{"id":17353,"date":"2021-09-29T19:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17353"},"modified":"2021-09-29T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:21:10","slug":"no-more-mr-nice-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17353","title":{"rendered":"no more Mr. Nice Guy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CLICK LINK for CBC News article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Harper-surveil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Harper-surveil.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Harper-surveil-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Harper-surveil-768x452.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/harper-united-arab-emirates-surveillance-technology-1.6192281?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/harper-united-arab-emirates-surveillance-technology-1.6192281?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/harper-united-arab-emirates-surveillance-technology-1.6192281?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Former prime minister <strong>Stephen Harper<\/strong> heads the advisory committee of a Toronto-based company now looking to facilitate the sale of <strong>cutting-edge surveillance technology to the United Arab Emirates \u2014 a country with a troubling human rights record.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AWZ Ventures finances Israeli surveillance technology systems, including&nbsp;facial recognition and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crowd_analysis\">crowd detection<\/a>&nbsp;systems&nbsp;and services that deliver&nbsp;comprehensive information on individuals in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span><i>Court Painter hopped on hi<\/i><\/span><em>s studio<\/em><span><span><i> time machine and gathered together a number of images from the Harper Years that depict  Mr. Harper&#8217;s affection for surveillance and his ongoing business ties to the Middle East.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" 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https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/A-FN-Woman-to-Watch-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Court-Painter-political-barbaric-practices.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Court-Painter-political-barbaric-practices.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Court-Painter-political-barbaric-practices-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Court-Painter-political-barbaric-practices-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"766\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/A-Great-Game-Continues.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/A-Great-Game-Continues.jpg 766w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/A-Great-Game-Continues-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLICK LINK for CBC News article https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/harper-united-arab-emirates-surveillance-technology-1.6192281?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar Former prime minister Stephen Harper heads the advisory committee of a Toronto-based company now looking to facilitate the sale of cutting-edge surveillance technology to the United Arab Emirates \u2014 a country with a troubling human rights record. AWZ Ventures finances Israeli surveillance technology systems, including&nbsp;facial recognition and&nbsp;crowd detection&nbsp;systems&nbsp;and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=17353\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;no more Mr. Nice Guy&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17381,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17353\/revisions\/17381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}