Security

Garda: Canada’s “Blackwater”

Last week students at L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) disrupted a board meeting after learning administrators planned to sign a $50 million, seven-year, contract with security giant GardaWorld. Protesters are angry the administration has sought to expel student leaders and ramp up security at the politically active campus as they cut programs.

Jay Dyer on the Brussels Attacks, Predictive Programming Numerology & EU Babel

Jay Dyer returns to Tim Kelly’s “Our Interesting Times,” to discuss his piece “TERROR THEATRE: The EU Babel, Brussels Attack Numerology & Media Fakery.” We talk about the terrorist attacks in Brussels and the evidence indicating that they were yet another “Gladio style” false flag event staged by elements within NATO and western intelligence agencies. We discuss media fakery, the possible esoteric meaning in these staged events and the role numerology appears to play in them.

Do You Realize What You Have Done: Brussels Bombing in Context

Instead of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights, including the right to life. I cannot help asking those who have forced that situation: Do you realize what you have done? -Vladimir Putin addressing the United Nations in September 2015. … Continue reading Do You Realize What You Have Done: Brussels Bombing in Context

The Virtues of Saying Anything

It might be torture. It might be immigration. It might be race. These issues only matter in the context of tactics and positioning for Donald Trump. To get elected, the man will literally say anything. It is a tactic that just might work.
He has no genuine, developed sense of the awareness about the topics he discusses. The reality television show reduces everything to just that: a show that sucks cerebral capacity as it turns the viewer into vegetable matter. The show is all consuming, and similarly reductionist.

US Tied to Global Security Role?

Mark Urban is the diplomatic and defence editor of BBC’s Newsnight that goes by the strap-line: “This is where the global struggle for peace and security gets incisive, informed, coverage.”
He has just written and headlined with “US remains reluctantly tied to global security role” – categorised under US/Canada.
Urban’s article starts with.

Security ties between Palestinians and Israel begin to fray

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has described his security forces’ cooperation with the Israeli military as “sacred”. But an armed attack on an Israeli checkpoint last weekend by a Palestinian security official, which left three Israeli soldiers injured, suggests that Abbas’ view may not be widely shared among Palestinians.

Media, Migration, and Methods of Militarization in Germany

The Paris Attacks, the current flood of migration, and the incidents in Cologne on New Year’s Eve: it is hard to tell fact from fiction these days; the lines separating these incidents become increasingly blurred. What they have in common: they illustrate the supposed threat under which we all live. The German media does not get tired of stressing and discussing the ungraspable foreign threat.