statism watch

The Security and Prosperity Partnership, like so many of these zombie policy initiatives, will never die, but will be reborn in innumerable policy incarnations – renamed, piecemeal, rejigged, disguised, perhaps even rammed through like they’re trying to do with the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland – until it gets put into place. That is, unless the Canadian public gets savvy to the issues and takes back its government from the globalists. Christopher Sands, another operative from these elite thinktanks that infest governments and write their policy for them these days, had a piece in the National Post last night selling selling his report under the guise of decentralization. What a joke. Stand up for Canadian sovereignty. Make sure to read the Council of Canadians’ Action Alert: Demand a Say in North America’s Future.

Flashback: After Three Amigos rendezvous, White House confirms there’s no plan to reopen NAFTA | CFR-Brookings to Dominate Obama Strategy | Obama, like McCain, surrounds himself with elite CFR, Brookings powerbrokers | Architect of North American integration urges reboot | Business group sets and gets its agenda | Think-tank calls for United States of Great Lakes

Stuart Trew, Council of Canadians
July 15, 2009

In what might be the first of the expected pre-SPP summit (August 9 and 10 in Guadalajara, Mexico) policy suggestions for North American relations, long-time Canada-U.S. commentator Chris Sands of the Hudson Institute has produced a new report for the Brookings Institution and Canadian International Council [Ed. Note: That's our local franchise of the CFR]  “Toward a New Frontier: Improving the U.S.-Canadian Border.” Sands released the report in Toronto this week. Among other things, it calls on Obama to rename the Security and Prosperity Partnership, include labour, environmental and human rights groups on an equal footing to the private sector, and move on SPP priorities more slowly with Mexico than with Canada.

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This article states, near the end, that Canada is among the countries that does not have a compulsory biometric ID card program. That is false. The new biometric driver’s license is your North American ID card, and they are being phased in in a number of provincial jurisdictions across the country. Welcome to the New World Order, India. It’s time to join the Anglo-American high tech control grid. You’ve been hit by state-provocateured terror, and now it’s your turn to submit. So much for your hard-won independence.

Related: UK: Passport details to be kept on ID register despite card U-turn | Incoming CSIS chief to seek biometric data at border | Moratorium sought on RFID driver’s licenses | India signs new anti-terror laws in wake of Mumbai attack | India to create national spy agency in wake of Mumbai attacks | Indian Intelligence Provided SIM Cards to Mumbai Gunmen | CIA Foreknowledge of the Mumbai Attacks | RFID passport security defeated in minutes | Saskatchewan adopting US-mandated ID card, to include RFID chip, facial recognition | Drivers licences with chips spark heated debate | Ontario Privacy Czar Worried about High-Tech Licences | North American ID card in the works through SPP

Rhys Blakely, The Times
July 15, 2009

It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards.

The Government in Delhi recently created the Unique Identification Authority, a new state department charged with the task of assigning every living Indian an exclusive number. It will also be responsible for gathering and electronically storing their personal details, at a predicted cost of at least £3 billion.

The task will be led by Nandan Nilekani, the outsourcing sage who coined the phrase “the world is flat”, which became a mantra for supporters of globalisation. “It is a humongous, mind-boggling challenge,” he told The Times. “But we have the opportunity to give every Indian citizen, for the first time, a unique identity. [Ed. Note: Oh, it's so wonderful! The state has granted you an identity! You didn't even exist before!] We can transform the country.”

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Flashback: Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy | Israeli troops kill apartheid wall protester | Israeli military whistleblowers: troops fired on children | Israel admits troops used phosphorus shells in Gaza | Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza

CBC News
July 15, 2009

A group of Israeli soldiers who say they took part in January’s military operation in Gaza are claiming widespread deadly abuses were committed against Palestinian civilians.

The accusations, which come in a new 110-page report released by a group called Breaking the Silence, were quickly dismissed by the Israeli military, accusing the group of “defaming and slandering the IDF and its commanders.”

The report includes the testimony of 26 soldiers who participated in the three weeks of Gaza fighting. Breaking the Silence said it included troops who approached the group or were reached through acquaintances of group members. Two were junior officers and the rest were lower-ranking troops.

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A little counterpoint is necessary to explode the sham that there’s no dissent within the scientific community on anthropogenic global warming. This journal has to concur with the author below – if we’re going to tear down national economies in order to reshape them in the image of a few globalist mandarins, we’d better have a long hard debate, rather than be motivated to jump into a situation where power accrues to the very global institutions pushing for this because they scream that the sky is falling. Is it? Or are we being deliberately herded towards a high-tech form of feudalism by crisis after crisis?

Flashback: G8 Summit: Rich nations to pay green tab | E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming | Polar bear expert barred from conference by global warming advocates | US Congress Passes the 1,200-page Climate Bill that it was not allowed to read | Ontario unveils cap-and-trade legislation | Global warming alarmists out in cold | Revealed: Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking | NRTEE Carbon Market Panel is ‘Round Table on Socialist Planning’ | Climate panel presses for federal cap-and-trade system | U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy | U.N. Environment Head Wants Global Warming Tax | Top Japanese Scientists: Warming Is Not Caused By Human Activity | IPCC caught with false figures, doubt cast on accuracy of global temperature record | Scientists warn global warming accelerating | CEOs call for ‘aggressive’ action on climate change

Jerome Bastien, National Post
July 15, 2009

It has now become customary for defenders of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) to resort to ad hominem attacks, arguments by authority, and to set up a number of straw man arguments which are easily and conveniently dismissed. John Moore proved that he is no exception in his piece “Climate skeptic arguments don’t hold ice”.

However, considering the enormous scale of the sacrifices we have been asked to make based on this theory, a growing proportion of voters are demanding to be convinced by more traditional means, namely empirical evidence. This has caused a problem for the alarmist camp, because such empirical evidence has failed to turn up, despite the billions of dollars thrown into research worldwide. However, before addressing the issue of the missing evidence, let’s address the points raised in Mr. Moore’s column.

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Flashback: Ottawa appeals court order to repatriate Omar Khadr | PM must press U.S. for Khadr’s return from Guantanamo, court rules | Khadr’s military lawyer reinstated | Pentagon fires Omar Khadr’s lawyer | Arar in Canada when ’seen’ by Khadr, hearing told | Khadr, interred in rubble, couldn’t have thrown grenade in firefight: Evidence | Stop ignoring Omar Khadr case: Opposition MPs to PM | Bid to dismiss Omar Khadr’s charges fails | CSIS faces review in Khadr case | Low Level Driver Convicted Of Terror Charges While Bin Laden’s Senior Body Guard Was Let Go | Protesters push for Omar Khadr’s release | ‘You don’t care about me,’ Omar Khadr sobs in interview tapes | Canada’s top court orders partial access to Khadr transcripts | Canada losing moral standing over treatment of Omar Khadr: Dallaire | Khadr Defence chips away at military prosecution

CBC News
July 15, 2009

CSIS ignored human-rights concerns and did not take Omar Khadr’s age into account in deciding to interview him at the U.S. military’s Guantanamo Bay prison, says a report from the parliamentary committee that oversees the spy agency.

The Toronto-born Khadr, now 22, is being held at the U.S. detention centre in Cuba for allegedly throwing a grenade in Afghanistan when he was 15, killing an American soldier. He is the only Westerner still detained at Guantanamo.

A report from the security intelligence review committee (SIRC), released Wednesday in Ottawa, said documents also show Khadr’s U.S. captors threatened him with rape, kept him alone and would not let him sleep. Canadian Security Intelligence Service officers questioned Khadr at Guantanamo Bay in 2003 and shared the results of their interrogations with the Americans.

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At ten grand a pop, not only is this a deliberate skewing of the market, but it is effectively government money laundering – GM is now 72% state owned. They’ll just print the money (further devaluing yours), and then pay it to themselves. And it’s those who can’t afford these new vehicles that will be stuck with the bill. Irony? They might just as well blatantly give them away if they want to go down the road of keeping state production numbers up.

CBC News
July 15, 2009

Electric cars will become part of the Ontario government’s fleet and consumers will get up to $10,000 in rebates to buy one of the experimental vehicles, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday.

But with a hefty price tag, the new electric-hybrid cars will be a hard sell.

McGuinty was undeterred, saying eventually “the price comes down.”

General Motors Co.’s Chevrolet Volt is expected to hit the roads next year, but will cost as much as $40,000.

“Electric vehicles are the way to go in Ontario,” McGuinty said in a statement released Wednesday morning. “This plan helps get more people behind the wheel of a green vehicle to create jobs, reduce smog and equip Ontario for the 21st century.”

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