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Now we all have to read the damn thing to see what’s in it. It’s a little disturbing that this comes so hot on the heels of the US rollout of aspects of its new Einstein wiretapping and ‘cybersecurity’ program and the CSIS announcement that they’ll be undertaking outreach and liason programs with the private sector, exactly what this plan proposes. The reason Einstein is relevant here is that it too details ways in which the United States government will federalize and standardize the network infrastructure of what they regard as private sector concerns vital to the security of the state. (Note: The first skim through the index looks like it’s giving Public Safety Canada a FEMA-inspired protocol, in which the state is run by the government cabinet committee through the ‘GOC’ (Government Operations Centre) and its regional Public Safety offices in an emergency, but watch this space for more details. The question becomes – what defines an emergency, this document has just announced that the ruling government’s cabinet can seize power in an emergency, this journal initially reads it. Get involved! Read it yourself and comment below.)

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The Canadian Press
March 15, 2010

OTTAWA — The government has released an “all-hazards” national emergency response plan four months after it was chastised for not having one approved by cabinet.

The plan outlines the responsibilities departments and agencies have in national or provincial emergencies, as well as international ones that could affect Canada.

“It outlines the processes and mechanisms needed for an integrated response to an emergency,” Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Monday.

“It’s also designed to co-ordinate emergency response efforts by federal, provincial and territorial governments, as well as the private sector and NGOs.

“Most of all, it will help to ensure that the government’s response to an emergency is seamless and timely and that key decisions can be made quickly when disaster strikes.”

Largely logistical in nature, the plan touches on virtually every conceivable natural or man-made disaster, from toxic spills and plane or train crashes to earthquakes, deadly storms and pandemics.

It also addresses government roles in tackling “cyber incidents” and terrorism – all in the name of protecting lives, property, national security and the economy.

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In case the Boston revelation that the Chinese are cutting fluoride with something – likely melamine – isn’t enough, in case all of the studies that the article’s author points you towards, or the mainstream Canadian news items StatismWatch has dredged up from the archives, or even the issue of medication without consent – in case that pile of evidence that fluoride has deleterious effects isn’t enough to convince you this should be looked at, you can always turn to the fact that birth defects are cropping up in Indian villages and kangaroos and cattle are getting sick after exposure to it.

Flashback: End water fluoridation, U of T dental professor says | Cities, States Questioning Wisdom of Adding Fluoride Chemicals to Public Water Supplies | Tests find melamine in candies, milk, infant formula from China | Scientists Note Hormones in Water, Feminization of Fish Downstream of Montreal | Govt. Report: Fluoride in Water Supply Harms Thyroid Function | Pesticides, pollutants threaten Canadian tap water, researchers suggest | Dentist association attempts to defuse water flouridation controversy | Cut children’s fluoride exposure, report to Health Canada urges | Chief dentist recants support for fluoride

Kurt Nimmo, Infowars.com
March 13, 2010

The “investigative” team at WCVB TV in Boston ran a story yesterday about an unknown substance in fluoride imported from China. “Team 5 Investigates found the Amesbury Water Department pulled fluoride from its system amid concerns about its supply from China,” the news station reported. “Department of Public Works Director Rob Desmarais said after he mixes the white powder with water, 40 percent of it will not dissolve.” Desmarais said the residue clogs his machines and makes it difficult to get a consistent level of fluoride in the town’s water.

In the video report below, WCVB mentions melamine in food products and the heavy metal cadmium in toys imported from China while completely ignoring the larger and more important issue — fluoride is an extremely dangerous toxin that kills.

“Fluoride is added to the water most of us drink because the government believes it’s a safe and inexpensive way to prevent tooth decay.”

Fluoride does not prevent tooth decay. According to numerous studies, water fluoridation actually increases tooth decay. The AMA and others fallaciously claim that fluoride added to over 62% of U.S. water supplies reduces tooth decay. However, no less than six studies from dental journals show it does not and, in fact, may increase the likelihood of dental cavities.

Exposure to fluoride often results in dental fluorosis. Large numbers of U.S. young people — estimated up to 80 percent in some cities — now have dental fluorosis, the first visible sign of excessive fluoride exposure. Dental fluorosis consists of damage to tooth-forming cells, leading to a defect in tooth enamel. It is also an indicator of fluoride damage to bones.

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It’s good to see that the emergency workers are finally able to hold the government accountable for some of its lies on 9/11. For greater detail on the suffering the first responders have been through, point your browser towards the documentary Truth Rising. Skip over the opening montage to the 3:10 mark.

CBC News
March 12, 2010

$650M pact for police, firefighters in cleanup still needs approval

A $650-million US tentative deal has been reached between lawyers for the City of New York and thousands of emergency workers claiming cleanup from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks made them sick.

The $657 million coming out of a federal emergency insurance fund would be dispersed to police officers, firefighters and other workers involved in the cleanup.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who must approve the settlement, said at a hearing Friday that he needed time to ensure the deal is “fair, appropriate and just to all affected.”

Hellerstein said he would hold another hearing March 19 to let people weigh in on the settlement.

In the years following the attacks, many have complained about respiratory problems like asthma and other more serious health-related diseases including cancer.

Marc Bern, a senior partner with the law firm Worby, Groner, Edelman&Napoli, Bern LLP, which negotiated the deal, said it was “a good settlement.

“We are gratified that these heroic men and women who performed their duties without consideration of the health implications will finally receive just compensation for their pain and suffering, lost wages, medical and other expenses, as the U.S. Congress intended when it appropriated this money,” he said in a statement.

Thousands of police officers, firefighters and construction workers had filed lawsuits against the city, claiming they had been sent to ground zero without proper protective equipment.

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By who, Dr. No? It’s difficult to believe that any state agency would do this sort of thing to its citizens – and yet there are plenty of examples of it. Wartime germ spraying tests in England. The MKULTRA brainwashing program. Yet here, truth is not only stranger than fiction – it literally trips you out. Ergot (the bread mould), has long resulted in psychedelic experiences for ancient Europeans who dubbed it St. Anthony’s Fire. Sandoz, the CIA, Timothy Leary, Huxley and others synthesized the drug from this mould and/or popularized its use in popular psychiatry , on unsuspecting psychiatric patients and in grotesque mind control experiments on soldiers. It was thought to create a ‘model psychosis’. In the controlled experiment undertaken in a small French village outlined below, a psychological false flag event has been staged. It’s a simple misdirection trick, like the street performer’s shell game, only in this case undertaken by the state. The bread, here, stands in for the more usual ‘terrorism’. The side effects of the drug have to be blamed on something (usually someone in the ordinary wartime false flag) . The desired outcome is to gather data on the social effects of mass drugging, undertaken without consent. And if it has a traumatizing, pacifying effect as well then so much the better. Just like torture.

Flashback: Report: France ‘deliberately’ used soldiers as ‘nuclear guinea pigs’ | ‘They were looking for the ideal Manchurian Candidate’ | Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light in New Court Case | Psychologists Helped Guide CIA Interrogations | Vets Sue CIA Over Mind Control Tests | Atomic-testing veterans to receive whopping $24,000 each in compensation | Remembering Brainwashing | Chinese Torture Techniques Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo | Canadian MKULTRA project mind control victim to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing | Much of Britain sprayed in secret germ warfare tests

Henry Samuel, The Telegraph
March 11, 2010

French bread spiked with LSD in CIA experiment

Heads, made out of bread by this Thai artist. Seemed appropriate somehow.

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.

The mystery of Le Pain Maudit (Cursed Bread) still haunts the inhabitants of Pont-Saint-Esprit, in the Gard, southeast France.

On August 16, 1951, the inhabitants were suddenly racked with frightful hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire.

One man tried to drown himself, screaming that his belly was being eaten by snakes. An 11-year-old tried to strangle his grandmother. Another man shouted: “I am a plane”, before jumping out of a second-floor window, breaking his legs. He then got up and carried on for 50 yards. Another saw his heart escaping through his feet and begged a doctor to put it back. Many were taken to the local asylum in strait jackets.

Time magazine wrote at the time: “Among the stricken, delirium rose: patients thrashed wildly on their beds, screaming that red flowers were blossoming from their bodies, that their heads had turned to molten lead.”

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Ian Sample, The Guardian
March 11, 2010

Brain scans revealed with reasonable accuracy which short film clip volunteers were thinking about

Scientists have used brain scans to delve into people’s minds and predict what films they are thinking about from one moment to the next.

This is the first time brain imaging has been used to decipher such complex thoughts, which take place in the base of the brain in a region known as the medial temporal lobe.

The work follows an earlier study in which neuroscientists at University College London showed they could read a person’s thoughts about where they were standing in a virtual reality simulation.

“In the previous experiment we were able to predict where someone was in a simple, stark virtual reality environment. What we wanted to know is can we look at ‘episodic’ memories that are much more naturalistic,” said Eleanor Maguire, who led the study at the university’s Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging. “The kinds of memories we form day-to-day are far more complex – they involve people and buildings and all kinds of actions.”

The scientists recruited six women and four men, with an average age of 21, to watch three film clips, each lasting seven seconds. All three films were similar, and showed an actress performing a particular activity in a street. In one film, for example, a woman drank a coffee before binning the cup, while in another, a different woman posted a letter.

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Perfectly safe? Monsanto corn DNA has escaped into the environment – Monsanto regularly uses this as a club to force farmers adjacent to Monsanto fields to buy their product when genetic material sweeps across in the wind to contaminate their crops. See this documentary, The World According to Monsanto, for more on that. So now the EU has approved a potato that has the antibiotic resistant marker gene nptll and BASF promises this addition won’t go viral. Is BASF trying to wipe out antibiotics? They say, emphatically, no in this press release, and that the use of antibiotic resistant marker genes is required to distinguish between modified samples and control samples in the labroatory. Their press release detailing the benefits to paper production may be found here. What do you think? (It’s interesting to note that BASF already has a toe in the livestock feed business, and that these potato peelings may also be fed to animals) Save Our Seeds provides more background here.

Flashback: Will This Little GMO Piggy Go to Market? | Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals | Canada’s flax crop mysteriously contaminated by GM seeds | Britain will starve without GM crops, says major report | It is too late to shut the door on GM foods | Organic food no more nutritious, study finds | Researchers working on swine flu ‘vaccine corn’ | High-fructose sweeteners linked to obesity, diabetes | Doomsday seed vault’s stores are growing | Genetically Modified Seeds: Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach | UK Environment minister calls for international food treaty, GM foods at Fabian Society address | GM Crops Climb to Nearly One-Tenth of Global Crop Production | Genetically engineered meal close to your table | The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Europe’s secret plan to boost GM crop production | Hunger in Africa blamed on western rejection of GM food | GM crops could lead to ‘disaster’: Prince Charles | Small Farmers Pushed to Plant GM Seed | American thinktanks sowed seeds of food crisis | Agribusiness positions GM crops as panacea to predicted global food shortage | Monsanto Plans to Save World with its Biotech Crops | High-level UN task force to tackle global food crisis | Scientist who claimed GM crops could solve Third World hunger admits he got it wrong | Codex Alimentarius — An Emerging Threat | Codex Alimentarius Commission adopts more than 50 new food standards

Martin Hickman and Genevieve Roberts, The Telegraph
March 4, 2010

Critics claim plant could spread antibiotic-resistant diseases to humans

The introduction of a genetically modified potato in Europe risks the development of human diseases that fail to respond to antibiotics, it was claimed last night.

German chemical giant BASF this week won approval from the European Commission for commercial growing of a starchy potato with a gene that could resist antibiotics – useful in the fight against illnesses such as tuberculosis.

Farms in Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic may plant the potato for industrial use, with part of the tuber fed to cattle, according to BASF, which fought a 13-year battle to win approval for Amflora. But other EU member states, including Italy and Austria and anti-GM campaigners angrily attacked the move, claiming it could result in a health disaster.

During the regulatory tussle over the potato, the EU’s pharmaceutical regulator had expressed concern about its potential to interfere with the efficacy of antibiotics on infections that develop multiple resistance to other antibiotics, a growing problem in human and veterinary medicine. Amflora contains a gene that produces an enzyme which generally confers resistance to several antibiotics, including kanamycin, neomycin, butirosin, and gentamicin.

The antibiotics could become “extremely important” to treat otherwise multi-resistant infections and tuberculosis, the European Medicines Authority (EMA) warned. Drug resistance is part of the explanation for the resurgence of TB, which infects eight million people worldwide every year.

“In the absence of an effective therapy, infectious Multiple Drug Resistant TB patients will continue to spread the disease, producing new infections with MDR-TB strains,” an EMA spokesman said. “Until we introduce a new drug with demonstrated activity against MDR strains, this aspect of the TB epidemic could explode at an exponential level.”

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It’s interesting how quickly the plight of children occurs to the state when the outcome is to remove rights and accrue centralized power – and how slow any recognition of children’s suffering is when the necessary outcome must be to detach, decentralize, and withdraw. Witness Canada’s residential schools, the eagerness of Children’s Protective Services in the US to fulfill their quotas by snatching kids from families with a dirty dish in the sink nevermind the continuing rampant abuse in state custody, the Thalidomide apology – only fifty years late, the use of children as a pretext to treat everyone online as some potential paedophile by implementing filters and restricting anonymity, etc., etc. Of course, none of that matters if you’re putting a child through a naked body scanner, which breaks UK law. Children are treated as our pawns, empty vessels onto which we project all the grotesque evil of our adult world. They cannot help but reflect this back to us psychologically – and in some cases physically. It is,literally, heartbreaking.

The Daily Mail
March 4, 2010

Fatima Ahmed, born after the assault in Fallujah, has deformities that include two heads.

A high number of children are being born with birth defects in an Iraqi city where U.S. forces may have used chemical weapons during a fierce battle in 2004.

Children in Fallujah are being born with limb, head, heart and nervous system defects. There is even a claim that a baby was born with three heads.

The number of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than the rate in Europe.

The city, 40 miles west of Baghdad, was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the Iraq war in late 2004. U.S. Marines led Operation Phantom Fury to recapture it from insurgents.

British troops were involved in manning checkpoints on the outskirts of the city as the Americans went in. The U.S. has admitted that it used white phosphorus in the attack, but only as an illumination device.

Under international law it is illegal if used as an offensive weapon. America has never given a clear response to claims it also used depleted uranium weapons against the insurgents, such as ‘bunkerbuster’ bombs. Both types of weapons can contaminate crops and water supplies.

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Flashback: ‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually Impossible | Researchers unlock secrets of 1918 flu pandemic | Officials investigate how bird flu contaminated vaccines in Europe | Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland

Brandon Keim, Wired.com
February 23, 2010

Engineered hybrids of bird and human flu strains have proven virulent in mice, raising the disturbing possibility that a natural recombination could be deadly to humans.

For years, researchers have worried that H5N1 avian influenza would mix with human flu viruses, evolving into a form that keeps its current lethality but is far more contagious. That hasn’t happened — but the latest findings, published Feb. 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show how easily it might.

“Fortunately, the H5N1 viruses still lack the ability to transmit efficiently among humans.” However, this obstacle may be overcome by mixing with flu strains common in people, wrote researchers led by University of Wisconsin virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka. “The next pandemic then will be inevitable.”

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Given the power politics that have been employed by pharmacuetical companies to redefine the very concept ‘pandemic’ and all of the lobbying or infiltration of governmental bodies that’s gone on to press a new vaccination on the public, you can be pretty sure there’s some underreporting going on. Doctors have, as a matter of policy, refused to make connections between many adverse reactions and the vaccine – just read through the few stories that have made it into the media that have crossed this journal’s notice, below. The doctor in the present article won’t even give his or her name – that indicates fear. The H1N1 ‘pandemic’ was a hoax perpetrated to drum up new business, folks. Even the EU Council’s health chair says so. Meanwhile, they’re forcing vitamins off of the shelves now.

Flashback: One small needle, a world of trouble – Mom goes numb from H1N1 shot | Batch of H1N1 vaccine recalled for severe reactions | Elderly Quebec man dies after H1N1 shot | French Woman Gets Crippling Illness After H1N1 Vaccine | Teen Diagnosed With Guillain-Barre Syndrome After Swine Flu Shot | Washington Man Paralyzed After Routine Flu Vaccination | Deaths Associated With Swine Flu Vaccine Reported In Europe | Canadian taxpayers on hook for any H1N1 vaccine damages | Swine flu jab link to killer nerve disease: Leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America | Lessons of 1976: swine flu, fear, mass vaccinations, wasted millions

CBC News
February 23, 2010

A Calgary woman regrets getting the H1N1 shot after her doctor told her it likely caused a rare and painful disorder.

Norma Goldring said she felt compelled to get an H1N1 vaccine because she is diabetic and has had a heart attack, two factors that Alberta Health noted as putting people at higher risk for serious complications from swine flu.

But soon after getting the shot last winter, Goldring felt ill.

“My body was aching and I was throwing up. Then I developed a spot on my leg,” she said.

The rash spread quickly and Goldring ended up in hospital on Christmas Day. “By the time I got to emergency, it spread pretty bad and turned to blisters.”

Her kidneys were shutting down. Doctors eventually diagnosed it as vasculitis, an inflammation that destroys blood vessels.

Her doctor, who asked not to be named, concluded it was probably connected to the H1N1 shot. Goldring, according to her doctor, is one of only 31 people since 1974 to have had this type of reaction to a flu shot.

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The Guardian actually reports that “The summit on Thursday is shaping up as a piece of political manoeuvring by the Democrats rather than a genuine attempt by Obama to secure bipartisan support for health reform.” Republicans have been challenged to post their own suggestions, and the administration, says The Guardian, is counting on them not doing this in the three day time frame before the meeting this Thursday in order to paint them as obstructionist. Tricky, tricky.

Flashback: Barack Obama healthcare bill passes vital US Senate vote | House of Representatives passes Obama healthcare legislation | Obama tries to save health-care overhaul on primetime broadcast | Canadian defends anti-medicare ad | ABC Turns Programming Over To Government to Promote State Healthcare Agenda

CBC News
February 22, 2010

U.S. President Barack Obama has unveiled a new compromise health-care plan that attempts to bridge the differences between the stalled House and Senate bills.

The proposal, posted on the White House website on Monday, would not include a publicly run insurance plan, but would allow the government to cap health insurance premiums “if a rate increase is unreasonable and unjustified.”

It would also require most Americans to carry health insurance coverage and bar insurance companies from denying coverage to people with medical problems or charging them more.

The proposal claims it will insure more than 31 million Americans who cannot afford health insurance and reduce the U.S. deficit over the next 10 years by $100 billion.

The plan would also scale back a Senate-proposed tax on high-cost health insurance plans objected to by House Democrats and labour unions, but will include a Medicare payroll tax increase on upper-income earners.

The plan would also eliminate what has become known as the “Cornhusker Kickback” — a controversial deal that would have exempted the state of Nebraska of having to pay its share of Medicaid expansion.

Instead, the federal government will provide additional financing to all states for the expansion of Medicaid.

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