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January 20, 2011

INDIGNEZ-VOUS (translated) MUST^ MUST^ READ !

What compels the French to lash out - and they, and we, ought ....

I am publishing the whole thing just in case it disappears.  Be sure to go to the link above and read the commentary ...


With your patience begged for the quality of the translation (its the best Google could do) still I thought I'd post this.  Human translators are working on the original feverishly as I type, have no doubt. 


Perhaps there's as much reason to hope as I'd wanted to believe there was....

INDIGNEZ-VOUS 
 by

Stéphane Hessel, 93.  

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Much the very last step. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as base my political engagement: years of resistance and the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! C ' Jean Moulin is that we, through this Council, the meeting of all components of occupied France, the movements, parties, trade unions, to proclaim their adherence to the Fighting France and only leader it is recognized: the General Gaulle. London where j ' had joined General de Gaulle in March 1941 I learned that this Council had developed a program, ' had adopted March 15, 1944, proposed for a set of liberated France principles and values underlying modern democracy our country 1 . These principles and values, we have TODAY ' Today more than ever need. It behooves us all together to ensure that our society is a society in which we are proud of: not of this company undocumented, expulsions, suspicions against immigrants, not this society where challenges pensions, acquired Security social, not this society where the media are in the hands of the wealthy, all things that we would have refused to endorse if we were the true heirs of the National Council of Resistance. From 1945, after a terrible tragedy, it is an ambitious resurrection which engage the forces present in the Council of Resistance. Remember, then what is created Social Security Resistance as he wished, as the program stated: " A comprehensive plan for Social Security, to ensure that all citizens

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livelihoods, in all cases where they are incapable of the available through work "," a retreat to the old workers end their days with dignity. "The sources ' energy, electricity and gas, coal, the major banks were nationalized. C ' this is what program called again, "the return to the nation of the major means of monopolized production, produced by common sources of energy, wealth of the subsoil, insurance companies and large banks; " the establishment of genuine economic democracy and social involving the eviction of large feudal economic and financial the direction of the economy. " The public interest must prevail over the ' interest Specifically, the fair sharing of the wealth created by the world of work override the power of ' money. Resistance offers " rational organization of the economy to ensure the subordination special interests to the public interest and free from the dictatorship introduced to the professional image of fascist states, and Provisional Government of the Republic it is over. A real democracy needs a free press, and the Resistance knows required by defending "The press freedom, honor and independence with respect to the state, the power of money and foreign influences. That is what turns further orders on the press in 1944. Yet that is what is now in danger. Resistance in calling for "an effective opportunity for all children French to benefit from the instruction the most developed, "without discrimination, yet the reforms proposed in 2008 to go ' against this project. Young teachers, I support the ' action, were up ' to refuse to apply them and they saw their wages amputees as a punishment. They were outraged, have "disobeyed" found these reforms too far from the ideal of the republican school, too service company

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money and not enough developing the creative and critical thinking. C ' is the base of the social conquests of the Resistance is TODAY ' hui questioned 2 . The pattern of resistance is the outrage. We dare say that ' State can no longer cover the costs of these civic action. But how can he miss today's money to maintain and extend these achievements while production of wealth has increased considerably since the Liberation period l ' Europe was ruined? Otherwise, because the power of ' money, so fought with the Resistance, n ' has never been greater, insolent, selfish, with his own servants into the highest echelons of the ' State. Banks are now privatized first show of their conscious dividends and high salaries of their leaders, no interest General. L ' gap between the poorest and richest has never been important, and the race for money, competition, much encouraged. The basic pattern of resistance was indignation. We veterans of resistance movements and fighting forces of Free France, we call the younger generations to live, transmit, inheritance Resistance and its ideals. We say take over, indignant you! The political, economic, intellectual and all Company shall not resign or be intimidated by the current international dictatorship of financial markets that threatens the peace and democracy. I wish you all, to each of you to have your design indignation. Is invaluable. When something as unworthy you j ' I was outraged by the Nazis, then one becomes an activist, strong and committed. We joined the stream of history and the mainstream of the ' history must be continue through each. And this trend is towards more justice, more freedom but not this freedom of uncontrolled fox in the henhouse. These rights, including the Universal Declaration drafted the program in 1948,

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are universal. If you meet someone ' No one who ' will not receive, pity him, help him to conquer them. Two visions of the ' History When I try to understand what caused fascism, which caused we have been invaded by him and by Vichy, I tell myself that the wealthy, with their selfishness, have been terribly afraid of the Bolshevik revolution. They have been guided by their fears. But if TODAY ' Today as Then, a vocal minority stands, this will suffice, we will leaven so that the dough rises. Admittedly, ' experience ' a very old like me, born in 1917, differs from the experience of young people today. I often asks college teachers the opportunity to intervene to their students, and I tell them: you don ' not have the same reasons obvious committing. For us, resist, c ' was not to accept l ' German occupation, the defeat. It was relatively simple. Simple as what followed, decolonization. Then the war Algeria. It was that Algeria became independent, it was obvious. As for Stalin, we all applauded the victory of the Red Army against the Nazis in 1943. But even if we had knowledge of the great Stalinist trials of 1935, and even whether to keep an ear open counterbalance to communism for American capitalism, the need to oppose this intolerable form of totalitarianism s ' was an obvious move. My long life has given me a succession reasons to be indignant. These reasons are born less than an emotion will d ' commitment. The young that I Normale ' was there was very marked Sartre, a senior classmate. Nausea, The Wall, not L ' Being and None were very important in shaping my thinking. Sartre taught us to say: "You are responsible as Indira- viduals. "He was a libertarian message. The responsibility for ' man can s ' in hand or power or a god. Instead, we must

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engage on behalf of its responsibility as a human. When I went to the École normale rue d'Ulm, Paris, in 1939, I entered it as a fervent disciple of the philosopher Hegel, and I followed the Seminar Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His teaching explored concrete experience, that of the body and its relationship with the meaning, singular plural great deal of sense. But my natural optimism, which means that everything that is desirable or possible, I was rather to Hegel. L ' Hegelianism interprets the long history of humanity as having a meaning: c ' is freedom of ' man progressing step by step. History is made of successive shocks is taken into account of challenges. The history of society progresses, and after, the man having reached its full freedom, we have the democratic state its ideal form. There are of course another conception of ' history. Progress made by freedom, competition, the race "ever", this may be experienced as a destructive hurricane. Thus represents a friend of my father, the man who shared with him the task of translate into German In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. C ' is the German philosopher Walter Benjamin. He pulled a message pessimistic ' an array of Swiss painter Paul Klee's Angelus Novus where the figure of ' angel opens his arms as if to contain and repel a storm that ' he identified with progress. Benjamin who committed suicide in September 1940 to escape Nazism, the sense of history is the irresistible path of disaster in disaster. Indifference: the worst attitude True, the reasons may seem to be indignant TODAY ' Today less net or the world too complex. Who controls, who decides? It is not always easy to distinguish between all the currents that we govern. We no longer dealing with a small elite that we clearly understand the actions. C ' is a vast world,

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we feel that it is interdependent. We live in an inter connectivity as yet none has ever existed. But in this world, Some things unbearable. To see this, we must look, search. I tell young people: Looking for a bit, you'll find. The worst attitude is indifference, saying "I n ' There can not, I'm doing. " By having this, you lose one of the components which is essential in humans. One of the essential components: the Faculty of outrage and commitment that is the consequence. We can already identify two major challenges: 1. L ' huge gap between the very poor and very rich and which continues to grow. This is an innovation of the twentieth century `and` XXI. The very poor in the world today earn just two dollars per day. We can not let that gap widen further. This statement alone should generate commitment. 2. Human rights and the rule of the planet. I had the chance after Liberalisation of being involved in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations, 10 December 1948 in Paris at the Palais de Chaillot. It's under Chief firm Henri Laugier, Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and Secretary of the Commission on Human Rights ' man j ' ai, with ' others, been induced to participate in the drafting of this declaration. I can not forget, in its development, the role of René Cassin, curator National Justice and Education, Government of Free France, in London in 1941, which was Nobel peace in 1968, nor that of Pierre Mendes France in the Economic and Social Council to whom the texts that we developed were subjected before being considered by the Third Committee of the ' General Assembly, responsible for matters Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee. She had fifty-four Member States at the time, UN, and I assured the secretariat. René Cassin is that we have the term "rights

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universal "and not" international "as suggested by our friends Anglo-Saxon. For there is much at stake at the end of the War World: emancipate themselves from the threats posed to Totalitarianism humanity. For s ' by emancipate must ensure that the Member States United Nations undertakes to respect these universal rights. It is a way defeat the argument of full sovereignty that a State may assert while engaging in crimes against humanity on its soil. This was the If Hitler considered himself his own master and allowed to cause genocide. The Universal Declaration owes much to the revulsion Universal against Nazism, fascism, totalitarianism, and even, by our presence, the spirit of the Resistance. I felt the need to quickly, do not be fooled by the hypocrisy there was in the ' Membership proclaimed by the victors in these values that not all had intended to promote fair, but we were trying their impose 3 . I can not resist the urge to quote Article 15 of the Declaration Universal Human Rights, ' Rights: "Everyone has the right to nationality "and Article 22:" Everyone, as a member of the society has the right to social security and is entitled to the satisfaction of economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for dignity and the free development of his personality, thanks to the efforts National and international cooperation, taking into account the ' organization and resources of each country. And if this statement has a scope declarative, not legal, it has nevertheless played a role powerful since 1948, we saw colonized s ' in their grasp independence struggle, she has stocked in their minds for battle freedom. I note with pleasure that ' in recent decades have increased non-governmental organizations, movements social as ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of Transactions

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financial), FIDH (International Federation of Human Rights) Amnesty ... who are acting and performing. It is obvious that to be effective TODAY ' Today, we must act in a network, take advantage of all means modern communication. For young people, I say look around you, you will find themes that justify your outrage - the treatment made to immigrants, undocumented migrants, Roma. You will find situations concrete that lead you to give play to strong citizen action. Seek and ye shall find! My indignation about Palestine Today, my biggest outrage for Palestine, the band Gaza, the West Bank. This conflict is the source of indignation. He must read the report of September 2009 Richard Goldstone Gaza, in which the South African judge, Jewish, Zionist who even said, accuses Israel of committing "acts amounting to war crimes and perhaps in some circumstances, crimes the cons ' humanity "during its operation" Cast Lead " which lasted three weeks. I myself returned to Gaza in 2009, where j ' I was able to enter with my wife through our diplomatic passports in order to ' study firsthand what the report said. The people who accompanied us n ' have not been allowed into the Gaza Strip. There and in the West Bank. We also visited the Palestinian refugee camps set up in 1948 by ' UN agency, UNRWA, where more than three million Palestinians from their land by Israel are waiting for a Return increasingly problematic. As for Gaza, c ' is a prison open for a million and half Palestinians. A prison where they s ' organize to survive. More than the physical destruction like the Red Crescent hospital in Cast Lead is the behavior of Gazans, their patriotism, their love of the sea and beaches, their constant concern for the welfare of their children,

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countless, laughing, that haunt our memory. We were impressed by their clever way to deal with all shortages imposed on them. We saw them make the fault cement bricks to rebuild thousands of homes destroyed by tanks. We confirmed that there had been four miles hundred dead - women, children and old included in the camp Palestinian - during this operation " Cast Lead "by Israeli army against only fifty wounded Israelis. I sharing the findings of South African judge. That Jews could commit themselves to war crimes, it is unbearable. Alas, l ' History gives little ' Examples of people who learn from their own history. I know that Hamas won the recent parliamentary elections n ' has unable to avoid being sent rockets on Israeli towns in response to the situation of isolation and blockade in which Gazans are. I obviously think that terrorism is unacceptable, but we must recognize that when you are busy with military means infinitely superior to yours, the popular reaction can not be non-violent. Is it used to Hamas ' send rockets on Sderot ? The answer is no. It does not help its cause, but we can explain this gesture by ' exasperation of Gazans. In the concept of exasperation, he need to understand violence as a regrettable conclusion unacceptable situation for those affected. So we can that terrorism is a form of ' exasperation. And that frustration is a negative term. It should not be asper former, it be es-operate. The exasperation is a denial of hope. It is understandable, I would almost say it is natural, but so far it did ' is not acceptable. Because that ' it does not provide the results that may eventually produce hope.

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Nonviolence, the path we must learn to follow. I am convinced that ' future belongs to non-violence, reconciliation of different cultures. This is the way that humanity must cross the next step. And, I agree with Sartre, we can not excuses for terrorists who throw bombs, they can understand. Sartre wrote in 1947: "I accept that violence in any form it manifests itself is a failure. But it is an inevitable failure because we are in a world of violence. And it is true that the use of violence is violence that is likely to perpetuate it is true c ' is ' the only way to stop 4 . "What j ' would add that non-violence is a safer way to stop it. We can not support terrorists as Sartre ' made on behalf of this principle Algeria during the war or during the attack on the Munich games in 1972, committed against Israeli athletes. This is not efficient and Sartre himself eventually wonder at the end of his life on the meaning of terrorism and to question its rationale. Say "violence is not effective, "c ' is far more important than whether we should condemn or not those who s ' to deliver. Terrorism is not effective. In the concept efficiency, we must hope nonviolent. If there is a hope violent is in the poetry of Guillaume Apollinaire: "What hope is violent "no politics. Sartre, in March 1980, three weeks his death, said: "We must try ' explain why the world Now, that is horrible, is a long time in the develop- historical development, that ' Hope has always been a strength Dominant revolutions and insurgencies, and how I feel yet the ' hope like my conception of the future 5 We must understand that violence turns his back on hope. He must be prefer the ' expectancy, the ' expectancy of non-violence. C ' is the path we must learn to follow. From either side of

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oppressors of the oppressed, we must come to a negotiation to remove the ' oppression; c ' is thereby no longer have terrorist violence. Therefore we must not let accumulate too much hate. The message ' Mandela a, d ' a Martin Luther King finds its relevance in a world which has exceeded the comparison of ideologies and totalitarianism conqueror. This is a message of hope in modern societies' capacity to overcome conflicts by mutual understanding and patience vigilant. To so, it must be based on rights, violation of which, what that ' in is the ' author, should provoke our indignation. There is not compromise on these rights. For a peaceful uprising J ' have noted - and I'm not the only - government response Israel faces the fact that every Friday citizens Bil'id will, without throwing stones without using force, to the wall against which they protest. The Israeli authorities have called the march of "non-violent terrorism." Not bad ... It should be Israel to a terrorist nonviolence. It is especially be embarrassed by the efficiency of non-violence that is committed to ensuring it raises the support, understanding, support of all those who in the world are the enemies of oppression. Productivist thinking, driven by the West, led the world in a crisis that we must avoid a radical break with the headlong rush of "growing" in the financial field but also in science and technology. It is high time for the sake of ethics, justice, sustainable balance become prevalent. For the most serious risks we face. They can put an end to the human adventure on a planet that ' it can make it uninhabitable for ' man.

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But it remains true that d ' Important progress has been made since 1948: decolonization, the end of apartheid, the destruction of the Soviet empire, the fall of the Berlin Wall. For cons, the first decade of XXI e century were a period of decline. This fall, I explained in part by the U.S. President George Bush, September 11, and disastrous consequences as ' have drawn the United States, as this military intervention in Iraq. We had this economic crisis, but we did not further initiated a new policy development. Similarly, the Copenhagen summit the cons No global warming ' no permit ' engage in genuine policy for protecting the planet. We are at a threshold between the horrors of the first decade and opportunities following decades. But hopefully, always hope. The previous decade, the 1990s, had been of great progress. The UN has been able to convene conferences like those of Rio on Environment in 1992, that of Beijing on Women in 1995 and in September 2000, at the ' initiative of Secretary General United Nations, Kofi Annan, the 191 member countries adopted the statement on the "Eight Millennium Development" by which they undertake to halve poverty in the world ' 2015. My great regret, c ' is that neither Obama nor l ' EU has so far been manifested with what should be their contribution to a constructive phase, s ' pressing the values fundamental. How to conclude the call to s ' indignant? Recalling further that, the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the National Programme Resistance, we said March 8, 2004, we veterans Resistance movements and fighting forces of Free France (1940-1945), although that "Nazism was defeated, thanks to the sacrifice of our brothers and sisters of the Resistance and the UN against barbarism

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Fascist. But this threat n ' has not totally disappeared and our anger the cons ' Injustice is still intact 6 . No, this threat has not disappeared completely. Also, call us always "a real insurrection against the peaceful means mass communication that do not offer a horizon for our Youth that mass consumption, the contempt for the weakest and culture, ' generalized amnesia and excessive competition of all against all. " To those who will make the twenty-first century, we say with our affection : "CREATE is to resist. RESIST IS TO CREATE. "

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NOTES Created a clandestine May 27, 1943 in Paris by representatives of eight major resistance movements, the two major unions Pre-war: the CGT, CFTC (French Confederation of Workers Christians) and the six main political parties of the Third Re- public including the PC and the SFIO (Socialist), the National Council of Resistance (CNR) held its first meeting on 27 May under the chairmanship Jean Moulin, de Gaulle's delegate who wanted to establish this Council to make more effective the fight against the Nazis, strengthen its own legitimacy against allies. De Gaulle instructed the board to develop a government program in anticipation of the release of France. This program was the subject of several back and forth between the CNR and Government of Free France, both in London and Algiers before to be adopted March 15, 1944, in plenary session by the NRC. This program is solemnly handed to General de Gaulle by the CNR August 25, 1944 at the Hotel de Ville in Paris. Note that the Ordinance press was promulgated on 26 August. And one of the main Editors of the program was Roger Ginsburg, the son of a rabbi in Alsace , So under the pseudonym Pierre Villon, he was Secretary General of National Front for the independence of France, resistance movement created by the French Communist Party in 1941, and represents what movement within the CNR and its permanent office. 2 According to union estimates, we went from 75 to 80% of income as the amount of pensions to about 50%, this being an order of magnitude. Jean-Paul Domin, lecturer in Economics at the Uni- University of Reims Champagne-Ardennes, in 2010, writes for the Institute European Waged a note on "complementary health insurance shut up. " He reveals how access to additional quality now a privilege due to the position in employment, as most

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brittle fault waive care insurance and complementary l ' importance of remaining unpaid, and that the problem is to have salary is more support for social rights - the central point of orders of 4 and 15 October 1945. They enacted the Social security and its management placed under the dual authority representatives of workers and the state. Since the reforms Juppe 1995 imposed by ordinance, then the law Douste Blazy (Doctor training), 2004, is the only state that handles Social Security. It eg the Head of State appoints by order of the Chief the National Insurance Fund (NHIF). They are no longer as the aftermath of the liberation of trade unionists who are head of primary funds, but the county government, through the prefects. Workers' representatives take no more than a role advisor. 3 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted on 10 December 1948 in Paris by the UN General Assembly by 48 states out of 58 members. Eight abstained: South Africa, to because of apartheid that the statement of fact condemned; Saudi Arabia, even, because of gender equality; Union Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, saying in turn that Statement did not go far enough in taking into account the rights economic and social rights and the issue of minority rights, we Note however, that Russia in particular objected to the proposal Australia to create an International Court of Human Rights responsible for examining petitions addressed to the UN; must here noted that Article 8 of the Declaration introduced the principle of using individual against a state for violation of fundamental rights; this principle would find its application in Europe in 1998, with

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 creation of a European Court of Human Rights permanent guarantees the right to appeal to more than 800 million Europeans. 4 Sartre, J.-P., "State of the writer in 1947 o, in Situations II, Paris Gallimard, 1948. 5 Sartre, J.-P., "Now the hope ... (III) "in Le Nouvel Observateur, 24 March 1980. 6 The signatories of the Appeal of March 8, 2004 are: Lucie Aubrac Raymond Aubrac, Henri Bartoli, Daniel Cordier, Philippe Dechartre Guingouin Georges, Stéphane Hessel, Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, Lise London, Georges Seguy, Germaine Tillion, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Maurice Voutey.

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POSTSCRIPT Stéphane Hessel was born in Berlin in 1917 to ' a Jewish father writer translator, Franz Hessel, and a painter mother, music lover, Helen Grund, a writer herself. S parents ' set in Paris in 1924, with their two children, Ulrich, the eldest, and Stephane. Through the middle family, both attending the Parisian avant-garde, including Dada Marcel Duchamp and the American sculptor Alexander Calder. Stéphane entered the ' ENS Rue d'Ulm in 1939, but the War interrupted his studies. French citizen since 1937, it is mobilized and knows the phoney war, Marshal Petain sees the sell off French sovereignty. In May 1941, he joined the Free France of General de Gaulle in London. He works in the Office of cons-espionage, Intelligence and Action (BCRA). By night's end of March 1944, he was landed clandestinely in France under the codename "Greco" with mission to contact the various networks in Paris, of find new places ' radio show to go to London information collected for the Allied landings. July 10 1944, he was arrested by the Gestapo in Paris on denunciation: "We do not pursue someone ' one who spoke under torture, "he wrote in a memoir, Dancing with the century in 1997. After interrogation under torture - the ' test including the bathtub, it destabilizes her torturers in their speaking German, language native - he was sent to Buchenwald, Germany, August 8 1944, so only a few days of the liberation of Paris. On the eve of being hanged, he succeeds in extremis to exchange his identity against that of a French died of typhus in the camp. Under its new name, Michel Boitel, milling business, he was transferred to Camp Rottleberode near the ' plant undercarriage of German bombers, the Junkers 52, but fortunately - his eternal luck - it is paid the accounting department. He escaped. Recaptured, he was moved to Camp

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Dora, where are made the V-1 and V-2 rockets with which the Nazis are still hoping to win the war. Assigned to the penal company, he escaped again and this time for good; Allied troops move closer to Dora. Finally, it goes back to Paris, his wife Vitka - the mother of his three children, two boys and a girl. This life returned, it had to incur, "wrote the former of Free France, in his memoirs. In 1946, after passing the entrance examination to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stéphane Hessel became a diplomat.His first job was at the UN where, that year, Henri Laugier, Assistant Secretary General of the UN and secretary of the Commission on Human Rights, offered him to be his cabinet secretary. It is for this reason that Stéphane Hessel joined the commission to develop what will be the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is considered that its twelve members, six have played a more vital role: Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of President Roosevelt died in 1945, committed feminist, she chairs the Committee; Dr. Chang (China Chiang Kaïchek and not Mao):Vice-Chairman of the Committee, he stated that the Declaration should not only be a reflection of Western ideas, Charles Habib Malik (Lebanon), Rapporteur of the Commission, often described as the driving force, "with Eleanor Roosevelt, René Cassin (France), jurist and diplomat, president of the Consultative Commission on Human Rights with the Quai d'Orsay, we owe him the writing of several articles and have been able to cope with the fears of some states, including France to see their colonial sovereignty threatened by this statement - it was a challenging and interventionist conception of Human Rights, John Peters Humphrey (Canada), lawyer and diplomat, a close associate of Laugier, he wrote the first draft of a document 400 pages; finally Stéphane Hessel (France), a diplomat, chief of staff of the Laugier, the youngest. We see how the spirit of FrancePage 1919 blew open on this committee. The Declaration was adopted December 10, 1948 by the United Nations at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris. With the influx of new staff, many of whom covet a job that pays well, "isolating the marginal seeking ideal 'by own review of Hessel in his memoirs, he left the UN. It is assigned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent France at international institutions, the opportunity to recover temporarily, as such, New York and the United Nations. During the war in Algeria, he argues in favor of Algerian independence. In 1977, with the complicity of the Secretary General of the Elysee, Claude Brossolette, son of Pierre, formerly head of the BCRA, he was offered by President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the post of ambassador to the UN,Geneva. He does not hide that, of all French statesmen, that he 's feeling is the closest Pierre Mendes France, known in London at the time of Free France and returned to the United Nations in 1946 in New York, where it represents France in the Economic and Social Council. He will have his consecration as a diplomat "this change in the government of France, he writes, is that the arrival of François Mitterrand at the Elysee," in 1981. "She was a diplomat rather narrowly specialized in multilateral cooperation, reached two years of his retirement, Ambassador of France. He joined the Socialist Party. "I wonder why? First response: the shock of the year 1995. I did not imagine the French rather imprudent to bring Jacques Chirac to the presidency. "With now a diplomatic passport, he went with his new wife in 2008 and 2009 in the Gaza Strip and returning shows on the painful lives of Gazans. "I'm always on the side of the dissidents, said he at the same time. "It is well that one who speaks here in 93 years.

Be seeing you.





April 18, 2008

Canada's medical report this week

[under construction, but DEFINITELY getting there. Sneak preview for those paying attention. More shall be revealed and the final touches will be attempted!! It must be done at once before the material stales. I have been working for hours to get all the links just so, but the fact that my energy is flagging and I want to go outside, requires that I take a long break and then return.]

Like a lumbering giant with a stupifying level of pnuemonia, sick patient Canada comes lumbering on the world state once again this week. A pocket full of stolen ca$h, and what it elives is a bright future ahead, Canada has become a world class bully - an Abusive Dad - hanging out with bullies in the Imperial Dynasty to the south and laughing at the nice boys and girls in its home and those in their planetary neighborhood. Linda McQuaig has already made famous reference to Canada's dysfunctional character in Holding the Bully's Coat. I think the metaphor is more profound than that, I think Canada is suffering a right bad case of Torture Culture.

The tale gets told not blatantly in the main stream media as the official appointments calendar, but in little notes written by the blogosphere by those who would have our Authoritarian Figure take its medication - and FAST !

Otherwise the illness will go all terminal once we either catch it ourselves and go all XIII th century - or we fall victim to the contagion and find ourselves confined to the hospital beds called jails that The Harper and Co. are building to contain us. The neighorhod thugs running Canada are getting just a bit too uppity by half in their cocky delusional power mongering, and people are looking at his cabinet to see which of the cronies must go - and fast. This obvious change from last week will be noted below.

Current situation explained

The Harper and The Boys are going to have to hide that lunch money they've shaken down pretty fast, if they haven't already. His London friends have been found out and are being exposed, thus the patient is apt to get more beligerant and dangerous as he is living in a danger zone what seems likes ever-worsening danger. Any crazy tactic might be employed. This week's report contains numerous examples of increasing abusive behavior. Thus we ask that the readers of this report not expect miracles, but rely on a strict regimen of self care and self protection. Continual robbery should be expected until a full cure or recovery program can be effected.

As each blow hits, we find ourselves licking our wounds and trying to ride out the sick room atmosphere, all the while hoping that the Staff Psychiatrist will take notice and do some to quarantine and slap the this Neighbohood Gang with Divine Abusive Intention with a section slapped on them for committa. But that day has yet to arrive. Although the Theocratic Neocons crowd seem to have the upperhand after a particularly delusional spell, this week there are some encouraging signs and at least some of the worst symptoms are coming to more fully into light. As should be apparent, one cannot expect too much too soon, as the patient still has paid mouthpieces and apologists. Many spokespersons for the patient are afraid of retalliation and cannot be reasonably relied upon during this week's report. Daily doses of outside information are required to see the true nature of the fatal diseases thus leading to an optimal solution to the difficulties in dealing with sudden reversal from a collective dream of progess to the dismal picture the bloodless coup has produced.

Extenuating Circumstances

With the obvious change of seasons is going on in this month of 2007, it is hoped that fresh air and higher energy levels will result in further progressive steps towards an Ultimate Cure. In short, the author of the report reminds you that the outcome depends on YOU. Although you may have varying degrees of hardship and suffering or alternatively you may have been allowed to escape the torture(s) yourself, you can still benefit from the report below and the footnotes that follow. We wish you well as you build your true Rainbow Tribe and find ways to celebrate in the Sunshine to come. Those in Canada living under the regime of the sick patient although the task seems daunting, may find that there is much inspiration in what can be created out of the circumstances available and thus the Dream may be closer at hand than YOU might anticipate or imagine.

Diagnosis: Terminal Torture Culture psychosis, with Theocratic features with a concurrent power addiction. Delusional charactistics are obvious. Coughing and sputtering also very apparent and the patient's relationships to other countries threatened in a paranoid situation with counries it presumes to help. The full of such activities is yet to be fully established, yet it is safe for diagnostic purposes to say it is quite extensive if elusive to document fully at the writing of the report. The extent of abusive behaviour is still being established in such places as Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, Diego Garcia, Irak and other locations. The extent of its financial activities in particiting in dangerous acts and behaviours will require further investigations so that a full and complete diagnosis can be attempted at a later date. This All attributes of Rogue Nation status are evident and getting worse. Being joined at the hip with other abusers in the Bullying cabals in the world's rich nations has made this diagnosis strident and alarming. It is not, however, to be taken with a grain of salt. It is apparent that association with other Violent Neighborhood Gangs has made the patient more dreaded and apparently mad; while a good assessement of the patient indicates that continual observation is necessary. An OPEN EYED diagnosis has been attempted and it is up to the reader to decide on its applicablity and treatment potential. It has been undertaken in good faith to show the reader what is obvious to world-wide observers.

Consider the patient to be armed and dangerous at this time. He has a marked proclivity for incarcerating other healing elements and charging them for his own crimes, which is known as projection. Although other clincians may come up with alternative opinions, it is asked that the reader always consider the source. This opinion and diagnosis is as good - if not better - than many available. Fascistic syndrome sufferers, with belligerent tactics, often produce many around them who cannot face reality. For this reason, this diagnosis must be read in all seriousness. It will help other diagnositians to proceed with caution with dealing with a patient with such advanced insanity features, yet the diagnosis is meant to assist other dysfunction reporters not yet known to the author of this report.

Alhtough those who challenge the brains of the patient's operation are themselves privvy to influence peddling and arms profiteering while tearing the neighborhoods of the world, it is asked that they continue efforts to keep the patient on tenderhooks on a 24/7 basis, so that further symptomology can be revealed and the diagnosis more precise. A successful outcome is totally dependent a full and complete diagnosis. Only constant observation and Optimal Frustration of the patient will result a more useful diagnosis. His relationship with his kith and kin requires that the patient be given constant monitoring and surveillance. This is why the deepest understanding will result in a constructive and useful diagnosis. It may serve as a historical artifact for upcoming generations as far as seven genertions down the road if not further if reliable observations are forthcoming and the diagnosis can fully document the features of the maladies under which the patient currently suffers. One person's diagnostic skills may be deficient in some areas. This problem can, with persistent effort, be remedied. The author asks your cooperation in this valuable task. As the steadily decaying state of health in the patient continues, is readily apparent, that more indepth analysis becomes more than a remote possiblity; it becomes an imperative and in fact, a bedrock of the necessary hope required that a cure will be effected.

Prognosis: Poor to abysmal, as his friends and associates are not doing very well - although the protocol advised below could result in dramatic alteration of the opinion held at this time. Obviously, to continue functioning remedial steps must be taken; however at this time no definitive assessment of recovering behaviour is possible as YET. Subsequent reports may change the prognosis radically depending on the attitude and commitment of those who must participate in the intervention intended. This type of Street Gang that has grabbed power are notoriously hard to eradicate as history teaches, but this is not to proclaim by any means its impossibility; rather this is a mere weekly statement of how things appear this week as Wesak comes into focus for 2007. It is not a statement of future assessments that will come at a later stage, as you are all aware.

Protocol: Some observations as of this week that appear highly recommended.

1. Associates and family members are advised to pursue and unified intervention at the earliest opportunity. It is suggested that a list of CRIMES and FELONIES be drawn up to confront the patient with his dysfunctional, addictive and abusive behaviour. TOUGH LOVE principals may need to have the patient either hospitalized or allowed to suffer the consequences of prolonged incarceration but it is obvious that a protraced approach is warranted, as there is much symptomology and episodic distressing behaviour to sort through as the condition is of long standing.

2. Families members will have to pursue recoveries on their own, and this is advised taking care that they do not confuse well being with continuing their codependent behaviours in new forms. Outside help in the form of therapeutic international tribunals may prove highly necessary. It is advised that true recovery, Participatory democracy, never be lost which may prove particularly tricky.

3. All toxins will need to be removed from all Players in the sick room, which will prove difficult as resources are not forthcoming from the patient, but all opportunities to obtain them must be taken. A full list of the patients victims must be drawn up - from unit trust investors, to those who ride in the patient's transportation system, to those he has thrown out of their homes, to the cousins whose residences he has invaded and has struck terror in their hearts, to those he has accused of aborrent behaviours to avoid his own moral culpability, the list of known torture locations must be drawn up in full so that the patient can be confronted with his crimes, obvious examples of delusional statements notated - any list that will help empower those who must insist on wellness - or else - are encouraged.

4. As the patient has become bellicose and demanding towards all, he must be shown that no one will tolerate his unreasonable behaviour.

Accepting insincere apologies rather than a true change in behaviour is mandatory. Not attempt should be made to accomodate further evasive behaviours, no matter how daunting that task may prove to be. Due to the psychotic nature of this advanced state of decay, it may prove tempting to make compromises, but the author of this report highly recommends against that approach. Toleration of this fatal condition will only make the symptomology worse.

5. While becoming obsessed with the patient's behaviour may seem a reseasonable tactic, it is further advised that no one involved in forcing a therapeutic situation do so. This has shown to be counterproductive in the case of that patient's cronies to the South. BaZhing the Harper&his gang may be individually responsible may be financially rewarding, but one can reasonably expect this will not achieved the desired result which is legal and moral culpability with the attendant negative consquences for prolonged Bad Behaviour. It is cautionary to point out; let them do what they do and you do what you do while you attempt to affect a cure. There is no point in resulting to the same tactics as the patient and learning from the lessons of those who tolerated and came up with ineffective solutions in America should not be repeated in the Canadian household. Being good to the mothers and children of Canada would be a first priority to reinforce that therapeutic regime and will greatly enhance the process. Intolerant responses to ill, marginalized, disabled family members should be addressed in the very first instance. Particular care must be taken to provide amply for the previous tenants in the neighborhood, and you will find ample examples below of coming developments and the current situation listed below, although no attempt has been made to be exhaustive in such coverage.

6. Relying on natural and cosmic forces is part of the protocol as is staying in touch with other members in the international community who seem to want to help. Such help will become apparent from those who have walked this road before - the path to Higher Recovery.

Without such progessive steps undertaken and the illuminating light of those who have effective change in other communities to guide the healing process, the entire structure of Canada's vast neighborhood will continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate, the patient's allies in crime will continue to puff and gloat and take advantage of those weaker and in ill health as the coughing and sputtering worsen. This would prove fatal. Maintenance of basic life supports to the household would go begging - water, food, medicine and basic provisions would become weapons of war to a degree so staggering that interventionists would have difficulty remembering the Ultimate Goal. Asymetrical warfare via computerwarfare; bank reports on supposed yet projected criminalityl wiretapping; surveillance; discrediting tactics; status degradation rituals; torturous behaviours; historical revisionism; diversion of needed healing protocol energies; theft of other sovereign entities riches,;the exploitaiton of those who can be isolated or easily intimidated; the weakening of legal structures that promote justice, peace and equality; the sack of strategic resources; looting of strategic neighborhoods; bribery; influence peddling; corruption of all kinds; the takeover of strategic resources such as the Government Printing Office and resultant opportunistic use of the Postal Service; harm to the environement on a ongoing basis; the mislabelling of genetically modified foods, the introduction of survelliance via VCHIP and other devices; the continuous of the availabilty of street drugs; the mistreatment of children to produce a hysterical result; the lieing and deceptions - all this and obviously more must be presumed when looking at the full picture of obvious symptomology of said warfare against the people. Genuine alarm when the idea of electronic voting is proposed should precipate a a wide and thundering action alert. All the symptomology is the sign that a healing process is indeed underway and not to be taken as a sign of defeat. In fact, it is that a healing crisis, much to be desired, is actually underway. "Better out than in" is a simplist but affective attitude to be undertaken as stagnated energy is released that begins to let off the apathetic nature of those who must affect a remedy to the current dire situation. Detoxification of patients of this type are known to be arduous and ridiculous in the "best" of circumstances. But due to the toxic nature of the Canadian usurpers and their modus operandi it is probable that such features will become pronounced unless those who have taken sworn oaths suddenly and strategically uphold them much to everyone's surprise.

7. At this mystical number point 7 the author asks heartily that you remember at all times that the patient and his friends are armed and dangerous. You may have to rely on outside law enforcement. But the author of this report is quite concerned for the family members and encourages all those who wish to see recovery to always turn to others for outside support. Alliances of a supportive nature are vital to the recovery process. If you remain honest and detail all the defects, remain open to the challenges ahead that are apparent now as well as those you will encounter -- sanity becomes a possibility. And although now it seems like an impossible task, if those in the interventionist team make a decions after a Dark Night of the Soul and make that impossible leap towards towards becoming Children of the ONEiverse, divine guidance will become available to all concerned. In such an attitude you will find POWER. It has been done by others such as Chile and Estonia before, so try to have trust. You may find it inspiration to continually remember the loving example of Our Global Inspiration, Salvador Allende who did not blink. Breaking bread with "the enemy" may prove to be most useful. Your letters to international tribunals should be undertaken on as swift a basis as is humanly possible. They will gladly catalogue your complaints about the ongoing abusive behaviour. They well know what goes on in The Belly of The Beast already. They will be the least surprised of anyone to hear what you may have to say. You may wish to several different committees or groups, as various complaints may fit better with some bodies gathering of diagnostic evidence than others. Make sure to make your complaints and wide ranging as observation allows. Some day they may be researched deeply after archive or action activities. Nuremberg was not achieved in a day and neither will the lawful accumulation of data on Canada's cabal of torture. Their full cooperation in beastly behaviour is not yet fully known. It is presumed to be worse than commonly thought. One would hope with resolve and time invested such collaboration in international warcrimes culpability could ultimately be established. Your cooperative effort is sought at this time.

Concluding recommendation

With such an approach, the prognosis will improve steadily over time. This is no time to play the insidious "game" of SocialISM for the rich, whereby these rascals and their cohorts share the profit$ and you take the losses. Make your demands clear and reasonable, but accept nothing less than compliance with radical changes in the patient's modus operandi. After prolonged study of the patient's methods, it is more than well established that subtrefuge was used and all instances must be noted as indicated above.

Should it be required, a full statement can be produced on the condition of the patient's long-suffering family can be produced. The only prerequisite is a desire to know.

The documents relating to this week's report are footnoted and explained below. Take care to read the appendix fully before deciding on your course(s) of action in the upcoming months.

Cavaet and disclaimers: The author apologizes for any mistakes or misread opinions. She is only human and this is the best she can do this week. She asks for your tolerance and also requests that you consider this merely a personal opinion, and it is not suggested that it be taken as as Ultimately authoritative. The matter has yet to be heard in a court of opinion and thus can not be taken as legally binding or subject to legal jeopardy. It is merely an opinion. Strategic, but merely an opinion. Her qualifications can be submitted to the reader with a written request, but suffice it to say it is based on experience and hard-earned acquaintance with such situations. Her authority rests merely in the minds of the reader, yet it Considered Opinion that the author is of sound mind and body, although suffering traumatic effects at living in the home of the abuser and his cronies for too long a period of time to be "objective". George Orwell wished to live to endorse this report, but sadly his days were tragically shortened and he could not perform the task. We ask that you circulate this and subsequent reports to get the widest amount of authoritive backup; thus the reports will vastly improve over time. The author wishes to thank those who have contributed to the research and the inspiration. She is certain that some of you know who you are. For those who expressed reservations at the validity of the information supplied or questioned the ability of the author to write such a report or the tools used to produce it, she wishes you to know that you are challenged to do better and contribute to the task at hand rather than showing your codependent symptoms for all to see. In this way, a more integrated approach to recovery is possible and rapid improvement in The Patient, who is the real problem, will result. In order for for further reports to be filed, it is important that you do not allow Official Attacks on the author who is, afterall, only doing her job.


Appendix I

GLORIA GALLOWAY From Thursday's Globe and Mail

OTTAWA — A group led by evangelist Charles McVety says a contentious proposal to withhold tax credits from TV shows and films deemed pornographic may not go far enough because the majority of Canadians do not want to fund those types of productions.

Yes, like Chalres McVety speaks for ME - and all other intelligent Canadians. Those theocon neocons are a bit much!!

City braces for TTC strike



VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR
Commuters crowd the Yonge and Bloor St. subway station on April 17, 2008. Subways, streetcars and buses will be idled at 4 a.m. Monday unless the TTC reaches a settlement by Sunday at 4 p.m.
Yes, Canadian politicians have really provided economic leadership to help out the workers in Canada. (and even better on issues regarding the poor and disabled.) You see short term looks on how to save Canada's cities has been on the back burner for too long - and man! these strikes cost Big Business Plenty. Maybe they should think a bit more intelligently before donating to campaigns, do ya THINK?

Activists push poverty plan

Hundreds of activists will gather today to present the McGuinty government with a plan to cut poverty in Ontario by 25 per cent over five years.

The action plan is the work of an ever-increasing coalition – with members as varied as the City of Toronto, teachers' federations, nurses, Ryerson University and health-care and immigrant groups. It calls itself the 25-in-5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The government had a lot of good rhetoric and below is the response following the action this week.

Time is running out for the poor

RCMP, elections officials inside Tory headquarters for second day

PM says Tories confident in legal position against Elections Canada

RCMP officers and Elections Canada officials spent a second day searching for documents inside Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa on Wednesday, a day after raiding the party's offices.

Elections Canada is pursuing an investigation into alleged spending irregularities by the Tories in the last federal election.

and also see this story:

OTTAWA -- Opposition leaders demanded yesterday that the government make public a copy of the warrant presented by the RCMP.

Will the Cadman Affair -- whereby for a LOUSY one million dollars this delusional government took over ALL Canadian resources and the morale of Canadians citizens - suddenly be exposed to daylight. Remember this year's meme: ALL secrets revealed - not just a few. And here we have Canada claiming the right of The Harper to all of the Afghanistan riches .. Wow!! Ain't life grand (not unlike Frank Guistra, Billy Clinton taking over Khazakhstan, only WAY cheaper, eh?)

Interesting, all the red herrings about advertising budgests and how trickily the Conservative Real Assh*les Party while people lose their jobs, their homes, can't afford their cars, wondering what the future holds for their kids? After the CENTOM/ Central Canada Command deal has been inked already !! After Canada signed (illegally!) to protect ...Isrealis now they have access to your bank details ??

Seems to me since it seems to be a good political tactic to look at some of the distinguished MP's spouses "jobs" and "perks" - as that can often bring a government down. Just sayin'

SPEAK UP o mighty Canadians !! Are up aware that all banks who are required to file Checkpoint reports on "illegal" money transfers lose 20% profitability each year. The heads of Checkpoint (now) are a former South African and Lebanonese Christian. The Apartheid agenda is fast occurring in CANADA !!

Think any of this will be found in the CPC files? One can only hope.

Anti-uranium mining activists stage inquiry in Peterborough into province's plan to expand nuclear reactors

Posted By NICOLE RIVA/Examiner Staff Writer

The dangers of radiation, health problems and

environmental sustainability took centre stage at a meeting staged by anti-uranium mining activists at Sadleir House Tuesday.

Ah, would anyone say that things are so deluded that they'd rather irradiation their kids than to come to grips with REALITY. The whole of Ottawa would be irradiated if Chalk River were to reopened or a new nuclear plant gets built - and even if uranium mining is allowed on sovereign natives lands in Ontario. Do the McGiunty Liberals, those big fat CONtrollers themselves work for Stephen Harper? Only the hairdressers know for sure ..


and a good look about Hillier and the armaments traders is here ..



Raise of hands - how many think that John McInsane pays a visit to Canada REAL soon? All the other war criminals come here and visit with total impunity ..

Don't You Know that Happiness is a Warm Gun

By Jeff Davis

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), which

is charged with providing Canada's custom services, has become the most significant impediment for progress and growth at the Fredericton International Airport.

In fact, the government of Canada, through this agency, presents a significant challenge to the eventual survival of Fredericton's airport. But we

are not alone.

CBSA has demonstrated the same disinterest to all but a handful of the major Canadian cities where they have decided to increase their services. In the east, Halifax is the only winner.

[...] CBSA will be that it's too expensive to provide these services to our smaller communities. We should be reminded that the government of the d ay has seen fit to provide our customs officers with handguns at a cost of $1 billion. As you can't get on an airplane with weapons, the logic of customs officers needing handguns to meet passengers disembarking at an airport represents a level of disconnect in terms of logic. [...]

TTC study to look into arming transit police with Tasers






Toronto - The TTC will reportedly spend $100,000 dollars on a study to help them decide if transit police should be armed with Tasers.

Do tasers come to the entire Canadian landscape, and particularly in the major cities? These implements of torture are supplying Michael Mukasey's son, Marc with a pile o money!!

Bribery is bad for business


By Dan Roberts
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/04/2008


Corruption comes in many colours. At one end of the spectrum there are the murky brown envelopes, ladies of the night and shady Swiss bank accounts. At the other extreme, there are more humdrum euphemisms: facility payments, client entertainment and political favours - all carried out in broad daylight in many industries and countries.

  • Three Line Whip: A coincidence? Yes, M inister
  • Christopher Hope: Labour legalises PM's right to call off Serious Fraud Office probes
  • Read more from Dan Roberts
  • What unites these shades of bribery is the excuse re

    lied upon by those who get caught at it. "Get real," they invariably insist. "Smell the coffee"; "Don't be naive."



    To which I also refer people to THIS
    http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/342 6bae_cheney.html
    and THIS
    http://www.fsfinalword.com/archive/Jelinek_International.html
    and This
    http://ladybroadoak.blogspot.com/2007/11/arms-dealing-case-study-bae-part-iv.html
    and THIS
    http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2008/080324politico_pinochet.html

    Calls to reopen UK inquiry into BAE-Saudi arms deal

    Try to find just one little mention of this in the Canadian Press .. just one. The names of Otto Jelinek and Brian Mulroney are going to show up very soon!! Dirty Dick is going to have problems in both his countries!!

    Canada wanted detainee kept out of Gitmo

    Canada asked the United States not to send for mer child soldier Omar Khadr to Guantanamo after he was captured in Afghanistan in 2002, according to a letter released on Thursday.

    And when pray tell, does Omar walk forth into the sunshine?? And who is responsblte for the outrage that has gone all these years? WHO IS ACCOUNTABLE !!

    And now an Afghanistan round up .. the first two are old to give some needed background:

    Government can't be trusted on Afghanistan, lawyer

    US reader comment first: More on the story from yesterday... . lovely isn't it? Canada won't turn prisoners over to us because WE ARE TORTURERS! We need to indict the monsters in this administration.

    I remind everyone to read this another time,

    A Dangerous Backslide

    Age-old problems-and a new Taliban surge-are dragging the Afghans down

    KABUL, AFGHANISTAN-If Iraq has been the self-destructive problem child of American intervention, Afghanistan seemed to be the model sibling. Ostensibly less demanding, it was, as far as most could tell, on its way to one day assuming a solid position in the world community.

    and this is part of this week's events -

    Goals achieved, Hillier to step down as Canada's top soldier

    Gen. Rick Hillier, the outspoken chief of Canada's defence staff and strong advocate of Canada's military intervention in Afghanistan, will step down in July.

    "I have chosen to retire from the Canadian Forces and end my tenure as your Chief of the Defence Staff in July of this year," said Hillier, 52, in a letter to the military released Tuesday.

    My own comments on the Hillier retirement can be found HERE
    http://mparent7777-1.blogspot.com/2008/04/rick-hillier-hamid-karzai-stephen.html
    and I pay a bit of attention to Maxime Bernier's shocking GAFE.

    Who owns Afghanistan, anyway ?? What is the plan ?? Just another endless war like the BuZhistas want in Irak ?

    Talking about toturuous geoplitical strategy, hers on this week on torture in prisons in Afghanistan;

    from the Canadian Press:

    Ottawa tries to halt military police commission probe of Afghan prisoners, Murray Brewster

    - Federal lawyers are attempting to shut down an investigation by the military police complaints commission into the handling of Taliban prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

    Government counsel have asked the Federal Court for a judicial review, claiming the independent commission doesn’t have the jurisdiction to “either investigate or hold a hearing into the complaint ” filed by Amnesty International Canada and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

    See also here.

    Timely Reminders !!

    Canada's top native chief says the Vancouver Olympics are a potential target for First Nations protest much like Beijing has been a flash point for Tibet supporters. Phil Fontaine says native leaders will use whatever chance they can, including the 2010 Winter Games, to focus governments on aboriginal poverty. Thousands of Canadians who've marched in support of a free Tibet should be "outraged" by abysmal native conditions in their own country, he said Thursday.

    "We find the Tibetan situation compelling," Fontaine said when asked if the 2010 Olympics could be disrupted by the sort of protest that has dogged Chinese planners.

    Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl said he has heard such talk but finds it "a little odd."

    From job prospects to sports arenas, special effort has been made to ensure that the four First Nations located on Olympic grounds in British Columbia share related wealth, he said.


    Fontaine: 'Growing frustration'




    As the same moon shines over us all ..


    Seven Steps to Revolution
    By Vancouver's Sarah Robinson

    An interesting read. I greatly doubt that a people's revolution will/can come about in the U.S. of A. It seems to me that the PTB have laid their groundwork pretty well. And when push comes to shove, those PTB have clearly shown that they don't give a rat's ass for any but their own kind = fundamentally psychopathic. And then there's all those "patriots" out there with their guns & siege mentality - BIG problem I think.
    There is a vigorous discussion in the comments too. Go to webpage.
    http://ladybroadoak.blogspot.com/2008/02/seven-steps-to-revolution.html


    See this becomes a huge problem when you have IDIOTS running the government.

    If there ever gets to be a Democracy Now! type radio show in
    Canada, I want a BIG JOB!! and some real input into
    what gets put on it.

    Seriously, folks.

    I'd like to take over where the Latvian women
    were when the Soviet Union collapsed
    just banging out TRUTH 24 hours a day
    doing it right here in resourceland Canada.

    Real truth, nothing but the truth
    24 hours a day!!

    Mainstream. Loud. Riotous.

    But free of cointelpro and scientologists!!

    Hell, even disabled people can do that.













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