Surveillance
There are no plans to invite Canada to a security pact between Australia, the UK, and the United States focused on defence technology cooperation, says U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.
The trilateral security pact, AUKUS, was formed in 2021 and has been seen as a way to counter China’s growing military presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
While its current primary, or “pillar one” focus is to help Australia develop nuclear-powered submarines, its “pillar two” focus includes collaboration on many technologies, including electronic warfare, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies.
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Read MoreFor the last two years, the Biden administration has made multiple attempts to eliminate our precious First Amendment free speech rights. Unable to con the courts into stripping us of our First Amendment liberties, Biden is now trying to make the United Nations our speech police overseer. But Congress CAN stop him if we make enough noise.
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Read MoreMore than 300 amendments and a new treaty, and not one nation dissented regarding the global takeover by the World Health Organization (WHO) during a recent World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
This week the WHO director-general announced the deployment of a global tracking and tracing program. If this program gains traction, it will be devastating to freedom.
Unless the United States pushes back, the WHO’s power grab will pass. The final vote now appears to be set for the next meeting of the World Health Assembly. I don’t trust the WHO’s public agenda, and thus we need to be prepared for a vote at any time. But regardless of the timing, we need to exit the WHO immediately and end funding for this corrupt organization.
If these amendments and the treaty pass, globalists will have complete control over water, food, medicine, treatments, travel, shipping, crops, grassland, energy, social interactions, and so much more.
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Read MoreVincent Rigby, now-retired national security advisor to the Prime Minister, yesterday testified he never saw a memo warning that Chinese agents targeted a Conservative MP. Rigby told the House affairs committee he read thousands of documents.
“I did discuss foreign interference with the Prime Minister on at least one occasion formally,” testified Rigby. The briefing “was done I believe in early 2021,” he added. “I can’t get into the advice that I gave to the Prime Minister, specific advice and the conversations that happened.”
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service in a July 20, 2021 memo warned that foreign agents threatened family members of MP Michael Chong (Wellington-Halton Hills, Ont.) after he sponsored a Commons motion condemning human rights atrocities in China. MP Chong was never told of the memo.
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Read MoreThe chair of the Trudeau Foundation yesterday testified he never knew a portion of the charity’s $125 million taxpayer endowment was used to buy shares in Chinese corporations. Edward Johnson said he was unaware of the stock purchases until a member of the board objected.
“We told our financial managers to get rid of them,” Johnson testified at the Commons public accounts committee. “Normally we don’t really know what’s part of the portfolio.”
Parliament in 2002 awarded the Foundation a $125 million endowment. Chair Johnson said as late as two years ago the Foundation had stock holdings in China despite policies on ethical investment.
“We have policies including environmental policies, social policies and governance policies and we describe the policies to our managers,” said Johnson. “We invest in companies that conform with these policies and we meet with our managers to make sure they are compliant.”
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Read MoreChina is as carefree a travel destination as Belgium, according to risk ratings by the Department of Foreign Affairs. A member of the Senate foreign affairs committee yesterday questioned the claim given hostage takings and arbitrary detention of more than 120 Canadians in China.
“There are four risk levels,” said Senator Michael MacDonald (N.S.), pointing to categories of travel advisories issued by the department. “China is included with Belgium and the United Kingdom.”
“Why would China have a Level Two categorization the same as the United Kingdom and Belgium?” asked Senator MacDonald, adding he was “very surprised” given the 2018 police kidnappings of two Canadian business consultants in Beijing, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig. The pair spent nearly three years in detention.
“That advice is composed of many different factors,” replied David Morrison, deputy foreign minister. “Some of it would be political risk.” Other factors were “just plain criminality,” added Morrison.
“I certainly accept at times there will be counterintuitive results,” testified Morrison. “I suspect as I say that could be because of petty theft, criminality, those kinds of risks to Canadians rather than the kind of Two Michaels risks.”
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Read MoreThe Senate has given Second Reading to a bill allowing police to intercept parcels in the mail. Federal law dating from the Confederation era prohibits police from opening suspicious packages in transit.
“This ban is far too broad,” said Senator Claude Carignan (Que.). The Canada Post Corporation Act was full of “loopholes” used by drug dealers, he said.
“Traffickers have spread the word that there is much less risk of their packages being intercepted if they send them through Canada Post rather than through any other private courier company such as FedEx, UPS, Purolator or DHL,” said Senator Carignan.
Bill S-256 An Act To Amend The Canada Post Corporation Act would permit police to intercept parcels in transit that are suspected of containing contraband. Current practice sees postal inspectors tip off police to suspicious mail for follow-up once it is delivered to a listed address.
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Read MoreJulian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to the US on espionage charges.
The judgment was handed down privately on Monday at the High Court.
WikiLeaks founder Assange, 51, launched the appeal last June after then-Home Secretary Priti Patel signed an order authorizing his removal.
Yesterday his wife Stella said that he will appeal the decision. It will be Assange’s last chance to overturn the ruling before his options in the UK courts are exhausted.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation said it was ‘highly disappointed by the UK High Court’s rejection of Julian Assange’s appeal of his extradition to the United States on Espionage Act charges.’
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Read MoreThe Chinese regime’s reported plan to create a secret eavesdropping facility in Cuba should be cause for alarm for everyone in the United States, according to lawmakers.
In its latest challenge aimed at the United States, China has reached a deal with Cuba to install an electronic spy base on the island, just about 100 miles from Florida, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence.
It would be close enough for Chinese intelligence services to garner electronic communications from the southeastern United States—home to many military bases—potentially including emails, phone calls, and satellite transmission data, the officials have said. They said Beijing agreed to pay Havana billions of dollars over the arrangement.
Revelation of the secret intelligence facility sparked wide concern in Washington.
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