7 of 7 (Apo 2.04beta flame on UF parameter "What's Happening in Afghanistan?" with postwork in Adobe Photoshop.) This is the second collaboration between my darling and me!!!

Can you really believe war is black and white? Can anyone? And if it's not, what are you going to do about it? If nothing - I don't need to know about that!

Here's just some of the latest on a group that attempts to spin the black and white all the while complicating issues for their own gain: The Bilderberg Group. In fact they complicate things to such a degree that they continue to deny that they exist. Righteo!

Yes, Dorothy, there is a conspiracy and it's a colourful one at that!

Have you read about the Bilderberg group???? An American reporter and his two assistants [with no criminal records or history of violence etc] who were on their way to report on them were detained by the Canadian border patrol. Wonder who ordered this infringement of Canadian and American Civil Rights?

Here's an email I received via my political listserve:

F.Y.I Ignore the source if you wish but look at the details.

Could it be that the Constitution in general is under attack, or is that
what you meant by "Civil Rights"? PtP

It is not just Canadians that should be worried Catherine, but Americans
also. However, it seems that 'our' country is certainly compromised and
our Civil Rights seem to 'under attack'. Mj

----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Whelan Costen"

What’s going on in Canada these days? What the news/media is reporting
isn’t nearly as interesting as what it isn’t reporting. Perhaps you are
suspicious about whether our civil rights are on the line. Perhaps you
don’t want to think about it at all and prefer to trust implicitly that
our government is acting in our best interests. There are some Canadians,
who are even willing to give up their freedom in exchange for some
strengthened promise of security. Trusts can be abused as we saw in the
Sponsorship Scandal. Promises can be broken as we saw in the Peter
Mckay/David Orchard Betrayal. Voters can be ‘hoodwinked’ as we saw in the
Emerson defection. These are the players many Canadians still offer
complete and blind trust even though a democracy demands that we be
skeptical and watchful of our elected officials.

Whether you believe that there is a group of rich powerful men that meet
and plan out the power strategies for world economies, arrange puppet
governments for other nations, or offer to trade away the resources of one
country for cheap labour in another, and whether you call those meetings
conspiracies or private parties matters not one bit to those who are
playing the game. Our belief in such a system does not make it exist nor
does our denial make it a fabrication. There are many who believe such a
group does exist. The Bilderberg Group is named after the Dutch hotel
where it held its first meeting in 1954. You can read all about it, some
newspapers are talking about it,
[link]
and the Ottawa Citizen had a story:
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and there are many sites on the internet. Here is one:
[link]

These meetings would have no
significance to the majority of the world population if they were not
shrouded in secrecy and if the highest levels of security were not imposed
surrounding the meetings. There is plenty of speculation about what goes
on in these meetings, but without media to represent the people we have no
voice. CAP’s concern is around the side story to these meetings. Clearly
the meetings are being held in Canada this year. Evidence to support this
is the reaction at our border on Wednesday evening when a respected member
of the media was detained for 15 hours by our border patrol. It is
reported by the victim, Alex Jones that the border patrols were warned he
was coming and advised by the Bilderberg group to detain him. Who gave
them the authority to instruct our border security? Who is running this
country? So the question of whether a police state is on the horizon is no
longer a question, it is here! This journalist, broadcaster was being
tracked. His intention to come to Canada was known in advance. Security
was notified. This individual is not a criminal. He is a member of the
international independent media. Canadians ought to be very concerned
about these kinds of tactics. Either we consider the press the people’s
representative and demand freedom of the press or we forfeit our right to
a democratic free state. We should be outraged. If we cannot depend on
mainstream media to report the facts which are impacting our lives us and
independent media is being prevented from doing so, what freedom of the
press does this democracy support? I attach one Canadian’s thoughts and
account of this incident for you to make up your own mind about the state
of affairs in Canada today.
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Contact: Catherine Whelan Costen, Canadian Action Party President [link] cathpublish@wildroseinternet.ca Ph:403-660-0449
Canadian Action Party/ Parti Action Canadienne; Leader, Constance (Connie) Fogal Telephone (604) 872 2128 home; Fax: (604) 872-1504 E-mail: conniefogal@telus.net #385- 916 West Broadway, VancouverB.C. V5Z1K7

Quote: We have seen it coming, said it was coming and apparently the 'police state' is here. On Wednesday night, AmericanJournalist, national syndicated broadcaster and documentary
filmmaker Alex Jones and his crew of two arrived in Ottawa to cover and document this
year's meeting of the Bilderberg Group. They were immediately detained,
separated, searched, interrogated, verbally abused, threatened, had their
equipment confiscated and were held incommunicado for some fifteen
grueling hours. Is this Canada? I for one am outraged !
[link]

I think that independent media members with no criminal history, nor history of
violence, and who have made no threat to our nation have just as much
right to enter Canada as other journalists working for mega-corporations -
and for that matter, the owners and financiers of these mega-corps, who
are seemingly immune from immigration laws and the treatment afforded Mr.
Jones. Apparently they can come and go as they please. Most half-ways
informed people today have at least heard of the Bilderberg group. Only a
few short years ago, it's very existence was vehemently denied in the
mainstream media. Now their meetings are practically common knowledge,
though not all know exactly who they are, where they meet, nor precisely
why they meet.

The evidence, according to those who do bother to investigate them,
is that they meet and make decisions that do affect ALLof us without any
pepresentation nor mainstream media coverage. But, it
is only the so-called 'alternative' or independent media who pursue them,
and what they have documented cannot be ignored, and their findings
indicate that the Bilderbergers should not simply be deemed a private
group. Nor should rights be conferred on them that we as average citizens
cannot expect. That they meet in secret (or attempt to), discuss
strategies, make real decisions and advance real agendas and even
political candidates is no longer a big secret, thanks to the independent
media.

The following is from a recent 'mainstream' news article featuring
an interview with famed Bilderberger investigator Jim Tucker if the
American Free Press.: (Bilderbergers say they're building transatlantic
understanding, frankly talking about the issues but prefer to do it in
private where invited participants can speak freely. Even mainstream
critics say they are elitist, undemocratic and unaccountable. Others
finger Bilderbergers as building a self-serving world government, pulling
strings behind the scenes and planting their candidates in politics and
other positions of power to serve their needs. This year, they'll again be
talking oil prices, Tucker said (who has followed them for many years).
"Last year we reported on plans for oil prices to increase dramatically,"
he said. "At that time, oil was as low as $40 a barrel. Then it shot up to
$70 a barrel. They do affect us. "Conspiracy is fact when you have 120 of
the world's most powerful men and they conduct public business behind
closed doors with armed guards." )[link]
I have to ask, how it is that the "conspiracy theorists" get it right each
year when they announce the location and dates where the "secret meetings"
are to be held, and what they report always seems to turn out to be pretty
much accurate. Are they psychic? No, they have investigated and have good,
reliable sources. And if we had a truly independent and concerned media
investigating this group without corporate interference, they would likely
come to the same conclusions. The Bilderbergers cannot be equated with
rich Hollywood stars trying to enjoy some privacy with family and friends,
who deserve to be left alone (but who are not). They are undeniably the
global power elite and are discussing (some might say conspiring), setting
their agenda and through the power of money and influence, putting it
into practice, and we have a right to know what it is, and to demonstrate
against it, if we decide that we are opposed.

Without independent inquiryand exposure, we are simply blind little sheep to
be herded and exploited.Alex Jones took it upon himself, at his own expense
to try and provide coverage of this event to inform the world (as the
mainstream refuses to do, other than peripherally), and I think we owe him
our gratitude. Agree with him or not on his conclusions, he should be treated with as much
respect as any other member of the media (foreign or domestic), and he
should not be subjected to arbitrary detention at the behest of global
elite bullies and their vicious barking dogs. If the treatment he
received upon his arrival in Canada is typical of that afforded foreign
journalists, then we are indeed living in a 'police state'.

I am left to wonder what consequences there would be if commentators such as Ann
Coulter of FOX news or MSNBC's Tucker Carlson (who both have made
seriously derogatory and inflammatory remarks about our country and even
veiled threats) came here and were subjected to such treatment? Or what of
Michael Moore? You can bet that it would be an international incident, and
in the end, Canadian officials would be apologizing profusely and heads
would roll at Immigration Canada. If this is still a free, sovereign,
fair, and just country, then I think the same should apply in the case of
Alex Jones who is of no threat to this country - though apparently, his
'information' is a threat to the power elite who would rather that we
remain blissful, ignorant sheep. I call upon P.M. Stephen Harper and the
Minister for Immigration to make a public apology to Mr. Jones and his
crew on behalf of all Canadians. And if our government will not offer an
apology, then I take it upon myself, to offer my own, on behalf of my
fellow citizens for this extreme and unwarranted behaviour. I thank him
for attempting to do a public service on behalf of Canadians, Americans
and average people the world over: Giving us some information and letting
us make up our own minds. After all, knowledge is power, right?
Apparently, that is what they are afraid of.

Regards,
Wayne Prante