Afghanistan - Harper's Excellent Diversion

The unimagined has happened in almost perfect secrecy.

From Sept 12 – 14 in Banff, Alberta, Donald Rumsfeld, his assistant, Lt. Gen. Gene Renuart and former secretary of energy and defence James Schlesinger and other top level American political and military officials as well as heads of American corporations met in Banff with their counterparts, Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier and Alberta Energy Minister Greg Melchin Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed co-chaired the event alongside former U.S. secretary of state George Shultz and former Mexican finance minister Pedro Aspe to discuss North American integration at the second North American Forum. (The first forum in California was top secret also).

The event was organized by the Thomas D’Aquino, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives – the elite club of Canada's richest CEOs - and the Canada West Foundation, an Alberta think-tank that promotes, among other things, closer economic integration with the United States and Ron T. Covais, president of the Lockheed Martin Corporation, which is the largest weapons manufacturer in the United States.

And no one had a clue of this historic meeting until the story broke by a local newspaper several days after it ended, The Banff Crag & Canyon And what is most notable, far more than it not being picked up by the mainstream media, the Toronto Star being an exception with Maude Barlowe’s piece, Getting closer to Uncle Sam and the Globe & Mail still has nothing on their site, is that The National Post has absolutely no reference to this event, and as this paper is part of the CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc empire, it happened right under the nose of the Asper’s!

Unmentionable? Unimaginable!!

The only journalist that was privy to the meeting was from the Wall Street Journal. The Bilderberg Group does not hold a candle to this ‘Banff Group’.



Harper or some Rove-like advisor, Tom Flanagan maybe, has the undivided attention of just about every Canadian, pro and con, of his “war” that we are missing completely what he and his American others are doing on the domestic front.

Wars are a classic smokescreen.

After moving forward in a number of small and ‘low-radar’ meetings, time is running out for Bush, has two years left and Harper with his minority government has a window of opportunity with Canada’s ‘natural governing party’ leaderless and in complete disarray, that they are going ‘ell for leather’ to integrate North America.

Manifest Destiny could never be so close.

To keep on top of the developments and ways that you can return us to rational governance is to either link and get an rss feed to Vive Le Canada or just Google “rumsfeld banff”

Who could have ever thought the CPC could plan this brilliantly when only a year ago they couldn’t tie their shoelaces. Who indeed.

Where is Aleister Crowley when you need him.

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STREET crEDIBLES #2 - Corn Roast

We went to our first corn roast, yes actually roast, last sat with the STOP people and had a wonderful time. Here is a link to some pics... (Thanks to Marie Van Schie for the pics.)

I love roasted corn (never roasted corn before) especially with the various butter sauces (fresh chives from the garden and basil ditto). Also I had one with a lime dipped in chili powder and rubbed on the corn - really nice East Indian style.

Today we walked over to Wychwood Park to see the Barn site and wondered down to the pond and took a few pics... (Thanks again to Marie Van Schie for the pics.)

Tomorrow we're going to make a pizza at their bake oven and Wed will be in the garden again.

STREET crEDIBLES!

Fri afternoon Marie and I got a call from the project manager, Amanda, for the community garden at STOP Community Food Centre and confirmed our volunteering for the community garden. Woohoo! We started the next day from 10 - noon. Arrived before Amanda, and met Herman who is given an honorarium to look after the garden and spends most of his days there working it and keeping an eye open for problems - people stealing or messing it up. He lives in a house across the lane and can watch it from there.

We got the tour from him and were told not to touch anything and told us why as some vegetables were young and some special Caribbean type stuff. Naturally he is very protective!

He is a real charmer after you work with him for a while. We took a break after an hour crawling around on our hands and knees under the tomato plants picking weeds. He had mixed up a beverage from the various mints in the garden and some gingerroot and asked us to try it. It was delicious! It was sweet but not too much and the ginger was predominant over the mint but not too much and there was a natural fizz but not too much nice body but not too much - it was just right. Had a full glass the next and chased it down with cold coffee. Amazingly perfect.

Had a great morning. We are going back Wed from 5:30 - 8pm. Marie is quite excited about the Green Barn Project, STOP is part of it with Foodshare, at the old Wychwood TTC Barns. We are keeping our ears to the rail on that one but in the meantime we are looking forward to working with the people at STOP.

So for the last 2 days, we have been putting up a small garden on the balcony, with green onions, peas and M wants to try some beets while there is still some growing season. We are making some room up by the windows to try to grow some things over the winter. Next year we plan to go crazy. M is inspired to do this having a small book called The Apartment Gardener.