MOLLY was a 3-year-old pot-bellied pig rescued from an abusive home. After nursing her back to health, a "no-kill" shelter in British Columbia adopted Molly to a creepy young couple in Duncan, Vancouver Island, who signed papers agreeing they wouldn't eat her. Then Snapchat pics turned up celebrating Molly being seasoned, cooked and served. The shelter sent constables to investigate but learned no laws had been broken because Austin Forget and Lauren Combs assured them that Molly had been killed humanely. Forget was more descriptive on Facebook where he declared "hahahahahah I killed the fucking pig" with a gun apparently. The public outcry has prompted both to delete their social media accounts and Forget is apologizing for his insensitivity which he blames on his youth. Trolls are weighing in that it's just bacon. And while we can condemn Austin and Lauren for being souless gourmands, they're no more inhuman than anyone who eats the intelligent and sentient pig, whether family pet or terrorized industrial farm internee.
Tag: Canada
Idle No More versus War On Terra
Rap News skewers environmental destruction of Canada and Australia, as alien invasions competing for first place in "War on Terra", praises IDLE NO MORE for rising against non-indigenous expropriation of the "Commonwealth".
Can Idle No More First Nations assert their sovereignty for real?
Here's an idea for First Nations rattling their chains with IDLE NO MORE. Declare your sovereignty for real. "Sovereignty" has become a meaningless descriptor, now counting puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan. How did we expect George W. Bush to explain what sovereignty meant? Even he probably knew what it was supposed to mean, and so do you. Sovereignty doesn't mean captive reservations, rural ghettos, Gaza Strips or West Banks slowly being ethnically cleansed by attrition. Sovereignty means independent nation states, not dupes of duplicitous treaties. Chief Theresa Spense is right to hold out to meet with the Canadian Prime Minister and a representative of the English crown. First Nations leaders deserve to meet with fellow heads of state, if the treaty lands are truly sovereign.
Denver Canadian Consulate closes its doors to IDLE NO MORE round dance and a very polite letter
DENVER, COLORADO- Indigenous activists paused only one day before assembling a second IDLE NO MORE gathering to perform a round dance at the Canadian Consulate in Denver today, to deliver a letter urging the Canadian government and the British Crown (the Queen!) to meet with Chief Theresa Spence and end her hunger strike over recent legislation which gutted First Nation treaty protections. After a rally of dance, song and orations, a delegation sought to enter the consulate but was denied. After filling the downstairs lobby, being told picture-taking was not allowed, and the building's security crew receiving a squad of reinforcements from DPD, the activist were finally sent a representative to accept the letter without comment.
First Nations insurrection flash mob IDLE NO MORE hosting a round dance at a mall near you
DENVER, COLORADO- This was the scene in Denver's Cherry Creek Mall on Saturday, December 29, where a flash mob of over 300 Native Americans commemorated the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, in solidarity with "IDLE NO MORE" demonstrations stretching from Canada to Mexico, where First Nation members are raising their voices to defend their land and sovereignty. So here's a wonderful video of the event: This one's a bit shaky, but it's filmed with the exuberance of someone simultaneously dancing: Here's Mall of the Americas in Minnesota on the same day: Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 22: Edmonton, Alberta, on December 18: What it's all about. December 10:
Need another reason to boycott 900 lb bully Amazon? Censoring Wikileaks
Amazon booted Wikileaks from its cloud server service, at the behest of Zionist warmonger Joe Lieberman. Twittered Wikileaks in response: "If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books." The corporate media is already censoring "Cablegate" with misdirection, describing the leaked diplomatic cables as indelicate embarrassments, as opposed to incriminating revelations of America's imperialist anti-democratic outrages. The Interpol has declared an international manhunt of the Wikileaks founder based on scurrilous accusations of sexual misconduct, Canada is calling for Julian Assange's execution via US drone, our politicians want to prosecute the Australian Assange under the draconian 1917 US Espionage Act. Amazon's cowardly deed today is a reminder of the private sector's omniscient control over everyone's access to information. Imagine a world where whistleblowers are denied whistles. Shopping bags only please. On Amazon's internet no one can hear you scream. While the US media is scolding Wikileaks spokespeople for shaming US diplomacy, the free presses are reporting about the cables which detail the US abuse of diplomatic cover to supply intelligence data, some of it intended to direct US/Israeli drone strikes. The collusion of foreign governments to help the US circumvent international law, US complicity in the Honduran coup, among many other crimes. Bradley Manning allegedly confessed leaking Cablegate to FBI informer Adrian Lamo, describing the trove of damning revelations thus: “Hilary Clinton and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available in a searchable format to the public. Everywhere there is a U.S. post there is a diplomatic scandal that will be revealed. It is open diplomacy, worldwide anarchy in CSV format. It’s Climategate with a global scope and breathtaking depth. It is beautiful and horrifying." Although an estimated half million US government operatives had access to these cables, only 20-year-old intelligence analyst Manning had the conscience to recognize the immorality being kept from public view. That's a military culture of Don't Ask Don't Tell, of which discrimination against sexual preference is the smallest consequence. Have you read any of the objective coverage of the damning cables? What's been released is only a fraction, so as not to overwhelm a media which can only focus on a single soundbite at a time. Is the absence of cables critical of Israel evidence that Julian Assange is actually MOSSAD? Rather, and I'm not alone in pointing this out, the dearth of diplomatic cables to and from Israel indicates the streamlined collusion with the US. Only in Tarantino movies do hired killers have dialog. Old comrades don't regale each other with revelations about Quarter Pounder versus Le Royale. Israeli and US diplomats have nothing to have to keep abreast about. Is Assange really CIA/MOSSAD/AIPAC? I'd say the smears against him more likely are. When the same voices disparaging Assange ALSO find themselves horrified by the revelations of the US diplomatic cables, is when I'll start giving them
How “Officer Bubbles” and Toronto police “kettled” G20 convergence
Here's the full story behind the viral video of the young Toronto protester arrested for blowing bubbles at police protecting the G20.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid undaunted by Zionist intimidation
Organizers of the 2010 gay pride parade in Toronto have relented to allow the participation of QUEERS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID. At first it was declared that the two words "Israeli Apartheid" would jeopardize their city subsidy and summon a perfect storm of angry Canadian Jews. Faced with queers determined to parade for their social cause in spite of the ban, Toronto Pride opted to honor their members' freedom of expression.
Should US torturers of 15-year-old combatant Omar Khadir stay unnamed?
Extending the jurisdiction of military tribunals to civilians and adversaries is not simply unpopular, it's illegal, and America's kangaroo courts in Guantanamo mock even self respect. Right now we're prosecuting Afghanistan combatant Omar Khadr, captured when he was age 15, for lobbing a grenade toward US invaders (are any of our GIs guilty of less?) meanwhile obscuring the identity of American soldiers culpable of torture and murder. Last week four key reporters were banned from Guantanamo proceedings for having revealed the name of "Interrogator #1" guilty of past episodes for abuse of detainees including a death. His name: US Army Specialist Joshua Claus. How many of these anonymity-seeking torturers can we out on the web? From mercenaries to repentant vets, the least we can do for the memories of their victims and their captives' loved ones is to publish their identities in public. You might see the wisdom in protecting the confidentiality of witnesses who were victims of sexual abuse, but perps? Of course a chief problem of military tribunals in addition to permitting testimony obtained through torture is the use of unnamed accusers. Convictions obtained through tribunals will stand up so long as the USA reigns omniscient, but in the eyes of international justice, the US and its torturers remain criminals at large.
Yanks overseas pretend to be Canadian but how do you do that in Vancouver?
Since the overt militarization of Pax Americana, US citizens traveling the world are advised to pretend they're Canadians. It only took this week's unexpected team USA victory over Canada in men's Olympic hockey, to ignite anti-American feelings. Even before the games began, the USOC's USA House was the only hospitality venue whose address was not made public, conveniently too because it was safely not open to the public. Now visitors leaving USA House are reminded not to wear or behave in any fashion that would distinguish them as Americans as they make their way to their accommodations. Security warnings didn't lessen even as Canada took revenge with a win against the US in Women's Hockey. Canada's speed skating victory wasn't helped by Apolo Ohno's complaint that his disqualification might have been owed to the supervising judge being Canadian. Will a Canadian victory in the finals be enough to ameliorate feelings against Americans who dominate every other aspect of North American culture so obnoxiously? In either outcome I foresee American visitors and athletes taking their leave with as little fanfare as possible. Just as McDonalds is uncontested as it pretends to speak for all Olympic athletes that their toxic McNugget is the "favorite of Olympians," so is the American war machine able to coopt US athletes for their imperialist message. Critics of the Olympics are ridiculed for politicizing the games, yet militant nationalism pervades the ceremonies. The television announcers remind us that the USA hockey players have been paired with beneficiaries of the Wounded Warrior program. Each stick-wielding, armored, helmeted ice warrior thus plays for the honor of an actual US soldier. A recognition I believe of America's undying desire to have a second chance to kick ass. I don't know anyone rooting for Team USA, the finals rematch would seem to be an extraordinary opportunity for Obama-spirited diplomacy. These athletes are all NHL players of mottled nationalities, probably most Canadian as much as they are American. What better chance to let the victory to the host. Can you imagine the US asserting its dominance over its coalition partner? What could come of that? Americans have precious few fans outside the homeland. Oh, they tell us, "we love Americans, just not America." But in Vancouver this week, that was not true. Imagine Canadians added to the list of world people grown tired of the idiot American brute. Canada will take the sympathy of the rest of the Commonwealth with them. After two weeks of patient cheerleading against US Olympic supremacy, suddenly I'm jumping up and down for a US win! It's just a game. The white man's war on the world is not.
Jokenhagen, the COP15 that wasn’t
You heard about the Yes Men successfully pulling off another stunt in Copenhagen? The delegates were fooled, even the media, and so unsurprisingly, the substance of their theatrics is being glossed over. While the reporters track the footprints to sort truth from facade, they are wiping all traces behind them. Url-shortening conduit bit.ly warns for example that clicking through might endanger your browser. The Yes Men prank Canada is as far as most news stories go. Why Canada -- is the more to the story. First the substance: Canada is a wealthy-nation holdout on the climate talks. Its conservative government is offering to curb carbon emissions by a mere 3% etc. So the Yes Men thought they'd lead by example, role-playing Canada stepping up as all industrialized powers must. Their special announcement was called AGENDA 2020, wherein Canada pledged a 40% cut in emissions by 2020, to reach a 80% cut by 2050. Plus they vowed a "climate debt mechanism" comprising 1% of Canada's GDP, climbing to 5% by 2030, to go toward emissions reduction and clean energy projects in Africa. Drastic cuts, and huge payments of "climate debt" are what scientists project will be necessary to reach the environmental 350ppm line in the sand. A COP15 without such figures will be a failure. It's small wonder the media is describing this "prank" without mentioning what was said. Some Canadian outlets are providing reasonable detail of the commotion which was provoked. Check out the Globe and Mail, then the Toronto Star for good overviews. The operation as it unfurled: preparations and execution were a collaboration between YM and the red-jacketed Climate Debt Agents (CDA). 0. YM begin tweeting as Canadian envoy PM Jim Prentice (example: "My staff have notified me of a fake account pretending to represent me. It is @JimPrentice hope we can get it removed shortly. 5:31 AM Dec 14th from web" ) 1. YM botch amusing anti-CocaCola prank 2. YM as Prentice tweets special announcement of a bold step forward. 3. YM (enviro-canada.com) offers Environment Canada press release 4. CDA fakes press conference outlining AGENDA 2020 5. Another CDA press conference features the envoy from Uganda, applauding Canada 6. Phony YM Wall Street Journal European Edition picks up story 7. YM (as ec-gc.ca) Environment Canadia press release pretending to denounce fraudulent prank 8. And the obligatory CDA press conference. 9. The real Canadian delegates provide the hijinks from there. Championing minor pranks here and there as they toured for the release of their new movie The Yes Men Save the World, a reputation no doubt preceded them to the Climate Conference. The Yes Men anti-CocaCola prank earlier this week was stopped after just 20 seconds, but may have been a ruse to resolve expectations that they were obviously in Copenhagen to do something. The CBC covers the moves of the Canadian and US delegates to get a handle on their PR. Interesting too were the frantic efforts to unmask the deception. While web sleuths followed the internet clues, a CBC reader comments
Canada welcomes Bush, bars Galloway
Canada refused to bar entry to Ex-president George Bush, then declined calls for his arrest for war crimes and prevented attempts by others to make citizen's arrests. But in the same breath, Canada denied entry to a prominent antiwar voice, British MP George Galloway, because HE was infandous. Clearly they have no standard at all. The Canadian minister had to conjure an Old English word behind which to hide. And where hider handicap seekers with a countdown from an agreeable number, the Canadian obstructionist had to consult an Oxford Dictionary circa 1708, declaring Galloway to be persona-non-grata for unspeakably, unreference-able dastardliness. The trouble is, too many of us have seen Galloway's un-despicableness on Youtube. Galloway famously gave the Bush warmongers a dressing down rarely seen in the orchestrated political theater of today. Not only did Galloway show the emperor to have no clothes, he laughed at his teeny willy. Galloway's participation in RESIST WAR FROM GAZA TO KANDAHAR, seems most opposed by the Zionists. Here's the letter which purportedly influenced the Canadians in their decision: An Open Letter to the Government of Canada Keep George Galloway out of Canada It has come to the attention of the Jewish Defence League that a UK MP George Galloway, will be speaking in Toronto. As you are aware, anti Jewish attacks are on the rise across the world. Some of our campuses have given platforms to proxies from Radical Iran. It is our hope that the Government of Canada will not permit George Galloway entry into Canada. I have enclosed some information about George Galloway below; "I don't think Hamas is a terrorist organization" -- Galloway "Hezb'allah has never been a terrorist organization" --Galloway "there's no compulsion in Islam" -- Galloway George Galloway has spoken in Canada before, in 2006, at Carleton University and Concordia University. Here is a link exposing the fact that his visit was partly financed by the Syrian Social Nationalist Movement: splatto.net I remember seeing an on-line poster of this outfit, advertising Galloway's visit, on the now defunct Judeoscope Blog. The poster had neo-Nazi trappings, in bright red and black. Blog describing the Galloway visit, the poster, and the SNNN: splatto.net Mr. George Galloway, what is your connection with the organization "Toronto Coalition to Stop the War" ? "Toronto Coalition to Stop the War" is organizing this Galloway event and they are one of the groups which attended the conferences organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. "Canadian antiwar activists sat down with terror groups" Hamas, Hezbollah delegates among those at Cairo Conference Don Butler, The Ottawa Citizen Published: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 "... Canadian activists were out in force at a recent conference in Cairo that sought to ... Many of the Canadian delegates were from the Canadian Peace Alliance, ... banned Muslim Brotherhood and Egyptian opposition parties," It is my hope that the Government of Canada will do everything possible to keep this hater away from Canada. Thank You, Meir Weinstein, National Director Jewish Defence League of Canada
Canada’s Christian genocide against its native population
So sorry. Canada apologized for its Anglo Christian genocide against its native populations last year, but I wonder how many Christians anywhere in the world really took any notice? Playground bones force Canada to face genocide of Indian children Wonder how many Colorado folk even noticed the Canadian government apology?
Did you know Canada was under attack?
I never knew? Canada is under attack and needs to spend about 1/2 trillion dollars in the next two decades to protect itself form hostile places like Haiti and Afghanistan! Canada First Defence Strategy underlines this horrible danger and came up with this plan to bankrupt the Canadian people before the Big, Bad Wolf gets them. The Canadians are a generous and responsible people and never would want to allow the American people to bankrupt just themselves without they themselves offering to go bankrupt alongside of us. And you might not have thought about this but Canada protects us from Vladimir Putin and his mad, evil Russian Vodka drinking threat to us. With the Arctic being now ice free for a much longer season each year, the Russians might try to invade us by going over the North Pole, down into the Hudson Bay, and launching a surprise attack on Detroit, which is in entirely a too weakened condition to defend itself without Windsor taking up some of the slack. So you might not know who PM Harper is, but he is a true friend of our own Pentagon. It's even kind of kind of him to not have labeled his 'defence' plan The US First Defence Strategy instead of The Canada First Defence Strategy. That way us Americans can hardly feel too guilty about the sacrifice the Canadian people are making of themselves to join alongside us Americans at The Party. Still I at least am not one to forget that the Mounties are our friends, and the entire Canadian Policing-military-industrial complex, too. Good people these and I believe that Sarah Palin is uniquely qualified in her foreign policy qualifications to lead us to better ties here. She knows the Canadian experience like no other American leader does, My Friends, and who more likely to put Northern Alberta to good use protecting us from the terrorists and meese?
Canadian government apologizes for allowing Christian abuse of Native population
The Canadian government, following in the footsteps of the New Zealand and Australian governments, today apologized for having institutionalized Christian missionaries' abuse of their Native populations. See Canada apologizes for failing natives Just as in the US, which has so far refused to apologize for much of anything in its bloody and racist history, the Christian churches of Canada were used as a government tool to stamp out the culture and languages of the indigenous populations. The Christan religious fanatics were used as agents of government planned and sponsored genocide. Will the churches themselves ever offer an apology? One rather doubts it. Many of the Christian Right are most willing 'little Eichmann's' in more than just a few ways. I guess that much more can be said about them here in Colorado Springs.... land of the dead Native.
New Police World Order comes home
JUST IN: The Springs' own inveterate activist Mary Sprunger-Froese was turned away at the Canadian border owing to her political criminal record. She and her husband Peter who is a Canadian citizen, were paying a visit to his family in Saskatchewan on the occasion of his brother's wedding. They borrow a car for this semiannual trip. Peter sometimes makes the journey by bike. This time Canadian border agents made an issue of Mary's extensive civil disobedience arrest record and wouldn't permit her entry. The couple had to turn back and subsequently got caught in the interstate closures due to weather. More after they get home.