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Post by moabiter on Dec 16, 2010 1:19:37 GMT -8
Premier Ralph Klein, Alberta (1992 - 2006) Ol' TexMex (above) Ralph Klein called Kevin Taft a communist for writing a book, Shredding the Public Interest (1997). Ex-Liberal leader finally pulls the plug Taft just might be the smartest premier Alberta never had Published: Saturday, August 07 Tories even tried to have the electoral boundaries changed, presumably following the logic that if they couldn't defeat Taft on his home turf, they would tear his turf up. They failed to sway the members of the Electoral Boundaries Commission, who decided in their final report last month to leave Riverview unmolested. However, the commission's report is not binding and Taft is afraid the government, in a fit of pique, will yet dismantle the riding where he won the largest plurality of any politician in the 2004 election. Back then, an energetic and focused Taft was seen as a real threat to a tired and unfocused Ralph Klein. Taft was well educated, an author of books critical of the Klein government and a political consultant -- facets the Tories tried to use against him with Klein calling Taft a communist and "the worst kind of academic." Taft often proved himself the best kind of critic, holding the government to account over two issues he held particularly dear: health care and education. He also proved himself something of a financial saviour for the party, helping eliminate a large portion of the Liberals' $1-million debt through a never-ending series of fundraisers. He even increased the party's seats in the 2004 election but -- like every Liberal leader for the past 90 years -- he was not the party's political saviour. www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=08091b91-eeed-469e-9e7a-8589feffdcdfA fit of pique or a feat of commie prick. Court allows Taft to pursue legal action over '08 vote irregularities Edmonton Journal December 4, 2010 The Alberta Court of Appeal has sided with Liberal MLA Kevin Taft in his effort to pursue legal action against the province for alleged irregularities during the 2008 provincial election. www.calgaryherald.com/health/Court+allows+Taft+pursue+legal+action+over+vote+irregularities/3927712/story.htmlAlso, Ralph Klein just announced through his friend (spokesman, right-hand man) and former political strategist, Rod Love, that Mr. Klein has emphysema and is showing signs of memory loss. WIKI: [Taft] was propelled into the public eye as the author of Shredding the Public Interest, a book published in 1997 that accused the Ralph Klein government of unnecessarily cutting funding for public services; Klein responded by accusing Taft of being a communist.
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Post by moabiter on Feb 4, 2011 12:24:18 GMT -8
Questions, questions... Was the World Trade Center brought down deliberately on Sept. 11, 2001, for the purpose of – are you ready for this? – eliminating records of government investigations into corporate fraud? That's the implication of a blog posting by Rosie O'Donnell about the worst terror attack in American history. WND Exclusive MEDIA MATTERS Rosie: Was 9/11 inside job to protect Enron? Blog suggests destruction of federal investigations factor in terror attacks. Posted: March 19, 2007. 5:00 pm Eastern In her March 15 posting, titled "wtc7," on her Rosie.com blog, the controversial TV personality and co-host of ABC's popular "The View" morning show, starts off by recounting popular conspiracy "factoids" regarding the World Trade Center's Building No. 7, which collapsed after the two larger "twin towers" fell. O'Donnell writes: * The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible. * Silverstein said to the fire department commander "the smartest thing to do is pull it." * Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going to "blow up." * The roof of WTC 7 visibly crumbled and the building collapsed perfectly into its footprint. * Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris. www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54770----------------- CIA and 9-11 investment espionage linked to Enron A January 23, 2002 Houston Chronicle report revealed that Enron Corporation’s top security team, including four former CIA officers and an ex FBI agent left the company to form a private firm, Secure Solutions International (SSI), while continuing with Enron via a consulting contract. John W. Presley, the FBI agent now heading SSI could not be reached for comment. But the team probed a “variety of allegations of fraud and other kinds of rule-breaking by Enron workers,” according to the Chronicle. Team member and former CIA agent David M. Cromley’s business biography at Enron listed him as Enron’s director of business analysis, the Chronicle reported, adding that Cromley gave Enron executives “detailed and unique information” allowing them to make “investments, sales of assets, joint ventures and [financial] products.” www.tomflocco.com/fs/EnronEspionage.htm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ENRON Capitalism Run Amok! The scandal - in which the life savings and retirement funds of tens of thousands of employees vanished while a number of executive directors lined their pockets - reaches so high that John Ashcroft, the Attorney-General, has had to withdraw from the investigation because he received Enron money, and lawsuits are the pipeline to force Vice-President Dick Cheney for details of his contacts with the company. www.gnosticliberationfront.com/enron_how_stupid_are_americans.htm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Profile: US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was a participant or observer in the following events:... Curiously, given all the Wall Street scandals later in the year, Building 7 housed the SEC files related to numerous Wall Street investigations, as well as other federal investigative files. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases were destroyed. Some were backed up in other places, but many were not, especially those classified as confidential. [New York Law Journal, 9/17/2001] Lost files include documents that could show the relationship between Citigroup and the WorldCom bankruptcy. [Street, 8/9/2002] The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission estimates over 10,000 cases will be affected. [New York Law Journal, 9/14/2001] The Secret Service had its largest field office, with more than 200 employees, in WTC 7 and also lost investigative files. Says one agent: “All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building.” [Tech TV, 7/23/2002] The IRS and Department of Defense were also tenants, along with the CIA, which, it has been revealed, had a secret office in Building 7. [CNN, 11/4/2001; New York Times, 11/4/2001; Federal Emergency Management Agency, 5/1/2002, pp. 5-2; New York Magazine, 3/20/2006] A few days later, the head of the WTC collapse investigation says he “would possibly consider examining” the collapse of Building 7, but by this time all the rubble has already been removed and destroyed. www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=securities_and_exchange_commission
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Post by clone on Mar 14, 2011 20:22:46 GMT -8
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP): Security and prosperity for whom? by Andrew Gavin Marshall - Global Research, March 17, 2008
The same group that on their own website admits to being the predominant force in Canada behind NAFTA, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) — Canada’s most powerful interest group made up of the CEOs of the 150 largest corporations in Canada, many of which are subsidiaries of foreign, predominantly American, corporations — in January of 2003, issued a press release announcing the creation of their North American Security and Prosperity Initiative. In this, they proposed five main changes to be undertaken in the North American political-economic landscape: “Reinvent borders, maximize regulatory efficiencies, negotiate a comprehensive resource security pact, reinvigorate the North American defense alliance, and create a new institutional framework.”
Several months later, in November of the same year, the CCCE issued a short document titled, “Paul Martin urged to take the lead in forging a new vision for North American cooperation.” In this document, they stated that, “all of the CCCE’s 150 member CEOs are involved in this ambitious two-year initiative,” in which Thomas D’Aquino, president and CEO of the CCCE, “urged that Mr. Martin champion the idea of a yearly summit of the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States in order to give common economic, social, and security issues the priority they deserve in a continental, hemispheric, and global context.”
Apparently, Martin was listening, because one of the signatories of this letter was none other than a vice chairman of the CCCE and then-CEO of Canfor Corporation, Canada’s largest softwood lumber producer, David L. Emerson. Emerson would go on to be Martin’s Minister of Industry.
When the CCCE’s two-year initiative ended, it formed a new task force, called the “Independent Task Force on the Future of North America” in conjunction with the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S.’s most powerful think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded by the Rockefeller and Morgan families in 1921.
This task force released a statement on March 14, 2005 entitled, “Trinational call for a North American economic and security community by 2010.” In the Trinational Call, it was recommended that the North America nations create “a community defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter,” and to “harmonize” the areas of energy, security, education, military, immigration, resources, and the economy.
Nine days after this recommendation was issued, Bush, Martin, and Fox signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), and in the joint statement explained it would, “implement common border security and bioprotection [enhanced surveillance] strategies, enhance critical infrastructure protection, implement a common approach to emergency response, implement improvements in aviation and maritime security, combat transnational threats, enhance intelligence partnerships, promote sectoral collaboration in energy, transportation, financial services, technology, and other areas to facilitate business, [and] reduce the costs of trade.” The SPP agreement oversees the creation of SPP “working groups” in each country, which have a mandate of overseeing “harmonization,” or “integration,” in over 300 policy areas.
Two months later, in May of 2005, the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America released a document titled, “Building a North American Community,” of which Canadian Task Force members included D’Aquino, Wendy Dobson, professor at University of Toronto and former president of the C.D. Howe Institute, Allan Gotlieb (former Canadian Ambassador to the United States as well as being Chairman of the CCCE), and John Manley, former Liberal deputy prime minister.
The report’s recommendations included initiatives to establish “a common security perimeter by 2010, develop a North American Border Pass [North American ID card] with biometric identifiers, expand NORAD into a multi-service defense command,” share intelligence, develop Mexico’s energy resources, “harmonize” areas of energy, education, military, foreign policy, immigration, health, expand “temporary” migrant worker programs, and adopt a common external tariff.
In 2002, based in Montreal, the North American Forum on Integration (NAFI) was formed, which, according to their website, “aims to address the issues raised by North American integration as well as identify new ideas and strategies to reinforce the North American region,” and hold “NAFI organized conferences which brought together government and academic figures as well as business people.” The first conference was held in Montreal in 2003, the second in 2004 in Mexico, of which was stated on the organization’s website: “About 200 participants and conference speakers took part in the conference, [including] former Energy Minister, Mr. Felipe Calderon,” the current President of Mexico.
NAFI later organized a ‘mock’ North American Parliament, called the Triumvirate, which allows 100 Canadian, American, and Mexican university students “to better understand the North American dynamic” — the first of which took place in the Canadian Senate in May of 2005, hosted by the Triumvirate president and former ambassador Raymond Chrétien, the son of Jean Chrétien. Participating Canadian universities included Carleton, McGill, and yes, Simon Fraser University. The board of directors of NAFI includes Stephen Blank, a member of CFR and Robert Pastor, CFR member and co-chair of the Independent Task Force.
In January of 2006, the Council of the Americas and the North American Business Council issued a report titled, “Findings of the Public/Private Sector Dialogue on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” which called for the establishment of a “North American competitiveness council” to advise governments on the implementation of ‘deep integration.’ The Chairman of the Council of the Americas is former banker David Rockefeller, and top executives from J.P Morgan, Merck & Co., Chevron, McDonald’s, Shell, Citigroup, IBM, Ford, PepsiCo, Microsoft, GE, Pfizer, MetLife, Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil, Credit Suisse, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, and individuals from the U.S. Department of State.
In March of 2006, a second SPP summit was held, this time with Bush, Fox, and newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The press release (which can be found at spp.gov, “Report to Leaders August 2006”) announced the formation of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), which “provides a voice and a formal role for the private sector” whose job is to advise the SPP ministers in their respective governments. Current Canadian SPP ministers are Maxime Bernier (Foreign Affairs), Jim Prentice (Industry) and Stockwell Day (Public Safety, ha!).
The NACC is run out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and with the Council of the Americas, and is made up of corporate leaders from each of the three countries. In Canada, these corporations include Manulife Financial, Power Corporation of Canada, Ganong Bros. Ltd, Suncor Energy, Canadian National, Linamar Corporation, Bell Canada Enterprises, Home Depot, and the Bank of Nova Scotia. U.S. companies include Campbell Soup, Chevron, Ford, FedEx, GE, GM, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Procter & Gamble, UPS, Wal-Mart, and Whirlpool.
On September 12 to 14, 2006, business and government representatives from the three North American countries met in secret, with no media coverage, at the Banff Springs Hotel and convened the North American Forum. Judicial Watch, a U.S. public watchdog group got declassified government documents through a Freedom of Information Act request and made the documents available on their website. These documents reveal the discussions and membership in the secret meetings. The Canadian co-chair of the meeting was former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, and Canadian participants included Day, D’Aquino (also a member of the NACC), all NACC corporate representatives, and John Manley. In the released documents, under the forum discussion on “Border Infrastructure and Continental Prosperity,” chaired by John Manley, a startling quote was revealed: “While a vision is appealing, working on the infrastructure might yield more benefit and bring more people on board (‘evolution by stealth’).” What exactly are they evolving by stealth? Oh right, our country.
On the Canadian government’s SPP website, a list of priorities is provided which gives recommendations to be implemented by date, and then tracks their status. Under Aviation Security: “For aviation security purposes, each country has developed, is developing or may develop its own passenger assessment (no-fly) program for use on flights within, to or from that country to ensure that persons who pose a threat to aviation are monitored or denied boarding, within 24 months (June 2007).” On June 18, 2007, Canada instituted our very ‘own’ no-fly list.
On May 8, 2007, The Montreal Gazette reported that “Canada is set to raise its limits on pesticide residues on fruit and vegetables for hundreds of products. The move is part of an effort to harmonize Canadian pesticide rules with those of the United States, which allows higher residue levels for 40 per cent of the pesticides it regulates,” and that “Canadian regulators and their U.S. counterparts have been working to harmonize their pesticide regulations since 1996, as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now the effort is being fast-tracked as an initiative under the Security and Prosperity Partnership.”
The Vancouver Province reported on January 22, 2008, that “B.C. is about to become the first province to use a high-tech driver’s license. For an extra fee, it will enable drivers to cross the border into the U.S. without a passport and still comply with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concerns,” and that “the enhanced driver’s license or EDL has a radio-frequency identification chip that will broadcast a number linked to a computer database, allowing a border guard to assess data and flag security issues as drivers approach the booth.” Introduced by Gordon Campbell and Stockwell Day, this is the “biometric” card as recommended under the SPP — essentially, a North American ID card.
There is also much discussion of a common currency for North America, often called the “Amero,” much like the euro for the E.U. The Fraser Institute published a paper entitled, “The case for the Amero.” The C.D. Howe Institute followed that with the publication, “From fixing to monetary union: options for North American currency integration.” In May of 2007, as reported by The Globe and Mail, David Dodge, then-governor of the Bank of Canada, said, “North America could one day embrace a euro-style single currency.” The Globe reported in November of 2007 that Stephen Jarislowsky, board member of C.D. Howe, told a parliamentary committee, “Canada should replace its dollar with a North American currency, or peg it to the U.S. greenback.”
The SPP is not about “security” or “prosperity” (except for the very few over the many), but is rather about forming a North American Union. When Vicente Fox recently appeared on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart asked him about NAFTA, of which Fox stated, “NAFTA’s been good. As a matter of fact we should have a new vision, go further, integrating,” and Fox went on to discuss the “solidarity” of the European Union. When asked if he wanted a North American Union, and if it would include Canada, Fox said, “Long term, yes.” On May 16, 2002 Fox spoke at Club 21 in Madrid, and stated, “Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish with the United States, but also with Canada, our other regional partner, an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union.”
Mussolini has been attributed as once saying, “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” Gandhi once said, “A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or party but only of democracy.” So are those behind the SPP listening to, Gandhi or Mussolini?
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8375
Israel is also signed into the SPP, so it's a new province of Canada too. _________________________________
Canada and Israel have signed a far-reaching public security cooperation agreement.
The agreement, described as a "Partnership", involves a "Declaration of Intent" by the two governments. The Declaration was signed in Tel Aviv on March 23:
"Today, the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety Canada and Avi Dicter, Minister of Public Security of the Government of the State of Israel, signed a Declaration of Intent to enhance cooperation in the area of public safety.
"The Government of Canada is committed to enhancing the security of Canadians - both through our actions at home and with our international partners." said Minister Day. "Today's declaration demonstrates the longstanding cooperation between Canada and Israel on public safety issues, and we welcome this increased cooperation in order to improve our countries' capacity to protect our citizens."
This declaration will allow Canada and Israel to better enhance cooperation in the areas of organized crime, emergency management, crime prevention, and other related public safety concerns. The declaration seeks to establish a more structured framework for the continued cooperation on public safety issues between Canada and Israel.
"The Declaration of Intent is an opportunity for Canada and Israel to strengthen their commitment to safeguarding their citizens and respective national interests from common threats," said Minister Dicter." www.ps-sp.gc.ca/app_support/xml/ps_news_e.xml www.ps-sp.gc.ca/app_support/xml/ps_news_e.xml Stockwell Day, Chuck Strahl leaving politics Sat Mar 12 2011 Treasury Board president Stockwell Day — former leader of the Canadian Alliance — along with Transport Minister Chuck Strahl and Conservative MP John Cummins have announced they are leaving politics. www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/500816--stockwell-day-chuck-strahl-leaving-politicsStockwell Day was helicoptered into the Kelowna riding, a conservative shoe-in and almost a leader until the wet suit & Sea-doo incident etc. ------------------------------------- CONSPIRACY: We have been warned! QUOTE: from- RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli's speech "Organized crime mobs are targeting Parliament and other Canadian institutions in an attempt to spread corruption and political instability, says the new head of the RCMP. During a remarkably candid news conference, Commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said yesterday that criminal groups are focusing on Parliament, the courts and other institutions with the aim of "destabilizing" the political system. Commissioner Zaccardelli's startling comments were reminiscent of controversial statements made by former RCMP commissioner Norman Inkster in the 1980s." The Politics of MurderIn a nutshell, the following is the only explanation that fits all of the criteria and circumstance found in this case. Shannon Murrin appears to be abducting kids for some powerful people in a manner reminiscent of an organized crime type initiation. The RCMP constructed and obstructed the case against Shannon Murrin in a manner which shields all others from investigation. Murrin takes the heat but eventually walks from the charges following allegations of Police wrongdoing. The RCMP investigate themselves for blowing the case but find no evidence of wrong doing on their part. The politician is placed in a position of power responsible for the RCMP, but refuses to follow through with any inquiry, no questions permitted, case closed! The RCMP protects the Politician from investigation and he in turn protects them and increases their powers, their numbers, and their budget. Crime pays for those whose job it is to stop crime! transfixed.net/trans/conspiracy.htm--------------------------------- Another doctor alleges 'suppression' and 'intimidation' Posted: Mar 14, 2011 5:05 PM MT Another former Edmonton doctor has stepped forward with allegations she was forced from her job and subjected to accusations of incompetence and mental instability after she complained health-care cuts were jeopardizing patient safety and lives. "Physicians can't advocate for their patients in a culture of suppression and personal intimidation," the doctor said in a prepared statement provided exclusively to CBC News. "Such a culture existed for prolonged periods during my years of tenure in Alberta." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/03/14/edmonton-second-doctor-allegations.html---------------------------- Foreign hackers break into government computers Published On Thu Feb 17 2011 OTTAWA—The federal government has stepped up its cyber security after detecting what it calls an unauthorized attempt to access its networks. CBC News reports that the attack has forced at least two key departments offline as counter-espionage agents scramble to determine how much sensitive information may have been stolen — and who stole it. The attack on the federal computer network appears widespread — including possible breaches of data at Treasury Board of Canada and Finance Canada — and originated in China, according to CBC’s sources. Reports said the hackers were able to penetrate the networks within the two departments — the economic hubs of the government — and gain access to classified federal data. The hackers reportedly infiltrated the computer systems as part of a scheme to steal key passwords that unlock entire government data systems. A spokesperson for Treasury Board President Stockwell Day confirmed there has been an attempt to breach federal networks but was tight-lipped on the extent of the breach. www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/940355--foreign-hackers-break-into-canadian-government-computers-report
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Post by clone on Mar 19, 2011 5:04:01 GMT -8
Helena Guergis got a $100 fine for not reporting her $800,000 mortgage. whew - a hundred smackers, she says she forgot. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/helena-guergis-fined-for-failure-to-report-mortgage/article1576402/ (Last updated on Friday, May. 21, 2010 7:58AM EDT)
Her husband, ex-MP Rafim Jaffer got this deal recently: Drunk driving and drug possession charges were dropped against former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer in court Tuesday, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of careless driving. Jaffer, 38, was ordered to pay a $500 fine within a month. He will also donate $500 to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, his lawyer said. www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/03/09/jaffer-case.html#ixzz0oZblUcj5 ( Last Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 11:04 PM ET)
This doesn't include Helena Guergis's blowout at the airport in February 2010 - no monetary value being a freakbitch type.
Cabinet minister throws airport tantrumCabinet minister apologizes for cursing at security staff in P.E.I. www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/771880--cabinet-minister-throws-airport-tantrum
Nor the other investigation about lobbying and blackberries. Harper, six Tory MPs on ultimate boys' night out June 20, 2006
''The idea that you can take a private jet and get tickets to Game 6, that's a pretty incredible thing to be able to do,'' said Ontario Liberal MP Mark Holland. He noted the coveted seats to the sold-out game were unavailable to the average person.
While he understands Harper has to fly on the Challenger jets for security reasons, Holland also questioned the optics of all the MPs hoping aboard the Department of Defence jet. Most Canadians, he said, would have trouble with ''the idea that you load it up with your friends and head off to a playoff game.''
Edmonton Conservative MP Laurie Hawn listed the other Tory MPs at the game as Rahim Jaffer, Kevin Sorenson, Mike Lake, James Rajotte and Manitoba MP Rob Bruinooge, who flew in from Winnipeg.
www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=40cba6a5-f035-47c6-a1df-758a5f8c6275&k=55219 Guergis takes aim at Harper Mar 17, 2011 - 1:35 PM Guergis said she attended the meeting on Parliament Hill with MP Lee Richardson and former riding association president Andy Beaudoin. Guergis believed the meeting was to discuss her return to the Conservative caucus, saying she attended the meeting "in good faith." "I really wanted to believe that," she said. She said the questions revolved around her husband, former MP Rahim Jaffer. "It was really more of an interrogation," she said. "Ninety eight per cent of the questions were about Rahim (Jaffer)." www.simcoe.com/news/article/968507--guergis-takes-aim-at-harper
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