Showing posts with label political climates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political climates. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

best of 2011

Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity
It is a three-way tie. There was the priest broom brawl in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity; the Italian seismologists who were charged with manslaughter after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake; and the two last speakers of Ayapaneco, who don't like each other.

Stephen Anderson, former detective, testifies that NYPD routinely planted drugs on people to meet arrest quotas (eight officers arrested).

So far (2012): Charles Monnett, under investigation about melting arctic ice ('polarbeargate'), was finally reprimanded for forwarding an e-mail and otherwise cleared of scientific misconduct.

That charge should be brought to Ann Coulter, who confuses radonor who really knows whatwith {uranium, cesium, plutonium, polonium, strontium, radioactive iodine, sulphur, tellurium, helium or other fukushima cocktails}.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

open letter to rona ambrose@encanada

Yo.

I would have written the other environment minister (desert storm scud stud, Afghanistan reporter, Arthur Kent, oops that's his brother, Peter Kent), but since you babbled about Kyoto, novels, HappyOil (2006-07) and got this timbits tarball rolling and P. Kent babbles about finishing it or is it the 'engine' of the North American economy! (oops, that's the new provincial Minister of Energy, Ken Hughes), and now another artist is not very happy.

wow, multi-billion dollar buttons! - Ambrose, Clement, MacKay
And besides, you are Canada's new limousine winner! *$40,000* That Tony Clement is funny. I liked what he said about MP limos. "We work long hours for Encana Canadians."

Weird. Three departments refused to provide details on drivers' overtime citing privacy reasons: Environment Canada, Public Safety Canada and the Privy Council Office.

http://www.allanhardingmackay.ca
And that's not counting Franke James. More on roma androse, manRights and other Polish tax agreements.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Ai WeiWei, Franke James & political climates

“Who was the idiot who approved an art show by that woman, Franke James?”
Memorable words from one of Canada’s top officials on hearing that the Canadian Embassy in Croatia had offered support for Franke’s art show.

Ai WeiWei is a Chinese artist, who is now out of jail ("suspected economic crimes") and under house arrest, without his passport. He was offered a teaching position at Berlin University for the Arts, so even if he wants that assignment, at the moment he cannot leave the country.


http://forestgospel.blogspot.com/2011/02/ai-weiwei.html
Franke James is an artist, who had her funding for a trip to Croatia revoked by the Canadian government. Incidentally, the (drowning polar bear) guy is suspended and, who knows, maybe he is an hostage in a US debt ceiling agreement deal; Charles Monnett is under investigation about melting Arctic ice. Another taboo is the genomic analysis of sockeye salmon. Kristi Miller, a federal scientist, is not allowed to talk to anyone, as per the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans ("some even suggesting a government conspiracy to save itself some embarrassment should its trade practices prove to be spreading it") or, the geologist and the most controversial 13,000 year-old flood.
Franke James: The Canadian Government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, is actively working to shut down my solo European art exhibition, which is set to tour 20 cities in Europe. The government’s interference includes phoning the corporate sponsor, and persuading them to cancel their $75,000 sponsorship.
http://www.frankejames.com/debate/?p=111

Saturday, March 26, 2011

HE'S NOT HERE. Grand Old Panada (GOP). God Bless Panada (GB, BP).

It's one thing to pick on a person for working in another country - a lot of oil people in Libya last month will probably tell you that they are Canadian - and quite another to never really be here. Stephen Harper's (the Conservative Party of Canada's or Council for National Policy's) "he didn't come back for you" jingle was one of the most despicable pieces of childlike fear bogus cr@p ads to hit the airwaves. Who cares if Ignatieff comes back, doesn't, never left, hides under your bed, says "boo!" and falls from a rafter. Um, we're adults now, Mr Harper Bogeyman. Every time I ask myself how low can ya go, it's wa-a-a-y lower, into the fetid mystic. Thanks, Conservatives! Republicans!

And what's next? I'm dying to see, abandoned to see, losing money to see, anthraxing to see, not getting knee surgery to see, beaten up by criminal punks to see, hanging around a silent killer and job axe red tape murderers to see, invaded by Tamil immigrants to see, scanned by 3-d airport scanners to see, drowning in oil to see. It's a crazy world and Stephen will set it right, a classic *big daddy* with a *big army* super-naive bluff. By the way, this kind of "stability" is a joke. This is the 4th election in 7 years!! Where's the Adscam in that! (psst. Paul Martin swallowed the poison pill, there was a Gomery Inquiry, it's over, but for the Government of Canada's contributions to Quebec industries, that's it.)

It's Faze Too of the blessed (/daɪ.əˈkrɪtɨk/) $26M Economic Caption Plan with a May2nd election, the day after Pope John Paul II becomes a new saint on May Day, an erstwhile Workers' Day, which is a good time to think about bail-outs, the economy and Alberta Health Services executive bonuses, 33 years after Pope John Paul I was allegedly whacked, and a few daze after the new royal weeding, even though the previous heir's was enough to last a wretched lifetime, how quaint.

Now, even when the Alberta Firewall and Calgary School embers are warm after 11 years, Harper yells about Quebec, again, and God help me, legitimacy - after ALL those bridges were constructed between Quebec and Alberta, politically-speaking, exactly on account of their willingness to be sovereign provinces (states, or countries, whichever). Harper espouses a problem, not new, it's the schtick, the problem, with the recent votes of non-confidence (Contempt of Parliament) including those of a separatist federal party, as if that's all the BLOC does, separate in perpetuity, not represent constituents who happen to be Canadians the last time I checked. Harper likes to raise that spectre. It's not even an issue these days, until Harper makes it one, recklessly bellowing whenever the parliamentary system works, even proroguing it or about it. But what can you say about a guy who calls his minority government both after himself and an "administration." Whatever gets you through the night. In the day, I wrote a letter to Premier Ralph Klein, so alarmed was I about the good old confederation going into the outhouse hole that I wrote an extra one beyond my MLA to the big cheese. And here we are.

An interesting read might be Wyoming Republicans. Warren A. Morton ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wyoming and had some business dealings with Dick Cheney, U.S. Congressman for Wyoming (January 3, 1979 – March 20, 1989). Ted Morton, his son, is running for premier of Alberta. Ted Morton, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, Rainer Knopff, Andrew Crooks and Ken Boessenkool signed the Alberta separatist (firewall) letter.

Wyoming Republicans: Craig L. Thomas, Dick Cheney, Clifford Hansen, Mike Enzi, ... Richard Honaker, John W. Meldrum, Warren A. Morton, Cynthia Lummis, ...

Oh, that (other) silly U. of C. perfesser Barry Cooper, his Friends of Science and The Bohemian Club.