Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps

Written By: Diogenes
Date: 2006-05-26 08:40:41
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Since becoming prime minister in January, Harper has had a testy relationship with the national media in Ottawa. His staff has tried to manage news conferences by saying they will decide which reporters get to ask questions.

The press gallery has refused to play by those rules. "We can't accept that the Prime Minister's Office would decide who gets to ask questions," Yves Malo, a TVA reporter and president of the press gallery, told CP on Tuesday. "Does that mean that when there's a crisis they'll only call upon journalists they expect softball questions from?"

On Tuesday about two dozen Ottawa reporters walked out on a Harper event when he refused to take their questions.

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A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, 
and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (Prov 22:1 KJV) 
 
The federal Conservatives under the professing Christian Evangelical S Harper are starting to look like bigger liars more and more, every day. It seems we cannot trust the politicians to keep their promises, especially even the Conservatives ones and this is really unacceptable. It has also always amazed me and I have said it before how those hypocritical Conservatives in Alberta were so ready to change things in Ottawa but had not cleaned their own house firstly, and they still wrongfully have not done it even too. 
 
The clearly rednecked rebel Conservative PM Stephen Harper's method of attaining political wins is being run against him by the opposition politicians who are pointing out to all that the Prime Minister's general route is a short cut around Parliament. Just read or listen to the news in Canada and you will clearly note that our PM Stephen Harper is not mature enough to try to work with others, he dictates, threatens, bullies instead. There is more here than meets the eye initially too. Playing games instead of leading, management is another sign of the PM's clear incompetence. 
 
The reality today still is that Stephen Harper PM is quite an easy person to understand in fact, so is his PMO link, 
for Stephen Harper has yet not matured too, and thus he still is not qualified to be 
The President of a firm 
The General manager of a firm, 
A Departmental manager even, 
Or a Supervisor, 
for rather all he still really is, is an assertive loud mouthed Foreman who takes orders from others and dictatorially gives it to others. 
He is over his head in his present job as PM and it shows.. 
He has to develop more his submissions, listening and assertive skills firstly. 
 
Of course for many liberals as well Harper's approach is rightfully unacceptable, undemocratic approach, but dictatorship management style a common right wing approach where the end justifies the means. It may be fine way to treat children but not the adults for sure. 
 
Like I have said before I am also really getting really sick and tired of these no good, lying pretentious politicians who when they were in the opposition party they complained about having a more effective and honest government and begged for us to elect them instead, but no sooner than they are elected they really show themselves to be not much better, the same liars, abusers of tax payers money. This is never acceptable and they too should be immediately now kicked out too. For the good of all the citizens now too. 
 
The spin doctors in Canada sadly are alive and well and are still at work lying, distorting, spinning. 
 
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.(Prov 27:2 KJV) 
 
The PM "Harper was holding expansive news conferences in Ottawa until the press gallery began setting up its own microphones at Harper events and lined up to ask questions. " In my summation the PM S Harper as well wrongfully does not like to practice mutual submissivness nor the Bible it seems also. (1 Pet 5:5 KJV) Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble(1 Pet 2:17 KJV) Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 
 
As a professing Christian the still obviously spoiled pampered child S Harper clearly does not read or know the Bible too.. clearly he has not learn sufficiently personally from it also. 
 
(1 Ki 12:6 KJV) And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people? 7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever. 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him: 9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy father did put upon us lighter? 10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day. 13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him; 14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat....(1 Ki 12:16 KJV) So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents... 19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 
 
(1 Tim 5:8 KJV) But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (Mat 7:3 KJV) And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 
Tell me who your friends are and I can tell you what you are like. Now there is only one body of Jesus Christ, only one true Church universal, but there are many different local flavors, various categories of churches, denominations for a start, and thus also there are many false ones there as well. And for certainty not all of them are positive ones. Just as in the various Catholic Churches, I have been shocked to discover how even the Evangelical churches can differ significantly in their beliefs, theology, practice, and managerial styles too. 
 
Our PM S Harper was predefined before he became Prime Minister, and his behavior is very typical of the despotic leaderships I have encountered for many years in His church, the Canadian Christian Missionary Alliance church, CMA where the head of the Canadian Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Canada is called a President, not a servant? so no wonder S Harper who is CMA tries to act like a US President too. THE CMA is a dictatorial ministry, a one man ministry approach, as opposed to a plurality of elders, or a Presbyterian approach. 
 
As you know the new testament approach is based on a plural and equal church elders, submitting one to another and all of them running all of the churches. The churches were also named by the city it was in. For example it would be the Church of Calgary, and not the Pentaostal or the CMA, Alliance church too. 
 
The CMA, Alliance uses a secular or old testament pyramidal dictatorial approach too for managing the CHURCH, MISSIONARY business. The CMA, Alliance Chuch to me uses a switch and bait suckers approach, they uses their emphasis of missions to collect money but use most of the donated money is used for church empire building in Canada mostly as one alliance president had told to me. So Harper is true CMA, Alliance in is behavior 
 
I had become closely familiar with some of the Alliance Church pastors and their district superintendents of the CMA churches now too including Stephen Harper's Calgary's First Christian Missionary Alliance Church which clearly, rightfully to me is a non Christian church, and it is a false community that supports the rich and despises the poor people, and it now also would reflect part of Stephen's Harper's own management style tooand all the additional Facts do not deny the truths that I had posted. 
 
1) I was personally there in Calgary in the 1980's when disgruntled Calgary pastors got into politics and helped to form the Reform party, which is illegal under Canadian law as well.I had written to Brian Mulroney the then PM and had told him what they were doing, but he disregard it.,.. and we know how they replaced his party. 
 
2) Please note the American Christian Missionary Alliance had a histrorical split and one part went to Canada and formed the Pentecostal Assembly of Canada and the other became the Canadian Christian Missioray alliance group these groups are really different now as well.. 
 
3) The CMA is still a false reorganization that idolizes, worships men, upholds men, as your exemplary writing indicates, Tozer and Simpson included . 
 
(Jer 17:5 KJV) Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 
 
4) The Canadian Alliance Church is a pretentious and hypocritical organization, and I can go into much personal detail.. 
 
When my local Alliance pastor was fired from his job I volunteered next to have a farewell party for him and I could not help to notice that he was very embarrassed about it too. Years later had found out that the same pastor had been fired from his job because in jealousy of me he had tried to kick me out and instead he got fired. By the way his successor robbed my local church of money next. 
 
Incidentally that has happened three times to me with pastors, even 2 other founding church pastors next were fired for trying to kick me out of their church, for falsely saying things to me like " this is my church and if you do not like it get out" and what a lie, for Jesus is still the head of the church and it is all his church. 
 
A senior Calgary First Alliance Church pastor as I had witnessed used to love to lie and bash others, he would pretend to love and work with the Pentecostals in Calgary but when they had left he would bad mouth them to me and others and to me that was unacceptable. I had told his whole congregation openly what an unacceptable bad and lying pastor he was as well. Most Alliance pastors i met were hirelings, money hungry persons worried about their pensions as well. I also had often met Rev G Whishart the basic Canadian founder, of 72 Alliances churches in Canada, too 
 
The Canadian CMA Alliance church in general and locally really does not understand what real spirtual life is, especially the gifts of the Holy Spirt too, and that was I was often called by the local Alliance church pastor to help in the local minstry. 
 
They are too often made up of the rich who despise the poor people too in Canada." 
 
Also Mr. S Harper still even does needs to mature, he firstly needs firstly to care, to love and to treat all persons equally firstly before he will earn any respect, or a reelection as well. Otherwise I cannot see how he even becomes a PM in the first place right now. Learn a lesson from History. Ex PM Brian Mulroney was not known at the end of his term as a prime minister in touch with the people and his whole Party paid the price, it ceased to exist as a political party next too. History often repeats itself. 
 
It was no big secret that the Conservative and S Harper's secret agenda was a majority government. Stephen Harper personally had by his won free will accepted the job of being a prime Minister of a minority Government beforehand knowing that it was a minority government and he had said he would work with the oppositions. But it now seems he wanted to be a Prime Minister of a minority government while acting as a Majority government and that is impossible, a sure reason his government will fall and face reelections before the end of his term. The Conservative and S Harper's based mainly also on his recent incompetence, his own unacceptable dictatorial management style, his showing false partiality, his neglecting the poor persons in Canada, as well we all can thank God he and the Conservatives now did not get a majority government for sure. Also I gave said even before the least federal elections no political party will firstly have a majority government really unless it really cares equally about the good welfare of all Canadians, young and old too, equally in all parts of Canada, the rich and the poor ones as well. So far we do not have such a political party and is why we are also in minority governments 
 
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Become Prime Minister, and Instant A-Hole in one easy step!

This guy is so completey BLOWING IT as PM that I have to wonder if he isn't some sort of Liberal plant, to teach us all a lesson so we say sorry and vote Liberal for the next 20 years!

Man! And to think I almost VOTED for this jerk! Thank god I listened to my little voice, or I'd have to kick my behind every day when I got up!

This guy is like George's little evil brat kid, constantly trying things to impress his evil emperor dad, and crying secretly in his bedroom when he realizes his dad is too evil to even CARE what his brat son is doing!

The news story that does not go away

"Out of proportion" you would say.. facts do not agree with you.. just look at the attention this story gets on the web, news media and now world wide and why? no such thing as a little dictatorship, a little bit liar, a little bit pregnant, a little bit abuse firstly not even for the exemplary leader of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. And when you are the person personally being abused you will not think it is a small matter too. Evangelical Conservative Hypocrite kinda says it all about Stephen Harper... him clearly seeking revenge instead of turning one's cheek is unChristian still too.

The Public does not care said the clearly lying Stephen Harper and that is why the news story is now getting world wide attention? Too bad Harper cannot read for he would see the truth, and now he is going to fight with all the news reporters world wide too?

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Here is another real fact of Life, while BC and Alberta oppose the news reporters side and support Harper most, note 60 percent of the citizens in Canada, especially in the east do not go along with Harper, Quebec is not a protestant, rigth winger baackgrouns for it is leftist, catholc background, and so he Harper realy cannot hope to win the next federal election as a result.. and that is why he is so angry and so how is that for a wake up call for him too?

Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society." Indeed, as society has grown increasingly complex, people rely more and more on newspapers, radio, and television to keep abreast with world news, opinion, and political ideas. One sign of the importance of a free press is that when antidemocratic forces take over a country, their first act is often to muzzle the press.

Mr. Harper what the heck are you trying to do ? Just answer the darn questions. The people have a right to stay informed it is our journalists that do this.

You are not above the poeple , you are not above the press, you are not a king, your are an elected Prime Minister, elected by the people of Canada. The press of Canada and the people of Canada have the right to have their questions answered. NOT JUST THE QUESTIONS YOU WANT TO ANSWER, BUT THE QUESTIONS WE WANT ANSWERED.

it is not advisable to be taken in bt W Lippman as he play a major role in propaganda for the state 
 
<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_Lippman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Walter_Lippman</a> 
 
According to Stephen Bender]: 
Lippmann was an insider's insider. A prominent Harvard graduate, he went from advocating socialism to serving on the Creel Commission and later advising President Wilson on his famous 14 Points at the Versailles conference. Later, he would write the most widely read column in the country for the New York Herald Tribune and thereafter for the Washington Post until his death in 1974. 
 
It was his experience as a propagandist which convinced him of the possibility and the necessity to use propaganda and PR to manage popular opinion. His most remembered contribution was to coin the phrase Manufacture of consent - a phenomenon of which he approved. 
 
 
Key quotes 
That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. 
The creation of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technic, because it is now based on analysis rather than on rule of thumb. And so, as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. 
Within the life of the generation now in control of affairs, persuasion has become a self-conscious art and a regular organ of popular government. None of us begins to understand the consequences, but it is no daring prophecy to say that the knowledge of how to create consent will alter every political calculation and modify every political premise...It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to deal with the world beyond our reach. (Public Opinion, by Walter Lippmann (Free Press, 1965; first published in 1922), page 158) 
The lesson is, I think, a fairly clear one. In the absence of institutions and education by which the environment is so successfully reported that the realities of public life stand out sharply against self-centered opinion, the common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialized class whose personal interests reach beyond the locality. This class is irresponsible, for it acts upon information that is not common property, in situations that the public at large does not conceive, and it can be held to account only on the accomplished fact. (Public Opinion, page 195)--- The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein

>>The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein 
 
I have a favorite expressions for such types of persons in Canada. Canadian Ostriches. 
 
These are the same types of persons who let the really bad persons, dictators like Stephen Harper gag them and who do help to prolong Harper's false days in power too. 
 
I too have often been too often for my liking personally have been criticized by ostriches for being an activists, for speaking out against evil persons and their wrong doings in Canada, and the critics tried to justify their inaction by saying one person cannot do much, or it is all a waste of time anyway. But what really peeved me off the most was when these same ostriches got abused they came running only to me to help them instead of going to see the other ostriches to help them. 
 
One person can still make a great difference, in fact it was the individuals who had made some of the most significant positive changes to our society still too.. Martin Luther included. 
 
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Way back in 2004 Tuesday, October 5th to be exact the following warning was presented to the v l c readership

Tuesday, October 05 2004 @ 01:06 PM MDT
The American Empire, Canadian Compradors and the Calgary School: A Tory Talks Back
Contributed by: sthompson

The American Empire, Canadian Compradors and the Calgary School: A Tory Talks Back

“…But, there are those back of Harper, deeper of thought and persuasion, that have done much to convince Canadians that we should really, if we had our wits and smarts about us, turn to the USA as our north star, mentor and teacher.

"The Man Behind Stephen Harper" does a fine job of connecting dots for those who have not yet done so. It is a must read for those keen on seeing and understanding how the puzzle of the comprador class fits together and who the different pieces in the puzzle are and why. There is Stephen Harper. He is the political captain on the ship. But, who are the architects of the ship and who built the ship of the Conservative party of Canada?”…

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein

Stats are not 'facts of life'. That was a cheesy sitcom about private school girls (mmmmm, Blaire)

Stats are ridiculous manufactured lies that are usually biased by the question and the person asking and who they asked.

'There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics'

- Oscar Wilde.