On the Sinking of the Costa Concordia

The captain abandons his ship and claims he fell overboard. This is a metaphor for more than the Italian political scene. All current leadership in the Western World -- Britain, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia -- all are sleep walking to disaster with the same attitude as the Captain of the Costa Concordia who ordered dinner after the ship struck a rock over which he had driven his 3000 passengers, a rock which eviscerated his boat.

The political leaders of all major nations are driving by disastrous shallow waters in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond, to waive to the lobby in their domestic political scene. They preen and perform their ritual dances at elections, while enormous unfunded liabilities are increased and they build up burdens on people and powers of oppression in their governments. soon, they will strike a rock.

When they do, you can expect them, like the Italian captain, to blame their circumstances on others and leave no one in charge to handle the disaster they created. They will Schettino us all and scuttle the ship. The collapse of Rome was followed by almost 1,000 years of retrogressive disaster. For example, the bridge over the Danube the Romans had built and abandoned after 450 AD was not replaced until 1840.

The real progress of the last 500 years is in jeopardy from the world's shallow leadership, who dress like a captain but don't really know how to drive the boat or why.

Wikipedia’s Brave Stand

Wikipedia has done no favours for me. In fact, their reports on me are evidhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifently slanted to portray me in a negative way, but I agree with and admire their stand on SOPA and PIPA. The U.S. Congress and legislators around the world are always looking for some altruistic or moral excuse to control the flow of influence and knowledge.

It is vitally important that everyone becomes aware of the inherent danger of allowing any government regulator anywhere to control, regulate, and thus cripple the small independent sources of unofficial information on small websites around the world who can’t afford to fight. In essence, the Congress and Senate in total ignorance (I hope) are sounding more and more like the Communist Party of China. Media control, knowledge control, thought control… stop it now or regret it later!

America has been the last best bastion of freedom. This fight is worth the effort. Congratulations to Wikipedia. I will write the State Department, or better still phone the consulate of the United States where I live.

Equal Rights for All!

The above article, which appeared in the Times Colonist on January 11, 2012, clearly demonstrates the great danger of special rights based on race. The inherrent capacity for convoluted interpretations of these special rights is indicitive of the confusion that will emerge when these rights are gradually expanded, as they appear to be. We as a country have disavowed the concept of discrimination on the basis of race, with the exception of course of all the special status accorded to those who consider themselves "First Nations." The concept of a nation state attributable to a small indiginous band is inherrently falacious and contradicts the importance of equality rights for all citizens. There cannot be a stable, sensible society with concepts of "Indiginous rights" which are distinct from those of the general population. It will, in the end, produce resentment and inequitable distribution of legal rights, which after all should be accorded without distinctions as to race.

It is part of the inherrent nature of Canada, inherited from the British Crown and its declarations of the ancient past (like the Royal Proclamation of 1764) in circumstances vastly different than present day circumstances that these special rights exist.

Western Canada, if independent, would not be a successor government of the government of Canada or of the Imperial Parliament of England. As such, we could define our legal and political rights in a distinct and fair manner. This is impossible under the present constitutional arrangement, as the Supreme Court of Canada has consistently upheld various versions of legal rights based on racial distinctions of supposedly indiginous origin. This is another reason why, unless independence is accomplished for Western Canada, the end result will be a demoralized, chaotic conflict between racial groups and rights based upon racial categories. This is quite the contrary to what everyone claims to espouse in the Canadian political system.

The Futility of Foreign Aid

Canada, I am told, gave $1-billion to Haiti for reconstruction, where I am also told that 500,000 are still homeless.

One wonders if there is actual effective assistance given for this money since so little is achieved, or if the systemic corruption which plagues Haiti is the cause. What value is there to sending money to a broken system like Haiti or Afghanistan?