Saturday, December 19, 2009

Burning and raving ...

at close of day ...

That Dylan Thomas poem could just as easily have been about women.

Sorry, I missed another blogging day yesterday. Was out of town attending my nonagenarian mother's Christmas luncheon at her assisted-living retirement home. If you want to have a good time, try sitting down to a table with four tough old ladies in their 90's who've parked their walkers and are keen for some fun. They say what they want and they don't care who doesn't like it, and these ones were amazingly deft at puns.

One of them was 96, and I can't repeat here the raunchy Santa joke she told me. She also told me she HATES being called "dear" (me too) and she's sick of being told she'll live to 100, because she's willing to die right now, having "enjoyed life to the fullest" especially when her beloved husband was alive, with whom she had both a close friendship and a marriage, or to live past a hundred if "the Good Lord wills it."

Every one of them was sharp-minded, sharp-tongued, nicely dressed and coiffed, easy on the eyes, and funny as all get out.

They were discussing cocktail recipes at one point and I asked if booze ever gets smuggled into the residence. They rolled their eyes and smirked mischievously, but didn't answer. For everything else, they had an answer. I laughed so hard I smeared my mascara.

Those who see old people as nothing but a drain on society shouldn't be allowed to live.

Anyway, not being a spring chicken myself, I'm recuperating from the long trip, and have some errands to run, but I'll have more to say later today or first thing tomorrow. Much more, judging from my emails.

IN THE MEANTIME: a reader to told me that her husband read somewhere that Dick Cheney's office had "spontaneously combusted". Apparently the mere shredding of documents isn't considered secure enough these days. Actually, this happened exactly two years ago today, but if you want to see some of the possible reasons it could have recurred, take a look at this. I like possibility number 21 best, in the comments section of the article.

Mareta in Spain has sent a link to the latest Corbett report, always worth a look-see.

Mareta comments:

"Banks propped up with drug money (surprise surprise); AMA making DNA registry of newborns without public knowledge (duh) and guess who was behind this legislation; 22 million emails that got lost during Bush admin (lost?) have been found - but it'll take years to process them ...(hahaha)."
YYC: Mareta spends as much time as she can monitoring US actions at home and abroad, because she figures that as North America goes, eventually so will Spain. The King of Spain and his son grew beards for the first time recently - a symbol of defiance, Mareta says, regardless of the cover story given in the media. The King has sinced shaved his; his son has not, however.

Hugo Chavez seems to support Mareta's conclusion, since he likened the King's beard to Fidel Castro's. Mind you, the King did tell Chavez to "shut up" earlier, but now I'm thinking that may have been the result of extreme stress - and he did use the pronoun "tu", suggesting affection for Chavez - or great contempt, depending on the point of view.

Image borrowed from this website.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

The divil you say ...

Some say the divil is dead, the divil is dead, the divil is dead.
Some say the divil is dead and burried in Killarney,
More say he rose again, more say he rose again,
More say he rose again and joined the British army Video


(1) Canada/Israel

I came across this article and thought that it's a good indication of the blinkers that trained "white" globalists wear: Harper says Canada has no history of colonialism

Tell that to our First Nations, eh?

It seemed to go well with this video from Ron. Canada is not only a result of colonialism it has always supported British and American colonialism, and now thoroughly supports the Israeli version.

See Ottawan Bahija Reghai's article on how Canada doesn't even want to financially support aid to the refugees Israel has created.

Ron's video expresses well the level of dedication required of boycotters of Israeli Apartheid if the boycott is to continue being successful. Clearly it's not our government that supports social programs; it's at the whim and ideology of whoever happens to head it up at a given time. That is not democray, nor is it freedom of thought and speech. But it does show what we're up against now and where things are heading.

Some people think the move toward privatization in Ontario, for instance, is the result of Liberal ideology, but the federal Conservatives are just as much in favour. All it means is that there's now officially no diff between a LibCon and an AllCon (or a DemCon and a RepubCon), federally, provincially or municipally. The global agenda is pure corporate capitalist fundamentalism, and that means "white" control over all shades of brown-skinned peoples, especially those who live in resource-rich areas.

And if you still haven't got your head around global (corporate) governance, and Obama's role in it, rest assured the UN definitely has. See Margaret's input below.

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(2) Carbonhagen

From Margaret in Europe
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U.N. chief weighs in on climate talk expectations
One of the principles agreed upon is that all commitments should be reportable, measurable and verifiable. This is what has been agreed by both developed and developing countries.

We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this. Experts from both worlds should participate.

And I believe that the fact that President Obama has agreed to participate himself may suggest that the U.S. has some better understandings on what China and India will do. He has been instrumental in changing the political dynamics of this debate.
Sounds like everyone is agreed about global governance and that India and China are to take the lead in the global economy.
Lord Monckton breaks down Copenhagen - part 1 (video)

He says that all that is happening- demonstrations, the African boycott etc is all "street theatre" and that, in fact, all was decided before the talks even started. He asserts that the true thrust behind this meeting is hammering out the formation of a vast network of administrative bodies - and how to pay for them - that is forming the beginnings of global government.

It could be easy to discredit Monckton because he is "one of them" but I would suggest that he may be right because, in fact, he has a bit of an axe to grind with them.
Monckton has referred to himself as a "peer of the House of Lords" but is not a member of that body. Monckton was an unsuccessful candidate for a Conservative seat in the House of Lords in a March 2007 by-election caused by the death of Lord Mowbray and Stourton. He received no votes in the election. He was highly critical of the way that the Lords had been reformed, describing the by-election procedure, with 43 candidates and 47 electors, as "a bizarre constitutional abortion."
He also belongs to many humanitarian organizations:
Monckton is a member of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, an Officer of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, and a member of the Roman Catholic Mass Media Commission.
Quotes are from Wikipedia.

I'll send part 2 when it's released.
YYC: Methinks the Wiki article was written by Monckton himself. You'll laugh when I tell you why: it contains the word "riposte" - a frightfully, upper class British word, wouldn't you say? But he writes for and is an adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute which appears to have a substantial body of scientific advisers - people who know, or should know, at least as much as the global warming proponents.

Who funds any of them seems moot at this point since both sides appear to be funded by corporate interests, as are political parties and wars.

Monckton's "Apocalypse? No!" is available on Google for anyone who is interested. In it he claimed to be as balanced as Fox News, and he didn't seem to be joking.

I admit again, for the record, I don't know whether or not gobal warming is the issue it's made out to be, but I can see lots of reasons why the powers that be would want us to get worked up about it - because in order to mitigate the problem we will have to have world government, and they would prefer we submit willingly to that rather than that they be forced to force it upon us (that's their idea of democracy - making us want their oppression).

On the same page as Monckton's video there's one titled: 1983: The Brink Of Apocalypse discussing how perilously close the Cold Warriors came to nuking the planet. Now that's what I call an apocalypse, and they didn't even bother to tell us about it until after it was all over! So my motto is the more they yell about stuff, the less credible it very likely is.

Monckton's video is seductive to me for a reason you might not suspect. It happens that I'm in love with Inspector Morse who travels in the pomp of Oxfordian circles while maintaining a fine disdain for it that helps me to tolerate it (you can get some of the flavour of that in this full length episode - and enjoy a Japanese commercial ad as well).

Travelled, I should say, since the Morse series concluded long ago and actor John Thaw himself is now tucked into an urn. As Morse, he dies of his penchant for drink (John Thaw was also an alcoholic as well as a heavy smoker) in the last episode, and I haven't been able to bring myself to watch that full episode again, though I've seen all the others numerous times.

Morse is extremely lame around women he finds attractive, can't stand to look at a corpse, and he's often unkind to his sidekick Lewis, with whom I'm almost as much in love. What a pair they make - upper crust sensibilities teamed up with plain, ordinary common sense. Have I digressed enough?

Perhaps a complete change-about is in order, just to rest the thoughts - although the reverence expressed in this video for a certain talking head is cause for mild alarm. Still, I couldn't be more enthralled with it, I must say. The funniest part in the whole thing is that he says his line about the picture being crooked but it isn't and he has to make it crooked himself in order to continue the segment.

Okay, it's not really a change-about. The guy ends up dancing with the devil, for pete's sake, just like our so-called leaders and their media mouthpieces. Martin Short is very deep, I must say.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Wonderful, wonderful Dopenhagen ...

From John in Manitoba, who comments: "This is why Al Gore is a millionaire."

Carbon trading explained (PDF)

YYC: The cover page says "How it works and why it fails" so Gore might not come out on top after all.

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From Mareta in Spain who comments: "This will certainly help to build up frustration"

Friends of the Earth Chair Evicted from COP15 in Copenhagen (video)

Mareta continues:

There has been sudden, severe restriction regarding who can attend the talks at this point.

There is also what has been called a Peoples Assembly walk out consisting of frustrated NGOs.

COP15-walkout(video)

and the chair has resigned her position / but will continue to facilitate negotiations

Connie Hedegaard gives a press conference (video) regarding her resignation at COP15
YYC: Ms. Hedegaard looks almost as if she's suffering from shock - pale, eyes wide, tired, and angry underneath her calm exterior. I bet she's heard some things behind the scenes she never thought she'd hear.

More from Mareta:
I sent this because I love the title... and it's fun to watch.

CrossTalk on Climate: Dopenhagen? (video)

Below- Not really a very good title for this video (in my opinion):

Science Silence: Why Global Warming minds avoid open debate? (video)

It is an interview with Lars Seier Christensen, co-CEO of Denmark's Saxo Bank and his recently published book "Blue planet in green shackels" written by a Czech whose name I missed in the interview.
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From Moi:


There's an interesting Irish perspective in a video entitled: End of Nations. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but from what I've seen it characterizes the EU as the monster in the current move toward global government. The Treaty of Lisbon appears to have effectively got all the EU members moving in lockstep with no real national sovereignty.

Stephen Harper talks a lot about preserving Canada's sovereignty, but what he means by that may well be quite different from how you or I would define it. With a global government, no elected officials would have a say in foreign policy - in fact there would be no foreign policy, but only international or global policy; local governments would be autonomous only in local issues such as health care, education, infrastructure, that sort of thing. Our military, for instance, would not be Canadian, they would be part of an international force, for which is it now appears NATO is the prototype.

I recall Harper expressing surprise at how he quickly had to deal with foreign affairs issues when he was first elected - more precisely, how much time he was having to spend on it. Probably that's because he's been thinking global government all along. Interesting that a man who professes to be a fundamentalist (Christian and Missionary Alliance) would relish the idea of one-world-government when it's supposed to be a sign of the end of days, but all the more reason, perhaps, why he would be happy to help bring it about because then Jesus could return.

Same as the Messiah can't come until God's chosen people, the Jews, have taken over the whole of Palestine. Not just prophecy all brought about by God, but self-fulfilling prophecy with a hard, violent push administered by humans.

Okay, here's the real song, a vintage piece: Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen - her open arms now not so welcoming to some.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Thank heaven for reader input ...

Sorry for ignoring you yesterday. I bought myself a Christmas present - a Netbook, and have been playing with it ever since. It will be great for showing videos and photos of my grandkids to the relatives and friends I'll be visiting over the next couple of weeks. It fits into my purse and weighs nothing!

I won't tell you the brand lest you think I'm shilling for the company that made it. But they are all darn cute little things, and yet they have ample sized hard drives, can handle all the softwares that a PC can, and they have built in webcams. No DVD drive, though; a USB DVD drive is extra, but my flash drive works great for transferring files.

There's still some configuring to do. Even the best computers come with a lot a bloat software that has to be picked off like burrs.

In the meantime I've been bailed out by three readers ...

Margaret has sent a few video links for your delectation, about which you can use your own good judgment:

anti human mindset of environmentalists

ddt

ecologist hypocriticus

YYC: That last one really makes me wonder if a lot of overtly climate conscious people are actually being covertly funded to convince us of our Climate Change responsibilities while not doing a thing about it themselves.

Regarding DDT, hard to say if it's the only thing that could have protected African children from malaria, but I don't think for one minute that the health of African children is uppermost in the minds of those who want to bring it back.

Two more (VIDEOS) from PBS Frontline carbon watch - one explains how the international carbon market works and the other is a documentary about the controversy over a carbon project in Brazil.

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"Beesting" sent this:

Thought you'd appreciate 'In reverse, ex-Zionist leader helping Israelis go Down Under ." Where money speaks... like everybody else, ideology takes the back seat.

I assume that the news about Livni canceling her trip to the UK will be everywhere in the media tomorrow.
YYC: It would appear that the noose is tightening. Pretty soon Livni will be in the emigration business herself, if Australia will have her.

Transcript of Obama's Nobel acceptance speech

YYC: Can you believe he said, "I receive this honour with deep gratitude and great humility." The temerity! To boast of great humility is pretty much proof of lack of any.

His speech was mostly damage control due to the public reaction. Check out these poll results: Do you think Obama deserved the Nobel prize?

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Mareta sent this comment regarding "Carbonhagen":
I have a very bad feeling about how the talks are going to end up. I participated on the COP15 website by commenting on someone else's comment that went something like this:

A commenter (commentator?) stated that he was sick of corruption, war, pollution, inequality etc that seemed to be a complaint against the leaders and their failure to reach an agreement.

Another commenter said he agreed and suggested that the only way to deal with global warming was to create a central governing authority to control the use of fossil fuels and that they should only be used in matters of life and death.

I jumped on because of the oblique reference to global government. I said (pretty much) How can we trust our leaders to form a central governing body and expect it to work when they can't even reach an agreement on the treaty?

I wanted to see what people were thinking about with regard to global government.

Anyway, the response surprised me. He wrote back saying I was right and that we should know "who is who" by the end of the week. Then he made the comment that maybe he I and the other commenter should do it.

It creeped me out a bit because it suddenly occurred to me (and I know this sounds paranoid) but do you suppose the talks were designed to fail, to frustrate the public and push the public to hysterical heights of fear of global warming and the fact that no one is doing anything about it as a reason to mandate global government as "the only solution" - as the only way to mandate solutions that will save the planet? Everyone must obey or we will all die?

We will know "who is who" by the end of the week. Will the Americans or British step in at the last moment and mandate that the only solution is a central governing authority?

Just who will be that knight that comes charging in to save the day?

problem reaction solution
The crowds will love it.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Sometimes I'm tempted to buy a newspaper ...

... just so I could throw it in the trash.

But first - Israel: Calls to action

Greg Felton in BC sent this:

Dear friends:

I went to Safeway store #58 in New Westminster to buy red peppers, and the only bulk ones for sale were from Israel! The assistant manager told me the store has no control over what it sells, and that all complaints must be made to head office.

Interestingly, Safeway has a business ethics department:
1-866-239-1376
business.ethics@safeway.com

I have registered a complaint with Safeway and I will call the above-cited number tomorrow morning. Please add your voice to mine.

Thanks,

Greg
YYC: Now, this is one case where a picket might be very useful. The surest way to get Israeli products off the shelves is to encourage the public not to buy them.

Linda in Ottawa sent this:
Do you know what the Canadian Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism is? If not, visit www.canpalnet-ottawa.org to find out - your civil liberties may depend on it.

Defend Free Speech *******Sign Petition ********
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(2) Obama has disappointed Michael Moore


Michael Moore begged Pres. Obama not to send more troops to Afghanistan.
With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young men and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown of this great civilization we call America will head, full throttle, into oblivion if you become the "war president." Empires never think the end is near, until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the heathens to toe the line -- and yet it never works. The heathens usually tear them to shreds.
Imagine, he still had "a sliver of hope". Well, that's what Obama was supposed to be all about, right? Hope. Moore lost a lot of credibility with me after some previous begging (video) he did. I wonder if Ralph Nader has said to him "I told you so."

Oh well, some folks are tickled pink about the surge.

And, hey, good luck to Michael with that "heathen" remark. Is he some kind of missionary throwback or what?

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(3) Obama lied like all the others about Bin Laden

I've added a new link to the side panel: Veterans Today. It points to a good article on the Bin Laden myth and the deceit of the American government, including Obama.

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(4) "Carbonhagen"

Margaret in Europe sent this:

New World this week - Dec 10 (video)
Carbon is poison; uranium, bacteria, arsenic and jet fuel is ok; and the West Virgina cola mining debacle.

YYC: I must admit - though I hate to help create "heroes" because I don't want to end up disappointed like Michael Moore - that Corbett and his pal make a lot of sense. I like that both of these guys expressed what I've been dealing with myself - that it's hard to get one's head clear on some issues because there are so many of them and the information is so contradictory. I'm left sometimes having to stay silent or telling people to read, listen and use their own judgment.

I also like the term "Carbonhagen". Wish I'd thought of that.

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(5) The nose knows, so be careful

An attacker hit Italian PM Berlusconi with a statue of the Milan cathedral (boy I'd love to learn the symbolism behind that) and fractured his nose. A lesson for politicians - if your nose gets too long you just know somebody is going to go for it.

Well, it's better than being T-Boned (there's jargon for everything nowadays).

Italy's President called it an attack on that country's institutions, but considering Berlusconi's rep for lying (I corrected a typo which would have made that "laying", but come to think of it, it wasn't really a mistake), cheating and general corruption, he's done more damage all by him's lonesome to Italy's institutions.

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(6) Twittering Twits (Say that five times quickly)

One-third of Canada's politicians are now on Twitter. It must be hard work leaping from bandwagon to bandwagon. Twitter is a fad that has been sold to the public the same way fax machines were, and look where the fax ended up. How? Well, they just told everybody that everybody else was doing it. The socially insecure will bite every time.

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(7) The Pharmers are mad, mad I tell you!

Health experts say
: Play in the Mud, Stop Allergies?

Some other health experts say: Peanut Allergy – Vaccinations Link

YYC says: Peanut allergies have doubled during the last decade. Doubled! And apparently, vaccines are made using peanut oil. Except in Israel, where they use sesame seed oil in their vaccines and have almost no cases of peanut allergy.

Play in the mud my aunt fanny's fanny.

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(8) Here we go with N. Korea again

North Korean plane carrying smuggled arms seized in Thailand
Five held in Bangkok over 35-tonne cargo which included rocket launchers, grenades and missiles
YYC: The US owns Thailand, of course, so they can create any impression they want. And no one is surprised that Iran is the destination. Hard to believe it was only 20 or so years ago that the Iran-Contra scandal broke. That time it was Israel doing the mule thing. Wherever there's money to be made, arms will be sold. Everybody and his brother does it:
Wali Karzai has denied a U.S. report that he is involved in Afghanistan's arms trade.
That's the caption under the photo. Okay, it's got to be a misprint, or else a slip of the controlled media tongue. Here's another brother who does it for sure.