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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

7 June -Night Blogging

Fireworks at the Fountain, Lake Eola ParkImage by Neil_J via Flickr

Drought crisis leaves struggling Somalia on the brink

IRAN THE DANGER TO WORLD PEACE? I DON'T THINK SO!

How America Screws Its Soldiers

The people in charge don’t really believe that the burdens borne by our soldiers will ever end and they are not really looking for ways to do so. As for the rest of us, well, we’re OK with that.

Ralph Nader joins influential leaders questioning fluoridation

Der Spiegel: Robert Koch Institute Says the new version of E Coli has Plague DNA

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CUPW national president Denis Lemelin discusses the negotiation issues and possibility of a Canadian postal strike by CUPW urban postal workers. Article: htt...
www.theglobeandmail.com
So far impervious to public protest, the Harper government will swing axe aggressively in nine months time


www.winnipegfreepress.com
OTTAWA - Civil servants at the federal Fisheries Department have been told their budget is being cut... - Breaking News - Winnipeg Free Press.

www.fina-nafi.org
The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) is a non-profit organization based in Montreal. NAFI, created in 2002, aims to address the issues raised by North American integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American region.
www.jonahhouse.org
One of the best-kept secrets of the world has been the activism – the nonviolent resistance of Jesus. A close reading of the Gospel reveals this – his calling to accountability an unjust, corrupt system. That wasted the poor and turned society into a mad beehive. Like today!
Orlando police arrested four more anti-poverty activists for feeding pancakes and doughnuts to hungry people at Lake Eola Park on Monday morning.
Such arrests could become a twice-weekly occurrence at Orlando's signature park as activists continue to defy a law they say is unjust.
Members of the group Orlando Food Not Bombs had just finished distributing food to a line of more than 30 people when police swiftly moved in, handcuffed them and put them in a waiting police van to be taken to the Orange County Jail.
‎"The absurdity of the Canada-U.S. "perimeter security" deal achieves apogee with a simple question: Can two neighbours shake hands through a brick wall?"
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The absurdity of the Canada-U.S. "perimeter security" deal achieves apogee with a simple question:

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Highlights from an March 11, 2010 interview of Canadian diplomat Allan Gotlieb at Berkeley (Interviewed By: Harry Kreisler.) By: NAUresistance Harry Kreisler..

www.fina-nafi.org
The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) is a non-profit organization based in Montreal. NAFI, created in 2002, aims to address the issues raised by North American integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American region.

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CBC -- Manitoba's "angry rhetoric" on a dispute with its U.S. neighbour embittered officials south of the border and made for a "terribly strained" relationship, American diplomatic documents released through WikiLeaks suggest. The documents shed new light on the longstanding spat between Canada and

4th Amendment Victory For Commercial Truckers In Federal Court

Despite commercial trucking being a heavily regulated industry where there's a much lower expectation of privacy along with 4th & 5th amendment protections (according to the courts anyway), a federal judge nonetheless ruled in favor of a commercial truck driver subjected to a standardless inspection regime during a mandatory roadside weigh stationstop.
NATO War Crimes In Libya Exposed
Obama's order to kill Qaddafi is reminiscent of George W. Bush's order to kill Sadaam Hussein at the outset of the U.S. war against Iraq, an assassination order that was also a violation of international and U.S. law.


9_11 TRUTHERS LOCKED UP FOR LIFE UNDER NEW US LAW

( 'Panic-struck' were they?  It's a different b.s. excuse from stupid anyway )

‎"You can be a Christian OR you can be a Christ; You can be a Buddhist OR you can be a Buddha; You can believe in God OR you can Be & Live as One." You can Love OR BE Loved Unconditional One..Peace amd Love You can Scream for Freedom OR BEe Free..Happy JoY Harmony You can have Choices OR One Destiny..One for All All in One Enjoy your Life..Simpel and Spontan..One Unity

Police Misconduct NewsFeed (Live) Weekend Recap 06-04-11 to 06-05-11 


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Recent post-secondary graduates recruited by the federal public service appear to become more disengaged and less ambitious the longer they're in their jobs.

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Act NOW - online campaigns on LabourStart.

US admits that TSA groping is sexual or offensive, and unconstitutional

According to the letter to Texas legislators from the US Attorney for the Western District of Texas:
[T]he bill makes it a crime for a federal Transportation Security Official (”TSO”) to perform the security screening that he or she is authorized in required by federal law to perform. The proposed legislation would make it unlawful for a federal agent such as a TSO to perform certain specified searches…. that provision would thus criminalize searches that are required under federal regulations.
Despite the label “Transportation Security Officer” and the US Attorney’s use of the term “agent”, TSOs and other checkpoint staff are not law enforcement officers. But there’s another implication to the US Attorney’s letter: The only searches that the Texas bill would have “criminalized” would have been those that involved sexual or offensive touching and were not performed pursuant to valid, Constitutional, federal statutory authority.
By claiming that the bill would have criminalized acts specifically required by TSA policy, the US Attorney’s letter constitutes an explicit admission that the checkpoint procedures (a) require sexual or offensive touching and (b) are not, in fact, being performed pursuant to Constitutional statutory authority. Otherwise, the bill wouldn’t have applied to them.
www.calgaryherald.com
Canadian banks are among those worldwide pushing back against a U.S. requirement that will effectively turn international financial institutions into an enforcement arm of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

www.ottawacitizen.com
The prime minister and the president of the United States took time out from the recent G-8 meetings in France to discuss perimeter security.

U.S. Embassy confiscates citizen’s passport so he can’t come home

US intervenes to block UK-to-Canada trip by ex-Gitmo prisoner


We aren’t sure how it’s been done, but the US government has somehow prevailed on Air Canada to deny boarding in London, for a flight to Toronto, to U.K. citizen Moazzam Begg.
Begg was imprisoned (and, he says, tortured) for more than three years by the U.S. at Bagram, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo, Cuba, but was released on the orders of President Bush and has never been charged with any crime in any country.  he works with Cageprisoners, “a [U.K.-based] human rights organisation that exists solely to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror.” Begg had been invited by his Edmonton-based attorney to speak at a conference on Islamophobia in Toronto, and at other events in Motreal and Edmonton.
One news report at Canada.com and in the Vancouver Sun described the basis for the denial of boarding as follows:
In a statement to Postmedia News, Air Canada spokeswoman Angela Mah said only that the airline is in compliance “with the regulations of the countries in which we operate.
“This includes matters of security, details of which by their very  nature cannot be disclosed in order to ensure their effectiveness. For flights to and from the U.S., as well as flights which may overfly the U.S. due to unexpected re-routings, we are obligated by law to enforce the U.S. No Fly List.”
That’s a bizarre statement, indicative of the degree to which no-fly decisions have been detached from the rule of law. What law, of which country, does Air Canada claim requires them to “enforce the U.S. No-Fly List” (by which they appear to mean, “deny boarding in London”) on a flight which isn’t scheduled to overfly the U.S.?
Why are atheists so arrogant?

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