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Sunday
January 20, 2008
Keeping up appearances
First, let me say for the zillionth time that you can't believe what
you read in the mainstream. They publish as fact things that are
just popular notion. There is no real investigative reporting. Not only
do they focus on what they think
sells - which means they embellish - they are dumbing down as well,
probably because they are stingy with
pay.
So, I wasn't surprised when a link in a CBC article about Canada's
official spy souvenir shop had pieces missing. Here's
the correct link in case you're interested. I looked at the
stuff on display as long as I could before cracking up.
I've always been of the opinion that CSIS has a secret
decoder ring
mentality, but the sight of a bona fide, cold war surveillance
lunch box pretty much confirmed it. I just couldn't take it
seriously.
(By the way, there's an easier way to encode messages;
no purchase necessary.)
All this spy stuff is just a paid hobby for CSIS, it seems. It's
not really
intended to protect Canadians, but only to appear to be doing so. CSIS
is happy to take its information from the CIA and hand over anything
they might accidentally stumble upon to the US.
It seems that the deal with the US is that if a country doesn't want to
contribute troops in Iraq it must
at least do its part to manufacture reasons for the wars. So
Pakistan provides fake
terrorists, and publicly arrests "top Al Qaeda" figures for the
camera. And, since the Madrid train station bombing, Spain has
been routinely rounding up Muslims about whom we never seem to hear
again - most
recently 12 Pakistanis and two Indian nationals - (the JPost says
"hundreds" all told, while Debka says 250) .
Some insight into whether or not Spain actually thought Al Qaeda was
behind the bombing as revenge for Spain's presence in Iraq, can be
found in these comments from The Insider:
3/11 -
Eta or Al-Qaida?
After the TERRORIST attack in Madrid on 3/11, the Spanish government
want to blame their bogey man (Eta), while the American and British
governments want to claim it as their bogey man (al-Qaida).
Without the hype from the politicians and the corporate media,
terrorism is in fact an insignificant problem. Hundreds of thousands
more people die every year from other factors, many of which are
preventable, and none of which receive as much attention as TERRORISM.
Today TERRORISM is little more than a device to be exploited by our own
politicians to further their own agenda. This is what Western politics
has come to.
90% of people in Spain opposed the war on Iraq. They knew it would
destabilise international peace and security. But ordinary people are
worthless in modern politics. All that matters is money and power. This
is what "democracy" has come to.
In the
latest Spanish sweep, five homes were searched on the basis of
"information from several unspecified European intelligence
agencies". Four timers were found, and - get this - Spain's
Interior Minister said: "When someone has timers at home you have
no option but to think violent acts are being planned."
Timers = violent acts. Can you believe this guy? Does he crack up
when he catches sight of himself in a mirror?
What he meant to say, of course, was: when Muslims have timers
at home. Other people regularly use them as a cheap method of
automatically turning on the entrance lights when it starts to get dark.
Spain has 7 or 8 hundred troops in Afghanistan, and the King recently
made his deci-annual visit to the troops to celebrate his own birthday,
so the arrests were a good backdrop for that. Apparently, Spain
has lost 23
troops in Afghanistan, or 74 + 62,
depending on which news outlet you happen to read, and clearly morale
had to be boosted.
Canada did
a big Muslim sting a while back and is now in the process of
releasing them back into the public as if nothing ever happened.
In 2003, a
group of Pakistanis were hauled off to jail and nothing came of
that either, except that our immigrant communities developed severe
anxiety. The only "ideologues" CSIS
seems able to fully retain are the ones against whom the evidence
is kept secret and free from defence scrutiny and cross-examination.
Everything else gets handed over to the US who have ways to make people
"confess". And when they do, they reportedly tell colourful
stories, blowing up their own importance in the world of terror, using
loaded words like "handpicked by Bin Laden", as in the
case of Mohammed Mansur Jabarah a Canadian who was recently
sentenced to life in the States.
Here's his story in a nutshell: In 2001 the Singapore
authorities "uncover" an "Al Qaeda" plot to blow up US embassies there
and in the Philippines, arrest a number of suspects, one of whom
"confesses" that Jabarah was "one of the main planners". So,
naturally, he takes off but is nabbed
by Omani security forces and returned to Canada. Never
questioning for a moment his guilt or innocence, Canada turns him over
to the US. Hey, if a finger is pointed at a Muslim, then he must be
guilty, right?
I hate to bring up Larry O'Brien here,
but if he were a Muslim he would be asked to step down.
Note:
All the "evidence"
against Jabarah was kept secret until he himself "confessed".
Note also that
at the time Jabarah was said to have known Bin Laden, OBL
was working in tandem with the CIA.
Jabarah was not accused of doing anything, only of thinking of doing
something, much like the arrested Torontonians - but he and others like
him are constantly held up as examples of why our troops need to die in
Afghanistan. In reality, Jabarah is either a fall guy or a CIA
operative who will serve his time in an undisclosed location - wherever
the CIA needs infiltrators. The same with Omar
Khadr.
.All of this is in aid of US hegemony, which according to the
Washington Post, is not entered into lightly. Apparently, Bush
has played a few video war games and therefore can now say with all
honesty that he
has "firsthand" experience with war.
This
took place at a military hospital where the entertainment provided for
recuperating soldiers is video war games - to keep it
all unreal, and to enthuse them for re-entering the fray.
Take a look at this page and
see who is getting blown away in astronomical numbers in the real
game. In Iraq alone, 1-1/2 million seriously wounded and darn
close to a million slaughtered.
A small shift in focus: today's award for stating the obvious goes to
Turkey's Prime Minister for saying: "When you cross over from the
Palestinian territories into Israel or vice versa, the border is
protected by Israeli soldiers. There can't be peace when there are only
Israeli soldiers there."
According to the Turkish
Daily News, Turkey has the best relations with Israel of any
country in the Middle East. That won't last long if the PM keeps
insisting the UN should be guarding the border.
yayacanada
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