Chance Operations by Caribbean Queen
the healthy choice!
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The declaration of a National Aboriginal Holocaust Remembrance Day as a statutory holiday.
After recently doing some stunt work for filmmaker Cabot McNenly I got to thinking and spoke with Steve Wilsher, the Senior Stunt co-ordinator at Havoc Stunt Services International. He was very helpful in advising me on how to get into this line and offered information on his training workshop. You need sword play and martial arts and ACTRA. There is non-union work out there for those of you who are willing to roll the dice but it's not recommended. Sadly, jumping off buildings and crashing cars into walls is largely the domain of senior stunt co-ordinators whilst guys just starting out can only look on with longing. There are only three airbags for rent in Toronto. Those are the things you jump onto. Only three. So if you're looking to start your own business you may want to think about getting into the airbag supply trade. An investment upfront, a G-class, and a call to Havoc and you're off and running. Fighting is a stuntman's bread and butter. Of course the pen is mightier than the sword.
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The creation of Aboriginal Holocaust Museums, and memorial monuments inscribed with the names of the dead, on the site of former residential schools,
I believe in Capitalism. I believe in Globalization…the bailouts were completely essential. -Chrystia Freeland
Rhode Scholar and Managing Director and Editor of Consumer News, ("Modern economics considers consumption to be the sole end and purpose of all economic activity." - 'Fritz' Schumacher), at Reuters which is now owned by 3rd Baron of Fleet David Thomson, (who's company reported a revenue of $6.641 billion last year), was recently awarded the $15.000 Lionel Gelber Book prize for her book Plutocrats (ploutos meaning "wealth" and kratos meaning "power, dominion, rule", and these days used to describe wealthy individuals and organizations which can exert influence over the political arena like fellow writer who has nothing-to-do-with-plutocracy-whatsoever Michael Ignatieff who won the same award in 1995 for his Journeys Into the New Nationalism before he tried to become President of Canada). Plutocrats was published by Penguin which is owned by Pearson (one of the 100 multinational companies listed on the LSE holding highest the market capitalization. In 2012, their revenue was a reported £5.059 billion.) The chairman of Pearson is Glen Moreno who is also Senior Independent Director of Lloyds Banking Group which reported a revenue of £23.535 billion in 2011. Pearson is also in the education business owning Edexcel which is the only large examination board to be held in private hands. As a part of Pearson, (a private publisher), Edexcel produces qualifications which link to Pearson texts. It's change from a charity to a profit-making company has led to some raised eyebrows and calls into question conflict of interest. In Freelands book, winning in it's "immediacy and authority", Ignatieff, Thomson, Moreno receive nary a mention.
Monsanto (with a 2012 revenue of USD11,822 billion) isn't in the book either. Freeland's father is a Farmer, Defence Attorney turned Real Estate Lawyer, and a paying client of the Agribusiness giant Monsanto (makers of Agent Orange which killed an estimated 400 000 people in Vietnam and Laos and left 500 000 children born with birth defects; oh, and they made DDT also.) Although often touted by his daughter Chrystia, (in the FT, The Atlantic and elsewhere), as a model of the New Farmer he in fact is part of the war against sound food growing. Monsanto is patenting away our fruits and vegetables, forcing growers to pay up or risk litigation. In the old days, farmers could choose which seeds they’d use without worrying about getting sued for violating intellectual property rights. But these days, companies buy patents on conventional plants and force farmers to pay exorbitant royalty fees. Monsanto claims that "patents drive innovation" whilst creating a monopoly of our food encouraging agribusiness in lieu of traditional small scale farming practices. We could protect our food, farmers, and planet from corporate control by lobbying for a regulatory change and it's up to us to make it happen. It's also up to farmers. Freeland Farms made a million bucks last year. They claim, "it can't be done any other way", but it's the same old profit over people. In India, the situation is so dire that one cotton area has been called ‘the suicide belt’, as tens of thousands of the poorest farmers have taken their lives to escape crippling debt. My brother's small organic farm, well under the radar of Monsanto, doesn't do as well as Freeland Farms and other Monsanto clients. They get by. Greed puts us all at risk. Small is beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. That's another book.
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The convening of an International War Crimes Tribunal into Genocide in Canada.
Dear CQ,
I recently tried to wade into the seedy world of my wife's family dynamic in order to try to make sense of it and received this from my childless brother-in-law: "I think you're being a bit dramatic about your place, or lack thereof, in my family. It's not an easy family to have and I can't imagine why anyone not born into it would seek admission. Your daughter is one of the most important people in my life and I love her more than anything, so it I'd really like to be on good terms with you - her father". It seems like he both misunderstands and refuses my "admission into his family", (legalized when I married his sister), whilst presuming and demanding admission into mine via my daughter. Who does this motherfucker think he is? What do you do with people who have an amoral line-of-credit view of their own families but want a piece of the real thing - a pound of flesh - of yours? Thanks and keep up the good work, J.B (Port Hope, ON)
Tough question and thanks J.B. - seldom an encouraging word here at the office. Although I've never experienced this myself and would need a few more details to make any real heads or tails out of your predicament, I would recommend that you focus on you and your daughter's needs and just be the bigger person. Find a healthy medium for your rage. As for the rest of 'em, fuck 'em. Fuck every last one of them. The truth will out and your brother-in-law will grow up and learn what's what. So will your daughter.
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The immediate surrendering to this Tribunal of all persons who have or are presently engaged in acts of Genocide, violence and abuse of native people, including but not
restricted to acts of pedophilia, child prostitution and pornography, rape, murder, torture, kidnapping, forced labour, theft of traditional native lands and resources, ethnic cleansing, sexual sterilization, medical experimentation, and any form of assault, impoverishment, segregation, discrimination or coercion designed to eradicate indigenous peoples and their way of life.
In The United States of Onscario, almost half a million people are on welfare and nearly half a million are on disability. There is a %5 increase every year of people moving into ODSP mostly with mental health issues. Most of them live in Toronto. This seems like a sound reaction to living in an increasing fucked up place governed by possibly the shittiest mayor ever known to hold office ever, anywhere. Kimberly Rogers, a Sudbury woman who had been convicted of welfare fraud, died in her apartment while under house arrest in 2001. Her death was ruled a suicide. A subsequent inquest did not assign blame to the government for the woman's death, but recommended that lifetime bans for fraud be eliminated, and that adequate food, housing and medication be provided to anyone under house arrest. In 1995 Mike Harris made a public statement that, "all ODSP recipients are lazy drug addicts and alcoholics", but later had to retract his statement. To help curb spending, it was turncoat Bob Rae who froze social assistance rates, the first “no-increase year’ since 1978. In geology, maturity refers to a stage in the development of streams or landscapes at which maximum development has been reached or at which the process of erosion is going on with maximum vigour. Maturity of a landscape continues until about three fourths of the original mass is carried away by erosion. So we're talking probably around 60 years old dudes. No hard feelings. You just keep doing your laundry at your parent's house. No harm in it. Dumb Lakawaka.
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The immediate revoking of the charitable, tax-free status of the Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian and United Churches, and the collection of all back taxes owed.
Marvin Gaye was almost right. About one fifth of the population are highly sensitive people. An HSP is a person having the innate trait of high sensory processing sensitivity processing sensory data much more deeply and thoroughly due to a biological difference in their nervous systems. In the past this has often been confused with innate shyness, social anxiety problems, inhibitedness, social phobia and innate fearfulness and introversion.The trait is measured using the HSP Scale, which has been demonstrated to have both internal and external validity. Although the term is primarily used to describe humans, something similar to the trait is present in over 100 other species. Bill Stunt of the CBC once explained to me the four stages of a jazz musician's life but I don't think it's genre-specific:
i. invention
ii. addiction
iii. incarceration
iv. submission
الإسلام Don't bore us, get to the chorus. A man's religion for a man's world. As-salam alaykum.
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The immediate and unconditional surrendering without compensation of all aboriginal lands, cultural artifacts, and derived revenues held by these churches.
In the summer of 1847, 863 Irish immigrants died of typhus in the fever sheds erected by the Toronto Board of Health at the northwest corner of King and John. There were at least 12 sheds, 22 metres long by 7.5 metres wide. Please send body/face pics, stats and interests. Emails without pics will be ignored.
endgame:
The immediate disbanding of the RCMP and Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.
Walter Benjamin identified the "bungled reception of technology" as the crucial problem of 20th century industrial modernity. For him, the first sign of this failure was the repeated attempts to overcome the fact that technology speeds up the process of turning the objects it produces into commodities and, eventually, does the same to the wage labourers who produce them, alienating people from themselves and the fruit of their labourite. The speed of printing machines and the capacities of apparatuses for reduplicating words and writing outstrip human needs. The energies which technology develops beyond this threshold are destructive. Instead of accumulating experiences or wisdom, inhabitants of such a society spend all their time filtering a constant rain of disconnected jolts of information and reacting distractedly to a rapidly changing social structure. from Lesabendio by Paul Scheerbart
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Seriously, Canada Post is in trouble. I like Canada Post
-good funders. Send a postcard why don't you?
I know a guy who has put in most of a lifetime doing mindless work 40 hours a week at one of North America's last car manufacturers so as to support his three kids and wife who has late stage Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's/Stephen Hawking's disease). And he's al-right! So before you start clicking away in contempt over this or that trivial bullshit consider this man's situation and your own and put on a happy face. A life in service. A life in service. No judgement. The other day I asked a guy if he was Muslim and he was offended. ?!
"I have no doubt that Hugo Chavez will return alongside Jesus Christ and Mahdi to establish peace and justice in the world."
-Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (President of Iran/Dad)
