Standing Up to Conservative Bullying

clipped from blogs.salon.com Canadians, for the most part, love peace and nature, and we are progressive in our thinking. Unfortunately, we are also complacent, naive, and poorly informed. This has allowed a small but determined conservative minority to steal the vast majority of our country's resources and sell them, cheap and raw, to foreign corporations who often use them to manufacture goods they then sell back to us at a huge markup. It has also allowed warmongers with a right-wing ideological agenda to commit our defence forces to a partisan role in the Middle East, not the peacekeeping role we were duped into believing we were committing to. In the last few days, two important events have set the stage for a war of wills between a passive progressive majority and an aggressive conservative minority: Classical neocon tactics are being used to spin both events: Brinkmanship Absolutism It's time, not just in Canada but throughout the affluent nations, to stand up to conservative bullying and say enough

Here's a bit more to explain the brinkmanship and absolutism:

"Brinkmanship is being used to force the federal government to write a blank cheque for the pipeline, and indemnify Exxon against ecological disasters and further cost increases..."

"Absolutism (Bush-style "you're either with us or you're with the terrorists" framing) is being used to bully Canada into committing to keep our troops in the midst of the anarchy and civil war in Afghanistan. The PR from the military is increasingly using the term 'enemy' to describe anyone in Afghanistan who opposes the continued presence of foreign troops in their country. The ideologically rabid Harper Conservative minority government routinely uses the

"if you don't support our war, you don't support our troops"

line to disparage anti-war groups. And today a military spokesman lambasted the Canadian media for daring to publicize opinion polls showing Canadians' strong opposition to the war, saying it was "demoralizing our troops".

CIA Spied on Left-Wing Canadians in '60s & '70s

clipped from ariananott.livejournal.com The Nott family's waelth and blood goes back many generations. providing only the best for it's decendents. Born and raised in France by nannies and butlers, Ariana never really knew her parents. They were often away and left her to her own devices. clipped from jimcotton.blogspot.com CIA Spied on Left-Wing Canadians in '60s & '70s: Documents The Central Intelligence Agency spied on Canadians critical of the Vietnam War during the late 1960s and '70s in an operation code-named "MH Chaos," CBC News has learned. The CIA operation was aimed at 'sabotaging public opposition to U.S. policy. Brienberg told the CBC he was not surprised to see his name surface on a CIA document three decades later, but blasted the monitoring operation as "utterly shameful." Several other Canadians connected to Simon Fraser University also ended up under CIA scrutiny. The spies were ordered to report on U.S. citizens trying to circumvent Washington's ban on travelling to the two Communist countries by obtaining their visas through Canada.