Is it "Change" yet?

(1) A reader writes:

A brilliant analysis of a speech Obama gave about the Rule of Law. (VIDEO)

Too bad it's so old - from August 2 - but this video both illustrates clearly that the Obama administration is an extension of the Bush administration and highlights Obama's masterful skill in speech-giving. I'm sure no one attending the speech truly understood the significance of what he was saying.

YYC: Rule of Law simply means skewing the law to suit one's agenda. Obama wants to put people away indefinitely for thought crimes, just as Bush wanted to. Only problem is, it's impossible to accurately read thoughts, and - as the movie Minority Report demonstrated - a rolling apple might not fall off a table after all. Not to mention that a country supporting prolonged detention on the basis of what someone might do really ought to quit calling itself a democracy.

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(2) From Ron: West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book "The King's Torah" that even babies and children can be killed if they pose a threat to the nation.

YYC: It's always nice to have somebody who can re-interpret scripture on an as-needed basis to justify what used to be sins. Extremist Christians and Muslims do that too. Yet Frank Dimant, the man bellowing into a loudspeaker from behind a curtain in an empty hall that has B'nai Brith painted over the door, is still trying to whip up hatred against Islam - as if it had the corner on extreme ideas - still calling it a threat to Canadian institutions. He was on TV last night on the same old theme.

Didn't the Nazis fear the Jews were a threat to German institutions?

I'm sure Frank would never say he hates Muslims; just what they do; same as Ahenakew doesn't hate Jews.

Our Human Rights Commission is a Canadian institution and, although I would be quick to condemn blanket statements against the Jews as a people, like all groups they have brutes and crazies among them, and some of the more fanatical have been making far too much use of the CHRC and Section 13, and not always in an ethical manner. Section 13 needs to be repealed to prevent this kind of misuse from becoming more entrenched.

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(3) Doctor's Fort Chip cancer numbers disputed
Neither the complainants nor the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta wishes to suggest that Dr. O'Connor acted improperly ...

YYC: It isn't O'Connor they hate; it's his report. Thanks to the compliant media, his legitimate concerns have been effectively downplayed.

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(4) Margaret in Europe writes:

The recently passed US health care plan may be a sneaky way to make mandatory vaccination.

Quote:

The Federal Government’s proposed mandatory health insurance will mean mandatory vaccinations/immunizations. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) says that for anyone who refuses to keep up-to-date vaccinations, under the new health reform, you will not be able to obtain any health care you may need until immunizations are current.

This is an interpretation of the bill and in time we'll see if it actually plays out this way. It just might lead to a huge flow of Americans running to Canada or Mexico (or wherever) to escape mandatory vaccination.

YYC: The religious fanatics have also found a sneaky way to keep abortion out of the health care plan. Oh, you can pay extra for separate abortion insurance, but how many women plan to need an abortion?

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(5) Scienta Q-Gap Questionnaire
What is Your Q Gap Score?

YYC: What they're doing looks a lot like Phishing, but since I came across it through a banner ad on the Macleans Magazine website, it must be okay, right?

Back in town but lazy today, so this will be short, but interesting, maybe.

(1) From a reader - good news from Poland:



Maybe some Poles feel they've done enough at the behest of the United States?

(2) Another reader has sent an article about a mystery illness in Ukraine. I haven't been able to find anything to substantiate it yet - it's all over the internet but it always goes back to this single source. There is a discussion on it at Above Top Secret which may develop into something - don't know. (Caution to "Userdude": read discussion at own risk; "the" Ukraine is used there once or twice.)

(3) 11 Brampton youngsters were accidentally given an adult dose of H1N1 vaccine. And still we trust our kids to the medical profession.

I was in a restaurant last evening with my family and my brother was greeted by a man he knew. My brother noticed the man's whole family was not there and he asked about it. The man replied, "Oh, she's home with the flu." He had his three daughters with him, and he pointed to two of them and said, "They've already had it, and I suppose this one is next." He was smiling and the kids were smiling. Not frightened at all. So my brother cracked, "Well, I guess I won't shake hands with you." and both men laughed. That's how seriously this whole scare is being taken. Lucky for that man's children, they've now developed some natural immunity and will be healthier for it.

I find it interesting that even with the trumpeted shortage of vaccines, clinics have been able to move up by 15 days the inoculations for under 65s with chronic illnesses. If the shortage was intended to psychologically increase demand, it backfired - the lineups were shorter than anticipated.

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(4) Greg Felton has sent a link to his latest satire - all about sock puppets.

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(5) Remembrance Day: Oh, by all means make another law that the sheep must obey regardless of personal conviction.

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(6) Understatement of the Year: Leaders not issues are blocking Middle East peace

Marwan Barghouti has always been the best choice to negotiate for Palestinians, which is exactly why he's been kept in prison.

One World Religion?

I'm out of town this weekend and may not get a chance to blog. In the meantime, feel free to meditate on the following:

(1) Mea and Culpa

A reader who goes by the handle "-- userdude" (I hope I spelled it right) took me to task for misspelling the name of the Ukrainian president in an earlier post. S/he is right about that. I have a habit of rapidly typing my closest recall of a name while I'm mapping out a paragraph, and then going to the source to get the correct spelling. In this case, I obviously got distracted and forgot to do the check. I am all too human, but I'm sure the President didn't notice.

"-- userdude" also accuses me of looking through a peephole at Ukraine (not "the" Ukraine - again I stand corrected, and no I wouldn't say "the Canada" because it's always just been Canada, whereas Ukraine, up until fairly recently, by my clock, was called "the Ukraine") but I'm not that kind of girl. I swear all I did was read what the President actually said and watched a couple of related videos and put two and two together.

The rest of what "-- userdude" said, in my opinion, was extraneous to my premise. For instance, I don't think one has to have Ukrainian relatives or speak Ukrainian or produce photos of Halloween in Ukraine to understand the implications of calling in the military for one kind of flu when it's never been done for any other kinds no matter how many deaths were attributed to them - regardless of what country you're president of or what language you speak. And turning health care over to National Defence won't magically produce more medicines. The man is a politician and he knows on which side his personal ambitions are buttered.

While on the topic of the flu, here's a question (thanks to Ted in NFLD who sent this video link): Did Even Frustaglio die from meningitis?

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(2) One World (Green) Religion?

Mareta writes:

Hey I read some time ago that part of the elite agenda is to turn us all into earth worshippers - and here I was laughing at Gore-baby's new book (See Item 4 - Gore's Convenient Backtrack?).

Check out this article:

Go Green: belief in man-made climate change nets religion status

Look at the photo - doesn't he look like the cat that swallowed the canary. Any bets that the whole thing- the alleged firing and the court case - was a setup?

Does this mean the green movement can build churches and get tax deductions?

What a crock.

YYC: As L. Ron Hubbard said: "If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion." Dianetics wasn't originally a religion but more of a mental health therapy, but Hubbard saw his big chance, started calling it a church, and applied for tax free status. (Of course, he had to investigate IRS officials for skeletons, and sue a lot of them till they finally said uncle and struck a deal. What a hoot.)

So it doesn't really have to be a religion; you just call yourself a church - The Green Church of America, say - and blackmail the IRS till they come around.

But come to think of it, the Green Church might have a much easier time of it than Scientology did. Apparently, the "Committee on Climate Change" says "... if global warming is ever to be reined in, the growth of aviation must be stopped ..."

So that's what airplane terrorism has been all about (slaps forehead). Frightening people out of flying to save on fossil fuels! It also works to keep populations within their own borders, the better to keep track of them.

Yeah, this is one religion that might well be allowed, even encouraged, to build tax free edifices. Why, Canada's own Maurice Strong (member of the Club of Rome, wealthy oil and water man):

... hinted at the overtly pagan agenda proposed for a future Earth Charter, when in his opening address to the Rio Conference delegates he said, "It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light." [note: Alice Bailey, and Blavatsky before her, used these terms often. (Source: Earth Charter and the Ark of the Gaia Covenant)

I seem to recall former Liberal Leader Stephane Dion saying that climate change could turn out to be a money maker. And then suddenly we had Iggy in his place.

Here's my religion. We need to know what's going on in the world, but in spite of it: Don't worry; be happy!

Study shows Autism/Thimerosal Connection

I've just received the following from a mother who wishes to remain anonymous. I know first hand that her second son was diagnosed as severely autistic, and her eldest had ADHD behavioural problems. Both children have improved a great deal due to this mother's insistence on no further vaccines and on the use of alternative remedies.

The goddam fucking lying bastards.... :

"Thimerosal VSD study Phase 1 02/29/00" (PDF format)

This study proves they knew back then that thimerosal in vaccines (although they only tested infants up to 3 months who were exposed to thimerosal-containing vaccines) IS associated with autism, epilepsy, developmental disorders, misery syndromes, attention deficit later on in life.

It also clearly shows that as exposure to mercury (in thimerosal) increases the more often these disorders appear.

They have their little charts summing up the damage they created with absolutely no regard for the children or the families who suffered afterwards. And now we are expected to line up for thimerosal-containing vaccs - yet again - especially babies, pregnant women and children under 14. (Ed. note: in Ireland, for instance, children under 14 are offered two doses; in some other countries it's children under 10)

I am not surprised but I am so goddam fucking mad.

By the time my youngest boy was 3 months old he'd already had 2 thimerosal-containing vaccines (I have no idea how much thimerosal which depends on mixing) and an oral polio vacc. My oldest son too.

YYC: In case you're wondering about the authenticity of the study, here's another PDF document produced by the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine Immunization Safety Review Committee, which was found on the website of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology and in which, at the bottom of page 102 (105)* and top of page 103 (106)* credit is given to two of the authors of the study for all their "hard work".

* The numbering depends on whether you scroll to the pages as numbered in the document or use the "Go to" feature or arrow keys which go by total page count. In other words, the first three pages were not numbered by the authors.

Somma dis, somma dat ...

With the help of contributions from readers we have a mix of things to read today.

First, we (still) have to deal with the Pig Flu thing because it's really getting crazy.

You be the judge, but it seems the testing ground of military rule is in the Ukraine, with the pretext being that the H1N1 virus has mutated into something more virulent than the relatively mild Swine Flu and the people must be ... er, protected.

Ukrainian President Yveschenko Yushchenko has officially turned his country's health care over to the national defence. In his address to the nation, translated into English and published on his own website, he concludes:

National Security and Defense Council should become the center of decision-making. Failure to comply with its orders will immediately result in application to the law enforcement authorities. I remind all the responsible persons and draw attention to all of my orders, made in Lviv four days ago. In three days the deadline for compliance with these orders expires. With my decree I put Minister of Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector of Ukraine into the Council for National Security and Defense.

He says the virus "will be stopped" by these actions - and he declares all doctors as "heroes" and recommends they get a pay raise. So, of course, the good doctors will go along with the resulting repression.

Thanks to Margaret, some related video discussions:

Ukraine Mutated Swine Flu is a Bioweapon

Horowitz discusses the H1N1 and depopulation theory.

Margaret comments:

There are some reports that the [Ukrainian] government has arrested a pandemic blogger and that there are threats to arrest anyone in opposition to vaccination. There is indication that the areas most heavily-affected by the flus will be quarantined and the other regions vaccinated beginning with the chronically ill, the immuno-compromised and pregnant women.

YYC: Hard to know if the Mossad Agent Joseph Moshe - mentioned in the first video above and reportedly arrested for making threats against the White House - is intent on warning the public of White House involvement in bioweaponry aimed at depopulation, or on merely helping to further spread the panic that will drive people to the flu shot clinics, and cause them to willingly accept tighter restrictions on their freedoms.

There is a discussion of Moshe here. It's indeed "fishy" if the reports are true that he did not react to the tear gas being sprayed in his direction as he sat in his car - suggesting his arrest was a staged event. He did, however, correctly predict that the mutation scare would begin in the Ukraine.

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(2) Afghanistan and the CIA

Thanks to John - from Uruknet:

Have Canadians been killing and dying for Kandahar's Al Capone?

YYC: It's a rhetorical question. Excerpt:

Last week, the New York Times reported on its front page that Ahmed Wali Karzai -- the President’s younger brother and the most powerful man in Kandahar Province -- has in recent years regularly received payments from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Are we surprised? Here's the American perspective from Yahoo News:

... the revelations that Wali Karzai is a major drug trafficker who has been protected not just by his brother, but also by CIA operatives establish a chain of causality between the efforts of U.S. intelligence to obtain information and influence and drug monies that pay for an insurgency that has taken 53 American lives this month - the highest death toll ever for Americans in Afghanistan.

It's refreshing to learn that Italy has tried and convicted a group of CIA agents for their part in kidnapping and torturing a prominent Muslim. It's all pretty much moot, however, since Italy has yet to actually arrest the culprits.

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(3) Taser Justice?

Thanks to Ted - From the National Post:

The Mountie who repeatedly deployed his Taser on Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport two years ago has filed a libel lawsuit against the CBC

... coverage of the incident since Nov. 4, 2007, has caused him to suffer "serious embarrassment and distress" and has subjected him to "public ridicule." ... The former Richmond Mountie deployed his Taser on the Polish immigrant five times -- the last two in "push stun mode"

Ted Comments:

All I can say is some people have a hell of a lot of GALL.This RCMP officer tasers a poor guy to death and he's suing the CBC because he claims they seriously injured HIS reputation. Far as I'm concerned he should be quite content he's not in prison for manslaughter.

YYC: Not exactly the best way to go about clearing his name; drawing attention all over again to his brutal assault on an upset air traveller.

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(4) Gore's convenient backtrack?

Thanks to Mareta - two links:

Gore's Spiritual argument on climate (if all else fails Gore the guru will make us all into earth-worshippers)

Gore clears CO2 of most blame (Read the comments on this one..)

Mareta adds:

Gore-baby is not gonna make as much moola with his carbon offsets empire but he'll make up for it in livestock tax.