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Canada election hampered by false information, possible voter fraud

Jeromie Williams
Examiner
Mon, 02 May 2011 01:35 UTC
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Know where to vote - Polls have not changed
Reports are coming in from key swing ridings in Ontario and other other provinces that voters are being called at home with false information that their voting locations have changed, and in some instances sending voters an hour in the wrong direction.

Spokeswoman Francine Bastien said Elections Canada has confirmed that complaints are coming in from several key ridings - ridings many are aware that are important to the success of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives.

In a statement to the CBC "We just want to make sure that both the media and the voters know that there have not been any changes in the voting [locations] ... and that the documents they receive from Elections Canada [and] the Elections Canada website is the accurate information they should trust in order to vote tomorrow," Bastien said.
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US: $4 Million to Go for Border Security

Matt Helms & Tammy Stables
Detroit Free Press
Mon, 02 May 2011 08:55 UTC
Local and federal law enforcement agencies said Monday that the nation must remain vigilant against potential reprisals following the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden.

To enhance security locally, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the awarding of $4 million to improve security and communications along the Canadian border.

Federal law enforcement and security agencies were on heightened alert across the nation Monday, but said public threat levels would be raised only if the government learns of credible terrorist threats.

"Our security posture, which always includes a number of measures both seen and unseen, will continue to protect the American people from an evolving threat picture both in the next days and beyond," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

Ron Smith, chief of the Bureau of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Detroit office, said no specific threat warnings had been issued Monday for the region's border with Canada.
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Canada: Could the death of Osama bin Laden help the Conservatives at the polls?

Andy Radia
Yahoo News
Mon, 02 May 2011 02:33 UTC
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With the eyes and ears of the nation on him, Stephen Harper used his statement about the death of Osama bin Laden as an opportunity to subtly remind Canadians about the government's foreign policy.

"This does remind us why Canadian armed forces personnel have been deployed to Afghanistan, to deny al-Qaida and organizations like it the use of Afghanistan where the 9/11 attack was conceived and planned." he said. "We will continue to stand firm with our allies against the threat of global terrorism. "

The U.S. government announced Sunday its special forces had killed the terrorist mastermind at a compound in Pakistan, ending a decade-long search.

Canada entered Afghanistan in 2002 as part of the operation to find bin Laden, suppress terrorism and take out the Taliban threat to stable government.

The Conservatives and Liberals have both pledged to continue our military's post-combat training role in Afghanistan, while NDP Leader Jack Layton has promised a government led by him would bring the troops home.
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Bad Guys

Can US Offer Final Proof Of Osama's Death?


SkyNews
Mon, 02 May 2011 13:17 UTC
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© Unknown
Can US Offer Final Proof Of Osama's Death?

The circumstances surrounding Osama bin Laden's reported death raise urgent questions over how the US is so sure it got its man.

US officials have said DNA testing has proved the al Qaeda leader was killed in a villa in Pakistan.

They have also identified him by facial recognition.

But photographs of Bin Laden after his reported death have not been released.

The fact his body was buried at sea has so far only added to the speculation, although as a Muslim, he had to be laid to rest as quickly as possible.

Under Islamic law, people can only be buried at sea if they died there, or if there is a risk their body will be exhumed or dug up if buried in the ground.
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Canada: Harper finally wins Conservative majority, NDP makes huge gain

Bruce Cheadle
The Canadian Press
Mon, 02 May 2011 21:55 UTC
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper casts his vote in the federal election in Calgary, Alta., Monday May 2, 2011.
The campaigning is over, the opinion surveys have all been done and now the only poll that counts is underway.

Canadians are voting today in the fourth federal election in seven years and, by most accounts, it's going to be a game-changer.

A buoyant Stephen Harper cast his ballot at an elementary-junior high school in his Calgary Southwest riding, with wife Laureen and their two children at his side.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and his NDP rival, Jack Layton, both voted in their Toronto ridings earlier in the day, reflecting what is expected to be the most significant dynamic of the national ballot.

Ignatieff, a relative unknown going into the 36-day race, got a boost early on but his support appeared to fade as the campaign evolved.

Layton's NDP surged to unprecedented levels in Quebec after the leaders' debate and appeared to gain momentum across Canada in the last two weeks of the campaign.
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Take 2

Osama bin Laden's Second Death

Paul Craig Roberts
Lew Rockwell
Mon, 02 May 2011 20:44 UTC
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If today were April 1 and not May 2, we could dismiss as an April fool's joke this morning's headline that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight in Pakistan and quickly buried at sea. As it is, we must take it as more evidence that the US government has unlimited belief in the gullibility of Americans.

Think about it. What are the chances that a person allegedly suffering from kidney disease and requiring dialysis and, in addition, afflicted with diabetes and low blood pressure, survived in mountain hideaways for a decade? If bin Laden was able to acquire dialysis equipment and medical care that his condition required, would not the shipment of dialysis equipment point to his location? Why did it take ten years to find him?

Consider also the claims, repeated by a triumphalist US media celebrating bin Laden's death, that "bin Laden used his millions to bankroll terrorist training camps in Sudan, the Philippines, and Afghanistan, sending 'holy warriors' to foment revolution and fight with fundamentalist Muslim forces across North Africa, in Chechnya, Tajikistan and Bosnia." That's a lot of activity for mere millions to bankroll (perhaps the US should have put him in charge of the Pentagon), but the main question is: how was bin Laden able to move his money about? What banking system was helping him? The US government succeeds in seizing the assets of people and of entire countries, Libya being the most recent. Why not bin Laden's? Was he carrying around with him $100 million dollars in gold coins and sending emissaries to distribute payments to his far-flung operations?
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Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover

GRITtv
Common Dreams
Mon, 02 May 2011 17:25 UTC
"The American people should see that corporations have abandoned them long ago," says scientist, environmentalist, and food justice activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, named one of the seven most influential women in the world by Forbes magazine. "The people will have to rebuild democracy as a living democracy."

Dr. Shiva has been fighting corporate takeover in every area in her native India, combating a nuclear plant one week and patented, genetically modified seeds another. She joins Laura in studio to advise American activists how they can fight the merging of corporations and government here at home and around the world.

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Eye 2

Osama Bin Laden Raid? Resident, Witness Says Not True


Al Jazeera
Mon, 02 May 2011 16:29 UTC
Local residents dispute circumstances of Osama bin Laden's death:

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Osama bin Laden corpse photo is fake

Amelia Hill
The Guardian
Mon, 02 May 2011 14:16 UTC
bin laden, dead

The Daily Mail was one of the newspaper websites to publish the fake picture of Osama bin Laden's body.
An image apparently showing a dead Osama bin Laden broadcast on Pakistani television and picked up by British newspaper websites is a fake.

The bloodied image of a man with matted hair and a blank, half-opened eye has been circulating on the internet for the past two years. It was used on the front pages of the Mail, Times, Telegraph, Sun and Mirror websites, though swiftly removed after the fake was exposed on Twitter.

It appears the fake picture was initially published by the Middle East online newspaper themedialine on 29 April 2009, with a warning from the editor that it was "unable to ascertain whether the photo is genuine or not".
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Propaganda

Capturing bin Laden 'Would Unleash Hell'


nineMSN
Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:54 UTC
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© EPA
Osama Bin Laden in October 2001
The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe which will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed.

The terror group also planned to make a 9/11 style attack on London's Heathrow airport by crashing a hijacked airliner into one of the terminals, the files showed.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators the terror group would detonate the nuclear device if the al-Qaeda chief was captured or killed, according to the classified files released by the WikiLeaks website.

Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 and is to be tried in a military court at the US naval base on Cuba over the attacks.
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