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And for the record, I'm a Canadian - I work for
CSIS, not the NSA.
For some time now I've relied pretty heavily on the alternative media for information on how the world works, but it's a tricky situation because the alternate media is chalk full of whackos and moles. Lately I've put more focus on trying to separate the wheat from the chaff here out of necessity. It does seem that Canadians are well represented in the alternate media (and related) spheres, and in addition that they seem to be among the most convincing.
Like any interesting observation, it opens of a plethora of new hypotheses. One of them would be that for (possibly historic) legal reasons, it is more convenient for certain arms of our (supposed) government agencies to employ them. Another would be that the jurisdictional boundaries give foreign citizens a more confidence to act as they please though I personally don't sense any foreboding in doing what I feel is right for the most part. Yet. Associated with the last thought, Canadians are more culturally similar to us, may be bored with their own country, and look with worry to the goings-on of their Southern neighbor. I would be

I'll say that being a 'conspiracy theorist' is fairly demanding intellectually. It was a lot easier when I could watch McNeil-Lehrer (my don't miss show as a kid) and figure that one of the two sides was saying what I should be believing.