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Je ne sais pas si vous êtes comme moi mais depuis que Luc Ferrandez est arrivé à la mairie d’arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal, on dirait que rien ne va plus dans le quartier. Je suis arrivé à Montréal en 1993. Spontanément et sans le savoir, j’ai loué un appartement sur le Plateau, à l’époque où il y avait presque autant de logements disponibles que d’habitants et où les prix étaient encore abordables. En fait, le quartier était assez pauvre. Ça, c’était avant qu’il ne s’embourgeoise. Aujourd’hui, les logements locatifs sont devenus rares et très dispendieux et pas seulement sur le Plateau. Aussitôt que j’ai emménagé, j’ai noté que le Plateau était animé d’une vie palpitante, excitante. Les citoyens de tous les quartiers et d’ailleurs aimaient venir s’y retrouver. La circulation automobile, cycliste et en patins était abondante et les jours d’été, des milliers de passants venaient agrémenter les trottoirs et terrasses. Lorsque le quartier s’est embourgeoisé vers la fin des années 1990, je n’ai pas noté de baisse d’achalandage de la circulation, ni de l’activité commerciale ou autre. C’est seulement la clientèle qui a changé. La classe moyenne s’est installée et l’on a vu la classe des travailleurs, dont j’étais, et les pauvres, être chassés vers la périphérie. Le condominium a alors envahi le marché de l’immobilier, ne laissant plus que des banlieusards-toujours-en-ville pour peupler le quartier. En passant, pour voir les effets de l’embourgeoisement d’une population, voir cet article précédent.
Decidedly, the 9/11 case is the worst of all times. Not only there are countless dimensions and connections to be aware of and that need to be stressed but in the end, there are so many threads that one has difficulty keeping the focus on what really matters. In part I, I took a look at the direct links between the reactionary religious bigotry that is encouraged in Saudi Arabia and terrorism activity in general in the years just prior to 9/11. The Saudi connection seemed to have played a major role in the engineering, crafting and carrying of the 9/11 attacks. In another post a few days earlier, I took a look at the connections between international drug cartels and the hijackers. Let me recall that Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi infiltrated the Iran-Contra network involved in drug trafficking that was still in use at the time of 9/11.
This second part article will take a look rather on the flipside of part I. I will try to provide a picture of what could have gone wrong inside the U.S. to have 9/11 happened despite all the intelligence agencies, the FBI and all the capable people within the government. As a starting point, I will bring to your attention something that has made the news in the progressive sector last week but that was totally ignored, or close to that, in the mainstream press. Two young producers, Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, made an interview with Richard Clarke, NSC Chief of Counterterrorism from 1992-2001, in October 2009. They recently launched a website to publish the interview and related articles and news. The site was temporarily taken offline due to CIA legal threats. To sum things up, Richard Clarke alleges that he was kept in the dark about the presence in the U.S. of two Al-Qaeda agents, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, that would become some of the hijackers that flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. His allegations concern directly three key individuals who were within the government apparatus at the time of 9/11, George Tenet, head of the CIA, Cofer Black, head of the Counterterrorism Center of the CIA, and Richard Blee, who was made Chief of bin Laden Unit in 1999 at Alec station, a listening post in the Middle East dedicated to Al-Qaeda. To watch the interview with Clarke, you can visit their website. Continuer la lecture →
C’est vrai que cela n’a pas été facile de digérer la défaite référendaire de 1995. Étant passés si proches de faire la souveraineté, nous étions tous « à terre », défaits, déçus, amers, fâchés, désappointés et le reste. Pour la chronique, j’étais présent à la réunion des « Jeunes pour la souveraineté », ou quelque chose du genre, le soir du vote dans une salle du centre-ville de Montréal. Les premiers résultats nous donnaient l’impression de gagner le référendum et puis soudain, comme si quelqu’un avait « joué » avec les chiffres, le vote s’est renversé à la surprise générale. L’idée selon laquelle les élections sont « arrangées » revient souvent dans les discussions de salon et de cuisine entre amis et voisins, et je dirais que cette fois-là j’ai eu de sérieux doutes. Mais comme personne n’a poussé l’enquête dans la communauté politique et journalistique à cet effet, en tant que citoyen, j’ai dû m’y faire et accepter le résultat. En passant, si le sujet vous intéresse, vous pouvez écouter une entrevue radio avec Peter B. Collins et son invité Bob Fitrakis où ce dernier raconte comment l’élection de 2004 a été volée par les Républicains aux États-Unis grâce à un stratagème informatique. On se souvient que celle de 2000 avait été volée elle aussi et c’était vraiment flagrant. Est-il possible que des stratagèmes du genre soient appliqués parfois dans des élections au Canada? Humm, bonne question.
Toujours est-il que l’on se retrouve plus de quinze ans plus tard avec un Québec en complet marasme. Plus rien ne bouge. Bien vite, on verra le bouclier canadien se déplacer sous nos pieds tellement on n’avance plus. Les députés du Parti Québécois qui ont démissionné dernièrement se sont comportés en vrais imbéciles, de façon immature, grossière et irresponsable. Si Pauline Marois avait suggéré de biffer l’Article 1 du Programme du Parti Québécois, si elle avait renié René Lévesque ou fait quelque chose de semblable, là, O.K., je trouverais leur attitude et leur comportement acceptable et louable. Mais démissionner pour un amphithéâtre, c’est idiot. Les députés démissionnaires n’ont plus aucune crédibilité tant qu’à moi. Continuer la lecture →
In a recent article, Globe and Mail’s Neil Reynolds expressed his astonishment and perhaps even sadness as regards to the rhetoric that has been employed during the debt ceiling debate in the U.S. After presenting an almost exhaustive list of people in the media who displayed language using the « terrorist » label, he concludes the article by saying that democracy would never have come into existence in the first place with such behavior, calling it « preposterous and shameful ». Although I appreciate the sentiment that he is showing here, I am not sure that it is the proper thing that has to been understood. For me, this language is rather the expression of a « five-minutes-to-midnight » feeling where suddenly, in the face of an impending catastrophy and collapse, people abandon the niceties because there is no point keeping them anymore. A lot of folks in the Tea Party and the Republican Party want the destruction of the United States. One doesn’t need to be an expert to see that. Democrats who used to be skeptics or who didn’t want to face reality now have no longer the choice. One can deny the building is on fire, but once the flames are up to your ass, it’s another pair of sleeves, or pants if you prefer. The rhetoric of the Democrats and liberals, although unusual, is accurate and appropriate for people who start to see things as they are. If Democrats and liberals don’t do something really fast to take back control of this country, it will collapse and Balkanize. What we have to understand here is that because something is cute, it doesn’t make it right necessarily, and on the opposite, because something is repulsive at face value, it doesn’t make it wrong automatically. I think good judgement is always necessary. Democrats are awakening to the impending catastrophy. I just wish it is not too late. As a means of enriching the discussion, I propose John Moore’s analysis of the situation in a recent edition of the National Post. I think that he has a rather fair assessment of right-wing activists, or purits as the calls them, in the U.S.
Appearing on the Peter B. Collins Show, Antonia Juhasz presents her new book: Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. That book allows us the « pleasure » of continuing our study of that terrible catastrophy. In an earlier post, I tried to make the case that the blow out was in part due to gross or even criminal negligence on the part of BP and/or Transocean managers and supervisors. They were trying to save costs anywhere they could and in doing so, they dropped some importants security procedures that they should have kept in place, and that led to the accident. Juhasz’s book is doing a similar analysis and brings some other interesting facts. First, did you know that new leases and drilling permits were given only two weeks after the BP oil spill? A moratorium was effectively put in place but it affected only the exploration part of the industry, not the drilling. Second, the industry is inflating the number of jobs related to its activities. According to Juhasz, we are talking about 800 000 jobs at maximum, and not 9 M jobs, like the industry pretends. Third, apparently the limit for campaign contributions by corporations has been abolished in the U.S., which allows for any industry, such as the oil industry, to give whatever amount of money to whoever they want. Thus, it opens the doors wide open for them to take control of Congress and Senate in order to force their agenda on the American public and on the world. And fourth, in terms of transparency and PR damage control, Juhasz recalls an incident that happened to her and the group of Gulf residents she was accompanying in their way to the BP shareholders’s meeting in London, BP’s Annual General Meeting, roughly a year after the accident. Believe it or not, their group was denied access to the meeting, even if they had due legal shares in their possession, and were forced to stay in the lobby… So while the oil industry does its lobby to court the political apparatus to engineer policies in favour of their interests, you, the citizens, have to wait in the lobby, the material one, instead of being granted access to democratic life and proceedings… Well, talking about the rise of fascism, we have a good example here. Listen to the interview in the first portion of the show.
Deep waters are on the horizon for humans. Many things can be said about the BP oil rig that blew out. The fact that the « accident » happened on Hitler’s birthday, April 20th, gave it a bad smell to begin with, so to speak. Also, the gravity of the explosion was so important that it was impossible not to imagine either a conspiracy or a case of gross negligence. First, there is the question of whether or not the cement installation of the well was properly executed. Apparently, over a period of 14 years, 18 out of 39 wells blew out in the Gulf of Mexico due to incorrect cementing installation. That particular rig is just one among many. However, there is another reason that might have provoked the explosion. The fact is that a BP executive and a Transocean official were arguing in the morning of the accident about the safety of removing heavy mud to replace it by seawater. Heavy mud serves precisely to keep the pressure down to avoid oil from leaking up the pipe. So, to accelerate drilling and to save costs, the BP executive imposed the decision on Transocean’s managers and workers to their upmost consternation and concern. During the day, workers on the rig were getting more and more nervous as the rig experienced all kinds of strange kickbacks. A few hours later, the rig exploded and 11 workers died.
Then, as if it was not already enough, James Patrick Black, the BP executive put in charge of the cleaning of the Gulf Coast, died mysteriously in a plane crash in November 2010. Considering the consequences and the responsibility that BP would have to face eventually, one cannot but wonders if it isn’t some kind of unfortunate accident and what are the real facts that Black may have uncovered during his brief assignment.
The Justice Department is hesitating between two scenarios in its prosecution of BP: negligence or gross negligence, which sums itself to criminal conduct. If that second scenario is retained, fines could go up to 21 billion dollars. Can you imagine that? To save a few millions in drilling costs, BP could pay up to 21 billion dollars, plus some additional money for lawsuits, settlements with the families, clean-up costs, etc!
And there’s even more to it. Here is an excerpt from the second article of the Globe and Mail:
« According to an ongoing lawsuit in Houston, Kevin Lacy, BP’s former senior vice-president for drilling operations for the Gulf of Mexico, reached a mutual agreement with the company to resign in December of 2009 because Mr. Lacy believed the company was not adequately committed to improving safety protocols in offshore drilling operations to the level of its industry peers.
The suit said Mr. Lacy, an experienced drilling engineer who had implemented a rigorous drilling safety program while at Chevron, had been recruited to join BP in 2007 to improve and standardize its drilling policies and protocols. »
What do you think of that? BP hires someone to improve its safety measures and the person in question has to resign because BP doesn’t seem that much interested after all by safety and security. Strange? The more I look into this case, the more I am puzzled by the conduct of humans. To save a few millions and some time, a multinational corporation is ready to jeopardize its reputation, its capability to stay in business, the people who work for and around it and the whole environment in which the very executives of that corporation live and thrive? Decidedly, I don’t understand humans. Please, someone, come to my rescue. With these kinds of people in charge of the Earth, it is no big surprise that things are going so bad. We are governed by crooks, nutcases and psychopaths. Anyhow, I have also attached the video of the interview that survivors of the oil rig explosion gave to Anderson Cooper. It is worth watching because you can see that it is real. Some executives at BP have played with the workers lives and with the health and food of the whole planet, for a few bucks.
Je ne sais pas si vous êtes comme moi mais depuis que Luc Ferrandez est arrivé à la mairie d’arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal, on dirait que rien ne va plus dans le quartier. Je suis arrivé à Montréal en 1993. Spontanément et sans le savoir, j’ai loué un appartement sur le Plateau, à l’époque où il y avait presque autant de logements disponibles que d’habitants et où les prix étaient encore abordables. En fait, le quartier était assez pauvre. Ça, c’était avant qu’il ne s’embourgeoise. Aujourd’hui, les logements locatifs sont devenus rares et très dispendieux et pas seulement sur le Plateau. Aussitôt que j’ai emménagé, j’ai noté que le Plateau était animé d’une vie palpitante, excitante. Les citoyens de tous les quartiers et d’ailleurs aimaient venir s’y retrouver. La circulation automobile, cycliste et en patins était abondante et les jours d’été, des milliers de passants venaient agrémenter les trottoirs et terrasses. Lorsque le quartier s’est embourgeoisé vers la fin des années 1990, je n’ai pas noté de baisse d’achalandage de la circulation, ni de l’activité commerciale ou autre. C’est seulement la clientèle qui a changé. La classe moyenne s’est installée et l’on a vu la classe des travailleurs, dont j’étais, et les pauvres, être chassés vers la périphérie. Le condominium a alors envahi le marché de l’immobilier, ne laissant plus que des banlieusards-toujours-en-ville pour peupler le quartier. En passant, pour voir les effets de l’embourgeoisement d’une population, voir cet article précédent.