Testing, testing, testing...

Test.

Let Freedom Rain: Video: "We've started cleaning up the left-wing mess federally in the area, Rob's doing it municipally and now we've got to complete the hat trick and do it provincially as well"

Let Freedom Rain: Video: "We've started cleaning up the left-wing mess federally in the area, Rob's doing it municipally and now we've got to complete the hat trick and do it provincially as well"

Clampdown

In the noise a signal is detected; from the chaos a pattern emerges

Part 1: An Introduction to The End

I've just woken up from a rather fitful sleep. What woke me up is something I've been mulling over, pondering, turning over in my mind for some time now and I know that these thoughts of mine are in no ways unique or profound or even especially insightful as I'm seeing and reading a great many other people coming to what seems to be the same conclusion, so just consider me another voice added to the Greek Chorus. The conclusion I, we, seem to be coming to is that in the face of what seems to be a burgeoning swing to hard-right policies and politics in many nations (Europe's austerity measures and growing anti-immigrant, nationalist right wing movements, Canada's Harper regime, the potential defeat in 2012 of Barack Obama by extremist Christian Dominionist and Tea Party candidates), the manufactured US "Debt Crisis", Republican intransigence, the polarization of politics in Canada, the hostile -- and now, in hindsight, seemingly inevitable -- corporate takeover of the American political system by the US Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision, the expanding power and control of the plutocratic oligarchy through deregulation and lack of political or judicial action against "Too Big to Fail" banks, companies, and individuals in the financial services sector, the growing militarization of local, municipal, regional, state and federal police forces, and the ever narrowing field of mainstream media diversity and corporate ownership of that media. All of this and how it impacts and will impact us as citizens now and in the foreseeable future.

In short, we, all of us regular folk, the people (sheeple?), are about to be fucked, fleeced, and sent to the slaughterhouse.

What follows is going to be a long, multiple part essay on where we are as free societies, how we got into this predicament, where a lot of progressive thinkers think events are taking us, and, finally, what, if anything, we can do as free citizens to resist this horror and, if at all possible, turn things around.

More follows...

Norge

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What an awful, horrific, cowardly crime. Norwegians are such lovely people and they simply did not deserve this; no one does. For this Quisling, Anders Behrings Breivik, to so viciously murder innocent men, women, and children - utterly despicable. Hopefully if any good comes out of this it's to cast daylight onto this foul, cowardly bunch of bigoted fascists and murderers and show to the World what they and their rotten "movement" are all about. Our fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts and uncles of every race, creed, and nation gave their all fighting these bastards seventy years ago and we have to continue the fight now and show the fascists and corporatists and racists and bigots and religious extremists that there is no place in the World for their kind of hateful nonsense.

Paper Clip

"I dag er jeg Norsk. Lenge lev Norge!"
("Today I am Norwegian. Long live Norway!)

I'm Back...

After a lot of thought I've decided to start blogging again. The room available on Facebook isn't conducive to my lengthy rants so retuning here seemed the best and obvious choice, and with the continued neo-con assault on Canada and its citizens I cannot in good conscience remain silent.