From YYC's mailbox

Ottawans:

Sophie Harkat writes:

This Monday, February 1st, 2010 Mohamed Harkat begins his own testimony in the Security Certificate hearing. Please come and pack the courtroom to give Moe your support. He really needs it. He will be on the stand for at least 3 days, followed by our experts the rest of week and the following one. The hearing is on until February 12th.

Court starts at 9:45am. We typically break from 12:30-1:45pm and resume until 4:30pm. Come in and out as you wish. Come for an hour or whenever you can !

Please tell others. We want to pack the courtroom for Moe on Monday! East Courtroom Supreme Court of Canada building at 301 Wellington St.

Thanks for your continued support. Thanks also to those who attended the hearing the past two weeks.

Sophie Harkat

For more info. www.justiceforharkat.com or Harkat updates on facebook and twitter. Facebook group: HarkatUpdates
Follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HarkatUpdates

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From Donald P. (Ottawa):

Listen to a report on Dr. Hassan Diab’s case recently aired on the Carleton Midweek program. Listed under: Interviews with Members of Dr. Diab’s Support Committee

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From Mareta (Spain):

Latest corbett report
Amazon rainforest data madeup, climatologists, secret banking cabal becomes mainstream, Osama - alive and well and blames US for AGW.

YYC: Almost got me bothered with that Osama alive and well thing. But Corbett makes it clear that's only what the tapes are trying to get across.

Here's the Bloomberg article about secret banking cabals going mainstream and wondering if "conspiracy theorists" are crazy after all.

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From Ted (Newfoundland):

The H1N1 vaccine has come back to bite at least two people in Ontario. The doctors diagnosed her with Guillain-Barre syndrome. A husband and wife who got the shot 2 days apart at the same doctor's office. Now,that they probably already signed the waiver they have hit a bureaucratic brick wall. The next door neighbour had this to say.

Her 80-year-old neighbour is equally convinced that the H1N1 vaccine to blame. “It must have been a bad batch,” Gibson believes. “But nobody is saying anything. I know I signed a piece of paper and there’s no liability but it’s pretty scary.”

How many more will have health issues as time goes on.

YYC: Shades of 1976. A teenaged boy reportedly (video) contracted the same syndrome in November. From the ChronicalWatch:

This vaccination program is starting to look like 1976 all over again where the vaccine is more dangerous than the actual flu... Yet while the actual number of individuals who are permanently disabled from the vaccine is unknown, the manufactures of the vaccine and federal officials will have complete legal immunity from any misfortunes that occur from the swine flu vaccination even though the pharmaceutical companies say they are looking for windfall profits from this flu season.

In the video they have a nice doctor lying about how the disease is far worse than the risks from the vaccine.

The health risks of many joint ventures between our government and the military/industrial complex that Ike Eisenhower warned us about are not a concern because it's all circumstantial evidence which can just be denied:

DND denies blame for cancer in Shannon, Que.
Government answers lawsuit over contaminated water near base

Wherever there's a military base, there is ground pollution, and wherever there is ground pollution there is water pollution. And the military are everywhere. People whose lives are sacrificed for "the greater good" on the home front should at least get medals and their families receive the same compensation that military families get.

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From John (Manitoba) - two ZCom links:

Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians?

President Obama failed to learn one of the basic lessons taught by Hurricane Katrina: You can't solve a humanitarian problem by throwing guns at it. Before the president had finished insisting that "my national security team understands that I will not put up with any excuses," Haiti's fate was sealed. National security teams prioritize national security, an amorphous and expensive notion that has little to do with keeping Haitian citizens alive.

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As Olympics near, people in Vancouver are dreading Games

"I just can't believe I wanted this a year ago ... I voted for it in the plebiscite. But now, yes. I'm disillusioned." This disillusion is developing as the financial burden of the Games becomes public.

2010 Watch

VIDEO: All out against the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

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From D. Rancourt (Ottawa)

UofOgate: IT COULD HAPPEN ON YOUR CAMPUS

Student hired to spy on students - Extensive cover up by top executives at the University of Ottawa...

"A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrong-doing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information. The expression is usually applied to people in authority who abuse their power to avoid or silence criticism. Those who cover up may be those responsible for a misdeed or their allies, or simply people with an interest in silencing criticism."
-Wikipedia

See also links to latest related student media stories here:

Please report these important development regarding student civil and political rights.

Denis Rancourt
former physics professor, University of Ottawa
http://rancourt.academicfreedom.ca/

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From Linda (Ottawa): "Rule by the Rich" applies to Canada too ... the talk of economic recovery is just that - talk. Its purpose is to give the corporations and banksters time to squeeze more money out of the rest of us. The whole system is disfunctional and the remedies being applied are more of what caused the problem in the first place.

Voters perceive that Obama’s administration has morphed into a Bush-Cheney government. Obama has reneged on every promise he made, from ending wars, to closing Gitmo, to providing health care for Americans, to curtailing the domestic police state, to putting the interests of dispossessed Americans ahead of the interests of the rich banksters who robbed Americans of their homes and pensions.