Jay Currie

Scramble the Jackals…Kate and Kathy and Kitty are off to Israel. It appears that the the CIC is a little brighter than the CJC and have sent some pro-Israel bloggers to, well, Israel.

This is smart.

The sounds of wailing and gnashing of teeth in Jackal land will, no doubt, commence immediately. Perhaps, if he can tear [...]

Mr Athanassiou concludes that expulsion is legally almost impossible. The nearest thing possible, he argues, is creating some new community minus the state others want to exclude. bbc

Gaddafi told supporters the Swiss referendum last year, in which 57.5 per cent of voters called for a ban on the construction of minarets, proved it was an “infidel state”.

The federal government had however urged voters to reject the vote, warning it would contravene religious freedom.

But Gaddafi said: “Let us fight against Switzerland, Zionism and [...]

“But don’t worry. I’m sure it’s only “anti-Zionist.”

Because “Itbah Al-Yahud” actually means kiss those Jews silly. No, really,,,I’m not kidding…seriously!

Now it is better:

via POETENCY & APOETASY

Now comes word that last week, Ottawa told the United Nations it would no longer fund the world body’s Palestinian refugee agency. From now on, Canadian aid to Palestinians will be directed to specific projects. We will no longer give lump-sum aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the [...]

Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has announced that the national currency, the bolivar, will be devalued for the first time since 2005, by at least 17%.

The bolivar, whose rate is set by government decree, will be devalued from its current rate of 2.15 to the US dollar to 2.60 for “priority” imports.

However, the bolivar will be [...]

Lorne Gunter is going to be in trouble…He’s telling the truth again.

No matter what we screen for, no matter how much we irritate and inconvenience passengers at airports, the bad guys will figure out new ways to bring potential death aboard our planes.

The real trick is screening out bad guys. But to do that would [...]

Conservative Porfirio Lobo won the controversial first presidential election in Honduras since a June 28 coup with 55.9 percent of the vote, electoral officials said, after more than 60 percent of ballots were counted. AFP

Turnout was running 60-70% despite Zelaya supporters’ call for a boycott.

You might be forgiven for thinking that the Hondurans have just [...]

There are a lot of empty buildings in China.

Over at the Dawg’s knickers are in a twist over the commencement of:

With a flourish of trumpets, the portentously-named All-Party Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism has begun its hearings. And by no coincidence an op-ed piece appeared in the Ottawa Citizen today, warning of the return of the “beast of anti-Semitism,” written by one [...]

Iran told the United Nations nuclear watchdog on Thursday that it would not accept a plan its negotiators agreed to last week to send its stockpile of uranium out of the country, according to diplomats in Europe and American officials briefed on Iran’s response. nyt

Another 0 for the big 0. That engagement thing sure is [...]

All three units divide their work into four categories of domestic extremism: animal rights campaigns; far-right groups such as the English Defence League; “extreme leftwing” protest groups, including anti-war campaigners; and “environmental extremism” such as Climate Camp and Plane Stupid campaigns. the guardian

Hmmm…seems to me that there might be one other “extremist” group the police [...]

Dr. Dawg wanted the BBC to deny BNP leader Nick Griffin a place on Question Time. Why?

But the real point is this: I’m not a liberal. I see no reason to grant speech rights to neo-Nazi scum. I don’t lose sleep when they are shut down. I don’t have abstract principles that float above the [...]

Poor Gordon Brown. The least popular British Prime Minister in decades is clinging desperately to the “urgency” of Copenhagen.

“If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice.

“So [...]

We, actually in the Brazilian embassy in Honduras which is legally Brazilian territory and, so long as he stays put, Zelaya is immune from arrest.

How he got to the embassy remains a mystery. Why he is there is also not so very obvious.

Fausta is updating the story.

And the Wall Street Journal has a story [...]

US forces have “likely killed” a top al-Qaeda suspect during a US military raid in Somalia, a US official has told the BBC.

The suspect, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, is wanted over 2002 attacks on a hotel and an Israeli airliner in the Kenyan port of Mombassa. bbc

Nice to see Obama has not abandoned the surgical [...]

Lieutenant James Adamson was awarded the Military Cross after killing two insurgents during close quarter combat in Helmand’s notorious “Green Zone”.

The 24-year-old officer, a member of the 5th battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, revealed that he shouted “have some of this” before shooting dead a gunman who had just emerged from a maize field.

Seconds [...]

Party animal, Hero of Chappaquiddick, dog giver to the O – no matter what anyone says the man sank to the bottom at least once – is reported by the Chicago Tribune to have leapt this mortal coil.

And, with him, one hopes, the shining beacon of stockswindler, appeasement boy and serial diddler Joe Kennedy and [...]

via the torch thanks Louise