Security: Food & Pandemic, Torture, China Spies--Threats & Intimidation in Canada -- Kyoto-North, PM, Business -- Inuktituk & Global Commerce? & More

HOMEBREW AC -- Grandinite -- You have to love guys who have the ingenuity to figure out how to do things like create a home-made air conditioner.

Given the price of oil and electricity, this knowledge might come in handy. Note how the stock price has risen with one of the oil companies operating in Canada, Husky Energy.

Hang Seng Index: 14161.02 +181.67 +1.30%

Check the rise in one year for CA:HSE -- also the three year price rise -- involved in Alberta, Newfoundland offshore, and planning more -- " plans second large Canadian ethanol plant"




Before reading the articles below, this Table of Contents is worth skimming.

Working Together to Combat Organized Crime: A Public Report On Actions Under the National Agenda To Combat Organized Crime Date Published: 2004-05-12

Introduction

A Growing Problem: Increase in Organized Crime throughout the 1990s

Building a Collective Response to the Problem of Organized Crime in Canada

National and Regional Coordination: Governments Working Together to Address Key Priorities

Canada's Illicit Drug Trade: Fuelling the Organized Crime Machine

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs: The Public Face of Organized Crime

Economic Crime: Taking Advantage of Vulnerable Canadians and Our Economy

Economic crime, which includes identity theft, credit card fraud, insurance fraud, telemarketing fraud, securities and stock market fraud, and counterfeiting . . .

High-Tech Crime: Technology's Dark Side

High-tech crime includes traditional crimes committed with the use of advanced technology, such as fraud on the Internet, as well as new activities, such as hacking. New technology can also be used to store evidence of crimes that have been committed.

[. . . . ] One of the most disturbing aspects of high tech crime today is the sexual exploitation of children on the Internet. This activity victimizes the most vulnerable members of our society -- children. The 2003 CISC Annual Report notes that collectors of child pornography or child abuse images can use the Internet to acquire huge quantities of images. For instance, a 2003 Ontario-based investigation uncovered a collection of over 1,000,000 images of child pornography.13

Money Laundering: Cleansing the Proceeds of Organized Crime

Trafficking in Human Beings and Migrant Smuggling: An International Organized Crime Problem

Corruption: When Organized Crime Infiltrates The Authorities

Corruption within governments and police forces can undermine fair and effective government, lower economic growth and breed poverty. Organized criminal elements, in turn, may exploit these weaknesses and flourish in countries with corrupt governments.

Street Gangs: Organized Criminal Groups in our Communities

Governments Working Together to Address Emerging Issues in the Fight against Organized Crime

Intimidation of Criminal Justice System Participants and their Families: Attempting to Influence Criminal Investigations and Trials

Criminal Activities Relating to Diamond Mining: Organized Crime Infiltrates a Growing Industry

Organized Crime at Canada's Marine Ports: Moving Contraband Items Through the Gateways to Our Country

Governments' response to other components within the National Agenda to Combat Organized Crime

Strengthening Legislative and Regulatory Tools

Research and Analysis

Informing Canadians About Organized Crime

Conclusion: Maintaining Strong Partnerships

Linking leftwing activists to Information Highway

Hidden Paul Martin firm linking leftwing activists to Information Highway -- "the Paul Martin corporation that somehow disappeared from Martin's public disclosure statements circa 1995" by Judi McLeod & David Hawkins, February 3, 2005

David Hawkins, Foundation Scholar-Cambridge University, and founder of the Citizen's Association of Forensic Economists at Hawks’ CAFE, and CFP investigative journalist Judi McLeod

[. . . . ] the Directorate of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence (DNBCD) . . . Canadian Department of National Defence.

. . . technical support services to the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Integrated Technical Support Directorate . . . .

The paper trail shows . . . Upper Lakes Shipping Group . . . Canadian Shipbuilding & Engineering (CSE) . . . merger . . . CSL . . . CSL Group and Upper Lakes Shipping. . . Upper Lakes Group.

[. . . . ] In the booming business of providing military and civilian-surveillance, Lansdowne Technologies also trained inspectors attached to the United Nations Monitoring, Verification Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) in 2001.

. . . Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs . . . UNMOVIC inspectors with Dr. Hans Blix traveling to Ottawa to launch the training course.

When it comes to the behind-the-scenes push for One World Order, Maurice Strong protégé, Prime Minister Paul Martin has the proverbial finger in all the right pies.

A Google search for "Lansdowne Technologies" yielded several references, some of which look intriguing.

Canadian Space Industry Guide - Lansdowne Technologies Inc.
Lansdowne Technologies Inc. ... Lansdowne has assisted in the management of the Canadian Space Station Program (CSSP) including ...
www.conveyor.com/space/org/lansdowne.html

CSA - Proactive Disclosure of Contracts Over $10000
Vendor Name:, LANSDOWNE TECHNOLOGIES INC. Reference Number:, 9F02846420.
Contract Date:, 2004-04-20.
www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/resources/ publications/contracts-2004-d.asp?trimestre=1&id=29

Disclosure of contracts over $10000 - Reports
Vendor Name:, LANSDOWNE TECHNOLOGIES INC. Reference Number:, 2005000723.
Contract Date:, 2004-04-21.
www.cra-arc.gc.ca/agency/ contracts/2004-2005/q1/2005000723-e.html

Martin's ties to NWO
www.bcrevolution.ca/martin's_ties_to_nwo.htm
21 Jun 2005

HMCS HAIDA News
hmcshaida.ca/phase1.html

9/11 planning and a possible sequel
www.apfn.net/messageboard/ 04-27-05/discussion.cgi.21.html

Pandemic vaccine in hands of global depopulation advocates by Judi McLeod & David Hawkins Monday, March 14, 2005

"The AVDP is a 14-year project to develop new vaccine systems and related medical countermeasures to protect Canadian Forces personnel against political chemical and biological warfare threats."

[. . . . ] Anti-American to the core, Strong has said, "The United States is the greatest threat to the world s ecological health." (AP). Strong headed up the review panel on the World Bank-funded Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). CGIAR is accountable to the world's farmers.

"Food security looms. . . .

[. . . . ] And now with Paul Martin in the PMO, his blind trust Lansdowne Technologies Inc. has been awarded a 14-year contract from the Canadian Department of Defence to develop vaccines?

Who are Canada's "allies" with which she is "cooperating closely" in the Allied Vaccine Development Project as advertised on Lansdowne s website? [. . . . ]

The above was previously posted May 1, 05



Bird flu: we're all going to die
Charles Arthur, June 2, 05

[. . . . ] Last week the journal Nature pulled together an entire online resource on the threat of avian flu

[. . . . ] There have already been a couple of cases of deaths from H5N1 where the only logical pathway is human-to-human
See NEJM

Pandemic could cause food shortages, expert warns CP, June 16, 2005

Dr. Michael Osterholm suggested policy makers must start intensive planning to figure out how to ensure food supplies for their populations during a time when international travel may be grounded or severely cut back, when workers are too sick to process or deliver food and when people will be too fearful of disease to gather in restaurants.

[. . . . ] "I think we'll have a very limited food supply," he said in the interview.

"As soon as you shut down both the global travel and trade . . . and (add to it) the very real potential to shut down over-land travel within a country, there are very few areas that will be hit as quickly as will be food, given the perishable nature of it." [. . . . ]

The Abiding Communist Threat in its Open and Hidden Manifestations




Would you do business with these guys?

Do not miss the photos.

High-profile Torture Victim Dies Surrounded by Chinese Security Agents -- One of China’s Highest Government Leaders Personally Involved Falun Dafa Information Centre

[. . . . ] In July of 2003 Gao was sent to Longshan Forced Labor Camp. During her detention Gao was physically beaten by camp personnel, report sources familiar with her case. Almost one year later, on May 7, 2004, at approximately 3:00pm, Tang Yubao, the deputy head of the No. 2 Brigade along with team leader Jiang Zhaohua, summoned Gao to the duty office and began to torture her by means of electric baton. Sources report that the torture continued for some 7 hours. Those detained with Gao in the labor camp say she sustained multiple burns to her face, head, and neck. Gao’s face was covered with blisters and her hair was matted with pus and blood. So severe were the injuries that Gao was left disfigured and had difficulty seeing.

In a desperate attempt to escape her torturers, Gao later jumped from the 2nd floor office window of the facility, sustaining multiple fractures. Subsequent hospitalization allowed those close to Gao to take photos of the injuries to her face and body. The shocking photos made their way overseas, where rights activists publicized them widely. Details of her case were submitted to related government offices in the U.S. and other nations and presented to the United Nations.

[. . . . ] Politburo Standing Committee Member Personally Oversaw Gao’s Case

As international pressure mounted concerning Gao’s case, one of China’s highest-ranking officials stepped in: Politburo Standing Committee member Luo Gan. Luo proceeded to order the Liaoning Province Chinese Communist Party Political Judiciary Committee, the Procuratorate, the Department of Justice, and the Police Department to conceal any and all information about Gao’s case. [. . . . ]

With the UN informed, what will happen? Exactly! Bring on Bolton.



Editorial: China's odious spies June 20, 05

[. . . . ] Canada will also purchase $21 billion worth of goods from China this year, and we have $700 million invested there.

[. . . . ] So it is more than offensive to be told that Chinese Canadians in Toronto and other cities are being spied on and harassed by agents of the People's Republic of China. [. . . . ]

[. . . . ] One document supplied by Hao names Killian Ye, a Toronto Falun Gong adherent, as the subject of a 2004 report to top officials in Beijing. Hao says Chinese spies keep tabs on practitioners, tap phones and threaten and harass them.

Other Falun Gong practitioners confirm they have been harassed. [. . . . ]

FBI / CSIS Corroborate China's Spies here -- but

Editorial: Spies come in from the cold only to get heat Jun. 7, 05

[. . . . ] But the countries they are in — Canada and Australia — refuse to believe them or publicly acknowledge what they are saying.

Why? Because both administrations have huge and influential money ties with China which has never been closer.

[. . . . ] Here we detailed how in the high-rise glass towers of Vancouver — Tricell (Canada) Inc. and Top Glory Enterprises Ltd., both incorporated in the late ‘80s worked for the Communist government of China.

[. . . . ] Their so-called “lies” have even been corroborated by the spy boys at the FBI, Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Australia‘s ASIO.

[. . . . ] China‘s state-owned enterprises have been carving up the Alberta oil-sands.

Hence it is not surprising that the claims by Chen and Lai have no merit in Canberra and Ottawa.

Chinese spy on Falun Gong: claim June 21, 05

The Chinese government has been spying on members of the Falun Gong movement in Australia, according to alleged Chinese security documents.

The claim has been made by Chinese defector Hao Feng Jun, who says he worked for the local branch of a security service known as 6-10, set up specifically to wipe out Falun Gong.

ABC TV's Lateline has obtained some of the hundreds of security documents Mr Hao says he smuggled into Australia on a computer file downloaded from a police computer in China. [. . . . ]

William Luo, a Brisbane-based Falun Gong member, told ABC TV that he had been approached by a Chinese man a few years ago who threatened to kill his daughter because of his involvement in the movement. [. . . . ]

Threats and intimidation. . . .




Canada's North and Security

Global warming opens Northwest Passage Levon Sevunts, Washington Times, June 13, 05

RESOLUTE BAY, Canada - Steadily melting Arctic ice is not just exposing vast unexplored fishing stocks and mineral wealth. It's also rapidly making the Northwest Passage - the passable sea route sought by Henry Hudson and other explorers of the 16th and 17th centuries - fully navigable in the summer.

That, in turn, is forcing Canada to confront a range of sovereignty issues, including disputes with the United States and other Arctic neighbors.

[. . . . ] "The heart of the dispute is the transit of international shipping, and who gets to set rules," says Rob Huebert, associate director of the Center for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary in Alberta. [. . . . ]

Search: Canadian Forces Northern Area (CFNA) , Canada's RADARSAT-1 , RADARSAT-2



Sgro Rpt. pdf

Multicultural Policy -- flawed -- Anti-Semitism



Technology Diversion

A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?"
The father answers: "Well, son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway!

Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo.
Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe.

We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive.

As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a blessed little Pop-Up appeared and said: You've Got Male!"

Thanks JK in California.




Kyoto & Global Warming

Evidence is underwhelming James M. Inhofe, June 14, 05

Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee.

Despite the lack of a scientific consensus to warrant such measures, climate change alarmists — in the heat of the summer for the scariest effect — are promoting mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions in the USA. It's a classic case of "ready, fire, aim."

[. . . . ] hockey stick graph. . . .

Recent Canadian research discredited the graph because of its errors and improper methodologies.

[. . . . ] Two international leaders once described Kyoto's intent. Margot Wallstrom, the European Union's commissioner on the environment, said Kyoto is "about leveling the playing field for big businesses worldwide," and French President Jacques Chirac called it "the first component of an authentic global governance." [. . . . ]

Saddam's psychic sandbox Judi McLeod, June 18, 2005

In a search sponsored by oil magnate and "Soviet agent of influence" Armand Hammer, American satellites found `The Atlantis of the Sands’.

[. . . . ] NASA observations indicate a nomadic Sahara. After moving to the south between 1981 and 1984, the Sahara retreated northward 88 miles from 1985 to 1986. However, it migrated 34 miles south in 1987. The southern boundary retreated 62 miles to the north in 1988, then expanded 46 miles to the south in 1989 and 1990. [. . . . ]

Canadian Research in the North -- "international cooperation"

CHAPTER 8 - SUPPORTING SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL COOPERATION IN THE ARCTIC

In my opinion, no northern or circumpolar foreign policy in Canada will have tangible success if it's not based on the continuity of Canadian research in the North. But that research must heretofore also offer opportunities and possibilities for development; development in training, education, economic development and business opportunities for our northern populations. This twofold perspective which advocates that we continue our research and create conditions favourable to northern populations means that we must continue to support research and training in the North if we want Canada to maintain its important place; we must at the same time renew ourselves and the way we do things in order to adapt to. . . new internal realities. [47:2]

Michel Allard, Director of the Centre d' tudes nordiques,
Laval University

Given the rapid changes in Arctic realities described in preceding chapters, important challenges arise in the gathering and use of knowledge for the benefit of Arctic peoples and the wider world community. Among key issues are future trends in publicly supported Arctic scientific research and education, which the changes underway and the region's increasing integration into the global picture make more necessary than ever. In addition, important foreign policy commitments such as the Arctic Council and the AEPS undertaken by Canada and the other Arctic states demand first-rate scientific expertise. This does not mean simply continuing the multi-million dollar "big science" of past decades, however, but focussing research on the changing needs of the region as defined by its residents, building their capacity to carry out such research and combining traditional indigenous and modern scientific knowledge. Most Arctic states have reduced their domestic funding for science in recent years, which places an even higher premium on international cooperation to increase efficiency and reduce cost. As [Gerard] Duhaime of Laval University argued at a NATO-sponsored seminar in 1995, given their common interests and challenges, states interested in Arctic research must address the problems at several levels: ensuring that their domestic arrangements are adequate as well as reviewing existing international cooperative arrangements, and creating new ones where necessary.210 [. . . . ]

The Canadian North: Embracing Change -- pdf -- Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC), 2000 McGill College Avenue, Suite 250, Montréal, Quebec H3A 3H3. 1-800-363-0963, Fax: (514) 843-4590. www.ccu-cuc.ca

Table of Contents
1 Preface
2 Introduction
by Stephen Kakfwi, Premier of the Northwest Territories
4 The Three Territories: An Introduction
by Robert M. Bone
9 Aboriginal Peoples in Northern Canada: The Peaceful Revolution Meets Global Capital
by Frances Abele
16 Politics and Government in the Territorial North: Familiar and Exotic
by Graham White
24 Economic Development and the Environment
by Robert M. Bone
30 New Challenges to Canadian Arctic Security And Sovereignty
by Rob Huebert

Nunavut is the largest territory, by far, covering over 2 million km2. The Northwest Territories lie to its west. Three provinces — Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec—along with Hudson’s Bay, form its southern boundary. Greenland is to the east and Russia just over the North Pole.

Most Canadian Arctic islands (which include some of the largest in the world) are part of Nunavut. The western most islands belong to the Northwest Territories. At the same time, Nunavut has the smallest territorial population (26,745 inhabitants).


[. . . . ] While all residents of Nunavut have equal rights, the demographic reality is that 85 of every 100 of its inhabitants are Inuit, making the territory a vehicle through which their political aspirations can be expressed. Demography and politics have forged Nunavut into a unique political entity within Canada. Territorial government policies and programs reflect Inuit aspirations, beliefs, and values. Two examples of this are: (a) the principle of decentralization that ensures that government is close to the people; and (b) the principle of promoting of the Inuktitut language and culture.

Search: UNRESOLVED SOVEREIGNTY


Canada is hoping to encourage immigrants to move to areas other than the big cities. Want to make a guess? Can Inuktituk as a language of global commerce be far behind? -- in my humble opinion, of course. Check for language programs and funding for them within agreements.




When "academic freedom" justifies academic terror or here Tzvi Kahn, American Thinker, June 21, 2005

According to the logic of a recent report issued by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), denying accused criminals a job constitutes an unethical breach of "academic freedom." So, if Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein had doctorates and respectable publication records, could they receive teaching positions at an American university? More to the point, what about Mohammed Yousry, an adjunct lecturer in Middle East studies at York College of the City University of New York (CUNY), a person accused of providing material support to a terrorist organization?

After all, in America's criminal justice system, alleged offenders are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law – and bin Laden and Hussein have yet to receive fair and open trials. Until then, if their academic records were otherwise sterling, a university may not penalize professors on grounds ostensibly unrelated to their scholarship or teaching. Such grounds, according to the reasoning of the AAUP report, include alleged support of a terrorist organization aiming to slaughter the very students the professor teaches. [. . . . ]

What if rights collide?




Bombardier Transport décroche une commande de 239 M$US -- needs translation but the rough translation I found online was of interest. Check for an article on "Équipe Canada signs for 340 M$ of contracts in Russia"



The Charter of whose Rights? John Lawrence, June 18, 2005



Politically Incorrect -- RCMP puts political correctness before law enforcement -- not charging the Sikh young man who cut off his own hair and blamed it on racism -- wasting police time and resources in an investigation Arthur Weinreb, Associate Editor, June 14, 2005. Would they have been called racist if they had charged him? He's a youth.




This clears up a few questions: why kids would kill themselves as jihadis -- Chrenkoff, June 21, 05 (?)

"He was trying to drive into a busy checkpoint and the Marine guards wounded him and disabled his car before he could reach the intersection and activate the bomb," West wrote. "When they opened the door to remove him, they found him chained to the seat with his hands taped to the steering wheel. He had an activation switch on his body that he could use but they also found a remote-control activation device under the front seat. It was hidden in the floor of the car so he probably didn't know it was there... He was going to die whether he wanted to or not." [. . . . ]

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