Now Britain admits that the rush to vote and hopefully join the EC is on the backburner. An excerpt from the story (link is at the title above):
"But the Prime Minister was fighting behind the scenes against pressure from France and Germany to go through the motions of holding a UK referendum - which ministers think would end in an even bigger rejection.
The Dutch voted by 61.6 per cent to 38.4 against the blueprint for Europe's future after a campaign highlighting anger at rising inflation, immigration and loss of sovereignty. Mr Alexander said: "These two no votes leave the constitutional treaty in serious difficulties ... but it is not for one country to declare it dead."
The problem is that international globalists have no interest in listening to the people that buy their products, pay their salaries or vote them in. Now we have the defiance of Tony Blair even though he dare not hold a vote because he knows it will go down to certain defeat. The strategy of the socialistic/globalists is to keep trying until you get lucky. Sorta of like the inebriated man's strategy in picking up a woman at the corner pub.
What lessons are there for North America? Three main lessons to be learned: First - as I note above, consult with the electorate and populace as much as possible. Second - design strategies and programs to protect the most vulnerable people as much as reasonably possible. The more painful this process will be the more it will be rejected. Canadians certainly remember the pains and pangs of Free-trade which was sold as painless.' Third and final - Immigration, immigration and immigration. Do not ignore the pain caused to the general populace by the onslaught of immigration that is often not needed, or well thought out and planned for or justified.
A one world order that only benefits the billionaires and stars' of the world will be rejected by the rest of the world.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
The EC: is it finished?
It has been announced out of Holland that the no side to further integration with the EC has handily won. While results are not available, some observers are saying that the vote could be as much as two against for every person voting for Holland integrating further into a united Europe.
What is most interesting is that many groups on both sides of the political spectrum were pushing the public to vote no. On the left, many were fearing loss of social programs and jobs being transferred to other parts of the EC. On the right many were nervous about increasing waves of immigration that further integration with the EC would promise as such matters become the domain of the central government in Brussels.
Now there is trouble in Germany as many have predicted. The link above (click the story title), indicates that high level meetings have been held in Germany where Euro failure was a topic of discussion. Apparently is there not only growing dissatisfaction with the EC in Germany but many Germans want to dict the Euro itself which they believe has been a very poor deal for them since they converted from the German Deutschmark. Readers will remember that the Mark' was in its own right one of the few power currencies in the world exchange market before Germany adopted the Euro as per its community obligations. The initial resentment was greatest towards the euro in Germany and that no doubt has continued.
Add to the above fears the upcoming election in Germany and things are looking dicey for the EC at the moment. Annother country being mentioned in this same group is Britain where PM Blair promised a vote on further integration with the EC before the prior election where he was rewarded with a reduced majority government, his third in a row. Now Mr. Blair is appearing quite skittish about the thought of a vote and more so since there is a strong push by opponents in his own Labour party to oust him. We have a very low key summer for the EC and no doubt the proponents of this misery are not backing down nor going away anytime soon. They will have to change their methods greatly though if they hope to make Europeans love their questionable vision for their future.
What is most interesting is that many groups on both sides of the political spectrum were pushing the public to vote no. On the left, many were fearing loss of social programs and jobs being transferred to other parts of the EC. On the right many were nervous about increasing waves of immigration that further integration with the EC would promise as such matters become the domain of the central government in Brussels.
Now there is trouble in Germany as many have predicted. The link above (click the story title), indicates that high level meetings have been held in Germany where Euro failure was a topic of discussion. Apparently is there not only growing dissatisfaction with the EC in Germany but many Germans want to dict the Euro itself which they believe has been a very poor deal for them since they converted from the German Deutschmark. Readers will remember that the Mark' was in its own right one of the few power currencies in the world exchange market before Germany adopted the Euro as per its community obligations. The initial resentment was greatest towards the euro in Germany and that no doubt has continued.
Add to the above fears the upcoming election in Germany and things are looking dicey for the EC at the moment. Annother country being mentioned in this same group is Britain where PM Blair promised a vote on further integration with the EC before the prior election where he was rewarded with a reduced majority government, his third in a row. Now Mr. Blair is appearing quite skittish about the thought of a vote and more so since there is a strong push by opponents in his own Labour party to oust him. We have a very low key summer for the EC and no doubt the proponents of this misery are not backing down nor going away anytime soon. They will have to change their methods greatly though if they hope to make Europeans love their questionable vision for their future.
More Comments on various issues
Did the City of Toronto do something right for this biker?
I'm a rare Torontonian. I own a car and two bicycles. I prefer to ride my bikes when I can. It is relatively stress free, cheaper and healthy.
More amazingly I don't live below bloor. In fact I'm on Sheppard in the West end. You don't see a lot of bikers up here, but I'm seeing more and more though.
The point is that I don't dare go on many of the main streets in this city. The side streets are fine but still risky.. but many of the main streets in this city now would qualify almost anywhere else as highways. The speeds are high, the traffic dense and the motorists are not interested nor used to giving access to anybody else. I am a wimp, I ride on the sidewalk.
Most other people ride on the sidewalk. When they rebuilt the curbs and sidewalks in this area last year they did one smart thing.. they paved all of the medians and curbside property between sidewalks and the main roads. It makes sort of a crude bike path. People are using them too. Saves cutting grass errr, I mean weeds. Yeah it's more concrete and pavement but it helps to move people around. Once in awhile, somebody in the government gets something intelligent done. Sadly not often enough.
Ontario Liberals starting to show their support for private healthcare.
In today's Toronto Star online edition I saw this editorial at this link:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1117577411661&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
To make a long story short, Ontario health minister Smitherman hires old provincial liberal war horse Elinor Caplan to study the contentious home care, health program started by the Michael Harris Tories several years ago.
The Harris home care system had private for profit companies competing for contracts on home care with long established and large non-profits like the Victorian Order of Nurses. Caplan surprising some (but not me since I know that Liberals are desperate to bring in a dual health care system but are afraid to admit to it..), but not some critics, gave her stamp of approval to the system. Caplan's conclusion is that competition is good for the consumer and that other countries that she had observed with similar systems operated efficiently. Thus why should we be any different.
My point is this from the perspective of a conservative: When will the CPC try to pull the mask off the LPC's asperations of private/public healthcare which they so carefully hide from the public?
Another Scientist Concurs - There Is Life After Death
From Michael Roll
mike@mroll.freeserve.co.uk5-29-5
http://www.rense.com/general65/life.htm
The Scientific Proof of Survival After Death
"I completely agree with Michael Roll's arguments about the reality of paranormal phenomena and the existence of a normally unseen world... Quantum Physics: the presence of a wave nature in subatomic particles. The vital difference between a wave and a solid particle is the wave properties of superposition and modulation. Put simply, these properties allow waves of different frequencies to occupy the same space without direct interaction. Therefore it is quite possible for parallel universes to exist separated by a difference in some fundamental wave characteristic. This theory springs directly from wave mechanics which unfortunately was not available to the Victorian researchers when the greatest breakthroughs with mediumship were made."
Maybe those Christians and other people of faith are not so crazy after all?
The Scourge of Nationalism
http://www.progressive.org/june05/zinn0605.php
Howard Zinn
"Is not nationalism--that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder--one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking--cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on--have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power."
-- Most people I know love their country. The only people I know that don't are those that have cultural, political, or economic asperations that conflict with their nation's related views. You would be an example of that conflict yourself if your political views were part of the dialectic of capitalistic democracy vs global socialism. Because I prefer a politican sentiment seemingly rare in Canada (conservatism), I often criticise my country and in some ways I do believe it is inferior to other countries. Yet overall I have no problem with the idea of nationalism and I do not see where it has come close to running its course of usefulness for people of the world.
"National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica, and many more). But in a nation like ours--huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction--what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves. "
-- In this case the author ignores small imperialistic states (at least they have projectionist tendencies in the minimum), such as North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, Cuba, and increasingly Venezuela? The author goes on and on... you can read it for yourself... then finally he hints at the very end what he would replace this scourage called nationalism with: socialism!
"There have always been men and women in this country who have insisted that universal standards of decent human conduct apply to our nation as to others. That insistence continues today and reaches out to people all over the world. It lets them know, like the balloons sent over the countryside by the Paris Commune in 1871, that "our interests are the same." "
-- See how suble the true communist is? hiding behind words like progressive (gee is that like Progressive Conservative by chance?), and commune. Such words used to confuse the uninitiated by their softer and more obscure meaning and carefully placed in a context that is not readily noticeable for significance.
I'm a rare Torontonian. I own a car and two bicycles. I prefer to ride my bikes when I can. It is relatively stress free, cheaper and healthy.
More amazingly I don't live below bloor. In fact I'm on Sheppard in the West end. You don't see a lot of bikers up here, but I'm seeing more and more though.
The point is that I don't dare go on many of the main streets in this city. The side streets are fine but still risky.. but many of the main streets in this city now would qualify almost anywhere else as highways. The speeds are high, the traffic dense and the motorists are not interested nor used to giving access to anybody else. I am a wimp, I ride on the sidewalk.
Most other people ride on the sidewalk. When they rebuilt the curbs and sidewalks in this area last year they did one smart thing.. they paved all of the medians and curbside property between sidewalks and the main roads. It makes sort of a crude bike path. People are using them too. Saves cutting grass errr, I mean weeds. Yeah it's more concrete and pavement but it helps to move people around. Once in awhile, somebody in the government gets something intelligent done. Sadly not often enough.
Ontario Liberals starting to show their support for private healthcare.
In today's Toronto Star online edition I saw this editorial at this link:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1117577411661&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795
To make a long story short, Ontario health minister Smitherman hires old provincial liberal war horse Elinor Caplan to study the contentious home care, health program started by the Michael Harris Tories several years ago.
The Harris home care system had private for profit companies competing for contracts on home care with long established and large non-profits like the Victorian Order of Nurses. Caplan surprising some (but not me since I know that Liberals are desperate to bring in a dual health care system but are afraid to admit to it..), but not some critics, gave her stamp of approval to the system. Caplan's conclusion is that competition is good for the consumer and that other countries that she had observed with similar systems operated efficiently. Thus why should we be any different.
My point is this from the perspective of a conservative: When will the CPC try to pull the mask off the LPC's asperations of private/public healthcare which they so carefully hide from the public?
Another Scientist Concurs - There Is Life After Death
From Michael Roll
mike@mroll.freeserve.co.uk5-29-5
http://www.rense.com/general65/life.htm
The Scientific Proof of Survival After Death
"I completely agree with Michael Roll's arguments about the reality of paranormal phenomena and the existence of a normally unseen world... Quantum Physics: the presence of a wave nature in subatomic particles. The vital difference between a wave and a solid particle is the wave properties of superposition and modulation. Put simply, these properties allow waves of different frequencies to occupy the same space without direct interaction. Therefore it is quite possible for parallel universes to exist separated by a difference in some fundamental wave characteristic. This theory springs directly from wave mechanics which unfortunately was not available to the Victorian researchers when the greatest breakthroughs with mediumship were made."
Maybe those Christians and other people of faith are not so crazy after all?
The Scourge of Nationalism
http://www.progressive.org/june05/zinn0605.php
Howard Zinn
"Is not nationalism--that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder--one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking--cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on--have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power."
-- Most people I know love their country. The only people I know that don't are those that have cultural, political, or economic asperations that conflict with their nation's related views. You would be an example of that conflict yourself if your political views were part of the dialectic of capitalistic democracy vs global socialism. Because I prefer a politican sentiment seemingly rare in Canada (conservatism), I often criticise my country and in some ways I do believe it is inferior to other countries. Yet overall I have no problem with the idea of nationalism and I do not see where it has come close to running its course of usefulness for people of the world.
"National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica, and many more). But in a nation like ours--huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction--what might have been harmless pride becomes an arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves. "
-- In this case the author ignores small imperialistic states (at least they have projectionist tendencies in the minimum), such as North Korea, Iran, Syria, Libya, Cuba, and increasingly Venezuela? The author goes on and on... you can read it for yourself... then finally he hints at the very end what he would replace this scourage called nationalism with: socialism!
"There have always been men and women in this country who have insisted that universal standards of decent human conduct apply to our nation as to others. That insistence continues today and reaches out to people all over the world. It lets them know, like the balloons sent over the countryside by the Paris Commune in 1871, that "our interests are the same." "
-- See how suble the true communist is? hiding behind words like progressive (gee is that like Progressive Conservative by chance?), and commune. Such words used to confuse the uninitiated by their softer and more obscure meaning and carefully placed in a context that is not readily noticeable for significance.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Various issues
Current events as viewed by me.
The vote in France: no surprise now, it was lost and many conservatives are happy, not happy that this affirms socialism in France, but happy that temporarily European Union is weakened. This is good for supporters of the US and those that believed in the need for the US to go into Iraq. The media is reporting that a no vote is highly expected in Holland within days.
Single Sex Marriage in Canada: the liberals promised this week to ram this legislation through at the national level no matter what. The minority governing LPC believes this will lead to more seats in an upcoming election in Quebec - but this view does not entirely make sense in light of scandals in Quebec which the LPC is embroiled in and that Quebec has a still strong Catholic base. That Catholics in Quebec and the rest of Canada have not faught Mr. Martin much harder on this issue really surprises me. If this legislation passes then I will watch for reactions from Catholics and especially the Church's leadership.
Gomery inquiry in Canada: recently the CPC has wanted to expand this inquiry as rumours grow that the LPC's theft of pubic money has been affecting other departments and programs. The total of money stolen by the LPC may never be fully known. This from today's Globe & Mail "The motion calls on the government to allow Justice John Gomery to ”name names and assign responsibility” in his findings from the sponsorship inquiry.
Public Works Minister Scott Brison, however, says Judge Gomery can already do all that." This remains to be seen all the same, I expect the LPC to do everything in their power to sanitize and muffle any negative news when Gomery reports even if they have to threaten people. This is a government that has alleged ties to organized crime... remember.
Leadership of Federal Political Party's in Canada: I find it most ironic that the most successful person in federal politics now is the target of constant media rumours of his near demise as leader of his political party. I'm talking about Stephen Harper of course, leader of a relatively new and re-invigorated conservative party in Canada. That, this organization has moved so far in such a short time and accomplished so much is unprecedented in Canadian political history especially since every move has been forward so far. His opposition except the Bloc leader (Gilles Duceppe a quite skilled political veteran now...), have frankly been quite disappointing. Paul Martin leader of the LPC barely clings to life in a minority government and his party's future in Quebec (as important to LPC fortunes as Alberta is to the CPC), is destroyed. Furthermore, as noted above the Gomery inquiry has pervaded the view that federal Liberal politicians are corrupt. That, Jack Layton was selected to turn around the fortunes of the NDP and has not done that yet, is also concerning for him. He had to give all his power to the LPC to keep them in power and to ensure that he could stab the CPC in the back. He has many enemies now in Ottawa. More than anyone would want frankly. My prediction despite constant media and RED Tory whining is that Mr. Martin and Mr. Layton will be gone within the next year. Mr. Harper will still be leader of the CPC in a year's time. Here is a brief example of the Geoffrey Simpson at the Globe and Mail's obvious liberal talking points on the state of the CPC leadership and his biased HOPES AND DREAMS - "New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord has a career-shaping decision to make, likely by year's end. Does Mr. Lord want to be leader of the federal Conservative Party? If so -- and his friends now think he does -- then the next question becomes how best to position himself. The growing assumption in New Brunswick is that he's going federal, and he'll make that jump with only the top job in mind." The big joke about Simpson is that he is not even a supporter of the CPC and yet he acts like he is an insider and he knows our best interests. What Simpson represents is the ingrained mentality in Canada that exists within the MSM that they get to dictate to the Political Party's their policies and direction ahead of what their supporters are able to do. This speaks of gross arrogance and frankly it even goes against the idea of a free press. Also, notice that Simpson goes far too easy on his own corrupt chosen political party for some strange reason. I would like to see stories from him in regards to who is replacing Mr. Martin and a lot less of his 'Dreams' about the CPC becoming the new PC or Liberal Lite political party which he and his controllers desire.
The vote in France: no surprise now, it was lost and many conservatives are happy, not happy that this affirms socialism in France, but happy that temporarily European Union is weakened. This is good for supporters of the US and those that believed in the need for the US to go into Iraq. The media is reporting that a no vote is highly expected in Holland within days.
Single Sex Marriage in Canada: the liberals promised this week to ram this legislation through at the national level no matter what. The minority governing LPC believes this will lead to more seats in an upcoming election in Quebec - but this view does not entirely make sense in light of scandals in Quebec which the LPC is embroiled in and that Quebec has a still strong Catholic base. That Catholics in Quebec and the rest of Canada have not faught Mr. Martin much harder on this issue really surprises me. If this legislation passes then I will watch for reactions from Catholics and especially the Church's leadership.
Gomery inquiry in Canada: recently the CPC has wanted to expand this inquiry as rumours grow that the LPC's theft of pubic money has been affecting other departments and programs. The total of money stolen by the LPC may never be fully known. This from today's Globe & Mail "The motion calls on the government to allow Justice John Gomery to ”name names and assign responsibility” in his findings from the sponsorship inquiry.
Public Works Minister Scott Brison, however, says Judge Gomery can already do all that." This remains to be seen all the same, I expect the LPC to do everything in their power to sanitize and muffle any negative news when Gomery reports even if they have to threaten people. This is a government that has alleged ties to organized crime... remember.
Leadership of Federal Political Party's in Canada: I find it most ironic that the most successful person in federal politics now is the target of constant media rumours of his near demise as leader of his political party. I'm talking about Stephen Harper of course, leader of a relatively new and re-invigorated conservative party in Canada. That, this organization has moved so far in such a short time and accomplished so much is unprecedented in Canadian political history especially since every move has been forward so far. His opposition except the Bloc leader (Gilles Duceppe a quite skilled political veteran now...), have frankly been quite disappointing. Paul Martin leader of the LPC barely clings to life in a minority government and his party's future in Quebec (as important to LPC fortunes as Alberta is to the CPC), is destroyed. Furthermore, as noted above the Gomery inquiry has pervaded the view that federal Liberal politicians are corrupt. That, Jack Layton was selected to turn around the fortunes of the NDP and has not done that yet, is also concerning for him. He had to give all his power to the LPC to keep them in power and to ensure that he could stab the CPC in the back. He has many enemies now in Ottawa. More than anyone would want frankly. My prediction despite constant media and RED Tory whining is that Mr. Martin and Mr. Layton will be gone within the next year. Mr. Harper will still be leader of the CPC in a year's time. Here is a brief example of the Geoffrey Simpson at the Globe and Mail's obvious liberal talking points on the state of the CPC leadership and his biased HOPES AND DREAMS - "New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord has a career-shaping decision to make, likely by year's end. Does Mr. Lord want to be leader of the federal Conservative Party? If so -- and his friends now think he does -- then the next question becomes how best to position himself. The growing assumption in New Brunswick is that he's going federal, and he'll make that jump with only the top job in mind." The big joke about Simpson is that he is not even a supporter of the CPC and yet he acts like he is an insider and he knows our best interests. What Simpson represents is the ingrained mentality in Canada that exists within the MSM that they get to dictate to the Political Party's their policies and direction ahead of what their supporters are able to do. This speaks of gross arrogance and frankly it even goes against the idea of a free press. Also, notice that Simpson goes far too easy on his own corrupt chosen political party for some strange reason. I would like to see stories from him in regards to who is replacing Mr. Martin and a lot less of his 'Dreams' about the CPC becoming the new PC or Liberal Lite political party which he and his controllers desire.
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