D-Day

December 14, 1981 was "D Day." The "D" stood for Divestiture, a term meaning to dispose or disburse the assets of.

The Guardian Office

By 1980, the Guardian's Office World Wide ("GOWW") and other Scientology officials and lawyers working on several of the "Church of Scientology of California vs. the IRS" lawsuits realized that they had a very serious problem. The problem was that the majority of Scientology's assets were under the legal name of the "Church of Scientology of California" a California Corporation. The assets included millions of dollars in trust monies, cash accounts, properties (such as the Flag Land Base, Clearwater Florida) and many documents, copyrights, etc.

In addition, the Church of Scientology of California (hereinafter "CSC") was referred to as the "Mother Church" and had spawned many other Scientology

Scientology believes anyone labeled a suppressive is "fair game" and can be cheated, tricked, lied to and even physically harmed in order to "save" Scientology as mandated in policy by L Ron Hubbard.

How scientology defrauded the IRS through an elaborate corporate shell game.

Based on an essay by Chris Owen.

Introduction

This is an abbreviated account of some of the activities that the scientology organizations orchestrated during the 1981-1982 corporate reorganization of the scientology "Mother Church." If you are aware of this time period and wondered where the money went, this may answer some of your questions. This is based on insider information, not hearsay.

Thanks to Alaskans for fighting against factory fish farming.  Alaska is the last bastion of healthy wild salmon runs, but the forces against nature are closing in on all sides. Alaskan fishermen are leading salmon's last stand against the greedy corporations who want to turn the North Pacific into an oil tanker pipeline and highway to China, a gigantic gold mine and feedlots of farmed salmon.

Commentary B.C.'s salmon feedlots need to be closed Don Staniford | Oct 26, 2011 Related

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It is shocking to read that a deadly exotic disease from Europe has now been reported in wild Pacific salmon in British Columbia and could spread North to Alaska and South down the Pacific coast. Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) is a fish farm flu which is a 'listed' disease requiring notification to the World Organization for Animal Health -- like bird flu, swine flu, rabies and mad cow disease. How this lethal disease was allowed into North Pacific waters is a lesson in madness and greed.

Farming Atlantic salmon in the Pacific is clearly illogical and against the laws of nature. The only sensible solution is to immediately slaughter all the Atlantic farmed salmon stock on the Pacific coast and let wild salmon have free passage.  It is heartening to see the removal of dams in the Pacific Northwest and the ban on salmon farms in Alaska -- now it is time for salmon farms in British Columbia to get out of the way and stop spreading infectious diseases.

Salmon farms may not be allowed in Alaska but their impacts could be felt with the spread of ISA to sockeye salmon and other species. We heard at the salmon inquiry in Canada earlier this year that a single Atlantic salmon farm spreads 60 billion viral particles in one hour during a disease outbreak -- and that those pathogens spread over large distances. Escaped Atlantic farmed salmon have already been caught in Alaskan waters and clearly do not respect international borders.

Hence there must be pressure exerted by the Alaska and U.S. governments on Canada to clean up disease-ridden salmon farms. And that means closing the Canadian border to imports of Atlantic salmon eggs from the North Atlantic and closing down all Atlantic salmon farms as a matter of precaution.

Since the majority of salmon farmed in British Columbia is exported to the United States, consumers can send a strong signal to the Canadian Government by refusing to buy farmed salmon.  People need to go wild for salmon and tell the Norwegian companies to go back home to Norway (92 percent of B.C.'s salmon farms are owned by Norwegian multinationals).  It is time to make a choice between wild and farmed salmon -- and that means buying wild salmon from Alaska not diseased salmon from Canada.

Don Staniford is a part of an international, non-governmental advocacy network based in British Columbia, the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture, which is dedicated to advancing environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture and believes that salmon, shrimp, tuna and 'Frankenfish' farming jeopardizes sustainable and safe seafood production.

The views expressed here are the writer's own and are not necessarily endorsed by Alaska Dispatch. Alaska Dispatch welcomes a broad range of viewpoints. To submit a piece for consideration, e-mail commentary(at)alaskadispatch.com.
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ISA virus is serious, so what’s B.C. doing about it?     By DALE KELLEY, Special to The Sun October 30, 2011   Comment 5  

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    While fishermen are alarmed to learn about the discovery of a European virus in wild British Columbia salmon, the news comes as no great surprise. Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) has erupted in every country that farms salmon. Photograph by: Staff, MCT While fishermen are alarmed to learn about the discovery of a European virus in wild British Columbia salmon, the news comes as no great surprise. Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) has erupted in every country that farms salmon. Why would anyone think Canada is immune? Despite the presence of this disease in East Coast farms, British Columbia still allows the importation of non-indigenous Atlantic salmon eggs from other countries. It was just a matter of time.

When Alaska banned fish farms, the top reason was to avoid disease spreading to our wild stocks. What was at stake was no mystery: Norway had already killed entire populations of wild fish due to parasites and disease introduced by imported salmon. Our state wisely chose to avoid such risk; yet folks to the south of us put us squarely in the path of what Alaskans feared the most.

As the representative of Alaska fishermen who rely exclusively on the health of wild fish, I am appalled by the near-silence of the Canadian agencies responsible to protect them. I’ve reserved comment in hopes that they would send some signal to the public, and West Coast fishermen in particular, that Canada is proactively engaged with a “fish first” attitude.

On Friday Oct. 21 — more than a week after ISA was detected in B.C. salmon — Canadian officials issued a press release devoid of any sense of urgency. They announced they will run more tests, wait several weeks for results, and only then, if additional testing reveals ISA, stakeholders will be convened to, “identify and take appropriate next steps.” Really?!

It’s sound practice to verify a diagnostic result, particularly one with significant ramifications. What seems beyond the pale is the decision to wait weeks before convening the experts to develop a plan of action. In fact, it’s incredible there wasn’t a contingency plan in place long before the first farmed fish was placed in an ocean net pen.

At minimum, you’d think the B.C. government would try to reassure us, by pointing to the experts they immediately pulled together to brainstorm how to evaluate the extent of the problem and methods to contain and control it. Instead, in his opening response to questions from the B.C. Legislature, Minister of Agriculture and Lands Don McRae quipped, “Well, we’ve got another example of spinning media headlines and fearmongering from the Opposition.” Not exactly reassuring.

Dr. Frederick Kibenge, who diagnosed ISA in British Columbia, has both studied and diagnosed ISA outbreaks; he runs an ISA specialty lab. How strange that fisheries officials play down the findings of this respected scientist instead of fast-tracking an investigation.

We’ve also read statements that minimize the threat to Pacific salmon. Yet Dr. Kibenge isolated ISA in Pacific coho salmon at a Chilean farm, where large numbers of coho died from the disease. Dr. James Winton, fish health section chief of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western Fisheries Research Center, has conducted much of the research on the topic. Winton has described last week’s ISA finding as a “disease emergency” with “global implications.”

Canadian officials need to explain to the public precisely what they are doing to monitor and enforce biological safeguards on the fish-farm industry. Canada and the U.S. have a responsibility to protect the wild public resources they hold in trust for us all.

I have no desire to strike fear into the hearts of the public or the fishermen I represent. However, we need transparency and assurance that appropriate steps are underway. If the Canadian government has information to quell our concerns, we have not yet heard it. If they have an effective plan of action, we have not yet seen it. How do fisheries professionals in Canada and along the West Coast intend to safeguard wild fish and fishing communities from the introduction of foreign disease strains now, and into the future? We’re listening.

Dale Kelley is executive director of the Alaska Trollers Association.

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