Crushing the media

By RALPH PETERS, NY Post:

The Obama administration’s un-American attempt to vilify Fox News only increased the network’s popularity. But this White House debacle can’t be judged in isolation: There’s a global leftwing assault on the freedom of information.

Intense leftist sentiment in most of the international media isn’t enough. Extremists seek total control.

The one thing leftists just can’t bear is criticism. (Mass murder’s fine, but don’t stray from the party line.) As early as the French Revolution, the left grasped that a free press is inherently subversive to its doctrines.

The Obama administration’s aborted Fox hunt simply aligned our government with the hounds of the global left. Our Constitution and common sense frustrated the White House apparatchiks — but other leftist and radical regimes are crushing press freedoms, murdering dissenting journalists and turning the media into a state weapon.

In country after country where Obama’s been tapping re-set buttons, the media are under assault:

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Carbon report’s bloody portent

Kevin Libin, NP:

Those 200 protesters who disrupted Question Period this week demanding the government pass Bill C-311 — setting strict targets for reducing carbon emissions — showed how dearly some people will pay to slash Canada’s carbon footprint. Six protesters were arrested; one later showed up on television with blood around his nose claiming he’d been brutalized by Parliamentary guards. “My face was smashed on the floor,” Jeh Custer told a CBC audience, insisting he would not give up pressuring the government to commit to aggressive emission-reduction goals.

With the arrival yesterday of a report funded by TD Bank, prepared by the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute, and based on economic models by M.K. Jaccard and Associates, calculating for the first time the economic impact of government climate-change policies, the rest of us are left to decide how willing we are to have our own noses bloodied in the name of atmospheric justice.

For it leaves no doubt: in meeting the government’s plan to cut greenhouse gases by 20% from 2006 levels in the next decade, there will be blood.

It portends, TD’s chief economist told reporters, “the biggest fiscal shock in Canadian history.” The study shows “it can be done,” as long as we’re prepared for hard-line restrictions, including steep carbon taxes and the banning of any new buildings, homes, appliances and vehicles not meeting strict environmental standards.

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Killing Canada’s cash cow not the answer

Calgary Herald:

A report funded by TD Bank on the regional economic impact of climate change should be viewed with a jaundiced eye. Written by the agenda-driven David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute, it tells us that only by punishing Alberta with massive carbon taxes can the federal government meet its climate-change goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice is right to call the study irresponsible. For, as we have seen before with the Trudeau-era National Energy Program, bleeding Alberta is bad for all of Canada. Shooting the cash cow is not the answer.

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ObamaCare’s Scary October Surprise

By Robert Knight,    AT:

Stung by a rising tide of resistance and a closing window of opportunity, House Democrats have unleashed a new version of ObamaCare, weighing in at 1,990 pages and with a $1 trillion price tag. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promises to ram it through quickly, exhibiting a disdain for her countrymen that makes Marie Antoinette look like a populist.

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