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December 2007

Petie MacKay gets help from the CBC in priming us for an assault on Iran with Canadian support
If they can keep up the rhetorical momentum, pretty soon you'll hear people parroting, "Iran is killing our soldiers, you know."


Zap! Did they getcha? Mind games passing for news Inadvertent proof that everybody and his brother is secretly a Nazi and all Jews think all Muslims should be eradicated.

September 2007

The Great Yellow Ribbon Debate
City of Ottawa approves Support our Troops decals on service and police vehicles.

August 2007

Who's the Terrorist?  It might be you!  Notes on a potluck picnic with Mohamed Harkat.

July 2007

On the way to Iran, Israelis talk about a Palestinian (Police) State
As US policy shifts occur, so Harper adjusts Canadian "values"

May 2007

Jorge Martin: Chavez is no Autocrat
May Day solidarity with Venezuela in Ottawa

Government stops show in Supreme Court
Petition for injunction against transfer
by Canadian troops of prisoners to mistreatment in Afghan jails.

April 2007

The late Jack Layton and similar others
Too little too late with environment solutions

JTF2: Canada's Elite Troublemakers
Canada has had a secret combat force since the early 90's.  What are they up to?

CNI Jews agree with Nancy Pelosi
Negotiations, not war with Iran

March 2007

Helping African Farmers - to death!
Agricultural assistance with lethal strings attached.

Changing Changing Climate data - Why I'm glad Philip Cooney is such a weasel.
Because Cooney said the changes he made "reflected views in a 2001 report by the National Academy of Sciences" and that has prompted me to read the Academy's 2005 presentation to Congress based on that report.

"...Nor any drop to drink"
Water scams, too?  Part II of Global Scamming and Climate Plug Nickels?

February 2007

Global Scamming and Climate Plug Nickels?  Part I
University of Ottawa Prof. blows hole in global warming theory

Piracy, Poverty and Theocracy
Taking America back to the 50's is no solution to its problems.

Rendered - Bashir Makhtal
PHOTO REPORT of demonstration today, Feb. 7, on behalf of a Canadian unlawfully rendered by the Somali transitional government into the hands of the brutal Ethiopian military, and effectively "disappeared".

YYCBlog: A dose of religious intolerance could cure humanity
"Secular democracy is slipping away right before our eyes."

January 2007

Warts going on - with or without vaccines
Indirectly accusing sweet little girls of sexual irresponsibility

I've been tagged; six weird things about me
It's a blogger thing.

How green is my ocean floor?
Are carbon emissions producing global warming? Are the proposed methods of dealing with climate change - such as "capturing and storing carbon emissions" in such places as abandoned coal mines and the deep seabed - realistic or even helpful?

There's been a quiet coup in Canada
And as always, the police and military will do the bidding of the government, whether right or wrong

On Practical Anarchy and Getting the Troops Home
If you're interested in what anarchism (or any social movement including the peace movement) needs in order to work ...

Dead Grannies Everywhere
And why Alan Dershowitz and ilk are asking the wrong question about Jimmy Carter

For Christ's sake, socialize!
Hugo Chavez vows of socialism for Venezuela - “I swear by Christ – the greatest socialist in history.”

The Nakba through the eyes of one family
Comments inspired by archival footage of early 20th Century Palestine

Charity and Oil Lang Syne
The west makes predominantly Muslim oil countries into objects of pity and at the same time exploits them.

December 2006

Another Christmas tree banished to the back hall
Anti-war artist 's tree depiction shunned by United Way auction.

Dewlap or not dewlap; that is rebellion

How to avoid being face printed.

'Tis the season to be petty
The squabble over Christmas displays

Take me to your leader, fa la la la la
Rick Hillier's plan for Afghanistan and Ottawa Raging Grannies annual campaign against violent toys

A video game that's better "Left Behind"

The Radical Road Map

September 2006

YYC Report: Afghan MP Malalai Joya opens the fall season of Ottawa University's new "Science in Society" Course
Richard Sanders ... introduced her as the one person who could provide Canada with the "not filtered, not spun, horrifying and brutal truth" about the situation in Afghanistan.

July 2006

Canadian Government loses bid to send Mohamed Harkat back to jail. But government lawyer had them rolling in the aisles.

YayaCanada: The Challenge - Days One and Two
A photo report of Camp Hope and the Supreme Court Hearings.

Mohamed Harkat finally gets to come home!
The government has lost its bid for a stay of Judge Dawson's decision to release Mohamed Harkat on a control order.

May 2006

Unsolicited schmooze mail from Military Public Affairs Officer

Getting tough on crime creates more criminals, and that's good for business!

April 2006

Ottawans protest transfer of Mohamed Harkat to 'Guantanamo North'
The government no doubt sees this as an answer to the multitude of complaints that ordinary detention centres, designed for short term stays, do not provide the activities and amenities needed by long term detainees. But there was another, much cheaper and more humane solution - simply to let these men have supervised bail and proper trials.

"Ipperwash - a Canadian Tragedy"
Comments by YayaCanada after seeing the film

January 2006

The Israeli-Arab Conflict for Brass Tack Dummies and Kudos to Potlucks for Peace
An event report that includes a comparison of the occupation of Canada with that of Palestine

December 2005

Report of Protest on Parliament Hill against Secret Trials in Canada  - Human Rights Day - Dec. 10

November 2005

Summations November 4, 2005: Mohamed Harkat Bail Hearing

Testimony and Cross exam of CSIS Senior Analyst known as "P.G.": Harkat Bail Hearing
Bin Laden is still alive and clearly acting as head of Al Qaeda, says CSIS Translator at Mohamed Harkat Bail Hearing.


October 2005

Report: Testimony of Dr. Colin Cameron concerning psychiatric evaluation of Mohamed Harkat
Harkat is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

June 2005

Ottawa's participation in National Day of Action to End Canadian Deportation to Torture and to Abolish Secret Trials - June 8

No One is Illegal - Solidarity across Borders march from Montreal to Ottawa - June 25


September 2004

"All Canadian Tax Payers are Complicit in Israeli War Crime"
Report of Lecture by Uri Davis: Apartheid Israel and the Jewish National Fund


November 2003

The Chosen Ones
- Statistics Canada is interviewing a selection of Canada's "Labour Force"

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