It’s hard to believe it’s been over 8 years since I started the most recent leg of my life’s journey. 2014 was the year I realized my country was on the wrong side of the geopolitical fence and that our leadership was up to no good.
Prior to the events of 2014, I was mostly keeping to myself. I’d been doing some independent research regarding seaweed metabolites and the usage of insect and fishery byproducts in agriculture. I knew enough about the subject matter to realize its importance and was heavily invested in trying to spread awareness of that potential.
In 2014, all that changed.
Initially I was so focused on my personal research, I paid little attention to things going on in the broader world. The Prime Minister of Canada at the time, Stephen Harper, spoke to the Israeli Knesset in January of that year. During his speech he advised them to essentially abandon the peace process and use force to deal with their enemies. He preached opposition to the Golden Rule. That year would see rising conflicts between the Palestinians and the Israelis, especially when it came to the issue of Israeli settlers occupying land claimed by Palestinians. This would turn into a summer war following violent conflicts between members of the two groups. Israel remained largely protected from reprisal due to the development of their Iron Dome missile defense system, capable of shooting down the majority of the Palestinian rockets. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had no such systems and were subjected to constant air and missile strikes, as well as a ground invasion. The escalation resulted in over 2000 killed and over 10,000 wounded for the Palestinians, 73 killed and 556 wounded for the Israelis.
Concurrent to this deterioration in the Middle East, events were playing out in Ukraine. A violent coup, known either as the Euromaidan Riots or the Revolution of Dignity, depending on how you view the victors, led to the downfall of the existing democratically-elected government. Despite the level of violence used by those engaged in the coup, Western governments like Canada chose to condone the hateful rhetoric employed by those now leading the country. New policies were enacted that marginalized Russian-speaking people in the post-coup neo-Ukraine. Extremist groups with openly Nazi ideologies began concentrating their power in Western Ukraine, openly declaring their intentions to fully de-Russify Ukraine.
In the East of Ukraine, directly bordering Russia, the vast majority of the region speaks Russian. Many consider themselves to be ethnically Russian, or Russian-Ukrainian. The majority of the region voted in favour of the government that had been overthrown during the coup, one which favoured peaceful ties with their Russian neighbours. When it became obvious that the extremists who seized power had ill intentions towards the people of the region, Donetsk and Luhansk would declare themselves autonomous from the new government. Counter-protests against the coup were held and some of them turned exceptionally violent in response. In Odessa, over 40 people protesting the new post-coup government would die after a building they took refuge in was set ablaze. In neo-Ukraine, these kinds of actions would become the norm.
Eventually, the new Ukrainian government would turn their military on the dissenting civilian population of the East. At first this caused some difficulties for the government as some members of the military chose to defect to the new autonomous regions, taking with them their hardware, supplies and experience. Some members of the military had no intentions of continuing to serve the post-coup government that would turn military weaponry against protesting civilians. Eventually this was addressed by putting extremist groups in charge of suppressing the local population. Groups with odious and hateful ideologies that saw the Russian, Greek and non-white members of the region as subhuman. Groups that had no compunctions about turning military hardware against citizens. Groups like the Right Sector and Azov.
These actions would entrench the lines of the civil war developing in Ukraine. Groups like Azov would rise to prominence and popularity despite being accused of war crimes. They eventually expanded to become a training camp for global extremists and a youth summer camp to further indoctrinate Ukrainian children into their brand of extreme nationalism and hatred for everything Russian.
The narratives of both Israel and Ukraine collided on July 17th, 2014.
On July 16th of 2014, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was escalating, four children were playing soccer on a beach in Gaza in the vicinity of a hotel packed full of Western journalists. An off-shore Israeli gunboat targeted them with two volleys, killing all four. The early media coverage of the incident immediately generated international demands for an investigation and further increased the tension between the parties. Israeli reservists were called in for a planned ground invasion. International attention was focused on the region.
On July 17th, at the height of the media coverage, MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine and media coverage immediately pivoted away from Israel-Palestine to the new battleground that was the crash site.
When the downing happened, it was publicly available knowledge that Putin was travelling through nearby airspace returning to Russia. The markings and general shape of the aircraft were similar enough to think that the downing was a botched assassination attempt against the Russian president. Instead, the current theory accepted by the media is that a civilian craft was shot down by the separatists in the East of Ukraine. There was no benefit to them shooting down a civilian aircraft, but blaming them definitely served the purposes of the new Ukrainian government, turning international public opinion squarely against those seeking autonomy from the post-coup government.
While international media attention was entirely diverted from the Israeli massacre of four children in front of journalists in the Gaza Strip, Israel launched its ground offensive. The timing of the offensive coincided near perfectly with the downing of the plane. Later investigations would should that American military assets were operating within Ukraine’s air traffic control systems while the civilian craft was redirected over the conflict zone to be shot down.
Someone with a more cynical mind might think that the Americans, working with the Ukrainians in the new regime, may have attempted to assassinate Vladimir Putin. This would have served two purposes. The resulting confusion would have enabled the Ukrainian miltary to press their advance while the Russian government struggled to recover from the loss of leadership. The downing could still be blamed on coup-protesters in the East. The downing would also serve to distract media attention from the worsening Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which was becoming increasingly brutal and one-sided.
In my view, these circumstances were orchestrated by the US government, the Israeli government and the coup leaders of the new Ukrainian government. Even without the assassination of Putin, the public distraction of the downing redirected attention away from Israeli actions and vilified the population of Eastern Ukraine and Russia by assigning blame to them.
Canada’s role in these circumstances has been as an instigator and normalizer. The PM of Canada went to Israel and incited them against the ‘Dark Forces’ he claimed were threatening Israel and had threatened them every day of its existence. There can be no doubt he was referring to the Palestinians. When the coup was becoming increasingly violent in Ukraine, he would throw open the doors of the Canadian embassy to those taking part in the riots, giving them refuge from the police. At the time, some group was shooting into the crowds of rioters. The accusation was made that government forces were involved, but later review of the events suggest it was the more extremist of the coup members using the violence as a way to discredit the existing government. Committing violent acts and their blaming their opponents was to become a common tactic employed continuously. Canada’s role seems to have been to encourage, normalize and legitimize this behaviour.
When I was growing up, I believed Canada’s alleged adherence to international law and support for human rights was held up as a shining example for other nations to follow. Now I realize Canada’s track record is mostly a marketing exercise, especially over the last decade.
In 2010 I was part of a project that helped roll out fibre internet to CBC in each province. I initially assumed that it would be a benefit to the organization, with the increased bandwidth providing for deeper access to information. I couldn’t have been more wrong. It wasn’t until I was approached by an engineer at CBC in British Colombia that I began to suspect the project wasn’t completely benign in nature. The increase in bandwidth was being used to remove Master Control from each province and centralize it in Ottawa. This made entire sections of their engineering staff redundant and they were terminated under the guise of a cost-saving measure. The true intent seems to have been to lobotomize CBC’s sober second thought, the engineering teams who worked behind the scenes to produce the news. Prior to being made redundant, they’d be the first audience to view breaking news stories, offering input and analysis that would help expand on developing stories. Without them, CBC’s journalism became largely a series of bullet points delivered by talking heads. Some scandals arising in national news might receive deeper inspection, but they began to parrot government policy when it came to international developments and some national news would be swept under the rug.
The first examples of this new media behaviour occurred in 2011 during the NATO intervention in Libya and the Federal election. CBC didn’t question the rationale Western governments were employing to justify the NATO-led invasion of Libya. The end result of their actions is a failed state overrun with slavers and terrorists. A Federal election occurred during this intervention, one marred by the Robocall scandal that saw potential voters across the country disenfranchised of their right to vote by organized misinformation. The fact that Canada was currently involved in a military conflict made a change in the political climate unlikely. The contribution of the robocall system ensured that the incumbent Conservative government would go on to form a majority in the next session of Parliament, allowing them to reshape Canada as they saw fit.
Among the many actions committed by the Conservatives over their time in power, one of the most odious elements remains their repeal of Section 13 of the Human Rights Act. Prior to 2014, the Act protected people from electronic discrimination. Historically, it’s largely been used to take down hate speech and de-platform those expressing ideologies like Nazism. However, the Harper government decided that the Section impaired free speech and needed to be repealed. This action was seen as extremist groups in Canada and the world abroad as win, as it gave them the ability to not only express their hateful ideologies in Canada, it allowed them to setup new online forums to recruit new people to their cause.
Fast forward to 2022 and the evil seeds planted years ago are bearing their poisonous fruit. The Ukrainian civil war never ended with the Minsk agreements, the genocide of ethnic Russians in the East of Ukraine continues even now. As Ukraine retakes areas, anyone suspected of harbouring positive inclinations towards Russia is seen as a threat. Many are executed summarily after having their names end up on a public kill list run by those involved in the original coup.
In Israel, the violence is becoming much more common and normalized. Israelis kill journalists covering the violence and then exonerate themselves from any fault. Talk of genocide is referred to in some places as a holy obligation to ensure Israelis have a continuity of control over the Holy Land.
Canada does nothing and says nothing about the behaviour of either of these countries. Far from being champions of human rights and justice, we’re actively siding with human rights abusers, perpetuating injustice and corruption where ever we can.
If you are someone with a religious leaning who had actually read the Bible, you might recognize some of the patterns of behaviour. Multiple prophets warned about an unholy kingdom that would arise in the End Times. Led by hypocrites, these people would lead the world into a Great Deception and Tribulations. The kingdom is described as being composed of 10 crowns under a single crown, which mirrors the legal structure of Canada’s government. We live in a constitutional monarchy where 10 provincial crowns exist under a single federal crown. Our government that pretends to champion free speech and human rights actually enables hate speech and suppresses human rights. One only needs to look at how Canada has continually downplayed revelations about the on-going genocide of the indigenous to understand how low the country has sunk.
Far from being the good guys, Canada is so dangerous hypocritical that multiple prophets of the Bible warned about its eventual existence.
Canada exists in opposition to God’s Divine plan, and all good people should abhor it.