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If you remember your history you remember that Hitler and his inner circle were all wimps. They all suffered from   Undeveloped Prefrontal Cortices [ UPC ]. This means they lacked the part of the brain which is the connection to any  society [ the societal nodule ]. One of the main characteristics of a UPC sufferer is they are unable to empathize with their fellow human beings. They are unable to understand that their actions bring pain to others. They are loners who don’t like working with others. Hitler sent those he didn’t like to the death camps. Harper is taking UI away from workers who are forced to pay into the fund but then on his own whim they are being denied benefits. This while Lyin Steve gives the US oil cartel $ 850 million for carbon capture [ a complete boondoggle ] and stacks the Senate with hacks. Mike Harris did the same thing, attacking those on welfare who could not defend themselves. Harris had 6 powerful men on Bay St. funding his operation in 1995. Who do you think Mike looked after?  I did not find out about this until well after I had abandon my Ont. PC Party. I quit  because it had been seized by the Canadian Fascists backed by the American right. Much as they did with my national PC Party. ENRON was a player in Mike’s inner circle. Yikes.  However, when the going got rough Harris ran away, like all wimps. Hitler ran away at the beginning and at the very end. Adolf ran from the bullets in the square in the 1920s and then hid in the bunker in 1945.  Mulroney ran away as did McGuinty. As will Harper when his time is up. Just watch.  All of them are wimps. Hudak has the same team in place that Mike had, the US Fascists. And the same right wing spiel that didn’t work back then and will never work now economically.  But they all have something in common, from Harper to Harris to Hudak. These masters of the universe always get others to do their dirty work. It is all part of the  Nietzsche Cult of self.  There always seems to be a large number of weak brained people who are prepared to follow orders in return for a pat on the head and a pay cheque. Hitler surrounded himself with morons and thugs.  The very strength of democratic societies is the willingness of most of the population to accept the will of the majority and continue working together. On many occasions I have disagreed with the directions taken by Ottawa or Queen’s Park or the Courts. But if most of the PEOPLE expressed themselves IN A FAIR VOTE or FAIR TESTIMONY then I am prepared to BOW TO THEIR WILL. Now I draw the line when there is cheating at election time as in the case of Ted Opitz or his lying to the Court. At least 200 other ridings were stolen by Harper in the 2011 contest. The Fascists [ right ] have never been able to attract more than 20% of the votes in the USA and less than 15% in Canada no matter what Preacher Manning and John Ibbitson say. In a democratic society those are NOT WINNING NUMBERS for the right. Now behind the mask of Harper, Manning, Flanagan, Conrad Black, John Ibbitson et al there is no love for democracy. They belong to the Nietzsche Cult of self.  They are parasitic in that they need the host society to continue so that their small group of exceptional people can suck the life $ blood out of it. But parasites have no governing mechanism to tell them when enough is enough. Rather, enough is never enough.  History has proven that time after time. On the tree line of the home I had in Pickering for almost 50 years there was a strain of parasitic vines which were relentless. The vines travelled under the ground to the base of a tree, then climbed into the tree. If I was not careful the leaves of the vines would spread out, over and above the canopy. These leaves were sort of neutral in shape and a beautiful green. The original tree would be shaded from the sunlight and the vines would suck up the moisture from the ground. Then the vine leaves would eventually turn brown and drop off revealing a dead tree in underneath. The vines on that tree would then die as well. Now the vine system travels farther along  and survived. It had already picked another victim. So too the Fascists. There are only two places in the world where the Nietzsche Cult of self took root. In Nazi Germany and the USA. The Nietzsche myth is the handiwork of about 6 people [ 1885 / 1910 ], two dead German philosophers [ Schopenhauer and Stirner ] and after 1910 in the USA,  H. L. Mencken and Ayn Rand. It is a fairy tale which appeals to wimp Fascists.  German soldiers in the First World War were given Nietzsche texts. We do not know if  Hitler actually read Nietzsche at that time but some of Fred’s supposed views were encorporated into Mein Kampf.  The 6 people were involved in collecting Nietzsche’s scattered writings / notes, putting them in readable form and adding their own ideas to the whole [ 1885 / 1900 /. One of these ghost writers was Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth, the ring leader.  Schopenhauer and Stirner WERE PHILOSOPHERS who both died when Fred was about ten. Schopenhauer contributed the idea of  man's WILL to the debate. Stirner wrote about the Ubermen [ Hitler / Harper / Manning / Black / Flanagan ] and the masses [ the mob / the rest of us ] [ we the little people according to Lady Black ]. Nietzsche stole both ideas [ will and Uberman ] and made them his own. Fred was NEVER a philosopher himself, at University HE STUDIED PHILOSOPHERS. Nietzsche was a sickly wimp who self elevated himself to the status of an exceptional person [ he thought himself a genius actually ]. Fred’s scribblings were turned into a  manual for wimps. This manual explained how a nobody can become a somebody in their own mind [ sound like Harper? ].  Many of the non men in Germany [ like Hitler ] and the USA took notice. One could escape from being a nobody by recognizing one’s own self importance. And proclaiming same. When you know you are important, you do important things. Right?  Like Conrad Black.  Then one could join the others in that exclusive club of exceptional men [ with no balls ] and eventually rule the world. Of course such a view runs in the exact opposite direction to a democracy. In a recent survey of the hard right the exalted men outnumber the exalted women 1600 t0 one. So for every Diane Finley MP, there are 1600 wimps who are bullies. For Danielle Smith MPP there are another 1600 weird guys with intolerant ideas. For every Jenni Byrne there are, oh well you know.  Hitler and company latched onto Nietzsche and made him a part of the Nazi religion. In the USA  Henry Lewis Mencken [ 1880 / 1956 ], a noted wimp, read about the Nietzsche Cult of the self in his early 20s. H. L. liked what he saw. It set him free. Of German background, he was a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald. H. L. got hold of one of those books then being distributed by Elisabeth Nietzsche and translated it into English. That would become his life long ticket to fame. Mencken’s books and articles particularly  appealed to young American wimps. H. L. had no use for democracy and thought the majority of the population in the USA was stupid. And called them such. Mencken, couldn’t get it up like so many on the right, phonies.  Danielle Smith feels the same about Albertans,  they are stupid she said.  Those who suffered from UPC and could / can cheat, lie and steal advanced within the Nietzsche religion. They have to be able to say one thing and do the opposite, to never admit to making a mistake and always blame others for any mistake like Harper. But the problem for such exalted sufferers of UPC they have no insight. They could not comprehend that their actions will  have catastophic consequences down the road. George Bush Jr., the US Supreme Court’s choice for President created his own reality and destroyed his Country. Hitler did the same.  His capital, Berlin was bombed to rubble and some Germans are still resentful. They WILL NOT ACCEPT BLAME FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS. I have always be of the mind that if you challenge me to a duel, you can chose the weapons. If you want to play dirty I will play even dirtier. Whatever you are capable of I can do worse. I can’t abide bullies. Bullies always expect to win. Most Canadians bow to bullies, either the US or Harper. You exterminate them by making sure they lose big time.  When Wimps bully others and it doesn’t work out then they want leniency and cry for their mommies like Doug Findley. Tom Flanagan is a bully who misspoke [ Tom should go home and work with US aboriginals ]. Instead of having  the courage of his convictions and coming clean about his taste for boys, Flanagan asked for understanding. If  Tom likes little kids so beit. Wimps however will never stand up and be counted. Herr Harper it would seem learned lots from Flanagan and Manning. Himself is playing a dangerous game.  Stevie can’t see where he is taking Canada, into the valley of the shadow of death, that’s where. I am the Father of three and have 4 grandchildren. A caring father would not do, could not do what Steve is doing to his own children. UPC sufferers can be spotted a mile away because they have no feeling for others, even their own families. Harper is either devoid of his societal nodule [ UPC ] or the kids are not his. Maybe Lyin Steve’s family is a sort of rent a family [ not real ]. A prop for photo ops. Nothing about Herr Harper seems real. In any event Mencken became very popular among young men like our Harper, in the 1920s . Ayn Rand [ 1905 / 1982 ] was born in Russia, she supported the Communists. That was until they took her family’s possessions away. Ayn moved to the USA in 1924 to live with relatives and became aquainted with Mencken. She was a student of Nietzsche as was H. L. He promoted her writings, which were third rate at best. In quick order Rand switched from the Commie line to the hard right and began writing Nietzsche inspired texts. Yes you are right. Even back in the 1920s journalists got paid for right wing spin.  Thus Mencken was the high priest of Nietzsche in America and Rand its’ high priestess. Alan Greenspan and Paul Ryan worship her. Both wimps? Yes.  There were 3 other characters who were woven into the Sacred Book of the Right Wing Religion . All 3 were student of the Nietzsche myth. Ludwig von Mises [ 1881 / 1973 ] and Friedrich Hayek [ 1899 / 1992 ] worked together, Fred was Mises’ assistant. Mises had studied under a Carl Menger [ 1840 / 1921 ], a bean counter who worked for Crown Prince Rudolf von Hapsberg [ 1858 / 1889 /developing fiscal theories that applied to Austria [ only ] [ a monarchy ] at that time. Menger was educated as a LAWYER and he had no working knowledge of democratic  government. In 1889 his Prince, who was married, shot his 17 year old mistress, then himself. Menger was out of a job. He ended up at the University of Vienna, appointed by the Prince’s dad. Menger started teaching basic  economics based on his own experiences. Much like Terry Corcoron, a phony ].  German economists at that time opposed Menger as he had departed from mainstream theory by proposing a lot of mumbo jumbo. Carl even contested Adam Smith’s writings. The Germans called what Menger was teaching , ” the Austrian School ”.  A group of ideas and theories which were never  formalized, never worked, nonsense related. Mises was as student of Menger in 1900. In 1923 Hayek [ an Austrian ] went to work for Mises as a LAWYER. In the late 1920s Mises and Hayek formed the Austrian School of Economics based on Menger’s [ died 1921 ] teachings. Of course dead men can’t complain about the theft of their thunder. Nietzsche stole ideas from others. Von Mises and Hayek did the same thing. Experts have looked at the Mises / Hayek  School and don’t know what it is or what it does but it sure had legs among the simple minded in the Republican party [ example Ronal Reagan ]. The hard right adopted Mises and Hayek economic theories and the Austrian School of Economics had a nice impressive ring to it. It sounded authentic.  But it was / is as phony as a 3 dollar bill. The Austrian School of Economics is anything you want to make of  it, like play dough.  Leo Strauss who also fled Hitler’s Germany studied political philosophy as related to Plato and Aristotle. He became a prof. at the University of Chicago, the center of right wing politics in the USA based on Nietzsche stance.  Again the American right seized upon yet another European intellectual to give their religion legitimacy. Strauss was another wimp who was freed by the Nietzsche Myth. Strauss was anti democratic and taught that perpetual deception of the people by those in power is critical because the masses need to be led. Leo thought that the citizenry needed strong leaders to tell what is good for them. Leo would have loved Herr Harper, a committed disciple. Strauss concocted the idea of the noble lie. If  Herr Harper [ a Straussian as is Tom Flanagan ] tells a lie, it is noble in that he remains true to the goal of regime change. It is a little like saying if the people around Hitler really believed in his actions in their heart of hearts, then lying and dirty deeds were okay. Our boy Harper tells at least a dozen noble lies a day. Strauss would be proud. So the hard right in the USA drew from the writings of H. L. Mencken and Ayn Rand to create the spirit of Nietzshe in their religion and Great Book without naming him. Fred, after all was associated with Hitler and the Nazis. For the righties Mises / Hayek and their stolen / phony Austrian School of Economics provided guidance for running US finances. Simply put, let the market and businesses do what they want and the good times will roll. Good times for the self appointed exceptional people will roll that is. Enough cash to stash offshore. Leaving no stone unturned Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand comment was picked up by the right and thoroughly mangled. Its’ use has been distorted by the right to argue against government regulations like the Glass / Stealy Act. And to put the finishing touches to the religion of the right they adopted Leo Strauss’s set of  political rules which in simplified form promotes cheating, lying and stealing. So the right / Republicans / Sociopathic  religion is made up almost entirely of UPC sufferers, mostly young men who outnumber young women 1600 to one. No wonder the wimps complain about there being so few right wing gals to chose from. Maybe Diane and Rona can take pity on their male trained seals MPs in Parliament and spread themselves around a little. But women want to be around real men. In terms of finance, greed dominates the right wing  who quest for money and power. A real democracy denies them both. In a democracy you have to earn your spurs.  Enough is never enough for the rightie insiders. In terms of the political rules of engagement anything goes, even Robo Calls.  Of course this right wing religion is now being imported into what has become punching bag Canada by Harper. Lyin Steve stole the 2011 election but you ain’t seem nothing yet. President Obama beat the pants off  that nitwit Romney by a much bigger margin than reported. The cheating Stateside inflated Romney’s losing numbers. Many journalists forecasted that the Republicans would move closer to the center to attract more votes. The opposite is happening. The Rebooblicans are miffed that their cheating didn’t work. They feel they were cheated out of a cheated vistory. So rather that become more civilized and show more respect for democracy, they are going to double down and step up their vote cheating. The Reboobs say , ” if we can’t have America to do with it as we please then nobody shall have America. Karl Rove [ another wimp ] [ the Tom Flanagan of the USA ] collected more than $ 300 million in order to defeat Obama. He says he is going to better that next time. Can you imagine that 300 million being spent on education or health???  Republican States are now rigging things to take away the voting rights of minorities to ensure a right wing victory next time. I believe this determination to cheat will spill over into Canada once again. What is dangerous about this prospect is the Herr Harper has cowed Elections Canada as he has done with the RCMP and Revenue Canada. And with our very sleepy, detatched  Elections Canada in charge the cheating by Harper and his Fascists next time round will be even more intense. We have to begin organizing The Election Vigilante League now to be ready for 2015 election, that is, if  Harper hasn’t turned this Country into a dictatorship by then.  As I have said many times Sociopaths suffer from UPC. They never admit to mistakes and therefore they keep doing the same things over and over like those with Autism. You can count on it. Harper holds his position based on under the able money from the US oil cartel. That is why he twists himself  into a pretzel, doing the cartel’s bidding. But the cartel’s interest in Canada is fast fading except for the cheap tar in Alberta. If a deal with Venzuela for heavy oil is made our boy Steve is finished. The religion of the right is incompatible with democracy. We can’t have it both ways. We can’t have a small group of self proclaimed superior people [ mental midgets ] claiming all the wealth of a nation and running around acting like bullies. And yet subscribe to the idea of the will [ a majority ] of the people. By nature the right is parasitic. If democracy dies, they die. But for the superior people in our midst [ Harper / Manning/ Flanagan etc ]  that fact has yet to sink in. And far too members of the mob [ us ] have yet to recognize the dangers of the Nietzsche Cult of self. These are the very same Ontarians who believed that the closing of the Legislature was no big deal because the $ media said very little about Prorogation. History is full of stories of people who did not realize their democratic rights had been taken away until they heard the clang of the concentration camp gate close behind them.  The solution to our coming problem is to jail all those who cheat at elections time. Ted Opitz MP, Arthur Hamilton, Dean del Mastro MP and Peter Penashue are good examples. They, Harper and the  the Fascists cheated in the 2011 Election. Opitz knows it, Harper knows it, Hamilton knows it, Mastro knows it, Penashue knows it.  But this is perfect timing, Harper is building new jails. They’ll all have a place. I would like to see the aforementioned be the first to try out the new cells. Peter Penashue, Minister, has just resigned, finally admitting he was lying, cheating and he broke the law. There will now be a by-election. Harper immediately announced Penashue would be his Fascist candidate. This is why democracy in Canada has been weakened under Harper. THERE ARE RIDING ASSOCIATIONS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHEREIN THE MEMBERSHIP CHOOSES THE CANDIDATE. EACH POLITICAL PARTY HAS SUCH ASSOCIATIONS. THUS THE LOCAL PEOPLE GET TO CHOSE WHO REPRESENTS THEM. If  Herr Harper can just sit in Ottawa and chose candidates for each riding, why go throught this phony election process? Simply put, this is tyranny. Canada sacrificed thousand of its’ young to stop the likes of the Kaiser and Hitler. Now we are in the process of just rolling over on Harper’s command. I have been calling Stevie FUHRER for at least 5 years now but too many Canadians continue to doze. Joe Oliver said we should be proud of our heritage, hewers of wood and drawers of water in Harperland. When you and your family are hauling buckets of water down the hill to be exported to the USA, remember your responsibility in allowing this to come to pass. Just think, when you were needed you sat on your ass.

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Ah yes, the Keystone XL, the pipe line of death. Now we find out Girling’s folly has been Chavezed. Let’s look at this project through the eyes of a hard headed business man. I occupied such a position for 50 years. I produced top products or services, at affordable prices and gave good customer service. I never went broke, I adjusted to the times, had a roof / 3 squares for my family and didn’t do it on the backs of other, like Conrad Black. I didn’t steal my employee’s pension money.  Remember in North America there are boom / bust cycles every 7 years [ approx ]. So I survived at least 6 recessions. One of my strengths was keeping an ear to the ground to listen for the onrushing hoof beats of hard times. I knew that Ontario was going into the dumpster in 1989 almost a year in advance of the hit. The big tip off was the antics of David Peterson. A slow down was certainly coming but he made it much worse. This Province is still suffering from Peterson’s ineptitude. Oh, the $ media never told you that?  I knew that the subprime meltdown [ 2008 / 2009 ] was approaching in 2006 and began battening down the hatches. My family has never suffered in any of the recessions. We have had to be careful and trim our sails but we have escaped rather unscathed. Darwin was supposed to have promoted the idea of , ” survival of the fittest ” . He did not. This survival nonsense was coined by a British economist in 1866. His expression was picked up by the right wing in the USA as well as Hitler. The righties and the Nazis had / have been preaching that power and money win every time. Again, nonsense. What Darwin emphasized was that those who best adapted to the conditions were the ones who survived. Would it not follow that knowing the real facts  about our trials and tribulation would be of paramount importance to surviving? Shouldn’t investors know the real story of Keystone before forking over cash. The old sayng is true, ” a fool and his money are soon parted “. Russ Girling is in the hunt for fools. Living in Bush Jr.’s unreality as Herr harper is does not a long life guarantee.  The Republicans have as their foundation myths that are taught every day to young, impressionable  UPC [ Undeveloped Prefrontal Cortex ] sufferers. Preston Manning does that here with your tax dollars, in Calgary and Carleton University in Ottawa. To begin with there is the Nietzsche Cult of self, the details of which were totally made up by the right.  Then there is Friedrich Hayek, whose economic ideas were half baked and never had a chance of succeeding. The Repubs had fiction writers dream up a  theory based on Hayek’s babble. I have been calling himself  Herr Harper for at least 5 years. Steve is mentally ill. This was confirmed when he said he worships Hayek. Stevie is not all there. Leo Strauss of the University of Chicago was teaching the Noble Lie. Which says if you lie in the good cause of the right wing your lies are noble. So I guess that Harper is the noblest champ of all times. Or could that be chump? Strauss was a Jew who got out of Germany by the skin of his teeth in 1938. Leo loved what Hitler was doing but not the man himself and his extermination camps. Those the right honour are all crackpots. Strauss advocated that saying one thing and doing another is honourable, to never admit a mistake and always blame others was the way to power. Once in power, anything to keep you there was okay, even if illegal. And he said, what the general population [ Nietzsche's mob ] needed was a few strong men who could bully people about. Leo feared Nietzsche’s slothful mob [ us ] would  ruin everything for the wimps. Now teaching this subversive stuff  in Chicago, the centre of the right wing in the USA was actually paving the way for the overthrow of democracy in the USA. And it worked. As stated Harper hews to Hayek but he is also enthralled with Strauss.  Leo, with his Nietzsche upbringing appealed to the wimps on the right. Declare yourself exceptional, you can be in our club and be part of the group that rules the world. If you look up Sociopath on the net and investigate Strauss you can see that Lyin Steve follows the prescribed behaviours religiously. Tom Flanagan [ another Nietzsche adherent ] taught Steve well. I have been forecasting the collapse of the Alberta oil and natural gas economy for about 2 years. As soon as I got a handle on fracking I knew the jig was up for Western oil and nat. gas. In fact you can read my comments on earlier blogs. Raining on the parade of the politicians, oil cartel, the rich, the hedge funds and stock brokers is not a popular thing to do for a writer. You’ll [ I'll ] never get a job at the Globe and Oil, that’s for sure. The petro $ media would  / will certainly not broadcast / print negative stuff about oil. NEVER  EVER. And they are not printing honest stuff in the present crude bitumen  circumstances. All of those in the population who are influenced by the petro $ media and believe every word are going to be cut off at the knees financially. Suckered one more time.  But this time it could be far worse. Preem Redford is being blamed for the downturn in Alberta. That downturn has really been caused by the US oil cartel [ again ] and those on the right. Just like with Trudeau and the NEP. So in a sense you can say Redford is being Trudeaued by a well paid petro $ media in full cry. Their chorus is a slow boat to nowhere for Canada. It is interesting that at this very moment, before the Keystone, Hugo Chavez died. Amazingly the Harper media has been attacking Chavez as much as Redford. It is going to be a real contest to see which devil has the biggest horns. The assaults on the Premier are of course being paid for by the US oil cartel. The attacks on Chavez are being carried out by the media to impress the right and their oilie bosses. It is important for the shills to prove once again that they are true believers.  Mindless but what the hey? For years the mere mention of the NEP was enough to score brownies for the writers on the right. Ezra Le Rant [ above all ] mentions the NEP in almost ever column. The NEP has taken over Ezra’s pea size brain entirely.  Now Hugo Chavez can be added to their quiver. But being as stupid as they are the rightie journoshills are missing the significance of the death of Chavez. We may be watching the death of the Keystone XL, Gateway and the Kinder Morgan expansion  due to lack of investment money. Surely the pipe line cpmpanies have run out of investment suckers? Daaaaaaaaaa.  Successful businessmen and investors operate in the here and now, they look ahead and adapt.  They are not in La La Land with that noted economist ??? Stephen Harper ??? and his press pals. I would predict that the Keystone, Gateway and Kinder Morgan  projects will evaporate and that Alberta, Saskachewan and Manitoba are in for a very rough ride. Much like the US economy.  The 3 Premiers are very late to this game [ maybe too late ]. They are taking their cues from the petro $ media and ill informed advisors. An extremely bad move.  The hoof beats of history have been evident for some time for those who are prepared to pay attention and USE THEIR BRAINS.  Harper is the no brainer. When you add a number to the column the sum changes. The prospect of getting heavy oil from Venezuela when their new Government takes over is very real. Behind the scenes the passing of Hugo Chavez is already being factored in. At the very least it will cause smart investors to sit on their money and allow for a pause. This will force TransNotCanada, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan to put a hold on their plans. In the oil community there is uncertainty. This is so delicious. Harper has half of his wimpish trained seals down in Washington selling a pipe line that may now be just a pipe dream. To add to the comedic atmosphere. Joe ” Tailing Pond Charlie ” Oliver is traipsing the land promoting  something that is not here to-day and may well be gone bye bye tomorrow. At the worst the three pipelines will get the chop. If the idle refineries in Texas and California  begin receiving Venezuelan heavy oil again there is no need to buy dirty tar slurry from Alberta, end of story. Go on the net. That conversation is already taking place.  It would be my best guess that the 3 pipes are history. But Harper, Danielle Smith and the petro $ media will never tell you that because they are all in La La Land. Albertans who listen to the cartel, Lyin Steve and lying Danielle will realize that they have been had the day they are evicted and are packing their belongings in a Calgary U Haul.  I am reminded of a story about the Titanic. A family, father, mother and two kids are fast asleep in their stateroom, Dad is awakened by a bump. He puts on his robe and goes out in the hallway where he encounters a crew member. Dad is reassured there  is nothing wrong. He returns to his cabin and gets back in  bed. This bump in the night  doesn’t go down well however. Dad awakens his family, gets them dressed and goes out on the deck. Of course all hell has broken loose by then but the ship has not yet started to list. The order is given to abandon ship, our little family makes it into a lifeboat and they survived the ordeal. People in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba are being told by Harper, Joe Oliver, Danielle Smith and the petro $ media that nothing is wrong, just go back to sleep. The first trip to the food bank by the little people will inform them that they made a mistake not paying attention to events in the real world. And that placing their trust in the Fascists, oilies and the petrol $ media was a misstep.  There is a plan B for the Western Provinces which I have been writing about for some time but I know I am swimming against the current and oil money. It is against human nature to leave a swinging party early. So it would seem that the people in the West are going to have to hurt a little or maybe hurt a lot before they respond to this crisis. These same types would not leave the Florida islands in the face of Katrina. They now wear wings. Each day that is lost not implementing plan B [ NES / real jobs not imaginary ones ] puts a recovery further out of reach.  So Harper, Joe Oliver, a whole teams of spin doctors along with the help of the petro $ media will continue to sing the sirens’ sweet song that is way out of date. In Greek mythology the sirens inhabited the islands called Sirenum scopuli [ rock ]. Their songs lured sailors to their deaths on the rocky shore. The Harper team listed above is right now luring the Western Provinces to be dashed upon the rocks of ruin. By making the dreadful mistake of not reacting.  Seizing the moment is crucial. The death of Chavez is a game changer. Any business that only has one product and one customer is doomed in the long haul. As is the west if the people there don’t act. And pronto. The idea with the Keystone now is to reconnect with a single customer in Port Arthur Texas. Just think, that customer will have Alberta’s nackers in his hand and set the price. If Venezuela heavy oil is imported into Texas the Russ Girling will just trasport Bakken light oil.  The folks who live in the shadow of the Rockies are especially vulnerable when led by someone like Harper who lives in La La Land. America lives there too with George Bush Jr., both captives of  Big Oil. In the land of Harper and Bush the passing of Hugo Chavez’sis just that, a passing. In the real world it has changed the dynamics of the global oil industry. I think the chances of sending tar slurry to Texas / California are zero to none. I believe Kinder Morgan is going to get the chop too. The US oil cartel will discontinue the DilBit Kinder is now shipping through Vancouver and down the coast to California [ not Asia as Oliver would have us believe ]. The problem for the tar sands area is that when the oil cartel suddenly leaves, the toxic mess will be left  behind for us to clean up. You know that I do a lot of research on the net, the truth is there but you have to dig for it. I understand that those who write for the right are not allowed to check things out on the net. This allows journalists to remain stupid and to continue to tell you oilie lies. Go on the net and look for pictures of Azerbaijan / Baku /  [ edwardburtynsky.com / Socar Oil Fields ]. They show what happens when the oil companies leave. Also look for the pics of the CP derailment in Minnesota, the EXXON spill in Arkansas and the CP derailment in White River. The US oil cartel / TransNotCanada / Enbridge / Kinder Morgan are trying to cover up the dangers of  transporting Crude Bitumen through pipe designed to carry refined oil. The petro $ media is being paid millions to fool you. And if you allow yourself to be fooled more the fool you. Harper and Bush live in a fool’s paradise and the West is now visiting. It would be best to cut their vacation short and get back to reality.  The Alberta tar sands will be the next oilie orphan.  Just another Baku. The oil business doesn’t have to pollute this way and be this dirty. It is just the way the Americans do business. Profits are increased by them not cleaning up after themselves. Premier Redford has to implement her NES, rather  quickly. In the face of a hostile petro $ media that is trying to hound the Preem out of office before she frees Albertans. If she hesitates Alberta will be the home of  food banks and tailing ponds forever. Alberta doesn’t have enough money or credit to clean up this mess on its’ own. Shortly the Yankees  oil cartel will be long gone. And Oilie Joe Oliver will have to go into hiding. Is it possible that Albertans will want Ontario to come to their financial rescue yet AGAIN?  But this time maybe the Eastern bastards won’t wanna.

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What is the Keystone XL you might ask? Let’s strip it down to the bare essentials. Our journey starts in Port Arthur Texas and San Francisco / Los Angeles California. The US oil cartel [ a monopoly granted by the Republicans in the 1920s ] occupied Venezuela in an oil sense much as they do in Alberta. The corrupt Government of that Country was paid off [ well paid off ], just like in the case of Herr Harper. Steve gets loads of oil money under the table but Revenue Canada is obsessed with David Suzuki [ on Harper's orders ]. As regards US oil cartel political funding Rev. Can. looks the other way. The bulk of the Venezuelan people lived in poverty [ 1980s ]. The cartel extracted huge amounts of oil from the Country and gave little back in return. But the royalties paid to Venzuela [ 17% ] were never as low as in the case of Alberta [ 8% ]. The leadership in the Province other than Peter Lougheed have had spines made from marshmallow. Ed Stelmach is a good example. The cartel barked in print through the petro $ media and poor Ed disintegrated into a new form of jelly and SURRENDERED. Venezuela has a huge reserve of various types of petroleum, one being heavy oil [ real oil that flows like HP Sauce ]. The management of the US oil cartel is made up of many company names, containing people who are supremely arrogant. They almost have enough money to run the world and in some cases do. The oilies, using many company names is the method by which the cartel fools the American people [ American people seem to be prone to being fooled over and over ]. The phony companies that make up the cartel collude with each other. Collusion [ price fixing ] itself is a crime but since Congress gets paid off it too looks the other way] [ Harper is paid off as well ]. Anyway, for the oilies it was all smooth sailing in Venezuela. A corrupt Government was in the bag and the general public was under the control of the Army. Who could ask for anything more? So the process of stripping Venezuela of its’ oil resources began. But what to do with  stuff that was like HP Sauce? The cartel built large refineries in Port Arthur in Texas and San Fran. / LA  California to handle the thicker oil. Something other refineries couldn’t do. In eastern Canada and the USA there are NO refineries that can handle thick oil or DilBit. The building of these specialty refineries in Texas and California shows the pure nerve of the US cartel. The Gulf refineries along the Texas / Louisiana coast supply about 50% of America’s gasoline. This location provides the oil cartel with two markets, domestic and global. In a sense they built a special infrastructure to process what amounts to stolen goods from Venezuela, secure in the knowledge that this arrangement would never end. Daaaaaaaaaaa. How many slaves ever escape their captors? So goes the story, so Sociopathic.  In 2010 CAPP estimated that the US oil cartel took $ 125 billion in petroleum out of Alberta and gave back a little over $ 10 billion [ about 8% ]. It is estimated that Albertans have lost $ 45 billion to the cartel in the last 10 years. The Venezuelans got more for their oil than we did. And we think of them as the third world? In fact all in, Canada gives its’ petroleum resources away for nothing. We sell raw cheap tar and buy back expensive refined products. Venezuela’s heavy oil came by tanker to the US. The ports in Texas and California are tax free areas. Another sweetheart deal cooked up for the cartel by Congress. This tax free status allows oil to be brought in from anywhere in the world, refined the shipped back out to the world market WITHOUT America collecting ANY TAXES. . Before Ronald Reagan was installed as  President  large corporations paid about 35% of American taxes. That tax rate is now 9%. The righties always promote lower taxes as a way to prosperity. The USA is now on its’ knees so they are wrong again. Harper started office with a Liberal surplus and he cut the GST. Now look at the mess.  Continuing on the theme of corporate / elite greed coupled with zero insight and no political supervision, I borrow from Thomas Hardy [ English poet ], “  And as the sleek Titanic grew. In  stature, grace and hue. In the shadowy silent distance grew, a great iceberg too .” Those who create their own reality, sometimes pay a dreadful price. Harper is now facing a backbench revolt  and a plunging economy . Those in La la Land like Steve never cotton on to the possibility of an iceberg until it is too late.  As the US oil cartel plundered Venezuela of its’ oil  Hugo Chavez started his climb to power. Once in control he drove the oil cartel from the temple and nationalized their holdings [ we should do the same in Alberta ]. The US Government was not amused by Hugo, nor were those weak minded Americans who believe everything their petro $ media told / tells  them [ just like Albertans ]. The USA did everything in its’ power to bring Chavez down but he was loved by his people, too tough and too smart. Usually Washington deals with such leaders by paying to have them assassinated. But Chavez outsmarted Washington and the cartel. Hugo directed the billions that were going into the pockets of the US oil cartel be redirected towards his impoverished people [ as Alison Redford should be doing, using her Provinces's resources to the benefit of her people ]. Even to-day, with the death of Chavez the $ media here and Stateside still can’t deal with the truth. Can. media owners never saw a lie, accompanied by a fat cheque that they didn’t like. So the US oil cartel found itself with refineries in Texas and California that were not going to be supplied with  heavy Venezuelan oil. Crude bitumen mixed with lighter fluid was beginning to be transported by Enbridge through its’ refined oil pipe lines under the very noses of   US Government officials. The oilies were mad about Chavez but the collapse of the American economy [ 2008 / 2009 ]  cause by Wall St.’s orchestration of the subprime mortgage scandal diverted their attention for a while. Increasing numbers of Yanks could no longer afford to drive, those who could continue to drive bought smaller vehicles, then you add in the fracking of oil and nat. gas. All of this turned the energy business on its’ ear. It has taken time for the US oil cartel to chart a new course that will see its’ profits remain undiminished. The same pattern as in the 1980s has kicked in for the cartel. Like any greedy corporation, it’s first move is to lay off workers so to speak. For the US cartel this means jettisoning partners like Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as well as all the junior oil and nat. gas businesses there and in Texas too. The cartel majors are now selling out their Western Canada assets for their depressed value to the Chinese and other foreigners. By the way Canadians get none of that money.  The Asians are flush with cash, have the long term view and are prepared to oil bank for the future. The assets they are now buying can only appreciate with time. The US oil cartel is interested in the next quarter and the management of same would sell their grandmothers’ gold teeth even while they are still alive. So the cartel is disappearing over the hill to the south now and leaving Canada to deal with a mess of a poisoned sky, land and water. As the cartel steals into the night so goes Herr Harper’s meal ticket as well as Danielle Smith’s. It all began with mixing tar with lighter fluid and sending it through a pipe  in Cold Lake. As the mining of tar moved away from the upgrader a way had to be found to move the mineral easily. Forcing diluted minerals through  pipes to the distant  processer is a well know practice in the world. Iron ore is moved that way.  In the beginning DilBit was moved by a short pipe [ the sand did not have time to heat up the pipe ] on company property. Any spill would not have affected the public interest nor damage the environment because of containment barriers. Like berms around oil storage tanks. Then the cartel got the idea that they could feed the Texas / California refineries with tar slurry after Chavez cut them off. Raw tar was different than the Venezuela heavy oil but still refineable. Of course this scheme would only work if certain conditions were met. The transporting of DilBit by Enbridge had to use the existing pipe line network designed for synthetic oil. A misuse of the system which endangered lives, the environment and the Company shareholders. It had to be done without informing government officials. Any spill / ruptures [ from thinning pipes made in India and China ] had to be covered up by buying the allegiance of the petro $ media. Which was instructed to use the term []  O I L []  not crude bitumen. Crude Bitumen is a legal terms that enables Enbridge to avoid taxes. Crude Bitumen does not become oil [ synthetic crude oil ] until it comes out of the other end of an upgrader which removes all the impurities like quartz sand and the toxic chemicals . The cartel had to be able to buy the tar real cheap which they could do because Alberta had no other customers. The cartel had to be able to avoid any responsibility for the poisons / mess being accumulated in the tar sands which would be left behind eventually. That Harper has already looked after.  The tar slurry had to be transported on the cheap, using pipe lines meant for refined oil and the environmental restrictions had to be as light as a feather. Controls, sensors and pumps meant for refined oil were used with DilBit but don’t work because of the damage from the sand. Harper has OKed that too. And the cartel wanted no penalties at all for destroying  the landscape. Harper accommodated them on that. The pipers are not responsible for DilBit spills. Congress let them off the hook.  So then the Keystone XL idea was born in order that the Texas  refineries belonging to the cartel could be spooled back up to full capacity [ that is the only reason  / pure corporate greed ]. As planned by the insiders, the Keystone, Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipelines will all rob Albertans, Canadians, Americans, small investors and endanger all those along the entire length of each pipe [ more than 2000 miles for the Keystone ] and the environment. The winners are all related, they live on Wall St. When you stand back and look at this scheme it really takes one hell of a lot of nerve to try and pull this kind of thing off.  This is arrogance born of a 90 year old monopoly. The US oil cartel has bought off Congress and Ottawa and paid the petro $ media in North America to heel. The cartel is secure of mind that nobody can stop them and they may well be right. The will of the people means nothing to the cartel, thus democracy means nothing to them. And democracy mean nothing to Harper, Manning or the secret Civitas Society that met in Ottawa March 9 /13. Manning explained to this Fascist gathering that it was important to carry the message of the faithful to all levels of government, municipal, provincial and Federal. Crucial to the cause is the indoctrination of our young both at Calgary U and Carleton University in Ottawa for starters. It is very much like the instructional process the Hitler youth went through.  Especially important is the rigging of elections as practiced in the USA by the Republicans. Ron Paul brought greeting to Preston Manning in Ottawa from his supporters on the far right [ one % of Americans ]. Everything the media writes or broadcasts about oil is lies. The story of DilBit is pure subterfuge. The tar that was being mined in Fort McMurray in the early 1990s had to go through an upgrader. What came out the other end was synthetic crude oil [ SCO ]. It was oil without any impurities whatsoever. SCO was the  raw oil that could be turned into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, oils for foodstuffs, home heating oil, lubricants, naptha, lighter fluid, kerosene and waxes.  So a barrel of SCO can go anywhere and be turned into products required in that area by the local refinery. Before 2000 there were few oil spills.  SCO is the perfect form of oil to distribute across Canada to local refineries. I thas always had a good safety record. Enbridge’s 800 spills in the last 10 years has everything to do with Pat Daniel sneaking DilBit into his pipe lines and not telling anyone. As the tar sands grew the mining operations moved farther and farther away from the upgraders. What to do? What to do? Experiments were started as to how to transport the bitumen [ tar, about the consistency of peanut butter ] ] through a pipe line. It was found that if the tar was mixed with lighter fluid it could be pumped a short distance from A to B within the mine site. Instead of developing a new safe system to transport thinned bitumen by pipe and working with government officials in Can. and the US to get approval. The cartel in cahoots with Enbridge and TransNotCanada decided to just do it and not tell anyone. From 2000 to 2010 Enbridge had more than 800 spills, most of them involving DilBit. Former CEO Pat Daniel of Enbridge continually lied to Can. / US officials and said it was oil that had spilled in each case. With the Kalamazoo spill the beans got spilled. Enbridge DilBit has ruined part of the River. I mean detroyed it. It has caused people to get sick breathing the hydrogen sulfide gas created when you mix tar and lighter fluid, then heat it up. The increased temperature of a pipe carrying DilBit is caused by the abrasive sand. It is an accident waiting to happen every mile of the way. Residents and businesses along the Kalamazoo River have had to move away and their properties bought out from under them by that son of a bitch Pat Daniel for a song. Enbridge, worth billions has picked off the residents one by one on the cheap and they have had no one to take their side. Some of them are sick from the spill.  There is nobody to defend them. Congress and State politicians have all been bought off as has the media.  With these spills, the governments allows the pipe line Companies to investigate themselves. So the larger citizenry never finds out about all of these corporate abuses because the $ media is paid to keep their traps shut. It is interesting that Pat Daniel, who should be in prison right now was given a business leader of the year award. Then our Pat went into hiding and a new liar took over, Al Monaco. Can you imagine Air Canada being allowed to investigate its’ own accidents. After the Kalamazoo spill, the US Government has now decided to study the safety of sending tar laced with quartz sand and mixed with lighter fluid via inferior steel pipes?  This investigation is 10 years too late due mainly to George Bush Jr. and the Republican Congress. And 40% of americans are so stupid they vote for these guys continuously. Pay the Republicans enough $ and they will spit nickels. It may be that the US Government will ban DilBit from the pipe lines. But I suspect that if the Keystone XL is actually built before a decision comes down it will be grandfathered. That will mean even more payments to Congress / Parliament Hill and the $ media. Under such condition the XL will be closed after the first major DilBit spil occurs. Now Russ Girling has told investors, Congress members and Texans [ not Canadians ] of his default position. If the pipe line were to be closed, Russ would use it to bring Alberta / Rockies water to the panhandle.  Now here is the sticky wicket. Hugo Chavez, was a champion of the Venezuelan people. The principals at the top of the US oil cartel must be cringing as they watch Herr Harper and his press galley attacking the dead Chavez. Now Hugo is gone it opens the door to the US cartel reestablishing a business relationship with Venezuela. That Country has the heavy oil, the very reason the refineries were built in Texas and California in the first place. It would be a whole lot cheaper, safer and more dependable to ship heavy oil it to the USA rather than  bring that dangerous tar slurry mixed with lighter fluid 2000 miles from Alberta. One Kalamazoo type spill on the Keystone XL and the line would be closed, maybe indefinitely? Why take chances if Venezuelan heavy oil is now available?  The the US oil cartel would really be in the soup. But attacking Chavez Harper has made it much more difficult for the cartel to get back into Venzuela heavy oil again and the price and conditions have no doubt gone up. The Yankee oil carpetbaggers need that Country more than Venezuela needs them. Chavez has been selling his oil all over the world and that will not change. In fact I believe the Chinese were buying some and so is Canada. Young Steve, a so called economist is a clod of the first order. I think that Albertans who are forced to join the jobless line will turf this guy, but quick. And any investor thinking of investing in the Keystone XL should think about the Chavez factor and think twice. Russ Girling and Al Monaco are playing a dangerous game. Both Enbridge and TransNotCanada have a date with disaster. These pied pipers are sending DilBit all around their western pipe systems for free without government permission. They are now contemplating doing the same in the east. Heated tar slurry plus lighter fluid equals hydrogen sulfide. Disolved in water hydrogen sulfide turns into sulfhydric acid. The toxicity of  H2S compares with cyanide. Being exposed to H2S , which POOLS ON THE GROUND [ it doesn't rise ] can cause eye irritation, a sore throat, cough, nausea, shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs, fatigue, loss of appetite, headaches,  irritability, poor memory and dizziness. Many of these symptoms were present at the Kalamazoo spill as well as one in Alberta. In Mayflower Arka. the only people allowed into the spill area are wearing Hazmat Suits which are used when poisonous gas is present. The trigger that has caused 800 Enbridge spills in ten year is the quartz sand which can only be removed using an upgrader. This sand abrades the inside of the steel pipes [ this questionable steel comes from India and China by the way]. So much for the 46,000  jobs Girling and Monaco promised Joe Oliver. These pied pipers and the Can. Energy Pipe Line Association keep changing the channel and paying for tests done on corrosion inside the pipes. Again by insiders. And these tests the petro $ media obediently reports upon. The spills are being caused by the sand in the unprocessed tar, this causes ABRASION. Daaaaaaaaaaa. This friction ERODES  the cheap steel pipes on the inside, making them thinner until a rupture occurs. The weakening takes place at welded joints, at elbows and curves especially. Both Enbridge and TransNotCanada are being purposely evasive and obtuse.  It is not a matter of if DilBit spills will happen but when? And how many? Will a pipe let go in Alberta again? Saskatchewan? Manitoba? How about Windsor, Hamilton, Toronto or Montreal???  How many people will be gassed? How many children will die? But since the oil cartel and the pied pipers are treated hands off by the US and Canadian Governments the beat goes on. And the beat will go on until enough of the little people [ as Lady Black calls us ] are killed or maimed. If all hell breaks loose Girling, Monaco, Daniel and all the others responsible will quickly disappear into the ether. Just like the Wall Streeters did after the  2008 downturn.  To my Canadian and Americans friends on the far right I would say, this is why we need Governments. To enforce regulations / laws and put the wrong doers in jail. If there is such a major spill, I would hope that Harper, Joe Oliver, Peter Kent, John Baird, Preston Manning and their families et al will suffer first. It should be that these parents are forced to watch their children go first.

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As the US oil cartel quits Alberta it could prove be the a great opportunity for Canada. While big oil, our oppressor for so long, is regrouping in the face the oncoming  energy challenges we have a chance to reestablish our sovereignity and become energy self sufficient. We can make Canada whole once again and escape the Harper East / West  divide.  A situation imposed on us by the US oil cartel / Preston Manning / little Stevie Harper. The clouds now gathering over the West are easily discerned. 30 years ago the US oil cartel owned or controlled about 70% of the world’s oil supply. It owned about 75% of the worlds refineries. In North America said refineries were the eye of the needle. Lots of oil, a bit of oil, is of little consequence unless a refinery can be found to process the oil into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel etc. The US oil cartel [ monopoly ] has us by the short and curlies. The cartel is the only game in the USA / Canada and this illegal right to screw the population hereabouts was extended by the Republicans in the 1920s. Venezuela is free of the US cartel, Mexico is free, Norway is free, Iran is free, Saudi Arabia is free, Russian is free etc. But pantywaist Canada, acts the perfect submissive. Joe Oliver thinks we should be proud of our heritage. Joe likes to remind us, you know that stuff about hauling logs and buckets of water. 5 years ago the oil cartel still owned  about 3 / 4 of the refineries but less than 10% of the world oil supply. The cartel had to go flat out to keep its’ refineries humming. It was a seller’s market. Aberta could sell every barrel of tar it could dig up [ shades of the late 1970s all over again]. The heavy oil refineries in Texas [ where the Keystone XL would go ] and California  were built to handle Venezuela heavy oil. Chavez kicked the US cartel out and expropriated their oil infrastructure to get even for the years in which the resource wealth of the Country was stolen [ just like in Alberta ]. Chavez could do that because the world was hungry for oil of any description and he didn’t need the USA. In five short years everything has changed once again due to the popularity of fracking [ both natural gas and oil ]. Most of the fracking activity has been done by the junior petroleum companies, not the US oil cartel. But the majors have become the beneficiaries. With no restrictions or regulations governing fracking the American juniors did what Americans do best, they started yet another boom / bust cycle. Every guy and his uncle is into fracking. Now too much supply has cause a glut of natural gas with the result that the price has tanked. Nat. gas was selling for $ 16 a unit 4 years ago, it is to-day $ 3.85 a unit. The natural gas juniors can’t afford to drill for it below $ 6.50 a unit. Now TransNotCanada and Enbridge are making a killing in Ontario and Quebec. They are charging Alberta prices [ $ 16 a unit ] for nat. gas that is costing Girling / Monaco $ 3.85 a unit. Why? Because we are patsies and our governments know we are patsies. The oilies know we are patsies.  Now the juniors are fracking oil and the very same thing is happening. The price of oil is tanking too and who do you think is making a killing? R i g h t.  The US oil cartel. They own all the refineries here and no matter how low a barrel of oil goes the cartel can still charge whatever they want for gasoline / diesel / jet fuel. The US cartel has closed most of the refineries in Canada saying they are too expensive to maintain. Rather it is to make sure we can’t break out on our own and that we are forever chained to the cartel.  Paying whatever price THEY set for gasoline / diesel / jet fuel etc. Why?  You are right, because we are patsies. And Harper knows patsies when he sees us. The cartel can now buy any amount of crude oil [ real oil ] at the cheapest of prices. So that is why Alberta, in particiular is getting screwed. The Yanks, Alberta’s only customer [ a dreadful business model ], can decide their own price per barrel. Take it or leave it Premier Redford? So the only type of petroleum that the cartel now wants is tar slurry mixed with lighter fluid [ DilBit ] for its’ Texas and California heavy oil refineries. If there is no market for tar then Alberta HAS NO MARKET FOR ANY OF ITS’ RESOURCES . How does one pay the bills when there is no income? No point in asking Danielle Smith that question. She is too stupid to know what is going on, I have watched her on TV, what a swifty. Smith repeats right wing rhetoric is merely hurrying Albertans to the gallows.  Now let’s take a wee break. Where can you find this kind of information? Certainly not in the newspapers, magazines or TV. The insiders know all about this stuff. It is on the net. So in every which way you lose if you are not on the net. The game is rigged against you. And losers are the ones who don’t pay attention always pay. Now an update on the foregoing story of US oil cartel / government sponsored theft.  Hugo Chavez died on March 5 /13. and the Keystone XL takes another whirl. Every right winger who is still breathing is in full cry calling Hugo names. Most of this comment is not about his life and legacy. It is all about how the righties feel towards Chavez. Who was left leaning.  Horror of horrors, even I, a Progressive Conservative am now considered left leaning. The righties can’t keep their mouths shut. Danielle Smith had 3 of her men friends speak out of turn and get turfed. Two Wild Oil Party members misspoke. Then Tom Flanagan, my favourite American draft dodger revealed he is a perv. I have always said this kind of thing can’t come out unless it is in a person’s mind. Of course Flanagan is Lyin Steve’s best friend. There is no doubt in my mind that Harper’s credentials at the University of Oil in Calgary are a put up job. I think Tom gave Steve a free pass, a phony diploma. All kinds of our politicians are Stateside begging for the XL pipe to be built. Canadians are a proud people. When did we fall into this begging mode? It is so embarrassing, especially since the Keystone XL is probably now dead anyway. The environmental arguement against the Keystone no longer holds. The question comes down to economics now. TransNot Canada is now under stress by the market. Girling’s mangement is now being questioned. Will he be the next CEO to go?  The US heavy oil refineries in Texas and California, specifically built to take Venezuelan thick oil may well be reconnected with that Country. Hugo Chavez nationalized much of the oil industry in Venezuela much to the consternation of the US oil cartel, especially EXXON. The Company, one of the shadowy components of the oil monopoly only came away from the battle with Chavez  getting 10 cents on the dollar. That is pleasing to me. EXXON has refused to pay the real costs of cleaning up after the Valdez ran aground more than 20 years ago. The leaked oil [ real oil / before the age of tar ] despoiled the Alaskan coast which has never been put right. The Republicans have made sure EXXON, which brings in billions each quarter, doesn’t have to pay the full cleanup bill. Alaska continues to be screwed. This will happen in Arkansas too, EXXON with the help of the Republicans will again avoid the cleanup bill.  It shows what would happen to the BC coast if a tar laden ship, registered in some south sea island hit the rocks. Our grandchildren would be paying off the damages. When Joe Oliver was making another of his propaganda speechs in BC the other day an oil spill response boat meant to be part of the publicity stunt to back Oliver up ran aground in the Pacific. Not only did Chavez nationalize some of the US oil companies but he called Georgie Bush Jr. a devil when he addressed the UN. Let us just say that there was no way the Americans could openly do business with Chavez. Certainly not EXXON. Although various of the US oil cartel continued to pump oil out of Venezuela on the quiet. This is the kind of thing [ suppression of the news ] a monopoly can do especially when it owns the $ media. The North American press is paid big money not to look too hard and keep YOU IN THE DARK. As long as Hugo was President a gulf remained between him and America as a whole. It was a given that this gulf would remain for a long time. As late as Dec. 2012 Chavez was reported to be in good condition even though he had been operated on for cancer. As 2013 dawned it was clear that Hugo was more seriously ill than was being reported. Those who watch the oil industry very closely, the ones who make all the big money [ besides the cartel ] are always  ahead of the information curve. The leading stock jocks pay the $ media [ like the Globe and Oil ] to cook the news and leave us common folk behind to pay the bills. The insiders have started looking past Chavez in the past few days. It has been decided that in terms of the heavy oil refineries in Texas and California the opportunity for the complete restoration of operations now has to include the Venezuelan option. So at the moment it is a contest which will be, heavy oil coming from Venezuela  or the dangerous, poisonous, difficult tar which has the potential to destroy the environment coming from Alberta. The oil insiders all write in code. They include the real up to date news in their pamphlets to clients / important investors. The everyday holders of stock and the general public are kept in the dark, purposely so. What is happening now is an assessment of the future supplier of heavy oil [ Ven. ] or crude bitument [ Alta. ]. Venezuela is now shipping heavy oil around the world and some of is making its’ way to the USA through third parties. Heavy oil is being shipped to the USA as you read this. I think the new Venezuelan Government will be much more open to  American overtures. Rex Tillerson, CEO of EXXON could easily reconnect with Venezuela through third parties in the cartel. It is an accepted fact that heavy oil from Venzuela would be much easier, cheaper and less messy to refine than the tar slurry from Alberta.  The liability factor is a whole lot less. Why make a profit then pay the money out in fines?  Shell could have a tanker full of Ven. heavy oil in Port Arthur Texas in 4 days and few environmental problems. The system for loading and shipping  already exists and is in use every day. The CO2 footprint is small. Venezuela charges a 33% royalty on the oil taken out of the Country. Alberta gets just 8%. Poor Ed Stelmach tried to boost the royalties on the cartel a wee smidgen and got hammered mercilessly by the petro $ press hired by the cartel. Comparing Venezuela to Alberta the 25% lower royalty rate means that the Province has lost  billions a year for the last 10 years thanks to the strong arm of the US cartel, Preston Manning and Lyin Steve. Thanks too to the petro $ media in the West. Instead of keep harping on Trudeau’s NEP the TV / papers and journalists should have been pushing for an increase in royalties for Alberta. Daaaaaaaaaa. No wonder the cartel can hand out so much money under the table to Harper, Danielle Smith, Preston Manning and the University of Oil in Calgary. With the death of Chavez the money tap is going to be turned off to them [ Steve,Danielle and Preston ] no matter how many upbeat oil articles and propaganda are printed in Calgary petro media. All kinds of phony, good news oilie items are being highlighted  by the press right now to draw attention away for the coming ship wreck. Just the possibility of making a new deal with Venezuela will be enough to upset investors. Why would anyone invest in the Keystone XL when it could just evaporate. When tankers starts arriving in Port Arthur and California with Venezuelan heavy oil the Gateway project as well as the Kinder Morgan crude bitumen line to Vancouver will become old news.  I have long maintained that by the time Alberta gets a 8% royalty on a barrel of tar slurry discounted by 30% and then imports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel etc at full price the Province is actually giving its’ raw resources away for free. The answer again is that they are pure patsies. Preems Redford and Wall are Stateside boosting the Keystone XL. It is a waste of time. In my view the pipe line is dead as a doornail. Apparently the Preems get their information from those who are in the oil business. One such highly regarded specimen who is on a Provincial oil committee said that nobody saw this downturn coming. I would guess that this guy has been in a coma for 2 years. You could see the light of the locomotive moving towards us even earlier than that.  Redford and Wall need new advisors, ones who don’t have their heads in the sand. Bringing the Provinces together [ NES ]and pooling Canada’s resources is the best course of action. United we stand. Divided under an American yoke we all go broke. The deaths of Keystone, Gateway and the Kinder Morgan expansion will have died with Hugo Chavez.  The end of Keystone, Gateway and Kinder Morgan is not a downer but the opening of door that offers exciting prospects. Preem Redford had it right the first time. Since Alberta is giving away its’ oil resources for free any return is better than nothing. The Province may have to cut back synthetic oil production until the new system is set up. There are a number of shuttered upgraders and refineries across Canada which would give us a head start. They should be expropriated The railways have bought a lot of tank cars to use to transport DilBit, they will now be surplus. These could be used to get synthetic oil [ not crude bitumen ] to tide water at Churchill Man. and down Toronto, Montreal and the Maritimes. The Twin Beaver pipe line [ two pipes carrying natural gas and synthetic oil ] would cross above the 55 parallel to just south of Churchill, then head south east into Ontario. A Cross Canada grid would tie Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba  to Fort McMurray electricwise, bringing cheap, Green hydro electricity along the same corridor that carries the oil sands [ it would be real oil / value added jobs ], natural gas infrastructure east. Sending SCO out of Fort McMurray would mean the used of the term oil sands would be legit. This system would cut CO2 markedly. We  Ont. /Que. would get the oil and natural gas we need without having to deal with the sharks at TransNotCanada and Enbridge. The price of  these commodities would be set in Canada, no more give aways to the US. The West would get clean, cheap hydro. Those Americans in the electrical business in the west would be sent packing. The new Twin Beaver pipe line [ carrying oil only & natural gas in the dual pipe ] would be all plastic, much stronger, faster and easier to lay. The computer system to monitor the Beaver pipe would be firewalled. This independant system would repel Chinese hackers. T No foreigner would be able to disrupt the Twin Beaver. This home made system could be sold to all transportation and utilities across Canada to protect the Country’s operations. This equipment, pipes made for oil / nat. gas / the electrical grid, could all be made in this Country, jobs, jobs, jobs. At Churchill we could build a tank farm to hold synthetic oil and LNG for shipment to the world. This would mean two fuels and two markets [ domestic and foreign ] . All controlled by the Canadian Provinces. There is $ 600 billion residing in this Nation looking for good investments. This includes pension funds. Where better to invest than in Canadian prosperity? And jobs for our young people? I would send all the foreign workers home and begin training Canadians to build and maintain our new energy system. In particular I would employ the First Peoples [ and provide training ]. All the jobs in the Can. Provincial Energy Corp. would be unionized. Only essential services workers would be prohibited from striking [ ex. - keeping and upgrader operational ]. Each company participating in the Canadian energy system would have to be unionized. The Provinces are resource rich but each only holds only one puzzle piece. Until all the pieces are put together the puzzle remains incomplete. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I am tired of being punched around by the Americans. How about you?  Harper is being paid by the oilies to see that our puzzle is never gets completed.  Time to stand up and throw Harper and his Fascists out. We should follow the lead of Premier Redford who is formulating the NES. Most of the other Preems are onside. It will just take a lot of guts on the part of the Premiers to do this. Look what Norway has done in terms of energy [ population 5 million in a difficult environment ]? The Yanks don’t want us to escape from the backwoods. Any chance to draw Canada closer together and prevent the theft of our resources by the Americans will be lost if YOU CONTINUE TO SIT ON YOUR  []   A  S  S   []. Polls show many young adults do not vote. That is a mistake. Turning their back on your own future is a dumb thing to do. Many under 30s complain about lack of good jobs. Well here is their chance. I am laying it all out for them.  Light a fire under this Nation and the jobs will come, simple as that. Support the Canadian Provincial Energy Corp. which will be the outcome of Premier Redford’s NES. I see  it as business which would be owned by the Provinces collectively to harvest this Country’s natural resources in a Green / sustainable way. Creating a different business model in the tar sands in which the resource is mined but the CO2 footprint is much reduced and manageable. If we don’t create  CO2 in the first place they are not a problem. All of the upgrading would have be done in situ at Fort McMurray. The only thing piped across Canada would be safe, synthetic oil and natural gas. No tar slurry would be allowed to be transported, period. Refineries in each Province [ owned by the CPEC ] would convert syn. oil into gasoline, diesel, home heating oil and jet fuel  etc to meet local needs. The US oil cartel would have ziltch imput and we would shut  the Chicago Petroleum Futures Market out of Canada. If Rex Tillerson crossed our border we would put him in jail with Harper.  All energy would be Canadian priced at half the world price and the supply would be secure, no surprises. I say this to our young. Isn’t gaining complete control of our energy [ good jobs ] worth casting your ballot. Stealing from Andre Laurendeau, Editor of Le Devoir [ in 1959 ] who said ,” Maitres chez nous “,  [ Masters in our own house ]. It is as valid a saying to-day as it was then. IT IS ABOUT  TIME. I expect your involvement. Don’t let the Republican Sociopaths and their errand boy Stevie Harper take your future away from you by default. 

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I watched the CEO of EXXON interviewed on TV. Rex Tillerson is smooth and a very devious man. This is an anti American who is very comfortable being part of an oil monopoly that owns the Republican part of the Congress. Since I started this blog I have used the expression US oil cartel. It is a US oil company monopoly created by Calvin Coolidge and the Republican Congress in 1924. To get around the fact that monopolies are illegal in the USA and Canada all of the companies kept their original names to make it look like there was still competition. EXXON can trace its roots back to Standard Oil of New Jersey which was forced to break up its’ corporate structure by the US Government in 1911. The COMPANY [ Sta.Oil of NJ ] WAS CONVICTED OF MONOPOLIZING THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY THROUGH A SERIES OF ABUSIVE AND ANTICOMPETITIVE ACTIONS. Same thing is happening to-day.  These shenanigans had been going on for over 40 years prior to 1900.  This was the work of John D. Rockefeller, he was fined, big deal for a multi millionaire. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil ran 41 shadow companies to hide the fact that he had a monopoly [ by 1900 ]. Breaking up Standard in 1911 was just a temporary set back for Rockefeller. With the help of the Republicans John stitched the monopoly back together in the 1920. But he would be more careful this time and Washington was there to back him up.  Just think, Congress has been in the pay of the US oil cartel for almost 90 years. Little wonder that America is no longer a democracy. Rockefeller founded the University of Chicago, the right wing centre of the universe where Nietzsche, Hayek and Strauss are considered gods. An anti American establishment if there ever was one. Our University of Oil in Calgary is an exact copy of the U of Chicago only much smaller [ having the same anti democracy stance ]. Work to undermine Canada’s democratic institutions gets its’ sustenance from that University. This Nation’s major problems can all be traced to the U of Calgary with its’ ties to Chicago and the oil cartel.  My point is easy to prove. Just think Herr Harper, Tom Flanagan, Preston Manning, Danielle Smith, Ezra LeRant and the Fraser Institute. Who’s more front and centre?  What you see to-day is the same oil monopoly, still in operation after 90 years. It has been around that long stealing from the American public as well as Canada and other countries. The cartel owns Congress and Ottawa as well as the $ media in the USA and Canada. Almost everyone who shills for the Keystone XL is in the pay of the cartel. I am old fashioned enough to think those in the public eye should declare their conflict of interest. But Leo Strauss said no. Never tell the truth and never give the mob [ us ] a break. That shows weakness and the wimps must never show a weak side. Since Vivian Krause, Peter Foster, Lawrence Solomon, Jack Mintz and Terry Corcoron et al are on the cartel payroll I think Paul Godfrey should declare his conflict of interest. Maybe Godfrey could get Peter Foster to write something nice about Canada once in a while, like a single column a month. Would that be asking too much? The National Post is owned by a Wall St. hedge fund, illegal.  But you know Harper, breaking Canada’s laws is his specialty. In fact Lyin Steve has surrounded himself with criminals, think Conrad Black. The Post is the propaganda bulletin board for big oil and central casting for the disruptive right wing  forces in this Country.  Godfrey’s Post is a true Fifth Column pamphlet. That is the reason the Yank hedge fund bought the bankrupt Post, it is a way to brainwash our population using the back door and having us pay for the takeover. Every time you buy the Post you drive another nail in Canada’s coffin. This clandestine maneuver, taking over the $ media is so well known to the Americans. For the same thing has been used by the Yanks on countries  in Central and South America. Equally subversive are the think tanks so often quoted in the National Post and others, like Fraser, C. D. Howe, Manning, Frontier, Canada West, Macdonald-Laurier, Montreal Economic, Atlantic and Historica-Dominion Institutes. We might include the Dorchester Review in the right wing fronts funded by taxpayers and which are big oil / Harper oriented. You can break these rightie  propaganda mills into two categories. Those whose job it is to destroy Canada’s very foundation by constant negative political nattering and misimformation. And in the case of Historica- Dominion and Dorchester, they are rewriting the Country’s history using tax money as are all. Nice work if you can get it. We have a problem, Revenue Canada is so fixated on David Suzuki on orders from Lyin Steve that they have no time to investigate the above right wing subversive fronts. But the Budget may have just saved the day. Rev. Can. has now been given extra money to hire additional investigators. Surely they will investigate Historica- Dominion and the Manning / Fraser Institutes for starters? It will be easy peasy for Rev. Can. to nail all of these right wing  fronts for political activity. Check the PMO / E-Mails  received  by Brian Crowley -  Macdonald-Laurier, Niels Veldhuis – Fraser and all the others. This will instantly show these think tanks directly connected to the PMO and are breaking the law. Apparently Rev. Can. donates $ 15,000 to  whistleblowers. I’ve just whistle blowed on at least a dozen Fascist think tanks and rightie  historical fronts. I’m going to be rich. I’ll donate my money to Sunnybrook when all the Rev. Can. cheques come in. In my heart of hearts I know Rev. Can. is lying about paying whistleblowers. They’ll never pay out a cent. Now that Rev. Can. is an arm of the PMO, the centre of lying in this Country. How could the tax collectors do anything other than lie???

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If you take away the things that bind Canadians together, Medicare, education, history, the right of free assembly, the right to a fair trial, a honest media, unions and humane treatment by the police where are we? And wipe away our heritage at the same time, then Harper, his Fascists and the oilies will have had us. Central to the destructive power of the aforementioned institutions relate to tax dollars and money from the US oil cartel. Bolstering these clandestine efforts is the surrender of our weak $ media to the almighty oilie cheque.  Godfrey’s Post is one of the worst offenders. These right wing fronts are sparsely staffed, attract very unattractive people like Niels Veldhuis and Tom Flanagan of the Fraser Institute. Or the Manning Institute with its’ links to the Civitas [ secret ] Society and neo Nazis / white supremacists / racist members.  The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has a membership of exactly 5, that is right five. The CTF claims more than 50,000 members which is just another big lie from the right. Just think of it. Just 5 people get constant exposure in the petro $ media. This is a danger to our democracy, yet this subversive activity is paid for using our tax dollars. Talk about the Fifth Column.  If I had to describe the biggest threat to Canada’s future it is the petro $ media. Rex Tillerson, the EXXON boss can get coverage any time he wants and turn off the $ media any time he wants. The public sees and hears what EXXON wants them to see and hear. Tillerson said the other day that he didn’t know why crude bitumen slurry spilled in Mayflower Arka. the other day. Rex is a liar. He is an engineer. Surprising that such  stupid statement would come out of Rex’s mouth. Mining tar laced with sand and chemicals, mixing it with lighter fluid and then ramming it down a pipe at high pressure is a series of serious accidents looking for places to happen. The abrasive quartz sand causes friction and wear away the inside of the pipe. The steel pipe is thinned and it runs very hot tp boot. Not 70 deg F like an oil pipe line but at 150 deg F. About the temp of the ring on your stove when you cook soup. You can’t put your hand on it. This high heat causes the tar / lighter fluid to gas off and that gas is lethal. Much like Hitler used in his gas chambers. The workers at Mayflower are all wearing Hazmat suits and resperators. Otherwise the gas would take out their lungs or kill them. And Tillerson, head of the largest / richest corporation on earth tells lies for $ 25 million a year. And the petro $ media says absolutely nothing while everything is there on the net. Now we find that the Federal Aviation Agency has declared Mayflower  a No Fly Zone at the request of Tillerson so the American public [ the world ] won’t be able to see what is going on. So Washington is once again bowing to Big Oil. But there is more to this story. The FAA has turned the administration of the No Fly Zone over to EXXON. So a private Company has been put in charge of a little slice of American airspace. What happen to any nosy parker? Are US Airforce jets going to be scrambled to shoot down the intruder. Or maybe Tillerson has his own private armed airforce? Can you imagine an American pilot being charged by the FAA for flying over Mayflower because EXXON doesn’t want people snooping on its’ reckless behaviour.  This is totalitarionism and the petro $ media remains silent. Those who who want to tell the other side of the story to that now being told by the far right have been shut out and silenced in the main stream media like the Globe and Oil / National Post. Rex send them money through the Heartland Institute. With the voices of dissenters now stilled in the $ press the only avenue to find out the truth is the internet. Who will sound the trumpet on the next crude bitumen spill masquarading as oil?  Or the next? And the next? And the next? Judge Allen Dodson of Faulkner County praised EXXON’s efforts cleaning up the [] O I L []. I wonder how much it cost Rex Tillerson to bring the good Judge onside? Dodson’s probably set for life now. In what camp will you be? A reader / viewer who believes the propaganda in the petro $ media and doesn’t become aware that the pipe line that runs through your town could rupture. And ruin your way of life, destroy your environment, contaminate your drinking water and even kill you and your kids. In other words, the Harper / Bush Jr. La La Land. Or will you keep yourself informed by accessing the net and put a stop to people like Rex Tillerson, Russ Girling and Al Monaco?  If the Fascists succeed in their efforts to throttle the net then we do indeed have a problem. What I fear most is that there are still many people who will go quietly to the cattle cars. It is very important for the future of Canada to have a free exchange of ideas and to support innovative people. I have said before that this Country is the place where ideas are born to die. EXXON [ and the rest of the cartel ] and big business spend tens of millions maintaining the status quo and stifling innovation. They fear creative destruction wherein the new idea replaces the old methods. The auto replaced the horse and buggy. In 20 years [ 1900 /1920 ] most of the buggy makers were gone. In London England the number of horse drawn taxis went from about 4000 down to 180 or so during that same period. In the countryside thousands of acres of farmland were dedicated to growing horse feed. All of a sudden farmers had to change to another crop. This process can be upsetting. So too the oil companies and major businesses in this Country would need to make major changes if nature and new ideas were allowed to flourish. So that is why the movers and takers spend so much money trying to alter public opinion by use the ever compliant captive $ press. The main battle in the present is the attack on Global Warming by the oilies. The petro $ media is overflowing with demented Climate Deniers like Peter Foster and Universities like Calgary and Carleton which are funded by the US oil cartel through the Heartland Institute [ which lost its' charity status as the Fraser / Manning should ] . But this attack on Green is a phony one. Rex Tillerson of EXXON can’t actually say publicly he wants to stop the move to hydrogen [ the fuel of the future ], alternative energy, less CO2 / pollutants, cheaper energy and personal choice in this regard by the people. So the US oil cartel fights climate change as a cover and a way to turn back the hands of time. This relentless campaign by Big Oil against progress has had some success. Peter Foster has written the same anti innovation /anti climate change column for years under the cover of attacking Gobal Warming. And the money hungry Paul Godfrey keeps printing this crap because his American master demand it. The oilies have framed the debate and the $ media does the rest. Anything that falls outside this rigged debate goes unspoken or unprinted in the press or onCTV. And a lot of Canadians have fallen for this spin hook, line and sinker. These are the type of  morons who don’t realize what is going on until they are behind the wire fence,  the padlock snaps and they have to deal with Jenni Bryne, she of the Commandant’s  jack boots. The media owners [ Star, Globe, Sun, Post, CTV, CFMX etc ], have sold us out but like all sociopathic  parasites they have no insight and do not realize, if we go they go too.  Pierre Peladeau / Moses Znaimer, both free enteprisers can’t wait to get their hands on taxpayers dollars to bolster their sagging businesses. I just don’t get it. Kill your customers and you don’t have a business any more?  How about you and I hanging around for awhile and getting rid of these media pests on the right. Maybe jail might suit them??? I suggest you do not buy the paper or frequent their web sites. Protest right wing propaganda like on CTV to the CRTC.  Pick up the news on the net on the CBC, the only place you will find honest reporting these days. Even TVO has succumbed to the corporate buck. Further, don’t watch CTV, Vision TV or Sun TV nor listen to CFMX or CFMZ. Further still, avoid their advertisers if you can. Send a message to their advertisers that you are not prepared to see your Country undermined by lies.  That you prefer the truth with your morning coffee.  Even if you can’t crank yourself up over the incessant right wing messaging and lying by the $ media. At least do this for your grandchildren.

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To the many readers who have taken the time to comment on my blog, my regards. To make it very clear, everyone who visits my site is free to use the information contained herein anyway they so desire.  It is said, ” If one has the flame of knowledge, let others light their candles by it “. Please light your candle if you wish. This is a solo effort, no helpers. I do not accept As I put this post to bed there is a story on the news that there is a tar slurry spill [ DilBit ] in Arkansas. Authorities won’t let the media near the spill. This is so EXXON can bullshit the public and make up their own stories about non existant oil . EXXON has bought the national media off.  But the local papers are not on the Company’s payroll. This means the reporters around Mayflower Ark. are being barred by Tillerson because they might tell the truth. Go on the net and see the subdivision that was flooded with raw, toxic tar. These pictures are being sneaked out under the noses of authorities all in the pay of EXXON. Last week there was a CP train derailment in Minnesota which spilled DilBit but again it was off limits to the curious. People in these areas have been just left to suffer in silence. The larger public is not to know about these spills lest they get ideas and get restless. It is interesting that in Arkansas, Rex Tillerson said it wasn’t a DilBit spill [ they lied, it was ]. In Minnesota, CP Rail said it wasn’t a DilBit spill [ they lied, it was ]. The Enbridge spill in Kalamazoo was claimed to be an oil spill. Pat Daniel, CEO of Enbridge swore up and down it was not DilBit [ Daniel lied again, it was DilBit ]. Where are we when the CEO of a billion dollar Company will lie like that? The oilies got the IRS to designate this poison tar non taxable. So Washingtone knows Tillerson / Daniel are lying when they call these happenings oil spills. And $ media didn’t called Rex /Pat on their lies?  Of particular concern to us should be is the UNcaring attitude of Phil Crawley, the publisher of the Globe and Oil. At the very same time as people’s lives are being adversely affected by a DilBit attack in Arkansas [ covered by the Globe ] our boy Phil runs an article entitled, ” What the Keystone will mean to your portfolio “, by Lauren Krugel.  How’s that for being empathetic???  To Crawley and the Thomsons, the oilie buck trumps all. It is a wonder they don’t go into business making lamp shade from human skin like the Nazis? 

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And so to our WORLD RECORD BOOK OF OILIE LIES / THE HALL OF SHAME / THE ORDER OF DECEITFULNESS   —   I hope I can interest the Guinness people in this project. I got the idea for this book of lies looking at my stack of Keystone XL related newspaper clippings [ about 6 in high ].  About 95% of them are pro Keystone XL / pro Big Oil which shows a distinct bias in the $ media in favour of those with money. This US oil cartel media campaign does not follow the North American Fairness Doctrine which requires that both sides of any story be equally portrayed. What is going on in Canada in this regard approximates a police state. Many of these Keystone articles are reports by ancilliary oil businesses and associated firms like oil industry flacks, bankers, stock brokers, consultants, think tanks, lobbyists, propagandists and the like. For newspapers which survive based on PUBLIC circulation I find these circumstances very strange. The coverage in my file clippings is not fair comment, in fact there is absolutely no attempt to be balanced. It is as if the paper owners are schizophrenic [ the coexistence of incompatible elements within the same brain ]. It would seem that those promoting the Keystone can say just about anything they want. And it stands And it gets printed or broadcast. Most of these clippings contain lies both big and small as well as omissions. In many cases the facts are reassembled to give the opposite impression. Even the timelines are altered. Everyone bit of such misinformation has the potential to affect 90% of the population adversely economicwise. This is precisely the case in the high cost of gasoline which remains the same as when oil was $ 130 a barrel. The petro $ media says nothing.  The US oil cartel is screwing Canadians but good but who is interested in our financial pain. Ottawa? Ya right. Queen’s Park? Ya right.  But in some cases a spill can destroy the very way of life  for those who fall victim to the DilBit scourge. As in Arkansas [ EXXON   / liquified crude bitument mixed with lighter fluid ]. Newspapers need readers, to recklessly endanger their wellbeing by chasing away customers for the almighty oil buck strikes me a tad short sighted. As the internet takes over, newspapers are in sharp decline. The net and a disregard for their loyal readers has seal the fate of the press as we have known it. That loyal readership is bailing out on an individual basis and that is a good thing. And not as moment too soon. That $ media is in the process of destroying democracy in North America. The USA has already succumbed. Canada is following suit. In my view it is this low regard and abuse of the very customers they are supposed to serve that is hastening their demise? It has got to be on the part of the press, the,  ” get it while you can ” , approach by the newsies. It has certainly been a great payday for the newspaper particulary since September 2011 when the Keystone XL project first made the headlines. In terms of the lies, there are tons. My background is that of a mechanic and a techie. One of my sayings over the years has been if man can invent it, I can fix it. I respect the right of an individual to be pro Keystone but don’t tell me lies and make things up to take money out of my pockets and put it in yours. Joe Oliver made the famous statement about drinking out of a tailing pond. It is the kind of thing a kid of 8 would say. It is so stupid it is stupid. The $ media said nothing. Tailing ponds are the result of toxic waste that comes from the tar sands being parked in a convenient hole in the ground. We did away with outdoor privies 75 years ago. Why are they back. The answer is the US oil cartel and lots of money being spread around to a lot of brainless people like those at the University of Calgary who are into oil money laundering. The water, laden with chemicals, poisons and heavy metals is put into temporary holes in the ground which are carelessly constructed. Little regard is given to the possiblity of this toxic brew escaping into the environment. The idea is that over time the heavier materials sink to the bottom and then the water can be siphoned off. The one reason tailing ponds exist is to boost EXXON’s profits. It is like stacking up bags of garbage  inside your rented house full in the knowledge you will not be staying long. The idea the US oil cartel has is that when they move out [ which is right about now ] somebody else will have to pay to clean up the tailing ponds and the rest of the mess The cleaner uppers, probably YOU AND THE OTHER TAXPAYERS IN NORTH AMERICA? It is interesting that these tailing ponds are not allowed by law in the USA. A small tar sands operation in the central States uses centrifuges [ like an automatic washer ]. The toxic mix is spun at hi speed, the water is thrown off and the solids captured. The water is then filtered and used again. The solids contain heavy metals. These metals are of such value that they pay for the centrifuges and  their operation. I have been writing for years that the Alberta tar sands could be cleaned up, put on a sustainable path and be made even more profitable, legally. But the US oil cartel has a dirty way of doing everything and they will continue on that path till the Government puts a stop to it. Or we put a stop to this Government.  Oliver is some Minister of the Crown. An 8 year old in a man’s suit but dangerous to Canada. He said the other day that California’s bitumen creates more pollution than our’s. That is true, but the refinery in San Francisco gets that Canadian bitumen from the Kinder Morgan pipe line that endangers BC’s Burrard Inlet every day.  Joe doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about. The trick now that the cartel is leaving, is to assess the cost of cleaning up all the tailing ponds using centrifuges. Against such a process we should seize the assets of the major oil players in Canada to ensure they pay to get rid of  THEIR toxic brew. If you have been reading me on this subject of the rape of the environment by the US oil cartel I have highlighted any number of lies besides Oliver’s offer to drink from a tailing  pond. I will highlight two more big fibs that are more recent. TVO, Ontario’s public station that I have been attacking for years is once again in the news. The main reason is that the station is the official Devious Dalt / Liberal Party bulletin board. When Ontarians needed the straight goods TVO / Steve Paikin delivered McGuinty spin. In the last couple of days it has come to light that TVO is featuring a video game app called Pipe Trouble directed at the brain washing the kids. This app apparently takes a hard look at the pipeline business and all of the possibilities. There can be spills [ true, way too many ], people can be made sick or die [ true ], a pipe can be sabotaged [ true ] and the need for the pipe company to find the most economical route and screw the environment / the neighbours [ true ]. But whatever the video cost it was a waste of money and the TVO’s approach was appalling.  This video tried to score cheap points when there is a real story here and there are solutions.These are the thing we should be discussing with the kids. I want Lisa de Wilde head, she must should resign. It just proves that those who are at the extremes of the  pro / anti Keystone control the agenda and neither position will solve the problems. Cooler heads and voices that promote the intelligent / middle way are shut out of the debate. We will be heard. Most of the population is in the middle too but they are very much limited to the yes / no extremes by a compliant petro $ media. However the net is changing that. The petro $ media, being totally subscribed by the oil cartel / pipe lines is now in full voice condemning TVO and the video. One Brenda Kenny, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Energy Pipe Line Association has gone ballistic over TVO’s Pipe Trouble video. Some weeks back I saw Brenda interviewed on TV. She either lied or was evasive on every question asked. There was much in the news then about the billion dollar Enbridge spill in Kalamazoo Mich. and the 800 previous spills that the Company was responsible for over the past 10 years. Brenda was sent to cover up and showed no concern for the people affected by liquified crude bitumen in Mich.  Kenny’s appearance was all about bullshiting Canadians on behalf of the oilies, not about enlightening us. Since that time Brenda has written in the same vein [ one piece was in the Post ], to purposely confuse and misinform yet again. I was puzzled by Kenny’s violent response to this silly video, the petro $ media has also gone insane on cue. I have decided that they have become so used to being the only team on the ice and able to shoot pucks into our empty net that to have someone with the audacity to skate onto the ice and take a shot at their net has unhinged the oilies, the pipies and the $ media. I can understand their displeasure. After all the cartel have paid tens of millions to buy every segment of the petro $ media in order to hog the spotlight and tell their tale of fantasy  exclusively. Of particular interest to me is Brenda Kenny’s half page CEPA ad in the Globe and Oil on March 15 /13. It purports to provide us with a thumbnail sketch of the history of pipe lines in Canada. It is a sanitized view of the 3 pipe line Companies, TransNotCanada, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan. This history relates to BDB [ Before Diluted Bitument ] and is no longer relevant. We now live in the age of After Diluted Bitumen [ ADB ] which is the reason for all of the toxic spills and clouds of poisous gas. The 3 Companies above are all now transporting tar slurry mixed with lighter fluid behind the backs of the  brain dead or paid off authorities [ take your pick? ]. Isn’t it interesting that there is no other place in the world having the proliferation of spills that we are having in Canada and the USA. No place else would allow the pumping of raw tar through pipelines meant for refined oil. In the last few days the American Senate vote to support the Keystone XL. The ten Republican Senators who sponsored said Bill were paid $ 31 million by the oil cartel. Coming back to Brenda Kenny’s ad in the Globe, it had a map of Canada. Shown were the 3 major pipe lines of TC, En. and K-M, all in this Country. The problem is that the Enbridge pipe drops down into the US in Saskatchewan and skirts south of Chicago on its’ way to Sarnia. Most of their line is in America. And the 3 Companies are owned by Wall St.  That is where the Kalamazoo Mich. spill took place. Kenny doesn’t want you to find out the real story Brenda’s picture was doctored to fool the readers of the Globe, nothing new for Phil Crawley. They call it Photoshopping. Enbridge used the same technique to show the shoreline at Kitimat BC. Al Monaco remove all of the rocky islands. This nothing new. The Ontario nukies have produced many pictures of the Pickering Nuclear Plant with swimmers, sunbathers and boaters on beaches that don’t exist. The worldwide nuclear industry does the same thing. Creating photoshopped activities around nuclear plants that never happened and would not be allowed is a danger to our society.  Tom Mitchell, CEO, OPG, who gets $ 1.7 million a year from Ontarians is responsible for these doctored pictures. I was a Pickering Councillor when that nuclear plant was built. Mitchell can’t fool me.  I know these phantom beaches around the plant do not exist. What next, people who disagree being taken in the middle of the night by the OPP. Mitchell gets away with this nonsense  because the Star prints the pics without comment. Oh yes, our dear devious Dalt McGuinty got his house free from the nukies. The energy sector is just rotten to the core. Hold your MP’s / MPP’s feet to the fire. YOU either regain control of Parliament and Queen’s Park or we lose Canada by default.  The last of my trio who have been spreading lies about the Keystone is Gary Doer, Can. Ambassador to the USA. Gary, from the west should know better. He has been spreading critical stories about Venezuela. My guess is that there is now a realization by Herr Harper that the death of Hugo Chavez has changed the oil game. If the oil pump is turned on again in Venezuela that Country’s heavy crude [ OIL ] is just 4 days away from Port Arthur Texas and 10 days away from the California refineries. This supply would eliminate the need for the Keystone XL, the Gateway and the Kinder Morgan TransMountain pipe through BC. There is a lot of scrambling on the part of the Harperites. Placing all our eggs in one basket as Lyin Steve has done has puts Canada’s economy at risk. And our economy IS FAILING.  Gary has been bad mouthing Venezuela, not realizing 80% of the oil that is imported into Eastern Canada comes from Venezuela. I guess that Doer, a one time NDPer has gone to live with Harper in his La La Land too? How much money did Doer get?  Joe Oliver, Brenda Kenny, David Collyer, Russ Girling, Pat Daniel, Al Monaco and now Gary Doer are all of a piece. The are all liars who seem to think they can say anything and not get caught. And they all think that taking a few bob here and there will in no way damage the Country as a whole?  The petro $ media is paid to print or broadcast their lies without question. Mind you Herr Harper lies every day so why shouldn’t his hirlings and the simple minded around him?  Now if the above want to know a little bit about the truth, all they have to do is read my blog.  I am sure some have already been informed of the existence of the Geeman. What you are reading now will  no doubt be placed in my dossier by Harper’s Gestopo Chief, Tim Powers. Now let’s get to the inductees who will enter into the Media Hall of Shame. The 60 journoshill [ approx ] and media outlets named put money ahead of their Country and duty. They have carried the dissemination of false and misleading information in a democracy to new heights. Every one of them piling on like wild animals tearing at a carcass. The level of misinformation clearly equals that seen in Nazi Germany.  Our media, in so many cases omitted critical material from stories they write. And I must say their lies pushed the limits far beyond anything Canadians have experienced before. Those listed, who engaged in this mountain of lies were motivated by the almighty oilie buck, one way or the other. And from another angle the offenders obviously never thought they would get caught. Much like the Wall St. insiders. I’ve got a ton of clippings going back to Sept. /11 which bear witness to their lies about the Keystone. Liquified crude bitumen has been the story from day one, sand laced tar slurry being put through oil pipes that can’t take it. Much like trying to carry gravel in a plastic shopping bag.  If I can get the cooperation of the Guinness people I have about another 250 names of writers who have sold Canada out on the Keystone. They too qualify for the Order of Media Deceitfulness.

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This list is taken from a handful of clippings and interviews on TV on the tar sands / Keystone / Gateway which occured since Xmas. More than a year’s worth of such clipping / interviews have yet to be scrutinized in this regard. If the Guinness people respond favourably a couple hundred more names could be added to the E-Book of Shame. Those listed below can be divided into two groups. Some of those involved in furthering these oilie lies are just, well stupid. A simple trip to the net would reveal the truth to them. But it is trip they refuse to take. Just afraid to leave home I guess. Or warned by their employers / masters to stay away from the net. The other bunch are experienced journalist / commentators  who know exactly what they are doing. Telling lies in return for a cheque from the US oil cartel. These are the despicable ones. Selling out their Country for a mess of pottage. One interesting fact is that the internet will outlive all of those on this list. Even the media listed will disappear shortly. Telling lies is not a product that has much of a future. North American democracy will disappear or it will regain its’ former glory. In either case the media will no longer be needed. Having helped in the destruction of this society or having been discarded as irrelevant to a new beginning. Unless Ottawa and Washington seizes the net and imposes censorship like the Nazis my posts will live on. In either case those who come after the names below will be able to read that their forebearers had a hand in destroying democracy in return for an oilie cheque. Or that they were on the wrong side when Canada regained its’ economic  footing. I have read each article from which these names are taken and circled the lies. For TV interviews I made notes.  With each name I have tried to establish who they are and their qualifications for commenting on the tar sands / Keystone. I especially look for Americans [ they are welcome to visit but they should keep their bloody traps shut. I am glad to seen my favourite Yankee draft dodger and perv Tom Flanagan finally silenced ]. I did a background check on each one listed to ascertain their qualifications to speak out in this tar sands / Keystone debate [ not one listed below has any expertise on the subject ]. Some of those who I have named are unknowns. I suspect they are interns working for the media free or for minimal pay because they are offered a chance to establish their writer credentials. The petro $ media is still raking in billions. What the media moguls are doing is akin to the mine owners in England [ 1800s ] who sent children down into the mines. The $ media hires the best sports / auto writer. But hires certifiable dummies to cover the most important story of our times. For the young,  jobs are tough to find right now mainly due to the right wing economics being pushed by Herr Harper. Big business is taking advantage of the plight of novice journalists. Imagine a 20 year old writing lies for the US oil cartel for free when said cartel stole more than $ 100 billion from the people of Alberta in 2010. So what we are left with is the Canadian $ media which is totally committed [ paid huge sums ] to the cause of the oil cartel. Balanced reporting has vanished and the Harper Government has done nothing but encourage the press to mislead us. My investigations into background will continue. Finding Americans among the writer and commentators is of great interest.  Lyin Steve is busy dismantling our democracy with the help of the following  jouroshills and commentators.  Here is my Shame List, with many more to come.

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Karen Dawson, Daw. Comm.   []    Finn Poschman, C.D.Howe   []    Brian Lee Crowley, Mac. Laur.   []    Nathan Vanderklippe, Globe   []    Jen Gerson, Post   []    Dean Bennett, Can. press   []    Kevin Muimar, Sun   []    Lorrie Goldstein, Sun   []    John Ibbetson, Globe   []   Paul Koring, Globe   []    David McKlellan, Petrobank   []    John Spear, Star   []    Peter Foster, Post   []     Mark Milke, Fraser   []    Jeff Cummings, Sun   []    Jessica Hume, Sun   []    Mike De Souza, Post   []    Andrew Coyne, Post   []    Jeff  Lewis, Post   []    Claudia Cattaneo, Post   []    Konrad Yakabuski, Globe   []    Shawn  McCarthy, Globe   []    Vivian Krause, Post   []    Kelly Cryderman, Globe   []    Carole Goar, Star   []    Sankara Papvinasan, Post   []    Steve Chase, Globe   []    Mitch Potter, Star   []    Bradley Olson, Post   []    David Akin, Sun   []    Lorne Gunter, Sun   []    Lawrence Martin, Globe   []    Lauren Krugel, Can. press   []    Keitch Johnson, Globe   []    Tony Bessey, Post   []  Bryn Weese, Post   []    Alise Mills, Harperite flack   []    Ken Kidd, Star   []    Tom Harris, Sun   []    Ross McKitrick, Post   []    David Parkinson, Globe   []    Josh Wingrove, Globe   []    John Broder, NYT   []    Chelsie Messen, Post   []    Joe Nocera,Post   []    Lawrence Solomon, Post   []    Derek Barney, Globe   []    Jeff Lewis, Post   []    Jack Mintz,Post   []    Carrie Tait, Globe   []    Lee Ann Goodman, Can. Press   []    Kristy Kirkup, Sun   []    Heather Scofield, Can. press   []    Gwyn Morgan, Globe   []    Timothy Gardner, Post   []    Scott Haggett, Post   []    Ankur Banerjee, Post   []     Doug Lawborn, Post   []    Dina O’Meara, Post   []    Gillian Steward, Star   []    Patrick Moore, Sun   []    Joanna Slater, Sun    []    Brant Jong, Sun   []    Kenneth P. Green, Post   []    Jeremy Van Loon, Post   []    William Watson, Post   []     American owned National Post   []    Globe and Oil    []    Sun   []    Star   []    Can. Press   []    CTV   []    San Diego Union Tribune   []    Houstan Chronicle   []    New Jersey Star Ledger   []    Williston ND Herald   []   Washington Post   []    Reuters   []    et al.   LIARS ALL.

Each of the afformentioned writer has produced more than one article, I am sure. How many might that be/ double their number, say 125 or more? IS THIS THE CANADIAN WAY? FOR OUR NEWSPAPERS, TO TELL THE ONE SIDED STORY OF THE TAR SANDS AND THE KEYSTONE IN THIS MANNER.  125 TO NOTHING IN FAVOUR OF TRANSPORTING  DILBIT / SAND LACED, TOXIC GAS, TAR SLURRY BY PIPE LINE?  This from the quartet that threatens our democracy, our freedom, our prosperity and most important of all, the future of our children and grandkids.  Those who endanger our very life are the Harper Government, the US oil cartel, the Wall St. owned pipe line companies and our own petro $ media. Of particular interest  to me is Paul Godfrey’s National Post which is illegally owned by a New York hedge fund. This Paper produced most of the false and misleading articles in my survey. I would think this domination of the media by the oil cartel easily matches the control of the press seen in Nazi Germany [ 125 to zip ].  Geobbels said if you repeat a lie often enough the people come to believe it is the truth. On the subject of Keystone all we see and hear are lies.  Godfrey is having considerable success with his publishing of oilie lies. On climate change Peter Foster write about 3 columns a week, all the same, attacking Green. Only the names are changed to smear as many left leaning critters as Peter possiblycan.  The citizenry shows signs that this brainwashing is having an effect.  Canadians who oppose the tar sands and the Keystone project are branded as eco terrorists by Herr Harper, Joe Oliver and his press hirlings. Since Premier Redford was elected the above howling mob has never let up on her. They along with that right wing robot Danielle Smith blame the Preem for every ache and pain experienced in Alberta. When there are no news stories they just make things up like Ezra Le Rant does. There is no level playing field for news in this Country because Harper has stolen the field entirely. The only place Premier Redford receives respect and fair treatment is on the CBC. Little wonder that Harper wants to destroy the CBC. The first thing that totalitarian states do is close down the TV / radio stations and smash the printing presses. Hitler burned books. The fly in the ointment for Lyin Steve is the net. The question, is will Harper be able to make us disappear before we break him. Stay tuned. Premier Redford is actually the key to Canada’s future. I think this is why Harper’s minions and the US oil cartel are attempting in every which way to discredit Redford. Just think how much money it costs the US oil cartel to pay for these 60 people [ plus media outlets ] [ and possible 250 more ] to sing exclusively from the oilie song book. It just shows how much money the Americans make out of our Western Provinces? Canada gives it resources away for free. Bright people we.  And to ad insult to injury we are willingly  paying to craft the very  noose they will be use to snuff us out. Lemmings. Maybe?

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END NOTES   —   The Pew Institute [ a right wing think tank masquarading as a  neutral charity just like the Fraser Int. in Canada]  has just produced a massive study on the Keystone XL project. Pew said 66% of Americans want Russ Girling’s Keystone pipe line of death. I would ask 3 questions about this smelly poll. What questions were asked? Who was called [ right wingers and Repubs only? ] .  And was this polling done since the big EXXON crude bitumen spill in Mayflower Arkansas? It is interesting that in the Canadian newspaper listed above all kinds of good news oil stories / propaganda have suddenly appeared after Mayflower?  Could it be to divert our attention???  The areas around Fort McMurry are called tar sands, always have, always will be. The US oil cartel marketing people have renamed them the oil sands [ illegal ]. Crude bitumen whether mixed with lighter fluid or not can’t be called oil. The US Congress pressured the IRS to exempt crude bitumen being sent through an oil pipe from taxes. So the Government in Washington knows what is in those pipes and what is going to be in any new pipe lines like Keystone XL. The IRS would need to monitor the contents of the pipe lines to levy oil taxes. In the present bitumen spill in Mayflower Arka. EXXON is not reponsible under law. They are not pumping oil under the law.  But EXXON, the local authorities and the petro $ media are all calling what was spilled  [] O I L []. It is the Chevy VOLT syndrome. It is a hybrid but advertised by the $ media as an electric car. It proves my point. Pay the $ media enough money and you can say anything.  All of the insiders in Arkansas who are being paid off are perpetrating a lie just like those listed above. The only way you can protect yourself from a lethal toxic gas cloud that comes from hot bitumen is for Ottawa to pass legislation that requires all crude bitumen be processed in an upgrader no farther than 25 miles from the mine site. Bitumen diluted with lighter fluid pumped through a pipe that run 150 deg F  [ caused by the sand abraiding the steel pipe on the inside ] can create a lethal gas if it escapes. This gas can kill just like that used by the Nazis to exterminate PEOPLE in the shower stalls. North America to-day can be compared with Hitler’s Germany. Freedom of the press [ which no longer exists here ] really relates to the owners being free to sell out to the highest bidder. And the gas that can kill is being transported all over the continent for one reason, and one reason only, money. This, to enrich EXXON, the rest of the US oil cartel and Wall St., which owns the pipe lines. I have to mention something else that should be of concern. Herr Harper, his Fascists and the petro $ media are also benefiting for the toxic tar wealth. Such under the table oil cash allows Tim Powers, Harper’s Gestapo Chief to begin an attack campaign on Justin Trudeau. Although he has yet to win anything . When those ads start you can thank the US oil cartel. The FAA has declared a No Fly Zone over Mayflower Arka. to ensure that the common folk do not  get a bird’s eye view the toxic / oilie mess EXXON has created [ go on the net ]. But as said the FAA has put EXXON in charge of the No Fly Zone which is a violation of public airspace. Giving a private company jurisdiction over everybody’s skies is outrageous. Rex Tillerson said he doesn’t know why the spill happened, that is clearly a lie. So the CEO of the biggest corporation in the world stoops to the level of a common dissembler. Being an engineer Rex knows exactly what is going on. The crude bitumen is being mined in northern Alberta in the dirtiest manner possible with little consideration for the environment and the people of the Province. These resources are in a sense being stolen. The Alberta Government seems powerless to stop the thefts because Herr Harper is facilitating the cartel’s actions. The crude bitumen is liquified by mixing it with lighter fluid so that it can be pumped through an OIL PIPE LINE. The quartz sand in the tar abraides the inside of the steel pipe as it flows at high pressure. This friction cause the pipes to heat up [ a normal pipe containing oil runs at 70 deg F ] [ liquified crude bitumen runs at 150 deg F ]. The quartz sand destroys the spill sensors and warning system so there is no alarm if a rupture takes place. TransNot Canada, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are all lying about spill protection and  response time. There isn’t any. The Companies are fooling the public and fooling the investors. The only way a spill will be noticed is if the molten tar begins running down your street or the kids are marooned in the play house in the back yard and begin screaming.  Tillerson knows all this. He knew that there was lethal gas in those pipes of his running through that subdivision Arkansas and so lie after lie. Rex knows the numbers and the risk to life and limb, putting dilBit in oil pipe lines will increase the likelyhood of a rupture by at least 4 time. He knows the any tar cleanup will cost 10 times what an oil spill costs. When Tillerson talks about an oil spill he knows it is tar because he doesn’t pay any taxes on transporting liquified crude bitumen. Rex know when the tar slurry arrives in the  tax free zone inTexas it will be refine, turned into gasoline, jet fuel or diesel and shipped out, exported. Americans will not see a drop of gas. From the tar sands down to Texas the Republican Congress has ensured that EXXON will pay no  taxes. So the USA gets no financial benefit from the EXXON tar, only problems. Neither does Canada. Since this hazardous material being sent through oil pipe lines is sure to cause ruptures everyone along the lies is at risk, dollarwise and healthwise. Albertans who supply the crude bitumen only get 8% of the take. Having only one customer, the cartel it will set the price on a take it or leave it basis. In the past the US oil cartel has cheated Alberta out of royalties. What room is there to complain? Hewers of wood and drawers of water in the Province should thank their lucky start they can put food on the table. What is most gslling about Rex Tillerson, who got pay of $ 25 million in 2011, is that he would put the average citizen and his Country at serious risk just to make money.  Rex has cheated his Nation out of hard to come by taxes. Paying the Republicans off can bring with it huge benefits. EXXON made $ 40 billion in 2011 cheating widows, orphans and working people. Tillerson got a 17% raise and his management team voted themselves hefty bonuses. All on the backs of the little people who have no defenders, Congress, the White House, the State’s Houses and the US Supreme Court. So Nietzsche. The masters and the little people. For the self proclaimed exceptional people the oil momnopoly comes in very handy.  I have been a mechanic / builder all my life. Whether it is an aeroplane or a house there are rules that protect the citizenry. And penalties if the rules are not followed. The Republicans say, ” we have the money so we make the rules “. With Rex and EXXON there are no rules. If there are, Tillerson makes them up. I would give Rex a bit of a break is he was just another dumb executive. But he is an engineer and knows exactly what the dangers are. Rex calls us illiterate but he is the illiterate one. Tillerson is knowingly putting his country men / women and their children a grave risk. Monopolies come to an end, sometimes violently. Tillerson is playing with other people’s lives, their credit cards and there is no future in such activities. Washington should have put a stop to EXXON long ago,when the Valdez went aground.  By the way, the full bill for the Alaskan oil [ not DilBit ] spill has never been paid. The reason EXXON is allowed to trample all over the American Countryside is that the company has bought off Congress and many States politicians.  One of two things is going to happen. If this abuse is allowed to continue, it will only get worse. There will be lives lost, property damage and the environment will affected. The Americans will have to confront EXXON, the Yanks will get the Company or the Company will get them. As I have said Ottawa has to ban the transportation of liquified crude bitumen. It is responsible for at least a thousand spill over ten years. Time to prove it safe. On the other hand we have an opportunity to break free of the US oil cartel and create a made in Canada energy system. Namely Premier Redford’s NES, pooling the Province’s resources. Put simply each Province has an Ace. Together they have ten Aces. By joining forces each of those Aces doubles in value [ at least ]. The first order of business is to get  Harper and his gang  out of Ottawa. Then we can begin to rebuild Canada minus American exploitation and interference. Or do we continue to bow to the likes of Rex Tillerson??? And see our society wither?

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FINAL THOUGHT   —   The Globe and Oil is faring better then the other newspapers in the Toronto area. In the last half dozen years the circulation of the Star is down about 40% and the Post and Sun down about 30%. The Globe is down about 8%. It is a business paper and ignores about two thirds of the population which is seen and treated like cannon fodder. News stories are slanted toward business and many such pieces contain stock quotes. I remember an interview with a stock broker in New York City. He and 6 pals were in a building just down the street from the Twin Towers which were hit by air liners and collapsed. Their conversation centred around whether the stock market would go up or down. Yes Virginia there are such people and many of them are featured in the Globe. It is the Nietzsche Cult of self. The market is overflowing with wimps who have self declared themselves exceptional people [ like Herr Harper ]. Therefore they are elevated above the mob [ us ]. If you look at the pictures of many of those making comment about the stock market in the Globe, they can’t be over 30. They are green horns who just spout the usual right wing nonsense that is now taught at business schools. I read the odd column and I find it sad that so many of them are on the wrong track, probably marked for life. There is within the Globe a sense of the never, never Land which can only operate when there are plenty of  UNinformed suckers at hand. Whose ranks the paper works hard to maintain. So I am going to put my stock broker hat on. Now I have never bought a stock. I always operated businesses and said over the years to people, if I have any spare cash I invest it in my own enterprises. So my ignorance about the market puts me on a par with with the Globe stock writers. This post is about the Keystone project, the oil and natural gas business and Global Warming. I think it is appropriate to give you a couple of stock tips. Russ Girling, CEO of TransNotCanada Pipe Lines [ who lies almost as much as Harper ] will finance the Keystone on the backs of suckers. I truly believe that some suckers have brains. The Keystone will carry liquified crude bitumen, the same hazardous material involved in Mayflower Arka., Minnesota, Alberta and Kalamazoo Mich. What you see is what will come from the Keystone at some stage. Now the spilled tar is bad enough for the environment but it is the poisonous gas released when a pipe ruptures. For citizens caught close it will be like entering a Nazi gas chamber. The authorities in Canada and the US  should have put a stop to the transporting of this very dangerous tar slurry. There have been more than enough spills to understand the threat to humans [ especially the old / young ] . My count would be more than 1000 spills over ten years, 99% of them go unreported in the petro $ media. This under reporting for oil money is the main reason this matter is not now in hand. Ottawa and Washington will not move to challenge people like Rex Tillerson until their feet are held to the fire. But the mob can’t raise hell if they are UNinformed. So if the petro $ media is able to keep a tight lid on spill stories [ in return for cash ] and the internet observers are banned from each accident site like EXXON has done at Mayflower then enough suckers might be found to invest in the Keystone. But here is my warning. If liquified crude bitumen continues to be transported by pipe line the ruptures will occur again and again. Eventually innocent people will be killed and there will be citizen uprisings which the petro $ media will be unable to stop with their weasel words. All shipping of tar slurry will be stopped and the Keystone will become a ghost pipe. The stock of which will be worthless. And there will be no point going after Russ Girling, he’ll be long gone, to the Cook Islands. maybe? So buy Keystone stock at your peril? In terms of the tar sands. Now that is the legal name since tar doesn’t become oil until it goes through an upgrader [ an IRS ruling ]. Anyone who invests in the oil business in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba think Hugo Chavez. His death has changed the dynamics of the oil business. There is much discussion about this on the net but none in the Globe. Phil Crawley wants you to remain stupid so you are easy pickings. Venezuela has huge reserves of oil from light to heavy to crude bitumen.  I have not found anyone on the net who is predicting where we are going with this. The new Venezuelan Government needs good relations with the US. The American oil cartel needs access to Venezuelan oil fields. The major impediment to a deal in the last 12 years has been Chavez. Venezuela is only 4 days from Texas and there is no poisonous gas / spill problem. The US already buys a large amount of Ven. oil through third parties so cranking up exports to Texas / California would be fairly easy. If the Americans reestablish oil relations with Venezuela then the market for Canadian oil and crude bitumen will be no more. I am sorry for western natural gas interests. They have been double crossed by Enbridge and TransNotCanada. Both Companies are now getting natural gas from Michigan and Pennsylvania and selling it to Ontario and Quebec as if the gas was coming from Alberta [ at Alberta prices ]. The Ontario Energy Board is letting them get away with this cheating. I would suggest that investors stay away from Western oil and natural gas stocks, particularly Enbridge and TransNotCanada. Now the present market is based on carpetbaggers showing up in Canada to rape the countryside. Investors who shell out money to them hope that there is a quick killing to be made. The news to-day covers many fast buck artists who get caught with their hands in the cookie jar. Not too many though. Just enough to convince the larger public that the loaded dice [ stocks ] are not loaded. Martha Stewart was thrown under the bus by Wall St.[ she after all is a woman ] to make the NY Stock Exchange look honest [ which it is not ]. Flaherty’s budget is in shambles due to the loss of oil / nat. gas markets in the west. Harper’s fixation with Hayek is leading us to ruin. The more he pushes, the more it doesn’t work. Now if the Provinces get their heads together [ Premier redford's NES ] and pool their resources this would allow public / private cooperation. I believe a steady return on investment in the west would be welcomed by the private sector. A secure business environment and no surprises would be a big change. By controlling all of Canada’s resources the Province’s will be able to establish a development schedule on a grander scale than that possible with private companies. Provincial control would also allow the elimination of cheaters like Enbridge and TransNotCanada. This supply management approach would level the playing field and permit honest businessmen and women a fighting chance. So there is my advice. Avoid oil and natural gas stocks until the Province’s clean up the act. And hold Lyin Steve’s feet to the fire. Better yet throw him in. 

Catch you next time   Ken                          www.ge-eman.com                                  LAOCOON

Fukushima’s threats to health and the environment continue. (graphic: Surian Soosay via flickr)

You can’t say you have all the answers if you haven’t asked all the questions. So, at a conference on the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, held to commemorate the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that struck northern Japan, there were lots of questions. Questions about what actually happened at Fukushima Daiichi in the first days after the quake, and how that differed from the official report; questions about what radionuclides were in the fallout and runoff, at what concentrations, and how far they have spread; and questions about what near- and long-term effects this disaster will have on people and the planet, and how we will measure and recognize those effects.

A distinguished list of epidemiologists, oncologists, nuclear engineers, former government officials, Fukushima survivors, anti-nuclear activists and public health advocates gathered at the invitation of The Helen Caldicott Foundation and Physicians for Social Responsibility to, if not answer all these question, at least make sure they got asked. Over two long days, it was clear there is much still to be learned, but it was equally clear that we already know that the downsides of nuclear power are real, and what’s more, the risks are unnecessary. Relying on this dirty, dangerous and expensive technology is not mandatory–it’s a choice. And when cleaner, safer, and more affordable options are available, the one answer we already have is that nuclear is a choice we should stop making and a risk we should stop taking.

“No one died from the accident at Fukushima.” This refrain, as familiar as multiplication tables and sounding about as rote when recited by acolytes of atomic power, is a close mirror to versions used to downplay earlier nuclear disasters, like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island (as well as many less infamous events), and is somehow meant to be the discussion-ender, the very bottom-line of the bottom-line analysis that is used to grade global energy options. “No one died” equals “safe” or, at least, “safer.” Q.E.D.

But beyond the intentional blurring of the differences between an “accident” and the probable results of technical constraints and willful negligence, the argument (if this saw can be called such) cynically exploits the space between solid science and the simple sound bite.

“Do not confuse narrowly constructed research hypotheses with discussions of policy,” warned Steve Wing, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Public Health. Good research is an exploration of good data, but, Wing contrasted, “Energy generation is a public decision made by politicians.”

Surprisingly unsurprising

A public decision, but not necessarily one made in the public interest. Energy policy could be informed by health and environmental studies, such as the ones discussed at the Fukushima symposium, but it is more likely the research is spun or ignored once policy is actually drafted by the politicians who, as Wing noted, often sport ties to the nuclear industry.

The link between politicians and the nuclear industry they are supposed to regulate came into clear focus in the wake of the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami–in Japan and the United States.

The boiling water reactors (BWRs) that failed so catastrophically at Fukushima Daiichi were designed and sold by General Electric in the 1960s; the general contractor on the project was Ebasco, a US engineering company that, back then, was still tied to GE. General Electric had bet heavily on nuclear and worked hand-in-hand with the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC–the precursor to the NRC, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission) to promote civilian nuclear plants at home and abroad. According to nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, GE told US regulators in 1965 that without quick approval of multiple BWR projects, the giant energy conglomerate would go out of business.

It was under the guidance of GE and Ebasco that the rocky bluffs where Daiichi would be built were actually trimmed by 10 meters to bring the power plant closer to the sea, the water source for the reactors’ cooling systems–but it was under Japanese government supervision that serious and repeated warnings about the environmental and technological threats to Fukushima were ignored for another generation.

Failures at Daiichi were completely predictable, observed David Lochbaum, the director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, and numerous upgrades were recommended over the years by scientists and engineers. “The only surprising thing about Fukushima,” said Lochbaum, “is that no steps were taken.”

The surprise, it seems, should cross the Pacific. Twenty-two US plants mirror the design of Fukushima Daiichi, and many stand where they could be subject to earthquakes or tsunamis. Even without those seismic events, some US plants are still at risk of Fukushima-like catastrophic flooding. Prior to the start of the current Japanese crisis, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission learned that the Oconee Nuclear Plant in Seneca, South Carolina, was at risk of a major flood from a dam failure upstream. In the event of a dam breach–an event the NRC deems more likely than the odds that were given for the 2011 tsunami–the flood at Oconee would trigger failures at all four reactors. Beyond hiding its own report, the NRC has taken no action–not before Fukushima, not since.

The missing link

But it was the health consequences of nuclear power–both from high-profile disasters, as well as what is considered normal operation–that dominated the two days of presentations at the New York Academy of Medicine. Here, too, researchers and scientists attempted to pose questions that governments, the nuclear industry and its captured regulators prefer to ignore, or, perhaps more to the point, omit.

Dr. Hisako Sakiyama, a member of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, has been studying the effects of low-dose radiation. Like others at the symposium, Dr. Sakiyama documented the linear, no-threshold risk model drawn from data across many nuclear incidents. In essence, there is no point at which it can be said, “Below this amount of radiation exposure, there is no risk.” And the greater the exposure, the greater the risk of health problems, be they cancers or non-cancer diseases.

Dr. Sakiyama contrasted this with the radiation exposure limits set by governments. Japan famously increased what it called acceptable exposure quite soon after the start of the Fukushima crisis, and, as global background radiation levels increase as a result of the disaster, it is feared this will ratchet up what is considered “safe” in the United States, as the US tends to discuss limits in terms of exposure beyond annual average background radiation. Both approaches lack credibility and expose an ugly truth. “Debate on low-dose radiation risk is not scientific,” explained Sakiyama, “but political.”

And the politics are posing health and security risks in Japan and the US.

Akio Matsumura, who spoke at the Fukushima conference in his role as founder of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders for Human Survival, described a situation at the crippled Japanese nuclear plant that is much more perilous, even today, than leaders are willing to acknowledge. Beyond the precarious state of the spent fuel pool above reactor four, Matsumura also cited the continued melt-throughs of reactor cores (which could lead to a steam explosion), the high levels of radiation at reactors one and three (making any repairs impossible), and the unprotected pipes retrofitted to help cool reactors and spent fuel. “Probability of another disaster,” Matsumura warned, “is higher than you think.”

Matsumura lamented that investigations of both the technical failures and the health effects of the disaster are not well organized. “There is no longer a link between scientists and politicians,” said Matsumura, adding, “This link is essential.”

The Union of Concerned Scientists’ Lochbaum took it further. “We are losing the no-brainers with the NRC,” he said, implying that what should be accepted as basic regulatory responsibility is now subject to political debate. With government agencies staffed by industry insiders, “the deck is stacked against citizens.”

Both Lochbaum and Arnie Gundersen criticized the nuclear industry’s lack of compliance, even with pre-Fukushima safety requirements. And the industry’s resistance undermines nuclear’s claims of being competitive on price. “If you made nuclear power plants meet existing law,” said Gundersen, “they would have to shut because of cost.”

But without stronger safety rules and stricter enforcement, the cost is borne by people instead.

Determinate data, indeterminate risk

While the two-day symposium was filled with detailed discussions of chemical and epidemiologic data collected throughout the nuclear age–from Hiroshima through Fukushima–a cry for more and better information was a recurring theme. In a sort of wily corollary to “garbage in, garbage out,” experts bemoaned what seem like deliberate holes in the research.

Even the long-term tracking study of those exposed to the radiation and fallout in Japan after the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki–considered by many the gold-standard in radiation exposure research because of the large sample size and the long period of time over which data was collected–raises as many questions as it answers.

The Hiroshima-Nagasaki data was referenced heavily by Dr. David Brenner of the Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Brenner praised the study while using it to buttress his opinion that, while harm from any nuclear event is unfortunate, the Fukushima crisis will result in relatively few excess cancer deaths–something like 500 in Japan, and an extra 2,000 worldwide.

“There is an imbalance of individual risk versus overall anxiety,” said Brenner.

But Dr. Wing, the epidemiologist from the UNC School of Public Health, questioned the reliance on the atom bomb research, and the relatively rosy conclusions those like Dr. Brenner draw from it.

“The Hiroshima and Nagasaki study didn’t begin till five years after the bombs were dropped,” cautioned Wing. “Many people died before research even started.” The examination of cancer incidence in the survey, Wing continued, didn’t begin until 1958–it misses the first 13 years of data. Research on “Black Rain” survivors (those who lived through the heavy fallout after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings) excludes important populations from the exposed group, despite those populations’ high excess mortality, thus driving down reported cancer rates for those counted.

The paucity of data is even more striking in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident, and examinations of populations around American nuclear power plants that haven’t experienced high-profile emergencies are even scarcer. “Studies like those done in Europe have never been done in the US,” said Wing with noticeable regret. Wing observed that a German study has shown increased incidences of childhood leukemia near operating nuclear plants.

There is relatively more data on populations exposed to radioactive contamination in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Yet, even in this catastrophic case, the fact that the data has been collected and studied owes much to the persistence of Alexey Yablokov of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Yablokov has been examining Chernobyl outcomes since the early days of the crisis. His landmark collection of medical records and the scientific literature, Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, has its critics, who fault its strong warnings about the long-term dangers of radiation exposure, but it is that strident tone that Yablokov himself said was crucial to the evolution of global thinking about nuclear accidents.

Because of pressure from the scientific community and, as Yablokov stressed at the New York conference, pressure from the general public, as well, reaction to accidents since Chernobyl has evolved from “no immediate risk,” to small numbers who are endangered, to what is now called “indeterminate risk.”

Calling risk “indeterminate,” believe it or not, actually represents a victory for science, because it means more questions are asked–and asking more questions can lead to more and better answers.

Yablokov made it clear that it is difficult to estimate the real individual radiation dose–too much data is not collected early in a disaster, fallout patterns are patchy and different groups are exposed to different combinations of particles–but he drew strength from the volumes and variety of data he’s examined.

Indeed, as fellow conference participant, radiation biologist Ian Fairlie, observed, people can criticize Yablokov’s advocacy, but the data is the data, and in the Chernobyl book, there is lots of data.

Complex and consequential

Data presented at the Fukushima symposium also included much on what might have been–and continues to be–released by the failing nuclear plant in Japan, and how that contamination is already affecting populations on both sides of the Pacific.

Several of those present emphasized the need to better track releases of noble gasses, such as xenon-133, from the earliest days of a nuclear accident–both because of the dangers these elements pose to the public and because gas releases can provide clues to what is unfolding inside a damaged reactor. But more is known about the high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium contamination that have resulted from the Fukushima crisis.

In the US, since the beginning of the disaster, five west coast states have measured elevated levels of iodine-131 in air, water and kelp samples, with the highest airborne concentrations detected from mid-March through the end of April 2011. Iodine concentrates in the thyroid, and, as noted by Joseph Mangano, director of the Radiation and Public Health Project, fetal thyroids are especially sensitive. In the 15 weeks after fallout from Fukushima crossed the Pacific, the western states reported a 28-percent increase in newborn (congenital) hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid), according to the Open Journal of Pediatrics. Mangano contrasted this with a three-percent drop in the rest of the country during the same period.

The most recent data from Fukushima prefecture shows over 44 percent of children examined there have thyroid abnormalities.

Of course, I-131 has a relatively short half-life; radioactive isotopes of cesium will have to be tracked much longer.

With four reactors and densely packed spent fuel pools involved, Fukushima Daiichi’s “inventory” (as it is called) of cesium-137 dwarfed Chernobyl’s at the time of its catastrophe. Consequently, and contrary to some of the spin out there, the Cs-137 emanating from the Fukushima plant is also out-pacing what happened in Ukraine.

Estimates put the release of Cs-137 in the first months of the Fukushima crisis at between 64 and 114 petabecquerels (this number includes the first week of aerosol release and the first four months of ocean contamination). And the damaged Daiichi reactors continue to add an additional 240 million becquerels of radioactive cesium to the environment every single day. Chernobyl’s cesium-137 release is pegged at about 84 petabecquerels. (One petabecquerel equals 1,000,000,000,000,000 becquerels.) By way of comparison, the nuclear “device” dropped on Hiroshima released 89 terabecquerels (1,000 terabecquerels equal one petabecquerel) of Cs-137, or, to put it another way, Fukushima has already released more than 6,400 times as much radioactive cesium as the Hiroshima bomb.

The effects of elevated levels of radioactive cesium are documented in several studies across post-Chernobyl Europe, but while the implications for public health are significant, they are also hard to contain in a sound bite. As medical genetics expert Wladimir Wertelecki explained during the conference, a number of cancers and other serious diseases emerged over the first decade after Chernobyl, but the cycles of farming, consuming, burning and then fertilizing with contaminated organic matter will produce illness and genetic abnormalities for many decades to come. Epidemiological studies are only descriptive, Wertelecki noted, but they can serve as a “foundation for cause and effect.” The issues ahead for all of those hoping to understand the Fukushima disaster and the repercussions of the continued use of nuclear power are, as Wertelecki pointed out, “Where you study and what you ask.”

One of the places that will need some of the most intensive study is the Pacific Ocean. Because Japan is an island, most of Fukushima’s fallout plume drifted out to sea. Perhaps more critically, millions of gallons of water have been pumped into and over the damaged reactors and spent fuel pools at Daiichi, and because of still-unplugged leaks, some of that water flows into the ocean every day. (And even if those leaks are plugged and the nuclear fuel is stabilized someday, mountain runoff from the area will continue to discharge radionuclides into the water.) Fukushima’s fisheries are closed and will remain so as far into the future as anyone can anticipate. Bottom feeders and freshwater fish exhibit the worst levels of cesium, but they are only part of the picture. Ken Beusseler, a marine scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, described a complex ecosystem of ocean currents, food chains and migratory fish, some of which carry contamination with them, some of which actually work cesium out of their flesh over time. The seabed and some beaches will see increases in radio-contamination. “You can’t keep just measuring fish,” warned Beusseler, implying that the entire Pacific Rim has involuntarily joined a multidimensional long-term radiation study.

For what it’s worth

Did anyone die as a result of the nuclear disaster that started at Fukushima Daiichi two years ago? Dr. Sakiyama, the Japanese investigator, told those assembled at the New York symposium that 60 patients died while being moved from hospitals inside the radiation evacuation zone–does that count? Joseph Mangano has reported on increases in infant deaths in the US following the arrival of Fukushima fallout–does that count? Will cancer deaths or future genetic abnormalities, be they at the low or high end of the estimates, count against this crisis?

It is hard to judge these answers when the question is so very flawed.

As discussed by many of the participants throughout the Fukushima conference, a country’s energy decisions are rooted in politics. Nuclear advocates would have you believe that their favorite fuel should be evaluated inside an extremely limited universe, that there is some level of nuclear-influenced harm that can be deemed “acceptable,” that questions stem from the necessity of atomic energy instead of from whether civilian nuclear power is necessary at all.

The nuclear industry would have you do a cost-benefit analysis, but they’d get to choose which costs and benefits you analyze.

While all this time has been and will continue to be spent on tracking the health and environmental effects of nuclear power, it isn’t a fraction of a fraction of the time that the world will be saddled with fission’s dangerous high-level radioactive trash (a problem without a real temporary storage program, forget a permanent disposal solution). And for all the money that has been and will continue to be spent compiling the health and environmental data, it is a mere pittance when compared with the government subsidies, liability waivers and loan guarantees lavished upon the owners and operators of nuclear plants.

Many individual details will continue to emerge, but a basic fact is already clear: nuclear power is not the world’s only energy option. Nor are the choices limited to just fossil and fissile fuels. Nuclear lobbyists would love to frame the debate–as would advocates for natural gas, oil or coal–as cold calculations made with old math. But that is not where the debate really resides.

If nuclear reactors were the only way to generate electricity, would 500 excess cancer deaths be acceptable? How about 5,000? How about 50,000? If nuclear’s projected mortality rate comes in under coal’s, does that make the deaths–or the high energy bills, for that matter–more palatable?

As the onetime head of the Tennessee Valley Authority, David Freeman, pointed out toward the end of the symposium, every investment in a new nuclear, gas or coal plant is a fresh 40-, 50-, or 60-year commitment to a dirty, dangerous and outdated technology. Every favor the government grants to nuclear power triggers an intense lobbying effort on behalf of coal or gas, asking for equal treatment. Money spent bailing out the past could be spent building a safer and more sustainable future.

Nuclear does not exist in a vacuum; so neither do its effects. There is much more to be learned about the medical and ecological consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster–but that knowledge should be used to minimize and mitigate the harm. These studies do not ask and are not meant to answer, “Is nuclear worth it?” When the world already has multiple alternatives–not just in renewable technologies, but also in conservation strategies and improvements in energy efficiency–the answer is already “No.”

A version of this story previously appeared on Truthout; no version may be reprinted without permission.

How many times have you heard this? New parties, dying parties, wannabe parties seem to love this line. And it’s utterly stupid. It’s not the only mistake new parties make, but it’s the classic.

2 new parties this election, both thus far showing the strategic intelligence of a kid standing in the middle of a busy highway, have already committed to standing candidates in all 150 seats. Katter’s Australia Party and the (definition of laughable) 21st Century Party. (Many of the desperate Democrats were also fond of this commitment, and despite my attempts to bash them out of that habit, they’ve gone and done it again this year.)

*Update 25 April – Clive Palmer has announced his UAP will also stand candidates in all 150 seats.*

Of course, those two parties are worlds apart. KAP actually has real parliamentarians. 21st Century is really just a vanity party of Jamie McIntyre who has joined the circus that is to be the contest in New England this year. They are both far right however.

Rise Up Australia, the third new extreme right wing party along with Katter’s and McIntyre’s parties, is linked to Catch the Fire Ministries and seems to be preaching to their base somewhat exclusively, although get plenty of airtime saying gay people and Muslims are evil.

The fourth newbie on the far right is Australian Christians, who reckon they have the numbers to overtake the Greens at the next election. Good-o. (The AC logo is my fave though – they get points for that.)

I think number 5 on the far right newbies collection is Australian Protectionist Party, although they’ve got some Libertarian ideals mixed in there which may confuse the uninitiated, and try and claim to be descendants of Australia’s original Protectionists… but the zero-net immigration, anti-refugee, anti-Islamist, anti-gay policies puts them firmly over there —>

Don’t worry lefties, there’s plenty of fresh meat for you to ignore as well.

The Pirate Party will finally be actually joining this campaign, after learning how damn hard it is just to register a party (they formed in 2009 but couldn’t get the required numbers to participate in the 2010 poll) seem to be focusing on winning a Senate seat over the House.

The narrowly focused Bank Reform Party is a just focusing on the Senate, but aiming to field in every State. Probably won’t get there. I should state that they claim to be centrist, but I lump them fairly squarely over there <— as their platform is nakedly anti-big business and their language is similar to the FSU’s 2010 Better Banking campaign (which I disclose I worked on).

The Wikileaks Party, which like Century 21 isn’t a party yet and only has until May 21 to pull their finger out and register, will barely run anyone. Assange plus unnamed running mate in Vic, and Senate candidates in NSW and WA. I’m still not sure what they’re trying to pull TBH.

The Australian First Nations Political Party (AFNPP) registered in January and will also be joining the fray, although it seems with a focus on areas with larger indigenous populations. Smart move.

The Animal Justice Party are going to get a big shock when they find out how much people don’t care about live export, and how their militant ‘farming is bad’ position won’t win friends and influence people. They did an open call for candidates last year and committed to fielding some, but I’ve seen no announcement of any candidates let alone bold 150 seat claims from them as yet.

And the HEMP party are also newbies joining in the fun. They haven’t said boo about the election since the announcement of their AGM in August of last year. They’ll probably be too stoned to remember to lodge nomination forms. Besides, why waste good dope money on nominating?

Speaking of money, running candidates isn’t cheap: the nomination deposit for a house seat is $500, each Senate candidate nomination is $1000 (See AEC Nomination Guide PDF). So if you’re standing candidates in all 150 seats, plus 2 candidates (and not the full slate of 7 for States) in each State/Territory, you’d be up for $91,000 – money which will be more than likely forfeited because new/small party candidates rarely get above 4% of the vote.

Well actually more than that, because the deposits just got doubled to $1000 for the house and $2000 for the Senate – so make that $182,000. (Presuming new legislation applies for the next election).

And that’s just nomination – that doesn’t include posters, letters, how-to-votes, campaign office, support for volunteers… Running a proper house seat campaign with less than $50k is pretty hard (a key or marginal seat you want more like $200k+), and I’m pretty sure none of these guys have a war chest of $7.5m to properly contest 150 seats.

Not to mention running people clearly not qualified or without any real intention of serving the electorate is pretty insulting to the voters.

Small parties, particularly new or in bad shape parties, should never, ever, attempt to field candidates everywhere. Fielding candidates in 150 seats is not a sign of strength.

Saying you’re going to field candidates in 150 seats and then stunningly failing to do so is confirmation of your weakness.

The end result of attempting to field far beyond your capacity is really poor candidates, as Katter is already discovering and the Democrats know well yet never seem to learn from, as well as it being impossible to run a coherent campaign and doing significant damage to a fledgling brand.

If you look at parties in comparable systems that have emerged out of nowhere or come back from the dead, all of them have done a similar thing: concentrated in the areas where their support is strongest and grown slowly from that base. The Liberal Democrats in the UK are the best illustration of this, where to this day they don’t run everywhere, and local branches must demonstrate local support for both the party and candidate before they can get party support to run.

The simple fact is small and new parties do not have the support, talent, money or any other kind of resource to field candidates in all 150 seats plus Senate candidates in every state. To even attempt it is lunacy.

(But then, if the newbies and others didn’t make the classic mistakes like this one, what fun would that be for us schadenfreudistic election watchers?)

Kathryn is a political and communication strategist, survivor of 14 months running the Australian Democrats and a further 4 years consulting to numerous candidates and organisations on the left, right and centre of politics as well as commercial clients. Currently on extended sabbatical she can be found on Twitter (@kathoc) or her own blog.

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I have searched through and downloaded many different AEC related apps for my iPhone and I will now list my 5 favourites. I am not 100% sure that all of these apps are available on the android market, but I assume most of them will be. I have chosen the apps which I find most useful, and this will reflect my work interests, which are mainly 3D modelling, software packages, detailing and visualisation.

The Autodesk Buzzsaw mobile app lets Buzzsaw users securely access Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) project designs and documents from anywhere. View Autodesk® Revit® and Navisworks® models and metadata about elements in your designs, view 2D and 3D DWF® files, view standard office documents and images, and upload project documents. FREE

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Football Stadium FC Bate Borisov

• Architects: OFIS Arhitekti
• Project: Football Stadium FC Bate Borisov
• Location: Borisov, Belarus
• Construction: 2011
• Completion: 2012
• Program: Football stadium+ public program
• Software used: AutoCAD and 3ds MAX

Football Stadium FC Bate Borisov

• Client: PC Bate and Government of Belarus
• Area: 3.628 m2 public program, 480 m2 offices, 2.000 m2 service program
• Budget: 20.000.000 € + 10.000.000 € public program
• Type: public+private
• Exterior Finish: metal, polished concrete, glass walls
• Architectural Team:Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Konstantine Bogoslavsky, Katja Aljaz, Janja Del Linz, Janez Martincic, Andrej Gregorič, Ana Kosi, Ieva Cicenaite, Grzegorz Ostrowski, Filip Knapczyk

Football Stadium FC Bate Borisov

Arena stadium and its territory was placed so as to ensure that:
- Good accessibility for transport to the stadium and that the flow of traffic and pedestians is delineated;
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Los países del sudeste asiático tuvieron una industrialización tardía respecto a los países centrales europeos y respecto a sus vecinos asiáticos como Japón o Corea del Sur. Su proceso de industrialización y desarrollo empieza a finales del siglo XX y los países han crecido considerablemente durante los últimos años. En un contexto de crisis económica mundial, estos países no están tan afectados, sino que han podido mantener elevadas tasas de crecimiento. Esta entrada quiere analizar los países de la Asociación de Naciones del Sudeste Asiático – ANSA – respecto a los temas de globalización, difusión de la industrialización y modelos de desarrollo.

ASEAN – SUS MIEMBROS

La Asociación de Naciones del Sudeste Asiático – ANSA (Association of Southeast Asian Nations – ASEAN en inglés) es una organización regional de estados del sudeste asiático fundada el 8 de agosto de 1967. Los principales objetivos de la ASEAN son acelerar el crecimiento económico y fomentar la paz y la estabilidad regionales. Esta entrada se centrará en la dimensión económica. Durante la existencia de ASEAN, la dimensión económica se ha desarrollado de manera importante. Así, los países de ASEAN son cada vez más integradas económicamente. Importante es la creación de la AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area) en 1992 y de la ACE (ASEAN Economic Community) para el año 2015.

Los países miembros de la ASEAN son (ordenados según su fecha de ingreso):

Indonesia (8 de agosto de 1967)

Malasia (8 de agosto de 1967)

Filipinas (8 de agosto de 1967)

Singapur (8 de agosto de 1967)

Tailandia (8 de agosto de 1967)

Brunéi (8 de enero de 1984)

Estos 6 componen el grupo ASEAN-6, siendo las economías más grandes y más ricas dentro de ASEAN (menos Brunéi, que es una economía muy pequeña pero es una de las más ricas respecto a su PIB per cápita)

Vietnam (28 de julio de 1995)

Laos (23 de julio de 1997)

Birmania/Myanmar (23 de julio de 1997)

Camboya (30 de abril de 1999)

Estos 4 componen el grupo CLMV (a veces también llamado ASEAN-4), con ingreso más tardío a ASEAN y con economías más pequeñas, excepto Vietnam que se sitúa entre las primeras seis respecto a PIB total.

En el siguiente mapa se pueden ver los miembros actuales de ASEAN

INDUSTRIALIZACIÓN – DIFUSIÓN Y MODELOS DE DESARROLLO

El proceso de industrialización en los países de ASEAN empezó de manera desigual, así Filipinas ya tuvo una industria elaborada en los años 1960 mientras que Indonesia no tuvo estructuras industriales antes de 1970. Sin embargo, se pueden detectar unos patrones comunes del desarrollo de los países de ASEAN. El cambio estructural en los países del sudeste asiático siguió el mismo proceso que antes en Japón y los “New Industrialised Economies” (NIEs), es decir un cambio de una industria ligera a una industria pesada y después adoptando las nuevas tecnologías (tercera revolución industrial). Se puede observar esta transformación en el diagrama siguiente.

Este diagrama ilustra el “flying geese paradigm” de Kaname Akamatsu (Akamatsu, 1962). Esta teoría básicamente dice que los países asiáticos seguirán un desarrollo industrial que se origina en un líder regional – Japón – y después alcanza a otros países menos desarrollados en diferentes fases. El nombre viene de que los países se pueden ver como “aligned successively behind the advanced industrial nations in the order of their different stages of growth in a wild-geese-flying pattern.” El cambio estructural viene dado por la necesidad del líder de reestructurar internamente a causa de mayores costes del factor trabajo. Para no perder  su ventaja comparativa, el líder tiene que cambiar de una producción intensa en trabajo (mano de obra) a una producción más intensa en capital (maquinaria). Los sectores menos productivos van a países más abajo en la jerarquía regional. Como se puede ver en el diagrama, cada país o grupo de países repite los mismos patrones de cambio estructural a medida que se desarrolla. Como ya dicho, Japón es el líder en este cambio, seguido por los NIEs (Corea del Sur, Taiwán, Singapur y Hong Kong), ASEAN-4 (Filipinas, Indonesia, Tailandia y Malaysia) etc.

Hay una literatura muy amplia sobre el desarrollo de los países del sudeste asiático que intenta explicar el desarrollo tan rápido y exitoso. Hal Hill destaca que ha habido una transformación estructural muy rápida y un consecuente crecimiento superior que en otros países en desarrollo (Hill, 1994). El detecta una serie de tendencias que explican el proceso de industrialización: Primero, el cambio de sustitución de importaciones a un enfoque basado en la exportación (shift toward outward-looking strategies due to the limits of import substitution). Segundo, una base más amplia de industria, como consecuencia de más manufacturación (no solo materias primas) y actividades más variadas, como bienes de capital y industria pesada. Tercero, la entrada de nueva tecnología, estilos de gestión y capital extranjero.

El argumento de Ariff and Hill va en la misma línea: Hacen hincapié en el rol de la exportación para el proceso de industrialización (Ariff and Hill, 1986). Así, argumentan que “export promotion policies resulted in rapid economic growth, with manufacturing becoming the fastest growth sector.” En su crítica del libro, Helfgott destaca que los autores logran enseñar que el desarrollo de los países está basado, en gran parte en la promoción de la exportación, especialmente exportaciones basado en ventajas comparativas. Helfgott subraya que “The ASEAN countries’ comparative advantage lies in their factor proportions. Putting it bluntly, cheap labor has enabled them to become a source of laborintensive manufacturing, such as apparel and textiles and electronic/communication assembly.” Se puede observar que los países de la ASEAN cambiaron el modelo de desarrollo desde una política de sustitución de importaciones, que sólo tuvo un éxito muy limitado y no contribuyó a más industrialización, a la promoción de exportación. Helfgott dice que ASEAN está siguiendo un proceso estándar de desarrollo: “In the early stages, a country exports resource-based products and imports manufactured goods. Then there is a gradual shift to becoming a net exporter of unskilled, labor-intensive manufactures. As experience is gained, a more sophisticated industrial structure encompassing more skill and capital-intensive industries emerges.” Mientras que Singapur ha llegado muy temprano a la tercera fase, otros países han tardado mucho más en este proceso.

Felker destaca el rol de inversiones extranjeras (“Foreign Direct Investment” – FDI), empresas multinacionales (MNCs) que operan en los países y en la exportación de productos. Afirma que “Southeast Asia’s industrialisation has involved deepening integration into international production networks, comprising internal exchanges between multinational corporations(MNcs) and their subsidiaries, affiliates and subcontractors.” (Felker, 2003)

Según la propia ASEAN, “Manufacturing industries have been the cornerstone of ASEAN’s industrialisation process, and it is likely that these industries will continue to be the driving force of economic growth and dynamism in ASEAN, and will continue to integrate the economies in AFTA. The effects of the CEPT (Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme) for AFTA on these industries are indeed favourable both in terms of increasing the region’s competitiveness and the possibilities for greater intra-and inter- industrial linkages within the region. The industries covered include agriculture, electronics, machinery and textiles.” (http://www.asean.org/communities/asean-economic-community/item/introduction-2#)

La integración de las economías mediante la formación de una área de libre comercio (ASEAN Free Trade Area – AFTA) y la consecuente reducción de tarifas (aduanas) ha contribuido al crecimiento. Esto se discute a continuación.

AFTA – ASEAN FREE TRADE AREA

En enero de 1992, los miembros de la ASEAN acordaron establecer una zona de libre comercio y reducir las tarifas a productos no agrícolas durante un periodo de 15 años, que comenzó en 1993. Mientras que los países de ASEAN-6 han conseguido la meta rápidamente, los países integrantes de CLMV han tardado más en conseguir una reducción de aduanas. En el 2004, el Área de Libre Comercio de la ASEAN (AFTA) estaba prácticamente establecida. Los países miembros de la ASEAN habían hecho progresos significativos en la reducción de los aranceles intrarregionales a través del sistema Arancel Preferencial Común Efectivo (Common Effective Preferential Tariff – CEPT) para AFTA. Más del 99 por ciento de los productos en la lista de inclusión CEPT (IL) de la ASEAN-6, que comprende Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malasia, Filipinas, Singapur y Tailandia, se han reducido al rango tarifario 0-5 por ciento. Los nuevos miembros de la ASEAN, es decir, Camboya, Laos, Myanmar y Vietnam tenían casi el 80 por ciento de sus productos en la lista de inclusión, de los cuales alrededor del 66 por ciento ya tenían aranceles dentro de la banda de 0-5 por ciento. Con el fin de promover una mayor utilización del Sistema CEPTAFTA, el sistema ha tenido varias adaptaciones, cambios y mejoras. Dentro del AEC, se han adoptado nuevos mecanismos que quieren conseguir un mercado único hasta el 2015. En los siguientes gráficos se puede ver la tendencia desde 2000 hasta 2012. Se puede observar una tendencia clara hacia menos aranceles, tanto en el caso de ASEAN-6 como en el caso de CLMV. Además, el número de productos sin arancel alguno ha aumentado significativamente.

Acuerdos de libre comercio con otros países

La ASEAN ha firmado acuerdos de libre comercio con China, Corea del Sur, Japón, Australia, Nueva Zelanda e India. El acuerdo con la República Popular de China creó la ASEAN–China Free Trade Area (ACFTA), que entró plenamente en vigor el 1 de enero de 2010. Además, la ASEAN está negociando un acuerdo de libre comercio con la Unión Europea. Taiwán también ha expresado su interés en un acuerdo con la ASEAN, pero tiene que superar las objeciones diplomáticas de China.

AEC – ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY 2015

El 20 de noviembre de 2007, en la cumbre de ASEAN celebrada en Singapur, se adoptó el ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint, el plan que quiere establecer una comunidad económica – la AEC – hasta el 2015. Como dice el artículo uno de la declaración (AEC Blueprint, 2008):

1. ADOPT the AEC Blueprint which each ASEAN Member Country shall abide by and implement the AEC by 2015. The AEC Blueprint will transform ASEAN into a single market and production base, a highly competitive economic region, a region of equitable economic development, and a region fully integrated into the global economy. The AEC Blueprint including its strategic schedule is annexed to this Declaration.

Básicamente, se quiere conseguir una integración económica regional todavía más grande que conseguido con la AFTA.

Los cuatro características claves que se quieren conseguir son:

(a) a single market and production base

(b) a highly competitive economic región

(c) a region of equitable economic development

(d) a region fully integrated into the global economy.

Las áreas de cooperación incluyen: desarrollo de RRHH y capacity building; reconocimiento de cualificaciones profesionales; más consultación en temas de macroeconomía y finanzas; comercio; mejor infraestructura y comunicación; desarrollo de transacciones electrónicos (e-ASEAN); integración de industrias de toda la región para promocionar la coordinación; e incluir más el sector privado para la construcción de la AEC. Mediante estas áreas de cooperación se quiere conseguir que habrá una libre circulación de bienes, servicios, inversión, trabajo cualificado y una libre circulación de capital.

RESULTADOS

ASEAN se ha podido establecer como una de las regiones más vibrantes en el siglo XXI. Como se puede ver en el Chartbook de ASEAN, esta región se sitúa entre las primeras en el mundo con uno de los crecimientos de PIB más rápido (sólo después de China y India) y un PIB total que se sitúa como sexto del mundo.

Respecto al PIB per cápita todavía se encuentra por debajo de la mayoría de los países desarrollados y en vías de desarrollo. Singapur y Brunei Darussalam son la excepción, con PIB per cápita muy altos.

A consecuencia de la integración regional mediante la AFTA, otros áreas de libre comercio en la región y los planes del establecimiento de la ASEAN Economic Community el comercio de ASEAN ha aumentado y la cooperación entre los países miembros es mayor. Aun así, comercio intra-ASEAN alcanza solo el 25 por ciento del total, ya que la mayoría de los países siguen orientados a la exportación al resto del mundo. Excepciones son Laos y Myanmar que comercian mayoritariamente con países de ASEAN.

Por último, si se considera el desarrollo del PIB per cápita con datos de Maddison (la base de datos se encuentra en http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/data.htm) de los países integrantes de ASEAN-6 (menos Brunei Darussalam que no está en la base de datos debido a su pequeña economía), es decir los fundadores de la ASEAN, se puede observar una mejora clara del PIBpc para todos los países. Obviamente hay una gran diferencia entre Singapur que ya ha conseguido el paso a país plenamente industrializado y desarrollado (PIBpc más de 29.000 dólares) y las Filipinas que todavía tiene un PIBpc de poco más de 3000 dólares. Pero la tendencia es positiva para todos los países.

GDP per cápita para los países de ASEAN-6 (menos Brunéi)

Fuente: elaboración propia con datos de Maddison

CONCLUSIÓN

ASEAN es una región muy dinámica que tiene buenas perspectivas de más crecimiento en el futuro. El establecimiento de una Comunidad Económica hasta el 2015 contribuirá más a la integración y cooperación regional y puede apoyar el desarrollo de todos los países del Sudeste asiático. Habrá que ver hasta que punto se conseguirá más integración y de qué manera exactamente puede sostener un crecimiento económico y el desarrollo de las economías asiáticas.

BIBLIOGRAFÍA

Akamatsu K. (1962). A historical pattern of economic growth in developing countries. Journal of Developing Economies, 1(1):3–25, March–August.

Ariff, M. and Hill, H. (1986). Export-Oriented Industrialisation: The Asean Experience. London: Allen and Unwin

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – www.asean.org

ASEAN Economic Community Chartbook 2012. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, January 2013

ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint. Jakarta: ASEAN Secretariat, January 2008, accesible en http://www.asean.org/communities/asean-economic-community

Bolt, J. and J. L. van Zanden (2013). The First Update of the Maddison Project; Re-Estimating Growth Before 1820. Maddison Project Working Paper 4.

Database: http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/maddison-project/data.htm

Felker, Greg B. (2003). Southeast Asian Industrialisation and the Changing Global Production System. Third World Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 2, Governing the Asia Pacific: Beyond the ‘New Regionalism’ (Apr., 2003), pp. 255-282

Helfgott, Roy B. (1987). Review: Export-Oriented Industrialisation: The Asean Experience by Mohamed Ariff and Hal Hill. The Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 21, No. 3 (Apr., 1987), pp. 361-363

Hill, H. (1994). ASEAN Economic Development: An Analytical Survey — The State of the Field. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 832-866

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