Political Prevaricators, Corporate Criminals, Warmongers & Other Pinheads

It works! Bugs and critters are smart enough to know whats not healthy to be around.

We had an ant problem in the carport and so we stuffed a bunch of dryer sheets around their routes. The ants have all moved on. I’m going to cram some around the foundation of the house this fall too, maybe it will keep the rodents out.

No need to buy the expensive brand name dryer sheets like Bounce, the cheap ones from the dollar store did the trick. They must all use the same toxins.

They won’t take NO for an answer. The American navy plans to start using a sonar system so powerful it can harm whales and other ocean life 300 miles away with its ear-splitting noise.

Five years ago, NRDC won a courtroom victory blocking global deployment of this dangerous sonar system just as the Navy was about to launch operations. Since then, the Navy’s training with LFA sonar has been limited to one remote area.

Now the Navy is back with the same reckless proposal for world-wide testing and training. And, shockingly, the National Marine Fisheries Service is once again giving the Navy a permit to harass or injure hundreds of thousands of marine mammals each year that get in the way of its sonar. (more…)

…a clear sign that part of our atmosphere is changing, but scientists do not currently know how, why or what this means… more

The long criss crossing streaks in these “clouds” indicate that they are chemtrails.

I’ve seen similar unnatural phenomena myself at night, as well as sunsets in the east caused by the aluminum particles in the sky.

These cowardly weather scientists are afraid to say anything about chemtrails for fear of losing their jobs or worse. This makes them complicit in the coverup. But of course, global warming is always a handy and lucrative scapegoat.

I’ve seen shoppers pick up junk food and go… “hmm… all natural…” and toss it into their buggy thinking they were getting something healthy.

This excellent article from News Target explains how the food corporations use misleading labeling to trick people into buying their toxic junk food.

Don’t be fooled by “all natural” claims on foods and grocery products

…the truth is that food manufacturers can use just about any ingredients or processes they want while still claiming their foods are all-natural. They can take whole wheat berries from nature, mill them down and strip out 98% of the nutrients, bleach the flour with chemicals, “enrich” the flour with synthetic chemical vitamins, and then claim their wheat is “all natural.”

And why is it natural? Because it comes from the earth, they would say. It was grown by nature.

Sure it was, but then it was physically and chemically modified, adulterated, contaminated and altered in ways that destroy its natural properties. The final product has no resemblance to anything truly natural.

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Of course the corporations can get away with misleading the public because the government is bought and paid for, and firmly in their pocket.

Over the past few years, I’ve evolved into every marketer’s worst nightmare. I rarely buy anything new and I’m never tempted by ads. When I do pay attention to an ad, its only to analyze it for its technique for conning the buyer. When I buy something new its because its something that I really need, and that I can’t find used.

95% of everything offered for sale in 95% of the stores nowadays is manufactured in sweatshops in China… cheaply priced, cheaply made disposible trash. The one clothing store that I occasionally bought something new has recently sold out to China. Their clothes used to be made in Canada, now they are labeled:

“Made in China”
“Designed in Canada”

Unreal. As if being “Designed in Canada” is supposed to impress one into overlooking the fact that they just got rid of more good Canadian jobs and farmed the work out to sweatshops overseas.

By avoiding stores, I’m not going without by any stretch of the imagination. I’ve easily outfitted myself in a new wardrobe by shopping in garage sales, and I get better quality than what’s available in stores now. And not only clothing, but books, music, small appliances, kitchenware and much more. Ebay is also a good option for deals. Some thrift stores are excellent, but the big ones like Salvation Army have taken to grossly overpricing their things. Anyhow, Salvation Army is not a favorite of mine, but that’s another story for another time.

It was too cold and wet to use the clothes line so I had just put a load of laundry into the dryer. I was looking out the window at the mist gliding across the lawn from the dryer vent. Conditions were such that the cloud wasn’t disappearing as it usually does, instead it visibly rolled along more than 40 feet over to the brush along the edge of the lawn, where the birds and other little animals live. It was a good illustration of how connected we all are to all things.

If I had been using a commercial fabric softener, the cloud would have been toxic.

It turns out that dryer sheets consist of chemicals with unpronounceable names like Alpha-Terpineol, Benzyl Acetate, Linalool, Pentane. In other words, they are full of cancer causing, brain damaging chemicals and they belong in a toxic waste dump and not on your children’s clothing, or vented outside to affect the little critters in your yard. To see what is actually in these things, click here.

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Are the Canadians any different than the Brits or the Yanks?

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In a village damaged by a British attack on the night of 7 October, some people were too angry to talk to me because I was British.

One merely pointed to the torn and bloody women’s clothing left in the ruins of the house and said bitterly, “Are these the kind of houses they have come to build – the kind where clothing is cut to pieces?”.

Nato sources describe this village as being heavily defended by the Taleban, who fired on their forces throughout the operation.

British soldiers landed in helicopters, arrested a suspect and flew away.

But they left six dead in one family, including three young girls, and partially demolished the mosque.

Thousands of people have fled the fighting, many seeking refuge in Kandahar city, where they are putting severe pressure on the ability of the UN’s World Food Programme to help.

They fear for the homes and farms they have left behind, and while not active Taleban supporters, it is clear that most blame Nato more for the worsening violence.

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Originally published Thursday, October 26, 2006

I’ve been feeling kind of bad about upsetting some people with the last post. So consequently I’ve done some thinking about solutions to the situation, rather than dwelling upon the negatives. Lately I feel like I’m in the midst of learning something really big; and that is that we are all creating our own reality, good or bad… whether we know what we are doing, and how we are doing it yet or not.

I believe that by becoming masters of creating our own realities, we will be able to remedy our food situation along with all the other situations that have become so messed up in these very interesting times. Its just a matter of putting the pieces together and getting it to work the way we want.

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What do Dole, Trader Joe’s and Earthbound Farms have in common?

There is an appearance here that what is supposed to be organic food is coming out of the same fields as the agri-factory-business food. Unfortunately, there is no agency to properly investigate something like this because they are all run by appointees from the very corporations they are supposed to be watching. In other words, the fox is guarding the hen house. The solution as always, is to use the corporate media to sensationalize the story and terrorize the public some more. In the process and likely an added bonus to Dole, many small farmers who are not associated with them will be put out of business. Dole of course will survive unscathed.
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Sky News reports that one of Britain’s rarest butterflies has made a comeback to an area where it has been extinct for more than 40 years. The Adonis Blue became rare after a loss of its habitat, but there has been a shift and the butterfly is recovering.

The ecologically disastrous spraying for the gypsy moth killed off most of the butterflies around the Capital Regional District on Vancouver Island seven years ago. The government insisted that the spraying had to be done to save our forests from the voracious pests. They said if the forests were decimated by the gypsy moth, there wouldn’t be any more jobs.

The thing is, the forest industry jobs and the communities that depend upon them on the island are all pretty much decimated anyhow. Mills are shut down and the small towns are suffering. The timber rights and the heritage of the citizens is now owned by transnational corporations who have no ties to the communites and only care about their bottom line. The companies get their hands on some nice old growth, strip it off then carve up the land and sell it to developers for tacky subdivisions. Adding insult to injury, the Gordon Campbell Liberals allow raw logs to be exported out of the country, doing away with even more jobs.

Thankfully, a few more butterflies are coming back every year since they were poisoned seven years ago. Maybe next time, we can spray something on the corporations and their cronies in government before paradise is paved over and there is some habitat left for the butterflies and other critters.

Originally published Monday, August 07, 2006