Horn Lake Caves

Last weekend I rediscovered Vancouver Island. Aside from a business trip to Victoria a few years ago, I hadn’t been there since I was a kid. Vancouver Island is a hiking, camping and kayaking paradise. It’s full of lakes, coastline and parks. Last weekend my eco adventure began under ground at Horn Lake.



Horn Lake caves are well worth visiting. They are a series of caves carved out of the limestone from erosion. I took the basic tour of Riverbend cave yet there is so much more to see. You can even repel down to an underground waterfall. I’m definitely going back for that.



There wasn’t a lot of stalactites and stalagmites but there was a lot of interesting formations of calcite which is what stalactites are made of. One calcite formation even looked like Buddha.



The cool thing about caving is that there is no natural light. You obviously have to go in with a flashlight or a headlamp. At one point in the tour we all turned are headlamps of and were quiet. The silence and darkness was amazing. They have quite a few arbutus trees in the park. These two were on either side of the road. The only other place I’ve seen arbutus tress is Whitecliff park outside of Horseshoe bay.

Back from the long weekend

I’m back from the long weekend. I went for an eco adventure on Vancouver Island and in Clayoquot sound. It was amazing. Lots to catch up on.

Vito and the Bo-Gars

The Montreal Gazette is reporting that at least one of four men arrested Wednesday in connection with the shooting death of Gaétan Gosselin had well-established ties to Montreal’s Bo-Gars.

Gosselin, a business associate of Raynald Desjardins, was gunned down outside his St-Léonard home on Jan. 22. At the time, a police source told The Gazette the hit may have been carried out on behalf of a rival faction within Montreal’s mafia, to send a message to Desjardins. Vito perhaps?

Edrick Antoine, 34, was arrested Wednesday for his alleged role in the Gosselin homicide and has ties to former Bo-Gars chief Chenier Dupuy. Dupuv was shot dead after slapping Greg Wooley and telling him no to his offer to sell drugs for the Hells Angels.

So Vito hires the Bo-Gars to whack a Desjardins turn coat while the Hells Angels whack the Bo-Gars leader for not working for them while Vito is working with the Hells Agnes bringing BC Bud to the Big Apple. This is getting messy.

Canadian and American missing in Mexico

Diego Hernandez, a Canadian from Saanich is missing in Mexico along with his friend Craig Silva from Phoenix. Diego ran a MMA gym in Puerto Vallarta. Craig and Diego were last seen at 5pm on Wednesday the 8th in Puerto Vallarta near the Corona factory. Craig was driving his 2003 Chevy Trailblazer.

There appears to be speculation about the fact that they may have been kidnapped. Seemingly Craig’s bank cards have been used by other people since their disappearance. Unfortunately, that might just mean someone is in possession of a stolen bank card. Mexico is not a nice place to get kidnapped. Let’s hope for their safe retun. Their family and friends are very worried. If you have any information about their whereabouts you can post it on their missing persons facebook group.

This is Craig Silva from Phoenix:



This is Diego Hernandez from Saanich:



Diego posted this picture on his facebook on May 6. It looks like it was taken at a MMA Tournamnet in Mexico.



Update: The Facebook group is reporting that: "We have received information from the Mexican authorities that Craig's vehicle has been recovered and it is with the authorities. Please continue to look for Craig and Diego and pray for their safe return."

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Update: The Vancouver Province has picked up on the story and is reporting that according to Diego’s aunt eyewitnesses saw Craig and Diego being forced from their truck into a municipal police vehicle. The abandoned truck was later recovered. A municipal police vehicle?

His aunt said the family has seen ATM surveillance photos showing an unknown man withdrawing money using Silva's card. Another photo shows Hernandez, flanked by two heavily disguised men, taking money out of Silva's account. That would be a kidnapping indeed.

Mexico, like anywhere else has good and bad. The people are wonderful and the landscape is paradise. Yet the criminal element is extreme. The most vicious component is the drug cartels that are murdering and dismembering rivals all over the country side. The brutality is inhuman.

Many Canadian tourists have been robbed and murdered in Mexico. That is bad business. It’s bad for tourism and it’s bad for the cartels. When criminals and cartels get so powerful they think they can ruthlessly mistreat others, we see the same conclusion as with Rome. Pride cometh before the fall and great shall be the fall thereof. Let’s hope and pray for a safe release of Craig and Diego.

Russia expels US diplomat

The Vancouver Province is reporting that Russia's security services say they caught U.S. diplomat Ryan Fogle trying to recruit a Russian counter-terrorism officer. It alleged Fogle was a CIA officer trying to recruit a Russian counter-terrorism officer who specializes in the volatile Caucasus region in southern Russia, where the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects had their ethnic roots.

The CIA are denying it and are making light of it but this claim is consistent with the information about Graham Fuller using his home address for Chechen terrorist organization. If Graham Fuller was really involved in that on behalf of the CIA, then it would make sense they would want to recruit a Russian counter-terrorism officer in the area the Boston bombing suspects were from.

Fogle was handed over to U.S. Embassy officials, declared persona non grata and ordered to leave Russia immediately. He has diplomatic immunity, which protects him from arrest. We know that the CIA has crossed the line by using journalists in their network. Using diplomats would be a new low for that criminal organization.

Stop making sense is reporting that this is not the first time a CIA agent has been caught using diplomatic cover in order to facilitate overseas operations in a friendly country. In 2011, CIA agent Raymond Davis (an employee at the Lahore Consulate) was arrested for a double murder in Pakistan with the US insisting that despite him being a spy, he was entitled to immunity. Pakistan would later catch more embassy agents in possession of weapons.



After all, we know British or American intelligence officers would never use cheap disguises. Much. Wait a minute, he was wearing the Austin Powers wig when he was caught. At least he didn't try to stiff a Russian prostitute. In 2006, MI6 agents planted a "spy rock" in a Moscow park.



If we stop the CIA’s drug trafficking in Canada they won’t have so much money for some of these false flag operations and the world would be a much safer place to live in.

Harper shuts down firearm forensic labs

After the Harper government cut funding for the RCMP, Gang Task force and the Prisons, now they are shutting down firearm forensic laboratories in Halifax and Regina. This Canadian made technology is being "consolidated" by Harper. Are you sure he supports business and technology in Canada because it sure doesn’t look like it. After promoting a Hells Angel lawyer to the bench in Quebec, one has to wonder where some of his campaign contributions are really coming from.

BC Election results Dark Times ahead

I am shocked and disgusted. This just goes to show you that if you repeat a lie enough times, the people will believe it. Remember Gordon Campbell? Remember the HST? The BC Liberals are the most corrupt political party in the history of this province. Air head commercials paid for by tax dollars? Advertizing on the super bowl? I am going to be sick. This election has diminished us.

The BC Liberals are NOT the free enterprise party. That is a lie. Stephen Harper supports corporate monopolies and the destruction of the free market. The NDP are not anti small business. The BC Liberal’s are. They have Stephen Harpers spin doctor. John Cummins was the free enterprise party. These are dark times. The BC Liberals created the BC Hydro scandal that rivals Enron and no one even cares. I support the democratic process but I will record my dissent. I do not support Christy Clark or the BC Liberals money laundering corruption. It is the destruction of Clayoquot sound.



On the cover of today’s Vancouver Province it cites the election results with the headline Stunning. It’s stunning because it contradicts all the polls. If it was electronic balloting, I would hold the results in serious question. Which to me shows how insane the idea of online voting is. Voter fraud was used in Florida. It was done in Russia. If you think they won’t try it in Canada you need to stop smoking crack and get out of the Jacuzzi before it boils over.

Since our elections aren’t electronic, I’m going to attribute it to fear and misconceptions. Repeating that same lie: “The NDP will tax and spend” over and over again until people really believe it when in reality that is exactly what the BC Liberals did. Translinks’ new motto is Tax and Spend.

My heart goes out to the Green Party. A lot of people out there really do care about the environment. Clear cutting old growth forests and using garbage incinerators to speed pollution and greenhouse gases is totally shameful in our day. We aren’t Neanderthals. We know what pollution does to the ecosystem. Preston Manning was right. Being environmentally responsible is being fiscally responsible.

I salute Adrian Dix for maintaining a positive campaign amidst the Kool aid Kid’s misconceptions. He took the higher rode as well he should. I liked the commercials of a couple walking through the forest saying somethings are too sacred to sell. The Province ran a photo of a woman with tears in her eye when she saw the election results. I feel for her. This isn’t just a hockey team you were rooting for that lost a game or series. It represents the hopes and dreams of many British Columbians crushed by the cruel greed that steam rolls over Canadian values. It’s a dark day for British Columbia. A dark day indeed.

Body found in Fraser river is Surrey missing Person

Another body was pulled out of the Fraser River last night. This time it was found near the Deas Island Tunnel in Richmond. The Vancouver Province is reporting that the police are saying that the body has been identified as a missing person from Surrey. May 1st a body was found at the mouth of the Pitt River where it runs into the Fraser. That body was from a car accident in Chilliwack. The current in the river varies with the tide.

Targeted shooting in Kamloops

Last Saturday night a 48 year old Kamloops man named Glenn Powell was shot in the leg in what police describe as a targeted attack. He claims he was shot by members of the Independent Soldiers because they wanted him to start selling drugs for them. Interestingly he claims he used to sell for the Hells Angels who the IS work for. Kamloops IS have been charged in that kidnapping case of the guy tied to Glen Hehn who owed them money.

Glen Beck off the Hook

I’ve heard of Glen Beck but I’ve never really followed any of his shows. Just a couple of short clips on YouTube. I was under the impression he was a sometimes controversial right wing talk show host that hates Obama. Recently he broke the news about how the IRS was targeting the Tea party and groups with radical names like constitution and things of that sort. The IRS was harassing them with ridiculous demands. So Glen Beck broke that story and it turned out to be true. Obama claimed he just found out about the IRS scandal on Friday but a guest on Beck’s show contradicts that claim.

The thing that blows me away is that this guy thinks the Boston bombing was a false flag. In fact on April 19, the day one of the suspects was killed, he gave Obama until Monday April 22 to admit that the Boston bombing was an inside job or he would publish his sources. So on April 22 he released his list.

He appears to be going on about a Saudi National. Yet the suspects were from Chechnya so I’m having a bit of trouble following his logic. The point I want to make is that this guy totally believes in the US use of false flag operations. He’s not a dope smoking leftist hippie either. He’s a crazy right wing conspiracy theorist. Well, I thought the crazy conspiracy theorist were left wing. Looks like we have clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right here I am stuck in the middle with you.

Yet I do think we would be foolish not to examine and consider the existence of false flag attacks. They were used in Russia. In 1999 they were caught red handed. The thing is, those attacks were blamed on Chechen terrorists. The point of the Graham Fuller article was that his home address was used as the headquarters of the Congress of Chechen International Organizations. The CIA funded those Chechen terrorists. That’s big news in Russia right now. They are pissed.

As for the Tea Party, I was sure I read in the Wikipedia article on the Tea Party it said that they supported a resolution pushing for a public inquiry into 9/11 yet that description isn’t there any more. Nevertheless, when you Google Tea Party and 9/11 it’s pretty clear that many in the Tea Party thought 9/11 was an inside job and want an inquiry. That’s another large group of people.