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Happy 2012 For The AIR,TREES ,WATER, ANIMALS and all life on earth
She’s Blonde! She’s Hot! She’s your new MP!
Meet Ruth Ellen Brosseau , the new NDP MP for Berthier-Maskinongé, which she finally visited this week for the very first time.
Ms. Brosseau faced scrutiny from the media shortly after the election this month due to her living 300 kilometres from her riding and spending more time in Las Vegas than trying to garner votes. Indeed, she was a placeholder candidate not expected to win in Bloc territory.
Yet win she did. Or rather, she was caught up in a huge movement against the Bloc. It seems like anyone could have won, regardless of Jack Layton’s rhetoric about the youth movement and fresh blood in Parliament who will flourish under his guiding hand.
But I, for one, couldn’t be happier. Not because of her party affiliation, but because of what she and the other youthful MPs represent.
It’s time to get rid of the old man’s club in Ottawa and bring in some new people who have not yet learned to mislead and have not been spoiled by greed and the promise of entitlements. People we can actually count on not to disappear right after an election until the next campaign.
Layton can pat himself on the back for this all he wants. It’s people like him that need replacing. And soon.
She’s got four years to prove herself. Let’s hope she helps start a new revolution.
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Peace of Mind for Non-Voters
Voter apathy is nearly as much a Canadian tradition as a Tim Horton’s double-double. But in these last few weeks impassioned pleas to cast your ballot have surged across all media. Parties and democracy-happy volunteers have been reaching the undecided through television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and by using the good old-fashioned telephone.
Is it a coincidence that the sudden surge of interest happened around the time that Jack Layton and his NDP Party have been gaining points in the polls, threatening the traditionally steadfast Tories and Grits? Of course not. So they have been pushing people to the polls too, using such pressure tactics as guilt and fear to gain support and involvement. “Not voting? You’re a bad Canadian!”
Fortunately here at The Brazen Voice we think for ourselves and encourage you to do the same. So if you don’t plan on voting, please read on. If you did because you felt pressured to, you really need to read on.
How different was your day-to-day life under Chretien, Martin, or Harper? Very little. Had the economic meltdown been avoided with a different Prime Minister? No. Would health care be under better control? Not a chance. How about job creation? Not at all.
Harper, Ignatieff, Layton, Duceppe, and May are five different heads connected to the same governmental body. The face may change but things will still be the same. Why? Because big money, corporations, and the media really run things. Only by “voting” them out, through boycott of their products and offerings, would real change come about.
We can’t change anything with a pencil and paper and a little cubicle. Only dollars can do that. But of course the corporations and media don’t want you to know that. They want control and your money. And they get both – especially at election time.
So keep your money. Vote with your wallet.
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Nature-Destroying but Elephant-Happy Bob Barker
Bob Barker has made himself a post-Price Is Right career by travelling to various Canadian zoos and telling them to move their elephants to warmer climes. It seems that he’s decided that professionally trained elephant keepers know less about their charges than a man who used to encourage contestants to play Plinko.
No one in their right mind would wish such docile creatures mistreated. And if there was a risk to the animals’ health I would hope that action in its best interest would be carried out.
But I’m also for animal education. Not every Canadian can afford a trip to the Serengeti to observe the animals in their natural habitat. The zoo is the only place most people will ever get close to an elephant. As long as they’re treated with care and respect and love they should be able to stay.
But if they are in real danger from being in Canada then they should be moved. I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem with is bored, self-important celebrities who feel a need to tell everyone else how to live.
Tell me, Bob. How many animals in the LA Zoo are indigenous to California? The Sumatran Tiger? The Western Lowland Gorilla? The Desert Bighorn Sheep? How about the Koala?
If you’re so concerned about protecting nature, why did you allow so many gas-guzzling, carbon-emitting cars to be given away on The Price is Right over the course of decades? How much of the elephant’s natural habitat was destroyed by their manufacturing, shipping, and subsequent years of use?
Pardon the pun, Bob, but let’s make a deal. We’ll spay or neuter our cats and dogs, and you go play golf with Adam Sandler. Just avoid the ivory-handled clubs.
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Manson: The Media’s Greatest Creation
Manson. The name alone sends shivers down the average person’s spine. But I would wager that the average person doesn’t even know why the name has such a powerful effect.
It’s because fear of the name is what they’ve been fed. And the public has eaten it up.
Flashback to August 1969. Los Angeles is in the grip of terror after the murders of the Sharon Tate party and the LaBiancas. The DA has no suspects and no case until two bikers trying to beat a couple of raps tell a tale of a “strange hippie cult” (with which they initally had no problem hanging out with) led by someone claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. According to the bikers this group, called the Family, was responsible for the horrible murders and were masterminded by their mysterious leader.
Enter Vincent Bugliosi and the ridiculous story of “Helter Skelter”.
There’s little question that members of that group did commit the murders. But the purported motive that claimed Beatles’ songs predicting race wars and underground cities was so fantastic that it was almost laughable. It did do one thing though - it sold newspapers.
That’s when the rights of Charles Manson and his friends ended and the mythology began.
The media-created hype (pushed to the extreme by Vincent Bugliosi’s bias account of the case in his book Helter Skelter) certainly worked. Even after 40 years later, the establishment still dangles Manson in front of us from time-to-time to remind us that they’re doing their job to keep our streets safe. If he gets out, they say, they’ll be blood spilled in our cities.
But in another way it also backfired. He’s become a cult hero, the ultimate rebel against an increasingly polarizing establishment. Manson gets more mail than any other prisoner in North America, a good many of them from people offering him their lives and to direct them to kill. In no way does he solicit the mail nor does he take the writers up on their offers. If he had the desire to be a cult leader, would he not take advantage of his “followers” on the outside? Would there not be a new “Manson Family” out there (which there isn’t, according to law enforcement officials)? It’s not like he has nothing to lose; there’s nothing more that the establishment can do to him.
Instead, this so-called “hypnotist” of the young spends his time alone, playing music and promoting environmental awareness through his ATWA organization; a foundation dedicated to preserving nature for the rest of us to enjoy.
The whole fiasco just shows that accused individuals with no money can be crushed by the law and villified by the press, whether the evidence is credible or not. And ironically, those who villify Manson have no issues making millions from books and movies about him.
It happened to Manson. Pray it doesn’t happen to you.
