Welcome to the dawning deja vu day of the bravely rebranded British Columbia. Yes, Toto, you're not back in dust bowl Kansas, but awake in the new reality of a BC dust bowl to come, if returned premier Christy Clark and her claque of counter-Evolutionaries manage to ram their "mandate" through the province's Legislature.
You see, Christy and her crusty coterie would have us all whisked back to the times of WAC Bennett; where leather-necked, hard hewn he-men hacked their way through primordial forests, and o'er top the perilous crag to cut timber and dig ore; venturing forth to roughshod tame the wild, and harness mighty Nature herself into Man's service.
At least, that's more or less the nation-building narrative Clark would have us believe; the truth of the matter is depressingly more prosaic.
Listen. Hear.
Christy and the friends of Gordo the former, our near universally unloved previous political Judas are merely to continue the pillage of what remains of the province's once peerless public energy sector, as they simultaneously destroy our environment. It's a neat trick, promising to literally obliviate our past, while effectively obliterating our future in a fell, if four years prolonged blow.
One of the many dark Voldemortian efforts feeding the BCLiberals false legend of bringing good things to light here is the infamous Smart Meter program. Foisted upon us with neither word of warning, nor debate in the rump Assemblage in Victoria by "he whose name BCLiberals are bade never spake," the billion dollar boondoggle is worse than irretrievable folly, it's dangerous and probably illegal.
Sharon Noble is an activist with the Coalition to Stop Smart Meters, a grassroots group that has opposed the intrusion of BC's new standard of Hydro power metering for the past two years. Last month, they filed a class-action suit against the utility, citing broken promises and alleged customer intimidation by BC Hydro regarding installation of the devices, and a litany of health and privacy concerns the devices create.
Sharon Noble in the first half.
And; while the NSA unwarranted spying story rages in the United States, what's Canada's New Government doing here? Are Canada's telephone and internet providers similarly tasked by secretive homegrown spook agencies to monitor all our calls, while counting too every keystroke Canadians make? Short answer: Probably.
Dr. Michael Geist is professor of law at the University of Ottawa, where he too holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He is too the recipient of numerous honours and awards, including: 2010's Kroeger Award for Policy Leadership, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award; the 2009 Les Fowlie Award for Intellectual Freedom from the Ontario Library Association; and 2008's Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award among others. Michael Geist's syndicated column, 'Law Bytes' is featured in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen among other publications, and he's also served as editor for the books,'"Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda', and 'In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law'. He's also the author of the eponymous blog, MichaelGeist.ca, where he last week published the article, 'Who Is Watching the Watchers?: Ten Questions About Canada's Secret Metadata Surveillance Activities.'
Michael Geist and electronic cloak and dagger Canadian style in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's going on on the streets of our city, and beyond. But first, Sharon Noble and the wacky world of BC Hydro's WiFi Smart meter program.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
Christy Clark, the seatless premier, elevated by less than half of the less than half of British Columbia's electorate casting votes in the recent election, announced her cabinet picks last week, and her party's "mandate" to transform the province for generations to come. The eggs of our future economic prosperity and environmental well-being are all to be placed in the single LNG "clean energy" basket.
While LNG, or Liquified Natural Gas, is the stuff of which Clark's pipeline dreams are made, British Columbians should know; it is neither clean energy, nor is it a wise economic bet. But, that hasn't deterred a single smile or photo opportunity for the ever-optimistic premier. As with most things, the United States is ahead of Canada on the development of LNG, and they are first too to feel the extreme effects of an industry gone wild.
Walter M. Brasch is an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, syndicated columnist, broadcaster, educator, activist, and prolific author whose book titles include: 'Before the First Snow,' 'America's Unpatriotic Acts,' 'Sex and the Single Beer Can,' 'Press and the State,' 'Social Foundations of Mass Media.' His latest book, 'Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster' is a detailed investigation of the fracking industry, and what that activity means for the people and landscape on the burgeoning areas it takes place.
Walter M. Brasch in the first half.
And; the stubborn resistance of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian Army, and its continued support from the people, has thrown the plan of Western hegemony in the Middle East off schedule. It's a worrying sign for America and her allies, as the people of previously conquered Iraq and Libya are bejoining the great push back against their erstwhile saviours. More worrying still perhaps for club NATO is the mounting social unrest in member-state Turkey, whose leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan managed, seemingly without acknowledging the irony, to fan the flames of discontent at home while visiting Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring. There Erdoğan slapped the collective face of protesters occupying Istanbul's Taksim Square, insisting development of a mosque and mall complex would go ahead in the city's central park, and accusing those protesting of being no better than beer-swilling apostates.
Jon Elmer is a freelance Canadian journalist and photo-journalist who has worked in numerous countries covering war, occupation, and social conflict. He has, over the last decade and more spent extensive periods living in and reporting from Occupied Palestine. Jon's articles and photographs are featured in the Journal of Palestine Studies, Le Monde diplomatique, The Progressive, and Al Jazeera English among others. He is also a contributor, with Anthony Fenton to the book, 'Empire's Ally: Canada in Afghanistan.'
Jon Elmer and the over-arching swing of public discontent along the Arc of Instability in the second half.
And, Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's good to do in and around our city in the coming week. But first, Walter M. Brasch and fracking's flirtation with disaster.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
Those listening who remember the release of Duran Duran's 'Rio' video may too recall, more than MTV, life in the nineteen eighties also meant living under the shadow of nuclear destruction. MAD Ronnie Ray Gun ruled America and, aided by sinister side-kick, George Bush seemed poised to take the world down a dark path towards the conflagration of an inevitable nuclear Armageddon.
As doomsday's children, many a night we tossed restless, only to rise the day after to find our nightmares of atomic hellfire were not imagined but the realpolitik of our times. It's an age we who lived through firsthand would have relegated to the dust bin of history, but sadly the insanity didn't end with the fall of the Soviet empire, nor with the welcome demise of the demigod figure heads of the Free World.
Today, none of us can afford the comfortable illusion humanity, having dodged the bullet of imminent destruction in the last century, is now out of the woods.
laray polk bookLaray Polk is a journalist, multimedia artist, and author whose articles have appeared in her adopted home town paper, The Dallas Morning News, and online at Common Dreams, CounterPunch, D Magzine, In These Times, Znet and Pacific Free Press, among others. Laray was also a recipient of a grant from The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund which she used to expose the threat posed to the Ogallala Aquifer by a Texas radioactive waste disposal site.
Laray Polk's latest project is the book, 'Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe.' Co-authored with Noam Chomsky, it's a series of interviews conducted with the famed American academic dissident, intended as a warning and reminder that, "talking about the unspeakable can still be done with humor, with wit and indomitable spirit."
Laray Polk in the first half.
And; while the Reagan/Bush tag team terrorized me and the rest of the world with the promise of instant nuclear annihilation back in the eighties, they and their allies were fulfilling that promise in a more prosaic way throughout Latin America. Guatemala recently made the news in North America with the singular story of former dictator and dedicated US ally and commie hunter Efrain Rios Montt's conviction for crimes against humanity committed against the mainly indigenous people of his country. It was an incredible, undreamed of halcyon moment of justice prevailing for we grey beards still remembering the terror brought down against the Maya people in pursuit of American corporate interests in that place then. But, it seems now to be a victory too good to believe.
parry book americas stolen narrativeRobert Parry is an investigative reporter, author, editor, and co-founder of Consortium News.com, the Internet's first news magazine website. Parry broke many stories from Latin America during the dirty war years for Newsweek and the Associated Press, and followed those with revelations of the Iran-Contra scandal that contributed greatly to George H.W. Bush's single term presidency.
Robert Parry's book titles include: 'Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq,' 'Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush,' and his latest 'America's Stolen Narrative: From Washington and Madison, to Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes, to Barack Obama'.
Robert Parry remembering Guatemala and more in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with some of what's good to do in and around our city and beyond in the coming week. But first, Laray Polk and waking from nuclear nightmares and other environmental catastrophes.
Chris Cook hosts Gorilla Radio, airing live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 101.9FM, and on the internet at: http://cfuv.uvic.ca. He also serves as a contributing editor to the web news site, http://www.pacificfreepress.com. Check out the GR blog at: http://gorillaradioblog.blogspot.ca/
Went down to Cinecenta at the University of Victoria to see the film, and hear from film maker, Twyla Roscovich and scientist/activist, Alexandra Morton. The audio quality of the Q/A is not great, but Twyla and Chris Genovali's remarks before the screening are clear. The blurb below is from the film's website: http://salmonconfidential.ca/ - ape.
Salmon Confidential is a new film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for dangerous European salmon viruses associated with salmon farming worldwide, a chain of events is set off by government to suppress the findings. Tracking viruses, Morton moves from courtrooms, into British Columbia’s most remote rivers, Vancouver grocery stores and sushi restaurants. The film documents Morton’s journey as she attempts to overcome government and industry roadblocks thrown in her path and works to bring critical information to the public in time to save BC’s wild salmon.
The film provides surprising insight into the inner workings of government agencies, as well as rare footage of the bureaucrats tasked with managing our fish and the safety of our food supply.
G-Radio is dedicated to social justice, the environment, community, and providing a forum for people and issues not covered in corporate and state media. Gorilla Radio airs live every Monday, 5-6pm Pacific Time. In Victoria at 102FM, 104.3 cable, and on t
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