Jan. 20, 2007: #4

London Bomber Surveillance Video: Connection to 7/7? , LGF via newsbeat1

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The official line so far has been that there was no connection between the London bombings of July 7, 2005, and the failed attacks of July 21, 2005. We’re told the 7/21 bombers were “copycats,” emulating the mass murderers of 7/7.

But here’s [....]

Memory Lane: Sometimes, while looking for something, I come upon items that might be of interest to others; here are a few.

Crime Money laundering RCMP Watchdog

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 10 - 16, 2006

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RCMP claim they can't investigate most criminal groups

the RCMP is only able to investigate less than 19 per cent of these criminal organizations after conducting their threat analysis.''

[....] ``We are aware that there are 800 criminal organizations in Canada and we have a capacity to investigate perhaps 150 of them,'

[Scroll down the same webpage for more on the RCMP ]

Dec. 10, 2006: Media - CBC, RCMP, Zaccardelli, Christians

RCMP, Zaccardelli, Comments

Frost Hits the Rhubarb May 28 - June 3, 2006

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Re: RCMP

May 31, 2006: #2
Liberals wanted me to shut up, ex-watchdog says -- RCMP Public Complaints Chair

OTTAWA - The retired civilian watchdog over the RCMP says the Martin government "didn't want any waves" and tried to "shut her up" by offering to continue her salary if she stepped down early.

Shirley Heafey, the lawyer who chaired the RCMP Public Complaints Commission [....]

Ms. Heafey says she believes [ex-Deputy Prime Minister and Minister responsible for public security, Anne McLellan] was concerned about an investigation launched by Ms. Heafey in May, 2004, into allegations that the RCMP failed in the 1990s to properly investigate alleged sexual abuse at Kingsclear, a probe carried out under Commissioner Zaccardelli's supervision as head of criminal operations in New Brunswick. [....]

Memory Lane: Media

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 3 - 9, 2006

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Search: Dec. 3, 2006: How to eat a poisoned sandwich ...


Frost Hits the Rhubarb June 18 - 22, 2006

Search: Barbara Schecter: CRTC quashes radio rules , Rogers Communications Inc.

Note exception: campus, native and community radio stations and a single French and English CBC radio station.

Scroll down that page further for: Muslim newspaper

Jan. 20, 2007: Bud Talkinghorn

"The Little Mosque on the Prairie"--Praise Allah for the good reviews

The accolades just keep pouring in for this show. One TV critic called it, "The best comedy series of the year". This, after only one episode.* Granted, CBC has hyped it so much, that you feel that you have seen every future episode. However, Tarek Fatah, the founder of The Muslim Congress of Canada gave the best review, "It didn't even cause me to giggle." The heavy-handedness of political correctness, painting Canadians as hopelessly biased was absurd, but not funny. It is that old self-hatred of their own puny culture which shines through this CBC effort from the get-go. Presumably, even Muslim-Canadians, who possibly have encountered some discrimination, see the show as a wildly inaccurate portrayal of their daily existence. Or maybe It is me who is totally out of step with the new sensibility of cultural guiltdom. (* Who's paying for that kind of praise? FHTR)

The second episode of "The Little Mosque on the Prairie" was...well, was actually the first episode shown for the third time in 9 days. Or as CBC would call it, "an encore of our encore presentation". The laugh meter must have gone through the roof during the first episode. However, CBC is going to show "The Little Mosque" again this week. Will it be a genuine second version, or an encore of their encore, encore presentation?. Has Fort Dork got any inkling of how ridiculous they are appearing? Or are they planning on stretching six episodes of this "comedy" throughout six months? What are they doing with that billion Canadian taxpayers give them to produce intelligent, balanced fare?

(Later)

Well, CBC felt embarassed enough to actually show the second episode. It centered on the Islamic patriarchy and those fledgling feminists of Islam. Separatism in the mosque was the big theme. The radio talk guy gets involved on the side of equality, and is denounced by some Muslims as "racist". The rest of the show is too puerile to elaborate. If you missed it, I'm sure that CBC will show it twice more. You wouldn't want to miss, "The funniest comedy of the year".

My contact in the East tells me that the "new, improved, lengthened" local 6 p.m. news is a joke. First, CBC demoted or got rid of all the old CBC white folk and larded it with three Asian-Canadians correspondents (representing 0.05% of the province's population) and then reneged on the expanded coverage pledge. In fact, in the capital of NB, to augment the 22 minutes of "news", they often cut to "School Zone". This is a cutesy look at school kids and their projects. Cute animal stories are acceptable filler also. Heck, if the province got 6 cms of snow, kids shown sledding will do. Then the whole thing is handed off to Ian Hanomansingh for the 5:30 P.m. national news. Who knew that there was no real news in the Maritimes? Seeing as pollution has become the new CBC dog with a bone issue (especially since the federal Conservatives have come into office), it seems to me an expose of the Irving corporation, alone, could occupy months of riveting coverage.

© Bud Talkinghorn--Maybe Ian Morrison of The Friends of the CBC could look into some of these defects and give the Mothercorp a bracing report. Meanwhile, my friend is writing the CBC ombudsman to complain about the local news. The ombudsman did not answer my formal complaint of a year ago, so good luck.



Bud, who watches CBC news any more, anyway? Unless I specifically want to check something, not me. If I hear any of it, it is in passing. Of CBC, I have heard enough that I often dismiss it and read or listen to music. I know what CBC's position on anything I value is, for the most part, with some documentaries excepted. That is how predictable it has become ... for a billion taxpayer dollars. Dull and predictable. FHTR


On being a compacter

There is an organization in North America called the compacters, who refuse to buy into the wildly advertised gizmos and fashions of our hyper-consumer culture. George Carlin, the comedian, is their guru. He identified the problem with "stuff" in a classic routine. I won't give his whole routine--unnecessary verbosity is very uncompacter-like. The gist was that we have to keep buying ever bigger properties to accomodate our "stuff". So compacters try mightily to live with their old, but still usable "stuff". If dire necessity dictates new spring weather clothes, they go to the thirft stores and buy a Burburry coat for $4, although it is better to wait until the "all you can stuff in a bag for $5 days, so you can put those slightly-worn, OJ-ugly Ferragamo shoes on top.

Living rather rough in various spots helped me gain enlightenment. My significant other and I slowly weaned ourselves away. Our experiences proved that most of these comsumer goods were mere dross. The tie I threw out yesterday because it was too wide, is back. Now it is labelled "retro". I decided that an old car with low mileage, would do as well as an out-of-the-showroom model. Then there is the library for most magazine, book, and music needs. Not only were these free, but the music librarian brought in music that Best Buy wouldn't touch. The blues selection outweighed the rap-crap by a factor of five. And if you want to regress to your childhood, the place even has graphic "novels", aka arty comic books.*

As for food, the due date meat at the supermarket is not only cheaper, but it much more tender. As one butcher said to me, as I lifted a half price $16 prime rib roast into my basket, "If you hadn't taken that baby, I was having it for supper tonight." He just shakes his head at the gross stupidity of shoppers who want "red, red, meat". For over-the-counter drugs, the store brands are always cheaper and have the same medicinal ingredients in them as the brand names. Druggists also shake their heads at the inability of many shoppers to see this.

Anyway, as a proud compacter, I must end this missive to the "more addicted" consumer. Don't overdo it is my motto. I fully realize that my stand is highly subversive, and if it caught on massively, would sink our economy--or maybe just China's.

Christmas time is nirvana express time. Want nothing, get nothing, give nothing. The average Canadian couple feels obliged to spend $1,800 on gifts--often gifts for people they loathe, or would if they weren't family or people they're supposed to like for some reason or another. Instead, spend zero, outside of the cost of lashings of succulent food and palatable wines--friends invited. Gifts are well thought out books and CDs--from the library of course; well, mention of them suffices, and then we may talk about them.

© Bud Talkinghorn



Bud, I love it. You have just admitted you've joined the grinch club, a small sub-set of those who have had it with Christmas as marketing. Welcome! Some even attend church as a protest. Think of that for a desecration of what has become the traditional Christmas spirit, perhaps for next year. FHTR


* To think I used to laugh at adults reading comic books ... uh, graphic novels. The purpose of a Canadian education has come to fruition. Years of social engineering and language training where students are taught ... well, never mind. The upshot is that the latest test results from the one of the Maritime provinces, NB, reveal that, of the grade 1 to intermediate level core French students (English students learning French), only 15% passed French to advance to the next level, intermediate. There is great consternation; more money will flow in the usual direction. SNAFU.

The kids can't or don't read books any more. Their attention spans suit the television format of advertising after every three minutes of programming and the repetition of sound bites and lies ... if they're not the same. Perfect for control, too. Would we say that their education has fitted them to read "graphic novels", just like their Third World counterparts? The better to lead them around by their noses, my dear. To get a compliant, easily hood-winked populous and thus remain in power forever, first, you make sure the children are not educated, (expression of "feel good" mantras and one's feelings are enough - don't analyze too much - don't question - accept what you're told). Job done! Talk and more talk will follow the test revelations. Nothing will change. Well, maybe more teachers will be hired from the usual job pool / gene pool. Would that complete the job?

Have you ever wondered why the sound bite has taken over from reasoned argument and analysis? That's all that the products of a Canadian education can handle. For those who still read, understand, think, analyze and try to formulate their thoughts by writing, editing and re-writing, those comments are not meant for you. I hear that a number of the above-mentioned socially-engineered-edu-products have, in their educated wisdom, decided that comedians provide the greatest political commentary. That should bring the natural governing party back to power, forever. Enough said. FHTR

Jan. 20, 2007: #3

One official's 'refugee' is another's 'terrorist' -- IRB criticized for dissimilar rulings on similar cases -- "He [Judge Phelan] ruled that Mr. Siddiqui is entitled, as a matter of fairness, to an explanation of why, when two IRB adjudicators 'reviewing the same documents on the same issue, could reach a different conclusion.'" , Adrian Humphreys, National Post, January 17, 2007

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Two members of the same foreign organization who applied for refugee status in Canada have received dramatically different judgments: One was declared a member of a terrorist group, the other accepted as a legitimate refugee. [....]

Mr. Siddiqui was born in 1969 in Pakistan. While at college, he attended meetings of a student organization, which later became the MQM, he told immigration officials.

In 1990, the MQM split into two factions, known as the MQM-A and the MQM-H. Both Mr. Siddiqui and Mr. Memon said they were members of the MQM-A. [....]

Search: Daphne Shaw Dyck, an adjudicator with the IRB , Leeann King heard



Computing - Identity Theft

Reports on Online Identity Theft Trends , Jan 16, 2007, via newsbeat1 -- McAfee White Paper

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story.print.php?id=103329

www.mcafee.com/us/
threat_center/white_paper.html

[....] The McAfee Avert Labs white paper concludes with practical guidelines for preventing identity theft and minimizing the risks of being victimized. Key prevention tips for computer users include:

* Watch out for phishing scams -- fraudulent emails and Web sites that impersonate legitimate businesses to trick people into revealing personal information.
* Avoid clicking on links in emails to visit Web sites, but instead manually type a company's correct Web address into the browser.
* Install comprehensive security software or services -- including anti- virus, anti-spyware and firewall protection -- and keep it up to date.
* Use caution when opening email attachments, regardless of who sent them.
* Take care before sharing email addresses.
* Permanently erase computer hard drives before disposing of old computers.
* Make sure Web sites are secure before visiting and providing personal information. * Use strong passwords.
* Use caution when communicating through instant messaging. [....]

Iran Latin America Venezuela Chavez

Enemy in Our Back Yard , New York Sun Editorial, January 16, 2007

www.nysun.com/article/46771

Iran is moving aggressively to gain influence in our hemisphere, and left-wing, anti-American leaders in Latin America are rolling out the red carpet for President Ahmadinejad. As this Marxist-Islamist entente grows, it presents a clear danger to American security and makes the need for action against Iran's nuclear program even more pressing. The latest development in the alliance came this weekend, when Mr. Ahmadinejad visited Latin America for the second time in four months. In Venezuela, he was received at the airport by President Chavez. "Welcome to Venezuela, where Iran is beloved," the Caracas daily El Universal quoted Mr. Chavez as saying. "We give welcome to a distinguished leader, the leader of a heroic people and of a revolution kindred to the Venezuelan revolution: the Islamic revolution." [....]

CT Blog Posts on Ahmed Ressam, Millenium Bomber Whose Sentence Was Vacated Today , By Andrew Cochran, January 16, 2007, counterterrorismblog.org , via newsbeat1

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Today the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out the 22-year prison sentence given to Ahmed Ressam, the convicted "Millenium Bomber," and ordered the lower court to determine the appropriate sentence. Angst over the court's decision should be mitigated by reading the full opinion, available here: the court decided this on legal technicalities over the meaning of a statute and the propriety of the jury instructions. It overturned only one of the nine counts on which Ressam was convicted. [....]

CT Blog Contributing Experts have previously posted on Ressam's affiliations and the actions of his cohorts:
Evan Kohlmann:
"Convicted Terrorists Send Advice to Brethren From Within U.S. Prisons," March 1, 2005
"Algerian "Junior Osama Bin Laden" Resurfaces in Bosnia-Herzegovina," Aug. 29, 2005
"Abu Khabab al-Masri: A Master of Terror," January 18, 2006
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, "The Return of Fateh Kamel," Feb. 27, 2005

Memory Lane: Investor Immigration Program

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 3 - 9, 2006

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Search: investor immigration program , brought 3,000 Asian families into Canada , Imperial Consultants , investigations into their immigration business in the mid-nineties, the company's president Gordon Fu , Canada's Computer Assisted Immigration Processing System




Memory Lane: Migration Phony ID

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Dec. 10 - 16, 2006

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Search: Dec. 15, 2006: Phony ID

Need phony ID? Get the real thing — for a price offered illegal immigrants authentic papers from Puerto Rico.

A phone call and $1,000. In Worthington, Minn. ... get a genuine birth certificate and Social Security card — papers that could land them jobs at the slaughterhouse.

Memory Lane: Frost Hits the Rhubarb April 16 - 21, 2006
Scroll to April 17 "Illegal aliens"



Frost Hits the Rhubarb Nov. 13, 2005: Immigration: Joe Volpe's big Whopper

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Search: re-unification program , $800 million a year


Frost Hits the Rhubarb Mar. 27, 05 to Apr. 2, 05

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March 27, 2005
Bringing strippers through the immigration system, trying to decriminalize marijuana and now. . . . . Canadian Taxpayers, the Hooker Junket

Within the last two days, the Globe and Mail published an article advocating legalizing prostitution. There are hazards to the job, girls. It might be wiser to work at any other job. Do Canadians have to accommodate anything if the one involved might be harmed? Heroin addicts? So we should have safe injection sites? Terrorists who might suffer at the hands of someone abroad ... so Canada should just let them remain? Immigrant families who go into the drug business? Scroll down for that post. We've come a long way, baby, but I've yet to hear a little girl say "Mommy, I want to be a hooker when I grow up."



Memory Lane: Citizenship , illegal alien "rights"

Frost Hits the Rhubarb April 16 - 21, 2006

Heather MacDonald:
Postmodern “Rights” en Los Estados Unidos -- “I am here,” so deal with it. April 17, 2006

Search: multicultural lobby , The bill reverses current law and allows illegal aliens to be eligible for

Global Commission on International Migration -- The United Nations and US Immigration Policy -- "Self-righteous globalists preach that no human being is illegal." , Joseph Klein, April 11, 2006


Frost Hits the Rhubarb July 17 - 22, 2006
South Korea -- Search: Exodus of sex trade workers to Canada



Migration Immigration Colombia

Adiós City Of Anglos: Welcome To Londombia; London, Ontario Draws Latin Vibe 'The New Wave Is Colombian'; Latinos Transform London, Ont. , Oakland Ross, December 14, 2003, Toronto Star -- or here

[....] Nowadays, about 19 per cent of London's 335,000 people were born somewhere other than Canada, which might not seem particularly impressive when compared to famously multicultural Toronto, where 44 per cent of the population is foreign-born.

Still, London has a larger proportion of immigrants than either Montreal or Edmonton, and occupies eighth place in the multicultural pecking order of Canadian cities.

[....] The current influx of Latin Americans began in 1997. That year, a scant 16 Colombians settled in London.

In 1998, there were 43; the following year, 126. In 2000, there were 395, and the numbers have continued to swell since. [....]

The vast majority of the Colombian arrivals in London are political refugees rather than regular immigrants. Colombian refugee claimants are rarely turned away by Canadian officials. [....]

More from Oakland Ross in the Toronto Star on Colombian refugees: News Junkie Canada Sept. 10, 2004: Three men are behind bars in Colombia and more arrests are ... One Colombian official told the Toronto Star that some of the bogus ...

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Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive -- posted by Canadiana on PuntedPosters

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Three Tenors: Carreras Domingo Pavarotti

The 1994 concert gets five stars.

Jan. 20, 2007: #2

Kyoto, The Science and the Scientists, Native Input, Funding, Special Arrangements and More

Much is omitted from the following but the tentacles and (usually taxpayer) money are ... as expected. If not immediately evident, keep checking. this is just a group of excerpts but, to me, they are instructive.

Frost Hits the Rhubarb May 28 - June 3, 2006

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May 29, 06 #2: Kyoto, Scientists & Data

Project Green would have cost $12 billion by 2012, with much of that money being spent outside Canada.

computer models

caused by solar radiation rather than human pollution.

The U.N.'s IPCC Third Assessment Report concluded that the rate of sea level rise has not accelerated

60 Scientists: Open Kyoto to debate -- An open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper

SEPP News Release: More Than 15,000 Scientists [two-thirds with advanced academic degrees] Protest Kyoto Accord; Speak Out Against Global Warming Myth -- signed "a Petition against the climate accord concluded in Kyoto (Japan) in December 1997. "

In signing the Petition within a period of less than six weeks, the 15,000 basic and applied scientists -- an unprecedented number for this kind of document -- also expressed their profound skepticism about the science underlying the Kyoto Accord. The atmospheric data simply do not support the elaborate computer-driven climate models that are being cited by the United Nations and other promoters of the Accord as "proof" of a major future warming.

The contributors and reviewers of the 1996 report by the UN-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) actually number less than 2000, and only a small fraction -- who were never polled -- can claim to be climate scientists. [This relates to who were consulted -- e.g. NRTEE ... more below]

May 29, 06 #1: Propaganda, Kyoto, Activists, NRTEE, Global Justice


Climate Change, the Networks, NRTEE National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy

Background: I had posted this: May 23-06: UN, Rights, Activists Networks' $$$ -- Sheila Watt-Cloutier was part of that illustrious group who travelled with ex-Governor General Adrienne Clarkson on her Inuit Circumpolar Tour -- "May 23-06: UN, Rights, Activists Networks' $$$ United Nations & Rights, Activists, Funding, Networks: Here we go again" -- I think these are also activism related: FHTR May 18, 2005 and FHTR May 14, 2006

Within a day or two of my post on ex-GG Adrienne Clarkson's Circumpolar Tour with information on those who were invited along, including Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the G&M published Sheila Watt-Cloutier's article on Kyoto.

Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier made claims for the Liberals' Kyoto plan and against the Conservatives' approach

Inuit land claims ... and the NRTEE: National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy

NRTEE National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Northern Quebec, "oversaw the administration of the Inuit land-claims body established under the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement as Corporate Secretary of Makivik from 1995 to 1998."

[....] She champions ... traditional ecological knowledge ...


"Offering a safe haven for discussion"? Is that the purpose of the NRTEE: National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy?

the promotion of key energy technologies.

Economic Instruments for Long-term Reductions in Energy-based Carbon Emissions – State of the Debate report, released in August 2005


Didn't we used to call "economic instruments" taxpayer funding? Just which "key energy technologies" were planned



NRTEE: National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy

Were these appointees? What were the criteria for inclusion? [ .... worth re-reading]

NRTEE Members Note at the bottom, the webpage Date created: 1994-04-28

[....]

Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) [The Olympics -- many contracts for the Olympics and construction between Vancouver and Whistler]

Stephen Kakfwi ... Deh Cho [more below on the Deh Cho]

Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference [As an Inuit social worker and one involved in treaty negotiations, what background makes her views on climate change important for this roundtable? She would have anecdotal and personal background but .... perhaps political connections?]

Iqaluit, Nunavut [more below]

... Suncor Energy Inc. [... Suncor received taxpayer money for some environment-related research or other work. -- See the Update Jan. 20, 07 for Frost Hits the Rhubarb Jan. 16, 2007: Into a black hole

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Watt-Cloutier ... Inter- American Commission on Human Rights .... by connecting climate change to human rights, .... There are some cases where they can refer to the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, but that court, based in Costa Rica ....

TIKSI, Russia ....

Sheila Watt-Cloutier
The discovery of vast petroleum fields in the Barents and Kara Seas ....

Earth Justice Org funded by FJC.org -- Hidden Funding Sources?

FJC: A Foundation of Donor Advised Funds

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) [NRDC "Donate and help save the planet" -- www.nrdc.org -- very interesting]

Earthjustice .... They helped form a sister group in Canada, the Sierra Legal Defence Fund, and have built a partnership with Ecojuris, a group in Russia.

Earthjustice = Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund [in Canada, anyway, it appears]

"List of international organizations" -- worth checking and bookmarking, as well.

This is an alphabetical list of international organizations and non-governmental organizations with the country or region in which their main or international office is based


Inuit Circumpolar Conference ... represents 155,000 Inuit scattered across Canada, Greenland, Russia and the United States has enlisted lawyers and movie stars like Jakd Gyllenhaal and Salma Hayek to dral attention to its imperiled traditions.

It is worth checking NGO's -- Advocacy Groups, the UN & 'right to protect'

Non-governmental organizations -- "NGOs are not legal entities under international law, like states are."

A non-governmental organization (NGO) is an organization that is not part of a government and was not founded by states. NGOs are therefore typically independent of governments. .... many NGOs now prefer the term private voluntary organization (PVO) or Private Development Organization (PDO).

Six nations with poor human rights records were among those elected to the new Human Rights Council on Tuesday. read more ........ China, Cuba, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan,




.... NGO accountability, human rights, labor rights, social and environmental justice issues." ]

[....] While in 1946, only 41 NGOs had consultative status with the ECOSOC, by 2003 this number had risen to 2,350.

In March 2000 report on United Nations Reform priorities, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan wrote in favor of international humanitarian intervention, arguing that the international community has a 'right to protect' [What might that entail?]

Responsibility to Protect - Engaging Civil Society R2PCS. The project, which is a collaboration of the WFM and Canadian government, aims to bring NGOs into lockstep with the principles outlined under the original R2P project.


Dubai Courts The International Aid Industry
05.13.2006 - The Economist reports on the plushest of new homes for the international aid industry. ....


Alphabetical list of international organizations and non-governmental organizations with the country or region in which their main or international office is based. Some organizations have no country listing. -- of interest

The Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) is not listed, though Earthjustice is.

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Some Canadians receive special treatment. Is there more than doing good to some of this? Does this help them?

Memory Lane: How do the above and what is below fit together? Do they?


Reference here: Deh Cho June 2, 06: TGIF

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Ottawa offers land deal to only First Nation offside with pipeline project -- Deh Cho

www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government hopes cash and land will lure the only native group challenging a $7-billion proposed pipeline that could fuel prosperity in the Western Arctic.

Christy Blatchford: A tragic failure of the legal system -- Re: Natives and legal system -- special treatment -- sentencing circles [June 3, 2006] , Globe and Mail, 3rd Jun 2006, 13:14 GMT (INSIDER Edition subscribers only)

Referenced here -- or here

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[.... Prison] and other officials were side-tracked by considering ... human rights above their duties to the public.

Where have I heard that before? Oh yes, in the Vancouver edition of the globe and mail [sic] June 3rd. Christie Blatchford discussing the tragic failure of the legal system regarding Robert Linklater's most recent conviction of first degree murder. Without even learning of his extensive criminal past, the jury only took 6 hours to deliberate the guilt of this 24 year old man.

The tragedy of this case lays in the fact this young man was serving a conditional sentence for murdering a Toronto woman Mariana Ivancicevic, he stabbed her and left her in a grimy stairwell to die. He was only weeks into serving his conditional sentence for attempted murder when he accomplished Mariana's murder. As Jadranka Daniele, the younger sister of Mariana stated "Had the court not let him out of jail, Mariana would still be alive today."

The preciding [sic] Judge who determined the conditional sentencing of Robert Linklater took his Cree heritage and biography of being an abuse victim himself into account. [Was there any oral history there?]

Judge Laforme stated, "On the one hand it is my view that Mr.Linklater stands before this court as yet another representative of the aboriginal community of Canada who is a symbol of addressing the effects of aboriginal history-and not the cause." On the other hand, he said, "Mr. Linklater is a repeat offender who has been convicted of a serious violent offence."

Judge LaForme decided in the end his "Greater duty was to remedy the crisis of drastic overrepresentation of aboriginals in Canadian prisons, and he was bound by the supreme court to find creative, sensitive and novel solutions for offenders such as Linklater." ....

There was no link because I had read it in a paper copy but there is more and a reference to Blatchford's article -- on conditional sentencing.

BRIEF TO THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
HOUSE OF COMMONS
39th Parliament, 1st Session
On Amendments to the Criminal Code of Canada
(Conditional Sentences)
Bill C-9
Presented by
CANADIAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE ASSOCIATION
Ottawa
October 11, 2006

[Search:] History of the Conditional Sentence [.... details and more references]

References

Aboriginal Initiatives Branch (1999), Facts and Figures: Demographic Overview of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada and Aboriginal Offenders in federal Corrections, Correctional Services Canada.

Blatchford, Christie (2006) “A Tragic Failure of the Legal System” Globe & Mail 3 June 2006, pp. A1 & A9. [....]

Frost Hits the Rhubarb June 18 - 22, 2006 -- original article here

26 arrested in Quebec drug bust , April 20, 2006

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OTTAWA - Twenty-six people, including 14 members of an Algonquin reserve 130 kilometres north of Ottawa, have been charged in Quebec's biggest drug bust this year. Police Chief Gordon McGregor of the Kitigan Zibi reserve said yesterday that 14 Algonquins allegedly controlled an organized-crime business exporting marijuana, hashish and Ecstasy to the United States -- and they were the same people who had earlier filed complaints against local police. [. . . . ]


Search: made false allegations against police officers , 126 drug and weapons offences

Frost Hits the Rhubarb July 17 - 22, 2006

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rhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_07_17_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Search: SCOC & Mi'kmaq-Crown Land

SCOC = Supreme Court of Canada


Frost Hits the Rhubarb June 18 - 22, 2006

Search: Accountability act would infringe on rights , Darcey on April 18, 2006 in Aboriginal Issues , sniffing socialist glue

Jan. 20, 2007: #1

US Military Aid to Palestinians


US seeks 86 million dollars in military aid to Palestinians , Jan 12, 07 -- or here , posted by starboardside at punted posters

www.forums
vibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1795&mforum=elwoodpdowd

news.yahoo.com/s/afp/
20070112/pl_afp/mideastpalestinian

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The administration of President George W. Bush has asked Congress to authorize 86 million dollars in military aid to boost security forces loyal to moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, a senior US official said.

"Eighty-six million is the figure we're looking at with Congress, that's our starting point," said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

He said the aid would be "non-lethal assistance" including communications gear, vehicles and uniforms as well as training. [....]

Note: communications gear , vehicles , training

Why? Would you put your trust in them?


Do not miss the next one - a must read. More here on Palestinian misery , via starboardside

www.terr
orism-info.org.il/
malam_multimedia/English/
eng_n/html/ben_dror_e.htm


Memory Lane: Peace and UN Peacekeeping

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Mar. 27, 05 to Apr. 2, 05 -- excerpts

Note: Efforts to curb abuses were "ad hoc and inadequate" and that exploitative behavior was widespread.

Report Calls for Punishing Peacekeepers in Sex Abuse , Mar. 25, 05, Warren Hoge

UNITED NATIONS, March 24 - A report on sexual abuse by peacekeepers

I'm still waiting for a mainstream media complete investigative report on this.

Jan. 19, 2007: Drugs #2

Update Jan. 20, 2007: Scroll to bottom of this post for it.



Family must give up grow-op homes
Case is biggest forfeiture ever in Waterloo , Dianne Wood, Kitchener, Jan. 17, 06

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Nam Thi Dinh, 53, [....]

Que Kim Thi Nguyen, [....]

husband, Chien Khac Nguyen [....]

Along with forfeiting the three homes, Hearn also ordered forfeiture of the proceeds of a fourth house family members also used for a marijuana grow.

[....] raided on Oct. 6, 2004, after an investigation by Waterloo regional police and Kitchener RCMP that begun in October 2003. Police seized 593 marijuana plants from grow operations in the basements of the homes.

All five accused, who are related by blood or marriage, pleaded guilty in December 2005 to production of marijuana and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. Their sentencing has been held up while the issue of forfeiting the houses was argued.

[....] Lawyers are asking for suspended sentences or conditional sentences because their clients have paid such a high price already with the forfeiture of their homes.

None of the five has a criminal record. [Perhaps they haven't been here long enough.]

Crown prosecutor Mike O'Malley is asking for one year in jail for all five.

[....] Cuong Khac Nguyen and his wife, Huyen Le Thi Vu.

Thi Kim Nguyen came to Canada in 1998 and sponsored her husband, defence lawyer Matt Stanley said. [.... see below also]

Was she a refugee? Did she not enter under false pretenses? Did they arrive via Hong Kong? Philippines? Does this relate to the story of truckers recruited out of Vietnam? (posted on Frost Hits the Rhubarb)

One year? That is all? Then they probably are able to remain in Canada to start all over again. Why? Why do we have to keep this family as refugees or immigrants? Do you really think they would have stopped at marijuana, once the business was rolling?


Memory Lane: Drugs

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Oct. 10, 2004

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therhubarb.blogspot.com/
2004_10_10_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

One of those who worked on the Western Wind file was former RCMP officer Pat Convey, now an inspector with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit. ...

Current information here: Organized Crime in Canada: A Quarterly Summary July to September, 2006 General Organized Crime Activities

www.yorku.ca/nathanson/
CurrentEvents/2006_Q3.htm#Drugs

Organized Crime Activities
Arms Trafficking
Drug Trafficking
Cocaine
Crystal Meth
Ecstacy
Hashish
Marijuana
Money Laundering
Prostitution
Smuggling
Organized Crime Genres
Asian
Italian
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs

Update: Jan. 20, 2007


Frost Hits the Rhubarb May 28 - June 3, 2006

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therhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_05_28_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Canadian-Vietnamese soccer mafia boss nabbed , Thu, May 25 2006, By Mata Press Service
www.asianpacific
post.com/portal2/ff8080810b6cacf
6010b6cc39168000a_soccer_mafia.do.html

Vietnam police investigating a high profile corruption case involving government officers in Hanoi have arrested a Canadian who is reputedly the head of an international criminal syndicate. [....]

The crime gang called "Long Haul" operates in Canada, Europe and Asia specializing in drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized betting on international soccer games, police said according to Vietnam-based news sources.

The Canadian was identified as 46-year-old Ngo Tien Dung alias Dung Kieu.

The Vietnamese native also uses the names Dung Hanoi and Lai Thanh Huu and reportedly operated out of Vancouver and Toronto. [....]

Vietnamese media said Dung changed his named to Lai Thanh Huu in Canada, obtained citizenship and has traveled to Vietnam at least 35 times as an overseas businessman.

Think hard ... Vietnamese truckers ... immigration Canada ... "obtained citizenship and has traveled to Vietnam at least 35 times as an overseas businessman." ... investor program ...

Is this related? Frost Hits the Rhubarb Feb. 2005: Multiculturalism, IRB, Vietnamese ..... re: importing Vietnamese truckers

frosthits
therhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/02/
multiculturalism-irb-vietnamese.html

Jan. 19, 2007: Drugs

I listened to CBC's account (TV early in the evening) of this case a couple of days ago. Left unmentioned was that the drug involved was morphine. I heard the word marijuana but not morphine -- Was CBC expecting listeners to think of the "peace, love, and pot" era -- you know, benign. I have not heard a verdict on this announced yet, nor have I read every detail.



Father killed to save daughter, jury told -- Saskatchewan welder to be judged a hero or a vigilante in drug dealer's slaying , Anne Marie Owens, National Post, with files from CanWest, January 17, 2007

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
ffcbd72c-bb60-44a3-9b9b-705e5ef79ac4

[....] To the jury hearing evidence in his first-degree murder case, however, Mr. Walker is either a hero father who saved his daughter from the ravaging death of a drug addict or a small-town vigilante who took the law into his own hands.

[....] Their concern escalated with the revelation, contained in an anonymous letter delivered in March, 2003, that Jadah was addicted to morphine, and was "slowly killing herself " by injecting the drug with her then-boyfriend.

The Walkers turned to the RCMP for help, and then to a provincial court, where they ended up getting a warrant under the Mental Health Act to have Jadah committed for a short term assessment.

She was released from the psychiatric ward and returned to her parents' house, but a few hours later, was back again with Mr. Hayward at his house. [....]

In my opinion, people no longer believe that the courts, the justice system, even, it seems, the medical system, will help them to get rid of the influence of what are scum, when desperate law abiding citizens, in this case parents, need help. It is not an excuse to kill and yet ... what is a parent desperate to get his daughter away from an evil influence and off morphine to do?

Canadians see the coddling of criminals and the normalization of what they know is wrong for their children. By normalization I am referring to what amounts to de facto legalization of some amounts of what are becoming stronger and stronger drugs. Meanwhile the system treats criminals with lax and laughable sentencing. Courts have been according rights to those who do not care about the rights of the law abiding. Is this killing also what happens when the courts do not support strong families, when the courts give a pat on the wrist to druggies and drug crime? Remember Grand Manan, NB, where a number of residents had had enough of drugs and druggies. Think about a group purportedly speaking for women (SoW) and they treat killing a foetus as a right. Think of the MP's who are supposed to uphold the laws they make; yet, some marched with the No One is Illegal group(s). Little is considered wrong or evil, it seems, at least not evil enough to act for the long-term good of society.


Forum with comments: Father shoots daughter's drug-dealer boyfriend , Gambit, 1/15/2007 15:41:55 -- based on this article: CNEWS article and scroll down to more information from wagccan, 1/15/2007 19:38:43

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/14186.html

These things happen because the courts do not take crime seriously enough and tend to favour the criminal. That is part of the reason this poor man is in court for killing a low life. [....]



Coming to a river near you

Drugs don't affect you? Think again.

The Thames: awash with cocaine -- "after cocaine had passed through users' bodies and sewage treatment plants, an estimated 2kg - 80,000 lines - of the drug went into the river each day." , By Nina Goswami and James Orr, (Filed: 06/11/2005)

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

Jan. 19, 2007: Gaming and Smoking

FBI arrests Canadians for online gambling -- Founders of firm that transferred cyberspace wagers , David Baines, CanWest, January 17, 2007

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
4a5660d9-1a60-423a-b0ea-4aca6b6a469f

VANCOUVER - [....] Saltspring Island resident John Lefebvre, 55, ... conspiring to promote illegal gambling by transferring billions of dollars of cyberspace bets placed by U.S. citizens with offshore gaming companies.

[....] NETeller Inc. co-founder Stephen Eric Lawrence, 46, formerly of Calgary, was arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands and similarly charged with transferring funds with the intent to promote illegal gambling. [....]

Mr. Lefebvre cashed in $123- million ... in November, 2005.

... support various academic, philanthropic and political endeavours, including a $170,000 donation to Vancouver mayoralty candidate ....

Based in the Isle of Man, NETeller [....]

... took their company public in London in 1999 (in a deal brokered by Vancouver-based Canaccord Capital Corp.), ....

[....] Bodog.com, one of the biggest Internet gaming companies in the world and owned by part-time Vancouver resident Calvin Ayre, announced in December its headquarters would move from Costa Rica to Antigua. [....]

Ont. quietly gives government-owned casinos permission to build smoking rooms - Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government granting asymmetrical rights , posted by Canadiana

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
1827&mforum=elwoodpdowd

The Smoke Free Ontario Act, which became law last June, doesn't allow bars and restaurants to provide covered areas to protect smoking patrons from the weather.

But provincially owned casinos in Niagara Falls and Windsor have been building shelters for gamblers who like to smoke, and the Liberal government says that's OK. [asymetrical rules for smokers?]

A similar covered smoking area has also been approved for gamblers who play the slot machines at Windsor Raceway.

Note Coyote's comment: "BIG problems with the smoking ban in Saskatchewan. Unless you're an indian run casino [sic], you just can't smoke in any building in the province other than your house!"



Frost Hits the Rhubarb June 18 - 22, 2006

Search: Barry Critchley: Big payoff for private casino owners

www.canada.com/nationalpost/
financialpost/story.html?id=
0175f5b8-a12d-4412-a663-1cea7efa2efc

transactions involving a public company and a private company in which management of the public company has a stake set off some alarm bells" .... Gateway Casinos Income Fund .... Cascades Langley Casino and Hotel

Jan. 18, 2007: Environment

Global Warming, Kyoto, Environment and Politicized Science and Propaganda -- Current and Memory Lane

I have heard or read that Stephane Dion is talking coal while at least some provinces are leaning toward nuclear power.


Why Global Warming is Probably a Crock , By James Lewis, January 16, 2007, American Thinker. James Lewis blogs at www.dangeroustimes.wordpress.com

www.american
thinker.com/2007/01/
why_global_warming_is_probably.html

As a scientist I've learned never to say "never." So human-caused global warming is always a hypothesis to hold, at least until climate science becomes mature. (Climate science is very immature right now: Physicists just don't know how to deal with hypercomplex systems like the earth weather. That's why a recent NASA scientist was wildly wrong when he called anthropogenic warming "just basic physics." Basic physics is what you do in the laboratory. If hypercomplex systems were predictable, NASA would have foolproof space shuttles --- because they are a lot simpler than the climate. So this is just pseudoscientific twaddle from NASA's vaunted Politically Correct Division. It makes me despair when even scientists conveniently forget that little word "hypothesis.") [....]

What follows is about scientists who happen to be government funded - taxpayer funded - scientists who happened to agree with the (then-Liberal) government position ... or at least, they liked their funded positions ... at places like the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.

Are we expected to believe there would be no bias?

Frost Hits the Rhubarb June 18 - 22, 2006 -- Search: April 20, 2006 Climate Change ... Terence Corcoran: Review the science , April 20, 2006

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2006_06_18_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=
373d30ec-e01f-41b9-9ad6-df749b4f5c8d

[....] In the scientists' words, "we urge you and your government to develop an effective national strategy" to deal with climate change. But eight of the signators are employees of Environment Canada, Ottawa's leading climate bureaucracy. Under what bureaucratic regime do civil servants -- members of the government -- sign letters urging the government to take action?

At least another 11 of the scientists work for other government agencies, such as Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the federal department responsible for policies and programs in support of Canada's oceans and inland waters. Another agency heavily represented is the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, along with the Pacific Fisheries Conservation Council. [. . . . ]

Still another nine signators are recipients of Canada Chairs, federal government-funded academic appointments at universities across Canada. And five of the scientists who call for action and more government funding are big recipients of government funding. Chief among this group is Gordon McBean, head of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences.

The Climate 90 letter, in fact, was released through Mr. McBean's government-funded foundation. [. . . . ]

Search: environmental activists, members of the United Nations climate assessment team .........

Kyoto - from CNEWS forum discussion thread , casper35, 1/16/2007 13:15:04

www.canoe.ca/mb2/messages/cnewsf/14200.html

Kyoto:

- an accord that aims to fix a problem that is caused by natural forces.

- By transferring millions or billions of dollars to buy carbon credits from China

- China, a country that builds approx one coal fired station per week in order to have cheap energy to produce low cost products that out compete our products

-signed by a Liberal government that brought us the gun registry fiasco, Adscam, HRDC boondoggle, money stuffed in envelopes etc. Kyoto's credit buying program will filter through Liberal friendly institutions in Quebec with the usual LPC kickback schemes.

-the public believes Kyoto because the Liberal controlled MSM that brings a new "crisis" every year tells them that is true [MSM = mainstream media]

If the Canadian voters actually are hoodwinked by this scam then I think they deserve the fleecing that they will receive.

In time Kyoto will be revealed to be the worst of the flawed scientific reasoning since they declared that the earth was flat and the sun revolved around the Earth. Humans do not control the weather or climate.

Sensible environmental protection, pollution control, clean up of toxic sites, R&D for new environmental technology are all good. Kyoto though is a fool's game that is about nothing more than wealth transfer and money laundering.

A must read article

Why Politicized Science is Dangerous

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/viewtopic.php?t=
1819&mforum=elwoodpdowd

... It's an excerpt from a book ... by Michael Crichton, called
"State of Fear".

http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/
**********************************************************
Imagine that there is a new scientific theory that warns of an impending crisis, and points to a way out.

This theory quickly draws support from leading scientists, politicians and celebrities around the world. Research is funded by distinguished philanthropies, and carried out at prestigious universities. The crisis is reported frequently in the media. The science is taught in college and high school classrooms.

I don't mean global warming. I'm talking about another theory, which rose to prominence a century ago.

Its supporters included Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill. It was approved by Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Brandeis, who ruled in its favor. The famous names who supported it included Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; activist Margaret Sanger; botanist Luther Burbank; Leland Stanford, founder of Stanford University; the novelist H. G. Wells; the playwright George Bernard Shaw; and hundreds of others. Nobel Prize winners gave support. Research was backed by the Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations. The Cold Springs Harbor Institute was built to carry out this research, but important work was also done at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California. [....]

Nuclear and global warming put together: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moving 'Doomsday Clock' closer to midnight -- Add global warming -- "I guess the nuclear threat wasn't big enough they decided to add GLOBAL WARMING." -- PuntedPosters -- www.thebulletin.org/index.htm

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1834&mforum=elwoodpdowd

They don't KNOW anything, it's only what they PERCEIVE the world threat level to be, i.e. it doesn't really mean anything.

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Nov. 13 - 18, 2005

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2005_11_13_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html


Search:

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

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?

The most amazing space photographs

www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/gall
eries/index.html?in_gallery_id=
9139&in_page_id=1055

Jan. 18, 2007: Nuclear - Gremlins

Caveat: Please note that I am not against nuclear reactors and use of nuclear power in Canada. The following concerns foreign sales, of which I have written lately. I trust the ones who have re-assured me about safety systems in their area(s) of Canada. FHTR



Nuclear, Pakistan, Khan - Another corrupted link


Frost Hits the Rhubarb April 16 - 21, 2006

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2006_04_16_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Note: My link for this has been changed since I posted it ... but all is not lost thanks to Google, Prime Time Crime and the Asia Pacific Post -- links and pertinent parts are below this section which was corrupted ... Do you wonder why? Read carefully and you may be able to figure it out.

I had posted: Canadian Connection for Dr. A. Q. Khan

Canada-trained Pakistani nuclear scientists 'defecting' , Asia Pacific Post, January 16 2003

My link was changed to:

frosthitstherhubarb.blog
spot.com/www.asian
pacificpost.com/portal2/

The pertinent information:

Dr. A. Q. Khan, Pakistan, nuclear, Canada

[. . . . ] At least five of nine Pakistani nuclear scientists who have 'secretly' left their country to seek more money and better working conditions were trained in Canada, The Asian Pacific Post has learned.

Another top scientist, Dr. A.Q. Khan, the man who made Pakistan's nuclear bomb and who has been linked to assisting Iran, Iraq and North Korea weapons programs, was also hosted by the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, (AECL). [. . . . ]




Search: Chinese-assisted CHASNUPP reactor , In December 1987, a Canadian of Pakistan origin , hard steel , Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Chaudhry Abdul Majeed , a French-Canadian nuclear engineer who was working on Canadian Candu reactors in South Korea , A second unidentified Canadian, who was working on the Candu reactors in South Korea

Google search: Canada-trained Pakistani nuclear scientists 'defecting'

The two articles which follow may be found via Prime Time Crime: Canada-trained Pakistani nuclear scientists 'defecting'

www.primetime
crime.com/APNS/
Asian%20Pacific%20News%20Service.htm

Link good as of Jan. 18, 2007: Canada-trained Pakistani nuclear scientists 'defecting' -- taking nuclear knowledge with them , January 16 2003

www.asian
pacificpost.com/por
tal2/402881910674ebab0
10674f4a1e6122d.do.html

[....] Some 50 other leading Pakistani nuclear engineers, including the five of nine who have 'absconded' were also trained in Ontario and New Brunswick.

The nine scientists who are said to have left Pakistan are listed in an internal CHASNUPP memo as Muhammad Zubair, Asst. Engineer, (CNS Fellow, Electrical Division, April 1997), Murad Qasin, Senior Engineer (KINPOE fellow, Mechanical Division, Maintenance, Feb 2000), Tariq Mahmood Senior Engineer, (CNS Fellow, Operation Division, May 2000), Saeed Akhther Senior Engineer, (CNS Fellow, Training Division, June 2000), Imtaz Baig, (Senior Engineer KINPOE Fellow, Operation Division July 2000), (Weheed Nasir, Senior Engineer, KINPOE Fellow, Mechanical Division Aug 2000), Munawar Ismail Senior Engineer (CNS fellow Technical Division Oct. 2000), Shaheen Fareed (Senior Engineer CNS fellow Operation Division Feb. 2002) and Khalid Mahmood (Senior Engineer, Operation Division, July 2002). [....]

Did North Korea steal Canada's nuclear secrets? , October 24 2002

www.asian
pacificpost.com/por
tal2/402881910674ebab
010674f495de118b.do.html

A French-Canadian nuclear engineer who was working on Canadian Candu reactors in South Korea was befriended by North Korean agents seeking western technological and scientific secrets.

The meetings at the Nashville Restaurant and Bar in the Itewon district of Seoul was observed and reported by a contract intelligence operative working for the U.S. government, the Asian Pacific Post has learned.

A second unidentified Canadian, who was working on the Candu reactors in South Korea also met with the North Korean spies. [....]

"The French-Canadian was targetted...he was married but the North Koreans wined and dined him and gave him women," said the U.S. agent in a telephone interview with the Asian Pacific Post.

"I reported this to my U.S. bosses and later to CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service)," said the agent, whose primary role was to monitor North Korean spies making contact with American soldiers. [....]

The first meeting with the French Canadian nuclear engineer, he said, was around 1996. [....]

Search: The Nashville Bar , elicit sensitive information about the nuclear reactors , Government officials in Ottawa , refused to comment officially , an employee of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) , Candu reactors at Wolsong, South Korea since 1983.


To my knowledge, the Canadian mainstream media did not pursue this story to any more information, such as who were involved and to check further on the credibility of the information. The government of the day undoubtedly reassured the media ... and that was that. The names of the engineers in question remain unknown, it appears. Perhaps more actual journalistic investigation would reveal something ... In Canada? Yes, I jest.


Iran nuclear

Iran Completes Secret Uranium Plant , Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com, Friday, April 21, 2006

www.new
smax.com/archives/articles/
2006/4/20/175353.shtml?s=et

Search: A large agricultural center was constructed overhead to disguise , The IAEA has verified , military analyst Homayoun Moghaddam , Shahid Moradian center , Belarus and Ukraine



Frost Hits the Rhubarb April 16 - 21, 2006

frosthits
therhubarb.blogspot.com/
2006_04_16_frosthits
therhubarb_archive.html

Iranian group seeks British suicide bombers , Robert Tait in Tehran and Ewen MacAskill, April 19, 2006, The Guardian

www.guardian.
co.uk/iran/story/0,,175
6461,00.html#article_continue

Relations between the west and the hardline Iranian regime are set to worsen after a Tehran-based group claimed yesterday it was trying to recruit Iranians and other Muslims in Britain to carry out suicide bombings against Israel.

The Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, which claims to be independent but has the backing of the regime, said it is targeting potential recruits in Britain because of the relative ease with which UK passport-holders can enter Israel.

[....] "Britain and other European countries have a lot of disaffected Muslims who are ready. We understand the suspicion with which Britain, America and other western countries regard their Muslim populations. We don't condemn them for this because we believe every Muslim has the potential to turn into a bomb against the west."

Mr Samadi said recruits would not be told to attack British cities. "With the exception of Israel, we do not target civilians," he said. "They would definitely not be sent to carry out an attack on London unless it was to kill Salman Rushdie." [....]

Links: Canada-trained Pakistani nuclear scientists 'defecting'

www.asian
pacificpost.com/portal2/
402881910674ebab
010674f5848e1d13.do.html

www.pakistan-
facts.com/
article.php?story=2003012214145853

www.freerepublic.com/
focus/news/827642/posts

www.south
asianpost.com/por
tal2/ff8080810f62fbdc010f6429960
b0011_Pakistani_Student.do.html

Jan. 18, 2007: Hanoi Jane

Update Snopes: Hanoi'd with Jane

www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp

I am simply too gullible to live in polite society, it seems.

Jane Fonda is being honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century." -- a must read article with information from Prisoners of War in Ho Lo Prison, the "Hanoi Hilton" who recount what happened with Hanoi Jane in Vietnam , Barbra Walters -- on Punted Posters forum

www.forumsvibe.com/elwoodpdowd/view
topic.php?t=1834&mforum=elwoodpdowd

Jan. 16, 2006: Update

A good friend has told me that no-one has the time to read my posts, that they're too long. Undoubtedly true. As an aid, I have added what I see as important to the list of posts that follow it on Jan. 13, 2007: Financing Disaster #2 Introduction -- See what is in red.



Update-additions: Jan. 13, 2007: Financing Disaster #2 Introduction

There are several posts that go together as explorations of EDC, the Canada Account, nuclear sales, transparency, the environment as it relates to this, and more. This begins with a report entitled Financing Disaster which I mentioned and gave a link for on Dec. 28, 2006; however, this time there are screen captures and more information. The component posts updated with a brief idea of the contents are:


Jan. 13, 2007: Title Page & TOC [table of contents]

Jan. 13, 2007: The Switch, Environment & Lack of Accountability

The import of this post will become more evident by the end and mention of the environment and heavy water.

Jan. 13, 2007: South Korea Wolsong: Concessions

Jan. 13, 2007: Strawberry Fields Forever

Jan. 13, 2007: Leasing Heavy Water & Qinshan Concessions

Several posts go together in that they reveal how difficult it is to find out information: for example, about exactly what has been accomplished with CIDA aid money and then what the loans through the Export Development Canada's Canada account entail. There is a lack of transparency. It took more time than I expected to find out what companies were involved in nuclear projects and under what acronyms or names; hence, I have included information on where I looked and search terms.

Jan. 13, 2007: EDC-Competition, Disclosure, Access to Information -- which leads to the posts below: CIDA officials present Evidence before the Standing Senate committee on National Defence

Jan. 13, 2007: #1 CIDA Evidence to Senate Committee [i.e. Where has Canada's Foreign Aid been going in Afghanistan? - Continued below]

Jan. 13, 2007: #2 CIDA Evidence to Senate Committee [52-million-dollar micro-financing program in Afghanistan - $100 million per year - supervised by ARTF and the World Bank - Middle Eastern accounting firms - women trained in communication and media - radio - $3-Million out of $90-Million for basic education for girls]

Jan. 13, 2007: #3 CIDA - ARTF [Asian Development Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the World Bank - officials from the Canadian International Development Agency: Hau Sing Tse, Vice-President of the Asia Branch, and Phillip Baker, Director of the Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka Division - Afghan ARTF Expatriates Services Program - artfexpat.gov.af which leads to iom.int or the International Organization for Migration - Lateral Entry Program to place 100 lateral entrants from NGOs and international organizations in middle- and senior-level line positions in government ministries and agencies]

Jan. 13, 2007: Canatom NPM & Network Part 1

Jan. 13, 2007: Canatom NPM & Network Part 2 [re: heavy water - plutonium - "The NWMO has refused to rule out the importation of radioactive waste -- raising the possibility that Canada could become an international radioactive waste dump. Indeed, Elizabeth Dowdeswell, the President of NWMO, has stated that Canada may have an “ethical” obligation to accept foreign radioactive waste"]


Throughout, and especially in the final post in this series, note mention of the following:

Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) ... 2003

The triangular relationship between the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, Aboriginal Peoples and the Government of Canada

Aboriginal Peoples have a role to play in assisting the Government ... the long-term management of nuclear fuel waste, particularly because of their traditional knowledge.

$880 million dollars
trust funds
The National Aboriginal Organisations
stakeholders

Jan. 16, 2007: Into a black hole

Update added below the line. FHTR


One of my posts from July 5, 2006 has disappeared. It is re-posted below.

Yesterday, I had occasion to look at the following post; I wondered why Canadian taxpayers had contributed such large amounts of money to oil companies.

Search:

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Nov. 13 - 18, 2005

frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_11_13_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

Excerpts: Assume [....] after most.

November 15, 2005

What is integrity in government worth to you? -&-$30-Billion Pieces of Silver -- Etc.

Bill C-54 -- an act to allow First Nations to manage and regulate oil and gas management currently being carried out on their behalf by the federal government.

[....] Why was Minister of Languages (Heritage) [Dyane] Adam ... visiting China in the last year or so? Canadians to learn Mandarin or one of the Chinese dialects? Aboriginal languages and culture? Expansion of French language services? . . . Or was it, in reality, an absolutely crucial check of embassy language(s) services ....


Public Accounts of Canada 2004 - 2005 Transfer Payments -- some numbered recipients or accounts -- and more interesting reading

Contributions in support of the Ethanol expansion program component of the climate change: emission reduction package / Contributions à l'appui du Programme d'expansion de l'éthanol, une composante de l'initiative changement climatique : Train de mesures pour la réduction des émissions 31,159,694

Husky Oil Operations Ltd Calgary Alta / Husky Oil Operations Ltd Calgary Alb 7,800,001

Noramera BioEnergy Corp Moose Jaw Sask / Noramera BioEnergy Corp Moose Jaw Sask 1,359,694

Suncor Energy Products Inc Calgary Alta / Suncor Energy Products Inc Calgary Alb 21,999,999 [That is almost $22-Million from taxpayers]
[....]

A Husky Company [....]

White Rose project offshore Newfoundland

[....] Its partner is Petro-Canada.

[. . . . ] The project will boost Husky's production by 20% next year. The company, controlled by Asian tycoon Li Ka-shing, is a major producer of heavy oil in Western Canada, light oil in offshore China, owns gasoline stations, and wants to become a top oilsands player. [. . . . Also Li Ka Shing Li Ka-Shing]

French bank BNP Paribas -- Canadian "Affiliate"

Update to this post ... FHTR Nov. 14, 05: "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 good shipped to Iraq

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

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

Power Corp. -- Paul Desmarais Jr. -- Chairman and Co-CEO -- Pargesa

I searched for more information on Suncor, recipient of $21,999,999 and that led to mention of Anadarko which led, eventually, to Addax and Oryx.

Search Technorati for anything on Addax , Oryx or "Addax and Oryx"

www.technorati.com/sea
rch/Addax=
%2C=
Oryx?start=10

Among a number of posts listed was Frost Hits the Rhubarb, July 5, 2006: The Right Connections & Memory Lane. It had disappeared. That post had existed on Blogger; 14 other bloggers had seen and linked to it. Yet, by Jan. 15, 07, it had gone up in a puff of smoke ... or it had been removed. I would not want the world to be deprived, so here it is again.

By the way, this is a perfect example of what happens if you rely on online accounts of anything to remain. That is what will happen to history unless there are libraries and paper copies. This is proof that it had been posted.

Technorati screen capture

A copy of the post that had disappeared:

July 5, 2006: The Right Connections & Memory Lane

Those interested in oil, gas, banking, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhastan, China may be interested in Alexandre "Sasha" Trudeau's series of articles published in Macleans in the fall of 2004 (Was Jean Chretien travelling to the Far East that fall too, just before Paul Martin became PM?). It helps to travel in the right circles ... for information and more. Background and related links including search terms are below this.



Alexandre "Sasha" Trudeau: Rubles to burn -- Moscow's New Russians have gotten rich and they're happy to flaunt it November 15, 2004

www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/
article.jsp?content=20041115_92435_92435

After reporting on the Chechens and then the republic of Georgia for Maclean's (Oct. 11 and Oct. 25), Contributing Editor Alexandre Trudeau went to Moscow to assess the state of affairs in the Russian capital 13 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. This week's story is the first of a series. [....]

We sit down for lunch with Dima, his tall blond girlfriend, the rent-a-priests and the bodyguards. Dima is still a young man; in the early nineties, when he was even younger and as the Soviet Union was in its death throes, he made a fortune. How remains unclear, but he had to hastily leave Russia. After a jaunt in Switzerland, he ended up in Canada, buying a huge gated home in Toronto's opulent Bridal Path area.

[....] They hated the fact that I used to hire off-duty Mounties, have them wear their red uniforms and stand guard with Canadian and Russian flags." This spectacle went on for months. Finally, when somebody sloppily opened fire on his home one night, Canadian authorities asked Dima to leave the country. [no reason given ....]

... Bari Alibasov is my host for a few days. [....]

Bari has become passionate about photography: more specifically, fantastic and lewd photography. The walls of his apartment are covered with bizarre, carnal imagery. [....] booking shows for his bands, constantly promoting his artists.

Just before my arrival, Bari -- who is an ethnic Kazakh, in the middle ground between East and West -- returned from a stint in China. Now, he is completely enamoured with the place. [....]

Another of my New Russian friends is Andrei Dellos, a restaurateur extraordinaire of distant French ancestry. [....]

Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau: The Burden of the Past -- Moscow's legacy weighs heavily here October 25, 2004

www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/
article.jsp?content=20041025_90958_90958

[....] Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, a.k.a. Joseph Stalin.

[....] The family story goes something like this: [Joseph] Stalin had a son, Yakov, with his first wife, Ekaterina Svanidze, to whom he was married for just three years until her death in 1907. Yakov died in a Nazi prison camp after Stalin refused to trade him for a captured German general. Yakov's son, Yevgeny, grew up in a military orphanage and went on to become a Red Army colonel. He had two sons: Jacob the painter, and Jacob's older brother Vissarion, a filmmaker. Only in this branch of the family do Stalin's descendants still bear a version of his name, and still live in Georgia. Georgia has a contingent of people proud of Stalin's heritage -- and proud that one of their own once dominated the Soviet Union. But most, and especially those in power now, revile his name. That hasn't been easy for Jacob and his brother. Vissarion found it impossible to find work, and is now doing menial labour in New York City.

[....] The countryside grows poorer, but Tbilisi [....] The man in charge of Georgia's economy is Kakha Bendukidze, an oligarch recently returned from Russia who made his money manufacturing industrial and mechanical equipment. Perhaps because of Russian President Vladimir Putin's manoeuvres against the oligarchs, Bendukidze happily agreed to come back to Georgia to become Saakashvili's minister of economic development.

[....] There will be no quick miracles. [....] Jacob Jugashvili, great-grandson of that wolf among 20th-century wolves, summarizes his fears by saying that "with this kind of primitive free market, I am afraid it is a time of wolves for us all. I loathe the idea of having to tell my kids: be ruthless, and you will triumph." [....]

Memory Lane: Related & Background

Frost Hits the Rhubarb: June 18-24, 06

June 24, 2006: Update to Addax & Oryx Gp, BNP Paribas, AXMIN.inc & Canada
June 22, 2006: Kazakhastan, Silk Road Group, Banks, Shipping, & More [Relevant Maps, Completing the French Connection ... forged Niger Documents, Addax & Oryx Group]

[Search or scroll to for further links and information.]

Frost Hits the Rhubarb: posted Aug. 29, 05 -- "Update: PetroKazakstan, Bernard Isautier & Jean Chretien" [spelling Isautier/Isaultier?]

http://
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/
2005_08_28_frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html

http://
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005/08/
update-petrokazakstan-bernard-isautier.html

Frost Hits the Rhubarb Mar. 27, 05 to Apr. 2, 05

http://
frosthitstherhubarb.blogspot.com/2005_03_27_
frosthitstherhubarb_archive.html [the week of Mar. 27, 05 to Apr. 2, 05]

April 1, 2005: UN, Frechette, McKenna, Marijuana, PetroKazakhstan, Chretien ... Kazemi [....]

Completing the French Connection ... forged Niger Documents

Silk Road Group

http://
www.caspenergy.com/cibc/member/silkroad_e.html

Addax & Oryx Group

BNP Paribas

Millennium Development Goal initiatives laid out by the United Nations. ***

Canadian International Development Agency [CIDA]

Zahra Kazemi ...... and Saeed Mortazavi.

June 22, 2006: AG: Foundations Hiding Tax $$$ From Public Scrutiny [Check the list: "the following foundations are identified" -- familiar names, names which keep popping up as one reads further]

End of copy of that July 5, 2006 post.



Frost Hits the Rhubarb July 2 - 8, 2006 -- re: ex-Deputy PM, Anne McLellan - "According to the article, Jean Chretien made a similar career move and then became "a special advisor to ... PetroKazakhstan Inc"


There are other links.

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Update:

Anadarko Petroleum

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Anadarko_Petroleum_Corporation

Big Oil Looking for a Government Handout , World Internet News, April 2006.

soc.hfac.uh.edu/artman/
publish/article_375.shtml

Triple Point News: Global Commodity Importer/Exporter, Addax ... Addax & Oryx Group is deploying the system in its Geneva office, ... CEOs, and CFOs at more than 70 multinational energy, power, and financial services ...

www.tpt.com/news/index.asp?c=
xml/pr842002.xml

Addax Petroleum- Africa Energy Intelligence - Oil and Gas
As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated would be the case (AEI 405), Addax Petroleum, an affiliate of Jean-Claude Gandur’s Addax/Oryx Group, ...

www.africaintelligence.com/aem/chan
nels/defaultchannels.asp?channel=
ADDAX&type=dossier

ADDAX Petroleum
How Addax Petroleum would like to make the most of the gas resources on its Nigerian concessions by setting up an LPG plant and supplying LNG plants in the region. Its floatation on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the investments resulting from it. Who sits on its board of directors?

www.africaintelligence.com/aem/channels/
defaultchannels.asp?channel=
ADDAX&type=dossier

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE N°405 - 23/11/2005
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
Addax Seeks Toronto Listing
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that Addax, a firm run by Jean-Claude Gandur that acts as both a trader and a oil and mining operator, will seek a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange next year. (...) -- or here

www.africaintelligence.com/aem/chan
nels/defaultchannels.asp?channel=
ADDAX&type=dossier

AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE N°407 - 21/12/2005
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
Addax Seeks Listing on TSX
As Africa Energy Intelligence anticipated would be the case (AEI 405), Addax Petroleum, an affiliate of Jean-Claude Gandur’s Addax/Oryx Group, submitted a preliminary prospectus for an IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Dec. (...).

www.africaintelligence.com/AEM/detail/
detail_articles/p_detail.asp?DOC_I_ID=
16714470&Context=BOI&ContextInfos=chan_aem_doss
ier_ADDAX&Service=
ART&CodeAffilie=
A_INDIGO&searchtext=

Anadarko Petroleum

Why has Anadarko Petroleum sold off some of its oil assets in Africa? The reason is simply to pay for its simultaneous acquisition of Kerr McGee and Western Gas Resources. The report also looks into the partnership of the American independent with Sonatrach in Algeria, where it is heavily engaged.

www.africaintelligence.com/aem/channels/
defaultchannels.asp?channel=
ANADARKO&type=dossier

BNP PARIBAS - Energy Commodities Export Project
BNP Paribas has an historical relationship with the Addax & Oryx Group (“AOG”), providing trade finance to the trade group and upstream financing to Addax ... -- or here -- or Google's cached copy

www.enercomxp.bnppar
ibas.com/applis/ECI/www
ECEP.nsf/(AllDocs)/
61153D366AB5646AC12571
FE0046B87C?OpenDocument [Place on one line]

BNP Paribas, Oct. 5, 2006

ADDAX PETROLEUM

BNP Paribas Reserves Based Lending Europe, acted as Bookrunner, Facility Agent, Mandated Lead Arranger, supported Addax Petroleum N.V. in its USD 1.4 billion acquisition of Pan-Ocean Energy by extending a USD 1.0 billon senior secured 12-month bridge loan. [....]

Addax created a new holding company in February this year, Addax Petroleum Corporation (“APC”), and successfully listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, achieving a market capitalisation in excess of USD 3.2 billion. For the purposes of this acquisition, APC raised another USD 400 million in equity over the summer to complement the USD 1.0 billion bridge loan and existing cash on hand.

BNP Paribas has an historical relationship with the Addax & Oryx Group (“AOG”), providing trade finance to the trade group and upstream financing to Addax Petroleum N.V. (“Addax”) going back to 2001. [....]

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadarko_Petroleum_Corporation

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) is one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, ....

Anadarko History
[....] The United States, Canada and Algeria represent the majority of the company's proved reserves and production; U.S. onshore accounts for about 60%

Anadarko announced on September 14th, 2006 that they had reached a deal to sell their Canadian assets, Anadarko Canada Corp., to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. [....]

Anadarko Technology

Anadarko has been at the forefront of some of the industry's most significant technological advances in 3-D seismic imaging, drilling and completion technology, and reservoir management. As information is critical in this high-tech business, the company has been placing a lof of emphasis on state-of-the-art visualization technology.... IDEA system, an acronym for "Image Delivery for Enhanced Awareness" [....]

Anadarko Other Productions

Apart from oil and gas, Anadarko has a 'Minerals business unit' that manages its non-oil-and-gas mineral resources. The company holds approximately 7.5 million acres (30,000 km²) of fee mineral rights, located in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. These lands contain significant resources of coal, trona, limestone, titanium, zeolite, oil shale, and diamonds.

The Merger

On June 23, 2006, Anadarko announced that they would acquire Kerr-McGee Corporation and Western Gas Resources for a combined total of $23.3 billion[3].On August 10, 2006, Kerr McGee shareholders approved the buyout, and Kerr-McGee was merged into Anadarko.

About Kerr-McGee

[....] On June 23, 2006, Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation agreed to acquire Kerr-McGee in an all-cash transaction totaling $16.4 billion. Kerr-McGee shareholders voted to approve the offer on August 10, 2006. [....]

[....] With the acquisition of the Oryx Energy Company of Dallas, Texas in 1999, Kerr-McGee gained more onshore assets, as well as significant assets in several foreign areas, most notably Algeria and western Kazakhstan. [....]

Until 2005, Kerr-McGee had two major divisions: chemical and oil-related. On November 21, 2005, the chemical division of the company, based in Oklahoma City, was sold off by IPO as Tronox ...

Kerr McGee Locations [....]

Oil operations are a cooperation with CNOOC based in Bohai Bay, near Beijing, with offices in Beijing.

Other locations

Kerr-McGee and its subsidiaries formerly operated in western Kazakhstan, western Australia, and [....]

Kerr-McGee Controversy

Kerr-McGee sued ... to expand a royalty relief program.... The Federal government contends that Kerr-McGee owes the government billions of dollars in back royalties ....

... criticism for undertaking exploration for hydrocarbon resources offshore the Moroccan occupied area of Western Sahara. .... On May 2, 2005, the company declared its intention to no longer drill off the coast of the Sahara.

[....] Anadarko sells Canada unit for $4.24B.
[www.businessweek.com/ap/
financialnews/D8K4KUL01.htm] [....].

Anadarko sells Canada unit for $4.24B

www.businessweek.com/ap/
financialnews/D8K4KUL01.htm

2006-09-14 12:23:00 Anadarko sells Canada unit for $4.24B. HOUSTON (AFX) - Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said Wednesday it agreed to sell its Canadian subsidiary ...


Anadarko Petroleum sells Canadian unit for $4.24B , September 21, 2006, Post-Standard, Syracuse.com -- or here

www.syracuse.com/cammuso/index.ssf?/busi
ness/poststandard/index.ssf?archive

Anadarko Petroleum Corp., ... agreed to sell its Canadian subsidiary for about $4.24 billion to Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. [....]