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Tuesday March 25,
2008
Forrest Gump was wrong
Life is like a sandbox - full of scrapping toddlers who'd sooner smash
their own toys than share them
Human
rights, water rights, even the survival of the honey bee, are all
endangered by self-defeating greed - and leaders with very
little going on upstairs.
Human rights
Nasty games continue in the midst of the Israel vs Palestine
so-called peace
talks that we keep hearing about but never from.
It was left to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to state the
obvious. From
the Globe and Mail:
Mr.
Lavrov told reporters that Russia was "very
much worried" about Israeli construction on land the Palestinians claim
for a future state.
Two
weeks ago, Israel announced it would build
more than 1,000 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Givaat
Zeev and in the East Jerusalem settlement neighbourhood of Pisgat Zeev.
Lavrov
seems to have helped Abbas re-locate his vocal chords:
"Security
and peace will not be realized with the
continuation of the settlement activities, the establishment of
roadblocks around cities and villages, the military escalations in the
Gaza Strip and the continuing military operations in the cities and
towns of the West Bank."
Abbas needs
to defy Israel and the US and strike a deal with Hamas if he doesn't
want to be seen as another Dahlan. And if the west believes in
democracy it should leave it to the
Palestinian voters to decide what kind of government they want.
Canada, having lost its moral compass completely, is slavering after
Israel like rutting dogs. The final two paragraphs of the Globe article
contain a cryptic message
for Canadians:
Canadian
Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day was also in Israel,
and signed a declaration with Israeli Minister of Public Security Avi
Dichter in Tel Aviv to enhance co-operation to stop organized crime and
terrorism.
The
two countries agreed yesterday to share information about common
threats, such as border security, illegal immigration and organized
crime. Mr. Day said in a statement the deal is a way for Canada and
Israel to better protect their citizens.
Watch out
for government declarations that contain the obfuscations "enhance",
"cooperate" and "share". Reading between the lines I would have
to say this is about Canada learning how to become as militarized as
Israel the better to enrich the defence industries. Gee, I hope
the US puts us on the same donation list they've got Israel on.
Water rights
It's not hard to figure out why the Canadian government doesn't
want to sign onto the concept that access to water is a basic human
right. After all, what is it that Israel wants in the south
of Lebanon
and what is it supposed to be managing the supply of in Gaza,
but is not.
Besides, Canada wants to sell off its own water rights to the highest
bidder. Makes you wonder if all those warnings about bad stuff in
the water are really intended to make us prefer the bottled
stuff. What, E coli didn't frighten enough people, so now we're
being warned about pharmaceuticals
in the water?
If our water treatment plants can't fix that, then they'd better learn
how because the
folks who pour it into bottles won't likely see any cost
effectiveness in removing the drugs.
They're warning against flushing drugs down the toilet. Since drugs are
excreted in the urine, shouldn't they be telling people not to
pee?
That would save the environment before turning off the lights for a
measly hour will. Especially if during that hour we burn gas
lamps or oil-depleting petroleum candles, which incidentally are also dangerous
to our health.
The honey bee
Of course the people worried about petroleum candles want us to burn
their beeswax candles instead. Which is nice because they smell
like
honey. But what with the
bees disappearing ...
Reader John from Manitoba has sent this
link with the comment:
"What
is
the Canadian government trying to prove. The way they are going the
whole Canadian Agriculture will be ruined with pushing Terminal GMO
technology. No bees no fruits and many other crops."
Upstairs
Our PM is trying to prove Canada
can be a big
player on the international scene and he does that by reading
scripts written for him in the US while thinking about hockey.
yayacanada
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