And the First Nations Shall Lead Them

 

Most Canadian aboriginal psychological and social problems were created, very intentionally, by Ottawa, with the enthusiastic, expert help of the Catholic Church, and others as abusive. Originally, politicians, or the Crown, believed that aboriginals would just die out on their own and were thus a temporary problem. When they didn't, the system of abuse centres called Residential Schools was built to obliterate their families, society, culture, and language. 

But instead of crushing them, this may have hardened their spirits into flawless diamond. 

Idle No More.

Harper the Bully has Brought Shame Upon Canada, Repeatedly

Stephen Harper is as bad at being human as he is as an economist. He was told he should consider a different career when he was in school. His daddy's connections got him trained despite these deficiencies. He's delusional thinking he had anything to do with Canada's relatively fortunate state. Years of prudent legislation, tradition, and enforced regulation, protected us despite his neoliberal neoconservativism. So, in his world, of course they have to go.

He's done nothing but tear down the things that kept us out out of the financial mess as well as being, renowned for peacekeeping. Canada was just too reasonable, too boring, to attractive to outsiders, for him.

He wants us to be like America, where a giant sinkhole is eating a state, nuts want teachers to pack assault rifles, they elected his hero Bush twice, and their economy was the epicentre of the corruption and gambling quake that shook the world.

We're doing far to well in his eyes. Too many people think this is one of the world's best places to live. A place we could all be proud of, not just a few fanatics.

Until the Hypocrite gained his precious majority, the one to rule them all and in the darkness bind them.

He is openly disdainful of the idea for a participatory democracy as evidenced by the way he treats parliament, as a speed bump for omnibuses. But he fears the voter as evidence by the Robocalls affair. He does everything he can to confuse and mislead voters so that they think that they have no true voice in the system. He knows that he is getting less than half the votes of the less than half who bother to vote. Harper the Hypocrite knows that, if we'd get off our collective asses, stop complaining and take a short portion of one day to pick the people who decide our collective fate, it is a numerical certainty that he would loose. That's why he relies on the politics of division, just like any predator, or bully (bullies are intentional about it and thus evil), picking on the weakest aws visciously. Truth and facts are irrelevant. He doesn't grasp the concept of diplomancy, just buisness negotyioations.

And we all know that with his economics history, he's out to prove that he's as good as his delusions. He is easily manipulated by real diplomats and real intellects. Moreover, he fears intellects becuae they can prove him wrong.

He's lead bully in a party of bullies treating our country like their high-school.

Is it any wonder so many of his attempts to attack our rights and fredoms have been challenged successfully and struck down by the courts.

Thank god there are still some adults left in charge.

China Leads the Attack on the Internet

The following is a re-posting from Avaaz.org . One of many important petitions that they are sponsoring.

Wow -- the global attack on the free Internet just got a lot worse. A secret UN meeting has approved a new system that will make it way easier for governments and corporations to spy on everything we do online -- and right now in Dubai, they are trying to expand their censorship powers even further. We’ve got only 7 days left to stop them.

What we know about the new regime -- authored by China (yes, one of the worse enemies of a free Internet!), adopted behind closed doors, and still secret -- is that it basically tells Internet companies to use uniform technologies that dramatically increase governments’ ability to monitor our emails, Facebook and Skype calls, wherever we are. We need to stop this now -- and we can! -- by using the same massive public opposition has stopped attacks on the Internet before.

But we’re going to need hundreds and thousands of us to win this battle, and the meeting ends next week -- so sign the petition now and share this with all your friends. When we reach 500,000, let’s take this message to the desert of Dubai to end this madness.

sign the petition

To the ITU and all nations meeting at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai:

As citizens of the world and Internet users, we call on you to reject any changes to current Internet regulations that would weaken or alter the free and open nature of the Internet, or give any government or body the ability to infringe on Internet users’ rights to free speech, free access to information or privacy. We also demand that any proposed changes to current international Internet regulations be publicly debated, and subject to citizen input and approval.