The Boys
10.01.07 (1:02 pm) [edit]
Crucify the janitor
09.11.07 (11:33 pm) [edit]
Steady the hand, rearrange my fingers, make it look human again. Fingers all mashed around, distorted. I hold it up to the mirror. It looks like a deformed potato. It's impossible. Pull fingers back where they should. They snap like popcorn. Then it falls apart. Someone sliced into it two large pieces when I was distracted. I can only piece it back together and hope it'll heal.
I wander in a building that resembles a University, a mall, a train station. No bandages. No stitches. Only hope. I wander through a sea of cattle. Using cellphones. We all wander aimlessly through corridors, looking for fulfillment behind unmarked doors. I'm not bleeding. Let us pray.
Our father, who art a janitor,
Hallowed be thy mess.
Thy Kingdom scorched.
Thy will ignored,
On TV as it is in Movies.
Take from us our daily bribe,
And ignore our trespasses,
As we execute those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into tolerance,
But deliver us from kindness.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the perversity,
and the gluttony,
for ever and ever.
Adam.
Hallowed be thy mess.
Thy Kingdom scorched.
Thy will ignored,
On TV as it is in Movies.
Take from us our daily bribe,
And ignore our trespasses,
As we execute those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into tolerance,
But deliver us from kindness.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the perversity,
and the gluttony,
for ever and ever.
Adam.
NAFTA with Guns -- and, effectively, annexation(articles-ty Matt)
08.07.07 (9:27 am) [edit]
You won't find much of this in popular news media....
My guess is that the conservative Harper is in collusion with Bush.
Since Canada is abundantly rich with natural resources (and some of the most coveted being fresh water and oil), this is Bush's way of dipping his hand into our candy jar, so to speak.
http://www.stopspp.ca/" title="http://www.stopspp.ca/" target="_blank"http://www.stopspp.ca/
U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet in Montebello, Quebec in August 2007 to advance a "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) or 'NAFTA with guns' -- a North American pact that will increase economic and military harmonization between all three countries.
The talks are closed to the public. Yet, the North American Competitiveness Council made up of 30 CEOs from large corporations (10 from Canada) will have exclusive influence on these "free-trade plus security" agreements that will further de-regulate trade, give up Canada's control of its water, gas and oil, and more deeply integrate security and the military with the U.S. All of this will be done through agreements that by-pass the elected government and exclude civil society.
More info:
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/" title="http://www.acp-cpa.ca/" target="_blank"http://www.acp-cpa.ca/
http://www.canadians.org/" title="http://www.canadians.org/" target="_blank"http://www.canadians.org/
RCMP, U.S. Army block public forum on the Security and Prosperity
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10:08pm Wednesday, Jul 18
The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.
The Municipality of Papineauville, which is about six kilometres from Montebello, has informed the Council of Canadians that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19, on the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit.
“It is deplorable that we are being prevented from bringing together a panel of writers, academics and parliamentarians to share their concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canadians,” said Brent Patterson, director of organizing with the Council of Canadians. “Meanwhile, six kilometres away, corporate leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada will have unimpeded access to our political leaders.”
As well as being shut out of Papineauville, the Council of Canadians has been told that the RCMP and the SQ will be enforcing a 25-kilometre security perimeter around the Chateau Montebello, where Stephen Harper will meet with George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón on August 20 and 21. According to officials in Montebello, there will be checkpoints at Thurso and Hawkesbury, and vehicles carrying more than five people will be turned back.
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. The organization works to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, safe food, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
For more information, contact:
Stuart Trew, media contact: Tel.: (613) 233-4487, ext. 228; Cell: (613) 292-2218; strew@canadians.org.
My guess is that the conservative Harper is in collusion with Bush.
Since Canada is abundantly rich with natural resources (and some of the most coveted being fresh water and oil), this is Bush's way of dipping his hand into our candy jar, so to speak.
http://www.stopspp.ca/" title="http://www.stopspp.ca/" target="_blank"http://www.stopspp.ca/
U.S. President George W. Bush, Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet in Montebello, Quebec in August 2007 to advance a "Security and Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) or 'NAFTA with guns' -- a North American pact that will increase economic and military harmonization between all three countries.
The talks are closed to the public. Yet, the North American Competitiveness Council made up of 30 CEOs from large corporations (10 from Canada) will have exclusive influence on these "free-trade plus security" agreements that will further de-regulate trade, give up Canada's control of its water, gas and oil, and more deeply integrate security and the military with the U.S. All of this will be done through agreements that by-pass the elected government and exclude civil society.
More info:
http://www.acp-cpa.ca/" title="http://www.acp-cpa.ca/" target="_blank"http://www.acp-cpa.ca/
http://www.canadians.org/" title="http://www.canadians.org/" target="_blank"http://www.canadians.org/
RCMP, U.S. Army block public forum on the Security and Prosperity
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10:08pm Wednesday, Jul 18
The Council of Canadians has been told it will not be allowed to rent a municipal community centre for a public forum it had planned to coincide with the next Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) summit in Montebello, Quebec on August 20 and 21.
The Municipality of Papineauville, which is about six kilometres from Montebello, has informed the Council of Canadians that the RCMP, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) and the U.S. Army will not allow the municipality to rent the Centre Communautaire de Papineauville for a public forum on Sunday August 19, on the eve of the so-called Security and Prosperity Partnership Leaders Summit.
“It is deplorable that we are being prevented from bringing together a panel of writers, academics and parliamentarians to share their concerns about the Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canadians,” said Brent Patterson, director of organizing with the Council of Canadians. “Meanwhile, six kilometres away, corporate leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada will have unimpeded access to our political leaders.”
As well as being shut out of Papineauville, the Council of Canadians has been told that the RCMP and the SQ will be enforcing a 25-kilometre security perimeter around the Chateau Montebello, where Stephen Harper will meet with George W. Bush and Felipe Calderón on August 20 and 21. According to officials in Montebello, there will be checkpoints at Thurso and Hawkesbury, and vehicles carrying more than five people will be turned back.
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. The organization works to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, safe food, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
For more information, contact:
Stuart Trew, media contact: Tel.: (613) 233-4487, ext. 228; Cell: (613) 292-2218; strew@canadians.org.
On Strike For A Better Life
07.05.07 (3:57 pm) [edit]
(aka The Irrationally Unamerican Rantings of an Illegal Alien)
Its said that we live in a content world. We see it everywhere. I get emails from websites that ask me to write reviews of movies for them, blog for them, draw cartoons for them, all for free of course. But the question is why? Are these webmasters altruistic in their intentions by giving me an open door to express myself to the millions of morons online? To somehow make my life more fulfilling by exercising my creative talent because deep down inside they admire my work and really, gee gosh, love me?
No. Think again.
Much like television, radio, movies and newspapers content is the magic word. Whether its blogging, porn or movie clips of the latest hollyweird blockbuster, it's all there to entice us, pull us in like the fish we are and then blast us with advertisements when we're not really paying attention. Quantity entertainment is rarely if ever quality entertainment.
Let's look at television for a second. Back when Lucy and Ricky dominated the airwaves and Andy Griffith was everyone's home town son, a thirty minute sitcom lasted close to 28 minutes without commercials. How does that compare with our contemporary sitcoms that dish out a mere 20 minutes of fluff? It's evident that the corporations are and always have been slowly chipping away anything left of our fluff entertainment to squeeze in more of the real goal of media; advertising. Selling junk to millions of junk addicts around the world.
One day soon, we'll lose another five minutes of the sitcom, and thus millions of people will be sitting on their butts watching only half of what they want. Think about that. Half. Fifteen minutes of Bart and Homer numbing your cerebrals with fart jokes and then turning around and selling you crap you don't need. Fifteen minutes of one, fifteen minutes of the other. Laugh. Sell. Laugh. Sell.
Old sitcoms will be promptly spliced down to fit into the time slot. As a result Hawkeye loses a witty comment with Trapper John, Thomas Magnum doesn't look into the camera and poor Captain Kirk's battle with the styrofoam lizard only lasted a fraction of what it used to. All for the corporate agenda. Laugh. Sell. Laugh. Sell.
The only widely available media that does not advertise to the same standards and our modern media are books.
Content must be eliminated. If we torch the content, we'll lose the corporate sponsors. If we lose the corporate sponsors, 90% of the internet, television, radio programs and community events will crumble, leaving the hardcore junkies to do it themselves the old fashioned way. Community action.
It's not enough to simply adblock anymore. Neither is it enough to Tivo around commercials. That's really just sticking your head in the sand. The only way to beat the system is to stop participating. Stop blogging. Stop reviewing movies. Stop Youtubing. Close your email addresses. Unplug the Television. Live your life. Talk to your neighbours. See what book they'd recommend you read. The free exchange of ideas does not require cable television. It does not require high-speed internet, or a subscription to The New York Times. But it could use a library card.
Its said that we live in a content world. We see it everywhere. I get emails from websites that ask me to write reviews of movies for them, blog for them, draw cartoons for them, all for free of course. But the question is why? Are these webmasters altruistic in their intentions by giving me an open door to express myself to the millions of morons online? To somehow make my life more fulfilling by exercising my creative talent because deep down inside they admire my work and really, gee gosh, love me?
No. Think again.
Much like television, radio, movies and newspapers content is the magic word. Whether its blogging, porn or movie clips of the latest hollyweird blockbuster, it's all there to entice us, pull us in like the fish we are and then blast us with advertisements when we're not really paying attention. Quantity entertainment is rarely if ever quality entertainment.
Let's look at television for a second. Back when Lucy and Ricky dominated the airwaves and Andy Griffith was everyone's home town son, a thirty minute sitcom lasted close to 28 minutes without commercials. How does that compare with our contemporary sitcoms that dish out a mere 20 minutes of fluff? It's evident that the corporations are and always have been slowly chipping away anything left of our fluff entertainment to squeeze in more of the real goal of media; advertising. Selling junk to millions of junk addicts around the world.
One day soon, we'll lose another five minutes of the sitcom, and thus millions of people will be sitting on their butts watching only half of what they want. Think about that. Half. Fifteen minutes of Bart and Homer numbing your cerebrals with fart jokes and then turning around and selling you crap you don't need. Fifteen minutes of one, fifteen minutes of the other. Laugh. Sell. Laugh. Sell.
Old sitcoms will be promptly spliced down to fit into the time slot. As a result Hawkeye loses a witty comment with Trapper John, Thomas Magnum doesn't look into the camera and poor Captain Kirk's battle with the styrofoam lizard only lasted a fraction of what it used to. All for the corporate agenda. Laugh. Sell. Laugh. Sell.
The only widely available media that does not advertise to the same standards and our modern media are books.
Content must be eliminated. If we torch the content, we'll lose the corporate sponsors. If we lose the corporate sponsors, 90% of the internet, television, radio programs and community events will crumble, leaving the hardcore junkies to do it themselves the old fashioned way. Community action.
It's not enough to simply adblock anymore. Neither is it enough to Tivo around commercials. That's really just sticking your head in the sand. The only way to beat the system is to stop participating. Stop blogging. Stop reviewing movies. Stop Youtubing. Close your email addresses. Unplug the Television. Live your life. Talk to your neighbours. See what book they'd recommend you read. The free exchange of ideas does not require cable television. It does not require high-speed internet, or a subscription to The New York Times. But it could use a library card.
A word about intent
06.18.07 (12:48 pm) [edit]
Toilet paper was made with the intention of aiding the disposal of human waste.
The intent behind toilet paper is to make our lives more convenient.
I could use a roll of toilet paper as a door stop, but that would be my own intended use.
My intentions towards alternative use of toilet paper does not change it's original intent of disposing of human waste.
Toilet paper's original intent maintains intact, and will long after I am dead.
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The intention behind a can opener is to open cans.
The intention behind a pair of scissors is to aid in the cutting of various materials.
The intention behind the clapper is to aid individuals in turning on and off various appliances.
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The intent behind a gun is to injure, maim or kill a person.
you can use a gun as a doorstop, which is your intention and does not change the guns original intent.
Guns are manufactured to kill.
Use it as a doorstop...
Use it as a paperweight...
Use it as a toothpick...
The gun's original intent maintains intact, and will long after we are dead.
Guns kill.