Look Out!!!

(Heads Up!)

Here's a recent CBCNews photo and headline (by Kyle Bakx/CBC):

LookUpBanff billboard promotes conspiracy theory about toxic chemtrails: Highway billboard promotes outlandish theory that government is sterilizing populace with sprayed chemicals
By Kyle Bakx, CBC News Posted: Aug 25, 2016 7:00 AM MT. Last Updated: Aug 26, 2016 7:40 AM MT at
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/chemtrails-david-keith-geoengineering-lookupbanff-1.3733776?cmp=rss&CMP=news-digests-calgary

Now that the facts of geoengineering* are getting wider exposure (and can no longer be ignored), the BIG (and small¹) guns are being positioned on the heights to “kill” the real story with denials, distortions, and mockery. And what is the real story? It is a story of power and gain.² The quintessential déjà vu. Perhaps the oldest déjà vu in the world where those pursuing power and gain will always

1) conspire to achieve their own ends;
2) deny and mock the very idea of conspiracy; and
3) do anything and everything necessary to protect power and gain.³

Does the fact that we continue to fall for these denials make us one of the most unobservant, unscientific, historically unlearned of all the ages? Are we just pretending to be 21st Century sophisticates? And what do we call people who refuse to learn from experience, observation, and history?

Thus, the companion story for those who wish to learn from the past is to be on the “Look Out” for

▪ increasing numbers of industry spokesman, (paid or privileged, duped or deliberate) to deny the history of geoengineering and to praise its glorious future;⁴
▪ trusted “scientists” who sell science and soul to industry dictates and agendas;⁵
▪ trusted “journalists” who generate talking-point stories from industry scripts;⁶
▪ so-called “objective” reports that fail to acknowledge contrary facts, evidence, or credible witnesses;
▪ knee-jerk, emotional tirades against “conspiracy nuts” by those who are, or trust in, monetized spokesmen;
▪ extreme or faux activists spouting fringe or bizarre claims that can be easily mocked or debunked and then conflated with real facts and evidence;⁷
▪ the bottom-line paradigm that hooks into the nose;
▪ the money trail that leads to modus operandi;
▪ the psychopathy of power and gain.⁸

So perhaps it would be a good idea to quit trusting in compromised / corrupted voices and to do some personal observation and research. Perhaps one could begin with an honest study of the evidence at

http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/

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* Also known in science reporting as weather modification, climate intervention, climate engineering or solar radiation management (SRM), but is mocked under the name “chemtrails” when trying to debunk so-called conspiracy theorists; however if one researches the science terms, one may discover that tinfoil hats are considerably more advanced than blinders and earplugs!
1. E.g., bloggers, journalists, pundits, commentators, dupes, etc., etc. who buy the BIG lies of Big Business—hook, line, and sinker.
2. A power-and-gain story as old as (if not older than) Biblical Cain.
3. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/08/imagine.html
4. E.g., see the CBC Quirks and Quarks interview of January 30, 2016 rebroadcast August 6, 2016 (Time 18:09) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/quirks-quarks-for-jan-30-2016-1.3425708/the-planet-remade-through-geoengineering-1.3425811  It seems that Oliver Morton is sadly uninformed or (more sadly) complicit when he presents geoengineering scenarios as in-the-future when they are already decades old in practice. The same applies to David Keith whose words and emotional POV seem to have been parroted by Mr. Bakx. How interesting that both Morton and Keith espouse “future” geoengineering technologies, yet utterly reject the idea that geoengineering have been in secret use for years!
5. E.g., the Ideas broadcast, Mining Science from March 24, 2016 (Time 53:59) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/mining-science-1.3502958
6. Mr. Bakx' story seems to fit industry talking-points to a T⁺. See also, The REAL Truth Behind 'Chemtrails' published Aug 17, 2016 (Time 4:06) The Young Turks at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEii1_kEoZs
Then consider the insightful CBC Ideas presentation: Imprisoned by Profit: Media & Democracy from May 27, 2016 (Time 53:59) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/imprisoned-by-profit-media-democracy-1.3601228
7. http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
8. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/search/label/Psychopathy
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html

Bullies & Bravehearts

Once more we are witness to a “David & Goliath” encounter. In that ancient battle, those standing on the sidelines in the valley knew the outcome could change their lives forever. This 2016 incarnation reaches far beyond any valley or nation. It is global and has already had catastrophic impact.

So, if you don't think you have the time or energy to join the bravehearts, at least learn about them in their own words—NOT from the words of mammon-bloated bullies. Here is their story:

Caravan To Midnight - Episode 572 Vaxxed:
From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (Time 1:38:39) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJxOkclawtc

(When videos are taken down or censored, search the title on YouTube to see if it had been mirrored somewhere else.)

You can listen to this while driving, waiting, eating, cooking, doing chores, or just lounging, but LISTEN*, please. The outcome of this battle may prove to be one of the pivot points of history.

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* Listen to the guests. You may not agree with the host's politics or views, but do not let that sidetrack your attention. If he becomes too distracting, there are many other places to hear this account. Just go to YouTube and search Vaxxed. You can also review:
http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/08/imagine.html or
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/08/the-arm-of-flesh.html

Imagine?

If one were a psychopath/sociopath¹—i.e., a PWOC²—whose raison d’être was to pursue power and gain, what would one be predisposed to do:

▪ lie?
▪ steal?
▪ cheat?
▪ distort?
▪ falsely accuse?
▪ malign?
▪ short change?
▪ manipulate mankind and markets?
▪ create profit-generating catastrophes?
▪ foment wars?
▪ externalize costs?
▪ convert (corrupt) a good into an evil?
▪ hire shills and trolls to front for one?
▪ etc., etc., etc.

But let us consider: corrupting a good into an evil.

A recent exposé of unconscionable corruption and fraud is profiled in Vaxxed³—a documentary that everyone should watch (as Robert De Niro encourages) so we can make up our own mind as to its credibility. Despite shills, trolls, and dupes maligning this film, it is NOT anti-vaccine. It presents as anti-corruption, anti-fraud, anti-abuse, anti-tyranny, anti-PWOCs; its concern: pro-health, pro-child, pro-family, pro-transparency, pro-choice, pro-safety, pro-uncorrupted science. It is a voice crying in the profit-driven wilderness against vaccine protocols that are:

▪ untested and unproven respecting the safety of vaccine mixtures;
▪ decades past due for review and exposure of timing and effectiveness;
▪ insufficiently and corruptly assessed by oversight bodies;
▪ in critical need of open, honest discussion;
▪ in dire need of punitive accountability.

So, how long till we clue in that mega-corps and their HyPEs⁴ who swim in psychopathic waters (who stand to lose massive amounts of “power and gain” if truth be told) cannot be trusted in any degree?

Can we not see the déjà vu?—that vaccine “science” has become a latter-day, oppressive tyranny like unto the days of Galileo?—blindly committed to its own preservation, gain, and status quo, whatever the cost to others?

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1. http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
2. PWOC = a Person WithOut Conscience, which includes corporate (faux-)“persons” by so-called court decision. See also http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2011/02/econ-005-person.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html
3. Vaxxed: From Cover-up to Catastrophe (Time: 1hr. 35 min.) at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5562652/
4. HyPEs = Highly Paid Employees

ADDITIONAL VIEWS AND COMMENTARIES: As always, watch, listen, and learn with discernment.
● VAXXED Documentary Explored with Filmmakers on Antidote (Time: 50:58 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrpK0rbl9w
● VAXXED DIRECTOR ANDREW WAKEFIELD BREAKS SILENCE ON VACCINE VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN AND CDC COVERUP (Time 12:49 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titN2bZYlUU
● Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (Time: 1:31:43) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gepyvumlS-8
● FULL Vaxxed Coast to Coast AM Interview Bigtree, Wakefield & Hooker (Time 1:18:39) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG6ZHT0L8rs
● Robert De Niro on Pulling 'Vaxxed' From Tribeca Film Festival (Time:5:01) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eHZVqDbdEc
● Robert De Niro, Tribeca and the censorship of the VAXXED documentary (Time: 26:35 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFAGViYJ_VI
● UN VAXXED A Docu Commentary for Robert De Niro (Time 1:26:04) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM_rTjKdegw

Inevitable?

What happens when an economy (national or global) is based on a system that promotes psychopathic behaviors? If one doesn't believe that corporate capitalism favors psychopathy, one has not been reading headlines of late or one has a very short and selective memory.

Review:

▪  A Plague of Psychopaths? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
▪  Capital Punishment at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/10/capital-punishment.html
▪  Mayday? Mayday? Mayday! at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/05/mayday-mayday-mayday.html
▪  TransAlta Culpa (Again)? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/08/transalta-culpa-again.html
▪  How Long Till We Get It??! at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2009/08/how-long-till-we-get-it.html

But there may be hope.

Read:

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason

Listen to:

The End of Capitalism a “CBC Ideas” podcast at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-end-of-capitalism-1.3334355 (Time 53:56 min.)

So, indeed—how long till we finally acknowledge that:

▪  capitalism's highest rewards go to people without conscience (PWOCs)?
▪  if we keep doing what we have been doing—pursuing power and gain at the expense of each other—we will not survive?
▪  what goes around, will come around?

So for those puzzling about how a corporate tyrant like Donald Trump* could rise politically as far as he has, perhaps we need only look at the system DT has used, abused, and profited from for decades.

Perhaps our love affair with corporatism has brought us to this inevitable, political choice! and the inevitable “impending doom” (whether right or left), unless we awake to the realities of our competitive, psychopathic system.

PS: Do not assume that Socialism^† is the only alternative. It is equally corrupt and bankrupt. There are other options that have been explored in other posts.^‡

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* The pure face of corporate capitalism?
† http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/Socialism
‡ http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2009/12/economics-of-jesus.html
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gods-economy-christmas-perspective.html
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gods-economy-is-it-possible.html
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2015/08/course-correction.html
or peruse the labels:
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/EconomicsOfJesus
-- http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/God%27sEconomy
or Google: “gift economy”

Area 25?

If you

▪ don’t know about “Area 25”;¹

▪ are one (or know a loved one) who can’t “snap out” of melancholy or depression;

▪ are seeking greater understanding of mental illness and mental health;

these broadcasts  from “Ideas with Paul Kennedy” might prove enlightening and life-saving.

Wit's End, Part 1 (54 min.) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/wit-s-end-part-1-1.3641153

Wit's End, Part 2 (54 min.) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/wit-s-end-part-2-1.3654204

Note added October 28, 2016: Perhaps an “area” to consider more than the physical Area 25 is the spiritual area (arena) explored in a recent post, titled “We are Legion???” at http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2016/10/we-are-legion.html.

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1. “Area 25” is dealt with beginning circa minute 44:46 of Wit’s End, Part 2.

“Imprisoned by Profit”

Recently, on “Ideas with Paul Kennedy,” the subject was “Imprisoned by Profit: Media and Democracy”¹ which can be listened to here.² In that episode, we are confronted with yet another voice crying in the wilderness of corporatism and bottom-line. But the story is not just about media. As we listen, we can hear the déjà vu in almost every arena that profit touches: science, education, business, medicine, health, construction, food, finance, fashion, employment, entertainment, religion, government contracts, etc., etc.

So let's ask ourselves: How many values and principles do we compromise or sacrifice outright for the sake of profit? Perhaps we should ask ourselves this question on a daily basis. Would that daily query change anything about the way we think and live?

How long before we recognize that the only way to truly be free from the corruptions of profit is to embrace the gift economy?³

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1. The discussion was with “world renowned Indian Journalist Palagummi Sainath ... [who] believes the media around the world is, for the most part, imprisoned by profiteering and political constraints.”
2. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/imprisoned-by-profit-media-democracy-1.3601228 (Time: 53:59 min.)
3. Gift economy: Google the term or begin here: http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2013/12/babylon-boomerang.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/06/gods-economy-is-it-possible.html ; http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2013/12/gods-economy-christmas-perspective.html

Fog of Stupidity?

Stu•pid•i•ty*
   noun
       - an idea, act, or expression that shows a lack of good sense or judgment

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

―Albert Einstein

“Human beings always[?] do the most intelligent thing … after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.”

― R. Buckminster Fuller

Which brings us to 1) the bathroom uproar; and 2) to a tangentially-related matter―the US political landscape. First, let us consider

The Bathroom.

Here we are, living in a world of increasing violence toward and objectifying of women (the evidence fills our headlines¹), yet we pretend that gender-neutral, multi-stall bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms will not attract the worst kind of deviants on the coattail of tolerance for transgender and gender-variant persons. There may be nothing to fear from the latter, but the former will not be long in abusing the naiveté and romanticism of the most liberal-minded. And do not misinterpret: I am not equating transgender with deviants. I use “deviant” to describe sociopaths/psychopaths of every gender (or variant) who live without conscience vis-à-vis their fellow human beings.

So, this open invitation may seem charitable and compassionate:

“Please use the restroom that feels most comfortable to you”

but in amended quote of Bertrand Russell:

“A [deviant] man's report of what a [tolerant] man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand [or justify].”²

The University of Toronto has already experienced such an “understanding.”

University of Toronto Dumps Transgender Bathrooms After Peeping Incidents³

So how about we actually:

▪ use our heads;
▪ consider centuries-long and current observations of human nature and gender-dynamics;⁴
▪ remember that the world is FAR from a level playing field of moral development;
▪ quit pretending that our “high-minded” solutions will change human nature;
▪ quit pretending that the “low-minded” are not part of this picture;
▪ inform ourselves about porn addiction statistics⁵ and the manifest dangers for others;
▪ admit how quickly memes⁶ (especially inappropriate ones) can become viral—like the recent obscene, public harassment of many female TV reporters;
▪ acknowledge that we are in the midst of a plague of psychopaths⁷ and sex-addicts who aren't going away any time soon;
▪ acknowledge that the increasing violence toward and objectifying of women (and increasingly children and men) does not bode well for sharing gender-neutral bathrooms (in their present or any multiple design) with strangers of the opposite sex;
▪ realize that genderless restrooms will not secure a safe, comfortable place for anyone because an open invitation allows everyone to be followed or confronted in any restroom by any bully or deviant;
▪ quit playing into the manipulations and machinations of social engineers;
▪ consider the safety, privacy, and feelings of EVERYONE.

Does this have to be so divisive and pandora-like? What is so intolerable about maintaining gender-specific, multi-stall washrooms for those who are OK being gender-specific as we seek to accommodate other needs by adding gender-neutral / family-friendly, lockable rooms for the private use of anyone who wishes to use them (including anyone gender-specific). Many sites already have these genderless, private facilities. But to pretend the entire, happy, costless solution is to rip the gender sign from the door (as Stephen Colbert did⁸) is to be naive at best and ____________ (?) at worst; or, in words from The Peter Principle:⁹

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” ―Laurence J. Peter

And to those who think that normalizing men in womens' restrooms does not compromise safety, feelings, and/or privacy, consider this:

if a woman walks into a womens'-designated restroom and finds a man (or men) out-of-place, she can rapidly exit and report it without feeling she is being intolerant or impolite;

compared to:

she walks into the only available restroom labelled gender-neutral and encounters the very same, but if her instincts warn of danger, she now battles with social expectations and judgments.

Don't we already have too many “polite,” scarred women who didn't heed instinct?

And what of a man's wish for privacy? Does he want some stranger with her 4-year old daughter barging past his urinal?

In fifty years, at some historical review—if we manage to survive this age of tolerating stupidity (as in geoengineering, CERN, HAARP, GMOs, psychotropics, corporatism, Objectivism, NINJ loans, fiat money, media-complicit propaganda, science-for-hire, etc., etc., etc.)—will our descendants label the first two decades of the twenty-first century as an age of full-blown idiot-savants?—the prelude to an age of darkness?

As we are out of space and time for topic #2, here are three brief questions for the “right” half of the entire wind-blasted, despoiled

US political landscape.

How in the world can citizens fantasize that this corporate tyrant (with his history, mendacity, and bully-posturing) will lift a finger to save anything of the Constitution or its Bill of Rights or to make America “great” again? If ever there was a time of “seeing they see not and hearing they hear not,” it must be this age of blind ambition (within and about both parties).

Has the face of Babylon ever been so transparent in any candidate, ever? But no! we remain fixated on Socialism as if that were the worst enemy!! Maybe we should take time to review what God had to say about each.¹⁰

It seems far too many don't care to honestly inform themselves about the truth of their tragic state of the Union, both to the right and to the left. Do we really think that a choice between two great evils is really a choice??

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*The “stupid” quotes are from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/stupidity.html and http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/stupidity. Here are a few extra:
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. ―Albert Einstein
“Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.” ―Jim Butcher, Vignette
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.” ―George Carlin
“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”―Harlan Ellison
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.” ―Margaret Atwood, Surfacing
“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
“It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.” ―Franz Kafka
“The earth is a great piece of stupidity.” ―Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” ―Napoleon Bonaparte
An American prophet even wrote this observation to a newspaper editor in 1833:

Mr. Editor:—Sir, … For some length of time I have been carefully viewing the state of things, as it now appears, throughout our Christian land; and have looked at it with feelings of the most painful anxiety. While upon one hand I behold the manifest withdrawal of God's Holy Spirit, and the veil of stupidity which seems to be drawn over the hearts of the people; upon the other hand, I behold the judgments of God that have swept, and are still sweeping hundreds and thousands of our race, and I fear unprepared, down to the shades of death. With this solemn and alarming fact before me, I am led to exclaim, "O that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night." … I think that it is high time for a Christian world to awake out of sleep, and cry mightily to that God, day and night, … (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Deseret Book Co., 1976, 13.)

1. ▪ How Washington is trying to stop daily street harassment of women by Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News posted May 22, 2016, 5:00 AM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/women-harassment-washington-1.3587568?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
▪ Catcalling happens to most women between the ages of 11 and 17 by Radhika Sanghani, 9:50 AM BST, 29 May 2015 at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11637697/Catcalling-Women-sexually-harassed-on-the-street-from-puberty.html
▪ BuzzFeed writer’s harassment just the latest example of why Twitter is broken for women by Shane Dingman - Technology Reporter, The Globe and Mail, Published Monday, Feb. 22, 2016 6:25 PM EST) at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/harassment-of-buzzfeeds-koul-shows-how-twitter-is-broken-for-women/article28845004/
▪ Harassment at work: 52% of women report bullying by Katrina Bishop, Wednesday, 2 Apr 2014 | 9:22 AM ET at http://www.cnbc.com/2014/04/02/harassment-at-work-50-of-women-report-bullying.html
▪ Workplace Sexual Harassment at http://www.aware.org.sg/training/wsh-site/14-statistics/
▪ Twitter Is Bringing In Reinforcements to Help Fix its Harassment Problem by Valentina Zarya, February 9, 2016, 1:34 PM EDT at http://fortune.com/2016/02/09/twitter-online-harassment/
▪ Sexual harassment toward female sports reporters is far too common at http://www.si.com/more-sports/2015/08/16/female-sports-reporters-sexual-harassment-norwood-teague-rio-olympics-ryan-seacrest
▪ Thousands protest violence against women in Argentina after 3 girls slain, The Associated Press, posted Jun 03, 2016 11:59 PM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/argentina-niunamenos-protests-violence-women-1.3616373?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
▪ See also footnote 4 below.
2. ORIGINAL QUOTE: “A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.” ―Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy
3. ▪ University of Toronto Dumps Transgender Bathrooms After Peeping Incidents by Pardes Seleh at http://www.dailywire.com/news/330/university-toronto-dumps-transgender-bathrooms-pardes-seleh
▪ University Of Toronto Gender-Neutral Bathrooms Reduced After Voyeurism Reports, The Huffington Post Canada by Jessica Chin, posted 10/06/2015 5:43 pm EDT at http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/06/u-of-t-bathrooms-voyeurism_n_8253970.html
▪ See also: The Case Against Fully Shifting To Gender Neutral Bathrooms at http://socawlege.com/the-case-against-fully-shifting-to-gender-neutral-bathrooms/
4. ▪ Sexual assault in the United States military at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_United_States_military
▪ Sexual assault in the Canadian Forces at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault_in_the_Canadian_Forces
▪ Military sex assault and misconduct investigations increase in 2015 by Murray Brewster, CBC News, posted May 24, 2016, 5:00 AM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/military-sex-assault-misconduct-canadian-forces-1.3592501?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
▪ More women alleging harassment want to join lawsuit against RCMP by Natalie Clancy, CBC News, posted May 31, 2015, 2:00 PM PT at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/more-women-alleging-harassment-want-to-join-lawsuit-against-rcmp-1.3089534
▪ RCMP's recent history of harassment, abuse and discrimination by John Paul Tasker, CBC News, posted Feb 18, 2016, 7:27 PM ET at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-sexual-harassment-history-1.3453413
5. ▪ Internet pornography by the numbers; a significant threat to society at http://www.webroot.com/ca/en/home/resources/tips/digital-family-life/internet-pornography-by-the-numbers
“The societal costs of pornography are staggering. The financial cost to business productivity in the U.S. alone is estimated at $16.9 Billion annually; but the human toll, particularly among our youth and in our families, is far greater. ¶ According to Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D, psychologist and former Deputy Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, “two recent reports, one by the American Psychological Association on hyper-sexualized girls, and the other by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on the pornographic content of phone texting among teenagers, make clear that the digital revolution is being used by younger and younger children to dismantle the barriers that channel sexuality into family life. ¶ Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society. Among adolescents, pornography hinders the development of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sexual attitudes and social realities. In families, pornography use leads to marital dissatisfaction, infidelity, separation, and divorce.”
▪ Pornography Statistics: Annual Report 2015 at http://www.covenanteyes.com/pornstats/
6. A meme is "an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture." From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme
7. Psychopaths: http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/10/public-enemy-1.html
http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/05/a-plague-of-psychopaths.html
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/without-conscience.html
http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-pity-ploy.html
8. Colbert Tests Trump’s Claim About The Cost Of Gender Neutral Bathrooms at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colbert-tests-trumps-claim-about-the-cost-of-gender-neutral-bathrooms_us_57471210e4b0dacf7ad41abf
9. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle ~ Quote: The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate's performance in their current role, rather than on abilities relevant to the intended role. Thus, employees only stop being promoted once they can no longer perform effectively, and "managers rise to the level of their incompetence."
10. Do your own research, but you can begin here: http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/2014/12/deception-inc.html ; or here http://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.ca/search/label/Socialism

The Truth about Ruth?

(and doubting Thomas!)

"Trudeau elbows MP" (Time 1:19 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqCY8cZGxc

Even when reasonable people watch the same video, opposing points of view emerge.¹ Case in point is the Canadian House of Commons fracas of May 18, 2016. Here is how I see it:

Several NDP MPs were game-playing in the aisle of the House. The Conservative Party Whip, Gordon Brown, appeared to be “it”—lamely trying to breach a barricade of intentional NDP bodies while a wide aisle of open sailing lay to his left. But then, can we really fault him? for how—in the name of politics?!?—can we expect a conservative, right-wing Whip to look to the left when left-wingers are blockading his right?

In any event, our (ex-schoolteacher) Prime Minister lost his patience and inappropriately intervened to part the intransigent waters for the lackadaisical Whip, so to speak. Thinking perhaps to establish order, our PM ended up being disorderly himself and inadvertently elbowed a hovering NDP team-player, Ms Ruth Brosseau, in the chest. She reacted in pain (a very brief OWW—watch the video), but seemed to immediately recover in order to proclaim her injury.

Some have alleged her injury was on par with an equivalent male injury, but should one not ask: If such were the case, would she not have been clutching her injury instead of immediately gesticulating about it?

And how enlightening it might be to hear the exchange with her leader Thomas Mulcair which has been edited out of almost all the media coverage, but can be partly seen (but not heard) in the above video. The look on her face and backward glance as she strode from the chamber seems more of a “catch me if you can.” She did not appear in shock or trauma, but to be escalating the play-out of the game.

The game, it seemed was to create disorder, tension, and delay² and when matters escalated beyond NDP's wildest imagination, the knee-jerk déjà vu was to point all four fingers at someone else, while trumpeting shock and awful outrage.

So this is why I am doubting Thomas as well as the “truth about Ruth.” Thomas' bulk was a large portion of the blockade. Did he add a nudge to the fracas as one viewer believes?³ Did his political instincts immediately recognize opportunity? a golden chance to escalate the accidental injury / offence from the briefest of OWs to dumping a load of “violence against women”; and thereafter trusting in the media  and the populous (via repetitive, edited clips) to run everything to its hypocritical end?

I am doubting Thomas too, because his verbal explosion seemed intent on escalating what His Leadership had provoked through his “school of fish” blockade. (This does not excuse our PM, but neither does our PM's action exonerate Mr. Mulcair and his milling colleagues.)

I am doubting the truth about Ruth as well. Her videoed behavior; her jovial participation in the blockade; her statement: "I am a tough woman, I know how to stand up and deal with situations, [...] I was just shocked ... I was overwhelmed,"⁴ seems theatrically overblown to maximize damage, especially considering her past employments as an assistant manager of a campus pub and later as a Pier 21 bartender.⁵

If she means that this accidental encounter in the House was more shocking and overwhelming that any pub or bar encounter, then the truth about Ruth is more about gaming than honesty.

Perhaps we shall know the full truth if we ever get unedited access to audible audio and to all angles of the entire kerfuffle. In the meantime, let us pray that all parties can be as forthcoming and apologetic as our PM.

(And by the way, I didn't vote Liberal or NDP. I voted for what I thought might be the lesser of three evils, but then again, how does one really know in these days of theatrics and gaming.)

P.S. Though I have never seen “Game of Thrones,” it seems more and more that the world's politicians are all playing that game—where opposing sides are each seeking to ascend on the one and to flush on the other. Oh, déjà vu!

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1. ▪ "Justin Trudeau's elbowing incident leaves House in an uproar" at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-conservative-whip-1.3588407
▪ "What the prime minister did was supremely dumb, but so is the reaction - Michael's essay" at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/elbowgate-the-trump-effect-inattentional-deafness-gore-vidal-1.3589053/what-the-prime-minister-did-was-supremely-dumb-but-so-is-the-reaction-michael-s-essay-1.3589059
▪ "PM Trudeau grabs Conservative MP Gord Brown" (Time 3.22 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oG1Dw0B6S8
▪ "Trudeau in heated exchange on floor of the House of Commons" (Time 5:16 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg3f0Ae8V3o
2. "Elizabeth May calls Trudeau ‘elbowgate’ accidental, calls on parties to be ‘more mature’" (Time 3:02 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84iG8jgZExM
3. "Trudeau Elbows NDP member after being Nudged by Tom Mulcair into Brosseau" (Time 4:34 min.) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb4u6Y957us
4. "Ruth Ellen Brosseau target of personal attacks since being elbowed by Trudeau" at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brosseau-trudeau-elbowing-attacks-1.3590066?cmp=rss&cid=news-digests-canada-and-world-morning
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellen_Brosseau

Are We Getting There?

Circa 7 to 5 BCE, two prophets, named Helaman and Samuel, lived and recorded their observations of the social, political, and religious affairs of a nation located somewhere in the present-day Americas. These were their observations:*

▪ contentions did increase, insomuch that there were wars throughout all the land among all the people ...
▪ it was this secret band of robbers who did carry on this work of destruction and wickedness. ...
▪ and there was a great famine upon the land, among all the people ...
▪ For the earth was smitten that it was dry, and did not yield forth grain in the season of grain; and the whole earth was smitten ... that they did perish by thousands ...
▪ [And it came to pass after a brief period of repentance, peace and prosperity], there began to be much strife. ...
▪ And it came to pass ... there were a certain number of the dissenters from the people being stirred up to anger ... therefore they commenced a war with their brethren.
▪ And they did commit murder and plunder; ... hiding themselves that they could not be discovered, receiving daily an addition to their numbers, inasmuch as there were dissenters that went forth unto them.
▪ And thus in time, yea, even in the space of not many years, they became an exceedingly great band of robbers; and they did search out all the secret plans ...;
▪ Now behold, these robbers did make great havoc, yea, even great destruction among the people ...
▪ And it came to pass that it was expedient that there should be a stop put to this work of destruction; therefore they sent an army of strong men into the wilderness and upon the mountains to search out this band of robbers, and to destroy them.
▪ But behold, it came to pass that in that same year they were driven back even into their own lands. ...
▪ And it came to pass ... they did go forth again against this band of robbers, and did destroy many; and they were also visited with much destruction. ...
▪ And the robbers did still increase and wax strong, insomuch that they did defy the whole armies ... and they did cause great fear to come unto the people upon all the face of the land.
▪ Yea, for they did visit many parts of the land, and did do great destruction unto them; yea, did kill many, and did carry away others captive into the wilderness, yea, and more especially their women and their children.
▪ Now this great evil, which came unto the people because of their iniquity, did stir them up again in remembrance of the Lord their God.
▪ And thus ended the eighty and first year of the reign of the judges.
▪ And in the eighty and second year they began again to forget the Lord their God. And in the eighty and third year they began to wax strong in iniquity. And in the eighty and fourth year they did not mend their ways.
▪ And it came to pass in the eighty and fifth year they did wax stronger and stronger in their pride, and in their wickedness; and thus they were ripening again for destruction.
▪ they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their God, and do trample under their feet the Holy One—yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity. …
▪ O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world! …
▪ Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths! …
▪ they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide. …
▪ they have set their hearts upon riches; …
▪ if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil. …
▪ But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth—and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet. …
▪ Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with him. …
▪ the more part of the people remaining in their pride and wickedness, and the lesser part walking more circumspectly before God. …
▪ And there was but little alteration in the affairs of the people, save it were the people began to be more hardened in iniquity, and do more and more of that which was contrary to the commandments of God, …
▪ the people began to harden their hearts, all save it were the most believing part of them, … and began to depend upon their own strength and upon their own wisdom …
▪ And they began to reason and to contend among themselves, saying: …
▪ That it is not reasonable that such a being as a Christ shall come; …
▪ And many more things did the people imagine up in their hearts, which were foolish and vain; and they were much disturbed, for Satan did stir them up to do iniquity continually; yea, he did go about spreading rumors and contentions upon all the face of the land, that he might harden the hearts of the people against that which was good and against that which should come.

So, as we scan the landscape—from Brasília^† to Washington^‡ and back (and beyond)—here is the question: Are we on course for another “American” déjà vu?

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*See Book of Mormon | Helaman, chapters 11-16 for the full text which can be found at https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm?lang=eng.
^†Glenn Greenwald on the hypocrisy of Brazil's political crisis (Friday May 13, 2016; Time 10:31 min.) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-285-trump-tabloids-greenwald-on-brazil-hamilton-s-gatekeeper-pr-stunts-gone-wrong-and-more-1.3580796/glenn-greenwald-on-the-hypocrisy-of-brazil-s-political-crisis-1.3580827
^‡Review almost any US headline or news report or review: 1) Rose-Colored Specs? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2015/03/rose-colored-specs.html ; 2) Faux-Rogue Repeat? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2016/01/faux-rogue-repeat.html ; 3) Whitewash? at http://dejavu-times.blogspot.ca/2014/11/whitewash.html ; or 4) most of this whole, sad Déjà Vu~Times series.