Saturday 23 May 2015

Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage

Guardian:

Widespread protest and souring public opinion has failed to prevent Canada’s ruling Conservative Party from pushing forward with sweeping anti-terror legislation which a battery of legal scholars, civil liberties groups, opposition politicians and pundits of every persuasion say will replace the country’s healthy democracy with a creeping police state.Prime Minister Stephen Harper is looking forward to an easy victory on Tuesday when the House of Commons votes in its final debate on the bill, known as C-51. But lingering public anger over the legislation suggests that his success in dividing his parliamentary opposition may well work against him when Canadians go to the polls for a national election this fall.No legislation in memory has united such a diverse array of prominent opponents as the proposed legislation, which the Globe and Mail newspaper denounced as a a plan to create a “secret police force”.


Megan Drysdale, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression:

Here are six ways that Bill C-51 could affect your day-to-day life:

Here is our world according to Chris Hedges:

Extraction industries, like wars, empower a predominantly male, predatory population that is engaged in horrific destruction and violence. Wars and extraction industries are designed to extinguish all systems that give life—familial, social, cultural, economic, political and environmental. And they require the obliteration of community and the common good. How else could you get drag line operators in southern West Virginia to rip the tops off Appalachian mountains to get at coal seams as they turn the land they grew up in, and often their ancestors grew up in, into a fetid, toxic wasteland where the air, soil and water will be poisoned for generations? 

Monday 18 May 2015

Federal scientists push for protection from political interference - Globe and Mail




"Government scientists have always been vulnerable to those who hold the reins of power, but tensions have grown under the Conservatives. After the Tories enacted a wave of research program and facility cancellations in 2012, stories began to emerge of researchers who were blocked from responding to media requests about their work." Ivan Semaniuk, Science Reporter, Globe and Mail, May 17, 2015.

Read the complete article here

Monday 11 May 2015

Evil is Live spelled backwards

"I recently listened to an interview featuring psychologist, Andrew Feldmar, on the subject of evil, with Dr. Mia Kalef (my partner).  He reminded me that evil is live spelled backward. Evil is anti-life. Life is exploited to serve ends other than the sheer joy of existence, the love of others, and the beauty of the world. All life, beauty, love become means to a sinister end, which is ultimately death—specifically, the cessation of the life force in others to illustrate one’s dominance by the perpetrator, whether state or individual."  Bruce Sanguin, Home for Evolving Mystics.

A second chance for humanity

 The Biblical story of Adam and Eve has been used to support male dominance over female.  Eve is the temptress who is curious even though &q...