US-Backed Kangaroo Court Exposed
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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
-Allan Bloom
Under the new rules, introduced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and rubber-stamped in private at last week's Conservative caucus retreat, local ridings will no longer have the power to set nomination dates or be responsible for notifying the party membership.
HQ now calls all the shots a perfect fit with Harper's control fetish and the result is a form of democracy by stealth that will preserve tired incumbency and keep fresh blood from entering a party that campaigned on openness and transparency.
In regards to the current and on-going conflict in the middle-east (and many more in the world):
Wow, sure looks like all the hate-mongers have got people out there to swallow a lot of it. Let's just keep this up and teach it to our kids, and with a little luck, humanity will never evolve beyond this BS that keeps us down. There are insane people everywhere who end up getting into power situations because they are the most aggressive/destructive. They want to spread their anger because it supports their cause. This is feeding it. Think you're angry, think about how angry the Palestinians/Jews are. So angry in fact that nothing is going to stop them from trying to destroy the other. See a pattern here? How do we get out of it? Certainly the path we're on has shown a few times to not really have the greatest results. You think at some point you'll convince anyone that one side is good and the other side is bad. People need to calm down. Of course there are those on both side who think the world would be better off without the other, but this is not the majority, and this is not going to happen. And until there's a critical mass of people willing to not buy into the bullshit from the leaders and their media mouthpieces, this is what we get. And the kind of malicious vitriol that is getting thrown around here and in the blogosphere ad infinitum is only fanning the flames. COME ON PEOPLE!Yes, things are bad and pretty hopeless seeming, but what about a little compassion and seeing through the fact that the majority of people do not tow the party line of the insane power structure.
The recently concluded softwood lumber pact may indicate Harper’s route to deeper integration. Harper and George W. Bush were feted by trade officials for pushing through the agreement to end American duties on Canadian lumber and return to Canadian producers 80 percent of the $5.3 billion already collected.
Little mentioned is a key clause that requires U.S. government approval of any provincial forest-policy changes. This may be the most significant retreat from sovereignty in recent years, one authored by Harper. The Americans want this provision to ensure that all Canadian forest- policy changes point in one direction only: toward industry-controlled timber pricing.