My Canada
Tuesday, March 29
Coalition Government: Five Stars
Coalition 
Labels: Canadian politics, Coalition Government, democracy, rights
¶ 3/29/2011 10:56:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
Tuesday, May 25
Sunday, February 7
Actual Explosion of Connecticut 620 Megawatt Gas Fired Power Plant
¶ 2/07/2010 05:31:00 PM 0 Comments
Links to this post
Thursday, January 21
Haiti Earthquake Cuban Doctors Provide Essential Care
¶ 1/21/2010 10:09:00 PM 0 Comments
Links to this post
Monday, December 14
Canadian Diplomat Alleges Troops in Afghanistan Were Complicit in Torture
Twas the season of approaching Christmas when not a mouse was stirring in the Canadian House of Parliament, but a single brave Canadian Diplomat stopped Canadians dead in their tracks. Allegations of Canadian Troops involved in the complicity of the torture of Afghani detainees shocked the Canadian public. Disbelief registered on their faces and in their voices as they sounded off on radio and television. How could this happen?
Richard Colvin, who was second in command at Canada's Kabul embassy in 2006 and 2007, said that Afghans swept up in security sweeps by Canadian troops during that time were routinely handed over to Afghan intelligence services.
"According to our information, the likelihood is that all Afghans we handed over were tortured," Colvin told Canada's parliament.
"For interrogators in Kandahar, it was standard procedure."
In other words we detained and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people.
Needless to say, the Generals, Defense Minister Peter Mackay and his tory elves led the fray to deny the alleged charges. Whips cracked.
Colvin was intimidated and threatened and prevented from testifiying.
Twas the season of approaching Christmas when not a mouse was stirring in the Canadian House of Parliament, but a single brave Canadian Diplomat stopped Canadians dead in their tracks. Allegations of Canadian Troops involved in the complicity of the torture of Afghani detainees shocked the Canadian public. Disbelief registered on their faces and in their voices as they sounded off on radio and television. How could this happen?
Richard Colvin, who was second in command at Canada's Kabul embassy in 2006 and 2007, said that Afghans swept up in security sweeps by Canadian troops during that time were routinely handed over to Afghan intelligence services.
"According to our information, the likelihood is that all Afghans we handed over were tortured," Colvin told Canada's parliament.
"For interrogators in Kandahar, it was standard procedure."
In other words we detained and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people.
Needless to say, the Generals, Defense Minister Peter Mackay and his tory elves led the fray to deny the alleged charges. Whips cracked.
Colvin was intimidated and threatened and prevented from testifiying.
Labels: Afghan detainees, Canada, Conservatives, Peter Mackay, torture
¶ 12/14/2009 09:54:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
Tuesday, February 24
Canadian Values Under Attack by Conservative Government
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
This is how "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" describe the situation:The masses are "accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way, we shall create a blind mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents...The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratification and the receipt of all kinds of benefits." ("Protocols of Zion" 10)
As a conscientious objector, I Sandra Petrich (Fatima Zohar) object through the power of "free speech" and the "sword of the pen" the shameful antics of the Conservative Party in the House of Parliament (February 24, 09).I was sickened by these members who take it upon themselves to practice intimidation, to punish and to censor Canadian citizens who speak out against Israel. Shame on you! It reminded me of Austria in the 1930's.
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
- Cicero Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC
This is how "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" describe the situation:The masses are "accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way, we shall create a blind mighty force which will never be in a position to move in any direction without the guidance of our agents...The people will submit to this regime because it will know that upon these leaders will depend its earnings, gratification and the receipt of all kinds of benefits." ("Protocols of Zion" 10)
As a conscientious objector, I Sandra Petrich (Fatima Zohar) object through the power of "free speech" and the "sword of the pen" the shameful antics of the Conservative Party in the House of Parliament (February 24, 09).I was sickened by these members who take it upon themselves to practice intimidation, to punish and to censor Canadian citizens who speak out against Israel. Shame on you! It reminded me of Austria in the 1930's.
My hero today is Khalad Mouammar and the Canadian Arab Federation. I thank you for your protest in support of Gaza and for your courage in speaking out against Israeli atrocities.
Labels: Canadian Arab Federation, Canadian values, Gaza, Khaled Mouammar, Zionism
¶ 2/24/2009 05:07:00 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
Sunday, January 4
Israel Aggression Upon Gaza Strip: Brutal Insanity
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Hamas has held the people of Gaza hostage ever since their illegal coup against the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas seized control of Gaza from Abbas' Fatah forces in 2007 and Abbas set up a rival government in the West Bank."
Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a visit to the municipality of the southern city of Ashdod December 31, 2008. Israel on Wednesday rebuffed French calls for a 48-hour humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip and stepped up preparations for a possible ground offensive after Hamas's long-range rockets hit a major population centre.
REUTERS/Nikola Solic (ISRAEL)
REUTERS/Nikola Solic (ISRAEL)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, "Hamas has held the people of Gaza hostage ever since their illegal coup against the forces of President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas seized control of Gaza from Abbas' Fatah forces in 2007 and Abbas set up a rival government in the West Bank."Rice charged Hamas "has used Gaza as a launching pad" for firing rockets into the Jewish state and that, as a result, the Palestinians in Gaza have had "a very bad daily life." She said the U.S. supports a "durable and sustainable" cease-fire, but any end to fighting would depend on the willingness of Hamas to stop firing rockets into Israel.
My question to Rice is, "Who made Israel and the United States, the co-dictators of the world? Who gives Israel and the United States the authority to judge what human being or organization can be stuck with the sticky label of "terrorist?" If one applies the protocol of counterterrorism, then by that doctrine is not Israel a terrorist organization.
Labels: Aggression. Benjamin Netanyahu, Gaza Strip, Israel, War
¶ 1/04/2009 12:32:00 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
