Rebel Alberta journalist Sheila Gunn-Reid explains why Catharine McKenna got her nick-name (its beautiful).
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Friday, 3 November 2017
Scepticism about Vaccines warranted
Many years ago in 1981 there was a HUGE story every day in Toronto Newspapers. It was the shocking news that a young registered nurse was charged with murdering upto 24 premature babies at a NICU Ward in a Toronto Hospital. The trial consumed public opinion for months - but the outcome was very unsatisfactory. The police and crown had a very shoddy case and it collapsed. Susan Nelles was acquitted and maintained that sucess throughout ensuing appeals.
Then years later in 2011 a medical expert revealed why. She did not do anything - the likely reason was that the poison blamed for the premature babies deaths was dioxin metabolized from the rubber used in many medical products - needles, IV pouches and drug delivery systems. This did not come from the Public "Grange" Inquiry following the exoneration of Nurse Nelles - it came from a medical doctor who studied the case and wrote a book on this topic in 2011.
I was reminded of this case when I read this story today about the suggestion of supression of evidence about the benefits of vaccines.
We would do well to be skeptical.
Here is interview with producer of Vaccine sceptics movie "Vaxxed". Here is his website.
Then years later in 2011 a medical expert revealed why. She did not do anything - the likely reason was that the poison blamed for the premature babies deaths was dioxin metabolized from the rubber used in many medical products - needles, IV pouches and drug delivery systems. This did not come from the Public "Grange" Inquiry following the exoneration of Nurse Nelles - it came from a medical doctor who studied the case and wrote a book on this topic in 2011.
I was reminded of this case when I read this story today about the suggestion of supression of evidence about the benefits of vaccines.
We would do well to be skeptical.
Here is interview with producer of Vaccine sceptics movie "Vaxxed". Here is his website.
Thursday, 2 November 2017
53 yrs ago "A Time for Choosing"
Ronald Reagan as a new Republican made this important speech before the Presidential Election.
On Nov 22, 1963 JFK was assassinated in Dallas - and last week a mountain of formerly "Secret" documents was de-classified under the order of President Trump. It is telling that 61% of Americans believe that they have never been told "the whole truth" about this tragic event in modern American history despite numerous investigations and committees. This is likely why President Trump over-ruled the wishes of the Intelligence Services and had the materials released.
IMHO there is no doubt that there is a soft coup underway to de-legitimize and undermine Trump - much of it coming from leaks by Democratic supporters within the Intel "alphabet" community - CIA, FBI, DNI etc. This threat is unprecedented but appears to be similar to that faced by Kennedy following the warning of Eisenhower only a few years before.
That trip by JFK to Dallas was a kick-off of sorts for his 1964 Presidential Campaign - to shore up support in a weak Democrat state and help fund raise.
A still shaken nation eventually awarded LBJ the Presidency with a landslide in the 1964 Presidential Election. However it was also the year that the Republican Party under former Senator from AZ Barry Goldwater launched a dramatic upstart campaign - and Ronald Reagan as a newly minted Republican made this speech titled "A Time for Choosing" on Oct 27, 1964. It was the beginning of his political career that saw him rise to Governor of California and eventually President of the United States.
This website is calling for a new "fix" to Federal Politics - using an old (but never used) tool known as a "Convention of States" as described in Sec 5 of the U.S Constitution in order to make changes that limit the size of the Federal Government.
I think the time has come for it to be tried.
Sunday, 15 October 2017
A modest modern proposal - the true purpose of Feminism
John The Other (aka JtO) created this video post some time ago - but I kind of forgot about it as a humorous but insincere bit of satire on par with "eating babies". But after the Oct 2 Vegas Massacre a theory began to circulate that the true purpose of this terrible crime was to guarantee a massive public backlash/ revulsion that could ensure the political will to rescind the U.S 2nd Amendment and make Gun Control a reality - I decided that JtO was correct.
The true purpose of modern Rad Feminism is to ensure that Men hate Women and destroy the sexual contract completely as well as the family.
What the Russian Revolution could not achieve in 73 years (1917-1990 when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Empire destroyed) Feminism accomplished in 49 years (1968-2017 or will soon enough).
Friday, 13 October 2017
Why are Canadians Cyber-Criminals
In the last year there have been 2 very high profile arrests by FBI in Canada - allegedly for Cyber-Crime and International Espionage. One is reported to have taken his own life
Alexandre Cazes was just 25, but according to U.S. government documents he was the alleged mastermind behind AlphaBay, the most profitable dark web marketplace in the world, and a millionaire who owned luxury cars and multiple properties in Thailand, Cyprus and Antigua.
By his own accounting, Cazes was worth about $23 million US, including $12.5 million in properties and vehicles, and the rest in cash and cryptocurrencies.
Cazes, from Trois-Rivières, Que., was arrested July 5 in Thailand, the result of what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called "one of the most important criminal investigations of this entire year," an investigation that saw the shuttering of a market that offered weapons, drugs and stolen identities to over 200,000 customers.
Cazes was found dead in a Thai jail a week later, on July 12. U.S. Justice officials said he took his own life.
Despite his apparent success in creating an extremely profitable illegal marketplace, he was brought down by a Hotmail address and an unencrypted laptop.
'A brilliant guy'
"He was always an extremely brilliant guy. I don't know, the fact that he was a guy who really liked money, that made me feel like he was going to do a scam at some point," said Joé Lacerte, a friend of Cazes, in an interview with Radio-Canada, CBC's French-language service.
"I know his mother, she's super friendly. It's too bad that she's living this. It's too bad that he used his intelligence for this."
In the "About Me" section of AlphaBay, Cazes wrote that he wanted the site to become "the largest eBay-style underworld marketplace," according to documents from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The dark web is a secretive part of the internet that requires special software to access. Connections are routed through multiple layers of servers, so users can stay anonymous, and websites on the dark web aren't indexed, which means you won't stumble across them through a Google search.
AlphaBay was estimated to have sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, making it "many times" larger than Silk Road, a previous dark web marketplace shut down by the U.S. government in 2013.
Cazes had been living in Thailand for almost four years, according to his father, Martin Cazes. He started AlphaBay in July 2014, before launching it publicly in December 2014.
U.S. authorities were able to find Cazes through his Hotmail address, Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com. The address appeared in the welcome email header sent to new AlphaBay users in 2014, as well as in the header of password recovery emails.
Martin Cazes told CBC News over Facebook last week that he doubted his son was the mastermind portrayed in legal documents and that he wouldn't comment extensively until an autopsy was performed.
Cazes's stepmother, Kathy Gauthier, said that she and Alexandre's father had doubts about the FBI's allegations.
"We are tired and would like to accept the situation. My spouse talked last week about who Alexandre was, and we still think that, and we'd like to move forward," she wrote in a text message to CBC News.
"If what the FBI says is all true, it's not the Alexandre Cazes that we know, but we will love him anyway and forgive him."
The RCMP in Montreal told CBC News that Cazes had been stopped in January by Trois-Rivières police and that he had produced a Thai driver's licence and said he was visiting his mother.
The RCMP searched a residence and a business — though it did not specify addresses — and seized several computers. Martin Cazes said his house wasn't searched.
"We are considering the possibility of potential associates in Canada," RCMP spokesperson Erique Gasse said in an email.
At the time of his arrest, Cazes was living large in Thailand, with multiple properties, luxury vehicles and lots of money. He was married, and had even purchased a villa near his own house for his in-laws.
His assets were listed in a spreadsheet on his unencrypted laptop, which authorities, including the Royal Thai Police, the FBI and the DEA, found when they raided his primary residence in Thailand on July 5.
They also discovered he was logged into the AlphaBay website as the site administrator and they were able to find passwords for AlphaBay servers, and then seized information and cryptocurrencies from those servers.
Cazes's assets seized by the U.S. government included $6.6 million Cdn in bitcoin, $2.4 million in Etherium, $622,000 in Monero, and $980,512 in Zcash. He had at least 11 bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts registered in his name or his wife's name in Thailand, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Beyond cash, Cazes had a taste for luxury vehicles, including a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador, a Porsche Panamera, a Mini Cooper and a BMW motorcycle.
He had three properties in Bangkok, and a vacation property in Phuket, Thailand. Cazes was also pursuing economic citizenship in Cyprus and had hired a citizenship consultant in the country. In February he obtained Antiguan citizenship by purchasing property there.
Cazes was an active member of a forum run by American blogger Roosh V, whose real name is Daryush Valizadeh, a self-styled pickup artists who is known for misogynistic behaviour and for giving men advice on how to sleep with as many women as possible.
According to the forfeiture document, Cazes made regular payments to the RooshV forum for his membership fee, and frequently posted about his financial success. He bragged about buying a Porsche Panamera, and when other users doubted his ownership, he posted a video of himself driving the vehicle.
He also posted about how to pick up Thai women, and bragged about getting a "solid prenup," sleeping with women outside his marriage, and telling his wife "what her upper weight limit was."
He paid for his membership with a PayPal account, which was linked to other bank accounts in his own name, including a Canadian bank account.
In a post attributed to Roosh V on the forum, Roosh wrote that he didn't know Cazes was the AlphaBay administrator, and that he would cooperate with any valid subpoena. He did say that Cazes "did not appear to bring any illegality to the forum."
See the indictment here:
Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen born in Kazakhstan, was arrested in Canada last March, and he arrived in the Bay Area late Tuesday in the custody of U.S. Marshals after waiving an extradition battle. In a 47-count indictment unsealed earlier this year, he and three Russian nationals are accused of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and economic espionage for a massive 2014 data breach at Yahoo that compromised account information on 500 million users.
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Baratov played the smallest role in the hacking operation, as described by the indictment. He’s not accused of participating directly in the Yahoo hack. Instead, prosecutors say, his job was to fill the gap when his FSB handlers encountered a target that used Gmail, or another provider, instead of Yahoo. Baratov allegedly used spear phishing attacks to trick 80 FSB targets into giving up their webmail passwords, which he passed on to Russia. The charges don’t indicate how much money one earns by hacking for the Kremlin, but the government is seeking forfeiture of Baratov’s PayPal account, and his Aston Martin DBS and Mercedes C54.
On Wednesday, defense lawyers Andrew Mancilla and Robert Fantone entered Baratov’s not-guilty plea into the record, and a bail hearing was set for Tuesday of next week. Then Ott, the prosecutor, was escorted back to the holding cells behind the courtroom.
Though brief, the appearance underscored the importance of the case to the Justice Department, which dispatched Ott from the National Security Division in Washington to handle the pro-forma proceeding. Only once before has the U.S. filed hacking charges against a foreign government’s intelligence officials. That was in 2014, when the Justice Department indicted five officers in the Chinese army on charges of economic espionage against American companies. None were arrested, but the indictment gave the U.S. leverage in negotiations with China, and that nation eventually agreed to start limiting its cyber espionage to non-economic targets.
If there’s a similar diplomatic play in Baratov’s prosecution, it’s well hidden, and the Trump Administration has already disbanded the State Department office that negotiated the China cyber compact. But if Baratov were to cooperate with the US, it’s conceivable he could provide intelligence officials with some insight into Russia’s state-sponsored hacking, or the Kremlin’s recruitment of outside talent. Asked by the Daily Beast after the hearing if the U.S. was offering Baratov a cooperation deal, Ott declined to comment. “I’m not going to talk about that.”
Cazes estimated his cash, cryptocurrencies, luxury cars and properties at $23 million US.
Alexandre Cazes was just 25, but according to U.S. government documents he was the alleged mastermind behind AlphaBay, the most profitable dark web marketplace in the world, and a millionaire who owned luxury cars and multiple properties in Thailand, Cyprus and Antigua.
By his own accounting, Cazes was worth about $23 million US, including $12.5 million in properties and vehicles, and the rest in cash and cryptocurrencies.
Cazes, from Trois-Rivières, Que., was arrested July 5 in Thailand, the result of what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions called "one of the most important criminal investigations of this entire year," an investigation that saw the shuttering of a market that offered weapons, drugs and stolen identities to over 200,000 customers.
Cazes was found dead in a Thai jail a week later, on July 12. U.S. Justice officials said he took his own life.
Despite his apparent success in creating an extremely profitable illegal marketplace, he was brought down by a Hotmail address and an unencrypted laptop.
'A brilliant guy'
"He was always an extremely brilliant guy. I don't know, the fact that he was a guy who really liked money, that made me feel like he was going to do a scam at some point," said Joé Lacerte, a friend of Cazes, in an interview with Radio-Canada, CBC's French-language service.
"I know his mother, she's super friendly. It's too bad that she's living this. It's too bad that he used his intelligence for this."
In the "About Me" section of AlphaBay, Cazes wrote that he wanted the site to become "the largest eBay-style underworld marketplace," according to documents from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The dark web is a secretive part of the internet that requires special software to access. Connections are routed through multiple layers of servers, so users can stay anonymous, and websites on the dark web aren't indexed, which means you won't stumble across them through a Google search.
AlphaBay was estimated to have sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually, making it "many times" larger than Silk Road, a previous dark web marketplace shut down by the U.S. government in 2013.
Cazes had been living in Thailand for almost four years, according to his father, Martin Cazes. He started AlphaBay in July 2014, before launching it publicly in December 2014.
U.S. authorities were able to find Cazes through his Hotmail address, Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com. The address appeared in the welcome email header sent to new AlphaBay users in 2014, as well as in the header of password recovery emails.
Martin Cazes told CBC News over Facebook last week that he doubted his son was the mastermind portrayed in legal documents and that he wouldn't comment extensively until an autopsy was performed.
Cazes's stepmother, Kathy Gauthier, said that she and Alexandre's father had doubts about the FBI's allegations.
"We are tired and would like to accept the situation. My spouse talked last week about who Alexandre was, and we still think that, and we'd like to move forward," she wrote in a text message to CBC News.
"If what the FBI says is all true, it's not the Alexandre Cazes that we know, but we will love him anyway and forgive him."
The RCMP in Montreal told CBC News that Cazes had been stopped in January by Trois-Rivières police and that he had produced a Thai driver's licence and said he was visiting his mother.
The RCMP searched a residence and a business — though it did not specify addresses — and seized several computers. Martin Cazes said his house wasn't searched.
"We are considering the possibility of potential associates in Canada," RCMP spokesperson Erique Gasse said in an email.
At the time of his arrest, Cazes was living large in Thailand, with multiple properties, luxury vehicles and lots of money. He was married, and had even purchased a villa near his own house for his in-laws.
His assets were listed in a spreadsheet on his unencrypted laptop, which authorities, including the Royal Thai Police, the FBI and the DEA, found when they raided his primary residence in Thailand on July 5.
They also discovered he was logged into the AlphaBay website as the site administrator and they were able to find passwords for AlphaBay servers, and then seized information and cryptocurrencies from those servers.
Cazes's assets seized by the U.S. government included $6.6 million Cdn in bitcoin, $2.4 million in Etherium, $622,000 in Monero, and $980,512 in Zcash. He had at least 11 bank accounts and cryptocurrency exchange accounts registered in his name or his wife's name in Thailand, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Beyond cash, Cazes had a taste for luxury vehicles, including a 2013 Lamborghini Aventador, a Porsche Panamera, a Mini Cooper and a BMW motorcycle.
He had three properties in Bangkok, and a vacation property in Phuket, Thailand. Cazes was also pursuing economic citizenship in Cyprus and had hired a citizenship consultant in the country. In February he obtained Antiguan citizenship by purchasing property there.
Cazes was an active member of a forum run by American blogger Roosh V, whose real name is Daryush Valizadeh, a self-styled pickup artists who is known for misogynistic behaviour and for giving men advice on how to sleep with as many women as possible.
According to the forfeiture document, Cazes made regular payments to the RooshV forum for his membership fee, and frequently posted about his financial success. He bragged about buying a Porsche Panamera, and when other users doubted his ownership, he posted a video of himself driving the vehicle.
He also posted about how to pick up Thai women, and bragged about getting a "solid prenup," sleeping with women outside his marriage, and telling his wife "what her upper weight limit was."
He paid for his membership with a PayPal account, which was linked to other bank accounts in his own name, including a Canadian bank account.
In a post attributed to Roosh V on the forum, Roosh wrote that he didn't know Cazes was the AlphaBay administrator, and that he would cooperate with any valid subpoena. He did say that Cazes "did not appear to bring any illegality to the forum."
See the indictment here:
2 - Russian Spies’ Hacker-for-Hire Pleads Not Guilty to Cracking Yahoo
U.S. and Russian intelligence agencies usually spar behind closed doors. On Wednesday, it was in open court.
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Baratov played the smallest role in the hacking operation, as described by the indictment. He’s not accused of participating directly in the Yahoo hack. Instead, prosecutors say, his job was to fill the gap when his FSB handlers encountered a target that used Gmail, or another provider, instead of Yahoo. Baratov allegedly used spear phishing attacks to trick 80 FSB targets into giving up their webmail passwords, which he passed on to Russia. The charges don’t indicate how much money one earns by hacking for the Kremlin, but the government is seeking forfeiture of Baratov’s PayPal account, and his Aston Martin DBS and Mercedes C54.
On Wednesday, defense lawyers Andrew Mancilla and Robert Fantone entered Baratov’s not-guilty plea into the record, and a bail hearing was set for Tuesday of next week. Then Ott, the prosecutor, was escorted back to the holding cells behind the courtroom.
Though brief, the appearance underscored the importance of the case to the Justice Department, which dispatched Ott from the National Security Division in Washington to handle the pro-forma proceeding. Only once before has the U.S. filed hacking charges against a foreign government’s intelligence officials. That was in 2014, when the Justice Department indicted five officers in the Chinese army on charges of economic espionage against American companies. None were arrested, but the indictment gave the U.S. leverage in negotiations with China, and that nation eventually agreed to start limiting its cyber espionage to non-economic targets.
If there’s a similar diplomatic play in Baratov’s prosecution, it’s well hidden, and the Trump Administration has already disbanded the State Department office that negotiated the China cyber compact. But if Baratov were to cooperate with the US, it’s conceivable he could provide intelligence officials with some insight into Russia’s state-sponsored hacking, or the Kremlin’s recruitment of outside talent. Asked by the Daily Beast after the hearing if the U.S. was offering Baratov a cooperation deal, Ott declined to comment. “I’m not going to talk about that.”
Wednesday, 20 September 2017
Raging Bull - Jake Lamotta dead at 95
Wow - he stuck around longer than many considering the beatings he gave and took PLUS he had a fiancee!
I still prefer the image from the old De Niro movie about him though.
I still prefer the image from the old De Niro movie about him though.
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Tuesday, 12 September 2017
Happy 137th Birthday to the "Sage of Baltimore" H.L. Mencken
via Carpe Diem Blog by Mark Perry.
Today (September 12) is H.L. Mencken’s birthday. The “Sage of Baltimore” was born in 1880 and is regarded by many as one of the most influential American journalists, essayists and writers of the early 20th century.
To recognize the great political writer on his birthday, here are 12 of my favorite Mencken quotes:
1. Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
2. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
3. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
4. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
5. Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
6. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
7. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
8. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
9. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
10. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
11. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
12. As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Today (September 12) is H.L. Mencken’s birthday. The “Sage of Baltimore” was born in 1880 and is regarded by many as one of the most influential American journalists, essayists and writers of the early 20th century.
To recognize the great political writer on his birthday, here are 12 of my favorite Mencken quotes:
1. Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
2. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
3. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
4. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
5. Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
6. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
7. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
8. Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
9. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
10. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
11. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
12. As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Monday, 26 June 2017
Prager University Debate on Marriage
When this Prager University first came out - mostly there was a stunned silence - as I think many thought somebody at Prager and as a scholar from AEI would be able to trouble-shoot the questions flying around the problem with marriage.
And here were some of the follow-up replys that built up the case.
The more accurate intrepretation is that the women and society benefit from the mans sacrifice - plus the children will become the future of the tribe/society.
Prager University has had a bad habit of stepping into shit - and then I recalled a former mistake called Feminism v2.0 by Trad-Con speaker Tammy Bruce. Shit Flinging Monkey accurately calls it Sex-Negative Feminism.
Taxation by Gender over lifetime in NZ.
Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government by John Lott & Lawrence Kenny
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TFM also made some good points on advisability of Womens Suffrage here and here and that MGTOW only get started about 10 yrs ago because men just sucked up the Gynocratic society that has been around for centuries - until it got too much and men started to rebel.
And here were some of the follow-up replys that built up the case.
The more accurate intrepretation is that the women and society benefit from the mans sacrifice - plus the children will become the future of the tribe/society.
Prager University has had a bad habit of stepping into shit - and then I recalled a former mistake called Feminism v2.0 by Trad-Con speaker Tammy Bruce. Shit Flinging Monkey accurately calls it Sex-Negative Feminism.
centered on or concerned exclusively with women; taking a female (or specifically a feminist) point of view.
Taxation by Gender over lifetime in NZ.
Did Women’s Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government by John Lott & Lawrence Kenny
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TFM also made some good points on advisability of Womens Suffrage here and here and that MGTOW only get started about 10 yrs ago because men just sucked up the Gynocratic society that has been around for centuries - until it got too much and men started to rebel.
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