Its all about control and not democracy that's why... Direct democracy, as opposed the top down industrial military directives that we, along with the rest of the world, are literally forced to swallow under the pretense of democracy, is the real thing. Hence direct democracy is a bane to the establishment, that literality runs our, so called, democratic governments. Once this is understood it becomes all to easy to see why Globalization is and has become the major impetus.
The problem for the establishment is that local governments are too numerous and much harder to control than centralized ones. The progressive shift of power from local to those of the provincial/state and then to federal and now to global governments is clearly the reason for easier control over the masses. Imagine trying to get a resolution to your problem in Brussels or some far off land that is totally detached form local issues of some distant place. As the saying goes "out of site out of mind". Much easier to abuse faceless people. Devolving power to the lowest practicable level is what makes democracy work so is it any wonder the establishment hates it?
Tony Benn discusses the history of democracy, how it has been undermined and how it can be won ...again.
"There is never a final victory for democracy. It is always a struggle in every generation, and you have to take up the cause time and time again."
...."The focus of the defence lobby now is on getting contracts signed as quickly a possible," Staples said in an interview. "They want to make it impossible for future governments to get out of these spending commitments."....
Even as a minority government Harper has nearly totally done us in - imagine what he has in store should he get a majority? See our future in:
"Harper has tried to reshape the way Canadians think about Canada, weaning us off our fondness for peacekeeping (and medicare, for that matter), and getting us excited about being a war-making nation, able to swagger on the world stage in the footsteps of the Americans.
In fact, the U.S. has shown where big military spending leads. As the "defence" sector expands, jobs and economic prosperity become linked to war preparation. A bulging defence sector becomes a built-in constituency for war."
"With 700 military bases around the world, it is no wonder that the biggest employer in the US is the Military. To maintain their hegemony it is imperative that only jobs left (aside form the menial service jobs) be those for the military..."
So now we have no choice but to be integrated with the US imperial aspirations yet so many have been duped to think Harper is leader he is anything but!
“a 200-page manual which was given to Conservative [MPs] instructing them on ways to obstruct the work of the parliamentary committees”, as political journalist Geoffrey Stevens and others reported. These instructions destroyed the justice committee, the ethics committee investigating the Mulroney/Schreiber scandal, and derailed the illegal campaign funding tricks the Conservatives used two years ago to get their current minority government (not to mention the destruction of Freedom of Information data base)....
..."The recent dismantling of the food inspection authority (in Harper doublespeak it was a “safety overhaul” which Liberal MP Bonnie Brown called outright “deceit”) gave many Canadians a deadly taste of deregulation when some Maple Leaf Foods products caused a listeria outbreak . The Canadian Medical Association is now calling for a full-scale public inquiry stating that the independent investigation Harper promised “will be inferior to every epidemic inquiry in recent Canadian history [because it] would be closed to public participation … the investigators won’t have the power to subpoena witnesses or documents… no public hearings are planned … [no] public report [will be] published, and … no commitment [exists] that the report will be made public or even given to parliament.” The CMA also condemned the Harper government’s lack of action on “bad animal feed containing recycled animal tissue [which] led to the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalitis” (Mad Cow Disease), a deregulation disaster he inherited and chose to ignore."...
It has become all too fashionable to po po damages to others and simply make pretentious apologies. No intent to provide any help with damages to the injured or prevention of future abuses are even considered. When a feature length documentary film: "UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide" (January 2007) came out. Harper yet again made another empty apology to the natives. This was another smoke and mirrors public relations tactic whose sole purpose was damage control. Here again we see the master of deception at his best!
As usual Helke's article is superb! It captures the essence of these Government shenanigans and possible resolution and is a must read.
Chris Gupta
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Elections 2008: Restoring the Health of the Nation
By Helke Ferrie
Vitality Magazine October 2008
“You have done your worst. Now we will do our best.”
Sir Winston Churchill, following the Nazi bombing of London in WWII
On September 10 the Canadian Charter of Health Freedom was launched by lawyer Shawn Buckley, president and co-founder of the Natural Health Products Protection Association which coordinated the national resistance to the Harper government’s proposed bills C-51 and C-52. Buckley has successfully defeated Health Canada in court several times on issues of patients’ rights and natural health products. He said: “This Charter is an initiative to bring regulatory sanity back to the natural health products industry… [it] lists a bunch of rights that we already have … like sovereignty of our own bodies. Health Canada has basically taken those rights away.” The Charter was launched with simultaneous rallies held in Vancouver, Kelowna, Penticton, Vernon, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Toronto. The NHPPA is now coordinating efforts to collect about 3 million signatures in order to make this Charter the basis of the Ministry of Wellness – as opposed to the current Ministry of Sickness, aka Health Canada with its record of passing dubious, deceptive and deadly drugs.
Further to: How To Rig A Majority Government here is some elaboration on how the self serving Establishment's riggs the twiddly dee and twiddly dumb (or should I say dumber) two party system. While this pertains to the US it is a tried and true recipe that is used in most of the world including Canada, UK, Australia etc.
Though this post and some others appear to leave a pessimistic tone and may even depress some - one needs to remember, that no change can occur without a awakening of the people. We should all agree that to protect our children and grand children a change must be made. Understanding what drives much of the political system is an essential ingredient before this can occur. This information is intended to motivate you to inform others about what goes on behind the scenes because only an informed (educated) people can remain free. Sadly it takes long a time to connect the dots, as you will see that it took Professor Quigley (Bill Clinton's Mentor) over 20 years to write his seminal work discussed here without which none of this could come out in the open.
Before getting into the meat of things it is instructive to see a short clip form Tony Benn (a former British cabinet member) on how ignorance and apathy is generated by the sterilized press which paralyses most us all to some extent (given that the freedom of press is now largely the freedom to supress information on behalf of the Establishment).
"H.G. Wells once said that civilization was in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have." - Ron Paul
I must thank Dr. Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty for his Herculean efforts to share and educate us on this and many other issues that the mainstream media won't or can't cover.
""The chief problem of American political life for a long time has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy."...
Note the emphasis on national and international in the above. Clearly it is much harder to deal with governing bodies in far off places - not to mention that the centralization of power is the easiest way for corporate interests to override the multitudes of local regulations and protections .... CG
The Power Elite sponsors candidates that run for office in both political parties, and one of their candidates almost always wins. That's why both parties support NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, Free Trade, subsidized trade with China, the transfer of national sovereignty to international organizations, expensive social programs, government medicine, massive government spending, illegal immigration, world government, and the war in Iraq."....
The spin on free trade has nothing to do with free trade but is simply sanitized way to describe the making of a worldwide corporate cartel (monopolies, cartels and even government regulatory bodies run by corporations are taken for granted by all when in fact these are de facto conspiracies yet non dare use the C word wonder why?). CG
...President Clinton didn't investigate the illegal activity that took place during the first Bush administration, President George W. Bush didn't investigate the murders, the illegal activity, and the presidential pardons that were granted to criminals during the Clinton administration.
The following video and notes highlights are some of the more important quotes and passages taken from the books of former CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) archivist, Georgetown professor and Bill Clinton mentor, Carroll Quigley. This includes passages from 'Tragedy and Hope' (1966), as well as 'The Anglo-American Establishment' (1982). The books provide a look into the inner workings of the elite bureacracies that run the world today, from one of the conspirators themselves. This video is an excellent start for those unfamiliar with Quigley and are just waking up to the agenda, as these are irrefutable quotes from an insider and undeniable proofs of a massive, longstanding conspiracy against the people, not only of the US, but the entire world.
I am forwarding this to the list for a more comprehensive response. A quick review of the references clearly indicates the typical mind set on fluoride, that is from the dental (or more appropriately from the mental) field which continually ignores toxicology data and the collateral damage such as "impairments to the liver, kidney, brain, bones, pineal gland, thyroid, and even teeth (destructive mottling). For references see: FLUORIDE PETITION TO AUDITOR GENERAL (CANADA) 19-NOV-07.
Using this poison on Veterans is doubly insidious given that these are the very people who are often least able to deal with additional poisons. In fact I have a patent on rebuilding enamel where they could not use fluoride due to its toxic effects on cancer patients. So they are well aware of what they are doing with regard to fluorides... This blatant disregard for our health is nothing but criminal and negligence of the first order.... The only way to change these polices is to expose these shenanigans to a wider audience. All these governmental public health organizations such as CDC etc. all come from the same mold. Those effected need to be educated thus creating a demand for corrective action....
Attached are the recent recommendations by the US Department of Veterans Affairs for the use of fluoride for management of dental caries. This policy is the result of the Fluoride Deception, to use the title of Christopher Bryson’s excellent book on the subject. What is your analysis of the references given to support the policy? How can this US governmental policy be changed?
Information Letter introduces recommendations for the use of various strengths of fluoride as a component of the medical model for treating dental caries. See Attachment A for these recommendations which are based on published and Department of Veterans Affairs systematic reviews of the dental literature regarding fluoride use in adults.
Please note that "Fluoride Treatment for Patients at High Risk for Dental Caries" will be a new monitor for FY09.
VHA IL 10-2008-013, Recommendations for Use of Fluorides in Medical Management of Dental Caries), has been released for publication. It can be found on the following websites:
..."Genuine self-government involves people who will be servants to the citizenry's needs and not masters over them. This also means the citizens must refuse to allow elections to be done to them but that elections must essentially be done by the citizens."...
Here is a very important and timely post form Eduard Hiebert, that needs to be digested and acted upon prior to the upcoming election - which intends to remove what ever little democracy that is left.
Suspect the recent C51 & C52 debacle has put Harper and his ilk in a difficult position - as I am sure his handlers are none too happy and will surely give him a failing grade - hence this face saving and possibly a remedial election! Not to mention the subconscious message by announcing the election on Sunday - could it be just a little jab against the law of god to boot? Clearly he means business this time as he needs to extend his near dictatorial control to a complete dictatorship!
Chris Gupta
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"Vote-splits in any constituency are the basic building blocks by which a party, with only paltry minority popular support can achieve the majority of seats in government, hence a phony majority."
Vote splits work to the advantage of Harper and Dion's puppeteer's and hurt all of us re C51, the CWB (Canadian Wheat Board), health care, education..... All of the Liberals, NDP, Green, all other candidates all help to split the vote and increase chance for Harper to get a phony majority and then do real damage. This risk is very big!!!!!!!!
The risk/reward ratio of actually getting something done through current efforts of lobbying government is very poor and over the years getting poorer. There are already all kinds of matters where over 80% of the population does not want something done and yet the governments ignore the populations.
The following is not part of any political party partisan body of activity and I ask you to give it some serious consideration as a means whereby the citizens, collaboratively with their neighbours can actually affect and advance "self-government" in the interests of the common good instead of being governed by...
As a positive and productive supplement to the status quo of current elections, the following outlines a method by which the significant gap between what the citizens want and our "elected" can be reduced simultaneously by actually focusing on and first reducing, then with greater community collaboration, eliminating electoral vote-splits. Vote-splits in any constituency are the basic building blocks by which a party, with only paltry minority popular support can achieve the majority of seats in government, hence a phony majority. (Example: Mulroney with only 40% popular support for free trade, gained a "majority" government with well over half the seats in government. Every "majority" government elected since then has also in reality had a minority of popular support, but our "first-passed-the-post" electoral system awarded this minority with a majority of the seats in government.)
For an outline of how few citizens within one electoral district, without electoral reform, can now already achieve more accountable democratic government, one district at a time, where the majority and not the minority have control of government, please see Electoral Reform
Further to this outline, the following provides further supporting background information as a basic introduction to some key understandings assumed within this outline.
Action items are more effective when you also write, print out the petition and send it by snail mail, or telephone your representative directly and don't forget to be persistent! Send follow up letters and/or fax, phone and keep demanding a response on how and what they will actually do to mitigate concerns outlined. Often reading the petition will empower you to better deal with the establishment propaganda....
Please follow through on Ingrid's plea as united we win divided we loose....
Here is what I sent in the comments when signing the petition
Here clearly is, yet again, another example of government industry collusion to introduce untested products for consumption. When problems arise they are deflected on the consumer to prove harm, instead of the rightful onus on industry to prove safety of their products. This, not so clever, tactic has essentially defrocked the consumer. Who essentially is defenceless and forced to become the industry guinea pig as little remedial or future preventative action can be made.
Surely putting their own families at risk is the height of greed and stupidity! Are the regulators so stupid not to see this? Apparently yes. Maybe it needs to be spelled out to knock some sense into these ignoramuses....
Chris Gupta
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Dear Chris,
Unleashing this highly toxic potato into the environment and our food chain must be stopped at all cost and I would appreciate it if you would circulate this alert. The "scientists" who developed this toxic concoction (aided and abetted by the Michigan State University with funding from USAID - go figure!) allege that this GM potato will control the potato tuber moth, which allegedly causes the industry huge losses. The irony, however, is that although the tuber moth may chomp on potato leaves in the field, that exercise nevertheless has no effect on tuber yield and genetic modification would only become effective during storage. If tuber moths would automatically attack each and every potato field, then there wouldn't have been any need to "fly in" hundred thousands of the little chompers to conduct field trials, which, by the way, were kept secret from the South African public, thus constituting yet another violation of our constitutional right to information.
This toxic concoction poses immense health risks due to the fact that it contains the cauliflower mosaic virus, which is closely related to the Hepatitis B and HIV virus and, due to its recombination hotspot, is prone to break and join with other DNA to integrate into the cell's genome, which could activate host genes and lead to all sorts of cancers. In addition, the virus is inserted in "naked form" (without its viral coat) and thus is even more infectious and may well be taken up by mammalian cells including our own.
As if that wasn't enough, each and every cell of this potato contains the antibiotic KANAMYCIN, which crosses the placenta and produces detectable serum levels in the fetus! There have been several reports of total irreversible bilateral congenital deafness in children whose mothers received that drug during pregnancy and Kanamycin has been classified by the manufacturer as pregnancy risk category D. In addition, it also enters breast milk.
Unleashing this GM potato into our food chain will inevitably create superbugs and multi-drug resistant diseases.
Please help stop this insanity and blatant violation of our human rights.
URGENT – PLEASE HELP STOP A NEW GM CROP IN SOUTH AFRICA.
SUBMISSIONS DUE ON MONDAY 8th SEPTEMBER – PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION NOW!
The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has been conducting field trials for several years with genetically modified potatoes, which are being pushed by the Michigan State University with funding from USAID. They have now applied to the South African GMO Council for a general release permit for the first variety of these potatoes, called Spunta G2 – meaning that the GM potato will be given to farmers to grow and sell. These potatoes are genetically engineered to contain Bt genes that produce a pesticidal toxin to kill the Tuber Moth.
Releasing these GM potatoes has the potential to wreak havoc with the local potato industry, and infringes on our basic human right to choose the food we want to eat. A growing body of research is showing that GM foods are dangerous to eat and do not benefit emerging farmers or the environment. The multinational, Syngenta, owns the patent on the key gene in this GM potato.
The campaign is initiated by the African Centre for Biosafety and supported by SafeAge, Biowatch SA and urban sprout.
What can your signature do?
The GMO council will be deciding on whether or not to allow this permit to commercialise GMO potatoes. THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS THIS MONDAY. Your signature will be collated to send to the GMO Council as well as Potatoes SA, which is the body representing potato farmers and industry. Your signature will help to show that South Africans are not willing to eat or grow GM potatoes, and can help to sway their decision.
You will notice all the comments from the bottled water companies who are objecting to the ban - not one - mentioned why people really buy bottled water. Unlike many they recognize the real reason why people spend oodles of money for bottled water - it is to avoid toxic city water! These companies covertly bank on this fact to gouge the public...
Sadly most don't understand that cleaning the city water is the primary solution to the bottled water issue... Naturally this petrifies the bottled water industry - instead they keep praising city water while deflecting the real issue (toxic water) and push for such alternates as recycling, consumer choice, blah, blah....
"In the end, banning plastic bottles rather than removing toxins from our municipal drinking water shows a tragic level of denial on the part of elected officials, not to mention a sad disregard for public health by administration."
Christopher Maingot's excellent letter below, gives us a real good reason on why it is essential to buy organic food; and for strengthening regulations instead of relaxing them for industry profits....
"Ask yourself why organic farmers have more sperm and less cancer, depression, suicide, birth-injured or brain-damaged children than those who use pesticides. A total of 76 US baby foods were checked and found to contain 16 different pesticides. It is estimated that 55% of all fruits and 29% of all vegetables contain toxic chemicals, and half of these can cause cancer. Could this be related to the 25% increase in brain cancer in children in the past 25 to 50 years? Twenty million children under five years of age eat an average of eight types of pesticides a day. Ninety percent of the children from six months to five years eat an average of 13 chemicals that damage the nervous system each day. About 108 pesticide types were found on 22 different fruits and vegetables, and as many as 10 to 37 different types can be found on a single apple."
..."the universally known fact is that Canadian foods in particular are perceived to be toxic by other nations. Our foods are contaminated by neurotoxic gender-bender carcinogenic antibiotics, hormones, rendered slaughterhouse waste residues, genetically engineered plants, and pesticides - all unacceptable to the EU and other countries to the point of their readiness to defy the WTO court on these matters."...
Imazalil is very toxic to aquatic organisms and the World Health Organization ranks these products as moderately hazardous. The EPA's classifications of carcinogenicity have changed three times over the last 15 years."
Oh golly I wonder why? These changes are the raison d'être for the so called new regulatory modernizing efforts such as Bills C-51 and C-52.
"...Health Canada says the Food & Drugs Act must be “modernized” because it has a narrow focus on safety. The proposed new legislation will replace the safety focus with a focus on risk benefits. The “health” regulatory agency will promote genetically modified and ‘novel’ food, gene therapies, bio-pharmaceuticals, reproductive technology, transplants of animal organs to humans, cloning, and life patenting. No evidence of safety will be required.
The unstated goal of the proposal is to bring health protection legislation in line with the government of Canada’s economic policy. In effect, economic values have primacy over health and environmental safety. A new ‘Canada Health Protection Act’ would:
1. Shift from health protection (‘duty of care’) to risk management;
2. Prevent the application of the Precautionary Principle where its needed most;
3. Shift the burden of proof (products are presumed safe - harm has to be proven);
4. ‘Manage’ the damage (irreversible harm and uncontrollable hazards);
5. Avoid liability for regulatory negligence;
6. Allow direct-to-consumer drug advertising.
How can collateral damage such as "impairments to the liver, kidney, brain, bones, pineal gland, thyroid, and even teeth* trump the paltry, if not outright questionable, benefits to teeth be considered a health benefit?
"Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that instead of preserving or promoting 'dental health,' fluoridated drinking water* destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other very grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it. How can it be called a "health" plan? What's behind it?
That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity."
Why is the damage from fluoride and its co contaminants so harshly and recklessly being ignored and covered up over the real threat to the people they are supposed to protect?
Dr. Gideon Foreman (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) will be introducing Dr. Vivian Howard (president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment) at the FAN conference. Please pass this on.
Carole
New York – July 31 — New science indicating fluoride's dangers to the brain and other organs will be presented by prominent fluoride research scientists during back-to-back conferences of the International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR) and the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) in Toronto August 7-11.
Fluoride, added to water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay, is also in virtually all non-organic foods and beverages. Fluoride's brain effects were never examined prior to water fluoridation.
Recently, because of health concerns, Health Canada recommended that fluoride levels be lowered in Canadian water supplies, children's toothpaste and infant formula but claims that "the weight of evidence does not support a link between fluoride and intelligence quotient deficit."
"It is hard to believe that any "weight of evidence" analysis could possibly dismiss fluoride's neurological impacts. There have now been over 40 animal studies which show that fluoride can damage the brain, and no less than 18 studies which show that fluoride lowers IQ in children, and only 2 that don't. I look forward to reading the full report when it is made available," says Paul Connett, PhD, FAN Executive Director.
According to ISFR conference organizer, Dr. Hardy Limeback, "Our conference features experts who researched the dangers that fluoride poses to human health. Our keynote speaker, Dr. A.K. Susheela, (Executive Director, Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation, India) probably knows more about fluoride's toxic effects to the body than any other living scientist. It is important that officials who promote water fluoridation hear what she and others have to say," says Limeback.
Susheela can also explain to Medical Doctors, often untrained in fluoride toxicology, how to diagnose, treat and reverse early fluoride toxicity symptoms which can mimic arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome.
The latest issue of ISFR's journal, Fluoride, published 12 newly-translated Chinese studies, which report fluoride's effects on the brain, including the lowering of IQ in children. These and other brain studies will be reviewed at both conferences.
Coupled with these conferences, the Toronto-based Citizens for a Safe Environment (CSE) will host two public meetings with FAN in downtown Toronto on Monday August 11.
According to CSE director Karen Buck, "These meetings will give the public information they don't get from our government or dental organizations. In the afternoon, a panel will address the question of whether Toronto should stop fluoridating its water. In the evening experts will explain fluoride's dangers to health."
After receiving an invitation to attend these meetings, the Ontario Dental Association (ODA)sent out a news release urging legislators and communities to stand up in support of fluoridation; but they won't do so, themselves.
"The best way that the ODA can get communities and politicians to stand up for water fluoridation is to provide, in person, a cogent and scientifically-referenced defense of fluoridation at the afternoon forum," says CSE President Karen Buck. ODA has yet to respond.
At all three events, Dr. Vyvyan Howard, an infant and fetal pathologist, and president of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, will be presenting a major review of studies on fluoride's brain effects, including the translated Chinese studies.
"The best way to lower children's fluoride intake, as Health Canada suggests, is to stop fluoridation," says Connett. "It makes no sense to prescribe fluoride drugs to children via the water supply at levels which are between 150 and 250 times higher than the level in mothers' milk."
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