Stephen Harper’s “Northern Foundation”

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Stephen Harper was a member of the ultra-right-wing Northern Foundation in 1989, Mr. Harrison documents that this was a group that had numerous Neo-Nazi skinheads as organizers, as well as a leadership that included a well-known white supremacist and anti-feminist crusader as a prominent leader that sought to take over the mass-media to enable the fulfillment of a right wing agenda. The Northern Foundation, with the support of corporate allies was able to get Mr. Harper elected in the first place by indeed, taking over the mass-media in Canada. This was done to shelter Mr. Harper from the kinds of critical journalism which had kept him out of power, in the first place. Corporate mass-media owners would seek to remake Mr. Harper and the Conservative Party from being ultra right, into a fabricated image of a non-threatening “moderately conservative” party.

Trevor Harrison documents that “He [Mr. Harper] had little trouble doing so, as the media had been largely muffled by one fact: press baron Conrad Black, then reaching the height of his powers was also a member of the Northern Foundation and equally shy about having it publicly known.” Mr. Harrison elaborates that, “Journalists feared incurring his wrath as he employed many of them at the time, and was a potential employer for those whom he didn’t employ. Had they made the membership list public, Mr. Black would have been exposed.”

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“The connections between the National Citizens’ Coalition (NCC) and the Reform Party/Canadian Alliance/Conservative Party go back a long way,” also documents Mr. Harrison. Their political agendas have been virtually identical: so called “deficit reduction” against progressive social policies; restriction of immigration; ending universal social programs; lowering taxes for corporations and high-income earners, and ending universal public healthcare,” further elaborates Mr. Harrison.

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http://westcoastnativenews.com/stephen-harpers-northern-foundation/

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1. puke worthy but not surprising

This will help me out tons when discussing Harper with my very conservative father. He hates when Harper is linked with right wing Christians, especially if they are on par with American republicans.
I do thank you for posting that. I've almost got my brother flipped...maybe I can nudge my dad too.

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2. This came through on my FB page today:

No proof of anything but I'm always inclined to believe the worst of our dear leader.

Here is one for you. "I grew up near Eckville Alberta. In 1984 through to 1988ish Harper lived and worked in Alberta. Remember Jim Keegstra. The Social studies teacher that was indicted for hate crimes for teaching his students the holocaust didnt happen. After he was indicted Keegstra opened an Auto garage. Harper not only worked at the garage for years but lived with Keegstra. This is common knowledge amongst locals. Pull his tax records or something to prove this. It is true. Do something with it. Bring him down. In his Bio he talks about living and working in rural Alberta. HA he was studying Fascism From Keegstra himself."

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3. I remember exactly who Jim Keegstra is

However I'm not sure Harper would have worked at his garage, as everything I have read about him up to this point makes me think he fancies himself as too good blue-collar work (daddy got him a job in a mail room at Imperial oil, that says everything). Unless he was doing their accounting or something. I haven't read his bio though so I may be talking out my butt about that.

But I did a bit of searching. So apparently Stockwell Day made a point of being one of Keegstra's first customers in his new garage. http://thetyee.ca/Views/2004/12/01/TheManwhoWalkswithDinosaurs/

Found another link that says Keegstra's new garage was in Bentley, not Eckville so the post on your FB page may be mistaken, as those places are a bit of a drive apart. (link seems a bit CTish): http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/themagazine/vol12/articles/bentley/bentley1.shtml (so many awful links come up when you google Keegstra. Anti-semites still abound)

Still, Stockwell Day's association with Keegstra is apparently well known. So I think it's plausible that Harper knew him, but I'm not sure he would have worked for him. MHO of course.

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4. Interesting article

Doris is a real piece of work, isn't he. Every time I think of the little turd I remember him roaring up to his press conference on a jet ski. In a wet suit. Something I really wish I could unsee.

I remember Keegstra too. The daughter of one of my dad's friends apparently married his son and became very stepford wifey. I don't know if she got away or not, her family was worried about her. I also met the lawyer Doug Christie, the first time I was in my 20's, very long story but I went to a political talk when he was talking his party the Western Canada Concept. Now this was years before he started defending the hatemongers and thankfully none of that stuff came up in his speech. He eyeballed me pretty good at that meeting but I never really talked to him. Then I kid you not, 25 years later I was at the legislature up on the steps listening to some speeches, he was up there too and he's staring at me like he recognized me. Then a couple weeks after that I'm in a restaurant, he comes in and gives me the same look. It was beyond strange.

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5. That is strange

It would definitely be disconcerting to have him look at you like that.

And LOL about the wet suit. At the time I'm embarrassed to admit I was quite the conservative (brainwashed by my parents...I had to live away from them for some time before it wore off) and didn't see the big deal about the wet suit. I was more embarrassed for him when he'd open his pie hole about religion. It was like constant headdesk when he did that. Even my right winger father hated that lol. "Why does he have to bring religion into it - it just makes him sound stupid!"

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6. Don't hate me for this!

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7. Said in my best Phoebe from Friends voice....

My eyes! My eyes!