Friday, February 1, 2008

Friday February 1st News

Maverick Liberal MP Keith Martin has tabled a bill calling for the repeal of internet censorship as a target for the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Lets hope the Tories do the traditional conservative thing and support this bill. And kudos to Keith Martin for recognizing the importance of free expression.

A Toronto-area man has been posting messages on the Internet supporting attacks against Canadian soldiers on Canadian soil, drawing the attention of RCMP national security investigators.Police have advised the Bangladeshi-Canadian that he is under investigation for incitement and facilitating terrorism after he repeatedly called the killing of Canadian troops in Canada "legitimate" and "well deserved." The full story here.

In Kingston, Ontario, the police cars apparently have "Support Our Troops" stickers on them, and, horror of horrors, someone has been putting anti-war magnets over top of them. One such magnet had the message: "War is hate. War is greed" scratched into it.
Good for them. The best way to support out troops is to bring them home from Afghanistan and stop using them as cannon fodder to support the American Zionist Empire.

News shows often have an implicit bias that may motivate the portrayal of facts and opinions in misleading ways, even if the information presented is largely accurate. Nevertheless, by becoming familiar with how spokespeople can create false impressions, media consumers can learn to ignore certain claims and thereby avoid getting duped. We have detected two general types of fallacies—one of them well known and the other newly identified—that have permeated discussion of the Iraq War and that are generally ubiquitous in political debates and other discourse..........Getting Duped-How the Media Messes with your Mind.

A couple youtube videos......Montel Williams absolutely lambasts the liars at Fox News in this clip, which apparently has cost him his job. Notice the rest of the presenters actually try to defend their poor record of journalism. Montel Williams is a brave man and a true patriot for speaking truth to power.

Ron Paul with an uplifting speech at the University of Washington.
Ron Paul slams the Republican warmonger twins at the recent California debate here.

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