Ann Coulter quotes
This woman is a rabid animal.
I particularly love these:
[Canadians] better hope the United States does not roll over one night and crush them. They are lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.
Fox News; Hannity & Colmes, November 30, 2004
Canada has become trouble recently. It’s always the worst Americans who go there. We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They’re the only good parts of Canada.
“Be realistic, but demand the impossible!” – (Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible!)
Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968
I learned of this from the CBC’s “The Current” this morning…
Under the 1914 War Measures Act, “aliens of enemy nationality” were compelled to register with authorities. About 70,000 Ukrainians from Austro-Hungary fell under this description. 8,579 males were interned by the Canadian Government, including 5,954 Austro-Hungarians, most of whom were probably ethnic Ukrainians. Most of the interned were poor or unemployed single men, although 81 women and 156 children (mainly Germans in Vernon and Ukrainians at Spirit Lake) had no choice but to accompany their menfolk to two of the camps, in Spirit Lake, near Amos, Quebec, and Vernon, British Columbia. Some of the internees were Canadian-born and others were naturalized British subjects, although most were recent immigrants. Citizens of the Tsarist Russian Empire were not interned and so could enlist in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. One of them, Filip Konowal, would win the Victora Cross for his valour during the Battle of Hill 70, just beyond Vimy Ridge, in August 1917. The last known survivor of the internment is Mary Manko, a child when she was interned with her family at Spirit Lake.
Many of these internees were used for forced labour in internment camps. Conditions at the camps varied, and the Banff/Castle Mountain camp, where labour contributed to the creation of Banff National Park, was considered exceptionally harsh and abusive. The internment continued for two more years after the war had ended, although most Ukrainians were paroled into jobs for private companies by 1917. Even as parolees, they were still required to report regularly to the police authorities. Federal and provincial governments and private concerns benefitted from the internee’s labour and from the confiscation of what little wealth they had, a portion of which was left in the Bank of Canada at the end of the internment operations, 20 June 1920. A small number of internees, including men considered to be “dangerous foreigners,” labour radicals, or particularly troublesome internees, were deported to Europe after the war, largely from the Kapuskasing camp, which was the last to be shut down.
Of those interned 109 died of various diseases and injuries sustained in the camp, six were killed while trying to escape, and some, according to Sir William Dillon Otter’s final report, went insane or committed suicide as a result of their confinement.
Source: Wikipedia
autosarcophagy: is the practice of eating oneself; self-cannibalism
BBC Report on French Strikes
Polls keep saying that the french public agrees with Sarkozy wanting to reform (ie. Newspeak for cut) pensions for certain segments of the public services… most notably transportation workers…
but let’s face facts here… today’s politicians and business executives enjoy post employment benefits that would make Lincoln and the Rockerfeller’s shudder…
yet the public never raises the political will to try and curb those obscenities…
so what do we have… politicians and the business elite coordinating media attacks on one of the few groups in the lower ranks of society that have a marginally nice future for post employment…
the media attacks bring to a boil the common man’s seemingly innate jealousy of each other and absolute rage that “one of their own” maybe getting something they don’t…
oh… the politicians and business men are out of reach… untouchable… and more than a few would say deserving… so, we can’t go there now can we?
so let’s fuck over our neighbour cause he’s got a 24″ TV while I have to make due with a 22″…
I mean… just who the fuck do they think they are… uppity, that’s what they are!!
When the majority of the public sides with politicans and business interests against a subset of their own population you can make NO mistake… its rampant jealousy and mankind’s innate pettiness and penchant for cruelty…
to me, this situation personifies the current thinking of the “common man” in the west these days… it’s sickening, disheartening and makes me want to move to Thailand and crawl into a monastery there and say “fuck you” to the world…
humanity is eating itself at the behest of capitalism and power… doing it willingly and asking for ketchup and mustard on the side!
yum yum… :-(
I’m not saying no one should do business in Nuremburg… I’m not… it’s the past… and it’s best left behind…
but it’s still somehow funny that McDonald’s and Starbucks have places overlooking the Hauptmarkt (Market Place) where the early Nazi rallies were held and Burger King is opening (or has opened) a restaurant in the former Umspannwerk transformer building that powered the later Reichsparteitagsgelände (parade grounds).
fishy? well, maybe the Filet-O-Fish sandwichis … but likely not more than that…
but still… veddy veddy interezting… ;-)
‘Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil.’ (Exodus 23:2)
“La propriété c’est le vol!”
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Polyarchy is generally what British leaders mean when they speak of promoting ‘democracy’ abroad. This is a system in which a small group actually rules and mass participation is confined to choosing leaders in elections managed by competing elites.
Source: Wikipedia
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
- George Washington (1796 Farewell Address)
Source: Yale University Law School