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Thursday March 20,
2008
Best Laid Plans
How to achieve saviourhood - plus Obama calling Wright wrong, the CIA's
religion, a festival of "hot docs", and an MP (not Canadian, of course)
who says 911 was an inside job
The
CBC says
that Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is looking into a report that
blueprints for a new military counterterrorism unit were found "in a
pile of trash in downtown Ottawa".
Not entirely accurate. The found item was reportedly on
top (Canwest) of the pile of trash, waiting to be found by
publicity hound Steven
Staples' closest colleague, who just happened to be passing
by. No need to rummage; no chance it might be overlooked.
There's a high likelihood that the military discarded the blueprints in
an appropriate dustbin because their plans had changed, and then
someone with a craftier plan relocated them.
You gotta hand it to Staples; he knows how to get at least some
temporary attention. He calls himself a "military analyst" even
though
he's said nothing that a million bloggers haven't already said.
To
that he adds the designation: Director of the Rideau Institute, the
fellows of which consist of two guys, himself and Anthony Salloum, the
oh so coincidental discoverer of the military blueprint.
Forming an institute, however non-existent in reality, is a good way to
get quoted by today's lazy media.
I'm still
chuckling over Canwest's big exposé that the military has
a file on Staples - as if they and the RCMP don't have files
on each and every "leftie" in Canada.
That's okay. I've got a file on
them too. And it's got music.
But it's
annoying
that every time Staples gets quoted he sends out emails to activists
who do their work for free, bragging about how he single handedly is
saving the world and asking for a donation.
Yeah, there have always been people who make a living off the misery of
the world, dressing in suits, charging commission fees for their
research, writing fluffy books, generally carving out names and careers
for themselves, supplemented by paid memberships and donations from
people who hope and pray they're backing a saviour.
If
Canadians want to get the most out of their donations to information
sources, they should
check out COAT,
Canada
Watch, Canpalnet and The Harper
Index
to name a few good ones. No gimmicks. Just everything you need to
know to be an activist yourself.
Because the world can't be saved by guys in suits; change has to come
from the grassroots.
Hey, that rhymes. Make a note of it to chant at the next rally.
Other Stuff:
1) Obama is showing a decidedly gutless side in
saying that Wright is wrong and divisive.
ChicagoSunTimes:
Wright caught in undeserved political glare Whites don't get it,
blacks do -- and it's time to move on
YYC: I dont like to be put in a position to appear
to be
supporting Obama - I don't like his approach to war nor to Israel, and
besides, he's a politician and I don't like politicians - but this
whole thing is designed to evoke fear of Afro-Americans in "whites".
It's the corporate media with which Obama curries favour that are
divisive.
Reuters
says: Views of Obama's pastor reflect black U.S. tradition
And if that worries "white" America, it should, because
it
also reflects "white", "Christian" America's crimes against the rest
of humanity.
2) The BBC
reports that US intelligence agents believe the voice on a
Osama Bin Laden tape is authentic.
Ah believe! Ah believe! Praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition.*
* Pearl Harbour Remembered
3) The "Hot Docs" list
has been announced. I've only gotten as far as the "B"s, and am a bit
amazed at what sometimes passes for documentary. The one entitled
"Be
Like Others"
seems bent on giving Iran yet another black eye while leaving the
erroneous impression that "gay" is synonymous with "transsexual".
4) 911Truth:
Japanese MP Yukihisa Fujita of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member
of the House of Councillors in the Diet of Japan (national
legislature), spoke at the 9/11 Truth conference in Sydney today.
YYC: Meanwhile, Canadian MPs enjoy a wilful
ignorance.
yayacanada
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