Three Amigos Summit Dramatically Advances Deep Integration

Does anyone else find it horrifying that one of the Amigos is trying
to interfere with the police investigation of two Canadians who
were murdered in Mexico ... and that our own Hair-in-the-Fridge
Amigo said nothing about defending this Canadian family, when
he had such a golden opportunity to do so?

A friend sent me the following article from Toronto Star, with two <br />
Letters, one to the Editor, and one to the Prime Minister which <br />
might be good examples for the rest of us to follow. <br />
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Canadian military ad blitz hits D.C. subway stations<br />
Underground posters tout military's role in Afghanistan<br />
Washington told: `We're doing some heavy lifting there'<br />
 <br />
Mar. 29, 2006. 01:00 AM<br />
TIM HARPER<br />
WASHINGTON BUREAU<br />
 <br />
WASHINGTON—They're the new Canadian signs of the times, but <br />
this advertising blitz has nothing to do with a weekend in Toronto <br />
or skiing in B.C.<br />
<br />
Instead, huge signs and banners posted in seven strategic subway <br />
stations in the District of Columbia and suburban Virginia tout the <br />
Canadian contribution in Afghanistan, showing that the fight <br />
Stephen Harper calls "our war" is also meant to curry favour in <br />
Washington.<br />
<br />
The poster features a Canadian soldier, weapon in hand, standing <br />
alongside Afghans, with the words, "Canadian Troops in <br />
Kandahar, Afghanistan. Boots On The Ground.<br />
<br />
"U.S.-Canada Relations. Security is Our Business."<br />
<br />
Lt.-Col. Jamie Robertson, the counsellor for military outreach at the <br />
Canadian embassy, says it is key to Canadian interests that there <br />
be an awareness Ottawa is involved in global security.<br />
<br />
"In this town, there is a lot of competition for attention," he said. <br />
"This is the only way to raise the profile because, at the end of the <br />
day, it is all about tangible co-operation and it doesn't get any <br />
more tangible than this.<br />
<br />
"We're doing some heavy lifting there. It's all about security, and <br />
Afghanistan is the sharp edge of that stick."<br />
<br />
There has been scant U.S media attention paid to the 2,300 <br />
Canadian troops in Kandahar, so the embassy decided to spend <br />
$18,000 to get the message out at Washington Metro stations that <br />
serve downtown, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.<br />
<br />
Some 700,000 commuters use the city's metro system each day <br />
and Metro Center, where two Canadian signs are placed, is the <br />
second busiest in the city, acting as a transfer point like the Yonge/<br />
Bloor station does in Toronto.<br />
<br />
Robertson said official response — from the U.S. Army, Pentagon <br />
officials and Capitol Hill aides — has been positive. One Pentagon <br />
official told him the other "coalition bubbas" — as U.S. allies are <br />
sometimes known here — should be as smart.<br />
<br />
But on the ground, a totally unscientific study by the Star this week <br />
gave the posters a mixed grade for efficiency.<br />
<br />
Like subway riders everywhere, the Washington commuter crowd <br />
seemed intent on studying their shoes as they rode escalators <br />
toward the ads. Some said they didn't notice the posters, while <br />
others said they looked ... but didn't read.<br />
<br />
"I'm just against all our wars, no matter where they are," said one <br />
man, admitting he looked at the Canadian poster then looked <br />
away.<br />
<br />
Julian Gudger said that, as a former U.S. marine who'd served in <br />
Kosovo, he is attuned to noticing military messages.<br />
<br />
"I knew there was supposed to be a coalition in there, but I didn't <br />
know who was there until I looked at the poster," he said.<br />
<br />
"Now that you mention it, yes, but when I first looked at it, I thought <br />
of Iraq and I thought, `Canada is in Iraq?'" said Willis W. Jourdin, <br />
Jr. "I think Canada in Afghanistan is good, that is commendable. <br />
The action there is one thing from the George W. Bush <br />
administration which is also commendable."<br />
<br />
Dcist, a popular website dealing with all things Washington, <br />
offered this comment: "We're not ones to question the allegiances <br />
of our neighbour to the north," it said. "But we are curious as to why <br />
they are looking to promote their security policy and close alliance <br />
to the U.S. to Metrorail passengers transferring from the Red Line <br />
to the Orange and Blue Lines.<br />
<br />
"Has that ever been in doubt? We do suppose it's good to know <br />
they're there if we need them, unlike, say, those spineless <br />
Mexicans. They haven't even bothered to buy an ad and pretend."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Letter #1:<br />
<br />
Dear Editor,<br />
<br />
Do you know how our embassy in Washington is selling us? It has <br />
initiated an ad campaign in Washington, DC. The ads show <br />
heavily armed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, with some <br />
happy-looking Afghanis nearby. The slogans are "Boots on the <br />
Ground" and "U.S. -Canada Relations: Security is Our Business". <br />
The clincher is an insert with the Canadian and US flags <br />
juxtaposed; at first I thought it was one flag melding the two <br />
together.<br />
<br />
According to the CanadianAlly.com website, "The intent is to give <br />
American citizens a better sense of the scope of Canada's role in <br />
North American and Global Security and the War on Terror." It <br />
seems pretty clear to me that Canadian soldiers are dying and <br />
killing in Afghanistan mainly to impress people in power in the US.<br />
<br />
Do not believe that the only way Canada can help ordinary <br />
Afghanis is through our military. Dr. Seddiq Weera, a Canadian <br />
citizen who is an advisor to Afghanistan's Independent National <br />
Commission on Strengthening Peace, has spoken out about how <br />
we could work most effectively to promote peace in Afghanistan, <br />
and he DOES NOT encourage us to send in the troops. (As he <br />
points out, our current policy will tend to alienate the Taliban, and <br />
push them further into collaboration with terrorist groups.)<br />
<br />
Our real allies in the US are working to replace the current US <br />
government, which is acting as if its main purpose was to assure a <br />
wildly dispoportionate amount of the world's resources for a few <br />
corporations and individuals who are already excessively wealthy.<br />
<br />
I am joining with others in writing to our Prime Minister to tell him <br />
that the Canadian Embassy in Washington does not speak for me, <br />
and that if we want a better world, we need the power of <br />
nonviolence, not "boots on the ground".<br />
<br />
Sincerely, Jan Slakov, 135 Deer Park Rd., Salt Spring Island, BC <br />
V8K 1P5 (250) 537-5251<br />
<br />
*********************************************<br />
<br />
Letter #2:<br />
<br />
Please distribute widely or write your own letter:<br />
<br />
-----Original Message----- From: Murray Lumley <br />
Sent: April 1, 2006 7:51 PM To:<br />
<br />
Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Right Honourable Stephen <br />
Harper Cc: Letters Toronto Sun; Letters Toronto Star; Letters NOW; <br />
Letters Globe and Mail; info@canadianally.com; Hon. Peter <br />
MacKay; Hon. Stéphane Dion; Francine Lalonde; Alexa <br />
McDonough Subject: Re: CanadianAlly website doesn't speak for <br />
Canadians To: Right Honourable Prime Minister Harper cc: <br />
Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs cc: <br />
Honourable Stephane Dion; Francine Lalonde, Alexa McDonough <br />
cc: Lt.Col Jamie Robertson, Counsellor (Military-Media Affairs), <br />
Canadian Embassy, Washington DC, 20001, CanadianAlly.com <br />
manager<br />
<br />
Dear Prime Minister:<br />
<br />
I am a Canadian citizen. Someone sent me the attached photo <br />
entitled "Boots on the Ground" and said it is one of many photo <br />
posters of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan found on bus shelters <br />
all over Washington D.C. I also took a look at the web site <br />
CanadianAlly.com  <a href="http://www.canadianally.com/ca/news/index">http://www.canadianally.com/ca/news/index</a>-<br />
<br />
en.aspand and am not pleased with the title nor much of the <br />
content. The answer at <a href="http://www.canadianally.com/ca/about/">http://www.canadianally.com/ca/about/</a><br />
what-en.asp to the question "What is CanadianAlly.com?" is <br />
partially answered by - "designed specifically for an American <br />
audience" ... "The intent is to give American citizens a better sense <br />
of the scope of Canada's role in North American and Global <br />
Security and the War on Terror." Is this propaganda that is not fit for <br />
Canadians?<br />
<br />
The so-called "war on terror" as carried out by the present U.S. <br />
administration with its massive armed forces and weaponry that <br />
have killed tens of thousands of civilians and taken into custody <br />
without due process other thousands, in both Afghanistan and <br />
Iraq, is less about finding 9/11 assassins as it is a cover to take <br />
over large parts of the earth - the Middle East and Afghanistan - <br />
that contain coveted resources such as oil. Iraq under Saddam <br />
Hussein was an ally of the United States during the Iran-Iraq war <br />
and Iraq was a most favoured trading partner of the U.S, under <br />
President Reagan. The U.S. even trained the mujahideen who <br />
apparently turned on the U.S. but we are never supposed to ask <br />
why. Additionally, not one of the 9/11 assassins were Iraqi - most <br />
of them were Saudi. So why was Iraq invaded and now occupied <br />
by the present U.S. administration while Saudi Arabia remains a <br />
loyal ally of the U.S?<br />
<br />
Before you say that I am just another anti-American Canadian, I <br />
can tell you that I have family and friends in the United States. My <br />
friends from Ohio, to North Carolina to Arizona and Texas are all <br />
opposed to the actions of this present U.S. administration. In fact <br />
President Bush's approval rating right now among Americans is at <br />
its lowest point and I suspect that a majority of Americans do not <br />
approve of the way that Iraq and other foreign policy initiatives <br />
have been handled.<br />
<br />
So why is the Canadian Embassy hitching its wagon to this falling <br />
star of a U.S. administration, which is what the Washington poster <br />
campaign and web site directed at American citizens seems to be <br />
doing. I think it is a foolish attempt to integrate Canadian <br />
institutions, immigration and trade laws with this U.S. <br />
administration and I think you should stop it.<br />
<br />
According to a recent Allan Gregg - Globe and Mail poll (March 29)<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/</a><br />
LAC.20060329.POLLS29/TPStory/Fr ont a majority of Canadians <br />
want us to keep our distance from the present U.S. administration <br />
even though we like Americans. It seems that you should do what <br />
Canadians say they want rather than what some business elites <br />
want for Canada - a total North American integration with our oil, <br />
gas and eventually water flowing to the United States without any <br />
regard for the future needs of Canadians.<br />
<br />
Please take down this Washington Canadian Embassy website - <br />
we are allies but not in the way it suggests - as well as all of the <br />
militaristic posters that have been put up around Washington. This <br />
is what most Canadians would want if they knew this was <br />
happening.<br />
<br />
Sincerely, Murray D. Lumley<br />
<br />
1854A Danforth Avenue Toronto, Ontario M4C 1J4 Tel. 416-423-<br />
5406<br />
<br />

a couple of comments<br />
First: hehehehe<br />
Nice to see cut and paste taking a foot hold via my "Detracter(s)" <br />
Second: Perhaps this rightly belongs todays page three of vive however news movers fasyt and to get the attention it deserves, heretis <br />
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The 'NEW' War On Poverty<br />
<br />
By Jim Kirwan<br />
kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net <br />
4-3-6 <br />
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"Another illustration of the passionate hatred of democracy which is consistent and must indeed be recognized ~ for there is what is called a strong line of continuity in all {US} administrations: namely that democracy is promoted - if and only If - it supports US economic and strategic objectives . . ." Noam Chomsky <br />
<br />
The March for Immigrants Rights is a novel venture by those who support this administration's plans to rest control over what is left of the underground economy, because that too "supports US economic and strategic interests." How else could such massive and unequaled numbers of protestors have been organized, in order to create these demonstrations? The answer is as ugly as it is duplicitous. The idea was spread far and wide by US Spanish-language television and radio promotions throughout the hemisphere, but primarily here in the United States. Those stations are owned by NBC Universal - that is owned by <a href="http://www.telemundo.com/telemundo/2449824/detail.html">www.telemundo.com/telemundo/2449824/detail.html</a>. NBC Universal is 80 % owned by General Electric and the other 20% is owned by Vivendi. <a href="http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/ge.asp">www.cjr.org/tools/owners/ge.asp</a>. Could these bastions of government supported media be responsible for organizing a supposed "grass roots" uprising of the undocumented: Of course, because this serves their purposes and not the needs of either the immigrants, or the average American. <br />
<br />
The fuse was lit by Sensenbrenner's legislation that passed the US House of Representatives. This callous and impossible scheme to criminalize, and possibly imprison, from eleven to fourteen million people was just an excuse, a small part of a much larger plan that will complete The New War on Poverty of 2006. <br />
<br />
In this case this entire "illegal episode" was begun by Reagan in the 1980's to benefit right wing corporate interests in the US and to undercut American workers by flooding this nation with cheap labor. This callous and calculated act was initiated by those who profited directly from the labor of the undocumented for decades. If we had not striped Mexico of its national resources and their vitality as a state-after the US War on Mexico-another war that began with a pre-emptive strike, none of this would be possible now. Our foreign policy then and now has created the opportunity for the poverty and exploitation of Mexico, and this latest outrage only shows how much those behind these crimes want to have it all, both ways. <br />
<br />
The corporatists broke the law by hiring illegal workers; (something that very few were ever charged with) - thus giving impoverished people a reason to cross the border, because there were jobs awaiting their arrival! Now this government wants to use those same immigrants in a different way, one that ignores the crimes that corporate pirates committed, but one that has also made billions for their corporations in the first place. This time the point is to do away with what remains of the underground cash-economy - so that people here, both documented and undocumented will soon have even fewer options when it comes to Staying Alive. <br />
<br />
This proposal would hypothetically stop the drug and human smuggling networks that currently make billions for the various syndicates and businesses who profit from those activities. The proposed Wall would theoretically re-assert America's sovereignty (ridiculous) but this would also present a major hurdle to the establishment of the NORTH AMERICAN UNION and Amero Currency <a href="http://www.sierratimes.com/05/04/21/adamo.htm">http://www.sierratimes.com/05/04/21/adamo.htm</a> That plan wants to combine Canada the US & Mexico. This could present a possible total derailment of the illuminati master plan, to establish a one world government. For that idea to develop, it is necessary for the US to get its collective immigration policies in order. Hence the demonstrations appeared just before Bush went to Cancun, Mexico to meet with President Fox of Mexico and Prime Minister Steven Harper of Canada. Timing was extremely important. <br />
<br />
Who is behind Steven Harper? Many believe that Harper is in favor of the absorption of Canada into the US. There is even an "Annexation Manifesto" called "True North Strong and Free". <a href="http://www.ourmedia.org/node/159559">www.ourmedia.org/node/159559</a>. Whatever the outcomes of any of these seemingly far-out potentialities: the US plan to further 'capture the means' that anyone needs to survive here - is ongoing. <br />
<br />
One unplanned part of this government's deception; created because of they sought to support only one group against all the others who are also economically deprived - leaves those behind this travesty open to the problem of exposure - but only if everyone affected decides to join in. The totally controlled US corporate media has kept the US population from holding similar movements against the War on Iraq; for real American jobs; or for the rights of all of us against the continuing erosion of racial, sexual, religious or economic relations; especially when poor white Americans are included, with all those who this government continues to blame for "the crime of poverty" and which afflicts far too many millions of people already. With this new legislation, there will be at least eleven million more! <br />
<br />
The "poor," No matter what their composition are almost never heard from, despite their overwhelming numbers. The dangers now that are represented by Venezuela, and Bolivia, as well as a number of others in this hemisphere now threaten the NWO, if these and other growing democracies are allowed to continue. The newly liberated nation-states represent a sea-change to the blunt-instrument approach of US and Israeli foreign policy, a policy that has formerly always served to keep the slaves in line. <br />
<br />
Just as the flood of illegal workers once served the corporations, now it becomes imperative for the same corporations to regulate the movements and incomes of all of us. In the case of immigrants this is needed so that the democratic revolutions south of the border can be affected by controlling the incomes and movements of people and families on both ends of this pipeline to jobs. This is a circumstance that masquerades as an economic opportunity. In reality the pending legislation is designed to lead to a series of chains that will shackle whatever might be left of any opportunity for anyone, regardless of where they live. <br />
<br />
Anyone curious about how such a situation might play out, need only study the plight of the Palestinian people - a people that have been living under the total and brutal occupation-forces of Israel (supported by the USA and Britain) for over thirty-five years. In that state, this kind of control has become the hammer needed to shut down the lives of a captured people. Americans (and immigrants) will be next because we simply refuse to notice what is really going on here. <br />
<br />
We all need jobs-decent well paying jobs. These demonstrations were designed to further segregate all who are at the bottom of the economic ladder and to force people to fight each other over whatever remains after all the downsizing and all the hundreds of thousands of layoff's as well as the outsourcing of almost all the real work that has stripped the USA of so much of our potential and our former treasures as well: Not-to-mention the fact that that this government has undermined virtually all the rights accorded by the US Constitution to most US citizens. So this new outcry from immigrants who are here now - is being used to take down all the rest of us to a new low when it comes to either wages or rights. If this succeeds, everyone who works for a living from immigrants to citizens will lose-on everything that counts, in any country, wherever any people may be trying to live a productive life! <br />
<br />
This truly is the rebirth of "The War on Poverty" - only this time the focus is on keeping the vast majority impoverished, and enriching their overlords even further, at the expense of a Viable World Order. However the one tool they still don't have is total control over the cash-economy - what the government sees as all those under-the-table jobs. If this series of demonstrations works as it is supposed to, then the incomes of most people will be severely restricted, and we shall soon be joining the Palestinians in trying to fight the occupying power that this administration represents. 911 was the opening shot that announced the War on America, and now we're finally beginning to see the point of all the lies and all the posturing. <br />
<br />
The "rights" that were won over the last two hundred plus years, in the USA, have been wrapped together in this potentially crushing blow to the ability of Americans and immigrants alike, to obtain the real jobs that are so necessary in keeping any population free! <br />
<br />
The administration organized these demonstrations, but if the protests go beyond where they want them to go - then it is their agendas' that will be challenged - and we might all benefit from that development: But only if we make ourselves heard. What is still missing from the War on Poverty of 2006, as well as from the War on America; are the real leaders who could bring substantial and lasting changes to the way life that could and should be lived - now or in the future. But with or without leadership, we must each understand and respond to what is at stake with immigration policy right now, and what is really going on! <br />
<br />
<br />
kirwan <br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.mexica-movement.org/granmarcha.htm">http://www.mexica-movement.org/granmarcha.htm</a><br />
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<p>---<br>Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. <br />
Ezra Pound

I would like to know if this information is getting to the general public at large and whether they care or not about Canada. I rarely see the council of canadians on t.v. Maybe it is about time they buy some airtime for an hour on CBC or CTV and explain what is going on. I would definitely chip in some money to help. Something needs to be done and now. enough talk. the old saying "action speaks louder than words" is still true.

Love Hates New Website<br />
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SooNews Wire -- SooNews.ca -- Monday, April 3, 2006, 3:11PM<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Jim Love of the Progressive Canadian (PC) Party has issued the following media release condemning the Harper government’s pro-American stance, particularly its willingness to boost Canadian military involvement in Afghanistan.<br />
<br />
Most Canadians might be shocked to see a new government sponsored internet site CanadianAlly.com <a href="http://www.canadianally.com">http://www.canadianally.com</a> that is being advertised throughout bus stops in Washington D.C on posters that have been described as a "Canadian military ad blitz". <br />
<br />
The top of the site features the blending of the American and Canadian flags to create what can only be described as an “Ameri-Canadian” banner. <br />
<br />
If our government were concerned about the growing anti-Bush sentiment in this country, a site like this would never have been authorized. <br />
<br />
Mr. Harper and his ministers are not responding to questions from the press. So it is difficult for anyone to determine who authorized the posters and the site or for what purpose.<br />
<br />
We are also left with the question of when the government of Canada started using commercial (dot com) domains for government sites instead of the .ca (dot ca) domain which stands for Canada. On both the site and the posters .com is clearly shown as the primary internet address. <br />
<br />
The Progressive Canadian Party will continue to pursue this issue actively and do our best to ensure that the Canadian public is fully informed and in a position to decide whether or not this is the image of their country they wish to see portrayed to the world in general and Americans in particular<br />
<br />
The Progressive Canadian Party will continue to pursue this matter actively. We do not believe that this site is the image of their country that Canadians wish to see portrayed to the world. Nor will we condone any linkage between trade and the tragic deaths of members of our armed forces. <br />
<br />
Any such linkage is an insult to those who given their lives in service of this country. <br />
<br />
We demand that this site be taken down immediately and that a full disclosure be made of who authorized it and for what purpose.<br />
<br />
Yours truly,<br />
<br />
Jim Love <br />
Progressive Canadian (PC) Party <br />

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years........It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."<br />
<br />
--David Rockefeller<br />
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<a href="http://www.bilderberg.org/rockef.htm#Back">www.bilderberg.org/rockef.htm#Back</a><br />
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<p>---<br>People who openly hate America, while making money from America, burning U.S. flags, waving Mexican and Jamaican flags, while demanding the right to be American

"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it." - David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.


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People who openly hate America, while making money from America, burning U.S. flags, waving Mexican and Jamaican flags, while demanding the right to be American

<a href="http://www.bilderberg.org/">www.bilderberg.org/</a> is the link to the above quotation.<p>---<br>People who openly hate America, while making money from America, burning U.S. flags, waving Mexican and Jamaican flags, while demanding the right to be American