I see where John Ivison, one of the few non-interns still writing copy at Postmedia, is in a flap because the project management contract for the Canadian Surface Combatant shipbuilding program has gone to Irving Shipbuilding.
Since the actual building of the ships on this shipbuilding contract was primarily awarded to Irving years ago, anybody with half a brain would realize that the only option for overall contract management was Irving.
So some lobbyists from no-hope outside contractors are now kicking up a fuss? How is this news? That's what lobbyists get paid to do!
There are many legitimate questions about the CSC shipbuilding contract. If all our navy is doing is drug interdiction for the DEA and imaginary terror suppression missions for NATO, do we really need this new fleet? The obvious answer to that is NO!
However, if our government is determined to upgrade the RCN, the ships have to be built in Canada, and the overall contract management can only be managed in Canada.
As the lead contractor, Irving is the only responsible choice for overall project management.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Elite US Narcs hop fence to represent top narcos
And who can blame them?
You go from being a Justice Department Prosecutor or DEA field boss making low six numbers, to a highly sought-after defense attorney billing a thousand bucks an hour. Since a hard working attorney can easily bill 3,000 hours a year it's safe to say these guys have seen their incomes go up ten-fold since they switched sides.
And they have the security of knowing their clients can afford the bills.
One would like to think it's not just about the money. These are folks who have seen at first hand the futility and the stupidity and the counter-productivity of America's idiotic "war on drugs." More than a few of them have called for the complete decriminalization of cocaine and marijuana.
More details in this story at The Guardian.
You go from being a Justice Department Prosecutor or DEA field boss making low six numbers, to a highly sought-after defense attorney billing a thousand bucks an hour. Since a hard working attorney can easily bill 3,000 hours a year it's safe to say these guys have seen their incomes go up ten-fold since they switched sides.
And they have the security of knowing their clients can afford the bills.
One would like to think it's not just about the money. These are folks who have seen at first hand the futility and the stupidity and the counter-productivity of America's idiotic "war on drugs." More than a few of them have called for the complete decriminalization of cocaine and marijuana.
More details in this story at The Guardian.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Canada stands firm against Iranian terror
In an embarrassing display of me-too-ism Canada has jumped into the war of words over Iran's imaginary terror exploits in the Americas.
Aside from the extremely dubious case of the bi-polar American used car salesman of Iranian descent, who tried to hire a DEA agent to blow up the Saudi ambassador, evidence of Iranian terror activities anywhere in the Americas is thin indeed.
As The Globe and Mail notes in today's edition, "the Harper Government has been one of the world's most aggressive critics of Iran." Ironically, while the law and order types in Ottawa are wringing their hands over the possibility of Iranian terror in the Americas, they had no qualms about signing free trade agreements with two of the most violent and corrupt regimes in all the Americas in the past year, those of Honduras and Colombia.
The fretting over Iran is in response to Obama having signed the Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act last week. Could they not at least have come up with a title that lends itself to fashioning a catchy acronym? How about the Stop Hezbollah and Iran Terror Act?
A headline proclaiming "Senate unanimously endorses SHIT act" would at least get your attention.
Belen Fernandez does a great job debunking the entire "Iranian terror in the Americas" hysteria. It's exactly that, and it's based on little more than wishful thinking. The entire US military industrial colossus would look more than a little silly without enemies.
If Iran wasn't the enemy du jour, they'd have to invent a new one.
Aside from the extremely dubious case of the bi-polar American used car salesman of Iranian descent, who tried to hire a DEA agent to blow up the Saudi ambassador, evidence of Iranian terror activities anywhere in the Americas is thin indeed.
As The Globe and Mail notes in today's edition, "the Harper Government has been one of the world's most aggressive critics of Iran." Ironically, while the law and order types in Ottawa are wringing their hands over the possibility of Iranian terror in the Americas, they had no qualms about signing free trade agreements with two of the most violent and corrupt regimes in all the Americas in the past year, those of Honduras and Colombia.
The fretting over Iran is in response to Obama having signed the Countering Iran in the Western Hemisphere Act last week. Could they not at least have come up with a title that lends itself to fashioning a catchy acronym? How about the Stop Hezbollah and Iran Terror Act?
A headline proclaiming "Senate unanimously endorses SHIT act" would at least get your attention.
Belen Fernandez does a great job debunking the entire "Iranian terror in the Americas" hysteria. It's exactly that, and it's based on little more than wishful thinking. The entire US military industrial colossus would look more than a little silly without enemies.
If Iran wasn't the enemy du jour, they'd have to invent a new one.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
DEA gives Mexico drug war slaughter thumbs up
There are some useful insights to be gleaned from a CNN opinion piece entitled Is Mexico's drug war strategy working?
You know the war. The one that's been waged with US money since Calderon's election. The war on drugs that has taken 50,000 Mexican lives since 2006. The war that's keeping cocaine and marijuana out of America.
Any problem finding cocaine or marijuana in your corner of America?
Didn't think so.
But here's Rod Benson, Intelligence Director of the DEA, on a drug war that has taken 50,000 Mexican lives and made no impact whatsoever in the availability of drugs in the US; "it is moving in the right direction, and I believe it will bear dividends in the future."
Oh great!
Fifty thousand dead Mexicans might disagree...
...but what the fuck; they're dead anyway!
You know the war. The one that's been waged with US money since Calderon's election. The war on drugs that has taken 50,000 Mexican lives since 2006. The war that's keeping cocaine and marijuana out of America.
Any problem finding cocaine or marijuana in your corner of America?
Didn't think so.
But here's Rod Benson, Intelligence Director of the DEA, on a drug war that has taken 50,000 Mexican lives and made no impact whatsoever in the availability of drugs in the US; "it is moving in the right direction, and I believe it will bear dividends in the future."
Oh great!
Fifty thousand dead Mexicans might disagree...
...but what the fuck; they're dead anyway!
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