Sarkozy and the Karachi affair

I’ve talked about Nicolas Sarkozy: le chien sale before. How one minute he was trying to convince the world we should trust Gadaffi with nuclear weapons because he wanted to sell him a nuclear reactor and the next minute he was leading the invasion into Libya after Gadaffi decided to buy a reactor from somewhere else.

We even talked about the campaign contributions Gadaffi gave Sarkozy when he was trying to sell Libya French reactors. His latest scandal is being accused of taking advantage of a rich elderly woman in France who has dementia and sucking campaign contributions out of her. Like that comes as any big surprise.

However, since the topic of Pakistan has come up, we really need to talk about his involvement in the Karachi affair. That scandal dates back to 1994 when Sarkozy was budget minister in a government led by his ally and mentor, Prime Minister Édouard Balladur. The Balladur government sealed a deal to sell three Agosta 90 submarines to Pakistan for an estimated $950m. To secure the contract large bribes were allegedly paid to Pakistani politicians and military, as well as commissions to middlemen.

The key issue is whether around €2m of illegal kickbacks from the sale were secretly funneled back to France to fund Balladur's unsuccessful 1995 presidential campaign. As budget minister, Sarkozy would have authorized the financial elements of the submarine sale. At the time he was also treasurer and spokesman for Balladur's campaign.

The initial claim was that France was supposed to pay kickbacks and commissions to Pakistan for the submarines but failed to do so. As a result, “terrorists” bombed French engineers. The pivotal point is that Sarkozy set up a shell company so some of the kickbacks would be funneled back to him. He had his best man carry the cash. So he is the one that would be upset the kickbacks didn’t happen. I’m not saying he bombed the French engineers and blamed it on terrorists but I am saying he had a motive to do so and that is the root of the allegations.

Now, when we look at a dirty scoundrel like Sarkozy, we recognize he is what he is. However, that doesn’t mean we have to go from one extreme to the other. In France Sarkozy represents the Right. As a result of all his many scandals, he was just defeated by the socialist party. Just because one guy is bad, doesn’t mean we have to go from one extreme to the other. Take Cuba.

The Americans supported the Batista government in Cuba. They were bad. They were corrupt and tied to organized crime. This is where the CIA screw up with their insane idea that the end justifies the means. We’ll team up with the Mafia to fight communism. Ah, let’s not. Let’s not support the mafia because one is no better than the other.

Kennedy vetoed Operation Northwoods but he approved Operation Mongoose. In that operation the CIA teamed up with the Mafia in Cuba. September 1960, Allen W. Dulles, the director of the CIA, initiated talks with two leading figures of the Mafia, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana. Later, other crime bosses such as Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante and Meyer Lansky became involved in this plot against Castro. Bad decision. Allen W. Dulles also supported Operation Northwoods.

It’s like here in Canada. The mayor of Toronto is an abusive drunk. He cries and claims people oppose him because he’s right wing. No, people oppose him because he’s an abusive drunk. Why people like Stephen Harper cozy up to a clown like that is hard to comprehend. The Right needs to make better choices. It’s as though they are trying to push people to the left with all the idiots they choose to represent them.

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.