-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
Hugo Chavez, the cokehead?
“It all,” as the orphanage nuns used to tell us children, “comes out in the wash.”
Venezuela’s big-talking President Hugo Chavez has revealed that he regularly consumes coca—the source of cocaine.
In other words, save for the palace, the trappings and the fawning celebrities, Hugo Chavez seems to be just your average cokehead.
Kudos to savvy El Nuevo Herald reporter Casto Ocando for revealing one explanation where Chavez gets his bully personality. It’s enough to restore your faith in the Mainstream Media.
- Monday, January 21, 2008
The highest of high technology was showcased at the International Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas last week. Among big tech changes coming your way, the ability to watch Digital TV programs on your cell phone, lap top--or car navigation system--while driving.
If the lady stopped next to you at the red light stays kaput when the light turns green, she’s likely emerged in the Oprah Winfrey Show. Within a week of the Las Vegas Tech Show, came the announcement that Oprah is launching her own network.
The so-called “Killer Super bugs” now stalking world hospitals is yet another `Made in China’ export.
“On December 19, 2007 the Health Department of Hong Kong Government acknowledged that reported cases of community super bug infection have increased to 175 cases with 2 deaths for the year ending 10/31/2007 and about 10% came from massage salons in Hong Kong and Mainland China.” (Next Magazine, #930, Jan. 3, 2008). “The super bug (antibiotic resistant Staph Aureus bacteria) may cause fatal disease with 50% mortality.”
My Colombian friends at Bogotá Free Planet are more than a little put out that “maverick” American film director Oliver Stone would write their country off as his country’s personal playing field.
It didn’t go over the heads of average Colombians that the sore loser, spoil sport Hollywood director--caught looking bad with sidekick Hugo Chavez on a hostage release that never happened--made his scathing comments from the safety of his California spread.
In a world where the anti-war contingent goes to such extremes to trash the image of the American soldier, a voice from the grave proves that love conquers all.
The story of how a well-worn bracelet found a fallen soldier’s Mother this Christmas is one that tops the list of inspiration of a most riveting kind.
It’s inspiration that stirs the soul based on the fact that even in death, Lance Cpl. Travis Layfield keeps reaching back to his grief stricken family, particularly to his Mom, Diane.
It’s Christmas Day 2007 and like all Christmas' that went before and those still to come, it’s the zenith of the Season of Miracles.
Innocence everywhere looks for a wish to come true on this night of all nights.
Tonight and tomorrow is the time of the believer in many faiths in many countries.
Cynics and ridicule can never blow out the flame of the Christmas candle. Believers in a weary, and yes, often cruel world, make room for miracles to happen.
It all started on the GO Train, just another day on the way to work. As the miles sped away getting to his office, Mac Wilson gave scant attention to his fellow commuters as he sat there planning his Christmas shopping list.
The countryside flashed by the window, the trees now showing black limbs rather than golden leaves against a brooding winter sky. Then he spotted it, a dog in the Don River. He couldn’t be sure, but that’s what he thought as the train went speeding by.
What a let down that 1,700 care packages lovingly prepared by Montreal-area residents and community groups destined for Canadian troops in Afghanistan, won’t be getting there.
The Christmas care packages for soldiers have been grounded after the military said they could not be sent overseas.
Claiming security concerns and a lack of space on transport aircraft as reasons for blocking the packages, Canadian Forces brass informed nonplussed members of the Roxboro Legion, who spearheaded the drive that they cannot accept the packages. Parcels must be addressed to a specific soldier, the military said, and not “Any CF member”.