INSANITY

There is a wind of change in the world today the voice of the one percent has started to change it’s tune, for instance one of the main villains in climate denial and architect of many ecologically destructive polices in the world, the International Monetary Funds managing director Christine Lagarde just described climate change as quote “the greatest economic challenge of the 21st century” she also said Quote "unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled”. 
This is not Greenpeace or Al Gore speaking but the head of the International Monetary Fund probably one of the most conservative organizations in the world. 

Then you have Jim Yong Kim new President of the World Bank also urging urgent climate action stating Quote "what are we waiting for? We need to get serious fast. The planet our home can’t wait.” you can add to that list past U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and outgoing U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and the Bretton Woods Institution have all lined up behind the U.S. President to demand climate action.

On the flip side our Conservative Prime Minister Harper sees thing a lot different he ignores a report from the Pembna Institute that says Canada is falling behind the rest of the world in green climate technology and the report estimates that Canada has the potential to build a $60 billion clean tech sector by 2020 and a warning that failure to act could condemn us to an unliveable world.

The Dear Leader Harper has committed Canada’s whole future on the peddling of dirty oil without any thought to the consequences of that path for Canada and Canadians and ultimately the world, the damage to Canada’s environment, the health of it’s people and the majority of Canada’s economy that most of us depend on for our livelihoods, not to mention the dangerous position this action put’s Canada in as far as the rest of the world is concerned, not only that but setting in stone Canada’s direction for at least the next three decades no matter the consequences of this narrow vision. 

Can you envision the rest of the world in the next decade never mind 3 decades cracking down and getting serious about global warming, I can see world boycotts on Canadian products and resources, maybe even sanctions, it is not that hard to see, we are already feeling the heat, our politicians not welcome on the world stage or at the table as far as global warming and our politicians not even welcome at global affairs, we don’t even rate a seat on the U.N. anymore.

Harper doesn’t seem capable or willing to rethink Canada’s direction in light of this reality, I suppose you have to expect that when you elect a provincial government (Alberta) to be a Federal government, sort of like electing the PQ party to be the Federal government of Canada, no doubt a recipe for failure for all of Canada.

DOUBLESPEAK

Poor Mr. Kamp just can’t seem to catch a break he was unable to speak to a reporter without having set approved questions and approval from the Dear Leader and Mr. Kamp or a representative from the Propaganda Ministry were not able to attend information meeting for the same reason and for some reason Mr. Kamp believes that what came out of that meeting was one sided, I happened to be at that meeting and found it quite informative, mind you lacking in a lot of government spin and disinformation. 

Mr. Kamp assures us that Canada’s lakes and rivers are not being eroded in the interest of economics, he assures us that this is simply not the case they are definitely protecting 3 oceans 97 lakes 62 rivers,  well that is a relief, and now each municipality will get to protect their own lakes and rivers from the likes of Gateway and KinderMorgan I wonder how that will turn out when Maple Ridge is threatened with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit from China alleging municipal regulations will cost China billions of dollars in profits. Talk about David and Goliath. 

Mr. Kamp's basic argument is, I know that you believe you understand what you read, but I’m not sure you realize that what you read is not what we mean. 

The simple fact is with the the removal of legally enforceable language and the deliberate fuzzifying of all Canada’s environmental regulations Canada would not have a hope in HELL of winning any legal challenge as pertains to these laws.

Mr. Kamp says quote “ To be frank transportation experts will continue to make navigation decisions and environmental experts will continue to make environmental decisions” ( how they would do that without regulations to back them up is beyond me). Then he does a complete turnaround and Mr. Kamp says quote “ the focus is now, I believe rightly, on protecting habitat for fisheries sake, not protecting habitat for habitat’s sake”. I guess any habitat other than economically viable habitat, it’s every species and river and lake for themselves. 

Apparently economically worthless habitat is not worth protecting to Mr. Kamp and cohorts.

By the way Mr. Kamp the dictionary definition of “ habitat is the natural home or environment of an animal, plant or other organism ", and you and the Dear Leader have just put at least 95 percent of Canada’s habitat in jeopardy. 

― Voltaire

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”

Mythological Money Managers

Can you believe 26 percent of the people of BC would still vote for the BC liberals after all the scams, corruption and squandered  tax dollars, who are these people, well obviously you have the politicians themselves and I would guess their families, you have the corporate fat cats at the trough that could possibly see an end their own personal gravy train and their family's, you have 70,000 chinese guest workers who can not even vote and you have the ultra-rigtwing fanatics who we see in the papers and media every day who would without a doubt not hesitate to vote for Adolph Hitler and the NAZI party if it was the only alternative to the NDP.  

I know the NDP had that Fast Cat thing where they foolishly tried to bring thousands of high paying multiplier jobs to BC, much better to spend even more tax dollars in another country to buy poorly made ferries with no multiplier effect at all. 

Then there is the poor money managers thing, pretty important stuff, to bad it is just not true, it took BC 98 years from 1903 to 2001 this included Conservatives, real Liberals, Social Credit, NDP, to accumulate a $ 33.8 Billion provincial debt it took the BC LIberals 11 years to increase that debt to $51 billion and that is if you do not include the further $80 billion of unfunded P3s which brings the grand total to $131 BILLION which is nearly a whopping 400 percent increase in 11 years. This all happened while at the same time they were liquidating many BC assets for pennies on the dollar such as BC Rail, BC Ferries etc etc . These great money managers watched a convention centre cost ballon almost 200 percent and is still 40 percent vacant, a new roof on BC place that ballooned another 200 percent and to my knowledge has never been opened for an event, you have a broken health care system that I personally have been waiting over a year and a half for an operation you have a Golden Ears bridge that will never be paid for and will not last 25-30 years if that, it already feels like driving on a rutted dirt road, and a new Port Mann bridge that has to be shut down for ice and snow conditions and apparently has a 35 year shelf life. 

Is it any surprise that BC has the second most corrupt construction industry in Canada, second only to Quebec. 

These are just a few examples of the BC Liberals mythological fantastic money managing skills and if it still impresses you I would strongly recommend a brain transplant.

Bottom of the Barrel

We have Conservative MPs like Randy Kamp who slavishly parrot the Dear Leaders talking points and just do as he is told without even knowing or caring what they mean, or that they actually break Canada’s laws or the Charter of rights and freedoms or the serious consequences of his actions and then you have Conservative MPs who do understand the negative consequences of their actions and talk, even rant on about them and then go not only against the Canadian publics wishes but votes against his own conscience. 

I don’t know which is worse the ignorant doppelganger or the enlightened traitor. 

I have to wonder what obscenity it would take for these gutless Conservative quislings to vote non-confidence and not only put himself out of a job but bring down this destructive dictatorship, but at least salvage a bit of righteousness, how can any honourable man recognize the evil he is about to vote for and then still vote against not only his constituents and better judgement but his own conscience, obviously neither have a conscience or any integrity either. 

Neither one deserve the privilege, honour and responsibility that has been bestowed on them by the Canadian people and they are an affront to democracy and will rightfully be recorded in Canadian history as the villains they are.

Dumb Meters

Re: MR Times Jan 29/2013 Installers considered trespassers

Cheryl I wish you all the luck in your fight to refuse a product that you rightly feel is a hazard to you and your children's health and is being installed on your property against your wishes.

The sad part of this whole despicable exercise is that only months AFTER installing thousands of smart meters did BC Hydro think to test those very meters and the truth is that even if you win your gallant fight it will be a classic case of "winning the battle and losing the war" because according to those studies done at Pitt lake this last summer those meters emit non-ionizing radiation and it’s health effects are not really understood at this time, especially as pertains to children and those waves travel at least 2.5 Km and that is a minimum as that was the last time I talked to the researchers and it was still registering on their equipment. 

For those of you that personal security is an issue they were also testing new hi-teck meters capable of even more lines of code, what they would be used for I can only guess, but if you are an activist or person of interest you might want to check that you have the same smart meter as everyone else.

Unfortunately if you win the right not to have a meter, it is sadly a hollow victory, as you personally will not have a smart meter at your home but your home nonetheless will be at the centre of a minimum 5 Km diameter circle of thousands of Non-ionizing radiation emitting smart meters polluting your home with unwanted, possibly deadly radiation.

BULLY

Re: The NEWS January 23/2013 Smart meter denier’s last stand

I think most people reading this would agree that spinach is good for you in spite of the fact that you might not like the taste, well it is good for you but the fact is if you eat enough of it it could kill you as it is loaded with arsenic and can build up in your system and poison you, how much you can take depends on a lot of things your age, weight, individual health problems, you know all the different factors that make every one of us different. 
We are already bombarded with radio-frequency radiation and smart meters emit non-ionizing radiation and it’s health effects are less well understood and every meter transmits for at least 2.5 Km so you are getting the combined radiation from every smart meter in a 5 Km diameter around your house. Why take the risk when they can be wired?
I know this because months after smart meters were being installed BC Hydro finally decided to test them and did so all summer at Pitt lake and I talked to the people doing the testing and at 2.5 Km they were still getting a signal so that 2.5 Km is a conservative estimate and another time I was there and they were testing meters with more lines of code, when I asked what that was for they said use your imagination. I would suggest if you are an advocate or other such s--t disturber you check to see whether you have the same model smart meter as everyone else.

According to the ultra-rights expert on everything corporate Tom Fletcher, anyone who would dare be safe than sorry are all as usual deniers, ignorant, superstitious and angry, tinfoil hat bozos. As usual there is no evidence in his rant just the usual corporate propaganda that we are supposed to swallow without a whimper. 

I guess Health Canada and many of the other countries that have chosen to go with wired smart meters such as Switzerland are part of the tinfoil hat bozos as they also have questions especially about children, but to the likes of Fletcher and his corporate masters they are comfortable with a manageable amount of collateral damage from any of their new better ideas, whats a few children or sensitive people when there is $billions to be made, and in spite of Fletchers denial about claims of increased power usage, I sent away for my power usage for the last three years and my consumption has gone up in spite of the fact that I have replaced several appliances with power smart appliances, but that is just a fact and is of no interest to Tom Fletcher about any issue, facts and science don’t seem to be relevant to the Conservative mindset. 

It is funny that the Ultra-right equate freedom and democracy with being able to own a gun but they think it is fine that corporations have the god-given right to ram any old product down our throats no matter how dangerous or deadly they are, see tobacco, the new lights we were forced to buy, GMO foods, climate change, etc etc, apparently our freedom does not include the right to question or refuse anything the government or a corporation says is best for us.

I think if you asked most of the people that bother to read Tom Fletchers articles they would be of the opinion that it is Tom that wears the tinfoil hat about pretty well everything he writes about, his tired old debunked adherence to trickle down economics, the environment being subordinate to corporate profits, whatever is good for the oil industry is good for Canadians.

Money Trap

Canadians had better wake up to the fact that you will always be outspent by the Kock brothers, Monsanto and any other rich corporate entities that definitely do not have your best interests at heart. For instance in California they just had a referendum on food labelling laws proposition 37 and just one month before the referendum 61 percent were in favour of the legislation but after a $44 million advertising blitz which Monsanto alone pumped $7 million into, support fell to 47 percent and was defeated. 
Tell me how can it be a bad thing to know what you are or aren’t putting into you and your children's body’s, or how about the HST referendum where 91 percent were against the HST and after the government and corporations relentlessly saturated the advertising venues the percentage went down to 54.73 percent, in fact if the vote had of taken place a month later it probably would have been defeated.  Good old fashioned brainwashing, it works, it worked for Hitler and it works for anyone that can afford to play that game, if people see the same thing over and over at some point their mind says if it is said that much it must be true. 

“Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.” ― Gil Courtemanche 

“If you make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it". Adolf Hitler 

Even the American election where Karl Rove and his one percenters pumped billions into the Republican campaign, just one donor anted up $400 million, how can ordinary people compete with that kind of obsession, we have to learn to ignore the BS and stop voting against our best interests, in spite of the propaganda, you might say that it didn’t work for the Republicans but it did guarantee another 4 years of Republican gridlock, so in a way they did get something for their billions, in fact the big money boys got everyone of the seats they pumped billions into except the Presidency.

Steven Harper and Christy Clark also know it works and are spending millions of your tax dollars and the big money off the oil lobby in Alberta on convincing you to vote against your best interests once again, let’s show them Canadians can not be bought.