Council of Canadians Maude Barlow supports Idle no more

Barlow returns medal

Last week Council of Canadians National Chairperson Maude Barlow returned her Diamond Jubilee medal to Rideau Hall, the official residence of the Governor General. In a letter to Governor General David Johnston accompanying the medal, Barlow wrote, "As a protest over both these terrible omnibus bills (C-38 and C-45), passed with no consultation with either First Nations or Canadians other than the energy industry, and your refusal to meet directly with First Nations as the representative of the institution with whom they signed their treaties, I am returning this medal."

WORLD PEACE COUNCIL STATEMENT 01.16.13

Statement of the WPC

The World Peace Council (WPC) denounces the brutal military intervention of France in Mali, which is being carried out with the full support of the European Union and NATO. It constitutes the continuation of the implementation of the imperialist plans for the geo-strategical control of broader areas of Africa, as we have seen it in 2011 with the bloody intervention and bombing of Libya.

Their goal are the energy resources which are object of fierce rivalry between imperialist forces and centers, which however go hand in hand in the slaughter of the peoples under various pretexts each time.

The WPC expresses its outrage about the new crime of imperialist France, which is preparing together with its NATO allies also to attack and intervene against Syria and while threatening Iran.

We demand the immediate end of the aggression and the withdrawal of French military forces along with the ones of the European Army and NATO

The vast majority of mankind and of the peoples is rejecting the "peace" missions of the EU and NATO which are promoting the interests of the multinational corporations while causing death and more misery to the peoples.

We denounce the massacre of the people of Mali by the imperialist forces and call upon the peace loving peoples of the world to react with diverse actions against the imperialist plans in Africa.

The Secretariat of WPC 16th January 2013

Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:26 

BC Elections - IT IS YOUR FUTURE!

RIGHT THE WRONGS CAMPAIGN

ELECTIONS - 2013

Elections 2013 are nearly upon us. The electorate - that is you, have to decide our future. It is not true you can't do anything with big government. That lie is to disarm any protest for the wrongs being committed for the benefit of more profits for business while at the same time keeping it hidden from the public eye! And there are quite a few wrongs.

Translink, Access Transit, HandyDART: As two HandyDART users that is our focus. You have another issue? Use this format or one of your own and inform the public of your problems and concerns about it. In general the turning over of public domain companies and issues like ferries, railroads, BC Hydro and more to the private sector for profit from your tax dollars should be front and centre!

We think that this election should only elect candidates who agree to support and/or propose the following two points to correct the wrongs being committed by the BC Legislature beginning with the time of the former Premier Campbell. In our case the "South Coast British Columbia Transportation Act - Translink".

FIRST: Get rid of the appointed Translink Board and re-install the Mayors Translink Board. At least it was comprised mainly of elected Mayors.

SECOND: Remove any reference to 'contracted or contracted service' in the "South Coast British Columbia Transportation Act - Translink" Make any company that is presently contracted under Translink a corporation or company the same kind as those not contracted in Coast Mountain Bus Company.

PLEDGE: That you will only vote for candidates publicly committed to support both First and Second points above. It is made based on my personal honor and not to any organization.

Time to Occupy BC Elections 2013!

Two HandyDART users <betjohn@shaw.ca>

About time the 99% used their vote to stop the inept management of Translink by the Liberal government!

YES YOU CAN!

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As a BC voter and member or supporter of your party we hereby notify you we 'take the pledge' and will honour this pledge on voting day.

Name:__________________________________________

Address:________________________________________

_______________________________________________

Postal code______________________________________

Please send the above by Canada Post, or email, or hand delivery to the party of your choice. If you would like to let us know that you have done so sent confirmation of the pledge to

<betjohn@shaw.ca.>

CHECK OUT YOU TUBE

CHECK OUT YOU TUBE: RT.com

A whole new series of videos is now on You Tube from RT (Russian Television) to check them out go to www.rt.com in You Tube's search engine. News and Views from a station that most times presents both sides of an issue and lets you decide. In Vancouver on Shaw TV RT's channel number is 505. 

Refreshing news and other shows.

CHALLENGING

The challenge  to all of us young and old is to look at the systemic patterns that have happened  from the 1890's through to today in our world. Look at the consistent wars, interventions, invasions, the military expenditure, the military industrial complex, the paranoia, the crisis of over production and under ability to purchase - get to the root of what is wrong with our system. Why is it terminally ill? We must root out those deeper causes. We have two systems to compare capitalism and scientific socialism. Social democracy leaves us with the same capitalist system Scientific socialism provides a completely new one. While discussing and examining history we need to make a comparison based on our findings.


You can NOT reform the system it must change to a new one. With reform you are left with the same system of booms and busts, rich and poor, The rich getting richer as the poor get poorer. What system you want needs to be discussed widely and once decided by consensus plans need to be in place of how to achieve the goal. It should be a system that makes people the owning class not the rich. A new system that puts people first.

We saw an interview on television RT QUESTION MORE of Peter Kuznick historian and Oliver Stone Academy award winner. Oliver Stone to RT: "US has become an Orwellian state." In the discussion Kuznick responded to RT question, "Do you think these superficialities in the conventional wisdom that we hear are perpetrated to keep us in a perpetual state of war?", as follows - "I don't know if it is quite so deliberate, but that seems to be the effect - dumbing down the population to the point where they cannot think critically and then you can pull anything over their eyes. They have a five- minute attention span and a five-minute memory of what happened in the past. We are saying learn your history, study it and think about what the alternatives are, think in utopian ways how different the world could be, how better it would be if we start to organize it rationally in the interest of people, not in the interest of profit, not in the interest of Wall Street, not in the interest of military, in the interest of our common humanity the six billion of us who occupy this planet."

As the author of this blog John would like to say that while he agrees we need to add dialogue - talk to your friends neighbours and school or university friends. It is dialogue that will help us all to come to a correct decision of what is to be done.

HERITAGE STOLEN

Canada has approved two major takeovers of energy firms by Chinese and malaysian state-owned bidders. "Harper said  both bids represent a 'net profit' to the country (Reuters)

The natural resources of any country a said to be the heritage of all its peoples. As such they are in need now of government expropriation to regain that status. That requires a revolutionary change of our present system. We have enough parties to do the job but all of them are committed to keep the capitalist system or at best to reform it. After you have done that you have the same system. The present one is terminally ill and it is time for a new one.

Start examining that and talk about it. We do need a political movement designed to focus on people before profits. A movement with a 'put people fist program' arrived at by consensus of the majority.

PLEDGE

PLEDGE

for the 2013 BC election

Whereas: The present liberal government continues with transit changes made by ex-Premier Campbell.

And whereas: The new appointed Translink Board seems unable or unwilling to carry out their mandate.

And whereas the present government fails to make business pay a fair share of tax burden based on income

Therefore: we the undersigned pledge that we will only vote for candidates in the upcoming 2013 BC Elections who declare publicly they will support and/or introduce the following three points in the BC Legislature.

• Restoration of Translink Board made up mainly of the former Mayors of the South Coast BC.
• Remove 'contracted service' from such services and make them corporations like most other companies in Translink-Coast Mountain Bus Company.
• Abandon the wrong economic policy of "trickle down theory" And introduce a fair tax structure for all including business based on income and a progressive taxation.

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This pledge is made based on the 'honour system'. It is your honour.

Only you and your conscience will be aware that if none of the above points are introduced by whichever party forms the government you are to blame. 

The third point is vital to resolve the Canadian economic crisis. Profit records show that it is a lie that their business will go under if taxes are increased. In 1940 an excess profits tax was introduced by the Government of Canada. It said you can make 100% profit, after that the government will take it all. To our knowledge no business failed after all a profit of 100% surely is enough!

Do you have a conscience?

Two HandyDART users