Its embarrassing enough to have a radical right wing, religious nut for a leader but Harpers continued ignorance over climate change should be criminal. He is covering for his oil sand cronies in Alberta and is using Canadas good image internationally to sabotage efforts to lower pollution levels and make business accountable.
Part of a series of ads being posted in Copenhagen include Stephen Harper, in the future, apologising for screwing things up so badly, several other world leaders are also used in similar ads.
The sooner Harper is gone the better it will be, not just for Canada, but the world.
So Vancouver cracks down on the poor and homeless, doesnt do anything to help the renoviction problem and now they are hoping to corral protesters into a small space to control them.
We are turning into the U.S. every day and I cant help but wonder what the point of our country is anymore. Time to move to South America or Europe? Its getting worse and worse here.
From the article:
The head of security for the 2010 Games, RCMP assistant commissioner Bud Mercer, told Vancouver city council on Tuesday, however, that protesters will not be required to limit their activities to the areas.
You’re free to use them, if you like, but anywhere you participate in lawful protest is legal and lawful in Canada. It doesn’t have to be in a free speech area,” said Mercer.
Well we all should know that cops are capable of many deceitful and sleazy tactics, this is one of the latest and while it chills me to be reminded how disgusting our so called peace officers can be I have to say I smiled happily to realize that these three assholes were caught.
Now I am just waiting for people to recognize the faces of these pieces of shit so we can expose them as cops in front of the entire country.
What a shameful act by our enforcement agency.
Here is a picture of the face of one of the cops from the video clip.
Lets try to get some internet power behind this, pass this image on to friends and friends of friends, lets see if we cant figure out who exactly these guys are.
Three Canadian protesters have been set free in China. They had unveiled a protest banner over the great wall, they wanted to draw attention to Chinas horrible human rights record and push for a free Tibet.
Im glad the Canadians are ok. Regarding the Chinese culture this protest might have done more to make the Chinese mad but there is a sense of satisfaction knowing the protesters brought world attention to the atrocities happening in China.
China needs to get into the modern world, not just with electronics but by following world standards for human rights.
Three Canadians detained in China for protesting the Communist government’s rule in Tibet have been released, CTV News reported Wednesday from Beijing.
Intent on shining an international spotlight on China’s human-rights record as it begins a year-long countdown to the 2008 Olympics, two Vancouver activists had unfurled a large pro-Tibet banner on the famous Great Wall on Tuesday and were promptly arrested.
A third Canadian from the group that sponsored the demonstration was arrested on Wednesday. New York-based Students for a Free Tibet said Lhadon Tethong, the group’s Tibetan-Canadian executive director, was detained in Beijing on Wednesday along with a British colleague, Paul Golding.
Melanie Raoul, 25, and Sam Price, 32, had rappelled down the side of the Great Wall of China to display a banner that read “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008.”
The message remained in place for about 90 minutes before Chinese security forces were able to take it down and arrest all six protesters involved in the action, which had been meticulously planned in Vancouver over the past few weeks.
The 2010 Olympics in Vancouver will need a lot of transportation, so the B.C. government is assembling the largest collection of hydrogen fuel-cell buses on the planet.
Twenty hydrogen buses will be in Whistler for coastal transport during the Olympic Games. Each bus costs about $2.1 million, or four times the price of the diesel variety. But they are zero emissions vehicles, providing 37 seats and a 60-person standing capacity. Plus, they can reach respectable speeds of up to 90km/hr. (That picture above should be similar to the setup the buses will have.)
The government only has the project funded through 2014, so hopefully we have hydrogen technologies more sorted (aka cheaper) by that time.
Thanks to Gizmodo, TreeHugger and the Vancouver Sun for this article.
I suppose I am in a particular mood but I happen to really enjoy pointing out how stupid the religious are. It seems the U.S. in particular is having an influx of religious fools lately and it is nice to remember that intelligent people tend to know better and don’t need the god crutch.
Too funny and sadly so true. After being fed up with Mormons bothering him this film maker decided to go around trying to convert Mormons to atheism.
The best part is when a Mormon bishop gets really angry and hits one of the characters with his rake.
Gotta love the religious folks, they really are that clueless.
Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
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Posted by The Left Populist in Activism, Canada, International, Politics 
