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Norberto rodriguez de la vega: Reporting from the IDLE NO MORE event today, January 5, at Osoyoos Border, from 1 to 2 pm.  About 100 people, mainly First Nations from South Okanaga, from small children to several Elders and Chiefs. Many drums, and a bit of snow as you can see. Moving ceremony.

Among countless issues raging around the coast, this new proposal to install tidal turbines in Blackney Pass near at the entrance to Johnstone Strait in Orca habitat is particularly bothersome.

The Common Sense Canadian has prepared a letter and the addresses for you to copy and paste to send in a comment on the (non-existent, but required by law) Environmental Assessment on the Canadian-China FIPPA. Go HERE and copy and paste - it only took me about 3 minutes, and 2 of those were time-outs for indignation!

One minute of your time MIGHT save our country!

To: EAconsultationsEE@international.gc.ca

Dear Sir/Madam,

 This Trade Treaty is a disaster and must be stopped! It must be stopped because of all of the negative impacts on OUR environment and every other aspect of OUR Canadian way of life.

In your "Initial Assessment" of this Treaty you say three things which are highly distressing. Myself and many others are wondering if you had your glasses on when reading this Treaty? They are: 

According To A Government Of Canada Website ...

 Chomsky is always so good...

 http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11956-noam-chomsky-issues-that-obama-and-romney-avoid

I like his line on their response for environmental disaster :   " So there are differences between the parties: about how enthusiastically the lemmings should march toward the cliff. "

 --norberto rodriguez de la vega

There are mornings when one almost wishes that one didn’t have to wake up, or didn’t have the brain to understand the daily news. This is one of them.

Arctic Ice melts while Shell gets ok to drill for MORE fossil fuels in the Arctic. OK.

The ending of this beautiful rant by Phil Rockstroh,  After The Fireworks Have Faded: Intimations of Bosons Among a Cacophony of Bozos, concerns the value of working within the system of madness we inhabit, and I won't give it away - but here's a taste:

So the head of Elections Canada, William Corbett, resigns (not from any political reason, apparently) and Canadian Press speculates that his successor might not be "as aggressive as Corbett in pursuing alleged wrongdoing..." Now let's see.

It gets so tiring -- the endless victory of war propaganda against common sense -- pour zillions of dollars in arms into a country, fake some pictures of babies being killed (or as in the case of one of the World Wars, nuns being raped), and voila - a free for all for arms corporations, carpet baggers, and all who profit from the chaos of the breakdown of government. It is happening again in Syria -- but after Iraq 1 and 2, and Libya, and Afghanistan, who can be anything but weary of the gullibility and evil of it all?  Read the case on Houla here: