You said this would explain what has been going on in Canada for the last four years, but I don't see you elaborating on that. Is that something you're saving for later?
Thanks for this very enlightening article. I read for a long time, but saw no end in sight and finally quit.
Wow, so Sun Yat Sen was a triad?!! I sort of had some respect for the guy. Chiang Kai Shek being a triad is less surprising, though.
The only thing I know about Chinese crime syndicates is that the British Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank of Commerce (HSBC) was convicted of laundering money for the Mexican Mafia, and slapped on the wrist.
However, having lived nearly a year in Shenzhen, I can attest to the sleazyness of business operations there. I wasn't into trying to understand any of it at the time, but it was just obvious everywhere I went.
Ah, and Deng Xiao Ping. I'd heard he said "To be rich is glorious" but hadn't heard "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." Certainly makes a lot of sense of probably just about everything in China.
So... given that the CCP has "taken over" Canada, when can we expect Parliament to sanction the US and its NATO partners for their attacks on Chinese business interests?
When will they stop supporting the Uke Nazis?
When will they apologize for arresting and detaining Meng Wanzhou at the behest of Uncle Sam?
And when will they begin to shake off the American control of the Canuckistani economy, media environment and foreign policy in general?
Good questions! Hmm well starting from the top: which business interests do you mean? Canada and China do tons of business? Do you mean Huawei?
As for supporting Ukraine, that one's easy... supporting Ukraine weakens Canada because we're throwing money and weapons into a pit. Russia will inevitably win and presumably take control of a lot of that weaponry... and a lot will wind on the black market, which will help western european mafias do a lot of the dirty work weakening NATO in advance of Russia invasion of Moldova and the Baltic states (Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia).
Arresting and detaing Meng Wanzhou seems to have been a decision made before the takeover was complete, although Canada was already heavily infiltrated by then. I don't think an apology would do much at this point.
American control of the media? What are you talking about? Canadian media isn't controlled by the U.S. It's controlled by the Thomson family (Globe & Mail, Reuters), Postmedia ("Ottawa Citizen," "Calgary Herald," "Edmonton Journal," "Vancouver Sun,""Financial Post," "National Post" newspaper. Then it's Quebecor, Black Press, and Torstar.
None of those companies are owned by Americans. Postmedia is publicly traded, so hedge funds own parts of it... but I don't what you're talking about when you say Canadian media is controlled by Americans. It's all through CBC, the Canuckistani Pravda. I'm pretty sure that literally all the companies I named received subsidies from the Canadian state, meaning they get a say in editorial policy.
as for foreign policy, I think the CCP will keep up the illusion so long as they deem it in their best interests... could be months, could be years, could be indefinitely. but the cat's out of the bag.
It’s not every day a reporter who has worked for The Vancouver Sun and The Province writes a book that hits No. 1 in sales on Amazon.ca and continues to hover near the top.
But that is what dogged journalist Sam Cooper has achieved with his thrilling and deeply disturbing exposé of what he rightly calls the “mind-blowing” connections among organized crime, casinos, the Chinese Communist Party, real estate, money laundering, offshore billionaires and Canadian politicians.
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Connecting the dots like no other journalist or researcher before him, Cooper’s devastating book, Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West, took root in 2009 when he began doing investigative work for The Province.
That’s where Cooper crossed paths with Fabian Dawson, another shoe-leather journalist who had broken numerous stories about Asian criminals buying copious amounts of prime Vancouver real estate. Dawson, raised in Malaysia, had “international sources and understanding of politics and business in Asia,” Cooper writes, which contributed to his blockbuster accounts linking Asian triads to some of Canada’s top business leaders and elected officials.
Written in the first person, almost like a detective thriller, Cooper’s book reveals how courageous front-line police, investigators and intelligence officials, like Calvin Chrustie and Ross Alderson, uncovered shocking international criminal behaviour in Canada, which was often covered-up by senior officials in law enforcement and government.
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One of many indications of Cooper’s high impact is the way scores of his articles for The Province, The Vancouver Sun and Global News (where he is now employed, based in Ottawa) have become official evidence for Austin Cullen, the B.C. Supreme Court judge heading B.C.’s commission into money laundering.
Since his book was published last month, Cooper has been appearing before parliamentary committees and fact-finding prosecutors.
Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West, by Sam Cooper.
Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West, by Sam Cooper. PNG
Wilful Blindness focuses on how tycoons, gangsters, sex-traffickers and agents of the Communist party have over the decades penetrated deep into Canada’s economy, political fundraisers and housing markets. The book’s forewords by professor Teng Biao and former Beijing-based diplomat Charles Burton clarify the obvious: It’s crucial to avoid, as Burton says, “the misidentification of the Canadian Chinese community with the Communist-Party led brutal, repressive and corrupt regime in China today.”
The book’s title and cover sum up a great deal.
The title targets the “wilful blindness” of a host of Canadian officials and politicians (many of them named) who have looked the other way for decades while “a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West.” The cover illustration, in turn, shows a map of the world, peppered with lethal opioid pills, with the stars of China’s flag centred on Vancouver.
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In the midst of describing grisly gang shootings in restaurants and assassinations by crossbow in the otherwise beautiful metropolis of Metro Vancouver, Cooper shows in gritty detail how “Canada has become a command centre for the world’s most-prolific Chinese transnational narcos.”
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After Cooper describes yet another high-level internal document obtained from brave and frustrated sources within the RCMP, which shows intimate links between gangsters and state intelligence officers from China, the author explains his motivation to keep trying to get to the bottom of things.
“I’m following the money and the power and the greatest threat to Canadian society. It’s not that other crime groups — domestic and foreign — get a pass. But I recognize the unique threat posed by state-sponsored crime,” Cooper writes.
Although Cooper is the leader in exposing such infiltration into Canada, he makes it clear other journalists have also reported on or supported front-line probes into the insidious relationship between Asian billionaires, drug manufacturers, loan sharks, gangsters, real estate insiders and politicians.
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The B.C.-based writers and editors he cites include Jonathan Manthorpe, Doug Quan, Ian James Young, Cassidy Olivier, Harold Munro, Sandy Garrossino, Kathy Tomlinson, Bob Mackin, Terry Glavin, Joanna Chiu and more.
Cooper has had to endure lawsuits and China’s perpetual claims of racism to simply continue to probe what a once-secret CSIS investigation, sparked by the early stories of Dawson and others, made clear 25 years ago. The so-called Sidewinder report, which was leaked in 2001 after being buried by former prime minister Jean Chretien, described the way triads, tycoons and Chinese intelligence operatives had corrupted Canada’s institutions and markets.
It is not possible, in a short review, to do justice to the hundreds of yarns Cooper stitches together. He unveils the labyrinthine connections among hundreds of international criminals, $100,000-a-bet gamblers, Lamborghini-buying real-estate tycoons and over-cosy politicians. The final chapter alone is a remarkable tale of intrigue in the upper echelons — exploring the sordid knots behind the drive-by shooting at Richmond’s Manzo restaurant in 2020 of underground banker Jian Jun Zhu and illicit gambling kingpin Paul King Jin.
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Wilful Blindness is not only a tremendous resource for journalists, law enforcement officials and (we hope) scholars who seek to “follow the money” that’s pouring into the West, it’s an eye-opening experience for ordinary readers.
Judging by book sales, they’re the ones already proving they consider it their duty to stop being naive about the community-destroying world of the transnational rich and powerful, as well as their political enablers, many of whom forever strive to do their dirty collaborations in private.
Why then, is the BRICS, which supports the fall of the FIAT dollar and the British Empire from maintaining world controls over "Free Trade" - why then would this idea of a Mulit-Polar world with apparently development of somewhat of the good neighbour like Treaty of Westphalia be opposing things?
I do agree to do research and correlate how things happen in the powers shifts for control, however, I do see if MAN became more spiritual and empowered, does that even measure up to humanity's chances for a new world of peace?
What exactly or who exactly are we up against?
Most of the time I begin to think we are up against ourselves - for lack of getting past the wetiko energies that create big divides and shadows.
How do you equate Hong Kong's empowerment to align with China's - honestly, I thought there was big division there.
You said this would explain what has been going on in Canada for the last four years, but I don't see you elaborating on that. Is that something you're saving for later?
yes, correct, I was referring to Sam Cooper's Wilful Blindness.
Thanks for this very enlightening article. I read for a long time, but saw no end in sight and finally quit.
Wow, so Sun Yat Sen was a triad?!! I sort of had some respect for the guy. Chiang Kai Shek being a triad is less surprising, though.
The only thing I know about Chinese crime syndicates is that the British Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank of Commerce (HSBC) was convicted of laundering money for the Mexican Mafia, and slapped on the wrist.
However, having lived nearly a year in Shenzhen, I can attest to the sleazyness of business operations there. I wasn't into trying to understand any of it at the time, but it was just obvious everywhere I went.
Ah, and Deng Xiao Ping. I'd heard he said "To be rich is glorious" but hadn't heard "It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice." Certainly makes a lot of sense of probably just about everything in China.
So... given that the CCP has "taken over" Canada, when can we expect Parliament to sanction the US and its NATO partners for their attacks on Chinese business interests?
When will they stop supporting the Uke Nazis?
When will they apologize for arresting and detaining Meng Wanzhou at the behest of Uncle Sam?
And when will they begin to shake off the American control of the Canuckistani economy, media environment and foreign policy in general?
Good questions! Hmm well starting from the top: which business interests do you mean? Canada and China do tons of business? Do you mean Huawei?
As for supporting Ukraine, that one's easy... supporting Ukraine weakens Canada because we're throwing money and weapons into a pit. Russia will inevitably win and presumably take control of a lot of that weaponry... and a lot will wind on the black market, which will help western european mafias do a lot of the dirty work weakening NATO in advance of Russia invasion of Moldova and the Baltic states (Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia).
Arresting and detaing Meng Wanzhou seems to have been a decision made before the takeover was complete, although Canada was already heavily infiltrated by then. I don't think an apology would do much at this point.
American control of the media? What are you talking about? Canadian media isn't controlled by the U.S. It's controlled by the Thomson family (Globe & Mail, Reuters), Postmedia ("Ottawa Citizen," "Calgary Herald," "Edmonton Journal," "Vancouver Sun,""Financial Post," "National Post" newspaper. Then it's Quebecor, Black Press, and Torstar.
None of those companies are owned by Americans. Postmedia is publicly traded, so hedge funds own parts of it... but I don't what you're talking about when you say Canadian media is controlled by Americans. It's all through CBC, the Canuckistani Pravda. I'm pretty sure that literally all the companies I named received subsidies from the Canadian state, meaning they get a say in editorial policy.
as for foreign policy, I think the CCP will keep up the illusion so long as they deem it in their best interests... could be months, could be years, could be indefinitely. but the cat's out of the bag.
Great coverage Anton.
For people's interest...
Wilful Blindness - Network of narcos, tycoons & CCP agents in Canada - Author Sam Cooper
https://old.bitchute.com/video/2BpBYsdRgy0W/
75 min discussion on (Triads from Mainland China and Hong Kong) in Canada
https://old.bitchute.com/video/82ZBuTGbdhP5/
Kman, DIGILEAK News
Thanks! If anyone has links to share, please do. This stuff is hard to make sense of!
If you need to hear it from MSM, this is from the Vancouver Sun: https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-sam-coopers-expose-of-corruption-in-canada-tops-bestseller-list
It’s not every day a reporter who has worked for The Vancouver Sun and The Province writes a book that hits No. 1 in sales on Amazon.ca and continues to hover near the top.
But that is what dogged journalist Sam Cooper has achieved with his thrilling and deeply disturbing exposé of what he rightly calls the “mind-blowing” connections among organized crime, casinos, the Chinese Communist Party, real estate, money laundering, offshore billionaires and Canadian politicians.
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Connecting the dots like no other journalist or researcher before him, Cooper’s devastating book, Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West, took root in 2009 when he began doing investigative work for The Province.
That’s where Cooper crossed paths with Fabian Dawson, another shoe-leather journalist who had broken numerous stories about Asian criminals buying copious amounts of prime Vancouver real estate. Dawson, raised in Malaysia, had “international sources and understanding of politics and business in Asia,” Cooper writes, which contributed to his blockbuster accounts linking Asian triads to some of Canada’s top business leaders and elected officials.
Written in the first person, almost like a detective thriller, Cooper’s book reveals how courageous front-line police, investigators and intelligence officials, like Calvin Chrustie and Ross Alderson, uncovered shocking international criminal behaviour in Canada, which was often covered-up by senior officials in law enforcement and government.
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One of many indications of Cooper’s high impact is the way scores of his articles for The Province, The Vancouver Sun and Global News (where he is now employed, based in Ottawa) have become official evidence for Austin Cullen, the B.C. Supreme Court judge heading B.C.’s commission into money laundering.
Since his book was published last month, Cooper has been appearing before parliamentary committees and fact-finding prosecutors.
Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West, by Sam Cooper.
Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West, by Sam Cooper. PNG
Wilful Blindness focuses on how tycoons, gangsters, sex-traffickers and agents of the Communist party have over the decades penetrated deep into Canada’s economy, political fundraisers and housing markets. The book’s forewords by professor Teng Biao and former Beijing-based diplomat Charles Burton clarify the obvious: It’s crucial to avoid, as Burton says, “the misidentification of the Canadian Chinese community with the Communist-Party led brutal, repressive and corrupt regime in China today.”
The book’s title and cover sum up a great deal.
The title targets the “wilful blindness” of a host of Canadian officials and politicians (many of them named) who have looked the other way for decades while “a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West.” The cover illustration, in turn, shows a map of the world, peppered with lethal opioid pills, with the stars of China’s flag centred on Vancouver.
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In the midst of describing grisly gang shootings in restaurants and assassinations by crossbow in the otherwise beautiful metropolis of Metro Vancouver, Cooper shows in gritty detail how “Canada has become a command centre for the world’s most-prolific Chinese transnational narcos.”
Recommended from Editorial
This ad ran in the Global Residence and Citizenship Review, a glossy magazine that sings the praises of the “aspiring migrants” who buy extra passports and visas. The ad promotes the value of paying to “secure your family’s future with European citizenship.”
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UBC architecture prof. Matthew Soules's book illustrates the housing distortions that occur when a city becomes a key destination for the global rich. Developers in downtown Vancouver, around Georgia, are attracting investor capital by designing iconic condominium towers.
Douglas Todd: Global wealth skewing the look and feel of Vancouver, Toronto
Details from a slide presentation by B.C. Lottery Corp.'s anti-money-laundering director, Ross Alderson, to Vancouver's association of certified fraud examiners in November 2016. The slides were disclosed to Postmedia in a freedom of information request. It shows casino and other revenue next to a picture of then-premier Christy Clark.
Why illicit foreign cash often goes straight into Vancouver housing
After Cooper describes yet another high-level internal document obtained from brave and frustrated sources within the RCMP, which shows intimate links between gangsters and state intelligence officers from China, the author explains his motivation to keep trying to get to the bottom of things.
“I’m following the money and the power and the greatest threat to Canadian society. It’s not that other crime groups — domestic and foreign — get a pass. But I recognize the unique threat posed by state-sponsored crime,” Cooper writes.
Although Cooper is the leader in exposing such infiltration into Canada, he makes it clear other journalists have also reported on or supported front-line probes into the insidious relationship between Asian billionaires, drug manufacturers, loan sharks, gangsters, real estate insiders and politicians.
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The B.C.-based writers and editors he cites include Jonathan Manthorpe, Doug Quan, Ian James Young, Cassidy Olivier, Harold Munro, Sandy Garrossino, Kathy Tomlinson, Bob Mackin, Terry Glavin, Joanna Chiu and more.
Cooper has had to endure lawsuits and China’s perpetual claims of racism to simply continue to probe what a once-secret CSIS investigation, sparked by the early stories of Dawson and others, made clear 25 years ago. The so-called Sidewinder report, which was leaked in 2001 after being buried by former prime minister Jean Chretien, described the way triads, tycoons and Chinese intelligence operatives had corrupted Canada’s institutions and markets.
It is not possible, in a short review, to do justice to the hundreds of yarns Cooper stitches together. He unveils the labyrinthine connections among hundreds of international criminals, $100,000-a-bet gamblers, Lamborghini-buying real-estate tycoons and over-cosy politicians. The final chapter alone is a remarkable tale of intrigue in the upper echelons — exploring the sordid knots behind the drive-by shooting at Richmond’s Manzo restaurant in 2020 of underground banker Jian Jun Zhu and illicit gambling kingpin Paul King Jin.
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Wilful Blindness is not only a tremendous resource for journalists, law enforcement officials and (we hope) scholars who seek to “follow the money” that’s pouring into the West, it’s an eye-opening experience for ordinary readers.
Judging by book sales, they’re the ones already proving they consider it their duty to stop being naive about the community-destroying world of the transnational rich and powerful, as well as their political enablers, many of whom forever strive to do their dirty collaborations in private.
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Why then, is the BRICS, which supports the fall of the FIAT dollar and the British Empire from maintaining world controls over "Free Trade" - why then would this idea of a Mulit-Polar world with apparently development of somewhat of the good neighbour like Treaty of Westphalia be opposing things?
I do agree to do research and correlate how things happen in the powers shifts for control, however, I do see if MAN became more spiritual and empowered, does that even measure up to humanity's chances for a new world of peace?
What exactly or who exactly are we up against?
Most of the time I begin to think we are up against ourselves - for lack of getting past the wetiko energies that create big divides and shadows.
How do you equate Hong Kong's empowerment to align with China's - honestly, I thought there was big division there.
I am open minded to hear more...