Shots fired in south Surrey

The Surrey RCMP is reporting that Shots fired outside South Surrey hotel early this morning believed to be targeted. 9 arrested; 1 minor injury due to glass fragments. News 1130 is reporting that RCMP have made nine arrests after they say was a targeted shooting in a hotel parking lot early this morning. Mounties got reports of shots fired just after 3 a.m. at the Pacific Inn on King George Boulevard near 8th Avenue.

Another earthquake hits Japan, Fukushima residents flee tsunami

Reuters is reporting that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 hit northern Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, issuing tsunami advisories for much of the nation's northern Pacific coast. I thought the earthquake had to be further offshore to generate a tsunami. CNN is reporting a three foot wave heading for Fukushima. However, it does not appear the current size of the wave is large enough to breach the seawall. Yet.

Speaking of Fukushima, did they ever get that reactor leak fixed after the last earthquake? Pretty soon our sushi will glow in the dark.

Crime Promotion still front and centre for Surrey Mayor

The Vancouver Sun / Vancouver Province ran yet another monthly promotional peice for the new Surrey mayor entitled Crime Promotion still front and centre for Surrey Mayor. For some reason the article wasn't in the comic section it was in the other news.

The Postmedia Marketing Network is in full effect. If they don't arrest the drug dealers publically selling fentanyl laced drugs, all this PR smoke and mirrors is just one great big lie.

Canada might buy Super Hornets

The National Post is reporting that a Liberal government proposal to buy Super Hornet fighter jets as a replacement for the air force’s aging CF-18s is back on the table.

Finally someone with a brain. Boeing is good - Lockheed Martin is bad. The Super Hornet work in the Canadian Arctic. The F-35s don't. Canada can't do the mid air refueling for the F-35's. It's just not cost effective. That whole F-35 scam was tied to insider trading within the Harper government. The Super Hornets are a much better investment.

Opening up the bidding process is pointless since Lockheed Martin has a past history of underbidding to secure a contract then over charging once they have it. That's one of the reasons they've been in court so many times for fraud.

More Fentanyl Overdoses

There has been more Fentanyl overdoses in BC. The Daly Hive is reporting that there was 11 in one day in the DTES. Maple Ridge has been hit hard as well. September the Maple Ridge times reported four more Fentanyl fatalities. There was 63 in BC for the month of October alone.

Yesterday the Vancouver Sun / Vancouver Province highlighted the death of 21 year old Charly Ann Torikka in Maple Ridge Novemeber 6th. Another young woman who did a line of cocaine recreationally and ended up dead because it had Fentanyl in it. Just like Leanne Yardley in Surrey.

Leanne was at Shakerz in Surrey and simply did a line of cocaine recreationally. She did not know it was straight fentanyl not cocaine and died. It wouldn't be very hard to conduct an investigation into finding out who was the drug dealer that sold them the tainted drugs and arrest them. That would be the logical conclusion to such a malicious crime.

Failing to do so isn't just stupidity, it is criminal culpability. Instead of implementing the Four Pillars and enforcing the law by arresting drug dealers that sell tainted drugs, the extremists cry out for more lethal injection sites to help these predatory drug dealers do more business and make more money. That is the biggest human tragedy we now face in Canada.

The Fall of Postmedia News

On the front page of today's Vancovuer Province was the headline Man shot by police was former Falun Gong activist. The breaking news was not the fact that someone accused of armed robbery was shot dead by police in Burnaby after stabbing a police officer and a store employee. That was old news. The front page breaking news was the fact that he was a Falun Gong activist and participated in the Tiananmen Square protest.

So this must mean that Falun Gong activists are crazy and the Communist government of China is justified for holding them political prisoners and executing them for their organs right? Wrong. It is more absurd propaganda which is exactly what the state run newspapers in Communist China do. This was a white guy from Calgary who went to China and supported a Falun Gong protest over ten years ago and hasn't had anything to do with the group since.

They even had the audacity to cite the fact that he was involved in the Tiananmen Square protest in 2001. Does that mean the Tiananmen square massacre was justified when the Communist government used live ammunition on protesters calling for more freedom in China? Absolutely not.

They weren't even talking about the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. They were talking about the false flag event set up by the Communist government in 2001 used to defame Falun Gong practitioners so they could rationalize and justify their unlawful imprisonment.

I could understand reading this kind of putrid propaganda in a State run newspaper in Communist China but here in Canada? Does the Communist government now own Postmedia News? Is that what happens when the Chief Editor of the Vancouver Sun takes over the Vancouver Province? Shame on you. That kind of propaganda diminishes all of us. Buyer Beware.

Trump wants to reopen 9/11 investigation

The Daily Star is reporting that Donald Trump pledged to launch a fresh probe into the 2001 September 11 attacks. “First of all, the original 9/11 investigation is a total mess and has to be reopened." Speculating over the collapse of the skyscraper after the attack, he said: “How do two planes take out three buildings in the same day? I never got my head around the fact that nothing is mentioned about the destruction of Building 7 in the 585-page document.”

Wait a minute... is that Donald Trump speaking or Jesse Ventura? This is a prime example of how although no two people agree on every issue, no two people disagree on every issue either. Truthers can support this quest. Let's just hope he doesn't get shot before that happens.

In the documentary 9/11 Explosive Evidence Experts Speak out, experts in the field of controlled demolition declare that the only way three towers can collapse at freefall speed into their own blueprint is if the load bearing beams are blown out. That is what experts in the field declare.

Looking past the extremists we need to realize that a lot of people who voted for Donald Trump aren't racist. They just want a decent job and want the economy to improve. Renegotiating NAFTA is a step forward that we all can support.

We need to realize that the CIA will pay agitators to paint swastikas on public property. In Canada CSIS created the Heritage Front. Everyone knows that painting a swastika on a building now is like pissing on a good soldiers grave. It is not something any of us support.

Oprah Winfrey's Voice of Reason

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that while speaking to the Associated Press on Thursday, Oprah Winfrey admitted that she was in disbelief at Donald Trump's win and Hillary Clinton's shocking defeat on Tuesday. But the media mogul was seemingly so impressed by the President-elect's meeting with President Obama that her feelings took a different turn, as she tweeted, "Everybody take a deep breath! Hope Lives!"

She isn't saying cave in to bigotry. She's saying she met him and feels the guy has been humbled. I've lived in Belfast and I've lived in Israel. I've seen the blind sectarian animosity perpetuating the you kill one of ours and we kill one of yours insanity for generations. Wait 'till I tell ye, there is no logical conclusion to that kind of violence. It continues forever. There is no logic in it. This is exactly what Martin Luther King meant when he said the old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. I've seen it. We need to rise above the hate and the lies.

Take the movie Gran Torino. Clint Eastwood played a redneck Archie bunker type who ws less than impressed with the immigrants that moved in next door and were talking over the neighbourhood. After he got to know them he ended up protecting them from the gang banger bullies within their community and ultimately risked his life to save them.

He ended up leaving his prize possession, his flawless Gran Torino to the immigrant kid next door because he had ended up getting closer to him and his family than his own kids and grand kids who turned out to be ungrateful spoilt brats. If you get to know them you just might be surprised.



There are many different forms of racism. In Rwanda we saw a bizarre tribal conflict that resulted in a modern day genocide. In Fort Langley the fur traders helped protect the local First Nations from a rival tribe that would raid them and carry them away as slaves.

I spoke with a Latino in Langley who had spent some time in LA. He told me how he and a friend had stumbled into black area. Before they could leave they were surrounded by a large group of black men who closed in on them. Right before they kicked their ass he just bowed his head and closed his eyes giving in to the fact that they were going to get badly beaten. Then all of a sudden he felt a gust of wind rising up beside him. He looked up and saw a police helicopter hovering right above them which dispersed the mob. They were very fortunate.

New York wasn't like that. When I was there, half the guys were black, the other half were Puerto Rican. There was no conflict between the two. No one gave me a hard time for being white despite the fact that I was the visible minority. In the midle of the night another white guy from Queens took me on a tour of Spanish Harlem to see the elephant grave yard where they dumped all the stolen cars and had them on blocks after stripping them down. In New York there was no conflict between Harlem and Spanish Harlem. They got along great. Tupac even rapped about it.

All this petty hate we are starting to see diminishes us as a society. We need to rise above it.

Shunning Extremism

As the dust settles we have seen brief glimpses of two ugly extremes after the US election. People protesting the results of a democratic election and others promoting hate. Communism and Fascism are BOTH WRONG. They are two ugly extremes that end at the same place.



As Martin Luther King declared: "I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear." Diversity makes us strong. "It is better to light one candle than curse all the darkness." Lao Tzu



Let there be Peace on earth and let it begin with me.



I still believe in the Canadain Mosaic.

Macklemore speaks out on Addiction

As we have heard in the news, the US crack epidemic of the /80's has been replaced with a new modern day heroin epidemic that is sweeping the United States and infiltrating the middle class. We have seen pictures of parents overdosing in their cars with their child sitting in the back seat. This tragedy is the result of doctors overprescribing painkillers. People can't afford the painkillers so they turn to heroin which is cheaper. Another tragic result of the invasion of Afghanistan. Here at home Macklemore speaks out on Addiction. Peace.

A shout out to Leonard Cohen "Well, maybe there is a God above, but all that I've ever learned from love was how to shoot someone who outdrew you. It's not a cry that you hear tonight, and it is not some pilgram who claims to have seen the light. It's a cold and it is a broken Hallelujah."

Remembrance Day: Lest we forget

Today is Remembrance Day in Canada which is known as Veterans Day in the United States remembering the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918 when World War I came to an end. World War I was referred to as the war to end all wars. Sadly, it was repeated and we need to remember how and why it was repeated.

Adolf Hitler burned down the German Parliament building and blamed it on terrorists so he could become Chancellor just like Senator Palpatine in Star Wars. Then he burned down a German radio station and blamed it on Poland to justify the invasion of Poland. The rest is history.

In Flanders Fields is a poem written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae durring WWI referring to the poppies that grow at Flanders Fields in France where some major battles took place. I wrote a bog post in 2011 about how we have gone from Flander's Fields in France to the Opium Fields in Afghanistan. A sombering thought indeed.

In Guildford Mall they have a few war memorials set up. One of them had a poster of all the soldiers that died in Afghanistan. We lost a lot of good soldiers in Afghanistan. One of them was Bill Turner. He was a postal worker from Edmonton who joined the reserves. In his eulogy they said he was the type of person that would say, Hi my name is Bill, I'm here to help. Someone who gave his all not to invade another country but to serve others.

We invaded Afghanistan after 9/11. We were told it was because Afghanistan did the 9/11 bombing on the three Towers in New York only the Bin Laden confession video didn't look anything like Bin Laden. Iraq wasn't invaded for 9/11. They were invaded for having Weapons of Mass destruction only none were found. It was really about oil. So was Afganistan. Oil and opium.



The Texas oil barons were wining and dining the Taliban trying to win the contract for the Central Asian Gas pipeline across Afghanistan. After they decided to get Argentina to build the pipeline instead of an American firm, 9/11 occurred and they were invaded. After the invasion that decision was reversed and the American firm regained the contract for the pipeline.

Right before the invasion, the Taliban had brought opium production to a grinding halt. After the invasion Afghanistan returned to become the world's largest producer of opium. That was the result of the invasion. US troops were openly protecting the opium fields claiming that if we didn't do it the Taliban would which was another bold faced lie.

Canadians participated in the Korean war which was a good thing. As we have seen, stopping Communist or Fascist invasions is good. Promoting drug trafficking is not. Lest we forget.



On the brigher side, there's a new war movie in the theatres that's worth seeing called Hacksaw Ridge. Like the November Man it's also based on a true story. It's about an American soldier who went to war and refused to fire a bullet. In basic training his fellow soldiers would bully him and beat him. On the battlefield he earned their respect. He would run into battle and risk his life saving wounded soldiers one at a time. It's a heartwarming story about a different kind of valour.