(1 of X) was “Tar Sands: Speech by Marcel Coutu. Canada Stocks Rise on SinoPec Oil Sands Investment. Now the Clearwater River.”, sent April 12th.
I said the next email would be about the First Nations resistance.
The following is perhaps groundwork.
CONTENTS
(1) I REMEMBER
(2) I DO NOT KNOW
(3) I RECOGNIZE
(4) I THINK I MUST TELL YOU THIS
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(1) I REMEMBER
.. words of wisdom, first told to me 10 years ago when we were fighting to stop the boondoggle Meridian Dam: there is no need for conspiracy theory when simple stupidity can explain everything.
On the other hand, there is this from:
- Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
In the size of the lie there is always contained a certain factor of credibility, since the great mass of people will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
2. Carl Sagan (Fine Art of Baloney Detection)
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. it is simply too painful to acknowledge — even to ourselves — that we’ve been so credulous.
3. Michael Rivero
Everyone likes to say Hitler did this and Hitler did that. But the truth is Hitler did very little. He was a world class asshole, but the evil actually done, from the death camps to World War Two, was all done by citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster.
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(2) I DO NOT KNOW
Outcomes can be because of a deliberate plan.
Equally, they can be because a group of people hold the same view-of-the-world. Their individual actions will then be aligned. The group of people can potentially bring about an outcome that, to a non-believer from the outside, might appear to have been orchestrated – a “conspiracy”. Belief in a particular ideology can bring that about.
If we stop the desecration of the planet, will it be because we had a conspiracy to do so? Are you and I co-conspirators?
I will not always know when there is a conspiracy and when there is not. But I think I should be prudent.
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(3) I RECOGNIZE
I recognize that, because of the work I do, I attract a selection of information that my next-door-neighbour would not.
I know that repetition of the information strengthens my belief in it. That’s the way it is for every human being. We are conditioned by our environment. And we actually seek that which will reinforce our views. Lend legitimacy to our being. We screen out contrary information.
I also recognize, as told to you before, that my kind of brain specializes in the integration of information. Sometimes that’s good. Sometimes it’s bad: I can see connections where none exist in reality!
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(4) HOW FAR HAVE THEY GONE ALREADY?
All because I refused to be involved in the 2006 census because part of it was out-sourced to Lockheed Martin (the American military),
All because of that,
Our network (you) have kept me informed about what is happening on the military-related front in Canada.
An integration of that information answers the question “how far have they gone already?”. Here are some of the knots on the thread. You will add others. Maybe all the items are related, maybe they aren’t. The NEW ADDITIONS to the thread, not previously circulated in this network, are identified:
– Feb 2003. Lockheed Martin (U.S. military) takes over the medical records for the Canadian Armed Forces.
– 2003. Lockheed Martin is awarded contracts for work on the Canadian census. Individual names, ethnic origins, workplace, etc. now go on the census data base. Lockheed Martin’s contracts are on-going and include the 2011 census.
– SEPTEMBER 11, 2006. RON COVAIS, “PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAS FOR LOCKHEED MARTIN” INTERVIEW WITH MACLEANS MAGAZINE. “WE’VE DECIDED NOT TO RECOMMEND ANY THINGS THAT WOULD REQUIRE LEGISLATIVE CHANGES BECAUSE WE WON’T GET ANYWERE. . THE GUIDANCE FROM THE MINISTERS WAS “‘TELL US WHAT WE NEED TO DO AND WE’LL MAKE IT HAPPEN,'” RECALLS COVAIS WHO CHAIRS THE U.S. SECTION OF THE COUNCIL..” THE FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICA .. NOT IN SWEEPING TRADE AGREEMENT ON WHICH ELECTIONS WILL TURN, BUT BY THE ACCRETION OF HUNDREDS OF INCREMENTAL CHANGES IMPLEMENTED BY EXECUTIVE AGENCIES, BUREAUCRACIES, AND REGULATORS.
– Feb 14, 2008 the “Troop Exchange Agreement” with the U.S. came into being. We found out about it because it was reported in an American newspaper, not in Canadian ones.
– April 2008 : “The following is a province by province breakdown of the funding allocations under the Building Canada program:
www.buyusa.gov/canada/en/federalandprovincialinvestmentincanada.pdf
(This is an American Govt document, dated December, 2008).
“Saskatchewan
In April 2008, the governments of Canada and Saskatchewan announced $755 million in federal funding for infrastructure projects in Saskatchewan. Priority projects for highway improvements were identified, …
(INSERT: On March 6, 2007, a $5 billion investment in Saskatchewan’s transportation network was announced to promote the seamless movement of goods and people throughout the province. Another announcement on March 19, 2008 committed a further $513 million to revitalize provincial highways as part of a $1 billion program for capital and infrastructure improvements.”
– June 2008, the “Canada First Defence Strategy” came into being. According to it we now have “compatible doctrine” and “interoperability” with the American military. A complete loss of sovereignty. Canada did not enter the Iraq War. Had this new “strategy” been in place, we would have had no option.
– The Patriot Act means that any subsidiary of an American company in Canada (Lockheed Martin Canada, the list is long) has to turn over info on Canadian citizens to the Pentagon if asked. And there is no notification to the owners of the data (Canadian Govt) that the data has been turned over.
This situation is very similar to what happened in Nazi Europe. IBM had subsidiary companies in many European countries; they carried out the bulk of the census work for those countries – their connection to IBM was disguised and hidden. The largest base of IBM operation (under a subsidiary name) was in Germany. In Germany and when the Nazis entered other countries, they already had access, in many cases, to the data that disclosed who and where the Jewish people were. IBM was a darling of the Third Reich and profited handsomely from their census work.
– NOV 1, 2008, OTTAWA CITIZEN: “AMERICAN OFFICIALS ARE PRESSURING THE FEDERAL GOVT TO SUPPLY THEM WITH INFORMATION ON CANADIANS. … CANADIAN OFFICIALS HAVE SAID .. WILL MEET THE NEW STANDARD .. BY 2011 .. BUT THERE’LL BE TREMENDOUS PRESSURE (FROM THE U.S.) TO GET THERE FASTER.”
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=64f59d78-ce97-48dc-b2fd-381859ce6c84
NOTE: always, it’s a matter of “hand over your personal information or there will be inconvenience or costs to you”. Please – – it is not worth any amount of money to enter into a police state, to repeat the experience of Nazi Europe.
– March 18, 2009 Provincial gov’t signs agreement with nuclear energy research laboratory
(the link doesn’t work any longer.)
Saskatoon Star Phoenix March 18, 2009, C7
REGINA (SNN) — The provincial government has signed an agreement with the leading nuclear research laboratory in the U.S. that could lead to the development of a nuclear research “centre of excellence” at the University of Saskatchewan and other value-added opportunities.
Energy and Resources Minister Bill Boyd and Enterprise and Innovation Minister Lyle Stewart signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Tuesday with
Bill Rogers, associate laboratory director at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
INL, located in Idaho Falls, Idaho, is considered the U.S.’s top national laboratory for nuclear energy research. The MOU allows the province and INL to collaborate on research and demonstration projects on a variety of energy sources including uranium, nuclear energy, heavy oil, oil shale and oilsands. The agreement also provides for potential collaboration on carbon dioxide capture and storage projects.
“We are the world’s largest producer of uranium,”Boyd said, prior to the signing ceremony at Government House in Regina.
As the province moves into “other areas of value-added energy development, it just makes good sense to form partnerships with energy research leaders, like INL and benefit from their expertise and analysis,” Boyd said.
– March and October, 2009. George Bush visits Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon (and Montreal).
– 2009-10: I think it is pretty clear that Stephen Harper does not initiate. He waits for the American lead and then follows suit. Witness Copenhagen, legislation re gas consumption, etc.
– 2009-10: Growing awareness of the use of unmanned drones by the American (now Canadian) military. Towards Our Electronic, Troop-less Wars. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17868 Future U.S Wars will involve Massive Use of Drones. “In early 2010, the U.S. Air Force had more drone operators in training than fighter and bomber pilots. [8]”
There is no democracy for the people upon whom the bombs are dropped. Civilian deaths are high. Canadians did not take part in any democratic process through which we decided to participate in the use of unmanned drones for warfare.
We need to know the civilian deaths from unmanned bomb-carrying drones launched from U.S. soil (Nevada) against targets in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Because our name (Canadian) is attached through the integration of armed forces. We are responsible for Canadian actions. What is The Way in which we will be held accountable? It is quite simple: eventually there will be unmanned drones carrying bombs that will be launched against us. The weapons manufacturers do not care to what state they sell their wares.
Immorality is met with immorality. But WE initiated the immorality.
“Future U.S wars in the Third World will involve massive use of drones to police the territory . . .”
– March 3, 2010 U.S. gets say on which Canadians can fly
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/gets+which+Canadians/2638494/story.html
Starting in December, passengers on Canadian airlines flying to, from or even over the United States without landing there will be allowed to board the aircraft only after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has determined they are not terrorists.
– March 24, 2010 http://news.ca.msn.com/local/britishcolumbia/article.aspx?cp-documentid=23717966
Armoured vehicles adopted by B.C. RCMP. ” The RCMP said the so-called “Cougars for cops” is a national program, and residents of other cities can expect to see the vehicles on their streets too.”