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Let
this be a warning to all New Zealanders (who tend to be a pretty
naïve lot). This will happen here. This government will not
hesitate to use a False Flag to stay in power and to further assault
the liberties of New Zealanders
Terror
and the campaign to re-elect Stephen Harper: Walkom
Expect
more terror plots to be uncovered before Canada's October federal
election.
RYAN REMIORZ / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Don’t be surprised if more well-publicized terrorist plots are uncovered in the months leading up to the scheduled October vote. And don’t be surprised if Stephen Harper and his ministers make political hay from them, writes Thomas Walkom.
On
Tuesday, the RCMP announced they had stopped 10 alleged jihadists
from flying out of Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport.
On
Thursday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to Montreal to
re-announce increased funding for the RCMP’s anti-terror unit.
The
campaign to re-elect Canada’s Conservative government is in full
swing.
This
is not to suggest that the Mounties are actively promoting the
Conservatives. There is no evidence of that.
But
don’t be surprised if more well-publicized terrorist plots are
uncovered in the months leading up to the scheduled October vote.
And
don’t be surprised if Harper and his ministers make political hay
from them.
In
this case, the arrest of the Montreal 10 led the newscasts for
understandable reasons.
Even
before this incident, at least seven Montreal youths had reportedly
left Canada to join Islamic State militants in Syria.
Two
other young Montrealers have been charged with trying to leave Canada
to join a banned group, as well as other terror offences.
What
was odd about the latest arrests, however, is that no charges were
laid. Police seized passports from the 10. But so far they haven’t
charged them with trying to leave the country to join a terror group
— or, indeed, with anything.
They
simply let them go.
Which
means, presumably, that the Mounties don’t think these particular
alleged jihadists are very dangerous.
That
didn’t stop Public Safety Minister Stephen Blaney from praising the
RCMP for its vigilance and saying that the “international jihadist
movement” has declared war on Canada.
Nor
did it prevent Harper from holding a press conference near Montreal’s
Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport at which he opined that Canada is a
great country and chided anyone who would become a “violent
jihadist” or join any group advocating terrorism.
For
Harper’s Conservatives, playing the terror card is crucial —
particularly in Quebec. The latest CROP poll shows the Conservatives
attracting only 15 per cent of the vote in that province. But other
polls have suggested that Quebecers strongly support Harper’s tough
anti-terror stance.
The
more that terrorism can be made top-of-mind, the better the
Conservatives will do.
As
my Star colleague, Allan Woods, has reported, it is not clear why so
many high profile terror arrests have been made in Montreal.
Perhaps
there are more aspiring jihadists in that city. Or perhaps the
Mounties are more aggressive in their pursuit of terrorism there.
Whatever
the reason, the result should benefit the Tories politically.
This
isn’t the first time that RCMP criminal investigations have had
political implications.
In
1999, the Mounties, accompanied by a television crew, raided the home
of then British Columbia’s NDP premier Glen Clark. Clark was
charged with breach of trust and accepting a benefit. His political
career was destroyed. The New Democrats were trounced in the next
election.
Three
years later, Clark was acquitted of all charges.
A
month before the 2006 federal election, the RCMP announced they were
undertaking a criminal investigation of then federal finance minister
Ralph Goodale over the leak of confidential tax information about
so-called income trusts.
That
scandal eventually turned out to be less than it seemed. Goodale and
his aides were eventually vindicated, although a senior bureaucrat
was charged and convicted.
But
the income-trust affair did help sink Paul Martin’s Liberal
government, allowing Harper to become prime minister.
An
independent investigation into the Mounties’ handling of the affair
found that the force had broken no rules because there were none to
break.
No
party is completely spared the fallout from RCMP investigations. The
force’s decision to charge former Conservative senator Mike Duffy
for allegedly accepting a bribe from former Harper top aide Nigel
Wright has done the prime minister no good.
But
the puzzling decision not to charge Wright for offering that alleged
bribe promises to mitigate any political damage to the Conservatives
On
the terror front, I expect we will hear of more would-be jihadists
thwarted over the next six months.
Some
of them might even face arrest.
Government
Scientists Gather To Protest Something Everybody Thought Was A
“Conspiracy”
25
May, 2015
Scientists
working for the Canadian government are starting to raise their
voices, accusing the federal government of “muzzling” them and
their findings on various issues, particularly when it comes to
climate change. Apparently, the union representing this group of
researchers will be taking “the
unusual step of demanding Ottawa enshrine scientific independence in
their collective agreement.” (source)
The
union represents 15,000 government scientists and is proposing
multiple revisions within the collective agreement, one of which
states that scientists should have the right to talk about their work
at conferences and to the media and their families – as long as
they make it clear that they are “speaking
in their personal capacity and not on behalf of the Government of
Canada.” (source)
Michael
Rennie, a scientist with the Experimental Lakes Area – an
organization that was run by by the federal government and is
now a non-profit group – said that when the organization was a
government-run facility, requests from the media vanished “99.999
percent of the time.” He went on to tell the Canadian Broadcast
Corporation (CBC) that the “communications
policy was part of a toxic work environment and that it was
disheartening for researchers not to be able to share their
work.”(source)
The
Canada Research Chair in freshwater ecology and fisheries in the
department of biology at Lakehead University also went on to state
that:
“It’s
critically important for people to understand the science that’s
being conducted, particularly within government labs, and how that
information is being used to guide the decisions
made for policy and government.” (source)
This
type of thing seems to be getting really out of hand. Not only do we
have muzzled government scientists, we also have manipulation of
scientific data, all of which leads to a misinformed public. The most
recent scientist to express this was Dr. Richard Horton, who is the
current editor-in-chief of the Lancet – considered to be one of the
most well respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. He
stated:
“The
case against science is straightforward, much of the scientific
literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Science has taken a
turn towards darkness.” (source)
You
can read more about that story here,
which includes statements from several other prominent people in
the field. We have seen a definite rise in the number of people
coming forward about this issue in recent months, with many people
making some pretty eye-opening remarks regarding the
fraudulence of a lot of cancer research coming out of respected
organizations.
The
use of pesticides is another issue (out of many within the realms of
science) which is not presented truthfully, and this problem
has been making major headlines recently, specifically when it
comes to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Billions of pounds of
it are still sprayed every year, despite the fact that it has
been banned in multiple countries. Sri Lanka is one of
the most recent countries to make the change, after they discovered a
deadly link to kidney disease. You can read more about that and view
the published research here.
Here is
an article I wrote on a study conducted that showed how Roundup
herbicide is more than 100 percent toxic then regulators have
claimed.
There
are also several comments floating around the public domain alluding
to similar happenings:
“It
is commonly believed that Roundup is among the safest pesticides…
Despite its reputation, Roundup was by far the most toxic among the
herbicides and insecticides tested. This inconsistency
between scientific fact and industrial claim may be attributed to
huge economic interests, which have been found to falsify health risk
assessments and delay health policy decisions.” – R.
Mesnage et al., Biomed Research International, Volume 2014 (2014)
article ID 179691
How Deep Does The Secrecy Go & Why?
The
information below deals with a secrecy that is probably a “secrecy
of a different kind” from what the scientists in this article are
speaking about. Based on my research, government (or corporate)
secrecy is very compartmentalized and has several different levels of
“weirdness.”
Not
many people have investigated the world of secrecy. In 2013, NSA
intelligence contractor Edward Snowden leaked the first documentation
that proved the existence of a clandestine black budget. In 2010,
Washington Post journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin did a two
year investigation and determined that America’s classified world
has “become
so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much
money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs
exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same
work.” (source)
Black
budget programs are commonly referred to as Special Access Programs
(SAP), and their existence, if not their subject matter, is
public knowledge. There are, however, certain SAPs which are waived
and unacknowledged. These programs do not exist publicly, instead
operating entirely under the radar, and a 1997 US Senate report
described them as “so
sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements
to the congress.” (source)
On
July 16, 2001, in front of the house appropriations committee,
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated that “the
financial systems of the department of defence are so snarled up that
we can’t account for some $2.6 trillion in transactions that exist,
if that’s believable.” (source)
Another
person who investigated these programs was aviation journalist Bill
Sweetman, who pointed to the fact even the highest members of
government and the highest ranking officials in the military are
unaware of their existence. He determined that most of these programs
were actually dominated by private contractors like Lockheed Martin
(to name one of many). (1)
Here
is a statement from one of the highest ever ranking members of the
Canadian government:
“It
is ironic that the U.S. would begin a devastating war, allegedly in
search of weapons of mass destruction, when the most worrisome
developments in this field are occurring in your own backyard. It is
ironic that the U.S. should be fighting monstrously expensive wars,
allegedly to bring democracy to those countries, when it itself can
no longer claim to be called a democracy, when trillions, and I mean
thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects which
both congress and the commander in chief know nothing
about.” (source) –
Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister
According
to historian Richard Dolan, the U.S government alone classifies more
than 500 million pages of documents every single year. If a scholar
wanted to research political, historical, scientific, or any other
type of archival work, it would prove difficult and limiting to say
the least, seeing that most of their government’s activities are
kept a secret. You can read more about what he refers to as the
“Breakaway Civilization” here.
It’s
also noteworthy to add here that invention secrecy is at an all time
high. New documents obtained via the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) have revealed how the Patent Office has been using a secret
system to withhold the approval of some applications. You can read
more about that story here.
So,
as you can see, this just scratches the surface of the world of
secrecy in which we live. This reality is not easy to accept,
but it’s something that more people are becoming aware of every
day. Secrecy is not secret, and in a world where we all worked
together and co-existed in peace, we would have nothing but
transparency.
Sources:
(1)
Sweetman, Bill. “In Search of the Pentagon’s Billion Dollar
Hidden Budgets: How the US Keeps Its R&D Spending Under Wraps.”
Janes International Defence Reporter, Janurary 5, 2000
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