You just can't be prepared enough for this fall on TV. It's fat and funny white guys, sharp-tongued women, smart-assed kids raising babies, and many of your old favorites back. Let's start with some familiar faces:

The Mentalist (CBS) picks up where we left off last spring as Patrick Jane's search for Red John (the killer of his family) continues after his close encounter with him in the last season finale.

Smallville (CW): The saga of Clark Kent comes to an end this season. Tom Welling will be moving on to produce the new CW series Hellcats (see below).

The Apprentice (NBC) will try something new this year: in addition to its celebrity edition, Donald Trump will give some underprivileged a chance to work for him. What a guy!

The big reality TV show question still is: who will be the new judge panel for American Idol: Steve Tyler is a good candidate, but Jennifer Lopez is out. No word on who replaces Ellen Degeneres.

It's stand-pat time for a lot of other shows: Big Bang Theory moves to Thursdays on CBS, with CSI: Miami going to Sunday. There will be two Law & Order series (SVU and the new Law & Order: Los Angeles on NBC's schedule. L&O: Criminal Intent continues in syndication and on MyNetwork TV).

Canadian fans of Hiccups and Dan For Mayor will find in the new season of the first a kinder, gentler Millie and (ugh) another year featuring the aftermath of the Wessex election (Dan won by default) in the latter series. In other Canadian fare, expect new seasons of the cop show Rookie Blue on Global and ABC and on TV Tropolis, a Canadian version of the stunt game Wipeout. Also returning to NBC will be Minute to Win It; the jury is out on ABC's summer gamer Downfall.

And here's some details on new fare:

William Shatner tries his hand as a grumpy dad in (Blank) My Dad Says on CBS. If you count TekWar, it'll be his second funny series.

Fans of the old sitcoms Still Standing and King of Queens may enjoy
Mike and Molly on CBS, all about a fat guy who dates a fat woman.

Jimmy Smits lovers will want to check Outlaw on NBC. He's a retired judge who still administers justice — in his own way.

Take one average family, have them put their car in a lake that gives them super powers and you have No Ordinary Family (ABC/CTV). Michael Chiklis (The Shield) heads up this brood.

The Event is the new X-Files, according to early buzz. NBC and CTV will run this suspense drama in September.

Hellcats (The CW) Love Glee? Imagine it with cheerleaders. More oversexed female teens from the network that brought you 90210.

Running Wilde (Fox) It's the gal from Felicity ( ) and the guy from Arrested Development (Will Arnett) as a yuppie couple

Fox has Lonestar, all about dirty oil dealings' in Texas. This one's not about BP -- it's about a scheming oil tycoon using his son and his rival's daughter to get control.

Raising Hope: Nice title of a new Fox comedy, outlandish premise: When a young man gets a gal pregnant, who then lands in jail, he decides to raise the child. Cloris Leachman (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) is part of the cast.

Hawaii Five-O: Yes, they will be using the classic theme music in this CBS reboot, where, after two bombs (Moonlight and Three Rivers), Alex O'Loughlin hopes third time is the charm as he heads the cast as a more humorous Steve McGarrett.

The kids have a few new shows, mostly on Teletoon. One is The Dating Guy. sort of Friends, minus five yuppies. Also on that network is The Amazing Spiez, a Canadian spin-off of the successful Totally Spies series, featuring tweeners battling bad guys. And the CW has brought back Saturday staples Sonic,Yu-Gi-Oh! and Cubix.

More details as they become available. Meanwhile, here's some start dates of some new shows and old faves:

WEIRD OR WHAT? History TV, Sept. 1
WEEDS: Showcase, Sept. 5
TOP MODEL: CW, A Channel, Sept. 8
NIKITA: CW, A, Sept. 9,
HELLCATS (new): CW, A, Sept. 8
MERLIN: Space TV, Sept. 11
GLEE: Fox, Sept. 21
THE MIDDLE, MODERN FAMILY, COUGAR TOWN: ABC Sept 22
BETTER TOGETHER (New): ABC, Sept. 22,
CONAN O'BRIEN (New): TBS/CTV, Nov. 8.

Happy Viewing! Enjoy the Emmys!

TV TRIVIA

1. Talking about William Shatner, name the supermarket chain, cereal and online travel service he did/does plugs for.

2. What was the name of the unsuccessful Wild Wild West ripoff he starred in on ABC in the late 70's?

3. And the name of the Deal or No Deal ripoff he hosted on ABC last year?

4. What 60's crooner co-starred with him on T.J. Hooker?

5. And the actor who co-starred with him on the 60's drama East Side/West Side?

TV Scuttlebutt will return in September

In these times, there is no shortage of people around who are telling us about what "the biggest problems" are and what should be done about them — oh yeah, and why they and only they are the best ones to solve those problems. Here in Toronto, we have a guy who wants to be mayor by the name of Rob Ford, who got himself in bit of a tempest when he suggested that maybe Toronto can't afford to take on a pile of refugees from Sri Lanka, where Tamils have been fighting for their own land called Tamil Eelam for quite some time now. It all happened as part of a TV debate aired on CP24 TV, and where his opponents were on him immediately. How else do you respond here in "diverse" Toronto?

False-flaggers — people set up to lure the angry and disenchanted around them so they won't be thinking about doing something meaningful and/or effective — have been around awhile, and they're very much in view today. Rob Ford and Fox News' Glenn Beck are two great examples, the latter a perfect combination of showman, teacher and B.S. artists with his whiny teary voice, blackboard and magnet-pictures who's really got the 4-1-1 on the reds, the "progressives" and the REAL story of American history, kosher conservatism and all.

Ford is the guy already there — in Toronto council for years and his little faux pas over the years hasn't made much of a dent on his career (some wags now call him Teflon Rob) and his neo-con-ism would seem to be at odds with his not-quite-racist comments about boat people for which he was verbally flogged by "no-chancer" George Smitherman and a few other mayoralty wannbes. Many say his chances of replacing David Miller are now zip. Yet in spite of his comments that Toronto can't take care of the coming Tamil refugees, this self-loather still can't bring himself to say the "W' (white) word.

Beck and Ford are happier (and finding it's a lot easier) to be bigots to con people. Beck is a cable TV superstar, having a radio show and having been on both major cable news networks (his first show was on CNN sister station HLN). He refers to God many times on his broadcasts, but is content with being against the same Old Testament God worshipped by Christians and Muslims (as do all the Fox Newsies). And he has his little end-of-August rally coming up this weekend, what an event that'll be. He'll be like a stern, quiet at times Oral Roberts setting himself us as the King of the Neo-Cons, the guy America can look to in the age of Obama. Meanwhile, out there in the cities and the hinterland are people yearning for real politicians with the courage to say, "yeah, there are too many Mexicans crossing the border and squatting here and here's what we'll do about them." Recent news stories have intimated that parts of the US border aren't safe to patrol now.

Rob Ford is not the only false-flagger around, and it needs to be underlined as to how controlled these so-called mavericks are by "ZOG" — otherwise, how long would they be allowed to gas away like they do?

And let's not forget good ol' Hal Turner from New Jersey, who did a great job of luring out the "crazies' — then snitched on them to the feds, just before his reported threat against a judge. Somehow, I think he will land on his feet after his legal battles.

False-flaggers are truly dangerous and they've been around for decades, keeping potentially good leaders and activists monitored and play-penned, but most of all, conned into doing virtually nothing to advance racist and nationalist movements and organizations. And it's worse when a few of them get a little political power and get a little careless about it, like Rob Ford. In the end, it is those who are willing to say I am a racist or I am a real nationalist — and back it up with words, deeds and leadership — who will be the last men standing long after these false-flaggers slink back under the rug with the lint.

It's something to keep in mind, even after October 25th, no matter who our next mayor is. And I hope you vote for Don Andrews — he says what needs to be said. And he knows what this city needs.

TRIVIA:

1. Marcia Wallace voices the long-suffering teacher to Bart Simpson.
On what '70's sitcom did she play a goofy receptionist?

2. On what other sitcom did Hal Linden ride herd over an assortment
of cops and crooks?

3. He was a cab driver on Taxi and and an FBI agent's dad on NUMBERS.
What cop did Judd Hirsch play on CBS ?

TV SCUTTLEBUTT

James Frey, the author who conned Oprah and her book club, has a drama deal with HBO. The project will air sometime next year.

Rookie Blue, the Toronto-produced cop show now on ABC and Global, has been renewed, and now also shooting in Canada is a northern edition of summer favorite Wipeout. which will be carried on either Global or TV Tropolis.

Oh yeah, one more "TV Tip": CW TV lovers can catch a fall preview of old and new CW shows like Nikita, Hellcats and Smallville this week. One will air at 8 pm (ET) on CW's Los Angeles affiliate KTLA (Toronto Rogers 332 and Bell TV channel 298.)

Well, there's lots to view at the movies this summer: goofy cops (The Other Guys;) black dudes going nuts over a lottery win (Lottery Ticket) and the Geritol Heroes of the past thirty years (Stallone, Rourke, Willis, etc.) doing it old school in The Expendables. to name a few.

But one film that's just started, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, is catching my eye as the last celluloid teen romp. Well, it's actually more like a teen mess, and the latest in a long line of films where the kids are not alright, but oversexed, stupid, amoral and into every kind of dangerous nut-case behavior you can dream of (spoiler alert ahead).

SPVTW follows the adventures of a young man (Michael Cera) who must literally battle all his current girlfriend's exes to win her hand — and one of them is a girl. Yep, a girl. Altogether now, Eeww!

Filmdom (and TV) have offered us the New People — teen girls who are boy- and rock star- crazy, "cougars" (Cougar Town, The Simpsons' Ruth Powers, going all the way back to the film Summer of '42) and of course, horny, evil and amoral vampires all over the big and small screen (Vampire Diaries, Moonlight, Twilight, True Blood). A perennial favorite seems to be the constantly clueless Shaggy type (he's that food-loving slacker sidekick of cartoon favorite Scooby Doo: "Ruh-oh, Raggy!"). Are there any normal. moral youth in the media anymore? This may shock you, but young people used to be different in the media. They were polite, law-abiding, respectful, even dressed for dinner at home. They weren't rebellious, ignorant, aggressive, mouthy Jackass wannabes; and the sexual limits they imposed on themselves consisted of smiling warmly at each other after a date. Any adventure they involved in was usually crime-busting or camping mishaps, not Animal House-style mass destruction or thumbing their noses or baring their butts at tradition, God and religion and morals.

The causes? Take your pick. Watch any "jive" musical made during or after World War II, where couples flitted around like Ubangis, or any of the mid-fifties films that glorified rock-and-roll and used rock as a wedge to drive families apart at an alienation rate that would make Karl Marx cackle in his grave. For generations, dividing the family has been a keystone of the Reds' plan to wreck society, and when the Warner Brothers, Lew Wasserman at Universal, Sam Goldwyn, et al, got their hands on Hollywood and the music industry the plan to wreck the nuclear family went full throttle. You can't even watch a cartoon made in the last 20-30 years without a political and/or anti-family message.

The music industry? Beatles, Rolling Stones, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson, rappers, all did their part for dangerous "music" and dividing the generations. 'Nuff said.

These days you can't get away from it. Movies are available on your computer or just down the block at your video/DVD outlet. Cable and pay services like HBO and Movie Network show fare that never would have been allowed to run even with heavy editing ten years ago. Clean, wholesome films that didn't try to sneak a message into you, where the biggest crisis was Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello trying to outwit the local bike gang The Rats, aren't box office material anymore. And the TV networks and channels are all geared to the lowest common denominator mind (William Shatner's new CBS sitcom's title can't even be spoken or written in promos --it's Shit My Dad Says). It's a long-standing pattern you can find on TV since 1969, the year a nice Jewish boy created TV's most famous bigot, Archie Bunker (who was later updated as Chicago shoe salesman/loser dad Al Bundy on Married With Children).

Sure it's tough to keep the vampires, stupid males, sexified [SIC] girls and the rest away from your teens. That's why a hands-on attitude toward your kids — watching who they hang out with, monitoring their time away from the house, and keeping track their "artistic" preferences. Remember, there's a time to be a pal to your kids, but you're still their parent. Meantime, until some backlash at moronic teen media (and I include the idiotic dance contest shows) in the way of channel, network or sponsor boycotts, we all need to keep a closer eye on the media, especially in the coming weeks as the fall movies and new fall series pop into view.

Frankie, Annette, Fabian, Tommy Kirk, where are you??


TV TRIVIA ANSWERS

1. Bernie Kopell was a recurring player on Love Boat and Get Smart.

2. The late Al Waxman starred as the King of Kensington.

3. The Cybernauts would arise every now and then on The Avengers.

4. Before being Batman, Adam West was a shill for Nestlé's Quik.

TV SCUTTLEBUTT Returns next week.

"Where has all the oil gone, long time passing,
Where has all the oil gone, long time ago,
I think I know where it might be
At Burger King and KFC"

Ahh, governments. There's not a single monumental problem that they can't get our nations out of. Or into, it seems.

It's been almost four months since the biggest environmental disaster in American history broke into and dominated the news almost every night. Finally, so it seems, there is a cap on the broken well and by Labor Day, the entire problem will be solved with the relief wells in place, right? Right. Now let me tell you about some prime land in Florida.

Seriously, already the economies of the Gulf Coast states have been all but destroyed thanks to years of neglect by the US governments (plural) and by the good folks at British Petroleum who worked ever so hard to convince us all they were eco-conscious they even designed a brand new "green" logo. Today, the very company is on the verge of going under, along with a good chunk of the United Kingdom's economy too as the cost of paying for present and future damage (and the inevitable litigation over damage to the Gulf and its residents). Hey, we can go back to the super-oil-friendly Bush administration, or way back to when the first coziness began between the US government the Jew Rockefellers and Standard Oil. Today, oil is virtually what lazy America runs on. It powers the cars. It makes the machines go. Gee whiz, men and women fight, bleed, lose body parts and die just so America can grab more of other peoples' oil. But let's focus on this problem, and how, if and when this travesty of corporate greed and incompetence is finally off the front page, we can count on having to go through all this again in the future.

The first of the really bad stuff is already showing up as residents of Gulf states are coughing up blood now (just imagine what this will add to the already overworked health system and the cost of maintaining it in America). And let's not forget the new revelations that BP just totally went bonkers with the chemical dispersants, using way more than they were authorized, but still insisting that they got the official okay from the EPA and the other feds. This is what happens when you let big oil have a free hand in solving the very crisis they created.

Think: Their neglect was evident when that well blew, killing those rig workers. There was no visible contingency plan to do something about a damaged pipeline, no proper inspections, no strict regulation and follow-ups that might have prevented this disaster. And no criminal penalties or liability under US civil law big enough to make these oil companies take all proper steps to prevent this from happening then, or in the future. Or, even a worse scenario: It doesn't take a scientist to understand that when you go fooling with the floor of the ocean, you create a situation that will be right for future, more frequent and more severe sea- and earthquakes.

Don't you just love BP ex-honcho Tony Heyward, who not only spent a big wad of money (given to BP to clean up the gunk and close that well) on a bunch of glossy mea culpa commercials, but who whined about "wanting his life back" as the goo was blasting out before out eyes, then went on a fishing junket in the middle of the crisis? That's not the kind of thing you do in this situation, especially when that other BP scandal broke involving that deal with Libya -- which is why Heyward got the boot and can go fishing all he wants now, while the people of the Gulf Coast wait — and worry — and get sick and die. Let's not forget that BP already a sloppy record of safety elsewhere and incidents that were glossed over as quick as they happened.

And now, miraculously, most of the spilled oil, we're told, has disappeared. Gone. But where? Gathered? Stored safely on tankers? In the ocean floor? Broken down into micro-organisms that may one day reassemble? In the first stages of a new Chemtrail cloud(s)? Maybe BP hired Superman to take it to Neptune. What scares me (and should scare you) is when and where it will turn up to menace us again.

And there's yet another puzzle, one revealed on video not long ago, that may indicate that the well we saw being capped and took over a hundred days to accomplish, is not in reality the well that was spewing deadly oil into the Gulf. You can find it on Rense.Com — they're about the best source for finding what BP doesn't want you to know.

Just what is the US government and BP trying to pull, some kind of shell game in order to take the heat off themselves and the incredibly incompetent way they managed this crisis before and after the fact? And the "Jews media" giving a big collective sigh, it's over folks, the fish industry down there is safe! American ingenuity triumphs again!

Big oil is like big tobacco used to be: rich, powerful and able to buy and sell governments ten times over. As long as the world (particularly the West) has a thirst for it and refuses to explore other ways to keep our society going (ways that won't potentially kill us all,) the folks at Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Exxon Mobil, et al, will continue to have their way -- and that includes putting the economies and peoples of the world at risk just to increase that bottom line. If it can happen in the Gulf, it will happen elsewhere, as long as big oil has enough money to buy politicians and government and not forced by rule of law to be accountable morally and monetarily for the wounds they inflict on our planet.

Locally, in Canada, it gives us pause. It'll just be a matter of time before we will have a nasty spill of our own to cap. And remember. we own one of these oil companies: Petro-Canada. Long gone are the friendly images of the petroleum industry we grew up with, like "Mr. B-A" and the Esso tiger. Oil isn't just big, it's international. Shell is Dutch and British, and Citgo is now the property of Venezuela. The BP oil spill's only good legacy may just well be to demonstrate just how much it is in need of tight regulation and how we need to haul politicians out of the beds they've climbed into with these companies.

Maybe it's time Exxon/Esso replaced it's tiger advertising mascot: How about Mighty Mouse's nemesis, Oil Can Harry?

TRIVIA ANSWERS ( JULY 25)

1. The Honeymooners first aired on the Dumont TV network.

2. The kids' version of "Video Village" was called Shenanigans; It's CTV 70's version was
The Mad Dash.

3. "Taz" appeared as the star of "Taz-Mania" on Fox. His family consisted of his mom and dad, Hugh and Jean, and his siblings, Jake and Molly.

This Week's TRIVIA:

1. He portrayed both the ship's doctor on The Love Boat and Maxwell Smart's nemesis Siegfried. Name him.

2. This late Canadian actor was The King of Kensington, Cagney and Lacey's boss and hosted the Global TV reality series Missing Treasures. Who was he?

3. On The Avengers, what were the cyborg supermen recurring villains known as?

4. What chocolate drink did Adam West flog before becoming TV's first Batman?

TV Scuttlebutt:

Canadian fans of Burn Notice rejoice! Showcase will run the US cable hit this fall, so you don't have to get MyNetwork TV (which will be running it also) to check out the popular spy drama.

Channel changes: TV Land Canada is now called Comedy Gold, and has returned Bob Newhart's first two sitcoms to its schedule as well as Full House and Red Green. And Men TV has a makeover. It's now called Cave TV (?)

Guest voices for the coming season of The Simpsons will include Mad Men's John Hamm, along with Martha Stewart, Cheech and Chong, Daniel (Harry Potter) Radcliffe, House's Hugh Laurie and the cast of Flight of the Concords and possibly, the cast of Glee.

 

C'mon now, you know you still read them. The colorful stories, the well-defined characters, the psychological and political implications that are so much a part of them.

Not newsmagazines. Not Mad Men. Not even Jackie Collins.

I mean superheroes. They have exploded across the printed page, on the Internet, and lately, in video games and on the small and silver screens. And there's more to come. In development and soon to debut are the fourth Spider-Man film (a Batman Begins style reboot,) Thor, and coming this winter to a theatre near you, The Green Hornet and Green Lantern. But, what is behind the capes of these iconic people who biff and bash for" justice?" How did they get created? And most importantly, why are so many Jews involved in their creation, making gazillions from them, and what messages (both obvious and subliminal) are they delivering while they are keeping us safe from Lex Luthor, the Riddler, the Sandman, et al?

Let's start with Superman, the Man of Steel, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the mainstay of DC Comics (now run by Paul Levitz). Rocketed to Earth by the advanced-race (natch) Kryptonian scientist Jor-El to try to be a shining example to us primitive, savage (but still not without potential) humans. Upon learning that he isn't a human at all, his adoptive Earth family hides his powers and existence, and encourage him to live as a human in disguise and help us out every now and then — that, after teaching him not to blow up the barn with his heat vision. Next thing you know, Clark Kent is trying to make it with reporter Lois Lane-- the ultimate miscegenation, and everyone is happy with the big galoot protecting us all. Washington thinks he's cool -- no Homeland Security imprisoning him in a kryptonite cell. In a Batman comic book Supes makes an appearance in, the CIA asks Superman to keep Batman in line when the Joker becomes the Iranian Ambassador to the UN (I'm not kidding). In real life, folks, would you be comfortable if an alien that you know could destroy Earth offered his protection? That'd be like the protection offered by the Corleones of The Godfather. Superman's creation owes its origins to the Jewish legend of the Golem, the monster-killer who smited the Jews' enemies of ancient times.

Batman basically is a vigilante who needs a shrink. Like Supes, he lost his folks early in life, but by an act of gun violence. So, he uses dad's fortune to train his mind and muscles in science, criminology and martial arts, then dons the costume of a masked bat (it scared him as a kid) to put the fear of the unknown into Gotham City's underworld. The "old, classic" Batman had him paired with Robin, an ex-circus performing teen who also lost his folks to crime and later, we find them sauntering around in tights around a cave in what has been one giant gay/pedophilic creepy joke that became acceptable in comics, on screen and on ABC-TV in the 60's and Fox in the 90's. If that weren't enough, in the 1980's, Frank Miller "re-imagined" Bob Kane and William Finger's creation as a dark, brooding bully filled with neuroses who, unlike his camp 1960's doppelganger, just might kill you if you pushed him too far. In later versions of Batman, the Caped Crusader does not enjoy the Establishment's support, unlike his origins, when Gotham City's leaders and cops saw nothing wrong with a masked man getting sanction to use lethal force on criminals. Thank William Dozier, who brought Batman's popularity back to life in 1966 as producer of the live-action Batman TV series, and cartoon producers Norm Prescott, Lou Schneider, Sander Schwartz and Hanna-Barbera for keeping Batman on TV since 1977 in animated form.

Spiderman, a.k.a., Peter Parker, is the quintessential loser. He lives with his elderly aunt, is picked on by jock Flash Thompson and has zero chances of fame or fortune, until a radioactive spider's bite turns him into a wall-crawling web-spinning dynamo. But instead of being a crime fighter, he takes the path of a showoff exhibitionist for money -- a path that indirectly causes the murder of his uncle by a thief that Parker fails to use his powers to stop. Here he learns "the fateful truth," according to creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: "With great power comes great responsibility." There's no mention of the risk Peter puts his last living relative in jeopardy by being a masked vigilante, and he gets plenty of bad press from bombastic kosher-conservative rich publisher J. Jonah Jameson. Still, he takes on villains like Dr. Octopus and the Vulture with Seinfeld-style wisecracks, but because superheroes work for free, still has trouble helping his aunt pay the bills. Spidey's animated antics have been part of TV since 1967, produced by Krantz Films and Ralph Bakshi (the first series) and later on, Stan Lee's Marvel Entertainment.

Who else is there? Oh yeah, there's DC's Wonder Woman. an early feminist icon who came from a man-hating tribe of Amazons to the USA to fight the Nazis in World War II, and who just recently chucked her stars-and-stripes-emblazoned costume for that of punky biker babe. She joined Captain America and Sgt. Fury's Howling Commandos in comics that buttressed the war effort — and kept the Hollywood Nazi image burning vividly in the minds of young comic fans after the war and on a popular live-action TV series. An episode of the animated Justice League series has her trying to take down a Hitler-esque dictator named Vandal Savage.

A word about Justice League: This is a squad of beings from Earth and other planets who band together to "keep us all safe", but who monitor Earth covertly from a space station called the Watchtower. The current crew includes the aforementioned Superman and Batman, a black Green Lantern in love with an alien from a planet whose cops dress up like hawks. The other alien is John J'onzz, a Martian who can pass through solid matter and can shape-shift and invade your thoughts. Geez I feel safer already.

And there's Dr. Mid-Nite and his later-year contemporary, Marvel's Daredevil, who both function as superior crime fighters despite being blind (the former uses a special helmet that augments his vision, while the latter has a special "radar sense" that enables him to "see").

Let's not forget the political messages of superherodom, best narrated by Stan Lee's X-Men. Born with superpowers, and shunted by "normals," the "mutants" of Earth divide into two camps: the angry, revenge-obsessed ones, out to take over humanity because they are "superior", and the other group, lucky enough to not be violent, as taught by telepathic Charles Xavier, but to use their "gifts" to protect humanity. Not only are they in danger from each other, but from a "fascistic" US government that wants all mutants registered and/or rounded up and imprisoned. Sound familiar?

Movies have done more to endear superheroes and masked vigilantes to our hearts of late than most other mediums. In the upcoming Thor, the Norse myths get a workout and drubbing as a lame doctor gets a chance at immortality. And in The Green Hornet, a publisher fed up with crime concocts a unique way to stop them: Infiltrate it as one of them and wreck organized crime from inside.

As for the villains: Well, they dress scary and many times almost do in the hero, but there's no pure raw conflict of well-defined good versus well-defined evil. Both sides are "flawed", to make the male hero more vulnerable (and women-friendly) and the villain, slightly human, to make us a little more "understanding" of evil and a bit sympathetic. We're encouraged to feel sorry for Superman's nemesis The Toyman because his dad died in jail due to the machinations of a mobster named Bruno Mannheim. Spider-man enemy Dr. Octopus (a.k.a., Dr. Otto Octavian, seems Germans are a Jew fave for villainy) became a mad villain after a lab accident fused a group of metal telescoping arms to his spine, and teen rebellion and angst (divide the family) gave birth to an industrialist's son who drank a super-steroid to become the Green Goblin. Communist themes obvious and subtle run rampant through the superhero mythology.

Check out the world of the superhero yourself, in the comics, in films, on TV. There's more afoot to them and their kosher creators-owners than meets the eye. And remember, your kids are watching and reading too, so be ready to explain the whole story to them.

*  TV Trivia & TV Scuttlebutt return next week

This is a tale of two TV networks. One was a founded by a good ol' boy from Atlanta who became a local sports and media magnate before selling his broadcasting empire to a big conglomerate called Time Warner, an empire that included the world's first cable TV all-news network, which he founded. The other was founded by a self-described "billionaire tyrant" from Australia who came to America and with the help of a TV executive named Barry Diller, founded America's fourth TV network, and later, its second major all-news cable channel. And what became of both channels is a story worth telling.

Ted Turner got reams of laughter when in 1980 he started up his Cable News Network (later, just CNN). After all, no one in their right mind would be watching news on TV 24/7, right? Well, he proved his detractors wrong, and after putting guys like Jews Frank Sesno, the blandest man in the world Wolf Blitzer, CBS's black anchor Bernard Shaw and Jonathan Klein and Rick Kaplan (who served as CNN's presidents) in front of and behind the cameras. ratings began to climb, but it wasn't until a monumental event happened on September 11, 2001, when CNN became really "respectable." But, its success was not to last.

In 1996, the aforementioned Aussie, News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch (who already had a TV network of his own mainstream network, Fox) got together with Marvin Davis and broadcaster Roger Ailes (the man behind Rush Limbaugh's success) and formed a TV News channel of his own: Fox News Channel. he stocked it with serious-looking neo-con guys either hyper as hell like Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck, woman attracting hunks like Bill Hemmer, deadpan neo-con "intelligensia" like Fred Barnes and a nice Jewish boy named Charles Krauhammer, along with doe-eyed blondes with short skirts and Pepsodent smiles like Alyson Camerota, Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson. And by 2010, more people were watching the kosher-conservative FNC than the warm and fuzzy CNN. The latter, most of the time devoid of a super spectacular story that would rivet viewers since the fury over 9/11 died down, tried everything they could to win back viewers. They came up with "confrontation" shows like Crossfire (leftist pundit versus rightist kosher conservative pundit,) made stars out of Larry King, former game show host Anderson Cooper, even an East Indian Doctor named Sanjay Gupta. They shuffled shows that didn't work (Anderson Cooper 360,)had no tolerance for shows that needed to build an audience (John King USA), and tied to match Fox News bimbo-for-bimbo with the likes of Kiran Chetry, Jacqui Jeras, Chrsitine Romans, Campbell Brown (who announced she would be leaving CNN) and Geri Willis (who went over to Fox this year). Nothing worked. CNN was getting creamed in the ratings as its on-air talent jumped ship or got poached by Fox News.

Not that long ago, all you had at 6:30 on broadcast networks in America (available across Canada) were
NBC Nightly News (Reuven Frank guided this show since its days with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley; Jeff Zucker runs it now). Les Moonves , CBS head, also runs CBS Evening News (Richard Salant, creator) and ABC World News Tonight (Avram Westin, head of ABC news, made this one a hit with its many anchors over the years, including Jewess Barbara Walters; his son David runs it today). The bottom line of all this, of course, is the media's top two news channels, as are the minor players in this area of TV (CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg News, etc.), are strictly kosher. The advantage of promoting two as the cable news leaders meant one (CNN) could be a "responsible" news outlet, while the other (Fox), neo-con, US flag-waving, anti-Islamist, pro-war (like CNN) and "anti-communist." So, with two "distinctive" channels, what else is "different" and what else is the same?


Well, you ever notice how one story dominates all the news? Or how (especially on the nightly broadcast news) the lineup of story topics is virtually identical (E.G.: Shirley Sharrard, Gulf Oil Spill, North Korea, The Economy, and the whale that attacked the boat?) Today, not only is our taxpayer-owned-and-financed CBC News Network trying its darndest to ape CNN with computer graphics, pearl-smiling news bimbos, but now Quebecor is about to launch its Canadian answer to Fox News, Sun News Channel, scheduled to begin this January pending CRTC approval, and featuring such players as David Frum and Walter Duranty Award nominee David Akin.

Although I'm not that big a fan of Jeff Foxworthy, the "Blue Collar Comedy" comic who currently augments his comedy tour with a gig as host of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, I take inspiration from his "You just might be a redneck, if..." schtick with the following, also inspired by the events of the G20 MamboFest last weekend. Hope you paid attention, because...

You know It's a Police State

...When young women are tackled, cuffed and dragged off to jail as if by massive werewolves.

...When the cops punch you a few times after they grind you into the pavement or give you a few kicks in the ribs.

...When you can be stopped anytime with your backpack can be searched under a secret, unpublished law of special emergency powers that even lawyers don't know about.

You know it's a police state, when cops are political and they tell you not to protest again when they release you.

You know it's a police state when 200 citizens are corraled at an intersection by riot-geared, rain protection-clad troopers with their visors down and faces covered and those citizens are held there in a downpour and lightning storm for five hours.

...When the City's Minister of Health , Dr. David McKeown, supposedly concerned with that city's health, ignores a dirty, no-sanitation cage facility (later to be dubbed "Torontonamo") like an acquiescing guilty doctor.

...when you're in one of those cages and you're given no covers and are forced to sleep on a concrete floor.

You know it's a police state when a police chief can arbitrarily give false information regarding three warnings that are supposed to be given to a crowd that hasn't committed any crime, and to shill his way out of explaining the "necessity" of police brutality and human rights violations, with the Media uttering hardly a peep.

...When all the politicians and media are in the propaganda line that "the cops did a great job."

...When political leaders and police and the media pre-convict prisoners with vicious tags like "thugs" prior to their trials.

You know you're in a police state when there's no discretion about allowing you to go to the washroom.

You know you're in a police state when police politically taunt you and try to humiliate you (that happened to me the day I finished by sentence foe "hate" as a creep Don Jail guard expressed his wish to "nail my ass to a door."

...When they're against your racial and national pride and your opposition to globalism.

You know you're in a police state when informers and agent provocateurs infiltrate all organizations opposed to the State.

...When police enforce the protection of unelected foreigners.

...when false flags like Fox News' Glenn Beck (who wants to lead the bigots) mentions in a comment on the riots and arrests, police taking a crossbow from someone (but omits saying it was taken two days earlier from a 53-year old homeless man, a detail from a fabricated CNN report)

...when police from Montreal and Alberta are sent to your city to beef up the local police, who stand around and watch police cars burn and do nothing ("On orders", we learn later)

...when there's no "anarchist" leader who makes any statement to the media after a few broken windows are treated like the biggest upheaval since the eruption of Vesuvius.

...when cops brag about starting trouble (as they did at Montebello, and how they threw rocks pretending to be anarchists, with no enquiry, "Royal Commission" or charges against any cop).

And, you know you're in a police state when the truth about any major event involving a real or set-up attack on government, is lied about, swept under the rug — or just plain ignored or censored.

You know when you're in a police state when you work for the TTC, and in uniform on your way to work, you get tackled, held for 36 hours, and after explaining that you're on your way to work get told "Well, you're a prisoner today." Real professionalism. Or, when you're another unfortunate at the wrong place and time who happens to be wearing black clothing and informed prior to arrest by a guardian of the people that you're a "piece of shit."

Let's face it. With the arrogant, smirking explanations and "we-didn't-know about any-secret-aw" jive (not to mention the ahem, mysterious weapons that had nothing to do with the G 20 violence). Toronto Police are in a very uncomfortable corner now, even if the hand-off of any enquiry goes from one Freemason (Blair) to another (Thomas Braidwood, whose just-released report on the RCMP taser killing in Vancouver amounted to an "oops, sorry!") Torontonians will not be looking on their police with respect for a long while — except for the respect borne of fear and that Star Wars stormtrooper image, now an indelible part of the G-20 riots. This is an ominous and disturbing image for any city, let alone Canada's largest.

As I have said in this space before, cops need to get back on the beat and re-establish trust with the common man, and not behind the windows of moving cruisers emblazoned with "To protect and to serve" — a phrase that has narrowed its meaning in the eyes of many of us to mean "protect ourselves and serve our interests.". They need to break down the wall of fear and anger they have built between themselves and the people of Toronto, and not go into defensive "us and them" mode.

Oh yeah, and a really impartial enquiry needs to be held,, preferably run by those who don't have any long experience in a police uniform cracking skulls. What hangs in the balance isn't just the relationship between cops and those they are sworn and paid to serve, but the very reputation of the city of Toronto. Once faith is restored that is based on respect by the cops to those they serve, then we can say we have taken one step away from an Orwellian Police State. Getting the truth — all of it, no matter how painful and whose jobs or positions it costs, is vital.

The alternative is something no Torontonian — or Canadian — wants to contemplate.
 

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

—   Edmund Burke

Don't let the picture of my face on this page fool you. I may look like Clark Kent a bit, but I've been to a number of demonstrations in my 38 years of political activity that I've walked (and at times, limped) away from feeling slightly like Superman after a couple of rounds with Metallo.

In a land that since the 1960's (and the forming of the ultra violent Leftists who did a lot more to promote anti-racist resistance than talk and yell,) being a racist is at times not all fun and games. I've been in demos and been witness to situations that have all but culminated in loss of life. And, in a sort of commemoration of that time of going toe-to-toe with Trotskyites, Maoists, assorted anti-racist jerks and the Jewish Defense League (among others) — and in time for what may be a round of violent Red protest that may be referred Toronto's Dancing in the Streets, I'd like to share some of those encounters with you.

I joined the Western Guard back in the early 1970's, when it wasn't the Western Guard, but The Edmund Burke Society, a group of young, conservative anti-communists founded by Don Andrews, and two teachers, Paul Fromm and Leigh Smith (no relation) who named their organization after the famed British Parliamentarian and who were tired of all the armchair anti-communists whose biggest contribution to fighting the socialism creeping across Canada thanks to Pierre Trudeau, was a big sigh. These were men of action who went after Red organizations and leaders with stick, fist and when necessary, sturdy boot. At the time, I was getting acquainted with so much of the ideology at the time (readily available at the EBS Bookstore) and was happy to while away the summer days at the bookstore, wolfing down in my mind works as diverse as None Dare Call it Conspiracy, Nixon's Palace Guard, The Anti-Humans and American Opinion, the organ of the US-based John Birch Society. Today, the EBS bookstore is no more; in the 70's it was right next door to a neighborhood now called Little India, where white businesses there for years were being squeezed out by East Indians, Pakistanis and Chinese establishments (thanks again, Trudeau).

I learned from a series of books called Funny Money about how money and finance was a rigged poker game, about the Trilateralists, the Bilderbergers, and the frightening connections between the Rockefellers and how two of America's biggest symbols of capitalism (Chase Manhattan Bank and McDonald's) were able to set up shop in Moscow, centre of that bastion of capitalist-hatred, the USSR. During this time, the EBS changed its "corporate colors" from green, white and black to red, white and black to bring it more in line with the colors of nationalist movements around the world. Its right-pointing arrow symbol was replaced by a Celtic Cross and by the end of the 1970's it had evolved from merely an anti-communist action organization to an openly-operating white nationalist pro-racism organization. The Toronto Reds, active and growing since the sixties, took note. Never had they seen before a bunch of guys who were diametrically opposed to their pro-Viet Cong, pro-abortion and women's lib insanity, and after all it was the sixties — you just knew there was gonna be a rumble or two. I managed to survive them thanks to the fighting skills, bravery and camaraderie of some interesting characters I will never forget, and to which I pay tribute below:

Latvian Hall, on College Street, is a magnificent building with wide steps and a front that almost rivals the Parthenon in Greece (which I've also seen close up). It was also the scene of a 1972 Western Guard meeting and one of my first dust-ups with local Reds. The theme was Do We Need A White Canada? and it was like honey to a bee swarm in terms of attracting the scruffy anti-racists Reds we did battle with that decade. Luckily, I had some brawn on my side: Gerry Doyle — nimble, tough-as-nails and ready for a scrap at the drop of a hat. Also on hand were John Ross Taylor, a legend of Canadian fascists, EBS co-founder Paul Fromm, and Al Overfield, a tough Canadian Indian who later started The "New Right," a phony sandbox group of his own that has its contemporaries today (the kind of organization that ropes in promising people in, but has no ideology or policy program and accepts the status quo). I had joined just prior to Fromm's leaving the Western Guard, whose militancy and action-orientation had become too much for him (then. many Guard guys wore military surplus; it was the first time I saw anyone wear that style of clothing; The Skinheads of the 1980's and 90's would follow that trend later, As part of a pattern that was to repeat itself, the commies had outnumbered us, and also, part of a pattern, we gave as good as, or better than we got. At that time, the violent Reds basically were two groups: The Trotskyite Revolutionary Marxist Group and Maoist Communist Party of Canada/Marxist-Leninist, run by an East Indian gent by the name of Hardial Bains. The former group would provide me with sparring partners in 1973 when I got a taste of their fist-and-boots fanaticism when I campaigned for the late John Ross Taylor's campaign in that year's Ontario election.

The Siege of Ashdale and the Magnificent 13:

In 1973, I and a number of Western Guard members lived in Don Andrews' then east-end home at 260 Ashdale Avenue. It was located right across the street from Little India, and not far from the EBS/Western Guard bookstore just south of "Pakitown." That year, on Sunday July 29, we commemorated the birth of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, which we publicized in posters and in Straight Talk magazine. It was deja vu all over again; A pack of 500 reds marched from Greenwood Park to demonstrate in front of Don's home, and after some picketing and shouts, attacked the house. Fortunately, we had a G20 security fence of our own which stopped a lot of them from getting in. And we had thirteen stalwarts on hand to defend the house and the guests: Don, yours truly, Gerry Doyle, his brother Mike, George Keeping, Martin Weiche and his son Alan, Joe Geneovese, a shutterbug friend named Al Brown who took footage of the melee, Doctor George Zapparoli ( a distinguished member of the Italian Lombardi family), Jaanus Proos, Chris Greenland and the tall and dedicated Paul Hartman. When a few Reds got inside the house, it was a close call for Don Andrews, who was ready to shoot them — until the police finally arrived on the street. It was closest the violent Reds in Toronto ever came to eating lead courtesy of their enemies.


The Zündel Trial

You know the trial and its outcome. What you haven't heard much of was the daily gauntlet I, Ernst Zündel and a number of his supporters ran (one day, there were twenty of us versus 60 members of the Jewish Defense League on the steps of Toronto Old City Hall. They weren't wimpy or skinny, but big, mean and formidable. Also there early in the trial, standing ground in the shoving, was Don Andrews, demanding "Where's the police?" as we literally fought our way inside. Today. there are airport-style metal detectors and security there and at other Toronto courthouses.

There are more of these little donnybrooks that I will go into in future columns, but in the wake of the arse-kicking the capitalists got this weekend in Toronto (which these days I don't mind, since capitalism and its banks promote and cause the destruction of Mankind as much as communism did and does, a lot of the time in partnership with each other), I think you realize that there was a coming of age for the anti-communist/white racist movement in Canada in the early seventies, when we had to graduate from sipping South African sherry and hear from its representatives how the "J-E-W-S-ess" were dooming that nation, to getting the grudging street cred with muscle-bound Trotskyites and Maoists past and present, that defined white nationalism in the last three decades of the twentieth century and beyond.

These days are fairly quiet, G20 protests notwithstanding. But my baptism of fire — putting my backside on the line for what I know were the right reasons, and to fight an evil that had frightened me since boyhood (communism's takeover) — was a rite of passage for me. After every scrap, I felt a warmth and sense of pride not unlike European warriors of the past who bled to defend the values and cultures they held dear.

I'm still feeling spunky, and though it's through a different medium now, when it comes to battling those who would turn the land I love and all that is still good about it inside out, I'm still taking on all comers.

Okay, how many of you watch Fox News? Come on, be truthful. It's a guilty pleasure for those of you who don't take it seriously. I mean, how seriously can you take a professed news channel that flogs itself as providing "fair and balanced" coverage and whose main on-air stars include an ex-principal who's ten times as rude as his students (Bill O'Reilly), a panicky guy who's constant sky-is-falling rap is only slightly less hyper than Daffy Duck (Glenn Beck) and an endless bevy of short-skirted blonde bimbos whose smiles are so sweet they can rot your fillings? Oh, yeah, and that guy who didn't find Al Capone's treasure Geraldo Rivera's there, too (guess the game show hosting jobs were all filled).

As the Motown song says, get ready, because if the CRTC grants approval and license, a French Canadian media mogul named Pierre Paladeau and an ex-employee of Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be replacing Toronto's SUN TV with — ta-da! SUN NEWS CHANNEL, as of January 1, 2011. Already the leftists are growing hair shirts over the specter of those (gasp) right wingers having a propaganda spew factory of their own.

Closer to reality, what'll it be (if and when it gets on the air) is a forum for warmongering and interference in foreign globalist wars, and supporting the state of Israel (and spending the needed amount of money to do so, resulting in lowering our standard of living,) The early hype of the new "controversially Canadian" station promises to be the opposite of the bland CTV news channel and CBC News Network. And then, there's the fact that just like every other "objective" news outlet, the New Sun TV won't get to second oen without the a-okay of the 96% Jew-controlled cabal that's in charge of the airwaves. Even the new Al-Jazeera TV Canada with its fancy Arabic script-styled logo couldn't have gotten as far as the CRTC commissioner's desk without Jew-controlled satellites to bounce its signal from.

Chances are you are more likely a Toronto Sun reader (or one of its cross-the-nation tabloids, or parent company Quebecor's Quebec news channel LCN) than are familiar with Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, Greta Van Susteren, or any of the other maestros of the Fox News bigot hate-fest. Even so, the supposedly right-wing puppet show that is Fox News Channel, is like the sum total of the Toronto mayoral candidacy of Rob Ford. In content, the sum total of it is zero.

Zero in terms of "balance": Race is never a factor of any crime stories, and the hate against Islam from sun-up to past sundown on FNC is palpable. Fox News is big on yelping about stories involving the removal or defacement of crosses on Christian war memorials, but they've got no time for balanced discussion of Muslims — except for those who practice the "moderate" version that women find non-threatening and exhibit not a hint of the patriarchal nature of traditional Islam of the Koran. Judaism and Israel? Guess what side they're on. (Hint: a nice Jewish boy named Barry Diller was the founder of Fox Broadcasting, along with Rupert Murdoch, head of Fox parent company News Corporation).

And "Zero" in terms of news: most of the junk on news channels is either depthless, bland news or carefully-controlled debate among specially-selected "experts" or consists of personality-driven shows staged on bright computer-screen-festooned sets that more resemble the set of The Price Is Right than that of a serious news operation.

And yee-haw, do they think the USA is the greatest thing since sliced bread. The Stars and Stripes is almost a part of FNC's graphic design as the Fox searchlights of its own logo. If you don't believe me, watch just a few hours of it (preferably before you eat). Then, imagine a Canadian version of it, with warmongers like Peter Worthington spouting off about how noble our work of terror and being Igor helpers to the new world global boys is, or How it's our sacred duty to defend Israel, the "only democracy in the middle east (two words for that: Gaza Blockade).

There is a good possibility that Sun News may never see the light of day; already they're trying to get the CRTC to bend the rules to let it operate as a "Category 1" service that cable and satellite operators will be forced to carry and offer to viewers. Given the Harper connections of one of its' chiefs, there's a better than big chance that it will be coming to a TV near you.