Saturday, June 10, 2006

State Capitalism Quebec Style

Quebec contributes to $630M CAE plan for new flight simulators

Corporate Welfare rules in Canada.

State Capitalism is alive and well in Quebec despite Charest's neo-liberals being in power. Here is another example of public capital being used for private profit (P3's). Whether it is a loan, an investment or a subsidy the problem is that it profers neither ownership nor workers control.

Nothing new here really, whether it is the PQ or the Liberals. Whether it is Bombardier or CAE, Quebec subsidizes and protects its industries, while asking Ottawa for funding to bouy up its manufacturing base.

The irony is that all parties in Quebec including the BQ support NAFTA. They aren't worried about soverignty as much as marketing into the protectionist market south of us, dominated by the State Capitalist Military Industrial Complex of the US.

Also See:

A History of Canadian Wealth, 1914.

Origins of the Captialist State In Canada

Canada's State Capitalist Success

Corruption, nationalism and capitalism




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Cod Damn It

Here is a clear cut case of ignoring science for the sake of Harprocrite politics; get votes. Gee just like they do with Kyoto.

NL fishermen get a year to test health of inshore cod stocks
"[This] is not based on science. If you're going to operate a test fishery, you're not going to find anything new in terms of the status of the stock. That's well understood," said Myers, who worked for years as a federal fisheries scientist in Newfoundland.



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Shot To The Head?

Zarqawi was still alive when troops arrived, military says
So should we check for bullets in his body?
Given the CIA speciality of two taps to the head.


Also See: They Bombed Zarqawi Like Saddam


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Secret Society Not So Secret


The most infamous of the secret societies of the ruling class the Bilderberg Group is meeting in Ottawa this weekend.

This is the ultimate global old boys club.

And they are getting well deserved attention from the blogs and the MSM.

Not so secret anymore, eh boys.

Ok not all of them are boys.

Ontario: World's elite meet
Global luminaries such as Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands began arriving in Ottawa yesterday for the annual gathering of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group. Over the next three days, they and political and business leaders from North America and Europe will discuss issues such as the security threat posed by Iran and the oil markets.
And the dummies managed to get more publicity by using their government connections to ban one of the alternate press reporters, who has been documenting them for years, from coming into Canada. Opps dumb move.
Police State or Overzealous Border Patrol? Alex Jones Incident

Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group
15 hours of hell at the hands of immigration who knew they were coming


DETAINED ON ORDERS OF BILDERBERG
Free Market News Network, FL - 18 hours ago
Alex Jones and his team were detained by Canadian immigration on orders of the Bilderberg Group for a 15 hour nightmare of interrogation, accusations and ...

TERROR PLOT DIVERSION FROM BILDERBERG? Free Market News Network

Bilderberg-bound filmmaker held at airport Ottawa Citizen
Filmmaker says Immigration agents detained him Ottawa Citizen
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Call this my Carnival of the Bilderberger

BLOGS

Bilderberg Coverage Starts Rolling In

"Ottawa: Bilderbergs at Brookstreet Report"

azerbic - Antonia Zerbisias - Toronto Star Blog: If You Can Read This I Still Have A Job

Grandinite » Bilderberg In Ottawa

Bilderburger

Bilderberg is coming to Ottawa?

FSME: Bilderberg Conference 2006

International Forecaster June, 2006 (#1) - Gold, Silver, Economy + ...

Bilderberg Masters of destiny - Gold & Silver Forum

root.cellar

IT-Analysis.com - Robin Bloor - Microsoft Agonistes

David Corn

The Bilderbergers - Masters of Our Destiny? - Share The Wealth

HipHopCanada.com :: View topic - Bilderberg Group Meeting: Ottawa

The Randi Rhodes Show -> Bilderberg Annual Meeting

indoctriNATION » Blog Archive » The Bilderberg Comes To Canada

Loco Locass :: Voir le sujet - Les Bilderberg à Ottawa!!!

TURMEL: Social Credit Matriarch at 3rd Bilderberg picket

Home - YayaCanada.com



You won't find any Bilderberg stories here, though.


ALT MEDIA

Debating World Domination: Bilderberg Meets in Canada's Capital

Bilderberg 2006 and the Killers of Freedom

Bilderberg to discuss destruction of Americas Free Trade Agreement ...

Bilderbergers meet secretly today in Ottawa

Bilderberg mafia comes under scrutiny of Canadian media

SPECIAL REPORT: BILDERBERG SECRET MEETING * BROOK STREET RESORT * OTTAWA, CANADA JUNE 8-11, 2006

Infowars Coverage of Bilderberg Conference

Bilderberg 2006: Bilderberg to Meet in Canada

HARPER NEW BILDERBERG BOY by James P. Tucker Jr.

Ottawa Independent Media Center

Neocon Prince of Darkness Sighted at Bilderberg Meeting

The New World Order, it's their party! (Part 3)

Bilderberg In Ottawa In 2006

Bilderberg à Ottawa!! - CMAQ -

GNN Should Cover Bilderberg

Bilderbergers Coming to Ottawa? | Mostly Water

HOW DO THEY KNOW THEY’RE INVITED?

A Deeper Look at the Bank for International Settlements

MSM

Kanata hotel hosts high-level power group

Shadowy group meets amid secrecy in Ottawa

VIPs' arrivals marked by a discreet 'B'

US Sen. John Edwards at Bilderberg - (United Press International)

The New Brunswick connection

MuchMusic Message Board: Bilderberg Group Meeting: Ottawa, June 8 ...

Secretive set converges on Ottawa

Elite firm to guard top-secret meeting in Kanata

Bilderberg lands in Ottawa

Elite are ever elusive

World's elite gather to brainstorm in secret

'These guys love secrecy'

Bilderberg holds secretive meeting

Secretive, powerful Bilderberg group meets near Ottawa

Secretive meeting of powerful society a conspiracy theorist's Woodstock

Secret meetings set?

Bilderbergers head for Canada

A conspiracy with no limits

Secretive power brokers meeting coming to Ottawa?

Ottawa braces for Bilderberg fever

Halifax Live - Powerful Men Who Meet Secretly and Plan

Cyprus represented for first time at secret Bilderberg meeting


Older Bilderberg Research


(I have attempted to exclude the wildest of the conspiracy theorist fringe from these links)

Steven Harper and the Bilderbergers Secret Meeting : Thunderbay IMC

Daniel Estulin: Infiltrating Bilderberg 2005

The world in the palm of their hands: Bilderberg 2005

Bilderberg strikes again

Bilderberg 2005 attendees - Webmaster Forum

2005 Bilderberg Guest List

Bilderberg's Secret Agenda 2005. May 12, 2005

FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL: The Bilderberg Group 2005

Canadian Politicians in League with the Bilderbergers

Hidden masters of the world

Lord Black the Canadian Bilderberger

Vive le Canada - Unification the real Canadian Bilderberg agenda

CNN admits the existence of the Bilderberg Group.

New York Times: Edwards passed Bilderberg muster

BBC NEWS | Magazine | Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory

BBC NEWS | Americas | Inside the secretive Bilderberg Group

Guardian Unlimited | Today's issues | The Bilderberg group


Counterbias: Open Letter to the Bilderberg Steering Committee

Where is the media at Bilderberg?

Bilderberg media blackout

Media Blackout on Trilaterals

Media Moguls who attended Bilderberg meeting in 2005

Intelligence: 52nd Bilderberg Meeting

SchNEWS: The Bilderberg Papers

The Bilderberg Group: Planning the World's Future Behind Closed Door

Bilderberg - SourceWatch

Bilderberg Group

2003 Bilderberg Meeting: Information From Answers.com


The Bilderberg Group@Everything2.com

danieldrezner.com :: Daniel W. Drezner :: I'm off to join another secret cabal

The masters of the universe

TRANSNATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM (2)

Ming the Mechanic: Bilderbergers

WorldNetDaily: Bilderberg group meeting near DC

Bilderberg group wants vigorous Atlantic alliance

TrueFacts.co.uk -

A-Infos (en) Bilderberg-group meeting in Stenungsund, Sweden.

National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger Remarks to the Bilderberg Conference 1999

Bilderberg Meeting 1999

SAMUEL R. BERGER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR
REMARKS TO THE BILDERBERG STEERING COMMITTEE November 4, 1999
House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 4 Jul 2000 (pt 1)

House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 7 May 1999 (pt 2)

Bilderberg Propaganda Rules the Planet

Enigma Issue 16: An investigation into the Bilderberg Group

Bilderberg 1996: A close call for thwarting a scheme to partition Canada

SECRET TORONTO BILDERBERG MEETING 1996


PMag v12n4p06 -- An Elite Pow Wow

Bilderberg Group
Whos Who

The Bilderberg Group- Wikipedia

Bilderberg Group - Demopedia

Bilderberg Origins - The Biggest Secret Forum

Browse Subjects: B -> Bilderberg Meetings

Secretive Bilderberg Founder Dies

Bilderberg Conferences Collection

Bilderberg Club

Bilderberg and the West

by Peter Thompson
excerpted from the book
Trilateralism
edited Holly Sklar
South End Press, 1980

Mary Rawson / The Trilateral Commission

THE BILDERBERG FILE
Read the actual Bilderberg meeting report of the 1973 Conference. The report comprises approximately 70 pages and includes the Introduction by H R H Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.

Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson, reviewed by Michael Walker.

news | jonronson.com

The Secret Rulers of the World - Entire Chapter about Big Jim Tucker and the Bilderberg Group from Them: Adventures with Extremists. (46 page .pdf)

Guardian Unlimited Books - Who Pulls the Strings? Extract from Them: Adventures with Extremists

Them: Adventures With Extremists

Sec. 1, Anti-masonry Frequently Asked Questions

Bilderberg Part One - bilderberg-history-channel.rm @ ZippyVideos

Bilderberg Part Two - bilderberg-p2.rm @ ZippyVideos.com

Bilderberg Hotels

The Bilderberg Group






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Corporate Score Card


How do corporations operating in Canada score on the Corporate Social Responsibility Score Card?

Check it out here



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Prove It


Each year, 16,000 Ontarians die from tobacco use and roughly 3,000 die from exposure to second-hand smoke. Peter Goodhand, Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Division, Canadian Cancer Society, Toronto


Oh really prove it. Like a magician pulling rabbits out of the hat the anti-smoking lobby, who have their hand out for more of your money for their failed cancer research, pull these stats out of their hat of tricks. I say prove it. Prove the deaths were from tobacco smoke and not oh say smog. Or heavy metals in the air. Or air pollution from cars. Or toxic chemicals that poision us every day at work and now in public.

New tests find poisons in children's blood, urine
Minister accepts challenge to have blood and urine tested for contamination

On Thursday, the group released results showing that the bodies of seven children tested are contaminated by a cocktail of toxic chemicals ranging from PCBs to flame retardants. The study found an average of 23 known or suspected toxins -- including carcinogens, hormone disrupters and neurotoxins -- in the bodies of the children tested. The researchers tested 13 individuals from five families, six adults and seven children. The families live in Vancouver, Toronto, Sarnia, Montreal and Quispamsis, N.B. "Our children are being poisoned every day by toxic chemicals that surround them at home, school and play,'' said Rick Smith, executive director of Environmental Defence.

Our dirty little secret
Capital's sole air monitor in Sandy Hill not enough to keep up with our car-driven toxic soup

Milking It:
Moms find industrial chemicals in their breast milk an outrage -- and a call to action

The Walrus Magazine | Everyday Poisons
Are fire retardants actually a toxic hazard? by Paul Webster

Toxic exposure

professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester

Martin Mittelstaedt's Toxic Shock series (May 27-June 1 Globe and Mail) on chemical safety strikes a long-neglected note. As he points out, the list of potentially harmful chemicals is so exhaustive there's really no one among us who has not been exposed to at least a few of them. Chances are, we've been exposed to a great many.

The chemical industry often plays down the risks by saying individual exposures are so minimal we should not be concerned. But they fail to take into account that low-dose exposures are often most harmful, and that exposures to chemicals simply do not occur in isolation. Thank you for staying on top of this critical public-health story.



Yep prove it wasn't these that caused the cancer.

Sure bars that have smoking are polluted, but if they also have cooking they are polluted from the deep fryers and grease, as well as the chemicals used to clean with.

If the politicians were concerned about workplace health and safety of workers, which is what these anti-smoking laws claim, they would demand proper ventilation in the work place. They would enforce existing laws around WHMIS and hazardous materials in the workplace. But they don't. They could make workplaces really safe by enforcing the laws on the books now.

You see its easier to ban a social pyriah than to admit that work kills. Which it does. Smoking is a symptom not the problem. Capitalism is the problem.


Ontario goes smoke-free this June
The ban includes all indoor-smoking in public places such as restaurants, casinos, bars and bingo halls. But many are calling the government's move one filled with hypocrisy. "If politicians really cared about our health, they would ban the production of polluting vehicles with poor gas mileage. They could do so many things that would reflect a serious purpose, but banning tobacco — even from places where only smokers concentrate — is a little too farfetched," adds Nidhi Mehta, who is often seen taking a puff outside her Bay Street office in Downtown Toronto during break and lunch time.

Also See: Smoking


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Friday, June 09, 2006

The Evil North

Canada is being described as the home of Terrorism.

Terror Land North: Canada Becomes America's New Next Threat
Terrorists are supposedly creeping into the US from Canada. This is being proposed not only by wacko US congressmen but by our own homegrown self appointed experts.

In this case a low level former CSIS agent who is making a living as a so called security expert. The reason to justify the passport and border laws the congress has passed.

Alienation at home, criticism from abroad

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. congressman warned yesterday that Canada, and in particular the enclave of "South Toronto," was a breeding ground for Islamic terrorists and that the United States will be under threat as long as passports are not required of all Canadians crossing the border.

"South Toronto, like those parts of London that are host to the radical imams who influenced the 9/11 terrorists and the shoe bomber, has people who adhere to a militant understanding of Islam," said John Hostettler, chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on immigration and border security, noting that Toronto has a very large South Asian community.

Mr. Hostettler's views were backed by several witnesses to the committee, including David Harris, an Ottawa lawyer and senior fellow at the Canadian Coalition for Democracies who used to work for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He was the only Canadian asked to appear before the committee.

Mr. Harris described Canada as being "heavily infiltrated by terrorists" as well as "a recruiting, planning, financing and launch point for international terrorism."



Sorry to dissapoint youse guys but everyone already knew that Canada was the source of all evil south of the border years ago.

Anyone who watched Twin Peaks, knows all the truly twisted evil that happened in that Northern Washington State town always came from 'across the border'.

And these dweebs;
Hostettler and Harris have about as much credibility as the log lady.

The real politicks of last weeks terrorist bust is far more mundane, but no less sinister;

Canadian government, media use alleged terrorist plot to push right-wing agenda
'Cause our Chief Harpocrite can't do anything without asking Daddy first.

One of the first things Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper did after the weekend arrests of 17 suspected Islamic terrorists in Ontario was to pick up the phone and thank President George W. Bush for American assistance in tying the alleged plot together.




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Damn Fine Cup Of Coffee


FEATURE-Bolivian organic coffee farmers target niche markets

I drink organic Bolivian coffee, along with other organic and Fair Trade coffees. This is a fruity and piquent coffee with a touch of choclate to the flavour.

My pals at Earthson coffee in Edmonton roast their coffees out of their home. And they deliver their product to your door, at a price below those of more commercial companies in town. Email me if you want to contact them.

Over the past year I have been one of their coffee tasters testers. I didn't know I had the knack. I just like to drink coffee. Turns out I am a coffee gourmand.

The Bolivian organic is one of the new ones on the market and it is a damn fine coffee. To really get the full body, grind it fine, use cold water, and draw a cup off after your pot has about two cups in it. This is the full expresso flavoured version of the coffee, giving you its real full body taste that weakens as you add more water. Delicious.

And of course as with all Fair Trade coffees you know the farmers that grow and harvest these aren't being exploited unlike the real life poor farmers portrayed by real life Juan Valdez.



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Child Labour In Alberta


Oh joy the dark old days have returned. No longer limited to developing countries the Alberta Advantage is now Child Labour.


AFL Posts List of Employers Using 12-14 year olds on Website

EDMONTON, June 7 /CNW/ - Nine months into new rules allowing restaurants
to hire 12 and 13 year olds it is clear they are failing to protect young
workers says the Alberta Federation of Labour today. The AFL released the list
of employers who have submitted the paperwork allowing them to employ
adolescents. The AFL also announced its intent to post the entire list on its
website (www.afl.org) and update it regularly. The AFL received copies of the
forms through a FOIP request.
Between July 1, 2005 and March 31, 2006, the first nine months of the new
rules for hiring children, only 160 forms were submitted to the government.
This is a fraction of the number of applications the government received
before the new rules. According to government figures, 552 permits to hire
kids under 14 were granted in 2004, and 359 permits in the first four months
of 2005.
Oh and the charges have upset MacDonalds. Those nice folks who are advertizing dates for their staff on bus ads in the city. Pimping I think is the term.


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Just In Case You Forgot

'Terror' suspects: Innocent unless proven guilty


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