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We have a public broadcaster in Canada because we have many remote communities that need to keep in touch with national news and would not get served by private broadcasters. Also, in my opinion, private media tend to be right wing to suit their 'sponsors' as they are beholden to them. A public broadcaster balances the scales. As for the pay ... I'd like to see the evidence.

You were making a moral judgement. Learn the difference sometime. And can't be done as it is illegal to leave a person stateless. However, I will grant that your thinking is of the same calibre as the ijuts that let that asinine item get on the agenda. They're an embarrassment to their country too. Omar ? Fighting? Newsflash: Omar Kadhr's abusive terrorist criminal father is dead. Shall we convict him posthumously? Shall we punish his family ... ie, all of the victims of the abusive terrorist father? "Either ...or"? Somebody has to pay for the crimes of the deceased? Not in the real world. "An eye for an eye" and it doesn't matter whose? There's a society like that ... tribal Wahabbi-ism, Saudi style ... GW's buddies ... Right up your alley! MYOB AMWO Go tell your own country what they 'should' do ... like stop punishing good soldiers for telling the truth. I call it the way I see it. Yes, you are an extremist right wing US'n propagandist trying to bully Canadians on a Canadian discussion board, and it's arrogant, tacky and pathetic, indicative of a delusion of superiority and dissociation from reality imo. Promoting extremist propaganda is bullying. Bullies seldom have insight into their own behaviours. Ya, and apparently affords you the opportunity to be online many hours a day promoting extremist propaganda. Nice use of public funds. Ya I get that. I just don't give a sht what you are "telling Canadians" to do. The fact that you think you have a right to 'tell Canadians' anything pretty much says it all (see "superiority" above).Now shouldn't you go do some work for your "pay check" (sic). If you were slackassing like this on my staff, you'd be fired.

I agree ... though it's possible the oil lobby that Carson really worked for, managed to hide information from Harper. Carson sucked millions out of the feds for his oil lobby propaganda campaign, under false pretenses.Carson is just the fall guy. The real criminals here are the fraud artists of the oil lobby stealing public funds for their own advertising campaign. I think it's very funny that Guy Giorno, a predator shark if there ever was one - ran whining to the ethics commission about Carson. Sharks eat sharks I guess. Works for me! But they are both just paid thugs for the real criminals who defraud the public of funds for their own private purposes.

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No person can be left stateless.Omar is and will always be Canadian. "Treason" is laughable: You cannot convict a child of treason for doing what his father forced him to do, in Canada or the US. Or anywhere in the world. Your propensity for propaganda twisting is obvious AMWO. Nobody's hero worshipping, but we do have a sense of responsibility for the victimization of children. So do decent US'ns, like the soldiers who told the truth. There are decent people and a$$holes on both sides of the border, and you and BC, with your propagandist twisting of facts, and attempts to bully Canadians here on this board, represent everything that is wrong in the US and Canada. Get a life ... get a real job ... go peddle your predatory messages south of the border. "Listen what I say" indeed. Arrogance is its own reward I guess. I am quite aware that the sociopath war profiteers who create conflict in the world for personal profit have unlimited propaganda budgets and stop at nothing, even murder of activists en masse. Doesn't mean we're afraid to confront the predators. When the bought 'soldiers' desert them, they're just cringing, horribly pathetic people drooling in their prison gruel. We will win, because we can't lose when we confront evil unarmed and with messages of peace and honourable living. When they attack us, we win. We will win. We are winning, all over the world. Get with the humanity program or get left stewing in your own acid. Your choice. And take this message back for me, eh? Thanks.

Get your facts straight Oleg: Omar saw NOTHING. He was injured and lying under a pile of rubble that a US soldier knew was there BEFORE the grenade was thrown. Omar's mentor/protector - his father's friend - was also alive when the US soldiers arrived inside the compound, until they shot him (Maybe he went for his gun?) Cheney is a sociopath. There is no treatment for that, only protection for society from such predators-of-no-conscience.

Fortunately some US soldiers are more decent people than you. One was a witness to the events and told the truth that Omar did not throw the grenade. Another was an intarrogator who told the truth that Omar was a whining child who would have said anything to stop the pain.Of course these testimonies occurred during pre-trial so going to trial was quickly scrapped as an option in favour of the 'save face/hide the truth' plea bargain process. Nobody considers Omar Kadhr a "hero". He's a victim, first of his father, then of Gitmo and the military coverup establishment (despite the efforts of a couple of soldiers) and then of Canadian governments that failed to protect the rights of a child forced into a war. We owe him ... medical attention, therapy, and the freedom to tell his story, so we never again victimize a child in this way. And no doubt the courts will eventually award him a large settlement for the Canadian violations of his rights. Remember that it was his false words, elicited through torture, that led to torture of Maher Arar, and to his eventual court-ordered settlement. It was testimony that Omar could not have seen Arar as he said under torture, because Omar was elsewhere at the time. Omar was and still is a child, a victim of arrested development through abuse, trauma and torture. He needs treatment and we owe it to him.

Is that how Conrad Black manages it?

Seattle? :lol: 1999 ... most of these protesters were 13 years old then!! It's awesome the effect these protests are having, turning grown men into anxious shaking mounds of jello! Tell you what ... call your stockbrokers and advisors and get out of any deals, deposits etc. That might be a bit on the 'shady' side. Go straight. Get clean. Pay your taxes like a Canadian. Pay your employees a decent living wage. Give them a decent pension too. You'll feel better about yourself and maybe even become a convert who preaches the good clean life to other rich angry crooks. Start a group, call it 'Greed Anonymous ... Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm The 'good life' is not a destination: It's the journey. Anyone who's ever been in business with someone who used every trick to take more than his share, should have a good understanding of how the rest of us feel about the increasing wealth of the 1%: They're scam artists, crooks in motive and methods. And we're onto them. It's interesting to me, spending time as I do among the wealthy and the middle-low income: The wealthy spend effort in trying to enjoy the good life they have, constantly trying to keep their fear and anxiety at bay and convinced that others are out to get them. The low-middle income people have no such uncertainty: They know the rich predators are out to get them and do, and they enjoy life in spite of them, knowing they are better people than the predatory wealthy. The low road may have less traffic, but it's fraught with potholes and corruption and other predators. The high road provides a better journey.

It's a private park, not public property.It's cement/marble - not hard to clean.

Park Cleanup Postponed, Heartening NYC ProtestersNEW YORK (AP) — The officia cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending up cheers from a crowd that had scrambled to scrub the park on its own out of fear the effort was merely a pretext to evict them. ... Supporters of the protesters, including union members, had started streaming into the park in the morning darkness well beforehand in a show of solidarity. ... Boisterous cheers floated up from the crowd in New York as the announcement of the cleaning postponement circulated, and a small group soon marched away with brooms, saying they were going to clean up Wall Street, a few blocks away.

We really don't need all your personal details. If you say it's all legal so be it. Dog's and cat's too? Why then are you so agitated by the protesters? Why do you suggest they'll be attacking businesses when in fact there's been nothing like that occur? Why do you say "Let them eat rat sht"? Pretty extreme comments by someone who's not bothered by it.

Flaherty says Wall Street protesters have a point CTVNews Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Occupy Wall Street protests have a point, but as for the upcoming Occupy Bay Street rally in Toronto -- not so much. Speaking to reporters in Ottawa, Flaherty said American protesters are "legitimately frustrated" by the income gap levels between rich and poor and the high unemployment rate for youth. But he said Canada's situation is different than the United States because of tougher financial laws and a more progressive taxation system."In Canada we have a progressive income tax and it favours people with lower incomes who are vulnerable, quite frankly, in Canadian society. Our tax system is clearly progressive," he said prior to flying to France for an important G20 meeting on the economy. "Having said that, I see a point that income distribution is important and that there is a concern that a very, very small group of people have very large incomes. However, Canadian supporters of the movement rejected Flaherty's assertions."Canada has an income inequality rate that is growing faster than the American rate," Occupy Edmonton organizer Chelsea Taylor told The Canadian Press."In the past few decades in Canada, the top third of all wealth gains in income have gone to the richest one per cent in Canada." ... A recent poll showed Americans support the Occupy Wall Street protest by a two-to- one ratio over the Tea Party. I'm a bit surprised ... but it looks like the Harper government has decided to 'ride the wave' of going after the 1%'ers. We'll see how long that lasts.

It was reported from the pretrial but it's not online anymore. A soldier witness corrected the 'official' notes, which were constructed after they found out they'd shot an injured and terrified 15 year old Canadian kid twice, in the back. The soldier said he' looked around a wall and seen a pile of rubble, ducked back and then the grenade was thrown killing a soldier. Two people were alive when soldiers went around. One was shot and killed, Omar was shot but an officer intervened, sensing Omar was young.However, his guilty plea saves everybody's face and Omar gets back to Canada, but not to his family. So be it.

It was reported from the pretrial but it's not online anymore. A soldier witness corrected the 'official' notes, which were constructed after they found out they'd shot an injured and terrified 15 year old Canadian kid twice, in the back. The soldier said he' looked around a wall and seen a pile of rubble, ducked back and then the grenade was thrown killing a soldier. Two people were alive when soldiers went around. One was shot and killed, Omar was found moaning under the pile of rubble, then was shot twice in the back but an officer intervened, sensing Omar was young.However, his guilty plea saves everybody's face except and Omar gets back to Canada. So be it.

Yes we do consider age and contributing factors when sentencing adolescents. Besides, in Harper's Canada, raping babies is considered no more serious than growing a few marijuana plants. After being indoctrinated by their father as children and forced to go through training in Afghanistan, Omar's eldest brother chose to continue that path. The second oldest, however, rebelled and refused - just wanted to be an ordinary kid - and was punished and vilified by Dad for it; Dad offered him up as a suicide bomber and tried to have him indoctrinated to kill himself. Bro persisted and is out of it today - an informant, I believe. Then there's young Omar, the baby of the family who, according to his mother, "Would always just cry." ... a 'baby', not strong and rebellious like his brother, who knew if he didn't do what terrifying Dad said, he would become a walking bomb and then dead very quickly. He was a childat 15 in every sense of the world, and Canada's failure to come to the defense of a virtual prisoner child soldier is abhorrent. Omar Kadhr is a 'chicken' and didn't kill anybody. He was injured and under a pile of rubble when the grenade was thrown. He didn't kill anyone and that testimony at pre-trial was an extreme embarrassment to the US. He took a plea bargain as the fastest route back to Canada. I'm not aware of any statements by Omar indicating that he has any terrorist motives or feelings. He still cries for his Mommy, wants to play with his Xbox and come home to Canada. That's all +mar 'adhr is about and all he was ever about.

Like Colbert?I don't think so. She takes herself much too seriously.

Not likely since the union's not commenting.Pee-eeewww!! Something really SMELLY here! For what it's worth, I don't think Harper is the corruption-for-money type (like Mulroney), more the corruption for power type, much more dangerous, imo. But the gang he hangs with? ... peeee-eeww!

Israel is free to offend whomever it wants to, and certainly has offended lots of people. The consequence, though, is loss of billion$ in charity and government support, a fact that you fail to consider. What "international boundary" Bonam? Did Israel recognize the Palestinian state and I missed it?

Well isn't that special. Bragging about illegal tax evasion.

Do you have a vote in Canada jbg? It's coup-nothing and if you don't vote here you are out of line and flirting with illegal promoting such ignorance about our system and possibly trying to influence votes.

irrelevant. You want an election for every decision? Stuff happens between elections. It's legitimate. It's up to the party in power to maintain the confidence of the house between elections, or they're toast.Winning an election provides an opportunity to form a government, not a guarantee of success.

I'm pretty sure the protesters are not receptive to politicians and party hacks trying to usurp the protest for political gain. If politicians have something to say about it they can talk to the media. And they can stand up to corporate influence peddling/threats themselves.

They're really getting to you eh? Good. You should be paying attention to them They're smart, not aggressive, have millions of supporters, most likely a majority of the population who have lost confidence in the banks. My bet is the Wall Streeters are not going anywhere. City garbage collection would help, portapotties, water.

Sit on gobs of money and it loses value.