Palestinians.

Now that an insane terrorist has murdered dozens of innocent people at a government building and a socialist youth indoctrination camp in Norway, no conservative or Christian of note has come forward to attempt to justify or attempt to mitigate or deflect blame from the depravity of Anders Behring Breivik.

Nor will they. Breivik is a terrorist and mass-murderer for whom there is no justification.

But it is interesting to observe that no anti-capitalist or socialist commentator who was so quick to find a moral justification for 9-11 has not leaped to assuage Breivik's crimes. The question is not why they should do so, for no decent human being possibly could. The question is why they are so anxious to defend and enable the murderers of innocents in the West when the murders are committed in the name of Jihad.

UPDATE: It didn't take long for the crazies to come out of the woodwork. Khaled Muammar, who until earlier this month was president of the Canadian Arab Federation, which was defunded by the federal government for expressing support for terrorist groups, is spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. This one by conspiracy whack-job Stephen Lendman, who says the Breivik killings were a Mossad plot. Lendman is at least consistently crazy. He also says that Bobby Kennedy was killed by the CIA.

(Update h/t Blazing Cat Fur)

Book Review - AN ANATOMY OF ADDICTION: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted, and the Miracle Drug Cocaine

On April 21, 1884, a 28-year-old researcher in the field now called neuroscience sat down at the cluttered desk of his cramped room in Vienna General Hospital and composed a letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays, telling her of his recent studies: “I have been reading about cocaine, the effective ingredient of coca leaves,” Sigmund Freud wrote, “which some Indian tribes chew in order to make themselves resistant to privation and fatigue.”

                       

Less than a month later, Freud was writing to Bernays about the many self-experiments in which he had swallowed various quantities of the drug, finding it useful in relieving brief episodes of depression and anxiety. Later, he described how “a small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now busy collecting the literature” — in German, French and English — “for a song of praise to this magical substance.”

Full review at The New York Times

Funny or Die's Nurse Jackee

Nurse Jackée from Jackée Harry

Norwegian Killer Breivik's Knights Templar Obsession

As more news and even more speculation about Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik comes to light, his motives are being ascribed, variously, to Christian fundamentalism and white supremacism.

A YouTube video that Breivik created points to neither of those traits, but does strongly indicate cultural conservatism along with his hatred of Islam, Marxism, and multiculturalism.

While some accounts point to his membership in the Freemasons, one aspect of his apparent influences that has been discussed less is his obvious obsession with the Order of the Knights Templar.

The Templars were an Order of Priest/Knights who were one of the most effective military forces in the Crusades and who also created an economic infrastructure within Europe that became a forerunner of modern banking.

It was the wealth that they created that led to their undoing when Philip IV of France forced Pope Clement to dissolve the order and execute all the Templars so he could absorb their wealth. Legends of surviving Templars have existed for centuries and their continuation within the Order of Freemasons (which has its own, very separate origins from the Templars)  has been the source of conspiracy theories and popular fiction.

The Templars were famous for interacting with other cultures and learning from them and much is made of the mystical nature of the Order. Umberto Eco, the author of The Name of the Rose, wrote a Templar conspiracy novel in 1988 called Foucault's Pendulum about a secret order of modern-day Templars bent on world domination. The novel was interesting in that it was based on the plot being advanced through the Internet, which at the time was only available to relatively few people.

Breivik's YouTube video, titled Knights Templar 2083 includes numerous depictions of Templars and concludes with a now chilling photograph of the killer holding a weapon, clearly stylized to make him look like a continuation of the Order's tradition.

Out of the flow of information and rumour that will come as Breivik's life and judicial process is further revealed, it seems likely that wild conspiracy theories involving a long-dead Crusader Order will be part of them.

Amy Winehouse is dead at 27

The Canadian government needs your help in fighting hate

Yesterday at the Toronto offices of the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, federal Cabinet Ministers Tim Uppal and Jason Kenney announced the success of a Bill that establishes the creation of a national Holocaust Memorial in Ottawa.

Private Members' Bill rarely become enacted as law, but the Bill for the Memorial, which was introduced by Mr. Uppal, was a rare exception with an unusual back-story.

The idea came from a young university student who first approached Environment Minister Peter Kent with the idea. Kent introduced her to Tim Uppal, who had a personal connection to the issue and made it his own.

Minister for Democratic Renewal Tim Uppal with
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre CEO Avi Benolo

Mr. Uppal spoke about how his wife, a woman of South Asian decent who had attended Catholic schools, was a participant on the March of Remembrance and Hope, a Holocaust Educational Program. She was deeply moved by the experience, which took her to the grounds of Nazi death camps in Europe and later to Israel. These experiences highlighted the need for the importance of a monument that serves as an ever-present reminder of where the horrors that racial hate and discrimination can lead.

It is worth noting that The March of Remembrance and Hope was the subject of an anti-Semitic thesis that achieved international notoriety after it became the basis of a Master's Degree awarded at the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. The author of the thesis, one Jenny Peto, who never so much as interviewed a single participant in The March of Remembrance and Hope, claimed it was part of a Zionist conspiracy to "obscure Jewish privilege, deny Jewish racism and promote the interests of the Israeli nation-state."

As a religious Sikh, and someone who has experienced discrimination himself, Uppal spoke of the bond he felt with the Canadian Jewish community, who had undergone great suffering in Europe and discrimination in Canada in the past. It is ironic that Uppal, who is the member of parliament for Edmonton-Sherwood Park in Alberta, where there are very few South Asian or Jewish constituents, would be the person to introduce the Holocaust Memorial Bill. But as he and Jason Kenney reminded the audience, it is a reflection of the current government's commitment to fighting bigotry and anti-Semitism.

The two Ministers reiterated that part of that commitment involves exposing and denying federal funding to Non-Governmental Organizations that engage in hateful activities under  the guise of 'Human Rights' activities. One such group is Alternatives International, which was an organizer of the failed attempt to launch a Canadian boat to break Israel's arms embargo of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Jason Kenney

When asked about the fact that Alternatives continued to receive about one million dollars of tax funds in the last fiscal year, Mr. Kenney responded that he understood that funding would cease to that group for it's mid-east activities. He added that there is $200 Billion dollars dispersed to various programs by the government each year to a huge number of organizations, as that some activities of some of them go unnoticed by the government. But Ministers have been instructed to be watchful to ensure that such groups that engage in acts that conflict with Canada's national, economic and foreign policy goals don't get paid by the government to do so.

Alternatives continues to support activity against Canadian ally Israel and an undemocratic Marxist-Leninist ideology. One of Alternatives' Board Memebers', Ali Mallah, a vice president of the anti-Semitic Canadian Arab Federation, was a featured speaker at a Marxism conference in Toronto this year.

Following the Press Conference, one of the federal ministers spoke to me, very pleased that I had asked about defending Alternatives. The government needs the help of citizens and the media to make sure that these issues are raised publicly. Radical leftist groups and their supporters in the mainstream media, like many writers at the Toronto Star, criticize the government for taking a principled stand against the hatred and extremism that groups like Alternatives represent.

Groups like Faculty for Palestine, go so far as to lie, hoping that no one will check facts, as the media often does not do. In today's National Post, a committee of Faculty for Palestine writers lied about the contents of the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism's report, saying it is an attack on free speech that wants to criminalize criticism of Israel and with regard to Israeli Aparthid Week  "calls on government to legislate this new criminalizing definition of anti-Semitism."

Nowhere, in any of the CPCCA's 24 recommendations is any such call made. But Faculty for Palestine is relying on the likelihood that people won't check facts, but will just accept their claims.

The report is available through this link and anyone who bothers to read it can see that the group of intellectually deficient anti-Israel university teachers either didn't understand it or are lying about its contents. But that should be expected from peoplee who , while claiming they are opposed to anti-Semitism, practice a unique, single-minded focus on the only Jewish state’s relatively small transgressions committed in the name of self-defennse, while completely ignoring the comparatively egregious human rights violations of its immediate neighbors. That makes their claim of opposition to anti-Semitism ring as hollow as their other false representations.

The government needs your help to speak out against the use of tax funds to pay for hate. So write the press, write your MP and speak out about this if it maters to you.

My friend Elwy Yost died yesterday

Before Turner Classic Movies, or the Moviepix Channel presented important, vintage films in their entirety without commercials, Elwy Yost was treating viewers to the best of cinematic history without interruptions on Saturday Night at the Movies.

I didn`t really know Elwy Yost, other than one very brief encounter (to be described later in this column), but his warmth, humour, and genuine, contagious love of great movies made him feel like a beloved uncle or a dear old family friend who visited my home each week during my childhood.

On the Ontario Educational Communications Authority (OECA), which later changed its name to TVOntario, Yost introduced me to some of the best notion pictures ever made and played matchmaker in my lifelong love affair with cinema. These were astounding movies like Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Sunset Boulevard, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Inherit the Wind,  Outcast of the Islands, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Hangover Square, and many others that made an indelible impression. These were films that you just couldn`t see anywhere else at the time. Elwy would conduct interviews with the filmmakers and actors, many of whom were obviously thrilled to be given an opportunity to recount a time that had been neglected by a forgetful public.

Elwy died yesterday at the age of 86 in Vancouver. He moved there in 1989, but continued to film the introductions to Saturday Night at the Movies for another decade, until 1999, when he retired. I never knew him personally, but after all those years of watching him and absorbing his enthusiasm, it feels like I've lost a friend.

My only personal encounter with Elwy was rather funny and bizarre, for me anyway. There was a wonderful comedy called Champagne for Caesar with Ronald Colman and Vincent Price that Elwy used to show once in a while. It is about a genius (Colman) who can't hold down a job, and decides to go on a $64,000 Question-type game show. He insists on continuing after he wins the grand prize, and the sponsor allows it, only to find that he will be bankrupt if the genius actually collects his final win.

The movie hadn't been on in years, and in the early 90's I wanted very much to see it again. It was unavailable on video, and I couldn't find it anywhere. I was riding my bicycle down Yonge Street just south of Eglinton one day,  thinking while I was pedalling about how I should write to Elwy Yost to ask him to try to get Champagne for Caesar on Saturday Night at the Movies again, when who would step into the road just beside where I was riding to get into a waiting taxi,  but Elwy.

Shocked, I slammed on my brakes to a screeching halt and shouted at the top of my lungs, "ELWY!!!"

Poor Elwy grabbed at the taxi door with one hand and at his chest with the other, in what I'm ashamed to say might have been fright, with his mouth wide open. I really didn't mean to startle him. It was just that literally at the moment I was thinking of him, which was not a frequent occurrence for me, as if by magic, he instantly appeared.  (I've tried to conjure celebrities by thinking of them after that, but sadly Salma Hayek has not miraculously appeared on my doorstep yet.)

I then blurted out, "Elwy! Are you ever going to get Champagne for Caesar back on Saturday Night at the Movies?" Clearly thinking he was dealing with a crazy person (for which I don't blame him), but I hope realizing not a dangerous one, he said, "Fantastic movie! Love it! Gotta go!"  Then quickly got in the back seat of the cab and I'm sure instructed the driver to drive away from the loud bicyclist at the utmost speed.

He never did get Champagne for Caesar on again, but Elwy continued to run thoughtful, rarely seen films on Saturday Night at The Movies. The programing just hasn't been the same since he left in 1999. and now that he's gone, it evokes an even greater memory of those incredible discoveries that he brought to me in my youth.

Lots of us owe much to Elwy, which is why I've started a facebook campaign to name a Toronto park after him.

You can join at this link.

Harper makes loony left betray their contempt for the intelligence of Canada`s voters

Murray Dobbin is a Board Member of  the NDP-linked Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a columnist for the anti-Israel, radical activist website rabble.ca.  He is also one of the least astute political observers in Canada; if there's a way to misinterpret events, misconstrue and de-contextualize facts or make an incorrect prediction, Dobbin invariably finds a way to do it.

rabble.ca is useful for one thing and one thing only; to get insight into the mind-set of Canada's radical fanatics. It's informative to observe that by assuming the centrist role abdicated by Michael Ignatieff's Liberal party when he swung it to the far left during the last campaign, Stephen Harper's majority Conservative government has been frustrating the far left of the NDP to the point of conniptions and raving hysteria.

In his most recent Rabble column, Dobbin is calling for the NDP to launch a "culture war" against the government. Reduced to calling the Prime Minister of Canada a hater of humankind ( referring to him as a " misanthrope") , and the bizarre accusation of a "voter suppression strategy of making politics so unpleasant that many supporters of opposition parties will simply tune out," Dobbin betrays the frustration of an ideology that has been outwitted and outmatched.

Ranting about Harper as someone who "likes to denigrate and belittle his opponents and their parties," Dobbin launches into ridiculous, furious invective against the Conservative leader and party. In so doing, Dobbin betrays an utter failure to realize by whom the NDP and the radical socialist agenda he embraces have been outwitted.

It is not be Harper and the Conservatives who have foiled the NDP; it is the Canadian voters, who can see through the snake-oil pitch that Jack Layton tried to sell to the public. This contempt for the intelligence of voters is indicative of the socialist left in Canada, among whom Dobbin is regarded as an `intellectual.`

This reflects the angst of a declining socialist movement in Canada that, rather than having intelligent leadership, only seems able to produce articulate whiners bitter about their own inadequacy.

Wednesday's installment of: Your tax dollars hard at work

Crappy poems shouted by brain dead Marxists and anti-capitalist stooges in some low-rent dive in a scuzzy part of the east end of Toronto.

The performance is going to be featuring idiot anti-capitalists complaining about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. And who's paying for this? You are! Through the generous, tax-funded support of the Toronto Arts Council.  And unsuspecting University of Toronto students are subsidizing it with student fees funneled off to the fanatical hatemongers in the Ontario Public Interest Research Group.

It looks like there are going to be some expenditure cuts at City Hall. Someone at The Toronto Arts Council should explain why they shouldn't be at the top of that list.

Ontarians are overpaying for electricity

A report from the C.D. Howe Institute says Ontarians are paying more then they need to for electricity costs, which have skyrocketed in the last few years. They propose some solutions.

The full report is available here.

After years of looming power shortages,Ontario faces instead a periodic problem of excess electricity 
supply at the same time that new generation capacity is being added. Since Ontario government 
agencies that purchase power have long-term, fixed-price contracts with many electricity generators,

Ontario consumers pay for electricity produced by some generators even when that electricity has little value, particularly during periods of high wind production and low demand. 

To deal with temporary oversupply, we recommend paying the generators who operate under existing fixed-price contracts to reduce output, when doing so would save money for the system as a whole. The premise of our recommendation is the creation of market incentives that would make existing producers more flexible, at the least possible cost. 

For the long term, the province should create financial incentives for constructing flexible generation capacity.

Today's installment of "Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work"

via Kaffir Kanuck

UPDATE: Ezra Levant got on the case and Kaffir Kanuck's astute blogging gets results!

Provincial Liberal candidate Farber politically exploits sister-in-law`s death against husband`s wishes.

Bernie Farber, the former head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, has been the default spokesperson the Toronto media has utilized for comment on issues related to the Jewish community for so long, he has become known as "The King of the Jews" in some circles.

An affable, decent fellow, Bernie has a right to his personal opinions, just like any other Canadian. But a number of people in the Jewish community, very few of whom have any direct involvement with the Canadian Jewish Congress, have taken umbrage at the idea that Bernie represents them.

Farber has been a major proponent of Hate Speech laws that restrict expressions of criticism directed at ethnic groups. But these laws are used selectively and only apply to `sanctioned` groups. Hate speech laws and the quasi-judicial Human Rights Commissions, staffed with appointees unqualified to make judiciary decisions, are being used against critics of radical ideologies that have used the fog of multiculturalism to obscure their undemocratic, racist, misogynist agendas.

With the Canadian Jewish Congress about to be folded into an umbrella group of Jewish community organizations, Farber has taken a leave of absence to run in Thornhill as the candidate for the Liberal party in the upcoming provincial election.

It appears Bernie`s presumption for speaking for others without their consent has run him into hot water again. Writing in Shalom Life, Faber criticises Tim Hudak, the leader of the provincial Opposition, trying to tie him to Health Care policies enacted by former Conservative Premier Mike Harris. Farber goes so far as to suggest the cancer-related death of his sister-in law in 2003, was related to Harris`policies and resulting poor hospital service when he wrote:

"my sister-in-law, suffering from breast cancer, found herself caught in the mire of Conservative hospital closures, nursing lay-offs and other cuts specifically to the cancer care sector. Joanne passed away in 2003. Had she been diagnosed today, with all the newly-funded resources in Ontario cancer care, with hospitals back up and running, with over 11,500 full time nurses now hired or re-hired, her chances of survival would have increased dramatically."

Farber should have checked with his sister-in-law`s husband first.

Commenting on Farbers`opinion piece, Michael Robitaille responded:

The sister-in-law Bernie Farber wrote about in this article was my wife. Contrary to what Bernie states, my wife Joanne received excellent health care at every level during her over 3 year struggle with cancer. From the staff at Credit Valley Hospital to Princess Margaret Hospital to Toronto Western Hospital, she received speedy, professional and excellent care. I honestly can't say anything negative in the overall treatment Joanne received. Sadly, Joanne succumbed to cancer but I want to state categorically, her death from cancer had nothing to do with any lack of health care or any deficiencies in her care. I find it callous, cold-hearted and opportunistic for Bernie Faber to use Joanne's death for political gain. Joanne is missed by me and my son Jack everyday and it is a shame to have her struggle with cancer thrown around like a political football by a candidate who knows better.

          Michael Robitaille

Between this and the resurfacing of his referring to his party leader as a `fear-mongerer`, Farber`s campaign is off to a less than auspiciuos start.

h/t Sassy Wire

Anti-matter may put the spin on our (and everyone else's) galaxy

The puzzling prevalence of matter over antimatter in the universe might be related to the bizarre space-time stretching caused by our galaxy's spin, a new study suggests.

Antimatter is a strange cousin to the stuff that makes up galaxies, stars and us. For every matter particle there is thought to exist an antimatter partner with the same mass but opposite charge. When matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate, converting their mass into energy in a powerful explosion.

Though the universe today is almost completely made of matter, scientists don't understand why. The Big Bang that created the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago should have produced equal parts matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated, leaving the universe barren of either. Luckily, it didn't.

The entire article is at Space.com

Anniversary of the Molly Norris fatwa

Today is the anniversary of the fatwa against Molly Norris, who came up with Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. Because of death threats from Islamic fundamentalists, she has been in hiding ever since.

Strike a blow for free speech and show your Mo' today!

h/t Blazing Cat Fur

Toronto District School Board presents a racist view of racism

Click the link below to see the latest example of bigoted indoctrination courtesy of the idiocy of Critical Pedagogy, an educational approach pushed by OISE and other "education professionals."

Your children are being indoctrinated at the elementary school level by an approach developed by Paulo Freire, a devotee of one of history's biggest mass murderers - Mao Zedong


Blazing Cat Fur: Toronto District School Board Teaches That Only White People Are Racist

NFB animation to get your weekend started

Some classics from the National Film Board of Canada..

The music from Ryan Larkin's Walking makes this groundbreaking work unforgettable:




EVOLUTION:




and to torture you.. The Cat Came Back (try to get the song out of your head for the rest of the day after you watch this!)

Michael Moore New Documentary: Imperialism is Killing Chavez - from The People's Cube

Caracas, Venezuela -- Michael Moore has announced his latest explosive documentary: Hugo Chavez, Martyr to Socialized Medicine 

 ...When the symptoms worsened for the embattled President of Venezuela, this true advocate of socialized medicine went to get treatment in Cuba. The island's Chief Surgeon Rafael Bernardo explains: "When we first operated on President Chavez we'd thought he had an abscessed Wish Bone - a misdiagnosis caused by the criminal Yankee war of imperialism and the inhuman blockade of Cuba. After several unsuccessful operations on a Funny Bone, his Spare Ribs, and Water on the Knee we realized Chavez had cancer of the Bread Basket." 

Second opinion from Iran:  Chavez's illness caused by Jews

The People Cube's columnist Dr. Leonid Fuku reports from Tehran:

A selected group of doctors, approved by the Guardian Council of Iran, have offered their professional second opinion on the ailing Venezuelan President's condition:

DIAGNOSIS: The stress and anxiety from seeing the suffering of righteous Muslims at the hands of Zionist occupiers, have led to Chavez's spontaneous expulsion of blood from the rectum as a sign of solidarity with the murdered mujaheddin.

Read the rest at The People's Cube

Guerilla marketing from HBO's True Blood

If you saw vampire-opera True Blood last weekend, you saw this video as part of the show:



The True Blood team created a real live (if you'll excuse the expression) website vamps-kill.com, where they've posted plenty of this stuff. True Blood fans should enjoy it.

Simon Fraser University strikes a blow against fanatical, undemocratic national student union

What do university students get for being in the Canadian Federation of Students?

From the sounds of things, not much, other than the opportunity to have part of their tuition fees used to subsidize a few radical causes and the activists who want to use other people's money to push their own political agenda (and enjoy a few expense-paid trips and make a few buck on the side at the same time).

The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) uses money they take away from students, which amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars per university, to support radical, divisive issues along with the Public Interest Research Groups at Universities, which has a fetish for some of history's most prolific mass-murderers.  These issues or affiliations include the anti-Semitic Israeli Apartheid Week, anti-Semitism directed at Jewish student organizations, a violent activist group called The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP), and the radical leadership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, to name but a few.

The radical student organizations benefit from knowing that most students are too busy going through university  trying to get an education (and get laid) to scrutinize their tuition fees line by line.

But at a few universities, the student bodies have caught on and are fighting back and have held referendum to de-certify the CFS. Concordia,  Guelph and the University of Victoria have all voted, overwhelmingly, against continuing their membership in CFS.In each case, the CFS has not respected the democratic outcome and have tried to fight these decisions in court. They have lost, but those court battles to impose themselves where they aren't wanted are being paid for with student fees they take from other universities.

Simon Fraser University is the latest institute to have fought back against the CFS. They voted to get out of the CFS and are facing an ongoing lawsuit by the national student union to bleed money from the school. In fighting the democratic decision of Simon Fraser's student body, the CFS has demonstrated that their only concern is self-interest, which is of little surprise, given where their support is based. In Simon Fraser's case, they've also had the foresight to evict their Public Interest Research Group from the premises.

Students across the country need to become more aware of how their student funds are being used. Like any other union, the CFS, whose leadership works in self-serving partnerships with public service unions, isn't fighting for students as much as the right of a select few to choose how to blow some student money.

(and make dumb videos)

Niall Ferguson describes the global temper tantrum

This is the age of indignation. Politics in the Western world are becoming more emotional—because our problems are so intractable...

Indignation takes different forms in different places. In Europe it’s directed against cuts in public spending. In the United States it’s directed against tax hikes, which are anathema to the Tea Party.

Whole article is at Newsweek

A very funny fellow's birthday

Happy 74th to Bill Cosby!

NATO's Secretary-General on the lessons of Libya

The mission in Libya has revealed three important truths about military intervention today. First, to those who claimed that Afghanistan was to be NATO's last out-of-area mission, it has shown that unpredictability is the very essence of security. Second, it has proved that in addition to frontline capabilities, such as fighter-bombers and warships, so-called enablers, such as surveillance and refueling aircraft, as well as drones, are critical parts of any modern operation. And third, it has revealed that NATO allies do not lack military capabilities. Any shortfalls have been primarily due to political, rather than military, constraints. In other words, Libya is a reminder of how important it is for NATO to be ready, capable, and willing to act.

More at Foreign Affairs

Nobel Laureate for Literature discovers socialism sucks

How the public service unions screwed California

Elliott Abrams on the folly of Obama's Israeli settlement freeze demand

This single-minded focus on a construction freeze was clearly a mistake in the sense that it failed: the Israeli government did not agree to a freeze in East Jerusalem. Nor could any earlier Israeli governments have accepted such a demand, even if they, like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had been open to partial or time-limited freezes in the West Bank. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed the situation well when he said in April 2011, "I was opposed to the prolonged effort on the settlements in a public way because I never thought it would work and, in fact, we have wasted a year and a half on something that for a number of reasons was not achievable." What is more, the Obama administration's demand had the effect of cornering Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who could not ask for less than Washington; if the U.S. president thought a total freeze was a prerequisite to negotiations, Abbas would have to think so, too. As a weary Abbas told Newsweek in April, the Obama administration led him up a tree and then "removed the ladder."


Read all of this very interesting analysis in Foreign Affairs Magazine

Be a born-again virgin...by mail for $29.95!

Ugh!

Women who cannot afford to get their hymens surgically re-attached in Canada prior to marriages in their cultural country of origin have a less expensive option: they can order one in the mail.

Starting at just $29.95, women can order a false hymen online, shipped from China.

Here's the website where you can get yours... it looks like some alien creature...!!!





h/t SassyWire

Jack Layton's Health Critic Libby Davies: proud of solidarity with French politician accused of anti-Semitism and other Jew-haters

NDP Health Critic Libby Davies recent twitter expressions of "solidarity"  with the Armada of Fools attempting to break Israel's arms blockade of Gaza contained some fascinating information about the Vancouver East MP.

Davies not only tweeted her support for the Sea Hitler (aka Tahrir) activists, but seems to be promoting French Senator Alima Boumediene-Thiery, who spoke at the anti-Israel rally she attended. As you can see from the picture Davies tweeted, and a YouTube video posted under the authorship of rabbletv, that the tweet seems to be a still-shot from the video. So unless she's tweeting from someone else's blackberry, it appears Davies is moonlighting as a videographer for her spouse's virulently anti-Israel and sometimes anti-Semitic website, rabble.ca (or is standing so close to the rabble photographer as to be intertwined).

Senator Boumediene-Thiery, who is the star of Davies' video and one of her solidarity rally buddies, was prosecuted in France in 2010 for charges related to anti-Semitic activity, of which she has a long record. In 2003, she hosted an exhibition at the European Parliament that was anti-Semitic to the extent that Roger Helmer, the member of European Parliament for East Midlands, ripped down one of the banners as a gesture of protest. Helmer's website describes the incident:

The European Parliament played host to an exhibition, sponsored by the French MEP Alima Boumediene-Thiery, called "Apartheid israel" in which the words "Israel" and "Apartheid" were juxtaposed to form an inappropriate and racist comment, according to Helmer. The exhibition was even more inappropriate considering that it was deliberately featured during the week that Israel celebrated its 50th Anniversary of Independence.   

Mr Helmer was so incensed by the display that he removed the offending banner causing the organiser of the exhibition, to accuse Mr Helmer of "violent behaviour". Ms Boumediene-Thiery MEP later sent an email to the entire European Parliament accusing Mr Helmer of "an unworthy act" and of "aggression".   

Roger Helmer MEP, who has been a long-term campaigner for diplomacy and democratic resolution to conflict, said:   

"I removed what I, and others, considered to be an inflammatory and anti-Semitic message.  I am a strong proponent of free speech. But there comes a point at which free speech crosses the line and becomes national and racial abuse. This is such a case."

Senator Boumediene-Thiery is a member of France's Green Party, which was co-founded by Ginette Skandrani, an individual who was closely associated with Holocaust-deniers and was eventually expelled from the party when that exposure became just a tiny bit embarrassing for them.

As a senior member of the NDP, now the Official Opposition, Davies association with anti-Semites and fanatics is no longer just a personal disgrace, but reflects on the judgement of Jack Layton and the NDP leadership as a whole.

It leads to the inescapable question of whether Davies' embarrassing, irresponsible behaviour reflects what we could expect from an NDP federal government, should there ever be one.








Some of the video work evidently filmed by Davies at the Sea Hitler Solidarity Rally:






The Pride of the NDP:

Damped Jew Michael Coren speaks out against anti-Semitic creeps at rabble.ca

Coren's Comment today

It all started here

Hamas declares war on male hairstylists

Men must not touch the hair of a woman..even if paid to do it!

h/t Small Dead Animals

My vote for the stupidest rabbi in Canada goes to...

Rabbi David Mivasair of Vancouver's progressive synagogue, Ahavat Olam.

Rabbi David speechified at a Sea Hitler support rally - here are some highlights:

[Facts are for suckers, I'll just make some up]:

 “There’s really no justification whatsoever for an Israeli blockade of Gaza..there’s over a hundred and fifty million absolutely innocent people who live in Gaza. most of them live there only because their homes and their villages were taken from them and destroyed n 1947 and 1948 ”

[Don’t worry, the bombs are small, and the terrorists firing them at children are related to people that were hard done by..maybe, possibly..]:

“Whenever we read about, the.. I have to say like the puny, ineffective rocket being fired into some place like Sderot,  something to think about is very likely, the people firing it are the children or grandchildren of people who perhaps lived in Sderot”

[Them Israeli Jews are on a power trip]:

“The blockade has no military justification whatsoever..the only reason I can imagine that it’s there is more kind of psychological and emotional. And It’s an attempt to just crush the spirit of the people of live in Gaza, to subjugate them, and to enable some Israelis to feel like they are supreme, they are powerful, they are dominant and they can do that.”

Some more gems from Rabbi David:

He's a huge fan of Libby Davies!

And if radical Islamists are mad at us, it's probably our own fault:

".. the US and Israel might have done something to elicit such enmity. It is as if it arose spontaneously, a completely irrational aberration in human thinking, with no relationship whatsoever to anything that the USA and Israel have ever done."

Here's Rabbi David giving some wine (or so he says) to a woman who looks about 8 months pregnant. Can I vote twice?

"Progressive" nutcase convinces Sirhan Sirhan that he was a CIA patsy used to assassinate Bobby Kennedy

Just when you thought things were getting weird, they get weirder:

Stephen Lendman, host of The Progressive Radio News Hour on The Progressive Radio Network (whatever the hell that is) reports a jailhouse interview with Bobby Kennedy`s murderer, Sirhan Sirhan.

The interview, titled  My Morning with Sirhan is described: "On January 21, 2010, Academic Prison Teacher, Gerald B. Reynolds, spent time with Sirhan and wrote it up in detail."

Reynolds seems to have convinced Sirhan that the CIA drugged him with LSD and used him as a "Manchurian Candidate" patsy to conduct the Kennedy assassination for them. Or maybe Sirhan was just firing blanks while the real killer(s) got away with it. It`s all too crazy and stupid to waste time over-analyzing.  Lendman uses this as evidence of a big, bad  CIA plot. Because nothing is more reliable than a murderous madman agreeing with paranoid suggestions put in his head by a loony radical.

You would have to be insane to believe that, but I do believe that at least one of these people is suffering ill-effects from taking acid in the 60`s.

Reynolds: "Did you have your gun with you?"

Sirhan: "Yes. When I was in the pantry, the gun was in my hand."

Reynolds: "Did you know Robert Kennedy was going to be walking toward you?"

Sirhan: "No. I didn't know where I was and I don't know how I got there. I was in a state of blackout."

Reynolds: "You were a Manchurian candidate....It's something the CIA uses. They assassinate a president, or senator, or anyone they wish, and make it look like some crazed, lone-nut assassin did it. But he has been heavily drugged, possibly with LSD, and undergone intense brainwashing followed by reprogramming. Everything you're saying about yourself follows the established pattern of the drugged, duped, CIA patsy."

Sirhan: "They used me, framed me, and they set me up to die."

If you want to shake your head at some Craaaazzzzy stuff, you can read Lendman`s report here.

Tahririst mission: FAIL - now time to defund Alternatives International

The Sea Hitler's narcissistic idiots have run out of money for their extended conflict-tourist vacation.

The question now is why did Alternatives International, the Quebec-based NGO that was the organizing agency of this mission to tacitly aid terror organization Hamas, receive one cent of  tax dollars?

One cent? Try $1,282,970 from Federal funds and $296,027 from Provincial coffers in 2010.

Email your MP to let them know how disgusted you are that tax funds went to help the Sea Hitler organizers and demand they be defuned immediately.

Don't forget to cc Bev Oda, Minister of International Cooperation and Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism.

"Progressive" Jew hate at rabble.ca

rabble.ca is the radical left website founded by Judy Rebick, who no doubt has ingratiated herself to her wretched Marxist pals by her denunciations of the middle east's only liberal democracy as an "apartheid state" and gets double progressive bonus points in the process for being an Israel-hating Jew.

A supposed home for anti-oppression, anti-racist activists, the rabble talk forums are pretty Orwellian in their approach to free speech. Users who criticize unions (who keep rabble.ca afloat with large disbursements) or political Islam, or are too forward in their praise of "the Zionist entity," or use "sexist" terminology are given the boot post haste.

But in keeping with the current trend, hating Jews and saying so is super cool as you can see from some of their user forum comments below.

We're seeing a lot more of this from the far left, where they don't even pretend it's about Israel anymore, it's just about hating Jews.

Welcome to the future if the party of the spouse of the publisher of rabble.ca ever gets into power.

(click comments below to enlarge or links to direct source)

This POS is calling Michael Coren a "damped Jew" which allegedly explains his Zionism. (I have no frickin' idea what a "damped Jew" is supposed to mean, unless the moron just can't spell 'damned') UPDATE - later in the thread, he explains that a "damped Jew" is a term for a fake convert - I never heard that one before.

UPDATE 2: That "damped Jew" Coren replies

This idiot is defending douchebag Richard Falk's anti-Semitic cartoon folly:

Crazy Islamist Lauren Booth and a crazy Commie talk about the Zionist conspiracy

There's one sane guy on this panel of 3, and he really makes Booth and the Commie angry. They keep turning out propaganda catchphrases and get really upset when Richard Hellman of the Middle East Research Center has an extensively better command of facts than either of them.

Sea Hitler owner out of jail, but still irrational and desperate for attention

This time, they managed to have Ruch speak while not showing a picture behind her of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who founded the regime whose interests the Sea Hitler is serving.

Charles Krauthammer: A Totally Unserious President

President Obama assailed the lesser mortals who inhabit Congress for not having seriously dealt with a problem he had not dealt with at all, then scolded Congress for being even less responsible than his own children. They apparently get their homework done on time.

My compliments. But the Republican House did do its homework. It’s called a budget. It passed the House on April 15. The Democratic Senate has produced no budget. Not just this year, but for two years running. As for the schoolmaster in chief, he produced two 2012 budget facsimiles: The first (February) was a farce and the second (April) was empty, dismissed by the CBO as nothing but words untethered to real numbers.

Read it all here

Gaza's "humanitarian crisis"

Germany's Spiegel online has a photo shoot from Gaza, with water parks, vendors selling shish kebabs on the beach and well-stocked markets in the horrible concentration camp.

They forgot to show the fine dining and luxury hotels

Happy Birthday Ringo!!

July 7, 1940 - Happy 71st, Ringo!!

US State Dept speaks out as Iran orders Christian to recant faith or die

"We are dismayed over reports that the Iranian courts are requiring Youcef Nadarkhani to recant his Christian faith or face the death penalty for apostasy"

More info at Winds of Jihad

Rabble.ca idiots sharpen their crayons

Cap'n Ehab of the anti-Semitic Canadian Arab Federation orders a Sea Hitler letter writing campaign!

British Labour leader Ed Miliband needs more time to recover from lobotomy

The leader of Britain's Labour party gave the strangest responses I've ever seen in an interview. He keeps repeating the same monotonous, pre-programmed answer to each different question he receives about civic strikes in England.

I thought this was some sort of a joke video that someone had assembled to make him look silly, but it's dead real.




h/t Small Dead Animals

Natasha Fatah: It's Muslim kids, not parents, who are embracing a politicized Islam

Natasha Fatah writes in the Globe and Mail:

Many of our parents, who immigrated here from Muslim countries in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, did so specifically out of their respect for Western values. Elder Muslims may be modest and socially conservative in their personal lives. But, by and large, the parents in Muslim-Canadian households believe in the core values of this society. Their values systems were not based on religion but on political freedom and the desire to separate religion and state.  

It’s their children – in desperate need for identity – who have turned to conservative, hard-line and politicized Islam for the answers. This trend to embrace a politicized Islam has led to bloodshed in many parts of the world and is growing rapidly – and going unchecked – in Canada... 

I’ve attended two universities in Toronto and, at both, joined the Muslim students associations. I was told to sit behind the men, not next to them. That it would be better if I covered my hair. That sharia is the optimal way to resolve personal, legal and political issues. I was even told that, when filling out a form, the ink from my pen should not touch the ink of a “brother’s” pen. Is this the modernity and freedom that brought my parents here?

Muslim youth have fooled themselves into believing there was a golden age of Islam they’d like to bring back to Canada, a golden age that could bring us all into the Dark Ages. And their parents don’t know what to do.

Read the whole article here

Slimeball Quebec politician at it again

Google translate isn't doing a great job on this, but you can get the idea of what Sea Hitler co-sponsor, Quebec Solidaire leader Amir Khadir is up to now.

Sea Hitler Floatilla to make another attempt on Monday

This is tedious to watch, as one would expect from spokespeople for the Fatuous Floptilla, but the bottom line is that the Sea Hitler floatilla idiots are going to try to pull another fast one on Monday, or so they claim.



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How dumb is Libby Davies?

Obviously NDP Health Critic Libby Davies isn't smart enough to have learned much from her last flap, when she made uninformed statements about Israel and expressed support for a boycott and sanctions against a Canadian ally that is the mid east's only democracy.That brought her extensive pillorying from across the political spectrum and even repudiation from her own party's Deputy Leader, Thomas Mulcair.

Now she's approvingly tweeting from a Sea Hitler Gaza boat support rally in France she attended  to show "solidarity" with anti-Israel activists who want to tacitly enable Hamas arms smuggling. Again, Davies has involved herself in anti-Israel activities that her party leadership has said they don't support.

Perhaps she couldn't resist, since Davies' spouse is the publisher of rabble.ca, The Sea Hitler's official media sponsor.

Davies provides another reminder that there is a dearth of intelligence at the top, and all through the ranks of the NDP.

And as a special bonus, a Davies' greatest video hit:

9/11 Libby Lunacy:

For those of you who haven't seen the lucky Lamborghini squirrel

Chomsky vs Chavez: Battle of the crackpots

Earlier this year Chávez even suggested Washington make Chomsky the US ambassador to Venezuela.

The president may be about to have second thoughts about that, because his favourite intellectual has now turned his guns on Chávez.

Speaking to the Observer last week, Chomsky has accused the socialist leader of amassing too much power and of making an "assault" on Venezuela's democracy.

The entire transcript of the Chomsky interview is at The Guardian.

More on the story here

Christopher Hitchens poses questions to the Sea Hitler Gaza boat crew

Only a few weeks ago, the Hamas regime in Gaza became the only governing authority in the world—by my count—to express outrage and sympathy at the death of Osama Bin Laden. As the wavelets lap in the Greek harbors, and the sunshine beats down, doesn't any journalist want to know whether the "activists" have discussed this element in their partners' world outlook? Does Alice Walker seriously have no comment?

Hamas is listed by various governments and international organizations as a terrorist group. I don't mind conceding that that particular word has been used in arbitrary ways in the past. But what concerns me much more is the official programmatic adoption, by Hamas, of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This disgusting fabrication is a key foundational document of 20^th-century racism and totalitarianism, indelibly linked to the Hitler regime in theory and practice. It seems extraordinary to me that any "activist" claiming allegiance to human rights could cooperate at any level with the propagation of such evil material. But I have never seen any of them invited to comment on this matter, either.

Read it all at Slate