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Démocratie menacée au Québec & Écroulement d'une civilisation
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Émission de L'Autre Monde du 20 novembre 2008: Démocratie menacée au Québec & Écroulement d'une civilisation
L'Autre Monde 20 novembre 2008
60 min / Radio de l'UQAM, CHOQ FM
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Cette semaine sur L'Autre Monde, nous abordons le dossier de l'état policier, les mesures répressives, invasion de la vie privée et atteintes à nos droits et libertés.
Nous en profitons pour commenter sur la situation de notre démocratie au Québec à la lumière des agissements des médias. Nous ne manquons pas de parler du plan controversé de sauvetage proposé pour "sauver" les constructeurs automobiles et le problème de valeur que nous avons dans notre époque décadente. Essayons de recentrer les débats.
Soyez au rendez-vous le jeudi à 11h sur les ondes de CHOQ FM!
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***Hyperliens vers les sources des informations discutées sur l'émission d'aujourd'hui:
Conférence publique: Les enjeux de la crise financière, avec Michel Chossudovsky
LES ÉLECTIONS 2008 AU QUÉBEC - 33 jours et 33 billets - 10
LE WATERBOARDING DE l’INFORMATION
Pour qui se prend ce consortium de diffuseurs, pour s’autoproclamer l’arbitre de ce que doit ou ne doit pas entendre la population lors d’une campagne électorale ? En décidant d’exclure les Verts et le QS du débat télévisé, les diffuseurs biaisent si outrageusement l’issue du prochain scrutin que nos droits à tous sont lésés. Gravement lésés, et notre démocratie qui claudique entre manipulation et corruption n’a pas besoin de ce sale coup supplémentaire.
Canadian publisher and broadcaster Canwest Global Communications Corp. has taken a $1.01-billion writedown on its Canadian television operations, citing dire expectations for future advertising revenues.
Webmaster's Commentary:
I guess the Canadians don't like being lied to any more than Americans do!
New Report: Fake TV News Widespread and Undisclosed
The Center for Media Democracy and Free Press today exposed an epidemic of fake news infiltrating local television broadcasts across country. At a press conference in
Afin de souligner la journée internationales de solidarité avec le peuple PALESTINIEN
Exposition d’œuvres de Palestine Sur le « mur de la honte ».
JEUDI le 27 NOVEMBRE.
De 11 hrs à 18 hrs.
À L’AGORA DE L’UQAM.
Et
Une conférence sur l’occupation de
donnée par M.Rezeq Faraj ( à 12 h 45)
Pavillon : GESTION Salle : R – R 160
Événement organisé par
« La coalition pour
Renseignements :
Marie-Christine : una_rubia8@hotmail.com
Association étudiante de la culture arabe :
asso.culturearabe.uqam@gmail
Problèmes de valeurs aux États-Unis:
Obama Pushes for $50 Billion for Automakers, Oversight Czar
By injecting himself into the talks about how to save General Motors, Obama is making an exception to his decision to steer clear of policy-making until he takes office.
The president-elect also wants the Federal Reserve to extend emergency loans to General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC, according to Obama aides who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The failure of those companies would likely bring down parts-makers, dealerships and suppliers in addition to inflicting a deep psychological blow.
GM Spends $17 Million Per Year on Viagra
Lifestyle drugs -- chiefly Viagra -- are costing General Motors $17 million dollars a year and the cost is passed along to car, truck and SUV consumers. The blue pill is covered under GM's labor agreement with United Auto Workers, as well as benefit plans for salaried employees.
GM 'Needs' to Go Under
Listen, it wasn't American citizens who knuckled under to the UAW and decided to lavish fat pensions and health benefits on assembly line workers making $100k a year the past few decades. So get over it. Figure out how to cut overhead and improve your product or go the hell out of business.
Americans uneasy over bailout for automakers
Webmaster's Commentary:
Corporations are already legally "persons", and technically immortal as well, but the law making them so does not commit us to perpetual life support of such "persons" when they are no longer able to survive. Even gods may become mortal and die when they fail.
Propping up the corporations (and their political donations) may be immediately expedient, but it perpetuates the core problem, which is that the
Yes, a great many of our remaining manufacturing corporations are in dire trouble. But the rules of evolution state quite clearly that those less fit to survive will die off and make way for something more suited to the present world to evolve and supplant them. Older life forms give way to newer life forms., Older methods give way to newer methods. Older manufacturers thus must give way to newer manufacturers.
We cannot prop up the candle maker when the prudent course is to build an electric light factory!
As
Those promised the largest retention bonuses:
• Frank Ewasyshyn, executive vice president, manufacturing, $1.89 million.
• Frank Klegon, executive vice president, product development, $1.8 million.
• Rae, $1.66 million.
• Simon Boag, president, Mopar/global service and parts, $1.65 million.
• Steven Landry, executive vice president, North American sales, $1.63 million.
• Michael Manley, executive vice president, international sales, marketing and business development, $1.53 million.
Daimler: Chrysler worth nothing
The German automaker has depreciated its stake in Chrysler to zero from $268 million at the end of June, the company said Thursday. A little over a year ago, the company valued its 19.9% stake in Chrysler at $2.2 billion.
The announcement came as part of Daimler's quarterly financial release on a day when Consumer Reports scolded the Auburn Hills automaker's quality and Chrysler announced plant cuts that will halt hybrid vehicle production -- all as majority owner Cerberus Capital Management talks with General Motors Corp. about a merger that could result in 30,000 job cuts.
GM to invest 1 bln dollars in Brazil
The General Motors Corporation (GM) has decided to invest 1 billion U.S. dollars in
The investment was part of a U.S. bailout package and would be used to upgrade car production lines before 2012, said Djame Adila, a GM's official in charge of the markets in Brazil and other member-countries of the South American Common Market which also groups Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Then they sure as hell don’t need taxpayer dollars to build factories in OTHER COUNTRIES!
Chinese Automakers May Buy GM and Chrysler
BIG BROTHER, ÉTAT POLICIER:
Main Core: New Evidence Reveals Top Secret Government Database Used in Bush Spy Program
Salon.com has published new details about a top secret government database that might be at the heart of the Bush administration’s domestic spying operations. The database is known as “Main Core.” It reportedly collects and stores vast amounts of personal and financial data about millions of Americans. Some former
Webmaster's Commentary:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell
you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." --
The Final Push for World Government
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=f1bjnkOqT8k
Man dies after Taser used
The autopsy obtained by WITN News says Smith was tased four times by deputies. About a half hour later, Smith stopped breathing in the hospital emergency room and later was pronounced dead.
The TV report mentioned that he was tazered twice of those four times while in shackles and hand cuffs.
None the less the hospital rules his cause of death as "natural."
Webmaster's Commentary:
"Because when you are electrocuted four time, naturally you will die!"
Crimes by air marshals raise questions about hiring
Shawn Nguyen bragged that he could sneak anything past airport security using his top-secret clearance as a federal air marshal. And for months, he smuggled cocaine and drug money onto flights across the country, boasting to an FBI informant that he was "the man with the golden badge."
Michael McGowan used his position as an air marshal to lure a young boy to his hotel room, where he showed him child porn, took pictures of him naked and sexually abused him.
Ex-Italian President: Provocateur Riots Then “Beat The Shit Out Of Protesters”
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga has offered a solution to the Italian government in dealing with widespread demonstrations by students and teachers over a cut in state funding of education - use agent provocateurs to start riots and then have the police “beat the shit out of the protesters”.
ACLU: Undercover Cops Staged Confrontation Amid DNC
Undercover police officers posing as protesters staged a fight with a police commander during the Democratic convention, and it was so convincing they were pepper-sprayed by a deputy who wasn't in on the ruse, a civil liberties group says.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/17930712/detail.html#-
Crack down on young drivers
Yeah, more of government controlling and dictating how to live our lives. No more than one passenger! Socialist/communist government rising. They want to save lives and then send soldiers to kill abroad and permit GMOs in our food chain that modify internal organs.
This is such a sick society.
RAND Lobbies Pentagon: Start War To Save U.S. Economy
Webmaster's Commentary:
"We just kill off all those pesky poor people!"
No charges but US may never release Guantánamo Chinese
Seventeen Chinese prisoners who have been held for nearly seven years in Guantánamo Bay will be informed on Monday that they could spend the rest of their lives behind bars, even though they face no charges and have been told by a judge they should be freed.
No country is willing to accept them and the
Webmaster's Commentary:
Unflipping believable. A life sentence for these guys, "...even though they face no charges and have been told by a judge they should be freed."
There are a number of ways to characterize what is going on at Gitmo.
One can talk about torture, no civil liberties, no due process, and absolutely no relation to what is thought of as traditional American jurisprudence; a stain on America's moral character, and a blight on the international opinion of this country which will take years to overcome.
However, there is another way to view what is happening at Gitmo.
Consider it a kind of "laboratory" in which this government tests how carry out any - or all - of the above on American citizens right here in this country, if there is any kind of "national emergency" leading to the declaration of martial law.
And for those who think it "that can't happen here", please think again.
As reported on 2 October, 2008
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/7/us_army_denies_unit_will_be
"In a barely noticed development, a US Army unit is now training for domestic operations under the control of US Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command. An initial news report in the Army Times newspaper last month noted that in addition to emergency response the force “may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control.” The military has since claimed the force will not be used for civil unrest, but questions remain."
Questions, indeed. As reported in "Uruknet.com", 25 September 2008,
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m47519"
"the mission assigned to the nearly 4,000 troops of the First Brigade Combat Team does not consist merely of rescuing victims of terrorist attacks. An article that appeared earlier this month in the Army Times ("Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1"), a publication that is widely read within the military, paints a different and far more ominous picture"
"They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control," the paper reports. It quotes the unit’s commander, Col. Robert Cloutier, as saying that the 1st BCT’s soldiers are being trained in the use of "the first ever nonlethal package the Army has fielded." The weapons, the paper reported, are "designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them."
The equipment includes beanbag bullets, shields and batons and equipment for erecting roadblocks.
"I was the first guy in the brigade to get Tasered," Cloutier told the Army Times. He described the effects of the electroshock weapon as "your worst muscle cramp ever—times 10 throughout your whole body."
"The colonel’s remark suggests that, in preparation for their "homefront" duties, rank-and-file troops are also being routinely Tasered. The brutalizing effect and intent of such a macabre training exercise is to inure troops against sympathy for the pain and suffering they may be called upon to inflict on the civilian population using these same "non-lethal" weapons."
The timing - and true mission - of this deployment are deeply worrisome.
Bush Administration Committed War Crimes Against Prisoners, Reveals Physicians for Human Rights
The Bush administration has committed war crimes in
CIA allowed concealing torture documents
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review torture allegations from men held in the CIA's prisons-because it could put the nation at risk of grave danger if allowed to be made public.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Meaning it got far worse than just the waterboarding you already know about.
CIA Can Hide Torture Allegations, Court Rules
The CIA can hide statements from imprisoned suspected terrorists that the agency tortured them in its set of secret prisons, a federal judge ruled Wednesday,
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review the government's assertions that the allegations of torture from men held in the CIA's black site prisons -- whether truthful or not -- would put the nation at risk of grave danger if allowed to be made public.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Unflipping believable.
CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations
Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in
The Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has asked Baroness Scotland to consider bringing criminal proceedings against Americans allegedly responsible for the rendition and abuse of Binyam Mohamed, when he was held in prisons in
U.S. And Allies Tortured Kids in Iraqi Prisons
Since it invaded
While the criminal abuse of male prisoners at Abu Ghraib is well known, child and women prisoners held there have also been tortured and raped, according to Neil Mackay of
Iraqi lawyer Sahar Yasiri, representing the Federation of Prisoners and Political Prisoners, said in a published interview there are more than 400,000 detainees in
Cleric blames CIA for Bali bombing
An Indonesian Islamic cleric linked to the three extremists awaiting execution for the
Elite combat brigade for homeland security missions raises ire of ACLU
In the next three years the military plans to activate and train an estimated 4,700 service members for specialized domestic operations, according to Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command, which was created in 2002 for homeland defense missions.
“This isn’t a military police brigade or a civil affairs brigade. This is actually a combat brigade being assigned a domestic mission,” said Mike German, national security counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union’s legislative office in
Two More U.S. Military Units Assigned For Homeland Security
NorthCom’s press release also says that other participants in the exercise include the U.S. Strategic Command’s “Global Lightning 09,” which is a plan to use nuclear weapons in a surprise attack.
The Pentagon’s “Bulwark Defender
Washington, D.C. Is a Fourth Amendment-Free Zone
While the Fourth Amendment guarantees “the right of the people to be secure in their persons … and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures,” the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) made it clear earlier this week that the Constitution does not apply in D.C. According to Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn, “Inspections could take place at any Metrorail station or Metrobus stop.
VIDEO - Greasing the Skids for Martial Law
Government black boxes will 'collect every email'
Internet "black boxes" will be used to collect every email and web visit in the
'This is against human dignity'
EU MPs concerned by airport full-body scanners
Thu Oct 23 2008
New ID rules proposed for airline passengers
The Department of Homeland Security will take responsibility from airlines for checking passenger names against watch lists beginning in January and will require all commercial passengers for the first time to provide their full name, date of birth and gender as a condition of boarding a flight,
Webmaster's Commentary:
"You papers please. Your papers MUST be in order. Papers please!"
Homeland Security Assuming Broad Powers, Turning Vast Swaths of U.S. into “Constitution-Free Zone”
You’re driving along a remote, dusty road, when suddenly you come upon a border patrol checkpoint. There, agents demand to see your identity papers, and search your car. You are taken by surprise, because you know you haven’t wandered across the Texas-Mexico border. In fact, you’re quite sure of that, because you’re driving through rural Wisconsin countryside west of
Webmaster's Commentary:
If you are young, skilled, and intelligent, you might want to seriously consider leaving the
Unfortunately, no matter who assumes the position of president after the November election, it does not appear that the erosion of civil liberties, and the continued evisceration of the Constitution and Bill of Rights will stop any time soon.
FBI Finds Most Terrorism Threat Reports Baseless
The FBI tracked about 108,000 potential terrorism threats or suspicious incidents from mid-2004 to November 2007, but most were found groundless, a Justice Department review found on Friday.
The department’s office of inspector general gave the figure in an audit of the FBI’s terrorism case-tracking system, called Guardian, launched in 2002 after the September 11 attacks.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Trust me; had they found a real genuine terrorists, ABCNNBBCBS would have told us all about it. 24/7, for a month and a half.
FBI fights order for deposition of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator, death-row inmate
The FBI is appealing an order that allows a
Webmaster's Commentary:
Got something to hide, FBI?
Naomi Wolf - Parallel Between US and Fascist Italy
Naomi Wolf, noted author & social critic draws chilling comparisons
between how Mussolini used legal means to gradually take away
democracy in
Video:
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=13458
VEINS TO REPLACE FINGERPRINTS AND EYES AS MOST SECURE FORM OF ID
Forget fingerprinting. Companies in Europe have begun to roll out an advanced biometric system from
Finger vein authentication, introduced widely by Japanese banks in the last two years, is claimed to be the fastest and most secure biometric method. Developed by
Driving Your Liberties Away: Biometrics and “Enhanced” Drivers Licenses
Privacy advocates across
Webmaster's Commentary:
The problem is that all these identifiers used by the government are inevitably cracked by the hackers, so these licenses, which make it more convenient for the government to herd us up and harvest their cash from us, actually increase the risk of identity theft and further posses to criminals.
Documents say feds can track cell phones' locations without telecoms help
Using "triggerfish" technology, mobile phones are tricked into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers and other data by posing as a cellular phone tower. Until now, it's been believed that such technology could only be successfully employed with the help of the telecoms themselves, because the specific location of the phone couldn't be traced with enough accuracy.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Intelligent bad guys won't be using their cell phones to transmit any information that will likely trip them up.
This is just another way of the federal government prying into the lives of some private citizens (of course, they can't track every call or every email, no matter what they may want us to think.)
Voice of the White House October 30, 2008
“Even as the Bush righwingers are smelling defeat in the air, they are allying themselves with American law enforcement agencies in an attempt to completely censor and control the Internet usage and reception inside the
Parents to be fingerprinted by nursery schools
Parents are to be fingerprinted when they pick their children up from nursery school, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Up to 50 nurseries and playgroups have already signed up for the new security measures, thought to be the first time parents have been targetted in this way.
Civil libertarians have branded the decision a "huge overeaction".
The new entry system requires people who collect their children to place their finger on a scanner, to make sure that only nominated individuals can get through secure entrances.
Kidsunlimited, the nursery chain, will be rolling out the new technology to its 50 playgroups.
Packs of robots will hunt down uncooperative humans
October 22, 2008, New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/packs-of-robots-...
The latest request from the Pentagon jars the senses. They are looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human". Given that iRobot last year struck a deal with Taser International to mount stun weapons on its military robots, how long before we see packs of droids hunting down pesky demonstrators with paralysing weapons? Or could the packs even be lethally armed? Steve Wright of
Note: For many revealing reports of new weaponry technologies in the planning and development stages, click here.
Darpa Wants to See Inside Your House
The Pentagon wants to be able to peer inside your apartment building -- picking out where all the major rooms, stairways, and dens of evil-doers are.
Webmaster's Commentary:
My webcam isn't good enough for you?
Australia planning to block 10,000 websites
The websites will be blocked as part of a government-sponsored trial of its filter technology that will start before Christmas and last six weeks.
The government has already identified 1300 websites that it wants to black list as part of the clean feeds scheme.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the sites mostly contained child pornography and other unwatned content, including images and videos.
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the
Webmaster's Commentary:
The British captured Irish people and sold them as slaves, especially to the Caribbean and
They were White and They were Slaves - 1 of 3
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugo1YxZWWJ8
Bush Trying to Pardon Himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RwoFcLgxA0
Bush Could be Executed For War Crimes
Members of the Bush administration and George W. Bush personally conspired to violate the Geneva Convention, US obligations to it as well as US criminal codes! When it became apparent to Bush that he and high ranking members of his administration were culpable and could be put to death upon conviction, Bush tried to make his crimes legal --but only after he had committed them.
Clearly --the Bush administration itself is aware that it is in deep, deep trouble.
Webmaster's Commentary:
Broadcast the executions on pay-per-view. The revenue from around the world will restore the
Bugliosi: Bush Should be Prosecuted for Murder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dMf6iBYvDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4vLBvU1bA
http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2008/11/bush-could-be-executed-for-war-crimes.html
VIDEO - Halloween plans from Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyE1Nz7cuQ
Believe or Dont Believe this video will make you think - million FEMA Coffins - Why?
A field of thousands maybe a million plastic coffins spread out over a 10 mile radius, you can see it from Google Earth!? are you kidding me?
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=epMeGr-wDc0
Torture:
U.S. admits it held 12 juveniles at Guantanamo
New report details shattered lives of released Guantanamo detainees
The report, "Guantanamo and Its Aftermath: U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices and Their Impact on Detainees," based on a two-year study, reveals in graphic detail the cumulative effect of Bush Administration policies on the lives of 62 released detainees. Many of the prisoners were sold into captivity and subjected to brutal treatment in
George W Bush could pardon spies involved in torture
A former CIA officer familiar with the backstage lobbying for pardons, said: "These are the people President Bush asked to fight the war on terror for him. He gave them the green light to fight tough. The view of many in the intelligence community is that he should not leave them vulnerable to legal censure when he leaves.
"An effort is under way to get pre-emptive pardons. The White House has indicated that the matter is under consideration."
Webmaster's Commentary:
It is Bush and Cheney and everyone else in this administration who approved of using torture who should be tried for war crimes.
Of course, that will never happen, except, possibly in absentia, at
Italy PM argues state secrecy in CIA kidnap trial
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told a
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