A Likely Story

B.C. Liberal leader
Christy Clark,
and Bill Bennett.
Energy Minister
Bill Bennett says
 the B.C. government
 remains committed
to clean energy but
the future of
the province’s
 power industry is
 more shades of
grey than black
 and white.
THE
CANADIAN PRESS/
Jimmy Jeong
http://globalnews.
ca/news/1414019
/energy-minister
-addresses-
clean-industry/

"the oil is a heavy
tar-like
 one that is, according
to award-winning author
 Andrew Nikiforuk,
so thick it’s like sucking
cold maple syrup
out of a straw.
 Nikiforuk calls it
 “dirty oil”
due to the fact that the
 heavy oil takes a lot
 of resources
 to produce and when
 burned it emits more
 CO2emissions than
lightweight oil"http://bcrainforest.com/
great-bear-rainforest/
great-bear-rainforest
-part-8-oil-sands/

Deputy Premier
Dave Hancock announces
 that he is the chosen
 interim premier,
 in Edmonton,
Alberta on
Thursday March 20, 2014
 following the resignation
of Alberta Premier
Alison Redford.
(Jason Franson
/ THE
CANADIAN PRESS)

Metallica (left to right)
James Hetfield,
Kirk Hammett,
Lars Ulrich,
Cliff Burton

 

"Jim Ellis

the new

(Alberta) energy regulator (AER),

which will replace

the Energy Resources

 Conservation Board, will

have a $200 million

budget and employ

nearly 1,000 people"

(CBC)

How does the AER 

enforce the rules?

                                        

Nice day for a swim                          
Near Likely, B.C.,                                                

A tailings pond, on a whim

Go work your abs at the gym!                                                
While they kill our country, 

Have a skinny latte, to keep yourself slim

Lake Quesnel in Mount Polly was filled to the brim

With toxins like copper, and selenium

Heavy metal, not like Metallica's Sanitarium
For Canada, the beautiful, don't go out on a limb

While politicians destroy
The birthright of our children

Christy Clark a Liberal in B.C.
Dave Hancock an Alberta P.C.
A Progressive Conservative                                            
More an oxymoron, than a superlative

Wake up from your slumber

I hear you cutting lumber

Sawing logs are a cumber

Not a jam in high number

A tailings pond breached, August 4th this summer                                                                 

Another chemical spill, is worse than a bummer

B.C. Liberals, Alberta and Stephen Harper

All have been groomed, to make profits sharper

No dummy, not yours

Corporate cash, for off shores

Like Imperial Metal Corps. profits that soars

Give them your wallet                                 

To siphon every last cent                     

See how

Small 

It can get for

The 99% 

In Alberta there's Shell, Syncrude and Suncor

Hold up, wait a minute I got a lot  more...

B.C.mining culprit is Imperial Metal Corp

Government, special interests and the rules that they thwart

The Alberta Energy Regulator's a joke

Industry police itself and from cancer we croak                                   

Pembina Institute, said of fed action and Alberta

It's like it's none of our business, like it doesn't concern ya

Unless you are poor, government won't make you atone

A 10 billion liter leak, long term damage unknown

The Honourable
Diana McQueen,
Minister of Energy,
Government of Alberta
Imperial Corp. the
 delinquent mines
that they own

Since 2000, there were 49 incidents alone                                              

How soon we forget,
Media diversion makes us prone

Avoiding the real issues, like we're all stoned!

2 died in B.C. mines, families left to bemoan

Until there's a disaster news reports get postponed

Environmental autocracy

Regulatory hypocrisy

Betrayal of social contractual guarantee

Omission of what the public's general will decree

No one would allow them to freely kill

Environmental degradation continues downhill

Capitalism gone awry, it's over please go home

An oil-soaked American coot
is cleaned by workers
from Focus Wildlife
Canada at the Wildlife
Rehabilitation Society of
Edmonton on May 4, 2008.
About 1,600 waterfowl
perished in a Syncrude tailings
pond one month earlier,
kicking off a firestorm
of protests about
oilsands pollution.
Photograph by: Larry
 Wong , Edmonton
 Journal

Sorry this just in, we don't have a home

Only because we wanted it cushy like foam

Capitalism meant as an experiment or a stepping stone

Not a means to obliterate our ecological dome

Now Canada is no more like Ancient Rome

In the meantime stay fast asleep

Avoid real issues through 60 hour work weeks

Only to find you're no further ahead

In no time we're all buried and dead

Realize you sacrificed family for things

You sacrificed real treasures
And what the earth brings

You let them destroy our sacred land

So the economic agenda could go as planned

But we don't reap the rewards,
Because we all got scammed!

"Photos provided by a 
government scientist show
 the site of an oil spill 
in Cold Lake, Alta. 
The company that runs the 
operation says it is effectively
 managing the cleanup."

"The Cold Lake operations are 
on the traditional territory of 
the Beaver Lake Cree First Nation, 
which is pursuing a constitutional
 challenge that argues the cumulative
 impacts of oil sands industrial development 

The Neskonlith
Indian Band
 says it opposes
 Imperial Metals'
Ruddock Creek Mine
 because the company
 failed to protect
 First Nations land
 when the Mount Polley
 tailings pond breached.
(CBC)

are infringing their treaty 
rights to hunt, fish and trap.

http://www.thestar.com/

news/canada/2013/07/19/

nobody_understands_ongoing_

spills_at_alberta_oilsands_

operation.html

The Best Scam ( perpetrated on woman, child and man)

Here take a drink
Psych,

You're about to spring a leak
Stick your finger in the dike,
Not the kind your gf lykes
The holds back water type;
Water they sell you to drink,
Tell em,
Go take a hike!

You know the bottled kind
Nestle, Desani, Aquafina,
A scam, on humankind;
They're laughing at us,
Like the hyena
All the way to the bank,
In their profitable,
Unregulated, arena!

Evian makes you naive
Do you or don't you think?
Canadian water we buy,
The kind that's found in your sink
Or in Ontario's watershed springs;
Hillsburgh and Aberfoyle
The stuff's more expensive
Than Canada's dirty oil.

Government allows corporations
To trap our natural resources
Then sell it back to us
They lead us like horses
To water                                                                                                        

Then make us drink,
What'll be left for our kids?
For once get pissed off!
Or for yourself think!

Bottled water is no safer than tap

Wake up from your slumber
Your perpetual nap,
The bottled water industry
Nestle, Coca Cola and Pepsi
Skate off with the profits,
Faster than Gretzky.

But wait there's more
Government gave them
Our keys to the store
It's not just bottled water
It's soft drinks, galore
They consume our finite resources
Like a money hungry whore.

Water siphoning Nestle
Sells it back to us for pay
To the ripe old tune
Of a million liters per day
Until 2017,                                                                                

Queens Park and Ottawa,
Will look the other way.
What do corporations have on these guys anyway?
Obviously they got some sway!

Non renewable plastic bottles
Into landfills do go
And the water to make them,
Like a river does flow
At the ballot box,
Politicians should know;
They're working for us!
Onto them,
Canada,
We do not bestow.

Killing Us Microsoftly

First there was plastic,
Many thought fantastic.

It wasn't too exciting 

Nor its look inviting.                                                

What did plastic do for us?

A more versatile spoon;

Now we have enough garbage
To ship to the moon.

What did plastic do to us?

Many agree it's bad;
The problem is, industry
Turning utility, into fad. 

Apart from its many uses 

There's a million and one abuses

On top of industry excuses -
Mainstream media silence,
Is tantamount to violence.
Maintaining the status quo
Is like a city,
With everyone named Joe.
If you find the reality too drastic,

What do you think of people;
Who wrap themselves in plastic?

Coming on the scene
Is something called graphene,
Like coffee with caffeine.
Pencil lead graphite
Impermeable and light                                                                              
Keeping it real;
It's stronger than U.S. steel.

The new wonder stuff,
Like a diamond in the rough;

Dare I say tough!

Graphene atomic view

A conductor of heat
And electricity both,
Marketers of graphene,
Swear it, like an oath.
It's thin, its transparent
Now that plastic's become aberrant
It would seem graphene
Is the lauded heir apparent.

Hold on a minute,
Not so fast.                                                                        

Researchers say
Our water filtration, will let it get passed
It will cut our innards, like swallowing glass.
Finding its way, 

Into the food we eat
Get absorbed by plants,
Like the carrot and the beet.

Graphene particles
Can be minute like nano
Take us out quick,
Like Tony Soprano;                                    
Get them on murder one,
"Book em Danno"
We'll be dead
Left in the ditch
In the end
Industry'll still be rich.

.

Chewing (out) The Fat(so)

Obesity's on the rise
Experts say;
And the finger of blame
Is pointed your way.

Diabetes, also on the rise,
Really should come
As no surprise;
When every meal
Is super-sized,
And the weight migrates,
Right to your thighs.

Follow what the experts say,
Staying active,
Is the only way.
The upper class benefit from it;
One requires means, just to stay fit.
Education failed the poor,
You get a gym class
And nothing more,
Than a fat ass;
Buying groceries,
At your, local convenience store.

Wait a minute!
Fat, skinny or whatever
There is something,
We can all do together!
Place the blame,
Where blame is due,
Keeping in mind,
Blame's no good for you.

We live in a society
Where food comes prepared;
 Media says, if only you compared,
The calories on this label or on that
Then just maybe, you wouldn't be fat!
 But they let industry off the hook,
Because its industry money that they took!

If Health Canada really cared,
We'd have basic ingredients,
Toxic additives would not be spared;
And hidden items would all be bared.                                            
Nobody's talking about the push for    
Preservative market shares,
Nobody's trying to expose,
food mogul fortune heirs;
Instead the public becomes, the big fat target
While industry poisons your
Supermarket.


If the lame duck FDA
So much as dared,
Strict regulation and enforcement;
Instead of food industry endorsement;
All these years, such a lack of standard,
By the very ones, to whom they've pandered;
While fat people,
Like minorities are slandered;            
Then maybe we wouldn't see
Such egregious manipulation
Of the big three!

Sugar, Salt and Fat,
Taken together,
Hit you like crack.
Yet Medical experts
Seem to pull back;
The food industry
Are aware of these facts,
And is glad to exploit you,
Like the Big Mac.

The big three,
May be under a different name,
In a multiple dose,
But it's all the same.
Sugar can be glucose/fructose
Or even dextrose,
Artificial sweetener
Can be aspartame or sucralose.
Fats can be labeled hydrogenated oil;
Clog your arteries and your heart will spoil.
Salt can be:
Autolyzed / hydrolyzed - plant protein
Or natural flavor; flowing from the MSG gene.                                  

These ingredients are unnatural as can be,
And rearrange our brain chemistry!

Let's say you had a down day,
Would you fancy an apple
Over a vanilla latte?
Chances are,
The answer is no.
Because processed food
Will give you a turbo,
Boost like a meal;
No fruit or veggie
Has such quick appeal!

It's not physical activity
That only has to change,
The pathways in our brains
Must rearrange.
Addiction uses visual fuel,
So our brain plays our body for a fool.
Fruits and veggies
Need the advertising tool,
So a healthy trap will ensnare;
Otherwise a salad just won't  compare.
To the all pervasive, fat laden,
Salty, sugary fare.

The big 3 three ingredients                                                    
 In their basic form
Can be the spice of life,
When not derived from corn.

The Schism

The environmental schism
It's much like a prism
We come to see the light
Refracted in plain sight.

The schism - the disconnect
Is the earth, body, mind connection incorrect?
Some would have you believe
Climate change science is here to deceive.


Don't confuse political aspiration,
With climate science refutation,
Your intolerance will turn into exasperation.
Science is: skillful observation;
That is all!
Political manipulation had the gall,
To toss about the political football,
Something historians like to call
"The Night of the Long Knives"
How the Tories paved the way for their 2011 reprise.


Consider how health care, medicine
Was sold by government, to the big pharma profession;
Doctors have less integrity; was our first impression
In trading the Hippocratic Oath,
For material possession.



Cancer fundraising is booming business!
Only cancer rates have incredible fitness!
Cancer researchers clam up, like Samuel in Witness
Instead of putting food and chemical manufacturers on their hit list
Have you added food and chemical manufacturers to your shit list?


Maybe the Canadian Cancer Society can spare some of their donated wealth
Not to boost fundraising efforts -
But to boost public health!
Treatment and health are not one in the same
Treatment is passive pain;
Maintaining optimum health is active gain.

With all their money the CCS could be activists in the front line;
Exposing government and business for their environmental crime!
Canadian kids are the latest test subjects for chemicals in food
Land, air and sea!
We're all getting screwed!

Killing Kermit

Atrazine!

Sertraline
 (trade names
 Zoloft, Lustral)
is an antidepressant
of the selective
serotonin reuptake
 inhibitor (SSRI)
class. It was
 introduced to the
 market by
Pfizer in 1991.

What's this, you ask?
Can I drink it from a coffee flask?

Could it be a hip new zine?

I read after taking my Sertraline?
When I get the skinny on Moss or Delevingne!

Naw man, not even close;
I'll try and say it without being verbose,
Atrizine's a herbicide
Used on corn;
It creates defects in frogs,
So they can't be born!

Atrazine removes a frog's ribbit
And the male frog's sperm count it does inhibit
Atrazine will trigger disease in a human
I'm only the messenger don't call me Newman!

The EPA as well as Health Canada,
Are getting greased by the manufacturer Syngenta!
Government in bed with big biz
Don't sit back while they kill our kids !

Heinous!
Was what researcher Tyrone Hayes used;
To describe how public trust is being abused.
Industry funded research given to the EPA
Was conducted by an EPA panelist getting Syngenta pay

Scandalous for $1000
Alex,
What is;
Conflict of interest;
Don't treat this like a Jeopardy quiz
You got it right
No need to be in show biz

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne
(/dɛlɛˈviːn/ de-le-veen;[3]
born 12 August 1992)
is anEnglish fashion model,
socialite, actress and singer.
[6][7][8]

Health Canada did concur
With the EPA they did not demur
When the EPA needs a chauffeur
It's a Health Canada lackey they prefer

Tyrone Hayes, a biology
 professor at the University
 of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hayes'
 research has focused on the threat
 posed to frogs by pesticides and
the role of chemical pollution in the
 decline of amphibian species worldwide

 

Kate Moss (born)
16 January 1974)[3]
 is an English model.
 Born in Croydon,
Greater London,
Moss was discovered
 in 1988 at
 the age of 14
by Sarah Doukas,
the founder of
Storm Model Management,
at JFK Airport in
New York City.Moss
 rose to fame
in the early 1990s
 as part of the
 heroin chic fashion
 trend. She is
known for her
 waifish figure, \and
role in size zero fashion.

                                                                           

                                                                                      

                                                                                       Kermit the Frog








                                                                   

                                                                                          

"What’s more, the
 EPA had disqualified
 from rule-making
consideration all
 but one study on
 the effect of Atrazine
on amphibians. The
 lone remaining study
was funded by Syngenta,
 the company that manufactures
 Atrazine. Most other
papers on Atrazine had found
 some connection between
 the chemical and adverse
 effects on amphibians.
The Syngenta-funded
study showed none."
Newsweek