What has Moya Greene really done?

The Vancouver local of CUPW posted a really good article about Moya Greene's departure from Canada Post. A lot of bent spin doctors like to pretend Moya Greene is good at business when we know that is simply false. She is just a one trick pony.

She is, in essence, an axe murderer who cuts jobs viciously with no thought or plan on how to build business revenue. The common misconception is if the headlines read jobs were cut then shareholders will jump for joy and stock will rise which is not the case in a service based industry. In a service based industry, if you slash all your services you will reduce your business revenue.

So let's take a step back and look at what Moya Greene has really done to Canada Post. The Vancouver local pointed out the simple truth that cannot be escaped. Before Moya Greene came to Canada Post it was a vibrant business that consistently made profit and consistently paid large amounts of dividends and Corporate tax to the government which increased the government's tax base. Canada Post was in essence a cash cow for the government.

In one sweeping movement with her axe she turned a profit making company into a company that was $2.5 billion in debt. Instantly. It took generations to build the business into a efficient profit making machine and in one foul swoop she killed the profit making company and made it $2.5 billion in debt.

Her rational was she wanted to borrow the money to cut jobs which one day would save money. One day save money. Why does that sound like a snake oil salesman? Maybe because she left right after the devil's deed was done. Long before any future profits would be seen by the dastardly deed.

True the Union can't stand against technology forever. Yet Moya Greene refused to consult the Union or ANYONE skilled in the business. She had no skills in the business and refused to consult with anyone who did have skills in the business because she claims all her managers in the public sector are stupid. That was somewhat ironic.

If Canada Post had invested in machines that would sort the mail to line of travel so letter carriers would basically come in to pick up their mail and go deliver it, that would indeed have cut a huge amount of jobs which in turn would have greatly reduced labour cost. However, she didn't because those kind of machines don't exist in Canada.

For those kind of machines to exist in Canada we would have to completely change our postal code system to a system similar to what's used by the US. Right now everyone on the same side of the street has the same postal code. You can create machines that will sort letter mail to specific routes but not to line of travel which they are hoping for.

Spending money on good technology can save money in the long run. Spending a huge amount of money on bad technology with false promises will not. Oh but Moya Greene is long gone before we can see the results of her foul swoop.

We can go on and on about all the other blunders Moya Greene made at Canada Post which were bad for business but the simple conclusion is the point raised by the Vancouver local of CUPW.

She turned a profit making dividend paying company that took generations to build into a company that was $2.5 billion in debt instantly then left.

Granite Falls

Well I put in just before sunrise at Deep Cove yesterday on the last day of summer. The water was like glass.



Ya gotta love sunrise on the water.



Passed by Silver Falls on the way to Granite Falls.



It's perfect for an overnighter but a bit long for a day trip. Worth the journey nonetheless.

The Final Cut - Requiem for a Post War dream

We've talked about TELUS' censorship. It started with blocking a grass routes movement among it's employees web site called Voices for Change. They blocked access to the web site for everyone who subscribed to the Internet from them. What on earth would they do if they owned a Television station?

It ended with making a fraudulent copyright complaint and taking videos off Youtube they had no possible copyright claim on. And somewhere in between Darren's ninja had that picture we made of Darren having a Pinocchio nose taken off facebook in yet another fraudulent copyright complaint. Clearly the censorship never ends.

I've already expressed my disappointment in Judge Walker's Limp Fish Decision. How he failed to apply any consequence whatsoever to Darren Entwistle's perjury. That was very disappointing to say the least. Lawlessness and censorship is sad. Very sad.

Now their latest motion for a final judgement goes far beyond any jurisdiction I ever agreed to. They want to stop us from discussing criminal behavior. Over my dead body. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace but there is no peace, the war is already begun.

Jeff Puritt has submitted quite a few affidavits for the case. He was that manager on TELUS Idol who flaunted his wedding ring as he joked about the size of the Shaina Twain impersonator's breasts and joked about inviting her up to his room to perform oral sex on him. Forcing employees to watch that as a training video was just plain wrong.

So we have a court order saying I can't post TELUS Idol on Youtube. That is all the order says and that is the only jurisdiction that was agreed upon. I've filed my response to their new motion for a Final Order. You might want to have a peak Super Dave. I think it'll even raise your eyebrow. Let's just say I've had enough and this does indeed constitute the final cut to the final straw. Give me liberty or give me death.

BP Blames Contractors

Well this comes as no surprise. The headline in a local daily news said "BP Blames Contractors" for the oil spill in the Gulf. I chuckled to myself and said Gee I wonder what contractors they are referring to? Haliburton perhaps? Sure enough later on in the article it specifically named Haliburnton as the root of the problem. BP contracted out Haliburton to cement outside the pipes after they drill to prevent leaking.

Of course Haliburton denies it, yet the key thing to remember is that Haliburton was involved. They were contracted by BP. Dick Cheney and George Bush are directly tied to Haliburton. Haliburton profited from the invasion of Iraq. That was a direct conflict of interest.

Bell buys CTV

Well this is an interesting twist. Bell just bought CTV. What happens when a large corporation buys a newspaper or TV station? Does it get free advertising? Does it refuse to run the competitors ads? Does it refuse to run Union adds? Pandora's box has just been opened.

We have been discussing how the media is biased depending on who owns the media outlet. We've recently talked about Fox News' bias and how Stephen Harper is hoping to pave the way for Karl Pierre Peladeau to create a Fox News North in Canada.

We've also recently discussed how Darren Entwistle expressed his fear over Shaw buying Canwest Global. Shaw is TELUS' competitor. Bell is not. Darren sent a few of his buddies over to Bell in hopes for a merger which was blocked but is still on the table.

Either way, his buddies are still there so they still team up on bullying the consumer. Bell fears Shaw too. George Cope is the CEO of Bell. He was the CEO of TELUS Moblility. We went to Bell in Darren's anticipation of a merger with them.

So what happens? Shaw buys Canwest, Darren panics and gets Bell to buy CTV. Yet the whole thing smells dirty. How can we let big corporations control the news? It's shameful. Tiny corners of the Internet where people can blog with free speech will be the only places to find alternate views from the big corporations and likely the only place to find anything that closely resembles the truth. Propaganda: the new world order.

Stephen Harper and Fox News North

This news story about Harper having lunch in New York City with News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch and Fox News president Roger Ailes has people talking.

I didn't realize how bad Fox News was until I recently watched some clips from it during Obama's campaign. We've talked about media bias before but I certainly have no problem with them establishing a right wing news channel with Karl Pierre Peladeau called Fox News North in Canada. I just wouldn't watch it.

Let's face it, you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. That kind of abrasive "news reporting" isn't news it propaganda and it is so painfully distasteful it's difficult to watch. Bush's lies were serious.

I think the key thing to realize is that media outlets are biased. Their bias comes from their owners. Conrad Black was a media baron buying up all the newspapers in Canada and around the world. He was very right wing. He then exercised his influence over the editorials written and how the news was presented. Since he was sent to jail for another scam it appears that Rupert Murdoch has taken his place and is doing the same thing. Murdoch admits to supporting Bush and trying to influence the viewers to support him.

Once again the key thing to realize is that media outlets are biased and we need to base our own opinions on the facts not the propaganda. Info wars and Alex Jones have a media biased. Although Alex Jones sometimes gets carried away with dramatic conspiracies, I do listen to what he has to say because it presents the other side the main stream tries to hide. If someone is trying to hide something, human nature is inclined to wonder what it is they are hiding and why they are hiding it.

Micheal Moore has a media bias. I find him far more palatable because he's not so abrasive, is very factual and generally makes sense. I've had American friends claim that Michael Moore is a Communist Pinko and a traitor. That was when I realized all of a sudden I really had nothing in common with those friends any more. Bush was evil. So were his lies. That is nothing to be proud of and certainly isn't patriotic.

I guess you could say I'm half Capitalist and half Communist. If someone has an idea to start a business and wants to make a buck, they should be free to do so. Yet I really feel that if a homeless person is beaten and robbed, he should be able to receive free medical aid. A civilized society that turns it's back on the homeless is not a civilized society.

I don't see socialized medicine as a Communist plot to take over the free world. If socialized medicine is Communism, then I am a Communist. Yet I have inherit problems with the founding principles in the Communist Manifesto and I completely support religious freedom and human rights. Which many would claim, make me a Capitalist.

There is a lot about Stephen Harper's policies I support and endorse. Yet there are many other policies of his I do not support or endorse. He's too much like Brian Mulroney for me. Mulroney torn the right in half in Canada. His arrogance and abandonment of the democratic principles the right boats of caused a split and the rise of the Reform Party in Western Canada.

I liked Preston Manning. Everyone labeled him as a racist but if you really listened to what he was saying, he said balance the budget to save social programs not to eliminate them. Reform hated Mulroneyism. Although they swept Western Canada they couldn't make inroads in Ontario or Quebec because many saw reform as a separatist party for Western Canada. Many in the West felt if Quebec wants to separate, let them just as long as they take their share of the national debt. Let's govern ourselves and be more fiscally responsible.

Since their ultimate goal was to put an Albertan as Prime minister, they acted on a typo. Manning said Unite the Bright but the typo read Unite the Right and they ran with the typo. However, that was not the original dream. The original dream was to look beyond the left and right and look at the issues. Harper in his quest for power, merged with the Mulroney Conservatives and did in fact get elected as a result.

The sad reality is, Harper's idol worship of Mulroney has caused him to reenact Mulroney's arrogance and abandonment of democracy by railroading the HST like Mulroney railroaded the GST.

The dream has been lost and we are going to end up with more fiscally irresponsible idiots simply because the people we elected coveted power and abandoned principles of democracy.

Reform talked a lot about recall and referendums. Why don't we put the HST to a referendum? Bill Vandersalm is right wing. He opposes the HST. Do the math.

Sungrow Minerals investigated by stock market regulator

Here's one from the Surrey Leader. Dan Ferguson reports that when Sungro Minerals Inc. was operating out of a Surrey office building in the 7400 block of 132 Street, its stock price took a dramatic jump.

It rose from 35 cents a share (U.S.) to $4.75 in just two months in 2009 – pretty good for a mining exploration firm that reported $299 in assets and $18,864 in debt.

That got the attention of the B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC) the independent agency that regulates securities trading in this province.

Commission staff quickly determined the company owned no mineral property, and the man running it had no training or experience in mineral exploration.

The company told BCSC staff that it had no explanation for the share price increase.

Concerned the sudden rise could be the result of a scheme to artificially boost the share price, the commission issued a cease trading order.

Shortly after that, the company announced it was shifting its head office to the United States.

Here's the key - a mining company's stock has a dramatic increase in stock value. When investigated it turns out the company owns no mineral property and the man running the company has no experience in mineral exploration.

Sounds a lot like Bre X or Michael Ritter in Alberta. The Vancouver Sun recently reported on Sungro as well.

Sungro were even negotiating acquisition of Oil and Gas Prospect in Converse County, Wyoming. Can you say Enron? Privatization of US energy. Endorsed by the Bushes. After it fell, Thomas E. White, the Enron Book cooker became the Pentagon's book cooker as Secretary of the Army.

The Vancouver Stock Exchange was famous for scams. Bogus companies that didn't really exist were created on paper. Insider trading hype would generate huge speculation in the fake companies which reflected a huge jump in share price. Right before the stock crashed the ring ;leaders would sell and escape to Florida only to pull off the same scam 6 months later.

Time Magazine referred to the VSE as the Scam Capital of the world. There were groups in Surrey plotting stocks trying to figure out which were the scams. They would then invest in the scam knowing it would surge in speculation and try and sell before it crashed. I kid you not. The world does not need that kind of market instability.

Highest-paid CEOs also layoff the most workers

Well this comes as no big surprise. Since the recession began to take hold in 2008, the chief execs that agreed to lay off the most workers have also received higher compensation than their CEO counterparts.

This sick selfish trend has changed the world our children now live in. It is not a change for the better. The world is not a better place because of it. This is why we opposed Darren Entwistle and Moya Greene. Opposing that kind of greed is the right thing to do.

Tony Blair on the Invasion of Iraq

Tony Blair is a scoundrel. He is a liar and a murder.There was an interesting article about Tony Blair's comments about his new book discussing the invasion of Iraq. He admits they were wrong about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Yet he asks the world instead of asking if he was wrong, ask if he was right.

OK, let's try it. Was he right about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction? No he wasn't. In fact he knew they didn't have any. He lied. MI 6 was caught giving false information to the media about Iraq's WMD in Operation Mass Appeal.

The Americans sold Iraq chemical weapons to use on Iran in their war with them. When he used the chemical weapons the Americans sold him on the Kurds, they had him hanged. If Saddam Husein should of been hanged then George Bush and Tony Blair should have been hanged right beside him.

Let's not forget the MI 6 agents that were caught red handed in what clearly appeared to be a false flag attempt when they shot an Iraqi checkpoint police officer when they thought two British secret service agents dresses as Arabs with a car load of bombs and guns looked suspicious. And how the British military broke them out of jail by destroying the prison instead of telling the people they placed in power what their mission was.

I think he sealed his title of LIAR when he had the audacity to claim Princess Diana was a manipulator just like he was. Well he got it half right. He was a manipulator, Dianna wasn't.

Then he has the audacity to put on some crocodile tears and pretend he has remorse for the fallen soldiers when it was his lie they died for. That is offensive.

CSIS Spying on Canadians

I’m having a lot of trouble accepting these terrorist charges coming from CSIS in Canada. This latest batch claims everyone that knew one of the suspects said no way it must be a case of mistaken identity. The Toronto 18 did look like entrapment and the kids were held a long time before their “confessions” came out.

The third tower fell in New York when no planes hit it. It collapsed into it’s own blue print exactly like a controlled demolition. It didn’t tip over. It fell at freefall speed. This means the pressure from the top collapsing didn’t force the subsequent floors to collapse. They all collapsed at the same time just like a controlled demolition. Thermite was found in the rubble.

Operation Northwoods was real. President Johnston recalled the air support for the USS Liberty when it was attacked in the Mediterranean claiming he wanted that vessel sunk. His own people. False flag events do occur.

What if Canada’s watered down version of a false flag event was to falsely accuse someone of a terrorist plot, then catch them before it was implemented. That way you could raise public fear without killing innocent people. Kinda like that CIA agent who was caught trying to do a terrorist act in New York with a car full of fireworks and a toy clock.

The problem is the possibility. Like accusing one of sexual abuse falsely. Even making the accusation opens the door to the possibility the accusation might be true.

I’m having a lot of trouble believing these allegations because we know secret service agencies release things to the media and are obsessed with propaganda. Look at MI 6’s Operation Mass Appeal. They were caught red handed giving false information to the media about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction to gain public support for an invasion.

Another real concern is CSIS using a false terrorist allegation to rationalize gaining more access to spy on people’s e-mail. This whole case was based on intercepted private e-mail obtained without warrants. “They monitor all internet communications and suspicious communications are flagged when certain key words pop up. Kinda like how in a spy movie the agency is notified when people atart saying the words bomb on the phone. Only for them to hear those key words they have to be monitoring the phone or e-mail in the first place.

Something they adamantly denied right after in another press release which it totally suspicious and complete bullshit. They said we don’t spy on people’s e-mail and if we do it’s by accident. Yeah right. This is really serious. The water is getting hot and all us frogs don’t notice it.

Which leads us to the smear campaign against the founder of Wiki Leaks. I find it very suspicious. Obviously if someone commits rape that is a serious offense. Yet we have seen the CIA’s smear campaign against many people who have spoken out against them in the past. Gary Webb, Cele Castillo and many others.

And I have no doubt the CIA would use assets in other countries like Canada or Holland to perpetuate their propaganda. Hijacking a plane with box cutters in 9/11 was not believable. Neither is perpetuating that myth in Holland.