Letters to Mike - The News.

What news do you check out?
Here are some good sites:

http://www.democracynow.org/ - I download their daily new hour.
http://www.truthdig.com/
http://www.alternet.org/
http://www.factcheck.org/
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/
http://mediamatters.org/and closer to home:

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
http://thetyee.ca/

Rules and advice about information and news:

1) Just remember don’t just trust anyone (yes, even me).

2) Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

3) The more sources of news you can get (even occasionally from the evil ones like CNN) the clear the truth will filter its way out.

4) If you listen to enough, you start to cross-reference stories; hear them from different biases and our of that you discover the truth is usually not what you have been told but somewhere in-between.

5) If someone suggest something big (9/11 was a Nazi Conspiracy), in your mind, assume its true and work out the implications. If those implications also are true then maybe its true but often most big things fail this test. For example – IF 9/11 was a Nazi Conspiracy, then the Nazi’s would be in power, we would be racially segregated and the Jews would be dead; none of this happed, so its most likely there was no Nazi Conspiracy involved in 9/11.

6) Use your head.

Letters to Mike - Bush is bad

-- one thing is clear however bush has done more damage than any terrorist organization could ever have hoped for

Well, yes and YES! It is hard to believe that one administration (I don’t like giving Bush any credit, even the bad stuff) could be so ruinous to their own country, global peace and the concept of internationalism. The really interesting thing will be to see what happened in 2008. There should be 0% chance of the Republicans winning…well in a fair election. And even if the Dems win, who wins will be important(ish). Nader, Moore, Chomsky and others, make the point that because of the dollar-ocracy in the US, the Dems and Reps are really the same kind of party, just different colours. That why things were not really better (well again, it’s hard to comprehend how bad Bush is) under Clinton.

Letters to Mike - the apparent rise of the Canadian $

-Canada’s dollar could be worth even more but Canada might deliberately keep it lower for trade

No and yes. The dollar, although doing well compared to the Yank dollar, is not doing as badly and the US $ when compared to the British pound, Euro, Yen (less so on this one) and the Yuan. We are so infected with American Business (your province being the worst offender) and dependent of their trade, that if they go down, we go down. Until someone in Canada shift us to the left or to Europe or to China and away for the US, only then do we have a chance.

Letters to Mike - currencyin TNWO

-- once new world order is established I think the euro dollar will be the currency of choice

Why the Euro? The Yuan Renminbi (Chinese currency) maybe. I think the US has mucked things up in Europe that the Union will be weak and ineffective for at least another generation or three. Remember the US push for Kosovo independence, Missile Defence in Easter Europe, and the resurgence of Imperial Russia under Putin.

Letters to Mike - Word getting out

-- the govs are worried that if word gets out that they will surely be foiled.

Well, I think, if there is a BIG conspiracy, they have enough control over the media (print, TV, movies, and the internet) that they would worry about anything. IF a web site was too dangerous; it would have sudden virus attack, or their server would go down or worse. IF they did 9/11, “Loose Change” would not be a problem.

Letters to Mike - Rendition and Detention

-- Soon one won't be able to speak out against the government. I have found some great info online.

Well, I can’t argue with you about that. You remember in the US, they had those illegal phone taps…to ferret out “terrorists”, I find it inconceivable that Bush (or at least Rove) did not listen into the Democrats calls. Bush should have lost in 2004; it was as if they had inside information.
To add to your nightmares, Harper is a Bush wannabe. I have no doubts that his gang are using similar dirty tricks. Fortunately, for some weird reason, our system still seems slightly less susceptible to US style campaigning…for now (I think).

Letters to Mike - U.S. Law (and ours too)

--- U.S. Law states that they can confiscate anyone's dwelling even if they are a law biding citizen.

Those laws have always existed. Imminent domain, they can do it here too. The one that scares the hell out me is the rendition program. To kidnap people from anywhere and send to torture camps. What is even worse is the ability of the government (similar laws exist in Canada and UK) to “detain” people on suspicion of wrong doing (evidence of which is “top secrete” so you have to trust those who locked you up that evidence even exists and is creditable. When you start torturing people, anything they say is useless and lies). That they can keep you locked up indefinitely; with out trial, appeal, or hope.

Letters to Mike - USA - The New Rome?

Well, I have heard some people say that what we may be listening is not the end of the US, but the end of the Republic and the birth of the Empire – just like Rome. Things in Rome, at the end of the republic, where so bad, things in such turmoil, that the people and politicians were willing to hand over everything to anyone who promised to bring prosperity and security. Sound familiar?

Letters to Mike - the Killing conspiracy

-- Anyone gets in their way "Wack'em" i.e.: Lincoln, both Kennedys, Marilyn Monroe etc.

Well, I don’t know about the “wack’em”. Sure you might say that Lincoln, and Kennedy MAY have been trouble (to who?) and were killed. But I think Marilyn is a stretch (she had real life problems) and why not include Elvis, John Lennon or Jim Morrison? And if they would kill Kennedy why not Eisenhower? Or Ralph Nader? There are too many people they should have killed that they didn’t to make me think of the big “C”. One or two, maybe…sure but not a multi-century one, the evidence nor conclusions hold out (i.e., if they were wack’em people, we should be living in a Big Brother state by now)

Letters to Mike - U.S. theory

Well first I would point out that “THEM” or “the puppet masters” (include Bush et all is you wish) are divided into three main groups.

1) The Neo-liberals – These are the capitalist. The ones who want to “shrink the size of government down so you could drown in the bath-tub”.
With what you said about saying the opposite of what you do; the “No child left behind” legislation intended to help child poverty of course reduced money given to help children because Bush did not give it any money in his budgets.

They push for the big tax cuts, global trade agreements that basically turn everyone (including the Americans and us) into slave labour. They are also responsible for the resistance against the move to reduce climate change. They try and destroy environmental and labour protections.

They are the ones Prez. Eisenhower warned people about when he left office. (Documentary – “Why we fight” 2006). They support the Neo-cons because they see money in the New America project. The also find it easier to manipulate a totalitarian state than a democratic one. They support the Theo-cons because they both like the idea of a repressive social order completely obedient to the power – which they see as the corporation if church/state garb.

http://www.thecorporation.com/
http://www.adbusters.org/home/

2) The Neo-cons – these are the ones who want the police state. Who believe the US is destine to rule the world in Pax America.

They push for the military action in Iraq. Want to push it for Iran. They got Bush et all, to tear up arms reduction treaties, turn the UN (not that it needed a lot of help) into nothing more than a debating society.

It is funny that the patriot act was already written BEFORE 9/11. They had it ready. The creation of what people are now calling the Imperial Presidency, when the US Prez, does what he want with none of the checks & balances (i.e. the other branches of government – Congress and Judiciary) they yanks are always said made their system so superior.

They support the Neo-Liberal because they want the support for their expansionist plans and they thing capitalism is a slave to the US (in this they are very wrong, capitalism have not friends). They support the Theo-cons because they can provide the “ground troops” as in the electorate. They provide half of the police that maintains the totalitarian state.

http://www.americanempireproject.com/
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/

3) The Theo-Cons – these are the people who want Armageddon. The ones who read and believe the Left Behind series of books. Bush is one of these, he believe he is agent of god, that he can no now wrong because he is divinely lead. Him and Blaire.

They attempt to illuminate free thought. They envy countries like Afghanistan and Iran because of their theocracies. They wish to remove the separation of church and state. They push policies that repress societies and make the docile and controllable by the church elite.

They support the other two because they believe no matter what they may give up in the short run, what gold they may give to Caesar, in the end (and they believe this to be sooner – like the next 20-50yrs) the apocalypse will straighten everything out. Their prime goal is to set the stage for Armageddon – start it if they need to. This explains why they, more than the other groups, support Israel as much as they do. According to their beliefs, once the Jews control the land of Abraham, the end of times will come.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocon
http://www.samharris.org
http://www.slate.com/?id=2165033
http://richarddawkins.net/

Letters to Mike...9/11

Well, in the short, I don’t think it was planned by Bush or his crew. I do think they milked it for all its worth. I think they “let” it happen – when you an ideologue you get tunnel vision; Bush was more worried that rich and the righteous to worry about “foreigners”.
I do think it’s possible that elements in the US (CIA, Commandos or just some nuts) may have facilitated the attack. There is a lot of “evidence” that it was not just a 4 planes crashing. I have seen a lot of the docs on it. I think the biggest reasons I don’t think it was a US conspiracy (obviously it was an Islamism one…they apparently drove the planes) because of 2 things.
One, I don’t have confidence they could pull it off. I mean they are just incompetent. And building on that, those involved would have spilled the beans. That kind of a secrete, regardless of its intent (more so in how it’s been a disaster for the US) would not have stayed secrete – where is the guy who says, “I actually flew the plane or planted the explosives”?
Secondly, if it is true, that means there is a cabal in control of the US, the most powerful and belligerent entity on earth, who would think of nothing in killing thousands of their own to forward their aims (not to mention, that if they could kill thousand, why not kill the “loose change” guy and his fell debunkers?). If such a group were in control, you would expect thing to be more…ordered in the US. The US winning wars. If this cabal was so great in pulling off 9/11 they seem to have screwed the pooch on everything else.
I am more inclined to think that maybe passive help (i.e., not looking for bombs or suspects) may have happened. Not to instigate 9/11 but to instigate something – I suspect Bush, at least, had no idea the twin towers would the target. But once it did happen, the Project for the New American Century group (http://www.newamericancentury.org/) and those of a like mind, jumped at the opportunity. From there the Iraq was came from and the Patriot act. Ironically a second group also took advantage, they libertarian conservatives of Chaney, who jumped on the opportunity to, as you put it, bankrupt the US and destroy the government and replace it with the “watch man” government (only responsible for law and defence – for every and anything else, people are on their own.. like health, school, roads….etc.)
I heard a funny thing the other day. Someone said Bush was really an anarchist who is undercover. He has infiltrated the US to as to destroy the state. I agree that the Bush (and the puppeteers behind him) is intending to get rid of all social programs by bankrupting the US. They, neo-liberals, know they could not get popular support to get rid of social programs, like Old Age Security (although they did try) so if you cant get it voted out, just remove the money that would pay for it…legislation by attrition.
But look at me ramble on…you get me started. Well I will end it here. Peace, joy and happiness