My case reveals U.S. human rights sham

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08 Weather

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20 More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan

Thyme – 7:21

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.”

40 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation

-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.

57 8am warning and 8-9am preview

8-9am

00 Democracy Now! headlines

Council of Europe will investigate and debate on “Faked Pandemics”

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.

cheers

40 Bike Report w/ Tom

45 Weather

50 Community Listings

55 Fusion Opal – outro- plug website http://www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

00 jazz amuck w/ John B.

December 31, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | runsheets | 2009, December 31, runsheet | 3 Comments

December 18th FMA Runsheet

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10 Community Listings

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.

40 Montreal Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve

-municipal round-up

57 8am warning and 8-9am preview

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00 Democracy Now! headlines

10 Michael Werbowski Presents

I would like to do a quick round up of the this year’s main international events such as Mexico’s side into chaos ( economic crisis, drug wars, swine flu) Europe, the passage of the Lisbon treaty and prospects for further enlargement, and Canada’s badly battered international image in 2009 due to allegations of torture and on the eco front the tar sands and mining etc.

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

- Mango History and Recipies (9min04sec)

50 Community Listings

55 Fusion Opal – outro- plug website http://www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

00 jazz amuck w/ John B.

December 17, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | runsheets, Tariq | 2009, december 18, FMA, runsheets | Leave a Comment

Climate Chaos: A Poem

An Ode to Our Ailing Planet

Read and Written by Michael Werbowski (Minou) – 1min20sec

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December 11, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | Commentary, Michael, World Events | change, climate, minou, poetry | Leave a Comment

UN Conference on Climate Change Update from Copenhagen

A Discussion w/ Diana Bronson – 7min38sec

Member of ETC Group

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December 11, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | Interviews, Tariq, World Events | change, climate, conference, copenhagen, global, un, warming | Leave a Comment

December 11th FMA Runsheet

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00 Fusion Opal – theme intro

02 show preview and greetings

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08 Weather w/ Margo

10 Community Listings

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
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> 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.

40 Montreal Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve

-municipal round-up

57 8am warning and 8-9am preview

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00 Democracy Now! headlines

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

- Fruit Recipies

50 Community Listings

55 Fusion Opal – outro- plug website http://www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

00 jazz amuck w/ John B.

December 10, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | runsheets | 2009, December 11, FMA, runsheet | Leave a Comment

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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December 4, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | Interviews, Tariq | bill c 391, canada, gun control, gun elimination, gun registry, security | 2 Comments

Security Paranoia Discrediting Vancouver Olympics

A Discussion w/ Amy Goodman – 7min32sec

Host and Producer of DemocracyNow!

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December 4, 2009 Posted by fridaymorningafter | Interviews, Tariq | freedom of press, freedom of speech, olympics, paranoia, security, vancouver | Leave a Comment

University Precedent Set in Quebec Law

A Discussion w/ Abraham Weizfeld 9min17sec

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Film Screening: Citizen Nawi

Interview w/ Lynn Worrell 4min01sec

Presented by: “Not in Our Name”

December 4th, 2009 7pm Concordia Hall Building 9th Floor

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December 4th FMA Runsheet

all times EST

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7-8am

00 Fusion Opal – theme intro

02 show preview and greetings

05 ads/promos

-thank you to Dusty’s montroyal/parc for providing the breakfast

08 Weather w/ Margo

10 Community Listings

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.

40 Montreal Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve

-municipal round-up

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00 Democracy Now! headlines