Tunnel Update-Drug Route, Canada Excels! Marijuana Quality, Monitoring Everything? Kyoto Setback, Prostitution Korea & Canada

Note: Do not miss a reader's letter considering John Reid, Canada's Access to Information Commissioner, a letter which follows this post, entitled

"Updated-Reid Info Commissioner to Court, Media Bias: The Bell Tolls for Thee, Loyalty, Chairman Mo & Other Connections"


Update 1:

After I read about this last night, I don't know how I could have forgotten to post this . . . but I did. Canadian transportation improving . . . for drug criminals, anyway.

Secret drug tunnel busted on U.S.-Canada border CTV.ca News Staff

Authorities in the United States have busted a drug-running operation on the border of Washington state and British Columbia that allegedly used an underground tunnel to transport marijuana.

CTV News Vancouver confirmed that RCMP officers were involved in the Wednesday bust, which was led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Homeland Security is also involved in the investigation. [. . . . ]

The DEA is not providing any further details, but the U.S. Attorney handling the case will speak at a news conference in Seattle this morning. [king5.com]

[. . . . ]An estimated 880 to 2,200 tons of marijuana are grown in Canada annually, according to a report in Time magazine last year. Police estimate 90 per cent of the crop ends up in the U.S.

Would this exposure of a security problem on the border interfere with legalization of small amounts of marijuana by our 'progressive', caring about . . . well, just about everything, government? Caring is a substitute for action in Canada. Sorry, that should have been expressions of caring which translate into . . . virtually nada that really matters to the best Canadians (I did not say politicians, note.).

Speaking of the RCMP, do not miss reading Paul Palango, "The Last Guardians: The Crisis in the RCMP -- and in Canada". If time is short, skim through

chapter 5: The Trudeau Effect
chapter 6: A Tale of Two Forces
chapter 7: Police Ltd.



Video: See KING5.com via Newsbeat1

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http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/
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http://www.king5.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.king5.com/ki_072005terrortunnel.wmv

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For news items today, check Newsbeat1 where there are several items worth pursuing.

In the face of madness, I again retreat to music and contemplation for a bit. The crazies who produce nothing but murder and mahem, who exhort others to hatred (Search for a news item today on Islamist websites in Canada) and a desire for civilized society's blood seem to be on the move again. Are you finally able to get through to Paul Martin's Liberal government that there are more important issues than SSM? Do try.

Check Conservative MP Monte Solberg's blog for a few suggestions. via Newsbeat1

I have heard a rumour that there are people out there in the world who want to hurt us, even though we are nice tolerant Canadians. If this crazy idea is true then perhaps Mr. Liberal Government could take some steps like, say, finding out what has happened to the 36,000 people who have been ordered deported and who may or may not have left Canada as they were instructed to do. The honour system is great and all, but if you are a dishonourable person it won't have much hold on you.

Are you preparing for Islamist terrorism here? I believe our LPO/CBC thinks that if they don't term it terrorism, maybe it won't exist (Thanks, CBC.) -- but I don't entirely trust the propaganda arm of the state controller, sometimes called the Liberal government. Or do you believe we have a covenant with Islamists that will protect us?




Resignations fly over Kyoto Bueckert, CNEWS, July 20, 05

OTTAWA (CP) - A team of officials responsible for a key part of the Kyoto implementation plan has been decimated by resignations, raising questions about whether insiders believe the plan can work.

Almost half the members of a team working on a national emissions trading system quit, rather than transfer to Environment Canada from the Department of Natural Resources, officials at the two departments say.

The now-depleted team is responsible for securing the reduction of emissions from 700 companies in mining and manufacturing, oil and gas, and thermal electricity, which account for almost half of Canada's greenhouse emissions.

[. . . . ] Natural Resources officials won't speak on the record, but some privately mock Environment Canada's Kyoto plan as little more than a fiction filled with soft numbers and wishful thinking. [. . . . ]

Somehow, this fits in with all the rest:

* the diminishing of the family as the primary social and socializing unit of the nation; faceless bureaucrats offer to raise your child -- to achieve a state-approved product, I assume.

* the pressure from the state through its control of the media and its state broadcaster to promulgate regulation and control of thought (hate crime) and religion . . . Is it because people might look to something besides the state for a guide to action? (It's coming! See post on religion and the CBC today.)

* the extension of and promotion of an ever-broadening concept of 'rights' through government (in favour of government-sanctioned groups and/or individualsz), appointed activist judges, international agreements . . . with no corresponding concept of the responsibilities of the state toward the citizen nor for the citizen particularly in regard to the practice of democracy and freedom in his nation. There is not a government tightening of national security in the face of mindless madness as we have seen abroad, nor is there concern for victims' rights and the health of the democracy through citizen input.

* the increasing inability of the nation to protect its borders -- all in the name of some bureaucratic notion of 'rights' -- see UN and global governance

Stay tuned for more activist shaping of our society by an all-powerful government. All other institutions will be controlled.




The Canadian drug train to Asia July 22, 05, Asian Pacific News Service

[. . . . ] “Canada grass is the best marijuana in the world.“

[. . . . ] In the city of Suwon, South Korea prosecutors are preparing for a huge court trial involving a drug smuggling ring that hired female Korean students in Vancouver to carry narcotics valued at over C$316.6 million.

[. . . . ] Prosecutors say the group since March 2004 approached Korean women studying English in Vancouver to sign them up as mules for its operation. The group offered to pay their airfare as well as W1.5 million (about C$1,826) each time they took small quantities of drugs to Australia, Japan and Korea. [. . . . ]

Search: drug smuggling through the international mail , English teachers , Vietnamese-Canadians , risk they are taking by carrying drugs to Asia , mailing cocaine from Canada , Mehdi Mohammadi, carries a Canadian passport , two American sailors , USS Boxer




Exodus of sex trade workers to Canada

New report says B.C. is a major hub for Korean sex trade workers as websites in Seoul urge women to go overseas and make up to $28,000 a month in massage parlours and bars.

A crackdown on prostitution in South Korea has triggered an exodus of sex trade workers to Vancouver, Toronto and cities in the United States, authorities in Seoul warn.

[. . . . ] Last February, it emerged that an organization sold 38 women to brothels in Australia, New Zealand and Canada in conditions of virtual bonded labor. [. . . . ]

The U.S. State Department in a report last month said Canada is a primary destination and transit country for women trafficked for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation. [. . . . ]

Canada's plan for a super spy in the sky -- $20M experiment aimed at detecting, tracking moving objects as small as a truck David Pugliese, July 20, 05

The federal government could have a means of monitoring everything from traffic gridlock to suspicious vessels approaching Canada if an experiment being conducted by Ottawa defence scientists is a success.

The $20-million project, to be carried on board the Radarsat 2 satellite scheduled for launch next year, will determine whether the movement of objects on the Earth's surface can be detected from space.

Ultimately the Canadian Forces wants to use satellites to keep tabs on something the size of an enemy armoured personnel carrier or truck, a capability that only exists at this point in the fertile imagination of Hollywood screenwriters. [. . . . ]

[. . . . ] Radarsat 2 will be able to view objects day or night and in all kinds of weather. [. . . . ]

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