Christmas in Winnipeg

Well for employees at Canada Post Christmas in Winnipeg was not a pleasant experience and it is clearly a foreshadow of what's to come for employees across the country. We already talked about how Moya Greene turned a viable profit making dividend paying corporation into a toxic nightmare $2.5 billion in debt with one wave of her magic wand or rather one foul swoop of her misguided axe. Let's face it, you don't prune a tree with an axe. Explain that to Moya Greene. Postal workers will be reeling in her chaos struggling to pay her debt for generations to come.

Moya Greene had no successful experience in service based industries before coming to Canada Post. She was instrumental at crashing Bombardier's stock and derailing CN. Yet she was given a blank cheque to wreck havoc at will. Closing the Quebec City post office so business mail going across the street was shipped to Montreal then back to Quebec delayed the mail and increased fuel and transportation costs. Not picking up the mail including priority post on the weekends saw the company fall behind the competition. These aren't concerns from a fat union that opposes profit. These are real life concerns from a viable business perspective. Cutting jobs in one thing but why kill profits?

It all boils down to a dark political agenda that opposes public accountability. They will destroy a profit making company on purpose as an act of sabotage. After destroying it they will say "See profits are down, now we have to make some serious cuts." Their real agenda isn't just cutting jobs, it's removing public accountability. They want to privatize everything. Privatization isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just the way they do it and the reason why they do it that is bad.

Their primary purpose is to remove public accountability. Moya Greene publicly declared that the private sector sees the public as stupid in the area of downsizing and don't want to be told anything by them. Her mandate is to remove public accountability because she knows best. Which is somewhat ironic given her air head persona. After all she is no Maggie Thatcher. She's a former lawyer from Newfoundland.

Winnipeg made the news because of their recent walk out over the insanity of how the new system is being implemented. Finding machines that will sort mail line of travel will no doubt save money in the long run even through it will take generations to pay back that debt which means generations without the tax revenue the company was previously paying to the government.

The problem is the flats and letters come separate. Which means as a letter carrier walks, they have to hold one bundle of flats in one hand and one bundle of letters in the other while they flip through each to pull out the mail for the next call. Only there's a third bundle as well. It's the turn around mail that didn't have time to be sorted by the new machines. That has to be sorted by the carrier in a case at the depot. So now we have three separate bundles that a carrier has to juggle while walking quickly so they don't run into overtime and somehow they have to shuffle several more bundles of flyers while they multitask on route since they are forbidden to pull out the mail for the next call at the door or while they have stopped moving.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to realize that juggling and sorting through three different bundles of mail while you are walking is nonsense. Any child can see that juggling three different bundles of mail while juggling six sets of flyers that can't be stuffed together is insanity at best. So here's the clincher. A guy in Winnipeg gets a brainstorm. He has to sort his turn around mail anyways. So he runs the short and long in together so he just has one bundle to sort through while he walks which greatly speeds up his delivery time and they suspend him for doing so.

Clearly they are on crack. A guy uses his brain where they failed to do so and they suspend him for it. How Moya Greene. That is the legacy she has left Canada with and that is the legacy she is bringing to England simply because some politicians in England want to privatize the Royal Mail at all costs. It is a shameful plague of injustice.

Giving her a pay raise to implement this dark deed and crush working family wages while creating chaos on the workfloor and huge work loads is indeed a cruel plague that is sweeping the earth in the name of globalization. Say hello to the new beast. Same as the old beast. It's name is greed. So thanks Moya. She spent $2.5 billion on machines that don't work and left.

Moya Greene is indeed the STD Queen. (Her Short Term Disability program robbed Canadian Postal workers of their sick leave.) God save the real Queen and hang the real traitor out to dry. It doesn't take a mathematician to realize the American postal model is not a good one while the Canadian postal model was. In 2009 Canada Post reported coming out of a recession reporting it's 15th consecutive year of profits. Moya Greene killed that legacy. Remember remember the 5th of November.

Afghanistan pledges troops to secure major pipeline

Surprise, surprise. This is what the invasion of Afghanistan was really about. Afghanistan will deploy up to 7,000 troops to secure a major transnational gas pipeline slated to run through some of the most dangerous parts of the war-torn country, an official said Sunday.

The pledge comes a day after Turkmenistan signed broad agreements with Afghanistan, India and Pakistan at a summit in its capital Ashgabat on the ambitious venture.

The 1,700-kilometre TAPI pipeline, Ashgabat's dream project that first appeared in 1995, has been on hold for many years due to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. (The Taliban gave the contract for the pipeleine to an Argenteena firm instead of an American one.)

The pipeline aims to transport more than 30 billion cubic metres of gas annually from the Dauletabad gas fields in southeast Turkmenistan and could turn into a cash cow for Afghanistan in transit fees.

Wow, the oil company is even gonna give Afghanistan 8% of the oil revenue. Sounds like a little Iranian Deja Vue. In fact, they're going right around Iran this time. That's only half of what they initially gave the Shaw before they were forced to raise the percentage. It's all about the money.

Obviously, Afghanistan wouldn't get as much as Turkmenistan since the oil is just passing through Afghanistan it's not drilled and refined there.

Yet if 8% of the oil revenue would be a cash cow for the Afghan government, which is alleged to be corrupt, then controlling interest in those oil revenues would indeed be a fortune. Why that would be enough blood money to fund a war. England and BP were the ones that started the war for oil. They're the ones that convinced the Americans to get involved in it.

Pope says condoms can be justified for male prostitutes

I found this story somewhat bizarre. I will clarify that I have a great deal of respect for members of the Catholic Church and for the office of Pope. Both are clearly trying to make this world a better place.

The Catholic church has always maintained a strict position on no birth control and no divorce. Their position on divorce was what triggered King Henry to start his own church that would allow divorce so he wouldn't have to keep executing his ex's.

The no birth control position does seem a bit extreme. Yet the new declaration seems even stranger. After generations of saying no divorce and no birth control for married couples, the Pope announces that in some cases condoms may be used. Male prostitutes may use them to help prevent the spread of Aids. Where on earth did that come from?

So not only is it OK for a male prostitute to use a condom but not a married couple who can't afford to have more children, but it's somehow OK to be a male prostitute? I'm kinda scratching my head over this one.

I'm totally OK with revelation. I'm fine with giving new instructions to a changing world. I'm just having trouble processing this new exemption. It's OK for a male prostitute to use a condom but it's not OK for a female prostitute to give one to her John? There seems to be many strange things about this new rule.

I will add that the media reports that the Pope made this statement when discussing his new book and claims the Pope accepts responsibility for this decision as an individual not on behalf of the church. I guess I'm just a little confused.

Nevertheless, the world will still turn and good Catholics will remain good Catholics and contributing members of society within our crazy world that just got a little bit crazier.

Huge Fire in Shanghai Tower

A huge fire engulfed a Shanghai high rise building on Monday which burned for hours and gutted the building. Last count the death toll was 53. It's amazing more people weren't killed. This is what happens when a steel framed tower burns for several hours.

This is not what happens when a steel frame building burns. The Third Tower in New York did not fall due to heat and fire. Explosions were heard going off and Larry Silverstein admitted they Pulled the building.

Chemical Weapons in Iran

I guess this photo could be labeled Judas' kiss of death in the form of a handshake. Donald Rumsfeld setting up Saddam Hussein.

I spoke with a lady at work recently who was from Iran. She left with her husband and young children during the Iran Iraq war. I mentioned the fact that the Americans had sold Iraq chemical weapons to use on Iran during that war and she started to explain the effects of those chemical weapons used on civilians in Iran.

She said it was mustard gas. I was a bit surprised but recall hearing that mustard gas was commonly used in World War One. My grandfather had mustard gas burns on his back from the trenches of that war.

She explained the horrible condition Iran was in when they escaped. She said they dropped mustard gas on entire villages. She said it was horrible. People would swell up huge and there were birth defects for generations.

Despite the fact that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the US invasion, Saddam Hussein was hanged for using mustard gas on Kurds in northern Iraq during a 1987-88 campaign known as the Anfal. Yet the Americans sold him the Mustard gas to use on Iran and that was fine with them at the time. Somewhat hypocritical.

Iran may be politically unstable but England and America has always been the root of that instability. When they hanged Saddam, they forgot to hang his accomplices.

Don't get me wrong. Stalin was evil but so was Hitler. A right wing dictator is no better than a left wing dictator. Both have used false flag attacks to deceive the masses.

Pearl Harbor

I saw a clip from the movie pearl harbor last night. Indeed it was very dramatic and soul stirring. Seeing young wounded soldiers cry out they didn't want to die was stirring. Almost as stirring as hearing the same innocent cries from Japanese children surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Obviously all the men women and children that were murdered in those cities died instantly. Except for all the ones living on the boundary of the explosions that died to radiation sickness. Thus the story of the paper crane.

Most people are so outraged by the very thought of a false flag attack that they will refuse to discuss it. Yet Hitler used false flag attacks twice to deceive his nation. First he had his soldiers bomb parliament and blame it on terrorists to rationalize giving him extra emergency powers of a chancellor. Then he bombed one of his own radio stations and blamed it on Poland to justify invading Poland. The rest is history.

Operation Northwoods was a declassified intelligence document defining treason on paper. That document was not speculation. It does exist and needs to be addressed.

It is important to realize that Pearl Harbor was not unprovoked. The US put a naval blockade on Japan so Japan attacked a Navy base. I will add that Japan attacked a military base while the Americans attacked a city full of civilians, twice. Nevertheless, recalling the air support for the USS Liberty was indeed shocking.

Photos of Earth from the Space Station

Here's a picture of the Nile and the Red sea from space.

Sales are down at the Royal Mail

Well Moya Greene is at it again. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised yet it's so disheartening. Someone from the UK posted on my blog about Moya Greene being a virtual axe murder. He claimed that Moya Greene has already laid off his wife at the Royal Mail. She worked in sales. Nice Christmas present Moya.

My first response was the adage that Moya Greene has no concept of business revenue. If you cut all your services you will reduce your business revenue. I bumped into a former coworker at the Post Office the next day. I told him about Moya Greene laying off sales staff in the UK. His response was automatic.

Of course. They want to privatize it. They lay off the sales staff and then complain sales are down so they'll have to privatize. He's right. We know their MO here. Now they are doing the same thing in England. They are killing profits which will rationalize them privatizing it so they can avoid being publicly accountable.

There are some people who are so opposed to publicly owned anything they will spend billions of taxpayers dollars to privatize public services just so it is private not public. This political group has two sections. One section believes that the private sector is more financially responsible than the public sector and can do a better job at making a profit than the public sector. They are primarily concerned with profits. They don't want a publicly run service to be a cost burden on the public.

The other group are crude business sharks who covet the huge salaries of private sector CEOs at the public expense. They flatter the others with talk of profits but they are simply interested in circumventing public accountability. They are not concerned with what's in the public interest.

Take Moya Greene for example. She claims the private sector doesn't want to be told anything by the public and sees the public as stupid in the area of downsizing, implementing new technology, and strategic planning. Turning a profit making tax paying revenue creating corporation into a hollow shell billions in debt is not strategic planning.

Those are lies to convince the other section of the privatization group that circumventing public accountability by killing profits is somehow a good thing.

Take note England: Moya Greene is laying off sales staff so she can then complain sales are down and privatize the Royal Mail. It's sabotage.



Remember Remember the 5th of November!

Gordon Campbell steps down

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell is stepping down and has asked his party to hold a leadership convention. Campbell made the announcement during a surprise news conference Wednesday morning in Vancouver. This should be a national holiday. Oh Happy Day!!!

Omar Khadr

The Ottawa Citizen wrote an article about Omar Khadr called A confession and coercion. The Globe and Mail ran a front page article about how Omar has now plead guilty to terrorism charges in exchange to be released to Canada.

The article listed several questions the judge asked him all of which he replied yes. This is another set of questions he could have been asked that would likely have met the same answer.

Mr. Khadr Do you understand what's happening here? Yes.

No really. I mean do you have any idea how royally you've been screwed? Yes I do.

Is it true that you have been accused of throwing a hand grenade in July 2002 at a foreign soldier invading your home country when you were 15? Yes.

Is it true that you were captured, removed from your country and sent to Guantánamo Naval Base in October 2002 at age 15? Yes.

Is it true the whole time you proclaimed your innocence and refused to participate in this court process? Yes.

Is it true you have now plead guilty to terrorism after 8 years in Guantánamo bay so you can be transferred to Canada in one year? Yes.

Is it true that your father was trained by the CIA in the Taliban to fight Russia when they invaded your home country? Yes.

Is it true that if your father had risked his life to throw a grenade at a Russian soldier in defense of your homeland, the Americans would have given him a medal? Yes.

Is it true that the American Oil companies wanted to build an oil pipeline across Afghanistan called CentGas? Yes.

Is it true that the American oil companies invited the CIA trained Taliban to America for expensive dinners trying to convince the Taliban to give them the contract for the oil pipeline in Afghanistan? Yes.

Is it true that shortly after the Taliban finally decided to award the contract to an Argentina firm that the Americans invaded your country and the contract was given back to the Americans? Yes.

Do you realize that Canadians and Americans have a right to due process? Yes.

Do you realize your right to due process was intentionally removed by removing you from your home country and placing you in a naval detention base on foreign soil? Yes.

Is it true that prisoners are tortured in Guantánamo bay? Yes.

Is it true that Canadian troops in Afghanistan handed over prisoners to local authorities who then tortured them? Yes.

Do you realize that torture is a war crime? Yes.

Do you realize that defending your homeland against a foreign invasion is not a war crime? Yes.

Is it true that the CIA video of Bin Laden confessing to the 911 attacks didn't even look like Bin Laden? Yes.

Is it true that the third tower fell in New York City when no planes hit it? Yes.

Is it true that the building fell at free fall speed not from the pressure of weight from collapsing floors pushing down on each other? Yes.

Is it true that Operation Northwoods was a declassified CIA plan to kill Americans on American soil and blame the attacks on Cuba to gain public support for a Cuban invasion? Yes.

Are you aware that half of Americans didn't vote for George Bush? Yes.

Are you aware that half the Germans didn't vote for Adolf Hitler? Yes.

Do you realize that most Americans and Canadians are too afraid to entertain the thought that the CIA was responsible for the 911 attacks because the very thought of that kind of an internal betrayal scares them? Yes.

Are you aware that not all Americans are bad? Yes.

Do you realize that one day you will be free? Yes.

Peace be with you my son. And with you.

Sunrise over Lion's Bay

I put the kayak in at Lions bay this morning just before sunrise. I wanted to get a picture of the sun rising above the Lions. It was just off centre. The sun rose on the horison right about Mount Strachan on Cypress.

PotashCorp sale reduces Government Revenue

BHP Billiton's proposed takeover of PotashCorp could reduce Saskatchewan government revenues by at least $2 billion over the next 10 years while having little or no net effect on employment in the fertilizer industry, the Conference Board of Canada says.

Well imagine that. Over privatization not only restricts public accountability but it also reduces tax revenue. Kinda like what'll happen if they privatize Canada Post right after borrowing all those tax dollars to upgrade the technology. Can you say BC rail? How about Enron - The sad result of corrupt privatization.

Luge Death Tragedy

Well this is a double tragedy. First a young man lost his life. Second, we are sluffing off accountability and responsibility. His death was not due to inexperience. The track was flawed. Everyone knew about a hard corner where experienced Luger's has trouble with.

Notwithstanding the knowledge of the difficult portion of the track, right after the difficult section the track was completely open with no side rails and exposed pillar. That was a clear flaw in design. It was a fatal flaw.

Yes it was an accident but to say the death was the result of inexperience is untrue. We made a mistake. A life was lost and we corrected the mistake by fixing the exposed section of the track. Let's not deny we made an error. That's pointless and offensive.

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.

Moonlight paddle

I put the kayak in at 3rd Beech the other night at sunset and went for a moonlight paddle to English Bay and Granville Island. It was awesome. Hot day, clear night with a full moon. The water was like glass.


Burrard street bridge leaving Granville island.


Vancouver Planetarium.


English bay.


City lights shimmering in the water.


Lights from the cargo ships.

TELUS Fears Shaw

I found this article rather amusing. TELUS (Darren Nitwhistle) is complaining about the fact that their competitor Shaw, is investing in Canwest Global Communications Corp.'s broadcasting. That's quite funny. TELUS has given Darren unlimited resources to censor the Internet and spend on advertising.

So if Shaw buys Canwest does that mean they get free advertising? Does that mean they can chose not to run TELUS adds? That is hilarious. Darren already put his foot in his mouth when he sent out a poster using Shaw's CEO picture quoting him as mocking TELUS' inability to compete in the market. Darren's response was dumb.

Have you heard those bizarre TELUS tales? They really sound like they are on crack. I remember the first one I heard on the radio. All about the perfect world where TELUS was the only service provider and someone was ridding a unicorn to candy mountain. I kid you not. It was bizarre. They obviously shouldn't have fired Wade.

Bedford Channel

I put in at the Bedford Channel in Fort Langley today. First cloud coverage we've had in a while. I've always had this image in my mind that the mighty Fraser was very fast moving and hard to paddle across. That depends on the time of year and the time of day. Spring run off the water is much faster but at the end of the summer it's not. When the tide comes in the current is almost reversed.

When I got out of the channel the river looked fine so I crossed it with ease. The news said the sockeye salmon and running and it's been the best run in ears. As a result they were opening up the river for commercial fishing for certain pockets. Today was one. Lots of boats out with nets. I saw a couple of salmon jump. One in the river and one close to my kayak in the channel. It's nice to see the salmon returning.

There was a group of young kids taking a lesson on a voyager canoe.