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Tuesday June 17, 2008
Mama said there'll be days like this *
1) RCMP Mole forgets whose side he's on ... 2) And speaking of moles ... 3) Out of Afghanistan ... 4) The CB (doesn't) C ... 5) And speaking of alien lifeforms ... 6) Talk about being pro-life!
1) RCMP Mole confused about whose side he's on ...
Okay, I know I said earlier that I no longer care what the RCMP mole in the Toronto "terror" trials
has to say, but look at these two CBC items below! Is Shaikh paid by
the RCMP to destroy the prosecution's case?
If so, then it really was
all just a media stunt, designed to leave an impression in the minds of
Canadians that we should live in fear of homegrown terror and accept
fewer freedoms and more surveillance cameras for the sake of "security".
RCMP informant says accused in militant plot was naive
An RCMP informant who infiltrated an alleged homegrown militant group
has acknowledged the person now on trial had little or no knowledge of
the group's plans... Shaikh said the accused was invited to the
training camp under false pretences... The picture left with the court,
so far, is of a youth who had no idea what he was getting into, had no
personal or political motives for wanting to attack innocent civilians
and was kept in the dark by leaders of the alleged plot.
Alleged bomb plot defendant unaware of any plans: RCMP informant
The
young men were told the winter camping trip was part of a Muslim
religious retreat, not a terror training exercise as the Crown has
alleged in documents submitted to court, he said.
False pretences is what these guys were arrested under! Shaikh has raised serious
doubts as to whether any of the group, other than the agents
provocateurs, knew what the heck they were doing camping out in the country
in the winter, drawing public attention to themselves.
It's
a massive waste of the court's time and taxpayers' dollars just so that
an impression of the presence of "homegrown terrorists" can be burned
into the minds of lazy journalists and couch potatoes who doze through
the TV national news.
If you haven't yet seen the video "Unfair Dealing: The Toronto Homegrown Terror Threat" now might be the time. It will give you a much more complete picture of Shaikh the Mole.
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2) And speaking of moles ...
Who was it that gave Julie Couillard "reasonable grounds to believe that the RCMP is currently undertaking an investigation." (CBC)
Whoever
it was, it's given the Commons committee reason to delay the hearing
until Parliament reopens in the fall. By then, will the whole matter
have blown over just like the Mulroney/Schreiber affair appears to have?
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3) Out of Afghanistan ...
I've underlined a portion of the following headline because it strikes
me
as some kind of intentional statement. Is the Toronto Star
chiding the government for not having done jail upgrades long before
this, or is it trying to reinforce earlier statements by the Harper lot
that talking about the war in Parliament alerts the Taliban to Canada's
intentions? In other words, is it aiding the Allcons' attempts to
stifle the opposition?
[Acting
Foreign Affairs] Minister's 'heart sank' at news of prison break - Taliban
raid came after jail upgrades were urged (Star).
(See also: John's contribution to the Guestbook on June 16th regarding the Taliban taking over Kandahar.)
Well, at least we have the amusement of brand new, acting Foreign
Minister David Emerson's stream of consciousness:
"We've known all along there would
be days where events did not go in our way, and this weekend we saw
that." The jailbreak indicates there appears to have been a
breakdown in intelligence gathering aimed at anticipating and
preventing such incidents"
We've known
all along - since early 2002, over six very bloody years, eh?
With no end in sight, eh? With things getting worse and
worse, eh? Or better and better depending on whether you look at the
profits for the "defence" industry.
Does it make you think maybe the object is never to win the war?
Then up pipes Petey MacKay who lets it slip that "structural improvements" have already been made:
Defence Minister Peter
MacKay told the Commons "structural improvements" were made to the
facility, but they dealt more with conditions inside the prison, not
the outer walls...
Oh,
not the outer walls, for sure. Strengthening the outer walls
would be downright foolish if the object is unending war.
Notice in the following new excerpt from SMH the use of the word "brazen" - bold and unashamed
- as if there was no doubt whatsoever they would be successful, as
if the coast was so clear they could stroll right in, with no need to
approach like thieves in the night. Gee, where was NATO when that
happened?
From SMH:
Kandahar
is still reeling from Friday's brazen attack by the Taliban on its
prison, in which they released about 1200 inmates... Afghan officials
said Taliban fighters had declared they planned to march on Kandahar
from Arghandab. "The Taliban are getting stronger and stronger, and
after they attacked the prison, that gave them higher morale," Mr Wali
said.
Looks
as if the Bush bunch never bothered to let Karzai in on the real plan.
Why has it taken him so long to realize that security is not job
number one?
In
a sign of his increasing frustration with the threats to his
government, the President, Hamid Karzai, on Sunday raised the
possibility of sending Afghan troops into Pakistan to hit militant
leaders who had vowed to continue a jihad in Afghanistan.
If Karzai starts
acting like a real president who can make war strategy decisions, he's
going to be in big trouble with the US.
In the meantime, the anti-war sentiment at home is warming up as labour unions begin to demand an immediate end to Canada's involvement in the Afghan war (Bullet).
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4) The CB (doesn't) C ...
Want
to get an idea of how long it takes the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation to get its brain around an issue of vital importance?
Well, it's just now waking up to the fact that the government has been
allowing the dumping of toxic mining runoff into certain freshwater
lakes.
CBC: Monday, June 16, 2008
CBC
News has learned that 16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but
quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines ...
Environmentalists
say the process amounts to a "hidden subsidy" to mining companies,
allowing them to get around laws against the destruction of fish
habitat.
Those "environmentalists" outed this news almost exactly one year ago!
MiningWatch: Monday June 25, 2007
MiningWatch
has learned from Environment Canada (EC) that together with the
Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) they now maintain a list of
some twenty lakes that are slated for destruction by mine waste over
the next few years. This amounts to a massive public subsidy to the
global mining industry in the form of healthy Canadian lakes.
The
wholesale sacrifice of Canadian lakes as a simple and cheap “solution”
for the disposal of highly toxic waste (tailings) from mining started
in 2006 with the destruction of two lakes near Buchans, Newfoundland,
for mine waste from a mine run by Aur Resources. Both lakes contained
brook trout and Atlantic and land-locked salmon.
Another
reason not to bother watching the National Snooze, and another reason
to believe it really is alien lifeforms running this planet who intend
to move on to somewhere else once they've sucked the life out of Earth.
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5) And speaking of alien lifeforms ...
Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien continues to reveal himself as a weird piece of work. He's apparently still trying to show he has big connections to John Baird(Flacklife) even though Baird seems to be doing his best to show otherwise.
The O'Brien / Kilrea / Baird scandal
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6) Talk about being pro-life!
Religion and medicine are funny things. The bulk of it is based on belief; don't confuse the practitioners with facts.
Jews
believe in staying alive at all costs, Jehovah's Witnesses avoid blood
transfusions at all costs, Catholics believe in sacrificing the mother
to save the foetus, and doctors used to believe that their job was to
save lives, not make decisions about ending them, but now they believe
that old people are valueless bed wasters. Nobody seems to ask what
are the wishes of the targets of all this belief.
CP: Two more critical-care doctors resign from Winnipeg's Grace Hospital
Dr.
Anand Kumar decided to end life support for 84-year-old Samuel
Golubchuk in the fall, but the man's family went to court and got an
injunction to keep him on life support.
Golubchuk's
family says taking him off the machines would violate his beliefs as an
Orthodox Jew; his adult children believe it would be a sin under the
faith because it would "hasten his death."
But
doctors at the Grace Hospital say Golubchuk has minimal brain function
and because chances of recovery are slim, they want to disconnect his
ventilator and pull his feeding tube.
Note,
his chances of recovery are "slim" not "nil". What if he came to and
had the answer that would save the world? Ah, nobody would believe him.
But maybe this is a lesson to
all of us to make our wishes known in advance in writing, and maybe
those wishes should be respected regardless of what others believe.
Me?
I don't want to be at the mercy of believers. At the first sign of
becoming any kind of burden on family or society, I want the plugs
pulled. In fact, I promise to avoid as much as possible any plugs
being inserted in the first place.
There is no danger of me
suddenly coming to and revealing the answer that will save the world.
I've already shot my bolt: 1) Don't comply with undemocratic rules,
and 2) Get yourself some real faith - the kind of "knowing" you can
find only inside yourself when you let go of your fear.
* Lyrics:The Shirelles - "Mama said"
And then she said someone will look at me
like I'm looking at you one day,
then I might find
I don't want it any old way
yayacanada
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