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Democracy is a popular phenomenon currently embracing political and governmental systems throughout the world. An increasing number of countries are or have been shifting toward open elections, improved human rights, granting of free assembly, freedoms of speech, and other seemingly-Western concepts of how populations of people should be governed. We’ve seen this trend increasing in countries like Russia, after the fall of the Soviet Union; Iraq, currently being forcefully converted to a democratic state with the aid of the United States; and it doesn’t seem to be stopping.
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Countries such as Iran, Afghanistan, and other traditionally-Islamic states have been seen as targets for Western-style Imperialism. Here the primary objective of the most Western states seems to be the acquisition of economic resources in the arrogant guise of freeing the worlds’ people under tyrannical governments often founded upon secularist, dictatorial regimes (the Iraqi War of 2003 would be a prominent example). Here we see the beginnings of conflict between civilizations.

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Samuel Huntington is one of the most popular authors of our time who’s contemplated the idea of a conflict between civilizations, particularly between Western and Islamic states. In his book “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order” (1996) he argues that cultural differences between, for instance, Islam and Western cultural values are clearly in opposition to each other and that differences between these two cultures occur not along ideological lines but “civilizational” (ie. Western, Hindu, Islamic). He managed to determine that to understand the idea of conflict, we must comprehend the cultural cleavages and that culture must be seen as the centre of war.

Huntington (1996) argues that, because the Koran rejects the distinction between religious and political authority, Islamic civilization cannot easily coexist with democracy. In addition, Kedourie (1994) maintains that mass egalitarianism, elections, and representation are “profoundly alien to the Muslim political tradition” (Kedourie, 1994). Moreover, Shariah Law – to which the very foundation for the legal system borne for both secular and religious lives of Muslims – not only covers religious aspects of their lives but also many day-to-day dealings of life including politics, economics, and social issues.

Here we see direct conflict with the fundamental virtues of democracy wherein liberal democracy affords everyone to the same rights, freedoms; right to life, liberty, security of person; and that no one shall be held in slavery of servitude (United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). Islamic law, on the other hand, declare women to be essentially inferior to men; that immigrants or non-islamic people living in Muslim countries are declared inferior; those of the atheistic tendency are also thought to be inferior (violating freedom of religion under Article 2 of UNDHR); and lastly, Sharia recognizes slavery (which also violates UN declaration of human rights). How then, would those practicing Islam be able to peacefully co-exist with those exercising secular ideals as outlined in most Western-state constitutions and Charter of Rights? Given these short contrasts, those of Islamist and democracy-driven ideals cannot – and will not – be able to peacefully co-exist with one another.
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The first problem with the claim by some that Islam would be able to co-exist with liberal, democratic ideals would surely be the issue revolving around the separation of Church from State. Indeed, one of the fundamental bases of democracy has been the separation of the two because of the inherent problems when governments attempt to adopt non-secularist laws and customs. Given a country as the United States or Canada, where the populations essentially descended from immigrants of differing backgrounds, coming to a consensus revolving around which religion to adopt would have been a feat in itself. Claiming to officially support one religion over another would undoubtedly lead to accusations of discrimination in countries like Canada where equality rights are deeply entrenched1. The foundations of such ideas of separation came as early as John Locke and other philosophers of the enlightenment. Locke gave many reasons for this separation of Church and State in his “A Letter Concerning Toleration”: First, because souls are not committed to the state [magistrate] any more than other people; secondly, because the care of the spirit cannot belong to the state because its power consists only in external matters (not of the soul) (Locke, 1689).
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In summation, what he’s describing is the business of the state has no right to interfere with the conscience or thought of its citizens; a fundamental, liberal-democratic ideal. The Founding Fathers of one of the greatest democracies in the world defended religious freedom in adoption of a Bill of Rights where the rights of religious minorities were outlined, among other things2, to avoid discriminatory practices by Government. Looking toward Canada we see similar traits in the Court ruling of Canada v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd [1985] where it ruled that a 1906 statute required most places to be closed on Sundays did not have a legitimate purpose in a “free and democratic society3,” and was ruled an unconstitutional attempt at establishing a religious-based closing law. Here we see the successful separation of Church from State. Islamic societies, on the other hand, have had much harder times in separating religion from state operations mainly because the very idea of Islamic society is the integration of religion and state.

The separation of Church and State in Islamic societies, as it’s already been mentioned, is a much more difficult matter and only a couple states have been “successful” in implementing such strategies4. The reason Islamic societies have not been very successful in co-habitating with other religions is due to its’ inherently xenophobic and intolerant teachings toward other religions and beliefs such as those associated with the countries of Sudan, Libya, and Afghanistan (NY Times, 2000). From the perspective of Westerners, Islam presents a structurally intolerant religion (Hofman, 1998, p. 142) as demonstrated by the strict Shariah law that forms the basis of these societies.
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Undoubtedly, the usual Muslim view has been that Islam does not allow distinction between the temporal and the sacred or between religion and state that has been the defining feature of the secular West (democracy) since the beginning of the Enlightenment. Whereas Islam stands as a religion and fundamental way of life for those living under its rules, democracy and its propensity toward individual choice leaves much to be desired in the eyes of Islamists. Democracy could never be considered as such a strong unifying force than Islam could ever aspire to be.

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Inflation is on its way and we’re not prepared for it, says establishment shill economists and financial analysts Kevin Phillips and Nouriel Roubini, who both published books within the last 2 years predicting the rise of this insidious evil lurking around the corner in economies where government plays a nefarious intrusion in the lives of private citizens.

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For those green to the term, inflation occurs when the money supply is increased and “chases” prices of goods and services; much of which all people in countries use and consume on a daily basis. When this happens, prices often skyrocket but are not matched by increased sums of income for purchasing power. Essentially it hurts the savers, low income people, and those with high debt loads on their backs because these groups of people are not able to comfortably absorb price shocks as those with no debt and/or high incomes and large amount of wealth.

A year ago, Kevin Phillips, an ex advisor to the Nixon administration, warned of a the pending explosion of a 25-year “multibubble” that started in the 1980s, when the financial sector accounted for 10 percent to 12 percent of the U.S. economy had started metastasizing into an “arguably crippling” 20 percent to 21 percent by the middle of this decade (Reuters; Daniel Trotta, 2009).

Indeed, all of the government manipulation of the US economy — not to mention the governments and economies in the rest of the world — is starting to come home to roost. All of the overleveraging and “easy credit” was bound to create a disaster all of which can be blamed on U.S. Treasury Secretaries all the way back to the Nixon administration, but more prevalently during the Clinton and Bush regimes.

The fact is that central bank manipulation — government manipulation — is the prima facie for the financial bubbles which have been plagueing economies of the world for quite some time since the introduction of central banks in the early to mid twentieth century when the Federal Reserve (a quasi-private institution) was established by international bankers in the 1930s in the United States.

The US economy — already suffering from bank failures, insane trade deficits, and astronomical public debt — has not seen the full effect of these facts and is about to encounter further hardship from areas ordinary Americans rely on day to day; that being credit card debt and personal loans. Since the banking sector has essentially restricted loans to those with previously good credit ratings, many businesses relying on cheap credit are being held in the mud. In a corollarily to the housing bust that occured in the past year, the US economy has yet to witness the fruition of other sectors that have relied on previously cheap credit manipulated by the central bank, those being the commercial and industrial real estate markets.

What economists, politicians, and pundits do not mention is the poignant fact that the entire monetary system of the world — having been essentially taken over by the Federal Reserve through the forced creation of central banks in each country around the globe — has enforced the creation of fiat, or government issue money. This fasci of money has throughout history been the target of control and manipulation of all politicians, dictators, and despots. Convincingly, Rome fell mostly because of their issuance and debasement of their currency.

In fact, at the end of the Roman empire, their mercernary legions refused to take Roman currency. “Whenever a nation slips from wealth creation to wealth preservation, it becomes increasingly difficult to sustain the prior level of wealth. As the cost of maintaining the Legions went up, the ROI on having them declined. In order to pay the cost of preservation, Rome debased its currency multiple times. Debasement is a way to pay today’s bills with tomorrows worthless coins. That led to incredibly high rates of inflation. Payment in kind often substituted for worthless currency” (Newsvine.com, 2009). It surely seems the United States economy is on this very same route since the US dollar is bring printed out of existence as we speak to pay for a tripled debt (now currently approximately 15 trillion dollars) — a debt already unsustainable during and previously to the Clinton administration. “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” is stated in the Holy Bible in Ecclesiastes 1:9.

With Canada being such a close neighbor with the United States, and sharing such a huge amount of trade volume with its neighbor, it will surely experience a severe bout of inflation to match the economic pain being experienced in the United States. “Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday (April, 2009) the Canadian economy is likely to “accelerate” out of what he deemed a “mild” recession – although warning that the next problem policy-makers may face is inflation” (Financial Post, 2009). The primary problem, however, is not trade issues, but debt incurred by the “financial stimulus” that Canada’s political elite are pushing on the Canadian populous as the economic savior. Keynes himself would be so proud.

The Obama Administration will not save us

For those thinking the Obama regime has the answers the solutions, please think again for the same people who worked for previous administration are working for this administration. At the helm of the newly created “economic recovery board” is Paul Volcker, a Nixon and Carter-era economist who was the former Federal Reserve Chairman at that time. It doesn’t stop there for the Federal Reserve Chairman in this term is Ben Bernanke, a former Bush administration Federal Reserve Chairman. How can things change when things stay the same? Indeed, Einstein told us that insanity is when you do the same things and expect different results.

Government intervention is now in such an elevated state that the entire banking system is at risk of being nationalized. Many major banks have already been taken over by the US government and many more are in danger of being usurped as well. It is obvious the current ‘crisis’ has been engineered to put the economic reins of power into the hands of ‘dear government’ who will guide us toward a socialist paradise with a controlled economy.

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The Obama Deception is a hard-hitting film that completely destroys the myth that Barack Obama is working for the best interests of the American people. The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery. We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order’s plans. and only by exposing the con can we help to save freedom in America. The Obama Deception is not about Left or Right: it’s about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation. Covered in this film: who Obama works for, what lies he has told, and his real agenda, and how his initial appointments and actions prove he serves the corporate oligarchs, not the American people. If you want to know the facts and cut through all the hype, this is the film for you.

Article written by EconoChristian.com with references to various sources stated herein.

How often have you seen job advertisements stating that some type of degree, diploma, or certificate is necessary? Performing a job or task often requires an applicant to have the pre-requisite knowledge or at least some kind of affinity and ability for the task and work being applied for. If this is so, why are so many job positions asking for so many qualifications?

Students across the world are beginning to question the necessity and value of college education as the cost of such training has risen by 110% over the past 20 years, median family income has risen by only 27% (New York: The College Board, 2001)[1].

Have you ever wondered if the requirement of qualifications and credentials has always been so prevalent? The reality of the situation is that back in the post World War 2 economy of the industrialized countries (Europe, North America, etc) there was a shortage of labour (people to take up jobs) so the qualifications necessary for these positions was often waived or learned on the job, and the employer paid training option was often implemented.

Contemporary Tight Labor Markets

Indeed, as Wikipedia points out, labor shortages were felt in [during and after WW2] agriculture, even though most farmers were given an occupational exemption and few were drafted. Large numbers volunteered or moved to cities for factory jobs. At the same time many agricultural commodities were more needed for the military and for the civilian populations of Allies (Wikipedia, 2009).

Before the war, there were not enough jobs to go around, hence the depression. As America geared up for the war and then got involved, two things happen which would have a great effect on postwar America. The first, to produce what was needed for the war, America’s manufacturing began to grow at a fantastic rate. Secondly, there was rationing, so as workers started making money again, there wasn’t a lot for them to spend it on. So, they saved lots of money.

With this tremendous boom there was a severe need for employers to fill positions which now require “qualifications” that were often learned on the job. Also, many new industries were created along with new job titles, so naturally academia and the college industrial complex jumped on the bandwagon to cash in on the increasing numbers of people looking for work as the economy tightened and contracted with the crises seen in the late 70′s to early 80′s and has not stopped since then.

It can be supposed that a certain element of this preference for a University degree is related to the local labor market conditions (supply and demand of people with certain qualifications), but the reality of the situation is that many people who come out of colleges are more suited for the working world due to the fact that it is more vocationally oriented training rather than the pervasive theory taught in Universities. It is true that Universities purportedly produce workers more suited for managerial or “abstract” thinkers, but it is more likely a matter of class and status and the epitome of the specialized economy’s need to compartmentalize people into specific roles.

The Rise Of Credentialism

University degrees were, up until recently (50 to 60 years), strictly an affair for the wealthy and well connected in society, while those at the lower rungs were relegated to community colleges and technical colleges. As many professions became regulated and bureacratized, Universities came into the fold as the necessary qualification to be completed to qualify for positions such as Nurses, Lawyers, Doctors, and other traditional occupations usually occupied by the wealthy of society and their offspring.

Back in the 1960′s to early 1970′s, high school graduates were able to enter teacher’s college directly from their previous level without having to attain a University degree in a specific or general subject. They could just literally become teachers out of high school and were encouraged to attain a University level qualification during their teaching career.

Similarly, concerns about the commercialisation of universities began to emerge during the debate of the late 1970′s about the safety issues surrounding the then-new recombinant DNA technology. The concern centered on the potential influence of the commercialisation of university research on the university as an institution (Kenney, 1998 & Science in Africa, 2002).
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According to a Statistics Canada report released a day after the 1998 “students’ budget,” students are paying more than ever for their university education. After inflation, tuition fees have leapt 62 per cent since the beginning of the decade, while family incomes have dropped by 5 per cent. Fees for undergraduate arts students increased in all provinces but Quebec. With yet another rise slated for the 1999-2000 academic session, students can prepare themselves for fee hikes well into the 21st century.

The sharpest rise in costs occurred in Newfoundland where, on average, students paid 18 per cent more than in earlier years. By comparison, Ontario had a jump of 10.1 per cent. In other provinces, the tuition surge ranged between 1.7 per cent in British Columbia and 8.3 per cent in Alberta. The national average was 9 per cent. Employment incomes of those aged 20 to 24 have fallen by 21 per cent during this period.

At the same time, average loans from the Canada Student Loans Program remained constant and because it has not kept pace with changing realities, students are left having to do much more with less. But youth aren’t exactly foregoing the post-secondary option due to the fee hikes. The proportion of 19- to 24-year-olds enrolled in university grew consistently from 1975 to 1995. That growth stalled in 1993 and then dropped slightly in 1996, but it is once again on the rise. So who is paying for these changes? Check out the numbers: the average undergraduate debt after graduation in 1982 – $5,260; in 1990 – $8,690; in 1995 – $17,000; in 1998 – $25,000.

Academics, teachers, and other so-called “role models” keep chanting the “need for formalized education to get a job” mantra because our economy apparently needs skilled workers, they say, but is the connection between formalized education and just “getting a job” that clear? Most people in semi-professional roles require skills such as exercising considerable judgement and certain specialized skills.

It would seem that before enrolling in and barely scraping by to complete a life draining 4 year degree, it would be more advantageous and cost efficient to offer more University or community college programs 2 years in length rather than the former. Indeed, many community colleges already offer 2 year programs that should be sufficient to compete for positions such as those offered in the business field such as marketing, business analysis and so on. After all, most of what you’re going to need to know is going to be learned on the job anyway.

The statistics and facts seem to be falling on deaf ears with childrens’ role models, teachers, and parents because in the last 30 years the percentage of positions/jobs requiring college/University education has more than doubled while the job responsibilities and tasks have remained the same or have been deskilled (ie. eliminated or replaced by new, argueably less skilled) by technology. Indeed, according to most “role models,” if students do not plan to pursue college education, they will often be threatened with flipping burgers for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately now that the degree obsession from employer human resource departments has expanded into society, lack of a college education often not make it past human resource departments’ clerks’ eyes (or computers).

Why would this be? Well, according to his book Executive Blues, G. J. Meyers warned of the “academic stench” that can often label an applicant “over-qualified” for many of the jobs available in today’s economy. Maybe what attracts employers to college graduates is their ability to sit for unbearable lengths of time at a desk staring at computer screens, or maybe it is the fact that after a college education that many students run up debts to which they will likely never repay in their lifetimes.

Where is the accountability?

In the Ontarian schooling system (in Canada), the Universities, colleges, and post-secondary institutions are empowered under an enabling act and are bound by provisions of different provincial statutes (ie. The Expropriation Act). In addition, because these institutions receive public funds directly in trust (by way of endowments), there are therefore restricted by the rules of accountability. This essentially means they are accountable to the public for demonstrating where the public funds were spent for the goals intended, and to see that it is spent in an efficient and economical manner. However, as all pundits of economics know, and what the economic and historic models show, is that government is not capable of being effective when power is taken away from individuals.
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This means that University administrations are supposed to be responsible for the management of the public funds they receive for collective purposes (very broadly for education and research), but who watches the watchers? Supposedly the board of governors serve this function, but the reality of the situation is that this board is largely a controlled aspect of University Chief Executive Officers’ preferences with no real stated process for reporting their effectiveness to taxpayers. Indeed, the MUSH sector (Municipal, Universities, Schools, and Hospitals) does not guarantee public accountability of funds with regards to University effectiveness (or lack thereof). This fact is so credible that even the Ombudsman of Ontario admitted it:

“Ontario has fallen behind in oversight of non-governmental organizations providing critical public services referred to as the “MUSH” sector – municipalities (except for the ability to investigate complaints about closed meetings in some cases), universities, school boards, hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, police, and children’s aid societies (Ombudsman, Ontario, 2008)

It would seem that the problem in education starts much earlier than previously thought; it starts in earnest during the grade school education paradigm where students are socialized into specific patterns of social and scholastic thought. The education system has been patterned after the “outcome based” education model where it promotes curricula and assessment based on constructivist methods and discourages traditional education approaches based on direct instruction of facts and standard methods.

Though it is claimed the focus is not on “inputs”, OBE generally is used to justify increased funding requirements, increased graduation and testing requirements, and additional preparation, homework, and continuing education time spent by students, parents and teachers in supporting learning. (Wikipedia, 2009). Could the outcome based education model be preparation for the post-secondary treadmill racket we call Universities and colleges? All signs would point to “yes.”

Some solutions

In his famous presentation, “The problem with rock tumblers: Why Canada’s education system is in urgent crisis and how to fix it,” Tod Maffin outlines the need for education reform from a system where students are encouraged to have their individualities nurtured, developed, and focused into specific areas of study and vocation. Under the current system of outcome based education as outlined above, students are thrown into a public school with over crowded populations, assigned over worked teachers, and expected to come out of this Marxist factory with direction in life.
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What Mr. Maffin compares this system to is a “rock tumbler” where “you take all the students at the beginning of the cycle and toss them into a rock tumbler. You turn on the switch and tumble them for about 12 years.” Essentially this system is meant to form all students into generalists who do not have the chance to develop their individual skills as they should. The nice stones that come out of the tumbler are like the students that come out of the current education system, which he believes creates a bunch of generalists. “Everyone comes out being able to do everything generally well … Few people come out doing one thing extraordinarily well” (Leader Post, 2006).

Parents realizing this disturbing trend are increasingly enrolling their children into private schools, or in many cases, are teaching them at home in an individualized, nurturing environment — guided by Christian or other religious teachings — often not offered in public schools where students of marginalized situations often find themselves ostracized by fellow students, which ultimately defiles their educational experience and dooms their educational future.

Indeed, the US Department of Education’s report “shows that approximately 1.5 million children (2.9 percent of school-age children) were being homeschooled in the spring of 2007, representing a 36 percent relative increase since 2003 and a 74 percent relative increase since 1999.[2] One private researcher estimates that as many as 2.5 million school-age children were educated at home during the 2007-2008 school year.[3]”
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Jesus calls on Christians of all denominations to call into question the current public education system that their children attends as secular schooling has been stripped of all value and meaning when He has been taken out of the curriculum. Without God or Jesus, students become lost in the wild of secularism and often adopt secular ideals. Phil Brennan of Newsmax.com has exposed this secularization of the schooling system stating that “”government schools must stamp out love of country and the family must be viewed as the enemy: ‘As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism’”" (Newsmax, 2003).

References:

(1) The College Board, Trends in College Pricing, 2001 (New York: The College Board, 2001).

[2]U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, “1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007,” December 2008, at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009030.pdf (January 6, 2009).

[3]Brian D. Ray, “Research Facts on Homeschooling,” National Home Education Research Institute, July 2, 2008, at http://www.nheri.org/Research-Facts-on-
Homeschooling.html (January 6, 2009).

Politicians, businessmen, and media conglomerates working together have been touting that they had no knowledge of the current depression and economic trouble. Somehow this should be hard to believe given the way in which the economies and financial systems of the world were slowly manipulated throughout the years. It has been in the making for decades, made worse since Canada and the United States’ politicians signed away their respective economic sovereignty to the unelected World Trade Organization and NAFTA; not to mention the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
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This pipe dream of stabilizing Canada’s economy is not to be solved by shipping its manufacturing base, already less than a quarter of its economic activity, to countries where they utilize slave labour and manipulate their currency. It also is not to be solved by the proliferation of Casinos and gambling houses which destroy the moral fabric of communities and eventually countries. Here is a brief history of how gambling came to be common practice in Canada:

A 1969 amendment authorized provincial governments to manage and conduct lottery schemes and authorized charitable groups to do likewise under license – the federal government still had control, however, and even had their own lottery. The provincial and territorial governments soon negotiated provisions that led to the introduction of further gambling options in Canada such as province-run ticket lotteries. Governments began to generate substantial revenues from their virtual monopoly on Canadian gambling and became interested in diversifying their gambling offerings. (University of Alberta Study)

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Why would a country with decent, primarily Christian people, decide to open state-run Casinos thoughout its lands without any thought of consequence? You can bet your bottom dollar the policy makers knew the harmful effects that gambling would have on a population, but were desperate for solutions to declining public revenues due to de-industrilization (loss of manufacturing industries; backbone of the economy) and were under the influence of powerful people hell bent on destabilizing the middle class industrialized people of the world. “Canada experienced a dramatic increase in legalized gambling in the 1990s, primarily because of governments’ need to increase revenue without additional taxation” (CMAJ, 2000).

The industrialized world is steadily losing its manufacturing base to countries with low or non-existent labor, environmental, or financial laws. China is such an example of a country where they regularly manipulate their currency, condone limits on speech, disallow private sector unionization, and have poor or non-existent labor laws. Workers work 12.5 hours per day, spend 16.5 hours in the factory, and have to work all night during delivery rush. “There is no overtime pay. Workers are paid on product count. After all kinds of deductions, the average salary per hour is 13 cents” (China Labor Watch, 2001).

How could this come to be?

There should be no misunderstanding here. No one should be opposed to fair trade, but it’s time to recognize “free trade” is fiction because every trading relationship is managed in some way. Indeed, in an ideal world there would be no governments and therefore no need for representative government and public collectivization which all countries eventually become when people of similar values and morals come together in common cause. Indeed, Jesus fought for human freedom and did not give up even after he was crucified and nailed to a cross. As Jesus Christ said to Luke, “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his palace, his possessions are safe” (Luke 11:21).

One has to wonder if the de-industrialization; loss of manufacturing industries (and the subsequent decimation of the middle class); increases in drug trafficking and rises in crime mostly caused by a purposely faulty judicidial system; the increase in gambling and sinful behaviours such as prostitution (being legalized in some countries) and homosexual marriage; and the general acceptance of lies and deceit were deliberately planned out. Indeed, John Coleman, a famous historian and Christian, has stated this is the goal of the elite, satanist cabal steering planetary affairs. Indeed, he states point number five:
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“To bring about the end to all industrialization and the production of nuclear generated electric power in what they call “the post-industrial zero-growth society”. Excepted are the computer- and service industries. US industries that remain will be exported to countries such as Mexico where abundant slave labor is available. As we saw in 1993, this has become a fact through the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as NAFTA. Unemployables in the US, in the wake of industrial destruction, will either become opium-heroin and/or cocaine addicts, or become statistics in the elimination of the “excess population” process we know of today as Global 2000″ (Educate yourself, 2000).

Who is responsible for this?

The respective governments of Canada, USA, and the other industrialized and developing countries of the world — supposedly represented by their respective politicians — rammed the World Trade Organization’s agenda down the collective throats of their respective peoples through the incremental global trade agreements settled on shortly after World War 2. If one were to do their research, they would find that there were no public consultations regarding the need for so-called free trade rather than the much needed “fair trade.”

The World Trade Organization’s website states that the WTO agreement was ratified in member nations’ parliaments and consultative bodies, but what they do not mention is that nine in ten (90%) Canadians believe that politicians are “likely to lie” when they make statements in the media about important issues (60% “very likely” and 30% “somewhat likely)* and therefore agree that government does not represent common peoples’ concerns. Where is the democracy in that?

What Jesus calls his followers to do is emulate the way he lived his life. That is, to emulate his love for humanity, God, and the ability to question what rules and regulations authority has put upon mankind. Jesus was a revolutionary teacher. “His ideas shocked and frightened the people of His day. He would probably do the same to us today were He here in person. The sad truth is that the teachings of Jesus are just as revolutionary today as they were when He was here, but we have overlooked their importance. Or, we have failed to make application of them to our lives” (The Examiner).

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I call upon all Christians of all denominations to print out and cast their signature(s) as well as persuade their community members and families to sign the following petition in WORD format.

PETITION

to the House of Commons

in Parliament Assembled

We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada draw the attention of the House to the following:

THAT manufacturing jobs are important to Canada’s national economy,

THAT Canada is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs every year,

THAT each week more manufacturing companies shut their doors,
THAT losing manufacturing jobs in Canada affects millions of Canadian families, who either work directly or indirectly in the manufacturing sector,

THAT the loss of these jobs will negatively impact the future economic prosperity of Canada,

THEREFORE your petitioners call upon Parliament to immediately develop and implement a plan of action to protect Canadian manufacturing jobs in consultation with all stakeholders including labour and the business community.

Special thanks to Mario Silva for the petition document.

* These are the findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted between October 22nd and October 24th, 2002 on behalf of The Comedy Network. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 1,000 adult Canadians. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within (+/-) 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult Canadian population been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample’s regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual Canadian population according to the 1996 Census data.

Are Income Taxes Illegal and Unconstitutional?

As 130 million Americans dot the I’s, cross the T’s and staple their income tax returns, an increasingly vocal minority of people are doing none of the above and calling themselves “non tax payers” and using the 861 position are not paying their share of income taxes. This tax honesty movement includes some curious members including a former IRS member, Joseph Banister; and a conservative congress member from Texas, Ron Paul who favors the total elimination of income taxes and says their violate the US constitution.

Joe used to work for the IRS and he says that the share of solid evidence by doing 2 years worth of investigation working for the IRS. His evidence fills-up dozens of file-binders regarding liability statutues, what forms to file, etc. When you look at the regulations rether than the pamphlets, you learn that the IRS doesn’t have the right to tax people as everyone believes.

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