Leadnow.ca has brought to light some more information about how the present Harper Government is beginning to use backroom threats against companies in Canada in order to avoid any media scrutiny.

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This week, we learned that the Harper Government is using closed-door intimidation tactics against Canadian charities. They’re trying to silence groups that question our government’s plans to push the Enbridge western pipeline and supertankers project through overwhelming local opposition, and recklessly expand the tar sands at all costs.

A whistleblower just revealed that the Prime Minister’s Office threatened to revoke the charitable status of Tides Canada if they continue their support for ForestEthics, an environmental group that has engaged thousands of Canadians in the public hearings about the Enbridge project.[1]

According to the whistleblower, a former senior communications manager for ForestEthics named Andrew Frank, the Prime Minister’s Office told Tides Canada they consider ForestEthics to be an “enemy of the Government of Canada” because of the group’s opposition to the Enbridge pipeline and tar sands expansion.[1]

This is about more than our jobs and environment. It’s about our rights and our democracy, and we need to speak out now. Together, we can stop these closed-door intimidation tactics by shining a bright light of public attention on our government’s actions.

Click here to tell Prime Minister Harper to stop the threats and ensure fair hearings for Canadians, then please forward this important message far and wide.

http://www.leadnow.ca/stop-the-threats

While we don’t know exactly what was said behind closed doors, the Globe and Mail reports that the Harper Government has called ForestEthics a group “acting against the government of Canada and people of Canada” in private meetings designed to intimidate charitable funders.[2] And Peter Robinson, the Chief Executive Officer of the David Suzuki Foundation, says that environmental groups are “right to worry” that the government will threaten the charitable status of groups they disagree with in order to shut down debate.[3]

The latest threats are part of a much larger pattern. Internal documents from March 2011 outline the Harper Government’s strategy to spend Canadian tax dollars on a PR and lobbying campaign to derail Europe’s climate and environmental policy. The foreign lobbying strategy lists First Nations and environmental groups as the government’s “adversaries,” while oil companies, industry associations, and the National Energy Board are listed as the government’s “allies.”[4]

Our government’s job is to provide a free and open forum for Canadians to hear the arguments and evidence for and against the Enbridge western pipeline and oil supertanker project, so that together we can decide whether or not the project is in Canada’s best interests. 
Instead, Prime Minister Harper is abusing the power of government to silence Canadians who are concerned about a project that will kill jobs, destabilize the climate and threaten our salmon and coast.

Click here to tell Prime Minister Harper to stop the threats and ensure fair hearings:

 http://www.leadnow.ca/stop-the-threats

The public hearings about the Enbridge western pipeline and supetanker project are now severely compromised in three ways:

1. The Harper Government has directly biased the hearings with a massive PR campaign to discredit environmental organizations as “foreign special interests” and “radical groups” while privately threatening Canadian charities.[5]

2. The National Energy Board has stacked the deck for the Enbridge western pipeline and supertanker hearings by issuing a directive that muzzles any discussion about the environmental impacts of the tar sands. In this way, they’ve ensured the hearings will overstate the benefits of the pipeline by ignoring the major costs of expanding the tar sands.[6]

3. The National Energy Board has committed to “consult” with First Nations, but it has not committed to respect the rights of First Nations to “free, prior and informed consent” over any project that affects their territory. Over 70 First Nations groups, covering the entire proposed path of the pipeline and much of the BC coast, have already stood together to oppose the project.[7,8]

We are seeing a radical shift in our national conversation, an aggressive attempt to poison the well of debate with public smears and private threats against organizations that Canadians have built to help us all have a voice on the issues that matter.

We need your help to speak out and tell Prime Minister Harper that Canadians will not be silenced. Click here to take action:

http://www.leadnow.ca/stop-the-threats

Thanks for all you do. 

With hope and respect,
Matthew, Jamie, Emma, Julia, Jen, Ryan and Adam on behalf of Leadnow.ca

P.S. –  Emma Pullman, Leadnow’s research director, has found very close ties between industry front-group EthicalOil.org, the Sun Media network and the Prime Minister’s Office that suggest they have a coordinated strategy to create an echo chamber for pro-oil industry and anti-environmental group talking points. You can learn more here: http://www.desmogblog.com/friends-benefits-harper-government-ethicaloil-org-and-sun-media-connection

Sources:

1. Affidavit accuses Prime Minister’s Office of threatening environmental charity
   http://www.globaltvbc.com/canada/affidavit+accuses+prime+ministers+office+of+threatening+environmental+charity/6442566233/story.html
2. Environmentalist’s departure sheds light on tension felt by green groups
   http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/activists-dismissal-raises-the-temperature-in-pipeline-debate/article2313991/
3. Attack on “radicals” sign of tougher federal strategy
   http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/01/11/pol-gateway-pipeline-strategy.html
4. Feds list First Nations, green groups as oilsands “adversaries”
   http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Feds+list+First+Nations+green+groups+oilsands+adversaries/6054920/story.html
5. ”Scary time” for Canada
   http://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/01/25/scary-time-canada
6. Canadian pipeline needs aboriginal consent: chief
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-aboriginals-idUSTRE80O1SC20120125
7. Save the Fraser Declaration
   http://savethefraser.ca
8. Whistleblower’s Open Letter to Canadians
   http://www.scribd.com/doc/79228736/Whistleblower-s-Open-Letter-to-Canadians
9. PMO branded environmental group an ‘enemy’ of Canada, affidavit says
   http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1120800–pmo-branded-environmental-group-an-enemy-of-canada-affidavit-says
10. Affidavit accuses Prime Minister’s Office of threatening environmental charity
    http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/greenpage/affidavit-accuses-prime-ministers-office-of-threatening-environmental-charity-137994418.html
11. Affidavit accuses PMO of threatening environmental group
    http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120124/pmo-affidavit-environment-120124/

Leadnow.ca is an independent community that brings Canadians together to hold government accountable, deepen our democracy and take action for the common good.

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Thanks-you to Leadnow for their great investigative work. With the evil Harper Government it is always what they do and never what they say.

Thankfully the Young Communist League has not been sleeping while the Conservatives have been busy with their backroom plotting.

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CETA: Stop negotiations immediately and scrap the deal!

Young Communist League demands a Charter of Youth Rights, not Corporate Rights

Shrouded in secrecy, the Harper Conservative government, the European Union, and major trans-national corporations recently concluded the final round of negotiations for the largest free-trade agreement in Canada’s history since NAFTA.

The Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is a over-arching Bill of Rights for big business – at the expense of all the non-corporate population, not least youth and students. The Agreement is now being ‘fine tuned’ by representatives of government and big business for release in Spring 2012.

Negotiations began in May 2009 and the agreement has attracted opposition from a broad range of labour, youth and student, and other community groups who have come together in the Trade Justice Network in English-speaking Canada and Réseau Québécois sur l’Intégration Continentale (RQIC) in Quebec.

Youth, young worker and student organizations urgently need to reinforce their vocal full opposition to CETA.

CETA is a dangerously far-reaching free trade agreement with serious danger to the future of the youth. CETA would prohibit most tariffs between Canada and the EU while extending “behind the border” to change various non-trade related government policies that may impact corporate profits such as differences (however small) in labour, health, education, intellectual “property”, cultural, farming, public safety or environmental rules and regulations. This is a direct attack on the democratic sovereignty of all peoples inCanada.

CETA will increase the oppression and exploitation of the youth and students acrossCanadaandEurope. Its danger must be exposed to the working people and all civil society, and the agreement stopped!

Highlights of what the CETA could potentially do:

• effectively abolish the democratic ability of Canadian municipalities, school boards, hospitals, universities, provincial agencies and Crown corporations, as well as the people of Québec and current or future self-governing Aboriginal communities, to control purchases of local goods and services ensuring local workers are hired;

• entrench the “rights” of capital – investors and private corporations – to attack and potentially abolish Canadian laws and all regulations (ie. environmental, social, etc);

• privatize drinking water (including municipal procurement of water services like sewers and sanitation) by comprehensively covering these items for the first time in Canadian trade negotiations,

• lock-in full and partial water utility privatizations making these services virtually impossible to bring back into public hands;

• force privatization of other public services like liquor stores and Canada Post by transnational corporations;

• allow corporations to crack into the goldmine of Post-Secondary Education (PSE) and further erode PSE’s status as a right and a public service, not a commodity to be bought and sold on the market;

• threaten the integrity of our post-secondary education research programs, with private companies suing students who whistle-blow unethical research practices;

• attack Aboriginal people’s treaty rights and sovereignty and self-determination with the agreements sweeping scope, such as foreign industries operating in First Nations, Inuit and Métis lands, territories and water;

• undermine already tepid government policy on Climate Change and Green House Gasses, such as the Green Energy Act;

• entrench the low, crisis-creating commitments to sustainable development in existing Canadian and European trade agreements, protecting capital from democratic regulations and to lock-in unsustainable trading patterns;

• stop the EU from passing regulation to differentiate products based on their “carbon content” such as Alberta Tar Sands oil vs. conventional oil;

• allow EU energy companies added investment protections to stop any regulation of the Tar Sands – the largest single industrial polluter project on the planet.

• skyrocket prescription drug costs by at least $2.8 billion per year

CETA and the crisis of capitalism

The idea that CETA will somehow moveCanadacloser to the “European model” of social programmes is very misleading.

The CETA is being negotiated in the framework of a prolonged structural crisis of capitalism. Every advance of the working class is basically under attack. This trade agreement is therefore not just another poisonous recipe from the book of the neo-liberal cooks (whose attack has already undermined accessible, quality public education, employment for youth and many other issues that have already left the scars of vicious ‘reforms’ on the backs of the people). With the current prolonged break-down in the World Trade Organization (WTO) “Doharound” of negotiations, imperialism must find another way forward to mega-profits.

The major capitalist powers of the European Union (which are undergoing a turbulent internal struggle in the face of the so-called “Euro-zone debt crisis”) are also desperately seeking plunder and profit – likeLibya’s oil resources or penetrating Canadian markets with the CETA.  Despite the rivalries between different states, these bourgeois governments are united in their attack on the working people and the youth.

On the other hand, Canadian imperialism is also pursuing a very determined response to the economic crisis. This also includes increased military spending, deepened participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), cunningly extending the occupation inAfghanistan, and most recently the deadly bombing ofLibya.  The Canadian government has no money for social programmes or the crisis on Aboriginal reserves but millions for bombs.  

On the economic levelCanadais pushing self-described “aggressive attempts” to secure foreign markets beyond theUSAand strengthen its investment position in the so-called developing or emerging economies as well as the European Union. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement is a ‘jewel in the crown’ of this strategy of Canadian imperialism.

The “Global Commerce Strategy”

In association with the 2009 federal budget, the Harper Conservative government launched its “Global Commerce Strategy.”  Therefore, after a lull in Free Trade agreements following NAFTA Canada has signed agreements withHonduras(Aug 2011),Colombia(Aug 2011),Panama(May 2010),Jordan(June 2009),Peru(Aug 2009) and the earlier Canada-European Free Trade Association (July 2009) withIceland,Norway,SwitzerlandandLiechtenstein.

It is important to note that Canada is also quietly in negotiation with a number of other trade-blocks and countries including the so-called Andean community, the Caribbean community, the Central American Four (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua), as well as Morocco, India, South Korea and Singapore.  These agreements underscore the links of Canadian capital to Latin America and the Caribbean – linkages that are challenged by new developments like the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the progressive Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), and now Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

There has also been a marked increase of Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection agreements with the Harper Conservatives signing deals in Kuwait (Sept. 2011), Slovakia (July 2010), Bahrain (Feb. 2010), Jordan (Dec. 2009), Czech Republic (May 2009), Romania (May 2009), Latvia (May 2009), Madagascar (Aug. 2008), and Peru (June 2007).  Negotiations are ongoing in five Asian countries and fourAfricastates.

CETA is a new kind of free trade creature

This blitzkrieg of trade agreements underscores two points. First, for Canadian capital (and also the capitalists of the European Union) the CETA agreement is a special prize because it allows access to advanced state-monopoly economies not just the “emerging” or “developing” economies (although in terms of the balance of economic power, Canadian capital is in a much weaker negotiating position).

Secondly, while it may seem like there is increasing elimination of “trade protectionism,” these developments actually reflect the sharpening rivalries across the entire imperialist pyramid as the capitalists try to manage their way out of the crisis (while maximizing the situation to attack working people).  Canadian big business is now dealing with its overwhelming main market, theUnited States, adopting the “Buy American” strategy by the US Congress showing the one-sided nature of NAFTA.

In fact CETA is a new kind of free trade agreement going well beyond the issues dealt with in NAFTA, to address changes in the nature of the global economy, including multinational production chains involving components, intellectual “property” and investment from a variety of countries. This is why it is referred to as “comprehensive.” This is very dangerous for students and young workers.

Attack on students

Already various international agreements have greatly increasing the sheer volume of international students, paying far higher fees on two-tier tuition rates as potential cash cows for an under-funded system. There is also the market-oriented delivery of education by monopoly capital like cross-border e-learning, the franchising of offshore campuses, and the sale of curricula and course materials overseas are all features of an emerging multi-billion dollar trade in education. Education privatization is a gold-mine for capital – an area it can rapidly increase profits.

Thus now is the time to right the alarm bells like the student movement did towards the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which became the WTO negotiations.  The same attack agenda characterizes CETA.  The EU trade negotiators have clearly said that “Health care and education is on the table to the extent that it is open for commercial activity.”

CETA may likely bring across the Atlantic the dangerous Lisbon Strategy and Bologna Treaty which students acrossEuropeare now rallying against. These agreements are a sweeping and anti-democratic plan to standardize education acrossEuropeintroducing new student fees (often where none existed before) increased private investment and, in most cases, the removal of local governments’ ability to set tuition, funding and research policies.

Education will function in the interest of capital, not for the emancipation of youth. This is producing a deeper hierarchical and elitist categorization between European Post-Secondary Education institutions. Similar processes are already at work inCanada.

Attack on young workers

Young workers in Canadahave already faced the devastating impact of Free Trade in the form of NAFTA which also promised “economic prosperity” and instead allowed for the asset-stripping of Canada’s industry by finance capital at the expense of the working class who were left at the end with increased exploitation.

NAFTA has sucked the country of manufacturing jobs, for example effectively terminating the Auto Pact protecting workers in the auto industry. The future of millions of young workers has now been limited unemployment – or low-paying, non-union, “service sector” jobs, that are generally dangerous and precarious work.

Democratic sovereignty has been severely limited with environmental regulations shredded, for example the over-turn of the dangerous gasoline additive MMT under corporate pressure in the context of NAFTA regulations. Control over our resources, such as the nationalization of energy, is effectively prohibited by NAFTA. On the other hand, the agreement has set-up a scenario for further negotiations sometimes called the “Security, Peace and Prosperity Partnership” (SPP) with theUSandMexico. The SPP includes “deep integration,” funnellingCanada’s resource wealth into US corporate pockets. 

InMexico, NAFTA has created a social-economic crisis, especially in rural communities. The end result has been the breaking up communities and families as millions of people search for jobs in the North. These immigrant and migrant workers are treated like second-class citizens or forced labour in theUSAandCanada.

In short, NAFTA shows free trade agreements like CETA to be a dead-end solution for working people and youth.  The European Union states have already launched a full-scale attack on workers over the past decade with the imposition of the Stability and Growth Pact, the Lisbon Strategy and especially the Bolkestein Directive which are all against the youth, workers and people’s rights.

Struggle is the way forward!

Imperialism has never forgotten the failed Multi-lateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) – agreements which were both defeated in the context of mass public mobilization – and have openly said CETA is a step towards a multi-lateral agreement. But whereas the FTAA was described as “NAFTA on steroids,” CETA could be considered NAFTA on crack.

Imperialism is forced to sign trade deals by the drive for an increasing rate of profit. These deals cannot be amended with a more human or socially-just approach. Unity and resistance rejecting these agreements is the only realistic and effective strategy.  Our future can not be stolen from us! We can not be reduced to beggars in our lands!

The YCL calls upon all progressive youth to work as quickly as we can break the silence about the danger of CETA through mass education, and sound the alarm bell through broad visible mobilization, standing with the labour movement. Provincial governments, which must sign on to CETA, are also vulnerable to pressure.  We urge the youth and student movement to seek out as many ways possible to integrate opposition towards this new scourge of Free Trade deals into our daily and immediate struggles!

The major cross-Canada mobilization the students called by the Canadian Federation of Students for February 2011 is fully supported by the YCL-LJC. This is an opportunity to ‘think globally’ and raise this issue. Likewise, the general student strike planned by Québec students in March 2011 can and must connect with the cross-Canada and international-level attack on education.

The Young Communist League categorically opposes CETA agreement and calls for total disengagement byCanada, the immediate abolition of the agreement, as well as full disclosure of negotiations. Drop-out now!

All imperialist agreements must be abrogated – including NAFTA and NATO – in favour of economic relations that break with the policies of the corporate pirates and instead enshrine values of peace, disarmament and non-proliferation; ecology and climate justice; friendship between peoples; mutual respect of sovereignty; and solidarity in our common struggles. This requires a new, transformational framework, with revolutionary scope based on people’s needs, and people’s power.  If socialistCuba, a poor country, can send doctors around the world – why can’tCanada?

The Young Communist League supports the call for a Charter of Youth Rights, not corporate rights, to guarantee a life with a future for the youth.

Central Executive Committee
Young Communist League of Canada

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 Fortunately the New Global Communist Party will manifest itself Globally and rid the Planet Earth of all private education and corporations – just for starters -.

As for Stupid Stephen Harper and his motley crew of moronic lackey’s , well ” I’ll believe a Corporation is entitled to Human Rights the day I see one executed or imprisoned for life.”

 A simple year this year.

 Within 2 months the book entitled New Global Communist Manifesto: Construct of Human Civilization Level One will be released for the public ( it will be disributed for translation and free distribution Globally). After that we will be arranging for all court files to be prepared by a third party in order to file our lawsuit against Booksurge/Amazon to prevent their continued practice of Global Book Censorship. That is all that is on the agenda for 2012.

 Exciting political changes predicted for Canada

We are all aware that the New Deomocratic Party has abandoned it’s Socailist policies and is therefore no longer any different than the Federal Liberal Party. It no longer merits existence and is responsible for the fragmentation of the Left. As the New Democrats do not seem enthused about joining their former rivals we must encourage the creation of a new Party.

The New Liberal Party of Canada – this will be the party that results from the merging of the New Democratic Party and the Liberal Party.

 In terms of Communism, it should be possible to inspire through the release of the New Global Communist Manifesto, a merging of all the fringe Communist organizations into the New Global Communist political party. Only time will tell where the party will be offically launched. Personally I would be delighted to see it launched here in Canada although the fragmentation between the multitute of Communist organizations within Canada might cause considerable delay.

Getting rid of the crazy Conservatives from Canada

 It is not difficiult to rid Canada of the Harper Government. We only require an honest sex offender – one targeted through the illegal amendments that were recently added to the criminal code – to challenge any conviction based on the violation of the Canadian Charter and the Constitution. After this sex offender is victorious and all illgal amendments are struck from the code, the way will be cleared for a massive class-action civil suit on behalf of all the innocent victims targeted by the Harper Government thorugh these illegal amnedments. This civil victory will result in a settlement so vast that it will be impossible for the Harper Government to pay it and it will go “out to pasture” to join its previous incarnation the Reform Party.

Result: Law and order is restored to Canada and the policial scene is cleansed for good.

 Hi Guys.

 Do you remember this post?

16 February 2008

Conservatives Attempt to Outlaw Abortion in Canada

And this one?

19 November 2008

Conservative Policy Convention: Banning abortions back on the table

Here’s the latest one Below

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AFL-CIO America’s Union Movement Has A Message For The Holidays

I wish that today I could send you a cheerful message with good news, wish you a wonderful holiday season and reflect on the incredible work we’ve done in the past year.

But we can’t rest and recharge: Six million unemployed workers are counting on us to keep on fighting for them, and we won’t let them down.

Please call Speaker Boehner at

202-225-0600

Tell the person who picks up the phone: “Speaker Boehner should be ashamed of himself. He needs to get his House in order, stop the partisan games and extend unemployment aid immediately.”

The two things House Republicans seem to be most passionate about are protecting millionaires from having to pay taxes and cutting unemployment benefits for jobless workers.

All 229 House members who voted yesterday to cut off unemployment benefits were Republicans. They should be ashamed of themselves. Once again they’ve blocked survival aid for men and women who want to work but can’t find jobs in this brutal economy. If House Republicans continue to block action, nearly 2 million people will lose unemployment benefits in January alone. How can they sit back and enjoy the holidays?

Please pick up the phone and call Speaker Boehner at   202-225-0600  

 Tell him to extend unemployment aid immediately.

Thank you for being a voice for jobless workers, and for all the work you do.

In Solidarity,

Richard L. Trumka
President, AFL-CIO

P.S. 89 Senators—Democrats and Republicans—voted to extend unemployment this weekend. House Republicans have a decision to make. They can continue standing with the wealthiest one percent by taking directions from the most extreme of the Tea Partiers, or they can come to their senses and start standing up for working people and paying attention to the jobs crisis.

Please call John Boehner and ask him: What’s wrong with Tea Party Republicans in the House—and why can’t they get anything done for working families? His number is 202-225-0600

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 So if you reside in the Unied States of America – not only do you have my sympathy – but make sure you phone the Speaker and fill him in your thoughts for the Holidays.

 Below is a tale of words for Canadians from The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien PC, OM, CC, QC

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Morning Buzz

Abortion, gay marriage could be next on chopping block, Chrétien warns

Stupid Stephen Harper is at it again. He despises Canadian Culture so much that he sells the C.B.C. The evil Conservative government have been planning to be able to exercise complete control over Canadian Media for quite sometime. We seen it here

No Free Press: Stephen Harper planned to create a means of direct government control of Canadian media

And when that plan failed we had to deal with Stupid Stephen Harper bringing up the Fox News

Stop Fox News North: Controversy (Faux News)

 Now it looks like they have actally sold the C.B.C. so that we will lose the Canadian Culture and any independent media in our country. Stupid Stephen Harper wants all Western Media to be privately owned by a Billionaire and not to be owned by the taxpayers.

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On May 3rd, just one day after the Conservative Party won a majority government, Heritage Minister James Moore said:

“We believe in the national public broadcaster. We have said that we will maintain or increase support for the CBC. That is our platform and we have said that before and will commit to that”.

Minister Moore’s remarks echoed the words of dozens of Conservative MPs who made the same pledge to local voters before and during the election. Yet, just a few months later, Moore changed his tune. During an appearance on the CBC Radio program Q, Moore lowered the boom on the CBC:

“The CBC has to do its part. The idea that the CBC can’t find five per cent efficiencies . . . to give back to the broader economic framework is silly. Of course the CBC will be part of this overall process.”

Since that statement, it has been reported that the government will target the CBC for a 10% budget cut. And if the government cancels an annual “program top-up” of $60 million, the total cut could amount to more than $160 million. A cut of this magnitude would have devastating consequences, further dumbing down of CBC News, cancelling plans for new regional services and even forcing the CBC to close stations.

CBC is not part of the government’s deficit problem. In fact, the CBC’s budget has declined steadily over the years.

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 Just another one of many in a long line of broken promises by a government that relies upon shame, fear and lies.

We have only the fragmentation of the Left as a result of the N.D.P. and those too lazy to go out and vote to thank for this state we have ourselves in.  Let’s correct the problem now.

 We are well aware of the atrocities committed against the People of Libya and Just government of Libya by the vapid United Nations and the military wing N.A.T.O. – all organizations that Canada should not be a member of or supporter of – including conspiring with Islamists to murder Comrade Muammar. We can only hope that as fond as they are of trying governments in absentia, the United Nations(hypocrites) are prepared to charge N.A.T.O. for War Crimes. A great article in Pravda.ru sums up the reasons that those who already read my BLOG are familiar with. See the article below

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The law case of the century: Indictment against NATO military and political leaders

The law case of the century: Indictment against NATO military and political leaders (UPDATED)

NATO: Indictment for breach of international law in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The military and political leaders of NATO are hereby accused of the following crimes committed in the Libyan campaign of 2011, in which the systematic breaches of international law are underlined.

Understanding that international law exists and that it is systematically broken by certain powers with impunity, understanding that such a situation is unacceptable and that the same set of laws should apply to all, equally, with the same sets of weights and measures employed in upholding it, I hereby accuse NATO and the below-mentioned individuals, party to its acts in the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from February to September (ongoing) 2011, of breach of international law;

1. Accusation: NATO war crimes, crimes against humanity, breach of UN Charter, Breach of UNSC Resolutions, breach of Geneva Conventions, occasioning murder, attempted murder, actions occasioning grievous and actual bodily harm, destruction of private and public property.

2. Accused:

Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Denmark) NATO Secretary-General; Charles Bouchard (Canada), Commander of Operations; Nicolas Sarkozy, Édouard Guillaud (France); Rinaldo Veri, Commander Allied Maritime Command (Italy); David Cameron, Sir Stuart Peach (UK); Barack Obama, Carter Ham, Sam Locklear (USA); Harald Sunde (Norway), Abdullah II (Jordan); Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani (Qatar), Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan (UAE); Sverker Goranson (Sweden) and the Defence Ministers Pieter de Crem (Belgium), Anuy Angelov (Bulgaria), Gitte Lillelund Bech (Denmark); Panos Beglitis (Greece); Hans Hillen (Netherlands); Gabriel Oprea (Romania);Carme Chacón Piqueras (Spain); Ismet Yilmaz (Turkey), Liam Fox (UK), Ignazio La Russa (Italy), Gérard Longuet (France).

William Hague (UK), Hillary Clinton (USA) Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini

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3. Law and breaches:

3.1 Proper procedure was not followed: Under the UN Charter, any military action which comes outside a UNSC Resolution in any theatre of conflict must necessarily come from a separate Resolution in the UNSC and any military action must come after the Military Council is convened. This was not the case under UNSC Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) covering the Libyan conflict.

Why did NATO not convene the Military Staff Committee of the UNSC? Under the UN Charter, Chapter VII, Article 46: “Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Committee”. Such committee was never convened.

This is a violation of the UN Charter rendering Resolutions 1970 and 1973 (2011) void; There is also evidence that such Resolutions were passed on the evidence from a false flag event. The supposed crimes committed by the Libyan authorities have been hotly contested and must be investigated;

3.2 Intervention in domestic affairs of a sovereign state: UNSC Resolution 2131 (XX) of 21 December 1965, containing the Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States was backed up by Resolutions 31/91 of 14 December 1976, 32/153 of 19 December 1977, 33/74 of 15 December 1978, 34/101 of 14 December 1979 and 35/159 of 12 December 1980 on non-interference in the internal affairs of States.

3.3 Bombardment of undefended buildings and structures: Article 3 of the Statute of The Hague International Penal Court which states clearly that one criterion for indictment for war crimes is:

“Attack or bombardment, by whatever means, against undefended cities, towns, villages, buildings or houses”.

Another clause of the same Article 3 could also be invoked:

“Massive destruction of cities, towns or villages or destruction not justified by military necessity”.

The attack on Libya’s water supply network on Friday July 22 and the attack on the factory making pipes for the supply system on Saturday July 23 in al-Brega were not covered under “military necessity” in which case, under Article 3, this was an act of wanton destruction of civilian structures with military hardware. This renders NATO liable for trial by its own court, the ICC at The Hague;

3.4 Support for outlawed organizations and individuals. Despite this admission:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/counter-terrorism/
proscribed-terror-groups/proscribed-groups?view=Binary …

There is evidence that armed groups fighting inside Libya include the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) which according to the British Government: “The LIFG seeks to replace the current Libyan regime with a hard-line Islamic state. The group is also part of the wider global Islamist extremist movement, as inspired by Al Qa’ida. The group has mounted several operations inside Libya, including a 1996 attempt to assassinate Mu’ammar Qadhafi” and for which reason is on the Home Office list of proscribed terrorist groups, despite this, the UK aided and abetted the said group;

3.5 Failure to apply international law: Under the UN Charter, Chapter VI, Article 33, member states must “seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of their own choice”.

3.6 The Jamahiriya Government of Libya had the right to defend itself without being attacked: Chapter VII, Article 51 refers to the right of States to defend themselves against armed insurgency:

“Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security”;

3.7 Mercenaries: UNSC Resolution 1973 (2011), in its Chapter on Protection of Civilians, in paragraph 4. states:

“4. Authorizes Member States that have notified the Secretary-General, acting nationally or through regional organizations or arrangements, and acting in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011), to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, including Benghazi, while excluding a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory, and requests the Member States concerned to inform the Secretary-General immediately of the measures they take pursuant to the authorization conferred by this paragraph which shall be immediately reported to the Security Council;

There have been numerous reports of mercenaries being used by NATO and the rebels it supported; French Foreign Legion, Egyptians, Qataris, UAE forces, among others;

3.8 Boots on the ground: UNSC Resolution 1970 (2011) Paragraph 16:

“16. Deplores the continuing flows of mercenaries into the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and calls upon all Member States to comply strictly with their obligations under paragraph 9 of resolution 1970 (2011) to prevent the provision of armed mercenary personnel to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya;”.

If David Cameron has admitted that UK special services have assisted the terrorists on the ground, this is against the UN mandate which allowed NATO to intervene in Libya, and is a war crime.

 A request has been sent (August 30) to the British FCO and Ministry of Defence to confirm or deny that troops have been used in the theatre of operations; no reply has been forthcoming;

3.9 Non-enforcement of UN Resolution, and violation of international law, by transporting rebel forces to enter the theatre of operations:

UNSC Resolution 1970 (2011):

In the Chapter on Enforcement of the arms embargo, Paragraph 13 of the same states:

“13. Decides that paragraph 11 of resolution 1970 (2011) shall be replaced by the following paragraph : “Calls upon all Member States, in particular States of the region, acting nationally or through regional organisations or arrangements, in order to ensure strict implementation of the arms embargo established by paragraphs 9 and 10 of resolution 1970 (2011), to inspect in their territory, including seaports and airports, and on the high seas, vessels and aircraft bound to or from the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, if the State concerned has information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo contains items the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is prohibited by paragraphs 9 or 10 of Resolution 1970 (2011) as modified by this resolution, including the provision of armed mercenary personnel, calls upon all flag States of such vessels and aircraft to cooperate with such inspections and authorises Member States to use all measures commensurate to the specific circumstances to carry out such inspections”;

In violation of this: supply of French Milan anti-tank missiles, Swedish Carl Gustav 84mm rifles, 68mm rockets and mortars and Maadi assault rifles from Egypt; this, in addition to the British, French and Italian military advisors helping the terrorists.

3.10 Violation of Geneva Conventions:  NATO and the Transitional National Council have given the people of Sirte ten days to surrender or face a full military onslaught. This is not a cease-fire. While they await their fate, they will still be subject to artillery fire and NATO bombing, and food, water and electricity have already been cut off.

These siege tactics have been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. In particular, Article 14 of the second Protocol to the Geneva Conventions states, “Starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited. It is therefore prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless for that purpose objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations, and supplies and irrigation works.”

The 4th Geneva Convention prohibits all forms of attacks on civilians and the collective punishment of civilian populations, so virtually everything that the combined TNC-NATO forces are doing to the people of Sirte is strictly illegal and in fact criminal.

4. Sample Crimes:

21.03.2011. Tens of civilians killed on 31st of March in Gharyan city in western Libya (video).
07.04.2011. — NATO bombers killed 15 rebels and wounded 22 on the outskirts of Brega.
20.04.2011. TRIPOLI NATO Bombing The Libyan Arab Association For Human Rights (video).
27.04.2011. — NATO attacked the city of Misrata, killing 12 people and wounding 5 others.
30.04.2011. — The bombing of the Downs Syndrome School in Tripoli (video).
30.04.2011.— NATO killed inocent civilinas: The youngest son of our great leader Saif Al arab gaddafi was only 29 years old, grandchildren of our Great Leader, Saif Mohammed Muammar Gaddafi was one year and 3 months (born on 30 January 2010) , Carthage Hannibal Muammar Gaddafi was 2 years and 9 months old (born on 2 August 2008) and Mastura Humaid (daughter of Aisha) was 4 months and half (she was born on 15 December 2010) (video).
09.05.2011. — 600 civilians are reported dead after getting into trouble on thier boat. They send urgent SOS messages to NATO, but they were ignored (video).
13.05.2011. The 11 imams (spiritual leaders of Islam) that were killed. The imams were killed in a NATO bombing in the city of Brega (east), which also injured about 50 people. (video)
17.05.2011.—The NATO attack on Libya’s Anti-Corruption Agency on May 17 was extremely convenient for some Westrern politicians (video).
12.06.2011. — The bombing of the University of Tripoli. Death toll not yet established. (link) or photo evdence.
15.06.2011. — At least 12 people were killed and two injured when a NATO air strike hit a bus Wednesday evening in Libya’s Kikla city (video).
19.06.2011. — 9 civilians were killed by a NATO air strike on Tripoli (video).
19.06.2011. — Massacre of Al-Hamedi family 15 civilians, including 3 children, were killed by another NATO air strike on Sorman (link).
19.06.2011. — Firetracs was bombed (video).
22.06.2011. — The bombing of the Great Man made Waterway irrigation system, which supplies most Libyans with their drinking water. Water for 4,5 million INOCENT CIVILIANS IN LIBYA (video).
22.06.2011. — Zliten – many civilians were chopped into pieces. (link)
28.06. 2011. — NATO air strike killed 16 civilians (one whole family killed) and more than 20 injured in public market in Tawergha east of Misurata (video).
04.07.2011. — NATO bombing civilian checkpoint in ZWARA. (video)
15.07.2011. — At least 12 people were killed and 2 injured when a NATO. The air strike hit the bus with inocent civilians in Kikla City. (video)
17.07.2011. — Multiple urban areas were bombed simultaneously this morning. Anywhere from 60 to 75 bombs may have been dropped mostly in the areas of Tajura and Seraj, according to eyewitness reports. (video)
23.07.2011. — The bombing of the factory which makes the pipes for the water system, and the murder of 6 of its employees.
24.07.2011. NATO bombing cattle and poultry project in Torghae city (video).
24. 07.2011. Libya war: NATO Press Briefing, 15 civilians are dead in Tawergha (video).
24.07.2011. —The bombing of the Hospital at Zliten. Resulting in the murder of a minimum, of 50 civilians many of them children.(video).
25.07.2011. NATO bombed food storage in Zlitan.(video).
25.07.2011. — 20 civilians were killed by NATO air strikes in Bir al Ghanam. (video)
30.07.2011. — NATO warplanes also repeatedly bombed a Libyan television station, killing 3 and injuring 15.
02.08.2011. — Law School In Zlitan (Zliten) (video).
04. 08.2011. — Woman and two children (video).
07.08.2011. — NATO bombed today the vegetable market in Tripoli (link).
08.08.2011. — Libya: NATO MASSACRED 85 CIVILIANS: 33 CHILDREN, 32 WOMEN and 20 MEN (video)…

The persistent on-going bombing of the civilian population in Zliten, Sirte and Tripoli, death toll not yet established. All4Peace & LibyaSOS.

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-unified-protector-nato-in.html

5. Further documentary evidence of the crimes. 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000524791925

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49TOmo3CZOU&feature=share

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXRwBXK34o

 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25221

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbR8FaBwPRw

 http://rt.com/news/interview-libya-nato-intrusion-127/

http://libyasos.blogspot.com/2011/11/operation-unified-protector-nato-in.html

 Drawn up by: Timothy Bancroft Hinchey

Pravda.Ru

Director and Chief Editor Portuguese Version

Sandra Barr, Nada Pejnovic and Tatjana Dimitrijevic

Christopher C. Black, Barrister, Canada

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 Will the hypocrites of the United Nations (Imperialist Scum) be prepared to charge it’s own military wing N.A.T.O. with War Crimes? It is doubtful that they will ever accept responsibility for their actions.

“Might makes right”

“Do as we say, don’t do as we do.”

 Perhaps it is time for all non-NATO member countries to charge N.A.T.O. in an international court in absentia and impose sanctions against all member states of N.A.T.O.? As unlikely as it is to happen, it is certainly deserved.

 We have said many times that with the Conservatives it is always what they do and never what they say. It has been discussed that the Harper Government relies upon shame, fear and lies and that it will always try to avoid the courts and openly disregard any legal decisions that are not their favour. So now we see that they are following the U.S. once again by secretly passing a Bill that will permit them the powers of a Police State that will in no way be regulated, documented or made available for any Canadians or the Courts to discover how, what, when and why they demand these powers. It is all a part of their intimidation technique and need to hide from the Canadian People exaclty what it is that they do and whose interests they truely represent.

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Tories reintroduce ISP intercept bill

CBC – Mon, 1 Nov, 2010

 

The federal Conservatives have reintroduced legislation that would allow police and intelligence officials to intercept online communications and get personal information from internet service providers (ISPs) about their subscribers without first obtaining a warrant.

“New and evolving technologies provide new ways of committing crimes, making them harder to investigate,” said Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, while announcing the legislation in Ottawa. “Criminals continue to find new ways to evade the law. Our Criminal Code and other federal legislation must be updated.”

Together, the two bills will help target child sexual predators, distributors of pornography and identity thieves, added Dave MacKenzie, parliamentary secretary to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. The bills would also aim to disrupt those who would use the internet to plan terrorism.

The Investigative Power for the 21st Century Act would:

Its partner, the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act, would:

The bills have the “strong and united support” of police chiefs across Canada, said Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, who was also present at the announcement.

While “the overwhelming majority” of internet providers co-operate already with police, “at the current time they don’t have legislative authority to co-operate with us,” he said.

When asked to provide an example in which the legislation could be helpful, Blair pointed to cases of child pornography.

Often, those distributing such pornography shield their identities by sharing information through a variety of networks, Blair said, adding that the new legislation could help law enforcement agencies pierce through those shields more easily.

“The mandated disclosure of personal information” by ISPs is a major concern, said Michael Geist, a law professor who holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.

“That type of approach is open to abuse, and I don’t think it strikes the right balance,” Geist told CBC News. “There is a significant price to be paid, and sadly, scant evidence that a) we’ve got a problem, and b) that this is going to do very much about it.”

“If you were serious about dealing with cyber crime … it’s not new legislation that’s needed. It‘s the resources for law enforcement that’s needed.”

Daniel Petit, Nicholson’s parliamentary secretary, said the legislation “addresses Canadians’ privacy concerns by including strict privacy safeguards.” In the case of the Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act, that includes stricter requirements for obtaining judicial authorization to obtain data relating to suspect’s location, he said.

This is the fourth time this type of legislation has been introduced.

Nicholson introduced the same legislation on June 18, 2009. It died after Prime Minister Stephen Harper suspended Parliament in on Dec. 30, 2009 in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Similar bills were also launched previously by the Harper government, as well as by the Liberal Party under then prime minister Paul Martin. The legislation stalled on both occasions.

Nicholson acknowledged “it has been difficult” to get the legislation passed, but said he is buoyed by the new composition of the Senate, where Conservatives hold 52 of 105 seats.

“I’m confident we can move forward and get this bill passed,” he said

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The Harper Government is not the Canadian Government. When dealing with these kind it is always what they do and never what they say.

“Eyes open”.

 

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