Death by vaccine or by polls?

(1) Confusion grows over association between seasonal flu shot and catching H1N1

The unpublished study suggests that those under 50 years of age are at a higher risk of being infected with the swine flu virus after receiving the annual flu shot.

Didn't I tell you? In Genocide and the Jab I said this:

But no matter how many flu jabs you receive, there will still be flu strains not covered by them and against which you will have a weaker defence since your overall immune system will be impaired by so many vaccines.

The Globe's headline uses the word "confusion" but I would call it "prudence". Just as Canadian scientists are looking more closely at the "global warming" hype that blames only CO2 and ignores many other factors that are destroying our environment, they are also probing the vaccine situation, and we're lucky to live in this country where our politicians don't (yet) have the nerve to overtly force vaccines upon us (they still do it covertly however so watch for other areas of pressure).

Any parent who willingly lets their child be used as a guinea pig for the Pharming industry is no parent at all, but an indoctrinated automaton of capitalism run amok (video), a system devoid of ethical standards and completely dependent on exploitation of the average citizen for the benefit of wealthy shareholders.

The HPV vaccine is another gross example, where the vaccine industry minimizes the physical dangers of it (video), and completely ignores the psychological ones, not to mention undermining the value of sane and sensible sex education for teens - telling them God will get them doesn't stop anything; it only produces guilt.

Believe me, I grew up in a fundie Christian environment where God frowned menacingly on sex outside of marriage, and all the young people in my church were having sex except me - I wanted too much to please God (despite my passion for my first love who is dead and gone now). And that was in the 50's! There were also several girls in my high school class who "had to" get married, because although we were shown (by a bored gym teacher) the obligatory film about the onset of menses and how babies are made, contraception was a verboten topic.

The ignorant media are still busy (video) countering the H1N1 resistance, turning the statement "knowledge is power" on its backside. And the medical profession, whose religion is drug and vaccine based, who routinely accept perks from the Pharmers, and whose own investment portfolios are no doubt Pharm-heavy, are asking for a big stick to be applied to our individual backsides.

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(2) Secret Service probing Facebook poll on Obama
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.

The poll was pulled, of course. Like Sho'ah investigations, this is another question one is not allowed to ask. It is also one more indication that Americans are not ready to have a Black president.

The Secret Service claims to be taking it seriously but what if the poll was put there by the FBI?

Wouldn't the results of such a poll tell them something about the prevailing mood? What if it turned out that the majority of respondents said "no"?

Here's an image of the poll and its questions.

Jack stays in the box

Liberals file no-confidence motion
But it appears the motion won't pass a vote, likely Thursday, because NDP Leader Jack Layton said his party will back the government, guaranteeing the Tories' survival.

All designed to dispel the notion that Iggy is joined at the hip to Steve - without any risk to either of them - and that Jack has a mind of his own instead of just being afraid to lose any of the few seats he has.

And just to prove it's all high-school antics:
Harper report card flunks Liberal test

Iggy's biggest fib: "We wanted a government that tells Canadians the truth."

Not a racist thing?

Thanks to Ron for the following links:

Israeli vigilantes target young Arab-Jewish couples
“This is not a racist thing. Statistically, these girls wind up in trouble. We try to step in before real harm can be done by talking to the teens, making social workers available to them. We never use force,” a spokesman said.

YYC: Unfortunately, love is not enough when you have a whole society trying to break up a relationship.  I'm not surprised they end up "in trouble".  But if left alone, it's possible love could solve the whole Middle East.

Shattering a 'national mythology' - Shlomo Sand's new book "The Invention of the Jewish People"
In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history

YYC:  Sand's book is, of course, not the first such study, although Arthur Koestler's "The Thirteenth Tribe" and studies done by others with similar findings are rarely referred to for obvious reasons. When the myth that the ancestors of European/American Jews once lived in Palestine is exposed through historical records, out goes the secular justification for the occupation.

Naturally Sand makes a good case for the "one-state solution", and I particularly like his response to the question of what this will do to the sustaining myth of a scattered Jewish nation: "To my mind, a myth about the future is better than introverted mythologies of the past".

I do think, however, he could have suggested adding more than just "an hour" of recognition for the Nakba along with the Israeli independence celebrations and memorials.

Here's a YouTube video of Sand saying that he cannot say there is a Jewish people:

For anyone who relies heavily for one's identity on racial or cultural origins, an indepth study of either genealogy or history will eventually remove that crutch.  If you go back far enough you'll find that we're all related to one another. I personally find being a "mutt" a liberating condition, although I'm aware that my anglo-saxon appearance is an unfair advantage in a world that places a value on the myth of racial origins.

Toronto Star: Who you calling docile?!

I was going to talk about Bill Maher's silly, transparently pro-Israel movie "Religulous" today (he claims to believe in nothing so we have to assume he's paid to defend both Israel and Obama), but the Toronto Star comes across as much sillier and equally obvious with its myopic trashing of China: Beijing's 'aim is to make people docile' - Propaganda apparatus is vast and scarily effective.

We're increasingly exhorted to believe that China is a monster (read that as a threat to western corporate world dominance) but we keep on buying their cheap products, not because we love China - although we haven't sufficiently learned to hate them either - but because our economy keeps getting worse and worse and jobs keep going elsewhere.

Quite a bind the multinational corporations have gotten themselves into. They take our jobs to foreign sweatshops, charging an arm and a leg for the products they pay peanuts to produce, and then they get upset when we buy Chinese.

Anyway, the Star is doing its bit for the power structure by demonizing the Chinese government, as if China had the corner on mind bending, and as if China is all that much different from what we're increasingly experiencing in North America.

For instance, a big to-do is made out of the Chinese teen who died at an internet addiction camp. We don't know what really went on there, but we do know it was operated as a business (if we can believe our own media) and is only rumoured to have received state funding, and the parents apparently voluntarily dropped the kid off for treatment, and also that if such a thing happened here it would be considered a criminal event, not an ideological one - the abuse scandals in church schools and day care centres being a prime example.

What the Star fails to tell us is that America is also developing internet addiction programs, and we all know that Canada is never far behind the US regarding what's in fashion and what increases the opportunity to invade its citizens' personal lives.

It's hilarious that the Star makes the Chinese out to be bad guys for firing the journalist who broke the story (if it happened, if we can believe our own media).  It certainly distracts from the fact that North American journalists are well aware of what they can and cannot report and still keep their jobs, and as a result are as docile and obedient as the Chinese are said to be, propping up the two-headed one party system that exists here.

It's disturbing that the Star doesn't seem to realize it is describing our own propaganda system when it quotes anonymous "scholars" who say that "aside from the People's Liberation Army – which is directly accountable to the Communist Party of China – there is no more powerful and important administrative branch than the sprawling, bureaucratic establishment known as the Central Propaganda Department."

Take a look and see what one of our own propaganda departments, National Defence, is up to.

... the DND stated that it provided the media with video and still photos from every major operation. As well, there were “thousands of communications products including issues and operations backgrounders, media advisories, news releases, speakers’ kits, Ministerial statements, media analyses, brochures, pamphlets and backdrops for exhibits” produced and distributed by the DND’s public affairs group.

As reported of China, DND's propaganda also extends to all levels of government to the point where municipal public service vehicles sport "Support our Troops" decals. Our governments via the media try hard to brainwash us, but they call it "Public Affairs".

Even, and maybe especially, the Israel Lobby tells the media "how stories should be laid out and what articles must be removed from websites". Oh sure, to appear balanced, you might occasionally see a columnist who is allowed to present a different viewpoint, but the overall effect is to sway public opinion according to the dictates of the power structure. And, as in China: "Those who flout the system can be fired." (They can sometimes be re-hired if enough fellow journalists get behind them and shame the media) - See this Google search result of media cannings).

Yeah, China is bad alright. But we're badder because we delude ourselves into thinking we have a democracy, in spite of the government deciding everything for us behind closed doors, putting on a show in the House that bears no resemblance to the collusion that goes on in secret, lying to us at every opportunity via the compliant media, confounding every issue to the point where people don't trust politicians period and only a few die-hard Conservatives trust the media, and a large percentage of the voters are too lethargic to even bother showing up at the polls on election day - because they know it's just going to be the same old same old, except maybe even worse.

Any differences in the comparison between China and North America are mere technicalities.

It's hard to take our media seriously when they are so patently obvious in their mission to mold our minds. Sometimes you just have to guffaw. The biggest yuk of all in the Star article on the docility of the Chinese is this:

Seasoned editors note that 90 per cent of Chinese papers are filled with entertainment and sports and lighter fare that the propaganda department couldn't care less about.

Take a gander at the Star's front page and see the headlines listed in the most prominent place and font on September 27, 2009:

Champ breaks Cdn record at waterfront marathon

News|Insight Sex: It's free, healthy and good for the soul

News|Ontario Hwy. 401 leaves trail of low tanks and aching bladders
Photo gallery: Highway rest stops to close

HealthZone|News The gospel of men's weight-loss according to Brooker
"I'm going to talk to you about rice cakes, which are very important to me," says Peter Rosenthal.

Sports|Hockey Wayne Gretzky exposed as more SoCal than local

Sports|Baseball 2009 Blue Jays Report Card
The Blue Jays' class of '09 will mercifully graduate in a week, heading to the golf course without a post-season pitch being thrown in anger for the...Jays stats  Jays depth chart

News|GTA Race, festival to close downtown roads

News|World Stowaway rat delays flight to Toronto

News|GTA It's hard for mayors to say goodbye
Photos: David Miller through the years

News|World Somalia's last, best hopes rest on 'unique' president

That last one reinforces the idea that people need to be led, and that there is such a thing as an uncorrupted leader in this day and age of profit above all else.

And then there's this propaganda piece, under the misnomer "Analysis", for extending Canada's mission in Afghanistan, consisting mainly of the obligatory two minutes of hate for "Al Qaeda" and "The Taliban" (our 21st Century Emmanuel Goldstein), and the usual "white" superiority treatise on how brown skinned people can't solve their own problems (ignoring completely that it's foreign exploitation that created the problems in the first place).  And guess for whom the concern is purported to be greatest - Pakistan, America's biggest partner in crime in that region.

It is also a not-too-subtle plug for Obama - "The One" the media currently endorse:

What a mess George W. Bush left behind when he failed to understand it was Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq that engendered the greatest threat to the United States.

Here are a few results of searches on the issue of North American docility that expose the legitimate fears of North Americans about government and media efforts to render them mindlessly obedient:

Fluoride makes people docile

Television’s Docile Subservience to the Law

Law does not produce a landscape of equality: instead, it reproduces stratification. Thus, docility to the systems of law also means docility to injustice.

The Docile American, US-Canadian docility, etc.

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Synchronous emailed links that arrived as I was writing the above: (thanks to John)

G20: More lies, more deception

Curly, Moe and Larry got game

John comments: The power of propaganda ...
On September 21 Iran notified the UN Atomic group that they were building another group of centrifuges to increase their reserves of 5 % uranium for power production. This was done 18 months before they were going into production. This was well within the requirements required by the regulation.

The G20 waited till the meeting in Pittsburg to blow this up and accusing Iran of getting ready for atomic weapons. Below the results of a poll in Le Figaro this morning, with 79% in favour of increased sanctions
Yet when Israel is asked for allowing inspections in their plant,  the accuse everybody of antisemitism.

Question: Does one have to increase sanctions against Iran?
Le Figaro  Sept 27 2009
Faut-il durcir les sanctions contre l’Iran ?
Commentaires 157  Votants 28161
oui  77.69%   non  22.31%

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A little comic (sort of) relief: VIDEO - Air Farce: Harper, Ignatieff & Satan

Vote: "None of the Above"

I'm busy preparing my Sunday Sermon.  Meanwhile:

John in Manitoba writes:

One big beef I have about most polls is, when asked who of the above leaders one deems capable of running the country, one is limited to either one of the persons mentioned or the question I do not know.

Most of the time I do know and the answer “is none of the above”. I think the article below clearly answers that last question of none of the above. Even a coalition might not work anymore!

It seems now that Harper has placed Canada fully in the US, Israeli corner with the result if any war with Iran comes about we will be involved. Notwithstanding the fact that the production of atomic weapons in Iran is still rumours only or quotes of unidentified persons. Even the latest beef about a new centrifugal line-up being constructed is well within the guidelines. Such construction has to be reported 8 months before production starts starts. The start of production being projected is 18 months, placing it well within the requirements.

Even the Goldstone report is probably being pushed under the carpet.

Rick Mercer: The real reason no one wants an election - How can you vote for people when you wouldn't even throw them a rope?

When asked the philosophy behind our Prime Minister's communication strategy, Mr. Harper's former campaign manager, Tom Flanagan, summed it up with the phrase: “It doesn't have to be true; it just has to be plausible.”

YYC: Let's just hope that Mercer's underlying motive is not to pave the way for Harper's exit and a new man to lead the Reform party calling itself Conservative, one that we "can believe in". It was Mercer himself who said in his role as election night pundit that Harper would "walk" if he couldn't get a majority because he can't stand opposition. And he clearly showed that tendency when he picked up his marbles and prorogued parliament.

But a Canadian party leader by any other name still smells like the demise of Canada as we thought we knew it.

Charkaoui security certificate to be dropped

The Federal Court of Canada said Thursday a security certificate against a Montreal man who has been imprisoned or under surveillance for six years will be dropped.  Judge Danielle Tremblay Lamer said the only question remaining is how soon it will happen. CBC

As long predicted, the security certificate cases are falling apart.

I reported earlier that ensuing hearings with regard to Mohamed Harkat's greatly reduced bail conditions were to have been held in-camera, but have just heard from Sophie Harkat that the judge has decided to hold a public hearing tomorrow, Friday, September 25.  She is asking for strong court support.

Will the judge, as he did last time, simply make another statement, this time that Harkat's security certificate has also been dropped?

If you're in Ottawa, try to attend: 10am at the Supreme Court of Canada building on Wellington St. (East courtroom)

Sibel Edmonds and Obama's Toddling Town

On State Street, that great street, I just want to say
They do things they don't do on Broadway "Chicago" lyrics

The November 2009 issue of the American Conservative Magazine has an interview with Sibel Edmonds that you can read online and which clearly and concisely lays out her story of having been fired from her job as a translator for the FBI for blowing the whistle on deep-seated internal corruption. Whether or not what she says is strictly true, she outlines very plausible scenarios in which nations collude, government officials' lifestyles are monitored and the data used to blackmail them into cooperation and/or silence, "Al Qaeda" was a post-9/11 fabrication, NATO planes transport drugs, and Obama arose out of the epicenter of political corruption and ruthless geopolitics - Chicago. (Thanks to "BeeSting" for the link)

It's also left me thinking that maybe the reason so much useful information is buried under "national security" is that it's worth mega dollars.

By the way, according to Wikipedia, William Blum's book, a history of the CIA that detailed the many countries in which it was involved in exporting drugs, was apparently recommended by Bin Laden in one of those tapes that now and then pop up to "prove" OBL is still alive and the leader of "Al Qaeda". As a result, although sales of his book increased for a time, Blum is quoted as saying he is no longer invited to speak at college campuses.

This is as good an indication as any of how useful - and fake - those tapes are. They do alter people's perceptions of things. The most recent one seems designed to build sympathy for Obama's tough job and add credibility to his statement that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are a substantial threat to Americans, which of course provides the rationale for extension of the wars.

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Other Stuff:

BBC: US charges suspect in 'bomb plot'

How much you want to bet there is more to this story than meets the eye.  Who do the terrorists really work for, and are they really terrorists, or false flaggers?

VIDEO: Complaint: NYPD Misstepped in Terror Probe

The Sky Perpetually Falls

(1)  Dust Storm in Australia

VOA: Dust Cloud Chokes Eastern Australia

The weather bureau calls it the worst dust storm to hit this part of eastern Australia since the 1940s.

Oh, oh, more proof Al Gore was right? Wrong!

Dust storms are a frequent occurrence in Australia, and even the VOA article says at the end:

While Australia is one of the most vulnerable nations to climate change, scientists do not directly link extreme weather events such as storms and drought to warmer global temperatures. Instead, they say these events are largely due to natural variability.

So why a headline like this?
Dust storm rings alarm bell for environment protection

There was a worse Australian dust storm in 1940 or 1939 depending on which rag you read, and some parts of Australia get five dust storms a year.

But that doesn't stop the sky-is-falling climate change clangers.

With climate change a hot topic this week far beyond Australia's shores, experts say extreme dust storms like this could become more frequent.

Dr John Leys from the NSW Department of Environment's Dust Watch division says it looks like dust storms such as this will become more prevalent.

"There has been a report from CSIRO that show that this drought is the first of its type, because we've never had droughts which have been so hot," he said.

Dr. Leys gives himself away with this:

"Things like this are going to be more prevalent unless we can improve our land management practices so we can maintain more ground cover, so there is less chance of us all blowing away."

Yes, it's poor land management practices, sucking the life out of the soil to make profits, not putting anything back into it. That's how the great dust bowl happened in America in the 1930's.

Just because somebody has a Ph.D. and is called "doctor" doesn't mean he's entirely rational. And you should know that fewer than 50% of scientists agree with the global warming theory, which the quieter majority say is all based on a purely theoretical computer model and not on reality at all. See this excellent, easy to understand video: Global Warming or Global Governance.

The CBC has produced a video based on the same theme, that CO2 is not the problem. I haven't seen it yet.

And remember, that a theory sold by a politician always has a political motive.  You'd think that social activists would be sensitive to that fact, but in talking with one the other day I got the same old Gore-ish mantra - "The Arctic ice cap is melting!  We're toast".

The ice cap is melting in some places, and growing in others, and there are signs that the polar bear population is actually increasing.  Watch the video, eh?  People who don't remember the 70's need to know that the big scare back then was that a new ice age was coming!

And there was "global warming" in medieval times!

Please don't think I'm saying everything is hunky-dory. The planet is being destroyed in a thousand other ways, with real, observable pollution of the water, soil and air, from which CO2 is a handy distraction. Global warming will also be blamed for deliberate attempts to depopulate the earth through starvation, all the while crocodile tears and fund raisers for hungry children abound.

We may be toast, but it won't be from climate change, and the whole concept of "Stop Climate Change!" is just ludicrous. You can't stop Mother Nature; you have to learn to respect her, and to respect her product: human life.

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(2) UN General Assembly in Progress

If you're interested, the Times Online is providing a blow-by-blow record of the goings on at the UN General Assembly - not necessarily objective, though.

Clock ticking for Iran? Satanic World Rule?

(1)   ANALYSIS / Clock ticking for Iran as Israel appears ready for strike

... the deadlock in efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program and the growing likelihood that the endgame will be an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

In the past few weeks alone, an editorial in The Wall Street Journal warned the president that the United States must put a quick halt to the Iranian nuclear program, because otherwise Israel will bomb the facilities.

Russia says Israel promised not to attack Iran.  Israel says Russia has no business speaking for Israel.  Brezezinski says Israel should be stopped from flying over Iraq (considered US airspace now?) to get to Iran. The US is "disappointed" in Iran's refusal to discuss its nuclear program. Israel's Barak says Iran is not an existential threat to Israel.  America's Barack says Iran is an existential threat to Israel.

The only consistent and logical thing about all this is that Iran is still calling for global nuclear disarmament, and Israel is the only nuclear-armed country in the Middle East.

Don't be fooled by the suggestion in the above "analysis" that Cheney would ever have deferred to George W. Bush's wishes regarding Iran.  Brezezinski's policies guided the Bush administration as they now guide the Obama administration.  When Obama does something that looks humanitarian, watch for a ripple effect.

For instance, from the New York Times:

The new plan that President Obama laid out for a missile shield against Iran on Thursday turns Ronald Reagan’s vision of a Star Wars system on its head: Rather than focusing first on protecting the continental United States, it shifts the immediate effort to defending Europe and the Middle East.

"Defending Europe and the Middle East"?  Not on your life. The US acts in US interests only, and this is causing more harm than good.  Already Obama has had to back off in Poland and the Czech Republic, which isn't exactly "junking" Bush's plan (lest you think this represents "Change") but simply modifying it for the sake of expediency - and it isn't Bush's nor Obama's plan in the first place.

The US is chicken when it comes to other nuclear powers.  It tends to pick on the defenceless, in case you haven't noticed.  For instance, Venezuela may be putting itself at an even graver risk than before in teaming up with Iran to build an oil refinery in Syria.  On the other hand, it might be a very smart move if the US is afraid of Iran's association with China and Russia.  But it's likely that personal accusations against Hugo Chavez from various quarters will increase.

(Thanks to "Beesting" for the Brezezinski link)

Related? Singer Leonard Cohen collapses on stage in Spain

Xymphora opines that it may be Cohen's way of boycotting Israel without upsetting his friends and family - and also makes a prediction about Israel's future.

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(2) YouTube Video: "Tel-evil-sion"

For entertainment purposes, although much of what you see will be from actual news clips that should be food for thought (thanks to "Little Momma" for the link).  Episode 7 highlights a prediction by a little boy who talks to God that there will be an assassination attempt against Obama on October 25.

Also in that episode, Obama's "satanic" finger salute, and his enthusiasm for pastor Jeremiah Wright are covered.  There seems to be some video doctoring, though - for instance, where the whole Obama family is shown wearing "satanic" black and red clothing (I thought black and red were anarchist colours - same thing?:-)

You might also notice, however, that Obama did not always have the studied, self-satisfied, swaggering demeanour he carries now as puppet leader of the "free" world.

BREAKING - Mohamed Harkat's bail conditions removed

Supporters of Sophie and Mohamed Harkat filled the benches of the court room this morning, sensing that something was in the air.  Security was tighter - this is the first time my handbag was not only scanned but opened and examined.  Proceedings were scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM, but did not get under way until 3/4 of an hour later.

It turned out not be a hearing, but a statement from Judge Simon Noel that a new risk assessment had been submitted to the court which concluded that any risk to the public from Moe Harkat had been "mitigated".

As a result, some of the most oppressive bail conditions have been removed, as of today.  Now there will be no surveillance cameras, no searches, no curfew, no restrictions on who can visit their home or what parts of the city they access, nobody following them on outings, and if Sophie needs to use a washroom when out in public she can do so because she is no longer responsible for what terrible things Moe might do in her brief absence.  Moe can even step out into the backyard and onto his driveway without her.

He still has to wear the bulky GPS and certain details, such as with regard to reporting and telephone use, have yet to be ironed out.

A teary-eyed Mohamed Harkat discusses details with lawyer Matt Webber.

At right, Christian Legeais, bilingual spokesman for the Mohamed Harkat committee.

Sophie Harkat talks with activist/supporter

The judge still has to make a decision about the implications of the CSIS fiasco.  And there will be ongoing, in-camera hearings with the "special advocate".  Harkat's passport will still be held "in trust".

The courtroom was dead silent, and both Sophie and Moe broke into quiet tears.

In speaking to Sophie afterwards, she said that it was CSIS who did the risk assessment.  That's the same CSIS who earlier insisted Harkat was a danger to us all, and who swore under oath in court that "once an ideologue, always an ideologue", no amount of incarceration or passage of time will remove that trait, and therefore Harkat should not be granted any kind of bail.

The no-name CSIS agent who made those statements hid himself behind a beard and  the initials "P.G.".  Here's an "artist's rendition" (by yours truly) of that agent.

CSIS agent P.G.

Sophie also said that if it weren't for the successful fight to allow "special advocates" to act as intermediaries - and which CSIS and the Ministry of Public Safety fought tooth and nail to prevent - they wouldn't have had a chance.  Now that much of the information previously secreted behind so-called "national security" has been reviewed, it looks very much as if the government's case against Harkat is falling to pieces.

Which proves the grave injustice of the Security Certificate, and it's long past time  for it to be abolished.

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Addendum:

At court, I ran into Diana Ralph, president of Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians - who recently took a severe drubbing in the Star - and she asked me to alert the public to this:

"Breaking the Silence" - a speaking tour with Abousfian Abdelrazik and Project Fly Home Montreal. Friday, Oct. 2, 7 PM, 141 Bayview Road, Ottawa. Event Details

Mavericks and War Criminals

(1) Mavericks:

On September 23rd there will be three interesting speakers at an event at St. Paul's University, Ottawa, that will be simulcast on The Real News (click on the blue corner banner at upper right).  The speakers are:

• Former United Church minister Kevin Annett, fired for exposing residential school murders.

• Former Government of Canada scientist Shiv Chopra, fired for resisting fast track food industry drug and human vaccine approvals (including H1N1).

• Former University of Ottawa tenured physics professor Denis Rancourt, fired for challenging grading practice and for criticisms of the institution’s executives.

If you're in Ottawa and want to attend the event, here's the information you need.  Admission is FREE.

And on the subject of H1N1, the Canadian government is currently deliberating over whether or not people who suffer side-effects of a vaccination can take the manufacturer to court. Chances are pretty good that they're trying to find a way to prevent it, and medical negligence trial lawyer Paul Harte makes clear that intent when he says: "Vaccines always carry some risk ... and as long as the public knows the risks companies are generally not held liable.."

It's true. After all the internet warnings, if you're still a vaccine fan you have no one else to blame for autoimmune illnesses in your family.

Apparently one maverick mommy's midwife recommended she get the flu shot - and that's pretty astounding coming from a midwife whose profession was created in order to cut down on the medicalization of childbirth - but the mommy is refusing to be vaccinated. Now that's independent thinking, and if there were more people like her governments wouldn't be able to get away with anywhere near the garbage they dish out.

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(2) War Criminals:

Thanks to Ron, two items regarding Israel's war crimes in Gaza:

Shining a light on Israeli aggression in Gaza

So, Stephen Harper and his ministers were defending possible war crimes and crimes against humanity, while Michael Ignatieff and senior Liberals were staying mostly mum. And much of our mainstream media were averting their gaze from, or excusing, the possible crimes.

Now, no less an authority than Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor with the war crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, says that the three-week Israeli onslaught on Gaza eight months ago amounted to "war crimes and possibly, in some respects, crimes against humanity."

Releasing his report Tuesday, he said: "As a Jew with a long-standing affiliation with Israel, it's obviously a great disappointment to me, to put it mildly, that Israel behaved as described in the report."

YYC: Israel's foreign minister played the frayed "war on terror" card - and as if to bolster that, the IDF yesterday killed two men "affiliated with Al Qaeda" who they "believed" were planting explosives near the border (belief is a wonderful thing) - but it's clear Israel is losing the PR race.

UN says Israel should face war-crimes trial over Gaza

YYC: Not exactly the UN.  So far it's only a report, commissioned by the UN, that could end up on a dusty shelf in a back room, but a damning one nevertheless.

Using by far the strongest language of any of the numerous reports criticising Operation Cast Lead, the UN mission, which interviewed victims, witnesses and others in Gaza and Geneva this summer, says that while Israel had portrayed the war as self-defence in response to Hamas rocket attacks, it "considers the plan to have been directed, at least in part, at a different target: the people of Gaza as a whole".

Secrets and Rumours

(1) Secret Trials

If you're in Ottawa, try to attend at the Supreme Court building on Wellington Street, 10 AM, Monday Sept. 21.  Mohamed Harkart has an extremely important bail hearing that could use some serious public support. Read more ...

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(2) Covert political motives

Tories survive first confidence motion
But the Conservatives aren't out of the woods yet, and they will be relying solely on the support of the New Democratic Party in the coming weeks to remain in power.

First, they're not Tories, they're far right wing religious Reform pretending to be Conservatives.

Second, Harper might have to reconsider his use of the NDP and the Bloc as weapons against Ignatieff in his scare-mongering attack ads.  Those filthy "socialists and separatists" just saved his hiney - for the moment.  Their ways are past finding out, so I repeat, my advice is: vote independent in the next election or don't vote at all.

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(3) Occult Concoctions

From the Wall Street Journal:

More Deadly Swine Flu? CDC Mixes H1N1, H5N1 Viruses in Tests

As the new H1N1 flu has spread, flu experts have kept a close eye on Egypt and parts of the world where human H5N1 infections are occurring too. The two viruses could mix if they infected the same person simultaneously. The new H1N1 virus was also detected recently in turkeys in Chile, proving that it has the capacity to jump to birds, another potential source for reassortment.

Good for the CDC - cooking up a lethal vaccine, paving the way for "accidents", while claiming to be in the disease control business.

A YYC reader comments:

"What's really funny is that they claim that Egypt is the hot spot for a possible mutation since there are people infected with H5N1 already who may get H1N1. Egypt, the land of the pyramids, an analogy for the global power structure. The Egypt reference (and reminder of the pyramids) is to remind us of their power over us and that they have the power to mutate the virus and kill us anytime they want. They love this symbology crapola, don't they? What a bunch of nutters."

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(4)  Nautical Rumours

From John in Manitoba who says: "Just a rumor, without confirmation,  but might tie in with the other background noise"

3 American Ships under Quarantine? Capt has died?
... after the injections!

YYC: CBS reported a quarantine of four ships in July - but doesn't mention any injections.  The Montreal Gazette reported a Venezuelan ship was placed under quarantine in June - again no mention of pre-vaccination.  And an Australian cruise ship was quarantined in May for the same reason.

Seems a monthly occurrence - just to keep the ball rolling?  Wunner why nothing in August.  Wunner also if all the testing that was done had any accuracy to it at all.  I mean if the tests can miss cases, what's to say they don't also see cases that do not exist?

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(5) The question that dare not speak its name ...

Hysterical outrage once again at Ahmadinejad's questions about the "Holocaust":

Ahmadinejad did not deny the Holocaust, but raised some questions about the matter, asking Western powers for a logical answer.

"If the Holocaust, as you claim, is true, why don't you allow a probe into the issue?" he asked, while calling the Zionist regime a symbol of lies and deception founded on “colonialist” attitudes.

The Iranian president also asked why Palestinians had to pay for the genocide of Jews at the hands of Europeans.

For the record - again - I personally think that there should be universal outrage that anybody at all was confined, forced into slavery, starved and slaughtered by Hitler simply because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, or state of mental or physical health, and I think it unconscionable that my own government resisted the acceptance of Jewish refugees, so it doesn't bother me that the Jews remind us of it, although I think by now everybody knows the official story. But neither do I see anything wrong with objective inquiry into the numbers and methods, especially since all other aspects of history are routinely subjected to scrutiny in the interests of discerning the truth of things.

I have to say that it makes me sad that, while cultural museums in Iraq have been plundered and destroyed, and ghettoization and genocide are occurring at the hands of fanatical Zionists and western marauders with apparent impunity and for purely selfish underlying reasons - control of lands and natural resources (with "terror" and past suffering being nothing but a handy justification) - so many Jewish "holocaust" museums are being constructed as if Jews alone have the corner on human suffering.

Scores of millions of human lives have been lost during the past and current century because of avarice and its accompanying lack of respect for life in all its forms.

Whatever other faults he may possess, Iran's president is entitled to his skepticism, and it should not be used as an excuse to aggress against his people.  He is also extremely logical when he asks why the Palestinians had to pay for the genocide of the Jews.

Related: From reader "Beesting": Their martyrs, our heroes

The Mayor of Vaccine Rejection

I learned the term "Burgermeister" from the brilliant Canadian film "The Lucky Star" (1980).  It means "mayor".  Jane Burgermeister, the notorious female who says she filed charges with the FBI against Baxter Pharm, must have an interesting family history.  Call me stupid, but since watching this video, the link to which was sent to me several days ago by reader Margaret in Europe, I have to conclude she seems real and sincere, for all that she also came across as a nervous type (fluttering eyelids, frequent gulping and throat clearing).

After finally getting a chance to study the video closely, you know what?  I don't care whether or not she actually filed charges with the FBI.  What's important is that she has phenomenally raised awareness about the dangers of vaccines, and she very articulately and succinctly describes the "Swine Flu" situation to a tee.

You know what else?  I'm no longer interested in the probability that the vaccinations in Canada have been scheduled too late to do any good, except as it justifies Burgermeister's concern that the vaccine may not be so much to protect against the flu virus as to inject nano-chips.  Tracking devices!

It may seem crazy, but is there any sane person alive these days who actually trusts government?  Then why should anybody trust the vaccines they hand out?

The scientific media are all abuzz about the speed with which nanotechnology can produce vaccines on demand. Especially the Australian nanotech community.  (You've heard of Australia, haven't you?  They have a prime minister who regurgitates the same US war propaganda as ours does - word for unbelievable word!) Want a job?  They're so flush they can afford to hire student interns (underlining mine):

This is a unique opportunity for international exposure at the leading edge of a rapidly developing field of research. The project focuses on mathematically modelling and experimentally understanding Terahertz (THz) vibrations in protein pharmaceuticals, and in particular new vaccines made from virus-like particles. The project links to the national THz facility at The University of Adelaide and the international centres of excellence in vaccine production and THz analysis. The successful applicant will have a unique opportunity for international exposure at the leading edge of a rapidly developing field of research.

From whence cometh the research dough?

As Burgermeister says, they can't round us all up, and the more people who reject the vaccine, the more difficult it will be for the "authorities" to carry out their agenda.  Of course, then the hype will be massively increased to terrorize people into it.  It will have to be because so far, in its weekly report, the WHO has said the number of deaths has risen by 281 from 3,205 a week ago.  This is out of an earth population of 6.8 billion!  How come they can't do the math and decide this is not worth the worry?

Now here's an interesting little tidbit: "The Americas region continued to post the highest death toll, at 2,625".  The Americas have been hit the hardest - the very region the US is slavering to completely control.  Well, at least this time they aren't making up a story that the disease originated in Africa.

I have a theory that I've yet to prove wrong; people with soft, sweet voices have tough insides.  Burgermeister will need all the strength she can muster to weather this thing through to the end.  And the least the rest of us can do is get some gumption and stand our ground against this bizarre attempt to invade and control our very existence.

Whiz Kid Warrior?

UPDATE: See this CBC video in which Chris Alexander says that the only problem is in the Kandahar region, and that most Afghans are much better off, the people "want us there", praising up the US puppet Karzai, and saying that Afghans now have more money in their pockets!

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Chris Alexander, media-touted as a "diplomatic star" in huge demand by Liberals and Conservatives alike, is said to have "long held the view" that more troops are needed in the Afghanistan debacle, with Pakistan as the major focus, and the implied suggestion is that Obama is following his lead.  What a crock!

This is our formerly respected national newspaper talking, folks!

Alexander has been immersed in the Kabul Afghanistan, which has little to do with the real Afghanistan.  With all the languages this guy is said to be fluent in, it's not surprising that Farsi and Dari are not his strong points, even after all those years of "experience".

His forte is that he is USA approved.

If the voters of Ajax-Pickering riding are stupid enough to elect this walking propaganda machine for expanding, unending wars, god help us all.

What's different about this flu season? The hype!

I received the Ontario Government's Swine Flu brochure today.  The cover says: "This year it's a different flu season".   Guess what - it's a different flu season every year!  There are many different varieties of flu and "Swine Flu" is only one of them.  It's so obvious that they're making a big fuss over this for a not very good reason.

Anyway, the brochure says that the regular flu vaccine will be available "in the Fall" and the H1N1 "later in the year", but in another section it says: "in the fall or early winter".   So there you have it.  It's a big serious problem, but, yawn, we'll get around to vaccinating eventually.  Anybody who gets worried about that hasn't been listening.

The brochure confirms what was in the CTV article I quoted from earlier today - that the vaccine will be given too late to do any good.  Where it differs is with the list of most vulnerable. The CTV article does not include over 65s in the more urgent group, but the brochure says: "high risk groups for H1N1 flu are being identified" (emphasis mine).

So they haven't even got around to that.  But Big Pharm has our contract for vaccines; that's the important thing, eh? The lack of organization is just one more reason to avoid the vaccine when or if it is finally administered.  And it's all the more reason to rely on the same precautions you've always taken to avoid getting sick.

I've often wondered why I rarely get colds, let alone the flu, in spite of coming into contact often throughout the winter with people who are doctoring for flu symptoms. The article written by the M.D. who recommended Vitamin D might have supplied my answer.  I take halibut liver oil capsules every day of the year, mainly because I'm moderately photosensitive and tend to avoid direct sunlight when I can, so I need the Vitamin D. (Besides, the gelatin in the capsules is good for my fingernails, and I've convinced myself the fish oil helps my stiff joints.)

From Mareta in Spain:

"Spain is eerily quiet about the subject [of vaccines]. We got a fancy colour brochure from school about Swine flu that doesn't even mention vaccination! It talks about washing your hands, mostly. Here, people are extremely suspicious by nature - probably a hang-over from living with Franco - and many have it clear that it is Big Pharma making a killing selling vaccines for a virus that makes people moderately ill. Perhaps the government knows better than to try to openly push vaccs on a people who naturally suspect the government's and corporate motives.

"The national television stations, however, have a special daily time slot dedicated to updating the audience about the pandemic. I figure, they'll get Spaniards to vacc by televising increasingly alarming news stories about the spread, mutation and mounting fatalities in Spain and abroad and this will eventually terrify people into vaccing."

It's got be a big scam.  People have to realize that thousands die every year of flu - mostly from complications of flu in the presence of other ailments, and mostly already hospitalized people, since hospitals are the worst sources of infection on earth - but there's never been a ruckus like this.  The truth is there's a strong hope that the vulnerables will die because we're overpopulated and the aged are a nuisance.  Governments are only pretending they give a damn.

But if it's true that the US has all those FEMA camps they want to make use of, fomenting some kind of backlash would take care of that nicely.  Take a look at YouTube to see all the "we're not going to take it" videos.

I think each of us, as individuals, have got to figure out how best to look after ourselves and our loved ones.  If it means taking kids out of school, or even leaving town to get away from local do-gooders, sobeit.  That along with good hygiene and real, home-prepared meals are really all that's necessary. And if the "authorities" get uptight about empty schools, they have only themselves to blame for all the hype that caused it.

And then you have to consider that the hype is a cover for something else going on.  We'll have to watch and see what that is.  And, as Mareta reminded me, don't forget about Y2K.

Down with flu shots; up with Google movies!

I think the First Nations people are misinterpreting the meaning of the body bags that were shipped with the swine flu kits.  It's not so much that they're "on their own" if they catch the flu; if I were them I'd be worried about any "help" they might be given, especially in the form of a vaccine.

You tell me how a "remote" First Nations community suddenly comes down with swine flu!  Does the bug fly?  No, it is carried, probably by a "helper".  Isn't that how the natives got smallpox?

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaqhas says of the body bags it was "insensitive" but when have our native peoples been treated sensitively?  Apologies are a useless substitute for ordinary, everyday, human respect.

As for everyone else, get this - from CTV (underlining mine):

Vaccinations are expected to get underway in November. That's weeks behind the United States, which is is planning to start inoculations in October. Countries in Europe will start later this month.

It's also weeks behind the infection peak that some have said could occur as early as mid-October. An article by American researchers published last week in the journal Science warned the virus will have a high infection rate quickly during the second wave in North America but then peter out just as quickly as the fall continues.

Do you get the feeling we might all be saved by ineptitude? Or is this an attempt to get panickers to scream for the vaccine RIGHT NOW.  Personally, I'm glad to see that at my advanced age I'm not on the priority list for vaccination.  I'd sure hate to be the mother of a small child right now, or pregnant with one. It's a real dilemma.  My advice would be to just keep the kids and fetuses at home until this blows over, and don't let any "helpers" get a foot in the door.

For Americans there as many recommendations on how to avoid the flu vaccine as on practical suggestions (other than getting vaccinated) on how to avoid the flu itself.  Did you know that 70% of doctors do not get the flu shot?

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Google is currently featuring some very fine, full length documentaries, so if you haven't already seen these, you can now get them for free in their entirety:

The Corporation - a must to understand the psychotic nature of the dominating force in the world today. An extremely well-made, fast moving, mesmerizing documentary.

The Take - in my opinion, the best documentary ever made, about how some Argentinians survived the big crash by taking over abandoned factories and making them productive again, without the need for big bosses.  The background music alone is worth the viewing, and the scene where the workers defy the police and risk their lives to get into a locked up factory is a demonstration of real activism - the kind that comes from having nowhere else to go but back up.

The New American Century is a history of the events, the philosophies, and the instigators leading up to and surrounding the current wars; a good reference document (even if it does contain a small segment that depicts Alex Jones as some kind of prophet).  It also contains a sickening display of how cannon fodder are brutalized into becoming brutal torture/killing machines.

If you haven't seen the movie Gandhi, or would like to see it again, here's your opportunity.  It's an epic film, a wonderful treatise on how to be free by acting free, and Ben Kingsley is phenomenal in it.

For those of you who just want a break from the world situation, YouTube has a clip entitled, "Goodnight Mr. Bean".

More from the Mailbag

While goofing off the last couple of days, my inbox filled up with a slew of interesting links and comments.  Thanks to all who contributed news items!

(1) Obama racism row (from Mareta):

Columnists, commentators and bloggers have been debating the row over President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst and "racism" in US politics.

YYC: I can add to the debate by reiterating what I've said since Obama was put forward as a presidential candidate (for no other reasons than that he is a disarming front for a callous, determined, Malthusian machine, and that the Black and "progressive" vote would ensure his victory) - A significant number of Americans are not ready to accept a Black president. And that's because at heart far too many of them still see Blacks as inferior - even the politically correct who like to show how tolerant they are as long as a Black person does not step out of line.

But having said that, Obama's so-called health care plan is the very two-tiered system that Canadians are trying to avoid (but would you believe the NDP are all for it!) and was devised as a means to eventually cut down on the numbers of "useless eaters".

Video: Agenda 21 - Sustainability

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(2) Paradise lost

(a) (Also from Mareta)

Doctors warn on climate failure
Failure to agree a new UN climate deal in December will bring a "global health catastrophe" ...

Mareta comments: "Using images of starving children to push their next big scams - the Copenhagen carbon account for every man, woman and child on the planet (to be overseen by the One World Government)  and more taxes to compensate global warming disasters in third world countries caused by the gluttony of the first world.

"That little girl's suffering is being used to further demodernize the sheep and put more money in the pockets of the African elite and the American and British corporations who will only be too happy to pocket this cash under the guise of Economic stimulus."

YYC:  I'm intrigued by this statement: "... people in poor tropical nations will suffer the worst impacts."  Remember when the word "tropical" used to be paired with "paradise"?  But no longer, thanks to the "white" man's greed and callous racism.

(b) (from Linda)

HEBRON REFLECTION: "This used to be Paradise"
... the Israeli military destroyed six cisterns, tore up and confiscated truckloads of irrigation pipe, and toppled two power installations in retaliation for alleged water theft from Israeli water mains (See  links below.) Israel does not allow farmers in the West Bank, like my host, to dig wells on their own land. In the meantime, Israel takes much of its own water from aquifers in the West Bank.

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(3) Boycotting Israeli Apartheid (from Ron):

The U.S. pension fund giant, TIAA-CREF, confirmed in statements to the media on Friday that it divested from Africa Israel Investments, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev, earlier this year.

Video:  Irish Unions boycott Israeli Apartheid

Ron comments:

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko

from "Biko" by Peter Gabriel

"The BDS flame has begun to catch, and the wind will blow it higher because people who respect human rights oppose Israeli Apartheid and Israeli ethnic cleansing of the indigenous Palestinian people."

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(4)  Tell-tale ships

(a) (From John)

Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession
The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore. Never before photographed, it is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination  -  and is why your Christmas stocking may be on the light side this year

John comments: "Recession over, my foot!!"

The Daily Mail implies a scoop on their part, but the fact is the New York Times exposed these ships back in May - and the Mail shows that they're still there in spite of all reassurances about the economy.

(b) From Margaret, who asks sardonically: "Which Mafia?"

Mafia sank ships of toxic waste
The informant said the mafia had muscled in on the lucrative business of radioactive waste disposal. But he said that instead of getting rid of the material safely, he blew up the vessel out at sea, off the Calabrian coast.

YYC: Good question, Margaret. Especially since "getting rid of the material safely" means dumping it along the Somalian coastline (video).

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(5) Obama and the Federal Reserve (also from Margaret)

Obama to urge financial overhaul
"The White House would give the central bank, the Federal Reserve, new powers over huge financial firms and the ability to seize banks whose collapse could threaten the economy."

Margaret comments: "Instead of abolishing the FED, Obama wants to give it new powers to further condense wealth among the elite.  WOOHOO!"

Support the TIFF protest

Tell the signers of the Toronto Declaration,"You Speak for Me"

Sign the petition and stand by over 1,000 cultural producers who have signed on to the Toronto Declaration which objects to the Toronto International Film Festival's celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. Such a celebratory honor is part of an explicit, openly-stated Israeli effort to divert public attention from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.

Fact Sheet: A Blizzard of Lies

Setting the record straight: Response to historical distortions, TIFF

Video: See statement at 9/14 press conference from Elle Flanders, a Toronto-based filmmaker who grew up in Israel, and who is one of the Toronto Declaration signers

Atlanta Jews reject vilification of Jane Fonda and threatened damage to her nonprofit

Antonia Zerbisias on the opening up of debate

Please spread the word:

Never Say Lie

(1) The Toronto Star doesn't seem to think another election will harm anything.  So watch to see for whom they go on the stump.

Election myth busters

The Star is helping to perpetuate the myth that Harper doesn't want an election.  He wants it alright, and will do what he can to instigate it but, fearing the voters don't want it, he hopes to pass the blame onto the Liberals.  He knows it's not really a fib when Ignatieff is in on the plan.  Remember how he visited Harper, soon after usurping Dion's position as leader, and just "listened"?

As Pierre Trudeau is said to have said, "politics is a dirty business".

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(2) The deepest and most inviolable of bonds that politicians share, regardless of party stripe, is the acceptance that it's all a big sham, a snake oil sale.  Evidence of that is the taboo against the words "lie" and "liar".  Euphemisms, the vaguer the better, must be employed to avoid lowering comfort levels.

Lawmaker won't apologize to Obama in Congress

South Carolina Republican Representative Joe Wilson, who faces possible censure in the U.S. House of Representatives for shouting "You lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech to Congress on healthcare reform, said on Sunday he would not apologize again.

"I've apologized one time. The apology was accepted by the president, the vice president. ... I am not apologizing again," he said.

Wilson added he would "never do something like that again," but continued to defend himself, saying: "I believe in the truth. What I heard was not true. I believe (Obama) was misstating the facts."

Conversely, the mere word "sorry", however insincerely uttered (compounding the lie), is imbued with magical powers that restore the status quo.

By the way, outside of Congress, Wilson's betrayal helped him raise a million bucks. Talk about the best of both words!

Israel: hoist on its own branding iron

Thanks to Linda of Canpalnet-Ottawa we now have a clearer picture of this year's controversy at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the news it's made to look like a free speech issue at best and playing the Iran card at worst with celebrity protesters being accused of supporting a one-state solution, which to fanatical Zionists is a euphemism for "wiping Israel off the map".

Now we see that it wasn't just some Israeli films being presented, but that Tel Aviv had actually been chosen to be "spotlighted" in the festival - and it's specious to claim it wasn't a result of Israeli lobbying when a direct program of "re-branding Israel" began in 2008, with Toronto having been the chosen testing ground of that program!  As Naomi Klein points out, the re-branding Israel campaign boasted of "a major Israeli presence at next year's Toronto International Film Festival".

Linda comments:
"The controversy over the TIFF has been going on since John Greyson withdrew his film in late August.  Re-branding Israel is backfiring bigtime."

Background and full text of John Greyson's letter at Canpalnet-Ottawa. Greyson rightly objects to the "politicization" of the TIFF.

From YayaCanada's Mailbag

Big thanks to readers who contributed today's thoughts and links by email ...


(1) Is Obama admitting 9/11 victims were "sacrificed"?


From Margaret:


"US remembers 11 September attacks"
"White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president would "speak about what the day means and the sacrifices of thousands, not just at the Pentagon, but in Pennsylvania and certainly and most obviously in New York".

Margaret asks:

Isn't the whole idea about sacrifice is that it is to be something of value to the person giving it up?  A  nation "sacrifices" it's young people (its future)  in war for the "greater good of protecting the nation". Parents make sacrifices for their children (they give up some things important to them in order to provide for their children) Ancient priests convinced their followers to give up a beautiful young woman or man to appease an angry God.

POTUS, I don't believe, is inclined to make these kind of semantic errors, he is well-educated and very well spoken. I can only believe that this means he is admitting that victims of 9/11 were sacrificed by those in the American Government who saw it (and continue to see it) as necessary for the greater good.

The creation of "terrorism" has been an excuse for a rapid evolution of sophisticated weaponry in the US military and the assault on Saddam - televised globally - gave the world the message that the US has technological superiority over all other nations and solidified their position as a nation to be feared and obeyed (at least that is what they hoped).

YYC:  They are so confident they have us Obam-boozled that they are telling us what happened.

However, Margaret, the phrase you quoted no longer appears at the link you sent.  It must have been there, though, because although it's not attributed anymore to Robert Gates, the term "sacrifice" still appears in a sub-heading - at this moment.  Just to prove that it was there originally, let's take a look at the following Google search list:

Results "White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the president would "speak about what the day means and the sacrifices of thousands, not just at the Pentagon, but in Pennsylvania and certainly and most obviously in New York".. (0.51 seconds)

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(2) Ignatieff squeezed between right and left?


From Sussannah:

I saw your post [yesterday] about Michael Ignatieff's plans to run for election. Not sure if you've seen this, but there have been a number of attack ads that have cropped up on YouTube over the last two days that are in opposition of Ignatieff:

There are two things that are interesting about the videos:

1. they appear to be anonymous.

2. They seem to be attacks coming from the left of Ignatieff, indicating that in the election he might be squeezed by both sides of the political divide.

YYC:  The video example Sussanah provides is a compilation of a Conservative attack ad and a clip of a talk given by Ignatieff years ago at Harvard, which by use of the words "And now this ..." is made to appear current, even though Ignatieff's more youthful appearance gives the trick away.

I couldn't be certain this video is necessarily from the "left".  It's not something the Harper crew could air officially since it's more misleading than even they could get away with on TV.  I can say, however, that both Ron Saba - who seems to have the human rights sensibilities of a "leftie" - and I, myself - who have been called a "socialist" on the internet even though I've never belonged to any political party and used to vote Liberal when it seemed more centrist - are both as adamantly anti-Ignatieff as we are anti-Harper.  Here's a video Ron produced that uses the same clip from the Harvard lecture.

I can't say that Ignatieff still holds the same view, or if he ever indeed actually held it, since he pretty much seems to be a chameleon, saying and being (British, American, Canadian) whatever seems expedient at any given time. This trait makes him extremely dangerous - most likely a willing tool of the global fascist agenda.

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(3) Can Canada's courts give justice to Palestinians?


From Daniel at PAJU:Settlements in the occupied territories: a war crime? Can the Superior Court of Quebec rule on a conflict whose source lies in Palestine?

The Council of the Palestinian village of Bil'in and the heirs of Ahmed Yassin have launched a lawsuit in the Canadian justice system against two Montreal-based companies. The companies are legally responsible for the construction of homes for Jewish settlers in the small West Bank town (population 1700). The plaintiffs are seeking an order of demolition for the buildings located in the Occupied Territories and 2 million dollars in damages against Green Park International and Green Mount International...

Canada has passed a number of laws that compel it to punish war crimes and crimes against humanity, wherever they may have been committed. The sentencing of Rwandan citizen Désiré Munyaneza is the best illustration of the principle of "universal jurisdiction" for such crimes.

Justice Louis-Paul Cullen of the Superior Court will hand down his decision shortly after the court resumes its activities in September.

YYC:  Canada still has a chance to be an honest broker - in the courts if not in government.

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(4) Genital Mutilation - a final solution?


From "BeeSting" - the following two items:

(1) Operation Abraham Coming to America?

In late August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered hundreds of scientists and public health professionals in Atlanta for its biannual conference to discuss the issue of HIV prevention. One presentation, delivered by an Israeli doctor, managed to catch more media attention than any other, and to trigger the ire of a group of impassioned activists.

Dr. Inon Schenker’s proposition came in the form of a controversial question: Why not bring mass adult male circumcision to the Hispanic and African-American communities of America?

YYC:  The final solution - genital mutilation!  Oops, sorry there fella.  Knife slipped.  Hope you didn't want children.  Thank your lucky stars I'm a so-called doctor, not a mohel - unless you like that sort of thing.

(2) Religious Rights on Trial as Circumcision Case Reaches Oregon’s High Court

YYC:  What an absolute hell of a Bar Mitzvah!

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(5) CHRC guilty of supporting racist tax fraud?


From Ron:

Video: CHRC's SecGen agrees JNF [Jewish National Fund] a racist tax fraud

YYC: But the Director General, Ian Fine, disagrees, so that's that, eh?  No hearing; just blanket support of Israel, right or wrong. The Canadian Human Rights Commission, which seems to spend most of its time and tax payer dollars stamping out "anti-semitism", is in a pretty bad way when even pro-Israel Ezra Levant thinks they are "abusive" and "corrupt" and not above fabricating "evidence" to suit their own purposes - a direct result of the power of the Israel Lobby.

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(6) Not exactly lapdogs, but close enough ...


From Greg Felton:

His latest article, another well-drafted satire:  It’s a dog’s life for Israel’s pet politicans

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(7) You won't find this in the mainstream ...


From John - two items:

(1) Stephen Harper: Unfit to Govern

YYC:  You're only going to hear this from the alternative media; the mainstream is too busy grinding its heel on Ignatieff, trying to get the polls down.

(2) Why did Monsanto's latest GE foods get a free pass into Canada?
... it is the deliberate extension of a regulatory system that relies on corporate data and was designed to support the industry.

YYC:  A perfect example of a rhetorical question.