C-FAR #326 - August, 1998
Preston Goes A-Bilderbergering
What's a supposed populist and grass rooter like
Reform Party leader Preston Manning doing attending the secretive , New
World Order quarterback club called the Bilderberg Conference. This annual
high-powered, invitation-only meeting was held this year at the Turnberry
Hotel in Ayrshire, Scotland, May 14-17. (Spotlight, June 1, 1998) Other
Canadians attending this meeting were publishing magnate Conrad Black and
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Stephane Dion. Other participants included
former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Henry R. Kravis, founding
partner Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co., Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman
N.M. Rothschild & Sons, and David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase
Manhattan Bank.
In his autobiography, A Life in Progress [available
from C-FAR Books for $12.00], Conrad Black confesses: "Not having
very satisfactory recollections of school days, nor being a very enthusiastic
or observant university alumnus, Bilderberg has been the closest I have
known to that sort of camaraderie." (p.279) He also explains how he
first was recruited into Bilderberg. "In May, 1981, thanks to [former
Liberal Finance Minister] Don Macdonald and Tony Griffin, I attended the
first of many annual Bilderberg meetings. ... Don was a member of the Sterling
Committee and Tony on the advisory board of the Bilderberg meetings and
they had the authority to invite Canadian attenders. This group was set
up in the mid-fifties by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and was designed
to strengthen understanding between prominent people in the North Atlantic
community. ... About 120 or so people meet. ... They normally include senior
officials of the governments of all the countries represented, with a wide
swath of enlightened business, academic, media and military leaders.
There was also always a group of international
officials, led by the NATO secretary general and military commander."
(p.278-279) Black makes another intriguing comment about the role of the
Bilderbergers in his life: "Providentially, the world became more
accessible for me as Canada became less commodious. It was from Bilderberg
that our company's eventual vocation as an international newspaper organization
arose." (p.280) By 1987, Black had moved up in the Bilderberger hierarchy.
"As Don Macdonald had retired from the Steering Committee of Bilderberg,
it was principally my task to choose the Canadian attenders; one member
of our group was Norman Webster, editor of the Globe and Mail." (p.384)
Professor Calls Bronfman Tax Free
Exodus "Grievous Tax Avoidance"
Ordinary Canadian salary serfs have federal and
provincial taxes gouged directly out of their pay cheques. there's no hiding
from the rapacious taxman. However, if you're the well connected Bronfman
family, the booze dynasty established by old bootlegger Sam Bronf- man,
another set of rules apparently apply. "Revenue Canada committed 'grievous
tax avoidance' by allowing a wealthy Canadian family to move a $2.2-billion
family trust out of the country tax-free, a tax expert testified [July
9 in Winnipeg]. Neil Brooks, a professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in
Toronto, said the decision, which forfeited about $700-million in tax,
sets a dangerous precedent. ... The family involved has not been identified
under confidentiality rules, but the Globe and Mail identified the trust
as belonging to Montreal's Bronfman family." (Globe and Mail, July
10, 1998) Family member Edgar Bronfman heads the World Jewish Congress
and is currently involved in a crusade to shake down the Swiss banks for
moneys allegedly left in accounts by Jews before and during World War II
and suddenly remembered now more than half a century later. If caring for
his impoverished co-religionists was such a high priority, Bronfman might
donate the windfall $700-million plus that should have gone to the Canadian
government.
CIDA Sends $400,000 for Burkina
Faso Election
The foreign aid crazies of the 1960s may have
grown a little paunchy and grey in their CIDA jobs, but that doesn't stop
them from meddling and hurling money around. Keeping in mind that B.C.'s
NDP government is refusing a referendum to its people over the latest land
and money giveaway to the Nisga'a an keeping in mind, too, that our parliament
regularly ignores the will of the Majority on such matters as immigration
and capital punishment, it would seem that we ought to be implementing
democracy here at home rather than showing the people of Burkina Faso how
to do it. "Burkina Faso is a nation of 11 million people with a per-capita
income of about $300 a year, so poor there are only a few hundred television
sets in the whole country. Granted independence from France in 1960, it
has served much of its time under military rule. The current president
Blaise Campaore, came to power in 1987 in a bloody uprising..... Mr. Campaore
has sought to give himself an aura of democratic legitimacy. He held a
presidential election in 1991, but no one bothered to run against him and
only one quarter of those eligible turned out to vote." (Globe and
Mail, July 8, 1998)
He muzzles the media and crushes opposition demonstrations.
"Enter Elections Canada and the Canadian International Development
Agency. Canadian officials, known for their expertise and lack of political
baggage, have helped run elections in more than 80 countries. And Canada,
like other rich nations, now uses aid to promote 'democratic development
and good governance' as well as for food and water pumps. (That doesn't
mean Canadian aid goes only to democracies. China is number one on our
gift list.) ... Of the $400.000 earmarked for Burkina Faso, half will be
used to send Canadians there to help computerize voters' lists. One quarter
will pay for officials from the country's election commission to come to
Canada for training. The rest will be handed out by CIDA's staff in Burkina
Faso to civic groups that provide information about how to vote. Burkina
Faso's share of Ottawa's aid budget is growing. It got $20.13-million in
1995-96, 8 per cent more than the previous year, and ranked 25 among Canadian
aid recipients."
Russia Sinking to African Levels
of Corruption and Poverty
Gangster oligarchy and intractable corruption
are giving free enterprise a bad name in Russia and mark the descent into
wretched poverty and a plummeting health standards of this once great European
power. "There is no reasonable measure by which Russia deserves another
$20-billion handout. The only evidence which exists proving the western
orientation of the Russian government is the political, military and business
elites' ability to ape the lavish lifestyles of the West's most rich and
famous. As has been widely noted everywhere but in Russia itself, the sole
reason that this country has done far better with its begging bowl than
South Korea or Indonesia is that it has lots of nukes. The sub-text is
that while it may be bootless to give Russia another penny, there is a
growing fear abroad that if Boris Yeltsin's allegedly reformist regime
is deposed it would be followed by an even more incompetent, undemocratic
administration which might give the West greater trouble over Iraq, Iran
and Kosovo and might be more overt about nuclear blackmail. About the only
thing that Western leaders, diplomats or bankers cannot conceive of is
that the next Russian government might be more corrupt. ... Drawing parallels
between Russia and Africa may be mean, but it is not too farfetched. Weather
aside, the Dark Country and the Dark Continent have a lot in common.
Both Russians and Africans prefer to blame foreign
devils for their troubles rather than accepting that it is largely domestic
thievery that keeps them on their knees. No one takes responsibility for
anything in either place. Nor is the public able or willing to hold their
leaders accountable. As in Nigeria or what used to be called Zaire, Russians
at the top of the feeding chain plunder state assets without compunction
or hindrance. Like their African brothers, they launder their ill-gotten
lucre in Switzerland, Cyprus, the Channel Islands and the Caymans. They
also compete with each other for properties in choice districts of London,
Paris and Geneva and for places for their sons and grandsons in British
private schools where the idea is to turn little boys into proper English
gentlemen. As in Africa, there is good, often excellent medical care available
to the chosen few in Russia. Otherwise, public health standards here are
becoming African-like.
The number of new AIDS cases in Russia is ascending
to Central African levels. The average lifespan of Russian males is descending
to sub-Saharan numbers. That scourge of Africa, cholera, has been reported
again in Moscow this summer and is a regular hazard across the Russian
south. Tuberculosis and other diseases are on a rampage in both places.
The water and electricity supply in many Russian cities is as dodgy today
as it is in Kinshasa or Mogadishu. Because bills aren't paid, some places
in the Far North and the Far East and much of the African interior don't
have any electricity at all. Amin, Bokassa and Mobutu have their twins
in the despots who rule Kalmykia, Chechnya and Bashkortostan. Yet, another
similarity is the penchant of politicians and bureaucrats in Moscow and
almost every African capital to treat themselves to top-of-the-line Mercedes
limousines and four wheel drive monsters with darkened windows as well
as fabulous houses built with state funds or labour. The average wage in
Russia is still higher than it is in Africa, but not by much. And as in
Africa, many workers get paid late if they get paid at all.
There is no proper measure of unemployment in
either place. Street beggars are a routine part of quotidian life. So are
queues outside American consulates of those seeking visas to the Promised
Land. Russia and Africa share policemen on the take who have little interest
in solving crimes. Senior army officers strut around in smart costumes
loaded down with medals, but command armies not capable of much except
the ham-fisted suppression of dissent at home. (Toronto Sun, July 27, 1998)
Federal Sneaks Plan More Gun Confiscations
A disarmed citizenry is absolutely vital for
the masters of the New World Order. A population unable to defend itself
is far easier to handle even when they finally realize they've been the
victims of immigration invasions for cheap labour or that they've been
hooked up to some form of global plantation. "The same day that Garry
Breitkreuz (Reform -- Yorkton-Melville) leaked a letter from the Canadian
Police Association (CPA) condemning the Justice Department for massive
violation of property rights, the Saskatchewan MP was informed his private
member's bill (C-304) to strengthen property rights in federal law was
selected for debate in Parliament. 'This letter from the police demonstrates
why property rights need to be strengthened in federal law exactly as my
bill proposes. The government obviously thinks that just because property
rights were intentionally left out of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
they can run roughshod over this most fundamental of human rights,' said
Breitkreuz. The CPA letter confirmed that Justice Department officials
informed the Minister's own User Group on Firearms that, despite their
protests, the government will proceed with plans to confiscate (without
compensation) 20,000 to 30,000 legally-owned handguns banned and based
primarily on the 'opinion' of the Minister of Justice under the authority
granted by Bill C-68, the Firearms Act.
The banned firearms are part of the lawfully
acquired inventory of hundreds of registered firearms dealers in Canada.
... Breitkreuz explained the government is: (1) Violating these citizens'
common law protection of property rights which have existed since the Magna
Carta first codified this fundamental right; (2) Violating the property
rights provisions of the Canadian Bill of Rights and the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and (3) Proceeding contrary to a
number of Supreme Court decisions and legal precedents regarding property
rights. 'Property rights are natural and fundamental and based on hundreds
of years of common law. The only legal protection in federal law rests
in the Canadian Bill of Rights,' reported Breitkreuz, 'and the government's
action prove that even this limited protection needs to be strengthened."
(News Release from Garry Breitkreuz, June 5, 1998)
14 Bed Field Hospital is Best Medical
Facility in Haiti
Haiti has had its independence since 1805. Black
power has ruled. Yet, " they have every imaginable ailment, from oozing
lesions to cancerous tumours. The only medical care they can count on comes
from a handful of American soldiers still in Haiti nearly four years after
the U.S. military intervention. Neither Haiti's state hospital nor its
elected government, restored to power by U.S. troops in 1994, can afford
to treat them. Every Wednesday, residents of Pele -- one of the worst slums
in the Western Hemisphere -- line up at the Missionary Brothers of Charity
school to wait under the boiling sun to be treated by medics attached to
the U.S. Support Group. Raymonde Pierre-Gustave's pelvis was crushed when
she got pinned between two trucks. The 34-year-old spent three days at
the State University Hospital before she was kicked out -- untreated. They
said no doctor was available and that there was nothing the matter with
me,' Pierre-Gustave said, lying painfully on a bench in the courtyard while
waiting to be seen by U.S. Army medics. ...About 75 percent of Haiti's
7.2 million people live in absolute poverty, and 40 percent have no access
to modern medical care.
The State University Hospital, which caters to
the urban poor, has a 30 percent mortality rate. ... The contrast between
the impeccable, air-conditioned tent that is the field hospital and the
grisly shantytowns the patients come from is striking. Wounds fester and
gangrene sets in. Unset broken bones cripple the injured. Foetuses that
die in the womb aren't removed, and their mothers die. That is the rule,
not the exception, Maj. James Swenson said. "The living standard here
is unimaginable to people back home," he said." (The Associated
Press , July 26, 1998) So, the U.S. Army helps. Where are all the rich
Nigerian oil multimillionaires or the rich U.S. negro entertainers (Whoopi
Goldberg, Bill Cosbie) or sports stars (Magic Johnson, etc.) to pass the
hat or contribute to better the lot of their fellow blacks?
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