Cynical Sunday

Contributor: "YYC"

Just want to say a word of thanks to all of the people who contribute content to this blog, making my life easier and so much more interesting.

I especially want to thank today's contributors, "Yo Momma" and "Timmy Timbit" for their thoughtful and thought-provoking entries.  Both have more or less apologized for their cynicism, but to my ear it sounds like logic (given the observed trends) and common sense - though we all know what a cynic YayaCanada has always been.

Yo! Wave goodbye to ownership

Parasites fumigating the host?

Contributor: "Yo Momma"

BofA Donates Then Demolishes Houses to Cut Glut of Foreclosures
Bank of America Corp. (BAC), faced with a glut of foreclosed and abandoned houses it can’t sell, has a new tool to get rid of the most decrepit ones: a bulldozer.

This sounds like Shock Doctrine. All those houses people struggled to pay for but are now foreclosed were never meant to be resold. With the excuse of concern about dropping prices due to too much supply, they are bulldozing them, much like how farmers threw excess milk into ditches * during the great depression.

How much do you want to bet that they will be replaced with luxury housing in the nice areas and cheaply built population-dense apartment towers where they want everyone else to live. In any case, it sounds like a way to put people where they want them. I know the suggestion seems to be that they will bulldoze only the decrepit houses, but I figure this is just an excuse to get the process going.

They might even rebuild with materials that can be easily destroyed  - like the container buildings in Germany.  They claim that they are expecting lots of immigration and anticipating this massive swell of population growth that the elite seem to be obsesssing about. So I figure they are going to house the hordes until they kill them with the kindness of science and medicine, then bulldoze the dwellings into the ground.

Wow, what a cynical bitch, eh?

I think it has everything to do with government ownership of land - or, more clearly, the beginning of the end of private land ownership (except for the super rich). This was also the subject, I think, of the video "Bugman" recently posted.

In the states, I wonder if the idea may be to have lots of government land to trade against IMF debt at some later time. The ultimate goal would be to have all land and resources under the jurisdiction of a global government and the easiest way to do this is through debt repayment - just as they are doing in Ireland and Greece.

Basically, those houses (and more importantly, the land they stand on) are no longer available for private ownership and this move will continue slowly until most people are renting government-owned living units. My impression is  that slowly over time they will move people into over-crowded cities, into cheap mass housing, possibly with allotments of basic needs such as food and energy, and when they finally die off those living units will be demolished.

Also, and this is Grade A cynicism, I think they are also trying to discourage travel through cost and irritation for the simple reason that they want to keep everyone in one spot in order to kill them (actually that sounds pretty tin foil hattish). If the "elite" and their minions really want to get rid of us, and if they really are building their underground compounds in South America to wait out nuclear fallout, it really does seem to indicate that WWIII is a show put on between the superpowers to get rid of us (this sounds so friggin' paranoid....).

Who's to say that Russia, China, France, the US, the UK and Israel don't all have an agreement that when everyone has their bomb shelters ready they will go to war against us and nuke the place.  Of course, it will look like a war against Muslim extremism or for democracy or against China, or whatever ...

The fighting over the planet they can do at the same time or even afterwards with robots if they want to.

Nukes are a very efficient solution but I think even the "elite" are not completely convinced that they can comfortably survive nuclear Armageddon. Maybe that's why they are still putting so much effort into vaccines, and blood sucker medical vectors (Microsoft Seeks Do-Let-The-Bed-Bugs-Bite Patent), GMO's, Codex ...

In any case,  I am convinced that when they are convinced that they can survive and thrive after a nuclear Armageddon, when they know they can clone anything they want back into existence, when they know how to live underground for an extended period of time and not suffer deficiencies, when they think they know what to expect and feel confident that they and their progeny will survive and thrive, I think they will nuke everything from their underground compounds.

It's kind of like fumigating the planet to get rid of the pests, to emerge into a brand new world - a blank slate, a fresh start -  but this time humanity will be populated with the best of the best, living in technological luxury,  immortal or close to it, and they will have wonderful adventures in space and ... and ....

***barf***

What's really ironic is that normally, people fumigate to get rid of parasites - bed bugs, lice, etc - but in this case, the parasites have decided that pretty soon they will no longer need the host and so are planning to fumigate it instead.

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* Dairy farmers are still throwing away excess milk all over the world. Examples here and here.

Related articles:

Reuters: The [US] government effectively owns more foreclosed homes than private-sector banks, thrifts and credit unions combined.

Rabble: When is a bailout not a bailout?  ... many of the mortgages [the Canadian government] bought up (starting with $75 billion in the fall of 2008 and then adding another $50 billion a few months later) could still go into default.

Who owns the world? Queen Elizabeth is the largest landowner on earth

Image borrowed from here.

Al Qaeda in Libya: Who loves you baby?

The enemy who was my most despised enemy, but then became the enemy of another of my enemies, is now my friend.

Contributor: "Timmy Timbit"

The US and NATO have apparently decided it's okay to support Al Qaeda "terrorists" in Libya (or are we supposed to call them freedom fighters again?) since Al Qaeda fighters comprise a significant part of the rebel forces arrayed against Gadhafi. Many of the rebel forces regard Gadhafi as an apostate because he is not as dedicated a Muslim fundamentalist as they are, and furthermore Gadhafi has curtailed the power of fundamentalist Muslim clerics in Libya and put in place laws leading to the liberation of women from traditional oppressive customs and religious edicts.

By the West recognizing the rebel forces as Libya's official government, it means all the money from the Gadhafi regime that had been frozen by the West comes up for grabs by the new government, besides whatever additional funds the West provides them in order to support their revolution.

The track record of the US in maintaining controls on the funds dispersed in Afghanistan and Iraq has been lousy with much of the money spent without any accountability as to where it went and who ultimately got it.

It would be surprising if at least some of the money that the new Libyan government accesses with US/NATO approval is not funneled to Al Qaeda elements or supporters who will then spend it as they see fit.  However, the fact that Al Qaeda terrorists have the potential now to access millions in new funding and wield significant power or influence in a new, post-Gadhafi Libyan government apparently causes no worries for the NATO forces or western politicians.

Perhaps in the greater scheme of things the "war on terror" serves an ultimate purpose not discussed in the mass media or in polite circles. If terrorism is being used to provide an excuse for imposing even stricter controls over our traditional freedoms and liberties in the West, perhaps in preparation for a major economic depression or collapse and the associated turmoil that would accompany it, and if the never-ending-in-our-lifetime "war on terror" is also serving as a justification for a perpetually expanding and extremely profitable military-security-industrial-complex (one of the few industries left in the US is armaments manufacturing after much of the rest of their manufacturing base was shipped to Mexico and then Asia) along with the continued intervention and insertion of western military assets in oil rich and strategically important regions of the world by the US and NATO countries, an actual reduction in terrorism, or a reduction in the threats from terrorism, probably could be considered by some to be counterproductive.

But maybe I am just being too cynical.

See the two articles below:

US Recognizes Al-Qaeda War Criminals As Libya's Official Government
Unbelievable, though not unexpected, departure from reality.

... the US has now recognized the Libyan rebels as the country's "legitimate government" allowing the US to directly fund, arm, and support with US troops, the Al-Qaeda tied war criminals operating out of Benghazi. The recent farcical move indicates that France's Foreign Minister Alain Juppé has failed in his threats and posturing to get Libya's Qaddafi to stand down, and that the NATO-backed war of aggression is about to reach new heights of brutality most likely including the involvement of US, UK, and French troops on the ground.

Operating out of the Libyan cities of Benghazi, Darna, and Tobruk, Libyan rebels themselves have admitted that many of their members are drawn from Al Qaeda.

Libya's War for "The Abaya": Women's Rights and NATO's Support of Pro-Islamist Rebels

For European bankers, it's a war for Libya's Gold. For oil corporations, it's a war for Cheap Crude (now threatening to destroy Libya's oil infrastructure, just like Iraq). But for Libya's women, it's a fierce, knock down battle over the Abaya— an Islamic style of dress that critics say deprives women of self-expression and identity.

Hillary Clinton and President Sarkozy might loath to admit it, but the desire to turn back the clock on women rights in Libya constitutes one of the chief goals for NATO Rebels on the Transitional Council.

For NATO Rebels—who are overwhelmingly pro-Islamist, regardless of NATO propaganda (see www.obamaslibya.com) — it's a matter of restoring social obedience to Islamic doctrine. However the abaya is more than a symbol of virtue and womanly modesty. It would usher in a full conservative doctrine, impacting women's rights in marriage and divorce, the rights to delay childbirth to pursue education and employment—all the factors that determine a woman's status of independence.

Image borrowed from here.

God save our polar bears

... from Junk Science!

Contributor: "YYC"

Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended
US government conducts 'integrity inquiry' on federal biologist amid lobbying by oil firms for Arctic permits

"This is a cautionary tale with a deeply chilling message for any federal scientist who dares to publish groundbreaking research on conditions in the Arctic."

I would hardly characterize Monnett's conclusions about the dead polar bears as "groundbreaking research"; I would not even call it science. It is not science to conclude without any apparent investigation that the bears drowned because of global warming.  In fact, there was no proof provided that the bears did indeed drown.  For one thing, they are strong swimmers and can travel that way for miles.

Also, no mention is made of the ages of the bears; they do die of old age, and from other causes.

Examples of other causes:

► Oil spills could diminish or contaminate polar bear food sources.

► Toxic chemicals from worldwide industrial activities are carried to the Arctic by air currents, rivers, and oceans. Arctic animals in higher food chain levels concentrate greater amounts of toxic chemicals in their tissues than those below them.
 
► Radionuclides, from nuclear waste dumping in the Russian Arctic, may have detrimental effects on polar bears, and the arctic ecosystem as a whole.

► Polar bears are especially susceptible to the parasitic roundworm Trichinella, which they contract by feeding on infected seals. Trichinella larvae encyst in various parts of the polar bear's body, usually muscle tissue. If enough larvae encyst in one area, such as the heart, the tissue becomes severely damaged. Death may result.

It is especially not science to say that "Drowning-related deaths of polar bears may increase in the future if the observed trend of regression of pack ice and/or longer open water periods continues."

"May" and "if" are merely guesses, and are of no help to those of us who remain on the sidelines waiting to see some true consensus, or at the very least to experience some personal evidence, that global warming is indeed occurring and progressing at an alarming rate.

Here also is a disturbing statement from that link about Monnett:

Oil firms, which want to drill in the pristine environment of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas, have been complaining of delays caused by environmental reviews. This month Obama issued an order to speed up Arctic drilling permits.

As voracious as the oil quest is, I personally wouldn't put it past those complainers to have found a way to melt the Arctic ice themselves - they have the money and the motive, and let us not forget the technology.

Here's some related reading:

Polarbeargate?
Contains a link to a video of a Greenpeace spokesperson admitting to "emotionalizing the issue"

Climate Change Likely Caused Polar Bear to Evolve Quickly - (March 2010)

The sequencing of the oldest mammalian genome from an ancient polar bear jawbone provides clues about these animals' fraught relationship with climate change

In other words, there have been a number of past "climate changes" and we still have polar bears, stronger than ever.

Churchill's polar bear jail being upgraded - (August 2009)

Bears that refuse to stay away from inhabited areas are placed in the compound. Bears are released when ice forms on the bay where they hunt seals, their main source of food, and remain on the ice flows until about July.

The bears would manage a late freeze just fine if they didn't have to contend with people.

Scientists Say ... (November 2009)  - a YYC blog entry that discusses a rumour, promulgated by the Toronto Star no less, that polar bears are so hungry they have resorted to cannibalism.  It contains an admission from the World Wildlife Fund that polar bears are not an endangered species.

It also discusses the organization called "Plane Stupid" that produced a video making a direct connection between air travel and the deaths of polar bears.  So you see, that could account for those fluffy corpses Monnett witnessed.  Four bodies = four plane trips.

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Image: If anyone knows the origin of the polar bear image used in this blog entry, please let me know and I will give proper credit.

Bell Canada: Racism R Us

UPDATED July 30:  See Ed. Note and Related item below article.

Contributor: "Ron"

As regularly reported in leading Israeli newspapers:

...it's well known that the "national institutions" - the Jewish Agency and Jewish National Fund - primarily exist to enable institutional discrimination based on ethnicity while clearing the state from accusations that it deviates from universal norms common to liberal democracies [quoted from A ridiculous war against the gaps - by Meron Benvenisti, ex-Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem].

That of course does not stop Bell Media from proudly sponsoring the Racist JNF.
By so doing, Bell Canada is sponsoring and promoting JNF’s “institutional discrimination based on ethnicity” to Canadians of all ages.  In the name of transparency, Bell should change their marketing slogan to “la racisme est Bell”.

JNF’s racism and complicity in ethnic cleansing has also been reported in Canada as far back as 1991 by the CBC’s Fifth Estate and in a feature article by Bob Hepburn in the Toronto Star (See "Wiped off the Map")

Bell is one of Canada’s largest media companies, so they cannot pretend they don’t know.

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Ed Note (added July 30, 9:45 AM): In the interests of always backing up our assertions on this blog, YYC apologizes for not including a link that shows Bell sponsorship of a JNF event. Here is that link: Negev Gala 2011.  The ranking shows that Bell Media not only contributed, but was one of the two most generous contributors to that event.

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JNF Scored Over ‘Jews-only’ Sales

Electronics Vendor: "Forget about big brother..."

watch out for little brother and mommy and daddy. 

Contributor: "YYC"

It’s Someone Much Closer You Have to Worry About

With congress busily holding hearings and crafting legislation to prevent companies like Apple and Google from invading you [sic] privacy, this Retrevo Gadgetology study illustrates that consumers may have just as much to fear from people they know than [sic] big corporations.

I hate to provide advertisement for any online commercial endeavour, but the company that claims to have conducted this study is contributing to the global plan to have everyone living in fear and mistrust of one another. They represent the "dark horse" of technocracy that we mentioned earlier this month, actively taking the child's game "I spy with my little eye" to sinister extremes - a prime example of creating a problem in order to sell the solution.

I mean, if you seriously think your family is spying on you, wouldn't you want to spy on them also?

Interestingly, the company contacted me as potential spreader of their good word, which I don't see as good at all, and I'm hoping readers will consider whether they really need the latest electronic spy toy, or need to swallow the latest edicts on what or whom to fear next.

I wonder whether their ungrammatical use of the word "than" in place of "as" reveals a lack of education or an attempt to induce you to come away with the impression they said "more" to fear, rather than "just as much" to fear.

They do seem to believe that governments have our best interests at heart, and they certainly wish to profit from big business, so maybe it's just that they're not too swift.

The website  - for kids - where I found the above spy gear image boasts: "Spy play promotes imaginative and abstract thinking skills". But this isn't play; the camera really does take pictures that can be downloaded to a kid's computer.

The decoder ring we used to find in a box of Cracker Jacks sparked real imagination and was meant to protect our families from outside bad boys.  Let's keep it that way, shall we?

Better still, although this may seem too reactionary, could we ever return to the kind of peaceful prize found in Nabisco Shredded Wheat in the late 1940's? I can still recall the heady thrill of putting together a  "Toy Town" village.  Seriously.  At the age of 8 or 9, I found the whole process of cutting out, colouring and constructing a whole village very exciting.  Maybe, on some collective unconscious level, we kids were compensating for all the homes overseas that were blasted to smithereens in WWII.

War wasn't wanted anymore by then, but now war is again wanted by the same entities who advocated it before, and so kids are being trained to see enemies everywhere, and to enjoy games of destruction.

Norway: The trap widens

Contributor: "YYC"

Did Norwegians die for a planned "greater good" - the overt purpose being the rooting out of "extremism" in society?  It's looking more and more like that all the time, with the investigation having now spread from Norway to the UK, while numerous people are said to be attempting to distance themselves from Anders Breivik.

Paul Ray denies being the "Richard the Lionhearted" lauded as his mentor in Breivik's so-called manifesto (see YouTube video). Which makes it seem all the more likely that Breivik is an "intelligence" plant, and that the real goal is to curtail freedom of speech and resistance of any kind to the New World Order.

Yesterday I suggested that Breivik's role was to demonstrate to the world what Christian vigilante movements would ultimately be capable of, and Lionheart, who writes at length of his own innocence on his blog, while seeming quite keen to finger other possible suspects, is a prime example of the kind of polarization of society that I think the global agenda has actually been trying to create, so that eventually the activities and speech of entire populations can be monitored and controlled.

Here's an audio interview on Paul Ray's blog in which he expresses his views on Islam and his certainty that Islamists plan to take over Britain.  Such people don't seem to realize they have fallen into a trap set for them, and that they are unwittingly helping to pave the way for losses of freedom for everyone.

It's true that "the people united will never be defeated".  The people who want to control this planet believe it too, so the plan is to divide and conquer.

See all YYC articles on the Norway tragedy

Wiped off the Map: Revisited

Contributor: "YYC"

In January of 2009, Ron Saba provided us with detailed information and a CBC video regarding Canadian contributions to a park in Israel funded by the tax exempt Jewish National Fund, and the fact that "Canada Park" was built over three Arab villages from which the residents had been expelled and to which they were never allowed to return, many of them and their children still subsisting in refugee camps in Jordan.

Today, that article had a visit from another blogger whose comment included links to the same excellent video, which reminded me that it might be time to revisit the issue, and the question: Who is it that really wants to wipe whom "off the map"?

In the news: Either Israel is getting back a bit of its own, or else the following is an excuse to establish even more settlements - since building more houses tends to drive down the prices of existing ones - on UN-designated Palestinian lands:

Housing protests roil Israel as tent cities pop up
On Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv’s version of Park Avenue, a burgeoning tent city has sprung up amid crowded cafes and its canopy of ficus trees.  The squatters are protesting soaring housing prices ...

Jeepers, they've even named a street after the biggest bankster on earth.  But it's interesting to see the quote regarding how Israelis were turned into "zombies" by fear propaganda.  That's the name of the game, isn't it?  To turn us all into zombies?

Norway: Falling into a trap?

Contributor: "YYC"

Norway will not be intimidated by terror attacks, vows prime minister
The country would "stand firm in defending our values" and the "open, tolerant and inclusive society", he said. "The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation."

Which explains the possible purpose of a video like this one - to shift thinking in a less-democratic direction:

Norway massacre copycat?
Fears Anders Breivik 'Manifesto' breeding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GOyUxsjZfI

This is not a fear, it is a hope on the part of the organizers of the New World Order. Norwegians have been kept in a constant state of panic ever since the bombing and shootings:

On Wednesday morning, Oslo's main station was closed after a suspicious suitcase was discovered on a bus. All train and bus services out of the centre were halted while police investigated the suspect case, which turned out to be harmless.

Oslo police also caused panic by putting out an alert saying they were looking for a "dangerous and unstable" man who claimed a connection with Breivik. But shortly after releasing the alert, police said they had wrongly connected a mentally ill man with Friday's massacre. "This has nothing to do with Friday's case," a police official said. "The news release was sent out in error. This is a routine mission by the police."

This psychological reinforcement of the original shock is a tactic that eventually creates a mental shift.  If the people feel they can't trust anybody, Breivik's vigilantiism may seem more attractive.  And the fact that he is a "Christian" may make it all the more palatable - almost anything can be justified with scripture.  The idea that there are all sorts of "cells" with the same beliefs, compounded by untrustworthy authorities doubting it, may simply lend credence to the idea.  If others are this alienated, then my own feelings of alienation are justified.

The aim seems definitely to be the creation of rifts among populations that have to live in close proximity to one another.  If the people are fighting one another, they won't be able to unite and fight the global agenda.  And the animosity will provide plenty of excuses for a general "crackdown", regardless of race or citizenship, complete with searches and surveillance.

Think about it.  Since 2001 we have been encouraged to hate Muslims, yet more and more of them have been inserted into non-Muslim societies through immigration.  We are even encouraged to suspect the Chinese because of their "godless" commie ways (even though our countries court business with China). And when something goes wrong, these immigrants are suspected or outright blamed.

I still recall from the 50s the one liner, "I'ma just offa da boat and already somea dirty DP asteala my job."  But it wasn't really funny.  During hard financial times, when finding work is difficult, it's the newest immigrants who are resented the most.

What about the families of  any (were there any?) "white" children who were killed by Breivik?  Will they begin to think that if it weren't for the immigrants present at the camp their child would still be alive?  It all depends on what the media emphasize, and so far it doesn't look good.

From WRH: The Missing Lesson from Norway: Never trust a man in uniform

Actually, the Toronto G20 accomplished that for us Canadians.  The problem is, whether you trust them or not, they've got the guns, eh?  And some people who don't trust them might not mind so much if they get sicced onto people they don't like anyway.

Norway: Those reptilian eyes

Contributor: "YYC"

Are you curious as to why the Telegraph would post an image of Breivik, his sister and his mother that could so easily be used by reptilian believers?  Click on the image below to enlarge it, and look at the eyes (with a magnifying glass, if need be) to see what I mean.  They've been photoshopped to look like snakes' eyes.

Now look at the more recent photos of Brievik, here and here.  At his most Satanic self, his eyes look perfectly normal.

It seems there's a deliberate attempt to exploit the more extreme interest in this case and play it for all it's worth.

Related on YYC:

Norway: Nice daddy the shooter had

Norway: Disinfo galore

Norway: Like-minded "cells" the real enforcement target?

Norway: Analysis Galore

Norway killer's manifesto and Canada's "war criminals" 

Norway tragedy already exploited by control freaks: ... this could happen in Canada ... Canadians far too complacent

Norway: Nice daddy the shooter had

UPDATE:  Google Translation from Norwegian - Mass killing man copied the "Unabomber" word for word  Just as we suspected. How stupid and uninformed do the spooks behind this event think the real world is?  If you didn't download the manifesto when you had the chance, you're tough out of luck because I can't find it anywhere now.  Somebody doesn't want to give us a chance to pick holes in it.  No kidding, eh?  And you thought we had a free Internet.  You look for yourself; even torrented versions have been disappeared.  No wait, here's a copy (it might take quite a while to load; it's a big file 4.5 mb, and there's a lot of traffic to it, no doubt).

Contributor: "YYC"

Norway Shooter's Father Says He Wished Killer Had Committed Suicide

 “I will have to live with this shame for the rest of my life. People will always link me with him.”

No matter how much trouble your son is in, would you actually wish for him to kill himself?  Would you think first of your own safety and reputation?  If you were a career politician type, you very well might.  His father was apparently a "diplomat".

With a father like this, all it would take to brainwash Breivik would be to provide a kindly, fatherly influence.

Question:  Where is his mother?  Well, here she is in a video showing that she is a reptilian monster.  It's traditional to blame the mother for everything, of course.  And the Telegraph gratuitously brands him a "mummy's boy" after reading Breivik's written story.

Related on YYC:

Norway: Disinfo galore

Norway: Like-minded "cells" the real enforcement target?

Norway: Analysis Galore

Norway killer's manifesto and Canada's "war criminals" 

Norway tragedy already exploited by control freaks: ... this could happen in Canada ... Canadians far too complacent

NORWAY: Disinfo galore

Contributor: "YYC"

The latest Guardian article states that Breivik "killed more than 60"; they earlier said 80; and then they said "it was clear" that 85 had died on the island.  And that's just from the Guardian.  Now, the CBC is saying that a total of 76 people died in both attacks. This is just one more sign out of many that sensationalized wild guesses and deliberate disinfo are being fed to the masses, to keep them in a state of shocked confusion; to keep them dependent on media reports, unable to think for themselves.

The CBC also reports that Breivik's lawyer said:  ... it was too early to determine if an insanity plea would be part of his defence.

It's not too early for the rest of us to determine it, because that's how these cases routinely go.

Conjuring up images of 9/11, they reported that a car parked in the ferry parking lot yielded up evidence of explosives.

Back to the Guardian report:

Describing Brievik as a "very cold" person, Lippestad added: "This whole case has indicated that he is insane." ...but [he] did not understand why the killer had chosen him.

Like the mind-controlled Vince li and others of that ilk (see on YYC: "Lone Assassins" - protected for jobs well done?), this guy will likely escape the usual lot of cold-blooded murderers.  And he probably did not choose his own lawyer at all, but was told what lawyer to choose.  The CBC article states the lawyer is a member of the Labour Party, Breivik's political target.  "Intelligence" may not be very bright, but they do enjoy the ironic.

The Guardian again:

"He talks about two cells in Norway, but several cells abroad." Noregian police sources, however, have cast doubt on such claims.

Maybe the Norwegian police don't credit it, but you can be sure Mossad, CSIS, the CIA, MI5 and 6, and probably the ISI do (in fact have created a number of similar scenarios, trying to convince us that there are terrorists on every street corner), and this will add delicious fuel to the witch hunts already taking place.

Among a set of unanswered concerns are why the Norwegian intelligence arm placed Breivik on a watch list after buying fertiliser in Poland that may have been used to build the Oslo bomb but then took no action.

Anybody with any common sense can answer that question.  Like 9/11, they knew what was going to happen and they planned for it to happen.  They also planted the fertilizer story.  Have we even been told of any scientific analysis that confirms the type of bomb that was used?

They also chose a remote place for the shootings to take place, so that police had to drive a long way to reach the scene, which accounts for how many Breivik was able to kill and also for the length of time it took for police to arrive.

Whether Norway did or did not have adequate air emergency service, on 9/11 North America certainly had adequate NORAD service, so one has to assume they would have been deliberately diverted.

If it weren't so tragic it would be laughable that ambulances were held up because police were trying to "secure the area".  Secure it from what if it was aleady so difficult to get in or out?  This is what comes from blindly following orders - efficiency when needed, confusion also when needed.  It doesn't matter what our brains and logic tell us; we must secure the area.

One local claim suggested Breivik was initially intent on raising money on the stock market to establish a European anti-Islam group, before later helping fund the attacks by applying for 25 different credit cards.

Now that's just sheer gossip, but designed to draw suspicion away from the shooter having been funded by "intelligence".  Also convenient is that the former PM left (presumably by car) just before Breivik arrived "on a ferry".  Well-timed, I would say.

Well, it's refreshing at least to see the more recent photos of him.  He is very ordinary looking after all, compared to the alleged Facebook photos, except for the fact that he appears mesmerized, robotic.

Related on YYC:

Norway: Like-minded "cells" the real enforcement target?

Norway: Analysis Galore

Norway killer's manifesto and Canada's "war criminals" 

Norway tragedy already exploited by control freaks: ... this could happen in Canada ... Canadians far too complacent

Lest we forget Libya

... while watching events in Norway.

Contributor: "YYC"

NATO BOMBS HOSPITAL killing at least 7 people

"In this whole area there is no military"

They've done this before, elsewhere, using cluster bombs, no less.

Will Canada be adding NATO to its list of "war criminals"?

Related: NATO war crimes - Taking Action

Norway: Like-minded "cells" the real enforcement target?

Contributor: "YYC"

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems the only photo we have seen of the accused shooter is one taken from a Facebook account that no longer exists, if it ever did exist.  As I said before, it doesn't seem real.

And this so-called "first video" of him just plain isn't.  I also strongly suspect his manifesto is plagiarized by a bunch of heavy-handed literal-minded spooks.

More and more he looks like an intelligence operative, and the real target may be revealed in his lawyer's revelation that:

Breivik revealed during the hearing the existence of two other "cells" involving like-minded individuals in Norway.

Could it be that his forum activities were intended to ferret out thought crimes that only the manufacture of a real crime could justify cracking down on?

Note that it also appears the media were excluded from the hearing, and "The judge said it was "too early" to determine if further remand hearings, and the trial itself, will be held in public" - which would further tend to keep the shooter's true identity secret.

The stench is all-pervasive. Where are the people who know him personally, recently? If they haven't found any yet, they will have no credibility if and when they finally appear.

I might as well say this too: these horrific events took place on July 22, which is a "master number", according to Chaldean numerology, similar in character to the number 11 (a number of treachery and "muzzled" expression) but which carries the connotation of surprise, not knowing where one's disaster is coming from:

... he appears to offer no defense against a ferocious tiger which is attacking him. It is a warning number of illusion and delusion, a good person who lives in a fool's paradise; a dreamer of dreams who awakens only when surrounded by danger ... it is a warning and its meaning should be carefully noted.

And what are the media already trumpeting?  That we are too complacent.  That we need to wake up and get ourselves more surveillance, more fake security.

Furthermore, no self-respecting "fundamentalist Christian" would use occult imagery in thought or deed - it is considered to be Satanic - and so is Freemasonry.

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Norway: Analysis Galore

Norway killer's manifesto and Canada's "war criminals" 

Norway tragedy already exploited by control freaks: ... this could happen in Canada ... Canadians far too complacent

Norway: Analysis Galore

Contributor: "Bugman"

This whole Norway deal really does not add up.

A lone nut setting off a car bomb roughly at the same time he is gallivanting around an island located at least an hour away from Oslo. Superman would be proud of him!

The explosive used is supposed to have been a fertilizer bomb. The estimated  power of the explosion would have required a boxcar full of fertilizer, all stuffed in the trunk of a car.

The gunman rampaged around the island for 90 minutes before police finally showed up.

Is this another giant cover-up, like 9/11 or 7/7?  Time will tell.

Lendman: The Oslo Attacks: Comment and Analysis
Norway supports Palestinian independence ... declined to purchase Israeli military products ...

Blumenthal: Anders Behring Breivik, a perfect product of the Axis of Islamophobia
As horrific as Breivik’s actions were, he can not be dismissed as a “madman" ...was not a “lone wolf” terrorist.

Tarpley: Norway Terror Attacks a False Flag:
More Than One Shooter on Island; Oslo Bomb Drill Just Concluded; Was It NATO’s Revenge for Norway’s Decision to Stop Bombing Libya?

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Ed Note:  VIDEO - Norway shooter moved to Oslo court
Advertised as "First video of Anders Breivik" - a total waste of footage unless that was Breivik driving the police van.

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Norway killer's manifesto and Canada's "war criminals" 

Norway tragedy already exploited by control freaks: ... this could happen in Canada ... Canadians far too complacent

Norway killer's manifesto and Canada's "war criminals"

Contributor: "YYC"

Police arrest second war-crimes suspect
"... thanks to tips from the public."

Congratulations, Canada. We have folks who finger felons solely on the say-so of government, even if they haven't a clue whether they are guilty or not, or whether or not the government is telling lies.

What a fine, upstanding country this is.  All set for the Brave New World Order.

No doubt, the Norway killer's manifesto, and the Canadian media's blatant use of it to frighten Canadians (see updates and links here), will induce more of this highly commendable, patriotic volunteerism.

Ontario fires: Gov't bungles evacuation

Contributor: "YYC"

Ontario probes whether evacuated families split up

Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy told CBC News Saturday that parents have been separated from their children during evacuations.

Six [northwest Ontario] communities have been partially evacuated while Cat Lake, Koocheching and Keewaywin First Nations have been fully evacuated.

That's it.  One line about the missing kids buried within a long blurb about the overall management of the fires.  And the headline seems to even question whether or not the chief was telling the truth.  So does the safety minister, apparently:

"Obviously we have done our very best to make sure that entire communities can be in a relative location for obvious reasons," Davidson said.

Obviously?  To whom?  To Davidson, obviously, but to me, and probably others, not so much.

The Star reports on an interview with Chief Adam Fiddler (so that's two chiefs saying this):

Now, the search is on to try and reunite families with the help of the Canadian Red Cross.

“People went out and we didn’t know where they landed,” he said. “We have a mom in Winnipeg, a father in Ignace and the kids are in Moosonee.”

If this was the Ontario government's "very best", then "obviously" the province is in mediocre hands.

If I had suffered through the history of Canada's native peoples, I would be quite wary of any move on the part of government to assist me, especially where my children are concerned.

The Star also provides some photos - McGuinty's right in there getting his op, but the child isn't fascinated by him.

Norway tragedy already exploited by control freaks

... this could happen in Canada ... Canadians far too complacent

Contributor: "YYC"

UPDATE 12 Noon, Sun. July 24: The re-post of Breivik's video (linked to below) has been removed, so if you haven't seen it yet and want to, you will need to sign up with YouTube and show you are old enough to watch it.  Here's the new link.

UPDATE 11:30 AM, Sun. July 24:  If you're interested, you can download the killer's 1,500 page manifesto here.  (It's only 4.4mb, so it won't take very long)  According to the NPost, it talks quite disparagingly about Canada - more specially-designed propaganda to induce Canadians to want increased "security"?

UPDATE 9:20 AM, Sun. July 24: They still haven't found anybody who knows the killer, unless you count this video of someone who claims to have known him when he was 16. He certainly implies what everybody wants to hear - that Breivik was racist. And when he says "brainwashed" he means by religious fanatics.

UPDATE 7:30 PM: Video allegedly made by Anders Behring Breivik was removed, but another uploader reposted it. He has admitted guilt, says lawyer.

Were Norwegians too complacent?

Oh, boy ... here we go with the fertiliser story * again. Is this unthinkable horror Norwegians are suffering through destined to follow the same pattern of confusion as most of the wild stories we've been subjected to every time there is a "terror" event?

I don't know ... the photo of the current suspect doesn't even look real. He's too pretty; like a Hollywood creation. No! He's David Duchovny (video) with Julian Assange's hair!

But Duchovny wouldn't hurt a fly. He cares about stray dogs and also about getting people to donate their hard-earned money so even dogs can benefit from the official drug trade while profiting the Pharmers.

I wonder if anybody is really personally acquainted with the suspect. He seems to be remembered only by people belonging to the "rightwing" political party of which he is said to have been briefly a member.

The very brevity of his membership could also indicate infiltration for the purpose of gathering information. And even his Facebook and Twitter accounts are only a few days old. But gee, if he quoted John Stuart Mill he must be a subversive, eh?

Someone with his name also posted to a neo-Nazi forum in 2009, but are there any forums these days not known to be infiltrated by "intelligence" attempting to get others to incriminate themselves?

The media "believes" he grew up in and studied in Oslo. Well, that should be proof enough. Of what?

The most important question is: Did somebody think Norway needed an event like this? For what reason?

That "right wing" political party he belonged to is reportedly the second largest. Is it bucking to be the largest? Because people do tend to vote more conservative when they're afraid.

Ironically, a Norwegian Secret Police report identified Islamists as that country's biggest threat (to encourage participation in Afghanistan?), but they do acknowledge that there are (emphasis mine):

Individuals who belong to anti-Islamic groups in Norway are first and foremost found on various social media. In 2011 we expect their activity to contribute to steering the public debate in the direction of increased xenophobic sentiments.

Well, isn't that an ominous little prediction! Hard to believe that intelligence thugs are bright or intuitive enough to see into the future. More likely they already knew what was planned. They certainly cover the statement that the Norway attacker is anti-Islamist, but oddly, he didn't frequent the major social media until just prior to the attacks.

Now, say he was an intelligence undercover officer, or maybe a victim of mind control. What might indicate that? Not surprisingly, an article in The Real News last November suggests as follows (emphasis mine):

Norway is de facto occupied by the USA if the essence of occupation is socio-cultural code transfer.

And there is a story that Norwegian security has, within the past decade at least, worked hand in glove with Mossad - who amused themselves by pretending to be friendly Arab interviewers in the screening of Palestinians seeking refugee status.

One thing is certain: this attack has not occurred in a vacuum. And at least one other blogster agrees, declaring:

NORWAY State-NATO Terrorism! Only military Secret Police bureaux, on government order, can organize such things...

Even NBC news is asking: Why would terrorists want to attack Norway? They've come up with a lot of suspects, but none are anti-Islam; quite the opposite.

So why would a neo-Nazi want to kill "white" kids? Were they mixing with "black" and Arab kids?

Whatever the true situation, there is little doubt this attack will be used to frighten the complacent into begging for more stringent "security". The Vancouver Sun has hastened to carry the front row banner in that march:

Attack on Norway shows terrorists like soft targets - such as Canada

... in 2006 ... only 13.3 per cent of Canadians actually thought terrorism posed a high risk ... In London, on the other hand, 86 per cent of the population thinks terrorism is a tangible risk and expects a future attack like the public transit bombings in 2005.

See where this is headed? Everyone in the UK is heavily surveilled at all times.

The most confusing thing to everybody is that the Norway suspect is not Arab, not Islamist, when that's what we've been led to fear. And the BBC is cautioning those who initially focused on al-Qaeda links:

The strong suggestion has been that the attacks are linked to domestic rather than international terrorism with a strong political agenda.

If the game plan is to establish tough, law-and-order rightwing governments world-wide that appear to be protecting the people while moving forward with the long-range goals of the global agenda, then the people would have to be encouraged to accept such rigid rule.

Aren't we lucky that we already have rightwingers in power in Canada. So maybe Norway is being pushed in that direction as well. Oh, something else: according to Wikipedia (emphasis mine):

On a per-capita basis, [Norway] is the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas outside of the Middle East, and the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the country's gross domestic product. The country maintains a Nordic welfare model with universal health care, subsidized higher education, and a comprehensive social security system. From 2001 to 2007, and then again in 2009 and 2010, Norway had the highest human development index ranking in the world.

Just when the education is going down the tubes in the rest of the world - dumbing people down so they don't know too much, and will make obedient slaves and cannon fodder - Norway has developed an advanced civilization. That can't be good, not good at all.

And, oh yes, they want to pull out of Afghanistan.

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Oslo eyewitness accounts

Utoya eyewitness accounts

Photos

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* Al Qaeda flubs again
The fertilizer said to have been found in the SUV wasn't even explosive grade.
Massive terror attack averted: RCMP
Police have recovered three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the raids.

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Norway heart image borrowed from here.

US actions reveal NATO failure in Libya

Contributor: "Bugman"

Despite what the mainstream media are saying about the recent sit-down in Libya ...

LATimes: The U.S. account of the meeting was that there was no negotiation and that Jeffrey Feltman, assistant secretary of State for the Near East, simply delivered the message that Kadafi must step down.

CatholicCulture: NATO is not interested in a cease-fire.

... other sources are reporting that after the massive show of support for Gadhafi on June 1st in Tripoly the US has accepted that they lost the war with the Libyans politically and are negotiating a cease-fire with the Libyan government in Tunis.

Negotiations have intensified between Libya and the United States to reach an agreement on a cease-fire that would allow NATO to save face. But far from giving up its ambitions to reshape North Africa, the Obama administration is already preparing the second round

They are not giving up on their intentions of grabbing the goods and pillaging the country. By recognizing the group in Benghazi they plan to pass all frozen assets to this government, under their permanent control, including the satellite and oil rights.

Their hope is that on a later date, with a foothold in the Benghazi area, to destabilize the country to the extent that they take it all anyway in revenge for losing the fight now.

Here is a report which includes some on-location photos taken by the writer:

Feltman Visits Brandishing the Dahiyeh Doctrine and Neocon “Realities”

Rather than the one-off, “no future contacts” insistence of State Department spokespersons Feltman did not travel all the way from Washington DC just to repeat a one sentence message that has been given almost daily by NATO and its superiors to the effect that the Libyan leader needed “to retire.”

Feltman came to open up a negotiations process at the behest of the White House and President Obama who, as Congressional sources have been confirming wants out of the Libyan fiasco, “like yesterday and, if necessary, NATO be damned.” At the Tunis meeting the Americans offered the Libyans safe passage anywhere for Colonel Qaddafi free from International Criminal Court arrest warrant concerns or any ICC proceeding at all. The Libyans were also told that Qaddafi could stay in Libya so long as NATO was convinced that he had indeed given up the reins of power.

Beware, all you who eat

Contributor: "Bugman"

The following article contains a 26-minute video:

USDA Attacks Rural America with Smart Meters

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined Administration officials today to announce initiatives aimed at modernizing the nation’s electric grid, including USDA’s goal to invest $250 million in smart grid equipment deployment in rural America over the next 12 months.

“Strengthening Rural Communities” is the spin. The real issue is control. Rural communities are where food is grown, and control of food is a main priority for the New World Order.

If the US Department of Agriculture gets involved, it is not Agriculture anymore, but a power grab for complete control. Farmers will be told what to grow and how to do it with this central advisory group. Homeland Security, Monsanto, everybody sits in the spiderweb, telling the farmers what is expected of them. Goodbye farmers' markets, grass-fed cows and free-running chickens.

UN Publication: Agenda 21
Chapter 32: Strengthening The Role Of Farmers
... they have limited access to resources, technology, alternative livelihood and means of production. As a result, they are engaged in the overexploitation of natural resources, including marginal lands.

VIDEO: Agenda 21 For Dummies

Related on YYC: Smart Meters; Dumb Consumers
"The dark horse of the New World Order is not Communism, Socialism or Fascism: It is Technocracy."

Chicken image borrowed from here.

Somalia Genocide: Food is the Weapon

Contributor: "Bugman"

Somalia is a sad story of misplaced foreign aid and civil wars fed by foreign intervention - all this for the dollar and black gold.

A factor not mentioned in the below articles is that the rich fishing grounds of the Somalia coast were completely and illegally fished out by the European factory fishing fleets. To add to this mess, chemical and radio-active garbage was dumped illegally in the same area, resulting in a large pollution problem along the whole coast line:

Overfishing, Waste Dumping Drove Somalis to Piracy

While some people might opine that these pirates are simply bloodthirsty criminals, the fact is that stark hardships have spurred these people to act for their own survival, at all costs.

Canadians are sending some food aid:

Sunday picnic to raise money for Somali famine relief
Somali Relief Ottawa will be sending all proceeds to Human Concern International, which works with local non-governmental organizations on the ground in Somalia.

Scarborough restaurant owner pleads for Canadian government to help Somalia
On Thursday, July 21, he welcomed federal Liberal Leader Bob Rae, past and present MPs, relief agency managers and leaders of East African communities to his small plaza restaurant, the Sinai Cafe.

... but all the Americans seem to have available at the moment is Marines and drones.

The Famine in Somalia. The Use of Food as an Instrument of Warfare
U.S. and Ethiopia Kill Somalis With Food Weapon

Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine
Economic and social chaos resulting from IMF "economic medicine" had set the stage for the launching of a US sponsored "civil war". An entire country with a rich history of commerce and economic development, was transformed into a territory.

Oh, baby! How you do creep me out

Contributor: "YYC"

Lifelike Dolls Take the Place of Real Babies for Some Parents

Parents? Hardly. Needy mental infants themselves, probably. I've never really understood why people crave control over creatures smaller and more vulnerable than themselves, but I've seen it not only in women who just love babies so much they'd like to "eat them up" (love brings out cannablism in some people, apparently), as well as in owners of cats and tiny "yapdogs" (coined by my astute daughter), the way they alternately baby-talk them, and grab at them any time they feel the urge, squeeze them, kiss them repeatedly and roughly, and then scold them fiercely once they become so neurotic they lose control of their excretory functions.

Anyway, FOX reports that the fake babies "can cost more than $12,000 (but often sell for several hundred or a few thousand dollars)". So presumably they are purchased by women with more money than feet on the ground.

(The image below is no doubt a much cheaper version.)

All of which strongly suggests that the film "Zero Population Growth" was essentially predictive programming. Here's the IMDB description of the film:

In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble.

One can theorize that the "Illuminati" (which I personally think is too good a word for the New World Order gobshites) feel that if they tell you in advance what they are planning to do it somehow absolves them of the consequences. So that we can't say we weren't warned.

Or maybe they just like to crow about it and are having a good laugh on us ... who knows?

Despite the chronic lack of funding for real education, it seems the Brooklyn school board can afford to buy realistic robot babies to teach teens that having babies is "no fun". It's one way to reduce teen pregnancies, I suppose, but also something to help them rationalize when they find themselves infertile (for which all sorts of cover reasons are concocted) that, "Oh, well, babies aren't much fun anyway, and dogs are easier to train."

It's taken me all this time to finally suspect that one of my favourite movies, "Three Days of the Condor" was also deliberately predictive - in this case about the conquest of the Middle East and the designs on Venezuela, all because of the oil fields - and not just a lucky guess.

Speaking of robots and procreation turning out to be not as joyously fulfilling as anticipated, let it be know that even the gobshite population suffers its share of disappointments:

Prince Charles' regal schnoz is reportedly out of joint over William and Kate having received more media attention in North America than he and Camilla had (Oedipus in reverse?), though he puts a more altruistic spin on it by saying that he "fears the couple’s ­glamorous image will now overshadow the worthy work of other senior royals".

And those Murdoch half-sibs are something else! But their loving father might well be willing to sell them down the tube in a survival bid, having already claimed he was "misled", a possible intended inference being that it was by his dear son James who has been accused of misleading MPs.

Yes, even "Illuminati" parents sometimes have an urge to eat up their kids.

Robot Baby Image borrowed from here.

Weather: A Broken Record

Contributor: "YYC"

Doncha wunner why the media always report the weather in sensational terms? Are they trying to convince us of something?

If it's not a record temperature (in the last 100 years of a zillion-year-old planet), then it's a record for that particular day. Does anybody really care that yesterday was the hottest day on record for July 21?

Isn't it bad enough that the weather networks can't just tell you the temp without also telling you how to feel about it?
Current Weather Fri. Jul 22, 2011, 9:00 EDT Ottawa Airport 24°C Partly cloudy Feels Like : 30

Somebody really wants us to believe in global warming. Apart from the persistent scientific disagreement about it, the media embellishments alone tend to render the concept suspect.

Citizen, spy on your neighbour

... s/he could be a faceless, nameless, illegal immigrant war criminal.

Contributor: "YYC"

I think we are beginning to get a real taste of the dark and racist agenda of the Conservative majority.

From the CBC: (emphasis mine)

The federal government has released the names of 30 suspected war criminals it says entered the country illegally, and is asking for the public's help in locating them.

The government launched a website Thursday identifying the suspects and calling for any information that could lead to their whereabouts.

CBC News is not publishing the names or photos of the suspects at this time.

There is a government website providing information, yet the CBC refrains from providing the URL or any information that would allow us citizens to do our job properly in helping to nab these vile criminals.

So, as a public service, I give you the government website containing the photos of the wanted. Get busy now and report anybody who looks remotely like them, not forgetting to note that only two of the criminals appear to have "white" skin, so that makes the job much easier.

But wait, there's more ...

From the Toronto Sun: (emphasis mine)

Two weeks ago, a CBSA official told the Sun 50 alleged war criminals, plus 1,400 hardened foreign criminals, are wanted as illegal immigrants in the GTA.

Many came as refugee claimants from Baltic countries, Africa and Central America, the agency said.

When asked to release photos, names and backgrounds on the fugitives, however, officials cited privacy laws that prohibit releasing such details.

But a former prosecutor accused the CBSA of stonewalling, saying privacy act exceptions permit disclosure of information in some cases.

Now you'd think that if the government really wanted to catch those "phony Canadians" they'd give some kind of idea of what to look for, wouldn't you. Oh, that's right, they did with the short list of "war criminals". Forget the discrepancy between 30 vs 50 and 1800 vs 1400. Just snitch, snitch, snitch, and eventually bad guys will be caught.

It's my guess that, by showing only a few faces, they intend to proceed mostly behind closed doors, and merely wish to create an illusory justification for such amoral and arbitrary actions via the encouragement of general public mistrust of certain immigrants.

It does appear that we have an answer to our previously asked question (See Game #3: Sounds like "Frugality") as to the races of the earlier stated "1800 phoney Canadians" who are to be deprived of their citizenship.

The Harper crew are a ruthless, racist lot, with religion in the finest superior and judgmental tradition to back them up and salve their consciences. It's not hard to imagine that people in a position to know the full extent of their agenda would advocate their overthrow - and therefore must be done away with.

Squealer Image borrowed from here.

USDA's Declaration of War on Food

Kentucky Bluegrass a first step in full GMO deregulation

Contributor: "Bugman"

Up till now we still had some ways to regulate the spread of GMO crops.

However with the introduction of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant Kentucky Bluegrass:

On July 1, The U.S. Agriculture Department ruled that a genetically engineered (GE) herbicide-tolerant Kentucky bluegrass, a grass variety used for lawns across the US, engineered by Scotts Miracle-Gro is not covered by US biotechnology.

Two consumer groups, Center for Food Safety and International Center for Technology Assessment, wanted genetically engineered Kentucky bluegrass to be listed as a noxious weed in 2002. To be noxious a plant must be invasive and damaging to agriculture or the ecosystem, but the USDA also ruled that GE Kentucky Bluegrass did not qualify, sparing it from government regulations.

... these last barriers against unrestricted spread seem to disappear. The complete corporate takeover of Agriculture can begin; labeling food products becomes obsolete, and we are losing all control over what we want to or can eat.

GMO Deregulation: An Act of War

The fiction of GMO oversight created by the USDA to deceive the public was designed to disintegrate over time so that GMOs could be completely deregulated. It is all one big lie – a facade to enable a complete planetary takeover by mega-corporate interests. If the intent was to actually regulate them, then why not create regulations with teeth? Regulations that would address the unique properties of genetically engineered food/feed instead of using already existing “plant pest” and “noxious weed” regulations? All that needs to be done under the current system is to change the manufacturing process slightly, and GMOs drop right off the USDA radar.

Image "Food is a Weapon": World War II Poster

Related: Video - Food, Inc.

Monsanto declares war on Food, Inc.

Face it: Islamists abuse their women

... the same as Jews and Christians

Contributor: "YYC"

Falling closely on the heels of the media's frenzied exploitation of the tragic story of poor Ramuna Monzur as a propaganda tool against Islam, comes a fresh, ever-so-subtle reminder of how primitively cruel Muslims are to their women:

Wife battering, sexual abuse get attention in Gaza

Its lone women's safe-house, opened two months ago, has had eight clients, all guarded by police from the Islamist Hamas movement that runs the enclave and enforces a conservative though not radical Muslim religious code.

What a confused article - probably as a result of trying to appear impartial and/or approbative while still managing to hone in on the evils of Islam. The writer tries too hard to leave the impression that Islamic law is at the root of the spousal abuse problem in Gaza, while at the same time having to admit that the so-called "honour" killings we hear so much about are actually quite rare, and that it is the fundamentalist and vilified Hamas that has cared enough to provide for and protect the safe house in Gaza.

In fact, there are daily reports of non-Muslim women being killed all over the world by spouses who suspect adultery, and fathers in a rage over daughters' suspected sexual activities, where the concept of "honour killing" is not alluded to. In this way, Muslims are made to seem different and more sinister, though the motive is exactly the same, and not so much based in religious belief as in neurotic pride, possessiveness, jealousy, competition, and a decided lack of rage control.

While emphasizing that Islam "prohibits adultery" - as if this were not also true of Christianity and Judaism - the article goes on to claim that Gazan "minors", under the watch of Hamas, are being forced into prostitution. But where and by whom? It's well-documented that Israelis operate huge prostitution rings, of which, according to a JPost report, 10% are minors!

Not surprisingly, Gaza's unfriendly next-door neighbour also has a massive spousal abuse problem ...

Over 200,000 women in Israel are targets of violence

and this tragedy is compounded by rabbinical law which works in the cruelest way to deter many women from seeking help in shelters. Ha'aretz reports:

According to a rabbinical court ruling, battered women who seek refuge at shelters lose their rights to public housing.

Traditionally, rabbis have advised women beaten for no good reason at all to go back home and try to be a better wife, and because of that, as this article by a less orthodox rabbi suggests, abused Jewish women tend to avoid seeking counsel from their rabbis because they assume they will find no sympathy. They also often keep mum among their friends and acquaintances about the abuse because of the guilt and shame it places on their own heads.

And there isn't a fundamentalist Christian alive who hasn't experienced or doesn't know of similar situations in their own congregations, whether they will admit to it or not.

But we're at war with Islam under the guise of a "war against terrorism", so it's necessary to make "the enemy" appear unlike the rest of us, and as sinister and evil as possible. The mainstream media have heroically taken on this task with vigour and enthusiasm.

Image borrowed from here.