The Rise and Fall of Syria (satire)

Once upon a time a long time ago, a young doctor studying to be an ophthalmologist at the Western Eye Hospital in London was called back to his home country to his father's heir apparent due to the death of his elder brother in a tragic car crash. He later married a beautiful lady born in the UK, and after the death of his father, he became president and she became his First Lady. All in all, it seemed a wonderful life.

Years passed, and then in 2011, everything changed. Bashar al Assad, the current President of Syria is the name of that doctor.

During the Arab Spring of 2011, some of the people of his country rebelled against him. After bloody clashes, it became clear that Syria was in a civil war, a proxy war between Russia and Western nations aligned with America and sympathetic members of the Gulf States known as Friends of the Syrian Group.

According to a recent news report, Al-Qaeda of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) — also known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Islamic State — is covertly funded by the Friends of Syria Group (FSG), of whose members Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia fund Sunni covert mercenaries from around the world, including Canada such as a man who was convicted as one of the Toronto 18.

In essence, Western nations aligned with the US government are facilitating the covert training of home-grown militants by capturing them where a few of them radicalize. Once they are released from jail, these militants find their way to Syria as a part of a secret plan to send 100,000 covert mercenaries to Syria. Perhaps, about five percent of detained homegrown militants who are released from prison have radicalized.

Thus the fall of Syria is being plotted by these Western nations with advice from the US government. Rather than drop bombs, the West will instead detain their home-grown terrorists and let each one fly to Syria to join the ISIL which includes most of the al-Nusra Front, each of which are Islamic terrorist organizations.

While al Nusrah Front is aligned with Al Qaeda, ISIL has broken with al Qaeda due to the ISIL's leader's intent to absorb al Nusrah Front into ISIL. For a thorough background on Islamic State's leader, see the Update for December 7, 2015 below.)

Currently, the ISIL-dominated area in which consists of eastern Syria and northern Iraq has been turned into a quasi-Caliphate where Sharia law is the rule of the land. However, it also includes anywhere in the world where local Islamic dissidents have aligned with Islamic State e.g. northeastern Nigeria where Boko Haram have terrorized Christians and Muslim citizens.

When Syria falls, it will be because of the Western nations' leaders aligned with the US government who agreed to bomb Libya, and consequently contributed to the murder of Gaddafi by clan members whose clans were brutally suppressed under the Libya despot.

In that scenario, it is more likely the reason for Libya falling was due to the proposed gold currency that he was fronting and his announcement to share oil wealth with every Libyan, a promise that faded when the Arab Spring morphed into civil war.

In Syria, the Alawite Shi'a minority run the government while the Sunni majority have been routinely suppressed under the al-Assad Dynasty. Indeed, before the current proxy war by the superpowers of the US, Russia, China, and the Gulf States of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, Syria outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, possibly due to their ties to CIA.

It is known that Pakistan routinely receives US aid, and that their spy organization ISI secretly trained mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union during the Afghanistan civil war that preceded the Taleban and later US invasion. Thus Pakistan is complicit in the war crimes that the US and its allies in the Coalition committed in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Today it is most likely that when Gitmo is closed, captured militants will be redeployed in Syria. This is likely why a certain militant was released from US custody.

Thus, in the future, this is what Homeland Security might do:

1. Closely scrutinize males from the Middle East who are not Israelis.
   
2. When said males exhibit radical Muslim ideology, isolate them from mainstream Muslims.
   
3. Send in psy ops specialists to convince said males to commit to a terrorist act on US soil.
   
4. Send in police and FBI to "foil" terrorist act and arrest said males.
   
5. Send in more psy ops to convince "home-grown terrorist(s)" that redeploying in Syria is the only option.
   
6. If they choose a trial, then that means their lawyer knows the truth about the covert mercenary plan devised by the FSG, particularly with the aid of Canada.

This is what "home-grown terrorism" actually means. In the case of the recent train station bombings in Russia by Chechen militants, it may be funded by the CIA. As well, the Boston bombings is inspired by Chechen militancy and is an example of homegrown terrorism. It is well known that the Chechen Muslims who did Hajj may have radicalized in Saudi Arabia. Thus it is imperative for Western nations to identify and monitor imams who support Islamic terrorists groups such as al Qaeda and ISIL in their countries, particularly in nations with large Muslim immigrant populations such as Germany and their Turkish immigrants, most of whom immigrated to avoid Turkish suppression of potential Salafi militants. Additionally, the revisionism of Imam al-Sharif needs to be implemented in Western nations amongst the Islamic diaspora in order to prevent Muslim youths from being seduced by charismatic imams who use Salafi ideology as the means to their own ends - Islamic militancy. Because it is the misuse of ideology that is dangerous, the current propaganda that neoconservatives are manufacturing — that Islam is dangerous to America — consists of generalizations about Islam that also indicate the misuse of ideology. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but Salafi ideology is misused by charismatic imams in the name of al Qaeda and Islamic State. The irony is that al Qaeda has been in the pockets of the US government all along. Perhaps al Qaeda did not plan 9-11 all on its own but was facilitated by a covert psy ops team embedded in al Qaeda to choose two symbols of American power to destroy, namely the Twin Towers in NYC and the Pentagon. Possibly that the passenger jet that was downed in Pennsylvania might have contained an expendable CIA operative who inspired the passengers to take down the crew. The purpose of this was to instill patriotism in American people. However, there may be an unlikely scenario aboard an American passenger jet in which a purported terrorist is murdered by heroic passengers but misrepresented in the mainstream news as an "aborted hijacking." This incident will be used to inspire American passengers to aid the air marshal if a would-be hijacker attempts a hijack. The problem here is, most passengers are compliant and non-aggressive. Thus, it might be more useful to hire covert agents who have trained in hijacking scenarios to be placed on air flights in which potential terrorists are most likely to be embedded amongst passengers. These agents would be trained in techniques useful to defusing hostage situations. With this in mind, the Air France Flight 8969 is a good example of the tactics used by air crew to establish rapport with AIG terrorists. Of the four terrorists, "Bill" was probably not a terrorist, but was a poor goat-herder taken along for the ride. Additionally, it would be important to Americans to learn to be friendly to Muslim Americans so as to establish with and to dialog with Muslim Americans rather than base their actions solely on the Islamophobic propaganda that the neoconservatives are peddling. Regarding Islam, if I read another lie about Aisha and Muhammad, then my satire is going to get interesting: for example, defending teenaged pregnancy by claiming that the Virgin Mary was an unmarried pregnant lady who was married by Joseph to prevent scandal. It is likely that she would have been stoned for having premarital sex with someone she called "The Lord" after someone named "Gabriel" told her about being mother to the coming Messiah. Therefore the Christ story was probably concocted as propaganda long after Roman occupation of Judea after 63 BCE. However, Jesus never existed as depicted in the Bible. Rather, there may have been a priest-king named Jesus of whose cult members were persecuted by Saul. Therefore, Paul of Tarsus is the chief propagandist of the Christ myth. My reason for this alternate theory to the Christ story is due to the modern day Christian's role in the bloody debacle being played out in Syria today. Their right wing advocates against the Syrian government of al Assad are peddling the Islamophobic propaganda among Tea Party members by their GOP handlers. They use generalizations based on the fallacy that all terrorists are Muslims — "all terrorists are Muslims. Al Qaeda is a Muslim terrorist organization. Osama bin Laden was the leader of al Qaeda. Therefore Osama was a Muslim terrorist." However, not all Muslims are terrorists. Most Islamophobic propaganda does not distinguish between radicals and moderates. This is why I call Islamophobia propaganda. Additionally, the fallacy that Bashar al Assad is almost as evil as Hitler is propaganda used to justify war on Syria. In conclusion, regarding Syria, no one's hands are clean of this mess. All participants including Canada may be guilty of war crimes. You have been informed. Update: As of February 3, 2014, al Qaeda has broke with the ISIL due to a dispute between al Qaeda and ISIL. Additionally, the ISIL militants have taken over oil wells and placed tolls on vehicles entering its territory. Syrian rebels has stated that they don't mind al Qaeda's remaining terrorists in the Nusra Front since they are not as eager in profiting from the fact that much of the infrastructure in parts of Syria are ripe for making gobs of cash. It looks like the American government has created a monster. Update: As of December 7, 2015, it is most likely that the American government created the Islamic State. Originally known in the West as ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) or ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), in the Middle East, and among informed academics and politicians in the West, another name associated with the Islamic State: Da'esh. Documented proof exists that the Islamic State was manufactured by the US government to fight in Iraq and in Syria, mainly to destabilize both nations. Back in 2005, in an opinion editorial in the L. A. Times by UC Berkley law professor John Yoo, he mentions a tool that could be used to fight against al Qaeda: "Another tool would have our intelligence agencies create a false terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within Al Qaeda's ranks, causing operatives to doubt others' identities and to question the validity of communications." According to Peter Santilli, who runs an alternate media show in his name, this is the smoking gun that points to his contention that Islamic State was created by the CIA. He contends that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a CIA covert agent. Originally, al-Baghdadi was created by al Qaeda to legitimize the leadership of the Islamic State of Iraq prior to 2010. Later on, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi replaced the Iraqi actor who played al-Baghdadi. When al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010, he was replaced by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. An elaborate back story for Abu Bakr — also known as Abu Dua — has enhanced his prestige as leader of Islamic State. However, at the time of the Coalition invasion of Iraq in 2003, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a Muslim cleric who helped found the militant group Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah (JJASJ), in which he served as head of the sharia committee. After he was arrested by US Forces-Iraq in 2004 near Fallujah, he was detained at Camp Bucca detention center under his name Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badry. In 2005, he was released from Camp Bucca as a "low level prisoner". In 2006, his group JJASJ joined the Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC). He served as a member of the MSC's sharia committee. Later that year, when MSC became Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Bakr was the general supervisor of the ISI's sharia committee and a member of the group's senior consultative council. When Osama bin Laden died in May 2011, Abu Bakr praised the leader of al Qaeda and threatened violent retaliation. On May 5, 2011, al-Baghdadi claimed responsibility for an attack in Hilla, that killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others. On August 15, Mosul was targeted by ISI, resulting in 70 deaths. Later, on their website, in response to bin Laden's death, ISI vowed to kill 100 attacks throughout Iraq. As leader of ISI, al-Baghdadi orchestrated the killing of prominent Sunni lawmaker Khalid al-Fahdawi in August 28 2011. According to a June 11, 2014 Washington Post interview of Colonel Kenneth King, Abu Bakr was detained from 2005 to 2009. This disinformation was used by conspiracy theorists to substantiate claims that the CIA trained Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and to support the theory that the Islamic State is in fact the tool used to destabilize Iraq and Syria. In 2013, as ISIL insurgency made its way into eastern Syria, al-Baghdadi declared that ISI would now be known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which could be alternately translated from Arabic as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). He also stated that al-Nusrah Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) be merged with ISIL. This led to a break with al Qaeda, with 80% of al Nusrah Front being absorbed into ISIL. Mainstream media use of the alternate name for ISIL, ISIS, led to its popularity due to the acronym being similar to Isis, an ancient Egyptian goddess of life and fertility. A few Christian and Muslim religionists might manufacture the fallacy that ISIS is as evil as the ancient Egyptians who conquered the Middle East because some of them were the pagan worshipers of Isis. Yet there is no evidence that the ancient conquest of the Middle East was done in the name of Isis, given that the ancient Egyptian god Ra is associated with ancient Egyptian royalty and their conquests. Of course, mainstream media refrains from the use of such a pointless fallacy. By the beginning of 2014, after pushing al Nusrah Front out of the Syrian city of Ar-Raqqah, and fighting with the faction throughout the Deir ez-Zor Governorate left hundreds of militants dead and displaced tens of thousands of Syrians. In February 2014, al Qaeda cut off all ties with ISIL. Meanwhile, mainstream media discovered that al-Baghdadi and the ISIL received private financing from citizens in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Then in June 2014, al-Baghdadi declared that ISIS would be known as the Islamic State (IS), and he would be its Caliph. Over the intervening months, the Islamic State murdered a Jordanian pilot, which led to a response from the military of America, Jordan and other Arab nations to attack them. In time, Russia joined them, defending Syria from the IS and recently clashing with Turkey. Perhaps the fall of Syria has been delayed. Only time will tell. Update for December 19, 2015: Islamic State is a joint CIA and Pakistan ISI product known in the mainstream media as terrorist organization. Yet what the news reports fail to mention is that Islamic terrorists groups like the Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban have been manufactured by Israeli Mossad with aid from the US spy agency (CIA), Pakistan's ISI, Canada's black ops unit, Joint Task Force, and many other spy agencies of Western nation allied with the Us military. Five Eyes are needed to manipulate the news media to prevent an honest and truthful exposure of this smoke and mirrors shell game that the intelligence agents play while replacing honest reporting in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the US with the straw man called "the Islamic militant" AKA "Muslim terrorist." Even the Paris attack consisted of a black ops crew consisting of French military personnel in plain clothes who led the dissidents on their killing spree last month. Likewise, the shooting in San Bernardino was morphed into a terrorist attack, with the purported terrorists' home open to news reporters in an effort to contaminate the scene of the dissidents' bomb-making. These false flag operations are designed to satisfy the MSM's hunger for terrorism, and their desire of the government to protect its citizens. Instead, sometimes the dissidents go roguecafter training and morph into terrorists thanks to their radicalization in Saudi Arabia during Hajj, the Muslim faithfuls' annual pilgrimage to Mecca to worship God Almighty as they circumambulated the Kaaba. If you want to stop terrorism, then demand that the governments of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand bring home their spies from the Middle East. Though it may be true that those who live by the sword may die in bloody conflict, this militancy has not been sanctioned by a imam, thus proving that Islamic State is only Islamic in name only. Islamic State's religious leanings remind me of a darker and more homicidal version of US domestic terrorism, with the trappings of religion so as to legitimize these militants' violence by declaring that all of Islam in the Middle East is apostate and thus ought to be excommunicated from the mosques ad the streets, by force if necessary. Yet its militants are subtle secularists who have worn the robes of Muslim holy rollers and whose action gives religion a day name. For a true Muslim has no need to wage jihad on the Crusaders embedded in the Coalition's forces, who are inspired by Christ an war hawks. Thus islamophobia that paints Islam as a warrior religion ignores the old Testament as the source of such militancy in Christendom. Indeed, the Old Testament is full of stories about armies warring to win the Holy Land for the nomadic Semites in ancient times, who settled in Jerusalem after captivity and became the jews of today. While the West overlooks the religious origins of rivalry between Sunni and Shi'a due to socialist romaticism, the truth is, favoring Israel over Jordan and perpetuating the bloody mindedness of thechosen ones in spite of the promise of Jesus Christ to return. Mankind cannot usher in a free world devoid of religion, due to the willingness to mistake that freedom for license, breaking bonds of spiritual devotion in order to deal thoroughly with the secular world because it is the 21st century. How modern to fight each other with weapons, with the Israeli government willing to compromise human rights for the sake of right-wing radicalisms that favour assassination, servitude, and starvation. Small wonder the New Left is willing to risk being seen as antisemitic when, in fact, antisemitism now only consists of hate crimes against Jews. Yet Israeli rightwingers are wont to say they don't misrepresent the truth that Palestine is not an urban legend but rather the fact they need to show friendliness to the Syrian immigrants and live what the Christ taught us. It is the obligation of the West to love one another and to love your enemies, because love is the answer to militancy and war! I am sure that all you need is to willingly practice the charity that Paul wrote of in 1 Collosians 13, which is of the Christ. Even a true Christian, Jew, and Muslim would know this to be true, but would only abandon the Old Testament fir churchvdoctrine, and replace charity and love with subtle antisemitism and the willingness to split up the house of Shem into Arab and Jew, Jews and Muslims. Both Judaism and Islam are based in part on ancient Hebrew tradition and Arabic principles of justice, not petty tribalisms like honkurvkukkings. That war in the Middle East was manufactured by the West's foreign policy in the Middle East. So no nation usi free of responsibility.

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Originally posted on 1/19/14, 12:24 PM Pacific Standard Time

References:

Pentagon admits to 'Zarqawi as legendary terrorist' propaganda:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/who-is-behind-al-qaeda-in-iraq-pentagon-acknowledges-fabricating-a-zarqawi-legend/2275

Bashar al Assad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad

Al Qaeda Breaks With Jihadist Group in Syria: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/world/middleeast/syria.html

Documented proof that the US government created the Islamic State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqIyJycXxOo

Go on the Offensive Against Terror: http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/13/opinion/oe-yoo13

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_al-Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi

How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became the world's most powerful jihadist leader: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/11/how-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-became-the-worlds-most-powerful-jihadi-leader/

Criticism of Jihad movement: Sayyed Imam al-Sharif: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif#Criticism_of_Jihad_movement

I am Canadian Because It is a Nation of Many Cultures (satire)

According to the article about France's love of Inuit culture, I am left with the impression that my fellow Canadians are based about Inuit culture. That may be because of their myopia about what culture means to them, especially an unwillingness to accept the Inuit people as equals. Nevertheless the French are willing to embrace the Inuit due to their love and respect of culture.

This may be because the Inuit were not political rivals like the former European empires such as the British, the Dutch, the German and the Russian empire.

Hence are the majority of Canadians jaded due to their ambivalence about the Inuit.

Perhaps this is the legacy of Canadian multiculturalism, for Canada is a commonwealth of cultures, each of which adhere to the notion that my people are my people and your people are your people but never shall we meet as equals.

Thus, it would be a rare day for a Canadian to become a tourist within Canada unless she develops the respect demanded by the appreciation of a democracy arising from the mutual love and esteem of all cultures that make up Canada.

For the monoculture that often represents Canadian culture today - the cultural artefacts called Western civilisation - is only a facsimile of true culture. Indeed, true culture demands that each culture and their respective peoples be appreciated by Canadians as worthy of such regard that each of us are willing to explore them.

Otherwise, Canadian culture is but an artefact of postmodern culture that is barren of any culture save stereotypes based on hockey, Canadian beer, and figures of speech.

I am Canadian not because of our cultural icons, but because of the richness of being the citizen of a multicultural state.

I am Canadian because I am proud that Canada is a nation of many cultures.

Indeed, I am a Canadian who is proud that my tax dollars are at work in Tourism Canada keeping Inuit culture alive.

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Reference:

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/m/article/inuit-culture-all-the-rage-in-france/

JIhadi or Not Jihadi (satire)

Even though the Westernized converts to the Jihadi cult are homegrown and often mentally ill and former drug addicts, it makes you wonder exactly why the rest of the jihadis in the Islamic State are assumed to be sane.

IMO if you attack people in a Western country, you are assumed to be crazy unless fit to stand trial. What that means is you comply to the demands of the State (the Majesty's court in the Commonwealth) or its equivalent elsewhere except the Middle East.

In short, the mentally ill label is misused in the case of Westernized jihadi to mean the same as cult member. Hence, the IS warriors are just as crazy as the guys who kill Canadian soldiers.

It matters not what the guy's mother said. Labels are used to separate the sane from the insane.

Thus the mass media is resorting to a form of prejudiced profiling by labeling homegrown terrorists crazy and drug addicts.

There is even denial that they are terrorists. We can explain the Ottawa shooter as a disgruntled guy who was mad he didn't get his passport.

Then the mass media can sell "crazy guy shoots up Ottawa over passport" instead of calling a jihadi a jihadi.

IMO they are jihadi because they targeted Canadian soldiers but not pedestrians in a mall. However, it makes good copy to create doubt in the news consumers' minds.

I have no such doubt: two jihadi, homegrown, one dead and the other in jail.

It is likely the State will collaborate with the man who ran over two soldier, and it will be called an act of terrorism. Since then, all soldiers are ordered in Canada to dress like a plain-clothes ninja to blend in with the rest of Canadians.

It's about time. Out of uniform is the best disguise. Now the army can route out terrorism wherever it may start, or even instigate a riot to flush out the homegrown jihadi.

UPDATE: The late M. Zehaf-Bbibeau is not a terrorist, but a former homeless drug addict who was ignored by Ottawa and the system. Most likely he was off his medication and blamed the Canadian government for ignoring his pleas for help three years ago.

Although the shooting last week in Ottawa left two people dead, this is the Conservative government's fault for their inability to treat the homeless addicts across Canada with respect and dignity that Harper et al pays daily to people who can afford rehab.

This tragedy is preventable when compassion enables the rare politician to actually listen to them with their heart.

Karma is a bitch, ain't it, Ottawa?

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Reference:

http://globalnews.ca/news/1639555/why-didnt-ottawa-gunman-zehaf-bibeau-get-treatment-3-years-ago/

Islamic Terrorism an American Product? (satire)

Islamic terrorism is actually an American product.

al Qaeda was formed to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan with help from the CIA and Pakistan's ISI.

In essence Islamic terrorism has always been sponsored by the American government.

Meanwhile, domestic terrorism in America is actually Christian, e.g. Army of God. In Europe, it's not Islamists who are a threat. It's actually non-Muslim separatists. In Italy, Christian terrorists are killing Muslims.

So much for Islamic terrorism.

However, I do not believe al Qaeda and Taliban to be "Islamic" terrorists. Their imam is both a poor Islamic scholar and surgeon. Just by killing other Muslims, he is destined for the Fire. So are the martyrs, except for the suicide bombers they use.

The Islamophobes can decry Islamic terrorism as much as they want in America. It's not going to change the fact that the American government is sponsoring the al Nusrah Front and the ISIS by buying oil from OPEC and also asking Canada to secretly send home grown terrorists to Syria.

Nobody believes this because of their blind faith in America as a democracy. I find this hilarious because America has descended into fascism since 911, thanks to their politics.

I personally believe that the US secretly supports Canadian PM Stephen Harper, and if it were possible, they would keep Harper on a PM. I also believe that Canada is a rogue nation under Harper. Indeed, I liken Harper to a benign dictator rather than a democratic leader. He has propagandized against Assad, and pissed off the native people of Canada.

Yet the worst thing that Harper has done is allow home grow terrorists to fight in Syria.

Wait until the karma from that bites us in the ass.

Why we need Muslim terrorists in Canada (satire)

1. They will assassinate drug dealers but never deal in marijuana.
   
2. Sharia law will be enforced, rather than be eroded by anti-religion manifestos like in Quebec. Though the government will have to pay them off to keep their women safe from honor killing and FGM.
   
3. They could be used to keep the Pakistani-Canadian gang members in check e.g. assassinate pedophile Muslims.
   

Seriously though, the Canadian government is going to watch these guys when they return from Syria. It's unlikely they'll be on Muslim criminals' side after becoming Salafi. Those guys are anti-drug to the point of beheading drug dealers in Syria. So, why not use our Canadian al Qaeda to take a bite out of Muslim crime in Canada? Isn't that why the Canadian government sent them to al Nusra Front in Syria in the first place? I mean, we have Canadians there fighting beside the rebels against Assad. They will eventually come home once Assad is overthrown and his army obliterated.

This is probably why no country is supplying the rebels with bigger firepower yet. If only automatic rifles and smaller arms gets to them, then it'll be easier for the Syrian military to keep them at bay. However, it would be stupid to supply them with enough firepower to wipe out Assad, because that would force China and Russia to step in. When you add to this al Qaeda forces coming out of Pakistan, it's not hard to suspect Pakistan's Islamists and Taleban are doing what comes naturally for them, since Pakistan was the staging ground for most of the Taliban of Afghanistan.

Remember: there are up to 100 Canadian al Qaeda at the moment. Think of how useful they will be cleaning up Canadian inner cities from Halifax to Toronto to Edmonton to Vancouver, keeping it free of drug dealers. Sadly though, the security experts predict they will turn to crime and blow up trains and assassinate city councils. That's only if we deny them sharia law courts. However, it's going to cost a lot of money to keep them in line.

I'm sure sending in al Qaeda to take a bite out of crime in Canada is worth it because the RCMP are doing a shitty job of it as of now. The reports of Canadians in Syria fighting for al Qaeda implies they will get tips on how to foment "revolution" in Canada when they return. However, they may also eliminate gang members who offend them, not to steal drugs but to show what happens when sharia is used against drug dealers. Our criminal gangs in Canada are out of control. Legal enforcement and the justice system only recently legislated against gang violence by criminalizing it. However, they still fight with staff in youth custody facilities.

There was a recent incident in BC where a youth detention staff member was severely injured by a suspected teenaged gang member. I bet the government employees union is grieving that. For how can a staff member do his job if he is going to get beat up or killed at work?

While turning Canadian al Qaeda into anti-drug squad is fraught with the risk of death and injury, the risk of death and injury is prevalent in the lifestyle of gang members. The Surrey Six who died needlessly is a case in point.

When you start assassinating your rivals for horning in on your territory, then you are acting in a psychopathic manner that is contrary to the safety and security of law-abiding citizens like the two guys who were pulled in and murdered in cold blood, merely for being witnesses. Instead of targeting the State (the US government) for depriving their gangs of cocaine from Mexican cartels, gangsters in Vancouver plotted to kill off gang rivals in the big fight to distribute the dwindling supply of cocaine.

Overall, the deaths of four gang members and two innocent bystanders is a senseless waste of lives and of time. It was done because one gang tried to extort a "fee" from rival gang members to deal in their territory. When the rivals wouldn't pay up, they were executed. If Canadian al Qaeda are added to this, gang members could hire their services to wipe out other gangs.

However, the risk would be that the al Aqaeda would wipe them out if they don't convert to Islam and fight for the greater good of the imminent Caliphate. Islamists like this will threaten the group dynamics in the prison system if arrested and incarcerated with the general population.

You will see prisoners converting to Islam because the Islamists will protect you to the death. This is happening in the UK right now. It's only a matter of time before it occurs in Canada.

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Originally posted: March 27, 2014 3:52 AM

References:
Syria is a training ground for Canadian homegrown terrorists.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/21/officials-al-qaeda-tries-to-recruit-americans-in-syria/

We have Canadians in Syria fighting alongside the rebels against Assad:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/damian-clairmont-killed-fighting-with-al-qaeda-linked-rebels-in-syria-1.2497513

Inspiration for this article:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/fbi-agent-ibragim-todashev-boston-marathon-report

The Suppression of Arab Spring (satire)

al-Arsuzi is one of the founding fathers of Arab Baathism, which dominates Syrian government.

Arab Baathism is a mainly secular ideology based on Arab Marxism, due to pan-Arabist ideology. It differs greatly from the pseudo-religious ideology of al Qaeda and the Islamists, who are inspired by Salafi and Wahhabi ideology that dominates Saudi Arabian politics and the Saudi regimes of Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia as well as Bahrain.

Most Muslims devoted to Salafi and Wahhabi are not fanatics like al Qaeda. Sharia does not promote the killing of a Muslim by another Muslim. A Muslim would call it haram, which means "forbidden" or "taboo".

I would even consider al-Qaeda and the Islamists as well as other related terrorist groups (Chechen, Somalian, and home-grown terrorists seduced by on-line charismatic Muslim jihad rhetoric) to actually be subconscious unbelievers who project their unbelief onto other Muslims outside their small in-group.

When they get the expected outrage from Muslims, these fanatics then play the al Qaeda version of King of the Hill, in which they claim to be the only true believers. Their twisted logic is thus based on a pathological denial of their unbelief combined with the promise that by ridding the world of unbelievers in a holy war of jihad, the al Qaeda jihadi will on his death be carried to Paradise by angels who are sacred virgins.

I consider it likely these angels are actually Valkyries carrying fallen souls to Purgatory to prepare them like gold ore for refinement.

In my opinion, Arab Spring was suppressed in the Arab nations I have mentioned in this article as well being currently suppressed in Syria today.

Though the current situation in Syria is not a civil war but a proxy war by the following list of characters on one side.

This is because money talks as Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia finance the al Qaeda fanatics with covert approval by Canada, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia, who are the Five Eyes of the West.

Some of these characters were in the International Security Assistance Force that invaded Afghanistan to replace the repressive regime of the Taleban with the closest thing to a democratic government. A similar coalition known as Multi-National - Iraq also invaded Iraq under the false flag of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Lumping the nations that opted out of this Coalition together, I'll call the ones who may have trade ties with the three Arab nations and the Five Eyes nations, the Friends of the Coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq (FCAI) to make this article readable.

Opposing the Coalition are Russia and China.

Most of the European Union (EU) is neutral but willing to make trade pacts with the newly minted democratic governments of both Afghanistan and Iraq while keeping whatever trade ties they may have with both sides, along with the Coalition.

As well, the FCAI may be considered to be neutral but also willing to do trade with Russia and China.

Some of the EU may also be in the FCAI. Most of the nations in Africa are in the FCAI.

To simply their relationship, let's imagine three circles intersecting each other. On the left is Russia and China and on the right, the Coalition. Intersecting both of these circles is the FCAI.

Moving right along, my reason for presenting a short history lesson of Arab Baathism by introducing one of the founding fathers is because of the current crisis in Syria. My analysis of al Qaeda however is due to their presence in Syria.

By using psychobabble in describing their subconscious projection and conscious denial of it, I am attempting to present humor into the situation. As well, the description of a jihadi's afterlife is presented in terms that a Westerner can understand. I merely paraphrased the al Qaeda political ideology.

As for depicting the angels as being like the Valkyries taking a jihadi to Purgatory, I am parodying an unorthodox mashup of Norse mythology about the Valkyries who were said to take fallen Viking warriors to Valhalla, the Norse Paradise for warriors combined with the Christian ideal of a Purgatory for fallen souls and added a hint of my personally created mythology about Purgatory and subtly implied that fallen souls will redeemed after being purified like gold ore into pure gold, perhaps after being purified in a pit of brimstone and fire. ;)

My opinion about Arab Spring failing in Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia implies that it never appeared in those nations.

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References:

Zaki al-Arsuzi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaki_al-Arsuzi

Five Eyes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement

International Security Assistance Force: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force

Multi-Nation Force - Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-National_Force_%E2%80%93_Iraq

Hey! CIA: You Caused 911! (satire)

According to rumor, without a shred of verifiable evidence, Obama's rise to power is seen as a CIA inside job.

Decades ago, the CIA stated in the past that the best way to overthrow a targeted nation is through use of American expressions of mainstream media such as music. It worked in the Soviet Union i.e. when American product was sold on the black market.

However, the US government is making mistakes in the Muslim world because of the tendency to create client states according to American foreign policy. During the Cold War, this meant protecting the world from Communism. Once the Cold War thawed out after 1991, the Soviet threat was no longer valid.

After 911, the new threat became Muslim insurgents in al Qaeda. Yet there was still rivalry between Russia and America. Daily, the American military industrial complex profits from turning Afghanistan and Iraq into client states.

Even so, anti-American protests in the Muslim world are justifiable in the Middle East. Ditto for Occupy Wallstreet.

Originally, the CIA trained the Mujahideen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan circa 1989 as part of the Cold War. The US government had to pretend it had nothing to do with their training. They were CIA assets.

Rhetoric by America led to the Iraq-Kuwait War, which led to a US bases in Ridayh, Saudi Arabia, compromising its sovereignty. However, it peeved Osama bin Laden and other men in the leadership of al Qaeda that America had placed a military base on Arab soil.

This eventually led to 911.

In a sense, 911 was like America shooting itself in its own foot. Foreign intelligence sources were ignored by the America government. What could anyone do to America?

It is likely that US diplomat Barbara Bodine's spat with FBI agent John P O'Neill over the USS Cole investigation shows the politics played between the CIA, which viewed Yemen as an asset and the FBI, which viewed Yemen as full of terrorists.

In the months preceding 911, rivalry between the CIA, the FBI and the NSA led to communications problems with the White House. Various messages from German secret service indicating an imminent terrorist threat sent to the US government were ignored.

Then it happened: al Qaeda operatives hijacked three passenger jets. While one jet missed its target and crash-landed killing all aboard, this was due to a heroic effort by passengers to overcome the hijackers. However, it was the two jets that destroyed the Twin Towers that supposedly led to the invasion on Afghanistan and later, Iraq.

In 2008 the US Presidency was passed on from a Republican war-bird to a Democrat who represented a new hope for America and the world.

When Barack Obama won the election, Americans hoped things would change. America would get out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and both nations would become strong once more.

However, the invasion of Iraq led al Qaeda there. Once there, they began blowing up funerals, kidnap humanitarian personnel for ransom and sometimes execute them. As well, they would pay families for their disabled sons and daughter to use them as suicide bombers and blow them up by remote control.

Initially America's time in Iraq was successful as long as military personnel were kept on the ball. Any fatalities can be attributed to leaving an occupation force rather than a fully deployed army that is always on the alert. However, al Qaeda demanded a lot of the American forces.

Both Afghanistan and Iraq were won over by the US military through dialog and retraining of troops to deal with local customs and IEDs.

Of course, the stress of living in a war zone took its toll on people. In one case, a soldier cracked and murdered a family, acting like a serial killer. Yet the propaganda machine of America, its mainstream media, kept the details out of the news. By the time the world knew about it and the early embarrassment of Abu Ghraib, it was time to bring the troops home.

This happened before Obama was re-elected in 2012 and is continuing now.

With al Qaeda, America was not dealing with an enemy that plays by the rules. They had taken Salafi ideology and mixed it with rhetoric to glorify killing innocent people while claiming that any one who is an unbeliever is worth only of death and that only they are the true believers, and all other Muslims are akin to unbelievers and only worthy of death.

So the rumor goes.

This rumor is probably based in fact, unlike the rumor that the CIA caused 911 and the even more preposterous one that claims that America paid militants to fly two passenger jet into the Twin Towers and one jet into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Indeed this rumor is false and only conspiracy theorists will rant about it.

After Osama bin Laden was supposedly captured and killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, his body buried at sea, a few members of his leadership were later killed by drones and bombs sent by the Americans. Supposedly Osama was buried at sea to prevent violence at his funeral. This is not a rumor, and it is most likely true.

As well as bin Laden, a few of his leadership were assassinated over the years. Their deaths left a power vacuum.

In their place rose a man whose charisma could convince naive young men to become jihadis eager to kill in the name of Allah. He was leader of al-Jihad Organization which allied itself with al Qaeda. His name is Doctor al-Zawahiri. Currently it is said he is based somewhere in Iraq.

Meanwhile, in Egypt, after being captured and detained in prison in Cairo circa 1995, Dr. Sayyid Imam al-Sharif penned his book, Document for Guiding Jihad in Egypt and the World to help reform the imprisoned Islamist Group (IG) militants in 1997 and the al-Jihad Organization militants in 2007.

A former al-Jihad member from 1987-1993, Imam al-Sharif wrote his book while in prison circa 1995 as his way of revising his militant Islamism into a somewhat gentler Salafi ideology that gave up violence.

After IG reformed it help lead al-Jihad to reform too. However, there are a few men who still keep in contact with al-Qaeda, and is it likely not all of al-Jihad will reform. The radical members of al-Jihad still pose a potential threat to the Muslim world. It is likely some of them have joined al Qaeda or have formed their own terrorist cells in Egypt and possibly elsewhere.

The de-radicalization that happened in 2007 in Egypt has spread to "Algerian, Saudi, Yemeni, Jordanian, Tajik, Malaysian, and Indonesian armed Islamist movements, factions and individuals", according to De-Radicalization of Jihad? The Impact of Egyptian Islamist Revisionists on Al-Qaeda
by Omar Ashour.

It is quite likely deradicalization may have led to Arab Spring. However, not all of its participants have been associated with militants.

In Bahrain's case, the 15 protesters arrested after participating in protests in 2011 were given prison sentences. However, they are no terrorists. Rather they were part of a minority of the Shi'a middle class who work under Sunni and Shi'a employers in the service, computer and other industries. As well, Bahrain is run by the Sunni al-Khalifa dynasty, which dates back to 1783.

Arab Spring in Bahrain began in May 2011 and lasted for about a year. It seems that the last incident which might be related to Arab Spring involved four Bahraini men who tweeted a message in December 2012 that appeared to insult King al-Khalifa.

In contrast, Arab Spring in Syria evolved into an on-going three way war that began in March 2011 between Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government forces versus the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is controlled by the Syrian National Council currently based in Turkey.

In December 2012, Brigadier General Salim Idris took over control of FSA from Riad al-Asaad who had formed the FSA in August 2011. Free Syrian Army formed in reaction to military hardliners in the government army trying to summarily execute Syrian soldier who refused to shoot civilians. The FSA is composed of former soldiers who defect to defend the people of Syria.

Currently two-thirds of FSA are Muslim Brotherhood (Sunni), and the rest are Christians and mainly Kurds.

Originally founded in 2011, Syrian National Council makes up 22 seats of the Syrian National Coalition which was founded in November 2012. Approximately two-thirds of SNC are Muslim Brotherhood, which will be represented in the Syrian Interim Government.

Looking at the list of 20 nations recognizing the Syrian National Coalition, I was surprised not to see Canada on the list. It is unknown what ties Canada has to the government of al-Assad before September 2011 but is currently sanctioning Syria. Canada is also supporting covert war efforts and also funding an al Qaeda affiliate. Indeed, Canada may be complicit in war crimes in Syria by helping to found the Friends of Syria Group (FSG),

While stating that its end goals were “to support the struggle of the Syrian people for freedom, equal citizenship and democracy”6, the practical purpose of the FSG was to launch a covert war against the sovereign state of Syria by recruiting, arming, funding, infiltrating, and supporting an army of up to 120,000 mercenaries to fight inside Syria for regime change. To that end, a division of labour was established at that founding conference. The deep pockets of the Qatari and Saudi Arabian monarchies were to fund the operation. The front-line states of Turkey and Jordan were to provide base and training camps for the mercenaries, safe (although illegal) passage into Syria, as well as services for the inevitable flood of Syrian refugees.

In essence, this is how Canada's Harper Government is supporting covert war.

It also turns out that Mohamed Dirie, one of the convicted Toronto 18 (read supposed home-grown terrorist) was one of the 100 Canadian Muslims sent as a mercenary to fight again the al-Assad regime.

Canada is also complicit in anti-Assad propaganda such as making "statements castigating the Syrian president and government, meeting representatives of the foreign-backed opposition, closing the Syrian embassy and breaking off of diplomatic relations and blaming the Assad government for the August 2013 chemical weapons incident.

Here is the propaganda Foreign Minister of Canada Hon. John Baird said on December 17, 2011:
"As you know, the Government of Canada has reacted with a strong condemnation of Assad’s campaign of terror.

"These sanctions, in concert with those of our international partners, have isolated the regime and are having a noticeable impact.

"The measures we put in place are not meant to bring further hardship to the Syrian people but to send a message to Assad and his thugs that their actions are absolutely unacceptable. Canada supports the efforts of all peoples to secure basic freedoms, and we look toward the horizon to a new Syria, one that lives in peace with its neighbours and respects the rights of its people.

"Pressure on the Assad regime is not coming just from the West. We have seen Syria’s neighbours and former partners in the Arab League take a strong and commendable stand by formally suspending Syria from the Arab League and imposing tough sanctions on the country. The writing on the wall could not be more clear. The Assad regime has lost all legitimacy and its abhorrent behaviour will not be tolerated."

Most likely, the Houla Massacre on May 25, 2012 was committed by covert mercenaries associated with al Qaeda militants.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL and also called Daesh among Arab League members) is fighting with the Syrian government and the Syrian Free Army (Shi'a). The al Nusra Front (Sunni) - deployed by al Qaeda to Srya - is most likely fighting the government. However, it may also be fighting against ISIL too. Both of these Sunni militias are seeking to carve out small Sharia areas in Syria.

100 fighters from Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham brigade were shot dead by other al-Qaeda militants on or before January 18.

Some of the armed groups in Syria appear to be depending on Captagon, an illegal stimulant. They now have illegal drug labs making the drug.

I'm not sure what this means, but the drug is seen to be safer than amphetamines. Also known as fenethylline, the drug "is metabolized by the body to form two drugs amphetamine (24.5% of oral dose) and theophylline (13.7% of oral dose), both of which are active stimulants".

It is most likely Captagon tablets in Syria are a combination of fenethylline and other amphetamines. In the future, FSA may trade captagon for weapons and munitions.

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Original post: June 4, 2013 4:34 PM

Reference:

De-radicalization of Jihad
http://www.terrorismanalysts.com/pt/index.php/pot/article/view/36/html

al-Khalifah and Bahrain: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/king-hamad-bin-isa-al-khalifa

Death of Osama bin Laden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden‎

Syrian Free Army: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Syrian_Army

Syrian National Council: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_National_Council

Syrian National Coalition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Coalition_for_Syrian_Revolutionary_and_Opposition_Forces

Syria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

Canadian Sanction against Syria: http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2011/2011-06-08/html/sor-dors114-eng.html

Canada's Harper Government supporting covert war and funding al Qaeda affiliate: http://www.globalresearch.ca/canadas-harper-government-supports-covert-mercenary-war-on-syria-funds-al-qaeda-afiliated-rebels/5357781

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant‎

Al-Nusra Front: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front‎

100 Nusra Front and Ahrar al-Sham brigade dead: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/01/report-al-qaeda-syria-unit-executes-rivals-201411312819723199.html

Captagon pills keep Syria rebels awake:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rex2HkKiXns

Syria's civil war being fought with fighters high on drugs:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10567021/Syrias-civil-war-being-fought-with-fighters-high-on-drugs.html

Captagon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captagon

Barbara Bodine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Bodine

Arab League: http://www.arableagueonline.org/

Daesh adopted as alternate name to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by France and the US: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/daesh-adopted-as-new-name-for-isis-by-u-s-france-1.2861108

Mujahideen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mujahideen

Even in A Free World, The State Will Spy on the People

Regarding the growing anger of Americans who just heard that NSA had access to metadata of Verizon customers, I can't see this as a big deal.

For Canada's CSIS has been spying on Canadians for just as long, but our spooks won't disclose anything for fear of compromising the sovereignty of Canada to foreign intelligence.

We won't even know the full details of the VIA rail bombing case currently before the courts because it would reveal the extent that the State goes to, spying on the People.

However, as a Canadian, I have nothing to hide because my right to privacy trumps the People's "need to know", which is daily manufactured by mass media without my consent.

I Condemn the CCC

it is sad how two people who have so much in common are only friends.

When both of them are dedicated to finding a silver lining in the misery their life brought to them as children, and rising above it all, they chose NOT to wallow in it, being caught in the attention-getting hell of hysterical suicide attempts just because one refuses to get over the childhood trauma.

Yet society is not friendly to truth tellers, and people who may mete revenge when the authorities refuse to do anything after being told of a death threat by a minor. You go to jail for using violence to exercise your right to protect yourself from harm, even if a minor.

This is a travesty of justice, and Canada is guilty of that whenever a child chooses to protect himself from an evil man with a gun and they side with evil.

This is why Canada is threatened by such men, and their ilk. For any man who abuses children and uses fear of death to control them is truly evil, and deserves anything a child who is courageous enough to do to protect his life.

Thus do I condemn the Canadian Criminal Code for excluding justice for children at risk.

Top 10 Peaceful Nations for 2012

The Top Ten peaceful nations for 2012 are:

1. Iceland
   
2. Denmark
   
3. New Zealand
   
4. Canada
   
5. Japan
   
6. Austria
   
7. Ireland
   
8. Slovenia
   
9. Finland
   
10. Switzerland
    

Read more at Vision of Humanity Global Peace Index http://www.visionofhumanity.org/globalpeaceindex/2012-gpi-findings/ For 2012, Canada improved to fourth place from eighth last year. For Canadians, we are improving! Celebrate the moment by being excellent to each other!

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Reference: Background on Global Peace Index: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

Top 10 Peaceful Nations

The Top Ten peaceful nations for 2011 are as follows:

1. Iceland
   
2. New Zealand
   
3. Japan
   
4. Denmark
   
5. the Czech Republic
   
6. Austria
   
7. Finland
   
8. Canada
   
9. Norway
   
10. Slovenia

Read more at Suite101: Peace, Man: Global Peace Index Ranks Most Peaceful Nations http://www.suite101.com/content/peace-man-global-peace-index-ranks-most-peaceful-nations-a372845#ixzz1NRavdZ88 Commentary: Canada improved from 14th place in 2010 to 8th place this year. For Canadians, this is a moment to reflect on it, and to celebrate relative peace in Canadian society today.

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Reference: Background on Global Peace Index: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

"Who's that Girl?"

When I scoped out this picture of Prime Minister Harper, his chief of defense and associated military brass, I thought, who is the female aide to PM Harper on the far right?

She is military, but she isn't wearing the green, but won't ever be at the front because she's too valuable being the Harper's gofer.

Let's hope she stays out of trouble after hours and makes a long stay in the PMO.

Any trouble won't be entirely her fault, though. How would I know? Well, the government is always a patriarchy carefully watched over by a benign matriarchal group of underlings...

Canadian Pharmacare VS US Medicaid/Medicare

Most mentally ill people get intervened early, and because of mood instability are given drugs until they stabilize, usually lithium despite the medical risks.

IMHO the thinking of most psychiatrists is that Omega-3 in fish oils as supplementation takes too long (six weeks).

However, most meds lose their efficiency in 6 weeks due to the placebo effect.

Indeed, most meds work because of the placebo effect.

In short, it is the patient's belief in getting well which results in recovery.

However, in Canada, most patients eventually get status as person with disabilities under welfare. Depending on the severity of symptoms, this qualifies a patient for either Plan C (most medications are free even if you don't have PWD) or Plan G (all psychomeds are free as is the trip to the psych ward).

However, if a patient has relief of his anxiety handled by obsolete medication (antihistamines), he has to pay for the cost himself (including OTC antihistamines).

It looks like a lot of meds under American Medicaid/Medicare are not covered, or closer to the truth, most SSI recipients do not know which meds are covered.

I wouldn't agree to SSRIs because of them worsening anxiety and causing nausea, along with the risk of serotonin syndrome.

Relief of insomnia is foremost in preventing hypomania and its probable evolution into mania and psychoses. Therefore I look for a hypnotic effect in medication. It must have an antihistamine action. Next I look for safety and tolerance.

This is what led me to mirtazapine (Remeron), mainly because of those mentoined effects and the fact that in most meta-analyses of mirtazapine versus the SSRIs, TCAs and other antidepressants, mirtazapine exhibited a profile which is no better than placebo.

I've also researched gabapentin and realized that it would cause glaucoma or at the least, ruin my sight.

Yet at the six-week mark, 15 mg of mirtazapine no longer makes me sleepy. This makes me determined to continue my psychotherapy and see how well the drug has made me of mind.

If I am only using mirtazapine after its effects have plateaued, then I would have to consider the side effects of extended use of mirtazapine to decide if they outweigh its use as placebo.

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2012-12-27: Today I stopped using mirtazapine a year ago. At the moment I use flexeril and gabapentin, which helps keep me sedated. The gabapentin in particular improves deep sleep better than benzodiazepines. Flexeril's sedation helps induce sleep.

These medications work for me, since I stopped believing in the DSM as a useful guide which involves arbitrary pigeon-holing of mental health consumers. The only use the DSM I feel is to manufacture mental illness.

However, I am anti-psychiatry. but believe in medication to deal with insomnia and mild aches and pain. Also, I am an advocate of vigourous physical exercise (brisk walking for more than one mile).

Commentary on Massive pot bust made near Prince George

http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/95176849.html

June 2, 2010: This is not a a new item of importance, except to illustrate how the war on drugs works: publicize grow-ops as "evil" and demonize marijuana.

It too is a form of oppression against a harmless drug made harmful by act of parliament (the drug laws in Canada in particular).

Ottawa's stance on marijuana is what continues to criminalize marijuana and to demonize pro-420 activists and the medical marijuana community.

Free Marc Emery NOW!!

Canadian Drug Prohibition is Naive

"Instead of looking for policies that might minimize the harm flowing from the use of all psychoactive substances, Canada has arbitrarily created a black market for some. In so doing, it has poured billions of dollars into the hands of those willing to milk the prohibition cow and to use violence to do so. And Canada's active support for prohibition is helping to destabilize countries around the world by giving terrorist organizations a lucrative source of revenue." -- Eugene Oscapella, 2000

Politicians who support drug prohibition support gang violence and global terrorism.

Politicians who support tough laws against gang violence but still support drug prohibition are facilitators of said violence.

Drug prohibition is naive, in that it profits all crime done in its name, while pretending to prevent a purported epidemic.

Indeed, gang violence is a more serious epidemic which will not be stopped by tough laws against gang violence but by liberalization of Canada's drug laws.

Stand up to the Conservatives!

According to the Toronto Sun, the Conservatives are holding a rally in major cities across Canada.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/12/02/7607646.html

Bah! Humbug! Everyone but the Conservatives are for Canada.

All the Conservatives are for are for right-wing conservatism, and kowtowing to America.

Whoever Says This is a Free Country Should Try Arguing With Public Opinion

Canada should spend more on the homeless and create the Canadian Mental Health Commission.

Instead, the rich who actually run Canada are abusing the rights of the poor and criminalizing political dissent when it suits them.

While middle-class protesters object to a rapist who's done his time in Fraser Heights, Surrey BC with impunity, known social activists are being targeted to prevent their participation in political dissent.

Whoever says Canada is a free country should try to argue with public opinion about such things as middle-class fear-mongering by the State.

Te pedicabo, Corrections Canada! Te pedicabo nimis, CBC, CTV and other forms of mass media. Yes, this means you too, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, NY Post and sometimes NY Times.

Oh yes! Claudite futuis usque, Sun Media and especially SUN TV.

Crime Rate is Dropping

Only for homicide (murder) has the crime rate gone up from 1.7 per 100,000 in 2001 to level off at 2.0 per 100,000 from 2004 to 2005.

In America, the homicide rate is 5.5 per 100,000 for 2005 with 3/4 of victims being men and almost 90% of perpetrators also men. This works out to 9 per 100,000 male victims, 2.3 per 100,000 female victims, 12 per 100,000 male perpetrators and 2 per 100,000 female perpetrators.

So unless it happens to be the rare case of a man being murdered by a woman or even rarer, a woman by a woman, most men murder mostly other men. One out of four victims is female.

Regarding rape & sexual assault, it went from 160 per 100,000 in 1995, 120 per 100,000 in 2000, 80 per 100,000 in 2005, to 100 per 100,000 in 2007 in the US according to US Census Bureau records:

If 1 in 10 incidents of sexual assault are not reported, the rates dropped from 1600 to 1000 per 100,000 in the US from 1995 to 2007.

Over the same period, Canada's sexual assault rates were lower: 100 per 100,000 in 1995, 80 per 100,000 in 2000, 75 per 100,000 in 2005 and 70 in 2007.

If in Canada, 1 in 10 incidents of sexual assault are not reported, then the rates dropped from 1000 to 700 per 100,000 in Canada from 1995 to 2007.


Reference:
Crimes and Offenses: http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/ind01/l2_2693-eng.htm
Homicide Trends: 1980 to 2005: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0301.pdf
Criminal Victimization and Victimization Rates: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0304.pdf
Chart 1, Sexual Assault in Canada 2004 and 2007: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85f0033m/85f0033m2008019-eng.pdf

Evolution of Racism in Canada After 1946

Much of the racism in the post-war period consisted of the use of verbal displays of animosity not backed up by government policy.

What helped aid in preventing government policy from affecting all ethnic communities began with the citizenship given to Japanese and other nationalities living in Canada from 1947 onwards. It helped that Diefenbaker, of Saskatchewan, was elected to power in the 1950s. He helped mold the Canadian psyche to accept the ideal of pluralism, where each citizen did not see himself as a hyphenated Canadian. Later, in the 1970s, Trudeau pushed the ideal of multiculturalism where ethnic communities could celebrate their heritage.

During the next 50 years, bias and prejudice evolved from attacks on the Japanese as a racial group to personal attacks on individuals within the Japanese community who did not conform to social pressures to "blend in." Any racial incident between a Japanese person and another person was seen as reflecting badly on the Japanese people as a whole.

As a result, the motivating forces of shame and guilt about Japan losing the war led the Japanese of the post-war era to assimilate into Western society, with a few of them remaining in the Interior of Canada, and the majority migrating eastward to urban centers east of the Rockies. However, a minority of Japanese-Canadians took the option to return to Japan after the war.

When Japanese who assimilated into mainstream society in Toronto moved back to B.C. to retire, they discovered cultural differences between themselves (who were higher educated and spoke mainly English) and the Japanese who never left B.C. (most of whom graduated high school but had varying command of both English and Japanese). In response, a few Japanese from Toronto who retired in B.C. soon realized a sense of loss due to the after-effect of internment. This has led to identification with victims of the Japanese militarists' regime between 1936 and 1945 in Asia, including victims of bio-chemical warfare in North Korea, Asian "comfort" women, and prisoners-of-war both Asian and non-Asian in prison camps throughout S.E. Asia.

In 1988 Japanese redress issues were resolved by the Canadian government through token payment to all Japanese born before 1946 and the establishment of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. Since that time, anti-racism education has enlightened most of eastern Canada and urban centres in Western Canada.

By 2001, racism was seen as a person's cultural biases and prejudices rooted in fear of other cultures. In some ways, racism is a fear-based tool used by a person or group of people rooted in the psychological dynamics of the inferiority-superiority complex. The subconscious fear of racial inferiority results in an imagined racial superiority of one's own culture, while the fear of inferiority is projected as inferiority of the other culture. Rather than inquiring about them, the racist projects her fear about the other culture in a socially inappropriate manner.

Thus, the key to overcoming racism is through education.

Why Marijuana is Still Criminalized In Canada

According to Canadian mass media, it may appear that the only reason marijuana is kept illegal is so that grow-ops can pop up in suburban neighbourhoods for concerned citizens to find and report to the police, all to justify the "war on Drugs" mentality.

For the Canadian national drug policy criminalizes marijuana manufacture and limits the amount a person can possess before possession charges may be applied.

By making illegal the possession of marijuana and by criminalizing its manufacture, Canada can justify a war-on-drugs mentality with stronger laws regarding marijuana.

In essence, the law makes marijuana valuable to criminals who then can create demand.

Grow-ops flourish specifically because marijuana is illegal. If it were legal and regulated by government, illegal grow-ops would case to exist.

Consequently, if marijuana were legal, then the danger associated with manufacture would be eliminated.

Between 1999 and 2003, the decriminalization of marijuana was debated in Ottawa.

Because of strong pressure by the US, much of the recommendations made by Canadian senators were quietly ignored by Ottawa.

Additionally, the national Green Team was too lucrative for the RCMP to agree to changes in the law that would impact their public service.

Thus, criminalizing marijuana profits both the criminals and the police.

And that's what makes marijuana dangerous, not the plant itself.