Thursday, September 16, 2010

Police can't block Facebook rape images

RCMP in Pitt Meadows, B.C., are trying to stop pictures and video of half a dozen young men gang-raping a drugged 16-year-old girl from circulating on the internet, but say they are unable to stop them from spreading.

The girl was allegedly drugged with a date rape drug, possibly GHB, and sexually assaulted by five to seven men in a field outside a rave late Friday and early Saturday morning, according to RCMP Supt. Dave Walsh.

Police allege a 16-year-old boy took the photos and videos and posted them on the social networking site Facebook.com. The youth was arrested and released without charges, but could face child pornography charges in the future, said police.

The photos were removed from the website, but have since reappeared in new places on the internet, re-victimizing the girl, said RCMP Insp. Derren Lench.

"This victim is having to relive it on a daily basis, because we get the photos taken off, and then all of a sudden they're redistributed and others are viewing it," he said.


Where do I start this rant? The possession of date rape drugs? The fact that teenagers would do this to another? The fact that a 16 year old boy took photos and video of the alleged abuse.?

The RCMP that admit they can't stop the photos and video from being posted?

Well, I should hope that the RCMP could track down every freak that searched the web for a 16 year old that was drugged and gang-raped in BC.

I can realize that 16 year old girls in every community in Canada think they are smart enough to do what they please, but all it takes is one spiked drink, or an introduction to pot and hash to make these girls open to abuse.

Will they ever get the boys responsible? I only hope so. It's one thing to be a healthy sexual male, and much worse to turn into a female predator with only one purpose in mind...

Plane baby's mother was raped: legislator

A Philippine woman who dumped her newborn baby in the trash on a flight from the Middle East said she was raped by her employer and abandoned the child because she was afraid of what her family might say, a legislator said Thursday.

The baby, still attached to its placenta and wrapped in tissue paper, was found by a security guard at Manila's airport last Sunday in a trash bag unloaded from a Gulf Air flight from Bahrain. The trash apparently came from the plane's bathroom.

Magtanggol Gatdula, the National Bureau of Investigation's chief, said the woman has seen a picture of the child and is "very eager to see her baby."

The woman left in June last year to work in Qatar for three years, and her family was surprised when she suddenly returned home, said police Inspector Jeffrey Vicente, quoting her husband in northern Apayao province with whom she has two children.


Isn't this just awful? And now she want's to see the little guy!?

Well the Phillipines does have a history of their girls involved in prostitution and nannies; and the difference may be a bit blurry.

And you know the rich boss in Qatar is probably a frustrated horn-dog, what with all their chicks wearing those veils and stuff.

I'm sure she isn't the first young Philappine girl to return home pregnant. And the strory says she is married and has two kids already. Possibly abortion isn't available in Qatar and she was probably heading home for one before meeting up with her family.

I'm for abortion, especially in cases of rape,etc. But I imagine that that would be a clinical option and hopefully early on in the pregnancy.
For a female to actually give birth to a little human, then wrap him up in toilet paper and stuff him into those little garbage cans in the bathroom of a jet seems, to me, incredulous.

I wonder what would be the public opinion if this girl was a blonde, blue eyed thing from either Toronto or Washington? What would the feminist's movements say? What would the Conservative's or the Republican's say?

And, on the other hand, if the girl were from say either Saudi Arabia or Iran, she would probably be stoned to death, or if lucky or if her family could afford it, be hung from the neck until Jesus walked in their oilfields once again.

What a crazy world we live in.... dare I say a F**ked up world.

And today some of CNN's stories include Anna Nicole Smith's photos with baby released, the "Top Chef" finale, and the bed bug infestation. Oh, and the dude that shot a doctor in John Hopkin's hospital has been found, cornered and shot dead.

Well, I believe this is enough for now.

Habs too English, PQ leader says

Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois says she would like to see more francophone players on the Montreal Canadiens.

Marois told reporters that the hockey team does not reflect the reality in the province, and the lack of a Quebec identity on the Habs ends up serving the federalist cause.

The PQ leader's comments follow the appearance of the party's language critic Pierre Curzi on the popular French-language program Les Francs-tireurs on Sept. 8, when he stated that it was "not by chance" that there are so few francophone players on Quebec's only NHL hockey team.

Curzi toned down his rhetoric Wednesday, saying he did not believe it was a federalist plot to stack the team with English-speaking players, but simply that the lack of francophone players has changed the identity of the Habs.


WOW! It seems some folks just have to complain about anything to be happy. The PQ's "language critic"??! Is that a full time job?

I think my thoughts on this subject were mirrored by Liberal cabinet minister Line Beauchamp who said there is no federalist ulterior motive to the makeup of the team.

"Come on, it's a hockey team that's trying to win the Stanley Cup," Beauchamp said.

Curzi also made headlines two years ago when he denounced Paul McCartney's free concert on Quebec City's Plains of Abraham to celebrate the city's 400th anniversary, saying the star shouldn't be singing in English on the site of a historic battle between British and French troops.

So I think that Celine Dion shouldn't sing in either language in any country where there has been an historic battle!
I should think enough is enough.

Go - Habs - Go!

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Coalition to attack Taliban this fall

Coalition forces in Afghanistan will go on the offensive this fall, says Lt.-Gen. Marc Lessard, the commander of Canadian troops overseas.

His comments to reporters in Kandahar on Saturday echoed those made by British Maj.-Gen. Nick Carter, commander of coalition troops in southern Afghanistan, who said up to 32,000 Afghan and coalition soldiers will try to clear 500 to 800 insurgents from around Kandahar city before December.

Lessard described the coalition push as "massive activities." The attacks will be followed by development projects and efforts to strengthen the local governments.

Lessard said Canadian soldiers must improve conditions by the time they're scheduled to pull out next July. He called it part of Canada's legacy in Afghanistan.

"With the 150-plus killed, the hundreds of seriously injured, from our Canadian point of view, that's our legacy."


Well, I can predict the Taliban will fall back to the border area by Pakistan and lay low while the NATO troops push ahead in the Khandahar province. Either that or just hide their weapons very well, and instantly become "innocent civilians" and collect western for a year or so.

I believe our legacy is we sent our Armed Forces into Afghanistan for a long time, lost 154 of our best and hundreds more wounded; and I foresee Afghanistan devolving into what it more or less has been for a long time - A country led by warlords who get rich in the narcotics trade.

I guess time will tell the tale, and I do truly hope our sacrifices will contribute to a better life for the average citizen.

The press allowed Bill Clinton to commit war crimes against the people of Serbia,

Click on above title to read a good article on basically everything I have come to realize about the Balkans.

The comments after the article are good reading also.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

9/11 anniversary a time for unity: Obama

The anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States is a time for Americans to remember they are "one nation under God" — no matter what that God is called, U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday.

Saturday will mark nine years since the deadly attacks, committed by Islamic militants, which killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Penn.

In recent months, events like the proposed burning of the Qur'an in Florida and the outcry over a proposed Islamic cultural centre near Ground Zero have uncovered deep-seated feelings of suspicion and resentment toward Muslims.

Obama attributed those feelings in part to the struggling U.S. economy.

"I think that at a time when the country is anxious generally and going through a tough time, then fears can surface, suspicions, divisions can surface in a society," Obama told reporters at a press conference Friday morning.

He harkened back to the days and months following the Sept. 11 attacks, praising then President George W. Bush, whom he more often criticizes, for being "crystal-clear about the fact that [America was] not at war with Islam."

"And I will do everything that I can … to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation," he said.

"I think it is absolutely important now for the overwhelming majority of the American people to hang on to that thing that is best in us, a belief in religious tolerance, clarity about who our enemies are — our enemies are al-Qaeda and their allies who are trying to kill us.

"We have to make sure that we don't start turning on each other."

As in other years, official ceremonies are planned Saturday in each of the three locations that were struck.

Obama will attend a commemoration at the Pentagon, while Vice-President Joe Biden will attend the ceremony at Ground Zero. First lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush will travel to Shanksville to observe the anniversary there.



In other words let's wait until the 10th anniversary to start our war on Islam. Let's face it, Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization that burst forth on the scene many years ago as a minor threat to the US.... Just because they planned and somehow carried out the worst attack on US soil (with or without the help of US official competance), doesn't mean they are some how as strong and anywhere equal to the US in anything.

Face facts - the only thing that keeps alqueda going is the fact that their troops live in the Afganistan/Pakistan border area, and their true power lives in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries.

How else would these cave dwellers managed to carry on the Jihad, but mainstream support from these countries? It is well known that Pakistan is on one hand an US ally on the war on terror, and on the other hand actively supporting the alqueda and taliban.

The time will come when the US will say enough is enough and start an all out war with Islamic countries that don't want to tone down their support for Islamic terrorist organizations.

The end of combat operations in IRAQ, give me a break. That country will slip into another dictatorship when all the western forces leaves and the most powerfull warlord flexes his muscles.

And what of Afghanistan, the country that we tried to adopt and change for the last number of years? That country too will be powered by whom ever has the most forces when we finally leave.. And training them will only benefit the warlords that these citizens back up...

The whole thing is shite,, and it should have been left as shite on Sep 10th,, good one you guys,,,, but can you hear me over the jet engines warming up on our B-52, B-1,and B-2 bombers?

And fucking George and his links to Osama? It may take a lot of years, but if there are still folks living in the year 2075, they will shake their heads as to how this costly enterprise came to be. And at the same time we will be under German control, of course. The future is already being foreshadowed, because Canadian Forces are riding around in state of the art Leo 2A6 Panzers! But I'll save that for another rant. And you know its coming..

Friday, September 10, 2010

Afghan prisons 'not torture chambers': officer

A senior Canadian military officer who helped manage the early days of Canada's combat mission in Kandahar has admitted torture likely occurred in Afghanistan prisons, but says reports of abuse were overblown.
Maj.-Gen. Mike Ward told the Military Police Complaints Commission in Ottawa on Thursday that he didn't think the Canadian military had a responsibility for detainees it captured after they were passed to Afghan authorities.

Ward was a senior staff officer at the Canadian military headquarters responsible for Afghanistan in 2005 and 2006.

During his testimony, he said whatever happened to Canadian-caught detainees after they were transferred to Afghan authorities in those years was beyond the military's limited legal responsibility.

"It was ensuring that while those detainees were in our custody, nothing untoward happened to them," he said of Canada's role.

Even though the Canadian government has since negotiated a new transfer agreement with Afghanistan that allows Canadian officials to monitor detainees, Ward said Canada still doesn't have to do it.

"I'm not sure that there's an explicit — not that I've seen — an explicit acknowledgment by the Government of Canada that we are responsible for post-transfer," he told the commission.

Human rights law suggests Canada has a responsibility not to transfer detainees if they face a serious risk of torture, let alone if torture is an established fact.

Ward also described the Afghan National Directorate of Security, the spy service known as the NDS, as a "highly thought of organization," despite widespread reports of torture.

"If you had to deal with an agency of government, the NDS was the best step at that point of time," he said.


Well I just think that this is all rubbish, and when he says the NDS is a highly thougt of organization is fucking criminal. I've known Mike Ward for many years and I suspect now as a seniour officer he is just towing the party line..

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Qur'an burning won't harm U.S. lives: pastor

An associate pastor at a Florida church planning to burn copies of the Qur'an to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks says it won't result in any deaths.

Top U.S. officials and military commanders have denounced the plan, and warned the threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops abroad.

"I don't believe that anyone would die as a result of something we do," Wayne Sapp, an associate pastor at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, told CBC News. "People have to be accountable for their own actions."

"If a radical element of Islam is violent, if it's out to take American lives, today it will use this as an excuse. Tomorrow it will find something else."

The White House, the U.S. State Department and Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, all slammed the church's plan on Tuesday.

Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs has also condemned the plan.

Despite the criticism, the church appears undaunted.

"We feel like the Qur'an is a very deceptive, very violent teaching," Sapp said. "It leads people in a direction that as we see in radical Islam, brings about a very violent nature."

Sapp said the plan has brought worldwide attention to the issue of radical Islam.

The Dove World Outreach Center is led by Pastor Terry Jones, who appeared on CBS's Early Show, to say the burning will proceed.



That what we need to do alright - further divide the two largest faiths in this world.

Sure, it will further endanger soldier's lives, but what about innocent victims of bombing, etc?

And this Terry Jones (hopefully not the Monty Python guy) has only about 30 folks who worship in the "Outreach Center", so it's not like he represents many.

I'm glad to not be involved with any religion.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Winnipeg man survives 5 days in bush

An 86-year-old Winnipeg man missing for five days in rugged terrain east of the Manitoba capital was found alive and in good condition on Monday.

Joseph Kuz, 86, was found in a swampy bush area near Hadashville about 100 kilometres east of Winnipeg by an RCMP officer on an all-terrain vehicle.

RCMP Const. Miles Hiebert said Kuz was found at around 9:30 a.m., tired and dehydrated. He had been reported missing Friday after being dropped off last Thursday for a hike into a remote cabin.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Mike Hengen, a 30-year member of the force, was the officer who found Kuz. Hengen told CBC News that his ATV was stuck in swampy mud as searchers fanned out for a fourth day of searching for the elderly man.

Deep in the swampy bush Hengen turned off the engine of his ATV and — just as he was struggling to push the machine free — he heard a moaning sound a few metres away. Hengen struggled on foot through 40 metres of bush and found Kuz, flat on his back, in a hollowed-out area full of spruce trees and moss.


Wow, it would be interesting to know who lets an 86 year old man go for a hike by himself?

And a hike to a remote cabin? What would happen if something happened out there?

And it would probably have helped if the man had a cell phone apparatus thingy.