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something for the vegans this week:
recipe for Chick Peas and Lentils – 4min23sec
30 Discussion About Recycling in Montreal
Michael Werbowski, Craig Sauve, Tariq Jeeroburkhan et al. will discuss the expanded commitment to recycling in the city of Montreal .
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Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – April 9, 2010
-To follow up on the story we reported on the program last week regarding the NATO assault and killings of a wedding party in Pakita Province, Afghanistan on Febuary 12, 2010. The story was uncovered by the London Times and not only exposed the NATO killings of Afghani civilians, but also how NATO had knowingly lied to cover up its actions. Original investigations by the London Times “suggested that NATO’s claims were either willfully false or, at best, misleading.” -Further verifications by Afghani investigators as reported this week by the London Times have also indicated that "US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of (the) botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened" -The Times also reported that "NATO admitted responsibility for all the deaths for the first time on (Sunday night)." -Just to give you, the listener, some insight as to how the North American meanstream media coverage of the events in Afghanistan attempt to manipulate your understanding of what is going on and alter your preceptions of the truth, compare the investigative journalism of the London Times with the CNN coverage of the same event on February 12, 2010 that reported the deaths of the 3 civilian women and 2 Afghani government officials were "honour killings" and insinuated that it was the families of the victims themselves or even the taliban who were responsible. -Granted, the CNN report did appear only hours after the incident occured, but this misinformation is STILL posted on the CNN website two months later. -It becomes clearer and clearer as the misinformation in the meanstream media is exposed that these media outlets are no longer reliable sources for credible information about the situation in Afghanistan. -We hope you, the listener, accepted our challenge last week, and analyzed how the meanstream media covered Afghani President Hamid Karzai's sarcastic remarks that he was considering joining the taliban. These comments, made off the cuff and taken out of context by every meanstream media outlet from Yellowknife to Key West, were used to demonize the Afghani government and as an excuse not to report on the cause of the frustration that led Karzai to make such a remark. The continued killing of Afghani civilians by NATO and foreign coalition forces has actually rendered the taliban a viable alternative for Afghani civilians to safeguard the welfare of Afghani people. That is the legacy of what 8 years of NATO and foreign occupation has done to the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan. -Thousands marched in the streets of Germany this past week to protest against the invasion and continued occupation of Afghanistan. There were 30 organized rallies at locations across the country to call for an immediate and complete troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Over 1000 people marched in Munich and about 2000 more people marched in different towns and cities across Germany. The protest movement, which is celebrating 50 years of Easter demonstrations this year, is also calling for a world free of nuclear weapons and an end to German arms exports. This demonstrates the point that we have made clearly on the FMA over the past weeks that there is an undeniable link between the opposition to the "imperialism" and empire the countries occupying Afghanistan seek to maintain and the global movement of the true international community towards prioritizing people and humanity over war and conquest. -In the United States, there have been protests and marches that have not stopped opposing the occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan. In late March, there was a protest, against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that began with a noon rally in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House and followed with a march. Brian Becker, national coordinator of the antiwar ANSWER Coalition, which called for the demonstration, said: "There is growing a body of sentiment in the country . . . that opposes the expanding war in Afghanistan, the continued occupation of Afghanistan, the continued occupation of Iraq." Maggie Pondolfino, a representative of Military Families Speak Out, said: "I'm the proud mother of an active-duty infantry soldier. . . . We love and support our troops. And it is because we do that we will vocally show our opposition whenever our government sends them to ill-advised, immoral, unwinnable wars." -Here in Canada, we will continue our look at how this government is handling the accusations and stigma of war crimes guilt that hangs over the head of every Canadian because of the actions of this government and its security forces. http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/19-7 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7087637.ece http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/12/afghanistan.bodies/index.html http://www.rebelnews.org/politics/europe/203899-german-easter-rallies-decry-afghanistan-killings
15 Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair - What the Afghani Detainee Documents Show 1/ What have you learned from studying the released government documents? 2/ Will Canadians get a full public inquiry into the Afghan Detainee Situation?
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Discussion of situation in Kyrgyzstan -
1.update for the listeners the latest situation regarding the stability of the community
2.What does this mean for the US and their ocupation of Afghanistan which depends on Kyrgyzstan as a Northern supply post?
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Municipal headlines so far:
-recycling containers, which is the best?
-a short commentary on Vision Montréal breaking party finance laws.
-Analysis of “Operation Hammer” // Charest-gov’t anti-corruption task force (Roche Construction)
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Ali Hassan Hosting – WE AINT TERRORISTS Comedy Show – TICKETS go on sale this Friday March 26th at noon: $15, available at RUBIKS Solutions, 1208 St-Denis OR CALL 514.791.8569 between 10am – 7pm to reserve. Woo HOO!
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Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – April 2
-US President Barak Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan over the past week and there is speculation as to what exactly was its purpose. We revealed on the program last week that Hamid Karzai and the Afghanistan government clearly announced that they will not accept the transfer of detainees from Guantanomo, Cuba to Bagram Military Prison in Afghanistan. This has been the de facto US plan for closing down Guantanomo as promised by Obama during his election campaign. The Afghani Government, however, announced last week that they will not accept such a move as it would be a violation of Afghani soveriegnty. It could be that Obama’s visit to Afghanistan this past week was meant to discuss the situation regarding the transfer of prisoners with Karzai and the Afghani government. This is something that the US should have cleared up with the Afghanis before announcing their intentions for the Guantanomo prisoners.
-Other reasons that have been proposed for Obama’s surprise visit to Afghanistan, mainly by the US meanstream and alternative medias, are that after posting his health care triumph domestically, this was a show of solidarity with the troops to appease the hard-core right wing of American politics. It has also been contended that after the intensity of the domestic health care battle, Obama just wanted to “get away” from Washington for a while.
-Governmental hearings into the issues surrounding the Afghani detainee issue and Canada’s involvement continued in Ottawa yesterday, however, it is clear to any and all who have viewed, even briefly these proceedings, that the intent is not necessarily to discern Canada’s role in the torture of prisoners, but to protect Canada’s image when the questions of Canada’s culpability arise. One of the clearest examples of this that I witnessed yesterday was the Chairman of the committe, Kevin Sorensen, whose role as chairman is to objectively mediate the proceedings, actually cross-examining a witness from the Canadian Department of International Affairs and Cooperation, by making statements that the witness could agree or disagree with – not by asking questions of the witness on the stand.
-The witness did uphold that the Afghani security, NDS, had different legal definitions of torture then their Canadian counterparts and he also maintained that although Canadian forces were aware of this for at least 2 years, Canada continued to hand over detainees to the NDS – The Canadian government assertion that the NDS “took” these detainees from Canadian custody without Canadian complicity did not come through in the various testimonies.
http://www.afghanconflictmonitor.org/
Interview w/ MP Thomas Mulcair – What the Afghani Detainee Documents Show
15 Michael Werbowski Presents: Interview w/ John Carlos Frey
John Carlos Frey has recently finished his latest film entitled, “The 800 Mile Wall.” This powerful new documentary takes an unflinching look at the U.S. border security strategy that many believe violates fundamental human rights.
2. Adil Charkaoui, one of the individuals targeted by Canada’s security certificate program, launched on Feb. 22nd a 24.5 million dollar civil lawsuit against the Federal Government for reparations, what do you think of the action by Charkaoui, and are you considering a similar move?
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30 More To Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
We started last week giving you some incredible barbeque recipies for kababs with summer just around the corner, Today, The Chef will give us some more mouth-watering recipies for the grill – Here is an inspiring recipie for making lamb burgers
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – March 26
-A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials and is an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The London Times in England.
The assault by Nato was carried out before dawn on the morning of February 12, 2010 in Pakita Province, Eastern Afghanistan; Despite the fact that two weeks earlier Nato had promised to eliminate night time raids specifically because of the high rate of civillian casulaties caused by these raids. Nato issued a statement after the raid which claimed that the victims were already dead and had been found already “tied up, gagged and killed”.
Investigations by the London Times however, which included interviews with more then a dozen survivors of the Nato assault, officials, police officers and a religious leader at and around the scene of the attack “suggest that Nato’s claims are either wilfully false or, at best, misleading.”
Nato’s original statement said: “Several insurgents engaged the joint force in a firefight and were killed.” The family, who were celebrating the wedding of one of the victims, maintain that no one threw so much as a stone. Rear Admiral Greg Smith, Nato’s director of communications in Kabul, denied that there had been any attempt at a cover-up, but did not respond to the allegations that laws and rules of conduct requiring Afghan-International and Nato units to identify themselves by leaving leaflets of identification were not respected. In fact, local US forces denied any involvement.
Nato’s director of communications did admit that the original statement had been “poorly worded” but said “to people who see a lot of dead bodies” the women had appeared at the time to have been dead for several hours.
Although the family of the victims were offered 2000$ US dollars for each of the victims, a family member said “There’s no value on human life. They killed our family, then they came and brought us money. Money won’t bring our family back.”
-Last week we reported that the UK-based group “Save the Children” had stressed the importance of seperating humanitarian aid from military strategy and attack. In fact, the UN has withdrawn from Afghanistan for precisely that call not being heeded by Nato and its allies. Now, over the past week more NGOs trying to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan have joined in the call.
Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontiers issued a press release strongly objecting to a recent statement by NATO’s Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in which he implied that aid groups should be the “soft power” component to the military strategy NATO and the international coalition forces have employed in Afghanistan.
The NGO press release re-inforced the points made on this program last week: that the international military coalition has also co-opted the aid system – at times with the aid community’s complicity – to the point where it is difficult for Afghani Civilians and taxpayers at home to distinguish between assistance and political or military action.
To quote Doctors Without Borders reps in the US and Afghanistan -
“When confusion is sown about the intentions of aid workers, it can raise suspicions in affected communities or even lead armed groups to consider health centres and medical personnel as legitimate targets.
This draws humanitarian aid into the battlefield, with populations subsequently denied health care. After eight years of war, emergency medical care for Afghanis should not depend upon the parties waging it.”
In Brief:
-Afghani President Karzai signed several economic agreements with Chinese leaders which indicate that it is possible to develop a prosperous economic future without having to resort to military force. Canadians should try to find out how the Chinese did it.
-Afghanistan will need another 500 million US dollars to clear the country of mines, according to Afghan Technical Consultants, a private mining company
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7060395.ece
http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/63672/2010/02/18-125742-1.htm
http://unama.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1741&ctl=Details&mid=1882&ItemID=8270
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March 6, 2009 – Community Leaders in Canada to Sue the Toronto Stock Exchange and a
>> Canadian Mining Company
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>> Marcia Ramirez and Carlos Zorrilla, community activists from the Intag
>> area of Ecuador, will be visiting Canada from the 25th of February
>> until the 7th of March as part of a tour to announce lawsuits against
>> a Canadian mining company and the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Updates
- In January 2010, the Toronto Stock Exchange Delisted the Canadian Mining Company in Question – Copper Mesa – and the company lost about 60% of its value over the next 48 hours.
-On March 25, 2010 the court case opened: the Ecuadorian village, represented by three plaintiffs, is suing the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Canadian Mining company and 2 Copper mesa company directors.
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30 More To Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
As the Barbeque Season approaches with summer just around the corner, The Chef gives you some mouth-watering recipies for making Kababs
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – March 19
-A Los Angeles Times report from this past Saturday announced that Taliban militants were now refusing to collaborate with Al Qaeda fighters. Newsflash!: The Taliban has refused to co-operate with Al Qaeda since at least 1998. Afghanis fighting foriegn-occupation in their country, of whom the Taliban make up only about 10% (despite what your meanstream media tells you), have always seen Al Qaeda as a foriegn entity and therefore no different from the Soviet, American or Canadian armies as an occupying force of imposition.
-In fact, evidence now available from various sources, including recently declassified U.S. State Department documents, show that the Taliban regime imposed strict isolation on Al Qaeda affiliates, including Osama Bin Landen, as early as 1998 in order to prevent any terrorist plots against the United States, which the Taliban have never supported.
-The evidence contradicts all claims by top officials of the Barack Obama administration that the Taliban was complicit in the terrorist attacks in the United States on Sep. 11, 2001. It also bolsters the credibility of Taliban statements in recent months asserting that the Taliban has no interest in Al Qaeda’s global jihadist aims.
-It is becoming increasingly clear to the citizens of Afghanistan and the Middle East that Al Qaeda is a ghost organization that serves the purpose of giving US politicians and media the pretext and justification for invading and occupying countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. The people of Afghanistan have long realized this and don’t need to be micro-managed by people who haven’t, or worse, by the people who use the narrative of Al Qaeda to serve their own interests at the expense of others.
-A US State Department report released on March 11, 2010 declared that:
“The country’s human rights record remained poor. Human rights problems included extrajudicial killings, torture, poor prison conditions, official impunity, prolonged pretrial detention, restrictions on freedom of the press, restrictions on freedom of religion, violence and societal discrimination against women, restrictions on religious conversions, abuses against minorities, sexual abuse of children, trafficking in persons, abuse of worker rights, the use of child soldiers in armed conflict, and child labor.”
and this is a US State Department description of the government that US and Canadian soldiers are dying to keep in place.
-CNN announced this past week that the US military was changing its policies regarding holding Afghani Detainees. Previously, the US military was allowed to hold Afghanis for 96 hours without charge during questioning. This week the US military announced that it would expand this time frame to 14 days for holding prisioners without charge. This news might come as a shock, no pun intended, to prisoners still in Guantanomo Bay who have been held without charge for as long as 8 years in some cases.
-No wonder the conservative Government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to keep these documents secret. Even as far as shutting down parliament through prorogation. Opposition MPs clearly state that the government-proposed Iacobucci-inquiry to address the issue of Afghani Detainees is simply a tactic to avoid proper accountability on the issue.
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20 Interview w/ Tony Smith – retired Vancouver police officer and LEAP rep -
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) March 2, 2010-An international group of cops, judges and prosecutors who oppose the "war on drugs" is criticizing a gag order from the Victoria Police Department that limits the freedom of expression of one of its officers. The officer, David Bratzer, who volunteers with the group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) while off-duty, has been ordered not to speak at an official City of Victoria-sponsored event on harm reduction.
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – March 12
-As the number of allies willing to continue supporting the US-led occupation of Afghanistan continues to decline, the United States is having to reach deeper and deeper into the “loot bag” to pay off the remaining allies that it is desperate to hold on to. In addition to the 65 billion dollars the US will be spending in Afghanistan this year, an additional request for 700 million dollars in payoffs to Pakistan has also been requested. This is in further addition to the 1.5 billion over 5 years that the US originally promised Pakistan for its support, as well as the “Preferential Partner” trade arrangement between Germany and Pakistan that was part of Pakistan’s reward for helping the US-occupation of Afghanistan.
-Clearly, this is a payoff to Pakistan in return for allowing Afghani refugees to remain in Pakistan until 2012. The scariest part of the equation is wondering why only now, after 8 years of foreign NATO-led occupation, have the occupiers played the only card they have left and expanded their bribery-strategy to the international level. There are two possible answers. One, obviously, with international support for the occupation of Afghanistan collapsing at the government level to match popular opinion of their electorates, the US needs to hold on to all the allies it has by “any means necessary”, the clear corruption of the bribery-strategy notwithstanding. Two, much more scarier, is the indication that the occupation forces are preparing to create hundreds of thousands more Afghani refugees and want to make sure that there is somewhere to put them. That is as clear an admission of defeat by NATO forces as you will see. An acknowledgment of NATO’s inability to win the hearts and minds of the Afghani people which will result in the forced exodus to Pakistan of Afghani citizens.
-”The Helmand Blog”, which is a British army propaganda website run by something called the UK Forces Media Ops Team, reports that the results of Operation Moshtarak proves that the war in Afghanistan is “winnable”. This leads us to question what the British Army definition of “winning” is, considering that Operation Moshtarak has killed more Afghani civilians than it has insurgents, even using the biased occupation-forces definition of “insurgent”. If this is what the British Army considers a “success”, then it is no wonder that they will never have the faith and trust of the Afghani people. Not until they put their guns down and realize that Afghanistan belongs to the people of Afghanistan and not the British, American or Canadian armies. The alternative will be Afghani refugees by the thousands.
-Here at home, the Afghani detainee scandal has had some new developments. Former Supreme Court judge Frank Iacobucci, who was in charge of looking into the abuses by Canadian Security agents against security-certificate detainees here in Canada and therefore knows a little something about the dirtiness of Canada’s security agencies, was appointed last Friday to review the secret documents relating to the handling of Afghani prisoners. The government has refused to hand over the documents to Parliament and even shut down Parliament in hope that the issue would just “go away”. It won’t.
-The opposition parties claim that the move to convene the Iacobucci-inquiry is simply a move to appease the Canadian public’s demands to know what really happened and is a political trick to avoid releasing the internal CSIS documents to the public and the Canadian Parliament. What we know for sure is that these documents will show that Canada’s security forces were aware for two full years that Afghani detainees faced torture, yet Canada continued to hand over the detainees despite this awareness. So why the refusal to release these documents to the public? What other misdeeds will be exposed? One possible answer is that these documents will reveal that Canadian forces participated in the actual physical torture of the prisoners themselves. Canadians should take note and demand a full public inquiry into the Afghani detainee scandal.
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During the summer of 2009, a group of 18 Native and Xicana youth from the United States/Turtle Island traveled to the Occupied West Bank and Israel to connect with Palestinian youth and to collectively imagine a future more just for all indigenous peoples.
The Indigenous Youth Delegation to Palestine, the first of its kind, is a project of grassroots organizations in both the U.S. and Palestine who have come together with the purpose of connecting Native and Xicana youth in the U.S with youth in Palestine. By creating a forum to reflect together and to share common struggles, this cross-continental exchange was an opportunity for youth to learn first hand from each other by sharing tools and strategies of resistance against displacement and colonization.
Marei Spaola was member to the delegation, and is part of the 7th Generation Indigenous Visionaries (7thGIV), a grassroots collective at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, where he currently studies.
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Poets For Palestine was published to unite a diverse range of poets, spoken word artists, and hip-hop artists who have used their words to elevate the consciousness of humanity. Sixty years after the dispossession of the Palestinian people, this anthology presents forty-eight poems alongside original works by Palestinian artists. All proceeds from the sale of this collection will go toward funding future cultural projects that highlight Arab artistry in the United States.
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-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
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-US controlling interest of CanWest (through Goldman Sachs)
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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation
-As Canadian Parliment returned from two months of prorogation – the issue to be discussed is how pressing the demand from the opposition parties into an official inquiry about the treatment of Afghani detainees by Canadian forces shall be.
We hope that the Conservative gov’t trick of shutting down parliment to mute discussion on issues surrounding the treatment by Canadians of Afghani detainees will not have succeeded. The first thing that the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff announced was that he will be demanding an inquiry into the legality of the prorogation process, and lost in the shuffle of the throne speech and the budget appears to be the Afghani detainee issue. If this truely is the case, then the shuting down of Canadian parliment obtained its objective and will be an option for future canadian governments to resort to. Canadians should take note.
-Once more, charity and relief organizations are voicing their opinions of how linking relief efforts with the military occupation is destroying the credability of those relief efforts within Afghanistan. This time it is the london-based organization “Save the Children” that is pointing out the inheirent lack of credability that is created when relief efforts are embedded within military structures. We first realized this with the so-called “Provincial Reconstruction Teams” (PRTs) in Iraq and the lesson still has not been learned for implementation in Afghanistan. Even more disturbing is to see the repeat of the same mistakes that have led to failures throughout other american-led occupations. The recent American decision to provide weaponary to various Afghani Militias threatens to make the life of Afghani civilians even more dangerous, just as every single gun or bomb in the country already does. The recent American strategy is literally only adding more “fuel to the fire”. The idea is that these militias will use the us-provided weapons to fight the Taliban. NewsFlash!: that was the same logic and thinking that armed the Taliban in the first place to fight the Russians. Those are the same weapons that the taliban are using today against the occupying forces.
-The Frontline Club, based in London, which calls itself a “Champion of independant journalism”, held a panel discussion and press conference on Wednesday that involved journalists, UK military officials and the Afghan ambassador to the UK; all agreed that the full story of Afghanistan is not reaching the public. Journalist Stephen Grey summarized the mood of the discussion as well as the challenges of reporting about Afghanistan:
“As journalists we’re being put in a very uncomfortable position because we are central to the strategy. We have essentially become combatants in this. If we start reporting challenges to this message that people are trying to put out, we are automatically part of the enemy.”
The founder of the Frontline Club, vaughn smith, had this insight - “Afghanistan is a large PR operation. There’s an attempt to manage the news. It would be better addressed if we had more press out there and it was better approached.”
Afghan ambassador to the uk, Homayoun Tandar, responded that it was the British perception of Afghanistan that had created this biased coverage and that Afghanistan is a dynamic culture that is rarely properly portrayed in the Western media:
“Your vision on Afghanistan is an expired vision… You’re in Helmand, that’s all. One in 34 provinces. Afghanistan is more than Helmand.”
-Also in store for Afghani civilians over the next several weeks will be the seasonal flooding that will make their lives even more challanging. Not one word of this annual obstacle to life in Afghanistan in the meanstream press here reporting on how much we like to think we are helping Afghani citizens.
-As the UN leaves Afghanistan, Kai Eide, special rep for the Secrerary general made it very clear at his last press conference in Kabul before UN departure, that if the US and their lackies like Canada do not get their act together this year and realize that their actions are causing more harm then good for the Afghani people, then the foriegn occupiers will find that they have reached a point of no return in the country.
-Basically the UN is leaving Afghanistan not because the challange of supporting the Afghani people is too difficult, but because the challenge of massaging the ego of the dying US super-power and its allies like Canada is not in the mandate of united nations. The situation of aiding the Afghani people is made complicated by these foriegn occupying forces who want to maintain a control over the Afghani people that has never been established, nor will it ever be.
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decision by the Netherlands to begin withdrawing troops in August
The Australians, who have about 1,500 troops in Uruzgan, say they will not take over the lead role once the Dutch leave.
“Domino effect”
Many analysts, such as Sean Kay with Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, ask whether the decision by the Netherlands to begin withdrawing troops in August will have a domino effect on other countries.
“If you listen to NATO officials, they will tell you no,” said Kay. “But at the end of the day, decisions on military contributions are taken in the capitals. And they are taken by politicians who have to be responsive to and reflective of public opinion.”
“And public opinion in Europe in particular, but also in Canada has been turning away from this mission for years now. And the elites in government have been trying to make a stand-up case for the commitment to the alliance and NATO. But that is just becoming increasingly difficult for them,” he added.
Canada is expected to begin withdrawing its 3,000 troops in mid-2011.
USA – 60% out
Poland – 75% out
France – 55% out
Germany – 55% out
These are very good artists who are now Canadian, but they maintain the optic of their Latin American origins.
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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-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)
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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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February 19th FMA Runsheet
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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.
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40 Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve
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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
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35 Bike Report w/ Tom
-Ukrainian Election results and other topics for discussion
50 James Baldwin Bio
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February 12th FMA Runsheet
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English/Turkish Photographer - Experiences in Istanbul and Photographic Expositions Rebecca Erol Editorial & Photography Services www.rebeccaerol.com
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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.
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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.
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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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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 – http://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
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/seyret/?task=videodirectlink&id=5448
35 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
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
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/seyret/?task=videodirectlink&id=5448
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.”
20 Michael Werbowski Presents
-What is Next For Haiti?
-Haitian Disaster Relief
-Bringing Back Aristide in Haiti
30 Weather
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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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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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”
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-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”
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-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.
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- 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.
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-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.
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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.
December 4th FMA Runsheet
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02 show preview and greetings
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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.
-municipal round-up
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
8-9am
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
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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 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
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
November 27th FMA Runsheet
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08 Weather w/ Margo
15 There’s More to Life Than Hummus w/ Chef Ali Hassan
-coffee
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
8-9am
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.
47 Weather
49 Bike Report w/ Tom
55 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
November 20th FMA Runsheet
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08 Weather w/ Margo
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
57 8am warning and 8-9am preview
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
50 Community Listings
00 jazz amuck w/ John B.
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