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.

BIO-ADVERSITY

Margaret in Europe reminds us that this the International Year of Biobdiversity ("with a little climate change thrown in") and points us to these two counterbalancing websites:

UN-REDD
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries

REDD (from the Indigenous Environmental Network)
Reaping profits from Evictions, Land Grabs, Deforestation and Destruction of Biodiversity

Margaret writes:

It's interesting that slash and burn agriculture, practised for centuries and historically praised as being a sustainable form of agriculture is seriously under fire now.

And that nasty overpopulation problem creeps in again as the cause:

"...this system worked well when there was ample time for native vegetation regrowth, typically five or more years for each year of cropping. But population increases and food needs have decreased the forest period of the cycle so much that slash and burn is no longer effective."

The solution - Conservation agriculture

Essentially - slash and burn is no longer sustainable because there are so many people and so much food demand that the soil doesn't have time to recover. The answer is fertiliser and the planting of "food security" crops such as (in Zambia, for example) cassava and fruit trees and encouraging the farmers to grow crops for the biofuels market.

Hmmm...

They do mention livestock farmers - I can see the issue here is actually property rights and rights to resources. I guess what they want is someone in charge of the forest to mete it out in chunks to people so that they can grow "approved" crops such as fertiliser-dependent biofuels and a few food crops on the side to ward off starvation with the inevitable dips in the global economy.

Overall, it sounds like they want everyone out of the forest because the trees are more valuable left standing (the carbon offsets industry) and who cares about feeding a bunch of people who really shouldn't be there anyway, right?

No one is allowed to grow rich off the forest except those who manage it - the corporations that cater to the "needs" of the elite.

I remember years ago saying to myself that no one will save the rain forest unless it becomes a commodity - worth more intact than clear cut for profit. I hoped for a scheme that went more along the lines of "IF the world wants us to not cut down our rainforest then the world should reimburse us for the lost potential economic benefit." I always imagined a scheme (this was back when I believed that governments cared about people) that used this money to invest in education and technology to help people out of poverty and into meaningful work.

The countries with rain forest could have enriched their countries and their people but their leaders, it seems they chose instead to sell out to the corporations in order to feather their own nests.

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From John (Manitoba): An article relating to the perils inflicting agriculture as we once knew it:

John says: "So much for our Canadian food safety and exports."

Monsanto and Dow bring Smartstax corn to you whether you want it or not.

Summary: On July 15, 2009 Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences announced that they received approval to introduce their new eight-trait GE corn ‘SmartStax’ into Canada and the US. But Health Canada did not assess ‘SmartStax’ for human health safety and did not even bother to authorize it. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency authorized the environmental release of ‘SmartStax’ but never conducted an environmental risk assessment and actually substantially weakened its environmental stewarship rules for the crop. Because the eight traits have previously been approved in separate crops, Canadian regulators do not see anything new in combining the eight together in one crop – despite the fact that the Codex international food safety guidelines that Canada helped to negotiate clearly state that stacked traits can lead to unintended effects and should be subject to a full safety assessment.

YYC: Be sure to check out the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) if you're interested in participating in actions against the biotech industry.

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The destruction of agriculture and the resulting genocide is almost universal.

From John:

Securing Disaster in Haiti

... in order to set the country on the road toward "economic development," they have driven large numbers of small farmers off their land and into densely crowded urban slums. [ ... ]

[After the earthquake] World Food Program flights were turned away by U.S. commanders on Thursday and Friday, the New York Times reported, "so that the United States could land troops and equipment, and lift Americans and other foreigners to safety." Many other aid flights met a similar fate ...

YYC: So, it's "Biodiversity Year", and we still think the UN might be a reputable organization.

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Extra, Extra:

MacKay promises landing strip for UFOs

When the government goons start jeering, you know for sure there's something serious going on.

I've just now remembered an old YYC entry from a year ago:
UFOs going mainstream in Canada
Does anybody wonder why UFOs are suddenly a news topic in the Canadian mainstream? Is it because copy sales have slumped, or does something this way come?

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Yesterday I said that from his SOU speech, Obama appears able to make promises easily because they're all in some vague future when the economy settles down. Well, here's confirmation of that:

Rahm Emanuel thinks health care reform can wait. In an interview with the New York Times, Emanuel suggested that Congress would deal first with jobs, then banking regulation, and then circle back around to health care reform.
Read More ...

The concept of affordable health care just does not sit well with the theory of over-population. Personally, I'm starting to get a little nervous about all this shutting down of business on the pretext of focusing on the economy, both in the US and Canada.

Image borrowed from Stop the Robbery

(1) Eye on the Sky

Ted (Newfoundland) continues to keep us updated on the UFO incident:

Now we have the missus who took the photo saying the RC-"It Was Something"-MP contradicting each other. The plot thickens.

An RCMP officer initially confirmed to Pardy in two telephone conversations that it was indeed a missile, she said. "He said the military was made aware of this," Pardy explained, adding he told her a missile or missiles were launched from nearby St-Pierre-Miquelon, which is French territory.

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(2) O-bahhhhhh-ma

Ted writes:

Just thought you might like to scan this latest one from Arthur Kent and read what he sees as the most lame brain of ideas yet on how to win the war in Aghanistan.

West Resigned to Bribery as Taliban Prepare for Victory

Listen closely through the din of disinformation in London, and you can almost hear the voices of the dead. We gave our lives for this?

YYC: Thanks, Ted, for giving me the excuse to wade into Obama's SOU address.

First, I still maintain the real Taliban are sitting in Karzai's government. The ones they call "the Taliban" are just people, religious or not, who want the foreigners out of their country.

All that's really required is a way to secure the pipeline and allow access to Afghanistan's natural resources. Creating a cohort of Afghan strongarms and giving them a cut of the profits in return for policing the impoverished majority might allow the US to move its troops on to greater conquests elsewhere. And our Canadian troops will simply move with them (Obama mentioned "tough trade rules" for "Colombia, Panama, North Korea" so watch for hostilities in those places, and he's already moved 20,000 US troops into the South American region under the guise of helping Haiti, and Canada has moved an additional thousand troops there now).

Harper knew this when he proposed his deadlines, designed only to shut up the anti-war movement.

Obama didn't talk about Afghanistan in his State of the Union address (basically the same old-same old, chicken in every pot, tattered and worn presidential rhetorical sop dressed up in an expensive, spiffy new suit). Obviously he doesn't like to mention wars he can't say have been "won".

He did say that the troops will "begin" to come home from Iraq "by the end of this office", which could be seven years from now. In fact, many of Obama's proposed solutions are not scheduled to be put in place until other conditions have been met, such as when "the economy is stronger".

He's a cagey dude. He changes his tone of voice as he offers a particular sop, and then pauses, which is a cue to his audience of automatons to applaud enthusiastically (got to keep his ratings up so they'll get re-elected themselves), and that's all designed to get you so excited over the wonderful "change" he's offered you don't notice the subtle escape routes he installs for himself soon after.

(At one point Nancy Pelosi anticipated a promise and failed to wait for Obama's cue. She obviously had already read - or helped compose - his speech, judging from the way she jumped to her feet and started applauding before he'd had a chance to even articulate the promise.)

He also blames the media and partisanship politics for the fact that there have been no positive changes yet, establishing for himself yet another excuse.

The facts are these: that the wars and the bailouts have cost everything the US has in tax revenue from all of its sources. There is no money for anything that Obama proposes to benefit Americans. Michel Chossudovsky, Economist and Director of Global Research, brought this out in his lecture at Ottawa U. two days ago.

The money for home programs has to be borrowed from the banks - the same banks he just bailed out with taxpayer money! - and this gives the banks the right to tell Obama he has to cut costs.

Sure enough, Obama made it clear in his speech that costs will be cut. So it's to his advantage that "partisan" politics (as if there is really any difference between the parties now) prevent him from carrying out his elaborate promises, while he fronts for a group of vicious Malthusian war mongers whose plan is to rid the world of "useless eaters" and make the wealthy even more wealthy and infinitely more powerful.

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From BeeSting:

The source of the power of the American presidency - THE BOMB:

The commander-in-chief was a neglected cause of the Constitution up until World War II. Because what the Constitution says is that the president is the commander-in-chief of the military forces and of the militias when they are called into national service, which only Congress can do, by the way. So he's not my commander-in-chief. He's not your commander-in-chief. And yet, the language has now grown up that he is. That's part of this whole militarization of the office.

YYC: In his speech Obama prated about nuclear agreements with Russia to "secure all vulnerable nuclear materials so they don't fall into the hands of terrorists". Talk about cryptic! All we know for sure is that the US doesn't want Iran to have nuclear materials. Concerning nuclear energy, Obama said the US "must lead in clean energy".

I said a year ago, when Obama visited Canada, that when he talks about "safe, clean energy" he is talking about nuclear energy:

... all that talk about "clean" energy in relation to electricity can mean only one thing - nuclear - and that's been in the works for a long time too in both countries. Obama gave it away when he said that "carbon capture [from burning coal for electricity] is not cost-effective". And it's no secret why our First Nations people are out protesting the revival of uranium mining in Canada.

And he has now confirmed that loudly and clearly in his SOU speech.

Michel Chossudovsky pointed out this: that there are tactical weapons many times stronger than the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which are now considered to be conventional weapons. And it's easy for Obama to come across as a peacemaker when he talks about zero nuclear because he knows full well it won't happen while he's in office, nor likely even in his lifetime, and that he is shooting the bull bigtime in order to charm, mollify, and above all distract.

He's not black; he's Irish. Full of blarney, smooth of tongue, smug in the certainty he can charm the hind leg off a mule.

The US "must lead", period, even if it means being the greatest threat on the planet.

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(3) Haiti

In case you missed it, BeeSting left a comment on an earlier post with a link to an article asking Was the earthquake in Haiti caused by the United States?

I am reminded that there is a HAARP installation in Peru and I'm not the only one who's aware of that.

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Ted writes:

Just when I think I've seen it all, along comes a story with the words, TRANSPARENT, ACCOUNTABLE, HARPER, CLINTON all wrapped up in a 2&1/2 line paragraph.

“Prime Minister Harper and former president Clinton both agreed on the importance of establishing a transparent and accountable mechanism to oversee the delivery of aid and reconstruction funds ..."

Haven't these poor unfortunate Haitian souls been through enough already.

YYC: Harper is more and more revealing what many of us have known about him all along - that he is a US puppet and an expert liar. Mind you, if Ignatieff were PM, it would be he and Clinton and transparency and accountability cancelling one another out - in other words an oxymoron with any other name smells just as putrid.

It might be of small comfort to visit this spoof of the World Economic Forum website where more honest words are put into Harper's mouth. Scrolll down the page to see the videos at the bottom.

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(4) 9/11

9/11 Truthers should take note that Obama made it perfectly clear in his SOU speech, when he talked about "security", that there will be no re-opening of any inquiry.

His exact words were: "I'm not interested in re-litigating the past".

He promises he will "strengthen security", and that Al Qaeda is being killed "by the hundreds". And where have we heard that before?

ACTION REQUEST

From Daniel at PAJU:

Cinema Montreal is an influential website that gives listings and ratings on films. RACHEL opens tomorrow. Clearly, Pro-Israel people will give the movie very low ratings in the hope of preventing movie goers from seeing RACHEL and from learning the truth about Israel's oppression of the people of Gaza.

The more reviews we get that rate it high the better, since it will encourage more people to see it.

So please do the following:

1) See RACHEL without delay.

2) go to http://www.cinemamontreal.com

3) click "Search by Theatre" and choose AMC for English reviews and Cinema du Parc for French reviews. You can do review of both the French & English version of the film.

4) Click on the film "RACHEL".

5) Click on "Reviews".

6) "Select your rating" for RACHEL - and please be generous in your scoring.

7) Write a review that will make viewers want to see the film.

8) Add in the details required (age, M/F, email address) and submit your review/reviews.

Please encourage other people to write reviews too. If the film gets a high scoring, more people will see it and learn from it.

Thanks & best regards!

Daniel

IN MEMORY OF HOWARD ZINN

... who died yesterday, aged 87.

If you don't know of Howard Zinn, or would like to re-enjoy his words of activist wisdom, there is a good selection of videos on Google.

NL Sky Mystery

UPDATE FROM TED: (3:45 PM)

The Prime Minister's office has waded into the rocket launch mystery over the Burin Peninsula earlier this week. The Press Secretary for the Prime Minister's Office says there is no indication that there was ever a rocket launch. The PMO goes on to explain that the area is fequented by model rocket hobbyists, and the photo circulating may be a model rocket launch. VOCM

Well now lookie here. If the RC "it was something" MP knew that, what harm would it have been to say so and get a few of the hobbyists to do an interview with local media. Jeez even DND could have said that. This is rural NL. Anything out of the ordinary, like hobbyists firing missiles,would have been general knowledge by now.

I don't believe the PMO for a second.These hobbyists would love nothing better than to get their 15 minutes of fame and their mugs on local TV. Hogwash to the extreme from the PMO. What's it gonna be next, someone telling us it was Bruce Cockburn doing a new version of, "If I Had A Rocket Launcher".

YYC: I like the way you think, Ted. Common sense is all that's needed to see through the garbage we're constantly fed.

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Today I want ... want? ... will use some of my blog time to watch Obama's (long, the better to mesmerize) State of the Union address.

Meanwhile, Ted (Newfoundland) has been doggedly pursuing the UFO case (see his initial report (Item 2) of a strange phenomenon in the Newfoundland sky).

It's not the first time Newfoundland-Labrador has seen weird things in the sky. Here are some Google videos attesting to that.

Ted updates us on the latest:

The UFO issue has been solved. Well kind of. The RCMP had this to say.

"We confirmed that it was something," Sgt. Wayne Edgecombe.

Well it looks like the UFO, maybe Ballistic Missile SSS (3) is getting the usual run around from the powers that be. As mentioned ... the RCMP said it was something. He referred people to DND who referred people back to RCMP and Public Safety Canada is pretty much saying they (Government of Canada) are aware, which again is pretty much the same as, yes it was something.

Meanwhile a report by the Agence France-Presse is reporting French ballistic missile testing launched from the Atlantic Ocean was termed a success. The story outlines that firing of the M51 missile from a submarine went as planned. The ballistic missile is capable of flying 5 thousand miles. A story in the Globe and Mail from 2 years ago indicated that Canada was against the missile testing and had voiced its protest. Canada argued the testing could threaten regional air traffic.

As you will notice it doesn't say where in the Atlantic Ocean it was launched from. But if these 3 objects were M-51 Ballistic Missiles ... Someone should tell us Newfoundlanders & Labradorians and Canadians just what the hell is going on in our backyard.

YYC: Ted means "other" Canadians, I'm sure. NL hasn't seceded yet - that I'm aware of. :-)

Contacting Petie MacKay's office is not likely to yield information; we all know he knows nothing about anything.

We three ...

I'm off to attend a lecture by Michel Chossudovsky at Ottawa U. entitled: "War and the Economic Crisis". In the meantime, here are some interesting contributions from John, Ted, et Moi.

(1) John

Finally somebody is getting down to the nitty gritty on Haiti.

From John (Manitoba):

What's Really Going On In Haiti?

For one thing, why was an earthquake of this magnitude not felt beyond Port-au-Prince? (The only reports saying tremors were felt out of Haiti belong to US-controlled sources.) All of the testimonies that I have read from people living in the adjoining country of the Dominican Republic (which shares the same island with Haiti) that were quoted by French, British, or Spanish outlets universally say they felt nothing. If the foreign press is reporting the story accurately, the devastation was almost exclusively contained in and around Port-au-Prince. That is very strange to me. Even most of the roads reportedly remained open after the quake.

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(2) Ted

Wow, Ted (Newfoundland) been busy finding interesting stuff. Imagine the CBC using the term UFO in a serious news report!

Ted says:

Sure looks like some kind of missile to me. Definitely not an aircraft. People are saying the UFO may have been missiles from a ship or sub. meteorites,re-entry of space junk,lady on CBC NL this evening said it was 3 not 1 UFO's.

Ted continues:

I don't know if you saw yesterday that Steve Fonyo had been stripped of his Order of Canada.And maybe he deserved to be because of several problems with the law.

On the other hand we have one Conrad Black also convicted and who renounced his Canadian citizenship who gets to keep his.

Also listened to an interview Norwegian Mads Gilbert, currently doing a tour of North America, was one of only two foreign doctors allowed in Gaza during the Israeli attack in the winter of 2009.Here is a guy who challenges Israel to prove what he is saying is lies.No proof coming yet though.

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(3) Et Moi

Here's something that is not going to sit well with the US and the US-allied upper crust in Venezuela who would like to see Chavez ousted so they can go back to profiting off the backs of the poor:

Venezuelan state oil firm Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, on Tuesday signed a joint venture oil deal with Italy's ENI (ENI) to develop the Junin 5 block in the eastern Orinoco region.

Is the student uprising over the closing of a TV station spontaneous, or instigated?

Most "democratic" countries have laws that require fair access to broadcast media during election periods. I wonder what would happen to a Canadian station that allowed attack ads against a party while refusing to allow that party to state its own position.

20,000 US troops on the shores of Haiti, located between Cuba and Venezuela! Is that where Armageddon will take place? Strange that CTV's W5 used that term to describe the Haiti earthquake.

And National Geographic is going all "end of days" on us with "2012: Countdown to Armageddon".

But Armageddon is not an earthquake, nor is it a polar shift. It is a war, a gawd-offal bloody war. Sanctioned by Jesus, who doesn't really love all the little children of the world. Apparently, he's going to be right in there swinging.

Looks like the Blue Beam Project is going to be both the Second Coming and an alien invasion, and we are currently being set up to Believe.

General Ruminations ...

Will endemic corruption suck away aid to Haiti?

They had to ask? I have zero respect for a media outlet that states the obvious reason there are so many poor in Haiti while studiously ignoring how they got such a corrupt government, Haiti's recent history, and Canada's ongoing role there in helping to quell the resulting dissent.

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N.L. MP thinks pieing should be investigated under legal definition of terrorism

And some people think the Liberals are better than the Conservatives. They are also the ones who first used the Security Certificate against Muslim immigrants to show off to the US that they were helping to fight the fake war on terror.

Remember the good old days when rotten tomatoes were thrown at and expected by stumping politicians? Is that why they have systematically killed local agriculture?

No doubt they will find shoes, bottles of liquid, and underwear in the homes of the PETA members when they search their premises. (The foregoing quip was stolen.) And a law will soon be passed banning the purchase of cream pies. In future, police provocateurs will have to train at pastry camps.

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From John (Manitoba):

Could Vancouver 2010 be next 9/11?

YYC: Some of the reasoning is a bit dubious, but a lot of it isn't, and I am intrigued by the news that Whistler is now owned by Wall Street.

Creditors who have lent $1.4 billion US to the ski resort's owners, Intrawest ULC, have effectively seized control of the company and are attempting to auction off its assets.

The WTC changed hands in July 2001. Coincidence? Or red herring.

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Vancouver police urge sexual predator to turn himself in

They're going after a single perp on the strength of three radically different sketches of him. And they're off! (video)

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Two men charged after 45 rabbits found in old bus

The ones the rescuers didn't kill are being sliced into, punctured and pumped full of toxins, then condemned to a life of torture and neglect as the pets of little kids.

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Patient's death spurs paramedic training

Aside from the implications of a poorly constructed headline (what? paramedics have had no training?), this whole affair is sad evidence that even when immobilized by heart attacks, citizens are automatically assumed to be potential threats in these days of media-induced terror illusion. Before you know it, paramedics will be demanding to be outfitted with Tasers.

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French set to ban niqab on public transport

By now you know of my general disdain for the external trappings of religious belief. Still, the person in the news photo could be mistaken for any one of millions of Canadians on the coldest days of winter.

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Speaking of lifting the veil, last night I watched this David Icke video. It's a good overview, explained in clear, logical order, of who controls our lives from the top of a pyramid - like the one you see on the US dollar.

It's also a good boost spiritually, a reminder that we are all part of the same whole, and that we attract what we expect from others. Don't worry, he doesn't mention aliens or serpents in this lecture. He does talk about herd mentality, however, and don't think the representatives we think we elect aren't dumb sheep themselves.

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Regional powers back Afghanistan's Taliban plan

"Those Taliban who were not part of terrorist networks or Al-Qaeda are the sons of the Afghan soil," Karzai told reporters. "They are thousands and thousands and thousands and they have to be reintegrated."

If the Taliban had played ball with the US in the first place and taken money to allow their country's resources to be stolen out from under the people, there might not have been a war. In other words, despite all of the propaganda about how we are "helping" to bring freedom to women and girls, nobody in power really cares about the religious restrictions placed on women in Afghanistan, as long as money can be made.

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch (oh, sorry that was GWB wasn't it):

Germany plans Afghan troop increase

And more aid money. It'll go to NGOs, of course, who will pretend to use it for the benefit of Afghans.

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Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria are accusing each other of starting the recent clashes in which hundreds of people were killed in and around the city of Jos in Plateau state.

This tells me that there's a middleman.

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Obama says Bin Laden tape shows al-Qaeda 'weakened'

And he said security measures introduced since the 11 September 2001 attacks had made the US "much safer".

So, if another false flag event occurs this year it won't be in the States because Obama can't be wrong, can he?

He says the underwear bomber was not necessarily a Bin Laden stunt. Did he learn that from the bloggers?

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Here's a long rant by an academic who's disappointed in Obama:

Now I'm Really Getting Pissed Off

This guy learned nothing from the bloggers. And there's nothing more pathetic than a political science teacher who isn't clued in to the global agenda.

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Canadian Policy: The Jerusalem effect

One must wonder why the Government of Canada feels the need to by-pass the Canadian electorate and announce changes in its policy relating to Israel/Palestine through Israeli media: these announcements should have been made in Canada because they have a profound impact on Canadian interests and need to be debated in Canada.

You'd almost think the Harper crew have a good idea what Canadians would do if we knew everything they're doing.

BREAKING ...

From Ron (who wishes):

CNN: Troops storm Canadian Parliament, reinstate democracy

Gen. Hillier - 'we arrested that Harperite "terrorist scumbag" Jason Kenney'

Ottawa, January 26, 2010 from our correspondent Mary Maleine - In a daring pre-dawn raid, troops from Canada's Princess Patricia Battalion based in Petawawa descended upon Parliament Hill dressed up as MPs to reclaim the House of Commons and reinstate representative democracy which had recently been shut down by anti-democratic Blue Shirt Harperite terrorists.

Several Harperite terrorists were arrested during the raid, including well known vestal virgin and Harperite Minister Jason "Adolf" Kenney, who was nabbed on a slow moving OC Transpo Bus while trying to escape disguised as a member of the order of the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart of Montreal.

Kenny seen here threatening the bus driver minutes before his arrest:


Nun/cops image borrowed from here.

Monday Muses

What would I do without colleagues who spark my juices? (How's that for some kind of weird, possibly life-threatening mixed metaphor?)

(1) Movie Reviews

From Greg Felton:

If you haven't had to misfortune to see Quentin Tarantino?s torture fantasy [Inglourious Basterds], don't worry. Here?s a review that explains why you shouldn't waste your money.

YYC: Seen the film. Fully concur. It's revolting, though for me not quite as disturbing as Schindler's List - I lasted only 45 minutes before walking out on that. The saving feature of IG was that Brad Pitt is not a good character actor, so his part was not as believable as it would have been if, say, Al Pacino had played it.

This type of film is what I call Jewish porn - snuff films with a little sex on the side. If that's what some Jews are dreaming about, god help their souls.

Tom Cruise can't do characters, either. Both he and Pitt were laughable in that vampire film I forget the name of. I'm astounded at what appears to be an out-of-control appetite for blood and gore in movie goers these days. It does not bode well for the general sanity.

Avatar, which Greg's review predicts is the big Oscar winner this year, was a poor takeoff on Quest for Fire with a hefty slice of Dances with Wolves thrown in, but at least it didn't have wall to wall "F" words (do movie-makers even know that it's possible to make an absorbing, enjoyable or at least interesting movie without a single "F" in it?) or too much gore, and I loved the part where they flew through the skies on the backs of those huge birds.

But, naturally the poor "savages" couldn't get along without their American hero, and naturally the ecologists were more interested in getting "samples" of the flora and fauna than in stopping the rape of the resources of planet Pandora.

By the way, remember how a big deal was made out of the fact that the movie "2012" mentioned the 2010 Olympics in an ominious way? Avatar mentions Venezuela in the same manner.

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(2) The Rogue marches on

From Beesting:

"Canada was involved in the creation of the human rights process at the United Nations and we do not believe that those institutions, that the principles of the UN Declaration on Human Rights were meant to be perverted and used against democracies, were meant to be used by regimes who prey on an ancient hatred in order for their own political reasons.” The Canadian Charger

Glad to hear this... Why HIS government (NOT the people's, as it should, because our largely acquiescent representatives are dismissed at will... twice for being a nuisance) stifling the debate on torture and refusing to produced documents that they were ordered to had out? failing to protect workers' rights against big business in the case of companies that go under? the list goes on... others will add to it. Check out the Lind cartoon while there: This bright Future

YYC: Even Harper uses the "F" when confronted. Only under his breath, which is why his smile is so tight. Or is that just from plastic surgery?

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From Ron:

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says it's a lot easier for the government to operate without Parliament in session.

Afghanistan more democratic than Canada

With Canada's Parliament and Representative Democracy shut down for the second time within a year by Generalissimo "Augusto" Harper and with Harper Minister Field Marshall Jason "Adolf" Kenney publicly stating that Canada would be better off without MPs and without Parliament, is there any objective observer that would argue with the statement that Afghanistan is now more democratic than Harperite Canada?

Our Canadian troops should be brought back home to fight for Canadian Democracy, which has been dismantled by the Harperites in full view.

Shouldn't Canadian troops "Stand on Guard for thee" Canadian Democracy?

...or perhaps I just misunderstood the cornball song...

YYC: Jason Kenney should keep his lips zipped if he doesn't want to rouse the natives. Doesn't he realize he verbalizes Canadians' greatest fear when he says more can get done with Parliament shut down?

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(3) Misc. Musings from Moi:

Is it just me or is the new, paternal interest in the obese just another way to market gastric bypass surgery? I'm seeing ads for this on TV all the time now. It's also a boon to reality TV - watch the freaks being abused by their vicious, boot-camp style "trainers".

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Some people shouldn't be allowed near the key to the tax coffers. Along with anybody who associates with anybody who critizes Israel, whistleblower Richard Colvin's has been defunded by the government.

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Is this a mild form of eco-terrorism ( a la Item 6 in yesterday's blog entry)?

And how does Fisheries Minister Gail Shea know what shaving cream tastes like? Is she really a he, or is she a bearded lady who has joined a different circus?

See the video (thanks to Ron who likes alliteration as much as I do: PETA pies proroguing PEI Princess of Pup pulverisation)

Ron also suggests there may be body scanners coming very soon that are capable of detecting pies in pockets. (So THAT'S what PETA Pockets are!) Heck, a few crotch-sniffing Labs from the humane society could handle the job a lot more cheaply. But that would be too terribly ironic for PETA to bear.

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Way back when my eyes were closed, I thought Netanyahu was charming. Now it turns out he his main skill is losing friends and alienating people. Surely he's old enough to have read this book, so we'll have to assume it's deliberate, and a portent of things to come.

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'I can hold my head up high, TTC sleeper tells public
But not so's you'd notice.

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Obama, Biden Set Agenda to Boost Middle Class (Video)

That "s" inserted into the word "boot" is obviously an editing error. But now we know why Harper is talking about proroguing being good for "working families". It wasn't a crafty lifting of Jack Layton's habitual rhetoric after all; it was just mindless regugitation of a script provided by the Obama administration. He had to wait for go-ahead.

Kevin Rudd, on the other hand has been saying it ad nauseum (video) since the Bush days. Are Australians mollified by it? Nope. " ... it is a condescending throw-away term which is infuriating the public".

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is now seven times more common among the Inuit!!

Luo's data are at least a decade old, but more recent information isn't encouraging. "If you look at the trends over time, you do not see any improvement," he said. Canadian Press

They may be able to confidently blame a few stillbirths on the mother's drinking and smoking (although that usually results in a smaller baby live baby and/or fetal alcohol syndrome), but not SID.

What kind of "improvement" are the "authorities" looking for? Larger numbers?

Sunday Smorgasbord

(1) The Rogue, Chemtrails, and what equals a Nazi

A nice person named Janet wrote to say she enjoyed the "No to the Rogue" photo report of the rally on the Hill yesterday, and also to congratulate me for talking about chemtrails. She had found YayaCanada by googling "chemtrails ottawa".

So I googled and discovered a forum site called Chemtrail Central, where people from all over discuss their concerns and experiences with this modern phenomenon. I'm going to add it to my list of chemtrail sites in my side panel.

Thanks, Janet, for writing and for leading me to more info on chemtrails. They are a reality of which too few people seem cognizant.

This just in from Ted (Newfoundland): "Seems a few good CONservatives(agent provocateurs) tried to discredit the anti prorogue rally in Winnipeg yesterday with signs that said Harper=Hitler."

YYC: That just shows how dumb the Tories are. The Nazi comparison only gets a rise if you're referring to Zionists. Nobody cares what's said about Harper. The man got elected with less than 40% of Canadian support, and even the few who support him are non-plussed by his latest antics.

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(2) Grave Terror

Bin Laden wording 'indicator' of upcoming attack: monitor

"The manner of release, content of message and other factors indicate it is a credible and new release from bin Laden," it said.

The center said similar language attributed to bin Laden was made in a March 19 2008 condemnation of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed which was followed by an attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad on June 2, 2008.

The phrase also was used in bin Laden's April 15, 2004 European truce offer, which was followed by Al-Qaeda attacks in London in July 2005, according to the IntelCenter ...

It's pretty sad when the verification of a Bin Laden audio tape has to be done by comparing it to the fake ones made earlier. But if they're going to all the trouble to put out yet another fake tape, it does suggest a new false flag shock event on the horizon.

"Intelligence" agencies have just got to face it, Bin Laden is no Jesus; he can't be credibly resurrected from the tomb.

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(4) Oh my god, Haiti ...

Thanks to BeeSting for this link. Fidel Castro has clarified his earlier hints about "what is happening in Haiti" posted here on YYC.

Also from BeeSting:
Haiti aid agencies accused of rivalry tactics

YYC: Are these poor Haitians ever going to be given a moment when they aren't being screwed around?

I'm not surprised at the wrangling by aid agencies; I've been pretty cynical about big "charities" for some time now. The Red Cross, for instance, is a multi-national commercial corporation, campaigning for donations like a charity but profiting from the sale of all sorts of products, and definitely profiting from disasters.

It stands to reason that the costs of actually delivering emergency services is probably much higher than it should be because it's likely that they use only certain brand names in return for massive kickbacks from the makers. And we do know that their executives are paid huge salaries, as are the top brass in most major charities, plus impressive expense accounts.

Charity is big business; they have massive assets. Will there ever be a real cure for cancer, for instance, as long as there is a need to keep the whole profit thing going?

Another one from BeeSting:

‘The Haiti Disaster is Good for the Jews’

First of all because global attention has been drawn elsewhere and the international media have a more interesting story to cover. Second, because every disaster-area needs a hero, and right now we are it.

When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. But co-opting somebody else's lemon? Tacky. And that's putting it as mildly as I can.

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(5) Advice for Zionists and those who believe their lies

Thanks to Ron (Montreal) for this video: Holocaust Survivor Speaks Out
It's something our MPs - who almost en masse give blanket support to Israel out of what can only be abysmal ignorance and self-service - could learn from.

Ottawa's Bahija Reghai has a new article entitled "Wake up Canada"

Our country is being used as a fly-trap by a propaganda network that churns out and cross-feeds reports and articles for use by those who lobby hard for Israel.

Also, have a look at this video of an ultra-orthodox Jew stating the same sort of case as above in even more urgent terms. This is the first time I've heard a Jew saying Jews should be grateful for the hospitality given to them by Muslims "throughout the ages".

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(6) Out of Chaos ...

Thanks to Mareta (Spain):

Although sensationalist (as usual) this Infowars article gives food for thought.

And how is the collapse of industrial civilization to be achieved? By indiscriminate acts of sabotage and eco-terrorism.

Wouldn't that be just peachy to encourage all those terrified, depressed, potentially suicidal 20 to 30 year olds who have bought into the AGW stuff to go out and express their fear and "justified" rage through acts of sabotage and eco-terrorism.

Boy, the timing of the movie "Avatar" and this book is pretty interesting. Turning society against itself in order to destroy it.

YYC: They did in African countries in order to break up the continent into tiny pieces and steal the resources while the tribes were fighting one another.

Here's the book "Time's Up" that Infowars was discussing, so we can read it and judge for ourselves. From the flyleaf: "The author and publishers accept no liability for actions inspired by this book."

NO TO THE ROGUE !

UPDATE - 7 pm

Forgot to mention this: notice the chemtrail streaks in some of the photos. Our first sunny day in quite a few and they mess up the skies for us.

UPDATE - 4:30 PM

OTTAWA: Here are my photos from the Canadians against Prorogation of Parliament rally on Parliament Hill. (Below that are some photos from this morning's Montreal march.)

There was no march in Ottawa - only speeches (a pity because it means they are reliant on the fickle media to get the word out to the rest of the city). I didn't stay to get photos of the Opposition leaders who were due to speak. As you know by now, as far as I'm concerned they're all in on it, and they will get plenty of attention from the media anyway.

There was an impressive turnout, a good cross section of the public and plenty of creative signs. Here's how the crowd looked:

East:
Centre:
West:
Infowars put in an appearance with a sign, among many others, that said "Stop the North American Union". Our own Council of Canadians, whose leader Maude Barlow has apparently been flattered into silence by an appointment as advisor to the UN on water (an old trick - giving protest leaders a "privileged platform" from which to speak, while nobody listens), is trying to tell Canadians that the SPP (translated NAU in America) has been defeated largely by their efforts. Gee, how come the Americans don't know that, and how come the secessionists down east don't know it either. "Canada as a nation won't last the century," one of them told me.

I'm no big fan of Infowars. They are a bit too sensationalist for my taste, too hasty and therefore sometimes an unreliable news source. But they are dead right about the NAU. The maps, as I've said repeatedly, have been drawn and it's going ahead. That's what secession is all about- breaking up North America into bite size, manageable pieces.

The SPP (NAU) is a bloody fait accompli, which is why there are no more meetings necessary, and no more need for its website updates. Canadians need to wake up to reality!

This proroguing of Parliament holds a lot more significance than just that Harper has run away from his troubles. Canada appears to be on the verge of a false flag attack or disaster of some sort that will cement the plans begun by the SPP (NAU), that will allow Harper free reign, and push us all into line. We shouldn't be too simplistic about Harper's reasons.

Nor should people be too sure that if they vote Liberal or NDP to get rid of Harper they will be successful. The people holding the Fair Vote sign know full well that it's our faulty voting system that got Harper elected in the first place!

Harper snickered at us at Montebello, and he's done the same the past week, saying that Canadians don't care about the shutdown of Parliament.

But some Canadians do care, and they don't hesitate to call him what he is - a despot, a tyrant, a nazi (see video, thanks to Ron for the link), a dictator:

Not only that, but our compliant Governor General received a message as well, and here's one from me: don't expect our sympathy for Haiti to spill over onto you just because you wear a sad face while you are complicit in the running of two countries into the ground. There are quite a few who feel your office should be terminated.

Below is a reference to the diplomat whistle blower, Richard Colvin, who said that Harper knew about torture in Afghan prisons, an issue from which many Canadians believe Harper prorogued in order to escape (complete transcript of Colvin's testimony).

Here are some folks who are trying to entice Harper back by making his job easier. They've got his budget all worked out for him:

Climate Gate was at the rally too. This couldn't sit well with some other Ottawa activists who are bent on stopping climate change. As if they could "stop God" if he/she/it decided to warm things up a bit.

And the references to the Olympics are dead on. I am sick to death of those smarmy, mind-controlling "Do you believe?" TV commercials, using little kids and gullible teens to drum up business for corporations on the strength of their being suppliers to the 2010 Olympics (it's bad enough with Tim Horton's trying to emotionalize a sickenly violent sport called hockey and turn it into the spirit of Canadian nationalism, just to sell donuts that will kill you in the long run, and so-so cups of coffee):

The rest of the signs speak very well for themselves, the final one in particular:

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From earlier today - the Montreal protest:







Above are photos, courtesy of Ron, of the Montreal protest that has already taken place. Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe was in prominent attendance.

The website No Prorogue! has set up a texting system and the Ottawa rally is broadcasting it speeches at the moment.

I heard on last night's snooze that the Conservatives are saying there is very little disagreement from Canadians regarding the prorogue. We shall see.

Confronting tyranny on far too many fronts

... for nations whose mantra is "freedom".

REMINDERS FOR OTTAWANS: Visit the Justice for Mohamed Harkat website regularly to get updates and court schedules for the hearing currently taking place on the "reasonableness of the security certificate" against Harkat.

Also: Visit Friends of Hassan Diab to learn about an upcoming workshop TOMORROW entitled: Resisting Canada's national "security" agenda.

See also this video courtesy of banished Ottawa U. professor Denis Rancourt, who asks for your written protest to the university administration: U of O's President Allan Rock goes berzerk against student Marc Kelly.

And, from Ron (Montreal) - an excellent, well-made video about boycotting Israeli Apartheid:

SAIA Carleton Divestment Campaign
"Carleton students - listen up!"
Students Against Israeli Apartheid (SAIA) are demanding that Carleton University in Ottawa immediately divest its stock in BAE Systems, L-3 Communications, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, and Tesco, and adopt a Socially Responsible Investment policy.

YYC: This video is of interest to anyone concerned about the Israel/Palestine issue. It includes statements from students at several Palestinian educational institutions.

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To all Prorogation Protesters: here's the go-to site for information on a protest in your city TOMORROW.

Vancouverites will be chewing on perogies as they march. We all should march for a couple of hours every time we eat perogies, because they're very fattening!

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Also from Ron - A video satire with a salient message:
In The Know / Are Politicians Failing Our Lobbyists?

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From Ted (Newfoundland):

Yesterday's piece on the various head regalia was quite funny.The fact people see anything they haven't seen before on an aircraft as a bomb or some other type of explosive device is again funny.The fear factor seems to be working quite well.

It seems, once again,the Vancouver cops have been behavin' badly and a little below the serve and protect mumbo jumbo.What is it with these cops( RCMP&City) in Vancouver.Jeeeez if they're not killing poor Polish vistors at the airport there,they're beating up a poor Chinese guy all because they got an address wrong. Just looking at this poor souls face is heartbreaking.I see another lawsuit here with no amount of money disclosed. Can't wait to see how they treat some very poor people during the Olympics.Cuz,we know they won,t be doing it to rich people.

YYC: No one can even say it was the work of rogue cops. This kind of mindless, thuggish approach to policing is endemic nowadays. Apologies are too glib, too facile to make any difference. These officers need to be strongly disciplined, and yes, Mr. Wu should take them to court.

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Vietnam's new breed of dissident

As well as charges of subversion - including promoting ideas and plotting to overthrow the government - the defendants were accused of promoting "peaceful evolution". This post-Cold War terminology is generally used to describe Western strategy to undermine socialist systems, and the use of it will send a loud and clear message to foreign governments. It may be opening up its economy to the outside world, but the Vietnamese government insists it will manage social liberalisation at its own pace.

More evidence that Naomi Klein was righter than rain about the systematic imposition of unfettered free markets on small countries, resulting in massive unemployment, impoverishment and despair. The Le Cong Dinh case appears to be an example of how the US trains emissaries in Chicago School fashion to return to their native countries and foment against the existing government in an effort to replace it with something more amenable to western interests - no matter what kind of tyranny results.

They call it "democratizing" but not even the US is a democracy; it is a capitalist republic where individual "freedom" has been a catch phrase but never a top priority if you look at its history.

Its war-like tendencies alone are anathema to the very nature of democracy. In the words of the fourth American president, James Madison:

"A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home."

I can't justify the railroading in the courts of any form of dissidence, but I do suspect that Dinh (having not long ago completed his education in the States) and his activist colleagues, although perhaps well-meaning, are dupes of fundamentalist capitalism, and their government is well aware of the turmoil the US attempted to create in Vietnam through them.

I sincerely hope that some form of "shock therapy" is not in the cards for tiny Vietnam which fought for so long and so often to rid itself of foreign predators. Dinh, though no doubt well-meaning, is himself too young to have any first-hand understanding of that horrendous struggle.

Ironically, the "catfish battle" in which Dinh earlier advocated on behalf of his country is now water under the levee due to the shock created by Katrina having decimated the US catfish industry.

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Tyranny Image borrowed from "Citizens for Jeff"