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Monday April 21,
2008
Some edifying miscellany
1) Soldier
suicides, 2) a Canadian's report from the New Orleans SPP summit, 3)
the essential Iggy, 4) what grows in the dark, 5) a papal birthday and
- what? - a nazi one, and 6) Tasers - the $2.50 transit special
1) Check out today's Reader
Comments
Are
our soldiers committing
suicide at record rates?
2) News of the SPP summit in New Orleans
IndyOttawa:
Mobile to New Orleans
Lia Tarachansky reports as Canadian buses approach the site of the SPP
summit.
In my head I keep hearing Fats Domino singing Walking
to New Orleans. He was "going back home to stay", which
seems sad considering how many former residents of New Orleans were
exiled by Katrina and are being kept out by "development".
Don't forget to check in occasionally with The People's Summit in New
Orleans
3) The essential Michael
Ignatieff
If you're into macabre humour (my
favourite kind) you should enjoy the following:
An article
written in 2006 by Greg Felton prophetically and creatively (with
an inquisition scenario) describes the motivation behind Michael
Ignatieff's recent
speech at the behest of a vicious pack of pitbulls calling
themselves the Canadian
Coalition for Democracies (on the message board of which you will
find such comments as this: "most of
these jihadist types are closet homosexuals" and their favourite
pejorative "useful idiot" in dismissing anyone who disagrees with them)
at Holy Blossom Temple in Ottawa wherein he struggled to explain that
he didn't mean "war crime" when he said "war crime" in reference to Israel's
horrific assault on civilians in Qana. Rick
Mercer also had Ignatieff's number in 2006 and his lame attempt to
backtrack at that time.
Please
know I made these comments
in French and never intended them to be heard by English voters.
Clearly everything I have read about the two solitudes is a fallacy.
This is not
in any way to excuse Ignatieff for succumbing to his own personal,
overweening need to be loved by all and sundry.
4)
YYC Question: Can freedom survive in the dark?
The
anwer to my question may be in the
lyrics of a D.O.A. hit song entitled "Where evil grows".
From Marjorie, Ottawa:
[Investigative
reporter Robert Cribb] attacks ‘black hole’ of public information
He
believes journalists are acting
on behalf of the public, but are “dealing with...antiquated legislation
and [a] cultural problem. The only way things change is through public
pressure...but [it’s] rarely on the public agenda”, he said.
Cribb
called for amendments to Freedom of Information legislation, judicial
appreciation for journalists’ relationships with confidential sources,
and adequate whistleblower protection, which could enable a greater
scope of investigations to come to light.
Cribb
believes in the power of the people. “The public must demand
greater openness and transparency from public officials,” he said.\
I think
most journalists are acting on behalf of a pay cheque like everybody
else, but it's true that only the public can ensure democracy - but
first the public has to wake up to the dire implications of not knowing
what's going on.
Another version of the above article appears here,
and it reveals that Cribb works for CanWest, a news outlet that
voluntarily censors itself or spins out of control when it comes to
news of Israel's activities.
5) Whose birthday?
I
don't mean to pick on
the Pope so much but he keeps popping up in situations where it
doesn't seem a Christian leader ought to be.
The Pope's birthday was celebrated
during his visit to the US. Nothing wrong with that. Except
that the timing of his visit may have been about somebody
else's birthday,
or so I was adamantly advised by someone named Leena who spams me
regularly with long and often confusing missives on the benefits of Jewish
Kabala. I don't try to fight spam anymore - some of it is
quite interesting.
Leena is not the only person talking about this. (I myself have
spoken a bit skeptically in the past about the Pope's downplaying
of
his
indocrtination in Hitler's Youth.) There are websites that
come right and say he performed a Black
Mass at Ground Zerio
in honour of Hitler's birthday. That would make him a Satanist,
wouldn't it? In that case, he's his own successor - if you believe
this particular chilling prediction. Now that's magick!
I was disturbed enough that he chose to pontificate (now I fully
understand that word!) on how enlightened
countries ought to intervene
in countries that do not respect human rights. Way to bolster the
New
World Order's unending wars! And this comes from the leader of an
institution that has recently paid out a couple of billion dollars to
cover over 14,000 complaints of abuse of the sheep under its
supervision.
Someone wrote in
a blog comment
that the Pope "acts less like a shepherd and more like a sheep farmer
who raises lambs for the dinner table" and added " Ignore the old man
in the odd clothes".
I'd like to do just that. But I remembered that the Pope officially
blessed the Olympic Flame relay
in 2005. And I was reminded of the pagan history of the
flame. It's
funny how you know things, but you don't because they've been shelved
and need something to trigger them. I've even seen Leni
Riefenstahl's amazing film
of the 1936 Olympic games in Germany, and of course it's been well
publicized what an occultist Hitler was, yet it took checking out Wikipedia
to recall the following:
The
relay of the flame from Greece to the site of the modern games had no
ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem, with the support
of Joseph Goebbels, at the controversial Berlin Olympics as a means
to promote Nazi ideology. (Underlining mine)
I guess you'll
have to
make of all this what you will. I'm not far enough into David
Icke's
"Children of the Matrix" to have become sufficiently inculcated to know
how deeply Bush and Benedict are connected with each other and with the
occult (although Bush's well-documented membership in the occultist
Skull and Bones club - founded in 1832 as a new world version of
secret student societies that were common in Germany at the time (CBS)
- doesn't help matters any) and with the Illuminati
- a hybrid of Nordic and Reptilian aliens that includes all royal
families and most of the presidents of the United States - who are bent
on destroying the world to feed its own lust for wealth and supremacy.
6) For the sake of $2.50?
Canwest:
Taser use defended and under review
Vancouver transit officers carry tasers and use them on
people who refuse to pay!
I agree with John Richardson of the Pivot Legal Society:
CP:
Transit cops in B.C. say safety top of mind when passengers jolted by
Tasers
"I
think
that because it's such a handy tool and you have immediate compliance,
I think police officers are giving into the temptation to use it as a
first resort, rather than a last resort."
The ossifers like
to
say that Tasers save lives and maybe they do save some, since the
growing militarization of the police forces is attracting trigger happy
thugs who would happily use their guns instead. But wouldn't
better training in people skills be more ... you know ... civilized?
yayacanada
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