The Americans

The Americans

from Gordon Sinclair's

1973 editorial broadcast from Toronto as printed in the Congressional Record:

This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying' even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United

States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped.

The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - - not once, but several times - and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the American who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those.

Save our Wetlands from the NPCA

Many people want to know why our Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) champions development and developers over the the environment, which they are supposed to protect and Conserve. What they are assisting the developer to do to this pristine wetland, the NPCA has destroyed innocent citizens. 

While hundreds of citizens stood is the soft rain listening to speaker after speaker plea to save the last bastion of Provincially Significant Wetland in Niagara Falls, their stood Bruce Timms Chair NPCA Board diligently and shamelessly taking notes.

A strange spectacle since he leads the attack on the PSW. Perhaps the song "What Side are you on" conducted by Brock Professor Dr. Bacher was actually aimed at Bruce Timms?

Thanks to Brock's Professor Dr. John Bacher we have definitive answers countering the pathetic effort by the NPCA to destroy what Niagara needs in favour of an overabundance of unneeded $development and $developers.

Sadly we've learned that with the blessing of Niagara Authorities, which we have elected an hired,  the NPCA is building an evil empire more interested in $money than ecology.

Perhaps Alan Jamieson, a Cayuga Nation senior, spelled things out in frank terms.
“You have enough malls, enough shopping centers,” he said. “You have enough.” 

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An Everlasting Con Job

Whenever you hear the words ‘con artists’ you immediately visualize a sleazy person in a cheap suit. Generally you would have conjured up the correct images. Generally you think of a con artist as a criminal trying to cheat you out of your money.

However there are other con artists that are interested in something more valuable than your money and they are just as willing to use every foul facet at their disposal to con you out of it. These are smug and paltry politicians desperately trying to con you out of your VOTE! 
They are either fighting to stay on their GRAVY TRAIN or they are fighting to get on the GRAVY TRAIN! 

This effort has long since ceased to be in the best interest of the VOTER! The best interest of the VOTER is no longer their primary concern. 

None of the parties are willing to bring in TERM LIMITS or even a  recall legislation!

Our political parties are operating in a similar fashion as that of crime syndicates! They do their best to get the public on their side; to form alliances as in a team; a team that will follow and favor their team no matter what.

A prime example of foul political con, which in this case perpetrated by the Ontario Liberal Government!

After spending $40million in an attempt to lure daily ‘Go Train’ service to Niagara all the taxpayer received  was a sordid promise that they will possibly get ‘Go Train’ SOMEDAY!

The only valid media person was Tom McConnell of CKTB Radio who correctly reported on the ‘Go Train’ announcement and who saw the whole charade for what it was worth.

And just what was it worth?

These squalid political misfits where trying to tell us that the ‘Go Train’ might be coming someday, after the next two election cycles and their cheap excuse was that we would have to spend $100Millions, on top of $40Million already spent to get the Liberal Government’s attention, to rebuild tracks and to build new train stations!

Then, coming to the aid of the scammers is Grant LaFleche of the '3penny Standard' with more 'Bovine Waste' desperately trying to justify a 7 year delay. http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/07/07/lafleche-the-reality-of-the-go-train-timeline 
 
Following our rant on grant he wrote this: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/07/14/lafleche-niagara-isnt-great illustrating   illustrating that 'bullshit doesn't always baffle brains'.

The perpetrators of this con stood bold faced trying to convince us that the big, fat, beautiful train used as a backdrop could not come to Niagara for seven years into the future! We are also told that the ‘Go Train’ needed a new bridge over the Welland Canal! They fail to explain how the train in the background got there. They fail to explain how that same train can travel to Niagara every summer weekend but NOT through the week.

As shown in the picture there stands political miscreants shamelessly trying to hype future promises for political expedience. 

So far only one politician has publicly stepped forward to declare concern over the veracity of the Liberal Wynne Government's decades long promise of passenger train service for Niagara. 
St. Catharines City Councilor Mat Ciscoe is quoted in the '3penny Standard' as declaring "I'll really applaud GO when I see it!"  http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/07/07/opinion-ill-really-applaud-go-when-i-see-it

Worthy of note is the fact that trains of all sort travel across the Niagara Gorge as well as the Welland Canal 24 hours a day some carrying passengers to and from Toronto and New York City.

Some politicians and team players might actually believe this disgusting scam but how do they justify their silence when it comes to public health risk of toxic dumping in Niagara or abuse of Niagara Citizens at the hands of the UNTOUCHABLE and UNACCOUNTABLE Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority!

The people we have elected and hired are failing us by not asking pertinent questions.

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Niagara's Mount Carcinogen still waiting

Following up on scuttlebutt and complaints 'News Alert Niagara' (NAL) decided to investigate the Welland Ontario Toxic dump site.

Greeting us at the site was a damaged sign spelling out details of the site.

http://www.themirroronline.ca/tmo1504/index.html#p=8

Arriving at the entrance to the site, tucked far back of the shopping plaza, it was somewhat unsettling to find an over-abundance of security ostensibly to protect a benign pile of dirt.

 

http://www.themirroronline.ca/tmo1504/index.html#p=8

Suspicions rising we decided to investigate further. 

Volunteers traced a steady stream of fully loaded dump trucks streaming in from various locations including Hamilton steel mills etc leaving empty

 

Since the entire site was totally fenced in and we where being challenged by security, we knew we would have to use aerial reconnaissance to get a grasp on the situation. 

The aerial photographs only served to heighten out concerns. 

Details Mount Carcinogen

34Meters from Toxin pond to river

36 Meters Base of Mount Carcinogen to River

Waterloo Barrier estimated lifespan 20-25 years

Height of Mount Carcinogen 35 Meters

Length of Mount Carcinogen sight 500 Meters

Width of Mount Carcinogen sight 230 Meters

 

The whole exercise left us with more question than answers.

Why did Walker Industries pay $13M?

Why did the Ministry of Natural Resources approve this?

Why did the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority approve this?

Why does Walker Industries pay $millions annually to build Mount Carcinogen?

Did Walker Industries Pay $millions to the Niagara peninsula Conservation Authority?

Why so much security for a “benign” pile of dirt?

Why a ‘curtain of steel’ to protect from what?

Has anyone read the menu board sign?

Is this the same official story as ‘Love Canal’?

Will Mt. Carcinogen result in ‘Love Canal’ health problems?

Why a Mountain of Carcinogens in the urban area of the City of Welland?

Who is responsible?

It's time for honest answers that we'll probably never get...