Much better candidates!!

Not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslim. Muslim terrorists account for approx 6% of acts of terror according to F.B.I.

Non Muslim Terror groups...
Lord’s Resistance Army / New People’s Army / Sendero Luminoso / Euskadi Ta Askatasuna / Epanastatikos Agonas / Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias De Colombia / Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale Corsu / Federazione Anarchica Informale / Continuity Irish Republican Not all terrorists are Muslim.

The Muslim groups just get more media time so are better known and seems like they do it all.

Now I'm lost? Brussels???? What does the capital of Belgium have to do with events in Paris?

After the Paris attack they may just change their minds on this idea.

The Bataclan can have up to 1,500 people. The show was sold out, even oversold.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-paris-attacks-live-updates-htmlstory.html

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Unfortunately there are probably more of them (terrorists) scattered around as 'refugees'. The world is opening it's borders to them and they are taking advantage of it.

Posted November 13 2015 — 5:19 PM EST

Parisian police officials stormed the city’s Bataclan music venue on Friday, freeing more than 100 hostages amid attacks around the city that left more than 60 people dead. According to the Associated Press, at least two attackers at the Bataclan were killed; the death toll from inside was not yet confirmed.



http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/13/paris-attack-bataclan

Paris attack: At least 35 dead, 100 hostages taken after explosions near stadium, gunfire in restaurant


Paris police say at least 35 people are dead and 100 hostages have been taken at a concert hall in what appears to be a co-ordinated attack across the French capital.

Within minutes on Friday night, there was a mass shooting outside a restaurant, at least one explosion outside a soccer stadium and a shooting and hostage taking at a music venue, according to police.

Current live coverage


Live coverage on CBC

Police body camera video shows the father of a six-year-old autistic boy had his hands up and posed no threat as Louisiana law enforcement officers opened fire into his car last week, severely wounding the motorist and killing his son, the man's lawyer said Monday.

The lawyer said he still hasn't seen the video, but its contents were described to the judge during the hearing Monday.

Initial reports suggested the marshals had been serving a warrant on Few, but Louisiana's state police chief, Col. Mike Edmonson, said there was no evidence of a warrant, nor was there a gun found at the scene.

Investigators have been reviewing forensics evidence, 911 calls and body camera recordings, which Edmonson described at a news conference Friday. State police said the boy died wearing his seatbelt in the front passenger seat.

Mardis had been buckled into the front passenger seat when the two local marshals fired 18 times at the vehicle, state police said.

"It's the most disturbing thing I've seen — and I will leave it at that," Edmonson said. "Jeremy Mardis is 6 years old. He didn't deserve to die like that."

Video shows Louisiana father posed no threat before police fatally shot his son, lawyer says

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Oct 15, 2015 ... Ken Taylor, former Canadian ambassador to Iran, dead at 81. Diplomat was famous for his role in 'Canadian Caper' during Iran hostage crisis in 1979

The Calgary-born diplomat was most famous for his role in the 1979 covert operation called the "Canadian Caper," when he sheltered six Americans who escaped capture when a mob of Iranians stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took most people inside hostage in November 1979.

Taylor kept the Americans hidden at his residence and at the home of his deputy, John Sheardown, in Tehran for three months. Taylor facilitated their escape by arranging plane tickets and persuading the Ottawa government to issue Canadian passports.

In a statement, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that Taylor "valiantly risked his own life by shielding a group of American diplomats from capture."

"Ken Taylor represented the very best that Canada's foreign service has to offer," he added.

"It brought a 60 year old American male"

Sorry I may live in the U.S. but my roots are Canadian.

"in defense of it"

Not defending at all. Simply pointing out that society changes. Each generation makes it's own changes. The more that society is exposed to something, even in small doses, the more it changes the views of society towards it.

Sometimes the very people / companies / products that lead to the changes do an about face.

'Playboy' to stop publishing nude photos

What is acceptable today may very well not be for the next generation. Pretty much every male has used 'porn' of one form or another from the pics of topless natives in National Geographic to Playboy or Penthouse. Not all males commit acts of violence towards women though.

From 1995 to 2010, the estimated annual rate of female
rape or sexual assault victimization declined 58%, from
5.0 victimization per 1,000 females age 12 or older to
2.1 per 1,000. Taken from: Female Victims of Sexual Violence, 1994-2010

Porn is becoming more accessible yet the number of victims is declining.

Crying "Porn made me do it" by an offender is an easy out. Always easier to blame an outside influence than take responsibility. Unfortunately there have always been and will be those who feel the need to victimize others.

As RockGnome pointed out:

Canada: Concerns On Sexual & Violent Cultures



Interesting title. I did note however that there is only one mention of Canada in the article. Where Gail Dines, a professor of sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston, went to Canada.

The actual title of the article "Anti-porn advocates recast growing acceptance of pornography as public health problem" makes no mention of Canada at all. All research seems to have been done at American educational institutions as well.


As to the very subject of the article. Pornography has been around for centuries. There are findings of it from Ancient Rome and the ancient Greeks. Society / Culture evolves, changes with each generation. At one time the bikini was a shock as was the mini skirt. Opiates were available in general stores. Taverns were for men only. As society changes some things become more acceptable while others are not.

Case in point would be Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Colorado legalizing recreational marijuana. Canada and Mexico possibly soon to do same. While the U.S. Federal government continues to have it illegal.

Television and cinema push the limits of what is acceptable. Society as a whole becomes used to what they see / hear and changes more, allowing more.

Harper was our version of Obama. We got smart and kicked his sorry azz out. Took 10 years but he out.


You want Harper?

From the Liberal Party of Canada

(for you Non Canadians .... that would be the cute guy that won the election. )




We will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana.

Canada’s current system of marijuana prohibition does not work. It does not prevent young people from using marijuana and too many Canadians end up with criminal records for possessing small amounts of the drug.

Arresting and prosecuting these offenses is expensive for our criminal justice system. It traps too many Canadians in the criminal justice system for minor, non-violent offenses. At the same time, the proceeds from the illegal drug trade support organized crime and greater threats to public safety, like human trafficking and hard drugs.

To ensure that we keep marijuana out of the hands of children, and the profits out of the hands of criminals, we will legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana.

We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code, and create new, stronger laws to punish more severely those who provide it to minors, those who operate a motor vehicle while under its influence, and those who sell it outside of the new regulatory framework.

We will create a federal/provincial/territorial task force, and with input from experts in public health, substance abuse, and law enforcement, will design a new system of strict marijuana sales and distribution, with appropriate federal and provincial excise taxes applied.


http://www.liberal.ca/realchange/marijuana/

Legalization of Marijuana –Policy Paper 2013

BE IT RESOLVED
that a new Liberal government will:
...legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and
impaired driving;
...invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth;
...extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto
...work with governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting
provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

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PM Elect Justin Trudeau has stated that will happen ... be it a month, a year or 3 years. But it will happen within his mandate.

Maybe she enjoyed the handcuffs.

I'll believe the civilians on the ground before I believe any military (US/Canadian/Russian) issued 'damage report'.

Covert citizen journalists inside Islamic State use truth to fight ISIS

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/covert-citizen-journalists-inside-islamic-state-use-truth-to-fight-isis-1.3270735

There's a link to a civilian report on damage.

As to .. " Seems people are actually afraid russia will succeed." Well, it seems I.S.I.S. isn't worried about them too much.

From what I have read the 'great russian airfarce' has hit more civilians than I.S.I.S.

I guess you didn't bother to read this part.......

Of that £30 billion, half is alleged to have been skimmed off in an orgy of corruption stretching over the seven years since Putin secured the games. Among those benefitting from infrastructure contracts are friends of the 61-year-old president, oligarchs who enjoy their fortunes only at his pleasure. Take brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, friends and judo partners of Putin in his youth. Boris Nemtsov, a deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, and leading critic of the Games, estimates that 15 per cent of the entire budget has gone to companies owned by the Rotenbergs.

“This is a festival of corruption,” says Nemstov, who argues that Sochi should have cost a maximum of £16 billion. “The remainder,” he goes on, “consists of embezzlement and kickbacks.” Nemstov is hardly a neutral party but his allegations are supported by at least one member of the International Olympic Committee. Gian-Franco Kasper, an IOC member, estimates that at least one third of spending on the games has been siphoned off.

Again ... How can anyone say Putin got rid of corruption? All he did was take control of it and make sure he got his cut.

As to the no snow.... why would any sensible person have Winter Olympics in an area known to have no snow, that is considered the "Russian Riviera"? Possibly because they and friends have nice homes there that really need a better road system and infrastructure and having the taxpayers pay for it is convenient. Destruction of the environment, people's homes and livelihood are alright as long as the privileged get what they want. No corruption with Putin huh. That's a joke.

I did some reaearch on Putin as per suggestion...............


Aug 7th, 2015
Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin orders destruction of hundreds of tons of comestibles, from cheese to meat and fruit, that entered country in violation of ban on European imports of food; prohibition was established in response to sanctions imposed by West for Russian action in Ukraine.

So better to destroy food than hand it out FREE to those that need it? Real care for the people shown in that sample.

Jul 11th, 2015
Russian Pres Vladimir V Putin says to reporters at meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS group of rising economic powers that punitive financial and economic sanctions should no longer be used against any country in world; Russia has suffered from sanctions for its activities in Ukraine, and Putin calls for end to similar measure used against Iran.

Yup and he really meant it.*deep sarcasm* See reference to Aug 7th, 2015


JULY 9, 2015
Twenty years after the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, Russia has shamefully refused to call it what it is — genocide — adding to the pain of the victims’ families.

On Wednesday, the government of President Vladimir Putin of Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the killings as genocide.

Awwww How nice Putin took lessons from Soviet history. Stalin denied 30,000 kulaks were killed directly, mostly shot on the spot. About 2 million were forcibly deported to the Far North and Siberia. he destruction of the kulak class triggered the Ukrainian famine, during which 3 million to 5 million peasants died of starvation the Holodomor (The Ukrainian Famine) as well.


There are a number of issues with Putin, spanning from his rise to power, to his actions to suppress dissent inside of Russia, to his actions internationally.

The first thing many westerners see with Putin is how he come into power. Originally, he wasn't elected. Former President Boris Yeltsin selected Putin to become his successor. Boris Yeltsin saw that Vladimir Putin became the Prime Minister, putting him second in line for the Presidency, announcing he wanted Putin to be his successor. Then he resigned, making Putin acting President. This gave Putin a big advantage in the election, which he won in the first wrong.

(i)Immediately, Putin began to suppress dissent. Those who disagreed with him often found themselves in jail. After disagreeing with Putin over the future of Russian civil society, Boris Berezovsky, who had created a larger media empire, had his media empire seized by Putin's government. This is a single example of widespread suppression. Many continued to love Putin, as he improved the Russian economy and seemed to take a strong stance against the west, but many did not. Like the Chechens.

In the Caucuses, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan had all received independence from Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Chechens felt that Chechnya, too, deserved independence. Ahead of the 2004 elections, terrorist attacks in Moscow. Putin blamed the attack on Wahhabists in Chechnya. He invaded, waging a brutal war and installing a puppet in the region. There were egregious human rights violations perpetrated by both sides. Approximately 5,000 Chechens disappeared, 25,000 civilians were been killed. While this may seem innocuous at first, (ii)many claim that Russia itself attacked Moscow so Putin could invade Chechnya. Putin was worried about the 2004 elections, some claimed, and intended to garner support for his party by showing strength against Chechen rebels.

Following his re-election, Vladimir Putin only became more brazen. Gazprom, the state owned gas enterprise, seized their competitor, Yukos, after arresting its CEO on clearly politically motivated charges. Yukos's CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was a critic of Putin's Russia. The acquisition of Yukos by Gazprom gave Gazprom an effective monopoly on gas and oil in Russia.

(iii)Following this was the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko who had fled Russia after stating that their had been plans to assassinate Boris Berezovsky, who you remember from earlier. Litvinenko had been poisoned a Uranium dart and blamed Putin for his own death.

(iv)During this time, Putin also made two obvious land grabs in Moldova and Georgia. In Transdniester, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia, Putin intervened against smaller nations and occupied the territories. To this day, they remain occupied.

(v)The Russian Constitution said that no man can serve more than two consecutive terms, so in 2008 Putin, a true patriot, did not seek reelection to the office. He announced his friend, Dmitry Medvedev, was his preferred successor. But Medvedev was a puppet. Putin was made Prime Minister and together they changed the Constitution. The regional governors would now be appointed by the President. The governors appointed members to the upper house of the legislator, so this house of the legislator would forever be loyal to the President. They then changed the term of the President to 6 years, starting with the 2012 term.

Then, in 2012, Putin ran again. The constitution said two consecutive terms, he argued, and this was not consecutive. In an election many accused of fraud, he won.

The rest is much more modern history, such as supporting oppressive regimes like Bashir al-Assad in Syria or Yanukovych's regime in Ukraine. He's continued to arrest and assassinate those who disagree with him or accuse him of corruption. He's supported the Ukrainian rebels. He annexed Crimea in a clearly fraudulent vote. He continues to govern by beating those who disagree with him into submission. These are most of the larger complaints against Vladimir Putin, but there are many more.

(i) His hero, Stalin, would have disappeared them.

(ii) Not the first time this tactic would have been used. Sudetenland ring a bell?

(iii) Hmmmm familiar technique of the KGB. Putin was KGB in Dresden, part of East Germany at the time he was KGB.

(iv) Another lesson from not too distant history. Anshluss and other 'necessary occupations'.

(v) Now that's how you make sure you stay in power. Kill off opponents and make sure that the law gives you the right to stay in power.


Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc would all be proud of Putin.


As to the corruption in Russia under Putin ....... look at Sochi.

The dark side of Vladimir Putin's Winter Olympic Games Corruption, environmental damage and, absurdly, no snow. Neil Tweedie reports from Sochi on the vanity project crippling Russia

Simply because Putin controls / is part of the corruption does not equate his getting rid of corruption.

bleh can't get the #$@&^ image up.



Dear America,

You elected George H.W. Bush ..... We gave you Celine Dion

You elected George W. Bush ...... We gave you Nickelback

You elected George W. Bush ...... We gave you Justin Bieber

DO NOT ELECT DONALD TRUMP .... YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S COMING NEXT!!

Sincerely Yours
Canada

A University of Missouri-St. Louis criminologist, David Klinger, says the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled it constitutional for police to shoot someone in the back if they believe that person could be a threat.


The latest shooting happened while officers were serving a search warrant. They encountered Ball-Bey and another suspect running from the home, police said.

Ball-Bey turned and pointed a handgun at the officers, who shot him, authorities said. He died at the scene.

18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr. was wounded by plainclothes officers in Ferguson when he allegedly first fired at them. His father labeled that account "a bunch of lies" and insisted his son was unarmed.

Later, police released surveillance video recorded moments before the shooting that appeared to show the younger Harris pulling a handgun from his waistband and running in the direction of the officers.


Taken from: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mansur-ball-bey-report-autopsy-shows-man-killed-st-louis-police-shot-in-back/