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Just wanted to start a discussion on some questions posed by the new season of BSG. The last episode involving the appearance of a man who Adama betrayed seemed to suggest that the crossing of the armistice line by Adama caused the attack on the colonies. In modern warfare, is the momentary crossing of a armistice line enough to warrant all out war? Is this assumption a little naive? Maybe it expedited the cylon attack at best? The previous episode involved the hand wringing and treason by Helo over the decision to inflict biological warfare against the cylons. Considering they...

Associate Professor of Political Science Marc Lynch has a new article on "Humiliating Our Friends in the Arab World." Lynch has made appearences in the blog before. He begins his mostly uninteresting article with: Two years ago, George Bush stunned and outraged virtually the entire Arab world by warmly describing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a "man of peace" at the height of the brutal Israeli reoccupation of the West Bank. Last week, Bush did it again, endorsing Sharon’s demands to end the right of Palestinian return and legitimizing decades' worth of illegal West Bank settlements. Note the use...

I tried posting Wikepedia here, but FR does not welcome it. Does anyone know why? The more I learn of Marxist opposition efforts, the more I suspect that Pinochet's crimes were little more than successfully detroying Marxism in Chile. Apparently there was a KGB organized group that worked to discredit and have Pinochet arrested on human rights abuses. When people talk about his "victims" I wonder if the victims were aking the so called victims of McCarthy - who in the end did turn out to be working for the Communists.

The World Council Combats Free Enterprise The World Council of Churches is blatantly and unashamedly opposed to the free market and makes full use of its U.S. funds to combat the free enterprise system. It channels money from U.S. churches to the Christian Conference of Asia, the Urban Rural Mission, and other foreign programs. The Conference and Mission share offices in Hong Kong. They evidently do not stress trade union values. A meeting of the Christian Conference-Urban Mission committee in February 1983 in Bangladesh discussed the "economic domination and exploitation by TNCs (transnational corporations)." They also approved an annual budget...

The recent announcement of record profits by ExxonMobil and Chevron has revived widespread claims that these profits were extracted by "price gouging." Thus, the stage is set for Washington to pass a federal law banning "price gouging." Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, for his part, has promised that "if the facts warrant it, I will support a federal anti-price gouging law." But there are no facts that could warrant such a law, because there is no such thing as "price gouging" by private businesses. The term "price gouging" implies that gas stations have an ability to forcibly inflict harm on...

Bush has come to believe that the absence of democracy is the cause of terror and democracy its cure. But the cause of terror in the Middle East is the perception there that those nations are held in colonial captivity by Americans and their puppet regimes, and that the only way to expel both is to use tactics that have succeeded from Algeria in 1962 to Anbar province in 2005. Given the franchise, Arab and Islamic peoples from Pakistan to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank and Egypt have now voted for candidates with two credentials. They seemed to...

A new Conservative government will: Create 125,000 new child care spaces over five years; Provide $10,000 in assistance to employers, including businesses and non-profit institutions, for each new child care space created; Make it easier for working people to juggle child care and work responsibilities; Help employers create child care spaces in the workplace by allocating $250 million a year to employers who cover the full cost of creating spaces; and Design the program to ensure that small business and rural communities will be able to access it as well as larger employers and cities.

Canadian Leader Says Bush Responsible for Coming Intergalactic War November 25, 2005 04:49 PM EST By Sher Zieve - Former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister, Paul Hellyer, has accused President Bush of planning and preparing for intergalactic war. Hellyer is blaming Bush for activities that could result in a war with alien species. In a recently released speech given 25 September at the University of Toronto, Hellyer warned the assembly: "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having...

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Liberal Party has seen the lead it once enjoyed almost evaporate in recent days as the Conservatives quickly gain ground, a new poll showed on Wednesday. The Strategic Counsel poll, conducted for The Globe and Mail and CTV News, shows the ruling Liberals at 33 percent compared with the Conservatives at 31 percent. The New Democratic Party (NDP) is at 17 percent and the Bloc Quebecois, which only campaigns in Quebec, was at 13 percent. The poll was conducted between December 10 and December 12. A similar poll taken between December 8 and December 11 had...

We came across this full-page ad in the New York Times (click on Download PDF flier, at bottom of page). The ad was taken out by an anti-Bush group styling itself as “The World Can’t Wait” coalition and calls for the ouster of the “Bush Regime” – clearly trying to yoke the administration to dictatorial regimes. What are their plans? To stage a coup d’etat? No, they advocate noise terrorism. That is right. When George Bush presents the State of the Union Address in January, they are telling people to rise up and make noise by banging pots, honking horns,...

Orthodox Anti-Zionism Until the Nazi Holocaust, much of the Orthodoxy was antagonistic to the Zionist aspiration of establishing a national home for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. In large measure this opposition was less to Zionism itself than to the Zionists, for most of the Zionist activists were secularists who rejected the traditional authority of the Rabbis in favour of "foreign" ideologies such as socialism and nationalism. Zionism constituted a serious threat to the traditional religious power structure. The issue was felt more urgently in Palestine itself, where the "old Yishuv" lived unproductively off the donations of...

Slow to awaken after the 9/11 attacks, Hollywood has finally come around to contributing what it can in the War on Terror: namely, glossy, star-studded movies that sympathize with the enemy. Hard to believe? Here's the pitch: with box-office numbers trending down, studio executives are suddenly greenlighting movies they can describe to shareholders as 'controversial' or 'timely.' Whether the films are anti-American or otherwise demoralizing to the war effort is apparently immaterial. Its appetite whetted by "Fahrenheit 9/11"'s $222 million worldwide gross, Hollywood thinks it's found a formula for both financial security and critical plaudits: noxious anti-American storylines, bathed in...

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper reopened the hot-button issue of same-sex unions on his first day on the federal election trail Tuesday, saying he would hold a free vote on changing the definition of marriage if he becomes prime minister. Harper made the remark after Prime Minister Paul Martin announced Canadians will go to the polls on Jan. 23. Harper, who has long promised that if elected he would hold a free vote on marriage, raised the issue himself during a news conference Tuesday in Ottawa. "We were committed at the time of the convention and through the last debate to...

It has long been said that money can come between friends. But as the recent hysteria over rising oil prices reminds me, it can also come between the human mind and sound economic principles. There has been much talk about “price gouging” by the oil companies, as we witnessed the average gasoline price rise to about $3.10 before falling to pre-Katrina levels most recently. But as I listened to well-paid pundits pillory the oil industry for being slick, I was left wondering: what is gouging? Now, lest I be misunderstood, I hasten to point out that, no, I don’t own...

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. (CP) - A man who admitted to shooting a Manitoba RCMP officer in the face has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Michael Gary Regamy, 24, told Court of Queen's Bench he was sorry for the shooting of Const. Mike Templeton almost four years ago. Justice Albert Clearwater called the shooting a serious crime but said Regamy can be rehabilitated. Clearwater agreed with a joint recommendation from the Crown and defence that the 12 years run concurrent with a sentence Regamy is already serving on other charges. Regamy, who is originally from Edmonton, was in...

Liberals believe a longer campaign offers at least two strategic advantages. They think it allows additional time for more militant right-wing Conservatives to torpedo their own campaign with inflammatory remarks on subjects such as gay rights and abortion. Liberals also believe their boss is a better campaigner than Harper. Martin energetically criss-crossed the country in the final days of the 2004 campaign, while Harper retreated home to Calgary and essentially stopped talking to the media. For Liberals, issue No. 1 in this campaign will be the strong economy. They believe low unemployment, low interest rates, and sound federal balance sheets...

OTTAWA (CP) - Tories stood defiantly by their allegation linking the Liberals to organized crime and dared their opponents Friday to make the accusation a campaign issue. They flatly rejected Liberal calls to apologize. Prime Minister Paul Martin demanded a retraction and his office threatened to sue over the comments by Stephen Harper, who told the Commons on Thursday that the sponsorship program was "a front for massive kickbacks involving organized crime, used by the Liberal party to fill its own election coffers.". But the Conservative leader said he has nothing to apologize for. One of his top lieutenants dared...

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For Canadian posters: I wonder if anyone has an opinion where the Loonie is going these next few months? I regard the Loonie as a function of: 1) The current bear market trend of the US Dollar - it seems the fall in the US Dollar has stalled out - any other opinions? 2) Price of Oil - Surprisingly the Canadian Dollar has stayed strong despite a 15$ shave in the price of oil. What gives? I expect oil to be back around the 70$ mark in the next few months 3) The Cubanization of Canada - This may be...

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