"Why's everybody always picking on me?"

ShaNaNa

(1) Palestinians - They're different and they've got to get gone!

Long history of Israel's 'covert killing'

Mr Mabhouh's brother said Israel had been trying to kill him for years, and had unsuccessfully attempted to poison him six months earlier in Beirut.

Is Dubai murder an own goal for Israel? - "A tactical success but a strategic failure"

Over recent years there has been growing external criticism of Israel which has hardened in the wake of the Gaza War. Many in Israel see this as an explicit campaign to de-legitimise their country and even friendly foreign governments have engaged with Israel to explore how its deteriorating image can be improved.

YYC: Seems Israel can't do anything right these days. So why is the Ontario Provincial Government going out of its way to ban the use of the term Israeli Apartheid, calling it antisemitic? Because it doesn't matter what Israel does wrong; it's very important for "white", "democratic" governments (not so democratic though that they will tolerate certain freedoms of speech) to show they are not prejudiced against Jews.

I just figured this out. I've begun reading Shlomo Sand's book "The Invention of the Jewish People" and it may have answered a question that's puzzled me for years: "Why the Jews?". Why have they alone have been singled out for persecution no matter where they've lived throughout the world?

I realize now that's just a perception that's been provided for us. Sand talks about how most traditions around which countries are built are manufactured myths. I should know that. I recall a friend once telling a story about me and saying, "She walked five miles in a blizzard." I didn't of course, but it lent weight and interest to the story, and I suppose now, if other people bother to tell that story, it has become a fact that I walked five miles in a blizzard.

But it was while reading Sand's comments on historical distrust in most countries of any kind of linguistic/religious minority in their midst that I suddenly realized that the Jewish people have always been in the minority wherever they've lived - and minorities can only be tolerated if they don't increase too much in numbers or achieve too much political or financial power.

(This is why the US and Canada are beginning to seriously restrict certain kinds of immigration, regardless of the overt reasons given.)

To prove my thesis, Israel is very nervous right now about what it perceives as a demographic problem. The Arab population within Israel has been increasing in numbers, and are demanding equal treatment and more than just token representation in government. Hence the intense talk of "transfer" and the use of other terms and characterizations of Arabs that shockingly echo Nazi Germany.

No doubt the average Israeli can make the connection and it grates a bit; but would it be so bad if the Palestinians got fed up with their living conditions and decided to move somewhere else?

The thing about the West is that we like to think of our countries as Christian, so even if we're prejudiced in our bones, we can't help being reminded that we're supposed to be tolerant of one another. That's a big part of the reason we finally came out against South African Apartheid - to show we weren't prejudiced against "darkies" - but it's also the reason why we support Israeli Apartheid - to show we aren't prejudiced against Jews.

It's not rational, of course, but it makes a weird kind of sense. It also relieves me somewhat of this bizarre feeling that the world has turned upside down since my childhood, with Jews doing to Palestinians many of the same things Hitler did to them, and that the "white" South Africans did to the indigenous people.

I see now that the world is just the same as it ever was. Nations are always nervous about the minorities in their midst. That's why the Arabs rioted when the Jewish numbers suddenly burgeoned in Palestine; and that's why the Israelis are panicked about being outnumbered in the land they've come to dominate.

It's frickin human nature! Which doesn't make it right, by a long shot.

I'll never forget a long-time Jewish friend saying, "I'm not a Christian; I don't have to forgive". He has a great sense of humour, and I found his quip hilarious at the time; but it could hold a serious key to the behaviour of our elected reps.

That and money, of course.

The Sixth Annual ISRAELI APARTHEID Week begins tomorrow March 1. Click the link to see events scheduled in your area.

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(2) Academia: He's different and he's got to get gone!

Yesterday I commented on stupid physicians. So it's only fair to have a go at physicists today. (And don't ever get me started started on psychiatrists and psychologists, although this video should give you an idea of what irks me.)

By Denis Rancourt, a teacher who worked hard for his hemlock:

Are Physicists Smart?

Physicists believe that all sciences and all branches of human knowledge are physics, ultimately. They arrive at this conclusion having never read or studied psychology, pedagogy, philosophy, history, politics, sociology, art, etc. as part of their professional training.

As you can probably tell, Denis Rancourt is a maverick, a minority among his fellow academics, speaking a strange language, advocating strange customs - such as learning for the joy of it rather than for marks.

You can read a fully detailed report of the University of Ottawa's covert surveillance activities against Prof. Rancourt here.

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(3) The Corporations - helping to get people gone.

There's a massive anti-war march planned for Washington on March 20. Here's the Facebook site for that. Here also is their video courtesy of US veterans.

About 2/3 of the way through the video there's a long list of corporate war profiteers. So pay attention because we should be boycotting all of those companies.

Gibberish, a "tiny" Cow Pie, and the Religious Right

(1) Gibberish

UK troops in Afghanistan 'for five years'
but only to "provide training and support for Afghan troops."

Gee, isn't that what they've been doing since day one? That and helping girls go to school?

How many times have we heard that the Taliban are "on the run". Just like not long after the initial shock and awe in Iraq we were told the "enemy" was on the run. I'm no war expert, but I knew they were just regrouping.

From Xinhuanet: the shocking attack on Friday in the center of Kabul on broad day light indicates Taliban penetration into fortified capital city and speaks of radical outfit's ability to target anyone at any time.

That doesn't sound like a weakened Taliban. Although I suppose, considering the serious "security" lapses, this could be a special ops illusion to keep the war going - because, guess what, it makes money for corporations who provide security "training".

No matter how it's sliced, it's a big joke on the tax payers whose hard-earned dollars are going straight into the pockets of mega corporations.

The very term "the enemy" is a misnomer. We're the enemy, for pete's sake. We're the invaders. And especially in Iraq, since the pretext was an outright lie and everybody knows it. What are they fed in the mess hall that causes even the commanders, who are supposed to be able to think straight, to regurgitate such unmitigated gibberish?

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(2) More Gibberish

How our health-care system got so unhealthy

You don't need to read it. I'm here to tell you that the health care system is simply overworked because users have been brainwashed to think they have to run to the doctor for every little symptom. And doctors schedule unnecessary return visits because it makes them money.

People always over-indulge in anything that's "free", except health care isn't free. Anybody who has any kind of job at all is paying for it at ever-increasing rates in their taxes.

Instead of having faith in the body's inbuilt power to heal itself, and learning the medicinal properties of ordinary household staples, getting a bit of exercise and practising moderation in all things, particularly food and booze, we look to pills and vaccines because that's what we've been trained to do - so that doctors and Pharmers can be wealthy. The doctors are clueless too, because the Pharmers make far more off their compliance than they themselves can even dream of accumulating.

And some doctors are really, really stupid, or maybe this one was just determined to make a fortune lopping off breasts: Mastectomies done in error.

An MD told me years ago that one has to be an obsessive-compulsive in order to get into medical school and stay there. This can lead to some strange behaviours. I looked around to see if I could verify that, and came across this blog item by a middle-aged medical student who admits right off the bat s/he's "a little obsessive compulsive". See? Stick with me. I know stuff.

Another MD, a resident surgeon who was sort of coming on to me as I lay in my hospital bed circa 1967 (I was cute back then) bragged that he chose to become a surgeon because that's where the big money is. And we put our lives in the hands of these children.

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Something that's been on my mind ever since the Obama theatre production that was billed as a debate about the proposed US health care plan ...

John McCain said that both he and Obama promised change in their campaign speeches, and there doesn't seem to be any. Obama's steely cold retort was that "the election is over". Anybody who doesn't catch the drift of that is willfully blind.

Good to know I'm not the only one aware of what Obama was admitting to.

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(3) The Cow Pie that is Israel

The Wash Post says European countries feel it's politically inadvisable to investigate the Dubai assassination of a Hamas leader. Which means that everybody knows it's Israel what dunnit - but our "leaders" are stepping carefully around that flapjack.

From Ha'aretz: [Australia's] Rudd said his government had to "proceed very carefully" in the investigation because of its complex security nature.

Yes, he personally does not want to step in anything. Would it be the end of his career? I mean, how did this twit get where he is in the first place? (And then there's his thing against drinking despite his having convenient amnesia about his behaviour the night he spent blind drunk in a strip club.)

This is not the first time Australian identities have been stolen. In fact, there are Internet businesses advertising fake Australian passports. Two are mentioned in this article, and here's a third. (They're offering free fake ID's for bloggers willing to sport their advertising banner.)

UK reps are off to Israel over this mess, but not to confront Mossad or the government, but only to talk down the upset dual citizens whose identities were used.

The sickest thing is that ordinary Israelis don't seem to realize that their country's reputation has suffered from yet another Mossad bungle blow:

Israelis rush to join Mossad after Mahmoud al-Mabhouh killing

Israelis are discussing the killing with a wink, a nod, and pride in the agency ... Opticians have reported a rise in sales of the horn-rimmed glasses in the style worn by 14 of the 26 suspects, T-shirts with Mossad logos are selling out at stores and the agency has experienced a flood of applicants ... a new statement on the Mossad website reads ... "... If you possess intelligence and sophistication, you can make a difference and fulfil a national mission. If you can engage, charm and influence people — you may have the qualities we are looking for.”

Well, everybody likes to think they are intelligent and sopisticated, but clearly what they are looking for is psychopathic personalities.

Has Israel become a nation of serial killers? No trial necessary, no evidence required, judge, jury and executioner. Made in the image of the maniac OT God hisself.

Not like this God, for whom I have a bit more respect (click on the image to enlarge it):


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An amusing aside from Ha'aretz: Israel's leaders have been in disguise this year

Avigdor Lieberman, disguised himself as President Shimon Peres when he asked for the foreign minister's portfolio ... But Lieberman's costume didn't fit him and it tore, when it turned out he is seen as a racist and a bully abroad. He threw away the mask, took off the makeup and went back to cursing and threatening as before.

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(4) Our Christian PM loves women - in their place

Bahija Reghai has a new article on social programs that have disappeared since PM Harper took office, based on his purported religious beliefs and the support of the religious right:

In spite of a surplus of $13.2 billion and a debt at its lowest level in 30 years, the new Conservative government was quick to axe a number of programs and initiatives, turning back the clock on women's advancements at the behest of Harper's religious social conservative base, mainly the old Reform-Alliance stock.

But hey, it costs a lot to pretend to be helping Afghan girls go to school.

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Image borrowed from here.

Hurricanes and Hell on Wheels

(1) Ganging up on Zionism?

Giving them hell? Not really, but some things are too obvious to completely ignore:

Government's top choice for president of human rights agency rejected

All three opposition parties have rejected the Conservative government's choice to head the divided human rights agency Rights and Democracy.

UN again calls for credible probe of Gaza war crime charges.

As they did in a November assembly vote on a similar resolution, Israel and its staunch U.S. ally cast "no" votes.

Strange that a Canadian news outlet doesn't mention the Canadian vote, but given the US "no", it's not hard to guess - we either voted "no" or abstained.

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(2) Hurricane Hazel - my ideal

Old story (and video) but priceless:

Ontario mayor 'Hurricane Hazel' becomes Internet sensation

The feisty, pint-sized 88-year-old mayor of Canada's sixth-largest city is an Internet star ... McCallion has won 11 consecutive elections in the city, which is about 20 kilometres west of Toronto. Mississauga is also one of the few Canadian cities to be debt free.

Her wiki bio quotes her as saying:

"I do my own cleaning, grocery shopping, gardening ... Housework and gardening are great forms of exercise and keep one humble."

And get this:

McCallion was one of the first Canadian politicians to openly support the creation of a Palestinian state. Addressing the annual convention of the Canadian Arab Federation in 1983, she argued that Palestinian issues had been distorted by the national media, and said "The Palestinians need and require and deserve a country of their own. Why shouldn't they get it?"

Hats off to Hazel. I want to be like her when I grow up.

And not at all like this one:

(3) Hell-on-wheels Helena.

Ted writes:

Lookie here. The former " Miss Huronia" and current Minister of State (Status of Women) Helena Guergis has been behavin' badly at the PEI airport.

Not first time this little darling has been embroiled in a little controversy.

From Wikipedia:

In 1992, Guergis won the title "Miss Huronia" in the Miss Huronia Pageant, which was owned and operated by Sylvia Stark, and participated as Huronia's representative in the year's "Miss Oktoberfest Pageant", and the Canadian Search for Miss Universe. She later alleged financial irregularities against the pageant, and sued Stark for $3,000 as well as the cost of her flight and gown. In 2003, she informed the National Post newspaper that her suit was successful but that she could not collect because Stark had filed for bankruptcy.

The Canadian television program The Fifth Estate profiled Sylvia Stark in January 2000, and included interviews with Guergis and other former contestants. Stark alleged that Guergis made death threats against her, and added that she had lost a child from the resulting stress and was unable to conceive again. Guergis responded by questioning the state of Stark's mental health.

The poor guy at the Vancouver Airport got tasered to death (video) for a lot less than this.

YYC: The Toronto Star ... quotes her as saying, among other things: "Happy f---ing birthday to me. I guess I'm stuck on this hellhole." The hellhole being Prince Edward Island. Not at all like what she said about it in her apology:

To me, it is a very special place that demonstrates the best Canada has to offer.

So, according to Guergis, the best Canada has to offer is a "hellhole"?

Hmmm... the Globe and Mail says she called it a "shithole".

Ron Saba has some song suggestions for "wittle Helena's IPod":

1) "Stuck in this shithole with you"
2) "It's my party and I'll bitch if I want to"
3) "I'm leaving on a Jetplane, M-f#cker"

Oh, this is way less classy than Lisa Raitt thinking the isotope crisis was "sexy", don't you think? Less classy than when Petie MacKay called his ex-girlfriend a dog in the House, and certainly less classy than Mad Maxy leaving sensitive government documents at the apartment of an ex with a criminal past. And oh yeah, Tom Lukiwski (video), crocked and asserting his masculinity by crudely dissing gays.

They all made sincere sounding apologies when forced to. There are standard cue cards for that nowadays. And they wonder why politicians are jeered at.

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(4) Danny - again

The Globe and Mail says Danny Williams showed up at the Vancouver Olympics tanned and feeling like 35.

Well, Danny had better be careful, because as he said himself: he only has the heart of a 40 year old after the surgery, which we finally find out took place in Florida. The Van Sun

Now I'm understanding a bit of why he went south. It had nothing to do with the quality of the health care. He's a bit of a snow bird. He simply wanted to recuperate in a warm and sunny clime (if he indeed had heart surgery - there's no proof of that). So why didn't he just say that? Are politicians completely incapable of being straightforward - unless they've completely lost it like Guergis did?

And when is he going back to his home province so I can stop wondering if he's avoiding the Newfoundland missile crisis or escaping a false flag attack (it's been predicted and predicted so it has to happen somewhere, and it can't be at the Olympics because that wouldn't have sufficient surprise value).

If it's not something

... it's something else (video).

(1) Coy Israel

Warning on passport forgery ignored, says former diplomat

Months later, New Zealand police arrested two suspected Mossad agents who had flown in from Australia after a botched attempt to obtain a false passport using identity details of a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy victim.

The agents had picked a target they guessed was unlikely to travel abroad but their attempts at faking a New Zealand accent aroused the suspicion of an immigration official who alerted Wellington's small but sharp security service...

The two served their sentences and were sent home to Israel.

A year later, Israel apologised and diplomatic ties were restored.

It's no wonder politicians think apologies work miracles; they're suckers for them themselves.

Here's more on the same issue.

From Ha'aretz: Israel has not denied or confirmed it played any role but Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said earlier in the week that there was nothing to link it to the killing.

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied that it has a nuclear arsenal either. But we all know it does.

Here's a wishful headline:

Identification of agents by Dubai police embarrasses Mossad

It's not exactly identification to see a bunch of people on a security tape - completely disguised and carrying forged identification.

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(2) Dissing Karzai

(Plus it's true some people can actually burn water)

Ted (Newfoundland) writes:

To no one's surprise the US is giving the thumbs up to Karzai and his gangsters who want their own people controlling Afghanistan's elections in the future.

"We are supportive of the Afghan government stepping up and assuming its responsibilities for its own (election) process," State Department spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters, giving cautious backing to the move.

But have no fear cuz SuperMcKay is here. Along with SuperCannon who pretty much is sprouting the same gibberish.

"We will be conveying our concerns directly to the Afghanistan government and it's my hope that this is not an indication that the government of Afghanistan is backing away from their commitment to democratic reform and adherence to democratic principles in the future," MacKay said.

This man should not be allowed anywhere near the word democratic. Jeez even McKay knows the drug trade has gone of the radar with 3 billion in heroin being shipped out of Afghanistan last year. The highest in the world. And then we have the human rights abusers and the two vice presidents to Hamid Karzai, Mohammad Qasim Fahim and Karim Khalili, both have been accused of human rights violations.And we might as well put in a word for Karzai's little sibling,Wali Karzai,big time involved in the drug trade. And least we forget the many ministers, many police chiefs, many people who are part of the ruling elite actually have been accused of human rights violations and drug trafficking.

Democratic indeed. Mr.McKay is either insane or he thinks we are.

And another interesting little nugget I ran across this morning was about the guy who can light his tap water on fire because of all the chemicals Halliburton is using to extract gas. It's called FRACKING and a documentary about it just won the Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize.

Dick Cheney must be Friggin'Frackin'Fried over this little venture. It may be even good for his heart. Get all the gas you want, and kill people too, with all the chemicals they use to do it. And right in the good old USofA. If Halliburton can get away with it there I can't even begin to imagine what they would be doing in other countries.

YYC: Ted, you crack me up. But it's not funny, is it. Petie MacKay has been given permission to diss Karzai. And yesterday, Maxy Bernier was given permission to badmouth climate change. This is not because the cat's away and the mice are playing. It means something. But what, exactly? Where is it leading? To something else, that's for sure.

About the burning water: at first I thought that people with money will just use reverse osmosis and carbon filtering for their drinking water, and as usual it's the poor who will suffer. But if I recall correctly, those sytems aren't guaranteed to work unless your water is already reasonably clean in the first place. This really is insane.

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(3) "Rising Authoritarianism in so-called first-world democracies".

From Denis Rancourt:

Open letter to the Allan Rock administration, University of Ottawa

Excerpt:

I INTERVIEWED PROF. Rancourt at his home in Ottawa on March 13, 2009 for my master’s-level research into rising authoritarianism in so-called first-world democracies. Two weeks later, Prof. Rancourt was fired by the University of Ottawa. This interview and firing had a significant effect on the direction and tone I decided to take in the final thesis.

It is unfortunate and unfair that Prof. Rancourt was fired; however, it proved very powerful in the context of my work. It clearly indicated that what I was writing about was not theoretical or exaggerated but painfully real. Prof. Rancourt also contributed important ideas regarding actual resistance to rising authoritarianism.

YYC: An interesting form of education is going on at Ottawa U. This particular thesis even turned out be an education for the oral examiners, who obviously hadn't realized they are frogs in a pot of slowly heating water. (See also: Item 3 in yesterday's blog entry.)

US Health Care debate ...

If you're interested in Obama's marathon debate on the Health Care issue, it's on C-SPAN right now.

From the Times: Even as Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary, made a somewhat forlorn appeal for an “earnest” discussion, his own Vice-President went off-message in an interview with his local newspaper. Today’s summit “could be pure theatre,” Joe Biden told the Wilmington News Journal. “This could end up not being good,” Mr Biden said. “But I know of no other way than to just keep pushing, saying, ‘Guys, OK, this is our idea. What’s your idea?’”

See you later today with more news comment.

Yes, but ...

(1) Backing off Climate Change one ditzy MP at a time?

Bernier urges skepticism on climate change
Environment minister, Conservative party distance themselves from MP's views - Environmental activist Steven Guilbeault questioned whether the Conservative MP acted alone in writing the letter. "Frankly, for Mr. Bernier to do that on his own is simply unbelievable," he said.

YYC: I have to agree. Whether or not there is such a thing as human-caused global warming, I don't believe Bernier is bright enough or brave enough to spout off like this without some serious prompting.

A clue might be found in this article:
UN weather meeting agrees to refine climate data
World weather agencies have agreed to collect more precise temperature data to improve climate change science.

The fact that these announcements are being made at this moment, after the weak showing at Copenhagen and the scandal that preceded it, suggests to me that the powers that be would like to move us on to some more credible, more effectively distracting crisis that will facilitate the central government agenda.

Yes, the earth may be going through a cyclical warming, but maybe we should focus on dealing better with the effects of it and doing something about other kinds of pollution, instead of putting all our eggs in the CO2 basket.

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(2) From their mouths to God's ears

Man detained in Montreal flight security breach

About the only thing this article informs me of is that Boris Brott is still alive and getting publicity.

He lives in Hamilton and was very prominent in that city's Israel at 60 celebrations, held appropriately on Jerusalem day, the city that Israel doesn't want to share with Arabs.

Brott did reveal a truth however in his backhanded praise of Israel: "Israel for me is a great ideal ... It's an ideal that has yet to be captured."

Yes, he clearly loves Israel, but was he also admitting that Israel has failed to be a Light unto Nations? Another famous Jewish musician Gilad Atzmon thinks it has.

Crazy Frank Dimant also reveals a truth in his ongoing hysteria about the "rise of anti-semitism":

"We note that the highest number of incidents ... occurred in January 2009, coinciding with the war in Gaza ... This is a pattern elsewhere in the world as well."

No kidding, eh? Yes, there's the odd case of vandalism - which by the way happens to non-Jews as well - but mostly his idea of antisemitism is any criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians. And let's face it, Gaza was an orgy of treatment.

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N.S. men charged in cross burning

Very Christian, burning a cross and all. But not to worry, the Mayor of Halifax has made up for the gawdawfulness of it:

The mayor of Halifax apologized to descendants of Africville, a Nova Scotia black community partly settled by freed African slaves, that was demolished to make way for a bridge almost 50 years ago.

They keep playing those Canadian Heritage farces on TV where the American slaves crawl out of the underground railway and are so thankful they've arrived in the True North Strong and Free. And I keep thinking, yeah, we're just wonderful aren't we.

Yes, we let some slaves into our country, but what have we done for them since? It seems we've done a lot TO them.

This is too much like Harper apologizing to our First Nations people simultaneously with the 2010 winter Olympics co-opting Native land and creating a whole new crop of homeless folks. Makes you wonder what more is in store for certain Nova Scotia citizens.

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(3) Youth physically and morally targeted by the system

Gardasil approved for males

The big test: will it make money? Yup. APPROVED.

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Coming to a University near you?

FPS-Ombudsman finds unethical behaviour in student newspaper at U of O; Allan Rock hires student editor as covert spy after damning editorial against dissident professor.

A former Liberal Health Minister finds work as CEO of Ottawa U. and not only infects the place with dirty politics, but encourages bad ethics in students.

From Denis Rancourt:

The Ombudsman of the Fulcrum Publishing Society (FPS), Mr. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, has released a damning interim report about journalistic and editorial mistreatment of former physics professor Denis Rancourt by the student newspaper The Fulcrum.

The FPS-Ombudsman’s Report is posted here along with reactions from The Fulcrum’s Business Manager Mr. Frank Appleyard.

Appleyard was hired by U of O President Allan Rock’s office at the same time as he retained his Fulcrum position of Business Manager, after he wrote a highly critical editorial about Rancourt that was used in a University press release and cited in the national media.

Regarding Appleyard and given his admissions the FPS-Ombudsman’s Report states: “I would judge this to be in breach of the FPS Editorial Constitution and an embarrassment to the FPS and the University of Ottawa. This is very serious…”

Regarding former Fulcrum contributor and editor Maureen Robinson who was hired by the University in a broad campaign of covert information gathering from 2006 to 2008, the FPS-Ombudsman concludes:
“I have to reaffirm that I believe Maureen Robinson acted unethically and was in a conflict of interest under the FPS Editorial Constitution.”

This report comes only days after the teacher assistant union (CUPE Local 2626) formally accused the University of Ottawa of submitting false statements either to the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario or in a legal labour proceeding with CUPE Local 2626 regarding the alleged campaign of covert information gathering.

All background is posted here.

YYC: Yes, it's sad that being elevated to head honcho of a university didn't give Allan Rock complete control over his faculties, but he should realize he isn't in the House anymore where criminal behaviour is tolerated.

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(4) The JNF Tax Fraud

Canadians need to be aware that the Jewish National Fund is tax exempt to the tune of millions, despite the fact that it defies the legal requirements for charitable institutions in Canada. Ron Saba has been working tirelessly to educate politicians, the media and the general public for some time now about this illegal practice on the part of our government. He even filed a formal complaint with the Human Rights Commission which was summarily dismissed without a hearing (click on image to read letter).

Here is Ron's latest media communication:

Ignoring the Racist Jewish National Fund ("JNF") Tax Fraud only increases legal liability

You can pretend it doesn't exist, but that won't make it go away. You can act as if the racist articles of the JNF's bylaws and the racist terms of the JNF lease are written in invisible ink, but these legal documents are still there for everyone to see; yesterday, today and tomorrow. You can ignore the 2005 ruling by the Attorney General of Israel that the JNF's bylaws and practices represent racial discrimination and should not continue with state assistance, but feigning ignorance won't change the fact that JNF racism is illegal under Israeli, Canadian and International law.

You can pretend that the Canadian political, corporate and media elite who actively promote the Racist JNF to Canadian adults and children aren't aware of the true nature of the JNF, however that won't erase the archived reports of JNF racism and complicity in ethnic cleansing that have been published by major Canadian newspapers, the Canadian Jewish News, the United Jewish Appeal of Toronto and in a domestically and internationally known TV documentary by Canadian Crown Corporation CBC's Fifth Estate in 1991. You can act as if the well documented paper trail of all this which is departmentally stamped and legally filed in the official records of the Canadian Human Rights Commission along with a departmentally stamped and legally filed reply from the Canadian Government proving its full awareness of the Racist JNF Tax Fraud and unintentionally confirming bureaucratic malfeasance on this issue will somehow disappear, but it won't.

Every day with every tick of the clock, the cover up of the Racist JNF Tax Fraud continues, and with it criminal and civil liability increases. Those with bad intent will not always be in control on the corrective mechanisms our government and be able to subvert our laws. Eventually the crimes of the Racist JNF and the complicity of those who aided, abetted and covered up Canada's Racist JNF Tax Fraud will be brought to justice in a Canadian court of law. Believing otherwise only serves to increase the penalties, both in terms of dollars and length of prison term. Only a fool would think otherwise.

Tick, tock, can you hear the clock?

YYC: Yes, what goes around always comes around. No buts about it.

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Last word. I'm looking at clips on TV of Haitian kids laughing and playing in the midst of ruins and military guards, and I'm thinking if we could all become kids again we'd be happier with a lot less. All kids need is food in their stomachs and a place to lay their heads to sleep (and adults too busy to carp at them about too much noise, or keeping their clothes clean or not slouching...) and they can make their own fun. Because they live in the moment while adults are always agonizing over the past or the future.

This is not to suggest that Haitian mothers and fathers don't have something to worry about; it's for the rest of us who think we have it hard if it rains or snows.

Troublemakers ...

(1) False false flag date

I have to acknowledge that reader Ted (Newfoundland) reminded me today that he is right that I was wrong when I suggested 2/22 as a possible date for a false flag attack in Canada. Not that I hoped for or necessarily expected anything on that date, but only that if there were to be a terror event it would likely be on a numerologically auspicious day, as all the others have been, and 2/22 sounded pretty ominous to me.

However, there are other equally portentous dates I could have chosen. For instance, 2/27 (2+7 = 9 +2 = 11 = 2) which has the same configuation as 9/11 (9 +11 = 20 - 2).

Oh yes, I'm a troublemaker, I am.

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(2) Trouble: An American Export

Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in USA

The recipe is always the same. Student and youth movements lead the way with a fresh face, attracting others to join in as though it were the fashion, the cool thing to do. There's always a logo, a color, a marketing strategy ... Colored revolutions always occur in a nation with strategic, natural resources: gas, oil, military bases and geopolitical interests. And they also always take place in countries with socialist-leaning, anti-imperialist governments.

In Iran, the colour is green. And trouble is definitely being stirred up there, no doubt as a prelude to whatever Israel has in store for Iran's nuclear power facilities.

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(3) Bad to badder foisted on aid agency

From Ron, more on the Rights and Democracy troubles, as Harper appoints ferocious Zionist to board:

Blatant Racism of Harper's Conservative Party on full diplay.

Ron writes: "Harper's pick wants to limit Muslim immigration to Montreal
The idea of appointing such an ignorant, bigoted individual to head up "Rights and Democracy" is a sick joke. One of the sources which Latulippe uses in his 37 page paper is the notorious bigot Daniel Pipes."

YYC: At the top of the fourth page in the document, Pipes is quoted as saying that, out of all immigrants, Muslims "are most resistant to assimilation".

Which is bizarre, because that's the same thing Winston Churchill said about the Jews. In fact all immigrants have at one time or another been viewed as undesirable and too inclined to ghettoize themselves.

On his website, Pipes advocates bombing Iran, the sooner the better. He also enjoys wallowing in human muck, seeking out the most disgusting stories about Muslims to prove how grossly lowlife they are - as if you couldn't find comparable unconscionable acts among ignorant, fanatical Jews and Christians. Humanity does contain within it a full gamut of behaviours, beliefs and mores.

For instance, as Ted (Newfoundland) makes clear with this link, Israel's foreign affairs minister, hard line sadistic fantasizer Avigdor Lieberman is only barely kept from acting out by strong pressure from those with greater power. That same power has no doubt been influential in so far keeping Lieberman from being charged with multiple corruption offences.

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(4) Icky sicky administration at Ottawa U.

Paranoia as a result of ineptness and dishonesty at the highest university levels results in resorting to spies and lies.
UofOgate unfolds: CUPE Local 2626 exposes University's lies to IPC
U of O cover up of covert information gathering activities thickens.

Sean Kelly, President of the teacher assistant (TA) union (CUPE, Local 2626) at the University of Ottawa, has written a detailed letter to the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario to alert the Commissioner to documented inconsistencies between the University’s legal Representations to the IPC on the one hand and the University’s defence statements against a CUPE grievance on the other hand.

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Thanks to savvy readers ...

(1) "The Decade of Vaccines"

From Mareta (Spain):

Two interesting articles from "Swine Flu Avian flu, the story so far..."

Bill and Melinda Gates are at it again and are giving 10 billion dollars to support vaccine research. Bill says "We must make this the decade of vaccines..."

Groan...

And here's an eye-opener about the changes in the U.S. vaccine schedule (a swift increase in the number and required doses) :

"Since implementation of the CDC mass vaccine program we have gone from about 2-3 to about 41-42 on the international infant mortality list."

So, before the US had one of the lowest infant mortality rates and since the increase in required vaccines, infant mortality has increased - substantially.

This is a wikipedia entry about infant mortality rates by country and the US ranks 33 (by UN Population Division) and 46 (CIA factbook 2009 estimate)

Here are two key findings from this article (NCHS data brief no. 9 October 2008 - Recent Trends in Infant Mortality in the United States)

• The U.S. infant mortality rate is higher than those in most other developed countries, and the gap between the U.S. infant mortality rate and the rates for the countries with the lowest infant mortality appears to be widening.

• The infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic black women was 2.4 times the rate for non-Hispanic white women. Rates were also elevated for Puerto Rican and American Indian or Alaska Native women.

Another key finding:

• Increases in preterm birth and preterm-related infant mortality account for much of the lack of decline in the United States’ infant mortality rate from 2000 to 2005.

The recommended adult vaccine schedule is ambitious too and it is possible that some of the affected pregnant mothers may have also been vaccinated against the flu or measles if there was a possible contact with the disease.

Until (when?) a study is done that compares infant mortality with the number of vaccines the infant and/or mother receive, it is difficult to say anything with certainty. However, the change in the vaccine schedule does seem to be correlated with a high infant mortality rate among black, Puerto Rican, American Indian and Alaska Native infants and fetuses. The vaccine schedule may be having a eugenic effect on the US population.

YYC: Looks like Bill Gates investments are paying off, and he will get his wish:

Deadly Hybrid Flu Possible

Stronger strain could develop if avian, seasonal viruses combine, scientists warn

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(2) Haiti, Afghanistan

From John (Manitoba):

More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation

Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring in aid, according to nearly all independent observers in the field, violence was never an issue.

YYC: This is the same principle as that being applied in Afghanistan and Iraq:

A US Army manual for commanders in Afghanistan and in Iraq defines aid as a non-lethal weapon designed “to win the hearts and minds of the indigenous population to facilitate defeating the insurgents.”

It sort of assumes that the destitute are like dogs who will become your best friend if you feed them.

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From Ted (Newfoundland):

Well the old rock is still as quiet and peaceful as ever. Maybe the fact Danny is still in Florida recuperating may be part of the reason for that. (See "Danny's not back yet?")

But in Afghanistan Stanley McChrystal is again being forced to apoligize for more civilian deaths. And Karzai, pretending to care, is once again denouncing NATO.

This is the same Karzai who wants total control of Afghan elections. Say bye-bye to the Electoral Complaints Commission. Karzai will appoint his own boys.

And to make matters worse we have Colin Powell telling us the Afghan National Police will be the saviours of the Afghan people. Based on lots of the information I have about the police, it's hard to tell who's more corrupt, them or Karzai.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said the "real test" would be for the Afghan national police.

"They're the ones who will keep security in the region after the armies have moved out of the way. Armies fight people. Police protect people over the long-term and that I think is the real challenge in Afghanistan," he said.

YYC: I don't mean to be alarmist, Ted, but the day's not over yet and the whole idea was that Danny would be out of the country when "it" happened - an alibi, so to speak. But I'll still be happy when proven wrong.

Related to your Afghanistan story:

Afghans call for Nato to leave after airstrike kills 27 civilians
“They came here to bring security but they kill our children, they kill our brothers and they kill our people,” said Haji Ghullam Rasoul, whose cousins died in the attack. “We’ve had enough.”

Now that's gratitude for you. What's the matter with these complaining Afghans that "very, very sorry" (video) isn't enough?

Here's an interesting insight:

From the Times:

If the Dutch are leaving Afghanistan, perhaps China should send soldiers to fill the gap. It is, after all, developing the country’s biggest copper mine — currently guarded by US and Afghan soldiers — and has an eye on other resources.

Aha! I knew it was about more than just oil. The Afghans are being robbed blind. And the next time you hear about "strained relations" between the US and China, just remember who is helping to cover China's ass(ets) in Afghanistan.

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(3) Israel


From Beesting (Ontario): Do you think this is to trigger a heart attack amidst the Morality police?

Canadian Jewish Tourism Ad Uses Oral Sex to Promote Israeli Tourism

YYC: First they copy the keffyeh, and then they try to outdo the 72 virgins. Sounds like performance anxiety to me.

The article blows quite a few myths about Israel. And size does matter judging by Israel's refusal to stop settlement expansion.

But the morality police will pretend they don't notice the salacious ads, like so many other things they choose not to ponder about the Israelis. They know the Jews are going to hell anyway, but they still need them to completely take over the "Holy Land".

Israel can do just about anything it wants to these days. For example:

Israel dismisses calls for arrest of top spy

Ronen Bergman, military correspondent for Israel's Yediot Aharonot newspaper and an expert on Mossad, said whoever carried out the hit was unlikely to get caught.

YYC: That's probably the truest statement so far made about this case. It doesn't look to me as if anybody even wants to find the killer(s).

More from Beesting:

After the 'New antisemitism" (Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism - CPCCA), Cotler is now busy with "lawfare".

Is Cotler an MP dealing with issues that are relevant to all his Montreal constituents (I wonder how many days he spends working on their issues), or is he a self-promoting individual hopscotching from one international forum to another?

YYC: Both, it would appear. But it doesn't say much for the fabled morality and democracy of the West if they're ready to dump the laws that are steadily showing them up as war criminals. Good grief, if they're this ruthless with the laws, what would be they be without them?

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From Ron (Quebec):

New face of Canada isn't pretty

Excerpt:

"The confluence of domestic politics, Christian fundamentalism and foreign policy is now so strong that Israel's tail is wagging Canada's dog."

YYC: Related: Cannon and Rights & Democracy: when did things go sour?

Let's see. How long has it been since Aurel Braun infiltrated the board, and the government sent in "the senior legal counsel of B'nai Brith Canada and the head of an evangelical-based Christian think tank" to support him?

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Sunday head-game-lines

(1) Trade tops agenda as premiers, governors meet

It was the first time the premiers' organization, the Council of the Federation, met with the National Governors Association.

And I suppose I'm not supposed to see this as a sign of the NAU times. Will our premiers eventually be called governors? I sure don't see it happening the other way around.

"I just want you to know, we're in," McGuinty said to laughter.

Speaking for all us, no doubt, but I don't get the joke.

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(2) David Miliband to put pressure on Israel over forged passports

Investigators are considering the possibility that passport details of dual British-Israeli nationals were copied by immigration officials as they travelled through Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.

Yeah, visit Israel and share your passport with a Mossad assassin.

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(3) Dutch confirm Afghan troop pullout sparking fears of domino effect

Well, that suggests a couple of things about the Dutch government; unlike Canada, maybe it has a real opposition and no prorogue clause.

Wonder what will happen between now and the end of the year. Will there really be a "domino effect", or will Israel finally have its way with Iran and require help?

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(4) Gordon Brown hit by fresh bullying allegations

• A political adviser, Stewart Wood, was "roughly shoved aside" and sworn at after arranging a lunchtime reception for EU ambassadors, and that Brown said, "Why are you making me meet these fucking people? I don't want to meet these fucking people", before storming into the room. • When informed by the deputy chief of staff, Gavin Kelly, that HM Revenue and Customs had lost computer disks containing the personal data of 20 million people, Brown "leapt across the room," and "grabbing a startled Kelly by the collar, snarled 'they are out to get me'." • Told unwelcome news in the back of his official car, the PM "reacted by swinging back an arm and clenching his fist" ­causing an aide to cower fearing he'd be hit.

I take back my comment of some time ago that he reminds me of Mr. Bean. He does have reason to be paranoid, though. They really are plotting against him, just as he plotted against Blair. It's those danged homing knives.

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(5) Pakistan doing impressive work

Gen David Petraeus, chief of the US Central Command "declined to comment specifically when asked as to what information was being gleaned from Mullah Baradar, a senior Afghan Taliban leader, recently captured from Karachi."

“What we’ve learned, actually, in working with our Pakistani partners, who have done some very impressive work over the course of the last 10 months in particular, is that it’s sometimes not best to talk a great deal about intelligence operations.” the US commander said.

When you don't know anything, the thing to do is to use a lot of words that mean nothing but sort of sound as if they mean something. It's called bafflegab.

It also helps if you wrinkle your forehead while speaking, and look as if you smell something bad.

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(6) Same old same old with the big "change" guy. The only difference is that we now know how government operates and we don't find it pretty.

"In 2006 and 2008, voters threw out Republicans and thought things would change," said Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster. "Now they see it's even worse. Because of YouTube and Facebook, and you can watch TV on your cellphone, we know these deals are happening. We assumed they happened 20 years ago, but we know it today."

Obama's big concern now is to pretty things up so that it's business as usual but the hope thing keeps going.

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(7) Nigerians don't like Bush, Blair - well, who does, really?

Nigerian police on Sunday detained a leading human rights activist and other protesters in the capital Abuja during a visit by George W Bush, the former US president, and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister.

I wonder what it must be like to face protests everywhere you go. And to also know exactly why, even if you won't admit it. Who was it that said if you don't have the respect of the people you're nobody?

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(8) Hamid Karzai's rival warns him not to cut deals with Taliban

A purported Taliban spokesman ... Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said: "Karzai is a puppet he cannot represent a nation or a government."

We know that; they know that. It's the crux of the problem. But the invaders don't ever seem to take that into consideration.

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Clean Minds

When you consider the increasing bizarrity of mainstream attitudes, this guy doesn't sound all that far-fetched (video).

It's not just the average plebe acting drugged these days, it's also people in positions of influence.

The following are some blatant examples of faulty reasoning processes in folks from whom we've been led to expect higher levels of mental agility.

(1) Dutch cabinet collapses in dispute over Afghanistan

Mr Balkenende's centre-right Christian Democrats wanted to agree to Nato's request to extend the Dutch presence in Afghanistan. But this was bitterly opposed by the Dutch Labour Party.

What's duplicitous here is that it's a "Christian" party that wants to continue the slaughter. Killing for Jesus, the so-called "Man of Peace". Probably because they see the natives as "savages" and think that if they can be completely subdued, humiliated, and in a state of "brokenness" they can be brainwashed into "Christianity".

Cuz that's how religion is inculcated, you know. Through systematic brainwashing, either of the young child or the fearful, emotionally invaded adult. Every cult leader knows that.

It's no wonder they're scared that Islamists want to take over the world. They are projecting their own desires.

The Pentagon has said the next 18 months could prove crucial for the international mission in Afghanistan, after more than eight years of efforts to stabilise the country.

By "stablise" they of course mean "crush".

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(2) A sign of growing automatism in news forums:

A commenter (obviously in a trance state) on an article about two dead British soldiers literally channels the words of a politician or a military commander giving the usual perfunctory eulogy for a fallen soldier:

R.I.P., both of you brave soldiers. I respect what you have done and I have sincere sympathy for your families and friends. You will not be forgotten.

"You will not be forgotten" is the most used, most mendacious line of bolshoi in the world. By his family maybe, but by anyone else? The chances are slim. That's why they put those lists at memorial sites - to make it appear our "heroes" haven't been forgotten.

But Canada has even forgotten the living wounded in its midst, and is not even sure how many of them there are.

Related: Federal Officials given free hand to ignore injured Canadian Forces veterans

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(3) The media are getting their "news" from Twitter.

The mistaken report of Mr. [Gordon] Lightfoot’s death, which appears to have originated on Twitter, was carried by the Canwest News Service as well as the Web sites of the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, and Calgary Herald newspapers, all of which have since corrected their stories.

Roll over, Mark Twain.

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(4) Squeaky clean journalistic mind

Rosie DiManno at the Star advocates for "righteous war" and cites - as proof that the "modern" influence in Khandahar is superior to that of the old Taliban rule - the construction of department stores and the easy availability of porn and hashish, not to mention trash TV, and peckishly pouts that the insurgents are "spoiling everything".

In a stunning display of her tightly compartmentalized mind (a place for everything), DiManno reserves her most indignant fits of pique for such earth-shaking travesties as the politics surrounding figure skating at the Olympics.

News flash for DiManno - the Olympics have been driven by politics and corporate greed for a lot of years now, so if you want to be happy go watch Inglourious Basterds.

This email exchange (PDF format) is further proof of Rosie's level of maturity and mental acuity.

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(5) Elton John says Jesus was gay

The Catholic League condemned the comments, saying that to call Jesus a homosexual is to "label him a sexual deviant."

I laughed out loud at this one. First of all, neither John nor the Catholic League knows anything for certain about Jesus, or even know for a fact that he existed at all. They just believe it.

The fact that "faith" has become synonymous with "religion" these days shows that there is very little understanding of the teachings attributed to a man named Jesus.

By the way, the Jesus figure didn't say anything that hadn't already been said by others, which is why there is widespread conjecture that he may have been a composite figure for the sake of story-telling - much like in movies that are "based on a true story".

So it follows that when John demurs that he is "not saying to everyone that he definitely was gay ...", it's because he can't say it with any veracity since he doesn't know and nobody knows the sexual orientation of Jesus - not even the Pope himself, even if he does have shinier toys and wear fancier duds.

Secondly, it is not Elton John who labeled Jesus as a "sexual deviant" it was the Catholic League themselves.

Thirdly, not all gays are passive and gentle.

And this is what we read in the news while innocent children are dying everywhere of man's stupidity!

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Grim Reapings

(1) Last gasp of "Vaccinegate"?

Below this headline is an excerpt from a comment on the article:

Andrew Wakefield Resigns: Is Vaccinegate finally over?

If you had witnessed your child (predicted by your family doctor to never get significantly better in any way) improve dramatically with biomedical treatments that "have yet to be supported by conclusive scientific evidence," then you wouldn't really care particularly if that "conclusive scientific evidence" existed, would you? Well, that is the case for many parents pursuing the biomedical treatments that you're talking about. I KNOW many parents who are extremely GRATEFUL to those treatments for giving them back their children.

I don't mind going on record as one who is also acquainted with parents who were told to accept their child's severe autism but who bucked the system and got back a communicating child via chelation and diet. And I also know that history has shown well that anyone who bucks the prevailing power structure will be demonized, and right now, in spite of Ike's warning (video), the military/industrial complex including the Pharmers is the current prevailing power.

There's no such thing as freedom of ideas where they might actually be effective in challenging so-called norms created for us by the most powerful and supported by "science". Wherever real change has occurred, those who led the way have sacrificed everything. That's why Obama won't bring change; he has too much vested interest in the status quo, and some of his millions (where did he get his millions?) are invested in the pharmaceutical industry. Even physicians invest in and take bribes from the Pharmers.

An excellent historical example of change requiring great sacrifice is the fact that, because of mythical, but deeply entrenched, "science"- supported notions about women and the superiority of the male, those who campaigned for the vote were seen as dangerous radicals and were met with "apathy, ridicule, ostracism, slander, imprisonment, and almost every other form of punishment society could devise". The Fight for Freedom for Women by Rose Tremain

Wakefield's vaccine studies threatened the power structure; it's as simple as that.

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(2) The Name is the Game ... or ... Lest we Remember

Ted (Newfoundland) found this clipping on the Internet. It's a photo of the mentally ill man who tried to get too close to Joe Biden.

Right on. I'd have to be mentally ill, too, to want to get close to Biden.

Image borrowed from Rabble

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Ted also updates us on Afghanistan:

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to General David Petraeus' request to change "Operation Iraqi Freedom" to "Operation New Dawn."The change goes into effect on September 1, 2010.

Ted says:

Operation New Dawn. Wow! That just might make all those dead Iraqi's wanna just roll over in their graves in unrestrained jubilation. Just change the name and hope everybody forgets. Name changes are nothing new as major buildings have had them when they were associated with negative publicity.

I found this item on Al Jazeera early this morning:

Six Nato soldiers have been killed on the sixth day of a military offensive to gain control of a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan

Then I checked all the major MSM outlets from Canada to the US to Britain. Nary a mention. Guess they were all to busy waiting for Tiger Woods to do his silly public penance bit. Maybe a name change for this as well. Peckerhead might do it.

YYC: Publicly Penitent Peckerhead. I love alliteration.

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(3) Decomposing Canwest

Every day there's a new reason to avoid TV. Now there's a rival bid for Canwest negotiated by a company that specializes in corporate demise. Soon Canwest may have a Tombstone of its own, but since it will result in Goldman Sachs having even more control over Canadian media, it will be like a horribly mutated phoenix rising from the bier.

Don't be fooled by the statement that the Catalyst Group is a Toronto-based private equity fund - it is a multi-national, US and UK-based corporation operating on "a global scale" and backed in this endeavour by Goldman Sachs.

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(4) Koalas - falling or being pushed?

Internet scuttlebut has it that Australian Koalas are dying of AIDS and STDs (Chlamydia), and their numbers are fast decreasing. But wait, there are other articles that don't mention the diseases but say that the little critters are actually overcrowded on Kangaroo Island where there aren't enough eucalyptus trees to feed their increasing numbers, so they will eventually starve to death.

Strange. First you read that Chlamydia is killing Koalas, and then you read that lack of the Chlamydia bacterium "that acts as a natural population control" is causing the too rapid increase on Kangaroo Island.

Wikipedia has more on this difference of opinion, but it does seem to be an Australian version of our seal hunt controversy.

It appears there's a left and a right in Koala land where, because these animals are cute and fuzzy, some people are upset that they're supposedly sick and want to protect them, and others consider them a nuisance and don't mind if they die off.

In fact, various methods to reduce fertility have been tried - such as using darts to shoot hormones into their backsides.

If they do have an AIDS-like condition, I imagine more than just hormones have been shot into them. They used to be so numerous they would seem like lab rats to scientists, and there has been reproductive experimentation going on with other marsupials, so it's hard to believe the Koala weren't included.

News from the rabbit hole

(1) Canada's injustice system

D. Pratt of Justice for Hassan Diab writes: Check out the latest opinion piece about Dr. Hassan Diab's case.

“Diab Case Poses Serious Threat to Canadian Rights and Freedoms”

Human Rights Watch and international lawyers’ organizations have condemned France’s counter-terrorism judiciary for using intelligence as courtroom evidence, a practice that is inconceivable in a Canadian criminal court.

YYC: Actually, it is conceivable to CSIS and the courts that have consented to try the Kafkaesque Security Certificate cases.

From Brian O.: You may be interested in this blog post by Dr. Dawg concerning Hassan Diab

... the case against Diab is crumbling quickly, and the Crown has been seeking delay after delay in the actual hearing so it can get its act together.

YYC: The government lawyers invariably come across as embarrassingly sophomoric and inept. I've noticed that in the Harkat hearings as well.

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(2) Oxy - moronic

Ted writes:

Afghan deaths in 'friendly fire'

It looks like we are talking about a friendly fire incident. A Nato aircraft bombed this district in Kunduz and killed at least 15 tribal fighters, who are enlisted by the tribal leaders to fight on behalf of the Afghan government. So they killed people who were fighting on their side.

So what's the spin gonna be this time. We missed our target by 300 metres. Or the pilot couldn't really get a good look because he was going to fast. OROROR.

The pressure is on Obama to get out of Afghanistan before the next election. Too many American voters are totally against this war and with his popularity below 50%,he has to find an end to this war, or at least some good news, before the election in November. He has almost 3 years b4 his next shot with voters but November will be crucial. And this latest event will not sit well with Afghani's.

YYC: There is no term more Orwellian than "friendly fire". And it happens far too often for any rational person to believe that the NATO commanders aren't simply flying by the seats of their pants.

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(3) Friendly Virus

Mareta writes:

I fell down a major Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole today - thanks to a blog recommended by the Corbett Report: The Age of Artificial Human Selection

which led to Boyd Graves.com:

"The 1971 flowchart makes it perfectly clear, the design, intent and purpose of the U.S. Special Virus program. As Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS says, 'The HIV/AIDS virus is the result of many steps in the laboratory, it was no accident.' The 1971 flowchart provides absolute evidence of the United States' intent to kill its own citizens and others... We are greater than any federal virus program. We are the human race!" Dr. Boyd E. Graves Sept. 28, 2002

and: The History and Flowchart of the Development of AIDS

Boyd Graves claimed that Tetrasil (tetrasilver tetroxide) was a cure for AIDS. Oddly, although he was using tetrasil, he died in December 2009 at the age of 57, but so far I haven't been able to find out what he died from. Of course this leaves the door open to more conspiracy - some say his early death is proof that tetrasil doesn't work, others say he was "off-ed" somehow.

Here's an obituary I found and here are a pair of emails that supposedly describe his final days.

There is a lot research into using oxygen for curing cancer (treating cancer with hemp oil also seems to be an oxygenation process) and silver has traditionally been used as an antimicrobial agent so it's not totally off the wall to suggest that tetrasil might at least mitigate the secondary effects of AIDS - namely cancers and infections.

Graves had no support from AIDStruth.org who labelled him as an "AIDS denialist". They are quoted as saying:

(Boyd Graves) " ...found an NCI "flowchart" which he misinterpreted as demonstrating the existence of this programme, and initiated several unsuccessful lawsuits against the US government."

Patent for tetrasilver tetroxide issued Oct 14, 1997

More stuff from Marvin Antelman (the inventor)

Finally, a quote from the article "The Age of Artificial Human Selection" that I find to be very telling:

As Boyd Graves stressed, the people responsible knew that if certain demographics were targeted, the general public would not be alarmed. And in fact, Graves seems to have been right. Compared to the victims of the terrorist attacks in London and New York for example, the tens of millions who have died due to AIDS receive disproportionally low amount of attention, from the general public, as well as from the people in the truth movement. In the words of Graves: "Be here now for us, give us a chance to be there for you."

Interesting, isn't it?

Who knows if he was on to something or not. It seems that tetrasil helps some people - perhaps he just started it too late when his immune system was already too weak. Who knows.

YYC: When you look at the people who've been afflicted with AIDS - gays, blacks, haemophiliacs - we'd be stupid not to wonder if they could have been the uninformed test subjects of some sort of Black Ops eugenics program.

And after seeing The Times of Harvey Milk, one also has to realize that gay activists are targets - and more so if they come up against the Pharmers.

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(4) Canada: a US protectorate

From YYC: Eric Margolis has turned out to be quite a babe in the woods when it comes to what's going on in Haiti. Quote:

Haiti really needs is to be again temporarily administered by a great power like the US or France. The UN should declare Haiti a protectorate of one or more of the great powers.

Gee, do you suppose he'll get a thank-you note from the Penta-con for supporting their takeover of Haiti?

I wonder if Margolis would like to have his own country arbitrarily overrun by the US. Oh, I guess that's already the case (video). Not to mention that Wall Street now has full control of Whistler.

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