Guess which
Supreme Court Justice said this: "..Sunlight is the
best disinfectant.Light is the only thing that can sweeten our political
atmosphere—light thrown upon every detail of administration in the
departments; light diffused.. #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/NKJQMvbXtV
Meanwhile in
regards to Syria's oilfields let's take a look at what
the shameless criminal pirates known as the USA and UK intend
doing.#cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/wUA9zwmkyk
Lesson in
Democracy. Who said this? "...when the public lacks
even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries
are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of
citizenship"#cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/NKJQMvbXtV
Fully agree with
the mother here!! "..people in positions of authority
who are supposed to be looking out for the welfare of all children have
zero interest in understanding the impact of their lessons on very young
children" #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/wElSUD1bUn
Here's
how the new generation of intelligent investigative reporters lay out
facts. The Grayzone reporters r fast becoming a source 2go2 if you want a
doze of truth to offset the poisonous lies fed to us by the MSM n other
warmongers #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/uVYE0D3ZRf
Live by the
sword...die by the sword!! Wonder if his coffin will be lined with all
the $ssss
he made supporting jihadis n regime changes. "James Le
Mesurier, White Helmets co-founder, discovered dead in Turkey"
#cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/CJc4q0n82P
Even b4 clinking
on this at ZH, I knew it was from Gatestone, the site hell bent on
trying to get Muslims and Christians hate each other endlessly. :Too
Many To Count": The Global Persecution Of Christians"
#cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/Zlmajv48mq
Were the votes
rigged? However, the guy did a lot of good for the poor, but trying to
cling to power for so long is not a good thing. "We Will Come
Back, Says Bolivia’s Evo Morales after Rightist Coup Forces Him to
Resign #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/7YnJHehNyO
"...How
can the 2.9 billion adults who own less than $10,000 in net assets
compete fairly against 47 million millionaires, let alone the 168,030
who own $50 million or more?...
Sooo.... the
USA/UK funded n trained "regime changer" leading the
violent Hong Kong protestors has a term for the rioters who set a father
of two on fire... the little monster calls them "fire
magicians". Is this a call 4more?? #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/RDEZqbwHNq
Folks like Don
Cherry who say immigrants 2the West r not assimilating w West's
values r 100% right. See how many rushed 2 jihad in Syria although many
were born n educated in the West. If 2nd generation can't
assimilate, what then? #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/FfVQUrcOjW
Sooo, it all
boils down to getting rid of leaders who want to share their
countries' wealth with all of the people, including the poor,
rather than just the elite n of course US/UK/Cda/EU
corps. "After Evo, The Lithium Question Looms Large In
Bolivia " https://t.co/lBOUfnQEuj
Yup...Trump has
been proving in 2many ways that he's indeed a puppet of the PTB.
Sadly, his supporters won't ever c that n might even die
needlessly 4a conman.
The Saker:
"..the resistance need to truly understand that winning a
popular vote is simply not enough: every time a truly patriotic regime
comes to power, the US eventually is successful in using its agents in
the ruling classes... #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/n6k80xZldt
Police State
America is much worse than what we have read used to happen in Soviet
Russia.. "Code Pink founder raided by DC police on dubious
Venezuelan embassy ‘assault’ charges" #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/rMgQqinbxA
Wars = $s
for the 1%ters BUT 2 those sent 2 wars, it's
this: "...recent report by the Department of Veterans
Affairs, at least 60,000 veterans died by suicide between 2008 and
2017. On average, 6,000 veterans kill themselves every .. #cdnpoli#tcot#TOpolihttps://t.co/NeCRQ9E5O9
Manisha Krishnan at VICE Canada’s Ridiculous Ruling That Oral Sex with Animals Is Legal Shows Need for New Bestiality Laws The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a person must actually penetrate an animal or vice versa in order for the act to be considered bestiality.
In a judgement released Thursday, Canada's top court ruled in agreement with a lower court that overturned a bestiality conviction.
The graphic ruling explains the case like this: A man, known in the judgment as D.L.W., tried to make his teenage stepdaughter have sex with the family dog, but that proved impossible, so he spread peanut butter on her vagina and made the dog lick it off while he photographed it. Later, he asked her to do it again so he could make a video.
The judge presiding over the man's first trial ruled bestiality "means touching between a person and an animal for a person's sexual purpose," and penetration isn't required. He was convicted of numerous sexual offences, including bestiality. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
But when the man appealed that conviction to the Court of Appeal, he won his case and the bestiality conviction was dropped. The Crown then appealed that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.....
...Camille Labchuk, executive director of Animal Justice, which acted as an intervener in the appeal, told VICE the ruling shows the criminal laws for protecting animals are out of date.
"Sexually abusing animals is completely unacceptable, it is contrary to our values. Canadians care deeply about protecting animals from this type of cruelty and sexual abuse," she said, adding "people who abuse animals often sexually abuse children as well, as the accused did in this case."....
Claire Bernish at TheFreeThoughtProject 5 Things the Establishment Slipped By You While Focusing Solely on Orlando Shooting After any major tragedy, we develop an obsessive need to analyze, debate, and argue every conceivable aspect of what’s taken place — as if time stops. That tragedy dominates mainstream and, often, independent media headlines for days or weeks, exhaustively positing theory after theory until the public begins to lose interest.
But tragedy doesn’t occur in a vacuum, and — though it might feel as if the world pressed pause to allow society to grieve — important, pertinent issues continue to arise while our attention is trained elsewhere.
As collective shock from the massacre in Orlando begins to fade, it’s a good idea to review what happened as the media obsessed over the last few days.
1) A major lawsuit exposing probable electoral fraud in eleven states could effectively alter the landscape of the presidential race....
Bank of America, JP Morgan among 74 of 158 financial institutions that invest in companies producing internationally banned weapons
Despite the international ban on cluster bombs, more than 150 financial institutions have invested $28 billion in companies that produce them, according to a new report released Thursday.
Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo are among the 158 banks, pension funds, and other firms listed in the "Hall of Shame" compiled by the Netherlands-based organization PAX, a member of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC).
The report, titled Worldwide Investments in Cluster Munitions: A Shared Responsibility (pdf), finds that the leading investors come from 14 countries including the U.S., the UK, and Canada. Of the top 10 overall investors, the U.S. is home to eight. Japan and China round out the last two.
Both the UK and Canada—along with France, Germany, and Switzerland, whose institutions are also named on the list—have signed the 2008 Oslo treaty known as the Convention on Cluster Munitions banning the use of the indiscriminate bombs under international law.
The U.S., which hosts by far the most companies on the list with 74, is not a signatory.
Cluster bombs, which can be launched from the air or ground, operate by ejecting smaller sub-munitions or "bomblets" that can saturate an area of several football fields, according to CMC. They can remain volatile long after a conflict ends....
With heat indices spiking near 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and local residents fasting in observance of the Muslim holy month, the latest act by Israel risks loss of life and a fierce response.
The Palestinian-occupied West Bank faces the threat of mass casualties from extreme dehydration and heat stroke as residents face an unseasonably hot start to summer without clean water, during a time when devout Muslims are already fasting in observance of Ramadan.
The Israeli state-owned Mekorot water company cut water supplies to the West Bank more than 40 days ago, forcing locals to rely on untreated groundwater and wastewater to survive. The water shutoff appears to be a premeditated act against the Palestinian people, with Israeli officials saying over one month ago that no technical defects exist on the waterline. Water shutoffs in the West Bank correspond with Israeli officials boasting about surplus water supplies and plans to export water abroad to improve relations with neighbors. One such deal for exporting Israeli water supplies has already been made with neighboring country Jordan.....
Trump is right about Orlando – but not in the way you think I used to wonder why in the heck right-wing commentators on Fox News kept repeating the same mantra over and over again: sitting through the Republican debates, my eyes glazed over when I heard each and every candidate denounce the Obama administration for refusing to say the Sacred Words: “radical Islamic terrorism.” What are these people talking about, I thought to myself: they’re obsessed!
In short, I wrote it off as Fox News boilerplate, until the other day when, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, Donald Trump said the following on Fox: “Something is going on. He doesn’t get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. It’s one or the other.” Reiterating this trope later on in the same show, he averred that the President “is not tough, not smart – or he’s got something else in mind.”
The Beltway crowd went ballistic. Lindsey Graham had a hissy fit, and other Republican lawmakers started edging away from the presumptive GOP nominee. The Washington Post ran a story with the headline: “Donald Trump Suggests President Obama Was Involved With Orlando Shooting.” Realizing that this level of bias was a bit too brazen, the editors changed it an hour or so later to: “Donald Trump Seems to Connect President Obama to Orlando Shooting.” Not much better, but then again we’re talking about a newspaper that has a team of thirty or so reporters bent on digging up dirt on Trump.
In any case, Trump responded as he usually does: by doubling down. And he did it, as he usually does, on Twitter, ......
In 2015 there was a popular "conspiracy theory" floating around the Internet after a rash of mysterious "suicides" by high-profile banking professionals. What once looked like wild speculation is now beginning to resemble a vast criminal conspiracy connected to the Libor, interest-rigging scandal.
Over forty international bankers allegedly killed themselves over a two-year period in the wake of a major international scandal that implicated financial firms across the globe. However, three of these seemingly unrelated suicides seem to share common threads related to their connections to Deutsche Bank. These three banker suicides in New York, London, and Siena, Italy, took place within 17 months of each other in 2013/14 in what investigators labeled as a series of unrelated suicides.....
The Saudi crown prince reportedly said that over the years his country has always financially supported both Republican and Democratic candidates.
Saudi Arabia has paid more than 20 percent of the cost of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for presidential elections, Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was quoted as saying Sunday in a news report by the Jordanian Petra News Agency.
According to the Middle East Eye news website, the report was later deleted from the agency’s website. However, a snapshot of the original Arabic version was later republished by the Washington-based Institute for Gulf Affairs.
“Saudi Arabia has always sponsored both Republican and Democratic Parties of America and... the kingdom also provides with full enthusiasm 20 percent of the cost of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the U.S. presidential elections despite the fact that some influential forces within the country don’t have a positive look toward supporting the candidate because she is a woman,” the agency’s report quoted Prince Mohammed as saying. ...
From description at YouTube posting: Science is a method to help us answer questions about the physical world…but in this age of military/university partnerships, government grants and industry-funded research, who’s asking the questions? Jerry Day of FreedomTaker.com joins us today to discuss the new technocratic overlords and how the tool of science can be wielded as a weapon of social control....
....Out of the 508 terrorism-related cases since September 11, 2001, more often than not, the FBI has had a hand in creating the very terrorist threat they have claimed to be protecting us from. Two-hundred and forty-three of these cases involved an FBI informant. In many instances, the targets of these operations, who are later accused of plotting attacks, are not only almost always Muslim, but they are also often suffering from a mental illness, such as schizophrenia. Moreover, the targets are also vulnerable and easily susceptible to bribery as they are desperate for money – so desperate, it seems, they will help put their own friends behind bars.
This can be seen most clearly in the Newburgh Four case, which saw a combination of mental illness and an urgent need for money. One of the “Four,” James Cromitie, was a former drug addict who repeatedly tried to back out, saying “I don’t want anyone to get hurt.” In the words of a U.S. Court Judge, “only the government could have made a “terrorist” out of Mr. Cromitie.”
Another defendant in the Newburgh case, Laguerre Payan, suffered from schizophrenia to the extent he kept bottles of urine in his apartment. David Williams, another of the four, had a brother who needed a liver transplant, and he was prepared to do almost anything for the money to pay for it.....
Leaders of the CNTE union said the government was resorting to "fascist raids" and "kidnappings" to silence critics.
The CNTE teachers union demanded the immediate return of their leaders, Francisco Manuel Villalobos Ricardez and Ruben Nuñez, whom they said were forcibly disappeared by the governments of President Enrique Peña Nieto and Oaxaca Govenor Gabino Cue.
The federal government said Villalobos, who serves as head of the CNTE in Oaxaca, was detained Saturday on charges of aggravated robbery. The charges stem from the seizure of textbooks by the teachers union in 2015.
His arrest came after nearly 500 protesters were violently evicted from a public square by at least a thousand police officers in the city of Oaxaca. .......
Charlie Skelton at Flaunt ....The traditional means of maintaining your position “inside” the circle of power is to protect your boundary at all costs. The same tactic is used by banking cartels, elite policy groups, Chinese politburos, and secret societies: guard the walls.
For example, Oxford University’s Bullingdon Club—a notorious private dining society, depicted on the big screen as The Riot Club, and through whose puke-splashed portals have crawled such eminent individuals as the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and his loyal Chancellor, George Osborne.
Membership requires some very expensive tailoring, but before you’re allowed to don the splendid trousers and spatter them with champagne vomit, you have to be selected and initiated. The rituals of initiation include having to burn a £50 note in front of a beggar, which must be some comfort to the beggar, who can think, “I may be homeless but at least I’m not a giant arse.”
The whole thing has an old-school vibe: the trousers may be splendid, but they’re thoroughly retro. There’s a kind of Cecil Rhodes imperialist air to the proceedings: these are the chosen few, the mighty protectors of Empire, roaring like young lions, before wiping the cocaine stains off their chinless faces with a terrified waitress’s bra, and going out into the world to stake their claim on power.....
The US and NATO are pulling out all stops to turn their Syrian quagmire into something resembling their objectives in Syria. While US and UK troops had been setting up base in the north of Syria ostensibly in order to strike ISIS in Raqqa, the Syrian Arab Army has stolen a march on them with air-cover from the RUAF.
In today’s reports from the Syrian Arab News Agency, we hear that the Syrian Army Air Force destroyed ISIS vehicles to the north of the Zakia crossroads and the south side of Tabqa city in the countryside of Raqqa province.
Meanwhile, SANA claim that French and German forces have invaded north western Syria in the Ain al-Arab [Kobani] and Manbij areas. This brings them into proximity to the hotly contested Aleppo, Al Qaeda/Al Nusra central where 90% of civilians are being targeted daily in the government held western sectors of the city by a variety of US & NATO backed terrorists gangs embedded in the northern and eastern sectors, aided and abetted by their first response team, US and NATO funded Syria White Helmets.....
Ukraine disaster, the handiwork of USA/Canada/EU
Oliver Stone's documentary "Ukraine on Fire" coming soon.
Gareth Porter at InformationClearingHouse Why the Obama Administration Is Favoring al-Qaeda's Main Syrian Ally In yet another a dangerous US political-diplomatic move in Syria, the Obama administration is going out of its way to protect the interests of al-Qaeda's closest and most powerful ally in Syria, Ahrar al-Sham.
The administration's decision to shield the Islamist organization from the consequences of collaborating closely with al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, Nusra Front, in threatening what had been a promising "cessation of hostilities," goes much further than the US failure to pressure other armed opposition groups to separate themselves from Nusra Front, as US Secretary of State John Kerry had promised in negotiations with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.
Ahrar al-Sham is believed to be the largest military force seeking to overthrow the Assad regime in Syria, with at least 15,000 troops. It is not considered by analysts who have followed its evolution to be a "jihadist" organization like Nusra Front, because it has shown no interest in terrorism against Western countries. However, some of its senior leaders have had ties with jihadists, including Osama bin Laden, in the past, and it has worked closely with al-Nusra Front since both organizations entered the Syrian conflict in 2011.
....The Russian response to Ahrar's disruptive behavior was to propose in late April that Ahrar be blacklisted and put outside the cease-fire framework. That would have meant that the United States would not insist that Russia and the Syrian regime avoid targeting Ahrar in airstrikes.....
But the Obama administration rejected that Russian proposal, and in the process it revealed the new status that Ahrar now has in US policy. On May 24, when US State Department spokesman Mark Toner was asked why Ahrar should be given any protection under the "cessation of hostilities" agreement despite its violation of the cease-fire, Toner replied that Ahrar "is part of this vetted group of opposition forces that are part of the HNC, High Negotiating Council." (The actual name of the body is the High Negotiations Committee.) He also said the State Department believed that agreeing with the Russian request "would have a damaging effect on the cessation of hostilities."....
They say if you want to boil a frog, you can’t just toss him in boiling water. Instead, you put him in lukewarm water, and gradually turn up the heat. That way, the frog never realizes he’s been boiled. The Powers That Be (PTB) have exercised the “frog” axiom throughout history.
• Take income tax. Though now an accepted way of life, income tax wasn’t always around. The original U.S. Constitution excluded it; in 1895 the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
Therefore the only way the PTB could establish income tax was by legalizing it through a Constitutional Amendment. That Amendment was introduced in Congress by Senator Nelson Aldrich, who also introduced the original legislation which ultimately became the Federal Reserve Act. He was David Rockefeller’s maternal grandfather.....
...The recent ISIS-blamed San Bernardino incident is being used as the most immediate excuse for Obama’s unconstitutional gun measures. For one of many debunkings of this incident, click here, but among the most egregious anomalies were the failure of law enforcement and mainstream media to follow up on eyewitness accounts that three white males in military dress did the shooting, and that Syed Farook, one of the publicly blamed perpetrators (who are dead and cannot speak for themselves) was photographed lying face down, dead, his arms handcuffs behind his back.
This raises the question: Was he handcuffed before or after being shot? If he was handcuffed first, then shot dead while in custody, law enforcers committed murder. But why would you handcuff a man after he was mortally wounded, lying in a pool of blood?
What might make more sense is that Farook and his wife were patsies who were abducted, handcuffed, then shot to death and dumped in the street. However, the black ops carrying out the mission, in their haste, forgot to remove the cuffs.
Whether things played out that way or not, San Bernardino is the event Obama is most exploiting to ramp up gun control. Let’s examine why his actions are illegal.....
n 2003, just four days before the Swedish referendum on joining the Eurozone, a prominent pro-Euro MP, Anna Lindh, was stabbed to death in a public place. The man later convicted, claimed to have no idea why he had done it, and no political motive was ever suggested for the killing.
Nevertheless many people predicted that the brutal death of a pro-Euro MP, so soon before the vote, would have a massive effect on the results. In the end it did not, and Sweden voted to stay out.
In 2016, just seven days before the UK referendum on leaving the EU, a prominent pro-EU MP, Jo Cox, was shot to death in a public place. The man accused has been described by neighbours as “quiet, bit of a loner, keen gardener”, with no known political opinions, and, according to “records obtained by” the Southern Poverty Law Centre, as a white-supremacist Hitler-supporter with a houseful of Nazi regalia and other incriminating items.
It is too soon to say whether the awful, violent death of Ms Cox will have any bearing ....
John Pilger: "Under Obama nuclear warhead production is greater than any post cold war president" Also, talks about how USA+gang is getting ready for war on Russia and China.
Bob Master at Truth-Out ....But African-American primary voters overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton. One leading Pennsylvania African-American faith leader explained to me that many black voters, especially older women, viewed their support for Hillary as upholding a "social contract" that was forged in 2008: after they abandoned Hillary for Obama that year, it was understood that eight years later she would have "her turn." Younger activists of color, even some who support Sanders, say they didn't "feel the Bern" because of his initial stumbling response to the challenges of Black Lives Matter protestors. And Michelle Alexander, who eviscerated the Clinton policy legacy in a Nation magazine article entitled "Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote," attributed African-Americans' 2016 allegiance to the Clintons to a widely held feeling that Bill Clinton was the first President "who actually treated black folks like they were real people, who could be viewed and treated as human beings...who actually would sit down to eat with them and sing in their church and acted like he enjoyed it, who recognized us as human beings."[2]
Race remains at the core of the American tragedy, and the struggle for Black Lives will not be subsumed in a broader movement. The future potential of a continuing post-Sanders' radical mobilization for economic justice, racial justice, and democracy will only be realized if it integrates....
AND in Police State France: From the description at the YouTube posting: An aid convoy of about 250 vehicles that was held at the port of Dover after being refused entry to France by authorities was travelling to protest outside the French embassy in London on Saturday evening.
Janette Charles at NSNBC OAS to Review Secretary General for Actions Against Venezuela The Organization of American States decided Wednesday to review the legitimacy of Secretary General Luis Almagro’s actions to invoke the Democratic Charter against Venezuela last month. The decision comes after a three day OAS summit in the Dominican Republic and the announcement of diplomatic talks between the United States and the South American nation. “We want to announce that a historic vote has taken place,” expressed Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Relations Delcy Rodríguez. “[The OAS] has voted on the issue of citizen Secretary General Almagro and the legality of his actions as mandated by the General Assembly, the highest body within this organization, [he] will be assessed by the Permanent Council per Venezuela’s request,” Rodríguez continued.
The Venezuelan diplomat requested the official review of the OAS head Wednesday which was approved with 19 votes in favor, 12 against, one abstention...
Lily Tang Williams, a Chinese immigrant, is the state chair of the Colorado Libertarian Party. She posted a photo to Facebook featuring her AR-15 rifle and the American flag with a vow to never again be a “slave.”.......
Michael Krieger at LibertyBlitzkrieg New York State Senator Introduces Unconstitutional, Anti-Free Speech Legislation Perhaps the greatest irony of this past year has been the mind numbing and irrational anti-free speech wave that swept across facets of so-called “liberal” America.
This regressive movement was most readily apparent on college campuses, where hordes of sheltered and emotionally stunted students demanded restrictions on free speech in order to prevent themselves from being offended by an ever expanding list of unhappy thoughts and words. However, what is far more troubling, albeit much less public, are attempts by two fascist academic authoritarians, to convince the American citizenry to relinquish their First Amendment rights in the name of fighting ISIS. One of these men is a close advisor to President Obama....
From BlacklistedNews ...Source: Matt Agorist Civilians Take Over Oakland Police Dept After 3rd Chief Ousted During Underage Sex Scandal In September of last year, Officer Brendan O’Brien killed himself a little more than a year after police say his wife, Irma Huerta-Lopez, also took her life. Although police have not revealed the reason why, immediately after O’Brien’s suicide, an internal affairs probe began looking into whether any current officers committed sexual misconduct with a minor.
Months after the probe was launched, it sent shockwaves through the department and eventually spread to other departments.
The public became aware of the investigation after an 18-year-old sex worker went public claiming to have had sex with dozens of cops in five cities while she worked as a prostitute. Several of these encounters happened when the teen, Celeste Guap, was legally a child.
“It appears to be a cesspool here,” local attorney, John Burris, responsible for a 2003 federal probe into the Oakland police department said. “But you gotta keep working at it to drain the swamps.”
As Oakland scrambles to hold on to what little shred of dignity they think they have left, the embarrassment continues to grow.
On June 9, Chief Sean Whent resigned in the wake of a widening sexual misconduct scandal. He was replaced by Interim Chief Ben Fairow, who, after only six days on the job, was then forced to step down after Mayor Libby Schaaf said she had received information that made her question Fairow’s ability to lead.
As if the city and department didn’t look absurd enough after those two follies, Chief Paul Figueroa, who replaced Fairow, tenured his resignation three days later. Having no one to step up ...
People like me who complain about certain stuff which we see as wrong and dangerous, do so only because we believe that prevention is better than the cure and not because we hate people for their religion or traditions.
The dhimmi judge in the case as detailed below has perhaps the same kind of mentality judges had in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands and many other EU countries just a few short years ago. Look at what's happening in those countries now. Will the looming "cure" that's likely going to happen in those countries, will it be better than the preventive measures if they had been in place?
I hope the government will appeal the foolish ruling by a dhimmi nitwit judge and let's hope the case will reopen before a person with at least a modicum of intellect which was clearly lacking in this judge.
Another preventive measure would be to add one more sentence in the application form for prospective new immigrants. Something like making it mandatory that new immigrants will be arrested if they cover or mask their faces when in public places and that it is absolutely necessary for new immigrants to shown their faces to one and all at the swearing-in ceremonies. Failure to comply with this rule will result in deportation .... that should be made very, very clear.
From ChristianScienceMonitor via YahooNews: A controversial Canadian ban on wearing face veils during citizenship swearing-in ceremonies tested the limits of restricting freedom of religion to promote “Canadian values.” On Friday, a judge ruled the government went too far.
The ban, introduced in 2011, was “unlawful” because it interfered with a citizenship judge’s legal obligation to ensure the “greatest possible freedom” is provided to people who are taking the oath of citizenship, a court determined.
The government said face veils, like the niqab - which covers the entire face except the eyes and is worn by some Muslim women - prohibited judges from verifying that citizenship candidates were actually reciting the oath. Its statements suggested this policy was also an attempt to force new citizens to assimilate to Canadian norms and adopt Canadian values, as the government defined them.
The ban was challenged by Zunera Ishaq, who comes from Pakistan and wears a niqab. She declined to go through with the citizenship oath in January 2014, saying she would be forced to violate her religious beliefs by removing it.
“[The] policy required her to unveil in public when there was truly no need, simply because the niqab did not please the [former Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney],” said Ms. Ishaq’s lawyer Naseem Mithoowani. “My client feels very strongly that this set a dangerous precedent and the Canadian government has no role in dictating to women what is, or is not, a morally acceptable dress code.”
The government rejected the possibility of holding separate ceremonies for niqab-donning women where they could unveil in front of a female judge only, saying this would promote inequality.
“Taking the oath of citizenship means embracing Canadian values and traditions while pledging allegiance to Canada,” the Citizenship and Immigration Ministry said in a statement. “While the government of Canada values the diversity that people of all origins bring to the country, it is reasonable to expect citizenship candidates attending a public civil ceremony to show their faces while reciting the oath.”.........
Is there no end to the failures of American foreign policy blunders? The dying Empire's failures are also a reflection on the foreign policy failures of Canada, UK, Australia and other nations who are under the mistaken belief that their welfare and future depends on always jumping as high as possible when the puppet master Empire mumbles "jump."
Just for a moment here, reflect on how different today's world would have been if after the 9/11 attacks, the Empire had opted to bomb and invade the country actually responsible for the attacks .... Saudi Arabia. After a fair and sincere reflection, ask yourself if you were brainwashed at that time by the Bush/Chenney administration and whether it's time for you to free yourself from those kind of strangleholds and stand by your own intelligence instead of being a slave to other people's agenda and motives. Azam Ahmed writing at NYTimes: Taliban Justice Gains Favor as Official Afghan Courts Fail Matiullah Khan and Muhammad Aywaz were each dug in, their property dispute in southern Afghanistan at an impasse.
Despite paying more than $1,000 apiece in lawyers’ fees, they found no resolution in the government’s judicial system. The tribal courts, informal networks of elders that most rural Afghans rely on, had also come up short.
So the two men did what a growing number of Afghans do these days when there is no other recourse: They turned to the Taliban. Within a few days, their problem was resolved — no bribes or fees necessary.
“He would have kept my house for himself if it wasn’t for the Taliban,” said Mr. Khan, a resident of Kandahar City who accused Mr. Aywaz of commandeering his home. “They were quick and fair.”
Frustrated by Western-inspired legal codes and a government court system widely seen as corrupt, many Afghans think that the militants’ quick and tradition-rooted rulings are their best hope for justice. In the Pakistani cities of Quetta and Chaman, havens for exiled Taliban figures, local residents describe long lines of Afghans waiting to see judges.
“You won’t find the same number of people in the Afghan courts as you do in the Taliban courts,” said Hajji Khudai Noor, a Kandahar resident who recently settled a land dispute through the Taliban in Quetta. “There are hundreds of people waiting for justice there.”
Western officials have long considered a fair and respected justice system to be central to quelling the insurgency, in an acknowledgment that the Taliban’s appeal had long been rooted in its use of traditional rural justice codes. But after the official end of the international military mission and more than a billion dollars in development aid to build up Afghanistan’s court system, it stands largely discredited and ridiculed by everyday Afghans. A common refrain, even in Kabul, is that to settle a dispute over your farm in court, you must first sell your chickens, your cows and your wife.
Countless training programs funded by Western allies for lawyers and judges have become bywords for waste. Laws suited to Western-style democracies have populated the books.
“The problem is we spent money on what we wanted to see, as opposed to thinking about what Afghans wanted to see,” said Noah Coburn, a political anthropologist at Bennington College.
Recognizing that informal tribal law would remain the choice for most Afghans, the United States in recent years began spending money to support local councils and connect them more publicly with the government. But a review by an independent monitoring organization found that instead of bolstering the government’s image, the effort mostly reinforced the primacy of the informal courts — of which Taliban justice could be considered a radical extension, wielding a mix of Pashtun tradition and extreme interpretations of Islamic law. ....
This makes me wonder if there were more individuals tried at The Hague who were also subjected to the kind of shameful injustice as carried out at the ICTY. According to ICTY's website they describe their work and themselves as:
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is a United Nations court of law dealing with war crimes that took place during the conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990’s. Since its establishment in 1993 it has irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law and provided victims an opportunity to voice the horrors they witnessed and experienced. In its precedent-setting decisions on genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, the Tribunal has shown that an individual’s senior position can no longer protect them from prosecution. It has now shown that those suspected of bearing the greatest responsibility for atrocities committed can be called to account, as well as that guilt should be individualised, protecting entire communities from being labelled as “collectively responsible”......
Below just a few paragraphs from the full article which goes to show how deep and wide is the corruption at the ICTY and it does not take a genius to wonder if the virus is also prevalent in the main body the ICJ ,or whether the virus has actually spread from it to its many branches.
Stephen Karganovic writing at VineyardSaker blog: ....Tainted from the outset, the case against Vojislav Šešelj began to really unravel once the trial started. It turned out that “expert” witnesses brought by the prosecution were a parade of half-wits and ignoramuses or, in Šešelj’s own memorable courtroom phrase referring to prosecution experts, “If they know less than I do about the subject matter of their expertise, they have no business being here.” The alleged percipient witnesses to Šešelj’s crimes were an unmitigated disaster for the prosecution, and their performance was marked by wholesale perjury. The vast majority admitted in court, under Šešelj’s merciless cross-examination, that they were blackmailed, pressured, or suborned to give false evidence against him under the direction of the prosecutor. One even revealed in open court that prosecution investigators had promised him access to “girls” if he agreed to give incriminating evidence against the defendant. Many prosecution witnesses, apparently relieved that they could finally do so in the relative safety of open court, withdrew large portions or all of their previously given statements and one, to the apparent amazement of the judges, requested permission to walk over to the defendant and to embrace him. The prosecution of Vojislav Šešelj, more than any other scandalous proceeding at ICTY, illustrates the true nature of the Hague Tribunal and symbolises most clearly its institutional corruption which was best encapsulated by the distinguished authority John Laughland in the title of one of his books: travesty. Oh, yes, and haven’t we forgotten to mention the official charges against Vojislav Šešelj? Not at all, they just happen to be completely ludicrous and of negligible import in relation to the gross subversion of basic legal principles that the conduct of his trial in all its phases represents. The defendant stands accused of “inciting” to violence and ethnic persecution in his political statements, an offence that is not even listed as a crime in the Tribunal’s Statute, any more than is the elusive doctrine of Joint Criminal Enterprise, which in any event would be regarded as legally protected free speech from any but a politically vindictive point of view. ......
and it all boils down to getting the Muslim vote at election time. The politicians of both these countries, along with many many more, have sold their souls for votes from the Muslim immigrant communities. Good of the country be damned. Patriotism be double damned. As long as these blasted politicians can win their seats, who gives a shit! What we forget time and time again is that these lowlives would not be holding political office if they were not lowlives. That's the bottom line. They will grovel on the ground kissing the feet of niqab clad Muslimas and Shariah enforcers if it means that they will get that X in the box alongside their name come election time. I don't blame the Muslim immigrants anymore .... at least not as much as I used to. I understand that for the Muslims their satanic book tells them to conquer the infidels everywhere they go and convert the lands of the infidels to evil incarnate. The faithful among the Muslim immigrants are abiding by their religion. I blame the politicians and the laws or the lack of laws in our countries. The rules and regulations should be very straightforward and Muslim immigrants should sign their consent to them if they wish to migrate to non-Muslim lands. The rules should empathically state that the long list (I don't have the stamina to go through it right now, but there must be 1000s) of cavemen stuff they believe in and practice will not be allowed in our non-Muslim lands. If caught abusing those rules and regulations, their citizenship will be revoked and they will be deported. Furthermore, they AND their lawyers should be scrutinized by the intelligence agencies to check for any links to wahhabi terrorist groups because only those this deeply into wahhabism would want to follow such practices and fight on behalf of people who want to follow such depravity. What brought on this rant? Read the following two items. Although, Canada's ex-Immigration Minister Jason Kenney did the right thing, wasn't it a bit too late? Wouldn't all this and more be avoided if intelligent people instead of numbskulls were ruling over us?
From MetroNews: Ex-immigration minister Jason Kenney ‘dictated’ niqab ban at citizenship ceremony, court told A Mississauga woman has taken the federal government to court over a policy that forbids wearing the face-covering veil while taking the oath of citizenship, arguing the ban breaches her Charter rights and fails to accommodate her religious beliefs and dress code. Banning the niqab from citizenship ceremonies is the result of former immigration minister Jason Kenney imposing his own ideology of “Canadian values” on the process, Zunera Ishaq’s lawyer, Naseem Mithoowani, told federal court Justice Keith Boswell at a hearing in Toronto on Thursday. “The true motivation of the policy is to compel Muslim women to abandon, albeit briefly, their religious adherence,” Mithoowani said. “The failure to remove the veil is at the heart of this policy, more than being seen taking the oath . . . This is about Kenney deciding that niqab does not fit into the mode of Canadian citizens.” It’s the first such challenge against the niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies; if successful, it could strike down the policy. In December 2011, Kenney brought in the ban in an operational manual — rather than new legislation — in a series of measurements meant to strengthen the integrity of Canadian citizenship that also included raising the pass mark for the citizenship test and stricter residency and language requirements............. From Channel4: Hundreds of new FGM cases - but still no convictions Never before published figures reveal the scale of female genital mutilation in England, with the number of women currently being treated by the NHS approaching 2,000. Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show there were 467 newly identified cases of FGM in English hospitals in September. This adds to 1,279 active cases - women with a history of FGM who are currently being treated by the NHS for FGM-related or non-related issues. It is the first time such data has been published in the UK, and HSCIC chair Kingsley Manning said the data is an important step towards preventing the crime. FGM has been a crime in the UK for 30 years, but to date there have been no convictions for subjecting women - and more often young girls - to the practice. The first trial, of two men including a doctor from London, is due to begin in January next year. The HSCIC figures show that women with a history of FGM are more likely to be found in London - though the problem is spread across the country.........
Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg at ZeroHedge: The “war on compassion” when it comes to the homeless in America has been one of Liberty Blitzkrieg’s key themes this year. There are many reasons why I find this topic to be of such tremendous importance. First and foremost, I think that if we want to see how the state and crony corporate status quo will treat everyone in the future, all you have to do is look at how the homeless are being “dealt with.” Secondly, random groups feeding the homeless in various venues is a great example of decentralized compassion. Political power hates decentralization and is quite intentionally trying to corral the homeless into the centralized bureaucratic channels over which it has total control. So this isn’t merely a humanitarian issue, it is also a front line battle in the key war of our time: Decentralization vs. Centralization. As I mentioned, this has been a key topic on this site in 2014. Before reading on, I suggest checking out some of my recent posts on it:
Couple Fined $746 for the Crime of Feeding Homeless People in Florida Park
The Homeless in NYC Are Now Living in Tiny Spaces in the Frame of the Manhattan Bridge
Illinois Church Told by City Officials It Can No Longer Provide Homeless People Shelter
South Carolina City Implements Law that Requires a $120 Permit to Feed Homeless People
Moving along to the meat of this post, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) is about to release a report that details how 33 cities in America have either banned or are considering banning feeding homeless people. It’s so bad, that the UN singled out the U.S. in a report on human rights for our nation’s criminalization of the homeless. Where’s George Clooney and.....
Does she want to become the most hated female in Canada? Okay, we know that the victims' families are suing her, but for her to turn around and sue the victims? What kind of a hare-brained lawyer advised Sharlene Simon to do that? Steve Mertl at DailyBrewYahooNews: ....Woman who struck cyclists, killing one, now suing them for stress she’s suffered. This is a cautionary tale about our modern reflex to head straight to court to compensate us the tragedies in our lives. An Ontario woman who struck three teenage boys on their bicycles, killing one, now is suing the kids' families for more than $1 million for the stress she's suffered as a result of the accident. Before your head explodes, you should also know she's being sued by the teens' families, but I'll leave it to you to decide who's more deserving. Of course their respective insurers will probably wind up with the tab, which means we all pay in the end through higher premiums. Sharlene Simon was driving down a country lane in Simcoe County north of Toronto around 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 28, 2012, when she suddenly came on the three teens riding abreast returning from a local coffee shop. Unable to stop in time, she plowed into the group, killing 17-year-old Brandon Majewski and seriously injuring 16-year-old Richard McLean. Their friend Jake Roberts, also 16, escaped with only scratches, QMI Agency reported. Last December, a lawyer for Simon filed a statement of claim in Ontario Superior Court naming the estate of the dead teen and the families of his friends, alleging the driver "has sustained and will sustain great pain and suffering," including " a severe shock to her system" as a result of the crash, Postmedia News reported. Simon is claiming $1.35 million because, according to her claim, "her enjoyment of life has been and will be lessened" by the accident. Simon is herself the target of a $900,000 suit by the families of the victims that alleges Simon was speeding, intoxicated or texting at the time of the accident. Neither side's claim has been proven in court. It's not clear from the news reports which suit landed in court first. Lawyer Brian Cameron, acting for the victims' families, told QMI Agency their suit was mainly to recover medical and funeral costs. Still, he was stunned at Simon's suit, which also names the County of Simcoe for failing to maintain the road......
Sweet! Sweeter is the name of the law firm representing the students. "Malik" is the the last name of two of the students and according to my "source" the family name "Malik" is either a Pakistani or Indian Muslim name. Don't you just love it that the Muslim-heavy university which is run by a Muslim prez and a Muslim-heavy administration is getting sued by Muslims? Oh la la la .... Ca na da !!! Honestly, I am super glad that the university is being sued. The lack of security on campus and the general administration and management of the university is deplorable and more like the running of universities in third world countries .... and that might be insulting to those universities. Maybe now at long last, the Ministries of Education.... both Provincial and Federal, might be forced to sit up and take notice of the extremely low standards in both security and education at the York University. Of course, we can tell straight off that greed for big bucks plays the overall big role in this lawsuit. Good luck to the "lawfare" gang and to the lawyers as well. Why not?!
Sean Tepper writing at TheStar: .....Eight students who witnessed a March shooting at York University have launched a $20.5 million lawsuit against the school On March 6, Annie Malik, 19, and Namra Malik, 20, (no relation) were injured after a gun accidentally discharged in the food court of the university’s student centre at around 10:45 p.m. The other six students are suing for psychological damages following the incident. They are being represented by the law firm Diamond and Diamond. “We are alleging a pattern of negligence, we’re alleging that security has been overlooked and our allegation is that steps could have been taken and measures could have been taken,” Sandra Zisckind of Diamond and Diamond said at a televised press conference. Annie Malik, a third-year business administration and accounting student was shot in the leg while Namra sustained a shrapnel injury. Annie spoke to the media about the incident. “As I was hiding under the table after my friends had told me to do so because there had been a shot fired, I was praying that there wasn’t going to be another shot fired and wishing that it wasn’t something like the Colorado shooting,” said Malik. “I have a bullet still lodged in my leg and I don’t know if it will cause even worse problems later on in my life.”........ ..........In addition to Annie and Namra Malik, the law firm is representing six bystanders who witnessed the event, whom according to Zisckind are suffering survivor’s guilt and psychological issue.......
When in doubt whether to side with your fellow citizens or with big corporations, always side with your fellow citizens because you never know when you too might be in a similar situation having to deal with a corporation who retains dozens of lawyers to shaft you even if you are in the right and you can't do much about it. Air Canada agreed to compensate, BUT ONLY AFTER they were taken to Small Courts. How many people have the time, the money to hire their own lawyers, or the inclination to take matters that far? Corporate lawyers know that and so they continue to crush the little people every time they can. I stand with Dan Lachance of Nova Scotia. Well done sir!
From YahooFinance: ....A Waverley, N.S., man has taken Air Canada to small claims court after he says the country’s largest passenger airline refused to compensate him when he was bumped from a flight last month. Dan Lachance sometimes flies to other cities to teach computer classes to corporate clients. In early February, he was bumped from a flight in Vancouver while on the way from Halifax to Whitehorse. He and another passenger had tickets for the same seat. Lachance was told he had to wait for the next Air Canada flight to Whitehorse, which wasn’t for another eight hours. He arrived in Whitehorse just before midnight — a total travel time of 24 hours from Halifax. "Exhausted, tired," Lachance said. "I had hoped to make contact with who I was doing work with in Whitehorse that afternoon, but that had to wait to early the next morning instead." According to Air Canada’s tariff, it must pay a passenger $800 if they are bumped for more than six hours. The airline, however, refused to pay..............
and sad to say, they get it. They don't have to worry about anything when their psychotic impulses drive them to kill their girlfriends .... because there are lawyers aplenty in Canada who work on the taxpayers' dime, who will fight for them tooth and nail and cunt. This psycho has already cost Canada tens of thousands in medical costs and by the time the fuck dies, we will be in the hole for millions of dollars. Alyshah Hasham writing at TorontoStar: ....Farshad Badakhshan violently killed his girlfriend but is not criminally responsible for her murder due to a delusional disorder, defence lawyer Victoria Rivers argued in her opening statement to the jury Tuesday On a morning in July 2010, Badakhshan, 31, stabbed 23-year-old Ryerson student Carina Petrache and set fire to the rooming house where both lived. The Crown is arguing that Badakhshan committed first-degree murder, confining Petrache to his basement room by setting a fire outside before killing her. The fire left Badakhshan near death from severe burns to much of his body, and he was placed in a medically induced coma for six months, Rivers said. Badakhshan, who remains seriously scarred after extensive reconstructive surgery, also had his left leg amputated below the knee..........
but a Canadian man killing 2 raccoons gets 60 days in jail and 18 months probation. That's how the justice system works in Canada's crazy justice system filled to the brim with brain-dead and Alzheimer ridden judges. The loud and the powerful can get away with the worst of crimes under the guise of "doing the right thing" and the ordinary helpless individuals like many of us have no recourse to justice in the proper sense of the word. Over and above, the Ottawa Humane Society, is of the opinion that the sentence meted out to the Ottawa man who killed the two raccoons was not stiff enough. Yup ... we have a lot of these stinking zombies in our midst. Heaven help us. Rapists and violent criminals get off scot free, but raccoon killers get prison terms.
From PetaKillsAnimals: Today, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) released its yearly review of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) appalling record of killing pets at its Norfolk, VA animal shelter. In 2013 alone, PETA killed 1,792 cats and dogs, an average of 5 per day. The 1,792 figure represents 82 percent of all animals PETA took into its shelter throughout the year. The numbers come from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS), which requires such annual disclosures to be made. Since 1998, 31,190 animals have died at the hands of PETA. And in 2005, PETA employees were arrested in North Carolina after killing adoptable pets and tossing the bodies into a supermarket trash dumpster. Trial evidence showed they killed animals they described as “perfect” and “adorable.”........ YearReceivedTransferredAdoptedKilled 20132,175311462.11%1,79282.4% 20121,843130191.03%1,64789.4% 20111,99234241.21%1,91195.9% 20102,34563441.86%2,20093.8% 20092,3663180.34%2,30197.3% 20082,2163470.32%2,12495.8% 20071,99735170.85%1,81590.9% 20063,06146120.39%2,98197.4% 20052,165691466.74%1,94689.9% 20042,655136113.60%2,27885.8% 20032,224131214.03%1,91185.9% 20022,680238214.25%2,29885.7% 20012,6851470326.18%1,94472.4% 20002,6812862423.27%2,02975.7% 19991,8059138621.39%1,32873.6% 1998*94312513314.10%68572.6%....................... Joe Lofaro writing at MetroNewsOttawa: Raccoon killer’s 60 days of jail doesn’t fit the crime: Ottawa Humane Society ....An Ottawa man who was handed a sentence of 60 days in jail and 18 months of probation for brutally killing two raccoons – one with a BBQ rotisserie skewer – should have been given a harsher sentence, the Ottawa Humane Society said Tuesday. Gregory Armstrong, 49, pleaded guilty to charges of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal in relation to the June 11, 2013 incident at his home........
