Nonsense in the News ...

... non-sense (nän′sens′, nän′səns) a noun meaning "words or actions that convey an absurd meaning or no meaning at all" - synonymous with: claptrap, empty talk, drivel, bombast, bunk. Each of the following is an example of same.

(1) Afghan ... uh ... election ...

WashPost article summarized: The US pressured Karzai to accept a run-off (think of how it will look); no big deal if Abdullah quits the race, says Clinton; "ambitious allies" pressuring Abdullah to strike a deal with Karzai; Abdullah threatening to boycott (which Karzai says is illegal) or quit (as if anybody in the power structure cares).

We keep getting told that we have brought democracy to Afghanistan, and that's the purpose of the war. But just as here at home, shadowy figures behind the scenes run the country while electoral candidates are still spoken of as leaders. The very word "democracy" has lost all meaning.

I haven't quite figured out why an article like this one: "Painting Democracy on Afghanistan", is posted on the Council for Foreign Relations website, but it's a bit of an eye-opener.

Excerpt:

Anybody that knows the history of Afghanistan will recognize the fact that they've practiced pure Greek democracy at the village level for two millennia. There's almost an American arrogance here thinking that we could come in and install Jeffersonian representative democracy on this country. It's also extremely important to recognize that the entire election fiasco of August has [set] any type of movement toward democracy back in Afghanistan.

"Almost" an American arrogance?

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(2) The White House - Is it "Change" yet?

Is there is or is there isn't jobs being created by the so-called stimulus packages?

CBS VIDEO: A "world class example of government obfuscation"

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(3) Priests like me ...

Pounding on the Pope's door petitioning to be let in, a member of the Anglican Priest Drain justifies his actions thusly to the New York Times:

The main issue is the fact that the Anglican Church has no consistent doctrinal authority and often acts independently from the historical positions of the universal church. In light of this, the ordination of women and practicing homosexuals is merely symptomatic of much more fundamental problems with Anglican ecclesiology.

Priests like me are not reacting to polemics on the theological spectrum. It is the faith once delivered that we are after, which we pursue as an imperative of conscience.

Crystal clear, eh? It's "the faith once delivered" that he's looking to find via the Vatican, where it's just incidental that females must be subservient nuns and homosexuals are kept in the closet.

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(4) Kindygarden or daycare solution?

Stimulating young minds

... spending on early learning will help give students a level playing field when they begin school, which means more children will succeed at school and better contribute to the economy. It also means fewer of those students will come into conflict with the justice system and rack up other social costs.

Take your pick of any one of the synonyms for nonsense. Let's face it - this is a daycare solution, not an educational one; you can even pay a fee to get extra supervision for your child at the beginning and end of each school day. If I had a four year old and was a working mom, I'd be glad of all-day kindergarten. But I'd have to double my efforts in counteracting at home some of the mindless propaganda my kid wold hear from the teacher.

Come to think of it, though, if they expected my kid to be inoculated to death, I guess my only choice would be to go on welfare and home school.

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(5) High Risk Shots

From the Citizen: Ontario's chief medical officer of health Dr. Arlene King said Friday afternoon the province has to restrict vaccinations to people in the six priority groups identified nationally. They include people under 65 with chronic health conditions, pregnant women, health-care workers, children aged six months to five years, household contacts of children under six months old and people living in remote or isolated communities.

All of those groups but one suggest that it's close contact with an infected person that breeds flu. The question I keep asking is how does the flu get to people living in "remote or isolated communities", unless there really are flying pigs. It smacks of a genocide program, or at the very least a vaccine experiment.

One can't help wondering if the "production hiccup" is deliberate in order to make the most vulnerable into guinea pigs - or dead ducks, depending on the prime motive. If there is a de-pop program in progress, this is one way to reduce the burden on health care and the old-age pension as boomers get close to retirement. Adverse effects from the vaccine could take months or a couple of years to develop and could be varied enough to blur any connection.

By the way; for the innocents who breathe a sigh of relief once they are vaccinated, here's how long it reportedly takes for immunity to actually occur: From the Citizen:

It depends whether you're getting one or two shots. Preliminary studies show that antibodies develop seven to 10 days after, and full coverage is achieved 21 days later. For children, it's believed that full protection is achieved 21 days after the second shot.

Meanwhile, your body is struggling to deal with a new set of toxins, during which time you could be more susceptible than usual to any kind of flu. It's a risky game being played, and you're the pawn.

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(6) Chuck is coming ... be still my heart

From the National Post: "Every time I come to Canada, and I've been here many times since 1970, a little more of Canada seeps into my bloodstream," Prince Charles said during a 1996 trip to Canada. "And from there, straight into my heart."

Swoon. He ain't here yet and already the media are trying to turn us into scullery maids ripe for seduction by the smooth-talking son of the mistress of the house. Outside of the pantry, however, here's what expected of us:

For men, a neck bow will suffice - "just a little more than a nod of the head," the website advises. For women, the right foot is placed behind the left heel, and the knees bent slightly. Dress "Members of The Royal Family do not wish anyone to be put to unnecessary expense by buying special clothes, hats or gloves" ...

I hardly need royal assent not to buy new clothes, and I plan to put one foot in the front of the other to head in the opposite direction - along with many other Canadians, apparently, although I wouldn't advise trusting the Natural Compost's statistics on that, since I'm reasonably sure that 57 + 53 is more than 100:

About 57% of Canadians believe Charles should become king after the death of Queen Elizabeth, rather than pass the crown to his son, Prince William, according to a new poll ... A further 53% said Canada should end its constitutional ties to the monarchy after the Queen dies ...

The CBC confirms Chuck has visited Canada 15 times. Can that properly be construed as "many times" or does it just seem like "many" to Chuck, despite his love talk?

CSIS AND OBAMA: TWISTED KNICKERS and PETULANT POUTS

(1) Hey CSIS, we can see your underwear!

From the Ottawa Citizen: Canada oblivious to terror danger: CSIS boss
New director takes aim at critics in first public speech

Talk about yer tantrums! The only thing that could top it would be rolling on the floor, flailing with fists and feet. This guy Fadden is really ticked that Canadians are refusing to live in constant fear, and won't be cowed into placing complete trust in government and "intelligence" agencies.

He's spitting mad that we expect our justice system to be open and transparent, the hallmark of a free society. It irks him considerably that we're not so dumb as to think the term "national security" can't be used to hide a dearth of supportable evidence.

But I also think he's covering embarrassment (not to be confused with shame). Some folks try to distract from being caught out in mischief by throwing hissy fits. Fadden is obviously a graduate of the "best defence is an offence" school, and boy is he offensive!

There is no acknowledgment here, and certainly no apology for CSIS's long and chronic history of lying and cover-ups (as recently re-demonstrated in the Harkat case). In one spasm of pique he claims CSIS is guarding our freedoms; in the next he blurts out a curse on those very freedoms:

Fadden said Canada’s “turbulent legal environment,” with increased emphasis in individual rights and freedoms through legislation, legal trends and evolving jurisprudence was changing the way CSIS operated.

“The legal ground has shifted under our feet, and this tenuous new environment has had profound implications on how we work at every level.” ...

One can only hope that how CSIS operates will be changed for the better. Unfortunately what it really means is that the taxpayer is now footing the bill for a bigger CSIS with the installation of a bevy of shysters who spend all their time figuring out how to skirt the law while still looking legal, teaching CSIS to no longer lie from the gut out of sheer innate tendency - which can come back to haunt - but strictly from the book.

Somebody needs to clue Fadden in on what motivates a "terrorist". He whines that “Terror is downgraded to a form of dissent ..." ignorant of the fact that what is called terrorism, violent political acts carried out by individuals, has always been a form of dissent.

State terrorism, however, is quite another animal, and when whole identifiable communities in Canada are harrassed by secret police, that's totalitarianism. Any fool can see that CSIS has not been working to guarantee freedoms for individual Canadians, but for the power of the state and thereby for CSIS itself.

This comment below the Citizen article, from someone with the handle "Good Job", provides a little comic relief while pointing up the real, personal danger to Canadians of a secret agencies like CSIS:

Since CSIS is probably monitoring this...You're doing a great job! I'm behind you 100%. Lets have more Star Chambers, trials without witnesses, evidence gained from Torture. If those damn civil libertarians, with their 'due process' and 'no torture', get in the way, draw up certificates on them too. As Sir Thomas Becket said 'if you cut down all the laws to get to the devil, where will you hide when the devil turns 'round and looks YOU in the eye?

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(2) Pig scare, FOX scare, and Obama's miff

Email from reader Ted in Newfoundland:

Some really great info on yesterday's blog [here and here]. With this H1N1, I believe the government is really doing a number on us. Here's the way I see it for what it's worth.

First they create fear from what so far is a non-pandemic. They get some people so wound up they're running off to see the Dr. from the first sneeze. Then they say they're running out of vaccine. More panic created right on target.

I'll go out on a limb here and predict as more people start screaming about no vaccine, the government mysteriously finds more and the sheeple stampede to roll up their sleeves, believing the government has saved them from pending doom. Exit stage right. Neocons 1 People 0.

Like I said just a thought.

And while Obama may well be visiting soldiers killed in combat,there are those he will never visit or even write the grieving families.

The war condolences Obama hasn't sent

And what about Rick Salutin take on the new CBC Fox news format.

The CBC execs are beside themselves with the thrill of it. Their endless in-house memos rely heavily on triple exclamation marks as punctuation: "The energy in the building is palpable ... The torch has been passed ... We have moved from a Buick to a Ferrari ...!!!" (Oddly dated images, by the way, and insulting.)

YYC: I agree; both the US and Canadian government want to induce abject reliance on government for solutions, and Obama does not want to confront the human consequences of war.

The Rick Salutin link is an interesting indication of how the Canadian inferiority complex is sucking us into a North American Union. It's also a bit odd in light of the current (pretend?) war between the Obama administration and FOX news. Jon Stewart does a take-off on that.

Obama's complaint is a lot like that of CSIS - talking freedom while despising how it gets in the way of selective snow jobs. "The One" clearly expects the media's undivided attention and support - he's got a flu panic to orchestrate, wars to escalate, and a dubious health care plan to instigate.

Missing video located

In section #2 below - The Pig Flu debate - a video went missing from the Ottawa Sun.
My brilliant daughter (who taught me about vaccines) has found it elsewhere.

She comments:

One of the biggest culprits in the thimerosal-autism story was the busy medical clinic. Vaccines did not get mixed properly or thoroughly because people were rushed. With thimerosal, a multidose vial must be shaken vigorously before EACH innoculation. Sometimes, busy clinicians even forget. Thimerosal (which is heavier than other vaccine ingredients) would not be dispersed properly making the first innoculations very low in mercury and the last half increasingly toxic.

A better form of vaccine for mass vaccination is a blister-pack single-dose format - and it's preservative-free. Maybe it's more wasteful but it is much safer to adminster and assures proper dosing of all vaccine components.

YYC: The Swine Flu vaccine reportedly contains: squalene, thimerosal, and aluminum salts.

Couple things ...

(1) "The One" is not singular

Barack Obama meets coffins of soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Commander-in-chief makes late-night trip to Dover air force base to receive and honour remains of 18 killed in the conflict

No doubt many Americans will feel cared about because of this gesture, and that's what the administration is counting on as it plans for more soldiers to die in endless wars.

That final paragraph is terribly romantic, but Obama isn't alone - he's got Brezezinski and other hawk pals, people who never fought in wars but love to plan and re-plan them (nostalgia, perhaps, for the childhood Christmas gift of toy soldiers). Even if Obama were Republican, Brezezinski (Founder of the Trilateral Commission, and Bilderberg/CFR appointee - watch him pull his nose when saying he hasn't been involved with them in years - a dead giveaway of lying) would advise and support him, changing lanes and theories as expedient. Now we see the extremists, now we don't ... or vice versa.

Brezezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion.

VIDEO: Clinton:Fighting Extremism Can't Be Avoided

CNN: Hearing set for suspects tied to group seeking Islamic state

Reuters: White House says attackers in Kabul will not win

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(2) More Pig Flu debate and two shockeroos ...

From the CBC, a surprisingly balanced debate (maybe this counts as a third shockeroo):

To be jabbed or not

"We're giving the vaccine for something that isn't that severe and we don't know if it is effective. That's the story."

Note: I said two days ago that I doubted very much if there had been any in-depth studies of the regular flu vaccine, and here's a doctor's confirmation of that:

"There are no (randomized) trials done so we don't know if it worked or not and every year we hear that it doesn't look like it worked," he says.

But then there's good old boy Butler-Jones showing his lack of acuity by repeating the guilt trip mantra:

"It's actually more about the people around me because I don't want to be the source of an infection that might send one of my kids, or grandkids or friends to a hospital or ultimately kill them."

Is he admitting the vaccines don't work, or is he saying his kids, grandkids or friends are not going to get the jab?????

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq also says anything she's been told to say (Chealth):

"We now have a safe and effective vaccine being distributed to provinces and territories ..."

In the same Chealth article we learn this:

Ottawa has agreed to shield drug companies from lawsuits over the H1N1 pandemic vaccine. That means the federal government, not the vaccine manufacturers, would have to pay any damages awarded in court, except in cases of malpractice.

Quebec is the only province with a no-fault compensation plan for harmful side-effects resulting from immunizations.

Maybe that qualifies as a fourth shockeroo. Looks like the taxpayer will be footing the bill for any lawsuits so the Pharmers can keep every penny the taxpayers paid them for the vaccine.

Some other things have occurred to me in discussing this with a friend, and they include a couple of major shockeroos:

1) Are young people more susceptible than raisins like me because they have been pumped full of scores of toxins in regular immunization programs that didn't exist when I was their age?

(2) Why aren't there any recommendations about what over-the-counter medicines to avoid if quarantined at home with the flu? Is it a good thing to reduce a mild fever with Tylenol or Aspirin if fever is the body's way of fighting off infection? Is it a good thing to take Gravol (or Benadryl) which has the effect of lowering vital signs, slowing down breathing, making a person drowsy? Both Tylenol and Gravol were reportedly given to the teen-aged hockey player by his nurse mother. What about the many "cold and flu" remedies available that contain cough suppressants, another soporific? Evan Frustaglio had a cough. When it was first thought he had a cold, was he given a cold and cough remedy? He also complained of leg pains - click on the Benadryl link to see that's one of the side effects.

(3) There are still no updates on possible underlying causes for either the Frustaglio boy or Vanetia Warner.

(4) Here's a shockeroo! The people administering the Pig Flu vaccine to the sheeple are the ones who actually do the mixing of the vaccine/adjuvant compound (video: H1N1 vaccine: complicated to administer) which arrive in separate vials. That's a recipe for disaster right there considering how hastily some "health workers" have been trained in the art of giving the shot.

Well, blimey! The link to the video showing the health worker mixing up the flu brew has suddenly disappeared. Here's proof it was there in the Google listing (unless it disappears from there too):

Results 1 - 1 of 1 for http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2009/10/29/11567926.html. (0.15 seconds)

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29 Oct 2009 ... When you're standing in line waiting to get your H-1-N-1 vaccine and cursing how long it takes, spare a thought for the people who are ...
www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/.../11567926.html - 2 hours ago - Similar

(5) Another shockeroo is that the nasal vaccine, being a live virus, makes recipients infectious to those close to him/her for 21 days (See heading: What is the most important information I should know about this vaccine?)!

Related: Doctor Wants Canada’s Athletes in Front, for Flu Shots
Shocked? Not me. How much you want to bet they get their shots in secret. And they don't have adjuvants or mercury in them.

Melange ...

(1) Email from Ted in Newfoundland:

Yesterday you wrote a piece in which you stated you didn't know the young girls name who may or may not have died from H1N1. The name is in the last paragraph of this Globe story.

Also a couple of interesting [video] links as well in the comment section of same story. One from Ron Paul . And one from Doctors against H1N1 Vaccination.

Love your site.Read it all the time.

Ted
St. John's NL

YYC: Thanks Ted! Much appreciated. Let's hope we hear more about what vaccines these kids were recently given and what underlying conditions, if any, were discovered.

As I watched the Ron Paul video I was struck by the ludicrousness of killing 25 people with vaccines to prevent 1 death from pig flu, not to mention hundreds debilitated by chronic illness. It's a lot like sacrificing the lives of thousands of soldiers and innocent civilians abroad to avenge the lives lost in 9/11. (That's if one takes both the war on pig flu and the war on terror at face value.)

Related:

From the Chicago Trib: Patients can sue drug companies - U.S.Supreme Court rules
... when they've been harmed by medications whose risks aren't adequately disclosed ...

YYC: Interesting. I wonder if they may one day deem adequate disclosure to be all the "left wing nutters" on the Internet who warned against vaccines!

Also Related: (thanks to Mareta!)

WHO memos 1972 explains how to turn vaccines into a means of killing

Video: H1N1 Flu A Pharmaceutical Hoax

Mareta comments: Hey listen to the strange thing starting at 8:04:

"Thimerosal has been proven to be safe, it's used in seasonal vaccine, uh seasonal flu vaccine and we want to assure people that uh the scientists again confirmed there is, really, a safe factor with using thimerosal. It's an effective preservative and one that...."

That's a really strange way to say that ... it sounds like she was thinking "risk factor"

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(2) A pretext for staying in Iraq?

Parties blame security forces for Baghdad bombings
Two high-profile attacks in the last two months have raised doubts about the ability of Iraq's nascent security apparatus to ensure the nation's safety after U.S. soldiers pulled out of major cities ahead of a full withdrawal in 2011.

The mysterious "Al Qaeda" seems always to work for the true global agenda. This time they are working to justify the US occupation of Iraq.

There's a video documentary entitled: Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist that might interest you.

Related:

From Pravda: Al Qaeda does not exist and never has

From the Guardian: US suffers deadliest month in Afghanistan as eight soldiers killed
The surge in deaths comes as ... a senior American diplomat in Afghanistan has become the first US official to resign over a war he says is only being perpetuated by the presence of foreign troops and international support for a corrupt, unpopular government.

From the Telegraph: Hamid Karzai 'already fixing' second election
The official said: "I don't think anything is going to be different. I don't know: are the Independent Election Commission members who did it last time, and the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National Police and governors who were all complicit going to behave differently? I doubt it...."

YYC: I doubt it will be different no matter which US-oriented leader is elected. People have to stop looking for saviours because that need is being cynically exploited around the world.

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(3) New voices in the House

NDP denies connection to 'bloody' Ottawa protest
Fallout of House uproar includes accusations of faked injuries

Whether or not one agrees that "climate change" can be stopped by politics and protest, the House protest is another example of what I call real activism.

Odd that the Greens are not suspected. One would they'd be at the forefront of such a demo, or is that just what we've been led to expect of them? Maybe they're happy to sit back and let little kids do their job? Sorry, but I really, really hate it when innocent little kids are used as political tools by teachers, clergy and politicians!

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(4) Finkelstein at Penn State

Thanks to Ron:

If you're in the area of Penn State U. on November 2, you might want to take in this panel discussion. If not, take a look at the video included with the announcement that describes Israel's actions in Gaza - but be warned that there are some horrific images.

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(5) MP's coalescing against free speech

Independent Jewish Voices are fighting back:

Wrong way to “fight anti-Semitism”
The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism, made up of MPs from various parties, was convened this summer, arising from the earlier London Conference to Combat Anti-Semitism ... But we have doubts about some of the CPCCA’s preliminary statements, and what seem to be its underlying assumptions and objectives.

PETITION: Defend Canadian Free Speech from Israel's representatives who would criminalize it

The tropes of ‘Jewish antisemitism’
The concept of the ’self-hating Jew’ has been dignified with a pseudo-psychopathology by those keen to suppress dissent ... When the self-hating Jew allegation is levelled at someone with the degree of integrity of Judge Goldstone, who takes such pride in his Jewishness, and is orchestrated by the Israeli government and prominent Jewish leaders and commentators, the ugly desperation of the accusers is laid bare.

YYC: Apart from the fact that what's being accomplished is inurement through overuse of the term itself, they are not taking into account that, by the standards of those who define antisemitism, there are "self-hating" Jews who sneer at the religious practices and insist they were raised more WASP than Jew, yet who still vehemently defend Israel.

My sole criterion for an epidemic is my being personally acquainted with someone suffering from the condition. So far, I don't personally know anybody who's been diagnosed with swine flu, but I do know a Jew like what I've just described (and Bill Maher is another good example). I think it's caused by a deeply ingrained, perhaps unconscious, fear that if criticism of Israel is allowed, then prejudice against Jewishness can occur to the point where it could affect that person personally - a legitimate reaction, I suppose, given what happened in Nazi Germany where even Roman Catholic Jews were rounded up, but still not a good reason to defend a country right or wrong.

Related: From YNet: Israel's Prime minister forms team to advise him on how to respond to Goldstone Report.

YYC: When all else fails, strike a committee that will bog down interminably.

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(6) Welcome to Canada, Abdelkader Belaouni ... finally!

Blind Algerian wins Canadian residency after living in church for four years

YYC: I have only one word of caution for Mr. Belaouni: DON'T GET THE FLU SHOT!

In the Media:Treason and Faulty Logic

Should Canada and America share the same dollar?

The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, is doing its bit for big business and cynical geopolitics. For starters, it's in the vanguard of getting Canadians accustomed to the idea of sharing a currency with the US. It's presented as a question, but there is no question about the view of the mild-mannered - appearing author, nor the treasonous (if you're at all nationalistic) intent of the article:

Then there's this:

Refusing to get vaccinated is selfish

They can't be talking about me. I'm willing to quarantine myself at the first sign of a sniffle, and to donate any dose set aside for me to the Americans since they've got a shortage.

Talk about selfish, it appears the richest country in the world bought only enough vaccine to further biologically weaken the already weak - children, pregnant women, and oh, yes - the baby boomers who will soon drain the social security system. They're not too worried about people my age - approaching 70 - due to a CDC report that a lifetime of germ exposure may have conferred an ancient immunity that younger persons lack - and we're not expected to live a whole lot longer anyway. Note: If you get a 403 at the CDC report link, try accessing it straight from Google - title: "Elderly may have pre-existing immunity ..."

So it's odd that in America I'm in a (sort-of) low-risk group but in Canada I'm definitely in the high risk group. But this I'm accustomed to, having lived long enough to see almost every medical/scientific theory reverse itself after five years, and it ain't the first time I've found myself bounced from high risk to low risk overnight.

But hey, politics is politics, eh? And Canada has blown a huge wad on way more pig flu vaccine than we need, so the hard sell is on.

Sadly, the main premise of the Globe article is faulty:

Every vaccinated person increases the likelihood that health-care professionals will be free to treat other people. What's more, inoculation reduces transmission. If unvaccinated people make health-care workers sick, they cannot look after other patients.

In other words, if you get sick, you will clog up the hospitals, so you should take the risk of getting vaccinated so that some other jokers who get sick can clog up the hospitals.

Also, if you get sick, you could infect a health worker, so you should take the risk that, obviously, the health workers in this scenario didn't take and get yourself jabbed with a syringe full of toxins.

The point the Globe misses is that if the flu vaccines are all they're cracked up to be, the selfish folk can infect only other selfish folk, which is kind of like, you know, divine justice, don't you think?

The CBC is another news outlet passing on mindless statements:

Typically, seasonal flu shots offer 60 to 80 per cent immunity. So far, one dose of the H1N1 vaccine seems to offer immunity in the "high 90s" in healthy adults ...

Common sense should tell you that it's impossible to say that any of the recipients of H1N1 vaccine have any immunity to Swine Flu until the flu season has passed, and it's just getting started.

It's also doubtful whether in-depth follow-ups of seasonal flu shot recipients have actually been carried out - although there is a report indicating that those who got the seasonal flu shot last year are more susceptible to Swine Flu this year - but hey, that also works to make the Swine Flu vaccine more profitable this year.

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About the young hockey player who died of what health officials say was H1N1: all sympathy to his parents; I can only imagine the agony a parent feels at the loss of a child.

But at this point it should be kept in mind that: It is not known if the boy had any pre-existing medical conditions. (CTV).

Other things I'd like to know: did the boy have a regular, seasonal flu shot recently, or last year, or any of the routine vaccines given according to the immunization schedule for children in his age group (such as Hep B or a DPTP booster) - any of which could have left him temporarily in a weakened biological condition.

Same goes for the young girl who recently died of what may or may not have been H1N1. Did she recently have the HPV shot, and/or any of the routine age-specific immunizations or boosters? Look at the CTV headline: Girl dies from swine flu in eastern Ontario and then read further:

Officials are waiting for lab tests to confirm the girl did have the swine flu virus ... Officials are not sure whether she had any underlying medical conditions.

I can't tell you what the doctors ultimately found out because I don't have a name I can Google. "For confidentiality reasons" the child's name was withheld. Yet what will be remembered is the headline: "Girl dies from swine flu". Does it make you wonder if news execs have shares in Big Pharm?

It's worrisome that we may never know the full circumstances if the boy if the media turn young Evan Frustaglio into the poster child for the promotion of the vaccine.

Dystonia gone horribly wrong ...

I've been reluctant to say much about the Desiree Jennings case because I'm not an expert on dystonia. But the questions continue to mount.

It's advertised as a flu shot gone horribly wrong; unfortunately it's looking more and more like a hoax, and not just because it originated with FOX. It seems to me that this case is designed to (a) instill an idea that vaccine reactions are exceedingly rare and dramatic, and (b) eventually discredit the anti-vaccine movement as "experts" turn "psychogenic" into a new household word.

And a third possibility has been brought to my attention.

From a Reader (thanks for doing this research!):

More Desiree - this time an argument that she has "psychogenic" dystonia

Another interesting perspective that may explain why this hit the media in the first place:

There are a lot of flu vaccination conspiracy theorists out there who think that flu shots actually do more harm than good. And they’re lining up to be heard on this story behind universal heath care proponents, who are claiming that Jennings isn’t getting the treatment she needs because of a lack of affordable health insurance.

Is this propaganda for Obama's Healthcare plan?

I also found it interesting, watching the video of her moving around, that unlike other people with dystonia (video) who tend to have a waddling erratic gate when they run forward, Desiree is actually quite fluid and graceful. Likewise when she walks backwards.

The Dystonia Foundation has this to say:

Dystonia & Flu Vaccine in the Media

Recently there has been coverage in the news media about a woman developing dystonia after receiving a seasonal flu vaccine. The DMRF is not aware of any information or research showing that the seasonal flu vaccine causes dystonia. As with any medical procedure or treatment option, the DMRF encourages you to discuss the risks and benefits of the getting the seasonal flu vaccine with your doctor.

So they are taking no stance on either her condition or its cause. Interesting...

YYC: For the DMRF to state in such careful language that it is "not aware of any information or research showing that the seasonal flu vaccine causes dystonia", suggests there is such information and research, and that the DMRF itself suspects that vaccines in general may cause dystonia since there are so many officially unexplained cases. (video). This is much like Harper and his crew not being aware of reports of mistreatment of Afghan prisoners. It's easy to be unaware; just close your eyes and ears.

But, as I indicated in my earlier mention (See Item #3 "video") of Desiree Jennings - there are just too many suspicious things about this case - even beyond her ability to apply perfect makeup that some of us without dystonia have trouble doing. Take a look at the videos (linked to above) of other dystonia sufferers and tell me if you think any of them could apply flawless makeup.

If Jennings has dystonia it is an impossibly rare version. For instance, she can stop in mid-spasm to gracefully push her long hair away from her face - and she does that frequently on camera!

The statement about her not getting proper treatment due to lack of a decent health care plan is pure propaganda for Obama. Look at the videos, see the neighbourhood in which the Jennings live, understand they've both been fully employed and have no children to feed and clothe, and tell me she can't get afford medical treatment.

Don't forget Obama's Freudian slip. As pointed out here, he had "neurological" on his mind for some reason when he should simply have said "health vulnerabilites". Don't forget also that he holds stocks (see item #2) in pharmaceuticals and flu shot clinics, and wants the anti-vaccine movement discredited. Above all don't forget about 1976.

Jennings also reports getting the flu immediately after receiving the flu shot, and of course this gives the "experts" a chance to say it's impossible for flu vaccine to produce the flu since the virus is not live. Apart from the fact that only God and a few Pharmers knows what's in the Swine flu vaccines, and whether everyone will receive the same combination of ingredients, it's not impossible for the seasonal vaccines to lower one's biological responses enough to render one vulnerable to strains the shots don't cover.

Remember also, that the most vulnerable people will be receiving three different vaccines - seasonal flu, pneumococcal vaccine, and Swine Flu. As a result, their vulnerability to other flu strains will be increased. But the CDC and the WHO will trumpet that at least they didn't get Swine flu.

It's shocking the number of toxins being pumped into infant bodies, and they call it "keeping them safe". Parents need to see Gary Null's full length documentary "Vaccine Nation" that he mentions in his testimony at the NYS Assembly hearing.

Related: Wikipedia timeline of the development of vaccines.

The 20th Century was an unprecedented vaccine boom time for Big Pharm that continues to produce huge dividends for stockholders like Obama - and no doubt for many politicians, physicians and scientists - yet the "epidemic emergence of modern chronic diseases in the latter part of the 20th century" is attributed to "inactivity".

Even if inactivity could be blamed, what is causing the sluggishness? There are a host of ailments causing lethargy and fatigue, but just for starters, take a look at the (completely unexplained) symptoms of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:

* mild fever
* sore throat
* tender neck with swollen lymph nodes
* decreased ability to concentrate
* muscle weakness and joint pain
* headaches
* problems with concentration and memory

Sound a bit like the flu to you?

Pretty vaccine image borrowed from here.

Lest we forget ... The 1976 Swine Flu Fiasco

From the CBC video archives, Barbara Frum interviews an American government scientific advisor in 1983 about the impact of the widespread incidence of paralysis attributed to the Swine Flu vaccine "hastily prepared" and administered in 1976 for an epidemic that did not materialize.

Naturally, the "advisor" insists the scare was justifiable, despite 500 vaccinated people having contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome - and no doubt others developed chronic illnesses not officially attributed to the vaccine - and expresses the concern that this incident might deter people from accepting vaccination should another scare occur.

(Incidentally ... or not ... Peter Kent, the news anchor who opens the video, was made Minister of State for Foreign Affairs [Americas] immediately after being elected a rookie MP. I guess that's because the Governor General's position was already filled by another media person.)

This just in from my own daughter:

Obama's daughters exempted from vaccination due to being deemed not in a high enough risk category.

Hmmmm ... The vaccine"shortage" is either coming in very handy for children of privilege or the first family is publicly making a noble (Nobel prize?) sacrifice for the benefit of others - pick one or both of the above.

My daughter adds:

Obama, when asked about H1N1 vaccination and his family plan:

Incredible. He actually says:

"...particularly children with underlying NEUROLOGICAL VULNERABILITIES...so we gotta make sure that those vaccines go to them first."

Good grief! is that a tongue-of-the-slip?

"When folks say it's our turn, that's when we'll get it!"

Which will be, oh, never? Or will it be a televised B12 shot to encourage the public?

Lest you think I indoctrinated my daughter to think this way, it is she who taught me about vaccines. I confess I may have taught her a bit about using her own noggin.

By the way, if my turn comes to get the vaccine, I'm going to donate it to America.

Obama declares public health emergency ...

The sky is falling - again. No wait, it's PIGS falling from the sky! No, no ... wait ... they're cash cows!

Thanks to Mareta for this BBC article and the "cash cow" link above:

US declares swine flu 'emergency'

Quotes:

(The state of emergency) "allows authorities to bypass certain federal requirements in order to deal more effectively with emergencies. "

"Given the shortfall" (of Vaccines), "New York State on Friday stayed a directive ordering health care staff to be inoculated or risk losing their jobs."

Canada has extra; we don't need 50 million doses. We could send some of ours to the US. Imagine, it would be like the US sending vaccines to Africa. We could be vaccine missionaries! Ours even have adjuvants, the better to create a shortage of health care workers.

CTV: Obama declares emergency in U.S. for swine flu

The White House on Saturday said Obama signed a proclamation that would allow medical officials to bypass certain federal requirements. Officials described the move as similar to a declaration ahead of a hurricane making landfall.

What the h-e-double hockey sticks is a "hurricane making landfall"? I guess it's a new catch term to replace "touching down". Whatever the case, a state of emergency was also declared back in April, when only 20 people had reportedly died from Swine Flu (it doesn't take much to panic our so-called leaders - Obama was so panicked he had to go and play golf, leaving a mere woman in charge, proven to be completely inept at her job) and it appears the media are now recycling the old press release that also included the hurricane analogy.

Anyway, Mr. Nice-Guy Obama is just "The One" to permanently entrench a US dictatorship and make it look like he's doing Americans a favour.

As stated at What Really Happened:

These deaths are a tragedy for those families, but in truth are far less than the number of deaths (63,729 per year) from the normal seasonal flu, for which no national emergency is declared.

What do you suppose the chances are that the testing methods are just as iffy as the vaccines?

Mareta comments:

Supposedly a CBS "Investigative Report" says that H1N1 cases in US are over-estimated - which over-extends hospital and emergency services. Also they state that vaccinating everyone - even if they tested positive for H1N1 is a further waste of limited vaccine resources. But they also state that closing schools is costly and unnecessary, even though the virus is "spreading like wildfire". They do say that H1N1 is a serious virus, but they feel that so far, it is being over-exaggerated. {see here - it's the video at the bottom}

I am so cynical now. Are they naive or is this more disinformation? And this comes at the same time as POTUS's state of emergency. BTW he's fallen in the polls from 73% at election time to 53% now.

YYC: Well, when Bush was low in the polls he had the benefit of 9/11. Is this Obama's 9/11 or can we expect more and worse?

Related: YYC: Oct. 22 blog entry - (2) Obaaaama's Conflict of Interest?
Obama owns stock in several flu-related companies.

By definition ...

Thanks to Ron: A video of San Francisco activist reaction to the visit of Ehud Olmert:

Citizens arrest and mass disruption ...

This is what I call activism. All of these people knew they were risking arrest. A good definition of what is sometimes called "direct action" or "non-family friendly demonstration" is provided by Denis Rancourt, former prof. at the University of Ottawa: Activism and Risk - Life beyond altruism. In it he says: Risk is a hallmark of activism because activism seeks to redefine power structures. (You can see why the authoritarian university power structure thought it necessary to banish him from campus.)

In spite of the many disruptions and statements that he was a war criminal, Olmert was smug and comfortable, knowing that the force of the San Fran cops would take care of his opposition. But he won't look nearly so smug at the Hague.

Ah, who am I fooling .. he'll probably have a pre-trial heart attack or stroke and be too sick to attend. Isn't that how a lot of Nazis got out of being tried at Nuremberg?

This background article on Nuremberg describes the abject ordinariness of Ehud Olmert to a tee (emphasis mine):

No trial provides a better basis for understanding the nature and causes of evil than do the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1949. Those who come to the trials expecting to find sadistic monsters are generally disappointed. What is shocking about Nuremberg is the ordinariness of the defendants: men who may be good fathers, kind to animals, even unassuming--yet who committed unspeakable crimes. Years later, reporting on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt wrote of "the banality of evil." Like Eichmann, most Nuremberg defendants never aspired to be villains. Rather, they over-identified with an ideological cause and suffered from a lack of imagination or empathy: they couldn't fully appreciate the human consequences of their career-motivated decisions.

Revealing; but the most mind-boggling paragraph in that article is this one:

Churchill reportedly told Stalin that he favored execution of captured Nazi leaders. Stalin answered, "In the Soviet Union, we never execute anyone without a trial." Churchill agreed saying, "Of course, of course. We should give them a trial first."

Churchill to this day is revered as a man of substance, a rare statesman - but it was Stalin, of all people, who had to remind him that executions should not be carried out without a trial.

Which leads me to wonder again if even the Nuremberg trials were just for show - to give the appearance of seeking justice while some of the worst Nazis were spirited away to safe havens and jobs with the CIA. Remember the old joke: "Why did the Russians beat the US at rocket expertise? Because their German scientists were smarter than America's German scientists." And then there's Heisenberg, long suspected of trying to help Hitler build an A-bomb, was released by the British and returned home to continue his work in quantum physics, eventually being awarded the Nobel prize for physics.

"Was Albert Speer the mastermind of a cynical plot to fool the world?"( VIDEO) It's funny how it's a given that Stalin's communism produced show trials, but we can't admit the same of the West.

The clearest evidence of that is that no matter what forms of activism are employed, the underlying power structure continues to thrive, however benign it may appear on the surface. This is not to say, however, that one shouldn't be prepared to fight oppression where it is personally encountered - particularly in accepting the risks of non-compliance with "authority".

Just a reminder: Bahija Réghaï's very informative article on the Goldstone Report.

And speaking of the Goldstone Report: thanks to Daniel of PAJU we have this:

The right to self-defense: absolute for Israel, non-existent for Palestine

How bizarre! Virtually all of Israel denounces the Goldstone report and any attempt to blame Israel for the war in Gaza ... We Israelis are entitled to do whatever we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defence. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism.

Cry Freedom!

(1) Freedom of choice?

Gary Null Speaks Out at the NYS Assembly Hearing | 10-13-2009 |

In the 3-part video linked to below, Gary Null testifies before the NYS Assembly on Vaccine Safety, in no uncertain terms showing the panel how vaccines are damaging and killing people, and warning against the Swine Flu vaccine.

You may have heard of Null or seen his other videos; he has a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public health science and he's has been researching the vaccine/autism connection (See trailer for full length film: Autism: Made in the USA)

He's a really good speaker (he's also very good looking!) and he lays out in easy to understand terms how many drugs have gotten past the FDA regulations, how much it costs to make a drug compared to how much people pay for them, and also how many thousands of law suits have been settled but covered up (little wonder that Bush tried to make it illegal to sue the Pharming companies). Drug companies simply factor law suits into the "cost of doing business".

By the way, the US Supreme Court has ruled that Americans can sue the Pharmers "when they've been harmed by medications whose risks aren't adequately disclosed".

Null is very quotable - for instance, he says that by the WHO's criteria for the Swine Flu pandemic, the world has always been in a flu pandemic situation! No kidding, eh?

His closing statement about the freedoms America upholds is a zinger.

Part 1 .. Part 2 .. Part 3

If you want more of Gary Null, see this full length documentary video: Vaccine Nation

Now, see below how getting the flu shot is being sold to pre-schoolers by Sid the Science Kid! It also indoctrinates altruism which seems an odd dichotomy for a country that acts only in American interests around the world. Not so odd, though, when you consider it's a method of ensuring a future supply of cannon fodder, proving that American administrations don't even act in their own people's best interests.

This is the child-sized version of "Just getcher damn vaccine!"(video)

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(2) Academic Freedom?

PRESS RELEASE: U of O Student Appeal Centre Calls on Allan Rock to End Political Persecution of Criminally Charged Student

OTTAWA, October 21, 2009 – The Student Appeals Centre (SAC) of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO), a main body defending student rights at U of O, has publicly called on President Allan Rock to end his administration’s protracted repression of mathematics student Marc Kelly, by email and on its blog.

The SAC has asked Rock to instruct the university’s Legal Counsel to petition the Crown in favour of Kelly. According to the SFUO’s V.-P. University Affairs Ted Horton “the University has an institutional responsibility to enable the education of all its students.” Kelly is registered in a required course for his program of study but the university has been pressuring the student to stay off campus rather than favourably petition the Crown.

The SAC suggests that the Rock administration’s participation in generating several bogus criminal charges, constitutes reprisal against a vocal and political student (e.g., http://marckellypresident.blogspot.com). (End)

YYC: Former prof at Ottawa U., Denis Rancourt (fired for asserting his academic rights, and to whom Marc Kelly was a research assistant) writes about the Kelly case as well:

Math Student Between a Rock and a Hard Place
The suggestion appears to be that this outrageous situation (which is at odds with the United Nations UNESCO Recommendations on academic freedom) is reprisal in part for a bold and embattled student’s attempt to speak with President Allan Rock after months of unanswered attempts to be heard about mistreatment by a professor in a physics course ...

Related on YYC:
Ottawa U. Prof. and former student arrested
Professor Returns to Scene of Crime

Official policy: say one thing, do another ...

(1) Hands off my Messiah!

Thanks to John who comments: There is hope for us seniors yet!!

Internet use 'may improve brain function in adults', says UCLA study
Using the internet for just a few days alters our brains – and may help improve cognitive function in the elderly, according to new research.

Heck, just hunting for your specs will get your juices flowing (and your dander up), but it's nice to be reminded that the Internet is a good thing just when the CRTC is allowing throttling and increased fees, and the movement to "shape" our internet experience marches ahead.

I personally believe that the Internet is the Messiah, so it stands to reason they would try the crucifixion thing all over again. At the moment, I'm unable to access neutrality.ca (sup with that? have they been shaped to death?) but Google has some good information on the subject.

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(2) Obaaaama's Conflict of Interest?

Thanks to Mareta:

Barack Obama’s Top 10 Stocks – He Owns Stock In Gilead The Makers Of Tamiflu

Mareta comments: "Now THAT'S a conflict of interest if ever I seen one!"

OH MA!

Yeah, and CVA operates flu shot clinics

Not to mention that Amgen is a Pharming company.

It's quite likely that the doctors recommending the flu shot most loudly also own stock in the vaccine business. But presidents seem immune from everything.

Remember all that talk about the surge in stock put options just prior to 9/11? If there was a president or two (and a future president) among those speculators, that could explain why the names have never surfaced.

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(3) Israel and the U.S. - the penalties of pride?

From Daniel at PAJU:

BOOK REVIEW: Israel's terrorist roots
These were extremely odd gangsters, to be sure! Many were intellectuals, imbued with a messianic faith in Zionism and ready to commit both murder and suicide for their cause.

As they say, it takes one to know one. Strange, though, with all the bragging Israel does about its brainpower, its blooming deserts (sucking up everybody else's water and land in the process), its technology, it's "democracy", and the greatest, "most moral" military in the world, why are they so silent on their expertise in underground terrorism? You never hear them brag about their nuclear bombs either.

And then there's the big question about the U.S. : Is she is, or is she isn't the "most powerful nation in the world" ...

Death of 'Soul of Capitalism:' Bogle, Faber, Moore
20 reasons America has lost its soul and collapse is inevitable

No, not just another meltdown, another bear-market recession like the one recently triggered by Wall Street's too-greedy-to-fail banks. Faber is warning that the entire system of capitalism will collapse. Get it? The engine driving the great "American Economic Empire" for 233 years will collapse, a total disaster, a destiny we created.

Of course this could all be in aid of the Gold ETF trade, making people worry so much they get suckered into buying gold they don't really own. Personally, if capitalism collapses it will start all over again (with currencies reverting back to the gold standard?), greed being one of the prime motivators of the human species.

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(4) CO2 crisis? Official action not following official words.

Is greed motivating the global warming panic? Is China getting too big for its thongs? Well, it's officially moved into first place for "carbon emission".

Carbon Emission by Country

Except that these are merely estimates of carbon emission based on the overall energy consumption of each country. So the title is misleading.

A friend comments:

Yay! we can all point the finger at China! The only reason carbon emissions went down in the US is because they buy cheap crap from Chinese sweatshops instead of making it themselves.

Too bad to waste such a fancy chart on a load of hooey. It's pretty slick stuff - a very convenient untruth. :)

"Yes, yes, we must move quickly before you have a chance to think about it - NO, that's not it - we must move quickly to avoid global catatrophe - YEAH, that's it. (Dang that teleprompter....)"

It would be more believable if actions really did follow the words. But take a look at this:

Clotheslines banned in thousands of U.S. communities

Where is "powerWISE" David Suzuki when you really need him?

Which reminds me. Do you recall Suzuki warning about the coming ice age circa the 70's. Is he just another good old boy? I wouldn't know. I never watched him on TV; he seemed more like an entertainer than a scientist to me. But a Quebecker who was an avid fan is now accusing him of telling lies:

Global Warming and David Suzuki's Lies

Half Truths Man :
It's sad to see how a man I once admired has recently stooped to obfuscation, half-truths and outright lies in support of the Luddite cause of stopping technological progress. He imagines that we should return to some mythical past in which Mankind lived in harmony with nature.

Maybe he was an obfuscator all along? And not too pleasant when he's too closely questioned, apparently. Funny, I went to AM640 to see if I could get a link to the broadcast recording that works, and I saw a lot of other stuff there, but not the Suzuki temper tantrum. A little pressure applied, maybe? Too late, it's common knowledge around the Net.

Now take a look at this, in British Columbia, this time (that's currently a province in Canada):

Freeways Jam up Climate Plan

... the Climate Action Plan released last week, calls for reducing the number of kilometres travelled in vehicles as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But Gateway, which will widen Highway 1 in Metro Vancouver and twin the Port Mann Bridge, will inevitably increase vehicle kilometres travelled ...

Does it look as if anybody in the BC government really expects an oil and gas shortage any time soon? Not to mention the carbon factor? Wouldn't a good inducement to less energy consumption be to build more public transit lanes so that people have the means to escape freeway stomach ulcers, as well as saving both money and energy?

Fiber deficiency

The sad thing about intellect is that it knows big words like "obfuscation", but is not synonymous with courage and moral fiber, as evidenced by both the Harkat case in Ottawa and the so-called brain drain in Israel.

(1) Harkat case "damaged" by CSIS

Judge questions CSIS's disclosure in security certificate case

As a result, Judge Simon Noel said Tuesday, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service will have to open another top secret file to scrutiny by Harkat's special advocates ... "It is necessary to repair the damage done to the administration of justice," Noel wrote, "and re-establish the necessary climate of trust and confidence, which must be present in such an exceptional legal procedure."

The judge found CSIS hadn't lied; it had only presented agent witnesses in court who did not have all the facts. That's how dirty deeds are kept secret - the "need to know" factor; compartmentalizing who knows what. It may not be a lie according to law, but it works exactly like a lie.

It's a mystery that this case has not been declared a mistrial when the judge himself admits that damage was done to the administration of justice!

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(2) Israel needs money to buy brains

Netanyahu Starts Ball Rolling on Brain Drain
... the biggest concentration of Israeli faculty members in any one country is in 40 institutions of higher learning in the United States.

You have to be smart to be able to create a drain that flows backwards, although I doubt that many of those academics living in the States ever lived in Israel. It's true, however, that heads will not roll without a push.

The article in the French Arouts is longer and quotes Netanyahu giving the reasons for establishing this program. Here is the page translated by BabelFish/Google, and the relevant paragraph is a surprisingly good translation:

We are a small country but we have big pockets full of money among the Jews of the world and we have the Jewish mind. In Israel there are about seven universities and seven colleges, we must strengthen through these human resources are among the best in the world. In the U.S., there are funds that attract the best brains in the world. And to stress that Israel must do the same.

As Holy a Land as it is, everybody talking 'bout Israel ain't a-gwine dar (the wisdom of the old Negro spiritual). But I say, let those people go - especially the Dizzy Dershy (video) types - because then they can be academically boycotted from whence they emigrated.

I might even make a donation for something like that.

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(3) A surprising twist on the Israel boycott ...

... courtesy of Ottawa activist and writer Bahija Réghaï :

Call for boycott of Revlon from an unexpected source

Read it; you might be surprised to learn that Revlon is being squeezed from both sides. Is Israel really a democracy when it's run by ultra-orthodox rules and restrictions? Some Israelis don't think so.

NOTE: Bahija's latest article: "UN endorses Goldstone: Can Israel now be held to account?" is available here. It's an excellent reference resource on the Goldstone Report.

Related: What is Chabad?

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(4) Olmert confronted by New Orleans Palestine Solidarity

Thanks to Ron: Here's a photo report of a direct action protest that took place on the occasion of Ehud Olmert's visit to New Orleans. It takes guts to risk arrest, especially if you're young and new to the whole protest scene. The students who infiltrated Olmert's talk are to be congratulated. They are definitely not fiber deficient.

We can't get there from here

I can't express enough gratitude for the contributions of readers, because some articles, such as the one discussed below by "Ana", just leave me more or less speechless.

Hahaha ... God doesn't like the "way-back" machine.

Maybe the scientists just simply don't know what they are doing?

Some of the comments are good, especially about HG Wells: in the article it states that the idea of the atomic bomb, came from a piece of fiction by Wells. But a comment states: "HG Wells WAS a scientist"

I didn't know that.

Wikipedia: The following year, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science (later the Royal College of Science in South Kensington, now part of Imperial College London) in London, studying biology under Thomas Henry Huxley.

That explains a lot. *

Anyway, I think it's very funny this article - it's the "Time Machine" paradox (also by Wells **). The scientist can't travel into the past and save his fiance from death because it is her death that causes him to build the machine in the first place. The existence of the machine and thus his ability to go into the past is absolutely dependent on her death.

BTW, I've never read this (although I plan to) but Wells wrote another book called "The Shape of Things to Come"

From Wiki: As a frame story, Wells claims that the book is his edited version of notes written by an eminent diplomat, Dr. Philip Raven, who had been having dream visions of a history textbook published in 2106, and wrote down what he could remember of it.

Wells predicted a Second World War breaking out with a European conflagration erupting from the flashpoint of a violent clash between Germans and Poles at Danzig (which is what indeed eventually happened). Wells set the date for this in January 1940 (it actually happened in September 1939).

From this point the war develops quite differently: Poland proves the military match of Nazi Germany and - rather than being quickly overwhelmed, as would happen in the actual war - engages in an inconclusive war lasting ten years. More countries are eventually dragged into the fighting, but not as many as would be involved in the actual war (France and the Soviet Union are only marginally involved, Britain remains neutral, the US fights inconclusively with Japan and does not get involved in Europe).

The war drags on until 1950 and ends with no victor but total exhaustion, collapse and disintegration of all fighting states (and also of the neutral countries, also affected by the deepening economic crisis). Europe and the whole world descend into chaos: nearly all central governments break down, and a devastating plague in 1956-57 kills a large part of humanity and almost destroys civilization.

Wells then envisages a benevolent dictatorship—'The Dictatorship of the Air' (a term likely modeled on 'The Dictatorship of the proletariat')—arising from the controllers of the world's surviving transportation systems (the only people with global power). This dictatorship promotes science, enforces Basic English as a global lingua franca, and eradicates all religion, setting the world on the route to a peaceful utopia. When the dictatorship chooses to murder a subject, the condemned persons are given a chance to take a poison tablet.

Eventually, after a century of re-shaping humanity, the dictatorship is overthrown in a completely bloodless coup, the former rulers are sent into a very honourable retirement, and the world state "withers away" (as was predicted by Friedrich Engels in his 1877 work Anti-Duhring). The last part of the book is a detailed description of the Utopian world which emerges, in some ways reminiscent of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. The ultimate aim of this Utopian world is to produce a world society composed entirely of Polymaths, each and every one of its members the intellectual equal of the greatest geniuses of the past.

Gosh, world war, devastating plague, benevolent dictatorship, global English, global economic crisis, breakdown of central governments, eradication of religion, promotion of science - all leading to Utopia where everyone is a peaceful genius ... wow, Wells really was in the inside loop wasn't he?

You know that part of what the elite is promoting is the idea that people will learn all their lives long - for free - through university courses on the internet. Jacques Fresco talks about this too - people living lives of robot-supported luxury and intellectual growth in his funky little futuristic pod cities. But he says this requires a severe change in thinking - social engineering.

I see this programming all the time, now: global citizenship, birth control and health care rationing as an expression of what is best for society rather than the individual. I see it in the kids school books. I see it in my youngest son's citizenship course at school.

The big guys clearly weren't happy with the results they got from the second world war and this is why they have created all of this turmoil now, and will likely drag us kicking and screaming into world war three in the hopes of finally breaking down resistance to global governance and the giving up of national identity.

I have to wonder, though, just who is this Fresco / Wells - inspired funky utopian future world really for? For the 500,000,000 souls lucky enough to be considered worthy of it, I suppose.

Personally, I would be very happy to live in a lovely little pod looking out over beautiful green space knowing that there was lots of room in the world for nature to live and reproduce. I would love to have minimal household chores and spend my days reading, ruminating, meditating, discussing, drawing and writing. Truthfully - although I am very happy with my life - if I were to start again, I would be just as happy to limit my family to 1 or 2 kids - if their survival was assured, their intellectual capacity and health were protected and I was promised this utopian lifestyle.

Too bad that humanity has to go through such shit instead.

* "Ana" has a background in biology.

** H.G. Wells' many books can be read online or downloaded. The list is found at Books Online.

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YYC: Maybe God wants the machine to head into the future instead, so that we can see the result of our current actions and mend our ways. Since there is no such thing as time, everything that is, was or will be already exists, so, if reports of alien abductions are true, maybe the aliens are we, having finally got permission from our Creator to move backward on the continuum and recover the DNA we mutated all to hell through indiscriminate use of technology. Just a thought - a weird one admittedly.

I want to read Well's book called: The New World Order - Whether it is attainable, how it can be attained, and what sort of world a world at peace will have to be. Especially the section entitled: Politics for the Sane Man. (I will assume that includes sane women.)

But maybe we've already been sucked into that "black hole capable of swallowing the Earth"? Well, at least I still have my view of the gorgeous treetops and the germaniacs flourishing (despite, or maybe because of, my absent-minded neglect) in the picturesque clay pots on my balcony - unless there is something in Bill C-6 that prohibits them.

Dedroidify! Dedroidify! (apologies to H.D. Thoreau)