Detainee Issue

Posted March 9, 2010

By now we all know that Prime Minister Harper has appointed Justice Iacobucci to conduct an internal inquiry into the detainee matter. The Liberals and the NDP say the government's appointment of a retired justice to review the controversial Afghan detainee documents is not enough and are calling for a full public inquiry into the matter.

Well let us stop wasting time and let me advise the opposition parties of the following:

Under the Federal Inquiries Act, the Governor-in-Council has sole power to call a public inquiry. The “Governor-in-Council” is the person or body that holds executive power in the government. Theoretically, this is considered to be the Canadian monarchy and its representatives in Canada, namely the Governor General of Canada. In practice, however, executive power lies with the federal Cabinet.

Can I advise the opposition parties to refer this matter to the Governor General if they truly want a Public Inquiry and leave P.M. Harper to play his hand at totalitarianism? Messieurs Ignatieff and Layton the more important issues are as follows:

1.      The use of proroguing as a means of usurping the democratic process - what action will parliament now take in reforming and minimizing the impact of this political maneuver?

2.      The Omar Khadr matter is critical in defining citizenship and the individual’s right to seek justice from its birth nation. This matter makes a mockery of the Charter of Rights and redefines the constitutional meaning of citizenship. What is being done to rectify this matter?

3.      That while war may be politically created, torture must be seen to be politically correct. The paradox is that murder provides instant justification while torture provides gratification. We need neither and Canada must revert to its traditional role of peace-keeping.

I hope we can get past what has happened and find ways of rebuilding our democracy. In the end we are ALL guilty of idly standing by and accepting mediocrity from our government officials and ineptitude from ourselves. Citizenship can be worse than torture if we strive to live in a democracy plagued by corruption.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede

Water!

Posted March 8, 2010

What is water in a nutshell? It is the single most important resource in sustaining life and nature. Why will water become the single most important commodity in the world? The supply of fresh water is shrinking and demand for water by some of the world’s largest economies is growing. They include China, USA, Europe, Asia and Australia. What are the challenges for water?

1.     Shrinking supply of fresh water as a natural process – population growth.

2.     Water is being used as a filtering system for industrial and toxic pollutants.

3.     Water has and will create conflict between nations – The potential NAFTA impact is detailed below. ***

4.     Water will become a strategic resource for bio-terrorism. Smallpox and Anthrax could be used to contaminate water supplies.

Simple breakdown – Bacteria feeds on the human tissue while viruses attack the cell and replicate. Ultimately the virus is altering the host’s DNA. This is why ant-viral vaccines are so difficult to manufacture.

5.     Cyber-attacks on computerized water storage plants and filtration systems.

6.     With vast ice formations melting, viruses and bacteria that have been dormant for centuries could once again impact the globe.

7.     Approximately 70% of fresh water is used for agricultural irrigation and we cannot seem to feed the world. Poverty and hunger are on the rise.

8.     Thawing Arctic salt water will merge with fresh water systems.

9.     Water may ultimately define the New World Order.

*** NAFTA’s proportionality clause edicts that if we begin trading a certain amount of a commodity we must then continue to provide at least that amount. With something as vital as fresh water, Canada should be wary of any agreement that would seriously deplete our supply. Canada may have more than we need for the time being, but the U.S. will undoubtedly want to consume extensive amounts. Perhaps a short-term deal with the U.S. would be a good alternative, or setting a limit on what Canada is willing to trade. Even so, it would be idealistic for Canada to set the bar low and assume the U.S. will settle with a negligible amount. Precedent has shown the United States will try to take advantage of the agreement, and playing hardball with the neighbouring economic giant is not in our best interest. Some have suggested a complete ban on bulk water exports or waiting to sell water until the U.S. — and other nations around the globe — are truly desperate. The longer we wait to sell water, the higher the demand, which would serve Canada very well fiscally. With the pros and cons of commodifying water in mind, the Canadian government will make a choice that will hopefully take into account more than initial monetary gain.

Arctic sovereignty and fresh water are critical to Canada’s nation building. With global warming (more to do with HAARP) the virgin Arctic will give birth to new opportunities in shipping, mineral & oil exploration, human settlement and conflict. The Arctic will become a strategic military outpost for Russia and the USA.  Its true ownership may be ultimately be determined by conflict or brute force.

The North Pole is considered an international site and is administered by the International Seabed Authority. If a country can prove its underwater shelf is an extension of its continental border, then it can claim an economic zone based on that.

Our sovereignty and control of our water supply may be tied to the defense of the Arctic. The statistics for fresh water are shown in attached diagram – there ain’t that much fresh water – eh?

Thank you,
Joseph Pede

P.S.
Do you not find it odd that Peter MacKay (Defence Minister) is spending time in Haiti? Why not Bev Oda or Lawrence Cannon? Mr. MacKay, are we helping the Americans build a secret Military Base in Haiti? Haitians are still starving – where did all the billions of dollars in relief money go?

To Stephen Harper - Budget Deficit

Posted March 4, 2010

Dear Prime Minister Harper:

I am really confused and need to ask a simple question. I thought I could add but I appear to have lost my touch. The deficit numbers just don’t add up.

In January 2009, you announced a $40 billion stimulus package (this includes the 20% allocation for the five year $20 billion personal income tax reduction). My understanding is that as much as $18 billion has been deferred to 2011. Recent reports state that only 20% of $22 billion have actually been allocated. That would mean that $4.4 billion dollars has actually been spent to date, yet we have a $53 billion budget deficit. Does this mean that by March 2011 we could conceivably have a budget deficit of $85 billion dollars? Please do the math and let me know if my addition and subtraction is correct. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Comic relief – The Hermaphrodite Society of Canada will no doubt applaud the proposed change in the Canadian national anthem – gender neutrality was definitely a pre-occupation for them and unemployed bums like me.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede

The TTC

Posted March 3, 2010

Dear Adam Giambrone
Chair of the TTC

It is great to hear that the TTC has formed an Advisory Panel to address the issue of “customer service”. While a noble cause, I hope the political and corporate culture that has created this monster is being brought to task as well. I have not taken the TTC for decades, but I, like so many other Torontonians, do feel we have been taken for a ride via unjustified taxation and government waste.

Let me give you an outsider’s view of what the Advisory Panel should discover:

1.     That a corroded TTC union culture is being propped up by a dysfunctional and ill-qualified political system.

2.     In the absence of an alternative competitive transit supplier, money spent on infrastructure and growth initiatives are being measured by their least possible impact and not on real economic measures and maximum impact.

3.     There are no “consequences and accountability measures” for TTC staff, executives or the political overseers. People must eventually be fired for non-performance. While you may have a union agreement and a policy & procedures manual, you probably have no manifesto on customer service. This should be an integral process in the employee evaluation process and there must be consequences.

4.     Fare pricing is determined via budget shortfalls and future needs (i.e. new infrastructure, investment in new technology, security and so on). This is not significantly different in the wants of privately or publicly held companies competing for consumer dollars. The important difference lies in the concept of “shareholder wealth”. Torontonians are not considered investors or partners, but rather a tax body. Price must reflect value, accountability, sustainability, cost management measures and the analysis of revenue collection processes.

5.     You have no visible mission statement. In your case, the first mission statement should read as follows, “The customer is never wrong”.

6.     With 40,000 annual consumer complaints the TTC obviously has little disregard for the complaint and the manner in which the consumer is addressed. Complaints are a key measure of business success. The receiving, timing, handling and response process is obviously flawed. When you start receiving a multitude of compliments, you then know you are on the right track. Complaints must be dealt with in a timely fashion and empathetically. Finally, recurring and visible mistakes must be eradicated and the change must become a perceptible enhancement to the consumer.

7.     The rail line improvement project on St. Clair Ave had a proposed construction budget of $10 million. The final bill was in excess of $100 million. Corruption and irresponsibility must be dealt with transparency and accountability. If a flawed executive exists then the entire system becomes corrupt. There is simply no way of over-riding this keep natural process. This waste describes a scared, irresponsible and directionless body who continues to knock on the door of an embattled public. I am defining credibility.

8.     Pay plans for direct impact customer satisfaction decision-makers and front line individuals should be driven by key performance indicators – e.g. the number of complaints is a definite indicator.

9.     Training on how to “smile” and say “thank you’ or “sorry” may appear to be an easy task, but a culture that has evolved without their use, may require a leader who is capable of invoking the school of hard-knocks.

10.                        Adam, have customers ever been rewarded for complaining or addressing visible flaws in the system? If not, start doing it!

I have two suggestions Adam. Get back into the mayoral race. It will not matter if you loose. You lost when you pulled out. I am confident that every other candidate has as many skeletons in the closet as you do. We won’t talk about Smitherman. Finally, encourage everyone to privatize the TTC. It is tax glutton. It will be better served by responsible, independent and profit-driven entrepreneurs.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede

Are Americans and Canadians being subjected to New World Order testing? .....and..... The 13 Most Powerful People in the World

Posted March 3, 2010

1.    Twofold suspension of Parliament by Stephen Harper with little or no opposition by the other Federal party leaders.

2.    Canadian and U.S. banking has been allowed to flourish despite the fact that they were the main culprits in the global recession. Bank mergers, centralization and sovereign ownership mean that fewer organizations control our money supply.

3.    Fear, security and impending chaos have been used to trigger isolation and propaganda. Not to mention the steady erosion of our civil rights.

4.    Scanners, vaccines, war and climate change come to life via spontaneous generation and baseless circumstances.

5.    Obama’s road to socialism is being met by angry conservatism and a disjointed Congress. Governments are broken.

6.    The bridge between Wall Street and Main Street continues to crumble. Bank executives persist in their financial recklessness with a total disregard for the tax-paying public.

7.    The rise in violence throughout the U.S. has resulted in the covert construction of internment camps and the gradual erosion on individual Americans’ right to bear arms.

8.    Stock markets, commodities & currency exchanges, gold and oil and everything in between no longer reflect market forces but rather the gluttony of insider trading.

9.    Technology is being used to imprison and track us and not enhance us.

10.  Accountability and transparency within government institutions have vanished in the face of lies, deception and political stalemates.

The following Individuals probably have the most impact on the global economy and individual lives, yet you may not know them. The order is of no consequence. The bakers dozen is shown below – this is power.

1.    Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander – Director, National Security Agency and Chief, Central Security Service.

2.    Peter Sutherland – European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission as well as Chairman of BP plc, Chairman of Goldman Sachs International, UN Special representative for Migration and Development and co-founder of the WTO.

3.    Baron David Rene de Rothschild & Princess Olimpia Anna Aldobrandini This married couple controls the Rothschild banking dynasty and Olimpia is a member of one of Italy’s most powerful Italian royal families with ties to the Vatican, Borghese and Pamphili familes.

4.    Zbigniew Brzezinski – Majestic Twelve and Professor of American Foreign Policy at John Hopkin’s University school of Advanced International Studies, His resume and influence would require pages.

5.    Ian Johnson – Incoming Secretary General for the Club of Rome.

6.    Pope Benedict XVI – Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

7.    Reverend Father Adolfo Nicolas – Superior General of the Society of Jesus – head the powerful Jesuit Order

8.    Henry Kissinger – Majestic Twelve, Kissinger Associates and host of other posts.

9.    David Rockefeller Sr. – Banking, Oil, Federal Reserve and a list to long to script.

10.  Vladamir Putin – Prime Minister of Russia

11.  Hu Jintao – President and Military Chief of China

12.  Fra Matthew Festing – Prince & Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Catholic military order based in Rome. The Order of Malta has ambassadors or diplomatic representatives in more than eighty nations, and enjoys Permanent Observer status at the United Nations General Assembly.

13.  Prince Edward, Duke of Kent - The Grand Master of The United Grand Lodge of England and therefore the worldwide king of English freemasonry.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede

Budget Proposals for our Federal Government

Posted March 1, 2010

Budget proposals – pay special attention to number 10, 15 and 18.

1. Restrict offshore investment of Canadian RRSP investments in mutual funds to 0%. Canadian savings should be invested in Canada to provide Canadian jobs, not foreign growth.

2. Current RRSP savings held by private individuals should yield a minimum of 5% per annum for the next two years. Unemployed Canadians should be able to withdraw these funds tax free with no impact on EI benefits.

3. Reduce federal government jobs by 15%. People hired through nepotism, corruption, appointments and all the other dirty reasons should be subjected to the same humiliation as all other Canadians.

4. Capital Gains tax should be 0% for individual families earning less than $200,000.00 per annum.

5. Freeze insurance premium increases for homes and vehicles, and call for a 10% reduction in premiums. Insurance company premiums have escalated in the face of deflation.

6. Freeze gasoline prices at 90 cents per litre for the next 18 months. Oil companies have demonstrated they have no sympathy for the ordinary taxpayer. Gasoline prices impact trucking, aviation, automotive sales, manufacturing and retail product pricing. It is a major cost component in everything we buy and do.

7. Banks should be limited to a 10% return on invested capital. They have no business gouging Canadians nor do executives have the right to extract billions in bonuses. There is no genius at any bank that deserves this type of remuneration.

8. Abandon bilingualism and multi-cultural initiatives. It is needless and costly. This has become a window of opportunity for Franco-phones and individuals who can afford to have their children attend private French immersion schools or very limited publicly funded French immersion schools. This leads to quiet racism in the hiring process - non-French speaking Canadians are getting “screwed”. We have too many Quebecers in Federal and Provincial government jobs. Stop this RACISM. Bilingualism should never be a reason to deny someone a job in Canada.

9. Pay a spouse/partner to stay at home until their children can attend primary school. This creates job opportunities for the larger population and minimizes future social costs (teen crime, school drop-out, drugs, WWW addiction, STD’s). We would save money throughout the entire penal and rehabilitation system. This would manage the day-care issue as well.

10. Legalize marijuana and prostitution. This would reduce policing costs, prison costs, reform costs, court costs etc etc..... It is time Canada became a leader in this matter. Both generate billions for the underground economy. You can refer the matter to MP Guergis and her husband.

11. Gaming Act - Lottery prizes should be limited to one million dollars - more Canadians should share the jackpot. A $50 million jackpot would mean that 50 Canadians would win and not one or two individuals. Gambling is a known vice, addiction and is destroying families.

12. Canadian troops should go back to their primary historic role – peacekeepers. Stop spending money on war activity.

13. Healthcare taxation and collection should be a Federal mandate. Canadians do not require ten provincial and three territorial authorities to administer healthcare. This would also provide a national centralized database and prevent Premier’s from squandering billions.

14. Restrict dental tariff increases for the nest two years and decrease them by 15% this year. This represents a major cost to employers and non-insured individuals. In the same vein add vital cancer treatments that are currently out of reach for many Canadians. Government and large public company employees should not be the only recipients of vital healthcare, especially when Canadians donate billions to fight cancer.

15. Charities should be taxed 25% on all donations – prior to expenses. This will stem the abuse and corruption. The Federal government would in turn fund UN and foreign relief efforts with this special tax.

16. All religious organizations should pay an annual “stipend” of $1,000.00 to fund welfare and homelessness issues.

17. All Federal, Provincial, City and Foreign government employees should have no tax-exempt remuneration.

18. Billions of dollars are sitting in off-shore accounts. Example - The automotive industry and the Wheaton family, via First Canadian, have helped automotive dealers amass billions off-shore. In some cases this money never makes it back to Canada for taxation. This money should be taxed prior to going off-shore. This, I presume, is a major problem in many sectors of the economy.

19. All federally owned real estate and assets available for sale should be publicly posted – website and newspapers. I am confident the public is losing a brick for every block sold.



Thank you,
Joseph Pede

Prorogue and Russia

Posted February 27, 2010

Our parliament will soon be back in session and Harper will no doubt pontificate about how well our athletes performed at the 2010 Olympic Games. Is it not amazing to what extent we will go to acquire a few ounces of gold, silver and bronze? The “human race” will hopefully be the agenda for the next session of parliament.

Harper’s new budget promises no new taxes, but what really is in store for Canadians? Increased user fees, disappearing tax credits, reduction in social services, privatization of sacred Canadian institutions, perhaps even healthcare, reduction in corporate income taxes to stimulate the economy (assist corporate greed) or perhaps the reduction of transfer payments to the provinces. The provinces will then become the new tax robbers. McGuinty’s acumen in this field is supreme, not to mention his uncanny ability to squander billions with impunity. He is also quite dashing when stealth proroguing.

We will not hear of civil service cutbacks or wasteful spending in government. Afghanistan will carry on and military costs will no doubt escalate. We will hear of increased costs to enhance security but no talk of social security. We will hear of Canada’s strength in a challenging world economy but we will not hear of the looming G20 meeting and our shared vision of a One World Order. Gordon Brown has been pushing this agenda for the past year. Perhaps the Prime Minister can tell us if the US government has requested the deployment of the Canadian Military on US soil.

The real agenda should be BANKS. They have no business bankrupting Greece with toxic “Credit Default Swaps” and stand watch while another 15 European countries remain insolvent, they have no business setting interest rates, they have no business creating global depression through greed, deregulation and self-regulation, they have no business paying executives billions in bonuses, they have no business redirecting North American capital to foreign markets and destroying our manufacturing base, they have no business in regulating and destroying small business and they certainly have no business in anyone’s business. If you really want to assist this economy remove all bank fees and have interest rates reflect to the true economic picture. Set compensation limits and limit banks’ return on capital. There is no such thing as a strong banking system. Banks are designed to make money by peddling debt, not wealth. Who gave banking the authority to dictate who stays in business and who gets in business?

Russia – The bear awakes from a sombre sleep.

http://vlad-unclevlad.blogspot.com/2010/01/russian-troops-asked-to-pacify-america.html

Several weeks ago Lt. Gen. Steven Blum the Deputy Commander of NORTHCOM requested from the Russian government pursuant to a secret agreement the use of 3 to 4 brigades of military security forces to be deployed in the U.S. presumably to assist local law enforcement in "peace keeping operations". When the request was made this very senior officer which my wife is related to expressed serious concerns about losses because of how well the "Americans" were armed. This officer and relative told me directly that he was assured by Gen. Blum that his forces would not be in the direct line of fire and that they would be free to use "whatever force was necessary to defend themselves and prevent future attacks".
http://thefightofyourlife.blogspot.com/

A visionary from the Philippines, Duke Puntalangit, warns that the Fatima chastisements will begin this year 2010. According to the visionary, the Middle East crisis will eventually result into an all out war, though limited in that region, after which, a revolution originating from Russia, will engulf Europe. These series of events will cause chaos and bloodshed in all major cities in Europe, the Pope will be murdered in exile, the global economy will plunge deeper, consequently giving the window of opportunity for Russia and China to execute militarily against Europe and the US.The visionary gives the following which he said are the immediate signs prior to an unexpected revolution in Europe which will usher in World War III:

1. A papal visit to Russia. This will be the last sign and immediately follows the bloodshed in Europe.
2. The signing of an agreement, military in nature, between US and Russia. This will happen immediately prior to the nuclear war.

The above events, Puntalangit states, are the immediate signs of the looming human catastrophe. In addition to the above, Mr. Puntalangit advices everyone to focus on current events directly associated with the Catholic Church and Russia, the Middle East, and US-Russia arms negotiations.

Thank you,
Joseph Pede