CSN Press Room - WEEKLY SHORTS
For the week of September 17, 2024 (Vol. 1 Issue 26)
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Friday, Sept 27 (ONLINE) International Peace Coalition (11 am ET, see press release and link to register below. For summaries of previous IPC meetings, see LINK. This is an ongoing event and happens on a weekly basis.
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Content from Vol. 1, Issue 26 (Week of September 17, 2024)
WAR & PEACE NEWS
The Great Divide: Rules Based International Order vs Multipolarity
Narrowly averting expanded War
Israel’s exploding pagers in Lebanon
Nuland admits Sabotaging Peace Deal
Boris Johnson’s role in getting President Zelensky to drop peace deal with Russia
GLOBALISM vs LOCALISM, EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE, etc.
The Globalist Book Wars: 120 to 6
BC - Test Case for Control Grid - Farmers push back
BC- Test Case for Control Grid - Lawyers’ Regulation Threatens Health and Indpendence of BC Lawyers
POLICY WATCH
Senators Back to Work on Bill C-293
MP Ted Falk’s 2022 concerns with Bill C-293
Pandemic Prevention & Preparedness Bill News Conference
HEALTH MATTERS
A New Look at Dimethyl Sulfoxide
A Jump in U40 Influencer Deaths
Targeting “influencers” to combat “vaccine hesitancy”
ONTARIO Children’s Vaccination Schedule
CDC Guideline for US Childrens’ Vaccination
Canadian vaccine clarity document
Harm Reduction Kiosk in Nanaimo BC
MONEY MATTERS
Recent decline in Purchasing Power
Grocery Rationing in 4 years?
Canada’s worst decline in 40 years
TECHTALK
Regrets from FB CEO
When INTEL = TECH
SPECIAL FEATURES
OPENING QUOTE: Australian Caitlyn Johnstone “Revolution is Now”
HOMEGROWN HERO: Carrie Sakomoto - AB vaccine injured mother of 3
Listen to her story here www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhJ0u02KdA; find out about her lawsuit against the government: policeonguard.ca/demonstrably-unjustified-a-series-with-this-episodes-guests-eva-chipiuk-and-carrie-sakamoto/; & rumble.com/v3s2yg7-following-up-with-carrie-sakamoto-a-testimony-of-resilience-and-pursuit-of-.html. See how Facebook censors her: www.facebook.com/carriesak?mibextid=ZbWKwL.
HOW TO preserve food…
Today the grandmotherly arts of canning and freezing foods are widely explained online, from the basics at www.wikihow.com/Freeze-Kale to more complex “off grid life” sites, www.anoffgridlife.com/how-to-can-food/, Health Canada has even posted a canning video. www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/video/food-nutrition/canning.html
ON A LIGHTER NOTE — Homemade Instruments
MB Do It Yourselfer extraordinaire Lorne Collie was featured in an NFB documentary for his creativity. www.nfb.ca/film/home_cooked_music/
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WAR & PEACE NEWS
The Great Divide: Rules Based International Order vs Multipolarity
What exactly are the ‘rules’ referenced in the term ‘Rules Based International Order’, and how and when did Canada sign on to them? When did this term first come into popular use? What guided international relations and diplomacy before this term came into use? How different are these rules from those outlined in the Charter of the United Nations? What is the mechanism for determining whether a country has or has not broken the rules? How well apprised are the members of Canada’s Standing House Committee on National Defense (NDDN) (LINK & LINK) of the increasing divide between the two paradigms outlined in this article? What about the members of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) (LINK & LINK)? And the staff & elected officials in the two associated Ministries? How many committee members are aware of the ‘peace dividend’ that was eagerly awaited at the end of the Cold War? (This was the idea that after the fall of the Soviet Union, monies that would no longer be needed to drive arms acquisition could be reallocated to the nations’ coffers for peaceful development.) How long did that ‘peace dividend’ last? In other words, when did rearming nations continue? Before or after Russia’s bid to join NATO? What were the reasons for and the consequences of the decision to deny that bid? How did this accelerate the use of terms like ‘Rules Based Order’ vs “Multipolarity”?
Narrowly averting expanded War
How do Canada’s decision makers on matters of War & Peace (including but not limited to members of NDDN and FAAE and members of the departments of Global Affairs & Defense) keep on top of rapidly evolving news from around the world? Do they follow ‘daily briefs’ or some similar unfiltered service compiled by seasoned military and intelligence professionals alongside of news filtered through the algorithms or decision makers at corporate backed news wire services? Canada has had eight Ministers of Defence (only two with a military background) since 2004 when the US State Department started backing regime change operations (by 2014 the US had already “invested $5 billion”). How many people advising our current War & Peace decision makers are coming with the long arc of history in mind and how many only recently started following the affairs in Ukraine? Does the briefing given anyone new in their post go back historically to the pivotal events of the so-called Orange Revolution in 2004? Do any people in an advisory capacity still recall the role clandestine snipers played in fomenting Russia/Ukraine hostilities on the Maidan Square back in 2004? Also, which investigative journalists traced the events leading up to the astounding news from this past weekend within its larger context, if they reported on it at all? (There seems to be a total silence around the matters under discussion.) Which Canadian journalists were even aware of the dramatic behind-the-scenes conversations between the Pentagon and the White House this past weekend in response to Vladimir Putin’s response to British efforts to get the President Biden to authorize that long range missiles being fired further into Russia? When our Prime Minister expresses the view that long range missiles should be allowed to be fired into Russia, does he have any idea as to how long their range is and how effective they may or may not be in potentially changing the trajectory of this war? Prior to this Sept. 13 statement by Justin Trudeau, was any briefing given to our War & Peace decision makers to help them better understand the potential ramifications of this stance? Who notes that since such weapons require American technical support, this would mean a clear declaration of war by the USA? War that can so easily spin out of control? If there is to be Canadian involvement in this move, what is to protect Canada from retaliation coming from Russia over our northwestern borders?? What do people in the Yukon think of this eventuality? or in BC?
What background and context on the conflict in Ukraine has already been shared with the new Minister of Defence, Hon Bill Blair, as he has only been in the position for less than 8 weeks? Assuming the briefings received by him and his staff reflect the insights shared by professors of international relations associated with the U of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, speaking here for example on changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine what is being done to ensure that our Minister of Defense is also apprised of the Russian understanding of American changes to its nuclear doctrine? One does need to know what the ‘enemy’ is thinking, after all, does one not?
There is zero indication in recent media communication via the offices of Hon. Blair and Hon. Joly that they even have an inkling of what our Allies were up to this past weekend. Is NORAD still a thing these days? Was there any communication between the Pentagon and Canada’s military re: the narrowly averted confrontation? Journalists interested in grilling our Peace and War decision makers on topics of this nature can seek background context beyond the standard publications by the Munk School or organizations like the Canadian International Council. They can start by listening to (or skimming the transcripts of) the regular daily conversations taking place on the Dialogue Works YouTube platform, as these are generally very accessible to lay audiences. And they may choose to subscribe to the Executive Intelligence Review (AKA EIR News) which is seen as a respected source of intelligence and endorsed by the likes of Graham E Fuller, Former chief of the National Intelligence Council at CIA responsible for long-term forecasting, Col. Richard H. Black, former head, US Army Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon; former Virginia State Senator, Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Bosshard, Swiss Armed Forces; consultant, military-strategic affairs and Donald Ramotar, former president of Guyana.
Israel’s exploding pagers in Lebanon
Why does one assume people operating out of Israel are behind this, given the official silence? Why had people in Lebanon stopped using cell phones and replaced them with pagers and walkie-talkies? What, if anything, do the victims have in common? How could this strategy have been operationalized? Who delivered which devices to whom, when how, etc.? Is this a random occurrence or a targeted action? Assuming the actions were sanctioned by a branch of the government, would this be a violation of the Geneva Convention? What is this doing to the investment stocks of the manufacturers of cell phones, pagers, and walkie talkies? How can Lebanese citizens be safe moving forward? How do Lebanese Canadians respond to the statements made by Global Affairs Minister Joly to the Canadian Press News Agency and repeated in local papers around the country? There appears to be no official expressions of condolences and no official response to the statement cited in a recent CBC article referencing Mary Ellen O'Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, who said booby-traps are banned under international law. "Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited." When will our Canadian War & Peace decision makers address this point, along with the claim by Israel's defence minister declaring Israel to be in 'a new phase in the war’? When does Israel’s defense minister believe the war he referenced with Hezbollah actually started? How many wars does Israel see itself fighting at this point in time? Is Israel considered to be an official ally of Canada? Is there a means by which Canadian diplomats can speak openly to their allies when they do not support an ally’s action? How does that work? What have the members of the Canada-Israel Parliamentary Group stated so far about recent events? Can they become a conduit for Canada-Israeli dialogue? Can Canada play a moderating role? What about the members of the Canada-Lebanon Friendship Group? Are they prepared to make statements on this matter?
Nuland admits West Sabotaged Peace Deal
Boris Johnson’s role in getting President Zelensky to drop peace deal with Russia
Given that it has now been two weeks since Victoria Nuland, former US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, confirmed the interference by certain people outside of Ukraine in scuttling the peace deal that was on the table in April 2022, have any members of Canada’s government issued a response? Are Canadian War & Peace decision makers aware about the role played by the US State Department and in particular by Victoria Nuland nearly 2 decades prior to the oft cited ‘unprovoked invasion’ by Russia into the Donbass region? And if not, why not? How familiar are War & Peace decision makers with evidence underlying the tale of the last 20 years from the perspective of Russian-speaking Ukranians? This version of events includes people saying that when their elected President had been seeking closer relations with Russia, he was replaced with a pro-Western president who helped open the doors of Ukraine to foreign (Western) multinational corporations. Subsequent governments clamped down on the linguistic and educational rights of Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens in Eastern Ukraine (including the Donbas, which is particularly rich in natural resources). This escalated to the Ukrainian military attacking fellow Ukrainian citizens, albeit people with Russian heritage, with little official response from Canada, the home of the second largest Ukrainian population after Ukraine. How much of this back history, including events at the Odessa trade union massacre (2014), the regular missile attacks on Donetsk City, Germany and France’s sabotage of the Minsk Accords, etc. is known to our War & Peace decision makers today? To PM Justin Trudeau personally? The Minsk agreements gave the international community and the Russian Ukrainian minority false hopes of peaceful settlement. In reality, the signatories, France, Ukraine and Germany were using them to buy time for Ukraine to build its military and fortify its defences, in violation of the Accords themselves. (This was admitted to by former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the former President of France, Francois Holland, and the then President of Ukraine, Petro Porishenko.)
Likewise, how aware are PM Trudeau and the staff in the various related Ministries, along with the members of the relevant Standing Committees of the role of the (then retired) British UK Prime Minister in having the Ukrainian President pull out of the nearly completed Istanbul Russian/Ukrainian peace agreement (April 2022)? Is this well known and well understood by our War & Peace decision makers? Who within the Dept. of Canadian has briefed Hon. Minister Joly on the ‘flip side’ of the information compiled by Global Affairs Canada on apparent Russian attempts ‘to diminish Western public support for Ukraine’? Has anyone laid out the parallel evidence to the opposite claims re: US led attempts to diminish the support of Ukrainian public support for Russia from 2004 onward? Many statements in that document can be fully flipped. Has Canada’s State Broadcaster not also engaged in disinformation and influence efforts by acting as an extension of the pharmaceutical-backed World Health Organization (when it came to the “safe and effective” mRNA injections) and the suppliers of arms to Canada’s military (when it comes to the ‘need’ to break peace agreements by funding endless arms shipments)?
THERE ARE MANY MORE QUESTIONS WORTH ASKING ON THESE TOPICS - THIS IS SHARED AS A START.
GLOBALISM vs LOCALISM, EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE, etc.
The Globalist Book Wars: 120 to 6
Given the content of the books by and about leading globalist figures Schwab and Gates, how can journalists tolerate having certain MPs disrespectfully refer to their colleagues in the House of Commons as “conspiracy theorists” without holding them accountable to present the evidence that the claims they are deriding do indeed not stand up? (There are 137 pages of uses of the word “conspiracy” in the record of committee and House of Commons debates.) Given that most of the 120 books in the list linked to are relatively recent publications, how, when, where will the books and the authors be invited onto media platforms for discussions, author interviews and full-fledged debates? How aware are our politicians of the validity the content being written about?
BC - Test Case for Control Grid - Farmers push back
While property tax levies are under municipal jurisdiction, are our federal decision makers aware of recent steep (400%) tax increases in certain parts of the country? Is it legal to tax property owners on FUTURE value of buildings that can be POTENTIALLY placed on land instead of on current land/property values? Are federal decision makers about the decades-long involvement of arms of the United Nations in municipal governance? If not, why not?
BC- Test Case for Control Grid - Lawyers’ Regulation Threatens Health and Independence of BC Lawyers
Can any of our federal MPs or Senators condone that within any provincial or municipal jurisdiction a professional body in a field NOT RELATED TO MEDICINE and IN A FIELD NOT DEPENDENT ON CLOSE PHYSICAL CONTACT compel a ‘medical treatment’ on its membership? Can they condone that in the case of informed refusal to take the aforementioned ‘medical treatment’ that the members be FORCED INTO COUNSELLING OR ASSIGNED TO UP TO TWO YEARS IN JAIL? “The law also directly regulates the conduct, competence and discipline of lawyers, and a lawyer can be compelled to receive medical treatment or counselling or face up to two years in jail, according to the lawsuit.” (SOURCE)
POLICY WATCH
Senators Back to Work on Bill C-293
MP Ted Falk’s 2022 concerns with Bill C-293
Pandemic Prevention & Preparedness Bill News Conference
The following Briefing Notes can provide journalists with a number of questions worth asking.
HEALTH MATTERS
A New Look at Dimethyl Sulfoxide
What is the normal process for new scientific findings to lead to Drug Authorization in Canada? Do new drugs need a “sponsor” to take the drug through all the steps? What about old, known, repurposed drugs, what is the process to have them OK’s so they can be prescribed by doctors and covered by pharmacare programs?
A Jump in U40 Influencer Deaths
Targeting “influencers” to combat “vaccine hesitancy”
How aware are our Health decision makers of the phenomenon of “nudging”? To what extent were Canadian “influencers” encouraged to be role models for their followers? Was any of this “encouragement” financial in nature? Have those who supported the use of celebrity endorsements followed up to see whether all those celebrities too allowed themselves to be injected as still in good health? If not, under whose responsibility should compensation be placed?
ONTARIO Children’s Vaccination Schedule
CDC Guideline for US Childrens’ Vaccination
Canadian vaccine clarity document
Why is it that American children are mandated to take so any more injections than Canadian children? Why is it that in some provinces there appears to be a rationale related to children’s safety to be vaccinated prior to attending school, but not in others? What accounts for differences in policy, assuming that children AND the access to published, peer reviewed literature is similar across provinces? And when it comes to claims that the authors of the document referenced are not correct, what supporting evidence is provided by those making the claims?
Harm Reduction Kiosk in Nanaimo BC
Which health decision makers recall the days of the “JUST SAY NO!” drug awareness campaigns? How has human physiology and psychology changed such that in today’s Canada, people are not being warned AGAINST illegal drug use? Instead illegal drug use is being facilitated. Why? What is the research supporting the expansion of drug availablity and the concepts of ‘harm reduction’ and ‘safe supply’? How, when and where did those terms first arise in the peer-reviewed research? Is it true that the term ‘safe supply’ arose as a marketing tool one of the drug companys that was fined in the opioid scandal? If so, has someone ‘followed the money-trail’ between drug firms and lobbyists and health departments EXPANDING ‘safe-supply’ to their citizens? Is there such a trail? Who benefits from having a government buy their products (instead of selling it to private citizens?)
MONEY MATTERS
Recent decline in Purchasing Power
Grocery Rationing in 4 years?
Canada’s worst decline in 40 years
How and when will the increase in market volatility predicted to affect the US in 2025 make its way to Canada? Where can Canadians get objective news on these matters? Which politicians are addressing these concerns? Is the idea of grocery rationing in 4 years alarmist? To what degree should the media report on stories with negative overtones? What factors build into the declining economic indicators BEYOND partisan indicators? Is the unprecedented all cause mortality of working aged Canadians something that should be considered as part of the answer? What about the steep increase in long-term disability of workers starting in 2021?
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(IPC)
International Peace Coalition meetings occur weekly.
The next one should occur on Friday, Sept 27, 11 am EDT.
RSVP For the Zoom Link
The previous International Peace Coalition Meeting
took place on September 20, 2024, 11am EDT
See the recording here: https://schillerinstitute.com/international-peace-coalition/
Reality of Nuclear War Danger Erupts in U.S. Electoral Politics
Join us with former Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector; Jonathan Kuttab, Co-Founder of Non-violence International and Executive Director of the Palestinian Christian Friends of Sabeel North America; Mossi Raz, former Member of the Knesset, and former Director General of Peace Now; Fernando Garzon, writer, UN consultant, and professor at 5 universities in Ecuador. "From Hiroshima to Gaza."
German, Spanish and French interpretation available
For 67 straight weeks, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) has been warning, organizing, and meeting about the overriding and immediate danger of nuclear war facing the entire planet—a danger most painfully visible in the Ukraine and Southwest Asia theaters. For 67 weeks, IPC initiator Helga Zepp-LaRouche has been pointing to the breakdown collapse of the City of London and Wall Street "unipolar" system as the underlying cause of that war danger, and systematically elaborating on the solution to this existential crisis: a new security and development architecture based on the principles underlying the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.
That central issue of nuclear war or peace, which willy-nilly makes it clear that we are One Humanity sharing common interests, has at last erupted significantly on the stage of American politics on the home stretch of the presidential campaign—and not a moment too soon.
Former President Donald Trump, speaking at a campaign town hall meeting in Flint, Michigan on Sept. 17, stated: "To me, we have one major threat: that’s called nuclear weapons… It’s the single biggest threat to the world, not only Michigan, [but] to the world, and you’re not going to care so much about making cars if that starts happening."
Please do not try to brush these warnings aside as partisan, electoral politics.
It is not only Trump who has begun to sound the alarm. On Sept. 13, former Democratic Congressman and current independent congressional candidate Dennis Kucinich stated: "The Biden Administration, using Ukraine as a proxy, is having discussions about whether to precipitate WWIII, enabling Ukraine to have offensive missiles to strike deep inside Russia… [This would] set the stage for what will inevitably be a nuclear exchange with Russia… This is madness. No Administration, Democrat or Republican, has the right to take us into a war which has the capacity to destroy not only our country, but the world."
In the last week, former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and former presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. have also issued warnings about the imminent danger of nuclear war.
Why are the major media not covering these crucial statements—with a few honorable exceptions? Either because they are owned outright by the same global financial interests that are deliberately trying to provoke Russia into a nuclear exchange; or because they are being terrorized into silence and servility by Gestapo-style censorship and threats of imprisonment—or worse—of any who dare speak out.
Some are targeted for assassination, even when they supposedly have Secret Service protection. Others, like Scott Ritter, have their house raided by the FBI under "suspicion" of being an agent of Russian misinformation. Still others, including the Schiller Institute, are placed on the Ukrainian CCD-Molfar-Myrotvorets hitlist and publicized as "information terrorists" who should be "liquidated."
So, whether or not you’ve attended any or all of the last 67 meetings of the IPC, you have to agree that it makes a lot of sense for you to participate in IPC #68.
Join us this Friday at 11am EDT with Jonathan Kuttab, Co-Founder of Non-violence International and Executive Director of the Palestinian Christian Friends of Sabeel North America, and other surprise guests to be announced.