The biggest loser in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline sabotage is not only Russia but also Germany, whose ability to access cheap energy has underlain its ability to finance the Eurozone over the last decade. At the time opinion polls in Quebec and throughout Canada showed widespread support for the usage of the War Measures Act. Simultaneously, under provisions quite separate from the War Measures Act and much more commonly used, the solicitor-general of Quebec requisitioned the military's deployment from the chief of the Defence Staff in accordance with the National Defence Act. Reports also appeared about an award given to two sailors from the Royal Navy of Great Britain for carrying out important events in international waters. Swiss Colonel Ralph Bossard (ret.) [2], On February 7, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden had promised to put an end to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, stating that, if Russia invaded Ukraine, then there will no longer be a Nord Stream 2. [9] GE also promised to create a thousand French jobs, though actually cut one thousand jobs, according to Pierucci. Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11? [8], When Trudeau was asked by CBC reporter Tim Ralfe how far he was willing to go to stop the FLQ, he replied: "Just watch me." The biggest winner is the Anglo-American axis whose global hegemony can only be sustained with Russia, Germany and the European Union weakened. CAIs tax-exempt ID number is 87-2461683. He can be reached at: jkuzmarov2@gmail.com. . Alstom hired two consultants to negotiate the Sumatra contractsomething that Pierucci was aware of but did not initiate. pointed out in a study that if the Russians carried out the sabotage of their own pipeline they would have done so in the Gulf of Finland, not in waters around Denmark and Sweden heavily monitored by NATO. The US Navy has 11 aircraft carriers each of which displaces over 90,000 tons. Pierre Laporte was eventually found killed by his captors, while James Cross was freed after 59 days as a result of negotiations with the kidnappers who requested exile to Cuba rather than facing trial in Quebec. Demers, Robert. "Memories of October 70 (2010)", FLQ: The Anatomy of an Underground Movement. Moon of Alabama reported that just 100 kilometers south is the Polish naval base Kolobrzeg (the former German Kolberg) which harbors mine-laying ships and the 8th Koobrzeg Naval Combat Engineer Battalion. Yes, a permanent war, a vital war, an economic war, a war without death, on the surface. He also found that, in the power generation sector, virtually all of GEs rivalsincluding the Swiss/Swedish-based ABB and German Siemenshad been indicted and forced to pay significant fines, while not a single leading American power engineer contractor that uses GE equipment has ever been targeted under the FCPA. Although three members escape the raid. [10], Daniel Fasquelle, the vice chairman of the French National Assemblys Economic Affairs Commission characterized the Alstom case as an unbelievable hoax; a convenient way for Alstom to extricate itself from the legal trap set for it by the U.S. judiciary; and part of a pattern by which U.S. conglomerates take over companies weakened by legal proceedings.[11]. The October Crisis (French: Crise d'Octobre) refers to a chain of events that started in October 1970 when members of the Front de libration du Qubec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross from his Montreal residence. "Memories of October 70 (2010)", Demers, Robert. [31]:255 In early 1970 the government introduced a white paper Defence in the Seventies, which stated the "Priority One" of the Canadian Forces would be upholding internal security rather than preparing for World War III, which of course meant a sharp cut in military spending since the future enemy was now envisioned to be the FLQ rather than the Red Army. Disclaimer:The contents of this article are the sole responsibility of the author(s). Holding an engineering degree from cole Nationale Suprieure de Mcanique et dArotechnique in Poitiers, France, and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Columbia University, Pierucci was head of Alstoms boiler division in charge of 4,000 employees at the time of his arrest. You can read more aboutfair use and US Copyright Lawat the Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School. We believe this constitutes a fair use of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. 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He is the author of four books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obamas Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano (Monthly Review Press, 2018). According to Pierucci, GEs takeover of Alstom and the acquiescence of the French ruling class reflected the omnipotence of American corporate interests on French soil. A "voluntary tax" of 500,000 dollars to be loaded aboard the plane prior to departure. I didnt know about the British divers, thank you! In 2003, when the Sumatra power plant deal went down, Pierucci was operating from the U.S. as a global sales and marketing director for one of Alstoms power divisions. After the attack, Polands former minister of foreign affairs, Radek Sikorski, the husband of neo-conservative Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, tweeted Thank you, USA! with a photo of an underwater gas explosion in the area of the leak (later he deleted the tweet). As I write here: https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/one-earth-many-worlds, Germany is throwing away its last chance to save itself and the world by refusing to end the war and insisting on doing the bidding of Uncle Sam. [1], According to blogger Moon of Alabama, parts of the Kearsarge operation off Bornholm were dedicated to testing special underwater mine destruction technologies. CovertAction 44 Celebration and Fundraiser TO WATCH VIDEO, click on graphic. Shock was the best safeguard against bloodshed. Throughout the operation, the Army made a point of deploying primarily French-Canadian soldiers to guard buildings in Quebec. The Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa, and the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, supported Trudeau's invocation of the War Measures Act, which limited civil liberties and granted the police far-reaching powers, allowing them to arrest and detain 497 people. As part of the takeover agreement, GE agreed to assume all of Alstoms legal liabilities (totaling upwards of $700 million following a guilty plea), according to Pierucci, which Siemens and other competitors could not match. At the time, opinion polls in Quebec and the rest of Canada showed overwhelming support for the War Measures Act;[28][29] in a December 1970 Gallup Poll, it was noted that 89% of English-speaking Canadians and 86% of French-speaking Canadians supported the introduction of the War Measures Act. The events of October 1970 marked a significant loss of support for the violent wing of the Quebec sovereigntist movement. 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CovertAction Institute, Inc. (CAI), including its Board of Directors (BD), Editorial Board (EB), Advisory Board (AB), staff, volunteers and its projects (includingCovertAction Magazine) are not responsible for any inaccurate or incorrect statement in this article. Is the CIA Supporting Another Color Revolution in IranLike the One that Installed the Shah in 1953? December 3: Montreal, Quebec: After being held hostage for 62 days, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the FLQ Liberation Cell after negotiations between lawyers Bernard Mergler and Robert Demers. The October Crisis, 1970: An Insider View, pg 202. [27]:103[non-primary source needed] Since then, the government's use of the War Measures Act in peacetime has been a subject of debate in Canada as it gave police sweeping powers of arrest and detention. Mommy&DaddyUSA cannot cope with the orphans it has created. On February 27, 2004, the Washington Post reported that Ronald Reagan had agreed to a CIA plan [in January 1982] to sabotage the Soviet economy by covertly feeding it, among other things, contaminated software that later caused a gigantic explosion of the Siberian gas pipeline in the summer of 1982. Nigeria's Largest Information Portal. Read latest breaking news, updates, and headlines. He was accused of bribery in the awarding of a contract to Alstom ten years earlier for a nuclear power plant in Tarahan on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. [30] The Royal 22e Rgiment, more commonly known as the "Van Doos", the most famous French-Canadian regiment in the Canadian Army, was deployed to Montreal to guard buildings. , Nord Streams capacity was 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas. On February 26, 1970, two men in a panel truck, including Jacques Lanctt, were arrested in Montreal when they were found with a sawed-off shotgun and a communiqu announcing the kidnapping of the Israeli consul. https://morrissey.substack.com/p/germanys-last-chance, the U.S. Navys largest warship, the USS Kearsarge. By selling to GE instead, Kron found a way to escape the clutches of the prosecutors [who were after him], according to Pierucci, and secure favorable treatment by the U.S. DOJ. The Editors for CovertAction Magazine Weigh In, Anti-Government Protests in Cuba Provoked by U.S. Embargo Has Right-Wingers Salivating at the Prospect of Regime Change. Get the latest science news and technology news, read tech reviews and more at ABC News. The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse In 1998, Congress amended the FCPA to try to punish U.S. global rivals, giving the law extraterritorial reach. Password requirements: 6 to 30 characters long; ASCII characters only (characters found on a standard US keyboard); must contain at least 4 different symbols; [31]:259260. WTOP delivers the latest news, traffic and weather information to the Washington, D.C. region. Appendix D of The October Crisis, 1970: An Insiders View, by Prof. William Tetley. By using this site, you agree to these terms above. VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE TEACH-IN WEBINAR War in Ukraine: How the Lies of Empire Stand in the Way of a Diplomatic Resolution CLICK IMAGE. https://www.amazon.com/Ally-Versus-America-Siberian-Pipeline/dp/0275924106/ref=sr_1_1, The MoA piece is at: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/whodunnit-facts-related-to-the-sabotage-attack-on-the-nord-stream-pipelines.html, [] How Much Longer Can the U.S. Continue to Wage Economic War on Europe, and Much of the World, Without covertaction []. 1601 et seq. October 14: Sixteen prominent Quebec personalities, including Ren Lvesque and, October 16: Premier Bourassa formally requests that the government of Canada grant the government of Quebec "emergency powers" that allow them to "apprehend and keep in custody", October 17: Montreal, Quebec: The Chnier cell of the FLQ announces that hostage Pierre Laporte has been executed. Executive Order 13224: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. The blockade was made permanent after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip during the Battle of Gaza, seizing government institutions and [31]:238 During the Pearson years and even more so under Trudeau there was a tendency on the part of the government to cut military spending and to shift the role of the Canadian Forces to acting more as an internal security force. Bloomberg claims that, to survive this winter, Europe will have to import 40% more liquefied natural gas than in previous years. Get the latest breaking news across the U.S. on ABCNews.com CovertAction Magazinedoes not receive corporate or government sponsorship. Recent Visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Raises Concerns, Ray McGovern: The Man Who Got Russiagate Right and Tried to Warn the PublicTo No Avail. Has the Ukraine Conflict Driven U.S. Government Officials Crazy? According to Pierucci, over the last two decades, the U.S. has succeeded in destabilizing the largest European multinationals by jailing their executives under the veneer of fighting corruption while netting billions of dollars in fines and coercing their companies to plead guilty. On July 24, 1967, the nationalist cause received support from French President Charles de Gaulle who, standing on a balcony in Montreal, shouted "Vive le Qubec libre". Yet, we hold a steadfast commitment to providing compensation for writers, editorial and technical support. The blockade of the Gaza Strip is the ongoing land, air, and sea blockade of the Gaza Strip imposed by Israel and Egypt temporarily in 20052006 and permanently from 2007 onwards, following the Israeli disengagement from Gaza.. At the end of his tenure as president of France from 1981 to 1995, socialist Franois Mitterand said that France does not know it, but we are at war with America. There is no industrial strategy behind this, its merely a financial political operation, and note that I have chosen my words carefully.[13], Montebourg suggested meanwhile that Hollande and Macron had acquiesced because the Americans scare the hell out of them. 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Pierucci was an especially important bargaining chip because he was about to head a new joint venture between Alstom and Shanghai Electric, which posed a major threat to GE and, by implication, the U.S. [] Tried to Combat and Ukraine War is Bidens War Now and How Much Longer Can the U.S. Continue to Wage Economic War on Europe, and Much of the World, and Worthless House Progressives Retract Mild Peace Advocacy Under Pressure From [], Antony Blinken has written one book, Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis. The questions remain, however, as to how long will Europe allow itself to be held ransom, and a victim, and at what point will they band together to fight back more effectivelywith Russia and China on their side? [citation needed], The two named Canadian Forces operations were Operation Ginger (to mount guards on the Government of Canada buildings and significant residences outside of Quebec) and Operation Essay (to provide aid to Quebec's civil power). During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the CIA committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape and the killing of Manadel al-Jamadi. To ensure effective lobbying, these institutions recruit ex-government officials like David Azmaformerly of the French state shareholding agency and chief negotiator in charge of managing state shareholdings in the Alstom casewho then joined Bank of America which coincidentally had advised Alstom throughout the negotiation. For that Kron was awarded with an exceptional 4 million euro bonus, though he had severely compromised Frances energy independence, national security and sovereignty. Something in the Moon of Alabama piece is that multiple helicopters from the Kearsarge flew multiple similar routes (shown with a map) over the area blown up. Canadians do not need to be liberated. [27]:88[non-primary source needed] In addition, the Quebec Ombudsman, Louis Marceau, was instructed to hear complaints of detainees, and the Quebec government agreed to pay damages to any person unjustly arrested. When you donate toCovertAction Magazine, you are supporting investigative journalism. And yet a war to the death.. Two earlier articles on the squalid GE takeover of Alstom Energy, the second providing more detail from the Pierucci book. The payoff for Pieruccis arrest came on April 24, 2014, when a deal was struck by which Alstom agreed to sell 70% of its business, its entire energy division, to GE for $13 billion. For months, Pierucci was forced to endure life in the privately managed Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Rhode Island, which was grossly overcrowded, kept inmates locked in their cells for long periods, and deprived inmates of sunlight, proper sleeping arrangements and medical care. Only one soldier was killed when he tripped over his loaded rifle while on guard duty and inadvertently shot and killed himself. This article also does not necessarily represent the views the BD, the EB, the AB, staff, volunteers, or any members of its projects. The FCPA had evolved, Pierucci writes, into a formidable weapon of economic domination and a gold mine for the U.S. Treasury., DOJ prosecutors never found anything reprehensible about the practices of U.S. oil tycoons or U.S. defense giants, but targeted foreign, largely European-based, companies under the FCPA to help advance U.S. corporate power and hegemonic interests globally.[7]. Alstom manufactured, maintained and refurbished the turbo-alternators of Frances 58 nuclear reactors, and turbines for water reactors, and played a vital role in 75% of the countrys national electricity. On April 3, 1969, Trudeau announced that Canada would stay in NATO after all, but he drastically cut military spending and pulled out half of the 10,000 Canadian soldiers and airmen stationed in West Germany. [31]:257 Many officers knew very well that the "Priority One" of internal security was "a greater threat than any other potential role. CovertAction Institute, Inc. (CAI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and your gift is tax-deductible for federal income purposes. European companies were ultimately left vulnerable to prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) without having the legal means to retaliate and prosecute U.S. businesses in return. [2] While mailboxes, particularly in the affluent and predominantly Anglophone city of Westmount, were common targets, the largest single bombing occurred at the Montreal Stock Exchange on February 13, 1969, which caused extensive damage and injured 27 people. Find Nigerian News, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Sports, Music, Events, Jobs, SME Listings and much more. Meanwhile, one of Emmanuel Macrons chief economic advisers, Hugh Bailey, joined GE in November 2017 as Government Affairs director, i.e., chief lobbyist, before becoming General Manager of GE in France in May 2019. 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