statism watch

While the story below paints the chair of the commission as being somewhat petulant, it doesn’t even get into the issues surrounding his rejection of Bob Watts as executive director or the appointment of Owen Young – two decisions which seem to have been quite contentious among the people which the commission was created to  serve.

CBC News
October 20, 2008

Accuses two fellow commissioners of not heeding his authority

The leader of a commission charged with chronicling the dark history of Canada’s residential schools resigned on Monday, citing major differences between himself and his two commissioners.

Harry LaForme, an Ontario Court of Appeal judge who has chaired the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission since April, said in his resignation letter that the panel is “on the verge of paralysis” because his commissioners do not share his vision or accept his authority.

He said the commissioners – native health expert Claudette Dumont-Smith and lawyer Jane Brewin Morley – want to focus primarily on uncovering and documenting truth while he also wants to have an emphasis on reconciliation between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians. [Ed. Note - Meaning what, exactly?]

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CBC News
October 20, 2008

Washington needs to spend more cash if the global economy is to fend off a long-term slump, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board said Monday.

Ben Bernanke told a group of U.S. representatives that Congress should look closely at passing a new stimulus package as a way of restoring confidence in the nearly moribund world banking system.

“With the economy likely to be weak for several quarters, and with some risk of a protracted slowdown, consideration of a fiscal package by the Congress at this juncture seems appropriate,” Bernanke said in testimony before the House budget committee on Monday.

Congress currently is looking at whether to use more taxpayers’ money to help out ailing banks and other financial institutions, perhaps as much as $150 billion US, according to some reports.

Many voters, however, are upset at the perceived handout for these financial institutions while the same banks and trust companies repossess the houses of defaulting mortgage holders.

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Paul Joseph Watson & Kurt Nimmo, prisonplanet.com
October 20, 2008

The swift and ruthless exploitation of the economic meltdown on behalf of globalists and central banks revolves around their drive to move towards a one world currency system and an unprecedented centralization of global financial power.

Statements on behalf of world leaders and central banks over the past two weeks have made it clear that the agenda to further collate economic power and control of currencies into the hands of the few is rapidly accelerating – all in the name of solving a financial crisis that was caused as a result of the same fiat money system that the elite themselves created and maintained.

The original Bretton Woods agreement in 1944, spurred by the depression of the 1930s and the second world war, created the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and laid down common standards for markets around the world. Now with the current financial crisis EU leaders see another opportunity to impose global regulations on sovereign economies.

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This website is in contempt, then, as well.

CBC News
October 20, 2008

An organic farmer accused of ignoring a court order to stop selling unpasteurized milk was found guilty of contempt of court Monday morning in Newmarket, Ont.

Michael Schmidt has run a co-operative organic dairy farm near Owen Sound, Ont., for more than 20 years.

Contempt charges were sought by York Region officials, who fear there are health risks for people consuming the raw milk, including the risk of spreading salmonella, E. coli and listeria bacteria.

Schmidt still faces 20 charges laid by the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Grey-Bruce Health Unit. In order to save money for that trial, expected to begin in early 2009, Schmidt defended himself in the contempt case.

He could face jail time as a result of the guilty verdict.

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We are already on the verge of living in a science fiction nightmare. Speak out.

Owen Bowcott, The Guardian
October 20, 2008

Interpol is planning to expand its role into the mass screening of passengers moving around the world by creating a face recognition database to catch wanted suspects.

Every year more than 800 million international travellers fail to undergo “the most basic scrutiny” to check whether their identity documents have been stolen, the global policing cooperation body has warned.

Senior figures want a system that lets immigration officials capture digital images of passengers and immediately cross-check them against a database of pictures of terror suspects, international criminals and fugitives.

The UK’s first automated face recognition gates – matching passengers to their digital image in the latest generation of passports – began operating at Manchester airport in August.

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