tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34146892024-03-07T05:01:18.921-05:00easy bake coven | since 2002alternative cultureSudeaux Luxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17083310421645018042noreply@blogger.comBlogger2699125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-91182220946860867792022-04-25T17:28:00.001-04:002022-04-25T17:28:47.667-04:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ICnXO1yeFgmQCRj6yng_6uHovWMQ7N4843K1Y1GKT8hgk2ZW5GSLFg_bVi9-Gde03tnXKkDnP9WkPMJTAJfOwo6EQEvVhe60wNcRVmjF35eMiSmZJDCxkuO87tHYy7Y57BoqE1rG6_a61-quNKPrP3b0dqu2OzMY6f6Mq9haqg8mGzVBHwg/s1536/unnamed.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="1536" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9ICnXO1yeFgmQCRj6yng_6uHovWMQ7N4843K1Y1GKT8hgk2ZW5GSLFg_bVi9-Gde03tnXKkDnP9WkPMJTAJfOwo6EQEvVhe60wNcRVmjF35eMiSmZJDCxkuO87tHYy7Y57BoqE1rG6_a61-quNKPrP3b0dqu2OzMY6f6Mq9haqg8mGzVBHwg/w413-h310/unnamed.png" width="413" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Howard Breen and others are willing to put their very lives on the line through starvation to save the mere less than 3% Old Growth Forests left in the province of B.C. In truth though everyone's lives are on the line, if we are out of Old Growth Forests. We will not survive as a species without the lungs of the earth. <br /></div><br /><p></p><p><a href="https://save-old-growth.ca/hunger-strike/">Link</a></p>Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-60748694194327386162022-04-06T00:49:00.005-04:002022-04-06T00:49:41.552-04:00<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="405" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0RGY6OW6-3I" width="487" youtube-src-id="0RGY6OW6-3I"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p> </p>Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-15785177970935276852022-03-29T11:49:00.005-04:002022-03-29T11:51:11.169-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvkSWNzHHrSOrzbulDFoYUX_0fHNaIB3aTYlu47OzsLc7-0gomOcxJFPe9XVfmLi-8DIaU_t2498O403RPsZjGiWyr6lxdCn_z1NHR4Fm67W1f2uavZj23-tukbF5qPdYCI1TSvUvfVjZxA6Bz8YucB8RxjPrnyg6HfKuvKvGCeCPgkoO2ro/s800/web1_raeside_trees_web.jpg;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000March%2029%202022.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFvkSWNzHHrSOrzbulDFoYUX_0fHNaIB3aTYlu47OzsLc7-0gomOcxJFPe9XVfmLi-8DIaU_t2498O403RPsZjGiWyr6lxdCn_z1NHR4Fm67W1f2uavZj23-tukbF5qPdYCI1TSvUvfVjZxA6Bz8YucB8RxjPrnyg6HfKuvKvGCeCPgkoO2ro/w519-h346/web1_raeside_trees_web.jpg;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000March%2029%202022.jpg" width="519" /></a></div>Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-84226174851986665382021-04-02T00:03:00.004-04:002021-04-02T00:05:36.192-04:00"Nanaimo is calling on the provincial government to defer logging of old-growth forests as public opposition mounts to harvesting them."<i>"“Globally, we’ve crossed critical ecological limits in terms of biodiversity loss, greenhouse gas emissions and conversion of forest lands — critical limits that we are exceeding here in B.C. and part of our current forest practices.”
B.C. should defer logging old-growth until it has addressed recommendations in the independent Old Growth Strategic Review, commissioned by the province, he said.
The report recommended deferring development in old forests, where diverse ecosystems are at risk, until a new forest management strategy is developed."</i>
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So why is the B.C. Provincial government under NDP leader John Horgan so keen on harvesting Old Growth Forests?
It doesn't help that the NDP is backed by the United Steelworkers Union, which is based in the US. Talk about foreign intervention in another country's politics.
Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-89045232859964142022021-02-15T00:52:00.000-05:002021-02-15T00:52:23.928-05:00Lords of Water<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;">How did the process of overpopulation, liberals, environmental organizations and Wall Street all come together to privatize water on a global scale?<br /><br />The documentary <i>Lords of Water</i> does a great job of exploring exactly that:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S3ZcLcey7tM" width="320" youtube-src-id="S3ZcLcey7tM"></iframe> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div>Not surprisingly as the documentary notes a lot of the movement toward actual water privatization (and the Green Party's complicity in it) made its early appearance in Australia.<br /><br />I don't know if anyone remembers that wonderful B movie with a capital B from the 1980s Solarbabies?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><br />Well say what you will about the film, call it absurd if you will, but as absurd as it may have seemed it nailed what the corporations and state would try to do with water in the future.<br /></div><br /> <p></p>Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-57750544152506594482021-02-14T16:37:00.016-05:002021-02-14T16:41:58.141-05:00BC NDP Unscientifically Justifies Illegal Aerial Killing Of Wolves to Protect Caribou Populations (which are declining to due to human habitat encroachment/development), while at the same time Killing Moose Populations in order to Starve the Wolves. <p> And the former Green leader Andrew Weaver endorsed them for re-election? </p><p> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
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Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-25495077441384127582020-06-09T12:45:00.002-04:002020-06-09T12:47:55.626-04:00"Big old trees almost gone forever in B.C., scientists warn"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The logical consequence of economic expansion with no end, the destruction of our own life support systems, like any other malignant cancer on its host.<br />
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Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-73026208355863705552020-03-27T02:29:00.000-04:002020-03-27T02:33:34.063-04:00 RIP Takaya <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-58510520209680520892020-01-04T16:09:00.000-05:002020-01-04T16:09:28.236-05:00A New Year's Resolution for Lisa Helps.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Victoria's Mayor Lisa Helps recently had a gathering to discuss people's New Years Resolutions. The slogan was "Be the Change" and many of these resolutions involved people taking personal actions in their lives to mitigate people's damage to the environment.<br /><br />Here's a resolution for you Mayor Helps: Halt Development. Under your mayoralty, a profusion of skyscrapers has filled Victoria's skyline, making it look less like the 'garden city' as it was known and more like your typical characterless overcrowded metropolis. This has increased densification, led to more vehicles on the road and to traffic jammed streets filled with cars idling unnecessarily, more pollution and less room for green spaces.<br /><br />It is grossly hypocritical to pretend that the mayor's office cares about the environment, when it is doing everything it can to pave it in the interests of Real Estate, Developers, Speculators and Banks.<br /><br />End the charade Mayor Helps and put your own actions where your mouth is. </div>
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<i> "In a Canadian oil industry town, schoolchildren singing about Santa's
sleigh going electric and images of Rudolph the reindeer with a
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Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-59226162268878233322019-12-14T19:40:00.004-05:002019-12-14T19:40:46.914-05:00The Art of Philippe Caza<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-68684835682878143192019-11-16T20:17:00.000-05:002019-11-16T20:17:05.432-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
American impeachment processes boil down time and again to little more than
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Is anyone else getting the sense that the majority of modern popular music is computer generated?</div>
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<i>"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." - </i>Samuel Johnson (1786)</div>
Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-14278921088541647022019-08-18T13:27:00.000-04:002019-08-18T13:27:20.149-04:00The Insanity Gene<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"The puzzle of why so many species of megafauna became extinct in
such a relatively short period of time has now been solved. The clue lay
in overlaying the chronology of these extinctions over the chronology
of the migration of modern humans from our original African home. This
is exactly what American geoscientist Paul Martin of the University of
Arizona did in his 1973 research paper on ‘Prehistoric Overkill’. Other
theories had been presented to explain the extinctions but none that
were such a perfect fit. This means that man was the killer, or in this
case an ‘over-killer’, from the very beginning."</i>
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<i>"It may be comforting to imagine that there may have been a time when
man lived in harmony with nature, but there is nothing to support this
hypothesis. In fact, it is quite the opposite."</i>
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<i>"Scientists speculate that the modern humans that migrated out of
Africa may have evolved an ‘insanity gene’ that spurred them to act
without care for consequences and which encouraged them to destroy all
that stood in their path. It is thought that this gene was highly
successful in its survival strategy as the more ruthless humans would
have an advantage and therefore would be in better position to survive
and reproduce. This guaranteed this gene’s transmission to our times.
Identifying this ‘madness’ gene is now an active area of scientific
research."</i>
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<i>"There are some sobering considerations to be made. Having decimated
other species and degraded the ecosystems that support our own life, we
seriously run the risk of becoming the victim of our own design.
Stanford University Ecologist Paul Ehrlich aptly predicted that “in
pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the
limb on which it perches”."</i>
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<a href="https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/the-insanity-gene-david-marinelli.729353">Link</a><br />
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Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-26271579529980072082019-03-26T18:47:00.003-04:002019-03-26T18:47:30.762-04:00"Harbour Air to add zero-emission electric plane; aims to convert whole fleet"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/harbour-air-to-add-zero-emission-electric-plane-aims-to-convert-whole-fleet-1.23770626">Link</a></div>
Limahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468997079789021848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-6135812942692406902019-03-19T13:27:00.001-04:002019-03-19T13:27:18.719-04:00"Dead whale in Philippines had 40 kg of Plastic in Stomach"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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