Sandra Finley

2004-12-14 Mercury is Not Vitamin “M”, Prison Planet

 Mercury poisoning, dental amalgams. See also Vaccinations., Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Nov 252017
 

(contains names of researchers on mercury)

https://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2004/141204notvitaminm.htm

by Dr. Wm. Deagle MD

 

Dr. Murray Vimy DDS, Ph.D. Dental Pathology & Toxicology asked me to calculate the total body burden of mercury in patients based on inhaled vapors of mercury produced by chewing gum on the facets of mercury silver amalgams. The equipment we utilized was a part per million mercury vapor meter and a micro-voltmeter to measure the voltages across amalgam filling with two “mercury-silver” or three “gold” crowns etc. anywhere else in the mouth. Differential oxidation of the metals creates a relative potential difference and thus a voltage. As well the tooth amalgam interface acted as a piezoelectric battery that would generate more voltage under the compression of chewing. We easily demonstrated increased amalgam voltages and many parts per million mercury vapors after chewing for 10 to 15 minutes standard chewing gum. Dr. Vimy had read the groundbreaking work of a German Dentist and Inorganic Materials Chemist during WWII. His research proved the toxicity of mercury in living systems and questioned the use in the common Dental Amalgams that had been invented more than a century before in France. This report fell on deaf ears, due to the rise of the Nazi German Reich, even though he had trained many leading British and American Dentists on Dental Metallurgy, and they had respected his work in the thirties before the war. It was our goal to establish that mercury vapor was released in toxic level by chewing. Murray asked me to calculate the expected body burden based on dispersion equations and prior research. My study of the toxicology of mercury brought me to the calculation equations from many studies including the WHO in Geneva. When we plugged out expected vapor concentrations and body mass into the equations, we quickly became alarmed that they exceeded internationally recognized limits for mercury toxicity.

As you may or may know, when a doctor had an old style mercury blood pressure manometer break, the resulting cleanup required men in space-sealed separate Scott air-pack suits with micro-vacuum devices for picking up the ‘quicksilver’ liquid metallic mercury. Forty years ago classroom science instructors played with this material, and student often had it on their desks, as I did in grade two in our private school. Obviously the toxicity of mercury was not common knowledge in the mid-sixties.

Dr. Murray Vimy went on to complete his masters and doctorate in Dental Toxicology and Pathology. Many dentists in the US, Canada and other nations have met terrible opposition from their licensing authorities, and many lost their licenses for removal of amalgams. Things have turned around in the last decade, notably at the University of Calgary, where I did my first research with Dr. Vimy and their medical department has demonstrated neurotoxic effects on the nerve tubulin protein assembly as the growth cone end of developing nerves. Mercury bind to the tubulin preventing it from snapping together end to end, leaving the end of the nerve unable to grow, with degeneration and nerve death resulting. This process prevents new nerve connections and the developing brain is most sensitive to these changes.

A video clip is available on Alex Jones website and I have attached the links in the latter part of attached references to the U of Calgary pathology video-presentation with graphics and electron microscopy of the effects of mercury on developing neurons.
http://movies.common.ucalgary.ca/mercury.

The GTP binding of mercury is just one of the terrible things that happens. It floods neurons and the supporting glia or ‘glue’ cells around neurons that nourish nerve cells with free radicals, excess Calcium and induces brain cell programmed death called ‘apoptosis’. It depletes the Glutathione in nerves, which removes the peroxinitryl radical, the most dangerous radical and the probable source of brain damage in Alzheimer’s brain cell death and neurofibillary tangles and amyloid deposits that gum up nerve cell function.

There are several forms of mercury from inorganic mercury vapor resulting from tooth amalgam surface production, after chewing. Many dentists still give these amalgams, and should become informed that combined with other sources such as vaccinations, transoceanic microparticle dust from North Africa, and the Far East, and ground water and food contamination, the developing nervous system is particular vulnerable. Substitute materials should be used as the new ceramic materials are more cosmetically pleasing and do not have mercury or other heavy metal toxins in their structure. No dentist in America, Canada or the Western world should use mercury or be disciplined for removal of this environmental hazard that has for centuries been placed in our unsuspecting mouths.

The vaccine form of mercury is ethyl mercury salicylate, and is even more toxic and removed slower from the body than methyl mercury. With the number of vaccinations now eighteen to twenty plus, children before school entry have had a total load of mercury that by itself exceeds the total accepted by all major bodies, including the World Health Organization and the American Academy of Pediatrics. An astute pediatrician in the mid-90s did some calculations on the amount of ethyl mercury in the multiplying vaccinations and was alarmed by the totals she arrived at exceeding toxic limits. With calls in the 90s by the FDA to check for heavy metal toxicity in all medicines, the vaccinations were under scrutiny. As you can see from the spectrum of abstracts in the reference section, Dental Schools here and overseas, vaccine manufacturers, and doctors regulatory and educations bodies have tried to stem the tide of vaccination refusals by parents concerned with the autism and neurodegenerative links with mercury. Dr. Ball of the FDA called for the removal from all vaccinations. Has this happened? No, they are tapering. Strange way to taper, when many of the vaccinations, including the MMR and flu, as well as many of the hepatitis vaccinations are laced with higher concentrations that a decade ago. Current stocks and timetables for removal of all mercury from vaccinations has met stubborn persistence of the addition of Aluminum based preservatives, with some mercury in some vaccinations. Only a few have totally eliminated mercury from single dose vaccinations such as the hepatitis vaccination.

The research at the University of Calgary is conclusive. Mercury is not Vitamin M. It prevents the nerve growth cone from advancing leaving nerve ending stripped and degenerating, and causes nerve cell death or apoptosis. This is a travesty in this day and age of advanced dental pathology, neurotoxicology and Immunotoxicology. My colleague Dr. Ari Vojdani has proven with Federal Certified testing that mercury causes anti-nerve protein antibodies, and makes your immune system attach your brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerves. He was the director of Immunology Research at UCLA for years and now runs the top immunology clinical lab in America, ImmunoSciences of Beverly Hills, Calif. . The mountain of evidence now cannot be disputed.

Lets not just stop with vaccinations and dental exposure. What about food, water, and air. Dr. Shinn Ph.D., USGS, US Geological Survey scientist presented in October 2001 satellite photos to our American Academy of Environmental Medicine, showing African dust spreading microparticulates across the South Atlantic jet stream to North America and from Asia to the North Western US. There are estimated to be upward of 100 million tons per month striking the Gulf of Mexico and dumping over Southern States and South Eastern seaboard states. These contain fungi such as Aspergillus that is destroying the coral reefs, but also bacteria, and more importantly mercury and toxic pesticides not allowed in American farming. The particles contain 1,000 to 10,000 times the toxic limits by weight as American soils, and are readily carried into our lungs to disperse methyl mercury and inorganic mercury that is toxic to our nervous and immune systems.

Let me repeat “Mercury” is everywhere. Lets get the toxin out of all vaccinations NOW! Lets test challenge test levels as we do for lead in our children in our cities. You must challenge the body with chelators sometimes for days to have the mercury displaced into stool or urine. Otherwise it is so toxic the body will remove it and sequester it to protect our immune and nerve biochemistry from toxic free radicals and death. There is no more discussion on the science of mercury toxicity. It is over. Anyone who says otherwise is a quack and a medical sociopath or political criminal.

Dr. William Shaw heads up Great Plains Laboratory in Lenexa, Kansas. He was the director of the University of Washington Inborn Errors of Metabolism research team for years, and had done many years of research on laboratory diagnosis of the metallothionine protein and organic acid changes from mercury inducing autism. These patterns are easily identified and his laboratory findings are highly recommended for initial testing besides neuropsychological evaluation with a professional in autism. Periodic stool testing for mercury and other heavy metals with oral or intravenous chelating is done at Doctors Data in Chicago or other toxicology Labs such as the Federally certified Accu Chem Labs in Dallas, Tx. This is a ‘molecular holocaust’, and make no mistake, if it is not delt with the rising incidence of neurodevelopment disorders from 1 in 25,000 more than a decade ago to 1 in several hundred of autism alone is frightening to the informed.

Summary:

Mercury is not Vitamin M.
Vaccinations should not have ethyl mercury salicylate, PERIOD.
Mercury damages developing human and animal brains, and we can see the retraction of developing nerve growth cones, and the brain cell death that results.

The environment sources of mercury include amalgams, food, air and water. Jets stream dust is a national disaster, and must be delt with on international levels. Our children breathe in garbage burned in the third world.

Drink filtered water, especially for children.

Test for heavy metal toxicity early and push for regular screening as many states do for Lead testing to prevent IQ damage, and neurobehavioral disorders.

Dr. D. Says “If we do not heed my warnings, investing in Alzheimer’s units and prisons.”

God Help Us from this “molecular holocaust”.

2017-11-24 Earthquake Risk Keeps Heat on Vulnerable Nuclear Reactors, truthdig, by Harvey Wasserman

 Nuclear  1 Response »
Nov 252017
 

 

Canadians defeated nuclear reactors in Alberta, then in Saskatchewan, in this new century.  Economic arguments easily won the day – citizens were horrified when they understood how much they would be paying for a kilowatt of electricity.  And you pay forever (radioactive waste is still unresolved after more than half a century).

Some people in the nuclear industry get rich on fat salaries, but it ain’t you.

I am grateful it’s not me in California, when I read the Diablo Canyon situation.  Reactors sitting on a fault line – – sound familiar?     It’s easy for me to help a little – – myself at the same time. . . .  Awareness is the best insurance that “the judge’s” direction will be followed.  All we have to do is circulate the article.   Otherwise we get another Fukishima;  radioactive particles don’t stop at the 49th parallel.  They even cross oceans.

I wish to sound a chorus of gratitude to the amazing mobilizations of people (a small number, really)  on the Canadian Prairies

who prevented more nuclear reactors from being constructed in Canada. 

There are Canadians who don’t know how fortunate they are!

Read on . . .  Diablo Canyon

 

 

 

Diablo Canyon power plant in California. (Wikimedia Commons)

WITH THANKS TO HARVEY WASSERMAN

A proposal by a California administrative law judge has given safe energy advocates new hope that two Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors will be shut before an earthquake on the San Andreas fault turns them to rubble, potentially threatening millions of people.

The huge reactors—California’s last—sit on a bluff above the Pacific, west of San Luis Obispo, among a dozen earthquake faults. They operate just 45 miles from the San Andreas. That’s half the distance from the fault that destroyed four reactors in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. Diablo’s wind-blown emissions could irradiate the Los Angeles megalopolis in less than six hours if an earthquake destroyed the plant.

The death toll could be in the millions, the property damage in the trillions of dollars. The owner of the plant, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), would not be legally liable.

Last year, a deal to shut down Diablo’s two reactors in 2024 and 2025 was struck by the state, PG&E, surrounding communities and some environmental groups. Diablo’s federal licenses expire in those years, and PG&E agreed not to seek renewals. The power, it said, could be replaced with wind turbines and solar panels.

But the $1.7 billion in rate hikes stipulated in the deal still must be approved by California’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC). A proposed decision by administrative law Judge Peter Allen would limit them to less than $200 million.

The PUC must now factor Allen’s decision into how much it allows PG&E to charge. If it honors Allen’s opinion, the company must then decide whether it will continue to operate the reactors, which increasingly look like money losers.

The company’s standing is not exactly sterling. Massive fires that swept through Northern California in October killed at least 43 people, turning some 5,700 structures and whole forests, rural communities and parts of Santa Rosa into smoldering ash (the Trump administration has just omitted from its latest budget any federal aid to the region).

The San Jose Mercury News has speculated that PG&E may have been responsible for the conflagration by failing to maintain power lines that were blown over in a windstorm. Local fire departments were already complaining that trees and underbrush were being sparked by poles and wires PG&E had failed to maintain, though maintenance is required by law.

PG&E now faces a firestorm of lawsuits that could soar well into the billions. Criminal prosecution is also possible.

In 2010, a fire killed eight people and torched an upscale San Bruno neighborhood. The cause was badly maintained gas lines—for which PG&E had been cited repeatedly. Fines exceeded $1.4 billion, but criminal prosecution remains unresolved.

Other costly lapses have plagued PG&E through the years. Some involve Diablo itself, which opened in the mid-1980s amid America’s biggest “No Nukes” civil disobedience campaign, involving thousands of arrests.

Linda Seeley of San Luis Obispo’s Mothers for Peace says the company faces impossible hurdles in dealing with its thousands of tons of radioactive waste. In addition, she notes, “Many very expensive components in the two reactors must be replaced far before the proposed 2024-5 shutdown dates. Our concern is that PG&E may try to sneak through without paying to maintain the reactors even at basic safety levels.”

Michael Peck, a former Nuclear Regulatory Commission in-house inspector at Diablo, has warned that the reactors cannot survive a major earthquake and should close immediately. He has since been transferred to Chattanooga, Tenn.

“Diablo may no longer be profitable,” Seeley has said on my “California Solartopia” show on radio station KPFK. “The cost of wind and solar has dropped so fast it may not pay PG&E to run those plants anymore, even without doing the basic maintenance.”

Because much of Diablo’s aging workforce is retiring or looking elsewhere for job security, PG&E wants subsidies to retain skilled staff to run the place. Judge Allen specifically rejected much of the rate hike designed to meet that crisis.

California’s State Lands Commission is being sued by the World Business Academy, a Santa Barbara think tank, over key leases granted in the 1970s. The commission granted PG&E a waiver on conducting legally required environmental impact statements (gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom was among those who voted in favor). Should the business academy win its suit, or should the PUC honor Allen’s decision, and PG&E alter its timetable, those leases might be revisited. Without them, Diablo would almost certainly be forced to shut.

Challenges have also been raised over approval by the California Coastal Commission of Diablo’s cooling system.

Seeley and other activists have asked the public to pressure the PUC, state agencies and politicians like Newsom to shut Diablo sooner rather than later.

“Until they can specify the exact date and time the San Andreas and those other faults will go off,” Seeley said in a recent phone interview, “nobody should feel safe.”

 

Harvey Wasserman’s “Solartopia!” is at www.solartopia.org. He hosts prn.fm’s “Green Power & Wellness Show,” and KPFK-Pacifica’s “California Solartopia.”

2017-11-23 Re: the link between mercury fillings and Alzheimer’s Disease.

 Mercury poisoning, dental amalgams. See also Vaccinations.  No Responses »
Nov 232017
 

Earlier, we shared information on the link between mercury and Alzheimer’s Disease / dementia.

I want to

  • add  a short video with Boyd Haley (#1 below);
  • remind myself about #2, another informative video.
  • add a 2-minute CBC News report on the actions of Dr. Murray Vimy (Calgary researcher retired, World Health Organization consultant, etc.).
  • And before I forget about it,  post a record of the 1998 class action lawsuit attempt against mercury fillings.  8,000 Canadians signed up.

 

  1.   (6 minutes, 45 seconds): Boyd Haley PhD publishes studies linking mercury and Alzheimer’s disease

In the youtube, Boyd Haley mentions the “Calgary researchers” with whom he worked.   Who are they? . . .    Dr.  Murray Vimy (see #3) and Dr. Fritz Lorscheider.

2.    (11 minutes)  2010-01-20  Mercury: Excellent Video “Poison in the Mouth”. Includes Dr. Lars Friberg.

3.    (2 minutes)  2011-08-18   CBC News re Dr. Murray Vimy, Health Canada panel on the safety of mercury fillings.     More on Dr. Vimy at  The attempted class action lawsuit against mercury fillings, 1998, Canada. )

Also, from

2010-12-06 Accumulated, on mercury poisoning. Vaccinations & dental amalgams. Did the European countries that banned dental amalgams made with mercury bow to uninformed public pressure or to sound science?

  . . .   (dr kennedy filmed, produced and directed the smoking teeth video in association w/ the IAOMT, funded by a grant from The Preventive Dental Health Association of San Diego, California. he contacted dr. boyd haley (one of america’s top leading mercury scientists and chemists), Dr. Murray Vimy, DDS, a dentist and professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (author of Tooth Traitors), Dr. Roger Eichman, DDS (the dr who demonstated the mercury vapor release in the smoking teeth video at the IAOMT Symposium 2000 in Oxford England). dr kennedy cooberated w/ them to write a rebuttle to dr laidler’s misinformation).

REBUTTAL:

Quackbuster’s Analysis Fails Scientific Scrutiny:

Opinions of: Vimy, M.J., Haley, B.E., Eichman, R. and Kennedy, D.C. (2006)

4.    This book came up on a google search to find the researchers in Calgary:   Healing and Wholeness: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Mental Health

By Randi Fredricks.   (Page 397)    (AD = Alzheimer’s Disease)  (The numbers are footnote numbers – active links are in the original)
Mercury and Alzheimer’s
Higher mercury concentrations have been detected in brain regions and blood of patients with AD.  (206, 207)   Moreover, scientists have determined that trace amounts of mercury can cause the type of nerve damage found in AD.  (208)   The level of mercury exposure used in tests has been well below those detected in many people with mercury/silver amalgam dental fillings. 
Researchers at the University of Calgary observed that exposure to mercury caused the formation of neurofibrillar tangles,  one of the diagnostic markers for AD. 
(INSERT:  I think that is what the two videos (#1 and #2 above) are saying, too)
Other research has shown that mercury can cause formation of another AD marker, amyloid plaques.   the researchers included a DVD presentation with their report, showing the effects of mercury on the brain.  . . .  etc
In 2012 I made one unsuccessful attempt to contact the lead researcher quoted in an article about the amyloid plaques,  Karen Duff, with a fundamental question re the amyloid plaques – – –  see

2016-08 The attempted class action lawsuit against mercury fillings, 1998, Canada. 8,000 signatories. Also Dr. Vimy, the U of Calgary researcher on mercury fillings. Sheep and monkeys.

 Mercury poisoning, dental amalgams. See also Vaccinations.  No Responses »
Nov 232017
 

 

 

This woman, Susan, from Vancouver is my age.  She was diagnosed with MS many years ago.   Life is difficult for her.  She is knowledgeable, and determined;  she pitched in on the 1998 class action lawsuit attempt over mercury in dental amalgams (I had not heard about the lawsuit).  She wants to help out again, now, on days when the MS doesn’t have the upper hand.

She found material on my blog re mercury and got in touch.

What Susan knows should not be lost.   Here it is.

 

EMAIL EXCHANGE, edited for brevity.

Sent:  August 15, 2016
Subject: Re: Getting rid of mercury

Hi again Sandra,

I thought I should tell you about the book lent to patients at the mercury-free dentist office here in Burnaby.  The book is about 1/4 inch thick, called “Your Toxic Teeth” by Dr. Murray Vimy, D.M.D.  He had been a dentist in Calgary and observed the bad effects of amalgam fillings, did much mercury research with humans as well as sheep and noticed particularly that mercury carries on to the unborn feotus in the mother’s womb causing the unborn child/lamb to be mercury poisoned before birth.  Check out his website – it’s got all sorts of interesting things on it. . . .

(INSERT:   I have not found Dr. Vimy’s website, but have posted articles that tell of his work.  Put “Vimy” into the “Search” at top right of my blog, to find them.)

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Sent: August 16, 2016
Subject: Re: Getting rid of mercury

Hi again Sandra,

I actually have a diet I got from an old naturopath in 1976, the first year we lived in Vancouver  . . .   I went to a couple of medical doctors with 0 result and after my Mom made some inquiries, had an appointment with an old naturopath, Dr. Fred Loffler.   He was actually a legend and always had an answer (that worked) for every question I asked.  He stopped practicing probably In the ’90’s but I got help from him about my kids – on his advice I didn’t get them vaccinated and never regretted that decision.  I think the recipe for autism is mercury-poisoned mother gives birth to baby and has baby vaccinated and voila – baby turns out autistic.  Dr. Loffler advised us to feed the dogs as we fed ourselves and we had the healthiest dogs and paid 0 vet bills.

I continue to eat according to Dr. Loffler’s diet as it always worked for me.  According to him, all you have to do is stay on it 80% of the time and you will be healthy.  We have Fridays as our pizza, pop and ice cream nights but try to eat properly during the rest of the week and things have been not bad except for the mercury poisoning of course that doesn’t go away.

The law firm I emailed to last week phoned today and stated that she would speak with her co-workers as to joining a class action lawsuit or whatever and will get back to me later in the week.  That sounds like a good thing as I have no other thoughts on how to proceed.  A class action lawsuit will send a definite message to our mercury-loving government officials who don’t care if we live or die that they should have never allowed amalgam fillings to be installed in peoples’ teeth!!!!! when they absolutely knew better.

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Sent: August 16, 2016

Subject:  RE: Getting rid of mercury

Hey Susan,

I didn’t recall that what I call “the smoking tooth video” is the work of Vimy.   Grant reminded me:

Dr. Murray Vimy was one of the first people I discovered 6 years ago when I was so ill with mercury poisoning. I tried to get my sister in Calgary
(INSERT:  a doctor)  to contact him on my behalf but she would not.  He produced the famous smoking tooth video.

How is this lady (INSERT:  Susan) doing with her amalgam removal & detox? I have another friend who fairly recently removed her amalgam & changed her diet radically like me (age 45).  All the numb spots on her body (was doctoring for it & very worried) are gone!   . . .

(INSERT,  Dec 31, 2017

Also, from

2010-12-06 Accumulated, on mercury poisoning. Vaccinations & dental amalgams. Did the European countries that banned dental amalgams made with mercury bow to uninformed public pressure or to sound science?

  . . .   (dr kennedy filmed, produced and directed the smoking teeth video in association w/ the IAOMT, funded by a grant from The Preventive Dental Health Association of San Diego, California. he contacted dr. boyd haley (one of america’s top leading mercury scientists and chemists), Dr. Murray Vimy, DDS, a dentist and professor of endocrinology and metabolism at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (author of Tooth Traitors), Dr. Roger Eichman, DDS (the dr who demonstated the mercury vapor release in the smoking teeth video at the IAOMT Symposium 2000 in Oxford England). dr kennedy cooberated w/ them to write a rebuttle to dr laidler’s misinformation).

REBUTTAL:

Quackbuster’s Analysis Fails Scientific Scrutiny:

Opinions of: Vimy, M.J., Haley, B.E., Eichman, R. and Kennedy, D.C. (2006)    . . .

I was happy to read from you that you have nobility  (INSERT:  Freudian slip:  I meant to say mobility)

I still have to go out for my daily walk.  I have been going to a Chinese therapeutic massage lady to get me back to normal, whatever that is, and she recommends walking every day (which I have always done in the past).

You will notice that Grant inquired about how you are doing.   If it might be helpful,  I can ask him to send you his dietary recommendations.   It is a long road to getting all the mercury out of its storage places in the body.   It is helpful to know the experience of others.

Grant and his wife Gail have both used blood tests for mercury to help assess where they’re at.   They know what’s high, what’s low,  and the limitations of the blood readings.  Gail had had terrible migraines in her pre-removal days.   Removal brought the reading down, as expected.   The migraines stopped which was a personality-changing time for her.  Still some headaches.   I talked with Grant a couple weeks ago.   Gail’s headaches had increased.   She had another blood test.   The mercury reading was at 14, quite high and way above what it had been brought down to in the previous years.   Their understanding is that her body had stabilized after the removal of the amalgams.   But, as in the literature,  she is now in a stage where there is another dumping of mercury.   She expects to go through this and come out the other side being further cleansed, so to speak.

I think if you understand the cycles, it helps you not to give up.   Mind you,  you did chelation.   Grant and Gail did not.  Some of the literature recommends against it because it can mobilize a lot of mercury in the body all at once.  The large load can do damage.  That school of thought recommends to let your body do it, at its own pace, but with support.

Anyhow – – more on that another day, should you wish,  and better to come from someone else, not me.

 

. . .   The thing I want to talk with them about is motivated by you:   we should have an understanding (strategy) that is spelt out.  So we are pulling together in the same direction and know WHY we’re doing it a chosen way.   Not that we all need to do the same thing.  Grant focuses on helping individual people, when and as he can.    I am pretty well tied-up in other activist matters.   But have an email network and blog; I occasionally send out more information re the mercury issue.   And take actions here and there as opportunities present themselves.

A question I think we need to answer:   should a class action lawsuit be recommended?   What happened to the initiative in Alberta?    Is the liability issue, for the Government Health Depts and for the Dental Industry so huge that liability will never be acknowledged?    At one point I think we (or was it “I”?!)  decided that the route that would bear actual results would be:

  •  Sharing the information to create an informed body of people (critical mass).
  • Simultaneously using the UN Treaty on Mercury to bring pressure on the dental colleges to stop the insertion of MORE mercury fillings.
  • Conversations with the institutions that certify Dental Hygienists to emphasize the health risks to these women
  •  Which leaves individual older dentists who refuse to change their ways, as the culprits.
  • Dental Colleges (some or all?) run clinics in which dental students develop their craft.  People who can’tafford to pay dentists qualify as “the patients”.   A young female friend who is a law student went for a filling last year.   She didn’t know about mercury fillings. That’s what they filled her tooth with.   (The College has received information about the UN Treaty, etc..  Information makes no difference.  They dismiss it as crazy people who don’t know the science.)   A fellow who came to the Mercury Jamboree is First Nations.  The Clinic at the Dental College serves many First Nations people.  They all get mercury fillings.

Anyhow – – that is more than enough to work on!   We need to be persistent and patient.   But there are limits to my patience.

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Sent:   August 16, 2016
Subject: Re: Getting rid of mercury

Hi Sandra,

This is a P.S. to my earlier email.  I think Dr. Vimy retired several years ago but of course is still active in anti-mercury pursuits.

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Sent:  Tuesday, August 16, 2016

To: Susan

Subject:  RE: Getting rid of mercury

Did you see:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HavLXo_0Xpk ?

CBC, 2011.  Vimy – – well-spoken

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From: Sandra
Sent: August 16, 2016
To: Dave
Cc: Grant
Subject: Question re Mercury fillings

Hi Dave,

Maybe just “yes” or “no” reply  – – no rush.

Why I called:

QUESTION (perennial):   is there information that should be shared, would be helpful, in event that law suit over mercury fillings is pursued?

(I don’t want to pre-judge the likelihood that a suit would ever be launched in Canada;  it’s come up again.)

 

Has anything changed?   Is the liability issue, for the Government Health Depts and for the Dental Industry so huge that liability will never be acknowledged?      (Is that what we decided before?)

A woman Susan my age from Calgary & now Vancouver  who has MS is incensed about the mercury fillings and vaccinations.  Has done a lot of research.

She talked with a Vanc Law Firm:

The law firm I emailed to last week phoned today and stated that she would speak with her co-workers as to joining a class action lawsuit or whatever and will get back to me later in the week.  That sounds like a good thing as I have no other thoughts on how to proceed.  A class action lawsuit will send a definite message to our mercury-loving government officials who don’t care if we live or die that they should have never allowed amalgam fillings to be installed in peoples’ teeth!!!!! when they absolutely knew better.     Susan

She is conversant with Vimy’s work.  Among other things:

I think Dr. Vimy retired several years ago but of course is still active in anti-mercury pursuits.

Do you know Vimy and his status?

The latest I found on him is 2011:   CBC, he’s well-spoken.  Short, good interview.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HavLXo_0Xpk

On-line contact phone numbers are no longer in service.

I like to support and encourage, as much as possible, anyone like Susan who is fired up.  She will help to create awareness among the women in the Law Firm, even if a lawsuit is not pursued.

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Sent: August 17, 2016

From:  Susan
Subject: Re: Getting rid of mercury

Thanks Sandra for the video.  I did see it years ago.  It got a lot of exposure with 60 Minutes, etc. but all the flak died off.  I guess we’ll have to get it happening again.  We’re got a mission!

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Sent:  August 18, 2016

Subject:  RE: Getting rid of mercury

Yes – – “all the flak died off”.   It happens over and over again through the decades.

And yes  “We’ve got a mission!”

With good news!    Dave sent an update on their part of the mission.    They are still hard at it.  I’ll ask him for permission to post and circulate the update he sent.

I had asked him if he knows anything about Vimy’s current status – – I couldn’t find anything more current online than the 2011 video.  His reply:

I talked to Murray Vimy briefly at an IAOMT meeting about 2 or three years ago….. he isn’t doing too much now.

Sometimes people need time out to recharge and re-assess.   Doesn’t mean that they won’t have some contribution to make, big or small,  at some future date.  Maybe Vimy has passed the baton on mercury fillings to others, but maybe not entirely.   (I don’t like to lose track of ANY allies, especially who have the background and presence that Vimy has.   There might be a time when they should receive their kudos for their efforts, hard work and contributions, or make another brief appearance.

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Sent: August 18, 2016
Subject: Re: Getting rid of mercury

Hi again Sandra,

I got an email from the law firm I emailed to last week and they have declined the case.  It’s massive when you go up against the Feds and they may have other cases that would make it tough to act on this case.  No worries as that’s just one law firm.  She did give me the number of the Law Society to choose another law firm.  Maybe I’ll stick just with you guys at least for the time being.

When I was at the mercury-free dentist’s office last week and told him I wanted to be involved in a class action law suit against amalgams, he referred me to the www.IAOMT website so I briefly checked it out and went on the internet to find the law firm that I emailed with.

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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016

Subject: Dave’s input posted. Also quoted you. Please review.

 

Hi Susan,

Dave ok’d posting of his input.   I think you (and potentially the lawyers in terms of making a decision re lawsuit)  will find it helpful.

Click on   2016-08-18 Update, research on Mercury fillings (aka Dental amalgam or “silver” fillings – ha!)

You will see a link to  Letter I sent to Health Insurance Companies in 2012- – they have a financial interest in seeing that Claims come down.   Most responded quite well to my overture.   They are the kind of people that will work hard behind the scenes to help drive the change because of the  $$$  it’s costing them.  But they won’t want to be quoted in the newspapers or by us.  I just give them the info and leave it to them.

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Sent: August 19, 2016

Subject: Re: Dave’s input posted. Also quoted you. Please review.

Hi again Sandra,

The law firm phoned yesterday and turned the matter down.  It would be really BIG, HUGE to sue the Government of Canada although lots of law firms do but this amalgam thing is like “sacred ground” as it’s been a secret for so long and would cause shock waves in every area.  The law firm did give me the phone number for the Law Society to get numbers of other law firms who may be interested in taking the case.  I haven’t started that process yet as I’ve been an Olympic junkie and was happy to see the Canadian ladies’ soccer team whip Brazil ladies.

Good for Dave that he’s being “visible”.  I don’t know what blogging is all about as I am a mercury brain bozo but that may be the way to proceed.  I spun my wheels for many years writing letters to the Federal Government like we were taught to do in Grade 5 if we wanted something changed that was within their powers.  I’m sure the Harper government which didn’t do anything for anybody that they didn’t have to, had many a good laugh over the letters.  I actually wrote the letters to our MP, Peter Julian, who isn’t our MP anymore but I know he presented them in the House of Commons but with no support, it died a natural death.   I even sent Prime Minister Harper, the Health Minister at the time (whoever it was), and Peter Julian copies of Dr. Vimy’s book, Your Toxic Teeth, in the event they hadn’t read it.  It only cost a couple of bucks because anything you send your MP goes postage free.  (INSERT:   no, mailing BOOKS is not covered.  They go into some sinkhole, somewhere;  they are not delivered to the MPs.  As was discovered by a gentleman who bought $8,000 worth of “Beyond Banksters“.  MPs fudged their way through it.  They did not say to him, “No, we did not receive.  Books do not get delivered.”)    I got the odd letter by return for my correspondence giving the same old response the Federal Government had been churning out for all these years.  That was a total waste of time.

My girlfriend in Edmonton is dying of cancer.  I sent my other girlfriend in Edmonton a copy of Dr. Vimy’s book, Your Toxic Teeth, years ago but I guess they figured that it only applied to me as I know they didn’t do anything about their amalgam fillings.  To my knowledge, the only people that paid any attention to the book were our former pastors at the Salvation Army whose oldest daughter was diagnosed with Chrone’s disease.  That was probably because they also consulted a nutritionist at about the same time as I lent them the book who absolutely knew about the toxicity of amalgam fillings as mercury really does a number on the digestive system.

Enough for now,

Susan

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Sent: August 19, 2016

To:‘Susan  Cc: Grant

Subject:  Getting rid of mercury Should lawsuit be pursued?

Thanks for the update, Susan.   (Vanc law firm declined the case).

Re  Maybe I’ll stick just with you guys at least for the time being.

That would be fine, of course!

Re   Class Action Lawsuit

Yes, in your words  –  It’s massive when you go up against the Feds.

But it might not be them that would be the target.  Could be dental associations, or other.  The selection of WHO would be a strategic decision.

Just in case  you want to explore it further:

The Merchant Law Firm in Regina is well-known across Canada for doing class actions.   I phoned them, just to see whether they might be an option to explore.  You have to be very careful, I think.   They end up with a LOT of money from the class action suits.  Enough that Tony Merchant is among those who use “offshore banking”  (or maybe he is a wise investor?!).   He is notorious,  some people dislike him intensely, because they don’t like that he makes a lot of money from the class actions.  This statement from the Law Firm about itself is worthwhile considering.  They are
very good at what they do,  and they take cases that other lawyers (like the one you consulted) won’t touch:

Merchant Law Group LLP and Tony Merchant, Q.C. are well known for pursuing class action lawsuits in Canada including litigation regarding

Winners/HomeSense, Various Cellular Phone Fees, BCE Dividends, GM Gasket Manifolds, Hip Implants, Lead Paint in Toys (and similar consumer products), Maple Leaf,  Celebrex/Bextra, Vioxx, Sony, Residential Schools and various other cases.

Tony Merchant, Q.C. is known to be one of Canada’s most active litigators with more than 600 reported cases in leading Caselaw Journals, having argued thousands of cases before the Canadian and American Courts, in Trial and Administrative Courts, and the Courts of Appeal of various American and Canadian  jurisdictions, the Federal Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Tony Merchant, Q.C., has a long history in pursuing public policy cases and is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly (M.L.A.)

(toll-free 1-877-359-7777).  While talking with the receptionist, I saw this page on their website – –   you can submit a class-action request from it:     http://www.merchantlaw.com/class-actions

That might be a worthwhile step,  just to get more info to help make a decision.

I was surprised – – there’s a whack of class action suits listed.  Probably a lot of them going nowhere?

I clicked on just one of them, to see what kind of info was there.  It’s where I found the above quote about the firm. I didn’t take time to see if any of the lawsuits are against the amalgam industry, or dental organizations.

The departing word of the receptionist was:   if there is no reply to an on-line submission within a couple weeks,  phone them  (toll-free 1-877-359-7777).  She seemed to prefer:  just talk directly
with one of their lawyers.

You need to know:  I can help in little ways like the preceding.  I can help spread the word, using my networks.   But the available time I have to do more than that is limited.   Just maintaining the blog and working on selected issues more intensely from time-to-time, as opportunities present themselves,  is all I can handle.

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Sent: August 19, 2016
To: Sandra
Subject: Re: Getting rid of amalgam

Hi again,

I know about Tony Merchant and I was in contact with him years ago.  He had just finished litigating the aboriginal claims and made millions of dollars in fees.  Yes, probably all those fees are in offshore accounts.  He wasn’t interested in taking the case at that time but may have different ideas now.  He may be legally barred from taking the case because it has so much damage that will come to Canada.

I think the Fed Government is the proper target as they are the ones who have allowed amalgam fillings in the first place in 1996 admitting that there was a “tiny” amount of mercury in the fillings that didn’t affect the majority of Canadians.  They admitted there was  a “small percentage of the population” who were allergic (I think that’s the way they described it) and then there was a class action lawsuit in 1998 which had 8,000 plaintiffs that likely the Feds paid off and told them to go away quietly.  I honestly don’t know what happened to them.  It might be a good thing to check it out.  We’ll have to keep digging!

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Sent: August 20, 2016
Subject: Re:Getting rid of mercury.   Should lawsuit be pursued?

Hi Sandra,

I just had a good idea.  If you were able to get a hold of one of the 8,000 people who were involved in the class action lawsuit in 1998, why not try to get many of them (I know some would have died of the deadly mercury and old age) and try to get rid of mercury by petition.  I think Norway got rid of it by petition and I think MP Peter Julian offered that method to me years ago and it was useless to me then because I could probably only come up with a handful of people by myself.  What do you think?  That would probably also be cost effective.

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Sent:  August 20, 2016

Subject:  RE:  Getting rid of mercury Should lawsuit be pursued?

I really like your idea, Susan.

Kathryn Corbeil might be interested in trying to track down Wayne Obie, the fellow who spear-headed the 1998 Lawsuit.   See if he might have the list of 8,000.

It’s a question I’d like to put to the lawyer, if were to come up empty-handed on Obie – – any chance he might have an old file with the names?

(INSERT:  the story of Wayne Obie’s fight in Ontario over mercury amalgams is a truly tragic one.  Through phone conversations with Susan who helped out in his small rented office along with others, and through attempted inquiries to see if the file of 8,000 names Wayne Obie assembled, of people who were badly damaged by mercury fillings, could be found,  I heard the story.)

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Subject: Re: Giving amalgam fillings the BOOT

SENT:  Aug 22. 2016

Hi again Sandra,

That could be a great idea.  I was thinking that we might be able to get this thing done through our M.P.’s, but maybe not since my MP is NDP, Kennedy Stewart.   They changed the electoral boundaries a few years ago otherwise we would still have Peter Julian who was somewhat up to speed on getting rid of amalgam fillings/mercury.  I haven’t been in contact with Kennedy Stewart as yet but he may only be an email away.   I’ll get right on that.

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Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016

To:‘Susan

Subject: RE: Giving amalgam fillings the BOOT

I emailed the 1998 Class Action Lawyer, Himelfarb, and Kathryn Corbeil this morning re possibility of finding names from 1998 lawsuit attempt.

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Sent: 24 Aug 2016
Subject: Re: Giving amalgam fillings the BOOT

Hi again Sandra,

I emailed our MP on Monday and also called him on the phone yesterday but have heard nothing back .  You’d think this was summer holidays or something!  Who is your MP?  We might be
able get something going with the 2 MPs.  I sure hope something comes of this as many people have died of that garbage since I first found out the “dirty little secret” 10 years ago.  This is a dirty job but somebody’s godda do it!

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Sent: January 13, 2017
Subject: Re Mercury: Have you been watching the Vaccination series, relationship to disease, Autism etc ??

 

Thanks Sandra for the link to the video.

Were you not able to get the list of names of the original 8,000 Plaintiffs in the original class action lawsuit?  That was probably a hard request to fill with privacy concerns and all.  I look forward to future anti-mercury dealings in whatever form.

Nice talking to you again.  I’ll make sure we stay in touch.

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Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017

To:  Susan

Subject: RE: RE Mercury: Have you been watching the Vaccination series, relationship to disease, Autism etc ??

 

No – the list of 8,000 names was a “no go”, unfortunately, but to be expected, as you note Susan.

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Sent: January 23, 2017
Subject: Re: RE Mercury: Have you been watching the Vaccination series, relationship to disease, Autism etc ??

 

Hi Sandra,

I wonder how we together could best do a number on Health Canada about amalgam fillings.  I have loaned Dr. Vimy’s book, Your Toxic Teeth, out to many people and I tell everyone I can that my condition of being a cripple is from my former amalgam fillings which were removed 10 years ago.  What legal ways of protest are there? I did notify my MP that I wanted to start a class action lawsuit by petition when I thought it might be possible.  I sure wish it could be.

What’s your thoughts?

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2014-10-14 Youtube, Excellent information, Dr. Suzanne Humphries. On vaccines, disease and health.

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Nov 212017
 

Click on the FULL PART ONE below.

Recommend:   don’t watch all four parts at once.   Take time to digest.

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ASIDE:   You may want to read the bit about  “How are vaccines made?”  in the posting at  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=18218.

It begins:

THAT IS THE QUESTION I HAVE LONG WONDERED ABOUT:

How could vaccine enough for a million babies ALL get contaminated with a pig virus?   I thought maybe the story was a hoax, so went to the manufacturer’s website.   They had posted a response.  The story is not a hoax . . .

Also in the posting,  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is mentioned.   It’s a very good book, true story.  I read it because a Book Club chose it.   It is not directly about vaccines.   But an understanding of THE PROCESS through which Henrietta becomes immortal is transferable;  I think I understand parts of what Dr. Humphries explains – – better  – – because of what I learned from Rebecca Skloot’s book about Henrietta Lacks.

 

Now, over to Dr. Humphries:

2017-11-21 Restoring Public Control of Public Goods: Reconstruction, not “Deconstruction”. A Conference on the privatization of government

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Nov 212017
 
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Global Development And Environment Institute
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Restoring Public Control of Public Goods:
Reconstruction, not “Deconstruction”

Conference October 2017
On October 5-7, researchers, policy makers, and activists gathered for a conference on “Restoring Public Control of Public Goods”, sponsored by GDAE and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). The meeting began with a sharing of information about the nature and extent of government “deconstruction” and privatization. Participants generated ideas for policies and public messaging around the shared goal of reversing the momentum toward privatization and restoring government’s ability to put public interest before private profit.

Learn more about the conference and the Public Economy Project.
Rep. John Sarbanes gave a keynote on “democracy reform” and his efforts to rein in the indiscriminate outsourcing of government services to the private sector and to ensure that core government services are performed by public employees who take an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution.
Dr. Michael A. Bernstein, Provost of Stony Brook University, discussed “Mainstream Economic Reasoning and the ‘Demonization’ of Government.” He argued that economic orthodoxy misleads students and mischaracterizes the manner in which markets actually operate. He stressed the importance of challenging prevailing paradigms, methodologies, and approaches to public policy issues.
June Sekera, GDAE Research Fellow, summarized the history of contracting federal government functions to private corporations, which has created a “crisis of public control”. She argued that “government-for-the-people” has been undermined by market advocates, and replaced with “government-for-private-profit-making.”
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Scott Amey, J.D., General Counsel at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO), spoke about his research on outsourcing government functions, which found that “billions of dollars are wasted on hiring contractors.” The POGO study “Bad Business” found that contractors, on average, cost taxpayers almost twice what it would cost government workers to do the same job.
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Shar Habibi, Research and Policy Director at In The Public Interest, presented findings from a study revealing that much of the public supports “privatization” in concept, but that when people understand how the public loses control, their support decreases.
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Read two papers produced for the conference:

 

Outsourced Government – The Quiet Revolution: Examining the Extent of Government-by-Corporate-Contractor, June Sekera, Global Development and Environment Institute, September 2017

Freedom of Information Act (In)Applicability to Government Contractors, June Sekera, Global Development and Environment Institute, September 2017

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2017-11-17 Fifth Estate fighting corruption, Paradise & Panama Papers

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Nov 172017
 

The Fifth Estate told Canadians to send in their questions about the Paradise Papers.   They will answer the questions on this week’s show.

 

I based my first question on

KPMG takes 15% of the money that they help clients to divert from Revenue Canada  

into offshore tax havens.

 

2017-11-12 Re PARADISE PAPERS, sent to CBC Fifth Estate (Offshore Tax Havens; Panama Papers)

 

It is important to tune in to the Fifth Estate TV show.   Every viewer is counted.   (I don’t know if there will be podcast.)

The message we send if we don’t tune in:  we do not care about the corruption.

It’s a small and easy thing:   more of us watching the footage and gnashing our teeth creates nervousness among the lords.

If we TUNE OUT because of disgust, or because it’s “too much”,  if we do nothing, we can’t expect anything to happen.

We are not victims.  . . .  we are the dragons, had forgotten it, but always knew . . “

 

NOTE:  Canadians for Tax Fairness  created an on-line letter that is easy for you to send to Finance Minister Bill Morneau, and to your MP.  The link to it is near the bottom of the above posting,  look for the word “RELATED” . . .

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re Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses in trade deals

I’ve been keeping an eye out for mainstream news coverage about the ISDS clauses in the trade deals (TPP11 and NAFTA) – – the clauses that create a higher level of law than our own national, provincial and municipal laws.  If laws passed by our Legislators are deemed to interfere with the potential profits of foreign corporations,  we citizens pay millions upon millions of dollars to the claimants, through tribunals that are not even public.

I paid particular attention recently, after reading Andrew Coyne’s political commentary on Trudeau in the Far East for TPP11 negotiations.  Coyne’s analysis made not one mention of ISDS.   And yet,  the number of people around the world who have been protesting and petitioning their Governments about ISDS is over a million.

It is incomprehensible and very troubling that Canadian mainstream media is silent on the matter of Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses in trade deals.

 

Who knows?  Maybe, in the case of Andrew Coyne, it’s related to his attendance at Bilderberg, Bilderberg 2015: 5 Canadians On Guest List, Including Andrew Coyne.   Click on http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/13/bilderberg-2015-guest-list-invited_n_7576766.html ,  or,  I posted a back-up copy of the text on my blog, at http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=20006.

 

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MANY THANKS TO ELAINE, if you want to learn more about the TRADE DEALS:

[  https://canadians.org/trade  ]

 

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WITH THANKS TO HART, petition to stop dumping of  2.3 million litres of a highly toxic pesticide into the Ocean.  Dec 1 deadline for signing:

https://actions.sumofus.org/a/minister-heyman-say-no-to-cermaq-s-pesticide-permit?sp_ref=353945747.99.184462.f.591827.2&source=fb

In just two weeks BC will decide the fate of the waters of Clayoquot Sound, a UNESCO biosphere reserve. Industrial salmon farming giant Cermaq, has put in an application to use 2.3 million litres of a highly toxic pesticide off the coast of Vancouver Island to treat farmed salmon for sea lice.  

Farmed salmon are plagued by sea lice because of unhealthy and overcrowded conditions. Corporations like Cermaq are using ever more extreme methods to control the sea lice, threatening the marine environment and the livelihoods of communities who depend on it. 

Environment Minister George Heyman has the power to stop the application and protect Clayoquot Sound from Cermaq’s greedy practices. He needs to hear from us before December 1, when he is expected to decide on Cermaq’s permit.  

 

Over and out!

Sandra

2015-06-13 Bilderberg 2015: 5 Canadians On Guest List, Including Andrew Coyne

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Nov 172017
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/13/bilderberg-2015-guest-list-invited_n_7576766.html

 

by Jennifer MacMillan, The Huffington Post Canada

(There’s a good video at the top of the Huff Post article.  Please go to the URL if you wish – – the following is a copy of the text only.)

 

It’s likely the most exclusive gathering of powerful people in the world, and you’ve probably never heard of it.

The annual Bilderberg Meetings are underway this weekend in Austria, a gathering of 140 leading figures from Europe, the U.S. and Canada.

Behind closed doors, they’ll discuss topics ranging from the threat of chemical weapons to the U.S. elections to artificial intelligence.

But not much more will ever be known about the conference, due to its secretive rules: No minutes are taken, no reports written, and participants are forbidden from revealing who said what.

The group’s secrecy has made it a popular target of conspiracy theorists who believe the group is actually trying to orchestrate a sinister new world order. The group maintains that the privacy encourages freer discussion about big issues facing the world.

And there are just five Canadians on the guest list this year that will be privy to that discussion:

  • Ed Clark, former president and CEO of TD Bank
  • Andrew Coyne, National Post columnist
  • David McKay, president and CEO of RBC
  • Heather Munroe-Blum, chair of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and former principal of McGill University
  • Heather Reisman, CEO of Indigo

 

They’ll be attending along with PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel, Henry Kissinger and former CIA director David Petraeus. Other global elite invited include:

  • Princess Beatrix of the Netherland
  • Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google
  • Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank
  • Heinz Fischer, president of Austria
  • Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn
  • Ursula von der Leyen, the German minister of defence
  • Charles Michel, prime minister of Belgium
  • Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
  • Mary Erdoes, CEO of JP Morgan Asset Management

Bilderberg’s official website has the full guest list.

 

2017-11-12 Re PARADISE PAPERS, sent to CBC Fifth Estate (Offshore Tax Havens; Panama Papers)

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Nov 162017
 

SENT:  Nov 12, 2017

 

Dear Fifth Estate,

 

RE:  your request for questions about the Paradise Papers, to be answered on this week’s show

The Paradise Papers are a continuation of the serious problem of

  • wealthy Canadians and
  • their accountants, lawyers and investment bankers

who use offshore tax havens to circumvent taxation.

The problem was identified as long ago as 1999, 18 years ago (reference CBC article below).   If it’s been going on for 20 years without any progress in stopping it, the means and schemes for tax evasion are sophisticated and well developed by now.

QUESTIONS:

  1. According to CBC reporting March 8, 2016 (below), KPMG takes 15% of the money that they help clients to divert from the CRA (Tax Man) into offshore tax havens.  Why isn’t there a law that makes what KPMG (and others) are doing, illegal?
  2. What is the status of the court cases against the tax cheats (the offshorers)?
  3. Does Stephanie Henderson, responsible for the lenience for the wealthy, continue in her role of the CRA’s manager of offshore compliance?  (Ref: CBC/Radio-Canada obtained a copy of the confidential nine-page offer, signed on May 1, 2015 by CRA’s manager of offshore compliance, Stephanie Henderson.)
  4. Is the Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau, also in a conflict-of-interest over the Regulation of investment banks, money managers, tax accountants and tax lawyers –  – in short, over the Regulation of the banksters?  (He is definitely in a conflict-of-interest over the Regulation of pension funds.)

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REFERENCE:

URL     http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-revenue-kpmg-secret-amnesty-1.3479594 

(INSERT, A back-up copy of the article, without the video, is at 2016-03-08 Canada Revenue offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax ‘sham’, CBC.

EXCERPT:
KPMG took cut of taxes dodged

The KPMG scheme, which the accounting firm began marketing to wealthy Canadians as far back as 1999, had clients worth more than $5 million use shell companies set up by the accounting firm in the Isle of Man, famous for its corporate secrecy and very low taxes.

KPMG’s internal memos, now part of the court record, show that the scheme was promoted within the firm to all of its Canadian tax practitioners, and that the accounting firm would collect 15 per cent of the taxes dodged.

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NOTE:

I wrote the CBC to try and find out what happened to the two women whose story was told in the in the 2016 coverage,  in the video at the top of the URL,  http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-revenue-kpmg-secret-amnesty-1.3479594.    Will let you know if anything is learned.

 

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RELATED – PARADISE PAPERS, PANAMA PAPERS, OFF-SHORE TAX HAVENS

Action item:   2017-11-16 Tax Fairness Canada (offshore tax havens). “Tell your MP amd Finance Minister . . . “

Excellent video:  2016-03-08 Canada Revenue offered amnesty to wealthy KPMG clients in offshore tax ‘sham’, CBC.

Links to more:  2016-04-04 The Panama Papers: world reacts to huge offshore tax files leak, The Guardian.

2015-09-09 KPMG Offshore sham deceived tax authorities, CRA alleges. Multi-millionaire clients paid virtually no tax in Isle of Man scheme, court documents show

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