February 26th FMA Runsheet
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08 Weather
15 Headlines from CiTR – Vancouver
-New Angus Ried poll numbers come out indicating 3 things:
1. Most Canadians believe there will be a Federal election this year
2. Jack Layton has the highest approval rating of any party leader – Ignatieff has lowest approval rating
3. Conservatives on pace for a smaller minority gov`t (No numbers for voter turnout expectations)
-CanWest sale to Shaw Cable expected to go through
*If you can bone up on this topic we can have a lengthy discussion specifically about:
-US controlling interest of CanWest (through Goldman Sachs)
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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USA – 60% out
Australia – 55% out
Poland – 75% out
France – 55% out
Germany – 55% out
Afghanistan – NATO apologizes for more civilian deaths, but has yet to change operational tactics that led to those deaths
Netherlands – Coalition gov`t collapses over opposition to Afghanistan War – Labour Party refuses to support the gov`t unless the dutch troops are brought home from Afghanistan
Sri Lanka – protests continue over politically-motivated jailings – specifically General Sarath Fonseka, accused of plotting against the President
Greece-Changes made in National Debt Management Agency to address worker protests
Mexico-A failed Narco-State? interview
30 Michael Werbowski Presents
Discussion regarding week of events to take place at UQAM, McGill and Concordia between the 4th-11th of March and the reasons behind them.
**6th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week**
March 4-11, 2010 – Montreal
FULL SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!
Join us and over 40 cities around the world this year in marking the 6th annual Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW). IAW is a week of lectures, workshops, film screenings, and cultural events to educate about Israel/Palestine, and also to give momentum to the growing campaign of Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid. Events in Montreal will take place at UQAM, Concordia, McGill, and other locations around the city. Full schedule of events is below!
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50 Bike Report w/ Tom
55 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
February 19th FMA Runsheet
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00 Fusion Opal – theme intro
02 show preview and greetings
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08 Weather
15 Headlines from CiTR – Vancouver
BLACKlisted Then and Now: > Linking Histories of Racism and National Security in Montreal > > Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 7pm > Dawson College, Rm 4C1, 3040 Sherbrooke W (Atwater Metro) > > February is Black History Month. Join Project Fly Home and the Alfie Roberts > Institute in a panel discussion about state surveillance and repression of > members of > Montreal's black community in the name of national security in the 1960s and > today. This panel is part of a six-month campaign launched by Project Fly Home to > demand that Canada immediately free Abdelrazik from the sanctions he is > subject to under the "1267" regime, that Canada put pressure on members of > the 1267 committee to delist Abdelrazik, and that the 1267 regime be > scrapped. For more information or to get involved: > www.peoplescommission.org/en/abdelrazik.
35 CLR James Bio
40 Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-This past week, there was a major announcement that the Afghan Taliban’s No.2 figure had been captured by the US – led coalition in Afghanistan. This was announced by the meanstream media as a successful result of the US surge of 15 000 troops into an area of Southern Afghanistan which is home to about 1500 Afghani freedom fighters.
-What the foriegn press and even more shocking, the foriegn US-led coalition, have never understood is that there is no “Taliban” with a hierarchy of troops and officers that mirrors what the foriegn concept of an army is. Instead, what you have in Afghanistan are various groups and pockets of opposition to foriegn domination which don’t take orders, but have been able for thousands of years to co-exist without the need for a military hierarchy.
-What the capture of anyone in a position of presumed authority within the so-called “Taliban” does, if anything, is create a vacuum which then leads to a power struggle which, in turn, leads to an intensification of the attacks on the foriegn soldiers occupying Afghanistan as everyone within the Afghani freedom movement step up their efforts to fill the hole.
-Ultimately, the Afghani people themselves will find that they will be the ones most-effected by foriegn-led efforts to justify the troop surge because the need to produce results measured by artificial standards like “body-count” numbers and “high-profile” arrests lessens the security of an average citizen as clearly seen by the US-led failures in Vietnam and Iraq.
-There still is only one solution to consensus-resolution in Afghanistan, that is peaceful negotiations and dialogue. This is precisely what the so-called “Taliban” proposed in 2003-2004 when they presented a six-point plan for discussion and negotiation to the foriegn armies, who along with their foriegn media outlets, have left that idea on the shelf for too long.
-The only alternative to peaceful negotiations with the benefit and welfare of Afghanis in heart and mind, with no militaristic or geographical objectives based on occupying a land without its people, is for the foriegn troops to get out of the country and to let the people of Afghanistan get on with their lives.
-It may be exactly this reasoning, based on the lessons of history integrated with the notion of human rights for all, that led Robert Watkins, deputy special representative of the United Nations’ secretary-general to officially announce that the UN will oppose NATO forces’ “militarization of human aid”. He also announced that UN agencies will not take part in the US-led “reconstruction efforts” -
“We are not part of that process, we do not want to be a part of it. We will not be part of that military strategy”.
Hannah Arendt’s view of imperialism and its relevance in the context of today’s war in Afghanistan, in which Canada also takes part.
25 Paul Robeson Bio
30 weather
35 Bike Report w/ Tom
-Ukrainian Election results and other topics for discussion
50 James Baldwin Bio
55 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
February 12th FMA Runsheet
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08 Weather
15 Headlines from CiTR – Vancouver
English/Turkish Photographer - Experiences in Istanbul and Photographic Expositions Rebecca Erol Editorial & Photography Services www.rebeccaerol.com
40 Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-As the American political establishment continues to argue amongst itself as to who poses the greatest “terror” threat to the US – Democracts like vice Prsident joe biden say Pakistan while the Republicans are still ranting about Iran, former gun-slinging Texas congressman Charlie Wilson died this past week at age 76.
-Charlie Wilson was the man responsible for engaing US Congress to arm the Aghanistan “freedom fighters” in their efforts to repel the invading foriegners, who at that time in the early 80s were the soviets. The legacy of that decision was one that gave birth to a great sense of civic and national pride in all afghans as they were ultimately succseeful, once again, in repeling an invading foriegn force.
-What we are seeing today in Afghanistan is that the Afghans who were armed and trained to fight in defense of their land, life and culture during the 80s are being replaced by foriegn contractors who are hired by NATO and other foriegn entities to do the work that should be done by the indigenous people.
-There are currently more foriegn, independent contractors, who are legally accountable to no one, then there are foriegn soldiers, who at the very least are accountable to the Geneva conventions and universal law. Even after Obama’s recent troop surge, there are over 100 000 foriegn contractors in Afghanistan as compared to about 70 000 foriegn soldiers.
-The foriegn contractors are comprised mainly of ex-criminals, bounty hunters and other ne’er do-wellers who have become mercenaries with neither the discipline nor the morality to be integrated into an official army, which means they are even more in need of accountability then regular soldiers, with the afghan civilian death toll evidence of the price paid.
-Iraq has already suffered close to a million civilian deaths, if not more, based on the “destruction with impunity” carried out by a foriegn invasion force that felt no limits to their actions. As a result, this week, Iraq ordered out of the country all mercenaries from the Blackwater company. This is too little too late as Blackwater has since changed its name and the damage has been done, but Iraq is sending a message to all foriegn contractors, the governments and entities like NATO who employ them, that it is the mercenaries who are one of the root problems.
-Unfortunately for Afghanistan, because either NATO does not understand or care about the basic problems that mercenaries continue to cause, the vast majority, if not all of the private contractors that are expelled from Iraq are going to head straight for Afghanistan without missing a beat, or most importantly for the mercenaries themselves, a paycheck.
Khader was never accused of planting roadside bombs, he has been imprisoned for 8 years because of his proximity to the scene of the death of an American soldier who was killed by an American hand-grenade. The story according to the other American soldiers in the unit is that they threw the grenade to where Khadr was and he threw it back when it exploded and killed the American soldier.
Even if that story is true, it underlines and validates Khadr’s lawyers claims of self-defense. The more likely story is that, based on testimony from the same American soldiers in the unit that met with Khadr that day, in the confusion, killed their own soldier in a “friendly-fire” incident and instead of admitting this have let the then-15 year old Khadr rot for the last eight years of his life in Guantanamo.
-The current government has not changed its stance on repatriating Khadr despite three Supreme Court of Canada orders to do so – a lack of respect for Canadian legal authority that hasn’t even been shown by the Taliban.
2/ Canada`s exemption from Buy American regulations in the States. Here`s the catch: in return Canadian Government and Federal spending projects are now going to be opened up to all American companies. Instead of our tax money going back into Canadian companies, we are going to see more of what we saw last year with American companies contracting our army. Free Trade on crack…
3/ Russell Williams, base comander at Trenton canadian Army Base implicated in the disapearence of 5 women at the base. Continuing the “Destruction with Impunity” culture and attitude that the canadian army has sullied the image of Canada with around the world.
20 weather
25 Bike Report w/ Tom
30 Interview w/ Yves Engler
Book Launch – Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid
Feb 27 – Divan Orange
Yves’ fourth book, after his most recent “Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy”, outlines the history of Canadian complicity from the creation of Israel and the expulsion of the Palestinian people in 1947 until today’s military and financial support and ties in the continued oppression of the Palestinian people all with an eye towards refining the system of apartheid which is meant to justify it all.
45 Michael Werbowski Presents
55 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
February 5th FMA Runsheet
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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:
http://coat.ncf.ca
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Justin Podur Conference on Haiti Video -
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.
40 Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve
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00 Democracy Now! headlines
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
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
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