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Our Media is Under Siege The game of political interference within the media

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BY STEVEN KASZAB

“Supreme Excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Sun Tzu

How does the game begin? Well first you need to find a large pool of media outlets of various forms: online, in print, broadcasting and television. The West has a slew of these, so now you define your objective.

Let’s refer to China’s efforts to massage, manipulate and distort North American media. So, which media forms would they approach? Yes, an approach, a process that is time consuming, expensive and hidden within the economic ideology the West has accepted.

Capitalism encourages all forms of enterprise, and these businesses need to advertise, so China began this process in the mid 1950’s, initially making every effort to infiltrate well known organizations. This form of espionage and manipulation from within was effective for a moment, but the West’s ability to find and arrest these characters was very effective. China’s intelligence organizations re-imagined their mission. How best can a foreign power influence, manipulate and divert attention from itself within a foreign country? They did not have to look for the solution for long.

The media was the central tool from which Communist China could accomplish its goals internationally:

  • Present an image of cultural sharing and exposure within an environment not familiar with Chinese Culture (Chinese Cultural Centers)
  • Present oneself as a friend, non-combatant, cooperative ally
  • Establish full or sectional legal ownership over an opponent’s central industries and businesses who do business with China.
  • Establish budgets targeting media outlets (become important advertisers)
  • Establish various financial partnerships within opponents’ wealthy entrepreneurs (become financially indispensable)
  • Realizing that cash is king, invest it strategically in significant organizations, businesses and significant individuals

Within Canada and the USA, China made every effort to present China as a culture and nation no different than its opponents. Wealthy Chinese are allowed to travel the world spreading their wealth and importance. Cultural centers within universities keep an eye upon international students and recruit friends to China’s purposes.

Understanding their opponents has been China’s greatest asset. China understands capitalism, hates it, but will use it for its final solution. The media’s search for the “Truth” has in many cases been distorted and manipulated by Chinese government efforts. The media relies upon revenue, its life blood. Understanding this made this stage of intelligence control easier.

Control the media by purchasing its reliance upon the funds you pay it. An example of how this works is in order. What did China do to sell Huawei’s technologies 5G pilot project in Latin America? America MOVIL and JAC Motors teamed up to pitch Huawei’s efforts to the Colombian government, and to others, offering giant automobile plants to build within Latin American nations, creating employment and massive cash flows. Huawei is actively working to undermine legislation in Latin America and the USA to halt its financial push within the continent. Chinese controlled businesses and alliances offer revenue, jobs, and possible bribes to achieve their goals.

In 2009, Chinese controlled businesses loaned The New York Times Company $250 million dollars. That same year the same Chinese controlled business purchased 15.9 million Class A shares of the company.

Bezos’s Amazon has direct ties to the highest Chinese governmental hierarchy. Billions of dollars flow through Amazon Corp into Beijing controlled projects. Washington knows this and is monitoring this foreign effort.

WarnerMedia considers China a partner in all their economic and cinematic ventures, and increasing Time Warner’s strategic priorities within China’s is the most attractive territories to operate within. Fox News often throws praise to China for its anti-COVID efforts in the EU, sending ventilators and masks to Europe. They do not mention these items have defects. CNN published a story praising China’s “model of control,” quite nearly parroting Chinese media’s claims that China has complete control of COVID transmission.  In 2010 MBC (MSNBC) signed an agreement with China’s state-run media organization Xinhua establishing a business cooperation in their international broadcasting news. While the US and Canadian Governments recognize Xinhua as a foreign mission, these agreements continue to be allowed. Cash seems to be more significant than national security.

Bloomberg LP supported 364 Chinese Firms, directing 150 billion into its offerings. Of these firms, 159 were directly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.  The Washington Post, ABC, Disney, CNN and many other media giants have direct or indirect contact with Chinese businesses directly controlled by China’s government or the Chinese military. Whether China invests massive amounts of needed funds into a firm, its executive directorships, or places multi millions into advertising campaigns, our media is under siege.

If a foreign power proxies to lend, invest or give funds to an agent or representative, owner of a firm, organization, or government, there can be unsavory intentions, corruption or unimaginable forces at work. I give my child a small allowance so they will carry out certain chores. What does China, or any other foreign power, be they: Iran, Syria, Russia or Pakistan want? Something to think about.

The Indo-Sub Continent (India, Pakistan, Asia) media industry has been a target for Chinese acquisitions for decades. The Chinese have no difficulty offering investments, or purchasing out right media businesses that are usually cash poor. Gaining control of an entity that is financially impaired is easily done. The Chinese Interior Ministry, along with its Foreign Affairs network can massage and manipulate most any organization no matter its: creed, ethnicity or religion.

Within the Caribbean multiple news outlets have taken investment capital from Chinese businesses and organizations. China is investing and directing a helping hand for Jamaica to build highways, roads, and various infrastructure projects. China’s presence is felt throughout the Caribbean financially as: loan structures, engineering and management assistance, and diplomatically. The media is talking about Chinese involvement daily, with most information written and issued by Chinese government media agencies and departments within their extensive Consulates.

Remember one final but most important fact. When Western media, or businesses work with organizations controlled, owned by the CCP and its military, they are subject to China’s use of its laws to advance Chinese global objectives, including their cyber security law, which include forced technology transfers, leaving companies and data subject to random searches. Many of these “partners” are forced to build data centers in China, where the CCP views data directly. Many of these “partners” lose part or who control much of their marketing, advertising, hiring directives.

In Canada and the US, the CCP has manipulated and infiltrated multiple “Cultural Organizations” and ethnic media outlets both print and online. CSIS fears many Asian parent media organizations that own cell media outlets in Canada are controlled, staffed and funded by the CCP. To what ends? A fifth column at worst, a means to spread their propaganda, misdirection and false news at best.

The “Free World” see’s the media as a bastion of “TRUTH.”  Truth is the enemy of tyranny. If you cannot defeat “Truth” the second-best method of attack is to poison the minds of those who seek the truth, manipulating and force feeding them falsehoods. confusion and chaos.

“Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.” Tao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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Is Canada’s Wonderland participating in the racial profiling of young black men too?

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BY MICHAEL THOMAS

Is Canada’s Wonderland participating in the racial profiling of young black men too? Try asking this question to Keishia Facey and the answer would be a no-holds-barred YES, and I shall explain why as we progress in this article.

Imagine you are the mother of a sixteen-year-old son who happens to be Black. Imagine sending your son off by Uber to enjoy himself at Canada’s Wonderland, but when he gets there, he is refused entry.

N (as I would call him) was told that he fits the profile of someone who was not welcomed at the amusement park and that was it, case closed and if he persisted, he was told they would call the police on him. As we shall find out later, N and his mother decided to show his ID as evidence that he was not there before, but that was ignored, and he was left outside the amusement park. Imagine that!

Readers, your next question would be why, or what happened? Let us keep imagining things for now. Remember this young man was put in a cab by his mother, so naturally when he was refused entry at the Vaughan amusement park on September 28th, 2024 he called his mother to see if she could help clarify things.

Let’s imagine that you are the mother of this 16-year-old, you show up at this amusement park thinking this should be easy, he is going to be admitted now that you are here, what is the misunderstanding?

Picture yourselves readers as the boy’s mother trying to find out why your son was refused entry, only to be dismissed and to find out there is another group of black boys that are not wanted at the entrance either. This article will test your imagination, but you will be unpleasantly surprised.

Now picture yourself standing at the entrance of this amusement park with your son and seven, or eight other Black boys between the ages of 14-16, being refused entry into Canada’s Wonderland. Shall we imagine that all nine, or so of these little Black boys looked like someone who was denied entry previously? Shall we?

Now readers, this gets worse, try, and imagine you as N’s mother having the police called on you by Canada’s Wonderland just because you are inquiring why your son cannot enjoy an amusement park in the country where he was born.

I think this imaginary horror story has run its course, and regrettably, I must inform you that all that you have read so far is not a fairy tale, but a real-life ordeal. Now let me introduce you to this real-life cast.

I had the privilege of speaking with N’s mother Mrs. Keishia Facey, Co-founder of the REST (OR) REFORM Equity Conference which advocates for racial justice in our community.

According to Facey, Canada’s Wonderland security called the police on her and her son to inquire why he was refused entry.

Facey told me that when the officer arrived and she tried explaining what happened, Officer K. Ramos told her that, as a minority himself, he found nothing racial about this incident. “After taking what the security guards told him, he said he deemed it not racist,” Facey told me.

It is important to note here that the amusement park security called the police not to clarify things regarding her son’s refusal of entry, but to arrest her because they deemed her manner aggressive. After all, she questioned their decision.

“It just goes to show how a lot of the racist troupes against my son and myself were at play. I am a Black woman so therefore I am angry, and I am aggressive, when all I am trying to ask is what is the reason why my son is not allowed to come in,” Facey told me.

“The problem is that this is not just an individual case of my son and his friend. I am standing here with a group of Black boys who are not allowed to come in, while all these other kids are dressed the same and are allowed to go in, while there is a wall of security screening people out. That is racial profiling,” she said.

Facey told me, “Whoever they were saying my son was, they had no ID for such a person.”

Facey believes that these security guards are not properly trained, and so, one dangerous Black boy to them means one size fits all. “That is racial profiling,” she told me.

Canada’s Wonderland Marketing Director told another news source the reason for turning back N from the amusement park was for wearing an item that concealed his identity, an act that is a violation of the park’s Code of Conduct, yet as stated earlier in this article Canada’s Wonderland downplayed the idea of an ID check from N and his mother. For the record, N’s mother called that statement by Canada’s Wonderland a lie.

In all fairness, I reached out to Canada’s Wonderland by contacting Dwayne McMulkin, the Corporate Director of Marketing and Brand Management at Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, which owns the theme park, to obtain their version of this tragic incident, but no one replied to me.

I asked Facey what she would like to see happen at the end of all this, she replied, “I think the security guards need to be trained, they need to know what anti-Black racism is, they need to know that no matter if  they are: Brown, Indian, White, or Chinese that anti-Black racism in Canada needs to be fought against, and so they can respond differently.”

Facey said she is in conversation with York Regional Police on the matter as well.

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The Caribbean diasporic dynamic: Untapped potential power

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Credits: Piki Superstar

BY STEVEN KASZAB

“The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find those worth suffering for.” Bob Marley spoke of both a personal and national quest. Find unity, and you’ve found those worth suffering for.

The Caribbean diaspora is one of the untapped powerhouses of North America. Imagine how many fellow citizens of Caribbean descent: live, work and prosper in America and Canada. Together we are looking at 18 million legal and illegal migrants giving to their preferred neighborhoods throughout the continent. A million in Canada and many more in the USA inject into our societies their: passion, emotions, social activism, professionalism and their: blood, sweat and tears to build a home and community for themselves and their future comers. A population centered in the urban spheres, in Florida and New York City. Toronto is home to over a hundred thousand of this incredible diaspora of: artists, workers, professionals, and educators.

There are many forms of misinformation regarding the migrants trying to achieve citizenship in America and Canada. “They are a drag upon the established financial and social order, criminals and social dependents.” Thank you, Donald Trump, and most Republicans, for showing what type of people you really are. In fact, the Caribbean diaspora make up a majority of small businesses in their new homelands, creating employment and financial investment in places once not there.

Those that flee: Haiti, Dominican, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and other places are often ambitious: professionals, teachers, skilled workers and potential citizens for a marketplace that can and does welcome them. Financial, or security are the primary reasons these people leave their homelands to brave travel to our neighborhood.

Imagine if a group with such vitality and connection could unite in the face of America’s chaotic financial and political onslaught. Being a minority in America has always been a challenge particularly if you’re still considered an “outsider” like most visually, socially different people are. How could this small group reflect its desires, demands and expectations? Perhaps alliances between Canadian-American and Caribbean based groups are essential. Acquiring, managing, and programming media outlets not only friendly to the Caribbean, but centered upon the Caribbean community’s needs, wants and future expectations.

Reimagining the old notion of traveling to the Caribbean for a week, or two and bye bye until next year. Developing notions that the Caribbean is not over there, but right here in Canada, and the USA, in your community and neighborhood. Being a distant place to vacation makes it easier to forget that place and its people. Bringing that place and its people’s traditions, culture and lived reality to Canadian and Americans attention is another story. Establishing a connection with their host nations is essential.

The Caribbean diaspora has a massive financial sway upon the Canadian and American economy as too their political sector. The Caribbean diaspora interjects 145 billion dollars into their host nations’ economies annually. Those who came from the Caribbean invest their professionalism and money into their host nations’ businesses, corporations, and governmental agencies. The Caribbean diaspora is a huge asset to their hosts. Make the host nations realize this in real time. The Caribbean diaspora must leverage their importance to their host nations: culturally, socially, financially, and politically.

In unity will any cultural, or ethnic group achieve attention and consideration from the majority. Look at how and what the: LGBQT community, the Jewish community, and the Black Lives Matter achieved. The Caribbean diaspora with the greater Caribbean community can achieve much if they can unite their commonality and purpose here in Canada/America as to their homelands.

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American individualism and Canadian cooperative thought; Alternatives offered to free people

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BY STEVEN KASZAB

Many of my American customers have made commentary upon the relationship between Canada and the USA, and upon what makes up a Canadian. Are these two people the same or somehow different? Canadians and Americans share a great deal, watch the same television, have similar love for democracy and work together in business and play. Millions of us travel back and forth with seemingly only our national labels separating us from the other.

Our histories are intertwined, families spread across each border, with Canadians expressing their trust and love for the cousins down south. We have historically fought one another, distrusted one another, yet become the greatest of allies as well. A huge border separates each nation from the other, yet millions cross this border freely each day. Our economies are interwoven, and we walk in space together as a unit of explorers with lapel flags identifying us from the other.

What makes Canadians and Americans different? Two words and their meaning makes the case clearly. Family and Cooperation: A group of related things living together – descendants of a common ancestor working together.

“Family” holds a special place of reverence and historical significance socio-politically to both Canadians and Americans. That similarity is clear. I believe the difference in how we view family, and what family means to us. American individualism holds a pivotal historic place within the American social fabric. This flows into how they view and live their family experience. Family is a part of the greater national experience, but individualism maintains a separation from the greater public’s expectations. Individuals and their families are separate from the greater whole. Importance to the needs, expectations, myths of the individual run supreme and above the national needs and expectations. Nationalism in America is characteristically centered on independence and self-reliance.

Canadian expressions of “family” are similar, but the lived concept of family is far more holistic in its approach. Not only are family members part of the family unit, but Canadians view others in Canada as family as well. Our acceptance of the social compact unites Canadians and presses our expression to help the other. Canadian social thought evolved to accept and place social policy decisions such as our universal health care and the protection of the citizen from undue: financial, mental, and physical challenges.

America’s acceptance of the supremacy of capital and individualism places its citizens in harm’s way should that citizen face such challenges as illness (no insurance), or loss of job (loss of home). Canadian social attitudes place cooperation among our citizens as the primary method of achievement as a society and family.

Americans’ reverence of competition places citizens and American institutions against one another. Darwinian attitudes place capital and individualism into every aspect of American life from the moment an American is born in a hospital to the day they pass away. Capital, wealth, personal achievement reaches into every American’s lived experience as though it were a religion. Not so in Canada. Perhaps it is Canadians feeling of inferiority living beside the greatest democratic nation on earth, or because we understand America’s importance to Canada’s welfare and well-being be it: financial, economic, or our national defense. The proverbial little cousin.

That feeling unites Canadians, making us far more empathetic to our neighbors and the world. This empathy enters our political and social realities, as to how we see ourselves. Our inferiority makes us more cooperative, and socially responsible.

American individualism and Canadian cooperative thought. Alternatives offered to free people. Choose and choose well.

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