Audio: Canadian spy tries to entrap Kanesatake man
 By Tom Fennario and Jorge Barrera

APTN National News

MONTREAL--An agent with Canada’s spy agency tried to entice a Kanesatake man to meet over “coffee” and discuss his recent trip to Greece before turning the conversation personal by bringing up the 1990 Oka Crisis, according to a recording of the phone conversation posted online. The recording offers a revealing snapshot of the tactics agents with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service use to turn targets into informants. Listen above, and read more at APTN: http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2013/09/20/csis-agent-targets-kanesatake-man-over-greece-trip-recording/

Anishinabe First Nation Terrance Nelson had this response to Censored News.
"This is what I find so funny about the media trying to tell me that the Government of Canada is not monitoring First Nation leaders. CSIS listens to phone conversations, intercepts emails, texts etc. Recently Eric Robinson, a Cree who is also in the Government of Manitoba, got in trouble over a private text message that he sent to another native person. Robinson called a white woman "do gooder." His text message became public. He got days and days of media coverage in which he was condemned as a racist because he called some white people "do gooders." "Monitoring of First Nations people is extensive. We as First Nations have the ability to shut down the Canadian economy and affect the American economy. See my attached March 2012 article, How Dangerous is the situation in Canada. The idea that no one is listening is quite stupid. Every First Nations person should be careful what they say and FACEBOOK is the worst. It is a permanent record and some Facebook accounts are regularly monitored. [[[["Canada is getting a black eye in international circles. We need more of our people going international. They can't keep what they are doing to First Nations in Canada a secret if enough First Nations people get into other countries to speak. My trip to Iran last fall is something the Government tried to stop. When i went to Iraq in 1998, it was not such a big deal because so few of us even went international. Now it is a big deal, because more of us are going international]]]].
[[[["Prime Minister Harper is paranoid. He should be. CSIS farms out the surveillance to low cost countries. So does CIA. "Thanks for posting the APTN story. I am sending it out worldwide."]]]]]

Terrance Nelson

Vice Chair American Indian Movement

Canada: Hypocrites ‘R Us by Yves Engler / September 16th, 2013 Somewhere in the Lester B. Pearson Building, Canada’s foreign affairs headquarters, must be a meeting room with the inscription “The World Should Do as We Say, Not As We Do” or perhaps “Hypocrites ‘R Us.” With the Obama administration beating the war drums, Canadian officials are demanding a response to the Syrian regime’s alleged use of the chemical weapon sarin. Last week Prime Minister Stephen Harper claimed “if it is not countered, it will constitute a precedent that we think is very dangerous for humanity in the long term” while for his part Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird declared: “If it doesn’t …
get a response it’s an open invitation for people, for Assad in Syria, or elsewhere to use these types of weapons that they’ve by and large refrained from doing since the First World War.” The Conservatives also signed Canada onto a White House statement claiming: “The international norm against the use of chemical weapons is longstanding and universal.” While one may wish this were the case, it’s not. In fact, Canada has repeatedly been complicit with the use of chemical weapons. During the war in Afghanistan, Canadian troops used white phosphorus, which is a chemical agent that can cause deep tissue burning and death when inhaled or ingested in significant amounts. In an October 2008 letter to the Toronto Star, Corporal Paul Demetrick, a Canadian reservist, claimed Canadian forces used white phosphorus as a weapon against “enemy-occupied” vineyards. General Rick Hillier, former chief of the Canadian defence staff, confirmed the use of this defoliant. Discussing the difficulties of fighting the Taliban in areas with 10-foot tall marijuana plants, the general said: “We tried burning them with white phosphorous — it didn’t work.” After accusations surfaced of western forces (and the Taliban) harming civilians with white phosphorus munitions the Afghan government launched an investigation. In a much more aggressive use of this chemical, Israeli forces fired white phosphorus shells during its January 2009 Operation Cast Lead that left some 1,400 Palestinians dead. Ottawa cheered on this 22-day onslaught against Gaza and the Conservatives have failed to criticize Israel for refusing to ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention. For decades the massive Suffield Base in Alberta was one of the largest chemical and biological weapons research centres in the world. A 1989 Peace Magazine article explained, “For almost 50 years, scientists from the Department of National Defence have been as busy as beavers expanding their knowledge of, and testing agents for, chemical and biological warfare (CBW) in southern Alberta.” Initially led by Canadian and British scientists/soldiers, gradually the US military played a bigger role in the chemical weapons research at Suffield. A chemical warfare school began there in 1942 and it came to light that in 1966 US Air Force jets sprayed biological weapons simulants over Suffield to figure out how best to spray potentially fatal diseases on people. Until at least 1989 there were significant quantities of toxins, including sarin, stockpiled at the Alberta base. In 2006 former Canadian soldiers who claim to have been poisoned at Suffield launched a class action lawsuit against the Department of National Defense. During the war in Vietnam, the US tested agents orange, blue, and purple at CFB Gagetown. A 1968 U.S. Army memorandum titled “defoliation tests in 1966 at base Gagetown, New Brunswick, Canada” explained: “The department of the army, Fort Detrick, Maryland, has been charged with finding effective chemical agents that will cause rapid defoliation of woody and Herbaceous vegetation. To further develop these objectives, large areas similar in density to those of interest in South East Asia were needed. In March 1965, the Canadian ministry of defense offered Crops Division large areas of densely forested land for experimental tests of defoliant chemicals. This land, located at Canadian forces base Gagetown, Oromocto, New Brunswick, was suitable in size and density and was free from hazards and adjacent cropland. The test site selected contained a mixture of conifers and deciduous broad leaf species in a dense undisturbed forest cover that would provide similar vegetation densities to those of temperate and tropical areas such as South East Asia.” (Full article …)

SPLC: Ron Paul mingles with ‘Canadian Jew-haters’
 On August 20, 2013, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the US-based Jewish civil liberty group, condemned former US Rep. Ron Paul for agreeing to be the keynote speaker at a conference sponsored by Canadian Fatima Center. The Catholic group, has long been designated by Jewish groups as “radical Christian” and “Jew-hater”. Incidently, Mel Gibson’s father Hutton Gibson is contacted with the group. The conference is titled ‘Fatima: The Path to Peace’ – calling for the merger of the Church and State in the world government. The conference will be held Niagra Falls’ Scotiabank Convention Centre from September 8-13, 2013. In addition to Ron Paul, the other notable speakers will include Roberto Fiore, former EU member from Italy and John F. McManus, president of John Birch Society. McManus is linked to E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars monthly Catholic magazine. All these three dudes are well-known “antisemites”, according to the SPLC. Furthermore, Jewish Lobby is puzzled over the date of Ron Paul’s speech on September 11, 2013. Ron Paul, not only rejects the official 9/11 story, he also claims that the chemical attack near Damascus, was a false flag operation carried out by the US-backed rebels.
According to the Fatima Center, 27 speakers belonging to clergy, academic and politics, have accepted the invitation to speak at the conference. The theme of the conference is very timely. It slams the man-made Godless secularism which is root of all the miseries and wars. It calls for the removal of the warmongering leaders who have no religious morals or compassion for the fellow human-beings. “Government without God – secularism – has failed! How could anyone ever believe it might have succeeded? How can you ignore the Creator and His laws and think that His Creation is yours to refashion according to your own ideas? Secularism has been the most insane experiment in the history of human folly!How many times have talks aimed at peace ended in war? How many times will we trust in the wisdom of leaders who have no wisdom, because they have no fear of God?,” says the statement. Read interesting response to SPLC accusations against the Fatima Center conference here. The Jewish lobby has began replaying its old smear campaign against Ron Paul that reached to its peak during Rep. Ron Paul’s bid for Republican party’s presidential nomination. It has also hit his son Sen. Rand Paul, who has been licking Lobby’s shoes for while to prove his ‘kosher’ credentials. For example, J.J. Goldberg wrote at Jewish daily Forward (September 2) that Ron Paul’s such anti-Jewish actions could ruin Sen. Rand Paul’s chances of getting Republican party’s 2016 nomination. Jonathan Chait at New York magazine’s Daily Intelligencer, equated Ron Paul’s visit to the conference with the Spanish Inquisition, during which the invading Christian Crusaders killed 3-5 million Muslims and over 100,000 Jews in Spain. Henry Decker claimed a long history of Ron Paul’s bigotry against Jews and Israel at Joe Conason’s National Memo blog. Father Nicholas Gruner who runs the Fatima Center, told the Jewish Washington Free Beacon that his group doesn’t hate Jews. However, he said that he doubts Nazis could have killed six million Jews. Canada’s defence minister Rob Nicholson, though invited, has refused to attend the conference fearing backlash from Jewish groups. Senator Roméo Dallaire has also pulled his name from speakers’ list at the conference. In 2010, the Senator told George Stroumboulopoulos that he prays to the same God Jews pray. Father Nicholas Gruner started the Fatima Center in 1978. The Catholic denomination is devoted to a miracle of Fatima in which Jesus’ mother Saint Mary appeared to three Portugese children in 1917.

Canada’s double standards on Middle East sink to new low
Yves Engler, Electronic Intifada, Aug 14 2013
The extremism of Canada’s support for Israel just keeps growing. The latest example is the Conservative government in Ottawa helping convince the EU to list Hizballah’s military wing as a “terrorist” organization. After that decision was taken, Foreign Minister John Baird declared:

We are thrilled that the EU unanimously has agreed to designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization. We’ve been pushing for this.

 Hassan Nasrallah said:

Why don’t you classify the state of Israel as a terror state? Why don’t you classify Israel’s military wing as a terror organization, if you recognize Israel is occupying Arab lands and refuses to implement international decisions for decades now? The entire world bears witness to the massacres perpetrated by Israel.

Nasrallah raises an important point that Canadian foreign affairs professionals must be familiar with. It’s a simple fact that Israeli forces have killed far more civilians than the military wing of Hizballah. The Israeli military and its allies in Lebanon have killed thousands of civilians. In fact, Hizballah was created in large part to fight the Israeli occupation of that country. Israel has conducted scores of targeted assassinations in many countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Certainly, Canadian foreign affairs officials must remember Gerald Bull. This Canadian engineer and designer of the Iraqi “supergun” was, according to CBC journalist Linden MacIntyre, shot dead by Israel’s secret service Mossad outside his residence in Belgium in 1990. And what about members of the current Israeli government who support illegal settlers and the killing of dozens of Palestinian civilians? But apparently none of this “terrorism” bothers Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. The Conservatives are either ignorant or relish their hypocrisy. Though they are allowed to support the Israeli military, Canadians can go to jail for sending money to a group operating a school or medical clinic in Lebanon “directly or indirectly” associated with Hizballah, which comprises an important part of the Lebanese governmental and social service structure. Dozens of Canadian companies sell to the Israeli army and many groups with charitable status promote the Israeli military. The Canadian Jewish News is full of advertisements for such groups. One ad reads:

Express your Zionism by serving as a civilian volunteer on an Israeli army supply base.

Another advertiser, the Libi Fund, runs educational projects for the Israeli military. Established in 1971 the Association for the Soldiers of Israel in Canada also provides financial and moral support to the Israeli military. A Jun 2009 Canadian Jewish News ad promoting the group exhorted readers:

Show your support for the brave youth of the IDF at our gala dinner.

Prominent Toronto couple Heather Reisman and Gerry Schwartz, who own or control more than two thirds of Chapters/Indigo/Coles bookstores, created the Heseg Foundation for Lone Soldiers. Reisman and Schwartz provide up to $3m/yr for post-military scholarships to individuals without family in Israel who join the Israeli army. After completing their military service these non-Israeli “lone soldiers” gain access to this scholarship money. Heseg’s board has included a number of generals and a former head of Mossad. For the Israeli high command, “lone soldiers” are of value beyond their military capacities. Foreigners volunteering to fight for Israel are a powerful symbol to reassure Israelis weary of Israel’s behavior. Schwartz and Reisman’s support for Heseg has spurred a campaign to boycott Chapters/Indigo/Coles, which controls 70% of Canada’s retail book trade. The Harper government is plowing full steam ahead with its support for Israel. Double standards and morality be damned.

Egypt, Syria, Propaganda and more Propaganda, Eid Aid/IHH and weapons http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2013/08/egypt-syria-propoganda-and-more.html
Egypt Rages against likely US Amabassador This article is from france24. Yet another NATO news outlet.

First paragraph “US media reports that Robert Ford, former top US envoy to Syria, will be Washington’s next ambassador to Egypt has sparked a vitriolic Twitter campaign over a Canadian conspiracy website's claims that he once ran “death squads” in Iraq. “

The so called “ Canadian conspiracy website” is Global Research-Centre for Research on Globalization. Name Calling propaganda tactic duly noted. The article contains the usual perception management media type stuff about Robert S Ford in Syria.

 Did you notice I underlined "the video". Another item we have yet to get to.

The man and the video: Claude Salhani, movie reviewer

So, who is Claude? Answer: Claude Salhani

Claude Salhani is editor of ArabSpringNow.com. He is a specialist in the Middle East, terrorism and politicized Islam.ArabSpringNow.com? I roll my eyes. Repeatedly. 

A quick search on Claude Salhani shows his affiliations/associations. His vile consorts?
 Think Tanks & NGO's

International Institute for Strategic Studies – member.
Institute of World Affairs - Senior Fellow and director of Media & Conflict Program.
Center for American Progress – Debated on the situation in Western Sahara
Middle East Institute – Debated on the Iraq War and the Media War
The Potomac Institute - Frequent guest speaker on terrorism
RAND CORPORATION – Invited to participate in drafting a paper on the Middle East
CATO Institution – Wrote a policy paper on Syria and lectured on Islam and terrorism.
Hudson Institute – Guest speaker on Iran, Islam and the Mideast.

 Claude Salhani @ Linkedin :editor at arabspringnow,com
Washington, District Of Columbia (Washington D.C. Metro Area)  Media Production

Yah. I don’t think any more needs to be said about the agenda Mr Salhani is pushing. 
But, wait!   Media Production? Media Production!

*****Here is a thought..... Claude Salhani is connected to the video he is critiquing? Entirely possible! Perhaps Claude Salhani, who is in "Media Production" made the video and posted it online to justify his obvious and blatant propaganda piece. ******
Wouldn't doubt it myself.

Claude Salhani, "Media Production", whatever that entails, started writing for oilprice.com beginning Sept 29, 2011. (Interesting timing?) Claude must have felt it necessary to contradict a previous editorial at oilprice.com: Iran-Iraq-Syria Pipeline Must Tempt Europe
A piece that contained this paragraph

We have stressed numerous times that this (pipeline) is one of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria. Right now there is a race on to get gas through this region, to Europe. This was Qatar’s main goal of meddling in Syria—and now Qatar has been largely sidelined having extended its reach a bit too far. (Qatar shares the Pars…

You may recall the last time we discussed this pipeline, not the only time, but the most recent time was in this post: War against Iran, Iraq and Syria? If you didn't read that one.. now is the time.
While speaking of the previous post, linked directly above, and thinking aboout Iraq in particular, this rather odd statement from an Iraqi MP caught my eye

MP, Liqa Wardi, of the Iraqiya Slate ruled out “Repeating the Syrian or Egyptian scenario in Iraq.”   

She stated to IraqiNews.com “The scenario in Iraq is different from the Syrian and the Egyptian,” noting that “We expect the international community to interfere to stop the violations against human rights.”

“Due to the tendency to increase the sectarian violence, the international community will interfere to stop the violence,” she concluded.

Who has she been talking with? And what does she mean when she suggests the international community will 'interfere' to stop the violence

Update on the Eid aid convoy.

Which should have made it’s way to Syria by now? ..I will assume it made it through to Syria or at the very  least to the border area in Turkey. If you have not been paying attention I first covered the Eid aid convoy in this post. (You gotta get up to speed!) Problem, Reaction, Solution? AQ threat or Opportunity to advance war agenda?

I ended that post with this comment "I find this so called aid delivery highly suspicious"

One of the ultra well informed commenters that drops byhere added this comment along with other goodies you should check out
Thanks anonymous!!

AnonymousAugust 4, 2013 at 5:11 PM

maybe the aid convoy is smuggling weapons?
AND... this should sent chills to those who understand the history. Eid in Syria is sposored by IHH. You know, the guys smuggling weapons.

I am familiar with the IHH and it's 'humanitarianism'. I have a way back post, which contained much info and  an extensive batch of comments on the scummy IHH and it's connections to the Turkish government. It's weapons smuggling and worse in Libya. Let me say it clearly and emphatically  there is nothing, not one drop of humanity in the humanitarianism of IHH

Moving along, this information should be the cherry on top of the scummy IHH sundae
Syria aid charity is being monitored by regulator

Monitored simply means we are turning a blind eye to what is really going one under the guise of ‘charity’
Pay attention to the individuals involved in this Eid aid.

“A spokeswoman for the regulator said it has an ongoing monitoring case into the London-based charity Aid Convoy "regarding trustees’ duties" and "the end use of charitable funds".

One of the trustees of Aid Convoy, as listed on the commission’s website, is Moutaz Almallah Dabas. According to the Sunday Times, Dabas was arrested by British police in 2005 for alleged involvement in bombings in Madrid which killed 191 people in 2004. He was extradited to Spain in 2007 but was acquitted of the charges in 2011.

Moutaz Almallah Dabas: connected to the NATO terror state and the false flag Madrid bombing

Emdadur Choudhury is also listed as a trustee of the charity. In 2011, Choudhury was found guilty of public order offences after burning poppies at a protest in west London on Armistice Day, according to the Sunday Times.

 Emdadur Choudhury: another NATO terror state participant- useful idiot, patsy, whatever.

Usman Ali was also listed a trustee of Aid Convoy but resigned last month. The Sunday Times said that Ali was banned for life from a mosque in Woolwich, southeast London, after allegedly showing children footage of the 9/11 attacks and proclaiming "God is great"

 Usman Ali- Agent Provocateur for the NATO terror state. Radicalizer of unemployed youth. 
You get the idea? This Eid aid is a NATO op. The aid is guns and worse.
Notice the regulator is simply‘monitoring’ despite all these very shady connections. Is that realistic? It seems to be the only thing being monitored is a safe delivery of the accoutrements of death and destruction 
 All these red flags and the  Eid Aid convoy left the UK.  
What the hell should that tell us?  I am ending with the video from euronews showing this 'aid' convoy leaving Leeds It is a must watch!
[thenakedfacts ed note:the video get it at original link at sister pennys on her site,i dont know how to post non youtube video formats on my blog =(

Colombia Watch ...
Death threat made against trade union leader after denouncing actions of multinational oil company

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Three farmer activists killed in one week

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Canada Must Stand Up for Human Rights in Colombia: Ken Neumann USW

 Utah Blockade and Ceremony shuts down tarsands mine, stocks plummetDemonstrators Stage Road Blockade and Prayer Ceremony at Site of Proposed Tar Sands Strip Mine in Utah
 By Peaceful Uprising Communities Vow to Protect Colorado River System from Dirty Energy Extraction Bookcliffs Range, Utah–Dozens of individuals peacefully disrupted road construction and stopped operations today at the site of a proposed tar sands mine in the Bookcliffs range of southeastern Utah. Earlier this morning, Utahns joined members of indigenous tribes from the Four Corners region and allies from across the country for a water ceremony inside the mine site on the East Tavaputs Plateau. Following the ceremony, a group continued to stop work at the mine site while others halted road construction, surrounding heavy machinery with banners reading “Respect Existence or Expect Existence” and “Tar Sands Wrecks Lands”. Read article: http://www.peacefuluprising.org/actioncampaction
US Oil Sands stock drops 13% day nonviolent direct action shuts down mine
by kcsg.com news
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Investors took notice Monday of the potential for severe financial losses caused by an ongoing direct action campaign to stop tar sands development on the Coloardo Plateau. US Oil Sands stock price on the Toronto Stock Exchange closed July 26 at $0.115. As people rolled-out onto the mine site in the Book Cliffs of Utah to enforce a full-day work stoppage, US Oil Sands stock price had dropped to $0.10 (source: Toronto Stock Exchange), down 50% from the company's 52-week high.
Read more: KCSG Television - US Oil Sands stock drops 13 day nonviolent direct action shuts down mine

Controversy Follows Death of Prominent Haitian Judge
 On July 13, Haitian Judge Jean Serge Joseph passed away under suspicious circumstances—sparking controversy within Haiti that his death was related to his involvement in a high profile corruption investigation against President Michel Martelly’s wife Sophia and their son Olivier.The charges of corruption against Martelly’s family are related to the disappearance of large sums of money from several nationwide sports and social programs which are personally run by Sophia and Olivier, instead of the respective government ministries that should provide oversight. A group of lawyers, including Newton Louis Saint-Juste and André Michel, initially brought forward the high-profile case in August 2012. On July 2, the case took an important turn when Judge Joseph ordered the Haitian Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe, and several senior officials to appear in court as witnesses.
The case was widely regarded as an incredibly important step forward for strengthening political accountability, transparency, and the rule of law. However, the future of the case is now in doubt, and the resulting political fallout threatens to further polarize Haitian society. Several judges have since come forward and remarked that Joseph was under pressure from Martelly to drop the corruption investigation. According to sources close to Joseph, following his decision to involve Lamothe and other high-ranking officials in the case, "The threats became more pronounced and were more specific." Saint-Juste and Michel have since called the judge’s death “a political assassination.” Samuel Madistin, a lawyer and close friend of Judge Joseph, has also commented to the media that “The Judge told me before his death that he had a meeting at Mr. Lissade's (Martelly’s legal advisor) office with President Martelly, Prime Minister Lamothe who pressured him… He told me his life was threatened and they gave him an ultimatum that he had to hold a session on Tuesday in order to put an end to the case." Justice Minister Jean Renel Sanon has challenged such allegations, countering that "President Martelly, Prime Minister Lamothe and myself never attended such meeting and we had never pressured the judge to do anything… Such allegations are totally false." Furthermore, on July 17, President Martelly went on the radio to deny meeting with Joseph and that the case was being needlessly politicized by a small group of opponents who seek to undermine his efforts to fulfill his campaign promises. On July 16, in an effort to get to the bottom of what happened, the Supreme Council of the Haitian judiciary launched an investigation to determine whether or not the allegations that Martelly and other high level government officials pressured Joseph to cease his corruption investigation. Their findings are set to become public within the upcoming weeks. Currently, the cause of Joseph’s death is officially unknown, with the admitting hospital stating that he died from a “cerebrovascular accident” or stroke. However Joseph’s family and several high profile politicians doubt this was the case. Senator Moïse Jean Charles has stated that the judge was poisoned during his meeting with Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. Martelly responded in kind, remarking that the Senator was seeking to politicize the event without any evidence. At the request of his family, Joseph’s body is currently in Montreal where he underwent an autopsy on July 25. The Quebec coroner's office is currently investigating the death at the request of his family. Joseph, a Canadian citizen, left Haiti and came to Montreal in 1972. He later returned to Haiti in the mid-1990s after studying law at L'Université du Québec à Montréal. This is not the first time Martelly’s administration has been accused of engaging in acts of corruption, embezzlement, and fraud. Scandals have become routine, with several Haitian media outlets describing these harmful practices as the defining feature of the current government. Martelly has also been undergoing domestic pressure to hold elections for one third of the Haitian Senate in addition to local authorities by the end of the year, but has not given any indication that he plans on making this a reality. Until a clear consensus on the cause of Judge Joseph’s death emerges, the fast-paced cycle of speculation and denial will continue. While the passing of Joseph temporarily halts the corruption investigation of Martelly’s family, it can only be hoped that an independent judge can take up the case once again without facing threats or intimidation. The outcome of the investigations in Haiti and Quebec and the appointment of a replacement judge in the corruption case has the potential to either bolster or severely damage the Martelly administration. The coming weeks will reveal whether or not the country will be able to move forward or will be consumed by a political crisis of Martelly’s doing.

Grassroots Groups Wary of Haiti’s 'Attractive' Mining Law
(Haiti Grassroots Watch) - As the government works on preparing “an attractive law that will entice investors”, Haitian popular organizations are mobilizing and forming networks to resist mining in their country. Already one-third of the north of Haiti is under research, exploration, or exploitation license to foreign companies. "We in Baie de Henne are against any eventual mining because we will not profit one bit. It will have harmful impacts that destroy our fertile lands and our fruit trees and dry up our aquifers.” -- Vernicia Phillus, a member of the Tèt Kole women’s group Some 2,400 square kilometers have been parceled out to Haitian firms fronting for U.S. and Canadian concerns. Some estimate that Haiti’s mineral wealth – mostly gold, copper, and silver – could be worth as much as 20 billion dollars. The awarding of permits behind closed doors, with no independent or community oversight, has angered many in Haiti, who fear that the government is opening the country up to systematic pillage. But the head of the government mining agency told Haiti Grassroots Watch (HGW) his concern is to assure that Haiti is made more “attractive” to potential investors. “We need an attractive mining law,” said Ludner Remarais, head of the Mining and Energy Agency. “A mining law that will entice investors.” The current law is obsolete, according to Remarais. Haiti’s “gold rush” has been going on for the past five years or so, since the price of gold and other minerals rose. Until last year, the government and the companies cut their deals behind closed doors. After an investigation revealed that 15 percent of the county was under contract, on Feb. 20, 2013 the Haitian Senate adopted a resolution demanding all activities cease in order to allow for a national debate and for analysis of all contracts. “We are scrupulously respecting the decision,” Remarais said, but he added that the resolution does not annul the rights already acquired. Local resistance in the gold-rich regions Peasant, human rights, food sovereignty and environmental organizations are worried about the disastrous effects the mining industry could have on water quality, farmland, and on the affected regions in general and have formed the national Collective Against Mining to assist local associations with information and consciousness-raising sessions. On Jul. 5, over 200 farmers from the area around the Grand Bois deposit – about 11 kilometers south of Limbé, in the North department – got together to discuss the mining operation and their futures. They spoke of their worries for three hours in sweltering tin-roofed church. “When someone talks about mining, our history makes us think of slavery, of the takeover of our farmlands,” said Willy Pierre, a social sciences teacher from a nearby school. “We could lose our fertile fields. We will be forced off our land. Where will we live?” The Grand Bois deposit is rich in gold and copper, according to tests carried out by the Canadian mining company Eurasian Minerals. Eurasian owns the license given by the BME to its Haitian subsidiary, Société Minière Citadelle S.A. During the meeting, many people said they were nervous. “This mining business should be a lesson for all of us,” warned Jean Vilmé, a farmer from the Bogé region of Grand Bois. “Not only will those of us who live around the mineral deposit perish, the entire country will be swallowed up!” Two weeks earlier about 50 members of local and national organizations met in Jean Rabel, an impoverished town in the Northwest department with poor roads and no water system or health facilities. Participants watched and debated a video on mining in Haiti and discussed their next steps. Earlier that month, some 60 representatives of the associations in the collective organized a day-long meeting at Montrouis, northeast of the capital. Of particular concern are the protection of ground water, food sovereignty, agricultural land, biodiversity, health, and land ownership. Clébért Duval, a member of the peasant association Tèt Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen (“Small Haitian Peasants Working Together”) from Port-de-Paix, noted that a state that is working in favor of its people could use mineral resources to “change the conditions of the popular masses, peasants, vulnerable people, and could give this country a new face”. However, he said, “If the state is a predator that is working for the multinationals, for the capitalist system which, since it is in crisis, is taking over the riches of poor countries to fight the crisis, then that state will always encourage mining. All the money that should go to the people will go to the foreign firms, except for a few crumbs for the local guys who are serving as go-betweens. The mining companies will get all the riches, just as they have in the past.” Many rejected the officials’ arguments that mining is important for the country’s development and economy. “In 2012, some companies did prospecting,” said Vernicia Phillus, a member of the Tèt Kole women’s coordination in Baie de Henne. “They took away soil and rock samples. Each person who worked for them got between 200 and 250 gourdes (4.65 to 5.81 dollars) a day. “We in Baie de Henne are against any eventual mining because we will not profit one bit. It will have harmful impacts that destroy our fertile lands and our fruit trees and dry up our aquifers.” Government and World Bank also organizing In early June, the Haitian mining agency and the World Bank organized a “Mining Forum” aimed at developing “the mining sector in a way that makes it a motor for the country’s economic takeoff.” Most of the speakers were from foreign institutions and from mining companies. Parliamentarians, local elected officials, independent geologists and researchers, representatives of the people from the regions concerned, and grassroots organizations did not address the room. One of the meeting’s principle objectives was allegedly to sketch out the general contours of a new mining law for the country, even though World Bank officials said they had kicked off that process earlier this year, according to media reports.During the Jun. 3-4 forum, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe said that his government was working with “competent experts who have [Haiti's] national interests at heart”, according to the Associated Press. But World Bank involvement with the law appears to be a conflict of interest. In 2010, the International Finance Commission (IFC), a branch of the bank, invested about five million in Eurasian Mineral’s Haiti operations, receiving Eurasian shares in exchange. The World Bank is often criticized by organizations like Mining Watch Canada, Earthworks, and others for being lax where the protection of poor countries is concerned, and for its role in the “continuation of colonialism” in Africa, Asia, and Latin America through its important loans to mining companies. In March, the U.S. government representative to the World Bank abstained in a vote to approve a bank loan for 12 billion dollars to a mining operation in the Gobi Desert, citing concerns over potential negative environmental impacts. The bank loans were approved anyway, according to Inter Press Service. Asked about an eventual new law that would be “attractive” and capable of “enticing investors”, the director of DOP, a member of the Collective Against Mining, said he was concerned. “Mining legislation that is ‘attractive’ will open the country up for ‘business,’” wrote attorney Patrice Florvilus on Jul. 14, 2013, making reference to the government’s slogan “Haiti – Open for business.” “Business, without considering the deleterious effects on community life and on the environment, which is already deteriorating at a worrying pace,” he added.In a Jul. 22 note, the Collective wrote the following: “We want a truly national law and international conventions that protect life, water, land, and the environment, and that outlaw mining which brings with it pollution, destruction, contamination, and more hunger.”Please also see other Haiti Grassroots Watch stories on the issue: Dossier #18 and Dossier #27

Toronto’s Rachel Corrie play angers Israeli Jews  
Toronto-based Hart House Theatre’s 2005 play, ’My Name Is Rachel Corrie, is now playing at the Khan Theatre in Jerusalem. The play has recieved both praise and threats from the audience and the city officials. Jerusalem’s deputy Mayor David Hadari has threatened to cut Khan’s several thousand dollars budget if the show go on as planned, angering the Jewish team of the play. 
“It’s a pity that the deputy mayor, just as MK Orit Strouk before him, is hurrying to judge the play as inciting without even seeing it. They are both most welcome to come and see the play first to see what it’s all about,” says the statement issued by the theatre’s management.In May 2013, police arrested two Jews for defacing dozens of Khan Theatre posters showing a picture of Jewish actress Tamar Alkan, causing damage estimated at thousands of shekels.The play is based on the life of American student, Rachel Corrie, 23, who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer as she was trying to stop demolition of a Palestinian home on March 16, 2003. My Name is Rachel Corrie is a controversial, passionate and stunning account of one woman’s participation in events that most of us only experienced through watching the news. Since its sold-out opening in 2005, My Name is Rachel Corrie has acted as a catalyst for discussion and an eye-opener to the impact of western foreign policies on people living thousands of miles away. Watch a trailer below.The play’s screening at the New York Theater Workshop in March 2006 was also cancelled under Jewish Lobby pressure.After Jewish army occupied East Jerusalem, an old Christian pilgrim hostel building was turned into Khan Theatre on October 26, 1967 by the orders of Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek.In March 2011, Dr. Steven Plaut (Haifa University) in his article ‘Welcome to Haifa, Mr. and Mrs. Corrie’, published in The Jewish Press (March 3, 2011), wrote: “Corrie has since become a sort of Mother Teresa for the radical left and apologists for Islamofascism. She is the martyr saint of the pro-terror lobby and is even celebrated by Klansman David Duke”.“On March 16th, 2003, an Israeli soldier driving a bulldozer two-stories high crushed to death 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, an American nonviolent human rights protester. According to numerous witnesses and photographic documentation, she was killed intentionally,” says Allison Weir, the founder of ‘If Americans Knew’ website. Reach full article here.
Dr. Lasha Darkmoon, an Anglo-American poet and writer, wrote a poem in honor of Corrie, which Patrick Willis sang in a video below.
 [ed notes:videos are available at rehmats site...

Prof Craven Omahkohkiaaiipooyii: INDIANS, JEWS, PALESTINIANS AND ZIONISTS 
Introduction
Indians and real [non-Zionist] Jews, just as Indians and Palestinians, are natural allies. But Indians and Zionists have as much in common as Indians and the historical and present-day Settlers of the Americas who were/are bent on the forcible removal, extermination and/or forced assimilation of all Indians; that which also parallels the past and present-day Zionist Settlers in Israel that clearly have the same intentions with respect to Palestinians.As various Indigenous realities and struggles increasingly appear as just and imperative for any chance of survival as Peoples, because of the historical and present-day realities of genocide and international law that cannot be ignored or covered-up any longer, all sorts of nefarious forces, with nefarious intentions. hiding behind masks and offering “sugar-coated bullets”, are surfacing and trying to attach themselves with, and gain some kind of legitimacy through, some elements among Indigenous Nations and remnants of Nations in the Americas.Certain elements from the Taiwan “independence” forces have been attempting to forge “sports” and “cultural” exchanges between certain First Nations “Traditional” Indians in Canada and the U.S., suggesting that the present-day people of Taiwan are “Indigenous” and with the same rights under international law: to independence; self-determination; sovereignty; non-interference in internal affairs; UN membership as nation-states; to return to “traditional governments” as do the First Nations Peoples in Canada and the U.S. They argue that “facts on the ground and international law parallel, in the case Taiwan, the respective cases of and for First Nations in the Americas that are being made by Traditional Indians opposing genocide in the Americas as well as serial breaches of Treaties and Treaty rights and other threats to the continued existence of Indigenous people as Peoples. There are also overtures being made to certain First Nations by elements favoring “independence” of Tibet.Of course the historical reality is that the true Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan were systematically exterminated in the early 1900s by the Japanese and later between 1945 and 49 by the Kuomintang on Taiwan the predecessors of some of the the present-day right-wing elements trying to promote Taiwan “independence” and “sovereignty”
 [ed notes;lengthy click link for whole piece..gets better!

Human Rights Accompaniers Kidnapped to Protect Mining Operation
Two days ago two international (French and Swiss) human rights accompaniers with PROAH were kidnapped by 7 heavily armed men reinforced by several dozen mine employees with machetes working for Lenir Pérez, son-in-law of Miguel Facussé. They had been staying with a family in El Zapote, near La Nueva Esperanza, to accompany them and the community as community members stood up to threats they had received for refusing to sell their lands to Pérez.

More Canadian Genocide: An ’Electric Chair’ For Indigenous Kids http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/ottawa-accused-of-thwarting-electric-chair-compensation-claims-215108121.html
TORONTO - The federal government is thwarting compensation attempts from students at a former Indian residential school who say they were victims of horrific child abuse, including some jolted in an electric chair, advocates say. They accuse the government of hiding thousands of pages of documentary evidence — much of it from a criminal investigation of St. Anne's in northern Ontario — that might support their claims. "The federal government is turning its head and doing everything it can to keep the abuse from being uncovered," said Fay Brunning, an Ottawa-based lawyer who acts for some of the claimants. "(One client) said it feels the same as the past, when the Catholic church was pretending there was no abuse." Even within a system that has proven a dark stain on Canadian history, St. Anne's residential school in Fort Albany was particularly ugly. From 1904 to 1976, hundreds of aboriginal children from remote James Bay communities were sent to St. Anne's, one of 140 church-run residential schools in Canada set up to "civilize" First Nations. Ontario Provincial Police Det. Const. Greg Delguidice led a five-year investigation in the 1990s of abuse at the school. According to a statement Delguidice gave this year as part of ongoing civil proceedings, students complained they had been whipped, kicked and beaten. Boys and girls said they were raped or otherwise sexually abused. Children said they were made to eat their own vomit. The investigation resulted in criminal charges against seven men and women. Five were convicted for offences such as assault causing bodily harm, indecent assault and administering a noxious substance. His investigation also turned up evidence of an electric chair made by a supervisor, he said. Victims said they were made to sit on the metal-framed chair with its plywood seat and wires leading to a black box. A supervisor would crank a handle, jolting the bodies. "The small boys used to have their legs flying in front of them," said Edmund Metatawabin, 65, who said he was twice put in the chair as a seven-year-old in the mid-1950s. "The sight of a child being electrocuted and their legs waving in front of them was a funny sight for the missionaries and they'd all be laughing." The girls would be strapped to the chair and jolted for punishment, Metatawabin said in an interview Thursday from Timmins, Ont. "The cranking of the machine would be longer and harder," he said. "Now, you're being inflicted with real pain. Some of them passed out." Metatawabin denounced the federal government for withholding evidence the victims themselves presented. In 2007, to settle a class-action suit, the government set up the "independent assessment process" to adjudicate individual claims and compensate victims ofCanada's residential school system. To date, about $2 billion has been paid to more than 21,300 victims across Canada, with more than 16,400 claims still in process. The lawyer for residents of St. Anne's accused the government of wilfully depriving about 100 students of evidence that would corroborate their claims. "There are no recorded cases granting compensation to anyone for having been electrocuted in this chair at St. Anne's," said Brunning, adding electro shocks amount to torture. New Democrat MP Charlie Angus, who has written Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt to complain, said government lawyers seem to be opposing any compensation for those who say they were subjected to electric shock. Janet Brooks, the head of the government's legal team, did not respond to a request for information. However, the government, which has not acknowledged an electric chair was used, maintains it cannot release the documentation related to the criminal investigation for privacy reasons. Andrea Richer, a spokeswoman for Valcourt, said the government takes Angus's complaints seriously. "Addressing abuse such as this is one of the reasons that the (assessment) process was set up," Richer said. "We will continue to ensure that the department is fulfilling its obligations." Brunning called Ottawa's position "perverse." "The federal government clearly knows physical and sexual abuse was proven in courts of law but is refusing to obtain the evidence and/or reveal it," she said.[ed notes;also see.. Confronting the ugly truths of Canadian history

Another non-report on human rights and free trade with Colombia

Another non-report on human rights and free trade with Colombia http://www.bilaterals.org/spip.php?article23455 On June 14th, the Canadian government quietly tabled its second report on the human rights impacts of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. So quietly, in fact, that even those who had been anticipating its release almost missed it. The report was deposited with the clerk at the end of the day, rather than during routine proceedings in the House.The reporting obligation was enshrined into law in 2010 to address widespread concerns that the FTA would exacerbate the alarming human rights crisis in Colombia. The government has touted the reports as a meaningful way to ensure human rights accountability in trade with the troubled Latin American country.[[[Unfortunately, this latest report’s tone and content — and the quiet way in which it was tabled — seem intent on avoiding scrutiny and leave us wondering what the government is trying to hide.]]]][[[[[[[[[[The report’s narrow scope limits itself to an analysis of actions taken under the FTA’s Implementation Act, the act that governs Canadian domestic implementation of the agreement. By interpreting its reporting obligation this way, the government avoids any examination of the impact of Canadian investment — including oil, gas and mining – in Colombia. This arguably defies the very spirit of the exercise. Canadian extractive interests in Colombia were one of the government’s primary motivations for signing the FTA. They were also the most pressing concern voiced by human rights groups worried about the FTA’s impacts]]]]]]
[ed notes:click link for whole article,just citing two paragraphs..meanwhileabout two weeks ago.. Mining aid The Globe and Mail reports that the minister in charge of the Canadian International Development Agency told a meeting of Canada’s mining industry representatives that he is working to help them take advantage of the “huge opportunities” in poor countries:“In his comments to the Mining Association of Canada, [Julian] Fantino dismissed criticism of the government’s strategy and praised the Canadian extractive industry’s work. ‘Your industry is a leader, internationally, and we want to help you succeed,’ he said.Last fall, Canada established the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development, which is meant to help developing countries establish policies to better govern their mining sectors. The institute ‘will be your biggest and best ambassador,’ Mr. Fantino told mining representatives on Wednesday, adding that it would draw on Canadian success in the mining industry and share lessons from Canada with other countries.”
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also read.. Canada's Mining Crimes http://mostlywater.org/canadas_mining_crimes GOLDCORP'S CRIMES www.miningwatch.ca/en/search/node/goldcorp Action Alert: Student Anti-Mining Activist Disappeared www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=843&Itemid=1 Canadian Mining Crimes in Mexico http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2602-canadian-mining-crimes-in-mexico

The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection

The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
Previously Secret Documents Show That Canadian Intelligence Discovered That Israel Purchased Yellowcake from Argentines during 1963-1964. Information Later Shared with British and Americans, Who Accepted It after Hesitation U.S. State Department Insisted that Uranium Sales Required Safeguards to Assure Peaceful Use but Israel Was Uncooperative and Evasive About the Yellowcake's Ultimate Use

Mohawk Nation News 'Losers, Weepers'
 The mayors of four Montreal South Shore communities are blocking Quebec’s decision to give back a 300-acre plot of stolen land to the Mohawks of Kahnwake. It was taken to build Highway 30 on unceded territory. The mayors said “two wrongs don’t make a right”. Returning stolen property is just wrong! They have big plans for this prime real estate, which is presently zoned for agriculture. The Mohawks have seen Kahnawake shrink to make way for railroads, highways and bridges. During construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, thousands of tons of clay were dug up and dumped onto Kahnawake, making it useless for agriculture. No consultation ever took place. On August 17, 2008, the Women Title Holders of the Mohawk Nation issued a Notice of Objection to the illegal construction of Highway 30 on Kahnawake. It was sent by registered mail to Canada, Quebec and their puppet Mohawk Council of Kahnawake. 

[ed notes:cick link for whole article...

Cyanide Dreams ... Ecotourism and mega-mining don’t mix in Honduras http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/cyanide-dreams/17716WWF and Goldcorp have also collaborated on projects, including exchanges such as a $50,000 donation by Goldcorp to WWF for research into North American economic dependence on water resources and the provision of a company expert for a WWF study examining gold mining and its water footprint. CIDA has also funded WWF. An ongoing $15 million CIDA project in Mozambique, for example, included a $74,000 contribution to WWF for civil society participation in a CSR debate. The same CIDA project provided technical assistance to the Mozambican Ministry of Mineral Resources (MIREM) for policy development regarding the mining and oil and gas industries.Back in Honduras, Siria Valley residents say that before the mine opened, company representatives held parties, gave out gifts and offered notebooks and piñatas to the children. The controversial consultation process was followed by the opening of the mine, which went ahead despite widespread dissent.Pedro Landa, the human rights and environment program coordinator with the Honduran Centre for the Promotion of Community Development (CEHPRODEC), called the marriage between mining and development agencies a strategy of war.“First you do a project about water, talk about sustainability and development, promise to help the children,” Landa told The Dominion in an interview in Tegucigalpa in February 2013. “Then, they will say that Goldcorp is a good neighbour and try to tell people that the mine will be good for their community.” The work of NGOs in collaboration with mining companies can have a coercive effect on prospective or established mining communities since certain projects appear to, and may actually be connected to the presence of the mine, according to Jamie Kneen, communications and outreach coordinator at MiningWatch Canada. NGOs end up covering costs that would otherwise have to be covered by the company and in many cases, at least part of their funding comes from Canadian public funding, through CIDA. This marks a shift from the way things were done in the past, said Kneen.“Individual NGOs have been involved with mining companies for decades, but not with CIDA funding these activities,” he told The Dominion. “Until last year, CIDA was not allowed to fund private companies, only civil society organizations,” noting that a previous specific CIDA program for commercial support, CIDA Industrial Cooperation Program (CIDA-INC), ran from 1978 to 2005 and failed.CIDA now openly emphasizes the private sector and particularly mining; the agency has started providing direct funding for specific projects that directly involve mining companies. “While mining companies may also contribute funds, the projects are mostly funded by CIDA through public funds,” said Kneen.
[ed notes:im just citing few paragraphs click link for whole expose,its a good read..then also see.. Background of the WWF and the 1001
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_1001club01.htm

Canada's backroom role in Syria, Iraq Featured Guest(s): Yves Engler April 1st, 2013: - Listen | Download
Canada is funding the Gulf monarchies who are funnelling militants into Syria, and U.S. intelligence is involved with the rebels. The dominant media in North America neglects an honest discussion of the Western role. Canada's political opposition neglects Security Council agreements that could allow a demilitarized international forum to mediate the conflict.Engler also discusses opposition to Enbridge pipeline, and its possibility of derailing the Harper government. By taking such a hard stand on environmental issues, and pulling out of Kyoto, Harper is running out of feet to shoot.

 Myths can hurt: On Canadian 'peacekeeping' http://rabble.ca/news/2013/06/myths-can-hurt-on-canadian-peacekeeping By Yves Engler
 In a recent article, Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May wrote: "Sadly, under Stephen Harper, the role of our diplomatic corps has been de-emphasized with embassies closing, diplomats treated as irrelevant, and Canada's respect for multilateralism itself called into question. Our role as peacemakers, a role invented by former Prime Minister Lester Pearson, has also fallen."Days earlier the president of the Rideau Institute, Steven Staples, co-authored a column in the Ottawa Citizen decrying the current government's lack of commitment to "peacekeeping." It noted: "Lester B. Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting 'peacekeeping,' as it came to be known, a project that helped to define our national identity and character."In a major international affairs speech in Montréal last February the leader of the official opposition, Tom Mulcair, focused on how Harper was breaking with Pearson's purported legacy. He repeated a variation of his claim that "Lester Pearson was a model for what Canada has done in the past and should be doing today." If Mulcair actually believes this statement -- he likely knows no more about Pearson's foreign-policy legacy than the myth of 'peacekeeper' -- the NDP leader has a lot to defend.Pearson's record speaks for itself:-He had Canada deliver weapons to the French to put down the Algerian and Vietnamese independence movements.-Asked in Parliament, Pearson refused to call for Nelson Mandela's release from prison.-Pearson backed the mid-1950s CIA coups in Iran and Guatemala.-He incited individuals to destroy a Canadian peace group after it called for the outlawing of nuclear weapons.-Pearson threatened to quit as external affairs minister if Canada failed to deploy ground troops to Korea.-Most controversially, he agreed to have Canada's representatives to the International Control Commission for Vietnam spy for the U.S. and deliver their bombing threats to the North Vietnamese leadership. 
[ed notes;click link for whole piece.. then see.. Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy - Yves Engler - YouTube

Mining aid
The Globe and Mail reports that the minister in charge of the Canadian International Development Agency told a meeting of Canada’s mining industry representatives that he is working to help them take advantage of the “huge opportunities” in poor countries:“In his comments to the Mining Association of Canada, [Julian] Fantino dismissed criticism of the government’s strategy and praised the Canadian extractive industry’s work. ‘Your industry is a leader, internationally, and we want to help you succeed,’ he said.Last fall, Canada established the Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development, which is meant to help developing countries establish policies to better govern their mining sectors. The institute ‘will be your biggest and best ambassador,’ Mr. Fantino told mining representatives on Wednesday, adding that it would draw on Canadian success in the mining industry and share lessons from Canada with other countries.”
[ALSO READ...Canada's Mining Crimes http://mostlywater.org/canadas_mining_crimes GOLDCORP'S CRIMES www.miningwatch.ca/en/search/node/goldcorp Action Alert: Student Anti-Mining Activist Disappeared www.cispes.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=843&Itemid=1 Canadian Mining Crimes in Mexico http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2602-canadian-mining-crimes-in-mexico