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If people no longer expect objectivity from their political and legal systems, then all justice will be reduced to a power struggle between conflicting and irreconcilable perspectives, a struggle in which the most dominant and pervasive bias will replace fair and impartial process as the character of justice. But if objectivity in law and politics is everywhere supplanted by conflict between subjective interests, then the side of economic privilege and established authority will always retain dominance. A society in which people no longer expect representatives of its major institutions even to attempt to render objectivity in their professional demeanours is a society whose major institutions are in a crisis of ethical legitimacy. In such a society, there is wide spread cynicism regarding the possibility of fair political process because it seems impossible that impartial, unbiased dispositions could exist to enact such processes.
Robert Nicholls
Language and Logic
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters
Why are UK politicians handing over control of the internet to the communists?
It's obvious that the politicians are corrupt.
Solution: develop checks and balances that prevent corrupt politicians from damaging the national security interests of democracy. Politicians should not be allowed to sell out their country.
We need to develop systems that automatically deal with politicians who work for the enemy.
No sane patriot would hand over assets to the communists, not for anything, no surrender.
The people need to organize in support of democratic state sovereignty and security.
Irresponsible traitors will try to bring down our free society and all it has accomplished from within, the people must support the state, and the state must support the people. A symbiotic relationship.
Society is worth preserving, our freedom and the peace that it underpins are not to be cast aside.
Under no circumstance are politicians justified in selling off control to foreign totalitarian regimes.
The only reason you have rights, the only reason you have democracy is because of the people in the security services and military who volunteer to risk their lives to protect your constitutional rights. If we did not have forces to defend our state security we would not have a state, and with no state we would not be guaranteed constitutional freedom, or a vote, or any sort of basic security.
I very much doubt that MI6 would approve of handing over the keys to the intelligence store to a company founded by a highly placed Chinese Communist military officer. The problem is that the corrupt and incompetent politicians do not listen to the state funded advice provided to them, and in so doing disregard the national security interests of the people. Political re-adjustment is both possible and necessary. Just as the constitution acts as parameters for political action, the national security rights of the public should be enshrined in some kind of parameter that would prevent politicians from betraying state security. If we have freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom to vote, freedom of the press, and general freedom of conscience, than why do we not have freedom from politicians who sell out national security. Security is the ultimate freedom in that it underpins all else.
Democracy will only last so long as the security services can guarantee its continued existence.
Support the troops, and when you vote, vote to give our lads a fighting chance.
Chinese Firm Huawei In Control of UK Net Filters
Chinese firm Huawei controls net filter praised by PM
UK to review involvement of Huawei in Oxfordshire cybersecurity centre, as firm denies spying claims
Britain to review Huawei's UK-based cyber center
Former US Spy Chief Says Huawei Spies For China
Why Xi Jinping's 'Anti-Corruption Campaign' Is Hollow, Unserious, and Ultimately Doomed
Slaying of watermelon seller triggers fresh anger in China
Vigil at Chinese Embassy Marks 14 Years of Persecution
Persecution of Falun Gong Continues Unabated
Party Official, Undercover, Publishes Book on Tibet
Faith and human rights groups join in condemning Chinese regime’s human rights abuses
China’s salami-slice strategy
Japan Alarmed By China’s Air and Naval Surveillance
China Coast Guard ships confront Japanese cutters
Dark days for China and the Philippines
PLA Navy to Begin First Strategic Missile Submarine Patrols Next Year
US Should Take Lead Against Organ Harvesting in China, Says Doctor
Will U.S. Face Trade Sanctions for Anti-Smoking Law?
Obama Administration Stands Firm on ‘Dolphin-Safe’ Tuna Labels; Will the WTO Authorize Trade Sanctions?
Is Economics a Science or a Religion?
There’s nothing partisan about disclosure of political spending
Corporations Express Fear of Democracy
What the Prince of Cambridge can teach the United States about the benefits of a single payer health care system
Expert: Cuba could hit U.S. with EMP death blow
Panama finds MiG fighter jets on North Korean arms ship
Mike Rogers: China, Iran, and Russia Launching Cyber Attacks Against U.S.
Russia opposition leader freed on bail, protests rattle Kremlin
Russia's top lawyers sound alarm about government abuse of the Constitution
Egypt starts amending constitution despite political divisions
New Egyptian PM seeks dialogue, end to divisions
Islamist-Kurdish fighting spreads in rebel-held Syria
Water Crisis in the Middle East
Kitimat ocean program set for oil tankers
‘Nobody understands’ spills at Alberta oil sands operation
Thursday, July 18, 2013
World War Z, Hollywood Latest Sell Out to China
Taiwan Rehearses for Communist Chinese Invasion
Hong Kong Residents Defend Falun Gong From Harassment
People think this through,
What if a member of your family or someone you knew was a falun gong practitioner?
What if a member of your family or someone you knew was an anti-corruption activist?
Making it your policy to arrest members of the community for their beliefs is an unacceptable policy for any party wishing to present themselves as a legitimate ruling party. The persecution of peaceful members of the community who are simply trying to contribute to a better world is unacceptable.
When a political culture becomes so partisan to the point where pragmatic relaxed good governance turns to a wasteful struggle over "power", then the community should expect undesirable results.
Obviously, no one in their right mind would want the communist party to rule their community because no one in their right mind would want to be abused by a totalitarian regime.
Even if you don't care about politics, you probably would care if a regime came after members of the community. What the world needs is virtue, people virtuous enough not to abuse power, to only use it to inspire people to achieve good things. People must abandon partisanship if we are to confront the monumental challenges of our time, the situation demands it. Extremism is a mental illness.
I'm asking you, all of you, to put aside the selfish quest for power and focus on accomplishing what needs to be done. This is not about any one of us, this is not even about our era and how it unfolds. This is about a long term change in consciousness achieved through deep thought and meditation that will bring an end to political violence.
The struggle for the human soul is greater than any of us.
Chinese Anti-Corruption Rights Activist Detained
The methods and patterns of behavior employed by the communist party are immoral and should not be enabled in any way.
Glaxo and the peril of doing business in China
Inside the Ring: New naval harassment in Asia
Trident downgrade would leave Britain vulnerable to nuclear attack
Indefensible Policies: Our Commander-in-Chief Retreats As Putin's Missile Programs Advance
Global threat to food supply as water wells dry up
Brian Stewart: Egypt's other existential crisis — the Nile
Syrian Unrest Could Have Broad Geopolitical Impact
Military Cooperation Between Cuba, North Korea Revealed
Russia jails top opposition leader; Putin denounced as dictator
Chinese Hackers Dropbox Their Viruses
Body Worlds Challenged to Provide DNA
PMO asked staff to supply 'enemy' lists to new ministers
Plot to bribe unhappy aide involved in ethnic vote scandal
Report on BC Rail legal bills delayed
Saturday, July 13, 2013
China Has World’s Most Active Missile Programs
China Has World’s Most Active Missile Programs
Abe criticizes China for trying to change status quo by force
Chinese general: Philippines stirs trouble for asking US help
Chinese Patrol Boards, Damages Vietnamese Trawlers: Captain
China-Japan Tensions Flare Again
Japan says faces increasing threats from China, North Korea
Dangerous military actions of China, North Korea must be contained
Chinese police open fire on Tibetan monks: group
Judge Says: As Early as 1980s, Organs Were Harvested in China
In Communist China, Shortwave is a Window to the World
U.S.-China Like A ‘Married Couple,’ Says Chinese Official
U.S. family tries living without China
NY Senator Calls on MTA to Avoid Chinese Steel
MPs, Senators defend right to sit on corporate boards
Doc about whipped BC MLAs now free to view online
4 Bogus Claims About Why Walmart Can’t Pay A Living Wage
Tell Your Representative to Support the Safe Cosmetics & Personal Care Products Act
Public Citizen publishes “road map” for states to move toward single-payer health
Another company leaves U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the organization’s environmental
Binge-Drinking Impairs Brain: New Study
Russia convicts lawyer Magnitsky in posthumous trial
Russian Military Woos Young Computer Programmers for new cyber project
Iran’s Water Crisis
Tracking Pakistan’s nukes to Saudi Arabia?
Graphic: Saudi Arabia's missile base 'with launch pads aimed at Israel and Iran'
Seven peacekeepers killed in Sudan's Darfur region
Madagascar villagers accuse army of mass killings
The Middle-Class Revolution
Overthrow of Egypt's Brotherhood sends Islamists across the Mideast scrambling
Further destabilisation in the Middle East possible according to new report
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Union support, affidavits boost lawsuit's efforts to halt Canada-China investment deal
Union support, affidavits boost lawsuit's efforts to halt Canada-China investment deal
" Unions, citizen groups, and environmentalists have joined a growing chorus alarmed about a secretive investment deal with China, voicing their support yesterday for a First Nation's lawsuit seeking to halt the agreement.The groups said they are concerned about the lack of public consultation and aboriginal consent, and provisions allowing companies to sue governments over legislation, contained within the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA). "
" "This deal would critically impact every provincial government's ability to make autonomous decisions directly affecting the well-being of their citizens," said Hupacasath First Nation councillor Brenda Sayers. "Our environmental laws have been gutted, so there's very little environmental protection or process around how resources are removed... This is a very big deal for Canada. It is critical for Canadians, at this point in time, to pay attention to this."
The lawsuit presents an opportunity to educate people about the "secretive and extreme" FIPA deal, said Jamie Biggar, executive director of Leadnow.ca. After the agreements came to light last autumn, the advocacy organization fundraised more than $30,000 among its 225,000 members to support Hupacasath's injunction request. "
" "The reason why these negotiated behind closed doors -- the reason this is not going to Parliament and why it's not being brought in front of the public -- is because, for past trade agreements, the government has realized the public does not support [them]," "
" "These free trade agreements give corporations power over governments, and limit a government's ability to put regulations and laws in place to protect the rights of citizens, the land and natural resources of our country," she said. "If corporations think that rules and regulations to protect our labour rights, human rights or our environment get in their way, they can sue our government.
"With no debate or consultation, the Harper government is prepared to undermine our rights -- labour rights we have fought for as unions, human rights, democratic rights and the right to protect our environment, and most importantly, the rights of First Nations over lands and resources."
With tensions rising in the province over Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, and Kinder Morgan's plans to expand its own pipeline from the Alberta oil sands, some have suggested the real intent of the FIPA may be to lock in oil exports to Asia. "
Chinese Idiom: Subduing the Enemy Without War 不戰屈人
"According to ancient Chinese general Sun Zi (孫子), or Sun Tzu, author of the famous military classic “The Art of War” (孫子兵法), this is the ultimate strategy that should always be attempted first before resorting to battle.Sun Zi believed that the skillful leader subdues the enemy’s army without fighting, captures the enemy’s cities without attack, and overthrows the enemy’s nation without a lengthy operation."
Lead Now
" If the Canada-China FIPA passes, China’s companies could sue Canada if any Canadian government - including our provinces - makes any decision that put our health, jobs and environment before their profit. Worse yet, these suits would be decided by unaccountable arbitrators in secret courts outside our legal system.That’s not how Canada is supposed to work. We live in a democratic federation, and our provinces should have to consent to any major federal decision that would undermine their authority. Our provinces can defend their constitutional powers from FIPA. If Christy Clark, BC’s premier, acts now to defend the rights of British Columbians, she could stop Harper from locking us into FIPA for 31 years. "
We need to send a flood of messages to ensure our premiers act. Please join us:
http://www.leadnow.ca/stop-fipa-bc
" Four months ago, Prime Minister Harper quietly announced that he wanted to pass the biggest trade deal in a generation without a single vote in Parliament. Your campaign raised the alarm about the danger of FIPA’s secret investor-state courts. You united Canadians, divided Harper’s caucus and made him think twice about ratifying this bad trade deal. The Hupacasath First Nation are taking this FIPA to court to defend their rights. "
" FIPA would expose Canada to lawsuits from China’s massive companies in secret investor-state courts -- outside Canada’s legal system -- that have a track record of systematically ruling against the interests of Canadians. Under this system, Canada has already been sued more than any industrialized country in the world. Investor-state lawsuits undermine our democratic control. "
" Our provinces have defended our rights before. In the 1990s, BC played a leadership role in the successful fight against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). A BC legislative committee publicly studied the MAI and expressed serious concerns about the fact that it would expose Canada to investor-state arbitration. It found that if the federal government fails to gain the express consent of the province, “the Province must vigorously defend its authority on behalf of all British Columbians."
Let’s call on our premiers to use every tool they have - political and legal - to stop the Canada-China FIPA from being ratified unless the secret investor-state courts are removed, public consultations are held in every province, and our provinces consent to the deal through a democratic vote in their legislature. "
With hope and respect, Emma, Jamie, Matthew and the whole Leadnow.ca team
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: Chinese need for conflict is deeply ingrained
" "China has a “deeply ingrained” need to spar with Japan and other Asian neighbors over territory, because the ruling Communist Party uses the disputes to maintain strong domestic support, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview.Clashes with neighbors, notably Japan, play to popular opinion, Abe said, given a Chinese education system that emphasizes patriotism and “anti-Japanese sentiment.” "
Brainwashed School Children in China 2009
China Anti Japanese Student Brainwashing 2012
How can you support your leaders when they provide support for the objectives of the Communist Party of China and it's campaign of one-world hatred and oppression. We should not do business or provide resources to a force that is so anti-human. Below is footage of what martial law under Chinese Communist occupation looks like. Is Canada next?
In Tibet you can be arrested for merely walking outside your door and saying:
"long live the Dali Lama".
It's sad, the Chinese have been trained to hate from a young age, like the Hitler youth.
At one point you can see about 50 Chinese with guns cuffing a scared old woman and laughing.
LEAKED Video from Tibet Show China's Ongoing Brutal Repression On Tibetans
This is what martial law looks like, we have to stop the New World Order.
China's sensitivity over Tibet
Chinese Police Detain, Beat Tibetan Protesters
" Of the 104 Tibetans who set themselves on fire since February 2009, 22 were under the age of 18, Save Tibet said. They have taken part in the fiery protests to demonstrate against the Chinese regime’s policies in Tibetan areas, calling for cultural and religious freedom, as well as the return of the Dalai Lama. "Australian Legislator Proposes Criminalizing Organ Tourism
" He related a recent discussion he had with a doctor: A patient told the doctor that they would not be attending treatment the following day, because they were going to China, where their donor was about to be shot. “That’s a chilling prospect,” Shoebridge said, “and one which we have a moral duty to address.” "" While Chinese officials admit—after years of denials —that organs come from prisoners, they do not specify which types of prisoners. Available evidence suggests that in large part, the organs have come from practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted in China since 1999.
The research of two Canadians, human rights lawyer David Matas, and former parliamentarian David Kilgour, indicates that from 2000 to 2005, 41,500 organs were harvested from Falun Gong prisoners. The consultation paper produced as part of Shoebridge’s bill amendment includes reference to the Kilgour-Matas report. Gutmann estimates the figure was 65,000 by 2008. "
Why can't Canada's wealthiest province break even? Blame the paradox of plenty.
" To most Canadians this curious disclosure seems confounding, if not paradoxical. How can "the economic engine" of Canada run five government deficits in a row yet promise prosperity for the nation? Is no one in charge? ""Terry Lynn Karl, the acclaimed author of Paradox of Plenty, describes the petromania resource curse more directly: Easy access to oil wealth lowers "financial discipline within bureaucracies and leads to reckless budgetary practices. Most importantly, it preempts efforts to mobilize domestic resources through taxation" which, in turn, creates more dependence on oil."
" Alberta must "redirect the revenues gained from the sale of resources away from the government's budget and toward saving," conclude the pair. "
" "As we noted previously this is the solution to the problem of energy price volatility that has been successfully employed by energy-rich Norway and that has been frequently urged upon the Alberta government. Unfortunately, it is a solution that has eluded the government of Alberta." "
"Easy wealth seems to discourage hard thinking, the same way scarcity stimulates innovation."
" In a petro state politicians and business leaders become so tied to the perverse incentives of mining oil, says Terry Lynn Karl, that they "develop networks of complicity based on the classic exchange between the right to rule and the right to make money." "
" How do you know when you live in petro state? Here are some key signs:
When your government pays 30 per cent of its road, education, and hospital bills with finite and volatile hydrocarbon revenue.
When your province posts five budget deficits in a row during a so-called "bitumen boom."
When the government approves 100 bitumen projects over a ten-year period without a cumulative impact assessment.
When your government fires the Chief Elections Officer, Lorne Gibson, in 2009 for doing his job and reporting on widespread electoral fraud.
When your government estimates that cleaning up toxic waste in the tar sands will cost more than $20 billion but asks industry to set aside only $1 billion.
When the province's oil and gas regulator argues in Queen's Court that it owes "no duty of care" to Albertan landowners or the province's groundwater.
When a bunch of Calgary lawyers decide that the best market for their self-branded "ethical oil" are Chinese national oil firms directed by the world's leading moral philosophers, the Communist Party of China. "
Fracked Gas Won't Solve Energy Crunch: Report
" Governments and financial analysts who think unconventional fossil fuels such as bitumen, shale gas and shale oil can usher in an era of prosperity and energy plenty are dangerously deluded, concludes a groundbreaking report by one of Canada's top energy analysts. "" The latest panaceas championed by industry and media talking heads are too expensive and will deplete too rapidly to provide either energy security or independence for the United States, concludes the 62-year-old geologist who worked for Natural Resources Canada for 32 years as a coal and gas specialist. "
Unconventional fossil fuels all share a host of cruel and limiting traits says Hughes. They offer dramatically fewer energy returns; they consume extreme and endless flows of capital; they provide difficult or volatile rates of supply overtime and have "large environmental impacts in their extraction." "
‘Cancer Villages’ in China Acknowledged by Regime
" The Chinese regime for the first time admitted the existence of so-called “cancer villages”—areas near factories and polluted waterways where cancer rates have increased to startlingly high levels.Over the years, Chinese environmental activists have said there is a strong link between increased cancer rates and industrial pollution—in part due to corrupt officials looking the other way when developers and businesses violate environmental regulations. Investigative journalist Deng Fei in 2009 showed some of the worst-hit areas using Google maps. "
Fracking: Feds Throw Wrench in High Profile Lawsuit
" The $33-million lawsuit alleges that Encana, one of Canada's largest natural gas producers, drilled and fracked shallow coal bed methane wells directly in the local groundwater supply between 2001 and 2004 near Rosebud, Alberta and thereby polluted Ernst's water well with enough toxic chemicals and methane to make it flammable. "Ai Weiwei world famous artist Persecuted for belief in Compassion
North Korea set to conduct intermediate-range missile test
Syrian Rebels Attack Hezbollah
A Toothless Trade Secret Strategy
Housing Bubble 2.0? – Why The US Property Market Is Headed For Another Crash
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Cyber-hacking War Finally gets Major Coverage
Cyber-hacking threat
MPs on Chinese hacking
Notice how the Conservatives try to avoid saying anything about China when questioned. Harper was on TV the other day saying that the best way to open up closed societies was to engage them in commerce. The opposite is what is happening, the dictatorships are getting stronger and influencing our democracies with all the money we outsourced to them. This has only made the enemy stronger, and provided the communist tyrants legitimacy.
Harper lets communist China have free rein over Canadian telecommunications
The Canadian Government’s 40 Hour Cyber Security Work Week
" …Government and private-sector systems are attacked by hackers, organized crime and state actors [China anyone? this government won’t say] on a “constant basis,” said [public safety minister] Toews…Now I guess they think those types don’t work during Ottawa’s night:
…the [Canadian Cyber Incident Response] centre [within Public Safety Canada] was still not operating on a 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week basis, as originally intended, shutting down weekdays at 4 p.m. Ottawa time and closing for the weekend. The government plans to extend those hours to 9 p.m., seven days a week, but not round-the-clock… "
Chinese firm's Canadian contracts raise security fears
" Even Canada's own intelligence agencies have warned the Harper government of the risks of throwing open the door to Chinese telecom companies.Despite all the warnings, the federal and Ontario governments have rolled out the red carpet to Huawei, officially praising the Chinese company's partnerships in Canadian telecom projects with Telus, Bell, SaskTel and WIND Mobile.
During a recent visit to China, for instance, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was "honoured" to have witnessed the signing of large contracts for Huawei to provide Telus and Bell with the latest LTE high-speed wireless networks across Canada. "
Canada must ramp up cyber security in wake of alleged China-led attacks, experts say
" “The Canadian government has been somewhat remiss in its approach to the problem” of cyber security, said Queen’s University professor and internet security expert David Skillicorn. "China's military hacking attacks
Canada's reaction to cyber attacks
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
Chinese Army Hackers Are Trying to Bring Down U.S. Infrastructure
US ready to strike back against massive cyberattacks as firm details link to Chinese military
BBC reporter detained investigating China hacking
China military unit behind prolific hacking
China rejects Philippine effort at UN mediation over South China Sea territorial dispute
Russian military expert: “If Nagorno Karabakh conflict is not solved in 2013, war will be inevitable”
Job-Killing Trade Deficits Soar under "Free Trade" Agreements
HD misled saying it needed Chinese specialists for 'long wall' mining
" The company said it intended to use the so-called long-wall technique to harvest coal from its Murray River mine and insisted the Chinese workers were needed for their specialties in the use of it. ""But according to documents obtained by the union, HD Mining's application to the B.C. Ministry of Natural Resource Operations in June 2011 shows during a two-year bulk sample collection period the company had no plan to employ the long-wall technique. "
Pipeline industry pushed changes to Navigable Waters Protection Act: documents
" Documents obtained through the Access to Information Act show it came, in part, from the pipeline industry.The Canadian Energy Pipeline Association met with senior government officials in the fall of 2011, urging them not just to streamline environmental assessments, but also to bring in "new regulations under (the) Navigable Waters Protection Act," a CEPA slide presentation shows. "
Environmental law centre seeks investigation of muzzled federal scientists
" The complaint arises from a sweeping Conservative communications policy under which federal scientists must get permission before speaking publicly — permission that is often denied, delayed or limited to approved talking points. "The Making of a Natural Gas Glut
" In recent years Wall Street banks helped a wave of foreign energy companies including Chinese, Norwegian and Japanese firms buy up shale oil and gas leases across North America, even though too few wells had been drilled to assess their longevity and quality."Shale gas accounted for $46.5 billion in deals in the U.S. alone in 2011," explains Rogers. "The mergers and acquisitions market for shale assets exploded in the prior two years directly in sync with the downward descent of natural gas prices. In much the same way as mortgage backed securities bolstered the banks' profits before the downturn, energy M&A had now become the new profit centre within these banks." "
Andrew Nikiforuk: The Big Shift
" He also warns that all citizens should prepare for "high and likely volatile oil prices," and that governments should be "educating their citizenry of the risk of contraction to minimize potential future social discord." "If we are concerned about the availability of energy, why is the government in such a rush to ship the oil to foreign dictators.
NDP Pledges Election Reforms Libs Stalled
" 'City Hall for Sale'The Tyee began raising awareness of the gaps in the regulation of municipal politics in 2007. "It is entirely possible for offshore money to buy a municipal election in British Columbia," said Patrick Smith, a political scientist at Simon Fraser University, quoted in the series "City Hall for Sale."
"And it would be easy for the recipient of that money to hide it from public view," Smith said. "I think that's pretty stunning." "
BC's small surplus depends on asset sales and optimism
" The sale of government assets will raise $475 million. "Selling off property to pay the bills, selling off non-renewable resources for a piece of what they are worth, does that sound like strategic fiscal management to you?

