SCIENTIFIC FRAUD: DON'T WORRY

One in Seven Scientists Say Colleagues Fake "Scientific" Study Results

This sounds bad, but scientists often fiddle their results, usually because of an overwhelming conviction of how things ought to turn out.

The consequences of scientific misrepresentation are rarely a big deal. Science is a competitive enterprise and if you get your facts wrong someone will be happy to point that out.

Thus, although faking your data may waste other people's time, it will soon be discovered if you make a significant claim that cannot be confirmed.

More often, however, false results are simply ignored. If something does not fit their model of the world, experienced scientists will likely just ignore it. People who want to find something out, don't waste their time acting as policemen.

Of course, if your hunch is right and you fake your results to prove it, little if any harm is done. Copernicus's claimed to have observed more than was possible to see with his primitive telescope, but his ideas about the solar system proved consistent with later more precise observations. Gregor Mendel's results are said by statisticians to be too good to be true. But they are consistent with verified theory. Arthur Eddington's measurement on May 29, 1919 of the deflection of starlight by the gravitational pull of the sun was highly questionable due to measurement error. Nevertheless, subsequent evidence confirmed the result that Eddington claimed.

Newton and Einstein fiddled their results by introducing what later proved to be unecessary fudge factors.

Newton, for example, corrected his calculation of the speed of sound to make it match what proved to be an inaccurate experimental measurement by incorporating a meaningless adjustment for what he called the "crassity of the particles."

Einstein fiddled his cosmological model by introducing the cosmological constant, a fudge factor to explain why gravity doesn't cause everything to glom together in one big heap.

When Hubble showed that the universe was expanding at a rate that exceeded the acceleration due to gravity, Enstein described his cosmological constant as "the greatest blunder of my career."

As it happens, the cosmological constant has come back into vogue to account for the fact that the universe is not only expanding but is expanding at an accelerating rate.

The real problem in science is not the publication of false data, but that there are too many graduates of worthless PhD programs who spend their lives gathering valid but pointless information.

Science can only progress on the basis of new ideas. New ideas that are wrong don't last for long merely because someone fakes data to support them. Conversely, good ideas supported by dubious or false data, are still good ideas, as the scientific consensus will likely prove.

One must be wary of the scientific consensus, however, when theories come to have social, religious or political implications. Lysenkoism, for example, was mostly rubbish that held sway in the Soviet Union because it was consistent with Communist ideology.

Predictions about human impacts on climate have vast political implications and should, therefore, be viewed with skepticism -- which is not to say that climate change science lacks validity, but that dogmatic assertions about the future of a system as complex as the climate are almost certainly bogus.

Climate projections arise from models. The models indicate what will happen on certain more or less reasonable assumptions, all other things being equal. A useful thing to know. But it is not a fact about the future, and all other things will not likely be equal.

Michel Chossudovsky: U.K. Government orders construction of mass graves to terrorize the public

And British drug maker Glaxo Smith Kine stands to make $3 billion this year from sales of flu vaccine.

Kurt Nimmo: Preparing for Martial Law: International Swine Flu Conference to Be Held in Washington

Japan's foreign trade off by a third

Huckabee is wrong about a two-state solution

Perhaps not. The only solution to the to the Arab Israeli problem may be for the United States to allow and encourage all Arab residents of Israel and the occupied territories to emimgrate to the United States, while vigorously encouraging American Zionists to move to Israel. America would gain a group of loyal new citizens while losing a group that seeks to direct the resources of the United States in the interests of a foreign country.

Conspiracy Theory - Reason vs. the Crowd

The US War against Iraq: The Destruction of a Civilization

Obama's $9 trillion, 10-year budget deficit

Afghanistan vote turnout less than 50%, ballot boxes stuffed, fingers cut off, etc., etc. Election deemed free and fair

FBI Trained White Supremacist as provocateur

Tech giants oppose Google attempt to monopolize world literature

"We simply don't like the settlement in its current form," said Consumer Watchdog advocate John Simpson.

"There are serious questions about privacy and Google seems to be taking the view 'let us put this in place and we will do the right thing down the road'. That is simply not good enough."

"That's why we're building a gulag. It's for people who read stuff like 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Google will tell us who to nab." Dick Cheney.

Most Americans say Afghanistan war not worth fighting

Iran grants IAEA access to key nuclear sites: Diplomats

Oh dang. Just as Israel was to launch WWIII by bombing the hell out of Iran's non-existent WMDs.

U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, at least 3 dead

U.S. ally Pakistan officially objects to the U.S. drone strikes on its soil saying they violate its sovereignty...

When you bomb someone in violation of their national sovereignty, it would normally be understood that you were waging war upon them. The Pakistanis seem not yet to have pointed this out to the Government of the United States of Aggression -- possibly out of politeness, or more likely in fear that to do so would only intensify the bombing.

The 4th Anglo-Afghan war: Afghanistan's to lose

This is... the 4th Anglo-Afghan war. Previous conflicts have all been started by the British with the same basic motivation; a desire to exert influence by ensuring a friendly government is put in place and maintained in Kabul.

These Anglo-Afghan wars took place in 1838-1842, 1878-81, and 1919. The first war was instigated by the British to displace the ruler in Kabul, Dost Mohammed, who was seen as being too close to Russia. Attempts to replace him with a British nominated ruler failed and the British were forced to retreat from Kabul in 1842 with the loss of thousands of lives. Dost Mohammed regained the throne.

The second war was instigated by the British against Dost Mohamed's third son, Sher Ali. The British achieved their immediate objectives and, following the death of Sher Ali, signed a treaty with his son in 1879. Later the same year however the British envoy and his entire staff were killed and Britain eventually had to accept the leadership of Abdurrahman Khan, a popular choice of the Afghan tribes.

The most recent war occurred in 1919 after the leader of the day demanded international recognition of Afghanistan's full independence. After a brief conflict, the British again failed to meet their policy objective and ended up signing an agreement recognising the independence of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is the clear favorite. But, for the Brits, will it be fourth time lucky?

Health advisory issued as rats infest Saskatchewan city of Swift Current

Rats, that's nothin'.

Here in Oak Bay, aka Rat Bay, we got rats, we got squirrels, we got an exploding population of domestic rabbits gone feral, and we got a herd of deer. And we have a Municipal Council with no policy on rats, no policy on squirrels, no policy on rabbits, not policy on deer.

Well they better get a policy soon.

A rabbit can have four litters of eight bunnies a year, which means that by the year 2020, all the matter in the entire visible universe will be converted to rabbits unless Oak Bay takes decisive action soon. And then they better consider the rats, the squirrels and the deer.

Usain Bolt smashes world record in the 200

Nobel prize winners Scholes, Merton Says Banks Should Value Assets Correctly

Seems a reasonable expectation that bankers not falsify their balance sheets. But who am I to say? Just some small business owner too gutless to act like a banker and fiddle my books.

Unfortunately, someone has to cover the cost of the bankers mistakes. Like $70 billion in mortgage risk transferred by the Government of Canada to the general mass of taxpayers. Bastards.

Garth Turner: On "no balls" Harper and the Canadian property bubble

Policy-makers including the Bank of Canada ... made conscious decisions to inflate our housing market even while [America's] was taking a dive. They sanctioned long amortizations and zero downpayments, then dropped interest rates to dust, and have a federal agency which buys all the mortgage risk from the banks and transfers it to the taxpayers. ...today we have mortgages given without income verification, financing extended to people without savings and legions of new home owners who would be under water if prices declined by just 5%.

Mish: Belief in wizards run deep: Or misguided worries about inflation

Paul Craig Roberts: Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs

Americans will thus pay for the TARP and low interest rate subsidies to their financial rulers with erosion in the purchasing power of the dollar. What we are experiencing is a massive redistribution of income from the American public to the financial sector.

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And this is occurring during a Democratic administration headed by America's first black president, with a Democratic majority in the House and Senate.

Is there a government anywhere that less represents its citizens than the US government? ...

Did the armed services committees of the House and Senate calculate the risk of destabilizing nuclear-armed Pakistan when they acquiesced to Obama' s new war there, a war that has already displaced two million Pakistanis?

No, of course not. The whores took their orders from the same military/security oligarchy that instructed Obama.

The great American superpower and its 300 million people are being driven straight into the ground by the narrow interest of the big banks and the munitions industry. ...

Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Fake Al Qaeda Actors EXPOSED! Adam Gadahn & Yousef al-Khattab (You-Tube Vid)

THE IDF: ISRAEL'S ORGAN GRINDER

The MSM commentators who said 9/11 was an inside job

Held In A Psychiatric Ward For Saying 9/11 Was An Inside Job

Bill Bonner: Where's the recovery

Swedish paper's organ harvesting article draws Israeli outrage

Shocking article in Sweden angers Israel

Huckabee establishes Zionist cred for 2012

"Do the Palestinians need a place to call their own?" he asked rhetorically. "If that's very important, then that should be accommodated. But can it be accommodated on the exact same property that Jews currently occupy? The answer is no, it can't. And so we can kid ourselves all day long and try to perpetuate this idea of having two governments running the same country, but it's not worked out and it's not realistic."

In the photo accompanying this article, Huckabee looks remarkably like the ghost of Richard Nixon.

U.S. Employed private assassins

Obama lies to defend US War of Aggression in Afghanistan

Media bias about the Israeli - Palestine conflict (You-Tube Vid)

The bizarro world of American politics: Or how the F-35 squabble could kill the hate bill

That's right, U.S. national security and the denial of free speech are linked in a single piece of legislation. And this is the kind of wacko government the U.S. seeks to impose on the rest of the world.

Jeffrey Simpson: The Harperites finally get the hang of China

Finally, belatedly, the Harper government understands the importance of China. ...

One time, whenever there was a spat between the US and Russia or China, Stevie Harper, always in America's pocket, would pop up with an exposition of Canada's position along the lines of "That goes for your cat too".

Sadly, it appears, this comic performance is not to be repeated in the case of China, at least.

G & M Cartoon: Afghan election -- We're preparing to make a projection

Garth Turner: Shoeless in Canada

...Some chi-chi social provocateurs say the future is globalization and urbanization. Let the manufacturing, fabricating, assembling, engineering, materials handling and support jobs migrate to Chindia. Go ahead and shut those unsightly single-story plants with their hazardous wastes and send them packing. ...

In reality a green, knowledge-based society filled with highly-educated workers making ever more money is a dream more distant now than ever. Over the next few years immense amounts of wealth will flow out of countries like Canada and the States as we send cash to Asian bondholders. At the same time, we're helpless without that offshore manufacturing capacity, and [are] now snared in sluggish economic growth and chronic unemployment.

Americans have 35x more HP in our driveways than our power plants

...While we're not sure we'd follow Madrigal's logic all the way to the conclusion that we should all be driving Tata Nanos, we do agree that the average passenger car doesn't really need 200 horsepower to get its lone occupant to work on time.

In the mean time, the U.S. needs to bomb Iran and occupy Afghanistan to ensure control of the oil to fuel all that excess motive power.

Top Swed[ish] newspaper says IDF kills Palestinians for their organs

A Foreign Ministry official said that Israel's embassy in Stockholm have communicated a harsh condemnation to the Swedish government and the newspaper itself.

The real crime Israel commits against the Palestinians is to kill them indescriminately. Blathering about blood libel and anti-Semitism is mere obfuscation.

Fred Reed: America's insane security mania

... To the public, at any rate to the many people with whom I have discussed the matter, the air of federal fear seems almost demented. I have had an (actual) Transportation Security Administration (TSA) woman solemnly examine a pair of tweezers to determine whether they were blunt-nosed (acceptable) or pointed (posing a threat of hijacking). Do we really believe that a team of Al Quaeda terrorists are going to leap up brandishing tweezers? Equally absurd is that a woman cannot enter the US consulate in Guadalajara with her lipstick. Yes, I know it could contain a cyanide dart or a hidden vial of Tabun. So could anything.

Man jailed 3 months for eating mints

KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A man is suing the Kissimmee Police Department for an arrest over mints. When officers pulled Donald May over for an expired tag, they thought the mints he was chewing were crack and arrested him.

May told Eyewitness News they wouldn't let him out of jail for three months until tests proved the so-called drugs were candy.

Bollocks from Barack: "We Need To Beat Taliban To Stop New 9/11"

Any notion that Obama is anything but a moron or a shill is now untenable. And if you need that explained to you, you haven't been paying attention for the last eight years.

Bruce Livesey: the X factor in the Causation of AIDS

...after the emergence of AIDS in the 1980s, where had all of the syphilis cases in the gay population gone? Given the epidemic rates of syphilis among gay men, by then many of them should have been showing the late stages of the disease, including fatal consequences. Instead, the men dying of AIDS were not even testing positive for syphilis, despite the fact that many had histories of syphilis exposure. Given that when you get syphilis, you are rarely able to get rid of it, this finding made no sense. "That’s what drove our interest," says Scythes. "A population saturated with syphilis, with—according to one study—a 90 percent epidemiological overlap with AIDS cases. That incredible overlap, and still no excess mortality, and no deaths from classic late syphilis? That’s impossible."

NaPo: Giving Europe the flipper

Good headline NaPo: good article. When you're faced with the probability of bankruptcy in a month, it evidently concentrates the mind.

Harper flexes military, political muscle on Arctic visit: Eats seal meat

A release from the PMO's office spelled the Nunavut capital as Iqualuit -- rather than the proper Iqaluit. The extra 'u' makes an Inuktitut word that translates roughly, according to media reports, in to "people with unwiped bums."

Hah, that should keep the Ruskies out.

But those long-promised ice breakers and Arctic bases, plus a Northern Regiment would help.

Americans will show the Brits how to handle an anti-occupation force

Destroying villages to save them?

Israel says UN covering up Iran's nuclear arms drive

The U.S. must bomb the U.N.

America's top 50 War Criminals

Iraq May Hold Vote On U.S. Withdrawal

BAGHDAD, Aug. 17 -- U.S. troops could be forced by Iraqi voters to withdraw a year ahead of schedule under a referendum the Iraqi government backed Monday, creating a potential complication for American commanders concerned about rising violence in the country's north.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's move appeared to disregard the wishes of the U.S. government, which has quietly lobbied against the plebiscite. American officials fear it could lead to the annulment of an agreement allowing U.S. troops to stay until the end of 2011, and instead force them out by the start of that year.

Iraq is supposed to be a sovereign state. If it is, the U.S. militarry cannot be "forced out" because they can only be there at the request of Iraq's government.

But if Iraq's sovereignty is a sham, a plebicite resulting in a demand for immediate U.S. withdrawal will either expose the sham or end it.

Simon Johnson: The Quiet Coup

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government -- a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF's staff could speak freely about the U.S., it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we're running out of time. ...

Usain Bolt's 100 m world record

The Automatic Earth: Greetings from Bulgaria

The Spanish property crash

Spain built about 29% of new homes in the EU from 2001 to 2007, even though it represented just 9% of the population. The resulting glut of 1.5 million unsold houses and apartments sparked the end of a decade-long property and construction boom that accounted for about 20% of the country's gross domestic product in 2007.

The ensuing housing slump has tipped the economy into the worst recession in 60 years with the unemployment rate climbing to 19%, the highest in the EU. Home sales fell by more than a third in the 12 months to May, the latest government data show.

The recession's over? And Amex is offering half off overdue credit balances

So, the U.S. Government bails out the banks, the banks bail out credit card debtors, then we all start borrowing again.

Looks like the beginning of a hyperinflationary catastrophe.

The copyright protection racket ruins American citizen for file sharing

Eric Margolis: FAKE ELECTIONS WON'T BRING PEACE TO AFGHANISTAN

The entire election and vote-counting election commission are financed and run by the US. So are leading candidates. Ten thousand Afghan mercenaries hired by the US will police the polls and intimidate voters. US-financed Afghan media are busy promoting Washington's candidates.

The Pashtun Taliban, a fiercely anti-Communist, religious movement, is banned from the election. Pashtun tribesmen form over half of Afghanistan's population but have been largely excluded from power by the Western occupation.

Spreading "democracy" only intensifies contempt and hatred for the West. After all, what is American-style "democracy" other than rule by a small group of very rich people, many of them foreigners or holders of dual citizenship who through corporate lobbyists and political action committees own the legislature.

Oh, sure elections still have to be won, but that is easy, very easy. All the people who own the system need do is con a limited number of ignorant people to vote for their bought candidates. Obama won the Presidency with the support of only about 32% of elligible voters despite campaign spending of $730 million, in a race against an opponent who, with financial backing of $368 million, would have done in office exactly the same as Obama.

Now Obama is bailing out crooked bankers, escalating wars, imposing state control of this industry and that and attributing full responsibility to the people of the United States. Anyone in Afghanistan buying that form of government would be a moron.

Henry Makow: Hitler was a Godsend for Israel

Thanks to Hitler, 60,000 German Jews emigrated to Israel between 1933 and 1941. Thanks to a "Transfer Agreement" between Nazis and Zionists, Jewish property valued at $100 million was transferred to Israel in the form of German industrial exports used to build Israel's infrastructure. The Transfer Agreement brought in tools, raw materials, heavy machinery, appliances, farm equipment as well as labor, and capital to finance expansion. Many of Israel's major industries, like textiles and the national waterworks, were thus founded.

Germany rejected the Jews as citizens, which led many Jews to embrace Zionism. Unfortunately, the Zionists sought to create a Jewish version of Nazi Germany's racist, militarized state, instead of an open society that embraces all citizens without regard for race or religion. Zionists seek to suppress this uncomfortable reality by spewing hate for those who draw parallels between Zionism and Nazism.

Florida losing population

RIM: The World's fastest growing company

The Waterloo Ont.-based company ... has grown an average of 80 per cent for each of the last 10 years.

RIM, founded in 1984, has more than quadrupled its workforce in the last four years and expects to have about 12,000 employees by the end of the year.

In its latest quarterly report, the company said its revenues rose 53 per cent to US$3.42 billion.

Great Depression II: The urban chicken farming movement

Protest at appointment of Bush's torture lawyer to UC Berkeley

DNA Evidence easy to fake

July, 2005: Canada's $300 Million Temple to Political Correctness

The brutal truth about America's healthcare

And it costs 15% of GDP, or nearly $2 trillion dollars a year.

Americans, it seems to me, are getting lousy value for money.

Rat-eating plant discovered in Philippines

Would it eat squirrels? They're our problem here in victoria.

Details released of three secret offshore CIA interrogation centers

Webster Tarpley: The second wave of the Depression -- a global Weimar?

The HL Mencken Club: The Official Blog of the 2009 Conference, Halloween Weekend, Oct. 31- Nov. 2, Baltimore, Maryland

Peter Brimlow: Inequality and Immigration (Video Part I)

The equality meme has got out of its cage [and is] traveling around the country killing sheep. ... [part of] an activist agenda designed to destroy the social order.

Peter Brimlow: Inequality and Immigration (Video Part II)

Peter Brimlow: Inequality and Immigration (Video Part III)

American war crime: worse than Hiroshima, worse than Nagasaki

U.S. Federal Reserve: Nothing wrong with US economy that a bit more credit card debt at 18-24% interest won't fix

Hey, we suckered you into getting a mortgage worth more than your house, now we gonna get you to run up a credit card debt worth ten times as much as all the crap you buy.

Cash For Clunkers: emissions reduction costs 10x more than carbon credits

Which means that the Obama Administration is pissing taxpayers' money away on a phony environmental program to help prop up the worst run auto companies that the taxpayer, in Canada as well as American, has already been forced to recapitalize.

How the Harper Government cares for the interests of Canadians abroad

The 31-year-old woman was visiting her mother in Kenya and was about to fly home in May when authorities stopped her at Nairobi airport saying her lips did not look like those in her four-year-old passport photo.

When she asked for assistance from the Canadian High Commission, officials there said they doubted her citizenship, voided her passport and handed her case over to Kenyan authorities for prosecution.

The Harper Government raises bureaucratic incompetence and indifference to the interests of the individual to a new level.

Taleb: Economic advice to Britain's next PM

The best blueprint is the very opposite of the Obama administration's economic policies (its foreign policy is commendable). It has been administering pain-killers without addressing the cause of disease. Obama is strengthening those who do the wrong thing. Take the "cash for clunkers" programme. It is a handout to those who bought the wrong -- uneconomic -- car. He is penalising people who did not make a mistake. The same applies to other "rescues". By raising taxes after the crisis, the administration is hampering evolution. Those who do well in difficult times end up paying more tax and those who lost money in the crisis pay less. The rich who got us here are being rescued by regular Joes and being subsidised by the tax system.

Creating a swine flu panic to force socialization of US medicine

British Cabinet advisor on Swine Flu also heads pharmaceutical company selling Tamiflu

It would be highly unusual if the government were to take advice from any other source. In fact, it is inconceivable that the Government would seek impartial advice. Where would be the pay-off, the free rides on company-owned jets, the private retreats, the directorships that politicians accumulate on leaving office, the invitations to speak at tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars a time?

A Thousand Little Gitmos

Rahm Emmanuel, Israeli citizen, IDF veteran, son of a terrorist, wields Whitehouse power freely

Meantime, we hear repeated attacks on Obama from Israel. He is a nigger, an anti-Semite (see next item), Netanyahu it has been claimed has encouraged the belief that Obama is not a native-born American. Is this an organized campaign to conceal Obama's subservience to Israeli interests?

Opposition to Israeli theft of Palestinian lan is anti-Semitic -- Israeli Minister

Jewish Archaeology and the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit

Henry Makow: Aspers' holocaust propaganda museum going broke like their warmongering media empire

NASA Cannot afford trip to moon

With the first moon landings, NASA achieved a great propaganda victory for America. Today, NASA is a propaganda disaster for America. As time passes it costs more, not less, to launch payloads into space, the space station does nothing to capture the public imagination while consuming billions, and the prospect of manned flight to Mars or anywhere else becomes increasingly remote.

Swine flu vaccination linked to 25 nerve disease deaths

Foreign aid funds Taliban

Too Early For U.S. Housing Price Stabilization

The horrors of war: an anonymous report from a British army captain in Afghanistan

Low temperature sodium:sulfur battery makes distributed power generation competitive

Tax scammer's lawyer -- Obama is persecuting the Jews

September, 2003: US Supports Israeli plan to assassinate Yasser Arafat

August, 2004: PORTER GOSS THE NEW CIA HEAD LINKED TO FUNDING 911 TERROR ATTACKS

Where was Osama on September 11, 2001? Receiving medical care at the hands of the Pakistan military

CBS News has been told that the night before the September 11 terrorist attack, Osama bin Laden was in Pakistan. He was getting medical treatment with the support of the very military that days later pledged its backing for the U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan.

Pakistan intelligence sources tell CBS News that bin Laden was spirited into this military hospital in Rawalpindi for kidney dialysis treatment. On that night, says this medical worker who wanted her identity protected, they moved out all the regular staff in the urology department and sent in a secret team to replace them. She says it was treatment for a very special person. The special team was obviously up to no good.

JOHN PILGER: OBAMA IS A CORPORATE MARKETING CREATION (U-Tube Vid)

What did Obama do at Business International?

A load of British rubbish about Canada

Worst Performance Ever For Back-To-School Sales

Misguided Worries About Inflation

Former Ontario Chief Medical Officer: Swine flu threat overblown

Richard Schabas, Ontario's former chief medical officer of health, said in an interview yesterday that the first wave of the virus this spring was not as dire as expected, and the number of people infected in the Southern Hemisphere, now in the middle of its regular flu season, is nowhere as bad as feared.

"When it comes to Canada, the worst we should expect is what they're seeing in Australia, which is slightly worse than a normal flu year," said Dr. Schabas, medical officer of health for the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit.

"But in fact, we'll probably see something that won't be that bad because it's the second time around with us, and by way of comparison, we would not expect it to be as bad as the flu year was in 2003 with the Fujian strain."

Yeah, but a good panic will force everyone to get an unnecessary and possibly dangerous vaccination, which will be very profitable for the pharmaceutical companies (Glaxo Smith Kline, just one of many vaccine manufacturers, are expected to earn $3 billion from vaccines alone during the current flue epidemic).

And if we get really hysterical about it, like those folks south of the border, we could get the army involved: everyone to get their vaccination shot from guns (see next four items).

Deborah Dupre: The H1N1 swine flu experimental vaccination, martial law and eugenics story

Deborah Dupre: H1N1 flu and the experimental vaccine secrets, lies, labs and profits

Deborah Dupre: H1N1 vaccine for profit and the U.S. martial law factor

Deborah Dupre: Warning in the eye of the false flag storm H1N1

Obama, Bush and the Limits of Power

Michel Chossudovsky (April 2006): War and Globalization - The Truth Behind September 9/11 (Google Vid -- Correct link now)

A long but instructive lecture, which conclusively disposes of Noam Chomsky's debunking of 9/11 conspiracy theories. Comparing the two, and assuming that Cbomsky is not an idiot, one has to conclude that Chomsky is a propaganda agent for the US intelligence community.

Patrick Buchanan: Af-Pak War Unwinnable

Had we gone into Afghanistan in 2001, knocked over the Taliban, driven out al-Qaida and departed, we would not be facing what we do today.

But we were seduced by the prospect of converting a backward tribal nation of 25 million, which has resisted every empire to set foot on its inhospitable soil, into a shining new democracy that would be a model for the Islamic world.

Now, whatever Obama decides, we shall pay a hellish price for the hubris of the nation-builders.

Total rubbish, obviously. The motive for invading Afghanistan was not to knock over the Taliban, i.e., punish them for the crime of 9/11, with which they had nothing to do. It was to gain a foothold in central Asia and to gain access to the region's oil and gas.

The problem is that American forces are fairly useless at the business of colonial occupation. Their only hope, really, would be genocide. They've got the fire power to wipe out the entire population.

Failing that, they will be outwitted by a brave, determined people who know the land, know how to fight and who never tire of killing invaders.

Philip Giraldi: Wag The Dog, Again

Understanding of facial expressions is not universal

Arab League seek to shed light on Israeli nukes

Oh, but Israel's nukes are good nukes that'll only be used against anti-Semites -- like the Arabs, for example.

Court orders Canada to demand release of Canadian held at Guantanamo

"While Canada may have preferred to stand by and let the proceedings against Mr. Khadr in the United States run their course, the violation of his Charter rights by Canadian officials has removed that option," states the decision.

"The knowing involvement of Canadian officials in the mistreatment of Mr. Khadr in breach of international human rights law, in particular by interviewing him knowing that he had been deprived of sleep in order to induce him to talk, 'opens up a different dimension' of a constitutional and justiciable nature" ...

How Harper's Government protects the rights of a Canadian citizen

Proven oil reserves rising

Autogenocide cult: The Georgia Guidestones

Corporate Bond Spreads Key To Continued S&P Rally

Price wars grip Canada's grocery stores

U.S. Retail sales dip unexpectedly, jobless claims rise

But, hey, subsidized car sales were up.

WSJ: Dying U.S. Cities: Don't blame outsourcing, blame the bloggers

The natives are getting restless. Blame the bloggers and those evilmongering healthcare protesters.

Its good to see the Congressional scum getting nervous, but don't doubt they will call on the troops to shoot down the demostrators as happened in the 30's.

U.S. Retail sales dip unexpectedly, jobless claims rise

But, hey, subsidized car sales were up.

Canada's future as an oil exporter

Jeff Gates: How Israel lobby controls US

I have no idea if Israel controls the US, but it is clear that Israel exercises veto power over any word or action by Canada's Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee: Harper and Ignatieff, who consistently applaud, defend and justify Israeli war crimes and other atrocities, despite the total lack of interest in the welfare of the racist Jewish state on the part of 97% of the Canadian population. Heck, even a lot of Canadian Jews oppose the actions of Israel: so make that, say, 99.5% of the Canadian population.

Clinton to Nigerians: Yes, our election system is crap too

The Clintons have an amusing way of occasionally stating some obvious and slightly subversive truth.

As for the Republicans exploiting Clinton's "gaffe", all one can say is that anyone speaking for Republicans is likely to be an arse hole who'd lie about it if you asked them the time of day.

Craig Murray: America's fraudulent war on the opium trade

The point that the U.S. and its allies deliberately stir up violence and social disruption in the Islamic world is something we discussed here.

Conservative real estate lending in Canada -- Not

And remember that during the last banking panic, the Government of Canada took over the risk on a $70 billion portfolio of bank mortgages. Presumably lenders are covered or expect to be covered in the same way if, the Canadian property market crashes, as it certainly will do if interest rates rise.

Innocent young people wanting a home of their own are being told "buy now while interest rates are at unprecedented lows."

In fact, when interest rates are at a low is the worst time to buy for two reasons.

First, interest rates will rise, increasing monthly payments when the mortgage has to be renewed after no more than five years.

Second, because as interest rates rise, prices will fall. This is so, because prices are determined by what monthly payments buyers can make, not by some "inherent value" of the property.

Those buying now on minimum down payments are likely to find themselves, within five years, renewing their mortgage at a higher rate and at a time when the resale value of their property has declined.

American colleges advise employers: don't hire American graduates

"Many US colleges and universities have notices posted on their websites informing US companies that they're tax chumps if they hire students who are US citizens. 'In fact, a company may save money by hiring international students because the majority of them are exempt from Social Security (FICA) and Medicare tax requirements,' advises the taxpayer-supported University of Pittsburgh (pdf) as it makes the case against hiring its own US students.

The international students pay higher fees than Americans, so screw American kids.

Bob Chapman: Collapse in the Wake of the Fed's Wall Street Bubble?

Michel Chossudovsky: H1N1 Pandemic: Pentagon Planning Deployment of Troops in Support of Nationwide Vaccination

Fraser River sockeye salmon disaster

New market crash coming up?

Mike Whitney: Why U.S. economic recovery is mathematically impossible

... the economy will not bounce back. It is mathematically impossible. We've reached peak credit; consumers have to deleverage and patch their balance sheets. Household wealth has slipped $14 trillion since the crisis began. Home equity has dropped to 41% (a new low) and joblessness is on the rise. By 2011, Duetsche Bank AG predicts that 48 percent of all homeowners with a mortgage will be underwater. As the equity position of homeowners deteriorates, banks will further tighten credit and foreclosures will mushroom.

Jounal of 9/11 Studies: What hit the Pentagon? (PDF)

... the authorities could easily show what hit the Pentagon, as they have many video tapes of the event. ... The evidence for what hit the Pentagon is contradictory. It is likely that contradictory evidence has been deliberately provided.

Existentialist Cowboy: How Big Media Subverted US Democracy with Lies, Smears and Gross Propaganda

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