Letter to NATO re Misrata

Open letter to NATO - April 17th 2011

http://www.jfcnaples.nato.int/page12055113.aspx

Hello,

it has been pointed out by this interview from a person in Misrata

http://justpaste.it/ahp

that when G. Troops are bombarding the town, the NATO planes are absent from the area. but just before the planes show up, the guns go silent; and when they leave, the bombardment begins again;

there are two possibilities

1) NATO is in calusion with G. to give G. Misrata; which I have difficulty believing, but others might not;

2) some how the G. forces are being warned of approaching NATO planes; speculation is, that an "unknown" ship is in the Gulf, monitoring ATC and possibly using radar to plot the NATO planes;

if the latter is the case, is there nothing that NATO can do about the situation, instead of leaving Misrata and others at the mercy of the GRADS and now the threat of SCUD missile attack; if G. uses a SCUD against the FF Cities this will be the last straw; politically and militarily for NATO and the COALITION; you will have lost all credibility in the eyes of the world

Schnee

How the CRTC is proposing to change how you use the Internet and Innovative Technologies




by Schnee Wolfe on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 8:57pm

On Wednesday,January 26th, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission issued a decision to allow incumbent Media Oligarchies (controlling Cable TV services and stations, Telephone - both wireless and cellular, Internet, and various other news and public affairs services) to charge Usage Based Billing that raised the costs charged to small ISPs that lease bandwidth on the networks of Bell and Bell Aliant, mainly in Ontario and Quebec. This led DSL Internet Providers, like Teksavvy, to issue changes to plans effective March 1st, that started at 25 gb bandwidth, down from the 200 gb for the same price, of 32 dollars a month. The result is that the costs more than doubled.

The regulator has also recently issued decrees that allowed large incumbents to shape ISPs’ network traffic (slow it down). This weekend and the past two days, I immediately saw a change in my service speed and availability, even while simply using a browser to surf the internet; lag of graphic intense sites increased, and the number of times warnings came up that the web page was taking too long to load, and would I like to reduce my browsers ability to load graphics. This is intolerable, this is not competition this is abuse of the consumer in the name of monopolistic practices to close down competition.

This is not about Internet Traffic, this is about control of the Information Highway, and how the Consumer Accesses it, and who he pays for the information. In the long run, this may not mean much as technology will always leap frog legislative regulations. But in the short term, it will throttle our ability to compete in the Global Market, and show case our abilities to develop and deploy innovative technologies and data.

If each mail, freight, bus and courier company had had to develop it's own infrastructure to deliver services to the consumer, then Canada would now have been covered in roads and various airports. This analogy suits the existing infrastructure for telecommunications in that the wires, radio waves and cables should be owned and operated by the people of Canada, allowing open access to all. Placing them in the hands of a few Media Oligarchies does not serve my interests, nor my children's. Instead of debating who owns the "roads", lets put them in the hands of their rightful owners, in a way that ensures that they are used for the good of the Country as a whole, and use our time and energies to improve those "roads" with Fiber Optic to the Home and Access for Rural Canadians of more than just the basics.

Of Poverty and Strays

"A person is poor, when they are wanting something that they cannot have; I don't think of myself as poor, because there is nothing that I can't have, if I am willing to wait for it; if a person can't wait, and MUST have it NOW, then they are truly poor, no matter how much money they may have, because they will never be satisfied or content"

     I remember going to the store with change, and not having 2 cents to get the 5 lb bag of apples on sale, and had to take the 3 lb bag; then in the parking lot found the 3 cents; but I didn't go back; perhaps I should have, but I was content with what I had; I have a roof over my head, food and clothing, friends and family; so I don't have a 6 figure income or even a 5 figure for the matter; 4 will do me fine, and I am able to live on it a sustainable life, that being one that progresses, and doesn't go backwards;

     This year I was patient and now have a laptop dual core (needs a bit of TLC) with Win. 7 that cost me 200 dollars, and a free 7 year old G4 that had reached the end of it's useful life in an office, saved from the grave yard, I bought a $180 Skil drill press, end of line, for less than half price ($80), and a DeWalt 10 inch Compound mitre saw $224 dollars; the 7 cubic ft freezer is chock full, have meat and vegetables enough for the winter; about 50 lbs of flour, AP, Whole Wheat, Cake 'n Pastry; 20 lbs of rice; 19 lbs of home made mincemeat, 3 cakes and a pudding for Christmas;  this week I made 14 litres of Ginger Beer, and have been making micro batches of wine for the past 3 months which by next spring will be a cellar of 30+ bottles; not that I am a big drinker, but it is a cheap hobby which I have been learning for the past 17 years off an on; I have enough acrylic paints for my other hobby of landscape painting, and I did the 4x3 ft canvas from it, and a couple of sketches and still have paint and canvas left; the workshop equipment I am planning on using for making frames for the canvas to stretch on, and to make frames to put around some of my paintings and photos; the plan being to get money saved to buy some more prints and frame them for next summers yard sale; as well as other little projects, like a new counter top, and an exercise station that I can use standing up, that will only take up 3 ft x 3 ft of space;

     LIFE is moving forward, not backward; so long as that is happening, then one can't complain of being poor; when I look back to 3 years ago or even 5-6 years ago, when I was making $20,000 a year before taxes, and heavily in debt because of the years of only making 5-7 dollars an hour and living in the center of Toronto, I have to say that I am truly blessed to be able to live at the standard of living I am now enjoying; would I like to be earning more, certainly, but it would only mean that I would be saving faster for things like wood, canvas and the print shop photos;

       My Goal is to be as self sufficient as possible when I reach age 65 in 2 years; I am not looking to be uber rich, but to be in a sustainable income situation that will grow with the cost of living, and will enable me to remain living a healthy and fulfilling life; and not to be someone's stray project;

        Tonight that came at me rather forcefully; my daughter  and grandson were watching a movie on seals (the animals) and they heard a noise that they took to be from the TV, but when they turned off the movie, the noise persisted; when they opened the front door, a cat/kitten shot in, and sat shivering in the living room; well, a rescue effort was initiated by my brother and his wife, and in short order there was food, cat litter and a cat box over there; the kitten, for that is what she is, is about 9 months old, and has obviously been around humans and is not a feral cat; also, she has been looked after; now whether she is an escapee, or abandoned (anyone who abandons animals in this weather (-3c) should be pushed out of their homes for the night as a lesson) is hard to tell, but she has made herself at home and is very affectionate; she has made a friend in my daughter ;-) and will if necessary have found a home;

       my point is, that while I am on Gov't Assistance now, I don't want it to last any longer than necessary; I don't want to be someone's project either; I want to be either a partner with someone, contributing to the marriage, or independent of Gov't help other than my CPP and OAP; and to that end, I am utilizing the money that I do have to the best advantage that I can, while still having a life; as I said at the beginning, I am not poor,