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 From: mars1933@hotmail.com 
  
 I heard Izzy Asper died so the following article is outdated. But it 
 still gives a lot of insight on Canada. 
  
 By Dr. William Pierce 
  
 "As you may be aware, the mass media in 
 Canada are as much under Jewish control as in the United States. The 
 undisputed top media mogul in Canada is Israel Asper, who is commonly 
 known by his nickname "Izzy." With his sons Leonard and David and 
 other family members, Izzy Asper owns CanWest Global Communications 
 Corporation. 
  
 A Gentile, Conrad Black, also used to be a major player in the 
 Canadian media, but a little over a year ago Black's Southam News, 
 Inc., was bought out by Izzy. CanWest now owns more than 60 per cent 
 of Canada's newspapers and other media outlets. That's more than 60 
 per cent of all of Canada's mass media in the hands of one Jew. 
 Included are 14 metropolitan dailies and 128 local newspapers across 
 the country, including the Vancouver Sun, the Vancouver Province, the 
 Calgary Herald, and the Montreal Gazette. CanWest also owns the 
 National Post, which is distributed throughout Canada. In addition 
 Izzy owns media in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and 
 Northern Ireland. 
  
 Last month Izzy issued a written directive to his newspapers, 
 instructing them that from now on they must print nothing critical of 
 Israel or of Israeli actions or policies. This is a rare thing. 
 Usually directives of this sort are oral only, and great care is taken 
 to keep them from coming to the attention of the public. But Izzy, 
 with even more brass than is customary for his tribe, made his 
 directive public. He announced that, beginning three weeks ago, 
 December 12, the editorial content of all of his newspapers would be 
 homogenized, and they all would be pro-Israel. 
  
 Now here's the interesting part: if all of Izzy's Gentile underlings 
 were simply corrupt-were simply paid mercenaries who wrote what they 
 were told to write-then there would be no controversy; all of the 
 local editors and reporters and columnists simply would follow orders. 
 But there is a controversy. A group of reporters and writers at the 
 Montreal Gazette have rebelled, at least for the moment. One of them, 
 Bill Marsden, an investigative reporter, revealed on a Canadian 
 Broadcasting Corporation radio program called "As It Happens" that his 
 editor at the Gazette had instructed him never to report anything that 
 might reflect badly on Israel. Paraphrasing Izzy's directive, Marsden 
 said, and I quote: "We do not run in our newspaper op-ed pieces that 
 express criticism of Israel and what it is doing in the Middle East." 
  
 Marsden and 54 other reporters at the Montreal Gazette went on strike 
 in protest at what they describe as undue corporate interference with 
 freedom of the press. 
  
 Their strike has infuriated Izzy. Izzy's son David characterized the 
 striking reporters as "childish" and "self-righteous." He said, and I 
 quote: "Why don't they just quit and have the courage of their 
 convictions? Maybe they should go out and, for the first time in their 
 lives, take a risk, put their money where their mouth is, and start 
 their own newspaper." 
  
 How's that for chutzpah, as the Jews like to call it? One can read in 
 David Asper's reaction to the reporters the thought, "How dare these 
 mere Gentiles, these mere goyim, question what we, God's Chosen 
 People, decide should be the party line for Canada's newspapers! How 
 dare they!" I mean it's not just that Izzy owns the Montreal Gazette, 
 and so he is entitled to set the editorial policy, and other 
 newspapers can set different policies. Izzy thinks that he is entitled 
 to set the editorial policy for all of Canada's newspapers and 
 determine what all Canadians think. 
  
 The man chosen by the Aspers to write the editorials for all of their 
 newspapers is Murdoch Davis. When asked by "As It Happens" whether or 
 not one of CanWest's newspapers would be permitted to buck the party 
 line on Israel, Davis replied, and I quote: "No. It is clearly the 
 intent that the newspapers will speak with one voice on certain issues 
 of overarching national or international importance."-end of quote -- 
 When asked specifically whether or not one of the Asper newspapers 
 would be permitted to raise the question of Israel's long-standing 
 violation of international law and its defiance of UN resolutions 
 calling for withdrawal from illegally occupied Palestinian territory, 
 Davis again responded in the negative. 
  
 So that's the present situation with freedom of the press in Canada: 
 not really very different from the situation in the United States. So 
 what about the mentality of journalists? The fact that the reporters 
 at the Montreal Gazette are protesting Izzy's directive that they can 
 report nothing negative about Israel indicates that they are not 
 entirely mercenary. To me, however, it does not indicate that they are 
 independent thinkers. I believe that they are as much lemmings as the 
 dullest couch potato or sports fan. What caused their protest was the 
 arrogant and contemptuous way in which the Aspers went about 
 reconciling two conflicting elements in the Jewish party line. 
  
 On the one hand journalists have been taught that the United Nations 
 is a splendid and admirable organization, whose resolutions should be 
 obeyed. They also have been taught that all races and ethnic groups 
 are equal-in fact, essentially the same-but that racial minorities and 
 underdogs generally deserve our special sympathy, and that in any 
 conflict with a ruling group the underdogs are in the right. That's 
 standard liberal dogma. You have to believe that in order to be a 
 journalist. On the other hand, journalists have been taught that Jews 
 are wonderful people who can do no wrong, and that to think otherwise 
 is anti-Semitism, which is as bad as or worse than racism. It's hard 
 enough reconciling the elevated status of Jews with the concept of 
 racial and ethnic equality, but most journalists by working at it are 
 able to do it-except where the conflict between Jews and Palestinians 
 is concerned. That requires a special effort and really careful 
 handling by their Jewish bosses. How do you explain to a journalist 
 who already believes all of the liberal dogma that if Iraq ignores a 
 UN resolution it should be bombed into the Stone Age and then starved 
 into submission with a rigid trade embargo, but if Israel ignores 14 
 UN resolutions we should respond by sending the Israelis more military 
 and economic aid? 
  
 How do you explain to a journalist who has been taught that when South 
 Africa used to be a White country and practiced apartheid, and the 
 South African police sometimes beat information out of captured Black 
 terrorists, it was a terrible thing and had to be condemned in the 
 strongest terms, but when Israel practices apartheid, assassinates 
  
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