It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Friday, May 12, 2006
Kyoto Shimoto
The Montreal Gazette Headline is priceless;Kyoto protocol mostly hot air, minister says
The importance of Kyoto is much overblown, it is an attempt to make capitalism sustainable, which it ain't. Kyoto allows for exchange of carbon credits, and for increased dependance on clean energy; read nuclear power versus dirty energy read coal. Ottawa wants Kyoto softened
That being said the Government of Canada signed on to Kyoto. The Government of Canada not the Liberal Party. Which the Harpocrites cannot stomach. Which is why they are attempting to abandon anything the Liberals did. So they will overturn Kyoto and the Firearms Registry and accept BMD through the back door of NORAD.
Basically they have an anti-Liberal fetish. They believe the Government for the past six years was not 'the Government' but the Liberal Party. Unfortunately it is a selective fetish. A selective choice of which Government of Canada agreements and policies the Conservatives will abide by and which they will abandon. Or we would not be in Afghanistan. But what's that saying about consistency and hobgoblins?
Of course then again there is the simple fact that the Harpocrites are just Bush League, shamelessly parroting everything the White House does.
More on Kyoto
Also see: A Critique of Kyoto Capitalism Is NOT Sustainable
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
I Spy
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No we don't we do enough already thank you very much. Since we are involved in the supersecret Echelon Project of global spying.
As this 1999 story shows; Canada a key snooper in huge spy network
which was by the same reporter who did the story above; Jim Bronskill.
The Echelon project is run in Canada by the super secret: Communications Security Establishment Canada's National Cryptologic Agency
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada's national cryptologic agency. We provide the Government of Canada with two key services: foreign signals intelligence in support of defence and foreign policy, and the protection of electronic information and communication.
But since it is so secret (complete with its own web page) no wonder Public Security Minister Stockwell Day doesn't know about it. He probably doesn't have the neccasary security clearance. Since it is operated by the Department of Defense and he is only the Security Minister. They probably didn't tell him we are already spying hand in glove with the American NSA.
Except that it is public knowledge. It is known to Parliament. And it to the rest of the world thanks to CBS Sixty Minutes. But I guess it isn't known to the Stockwell Day.
Paper 1: Echelon and its role in COMINT
In a May 1995 report, the Canadian Parliamentary Security and Intelligence committee stated "Canada collaborates with some of its closest and long-standing allies in the exchange of foreign intelligence... These countries and the responsible agencies in each are the U.S. (National Security Agency), the U.K. (Government Communications Headquarters), Australia (Defence Signals Directorate), and New Zealand (Government Communications Security Branch (sic – Communications Security Establishent))" Canada has also published a number of official statements confirming basic aspects of the five power relationship. According to the Auditor-General, "CSE [the Communications Security Establishment] has access to allied SIGINT through reciprocal sharing agreements … Intelligence products, including analyses and assessments are exchanged, and technical assistance is provided by each to the others. These, and other relationships, provide Canada with information and technological resources that would otherwise be unobtainable with current resources".
CBS News | Ex-Snoop Confirms Echelon Network | February 12, 2001
Everywhere in the world, every day, people's phone calls, emails and faxes are monitored by Echelon, a secret government surveillance network. No, it's not fiction straight out of George Orwell's 1984. It's reality, says former spy Mike Frost in an interview broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2001 It's not the world of fiction. That's the way it works. I've been there," Frost tells CBS News 60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft. "I was trained by you guys," says the former Canadian intelligence agent, referring to the United States' National Security Agency. The NSA runs Echelon with Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand as a series of listening posts around the world that eavesdrop on terrorists, drug lords and hostile foreign governments. But to find out what the bad guys are up to, all electronic communications, including those of the good guys, must be captured and analyzed for key words by super computers.
SOMEONE IS LISTENING
The computers in stations around the globe are known, within the network, as the ECHELON Dictionaries. Computers that can automatically search through traffic for keywords have existed since at least the 1970s, but the ECHELON system was designed by NSA to interconnect all these computers and allow the stations to function as components of an integrated whole. The NSA and GCSB are bound together under the five-nation UKUSA signals intelligence agreement. The other three partners all with equally obscure names are the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Britain, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in Canada, and the Defense Signals Directorate (DSD) in Australia.
ECHELON - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However all this is moot. The real facts are simple, CSIS wants more moola for its failed operations of domestic spying. They have botched every attempt made to do domestic anti-terrorist spying begining with Air India and more recently with the Arar case. And so in order to expand its bueruacratic power base CSIS is using well placed news stories on the threat of Osama bin Laden to get more money and more power. Al Qaida assault on Canada 'probable,' warns CSIS
Most international spying is controled by the NSA in the USA which is now in the hands of private companies. And for good reason because most international spying has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden perse but more to do with bin Laden INC.
It's all about other corporate spying. The new warfare is about expanding global capitalism, cyberwarfare is about corportate secrets, knowledge has become a commodity under the WTO agreements on intellectual property. Commercial spying is about profit , and spying has become the ultimate Public Private Partnership (P3) which is why NARUS was hired to update the electronic survelliance capabilities of the NSA under Bush.Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush's Illegal Spying
There is money to be made in the private business of spying. As government spies contract out to private companies. What the CIA once offered to corporate America during the Cold War has now become the business of warfare in the new market state.
Under Groundbreaker, the NSA will outsource much of its nonmission-related information technology support in four areas: networks, telephony, enterprise management and distributed computing.
ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network
Commercial espionage: Since the demise of Communism in Eastern Europe, the intelligence agencies have searched for a new justification for their surveillance capability in order to protect their prominence and their bloated budgets. Their solution was to redefine the notion of national security to include economic, commercial and corporate concerns. An office was created within the Department of Commerce, the Office of Intelligence Liaison, to forward intercepted materials to major US corporations. In many cases, the beneficiaries of this commercial espionage effort are the very companies that helped the NSA develop the systems that power the ECHELON network. This incestuous relationship is so strong that sometimes this intelligence information is used to push other American manufacturers out of deals in favor of these mammoth US defense and intelligence contractors, who frequently are the source of major cash contributions to both political parties.
CorpWatch : Science Applications International Corporation
US: In The Company Of Spies
Also See:
CIA Front Companies Exposed
The Privatization of Torture
Big Brother Bush
Russia's Army of Slaves
Globalization=Contracting Out
The End of State Monopoly Internet
RCMchumPs
Fascists were CSIS Front
CSIS vs. CUPW
Not Your Daddies Conservative Party, well...
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Comatose Citizenship and Immigration Canada
"She goes into a coma [and] she loses her work permit, she loses her medical coverage," Sloan said Tuesday. "That's treating somebody like a bag of garbage, basically." Montreal nanny who fell into coma faces deportation
No its like treating someone like an indentured servant, a slave by any other name. Which is what Nannies are in Canada under employment standards laws and Federal immigration legislation.
While all the attention is focused on the US and its xenophobic nationalism, over Latino migration and so called open borders, the Bush Like Harpocrites have also pushed Citizenship and Immigration Canada to start more deportations. And this is what happens when the Law and Order types control the State. Bad laws, bad enforcement, and stupid deportations.
Also see:
Whose Family Values?
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Rare Bear
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Strange bear was grizzly-polar hybrid, tests show And we know this how? Oh because it was killed. By a sports hunter. From the US. Who was kind enough to give the skin to Federal scientists for them to test. Dead rare bear. Rare. As in unkown. As in probably the only one of it's kind. As in dead.
Hunting Trip: $50,000
Shooting a Grizzly without a license: 12 months in Jail
Dead Rare Bear; Priceless.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
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They looked in the mirror and found themselves wanting. Senate committee pushes for new mental health commission
And how will they pay for this? Committee: Drinkers should fund mental health program Since we all know that drink is the rue of the working class and work is the rue of the drinking class.
And since this is Liberal Senators who are pushing this maybe they got nostalgic for a little bit of Trudeaumania.
Margaret Trudeau's 'dark place' of despair
Margaret Trudeau shares struggle with depression
We were all depressed during the Trudeau era.
Since madness and mental illness are social constructs it is no wonder that Margaret internalized the darkness and lonliness of living with Canada's Philosopher King. It was a dark time, even though it was the seventies, as much as it was a time of self indulgence.
Mental Health is a serious matter, of course, but it is a 'medical' specialization that arose from alienation. It is an attempt by the medical establishment to grapple with the conditions of impersonal subjectivity created by capitalism. For which they are agents of social conditioning, to make us believe we are not subjects alienated by capitalism but are merely subjects of our own making.
Which is why I reccomend reading R.D. Laing and David Cooper along with Wilhelm Reich, and Michael Foucault.
IN his highly influential book, Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault indicted the modern West for its treatment of the "insane." According to Foucault, Western societies, bowing before the Enlightenment idol of Reason, built a theoretical and institutional quarantine against madness. The Cartesian rational mind must not suffer from exposure to irrationality; the madman must not roam freely through town and country as he did during the Middle Ages, a mocking reminder of human mortality and God's infinite wisdom. Instead, Foucault claimed, the insane were thrown into cells with other dissidents from the rising bourgeois moral order--the poor, the criminal, and the licentious. The supposed liberation of the mad during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century by "alienists" Phillippe Pinel in France and William Tuke in England, he argued, only furthered their exclusion. These reformers herded the mad into asylums, where an arid "science" of psychiatry silenced their Dionysian voices. Enlightenment, Foucault held, was bought at the cost of excluding the mad: Such was the heavy price of Reason's "progress." Public Interest: Madness and Enlightenment. - Review - book reviews
I was fortunate to hear Dr. Laing speak in Calgary before the very Mental Health community that he was opposed to. His speach was quite challenging to their conceptions of dealing with conditions of schizophrenia. In that he opined that the best method is the therapist working directly with the patient by entering their madness and walking them out, ala the shaman or the LSD tripper. Failing that he defended Bedlam, the imprisonment of those who could phsically harm themselves, with the attendants being the threapists who are trainined in martial arts to struggle physically with the patient and subdue them, since this was the physical reality they needed to come back in to. Further he shocked members of the audience by insisting on allowing glass in the patients cell/room for them to be able to cut themselves to physically return to their bodies from their out of body states. Laing thesis is that madness is a reality that must be breached by the therapist, not a condition that must be controled by drugs.Is the pharmaceutical industry distorting psychiatry practice
R. D. Laing and The Politics of Diagnosis
The Politics of Experience RD Laing (1967)
Introduction to 1967 Dialectics of Liberation conference
Psychiatry Anti-Psychiatry Re-Visited
Anti-psychiatry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madness and Colonization: Psychiatry in the British and French empires, 1800-1962
Power and discipline in psychiatry's knowledge base
The Genealogy Of Power: On Michel Foucault
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Just Say No
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To another of the Harpocrites Made In The USA policies.
Critics, however, call `war on drugs' ineffective
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Nice Job If You Can Get It
In Canada over the last year average workers salaries increased by 3.1 % And despite the long boom for capitalism, that wage increase is the average over the past twenty five years according to Stats. Canada. In other words workers have not seen anything trickle down, but have remained steady making no gains in from the boom.
Dennis Entwhistle of Telus did quite well thank you, seeing as he stalled any compensation to Telus workers for five years and then forced them out on strike.
He more than doubled his bonus from 2004.
Hunter Harrison did quite well considering the major environmental disasters his company; CN had with record accidents and derailments in Western Canada last year. But I guess he earned his compensation by thwarting fines for those accidents and payouts to the folks affected by his companies toxic spills.
Executive Compensation
How much is too much?
CEO pay soared 39% in 2005; read Janet McFarland's live discussion transcript
Investors could certainly ask that question this year. A Report on Business survey of executive compensation shows that Canada's CEOs saw their pay soar an average of 39 per cent in 2005 compared with 2004 (itself a year of huge compensation increases) as stock markets and commodity prices rocketed higher.While salaries and bonuses climbed a modest 6 per cent last year, CEOs saw their stock option gains climb 47 per cent over 2004. CEOs on average earned $1.8-million each from exercising stock options — a number that climbs to $4.5-million if only those CEOs who cashed out options are included.
(The ROB review looked at 247 of the 279 companies that make up the S&P/TSX composite index. The others have not yet reported their compensation data for 2005.)
Executive Compensation Report 2005
RANK COMPANY CEO TOTAL($) DETAILS
1Precision Drilling Trust Swartout, Hank $74,824,335
Salary: $840,000 Bonus: $3,360,000 Subtotal: $4,200,000 4% chg Other: $15,589,000 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $55,035,331 TOTAL: $74,824,335 New option grant: 403,038 ($3,345,215) Industry: Energy Legend 2 Canadian National Railway Co. Harrison, Hunter $56,219,496
Salary: $1,665,950 Bonus: $4,664,660 Subtotal: $6,330,610 2% chg Other: $1,710,324 Share Units: $20,931,213 Option Gains: $27,247,347 TOTAL: $56,219,496 New option grant: 250,000 ($2,136,051) Industry: Industrials Legend 3 Nortel Networks Corp.(1) Zafirovski, Mike $37,429,297
Salary: $305,785 Bonus: $0 Subtotal: $305,785 % chg Other: $28,698,591 Share Units: $8,424,921 Option Gains: $0 TOTAL: $37,429,297 New option grant: 5,000,000 ($10,695,000) Industry: Information Technology Legend 4 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Hunkin##, John $29,471,306
Salary: $750,000 Bonus: $0 Subtotal: $750,000 -81% chg Other: $2,250 Share Units: $28,719,137 Option Gains: n/a TOTAL: $29,471,306 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Financials Legend 5 Talisman Energy Inc. Buckee, James $23,330,301
Salary: $1,104,300 Bonus: $1,988,000 Subtotal: $3,092,300 5% chg Other: $151,704 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $20,086,292 TOTAL: $23,330,301 New option grant: 300,000 () Industry: Energy Legend 6 Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Doyle, William $22,128,851
Salary: $1,151,020 Bonus: $1,279,450 Subtotal: $2,430,470 -14% chg Other: $165,412 Share Units: $7,672,916 Option Gains: $11,860,067 TOTAL: $22,128,851 New option grant: 225,000 ($5,351,334) Industry: Materials Legend 7 Magna International Inc. Walker, Donald $19,557,890
Salary: $195,795 Bonus: $6,061,090 Subtotal: $6,256,885 % chg Other: $35,600 Share Units: $13,257,872 Option Gains: $0 TOTAL: $19,557,890 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Consumer Discretionary Legend 8 Power Corp. of Canada Desmarais, André $18,844,090
Salary: $906,000 Bonus: $700,000 Subtotal: $1,606,000 1% chg Other: $545,064 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $16,693,025 TOTAL: $18,844,090 New option grant: 263,000 ($2,272,320) Industry: Financials Legend 9 EnCana Corp. Morgan##, Gwyn $18,162,456
Salary: $1,475,000 Bonus: $2,660,000 Subtotal: $4,135,000 2% chg Other: $159,171 Share Units: $1,916,000 Option Gains: $11,952,283 TOTAL: $18,162,456 New option grant: 150,000 () Industry: Energy Legend 10 Bank of Nova Scotia Waugh, Richard $17,180,536
Salary: $1,000,000 Bonus: $1,500,000 Subtotal: $2,500,000 -3% chg Other: $275,801 Share Units: $3,000,000 Option Gains: $11,404,738 TOTAL: $17,180,536 New option grant: 224,788 ($3,000,000) Industry: Financials Legend 11 Cameco Corp. Grandey, Gerald $16,567,579
Salary: $771,300 Bonus: $600,000 Subtotal: $1,371,300 -1% chg Other: $6,449 Share Units: $2,433,600 Option Gains: $12,756,231 TOTAL: $16,567,579 New option grant: 210,000 ($2,558,325) Industry: Energy Legend 12 Peyto Energy Trust Gray, Donald $15,512,035
Salary: $210,000 Bonus: $15,302,021 Subtotal: $15,512,021 14% chg Other: $0 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $0 TOTAL: $15,512,035 New option grant: 120,000 () Industry: Energy Legend 13 TELUS Corp. Entwistle, Darren $14,096,690
Salary: $970,000 Bonus: $1,200,000 Subtotal: $2,170,000 54% chg Other: $149,635 Share Units: $4,473,780 Option Gains: $7,303,221 TOTAL: $14,096,690 New option grant: 140,200 ($1,693,616) Industry: Telecom Services Legend 14 Power Corp. of Canada Desmarais Jr., Paul $13,881,209
Salary: $906,000 Bonus: $700,000 Subtotal: $1,606,000 1% chg Other: $455,021 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $11,820,187 TOTAL: $13,881,209 New option grant: 263,000 ($2,272,320) Industry: Financials Legend 15 George Weston Ltd.(2) Weston, Galen $13,443,682
Salary: $1,600,000 Bonus: $460,000 Subtotal: $2,060,000 -10% chg Other: $10,000 Share Units: $2,830,059 Option Gains: $8,543,633 TOTAL: $13,443,682 New option grant: 187,383 () Industry: Consumer Staples Legend 16 Sherritt International Corp. Delaney, Ian $13,254,590
Salary: $750,000 Bonus: $112,500 Subtotal: $862,500 15% chg Other: $331,405 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $12,060,670 TOTAL: $13,254,590 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Materials Legend 17 Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. Bouchard, Alain $12,048,833
Salary: $850,000 Bonus: $424,307 Subtotal: $1,274,307 26% chg Other: $0 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $10,774,500 TOTAL: $12,048,833 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Consumer Staples Legend 18 Alcan Inc. Engen##, Travis $11,850,529
Salary: $1,817,400 Bonus: $4,240,600 Subtotal: $6,058,000 38% chg Other: $-1,044,265 Share Units: $6,836,756 Option Gains: $0 TOTAL: $11,850,529 New option grant: 450,100 ($6,058,000) Industry: Materials Legend 19 MDS Inc. Rogers##, John $11,730,988
Salary: $425,000 Bonus: $195,000 Subtotal: $620,000 -16% chg Other: $10,772,801 Share Units: $338,203 Option Gains: $0 TOTAL: $11,730,988 New option grant: 46,000 ($275,080) Industry: Health Care Legend 20 Imperial Oil Ltd. Hearn, Tim $11,497,563
Salary: $1,100,000 Bonus: $900,000 Subtotal: $2,000,000 7% chg Other: $418,028 Share Units: $8,302,498 Option Gains: $777,030 TOTAL: $11,497,563 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Energy Legend 21 Canadian Tire Corp. Sales##, Wayne $11,259,253
Salary: $990,000 Bonus: $1,079,555 Subtotal: $2,069,555 -9% chg Other: $2,651,745 Share Units: $1,613,968 Option Gains: $4,923,994 TOTAL: $11,259,253 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Consumer Discretionary Legend 22 Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. Friedland, Robert $10,875,000
Salary: $0 Bonus: $0 Subtotal: $0 % chg Other: $0 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $10,875,000 TOTAL: $10,875,000 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Materials Legend 23 Inco Ltd. Hand, Scott $10,715,736
Salary: $1,240,969 Bonus: $2,416,888 Subtotal: $3,657,857 12% chg Other: $161,791 Share Units: $2,436,903 Option Gains: $4,459,173 TOTAL: $10,715,736 New option grant: 54,000 ($800,789) Industry: Materials Legend 24 Onex Corp. Schwartz, Gerald $10,576,533
Salary: $781,300 Bonus: $9,795,248 Subtotal: $10,576,548 -15% chg Other: $0 Share Units: $0 Option Gains: $0 TOTAL: $10,576,533 New option grant: 0 ($0) Industry: Information Technology Legend 25 Paramount Resources Ltd.(3) Riddell, Clayton $9,981,976
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