Remembrance Day 2010: Harper extends Afghan stay with 'reluctance' vs. "How Did Canada Agree To War Until February 2009?"

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Ed note - This just popped up on Yahoo Canada's main page, it's a real kick in the Canuck-sack on Remembrance Day 2010 while Prime Minister Stephen "Sieg Heil!" Harper is at another Korean G20 meeting preaching "global economic cooperation" or "globalization" centralizing power in the hands of a few central banksters forever. His koncept of "enlightened sovereignty" means destroying Canadian sovereignty forever. Sh-tty.

Juxtapose that with a clip of Toronto 9/11 Truth outside the old CityTV/MuchMusic building, including yours truly at the 1.38 minute mark saying: "How did Canada agree to war until February 2009? It's September 2007! I'm a Canadian! I didn't agree to fight in Afghanistan until February 2009! I don't want to see our kids soaked in depleted uranium until February 2009! None of us agreed to a year and a half of war!"

While it's still true, the only question now is to figure out what to do about it. Since the kids (and young and old adults) are being trained to think their "Call of Duty" is "Black Ops", or things like drug-running, renditions and death squads, we should probably stop this whole "endless war on terror" thingy soon. 9/11 Truth is still the key, even if our chemical and cultural conditioning makes it seem impolite to mention.

Should we be nice to veterans and not-nice to new soldiers?

Was it a mistake to not talk about the war then and now?

Should the "war" be an issue for decent Canadians?

What's clear is that we know enuff by now...

So enuff is enuff is enuff is enuff...

Should be enuff anyways...

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Stephen Harper _ I know some people don't like it. It is a loss of national sovereignty



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

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Harper extends Afghan stay with 'reluctance'

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53 minutes ago

By The Canadian Press

SEOUL, South Korea - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he decided with some "reluctance" to reconsider his decision to pull Canadian troops out of Afghanistan next year.

Speaking on the sidelines of meetings of the G20 leaders, Harper said he told his NATO allies in no uncertain terms that Canada's combat role is coming to an end.

But he said he sees merit in the argument that Afghan troops aren't ready to stand on their own, and Canada could help in their training.

"I do this with some reluctance but I think this is the best decision, when one looks at the options," he said.

"Look, I'm not going to kid you. Down deep my preference would be, would have been to see a complete end to the military mission."

Until now, Harper has insisted that Canadians will withdraw by July 2011. But NATO countries have been lobbying for months to persuade Harper to change his mind.

Harper said Thursday he did not succumb to pressure, but decided to reconsider based on the fact that the Afghans aren't ready for Canada to leave.

"I don't want to risk the gains that Canadian soldiers have fought for and have sacrificed in such significant numbers by pulling out too early, if we can avoid that."

Harper acknowledged he has been under pressure by NATO allies to continue in a combat role, but a training role was the most he could agree to.

Sources have told The Canadian Press the government is considering sending 600 to 1,000 soldiers to Kabul until 2014 to bolster NATO training efforts.

"I think if we can continue a smaller mission that involves just training, I think frankly that presents minimal risks to Canada, but it helps us to ensure the gains that we've made," Harper said.

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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/101111/national/harper_afghanistan_1

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Black Krishna Speaks - Toronto 9/11 Truth - 2007



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBlFCX4Ym-I

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Depleted Uranium - The Ultimate Dirty Bomb



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg2NHfoC2pc

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Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11

Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan

Doug Westerman | Global Research | May 3, 2006

... As a special advisor to the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr. Ahmad Hardan has documented the effects of DU in Iraq between 1991 and 2002.

"American forces admit to using over 300 tons of DU weapons in 1991. The actual figure is closer to 800. This has caused a health crisis that has affected almost a third of a million people. As if that was not enough, America went on and used 200 tons more in Bagdad alone during the recent invasion.

I don"t know about other parts of Iraq, it will take me years to document that.

"In Basra, it took us two years to obtain conclusive proof of what DU does, but we now know what to look for and the results are terrifying."

By far the most devastating effect is on unborn children. Nothing can prepare anyone for the sight of hundreds of preserved fetuses " scarcely human in appearance. Iraq is now seeing babies with terribly foreshortened limbs, with their intestines outside their bodies, with huge bulging tumors where their eyes should be, or with a single eye-like Cyclops, or without eyes, or without limbs, and even without heads. Significantly, some of the defects are almost unknown outside textbooks showing the babies born near A-bomb test sites in the Pacific.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=2374

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Canada's Role in Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons worldwide

by Dr. Alfred Lambremont Webre | Global Research | April 3, 2007

"CANADIAN URANIUM IS BASICALLY PROVIDING THE MATERIAL FOR THESE [DU] WEAPONS And I really would ask you to make this an issue in the front / centre and STOP IT NOW AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN !! -- Dr. Rosalie Bertell, authority on Depleted Uranium (DU).

http://www.peace.ca/depleteduranium.htm

Photos of Babies Deformed at Birth as a Result of Depleted Uranium (DU) 2003 photos: Dr. Jenan Hassan WARNING: Extremely Graphic Images!

http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/DU-Baby2003.htm

Let's Follow the Example of Belgium and Make Abolishing the Use of Canadian Uranium in any Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons world-wide a Priority Issue Now!

DU & Public Health: The public health effects of the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons are such that their use can be considered per se violations of the war crime of Genocide under the Statute of the International Criminal Court. The documented devastating effects of DU weapons on public health include:

3.0 Findings: The negative impacts of radiation from nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons testing, nuclear power and nuclear reactors, and depleted uranium weaponry, include but are not limited to the following.

3.1 Cancer

3.2 Birth defects

3.3 Chronic diseases caused by neurological and neuromuscular radiation damage

3.4 Mitochondrial diseases (Chronic fatigue syndrome, Lou Gehrig's, Parkinsons nad Alzheimer's; Heart and brain disorders)

3.5 Global DNA damage in men's sperm; Infertility in women.

3.6 Learning disabilities

3.7 Mental illness

3.8 Birth rates & death rates

3.9 Diabetes

3.10 Infant mortality and low birth weights

3.11 Atmospheric testing impact on Environment

3.12 It is hereby found that the only feasible remedy to cease the damage to the environment and public health caused by ionizing radiation, and to safeguard the future of humanity and all living things, is to permanently abolish all nuclear technologies.

http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/peaceinspaceorg/2007/03/nuclear_free_zo.html

See also:

International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo - Final Written Opinion of Judge Niloufer Bhagwat 10mar04

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm

Uranium & The War

http://www.cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=474

Nothing Depleted About Depleted Uranium

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUL20060122&articleId=1777

"Occupational Hazards of War: All the Questions About DU (Depleted Uranium) and Gulf War Syndrome Are Not Yet Answered." Dr. Rosalie Bertell

http://peaceinspace.blogs.com/campaign_for_a_positive_f/2007/03/occupational_ha.html

DU & International Law: Depleted Uranium and DU weapons are already prohibited as Weapons of Mass Destruction under existing international conventions and treaties. "According to a August 2002 report by the UN subcommission, laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing 'poison or poisoned weapons' and 'arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering'. All of these laws are designed to spare civilians from unwarranted suffering in armed conflicts."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0330-02.htm

What is lacking in the enforcement of this existing international law prohibition.

CANADIAN DU ABOLITION: As of March 2007, Belgium has become the first nation to adopt legislation specifically abolishing the use of Depleted Uranium in weapons.

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/118.html

Canada - One of the world's top exporters of Uranium used for U.S. and other DU weapons - must now adopt legislation abolishing the use of Depleted Uranium in weapons and abolishing the use of Canadian Uranium in Depleted Uranium (DU) in weapons.

The use of Canadian Uranium in any DU weapon - whether Canadian Uranium is enriched and manufactured into DU weapons in the USA or elsewhere, or whether DU weapons are manufactured in Canada - is against existing Canadian policy. There is considerable evidence that Canada is not enforcing its declared policy against the use by the U.S. Government and others of Canadian Uranium for DU weapons purposes.

http://temagami.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/19012001/n1.htm

CANADIAN LEGISLATION: The legislation we are seeking in Canada, like Belgium's recent legislation prohibiting DU weapons, is Canadian-enforceable legislation "to permanently prohibit the Canadian use, sale, development, production, testing, storage, transportation and export of depleted uranium munitions, depleted uranium weapons, or any manufactured parts or other object containing depleted uranium." Moreover, the legislation would prohibit the use or export of Canadian Uranium where such Uranium will be processed into a depleted uranium munition, weapon, or manufactured depleted uranium part.

WRITE YOUR PARTY LEADER & WRITE YOUR M.P.

GO TO:

http://www.canada.gc.ca/directories/direct_e.html

Please contact your local M.P. (Member of Parliament), and ask for legislation to enforce Canada's policy against the use of Canadian Uranium in any DU weapons, anywhere. Alert your MP of the devastating public health hazards of Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons. Public health is severely endangered by atmospheric DU nanoparticles. Canadian soldiers, as well as the Canadian population, are now at risk, as Depleted Uranium (DU) nanoparticles are carried by the jetstream and westerlies to the atmosphere over North America. Canadian Uranium is literally poisoning the world. By specifically focusing in this way on enforcement of Canadian policy against the use of Canadian Uranium in DU weapons, we can shut off a significant supply of depleted uranium for the USA and the other 17 or so nations that now use or store DU weapons.

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT - [prepared by Janet M. Eaton] of remarks by:

DR. ROSALIE BERTELL speaking on DEPLETED URANIUM [DU] WEAPONS and CANADA'S central ROLE in the PRODUCTION of these weapons.

http://www.interlog.com/~nealm/index.ht m

Dr. Bertell was one of nine prominent Canadians speaking at:

An Unjust and Illegal WAR: Leading opponents of the War against Yugoslavia speak out: A public meeting held at Convocation Hall
at the University of Toronto May 6 1999.

Dr. Rosalie Bertell is one of the world's leading authorities on health effects of low level radiation. For a decade she worked for the US National Cancer Institute and for 30 years has been in the forefront of research on the effects of low level radiation on human health. In 1984 she founded the International Institute of Concern for Public Health in Toronto.

For further background on Dr. Bertell see :

"Dr. Rosalie Bertell - A Great Humanitarian & Scientist"

http://news.flora.org/flora.mai-not/11275

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5258

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