(1 of X) was (2010-04-12) Tar Sands: Speech by Marcel Coutu. Canada Stocks Rise on SinoPec Oil Sands Investment. Now the Clearwater River. I said the next email would be about the First Nations resistance; I changed my mind. This first. CONTENTS COMMENTARY HOW FAR WILL THEY GO TO SECURE THE RESOURCE? CONFESSION #1, […]
From: Janet Dear All: Here are some excerpts I’ve transcribed from the animated cartoon by Bill Blum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee6SdmmCN5Y “Be nice to America or we´ll bring democracy to your country” The setting for this educational cartoon about US foreign policy is a classroom with a Professor offering the facts about US foreign policy while students question […]
“ Don’t believe those who say Canada’s oil sands are one of the world’s biggest sources of pollution. They are trying to scare you while, frankly, what they are really doing is fundraising. “ (Marcel Coutu, Chairman of Syncrude) (Item #1) CONTENTS SPEECH BY CANADIAN OIL SANDS (SYNCRUDE) CEO ON CROSS-CANADA TOUR. IN REGINA April […]
Follow-up to this article: see 2010-06-26 and 2010-11-01. – – – – – – – – – – – – We will have to figure out a strategy around this. You will see in the article that Whitecap Development Corp (First Nations) “is trying to obtaining licensing rights” for “an unmanned vehicle for military .. […]
This is in follow-up to email “Geo Bush will be arrested eventually”, sent March 15, 2010. A MOST REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT: Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General. He is now “the chairperson of an international campaign to investigate war crimes committed by officials from the Bush […]
It is wrong to look at George Poitras’ update by itself. It belongs in the context of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation experience beside the petro-chemical corporations in Sarnia the experience of the Ogoni in the Niger Delta The common ground: the petro-chemical corporations and their dupes and stooges and collaborators and traitors in Government in […]
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/u-north-dakota-offers-first-four-year-degree-uav-piloting The Eye In The Sky A Predator drone’s camera/sensor ball. Lt. Col. Leslie Pratt/USAF A dozen aspiring pilots at the University of North Dakota can’t wait to never get off the ground. Following a shifting military strategy that calls for more and more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) supporting troops on the ground, U. […]
Statistics Canada is authorized to conduct a “census” every five years and “surveys” in between censuses. This posting addresses the experience of Susan Crowther in relation to StatsCan “surveys” . Other people have had similar experiences. People should know their rights when Statistics Canada knocks on their door. Data collection is for a “census” or for a “survey”. The Statistics Act […]
“ The British Columbia government wants sweeping new powers to collect and share citizens’ private information and store it outside Canada. Officials argue the powers would help them better serve the public, but a privacy advocate says British Columbians should be worried about the government’s plans.” SWEEPING NEW POWERS B.C. GOVERNMENT THREATEN PRIVACY We all […]
http://cryptome.org/gao-10-567t.pdf I did a quick read of this document. The census (April 1, 2010) is costing the Americans close to $15 Billion dollars. It seems pretty clear that there are going to be serious cost overruns. The Report repeatedly refers to the census as a “head count”. Always there is reference to “The Census Bureau” […]