For this Propaganda Challenge issued to the CBC, we’ll keep the intro rather short since most of it has been covered in previous summaries as well as our recently published Propaganda Challenge 7.
As mentioned previously, the Harper Regime has elected to dismiss pertinent facts with regards to who is fighting who and has instead decided to “fund” several oligarch funded “volunteer” battalions under the guise of “helping” the Kiev Regime. As of the drafting and publishing of this summary, the “cease-fire” that really never began has pretty much evaporated and the sadly the Civil War within Ukraine rages onward.
Once again, we would like to advise everyone that this has been a very hectic week and following along, archiving and preparing the summary results of these published “articles” has been very time consuming to say the least. For this reason we will continue to post a series of summaries over the next several hours as time permits, that will cover the corresponding days individually. Since we are obviously not “journalists” this info and data is being presented raw so that others may utilize and disseminate it further in a more professional way.
Not only is the Harper Regime attempting to sell us a war that we cannot afford, but Ukraine is drowning is debt, destruction and death. The IMF imposed austerity measures are beginning to take hold so the blame must be placed elsewhere to divert from the ongoing mass looting of the Ukrainian economy by the various oligarchs. Plus NATO is still demanding more “investment” into the Military Industrial Complex but on a “voluntary” basis as the rifts within itself become more apparent. The reckless and haphazard actions and inaction of Harper and the Regime, combined with the collective subversion of the media, is indeed a dangerous thing for any/all involved!
For this challenge we are going to focus on the propaganda of the day that was published on 03 September 2014 and like the others, this “article” was “updated” and edited several times to spin the narrative throughout the day at various times. it should be noted that the propaganda “article” of the day was one of the most edited and “updated” thus far with at least 14 different versions being archived.
As always, we will present the basic general info within a numbered list that will include the title, author, posted and last updated time-stamps, plus the shares, comments and url “wording” at the time of the page snapshots that follow the list. Please note that this really is the same article and once again was drastically changed and edited throughout the day as you can plainly see.
Also worth noting, as mentioned above, is the timing of the updates and how the entire context of the “reports” gets shifted throughout the based upon the images, titles and subtitle headers. This also affects what we see and hear via the CBC News Network and Radio along with local broadcasts throughout the day. Due to the complex nature of this particular “article” we are appealing to a wider collaborative effort to provide analysis.
Truth, accuracy and factual reporting for “We the People” seems to be deteriorating into the abyss and is essentially dead on arrival, period.
Ukraine crisis: Ceasefire regime agreement reached, Poroshenko says [archived v1] Russia denies claim, saying they are not directly involved in conflict The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 7:56 AM ET
LIVE Ukraine crisis: Pro-Russian rebels reject ceasefire announcement [archived v2] Ukraine’s vague statement agreeing with Russian President Putin on ceasefire steps sowing confusion The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 9:22 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama reiterates support for Ukraine ahead of NATO summit [archived v3] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 9:37 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama lashes out at Russian ‘aggression’ ahead of NATO summit [archived v4] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 10:34 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama lashes out at Russian ‘aggression’ ahead of NATO summit [archived v5] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 10:59 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama lashes out at Russian ‘aggression’ ahead of NATO summit [archived v6] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 11:17 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama lashes out at Russian ‘aggression’ ahead of NATO summit [archived v7] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 12:48 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama lashes out at Russian ‘aggression’ ahead of NATO summit [archived v8] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 1:04 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama lashes out at Russian ‘aggression’ ahead of NATO summit [archived v9] Pro-Russian rebels reject Ukraine’s ceasefire announcement The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 3:26 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko working on ceasefire [archived v10] Russian leader spells out seven-point plan, Western leaders express doubts The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 4:57 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko working on ceasefire [archived v11] Russian leader spells out seven-point plan, Western leaders express doubts The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 5:59 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko working on ceasefire [archived v12] Russian leader spells out seven-point plan, Western leaders express doubts The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 6:39 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko working on ceasefire [archived v13] Russian leader spells out seven-point plan, Western leaders express doubts The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 7:30 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko working on ceasefire [archived v14] Russian leader spells out seven-point plan, Western leaders express doubts The Associated Press Posted: Sep 03, 2014 2:39 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 03, 2014 11:13 PM ET
Very Brief Summary
Once again the “story” changes throughout the day which provides a high level of confusion amongst the masses, not only by way of the large amounts of online “updates” but in addition to the fact that the on-air broadcasts typically, but not always, reflect the updating and sometimes conflicting narratives. This is rather obvious when scrolling through the CBC’s comment thread.
Like many of the others we have presented, this single “article” seems to actually be what amounts to 3 separate articles morphed into one massive propaganda piece. If these presumed 3 articles were published independently, “We the People” may have had the opportunity to utilize our own critical thinking skills to come to our own independent conclusions instead of the conclusions that are prepared for us by the Harper Regime, its Loyalists and trolls in collusion with its globalist war-mongering factions.
Another thing that should be noted is that most of the ‘Related Articles” within the above “article” have been unraveled in our previous summaries.
Until next time, we’ll leave you with the following quote in the form of an info-graphic to ponder:
“All the war propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, come invariably from people who are not fighting.”
~ George Orwell
To be continued…
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Before we issue our latest CBC News Propaganda Challenge and before it gets bumped by the next several updates listed in the “Recent Posts“, we would like to present the latest article published yesterday by our long time contributor Bear Cat titled “Harper Party Spies“. We would also like to remind everyone to review our previous summaries as well. Since we have been requested to provide the actual content of the previous summaries, we’ll be do that throughout the day today.
Before we move forward we would like to advise everyone that this has been a very hectic week and following along, archiving and preparing the summary results of these “articles” has been very time consuming. For this reason we will be posting a series of summaries over the next several hours or so, that will cover the corresponding days individually. Since we are obviously not “journalists” this info and data is being presented raw so that others may utilize and disseminate it further in a more professional way.
One should also keep in mind that the “cease fire” was broken very early on by the latest shelling of civilian areas by the Ukrainian Armed Forces backed by attacks by the various oligarch funded militias on Saturday. This was something that was NOT reported via the CBC since the only “article” of the day mentioned that the cease fire was holding. It is also noteworthy that a lot of the info being propagated is coming directly from the “volunteer” oligarch funded Azov Battalion (see below), along with the other oligarch funded ultra-far-right militants that seem to be directing the mandate and narrative as opposed to Poroshenko’s Regime in Kiev that has absolutely zero control over the Civil War being fought in the East.
For this challenge we are going to focus on the propaganda of the day that was published on 02 September 2014 and like the others, this “article” was “updated” and edited several times to spin the narrative throughout the day at various times. While this may seem insignificant to a certain segment of those that have been following along as well as newcomers, one must keep in mind a few things that are more than relevant. Since Canada has 6 time zones and our summaries are utilizing the Eastern Time Zone, they should be considered and referenced along with the “updated” timestamps. To get everyone familiar with these time zones, below is the official chart posted via the National Research Council Canada:
Another thing that should be considered are the “comments” posted on the “articles” we are presenting along with the known trolls that seem to repeat the same narrative and spins throughout the day. At some point we’ll be putting together a summary of who the most prominent narrative spinning trolls are but it doesn’t take very long for anyone to notice who they are. It is also worth mentioning that judging by the various comments over the past week, many long time CBC commenters have mentioned that they have contacted the Ombudsman and CBC directly to address their concerns with regards to the odd way this “topic” is being reported. As of this time, none have received a reply from either.
We do realize that the CBC News has been spoon feeding us reports from 2 “wire” services but has also interconnected them within the same article in many instances, sometimes swapping one out for the other midstream. Not only that but they are utilizing these “reports” within their various broadcasts during the day and evening. The trouble with this game is that they can claim plausible deniability with regards to bias reporting. In addition, the uppers echelons and hierarchy within the CBC News can still claim to be a “free press” when in fact they are merely parroting what all of the others within the “West’s” war-mongering narrative are. This level of unprecedented subversive and dangerous media consolidation poses a big conundrum for “We the People” that rely on “freedom of the press” to hold our “elected” officials accountable.
How “free” is that “press” when they all republish the same narrative based upon unproven speculation from the same source(s)?
As always, we will present the basic general info within a numbered list that will include the title, author, posted and last updated time-stamps, plus the shares, comments and url “wording” at the time of the page snapshots that follow the list. Please note that this really is the same article and once again was drastically changed and edited throughout the day as you can plainly see.
Also worth noting, as mentioned above, is the timing of the updates and how the entire context of the “reports” gets shifted throughout the based upon the images, titles and subtitle headers. This also affects what we see and hear via the CBC News Network and Radio along with local broadcasts.
Truth, accuracy and factual reporting for “We the People” seems to be essentially dead on arrival, period.
There are pretty much 3 actual versions between the 10 versions archived. Versions 1 thru 3, versions 4 thru 7 and versions 8 thru 10 might be considered updated if published separately if we leave out the fact that even those titles and urls were systematically changed.
The most striking abuse and manipulation of the media within these 10 version of the same “article” can be noticed on Version #6 that was highly propagandized and repeated throughout the day and following days. Version 6 also sees an odd drop in the “shares” as well.
Below you will find the excerpt of the narrative correction that was published on 04 September 2014 that can be found behind the Wall Street Journal’s pay-wall. It would seem as if only those with “power and privilege” that don’t get their “news” from the MSM are allowed to view some form of the truth:
EU Moves to Temper Putin ‘Two Weeks to Kiev’ Row
EU Official Says Comments Were Made Public Out of Context
By Laurence Norman
Sept. 4, 2014 7:57 a.m. ET
BRUSSELS—The European Union moved to dampen the latest diplomatic row with Moscow, with a spokeswoman for the bloc saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reported comments about sending forces into Kiev were “made public out of context.”
Italian newspaper La Repubblica was the first to report that European Commission President José Manuel Barroso had told fellow leaders at Saturday’s EU summit in Brussels that Mr….
It is always a good idea to know who the Harper Regime is “sponsoring” in Ukraine with OUR tax dollars. Don’t allow yourself to be fooled into thinking that it is the “People of Ukraine” when in fact it is not. It is in fact a select few oligarchs backed by violent extremist militias that do NOT answer to Kiev. While there are literally dozens of articles about the Azov Battalion throughout the MSM, below you’ll find the latest Wikipedia entry as it appeared on 07 September 2014 at 13:54:24 GMT.
Azov Battalion
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Azov Battalion (Ukrainian: Батальйон «Азов») is a paramilitary Territorial Defense Battalion of Ukraine[3][4] volunteer unit of the National Guard, operated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Journalist Alec Luhn has described the unit as openly Neo-Nazi.[5] The Ministry has denied any link between the Battalion and Neo-Naziism.[6] The battalion is based in Mariupol in the Azov Sea coastal region.[7] The battalion’s commander is Andriy Biletsky (Ukrainian: Андрій Білецький), the head of the social-nationalist[8][9] political groups Social-National Assembly and Patriot of Ukraine.[1] The Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs special police company is led by Volodymyr Shpara (Ukrainian: Володимир Шпара), the leader of both the Vasylkiv’s Patriot of Ukraine and the Vasylkiv’s Right Sector organizations in the Kiev region.[10][11][12]
The battalion is also referred to as the “Men in Black,” and is one of a series of paramilitary forces that operate in Ukraine.[3] More than half of the battalion’s members are Russian-speaking eastern Ukrainians,[13] and its professional English-language social media pages, and far-right ideology, have attracted extremist fighters from other locations in Europe.[14]
[caption width="120"] Logo of the Azov Battalion.
Recent emblem with Wolfsangel and Black Sun
Flag of the Social National Assembly
History
Arsen Avakov, the new Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine after the overthrow of the Yanukovich government, issued on April 13, 2014 a decree authorizing creating the new paramilitary force from civilians up to 12,000.[15] Anton Heraschenko (Антон Геращенко), MVS, Avakov’s deputy, was tasked with overseeing the process of establishing of the new security force.[16]
The Azov Battalion was formed on May 5, 2014 during the 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine. Among the patrons of the battalion are a member of the Verkhovna Rada Oleh Lyashko, and an ultra-nationalist Dmytro Korchynsky.[16] The battalion started in Mariupol where it was involved in combat,[3] and was soon afterwards relocated to Berdyansk.[17]
On June 10, the battalion dismissed deputy commander Yaroslav Honchar and distanced themselves from him after he made criticizing statements of the ATO [Anti-terrorist operation].[18]
On 11 August, Azov battalion, backed by paratroopers, captured Marinka from pro-Russian rebels and entered the suburbs of Donetsk clashing with DPR fighters.[19]
In early September 2014, the Azov battalion was engaged in the defence of Mariupol.[20] Regarding the ceasefire agreed on 5 September, Biletskiy stated “If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it… if it’s an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it’s a betrayal.”[21]
Organization
Key figures in the battalion include the commander and deputy, Andriy Biletsky and Ihor Mosiychuk.[1]
A 16 July 2014 report placed the Azov Battalian’s strength at 300.[1] An earlier report stated that on June 23 almost 600 volunteers, including women, took oaths to joined the “Donbass” and “Azov” battalions.[22] Recruits receive a salary of $360.[23]
The political party led by the battalion’s leader Biletsky calls for the expansion of Ukraine, the “struggle for the liberation of the entire White Race,” and seeks to “punish severely sexual perversions and any interracial contacts.”[1] Volunteer Mikael Skillt told the BBC that while the Battalion did include others sharing his views – those calling themselves national socialists or adorned with swastikas – not all agreed, and one member was even “a liberal.”[1]
Interviewed while engaged in military operations in eastern Ukraine, one member stated that the unit was on edge because they were “behind enemy lines” and opposed by “the police, the army and the people,” whom he said they did not trust.[3] According to London’s Sunday Times, the Azov Battalion was deployed against militants by the Ukrainian government because it feared its regular forces were infiltrated by Russian sympathizers.[3]
The Azov men use the symbol that resembles Wolfsangel (Wolf’s Hook) symbol on their banner and members of the battalion are open white supremacists, or anti-Semites.[14] The battalion commander Biletsky wrote that the historic mission of Ukrainian nation “is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” A former member of the battalion also claims that only men with National Socialist views may join.[24]
Foreign membership
In mid-July 2014, the BBC reported that the battalion had recruited the former Swedish Army and Swedish Home Guard sniper Mikael Skillt.[1] Skillt, a Swedish white supremacist, joined the Azov Battalion for ideological reasons.[1] Anton Gerashenko denied this but did claim “foreign journalists, from Sweden, Spain and Italy, who have come to report on the heroic achievements of the fighters in their struggle against terrorism” were accompanying the unit.[1] Gerashenko insisted he had never heard of Mikael Skillt.[1] Asked about Skillt in a late-July interview with Swedish Radio, Gerashenko pointed out that it’s forbidden by law for foreign citizens to fight and asked for understanding that he’d “stay tight-lipped” about the topic.[25] Ukrainian political scientist Anton Shekhotsov told the Swedes that at this time four Swedish neo-Nazis were fighting with Azov, while the Swedish national police confirmed “several”.[25]
According to The Telegraph, the Azov Battalion’s extremist politics and professional English social media pages have attracted foreign fighters.[14] Azov’s leader, Biletsky, states that he has received recruits from Ireland, Italy, Greece and Scandinavia.[14]
According to French volunteers fighting for the insurgent side, Azov Battalion has a French instructor named Gaston Besson who tried to recruit them over the internet.[26]
The Russian and Ukrainian security expert at New York University, Mark Galeotti, has described groups like the Azov Battalion as magnets attracting violent, fringe elements from around and outside Ukraine, warning that they will continue to play an outsized role in Ukrainian affairs after the war.[14]
^ Newman, Dina (16 July 2014). “Ukraine conflict: ‘White power’ warrior from Sweden”. BBC News. “The Azov Battalion was formed and armed by Ukraine’s interior ministry. A ministerial adviser, Anton Gerashchenko, [was asked] if the battalion had any neo-Nazi links through the Social National Assembly. ‘The Social National Assembly is not a neo-Nazi organisation,’ he said. ‘It is a party of Ukrainian patriots….’”
^ Ishchenko, Volodymyr (21 Oct 2011). “Fighting Fences vs Fighting Monuments: Politics of Memory and Protest Mobilization in Ukraine”. Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge) 19 (1-2). doi:10.1080/0965156X.2011.611680. “Framing them as “just” Ukrainian patriots, forced to violate the law for a just cause, concealed their authoritarian and xenophobic ideas reflecting the tendency to ignore the problems of the rise of xenophobia (O‘l‡mqqm 197–214) and a splash of racist attacks in 2007–2008 (Kht‘veb 12). After the notorious death of Maksym Chaika in a fight with antifascists in Odessa in April 2009, Yushchenko unambiguously supported the far right interpretation of the accident claiming the victim to be “an activist of a patriotic civic association” consciously murdered by “pro-Russia militants” ignoring Chaika’s connections with rightist football hooligans and his membership in the “SICH” (“Glory and Honor”) organization, a participant in the Social-Nationalist Assembly (http://sna.in.ua/) together with the neo-Nazi group “Patriot of Ukraine.””
^ Volodymyr Batchayev; Oleg Martynenko, Association of Ukrainian monitors on observance of human rights, Ukrainian Law Enforcement, Yevhen Zakharov, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group. “12. Protection against discrimination, racism and xenophobia”. ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS • HUMAN RIGHTS IN UKRAINE 2009-2010. Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. Retrieved 12 May 2014. “On the public request, the authorities stopped the musical festival «Traditions of Spirit» near Kyiv, scheduled for June 26–27, 2010, under the aegis of the radical «Social Nationalist Assembly» with the goal to promulgate among the youth the ideas of neo-Nazi and chauvinism. During the festival, the performances of ultra-right musical bands were planned («Sokyra Peruna», «Seitar», «Nachtigall», «White Lions»), who in the lyrics of their songs openly approve and show in romantic light the skinhead movement, promote Hitlerist aesthetics, and encourage to harass national minorities.”
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If anyone really wants to know what the real threats are to the National security of Canada and the World, we can provide a starting point. While this is NOT exclusive to the CBC News Network and crossed the entire spectrum of the MSM, we have focused upon them because they are the publicly funded broadcaster that is supposed to serve “We the People” of Canada.
For this short important update, we’ll save the additional commentary since it is pretty well covered in the following summaries. We are certain that you will agree that propagating a false narrative based upon political posturing, fear mongering, pure speculation, outright lies and deception, without any real data or proof is dubious and terribly tragic at best. The simple and sad fact is that this manufactured tragedy will only enrich a rather small minority of global oligarchs and capitalists at the expense of the vast majority of humanity. Feel free to take a gander at what we have compiled with respect to how the “Ukraine Crisis” has been covered and decide for yourselves…
Coming Soon: #CBC Propaganda Challenge 7: #Harper vs #cdnpoli vs #Ukraine vs #Russia vs #NATO
Better wake up Canada, before these clowns and charlatans lead us into an unnecessary war just to line their wallets with our blood!
Please note: A while ago we received a very good reply and critique via tw*tter to this post (see below). We really value and appreciate the constructive feedback and would like to thank sailsmart and also provide a short reply and request.
We do realize that the info needs to be presented in such a way as to make comparisons easier and it has been pointed out to us in the past. The problem we have is that besides the technical limits of the site itself, acquiring and assembling the necessary snapshots and contextual content is very time consuming. To make it a bit easier for the viewer/visitor, we have tried a couple of different methods so far but have yet to really hit the nail on the head as far as presentation goes. What we have decided is that it is vital to provide snapshots of the “articles” preceded by a bullet list that contains the title, author, timestamps, shares, comments (when enabled) along with the urls. In some cases we do attempt to provide additional commentary but for the most part, the titles and snapshots themselves provide a visual “picture” of the changes as they occur and speak for themselves. In addition, these “articles” that are being published via the CBC News site are sometimes a challenge to monitor and the amount of updates/edits can be overwhelming at times to say the least.
Taking the above into consideration, we would like to appeal to others that may have a little time they may be willing to invest and be interested is providing some assistance. This would be to our advantage since it would provide a much better alternative when submitting the info/complaint to the CBC, MP’s and the Ombudsmen.
As noted above, we could really use a better method of presentation that is more informative and easier for a viewer/visitor to compare the differences and share and are open to suggestions. Since we already have the basic info and full size images available, as well as archives of the content of the articles, all we really need is a bit of dissecting and summarizing and feel free to download the images if it makes it easier. This can be done either by utilizing the comment box below the summary posts themselves, by email or by web-form. If you would like the actual text and content of any of the article presented, it can be provided. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and definitely welcomed by many.
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This media manipulation situation is getting truly bizarre and it seems as if all hope may be lost regarding the journalistic integrity of our beloved CBC, at least as far as the manufactured crisis in Ukraine is concerned. This is troubling on several fronts but most of the brunt and burden is being shouldered by the People of Ukraine. One might think that since this steady escalation based upon speculation and rhetoric may well lead us all into another World War that would make the first two seem like a picnic, the media would attempt to be somewhat balanced.
One sided “reports” only serve as propaganda, plain and simple. One sided “reports” only serve a select minority of global investors. One sided “reports” only serve to deceive the majority on any and all sides. One sided “reports” usually destroy civilizations and economies for no justifiable reason. One sided “reports” are pure evil.
Have you ever heard the phrase similar to, there are 2 sides to every story and then there is the truth? If that is the case, then what can be learned from one side that is always shifting, dancing and dodging around alleged facts and proven fictions? How many times does a media outlet need to change the title of a “story” before they can get their “story” straight?
Yesterday we seen another day of a shifting narrative disguised as “Updates” once again and this is unjustifiable. Today, it seems like the media subversion is getting even worse since the CBC News has decided to not utilize the terms “NEW” and/or “UPDATED” in several instances thus far. Not only that but one “story” was changed 5 times before noon Eastern time, but that is another issue for another time. (please note that as of this time in this summary draft, the “article” has been updated again, and yet again for the 7th version as of 1:06pm EDT.)
While these constant edits and rewrites may not seem significant, keep in mind that we have several time zones combined with the broadcast and scrolls at the bottom of the CBC News Network plus CBC Radio reports. This is a really simple way to confuse a whole population. Not only that but when one considers that the Harper Regime has so many pro-Harper trolls being employed to ‘correct misinformation’ and control the flow of information at our expense. The sad reality is that “We the People” of Canada are footing both bills.
Not only is the Harper Regime attempting to sell us a war we cannot afford, but Ukraine is drowning is debt, destruction and death, plus NATO is demanding more “investment” into the Military Industrial Complex. The reckless and haphazard actions and inaction of Harper and the Regime, combined with the subversion of the media, is indeed a dangerous thing!
Moving forward to the task at hand, below you will find the propaganda of the day from yesterday 01 September 2014, courtesy of the CBC News. This expose has a slightly different twist as well. It seems as if the narrative shift required an update to the Reuters article itself that required it to be pulled down for a while completely, leaving the “Page not found” error message. Since we located the before and afters, we’ll post them below for a closer look. Not only was the “article” “updated” but a few of the words, sentences and paragraphs where changed.
As always, we will present the basic general info within a numbered list that will include the title, author, posted and last updated time-stamps, plus the shares, comments and url “wording” at the time of the page snapshots that follow the list.
Please note that this really is the same article and once again was drastically changed as you can plainly see. Also worth noting is the timing of the updates and how the entire context gets shifted based upon the titles. There are pretty much 3 actual versions between the 5 noted. Truth, accuracy and factual reporting seems to be essentially dead, period.
Ukraine crisis: Russia will defend economy from sanctions, Lavrov says [archived v1] Negotiators set to meet in Minsk to discuss possible ceasefire Thomson Reuters Posted: Sep 01, 2014 2:55 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 01, 2014 2:55 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of ‘direct and open aggression’ [archived v2] Changes coming in Ukraine military top brass Thomson Reuters Posted: Sep 01, 2014 2:55 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 01, 2014 9:17 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Petro Poroshenko accuses Russia of ‘direct and open aggression’ [archived v3] Changes coming in Ukraine military top brass Thomson Reuters Posted: Sep 01, 2014 2:55 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 01, 2014 9:22 AM ET
Ukraine crisis: Separatists soften stance on independence [archived v4] Insurgents release platform at the start of Monday’s negotiations in Minsk The Associated Press Posted: Sep 01, 2014 2:55 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 01, 2014 1:50 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Separatists soften stance on independence [archived v5] Insurgents release platform at the start of Monday’s negotiations in Minsk The Associated Press Posted: Sep 01, 2014 2:55 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 01, 2014 10:04 PM ET
Summary Observations
If you notice the credited “author” was changed in Version 4. This is not an “update” in any way as it is a selectively edited merging of several articles that only serves to massage the narrative. There really is no reason that it could not have been published separately. It should also be noted that even the last version did not accurately “report” many very pertinent facts from the days events, which were many, not to mention it did NOT accurately reflect what was actually stated by the Novorossiyan Leadership. Version 1 is a stand alone, Versions 2 and 3 are similar to each other, and Versions 4 and 5 are similar to each other.
In comparing the versions above and below, if you notice the time-stamps between CBC’s version 3 and version 4 coincided with the MIA version 1 from Reuters below. Note the entire title was completely swapped out via the CBC’s new version that was re-credited to the AP (Associated Propaganda) and was changed in in the Reuters version. This is what one may consider a “red” flag.
Ukraine accuses Russia of “undisguised aggression” as rebels advance By Pavel Polityuk and Polina Devitt KIEV/MOSCOW Mon Sep 1, 2014 3:05pm EDT
Ukraine accuses Russia of “undisguised aggression” as rebels advance By Pavel Polityuk and Polina Devitt KIEV/MOSCOW Mon Sep 1, 2014 3:05pm EDT
Above there are 2 (two) versions from the Reuters site captured via the g**gle cache. We included this segment for a couple of reasons, but primarily because the original “article” went missing and was returning a Page not found” error message. It was also referenced in countless comment threads and independent sites as well. If you notice, the second version was pretty heavily edited and there are several “word” changes along with several paragraph additions and subtractions that change the tone and context as well. The most noticeable difference between the 2 is the wording within the title itself from alleged ‘open aggression’ to “undisguised aggression”. So, which was it, open or undisguised. This wordplay is getting outta hand already!
Bonus Article: Harper is in Over His Head!
This is where it gets very interesting since Harper was blatantly posturing and pandering for the Ukrainian Diaspora’s vote while war-mongering and now finds himself in a jam. Considering his Regime has slashed our Armed Forces budgets so drastically and is delivering weapons and armaments stockpiles to other foreign endeavours such as Iraq, one may wonder how he will increase military spending that NATO is demanding and still balance the budget in order to make good on his election promises of tax cuts for his caucus. Not only that but it has become rather clear that our CAF are ill-prepared for anything for the most part.
NEW Stephen Harper takes big words, small stick to NATO summit Meeting in Wales this week puts spotlight on the gap between Canada’s words and deeds By Terry Milewski, CBC News Posted: Sep 01, 2014 3:50 PM ET Last Updated: Sep 01, 2014 3:50 PM ET
As mentioned within the intro, the articles published today may be the most blatant and misleading propaganda spins thus far. To be continued…
Further Research
For some additional background information that you might not otherwise be made aware of, here is very relevant and important press conference that you should definitely watch :
Press Conference – Formation of a state – 24 Aug 2014
This is a thorough press conference by Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic. It touches upon a few key points regarding the war, its origins and what and whom Kiev is fighting.
The possibility of Federalization is also discarded as irrelevant as that ship had certainly sailed. This is a fight for independence now.
France Saker
Published on Aug 26, 2014
Subtitles in english, french, german
Transcription/Translation/Timecoding: Marina
English proofreading and editing: Erebus,Michael and Vaughan
Editing and Publishing: Augmented Ether
French Translation & Editing: Jean-Jacques
German Translation & Editing : Dagmar
Below you will find a few sources that will provide you the opportunity to view information from reliable alternative viewpoints that you never view from the CBC or any other Canadian MSM conglomerate, outlet or “wire” service provider.
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Well friends, it seems as if CBC News has either completely lost all credibility and gone “yellow” or the staffing and budget cuts are seriously preventing them from actually conducting investigative journalism at all. We are of coarse referring to the “coverage,” or lack thereof, regarding the “Crisis in Ukraine” as they call it. While there are a couple of rather rare occasions these days, the vast majority of any/all “reports” being published via the interwebz and/or broadcasted via the Network are works of speculative fiction. Not sure if the scripts they are given are prepared too far in advance or they just do NOT care about journalistic integrity or maybe they are being pressured to conceal pertinent facts.
For those first time visitors that may not have reviewed our previous summary exposes and for those casual and regular visitors, you will get a better idea of why we need to DumpHarper! This is part 5 of our “propaganda challenge” issued to to the CBC News, which is a follow up to our original dicovery and subsequent connection to the Harper Regime a couple of weeks later. The basic premise and objective is to point out how the CBC News is engaging directly with the Harper Regime and the Opposition in a rather dubious and deceptive subversive information manipulation campaign against “We the People” of Canada. One that will not only cost us hundreds of millions of dollars at the least, but may well cost unknown numbers of lives and limbs if it proceeds unchallenged.
Sadly, one does not even need to “choose” a side in this multi-pronged manufactured civil war to realize that something is just not right and something is definitely rotten. At last count we have noticed there are at least a half dozen sides battling it out in Eastern Ukraine from several factions. Not counting the various Nations States and their “covert” black-ops and destabilization teams, there are several groups of paid mercenaries, oligarch and capitalist funded paramilitary groups, several “volunteer” battalions blended in with the Ukrainian Military, Novorossiyan Armed Forces and of coarse the local populations attempting to salvage their home, businesses and communities. All of these combined equate to the equivalent of 2 (two) sides, Pro-Kiev and Anti-Kiev.
At this point it is rather hard to tell “who” Kiev actually represents, it certainly is not interested in well being of ordinary Ukrainians from either side of the West/East divide since they are conscripting those from the West to fight against those in the East. One thing that is certain is that the criminal banksters, speculative investors, Military Industrial Complex and Media Propaganda Complex is benefiting immensely from this tragedy.
Moving forward a bit, it should be noted that yesterdays propaganda piece did not have comments enabled for some reason or another and we speculated to why this occurred in yesterdays summary. We might ponder that this was due to it being a Sunday within a long weekend, but that does not jive considering other articles published did have comment threads open for discussion and/or debate. We can safely assUme that this is because there were a lot of fast moving developments that they did NOT want to be mentioned, nor discussed, publicly within the CBC Community. In other words, the entire Kiev and Harper Regime vote pandering narrative about the glorious ATO victories have seemingly vanished into the abyss. if any of the reports from independent observers are correct at all, Kiev has pretty much lost their manufactured war and are in full damage control mode. This observation is not really speculation at all, it is a simple fact. All one needs to do is traverse the Twittersphere, independent sources and social media to fill in the blanks of what is oddly missing from the following CBC “article” and the other MSM articles of the day. It should be duly noted that it seems as if this mornings article has attempted to fill in a couple of the holes,but we’ll delve into that one, and any other that may cross the “wire” later tonight or tomorrow depending on the “timing” of the last update(s).
Moving forward further to the point, this summary really has only one “article” to present, since there was only one directly related article published, and subsequently updated, as the day progressed yesterday. While there was another “related” article that does fill in some of the blanks, we’ll simply post that one further down so that you may came to your own conclusions. It should be noted that since the “article” we are presenting is the only one published and it was provided via a “wire” service (as usual), we took it upon ourselves to dig into the source and follow it around the interwebz to see how it was presented abroad as a comparison study of sorts. You might be surprised at the difference between the original, what we were presented and what was presented in other online publications.
As always, we will present the basic general info within a numbered list that will include the title, author, posted and last updated time-stamps plus the shares and url at the time of the page snapshots that follow the list. Please note that this really is the same article and was drastically changed as you can plainly see.
NEW Ukraine, Russia swap soldiers as Putin says only ‘political will’ in Kyiv can end crisis [archived v1] Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 31, 2014 7:34 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 31, 2014 7:37 AM ET
Vladimir Putin calls for talks on ‘statehood’ in southeast Ukraine [archived v2] Statements seen as support for pro-Russia rebels’ bid for independence from Ukraine Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 31, 2014 7:34 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 31, 2014 12:52 PM ET
Vladimir Putin calls for talks on ‘statehood’ in southeast Ukraine [archived v3] Statements seen as support for pro-Russia rebels’ bid for independence from Ukraine Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 31, 2014 7:34 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 31, 2014 8:24 PM ET
Comparison Articles
Below you will find the original source article along with a few other articles that were republished. Notice how they differ from the version CBC news presented.
This is Google’s cache of http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/31/us-ukraine-crisis-prisoners-idUSKBN0GV06D20140831. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 31 Aug 2014 12:56:15 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Russia and Ukraine trade soldiers at border: Russian news agencies By Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW Sun Aug 31, 2014 6:41am EDT
Russia and Ukraine Trade Soldiers at Border: Russian News Agencies By REUTERS AUG. 31, 2014, 3:48 A.M. E.D.T.
UPDATE 1-Russia and Ukraine trade soldiers at border – Russian news agencies 5 minutes ago by Thomson Reuters
Russia and Ukraine trade soldiers at border – Russian news agencies Reuters By By Mark Trevelyan | Reuters – 47 minutes ago
Captured Russian paratroopers return home in swap with Ukraine Posted on 31 August 2014 – 04:10pm Last updated on 31 August 2014 – 08:24pm
Captured Russian paratroopers return home in swap with Ukraine 31 Aug 2014
Stupidest Tweet of the Day
We felt the need to update this summary article after noticing this tw**t from Margaret Evans of the CBC especially after it was retw**ted by @CBCWorldReport. Not sure if they are really that stupid, but if they seem to have missed their own articles and reports over the past several months. Nice that she @ mentioned the Fogh of War. Maybe she will be nominated for the Captain Obvious award?
Since there is a very important meeting scheduled for today, here is very relevant and important press conference that you should definitely watch for some additional background information that you might not otherwise be made aware of:
Press Conference – Formation of a state – 24 Aug 2014
This is a thorough press conference by Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic. It touches upon a few key points regarding the war, its origins and what and whom Kiev is fighting.
The possibility of Federalization is also discarded as irrelevant as that ship had certainly sailed. This is a fight for independence now.
France Saker
Published on Aug 26, 2014
Subtitles in english, french, german
Transcription/Translation/Timecoding: Marina
English proofreading and editing: Erebus,Michael and Vaughan
Editing and Publishing: Augmented Ether
French Translation & Editing: Jean-Jacques
German Translation & Editing : Dagmar
Below you will find a few sources that will provide you the opportunity to view information from reliable alternative viewpoints that you never view from the CBC or any other Canadian MSM conglomerate, outlet or “wire” service provider.
NEW NATO pushes for bigger crisis response brigade By Murray Brewster, The Canadian Press Posted: Aug 31, 2014 9:50 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 31, 2014 9:50 AM ET
To be continued…
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While the madness never stops, the hysteria and false narrative and war-mongering propaganda rages onward at an ever slightly slower pace. These are indeed troubling times for not only the Harper Regime, but for the CBC News as well. As always, yesterday being the beginning of the weekend, the endless loop of disinfo and misinfo based on unconfirmed speculation is seemly repeated via the CBC News Network loop. Those budget cuts and staff reductions sure are working out well for the Harper Regime, not so much for “We the People” of Canada though or the poor souls that find themselves caught in the profit trap that is Ukraine.
It just goes to show ya, that the only thing that is necessary is to simply repeat the lie and never, ever let facts get in the way of a great propaganda campaign. The narrative has slightly shifted over the past couple of days though in a couple of ways, which were obvioulsy “capitalized” upon by the outdated and overrated NATO cabal and their Military Industrial Complex speculative investors. Sadly, we are being duped by these speculators and their globalist investors unlike any other time in the past century. This allows for the best of both worlds for a rather small percentage and the worst for the vast majority. The modus operandi of the Harper Regime’s hard shift to the far-right is becoming less opaque as the days progress and the very troubling thing is that the Opposition seems to be mezmerized into a controlled status in much the same way as they were when the Harper Regime “won” their majority during the “Arab Spring” narrative. Not only will the Harper Regime get the “free pass” that they so desperately need as far as their inability to balance a budget or lower the historic debt, that will take a generation or two to pay off, but they will also be able to lose track of umpteen billions of dollars along the way, all the while lining the pockets of their globalist offshore investors.
Let the mass psyops and looting begin!
We should begin this summary article with some very relevant news that never seen the light of day. We know why, but we really have an issue with the way the MSM and the CBC News Network in particular have deceived us by way of omission. Oddly enough the false narrative that has been built upon with regards to the latest (of who knows how many now, we lost count) “Russian Invasion” proclamation from the other day was actually corrected from within Ukraine itself. This confirmation was published by none other that the Svoboda Party via their site which is part of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) propaganda site that is funded by the U.S. Government. Here is the g**gle translation of the press release dated 26 august 2014. After reviewing the following, you shall be able to appreciate the relevance to the snapshots of the “article” below from 30 August 2014 and connect the ridiculous false narratives that persist to poison our minds.
(Please note that the propaganda of the day (today) will be covered in another summary article later tonight or tomorrow. It should be duly noted that todays article(s) do NOT have comments enabled. We can only presume that based upon the comments as the day progressed yesterday into this morning before they were closed, the pro-Harper trolls lost control of the comment treads. Considering even some of Harper’s most adamant supporters shifted and began to question the narrative, this did not bode very well for the Harper Regime, NATO and Kiev narrative based upon speculations.)
August 26 Ukrainian authorities denied message about the invasion of Russian troops Posted 08/26/2014 23:11
On the Tip of National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) August 26 refuted reports about the Russian military invasion of the Ukraine. Speaking on the program “Freedom of Speech” on the channel ICTV, a representative of the National Security Council Andrei Lysenko said recently communicated with the border guards and the military – Russian tanks and troops in the Donetsk region has not been seen.
At the same time, according to Lysenko, there is evidence of the appearance of a column of about 100 pieces of military equipment in the area Gukovo Rostov region; her under surveillance.
Earlier Tuesday, a Ukrainian journalist Roman Bocskai said with reference to the border guards and soldiers of the volunteer forces of the invasion of Russian regular troops to Ukraine by the Taganrog – towards Novoazovsk. How to write in facebook Bocskai, troops, supported by about 30 tanks into the territory of Donetsk region already for 8 kilometers and took control of the six border villages; put up roadblocks, the Russian military does not hide insignia.
On Monday it was reported about the defeat of Ukrainian troops of the column of Russian military hardware, which tried to make a breakthrough on the same stretch of the border.
This deception by the Western MSM is to be expected considering the facts surrounding the false narrative about how the Ukrainian Military had pretty much completed their ATO (ethnic cleansing campaign) against the Russian speaking Ukrainians of Eastern Ukraine. This false narrative has been quite convincing to many in the “West” since anyone that speaks Russian must be from Russia proper, let’s just conveniently forget there are millions of Russian speaking Ukrainians. Surely they must be Kremlin agents and terrorists or the whole narrative falls flat.
btw: Has anyone noticed yet that there have been absolutely zero reports or published statements or interviews from the “other” side of this Kiev driven civil war code named the ATO? All we have to go by is the “word” of Poroshenko, Yat’s and the very incompetent Ukraine Defense Ministry. Oh yea, what ever happened to the (war crimes) investigation related to MH17? It seemed like the “lost” MH370 was in the news loop for days upon days upon days upon days, 24/7 to the tune of hundreds of millions of $$$.
Considering the population in the East is fighting for the right of self determination and political representation, one might ponder to question them about their rational and motives. Isn’t the right to self determination and political representation what a “democracy” is supposed to be founded upon? What about taxation without representation? Boston Tea Party anyone? American Revolution? Afghanistan? Iraq? Libya? Syria?
As for the military equipment, surely it could not have been acquired from numerous defeated brigades, defectors, those that surrendered or the many military outposts, bases and/or armories outside the control of Kiev. Nah, all of it, every last piece was certainly shipped in under the cloak of invisibility and hand delivered by Putin himself. If this is “technically” possible, we should really consider whether it is wise to keep poking that bear, eh? As for those thousands upon thousands of Russian invasion troops, surely none of those “terrorists” are locals defending what may be left of their homes and communities. Nah, all of them, each and every last one, most certainly appeared outta thin air, like Fiat Currency, under another cloak of invisibility by some Jedi trick performed by the master magician Putin himself. If this is “technically” possible, once again, we should really consider whether it is wise to keep poking that bear, eh? Geez, maybe we should all learn the Russian language before we get forcibly assimilated like the First Nations Peoples.
Before we proceed with the latest cache of “article” snapshots, it should be noted that there have been some rather troubling reports over the past 24-48 hours that seem to have missed the news cycle. Sadly, it would appear as if the Chocolate King Poroshenko’s war against the Russian speaking Ukrainians is costing thousands of poor soldiers their lives, not to mention the seriously under-reported thousands upon thousands of civilian casualties.
This mass deception by a small group of oligarchs with the backing of capitalists is just criminal. How many sons, fathers and husbands have to be sacrificed “fighting” against their own fellow Ukrainians? How many wives must be made widows? How many children deserve to lose their fathers? How many mothers need to lose their sons? These are Ukrainians killing Ukrainians here and they are being either lead of forced to the slaughter for the benefit of a few oligarchs. These are the very same oligarchs that they “thought” they deposed in order to take back their Country!
It is being reported that the losses alone today are just staggering. The only light that seems to be barely visible is that it appears as if Kiev is considering meeting and possibly, for the first time, engaging in some sort of dialog with the the representatives of the Novorussian officials tomorrow. Will this be too late to reconcile and more importantly will this be able to put that ultra-far-right genie back in the bottle?
Let’s move forward, shall we…
Once again we will proceed with a similar presentation as the previous summaries. First you will see a numbered list of general details, followed by the snapshots of the “article” as the updates were captured. We will cover a few articles in reverse chronological order dated 30 August 2014 and 29 August 2014.
Ukraine crisis: Why the U.S. avoids calling Russia’s actions an ‘invasion’ [archived v1] Canada can talk tough because expectations of action are lower By Mark Gollom, CBC News Posted: Aug 30, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 5:23 AM ET
Ukraine crisis: Why the U.S. avoids calling Russia’s actions an ‘invasion’ [archived v2] Canada can talk tough because expectations of action are lower By Mark Gollom, CBC News Posted: Aug 30, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 1:57 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: EU poised to level new sanctions against Russia [archived v1] Poroshenko claims thousands of Russian troops operating in country’s east The Associated Press Posted: Aug 30, 2014 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 12:02 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: EU poised to level new sanctions against Russia [archived v2] Poroshenko claims thousands of Russian troops operating in country’s east The Associated Press Posted: Aug 30, 2014 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 1:58 PM ET
Ukraine and Russia ‘very close’ to war, [archived v3] President Petro Poroshenko says Kyiv claims thousands of Russian troops operating in country’s east The Associated Press Posted: Aug 30, 2014 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 3:58 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: EU gives Russia ultimatum, threatens sanctions [archived v4] Kyiv claims thousands of Russian troops operating in country’s east The Associated Press Posted: Aug 30, 2014 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 7:11 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: EU threatens Russia with more sanctions [archived v5] Kyiv claims thousands of Russian troops operating in country’s east The Associated Press Posted: Aug 30, 2014 6:00 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 30, 2014 8:38 PM ET
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen urges Canada to boost defence spending Alliance ‘not considering military options’ against Russia but wants to enhance co-operation with Ukraine By Janyce McGregor, CBC News Posted: Aug 29, 2014 4:13 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 5:32 PM ET
To be continued…
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The propaganda piece of the day takes a real ugly and very noticeable twist and is probably the most obvious of all. Not only have the typical subtle things been “updated” such as the title, url wording and link, but the entire article has been pretty much rewritten from the top to the bottom. We were rather fortunate to catch a snapshot of the very first version, before the initial “update” this time.
While the choices being made by the upper echelon of the CBC News Network have been opaquely shrouded, their “modus operandi” is rather transparent. They are hell bent on justifying and hard selling an unnecessary war based on speculation and a false narrative along with all the armaments and munitions necessary, period. The one thing that “We the People” know is that they will never actually fight in any wars because they are cowards. Not only that but based upon the history of modern warfare, not only will their children, families and cohorts not fight in this war, they will indeed profit handsomely while remaining safe and secure.
Oddly enough, it now becomes crystal clear that the Kiev Regime is looking for a handout from our hard earned tax dollars and the Harper Regime will be more than willing to donate as much of our money as possible. Damn the costs, their Loyalists, caucus and constituents will never pay a dime, nor spill a single drop of their own blood. They are nothing more than vampire capitalists funding their vampire oligarch comrades ethnic cleansing campaigns across the globe.
How much ideological idiocy is enough already? Does the Harper Regime really think this is some kind of game or are they just insane? Who are they trying to impress and at what cost?
Moving forward to what the focus of this summary is all about. Below you will find a very simplify presentation as the previous summary articles. First you will see a numbered list of general details, followed by the snapshots of the “article” as the updates were captured. Like we stated above, a summary comparison is really not necessary, the pictures are worth a thousand words. All one needs to do is focus on the initial version and the last to see how the “story” was completely transformed. Please note that as of this draft there were 8 versions of this “article” prior to the publication of this summary post…
Ukraine crisis: Putin urges safe passage for surrounded government troops [archived v1] Statement comes after U.S. says Russia lying about role in escalating conflict The Associated Press Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 3:27 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Rebels agree to give Ukrainian troops safe passage [archived v2] Ukrainian troops must first lay down arms, top rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko says The Associated Press Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 5:50 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Rebels agree to give Ukrainian troops safe passage [archived v3] Ukrainian troops must first lay down arms, top rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko says The Associated Press Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 6:40 AM ET
Ukraine crisis: Rebels agree to give Ukrainian troops safe passage [archived v4] Ukrainian troops must first lay down arms, top rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko says The Associated Press Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 7:46 AM ET
Ukraine crisis: Pro-Russia rebels control coastal town [archived v5] Rebels want to eventually push to major port city of Mariupol, leader in coastal town says The Associated Press Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 10:02 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine seeks NATO membership to gain Western military aid [archived v6] European foreign ministers meet, discuss further economic sanctions against Russia Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 12:52 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine seeks NATO membership to gain Western military aid [archived v7] European foreign ministers meet, discuss further economic sanctions against Russia Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 3:39 PM ET
Ukraine seeks NATO membership to gain Western military aid [archived v8] European foreign ministers meet, discuss further economic sanctions against Russia Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 29, 2014 3:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 29, 2014 3:50 PM ET
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Brief Summary
Version 2 seen a change in the title as well as the url “wording” and link edit to reflect the changes. This seems like the most genuine “update” as it included the response from Alexander V. Zakharchenko, Chairman of The Council of Ministers of The Donetsk National Republic to Russian President Putin’s request.
Version 3 seen a sudden drop in the number of shares and the the diplomatic and positive tone shifted. The bottom segment “Obama rules out military action” was removed and replaced with “More economic sanctions considered”. This seems at odds with the previous “demands” that President Putin must do more to deescalate the situation.
Version 4 seen a rather odd image swap. The header photo was replaced with the caption “Servicemen sit atop an armoured vehicle as they drive east away from the Ukrainian border in Russia’s Rostov region.” that seems to speculate the they are Russian servicemen. BUT, the flag on top of the vehicle is clearly not a Russian Flag, nor the flag of the Federal State of Novorossiya. It seems like it is a white flag, which suggests that it may be Ukrainian troops traversing through the safe passage via the “humanitarian corridor” towards Russia.
Version 5 sees the title, url “wording” and link changed and the previously swapped image becoming an embedded video link with the caption “Putin calls for escape corridor for Ukraine troops 2:46”. The problem here is that the clip of the report from CBC News Network that is embedded features more NATO war-mongering propaganda based upon speculation. The “tone” is beginning to drift further into the propaganda abyss. Version 5 also seen a dramatic rise in the share count.
Version 6 seen the “article” being swapped from an AP (Associated Propaganda) piece to a Thomson Reuters credited piece as well as the title url “wording” and link edit. This is not the first time this has occurred during this manufactured crisis. It also seen a title change to proclaim the original goals all along of annexation and occupation by NATO. It also acknowledges what has been fairly evident to any independent researcher that Ukraine is definably loosing the battle to cleanse the East of the Russian speaking Ukrainians. It is also apparent that oligarchs that control the Kiev Regime have effectively looted the National Treasury and has exhausted whatever IMF funds it may have received up to now. Ukraine is flat broke and an utterly failed state at this point and is desperately looking for a handout by seeking NATO membership in order to gain free Western military aid and cash.
Versions 7 and 8 pretty much massage the narrative and presentation for general consumption to the ill-informed masses that have been spoon-fed non-stop false propaganda by the MSM for several months.
In summary, the false narrative and deceptive propaganda has reached a dangerous level, desperation has reared it’s ugly head and those that pushed for the putsch have reached the point of not return. Based upon the incompetence of the Kiev Regime and rush towards conflict as opposed to dialog, we should expect something rather stupid sooner rather than later. They will need to prepare for new opponents as the Right Sector, Azov Battalion and other ultra-far-right oligarch funded “volunteer” militia (mercenary) groups head West to Kiev. if lucky they may be able to stay in power long enough to rush through NATO legislation before the proposed election and/or General Winter storms in. Make no mistake as these groups have made no bones about it, they will not accept the EU nor any other outside forces to control or occupy their territory since their motto is Ukraine is for Ukrainians. It might be wise to keep an eye on the moves by the Svaboda/Svoboda Party since they have the most control, contrary to popular assumptions.
In closing, let’s just state one last observation, Harper is in over his head!
As an additional footnote, for those that may wonder why there are “so many” of our youths joining in the fighting in Syria with the likes of IS/ISIL/ISIS and who actually began the recruitment drive a few short years ago, take a gander at the following three articles. You’ll notice a seemingly forgotten yet often repeated proclamation by Harper’s own John Baird. Maybe these young men feel that it is their patriotic duty to serve and are simply following the mandate set by the Harper Regime and have headed the call to action?
Syria’s Assad ‘must go,’ Baird warns
By Edmonton Journal
March 5, 2012 dumpharper
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird condemned the continued violence and aid impasse in Syria as heavy shelling continued in Homs over the weekend, saying that Canada is considering new measures to make clear that Syrian president Bashar Assad “must go.”
“The depravity and reprehensible acts of the Assad regime continue to sink to new lows. Assad and his regime are blocking humanitarian aid from getting to the Syrians who need it most, while making life miserable for countless others,” Baird said in a statement late Saturday.
“Canada is considering new measures to make clear that Assad must go. Change will happen. Syrians will have their day – and Canada stands with them in their calls for a better brighter future.”
The Red Cross delivered aid to areas around the battered Baba Amro district of the Syrian city of Homs on Sunday, but was blocked from entering the former rebel stronghold itself, three days after anti-government fighters fled a month-long siege.
In a further indication civilians were being caught up in the conflict, up to 2,000 Syrians fled into neighbouring Lebanon, the UN Refugee Agency said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it had been prevented from entering Baba Amro by Syrian ground forces despite receiving government permission, a move activists said was to prevent aid workers witnessing army “massacres.”
After a month of bombardment by President Bashar Assad’s forces, concerns mounted for freezing, hungry and wounded civilians in Homs, which on Saturday had come under renewed shelling by government troops, anti-Assad activists said.
UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon said on Friday he had received “grisly reports” troops were executing and torturing people in Homs after insurgents abandoned their positions.
Late last month, Canada issued a stern warning to those opposing As-sad’s regime that the protection of religious minorities and good relations with the country’s neighbours must be a priority for any post-Assad government.
The demand, delivered by Baird in Tunisia, highlights the complex nature of the uprising in Syria as Canada and its allies struggle with a response to the crisis.
Baird and foreign ministers from the U.S., Britain, Qatar and other western and Arab countries were in Tunis to discuss ways to end the violence that has killed as many as 8,000 Syrians, and to begin a transition to democracy.
The ministers, meeting for the first time as the Friends of Syria, called on the Assad regime to stop its attacks on civilian areas and let in humanitarian aid – including $1.5 million in assistance announced by Baird at the conference.
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the top priority in Syria needs to be ending the violence.
Baird spoke to reporters from Montreaux, Switzerland, where he is attending the Geneva 2 peace talks on Syria to try to find a political solution to the civil war that has raged for more than two years.
Canada’s top concerns include humanitarian access and “the number of extremists and radicals” entering Syria, Baird said.
Baird reaffirmed that Syrian President Bashar Al Assad must go, and said “Canada strongly believes that those who commit war crimes should be held to account.”
One day before the peace talks began, hundreds of thousands of brutal images allegedly depicting the torture and murder of thousands of civilians at the hands of the Assad regime were smuggled out of the country and released to the media.
Baird called the images “deeply disturbing, shocking” and “frightening.”
Baird is representing Canada at the peace talks, which are attended by 40 countries and groups including the Arab League and the UN.
More than 2.3 million refugees have fled Syria and roughly 9.3 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian aid.
Oxfam says “millions of lives are riding on this event, which offers the best chance of ending the violence and alleviating the suffering of the millions of Syrians caught up in the conflict.”
The aid group also urged the international community to agree to a “complete halt” of arms and ammunitions transfers to Syria.
Canada targets Assad family by stepping up sanctions against Syria
Agence France-Presse | March 30, 2012 | Last Updated: Mar 30 4:46 PM ET
More from Agence France-Presse
Syria president Bashar al-Assad’s family the target of Canadian sanctions
MONTREAL — Canada tightened the sanctions Friday on Syria, targeting President Bashar al-Assad’s wife, mother, sister and sister-in-law a week after the European Union made a similar move.
Stepping up its sanctions as fighting raged after an embattled Assad said he had accepted a peace plan to put an end to a year of violence that has left over 9,000 dead, Canada said it sought a “Syria that respects the fundamental rights of all its people.”
“Canada’s position is clear: Assad must go,” Foreign Minister John Baird said in a statement.
The four Assad relatives were among 12 people and two oil companies added to an existing Canadian blacklist now totaling 127 people and 41 entities.
Under Canada’s seventh round of Syria sanctions, those cited will be subject to an asset freeze and a prohibition on economic dealings.
“These latest sanctions target in particular those who profit from their association with the regime and those closest to Assad, including his wife Asma,” Baird said.
“Assad’s family may be kept shielded from the misery of the average Syrian, but they will not be immune from international will.”
A stylish Western-educated former investment banker, Syria’s British-born first lady was widely expected to give the regime a more human face and shatter the isolation of the secretive Assad family.
But she became the focus of sharp criticism this month when Britain’s Guardian newspaper released e-mails showing the ruling couple shopping for luxury goods as the country slid into bloody chaos.
Baird is due in Istanbul on Sunday for a Friends of Syria meeting to head off the crisis.
The United States earlier hit Syria’s Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha as well as the army’s deputy chief of staff and the head of presidential security with sanctions, with the Treasury Department saying it would hold individuals accountable for the bloody crackdown.
The EU sanctions — the union’s 13th round in less than a year — were announced a week ago. EU foreign ministers reiterated a plea for Assad to “step aside to allow for a peaceful and democratic transition.
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We’re really not sure what to make of this strange sequence of “reporting” via the CBC News Network. While it may be a simple case of coincidence, based upon our research, documentation and archiving, it seems more likely and highly plausible that this was an intentional method of subversive media manipulation, deception and censorship. If true, this is far more troubling propaganda campaign than we could have imagined. It is becoming more and more obvious that “We the People” of Canada and the West are being forced upon a war-footing unlike any other.
For this summary we’ll try to keep it somewhat short and stick to the basic info that is available at this time. Please refer to our previous summaries for more details if you are so inclined. Keep in mind that we are also following along with another troubling and coordinated propaganda campaign that is being waged against us as we type this.
Please allow us to review the 9th version of yesterdays propaganda campaign mentioned above. for this we will include 3 snapshots, from before, during and after the live airing of yesterday (28 August 2014) evenings Power & Politics program. Below that we will provide 2 (two) clips from yesterday evenings Power & Politics broadcast.
Article Snapshots
Version 9 is the most strikingly different version and the timing is really suspicious. It is also a very stripped down version of the “article” of the day. We must consider why it was “updated” at 5:01pm ET, which coincided with the start of the “live” broadcast of Power & Politics, and then was updated again at 5:55pm ET, just prior to Power & Politics ending. Here is the text of the title, authors and last updated timestamps along with the share and comment counts and the “url wording” and links. Below that you may take a peek for yourselves at the snapshots. It is also noteworthy that the “article” was updated several times after version 10 (see this summary for more details)
Version 8 – Before
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council members express outrage as Russian tanks roll in
20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border
The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET | Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 4:27 PM ET
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2069 Comments
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council members express outrage as Russian tanks roll in [archived v8] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 4:27 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v9] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 5:01 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v10] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 5:55 PM ET
Video Clips
Below you will find 2 (two) clips from yesterday evenings broadcast of Power & Politics.
The first features Chris Hall interviewing both former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Kramer and the Atlantic Council’s Irena Chalupa as they discuss Russia’s incursion into Ukraine and their “take” on the impact of sanctions against Russia. Since the CBC Player is terrible and so many have issues viewing anything, we have uploaded the clips to our ytube for easy access and sharing regardless of your device, ISP, technologies, etc. in addition to providing the Closed Captioning [CC] options and so we could embed them here and others may elsewhere as well.
It is very noteworthy to understand that Irena Chalupa is/was an employee of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is directly linked to Radio Svaboda, the propaganda wing of Ukraine’s Svaboda/Svoboda Party, which is funded by the US Government and was the primary propaganda voice against the former Soviet Union and “communism” during the Cold War era. In other words, she is a paid propagandist, thus anything she says is written for her by special interests. (see the copypasta footnote below taken directly from Wikipedia this morning for info about RFE/RL and more info about Svaboda/Svoboda Party)
The second clip features Chris hall interviewing Ambassador Vadym Prystaiko of Ukraine regarding the ongoing crisis, from the Kiev Government’s perspective.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a broadcaster funded by the U.S. government that provides “news, information, and analysis” to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East “where the free flow of information is either banned by government authorities or not fully developed”.[3] RFE/RL is supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors, a bi-partisan federal agency overseeing all U.S. international broadcasting services.[4]
RFE/RL was headquartered at Englischer Garten in Munich, Germany, from 1949 to 1995. In 1995, the headquarters were moved to Prague in the Czech Republic. European operations have been significantly reduced since the end of the Cold War. In addition to the headquarters, the service maintains 20 local bureaus in countries throughout their broadcast region, as well as a corporate office in Washington, D.C. RFE/RL broadcasts in 28 languages[5] to 21 countries[6] including Armenia, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.[7]
Early history
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe was created and grew in its early years through the efforts of the National Committee for a Free Europe (NCFE), a US anti-communist organization that was formed in New York City in 1949. The committee was composed of an “A list” of powerful U.S. citizens including former ambassador and first NCFE chairman Joseph Grew; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Allen Dulles; Reader’s Digest owner Dewitt Wallace; former diplomat and the co-founder of Public Opinion Quarterly Dewitt Clinton Poole; and prominent New York investment banker Frank Altschul.[8]
Radio Free Europe received widespread public support from Eisenhower’s “Crusade for Freedom” campaign.[9] In 1950, over 16 million Americans signed Eisenhower’s ‘Freedom Scrolls’ on a publicity trip to over 20 U.S. cities and contributed $1,317,000 to the expansion of RFE.[10]
The NCFE’s anti-communist mission was to support the refugees and provide them with a useful outlet for their opinions and creativity while increasing exposure to the modern world.[11] The NCFE divided its program into three parts: exile relations, radio, and American contacts.[8] Although exile relations were initially its first priority, Radio Free Europe (RFE) became the NCFE’s greatest legacy.
The United States funded a long list of projects to counter the Communist appeal among intellectuals in Europe and the developing world.[12] RFE was developed out of a belief that the Cold War would eventually be fought by political rather than military means.[13] American policymakers such as George Kennan and John Foster Dulles acknowledged that the Cold War was essentially a war of ideas. The implementation of surrogate radio stations was a key part of the greater psychological war effort.[10]
RFE was modeled after Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) a U.S. government-sponsored radio service initially intended for Germans living in the American sector of Berlin (but more widely listened to in East Germany).[14] Staffed almost entirely by Germans with minimal U.S. supervision, the station provided free media to German listeners.
Newly constructed building of CIA Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague-Hagibor.
In January 1950 the NCFE obtained a transmitter base at Lampertheim, West Germany and on July 4 of the same year RFE completed its first broadcast aimed at Czechoslovakia.[15] In late 1950, RFE began to assemble a full-fledged foreign broadcast staff, becoming more than a “mouthpiece for exiles”.[16] Teams of journalists were hired for each language service and an elaborate system of intelligence gathering provided up-to-date broadcast material. Most of this material came from a network of well-connected emigres and interviews with travelers and defectors. RFE did not use paid agents inside the Iron Curtain and based its bureaus in regions popular with exiles.[17] RFE also extensively monitored Communist bloc publications and radio services, creating an impressive body of information that would later serve as a resource for organizations across the world.[18]
In addition to its regular broadcasts, RFE spread anti-communist propaganda through a series of balloon operations codenamed Prospero, Veto, Focus, and Spotlight. “Using Balloons To Breach The Iron Curtain”, RFE/RL Off-Mic Blog From October 1951 to November 1956, the skies of Central Europe were filled with more than 350,000 balloons carrying over 300,000,000 leaflets, posters, books, and other printed matter.[10] The nature of the leaflets varied, and included messages of support and encouragement to citizens suffering under communist oppression, satirical criticisms of communist regimes and leaders, information about dissident movements and human rights campaigns, and messages expressing the solidarity of the American people with the residents of Eastern European nations. The project served as a publicity tool to solidify RFE’s reputation as an anti-communist broadcaster.[19]
Radio Liberty
Whereas Radio Free Europe targeted satellite countries, Radio Liberty targeted the Soviet Union.[20] Radio Liberty was formed by American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (Amcomlib) in 1951.[21] Originally named Radio Liberation, the station was renamed in 1959 after a policy statement emphasizing ‘liberalization’ rather than “liberation”.[22]
Radio Liberty began broadcasting from Lampertheim on March 1, 1953, gaining a substantial audience when it covered the death of Joseph Stalin four days later. In order to better service a greater geographic area, RFE supplemented its shortwave transmissions from Lampertheim with broadcasts from a transmitter base at Glória in 1951.[23] It also had a base at Oberwiesenfeld Airport on the outskirts of Munich,[24] employing several former Nazi agents who had been involved in the Ostministerium under Gerhard von Mende during World War II.[25] In 1955 Radio Liberty began airing programs to Russia’s eastern provinces from shortwave transmitters located on Taiwan,[26] while in 1959 Radio Liberty commenced broadcasts from a base at Platja de Pals, Spain.[27]
Radio Liberty expanded its audience by broadcasting programs in numerous non-Russian languages. By March, 1954 Radio Liberty was broadcasting six to seven hours daily in eleven languages.[28] By December 1954, Radio Liberty was broadcasting in 17 languages including Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Tatar-Bashkir, Armenian, Azeri, Georgian, and other languages of the Caucasus and Central Asia.[22]
Cold War years
Radio Free Europe
RFE played a critical role in Cold War era Eastern Europe. Unlike government censored programs, RFE publicized anti-Soviet protests and nationalist movements. Its audience increased substantially following the failed Berlin riots of 1953 and the highly publicized defection of Józef Światło.[29] Its Hungarian service’s coverage of Poland’s Poznań riots in 1956 arguably served as an inspiration for the Hungarian revolution.[30]
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty transmitter site, Biblis, Germany
Hungary
RFE’s Hungarian service was accused of precipitating the 1956 Hungarian revolution by giving its Hungarian listeners false hope of Western military assistance.[31] However, later investigations of RFE’s involvement in the Hungarian revolution cleared the organization of these accusations, while also urging more caution in its broadcasts.[32] RFE’s Broadcast Analysis Division was established to ensure that broadcasts were accurate and professional while maintaining the journalists’ autonomy.[33]
Others argue, alternatively, that Radio Free Europe’s broadcasts may also have precipitated the Soviet crackdown on Hungary on November 3–4, 1956. Inflammatory broadcasts by émigrés may have caused Soviet leaders to doubt Hungarian leader Imre Nagy’s managerial skills, fear the power vacuum in Hungary, and conclude that a second military invasion was necessary. Moreover, the early balloon and leaflet operations initiated by the National Committee for Free Europe during Nagy’s first term as Hungarian prime minister (1953–1955)—namely “Operation Focus”—arguably antagonized Nagy and spawned a stern neutralism (later, hostility) toward him among U.S. diplomats and RFE broadcasters during the crisis.[34][35]
Romania
RFE was seen as a serious threat by Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu. From the mid-1970s to his overthrow and execution in December 1989, Ceaușescu waged a vengeful war against the RFE/RL under the program “Ether”. Ether operations include physical attacks on other Romanian journalists working for RFE/RL, including the controversial circumstances surrounding the deaths of three directors of RFE/RL’s Romanian Service.[36]
1981 RFE/RL Munich bombing
On February 21, 1981, RFE/RL’s headquarters in Munich was struck by a massive bomb, causing $2 million in damage. Several employees were injured, but there were no fatalities. Stasi files opened after 1989 indicated that the bombing was carried out by a group under the direction of Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (AKA Carlos the Jackal), and paid for by Nicolae Ceaușescu, president of Romania.[37]
Czechoslovakia
Communist governments also sent agents to infiltrate RFE’s headquarters. Although some remained on staff for extended periods of time, government authorities discouraged their agents from interfering with broadcast activity, fearing that this could arouse suspicions and detract from their original purpose of gathering information on the radios’ activities. From 1965 to 1971 an agent of the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (Communist Poland’s security service) successfully infiltrated the station with an operative, Captain Andrzej Czechowicz. According to former Voice of America Polish service director Ted Lipien, “Czechowicz is perhaps the most well known communist-era Polish spy who was still an active agent while working at RFE in the late 1960s. Technically, he was not a journalist. As a historian by training, he worked in the RFE’s media analysis service in Munich. After more than five years, Czechowicz returned to Poland in 1971 and participated in programs aimed at embarrassing Radio Free Europe and the United States government.”[38]
Other espionage incidents also included a failed attempt by a Czechoslovak Intelligence Service (StB) agent in 1959 to poison the salt shakers in the organization’s cafeteria.[39]
In late 1960, an upheaval in the Czechoslovak service led to a number of dramatic changes in the organization’s structure. RFE’s New York headquarters could no longer effectively manage their Munich subsidiary, and as a result major management responsibilities were transferred to Munich, making RFE a European-based organization.[40]
Broadcasts were often banned in Eastern Europe and Communist authorities used sophisticated jamming techniques in an attempt to prevent citizens from listening to them.[41] Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa and Russian reformer Grigory Yavlinsky would later recall secretly listening to the broadcasts despite the heavy jamming.[42]
Jamming
During the Cold War, Radio Liberty gained a reputation as one of the most reliable sources of international and internal news in the Soviet Union. Radio Liberty’s audience expanded significantly during the Cold War, despite Soviet attempts to compete with Western media.
After failed attempts to out-compete Western media, the Soviet government turned its efforts towards blocking reception of Western programs. To limit access to foreign broadcasts, the Central Committee decreed that factories should remove all components allowing short wave reception from USSR made radio receivers. However, consumers easily found out that the necessary spare parts were available on the black market while electronics engineers opposing the idea would gladly convert radios back to being able to receive short wave transmissions.[43] The most aggressive and extensive form of reception obstruction was radio jamming.
Jamming was controlled by the KGB, which in turn reported to the Central Committee. Jamming was an expensive and arduous procedure, and its efficacy is still debated. In 1958, the Central Committee mentioned that the sum spent on jamming was greater than the sum spent on domestic and international broadcasting combined.[44] The Central Committee has admitted that circumventing jamming was both possible and practised in the Soviet Union. Due to limited resources, authorities prioritized jamming based on the location, language, time, and theme of Western transmissions.[45] Highly political programs in Russian, broadcast at prime time to urban centers, were perceived as the most dangerous. Seen as less politically threatening, Western music such as jazz was often transmitted unjammed.[46] The intensity of jamming fluctuated over time. During and after the Cuban missile crisis in late 1962, jamming was intensified. The Cuban crisis, however, was followed by a five-year period when the jamming of most foreign broadcasters ceased, only to intensify again with the Prague Spring in 1968. It ceased again in 1973, when Kissinger became secretary of state. Jamming was completely and irreversibly stopped only after Gorbachev came to power by a decree to that effect on 29 September 1986.[47]
United States
During the Cold War RFE was often criticized in the United States as not being sufficiently anti-communist. Although its non-governmental status spared it from full scale McCarthyist investigations, several RFE journalists including the director of the Czech service, Ferdinand Peroutka, were accused of being soft on Communism.[48] Fulton Lewis a U.S. radio commentator and fervent anti-communist was one of RFE’s sharpest critics throughout the 1950s. His critical broadcasts inspired other journalists to investigate the inner workings of the organization including its connection to the CIA. Eventually it was exposed as a CIA-front organization in the 1960s, and funding responsibility shifted to Congress.[49]
Funding
RFE/RL received funds from the CIA until 1972.[50] The CIA’s relationship with the radio stations began to break down in 1967, when Ramparts magazine published an exposé claiming that the CIA was channeling funds to civilian organizations. Further investigation into the CIA’s funding activities revealed its connection to both RFE and RL, sparking significant media outrage[51]
In 1971 the radio stations came under public spotlight once again when prominent U.S. Senator Clifford Case introduced Senate Bill 18, which would have removed funding for RFE and RL from the CIA’s budget, appropriated $30 million to pay for fiscal year 1972 activities, and required the State Department to temporarily oversee the radio stations.[52] This was only a temporary solution, however, as the State Department was reluctant to take on such a significant long-term responsibility.
In May 1972 President Richard Nixon appointed a special commission to deliberate RFE/RL’s future.[53] The commission proposed that funding come from the United States Congress and that a new organization, the Board for International Broadcasting (BIB) would simultaneously link the stations and the federal government, and serve as an editorial buffer between them.[54]
Although both radio stations initially received most of their funding from the CIA, RFE maintained a strong sense of autonomy. Under Cord Meyer, the CIA officer in charge of overseeing broadcast services from 1954 to 1971, the CIA took a position of minimal government interference in radio affairs and programming.[55]
The CIA stopped funding Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty in 1972.[52] In 1974 they came under the control of an organization called the Board for International Broadcasting (BIB). The BIB was designed to receive appropriations from Congress, give them to radio managements, and oversee the appropriation of funds.[56] In 1976, the two radios merged to form Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) and added the three Baltic language services to their repertoire.
The 1980s and the fall of communism
Funding for RFE/RL increased during the Reagan Administration. President Ronald Reagan, a fervent opponent of Communism, urged the stations to be more critical of the communist regimes. This presented a challenge to RFE/RL’s broadcast strategy, which had been very cautious since the controversy over its alleged role in the Hungarian Revolution.[57]
During the Mikhail Gorbachev era in the Soviet Union, the radios worked hand in hand with Glasnost and benefited significantly from the Soviet regime’s new openness. Gorbachev stopped the practice of jamming the radios’ broadcasts, and dissident politicians and officials could be freely interviewed by the radios for the first time without fearing persecution or imprisonment.[58] By 1990 Radio Liberty had become the most listened-to Western radio station broadcasting to the Soviet Union.[59]
Its coverage of the 1991 August coup enriched sparse domestic coverage of the event and drew in a wide audience from throughout the region.[60] The broadcasts allowed Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to stay in touch with the Russian people during this turbulent period. Boris Yeltsin later expressed his gratitude through a presidential decree allowing Radio Liberty to open a permanent bureau in Moscow.[61]
RFE/RL also played a significant role in the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which brought an end to the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. Following the November 17 demonstrations and brutal crackdown by Czechoslovak riot police, RFE/RL’s Czechoslovak service reported that a student, Martin Šmid, had been killed during the clashes. Although the report later turned out to be false – Šmid was alive and well – the story is credited by many sources with inspiring Czechoslovak citizens to join the subsequent (larger) demonstrations which eventually brought down the communist government.
Upon hearing about the story, RFE/RL did not run it immediately, but attempted to find a second corroborating source for the story, as per official RFE/RL policy. While a second source was never found, RFE/RL eventually decided to run the story of Šmid’s death after it was reported by several major news organizations, including Reuters, the Associated Press, and the Voice of America.[62]
In addition, Pavel Pechacek, the director of RFE/RL’s Czechoslovak service at the time, was mistakenly granted a visa to enter the country by the Czechoslovak authorities prior to the demonstrations. He reported live from the demonstrations in Wenceslas Square, and was virtually the only reporter covering the events fully and openly in the Czech language for a Czech audience.[63]
On January 31, 2004, RFE/RL launched broadcasts to the former Yugoslavia in Serbo-Croatian (Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin). In the late 1990s RFE/RL launched broadcast to Kosovo in Albanian and to Macedonia in Macedonian. In 1995, RFE/RL moved its headquarters from Munich to Prague. The Clinton Administration reduced funding significantly and placed the radios under the United States Information Agency’s oversight.[55]
RFE/RL ended broadcasts to Hungary in 1993 and stopped broadcasts to Poland in 1997. Broadcast to the Czech Republic proceed for three more years under the agreement with Czech Radio. In 2004 RFE/RL stopped broadcasting to Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Romania.
After the fall of communism
RFE/RL states that its mission is to serve as a surrogate free press in countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established. It maintains 20 local bureaus, but governments criticised often attempt to obstruct the radios’ activities through a range of tactics, including extensive jamming, shutting down local re-broadcasting affiliates, or finding legal excuses to close down offices.[64] In many of these countries, RFE/RL and similar broadcasters provide more reliable domestic news than local sources.
RFE/RL says that its journalists and freelancers often risk their lives to broadcast information, and their safety has always been a major issue, with reporters frequently threatened and persecuted.[65] RFE/RL also faces a number of central security concerns including cyberterrorist attacks[66] and general terrorist threats.[67] After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, American and Czech authorities agreed to move RFE/RL’s Prague headquarters away from the city center in order to make it less vulnerable to terrorist attack.[68] On February 19, 2009, RFE/RL began broadcasting from its modern new headquarters east of the city center.[69]
1994–2008, RFE/RL used the former Federal Parliament building of the abolished Czechoslovakia in Prague New Town. For many years past 2001, security concrete barriers reduced capacity of the most frequented roads in Prague center.
RFE/RL says that it continues to struggle with authoritarian regimes for permission to broadcast freely within their countries. On January 1, 2009, Azerbaijan imposed a ban on all foreign media in the country, including RFE/RL.[70] Kyrgyzstan suspended broadcasts of Radio Azattyk, RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz language service, requesting that the government be able to pre-approve its programming. Other states such as Belarus, Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan prohibit re-broadcasting to local stations, making programming difficult for average listeners to access.
In 2008 Afghan president Hamid Karzai urged his government to provide assistance to a rape victim after listening to her story on Radio Azadi, RFE/RL’s Afghan service.[71] According to REF/RL in 2009, Radio Azadi was the most popular radio station in Afghanistan, and Afghan listeners mailed hundreds of hand-written letters to the station each month.[72]
In September 2009 RFE/RL announced that it would begin new Pashto-language broadcasting to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.[73]
The following month RFE/RL introduced a daily, one-hour Russian-language, US backed propaganda outlet, broadcasting to the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The program, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of the Caucasus), focused on local and international ‘news and current affairs, organized in coordination with RFE/RL’s Georgian Service.[74]
On January 15, 2010, RFE/RL began broadcasting to the Pashtun tribal areas of Pakistan in Pashto. The service, known as Radio Mashaal, was created in an attempt to counter the growing number of “pirate” Islamic extremist radio stations broadcasting in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. These pirate stations broadcast pro-Taliban messages as well as fatwas (religious edicts) by radical, pro-Taliban clerics.[citation needed]
A reporter for RFE/RL’s Afghan Service interviews a citizen in Helmand, Afghanistan
Radio Mashaal says that it broadcasts local and international news with in-depth reports on terrorism, politics, women’s issues, and health care (with an emphasis on preventive medicine). The station broadcasts roundtable discussions and interviews with tribal leaders and local policymakers, in addition to regular call-in programs.[75]
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Well, it has now been 3 weeks since we first realized that there was something rotten within the CBC News website as well as the Harper Regime’s narrative itself and today it has been confirmed. For those that may require a bit of a back story, please feel free to review our summary posts dated 07 August 2014, 24 August 2014 and 27 August 2014.
If this weren’t so pressing and important we wouldn’t even bother to go to such lengths in exposing this media manipulation. The fact that our national broadcaster is playing along with this game, is very troubling. One might begin to consider that they are either colluding with war-mongers or are utterly corrupted to the core or simply incompetent. Then again, considering the CBC News Network and the crew at Power & Politics and The National are spinning this deceptive web as well, maybe it’s all three. If so, their rush to war based upon fear and speculation equates to 3 strikes and yer out!
We do acknowledge that this is a bit confusing to many and it is rather difficult to decipher, but all we can do is present our findings so that you may decide for yourselves. We also must acknowledge that they are relying upon “wire” services for their reporting as opposed to actually performing the task of independent journalism by way of due diligence. Maybe it’s the budget cuts imposed by the Harper Regime or maybe it’s just simple fear, who really knows for certain.
What we do know is that this brand of yellow journalism and irresponsible reporting based upon lies, deceit, fear and speculation is toxic to our Nation. We also know that this yellow journalism and irresponsible reporting based lies, deceit, upon fear and speculation is damaging our economy. We also know that this yellow journalism and irresponsible reporting based upon lies, deceit, fear and speculation is spawning the seeds of hate that breeds ignorance. We also know that this yellow journalism and irresponsible reporting based upon lies, deceit, fear and speculation is a form of psychological warfare against “We the People” of Canada. This MUST stop!
Below you will find a series of snapshots of 1 (one) article that was published on 28 August 2014 via the CBC News website and propagated via the CBC News Network preceded by a numbered list with the title, author, posted time-stamp, last updated time-stamp, number of shares, comment counts and links at the time of our snapshots. Pay close attention to the sometimes subtle and other times blatant edits that only serve to suit the false narrative in the aggressive rush to war based upon fear and speculation.
Moving forward, it is worth noting that this “article” was “updated” at least 14 times as of the drafting of this summary. Not only that, but it was one of the more “popular” propaganda pieces published today that was pushed on the main CBC News “Home” page, the “World” page, the “Business” page and the various sidebars with various titles and headers. It is also noteworthy that some of the “updates” were minor while others were major and others were almost complete rewritten. It does seem as if the CBC News propaganda tram has taken heed of our previous summary article exposing their shenanigans and has decided to tone down the title changes and instead focus upon the content itself. Not that it matters much though, we make sure to archive the text of the content as well but we sometimes save that for future use.
Before we proceed we would like to point out that sadly, the “updates” are always spaced apart in such a way that sharing and commenting becomes rather prohibitive when attempting to find any shred of truth or providing any type of scrutiny and/or constructive discourse, not only within the comment thread on the CBC site itself, but throughout the social media circuit and the greater blogosphere. Of coarse the only “individuals” that seemed to be in sync with the “updates” are the pro-Harper hasbara trolls and Loyalists that are fed the scripted narrative to push. These “individuals” are very noticeable and work in tandem with each other and they usually do not refer to the content within the article itself and simply repeat the same comments over and over again. As a short footnote, we are acquiring a list of the most prominent trolls along with archives of their posted comments and will be publishing these findings in the future, after we submit them to the Opposition and the Ombudsman.
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UPDATED Russian tanks enter Ukraine, fire missiles at border post [archived v1] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 10:58 AM ET 60 shares 584 Comments
UPDATED Russian tanks enter Ukraine, fire missiles at border post [archived v2] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 11:56 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Russian tanks enter Ukraine, fire missiles at border post [archived v3] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 1:14 PM ET
LIVE Ukraine crisis: Russian tanks enter Ukraine, fire missiles at border post [archived v4] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 2:20 PM ET
LIVE Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council holds emergency meeting as Russian tanks roll in 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border [archived v5] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 2:55 PM ET
LIVE Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council members express outrage as Russian tanks roll in [archived v6] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 3:28 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council members express outrage as Russian tanks roll in [archived v7] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 4:01 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: UN Security Council members express outrage as Russian tanks roll in [archived v8] 20,000 Russian troops remain in Russia, near Ukraine border The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 4:27 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v9] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 5:01 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v10] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 5:55 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v11] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 6:59 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v12] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 7:31 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v13] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 8:06 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Obama rules out military action [archived v14] NATO produces satellite imagery of Russia’s operations inside Ukraine The Associated Press Posted: Aug 28, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 28, 2014 8:36 PM ET
Brief Summary
Versions 1 and 2 contain the direct link to Petro Poroshenko’s statement titleed “Ukrainian president’s statement [http://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/31102.html]” within the left “External Links” sidebar.
In Version 3 the top photo was swapped to link to a video titled “Russian tanks enter Ukraine, fire missiles at border post 1:58” and the first title and url wording change was implemented. The “link” from Poroshenko’s statement was also completely removed in Version 3 and all subsequent versions. It was replaced by the “See satellite imagery released by NATO [http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/photos_112112.htm]” link within the left “External Links” sidebar.
Version 5 seen a title change and url wording swap along with some major changes to the text content including snippets from the UN Security Council meeting into the “articles” well before it was concluded.
Version 6 seen another title change and url wording swap as well as more changes to the text content with more snippets from the UNSC meeting. Version 6 also introduced the “Russian stock markets dived” meme but failed to mention the sinking stock markets of the West. Of coarse U.S. Ambassador Samantha Powers’ statements made it into several paragraphs.
Version 9 is the most striking and the timing is really suspicious as it is a very stripped down version of the “article” and considering it was “updated” at 5:01pm ET, which coincided with the start of the “live” broadcast of Power & Politics, and then was updated again at 5:55pm ET, just before Power & Politics ended. It was also noted that Obama stated he spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the situation and stopped short of calling it an invasion. Obama also stated that military action from the West is not on the table.
Version 10 seen another title change and url wording swap plus added some of the text portions from the previous versions and included a new “crisis map” of the region along with the response from the Harper Regime’s John Baird as well as the new header “Russia must stop lying” based upon the grandiose statement by Samantha Powers.
The rest of the versions pretty much massaged the content and stripped out a lot to streamline and suit the narrative.
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Almost 3 (three) weeks ago, 07 August 2014 to be exact, we noticed something strange occurring with the “articles” that were being published and presented by our national broadcaster, the CBC News Network, who happens to be “celebrating” their 25th birthday.
The article we published seemed to draw some mixed responses, from outrage to disgust to suspicions about our motivations, especially from Harper Regime Loyalists and our critics that seem to favour the status quo. In addition, for those that “trust” the CBC News Network and the MSM for the most part, the very thought of the supposed “free press” being biased and/or compromised by special interests is beyond the pale.
It is for the reasons mentioned above that we decided to dig a bit deeper and diligently follow along as events unfolded as more “articles” were published and more reports were broadcasted. Surely we could have picked just about any topic, yet we chose to stick to one that is of utmost importance, in our opinion anyway, since it is one that may lead us into a catastrophic war of unprecedented proportions. For some additional information about how false propaganda and outright lies can lead “We the People” down this perilous road and how easy it is to be unwittingly led astray by those within the power structures, we recommend a couple of CBC documentaries, The Lies That Led To War and The Spies Who Fooled the World.
After some valuable feedback and critique we realized that our last summary article was a bit hard to digest and compare the carefully crafted edits for many, since it was primarily word based and lacked a strong visual component. So to present this case, we will provide a series of image galleries, since a picture is worth a thousand words.
Before we proceed, it should be noted that in addition to the false and misleading propaganda component we will present, we would like you to pay close attention to the “timing” of the “updates” plus the title and sub-title edits plus the url “wording” changes plus the share counts and then consider how our multiple timezones may fit into the bigger deception strategy being deployed as well as the number of comments at each point. Be sure to pay attention to the changing “authors” as well and ponder how more than one wire service can be swapped out midstream. Another noteworthy factor is connected to how trolls and hasbara operatives “work” the comment sections of the MSM and Alternative outlets which is extremely relevant to more than one issue that the Harper Regime firmly and unconditionally stands behind.
Also worth serious consideration are the “sources” of the propaganda and their “sources” along with the non-stop accusations that are based upon unsubstantiated and unproven speculations as opposed to any real facts. Some of this was recently covered in our last article and video presentation.
FYI: To those within the CBC, this “challenge” is being offered to you because we love you and would prefer that you would reflect upon the damage you are inflicting upon yourselves as you are simply playing right into the Harper Regime’s bloody hands. They have made no bones about their desire to gut your funding and privatize your remains for pennies on the dollar. If there is one shred of journalist integrity left within your organization, please do the right thing and stop peddling pre-canned propaganda, we’ll do the rest.
UPDATED Shelling rocks Novoazovsk in southeastern Ukraine [archived v1] 10 Russian soldiers reported captured near eastern border: Kyiv The Associated Press Posted: Aug 26, 2014 5:52 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 7:39 AM ET
UPDATED Shelling rocks Novoazovsk in southeastern Ukraine [archived v2] 10 Russian soldiers reported captured near eastern border: Kyiv The Associated Press Posted: Aug 26, 2014 5:52 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 8:26 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko meet in Minsk amid border violence [archived v3] Shelling rocks southeastern Ukraine town of Novoazovsk The Associated Press Posted: Aug 26, 2014 5:52 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 10:19 AM ET
Ukraine crisis: Putin, Poroshenko meet in Minsk amid border violence [archived v4] Shelling rocks southeastern Ukraine town of Novoazovsk The Associated Press Posted: Aug 26, 2014 5:52 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 12:12 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko says ‘roadmap’ to ceasefire with Russia possible [archived v5] Shelling rocks southeastern Ukraine town of Novoazovsk Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 26, 2014 5:52 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 6:00 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Poroshenko says ‘roadmap’ to ceasefire with Russia possible [archived v6] Putin disavows Russian involvement in talks with rebels Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 26, 2014 5:52 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 26, 2014 10:29 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Russia plans to second aid convoy to eastern Ukraine [archived v1] Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Russian tanks crossed border, Kyiv alleges [archived v2] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 11:25 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine crisis: Russian tanks crossed border, Kyiv alleges [archived v3] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 12:47 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Ukraine will hold a parliamentary election on Oct. 26 [archived v4] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 3:18 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Ukraine to hold parliamentary election Oct. 26 [archived v5] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 5:10 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Ukraine to hold parliamentary election Oct. 26 [archived v6] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 5:33 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Ukraine to hold parliamentary election Oct. 26 [archived v7] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 25, 2014 6:15 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 25, 2014 7:16 PM ET
NEW Ukrainian president marks independence day with $3B US defence spending boost [archived v1] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 24, 2014 9:21 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 24, 2014 9:21 AM ET
NEW Ukrainian president marks independence day with $3B US defence spending boost [archived v2] The Associated Press Posted: Aug 24, 2014 9:21 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 24, 2014 1:25 PM ET
Ukraine’s independence day marked by rival shows of force [archived v3] Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 24, 2014 9:21 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 24, 2014 2:41 PM ET
COMING UP LIVE Ukraine crisis: Russian aid convoy crosses border without Kyiv OK [archived v1] Russia said it was no longer prepared to tolerate any delays The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 12:05 PM ET
UPDATED Russia denies aid convoy in Ukraine is to arm rebels [archived v2] Russia unilaterally decides to cross border, saying it tolerated enough delays The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 1:52 PM ET
U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v3] Russia unilaterally decides to cross border, saying it tolerated enough delays The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 3:08 PM ET
U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v4] Russia unilaterally decides to cross border, saying it tolerated enough delays The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 4:13 PM ET
UPDATED U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v5] Russia unilaterally decides to cross border, saying it tolerated enough delays The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 5:11 PM ET
UPDATED U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v6] Meanwhile, “there was no unanimity of views” during UN emergency consultations The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 7:21 PM ET
U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v7] UN emergency consultations reveal “no unanimity of views” The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 8:28 PM ET
U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v8] UN emergency consultations reveal “no unanimity of views” The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 10:29 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine artillery destroys part of Russian armoured column [archived v1] ‘Part of it no longer exists’ Ukrainian military spokesman says of column The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 11:55 AM ET
UPDATED Ukraine says its artillery destroyed part of Russian armoured column [archived v2] ‘Part of it no longer exists,’ Ukrainian military spokesman says of armoured convoy Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 1:12 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine says it destroyed Russian military vehicles crossing border [archived v3] Moscow stoutly denies reported incursion The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 2:50 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine says it destroyed Russian military vehicles crossing border [archived v4] Moscow denies report, while Merkel presses Putin The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 4:52 PM ET
Ukraine says it destroyed Russian military vehicles crossing border [archived v5] Moscow denies report, while Merkel presses Putin The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 5:02 PM ET
Ukraine says it destroyed Russian military vehicles crossing border [archived v6] Moscow denies report, while Merkel presses Putin The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 10:43 PM ET
UPDATED Ukraine rebel leader open to a ceasefire [archived v1] Unconfirmed reports indicate Ukrainian forces gaining in eastern region The Associated Press Posted: Aug 09, 2014 12:52 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 09, 2014 2:10 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Rebel leader open to a ceasefire as forces advance [archived v2] Artillery reverberates across Donetsk, home to nearly 1 million before 300,000 fled the conflict The Associated Press Posted: Aug 09, 2014 12:52 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 09, 2014 5:35 PM ET
Ukraine crisis: Rebel leader open to a ceasefire as forces advance [archived v3] Artillery reverberates across Donetsk, home to nearly 1 million before 300,000 fled the conflict The Associated Press Posted: Aug 09, 2014 12:52 PM ET Last Updated: Aug 09, 2014 7:43 PM ET
Russia bans food imports from Canada, other countries for 1 year [archived v1] Ban covers meat, fish, milk, fruit, vegetables from Canada, the U.S., EU The Canadian Press Posted: Aug 07, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 07, 2014 9:53 AM ET
Russia sanctions show Putin’s ‘short-sighted desperation,’ Canada says [archived v2] Ban covers meat, fish, milk, fruit, vegetables from Canada, the U.S., EU CBC News Posted: Aug 07, 2014 5:31 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 07, 2014 2:56 PM ET
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Alrighty then, something is really rotten here. This “disabled” comment is the second, of only two, comments we have ever attempted to post on the CBC website, the other can be viewed here. Riddle us this gang… Can anyone spot any potential violations as far as “commenting” moderation is concerned? The copypasta of the text is below, along with an updated hashtag plus the screenshot and the links below…
CBC Comment Censored
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This is a simple case for indictments against many individuals, not only the Prime Ministers Office, House of Commons, Conservative Senate Leadership, Conservative Caucus members involved in Senator’s Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau various issues, but Stephen Harper, the seemingly blind and unaware “sitting” Prime Minister and seemingly blind and unaware “active” CEO of the Conservative Party of Canada and it’s wholly owned subsidiary, the Harper Government.
The undeniable plausibility of guilt based upon unproven facts in the case of “Harper v. Senate” are as preposterous as is the assumption of innocence based upon the plausible deniability of proven facts in the case of the “Harper v. Truth”. As a matter of fact, if due process is circumvented in such a selective fashion based upon the “beliefs” of one person who opaquely conducts his “private sector” CEO business for the “base” with his “public sector” PMO responsibility to those he serves, aka: the other 70%+ of Canadians. This hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil Ministerial/Executive technique becomes very dangerous when the CEO and PMO both “believe” in “spirits” of laws/rules as opposed to “letters” of written laws and rules. Especially when the ideological spirits evoked are opaquely envisioned within an undefined belief system and contained within one mind. This can quickly accelerate into a National security issue and economic threat as the spirits of the laws can be arbitrarily created and selectively applied through all levels of society very quickly. This delves into criminal when the ideological spirits evoked are opaquely envisioned within an undefined belief system.
btw: Nigel Wright? What ever happened to Pitbull Dean Del Mastro?
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To make this question/story/answer/short let’s attempt to get to the root which lies beneath the story that led to the rejection of a rather simple comment to the article below. But first, please allow us to explain why we sent you this way. We smell a Gatekeeper. Please proceed to reference your own published article, as to it to enlighten yourselves of what the implications “could” be. Keep in mind, as your masters within the matrix are aware with their spam filters etc., we have never, ever, ever even attempted to post a comment to an article, but this one was important in our opinion based upon the facts that are within an Act that may or may not relate, but let’s let the court decide. This was a simple comment that did not deserve, in a lot of folks opinions, banishment. CBC Comment Censored
What’s the worse thing that can happen if we drag these people through the courts? At this point, considering the “narrative” geared towards the various “War’s on Inc”, professional and amateur terrorists, counter terrorists, underground sea-creature terrorists, space alien terrorists, who really cares if some complicit people that did some horrific crimes against humanity have to stand trial but will most likely die in prison awaiting their day in court? Who cares, Lady Justice is Blind, period. They are almost done here anyway, round ’em up, send ’em to Gitmo, who cares.
Oddly, judging the comments we are reviewing right NOW, in real time, it appears as if not only was our comment acceptable based upon your “submission guidelines”, a few may have “liked” it maybe they would have all “flagged” it, who knows. Is it “flag-able” ? Is it Offensive? Really? Please allow ourselves, by reviewing some things below, to refresh our memories of what Canada is, or maybe what it was?
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Experiments on aboriginal people ‘monstrous,’ Paul Martin saysFormer PM urges federal government to disclose all records on testing ‘horrors’ By Kathleen Harris, CBC News Posted: Jul 18, 2013 6:09 PM ET Last Updated: Jul 18, 2013 6:30 PM ET Continue reading here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/07/18/pol-reax-aboriginal-experiments.html (we’ll cache and archive it later for future reference, since it will be referenced where it CAN be commented upon)
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Let’s see how this SHOULD transpire, as the following may show, and find out what kind the Harper Regime is all about. Keep in mind, technicalities have NEVER stopped them from doing the undo-able. Let’s keep in mind why, this act became and act. Below is a potion of section 4.
Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act S.C. 2000, c. 24 Assented to 2000-06-29 – An Act respecting genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and to implement the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: http://www.canlii.org/ca/sta/c-45.9/
OFFENCES WITHIN CANADA
Genocide, etc., committed in Canada
4. (1) Every person is guilty of an indictable offence who commits
(a) genocide;
(b) a crime against humanity; or
(c) a war crime.
Conspiracy, attempt, etc.
(1.1) Every person who conspires or attempts to commit, is an accessory after the fact in relation to, or counsels in relation to, an offence referred to in subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence.
Punishment
(2) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (1.1)
(a) shall be sentenced to imprisonment for life, if an intentional killing forms the basis of the offence; and
(b) is liable to imprisonment for life, in any other case.« less
Or maybe just skip reading any of them anyway, Commies and Nazi’s make us sick, PUKE!
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MLI study in Financial Post, Globe and Mail, CBC, Wall Street Journal, Toronto Sun, Huffington Post Canada and more: European style debt crisis could happen here
October 18, 2012 – MLI’s latest study, Provincial Solvency and Federal Obligations, by author Marc Joffe, is in the Financial Post, The Globe and Mail, CBC News, Wall Street Journal, and Toronto Sun. It is also being talked about on radio and television shows across the country!
According to the study, several provinces are heading towards unsustainable finances in the medium and long term unless their policies change. The study puts the yield threshold for a default at 25%. With near-term maturities, none of the provinces appears to be at risk. At the longer end of the spectrum, defaults become much more likely.
Ontario would be the most vulnerable. The study calculates the province’s bond yield would reach 42.9% over 20 years and 79.3% for 30 years. Alberta’s yield would rise to 42.4% and 84.0%, respectively. Quebec’s yield, meanwhile, would be 8.1% and 28.2%, respectively.
Also on tomorrow’s lineup, Marc Joffe will appear on CBC’s World Report in the morning (CBC Radio One). You can also catch Marc on the Roy Green radio show at 4:30 pm ET on Saturday, October 20. Tune in on the Corus Radio Network. If you miss these interviews, Marc will be on the Rutherford radio show on Monday, October 22 at 12 pm ET.
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy exists to make poor quality public policy unacceptable in Ottawa. We will achieve this goal by proposing thoughtful alternatives to Canadians and their political and opinion leaders through non-partisan and independent research and commentary.
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By Greg Weston, CBC News
Posted: Sep 28, 2012 9:47 PM ET
Last Updated: Sep 28, 2012 9:41 PM ET
A leading international expert on computer hacking says cyber-attacks are increasingly targeting the heart of Canada’s infrastructure, including oil pipelines and major public utilities.
CBC News has confirmed a recent cyber-attack successfully breached a Calgary-based supplier of control systems for electrical power grids, municipal water systems, public transit operations, and most of Canada’s major oil and gas pipelines.
Sources say the incident was serious enough to spark action from Canada’s spy service, the RCMP, military intelligence, and the federal government’s special cyber response agency.
Cyber-security expert Daniel Toboc tells CBC News that computer hacking aimed at the control systems of major utilities is becoming both common and potentially among the most serious of all cyber-attacks.
“On a scale of one to 10, I’d give that an eight or nine. God forbid, we ever get a 10.”
The company, Telvent Canada, says the security breach of its corporate network “affected some customer files.”
The firm would not reveal whether the hackers managed to steal information that might endanger any of the country’s major utilities.
“Customers have been informed and are taking recommended actions with the support of Telvent teams,” the company says.
It is also “actively working with law enforcement, security specialists and its affected customers to ensure the breach has been contained.”
The federal public safety department refused to provide details of the incident “for operational reasons,” nor would officials say whether ordinary Canadians are at risk as a result of the attacks.
“The Government of Canada takes cyber threats seriously and has measures in place to address them,” the department said in a statement.
“The Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre is aware of this incident, and is already working with stakeholders in government and the private sector.”
Officials at Telvent and the law enforcement agencies involved in the investigation are refusing to speculate about the source of the cyber-attack.
Similar to attacks from China
But an online cyber-security news website — KrebsOnSecurity.com — cites experts saying the job bore the fingerprints of similar attacks from China.
Only a week ago, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) used its annual report to issue a stern warning that corporations in this country are being attacked by hackers engaged in foreign cyber-espionage.
The report said federal government computers are being hit on a daily basis.
While CSIS doesn’t single out any country by name in its report, federal documents released under the Access to Information Act in recent months show law enforcement agencies and federal officials pointing a finger at China.
One way or another, the latest attack on the Calgary high-tech company is bound to stir even more public concern and political controversy surrounding the proposed Gateway pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to the B.C. coast.
Much of the public debate around the project turns on the reliability of the pipeline, and the potential environmental impact of a major spill.
The possibility raised by the Telvent attack — that hackers could conceivably get their hands on computer codes used to control the pipeline — is bound to spark heated controversy.
The incident also won’t be helpful to the proposed takeover of Nexen, a Calgary-based oil company, by the Chinese petroleum giant CNOOC.
The Harper government still has to approve the $15.4-billion deal, and is under pressure from opposition parties and some large corporations to wring concessions out of the Chinese government as part of the deal.
Friday in the Commons, NDP MP Kennedy Stewart cited the attack on Telvent and reports pointing to a Chinese group as the possible culprits.
“In light of this, can the Conservatives tell us if national security is part of the criteria for the Nexen takeover review?”
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The Conservative government has presented a new cabinet policy directing that only cabinet ministers and not their political staff can appear as witnesses before parliamentary committees.
Government House leader Jay Hill says testifying at parliamentary committees is the responsibility of cabinet ministers and not their staff.(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
The controversial new policy could trigger a fresh showdown between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the opposition parties over the powers of Parliament, just weeks after a similar dispute over MPs’ access to uncensored documents pertaining to Afghan detainee transfers was resolved.
In a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday morning, government House leader Jay Hill blamed the “tyranny of the opposition majority” for turning its attention to government staffers “who did not sign up … to be humiliated and intimidated by members of Parliament.”
He said the new policy ensures “there is no substitute for ministerial responsibility.”
“It is ministers who decide policy and ministers who must defend it before the House and ultimately before the people of Canada,” Hill told the House. “Public servants and staff support ministers’ authority; they do not supplant it.”
In response to Hill’s statement, Liberal House leader Ralph Goodale said the Conservatives have introduced another policy that is “about secrecy, about preventing accountability, about stifling transparency, about muzzling” all of the government’s assistants.
“The arrogance and the hypocrisy of this position are breathtaking,” he said. “Parliament has the power to call any and all witnesses. The government and its ministries are responsible to Parliament, not the other way around.”
During Tuesday’s question period, NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the Conservatives of deliberately shielding staffers who interfered with access-to-information requests for political purposes.
“Why does the prime minister want to hide employees who put in place directives to hide the truth?” he told the House.
Harper replied the precedents and practices are clear that staff are accountable to the ministers, who are in turn responsible to the House and its committees.
“When there is a question about conduct in a minister’s office, the committee obviously can call ministers, and ministers will answer those questions,” he said.
Staffers ‘humiliated and intimidated’ by MPs: Soudas
The new policy comes as Harper’s spokesman, Dimitri Soudas, declined a request to appear before the all-party committee of MPs as they investigate allegations of political interference in the release of documents under the Access to Information Act.
Transport Minister John Baird waits to testify before the Commons ethics committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Tuesday.(Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
Soudas said the guiding constitutional principle in Canada is ministerial responsibility, not staffers’, and that he wouldn’t show. He told CBC News that opposition MPs are using the committees to conduct “random interrogations without due process or any rules of fairness.”
“It’s one thing for politicians to be tough on each other,” Soudas said. “But we draw the line when people who aren’t elected, like ministerial staff, are humiliated and intimidated by members of Parliament.”
Transport Minister John Baird appeared in Soudas’s place on Tuesday. Baird and Conservative MPs on the committee reiterated the government’s position that testifying at committees is a ministerial responsibility.
But NDP MP and committee member Bill Siksay said he would table a motion to summon Soudas at the committee’s next meeting.
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“Dr. Carty has retired.” Though not a lie, this was not the truth in its entirety. If nothing else, it was a sin of omission – a selective version of reality. Indeed, in four short words, here was the HARPER government’s approach, to use Stephen Colbert’s terminology, to truthiness. “All governments interpret truths in manners which suit them,” observes a CONSERVATIVEstrategist. “The challenge for this one is when you set yourself up as being lily-white and suddenly you get a bit soiled it can look like you have taken a mud bath. You wear the expectations you set.”
For two years, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have worn those expectations boldly. In the 2006 election, they promised truth and transparency in GOVERNMENT. What wasn’t explained at the time, but what’s become clear since, is that the truth would be measured subjectively. In this case, the doctor referenced was Arthur Carty, former president of the National Research Council and, until recently, the government’s national science adviser. And when the Prime Minister spoke the above words in the House of Commons in early February, Carty had, in fact, retired. But appearing in March before a parliamentary committee, Carty clarified the terms of his departure. Though treated as an adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office under Paul MARTIN, his mandate was greatly reduced under Harper. Then, last fall, he was informed his position would be eliminated. “I want to make it unambiguously clear,” he said, “that I conveyed my intention to retire from the public service only after I had been informed that the office was being closed.”
With that said, a Conservative member of the committee attacked Carty for various travel expenses, including an 87 cent cup of coffee. “We have a responsibility when we have witnesses,” pleaded LIBERAL Scott Brison at this, “not to create straw-man arguments that are not intellectually honest.”
Carty’s name was last raised in the House when a Liberal member tried to make the case for Harper as a latter-day Richard Nixon – committed to undermining the public service at every opportunity. This is not a comparison without merit. But the truly withering comparison is more contemporary. Government members in the House groan whenever an opponent compares their side to the present Bush presidency. But on the count of truthiness, it’s difficult not to at least start there. Six years ago, a senior aide to George W. Bush described to journalist Ron Suskind what those around the President dismissed as “the reality based community.” “We’re an empire now,” he said, “and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities … We’re history’s actors.”
All governments dabble in duplicity. But truth under Bush became a commodity. Something that could be manipulated to fit any situation and advance whatever goals. Witness the ever-changing justification for war in Iraq. Indeed, it was Colbert who succinctly made nonsense of it all with a single word: truthiness. “It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts,” he explained. “But that’s not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all … People love the President because he’s certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don’t seem to exist.”
To Harper’s credit, he has yet to distort the truth on an issue as dire as Iraq. But, as with Bush, the facts don’t always support his certainty. Speaking to a rally earlier this year, Harper explained his approach to crime. “Some try to pacify Canadians with statistics. Your personal experiences and impressions are wrong, they say; crime is really not a problem. These apologists remind me of the scene from The Wizard of Oz when the wizard says, ‘Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.’ But Canadians can see behind the curtain. They know there’s a problem.” Ottawa Citizen columnist Dan Gardner quickly made a mockery of such a supposition. “Mr. Harper implicitly acknowledges that his claims about crime are not supported by data. But that doesn’t matter, he says. What matters is subjective perception. Rational inquiry isn’t the best way to discover the truth. Feeling is,” Gardner wrote. “It is an epistemologicalclaim of staggeringprimitiveness.”
That echoes the verdict handed down this month by various members of the scientific community in the pages of the International Journal of Drug Policy. Amid several articles dealing with this government’s handling of Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection facility, Health Minister Tony Clement is blamed for authoring a “policy horror story” – hampering research and innovation for “unstated but blatant political reasons.” A spokeswoman for Clement deemed such claims “completely inaccurate,” but shortly after that report made news, Neil Boyd, a criminologist contracted by the Harper government to study Insite, convened a press conference on Parliament Hill to publicly state all the ways in which his work validated the facility. “I would hope now that the government … would see that it’s time to close the chapter and to move on and to grant Insite the lengthy exemption that it so deserves,” he concluded. “I would hope that the government would say, ‘We’re going to make decisions based on science. We’re not going to make decisions based on our ideological leanings.’ ”
To be fair, that Harper would pursue a far-right ideology once in government – the so-called “hidden agenda” – has so far proved a threat mostly unrealized. With noted exceptions, the government has not made a habit of ignoring objective facts for the sake of political belief. But what it lacks in ideological blindness, it has exceeded in more straightforward exaggeration.
Take for example, Elections Canada’s ruling that the Conservatives exceeded spending limits in the last election. “The visit by Elections Canada today,” House Leader Peter Van Loan announced in question period on the day Conservative party headquarters were raided, “is related to the issues of the court case that we initiated because of our difference of opinion with Elections Canada.” For that matter, he added, “we have been co-operating fully.” A day later, Van Loan offered a quote from Democracy Watch’s Duff Conacher that appeared to exonerate the party.
If only any of it were so. The search warrant executed by Elections Canada was related to its own investigation, an inquiry launched, it says, a month before the Conservative party filed suit against Elections Canada seeking reimbursement for the contested spending. The affidavit filed to justify that warrant demonstrates in detail how Conservative officials failed to co-operate with the investigation. And by the end of the week, Conacher would demand that Van Loan apologize for misrepresenting his views. Indeed, in the interview cited by the House leader, Conacher predicted Elections Canada’s ruling would be upheld in court.
On April 18, Van Loan said the government had not been provided with the Elections Canada affidavit. Forty-eight hours later, Conservative representatives leaked details of those very documents to select reporters. What was once termed a “visit” by the RCMP was spun otherwise just a week later when an anonymous Conservative explained in detail to the Globe and Mail how scared young party staffers were upon seeing their offices searched by police officers. When Parliament returned from a week’s break, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre stood in the House and declared that a 1997 ruling by then-chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley supported the party’s campaign financing. Only the document to which he referred was less a judgment than a report. And the author wasn’t Kingsley, but another bureaucrat entirely.
Days earlier, appearing on CBC News: Sunday, Poilievre received his inevitable comeuppance, courtesy in this case of University of Windsor political science professor Heather MacIvor. “Frankly, there is very little that Mr. Poilievre said that conforms to the facts as laid out in the affidavit to get the search warrant,” MacIvor said, interviewed after Poilievre. “Much of what Mr. Poilievre said was beyond spun.”
But it was, to a large degree, standard operating procedure. “All political communications is a battle of narratives. As defined by [media theorist Neil] Postman, narratives aren’t always scientifically verifiable. The more simple the narrative, the more potent it can be,” explains the Conservative strategist. “The pushback on the Elections Canada battle from the Conservatives is to make it about [the in-and-out] transfers, which is part of the story, and fairness – ‘if the Liberals do it why can’t we.’ Those things can be understood much more readily than the arcane legalese of the Canada Elections Act.” Indeed, the government has, at times effectively, blurred the distinction between the legal transfers of other parties and what they are accused of doing here. “Gross oversimplification with the odd mythical twist though, again, is not new for governments. With this government it simply has become mechanized,” the strategist continues. “And the opposition hasn’t figured out how to deconstruct it effectively. Which means they play into the narrative.”
When Gordon O’Connor, in trying to fend off allegations of torture in Afghanistan, was forced a year ago to apologize for incorrectly claiming the International Committee of the Red Cross was monitoring detainees, it was possible to believe the now-former defence minister was less a mechanized tool of confusion than just honestly mistaken. Since then, it’s become difficult to believe the government’s twists on this issue are anything less than coordinated. On Nov. 22, Peter MacKay, O’Connor’s successor, stood in the House and announced, “There has not been one single, solitary proven allegation of abuse of detainees.” But two months later, as part of a legal proceeding, government lawyers disclosed that prisoner transfers had halted after Nov. 5 because of a “credible allegation of mistreatment” discovered by Canadian monitors. Between Nov. 13 and Nov. 19, opposition members had asked the government numerous times whether it would halt transfers, but the Conservatives failed to note any change. When the shift in policy became public, the government claimed to have been unaware of shifts on the ground (a charge later retracted) and then cited operational security (even though its lawyers were responsible for disclosing the development).
In March, the Military Police Complaints Commission announced it would be going forward with hearings on detainee treatment because of the government’s “refusal” to provide documents relevant to the allegations. Last month, the government sought an injunction to stop those hearings, arguing the matter was outside the MPCC’s jurisdiction. Parliamentary committees seeking to investigate the in-and-out controversy and the Chuck Cadman affair have been similarly stymied – the latter a matter so disputed the RCMP are now reportedly investigating.
Even on relatively minor points, the Conservatives often cannot help themselves. After a relatively obscure access to information database was quietly discontinued last month, Treasury Board President Vic Toews used a quote from professor Alasdair Roberts of Suffolk University to denounce the service. Within two hours, the Liberals were distributing a full version of the professor’s comments, showing Toews to have taken them out of context. The next day, the government switched tack, blaming the previous Liberal government for what they claimed were the database’s failings. In fact, the database was created in 1989, when the Progressive Conservatives were in power.
“There’s this disconnect between what they say and what they do,” Liberal Mark Holland surmised recently, lamenting the long delays that have lately tied up access-to-information requests. “They go to great lengths to bury information and to keep people in the dark. For the average person, it means they’re given a government that you wouldn’t expect in a First World country, frankly.”
Not that this government isn’t interested in the truth. Speaking in London, Ont., this March, the Prime Minister was asked for his thoughts on negative advertising. In a minute-and-a-half answer, he used the word “truthful” no less than six times to explain what he demanded of his party’s ads. Never mind that a month earlier, Industry Minister Jim Prentice was forced to explain why an ad he unveiled had twisted a comment by Stéphane Dion about financial gains of green technology – “megatonnes of money” – to represent Liberal spending policy.
It is, of course, much easier to create a truth than refute one. A July 2006 poll of Americans, fully three years after the invasion of Iraq, found 50 per cent still believed Saddam Hussein’s deposed regime possessed weapons of mass destruction. “It’s not so much whether the people who are supposed to govern us by the rule of law are actually telling us the truth,” says MacIvor. “It’s how well they convince us they’re telling us the truth.”
And where the Bush administration manipulated a complicit media leading up to the war in Iraq, the Harper government has benefited from a complacent press here. At the height of the election financing controversy, one national news anchor lamented on air that the issue was too complex for the public to be interested in. Relatively few members of the press gallery bother to attend daily question period, and being the first to declare that a scandal is not a scandal seems to have become something of a competition among many of the country’s columnists. Indeed, the daily fibbing of the government’s ministers is rarely reported at any length. No doubt because many reporters long ago resigned themselves to covering a system of spin and deception. (They are not alone in this regard. A recent poll showed only 25 per cent of Canadians hold much respect for politicians. Just 49 per cent showed similar regard for journalists.)
But, if the Prime Minister still employed a national science adviser, he might ask for a lesson in the laws of action and reaction. The irony of the Bush era is that while many Americans still believe the “truths” peddled by the White House, the President’s approval rating has languished in the low 30s for months. It helps that his greatest deception is demonstrated in a disastrous war. But it is surely not lost on most of the population that Iraq represents not the exception, but only the most obvious of half-truths. “I think,” MacIvor says, “[Americans] have a sense that they’ve been taken for fools.” If Canadians don’t feel similarly so foolish, it is not for lack of effort by the Harper government.
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Logo of the Azov Battalion.
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![UPDATED U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v5]](https://dumpharper.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/u-s-condemns-russian-aid-convoy-into-ukraine-threatens-more-sanctions-1-2743706-article_5.jpg "UPDATED U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v5]")
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![U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v8] UN emergency consultations reveal “no unanimity of views” The Associated Press Posted: Aug 22, 2014 4:25 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 22, 2014 10:29 PM ET](https://dumpharper.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/u-s-condemns-russian-aid-convoy-into-ukraine-threatens-more-sanctions-1-2743706-article_8.jpg "U.S. condemns Russian aid convoy into Ukraine, threatens more sanctions [archived v8]")
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![UPDATED Ukraine says its artillery destroyed part of Russian armoured column [archived v2] 'Part of it no longer exists,' Ukrainian military spokesman says of armoured convoy Thomson Reuters Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 1:12 PM ET](https://dumpharper.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ukraine-says-its-artillery-destroyed-part-of-russian-armoured-column-1-2737240_article_21.jpg "UPDATED Ukraine says its artillery destroyed part of Russian armoured column [archived v2]")
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![Ukraine says it destroyed Russian military vehicles crossing border [archived v6] Moscow denies report, while Merkel presses Putin The Associated Press Posted: Aug 15, 2014 2:14 AM ET Last Updated: Aug 15, 2014 10:43 PM ET](https://dumpharper.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/ukraine-says-it-destroyed-russian-military-vehicles-crossing-border-1-2737240_article_6.jpg "Ukraine says it destroyed Russian military vehicles crossing border [archived v6]")
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Dump Harper! 