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Criminal complaint filed against Canadian “Human Rights” Commission for theft of WiFi signals in order to spy on Canadians and post racist messages on websites
APRIL 2, 2008: Over the past few weeks it has been revealed that employees of the Canadian Human Rights Commission have been using fake pseudonyms to sign up accounts on website they have targeted as “hate” sites. In explosive allegations filed by Marc Lemire with the Ottawa Police Service and the RCMP, not only were the CHRC spying and posting misinformation on targeted websites – but they connected to the unsecured wireless access point of an unsuspecting neighbor and impersonated her internet connection to do it!
After 10 months of litigation due to absurd claims of “national security” by a panic stricken CHRC, and a blizzard of legal motions, Marc Lemire won the right for a subpoena of the records of Bell Canada to reveal the subscriber information of “Jadewarr” an account used on the White Nationalist Stormfront.org website by CHRC employees.\
The “Jadewarr” character had tried to entrap Marc Lemire and others. A few months ago it was revealed at the Federal Court of Canada that the “Jadewarr” account was used by numerous CHRC employees, but primarily by a Senior Investigator named Dean Steacy.
Alain Monfette, director of the law enforcement support team for Bell Canada , was called by Marc Lemire pursuant to a subpoena to bring the subscriber information of the person using the “Jadewarr” account on Stormfront.
Mr. Monfette testified on March 25, 2008 that the Bell Canada subscriber using IP address 70.48.181.203 on Dec 8, 2006 (connected for the entire day) was: Nelly Hechme. Of Laurier Avenue in Ottawa .
It is now becoming crystal clear why the Human Rights Commission had so strenuously fought the issuance of the subpoena after their last minute capitulation before we went to Federal Court, January 15 to challenge their invoking Sec. 37 of the Canada Evidence Act. Once having claimed the information would endanger either “national security” or the safety of a person, the Commission threw up its hands and admitted the “jadewarr” pseudonym trolling Stormfront (and, it would turn out, on many other conservative and nationalist forums) was none other than their blind lead “hate” investigator Dean Steacy.
So, if the subpoenaed Bell Canada information would reveal that the IP address of “Jadewarr” was a Canadian Human Rights Commission address, why fight the subpoena?
Now we knew. “Jadewarr”" address was not at the CHRC. The plot now thickened and the depths of Commission skullduggery and subterfuge got even skankier.
During later testimony Dean Steacy claimed he to had no knowledge of who Nelly Hechme was or how that person got access to the “Jadewarr” account on Stormfront.
Later that evening, the National Post’s Joe Brean called Nelly Hechme and asked what she knew about this. The poor Nelly was shocked. I am sure it’s a pretty odd day when the National Post calls and asks if you’re a government agent posting racist messages on the Stormfront website, especially when you have no idea what Stormfront even is.
Attention Bloggers - Uncle Sam Wants You!
According to “Blogs and Military Information Strategy,” a 2006 report written for U.S. Special Operations Command: “Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering.”
The report introduces the military audience to the “blogging phenomenon,” and lays out a number of ways in which the armed forces — specifically, the military’s public affairs, information operations, and psychological operations units — might use the sites to their advantage:
Information strategists can consider clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers or other persons of prominence… to pass the U.S. message. In this way, the U.S. can overleap the entrenched inequalities and make use of preexisting intellectual and social capital. Sometimes numbers can be effective; hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering. On the other hand, such operations can have a blowback effect, as witnessed by the public reaction following revelations that the U.S. military had paid journalists to publish stories in the Iraqi press under their own names. People do not like to be deceived, and the price of being exposed is lost credibility and trust.
An alternative strategy is to “make” a blog and blogger. The process of boosting the blog to a position of influence could take some time, however, and depending on the person running the blog, may impose a significant educational burden, in terms of cultural and linguistic training before the blog could be put online to any useful effect. Still, there are people in the military today who like to blog. In some cases, their talents might be redirected toward operating blogs as part of an information campaign. If a military blog offers valuable information that is not available from other sources, it could rise in rank fairly rapidly.
Full story at Wired.
Via Crooks and Liars.
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Federal Reserve To Nationalize All US Banks?
The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis.
The Fed has been criticised for its rescue of Bear Stearns, which critics say has degenerated into a taxpayer gift to rich bankers.
A senior official at one of the Scandinavian central banks told The Daily Telegraph that Fed strategists had stepped up contacts to learn how Norway, Sweden and Finland managed their traumatic crisis from 1991 to 1993, which brought the region’s economy to its knees.
It is understood that Fed vice-chairman Don Kohn remains very concerned by the depth of the US crisis and is eyeing the Nordic approach for contingency options.
Scandinavia’s bank rescue proved successful and is now a model for central bankers, unlike Japan’s drawn-out response, where ailing banks were propped up in a half-public limbo for years.
While the responses varied in each Nordic country, there a was major effort to avoid the sort of “moral hazard” that has bedevilled efforts by the Fed and the Bank of England in trying to stabilise their banking systems.
Norway ensured that shareholders of insolvent lenders received nothing and the senior management was entirely purged. Two of the country’s top four banks - Christiania Bank and Fokus - were seized by force majeure.
“We were determined not to get caught in the game we’ve seen with Bear Stearns where shareholders make money out of the rescue,” said one Norwegian adviser.
“The law was amended so that we could take 100% control of any bank where its equity had fallen below zero. Shareholders were left with nothing. It was very controversial,” he said.
Stefan Ingves, governor of Sweden’s Riksbank, said his country passed an act so it could seize banks where the capital adequacy ratio had fallen below 2pc. Efforts were also made to protect against “blackmail” by shareholders.
Mr Ingves said there were parallels with the US crisis, citing the use of off-balance sheet vehicles to speculate on property. All the Nordic banks were nursed back to health and refloated or merged.
The tough policies contrast with the Fed’s bail-out of Bear Stearns, where shareholders forced JP Morgan to increase its Fed-led rescue offer from $2 to $10 a share. Christopher Wood, chief strategist at brokers CLSA, says the Fed’s piecemeal approach has led to “appalling moral hazard”.
“Shareholders have been able to lobby for a higher share price only because the Fed took over the credit risk on $30bn of the investment bank’s dubious paper. The whole affair also amounts to a colossal subsidy for JP Morgan,” he said.
TSA: Pierced nipples a no-no?
LOS ANGELES — A Texas woman who claims she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
“I wouldn’t wish this experience upon anyone,” Mandi Hamlin, 37, said at a news conference. “My experience with TSA was a nightmare I had to endure. No one deserves to be treated this way.”
Hamlin said she was trying to board a flight from Lubbock to Dallas on Feb. 24 when she was scanned by a Transportation Security Administration agent after passing through a larger metal detector without problems.
The female TSA agent used a handheld detector that beeped when it passed in front of Hamlin’s chest, the Dallas-area resident said.
Hamlin said she told the woman that she was wearing nipple piercings. The female agent then called over her male colleagues, one of whom said she would have to remove the body piercings, Hamlin claimed.
Hamlin said she could not remove them and asked if she could instead display her pierced breasts in private to the female agent. But several other male officers told her she could not board her flight until the jewelry was removed, she said.
She was taken behind a curtain and managed to remove one bar-shaped nipple piercing but had trouble with the second, a ring.
“Still crying, she informed the TSA officer that she could not remove it without the help of pliers, and the officer gave a pair to her,” said Hamlin’s attorney…
Full story at The Houston Chronicle
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Food Advertising And Reality
Pundo3000.com shares their collection of food product photos - how does the real thing match up to the picture on the packaging? Bon appetit!
