Prime Minister Stephen Harper reportedly 'fired back' snappily at President Obama's latest plan to charge Canadian visitors by air or sea a $5.50 "inspection fee".
Who thought up that tempest in a teapot? We must wonder how long it took Mr. Harper and Mr. Obama to cobble that brilliant idea together after lunch in an effort to manufacture a distraction from the huge corporate "security merger" recently announced that will, in the long run, give away sovereignty of perhaps 400 million people, but benefit only corporations, their activity and profitability.
We might be too busy rolling on the floor laughing like lunatics to understand the indignation and "significance" of an "inspection fee" -- "Your privates are hereby inspected, Madame, pay the $5.50" , or equally, we could be hungry as we await that fine bag of inter-flight peanuts. Maybe we're just day-dreaming about warmer climes in the annual fit of Canadian cabin-fever as we shiver in February, huddled in igloos and quaint log cabins, waiting for the sun to shine kindly upon us. Perhaps we are waiting for directions to Nirvana.
Do we really believe Prime Minister Harper is indignant about this "fee", as he quaintly suggests there are better ways for the "extremely somewhat" distraught US economy to raise money? Make no mistake about it, the US economy needs help and guidance too, after spending all of it's sauce, energy and goodies on endless warfare. The US economy offers it's sweating taxpayers an annual deficit of a TRILLION dollars or more.
But does anyone, Canadian or American alike, really think that --$5.50 per visit, although admittedly being totally annoying and somewhat idiotic, is really going to help with the ballooning US deficit? There are about 16,000,000 Canadians flying into the US annually, and at $5.50 per, that translates to a "inspection fee" of about $88,000,000 dollars. Not exactly chump change, and yes, we must admit, annoying, but why bother with trivial details? The paltry sum of $ 88 million is not much after all, since we wasted more than 1 Billion dollars on fake lakes, snacks and security for the G20 leader's summit held in Toronto. Perhaps we must show solidarity with US citizens.... after all, we're Canadian. We're nice.
Lovely--so let us all agreeably get on the bandwagon and share the Prime Minister's rousing objections for a moment while we're at it, show how much we love our Prime Minister, national unity and all that, and not complain too loudly.
Perhaps we should even be mature and creative and contemplative instead of overly critical.
We could gently put Michael Ignatieff's Liberals in charge of the State of Canada instead, since that election choice would avoid the necessity of fabricating further stories, or doing anything other than being "politically correct" when our largest neighbour wants to arbitrarily tax members of the traveling public every time they want to cross the border. That includes penalizing little old grandmothers wanting to go south to see their grandchildren and who must fly, because they cannot drive. It includes the children themselves. $5.50 per.
As an aside, for Iggy, here's a sure opportunity to overthrow the minority Conservative government, how about arguing the Canada Charter of Rights and Freedoms which insists that all Canadians be treated equally in the handling of this issue? Iggy could use that argument to advantage and win feel-good points with Barack at the same time, tax all travelers, get greater income for the bankrupt US treasury, and achieve "fee equality" for Canadians all. Regardless, it all ends up in Corporate piggy-banks anyway.
How about that? There's a win-win. Of course we know that the Bloc Quebequois would find some devious way to blackmail away their share of the plunder to hire more language police and further the separation of Quebec. No matter. " We are the Borg, resistance is futile, you shall be assimilated" comes to mind.
Let us return to the subject at hand and be candid; in the meantime, Big Corporate Trucks hauling Big Corporate Profits and unknown goods will still travel across the "border", for "security" purposes virtually without inspection, and special security-card holders will have special lines to zip through unhindered and uninspected with great speed. Hundreds of thousands of shipping containers will continue to arrive unexpected and without inspection annually, and thousands of aliens from Mexico and shiploads of refugees from other countries will continue to enter both countries illegally, but to be politically correct, we don't want to pay any attention to those trifling details, we'll distract ourselves and seek happiness by applying Obama's "$5.50 security inspection fee instead.
Will that be $5.50 USD or Canuckbucks, President Obama?
We also plead guilty, we forgot to point out it is ludicrous to charge only people entering by "air or sea" while conveniently ignoring where the REAL dollars are...the average poor Joe taxpayer and single moms that drive across the border on 15-year-old wheels every day in hoards to shop incessantly for shoddy Chinese goods so they can pay duty on them at the border of Free Trading countries which are merging economically. Why not screw them some more in the process too, boys? Venerable leaders, are you not missing a goldmine of potential income by overlooking poor people on wheels?
Either way, the REAL point is, drive, sail or fly, we must admire how clever, manufactured and smelly red herrings are dropped in front of the unsuspecting North American public to distract them from the real issues of the day, like that previous announcement of a merged security agreement between Canada and the U.S. and the resulting "new border" which voluntarily and arbitrarily gives away sovereignty of both Canadians and Americans without so much as a vote, referendum, or chat over a double-double with frosted doughnut at Timmy's.
Who said Canadians want to share a security arrangement? Who said Americans wish to agree to such an arrangement? Don't ask, because we don't know when the dialogue was held. We don't know where the dialogue was held. We don't know IF a dialogue was held.
The fact is, most sadly, Corporate North America has decided such agreements should take place in confidential meetings, undoubtedly with all the perks at taxpayer expense,,, and therefore as the official talking heads, President Obama and Prime Minister Harper, with the help of minions all, must quickly make it so.
Isn't that the way democracy works? All Egyptians know " we support democracy" , after all. We don't really practice it, but we support it.
Readers of Incoming BYTES are encouraged to think for themselves. A few good questions to start with might be " why would we need "security inspections and fees" at all if the new, unified, merged border that gives away our sovereignty is so effective and "necessary" ? -- and of course.... "Is the flying public already not taxed enough for the existing security arrangements at airports that include invasive body searches, X-rays of the physical privates of free, innocent persons, and endless lineups for the privilege of being body searched, X-rayed, and endlessly lined up?
Good questions, but no matter, we're distracted by the red herrings, and suffering from cabin fever WE do hope, however, that someone has answers, especially with a Federal Election coming up.
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Red Herring INspection Fee: Tempest in a Teapot or Manufactured Distraction?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A Quiet US-Canada Security Merger: A Coup d'etat and Superstate?
For the last few weeks Americans and Canadians alike have been watching developments in Egypt and other Mid-East countries with some trepidation. Egyptians and others are screaming for democracy. The genuine outcome in Egypt is yet to be determined, but what has the temporary distraction cost Canadians and Americans alike? What is happening to OUR democracy???
It is interesting to note that "in the meantime" , leaders in North America have been dabbling quietly in what may be "more than slightly important" security agreements and other issues. In the words of one Sorcha Faal, (and as reported to her Western Subscribers), it seems that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have been keeping secrets and being less than forthright with the citizens of both countries. Why is this not surprising? Sovereign "security" issues have been "agreed" but kept under wraps, but there are extreme implications involved.
Perhaps it is best for the reader to digest and interpret the following blog from the late Roland San Juan, (1) now written by his staff and Erick San Juan
I enclose the full text of that article (Feb 8/2011) to ensure that our readers at Incoming BYTES do not miss this discussion. I encourage everyone, Canadians and Americans alike to think for themselves ---and ask your politicians what is really going on......
The article in it's total form is as follows:
Obama Creates World’s First Superstate With US-Canada Merger By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In a shocking coup d'état said to rival Nazi Germany’s 1938 Anschluss (German for “link-up”) of the Austrian Republic, the United States this past week effectively took control of Canada creating what is being called by Russian diplomatic officials as the world’s first 21st Century “Superstate”.
The United States announcement of this “merger” between these two North American Nations was made February 4th by a posting on the WhiteHouse.Gov website of President Obama and which, in part, says:
“Today, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have directed the creation of a United States-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC), composed of senior regulatory, trade, and foreign affairs officials from both governments. In recognition of our $1 trillion annual trade and investment relationship, the RCC has a two-year mandate to work together to promote economic growth, job creation, and benefits to our consumers and businesses through increased regulatory transparency and coordination. They have directed that the first meeting of the RCC be convened within 90 days by the relevant agencies in the United States and Canada.”
Concealed in the “diplo-speak” wording of this historic agreement, however, is the complete overturning of the sovereignty of both the American and Canadian peoples laws and regulations they have lived under for centuries, but which will now be “melded” together with no votes allowed by either of them ever again.
The shock and uproar in Canada over their Prime Minister’s, Steven Harper [photo 2nd left with Obama], signing away their sovereignty to the United States is unprecedented, but the same cannot be said of the American people who, according to Canada’s National Post, have not been allowed to know about it, and as we can read from their article titled “The security perimeter imaginarium of Dr. Harper”, and which, in part, says:
“The New York Times didn’t mention the Harper-Obama agreement (though it did quote some remarks the Prime Minister made about Egypt). There was a story inside the Wall Street Journal, but if any other U.S. media reported on the meeting and press conference, I can’t find it. There is no hint that the US Congress is interested either.”
Equally as shocking were the Canadian government’s deliberate actions to keep this merger secret from their own citizens, and as we can read as reported by the Toronto Star News Service in their article titled “Canada kept U.S. border talks under wraps” and which, in part, says:
“The federal government deliberately kept negotiations on a border deal with Washington secret while it planned ways to massage public opinion in favour of the pact, according to a confidential communications strategy.
The 14-page public relations document recommended that talks keep a “low public profile” in the months leading up to the announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama. At the same time, the government would secretly engage “stakeholders” — interested parties such as big business groups and others — in a way that respected “the confidentiality of the announcement.”
In advance, the government departments involved — including industry, foreign affairs, international trade and citizenship and immigration — were to “align supportive stakeholders to speak positively about the announcement,” according to the strategy prepared by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ officials.”
One of the “supportive stakeholders” in the merger of Canada with the US is called the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), who in their statement supporting it said, “This is the kind of government action that we in the business community have been seeking for years”.
Canada’s Pacific Free Press, however, has slammed this merger for what it really is, a capitalist corporate takeover of both the United States and Canada, and as we can read as reported in their article titled “New Harper/Obama Border Deal about Corporate Power - Not Security and Trade”:
“The Corporations behind this deal own the politicians who signed it, and the media that are telling us 'how good it is'.
The CCCE is the secretive umbrella group that represents Corporate Canada. The CCCE is the banks, big oil, the drug companies and manufacturers and retailers and all the rest; the people and corporations who own our country. Many believe they ARE the government of Canada. They are the ones behind this deal.
Also in the Border Deal: A new 'Council' will 'harmonize' regulations between Canada and the United States (google: Regulatory Cooperation Council):
The Corporations want ONE SET of business-friendly rules for Canada and the United States, they want control of the rules and regulations that govern us, and that is what this deal is largely about.
Where is the Corporate Media? Where is the CBC? All silent - under Corporate orders.
Where are the Unions? The Environmental Groups? The Council of Canadians? The Social Groups. The other Political Parties? We are allowed to hear nothing from them either.
This powerful new agreement will further undermine our democracy, it is all about Corporate Power and Wealth.
Here in Victoria BC, our main Corporate radio station, CFAX, tells us the new border deal will be good for security and trade and nothing to worry about. That is just Corporate Propaganda, but only that one message is put out.
The border deal will 'protect us' from terror. That's how it's being 'sold', but in fact we are getting in bed with the number one terrorist nation in the world today, the United States of America; a nation that is also bankrupt and may be nearing social upheaval. Even worse, this deal gives more power to Corporations which have neither heart nor soul and who will happily see us ruined if it means increased Profit for them; we know this because it is what they do everywhere in the world. Why is Stephen Harper signing us into secret deals with these lunatics?
The new agreement will make it easier to cross the border. This is the other selling point for the deal, but of course the 'tightening' of the Canada/US border was done to give us 'a problem' that they are now going to solve with a new border around us - which was the Corporate Plan all along.
These are the kinds of games these lunatics play.”
The great British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) once said, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”, and which, sadly, appears to be the case with this historic merger between the US and Canada as those who know and care won’t be heard, but those who do will reign in tyranny over those who live their lives in ignorance.
And yes it is true, and worth repeating, “These are the kinds of games these lunatics play.”
© February 8, 2011 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked back to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com.
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]
(Note: INCOMING BYTES acknowledges with thanks all copyrights that belong to WhatDoesItMean.com, Sorcha Faal, and/or Roland San Juan, Erick San Juan et al.)
(1) http://rolandsanjuan.blogspot.com/2011/02/obama-creates-worlds-first-superstate.html
It is interesting to note that "in the meantime" , leaders in North America have been dabbling quietly in what may be "more than slightly important" security agreements and other issues. In the words of one Sorcha Faal, (and as reported to her Western Subscribers), it seems that President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have been keeping secrets and being less than forthright with the citizens of both countries. Why is this not surprising? Sovereign "security" issues have been "agreed" but kept under wraps, but there are extreme implications involved.
Perhaps it is best for the reader to digest and interpret the following blog from the late Roland San Juan, (1) now written by his staff and Erick San Juan
I enclose the full text of that article (Feb 8/2011) to ensure that our readers at Incoming BYTES do not miss this discussion. I encourage everyone, Canadians and Americans alike to think for themselves ---and ask your politicians what is really going on......
The article in it's total form is as follows:
Obama Creates World’s First Superstate With US-Canada Merger
February 8, 2011 ?5/7/7.5?Obama Creates World’s First Superstate With US-Canada Merger By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
In a shocking coup d'état said to rival Nazi Germany’s 1938 Anschluss (German for “link-up”) of the Austrian Republic, the United States this past week effectively took control of Canada creating what is being called by Russian diplomatic officials as the world’s first 21st Century “Superstate”.
The United States announcement of this “merger” between these two North American Nations was made February 4th by a posting on the WhiteHouse.Gov website of President Obama and which, in part, says:
“Today, President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have directed the creation of a United States-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC), composed of senior regulatory, trade, and foreign affairs officials from both governments. In recognition of our $1 trillion annual trade and investment relationship, the RCC has a two-year mandate to work together to promote economic growth, job creation, and benefits to our consumers and businesses through increased regulatory transparency and coordination. They have directed that the first meeting of the RCC be convened within 90 days by the relevant agencies in the United States and Canada.”
Concealed in the “diplo-speak” wording of this historic agreement, however, is the complete overturning of the sovereignty of both the American and Canadian peoples laws and regulations they have lived under for centuries, but which will now be “melded” together with no votes allowed by either of them ever again.
The shock and uproar in Canada over their Prime Minister’s, Steven Harper [photo 2nd left with Obama], signing away their sovereignty to the United States is unprecedented, but the same cannot be said of the American people who, according to Canada’s National Post, have not been allowed to know about it, and as we can read from their article titled “The security perimeter imaginarium of Dr. Harper”, and which, in part, says:
“The New York Times didn’t mention the Harper-Obama agreement (though it did quote some remarks the Prime Minister made about Egypt). There was a story inside the Wall Street Journal, but if any other U.S. media reported on the meeting and press conference, I can’t find it. There is no hint that the US Congress is interested either.”
Equally as shocking were the Canadian government’s deliberate actions to keep this merger secret from their own citizens, and as we can read as reported by the Toronto Star News Service in their article titled “Canada kept U.S. border talks under wraps” and which, in part, says:
“The federal government deliberately kept negotiations on a border deal with Washington secret while it planned ways to massage public opinion in favour of the pact, according to a confidential communications strategy.
The 14-page public relations document recommended that talks keep a “low public profile” in the months leading up to the announcement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama. At the same time, the government would secretly engage “stakeholders” — interested parties such as big business groups and others — in a way that respected “the confidentiality of the announcement.”
In advance, the government departments involved — including industry, foreign affairs, international trade and citizenship and immigration — were to “align supportive stakeholders to speak positively about the announcement,” according to the strategy prepared by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews’ officials.”
One of the “supportive stakeholders” in the merger of Canada with the US is called the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), who in their statement supporting it said, “This is the kind of government action that we in the business community have been seeking for years”.
Canada’s Pacific Free Press, however, has slammed this merger for what it really is, a capitalist corporate takeover of both the United States and Canada, and as we can read as reported in their article titled “New Harper/Obama Border Deal about Corporate Power - Not Security and Trade”:
“The Corporations behind this deal own the politicians who signed it, and the media that are telling us 'how good it is'.
The CCCE is the secretive umbrella group that represents Corporate Canada. The CCCE is the banks, big oil, the drug companies and manufacturers and retailers and all the rest; the people and corporations who own our country. Many believe they ARE the government of Canada. They are the ones behind this deal.
Also in the Border Deal: A new 'Council' will 'harmonize' regulations between Canada and the United States (google: Regulatory Cooperation Council):
The Corporations want ONE SET of business-friendly rules for Canada and the United States, they want control of the rules and regulations that govern us, and that is what this deal is largely about.
Where is the Corporate Media? Where is the CBC? All silent - under Corporate orders.
Where are the Unions? The Environmental Groups? The Council of Canadians? The Social Groups. The other Political Parties? We are allowed to hear nothing from them either.
This powerful new agreement will further undermine our democracy, it is all about Corporate Power and Wealth.
Here in Victoria BC, our main Corporate radio station, CFAX, tells us the new border deal will be good for security and trade and nothing to worry about. That is just Corporate Propaganda, but only that one message is put out.
The border deal will 'protect us' from terror. That's how it's being 'sold', but in fact we are getting in bed with the number one terrorist nation in the world today, the United States of America; a nation that is also bankrupt and may be nearing social upheaval. Even worse, this deal gives more power to Corporations which have neither heart nor soul and who will happily see us ruined if it means increased Profit for them; we know this because it is what they do everywhere in the world. Why is Stephen Harper signing us into secret deals with these lunatics?
The new agreement will make it easier to cross the border. This is the other selling point for the deal, but of course the 'tightening' of the Canada/US border was done to give us 'a problem' that they are now going to solve with a new border around us - which was the Corporate Plan all along.
These are the kinds of games these lunatics play.”
The great British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) once said, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”, and which, sadly, appears to be the case with this historic merger between the US and Canada as those who know and care won’t be heard, but those who do will reign in tyranny over those who live their lives in ignorance.
And yes it is true, and worth repeating, “These are the kinds of games these lunatics play.”
© February 8, 2011 EU and US all rights reserved. Permission to use this report in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked back to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com.
[Ed. Note: Western governments and their intelligence services actively campaign against the information found in these reports so as not to alarm their citizens about the many catastrophic Earth changes and events to come, a stance that the Sisters of Sorcha Faal strongly disagrees with in believing that it is every human beings right to know the truth. Due to our missions conflicts with that of those governments, the responses of their ‘agents’ against us has been a longstanding misinformation/misdirection campaign designed to discredit and which is addressed in the report “Who Is Sorcha Faal?”.]
(Note: INCOMING BYTES acknowledges with thanks all copyrights that belong to WhatDoesItMean.com, Sorcha Faal, and/or Roland San Juan, Erick San Juan et al.)
(1) http://rolandsanjuan.blogspot.com/2011/02/obama-creates-worlds-first-superstate.html
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