Just a brief note for those of us interested in diversifying our portfolio (if we had one), it looks like good news for gold. I’ve been reading lots of reports that the Chinese, Saudis and various Asian and South American countries, the countries of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Org.) are slowly diversifying out of US debt instruments such as bonds and T-bills. Without foreign financing of US debt, the $ is doomed.  It must be only a matter of time before the Chinese yuan becomes the world’s reserve currency.  In the interim, gold is surely going to take that role.

Onto other matters, when ‘the chimp’ came to my hometown to speak at a luncheon for business types, there was a moderate protest outside the Telus Convention Center.  I followed the story re: the protestors on the CBC site.  I actually spent hours reading the comments on that story and contributing my own.  I kept getting frustrated because the moderators on the site NEVER posted my comments.  You could read hundreds of morons make inane or trivial comments, but there was never any real information.  I tried to post links to articles which detailed the efforts of thousands of people and many different groups, to entreat Canadian law enforcement to uphold Canadian law and arrest the man for torture, war crimes etc. One comment, (which I had to pare down for length and so was really tame in the end) finally made it, and some clown replied, “where’s the proof? He’s never been charged with any crime.”  So, I replied with links and sites detailing the international effort to bring the chimp to justice, such as the efforts of the Center for Constitutional Rights in Washington, the Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference on Federal prosecution of War Criminals (Jackson was the famed special prosecutor at Nuremberg), or Lawyers Against the War, and countless others.  Most of these links come from the globalresearch website. Of course, that detailed reply was never posted.  After that, I gave up on posting comments to (disinformation) news sites like CBC.  It’s useless because they censor serious commentary.  That’s the main reason I started this blog.  At least I can get it off my chest here, whether or not anyone reads it.  Anyway, today I found this video, which details in a much more visual way what I had in those “lost” comments.

If you don’t have time for the whole documentary, just watch at 17 min. in, there’s a cartoon about the whole “luncheon” in Calgary that’ll give you a chuckle for sure.  Here it is:

Here’s a lawyer laying bare the machinations going on in the halls of government, machinations intended to take away our liberties. Remember what you learned about the year 1215, and the signing of the Magna Carta.  The kings of old are back!

I’m adding this post in an attempt to properly embed the video referred to in my last post. As I mentioned before, everyone in Canada and the States should know about this, but they don’t. The SPP is a corporate-sponsored initiative to get the wheels in motion for so-called “deep integration” of Canada, the US and Mexico.

It naturally entails a loss of national sovereignty. It is being promoted through a circumventing of the legislative process in both Canada and the US under the auspices of ‘regulatory harmonization’. It’s being discussed and implemented ‘under the radar’.  Public announcements about it downplay it’s significance, which is an unnerving trend and tendency, because it betrays a clandestine modus operandi. Watch the video and do your own research…

SPP Discussion

Watch this video to know more about how the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), aka Big Business/the corporatists, is lobbying government to expedite “regulatory harminization” with respect to everything from environmental standards to border security in the so-called SPP, Security, Peace and Prosperity initiative. Did you notice that the host said legislative aides hadn’t heard of this? The repercussions of this are staggering to consider. Canadians should not allow this to continue. As they say on this video, the people and legislative bodies must do all they can to get a ‘renegotiation of NAFTA’ and a public disclosure of what the governments have been doing behind closed doors for these “Security”, “Peace” and “Prosperity” meetings. What the lady said in the video is right: you gotta be suspicious of an initiative named like this, in a kind of “codespeak”. This is the end of national sovereignty, kids. Harmonization is really integration. As the lady said, the main concerns are the human rights and moral considerations. Do Canadians really want to stand next to this corporatist bully to the south? Orwell warned us, “The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects.” These are ruthless attacks on civil liberties and democratic processes that we witness going on around the world and under the auspices of NATO, with the rest of us turning a blind eye. Why all the hubbub about ’security’? They know people will eventually express their dissent and that “the countervailing forces” set up by our founding fathers, in Canada and the US, could and will be used against them. Will an informed citizenry let them succeed?

SPP Video