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Wal-mart & Homeland Security deploy in-store Terror messages

At least 200 US Wal-Mart stores are deploying Homeland Security video announcements in their stores this week:

By month's end, 588 stores in 27 states will be participating in the program. A short video featuring Napolitano will appear on TV screens at select checkout lanes, asking Wal-Mart shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.

"If you see something suspicious in the parking lot or in the store, say something immediately," [Homeland Security Secretary] Napolitano said in the video. "Report suspicious activity to your local police or sheriff. If you need help ask a Wal-Mart manager for assistance."

“Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe,” she said. "This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities.”

via MSNBC

 

Report documents coordinated Canadian efforts to disrupt climate & clean energy policy in US, EU

Access to Information requests by the Climate Action Network have revealed that elements within the governments of Canada and Alberta attempted to undermined clean energy and climate policy in California, the United States and Europe. 

Much of the information compiles existing public statements, speeches and policies by federal and provincial politicians and civil servants in a way that identifies a pattern of deliberate and coordinated disruption of climate and energy policy agendas in friendly, foreign jurisdictions. 

A press release from the Climate Action Network says the attempts are coordinated through an "Oil Sands Advocacy Strategy" led by the Department of Foreign Affairs. 

“We have proof that the Harper government is aggressively intervening in Europe and the United States to kill clean energy policies in the name of promoting the tar sands,” says Graham Saul of Climate Action Network Canada. “Canada is not just exporting dirty oil anymore - we're also exporting dirty policies.”

The report documents extensive evidence of federal and Alberta government lobbying efforts against clean energy policies proposed in three jurisdictions: California, the United States and Europe. Documents obtained through Access to Information also point to a broad-based and secretive “Oil Sands Advocacy Strategy” led by the Department of Foreign Affairs. 

The press release also notes that Greenpeace has set up a tip line for federal civil servants -- essentially, a  "Climate Crime Stoppers" line. Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada says it has been set up for "federal civil servants who are frustrated with the oil industry calling the shots on Canada's energy and climate policy and want to help us separate oil and state.”

The line is being advertised in the national political elite newspaper The Hill Times and will be promoted throughout 2011. 

The release continues: 

“A friendly neighbor does not secretly try to undermine your clean energy jobs and efforts to fight climate change,” says Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the Washington D.C.-based Natural Resources Defense Council. “The greed for tar sands oil is not only harming the Boreal forest - it is harming the North American clean energy future.”

“We are calling on the governments of Canada and Alberta to stop all efforts to kill clean energy and climate policy in other countries,” says Steven Guilbeault of Équiterre. “This is an outrage, it is a reckless approach to energy policy that needs to be brought to an end.

The full report, in PDF, is available here.

(h/t via joelaf, citing CBC)
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