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Activism / War as Entertainment
« on: August 14, 2012, 10:27:22 AM »
I kept seeing the ad for Stars Earn Stripes thruout channel surfing to get away from the Olympics. I tuned in last night for about 2 minutes and was shocked and disgusted. A small group of Nobel Peace Laureates issued a letter, whether it gets more than a 30 second reflection who knows. From the Women's Initiative.


Nine Nobel Peace Laureates today issued an open letter to the Chairman of NBC Entertainment, as well as General Wesley Clark and others involved in the new “reality” show premiering tonight on NBC—“Stars Earn Stripes—calling on them to walk away from the show immediately.
http://nobelwomensinitiative.org/2012/08/nine-nobel-peace-laureates-call-on-nbc-to-cancel-stars-earn-stripes/?ref=18


Take ActionThe Nobel Laureates have announced their support for a protest outside of NBC headquarters today, Monday August 13 at 5 pm – 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112.Add your name to the RootsAction petition calling on NBC to cancel “Stars Earn Stripes.”Tweet at NBC! Here is a sample tweet:#WarIsntEntertainment We join with Nobel Laureates calling for NBC to cancel @NBCStarsStripes #StarsEarnStripes http://bit.ly/Nu9Rcp

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Politics / Voter Suppression & Finance "Errors"
« on: August 07, 2012, 10:20:22 PM »
“Of course, the judges understand that, that’s why they came back from their summer recess to hear it, they understand the importance of a decision coming down without delay, as the legislation specifies, but this is historic,” he said. “That’s why I said when I came out of the hearing that win or lose, elections will be conducted very differently next time around. The assumption has been that these kinds of things don’t happen in Canada, and unfortunately guess what? They really do. So we have to look at how we run these elections.”
He said Elections Canada should be more transparent in their investigative process. “There are serious issues around Elections Canada. How do they go about investigating? The oxygen in a democracy is transparency. We have an open court system. Why do we have trust in the courts? Because it’s open. Imagine if it was a closed court system,” Mr. Wrzesnewskyj said. “Well, at Elections Canada, we don’t know what they’re investigating unless someone somehow finds out. We don’t know what the results are because they cut deals. That may have been fine in a situation where everything is above board, but we don’t have a transparent oversight body to investigate problems.”
http://www.hilltimes.com/news/politics/2012/08/07/working-premise-that-canadians-dont-engage-in-vote-suppression-wrong-says/31767
Well we as a body of Canadians don't have much seer or input to our elections. But it is definitely time we do. I didn't know what to call this new thread, otoh I don't want to post in all the other threads we have re: the Con Way of suppressing our votes. That is not to say I trust anything the Liberals want or any other party right now. It's a new world and we have to try and stay on top of it. Not everything, of course. The Con Way disgusts me, especially with the Drone Buying, otoh what gov't wouldn't go for it? So, keeping ev. in balance is hard enuf on a individual, a family, let alone a nation in this new world.

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Environment / Oh shit the stupid/or Smarts /Sea Shepherd
« on: July 26, 2012, 11:27:32 PM »
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/whale-watch/paul-watson-gets-out-of-dodge-again-20120727-22xgw.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
"We have no further information and are not in touch with him," the group's administrative director, Susan Hartland, said.

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The Arts / I, Pet Goat 11
« on: July 12, 2012, 09:28:47 PM »

“I, Pet Goat II” is a computer animated video that is loaded with silent messages and esoteric symbolism. While the movie has no dialogue, each symbol tells a piece of a story that covers the fields of history, politics, occult conspiracies and spirituality. We’ll look at the esoteric meaning behind the viral sensation “I, Pet Goat II”.
Produced by the Canadian production crew Heliofant, I, Pet Goat II is a short animated movie that quickly went viral across the internet. Praised for its visual feats and its interesting imagery, the video however left many puzzled about the meaning of its symbolism. Politics, conspiracies and false flag operations are mixed with esoteric spirituality and occult symbolism in one big mesmerizing mind bender. Here’s the video.



http://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-esoteric-symbolism-of-the-viral-video-i-pet-goat-ii/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_OawJA68jI&feature=player_embedded (you tube, in case you want to read comments)


The book Bush 11 was reading during the 9/11 attacks.


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Activism / Bring Khadr Home - Romeo Dallaire Petition
« on: July 12, 2012, 08:53:19 PM »
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/minister-toews-bring-back-omar-khadr-from-guantanamo-bay#

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News / Elliot Lake Mall Collapse
« on: June 25, 2012, 09:38:32 PM »
The death toll could be above 30 for this community.  :crying Poor poor Elliot Lake. What does this mean for other community emergencies where the 'owners' are basically slum landlords? I'm not too happy with the Mayor and their Council right now, but this feels very personal to me, even tho I know no one there. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2012/06/25/elliot-lake-mall-rescue-work.html

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Canada / Charbonneau Commission
« on: June 19, 2012, 04:01:38 PM »
Started a thread because who knows how far this goes.  :popcorn

Could Charbonneau Commission witnesses be vulnerable to civil lawsuits?
That prompted a brief recess as Duchesneau consulted with this lawyer. When testimony resumed at 10:30 a.m., he and his co-witnesses – former anti-collusion squad staffers Annie Trudel and Martin Morin - seemed content to continue providing the names of companies and individuals who they allege were potentially involved in collusion.
As of Tuesday at noon, the witnesses had named over a dozen construction companies and engineering firms, including two belonging to construction magnate Antonio (Tony) Accurso, one belonging to Paolo Catania and one owned by Liberal Fundraiser Franco Fava.

Who's who -http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/charbonneauwho/index.html‘
Dirty money finances elections’ star witness tells Quebec corruption commission“This clandestine empire I’m talking about comprises links between the construction world and the illegal financing of political parties,” he told Quebec Superior Court Justice France Charbonneau, who is presiding over the inquiry.“According to the testimony, we have before us a widespread and brazen culture of kickbacks.”Some of the cash donations to political parties have been so enormous, Duchesneau claimed, that party fundraisers “have trouble shutting the safe’s door.”“Dirty money finances elections,” he testified.Duchesneau described a well-organized system.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/19/dirty-money-finances-elections-star-witness-tells-quebec-corruption-commission/

LiveBlog - http://live.montrealgazette.com/Event/Live_blog_Tuesday_June_19_Charbonneau_commission_hearing_looking_into_corruption

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Activism / Denounce Harper on July 1, 2012!
« on: June 06, 2012, 11:46:45 AM »
http://aboyandhistvshow.blogspot.ca/

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Weather / Strawberry Moon in June
« on: June 01, 2012, 11:49:54 AM »
Wow, this rain and wind is wonderful! It's just teeming.  A good way to start the most dreamy month of the year. The shadow play stops me in my tracks in this walkable fresh month. But still, surprised to see full bloom peonies, poppies and foxgloves in last week of May, while irises and bleeding hearts are finished.


I did a quiz, first answer was Argentina, second was Australia. It was the food category that tripped me, very unimaginative and boring.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/quiz/2012/jun/01/where-should-you-emigrate-quiz

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News / Federal Ties to Corporate Money
« on: May 09, 2012, 03:19:45 PM »
Instead of posting this KaBoom article in Cynthia Vanier and because we don't have a specific In & Out Scandal thread (which was in the Election thread) I thought I'd start a new one.


http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/companies-involved-in-quebec-construction-scandals-have-deep-federal-ties-150798075.html



More recently, a Radio-Canada investigation attempted to shed new light on how corporate interests might seek to gain political influence.
An undercover reporter posing as an investor recorded Pierre Coulombe suggesting that decision-makers in the Quebec government could be accessed, for a fee. Coulombe is an influential provincial Liberal organizer, and was recently a prominent Tory organizer.
He was overheard suggesting to clients that instead of paying off political insiders, they should simply promise future jobs.
He suggested some working conditions: the job might pay politicians, upon retirement, about $25,000 a year for multiple years and require them to attend only one meeting annually — while sending them on the occasional business trip to Europe, he said.
After the broadcast, Coulombe explained that he had actually been exaggerating on the video and had overstated his level of access to government contacts.
Coulombe was the chief organizer for the Harper Conservatives in Quebec from 2006 to 2008.  :popcorn

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USA / The Decline
« on: April 17, 2012, 02:02:37 PM »
Now don't laugh.

There is a fixation in elite foreign policy circles these days to speculate on the impending decline of America’s global economic and military hegemony and to lament that decline as the dangerous end to international order. Without global American dominance, goes the thinking, lawless competition and chaos will rule. -snip-
What people like Brzezinski and Bremmer and Barnett really fear is not that the Benevolent Empire and the “global order” it preserves will be no more. Rather, the fear is that the selfish, unscrupulous, hypocritical, coercive disposition of other states will prevail instead of the U.S. government’s selfish, unscrupulous, hypocritical, coercive behavior. Other states will get to do the horrible things that only we’ve been able to do for decades.   Overthrowing governments that threaten the state’s supremacy, supporting the world’s worst dictators, committing the supreme international crime of unprovoked war, military bases spanning the globe…these things will no longer be solely American prerogatives.
Now ain't that the truth..

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USA / War on Women and the Poor/Fight Back
« on: March 13, 2012, 12:48:56 PM »
I looked and looked and couldn't find anywhere to place this. I've posted so many youtubes with American Women standing up for the blatant, fixated, obsessive need some right-wing batshit crazy American men have of systematically stripping women of every small victory they have made over the last 60 years. But this thread is also about the vast population who are impoverished and are made to feel like dogs for a hand up, and for stripping them of their freedoms. These repressive regimes (Obama/Harper et al) who feel threatened by women, pre-emptively I might add, need to be straightened out fast.


Oklahoma Legislators - Please Pee In The Cup!! 82-6 says you Have To!


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/sns-rt-us-oklahoma-drugtestbre82b1c0-20120312,0,3468705.story


Forcing parents to take a drug test is simply wrong and should be illegal, (violates the 4th Amendment)


Georgia is ready to pass the same bills and they are expected to pass. Georgians are fighting back, they want CEO's (if accepting Taxpayer Money) AND the Lawmakers to take the Pee Test as well!  :applause
http://bettergeorgia.com/2012/03/08/send-gov-deal-a-pee-cup-dont-drug-test-georgia-residents/


The same bills in Florida are in hold-up right now.


On the contraception front, Women fight back.


Virginia Senator Janet Howell, Men, Get a Rectal Exam for your Viagra
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/mandatory-ultrasound-bill-virginia-anti-abortion_n_1242627.html


Illinois lawmaker Kelly Cassidy writes amendment - Watch Film on Side Effects of V!


The amendment requires men to watch a graphic video about the side effects of Viagra, before they can get a prescription for the drug.State representative Kelly Cassidy (D-14th) says she's just adding some gender equality to the "Ultrasound Opportunity Act.""If they are serious about us not being able to make our own health care decisions, then I'm jsut as serious about them not being able to make theirs," said Rep. Cassidy.The amendment is in committee currently, and it is not yet attached to the ultrasound bill.  :applause
http://www.cw7michigan.com/shared/newsroom/features/national/stories/wmmt_vid_46.shtml


Missouri state rep Stacey Newman introduces legislation stating (tongue-in-cheek according to the media) that men receive Vascetomies only if their life depended on it.
http://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/intro/HB1853I.htm  which is similar to Georgia Senator Yasmin Neale's Bill which states - "In determining whether a vasectomy is necessary, no regard shall be made to the desire of a man to father children, his economic situation, his age, the number of children he is currently responsible for, or any danger to his wife or partner in the event a child is conceived," :applause http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-government/abortion-bill-gaining-momentum-1357611.html

According to the abortion rights group the Guttmacher Institute, a whopping record-breaking 92 new abortion-restricting laws were passed in 2011. :o 


Last but not least Ohio State lawmaker Nina Turner is introducing a Bill that men seeking Viagra be tested for heart problems and seek education on pursuing 'celibacy as a lifestyle choice'. Gawd Forbid Eh? You Go Nina!  :applause
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/bill-introduced-to-regulate-mens-reproductive-health-1341547.html

Turner said on MSNBC Monday that the bill is about showing "men as much love in the reproductive health arena as they have shown us over the years. My Senate Bill 307 is all about the love and making sure we look out for men's sexual health."   :))

Let's regulate Menz Reproductive Health - Goose/Gander For Real Equality


P.S. I'm starting to think all of these less than human stripping of Women's Rights is to purposely keep them out of the business of Politics, because they might fight back. They might even try to keibosh the MIC, gawd forbid. Altho this thread is in the U.S. let's keep it open for Canada as well, after all we are the NAU now. We have many Gooses and not many Ganders as of yet.












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News / Via Rail Derailed/Burlington
« on: February 26, 2012, 04:43:24 PM »
This first report says 60 injured (still trapped?), doesn't mention deaths, but teevee news says maybe one death so far. Tweeters say the pics look fucking horrible.


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/02/26/viarail-toronto.html

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Health / MRSA-Flesh eating disease
« on: February 02, 2012, 12:46:14 AM »
Remember back in Dec. of '09 Peter Watts, (Can. SF writer) was arrested by U.S. border guards for being mouthy. Apparently he didn't know that you always always say, Yes Sir. Anyways I didn't know, but he suffered the flesh-eating disease and blogged about it. He contracted it by getting a simple skin biopsy. I mention this because the kid (who is doing a placement in the cardiac ward in London and is fascinated by all things that kill people right now) sent me an article re: how prevalent it is becoming and how healthy people are acquiring it.


First Watts blog Rifters (start from the bottom) http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?category_name=flesh-eating-fest-11


The article - @ the Daily Mail - (where I realize they sensationalize, but still....)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2094983/Deadly-strain-MRSA-US-spread-UK-warn-doctors.html#ixzz1lCHtSuXk


It is the community acquired strain that is worrisome, because it attacks healthy people and is easy enuf to acquire. What's scary about it -
In a new research paper published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Dr Massey and colleagues analyse the way community-acquired MRSAs are able to adapt and fine tune themselves to spread outside of hospitals.
'The ability of the MRSA bacteria to secrete toxins is one of the main ways it causes disease.
'Using a sensing system, it carefully controls when it switches on its ability to do this, so as not to cause disease until it is firmly established within the human.
Sounds like science fiction right? What's ridic tho is if one goes back and looks for articles on MRSA in the U.S. they say - The UK has sent MRSA to us, and the UK say the same thing about the U.S. Thing is, who cares about that, when the goddam thing can frikken sense when to turn itself ON and OFF :o  It's on the rise in Canada as well and has been for several years.

Ontario woman loses hands and  legs. The maddening part of this article is it doesn't even speculate on how she acquired it  :confused 


http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120125/cyndi-desjardin-amputations-fasciitis-120125/


Oh and I discovered King Herod contracted MRSA in his Groin and died from it.


Skin-to-skin contact. MRSA can be transmitted from one person to another by skin-to-skin contact. While MRSA skin infections can occur in participants of many types of sports, they're much more likely to occur in contact sports — such as football, wrestling and rugby.
Touching contaminated objects If drainage from a MRSA skin infection comes into contact with an object — like a towel, weight-training equipment or a shared jar of ointment — the next person who touches that object may become infected with MRSA bacteria.

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News / Cynthia Vanier/SNC
« on: February 01, 2012, 12:21:20 PM »
She alleges torture in Mexico.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canadian+detained+alleged+Gadhafi+plot+alleges+torture+Mexicans/6084580/story.html


She's been offered 'consular services' which we know means absolutely nothing.


There's something very fishy re: Gary Peters, the security consultant she hired for her trip to Libya on a fact finding mission for SNC-Lavalin. Peters had already smuggled Saadi (3rd son) across border to Niger. The Canadian Libyan Council asked in the fall that Peters be investigated because he may have violated the UN travel ban on Saadi. Foreign Affairs seems to be protecting Peters, he was shot in Libya, landed in NL and after light questioning was allowed to continue on.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/31/government-urged-to-proble-gaddafi-sons-bodyguard-who-is-based-in-canada/


I find it strange that Peters says all he did was hire the plane to get Ms. Vanier out of Mexico, and to collect payment. But he sent 2 partners down to do that, he did not accompany them, as if he knew what was coming. It also looks as if it was CSIS who alerted the Mexican intelligence agency about the Gadaffi escape plot, which Peters may have been aware of. In Ms. Vanier's report, sent to Foreign Affairs, she establishes that in fact NATO and the rebel leaders were committing War Crimes. And there's the cruz of the matter.


Today the Mexican authorities must decide whether to continue to hold her without charge, as their last 40 days was up yesterday. So will Canada allow this woman, whether or not she was part of the plot, to lay waste in a Mexican jail in order to hide the truth?

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