Why Barack Obama is more popular in Canada than Stephen Harper.

There is a pattern to U.S. presidential visits familiar to many Canadians. First, there is eager anticipation after an electionwill Canada be blessed with the new president's first foreign visit? That tradition was upset by George W. Bush in 2001, who went to Mexico first. (He's making up for it by giving an early post-presidential speech in a welcoming petro-emirate: Calgary.) Then, there is the search for a personal connection to Canada. Bush disappointed here againbut President Obama's brother-in-law is from Burlington, Ontario! Finally, there is the attempt by Canadian institutions to steal some of the presidential limelight. Among the most popular, but perhaps the most provincial, was a CBC Radio contest inviting Canadians to stuff Obama's iPod with Canadian songs. (Congratulations, Joni Mitchell and Malajube; better luck next time, Steppenwolf and Cline Dion.)

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9/11 Cover-Up Connection: Black Boxes Found 15 Hours After Buffalo Crash

Yet FBI claimed that indestructible black boxes were never discovered following WTC attackPaul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comFriday, February 13, 2009One of a plethora of cover-ups surrounding 9/11 is the FBIs contention that the black boxes onboard the two planes that crashed into the World Trade [...]No related posts.

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Introducing: Veracity Videos

***A day or two early for the WoY forum folks***     ***134 Videos already Uploaded***  ***Live Beta Starting Now***

Veracity Videos (http://veracityvideos.com)is a new streaming video website brought to you by the founder of N...

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Chavez reports attempted coup

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reported an attempted coup against his palace by army troops in contact with “a soldier on the run in the United States,” but said the government had everything under control.“We’ve arrested some active duty soldiers who were in contact with a soldier on the run in the United States… sending messages [...]

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Michelle Obama takes her first solo trip in the neighborhood.

"I was raised to believe that when you get, you give back," Michelle Obama told a group of 13 high school students Tuesday afternoon. She was visiting Mary's Center, a community health organization in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The kids wanted to know why she'd made the milelong trip north. "We were taught you have to get to know the community you're in, and you have to be a part of that community. Barack is real busy right now, so I figured I've got the time on my hands and while the kids are in school, I figured I would come out and hear about programs and meet students."

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Chinese Premier Greeted By Protesters.

Chinese Premier Greeted By Protesters.
A number of protesters from the Free Tibet group were handcuffed by police after trying to approach Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during his UK visit.

Several people vaulted barriers as he arrived outside the...

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Military to Pledge Oath To Obama, Not Constitution

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is extremely frustrated with orders that the White House is contemplating. According to sources at the Pentagon, including all branches of the armed forces, the Obama Administration may break with a centuries-old tradition. A spokesman for General James Cartwright, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, states [...]No related posts.

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Blackwater Mercs Likely to Stay in Iraq, Despite Govt Ban

Iraq’s government says it won’t give Blackwater a license to operate in the country. So does that mean the firm’s cadre of tattooed gunslingers will be gone from Iraq, forever? Not exactly.Sure, Blackwater as a corporate entity probably won’t be roaming the streets of Baghdad or Mosul for much longer. But the individual mercenaries who’ve [...]No related posts.

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Official: Blackwater Contract for Iraq Not Renewed

A senior U.S. official says the State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide’s contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May.The official tells The Associated Press that the contract will expire because of the Iraqi government’s decision to deny Blackwater a license to operate.The Iraqis informed the State Department last week [...]No related posts.

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Pemex Oil Output Declines at Fastest Rate Since World War II

Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico"s state oil company, will probably report its fastest drop in production since 1942, eroding revenue as plunging crude prices limit the amount of cash available to drill for new reserves.

Pemex last year likely extracted 2.8 million barrels a day, down about 9 percent from the 3.08 million a day pumped in 2007, representing a total of $20 billion in lost sales, according to data compiled by the government and Bloomberg. Costs are rising at Cantarell, Pemex"s largest field, after declining pressure reduced output in the past five years.

Pemex"s Sbiggest problems have yet to come, said Alejandro Schtulmann, head of research at Empra, a political- risk consulting firm in Mexico City, in an interview. SThe fall in oil prices and lower production is going to make expensive exploration projects less attractive now.

Mexico relies on Pemex for 40 percent of its budget. Sliding Pemex output risks cutting supply to the U.S., which gets more oil from Mexico than all countries except Canada and Saudi Arabia.

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video: sky news ancor calls Hamas leader Osama bin Laden (accident, of course..)

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What Madoff could learn from Ponzi

Bernard Madoff seems once again to be borrowing from the Charles Ponzi playbook, in this case the final chapter. If so, he should be sure to read the fine print.Bookmark and Share More »Powered by Bookmarkify™

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Reinventing the tech incubator

Like hip hop and Dockers, tech incubators were faddish in the late 1990s. These companies offered promising dot-coms work space, back office services like human resources and accounting, and a bit of funding. Most of them imploded along with the boom. Now a handful of incubators are resurfacing, and among the most promising is Betaworks.Bookmark [...]

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A rare peek at Homeland Securitys files on travelers

The oversize white envelope bore the blue logo of the Department of Homeland Security. Inside, I found 20 photocopies of the government’s records on my international travels. Every overseas trip I’ve taken since 2001 was noted.I had requested the files after I had heard that the government tracks “passenger activity.” Starting in the mid-1990s, many [...]No related posts.

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Iran says uncovers U.S.-backed coup plot

Iran has arrested four Iranians accused of involvement in a U.S.-financed plot aimed at toppling its Islamic system of government, the judiciary said on Tuesday.The announcement came a week before the inauguration of Barack Obama as U.S. president. In a shift from George W. Bush’s approach, he has pledged to increase diplomatic efforts to engage [...]No related posts.

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US rejected Zionist request to attack Iran

In an effort to sabotage Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, Israeli officials sent a secret request to the White House last year for specialized bombs to attack Iran’s main nuclear complex, The New York Times reported.President Bush deflected Israel’s request and his administration expressed alarm about the idea of an Israeli jet flying over Iraq [...]No related posts.

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2009: The Year of Open Data

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys an illuminating data mash-up, 2009 is going to be a great year, because we’ll be opening up CRP’s vast databases to the world. Data-divers will be able to combine our campaign finance and lobbying data, among other types of information we collect and analyze, with datasets that [...]

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FDA Stuns Scientists again, Declares Mercury in Fish to be Safe for Infants, Chi

In a truly astonishing betrayal of public safety (even for the FDA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today revoked its warning about mercury in fish, saying that eating mercury-contaminated fish no longer poses any health threat to children, pre...

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Country Without Mercy By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12192008.html



The Unfortunate, the Innocent and the Wrongly Convicted
Country Without Mercy

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The Christmas season is a time to remember the unfortunate, among whom are those who have been w...

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GM Files: Horrifying New Disease Contains Identical Material to GM Food

Just in case you thought it was fine to eat Genetically Modified foods (better identified as “FrankenFoods”), along comes a study which makes it clear that you are eating this make believe non-food at your own peril and, worse yet, you are feeding it to your kids at their peril as well. It is important to note that Codex Alimentarius, which sets standards for the international trade of food, permits genetically modified foods and makes no effort to limit, control or eliminate them. In fact, the US has been trying for years to prevent the labeling of GM foods and seed in international trade to emulate its domestic policy which prohibits any label indication that foods contain GM ingredients, as 75-80% of all foods sold in the US do.

Now it appears that the increasingly prevalent nightmare of a disease called “Morgellon’s Disease” may be a result of GM crops and food.

Morgellon’s Disease was first described when a woman’s 3 year old son developed rashes and intensely itchy sores which produced weird multicolor fibers emerging from his skin. She put up a website about the condition in 2001 and named it “Morgellons Disease” after a 17th century report of a similar affliction.

As it always does, the allopathic community of Western, drug-oriented physicians labeled sufferers as delusional. As a physician, I have a great deal of difficulty explaining how a delusion can produce colored fibers which protrude from the skin and continue to grow in a petri dish. Be that as it may, the multicolored fibers produced by the “delusion” have been analyzed and we now know that Morgellon’s Disease is no longer rare, nor is it mysterious any longer. A study of the fibers shows that they contain DNA from both a fungus and a bacterium which are used in the commercial preparation of genetically modified foods and non-food crops (such as cotton). The fibers themselves are primarily cellulose, which the human body cannot breakdown or manufacture. So GM technology apparently has, like Professor Frankenstein, found a way to animate the non living. These fibers twist and twine, grow and divide. In short, living beneath the skin of people, they form parasitic lesions out of what should be non-living material but which, through the horror of genetic modification, has taken on the characteristics of a living thing. [...]

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