Trust European food standards, not American

One in six Americans fall ill every year from the food they eat (according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). In Britain, it is one in 28.

Read the story in the GUARDIAN

Freedom on Juneteenth?

Let's be clear. June 19th is not the day America freed their slaves, it is the day America stopped legally enslaving previously free Africans - big difference!

Covid-19 used as an excuse for violating civil and privacy rights

Since Day One, Covid has been used as an excuse to claw away privacy and civil rights by governments all over the world.

Read the story on COMMON DREAMS

Maryann Petri is the ERIN BROCKOVICH of family court

Hello Blogsphere Folks:

Hope you are all well. 

If you get the opportunity, would you please share my crowdfund campaign on your network? I just optioned the film and TV rights to non-custodial mother Maryann Petri, the Erin Brockovich of family court. Maryann has been fighting the corrupt family court system for nearly a decade. We are raising development money for a trailer, business plan and script development. 

Many thanks. ... James 

https://ca.gofundme.com/f/custody-denied

Enough with the COVID-19 insanity!

OK! Enough of this fear mongering!

The economic and social damage done by this 'self-isolation' mania far outweighs the health benefits. More people die daily of smoking and obesity-related disease than 'the virus'. Half of Canadians live paycheque to paycheque. The economic damage done this 'Isolationism' and the resulting thousands of layoffs will result in people losing their homes, not paying their rent, or affording food or contributing to their children's education, suicide, and marital breakdowns.

Let us go back to work, to school, to living our lives. Just like every flu season - resources should be focused on the very young, the very old, people who are immune- compromised and health care workers.

Everyone else - let's get back to our lives - wash our hands - keep them away from our face and stay home if we're sick with 'the virus', the regular flu, measles, mumps or the common cold.

If our politicians really care about the health of Canadians - start by banning cigarettes and sugar-saturated beverages.

He robbed a store to get money for his sick child - Welcome to America

The richest country in the world, where more than 50% of every tax dollar goes to the military and Americans are dying because they can't afford health care.... disgusting

Read the story on CTV News

America's inoperable cancer

Yet another example of why fear, racism and ignorance will ensure that the carnage will never stop, Trump will be re-elected and America will remain the world's bully.

Read the story in the GUARDIAN

American city councillor promises Communism

Why the heck not. We already know that capitalism doesn't work.

Read the story HERE

Trump is a hypocrite but correct

Wow! It's truly hypocritical of 'colonial' American president Trump to warn African leaders about 'colonial' China but for once, he's correct. Cash-rich China is fond of making generous loans to African countries to build railways that no one uses, highways to nowhere, and shipping ports that no shipper uses. Then, when the African country can't make the payments, China repossess the infrastructure and gets its hands on a few natural resources to boot.

Read the story in the Globe and Mail

Trillions for war or trillions for universal health care and Mother Earth?

Exactly!

Read the story in the Guardian newspaper

The UN Blue Helmets are our best option

Canada hasn't had a Prime Minister that didn't take orders from America since Kim Campbell was PM (1993). 

The big three countries have under-staffed and under-funded the Blue Helmets for decades because America, Russia and China don't want a neutral, armed police force interfering with their military's enforcement of the big three's economic and political agenda.

Read the story on CTV News

Words of wisdom from Thomas Edison

January 15th is Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."

.... Dr. King

U.N. expert slams American race problem - Brazilian butt lift - Rome cops cook for lonely couple

The United Nation's special rapporteur Maina Kiai , a lawyer and human rights activist from Kenya has authored a 6,500 word report that warns, in part, that extreme “racial, social and economic inequality, which are often intertwined.” Then, according to the article, goes on to say that "It also shows how harsh, police state-like conditions in the U.S. are threatening the basic rights of Americans, particularly Americans of color."

Read the article on Salon

Behind the hype of the 'Brazilian butt lift' and its founder

Ivo Pitanguy died last Saturday at the age of 90. Now you may not of heard of Mr. Pitanguy but he is the world famous, Brazilian plastic surgeon who pioneered the "Brazilian butt lift".

What the heck is that?.... well, it's a surgical 'butt augmentation' technique in which fat is injected into the patient's butt. Or silicon implants are surgically inserted under the skin. 

Ladies and gentlemen - a word of advice....you want a firm, well-rounded butt? Try exercising... it's free and painless.

Read the story on BBC News

Italian cops cook pasta for lonely senior couple

When Rome cops responded to a complaint from neighbours that an elderly couple were shouting and crying in their apartment, instead of finding a crime being committed, they found Jole, 84 and her husband Michele, 94.

Evidently the couple were arguing, in part over their meal, and in part out of loneliness because no one had visited them in "a long time" the couple said.

So the cops cooked them a pasta dinner then sat with the couple and chatted while they ate.

Kudos to Rome cops Andrea, Alessandro, Ernesto and Mirko.

Read the story on CTV News

Eat then pump it out, North is not the top, Pistorius wants our tears

"Stomach-pumping weigh-loss device approved for use in the U.S." - CTV NEWS

At first I though this was a late arriving April Fools Joke but no. The AspireAssist system, which consists of a tube implanted in the stomach, is design to pump all or most of the meal you just ate out of your stomach and into the toilet.

Evidently there are millions of Americans who have tried every weight-loss method and failed.

Well, I just invented a weight-loss plan that is guaranteed to work - EAT LESS / EXERCISE MORE!


"There's no good reason for "North" being at the top of maps" - BBC News

Interesting article by Caroline Williams of the BBC - interesting for me anyway. She says that putting 'North' at the top of maps and photos etc. was a completely arbitrary decision.


Pistorius removes his legs - Globe and Mail

Oscar Pictorius - who was convicted of killing his wife - removed his artificial legs and hobbled into sentencing hearing today. Pleaseeeeeee!

One third of Cook County Jail's inmates are the mentally ill

"In America there are thought to be three times more psychiatric patients in prison than in hospital.
BBC correspondent Aleem Maqbool was given special permission to film inside Cook County Jail, Illinois, and to speak to the prisoners at this Chicago prison."

... Watch the video story on BBC News

America, China and Russia lust for better bombs

Russia parades its newest continental missile

"The United States, Russia and China are now aggressively pursuing a new generation of smaller, less destructive nuclear weapons. The buildups threaten to revive a Cold War-era arms race and unsettle the balance of destructive force among nations that has kept the nuclear peace for more than a half-century."

Read the story on the New York Times

Are all American cops racist bullies?

"No one who is even passingly familiar with the history of the Chicago Police Department can claim to be surprised by a new report showing that the department is plagued by systemic racism and operates with utter disregard for the lives of the black citizens whom it batters, maims and kills.

Nevertheless, this report, issued on Wednesday by a task force appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, lays out with extraordinary clarity the department’s long record of racial profiling, torture and killings and makes scores of recommendations that might offer Chicagoans some hope."

Read the story in the New York Times