Boston Marathon Bombing

I think we are all in shock over the news of two bombs going off at the Boston Marathon yesterday. The Boston Marathon is a world famous nonviolent event. How anyone could mar that with such and act of random violence is very difficult to comprehend. Just as difficult to understand as someone walking into a school or a movie theater and shooting innocent civilians. Incomprehensible.

Acts of terror, as revolting as they may be, supply us with a motive. Someone is angry about some foreign policy and takes out revenge on innocent civilians. Yet the timing of this horrible event is baffling. There is no current aggressive military action. The US have pulled out of Iraq, things are winding down in Afghanistan. Any enemy of the United States knows very well that any kind of terrorist attack on innocent civilians on American soil would outrage the world and result is a swift retaliation. Everyone knows that. So why do it?

I know I’m not the only one thinking it and as treasonous as it may sound, the real treason is to bury our head in the sand and refuse to consider all options. Including the possibility that our greatest enemy currently in the one from within.

John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Although many conspiracy theories abound over who did it and why, the fact remains that he was indeed assassinated. He was assassinated after he vetoed Operation Northwoods and fired the Director of the CIA, Alan Dulles. Operation Northwoods was a historical fact.

I know many will start to scream in a hysteric frenzy at this point. Let them scream. No one can deny the existence of Operation Northwoods and our failure to examine that text today is treason. The plan, as submitted by the Director of the CIA and signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was a plan to kill American civilians on American soil and blame it on Cuba to gain public support to invade Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis.

This text needs to be discussed and examined because the fact that plan got as far as it did is astounding. What if Kennedy didn’t veto it? They would have implemented that obscene plan. We need to think about that. We need to talk about that. We need to remember that. It is of huge significance.

Four years after Kennedy’s assassination, the USS Liberty was “mistakenly” attacked and President Johnston recalled the air support. That is something we need to think about. That is something we need to discuss. That is something we need to remember. That too has a huge significance in understanding this enemy from within.

The Gary Webb story is real. The drug trafficking the Agency did out of Mena Arkansas though Barry Seal and Chip Tatum was repeated in Operation Fast and Furious. As heart wrenching as the thought is, it’s something we have to face. If the Agency is capable of trafficking drugs, what else is it capable of? If they planned to kill innocent civilians to gain public support for a military action once, could they ever conceivably consider it again?

Michael Moore was astounded that the senators that voted on the Patriot Act hadn’t even read it. One Senator explained to him that they don’t read most of the bills they vote on. Yet the National Defense Authorization Act that was passed under Obama’s watch is even worse. It gave the military power to set up checkpoints and search civilians at will and arrest them with out charge, trial or legal representation as long as they deemed the person to be a domestic terrorist. At the same time England classified everyone in the occupy movement as a domestic terrorist. This act of treason is a violation of the US Constitution and the Bill of rights.

That’s the point. The Constitution now hangs by a thread. The greatest enemy there is at this time who is eroding and violating the US Constitution is this enemy from within. The Karachi affair.



The FBI have released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. How on earth is a kitchen pressure cooker packed with explosives and nails going to fit in either of these two bags?

Obama fooled us. He hasn’t closed Guantanamo bay. The US troops are protecting opium fields in Afghanistan. Operation Fast and Furious happened under his watch. Guess who paid for Obama’s education? After graduating from Columbia University, Obama worked for a CIA front company called Business International Corporation (BIC). Sibel Edmons sums it up well in her boiling frogs blog.

Brittney Irving - April 6th 2010

One of Brittney Irving’s friends wrote in and asked me to write about her case since it was the three year anniversary of her murder. This case concerns me. Along with the murder of Geoff Meisner and Dain Philips it was the focus of the Kelowna Summer Jam last year.

It’s yet another heart wrenching tale of a beautiful young woman cut down in her prime. Someone who was addicted to oxy and excited about going into treatment once and for all. Joey Verma, originally from the Independent Soldiers and associated with the Kingpin Crew was charged in her murder. The voir dire is set for June 2013 and the trial is set for September 2013. Finally.

Just prior to her murder, Brittney was arrested after RCMP raided a grow-op at her home. She was selling pot to pay for her oxy addiction. She had decided to go into treatment and was on one last drug deal at the Days Inn hotel. She was last seen by a family member at the Days Inn but left to visit someone about the drug deal in Rutland. We know another tragedy occurred in Rutland. The murder of Dain Philips. Robert Thomas and Norm Cocks have been charged in that murder.

The night before Brittney disappeared one of her friends claim when referring to this last drug deal: "She said, 'I'm going to meet someone that is a real bad person, and I'm scared of doing what I'm going to do. But this is the last time, don't convince me not to.”

If Britney was running a grow op in her home, it was for the Hells Angles. If she wanted to get out of the business she would have had to meet with someone further up the food chain. Leaving the business isn’t something these predators take kindly too. Making up a false report about her being an informant would be a common excuse to kill her. They made the same false report up about Geoff Meisner when they found someone else to do his Vegas run for less money.

If Joey has been charged in her murder, no doubt he could have been involved. Yet this whole theory of him ripping her off and killing her as a drug rip is a bit far fetched. As I said before, if he was acting on his own and ripped her off, he would have left town because he would have been ripping off the Hells Angels. Yet he didn’t. He stayed in town doing business as usual. In fact he even got a VP tattoo for Vice President and was reported to be recruiting for the Kingpin Crew in prison as though it was a sanctioned hit.

So we can use Joey as a scape goat for the murder but the bottom line is that someone further up the food chain had to have called the hit. Richard Goldhammer is the one who was overseeing the Kingpin Crew on behalf of the Hells Angels. At least he was when Geoff Meisner was murdered. Somehow I think these two cases are connected.

The press got a hold of Tammy’s court application to try and get Geoff deemed legally dead so she could sell some assets to feed her kids. In that report she admitted that Geoff was affiliated with the Kingpin Crew and the Hells Angels. That would implicate Dale and Dick. Seeing how Dale was just a low life puppet. Oh I mean low level. My bad. Sounds like things aren’t going too well for him and his crew right now. In fact it would implicate all of the Kelowna Hells Angels. Just like in Quebec where they are all being tried for murder because they contributed part of their drug profits to a fund to murder rival drug dealers.

Brittney’s Ford Explorer was found parked in a pullout on Philpott Road near Highway 33 in Joe Rich. That’s on the way to Big White. I drove past there last month. It’s beautiful out there. Lots of nice scenery Brittney would have enjoyed taking pictures of. Brittney worked as a care aid and would often go in to work on her days off. "Not because she got paid to do it, but rather because she enjoyed the people she worked with." May she rest in peace.

David Bishop sentenced for drug trafficking in Halifax prison

David Bishop was just sentenced to two and a half years for drug trafficking in Halifax prison. Bishop wore Bacchus clothing to his meetings with a police agent he sold drugs to. During their conversations, he talked about having two jail guards working for him and said he had lost $17,000 when Malcolm Beaton was arrested.

Malcolm Beaton, a former corrections officer, was arrested last October and faces charges of breach of trust, possession of hydromorphone and marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and conspiracy to traffic in the drugs. It’s the third time in just over three years that a member of the justice system has been charged with trying to sneak drugs into the jail. A lawyer was arrested in July 2009 and a sheriff’s deputy was nabbed in October 2009.



No word on Bacchus getting their butts kicked at the Hells Angels party with the Gate Keepers. Perhaps it’s just another name change since Bacchus has criminal organization charges in the works. That way if the police seize Bacchus clubhouses the Hells Angels can still run Gate Keeper clubhouses. Until they get caught committing criminal acts for the Hells Angels as well.

Nic Nero and the murder of Johnnie Raposo

Interesting to note that Larry Amero's pal Rabih Alkhalil’s coacused in contracting the murder of Johnnie Raposo in Toronto is another long time Hells Angels associate named Nic Nero. A former body builder and armed robber who became a cocaine trafficking kingpin in Niagara.

While Toronto Police homicide detectives have insight into the slaying that they’re not revealing, organized crime specialists suspect drugs and drug ripoffs may have prompted the alleged hit on the 35-year-old. Some claim Johnnie Raposo had gambling debts. However, another source told the Toronto Sun that Raposo was aggressive and more likely to be the kind of man who you would owe money to, rather than run up his own debts.

My question is, if the Calabrians from Hamilton were doing hits on the Rizzutos while Vito was in prison, Who was good old Nic Nero the armed robbery Hells Angels associate getting his cocaine from? The Rizzutos or the Calabrians out of Hamilton? Who was Oh Johnnie selling for?

We know the Hells Angels were working with the Rizutos again after Vito got out of prison in that billion dollar cocaine for BC Bud trade in NYC. I’m just wondering who they were working with when Vito was in prison.

31 Quebec Hells Angels freed due to court delays

A couple of stories to catch up on. First is the news that 31 Hells Angels who were arrested back in 2009 have been set free because of court delays which denied their right to a fair trial. Yes it sucks but the sky will not fall. These guys were arrested back in 2009. That is a significant delay.

Charges against the more than 150 accused included murder, gangsterism, drug trafficking and conspiracy. Some have pleaded guilty while others - as many as 100 - are still awaiting trial. The 31 who were released were not facing murder charges but were looking at charges of gangsterism and drug trafficking.

150 people were arrested in 2009. In Quebec the police don’t play around. They freakin arrest everyone. The right to a speedy trial is important. Thus they are reviewing the processing of mega trials in Quebec. Our court system in BC is in much worse shape.

I will comment on this ridiculous flag they had flying before the arrest. I thought it was a Photoshop joke. These idiots actually had that flying over their clubhouse. Not very bright. Yeah they’re gonna take over the country alright. The only territory they’re going to end up with is in prison with the big house crew. Pride cometh before the fall. Word.

Fresh Snow

Yesterday I got off work when it was raining and noticed is was a bit cold out. I said I wonder… So I went home and checkout the web site. Sure enough that rain was fresh snow on the local mountains. Last night it said 5 cm but when I got there this morning it was 30 cm of fresh snow.

There wasn’t a lot of visibility but the snow conditions were awesome. I just had my crampons with me this time and it was a better day for snowshoes so I took the easier trail to First Lake and Dog Mountain on Seymour. First Lake isn’t really a lake it’s more like a pond. Yet the walk through the snow swept forest was magnificent. Today I needed it. All this darkness and corruption in the city was starting to get me down.

It was like winter’s last breath of magic before summer. That snow cap will last quite a while but it looks like rain for Monday. Ski hills close down at the end of the month so this weekend is prime. Surf’s up.

Surrey Council re votes Gateway Casino bid

Can’t say we didn’t see the writing on the wall. After Surrey Council choked at the public opposition to the Gateway Casino’s organized crime metropolis they decided to revote it and the dirty politicians approved it for Newton. This after slimeball Barinder gag Rasode bragged about how the Sikh community opposed the Casino and influenced council to vote it down despite the fact that she voted in favor of it.

This is just the perpetuation of dirty politics. Surrey First accepted campaign contributions from Gateway Casinos. Gateway casinos went through a huge debt restructuring because they lost $1.5 billion. No explanation whatsoever as to where that money went. This whole proposal is a clear example of organized crime in politics.

Surrey Leader’s credibility meltdown

Speaking of the Surrey Leader’s credibility meltdown, interesting to note that they recently pulled a Godzilla and gave themselves an award. A company gives them an award but if you check their website the company that gives the award is advertizing for corporate sponsors and the Black Press is one of their sponsors. So the Black Press, which owns the Surrey Leader, sponsors a company that gives the Surrey Leader an award. That’s somewhat conflicted. It’s just another form of paid advertizing.

This week the Surrey Leader has a front page article supporting Godzilla’s quest to build an incinerator in Surrey. How about no incinerator? Everyone else is phasing them out. Why should we go backwards environmentally and put one in Surrey just because the company that wants to make money burning toxic garbage contributes to a political campaign? The Surrey Leader has some good articles but it is also becoming another Rupert Murdoch tabloid full of propaganda. I’m sure they can pay someone to give them an award for that too. Maybe another poll that says people want to raise taxes and burn toxic waste. They can always just slip a new casino in Newton since people were overwhelmingly opposed to it at the public meeting. I’m sure they’ll give themselves an award for that too.

The Rehtaeh Parsons case

A blog reader asked me to write about this case and I told them I would but it was going to take some time for me to process it. Another young suicide and another gang rape. These horrific events aren’t easy to talk about.

Rehtaeh was from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. 17 months ago she was gang raped by four young men. One of them took pictures of the event and posted it online for everyone at school to see. She was shunned and left town. She couldn’t go back to school.

She moved to Halifax and checked into a hospital to help her cope with anger, depression and thoughts of suicide. She returned to Dartmouth and high school but gave in and committed suicide. It’s a horrible story that retells the same dark atrocity that repeats itself across the country and sadly the globe. Evil cowards bragging about deranged acts. They are the ones that should have been shunned. It shows just how insane society has become.

To make matters worse, the police weren’t laying charges even after her suicide. Today we receive word that the police are “reopening” the case. That doesn’t mean charges will be laid. It just means they are promising to take another look. This after an anonymous group threatened to out the rapists and expose their identity in public. No doubt the world would be much less tolerant of their obscene acts then their small group of insane peers.

I’m not going to expound on it. Gang rape is a deranged act. Raping someone let alone taking turns raping someone displays a mental illness. Bragging about it is insane. This case is such a terrible loss. It represents the loss of a life and the loss of our humanity.

A moving message from Rehtaeh's father.

Coughing up the gold plated pension

Front Page of today’s Vancouver Province is an interesting but depressing article about retiring MLA pensions. The headline reads: B.C.’s retiring MLAs to hit pension jackpot thanks to taxpayers’ generosity.

The article reads: “This Tuesday not only marks the official start of the election campaign, it’s also the day when retiring MLAs hit a pension jackpot of nearly a million bucks apiece. The potential lifetime pension payout for 21 retiring MLAs is a whopping $20.8 million, according to new calculations from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. That number will only grow on May 14, when several incumbent MLAs (mainly Liberals) are expected to be defeated.”

There are two points I have to make. First, that’s a lot of tax dollars. Second, do we remember the history behind the gold plated pension? When Gordon Campbell was first campaigning to be elected he promised to oppose the gold plated pension. Then in his second term he implemented it. To me that’s breach of contract and there should be some kind of legal recourse.

More importantly was the obscene things that happened right before they all did the dirty deed and gave themselves two fat pay raises and the coveted gold plated pension. Gordon went on a ruthless campaign of cuts to social programs targeting the elderly and the mentally ill. They closed Riverview and put the mentally ill on the street to justify their raise and extravagant pension. In my mind that was obscene.

Let’s set aside the left and right name calling and stereotypes. Set aside the pot smoking hippie commies and the right wing corporate fascists for one minute and let’s just look at what happened. They took advantage of the elderly and mentally ill to satisfy their own greed and self indulgence. That was wrong. I don’t care if you’re left or right, what they did was wrong and we let them do it so that act has stained us. Obviously now we are paying for it with our tax dollars yet that act of inhumanity diminished us as human beings.

Cutting back funds for pensioners and cutting back their medical was like stealing a purse from a little old lady done a thousand times over. When we see Gordon Campbell’s dry heaving smile, remember what put that simile on his face. Ripping off taxpayers, seniors and the mentally ill. Getting chauffeured around London to represent Canada during their Olympics was a huge slap in the face of the general public.

I’m not saying Riverview was club med and didn’t need some soul searching of it’s own, but putting the mentally ill on the street was wrong. The numbers of mentally ill that are homeless in East Vancouver has skyrocketed since Gordon Campbell did his dirty deed when he was in office. That put all these immensely vulnerable people right into the hands of the drug dealing predators who gave them crack for free then beat the life out of them for payment. That’s what we did.

We even paid for workers from Vancouver coast “Health” to go around and hand lout free needles and mouthpieces. What’s this for they ask. Well the needles are for shooting heroin. It’s so you don’t share needles which is bad because you could get aids. Oh, thank you. What’s the mouth piece for? That’s for smoking a crack pipe. Sharing crack pipes is bad. You could catch a cold or get some other virus. We care about your health you know. I see, well thank you very much. Now Insite hands out free crack pipes instead of mouthpieces.

To the mentally ill, these workers look like nurses but they’re not. They are little demons doing the devils work at the taxpayers expense. Handing out free needles and crack pipes gives the misconception that shooting heroin or smoking crack is OK but sharing needles isn’t. So as long as you’re not sharing needles, everything is OK. But it’s not. Heroin and crack is like rat poison. It destroys the human mind and body. We are giving these vulnerable people the wrong message and we are feeding the drug dealers profits. That is what we are doing right now and the epidemic in East Vancouver is completely out of control. That is what the gold plated pension has done.



Sadly, the NDP voted in favor of the pay raise and gold plated pension. Carol James had some less than scrupulous MLAs who insisted on supporting it. She should have opposed it and given the caucus a free vote. The rest of us just bowed our heads in shame. Sadly, the BC NDP also strongly support Insite and the abandonment of the Four Pillars.

The number of needles being exchanged at provincially-run centres on P.E.I. has doubled in the last two years. Same with Halifax. That means the program is not working. It is creating more addicts instead of helping them get treatment. John Cummings gets my vote. Maybe Christy Clark should debate him instead. I can’t support Insite and I can’t support the BC Liberals corruption.

It’s the same with the Green Party. The Green Party has some wonderful core beliefs. As Preston Manning recently said, protecting the environment is being fiscally responsibly. Unfortunately I cannot support their position of legalizing all drugs. Legalizing crack and crystal meth is irresponsible. The war on drugs has failed because we never fought it.

Bastards of the Apocalypse

Well, there’s a new version of the trailer park boys in Valley Mills, Texas. They’re in the Misty Valley Mobile Home Park and they call themselves, the Bastards of the Apocalypse motorcycle club. Trailer park boys selling crystal meth in the southern States. Go figure.

Outlaws in Kelowna? Not.

This one slipped past me until a blog reader pointed it out. I had read that 16 grow ops were raided in Kelowna recently. Police seized 10,000 plants, 50 kilos of bud, 14 grams of heroin, six grams of crack cocaine, firearms and get this: paraphernalia from the Outlaw motorcycle gang. WTF? Do they mean the Outlaws or an OMG? Cause there’s a pretty big difference. That many grow ops controlled by the Outlaws MC in Kelowna would be pretty freaking significant.

Many of these grow ops had applied for medical licenses and were using that as a front for an illegal grow op. The police aren’t surprised organized crime are applying for licenses. No kidding. Local reports didn't say anything about the Outlaws. Here's a list of grows the police have busted without the recent update.

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Update: Turns out it was Hells Angels gear. The Outlaw MG must have been a typo and it should have read an Outlaw MG instead. This reaffirms the Hells Angels criminal organization status.

East coast insanity

Well this is rather bizarre. CBC is reporting that a new Hells Angels puppet club is starting up in Nova Scotia called the Gate Keepers. The police say that could start a turf war with Bacchus. Are they joking or are they just smoking crack? Bacchus is a Hells Angels puppet club. That’s why there wear 81 kiss ass pins. That’s why we call them butt kiss.

The Hells Angels frequently have more than one puppet club in the same town just to try and create plausible deniability. Case in point Prince George. The Hells Angels run the Renegades, the Crew, the Independent Soldiers and the GTS all in Prince George. They all work for the Hells Angels. The Crew mostly crossed over to the IS after all that bad press but the Hells Angels still control all of them and are still directly liable for each group’s criminal activity.

Locals seem to think the Hells Angels are unhappy with Bacchus and want to push them off to the side so to speak. Not surprising since they have made a lot of really stupid decisions lately and got a lot of bad press. Locals are concerned something is going to go down at a Hells Angels party this Friday where the Gatekeepers and Bacchus will both attend along with the Darksiders. Since everyone knows about it I doubt they’ll pull another Lennoxville massacre. The fact is they’re all attending a Hells Angel party together. That would mean they’re all celebrating their puppethood.

I don’t want to be mean but I’m really getting sick of looking at all these idiots let alone write about them. Three new stooges posing with their prized patch. Grown men still acting like kids. What is with this perpetual mid life crisis? Everyone forgot somewhere along the way they were supposed to grow up? Get married, have kids, contribute to society. They got married and had kids. They just forgot to grow up and contribute to society.

The other day I saw a guy in the mall with a Support White Rock 81 shirt that had a big 666 in the middle. Grow up people. This wasn’t a teenager wearing an Iron Maiden shirt, it was a grown man wearing a shirt that said look at me I’m a complete idiot. Supporting drug dealers who murder rival drug dealers and torture addicts for drug debts is bad enough but 666? Come on. Sure in some cases it means Filthy Few Fellowship like Otis Garret the baby killer and the freak from Haney who is his own brother killer just for the almighty dollar. Yet this was a support shirt so I doubt he had a filthy few patch.

Vincent Price and Iron Maiden knew what 666 symbolized. The father of all lies and all things corrupt - murder and mayhem. Stupid alright. Lawlessness means people can steal from and shoot you just like you do to everyone else. It’s hard to understand how someone can be so stupid and actually brag about it. It’s astounding.

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Update: No word on Bacchus getting their butts kicked at the Hells Angels meeting yet. Perhaps it’s just simply another name change since Bacchus has criminal organization charges in the works. That way if the police seize Bacchus clubhouses the Hells Angels can still run Gate Keeper clubhouses. Until they get caught committing criminal acts for the Hells Angels as well. David Bishop was just sentenced for drug trafficking in Halifax prison.

New Surrey Shooting

People were talking about a targeted shooting today in Surrey near 108 and King George Boulevard that was reported on twitter. A man was shot in the leg. The Province is reporting the police already have two suspects in custody. Normally we don’t even hear about shootings here if there isn’t a fatality. Lots of people seem to subscribe to scan BC on twitter.

The Surrey Leader has a video clip of the scene.

This is the second recent shooting in Surrey where someone was shot in the legs. As one blog reader pointed out, you have to wonder where in the legs they were shot. Kneecapping was a very common form of discipline in Belfast back in the day. Shooting someone in the knee would constitute shooting them in the legs. It would be worth finding out if this is indeed the case.

Thomas Crawford Assaulted in Pretrial

The Vancouver Province reported in a headline that Thomas Crawford has been stabbed in the head while awaiting trial for gang related kidnapping charges. Yet later on in the same article it quotes B.C. Corrections spokesperson Marnie Mayhew who said that there was an altercation between two inmates at North Fraser Pretrial Centre in which an inmate fell and injured his head. “However there was no stabbing incident. The inmate was treated in hospital for some injuries. Criminal charges were not laid.”

OK so getting in a fight and getting stabbed are two very different things. We know that Thomas Crawford was with the Independent Soldiers when he was charged in a gang related kidnapping along with seven others. They have been accused of kidnapping someone who was laundering money for them in the States but part of the money went missing. They were collecting on behalf of the person he owed the money to.

Again the kidnapping victim that was laundering money for them was Sulaiman Safi who shared a car lease with full-patch Hells Angel Glen Hehn. When Crawford was first arrested someone tried to tell me he had been kicked out of the IS to try and distance themselves from the kidnapping. Yet it is clear that since Red Scorpions were also involved and since Glen Hehn was indirectly involved with the guy that owed the money, Crawford was on company business so to speak.

Him getting assaulted in jail is just another down and dirty attempt at denying he was working for them when it’s pretty obvious he was. Rats they are. They’ll stab you in the back faster than you can say where’s my money?



In Tuesday's Province they clarified that it was Crawford who said he had been stabbed. It's kinda like that old joke after someone gets beat up. What happened? Oh they fell and hit their head.

Anti-Money Laundering Specialists come to Vancouver

Front page of today’s Vancouver Province is about a former RCMP investigator coming to Vancouver to create a local chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. Three cheers. After Rich Coleman and the BC Liberals shut down the investigation of money laundering in BC Casinos here comes a private company to fill the gap.

When we first hear the term P3, public private partnership, we automatically think of Gordon Campbell’s corruption. Yet this could be different. Any exposure investigating money laundering is a good thing. Not only is it immoral but it’s always tied to investment fraud that crashes banks and destroys pension.

The question is, will this private company who has no interest in RCMP contracts with the Province, reopen the money laundering investigations in the BC Rail case that were swept under the carpet? Aneal Basi was accused of money laundering from Erik Bornmann. Tips from an informant suggested Basi was laundering money for Bains by purchasing real estate. I’d like to see these guy investigate that. As well as the money laundering that goes on in the banks. Or how about money laundering in stocks? That should keep them pretty busy.

Harper sinks while Trudeau rises

The Vancouver Province is reporting on the results of two very interesting and significant polls. The first one reveals two-thirds of Canadians believe Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government is too secretive and has failed to govern with high ethical standards. Although it comes as no big surprise this news doesn’t bring me great joy.

Yes there are many things that Harper has done that I totally oppose. I am very disappointed with what he has done to the party. He has turned Reform full circle into Mulroneyism. The exact plague Reform set out to fix. The poll found that 63% disagreed with the statement the "Harper Conservatives are living up to the promise they made when first elected in 2006 to provide an ethical, open and transparent government." Again this is no big surprise. Harper has not been ethical or transparent. Period.

Fifty-eight per cent of Canadians disapprove of the Conservative government under Harper's leadership. This isn’t a big surprise either when you have more than one political party on the ballot. That’s how a party can get a majority government with less than 50% of the vote.

So where does this lead us? The article and the second poll points directly to Justin Trudeau. The Vancouver Province claims Canadian voters would flock back to the federal Liberals if an election occurred now with Justin Trudeau as party leader.

Trudeau is the top choice among voters to be prime minister, surpassing the Conservatives' Stephen Harper and Tom Mulcair of the NDP. Yet when you look at the numbers it’s still pretty close. Thirty-two per cent of decided voters would support the Liberals if led by Trudeau - up six points from last November and 14 points since last June. While 31 per cent would vote for the Conservatives, down three points since November 2012.

Again this is promising but I have mixed feelings. What do Trudeau’s liberals feel about Insite and using tax dollars to buy addicts heroin? That really concerns me. Harm reduction is only one of the four pillars and there is a huge amount of pressure to forget all the other pillars but one which has sent us straight down the DTES toilet.

It’s possible Justin can see the folly in that decision. I’m not sure if the NDP can. I don’t know what their stand on that issue is but for me personally, that’s a pretty important issue when we want to talk about fiscal responsibility as well as addressing the gang war.

A lot of Harper supporters revel in bitterness over Justin’s father. They say he was a Commie that destroyed the country. Yet he had class and dignity. He represented us well in the world. Harper doesn’t. He doesn’t have class or dignity and he doesn’t represent us very well in the world.

Yes Pierre liked Russian literature. No doubt he did have some socialist ideals. Yet his crowning achievement was the Charter of Rights. He was the one that protected us from the intrusive nature of big brother. Protection from arbitrary arrest and unnecessary searches and seizures as well as the right to a fair trial are founding principles in the US constitution. No one would dare call the founding fathers Commies.

Harper has done everything in his power to erode the Charter of Rights and empower big brother. The only reason Harper backed off his warrantless surveillance was because the Supreme Court ruled that cell phones and text messages are protected under the Charter and the police need a search warrant to gain access to them. We have Pierre to thank for that. Getting a search warrant isn’t that difficult. Giving up our liberty just isn’t worth it.

They say Pierre started us down the road of out of control national debt. Yet Harper was far worse with his insider trading jets and the giant bank bail out he still denies happened. Harper sells Candu reactors to China who supports North Korea. The onlything holding back that lunatic in North Korean from following through with his threat to use nuclear arms on America is the fact that his technology isn’t there yet. Harper is helping him get there.

Harper has also given Communist China our oil rights so we are now funding their military expansion. When push comes to shove, Harper has been a far worse Commie that Pierre. Pierre protected us. Harper railroaded us.

How would Justin do in choosing judges? He can’t do any worse than Harper who promoted a lawyer that represented the Hells Angels to the bench because he was the president of the conservative party. Hopefully he will do better than Paul Martin who’s dying act as Prime Minister was to give us Peter Leask. That crazy decision has plagued us for years to come.

So yes I think the news is promising but I have mixed feelings. The only thing that will stop Harper is to elect someone else. That is the only way the party will pick someone else. Will Justin destroy the country in the mean time? I don’t think so. I think he will do us proud. Time will tell. It always does.

Harper cuts soldiers pay

Harpers latest act of defiance is to cut soldiers serving in Afghanistan pay by $500 a month mid stream. During their tour of duty in violation of their agreed contract. He’s removing their danger pay because he says it isn’t as dangerous any more. Is that right? Now that American troops are protection the opium fields in Afghanistan it isn’t as dangerous any more? I find that hard to believe. What are Canadian troops still doing in Afghanistan anyways? I thought we already pulled out. Makes ya wonder how the Central Asian gas pipeline is doing there now.

Off Shore Tax-haven data leak

Evidently there has been some kind of massive leak about off shore financial information revealing how the rich evade taxes through off shore investment. The concept is no secret. It’s been going on for years. I guess the details of who’s doing what has actually been released.

Canadian Senator Pana Merchant has been named in the release. CBC is covering the data leak. They have an interactive map on the topic. They posted a list of countries affected as well as a list of 5 big leaks of offshore financial data. However, they aren't releasing all the data about Canadians yet. They're going to sort through it first.

Nobody likes taxes. Michael Moore talked about the historic shift in tax rates for the wealthy. Previously the more money you made the higher tax bracket you were in and the more taxes you paid. At one point the extremely rich were paying up to 80% of their earnings in tax. I do think that was extreme.

Yet Michael Moore pointed out how we have gone to the other extreme where the very wealthy pay next to no income tax through off shore investments. That is wrong. It doesn’t help build the local economy and forces the middle class to pay all the tax revenue.

As I’ve said before, no one wants to be over taxed yet the fact that Warren Buffet pays less tax than his secretary shows there is something wrong with the system. His secretary pays income tax at a rate of 35.8 percent of income, while Buffett pays a rate at 17.4 percent. Over taxing the rich or the large corporations isn’t the answer but letting them pay no or very little tax isn’t the answer either.

The other example is the fraudster Donald Trump. In two of his recent tax returns he paid no income tax at all. That just isn’t right. I don’t think anyone no matter how much money they make should ever have to pay more than 50% of their income in tax. Yet having the wealthy pay little or no tax is just plain wrong. It is tax evasion and these off shore accounts help them do it.

The solution is simple. We should stop rewarding people for investing off shore.

Following the money in the Pharmaceutical Services Division

The Vancouver Sun recently ran an article about a Pharmaceutical scam called Six fired, two lawsuits, one dead - but still no answers. The Tyee has recently reported there’s now three lawsuits. It all stems from the abrupt termination of a research group that has benefited the large drug companies just like the termination of the RCMP squad investigating money laundering in BC casinos has benefited organized crime.

Rod MacIsaac was days away from completing his PHD and was terminated from the research project. Shortly thereafter he was found dead. The Common Ground wrote about it as well and asked Rod’s sister what she though were possible theories. She said follow the money.

“With BC’s PharmaCare program spending more than $1.2 billion of our money on drugs every year, there is a lot of cash to follow. Many people wonder if the drug safety evaluations done by employees like Roderick and other evaluators were finding things the pharmaceutical manufacturers didn’t like. Would that be enough to lead to an anaphylactic reaction in the bureaucracy and a carpet-bombing of the Ministry of Health?”

It all started on March 28, 2012, when a complaint was filed with the BC’s Auditor General about the way contracts were being awarded and how research was being conducted within the Pharmaceutical Services Division (PSD). PSD oversees annual spending of $1.2 billion on pharmaceuticals, the fastest growing of all areas of health spending. This growth is fueled by unrelenting pressure from pharmaceutical companies that strive to ensure their products are generously covered by the public purse.

Alan Cassals is co-author, with Australian journalist Ray Moynihan of the book, Selling Sickness, about the role of the pharmaceutical industry in helping to create and market illness. We know that the methadone program is a huge money maker and any rehab centre that doesn’t teach it doesn’t get government referrals. Keeping people on the program forever and refusing to ever decrease the dosages is a huge scam all in itself. However, me thinks this one goes far beyond that.

I would however, like to find out how much of that $1.2 billion a year is spent on methadone and how much the pharmacists make for dispensing it and the doctors make for prescribing it. In fact a complete break down of how that $1.2 billion a year is spent is really crucial to our not so democratic system. How contracts are awarded and what not. You get the picture.

Rock Machine’s SS Elite

John Adam Curwin, 31, plead guilty on Wednesday to several charges of gun and drug trafficking and received a 9 and 1/2 year sentence. He’s the first to plead in that recent RM sting in Winnipeg called Project Dilemma. Curwin was selling BZP and was caught with a stick of dynamite.

The Winnipeg Sun is reporting that police found out that two members of a RM Support club from Ontario called the SS Elite came to town to help them get established. They found out this information at an RM meeting in the police informant’s home who was a full patch RM member. I have a tip as to his name but it hasn’t been released in court documents and I do support protecting the identity of people who testify against drug dealers.

Court documents claim the SS Elite was described by RM leaders as being modeled after the SS Waffen, “created to protect Hitler and other Nazis. As SS Elite members, they ultimately report to RM members in Montreal but are also required to protect and support the local chapter members.”

OK I am getting pretty fed up with all these freaking Nazis. This isn’t just a trendy logo. It’s pissing on our flag and the graves of all the noble soldiers in Bény-sur-Mer. Pick a different name and a different symbol. That one is shameful. It mocks the French as well since our soldiers died liberating France from Hitler’s Nazis in Normandy.

While we’re on the subject of the Rock Machine in Winnipeg, the top picture is a family photo of the crew from the summer of 2011. You can see Jay Strachan on the left in the middle row. He was the national Nomads president. I’m not sure if he’s still in.

The two on the right in the middle row is Stephen King and Stephen Cabral. Cabral was the Winnipeg President. Bottom right is Adam Curwin who just received the 9 and ½ year sentence. Bottom left is Jean Paul Beaumont. He used to be with the Zig Zag crew like Jay Strachan was but became the RM Nomads Sergeant at Arms. He died in Brandon jail last fall. At least they ride nice bikes. No fat ass fairings and plastic saddlebags that look like Goldwings. I think on the West coast we do need fenders for all the rain though.