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Saturday July 5, 2008
Lockdowns, crackdowns, putdowns and mysteries
Of fish and men,
crooked law enforcers in Israel and Canada, Bush's sarcasm about free
speech, children's cancer rates, strange effects of strokes, the
"energy non-crisis"
1) Lockdowns - of fish and men
Whether you're a man or a fish, if you're penned in you're not a happy dude.
Inmates cell-bound until prison deemed safe (EdSun)
A lockdown at the Edmonton Institution continued yesterday after a Canada Day brawl that sent several prisoners to hospital.
They
say it was just a gang fight, a carryover from the streets. They're in
prison to become model citizens, and until they somehow manage to
accomplish that they will be deprived of the programs designed to help
them do it. Go figure.
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30,000 escaped farmed salmon raise concerns in B.C. (CBC)
The
salmon swam away from a fish farm in Fredrick Arm, northeast of
Campbell River, after one corner of an underwater pen collapsed
Swim, little fish. Swim like the wind! Keep going until you find clean water. There must be some out there somewhere.
As
uplifting as this successful bid for freedom is, I think I've learned
something I didn't want to know from what one of the fish wardens said (underlining mine):
"There's no ability for these fish to spread anything to the wild salmon. First of all, they are quite healthy. They haven't needed any antibiotics.
Did you ever think there were antibiotics in your supermarket fish? Mercury, sure. But antibiotics?
It's quite possible, as well, that this escape really is a disaster for native salmon fishing. I'm remembering the Nile perch in Lake Victoria (GISL),
Mwanza, Tanzania, which were imported and dropped into the lake where
they bred out of control and ate all the indigenous critters, including
those that ate algae, so now the lake is murky, smelly, and choking with algae.
Once
the foreign predator fish had bred in sufficient numbers, equally
foreign entrepreneurs immediately set up fish processing factories and
hired locals at low wages (certainly not high enough to be able to
afford to eat the high-priced fish being skimmed out of the lake),
exporting all of the food value out of the country on Russian planes.
The offal went to an inland factory where it was fried and sold to the
locals that could afford it..
The factories made no living
arrangements for the families of the employees they lured to the
lakeside enclave so there are plenty of glue sniffing fish orphans and
teen-aged prostitutes on the streets of Tanzania, and not enough food,
not nearly enough food, while local fish are carried away in tons to
feed monied Europeans.
You can learn more about it by borrowing from your library the DVD: "Darwin's Nightmare".
Makes
me wonder if the B.C. fish escaped or were let go. The fish business in
Mwanza became very profitable - for the guys who owned the processing
plants.
By the way, there are dead carp (Durham News)
washing up on the shoes of Lake Simcoe. Carp are pretty tough
critters. No mention of what killed them, but I guess we can guess it's
pollution.
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2) Crackdowns - crooked law enforcers in Israel and Canada
The following was rather predictable, don't you think?
Cut off East Jerusalem, says Israeli minister (Guardian)
Israel's
deputy prime minister, Haim Ramon, yesterday called for some Arab
districts of East Jerusalem to be cut off from the city in the wake of
the attack by a Palestinian construction worker who killed three people
when he seized control of a bulldozer in the city centre.
Oh
yes, and Olmert, being himself investigated for fraud but still never
missing an opportunity to wreak havoc, wants to huff and puff and blow
down the guy's house. He thinks house demolition is a great deterrent
even though studies done by an Israeli Bridadier and others have indicated they are not.
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Toronto police arrest two officers during crackdown on marijuana grow-ops (CP)
Two Toronto police officers and three correctional officers were among
almost two dozen people arrested Thursday after 63 search warrants were
executed in a crackdown on marijuana grow-ops.
Since prisons were created, there have been corrupt guards and wardens. But who'd a thought police officers, too, eh?
Well, I thought it, but I'm a terrible skeptic about everything. My
skepticism does come from experience, however. I knew a judge who
pocketed tiny seeds from evidence to grow in a pot (is THAT why they
call it pot?) at home.
I find it hilarious that the police chief said this with a straight face: "All of us need to maintain the trust of the people we serve".
After finally finding out about such things as agents provocteurs
at the Montebello SPP protest, and the RCMP pension fraud, It seems a
bit late for talking about maintaining trust. Although maybe the people
they "serve" are not the people, if you get my drift.
Trust
the police? They pay lowlifes good money to do dirty stuff like setting
up Muslims as terrorists, then telling huge whoppers in court, and in
their spare time threatening to chop the legs off little girls.
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3) Putdowns - Bush's sarcasm about free speech
Hey, you gotta see this (thanks to Ron)
CNN Video: Bush speaking at July 4 celebration. Some people stood up and called him a war criminal to which he smugly replied, "We believe in free speech in the United States of America".
But watch what happens to the people who actually exercise that freedom.
Bush
only lets people get near to him if they are certified friendly. So
these protesters must have fooled the organizers. Both times he was in
Canada, protesters were not allowed to even lay eyes on his smirky
little puss, except on TV, and nothing they said was heard by him. Or
maybe he heard a bit because there was a story about him flipping the
bird to people at the side of the road as he rode by. That never used
to be a presidential gesture, but I guess it officially is now.
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4) Mysteries - Children's cancer rates, strange effects of strokes, and energy non-crisis
Officials are all confused about statistics showing that Children's cancer rates [are] highest in the Northeast
They're talking about the American northeast, and guess what dominates that region - the Great Lakes. All they had to do to end their confusion was Google.
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Canadian woman's accent changes after stroke (CTV)
She
talks like a Newfie now! Which isn't so bad. But not all people with
the same affliction speak with the adorable Newfie accent. Some sound
like Chinese, which in today's climate of xenophobia might not be so
lucky, especially if you don't look Chinese.
I've never been
able to form any conclusions on the subject of past lives, but this
makes me wonder if that's what they've accessed.
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From a former relative-in-law, Rick - something to add to the database from which you form your conclusions:
VIDEO: The Energy Non-Crisis - Peak oil is a misnomer
Rick says: This video was made in Oct 2007, and he predicted $4-5 /Gal Gasoline, I was in the USA last week and paid $4.43/gal.
Keep in mind that people who invest in commodities love shortages and natural disasters.
I
just wish Lindsey Williams didn't talk in that sing-song evangelistic style. I've become so enured to it, he
makes it hard for me to believe. But I'm trying to keep an open
mind.
However, if as he says, the guy who told him this
"classified" stuff got a promotion, then it's something the
"illuminati" wants us to know, and their thing is to create fear of the
future so that we will look to government to solve our lives - and the neo-Libertarians want it to be the kind the Bible Belt wants us to have.
Anyway,
he says that Iran has threatened to "flood the world with cheap oil"
and will be transacting in Euros. I know they've been talking about
going on the Euro bourse, but a great flood?
I guess that makes an attack on Iran imperative.
Lindsey Williams may have been to Ron Paul what John the Baptist was to Jesus.
Well, if we end up back in the 50's, I hope we have 50's prices for everything too.
yayacanada
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