Chinese leaders set to educate Stephen Harper on some new Governing tactics, new to Canadians anyway, Fear, censorship, bully pulpit, propaganda, a phrase comes to mind as I write this..
"Shoot one monkey to scare a thousand"
Former members of Forest Ethics have spoken up about high-ranking members of Stephen Harper`s Government threatening them, threatening to remove their tax status, threats of audits, in fact Canada under Harper`s tutelage our Federal Government is prepared to label Forest Ethics and I quote...
"Enemies of the State"....Now that`s funny and very concerning, for now under a Harper Dictatorship Canadians cannot speak up against pollution, poison, human rights,...... the Government is backtracking claiming no such thing happened but proof is in the pudding, Joe Oliver and Stephen Harper along with their big oil mouth-pieces Vivian Krauss and Ezra Levant have and are on the record calling these groups, calling Canadians, calling me "Ecoterrorists, Radicals, extremists", in other words, enemies of Canada.
Richard Fadden warned all Canadians in rare press conference that Canadian members of the crown, Canadian and British Columbian politicians are being controlled by foreign Governments, China to be precise..
As you know China is currently cracking down on journalists, reporters, writers, bloggers, whistleblowers and the like, these people are vanishing, tortured, murdered, voices are going silent and Stephen Harper likes it that way, China`s newest growing export to Canada is fear, censorship, state propaganda, state prisons and death...
For that`s what corrupted Governments do, if the propaganda and state media doesn`t win out they don`t stop there, they imprison those voices, torture, kill, for indeed that`s when that phrase comes into play, remember, one must still shoot the first monkey...
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China’s newest export: Internet censorship | David Rohde
BEIJING — This great city is the epicenter of a geopolitical battle over cyberspace, who controls it, and who defines its rights and freedoms. China’s 485 million web users are the world’s largest online population. And the Chinese government has developed the world’s most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance system to police their activity.
Yet the days of Americans piously condemning China’s “Great Firewall” and hoping for a technological silver bullet that would pierce it are over. China’s system is a potent, vast and sophisticated network of computer, legal and human censorship. The Chinese model is spreading to other authoritarian regimes. And governments worldwide, including the United States, are aggressively trying to legislate the Internet.......
The problem is not software or hardware developed in a secret Chinese government laboratory. Recent news reports have uncovered American and European companies selling surveillance technologies to Libya, Syria, Bahrain, Thailand and other governments that block the web and brutally suppress dissent.
While the Egyptian government’s attempt to shut down the Internet during the Tahrir Square protests drew headlines, western governments are increasingly using the web for law enforcement surveillance. In a biannual transparency report released earlier this month, Google reported a 70 percent increase in requests for content removal or user information from the American government or police in the first half of 2011. Brazil filed the most requests, followed by Germany, the U.S. and South Korea, according to The Guardian.
Western companies are also under fire. Research in Motion, the Canadian firm that produces Blackberry smartphones, acceded to demands from The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and India for access to its users’ email messages. And the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet free speech group, has accused Cisco of selling surveillance equipment to the Chinese government that is used for human rights abuses."
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Wikipedia has the short list of sites with access blocked, it`s scary that Stephen Harper has embraced this style of governing, can we really sit back as spectators and allow Stephen Harper to look a blind eye, or worse, remember what Fadden had to say on this issue...
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Canada's spy agency suspects that cabinet ministers in two provinces are under the control of foreign governments, CBC News has learned.
Several members of B.C. municipal governments are also under suspicion, Richard Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told CBC News in an exclusive interview.
"We're in fact a bit worried in a couple of provinces that we have an indication that there's some political figures who have developed quite an attachment to foreign countries," Fadden said.
"The individual becomes in a position to make decisions that affect the country or the province or a municipality. All of a sudden, decisions aren't taken on the basis of the public good but on the basis of another country's preoccupations."
Read more here
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Can a Canadian Prime minister be Impeached?
"Yes, in theory the Prime Minister of Canada or anyone for that matter can be impeached by the House of Commons. The House of Commons retains the power of Impeachment, inherited from the British Parliament, because our constitution states that ours is "similar in principle" to the constitution of Britain.The US system of Impeachment is based on the British example, but the only penalty available is removal from office. This is not true in Britain where sentences can include fine and imprisonment and are not limited to persons holding office.
It should be noted the last person to be impeached in Britain was Henry Dundas in 1806, so the practice has long since come into disuse. It would be very unconventional to say the least for the Canadian Parliament to dig up these old powers and use them, especially against the PM. But in theory it is possible. Though how the procedure would be amended in Canada would need to be negotiated".........
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Apparently Herr Dick Tator Harper has spoken - see link below for details !!!
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Fired+spokesman+alleged+intimidation+pipeline+opponent/6045937/story.html
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More Conservative Crap with the Canadian Federal government under Herr Dick Tator Harper !!!
Dishonesty, Deception and Deceit from our "Born again Christian" leader !!!!
Oh, and now the RCMP new boss is being told what to do by the PMO !!!
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120122/canadian-government-received-us-foundation-grants-120122/
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Unfortunately it is highly unlikely that Harper or any other leader with a majority will be run from office by a vote in Parliament. The trained seals that got elected under the ruling party's banner lack the intestinal fortitude to do right by the people that elected them. Instead they just look the other way and maintain the lowest public profile they possibly can in the hope that someone else will do what's right, which in the end falls on the shoulders of the electorate. The reality is that party politics makes gangs like the Hell's Angels look like rank amateurs.
And forget the Governor General. No matter who it is, they are only interested in the perks of the job and have no interest in getting their pampered hands dirty.
I suspect that the only way to rid ourselves of Mr. Harper is to hope that the electorate sees fit to refuse to give him another term as Prime Minister. The next best thing is for him to suffer the same fate as Gordon Campbell, which was that the moneymen that helped put him in office decided he was too toxic to continue supporting him.
Unfortunately we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The rules and conventions by which our governance is patterned is archaic and utopian, and you can bet your bottom dollar that the likes of Harper know this.
Coming to Canada soon..if not already here
President Barack Obama has just signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which gives him, and any future president, in my opinion, the ability to use the military against the America people.
On a word anyone the government feels is a "threat" to the nation and that person can be arrested. No, "arrested" is the wrong word, as that implies one would have rights. Kidnapped? Disappeared? Held hostage?
Those are much better words for what the bill calls for. Under the bill, the Army can snatch you out of your bed at 3 a.m., put you into a truck and never have to tell anyone, anything about you. You have no more rights to a lawyer, a trial by jury. Heck, you do not even have the right to a trial. You can be held forever without recourse. No warrant, no reasonable doubt.
Now, remember; this is the same administration whose Department of Homeland (In)Security claiming returning veterans, anti-abortion, anti-tax and anti-big government believers were potential domestic terrorists.
While you were having a good time, the government decided to turned the Land of the Free, into what could become a totalitarian police state.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo is investigating Harper, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Harper has been served his summons. I think Harper should be tried for, crimes against humanity, for his negligence of the F.N. all across this country. It is absolutely criminal, the way the F.N. in Northern Ontario, were neglected.
Harper is also accused of crimes against Democracy. We have been victims of that many times. Harper does not believe in Democracy.
Harper is a Reformer. He governs Canada by his Northern Foundation Party lines, from 1989. Deb Grey says, Harper is still a Reformer.
He gets more scary by the day, hour, minute!
We are at the beginning of the worst,oppressive dictatorship this country has every seen.
http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120126/harper-davos-swiss-economy-20120126/20120126/?hub=MontrealHome
I find it amazing that the Alberta govt can be running a deficit, even with all the oil and gas extraction, and high price of oil.
@Hugh According to Andrew Nikiforuk's book 'Tar Sands' published in 2008, the reason Alberta is in debt despite the massive drain of its resources is the royalty structure where the Alberta government charges only one percent of the value of the bitumen until the company has paid 100% of its capital expenses. Likewise Fort McMurray is far into debt because they too get next to nothing from the oil companies. Except the toxic legacy of course.
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