Editor's Notes
Washington elite panics over Trump's olive branch
Russiaphobia necessary to justify military ambitions
It's interesting how political parties will change their colour while maintaining their names. It was the Republican Party under Abraham Lincoln that was anti-slavery, The Democrats were pro-slavery. It was Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt who solidly advanced what are known as liberal causes with which millions of Americans identify to this day. Meanwhile a new Washington elite has quietly taken control that overlaps both parties. This elite is represented by those who have a firm grip on both parties. No matter which party they appear to represent they are fired by the ambition of world domination by Washington.
Meanwhile, Americans were becoming war weary, anxious about their standard of living with millions living on food stamps, tens of thousands losing their homes, and state and municipal infrastructure crumbling. Then along came Bernie and Donald. (More)
In celebration of women who fight and win
Russian women led 1917 Internatonal Women's Day
march that brought down the Czar
Exactly one century ago on March 8, 1917, women working in the textile factories in Petrograd — then the Russian capital — led a historic mobilization on International Women's Day, resulting in what is known as the February Revolution, which overthrew Tsar Nicholas II, ending the Romanov dynasty and the Russian Empire and installing a provisional government.
During the march — which corresponds to February 23 on the Julian calendar — women demanded bread and an end to Russian involvement in the imperialist war. By the following day, nearly 200,000 protesters filled the streets and by March 10, nearly all industry in Petrograd was shut down by the uprising. (More)
Putin ate missing cat
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By stripping Marine Le Pen of immunity ‘EU is
interfering in French internal affairs’ – UKIP MEP
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Think unions are irrelevant?
'With the degree of inequality now the same as it was in the 1920s,
unions are as needed now as they were then'
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The formation of Nobel Prize winner
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's leftist ideology
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March 2017
Editor's Notes
Washington elite panics over Trump's olive branch
Russiaphobia necessary to justify military ambitions
It's interesting how political parties will change their colour while maintaining their names. It was the Republican Party under Abraham Lincoln that was anti-slavery, The Democrats were pro-slavery. It was Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt who solidly advanced what are known as liberal causes with which millions of Americans identify to this day. Meanwhile a new Washington elite has quietly taken control that overlaps both parties. This elite is represented by those who have a firm grip on both parties. No matter which party they appear to represent they are fired by the ambition of world domination by Washington.
They were merrily on their way. Bill Clinton expanded and privatized the prison system that incarcerates more prisoners than any other country, most of them black, and destroyed Yugoslavia. George W. Bush executed an illegal war on Iraq. Barrack Obama, under false pretenses, taking over from the less articulate George W. Bush, proceeded to kill more by drone assassination and oversaw Hilary Clinton managing the destruction of Libya and financing the attempted armed coup in Syria. Millions died, were crippled and/or reduced to refugees.
Meanwhile, Americans were becoming war weary, anxious about their standard of living with millions living on food stamps, tens of thousands losing their homes, and state and municipal infrastructure crumbling. Then along came Bernie and Donald. (More)
The Binkley Report
Alex Binkley is a foremost political and economic analyst, whose website is www.alexbinkley.com. Readers will be aware that his columns in True North Perspective have foreseen political and economic developments in Canada. In this edition ...
Finally some recognition for agriculture and food
'It’s great news' says Jeff Neilsen, President of Grain Growers of Canada
By Alex Binkley
True North Perspective
Although it provides one in eight jobs in Canada and earns about 7% of the GDP, the agriculture and food sector gets little recognition from politicians and the public for its economic importance. It also has to contend with a public awareness that’s about on the level of the kid’s story Old MacDonald Had A Farm.
That could change if federal decision makers and business commentators heed the latest report from the federal economic advisory council, headed by Dominic Barton, outlining the future prospects for Canada’s economy. It urges the government to collaborate with the private sector to turbocharge the economy. (More)
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Ports disappointed with secret handling
of a new study on federal privatization
By Alex Binkley
True North Perspective
Monday 6 March 2017 — The study of port privatization prospects by investment bank Morgan Stanley Canada left the operators of the country’s 18 main ports in the dark about what is being considered.
While the port study and a parallel examination by Credit Suisse of the potential privatization of Canadian airports are complete, they won’t be released until the federal budget is presented to Parliament later this month. (More)
From the Desk of Dennis Carr, LEED® AP. Sustainable Development Editor
Federal panel says Canadians don't trust pipeline
regulator HO located near Calgary oil companies
By Mike De Souza
News, Energy, Politics
Wednesday 22 February 2017 — It didn't take long for a federal panel of experts to figure out that Canada's pipeline regulator has a credibility problem that needs to be fixed.
The panel, appointed by the Trudeau government in 2016 as part of a comprehensive review of Canada's environmental laws and federal oversight of industrial development, has just started touring the country to get ideas about how to "modernize" the National Energy Board — an election campaign promise made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals as part of efforts to restore public trust in federal oversight of industry.
In a wide-ranging editorial board meeting with National Observer in Gatineau, Qué., members of the newly-formed panel said they've already heard from a number of Canadians who say they don't trust the NEB. A clear problem is the location of the energy regulator's head office in Calgary, in close proximity to the headquarters of Canada's largest oil and gas companies. (More)
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Vancouver seeking judicial review
of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
By The Canadian Press
Wednesday 22 February 2017 — The City of Vancouver is launching another court case in a bid to derail Kinder Morgan's proposed pipeline expansion.
Council members have voted to go ahead with a judicial review of the provincial government's environmental assessment of the Trans Mountain project.
In June, the city filed another court challenge aimed at quashing the National Energy Board's recommended approval of the $6.8-billion project.
The federal government has already approved the expansion, which would triple the capacity of a pipeline that runs from near Edmonton to Metro Vancouver, and increase tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet seven-fold.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark said last month that all five of the province's conditions for approving the project had been met, including First Nations participation and the creation of world-leading oil spill response and prevention plans.
Several other groups, including the Squamish Nation, the Living Oceans Society and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, have filed their own applications for judicial review of the project.
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Iowa pipeline leaks about 138,000 gallons of diesel
By Rebecca Hersher
National Public Radio
Thursday 26 January 2017 — An underground pipeline that runs through multiple Midwestern states has leaked an estimated 138,000 gallons of diesel fuel, according to the company that owns it, Magellan Midstream Partners.
Clay Masters of Iowa Public Radio reported diesel leaking from a 12-inch underground pipe was initially spotted in a farm field in north-central Worth County, Iowa, on Wednesday morning. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Iowa Department of Natural Resources joined representatives of Magellan and other local officials at the site, Masters reported. (More)
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Comment from the U.S. political right
'Today, the United States is confronting Russia, a huge and natural ally, over a peninsula that had belonged to Russia since the 18th century and is 5,000 miles from the United States.'
Lavrov vs. McCain: is Russia an enemy?
By Patrick Buchanan
Rasmussen Reports
Tuesday 28 February 2017 — The founding fathers of the Munich Security Conference, said John McCain, would be "be alarmed by the turning away from universal values and toward old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism."
McCain was followed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov who called for a "post-West world order." Russia has "immense potential" for that said Lavrov, "we're open for that inasmuch as the U.S. is open."
Now McCain is not wrong. Nationalism is an idea whose time has come again. Those "old ties of blood, and race, and sectarianism" do seem everywhere ascendant. But that is a reality we must recognize and deal with. Deploring it will not make it go away.
But what are these "universal values" McCain is talking about?
Democracy? The free elections in India gave power to Hindu nationalists. In Palestine, Hamas. In Lebanon, Hezbollah. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, then overthrown in a military coup welcomed by the world's oldest and greatest democracy. Have we forgotten it was a democratically elected government we helped to overthrow in Kiev?
Democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop, says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, autocrat of Ankara, a NATO ally.
Is freedom of religion a "universal value"? (More)
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Wilson Hockey League is highlight of every Toronto winter
Adult Onset Outdoor Hockey: a personal story as told …
By Nigel Aplin
Sports Editor
True North Perspective
I never played organized hockey as a kid. Oddly, swimming was my winter sport from grade 6 through high school. In university, I mostly played squash in the winter.
I cannot remember where or how I learned to skate but I do remember my mother taking my sister and me to Bob Patrick’s Sports in St. Catharines, Ontario, to get “new” skates every couple of years at something called the “skate exchange”. I had hockey sticks for road hockey and somehow came to own a very stiff pair of 60’s style hockey gloves at some point in my childhood but I had never owned any real hockey equipment until the fall of 1991 when a friend named Wilson finally convinced me to try playing outdoor hockey once. I agreed to come out once, only because I didn’t think I would enjoy it and I wanted him off my back about it. He had started organizing weekly shinny games at various City of Toronto outdoor rinks that required an extensive and persistent working of phone lines every week to pester those of us in his rolodex. (More)
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There can be no life without laughter
From the Desk of Elizabeth Hill
• Couple on a porch in rocking chairs: He says, Whatever happened to our sexual relations? She says, I dunno. We didn't get a Christmas card from them this year.
• Why do we press harder on the remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?
• Why, in winter, do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?
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1. This April will be the 100th anniversary of this important World War I event involving Canadians. Is it
a) Battle of the Somme b) Battle of Vimy Ridge c) the creation of the Canadian Air Force d) the first soldier to win a Victoria Cross
2. What parts of Canada don’t change to daylight savings time in March?
a) B.C. and Saskatchewan b) Yukon and Northwest Territories c) Newfoundland and Nunavut d) Saskatchewan and Nunavut
3. True or false. The mines in and around Labrador City account for almost half of Canada’s iron ore.
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‘ISIS cut heads, break legs, provoke airstrikes’
Refugees describe Mosul terror (RT EXCLUSIVE)
Monday 6 March, 2017 — RT's Murad Gazdiev visited the Hasan Sham refugee camp, which is a relatively small facility housing some 10,000 people 25km east of Mosul. The camp was established only last November, but it's already nearing its capacity as newcomers arrive daily as result of the US-backed coalition's massive offensive to recapture western parts of Mosul from the IS (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters.
Refugees told the RT crew that the ongoing battle shows the inhumanity from both sides: While the Islamic state holds civilians as human shields and engaging in other atrocities to prevent them from fleeing, the Iraqi army and its allies do little to help them escape.
“ISIS has started breaking peoples’ legs – men’s, women’s – to stop them from fleeing from the city,” a man who has just reached the camp, told RT. “When we ran from Mosul – there was a woman with a baby with us. The child fell into the river – and was swept away. No one stopped – everyone kept running.”
Those who managed to escape now fear for their relatives and friends who remain among hundreds of thousands still trapped in the city.
“If anyone tried to run away, ISIS would cut their head off… and if you managed to get away – they would burn your house down and target your relatives,” another man said. “My children begged me to get them out. They begged me not to die, so I could get them out.”
It's not only IS that people are running from. According to some accounts, Iraqi forces and the US-led coalition are conducting air and artillery strikes on jihadists regardless of the civilian presence in the area. (More)
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