Un professeur de l'Université de Calgary et conseiller de Stephen Harper en appelle à l'assassinat de Julian Assange sur les ondes de CBC

Pour ceux qui croient que le gouvernement Canadien est moins fasciste que celui des USA...

Je trouve fascinant de constater que ces gens (les bureaucrates touchés par le Cable Gate de Wikileaks) ont si peur de voir leurs agissements rendus publics.

Via Zero Hedge:

It is not a good week for Wikileaks. Following yesterday's Interpol arrest warrant, also yesterday, Tom Flanagan, a senior advisor and strategist to the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, called for the assassination of Wikileaks director Julian Assange. On CBS News. On Live TV. As the video notes, "it is believed to be the first ever televised "fatwa" since the edict by the Iranian leadership of the late Ayatollah Khomeini against British writer Salman Rushdie in February 1989." It's a good thing western society, where due process used to mean something, is so much more evolved than that of Iran. Additionally, although news anchor Solomon afforded Flanagan the opportunity to retract his statement, Flanagan balked at doing so and instead reiterated that U.S. President should put out a "contract" on Assange or use "a drone" and that he would not be unhappy if Assange "disappeared." Flanagan who is a trusted member of PM Harper's inner circle of Tory strategists joins Sarah Palin in calling for the death of the Wikileaks director as retribution for the website's release of confidential diplomatic and intelligence "chatter" this week. How long before any senior political advisor has the freedom to issue fatwas on national TV on anyone who dares to utter or publish something that they consider offensive?

Les nazis du Climat, en voyage à Cancun tous frais payés par les contribuables de leurs pays respectifs, planifient une pauvreté planétaire forcée

Il serait intéressant de savoir si les bureaucrates ont l'intention de montrer l'exemple en remplaçant leurs meetings tous frais payés dans des villes balnéaires tropicales telles que Cancun ou Bali par des vidéoconférences...à ce que je sache, les avions à réaction et les limousines sont plutôt polluants...

Imaginez la quantité de CO2 qu'on éviterait de rejetter dans l'atmosphère!

Par le Daily Telegraph:

Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.

In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years.

This would mean a drastic change in lifestyles for many people in countries like Britain as everyone will have to buy less ‘carbon intensive’ goods and services such as long haul flights and fuel hungry cars.

Prof Anderson admitted it “would not be easy” to persuade people to reduce their consumption of goods

He said politicians should consider a rationing system similar to the one introduced during the last “time of crisis” in the 1930s and 40s.

This could mean a limit on electricity so people are forced to turn the heating down, turn off the lights and replace old electrical goods like huge fridges with more efficient models. Food that has travelled from abroad may be limited and goods that require a lot of energy to manufacture.

“The Second World War and the concept of rationing is something we need to seriously consider if we are to address the scale of the problem we face,” he said.

Prof Anderson insisted that halting growth in the rich world does not necessarily mean a recession or a worse lifestyle, it just means making adjustments in everyday life such as using public transport and wearing a sweater rather than turning on the heating.

Merci à Antagoniste.net.

Un monopole bureaucrato-parasitaire accuse Google de 'pratiques monopolistiques'

Par Michael Rozeff sur le blogue lewrockwell.com:

November 30, 2010

Monopolist Accuses Others of Monopoly

Posted by Michael S. Rozeff on November 30, 2010 06:35 AM

The European Union, which holds a regulatory monopoly over any business within its territorial jurisdiction, has opened an investigation of Google. Previously the EU harassed Microsoft from 1993 to 2004. That case ended up with a fine of $794 million! Plus they dicked around with the Windows Media player and no doubt retarded its improvement. Between 2004 and 2008, even more fines were imposed: $1.44 billion. The name for the EU’s behavior is criminal extortion and robbery. So now the trouble begins for Google under an unbelievable and shameful pretext:

“The formal investigation announced Tuesday follows complaints from rival search engines that Google put them at a disadvantage in both its regular and sponsored search results, by listing links to their sites below references to its own services in an attempt to shut them out of the market.”

As I have blogged before, I hope the EU crumbles into dust. I hope the Irish resist, the Greeks resist, the Portuguese resist, right down the line. I hope the whole EU enterprise fails miserably.

Résumé sur l'huile de noix de coco

Les gens qui me connaissent savent que je privilégie énormément l'huile de noix de coco, pour une multitude de raisons.

Matt Stone de 180 Degree Health, dresse un résumé clair et concis des raisons principales de la supériorité de cette huile.

Because coconut oil is so highly saturated, it is the most stable oil on the planet – meaning, it is the most resilient to heat, light, and air. Whether coconut oil is expeller pressed (refined) like the Tropical Traditions oil I usually buy, or super duper extra virgin is not much of an issue. You could drop a nuclear bomb on a jar of coconut fat and it’s going to come out the other side unharmed. The extra virgin processing really isn’t necessary like it is with seed oils.

Extra virgin coconut oil’s biggest turnoff is its strong taste. Because of its strong taste and odor, its versatility as a cooking oil is greatly reduced. I used to take spoonfuls of extra virgin coconut oil straight, put it in smoothies, and use it to cook a bunch of stuff. At first I didn’t mind the taste, over time I did. I can’t stand the taste now, much less the smell. It’s revolting. The refined oil, however, is odorless and flavorless, and very well could be the most excellent and versatile of all cooking oils. Cooking most of your food in extra virgin coconut oil is gross, but you will automatically cook most of your food in refined coconut oil because it truly is the king of cooking oils.

Extra virgin coconut oil is also far more expensive than refined coconut oil. Usually triple the price. This is money thrown down the toilet for an oil that can fully handle expeller pressing and come out unharmed.

L'importance cruciale d'un retour à l'étalon-or

What is the best argument as to why Gold should be re-introduced as money? Very simple. Government cannot print it or create it out of thin air by “borrowing” it. Because they cannot do this, their power OVER their people is severely curtailed. Gold circulating as money is an essential bulwark of both economic freedom and political liberty. It deprives government of their means to RULE.

-Bill Buckler, via Zero Hedge

Islande vs Irlande, ou la folie de sauver les banques à coup de fonds publics

Via Bloomberg:

Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson said his country is better off than Ireland thanks to the government’s decision to allow the banks to fail two years ago and because the krona could be devalued.

“The difference is that in Iceland we allowed the banks to fail,” Grimsson said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Mark Barton today. “These were private banks and we didn’t pump money into them in order to keep them going; the state did not shoulder the responsibility of the failed private banks.”

“How far can we ask ordinary people -- farmers and fishermen and teachers and doctors and nurses -- to shoulder the responsibility of failed private banks,” said Grimsson. “That question, which has been at the core of the Icesave issue, will now be the burning issue in many European countries.”

Merci à Mike Shedlock.

Parallèles entre le gouvernement et la mafia

Par Pierre Simard:

Parlons mafia!

Pierre Simard (Le Journal de Québec, 26 nov. 2010, Page 19)

Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, plus de 225 000 citoyens ont signé une pétition réclamant une commission d’enquête sur l’industrie de la construction et le financement des partis politiques. Au risque de recevoir une mise en demeure, je dirais que ça équivaut à demander à la mafia d’organiser son propre procès.

On a beau dire, mais le gouvernement est une organisation qui exerce un pouvoir souverain sur une collectivité. Comme la mafia, notre système politique est organisé autour de clans ou partis politiques dont les membres – les politiciens – sont soumis à l’omerta et à la ligne de parti; un système qui vit de la pizzo ou de l’impôt des citoyens. Pour les mafieux, l’abus de pouvoir mène à la purge et à l’élimination pure et simple des coupables. Mais ces purges ne purifient en rien les mœurs mafieuses, pas plus qu’une purge politicienne réglerait les problèmes du Québec.

Depuis des mois, on traite de la corruption sur un fond éthique. On aurait qu’à démasquer quelques profiteurs pour bénéficier à nouveau de la supériorité morale de nos politiciens. Il suffirait d’annoncer une enquête publique, organisée et balisée par le pouvoir politique, pour s’affranchir de la corruption. Malheureusement, on a tort de voir dans ces scandales à répétition des incidents passagers attribuables au dysfonctionnement moral d’une poignée d’individus.

À s’attaquer aux symptômes, on ignore la racine du mal. On oublie qu’une fois la purge politicienne terminée, le gouvernement reprendra ses activités là où il les avait laissées. Cette quête d’éthique et de morale occulte le véritable problème : l’État est trop gros, beaucoup trop envahissant et, ce faisant, il est un foyer propice aux abus de toute sortes.

Les enquêtes réalisées par Transparency International sont révélatrices. Les pays les moins corrompus sont des pays prospères laissant une grande place à la concurrence et à l’économie de marché. À l’inverse, les pays les plus corrompus se démarquent par leur pauvreté et par un État omniprésent.

Pour s’attaquer à la corruption politique, on ne doit pas se contenter de traquer les mafieux. Il faut limiter la part de l’économie qu’on confie au secteur public. Présentement, nos gouvernements prélèvent en impôt près de la moitié de ce que la population produit et gagne. Pourtant, il ne se passe guère une journée sans que l’intégrité d’un élu ou d’un administrateur public soit mise en cause. Combien faudrat-il verser aux « coeurs vertueux » pour acheter notre protection?

La plupart des commentateurs politiques partagent une vision angélique de l’État. Pour eux, nos gouvernements n’ont qu’une ambition : celle de préserver le bien commun. Pendant qu’ils prêchent la conversion des consciences, ils oublient que ce sont souvent les lois, règlements et impôts abusifs qui sont à l’origine de ces activités illicites.

Espérons que l’ivresse de la vertu finira par s’estomper. Ce jour-là, nous devrons trouver des aménagements et des règles du jeu susceptibles de circonscrire le pouvoir de nos gouvernements. En attendant, comme le disait Henry David Thoreau, « Les hommes apprendront-ils jamais que la politique n’est pas la morale et qu’elle s’occupe seulement de ce qui est opportun? »