My birthday celerbration

My birthday

thank you everyone, I  listened to Gothic music eating chocolate cheese cake.

And spent my birthday wondering what has happened to Canada.

Corruption is mismanagement
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-ranked-worst-of-g7-nations-in-fighting-bribery-corruption/article2032347/

The public's goal for a strong country is met by good management. Good management is minimize government corruption and incompetence to ensure efficient usage of public resources/funds and that that government decisions making is competent and accountable.

Politicians and Parties dedicated to maximizing accountability and minimizing corrupt
ion are good managers.

Clearly the Politicians and Parties who deceive and use Electoral Fraud to gain power will destroy this country we love.

"PM brushes aside calls for robocall judicial inquiry or royal commission"
http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/news/story.html?id=6296257

We must take to the streets. It is the only way to stop tyrants.
When authoritarian PRC, China created Article 23, "any speech arousing to take action could be regarded as illegal and it was a crime to hear such speech and fail to report" It was rushed through the Hong Kong Legislative Council. The July 1 celebration was protest with 500,000 people filled the streets.

Democracy matters, if we don't have Democracy, we have Tyranny

Today we are fighting for Democracy. Against deep corruption that destroys Democracy and Canada the country we love.

We take the torch from failing hands of our fathers who fought and gave their lives in the fight against Tyranny.
In their dying breath they made us promise to protect the liberty they fought for.
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae,
Guelph, Ontario

The PMO has all the power in Canada.

http://youtu.be/pEsCPi-BOXA

The PMO has all the power in Canada.
Its his show and his show alone.
And on that point there is no debate!!

The house of commons is nothing more than a bad show, to make the people feel like they have a democracy. When the truth is we have an elected dictator.

http://www.hrsolidarity.net/mainfile.php/2000vol10no09/708/

Elected dictatorships are those where dictatorships cleverly masquerade as democracies. In elected dictatorships, regular elections are held, a docile and subservient press is maintained that purveys lies and fear to intimidate the voters to support the ruling elite. The ability to pull off this masquerade of pretending to be democratic makes elected dictatorships difficult to eliminate.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/23458

Canadians are so fed up with smarmy politicians talking out of both sides of their mouths, ... Canada is in dire need of politicians who believe in government of, for and by the people, but we won’t get it so long as we allow our leaders to wield dictatorial powers

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Parliament+become+irrelevant+under+Harper/5815682/story.html#ixzz1fsmFygYD

A better comparison to the Canadian situation might be Russia, where Vladimir Putin is able to act without concern for the formal role of institutions, although in Canada there are a series of extra-governmental actors

And we have watchdogs - the auditor general, the parliamentary budget officer and the like - but according to a count by Queen's University Professor Ned Franks, Harper has fired or forced out 10 watchdogs, which tends to cow the others.

The only way this near absolute power held by the PMO can be countered is by the Provinces taking a very strong stand, which may include exercising their sovereignty.

This is the power the Provinces have. It is a very important power which can be used.

Americans made two mistakes which squandered their advantage in Afghanistan.

Americans made two mistakes which squandered their advantage.


"People welcomed the Americans [because] they saw them as their liberators. There was no room for the Taliban to stage a comeback immediately."


"I think the Pakistani military... tolerated the Taliban and also helped them”
Hasan Askari Rizvi Defence analyst

By 2006, however, the Taliban had infiltrated large parts of the south - especially the provinces of Zabul, Kandahar and Helmand.

By 2008, they were spreading out north towards Kabul.

Brig Shah says the Americans made two mistakes which squandered their advantage.

"They focused on military objectives instead of stabilisation and development. And they soon went to fight a war of choice in Iraq, abandoning the war of necessity that had brought them to Afghanistan."

The lack of reconstruction, and rampant corruption among government officials at a time when millions of refugees were returning from Iran and Pakistan, led to widespread disenchantment and fuelled insurgency, he says.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15132461>

Dick Cheney foolish defends the use of torture.

Terrorism feeds on misery, corruption and HATRED!


With reduced corruption the Afghan government would have been able to win many hearts and minds of the Afghan people and police itself. Reducing the world terrorism threat.

The decision to use torture and support the corruption of justice required to make torture possible has been a strategic blunder. Rebellion against the corruption within the Afghan Government gives the extremist terrorist more than enough support. We have wasted untold billions. We have wasted what was probably our only chance to bring lasting peace to Afghanistan and reduce the threat of terrorist who feed on the misery, corruption and hatred.

Torture is corruption of justice. The hatred created by torturing for information is beyond our comprehension.

Through the misery, corruption and hatred created through torture, Dick Cheney is a danger to all.

In Canada pre-election campaign advertisement spending is unregulated.

I bring to your attention the well documented findings of
Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest - lobbying - justice (2008)

Author(s) :
Alexander Seger, Drago Kos, Alvis Vilks, Ömer Faruk Gençkaya, Manuel Villoria Mendieta, Alan Doig, Siim Kallas, Rogier Chorus, William Dinan, David Miller, Pim Albers, Nihal Jayawickrama
ISBN 978-92-871-6355-4



In Canada pre-election campaign advertisement spending is unregulated. The removal of public political financing will only lead to greater political favoritism and corruption of the public trust.

The effects of unregulated political financing is summarized on page 34. I also highly recommend reading the whole document.



At the same time, unregulated political finances carry considerable risks

- they exacerbate political inequality. The principle of "one person, one vote" is compromised by unequal influence bought through contributions. Financial contributions create an uneven playing field where big money (often coming from the corporate sector) has an undue advantage. Interested money may override equal voting rights and equal access to decision makers and elected office;

- political money may buy access to office and access to decision makers. Those in a position to contribute have a greater chance to be heard by political decision makers. And those able to finance political parties and electoral "pre-election" campaigns have bigger chance to secure places on election lists of established by political parties;

- elections may represent less a competition of political positions and ideas and more the ability of political parties and candidates to raise funds, leading to an arms or propaganda race disconnected from political debate;

- political parties and politicians risk being co-opted to represent and pursue particular interests rather than the common public interest. They are more accountable to those who pay than to their constituency. This risk is particularly great if parties rely on a small number of donors only. Parties relying on private funding may have a weaker connection to their voters and are less connected to party members. Party leaders may transform contributions into political capital to secure control over their party;

- unregulated political finances are not transparent. It is thus impossible for voters to determine whose interests politicians are representing, and to hold them accountable.

Public Party Financing and Democracy

It is time people read a few books on the subject before they mouth off. Stephen Harper is hoping people have forgotten how to read or cannot remember why Public Party Financing was introduced.

Lets start with this book

Corruption and democracy: Political finances - conflicts of interest - lobbying - justice (2008)
Author(s)

Alexander Seger, Drago Kos, Alvis Vilks, Ömer Faruk Gençkaya, Manuel Villoria Mendieta, Alan Doig, Siim Kallas, Rogier Chorus, William Dinan, David Miller, Pim Albers, Nihal Jayawickrama
ISBN 978-92-871-6355-4
Format : 16 x 24 cm
No. of pages : 220
Price : € 28 / US$ 42

This title is available in PDF.
ISBN : 978-92-871-6355-4PDF
Weight : 1364 Ko
Price : € 19 / US$ 29

Synopsis

Political corruption is an important challenge that democracies in Europe are confronted with. It contributes to the decline of citizens’ trust and confidence in democracy and weakens democratic principles and processes. Key areas of concern include:
- Political finances
- Conflicts of interest
- Lobbying
- Undue influence on the justice system.

This book contains contributions on each of these topics. They identity risks that corruption poses to the future of democracy in Europe, and they propose a wide range of measures for action which are not only aimed at preventing political corruption and enhancing transparency and accountability but also at rebuilding confidence in democracy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=yjmC0OvU0AIC&pg=PA65&lpg=PA65&dq=public+party+financing+democracy&source=bl&ots=nyTLZykQBQ&sig=jBM9Cbs-bn-7LlZNUtri8mKl7_c&hl=en&ei=QIAxTZOSKpD6sAPmxMmEBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=public%20party%20financing%20democracy&f=false

You can find this authoritative book on the Corruption and democracy: Political finances

http://book.coe.int/EN/ficheouvrage.php?PAGEID=36&lang=EN&produit_aliasid=2294

or borrow this book from a library
...
http://www.worldcat.org/title/corruption-and-democracy-political-finances-conflicts-of-interest-lobbying-justice/oclc/225866717&referer=brief_results

select find library

type in your city name

Need for a Monitored Independent Investigation into Toronto G20

An investigation into police tactics alone does not address the poor G20 planning, mismanagement of public funds, the security command issued orders, or directive under which those orders were issued. This monitored independent investigation is an opportunity to learn and improve so that public is served by all levels of government, police and security services.

The public's goal is to minimize government corruption and incompetence to ensure efficient usage of public resources/funds and that that government decisions making is competent and accountable. To achieve these public goals there is; the separation of power, independent selection of judiciaries and high ranking public servants, free and fair democratic elections and independent decentralized media. Incompetence is furthered by an inability to study mistakes of ourselves and others. It is through this learning process that competence is gained and errors are avoid. By definition public corruption is abuse of public office for private gain. The private gain may be a group's use of preferential access to government as means of improving their condition relative to other groups. It may be maintaining a government in power in order to enable continued preferential treatment. By its very nature corruption is secrete and requires deceit. As greater deceit is employed to hide incompetence, corruption grows unbounded unless checked.

Democracy requires an educated public with empowered votes voting in fair elections. Democracy is tool which enables empowered inclusion of those affected in collective decisions and actions. The educated public on which democracy depends requires decentralized independent media to prevent the influence of a group through preferential access to government or public. Only through both current and investigative reporting, independently reviewed can the public access the competence
and corruption of their public officials. The public does not have the resources to directly investigate government actions. Corruption is secretive, citizens are unlikely to have the knowledge they require to investigate, expose and combat corruption. Individual citizens who resist corruption face a public goods problem, no citizen has sufficient resources to investigate, expose and combat corruption. The public depends reviewed independent detail investigation of government actions required to investigate, expose and combat corruption. Successful examples of reviewed independent investigation of corruption, exposing and combating corruption include the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption combined with their independent Judiciary.

It is the public's low tolerance for corruption that ties democratic participation to controlling corruption. This is why "long exposure to democracy" predicts lower corruption. As the public's tolerance for corruption increases the tie between democratic participation and controlling corruption diminishes. Also required is a high amount of reliable information required to discern where corruption is present and empowered voting where their vote is effective for the public to exercise their intolerance for corruption an incompetence. This is why the public requires a monitored independent investigation into the G20. Governments not punished for corruption, are encouraged to increase their corruption “unjust exclusion or disempowerment” as means of retaining power. And the public has no choice, but to view any and all who stand in the way of reviewed independent investigations as supporters of corruption and also corrupt. In real terms as the tie between democratic participation and controlling corruption diminishes common people are increasingly likely to seek out increasing radical measures as burden of corruption grows.

- G20 planning. Why were the recommendations of Toronto ignored. Security at the CNE could have been obtained at a fraction of the cost? A military base which includes security could have been used with open land for demonstrations with very few targets for vandalism. Who was involved in the planning decision process and why was advice ignored to located the G20 at more easily secured location?

- G20 enormous mismanagement of public funds, A detail audit is required of the over 1.1 Billion spending.

- Confusion and high command order telling officers to stand down and not stop vandals even though they had more than sufficient manpower and equipment. Even with over 1.1 Billion in spending, individual citizens were required to take security into their own hands and take action to stop vandalism. http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/joe_warmington/2010/06/30/14564416.html Later police after first failed the public by their inaction during the vandalism, the police performed an unconstitutional mass arrest. Who ordered the mass arrests? Mass roundups and pre-emptive arrests have served a very unethical political purpose of deflect attention from the G20 policy decisions and legitimate concerns the peaceful public attempted to present. Who comprised the high command and from where did they receive their orders? It is unbelievable that individuals rising to this level of high command could have been so incompetent.

- Why did police deceive the public about the public works laws? Action must be taken when police do not honestly execute laws and regulations. This is police corruption.

These problems cross multiple levels of government, police and security services. Which have failed to protect and serve the Canadian public to various degrees.

This requires an independent investigation. Given that these problems cross multiple levels of government and police, I strongly suggest monitoring the independent investigation committee by international monitors who will publish at various point of the investigation, with a final full published report at the completion of the investigation. These monitors of the independent investigation committee provides a review necessary to insure complete and impartial investigation.


Therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves hating evil and loving good establish justice, faithful until death.

Canada falls behind from, lack of Telecommuniation Competition

VOIP via the Internet is the only phone we have. My family doesn't have a land line or a TV. Our computers are our phones, our TVs, our news papers and our library books.


My family relies exclusively on digital networks for phone service, news updates, entertainment and education. When we talk to friends and relatives over the phone our voice and video is digitized and sent over switched networks. Now even the oldest part of the telecommunication network the analog last mile has been effectively replaced by digital switch services, DSL, cable modem and wireless/cell. Analog television was discontinued this year in the United States and Canada is scheduled to end analog television in late 2011. Digital phone service can be delivered via PSTN and digital TV via ATSC. PSTN and digital TV require separately infrastructure. Where as all digital services can be delivered over the packet switch internet. As result it is cheaper for telecommunication companies to deliver phone, TV and Internet services over a single shared packet switched connection.

It is cheaper for consumers to purchase a broadband internet service and separately purchase VIOP and media services delivered over the packet switched broadband internet connection. High fidelity audio and video provided through PSTN are just another internet application with QoS guarantees. From a consumers perspective why buy broadband internet from a phone or cable company when they can be purchased for less from a local internet provider, who can purchase in bulk and deliver it via a local wireless/cell or building/block wired connection. The open competitive market place of local internet providers delivering local wireless/cell and building/block wired connections, realize a much more efficient market place with lower costs to consumers. The simple problem is billing benefits tremendously from economies of scale. In reality phone, cable and wireless companies are internet service billing companies which happened to also provide a local wireless/cell or building/block connection. Through the control of local wireless/cell or building/block provided broadband internet services phone, cable and wireless companies unfortunately vertically extended themselves into localized near monopolies. Allowing billing companies with very large economies of scale to extend themselves into localized near monopolies has resulted in limited local cellar data service competition. Lack of cellar competition has resulted in Canada having one of the highest cellar data access charges in the world. http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/04/09/canada-worse-than-3rd-world-countries-when-it-comes-to-mobile-data-access/



There are a number of billing approaches which do not require internet service billing companies to be localized near monopolies exclusively providing local wireless/cell or building/block connection to broadband internet services.

The simplest is community internet service. An alternately is internet service billing companies charging customers for a sign on key. Which customers use to connect through anyone of number of local service providers the internet service billing company has an agreement with.

Community service works well when the majority are internet customers meet their of their internet needs from within the community area and the majority of the internet users are from the community. Community service can be used to provide store, school or city wide internet service.

The quality of wireless/cell or building/block internet services is insured through certification of local internet service providers. Certified internet service providers submit open bids to provide various types of service access in various areas. Users limiting connection to only certified internet service providers prevents a cracker providing temporary internet services gathering personal information for the purpose of identity theft. Redundancy is achieve by multiple service provider bids selected for service access in each area. Some suggested quality requirements include following spectrum usage requirements as laid out by CRTC, following Ipv4, Ipv6 service standards, meeting bandwidth and latency requirements. Local providers buy bandwidth from carrier providers and route customer bandwidth through multiple providers, in order to provide redundancy at the lowest bandwidth cost. The local providers summarize and publicly publish bandwidth consumption records. The community pays certified local providers according to the bandwidth they provided.

A limitation of community internet service is people outside the community may free load off the community internet service. This is not a problem for wifi wireless or building/block wired connections. Wifi is relatively short range. Wifi and wire connections require people outside the community to physically relocate themselves into the community in order to use the internet service. However it is easy for free loaders to abuse longer range wireless internet services such as cellar.

Community internet service cannot meet the needs of long distance mobile service and many communities may decided not to provide community internet service. In order to meet internet need where community internet service is not available, a customer buys a service sign on key from an internet service billing company. The customer would submit this key during the initial connection with a certified local cell/wireless provider. The local cell/wireless provider examines the sign on key and determines the issuing internet service billing company. If the provider has an agreement with the internet service billing company, the accepted sign on key is passed to the internet service billing company who authorizes access. The provider may have a dynamic agreement with the internet service billing company. Such agreements allow the internet service billing company to prefer lower cost providers first, enabling high cost providers after the lower cost providers are unavailable, being either full or off line. The quick rejection of the sign on key by the local provider enables the customer to quickly try multiple local providers until success.


As illustrated there are a number of billing approaches which do not require internet service billing companies to be localized near monopolies. Selling spectrum to internet service billing companies is selling them a monopoly to abuse the public and business who depend on internet services for their livelihood. http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/07/20/canadas-wireless-spectrum-auction-is-coming-to-a-close
Instead local internet service providers should be certified to use the spectrum and competitively provided local access to customers. Separate internet service billing companies with very large economies of scale provide cost effective customer billing.

According to professor Milton Friedman, laws against monopolies cause more harm than good, but unnecessary monopolies should be countered by removing tariffs and other regulation that upholds monopolies. The internet service billing companies have unnecessary near monopoly control of local wireless internet service as result of the artificial barrier to entry created through spectrum sales.