In the End

In the end it just doesn't matter... much... any more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PeKRsQS6e8&feature=related

Just don't get caught in the undertow: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f72TCZI3OEA&NR=1

Body of Lies

The movie Body of Lies was OK. Leonardo DiCaprio did a great job but the movie itself is fiction and propaganda. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a friendly American: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/08/friendly-american.html

Well as friendly as a CIA Agent can be when their career is based on murder and deception. The character he plays seems to care about people unlike his superior in the movie. Russell Crowe was way better in Gladiator but once again it shows his talent as an actor playing different roles. He was great in A Beautiful Mind as well.

However, the character he plays in this movie is your typical arrogant I don’t care about anyone else on the planet and I’m not even going to pretend I care type. His acting was good but it’s hard to like a character like that. The movie was total propaganda as it glorified the CIA and demonized the entire Muslim religion.

The movie came right out and implied that the Muslim religion wants to either convert or kill all infidels. That's just plain hate propaganda. Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, they have missionaries. I don’t see to many Muslim missionaries out there. You might see a few handing out stuff in a city centre but it’s pretty low key.

As far as killing all infidels I think they get bent out of shape when they feel threatened or when you invade their country. True they don’t allow Christian missionaries but neither do the Jews in Israel and we surely don’t invade them because they want to preserve and protect their religious heritage. Muslims and Jews both believe in the Old Testament which states "Vex not the stranger that sojourneth with thee." Muslims and Jews who want to wipe the other group off the face of the earth are not adhering to their religious teachings.

The movie was basically more Iraq propaganda. There’s one scene where DiCaprio gets defensive explaining why he referred to the situation in Iraq and not the war with Iraq. He refers to the unfortunate situation where suicide bombers are killing people in the market but fails to mention a word about how the US invaded and destabilized Iraq based on a series of lies. There were no WMD and the MI6 planted that and false information about nuclear weapons in the media: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/apr/08/uk.iraq

The movie didn’t mention a word about those lies. Of course we know that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Even Bush admitted that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9QxNiKsYFg&feature=related

The movie didn’t mention a word about all the False flag murders in Operation Northwoods, the USS Liberty and in Operation Gladio. Not a word. The movie did portray a VERY watered down false flag act when they took bodies from the morgue and planted a bomb in a US embassy and blew it up blaming an innocent man hoping a real terrorist would contact him so they could catch the real terrorist.

Using bodies from the morgue is very different that what they did in Operation Gladio and proposed in Operation Northwoods. However, the character Leonardo DiCaprio plays is very likeable. He does seem to care about people and he even falls in love with an Arab Muslim woman from Iran working in Jordan.

All in all I think the acting was very good, the story behind the scenes was good but the overwhelming propaganda disappointing.

McCain's Annotated Rant

This guy’s critique on McCain is eloquent but he uses a lot of profanity. It's pretty funny because he makes a lot of sense: http://www.fuckjohnmccain.com/

He's the one that wrote F the South: http://www.fuckthesouth.com/

Palin and McCain – this one’s just humour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc

This one's sad but true: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&NR=1

This one's funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RN5xbWtNSU&feature=related

Ottawa Suppressing Report

This is embarrassing: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=479bf971-24a9-459b-a965-e01db0c6823a

Canada still sells asbestos to India and is blocking it’s ban at the UN: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/09/canada-exports-asbestos.html

http://banasbestosindia.blogspot.com/2008/08/misinformation-campaign-of-white.html

Operation Gladio

This is a documented connection how the CIA has tainted NATO with false flag operations in the past and how the EU has passed a resolution condemning them: http://911review.com/precedent/century/gladio.html

"This BBC series is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO, which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds' these armies were given access to military equipment, which was supposed to be used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the national political classes into adopting U.S. policies. " http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16921

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/Gladio_CIAHits.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE3eIdDRpLc

There are three points I’m going to make.

1) The name Operation Gladio a stay behind army is very similar to Operation Gladius a Canadian Peace Keeping Mission:

http://www.cefcom.forces.gc.ca/site/ops/gladius/index_e.asp and Gladius International: http://content.gladiusrisk.com So far it’s just a name similarity. Canada is guilty of selling asbestos to India and blocking the UN’s attempts to create an international ban on asbestos. I have not yet found Canada being involved in any false flag operations.

2) P2 the Secret Masonic lodge that became a criminal organization funded by the CIA and active participant in Operation Gladio was expelled from Masonry and lost it’s charter in 1976. There is a lot of fear and trash talking about Freemasonry but I want to make an important clarification. Freemason history originates in the building of Solomon’s Temple. Their temple rituals are sacred and secret. A Freemason makes an oath to keep lawful secrets. They do not make oaths to hide criminal activity. If anyone does, they are breaking from Masonic tradition and teachings. Freemasons believe in honest values not criminal behavior. P2 was tied to the banks.

3) The conspiracy of the conspiracy. This one is going to require a separate thread. I will simplify it by sating that good and evil exists. There are different forms of evil and sometimes it is disguised. Sometimes a good organization with noble intent becomes corrupted by criminals with malicious intent. Sometimes the evil that does exist strives to infiltrate and corrupt an organization which is good so it may be free to accomplish it’s original evil objectives. Take Poland for example. First create a bad guy like Hitler to invade Poland then get another bad guy like Stalin to liberate it into slavery.

More simply stated, NATO is good but the CIA is bad. Democracy is good but tyranny is bad. Both Hitler and Stalin were bad. One extreme is no better than the other. All of this dirt on NATO is leaving us open to the other extreme.

I do think false flag ops are heinous but I am also concerned that human nature will see the pendulum swing in the other direction as a counterbalance. We need to promote democracy and shun extremism. It’s like a Catholic priest that molests a young boy. That is a heinous act but the Catholic Church did not tell the Priest to do that. Or the overpaid Protestant TV evangelist who commits adultery. The Protestant church never told him to commit adultery. Religion is not the problem hypocrisy is.

I do not believe outlawing religion or waving the flag of Stalin or Lenin for that matter are healthy conclusions. We just need to put things into perspective. George Bush and the CIA are on the same level as Stalin and Lenin and the MI6 are not far behind.

Most recognize that Stalin and his death camps were bad but rewrite history and claim Lenin was good. They forget Lenin took over the party after the revolution and sent I the troops to machine gun striking trade unionists after he took power: http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles7/SolzhenitsynWarning.php

Terrorism is bad and false flag acts of terrorism on your own people is even worse yet the CIA are not responsible for all acts of terrorism. Terrorists are still bad even though the CIA is bad as well. Look to the founding fathers of the US constitution. Those men were noble and just.

http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/executive-order-11110.html

http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/federalist-papers.html

Anarchy in the UK

This one my daughter gave me. I cannot believe the media let it slide. Remember MI6, the British Secret Service got caught giving false information to the media about Iraq’s WMD and Nuclear arsenal before the US invasion called Operation Mass Appeal:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article839897.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/apr/08/uk.iraq

That fact shows that England and their secret service was clearly in on the invasion of Iraq under false pretense. Their mission to give the media false information about Iraq to justify an invasion has been documented. So lets take that fact and add it to the next piece of the puzzle.

http://unblinkered.blogspot.com/2005/09/two-british-undercover-soldiers.html

http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/basra_agent_provocateurs.htm

Two under cover British Soldiers dresses as Arabs driving a civilian car packed with weapons and explosives were stopped by an Iraqi police checkpoint and they exchanged fire with the Iraqi police before surrendering. Remember that this is the police force that the US and British have put in place and are supposed to be training and supporting. Why would under cover British soldiers fire on them?

Why would under cover British Soldiers be dressed as Arabs driving a civilian car packed with explosives? Why did they refuse to tell the Iraqi police what their mission was I.E. why they were dressed as Arabs with a civilian car packed with explosives? How is that a mission?

Instead of letting the under cover agents under go a fair trail for their crime, the British military broke them out of jail and called it a rescue. A rescue from who? The people you have placed in power? This is insane.

Were they on an under cover mission to find insurgents or were they on a false flag operation to create violence and blame it on Iran to justify invading Iran? We will likely never know. MI6 has lied to us before so we can’t trust what they tell us. For all we know Iran could be building a nuclear arsenal. These false flag operations however do nothing to build the credibility of the US or the UK.

This false flag propaganda machine is completely evil. There is no honour in it. It is a war based on a lie. I am amazed that England and the MI6 has bought into these kind of absurd operations. I guess it’s to be excepted when both secret services have degenerated into profiting from the sale of drugs and guns. Profiting from the war machine is clearly big business. Bad business but bug business nonetheless.

The Broad Majestic Shannon

I went to the Rusty Crow a few years ago and saw a local Celtic band Three Row Barley play. They were great. I loved their version of the Mahones Get up ya drunken lazy bastard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0rgPLfp6EM

They also sang the Broad Majestic Shannon. Afterwards the lead singer who was from back east but had never been to Ireland commented on how one of his friends had gone to Ireland and seen the Shannon and said that it's like the Fraser and ironically enough it wasn’t very majestic at all but they still sing the song anyways.

I spoke with him during the break as he was a fine genuine bloke and I told him that when you look at Irish history and see all the noble blood that was spilt in their fight for freedom, that noble blood that was spilt makes the Shannon majestic. It’s a fine river so it is and don’t let anyone tell you any different.

He said he wanted to visit Ireland one day. Indeed. Everyone should visit the Holy Land at least once so they should. Me daughter’s named after that river so she is. That makes that river majestic indeed so it does. There's salmon in the Shannon too so there is and the conservationists are working to resore the Salmon counts as well so they are. Majestic indeed.

The Mighty Fraser

Growing up it was easy to take the Fraser River for granted. One would not use the adjective mighty to describe the muddy Fraser. Yet after travelling abroad and seeing the Majestic Shannon in Ireland I’ve come to the conclusion that the Fraser River is mighty indeed for several reasons.

Since you can’t see what’s in the water it’s easy to be completely oblivious to what lives in the water. I was somewhat shocked to see huge Salmon spawning in Bear Creek in Surrey. Salmon come up the Fraser and up the small tributaries to spawn.

You see the odd seal poke it’s head up out of the Fraser this time of year. They come for the Salmon too. I’ve seen a seal as far up as Harrison. Normally you see the seals sunbathing on the rocks at Whitecliff.

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Seeing the First Nation’s brother pull all those Coho out of the Squamish River in Brackendale yesterday one would have no idea those huge fish were swimming upstream just by looking at the river.

This morning I was dragon boating on the Fraser in the Bedford channel and saw two large salmon jump. It was impressive. I remember seeing a guy pull some pretty huge Salmon out of the fish trap on the Salmon River in Fort Langley after a good rain. The conservationist efforts there have done a great job at helping preserve and restore the Salmon counts.

As a youth I was well familiar with the fish ladder and hatchery on the Capilano. Yet those Salmon were always very small comparatively and always beat up from the horrendous struggle up the vigorous river bashing against the rocks. Knowing about all the huge Salmon that spawn in the Fraser makes the river mighty.

Don’t forget the Sturgeon in the Fraser. Many get real excited to fish for sturgeon. I just like to respect the fact that those giant ancient fish are still there. Hells Gate, that makes the Fraser mighty. Let’s not forget the Voyageurs. Tillers Folly sing about them in their CD called the Ghosts of the Mighty Fraser. It’s easy to take it for granted but I am convinced that the Fraser is mighty after all. Cheers.

Bre-X and Stornoway

Global ran a documentary about Bre-X last night. The Canadian version of the Enron scandal tied to both Mulroney and Bush. I wonder why Bush always seems to be tied to a corporate scandal: http://geology.about.com/cs/mineralogy/a/aa042097.htm

Bre-X was a rags to riches Canadian mining company listed on the Calgary stock exchange that claimed to strike gold in Indonesia. Outsourcing the mining industry. Great idea. The news of the gold rush created quite a frenzy: http://archives.cbc.ca/economy_business/business/topics/1211/

But if you click on the third video Bre-X bubble busts you will see the dream came to a crashing halt. They lied about the gold they found and all the hype was fake. However, this was common on the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

A fake company would create a lot of hype, investors would invest and even though the company didn’t exist, the stock would rise rapidly because of the hot tip. Then the crooks would sell and disappear to Florida having made a fortune right before the stock crashes.

Not only were they not persecuted, they would come back in 6 months and do it all over again. You would think that investors wouldn’t want to touch them with a ten foot pole. Not so. Groups formed plotting stocks trying to find out which ones were the fake hype companies so they could invest in them and pull out right before it crashed. I kid you not. I saw them.

The New York Times remembers the Vancouver Stock Exchange legacy: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E1DE1030F935A35756C0A961958260
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Do you really think those guys went honest when they were swallowed up by the Toronto Stock Exchange? The Bre-X scandal was in the Calgary exchange. Enron was in the US. The NY Times is right, Canada does need better laws against corporate criminals. The US has better laws but their enforcement of those laws is very selective.

Especially when you see Thomas E. White, the former Enron book cooker promoted to become the Pentagon’s official book cooker: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0210/S00052.htm

Hail to the Chief

The Chief is a popular mountain in Squamish right beside Shannon Falls. There’s a trail up the back you can hike up so you don’t have to do the sheer rock climb but many like climbing the face. I’m like if there’s a trail up I’ll take it. I just go for the view.

It’s right beside Brackendale where all the bald eagles migrate in the winter. We saw several eagles today but they mainly come in December for the chum salmon run. After the chum spawn the eagles feed off the dead carcasses.

Right now coho seem to be running. This First Nations brother pulled out four just before we got there and he pulled this one within a minute of our arrival. Beautiful fish. I’m not sure if he was asserting his ancestral right or poaching. No one else is allowed to use nets but it sure was effective and impressive to watch and the way he was using the net was much better than a fishing boat that would clear cut the river and take in everything in it’s path.

We checked out Garibaldi but that’s a long hike. Lots of camping available so I might have to pull an overnighter next summer. I’ll wait it out for the snow on our local peaks first. Cheers.

Polygamy Strikes Again

They’ve done a follow up on their polygamy article: http://healthandfitness.sympatico.msn.ca/BodyMind/ContentPosting_BL?newsitemid=545651&feedname=RODALE-BESTLIFE&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=False&pagenumber=3&paginationenabled=false

You will note that the guy arguing in favor of polygamy is a sexual deviant. It kind of proves my point that no matter how holy of a calling you perceive polygamy to be, it attracts freaks and extremists like a magnet. I rest my case: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/polygamy.html

Labourtalk

Speaking about remembering the past and moving on…. I Googled my name and found yet another new thread about me on Labourtalk. Can’t they find anything better to talk about? After all, I am very insignificant. Just a little drummer boy. Regardless, I have two points about the past as I move on into the future.

Labourtalk was an anti-union forum Darren Entwistle bragged about claiming it represented what the members felt about the Union. Not so. There were by far in the minority: http://www.darrenentwistle.com/twu/vanrat.htm

John Doe doesn’t work for TELUS any more though his father is still management. JD said some pretty funny things trash talking TELUS after he left whilst anonymously moderating a forum designed to break the Union.

Crazy Tracy never worked for TELUS but her husband did. Her anti union passion can be frightening. Although she clearly does have good qualities on other issues, as far as the union breaking quest goes it reminds me of a Martin Luther King quote: "It is still one of the tragedies of human history that the children of darkness are frequently more determined and zealous than the children of light."

I believe banning all unions is wrong. It reminds me of pastor Niemöller’s poem: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

Yet Labourtalk has every right to exist. They have every right to ban me for truthfully answering their question as to who we say the moderators of that site are. I have never threatened them with anything but legal action. I wish no harm upon them or their families yet I have no desire to participate in their forum.

The Right claims I’m all about the Left and all about Unions no matter what. Not so. The Left claims I’m all about the Right and promoting a neo conservative agenda. Not at all. I believe in balance. I believe everyone has something to offer. I believe there is good and bad on the left and the right and that offends both.

I am not a member of a trade union any more and I have no desire to organize my work place because I am happy with my employer. Having said that I firmly believe TELUS and Canada Post both need a union because of their obsession for profits above people. They need a union to maintain a royal opposition to their extreme agenda which I believe is bad for Canadians and bad for the economy.

My Case at Canada Post

Labourtalk posted a CUPW Bulletin that cited my case in a very incomplete manner and just to set the record straight, I will. I hesitate because I really rather not talk about it but I will one last time. I really enjoyed working for Canada Post. I thought it was a great job.

I really got frustrated when people would destroy a great job just because they can or just because they wanted to advance their own position on the corporate or union ladder with no regard for anyone else. That really made me angry.

The CUPW Bulletin sets my case up as a model and says na na na na boo boo. Ya play with fire, you’re gonna get burned. The Labour board basically said the Union owns my grievance and can withdraw any grievance for any reason at any time irregardless of how that might affect a member or members. I believe that is inherently wrong.

The government doesn’t like to get involved in the administration of a trade union. I was told going into my complaint that I had a 1% chance of winning a failure to represent simply because regardless of the merits of the case, the union owns the grievance.

That is why I pushed for the grievance to proceed. I knew I didn’t have a chance with the labour board. John Bail and Pat Bertrand said in the beginning my grievance didn’t have a chance. I smiled and said everything has a chance. They however, were not prepared to give me that chance and refused to refer the grievance to arbitration.

I went over their head and National referred the grievance without them. John Bail was shocked and slighted. It then became his campaign to prove the grievance wrong to save face. What a petty life. He is Pee Wee Herman.

The bulletin and the legal opinion Pee Wee paid for to argue his position not mine made reference to new information not disclosed at the onset of the grievance which made the grievance not winnable. Yet John and Pat both said my grievance was not winnable from day one. That is why they refused to refer it to arbitration in the first place.

So their own legal opinion they paid for proved them wrong. Their legal opinion said my grievance did have a chance when they passionately refused to admit that. I know Stan. I’ve worked with him before. He is good and he is smart. John Bail is neither. Stan did what John asked him to do. We are being sued, write a legal opinion that covers our ass. I submit that Stan’s legal opinion was biased and if he had been asked to write a report arguing my case he would have. Stan is Praetorian.

The corporation got an order to seize my home computer and national panicked. The evidence on my computer would have saved my case not destroyed it. It would have shown private E-mail from John Bail as well as private e-mail from National officers connecting my web site to the Unions’ Operation Transparency campaign. National didn’t want that information to get out so they let Pee Wee Herman proceed against me.

Operation Transparency was a Union campaign of civil disobedience calling for more transparency from the CEO of Canada Post as her behind closed doors slash and burn tactics were destroying the company just like she did at Bombardier and CN. They called upon the members to flood Moya Greene with letters demanding she come clean and show the deregulation plans and had intricate events planned to promote that cause.

Anyways, yes I am an idiot and yes I am better off working for a different company that doesn’t have hemorrhoids. However, I did have a chance when John Bail refused to refer my grievance to arbitration and the labour board’s position of letting the union withdraw any grievance at any time for any reason is just plain wrong. Nevertheless, life goes on and I’m still pursuing higher ground. On ne pas jetable.

Finian’s Epiphany

When I ran the New Vision web site I remember writing a three part epiphany. The first was when I snowshoed up Hollyburn ridge for the first time. The view was amazing: http://www.camcentral.net/images/cypress/cypresspan.htm

The second was when I snowshoed up Dam mountain on Grouse. The view of the back country was breathtaking. The third was when my father passed away.

The new one is a reawakening, a remembering and a moving on. I like Paul Gross. I like the character he played in Due South:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozVYR03Mzcw

He played the naive, Dudly do Right Mountie in Chicago and made friends with his local partner. The last season they changed his partner and it was different. Kinda like how they wrecked the third Mummy Returns. The first two were great but the third one they gave him a new wife and she did well but the magic was lost. It just wasn’t the same.

I like this Due South fan vid that was remixed with a Lorenna Mckennitt song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgam7zPTYhk What a cool combination. Lorenna Mckennitt is very talented. Normally harp music is very tinny but she has a knack for reaching into the ancient and makes the harp come to life. Her music transcends time.

The point, the epiphany… A friend from work said to me he’s been reading my blog and says he hates the world now. That clearly wasn’t my objective. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Finding out about Operation Northwoods, the USS Liberty, the CIA drug for gun cartel… it all gets overwhelming so it does. However, my point is that in a free and democratic society we are able to speak out against such corruption and record our dissent.

You break a conspiracy by making it public. If apathy sells our freedom down the river then so be it. Personally I can’t live with apathy. It chokes me and makes it hard to breathe. That is why I seek out higher ground. Life is about choices and I’m OK with that. Cheers.

Bush Binladen CIA

Arbusto Energy was an oil company in Texas formed by George W. Bush in 1977. James R Bath made an investment of $50,000 while representing Salem bin Laden of the Saudi Binladin Group: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbusto_Energy

"even as the hijacked planes smashed into the World Trade Center, the Carlyle Group was holding its annual investor conference. Shafig Bin Laden, brother of Osama Bin Laden, attended"

George H.W. Bush Meets bin Laden's Brother on Sept 10. 2001 at Carlyle Group: http://www.wanttoknow.info/030316post

The Carlyle Connection: http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4288516-103680,00.html

Bin Ladens allowed out of U.S. after 9-11: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34405

"Michael Springmann, formerly chief of the visa section at the US Embassy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, claims that he rejected hundreds of suspicious visa applications, but the C.I.A. officer overruled him and ordered the visas to be issued. Springmann protested to the State Department, the Office of Diplomatic Security, the F.B.I., the Justice Department and congressional committees, but in vain."

"Springmann observed that 15 of the 19 people who allegedly flew airplanes into buildings in the United States got their visas from the same CIA-dominated consulate in Jeddah. As a special favor to residents of Saudi Arabia (including non-Saudi citizens), applicants for non-immigrant visas can apply at private travel agencies and receive their visa through the mail. During the months following the 9-11 attack, 102 applicants received their visas by mail, 2 more were interviewed, and none were rejected."

http://911review.org/Wiki/CiaVisasForPatsies.shtml

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw6YHij-aCU

How the CIA created Osama bin Laden: http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/CIA_Created_Osama.htm

And Saddam Hussein too: http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html

Mulroney Deja Vous

Well that didn’t take long. After coming full circle from Reform to Canadian Alliance to back in bed with Brian Mulrony we see the dawn of the dead. The return of Brian Mulroney as Harper’s first order of business is to stack the senate again: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=67203531-6e7a-4aa3-aad9-bd73cb3b961d

"Stephen Harper says he is ready to start appointing new senators to reflect his Conservative agenda if the Liberal-dominated upper house continues to be a thorn in the government's side." This is why giving him a majority is not a good idea.

"Harper reiterated that his party would like to abolish the Senate if his proposed reforms to the Red Chamber don't pass." Can you believe he actually said that? Remember my fears about Harper’s desire to govern sounds frighteningly familiar to a monarchy? Well here it is.

He boasts about wanting to abolish the Senate. I can't believe he really said that. There’s nothing wrong with an elected senate but there is something wrong with a stacked senate by creating new senate position just to ram your agenda through.

Let’s take a page from history and watch these two video clips remembering how Brian Mulrony stacked the senate to ram his GST through: http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/27/

http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/federal_politics/clips/13230/

Remember Harpers Idol was the most hated politician in Canadian history. Remember the Reform party was born to break free of Mulrony’s pork barrel politics and his abandonment of democracy. We can see that the Reform party has been completely abandoned by Mr. Harper. The Reform party would call for more referendums of the people not stack the senate to ram your agenda through. A sad day for Canada indeed.

The only change we need to make is that the government will continue to the next election even if it has a non-confidence vote. Minority governments are a must now but we don’t need elections every year. That is a waste of money. As is appointing extra senators we don’t need.

Newfoundland Progressive Conservative Premier Danny Williams speaks out against Harper: http://anythingbutconservative.ca/

Declares his website was a success as the Conservatives were wiped out of Newfoundland: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=2a8e3c8a-3ec4-46c5-b51f-8ec10156f9b9

Harper’s $290 Million Mandate

So another $290-million wasted: http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=febe82ad-403d-47e8-b8ba-c5e6115f996b

Harper’s Third Mandate is the same as his first and second mandate. Canadian’s don’t trust him with a majority government. Last time we let the Tories have a majority government was Brian Mulroney. Enough said. Does Harper really wonder why we don’t want them to have a majority government again?

Will he listen this time? Not likely. He was lucky the Liberals shot themselves in the foot by picking an idiot for a leader who preached Campbell’s carbon tax is good. That was worse than the sponsorship is good mantra. Raising the tax on fuel raises the price of everything we buy in stores that is transported there. Next time Harper might not be so lucky when Trudeau’s son steps up to the plate: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ikzT5E9cMSjbJce6b9F4adGITrGg

Harper coverts a majority government so he can govern. Why does that sound so frighteningly like a monarchy the way he says it? Maybe because that is exactly how majority governments act when they are in power. They don’t give a rat’s ass what the other parties have to say. They let them ramble and speak on the motion as they yawn and look at their watch. Then they steam roll ahead with their own agenda without listening to what anyone else has to say.

A minority government is good because it prevents them from steam rolling ahead with stupid things. Like following the US into Iraq, continuing the closed door NAU or getting hard on crime not by imposing minimum sentences on violent crime, not by dealing with organized crime but by imposing minimum sentences on the possession of marijuana. Someone is clearly not listening.

Speaking of Brian Mulrony, you remember him don’t you? He was the most hated Prime minister in recorded history for wasting all that money to stack the senate and railroad the GST through: http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/27/

Mulroney used the same term. He stacked the senate so he could govern regardless of what the rest of Canada wanted.

Brian Mulroney was the reason the Reform Party formed. They wanted to oppose pork barrel politics. They wanted to balance the budget to save social programs not abolish them. Preston Manning challenged us to look beyond the left and the right.

Instead, they acted on a typo and instead of unite the bright they decided to unite the right and merge with the very conservatives they were created to oppose. Was all the Reform and Canadian Alliance drama just to get an Albertan elected as Prime Minister? Evidently so. Now I have no problem with an Albertan Prime Minister any more than I have a problem with a Quebecer as Prime Minister. Both has it’s pros and cons.

The advantage of an Albertan Prime Minister is that they’d likely be better with money. The down side is that they’d likely blindly follow the states into a whole range of bizarre extremes like privatizing everything just to remove public accountability not to save money. That is not a democracy and is not in the public’s best interest.

The advantage of a Quebecer as a Prime minister is that they would be strong enough to stand apart from crazy extremes coming from the US. The downside is given the long history of the Liberals in Canada they are completely fiscally irresponsible and rack up massive national debt. Maybe we should elect someone from the Bloc?

Will we ever find a balance between fiscal responsibility and social justice? It’s really not that difficult to understand what Canadians want. It is however, very difficult to find a politician who will truly listen. All we see are used car salesmen pimping the country.

http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/federal_politics/clips/13230/

http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/09/27/

The Great Canadian Mosaic

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/

Minority governments in Canada are good. That means no single party can race ahead on it’s own agenda and refuse to listen to any of the other parties. Mandatory minimum sentences for violent crime is good. Mandatory minimum sentences for possession of Marijuana is dumb.

Donna Cadman squeezes in by the skin of her teeth after all the slack she took over joining the Tories after the book she endorsed came out about them bribing her husband. NDP takes Vancouver Kingsway after the strategic voting disaster electing Emerson who crossed over and refused to resign over breach of trust.

Liberals are al an all time low, which as far as finances and scandals goes is good. However, Trudeau’s son the new heartthrob will likely turn that around. He seems like a really nice guy. I just hope he can change the party into being more fiscally responsible.

Nevertheless, life goes on.

Thanksgiving

Well in times of economic uncertainty it is good to reflect on what really matters and all that we really do have to be grateful for. Economic uncertainty because a bunch of greedy pigs borrowed too much money and invested it in too high risk investments because they wanted more and more profits. Indeed the pride cycle continues.

As does the fall cycle. A friend referred to the economic downturn as economic winter. Great. I was having a good day. Nevertheless I like winter and I’m grateful to have a home. Not a house, but a home. I’m grateful to be Canadian. We are certainly no better than our passionate neighbors to the south but we are different. I like it here.

Sure everyday I meet people here I don’t like but all in all there are more good people out there than bad and this place is my home. Home is where your heart is. I don’t like the new slogan for the Vancouver Olympics. "The best place on earth." I think that is nonsense. Wherever your home is that's the best place on earth for you. This place is nice but it certainly isn’t better than any other place people call home.

I think Australia is nice. Warmth, coral reefs, and they even have snow in their mountains. Yet this place is my home and I am happy with it. I like the old slogan better, "Beautiful British Columbia." This place is beautiful. It’s just not better. We have our challenges like everywhere else but we do have a lot to be grateful for and a lot we take for granted.

Fall is great. Leaves turning colour represents the circle of life. I’m glad Canada’s logo is a red maple leaf. I’m looking forward to going to Brackendale this winter to watch the Eagles as they migrate to feed off the dying salmon that have finished their life cycle by returning home to spawn before they die.

We used to refer to Ireland as the Holy Land and indeed it is but this land is holy now because it is our home. With all the uncertainty in the world and all the unforeseen changes and beatings a family takes, it’s still nice to have a home. Not a house, a home. That is peace.

Wall Street snaps back

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20081013%2feconomy_monday_081013

Dow's record breaking gains: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20081013%2feconomy_monday_081013

Wall street has been pretty volatile with it’s ups and downs lately but the bottom line is that when the economy is slow, banks have to reduce interest rates which is not a bad thing – for us. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ioHc80xKMiATnqCpK0cDKJzk_nPQD93MON0O0

"We've changed the structure of things in a way that will not support a borrow-to-buy type of environment." Well that certainly is not a bad thing. AIG got into trouble by insuring high risk stocks. All it’s other portfolios were fine. Dumping tax dollars into the stock market is just plain insane. Buying on margin is what created the stock market crash and the great depression.

BTW did ya see where AIG spent it’s bailout money:

http://www.financialpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=866284.

I said it before and I’ll say it again, the stock market is driven by fear, greed and speculation. A Jedi concerns himself not with these things.

Greed is not good: http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20080919/cm_uc_crpbux/op_337446&printer=1;_ylt=AmDDdDdF4XXLmTu_JuOBptCfts8F

See More

Well the music died but the beat goes on and the base keeps runnin runnin runnin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_d_zDPS2hc When you watch the news on TV or read the paper, it’s really easy to get depressed. Not to mention if you read the news on the Internet the mainstream media has been censoring. It’s sad.

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When I’m overcome with the Van Gogh or the MacBeth sadness, I like to get out and climb. Get the heart pumping, some fresh air and enjoy some massive peaks. Now that’s what I’m talking about. When I come back down I feel good. Just like James Brown. The top picture is Vancouver city and Stanley park from Seymour. The mountain range above the clouds is Vancouver Island so it is.

Some people say, your manic depressant. You’re bipolar and I’m like no, I’m human. Einstein said I think therefor I am. I say I feel therefor I am. There is a time and place for everything. A time to laugh, a time to cry, a time for war a time for peace. Emotion makes us human.

Barbosa in the Pirates of the Caribbean was cursed with the rest of his crew to live forever but without feeling. His hell was to see and eat an apple without tasting it. He had no feeling. Then right before Jack Sparrow had his curse lifted right before he shot him with his last bullet Barbosa exclaimed I feel … cold then died. The ability to feel makes us human and makes us alive.

I think the term bipolar is over prescribed. Oh I have seen people do some pretty strange things in my day, but I think the bipolar disorder is as over diagnosed as ADD. My father was the other extreme. He was a former teacher and principle and said he didn’t believe there was such a thing as ADD just lazy teachers. Personally I do think ADD exists but it is over prescribed.

Today I hiked on Seymour. I’ve always taken that peak for granted having skied it when I was young. Today I realized that the Mystery peak chair lift doesn’t take you to the peak of Seymour. They even have a new chair Brockton point but that doesn’t take you to the peak of Seymour. To get to the peak you have to hike up and the view is magnificent. Almost as good as Goat Ridge but you get a better view of the Indian Arm from Seymour.

Yesterday I was coming home from Whiterock and I saw a peak between the peaks that was covered in snow. It was a glacier north of the 49 in the other direction from Baker. As I drove the sun hit the snow capped peak and beckoned me. I have to find out how to get there I said. I ended up in Bellcarra but couldn’t find it as the clouds began to roll in. Bellcarra is nice but I still like White cliff better. You can see Bellcarra from Seymour so you can.

Then today on the other side of first pump on mount Seymour I saw it. Another hiker said it was Garibaldi. You can get there from Squamish. It’s right beside Black Tusk. Dead on says me. That’s me next stop so it is.

The Day the Music Died

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsZFiMo8TIc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkvLq0TYiwI

Arkansas Train Deaths

Speaking of corruption in both the Democrat and the Republican parties let’s take a look at the Arkansas train deaths. This one’s pretty long and complicated but let’s start with two simple facts. First look at the CIA’s drug history trading guns for drugs to fund their expansionism and their overpowering denial of those facts: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-cia-drugs.html

Second let’s take a look at how the coroner intentionally falsified and covered up details about the deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry in Arkansas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Vy3Ov4A9g&feature=related

The lengthy conclusion is that the two boys stumbled across a CIA drug op and were murdered and placed on the train tracks to cover up their deaths. Although it is a long and far fetched conclusion the overpowering initial question rises as to why the coroner Fahmy Malak would falsify their death and other deaths in the area and why would Clinton support him. Why? http://www.idfiles.com/ttd.htm

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2261

The Gulf of Tonkin incident(s) started the Vietnam war. The resulting Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave the President powers of a dictator to make war just like in the Star Wars saga. Perhaps I’ve watched too many movies but all these false flag operations and this huge private clone army the US is now creating is a recipe for disaster.

Compare the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 with the USS Liberty incident in 1967. Both were under president Lyndon B. Johnson. The one who took over after Kennedy was assassinated. If it worked for Johnson in 1964 why wouldn’t it work for him in 1967? Oh yeah, the Russian spy ship that caught them in 1967 made it hard to lie to the world again: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/uss-liberty.html

Kennedy was pulling troops out of Vietnam and opposed the false flag proposals in Operation Northwoods to invade Cuba during the missile crisis. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurred during the first year of the Johnson administration.

Basically there were two incidents. One was provoked and the other fabricated. Operation Plan 34-Alpha is a sad tale of abandonment that sounds like something out of a Rambo movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident

I was raised in the Vietnam era and lived in the socially accepted belief that war was bad and the Vietnam war was very bad. Yet I remember speaking with two Vietnamese from South Vietnam who said after America pulled out, the Russians not the Chinese moved in and closed all the churches and Buddhist monasteries and searched everyone on the street at any time.

My animosity over the American false flag operations is in no way a voice in support of Mao, Lenin or Stalin. It simply puts Bush and Johnson in the same boat. Please note that although Bush is a Republican Johnson was a Democrat so the CIA and Pentagon corruption appears to have power over whoever is in power.

Please note that the Soviet Union did pursue the same expansionist drive with Iran and Afghanistan independent of any US false flag operation. There is no doubt the Soviet Union had an agenda in Vietnam similar to that in Iran, Afghanistan and Cuba and the trigger happy war machine arms dealers from the US of A were more than happy to accommodate them and win or lose profit from the conflict.

Why do I get the feeling that LBJ was not interested in hearing what MLK had to say?

Blackwater Storm Troopers

OK this is just plain bizarre. We’ve already talked about how the US is creating this massive privatized military that is above the law. It started under the pretense of saving money but time has demonstrated how these paid mercenaries are far more expensive than regular army. http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/10/privatizing-military.html

Well now they are outsourcing their military and creating this massive US foreign legion that is above the law. They claim that they cannot be sued as civilians because they are part of the US Total Force. Yet they also claim that since they are civilians they are not subject to military discipline. http://warcrimes.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/09/18/blackwaters-legal-status-reviewed-after-civilian-deaths

Can no one else see how blatantly satanic this is? A French Foreign Legion for the United States to fight their Corporate wars? This is just plain insane. This is no different from Hitler’s SS or the Star Wars Stormtroopers.

Blackwater’s new outsourcing facility called Greystone is in Barbados and is therefore tax exempt. Strange how all the US tax dollars is going into bailing out off shore enterprises that openly seek to destroy the US economy by taking jobs out of the country while their profits are tax exempt.

"The countries from which Greystone claimed to draw recruits were: the Philippines, Chile, Nepal, Columbia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, and Peru, many of whose forces have human rights records that are questionable at best."

"In Iraq, Blackwater has deployed scores of Chilean mercenaries, some of whom trained and served under the brutal regime of Augusto Pinochet." Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Rise-Worlds-Powerful-Mercenary/dp/1560259795

Another real danger is that the CIA can use this group to perform false flag operations without persecution or carry out drug cartels like the Iran contra with no lawful accountability whatsoever.

A Woman’s Right to Vote

A friend forwarded this story to me and I was outraged. I realize that it was not very long ago that woman gained the right to vote but it never really sunk in. 1920? That really is an embarrassment on society.

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In Canada, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta granted woman the right to vote in 1916. Ontario and B.C. did in 1917 and the rest of Canadian did shortly thereafter except for Quebec who didn’t grant woman the right to vote until 1940. That is hard to conceive. http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/quebechistory/stats/WomensRighttovoteinCanada.html

What’s also hard to conceive is how these woman who marched on the White house asking for the right to vote were arrested and beaten in prison.

Lawful assembly is a fundamental right within the constitution. Being arrested and beaten for exercising that right is insane. It reminds me of how Bush vetoed the bill preventing CIA torture. Not only did they admit the CIA practices torture but George Bush went down in history as the one who vetoed the bill preventing it. That is shameful.

The problem rises with the definition of terrorist. Who is a terrorist? Is it someone who plans on murdering innocent civilians or is it simply someone who disagrees with me? Is it someone they randomly pick and torture until they get a bogus confession for their Operation Northwoods false flag treason?

These are who they called terrorist in 1920:

These women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

(Lucy Burns)
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night -- bleeding and gasping for air.

(Dora Lewis)

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

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Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop --infested with worms.

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(Alice Paul)

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

HBO made a movie about the nightmare called Iron Jawed Angels:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StF3_Mj0tBg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMbx7c_5vx4

Men beating women. How pathetic.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait still deny women the right to vote:

http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/suffrage.htm

If Iraq was allowed to invade Kuwait, would the Kuwaiti women have the right to vote then? Interesting to note that US’s two enemies, Iraq and Afghanistan both let women vote in elections but the US’s two close allies, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are the only two countries left in the world that still don’t let women vote in elections. All hail the almighty dollar. http://www.merip.org/mero/mero021005.html

Harper and the Economy

Harper is getting a lot of slack for his position on the economy. However, on that issue I firmly believe he is right. The government should not be pouring taxpayers money into the stock market. The United States is insane and we should not follow them on that practice. It is not the government’s job to create jobs and stimulate the stock market.

The government’s job is collect taxes to pay for a set of democratically chosen social programs like police, fire department, building roads and in our case health care. The stock market rises and falls. Other than regulating fraud, the government should not be involved. We finally have a balanced budget. Let’s protect heath care and education and not pour money down the toilet.

The Liberals were great for not following America into Iraq based on a lie. However, for generations the Liberals have incurred massive debt with insane sponsorship scandals and the like. We don’t need to walk down that road again. Massive debt and massive interest spells slavery and economic failure.

The best thing a government can do for the economy is to balance it’s budget and reduce taxes. That will create the climate for the economy to thrive. It’s that simple. As soon as the government is in the business to make business that is the self defeating recipe for failure.

I am very concerned with Harper’s Bush buddies and the secret drive to form the North American Union behind closed doors. Nevertheless, let’s not criticize Harper for not following Bush’s insanity on the economy.

Executive Order 11110

Lets take a look at banking in the tradition of the founding fathers and point to the real heroes and villains in the current banking conspiracy for world dominion and human slavery.

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." President, Thomas Jefferson http://www.fdrs.org/

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance." James Madison http://www.fdrs.org/banking_history.html

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest." Abraham Lincoln http://www.fdrs.org/money_creation.html

"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out... If people only understood the rank injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning." Andrew Jackson http://www.fdrs.org/debt_termination.html

Now let’s take a look at Kennedy’s Executive Order 11110: http://www.fdrs.org/executive_order_11110.html

The one that was defeated when he was assassinated. Now lets ask ourselves who are the real heroes and who are the real villains? You be the judge.

The Boys that Cried Wolf

All these documented cases of false flag attacks are very disturbing. The USS Main, the USS Liberty, Operation Northwoods. The list goes on. There are two issues on the table. The first issue is the outrageousness of how the US government has let some of it’s own people die so they could use their deaths as a pretext for going to war in their quest for "expansionism."

The second issue is the reality of a foreign enemy. With all this news of false flag events, no one is going to believe them when a real emergency strikes. My point in all this nonsense is that privatizing everything is not wise and the corporate war machine is beginning to get out of control.

The corruption within the CIA is astounding and it clearly has influence over whatever president is elected. I haven’t even talked about the Arkansas train deaths or the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

As Canadians we need to separate ourselves from US foreign policy not embrace it and merge with them in a North American Union. We also need to realize that although the enemy from within is currently the greatest threat to our liberty and sovereignty, it is not the only threat.