Social Media in China Is ‘War,’ Says Communist Official

Social Media in China Is ‘War,’ Says Communist Official

" Li gives a sobering response: “Psychological warfare, legal warfare, and public opinion warfare are all important tools for modern warfighting. Doing battle on microblogs is also within the ‘three warfares’ category.” "

" The Chinese Communist Party is known to carry out an intensive and intricate policy of Internet surveillance and censorship; as well as deleting posts, the regime also hires an untold number of online commentators, called the “50 cent party,” (for the amount they’re putatively paid per post) whose job it is to steer public opinion. "

Communist Party members seem to be suffering a mental illness. Why do communist party members insist on trying to impose totalitarianism on the globe? So much effort to load every comment board with communist propaganda all because they are so determined to try and control public opinion, all so they can impose a system of dictatorship that will only lead to more human suffering.

Message to communist party thugs, nothing good will come of being an extremist, nothing good will come of trying to eliminate your "opposition". If you were enlightened you would understand that the members of the community that disagree with you are not your enemy. Constitutionally protected human rights and democratic governance are social innovations that create tremendous value for society. When you abandon totalitarianism you allow intellectuals to contribute to the betterment of us all.

If people like Hitler, Stalin and Mao had not embraced such madness, think of how much better we would all be better off today. What is the point of all this? What do these madmen hope to accomplish? Where do we want to be as a world? I'm willing to bet most of us, down at the peasant level, want to love one another. How can that be accomplished if the communist party policy is to put so many resources into stamping out dissent? Why resist constitutionally protected human rights for all citizens? If you want to serve the people then you must end the violence against the people, and this can only be accomplished if they have human rights protected by the constitution? This is not a "Western idea", its just an idea. An idea can not be assigned an identity. To deny an idea based upon the "identity" of the creator is the definition of insanity.

If you want to serve the people, you must become a better human being.
End political repression now. Tear down this wall.
The cost of lost human potential is the price of political repression.          

Compassion is Sanity.

In China, When Police Brutality Is So Common An Off-Duty Officer Gets A Taste

Edward Snowden-the Spy Who Loved Me


Snowden’s Disclosures Tar US With Beijing’s Brush
Accusations suggest false moral equivalence

I don't like this brave new world any more than you do, but the reality is if America would disarm its Signals Intelligence it would not make a dam difference for your privacy since China would still be running its own versions of "PRISM". This capability is a lot like nuclear weapons, if one party unilaterally disarms it only creates incentive for conflict to occur.
If Edward Snowden really wanted to protect us from an architecture of oppression why would he defect to Communist China? This looks like a carefully orchestrated phy-op.
Why defect to a completely controlled police state so you can lecture the world on police states?
Of course the privacy issues raised by Snowden are fair comment in a democratic society, but this entire scenario looks completely staged.
Signals intelligence, with proper checks and balances, is a tool that could be used for good or evil.
These are strange times, the world needs good people, so do all you can to make it good.
While America badly needs reform, Americans still have a lot of freedom that people in China don't have. It just doesn't seem to promote the cause of freedom for Snowden to become a propaganda instrument of the Chinese regime. The Snowden case looks like a highly successful and well thought out/carefully planned "public opinion warfare" operation.     

Chen Guangcheng says China Pressured NYU to Kick Him Out


Beijing’s Aggressive New Foreign Policy and Implications for the South China Sea

Second Thomas Shoal Likely the Next Flashpoint in the South China Sea

China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities

Syrian civil war 'dress rehearsal' for world war?

Russia says it will fulfill Syria missile system contract

Treason: Obama wants to cut US nuclear weapons by a third


Defense cuts 'hollowing out' European armies: U.S. envoy

Pressure Pays Off: Obama Administration Finally Lets Congress See Secretive TPP Text (But Still Not the Rest of Us)

The surprising answer from Google on its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Brazil’s Leftist Ruling Party, Born of Protests, Is Perplexed by Revolt

How Harper's Office Is Playing News Editor

A look inside the BC government's PR department

The Name Is ‘Power’ and It Fits

VIEW: Coal, bringing you fish too toxic to eat

Its Top Regulator a Petro Insider, Alberta Faces New Major Spill

The Gender-Bending Chemicals in Our Water

How Liberal Staffers Tried to Skirt FOI Laws

Clark admits mistake as BC government reverses pay increase

Big investors call on retailers to support factory safety pact in Bangladesh

Questions Remain in HD Mining Case

Questions Remain in HD Mining Case
Key evidence was struck from the record in federal court, say unions.

‪Chinagate: Who's Minding the Resource Store?‬


Asia tension could lead to conflict—DFA chief

China seals first free-trade deal with Switzerland

China should not be a "free rider" in global trade, the EU's trade commissioner has warned.

Report Hits Out At China's Black Jails, Self-Immolations

Activists Warned Off Tiananmen Memorial March

Toxic Rice Highlights China's Lack of Openness on Pollution

Kinder Morgan takes next step in its Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion plan

Bitumen Doesn't Float

Activists demand public hearings for coal export project

USDA Stands Firm on Consumer Meat Labels, but Will the WTO Continue its Anti-Consumer Legacy and Authorize Trade Sanctions?

RECAP FROM LIMA: Experts, Activists, and Peruvian Members of Congress Rally Against the TPP

London on edge and police fill the street as public beheading stokes ethnic tensions

Stockholm calmer but violence spreads outside Swedish capital

Accused in alleged terror plot seeks lawyer who will use Qu'ran as 'reference'

Canadian drug policy experts recommend decriminalizing all drugs

Russia’s top military officer skeptical about further nuclear arms cuts

Police agency Interpol quashes Russian bid to hunt down UK investor

Elizabeth May Speaking at Falun Dafa Month Rally on Parliament Hill

Elizabeth May Speaking at Falun Dafa Month Rally on Parliament Hill

" The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) banned the practice of Falun Gong in 1999, using tactics employed against peaceful Falun practitioners including imprisonment, forced labour, torture, murder, Orwellian indoctrination and even allegations of live organ extraction.

Help Elizabeth push the Canadian government to tell the Chinese government to stop their persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Sign or download her petition, get as many people as possible to sign it, and mail it – postage free – to either her Ottawa or Sidney offices. With as few as 25 signatures, Elizabeth can present your petition to the government in the House of Commons. "




Elizabeth May is one in a million. A politician that stands for ideals that you can trust. As you all know politicians are usually the worst kind of people on the planet. The vast majority of politicians have no bravery, they go along with the crowd and never stand for anything. Politicians are usually the opposite of leaders. Politicians go along with our flawed and corrupt systems without ever taking the risk of standing for real change. We are all human, we want to love one another, but the world that we want is not the world that we have. Nothing will change if we do not act to change it, and that requires bravery. The calculation of a better world is not a cold equation of personal gain and power, a better world is build by devotion to sacrifice.

We like to pretend that we are ok as a society, but we are not. Money and violence rules humanity as it always has, and through the process of globalization our responsibility for the ongoing atrocity has been collectivized. Our political processes are games between organized gangs of thugs, just as they always have been. The objective is and always has been to keep you addicted to the things that don't matter and ignorant of the things that do.

I don't want this. I don't want to feed this beast. It will only get bigger. I don't want a world where our money, our labour, our tears and the blood of our sons are spent to enrich foreign dictators. I don't want the money that I spend to be used to oppress people for the ideas that they have. I don't want to engage in a commercial system that enriches psychopaths and hurts ordinary people.

Long ago the ruling families were bound by family ties, today our political entities are bound by commercial ties. Money binds your "representatives" to histories greatest monsters. Money enables "democracy" to occur without informed debate or fair choice. Money makes law. I am not against wealth, in fact I view it as something virtuous, so long as it is paired with moral purpose. 

I am not a radical for wanting to ensure that we live in a world with human rights, democracy, an educated and informed citizenry. This is not the world we are currently building.

The only radicals I see are the thugs in the 1% who want to maintain their power through any means necessary. And it is through this they lose what it is that they seek to gain.

What scares the elite is that Elizabeth May is the most powerful person in Ottawa.
The seeds have already been planted, and they will grow.

CTV: Mike Duffy Tried To Influence CRTC Decision On Sun Media: Source

International Internet Copyright (Censorship) Conference Underway

Our Fair Deal

White says SEC not now writing political spending rule

Okinawa doesn't belong to Japan, says hawkish PLA general

China Conducts Test of New Anti-Satellite Missile

Chinese military unit said to resume cyber spying

Russia building up missile defenses while seeking to limit U.S. Defenses

Cold War Never Ended

ERICKSON: Missiles to meet the new threat curve

Iran agents training to storm Israel's border

Israeli Official Signals Possibility of More Syria Strikes

Communist China wins BC election

After all polls predicted a major liberal loss, the Communist backed ruling Liberals win a solid majority victory. The battle over the infamous pipelines advances to the next stage as citizens prepare for a showdown with foreign imperialist forces.

Cyber Threats could overwhelm Canada within two years:  CSIS

Harper assailed for cutting Elections Canada budget despite rampant vote problems

Procedural errors rampant during 2011 federal vote: Elections Canada

BC's Labour Market Weaker than Worst of Recession

The Pipeline Plan that Rattled BC, Explained

Probability of Enbridge oil tanker spill as high as '99.9%': SFU study

Enbridge breaks safety rules at pump stations across Canada

No evidence BC gov't investigated recruiters charging temp foreign miners produced

BC's Fish Farm Falling out, Explained

Drug companies not involved in ministry purge, says minister

Five Reasons to Turf Christy Clark's Liberal Crew


Green party's Elizabeth May on Energy Security


Debate has been about how best to export raw, virtually unprocessed bitumen — as much as possible and as quickly as possible. Meanwhile, the eastern half of Canada depends on imports of foreign oil from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Kazakhstan, Venezuela, and Norway. As Gordon Laxer of the Parkland Institute tried to point out to a Parliamentary committee (before the Conservative chair ordered him to stop talking and stormed out of the room), Canada has no energy security.

I feel some responsibility for this shift in debate, as I was the first political leader to point out that there was something wrong with the picture.

Unlike the US, we have no Strategic Petroleum Reserves. If there was a blockade of foreign oil or an economic embargo, those in Eastern Canada would have to wait for tankers to bring them bitumen for processing through the Panama Canal and up the eastern seaboard. As bizarre as that sounds, it was the solution offered by a Suncor executive when asked in committee about the vulnerability of eastern Canada to embargos.
Oppositional Canada

The irony is that the dividing line of foreign oil to the east and Alberta oil for the west was the result of deliberate government policy—aimed at helping the Alberta oil and gas sector. Back in 1961, the National Oil Policy decreed that eastern Canadians (east of the Ottawa River) would only receive imported oil while those in the West had to purchase Alberta product. By deliberate policy, Eastern Canadians became dependent on foreign oil, while Alberta oil was consumed by those in western provinces and exported to the US. Now it is time to think like a country.
The Solution: Shipping East?

However, the current proposal also makes no sense. Former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna has proposed shipping unprocessed bitumen to St John, New Brunswick, to put it in tankers to export it from there. Others are proposing refining it in New Brunswick.

The first decision point is Enbridge’s application to reverse its Number 9 pipeline. This pipeline was built in the 1970s and had originally flowed west to east. It was reversed in the 1990s as the markets favoured cheaper foreign oil.

Now, Enbridge is applying to reverse it once again, running a different product, dilbit, from west to east. The request to the National Energy Board is being considered in two stand-alone applications; Line 9A (Sarnia to North Westover) and Line 9B to Montreal.

From there the bitumen would likely go south through New England. When I was in Washington DC, I heard from quite a few Congressmen and Senators that they do not want those pipelines over their territory.

Bitumen

The nature of bitumen and diluents in pipelines is a critical issue in why the Green Party oppose pipelines of unprocessed product to either coastline. So, before talking about the direction of pipelines, we need to talk about the product.

Even after the extensive and intensive process of extracting the viscous material known as bitumen from the soil in which it is found (generally about 10% by volume), it is still not processed to even the level of crude oil. Crude oil can flow. Bitumen cannot. It has the consistency of peanut butter, so needs to be mixed with something else to flow. That something else is called ‘diluent’—a mix of undisclosed chemicals. The most commonly used diluent is a natural gas condensate, similar to Naptha. The public does not know the make-up of any particular diluent. Some have more benzene than others—benzene is a well-documented carcinogen.

The resulting so-called dilbit product is about 30% diluents and 70% bitumen. We do know a lot more about dilbit than we used to. And we did a lot of that learning through the 2010 Enbridge dilbit spill in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. We know it both floats and sinks; that it is far harder and far more expensive to clean-up than unprocessed conventional crude. The Kalamazoo spill is still not cleaned up.

Meanwhile a debate rages about whether dilbit is more likely to cause pipeline failure. Cornell University found that between 2007 and 2010 pipelines carrying dilbit had a spill-rate three times higher than pipelines carrying conventional crude. Oil sands products have a higher sulfur and a higher acidic content than conventional crude and those properties could explain its increased corrosive nature.

This finding led to the Department of Natural Resources to commissioning a study by a group called Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (ATIF). That study compared dilbit and conventional crudes and concluded the types of corrosive compounds between the two products were comparable. So we have labwork versus the real life rate of spills in US pipelines. At the moment, despite what Harper’s Cabinet ministers claim, the science on the corrosive nature of dilbit is not settled.

Meanwhile, if local residents along the Number 9 pipeline wish to speak before the NEB hearings, or even submit a letter, they are required to fill out a 10-page form, and are also encouraged to submit references and a resume! This is an NEB effort to meet the new requirements imposed by the horrific overhaul of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act that took place last year in the Omnibus Budget Bill (C-38).

Unlike the previous CEAA, which was premised on a fundamental commitment to rights of public participation, the Harperized CEAA restricts access to only those ‘directly affected’. The NEB has made this restriction even worse by demanding that any citizens who want to make comments, fill out the forms and apply within a two-week period—which will close before this article will be in print.
Refineries In Alberta

So, what should be done? The best environmental, economic and climate outcome would be to slow down the boom-and-bust cycle of constant expansion in the oil sands. What the late Peter Lougheed used to describe as the ‘traffic jam’ of feverish expansion in the oilsands prevents the construction of ancillary infrastructure, like upgraders and refineries.

The hyper-inflationary bubble that sits on northern Alberta is what makes it cheaper for Big Oil to build a $7 billion pipeline to Texas, rather than build facilities in Alberta. Any reasonable carbon plan would set a level of managed growth for oil sands production—say 2 million barrels of oil a day (more than the current 1.7 million barrels, but less than Harper’s goal of 6 million barrels of oil a day). That level of production could cool down the capital and labour markets enough to build upgraders and refineries near the resource. Then, we could be talking about shipping—by pipeline, truck or train—a finished product whose properties are better understood. Shipping a product with a far lower risk of environmental impact in the event of spills.

If we are thinking like a country, we should get Alberta oil to Eastern Canada, but we should not ship bitumen + diluents.

Weaver wins first ever Green seat in BC: Globe

Elizabeth May Tables Bill Targeting Excessive Party Discipline


Conservatives boost resources ad spending to $16.5M, target U.S. audiences

Harper Government Media Monitoring: Opposition Accuses Tories Of Spying On MPs

Effort afoot in court to sue Canadians for illegal downloads

Public Citizen and Sierra Club Denounce World Trade Organization Attack on Successful Clean Energy Program

Who hires temporary foreign workers? You’d be surprised

For young Canadians, labour market as bad as during the recession

Trade Talks? Only Business Insiders Invited

Global youth unemployment set to rise, UN warns

Canada's foreign-born population soars to 6.8 million

What Is TPP? Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA

Canada loses appeal at WTO over Ontario's green energy legislation

More Conservative MPs say No to taxpayer-paid attacks against Trudeau

John Ivison: Grim report warns Canada vulnerable to an aboriginal  insurrection

12 Latin American Governments Gather to Confront Extreme Investor Privileges Regime

Pentagon plans to share missile secrets with Russia

Did Citizens United thwart the effort to overturn “Citizens United” in Washington

Pentagon Paying Chinese for Satellite Bandwidth

Republicans say U.S. headed toward ‘armed revolution’: Poll

Why the world is reading Gillard's defence paper

‘Get ready to fight’: China shifts from Deng’s ‘low profile’ to Mao’s aggression | World Tribune

China Escalating Territorial Disputes with Neighbors

Chinese think tank warns of more 'serious' incidents

AFP: China should ‘reconsider’ who owns Okinawa: academics

Medvedev Says Russian Rearmament On Level With WWII

Why China Lets North Korea Run Wild

Russian military again flies strategic bombers near Alaska

North Korea missile can hit US with nuclear warhead, Pentagon report says

Xi Jinping and the Chinese dream

China’s rift with Japan is open challenge to U.S.

China Registering the Religious in Xinjiang

Chinese government has U.S. auto industry in cross hairs

Chinese Hackers Raiding U.S. Military Tech Secrets

Inside the Ring: Russia builds up, U.S. down

China risks war as it pushes its territorial claims in Asia

Red Lines, Deadlines, and Thinking the Unthinkable: India, Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, and China | Center for Strategic and International Studies

China's Militant Nationalism

Xi's War Drums

China's unofficial extraditions from Canada

So the government doesn't want to have to go through a judge to detain people on behalf of the Communist Chinese. If this was 30 years ago and the government was meeting Soviet agents behind the publics back for the purposes of arranging extra judicial deportation to the gulags, there would have been a great national outrage. In 1939 what would have happened if it was discovered that the government had aided Nazi agents apprehend and deport people from Canada? Our country is under the influence of foreign dictators. 1) don't work with commies 2) don't bypass judicial warrants

You have to ask yourself what kind of a world do you want. Do you want a world controlled by totalitarian thugs?

The objective of the free world should be to create a world governed by compassion.
Or at least insulate ourselves in well defended freedom zones where tyrants have no reach.

China seeks unofficial extraditions from Canada: document

" OTTAWA – Legal experts are raising red flags about “disguised extraditions” after a letter obtained by Global News shows Canadian border officials met with their Chinese counterparts to discuss what to do with fugitives sought by the communist country.

“CBSA is using deportation as disguised extradition,” said Audrey Macklin, a law professor at the University of Toronto. “Essentially China is recruiting Canada to do its dirty work for it and circumventing extradition. This does not look good on CBSA or Canada.”

Extradition normally requires a country to formally request that Canada return an alleged fugitive – a decision that is made by the federal justice minister and an extradition judge.

Immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman has seen firsthand the reliability of Chinese investigators. He cross-examined one who was brought to Canada to testify at an immigration hearing.

On the stand, the Chinese official denied the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre even though reports put the death toll in the hundreds and some in the thousands.

“Extradition puts stricter requirements on the state who is requesting extradition that it has evidence that is capable or constituting genuine criminal offence and the process it uses both to get evidence and to try an individual charged with a criminal offence meets basic human rights and fairness standards,” "

BC's Look into Mining Recruitment Fees Falls Short: Union

" The case snowballed and eventually ended up in federal court where the company was forced to release documents related to permits granted for 201 workers it planned to bring to the project from China.

Such permits require proof the company tried unsuccessfully to find Canadians for the positions and the released documents included the resumes of 300 Canadians who applied for the jobs but were not hired.

The United Steelworkers union is accusing the provincial government of misleading the public about investigating allegations Chinese miners are paying money to work in Canada.

In the letter, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Jobs and Skills Training Dave Byng said it completed its investigation into the allegations in November 2012 and found no evidence B.C.-based companies were charging fees.

In the original report by The Tyee the company found to be charging the miners, Canada CIBS Investment and Trade Group, said on its Chinese website it was a Vancouver-based company. "

Canada China FIPA

Montreal police arrest more than 30 at protest against northern development plan

"In a scene reminiscent of last spring's student protests, lines of riot police were used to break up the crowd and protesters who were arrested were held on city buses.

Just like a day earlier, authorities declared the demonstration illegal as soon as it began because no protest route had been given beforehand.

The protesters, many wearing the red square associated with the student movement, said they are opposed to plans for new mining projects in northern Quebec.

"We want to keep our resources and protect the environment and the resources that we have belong first and foremost to aboriginal people," she said.

"We want sustainable development," she said.
"We want development that's respectful of the environment and communities." "

Organ Harvesting in China Addressed in Canada's Parliament

Show This To Anyone That Believes That “Things Are Getting Better” In America

" Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was approximately 6 million dollars (million with a little "m") for the entire year.

In 2012, our trade deficit with China was 315 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.

In particular, our trade with China is extremely unbalanced. Today, U.S. consumers spend approximately 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar that Chinese consumers spend on goods and services from the United States.

But isn't getting cheap stuff from China good?

No, because it costs us good paying jobs.

According to the Economic Policy Institute, the United States is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

Overall, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since 2001. During 2010, manufacturing facilities in the United States were shutting down at a rate of 23 per day. How can anyone say that "things are getting better" when our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted? "

The government has finally listened to Canadians and killed online spying bill C-30!

" We did it! The Conservative government has killed online spying legislation Bill C-30! If passed, the bill would have provided access to your private online information without a warrant, and you would have had to pay for it. "

The government deserves some respect for backing down on this one.
Now only if they would stop working so closely with the communist regime.
The communists are not good for the worlds people, they will bring only deception and slavery.

Emma Jane Hogbin,
Green Party’s Shadow Cabinet Critic on Science and Technology
"Bill C-55, originally part of the internet surveillance legislation, was not scrapped along with the rest of the bill. It would give the police the right to secretly intercept private communications without a warrant. Their only obligation would be to notify affected parties after the fact."

Allow it for counter intelligence from foreign threats, but get a warrant otherwise. Read Orwell.
We can defend ourselves from the enemy without becoming them.

New Surveillance System Tracks Every Moving Object In An Entire City

“Everything that is a moving object is being automatically tracked… You can see individuals crossing the street. You can see individuals walking in parking lots. There’s actually enough resolution to be able to see people waving their arms or what kind of clothes they wear,”

Independent ISP Distributel Stands Up Against Copyright Troll Seeking Private Info of Canadians

" These activities cost us in privacy and they add new costs to our Internet services. These costs will grow substantially if Canada doesn't oppose the Trans Pacific Partnership's (TPP) new Internet restrictions during negotiations (Canada is bound by the outcome of the TPP agreement). "

All Out Blitz by Pro-Spamming Lobby

" Perhaps the most surprising demand from business groups is an expansive exception to a new requirement to obtain express consent prior to the installation of computer software. The groups have asked the government to delay implementation of this rule indefinitely. Alternatively, they are seeking at least ten additional exceptions, including one that would permit surreptitious surveillance for private enforcement purposes. "

U.S. said to be target of massive cyber-espionage campaign

Chinese Troop Movements Signal War?

Troubling signs of the rise of Chinese ultra-nationalists

China firms sanctioned for missile proliferation

Petrogold: Are Russia And China Hoarding Gold Because They Plan To Kill The Petrodollar?

Italian Lawyer Demands Public Prosecutor Investigate Bilderberg Group

 

Communist Chinese Economic Invasion

‪Canada Tar Sands Foreign Owned‬

China Plan To Establish “China Cities” And “Special Economic Zones” All Over America

" What in the world is China up to? Over the past several years, the Chinese government and large Chinese corporations (which are often at least partially owned by the government) have been systematically buying up businesses, homes, farmland, real estate, infrastructure and natural resources all over America. In some cases, China appears to be attempting to purchase entire communities in one fell swoop. So why is this happening? Is this some form of "economic colonization" that is taking place? Some have speculated that China may be intending to establish "special economic zones" inside the United States modeled after the very successful Chinese city of Shenzhen. Back in the 1970s, Shenzhen was just a very small fishing village, but now it is a sprawling metropolis of over 14 million people. Initially, these "special economic zones" were only established within China, but now the Chinese government has been buying huge tracts of land in foreign countries such as Nigeria and establishing special economic zones in those nations. So could such a thing actually happen in America? Well, according to Dr. Jerome Corsi, a plan being pushed by the Chinese Central Bank would set up "development zones" in the United States that would allow China to "establish Chinese-owned businesses and bring in its citizens to the U.S. to work." Under the plan, some of the $1.17 trillion that the U.S. owes China would be converted from debt to "equity". As a result, "China would own U.S. businesses, U.S. infrastructure and U.S. high-value land, all with a U.S. government guarantee against loss." Does all of this sound far-fetched? Well, it isn't. In fact, the economic colonization of America is already far more advanced than most Americans would dare to imagine.

So what happened?
Well, we entered into a whole bunch of extremely unfavorable "free trade" agreements, and countries such as China began to aggressively use "free trade" as an economic weapon against us. "

Joe McCarthy was right all along

" Then along came the declassification of FBI records and releases of intelligence documents, and scholars such as M. Stanton Evans to sift through them. But the far-reaching implications of such research – that anti-Communist “witch-hunters” were right all along

These massive probes yielded, as Evans notes, some 5,000 pages of Senate hearings, plus 1,000 pages of exhibits and, from the FBI, 24,000 pages of now-declassified records.

They reveal the workings of a vast, complex influence operation, Evans writes, that “assiduously worked to guide official and public thinking, and hence the course of U.S. policy,” in this case regarding the Far East.

An open and quickly shut-down case is more like it. What followed was cover-up, perjury and grand-jury rigging by, among others, high-ranking Washington officials. Some were eager to prevent a national security scandal from engulfing the Truman White House. Others were acting to shield a far wider Communist-led conspiracy mounted by confederates inside the State Department, Treasury, White House and elsewhere in the US government, working not merely to filch secret documents but to ensure, through influence and subversion, the Communist takeover of China. These powerful forces of suppression proved overwhelming. The Amerasia case was scuttled, the scandal was buried, and, within a few years, China was Red. "

Delta expansion projects threaten farms and wildlife

"the proposed $10-billion Terminal 2 expansion at the Roberts Bank Superport, which now consists of two terminals, the Westshore coal facility and the Deltaport container operation.
With little opportunity to increase industrial capacity along the prohibitively expensive Burrard Inlet waterfront, Port Metro Vancouver—which is the name of both Canada’s largest and busiest port and a federally established corporation—is set to quadruple its container import-export capacity at Deltaport in the coming years. After all, China beckons.

In fact, for the prime agricultural land below the bridge where Steves stands, a 135-hectare industrial park is slated. Below, too, will be six to eight new sets of train tracks to serve the enlarged port. And the mysterious series of bridges now under construction over Highway 99 and Highway 17 just south of the Massey Tunnel is part of the new 40-kilometre-long South Fraser Perimeter truck route, built specifically to service the new terminal.

As a Richmond city councillor, he’d travelled to Xiamen, China, six months earlier to celebrate that coastal town’s sister-city linkage to Richmond.

The farms and birds he’d anticipated seeing didn’t exist anymore. Instead, Xiamen had become a high-rise city of 2.2 million, its industrialized waterfront marked by train tracks, container cranes, and moored cargo ships.

When Steves asked Xiamen’s mayor where his city’s people—with their farms gone—would get their food, the mayor replied, trying to flatter his foreign guest, that he’d heard that where Steves lives there’s plenty of agriculture.

The solution, the mayor said, is simple: Xiamen would import its food from all the farms in Richmond."

Chinese 'birth tourists' having babies in Canada

"A number of Chinese tourists are giving birth in Canada as a way to circumvent their country's strict one-child policy and to get their child a coveted Canadian passport."

‪Canada Under Siege‬

Taxpayers paid tab for CEOs on Harper's 2012 China trip

"The Conservative government covered expenses for some of the country's top executives as they accompanied the prime minister around China a year ago"

B.C. First Nation asks court to block Canada-China deal

"The government proceeded without any input from First Nations, or Canadians for that matter, so this isn't just a First Nations fight. It just so happens that First Nations are one of the parties that can stop the FIPPA,"

"The Canada-China deal would last for 31 years and was set to be ratified late last year, but public pressure has been building against it from people concerned about the environment and potential job losses."

"Gus Van Harten, an international trade law expert from Osgoode Hall Law School, has filed an affidavit in the case, saying the treaty may be unconstitutional because state-owned Chinese companies would be allowed to dispute laws and regulations passed by provinces."

Canadian MPs Look into Gruesome Business

" PARLIAMENT HILL, Ottawa—Mounting evidence that China’s communist regime is killing prisoners of conscience to sell their organs needs to be investigated, Canadian members of Parliament said Tuesday. "

Government suggests controversial online spying Bill C-30 may be in the works

I’m really worried about what the Harper Conservatives have planned next. We’ve already seen them try to sneak through the potentially devastating Canada-China FIPA. It is only because of public outcry that Harper has not yet ratified the treaty - but it could happen any day. The Green Party needs your help to continue to make sure this treaty never becomes reality.

Now, there are other threats on the horizon and we need your help again!

The Prime Minister is now determined to implement the highly secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), which will have major impacts to Canada’s policy, economy and environment. The TPP will:

Allow foreign investors and corporations to sue Canada if any level of government passes laws that reduce their profits or adversely affect their businesses.

Promote and protect exploitative tar sands development while safeguarding corporate profits at the expense of the health of our economy and environment.

Introduce harsh laws on Internet use allowing for strict criminal penalties for minor, non-commercial copyright infringements, and force Internet providers to disclose personal information to authorities without safeguards for privacy.

You can send Harper a message that the veil of secrecy surrounding this agreement is completely unacceptable in our democratic society.

While representatives of major corporations have access to the text of the agreement, elected officials, advocacy organisations and citizens are being left out in the cold. These negotiations must be opened to public input and comment.

The Green parliamentary political parties from Canada, Australia and New Zealand issued a joint statement opposing this deal in August of last year.

Send the message to the Harper Conservatives that Canadians will only support fair, transparent and genuinely progressive trade agreements that promote sustainable development and the creation of new jobs alongside the protection of the environment and human rights.

Sincerely,
Emily McMillan

Executive Director

Green Party of Canada

Fighting on as TPP negotiations loom

" “I don’t want to sound apocalyptic about it,” Kirkpatrick told the Georgia Straight over the phone. “But it will definitely entrench the multinational corporations having a much more significant power over the Canadian government and future Canadian governments.”

Kirkpatrick is also worried about how the TPP could affect Canadian copyright law. He’s toying with ideas for Internet parody videos, but he’s worried that the TPP could restrict the use of copyrighted material as inspiration for satire. With that in mind, Kirkpatrick decided to sign the online petition. "

Environmental Assessment of Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement Negotiations

"The S.D. Myers case should be a clear warning to anyone looking at the Canada-China Investment Treaty that international arbitration can come to bizarre conclusions. Chapter 11 of NAFTA has had a higher proportion of environmental law challenges than in other areas of public policy. Mexico lost to Metalclad, a US-based hazardous waste disposal company that wished to locate a large toxic facility in San Luis Potosi. The state level government rejected the application and the federal government of Mexico was successfully sued.

A thorough review of the regulatory process by the Commissioner for Environment and Sustainable Development, within the office of the Auditor General, assessing why certain pesticides and toxic substances have not been banned could provide empirical evidence of the chilling effect. In my view that is the single greatest environmental threat in this treaty. I believe municipal, provincial, territorial and the federal government will find themselves second-guessing policy and law-making related to environmental quality, health and safety based on how they imagine the investors awarded these powers by the TPP might respond."

Dr. Warren Bell on the Northern Gateway Pipeline

"This concentration of power in one element of Canada’s political structure, for whatever murky historical reason, is an invitation to social disaster. The illusion of “efficiency” in political decision-making is subverted by the opportunity for hard-line autocracy.

In the 21st century, when my patients are being encouraged to take increasing responsibility for their lives, such a concentration of power is anachronistic and backward.

The final element in Canada’s structural pathology is the expansion of the influence of the “corporation”, a business model that uncouples personal responsibility from profit, and places dollar gains above all others.

It is significant that as I sit talking to you here the Enbridge consortium is applying to expand its Kitimat terminal from 11 to 16 oil tanks. What clearer demonstration of absolute confidence in an eventual approval could there possibly be?

Taken together:
1. the relentless marginalization of First Nations, with their intimate connection to the ecosystem;
2. the electoral system, which readily generates non-representative governments;
3. the huge concentration of political power in the Prime Minister’s office; and
4. the rise of corporate influence.

The result, in a situation like the one we are addressing today, is growing social pathology. Frustration, anger, cynicism, depression and distrust of leadership are on the ascendancy, as noted in the Edelman Trust Barometer, released just before the World Economic Forum in Davos.

A patient of mine in his mid-twenties came to my office recently to say that he was deeply depressed and anxious, not about his love life, or his financial situation, but about the overheated, depleted future he was heading towards. He felt that the government in this country was acting now to make it worse for him and his young children later.

So what is the cure for this disease?
It is four-fold, in my opinion.

1. First, we must, as a nation, work out a respectful, mutually satisfactory relationship with Canada’s First Peoples – not destroy their culture by stealth.

2. Second, we must reform the electoral system to make it radically more representative.

3. Third, we must alter the power balance in the federal governance system so that one person cannot pre-empt democratic processes as Stephen Harper is now doing.

4. And fourth, we must rein in the overwhelming power and influence of the corporate sector.

Until we do these four things, our country is vulnerable to political, social and ecological upheaval that will retard our development as a nation, and likely offer ruin to the lives of future generations. "

Forecasted Supertankers Growth Make Oil Spill Unpreparedness “Extremely Worrisome”

" “Commissioner Vaughan tells us the Federal government is in a complete state of unpreparedness should an major offshore oil spill happen. He also forecasts a growth of the number of supertankers cruising on the West Coast: 1,800 new tanker movements, including supertankers,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands.

“In a context in which Harper’s Conservatives have a never ending desire to boost oil development, the Commissioner’s report is extremely worrisome,” added May. "

Pipeline opponents says CN's crude-by-railcar pitch poses 'risk to company'

"The Port of Prince Rupert confirms that it has had "very preliminary" talks with Nexen Inc., about using trains to bring oil from Alberta to the north coast port city."

Taxpayers on hook for environmental disasters: outgoing commissioner

" Canadian taxpayers may have to foot the bill for future environmental disasters like oil spills, according to Scott Vaughan, outgoing federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development. "

List of Fracking Substances Still Secret

" In his report tabled this morning, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development revealed Environment Canada and Health Canada do not have a complete list of substances used in hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as fracking). "

Scrambling for Profit, Media Slip 'Custom Content' into Mix

"How does it work? Often like this:

A business agrees to buy pricey ads with the assurance those ads will be accompanied by stories that fit desired themes but which seem to have sprung straight from the publication's newsroom. Indeed, custom content often runs under the bylines of staff reporters and without any disclaimer."

Vancouver Province pulls cartoonist’s Enbridge parody, triggering charges of censorship

"Allegations of censorship under corporate pressure have erupted after the Vancouver Province newspaper pulled an animated cartoon spoofing an Enbridge Inc. promotional TV ad from its web site."

 Elizabeth May on the state of "Democracy"

Stephen Harper is remaking Canada, one brick at a time. The legislative fabric of the country is being decimated through omnibus bills and legislation designed, not as good public policy, but as messages suited for a focus group. He is re-making our civil service into an arm of his PMO, filled with terrorized and demoralized men and women who hope that someday they will be permitted to do their job once again. And he has rallied Canadians to any number of Roman-like circuses to keep our minds off the activity behind the Coliseum. In 2012, we saw $28 million splashed around for the celebration of the Bicentenary of the War of 1812. The 60th anniversary of her Majesty’s reign cost $8 million and $5 million each for the centenaries of the Grey Cup and the Calgary Stampede. Clearly, Stephen Harper likes whipping us up into a fervor about anniversaries of milestones in Canadian history – but only certain milestones…. The 30th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms went uncelebrated.

Green points

    Reform our voting system. Hold a national discussion on the health of our democracy, address the growing and undemocratic power of the Prime Minister’s Office and explore the options for a more meaningful electoral system. Consider the risks of “first past the post” and vote on whether it should be replaced. Consider proportional representation.

    Access to information. Seek true solutions to the increasing corporate control in Canadian journalism. Whatever is “dumbed down” must be “smartened up.”

    Fair global trade. Reform, revise and rethink our trade agreements. Trade is a part of a sustainable future only when it is fair for all.

    Healthy industry. A healthy agriculture sector, with support for those who wish to transition to organic farming. A healthy fishery, with an end to devastating draggers. A sustainable forest industry with more emphasis on value added, and less raw log or unprocessed pulp export. More jobs for more people making real things.

    Get the prices right. Get the prices right for long-term sustainability. Avoid structural deficits. Implement a revenue-neutral carbon pricing architecture to modernize our economy. Build a “Made in Canada” Green economy.

Andrew Coyne: No opposition party is going to beat the Tories until they unite behind electoral reform

"it is not just desirable, but urgent, not least to prevent the Conservatives from consolidating their grip on power: the longer they stay in power, the more opportunity they will have to change the rules to their advantage, and the harder it will be for any opposition party to dislodge them. Defeating the Conservatives, all three parties would say, is not only a matter of partisan preference, but of democratic necessity.

Not coincidentally, all three parties broadly agree on another matter: the need to reform our democratic institutions, to prevent such accumulations of power — by any party. In particular, all three support, or say they do, some form of electoral reform."

Rueben George - Enbridge Rally

Even Conservatives must be wondering about the Canada-China Investment Treaty, thinking, "I didn't vote for this."

"As 2013 dawns, we are swept up in the first significant grassroots mobilization since Occupy. Idle No More has inspired me, and I have written a number of articles (here and here) to try to bring a green perspective to the issues. As the primary catalyst for the Idle No More movement was the Harper agenda of anti-environmental laws passed through omnibus legislation, with no consultation with First Nations, shouldn't the rest of Canada step up to support them? After all, Canadians were not consulted either. None of the changes were set out in the campaign platform of Mr. Harper's party in the 2011 election. Even Conservatives must be wondering about the Canada-China Investment Treaty, thinking, "I didn't vote for this." Let us all be Idle No More."

Brian Stewart: More espionage now than during the Cold War

" even more so China, now target Canadian and American secrets — diplomatic, economic, industrial, scientific — with an astonishing fervour.

Quite apart from lost profits, corporate espionage hurts advanced societies, especially when it succeeds in stealing away innovation — and the jobs that would go with it. "

Mortgaging BC, One Deal at a Time

"Since 2001, British Columbians have been witness to the sale of key parts of B.C.'s infrastructure, transfers of its wealth to private interests and sweetheart deals for industries that can afford well-connected lobbyists."

Independent MLAs promote democratic reform agenda

" The MLAs -- Vicki Huntington, Bob Simpson, and John van Dongen -- are calling for six measures to improve the democratic process in B.C. As presented on Simpson's website, three measures involve election reform and three involve legislative reform:Taxpayers on hook for environmental disasters: outgoing commissioner "

 China’s Militancy

China ropes in English-speaking ‘third force’ in PLA exercises

Chinese Warships Prepared To Fire On The Japanese Navy Twice

China restricts access to diplomatic archives over documents showing Senkakus as part of Japan

Chinese attack on US media sets new bar for digital wars

Chinese military behind hacks on major US newspapers

Hackers in China Attacked The Times for Last 4 Months

Chinese hackers attack The Post’s computers

Cyber Breach

US looking at action against China cyberattacks

A Sea of Troubles: Asia Today Compared to Europe Before World War I

Anti-Japan propaganda has handcuffed Beijing

Inside China: War hysteria

China's environment: An economic death sentence

China Demands U.S. Taxpayers Clean Up Its Air

Beware another Pearl Harbor: China may start a war if its economy falters

China's belligerence called 'crisis greater than Iran'

China developing rail mobile strategic missiles

US ICBM Force: Increasingly Creaky Broken Missiles

If You Say "Protest" On A Phone In China, It Cuts Off Automatically

Video: China’s plainclothes police stuff man into unmarked van for speaking to reporters

Alabama Kidnapper being Characterized as ‘Survivalist’

Over 1000 Green Berets Sign Letter Supporting Second Amendment

The best defense against tyranny, A Gun Behind Every Blade of Grass

Who Runs The World? A Core Group Of Wealthy Elitists Is Pulling The Strings

Chairman Harper Faces Party Revolt

At 5pm last Friday, Prime Minister Harper announced that he has approved the controversial

takeover of Canadian oil giant Nexen by China’s state-owned National Offshore Oil

Corporation, CNOOC.[1] Now that the Nexen takeover has been approved, it’s more important

than ever that we stop FIPA, the secretive and extreme Canada-China investors deal.

Harper just raised the stakes. If FIPA passes, CNOOC will gain the power to sue Canadian

governments in secret tribunals if they believe our democratic decisions impact their

expected profits -- even local decisions to create jobs, or protect our air, water and

health.

Prime Minister Harper can only pass the deal at a cabinet meeting, and we’ve found out

they are scheduled to meet twice before breaking for the holidays - this Thursday and next

Thursday.

Thanks to you, we were ready for this - we just launched more hard-hitting radio and print

ads to deepen the divisions within Harper’s caucus. Now we need your help to ramp up the

pressure on vulnerable Conservative MPs by broadcasting your urgent message in their

backyards.

Can you chip in now to send a powerful message to hundreds of thousands of Canadians in

key Conservative-held ridings? Just $20 will help buy one radio ad spot in a key riding.

$100 will help buy five.

We know our pressure is working. Experts thought Prime Minister Harper would approve this

FIPA when he first had a chance on November 2nd. Together, we blanketed key Conservative

MPs’ ridings with radio ads, and Harper delayed.

The Conservative MPs in Ottawa are now deeply divided over this FIPA. We have reliable

reports of a recent Conservative caucus meeting, where one Conservative MP after another

got up to tell Harper they have grave concerns about the deal. They’ve been hearing from

their constituents, including many Canadians who voted for them, and they know they’re

losing crucial support and funding over this secretive and extreme investor deal. By the

end of the meeting, Harper was fuming!

Now it’s time to double our efforts. Today we placed a full page ad in Ottawa’s Embassy

Magazine, one of the major papers read by MPs, and we’ve used up our last reserves for

this campaign to fund another wave of hard-hitting radio ads targeted in key battleground

ridings where Conservative MPs are the most vulnerable.

Let’s stop this investor deal before it binds Canada for 31 years. Your donations will

keep up the pressure through the next two weeks before the holidays, and help pay for key

campaign costs. Click here to donate to put hard-hitting radio ads targeting key

Conservative MPs back on the air across the country.

http://www.leadnow.ca/fipa-radio-ads

If Harper can’t control the dissent within his own caucus, he can’t risk passing FIPA. By

directly pressuring vulnerable MPs on their home turf, we’ll deepen the divisions within

Harper’s caucus and make it politically impossible for him to pass FIPA before the

holidays.

The public is outraged by the Nexen takeover, and this is the key moment to focus

attention on the Canada-China FIPA where it will make the biggest impact. If we raise

$15,000 we can blanket radio ads across key Conservative ridings all over the country to

amplify your impact. Click here to make a secure donation.

Thank you for all you do.

With hope and respect,

Jamie, Matthew, Maggie, Adam, Ryan, Anna, Jen, Logan and Julia on behalf of the Leadnow.ca

team

PS - The fact that Prime Minister Harper has claimed that the Nexen approval is the “end”

and not the “beginning” of state-owned foreign takeovers shows a major reversal in his

position in the face of intense public opposition.[1]

The new guidelines say a takeover like Nexen will only occur again in “exceptional

circumstances”, but they lack teeth, and we need to stop the secretive and extreme

Canada-China FIPA from giving China’s companies the ability to sue our government in

secret tribunals if common-sense laws challenge their growing interests. Click here to

donate today.

CNOOC Deal a transfer of sensitive technology

"Hong Kong. September 27. INTERFAX-CHINA - China National Offshore Oil Corp.’s (CNOOC) $15.1 billion bid for Nexen Inc. is coming under increasing scrutiny in Canada over concerns that the state-owned Chinese major could transfer sensitive extraction technology outside of the country after gaining control of the Canadian oil sands developer."

So now the Chinese Communists get our most sensitive franking and deep water drilling technology.
Every day now, more revelations that the scale of the betrayal is beyond comprehension.
 

Encana, PetroChina form partnership to develop natural gas in Alberta

"CALGARY - Less than a week after Ottawa waved through CNOOC Ltd.'s $15.1-billion takeover of Nexen Inc., a different Chinese state-owned company is plowing another $2.2 billion into the Canadian oilpatch."

Nexen Cave-in: Chairman Harper's Economic Desperation

"These musings on bitumen's dimming prospects from a major U.S. business paper and a former deputy minister no less shed light on Harper's abrupt conversion from Chinese critic to Chinese puppet.

They also clarify why the Harper government bluntly ignored public opinion and rubber stamped the CNOOC buy-out of indebted Nexen for three times more than its actual value. CNOOC, by the way, reports to the Communist Party of China. As such the firm has little regard for transparency, human rights or offshore oil spills for that matter.

Bitumen's ailing prospects also explain the government's secretive negotiation of a one-sided investment treaty with China that could make China's highly subsidized and corrupt state owned enterprises the nation's number one foreign investors by 2017.

Harper's disregard for democratic sentiment on these issues (Canadians and Albertans in particular remain opposed to a CNOOC sell-out, let alone the trade deal) ultimately spell one word: desperation. And desperation in a bust and boom petro state, as any North African can tell you, is not a pretty thing."

If China Can Have State-Owned Energy Firms, Why Can't We?

"Apparently there's a lot wrong with public ownership of natural resources -- if you are ideologically motivated to oppose it.

That may explain why the two parties that have alternated in governing Canada for more than the past century both wanted to get rid of PetroCanada.

And their lack of commitment to Canadian ownership of our own natural resources is why both Harper and the Liberal Party's heir-apparent leader Justin Trudeau both approved of the CNOOC and takeover.

So while the rest of the world reaps the rewards of public ownership of natural resources, Canada has not only gone in the opposite direction, it's also allowing foreign companies to take over what is rightfully ours."

TPP: Another Flawed, Hush Hush Trade Deal

"Moreover, the price of entry may be high, since leaked documents suggest the deal might require a major overhaul of Canadian agriculture, investment, intellectual property and culture protection rules.

While the substance of the TPP is cause for concern, the more immediate issue is the lack of transparency associated with both the negotiations and Canada's participation in them.

The talks remain shrouded in secrecy, with a draft text that is confidential; public interest groups are largely banned from the venue where the negotiations are being held."

End of Democracy

What has our society come to, the only major media to cover such dramatic restructuring of the political/ economic system is Russia Today. Democracy is being murdered by the TPP while our major networks broadcast real housewives and the Tom and Kate divorce. Bread and circuses. And now all we have is the Russians. I don't trust Putin, he's an authoritarian thug, but I have to give RT credit for being one of the only real sources of investigative broadcast journalism left on the North American Continent. These are dark days, and we all know things will get a lot darker.

Leaked TPP Draft: Global Corporate Dictatorship