Thursday, December 30, 2010
The most disturbing thing I've read today...
2003- "UN officials have opened a formal investigation into the allegations."
Sinafasi Makelo, a representative of Mbuti pygmies, told the UN's Indigenous People's Forum that during the four-year civil war his people had been hunted down and eaten. [....] Mr Makelo called on the forum to ask the UN Security Council to recognise cannibalism as a crime against humanity and an act of genocide. [....] Father Joseph Deneckere, a Belgian priest who has lived in the DR Congo since 1970, said [...] "Some of the victims had their sexual organs missing after tribal fighters cut them off to use as charms,"...
Not sure the UN has formally acted on this yet, but Jesus-fucking-Christ... wouldn't making cannibalism "a crime against humanity" have been one of its first logical proclamations?
Labels:
Cannibalism,
ehtnic cleansing,
ignorance,
Prosecution,
Pygmies,
South Africa,
United Nations
Monday, December 27, 2010
Here's the best thing I've read all day
Wanna see why Harpo & Co's bogus "tough on crime" philosophy won't work?
Read this - here's an excerpt:
"Who would design a system that ostracizes, marginalizes, impoverishes and ensures the disease of the addict, and hope, through that system, to rehabilitate large numbers? It can’t be done. In other words, the so-called “war on drugs,” ... is a war on people, [that] actually entrenches addiction deeply. Furthermore, it institutionalizes people in facilities where ... there’s no care. We call it a “correctional” system, but it doesn’t correct anything. It’s a punitive system. So people suffer more, and then they come out, and of course they’re more entrenched in their addiction than they were when they went in."
Read this - here's an excerpt:
"Who would design a system that ostracizes, marginalizes, impoverishes and ensures the disease of the addict, and hope, through that system, to rehabilitate large numbers? It can’t be done. In other words, the so-called “war on drugs,” ... is a war on people, [that] actually entrenches addiction deeply. Furthermore, it institutionalizes people in facilities where ... there’s no care. We call it a “correctional” system, but it doesn’t correct anything. It’s a punitive system. So people suffer more, and then they come out, and of course they’re more entrenched in their addiction than they were when they went in."
Labels:
Dr. Gabor Mate,
flawed Conservative philosophy,
Harpo,
jails,
punitive,
society
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Farce - Winnipeg Style!
Hey Winnipeg, wanna a new football stadium? Here's the price: make the decision quick, don't reflect, don't question, and make sure Mayor Sam gets to go on his Arizona XMAS holiday and newlywed fuck-fest on time!
"The deal must be signed Wednesday to ensure the construction costs are locked in at $190 million, Mayor Sam Katz told reporters Monday after a closed-door council seminar."
Whatever the merits of the existing proposal (and they are sparse at best) we, the taxpayers, do not deserve to be treated in such dismissive fashion.
THIS IS A $200 MILLION DOLLAR EXPENDITURE - surely to fucking Christ we taxpayers deserve more than 48 hours to weigh its merits! But no, as sheep we will follow... travesty!
A Special P.S. to Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger --- BTW, MY Premier, OUR Premier, OUR DEAR Premier ... in case you're interested, there's only one politician's future and one politician's asshole that's in danger of being irrevocably burned at the proverbial electoral stake here - YOURS!
re: "the non-profit Winnipeg Football Club must repay the province $85 million over 40 years"!!! Are you fucking kidding me?
Where's the accountability here? My 12 year son will be 52! I will be dead, you will be probably be dead, and (if there is a God?) Katz will have mercifully expired in Arizona ... and the loan will not have been re-payed! Well done you idiot! Guess there's nothing like giving that one-note-uber-simpleton Wee-Hughie an unnecessary edge.
Jesus! Even a supporter like me can see this deal is indefensible. All the weasel words in the world, and all the Rastafarian-inspired-smoking-"tax-pay-back-schemes" in a bong can't hide the fact that this is almost an entirely financed PROVINCIALLY FUNDED SCHEME!
Egad! What a mess... S'cuze me ... I gotta go upchuck now.
"The deal must be signed Wednesday to ensure the construction costs are locked in at $190 million, Mayor Sam Katz told reporters Monday after a closed-door council seminar."
Whatever the merits of the existing proposal (and they are sparse at best) we, the taxpayers, do not deserve to be treated in such dismissive fashion.
THIS IS A $200 MILLION DOLLAR EXPENDITURE - surely to fucking Christ we taxpayers deserve more than 48 hours to weigh its merits! But no, as sheep we will follow... travesty!
A Special P.S. to Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger --- BTW, MY Premier, OUR Premier, OUR DEAR Premier ... in case you're interested, there's only one politician's future and one politician's asshole that's in danger of being irrevocably burned at the proverbial electoral stake here - YOURS!
re: "the non-profit Winnipeg Football Club must repay the province $85 million over 40 years"!!! Are you fucking kidding me?
Where's the accountability here? My 12 year son will be 52! I will be dead, you will be probably be dead, and (if there is a God?) Katz will have mercifully expired in Arizona ... and the loan will not have been re-payed! Well done you idiot! Guess there's nothing like giving that one-note-uber-simpleton Wee-Hughie an unnecessary edge.
Jesus! Even a supporter like me can see this deal is indefensible. All the weasel words in the world, and all the Rastafarian-inspired-smoking-"tax-pay-back-schemes" in a bong can't hide the fact that this is almost an entirely financed PROVINCIALLY FUNDED SCHEME!
Egad! What a mess... S'cuze me ... I gotta go upchuck now.
Labels:
democracy is a joke,
Sam Katz,
Selinger,
Stadium,
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Dec. 8, 1980 - Thompson Manitoba
Thirty years ago tonight, a young boy, a teen of mere sixteen sat in his basement alone and watched CBC's Knowlton Nash deliver the devastating news that his hero was gone: "John Lennon - Dead!"
Tears followed and, yes, life resumed - but rarely a day passes that I still don't dare "Imagine"... thanks John.
Tears followed and, yes, life resumed - but rarely a day passes that I still don't dare "Imagine"... thanks John.
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