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The day of February 19th 1942 was an interesting day for Canada. It was “If Day” - a simulated Nazi invasion of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba and surrounding areas in February 19, 1942, during the Second World War. It was conceived and organized by the Greater Winnipeg Victory Loan organization, which was led by prominent Winnipeg businessman J. D. Perrin as Chairman.
The intent was to show what it would be like “if” Canada fell under the harsh occupation of Nazi forces and to promote the purchase of Victory bonds. It was believed that bringing the war (or, rather, a simulation thereof) to people's homes would result in a change of attitude in people living in North America who were not being directly affected by the war. |
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The writer and social critic, H.L. Mencken once wrote, "For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable and wrong." Our ancestors believed that the stars rotated around the Earth. From their perspective, it made perfect sense. Of course, the idea was completely wrong. In fact, throughout history, people have believed ridiculous things. And they believed them so strongly you would have been persecuted for suggesting otherwise. So little has changed over the centuries...
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Palm Oil has a problem. It has a problem when ABC, the network that brought us the hugely successful medical drama TV Series, “Grey’s Anatomy” can broadcast such gross misinformation about the effects of a palm oil diet, some twenty years after such misinformation had been roundly debunked and disproved by extensive scientific studies! |
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The severity of the H1N1 outbreak was deliberately exaggerated by pharmaceutical companies that stood to make billions of dollars from a worldwide scare. So says a leading European health authority who alleged that drug firms had collaborated with WHO officials to deliberately create a "campaign of panic" and a ‘false disaster’ over swine flu pandemic fears. Wolfgang Wodarg, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee, has accused the makers of vaccines for the virus of influencing the World Health Organisation's (WHO) decision to declare a pandemic.
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