If Reactor 4 Spent Fuel pool collapses, we are screwed…

By: James Burge
May 9th, 2012

Okay so the deepening crisis at Fukushima continues to cause concern for the majority of people who tour the area. Recently US Senator Ron Wyden was at the site and said things were much worse than what has been reported. He urged Japan to accept international help to get the situation under control, but what exactly would something like this entail?

The major issue at Fukushima is with the spent fuel pool (SFP) at reactor 4 is that the structure has been heavily damaged by the earthquake and hydrogen explosions in reactors 3 and 4.  This combined with the risk of another magnitude 7+ quake is possible the time to deal with this could be running out.

From what I have heard, some have said the cleanup could take  30 years to complete, especially when you consider reclamation of Tokyo. Earthquake experts have said there is a 70% chance Japan will receive a 7+ earthquake in the next 4 years. I hate to say it but if it takes that long to secure the spent fuel, we are all in for it.

So what can we do if this happens? Anti-nuclear physician Dr. Helen Caldicott and nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen both recommend moving to the Southern Hemisphere.

Oh is that all…

So the question is what can be done to prevent the collapse of SFP 4, well probably nothing. They have reinforced the floor of the pool with concrete, but the concern is that the building which houses the fuel pool is damaged and could fail, taking the fuel pool down with it.

The only solution is to reduce the amount of radioactive material in the SFP when it does finally collapse. The process of moving the spent fuel (SFP 4 contains 1500+ fuel rods) and placing them into dry cask storage off site is not simple, nor cheap, some have estimated it to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The current plan is to create a concreat building around the damaged structure to operate a large crain in order to aid in the removal of spent fuel as the dry casks weigh tonnes.

But I guess the question to ask yourself is, if we do not spend the money now to avoid such a situation, what would it cost to deal with the fallout?? I would think that to be impossible.

Keep in mind, Tokyo has been found to have multiple hotspots from multiple independent sources, but instead of evacuating people, which of course would cost a lot of money, people are left to develop whatever cancers and just deal with it. Children, who are much more radiosensitive than Adults are playing in contaminated playgrounds in Tokyo, and a recent study showed 1/3 of japanese children tested, had lumps on their thyroid, only 10 months into the crisis.

Can we actually expect the nuclear industry to pay to clean up this business?? It was recently brought to my attention that when these plants are licensed, the owners are not required to even look at the costs associated with mass evacuations in the event of an accident similar to what has occurred in Japan. And another scary fact, the US has 31 Mark I or Mark II reactors, and experts have said they store much more spent fuel in the SFP than what we are seeing in Japan, the only bonus is that earthquakes aren’t as likely, but obviously not impossible.

From what I understand the issue is in deciding where to put the spent fuel, back when these plants were constructed there was supposed to be a large storage facility, I believe in Texas to house spent fuel. But surprise surprise, Texans don’t want that shit in their back yard. So instead we are risking irradiating the entire planet to save a few hundred million. Do you think some of these multi billionaires could spare a couple million or two to help the world out??

Another issue raised is that the collapse of SFP 4 could affect the common fuel pool, which has 6,375 more fuel rods located only 50 m from reactor 4, and would no doubt contain MOX fuel which has plutonium (the most deadly compound known to man). This would certainly cause a global catastrophe. The total number of fuel rods in the Fukushima site not in pressure vessels is 11,421. Are you scarred yet?

It amazes me in a time when governments seem to be falling over themselves to incite fear in the electorate, why isn’t this crisis being used to force legislation though using the fear to distract from the insanity of the legislation (ala patriot act). I guess that wouldn’t be condusive to the nuclear industry, and who do you think gives millions to congress.

Here are a few more facts I recently learned from Arnie:

- Spent rods only have to be cooled for a few years after being used, but reactor 4 has recently used fuel meaning that 4 more years of cooling is required in the spent fuel in reactor 4 SFP

If the water in the SFP goes dry, the spent rods will catch fire. Once the fire starts you cannot use water to put it out as this will cause the water to break into Hydrogen and Oxygen likely leading to another large hydrogen explosion.

- If a large release were to occur, workers at the site also risk radiation due to what is called “sky shine” where gamma rays are reflected of air molecules bathing the site in gamma radiation which goes right through the protective suits worn on the site.

Mouseland…

By: James Burge
May 7th, 2012

Wow, ideals behind the act of schooling…

By: James Burge
April 30th, 2012

I just watched an amazing video where a school teacher looks at how what we learn in school is only a part of story of the rise of the National Socialist party in Germany. We mostly learn everything past the first major event of the war, when in 1939 Germany invades Poland. But there is much more to the story than the “who”, “what”, and “when” of the situation. This video follows the school teacher as he attempts to answer the why and how in the 100 years before the invasion of Poland, what set the stage not only for the Nazi’s rise to power, but the acceptance, and encouragement of the German population and how the use of “schule” to indoctrinate German children so that they lost their sense of individuality and would embrace the greater good that their death might provide to their nation, instead of doing something as reprehensible as running from gunfire.

The birth of the modern-day brainwashers, I mean teachers. And as much as I support teachers and the task they take on themselves to mould the young minds of tomorrow, it is probably first worth understanding what the initial goal of ‘schule’ was, and to ask yourself, if their modern day form don’t achieve just what they were designed to do, create good citizens, some of which will not only volunteer, but feel pride in giving their life for the aims of their nation.

Ron Paul in Time 100 Most Influential…

By: James Burge
April 19th, 2012

Looks like, with the response they got in the online poll, they couldn’t leave him off the list. Although, people seem to be talking more about Adele, Rihanna, and Kate and Pippa Middleton being on the list. Should they do two lists, those who are important in world politics and then do a list of 100 most popular artists. It is kind of amazing to think that our society sees pop starts as influential, really because of their fan base. I mean didn’t Rihanna jump on the Kony bandwagon?? I’m not trying to diminish their impact on social consciousness, but most influential, not so sure I agree.

Here is a link to Ron’s Page (http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2111999,00.html), although if this is your first introduction to “Dr. NO” you must have been living under a dinosaur media rock.

What a smart Girl, 12 Year old explains Debt based currency

By: James Burge
April 12th, 2012

Just as I was starting to think our education system is broken, this girl opens her mouth and destroys my concerns. The video below is of a 12 year old Canadian girl, giving a speech on the issues surrounding debt based monetary policy and the systematic looting of the middle class with the help of the Canadian Government and its failed monetary policies.

Amazing!!!

America Loves Israel. Why???

By: James Burge
April 5th, 2012

Awww… “Israel Loves Iran” let us hope this catches on…

By: James Burge
April 4th, 2012

Wow, an amazing video, “Israel loves Iran”…

By: James Burge
April 4th, 2012

Hacking Democracy… must watch!!!

By: James Burge
March 30th, 2012

9/11: A Conspiracy Theory

By: James Burge
March 26th, 2012

Girl Gone Wild – Madonna

By: James Burge
March 22nd, 2012

GMO Dangers…

By: James Burge
March 22nd, 2012

In a sad attempt to sway public opinion, Monsanto, with help from DOW as I understand it, has just released an activity book for children praising the benefits of Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs,. One claim is as follows:

“Hi Kids! Welcome to the Biotechnology Basics Activity Book. This is an activity book for young people like you about biotechnology — a really neat topic…. You will see that biotechnology is being used to figure out how to: [1] grow more food; [2] help the environment; and [3] grow more nutritious food that improves our health. As you work through the puzzles in this book, you will learn more about biotechnology and all of the wonderful ways it can help people live better lives in a healthier world. Have fun!”

Okay so there are a few claims above lets look at them and the validity of each one:

Biotechnology is a really neat topic… lol just kidding…
GMOs (1)grow more food, (2)help the environment and (3)grow more nutritious food which improves health. GMOs also apparently help people live better lives and create a healthier world.

I think one of the easiest ones above to debunk is the claim to help the environment. Studies are now showing that Monsanto’s Roundup Ready corn is actually contaminating the soil with Glyphosate which are actually part of the toxin which kills ‘pests’. The key here however is that the Glyphosate is not toxic to roundup ready plants, meaning if you grow round up ready corn once, you will not be able to grow anything else not roundup ready, for many years; although more study is obviously required, but not likely.

“[G]lyphosate stimulates the growth of fungi and enhances the virulence of pathogens such as Fusarium, and “can have serious consequences for sustainable production of a wide range of susceptible crops.” They warn that “Ignoring potential non-target detrimental side effects of any chemical, especially used as heavily as glyphosate, may have dire consequences for agriculture such as rendering soils infertile, crops non-productive, and plants less nutritious.”

When asked if glyphosate is “environmentally benign” as claimed by proponents, he answered “Absolutely not. That’s an outright mistaken notion. Glyphosate is the single most important agronomic factor predisposing some plants to both disease and toxins. These toxins can produce a serious impact on the health of animals and humans.

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php

The Mississippi Rice Council (MRC) has sounded a national alarm over damage caused by aerial drift of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, calling for severely restricted aerial application.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24775

The claim that GMO plants are more nutritious is bunk as well:

One way in which glyphosate can affect human health is that “micronutrients such as manganese, copper, potassium, iron, magnesium, calcium, and zinc are essential to humans. All of them can be reduced in availability by glyphosate; so glyphosate treated GT plants as well as other plants exposed to glyphosate have less mineral nutrients. “We are seeing a reduction in nutrient quality [in our food].”

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php

This is such a big issue, some are finding that GMOs are not only not as nutritious as non-GMOs, the features that are being engineered into organisms may themselves increase toxicity:

Monsanto’s pipeline of upcoming […] (GMOs) includes several new varieties specifically engineered with “stacked traits,” which means they contain multiple genetic modifications and built-in resistance traits as opposed to just one. […] these new multi-trait GMOs appear to be exponentially more harmful to humans than single-trait GMOs because of their synergistic toxicity.

http://www.naturalnews.com/035093_GMO_genetic_traits_toxicity.html

But the real kicker in the new research is the combined toxicity from exposure to both Roundup and Bt toxin which, according to the study, is tremendous. In their conclusion, researchers noted that “modified Bt toxins are not inert on nontarget human cells, and that they can present combined side-effects with other residues of pesticides specific to GM plants” (http://www.greenmedinfo.com).

It is even a lie that they grow more food, most farmers are seeing significantly lower yield on GMOs:

In 2010, Louisiana Rice Man noted that the pressure from bacterial panicle blight, leaf scald and leaf smut “was about the worst I have ever seen.” Though he attributes it to abnormally high temperatures, most likely the cause is glyphosate and/or glufosinate, which destroy soil microflora that assist in plant defense.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24775

Although, what research is being done paints a much bleaker picture than the misinformation found in the Brainwashing Childrens activity book.

Another scientist warning about glyphosate and featured in the film is Andres Carrasco. In 2010, he released a summary of scientific evidence on genetically modified soy and the herbicide glyphosate, and its impact on humans. In Science Under Attack, Carrasco reports that glyphosate causes brain, intestinal and heart defects in fetuses.

The summary includes a “study on human cells [which] found that all four Roundup formulations tested caused total cell death within 24 hours. These effects were found at dilution levels far below those recommended for agricultural use and corresponding to low levels of residues found in food or feed.”

Of note, “The adjuvants in Roundup increase the toxicity of glyphosate because they enable the herbicide to penetrate human cells more readily.”

But don’t expect research to be picking up any time soon, look away nothing to see here:

“Unfortunately, most researchers are forbidden to do work in the area. They don’t have access to isogenic lines [conventional and Roundup Ready plant lines that are otherwise genetically identical], the materials are denied to researchers.”

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php

Furthermore, Monsanto claims that its injection of foreign DNA into its GM crops is also automatically safe because, get this, DNA is present in natural crops as well. Never mind that the injected DNA is foreign and unnatural, and is used to alter the entire genetic structure of GM crops — according to Monsanto, its unnatural DNA is automatically non-toxic because every other plant also has DNA. Case closed.

Using this same absurd illogic, injecting foreign animal DNA into a developing human baby, for instance, must also be safe because that baby contains DNA, right? Or how about drinking antifreeze, which is made of atoms, because your body is also made of atoms? Based on Monsanto’s pseudoscientific nonsense, everything can be considered non-toxic and safe because it is all made of atoms, just like our bodies!

http://www.naturalnews.com/034745_Monsanto_GM_foods_safety_testing.html

For more on the dangers of GMOS click on these links:

• http://www.prisonplanet.com/forget-asteroids-and-volcanoes-chemically-induced-infertility-threatens-human-race.html
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientists-warn-epa-over-monsanto%e2%80%99s-gmo-crop-failures-dangers-read-more-httpnaturalsociety-comscientists-warn-epa-over-monsantos-gmo-crop-failures-dangersixzz1otqe68kj.html
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/monsanto%e2%80%99s-roundup-is-killing-human-kidney-cells.html
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/usda-green-lights-field-trials-of-monsanto-drought-resistant-corn-after-admitting-it-performs-no-better-than-natural-corn.html

Pre-emptive Eye for a possible Eye…

By: James Burge
March 2nd, 2012

All this attack Iran business is getting totally out of hand. It amazes me how many people are calling for an attack on Iran in order to prevent an assumed threat that Iran will attack Israel if it is allowed to develop a nuclear bomb. First of all, Iran has the right, under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (which Israel, a nuclear armed nation has yet to sign, and has been caught on multiple occasions selling American nuclear secrets to foreign nations for $$$, but I digress) to enrich uranium to 20% (80%+ is required for a bomb). Although those in power have clamed such, there has been no credible evidence that Iran is enriching past the 20% for civilian purposes. In fact I think most of the IAEA reports have denied Iran’s ability to enrich to such a level.

So we must bomb a country pre-emptively based on the chance that they may get a bomb and may use it on Israel. That is of course similar to the faith required of us in the run up to the Iraq war. “They have a bomb and they are willing to use it.” It was just too bad that Saddam had gotten rid of most of the weapons the US sold to him. I mean does this pre-emptive eye for an eye mentality make sense to anyone else. Given the threats that have been coming from Israel, wouldn’t you want to ensure the safety of your country with mutually assured destruction, the deterrent that helped take nukes off the table during the cold war? I mean doesn’t Israel have like 200+ nukes themselves, who they are kidding that they need our help to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. I mean we hear the misquote of Ahmadinejad all the time, that he called for Israel to be wiped off the map, when what he really said was that the Zionist regime in control of Israel will not last the test of time. Probably because Israel keeps picking fights with Middle East Nations.

So what did Ahmadinejad actually say? To quote his exact words in Farsi:

“Imam ghoft een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad.”

The full quote translated directly to English:

“The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.”

On an interesting side note Netanyahu actually did say something similar during their attack on Lebanon:

“Congratulations Mr. Netanyahu, my first question is that does the beginning of the large train line’s construction confirm the announcement of the dissident Syrian Intelligence Office that you will strike Lebanon?”

In reply, Netanyahu stated:

“Yes, and it is not a secret that it will happen with U.S.-Gulf support and that is why they have been warned, but before you ask, you have a look at the new map of the world and see that there is no nation with this name.”

Source: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/01-03-2012/120646-No_Lebanon_will_be_on_map-0/

Think about it this way, would you shoot an unarmed man dead based on the perceived threat that if he got hold of a gun he might shoot you?? Israel would, and given Harper’s need to please these people, he will likely support this idea because, as he has said many times, Israel has a right to exist which leaves Iran with the right to be bombed apparently.

Well here is a message to Harper, I would much rather go to jail for draft dodging than help you in your military strike on Iran (ala Libya). Are we going to call this a humanitarian mission as well? So if you institute a draft that is exactly what you will get, productive members of Canadian society in jail because we don’t want to go to war to die so Israel can feel safer sitting atop their large pile of nuclear weapons.

My message to Israel, if a strike on Iran is such a good idea, go ahead and do your worst, but don’t expect me and my American Brothers to act like a human shield protecting you from the wrath of Iran, which, based on the fact you fired the first shot, you disserve IMO.

Another thing to keep in mind, only one country has ever used nuclear weapons against another country and even they aren’t rushing to push the trigger.

Video of CIA asset turned 9/11 Whistleblower.. must watch!!!

By: James Burge
February 17th, 2012

You MUST watch this video… 9/11 Whistleblower..

People have said that the one thing that proves 9/11 couldn’t have been an inside job is because too many people would have to have known and at least one of them would have spoken out by now.

I came across this video and it is a must watch.

This is a video of the story of CIA Asset Susan Lindauer who speaks out now about what happened to her since 9/11. She was the second US citizen indicted using the patriot act.

I just can’t believe they let a woman with as much knowledge as she has, life. I hope her story gets out.

I am speechless; this completely confirms what I have thought for a long time.

Checkout her book Extreme Prejudice…

Debunking Iran Propaganda… in under 7 min…

By: James Burge
February 16th, 2012

Another intersting Video on Fractional Reserve Banking..

By: James Burge
February 15th, 2012

Unfortunately it is en Francais (don’t worry there are English subtitles). A very good video outlining the issues that Europe is facing right now, and what western economies will likely go through by the end of the year if we keep on this path.

Video explaining the 99.99% vs. 0.01%, “The Tiny Dot”…

By: James Burge
February 15th, 2012

Oh No, things may be about to get worse for Fukushima…

By: James Burge
February 14th, 2012

Okay so I just wanted to talk really quickly about Fukushima. Apparently there has been an increase in both tourists as well as Japanese nationals leaving Japan due, from what I can gather, to the changing wind direction which will likely mean a fresh dose of radiation hitting Tokyo for the next few days.

There is also news about the temperatures in reactor No. 2 which has just hit 82°C, the claim that the reactor is in a state of cold shutdown means that temperatures should not exceed 95°C meaning cooling water does not boil.

I also watched an interesting video from Fairewinds with Arnie Gunderson where he discusses the Mark 1 reactor due to the Brunswick test which lead the nuclear industry to add a vent to the design to try to vent hydrogen gas which can begin to build up in the reactor.

This test showed that this reactor could only stand pressures of about 100 psi before the top head of the vessel begins to lift. After sustained pressures above this threshold, the containment vessel begins to vent radioactive gases high in hydrogen into the reactor building. This was likely the cause of the hydrogen explosion back at the beginning of the crisis. This is confirmed by the data from the moments immediately after the when the containment vessel reached 125 psi, before dropping back down to 100 psi. Since the vent valve had not been opened the venting must have happened through the head of the containment vessel.

New Containment Flaw Identified in the BWR Mark 1 from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo.

Anthropogenic Global warming Rant…

By: James Burge
February 10th, 2012

I just came across an interesting article that does a good job to walk you through the issues raised by anthropogenic global warming (AGW). My biggest problem is that some of the science just doesn’t seem to add up. From what I know of our Earth, she has survived long before we came along, so to think that we could ‘break’ the climate cycle is a bit arrogant IMO.

The biggest thing is the supposed link between global temperatures and CO2, which we are told is causal, that CO2 causes warming, however the data I’ve seen suggests otherwise. The first issue, is that when you look at the data, CO2 levels tend to be behind warming trends by about 5 – 10 years, this is the biggest lie I have seen from the Al Gore crowd, they put the graphs up and say, look they are nearly identical, other than the lag of CO2 levels which are then sold to you as the cause of the warming.

So what happens is that the Earth warms likely due to normal solar cycles and as the Earth warms, plant matter that has been trapped in Northern glaciers decays releasing CO2, one of likely many natural causes leading to the increased CO2 levels we are seeing.

In Bio you learned about buffers right? They are chemicals which remain in the body with little to no effect on the basic process of for example digestion, until there is a significant change in pH then these chemicals kick in to regulate the pH back to normal levels. IMO there are many parallels between the way in which our body regulates conditions for various biological processes, and the Earth which has similar tools.

One very interesting one (google plant grown in high CO2) is the fact that increased levels of CO2 actually stimulate plant growth, and as a result, the amount of conversion to oxygen. This means that if levels of CO2 get too high from the perspective of the Earth, she will handle this herself, bring CO2 down and increase O2. Now the problem is, since so much time has been wasted on CO2, we really don’t understand the other side of the buffers for temperature. One of the few we do understand comes from the most abundant greenhouse gas on the planet, know what it is? Steam. As temperatures increase, the water cycle will increase the amount of cloud cover, which will deflect sunlight which will eventually lead to global cooling. Although this gas works like other greenhouse gases which (we are told) traps heat in, the effect of reflecting sunlight is more significant. Sources of heat loose energy as they heat the planet, so trapped heat provides slightly less energy on its ‘second pass’ then what is reflected and never enters our atmosphere.

Now the problem here is that people with my views have been painted as somehow anti-environment and as a strong environmentalist I take offence to this. The fact is, elements within governments around the world see AGW as a cash cow, if they can make us afraid of our own planet, and we take the blame for it, they will also be able to convince us to pay to save us from the warming. Personally I am against ignorance and the fact that leaders use our own ignorance, usually a direct result of the information we are fed by those same individuals to pull the wool over our eyes. It is amazing to me that governments who are trying to regulate how much CO2 each of us contributes (no person is carbon neutral, carbon dioxide is human exhaust) turn a blind eye to the numerous chemicals which are constantly dumped into our environment. No need to worry about big corporations and what they pollute the world with, carbon dioxide is the culprit the only way to stop introducing CO2 as a human being is to stop breathing. Studies have shown that in the last few decades, since the increase in use of anti-depressants and other pharmaceuticals, the water table has been increasingly contaminated with these chemicals. Mostly because we don’t think to test to see what the levels are. As a human being, when you take a drug like Prozac, you will expel, through urine, any of the chemical your body does not process. This ends up in the water we flush down the toilet, and municipal water treatment does not treat for pharmaceuticals such as Prozac. I just read an article yesterday about sea life that are not only dieing at an increased rate, there is evidence they are actually committing suicide. So it seems to me that AGW is used as a distraction, to try to get environmentalists up in arms against CO2 emitters with little to no attention paid to other polluters. Want to know who one of the biggest polluters in the world is??? The US Military, mostly because they consider themselves outside the rule of law so you cant think that environmental regulations mean anything to them. Just think about all of the pollution from a nuclear powers ship/sub which is sunk. Just think as it begins to decay there are forms of oil, solvents, and of course nuclear waste. The fact is, it is much cheaper for the US to sink a ship, then to decommission it. Just saying…

I think a campaign need to be started in order to break environmentalism away from anthropogenic global warming since the fraud of GW scientists (Michael Mann’s Hockey stick graph anyone??) will give environmentalists a black eye and these scientists will take the environmentalists down with them destroying their credibility. We have been focused for far too long on this issue and what evidence they thought they had is loosing credibility faster than they could build it. I mean they have been shouting global warming from the rooftops for years and if the warming doesn’t happen as they are telling us it will, people sure as hell wont believe them when they start talking about the coming ice age but that, my friends is a topic for another rant.

Interesting Visual Representation of Last Years Earthquake Activity…

By: James Burge
February 9th, 2012

Just came across a crazy video that uses sound and circles to represent last years earthquake activity on a map of the world.

It is interesting to watch as waves of earthquake activity moe around our eaths plates. Be sure to check out the boom of the March Japan quake, crazy.

 

Canada now Accepts Info. Gained Through Torture…

By: James Burge
February 8th, 2012

So I just came across an article today, and wouldn’t you know it I have an opinion, although I will concede it is in a bit of a grey area.

So the article talks about how CSIS, Canada’s CIA basically, is allowed to use information extracted from suspects through torture which goes against earlier claims that they never use such information.

I have to say, unfortunately, this is a tough one, it seems cut and dry at first but it is very easy to talk yourself into accepting this practice under the guise that it may make us more secure. (Which in my experience tends not to be true, no security is gained through torture only the mirage of security)

First off, Canada should NOT torture under any circumstances, in my opinion this is not up for debate, this is the easy part. There is no credible excuse for such behaviour and since most information gained out of such techniques tends to be unreliable, there is little value added with such interrogation techniques and both our countries integrity and the safety of our armed forces to loose. Canadian soldiers will be in great danger of themselves being tortured abroad if Canada adopts torture. Period.

That being said, the issue here is of the use of information received from regimes around the world where torture is an excepted practice. I think first of all, I would assume it can be tough to get foreign countries to admit that torture was used to get the information, so in the case where CSIS is unaware that information was gained through torture, we will give them a proverbial pass on this although I think it would be in their best interest to discern if this is the case or not due only to its relation to the reliability of the information.

I’ve been over this a few times in my head, and I keep going back and forth. So maybe a quick thought experiment will help.

Okay so CSIS receives information from a foreign country, and after some consideration determines that the information was obtained through torture, oh wait enhanced interrogation techniques, there more PC right. Anyway, so we have information, we know was gained through torture, should CSIS be using that information? Some would say if they use the info they are only encouraging countries to torture and as the article puts it:

 

this directive is sending the wrong message to dictatorial regimes; you torture and we will return the favour by accepting and using your information.

-source

Personally I think that information gained through torture requires a grain of salt (maybe two). I don’t think we can afford not to at least entertain the possibility that the information is true, but we have to treat any action taken as a result of such information is likely to be a dead end and a waste of resources. Publicly, we must refuse to use information such as this, due mostly to the fact Canadians consider ourselves civilized (whether we are or not remains to be seen) and no person deserves to be tortured by their government. Think about it the other way for a second. Canada decides you may have information seen as valuable to another country, for this example I will use the US. If they arrest you and torture you based solely on the charges against you from the US, I see this as equal to the US encouraging torture by proxy. However, if Canada arrests me for local crimes and through their locally approved interrogation, however much it resembles torture and they uncover a plot that has effects in the US, I think the US should be free to use that info as they see fit, although treating it as possibly suspect.

Letting it be known to the world that we accept information gained through torture we are not only embracing such techniques we are giving our approval of such techniques.Canada should take a public stand, saying we will not accept information gained through torture, but I think they will still need to at least hear the allegations raised by such information if for no other reason to be able to say its BS.

Although, I also want to say, after all that, I am amazed that I am able to convince myself that there are any cases where torture is accepted. A big part of me keeps saying “torture is not okay, no matter what” but then there is this other side that says, if some country says, hey this guy committed a crime in your country but he only told us when we tortured him, this would still require an investigation as torture wont hold up in court, which it shouldn’t but if  you say that they can’t use the info at all, they would have to ignore the accusations of a foreign nation that it has evidence of a crime in Canada. I just can’t imagine a group, tasked with enforcing the rule of law would just ignore allegations just because they came through torture. Its like the idiot in the corner with fingers in his ears going “LA LA Can’t hear you!!” But that being said, if the country is uilty of crimes in Canada as a result of the torture, they should not be immune to indictments just because they gave us the info obtained.

So in the end, here is my stance:

“Torture is NOT okay, and there is never a reasonable justification for such actions. However, allegations from foreign nations, weather gained through torture or not, deserve an investigation to try to determine if we can confirm or deny those allegations. Military action should never be the result of information gained through torture alone, but can be justified by an independent confirmation of the allegations.

Clear as mud?? Thought so.

I would be interested to hear your views? Should we be accepting information gained from torture? is it a slippery slope? or should Canada grow a pair and start these ‘enhanced techniques’ at home?

Feist – The Bad in Each Other

By: James Burge
February 8th, 2012

Cannot stop listening to this new Feist song, beautiful.

Scientists are baffled; therefore it must be a delusion…

By: James Burge
February 7th, 2012

This isn’t really a new story. We saw this exact same thing happen when people started reporting symptoms of Morgellons, they called it pseudo–parasitosis, meaning that people were delusional, yet it explicitly talks of a parasite. Morgellons had numerous symptoms (many mental) and multiple cases, from all walks of life, mostly around the southern states concentrated near the coastlines. All report the same symptoms; the most obvious includes the body expelling what appear to be coloured fibers. Many have postulated that his is because of a parasite which lives in these individuals, most of which test positive for lyme disease, which of course comes from ticks, a parasite. But pay no attention they are delusional.

Now on to another story, with completely different symptoms, same explanation, although this time it’s “conversion disorder”, or mass hysteria.

Okay so 16 students in NewYork come down with an illness similar to Tourettes syndrome, most of which are female (although there are reports of a male who has started showing symptoms). As the numbers suffering continues to rise, medical authorities have come to the conclusion that all those suffering, may feel they have a legitimate illness, but it’s all in their head.

One expert from the University of Buffalo blames social networking sites like Facebook.

Give me an effing break, even if that is true, can you describe the way in which looking at Facebook leads to these symptoms, ohh they see it online and they mimic the behaviours, that makes sense, wait why doesn’t this happen more often with other things?? The only thing I can think of is yawning, although research has been done into why you yawn when you see someone else yawn (its actually quite interesting google it). You know that used to be what doctors did study symptoms and come up with a cause and treatment. But theUSis trying so hard to put legitimate doctors out of work, so this doesn’t really surprise me. Locals wonder if this has something to do with exposure, and the fact that there are six natural gas wells on the school campus. Local police recently denied (if you can believe it) representatives of environmental activist Erin Brockovich access to the site to collect soil samples. Has anyone heard about an Erin Brockovich sequel… anyone??

All Romney Voters need to see this…

By: James Burge
February 7th, 2012

And this is they guy some see in the White House?? Although, given the last few, this seems par for the course…

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Govt permission required to work; a slippery slope IMO…

By: James Burge
February 7th, 2012

As the US devolves further into tyranny, those of us watching see small clues along the way that illustrate how bad things have become. I came across one today that seems to be just the tip of the iceberg when you think about how far reaching such a tool could be to a tyrannical government. We have seen this before in the former Soviet Union andChinaalthough I’m sure there are more historical examples.

In a new attempt to marginalize those Americans it sees as a threat, the US department of homeland security is implementing a No Work List, meaning of course if you are on the list, you will not be able to find a (good) job. For now they are using it under the guise of security saying that you wouldn’t be unable to work in a secure construction site, but if this program goes unopposed or even embraced it is only a matter of time before people with anti-government views who make them known to the public, wont be unable to find an employer due to the pressures of government.

That is one way to strike fear into the hearts of bloggers the internet over and a great way to kill the alternative news revolution. One wonders if this could get far enough to include comments on blogs, and I guess, in some ways it would only be a matter of time and the level of public acceptance. If people don’t rise up to a government as it becomes tyrannical through small creeps like this, they are doomed once it gets to its destination.

Now I know how well the government has dealt with illegal workers in the southern states so I’m not sure how well such a program will work. But it is quite amazing to me that the land of the free, limits travel with a no fly list, (which is amazing in itself since air travel is a private industry yet the government tells them who they can and can’t transport), has the highest prison population in history (I heard the other day even the Russian Gulags didn’t get this bad) and now wants to limit ones ability to provide for themselves and their family, sickening. American Dream My Ass, more like the American Daze.

I know that people in support of this ‘directive’ cry for the need for increased security, which in exchange for liberty is a high price to pay.

Gardasil now recommended in Canada to prevent Cervical Cancer in Gay Males… wait what??

By: James Burge
February 2nd, 2012

Okay so I just read an article that said that Gardisil has now been approved for boys aged 9 – 26 inCanada. And I felt it important to inform my roommate who has a 6-year-old boy, to refuse such a vaccination (assuming of course they even let her know, there are many stories where they are forcibly vaccinating children without informing their parents), due to the fact that all the anecdotal stories I’ve heard talk about the side-effects. Here are just a few:

“seizures, strokes, dizziness, fatigue, weakness, headaches, stomach pains, vomiting, muscle pain and weakness, joint pain, auto-immune problems, chest pains, hair loss, appetite loss, personality changes, insomnia, hand/leg tremors, arm/leg weakness, shortness of breath, heart problems, paralysis, itching, rashes, swelling, aching muscles, pelvic pain, nerve pain, menstrual cycle changes, fainting, swollen lymph nodes, night sweats, nausea, temporary vision/hearing loss just to name some of them!”

http://truthaboutgardasil.org/

There have been over 100 deaths related to Gardisil and over 25,000 serious complications like those listed above. I know I heard one story about a girl who developed severe narcolepsy in the days after her vaccination. She was a straight A student, now she is only awake a little over an hour a day and requires 24 hour care. (http://www.patientsville.com/vaccines/hpv4/narcolepsy-hpv-gardasil-2010.htm)

So as I was doing a bit of research, as I tend to do when I see stories like this and I came across the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Website on Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevention and HPV Vaccines: Questions and Answers page and was greeted with information that blows this whole charade out of the water in my opinion. (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/std-mts/hpv-vph/hpv-vph-vaccine-eng.php#a3)

When I click on the question, “Who should get the vaccine?” after trying to sell me on the same old HPV cervical cancer BS I found this:

“Gardasil® is also recommended in males between 9 and 26 years of age, and in men ? 9 years of age who have sex with men.”

So let me get this straight (pun anyone?), you are trying to sell the story that boys need to be vaccinated against HPV because they might pass it on to girls, as it has allegedly been shown to increase the risk of cervical cancer, but then you say gay males would benefit?? I guess one thing we may need to point out to the drug companies, is that one requires a cervix to get cervical cancer. So unless gay men everywhere have started spontaneously sprouting a cervix (if so lets patent it and get transsexuals in on this). Vaccinating a man who will likely never sleep with a woman seems at best to be a waste of taxpayer money (because Health Canada will offer to pay, for the good of the people I’m sure) and at worst, clarification that the true intent of these vaccines is to pump this shit into anyone stupid enough (or young enough not to have a choice) to sit through the process. What ever happened to the idea of informed consent?? One may wrongly conclude that requires people to be adequately informed.

An Interesting parallel between LSD and 9/11 truth…

By: James Burge
February 1st, 2012

I was just reading an article that, interestingly enough, compares the process in which psychedelic drugs such as LSD and psilocybin, which are known to open the mind to previously unimaginable realities, compares with the process which occurs as one awakens to the breakdown of the official 9/11 narrative, in favour of what is referred to as 9/11 truth. So much occurs as your mind begins to accept this new reality and it has far reaching effects in our view of the world, how it works, and the various paradigms which we subscribe. This tends to destroy the hopelessly naïve view, which we are taught in school, that the government has the peoples best interest in mind and is here to help.

You will eventually come to the realization that governments are tragically self serving and will combat anything which they see as an obstacle to power, and will, if allowed to grow in size and influence, eventually become parasitic to the very citizens which originally gave the government their mandate. Then governments go through a period in which they attempt to marginalize citizens, starting first with minority groups, through incarceration, those citizens that society will accept as dangerous. The most common today being minor drug crimes with mandatory minimum sentences usually in great excess to crimes such as pedophilia or sexual assault which have terrible effects on the victims. Drug crimes only victims are those who become hopelessly dependent on these illicit substances which the government would prefer to lock up, only because the public has accepted this practice over time. (why else would elements in the government import drugs? see Iran contra, can you say entrapment)

I can only imagine how future generations will look at the punitive damages inflicted on minor drug offenders, as an obvious preference to drug counselling and attempting to deal with the ‘crime’ of substance abuse, which again has no external victims. This, in my opinion, is akin to locking up mentally challenged individuals in an attempt to ‘protect the public’ from what they might be capable of. To me this is a classic case of conflict of interest, where the government creates laws, which do not require a victim for the sole purpose of stripping a section of society of their right to vote through incarceration, and then flood the market to encourage sales, and throw anyone who gets in the way away for life.

There is a very interesting paradigm alive today where society looks to governments to provide them with the rights they are due and to save them from themselves. America’s founding fathers saw it the other way around, that society will demand their rights and government will abide or be replaced. This is the main reason why they didn’t worry about things like same-sex marriage in the constitution, because they couldn’t envision a government so far reaching that citizens will look to government to allow them to exert certain freedoms, like freedom of the press, and freedom of speech. The idea being, as in the case of same-sex marriage, if the government denied you a marriage certificate you would get married anyway and the government would just have to deal with it. Unfortunately, our generation and those after us will grow up learning that governments allow us certain freedoms, as opposed to those freedoms being universal, and inalienable as explicitly stated in the US constitution.

They lied (again), Iran is not our Enemy…

By: James Burge
January 31st, 2012

NBC Florida Debate Ron Paul Highlights…

By: James Burge
January 25th, 2012

Thyroid cancer on the rise… Duh…

By: James Burge
January 20th, 2012

Just stumbled across an article which admits that there has been a recent increase in Thyroid cancers. Which seems like a no shit sort of thing to me and anyone following what is happening in Japan, but the article says that this has happened over the last decade we have seen this increase. Well I can see the increase at least in the last year since the Fukashima disaster following Japan’s recent quake and tsunami, but it would be interesting to look at the data to compare the rate of increase over the 10 years, because the 10 year number could be a distraction. (I mean if you have an increase of lets say 5% every year for 8 years and then a 20% increase for the last two, we could say there was an increase of 80% over 10 years (we assume this is averaged to 8% a year), but the increase of 40% over two years would be more statistically significant)

During this crisis, we have seen large releases of radioactive substances such as radioactive strontium, caesium, plutonium, and iodine to name a few of the more common substances.

And now for a quick health lesson. The thyroid gland is sometimes referred to as the pharmacy of the body which is the source of chemicals and enzymes used to regulate the body’s energy and metabolism. One of the key ingredients required to create some of these compounds is Iodine. So if your body finds any iodine in the food you eat it will go straight to the thyroid gland.

The issue here is the unknown ingestion of radioactive Iodine-131 which, since the body still thinks it is benign iodine, it will also begin to concentrate in the thyroid gland. Thyroid cancers increased in the areas surrounding Chernobyl after the incident there due to the releases of Iodine-131. Many survivors of Chernobyl required the removal of their thyroid gland, and of course spent the rest of their lives supplementing the chemicals usually produced in the gland. (the large scar left on an individuals throat after thyroid removal became known as a Chernobyl necklace).

An interesting side fact, plutonium is not found naturally on earth. All of the plutonium that exists is as nuclear waste since the beginning of nuclear experimentation in the 40′s. Plutonium is also considered the most toxic substance to life on earth (levels of 0.1 micrograms or 1×10^-7 grams is enought for an overdose, to put that in perspective a release of just 1 gram of plutonium would be enough to kill 10 million people if widely dispersed)). This is mostly because we have evolved for aeon’s without developing any defences from radioactive substances. The human body is amazing at overcoming issues such as this; although it will take many generations, people would have developed immunity to radioactive substances if they were more common during our early evolution. One could theorize that our future relatives may develop radioactive immunities as exposure to these substances increase.

Of course the article goes on to try and confuse the issue, blaming the increase on better screening techniques, obesity and diet, although radiation exposure is mentioned as well.

The strangest thing to me though is that the treatment for thyroid cancer involves introducing more radioactive iodine. This of course comes from the concept of chemotherapy where radioactive substances are used because they kill cells that divide rapidly. Although cancerous cells fall into this category there are a lot of cells that also apply. Things like skin cells, which leads to the loss of hair, cells in the stomach, which leads to nausea, or cells in bone marrow which I believe plays a role in immune health. So radioactive iodine collects in the thyroid, causing cell mutations, requiring more radioactive iodine, sounds logical to me, right??

I’ve said it before and I’m gonna say it again, in the future I feel that Chemotherapy will be looked upon as we look at electro shock therapy (EST) today. At the time that shock therapy was big, health practitioners actually felt the procedure had benefits and I’m not sure we can blame them as that it tended to be the only therapy available for some conditions. But you don’t hear of many people getting EST that much anymore, although horror stories still exist as some physicians hold on to the past.

Newer cancer therapies target abnormal proteins in cancer cells called targeted therapy which does not involve the use of radioactive substances.

Eugenics may be on its way back…

By: James Burge
January 20th, 2012

This is a crazy story, but unfortunately I am not surprised by the ‘system’’s inhumanity and the fact that bureaucrats tend to wash their hands of these sorts of practices.

I read a story yesterday and couldn’t get it out of my head because it seems to me to be a hint at how far our society has come since I was a kid, and not in a good way. I admit, chances are I had a naively romantic view of society but when I was younger it seemed that people in power making decisions tended to ask themselves “Is this the right thing to do?” Some call this morality, and of course Catholics and Christians tend to feel they have dibs on morality. Yet you see people that are devout or in some cases evangelical yet don’t seem to have the values I thought were taught by such religions, such as morality and acceptance. It amazes me when people say, you can’t be a moral person if you aren’t religious, yet you find those that are extremely religious who don’t seem to have a moral bone in their body, but I digress.

The story I am talking about is one of the first instances I have heard of Death panels in the US. According to Wikipedia, this was ‘proven’ a myth after Sarah Palin mentioned it in a 2009 debate referring to her daughter with Downs Syndrome possibly being denied healthcare. However, as little as I like this woman as a world leader, she was right. Especially with the newly passed ObamaCare bill which forces citizens to buy private health insurance, or face consequences. But I guess the one thing they don’t mention is that even if you do buy insurance as your government now requires, you may require medical attention that some panel decides is either too expensive, or wont have an effect on your quality of life so the procedure is denied.

This story is about a 3 year old girl named Amelia. She was denied a kidney transplant (at 3?? It’s not like she has her whole life ahead of her or anything) because she is considered to be “mentally retarded”. Her doctor used the fact that he felt that Amelia wouldn’t have a good enough “quality of life” after surgery to justify the cost of the procedure in order to deny it.

There are so many things wrong with this. First being that a Dr. who is supposed to take an oath to practice medicine ethically feels it best to just let this girl slowly die of renal failure.

The second issue comes from the fact that Medicare is slowly putting American Doctors out of work. What happens is that since most Dr’s do whatever necessary to help patients, but Medicare doesn’t tend to fully cover costs, the doctors are taking losses on treating patients, which is not a good business model. Therefore doctors are forced to choose between Medicare patients, or going out of business. If you think ObamaCare will be different, you haven’t been paying attention, if there is one thing governments know how to do it’s mismanage federal programs until they break the system. (Social security anyone??)

So what may be happening is that the doctor can’t afford to loose money on the kidney transplant so he tried to justify no doing the surgery by calling the girl retarded (sorry) so that he can sleep at night.

There is also rumour I heard from a Neurosurgeon the other day which has not yet been made public that ObamaCare will introduce panels of bureaucrats not doctors, to decide what procedures are justified for patients because a federal system like this can’t provide everything for everyone. Think about that for a moment, you aren’t feeling well, you go to a doctor, he finds out you require an expensive procedure which he has to get approved before he can do it. Now your health is in the hands of bureaucrats who want nothing more than to reduce the costs to healthcare.

Instead of putting a limit on profits from essential medications cutting into the big drug companies profits (which considering how much they spend on lobbying wont happen, maybe if Dr. Paul becomes president but I doubt that will be allowed to happen either) or trying to cut costs in other more innovative ways, it is cheaper (and easier) to just let people die. And they wonder why they have such a bad healthcare system (I just found something where they are 37th worldwide, which for a country like the US is not only unacceptable, its borderline criminal IMO, although Canada is 30th)

What we are seeing here is called Eugenics. It is an old philosophy that advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population. It was started (in California I believe) in the early 1900s by (to name a few) Leonard Darwin (Charles Darwin’s son), Winston Churchill, and Alexander Graham Bell. The problem is that the views of Eugenics seems to have been used to justify atrocities ever since. Hitler and his ideas of the purification of the Arian Race he borrowed directly from eugenics. One of the first challenges to eugenics was a study which found a family of fruit flies, all with red eyes for many generations can still have offspring with white eyes, considered a mild genetic mutation that occurs outside of the inherited traits of the parents. What this showed was that even the most “pure” of parents can still have offspring with traits seen as detrimental, weather something like a predisposition to a heart condition, or even something like reduced mental capacity. Meaning the idea that you can bread the negative traits out of humans is a bit of a fallacy. Especially in an age where Mothers are bombarded with chemicals which studies have found actually concentrates in breast milk.

On an interesting side note, since I am an Albertan I found this interesting. In 1928 Alberta enacted the Sexual Sterilization Act focusing the movement of eugenics on the sterilization of the mentally deficient as determined by the Alberta Eugenics Board. Individuals were assessed using IQ tests which of course caused a big problem for new immigrants arriving in Canada. So many of those sterilized by the government were immigrants unfairly categorized as having impaired intellectual functions. BC apparently enacted its own version of the law in 1933 around the start of the great depression.

I think it is worth mentioning that the great depression played a big role in the acceptance of eugenics in Canada as it was widely seen as a way of relieving society of the financial burdens imposed by defective individuals. These laws were finally repealed in 1972, amazing right. But since some are predicting another depression, the question of weather eugenics will see another upswing in popularity remains to be seen.

Charlie Chaplin’s words are still very relevant…

By: James Burge
January 19th, 2012

Today’s video is a great example showing how the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is an old video of Charlie Chaplin, obviously imitating Hitler. It is amazing to me how his words still speak to us so many years later.

It is amazing to watch America’s recent slip into tyranny similar to pre WW-II Germany. I think the most amazing thing is I have heard a lot of people ask, when learning about the rise of the National Socialist Party in Germany, why didn’t more Germans speak out against the government and I guess the simple answer is, would you?
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out.

-Martin Niemöller

You have a government that has given itself the authority to capture and imprison anyone, even its own citizens, indefinitely, without trial, or even the ability to hear charges against you (isn’t this the kind of shit that lead to the independence movement in Amrica?).  And now America, which had once considered itself a pillar of morality, can now use various methods of torture on those it suspects of ‘terrorism’ at a time when catching terrorists has become so important to those in the bowels of power in Washington, used as proof that fear is justified and encouraged. Does this seem overly convenient to anyone else? The US needed a war, they seemed willing to take any war with anyone (as long as it is in the middle east of course, those Arab bastards have a lot of oil), so they try to radicalize those who will eventually become their enemy to goad them into organizing hostilities (any hostilities) against the very nation that radicalized them through their egregious actions in the middle east over the course of the last century. And as Americans forget about the actions of their own government, they then use these hostilities to justify their heavy handed actions saying “how many people could have died had we not tortured those terrorists?” Are Americans so bad at history (thanks department of propaganda, I mean education) that they don’t know that the US (with help from the British) overthrew the last democracy in Iran because they were worried they would nationalize the oil industry thereby transferring profits from British Oil companies and to the Iranians, which of course started another middle east theocracy, and they have the gall to ask why Iranians aren’t demanding democracy, they did but you took it away from them, do you understand why Iranians might not be all that fond of the US? The US has been aided by Israel since it’s theft from the Palestinians, which some say are the true ancestors of Jesus (but these religious nuts don’t seem to care about Jesus anymore, take the booing of Dr. Ron Paul when he tried to use the golden rule to explain his stance on foreign policy during the South Carolina debate, wait isn’t that part of the Bible belt, I cant remember). It is amazing that in people’s apparent attempt to spread and strengthen their religion they seem to loose sight of its origin and what it claims to teach. Things like morality and acceptance and are replaced by judgments and dehumanization. Painting an entire culture in a false light to vilify them which somehow seems to justify their heinous treatment at the hands of their ‘liberators’ seems to be the true face of terrorism. I’ve heard it said, by  those Jews involved in the Bombing at the King David hotel, that Israel is the founding father of modern day terrorism, and that the Israelis dressed up as Arabs, in order to confuse the issue and vilify their neighbors to help justify draconian policies that would never pass through a democratic government had the general public not been deceived into hating and fearing radical Muslims.

Anyway, enough rant for one day, here is the video…

Humanitarian Warfare…

By: James Burge
January 10th, 2012

This video is for those who claimed theUSwould be greeted as liberators.

 This is what war looks like, we have no idea of this because in our lifetime, we have yet to see war and the pain it causes those who are left behind after these types of attacks.

 To claim that these people welcome this type of intervention is a sadistic lie. We are not making our world safer by bombing the hell out of the Middle East; we are creating a generation who will come to loath and revile the United States and the ‘freedom’ they brought at the end of a bomb drastically affecting their livelihood, their family, and their collective history.  It amazes me that people attack Ron Paul for saying that actions such as theses are what lead to 9/11. Yeah it seems much more likely they attack us because of our ‘freedoms’.

 The problem is that more and more I realize that our ‘freedoms’ are pseudo-freedoms, they look good, and in some cases it makes us feel good and feel like a free people; but to put this in perspective, I’m sure you’ve heard that ‘the land of the free’ has the largest prison population in the world; mostly because rich men have found a way to make a lot of money protecting us from those we are taught to irrationally fear (like those suffering from substance abuse and various chemical dependencies) while stripping those same individuals of their rights and in some cases their dignity. Yet they let rapists and child molesters out only after a few years of incarceration, and those involved in petty drug crimes get 30+, (and of course bankers and politicians guilty of fraud, get zero) it seems obvious to me that this is completely bas-ackwards.

 Over the years the US has had problems with multiple un-investigated allegations of voter fraud and stolen elections, high crime rates that are only increasing, high rates of mental illness and a population placated by mind-altering drugs with little to no admittance of any long term side effects all while ‘professionals’ prescribe them to younger and younger children. There has been an increase in rate of suicide (especially among those returning veterans) as people feel a sense of helplessness, feel isolated and see no light at the end of their tunnel. They have a health care system that is bloated and dieing forcing doctors to quit their practice or seek work elsewhere. A generation of mildly educated* individuals chasing the highly touted bachelor’s degree only to be stuck as an economic slave spending your first few years of decent pay to cover student loans used to pay for highly inflated costs of learning, and that’s if they are lucky. With no jobs in sight, since they have all been off shored to India and elsewhere because of the tax breaks congress has been providing corporations since the Clinton administration, new grads should count themselves lucky to have a job at all right now.  Oh and did I forget to mention their crumbling infrastructure, once admired  the world over, now a ticking time bomb, especially for those areas with high probability of earthquakes and other forces of nature. And, although it nearly never makes news, the nuclear reactors throughout theUSare not only old, they also routinely vent highly radioactive gases without any indication of risks to the public. Oh and since it’s inception in the early 1900s the Federal Reserve, a private (for profit) bank, which is allowed to legally counterfeit the dollar, has devalued the US dollar by over 95%. Oh and don’t forget the biggest threat to American Hegemony, Global Warming, or at least according to Al ‘Glutton’ Gore.

 Is this the type of democracy we want to bring to theMiddle East?? A parasitic government more worried about maintaining world supremacy through debt money and endless wars, than those citizens who give them their mandate to lead.

 I’m not sure if those in the bowels of power inWashingtonunderstand that without manufacturing jobs, how theUSwill support itself once it attacksIranforIsraelunleashing world war III on us all. Oh but it will beIran’s fault, and we will just have to buy our bombs fromChinaor something. (Oh what, they will be onIran’s side along withRussia, crap) okay we’ll have to get it fromIndiaorPakistan, (what, Obama has unleashed a silent UAV war inPakistan, crap). And what happens when Iran blocks the strait of hormuz causing the price of Oil to skyrocket (we can just use the strategic oil reserves, that is what they are for, assuming the war only lasts 30 days that is)

 I just want to warn you this video has parts that can be disturbing.

 (* sorry to those adequately educated Americans, you are a dying breed in my opinion)

America is Humanitarian, Iran is evil, Black is White, Down is Up…

By: James Burge
January 10th, 2012

Most Americans are currently looking down their nose at Iranians calling them a threat. First off a threat to whom exactly?Iranhas not attacked another nation in over 200 years. Oh Iran is a threat to Israel, but doesn’t Israel have nuclear weapons, if they feel so threatened why is it that they expect American Soldiers to die in wars to exert Israeli supremacy in the region? 

They also look atIran’s current theocracy and say look we are tying to bring democracy? But what most people are unaware is that theUnited StatesandBritainactually put an end to Iranian democracy back in the 50s because they were worried it would affect their bottom line. Britain’s were much to use to getting rich off Iranian oil while the Iranians lived in near squallier to allow a new democracy to limit their control over the natural resource. 

So as those in power try to convince us to deliver democracy toIranwith the bomb, ask them why we didn’t just allow democracy to grow from withinIranwhen it began.

 This is a great story of unintended consequences.

Romney campaigner defects to Ron Paul…

By: James Burge
January 10th, 2012

Awesome US Debt Ceiling Video a Must see!!!

By: James Burge
January 9th, 2012

Love it!

Here are the real US Federal Government numbers:

Total Federal Debt: $14,000,000,000,000 (14 Trillion)
Federal Income: $2,170,000,000,000 (2.17 Trilion)
Federal Spending: $3,820,000,000,000 (3.82 Trilion)
New Debt: $1,650,000,000,000 (1.65 Trilion)
Amount Cut: $38,500,000,000 (38.5 Bilion) (less than 1% (0.75%) of the total budget)

I love how they have the guy bring in his young daughter to approve the debt limit increase, well done.

And now for a bit of levity…

By: James Burge
January 9th, 2012

Another explanation of what is going on in the US economy…

By: James Burge
January 9th, 2012

Gold Standard…

By: James Burge
January 5th, 2012

How the 9/11 myth was sold..

By: James Burge
December 21st, 2011

Very good video which looks at the ‘news’ the morning of 9/11 and some of the interviews that ran on some of the major networks. The fact that the majority of the US mainstream media (as some are now rightfully calling the dinosaur media, which I like) had the entire narrative behind the attack within minuets of the second plane hitting the tower, sand even before the towers fell, is fishy at best. It uses some very familiar techniques to inject pseudo-science into the narrative about intense heat from fire as the cause of structural failure, which was the first time in history, fire took down a steal framed high-rise building (of course physics took the day off, because 3 buildings collapsed into their own footprint due to ‘intense fire’ that day). It always seemed strange to me on that day that at the same time I was learning about the attack, they already knew who did it, like they got a letter from Al-Qaeda that morning saying, our bad, sorry about the towers. Of course, the fact that they ‘knew’ it was Bin-Laden before the towers even came down, and that the Bin-Laden family was flown out of the US that morning, when all other flights had been grounded, stinks of an inside job. It tends to look like a bunch of unrelated coincidences, but every year that passes, the event seems to become a bit clearer. I wonder how much longer they will be able to successfully convince people of this official narrative? More and more people are waking up to this atrocity every day.

Keep questioning people, we are closer now than we have ever been.

Now this what it used to mean to be a reporter…

By: James Burge
December 14th, 2011

She asks some very tough questions and I give her props for asking them, but you can’t have actually expected someone involved in the bowls of power during the run up to Iraq war to admit we shouldn’t have gone to war with Iraq, knowing what we know now. For most of us it seems obvious, but for American politicians it was still the right decision.

Christmas Flash Mob

By: James Burge
December 14th, 2011

Japanese message intercepted a week before Pearl Harbour…

By: James Burge
December 7th, 2011

This video from Mike Rivero looks at the remains of Station H, which intercepted a Japanese message directing its fleet to Hawaii a week before the ‘surprise’ attack on Pearl Harbour. It was sent to the FBI who ignored it, in favour of goading Japan into attacking so that the US could enter the war, against Japan and Germany, although they had funded Hitler’s escapades since the beginning. Take a second to look up Bush’s Great Grand Father, Prescott Bush, who was CIA (Evidence shows both Bush’s later fallowed in his footsteps) and his involvement in funding the Nazis and then operation paperclip. Looks like a trator where I am standing. Just saying.

It seems at some point, some high level German or American Leaders realized that the Nazi war effort was heading down the wrong path. Some evidence points to Hitler’s desire to create a German Central Bank independent of the British baking system (see Rothschild’s) with its own currency, thereby not subscribing to the Dept Based Monetary System present in most ‘free’ countries. It seems that American Involvement in WWII was the German escape plan, as most of the high-level military leaders along with top scientists were brought to the US and given new identities in operation paperclip; these war criminals were allowed to live out the rest of their lives with impunity.

Halliburton Destroyed Gulf Spill Evidence… interesting…

By: James Burge
December 6th, 2011

Was just reading an article where BP accused Halliburton of intentionally destroying evidence to conceal its role in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Disaster.

For those of you that don’t know in the days before the well blew up, Halliburton were involved with setting a cement plug which would have temporarily sealed BP’s Moncondo exploration well. According to another article as early as February Halliburton knew there were problems with their recipe for the cement. They then kept this information from BP notifying them by email about only one of the tests, leaving out the tests with “unstable” results.

And get this:

Chevron recently carried out independent lab tests of a cement slurry that Halliburton said was the same as that used in the Macondo well. The commission staff said Chevron reported that “its lab personnel were unable to generate stable foam cement in the laboratory using the materials provided by Halliburton.

-Article.

Not only that it seems like Halliburton lied about the unstable tests. Apparently to an inquiry on the explosion, Tomas Roth, Halliburton’s Vice President for Cementing said their results showed the cement mixture was stable, which of course seems to question the unstable results but apparently they didn’t make this issue known to BP, although they claim they shared the data in an email to BP, but apparently they never used the words “unstable” in that email.

Now that is has come out that they have destroyed evidence, I would bet money the lost documents also include these unstable test results in the days preceding the explosion. Which would be tough if they gave them to BP through email.

Now Halliburton is blaming BP because they only used 6 of the 21 centralizers, a device that ensures the drill pipe is properly centered.

And then this:

Robert Bea, a professor and oil industry expert at the University of California at Berkeley, said that drillers will often run one test on a cement mixture, then a second test as a backup. He called four tests “unusual.”
“Given that they are running four, that’s telling me they were having trouble getting to a stable design,” Bea said. “And so they continued to work with this witches’ brew until they got on to something they thought was workable.”

-Article

But I came across another article where Halliburton admits it never performed a test of the mixture, but that BP ordered them to change the mixture last minute meaning it could not perform the needed tests. Either way, sounds like negligence to me.

I have to say from the onset of this disaster Halliburton’s roll didn’t really pass the smell test for me. Due mostly to their close involvement with the CIA and Pentagon during the Iraq war and all the no bid contracts they’ve received because Dick Chaney was on the board of directors, sounds like a CIA front company to me. 

These weren’t a bunch of idiots, they may need to learn a bit about hubris but I don’t think they were incapable of the job they were doing. So it begs the question on whether they knew what they were doing may endanger the well. The US Government always seems eager to embrace disasters it can avoid being seen as the cause of (like Hurricanes, floods and earthquakes), although one could argue the approval process for off shore oil rigs may be in their hands, and it is probably a sure bet that many congresmen and women have made millions off the off shore oil rig deals in one way or another.

Marry the Night…

By: James Burge
December 2nd, 2011

An interesting hypothetical to ponder…

By: James Burge
December 1st, 2011

Was just reading an really good article (which I totally recommend reading if you are still a bit fuzzy on the banking crisis) about how the banks got away with the secret bailouts to the tune of about $13 trillion dollars, how those involved told their buddies of the plan to centralize the banks, even before congress, so they could make billions on shorts while keeping the details of these secret bailouts from congress, and the American People, who have now been stuck with the bill.

I mean it really seams like you and a few friends are at a party and the table beside you is really partying it up, hooting, hollering, having quite the time, buying everyone drinks, they seems like okay dudes, and by the end of the night you think they are your new friends. But after they leave the waitress comes around with your bill and it’s about a ten times what you expect your bill to be, the waitress notices your shock and says “those guys you were partying with, before they left they said you were going to take care of the bill.” But just wait, it gets worse, in this scenario you realize that the waitress has to tip out to the guys who left you stuck holding the bill, so any tip you can afford give to the waitress, half or more goes to those guys. Then you find out these guys bet on the fact that you probably wouldn’t be able to pay the bill and they then use either the tip out or the money made on the bet against you, to give themselves and their buddies huge bonuses. Then they are back in the pub trying the same scam the next evening because heaven forbid they use those bonuses to pay for their own drinks.

That story would begin to express what has happened in the states only if you imagine the bill was for $14 Trillion dollars.

Just to get you interested, here are a few items he lists before giving the “6 Shocking revelations about Wall Street’s secret government”.
? The secret Wall Street bailouts totalled $7.77 trillion, 10 times more than the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) passed by Congress in 2008.
? Knowledge of the secret bailout funds was not shared with Congress even while it was drafting and debating legislation to break up the big banks.
? The secret funding, provided at below-market rates, gave Wall Street banks an additional $13 billion in profits. (That’s enough money to hire more than 325,000 entry level teachers.)
? The secret loans financed bank mergers so that the largest banks could grow even larger. The money also allowed banks to step up their lobbying efforts.
? While Henry Paulson (Bush’s Secretary of the Treasury) was informing Congress and the public that only minor reforms were needed to protect Fannie and Freddie from collapse, he met secretly with leading Wall Street hedge fund managers — among them his former colleagues at Goldman Sachs — to alert them that he was about to nationalize the giant mortgage companies – a move that would eradicate nearly all the stock value of the companies. This information was enormously valuable because it allowed these hedge funds to short Fannie and Freddie and thereby make a fortune.
? While Timothy Geithner was head of the NY Federal Reserve, he argued against legislative efforts by Senator Ted Kaufman, D-Delaware, to limit the size of banks because the issue was “too complex for Congress and that people who know the markets should handle these decisions,” Kaufman recalls. Meanwhile, Geithner was fully aware of the enormous secret loans while Senator Kaufman was kept in the dark. Barney Frank, who was authoring key bank reform legislation, was also not informed of the secret loans. No one in Congress was told.
So what does this all mean?

What If??

By: James Burge
November 28th, 2011

Interesting and Enlightening Comment…

By: James Burge
November 23rd, 2011

Came across this comment posted in an article titled “JPMorgan Sued by BayernLB Over Mortgage-Backed Securities” which is amazing in itself, because there have been no federal charges against the banks found to be lending toxic assets with AAA ratings, but a German Lending Company Bayerische Landesbank sues over losses totaling $2.1 Billion due to the mortgage backed securities fraud.
The comment from Michael Rivero, (should have known since it covers all the bases, as he usually tends to) reads as follows:

After the last Depression, Congress enacted a law, Glass-Steagall, which forbid banks, insurance companies, and investment houses to be in the same institution, to deter reckless speculation with depositors’ money, which was seen as a major contributor to the stock market instability of the time. Then in 1999, at the height of the “Deregulation” craze, Citigroup and Travelers merged, a clear violation of Glass-Steagall. But rather than enforce the law, Congress repealed the prohibitions of Glass-Steagall with the passage of the 1999 Financial Services Act.

That opened the floodgates for runaway financial speculation. Wall Street knew that if they made money they would be allowed to keep it, but if their investments lost money, the US Government would step in to transfer the losses to the American people, because that is what had been demonstrated during the S&L debacle of the 1980s.

Starting about in 2005, Wall Street started bundling mortgages together into investment bundles. The initial offerings were greeted with great success, and soon everybody wanted to get in this new “product.” So great was the demand for Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS, also called Collateralized Debt Obligations) that Wall Street started running out of mortgages to front-load the system! This led to the creation of the “sub-prime” mortgage; granting mortgages to people who normally would not qualify. Congress, themselves invested in the Wall Street firms that were profiting from selling MBS, passed an $8000 first-time homebuyer tax credit (actually a loan repaid in future taxes) to lure more buyers in which helped front-load the process even faster. This sudden surge in new homebuyers increased demand and home prices skyrocketed! This made investors and homebuyers even more confident, demand for homes and MBS soared even higher and a genuine bubble was being formed.

Demand for MBS was so great that as the supply of available mortgages began to dwindle, brokers started taking ‘shortcuts’. Bear Sterns was pledging the same mortgages into multiple investment bundles; a clear case of fraud. Other brokers were blending mortgages into the bundles that were already in foreclosure. As the returns from the MBS failed to materialize evidence surfaced that the earlier earnings had not been genuine, but were “ponzi” payoffs, using money collected from new investors to send dividends to older investors.

The whole scan started to unravel in 2008 and here is where things took a dark turn. Because Congress had their own fortunes invested in the companies at the heart of the fraud, Congress decided to prop up the scam with taxpayer money and block any efforts to investigate or prosecute. That is why TARP was passed by the Congress despite 90% popular opposition. Congress were saving themselves at the expense of the taxpayers. The phrase “toxic asset” was DC-speak for the fraudulent mortgages backed securities, which were being repurchased in order to avoid investors seeking to jail the Wall Street criminals, which would have brought all of Wall Street down. Despite claims that the US taxpayer would be refunded when the “Toxic Assets” were resold at some point in the future, the reality is that none of those assets will ever see a penny of repayment, because they are all the product of the biggest financial swindle in history. Bigger than Tulip mania. Bigger than the Great South Seas Company disaster.

These fraudulent mortgage-backed securities were being given triple-A ratings by the Wall Street ratings agencies, which were supposed to provide independent analysis of the value of investments. But as we saw with Arthur Anderson and ENRON, the supposed independent authority colluded to make the swindle look better than it was. Because the ratings agencies were giving triple-A ratings to the mortgage-backed securities, even as they reeled from losses, pension funds and retirement funds were allowed to purchase them, which is the real reason why public pensions for teachers, police, and firefighters have gone broke.

Together with having to cover the credit default swaps sold with those mortgage backed securities, it is estimated that the swindle has cost the nation $27 trillion, at least $16 trillion admitted to by the Federal Reserve in “loans” and “bailouts” (actually buy-backs) from foreign investors such as Credit Suisse, Deutchebank, the Bank of Libya (boy, did THEY get hosed; 98% of their sovereign wealth fund destroyed by Goldman Sachs aka Gold In My Sacks!), etc. Globalism took a major swindle in the US financial system and turned it into a global cataclysm from which we are all still reeling.

But while the “Too Big To Fail” banks were being bailed out by the US Government, smaller banks caught in the mess were struggling to stay solvent as cash poured out of their coffers to buy back all that bad paper they had sold to investors. Those monthly payments made by home-owners were not sufficient to cover the losses; the whole value of those homes needed to be returned to the banks’ balance sheets to keep the banks technically solvent. So again, starting in 2008, Washington DC sent out a private message to banks and mortgage companies that DC would look the other way if foreclosures to home loans were “short-cutted.” This kicked off the “Foreclosuregate” scandal in which phony foreclosure paper mills, bogus notaries, MERS were all used to facilitate a massive land grab from the American people. As Damon Slivers put it during Congress’ hearings into the foreclosure mess, “We can have a realistic discussion of the foreclosure mess, or we can preserve the capital structure of the banks. We cannot do both. Which shall we do?”

In hindsight, it is obvious which choice the government made. We are seeing wealth confiscation, no different than when FDR confiscated the gold from the American people to save the banks, only this time, done in a covert way to trick Americans into thinking it was their own fault they lost their homes. But again, this was the result of official US policy which gave tax credits to corporations that actually encouraged offshoring of American jobs. In short, the US Government took their jobs to make it easer for the banks to take their homes, to save themselves from going to prison over the mortgage-backed securities fraud.
Iceland had the right solution. They tossed the crooked bankers in jail and fired the government that tried to loot the people to save those bankers and Iceland’s economy is already on the rise. (Which is why you don’t see much mention of them any more in the American media)

That is it in a nutshell!

OWS turning point(s)???

By: James Burge
November 23rd, 2011

This is both scary and terribly sad. In the last few days (weeks) we have seen quite a few incidences of police brutality which only serves to prove a few tragic truths to those paying attention (which seems to be more than it used to be).

- We live as second (or third) class citizens in a police state
- Local police forces have been heavily militarized in the years following 9/11
- Most Police work for the 1%
- Police do not see citizens/students as people and treat them worse than animals
- The establishment is afraid of what the 99% are accomplishing

First, we have the first major catalyzing incident in occupy Oakland, when police thugs hit a US Veteran in the head with a tear gas canister, and then lobed another into the crowd that comes to his aid. Deplorable, but wait it gets worse.

I saw a video the other day of a woman punched in the face by police as she tried to show them a court order allowing them to re-enter Zuccotti Park. At the same time, I saw another video of police attacking a protester because he got to close to the fences so they bashed his face to the ground causing severe bleeding. I’m not sure how long it took for him to get medical attention.

There was also the story of another US Vet who was beaten and left in a jail cell for 24 hours before they realized he was actually injured and he went to the hospital for surgery on damage to his spleen obviously due to the police beating. Before letting him seek medical attention, Police accused him of being a drunk

There was also a photo going around of an 84 year-old woman who was pepper sprayed by cops at Occupy in New York I believe. There are the videos of cops dragging woman through the streets by their hair, and the now infamous video of Officer Pike pepper spraying 11 students who refused to move and were posing no threat to the officer. Apparently pepper spray is okay when someone isn’t listening to you; Shame Officer Pike, shame indeed. I wasn’t sure there was much else to say on this matter, but then I was proved wrong again.

Recently there was a story, I think I heard about it around the time of the 84 year-old woman being pepper sprayed, a story about a woman, Jennifer Fox, a pregnant woman who was pepper sprayed and kicked in the stomach by police at an occupy Seattle protest. Well the sad news to report is that Jennifer went to the doctor the other day and found out her baby had no heartbeat.

“They said the damage was from the kick and that the pepper spray got to it [the fetus], too.”

Our thoughts go out to her at this tough time, and I hope she can be strong, because I think all of the events mentioned above have something in common. All have the possibility, whether alone or collectively, to spark a turning point in our society. When people realize that the cops are not here for our benefit and the injustice system is not here to provide justice for you and I. Modern justice comes at a price, a price which you and I are unable to pay, but the top 1% seem to be making out just fine with the new arrangement as it is usually only a fraction of a percent of the profits they make of toxic assets.

I heard a story the other day about a man who stole $100 and then felt guilty and returned it; he got 30 years in prison. Yet a banker who was found guilty of embezzling $3 Million gets 10-15 years and will likely serve less than 5 years at a posh prison. People need to wake up to the growing inequality in our world, right now you see protests about the economic inequality, but it shines a flood light on the social inequality that has been building for quite some time.

What the Gov’t and drug makers don’t want you to know… Canibis cures cancer!!

By: James Burge
November 21st, 2011

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the medicinal benefits of marijuana. Here is one video of a man who used hash oil to cure his skin cancer. Apparently this is well known in the big business drug companies, but as can be expected, since it could never be patented and heavily controlled, it is impossible to get investors behind getting a canibinoid drug to market. It is said it takes over $100 million to get a drug out after all the required testing. Drug companies can pay this fee to push dangerous drugs on the market, such as Vioxx which was found to cause a dramatic increase in strokes and heart attacks, as long as the drug can be patented so that the investors get paid in the end with 3000% mark-ups on the drugs destined to cause side effects worldwide. While we are talking about Vioxx, it should be said that it was only allowed on the market after Merek hid the data that demonstrated its dangers prior to its launch, and as far as I know, no one has ever been charge with fraud in regards to the deaths this drug caused. Apparently since it is approved by the FDA, drug manufacturers are not responsible for any detrimental side effects (I think congress has tried many times to limit the liability and limit any punitive damages allowed against drug companies for any unwanted side-effects) because it is the FDAs fault for approving it, not Merek for falsifying data. You can see now why this is big business; low risk, high payoff.

Berkeley Police grab Female Protesters by their Hair…. Classy

By: James Burge
November 15th, 2011

Why can’t we all just get along…

By: James Burge
November 10th, 2011

Why Dollar Collapse is Garanteed

By: James Burge
November 10th, 2011

Ratigan seems to have it right…

By: James Burge
November 9th, 2011

Mother Should I Trust The Government???

By: James Burge
November 8th, 2011

Amazingly Inhumane, US soldiers torturing animals, for fun…

By: James Burge
November 8th, 2011

Okay well if you needed any more proof of the lack of humanity in US soldiers there is a video I just watched and didn’t want to post but felt I should. Watch as US soldiers seem to have nothing better to do then sadistically murder a sheep with a metal baseball bat. And of course the saddest part is that it takes 10 hits with the bat before the sheep stops trying to get away, which is of course natural when you feel your life is in danger. This is of course on par with videos of the US soldier throwing a puppy off a clif.

 It is amazing to see this behavior but there is a dichotomy that arises, is it that people who seem to enjoy torturing young animals more commonly look to the military for a sort of justification for this hatred they’ve felt, or are these normal everyday human beings who have been pushed past humanity into insanity due to the conditions they deal with on a daily basis. It isn’t hard to understand that soldiers are coming back from war broken (PTSD) because if this is what they are doing in their free time, for sport, it makes one wonder what they will get up to once they are back at home and the normal rules apply once more.

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And if you need any more proof, here is footage of soldiers cheering after they bomb hungry dogs in the middle of the night. Its sick…

Mischigan passes ‘License to Bully,’ No, Really…

By: James Burge
November 7th, 2011

In what can only be described as theology gone amuck, Michigan has passed a new law called ‘Matt’s Safe School Law’ (so named for Matt Epling, a Michigan teen who tragically took his own life as a result of threats, hazing and bullying) although, as you will see in the video below, of comments by Minority Leader in the Senate Gretchen Whitmer, it would not have done a single thing to save those individuals where bullying played a crucial role in their eventual suicide. What it does do, is further cement bullying as a systemic issue that, however unfortunate and deadly, is encouraged by teachers and now justified by lawmakers. It allows for a bully to provide a “religious or moral reason for their actions” meaning, as the GOP lawmakers seem to have intended it, a child who is taught homosexuality is wrong as justified by the Bible, apparently has the right to bully any child who they perceive to be homosexual using the Bible as religious justification for their bigotry. Of course weather or not this child is gay, lesbian, bisexual or possibly born intersex, is of no issue to the case, all this does is provide bullies with a backdoor so that certain types of bullying are not only acceptable, but are encouraged by such legislation.

There can be no moral reason justifying bullying, period. The fact that lawmakers have allowed for such justification provides that they do not understand the stigma and systemic ridicule that usually accompanies bullying, and how this poisoned environment effects the vary people they are tasked with trying to protect. This seems to be a last ditch effort to revive archaic beliefs that they see as loosing favour, and to give children raised in religious environments a licence to bully.

Could you envision this law being used by Muslims ridiculing young girls for not wearing head scarves, or Satanists even? How does one define a “religious or moral reason?” Is it only religions recognized by the government? Does scientology apply? can I use portions of LDS teachings to justify making fun of people who only have one mother??

It is a slippery slope to bigotry no matter how one looks at this law. This kind of reminds me of this idea that killing one person is murder, killing thousands is diplomacy. The US is falling all over itself to show that certain wrongs are in fact right, and certain rights, like the right to feel safe are apparently reserved for religious bigots.

Shame on you Michigan, Shame….

Bill Black Discusses Banker Fraud…

By: James Burge
November 7th, 2011

Bill Black, who was involved in the Savings and Loan Scandal investigation of the 1980s says the current Wall Street fraud crisis is 70 times bigger than the fraud he investigated more than 30 years ago. However, in a telling fact, with over 2 million fraudulent loans totalling around 11 trillion dollars the current crisis has only 120 FBI agents working nation wide dealing with around 4 million frauds where as they had over 1,000 FBI agents resulting in over 10,000 criminal referrals on savings loan scandal which was for losses around 150 billion dollars, again, only 1/70th the size of the current frauds. How many criminal referrals on the current fraud, Zero. Watch the video to see who Bill would fire. Not to spoil it but he accuses some of being the most abject failures as regulators in the history of regulation. Ouch. Go Bill.

Just to make sure you have those numbers:
Savings & Loan Scandal for frauds totalling over 150 billion dollars resulted in over 1,000 FBI agents giving 10,000+ criminal referrals for fraud.
Mortgage backed securities fraud which accounts for over 11 Trillion dollars, that’s 11,000 billion or again 73 Times larger than the savings & loan fraud, with only 120 FBI agents, only 12% of the savings & loan scandal, and not a single criminal referral.

Someone is laughing all the way to the bank, and it isn’t the 99%.

In a world like ours, it is amazing what becomes illegal…

By: James Burge
November 7th, 2011

Oakland Police Critically Injure 2nd Vet

By: James Burge
November 5th, 2011

Kayvan Sabehgi who served his country in Iraq beaten, critically injured, accused of being a drunk and heroin addict while being held in a prison cell for almost 24 hours before finally being sent to hospital with a ruptured spleen. He was in sergery yesterday and it said to be recovering. His sister did an interview (below), and not surprisingly she is mad.

Evidence of Agent Provocateurs in Oakland

By: James Burge
November 5th, 2011

You can’t begin to understand what going on in Oakland until you understand this. Police departments around the globe are infiltrating peaceful protest groups in order to insight violence so as to justify the police presence and their treatment of these peaceful protesters.

More Hot air from Bill O…

By: James Burge
November 4th, 2011

Doesn’t look like 3,000 people…

By: James Burge
November 4th, 2011

MSN is reprting some 3,000 protesters showed up to shut down the port in Oakland, looks like more than that to me.

This is kind of pathertic…

By: James Burge
November 3rd, 2011

It wont let me embed the video so click here. Watch as the reporter acts like, wait for it, a reporter!!! But she is very good at avoiding the bigger issue.

And of course, as Alicia Points out, “the harper government” has made the same decision, likely for the same reasons.

Can you imagine if the USA negotiated with King George I regarding their own independence.  On a somewhat related note, look for Israel to invade Iran before the US withdraw from Iraq January 1st, as they cannot finish a scermish with Iran but they sure as hell can start one.

Arab Spring Maufactured by Western Interests…

By: James Burge
November 2nd, 2011

Minister Farrakhan Has It Right…

By: James Burge
November 2nd, 2011

Interesting vid…

By: James Burge
November 1st, 2011

It’s worse than you think…

By: James Burge
October 25th, 2011

Take money out of Politics!!!

By: James Burge
October 19th, 2011

Truth in Humour…

By: James Burge
October 18th, 2011

There is Honnor Here After All…

By: James Burge
October 18th, 2011

Here is an amazing video of 4 star commander Joseph Esposito, the highest ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD intervenes in the Occupy Wall street Protests. But it wasn’t the protestors he told to move back, it was the Police. At first they seem kind of stunned by his order, then after they move back and stop their attack on the occupy Wall Street protesters, not surprisingly tensions diminished and the situation calmed down with no arrests made.

 

Update: I think I’ve found the video of this incident before commander Joseph Esposito steps in. It is crazy to watch as the mounted cops spur the horses to charge the crowd, but the horses are like “WTF??” I think the horse that falls down in this video was reacting to this behavior.
 
 

Some Iranin Hisory you may not know…

By: James Burge
October 17th, 2011

“There is no Honor in that…”

By: James Burge
October 17th, 2011

Awesome video of Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas berating NYPD for their heavy handed treatment of the Occupy Wall street protestors by the NYPD. Now there is someone who understands freedom, and who isn’t going to back down to the NYPD thugs.

Prisons Vs Schools…

By: James Burge
October 14th, 2011

Another vote for Ron…

By: James Burge
October 14th, 2011

Some more Occupy Wallstreet Videos…

By: James Burge
October 13th, 2011

(for SJ..)

Okay so I am going to post some videos I have come across from the occupy Wall Street crowd and try to communicate their message as best I can.

Unfortunately, The Mainstream media (MSM) wants you to believe that they are a bunch of disorganized delinquents who are just trying to stir things up because they are selfish, entitled or self-centred and that you shouldn’t pay any attention to their message, you wouldn’t understand it anyway, GO BACK TO SLEEP. So I will attempt to post some videos of the Occupiers themselves and attempt to put some of their main criticisms here.

These people are not mad about global warming or any other distraction the MSM uses to try to discredit these individuals. These people represent the 99% of us that don’t run banks, countries, corporations or the like. We are THE PEOPLE. They are veterans, students, there views across the spectrum (not that many of us buy the left right paradigm anymore anyway). They are frustrated that after years of bad bets, the United States government with the help of the Federal Reserve stepped in to cover Wall Street’s losses to the tune of 14 trillion dollars, (which is apparently equal to last years US GDP) so that wall street and the too big to fail banks can save face.

They want an end to the Federal Reserve: a private for-profit banking institution with the ability to counterfeit the US dollar and allow congress to spend this money, AT INTERST. (see the 11th marble for some info on the debt based currency system)

They want investigations into both the bailouts of banks, the federal reserves actions of printing money to supply the bailout funds, Mortgage backed securities fraud, investigation into the motive behind the deregulation of the markets/mortgage rules which allowed for these shady dealings to begin with. They want an end to Fiat currency and a return to the gold standard.

But as Naomi Klein says “Wait until you know how much power you have, then you know what you can demand”

And its spreading, Occupy London, Occupy Spain, Occupy Calgary (All Calgarians time to do our part, 1:00PM Saturday Oct 15, see ya there… and people please keep it peaceful, I don’t want to end up in jail, but if that is what is required of me, let it be done…)

And see this post..

Extra Judicial Assassination of an American…

By: James Burge
October 5th, 2011

FIAT money explained…

By: James Burge
October 5th, 2011

Couldn’t have said it better…

By: James Burge
October 4th, 2011

Update: Just found another one.

Interesting Theory…

By: James Burge
September 27th, 2011

On April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine was first licensed for public use in the U.S. In the years afterwards 90 million Americans were vaccinated in the largest mass vaccination campaign ever. Polio virtually disappeared from the continent and Jonas Salk became a hero.

But not long after, 260 children who were vaccinated with Salk’s vaccine became sick. Eleven of them died. An investigation showed that some lots of the vaccine were defective and confidence in it was shaken.

Two scientific greats, Dr. Hilary Koprowski, director of the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, and Dr. Albert Sabin, a physician at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, raced to replace the Salk vaccine. Dr. Cecil Fox, a pathologist at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases remembers that it was an intense competition.

Both Sabin and Koprowski’s vaccines were derived from monkey organs. They needed to test them in large, non-immunized population groups, no longer available in North America.

Sabin traveled to the U.S.S.R. and vaccinated more than 6 million people in Latvia, Estonia and Kazakhstan between 1958 and 1959. No AIDS cases emerged in the U.S.S.R. where Sabin did his testing.

Koprowski moved his study to the Belgian Congo which had one of Africa’s more modern health care infrastructures at the time. Between 1956 and 1960 more then 1 million African people were ‘encouraged’ to receive Koprowski’s vaccine called CHAT.

Sabin analyzed Koprowski’s vaccine in 1958 and found it be be ‘unstable and contaminated by an unknown virus’. He told Koprowski about his discovery and went then went public with his findings.
http://drey.orgfree.com/Political – Visit the Ocular Stream’s political section, for dozens of hard-hitting documentaries and films, all packed with physical evidence and sworn testimony.

Since first being broadcast in 2003 the Origins Of Aids has yet to be aired on UK television. Despite winning many awards and being hotly debated the reason is because of the barrage of legal assaults made on potential screeners by Dr Koprowski (and his legal network), who strongly denies causing the Aids epidemic during his 1950s trials of an experimental polio vaccine in Africa. Doc-Film-Net has also been threatened with more legal action for showing this important film than any other!

 

Good News Everyone… I’m not crazy…

By: James Burge
September 23rd, 2011

An Honest look at Middle East Politics…

By: James Burge
September 20th, 2011

Well put Judge..

By: James Burge
September 14th, 2011

Thermite can cut steel, in other news the sky is blue, grass is green…

By: James Burge
September 14th, 2011

Occupation through the eyes of children…

By: James Burge
September 12th, 2011

Flight 93 was shotdown, eyewitness claims…

By: James Burge
September 12th, 2011

Theodore L. Gunderson (Nov. 7, 1928 – July 31, 2011)

By: James Burge
September 9th, 2011

An interesting article on Theodore Gunderson here.

More Evidence that the West is the Aggressor in Libya…

By: James Burge
September 7th, 2011

Wow, Some staggering Libya statistics…

By: James Burge
September 6th, 2011

Although, I think anyone with a brain knew the humanitarian aid brought to Libya with bombs didn’t quite add up.

Wow, very moving… and chilling.

By: James Burge
September 6th, 2011

The message of this video is simple, and the future generations will likely not be too kind to us and what we’ve done. But if we aren’t honest about what we are facing, how will we servive.

Although, I think the elite of this world are hoping most of us wont.

 

Evidence Surfaces of Prompt Criticality at Fukushima

By: James Burge
September 6th, 2011

For those of us fully aware of what was going on at Fukushima, this probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise, but there is no question this is very troubling.

Below is a recording made last night (timestamp: 2011-09-05 approx. 4:30am) of the live camera set up to monitor Fukushima. This video shows multiple flashes of light emanating from the crippled plant. This suggests some sort of prompt criticality occurring at the reactor. The question remains regarding the source, weather or not the flashes came from the melted fuel rods or, more likely, the spend fuel pool.

Some have already postulated that the ‘hydrogen explosion’ which occurred in the days following the earthquake and resulting tsunami may actually have been an explosion due to criticality in the spent fuel pool.

The concept of criticality was discovered back during the Manhattan project and was one of the few reasons the US beat the Germans to the Atom bomb. Criticality is the mass required of radioactive material, which will drive the atomic reaction to completion (although it is a bit more complicated than that but you get the gist), and any time you approach this mass you approach criticality.

There was a story, back in the 60s I believe ( May 21, 1946 actually), which was the second criticality accident in the US, this was of course before they had what little knowledge exists on nuclear power today (I believe this was actually the early stages of the Manhattan Project, Louis Slotin, I believe), and two large pieces of uranium (according to Wikipedia placing two half-spheres of beryllium (a neutron reflector) around a plutonium core). Then, human error resulted in the two plutonium pieces coming into contact with each other. If left this probably would have produced the runaway reaction we know as an atomic bomb. However, true criticality was averted when Louis separated the two pieces of plutonium halting the reaction. Of course this scientist lost his life 9 days later due to the high dose of radiation he received, but it is unknown how many lives he saved by his actions although he is credited with saving the lives of the other 7 scientists present at the time of the incident.

Today’s modern atomic bombs rely on this same principal. A mass of highly enriched radioactive compound just short of critical mass is present in the bomb. Another piece which would put the mass over criticality is forced into the other piece at detonation, creating criticality and the resulting explosion of energy.

So from what I understand, the spent fuel pool has had similar criticality incidents which were the likely source of the ‘hydrogen’ explosion. So it is my hypothesis that these flashes (which seem to be Air Ionization) seen in the video below are likely due to minor criticality reactions (called Prompt critical reactions). Although my guess is that due to the fact the radioactive compounds are likely in solution (in the spent fuel pool), then these prompt criticalities seem to create enough force to push other radioactive ions away reducing criticality at the source. Unfortunately, if this is the case, I think it may be only a matter of time before these minor criticalities, add up to a total criticality that would sustain the nuclear reaction and send what is left of Fukushima sky high, and of course any radioactive debris leftover, including any HIGHLY deadly plutonium, into the upper atmosphere to be distributed around the globe.

Let us just hope this doesn’t happen and I get to look like a crazy person; although the odds of that seem to be getting worse by the day.

Ready for my absolute lack of surprise…

By: James Burge
September 1st, 2011

This is nothing new. The outhorities have been trying to crack down on intrenet media outlets for years to no avail. Now that Harper finally has a majority governmnet, it is time to start pushing through new police state type legislation, especially before the NDP figure out what they are doing post Jack Laton (RIP).

AE911Truth

By: James Burge
August 18th, 2011

Its only taken about 5 months to report on this crap…

By: James Burge
August 5th, 2011

Okay, so 5 months after the earthquake and resulting tsunami, the Mainstream media (MSM) is finally starting to report on the high levels of radiation detected in BC. Of course they haven’t mentioned the high levels measured in Alberta rain water as well, (watched a YouTube video the other day of a man testing Lake Louise rain water and getting a reading of 1.5 mS and the manual that came with his Geiger counter tells people to leave the area if you get a reading of higher than 1.2 mS)

Although, can you really call the Straight mainstream??

They have even mentioned the increased infant mortality rates since the disaster, which I haven’t seen elsewhere, except online of course.

But I think the thing that gets me the most, is the bullshit that there is no risk to the public, but 1 in 3,000 will likely develop cancer. Yeah you read that right, it is safe for 2,999 of 3,000, which considering the population of Vancouver alone, ( 2.1 million according to Wikipedia) that means at least 700 cases of new cancers, hardly no risk, low risk to the 2,099,300 who don’t develop cancer, leukemia, or some other disease.

And of course there is the always amusing comment that levels are within normal background exposure or exposure due to x-rays. This is not only misinformation; it is a complete distortion of the actual facts. The biggest risk of exposure to the fallout from Fukushima is not the radiation from the dust released, it is the dust itself. After inhaling the radioactive particles it will continue to expose a person to radiation every day, for the rest of their natural life. (Assuming of course, that the radiation doesn’t turn us into crime fighting super heroes of some kind)

I’m going to let that sink in. No risk to the public, unless you are one of the few to inhale radioactive dust, and then, well, the Canadian government sees you as expendable. Amazing, the people that claim to regulate us to death in order to save us from ourselves, don’t seem to give two shits about saving us from radiation exposure, or even keeping us informed of the levels of exposure. This is of course because Canadian companies make a killing selling uranium to other countries for, lets call them peaceful purposes, which is of course an argument for another time.

Crazy vid of Car caught in Tsunami

By: James Burge
June 23rd, 2011

Edge of Glory

By: James Burge
May 10th, 2011

Radiation Update

By: James Burge
May 9th, 2011

Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History from Fairewinds Associates on Vimeo.

Yeah, Why Not??

By: James Burge
May 5th, 2011

Came across an interesting article on the Death of Bin Laden where the question was posed “Why Didn’t We Capture the Terrorist Kingpin and Interrogate Him?” which I think is a very valid point. Why, when the establishment is busy trying to sell torture as a valid way of procuring information from ‘enemy combatants’ is the leader of Al-Qaida, a man who (if he really was what the US says he was) would have knowledge of countless plots against the US and people abroad, shot in the head and his body dumped at sea, as is Islamic traditionso extremists can’t rally around his grave site, so we can’t prove they didn’t shoot him someone. And the only proof of his death is a photo apparently too gruesome (more gruesome than Abu-ghraib, pictures of the effects of Depleted Uranium babies, charredAmericans hanging from strings) and on first try too fake, may put Americans at further
risk If, as is claimed, the US has techniques useful in getting uncooperative individuals to spill their guts, why were they not used on Bin Laden to at least attempt to foil other plots he has in the works. The US could have put him on trial, as was customary before the patriot act, and sentence him to death, as was done with Saddam. Instead, a man who was never properly charged with the crime of 9/11, never confessed to 9/11 (unless you count the ‘fat Bin Laden’ video) and who was described by countless intelligence officials to be in almost complete renal failure in 2001/2002 or already dead, shot by US forces, this week, in a bloody firefight (sources in the area report no shots were firedhiding behind his wife, dying a martyr, just in time to boost Obama’s failing approvalrating, and to prove that extra-judicial assassinations aren’t always botched like the recent attempt on the life of the Libyan leader which saw the murder of his son and three (under 12) grandchildren. And of course you have that unbelievably fake birth certificate released while the Whitehouse Photoshop experts were apparently on vacation. And of course there is Ben Bernanke, who held a press conference to tell the world that the US would continue to devalue its currency, while continuing to flood the market with cheep dollars causing already inflated prices to rise farther, not to mention the price of oil inflated both by the low value of the dollar and all the BS going on in the Middle east The Whitehouse could ill afford for US citizens to discover Bin Laden had been dead for years, only to have his ghost dragged out at opportune times for US diplomats to save face when faced with their complete incompetence. We also have to keep in mind that if people aren’t afraid they wont stand to be groped by TSA, submit to random (useless) searches on trains, in stadiums, and on the street. Also, I don’t know how the parents of the over 3000 Americans killed in this illegal war, died so that the oil companies were able to install critical infrastructure for the US to leach Oil off the Middle east, at the cost of all Americans, and to the profit of a few, albeit highly connected individuals, some of which just happen to be US congressmen or senators.

Those who can’t learn from the past…

By: James Burge
May 3rd, 2011

 

The following video is probably one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen, maybe ever. If you can stomach it, take a look. (not gruesome, just tragic) 

These are the lost children of Chernobyl. Sentenced to live their lives trapped in their defective bodies, made that way because of our mistakes. These children have suffered, and will continue to suffer, likely for the majority of their existence. Who will take responsibility for what has happened to these children, not the Nuclear Industry/Lobby. I could never wish this fate on any child but poetic justice, or Karma may have something in mind for those singing nuclear technologies praises. Although, more likely, as with Chernobyl, the innocent will suffer. After all, these are just innocent children whose parents lived to close to this disaster. I wonder if they could, would they blame us for their suffering.

Is this our future?

Time to buy a lotto ticket…

By: James Burge
May 2nd, 2011

Okay, if there wasn’t video footage of this incident I don’t know that people would have believed this guy, assuming of course he has much memory of what happened. The video below shows a man struck by lightning not once, but TWICE, within the space of about a minute.

I’m not really sure what the odds are on that, but maybe this will finally prove that the age old saying regarding lightning not striking the same place twice is a total myth.

(Some of the comments in youtube are claiming this video is fake (which is almost as common place as “first”), so judge for yourselves)