I am very well informed on these events. I understand the urgency and concerns. I do not, however, agree that a political party can or will save us. The system itself is flawed. A good friend mentioned to me the Gary Cooper scenario, which many Canadians are expecting to take place. Historically we have been conditioned to expect a ‘high noon’ type of scenario, where the hero steps up to the plate and saves the town from the evil villain. I believe this is why we have so many people pinning their hopes on the various leaders of political parties. The problem is this is not Hollywood and real lives are on the line. We need the whole town to come out and step up to their duty.
I don’t have to declare that the NAU is happening with or without our blessing. It is happening by stealth. Most Canadians have heard of it, but many do not understand what it means. Being fearful of the loss of our freedom, our civil rights, control of our water, social systems, healthcare system, education system and all natural resources; being angry at our youth becoming part of the war machine and our tax dollars served up for corporate profits, will not create the better world we want.
Knowledge is power. But blind faith in ‘high profile’ people will not solve our problem. Jack Layton, Connie Fogal, Maude Barlow, Mel Hurtig, Stephane Dion, Stephan Harper, Gilles Duceppe, Elizabeth May, all know the facts behind these agreements. So do many others. Yet none of them have the ability to turn this around. Some of them don’t want to, while others are simply going through the motions of action. Seemingly some are prevented from acting, while others are doing whatever they can. None of them can do what the people of Canada can do.
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I've forewarded it to all my usual suspects.
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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden
Also worked with millions of others on the demise of the USSR, but nobody could foresee that it will crumble with a whimper.
Theres no way to predict which way things will go and how they will end? Unfortunately, the end may come with a terrible disaster for humanity, but anything can happen, so let's hope for the best.
There is one thing certain: All empires go that one fatal step too far and self destruct.
And this self destruction is always caused by the misinterpretation of economic efficiency, used as a weapon of colonization, oppression and exploitation by all empires
through history, now called "competitiveness". What they never realize is that all forms of competition demand everlasting increases of energy, until the system burns out.
It is that simple, which may be hard to believe, but I have spent a lifetime on this and we now have the best example in the ongoing self destruction of the US empire and the economic system that created and now forces it into its self destruction.
The road to self destruction was legitimized by religious scripture in the past, today by the pseudo religious scriptures of economic theories. There's never been anything new, or different in any age of history.
Our political leaders are dead in the water by not going after the universities where they teach this crap as the "science of economics", but they don't have the guts to do it.
Sounds simplistic? Well, the "best brains" have been trying to come up with thousands of pages of acedemic doubletalk through the ages and found nothing but hot air.
Try the principle of Occam's Razor to get rid of the chaff and find the real causes, hidden at the bottom of the box.
Ed Deak.
Ed I am a big fan of yours, and believe you speak from experience. You made
a key statement when you said, 'Theres no way to predict which way things
will go and how they will end?'
That is exactly my point. We don't know the magic solution, nor do we know
exactly what will tip the scales for the economy or the awareness of
humanity. Those who know what is going on, can and should begin to
prepare and plan for a different way. Just because it hasn't happen yet, does
not mean it cannot.
Before someone dreamed on flying in a craft, it was a
ridiculous thought, then it was a ridiculous reality, now it is common place.
So perhaps it is ridiculous to imagine a world where nobody starves, and
there are no people living on the street, where guns are in museums, and we
found a way to clean up the planet; I don't mind one bit if it is considered
ridiculous now; as history shows us that ridiculous can become common
place. Here's to all the ridiculous dreams we can think of!
Thanks again for
your comments.
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"aaaah and the whisper of thousands of tiny voices became a mighty deafening roar and they called it 'freedom'!"' Canadians Acting Humanely at home & everywhere
-Max Planck<br />
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EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program<br />
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T on January 31, 2006, accusing the telecom giant of violating the law and the privacy of its customers by collaborating with the National Security Agency (NSA) in its massive, illegal program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications. On July 20, 2006, a federal judge denied the government's and AT&T's motions to dismiss the case, allowing the lawsuit to go forward.<br />
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The EFF lawsuit arose from news reports in December 2005, which first revealed that the NSA has been intercepting Americans' phone calls and Internet communications without any court oversight and in violation of the privacy safeguards established by Congress and the U.S. Constitution. This surveillance program, purportedly authorized by the President at least as early as 2001, apparently intercepts and analyzes the phone and Internet communications of millions of ordinary Americans.<br />
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But the government did not act—and is not acting—alone. EFF's lawsuit alleges that AT&T has given the NSA unchecked backdoor access to its communications network and its record databases. On behalf of a nationwide class of AT&T customers, EFF is suing to stop this illegal conduct and hold AT&T responsible for violating the law and the fundamental freedoms of the American public.<br />
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AT&T moved to dismiss the case, basically arguing that it should be immune from suit because "whatever we did, the government told us to." The U.S. government also moved to dismiss the case, arguing that allowing the case to go on would necessarily reveal "state secrets" that would harm national security. But in July, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker issued a decision denying both motions.<br />
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As Judge Walker wrote when dismissing AT&T's immunity claims, "AT&T cannot seriously contend that a reasonable entity in its position could have believed that the alleged domestic dragnet was legal." Judge Walker also flatly rejected the government's secrecy argument: "The compromise between liberty and security remains a difficult one. But dismissing this case at the outset would sacrifice liberty for no apparent enhancement of security."<br />
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<a href="http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att">http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/att</a><br />
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Watch a Youtube video on the AT&T/NSA domestic spy operation on US citizens here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOUolZnGIs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYOUolZnGIs</a>