Podcasting, Agent Orange, Coincidence? The Inukshuk, Publication Ban & A Trip Down Memory Lane via BC Rail and Grow Ops

CNET: Podcasting explained with other links at bottom.

Thanks to P*** S**, my favourite computer science student and non-cook, who learned the arts of the kitchen in self-preservation while at university. Congratulations, PS on your cooking--that was a succulent roast you prepared for the photo--and on your graduation this year.

It's time for fun -- now that you're home in Ottawa, get out there and rustle up one of those sweet young gals just waiting to help a gem like you with the cooking . . . and maybe the washing up.




Same-time-as-attack underground bombing exercise in London a chilling coincidence? By Judi McLeod & David Hawkins, Saturday, July 9, 2005 9:00 p.m.

Search: Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones , Peter Power , play on the market , NORAD , Visor Consultants , eSpeed , U.S. treasuries , Cantor Fitzgerald




"New Scandal: RCMP and PCO" Stephen Taylor via Newsbeat1 and the Shotgun's Kate.

[. . . . ] One would expect that the taxpayer would pay for the services of the RCMP to protect the Prime Minister. However, it is counter-intuitive that the RCMP (ie. the taxpayer) would pay a private organization (ie. the Liberal party) for work done by the federal law enforcement agency.

The Privy Council Office paid $44,000 to the Liberal Party for similar "services".

Agent Orange sparks wider concerns Chris Morris, canada.com, July 08, 2005

FREDERICTON -- While the Canadian military is downplaying the impact of Agent Orange tests at a New Brunswick base 40 years ago, the implications are widening for a whole generation of people who grew up prior to the age of environmental awareness.

Soil, water and vegetation tests will be conducted at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown this summer to determine if there are lingering effects from the use of toxic herbicides, including Agent Orange, during the 1950s and 60s. [. . . . ]

In New Brunswick, the provincial government and its Crown-owned power utility, NB Power, applied commercial versions of Agent Orange on forests and along power lines.

In the 1980s, an NB Power memo was uncovered by former utility workers that confirmed the spraying of the commercial version of Agent Orange along power lines. [. . . . ]

Search: DDT, PCBs chlorobenzenes , Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants , Maine National Guard

The problem is that governments don't want to take the heat for something that occurred during another mandate. And the head of NBPower from the date of that memo, where is he? Appointed to some sinecure? Senate? Must keep a lid on! A friend is trying to obtain a copy for me. Canada's lax security? Same thing. Hide it under BS and Bafflegab until . . .

May ordinary residents now join the officially-sanctioned victimized groups so beloved of those seeking taxpayer danegeld for past injustices? Perhaps a PhD in how to turn taxpayers into official victims would be in order? Check out the graduate seminar in Victimology 5501; there must be taxpayer money somewhere to pay the tuition . . . in the interest of the common good? Form an NGO to work on behalf of . . . well, get your thinking cap on.




The Inukshuk, logo for the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

Coyne is a hoot just by plying readers with bit upon bit from his exploration of the news articles and research. You'll never look at the inukshuk the same way again. Good show, Andrew!

Welcome to Vancouver: place where women have been swept out to sea




Publication Bans and Memories

A trip down memory lane along BC's rail lines and grow ops

Coyne: Today's massive, hair-raising scandal -- Search: Ravinder Dosanjh -- or Ravinder Singh (Rob) Dosanjh April 25, 2005 -- Raid linked to organized crime


Spiderman in a Web of Intrigue Bill Tieleman, TheTyee.ca

The Basi-Virk-BC Rail probe may yield BC’s biggest scandal yet. If so, meet the Crown’s mysterious star witness: ‘Spiderman’ Erik Bornman.

Erik Bornman’s nickname is Spiderman but the former top Paul Martin aide is now stuck in a sticky web of intrigue that includes the tainted $1 billion BC Rail privatization deal, drug trafficking, influence peddling and the impending high-profile trial of accused ex-BC Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk.

How did Bornman, a well-connected BC and federal Liberal operative, become the crown’s key witness against his former friends Basi and Virk in the trial arising from the dramatic police raid on the BC Legislature in December 2003?
Why are most media outlets all but ignoring Bornman and his extensive links to both the federal and provincial Liberal governments? [. . . . ]

Apparently, there is a publication ban and trials are not coming until, is it 2006? What are the criteria for a publication ban? Political necessity? Remember the Gomery Inquiry until Captain's Quarters let the cat out of the bag . . . . from the US, naturally. Here, he would have been shushed. (Take your pick: a muzzling here, a firing there . . . a publication ban, declaring something a hate crime, pressing a lawsuit or sending out CRA to harass . . . . . and how is the lawsuit against Coyne going anyway? The harassment of Stephen LeDrew? The RCMP Cpl. Robert Read who was fired and is now sans pension? )




Mapping the clues in the Basi affair

[. . . . ] What emerges is a complicated web of family and political ties, a hazy picture of people with money that needed hiding and people who helped them hide it.

The logical starting point is Dec. 1, 2003, a date that marked the end of 20 months of preliminary investigation and the beginning of a series of search warrants and evidence seizures that brought charges against Basi, Virk, Victoria police officer Ravinder Dosanjh and eight others. [. . . . ]

Search: a publication ban




Political Connections -- Police Raids and BC Rail Bill Tieleman, Publish Date: 11-Mar-2004

Bill Tieleman is a political commentator Thursdays on CBC TV's Canada Now and regularly on CBC Radio One's Early Edition. E-mail him at weststar@telus.net.

[. . . . ] Why did police execute search warrants at B.C.'s legislature on December 28, 2003?

How did the $1-billion privatization of BC Rail by the Gordon Campbell government become part of an ongoing investigation into drugs, money-laundering, and organized crime? [. . . . ]

Prior to the government choosing CN, both OmniTRAX and Canadian Pacific complained that the BC Rail process was unfair to them. Several media reports said the government was determined to award the deal to CN. CN has donated about $150,000 to the B.C. Liberals since 1994. [. . . . ]

Search: BASI, VIRK, AND BORNMAN CONNECTION , BC RAIL PRIVATIZATION CONNECTION , DAVID BASI'S BACKGROUND

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