The Jews are OK, but the nazi pogrom against the Roma continues

Since the Hitler era, we have seen the establishment of Israel, which has become the bully of the Middle East, replete with a tidy arsenal of nuclear weapons and a perpetual free pass from any UN condemnation courtesy of big brother in Washington.

Nobody gonna mess with those folks.

Those other denizens of the gas chambers of the nazi empire, the Roma, have got what?

A crisis in that bastion of human rights, Sweden, where it has come out that there is a secret registry of all Roma living in the land.

To what end?

Another crisis in socialist France, where opinion polls made public at the weekend revealed that a full three out of four Frenchmen are in favour of kicking the Roma out of the country.

And yet another door slammed shut in that multicultural paradise, Canada, where last year the Harper government took Hungary off the list of countries whose emigres are eligible to be considered for refugee status - because as everyone knows there is no possible way that anyone from that capitalist democracy could possibly be facing persecution of any sort.

Roma?

Hungary?

What could possibly be the problem?

Neo-Thatcherites double down on stupidity

So the austerity enema isn't working?

Well alrighty then... just jam that hose up there a little further and double the water-pressure!

Something's bound to give...

That's the Osborne-Cameron prescription for UK prosperity.

Let's see now... doesn't work, haint worked ever, and haint ever gonna work, but lets double down anyway because we haint got no other ideas.

If there's ever been a buncha discredited twats laying ruin to the empire, it's gotta be this lot.

They truly are intent on out-flanking Blair in the arsehole sweeps.

Seven more years of pain?

Hey folks, it's time to rise up...

Tell the twats to fuck right off.

Now!

Kenya troops loot shops during Westgate Mall terror

If that's how Kenya's soldiers deport themselves while hunting down Islamic terrorists in the country's finest shopping mall, how do you suppose they conduct themselves in their occupation of Somalia?

Reports of rape, looting, arbitrary arrest and summary execution of Somalis by Kenyan forces have been rampant in the two years since the Kenyan invasion.

Perhaps this has something to do with the enmity that al-Shabaab harbours for their Kenyan neighbours?

Could this have motivated the Somali reprisal?

Or do they just hate Kenyans for their freedom to shop?

And let's not forget that both the President and Deputy President of Kenya are wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

In spite of all this, Western media manage to portray Kenya as a beacon of freedom and prosperity, a model for all Africa to emulate.

Perhaps we're not getting the whole story?

Canadian Foreign Minister Baird empties the UN

Here's a screen capture taken at the 15:26 mark of John Baird's speech to the UN today. This is an event that will be treated with the utmost reverence on the evening news at CTVCBCGlobal tonight, and you can bet they'll all stick to the closely cropped shots of Baird talking.

So what did Mr. Baird have to say in the empty hall? John dropped a couple of impressive references to Homer and Cicero. Offered up the usual bromides about Israel's right to exist, because apparently in Canada there is still some confusion about the matter. Warned the world about the ulterior motives behind Iran's recent "charm offensive". Expressed concern for little girls and Syrians. Denounced the evil dictator who used chemical weapons on his own people.

If you want to know what he didn't talk about, you'll find it here in this handy fact sheet compiled by Canada's Assembly of First Nations.

There you'll learn that First Nations people in Canada live in Third World conditions; die younger, have higher rates of tuberculosis, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS, are imprisoned at exponentially higher rates than white Canadians, and are suffering a suicide epidemic.

Some would see the plight of First Nations in Canada as the continuation of 500 years of genocide by the colonizers. 

Apparently John Baird doesn't see it at all.

If he did, he'd stay home to do something about it instead of minding everybody else's business at the UN.

Talking to Uncle Sid

First of all, Sid ain't my uncle.

I don't think, technically speaking, he's even an "uncle" to the Farm Manager. Maybe a second cousin once removed or something.

Anyway, I ran into Sid at the family get-together about a month back.

Usually I only run into Sid at family funerals.

So I grabbed Sid's hand for a good old farm-style handshake, "hey good to see ya Sid... I only see you at funerals!"

I should mention that Sid is 87 years old. Still goes to his office at his law practice every day. Still got all his marbles, and they're all rolling in the right direction.

I think he does real estate law mostly. You can probably do that till you're 150. After all, what can go wrong? The title searchers do the title search. The lien checkers check for liens. The legal secretaries and assorted unpaid interns do the rest.

When all those folks have done all your work, you give it the stamp of approval and off you go!

Now that's just a general rant about real estate lawyers. I don't mean for a moment to suggest that's how Sid rolls.

But Sid is one savvy dude. When I mentioned about only seeing him at family funerals he rejoinders, without a moment of hesitation, "ya I know! Everybody I know is dead!"

What a great guy to have a beer with!

Here's to ya, Sid!

Canada greenlights industrial-scale marijuana grow-ops

Obviously the Harper gang wants to let a bit of the pot-scented wind out of Justin Trudeau's sails.

And they're doing it in the typical Harper way.

To hell with the cottage industry types growing organic weed for the connoisseurs. So what if some hillbilly can come up with a hundred pounds of organic additive-free primo; the Harper gang wants to shut those guys down and deal with "legitimate businessmen" who have a verifiable track record of financially supporting the Conservative Party.

"Legitimate businessmen" who will undoubtedly be one or two degrees of separation away from Asian crime gangs or the bikers, the very groups attempting to monopolize the illegal trade now.

Maybe this is the quid pro quo attached to Harper's billion dollar gift of subway construction funding to the drug-dealing Ford brothers of Toronto?

Susan Rice claims US still supporting moderate Syrian rebel

Four days after a coalition of Syrian rebel groups rejected the leadership of the US sponsored Syrian National Coalition, Susan Rice appeared on Fareed Zakaria's show on CNN to assure the American public that the US continues to support the moderate rebel in Syria.

Falling Downs field operatives tracked down the moderate rebel, Captain Abdul Barakat of Battalion One of the Free Syrian Army, at the Best Western in Istanbul for a Q & A.

FD: Captain Barakat, how is it you are able to fight Assad from your suite at the Best Western in Istanbul?

AB: I am temporarily on furlough, a little bit of R and R, and much needed, I must say.

FD: So you maintain command of your troops in the First Battalion from your command centre here?

AB: What troops? It's not called the First Battalion, it's Battalion One, because it has one guy. Me. Battalion Two had two guys but they defected to the Islamists.

FD: So when were you last in your country?

AB: I was in my country just last week.

FD: Where in Syria were you, and what was the situation on the ground?

AB: Syria? I wasn't in Syria, I was in my country. I live in London. Situation on the ground is tense. That Cameron is an idiot, worse than Blair.

FD: Oh... so when were you last in Syria?

AB: I flew in with Senator McCain a couple of months ago for a photo op. That's me there in the picture, right behind the Senator.






FD: So... do you actually have any fighters on the ground in Syria?

AB: Of course! We are all brothers united against Assad... every fighter is my brother!

FD: But do you command any of them?

AB: This the problem from the lack of support from USA. We need heavy weapons. Tanks and drones too, and no-fly zone across country. If Americans step up support, maybe nice shock and awe from Hellfire missiles and Pavemaster on Assad for a few months, then I have command in Syria, but America shameful for lack of help for Syrian freedom fighters. All they supporting now is State Department pay bill at Best Western, but Abdul left to fend for self on bar fridge tab.

FD: Well good luck to you, Captain Barakat, and thank you for your time.