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Military Feds To Reduce Growth In Defence Spending
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Friday, March 05 at 15:41 (303 reads)

The federal government will reduce its previously planned growth in spending on the Canadian Forces in 2012, after Canada's mission in Afghanistan comes to an end.

In a section of the Budget 2010 document titled "Restraining Growth in National Defence Spending," the finance department says the reduction is part of its effort to restrain overall growth in spending and to balance the budget in the medium term.




 
 
 
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Military What Harper Government REALLY Thinks Of Canadian Military
Contributed by RickW on Sunday, January 31 at 10:21 (494 reads)

July 11, 2009
The federal government confirmed Wednesday it will spend $5 billion to purchase new combat vehicles and maintain the existing fleet for the Canadian Forces. Defence Minister Peter MacKay made the announcement at CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B., after word of the new funding leaked out on Tuesday.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-203465917.html

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Military Jumping Through The Hoops For America’S Imperialist Wars.
Contributed by robertjb on Tuesday, January 12 at 10:39 (1,187 reads)

 

Next time you’re at the airport…
It is truly amazing when it comes to the security of the United States the margin for error is an absolute zero. Let there be even one failed terrorist act against the homeland and there is mass panic, security is raised to yet another spellbinding level, politicians give fleeting reassurances, more money is thrown at the problem and millions of air travelers are inconvenienced.
 
Nobody seems to consider that as fortress North America is being turned into a police state security ghetto we grant terrorists their victories one after another as even a failed attack cause’s great political turmoil, huge public inconvenience, and further millions thrown at an ineffective and dysfunctional security bureaucracy.
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Military Canada's Guantanamo
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Tuesday, November 24 at 15:13 (1,133 reads)

Canadian military's role in torture coverup in Afghanistan

 A scandal erupted last week in sleepy Ottawa with the revelations of Canada’s chief diplomat in Kandahar in 2006-07, Richard Colvin, who told a House of Commons committee on Afghanistan that Afghans arrested by Canadian military and handed over to Afghan authorities were knowingly tortured. His and others’ attempts to raise the alarm had been quashed by the ruling Conservative government and he felt a moral obligation to make public what was happening.


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Military Torture: The Greased Pig Of Our Perilous Existence
Contributed by robertjb on Monday, November 23 at 08:00 (594 reads)

 

A pervasive and impeccable hypocrisy

 

There are a few things most certainly true of torture. The first is that once a country or society opens the door it becomes the proverbial greased pig, a very slippery and insidious creature to deal with. Secondly, where we undertake torture we grant the so called terrorists who haunt our world their greatest victory. Where we willingly collapse hard won human rights and civil liberties- supposedly the very things we hold sacred-and among the things we are defending -we grant the enemy his greatest victory for he has ripped the fabric of our society. It is also in the greasy nature of torture that where it is detected its practitioners simply make it an even more covert activity.

 

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Military Police State Canada 2010 And The Dark Side Of The Olympics
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Tuesday, October 13 at 10:13 (1,189 reads)

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from February 12-28.  It will be the largest security operation in Canadian history.  Military planners will undoubtedly use it as a template for securing future high profile events.  Canadian security officials continue to work closely with their American counterparts in preparation for the test that the Games will pose to the security of its shared border. 

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Military For Mexico And Canada, The 'War On Terror' Is Over
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Friday, September 25 at 08:57 (1,081 reads)

On the eighth anniversary of the United States declaring a global "war on terror" this September, America's continental neighbors - Mexico and Canada - have had enough.

When President George W. Bush addressed a joint session of Congress on Sept. 20, 2001, the nation - and much of the world - was still in disbelief that Islamic terrorists had successfully carried out the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor.


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Militarization of the Arctic. Canada: Battle Line In East-West Conflict Over The Arctic
 
Referring to newly released documents, though not revealing what they were, a major Canadian press wire service reported on May 26 that the government plans to acquire a "family" of aerial drones over the next decade.[1]

The dispatch was only two paragraphs long and could easily be overlooked, as one of the two intended purposes for expanding Canada's reserve of military drones was for "failed or failing states." Afghanistan is unquestionably one such deployment zone and Ottawa sent its first Israeli-made Heron drones there this January for NATO's war in South Asia. 

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Military Afghanistan: Heroin-Ravaged State
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Thursday, May 07 at 21:15 (1,852 reads)

One of the most frustrating features of observing American foreign policy is to see the gap between the encapsulated thinking of the national security bureaucracy and the sensible unfettered observations of the experts outside. In the case of Afghanistan, outside commentators have called for terminating current specific American policies and tactics – many reminiscent of the US in Vietnam.


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Military U.S. Sets Fight In The Poppies To Stop Taliban
Contributed by RickW on Thursday, April 30 at 09:15 (824 reads)

American commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, the country’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops into the three provinces that bankroll much of the group’s operations.

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Military Canadian Military Units To Undertake “Domestic Security”
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Thursday, March 12 at 09:14 (1,563 reads)

The Canadian military is reorganizing its priorities to suit a “post 9/11-world,” by creating reservist units for each area of the country that would be tasked with providing “domestic security,” and involve roles such as the mass internment of citizens in the event of a terrorist attack.

“The Canadian military has embarked on a wide-ranging plan to turn its reserve soldiers into focused units trained and equipped to respond to a nightmarish array of domestic threats,” reports the National Post.

“The remodeling of the reserves will see the development of specialist units in four of the military’s regional divisions — Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario and the West.”

http://www.infowars.com/canadian-military-units-to-undertake-%e2%80%9cdomestic-security%e2%80%9d/

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Military Army Hurting From Afghan Mission: Generals
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Tuesday, March 10 at 09:02 (1,460 reads)

After seven years of counter-insurgency war in Afghanistan, the ranks of the Canadian Forces are exhausted and retiring, its armoured fleet is bruised and battered, and its senior officers are looking forward to the mission's end in 2011.

Such was the message from Canada's top brass after two days of straight-talk on the state of Canada's military at the Conference of Defence Association's annual general meeting in Ottawa.


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Military Is Canada's Role In Afghanistan THIS Ineffective?
Contributed by RickW on Sunday, February 15 at 11:23 (1,815 reads)

Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen struck government buildings at three sites

The brazen nature of the attacks was certain to influence the debate among administration officials over the strength of the Taliban, who control much of the countryside and have steadily encroached on Kabul.

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Military Canadian Soldiers To Target Afghan Drug Trade Linked To Taliban
Contributed by NAUWATCH on Monday, February 09 at 09:12 (1,870 reads)

Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan will be ordered to attack opium traffickers and drug facilities when there is proof of direct links to the Taliban, CBC News has learned.

The new order follows a heated debate among NATO allies over whether the attacks could be declared war crimes.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay told CBC News soldiers would indeed target drug traffickers and their production facilities.

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Military You Can't Fight A War Without Bodies!
Contributed by RickW on Monday, January 19 at 23:05 (2,420 reads)

More Joining American Military as Jobs Dwindle

As the number of jobs across the nation dwindles, more Americans are joining the military, lured by a steady paycheck, benefits and training.

The last fiscal year was a banner one for the military, with all active-duty and reserve forces meeting or exceeding their recruitment goals for the first time since 2004, the year that violence in Iraq intensified drastically, Pentagon officials said.

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