Jan
19
2007
“The Zionists, it seems, are infatuated with blood.”
That’s the first line from a post on Vancouver Indymedia entitled Zionists and Blood. The full text of the post reads as follows:
“The zionists, it seems, are infatuated with blood. Tainted blood, that is, which they make to spread among large groups of the population of the world. These children are just the latest victims to be discovered, they are the recipients of this latest poisoned gift of the zionists”
It’s strange that the post is even available, since the volunteers who maintain Vancouver Indymedia wrote the following:
But, from this point forward, any anti-semitic trash or conspiracy theories in general will be deleted forthwith. Nobody has ever posted such a thing yet, and I hope they never do. But I will hit the delete button just as fast as I advocate others should do.
That’s odd. The post that nobody had ever posted and was supposed to be deleted just as fast as humanly possible is still there now. There are still a lot of posts with similar-themed content like this one. Or this one.
This, despite Indymedia’s announcement that their Winnipeg Indymedia branch has shut down, at least in part because of unrelenting commentary by anti-Semites and conspiracy theorists. It’s not really spam, as claimed in the Winnipeg announcement article, since such comments are in the main posts on the site, not merely in the comments. The Winnipeg site is merely the latest that has shut down for this cause.
The people at Vancouver Indymedia are trying to offer a provocative, revolutionary alternative to news provided by our main media conglomerates. Such enterprises almost invariably end up being hijacked by anti-Semites and the rest of the lunatic fringe.
Tags: Vancouver Indymedia, Zionist, blood libel, anti semite, conspiracy
Jan
17
2007
When the biggest issue facing the ruling party in Canada is the environment, things must be going pretty well.
Conservative Party candidates will be attending an election training school in March (where they’ll be learning what, exactly? How to avoid gaining weight from all the pancake breakfasts and fundraising dinners?). It remains to be seen whether they’ll need any refresher course.
Liberal leader Stephane Dion says balancing the budget will be a big priority. News flash: we’ve had billion dollar budget surpluses for about a decade now and that has continued under the Tories.
Meanwhile, Dion’s party is once again raising the spectre of Canada not meeting it’s Kyoto commitments with Stephen Harper in power, conveniently forgetting that Canada’s carbon emmissions went up 30 per cent under Martin’s Liberals – to the point that meeting our targets this year would involve completely shutting down Ontario for the foreseeable future.
Dion’s environmental agenda also ignores Harper’s new promise to unveil plans obliging companies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 2015. Dion calls it opportunism, which it assuredly is, but no social benefit ever got passed by our parliament that didn’t meet the criteria of political expediency.
The economy is humming and life in Canada is pretty uneventful aside from our freak weather. If Kyoto is the only stick Dion has to wield against the Harperites, he’s likely to get smoked.