Thursday, September 13, 2007

business as usual

Today the United Nations adopted a landmark decision outlining the rights of the worlds estimated 370 million indigenous people and outlawing crimes against them.....
however there was 4 votes against the declaration those votes coming from Canada, US, New Zealand, and Australia.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0709/S00333.htm


those complete bastards. each 1 of these 4 countries have huge aboriginal populations in their "borders" who are fighting for their survival. an easy easy step in helping stop the destruction of these cultures, traditions and the people and also a step that would help us get our own cultures, tradition and lives back on more of a smoother track would have been to vote YES.

not surprising for countries who are currently on the other side of the planet completely outright destroying more cultures, traditions and peoples with very brutal means. then these countries (and their media who are the real culprits) find certain stories in which they can "sensationalize" to try to make us all feel good about ourselves even though we have completely completely destroyed another country.


link and story taken from the boys to the north in PROPAGANDHI
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/09/12/youssif.arrives/index.html

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Naomi Klein and Montreal

so i just came back from seeing naomi klein speak here at concordia university in montreal.

the talk was on her new book entitled "the shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism"

heres a little re-cap:

in the early 90s you had new market capitalism, in the late 90s we had the dot com markets/capitalism, and in now days we have a new form of capitalism which is rightfully named disaster capitalism. capitalism which feeds and gets its life off of disasters. hurricanes, tsunami's, floods, wars and in the same family terror attacks.

it was pointed out as well that the dot com'ers of the 90s at the time were there to give us our freedom, help give us more access to things and expand our technological world. now in the current climate these tech industries have switched gears and instead of giving us things as such have now turned into a sort of security apparatus, surveillance system.

another thing ms klein pointed out and which i found very interesting was that in the early 50s there were experiments conducted right here in montreal at mcgill university in which "scientists"/"psychologists" tried to erase peoples minds through electro shock treatment, drugs and many other forms of mind bending techniques. all these experiments and their outcomes would actually be all layed out in CIA manuals on torture and eventually used in the past/present/and future. these torture techniques all started here in montreal.

it was a really good talk and it was amazing to be in a huge room which was sold out with like minded individuals.

montreal is seriously an amazing amazing city. the culture here and the people are beyond. the moment i drove up my street to my new house i could tell this was going to be an exciting chapter in my life. i could tell that evening from the energy on the streets and the energy in the air that this would be a fun fun ride.

ive only been here for a little over a week but i can see so many different things that i you wouldnt see at all south of the border or things that just happen differently.
so many examples. yes i am new so im sure living here for a couple years these things wont stick out as much but at the moment they do.
there are a couple free vegan lunches/ dinners that happen daily here in the city. free!! of course they do ask for a donation.
every sunday there is a HUGE (i mean HUGE) gathering at the mont royal park where people gather to spend the day in the sun, dance, play music, drum circles, smoke some refer, drink some beers and just relax. i went this past sunday and there were probably around 5000 people.