Update 1: Conflict Questions - Advisory Committee, Polling 101, Energy -&- Media

Update 1: Remember, everything is "alleged".

Gomery appointment raises conflict questions Nov11, 05, Leo Knight, PrimeTimeCrime

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a Director of the Bank of Canada
to assist him in making recommendations to government
chairs that Advisory Committee
remarkable and disturbing
given the connections to Martin and Gagliano
Raymond Garneau

Note another article in which Garneau and others figured.

Post: FHTR: Nov. 6 - Nov. 12, 05 -- Surveillance on Justice John Gomery -- or here

Original: CFP: Martin loan syndicate runs surveillance on Justice John Gomery By David Hawkins & Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press, November 7, 2005

Memory Lane

CAI Private Equity Group
Canada Steamship Lines (‘CSL’)
Phase II .. to prevent mismanagement of sponsorship programs
Raymond Garneau
http://www.gomery.ca/documents/newsroom
/en/2005/06/20056221270.html
RICO
Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization
http://www.finchmccranie.com/rico.htm
Paul Desmarais, Power Corp. Chairman
http://www.canadiancoalition.org/forum/messages/6612.shtml
Gomery Report I was published--before its contents could be digested
CanWest Global
http://www.cjfe.org/specials/canwest/canwintro.html
Frank McKenna
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/edesk100505.htm
Who dictated that Canadian Order in Council
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover100605.htm

Update 1

More international banking info here: Inquiry names major firms in Iraq bribe scandal -- US report reveals 2,253 firms gave Saddam's regime kickbacks on humanitarian-related goods shipped to Iraq. Oct. 28, 05, Middle East Online

The French bank BNP Paribas, which was supervised the escrow account for the program on behalf of the United Nations, came in for detailed criticism.

BNP faced a clear conflict of interest [. . . . ]

Search: Siemens, Texaco, Volvo Group , Chinese state company, Sinochem

Is/was that Chinese company involved in Canada? Kazakhstan? Bernard Isaultier sold his company in October to a Chinese company? With state control, how much separation, if any, is there between CNPC and Sinochem?

PetroKazakhstan shareholders OK CNPC bid
Reuters, Updated: 2005-10-19 08:43

CALGARY, Alberta - PetroKazakhstan shareholders have overwhelmingly approved an offer by China's CNPC to buy the Canadian company for $4.2 billion, setting the stage for the deal to be completed after weeks of political wrangling and uncertainty. [. . . . ]

There is a photo of Bernard Isaultier here: "PetroKazakhstan chief executive Bernard Isautier smiles while being interviewed after shareholders' approval to sell the company to China State Oil at a meeting in Calgary October 18, 2005.[Reuters]"

As I recall, Isaultier has French and Canadian citizenship and advised someone or a department of the French government. There is mention of "Paris-based public relations firm". All small world department perhaps.

Another excerpt:

CNPC said on Monday it had managed to smooth over the rifts by agreeing to transfer a stake in PetroKazakhstan to state-controlled KazMunaiGaz in some 11th-hour diplomacy. The Kazakh government's Paris-based public relations firm said CNPC agreed to hand over 33 percent.

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Politicking & Polling 101

To: MSM & LibPropOrg / CBC

There is an excellent article by Lorne Gunter (National Post, Nov. 14, 05, A14) on language used to stifle further discussion:

To keep from entering into contentious debates -- especially one they might lose -- far too many Canadian opinion leaderss and lawmakers will assert that this or that issue has been "settled," that there is virtually no debate about facts or solutions, therefore no more discussion is necessary.

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mutations of reason
It advocates giving
Montreal is already
The principles are "clear"
The Canada Health Act

Gunter makes a good suggestion on health care. Memo to Liberal Propaganda Organ; read Gunter. Ask yourself, honestly, if this describes your journalism.

20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results Third Edition, Sheldon R. Gawiser, Ph.D. and G. Evans Witt, NCPP / National Council on Public Polls

[. . . . ] Unscientific pseudo-polls . . . . include 900-number call-in polls, man-on-the-street surveys, many Internet polls, shopping mall polls, and even the classic toilet tissue poll featuring pictures of the candidates on each roll.

One major distinguishing difference between scientific and unscientific polls is who picks the respondents for the survey. In a scientific poll, the pollster identifies and seeks out the people to be interviewed. In an unscientific poll, the respondents usually "volunteer" their opinions, selecting themselves for the poll.

Does the testing and reporting of opinion in mainstream media smack of pseudo polling? Think of all the subtly insidious little ways the status quo politics for the status quo using "no further discussion".

Lack of recognition of the possibility of discussion passes for journalism? Hence, we get mindless repetition of PM "protecting health care" as we know it--failing--while he makes use of private health care. Mainstream media "journalists" do not challenge his version . . . nor his veracity.




Premier: "federal government foot-dragging" over an energy accord with Saskatchewan

[. . . . ] Energy accords already in place in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are bringing those provinces $2 billion in federal funding to help develop resources

See comments made in Quebec on energy and the Kyoto Accord: "Why, it's asymmetrical" or "Bull's-eye on our backs -- Feds plan to make West foot bill on Kyoto fiasco" Ezra Levant, Calgary Sun, Nov. 7, 05.

Posted: Kyoto: "Bull's Eye" . . . FHTR the week of Nov. 6, 05

http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_11_06_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html
or
http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005/11/kyoto-bulls-eye-cocaine-in-river-media.html

Original:
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/
Levant_Ezra/2005/11/06/1295507.html

Search in the article posted by casper34 that had appeared in Regina: search Saskatchewan is moving forward with a pointed advertising campaign and note:

Saskatchewan Energy Accord
"A Big Fat Zero!"


Media Omission?

This appears to be the same article--same wording--as above but not the part about the advertisements. Why?

CNEWS has some of the same news here but OMITS the part about an advertising campaign -- Is it tight space? or "If we don't report it, it won't get people thinking?" -- rather like documents -- history "disappearing" from websites.



MacDonald, Journalist, on the "doublespeak that Martin mouths"

Using his taxpayer-financed Challenger executive jet Nov. 13, 05

One of [Paul Martin's] photo-ops was to head with his spin doctors into the violence-plagued Jane-Finch area. He backed something he's spent years refusing to do: He and his Liberals "plan" to announce larger and mandatory sentences for those using a gun in committing a crime.

And then he and his merry band announced they'd be coming up with a quick-fix mini-budget tomorrow involving the tossing of more millions at government programs. That's to go along with a new announcement that they'll soon hand out multi-billion defence contracts -- via deals suspiciously connected to political favouritism. [. . . . ]

Search: "equalization" payments , extra half-billion

Toronto Sun: "It's time for a vote -- Enough election dithering already", Nov. 13, 05



Catch 22--"protect client confidentiality"

PM had a photo op--Jane-Finch area-- the tough on crime series. He spouts the "clean up" and "priority" words -- too little too late. Did he also read the above?

Yesterday, the Star revealed that lawyers who steal thousands — even millions — of dollars from clients rarely go to jail. Instead of being prosecuted in a criminal court, many lawyers get a lesser penalty from their professional association, the law society.

"It is amazing how the justice system will pursue an individual who had shoplifted a $20 DVD, but be so gentle with their own bad apples."

The Star: Law society plan too soft, critics say -- Not all information about bad lawyers would be released under amendment
Nov. 13, 2005, Moira Welsh / Kevin Donovan


Monte Solberg Keeping You Informed -- sense of humour



Lorne Gunter: Breaking the feminists' stranglehold on custody and support November 9, 2005
http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/
news/comment/blog/gunter.html

Gunter's blog

How dare he establish a connection between support and custody. In their minds, consciously or not, support is not about maintaining the children after divorce, it's about punishing men.

Opinion — Cotler too principled to remain a Liberal Tommy Schnurmacher, The Suburban, Nov. 13, 05

We will never see an audit of how much taxpayer money went to the Earnscliffe Group, Paul Martin’s favorite lobbying agency.

Irwin Cotler is much too honest for the Liberal Party of Canada.

He would be making a bold statement if he up and quit. And he wouldn’t even have to feel guilty about the Liberals losing the seat.

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aboriginal drinking water or the environment.

the WTO meeting in Hong Kong next month. [ Priorities, priorities: Outrage grows over Martin's decision to skip Commonwealth summit ]

Good grief: I thought Mr. Cotler believed in what passes for Liberal "democracy" and "consultation" and PM/PMO making the decisions -- e.g. the "appointment process" Cotler joined in.

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