Aug. 5, 2006: #12 Trudeau & Adam Smith

This serves as #12 in the series of posts on Aug. 3, 06. This rounds out my exploration of why leftist thinking is so ubiquitous in Canada and how its tentacles wind throughout just about everything. How this happened and continues I explore a little with the Cultural Tentacles #1 & Cultural Tentacles #2. There is much more information for anyone interested.

For the rest, scroll down the page from Aug. 3, 2006: Gotcha, Gremlin -&- Table of Contents

First Series

#11 Why ... [Why does leftist thinking permeate Canada?]
#10 Charisma, the intellect ... [Trudeau, Laski and Hayek]
#9 Trudeau, China, Laski & Socialism ...
#8 Christianity and Liberalism ... [Two Alternative Religious Approaches]
#7 Hayek and Capitalism, London Sch. of Econ.
#6 Come By Chance Refinery, Vitol, UNSCAM & More
#5 Global aspirations ... [Background ... Many Voices, One World]
#4 Maurice Strong & UN University / UPEACE
#3 UPEACE Toronto
#2 UN University: Learn how or what to think?
#1 Pugwash conferences ... [Nova Scotia, Cyrus Eaton and Others]

Second Series

Culture's Tentacles #1
Culture's Tentacles #2

Trudeau & Adam Smith

The review, the responses, the final irony

The book that (almost) saved Trudeau -- He became "something less than a classic Smith liberal", Terence Corcoran, Financial Post, July 22, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost
/story.html?id=5c159a0f-02e5-4761-9a5f-0d74866a0191

Reviews of Young Trudeau, Max and Monique Nemni's remarkable biography of Pierre Elliot Trudeau's first 25 years, have rightly focused on Trudeau's shocking adherence to and flirtation with some of the worst ideological features of the 20th century: fascism, corporatism, anarchism, Marxism, syndicalism, anti-Semitism, cultural nationalism, religious bigotry.

[....] There's a certain Harry Potter quality to the story as the young Trudeau falls in and out of the clutches of one set of bad ideas after another, only to escape seemingly within days of having picked them up and before moving on to the next set. [....]

We know far too little of our history, especially our intellectual history, buried as it is under mountains of politically correct rewrites from our official historians. The Nemnis' book is one of the truly great contributions to Canadian political history. [....]

Too many totalitarian tendencies in Trudeau

Trudeau was beyond [Adam] Smith's salvation , Brian Purdy, National Post, August 05, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news
/story.html?id=571883ed-9894-466c-a3fd-fe3d56623b1d

[....] Despite accepting Smith [Perhaps "reading" Adam Smith" would have been more accurate, considering the following.], Trudeau still had strong totalitarian tendencies. He moved power more and more into his own office. He quintupled the size of the civil service. He spent money he didn't have so that the national debt was 14 times larger than when he first took power. He did not hesitate to impose martial law and condone mass arrests over two kidnappings. He expanded federal power into provincial jurisdictions and punished those not on his side -- think National Energy Program. He also imposed wage and price controls. [Trudeau imposed the first, but not the second, though he campaigned on a promise of both, if memory serves.]

Trudeau was a man full of destructive and unworkable conceits. [....]

Trudeau was beyond [Adam] Smith's salvation , Calvin Hayes, Financial Post, August 05, 2006 [Calvin Hayes, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont.]
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news
/story.html?id=5c4b2338-2954-428f-a4f8-98e4d2bd173a

[....Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments ] He recognized both that humans are not pure egoists, nor does self-interest always lead to the common good, something he would never have been foolish enough to say.

Without a proper set of laws and institutions and, yes, moral virtues (such as sympathy and justice), we get the war of every man with every man or a set of prisoner dilemmas or imperfect competition. Consider the following examples of "the play of egotistical pursuits" which did not "result in the common good": Those of Louis XIV, Napoleon, Attila the Hun, Al Capone, the Mafia, Machiavellian politicians and military leaders, or the list of names Mr. Corcoran cites just before the quote from Trudeau: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Petain. [....]

[Adam Smith] was critical of businessmen of his own day, accusing them of discussing how they could rip off the public whenever they got together, and his main object of attack was mercantilism -- a system of government regulation in his day that benefitted many businesses at the expense of others.

To sum up, the Invisible Hand does not work wherever competition is not permitted to function or is not subject to the rule of law [....]

Does that last part not describe what occurred under several Liberal governments. Think of the grants to some businesses at the expense of others, CRTC regulations that benefit some media organizations while preventing others from forming and competing ... because of rules set in place to protect one segment over another, one group's jobs and influence over others, one political party's hegemony over the country.



The final irony, the gravesites

A towering figure -- The great 18th century 'father of capitalism' has been monumentally uncelebrated, but a statue in his honour may yet grace the Royal Mile -- re: Adam Smith , Peter Foster, Financial Post, July 22, 2006
www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists
/story.html?id=2f006c3d-40db-4079-840f-e1c58335f8cd

Last month, a commemorative flagstone to Adam Smith was unveiled at the entrance to the Canongate Church on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, along with signs to the tomb of the great 18th century philosopher and economist.

The tribute was initiated and paid for by a prominent Calgarian of Scottish descent, Bob Lamond. It represents a six-year struggle against the forces not merely of bureaucratic inertia but also continuing ideological distaste for the "father of capitalism." [....]

Bob Lamond's quest to raise the Edinburgh profile of the great man had its roots in a 1990 article in Forbes magazine titled "Tale Of Two Tombs." It compared the gravesites of Smith and his nemesis, Karl Marx in London's Highgate Cemetery. "Karl Marx's cemetery is haunted by the spirit of Adam Smith," the article said. "[I]t is privately owned and produces a tidy profit for its owners.... Adam Smith's cemetery in Edinburgh is state-owned, open free of charge to anyone, and is in a terrible state of neglect."

And here endeth the lesson.

Aug. 4, 2006: Update: DND -&- Provision of ...

Language Service or ... Promotion ...

of one language, French? These charts update and are related to information in:

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Aug. 3, 2006: Culture's Tentacles #1

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Aug. 3, 2006: Culture's Tentacles #2

What is important to note is that, considering that 22.6% of Canada is French-speaking, a goodly number of government departments now have a preponderance of French speakers. The percentages have been rising which effectively cuts out people who may be eminently qualified in their fields, but who have not mastered the second language. I have circled the columns showing the numbers and percentages of French speaking employees. The figures in bold indicate departments with a high level of French-speaking employees. What is even more striking is that, after years of Liberal governments, the FIRST qualification one had to have in most cases, to work for the government was bilingualism. These charts show the result. Which language group, then, do you think predominates and will predominate increasingly in the power-wielding, upper level positions -- French or English speakers, if this continues?

Note that the table was prepared by Jim S. Allan. I have posted it in pieces because of size constraints. Also, some of you might remember former Auditor General Maxwell Henderson who prepared a report on the over-representation of francophones in the federal civil service... and that was years ago. Somehow, the mainstream media missed all this information. Networking and schmoozing, like that ubiquitous credit card, have their rewards. Unfortunately, the bulk of Canadians do not get them. Does what follows seem fair to English speakers in Canada? Does fairness matter to the crowd, along with their MSM enablers and assorted hangers-on, who are aching to get back into power, perquisites, and pork?












DND Statistics

The attached chart is very revealing - [Languages Commissioner,] Dyane Adam always counteracts anyone's suggestion that there are too many bilingual positions by saying that only 37% of positions across Canada are bilingual and 63% in the NCR [National Capital Region].

However the chart shows that the staffing trend is overwhelmingly bilingual imperative, 93% in the last three years in DND. I'm sure other departments are the same or even worse.

There were no bilingual competitions for the 01 to 04 time frames at DND bases and affiliated institutions in Alberta (except 1 in Cold Lake), Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, NWT, Yukon and Nunavut.

ADMST – Assistant Deputy Minister, Science & Technology
DREVA – Subsection of ADMST (Valcartier)
CFHHQ – Canadian Forces Housing Agency, Headquarters
Data obtained from Access to Information

Before the members of Canada's military are recruited, trained and shipped to Afghanistan, is there a language requirement? Did the four Canadian military men who died in Afghanistan within the last day or so fulfil the language requirement ... or is that necessary mainly for the higher level positions in the Canadian military, that is, for the ones who make the decisions affecting the others?


Source: Screen captures of Canadian Statistics Charts
www.languagefairness.ca/main/bilingualism_statistics.htm

Cost of Official Bilingualism
www.languagefairness.ca/
www.languagefairness.ca/main/bilingualism_cost.htm

Aug. 4, 2006: Update: Maurice Strong -&- China's spies

The link is to CanadaFreePress.com with Judi McLeod's articles.

Updates to: Frost Hits the Rhubarb, Aug. 3, 2006: Gotcha, Gremlin -&- Table of Contents", followed by the two series of posts, which mention Maurice Strong and China.

Maurice Strong: No better place to hide from American justice than China, Judi McLeod, August 2, 2006, via CNEWS Forum, gl1800, 8/03/2006 18:07:33
www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover080206.htm

[....] "Maurice must now remain in China (where he is very welcome) to avoid questioning by the FBI and Canadian investigators about the $1 million that Tongsun gave him and which Mo tried to hide in his son Fred's nuclear power company, which now is bankrupt." (Pittsburg Tribune-Review, July 30, 2006.)

Pointing out that Strong is "very welcome" in China is a polite way of saying that he's right at home where overpaid environmental spin doctors have long claimed that Maurice Strong was the only man alive who could see that the United States of America is replaced by Communist China as world superpower. [....]

Latest batch of Chinese spies wear the collar of Catholic priest , By Judi McLeod, August 4, 2006
www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover080406.htm

[....] "China’s foreign intelligence service Guoanbu is taking advantage of the thaw with the Vatican to send government-approved Chinese priests abroad," reports the Paris-based Intelligence Online. "They are, in fact, intelligence operatives, as European counter-intelligence agencies have come to realize in recent months." [....]

Aug. 3, 2006: Bud Talkinghorn

Moral equivalences in the Lebanon conflict

"If you wanted proportionality of warfare", Rex Murphy opined, "you could have Israel use their citizens as ramparts, purposely target civilians, and allow a rump mini-state within Israel's borders--one that takes its orders from foreign powers. Then you would have true proportionality with Hezbollah." Right on, Rex! The idea of some moral equivalence here is a joke. One opponent has cynically started a war, while the other is defending itself from fanatics who have hurled thousands of rockets into their cities and towns. Hezbollah is doubly immoral for bringing down Israel's wrath on all Lebanon, mainly to please their Syrian and Iranian masters. It was also, of course, a power statement to northern Lebanon. "Fanaticism + superior weaponry rules." If the Lebanese Christians, Druze and Sunnis choose to allow Hezbollah to escape major censure for their reckless behaviour, then my sympathy for them has been sorely misplaced.

It was amusing to see how in sync Hamas and Hezbollah are. On the same day, the UN headquarters in Beirut and Gaza were trashed by mobs. Why the Palestinians would take their ire out on an organization that has kept their miserable souls alive for decades defies logic. Even as I write this, the UN is trucking in relief to southern Lebanon. But than logic and "The Arab street" have never been close neighbours. God, they can't even see the logic of not shooting hundreds of rounds into the air directly above them. Nothing like showing your support for a fallen comrade by killing a few of the mourners. I guess the law of gravity is just seen as another perfidious infidel idea. This insane behaviour killed 17 Kuwaitis -- while they were celebrating their deliverance from Iraqi occupation. And don't the non-Shia Lebanese see that Hezbollah is nothing but the vanguard of a theocracy, besides, one that tap dances to Syria and Iran's tune? Don't they remember the counter demonstrations by Hezbollah to keep Syria in Lebanon? I can only imagine that the humiliation of their subservience to these fanatics is so complete that they are in deep denial. When they calm down, they will see the dead end that Lebanon is rapidly moving towards. The educated will leave, foreign investment and aid will dry up and Lebanon will sink into economic insignificance. As they embark they may gaze back at Beirut--by then, the Khartoum of the Middle East.

© Bud Talkinghorn


The media war--winners and losers

"If it bleeds, it leads", as the old media axiom goes. Well, it didn't take long for the Muslim bleeding in Qana to appear on Arab networks. It is exceedingly strange to me that an area that supposedly is so isolated could get their victims on the front page or as a media lead within hours. It is though an al-Jazeera camera crew were embedded in the village. All the Western media have also zeroed in on the Qana strike. Pictures of youngsters bundled in shrouds makes far better optics than a million Israelis hunkering down in cellars and bomb shelters. Oh, they do mention that some Israelis have actually been killed by the rockets, but they lack the grisly pictures to accompany them.

The so-called Arab street protests are always good for ratings. They could only be larger if Israel were annihilated and they were rejoicing. Under-reported is the statistic that the Palestinian Human Rights Watch gave. It showed that in the last year, Palestinians killed as many Palestinians as were killed by the Israelis. The Palestinian state is a mish-mash of tribal fifedoms, political antagonists and rampant street crime. The Palestinians do everything possible to hide this reality. But let some Hamas leader's family get blown away with him and that is immediately heralded. The Western liberal press is complicit in smothering this internecine violence. This is partly due to having to their reliance on Palestinian "guides". It is akin to the old Western commies coming back from Russia in the 50's with glowing reports on Soviet progress. The warts were skillfully hidden. So it is with the Israeli-Arab conflict. Perhaps the Western media could afford to be a bit more jaundiced about the reports of Israeli atrocities. The "Arab street" hates the West anyway, so why play their PR game? Leave that to al-Arabyia and al-Jazeera.

© Bud Talkinghorn


The ghost of Neville Chamberlain visits Canada

So only 34% of Canadians support Harper's pro-Israeli stance. One writer to the editor in The Globe and Mail said he found that "frightening". Another writer said, "The results makes him proud to be a Canadian." I stand with the first writer, while the second one could have added a few adjectives to Canadian--like morally neutral, Appeasement R Us, or some other descriptor denoting our serious drift away from democracy and national security. I encourage you to read the post on Aug. 1, 2006: "Shitty little country". A friendly contributor sent the item. It is a list of some of the incredible scientific, medical and technological advances that Israel has made, a long list. Should you want a comparison to the list of accomplishments from its enemies, Google "Modern Muslim states, greatest accomplishments". Prepare to be severely underwhelmed. Want another comparison? Check out the UN's own world rankings for "best countries in the world to live in". Israel is in the top tier, while down in the bottom sludge are countries like Mali, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan slugging it out to be named the worst.

Israel has a history of democracy, the Arab world none. In UN resolutions Israel is part of the Western world's position. In contrast, the Muslim countries often become "vote buddies" with the worst non-Muslim thugocracies. On one level they are perfectly attuned. None believe in anything but brute force to rule their citizens. Occasionally, Zimbabwe and Iran pretend to have open elections. They are of course rigged from the start. The Iranian ploy was absolutely naked. The mullahs decided who could even run for office. Any candidate who espoused democratic reform was disallowed. The official explanation was that they were "too morally impure", or their platforms threatened the mullahs stranglehold on power. When demonstrations broke out by progressive Iranians, the mullahs called in their slum rent-a-mob to attack them.

So how can Canadians side with Hamas and Hezbollah, both of whom want to annihilate "Shitty little" Israel, and replace it with a theocracy? While our soldiers are trying to contain the viruent Taliban elements, we have at-home Canadians throwing in their lot with Islamic fundamentalism. I have struggled to discern why my fellow citizens have adopted such a craven ideology. In fact, the villains are everywhere. An education system that must have been designed by the UN Committtee of cultural diversity, as mentioned by FHTR (Frosty). Forget those old dead white men who fashioned this country; rather, gabble on about what a wondrous neutrality we have. Then there is the Quebecois factor in our polling results. The Quebecois skew every national poll. If you take out their numbers, the polls are not so ultra-left in their conclusions. There is the relentless liberal media spin to everything. Then there is the mindless fare that is our entertainment. Read Neil Postman's book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" to see the damage done to our citizens' psyches. Then where would we be without the tsunami of cheap Chinese products? The list of negative influences on Canadians is infinitely expandable--kumbaya religions, "blended families", a broken moral compass, and the cult of victimology.

Whatever you think of Stephen Harper, he sounds clear messages to stem the rot. He will lose the Muslim vote rather than compromise his moral position. How refreshing.

© Bud Talkinghorn

Aug. 3, 2006: Gotcha, Gremlin -&- Table of Contents

I wondered whether anyone would read what I posted in the wee hours after midnight. Obviously, somebody did ...

First, the eye picks up anomaly, and this morning I noted a change to the post entitled "Aug. 3, 2006: Culture's Tentacles #1", a change that I had not made. Two words were reduced to size 0 (zero) by the introduction of a bit of html code around the words.

A Gremlin changed what had been posted to this:

Without the CRTC, there might be real, as opposed to the pretend competition, that Canadians now have.

Corrected

Without the CRTC, there might be real, as opposed to the pretend, competition that Canadians now have.

Table of Contents
Aug. 3, 2006

Note that the sidebar does not show the list of all that I posted for Aug.3. There are two sections:

First Series

#11 Why ... [Why does leftist thinking permeate Canada?]
#10 Charisma, the intellect ... [Trudeau, Laski and Hayek]
#9 Trudeau, China, Laski & Socialism ...
#8 Christianity and Liberalism ... [Two Alternative Religious Approaches]
#7 Hayek and Capitalism, London Sch. of Econ.
#6 Come By Chance Refinery, Vitol, UNSCAM & More
#5 Global aspirations ... [Background ... Many Voices, One World]
#4 Maurice Strong & UN University / UPEACE
#3 UPEACE Toronto
#2 UN University: Learn how or what to think?
#1 Pugwash conferences ... [Nova Scotia, Cyrus Eaton and Others]

Second Series

Culture's Tentacles #1
Culture's Tentacles #2

Aug. 3, 2006: #11 Why?

Why does leftist thinking permeate Canada?

Introduction and table of contents

The following group of posts (#1-#11) go together, the result of my exploration to try to understand why Canada is so influenced by socialist / leftist thinking; there has been a concomitant de-emphasis and diminution of our traditional beliefs and culture, of our traditional allies, and an increasingly negative attitude toward profit and capitalism. All tend to get little or bad press. It is as if there were no politically correct point of view in Canada, other than that of leftists/socialists and they have been successful in presenting their perspective as the Canadian perspective, via our media and our institutions, including in our education system, through relentless social engineering and indoctrination.

The following meanders over a few pathways which might seem unrelated but I think they are entwined. One follows from another, supporting and reinforcing each other to move thought leftward, the direction Canada has been taking for years.

From Pearson's "peacekeeping" through successive governments devoted to UN-speak, Canada has moved further left and especially toward looking to and following the United Nations and allowing its agencies to enter and influence--not just government, but to influence our educational system so that the next generation will have "right thought" and "correct speak"

* There has been much talk but little in the way of solutions to conflicts which have lasted years; yet Canada kept turning to the UN for guidance.

* Canada's joining the UN in placing "peacekeeping" as paramount, instead of using military interventions--de-emhasizing actual military operations--that might have been decisive in helping to end hostilities and terrorist activities elsewhere, has allowed conflicts to escalate in many areas, for example, Darfur and now Lebanon.

* Canada's multiculturalism has entailed backing down and standing for little that might discomfort those extremists who have entered Canada, those whose cultural views have been allowed to flower ... People have been placated rather than forced to change to fit into Canadian democracy and society ... which has rendered our society less what it was, a Judeo-Christian democracy; instead it has become less safe and less secure in itself as a nation ... which may have been intended.

* There has been the gutting, through underfunding and undermanning, of Canada's military as a fighting force in favour of UN-inspired talk, stalling and dithering, with its euphemisms--road maps, peace accords, UN multilateral forces, contributing Canada's military to "peacekeeping"

Israel's recent history is littered with terminology left behind by failed diplomacy. "The peace process" lasted a long time but died with the suicide bombers of the second intifada. That led to the "two-state solution," followed by "the quartet" (America, EU, UN, Russia), which sponsored the "Roadmap for Peace." These terms were grounded in mendacity. They meant Israel and foreign governments, including Canada's, had to pretend they took seriously every career terrorist, even Arafat, who claimed to want peace.

Now Israel finds itself dealing with fresh language games. Much of the world claims that it hasn't shown restraint and has attacked in a disproportionate rather than proportionate way -- though no one says what "proportionate" means. How do you deal with killers who send death from private houses and use civilians as human shields? My guess is that people like Annan want the bombing to stop so that the UN can go back to doing nothing while saying much.

[Robert Fulford: The UN is the more dangerous enemy , National Post, July 31, 06
www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas
/story.html?id=18f1f376-7f3e-429e-a8c3-3e48b5eefbd0 ]

Because Canadian governments followed the UN's lead, it allowed Canada to avoid taking a stand based on reasoning to a moral and practical intervention. It allowed the euphemisms as a stand in for thought. It allowed Canadians' tax dollars to be sent, through government programs--some of which, at least, just happen to benefit some Canadians, some academics and some businesses--to "the Third World". Another reality is that Canada promises and/or sends funds through the UN for humanitarian causes and for soldiers and equipment as part of the guilt geld transferred from the First World to the Second and Third World 'have-nots' [like China, other parts of Southeast Asia, and Africa]. Funding supports UN peacekeeping and further UN talk. The payments to these militaries under the UN brings to their countries needed cash in return for their "peacekeeping" operations ... or whatever ... The UN "observers", according to the UN peacekeeper, Major Paeta Hess-von Kruedener, who was killed in south Lebanon, are simply watching and recording a range of sorties, sallies, and attacks, but the peacekeepers are not tasked with stopping them. The UN and peacekeepers could not stop Rwanda, Darfur, et cetera. Nothing is finally solved; hostilities just go on for years.

Through the UN, money and equipment have even been diverted to terrorists; for example, the PLO has been able to use humanitarian aid money and equipment (ambulances) supplied via the UN (and/or the Red Crescent / Red Cross) to pursue its own agenda. Military action would be too decisive and the UN is not about decisiveness but about maintaining the UN. Lately, with the great concern shown by Kofi Annan for Lebanese civilians, but not for Israeli ones, the UN has taken sides, obviously. The UN, to which successive Liberal governments turned for guidance and reinforcement of the direction in which they were taking Canada, has supported the claims of Arab states while criticizing Israel, no matter that Israel did much to bring peace. The overwhelming number and hence, power, of Arab / Muslim states with their votes in the UN and the presence of UN agencies in Canada, along with the influence of France, means our ties have moved away from the Commonwealth and our traditional allies like the US toward the areas mentioned.

All the de-emphasis upon Canada's military in favour of the UN approach may have been a Quebec-pleasing move but it has been of dubious use in Canada's ability to project her power and to protect her own territory as well ... which may have been the object.

Trudeau's myriad influences over the direction Canada would take with the Charter and Rights legislation--that UN-inspired, UN-pleasing can of worms--influences Canada still

* through the overwhelming number of Liberal governments since, which have cemented the liberalization and Liberalization of the country

* through their appointees to the court system, particularly the activist Supreme Court, the agencies, foundations, NGO's, the civil service with its bilingualism requirement which has effectively left one language group overwhelmingly powerful in maintaining its interests, its alliances, and the governments' direction, and leftist / socialist Liberalism continues, even if governments change.

Example: Frost Hits the Rhubarb Feb. 27, 2005
http://frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com
/2005_02_27_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada -- Business News and more

"The Foundation was established in 1984 by an Act of the Parliament of Canada. It has its headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia.

APF Canada receives financial support from Foreign Affairs Canada, the Canadian International Development Agency and Western Economic Diversification Canada."

What was the impetus for setting up this foundation? Who initiated it? There is much high power concentration. Follow the money and the networks.

[....] Updates & China Conference-Vancouver Port, Maurice Strong-China Car Salesman, China's Bricklin & Strong, China-Copied Chevy Design?

[....] * Update 2: Maurice Strong

* through Liberal cultivation of the mainstream media, Ottawa press corps and the public broadcaster as its spin organ -- with the result that it is difficult for Canadians to get any other point of view.

* through public money channelled judiciously ... or to political associates and friends, even corruptly (Gomery Inquiry revelations ... and there is more to come)

* via granting agencies (to natives or through EDB, BDC, ACOA, etc.)

* to like-minded recipients (think of the arts unions and the Martin / Liberal "promise" to artists / cultural groups of unemployment insurance from the public purse, along with publicly funded international travel for example, to China (See below for more on arts funding / UNESCO Protocol -- "Culture's Tentacles #1" and #2 )

* to buttress business nationally or within a particular province (e.g. Bombardier)

* and internationally (through councils such as Canada-Asia/-China/-Pacific/-other countries councils with their promotion of business and other ties)

* through the francophonie (with public money toward travel ... also, consider Paul Martin's Africa-centric budget plans)

* to those who will happily take public money and then won't upset the system, the Liberals perpetuated their longevity and the recipients' loyalty to leftist / socialist / thinking and Liberal regimes

All of the above, allied with the influence in Canada of the United Nations (particularly harnessing UNESCO and the UN along with leftist activists), the EU (particularly France), currently joined by China and several Arab / Muslim states, and the result is that leftist thinking has become entrenched while Canadians seemed unaware of what was happening, lulled into a belief that they were being "nice". Voting the same political party into power for years allowed positions of power and influence to be filled with leftists and leftist/socialist philosophy.

In my research, I kept running into the same influences, the same names, the same institutions, NGO's, agencies, foundations, the same pattern of appointments, awards, et cetera -- all pervasive. Not only do their views permeate government, but their views are ubiquitous in education so the next generation will be indoctrinated--everywhere--and the media reinforce the attitude that any other views are supposedly un-Canadian. In reality, contrary views are not Liberal/socialist and hence, cannot get a fair hearing. The media are in business to make money, not to investigate; the perquisites that come of a close relationship with one political perspective cemented this movement leftward ... Much has remained hidden or unexplored.

A recent spate of articles on Trudeau and then my own reading took me through the following:

#11 Why ... [Why does leftist thinking permeate Canada? -- above]
#10 Charisma, the intellect ... [Trudeau, Laski and Hayek]
#9 Trudeau, China, Laski & Socialism ...
#8 Christianity and Liberalism ... [Two Alternative Religious Approaches]
#7 Hayek and Capitalism, London Sch. of Econ.
#6 Come By Chance Refinery, Vitol, UNSCAM & More
#5 Global aspirations ... [Background ... Many Voices, One World]
#4 Maurice Strong & UN University / UPEACE
#3 UPEACE Toronto
#2 UN University: Learn how or what to think?
#1 Pugwash conferences ... [Nova Scotia, Cyrus Eaton and Others]

Aug. 3, 2006: #10 Charisma, the intellect ...

Trudeau, Laski and Hayek

http://
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinions/columnists/Jeffrey+Simpson.html

The halo has slipped.

Jeffrey Simpson: Pierre Trudeau was no Talbot Papineau July 15, 2006 12:00 AM Page A17
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinions/columnists/Jeffrey+Simpson.html

Combine this with viewing the latest of the CBC's efforts to keep Pierre Trudeau--and by extension his ideas and his family--before the public's eyes: Trudeau II (see below) and, altogether, it is not a pretty picture of the CBC nor of the ex-PM.

So Pierre Trudeau's son, Justin, will play Talbot Papineau in a television series about the First World War, ostensibly because Mr. Papineau was, like the former prime minister: bilingual, bicultural, a foe of narrow Quebec nationalism and an ardent Canadian.

Simpson disagreed with the idea of likening Trudeau to Papineau. The whole article is worth reading.

Was Simpson actually helping to knock the halo off the head of the sainted Pierre Trudeau, subject of many a CBC advertorial for itself, for the leftists and the Liberals?


Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making repeat airing part one - Thursday, July 13, 2006 at 8:00 p.m. and part two - Thursday, July 20, 2006, 8:00 p.m. [It will undoubtedly come around again; these CBC productions usually do.]
www.cbc.ca/trudeau/

... a four-hour, two-part CBC Big Ticket mini-series ....

.... Quebec in the 40’s and 50’s.

... brings to life the turbulent Quebec society of Trudeau’s youth. The drama covers the pivotal moments of his life ... Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis, the Roman Catholic Church, René Lévesque, ... Gérard Pelletier... Jean Marchand ... Cité Libre.... he left more than a few broken hearts in his wake.

“If the first mini-series ... was a portrait of Trudeau the Canadian, TRUDEAU II: MAVERICK IN THE MAKING is a portrait of Trudeau the Québecois,”...

... written by Wayne Grigsby and Guy Fournier, directed by Tim Southam and is produced by Nova Scotia’s Big Motion Pictures for CBC Television. Executive Producers are Grigsby and David MacLeod.

Omitted in this text are Trudeau's war years--he did not fight. He travelled, studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and with Harold Laski at the London School of Economics (UK Labour socialist or, some say, communist) -- see below, travelled to China ... There were allusions to his communist leanings, his lack of feeling for the women he bedded, what looked like a post-opium scene in the film, even mention by the actor playing Trudeau that some questioned PET's sexuality. (Who knows and who cares at this point?)

The actor chosen to play him wears the perfect sneer of the wealthy, educated elite who consider themselves intellectuals, secure in feeling that they are a cut above the intellectual level of others ... fortunate in that they have not had to become grounded in the reality of working for a living. Trudeau was an educated dilletante influenced by the left.

Remember Trudeau's admiration for Nyerere of Tanzania and Castro of Cuba? This quotation from Friedrich Hayek's book seems fitting in that Trudeau did redesign Canada; it might have been better for Canada had he been influenced more by Friedrich Hayek rather than by Harold Laski. "The Fatal Conceit, ... [is] about—rather than economics and how markets work—it’s more about the evolution of societies. I think that gives great pause to all of those who would seek to redesign society in their own image."


Trudeau is still a hot subject for CBC--lest we forget. His vaunted charisma still has them in his thrall. I'm guessing they and the Liberals are casting about for another charismatic one in his image who will hold Canadians enthrall to more socialist ideas.

Aug. 3, 2006: #9 Trudeau, China, Laski & Socialism ...

Others have termed Harold Laski's ideas communism. Read and decide for yourself. Certainly Trudeau admired and was friendly with more than one Communist leader -- Castro, Nyerere.

Apparently, Trudeau was fascinated by Communist China, visiting China more than once. He and his buddy wrote: Book: Hebert, Jacques ; Trudeau, Pierre : Two Innocents in Red China. (Translated by I M Owen) OUP 1968. 152p pb, illustrated, VG+ PKM 58106 £9
www.plurabelle.co.uk/catalog/poli.html

Note: I have seen Laski spelled Lasky also.

Laski, Harold Joseph Columbia Encyclopedia

A member (1922–36) of the executive committee of the Fabian Society, Laski became a member of the Labour party executive committee in 1936 and was chairman of the party in 1945–46. .... Laski moved from an early belief in antistatist pluralism to the conviction that the state had to take the lead in socialist reform. His books include Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917), Authority in the Modern State (1919), Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (1920), Karl Marx (1921), Communism (1927), Democracy in Crisis (1933), The American Presidency (1940), Faith, Reason, and Civilisation (1944), The American Democracy (1948), and Liberty in the Modern State (rev. ed. 1948).

Works by Harold Laski at Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org/author/Harold+J.+Laski

Biography and various quotations regarding Laski
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/TUlaski.htm

Kingsley Martin heard visiting lecturer, Harold Laski, while studying at Cambridge University ....

[Laski's] lectures amounted to little in substance if one tried to write them down, but they made every student excited about the subject.

Apparently, Laski had charisma, also.

[Ralph Miliband] The first duty of a Labour Government, [Laski] insisted, was to come to terms, despite all difficulties, with the Communist world.

Digression: Law Professors: Just like a heifer

Exactly 120 years ago today, May 15, 1886, at Walkerville (now part of Windsor), Ontario, distiller and cattle breeder Hiram ("Canadian Club") Walker and banker Theodore C. Sherwood struck a deal over a polled Angus cow named Rose. Walker agreed to sell the cow, which he thought barren, for $80. When she turned out to be with calf (and therefore worth as much as $1,000), Walker reneged, leading to the most famous "mutual mistake" case in U.S. history, Sherwood v. Walker. In honor of the day, this lyric, to the tune of Bob Dylan's Just Like a Woman.

JUST LIKE A HEIFER ....

Why did I think of equalization, oil and Alberta when I read that? ... Of the claims by those who have not earned them to the resources of those who have -- welfare, UN demands for $$$ for the Third World, etc.?

Aug. 3, 2006: #8 Christianity and Liberalism ...

Two Alternative Religious Approaches

Christianity and Liberalism: Two Alternative Religious Approaches by David T. Koyzis, The new Pantagruel
http://www.newpantagruel.com/issues/1.3/christianity_and_liberalism_t.php?page=all

At the very end of the twentieth century, Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball published a collection of essays titled, The Betrayal of Liberalism : How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control.1 [Chicago: Ivan R Dee, 1999] This title is characteristic of one school of analysis of contemporary liberalism, represented by what Alasdair MacIntyre has labelled “conservative liberals.” The gist of the argument is as follows: liberalism is a philosophy of freedom which had made huge strides in liberating humanity from a variety of oppressive institutions, including chattel slavery, feudalism, hereditary monarchy and other forms of ascriptive social patterns. Liberalism’s beginnings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were on solid foundations, as articulated by the likes of John Locke, Adam Smith, the American founders and (perhaps) John Stuart Mill. Modern constitutional democracy, including that of Canada and the United States, would be all but impossible without the groundwork laid by this early liberalism.

However, the story continues, over slightly less than the last hundred years, the original liberal impulse has been betrayed by those falsely claiming the liberal label. These include the likes of US Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and, especially, a series of Supreme Court justices (in both countries) whose decisions have imposed an undemocratic rights-oriented regime on a recalcitrant public deemed to have retained “unconstitutionally” atavistic attitudes towards abortion, homosexuality, marriage and a number of similar issues. Furthermore, the very institution of the welfare state is leading us down what the classical liberal economic philosopher, Friedrich von Hayek, was calling as early as 1944, “the road to serfdom.” This more recent liberalism is thus eroding representative government, personal freedom and even equality, insofar as it champions race- and gender-based affirmative action. The net result is a society which is anything but liberal in the traditional sense. When a human rights tribunal is able to force a private printer to accept business effectively advancing a cause with which he disagrees, then liberalism has become most illiberal indeed.

This “betrayal of liberalism” thesis is advanced primarily by those who would call themselves liberal in the older sense. They retain a commitment to the principles championed by Locke, Smith and Mill. [....]

There is much more on that website -- worth checking.

Aug. 3, 2006: #7 Hayek and Capitalism, London Sch. of Econ.

This is relevant to understanding how far Trudeau and today's Liberals diverged from classical liberalism and Hayek's explanation of how capitalism works.

Apparently, the London School of Economics professor Friedrich Hayek did not influence the wealthy Trudeau to the degree that Harold Laski did.

Friedrich Hayek and the Future of Liberty The Independent Institute, May 16, 2001, speakers Alan O. Ebenstein and Charles W. Baird
www.independent.org/tii/forums/010516ipfTrans.html

[....] In 1931, after 10 years of working for and with Mises, [Friedrich] Hayek went to the London School of Economics and Political Science, ... gained worldwide renown. Probably the most famous name now associated with the London School of Economics during this period is Harold Lasky, and a considerable part as a result of Lasky’s influence, the LSE, ... gained a reputation as a haven for socialist thought. But there was another tradition at the London School of Economics, which can be traced to its first professor of economics there, Edwin Cannan, one of the greatest scholars of Adam Smith and a classical liberal in his own right.

There was much in Cannan’s thought that [Friedrich] Hayek found congruent with his own: emphasis on the slow gradual, transformation of societies and institutions. Now I think this is one of the really core Hayekian ideas is that institutions and societies are not planned, they cannot be directed and advanced, rather they have to be allowed to emerge. And this was an idea that was in Cannan’s thought, and as well, this process, which Hayek termed “spontaneous order,” is also a concept that he found in the work of Carl Menger.

[....] Hayek was brought to the London School primarily as an opponent to John Maynard Keynes [....]

Hayek and the Societal Division of Knowledge

[....] “There are many socialists,” Mises had written, “who have never come to grips in any way with the problems of economics…. They have criticized freely enough the economic structure of a ‘free’ society, but have consistently neglected to apply to the economics of the disputed socialist state the same caustic acumen…. They invariably explain how, in the cloud-cuckoo lands of their fancy, roast pigeons will in some way fly into the mouths of the comrades, but they omit to show how this miracle is to take place.” How would a socialist society practically be organized? It is not enough merely to point to deficiencies under capitalism.

Hayek’s brilliant insight is that there is a division of knowledge among all of the members of a society. Knowledge does not exist anywhere in a compact, complete whole. Rather knowledge is fragmented. It exists in the minds of all of the members of a society. .... how is it the case that you form a society when everyone’s experience is individual? What sort of society is going to be the most effective to accommodate divided knowledge, knowledge that’s divided among the minds of all the people in a society?

Hayek’s idea of the division of knowledge is very simple, but it is an idea that has potentially profound consequences. Hayek thought that the division of knowledge precludes the possibility of classical socialism of the central management and direction of the nation’s economy from one place. The division of knowledge, he thought, requires capitalism. Only under a system, whatever it’s other flaws, in which the reality of divided knowledge is accommodated, is a materially productive society possible, Hayek believed.

... “Economics and Knowledge,”

If knowledge is divided, how is information communicated? .... Hayek believed that the profit and price system, capitalism, is primarily a system that conveys information. Prices and profits are information. Prices reflect the relative supply of and demand for different goods. Mises uses as an excellent example of how a building would be built under a socialist system to demonstrate the importance of prices. What type of wood should be used? Should bricks or concrete or steel be used in construction? What should the relative amounts of labor and capital that go into construction be? Without a price system none of these questions can be answered in the most cost effective and rational manner. Capitalism, through utilizing prices and profits, has been literally the only system that can deliver goods in an advanced technological society.

And I think what’s really the core question is: how is information about the relative amounts of goods and services to be communicated? How do you know whether you should make building out of wood or out of steel or out of concrete? And it’s the price and profits system in capitalism that conveys that information.

Prices are dependent on private property: unless individuals have exclusive control over property and the ability to exchange it on the terms that they see fit, prices are impossible. This is the problem.

This was the problem in the Soviet Union and in other command economies during the 20th century. With no private property there is no price, and without private properties there cannot be rational economic calculation. Moreover, profits are as essential to prices to a capitalist order.

Later in his career, Hayek further explored the concept of order without orderers or “spontaneous order.” The role of the businessperson who makes profits is essential to the capitalist order. Who’s the best person to be entrusted with resources? In capitalism, this question is ideally answered by the individuals who make the most [profits]. That is, the individuals who use resources most effectively. Profits and prices convey information. They are essential, Hayek thought, to a free market order.

Along these lines, I think what’s crucial in evaluating the role of the entrepreneur is that the ability to make prices, [the] ability to make profits is not necessarily something that people can tell you how they did it. All you know is that somehow they’re able to conduct effective enterprises, and conduct effective businesses. And that’s one of the great strengths of capitalism. It’s not the case that in advance, in the same way of trying to plan out a society or to try to plan out an economy, that you can verbally say before how you’re going to make the profit. All you know is that in a capitalist system the people who are the most effective in making profits through experience are the individuals who will have more resources. Whereas in a command system there is no other information-conveying device like that. Who is the most effective with resources is as much a question as anything else.

The Road to Serfdom

World War II of course affected events in England and the rest of the world greatly, and it focused Hayek’s attention on the political ramifications of socialism. In his most well-know work, The Road to Serfdom, published during World War II in England, he now argued not only that socialism is unproductive, he argued that socialism is necessarily undemocratic and dictatorial. Unless there’s economic freedom, there cannot be political freedom. “This is really the crux of the matter,” he wrote in The Road to Serfdom. “Whoever controls all economic activity controls the means for all our ends. Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life, which can be separated from the rest, the control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.” [....]

Hayek’s Economics and the Future of Freedom

[....] Israel Kirzner .... [retired from] New York University ...

One of the best pieces that Kirzner wrote was a piece called, The Perils of Regulation: A Market-Process Approach, ....essentially there were four sections to that paper. One is what he called “undiscovered discovery.” That’s based upon Hayek’s competition as a discovery procedure, on simulated discovery, stifled discovery, superfluous discovery. ....

[....] But every politician ... should have to prove that they have read and understand the following pieces, “Economics and Knowledge” .... This is where the idea of the vision of knowledge was first introduced, followed up by, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” which was in 1945, and that was published in The American Economic Review, actually, and I think it was the September issue in 1945.

... “The Confusion of Language in Political Thought,” which was written or published in 1967, and then “Competition as a Discovery Procedure” in 1968. “The Pretense of Knowledge” in 1974 that was his Nobel lecture [....New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas.]

Charles Baird [Professor of Economics at California State University at Hayward ... director of the Smith Center ....co-sponsoring this The Independent Institute program of speakers -- quarterly journal called The Independent Review]
New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas. Thank you. And after “The Pretense of Knowledge,” they should read his last book, The Fatal Conceit. I think all of these people should have to read these and demonstrate that they understand them. They don’t have to agree with it, just demonstrate that they understand what is said in there before they can take their oath of office. ....

Now I would recommend that these same pieces—this is just an indication of how important I think Hayek is—I think these same pieces should be required reading in every school of journalism and every school of law. [Laughter.] At the very least, with respect to journalism, an understanding of Hayek would permit these journalists to understand perhaps the right questions to ask of those “madmen in authority,” who know nothing of economics and seem to be proud of their ignorance.

The Fatal Conceit, I think, which is more about—rather than economics and how markets work—it’s more about the evolution of societies. I think that gives great pause to all of those who would seek to redesign society in their own image. [....]

Consider that last part--redesigning society--in relation to the changes brought about by Trudeau, the replacement of what had worked in Canada by something designed by Trudeau and his government and further entrenched by governments since. Think of the Charter, multiculturalism, bilingualism (gradually, it has become the essential first requirement before a Canadian may be considered to work for his own government, even before other and what would seem to be requisite qualifications), the rise and growth of power of unelected Human Rights Commissions, the growing power of the court system, despite what the citizens might wish (think house arrest for severe crimes by youth criminals), particularly the activism of the Supreme Court, even taking over from Parliament in advancing their leftist views (though it will not be phrased as such), and more.

Aug. 3, 2006: #6 Come By Chance Refinery, Vitol, UNSCAM & More

UNSCAM

The news on Tongsun Park's conviction in the oil-for-food scandal, UNSCAM, led me to look further, especially upon seeing a Newfoundland connection, the Come By Chance refinery.

France to probe official in oil-for-food scandal Alan Freeman, Globe and Mail, June 27, 05, Page A11 -- or Boidevaix helped obtain ... ended up at the Come By Chance refinery , which is owned by Vitol through its North Atlantic Refining Ltd . unit . ...

www.theglobeandmail.ca/servlet/ArticleNews
/TPStory/LAC/20050627/VITOL27/TPInternational/Europe

WASHINGTON -- A French judge investigating the Iraq oil-for-food scandal is planning to look into the activities of Serge Boidevaix, the former French diplomat who played a crucial role in keeping Iraqi crude flowing to the Come By Chance oil refinery in Newfoundland during Saddam Hussein's rule. [....]

That led to Judi McLeod and Canada Free Press. She connected the dots to some off-book owners of NFL’s Houston Texans, oil and Iraq. I think the connections go even further -- to the United Nations University for Peace / UPEACE, Earth Day (environmental movement) and more ... to global governance and Canadian Maurice Strong, along with others.


Oil-for-Food finds NFL football! Judi McLeod, Canada Free Press, Feb 21, 2005
www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover022105.htm

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily.

[....] Javier Loya is a new limited partner of the Houston Texans [football ]

[....] In this rags-to-riches saga, Javier [Loya] has an older brother by the name of Michael, who has an MBA from Harvard. Michael is listed as the president of a Switzerland-based oil-and-gas trading company that is among the world’s largest, right up their with France’s TotalFinaElf. The name of Michael’s company is--Vitol SA.

Vitol SA was a major holder of permits allowing it to buy Iraqi oil through the controversial Oil-for-Food program.

"Working through a former senior French diplomat, Vitol [....]

[...] Newfoundland refinery called, Come by Chance ....

[...] gave Vitol access to crude oil.

[....] Mike’s kid brother, Javier [Loya].

One of Javier Loya’s clients is El Paso Energy, a company that bought Coastal, one of the Wyatt and Chalmers companies. This company has also been named in the Oil-for-Food probe.

A Hispanic Houston Chamber of Commerce article ... ponders, "How did Loya accumulate so much so quickly?"

In one article I read (which I cannot find right now), the Loyas were termed "wetbacks", that is, it seems that they entered the US illegally from Mexico.


Search: CHOICE! Energy [note the exclamation mark] , French President Jacques Chirac , off-book owners , NFL’s Houston Texans , Football , France’s TotalFinaElf , El Paso Energy


CHOICE! Energy -- energy brokerage -- CHOICE! Energy Services Retail -- commercial and residential -- Choice Energy and Choice Power.

Since its inception in 1994, CHOICE! has quickly grown to establish itself as one of the premier energy brokerage and consulting firms in the industry.

Telluride ... “green” festival .... a unique letter ...

“Welcome to Telluride .... Planet Bluegrass and festival partners Clif Bar, New Belgium Brewing Company and Renewable Choice Energy are excited to help reduce the environmental impacts of your travel to and from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this year. We have invested in wind energy credits to offset 100% of the carbon emissions produced by your plane flights and vehicles to and from the Festival.”

Where have I heard of investment "in wind energy credits to offset 100% of the carbon emissions produced by your plane flights and vehicles"? ....... Ah, the Kyoto Accord. Check further on the links with Kyoto, the activists, wind power ... and probably the usual cabal in or connected to the UN ... just a guess but ...



1994 ... 2003 award

CHOICE! Energy President/CEO Javier Loya Recognized Among Top Entrepreneurs Energy Editors/Business Editors HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2003

.... named a finalist for Houston's 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year(R) award .... in the "Energy and Energy Services" category.

[....] CHOICE! Energy is a Houston-based, Hispanic-owned energy services company. Since its inception in 1994, Choice has served as a leader in the institutional energy market

Intrigued, I continued searching "CHOICE! Energy" (www.findarticles.com):

History of Earth Day By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day
Home - Renewable Choice Energy , Mambo - the dynamic portal engine and content management system, Business Wire, 5/28/03

www.renewablechoice.com/m/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=87

Note that this Earth Day history is hosted on "RenewableChoice.com" (apparently using Mambo. For more on the Mambo Foundation, mambo content management system - Mambo - the dynamic portal engine and content management system ... The Mambo Foundation has recently carried out their first Annual . ...

Related: del.icio.us re: Mambo



Search: "Earth Day, Maurice Strong"

Maurice Strong at the 1992 Earth Summit ... Environmental Policy Task Force ... Earth Day Information Center Home Page ...
www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html

British Columbia Environmental Network -- Maurice Strong: Our Man in Rio (and San Francisco, too). By Michael Stoll ... How does World Environment Day complement and expand upon Earth Day? ...

UN : (EARTH DAY HISTORY)
The Secretary-General, U Thant, signed today an Earth Day Proclamation for the celebration of Earth ... Maurice Strong (Canada) UN Environmental Programme ...
www.themesh.com/un.html

CNN.com.... For more on Earth Day and what it means to all of us, we turn to Maurice Strong, who is hailed by the "New York ...
transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0104/22/sm.08.html

Joyce Morrison -- Earth Day or Earth Worship? Every year since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated on April 22. Most people choose that day to pick up ... Quoting Maurice Strong of the United Nations: …
www.newswithviews.com/Morrison/joyce29.htm

Search: Earth Day, Maurice Strong, Gaylord Nelson
and several topics come up.

Environment

Environmental Quotes
Gaylord Nelson, The most important environmental issue... Gaylord Nelson, In the state of Wisconsin ... Maurice Strong, The Earth Summit must establish ...
www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/environmental.html


Population

GLOBAL POPULATION MEDIA ANALYSIS
Gaylord Nelson was quoted as saying, "The number one environmental problem ... CNN World's Earth Day show featured an interview with Maurice Strong of the ...
ncseonline.org/PopPlanet/CCMC/HTML/2001april30.cfm


Global governance

Timeline to Global Governance
1970, First Earth Day - founder, Gaylord Nelson. ... Maurice Strong Conference leader ...
www.sovereignty.net/p/gov/timeline.html


Global Governance?

Timeline to Global Governance
1970, First Earth Day - founder, Gaylord Nelson. ... Earth Council - created in Costa Rica by Maurice Strong to coordinate global implementation of Agenda ...
www.sovereignty.net/timeline.html

Note: "Earth Council - created in Costa Rica by Maurice Strong to coordinate global implementation of Agenda"


Maurice Strong, President of the Council and Rector of the United Nations University for Peace

Harvard University Center for the Environment (2003-2004): Public ... Maurice Strong, President of the Council and Rector of the United Nations University for Peace ... Gaylord Nelson, Former US Senator; Founder, Earth Day ...
uce1.harvard.edu/activities/outreach/public.php

[May not be available to the general public]

[March 9, 2000
FINANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE ROLES OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, STATES, THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND PHILANTHROPY
Maurice Strong, President of the Council and Rector of the United Nations University for Peace

March 21, 1995
ENVIRONMENT-POPULATION-SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Gaylord Nelson, Former U.S. Senator; Founder, Earth Day [There are many more articles on this webpage such as

April 14, 1994
CHINA, A LAND OF HOPE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENERGY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Song Jian, State Councillor, People's Republic of China; Minister, State Science and Technology Commission; Chairman, State Environmental Protection Committee] ]

Timeline to Global Governance 1970 to 1985 - SourceWatch
1970: First Earth Day ... by founder Gaylord Nelson. Earth Day History ... Maurice Strong Conference leader. Ingemund Bengtsson (Sweden) elected as ...
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=
Timeline_to_Global_Governance_1970_to_1985


Award:
Harvard: the Future Vehicle Project

Harvard University Center for the Environment
May 4, 2005, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Delivering the Future: Public Private Partnerships for a Cleaner Environment
ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/ksginfo/enews.nsf
/details/5C3C4CF163DBB7D585256FF000594019

This year’s Roy family environmental award is being presented to the Future Vehicle Project, a collaboration of Environmental Defense [Fred Krupp, president], FedEx Express [David Bronczek, CEO] and the Eaton Corporation [James Sweetnam, senior vice president] [That is Cyrus Eaton of the Pugwash Conferences]. The Future Vehicle Project has introduced a hybrid delivery truck that increases fuel efficiency by more than 50 percent and reduces particulate emissions by 96 percent. With 18 hybrid trucks already on the road, FedEx plans to build on the success of this demonstration and make the hybrid vehicles the standard replacement in its weight class of 30,000 medium-duty trucks.

[....] Henry Lee, director of the Kennedy School’s Environment and Natural Resources program, in announcing the 2005 award winner. [....]

... projects from around the world that tackled tough environmental problems .... the Future Vehicle Project ranked first in each of three reviews.

[....] demonstrates effective NGO and private sector partnership. [...]

The Global Environmental Agenda: Origins and Prospects
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson came up with the concept of a. national teach-in for the environment, and thus launched what. became the first Earth Day. ...
environment.yale.edu/documents/downloads/o-u/speth.pdf

The Global Environmental Agenda:
Origins and Prospects
James Gustave Speth
summary

[....] What has emerged over the past two decades is the international community’s first attempt at global environmental governance. [....]

Third, we need to address more directly the underlying causes of environmental degradation, such as population growth, poverty and underdevelopment, inadequate technologies, and market failure brought on by failure to insist on environmentally honest prices.

What are "environmentally honest prices"?



United Nations University for Peace: a link from TexasEnergyService.com

(Bear with me on this; there is a point.)

Texas Energy Services is a division of CHOICE! Energy, LP
www.texasenergyservice.com/aboutus.html

CHOICE! Energy, LP is a wholesale institutional brokerage of natural gas, electricity, & refined products .... over-the-counter institutional energy brokerage in North America. We provide multi-national corporations, institutional banks, oil companies, utilities, and energy marketers with a single comprehensive source for market liquidity, price discovery, market experience and intelligence.

Javier Loya: CEO of CHOICE! Energy TexasEnergyService.com
www.texasenergyservice.com/javier_loya.html

Enrique Javier Loya is the president and chief executive officer of Houston-based CHOICE! Energy. He has held this position since acquiring a controlling interest in the firm in August 2000.

Loya helped found CHOICE! Energy in 1994 [....]

Prior to establishing CHOICE! Energy, Loya was a natural gas options broker with First National Crude Oil where he managed accounts consisting of major oil companies, natural gas producers, electrical utilities, institutional banks and energy marketers.

Loya, a first generation Mexican-American born in El Paso, Texas [elsewhere, I have read that he was Mexican-born], made headlines in 2002 when he signed on as a minority owner of the NFL’s Houston Texans. [....]

On that website is information on his speech to "Marketing Opportunities & Networking for Entrepreneurial Youth (MONEY) conference."

www.texasenergyservice.com/javier_loya/loya_money_conference.html




Search: United Nations University, peace

United Nations Affiliated University for Peace Jan. 31, 05 -- or UN-Affiliated University for Peace Appoints New Rector Jan. 31, 2005, United Nations Information Service Vienna
www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2005/sag323.html
[Incidentally, Vienna is also home of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) www.iaea.org]

UNIS Vienna: UN University for Peace
www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2005/sag323.html

NEW YORK, 27 January (University for Peace) -- Maurice Strong, Chair of the Council of the University for Peace (UPEACE), who is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, announced today the appointment of Julia Marton-Lefèvre to the position of Rector of UPEACE. [UN Univ. for Peace]

Ms. Marton-Lefèvre, is currently Executive Director of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) International, a United Kingdom-based global network of individuals and non-governmental organizations established on the initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation and committed to fostering leadership for environment and development through training, dialogue and research. [.... replacing Rector Martin Lees ]

“Ms. Marton-Lefèvre ... more than 30 years of experience in fields closely related to the purposes of UPEACE. .... United Nations, with professional organizations and other non-governmental organizations, as well as Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU), ...

Would this be open science, published in scholarly scientific journals for other scientists to try to replicate and/or to add their research results which might not agree ... or would it be more controlled science information and less subject the rest of the scientific world's input?

... Mr. Lees [will be] Rector Emeritus and Special Adviser. “... play a key continuing role in contributing to the further expansion and strengthening of UPEACE, particularly in relations with its growing network of strategic partners, financial supporters and the development of new initiatives”, said Mr. Strong.

UPEACE was established in 1980 [....]

UPEACE, the only institution empowered by the United Nations to grant university degrees at the Master’s and Doctoral levels, currently offers six Master’s Degree Programmes to students coming from 37 countries at its campus located in Costa Rica, as well as short courses in various locations. It has also established regional programmes and is developing a major programme of dissemination of teaching materials and distance education in partnership with other leading universities and institutions in the field, using state-of-the-art technologies.

For further information contact: Georges Tsaï, Vice-Rector University for Peace, San José, Costa Rica, tel.: (506) 205-9000, e-mail: gtsai@upeace.org.

Distance education lends itself to and may be more closed to opposing views and more controlled than education where the student attends a physical university where the student comes up against other human beings, other points of view, from scientists and other scholars and/or inventors. Why do I suspect that it is other points of view which are discouraged, perhaps unwanted, in this education? Consider the difficulties scientists who have other points of view have had getting any play in the media in Canada, even though they, themselves, paid to make one or more videos (posted on Frost Hits the Rhubarb within the last year or so -- perhaps between April and June, 2005). Their views did not fit in with the plans of the Martin Liberals and the scientists, non-scientists and businesses which were already onside. (Frost, May-June, I think.)


Remember Maurice Strong's ManyOne.net network on which I've posted previously? (Jan.-Feb. 06 and subsequently) Does it fit in somewhere? Does UPEACE / United Nations University have any connection with that alternate network?

Aug. 3, 2006: #5 Global aspirations ...

Background ... Many Voices, One World

These posts provide some background to Maurice Strong and the United Nations influence in Canada, which, under successive governments has been moving Canada in a socialist direction, in my opinion. There are others but this is a start if you have not already read them.

FHTR: Jan, 26 to Feb. 3, 06
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_01_29_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Feb. 3, 06

No Indoctrination 1, No Element of Coercion, No Global Aspirations
No Indoctrination 2: No Outside Influences?
No Indoctrination 3: No Coercion, Helping the Poor of Africa & the World
No Indoctrination 4: Francophone Countries Gain
No Indoctrination 5: Summit's Outcome Important for Islamic Countries
No Indoctrination 6: Control & the CRTC, Protection, Language, Industries & the CRTC [added Feb. 5, 06 -- scroll down past #5 for it.]

Feb. 2, 06 and previous posts

The death cult people meet the death wish people -&-Brother, can you spare a dime? -&- Blasphemy

Another Gift that Keeps on Giving -- CRTC & Lib. Big Brother, Daycare Myths, Tsunami $$$ -&- GG's Royal Taste

Updated: Helicopters, Socialism on the March, Regina CSI Lab, Hamas, Calgary School, Tainted Blood Victims

No Indoctrination -&- Six Features of Socialism

No Indoctrination: Elections Canada & Student Vote?

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January 14, 2006 Michael Ignatief, Saviour -&- Female AIDS Immigrants, A Reality Check -&- PM: appointing justices -- the tribe has spoken

[On immigration -- scroll to: ]
Liberal Compassion on someone else's dime

[...] the number of female immigrants who come to Canada and then, CANADA DISCOVERS THEY HAVE AIDS. [....]


Updated: Maurice Strong--Paul Martin's dangerous friend
Jan. 14, 06
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January 13, 2006 Updates: Tongsun Park in Canada? "Des Notables", Terrorist Quietly Deported

Updated:

Canada Free Press: Canada and Oil for food fugitive

Interpol-wanted -- "Canada may now have another record in allowing fugitives from the law access to other countries.

Was this yet another Canadian government foul-up, or is there more to ... ?" via Newsbeat1

Question: I notice that Tongsun Park was headed for Panama. I seem to remember that Panama's ports are under the control of a Canadian, Li Ka-shing, now, and there was a special agreement with Panama's leader about Chinese (possibly others, as well) able to enter Panama without going through customs to get on a plane coming North, whether to Canada or to the US, I have forgotten. That Panamanian deal was mentioned in a post on NJC maybe as long as two years ago. Check starting with Mar. 1, 2004 in News Junkie Canada for that post, if you are interested. Maybe that is convenient for those needing to make a quick trip.
Note that Tongsun Park was able to leave Canada through an airport without being caught, even though he was on Interpol's list of wanted individuals. How was that possible?

Bud: Fulford "Do not Disturb", Campbell: "Betrayal & Deceit: The Politics of Canadian Immigration", Truth, Censorship, Multiculturalism
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Trudeau's influence on Canada's immigration policy (1978)

Betrayal & Deceit: The Politics of Canadian Immigration
by Bud Talkinghorn:

Book review -- author, Charles M. Campbell

Campbell pinpoints two periods when the Immigration Act was changed detrimentally. In 1978, the Act gave peeference to "family class" immigrants. .... The second change came in 1998, "when the IRB started accepting refugees at a rate five times that of other refugee-accepting countries." .... The results of that miscalculation can be seen by Campbell's story of the influx in 1983 of Iranian "refugees", who had extensive connections with the Asian heroin trade. Within five years of their arrival, Montreal police linked them to 300 drug rings in the city. Over 100 of these "desperate" refugees had been convicted of drug smuggling and the addicted population had tripled. Not one of these individuals was deported. The reason goes back to Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It seems that one of these freedoms was for criminal refugees or immigrants not to be sent home. They might be tortured, you see, so they get to remain in Canada and torture us with violent crime, heroin trafficking and frauds too numerous to name. .... Mr. Campbell goes on to expose the main immigration myths. The abridged versions of these are as follows: [....]

January 4, 2006: INNU: Money for Nothing? by rosemarie59 on the language industry
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Frost Hits the Rhubarb: Jan. 15-21, 2006

Global Ministry of Truth
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Orwellian black is white? ... "women’s empowerment."

ManyOne "We are setting the stage for the next evolutionary advancement of electronic media"-- Joseph Firmage, CEO and Founder, ManyOne Networks
The Foundation [....]

Out of Pakistan, Romania & ... other hotbeds of freedom and the free flow of information ... No advertising, no naughty pictures, no business ... so soothing ... so comforting ... so safe for children ... so insidious

Google: "Maurice Strong, OneWorld" and you will get "Inside Global Civil Society: How it Networks" New online initiative aims to harness the power of the media to benefit children [....] OneWorld T.V. Spotlight on Human Rights [....] OneWorld and UNESCO [....] Open knowledge [....] SchoolNet telecollaboration [....]

OneWorld, Maurice Strong, UNESCO & The Global Governance Gang
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Updated: Our Freedom alert! Maurice Strong, Internet, Democracy Watch
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