Saturday, August 4, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
I am (not Steven Harper's) Canadian
In March 2011, a petition to the Government of Canada was initiated in response to a directive that "reference to 'Government of Canada' should be replaced by 'Harper Government' in federal communications"; the petition was worded as follows:
We, the undersigned, call on the Government of Canada to cease official reference to itself as the "Harper Government".
This is not just Stephen Harper's government. It is the government of the Canadian people.
Our country is not Stephen Harper's Canada. It is a democratic Canada.
I am not Stephen Harper's Canadian. I am Canadian.
We demand that all official references to the Canadian government continue to use "Government of Canada". Any official reference to "Harper Government" should be immediately ceased.
As the petition was initiated by Canadian citizens and signed by over 19,000 of them it was, of course, ignored.
Personally, I have been happy to refer to "the harper government" in my writing as it points out the illegitimacy of the group of arrogant ideologues that has usurped the constitutional authority for the governance of our country.
Also, as there is apparently no "Government of Canada" at the present time, any efforts to wrest power from this group could not be construed to be insurrection against a legitimate Government. In the event of a revolution this vacuum should legally void any counter efforts aimed to quell such revolution.
Perhaps this abdication by the Government of Canada provides an opportunity to reclaim what used to be our country before it is taken over by the United States of America with the collusion of the government of harper.
We, the undersigned, call on the Government of Canada to cease official reference to itself as the "Harper Government".
This is not just Stephen Harper's government. It is the government of the Canadian people.
Our country is not Stephen Harper's Canada. It is a democratic Canada.
I am not Stephen Harper's Canadian. I am Canadian.
We demand that all official references to the Canadian government continue to use "Government of Canada". Any official reference to "Harper Government" should be immediately ceased.
As the petition was initiated by Canadian citizens and signed by over 19,000 of them it was, of course, ignored.
Personally, I have been happy to refer to "the harper government" in my writing as it points out the illegitimacy of the group of arrogant ideologues that has usurped the constitutional authority for the governance of our country.
Also, as there is apparently no "Government of Canada" at the present time, any efforts to wrest power from this group could not be construed to be insurrection against a legitimate Government. In the event of a revolution this vacuum should legally void any counter efforts aimed to quell such revolution.
Perhaps this abdication by the Government of Canada provides an opportunity to reclaim what used to be our country before it is taken over by the United States of America with the collusion of the government of harper.
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Sunday, July 8, 2012
The Biochar Solution
I have just finished reading "The Biochar Solution" - Albert Bates (2010)
Although biochar represents only one piece of a solution to one of a large number of future crises, this is still the most hopeful book I have read about the survival of the human species in a couple of years. The problem of course, is that for any small step in the right direction to be taken, a majority of people all over the world would have to accept the scientific evidence of the plethora of looming crises (virtually undisputed within the scientific community) and then convince their 'leaders' that something should be done — we are a very long way from clearing either of these hurdles at the moment.
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Although biochar represents only one piece of a solution to one of a large number of future crises, this is still the most hopeful book I have read about the survival of the human species in a couple of years. The problem of course, is that for any small step in the right direction to be taken, a majority of people all over the world would have to accept the scientific evidence of the plethora of looming crises (virtually undisputed within the scientific community) and then convince their 'leaders' that something should be done — we are a very long way from clearing either of these hurdles at the moment.
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Gone forever, Lonesome George dies
Lonesome George, the last remaining tortoise of his kind and a conservation icon, died on Sunday of unknown causes, the Galapagos National Park said.
George was believed to be around 100 years old and the last member of a species of giant tortoise from La Pinta, one of the smallest islands in the Galapagos. Tortoises were hunted for their meat by sailors and fishermen to the point of extinction, while their habitat has been eaten away by goats introduced from the mainland.
Take plenty of pictures of your grandchildren and great grandchildren now, there will nobody to record the last of their species when the time comes.
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Friday, June 8, 2012
Standing in the Circle of the Cedar
Please watch and listen to this beautiful and poignant plea to save the BC coast from the greed of Big Oil and the complicity of "our" government.
The thought, talent and emotion embodied in this work should cause every thinking person to reject the kind of false imperatives that would put the beauty of the world around us at grave risk in order to enrich those who are already mired beyond redemption in materialism.
If you feel even a little like I do, please vote for this song.
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The thought, talent and emotion embodied in this work should cause every thinking person to reject the kind of false imperatives that would put the beauty of the world around us at grave risk in order to enrich those who are already mired beyond redemption in materialism.
If you feel even a little like I do, please vote for this song.
MY WEBSITE — ANewHumanity.CA
FACEBOOK PAGE
Send me an eMail message to: jfdunbar@shaw.ca
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Monday, June 4, 2012
A Repost of an Article by Kevin Grandia
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Mordor found in Northern Alberta (via Desmogblog)
Following up on an article I wrote last week for Huffington Post Canada, a commenter suggested that the Alberta tar sands looked like a real-life version of Mordor, the home of the evil Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. I agree. So does that make Stephen Harper Gollum? (click to enlarge…
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