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-list of more than 100 web links to articles on the hyper-militarisation of development assistance to Haiti.
“InvAID: The Militarisation of Aid to Haiti,”
Dozens of previous issues of COAT’s magazine are also online — full text — at COAT’s website:
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http://killingtrain.com 30 Interview w/ Grace Batchoun - Thomas Woodley : Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
Canada to withdraw its funding to UNRWA
(Montreal, Jan. 21st, 2010) – Last week, the government of Canada quietly announced it would discontinue its long-standing financial contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and redirect the monies to strengthen the judicial system of the Palestinian Authority and other food assistance programs. The news came out as UNRWA launched a special fundraising campaign to collect millions of dollars needed to support programs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
UNRWA provides assistance to 4.67 million Palestinian refugees scattered throughout the Middle East and administers programs in the areas of education, health and other social services in 59 Palestinian refugee camps.
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-Hamed Karzi, the mayor of Kabul, has left for Saudi Arabia to try to get the Saudis to assist in diplomatic efforts at “reaching out to the armed militants” in Afghanistan. Judging by the fact that the Saudis have worsened the situation with civilians and armed militants in Yemen, this strategy should be re-examined. The sad truth is that by comparisson to what the NATO forces have done to Afghanistan over the past 8 years in terms of civilian casualties of Afghans, the Saudis actually might be the better option. That is how low the bar has been set.
-NATO, meanwhile, was at it again, this time in Istanbul, Turkey, where defense ministers met, again on the taxpayers’ dime, to discuss a variety of topics including the “mission” in Afghanistan. After already squeezing what they could in terms of contributions, both financial and physical, from involved countries who are looking for a way out of Afghanistan, NATO once again demonstrated its insatiable demands in the form of its secratery-general asking these countries for more. This is precisly what the majority of contributing countries were worried about originally, that there is no limit to the amount of demands that NATO will put on the rest of the world because the situation in Afghanistan is “unwinnable”.
-Not on the agenda at the Istanbul conference is one of the basic problems that many of the potential police and military are being “poached” by private security companies.
-NATO’s secretary-general this week asked for more police, more military, more trainers but thankfully, the European Union is only going to send those police who volunteer to go to Afghanistan and that number has been tapped out and squeezed dry. Thursday night was spent discussing the “streamlining of NATO structures” and this morning is when the discussion will turn to Afghanistan.
25 Bike Report w/ Tom
30 Interview w/ Gerald Celente publisher - TrendsJournal
-What is the value of gold?
-Discussion of some of the trends analysis :
US/China relations over arms sales to Taiwan
Gays in the American Military – don’t ask don’t tell
45 Michael Werbowski Presents
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January 29th FMA Runsheet
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-Producer of DVD “Frankenstein Unlimited”
-six films in one compilation from independent filmmakers
-Preview of upcoming “Frankenstein Burlesque Show”
-Feb 13, 2010
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Municipal/National
-Pro-rogation demonstrations held across Canada and in Montreal
-Validity of Facebook as a “grass-roots” organizer
-Announcement of conference to be held at UQAM on Friday
International
-Discussion and synopsis of state of affairs in Latin America
50 The Real News Network (14/01/10) – Corruption in Afghanistan 75% Western caused and enabled
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/seyret/?task=videodirectlink&id=5448
-Yesterday in London, France, England and Germany held a conference, in conjunction with the United Nations, to discuss the issues and try to establish methods of advancement that will be acceptable to the Afghani people and NOT just delegated by the United States and accepted by American policy followers like Canada.
-The UN, understandably, re-affirmed itself and the role it plays in “upholding a secure, stable and prosperous Afghanistan”. Individual countries and their representatives, including the Karzai Afghani government were on hand to make media-friendly statements such as this one:
“Together we are committed to make intensive efforts to ensure that the Afghan Government is increasingly able to meet the needs of its people through developing its own institutions and resources.”
-The conference participants also commended a promise made by the Karzai government to reward Afghanis who renounce violence with “an honorable place in society”. A bit of a different carrot then the cold cash paid to Taliban members by NATO-countries in order to prevent Taliban members from attacking their soldiers in Afghanistan, but the ambiguity of the statement “an honourable place in society” has the potential to create just as many problems as the NATO bribery program did.
-One interesting point that was included in the Conference communique was the following: “Conference Participants noted that most civilian casualties are caused by insurgent attacks.” However there was no definition of “insurgents” offered, sort of an open-ended term like “national security”. A proper definition of “insurgents” would have to include all foriegn entities in an occupied land, and this is not what I think the conference participants were referring to.
-The WebsterDictionary defines “insurgent” as a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government; – The statement issued by the London Conference participants did not acknowledged the percentage of Afghani people who maintain that Karzai’s government is NOT “a civil authority”, let alone “established”. In fact, there is a significant percentage of Afghani people who actually see the Taliban as the legitimate civil authority.
-Perhaps the most important declaration made at Yesterday’s London Conference was the acknowledgment that Non-NATO members will have a say in establishing a plan for “phased transition” from the current foriegn occupying forces to Afghan Security forces themselves. This plan must be prepared before the Kabul Conference, which will take place later this year, and will be implemented on a province-by-province basis.
-This “National Security Policy”, as it has been labeled, is intended to be created by the external forces in Afghanistan, supposedly in conjunction with the Karzai government – It remains to be seen whether or not the Afghani people will have a say in the formation of their “National Security Policy”, or Karzai’s role will simply be to rubber-stamp an agenda made by and for the foriegn occupiers themselves.
-One problem is that the say of the Afghani people in the formation of this plan is still to be represented by the Karzai government – And the assumption made by foriegn entities that the Karzai government speaks for all the Afghani people is one of the root problems in the continued occupation of the country by foreigners.
-Now, while one of the points made in the summary of the London Conference was a recognition of the importance of “Non-intervention in Afghanistan’s internal affairs and mutual non-interference” – Conference Participants “recalled that the international community was engaged in Afghanistan in support of the Government of Afghanistan.” It is the people of Afghanistan, not its government, that are suffering and dying.
-So a mixed bag of old rhetoric and new manipulations have not laid a plan, but the foundations for a plan to be laid. Whether it will have a more helpful effect on the people of Afghanistan remains to be seen, but in my opinion is doubtful, which is why the participants at this conference made it clear that they were working “in support of the government of Afghanistan” and was careful not to include the welfare of the Afghani people as one of the benchmarks of success.
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A photo exhibition presenting portraits and visual mediations from Manila, Philippines captured by Stefan Christoff showing throughout the month of February 2010 at Kaza Maza. In striking colors Christoff's photos portray moments, symbols and faces from the Philippines, focusing particularly on grassroots social movements. Present in the photographs is the human impacts of an economic crisis in the Philippines, fueled by corporate globalization and free trade policies. Today the majority of people in the Philippines live below the poverty line, according to the U.N. more than 15 million people survive on less than one U.S. dollar a day. In the Philippines extreme economic disparity is leading to increasing political unrest, channeling grassroots support towards revolutionary political parties in the cities and guerrilla movements in the countryside. In photographs this exhibition offers images that attempt to capture the mood of a country struggling against intense poverty, state corruption and for national liberation. * on twitter: http://twitter.com/spirodon
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30 Interview w/ Justin Podur – www.killingtrain.com -
Justin Podur is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at York University and a member of the Pueblos en Camino Collective. He visited Haiti in 2005 to study the UN occupation and the government after the 2004 coup.
Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis:
with Justin Podur and Dan Freeman-Maloy
489 College St (W of Bathurst), Suite 303
Limited Compassion for Haiti Justin Podur January 24, 2010 http://killingtrain.com/node/723
michael hureaux perez is a writer, musician and teacher who lives in southwest Seattle, Washington. He is a longtime contributor to small and alternative presses around the country and performs his work frequently.
On Jan 23, 2009 Michael was interviewed on FMA about his article:
Obama’s message to the world
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One Year Later, after Obama’s State of the Union Address on wednesday Night, we will discuss the efficiency of Obama’s presidency – what has been expected and unexpected in the last year – and what to look for in the next three years of Obama.
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January 22nd FMA Runsheet
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15 Interview w/ Yves Engler – Haiti Reconstruction Conference
-there will be a reconstruction conference Monday in montreal (front page of Globe & Le devoir today) probably with people like H. Clinton, B Kouchner, L Cannon and other big shots. Its an important opportunity for us to say that this catastrophe should not be used as a disaster capitalist endeavor. To that end we’d like to organize a statement signed by prominent international figures (Chomsky, Klein, Claude Ribbe, Haitian intellectuals etc..)
-We’d need to draft statement in next 48 hours, spend 72 collecting signatures & then go live. We might want to invite N Klein & other figures to montreal to launch. I’m hoping we can do a demo here as well in support of (as much as possible) positive demands.
28 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-An article in the most recent edition of the New Yorker magazine concludes that the decisions of the Afghani people will be more decisive then the decisions of westerners in the outcome of the current foriegn occupation of Afghanistan.
-Nonetheless, all systems scream GO for the London Conference to be held with the participation of the western states that are not happy with the lead the US has taken in coordinating efforts in Afghanistan with their own best interests in mind and NOT those of the Afghani people.
-On January 28th in London, France, England and Germany will convene a conference, in conjunction with the United Nations, to discuss the issues and try to establish methods of advancement that will be acceptable to the Afghani people and NOT just delegated by the United States and accepted by American policy followers like Canada.
-US President Obama’s technique for keeping his campaign promise of shutting down Guantanamo Prision will simply be to transfer all the detainees at Guantanomo to Bagram military base in Afghanistan, and other US-operated “Black Hole Sites” throughout the world, such as the hijacked island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.
-The US finally released a list this week, naming 645 detainees held at Bagram military base in Afghanistan, the vast majority still without charge, and it is unclear whether or not the other foriegn entities within Afghanistan are willing to accept the US proposal to send another 400 detainees from Guantanomo into Afghanistan.
-Poverty and violence are usually portrayed as the biggest challenges confronting Afghanistan. But ask the Afghanis themselves, and you get a different answer: corruption is their biggest worry, as revealed in a United Nations report released this week.
-According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), corruption tops the list of concerns for Afghanis. An overwhelming 59% of the population suffer the daily experience of public dishonesty, making it a greater concern than insecurity (54%) and unemployment (52%).
The Real News Network (14/01/10) – Corruption in Afghanistan 75% Western caused and enabled
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35 The Real News Network (14/01/10) – Corruption in Afghanistan 75% Western caused and enabled
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My topics will be
-budget stuff again.
-Bonaventure (a follow-up).
-and Gazette for sale
Craig Sauvé
Attaché politique
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10 Interview w/ Dr.Wolfgang Wodard – Chair of the Health Committee in The European Council -
- we will discuss what he views as over-exaggerated health scares: swine flu, h1n1, etc;
- Dr.Wodard calls them “Fake Pandemics” and we will discuss why they exist and how they are used
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30 Interview w/ Gerald Celente - publisher of the Trends Journal –
-to talk about the recent financial crisis, its impact on the global economy..his outlook on the Obama administration and what might the most destabilising trends internationally.
-future of the US dollar – implications of the bailout – Obama’s call for the bailout money to be paid back to the public treasury
-among the topics to discuss – connect the dots: recent Republican-gained control of the Senate -> what THAT means for Obama’s Health Reform Bill – what THAT means for the value of pharma stocks – and, what THAT means for the DOW Industrial Average
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2010 – January 15th FMA Runsheet
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15 Interview w/ Yves Engler
-Discussion of Yves’ most recent book to be released this week
25 Interview w/ Matthew Angelus – Organizer: Montreal Rally Canadians against Prorogation
-Anti-Democracy gov’t attitude -> shutting down Parliament, again.
-2 separate Montreal Work groups / Over 180,000 Facebook members
-Jan 23rd Day of Action
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08 The Real News Network (14/01/10) – Corruption in Afghanistan 75% Western caused and enabled
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-Gordon Brown, British prime minister, has refused to testify at a public hearing into the Iraq War, and this while he continues to fight popular public opinion about his desire to continue an armed presence in Afghanistan. This is not a good prelude to London’s hosting of a conference to take place on Afghanistan at the end of January.
-Afghan President Hamid Karzai, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, NATO allies, Afghanistan’s neighbours, regional powers and key international bodies will get together at a conference in London on Jan 28 to set a political and security timetable for Afghanistan in 2010 and beyond.
Germany, England and France are the organizers of this conference and the intent is to define a strategy of collaboration in Afghanistan that is more acceptable to Afghanis then the American strategy, seen basically as “shoot first, questions later, if at all.”
The task includes setting out a roadmap for Afghani forces to gradually take over and refining an exit strategy for NATO forces sooner, rather then later.
-Only 27 percent of Germans still support the troop deployment in Afghanistan according to a poll by the German broadcaster ARD. One reason for the loss of confidence is the scandal surrounding the Kunduz airstrike on 4 September 2009, when a German request for a US air strike resulted in the deaths of at least 20 civilians.
-Washington: The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed Thursday.
On top of the basic defense budget of 533.7 billion dollars, the White House is requesting a further 130 billion dollars for overseas missions, including 65 billion for Afghanistan and 61 billion for Iraq.
- Major General Michael Flynn, the top US military intelligence officer in Afghanistan issued a scathing assessment of the state of the US and their followers’ intelligence effort in Afghanistan. Major General Flynn said that US intelligence in Afghanistan had focused too much on gathering information on insurgent groups and was “unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which US and allied forces operate and the people they seek to persuade.”
-former CIA officer Jack Rice provided the same opinion last week when he said that NATO troops and security services don’t know what the country’s people really need. “Afghani people themselves are interested in such things as schools, clean water and hospitals.” “(Not paying attention to what the people want) makes the US military and NATO troops essentially blind and that is a disaster.”
-The annual death toll of international troops in Afghanistan has surpassed 500 for the first time.
The total last year was 502, compared with 286 in 2008. A U.N. report says the number of civilians killed in Afghanistan last year was higher than in any year since the U.S.-led coalition began. The report says more than 2,400 civilians fell victim to the war-related incidents in 2009.
-Amid a busy news week, the indictment Wednesday of a pair of former Blackwater contractors for the alleged murder of two Afghan civilians hasn’t gotten much attention. But the case has the potential to become a big problem for the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and for Blackwater’s future business prospects in that country.
They are charged with second-degree murder and other counts under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, which allows cases to be tried against people employed by the military abroad, according to the Wall Street Journal.
According to interviews with the AP, the men say that the shooting occurred when two U.S. vehicles, each holding a pair of contractors, were driving in Kabul. An Afghan car slammed into the first vehicle, flipping it over.
Residents, however, say that the U.S. contractors opened fire without provocation after one of their vehicles tipped over in a traffic accident. The two men killed were Rahib Mirza Mohammad and Romal Mohammad Naiem, a passenger in a Toyota sedan on his way home from work. …
Mohammed Shafi, a neighborhood elder who ran to the shooting scene that night, said the Toyota driver told him that the Americans ordered him to stop, then told him to move on. When the driver began pulling away, the Americans started shooting.
The Los Angeles Times in August quoted an Afghan police investigator saying that one of the slain men was walking home from prayers when he was shot in the head, 200 yards away from the traffic incident. The investigator also said the Toyota sedan that was involved in the incident did not have any weapons in it.
Attorney Daniel Callahan, an attorny for the charged contractors, said that Blackwater was attempting to turn them into “scapegoats.” He told the Wall Street Journal: “We believe Blackwater is trying to paint these men as out on a lark and drinking so that the company can maintain its ability to work in Afghanistan after losing its work in Iraq.”
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-What is Next For Haiti?
-Haitian Disaster Relief
-Bringing Back Aristide in Haiti
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33 More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-Episode 8 – Pomegranate Fruit – 6min48sec
40 Interview w/ Christopher White – founder of Canadians Against the Proroguation of Parliament
-the movement Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament and the upcoming rallies and marches nation-wide Jan 23rd…
1.In view of the prorogation is there a need for some kind of institutional reforms , such as introducing proportional representation to parliament?
2.What can be done in the future to prevent this abusive and arbitrary usage of the prorogation decree?
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2010 Global Preview – Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
A discussion w/ Zbigniew Brzezinski – 26m35s
Michael Werbowski/Tariq Jeeroburkhan
Summary: A discussion with the former US National Security Adviser (1977-1981) assessing Barrack Obama’s first year of foreign policy actions.
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15 Interview w/ Yves Engler
-Discussion of Yves’ most recent book to be released this week
25 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-The suicide bomber who killed eight people at a US base in eastern Afghanistan last week was brought to the outpost by the CIA itself. This according to a report from The UN Dispatch. The attack was the biggest acknowledged loss of life for the CIA since the 1983 bombing of the agency’s Beirut station, which killed 17 officers.
-The CIA has vowed to avenge the attack, which killed four CIA officers and three contract security guards. Clearly, as the CIA demonstrates their desire and need for “revenge” this shows the entire agency to be just another extremist group themselves, and validates the protests of Afghani civilians who have been calling out American “intelligence” agents as extremists since 2001 and the American invasion.
-The inability of the CIA to control their own feelings and need for revenge simply perpetuates the cycle that the Americans say that they are in Afghanistan trying to stop. This undermines not just the American effort in Afghanistan, but the international effort as well. Canada should take note.
-Shortly after the attack, Barack Obama sent a letter of condolence to CIA employees. The letter, which was released to the White House press corps, was criticised for its open acknowledgement of the secretive CIA’s role in the Afghanistan war.
-Countries with troops fighting in Afghanistan hope to turn the page on months of drift and confusion with a London conference on Jan 28, called to outline a path of reform that would allow the Western military contingent to begin withdrawing, as per the demands of the citizens of these countries. Germany, France and England are the organizers of this conference and are determined to establish a different method for dealing with Afghanistan then that which the US has ordered on its collaborators. No word if Canada will be represented or has even been invited to the conference. Canada should take note as to what its allies as well as its enemies are now seeing it as.
-The German Defense Minister Karl Guttenberg announced that “Germany has not changed its stance: a stable future for Afghanistan is something that cannot be achieved by military means alone.” He emphasized that pressure from other NATO members – in particular the US, which announced in November that it would deploy an additional 30,000 soldiers – would not influence any German troop surge. “Again and again, we are hearing calls to send an additional 2,500 soldiers, but that number is unrealistic. I am not somebody who is susceptible to peer-pressure, and I don’t need help from the United States to make my decision,” Guttenberg said.
-British Army Commander, Major-General Andrew Mackay, who led British troops in southern Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008 and who resigned his post in September, said earlier this week that the armed forces engaged in the fight for Afghanistan had failed to understand the culture and motivations of the Afghan people and had failed to adapt to modern conflict. He added that the military “consistently failed” to understand the motivations of local Afghans which was undermining Western efforts while strengthening the resistance.
-Giles Merritt, the director of the Security & Defence Agenda think-tank in Brussels, agrees that Western forces are suffering from a lack of clear direction. “We don’t have a clear plan, we don’t know how to assess if we’re winning or losing except in terms of body count, and we don’t have a big picture.”
-On the ground meanwhile, there is still no explanation from Western Military alliances as to how the Taliban, given Western claims that every road in Afghanistan is under constant video surveillance, are still able to make and plant the road-side bombs that are killing Western soldiers in record-high numbers. Analysts suggest that the more foreigners are sent into Afghanistan, the more there will be killed.
-There are over 100 thousand private security contractors in Afghanistan, in addition to the 100 thousand Western soldiers. Yama Saifi, former owner of Shield Security Company, contracted to provide security for the Afghani Cabinent outlines the problem with those numbers. “I really don’t believe most foreign security companies are actually here to provide security. It is very clear they come here to make money. I am sure Afghan security companies can provide better security than them.”
-No stranger to Afghanistan, former CIA officer Jack Rice believes NATO troops and security services don’t know what the country’s people really need. “Afghani people themselves are interested in such things as schools, clean water and hospitals.” “(Not paying attention to what the people want) makes the US military and NATO troops essentially blind and that is a disaster.”
-Daoud Sultanzoy, chairman of the Economic Committee of Afghani parliament agrees. “The longevity of instability is good business for security companies. So, security companies working for profit, this brings a lot of questions,”. American security companies continue to keep silent, so the questions remain unanswered.
-Hopefully, for the Afghani citizens being killed in their homeland and the western citizens footing the bill for their murder, some of these questions and basic problems will be answered in London beginning on January 28th.
35 Interview w/ Patrick Barnard - Green Coalition in-studio
-interview with Patrick Barnard of the Green Coalition concerning the creation of a QC biological park.
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20 Interview w/ Zbigniew Brzezinski – US National Security Advisor 1977-1981
Michael Werbowski and Tariq Jeeroburkhan discuss with Dr. Brzezinski the first year of Barrack Obama’s tenure as president and the changes that have been made and the changes that still must be made.
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December 31st FMA Runsheet
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30 Canadian Headlines
- four Canadian soldiers and a journalist died when their armored vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. The attack happened about 4 kilometers south of Kandahar, where the Canadian contingent has its headquarters.
“The soldiers were conducting a community security patrol in order to gather information on the pattern of life and maintain security in the area,” Brig. Gen. Daniel Menard, the commander of the Canadian contingent, told reporters. “The journalist was traveling with them to tell the story of what Canada’s soldiers are doing in Afghanistan.”
the first journalist from Canada killed in the Afghan war, along with those of the soldiers, will most likely intensify public opinion against the war in Afghanistan.
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-Canada is immediately limiting carry-on items for flights to the United States based on the still undefined concept of “National Security”
“Effective immediately, U.S.-bound passengers are not allowed to bring carry-on bags into the cabin of the aircraft, with some exceptions,” said a statement from Transport Canada.
According to the agency, carry-ons will be limited to medication or medical devices, small purses, cameras, coats, infant-care items, laptop computers, containers carrying life-sustaining or special-needs items, musical instruments, or diplomatic or consular bags. Crutches, canes and walkers also are permitted.
“These measures are expected to be in place at least for several days,” Transport Canada said.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has temporarily shut down Parliament until March, after the close of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The move shuts down all parliamentary committees, including a probe into whether Canadian troops knowingly turned over Afghani prisoners to be tortured. Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale accused Harper of padlocking Parliament and shutting down democracy. Goodale said, “Three times in three years and twice within one year, the Prime Minister takes this extraordinary step to muzzle Parliament. This time it’s a cover-up of what the Conservatives knew, and when they knew it, about torture in Afghanistan.”
-Protests by Afghani civilians in Kabul continued to call for the withdrawl of foriegn soldiers from Afghanistan.
-The presence of NATO soldiers in Afghanistan is no longer being accepted as status quo by the afghani people (and it never has been). Most interestingly, the Afghani government is also calling for the removal of all foriegn soldiers who are unable to control themselves from killing Afghani civilians. This is a most interesting development because this Afghani government has been set up as a puppet regime by NATO.
-NATO soldiers were responsible for 10 more murders of Afghani civilians in Kunar Province this week. A statement issued by the office of President Hamid Karzai said the foreign troops had dragged the 10 civilians from their homes and shot them dead in the open street. Eight of the victims were schoolchildren. The Governor of Kunar Province said the operation was launched without the knowledge of Afghan government officials.
-The head of a presidential delegation investigating these deaths concluded that they were civilians between the ages of 12 and 14 who were killed and attacked by foreign troops, discrediting the original NATO reports that the dead were insurgents. NATO spokesmen have since changed their story.
-Afghanistan’s government demanded that the foreign troops responsible for the murders be turned over to the custody of the Afghani government.
-The latest round of protests included the burning of an effigy of Barack Obama and repeated calls for the removal of NATO soldiers from the country.
-”The government must prevent such unilateral operations otherwise we will take guns instead of pens and fight against them (the foreign forces),” students from the University of Nangahar’s education faculty said in a statement.
-A 28-year veteran of Afghanistan’s conflict with the Soviets said:“America says it wants to withdraw its forces, but this is not true. When we fought with the Russians there were few Russian soldiers on each patrol. Now, if 20 Afghan National Army soldiers are fighting, there are about 200 American soldiers fighting with them. Americans want to TRAIN their soldiers here. At least the communists were working honestly.”
-”Our demonstration is against those foreigners who have come to our country,” Safiullah Aminzai, a student organiser, said in a statement. “They have not brought democracy to Afghanistan but they are killing our religious scholars and children. Our main request is that the American and NATO forces must leave the country and Afghan people must have political autonomy.”
-These protests will continue as long as the civilian deaths at the hands of foriegn troops continue. There were protests earlier this month where thousands of university students in eastern Nangarhar province blocked Highways to denounce the US forces’ operation where 15 civilians were recently killed. US military convoys were forced to turn back.
-More then 70% of British citizens are against their country’s troop presence in Afghanistan. 107 Britons have been killed this year in Afghanistan.
-Four more Canadian soldiers and a journalist died when their armored vehicle was hit this week by a roadside bomb. The attack happened just south of Kandahar, where the Canadian contingent has its headquarters. This brings the total up to 138 dead Canadians in a country that 40% of Canadians can’t find on a map.
-84% of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan on or before Harper’s Dec 31, 2011 deadline
-There are currently 68,000 foriegn soldiers and 106,000 private foriegn contracters on Afghani soil. Canadian taxpayers are paying 7 million dollars a day to maintain an offensive presence in Afghanistan.
-December 27th was the 30th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s attack upon Afghanistan and in the 30 years since then the Soviet Union has collapsed, mainly due to the lack of resources available and distributed to its people at home. Today, Russia and the rest of the international community clearly know what is in store for NATO countries if they remain in Afghanistan.
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15 Interview w/ Sameer Zuberi - Communications Director – Reviving the Islamic Spirit Conference
The 8th annual Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) convention returned to Toronto and this year hosted special guest speaker Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) in what was his first Canadian engagement in nearly a decade. Approximately 17 000 attendees attended the event between Dec 25 to 27, with 10 000 people in the hall for the most-attended events.
- Yusuf Islam: Formerly known as Cat Stevens, Islam is a widely respected philanthropist, educator and musician.
- Hamza Yusuf: Founder of Zaytuna College, America’s first Muslim college. Met with Pope Benedict XVI to promote Muslim and Christian dialogue.
- Tariq Ramadan: Oxford professor, author and named by Time magazine as one of the world’s 100 most influential people.
- Abdal Hakim Jackson: University of Michigan law professor and author of “Islam and the Blackamerican.”
- Zaid Shakir: Leading US scholar, lecturer and author. Known for his grassroots anti-drug campaigning.
- Zainab Alwani: Researcher on female Islamic scholarship and author on domestic violence.
- Aisha Al Adawiya: Executive Director of human rights group Women in Islam.
- Jamal Badawi: St. Mary’s University, NS, management professor, and leading Canadian scholar.
Liberal MP, the Hon. John McCallum, will also address the 17 000 RIS attendees.
28 Michael Werbowski Presents
kind of looking ahead in possible big international issues and stories for 2010.
Council of Europe will investigate and debate on “Faked Pandemics”
40 Bike Report w/ Tom
45 Weather
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
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15 Canadian Headlines
-George Galloway to get his “Day in Court”
On March 19, 2009, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney used legal manipulation to prevent British Member of Parliament George Galloway from entering Canada. Galloway was to speak to Canadians about the humanitarian aid convoy to Gaza, and to speak about his opposition to the war in Afghanistan. Galloway had been invited to Canada by local peace coalitions, student unions and church groups.
On October 31, 2009, the Fedreal Court of Canada announced that it would hear a judicial review of the citizenship minister’s decision to prevent Galloway from entering Canada. The Court is expected to issue a final decision in January 2010.
The cost of the court case will involve a 20,000can$ bond. If you would like to help contribute to this bond which can set a precedent for the rights of free speech in Canada -
“Peace and Justice Committee”
Defend Free Speech Campaign
427 Bloor Street West, Box 13
Toronto ON M5S 1X7
-Federal Court Desicion to resind another security certificate
The Federal Court decided to rescind the security certificate imposed upon Syrian-born Toronto resident Hassan Almrei. Mr. Almrei was detained from October 2001 to January 2009 without charge, trial or conviction and has been living under severe bail restrictions since January.
This is the second security certificate that the Federal Court has judged to have been implemented without sufficient evidence, cause or merit. A September Federal Court ruling overturned the canadian gov’t security certificate imposed on Mr. Adil Charkaoui.
According to a CAIR-CAN press release, “This latest ruling only serves (to) reinforce (exposure of) the flawed nature of the security certificate process, namely, the lack of procedural fairness and respect for due process.”
-Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub wins his release from Canadian Dungeon
The Canadian government had been trying to deport Mohammed Mahjoub, 50, using their security certificate method, claiming he was a high-ranking member of an Egyptian Islamic terrorist organization.
Mahjoub had lost more than 50 pounds during his hunger-strike that began in June, 2009 to protest his jail conditions.
In a decision released Monday, Federal Court Justice Edmond Blanchard said Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub can leave a holding centre at Bath, Ont. Mahjoub’s new residence, to be pre-approved by authorities, will be monitored by surveillance cameras, and his outings, visitors and personal contacts will be closely regulated. He will not be allowed to use the Internet, his phone calls and mail will be intercepted. All this despite no valid proof from the government for their desire to clamp a security certificate on Mr. Mahjoub.
35 Letter from Maher Arar - December 11th, 2009 – Human Rights’ Day
My case reveals U.S. human rights sham
TODAY is Human Rights Day, but any gestures the United States makes in commemoration will come across as hollow to me.
A few weeks ago, seven federal judges told me I had no way to seek justice in American courts for being sent by U.S. officials to be tortured in Syria, where I spent nearly a year in a grave-like underground cell.
I was a victim of an “extraordinary rendition.” I was seized by U.S. officials while changing planes in September 2002 at the Kennedy International Airport on my way home to Canada, prevented from going to court and sent, over my protests, to a country where I knew I would be tortured.
Despite both the Syrian and Canadian governments finding I had no connection to terrorism whatsoever, I have still received no justice from the United States and have seen no change since President Obama took office.
Since I launched my lawsuit with the help of the Center for Constitutional Rights in 2004, many facts regarding my case have surfaced.
A public Canadian commission of inquiry exonerated me and found that Canadian officials gave the United States false information about me, for which the Canadian government apologized.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found that immigration officials concluded I would likely be tortured if sent to Syria. But that decision was overridden — in fact, the inspector general could not rule out that I was sent to Syria in order to be interrogated by unlawful means. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act have confirmed the involvement of high-level U.S. officials. This information has left no doubt that my case was not a simple immigration matter, as the U.S. government has always proclaimed.
The significance of the dismissal of my case goes much beyond my inability to obtain justice. At the core of this dismissal is the credibility of the administration of justice in the United States.
Courts are supposed to ensure that no one is above the law and that the weak and vulnerable are protected. Yet U.S. courts have sided with the most powerful — the executive branch that modified the definition of torture to suit its purpose and used “national security” to justify sending people to be tortured.
The climate of fear and suspicion that the executive branch promoted has allowed it to obtain from the courts exactly what it wanted: to turn a blind eye to its above-the-law practices, all in the name of safeguarding the security of the nation.
The role of judges becomes a lot more important in times of crisis and calamities. They should ask themselves an important question: What would they have done if their son had been forced to go through the same injustice? Finally, I want Americans to know that the actions taken by some of your government officials have destroyed the lives of many innocent human beings.
I was a successful engineer before all this happened. I had enjoyed life and had dreams of building a successful career. Now I am still suffering from the scars of torture and the disgrace of being labeled a terrorist.
I was at least expecting an apology from your government. With this latest decision, my hope of getting that apology is fading away.
Until the U.S. government rectifies my case, and the cases of all those who were tortured by the previous administration, the celebration of Human Rights Day by the United States will be a sham.
Maher Arar is a Syrian-born Canadian citizen. He wrote this for Progressive Media Project, a source of liberal commentary on domestic and international issues; it is affiliated with The Progressive magazine.
-municipal round-up
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
MW
20 Michael Werbowski – preview the Interview with Zbig Brezinski (who he is, history, biography, etc)
- Hannukah Poem
25 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-Barack Obama is to set an ambitious timetable for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, with the first troops pulling out by July 2011. Therefore the analysis from this program and from independant observers throughout the world is correct. The co-ordination of troop withdrawl from Afghanistan is to be timed to coincide with Obama’s re-election campaign for 2012.
-Even CNN reported on Tuesday that this wait of two years before beginning withdrawl will be too long to maintain the US public’s support for the expenditure of US public resources in Afghanistan.
-Fears that the country is being sucked into a Vietnam-style morass are being justified by the actions of a US president who is willing to sacrifice the lives of US soldiers and Afghani Civilians for another two years. Not even to mention the lives of the soldiers of NATO “allies” like Canada who will be killing and being killed for another two years so that Obama can position himself to retain his hold on power at home. By timing the withdrawl of soldiers to coincide with his re-election campaign in 2012 the President of the US is showing the world, and hopefully his own citizens are seeing it as well, how he views the lives of his own soldiers and citizens as exploitable and expendable in order for his regime to retain its hold on power. Isn’t this precisilely the reason that the US claims to be in Afghanistan? to prevent Afghani leaders from exploiting their citizens’ lives to retain their power?
-Even after a NATO conference held in Brussels at the beginning of the month, NATO “allies” are still unwilling to unquestioningly support the US “War on Terror” by maintaining a military precesnce in Afghanistan. France, Germany and UK will hold their own conference at the end of January 2010 and are prepared to outline their own startegy, independant of the pressures and conveluted goals of the United States.
-As the US sees NATO support falling away as quickly as the countries in NATO are seeing their soldiers falling away, the US is trying to solicite the support of other, more non-traditional sources. In what can be seen as a sign of desperation, the US is appealing to the Russians and even the Chinese to support military interference in Afghanistan. The Russians have the experience with Afghanistan to know better, and the Chinese are where they are today, the country with the highest economic status in the world, precisely because the Chinese have not wasted their resources chasing pipedreams and bogeymen in foriegn enclaves. Canada should take note.
-One of the ironies of the situation is that throughout the entire Russian occupation of Afghanistan, the US and their “allies” decried the action as being a barbaric violation of human rights. Now the US is begging Russia to help them enforce the same barbaric violation of human rights, in the same place. Not only is Russia past that stage, the US’ NATO “allies” as well are begining to understand why they must stop focusing on foriegn countries and start focusing on domestic policies to strengthen their own quality of life, which is the true path to National Security.
-Matthew Hoh, a former Marine officer and State Department official who resigned in protest of the US administration’s Afghanistan policy in September, said that “Afghanis will fight harder as long as they are occupied by foriegn powers.” This means that by sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, Obama is strengthening the resistance. Mathhew Hoh said that “the only possibility of a resolution would be a sooner withdrawl, coupled with political negotiations to end the conflict”.
-The Afghani Parliment reinforced and validated Mathhew Hoh’s perception of the situation by on Tuesday announcing that they will not give a vote of confidence to any minister with dual citizenship. This clearly shows that the experience of the Afghani people over the last 30 years has been one that has taught them that Foriegners are untrustworthy and Afgahni parliment has backed up that perception.
-The UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan official website concides that even 8 years after the United States invasion, the quality of life of Afghanis has not improved. This is especially true for Afghani women, whose status has been used by the United states as a great justification for their invasion and occupation of a foriegn country. And as the UN reports, the US has done nothing for the women of Afghanistan over 8 years of occupation nor has Canada.
-As far as Canada is concerned, for all the horn-blowing of the Conservative government and all the unquestioned acceptance of this hot-air by the Canadian people, what is being discussed in Candian Parliment currently is not how the Taliban treat their prisoners, what is being discussed in Canadian Parliment is how Canadian security forces have mistreated Afghani prisoners and how canadian security forces have been involved in and had knowledge of the torture of Afghani detainees while Canada has done nothing about these crimes against humanity committed by canadians abroad.
30 Bike Report w/ Tom
35 Weather
40 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
50 Community Listings
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UN Conference on Climate Change Update from Copenhagen
A Discussion w/ Diana Bronson – 7min38sec
Member of ETC Group
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15 Canadian Headlines
-Canada: Greatest Obstacle to Deal in Copenhagen
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
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> Canada’s image lies in tatters.
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> The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen
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> George Monbiot
> Tuesday December 1 2009
> The Guardian
>
>
> When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
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> So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.
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> Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.
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> In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. No other country that had ratified the treaty has done this. Canada was meant to have cut emissions by 6% between 1990 and 2012. Instead they have already risen by 26%. Never mind special measures; it won’t accept even an equal share.
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> After giving the finger to Kyoto, Canada then set out to prevent the other nations striking a successor agreement. At the end of 2007, Canada singlehandedly blocked a Commonwealth resolution to support binding targets for industrialised nations. After the climate talks in Poland in December 2008, Canada “won” the Fossil of the Year award, presented by environmental groups to the country that had done most to disrupt the talks. The climate change performance index, which assesses the efforts of the world’s 60 richest nations, was published in the same month. Saudi Arabia came 60th. Canada came 59th and the US 58th.
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> In June this year the media obtained Canadian briefing documents which showed the government was scheming to divide the Europeans. During the meeting in Bangkok in October, almost the entire developing world bloc walked out when the Canadian delegate was speaking, as they were so revolted by his bullying. Last week, in Trinidad, the Commonwealth heads of government battled for hours (and eventually won) against Canada’s obstructions. A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.
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> In Copenhagen next week, Canada will do everything in its power to wreck the talks. The rest of the world must do everything in its power to stop Canada from sabotage. But such is the fragile nature of climate agreements that one rich nation — especially a member of the G8, the Commonwealth and the Kyoto group of industrialised countries — could scupper the treaty. Canada now threatens the wellbeing of the world.
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> Why? There’s a simple answer: Canada is developing the world’s second largest reserve of oil. Did I say oil? It’s actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up — unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.
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> To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.
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> Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting them burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes. Alberta’s tar sands operation is the world’s biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions. By 2020, if the current growth continues, the tar sands alone will produce more greenhouse gases than Ireland or Denmark. Already, thanks in part to the tar mining, Canadians have almost the highest per capita emissions on earth.
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> The purpose of Canada’s assault on the international talks is to protect this industry. This is not a poor nation. It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this resource. But the tar barons of Alberta have been able to hold the whole country to ransom. They have captured Canada’s politics and are turning this lovely country into a cruel and thuggish place.
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> Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayoquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.
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> I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How did this happen?
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25 Interview w/ Diana Bronson – repersenting “ETC Group” in Copenhagen
-update of UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen
-describe mood/atmosphere of Canada’s reception
-comment on Stephan Harper quote -
“THE KEY TO ALL THIS IS NOT THE SETTING OF TARGETS. IT IS ACTUALLY THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT OVER TIME WILL MAKE SIGNIFICANT TARGETS POSSIBLE.”
-describe the international coalition of groups calling for assessment in the standards and practices (morals?) of technology.
-municipal round-up
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
I will talk about the GG visit to Chaipas and the shut down of Black fire mining operations there.
-Visiting Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean said here Wednesday that Canada and Mexico must work together to fight crime and to boost prosperity and democracy in the region.
Also I will talk about my recent visit to NYC and and Obama a year in power.
20 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-For Obama’s 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan to take effect, it must first pass through the US House and Senate and then the funding must be approved by the US House and Senate
-57% of US Republicans do NOT want an increase in troops – Over 2/3rds of the US population do NOT want an increase in troops sent to Afghanistan. How backwards has the United States become when the majority of progressive humanists in the US will depend on the Republicans to protect them from the wastes of Obama’s Democrats? Hopefully it will turn out better for the American people then depending on the Democrats to protect the US population from the wastes of Bushes Republicans.A Nanos poll in Canada revealed that 84% of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan on or before the December 31, 2011 deadline set by Canada’s current government.
-There are already 68,000 US soldiers in Afghanistan that we know of – what you might not know is that there are an additional 104,000 military contractors in Afghanistan who are not counted in the figures that the US Department of Defense releases to the public. Most of these contractors came straight from the United States illegal war in Iraq.
-The timetables and strategy used in Afghanistan, including Obama’s request for a troop surge, mirror exactly the strategy used by the United States in Iraq. Change you can believe in.
-Private contractors employed by the Defense Department in Afghanistan will continue to outnumber the size of the American troop presence, even if President Obama’s wish for 30,000 more soldiers is granted.
-South Korea, a country that still institutes a military draft over its citizens, said it is to send 350 more soldiers to Afghanistan to protect its own aid workers there.
-NATO countries, however, met last week in Brussels to discuss collective strategy and came away not even sure if they still are a collective, with so many different approaches concerning NATO presence in Afghanistan. Not the least of these approaches is the collective desire of the citizens of these same NATO countries who are resolved in their opposition to any troop surge.
-In addition to the NATO meeting in Brussels, France, Germany and the UK have requested a UN meeting concerning the situation in Afghanistan to be held on January 28th in London.
-Only 27% of Germans support German troop presence in Afghanistan and after the resignation of both the defense minister and the head of ground operations last week due to repeated Afghani civilian deaths, German parliment decided that they will NOT deploy more troops but may consider extending their withdraw deadline after the conference on Afghanistan is held at the end of January 2010.
-France announced that it will maintain a presence in Afghanistan that “gives priority to the training of Afghani security forces”. Although it will not send more troops to Afghanistan, it will not issue a withdrawl date for its soldiers until after the January 28th conference.
-Gordon Brown, prime minister of England, a country which has lost 100 soldiers to death in Afghanistan this year, announced that he will send 500 more British soldiers to Afghanistan but didn’t say when. Brown contends that he based his decision on the comments of NATO secretary Anders Rasmussen who said that eight other NATO countries had already decided to send more troops. So far, this has NOT happened.
25 Interview w/ Kathy Kelly – Co-coordinator – Voices For Creative Non-Violence – 3-Time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
-letter to Obama opposing troop surge in Afghanistan
Coalition of anti-war groups involved in the creation of this letter
Methods outlined to oppose troop escalation here at home: lobbying representatives to withold tax money/refusal to pay taxes/creating work slowdowns and stoppages/strikes in the workplace and at schools/practical civil resistance
Under Obama’s plan, troop withdrawl from Afghanistan will be co-ordinated and timed to coincide with his own re-election campaign in 2012. In simpler words, Obama is sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, Afghani civilians and NATO Allies in order to maintain his personal position.
-letter to Nobel Prize committee
how does it feel and what does it do to the credability of the award to see Obama, the Peace Prize recipient, actively attempting to esculate a war?
40 Bike Report w/ Tom
43 Weather
45 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
Bill C-391-The Removal of the Canadian Gun Registry
A Discussion w/ Vivien Carli – 9min56sec
Analyst – International Center for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)
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Security Paranoia Discrediting Vancouver Olympics
A Discussion w/ Amy Goodman – 7min32sec
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University Precedent Set in Quebec Law
A Discussion w/ Abraham Weizfeld 9min17sec
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December 4th, 2009 7pm Concordia Hall Building 9th Floor
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08 Weather w/ Margo
15 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-Mangoes
20 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-president Obama announced a troop surge of 30, 000 troops to Afghanistan over the next 2 years
-Now Obama must sell his plan to the US House and senate – no mention of the US people in Obama’s plans.
-57% of US Republicans do NOT want an increase in troops – Over 2/3rds of the US population do NOT want an increase in troops sent to Afghanistan. A Nanos poll in Canada revealed that 84% of Canadians want Canadian soldiers out of Afghanistan on or before the December 31, 2011 deadline set by Canada’s current government.
-Under Obama’s plan, troop withdrawl from Afghanistan will be co-ordinated and timed to coincide with his own re-election campaign in 2012. In simpler words, Obama is sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, Afghani civilians and NATO Allies in order to win himself a second term.
-Analysts say a second term becomes less and less likley for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner with every surge he makes to prolong war.(Kathy Kelly, Chicago-based VCNV, quotes 35 groups opposed to troop surge)
-The United States, in its search for political allies and support in Afghanistan, asked Russia to join and support the NATO effort. In the greatest poetic line this week Russia’s response was “How can we support NATO goals when not one member of NATO has any idea what their goals are? How can they explain their goals in Afghanistan to us when they themselves don’t have a clue what they are?”
-Russia then said that it was time to question the entire concept of NATO and defined it as an organization that has become obsolete in post cold-war reality. This poetically hinted that NATO countries were so caught up in living in the past that they are missing out on the future and hindering the present.
-German opposition to the Afghanistan war continues over the amount of Afghani Civilian deaths and H of S Angela Merkle continues to be on the hotseat. After the resignation of the German commander of ground troops in Afghanistan last week, the German defense minister resigned this week because of German air strikes resulting in Afghani civilian deaths.
-Germany did conclude a long-term trade arrangement with Pakistan that, organized by the US, was a reward for Pakistan’s “support” in Afghanistan
27 Interview w/ Abraham Weizfeld
-congratulations on your victory in court!
-outline the case brought to court against the university and the steps that were taken to present the case to the Quebec court
-discuss the details of the judgement and thoughts regarding the precedent being set regarding a university’s inability to censor the thoughts of its students based on subject or content.
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10 Interview w/ Vivien Carli – Analyst -International Center for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC)
Bill C-391, which passed through the house on November 4, 2009 amends the Firearms Act enacted by the Liberal Government in December of 1998, by removing the requirement to register millions of common rifles and shotguns.
- documentation sources -> are they limited? what are some problems with these sources? credibility, reliability, completeness?
- Canadian Gun Registry -> what will replace it? will it make us safer? is it what Canadians want?
- Gun Ethics in Canada -> has creating fear and instability by Canadian gov’ts so as to increase police powers and diminish individual rights and freedoms shaped gun ethics in Canada?
20 Michael Werbowski Presents
For this week I have two items Mexico: Anti Mining activist murdered in Chiapas and the Canadian mining connection. Harper’s Extraction tour in China: Peddling Canada’s resources ( mines and petrol) to the Chinese.
30 Weather
32 Bike Report w/ Tom
-Proposal to exclude Canada from the Commonwealth
In the past, the Commonwealth has suspended Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa for electoral or human rights reasons. Now, The World Development Movement, the Polaris Institute in Canada and Greenpeace have called for Canada to be suspended from the Commonwealth over its climate change policies. The proposal was raised at this past weekend’s Commonwealth Conference in Trinidad and will be followed up on before the next Commonwealth Conference to be held in Mauritius in 2011.
-Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border
U.S. journalist Amy Goodman said she was stopped at a Canadian border crossing south of Vancouver on Wednesday and questioned for 90 minutes by authorities concerned she was coming to Canada to speak against the Olympics.
Goodman says Canadian Border Services Agency officials ultimately allowed her to enter Canada but returned her passport with a document demanding she leave the country within 48 hours
-Canada: Greatest Obstacle to Deal in Copenhagen
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal
>
> Canada’s image lies in tatters.
>
> The tar barons have held the nation to ransom. This thuggish petro-state is today the greatest obstacle to a deal in Copenhagen
>
> George Monbiot
> Tuesday December 1 2009
> The Guardian
>
>
> When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peacekeeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight to the harsher pieties of its southern neighbour, decent, civilised, fair, well-governed? Think again. This country’s government is now behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party. So amazingly destructive has Canada become, and so insistent have my Canadian friends been that I weigh into this fight, that I’ve broken my self-imposed ban on flying and come to Toronto.
>
> So here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush.
>
> Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada. Unless we can stop it, the harm done by Canada in December 2009 will outweigh a century of good works.
>
> In 2006 the new Canadian government announced it was abandoning its targets to cut greenhouse gases under the Kyoto protocol. No other country that had ratified the treaty has done this. Canada was meant to have cut emissions by 6% between 1990 and 2012. Instead they have already risen by 26%. Never mind special measures; it won’t accept even an equal share.
>>
> After giving the finger to Kyoto, Canada then set out to prevent the other nations striking a successor agreement. At the end of 2007, Canada singlehandedly blocked a Commonwealth resolution to support binding targets for industrialised nations. After the climate talks in Poland in December 2008, Canada “won” the Fossil of the Year award, presented by environmental groups to the country that had done most to disrupt the talks. The climate change performance index, which assesses the efforts of the world’s 60 richest nations, was published in the same month. Saudi Arabia came 60th. Canada came 59th and the US 58th.
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> In June this year the media obtained Canadian briefing documents which showed the government was scheming to divide the Europeans. During the meeting in Bangkok in October, almost the entire developing world bloc walked out when the Canadian delegate was speaking, as they were so revolted by his bullying. Last week the Commonwealth heads of government battled for hours (and eventually won) against Canada’s obstructions. A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.
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> In Copenhagen next week, Canada will do everything in its power to wreck the talks. The rest of the world must do everything in its power to stop Canada from sabotage. But such is the fragile nature of climate agreements that one rich nation — especially a member of the G8, the Commonwealth and the Kyoto group of industrialised countries — could scupper the treaty. Canada now threatens the wellbeing of the world.
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> Why? There’s a simple answer: Canada is developing the world’s second largest reserve of oil. Did I say oil? It’s actually a filthy mixture of bitumen, sand, heavy metals and toxic organic chemicals. The tar sands, most of which occur in Alberta, are being extracted by the biggest opencast mining operation on earth. An area the size of England, comprising pristine forests and marshes, will be be dug up — unless the Canadians can stop this madness. Already it looks like a scene from the end of the world: the strip-miners are creating a churned black hell on an unimaginable scale.
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> To extract oil from this mess, it needs to be heated and washed. Three barrels of water are used to process one barrel of oil. The contaminated water is held in vast tailings ponds, some so toxic that the tar companies employ people to scoop dead birds off the surface. Most are unlined. They leak organic poisons, arsenic and mercury into the rivers. The First Nations people living downstream have developed a range of exotic cancers and auto-immune diseases.
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> Refining tar sands requires two to three times as much energy as refining crude oil. The companies exploiting them burn enough natural gas to heat six million homes. Alberta’s tar sands operation is the world’s biggest single industrial source of carbon emissions. By 2020, if the current growth continues, it will produce more greenhouse gases than Ireland or Denmark. Already, thanks in part to the tar mining, Canadians have almost the highest per capita emissions on earth.
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> The purpose of Canada’s assault on the international talks is to protect this industry. This is not a poor nation. It does not depend for its economic survival on exploiting this resource. But the tar barons of Alberta have been able to hold the whole country to ransom. They have captured Canada’s politics and are turning this lovely country into a cruel and thuggish place.
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> Canada is a cultured, peaceful nation, which every so often allows a band of Neanderthals to trample over it. Timber firms were licensed to log the old-growth forest in Clayoquot Sound; fishing companies were permitted to destroy the Grand Banks: in both cases these get-rich-quick schemes impoverished Canada and its reputation. But this is much worse, as it affects the whole world.
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> I will not pretend that this country is the only obstacle to an agreement at Copenhagen. But it is the major one. It feels odd to be writing this. The immediate threat to the global effort to sustain a peaceful and stable world comes not from Saudi Arabia or Iran or China. It comes from Canada. How did this happen?
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45 Interview w/ Lynn Worrell Rep – “Not in Our Name“
-discussion of “Not in Our Name” group and mandate
-similar organizations “Jews Say No” “New Profile” Israeli High school Students Yearly signitories of Shministim refusal letter – refusal to be drafted into an immoral offensive force – Or-Ben-David
Not In our name is organizing a film screening called citizen nawi, He is an israeli who is fighting for Palestinian rights.
here is the synopsis of the movie:
Citizen Nawi documents the tumultuous life of one of the most
fascinating men in the Israeli left – Ezra Nawi – a plumber by trade and a
political activist who fights for Palestinians’ rights. Simultaneously, Nawi
engages in a personal battle for his partner Fuad, a Palestinian from
Ramallah and an illegal resident chased by law enforcement officials. Tracking the
two intertwined parts of Nawi’s life, the film uncovers a deep seated
racism and homophobia that is common everywhere. Written by Esty Alsthul
December 4th at Concordia 7pm – Hall Building 9th Floor
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Discussion of Bill C-300 and Corporate Accountability
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Maoist and Naxalite Movement in India
An Interview with Rana Bose – 13m24s
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08 Weather w/ Margo
15 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
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20 Interview w/ Band “Chinatown” in-studio
-presented by Jana Nolle
35 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-president Obama will announce his platform for Afghanistan on Tuesday
-57% of US Republicans do NOT want an increase in troops
-German Army chief of staff in Afghanistan, Wolfgang Schniederhan, resigns over amount of Afghani Civilian deaths
-as German opposition to the war builds, many Germans are re-discovering or reading for the first time the critiques of Richard David Precht. It was he who called any attempts by the German government to try to sell the war in Afghanistan to Germans through PR and not calling it a “war” - “Cowardice before its own people.”
Richard David Precht’s article appeared in the the German magazine Der Spiegel in July, 2009.
-Matthew Hoh, the US State Department Representative in Afghanistan who resigned his post in October after reaching the conclusion that the US presence was a waste of resources and soldiers’ lives said “The US is doing exactly what the Soviets did when they invaded Afghanistan”
-Pakistani civilians demonstrated again this week against their own government’s support of the US war in Afghanistan
-The US has begun applying diplomatic pressure against India to remove its presence from Afghanistan, which the US feels is undermining the NATO presence – Indian involvement includes directly dealing with Afghani civilians and not using the proxies of warlords.
-municipal round-up
-Canadian Headlines
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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10 Interview w/ Rana Bose writer, political thinker, just returned from 5 weeks in India
Discussion of the current situation in India, speciffically the rising popularity of the Maoists and the re-emergence of the Naxalite movement – followed by details of the Indian Government’s reaction
For the past 25 years, independant local struggles have found common interest and united under the banner of Maoism, which can be seen as a re-naissance of the Naxalite movement that the Indian government thought it had wiped out in the early 70s.
The Maoists today are much more then just a movement. They have become a parallel government (In about 170 districts of India)
24 Music
26 Michael Werbowski Presents
My topic for this week’s segment would be Yemen and the civil war there with Iran and Saudi Arabia involved in the conflict.
MW
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA, BILL C-300: An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries
-Outline the provisions of Bill c-300
-Outline the need for Bill c-300
-What will it take for the bill to pass through the house?
three factors of bill c-300 on first reading
-Bill c-300 does not lay the framework for legal accountability for Canadian mining companies – it in fact removes Canadian mining companies from the legal framework and places the accountability in the hands of two specific ministers - the minister of foreign affairs or the minister of international trade, who are to act “on their own initiative”.
-Bill c-300 only applies to Canadian mining companies that receive government funding, defined as being through the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board or Export Development Canada and states that companies suspected of infractions will be named to the individual president and chairperson of these respective bodies.
-If the ministers, acting “on their own initiative” (no legal review process) decide that companies have transgressed respect for human rights through their operations, the CPP and EDC are obliged to cut investment ties, there is nothing that legally prevents the Canadian companies in question from continuing their disrespectful actions on their own dime.
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49 Bike Report w/ Tom
55 Community Listings
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15 Movie Review : Pirate Radio
‘Pirate Radio’ is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rogue DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing Rock n Roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down.
25 Interview w/ Nour Dib ALSA McGill Representative (recorded)
The Arab Law Students Association of McGill and the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism are happy to invite you to a lecture by Hina Jilani, leading human rights lawyer and Member of the Goldstone Commission: One of the four writers/drafters of the Goldstone report.
“The Promise of International Law for Civilian Victims of War: The Goldstone Report”
*Date and time: Wednesday 25 November 2009, 6.00pm.
*Venue: Moot Court (Room 100), 3644 Peel Street, New Chancellor Day Hall, McGill Faculty of Law.
*Information: Tel. 514-582-4391/ E-mail: alsamcgill@gmail.com
-Municipal Political Update
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-Vancouver, B.C. – A senior member of the Vancouver Police Department confirmed to the BCCLA (British Columbia Civil Liberties Association) late last week that the VPD has acquired an LRAD (Long Range Acoustical Device) crowd control weapon for the 2010 Olympics. He advised that the VPD would be using the device to ensure that police instructions were clearly heard. The LRAD sonic gun fires a concentrated beam of sound at its targets that can cause hearing damage and temporarily disrupt vision.
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-In May 2008, the Canadian Supreme Court determined that Ottawa shared culpability in the United States violation of Omar Khadr’s human rights. Ottawa allowed Canadian intelligence agents to interrogate Khadr and share that information with US authorities despite knowledge of abuses being inflicted on Omar Khadr by US authorities. Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who has been held at Guantanamo Bay Prison since he was 15. All other citizens of Western countries have been repatriated by their respective/respectful governments.
On Friday, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre told reporters that “any decision to ask for Mr. Khadr’s return to Canada is a decision for the democratically elected government of Canada and not for the courts.” The MP did not mention what Canadians and the Canadian court system were to do if the Gov’t failed to do its job.
Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada to overturn a decision that required Ottawa to repatriate Khadr.
Supreme Court said “No” Ottawa must try to repatriate Omar Khadr, especially now that he is facing a US Military Commision from Guantanomo. No word on where or when this comission will be held, meaning the clock is ticking on the Canadian Gov’t’s window for action in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling.
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-Harper in India
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00 Democracy Now! headlines
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10 Michael Werbowski Presents
20 Weather w/ Margo
25 Bike Report w/ Tom
Revisiting /No Logo/: A message from Naomi Ten years ago, on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of protestors shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. The activists were not against trade or globalization, despite the many misleading claims in the mainstream media. They were against a system of deregulated capitalism that was spreading around the world. At the time of the Seattle protests, my first book, /No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies/, was at the printer. The book tracked the ascendency of the "superbrands" as well as the first signs of a new fight back against corporate power. It was good timing for an author-activist: I had the rare privilege of watching my book become useful to a movement I believed could change the world. On the ten-year anniversary of the Seattle protests, with anger mounting at the open collusion between corporations and governments, I am rereleasing /No Logo/ with an extended new introduction. Among other developments, the new essay looks at the unprecedented bailout of Wall Street, as well as the rise of the Obama Brand (the most powerful brand in the world right now) and examines the troubling gaps between its marketing and reality. But I don't think this is a time for nostalgia. A new wave of exciting "climate justice" activism is underway in the lead up to the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, one that builds on many of the networks born in Seattle. As I write in /Rolling Stone/ (full article below), for activists, Copenhagen "represents a chance to seize the political terrain back from business-friendly half-measures, such as carbon offsets and emissions trading, and introduce some effective, common-sense proposals—ideas that have less to do with creating complex new markets for pollution and more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground." The 10th Anniversary edition of No Logo will be available in the US and Canada in mid-November and January in the UK.
40 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-Eggplant Recipies
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Climate Chaos: A Poem
An Ode to Our Ailing Planet
Read and Written by Michael Werbowski (Minou) – 1min20sec
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