Posted on 12/05/2009 2:39:23 PM PST by fanfan
OTTAWA — The United States Embassy has confirmed that negotiations are underway to see if the massive concrete barriers on the perimeter of the property can be removed without jeopardizing its security.
The city wants the barriers on Sussex Drive and MacKenzie Avenue replaced with bollards and lanes freed for traffic, and an embassy spokeswoman said talks are going on with the National Capital Commission and the city about the projected road improvements.
Sophie Nadeau would not discuss details of the planned changes to security arrangements around the embassy, which were put in place in 2003 after the 9/11 attacks, but she acknowledged that a compromise is being worked out.
(Excerpt) Read more at ottawacitizen.com ...
Removing Security Barriers is a totally STUCK ON STUPID idea and therefore wins the daily STUCK ON STUPID award.
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Thanks for the ping fanfan.
more targets?
A ‘borderless state’ will prevail within the information and communications technology (ICT) industry by 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts predict that organisations, including governments, will increasingly source their ICT from around the globe without regard to the ‘country of origin’ or ‘headquarters’ of the vendor supplying the solution, be it software, hardware, telecommunications, IT services, or people.
Gartner said that far from being a new phenomenon, the erosion of traditional borders is the latest stage of globalisation that goes back to the industrial revolution and beyond. Today, social, political and financial forces are combining to transform developing nations into economic powerhouses with enormous ramifications for businesses worldwide.
This is suicide.
There is no other way to see it.
Are they doing this at any other Embassies?
Easier, as well.
:-(
You think our border, economic, or otherwise, will cease to exist?
I don’t know if they are doing it at other embassies, but if I find the answer I’ll let you know.
Interesting choice of reporter to cover this story.
I'm sure it was just his turn in the city desk rotation.../sarc.
Damn French terrorists, always itching to have a go at the US. The moment this barrier comes down crumpets will rain down upon the embassy.
Seriously though, it’s Canada, not Somalia. It isn’t ‘suicide’ that’s just poppycock.
Thank you Cindy.
Isn't that pretty much what happened to European nations who joined the EU? Many US presidents have been gearing this nation to globalism from way back and Clinton, Bush and now Obama are within a hare's breath of forcing it upon us, conveniently easy if the dollar fails (and this administration is having a free-for-all spending money and putting the dollar in imminent danger of collapsing).
Canada, US trail others in knowledge of terrorism - expert
Snips: Canada and the United States haven’t shown as much savvy as Britain, Israel or Singapore in dealing with terrorism, says an Ottawa-based intelligence expert.
Instead, they rely on measures like “border theatre” along the 49th parallel, says Tom Quiggin, a court-qualified expert of global jihadism and a former RCMP intelligence and national security expert.
Quiggin also touched on the issue of profiling as a means of providing security. He said profiling, in fact, can work well if it is behavioural, not racial. He used Israel as an example. To prevent terrorist attacks, the Jewish state knew there would be little point in targeting just Arabs; in 1995, a Jewish extremist assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. So, Israeli operatives mingle among airport crowds, looking for patterns that don’t fit: a man with oddly bleached hair and chemical burns on his hands, or someone with new shoes, new clothes, and a new suitcase that somehow looks wrong.
“Terrorism is a political act, first, foremost and always. (Jihadists’ statements) always start out with religion … and justifications, which are Islam, turned on its head. But then when you read the actual grievances, they’re all political.”
Globalization - the American economic suicide model of capitalism
Snip: The actual fact of Globalization is that it exploits a given work force until it drives wages down below a subsistence level so that it can't survive and then Capital moves to the next exploitable work force. There are no real benefits to any but the ultra rich and instead of an engine of growth, Global Capital is like a parasite living off of America while sucking the economic assets right out of us and into some wealthy corporation such as Goldman Sach's bank vaults.
The whole process of globalization is what I would call a suicidal economic ideology. We destroy our own economic base. Allow global capital to control our government with the fiction of privatized campaign finance so that our government initially aids and abets the destruction of our nation economically. Ultimately the wealth of America will be stripped and we will have neither a Middle Class nor a functional society. But we are supposed to be O.K with this fiction because it is all in everyone's best interests including ours as long as Globalization is being discussed in theory. We have a very real choice at this time in America. We can continue to commit slow economic suicide by continuing to believe in this fiction of Globalization. Or we can take our country back. To do that we need to revoke every trade treaty ratified since Clinton was in office. Then we take what is left of the assets of this nation and begin to rebuild our manufacturing base because America is first and foremost a nation that invents and makes things and develops the technology to lead the world.
Amy Goodman, APR, detained at Canadian border
Amy Goodman, an award winning journalist with American Public Radio, host of the show Democracy now, was stopped at the Canadian Border crossing at Blaine, WA. This is a major border crossing between WA and B.C.
According to Amy Goodman, she was coming to Canada to promote her book on Health Care and she was going to do some research on Tommy Douglas. Tommy Douglas is hailed as the Father of Canadian Health Care.
The vehicle was stopped around 6:00 pm PST and she was asked what she will be talking about. When Amy Goodman told the officer of the reason for her visit, he kept asking her what she was going to say about the Olympics.
This is an alarming development, especially with the response received so far by the Canadian Border Services Agency.
Yeah, on a Friday.
That seems logical. /s
Islam's suicide bombers for Allah are in every country.I know that if they successfully attack the US Embassy in Canada, we will be blamed.
Why would America put it's guard down now?
It's part of his cover. Just like Atta and his crew drinking in the strip joints...
Been to the Greater Toronto Area in the past decade? Check out Mississauga...it looks like the Star Wars cantina scene.
I guess my question should have been “Which side do you think will win?”
They can’t do this to us if we don’t allow it, but I lose hope occasionally.
Our biggest problem is that we don’t know which of the 1% will turn on us.
Some are plotting against civilians as we type.
This isn’t our Grandfather’s War.
Our Grandfathers would have had the good sense to ship the usual suspects back to the sandbox.
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