05:30 Hrs. Lektura tronowa. "Newsweek".
"Amerykanie wyznaja zupelnie inna filozofie obronna, dlatego nie rozumieli naszego postualtu dotyczacego instalacji rakiet. Oni zakladaja, ze obrona takiego panstwa jak Polska nie moze sie opierac na stworzeniu systemu wyrzutni czy umocnien, niczym linia Maginota w II wojnie swiatowej. Dla Amerykanow naturalne jest, ze gdyby doszlo do zagrozenia Polski - chocby ze strony Rosji - to rozpoczynaja dzialania prewencyjne. Ich zdaniem zbedne jest wydawanie miliardow dolarow na patrioty, skoro daja nam gwarancje bezpieczenstwa. Gestem dobrej woli z ich strony jest zgoda na czasowe stacjonowanie rakiet Patriot w Polsce. Amerykanie uznaja, ze skoro w przyszlosci chcemy miec wlasne rakiety tego typu, to przy tej okazji mozemy sie nauczyc ich obslugi. Patrioty mialy sie pojawic w Polsce na poczatku 2009 r." - WITOLD WASZCZYKOWSKI ("Negocjator", NEWSWEEK, 17.08.2008).
06:16 Hrs. Krolowa balu pierwsze skrzypce gra - unosi sie w Polskim Radiu Toronto na fali 1320 AM gdy koncze robic 21 pompke.
06:39 Hrs. Wszystko sie moze zdarzyc - unosi sie w radiu. Na dworze slonecznie. 20-stopniowo. Jeden ptak spiewa. Okna w samochodzie zaparowane. Pajeczyna na wlosach. W dzienniku: Polska z trudem podnosi sie po nawalnicach i trabie powietrznej. Nic nie swiadczy o tym, ze Rosjanie wycofaja sie z Gruzji. Wegrzy uwazaja, ze Unia Europejska powinna rozwazyc zawieszenie wspolpracy z Rosja.
Jade przy otwartym oknie. Bialy jak welon, okragly ksiezyc towarzyszy mi w przedniej szybie. Z tylu natomiast ogromniaste, czerwone jak ogien slonce.
ESSO, Shell, Petro-Canada biora za litr paliwa $1.26.0.
Po drodze czestuje sie darmowymi gazetami. "24 hours" (www.canoe.ca) z "After week of disappointments... Canada bites back" na okladce + "Metro" (www.metronews.ca) z "McGuinty assures PanAm bid on track" na okladce.
06:52 Hrs. "I'm so lucky, lucky. I'm so lovely, lovely" - unosi sie w polskim radiu gdy parkuje w pracy. Na trawniku pasie sie 9 gesi kanadyjskich.
16:34 Hrs. "Breaking News" na CNN: Russia's Power Play.
20:40 Hrs. "Kazdy lubi dlugi" - unosi sie na radio ABC (http://www.abcradio.ca/). Za oknem blyski i grzmoty. Leje deszcz. Burza. Zamykam okna.
20:44 Hrs. Daje glos na Ustke (3691) na portalu "Gmina".
McGill professor files court case against Russia on behalf of Georgia
Montreal A McGill University law professor has filed an urgent case with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, on behalf of the Georgian government, accusing Russia of engaging in ethnic cleansing in the contested regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the past 17 years. Payam Akhavan, a war crimes expert with experience in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, presented the 32-page brief on Tuesday, accusing Russia of using violence to expel Georgians from their homes since 1991. "Russian propaganda has consistently accused Georgia of aggression and genocide," he said (NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 16, 2008).
CLIPPINGS WITH MARIJUANA
Probe ends in bust
Several people were arrested after a six-week police probe yielded more than $600,000 in drugs. Of the nine people taken into custody, authorities say two of the men are top-level distributors. Raids were conducted on warehouses and houses in the Toronto, Georgetown and Brampton area, where officers seized $600,000 in marijuana and $16,500 in cash (24 HOURS, Friday, August 15 - Sunday, August 17, 2008).
Busted for holy smoke
TRACY MCLAUGHLIN
Special to Sun Media
BRACEBRIDGE - A man who claims he is an ordained minister was busted with almost half a kilo of pot yesterday during a traffic stop on Hwy. 11 near Bracebridge. "Rev." Michel Nathier, 53, of the Church of the Universe, admitted he was smoking a joint when the OPP officer pulled him over but said he was committing a holy act.
"It's a sacrament," Nathier said in an interview after he was released from custody with a Sept. 2 court date.
Plant blessed
Nathier said he has about 300 followers in the Sturgeon Falls area, near North Bay, who believe that marijuana is the blessed plant mentioned in the Bible as the "tree of life." The church, which he said has chapters throughout Canada and the U.S., has two rules: Don't hurt yourself and don't hurt others - and its followers routinely toke "the sacrament." It does not make one stoned, "just enlightened," he insists.
"Ok, but it's still illegal," said a good-natured OPP Insp. Ed Medved. Nathier was initially stopped because he was swerving between lanes, Medved said. When the officer stopped the car, a waft of the sacred herb came floating out, police said. The officer seized almost a half kilo of pot with a street value of between $1,500 and $3,000.
Nathier, who is already facing charges of possession of marijuana, has been arrested for possession 10 times in 10 years and has spent three years in jail. He'll fight the latest charge (TORONTO SUN, Tuesday, August 12, 2008).
Toronto defence lawyer Edmund Schofield hurried into the Don Jail intent on seeing an inmate before closing time.
But less than two hours later, the 74-year-old veteran lawyer was escorted out in handcuffs into a police car after being charged with smuggling marijuana and cocaine to an inmate ("Lawyer not guilty of drug charges", METRO, August 15-17, 2008).
'Cannabis' grain tumour drug hope
An ingredient in marijuana may be useful for treating brain cancers, say Spanish researchers from Madrid (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3561686.stm).
May 14 - An Angus Reid Global Monitor poll showed that 53% of Canadians support full legalization of marijuana ("Narijuana drug war news", CANNABIS CULTURE Issue 71 / Summer 2008 - www.cannabisculture.com).
Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use
CNN.COM - http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/30/frank.marijuana
FBI opens probe into drug raid, dogs' deaths
CNN.COM - http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/08/fbi.opens.probe.ap/index.html
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