Most shockingly ignorant vaccine article of 2011

Child sacrifice blatantly recommended

Contributor: "YYC"

(All bolding emphasis in this post is my own)

Telegraph: Giving children flu jabs would cut 'disease by 95 per cent'
Vaccinating children against seasonal flu could almost eradicate the virus in the general population and save hundreds of lives, a study has found ... preventing illness in vulnerable groups such as the elderly... Children are known as 'super-spreaders' of flu because they pick up infections so readily and pass them on to more vulnerable family members.

Monument to child sacrifice

Children are dirty, nasty little beasts who must be defended against at all costs.

This monstrous pile of baloney was written by a British so-called Medical Editor who obviously believes (or more likely does) everything she is told and doesn't mind signing her name to it, if indeed Smith is her real name.

Her wilful ignorance knows no bounds.

First of all "the virus"? There is only one flu virus?  How about hundreds of them?

Second, taking chances with the health of children in order to protect that of the elderly flies in the face of Mother Nature herself. Any sane grandparent would gladly die of flu rather than risk the health and wellbeing of their grandchildren to avoid it.

Next: They were vaccinated during the swine flu pandemic in 2009 ...

There was no flu pandemic in 2009, only a big scare that lackies of the Pharmers perpetrated to raise profits and perks, and then obfuscated - "I think we did not convey the uncertainty", meaning, oops, I guess we made a huge deal out of nothing.

But their mission was accomplished, because they "caused governments to stockpile vaccines", deftly funnelling tax dollars into corporate coffers.

Comments below the Telegraph's article indicate the British public have their wits about them. One makes the salient point that even jabbed kids can still carry the flu to their grannies on unwashed hands. This appears to be news to the medical/pharming community.

I'm not sure Canadians have wised up yet. Every so often I still hear an otherwise seemingly intelligent person say, "I don't know why I got sick; I had my flu shot and everything. I guess I caught a bug it didn't cover, or something."

They became ill because the flu shot whacked out their immune systems, bringing them down biologically, leaving them with little defence against other contagious illnesses. Maybe the medical/pharmer community doesn't know that either. Or maybe that's the whole aim?

Now here I'm going to reveal to you the essence of my concept of "God" - if you believe in illness, it's real for you. If you cause your child to believe it, it's real for that child. If you sacrifice your child for what you are told is the good of all, then you might as well have visited Bohemian Grove (video) and participated in its symbolic "cremation of care" ritual - a euphemism for the ancient Hebrew idolators' child sacrifices to Moloch.

Children are psychic sponges; adjust your thoughts accordingly. In other words, if you fear anything at all, you may inadvertently bring it about, regardless of (or maybe because of?) any precautions you take. Remember Job?

It's elementary, my dear Watson. Conquer fear. That's the only way to survive the battle for your mind - and your body.

If you make New Year resolutions, why not do yourself a favour and resolve to say "No" to the jab.

And just for the sake of interest, read this:

The 10 biggest vaccine news stories of 2011

Plan for Middle East same plan for North America?

"Where there is revolution, there is always counter-revolution too."

Contributor: "YYC"

Did you know that Americans can purchase a "used"copy from Amazon of a document called: Zionist Plan for the Middle East for $235.82 plus shipping and Canadians can order it from Chapters for $3.87 plus shipping?  The Amazon reviews of the document are quite interesting, especially the one that informs customers that the full document from which this piece is derived is freely available on the internet. Its title is: “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties”

Louis Farrakhan outlined the whole concept in 2004, and it's on YouTube, but he's been targeted as an all-round rabid antisemite, among other things, so the video hasn't exactly had millions of visitors. Part 1 ... Part 2

Little seems to be known about the original author of the document, Oded Yinon besides this: Oded Yinon was formerly a senior Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry official. He is (1996) a journalist for the Jerusalem Post. But the translator, Israeli university professor and civil rights activist Israel Shahak, is written up in Wikipedia.  He has been portrayed as a "Jewish antisemite", would you believe.

The essay is said to have first been published by The World Zionist Organization, and I couldn't find it there but I did find a short blurb about Oded Yinon (click on his name in the search list) and a now-defunct link to the essay. (CORRECTION: Click on the first item in the search list and a frame will open that contains the essay.)

Basically, the plan consists of splitting each of the middle eastern countries down the middle, not a difficult task, mostly accomplished by stirring up religious sects against one another - which the US has been quite successful at in Iraq, no doubt with lots of help from Mossad infiltrators.

Of course, the media talk as if these factions have always been at one another's throats, but that ain't necessarily so. From historian Juan Cole:

I see a lot of pundits and politicians saying that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq have been fighting for a millennium. We need better history than that. The Shiite tribes of the south probably only converted to Shiism in the past 200 years. And, Sunni-Shiite riots per se were rare in 20th century Iraq. Sunnis and Shiites cooperated in the 1920 rebellion against the British. ... If you read the newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s, you don’t see anything about Sunni-Shiite riots ... The kind of sectarian fighting we’re seeing now in Iraq is new in its scale and ferocity, and it was the Americans who unleashed it.

As diabolical as all this may seem regarding the Middle East, it should be noted that there is a movement toward breaking up the North American countries, as well. For some time I've talked about the global agenda for world governance that entails the splitting up of countries into smaller units, the purpose of which I think is to allow for international rules, laws and general policy to be established and administered from a central location, while "nation states" would be allowed sovereignty only over local matters, subject, of course, to those international rules.

Sort of an expanded version of our provinces headed by a federal government. Countries would be split into smaller "nation states", becoming virtual provinces dominated by an international government. It has been openly admitted by Stephen Harper, for instance, that our economy  is not our own to govern; we are in a global economy.

This seems to be what the secession movement is all about.  It might seem that the opposite is occurring because of the North American Union - the blending of Mexico, Canada and the US - suggesting the creation of a much larger unit.  But the whole of North America would actually end up composed of 19 "nation states" (see secessionist map), each with local sovereignty, subject to the rules of the central world government.

So what is planned for the Middle East may have derived from Israeli thinking processes, but it fits the global plan for all of us. Notice how Canada and the United States are polarized politically, for example, even though there is very little difference in the overall objectives of the politicial parties. Notice the increase in the political clout of the religious right, offset by an increase in the visibility of atheists.

Israel may be getting a taste of its own medicine, now demonstrating some of the violent extremist views of which the Taliban and Islam in general have been accused.

I could talk about the manipulation of race as well as religion in the so-called Arab Spring, but I'll let Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya do that instead in this article wherein he also discusses the Oded Yinon plan, and from which I quote:

The name “Arab Spring” is a catch phrase concocted in distant offices in Washington, London, Paris, and Brussels by individuals and groups who, other than having some superficial knowledge, know very little about the Arabs. What is unfolding amongst the Arab peoples is naturally a mixed package. Insurgency is part of this package as is opportunism. Where there is revolution, there is always counter-revolution too.

Market fluctuations are also excellent ways to weaken the middle classes and create polarization between the rich and the poor. I'm told there's an ex-Goldman-Sachs guy predicting just that as a result of a "major war" coming in 2012-2013.  I don't know ... this seems to be coming from the more sensationalist websites that are constantly making imminent predictions that don't pan out, and besides, world wars have usually boosted economies, so it's hard to guess the purpose of this prophecy.

Not that I don't think we're on the verge of or already into WWIII; just that I think war is generally a means of solving economic problems for the attacking entities. The countries being attacked may suffer; their big failing in the first place is that they are not willing "players" in the global economy.

Is this prediction an attempt to create anti-war sentiment in America? That's the best face I can put on it. If North America suffers an Islamist false flag attack, that would really polarize the people!

Flash Realization about the Weather

"Flash Freeze" and "Flash Flood" - Climate Change buzz terms?

Contributor: "YYC"

I've suddenly become more acutely aware of the proliferation of these ominous terms in the media when freezing weather and flooding are described.

A flash is instantaneous, is it not?  I doubt that weather occurrences are instantaneous, but I'm a doubter with a capital D.

I think a lot of this is in aid of another buzz term: "global warming" or the more commonly used of late "climate change", should the purported experts find they have to back off the warming theory.

I wonder, do journalists themselves live in fear of the myriad things they try to shock us with? Or are they entirely cynical tools of the power structure? Maybe they're so dull-minded they resort to ripping their material out of apocalyptic movies.

Maybe all of the above.

Image borrowed from here.

Suddenly we're worried about uranium?

Should we have known the Rait scandal was never about curing cancer?

UPDATE: Dec. 28 - The Globe and Mail enlarges on CTV's report of yesterday, and it is causing me to somewhat revise my thinking. When a document is leaked, it is leaked for a purpose. If there is to be a nuclear false flag incident in North America that would justify WWIII, there has to be a recognized way for "terrorists" to get hold of the ingredients. These new revelations would provide the perfect cover story. The Canadian Nuclear Association states clearly that Chalk River produced plutonium for America's nuclear bombs (in other words "weapons grade uranium") - we helped produce the A-bombs that America used on the Japanese - it does not say that it has stopped doing this. Once again, it seems that the government is telling lies with the help of the media. The uranium theme is being picked up by many "news" sources, stressing the dangers of producing and transporting it, including a report of a train carrying nuclear materials in Australia having been derailed by a flash flood just yesterday, so -  unlike the issue of  Israeli spies in Canada - this is something that governments and media really want us to know about and be worried about.

Maybe all we need to know is that Canada is increasing its uranium mining, Canada produces plutonium, America needs to upgrade its nuclear bombs, America and Israel want war with Syria/Iran, America needs a strong pretext for WWIII, Iranian "terrorism" in North America (like 9/11) would have great shock value and garner support for expanded war fronts, and unemployment will insure a steady supply of military recruits - which includes the Canadian military, since Harper is predicting "tough times" ahead.

Did I leave anything out?  Oh yes, the Canada/ US border deal for "security" purposes, where America can let through what it wants to and blame it on Canada.

Contributor: "YYC"

Thanks to prodigious blogger Penny (Penny for your Thoughts) for kick-starting me on the subject of uranium mining in Canada. See her commentary on today's CTV news item about shipments of Canadian "weapons grade" uranium to the United States.

Maybe we should have twigged that Canada is back on the uranium track when Liberal critics were all worked up about Lisa Rait's "sexy" little portfolio - Chalk River. It seems now that the furor was not just about the need for medical isotopes.

As flaky as Rait was, she did have the solution to the aged and failing reactors: "Money. And if it's just about money, we'll figure it out..."

And according to the Canadian Nuclear Association Chalk River seems to be doing okay, thank you very much.

Read the history of Uranium in Canada.

Uranium became big biz in Canada way back prior to and during the Cold War, and just about all of Canada's uranium is of the highest grade, perfectly suitable for weapons. We were uranium suppliers to the world for a long, long time, and amassed huge stockpiles against the day when the demand would increase, so it stands to reason that Canada has been shipping "weapons grade" uranium  for decades.

Now, see under heading "Future Mines":

Uranium production in Canada is likely to increase significantly as several new mines, now planned or under construction, go into operation sometime after 2011. The two largest projects are Cameco's Cigar Lake mine and Areva's Midwest mine, both in northern Saskatchewan. The mill at McClean Lake has been modified to process ore from both mines. The Rabbit Lake mill will also be modified to take ore from Cigar Lake. Total production is expected to be 8,200 t/yr U3O8 from Cigar Lake and 2,600 t/yr from Midwest.

Ah, so. Maybe that's why it's suddenly being talked about. The greater the increase the greater the inherent dangers of transporting it, not to mention the iffy disposal of waste - what's left after tipping the missiles that are "liberating" so many countries.

We could surmise that the increase is just about nuclear electric power and advances in cancer treatment. Or we could say it's about replenishing the aged American stockpile of nuclear bombs. A bit of one, and a lot of the other probably.

I wasn't going to do this, because Lyndon Larouche comes across as just generally whacky, but on the off-chance he knows what he's talking about this time, here's his "emergency broadcast" delivered on December 23.

He says that unless Obama is immediately impeached on the grounds of insanity there will be thermonuclear war with the object of taking out China and Russia with Syria/Iran being jumping off points.

I'm not sure what good it would do to take out Obama when we'd only be left with freaky Joe Biden and the same shadow government anyway, but Larouche suggests an alternate out for us all - transport to Mars.

(One thing he says that makes sense to me is that America should just declare bankruptcy and start all over again.)

Harper to marry Queen after Prince Philip croaks

Contributor: "Ron"

CBC News: London December 26. 2011- Prince in Waiting Stephen and the Queen are seen together following the signing of their "tentative" prenuptial agreement.

PMO spokesperson would only say that everything is contingent on Prince Phillip croaking and Prince in Waiting Stephen and the Queen consummating the marriage, missionary position. More details to come...

I have kept a running tally and, to date, on approximately one third of the days in the past year, the CBC's top news item has been some asinine story about the frickin' royal family of a foreign nation - as if there aren't more important news items of real import which affect Canadian lives. CBC can shove their royals' stories up their collective rears.

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Ed Note:  Perhaps best to keep the old fart alive as long as possible since it's widely reported that he wants to be reincarnated as a deadly virus that can kill off all the world's riff raff.  Steve and Liz will just have to live together in sin.

Harper: Mission accomplished in Afghanistan

"Internal security problems" the key to peace on earth!

Contributor: "YYC"

Harper's actual words in a CTV end of year interview (emphasis mine): "Afghanistan now, with all its internal security problems, is today no longer a threat to the rest of the world, and that is a big step forward" ...

What is "the rest of the world"? And when was Afghanistan a threat to it? Harper loves to make broad, loaded statements that break down into gibberish. The man would clank when he walks if he weren't so full of baloney.

How can the destruction of a country and the security of its people possibly be characterized as a "big step forward"?

How can he blatantly imply that Afghanistan caused 9/11 when it was blamed on Saudis, not the Afghan people?  He can because he has no concept of morality or truth, and he takes his cues from American propaganda.

GWB accused (video) Afghanistan of harbouring 'terrorissstsss"  - namely Bin Laden, who was of course a CIA operative. But though they claimed to have searched frantically for a whole decade, was he found there? No. The story now is that he was holed up and killed in US-friendly Pakistan.

When speaking of Iraq, Bush accidentally gave away the global agenda when he said: "Chaos is the greatest ally" (video - Freudian slip, his prompter said "their" greatest ally").

Why was Afghanistan demolished and left in chaos? Because the breakdown of society caused by war subjugates the targeted countries to western domination, and above all enriches corporations and NGOs who provided the machinery, the supplies, and the hugely expensive but virtually nonexistent reconstruction. Not to mention the way having been smoothed for the drug and gas/oil trades.

Why is Afghanistan now finished with? Because the fish fry has moved on to a new location (video playlist), after a slight Libyan detour.

If Harper told any truth at all, it was that there are hard times ahead for Canada - but the unemployed will find lots of job opportunities as military grunts.

And I can tell you what Harper omitted from his smug little revelation about the Keystone XL pipeline project. What Harper knows is that Obama's heel-dragging is nothing but an election ploy. It's a cynical sop to environmentalist voters.

Related:
Noam Chomsky interview on Democracy Now
The United States and its allies will do anything to prevent the establishment of genuine democracy in the Arab world. "The reason is very simple... Plainly, the U.S. and its allies are not going to want governments which are responsive to the will of the people. If that happens, not only will the U.S. not control the region, but it will be thrown out."

See also:
Destruction of Afghan society - Is there a plan B? (Google translation from French - emphasis mine)
... one would naively believed that Obama could end this permanent state of war. In contrast, more than ever and the assumption that the friends of yesterday are today's enemies, America is on all fronts. After the debacle of Vietnam and the systematic bleeding of Iraq, here comes the turn of Afghanistan and the Taliban, who in a previous strategy, were the best allies of the United States against the Soviet empire to the point that they had recruitment offices in the U.S. for "the International Islamic."

For your Christmas viewing pleasure

Contributor: "YYC"

What Christmas Eve is like for someone who truly believes:

Christmas Eve
Ed Grimley (Martin Short)


Christmas Day:
Ed Grimley gets a Christmas visit
from the man in the red suit

Notice that when he bemoans the picture is crooked, it isn't, so he has to make it crooked himself. Ah, the early days of TV. Some of the best humour was not always where you'd expect to find it.

But if you prefer cute animals
some of these are actually quite cute):

Related: Yo! Santa = Satan? You be da judge

Israel already in covert war with Iran?

Israeli-owned Univision accusing Iran, Venezuela and Cuba of planning attacks inside the US

Contributor: "Lucilla"

Can you say "mindboggling huge false flag event to rationalize covertly-implemented US martial law and the start  of WW3"?

Is Univision promoting war with Iran? (RT video)
"A Univision documentary is being alleging that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba are joining forces to plan attacks on the United States. According to the documentary the three countries are meeting in Mexico to plan terrorist attacks greater than 9/11 on the US. Some right-wing US lawmakers are taking these allegations seriously, or is it all propaganda? Jamal Abdi, policy director of the National Iranian American Council, joins us to sort through the evidence."

I find it hard to believe that Chavez, who is dying from cancer and Castro, an old man, and Ahmadinejad who is already skating on thin ice, would have the energy, drive and plain stupidity to attempt something like this. Have Iran, Venezuela and Cuba ever been the aggressors? It seems totally out of character for these nations.

So far I can only find the original Spanish-language version of the Univision video "La amenaza Irani " Translation: "The Iranian Threat" (there are 6 parts). There doesn't seem to be a translated or subtitled version yet, but there is an English video promoting it and discussing highlights from it.

From Wikipedia:
"Univision (Spanish pronunciation: [uniβiˈsjon]) is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. Univision is headquartered in New York City, after years of being in Los Angeles,
Univision was acquired on March 29, 2007 by a consortium led by Haim Saban's Saban Capital Group (who had previously owned the entity Saban Entertainment), TPG Capital, L.P., Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, and Thomas H. Lee Partners

Haim Saban (Hebrew: חיים סבן‎) (born 15 October 1944) is an Egyptian born Israeli-American television and media proprietor. With an estimated current net worth of $3.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 104th richest person in America.

Unfortunately, once again, everything traces back to Israel. Personally, I'm getting EXTREMELY tired of what seems to be Israel's incessant meddling and manipulation.

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Ed Note: I could see those countries planning payback in case Iran does get attacked, but it's more likely that the US and Israel are desperate to find adequate justification for the war. I'm also thinking this could cement Obama's position in an election year - being a "crisis president", and all.

SEE ALSO: news updates and comments re: More Israeli spies in Canada?

Yo! Santa = Satan?

You be da judge

Contributors: "YYC" and "Yo Momma"

YYC:

US gives Santa green light for Christmas Eve flight

Transport Canada clears Santa for takeoff

These clearances are laughable and useless, having come a day too early, on the 23rd; weather conditions could change by this evening. But it's also arrogant of the US and Canada to suggest that Santa even needs their okay to travel on Christmas Eve. That man - er, jolly old elf - knows everything, for pete's sake, like God hisself, so he should be quite capable of assessing and deciding his own takeoff time.

In fact, when you really think about that, Santa comes across as almost sinister, spying on us all the time. And he doesn't bring joy to every girl and boy - he only visits certain homes, leaving gifts in numbers and quality determined solely by the family's income.

Needless to say, there are many places he doesn't bother to visit at all - countries blighted by famine, for instance. And if you think that's just in places like Africa, read Steinbeck, and you'll see there's no mention of him showing up for the victims of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl either.

Face it, the guy's an elitist jerk, and if the US and Canada approve of him, and he isn't on a no-fly list, then he's in cahoots with the rotters messing up this planet, and children should be told the truth.

Santa is corporate to the core. There's even a North Pole Inc., and Nick's been known to contract himself out to sell cigarettes and tout a notorious, killer soft drink.  He's responsible for Christmas being little more than a pagan shopping festival.

Some will go even further and suggest that his name is an anagram, and he's really Satan.

Yo Momma:

OK, I was thinking about that joke about the dyslexic who wondered if there really was a Dog, and then I began to wonder about Santa - so I went to look him up and came across a really interesting article from a pagan website.

Who knew that Ireland and Scotland were actually joined by an ice bridge around 8000 years ago? And that tribes lived over the whole area until the bridge collapsed shortly after, leaving about 50,000 people trapped in what became Ireland?

Things begin to take a strange turn after that.

Ancient pagan deities such as Befana (a gift-giving Roman goddess); the Holly King (a Celtic Winter god); and Thor and Tomte (Norse gods who, respectively, rode across the sky in a chariot drawn by goats and gave presents to children at the end of the year) all fed into the Santa legend popular today.

It gets spookier. The Holly King later morphs into Saint Nicholas, and from there it goes downhill. If you don't scare easily, watch this video.

Here are other videos by the same maker, and here is their website, where your mouse cursor will burst into flame.

To me, all the Santas look creepy and not too convincing of their "nice" status. And I figure this Santa stuff comes from trying to Christianize pagan worship. Likely parents from all cultures have always had a bogeyman to threaten children into good behaviour. In Catalunya (at least in the families of some people I know) it was "the man with the sac" who stole nasty misbehaving children: "You don't want the man with the sac to come, do you?"

Christmas arrives with the winter solstice, and it all seems locked up with fertility and fear of starving to death during the harsh winter. If you were good (and it is always SO hard for children to be "good") the Gods would be pleased and you would survive and the crops would bloom in the spring. Children were beaten (as shown in the parade in the video) to make then behave well so as not to jinx "fertility".

I think Saint Nicholas got involved when Christianity wanted to expand. The people were extremely attached to their pagan beliefs (and we can see that they still are) so the church decided to Christianize them. I figure the demons and monsters are evil or represent "Satan" (easy because they were already portrayed as nasty) and they introduced an old man (Father Time?) who represented "good" or God - and good and evil traveled together judging the children - who were naughty, who were nice - and instead of beating them into obedience, good behaviour was rewarded with gifts,food or sweets.

Hey, when they Christianized the pagan Christmas stuff they used the Bishop or the Cardinal to represent good or God, so that's why Santa is dressed in red - just like the church authorities - and I'll bet the Bishop paraded through the villages accompanied by the pagan demons and Gods to encourage the new tradition.

That's probably why the current pope sometimes wears a red hat or a red cape trimmed with white fur.This is also why some of the extreme Christian fundies freak out about Santa - he has the same attributes as God so in their minds he MUST be Satan - but I figure the reason he has these attributes is because he really does represent God.

It would not take long for the children to embrace this symbol of Christianity and to associate the Church (the pope, the priests) with a kindly, generous man. It likely led to a lot of these children converting to Christianity in their adult lives (and some of their children becoming the victims of pedophiles).

So we have evolved from the time when we worshipped Gods who brought us food and bountiful harvests in the Fall provided we were "good"; from a time when we worried so much about our children's behaviour displeasing the Gods that we told them fearful stories about demons and monsters that would beat or even steal naughty boys and girls (although the church still holds out the threat of Hell).

Yes, we are still bribing good behaviour out of children but we are no longer agrarian; we are industrial. So now we have "Buy me something!!!!" Video: Christmas Shopping Madness: It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Oddly enough, it seems there are entities who want to destroy Christmas, Santa and Christianity in general. If you can, try to see this film; it may be at your library or video store:

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
or, pssst, don't tell anybody: it can be tor- rented.

On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig [after a long absence]. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there's Santa's elves, who are determined to free their leader...

All I will say is keep in mind that it was made in 2010, so it absolutely promotes the agenda. Oh, and Baphomet - the alleged "God" of the NWO masterminds - makes a surprising appearance.

At the very least, it's a good slam against Christmas - the boy protagonist's advent calender has no chocolates and instead of looking forward to Christmas eve, there is a count-down of dread, because all his friends are disappearing and Santa's elves are definitely not in a good mood.

You won't see festive decorations anywhere, and on Christmas day the community goes out for the annual reindeer round-up.

Many stories about demons and monsters terrorizing children into good behaviour in order to placate the Gods originate in Scandinavia. Odin and Hertha are Scandanavian mythological gods. Hertha, mother of Thor (god of thunder), was believed to have visited the people in an attempt to bring them together in peace; she rode in a chariot "amid festivity over the land". Come to think of it, likely a lot of Christmas pagan tradition originates from this region.

I thought the goddess "Hertha" was cool, climbing down the chimney and, if she found a good family, leaving gifts of food. (Is that why it's called the hearth?)

Personally, I like the pagan aspects of Christmas - the tree, the holly, the wreaths, the stockings. I like the connection with nature and the desire for growth and fertility. But I can see how some people might see this as evil because it ain't about Jeeeezuz.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

Canadian Jews Oppose the Racist JNF

Contributor: "Ron"

Please forward around the world. Thanks.

Excellent documentary:

Canadian Jews Oppose the Racist JNF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Aq54YTyb0

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It's very surprising since 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.
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It promotes exclusion, dispossession and institutionalized discrimination ...

CBC's "The Current" panders to CIA propaganda

Anna Maria Tremonti is astoundingly gullible

Contributor: "YYC"

Psychological profiles of world leaders (Audio) - "The family that slays together stays together"

The London Fog blog

If you've got a strong constitution you may survive listening to a former, long-time CIA psychiatrist, Jerrold Post, arrogantly dissecting Syria's Bashar Al-Assad and other "rogue" leaders. The CBC's interviewer, Anna Maria Tremonti, touted misleadingly as a "hard edged" journalist, laps up every word and asks not a single challenging question.

Much of what this blatant propagandist says could apply to the behaviours of western leaders as well, but this guy is a "believer" in western superiority and his own brilliance (also not missing a couple of opportunities to insert references to the "Holocaust") and so is the astoundingly gullible Tremonti. Jerrold Post knows all about narcissism; his personal manner being a good demonstration of it.

It's a bit chilling near the end where he claims to be saddened by the deaths by such "interesting" leaders as Saddam and Gadhafi only because he enjoyed studying them, and then predicts the imminent death of Hugo Chavez from cancer. What he's admitting, without saying, is that Venezuela is on the CIA's hit list, along with all the other countries it has infiltrated in concert with Mossad and MI6 (forming the real evil axis).

See this reader comment for more discussion of the activities of that trio.

Any country, "democracy" or not, that experiences insurrection calls out the military, makes arrests in huge swaths, and is prepared to kill anyone who threatens the government. Black October is Canada's own example. Had the FLQ crisis grown and were more visible, there would have been just as much bloodshed here at home. It's a lousy way to run a so-called democracy, but it's a fact.

Related: National Security Alert's dissection of Jerrold Post, including audio and video: "Post was live on CBS/WUSA9 at 10:39am on 9/11, just one hour after the Pentagon flyover (alleged "strike") and about 11 minutes after the north tower "collapsed", blaming the shadowy Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda."

The so-called "news updates" about Kim Jong-il's death

... and they call us bloggers conspiracy theorists!

UPDATE: Dec. 22 - (See also updates to More Israeli Spies in Canada?)

South Korea Will Allow Citizens to Send Condolences to North

You know you live in a US-style "democracy" when you are not allowed to visit Cuba or North Korea without special dispensation.

China and Japan are set to play guiding parent roles. Quite an insult. "I'm sure the Japanese side will implore the Chinese side to use their good offices to help North Korea find a way to be more Burmese," he said, referring to Myanmar, whose new civilian government has pledged to re-engage with the world community.

"Re-engaging with the world community" means pressure to get rid of nukes, US "intervention", borrowing from the IMF, importing instead of producing, plus "austerity measures" - which of course North Korea already has because of being isolated for its "communist" ways, and then being called a "hermit" state as if its solitude hadn't been forced on it.

Speculation abounds as to whether or not there will be power struggles in Kim Jong-un's administration, but take a look at the caption included with this old photo. When Kim Jong-il's father died, there was the same gossip then as well. It all amounts to American wishful thinking, and if they see their opportunity they will make it happen. Now I'm starting to wonder if some of those people being allowed to enter NKorea for condolence purposes will actually be infiltrators.

Contributor: "YYC"

Kim Jong-Il

If ever we thought the MSM was on the side of the power structure, now it is indubitably confirmed. They are behaving like slavering vultures, eager to feast on the remains of Kim Jong-Il, avid to help pave the way and prepare minds for the "liberation" of North Korea by the US (whose proud symbol is a scavenger bird that will "take advantage of dead and decaying flesh").

Was Kim Jong-il murdered in power struggle with military? Mystery deepens over death of ‘dear leader’
A political scientist, An Chan-il, was quoted as saying Mr. Kim may have been killed by elements within the North Korean government who disagreed with his policies.

As if the guy wasn't aging and didn't have a heart condition!  Earlier in the month they were prating that Kim Jong-Un's hair had become the rage and was being copied by young North Koreans. If all it takes is a hairdo to win over the people of that country, then they must not see themselves as too badly off.

Kim Jong-il's death 'may have been stage managed'
The North Korean government may have lied about the time and place of Kim Jong-il's death, the head of South Korea's intelligence service has suggested.

"Intelligence" reported that the dead leader's train hadn't moved, and so asked how he could have died on it while touring on behalf of his people. I could be wrong, but wasn't it initially reported that he was on "a" train, not "the" train?

Now here's some heavy wishful thinking:

Fallout is just beginning in North Korea
The question is, will China support Kim Jong-un wholeheartedly, or will it too take a step back and see what emerges from the power struggles sure to be playing out behind the scenes at this very moment?

Ah, yes, those commies are evil. Let's not think about the power struggles being played out daily in the purportedly "free" western nations. And let's get our minds off the "revolutions" instigated by CIA/Mossad/MI6 and their bands of drugged-up, travelling "Al Qaida" mercenaries.

As much as I would like to see all nuclear weapons removed from the face of the earth, I must say that if the North Koreans do indeed have nukes, that will be their salvation, because the US/NATO only attack relatively defenceless countries.

(I hate to say this but Iran should stall just long enough to be able to boast a nuke.)

Still, North Korea is much too tiny a country for the powerful West to fear it so much that it invents all sorts of conspiracy scenarios, and even considers it a worthy endeavour for MSM news outlets to stoop to posting links to vulgar jokes about its leader's death.

Another Canadian left stranded abroad by Harper

"Is it because Hank Tepper was not born in Canada?"

Contributor: "Relayer"

Read: Harper urged to bring home Canadian jailed in Beirut
Watch the Video: "What are they hiding?  Is this a coverup? Some have told me that it looks like a setup."

This is so crazy. He went on a business junket set up by the government, got arrested, and they won't write a letter on his behalf.

Note that he has not been tried, much less convicted. This regime does not help people who get in trouble outside the country. It is almost like they are setting up an invisible Berlin Wall to discourage Canadians from travelling.

After all, travelling opens the mind and we would not want that.

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Image from here: Lebanon prosecutor mulls Canadian farmer case

Ed Note:  Nice to see Mac Harb, former MP from the riding in which I lived in Ottawa, and now a highly-paid Senator, actually doing something to help someone besides himself for a change. But Lebanon is his home country, and maybe this is something he actually knows about.

I'm not sure it's going to help Hank Tepper to have Mac Harb in his corner; Harb has got his own legal problems, apparently. 

More Israeli Spies in Canada?

Again?

UPDATE #3: Dec. 23 - The Halifax Israeli illegals are allowed to stay in the country as visitors as long as they don't work! Isn't that beautiful. Their lawyer used a very strange term in describing them (emphasis mine): "My guess is they were regarded as low-level operatives and I'm believing that all of them obviously wanted this done with. They all entered a plea of guilty" ...

The Ottawa Israelis have been ordered to leave the country this weekend.  We're not very consistent with our laws. And we we seem to have very naive police forces.

UPDATE #2: Dec. 22 (Emphasis mine) - CBC Nova Scotia: Several people charged with working illegally in Canada are due to appear in a Halifax courtroom Thursday. Eight men and two women — all from Israel — were arrested Wednesday in a raid on a home in a quiet suburb and kiosks at three shopping malls. There have been similar cases reported in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Of course. If they were in Ottawa, they are in other places as well. The fact that they have "fake" papers suggests more than police seem willing to want to delve into. Again, it was neighbours who blew the whistle on them.  From the ChronHerald: The Halifax house was rented to them by Chaumiere Inc., no doubt one of the "sayanim" Gilad Atzmon mentions in his latest book when speaking of the Mossad's assistants in other countries. "Registry of Joint Stock listings identify Sala Al-Hannawi and Mohamed-Ammar Katmeh as the Chaumiere directors." Cute. They give the company a French name, and the principals have Muslim names. It gets stinkier and stinkier. Mossad agents know how to pose as just about anything, and especially as Arabs.

This is still not being mentioned in any other of the North American MSM.

UPDATE #1: Dec. 21 - So far, except for the CBC, the Canadian MSM have been mum about this. The Jewish Tribune however expands on it a little. It was apparently neighbours of the Gatineau house the Israelis worked out of who alerted the police, so I guess they had no choice but to investigate. The Israelis quickly admitted to the crime of working illegally, and showed they had return air tickets home, so the police ordered them to use them now.

If they're spies, and I've no reason not to suspect they are - they've served in the military and have intelligence training - then working illegally is an excellent cover because it's something they can quickly admit to and all that happens is they get sent back home. Let's face it, the drugstore chains are doing a good enough job of selling Israeli products for them.

As to be expected, there is already Zionist damage control - a lovely zenophobic letter to the JT Editor, saying that all the arrested Israelis wanted to do was "make Canadians smell better", then quickly shifting the focus to "Islamists", dangerous to Jews yet "free to roam the streets".

It's just occurred to me that people who use the term Zionist to distinguish between ordinary Jews and supporters of all Israel's actions right or wrong, are told they are being covertly antisemitic, yet the use of the word "Islamist" is quite obviously a euphemism for "Muslim" and probably even "Arab".

Contributor: "YYC"

Alleged illegal workers caught in Ottawa
Workers were mostly from Israel, CBSA says

The Canada Border Services Agency arrested 31 people it says were working illegally at Ottawa-area shopping malls. Officials from the agency raided several shops and malls in the area with the assistance of Ottawa and Gatineau police forces. The employees, most of them from Israel, were working at kiosks in malls including Carlingwood, St. Laurent, Bayshore and Les Galleries du Hull. CBSA spokesman Darren Frank said he wouldn't comment on whether the workers were hired by one employer.

They will not likely be thanked for arresting these Israelis, but why in the world does Israel think it needs to spy on Canadians, when they have the undying love of our dictator?

All are currently detained under the Immigration Act pending a court appearance in Montreal Thursday. If found guilty, they may be deported and excluded from returning to Canada for a year.

IF found guilty? MAY be deported? It's already been confirmed by the CBSA that they are Israelis and that they were working illegally in Canada.

Google Record of Israeli spying in Canada

Image borrowed from here.

Philippines flood due to "climate change"?

Here we go again ...

Contributor:"YYC"

Climate Change is here
The Philippines usually averages 10 to 12 typhoons every year. But the weather bureau had warned us that this year, as a result of La Niña, we would experience more typhoons—and more powerful ones...

Worst Floods and Typhoons in the Philippines
An average of 20 typhoons hit the Philippines annually ... Strong and devastating typhoons beefed up with heavy rainfall and flashfloods that pounded the country is evident of the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Note that the examples given date back only a decade or so. And whether or not the Philippines have an average of 10 or 20 typhoons a year, some of them are bound to be horrific.

The farthest back I was able to go in an internet search was to the early 50's: Worst Typhoons of the Philippines

Between 1951 and '52 almost 2000 people died in two milder typhoons, but since the records don't go back any further than that, then, as usual, we can't be at all certain that "climate change" is causing the current flooding and deaths.

If you look at the Legend below the table you'll see (re: entry #4) it claims that 1984 brought the "most powerful typhoon ever recorded". There is nothing to say there has been anything that "powerful" before or since, although there seems to be some confusion about wind velocity. The Legend says winds went as high as 320 kph "before the anemometer was damaged". But the velocity shown in the #4 entry in the table is only 220, with 320 being attributed to a 2006 typhoon that the Legend says was only "A very large super typhoon" (emphasis mine), not the largest.

In 1991, according to the Legend below the table for entry #1: Official estimates death toll up to 8,000; missing persons were presumed dead, some maybe devoured by sharks at Ormoc Bay Camotes Sea, and the wind velocity was quite comparatively low, so we can't deduce trends from the number of deaths or from wind velocity.

In addition, the bolded entries show high damage costs not adjusted for inflation, nor for the fact of higher population creating the need for more construction, nor for modernization of existing structures and infrastructures. So damage costs tell us nothing.

How in the world can anyone judge whether things are worse due to "climate change" (which is still synonymous with "global warming" despite its potential for a different connotation should the globe actually cool down - see the last few links in this blog entry)?

Here's a video that might enlighten.

I can tell you from my own reading of media reports, however, that disasters (always called "the worst") are now being used to move populations into more dense housing "projects" - the better to keep the all-seeing eye on them, and blame them for everything bad that happens?

That's happening all over the world - remember Katrina, and the masses of homeless that were moved into vacant apartments in a low-rent, high crime area of Houston? Remember the bush fires in Australia (some set by "criminals" which naturally would make them worse and therefore make the global warming theory seem valid (not to mention that there is a long history of bushfires in Australia, and there were "major fires" in the Kinglake area in 1929)?

They're usually poor people in those areas as this article on the latest Philippine typhoon points out, so why bother with early warning systems when these disasters serve such a good purpose (emphasis mine):

The president pledged to repair damaged roads and water systems, mass housing units in safe relocation areas, and water level sensors for all major river basins across the country to help communities avoid similar disasters.
"But in return we expect you to refrain from moving back to those places that put your lives at constant risk," Aquino said in a speech at an evacuation centre.

Image found here.

"Laughing as you sink"

Contributor: "YYC"

Just in case you haven't seen this:

World Collapse Explained in 3 Minutes


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao

Right off the bat I was laffing, where Roger says: "It's been a bit quiet lately - since the war".

(Thanks to the pleasantly warped family member who sent me the link.)

Marching to Jerusalem

Contributor: "PAJU"

Jerusalem is our common heritage and a center of spirituality with great religious significance for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This remarkable historic city of great antiquity is venerated across the world for enhancing the rich spiritual heritage of all of humanity.

However, today we are witnessing the increasing Zionization of Jerusalem, with illegal Israeli settlements being constructed on a daily basis, under the political protection of the Obama administration (as exemplified by the US vetoes at the UN). Palestinians are compelled to leave the city under economic pressures, legal strictures or violent military actions.

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders have referred to Jerusalem as the "Eternal capital of Eretz (Greater) Israel". These politicians have clearly stated, in contravention of all relevant UN resolutions, that the status of Jerusalem cannot be negotiated. The dominant position within the Israeli political-military and religious leadership is that Israel has a right to occupy all of historic Palestine.

Jerusalem needs to be reclaimed by the people of the world. The city of Jerusalem has been a beacon of emancipation and hope for the oppressed. It has symbolized the unity and equality of all of God’s creation and has given an universal message of love, mercy and compassion, a message that must continue to be true.

The world recognizes the threat and so an international initiative is underway as a sign of resolution and persistence: We are all preparing to march to Jerusalem.

The objective of the Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ) is to raise public awareness globally about the threat to the existence of historic Jerusalem. On the 30th of March 2012, we intend to converge from across three continents and gather at the borders of Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, with delegations that will join us from every nation of the world. Then, we will march peacefully over into Palestine.

The international advisory committee for the Global March to Jerusalem is made up of activists from the West, the Middle East, India and Africa. It includes George Galloway (UK), Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine), Paul Larudee (USA), Khaled Soufiyani (Morocco) and others.

Say the sacred woid, you bet your life

When Groucho Marx was in his heyday, the now sacred word "Holocaust" had not yet become a Zionist trademark ...

Contributor: "YYC"

Calgary imam apologizes for Holocaust comparison

No, he didn't, and he shouldn't. He regretted the portrayal of his comments. What he originally said was: "Muslims are going through that situation right now where the Jews faced before the Holocaust."

Of course we can guess from whence cameth the portrayal; B'nai Brith types, and/or the JDL, who guard their corner on suffering like pit bulls lest even more sympathy be lost for the apartheid nuclear threat called Israel.

And like Israel, the Jewish committee with whom the Imam wants to meet is reluctant to sit down and negotiate a peaceful relationship. That would be too much like acknowledging his humanity, it appears; or perhaps making him seem too important. They're content with a bit of foot shuffling, head bowing, "yes massah" lip service and the comforting fear that he could turn terrorist at any moment.

Yes, some Muslims are alright as long as they know their place, but lord help them if they seem too uppity. As a British MP, who also happens to be Muslim, says: "Exaggerated stories about high-handed behaviour by Muslims are having a damaging effect and hampering the fight against extremism".

Gee, do you suppose that's the plan? To hamper the fight against extremism?  Because extremists are useful? It's extremists, remember, who helped destroy Libya and it's those same extremists who will assist in bringing down Syria and Iran.  It's extremists who provide the pretext for Israel to bomb Gaza to ratshit, regardless of the general impotence of their terrorist rockets.

These are fanatical times. Extremism is on the rise within Israel as well and, since the era of the so-called "moral majority", Christian extremism has become the norm within the US government:

Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated. Bush told Chirac, “This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins”.

Don't ever imagine that kind of maniacal thinking ended when Obama became president, and don't fool yourself that it isn't well-entrenched in "The Harper Government".

Not to mention that the Norway shooter is alleged to be a Muslim-hating Christian fundamentalist.

It's nothing new that religious groups have been conned into perceiving one another as evil enemies so that unhindered slaughter of innocents can take place for control of the resources under the ground they live upon.  Marauding and plundering has been going on forever. History is full of it, and so is the Old Testament.

Christian power brokers are quite content to believe with all their hearts that unconverted Jews and Muslims will burn in hell. And Jewish power brokers have no less secret contempt for goys than they ever did. But for the moment it's in their mutual business interests to devise a common enemy.

Technology and psychology have fooled us into thinking we've evolved, but we plebes still allow ourselves to be ruled by barbarians who choose for us who our enemies are.

When Groucho Marx was in his heyday, the now sacred word "Holocaust" had not yet become a Zionist trademark; they didn't own the property rights. It was unknown as Jewish concept prior to the sixties, but by using the exact same cynical methods as crass TV advertising, it was turned into a heavily loaded household word, strictly for mass consumption outside of academia (which uses the term genocide) and outside of Israel (which uses the term "shoah", meaning "disaster").

And that's how Hitler was turned into a singular, evil devil instead of just another in a long line of greedy, power hungry "white"psychopaths who aspire to the rule the world and are willing to slaughter anyone in their way. We all know, at least on some level, that there are genocides and massive disasters occurring daily the world over. Far, far more than 6 million innocent people have been starved, worked to death, tortured, frozen, maimed, dismembered, disembowelled, gassed, and burned to a crisp for the greed and superiority of the "white" races. These genocided millions are a recognizable group in that they are generally not "white".

Like all ordinary people, most Muslims just want to get along in life, make a living, raise a family, enjoy the holidays. But they are being systematically and cynically demonized as a group, just as the Jews were in Germany; they are dying in huge numbers in their home countries, they are harassed and intimidated in their adopted countries, and there's no getting around the fact of that.

I'm with the British MP: Muslims are the new Jews. They are victims of genocide; they have suffered one disaster after another. The ones who are determined to fight back are labeled "terrorists" but from an outsider's view they look a lot like the Jewish Defence League (who claim to confront "hate", though not their own), or the Irgun from whose ranks came some of Israel's most respected icons.

They are betting their lives for "freedom and dignity", even as everyone else is cowed by the sacred woid.

Be careful, Harper knows where you live

Contributor: "YYC"

The Globe and Mail has a surprisingly insightful and straightforward opinion piece on the criminals calling themselves "The Harper Government": Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada

It’s in the nature of true believers and ideologues to believe that any means to their sacred ends are justified. This makes them extremely dangerous people. It’s also typical of such people that they’re often motivated by unfathomable resentment and anger, a compulsion not just to better but to destroy their adversaries. These are good descriptions of Stephen Harper and those closest to him.

Particularly reminiscent of WWII nationalism run amok is the description of Petie Mackay taking bows at the Grey Cup game (travelling ultra top class at your expense) for Canada's part in the destruction of Libya, and the quote: "the blending of sport and the military, with the government as the marching band, is part of the new nationalism the Conservatives are trying to instill" suggests strongly that Harper and his closest minions may be secret admirers of Adolph Hitler, and for all their overt blanket support of Israel, might actually be secret antisemites who would behave quite differently if they saw their chance.

Especially telling are the remarks of Tom Flanagan, former Harper advisor, who when criticized in an email for saying that Julian Assange ought to be assassinated allegedly replied, “Better be careful, we know where you live.”

PS: The Globe and Mail endorsed Harper for PM in April 2011 saying: He has not been the scary character portrayed by the opposition; with some exceptions, his government has been moderate and pragmatic.

Image: 1936 Olympics: In a gesture of peace Spiridon Louis, Greek champion of the 1896 Olympic games, brings Hitler an Olive branch from Mt. Olympus. 5 years later Germany would invade Greece. Photo courtesy of Bundesarchiv Koblenz.

Letter to Santa from the military/industrial cabal

This time, please bring us toys that work

UPDATE: The Iranian Students' News Agency reported on Dec. 14:
Cheney criticized Obama for merely asking Iran to return the drone, and he told CNN that Obama should have ordered a airstrike to destroy the U.S. spy plane ... Officials brought the drone down with a cyber attack after spotting it flying over Iranian air space.

Contributor: "YYC"

Iran - Obama wants his drone back

Obama thinks crashing a drone into someone else's country is the same as accidentally smashing an old lady's window while playing catch. Maybe when he was a kid the old lady gave back the ball, but that's not usually the case.

"No nation welcomes other countries' spy drones in its territory, and no one sends back the spying equipment and its information back to the country of origin," said Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Armed Forces, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

Let's hope Iran doesn't cave like a little old lady.

ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images/Files

Another drone crashed before it even got airborne in Seychelles. Say, did you know that those tiny little islands harbour a US military base? I used to wonder why my websites have always been visited from there, but not now. US spooks are everywhere.

Supposedly, they're protecting Seychelles from piracy, but how handy is that? "In the 1960s, US Admiral Hanks argued, in a special report, that Seychelles could be considered as an `unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean given its proximity to the oil sea lanes and oil producing nations." His idea was publicly pooh-poohed, but in these days of "War by Deception" (video playlist) piracy is an excellent pretext.  And now China wants to get into the act  (click on the "supposedly" link above). And if the US allows it, well, we can safely assume that any bellicosity in China's direction is strictly for show.

How about those drones, eh? As iffy and expensive as they are, there's one coming to your neighbourhood - very likely armed with tasers, shotguns and grenades (video).  Ouch. You can always hope they malfunction.

Closer to home, the controversy is about to deepen over the F-35 toys Harper says he wants Santa to bring him - if the Opposition has its wits about it, which we've seen reason to doubt.

There's a huge no-fly in the ointment: The Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws and will not be anywhere near serviceable until after 2018 - if then - which is probably why nobody can say how much they will cost. Nevertheless, the price is rising as we speak, and even the Pentagon is looking around to see if there's a piggy bank it hasn't yet broken into.

When you think about the military/industrial complex (and you ought to) consider who is pulling Harper's strings - the military, soulmates of the weapons industry - and the magic number is 65:

Lt.-Gen. Andre Deschamps said the air force would have to review how much "concurrent activity" it could handle if the number of radar-evading F-35s drop below the 65 aircraft the government has promised ..."In the end, it's all about managing risk in delivering the defence mission. The number 65 gives us the capacity to cover all our missions with confidence."

It also fits the projected profits spreadsheets of the manufacturers' accounting offices. And the F-35s are not for "defence" at all. According to Rabble: "The F-35 is made for "shock and awe" bombing missions abroad".

Not only that but (emphasis mine):

The former second in command of the Canadian Air Force, Major-General Richard Bastien, is now vice-president of the U.S.-owned aerospace company L-3 MAS, based in Montreal. Predictably, he told Members of Parliament in October that "the government must do its utmost to ensure that the F-35 is not only a military success, but also a success for industry in Canada."

Likewise the plane's U.S. builder, Lockheed Martin, has hired one of Ottawa's most successful defence industry lobby firms, CFN Consultants, which is composed almost entirely of retired officers from the senior ranks of the military.

The military is not the "highest calling", no matter what Harper says; it is the highest-priced calling. The wars are all about how to get tax dollars into the pockets of a bunch of greedy, conscienceless, psychopathic serial killers.

They are not on Santa's "nice" list.

A Christmas Song: "What was their Crime?"

Remembering those who died on the Mavi Marmara

Contributor: "Ron"

A flotilla bringing international aid and civilian volunteers to the besieged Palestinian Gaza strip was ruthlessly attacked in international waters by the Israeli Army, killing 9 people on the now infamous (full length documentary video) Mavi Marmara ship.

In Montreal, Quebec, the band "Yafa and The Sanity Claus" jammed in the memory of those brave men, raising the question: What Was Their Crime?

"What was their Crime" Yafa and the Sanity Claus sing for Gaza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FH0MPe1ods