Cliff Kincaid
Obama plans takedown of another U.S. ally
By Cliff Kincaid
President Obama failed to take out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but now he's going after Canada's Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a big supporter of Israel and opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It's a story the U.S. media won't cover. But Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press has been documenting how Obama is planning the "fundamental transformation" of Canada by taking down Harper's government and bringing to power a progressive majority assembled from Canada's Liberal Party and New Democratic Party (NDP), an affiliate of the Socialist International.
In a dispatch earlier this year, McLeod provided the facts about the interference of Obama campaign operatives in the Canadian elections scheduled for October 19. "In Canada, Obama's campaign team is guiding the election campaigns of both the Liberals and the NDP," she wrote. She urged the Harper government to investigate.
She explained why Obama is targeting Canada: "To the U.S., Canada is the country next door, to Obama it's home of the architects of the maligned Keystone XL Pipeline and home to the world's Number One elected defender of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
Indeed, for the last seven years, Harper has not only been supporting Israel, but functioning as the leader of the Free World in the face of Obama's deal-making with America's enemies and adversaries. In 2014, at the summit of G20 nations, Harper famously told Russian President Putin that he needs "to get out of Ukraine." Putin replied with a lie, saying the Russians weren't in Ukraine.
Harper has declared, "Israel is the front line of free democratic nations, and any who turn their back on Israel or turn a blind eye to the nature of Israel's enemies do so in the long run at their own peril."
In a recent speech to the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, he spoke of "those who hate democracy and freedom, tolerance and openness, having been plotting attacks against Western nations, beginning with Israel, for decades, seeking to destroy our rare and precious way of life. We were told for years to just ignore the erosion of freedoms and the growing aggression of Putin's Russia. Look where that has taken the world."
Canada used to have a conservative cable channel, Sun News Network. But it went out of business earlier this year when the channel failed to get enough distribution to pay for expenses. Cable companies in Canada were carrying foreign channels such as Al Jazeera and Putin's Russia Today, but wouldn't carry Sun News. Brian Lilley, a former host on the network, said that the cable companies "didn't like the message." He explained, "They didn't like that we were brash, we were very conservative. We were pro-business, pro-family, pro-oil, pro-Israel. We were pro-America....They decided to shut us down."
Lilley and his former colleagues have formed TheRebel.media as a replacement, with special news coverage of national and international news. The group's YouTube channel, with 1,500 videos, is the place to go for conservative coverage of the Canadian elections and other news. Their videos have already attracted millions of views. A report by Ezra Levant on the election describes reporters at Canada's state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), as "liberals with press credentials." Lilley has been leading a campaign to have the government, which provides about $1 billion to the CBC, sell the broadcasting entity to the private sector. Visitors can also get access to podcasts, columns and blogs, and contribute financially to maintain and expand this important site for news and information.
While the Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau campaigns for legal dope and injection centers for drug addicts, and the New Democratic Party proposes Bernie Sanders-style socialism for Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada has been on the side of individual freedom, traditional values, and free enterprise. Harper has taken on the jihadists who want to destroy Western civilization and has spoken eloquently about the stakes for the Free World, such as in a 2014 speech to the Tribute to Liberty Dinner in Toronto. The topic on this occasion was the need to establish a Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada.
"During the 20th century, communism's poisonous ideology and ruthless practice slowly bled into countries all around the world, on almost every continent," Harper said. "The result was nothing short of catastrophic. More than one hundred million souls were lost, an almost incomprehensible number. We must never forget that these are not numbers, they are not statistics. They were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, friends and neighbors. Their futures, their potential, their hopes and dreams, were stolen from them. Our hearts break for those who suffered and we mourn for those who were crushed."
After affirming Canada's solidarity with Ukraine, in the face of Russian aggression, Harper described another current threat, international Islamic terrorism, and said, "...whatever it calls itself – Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism – they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty. My fear is this: as we move further into the 21st century, Canadians, especially new generations, will forget or will not be taught the lessons hard learned and the victories hard earned over the last 100 years. That they will fall even further in love with ease and convenience. And that they will not understand that their rights and their advantages, their peace and their security, were won by people willing to live and die for what is good and right."
Harper, in power since 2006, has truly been the leader of the Free World over the last seven years. He is a reminder of what an American president should be standing for in the world. No wonder Obama wants to finish him off.
© Cliff Kincaid
October 17, 2015
President Obama failed to take out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but now he's going after Canada's Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a big supporter of Israel and opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It's a story the U.S. media won't cover. But Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press has been documenting how Obama is planning the "fundamental transformation" of Canada by taking down Harper's government and bringing to power a progressive majority assembled from Canada's Liberal Party and New Democratic Party (NDP), an affiliate of the Socialist International.
In a dispatch earlier this year, McLeod provided the facts about the interference of Obama campaign operatives in the Canadian elections scheduled for October 19. "In Canada, Obama's campaign team is guiding the election campaigns of both the Liberals and the NDP," she wrote. She urged the Harper government to investigate.
She explained why Obama is targeting Canada: "To the U.S., Canada is the country next door, to Obama it's home of the architects of the maligned Keystone XL Pipeline and home to the world's Number One elected defender of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."
Indeed, for the last seven years, Harper has not only been supporting Israel, but functioning as the leader of the Free World in the face of Obama's deal-making with America's enemies and adversaries. In 2014, at the summit of G20 nations, Harper famously told Russian President Putin that he needs "to get out of Ukraine." Putin replied with a lie, saying the Russians weren't in Ukraine.
Harper has declared, "Israel is the front line of free democratic nations, and any who turn their back on Israel or turn a blind eye to the nature of Israel's enemies do so in the long run at their own peril."
In a recent speech to the Jewish Community Council of Montreal, he spoke of "those who hate democracy and freedom, tolerance and openness, having been plotting attacks against Western nations, beginning with Israel, for decades, seeking to destroy our rare and precious way of life. We were told for years to just ignore the erosion of freedoms and the growing aggression of Putin's Russia. Look where that has taken the world."
Canada used to have a conservative cable channel, Sun News Network. But it went out of business earlier this year when the channel failed to get enough distribution to pay for expenses. Cable companies in Canada were carrying foreign channels such as Al Jazeera and Putin's Russia Today, but wouldn't carry Sun News. Brian Lilley, a former host on the network, said that the cable companies "didn't like the message." He explained, "They didn't like that we were brash, we were very conservative. We were pro-business, pro-family, pro-oil, pro-Israel. We were pro-America....They decided to shut us down."
Lilley and his former colleagues have formed TheRebel.media as a replacement, with special news coverage of national and international news. The group's YouTube channel, with 1,500 videos, is the place to go for conservative coverage of the Canadian elections and other news. Their videos have already attracted millions of views. A report by Ezra Levant on the election describes reporters at Canada's state broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), as "liberals with press credentials." Lilley has been leading a campaign to have the government, which provides about $1 billion to the CBC, sell the broadcasting entity to the private sector. Visitors can also get access to podcasts, columns and blogs, and contribute financially to maintain and expand this important site for news and information.
While the Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau campaigns for legal dope and injection centers for drug addicts, and the New Democratic Party proposes Bernie Sanders-style socialism for Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada has been on the side of individual freedom, traditional values, and free enterprise. Harper has taken on the jihadists who want to destroy Western civilization and has spoken eloquently about the stakes for the Free World, such as in a 2014 speech to the Tribute to Liberty Dinner in Toronto. The topic on this occasion was the need to establish a Memorial to Victims of Communism in Canada.
"During the 20th century, communism's poisonous ideology and ruthless practice slowly bled into countries all around the world, on almost every continent," Harper said. "The result was nothing short of catastrophic. More than one hundred million souls were lost, an almost incomprehensible number. We must never forget that these are not numbers, they are not statistics. They were mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, friends and neighbors. Their futures, their potential, their hopes and dreams, were stolen from them. Our hearts break for those who suffered and we mourn for those who were crushed."
After affirming Canada's solidarity with Ukraine, in the face of Russian aggression, Harper described another current threat, international Islamic terrorism, and said, "...whatever it calls itself – Nazism, Marxist-Leninism, today, terrorism – they all have one thing in common: the destruction, the end of human liberty. My fear is this: as we move further into the 21st century, Canadians, especially new generations, will forget or will not be taught the lessons hard learned and the victories hard earned over the last 100 years. That they will fall even further in love with ease and convenience. And that they will not understand that their rights and their advantages, their peace and their security, were won by people willing to live and die for what is good and right."
Harper, in power since 2006, has truly been the leader of the Free World over the last seven years. He is a reminder of what an American president should be standing for in the world. No wonder Obama wants to finish him off.
© Cliff Kincaid
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