Maybe what my greatest mistake has ever been Is allowing my ideology to become my identity I have been doing this recently And I'm sure most of you can relate I have allowed myself to Get Down And as funky as that sounds It does me no good
For my wishes to see this world become peaceful Have been selfish And I have fooled myself into believing I am part of a war A War for Peace A pretty hilarious idea if you ask me
Revolutions come and go A constant state of evolution And no one idea is ever the truth But a sand castle at low tide
We have been conditioned and have conditioned ourselves to believe that we cannot trust one another, that we must close doors instead of opening them. This is simply not true. We are not alone. None of us are alone. I believe that deep within every human being is love, cloaked and at times persecuted, but it is there and it is not a weakness. It is your very survival.
There is always hope, and it does not come in the form of victory. It comes in the form of beingness, and happiness. It is the realization that our world is just a dream, and we can change it anytime we want to.
This is not something that anyone of us can cultivate out of one another. We can only demonstrate it. We can only embody it. We must live as we want to see the world. Only then will those people so crippled by their fear see the wisdom in abandoning it.
Walk through fire Open your doors Have no fear Embrace love And your oppressors will never defeat you
Money as Debt I've posted this before, and I'll probably post it again. This will probably go down as one of the most important videos ever made in the 21st century. Watch it before it gets banned!! (Already banned from Google video)
Resonators, South and East London, UK Not really sure where to find an album of their stuff, but if any of you know where I could get one please please please goddammit please let me know. I think they're a fairly new band.
Here's the thing... I have no idea what the fuck is going on. I don't know if I'll ever know what the fuck is going on. All I know is that there were almost sixty thousand Canadian jobs lost in the month of March, bringing the total to over three hundred and thirty thousand since October. The United States lost over six hundred and sixty thousand jobs in this month alone. Our dollar is falling and millions of people are suffering.
Maybe this really is a mild spell. I don't have all the facts, but I can be absolutely positive that those in charge don't either, or at least they are withholding. On one side we have, "We'll be fine. This will all be over in a month or two. This is not a depression." And the other side feels the need to use the word apocalypse.
Two extremist point of views, one that pacifies and one that gives us ulcers. I admit, I have been indulging in the latter, and definitely not at the benefit of my personal health. In fact, I think I'm losing sleep over it (and apparently so is our PM).
To panic and riot over this right now is absolutely idiotic. But we CANNOT let this slip by without fully understanding the reasons why it happened in the first place. This recession/depression/collapse/apocalypse is the byproduct of a system that is designed to make the wealthy more wealthy and enslave billions of third world citizens for profit. Right now, our finance ministers and bank CEO's and our government is attempting to play down the real reasons for this depression, as if it is simply just "The Way Things Are". Millions are suffering now, and billions will continue to be enslaved and in poverty if we do not change.
Jim Flaherty, you are a bastard. You are attempting to placate all of us with lies during a crisis that needs immediate attention and a complete reevaluation of our system as a whole. Denying this will not assuage mass panic as you assume, we already have the facts and most of us are not as dumb as you think we are. Your actions in these times only goes to show that you do not have the interests of the Canadian people in mind, and that you do not give a flying fuck about any of us. But the saddest thing of all of this, is that you will probably never understand the wrong that you do.
Yet another economist explaining the gravity of our global economic collapse, and also how America will actually do better than most of the countries in the world, including Canada.
The Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, decided in the end to grant Harper his Prorogue Government, and Parliament is suspended until such time as to veto the Coalition's attempt to be instated.
I suppose this decision was made in the interest of democracy, but this entire debacle must not be taken lightly. Our government is a farce. A brawling mob of goddamn Disney Characters (look at Dion and tell me he doesn't look like one of those mice from Cinderella). That bastard Harper has NO IDEA of what he's doing. And resorting to this partisan political sand-kicking in the middle of a fucking depression makes it even clearer that we have no honorable leaders in the House of Commons.
I'm very happy that I don't own a TV because I therefore don't watch any commercials, but I do feel left behind sometimes because I am reading outdated knowledge. So, essentially what I'm saying is, if any of this information is old news I apologize. And please if you wouldn't mind, help me get back up to date with your sources. :)
I'd like to write down a transcript of certain pieces of this very important video I've found.
"Canada was originally a British Colony, and unlike the United States, decided against violent uprising as a method to gain independence and instead tried asking politely. The result, while much less bloody than the American Revolution, has been a significantly slower path to sovereignty, and even today we still have not fully escaped the pretense that we are ruled by the Queen of England. Contrary to popular belief, the Executive Head of the Canadian Government is not the Prime Minister, but the Governor General, a representative of the Queen of England that resides in Canada and holds reserve power over Parliament. The Governor General is appointed by the Prime Minister and essentially acts as a rubber stamp. The Prime Minister is the leader of the House of Commons, the primary component of Parliament. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body of three hundred and eight seats, each of which representing a riding of approximately one hundred thousand people."
"Elections can have two outcomes: One is a majority government where a single party wins more seats than any other combined and can do whatever it wants for as long as it wants to. The other outcome is a minority government, where the other parties outnumber the leading party, and the leading party does nothing because it is too afraid that the other parties will call a No Confidence Vote and force another election. A majority government is almost impossible to get, and as a result, a whole lot of Nothing gets done. No party will sacrifice itself for its ideals, and the problem is only going to get worse, as more extremist parties surface to capitalize on minority vote."
"Canada's most recent election was in October, where the massive self interest and vote splitting of each riding caused Canada to go from a Conservative Minority Government lead by Stephen Harper, to a Conservative Minority Government lead by Stephen Harper."
"Six weeks later, the US is having an economic meltdown and Harper has another six weeks of doing nothing to add to the two years of doing nothing that he has already accumulated. Then, Harper releases his economic plan. Seeing that the plan was not completely identical to the American plan, by including billions of dollars we do not have in bailouts to the floundering Canadian companies, the opposing parties of the Liberals, still lead by Stephan Dion, and the NDP, lead by Jack Layton, formed an alliance to try to usurp the Conservatives by beating them in a No Confidence Vote. They appealed to the Governor General to use her reserve powers to instate them as the new government without going to an election. Unfortunately, since the Liberal and NDP seats combined do not outnumber the Conservatives, they must also have the support of the Bloc Quebecois. But since every English speaking Canadian despises the Bloc Quebecois, they are not actually in an official alliance with the Bloc Quebecois. They just have formed an agreement in which they would agree with each other on everything and support each others interests. Oh, and the Bloc Quebecois would have veto powers..."
"Stephen Harper, on the other hand, is petitioning the Governor General to delay Parliament long enough to avoid the No Confidence Vote that would force him to resign. So now, the fate of Canada's government comes down to the decision of our Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, a woman appointed without vote to a ceremonial position to represent the interests of another ceremonial position by a Prime Minister (Paul Martin) that was voted out of Parliament three years ago. It is now up to her whether to ignore the voice of the majority by allowing Harper to retain leadership, ignore the election results by thrusting a makeshift minority coalition into power, or send Canada back to the ballot box to vote again. Regardless of her decision, I am incredibly pissed off, because it means that the election we just had was completely pointless."
Here's the video if you'd like to hear the entire video.
Also, if you don't feel like reading all of that, lets let Rex Murphy put it in his words
I suppose it's not surprising why many Canadians spend more of their water cooler hours talking about American Politics than the politics of their own country. Occationally, I'm more than embarrassed to even admit that this is my government. I'd rather complain about America because it feels like a movie, and I can bitch and moan about the state of the world but never do anything about it because it isn't my country's fault.
Canadians! We have DISASTER in our government! We have a very significant breach of our democracy taking place, and many Canadians don't even give a shit. If Michaëlle Jean chooses to instate the Coalition without an election, what other breaches of democratic contract will Canadians face in the future? Well, those breaches probably won't be cracked by a Canadian force at all. While our "politicians" squabble with each other instead of fucking DOING something, other more decisive leaders will move right in and attempt to stabilize things in their favor. And with priggish fucking douche bag Stephen Harper in the seat, we might as well just stand in line and get our chip installed right now. Our Prime Minister has no plan, no clues, no idea of what he's even doing as Prime Minister. All he's doing is biding time.
Again, I apologize if I'm behind the times, I don't have a TV. I am in the dark, as you probably are, waiting for a sign that some competent leader is going to show us a way out. I know this is probably old news, but I haven't heard anything recently about this Coalition, and I'm checking my sources daily. When do we vote? Will we vote? If you have any info on this, please let me know.
Also, please keep this in mind: these political leaders are not magical, they won't solve any of the problems that need to be solved right now, and the system they are a part of prevents any of them from doing the right thing. We are free. We must keep it that way. We Canadians must take back the House of Commons.
