George Monbiot
guardian.co.uk, Monday 30 November 2009
When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world's peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country's government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee's tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I've broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush........
In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. No other country that had ratified the treaty has done this. Canada was meant to have cut emissions by 6% between 1990 and 2012. Instead they have already risen by 26%.
The Canadian government is testing the international process to destruction and finding that it breaks all too easily. By demonstrating that climate sanctions aren't worth the paper they're written on, it threatens to render any treaty struck at Copenhagen void.
he strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.
To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.
Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting them burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes.
The existential implications of ufology
Greg Bishop has written a wonderfully thought-provoking piece on the UFO inquiry titled "UFOs As Agents Of Deconstruction."
Here's a brief excerpt:
Ostensibly, the UFO question is whether a non-human source is causing sightings, abductions, radar returns and flying saucer religions, but the intricacies of the problem impinge on so many other areas that we redefine them as well. Examples include reported physics of UFO movement, the question of cultural antecedents and perhaps how our society decides what is acceptable as serious study. That last one may be the most deconstructive effect of all. Changes in our mindset, and not any so-called "answers" may be the real reason behind the whole thing, or at least the most meaningful. There may indeed be "knowledge gained without awareness."
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Here is a related paper on the effects and consequences of possible contact with "the other": http://bit.ly/4FIc1j
"Encountering Alien Otherness" by Michael E. Zimmerman, which is a fairly strange read, addresses some of the same matters noted by Greg Bishop's reference to Carl Raschke's article, “UFOs: Ultraterrestrial Agents of Cultural Deconstruction,” and also the effect of nonsense or unfamiliar forms of illogical information exposure as noted in the NY Times article Bishop also links to for its relevance to the idea that novel experience or anomalistic encounters may exercise different aspects of the brain and consciousness in ways that otherwise might not be activated, and which, in turn, may produce higher level or better than expected processes of mind related to memory, intelligence, and a more expansive accommodation to and intellectual investigation of concepts or aspects of reality which otherwise might not be achieved or attempted in more normal or standard modes of cognition. Pretty interesting stuff.
The NY Times article Bishop notes also refers to recent studies that scientifically quantify statistically this fairly new and generally unrecognized effect of mind opened to or "awakened" by encounters with or experience of anomaly as consequently being better able to solve certain kinds of problems. [The best part of the Zimmerman piece, btw, is the last quarter of his paper and footnoted citations.]
The most interesting element of all this is that, regardless of what may actually be happening, one can take advantage of the effects and results on the mind of uncertainty and ambiguous experience to realize, regardless of the ‘recursive unsolvability’ of the source of certain ufo or "alien" phenomena, that one may be able to expand and enhance one's thinking abilities and perceptual acuity in ways that are positive and beneficial to helping understand or possibly solving difficult or intractable problems of human existence.
In a way, what is being described is, whether fully conscious or not, that experience or encounters with the novel or anomalous seem to activate creative elements of mind that seek to not only understand the novelty concerned, but also have a side-effect of deconstructing usual or normative means of thinking, and by which new or more productive solutions or effects may be accomplished. This psychological revision of self-limiting boundaries or standard mental parameters may thus open up new ideas and paradigms to deal better with both anomaly, and in general terms, the complexity of reality, or at least its more challenging and esoteric aspects. On the other hand, there is a potential dark side effect, in that this can also lead to less rational or conspiratorial thinking if one is not careful to employ "balancing tests" or empirically grounded.
The effect of "nonsense" or experience of anomaly, due to our minds desire for order and logic, and inherent need to recognize patterns as a deep survival mechanism, can go either way when encountering something illogical and unexpected, and consequent depatterning and disorientation, depending on what one is confronted with, can be either negative or positive.
If there are non-human "others" interacting with some humans, as in close encounter and select "abduction" cases, then perhaps the effect is intentional, and represents a form of co-evolving modification or acceleration of human consciousness or intellect for evolutionary advancement. Or, of course, it may be something else completely different. Makes one think of the possibilities! Perhaps that, whether intended or just internally generated, is the purpose and point--to revise thinking and expectations, and to take a step outside the box, and to seek new means for better ends when the times and fears of the unknown future require it. As they do now.
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">Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?
U.N. plans for a new 'government' are scary.
By JANET ALBRECHTSEN
We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around
the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an
agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in
for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our
otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled
together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media. View Agreement Here
Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel
University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the
public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change—a rough draft of what could be signed come December.
So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post of his address. It deserves
millions more because Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up
a transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen.
Synopsis Here
The "scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention" that starts on page 18
contains the provision for a "government." The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the
power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations
that sign the Copenhagen treaty.
The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty
requires developed countries to pay an "adaptation debt" to developing countries to supposedly
support climate change mitigation. Clause 33 on page 39 says that "by 2020 the scale of financial
flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be [at least $67 billion] or [in the range of
$70 billion to $140 billion per year]."
And how will developed countries be slugged to provide for this financial flow to the developing world?
The draft text sets out various alternatives, including option seven on page 135, which provides for "a
[global] levy of 2 per cent on international financial market [monetary] transactions to Annex I
Parties." Annex 1 countries are industrialized countries, which include among others the U.S.,
Australia, Britain and Canada.
To be sure, countries that sign international treaties always cede powers to a U.N. body responsible
for implementing treaty obligations. But the difference is that this treaty appears to have been subject
to unusual attempts to conceal its convoluted contents. And apart from the difficulty of trying to
decipher the U.N. verbiage, there are plenty of draft clauses described as "alternatives" and "options"
that should raise the ire of free and democratic countries concerned about preserving their
sovereignty.
Lord Monckton himself only became aware of the extraordinary powers to be vested in this new
world government when a friend found an obscure U.N. Web site and searched through several layers
of hyperlinks before discovering a document that isn't even called the draft "treaty." Instead, it's
labelled a "Note by the Secretariat."
Interviewed by broadcaster Alan Jones on Sydney radio Monday, Lord Monckton said "this is the first
time I've ever seen any transnational treaty referring to a new body to be set up under that treaty as a
'government.' But it's the powers that are going to be given to this entirely unelected government that
are so frightening." He added: "The sheer ambition of this new world government is enormous right
from the start—that's even before it starts accreting powers to itself in the way that these entities
inevitably always do."
Chuck Norris Break Down
Critics have admonished Lord Monckton for his colorful language. He has certainly been vigorous. In
his exposé of the draft Copenhagen treaty in St. Paul, he warned Americans that "in the next few
weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity
away forever." Yet his critics fail to deal with the substance of what he says.
Ask yourself this question: Given that our political leaders spend hundreds of hours talking about
climate change and the need for a global consensus in Copenhagen, why have none of them talked
openly about the details of this draft climate-change treaty? After all, the final treaty will bind
signatories for years to come. What exactly are they hiding? Thanks to Lord Monckton we now know
something of their plans. (Truth about the scam here)
Janos Pasztor, director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, told reporters in
New York Monday that with the U.S. Congress yet to pass a climate-change bill, a global climate-
change treaty is now an unlikely outcome in Copenhagen. Let's hope he is right. And thank you,
America.
Ms. Albrechtsen is a columnist for the Australian.
URGENT UPDATE!
The IPCC's scientists' email database was hacked. All the personal e-mails
between scientists were released. It reveals a broad based conspiracy to
manufacturer the Global Warming problem by manufacturing, manipulating
and hiding relevant data! This is the biggest conspiracy of the 21st century
and the media has all but ignored it. For a complete breakdown, please
check these links out.
Climategate 1
Climategate 2
Climategate 3
Climategate 4
Climategate 5
Climategate for Dummies
Lord Mockton on Alex Jones
UFO Disclosure
It is apparent we are reaching a critical point on disclosure in the world. Many European countries
have released tens of thousands of documents related to the existence and visitation of extra
terrestrial beings. Meanwhile, with the exception of a few shows Like Larry King, Fox News and
Discovery Channel, the UFO community in general is still sidelined as a fringe element. Even though
now more than 85% of everyone believes we have been visited. Recently, there have been several
reports within the US Government Black Ops community which claim that open disclosure by our
government is not only imminent, but they will admit to having relationships with at least 6 different
ET races over the last 50 years. Many claim that this will happen before year's end! Please check out
some of the related links below:
CNN & Edgar Mitchell Interview
Disclosure Project
Anderson Cooper
Larry King UFO Disclosure 1/4
David Wilcock 1/2
Keith Obberman
Military Whistleblowers 1/2
Steven Bassett
Richard Hoagland 1/7
Disclosure Article
Atlanta Examiner Article
Chancellor Adrian Hicks 1/3
Stephen Greer on Coast to Coast
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