YOU WANT HARPER IN A MAJORITY GOVERNMENT?? CANADA WILL BE LOST, PLEASE VOTE SMART.

• Published / Édité 10/4/2007

by Paul Chen

rime Minister Stephen Harper’s appearance at the New York City based Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) on 25 September 2007, was an official endorsement and expression of solidarity on the North American Union agenda.

Harvard University educated CNN Veteran anchor Lou Dobbs, has further confirmed the official endorsement of the Stephen Harper Minority Conservative government on North American Union, or “New America”. Mr. Harper has been apparently directed by the principal funders of the Conservative Party of Canada, which are ideologically linked to the CFR, to assimilate Canada into a new “Fortress North America” which is controlled by the U.S. political-military-industrial complex by no later than 2010. --MORE--

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Last update - 01:53 02/10/2008

By Gideon Levy

White smoke emerged from the tribal campfire on Rosh Hashanah Eve, announcing Channel 2 News' choice for man of the year. Commentators from the most popular and influential media outlet in the country announced their decision after holding a shallow and absurd discussion. "[He is] a man who has done only good," political analyst Emmanuel Rosen said of the selection, speaking on behalf of judging panel. Who is this rare and illustrious person who did so much good? Mossad chief Meir Dagan. An excited Rosen added: "[He is] a man who would cut the throats of terrorists with his own hands, using a box-cutter - a man of action with a knife in his teeth."

By way of supporting their decision they presented a "rare journalistic achievement": a glimpse of a meeting between our hero Dagan and outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The images echoed Communist Romania or North Korea: Olmert hosting Meirkeh, as the Mossad head is called by U.S. President George Bush, in his office. Both said very little in front of the cameras. "You did well," the prime minister said to Rosen, about the recognition. Then two character witnesses were called in. Major Gen. (res.) Yossi Ben Hanan spoke about how Dagan once killed a terrorist with his own hands, though of course he did not specify how, and reminisced about how they had once traveled together in the Far East. National Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer added: "I recommend that you don't get too close to him - I suggest your story had best be favorable."

Later the panel made intimations about his doings in the past year: The killing of senior Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus, a few more mysterious and unnecessary killings and, of course, the bombing of the alleged nuclear site in Syria, operations that they said should make Meirke deserving of "at least 10 Israel Prizes."

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Canada PM faces plagiarism claim

Portions of the speeches were played side by side by the Liberal Party

A Canadian Conservative Party speech-writer has resigned after Prime Minister Stephen Harper was accused of plagiarism in a speech he made in 2003.

Owen Lippert admitted he had been "overzealous in copying segments" of a speech in support of the invasion of Iraq by then Australian PM John Howard.

Mr Lippert said neither his superiors nor Mr Harper, who was opposition leader at the time, had been aware.

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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:00:37 GMT
Embattled Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Olmert has officially stepped down after submitting his resignation to President Shimon Peres.

Olmert arrived Sunday evening at the office of Peres in al-Quds and formally submitted a letter of resignation to the president, Israel's public television reported.

The premier has been under investigation over a series of corruption charges.

Following Olmert's resignation, the president has almost one week to consult with the heads of Knesset factions and ask another legislator -almost certain to be Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni - to form a new government.

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John McCain

McCain Slights Spanish Prime Minister

The Union Radio interview with John McCain on issues of interest to Hispanics was conducted in English and only later translated into Spanish for listeners. The audio above is of the English-only interview.

By Glenn Kessler and Ed O'Keefe
Republican presidential nominee John McCain suggested this week that he would continue President Bush's policy of having cool relations with the government of Spain, a NATO ally.

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"The questioner asked several times about Senator McCain's willingness to meet Zapatero (and id'd him in the question so there is no doubt Senator McCain knew exactly to whom the question referred). Senator McCain refused to commit to a White House meeting with President Zapatero in this interview," he said in an e-mail.

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Exit polls: Livni wins Kadima primary

Published: 09/17/2008

Exit polls show Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni winning the Kadima Party primary by a double-digit margin.

Livni received between 47 and 49 percent of the vote, while her closest challenger, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, won 37 percent, according to exit polls conducted by three Israeli TV stations.

By winning more than 40 percent of Wednesday's vote, Livni will avoid a runoff and immediately can begin trying to assemble a governing coalition. Once that process is complete, Livni will formally replace Ehud Olmert as prime minister.

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Junior minister quits over Brown
Tue Sep 16, 2008 4:08pm BST

LONDON (Reuters) - A junior minister resigned from Gordon Brown's government on Tuesday in the highest-profile revolt against the prime minister's leadership so far.

David Cairns was a minister in the Scotland Office. Two MPs have already been sacked from government jobs for expressing dissatisfaction with Brown's leadership and a third quit after saying he should be challenged.

"The Prime Minister has accepted David Cairns' resignation. The exercise of government demands collective responsibility," Brown's office said in a statement.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Labour Party national executive committee rejected calls for a leadership election that could have threatened Brown's 15-month-old premiership.

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Olmert has never lifted a finger in all his years as PM to stop the Army supported settler violence. Bye, Olmert. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.


Prime minister harshly criticizes Yitzhar residents who launched revenge campaign in West Bank village following stabbing attack which left nine-year-old child injured. 'The phenomenon of violent and brutal riots is intolerable,' he says

Roni Sofer
Published: 09.14.08, 10:43 / Israel News

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday harshly criticized settlers who launched a revenge campaign in a West Bank village after a Palestinian stabbed and injured a nine-year-old boy in the settlement of Yitzhar Saturday.

"The phenomenon of taking the law into one's hands and violent and brutal rioting is intolerable, and will receive an immediate response by the law enforcement authorities," Olmert said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting.

"There will be no pogroms against non-Jewish residents in the State of Israel," he added.

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Independent.co.uk
Labour whip is first to openly challenge PM

By Andrew Grice and Nigel Morris
Saturday, 13 September 2008

Gordon Brown faced an open challenge to his position last night when Labour MPs took the first steps towards triggering a leadership contest.

Siobhain McDonagh, an arch-Blairite and Labour whip, became the first member of the Brown Government to call for a leadership election, saying that Labour needed to "clear the air" because it was doing so badly and that a "huge number" of MPs wanted a contest. She was immediately sacked from her junior ministerial post, and learnt of her dismissal from journalists.
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Ms McDonagh is one of at least eight MPs who have called for Mr Brown's leadership to be debated at Labour's annual conference in Manchester starting a week today.

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Israeli leader to resign 'immediately' after vote

By JOSEF FEDERMAN – 6 hours ago

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will step down immediately after his party chooses a successor this month, a confidant said Thursday, shooting down speculation the Israeli leader would try to linger in office for months.

The announcement means that Israel could find itself racing to form a new government in as little as a week. And it raised new questions about Washington's stated goal of brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement by year's end.

Olmert, who is battling a corruption investigation, announced in July that he would resign some time after his Kadima Party chooses a new leader in a Sept. 17 primary.

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Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:13:12 GMT
Police have recommended the indictment of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert after considering probes into his corruption cases.

In a statement issued on Sunday, police recommended the indictment of Olmert on corruption charges related to two different cases, AFP reported.

Police investigators said they had sufficient evidence to indict the embattled PM on charges of accepting bribes and breaching public trust over receiving cash envelopes from a US businessman.

Olmert is also accused of billing the same overseas trips several times over "to pay for private trips for himself and his family".

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September 5th, 2008

Thu Sep 4, 2008 5:48pm EDT

By Joseph Nasr

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police are likely to recommend on Sunday indicting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges, Israeli media reported on Thursday.

A police source declined to comment on what investigators would advise the state prosecution. But he said police would announce their recommendations in the long-running case "within the next few days".

With Olmert committed to resigning after his Kadima party holds a leadership election on September 17, a police recommendation to bring charges against him will have no immediate impact on his tenure and does not guarantee an indictment will be filed.

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Fifth arrest in alleged plot to kill British Prime Minister

By The Associated Press

LONDON - Police in Britain say that a fifth suspect has been arrested in an alleged plot to kill British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Greater Manchester Police say the latest suspect is a 29-year-old man arrested Tuesday in Derby in central England.

Police are still questioning three men arrested on Aug. 14.

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Baghdad - Voices of Iraq

Monday , 25 /08 /2008 Time 10:03:14

BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 (VOI) - Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki on Monday said that Iraq will not hold any agreement with the U.S. without full sovereignty and a timetable for the withdrawal of the foreign troops, referring to a big progress in the Iraqi-U.S. negotiations in this regard.

"Iraq will not hold any agreement or treaty on the basis of one foreign soldier's presence on the Iraqi lands, but through putting a specified timetable for the withdrawal of the foreign troops," al-Maliki said during a tribal conference in Baghdad, which was attended by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

"Big progress is currently taking place in the Iraqi-U.S. negotiations to put the final touches on the mutual agreement," he added.

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After Olmert, Ezra Threats to Burn All Lebanon

Hanan Awarekeh

20/08/2008 One day after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned to take measures with no military restrictions against Lebanon if the country “turns into a Hezbollah state”; Israeli Environment Minister Gideon Ezra said on Wednesday that in any new war with the resistance group Hezbollah all of Lebanon will be a target for Israel, including its civilian infrastructure.

Ezra told public radio, "The moment the Lebanese government confers legitimacy on Hezbollah; it must understand that the entire Lebanese state will be a target in the same way that all of Israel is a target for Hezbollah."

"During the Second Lebanese War we considered the possibility of attacking Lebanon's infrastructure but we never resorted to this option, because we thought at the time that all the Lebanese were not responsible for the Hezbollah attacks," added Ezra, who is close to Olmert.

Israeli bombing during the 2006 Second Lebanon War was largely confined to Beirut and the south but the military did hit civilians.

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Last update - 10:12 18/08/2008

Israel Police: FBI decision to probe Talansky is no surprise

By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into the conduct of Jewish American businessman Morris Talansky, a key figure in the corruption probe currently underway against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, came as no surprise to Israel's police investigators.

Senior police officials said Sunday that it is customary for the FBI to become involved in Israeli investigations being conducted within the U.S.

Olmert is being investigated for allegations that he accepted illicit funds over many years from Talansky. In his preliminary deposition in Jerusalem on May 27, Talansky testified that he gave Olmert $150,000, mostly in cash, for political campaigns and travel expenses. He denied receiving anything in return for the cash, which was allegedly conveyed in envelopes through third parties.

Superintendents Tzachi Havkin and Lior Rice, who set out some two months ago to conduct parts of the investigation in the U.S., personally met with FBI representatives during their stay. The police have classified the investigators' activities in Washington, New York and Las Vegas as top secret, though most of the material they gathered has already been handed over to the prosecution and to Olmert's attorneys.

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Israel's legal system has laid the groundwork for an apartheid regime

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Last update - 09:32 03/08/2008

By Gideon Levy

The Olmert affair has come and all but gone. A few more invoices here and some daggers there will be hurled at the hemorrhaging political corpse hanging in the town square, and Ehud Olmert will disappear into the sunset. A hedonistic, spendthrift prime minister, a relatively small-time, corrupt man who, like many others, did not know where to the draw the line between public and private money and who - like many of his colleagues in the upper crust of government - thought that a politician deserves everything, is going home. Olmert and his transgressions will be remembered as a footnote in history.

Contrary to the typically passionate claims of a few self-styled protectors of the law, Olmert's conduct did not for one second endanger the rule of law in Israel; it did not threaten its form of government, nor did it undermine the state's foundations. Far more serious acts of corruption have been committed. Much greater dangers stalk and ultimately threaten the rule of law, and our democracy is fissured and fragile due to other phenomena. It isn't the Rishon Tours affair, nor the house on Cremieux Street, nor the Talanskys of this world, nor the cronyism and patronage in the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry that shape the state's character. On the contrary, the manner in which the relevant instruments of power sprang into action and launched an all-out offensive clearly proves that when it comes to minor corruptible violations, the rule of law is in relatively good shape. The danger we are faced with stems from other, incalculably graver circumstances. Nobody has taken it upon himself to wage a war against these circumstances, because this war demands much more courage.

Like the "investigative journalism" programs we see on television, the self-righteous preoccupy themselves with trifle matters. How great it must be to make a name for yourself as a pursuer of justice as you shine the spotlight of your "investigation" onto a rabbi who got a little too frisky or the mechanic who overcharges his customer. This is a war that is universally satisfying to all sides. After all, who wants to tolerate an adulterous rabbi, a swindling mechanic, or a thief for a prime minister?

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Independent.co.uk

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem

Friday, 1 August 2008

A leading candidate to be Israel's next premier called for a death toll of 70 Palestinians a day when he was head of the military during the second intifada, according to a best-selling book by two Israeli journalists.

The account of a briefing given in May 2001 to senior West Bank army commanders reinforces the image of hawkishness enjoyed by Shaul Mofaz. He has emerged as the main rival to the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, for the leadership of the Kadima party being vacated by Ehud Olmert. Mr Mofaz is expected to stress his security credentials as a former chief of staff and defence minister in his campaign to defeat Ms Livni, the most popular among the Israeli public of the candidates to succeed Mr Olmert as party leader.

According to the book Boomerang, by Ofer Shelah, of Yedhiot Ahronot, and Raviv Drucker, of Channel Ten, Mr Mofaz convened a meeting of brigade and regimental commanders covering the occupied West Bank at Jerusalem's Ammunition Hill. It occurred early in the premiership of Ariel Sharon when the intifada was well under way.

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Israeli prime minister to resign in September

By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer 10 minutes ago

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Wednesday he will resign in September, throwing his country into political turmoil and raising doubts about progress for U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts.

Olmert's brief address included harsh criticism of police investigations of corruption allegations against him. He said he was choosing the public good over his personal justice. He has denied wrongdoing but pledged to resign if indicted.

Olmert said he would not run in his party's primary election, set for Sept. 17, and would step down afterward "in order to allow the chairman to be elected and form a different government quickly and efficiently."

His decision not to run in the Kadima Party primary sets in motion a process to choose a new prime minister.

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