Obfuscated Thoughtlessness Inversed

"Purely from an environmental perspective, we must look at nuclear energy as a key source of energy in Canada. We know it's clean, it produces zero emissions, [and] it produces no greenhouse gases." - Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources.

Yesterday, our natural resources minister alienated himself from reality.

Apparently, Lunn thinks nuclear energy is an emission free form of energy creation. We know the opposite is true. Over the life-cycle of nuclear waste the long-term consequences to our environment are extremely detrimental. More than that, emissions from construction of plants, storage of waste and decommissioning far outstrip that of other sources of power.

Nuclear is not an option to solve the massive crisis in our world's environment.

Labels: alternatives, anti-war, faith, nuclear waste, online campaign, scary technology

Some posts are long.. others are short.

Tonight, we bring you a reference to a long story in a short form: Denise Savoie doesn't just rock the Literacy; she rocks on.

Education has the potential to increase our capacity exponentially. Let's get on with it and stop acting like the debt creating Liberals and the future hating Conservatives.

I Love my Member of Parliament.

Labels: anti-war, canada, democracy, green isn't just a colour it's an imperative, opinion, personal story

We live in dangerous times, where doing your job as a civilian in the fashion of conscientious objection can lead to personal repercussions for your employer and you.

This scary report on the outcome of answering a request to ship to Iraq with this response:
We would NEVER ship to Iraq. If you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq, highlights how the all-consuming American military machine is reaching into civilian lives and with catastrophic consequences.

The scariest part about this story, is not the fact that a person can be fired for conscientiously objecting to military uses of civilian resources and definitely not the fact that this person saw fit to deny a military serviceman access to supplies. It also isn't that the US Military is so badly supplying their troops that those troops are busy trying to set-up their own supply lines. The scary part is that a group of thugs used their blogs to threaten the owner of the store's life, posted photos of his home and have put his on-line portal out of business.

Although I have not gone so far as to participate in the Boycott of the United States, yet, over their anti-democratic military aggression, I highly support people's right to abstain from participating in the war machine. I am opposed to conscription and support the campaigns to allow desertion and conscientious objection amongst those in the military.

We must stand together to protect those who are vulnerable in our society. Today, we can fight the nasty aggressive incitement to violence with words. Tomorrow, we may have to take more drastic actions... like electing a government that opposes illegal war.

Freedom comes at a price. Any other way would not be so nice.

If you are a currently enlisted person who wants to avoid killing people illegally, and is looking for support, we have a history in the anti-war movement of being able to:
a) get you out of the United States safely,
b) rally support for your conscientious objection, and
c) materially support you in Canada and support you in a refugee claim.

Contact the War Resisters Support Campaign. Need some inspiration? Watch this:



If you are not currently enlisted, take action to support resisters today!

Labels: anti-war, green isn't just a colour it's an imperative, iraq, leftist content creation, online campaign, opinion, tools

This site is still up. Fuckers. I haven't held office as Chairperson for the UVic Students' Society since 2000, but these anti-choicers are still suggesting you e-mail me and tell me how wrong-headed I am.

To top it all off, you guessed it, they are the ones who are wrong.

They lost a democratic vote of the membership to establish the policy, another in 1999 to protect it and apparently it was revisited for the third time recently and the idiots lost again.

The issue was simple. They thought the student society shouldn't have any control over itself and e-mail the The University President's Council to that effect. They also thought policy set by democratic meetings of over 500 people should exempt them for no reason.

Oh how my e-mail box used to whine under the barrage of their incessant insanity.

Happy Pro-Choice Blogging Day everybody!

May the anti-choicers shrivel and die soon... if not here is some Bill Hick's to live by:

"If you're really pro-life, here's what you do. Don't block med clinics. OK? Lock arms, and block cemeteries. Let's see how fucking committed you are to this premise!
'She can't come in.'
'She was 96, she got hit by a bus, what?'
'There's options.'
'What? stuff her? What're you talking about? She's dead!'
'We're pro-life; get her out of that casket! Get her out! We're pro-life, there will be no death!'
...look, a three-month old baby in a woman's belly is not a human being, OK? It's just a congregate of cells. You're not a human being, 'till you're in my phone book." - Bill Hicks

Yay for Roe v. Wade!

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The announcement by the Journal Nature that a part of the brain known as the posterior superior temporal sulcus is responsible for altruistic feelings, makes you think.

Am I too altruistic? Do I have an over-sized sulcus?

Is George W. Bush a warmongering fuckwad because he has the wrong sized brain? Wrongly apportioned? Generally damaged?

The answer might be yes, however there will be no Eugenics on this blog.

George W. Bush is evil because of who holds his purse strings. Capital is the cause of war, not one man's brain function.

I have a large size posterior temporal because I grew up in a place that needed more altruism and community spirit. My education and upbringing grew my brain. I think we all need to get out there and build for collective gain.

And this study definitely doesn't refute that idea, nor am I refuting this study. We likely are extremely complex chemical machines with no choice and a chemical will. But, don't give in to your inner chagrin. Choose the life you want to lead. Lead the change you want to see. Definitely don't worry about your chemicality as we can all be free.

So, help your superior sulcus grow and do right for your community, bro.

Labels: alternatives, anti-war, green isn't just a colour it's an imperative, health