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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Canadian Way (to quietly become fascist)
The Canadian
Way (to quietly become fascist)
Stephen
Harper seems to have us all hog tied and ready for market. Yes, we’ll all be lined up and accounted for
to accommodate the signing of the free trade agreements and the sell-off of our
natural resources. The legalities will all be in place to silence Canadian
scientists, environmental agencies and First Nations objections.
Harper will
have most trouble, I think, with the more traditional First Nations. I believe this is why Stephen Harper has
recently attacked seven major Canadian environmental groups with government
“investigations.” The leaders of the
environmental groups can’t, or won’t, discuss matters pertaining to these
“investigations”. If the investigations
are drawn out, then they could last until pipes (Kinder Morgan, Enbridge) are
in the ground in BC. Which of course
would be too late for the environmental groups to be of much assistance in
rallying around First Nations who have already been doing most of the heavy
lifting in protesting the pipelines and the traffic. So if our scientists and environmental groups
are silenced with threats and threats of threats, who’s left to assist First
Nations if needed? Individual activists?
Harper’s got
that covered, too, with his new Citizenship laws. At least this law would affect activists like
me who hold dual citizenship (US-Canadian).
Of course the law reads that one would have to be guilty of “terrorism”
to be stripped of one’s Canadian citizenship.
But who defines these days what “terrorism” means? The government in
charge, of course, both at home and abroad.
I have already been compared by the Crown of BC to violent pedophiles
who reoffend because I often practice civil disobedience in defense of BC
forests. In the Eagleridge Bluffs
aftermath the crown submitted to the court suggestions that I be sentenced as a
incurable repeat offender. And even if
citizenship matters do come under the head of immigration instead of the
Supreme Courts of Canada we all know that immigration is not independent of the
Harper government.
I believe
Stephen Harper intends to cram pipelines down our throats, with the Christy
Clark provincial government steering the destruction, of course, with both the
major Kinder Morgan and Enbridge pipelines along with Keystone XL ( I believe Obama
is going to approve this) through Alberta and Saskatchewan. With environmental groups and environmental
scientists silenced, and people like me softened on the side lines, Harper
thinks in the long run he can just buy off First Nations or bully them into
submission. Well, I don’t know about
that.
It is becoming clearer that both the US and
Canada are quietly becoming quasi-fascists.
How can this happen in democratic countries where the Jewish Lobby
wields so much influence in both countries?
I believe patriarchal religions cloud the mind and wipes out the concept
of citizenship. For instance, Stephen
Harper took an enormous delegation of rabbis and other influential Jewish
people with him as well as cynical politicians when he visited Israel recently,
thus positing Canada solidly in the Jewish camp.
However, Stephen Harper is also presently
acting as the bad cop for the Obama administration in trying to present Russia
as a demonic threat for giving the people in Crimea a choice of their future (which
they have just taken advantage of by voting to join Russia) while the US is
busy supporting and engineering the pro-fascist government in the Ukraine. According to some news reports, already many
Jews are leaving the Ukraine because of the swastika signs painted on their
synagogues and threats of violence to their persons. Israel is certainly aware of these neo-Nazis
in the new Ukraine government but raises no objections. Netanyahu’s hatred of
Syria and Iran is so overwhelming it evidently tops any worry about the rise of
fascism in the Ukraine, or anywhere else.
Stephan
Harper’s fervent support for Israel no matter what they do is not just a favor
to the Jewish lobby in my opinion, but religion based. Harper believes literally in the Bible which
is why he can’t tolerate scientists. And
the Bible suggests that Israel must be in a fiery conflagration before
Armageddon can happen and Jesus can come again.
In my opinion, we are living in a country where political decisions are
being made to facilitate the necrophiliac religious fantasies of our leader and
forwarding the specter of an all-out third world war. So we have this situation where our prime
minister clings to Israel no matter what that government does, while abetting
and abating the rise of fascism in the Ukraine. With his particular mind set and religious
beliefs, tearing up Canadian earth, water and air with pipe lines, fracking,
and tanker traffic from tar sands does not present a contradiction for Stephen
Harper. It’s all good.
But it isn’t
all good. We, as citizens know it isn’t all good. Or even partially good. And we have to ask ourselves…what is the duty
of citizens when our governments become incapable of choosing between right and
wrong? Do we abdicate our responsibility
as citizens? Or do we resist?
Monday, February 24, 2014
Berkeley, Frogs and Declining Sperm Count
Berkeley, Frogs, and Declining Sperm
Count
From the University of California,
Berkeley, have come many break through scientific discoveries , both in the so-called
hard sciences (physics, chemistry, biology) and in soft sciences such as
anthropology and psychology. I’ve long
held UC Berkeley, in the highest esteem, particularly their anthropology
departments. Why? Because this department
uses hard science methods (carefully controlled experiments) in the so called
soft sciences while testing their own thesis.
But the latest bomb shell to come out of UC, Berkeley is all hard
science. And it is as scary as
hell.
What could be scarier than hell? The road to getting there. Can you imagine a world where most of the
males in the world, both human and non-human, are sterile and suffering from reproductive deformities of
all sorts? Where the biology of men is so confused they began
to grow eggs instead of sperm? Where
women can no longer nurse even when they have men whose sperm is viable enough
to fertilize their eggs because their breasts are cancer ridden? Enter Dr. Tyrone Hayes, professor of
integrative biology at UC, Berkeley. (Democracy Now 2/21/2013):
“Well, here at Berkeley
I was already studying the effects of hormones and the effects of chemicals
that interfere with hormones on amphibian development. And I was approached by the manufacturer (later to become Syngenta) and asked to study
the effects of atrazine, the herbicide, on frogs. And I discovered that it interfered with male
development and caused males to turn into females, to develop eggs, the company
tried to prevent me from publishing and discussing that work with other
scientists outside of their panel.”
Of course Syngenta would try almost
anything to shut Dr. Hayes up. Syngenta
is used on more than half the corn crops in the US and widely used on golf
courses and Christmas tree farms (Democracy Now). It is a highly lucrative business. But what does the use of Syngenta on corn
that is already genetically modified (I understand most corn in Canada and the
US is now genetically modified) mean?
And that the corn syrup from this chemical soup is now in most packaged
or bottled or canned food we eat or drink? God/goddess, have mercy on us! Even China has recently refused 60,000 tons
of corn imports which contained unapproved transgenic contents (China Daily
2013-11-30). Back to Dr. Hayes on
Democracy Now when questioned by Amy Goodman:
“What
were the abnormalities you found in frogs, the gender-bending nature of the
drug atrazine?”
Dr. Hayes: “Well, initially we found
that the larynx, or the voice box, in exposed males didn’t grow properly. And this was an indication that the male
hormone testosterone was not being produced at appropriate levels. And eventually we found that not only were
these males demasculinized, or chemically castrated, but they were also
starting to develop ovaries or starting to develop eggs. And eventually we discovered that these males
didn’t breed properly, that some of the males actually completely turned into
females…”
One could reply, but Dr. Hayes, your experiments
were just on frogs. People aren’t frogs,
right? But Dr. Hayes went on to say:
“But I’ve just
published a paper with 22 scientists from around the world, from 12 different
countries, who have shown that atrazine causes sexual problems in mammals, that
atrazine causes sexual problems in birds, amphibians, fish. So it’s not just my work in amphibians.”
In mammals? That’s us.
We are governed by the same sex hormones as all of the above. But what has happened to Dr. Hayes who
published these findings in the most prestigious science journals? Harassment.
Threats. Attempts to discredit
him. And the position of his
university? The University of California
at Berkeley? Did they take up for Dr. Hayes?
They did not. When he went to his vice chancellor for research for help
and then to the university lawyer he was told:
“Well,
I represent the university, and I protect the university from liability. You’re kind of on your own.” And I (Dr. HAYES) remember I looked at him
and I said: ‘But the very university, from the Latin universitas, is a
collection of scholars and students, so who is this entity, the university,
that you represent that doesn’t include
me?”
Good question, Dr. Hayes. Who indeed?
The universities in Canada and the US seem to no longer even represent
the people studying and teaching in them, much less the general population who
pays for the universities.
But universities are now also being
supported by pharmaceuticals who use their contributions as tax write-offs
while giving them a great say in what will be researched and how it will be
researched. And if they don’t like the
result of a particular research they can make a whistle blower like Dr. Hayes
as miserable as possible. And in the meantime,
young and old and in vitro, continue to be exposed to the gender bending drug
atrazine produced by Syngenta. Shall we
passively consume these murderous chemicals or shall we start thinking
seriously of revolt?
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