STEPHANE DION'S MESSAGE TO CANADIANS FOR COEXISTENCE

 

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January 4, 2014

 

 

 

Stéphane Dion · 11,449 like this

My dear friends,

Please accept my very best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful new year. In all your endeavours, may you be able to count on the support of your family, friends, community and country – Canada, the envy of the whole world.

In this 18th consecutive year as your Member of Parliament, I will continue to help you with any issues you may have. I will support you in your community, be your voice in Ottawa and keep striving to make Canada a country we can all continue to be proud of – a generous, tolerant and open country, one that builds its strength on the many contributions of people originating from the whole world.

Armed with your trust, I will strive to bring about the changes we need to make our businesses more competitive, our jobs more rewarding and plentiful, our natural environment healthier and our disadvantaged better able to share in our prosperity.

Here in Saint-Laurent – Cartierville, our condensed United Nations, let us pull together and give the world a lesson in solidarity. Let us show more than plain tolerance: let us be truly open to one another so that we can learn together about the goodness, fairness and universal values that are in each one of us.

May 2014 be a great year for you all!

Stéphane Dion

Phyllis Carter   I like the sound of this. Action speaks louder and more meaningfully than words, but I will copy this to my blog at http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com where it will remain for all the world to read. Then, in time, we will see if these words materialize as action.

 

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com

 

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YOU CAN'T HIDE BEHIND YOUR PALS

 

 

DO NOT GENERALIZE

 

Hold the individual responsible.

 

SEX IS NOT LOVE - IT IS NOT A GAME

 

 

Sex is not love;

 

Love is not sex.

 

Sex is not a game like golf,

Or bowling.

 

Abusive sex humiliates and demeans.

 

Even animals do not engage in sex for "fun".

 

Healthy sex is the result of deep love.

 

Sex is pleasure and peace

When it results from love.

 

Sex for "fun" is transferable:

Any warm body will serve the purpose.

 

Love is devotion and adoration,

Respect, care, companionship.

 

Sex for fun is gone in an instant.

 

Love lasts through joy and tragedy,

Good times and turmoil.

Love lasts even when sex is not possible.

 

Love protects and endures.

Love is there when all else fails.

 

Abusive sex uses the partner as a toilet.

 

Now do you understand the difference?

 

THE GREAT PUZZLE - IS PARADISE OURS ?

 

 

 

 

 

What do we really need

To make life bearable?

To make life possible?

To make life

Joyous?

 

Air we can breathe,

Water we can drink,

Food we can eat.

 

Medicine

To heal illness,

To prevent illness.

 

Shelter

To keep out the heat,

To keep out the cold,

The rain,

The bugs.

 

Education

To ensure that every child

Has a chance to become

A part of a healthy family;

A productive person;

A contributor,

Rather than a taker;

A person with a mind

That can fulfill its own hopes,

And enrich the hope of others.

 

Truth and Justice

The body needs food and water and air.

The spirit needs truth and justice.

 

Peace

Until there is adequate food, water, shelter,

Health care and education,

And justice,

There never will be peace.

 

If you look for paradise after death,

You have contempt for

The One who gave you life.

 

We

Are each a part of a Great Puzzle.

 

We

Can create paradise on this earth

If we choose life,

And use our own gifts

To bring justice to this life. 

 

 

Therefore, choose life.

 

"I have set before you life and death,

Blessing and cursing:

Therefore choose life,

That both thou and thy descendants may live."

 

Deuteronomy 30:19

 

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EXPLOSION OF CANCER, HOMOSEXUALITY - WE NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH

 

It seems to me there has been a great explosion of cancer in the past few decades.

 

At the same time, we are seeing thousands of people who consider themselves homosexual or lesbian.

 

Have there always been so many cancers?

 

Have there always been so many homosexual people?

 

Or are these variations from what we consider "normal" the result of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and on and on?

 

Has all the radiation from these disasters and all our electronic appliances, towers and gadgets altered our genes?

 

Are scientists, geneticists, studying these questions seriously?

 

Are scientists free to report their findings to the public?

 

We need to know the truth. But are Big Bucks and the politicians they own and the military powers they own preventing the truth from being revealed?

 

We dare to ask.

 

 

 

 

THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH - WORTH REPEATING

 

The first thing that must be said about truth is that it is a rarity and rarely used. The world of the 20th and 21st centuries to which I am witness is built on lies. Almost everyone lies some of the time, and those who hold positions of power lie routinely, and more so about matters of real importance. I need not elaborate on this because almost everyone knows this to be true and almost everyone accepts this as normal.

 

I grew up surrounded by white lies and lies of convenience and lies of self defence and lies told to distract or amuse and lies that were told for no good reason at all. It took half a century and a vicious crime against my family for me to come to a point where I could no longer bear to hear or speak a lie.

 

Here are some of the things I have learned about truth:

 

You can deny it, suppress it, distort it, try to discredit it, try to shame or intimidate or silence the one who tells it. You can hide it under a pile of lies and deceptions. You can find associates who will help you smother it or heap dirt or ridicule on it. You can shove it under a bushel basket and sit on it. But the truth about truth is that it is always true. And it will shine through.

 

It is not slander or libel to tell the truth, but respected people have told me that it is not always necessary to tell the truth. The "Partners in Crime" who robbed me and my family went so far as to obtain a court order against me declaring that I was insane and dangerous in order to try to stop me from telling the truth.

 

Frank Shoofey was a well-known Montreal lawyer who helped many working class people. Knowing that, I dared to ask to see him - without any money. It was in the 1970's. I wanted to tell him about my experience with Pinkerton where I was employed at the time as a grade two investigator. There were many things going on in our offices that were not kosher. It bothered me. I had such respect for Pinkerton's history and reputation. I was so proud to be a Pinkerton. I felt I just had to report what I knew. But I feared the power of the people running the great and famous agency at the time.

 

What if they sue me?

 

Frank Shoofey told me this: "Anyone can sue anyone for anything. But it they sue you, I will defend you for free." And I breathed a sigh of relief. There was someone who would defend me if I told the truth !

 

When I brought the still half-drunk supervisor up before the president of Pinkerton Quebec in Montreal - virtually by the scruff of his neck - Paul St. Amour said, "I know what he is doing. And you know what he is doing. But he keeps the books in the black. New York won't let me do anything about him."

 

After discussing this with Frank Shoofey, I suffered over this problem for many months. I was afraid. Pinkerton detectives carry guns. But finally, I reported the supervisors at Pinkerton Montreal in a minutely detailed letter to head office in New York.

 

Quite some time later, I received a letter from a supervisor at the New York office - a man who signed almost the identical name to the man I had reported  - saying Pinkerton was "sad and surprised" and Pinkerton would investigate. A strange coincidence, I thought. Of course, they did nothing.

 

I feared I might meet a dark end in a dark alley somewhere if I went any further. So I ended it there. But I did tell the truth and, in time, the fear faded and I came to no harm.

 

And Frank Shoofey?  It seems he must have helped people who other people didn't want helped. He was murdered.

 

It is not always easy to tell the truth. If it were easy, everyone would tell the truth all the time. But being truthful is the only way a person can stand eye to eye with the enemy and breathe freely.

 

The reader will find nothing but the truth at -

 

PHYLLIS CARTER'S JOURNAL
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com

 

and at

 

THE DAWN MCSWEENEY ROBBERY CASE
http://dawnmcsweeney.blogspot.com

 

Worth repeating: First published at

http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/truth-about-truth-it-isnt-easy_02.html

 

 

ANYWAY - PEOPLE ARE ILLOGICAL, UNREASONABLE AND SELF-CENTERED ...

 

 

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable,

and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good,

people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful,

you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women

with the biggest ideas

 can be shot down by the smallest men and women

with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building

may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help

but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have

 and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

 

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