The Wall Street Enterprise
is about to hit a wall.
Stubbornly, it has survived a lot of these crashes.
Credit is to be given its facade of false charts
which are convincingly put up to rise from
impending doom.
Like the Phoenix.
But there will always be a Wall street
for as long as there is a lust
for the Easy Street.
Erdogan pauses from his trumpeting call
to the world to investigate
Mohammed Bs for
dismembering Khashoggi.
Trump recalls his troops from Syria.
Mattis quits.
Turkey moves troops towards Syria.
The Kurds feel abandoned.
Russia starts military maneuvers.
Syria is relieved of foreign mercenaries
supplied and funded by the United States.
Assad prepares to repatriate Syrians.
And pay them for coming back.
Wait till Trump changes his mind!
They call it “Caravan”
I call it Montezuma’s Revenge.
Two kids died acroos the border.
The President shuts down the government.
Not enough money to build the Wall.
And maybe not enough money
to pay for the government workers.
Congress asks why $5 billion
and not $1.3 billion.
Maybe the American Government is strapped for Cash.
But the Federal reserve can always print money
or that kind which Europe is trying to discard
and which China has a hoard.
I was right again—
when I said America is retreating into a cocoon
by its own doing.
It will still be great, though,
but will be ignored
like the next door bully
with a caravan availing of its outhouses.
(A horse, a horse
my kingdom for a horse!)
(This post is a new twist
and should twist your minds,
although I assure you that it did not come from a twisted mind!)
Chinese intelligence detains a third Canadian.
Her cell phone number must have been reflected
in any or both of the phones of the other two.
Either this, or she must have been taking pictures
of some sensitive storage sites.
It would be detrimental to the plight of those
now under detention
for the Americans to intervene
because by doing so may remove doubts that
the prisoners are actually working for the
US Intelligence.
The best thing that the Americans could do
is to cancel the request for extradition.
That is, if the Chinese National Security
has not yet been seriously compromised.
In any case, the success of the
US – North Korea Agreement is included in the ante.
(It should not take a great deal of intelligence
to figure out how Intelligence Departments work!)
(EH?)
Ottawa announced that it is going to help Alberta
to ease out the oil crisis.
Ottawa must think that Albertans were born yesterday
and that an ice cream cone would appease the Albertans.
The “help’ that it announced were actually
due Alberta several months before the crisis,
and even so, it would do little to solve the oil problem.
The amount which is grossly exaggerated is $1.6B,
only $500 million of which may be used sparingly to appease Albertans.
Ottawa should remember that Alberta must have transferred to Ottawa
about 200 times that much over the oil years
And this amount is just a share of the oil resources.
Also, the rhetoric that accompanied the humiliating announcement
just about ensured this government
will not retain its office
come next election.
Alberta is not asking for a handout
nor for more loans that have to be repaid,
it is just asking to be freed from
the federal blockages to its oil industry.
China does not issue idle threats.
It only trumpets a heavy word.
And now it has kept it.
A warning was first issued
after Meng Wangzhou was detained in what apeears to be
an arrest without evidence to warrant that arrest,
only confidence that the requesting party
has its wown proof to warrant the arrest.
Kovrig who once worked fore the Canadian government
was detained by Chinese authorities without a warrant with
but the reason that his employer was not registered.
Afterwards, Spavor who is mostly connected with North Korea,
was detained with no possible charge but
a national security risk .
An announcement is then made by the Chinese authorities
that these arrests are not connected to
the impending extradition of Meng Wangzhou.
Clearly the Chinese have something heavier than extraditions.
Something that is not commercial, financial,
cultural, political, or whatever.
This would be something that is related to information
regarding the extent of the relationship between the countries
of China and North Korea.
For China now,
I believe that Kovrig and Spavor
are in a very,very serious situation
and the complete release of Meng Wanzhou
will not affect it nonetheless.
Where are these two now?
They are in a Chinese prison,
a close inference of which may be spelled as
L-I-M-B-O
We Canadians have seen much of foreign journalists srew up
on the news that they actually report askewdly.
(if there is such a word as askewdly, but you know what I mean)
Sad it is to say that Canadians are goofing off right now
in reporting about Meng Wanzhou, and China relatively.
And I will say it outright, the CBC NEWS hosts are too much engrossed
in Canada being a Country of Laws.
I agree, of course, and that is the veritable truth:
Canadians are a nation of Laws.
But then again CBC NEWS ought to know what they are talking about.
This whole Wangzhou affair
has got the Chinese rapping wood on their rafters.
For good reason, nobody is sent to prison there
if one did not do anything wrong.
Meng was sent to prison just like that.
And EXTRADITION is new to the Chinese law books.
It is therefore justifiable, for the Chinese
to stick this Canadian guy to prison
without any charges laid
which we expect to be drummed up soon.
Anyhow, it is a tooth for a tooth, an eye for en eye,
and a jail for a jail with no charges laid.
But let us now see how much CBC NEWS know
about the Rule of Law in Canada.
For the charge violating the sanctions against Iran,
Canada cannot extradite Meng because
it is America that has the sanctions against Iran.
Canada does not have sanctions against Iran.
For Meng to be extradited, her offense against America
must also be considered an offense in Canada.
This would be the first item that Meng’s defense lawyers would put up.
This is one prime article in the Extradition Treaty between Us and Canada.
And talking about this Extradition treaty,
the US would have only one charge
that may have a slim chance of sticking–
that of Annexes 12 and 16 (specifically annex 16)
which would be the charge of
“Fraud by a banker, agent, or by a director or officer of any company”
But then again, if this happened in Iran
this still will not stick because Canada
does not have any sanctions on Iran.
Canada may take into consideration
that this type of fraud (whatever it is)
may also constitute an offense in Canada,
in which case extradition may be considered.
But then again, it did not happen in Canada
so there.
The question is: will that guy being imprisoned in China
be able to afford a $10 million bail
as an eye for an eye?
(to CBC news, read first before you jump)
The American intrusion across the Yalu River
brought upon their heads
a swarm of Chinese troops about 8 division strong.
And thus started the tragic and most terrible retreat
of the UN police force in North Korea.
Comes now the biggest and most significant test case
of the much-vaunted American Sanction.
Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei,
and daughter to the founder of this
very promising electronics company,
was taken into custody by the Canadian Justice Department
in preparation for extradition to the US.
Meng is charged by the US of
violating the US sanctions on Iran.
IMO, since when has it been that the US sanction,
or any sanction by any country,
is enforceable as a criminal offense and as such
deserve imprisonment by the sanctioning country?
By any dictionary which one might use,
the definition of SANCION is simply
the REMOVAL OF CONSENT, a RESTRAINT,
DISAPPROVAL, or Deem UNAUTHORIZED
those procedures or actions as may be specified.
SANCTION is not a BLOCKADE
that is legally enforceable with troops or police.
Violating sanctions is not a crime.
The rights of Meng Wanzhou have been violated
when she was taken into custody.
SANCTION may be enforced by economic or political means
but not thru the courts of law or by weapons.
Clearly the Americans are testing how the world
may treat the US sanctions on any country or person.
Also under test is the extradition treaty
between Canada and the US.
(who is paying for the Canadian prosecutors and how much?)
Red-flushed on the face with the CIA
contradicting his conclusions regarding
the murder of Khashoggi,
the Secretary of State starts another diversion
involving Russia, and naturally involving Russia.
He has given Russia 30 days to comply
with some treaty that nobody cares about.
Of course the US will back down from the treaty
even if Russia complies with it.
Reminds us of all the treaties that the US has negated.
Nobody believes in the Us now?
And who cares if nobody believes in the US now?
This new diversion won’t work.
The world is smarter .
and can now see thru smokescreens
without glasses.
BC should have this climate plan
not due to the carbon emissions,
though,
Johanna could raise the temperature 2 degrees anywhere.
I could not understand what she was saying on this video.
I was focused on the map.
Only the map.
The Canadian Minister of Finance,
(rue the day it was Morneau)
knocks Alberta and reminds everybody
that it was the Canadian Government
which bought the The Trans Mountain Pipeline
without a cent coming from Alberta.
Well he can keep the pipeline.
The Finance minister is unable to install it anyway.
Alberta will sell its oil eventually
without Federal funding.
The Albertans by themselves will contribute
capital, labor, and resolve.
Ottawa should remember that
the revenue transfers from Alberta to the government
depends upon the profits from Alberta oil.
(these federal court judges, how much do they spend for their holidays?)
Merry Christmas To You…OOOOO!!!!