The democratic ousting of Viktor Oban in Hungary aside, recent events in Ireland, the covert interference in Slovenia’s recent elections that led to the ousting of the progressive government of Pres. Musar, and countless other smaller, but no less telling false-flag casualty events, attacks and key-figure assassinations, global stage stakes are quite clearly much higher than anyone outside the intelligence community is aware of.
In this, Danielle Smith is way out of her league, and it is encouraging to me that she is working with CSIS on this. There are clear indications that the feds are taking these threats very seriously. We all should.
I would not rely on Smith to do anything useful, she is a separatist herself based on her repeated behaviour. She is out of her league pretending to be a federalist but she is an expert at making a huge mess on her way out, as with the school board and her Wildrose leadership.
CSIS may have to work around her, not through her.
It really does seem that Smith's political party has been consumed the Trojan Horse that was swallowed by the old Progressive Conservative Party when it merged with Smith's Wildrose Party.
Canadians really need to wake up to the dangers posed by what Karl Popper called "toleration of the intolerable". Essentially, this refers to bad actors that take advantage of open and democratic societies to advance illiberal agendas inimical to the continued survival of the democratic polity that enabled them to grow in the first place.
Countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel and China could also involve themselves in such disinformation wars, based on whatever benefit they foresaw - or on the desire to create havoc.
This is not even to mention nasty tech oilgarchs. like Musk and Thiel...
Tommy Robinson has been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act. He was just in Moscow meeting Musk's father and tweeting about the violence in Belfast. If he gets jailed for terrorism this time, I wonder if his associates such as Ezra Levant are vulnerable to such charges. I hope they are being closely monitored in Canada? Plus Elon Musk himself.
Foreign interference is leftists go-to wail when elections don't go their way. It's arrogant, as it assumes anyone not voting their way must be an imbecile, that seeing one online post by a Russian is how they decide to vote. The classic example is Hilary Clinton's delusion that she lost the election because Russians made mean online posts about her, and not that she was one of the most despised politicians in America.
The only actual foreign interference possible is 1) altering electronic votes, or 2) secret foreign funding of one side. Thats it.
Calling bullshit on this one. I don't doubt for a minute that well-funded, skilled operatives can get memes, think pieces Etc out in front of the public and that pretty significant portions of that public don't spend a lot of time or even have the time to spend picking all that stuff apart. Emotions are powerful and not that hard to manipulate. And social media has amplified this enormously. I think you're in denial if you don't think this is happening.
Dear Wesley - after years of living in Alberta -The only sure thing about the Alberta referendum questions on separatism is that you are living in a world of rational thinking with concern for the common good. This is not the concern of those transactional players that see one thing - What is in it for me? No amount of $ is enough!
The good news story is that those who”power over” fight with other forces of malcontent not interested in a just society.They will eventually fail. Utopian? No, because true intelligence is about communication that demands mutual trust that will always prevail in the end over transactional tyrants.The dynamics of meaning making in relationship building is the secret sauce.
The democratic ousting of Viktor Oban in Hungary aside, recent events in Ireland, the covert interference in Slovenia’s recent elections that led to the ousting of the progressive government of Pres. Musar, and countless other smaller, but no less telling false-flag casualty events, attacks and key-figure assassinations, global stage stakes are quite clearly much higher than anyone outside the intelligence community is aware of.
In this, Danielle Smith is way out of her league, and it is encouraging to me that she is working with CSIS on this. There are clear indications that the feds are taking these threats very seriously. We all should.
I would not rely on Smith to do anything useful, she is a separatist herself based on her repeated behaviour. She is out of her league pretending to be a federalist but she is an expert at making a huge mess on her way out, as with the school board and her Wildrose leadership.
CSIS may have to work around her, not through her.
It's better to keep your enemies closer, so they can "work" with her, while working through her. Intelligence is a game of deception.
Maybe she welcomes foreign interference.
Thanks for this clear picture. We all need to be alert, in or out of Alberta.
Presumably the Feds can and will also monitor foreign interference in this case, even if Alberta chooses to ignore the threat?
Thank you for this.
It really does seem that Smith's political party has been consumed the Trojan Horse that was swallowed by the old Progressive Conservative Party when it merged with Smith's Wildrose Party.
Canadians really need to wake up to the dangers posed by what Karl Popper called "toleration of the intolerable". Essentially, this refers to bad actors that take advantage of open and democratic societies to advance illiberal agendas inimical to the continued survival of the democratic polity that enabled them to grow in the first place.
Good summary. Thank you.
Countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel and China could also involve themselves in such disinformation wars, based on whatever benefit they foresaw - or on the desire to create havoc.
This is not even to mention nasty tech oilgarchs. like Musk and Thiel...
Tommy Robinson has been arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act. He was just in Moscow meeting Musk's father and tweeting about the violence in Belfast. If he gets jailed for terrorism this time, I wonder if his associates such as Ezra Levant are vulnerable to such charges. I hope they are being closely monitored in Canada? Plus Elon Musk himself.
Foreign interference is leftists go-to wail when elections don't go their way. It's arrogant, as it assumes anyone not voting their way must be an imbecile, that seeing one online post by a Russian is how they decide to vote. The classic example is Hilary Clinton's delusion that she lost the election because Russians made mean online posts about her, and not that she was one of the most despised politicians in America.
The only actual foreign interference possible is 1) altering electronic votes, or 2) secret foreign funding of one side. Thats it.
Calling bullshit on this one. I don't doubt for a minute that well-funded, skilled operatives can get memes, think pieces Etc out in front of the public and that pretty significant portions of that public don't spend a lot of time or even have the time to spend picking all that stuff apart. Emotions are powerful and not that hard to manipulate. And social media has amplified this enormously. I think you're in denial if you don't think this is happening.
CSIS does not have the capacity or interest in reporting on regional interests.
Dear Wesley - after years of living in Alberta -The only sure thing about the Alberta referendum questions on separatism is that you are living in a world of rational thinking with concern for the common good. This is not the concern of those transactional players that see one thing - What is in it for me? No amount of $ is enough!
The good news story is that those who”power over” fight with other forces of malcontent not interested in a just society.They will eventually fail. Utopian? No, because true intelligence is about communication that demands mutual trust that will always prevail in the end over transactional tyrants.The dynamics of meaning making in relationship building is the secret sauce.