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Minister of Justice responds to call for inquiry into Gustafsen Lake standoff

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I don’t understand why there has to be a choice between one or the other? I’m not in Canada, so I don’t know the budget constraints, but surely an 83 year old man deserves justice…as do the Native women.

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11672445 Federal justice minister and British Columbia MP Jody Wilson-Raybould speaks at SFU in Vancouver, BC Saturday, January 23, 2016. Photograph by: Jason Payne , Vancouver Sun

Says it’s not a priority

By Tiffany Crawford, Vancouver Sun,January 23, 2016

Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will look into a call for an inquiry into the 1995 Gustafsen Lake standoff, but the issue is not a top priority.

Wilson-Raybould, who is also the Liberal MP for Vancouver-Granville and Canada’s first aboriginal minister, delivered her first official speech since being appointed justice minister at Simon Fraser University’s Woodward campus on Saturday in downtown Vancouver.

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And They Say I Am Changing The World

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There’s just something about this that bugs me…there is still an air of privilege. It reminds me of the song they keep playing at Christmastime with the words “well, tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you…” Do you have any idea how smug and self-important that makes one? And how that feels to the poor…who do not “deserve” to be in their positions any more than the rich “deserve” to be in theirs?? What did he do to help the homeless woman, instead of pitying her? Why not see about sustainable housing like Earthships for her so she won’t be homeless?

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On the way to visit one of my schools, As I sat back on my rickshaw enjoying the wind playing with my hair; The man pulling me towards my destination wiped the sweat off his brows.. And they say, I am changing the world.

Looking the other way, As I yet again walked past the homeless lady that they all claim to be mad;  A CNG driver stopped and offered her apples that he had exclusively bought for her. And they say, I am changing the world;

After clearing the coveted IIT examination, As I went to buy sweets to celebrate; The sales boy, the same age as myself, while handing me the sweets congratulated me on my achievement. I walked out of the shop with the sweets in one hand and the realization of my privilege in the other.. And they say, I am changing the world.

Travelling through the…

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The Book To Read: The French Intifada.

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…not to mention the French also colonized Haiti and Vietnam…with disastrous results, as well.

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Aulnay-sous-Bois-Nov-2005-Photo-by-Leopold-Lambert/Danger Effondrement (Danger Collapse) in Aulnay-sous-Bois (North-Eastern Paris banlieue), photo © Léopold Lambert, 2005/

I was really looking forward to reading Andrew Hussey’s new book The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs, and it didn’t dissapoint me, on the contrary – it held up to my expectations.

To fully understand both the social and political pressures wracking contemporary France – and all of Europe – as well as major events from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the tensions in Mali, Andrew Hussey argues that we have to look beyond the confines of domestic horizons.

As much as unemployment, economic stagnation, and social deprivation exacerbate the ongoing turmoil in the banlieues (the urban hotspots for tension and bouts of rioting), Hussey describes how the root of the problem lies elsewhere: in the continuing fallout from Europe’s colonial era.

In banlieues in Paris, Hussey writes…

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NY Charter School Diva Defends Harsh Discipline; Parents File Civil Rights Complaint

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Last Wednesday, 13 New York City parents filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.  The parents claim that New York’s Success Academy Charter Schools have persistently violated the rights of students with special needs.  Success Academy Charters, as charter schools receiving public funding, are required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to protect the rights of children who need special learning accommodations.

Here are the allegations from the complaint as filed: “Complainants allege that Success Academy engages in policies and practices throughout their network which violate students’ rights under Section 504 and the IDEA, including but not limited to:

  • Success Academy discriminates against students with disabilities by failing to identify them or provide them with reasonable accommodations;
  • Success Academy discriminates and retaliates against students with disabilities by taking measures to coerce them to leave Success Academy when they require or may require…

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PayPal shuts down fund account for Memory Hole Blog

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This is outrageous. They shut down his account without having to give any reasons at all, except for the vague “nature of your activities…”  un – freaking-believable.

As the phone conversation goes on you can hear the operator grow increasingly flustered.  She’s apparently used to people being intimidated into backing down.  I have to applaud Tracy for remaining calm and collected and asking for a person to talk to and hold responsible for his account being frozen.  I mean, the audacity of them just cutting off the funds like that — it’s not their money!

Please, please, keep this in mind with the push towards electronic banking!  This is what will happen to us if cash disappears — our funds will be in electronic accounts far away from us — not ready at hand — and some arsehole will decide that you have “violated their terms of service” or the “nature of your activities” will be all they need to say to close your account and withhold whatever amount is in there.

And basically steal your money while making it look legitimate.

I’ve personally had one bad experience with PayPal not releasing funds when requested and then I could not get a human being to answer the freaking phone.  I have a donate button…not that it has done me any good…but I am removing it as soon as I post this.

 

 

The life of Adam: a look at Sandy Hoax

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My emotions run the full gamut when listening to this podcast.  Anger at being betrayed, because I can tell you when I heard the news of the *cough* shooting over the radio, I was in tears.  And then there’s the confusion and feeling lost at what is happening.

Why are authorities withholding photos of Adam Lanza’s autopsy?  Why are they withholding other information that would shed light on what happened? Or should I say…didn’t happen?  It only makes them look guilty of corruption and fraud (people putting up websites to get donations for perpetuating a fraud).

This podcast covers so many topics, such as the false flag shootings in Paris, San Bernardino among others.  But the one that will make you sit up and take notice is Castro.

They say that Castro is a U.S. agent.  And the Bay of Pigs fiasco was questionable…because why would we be after a place that had Guantanamo? As Tracy states — it confused me, too that we could be enemies of Castro…and yet we had a military base on Cuban land!

I don’t know about Castro being a U.S. Agent…why would we have made such harsh economic sanctions and cut off all access to Cuba?  That doesn’t make sense.  Since the U.S. has historically made economic sanctions part of punishment for not falling in line…that does make sense.  So if they were punishing him, it doesn’t make sense that he was an agent.

 

A Veteran’s thoughts on Bergdahl

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I can’t say that I know any more than what is in the media about Bowe Bergdahl.  But I have that inkling that there is a whole lot more to this story than is being put out there by the Big Pharma/Big Energy/Military Industrial Complex media….

With that said, I found this piece by a Vietnam Veteran who questions Bergdahl’s court-martial with his first being judged as psychologically unfit for military service….