Soros isn't doing anything the other smart money isn't doing.

http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/4/28_Sinclair_-_The_Elites_Frightening_Plan_To_Control_The_Masses.html

Maybe the reason for the delay in the trial is to try to dig up some of his other victims.

It was always my experience that an hour after eating Chinese, you're hungry again...The guy was probably a cereal killer.

I confess I'm more than a little enamoured of the Islamic banking concept. From a secular perspective, I find it to be a more moral and ethical form of commercial banking.

To contrast the financing approaches, I took this out of the following URL:

Consider two persons, one of whom has capital but no special skills in business, while the other has managerial skills but possesses no capital. They can co-operate in either of two ways:

Debt-financing (the western loan system). The businessman borrows the capital from the capital-owner and invests it in his trade. The capital-owner is to get back his principal and an additional amount on the basis of a fixed rate, called the interest rate, as his compensation for parting with liquidity for a fixed period. The claim of the lender for repayment of the principal plus the payment of the interest becomes viable only after the expiry of this period. This payment is due irrespective of whether the businessman has made a profit using the borrowed money. In the event of a loss, the borrower has to repay the principal amount of the loan, as well as the accrued interest, from his own resources, while the capital-owner loses nothing. Islam views this as an unjust transaction.

Mudarabah (the Islamic way, or PLS). The two persons co-operate with each other on the basis of partnership, where the capital-owner provides the capital and the other party puts his management skills into the business. The capital-owner is not involved in the actual day-to-day operation of the business, but is free to stipulate certain conditions that he may deem necessary to ensure the best use of his funds. After the expiry of the period, which may be the termination of the contract or such time that returns are obtained from the business, the capital-owner gets back his principal amount together with a pre-agreed share of the profit.

(As I see it, the Islamic banker functions as a venture capitalist in that the banker risks his capital, which is more in the nature of a silent partner in the enterprise than simply a creditor of it.)

http://www.islamic-banking.com/islamic_banking_principle.aspx

...of the bank.

Islamic terrorism is just a modern-day boogeyman created to replace the former boogeyman of "Communism". Both of these boogeymen were created by the banking interests in order to manipulate people using fear (so they could continue robbing them).

Anyone who refuses to recognize the true source of grief & suffering in the world has unconsciously determined that it will continue and run to its planned conclusion.

This whole business of "us" against "them" is wearing kinda thin...There IS no "them"...only us; and our own creation (the bank...which has made its creator into its own property) is assuring our collective suicide as a species. (except for the crooked banksters of course...They expect to survive their contrived "armageddon" while exterminating the creditors...Hey, it beats paying them back and going to prison)

While you guys are chasing down, bombing & killing every new "enemy" that you are told threatens your existence, the real enemy is gearing up to kill you to ensure you never have to be paid back.

All leaders have their faults, but there were a few who might be considered as less evil than the rest. Guys like Jefferson come to mind, and I rather liked JFK, but as for the rest...I'd say that your country, like Canada and most of the others, would be MUCH better off with a different system.

How about we just let anyone who wants to take office and then vote at the end of his term whether or not the job he did merits his execution?

I'd lay you ten to one odds that you'd get MUCH better government when the leaders know their a$$e$ are on the line and only the good will of a clear majority can save them.

I don't like hypocritical, lying, fascistic, dictatorial socialists who consider themselves "leaders" of countries, when all they really are is corporate criminal lackeys pandering to the whims of the bank.

Whoever it is, let's not forget who financed their construction in the first place...The banks!

...or at least force them to pull out of the BIS...That's where most of this international criminal fraud is coordinated...The principals of the BIS hold the governments of the countries in their pockets "like so many nickels & dimes."

The easiest way to straighten out the mess is to understand the monetary system and where the securities that governments use for bank loans come from.

Basically speaking (and we all know this), the banks actually lend NOTHING and charge the government interest on the loans (usurious "nothing"). This makes it look like the country is beholden to the banks for its national debt (and it also makes it look like the people are just a bunch of worthless serfs who can barely "earn their keep", from their "keeper", the government.

The truth of the matter is that it's all just deceptive, legalized fraud on a grand scale. The private estates (life labour value) of the people are securitized & monetized by government, without disclosure of the fact to the people concerned (definitely a fraudulent breach of the public trust - which means it is the government that is liable to the people on the bank loans, not the people to the government).

In point of fact, the national debt is primarily owed to the people, which makes people the creditors to a debtor corporation operating in bankruptcy called their "country". Of course, if the people ever got wind of this, the whole crooked power game would come crashing down hard on the governments & banks alike.

It would be a fairly easy thing to foreclose on the bankruptcy, fire the government and sue the banks for gold for all the wealth they stole by fraud, if enough people (the true creditors) got together & informed the receiver (IMF?) that they are calling in the debt.

Speech is no longer free in Canada...They now tax the $hit out of it.

The only outfits that get a (major) tax break in Canada are the corporations...The very outfits that SHOULD be the taxed entities. Corporate tax in canada is (I believe) only about 65% of the corporate tax rate in the US (which as we know has favoured reduced corporate taxes for ages).

As near as I can tell, Canada has become a corporatist state that would rival Mussolini's Italy. I'll bet even ol' Benito didn't give the corporations the breaks Canada does.

Of course, Canadian citizens aren't allowed to talk about such things...Anything more than a privately hushed whisper could cost you plenty.

Those geese don't take any guff; that's for sure!

It occurs to me that a Canada Goose would be a great national symbol for the Canadian Nation...Kinda like the Canadian version of the "Don't Tread on Me" rattler.

I've started to design a new flag...I'm gonna "goose" the Prime Minister with it!

Things like this, timed as they are, appear to serve a number of purposes advantageous to government.

For one thing, it takes peoples' minds off the economic mess they've made and the about-to-implode economy; for another thing, it frightens everyone and reminds the people why they created all the antiterrorism/national security crap (like the DHS, NDAA, etc.) that was getting everyone upset about the loss of their (former) liberty.

IMO, your country wants you to be afraid...very afraid...so that you will approach the legislators and demand they do something to protect you (i.e. increase the national security)...Of course they will be happy to oblige and take away what little remains of your rights in the name of national security & counterterrorism.

You probably don't wanna believe a cynic like me, but IMO, the people who bomb things like the Boston marathon are probably agents working for either the federal government, or the banks/corporations who own it.

The video is no less of a joke than the sad reality of the public educational system, which teaches NO critical thinking and gets rid of the teachers who try.

A properly written essay in philosophy always contains it's own critique of the thesis (a strong argument against the thesis). It's a real pity that kids aren't taught the practice very much in the schools; they would then start producing real critical thinkers, instead of uncritical, compliant "drones" fit for work in "sector 7G" of the <insert industrial corporation name here> "plant."

That said, the devil's advocate position demanded in the assignment given could prove to be a valuable lesson in not only critical thinking, but also, human psychology, "the noble lie", and the recognition of propaganda in general. IMO, I think a researched essay pandering to an imagined(?) Nazi government is a wonderful idea...maybe not as good as a proper philosophical essay, but not bad at all.

I see a growing trend to the opening of young minds in the classroom that I can only classify as a good thing all around. If anyone is horrified by the following video, I'd say they are part of the existing problem that plagues the educational system.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvz0CjtwH2k

I think that the most effective mode of "protest" is to send emails to specific ministers on screwed-up matters relating to their portfolio that will require a response from their office (or else you can make some lawful presumptions).

Of course it doesn't hurt to "cc" the rest of parliament just to keep everyone in the loop. (Ya never know if the opposition is gonna raise the issue in the house, or if the incumbent party will wind up with some dissension in the ranks over an issue)

I find that holding the feet of those who would trample us to the fire of law and public opinion is quite sufficient to give the buggers a hotfoot they'll not soon forget...It might even initiate some change for the better.

I wish everyone would clog the inboxes of their government "reps" like that...If enough people did, I'm sure there would be a bloodless "coup" that puts "We the People" back where they belong...at the top of the power pyramid.

That's my neighbour Gandy!...Next to me, he's the most fowl-tempered bird in the marsh (and a damn good friend to boot).

Gandy works with me in trying to turn this dump of a country into one we can be proud to have a nest in.

While I never publicly protest myself (preferring to rant directly to the clowns responsible for the messes people protest about), I have to say that the very ideas of "permits" for (what should be free assembly) and "demonstration zones" (designed to keep people from airing grievances effectively) are nothing less than unlawful assaults on human rights.

The legislation, as well as the mindset that created these and many other atrocious "laws" reveals quite clearly who the enemies of freedom are. For the sake of the nation itself, they have to be rooted out, exposed, deposed and replaced if Canada is EVER to call itself the free country I once (ignorantly) thought it to be.

The people of Canada are the rightful Government of Canada. If the so-called "Government of Canada" most Canadians allow to govern their affairs can't govern properly (and they obviously can't), then it's well past time to govern the government, and replace it if necessary with one that works for the people of Canada instead of itself and a few corporate cronies.

He obviously hasn't taken it's pulse in quite some time...It's been dead for for so long its spirit has departed...

...Time to birth a new one, with real laws to keep it honest so the phoenix rising from the ashes never burns itself again!

Who knows?...You might even be able to build a country that doesn't rob from the poor & honest to give to the rich & corrupt.

(this looks like a good spot for a bit of "adult ed" in law):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

http://www.infowars.com/special-report-former-deputy-sheriff-reveals-secrets-police-dont-want-you-to-know/

Isn't that an occupational hazard of the interior-decorating/renovation industry?