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http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2009/01/28/canada-prize.html
This is fucking sick.
Do you know how many poverty stricken Canadian artists there are?
Give $25 million in fucking prizes to Canucks for art.
Rich fuckers and fucking “international prestige” bullshit.
Why don’t they just build another one of those expensive fucking monuments or rotundas with a plaque that litter every Canadian city, you know, the ones that no one fucking uses and everyone always wonders why it it was built in the first place…
Canadian artists can’t even be seen in Canadian galleries until they’ve been dead for 50 fucking years, so yeah, let’s just pay a bunch of living artists from OTHER countries!!
That’ll make us cool, eh?
fuck.
so I spent an hour doubled over this morning in pain.
I’ve talked about this before.
3 visits to emergency.
They didn’t even look at my ultrasound. Didn’t do the one crucial bloodtest I need,
and basically said “Oh, well the pain stopped didn’t it?”
I spent an hour hunched over with stabbing pain, after 4 months of abdominal pains,
and they didn’t even bother to take a look at my ultrasound which clearly shows a hernia
they didn’t order any kind of test that looks inside, mri or ultrasound or xray
and I basically left after 5 hours with no idea why I couldn’t walk this morning because of pain.
They didn’t even care.
One of these days someone’s gonna die of something after being sent home.
This wouldn’t have happened 20 years ago.
I would’ve been diagnosed within 2 months, not still wondering what’s up 8 months later.
Paul Martin and John Chretienne destroyed a functioning medicare system
and the provinces have rebuilt in in the American image.
Fucking bullshit McMedicine that doesn’t look deeper than the surface of things.
What I really need is a pelvic MRI and a blood test for sex chromosome disorders.
But that’s not going to happen, because they really don’t want me to have any medical proof to back up my discrimination claims. Otherwise I might be able to sue some people like Robert Cooper under “hate crime” legislation, and they wouldn’t want that…
There it goes!
40 billion in money for this manufactured depression. It’s really a magic trick as you can see.
very little of it is going to low income Canadians, the bulk of the populace
people aren’t getting their EI back to the support levels it used to give
and that $50 billion surplus in the EI system, $50 billion in added taxes that low income people paid expecting to receive benefits from EI, like training and wage subsidies and such, it’s gone.
We get a $2 billion dollar training promise, and the other $48 billion gets sucked into general revenue to pay huge corporations to help them get out of a state that their own mismanagement and corporate fraud scams put them in.
Rich people don’t pay EI premiums. They’re “contract” workers.
The EI surplus comes from the poor and the lower middle class almost exclusively.
We can’t find jobs, we have shitty minimum wages, and our time we’re allowed EI has been slashed by almost 30%.
Consider that at an over approximation of $25 million per province to pay 1980 levels of welfare it costs only 1/4 billion per year to give canadians a reasonable amount of Social Services support that actually will cover their rent, so for $10 billion we could have zero homeless, much lower prostitution and theft, for about 40 fucking years.
Harper shafts his people once again. A traitor to humanity and decency, in the name of his god who somehow thinks its right to freeze and starve the poor, make the working poor live to barely survive, while he gives the fat cats handouts to make up for the millions their executives have filched, and we all have to bite the fact that EI premiums have really been another tax, one that costs us more than GST does in a year. Fucker.
http://www.humanrightsmuseum.ca
WTF eh?
I wonder how many of Canada’s Human Rights Abuses will be represented?
I was looking at that big Cinar scandal, as I’ve been studying Copyright in Canada trying to see how this ridiculous rip-off state of affairs has come to be the norm in Canada.
Do you know that the RCMP have never successfully prosecuted a criminal copyright theft case in Canada? Even though it’s going on all across Canada and literally MILLIONS of dollars are being siphoned off.
Yet somehow Harper wants us to believe that locking kids up for downloading songs is a good thing while rich producers can rip off canadian artists and make millions with no fear whatsoever.
That’s why it continues, because poor artists that get ripped off are laughed at.
I think that it is so prevalent, that if at least 2 producers per year aren’t fined with criminal copyright theft, then the law is basically toothless.
Because everybody knows that AT LEAST 2 Canadian artists a year get ripped off by rich fuckers, usually americans. Probably more like hundreds.
I guess they figure since that’s the way it is in L.A. and there’s no actual way that the RCMP will investigate a copyright case, even if it’s worth a large amount of money, the scumbags can continue with impunity.
There should be a criminal investigation in large copyright claims, because it’s sucking money from Canadian creatives into the states.
It’s more important that we investigate left wing poverty activists though, they might upset the status quo with their “food and shelter for everyone” schtick…., or OMG they might make a documentary, and Harper’s gov’t would try to make sure they’d get no funding.
But they’ll fund and give credits and bend over backwards for a “rah rah USA!” gunfest they can stick a cancon label on.
A cameraman was telling me George Lucas stole the Ewoks from a Canadian, and the guy actually got paid, but he had to do it all in civil court. I couldn’t find a link, maybe he was full of BS.
There is at least one production in BC pulling the exact same scam Cinar was pulling, but I think it’s more like half a dozen. Why shouldn’t they? They won’t get any jailtime, the fine will be less than 10% of the profit they’ve siphoned off tax-free, and the artists they rip off won’t get any support from a Canadian system that would rather starve artists to death because free roaming artists are generally too anti-army and anti-conservative.
Harper would love to silence every fucking poet in this country if he could. So why would he want the RCMP going after companies making US propoganda films in Canada and getting Canadian tax credits for it? Lots of pockets are getting greased, that’s why. Millions of Canadian Tax Credit dollars in American hands means lots of handouts for Canadian officials and law enforcement willing to “look the other way”.
Stargate and Galactica, for example, are both WRITTEN by americans, and then canadian proxy writers get the screen credit, even though they have no real script change authority.
And then the U.S. military propoganda series also qualifies as “Canadian Content” so we in Canada get force fed it by every canadian channel needing to fill up their cancon quota.
2 whole shows of American written military propoganda with great big Canadian Gov’t approved “CanCon” labels. Force fed on our new capitalist monopoly version of Canadian State Media designed and rammed down our throats by Harper and his cronies who hate free speech.
The scripts are sent up from the states, they get minor fixes here, all changes are vetted by the states, the “writer” get’s paid in Canada, making it a “Canadian” production, when in fact it’s a story written and edited by Americans.
Fucking MILLIONS are being made, and yet the film crews are half the size they were.
Canadian funded US propaganda, and then they turn a blind eye to the massive money slipping over the border.
Scripts “vetted by the U.S. military” actually means scripts “written and changes approved by the U.S. military”. Why would that be a selling point in Canada
Sci Fi in the states “approves all scripts” for some products they purchase that are made in Canada. Actually, they send the preliminary script up!
This is endemic throughout the entire film industry in Canada, and more Canadian crews are out of work than ever before, and major film contributors, such as cameramen/editors/writers are shipped in under “special consideration” rules.
The gov’t looks at it as if we are “attracting american investment” but really we’re having our throats cut by gov’ts willing to look the other way when millions per production are being funneled down south illegally!
Here’s another trick I witnessed during my time at Atlantis. This fat redneck American named Mike Elliot who is a bigshot there in post, (you know the type, hates cuba while chomping a cuban cigar, ignorantly equates socialism with communism, hates the poor, believes in pay as you go medicine for the rich, believes in the inevitablity of Manifest Destiny in Canada, thinks Canadians are backwards compared to the states, lock up the poor in prison, etc.) anyways, he’s there on the phone talking to his old buddy, someone who had nothing at all to do with the Stargate “Ark” movie, and he’s telling his old bumbuddy that he’s got a credit for him. Right then and there he assigns a “lighting” credit, something that a Canadian crewmember actually did the work for, to his old buddy who never set foot on the set!!!
Add up 100 of those per year and there’s more fraud $ than any poor starving canuck trying to do a few hours work under the table while scraping by on welfare or disability.
Remember, these people tried to have me killed, believe it or not.
- Fucking politicians who act like adults, not children, and who have more than one parroted issue to squawk about.
- Federally administered and regulated Medicare! The end of McMedicine in Canada!!!
- Strong federal regulation of Cellphone and Internet fees and charges!!!
- Federal Election reforms to change the one trick pony show into a real democracy!!!
- Legalize recreational drugs already! The “drug war” is filling our jails with honest folk!!!
- Massively increased sentences for white collar crime/fraud and public servant crimes!!!
- Comprehensive regulation of Banking, Insurance, Cheque Cashing, and Credit industries!!!
- Real LIVEABLE fed administered Welfare that treats poor Canadians at LEAST as good as prisoners!!!
- Federally regulated minimum wage and work hours based on living cost per municipality!!!
- An end to foreign worker importing, Canadians need jobs!!! Its a huge scab scam!!!
- It’s not FREEDOM if I can’t sit SOMEWHERE warm and smoke!!!!!
- Break the BIG MEDIA MONOPOLIES!!! Reinstate CRTC ownership rules!!! It’s like STATE RUN MEDIA NOW!!!
- CSIS mandate refocus on US counterintelligence activities in Canada!!!
- Federally protected gay marriages and multi-partner marriages!!!
- Free Universal Federally administered CHILDCARE!!!
- Limits on foreign ownership of Canadian property!!! Limits on residential property ownership!!!
- Actual covered spaces for the homeless!!! Treat the poor at LEAST as good as PRISONERS!!!
- Guaranteed income and Copyright protection for Canadian Artists, Musicians, Writers, and Craftspeople
- Federal complaints process for all provincial contracted service providers
- Federal regulated identity theft and privacy protection!!!
- The end of the Afghan Crusades!!! The Canadian Christian extermination of Muslims in Afghanistan!!!
- Educational institutions responsible for the employability of their graduates!!!
- Get rid of the fucking Queen and Royal Family Bullshit!!!
And we continue with:
24. Automated Tax Returns and Spreadsheets FREE!!!!
25. A NEW and more complete Canadian Charter of Human Rights!
26. A comprehensive federal date rape drug policy!
- Fucking politicians who act like adults, not children, and who have more than one parroted issue to squawk about.
- Federally administered and regulated Medicare! The end of McMedicine in Canada!!!
- Strong federal regulation of Cellphone and Internet fees and charges!!!
- Federal Election reforms to change the one trick pony show into a real democracy!!!
- Legalize recreational drugs already! The “drug war” is filling our jails with honest folk!!!
- Massively increased sentences for white collar crime/fraud and public servant crimes!!!
- Comprehensive regulation of Banking, Insurance, Cheque Cashing, and Credit industries!!!
- Real LIVEABLE fed administered Welfare that treats poor Canadians at LEAST as good as prisoners!!!
- Federally regulated minimum wage and work hours based on living cost per municipality!!!
- An end to foreign worker importing, Canadians need jobs!!! Its a huge scab scam!!!
- It’s not FREEDOM if I can’t sit SOMEWHERE warm and smoke!!!!!
- Break the BIG MEDIA MONOPOLIES!!! Reinstate CRTC ownership rules!!! It’s like STATE RUN MEDIA NOW!!!
- CSIS mandate refocus on US counterintelligence activities in Canada!!!
- Federally protected gay marriages and multi-partner marriages!!!
- Free Universal Federally administered CHILDCARE!!!
- Limits on foreign ownership of Canadian property!!! Limits on residential property ownership!!!
- Actual covered spaces for the homeless!!! Treat the poor at LEAST as good as PRISONERS!!!
- Guaranteed income and Copyright protection for Canadian Artists, Musicians, Writers, and Craftspeople
- Federal complaints process for all provincial contracted service providers
- Federal regulated identity theft and privacy protection!!!
- The end of the Afghan Crusades!!! The Canadian Christian extermination of Muslims in Afghanistan!!!
- Educational institutions responsible for the employability of their graduates!!!
- Get rid of the fucking Queen and Royal Family Bullshit!!!
And we continue with:
24. Automated Tax Returns and Spreadsheets FREE!!!!
25. A NEW and more complete Canadian Charter of Human Rights!
It’s that time a year again.
Pay $40 for software that the gov’t makes millions licensing
Or pay $40 for a tax prep firm to do it, again gov’t licensing fees
Or fill it out laboriously by hand and MAIL it at a cost to youself and the slow pace of snail mail
I can download a fucking PDF of the tax worksheets
I should be able to download a fucking AUTOMATED SPREADSHEET as well, and I should be able to EMAIL the fucking automatic spreadsheet.
There’s NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this shit.
Tons of fucking paper, or money.
It would take a computer savvy high school student less than 2 hours to create a fucking automatic tax spreadsheet. So why can’t highly paid computer security experts at Revenue Canada do the same?
Because they’re making fucking MILLIONS by licensing.
And they’re fucking us all in the ass with their stone age bullshit.
There’s no fucking problem with emailing a spreadsheet either.
That’s what fucking virus scanners are for, that’s what security analysts are for.
A person could fake your paper tax return and send it in just as easily as any bloody email or online form, fuck their Netfile bullshit $40.
It should automatically be calculated. You should only have to do something about it if there’s a mistake or you want to add write offs!!
Get with the 21st century you fuckwad Mr. Harper.
Why am I so mad? I don’t have the $1 to send it in through the mail.
Oh sweet Bountiful,
your children in chains must be freed
but we must do it right
I’m kind of down on Bountiful
but Polygamy?
In 2009 we’re going to use Polygamy to nail them with?
That’s bullshit.
The one man + one woman = eternity schtick really doesn’t work in reality for more than 30% of us.
The xtians have been trying unsuccessfully to cling to this outdated anti-human concept for far too long.
It’s 2009.
There are dozens of religious belief systems that don’t subscribe to the “only one mate” rule
Now, a 14 year old girl who’s been isolated and brainwashed her whole life into one specific belief and then arranged into a marriage with a cult leader who already has more wives than he can attend to in a month, yeah, that’s truly bullshit.
but its the age + grooming + isolation + forced choice that all together form the problem.
not Polygamy on it’s own.
60% divorce rate.
We’re forcing a round peg in a square hole.
It doesn’t live up to reality
forcing it hasn’t worked
and we need to re conceptualize the institution
to fit with human biological reality.
Humans have MANY partners, many lovers in their lifetime
what’s the difference between 5 lovers in a row
and 5 at once?
It’s not really my thing
but if it floats your boat
I say go ahead and float
Polanski wasn’t a rapist.
IMHO
He was a witch of some type
and his particular religious belief
love is most important
She wanted him (at least as far as I can tell from research)
He wanted her
The parents didn’t have a problem
She was of the age that during the time of Jesus she would be marrying
everyone was happy
except Christian law
I believe she went over to see him later
in europe
yet he still can’t come here
it’s interesting and anachronistic
I have no suggestions
for when a situation crosses the line
from love and choice
into brainwashing/grooming/control
But there definitely is a line
a fuzzy one
but it’s there
and it needs clear definition
We’ve seen many closed religious communities fall into systems of child sexual abuse
We need to clarify the conditions that create such abuse
and mitigate the risk
while keeping open the idea of religious freedom
because 20 “wives” really is a bit much
But what about 2 wives? Or 2 husbands?
It already happens regularly in practical reality
A spouse and a lover, and often 2 sets of kids
one set without any legal protection
again, I have no real bias, since I’m not married
It does seem that Canadian Law has an Orthodox Christian bias in the matter
But that’s for YOU to think about
and talk about
I’m just opening up the discussion
since I’m already roasting
for Eternity
apparently…
Ever hear of the Renaissance Man?
That’s a man or woman who eschews the mediocre idea of “specialization”
and believes that a human that expands their intellect and abilities into many fields of study becomes a more well rounded and powerful human.
These days, they are mockingly called “generalists”
because the established powers don’t want people to become broadly educated, they want everyone to be a specialist, because they learned over time that people like Galileo who learn many things will in time challenge the established version of reality that the ruling class has set as truth.
The best thing you can do for yourself to challenge the authority of the ruling class is to educate yourself as widely as possible.
Everyone can do it, it doesn’t take a special person,
and that’s what scares the elites of this world the most, self actualized human beings that aren’t fully under control.
