I do not accept any of the superficial labels people try to slap on me and I have no interest in the more popular and socially encouraged labels either (such as being "patriotic" to some corporate vassal state or another, or having some specific genetic lineage that defines me, or being some certain type of "spiritual" etc).
So many here in Canada get really excited about waving flags and talking about our great nation. Not me, each "Canada Day" I contemplate the 150 years plus of Colonialism... Pillaging... Eugenics... Assimilation... Polluting... Disenfranchisement... Criminal Dispossession... Forced Labor (aka slavery), Lying... Mass Murder and Involuntary Governance which defines this nation state.
This is a country in which government funded operations were created with the express intent of assaulting, lying, stealing land, kidnapping, torturing, psychologically abusing, assimilating and/or the mass murder of children.
Some think that the residential schools are some kind of isolated incident. They have not done their homework. Indigenous women had been forcibly sterilized in Saskatchewan up until the 2000-s. Another example (less extreme though also appalling) is when the government of Canada seized the property of thousands of Japanese Canadian Citizens, forced them into camps to be used as slave labor, sold their possessions and then either forced them to leave Canada or move east. Here in Ontario I live in a town where David Suzuki and his family were forced to move to from their home out west in BC (where they had been detained and held in concentration type government camps simply because of the fact that they are Japanese).
Right now the colonial imperialistic conquest (that began with a greed an arrogance driven pillaging of the First Nation people's and their lands) continues in northwestern British Columbia where Canadian authorities are invading Wet’suwet’en indigenous lands for the construction of a gas pipeline, violating both Canadian and international law. Protests have erupted across Canada in support of the Wet'suwet'en people who are fighting for their rights.
As if the colonialism (past and present) and pillaging of the land (and the people who called this place home before the Europeans came) was not enough, over the past 3 decades the Canadian government has worked closely with corporations that are attempting to colonize the very genetic fabric of our food sources with the creation and proliferation of GMO crops (transgenic organisms created via rDNA gene splicing tech). These nutritionally deficient highly toxic food crops have resulted in the devastation of our soils, waters, diverse ecosystems and the degradation of human health.
Now the final step of colonialism is underway... it involves the colonization of your mind and body. Our government officials and government officials all over the world in other involuntary governance structures (now nothing more than feeble puppets for a plutocracy of CEOs of corporations and central banks that see the majority of humanity as lower than them) launched a blitzkrieg of fear propaganda and psychological warfare operations disseminated through infiltrated institutions we have been raised to trust and respect. The architects of this new (and final) type of colonialism arrive wearing a smiling face, speaking of equality, "keeping the citizens safe from danger" and make promises of a high tech 'utopia' offering a long list of quick fix 'solutions' that are 'easier' than those 'old natural methods' to seduce the weak minded while it slips a dagger between the ribs (or more specifically, a syringe).
Many have allowed themselves to be internally colonized (in many cases literally as their DNA is being artificially altered) and mentally assimilated. When I say mentally colonized or assimilated, what I mean is they have allowed themselves to be coerced, intimidated, 'carrot and stick-ed' and brainwashed into a state one could only describe as a psychotic break. This is a mind state in which they have moved so far into a sort of stockholm syndrome that they no longer summon up thoughts of their own (rather just regurgitating what ever the 'public health officials', politicians or "philanthropist" billionaires say on tv). These mentally colonized masses of people will even actively defend the government's and plutocrat's insane, irrational, criminal behavior and mandates (which violate the Nuremburg Code) and blindly carry out their orders (like members of a cult).
This is a nation in which our government is currently pushing to get your children experimented on with gene altering drugs (that pose them a higher risk of being hospitalized than the virus these experimental drugs are supposedly going to protect them against). We are now moving beyond Malfeasance, Medical malpractice and anything resembling science and into the realm of something closer to a religion or cult. If we continue on this trajectory the genocide that we will have allowed to take place will be far greater in number than the deaths in the residential schools.
I love this land (that was once called part of Turtle Island by it's inhabitants) however, this entity that some are celebrating today (called Canada) is hardly something worthy of saluting... it's history is stained with the blood of those who stood in the way of the profits and genocidal delusions of government authorities (and their corporate puppet masters). It is a nation state that is not on a path guided by compassion, nor humility, nor valor, nor courage, nor freedom. It is a country where the majority have allowed themselves to become mentally enslaved, subservient to an unelected plutocratic constellation of criminal corporations (and their puppets in government) and that is nothing to be proud of.
Whew! That was quite a tangent, well thanks for reading and thanks for the thought provoking post.
I've been noticing this in some of my IRL contacts in the recent past, a suddenly intensified need to have AN IDENTITY in the "I am THIS" way. I wonder if it may result, at least in part, from a decrease in real genuine and deep IRL connections, and as a coping or compensating mechanism it becomes desperately necessary for people to create a substitute 'connection' by identifying very strongly with some group/label. I try to think back to when I was a child/teen/young adult, I don't recall there being such a massive amount of Identity-ing back then. Maybe there was and I just wasn't aware of it, but if if there wasn't and it's new, then what caused it? Or something imposed top-down, because nudging people towards this need to Identify serves some purpose..? I don't know... but I do know that when I interact with people who are embracing this very loud and insistent "I am THIS" cry it makes me recoil. A little while ago I needed to create a LinkedIn account in order to access something, I listed myself as Human working at Planet Earth.
Interesting post, thank you for sharing thoughts on this topic.
Yes, i don't remember having this at all when i was growing up, certainly not about choosing a sex identity. I know JK Rowling has commented on how she watched the rise of the focus on identities which eventually led to the shit show that happened to her. It's certainly divisive; which is what a lot of the media deliberately do; create antagonism for clicks.
I didn't have any social media nor the internet growing so a lot of IRL issues must be stoked by living so much of life online nowadays. We have online tribes that don't really cross over into actual connections with people IRL.
You are very welcome Jen, great to hear from you 🙏🏽
Well said. Every human, and non-human has been oppressed either singularly or culturally over time. We should of course, never sanction oppression, but we should be proud of what has been overcome. Our journey on this plane is not, imo, to sit in a lap of luxury but to "be pressed" into growth.
Renewable energy comes from sources that are not depleted when used but are replenished naturally. They include wind, solar, hydro, tidal, wave and geothermal energy, and are generally used for power generation or heat production. Their use has grown rapidly in recent years, largely to take the place of fossil fuels as countries try to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions in the fight against climate change.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has calculated that subsidies to aid the deployment of renewable energy technologies amounted to US$140 billion in 2016. Countries within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) subsidise green energy more than poorer, non-OECD countries.
While renewables are often criticised for being heavily subsidised, in fact fossil fuels and nuclear power receive more financial support. The IEA calculated that fossil fuels received about US$260 billion in 2016and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has criticised these subsidies for hampering progress on reducing emissions. Some describe fossil fuels as receiving preferential treatment politically.
Fossil fuel subsidies have increased rapidly in recent years as governments continue to set fuel prices at levels that do not reflect supply costs and the environmental damage from consumption.
Fossil fuels benefited from record subsidies of $13m (£10.3m) a minute in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund, despite being the primary cause of the climate crisis. The IMF analysis found the total subsidies for oil, gas and coal in 2022 were $7tn (£5.5tn).
In the EU Fossil fuel subsidies remained relatively stable at about EUR 56 billion (2022 prices), over the period 2015-2021, yet increased to EUR 123 billion in 2022.
And how does$50 billion in government subsidy every year in the US alone to the fossil fuel giants making $billions of profit make oil cheaper than cheap to set up and produce renewables?
lol "sustainable green weapons", yes that is what we need, compostable projectile weapons and carbon neutral explosive ordinance. Perhaps we can use some of that lithium being carved out of the Boreal Forest to make re-chargeable directed energy weapons, the future is looking more 'green' and 'sustainable' everyday now.
The host of COP28 is the leader of the biggest, dirtiest oil company in the United Arab emirates. The whole thing is an industry led farce. Nothing helpful can possibly come of it.
Of course i consider solar min and max and hunga tonga, dissenting climate scientists are not censored, they are in a small minority and that green policies will bankrupt the Northern hemisphere is just another industry lie. Green energy is cheaper and Germany has been bankrupted because it shot itself in the foot by sanctioning Russia, not because of the UN.
One of the reasons why it is an obvious choice for Germany to make wind and solar its main power source rather than nuclear, is that new renewable installations have become cheaper than all other electricity sources – especially where a CO2 price is applied.
According to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 and Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut), the energy costs for nuclear power generation are currently 15.5 cents per kilowatt hour, compared to 4.9 cents for solar energy and 4.1 cents for wind power.
The British government has given a price guarantee of 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for 35 years to the nuclear power plant project Hinkley Point C. In Germany, feed-in tariffs for onshore wind and solar PV are between 6-7 ct/kwh or, in some tenders, even lower. Offshore wind parks are now being built without any government support.
New reactor projects often turn out to be much more expensive than envisaged. The costs for a new “Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR)“ in Flamanville, France, have risen from 3.4 billion to more than 19 billion euros, while the project will likely take at least 11 years longer than planned. Similar price hikes and delays have occurred in the UK, Finland and the U.S..
Germany not only has strong public support for, and a long history of, anti-nuclear sentiment, it also has only 6 percent of nuclear left in its power mix. Leaving it behind entirely is therefore a more obvious and easy decision than for other countries, such as France, where the share of nuclear power in domestic generation stands at 70.6 percent, but also in Bulgaria with 40.8 percent, in Sweden with 29.8 percent (in Spain: 22.2%, Russia at 20.%, United States at 19.7%, UK 16%, all in 2020).
The British government has given a price guarantee of 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for 35 years to the nuclear power plant project Hinkley Point C. In Germany, feed-in tariffs for onshore wind and solar PV are between 6-7 ct/kwh or, in some tenders, even lower. Offshore wind parks are now being built without any government support.
I do not accept any of the superficial labels people try to slap on me and I have no interest in the more popular and socially encouraged labels either (such as being "patriotic" to some corporate vassal state or another, or having some specific genetic lineage that defines me, or being some certain type of "spiritual" etc).
So many here in Canada get really excited about waving flags and talking about our great nation. Not me, each "Canada Day" I contemplate the 150 years plus of Colonialism... Pillaging... Eugenics... Assimilation... Polluting... Disenfranchisement... Criminal Dispossession... Forced Labor (aka slavery), Lying... Mass Murder and Involuntary Governance which defines this nation state.
This is a country in which government funded operations were created with the express intent of assaulting, lying, stealing land, kidnapping, torturing, psychologically abusing, assimilating and/or the mass murder of children.
Some think that the residential schools are some kind of isolated incident. They have not done their homework. Indigenous women had been forcibly sterilized in Saskatchewan up until the 2000-s. Another example (less extreme though also appalling) is when the government of Canada seized the property of thousands of Japanese Canadian Citizens, forced them into camps to be used as slave labor, sold their possessions and then either forced them to leave Canada or move east. Here in Ontario I live in a town where David Suzuki and his family were forced to move to from their home out west in BC (where they had been detained and held in concentration type government camps simply because of the fact that they are Japanese).
Right now the colonial imperialistic conquest (that began with a greed an arrogance driven pillaging of the First Nation people's and their lands) continues in northwestern British Columbia where Canadian authorities are invading Wet’suwet’en indigenous lands for the construction of a gas pipeline, violating both Canadian and international law. Protests have erupted across Canada in support of the Wet'suwet'en people who are fighting for their rights.
As if the colonialism (past and present) and pillaging of the land (and the people who called this place home before the Europeans came) was not enough, over the past 3 decades the Canadian government has worked closely with corporations that are attempting to colonize the very genetic fabric of our food sources with the creation and proliferation of GMO crops (transgenic organisms created via rDNA gene splicing tech). These nutritionally deficient highly toxic food crops have resulted in the devastation of our soils, waters, diverse ecosystems and the degradation of human health.
Northward the imperialistic conquest and colonialism continues with the pillaging of the Boreal Forest to rip lithium and cobalt from the bones of our Mother Earth. (for more info: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/an-introduction-to-a-new-series-befriending )
Now the final step of colonialism is underway... it involves the colonization of your mind and body. Our government officials and government officials all over the world in other involuntary governance structures (now nothing more than feeble puppets for a plutocracy of CEOs of corporations and central banks that see the majority of humanity as lower than them) launched a blitzkrieg of fear propaganda and psychological warfare operations disseminated through infiltrated institutions we have been raised to trust and respect. The architects of this new (and final) type of colonialism arrive wearing a smiling face, speaking of equality, "keeping the citizens safe from danger" and make promises of a high tech 'utopia' offering a long list of quick fix 'solutions' that are 'easier' than those 'old natural methods' to seduce the weak minded while it slips a dagger between the ribs (or more specifically, a syringe).
Many have allowed themselves to be internally colonized (in many cases literally as their DNA is being artificially altered) and mentally assimilated. When I say mentally colonized or assimilated, what I mean is they have allowed themselves to be coerced, intimidated, 'carrot and stick-ed' and brainwashed into a state one could only describe as a psychotic break. This is a mind state in which they have moved so far into a sort of stockholm syndrome that they no longer summon up thoughts of their own (rather just regurgitating what ever the 'public health officials', politicians or "philanthropist" billionaires say on tv). These mentally colonized masses of people will even actively defend the government's and plutocrat's insane, irrational, criminal behavior and mandates (which violate the Nuremburg Code) and blindly carry out their orders (like members of a cult).
This is a nation in which our government is currently pushing to get your children experimented on with gene altering drugs (that pose them a higher risk of being hospitalized than the virus these experimental drugs are supposedly going to protect them against). We are now moving beyond Malfeasance, Medical malpractice and anything resembling science and into the realm of something closer to a religion or cult. If we continue on this trajectory the genocide that we will have allowed to take place will be far greater in number than the deaths in the residential schools.
I love this land (that was once called part of Turtle Island by it's inhabitants) however, this entity that some are celebrating today (called Canada) is hardly something worthy of saluting... it's history is stained with the blood of those who stood in the way of the profits and genocidal delusions of government authorities (and their corporate puppet masters). It is a nation state that is not on a path guided by compassion, nor humility, nor valor, nor courage, nor freedom. It is a country where the majority have allowed themselves to become mentally enslaved, subservient to an unelected plutocratic constellation of criminal corporations (and their puppets in government) and that is nothing to be proud of.
Whew! That was quite a tangent, well thanks for reading and thanks for the thought provoking post.
🙏🏽
I've been noticing this in some of my IRL contacts in the recent past, a suddenly intensified need to have AN IDENTITY in the "I am THIS" way. I wonder if it may result, at least in part, from a decrease in real genuine and deep IRL connections, and as a coping or compensating mechanism it becomes desperately necessary for people to create a substitute 'connection' by identifying very strongly with some group/label. I try to think back to when I was a child/teen/young adult, I don't recall there being such a massive amount of Identity-ing back then. Maybe there was and I just wasn't aware of it, but if if there wasn't and it's new, then what caused it? Or something imposed top-down, because nudging people towards this need to Identify serves some purpose..? I don't know... but I do know that when I interact with people who are embracing this very loud and insistent "I am THIS" cry it makes me recoil. A little while ago I needed to create a LinkedIn account in order to access something, I listed myself as Human working at Planet Earth.
Interesting post, thank you for sharing thoughts on this topic.
Yes, i don't remember having this at all when i was growing up, certainly not about choosing a sex identity. I know JK Rowling has commented on how she watched the rise of the focus on identities which eventually led to the shit show that happened to her. It's certainly divisive; which is what a lot of the media deliberately do; create antagonism for clicks.
I didn't have any social media nor the internet growing so a lot of IRL issues must be stoked by living so much of life online nowadays. We have online tribes that don't really cross over into actual connections with people IRL.
You are very welcome Jen, great to hear from you 🙏🏽
Well said. Every human, and non-human has been oppressed either singularly or culturally over time. We should of course, never sanction oppression, but we should be proud of what has been overcome. Our journey on this plane is not, imo, to sit in a lap of luxury but to "be pressed" into growth.
Renewable energy comes from sources that are not depleted when used but are replenished naturally. They include wind, solar, hydro, tidal, wave and geothermal energy, and are generally used for power generation or heat production. Their use has grown rapidly in recent years, largely to take the place of fossil fuels as countries try to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions in the fight against climate change.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has calculated that subsidies to aid the deployment of renewable energy technologies amounted to US$140 billion in 2016. Countries within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) subsidise green energy more than poorer, non-OECD countries.
While renewables are often criticised for being heavily subsidised, in fact fossil fuels and nuclear power receive more financial support. The IEA calculated that fossil fuels received about US$260 billion in 2016and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has criticised these subsidies for hampering progress on reducing emissions. Some describe fossil fuels as receiving preferential treatment politically.
Fossil fuel subsidies have increased rapidly in recent years as governments continue to set fuel prices at levels that do not reflect supply costs and the environmental damage from consumption.
Fossil fuels benefited from record subsidies of $13m (£10.3m) a minute in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund, despite being the primary cause of the climate crisis. The IMF analysis found the total subsidies for oil, gas and coal in 2022 were $7tn (£5.5tn).
In the EU Fossil fuel subsidies remained relatively stable at about EUR 56 billion (2022 prices), over the period 2015-2021, yet increased to EUR 123 billion in 2022.
And how does$50 billion in government subsidy every year in the US alone to the fossil fuel giants making $billions of profit make oil cheaper than cheap to set up and produce renewables?
lol "sustainable green weapons", yes that is what we need, compostable projectile weapons and carbon neutral explosive ordinance. Perhaps we can use some of that lithium being carved out of the Boreal Forest to make re-chargeable directed energy weapons, the future is looking more 'green' and 'sustainable' everyday now.
The host of COP28 is the leader of the biggest, dirtiest oil company in the United Arab emirates. The whole thing is an industry led farce. Nothing helpful can possibly come of it.
Of course i consider solar min and max and hunga tonga, dissenting climate scientists are not censored, they are in a small minority and that green policies will bankrupt the Northern hemisphere is just another industry lie. Green energy is cheaper and Germany has been bankrupted because it shot itself in the foot by sanctioning Russia, not because of the UN.
One of the reasons why it is an obvious choice for Germany to make wind and solar its main power source rather than nuclear, is that new renewable installations have become cheaper than all other electricity sources – especially where a CO2 price is applied.
According to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2021 and Institute for Applied Ecology (Öko-Institut), the energy costs for nuclear power generation are currently 15.5 cents per kilowatt hour, compared to 4.9 cents for solar energy and 4.1 cents for wind power.
The British government has given a price guarantee of 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for 35 years to the nuclear power plant project Hinkley Point C. In Germany, feed-in tariffs for onshore wind and solar PV are between 6-7 ct/kwh or, in some tenders, even lower. Offshore wind parks are now being built without any government support.
New reactor projects often turn out to be much more expensive than envisaged. The costs for a new “Evolutionary Power Reactor (EPR)“ in Flamanville, France, have risen from 3.4 billion to more than 19 billion euros, while the project will likely take at least 11 years longer than planned. Similar price hikes and delays have occurred in the UK, Finland and the U.S..
Germany not only has strong public support for, and a long history of, anti-nuclear sentiment, it also has only 6 percent of nuclear left in its power mix. Leaving it behind entirely is therefore a more obvious and easy decision than for other countries, such as France, where the share of nuclear power in domestic generation stands at 70.6 percent, but also in Bulgaria with 40.8 percent, in Sweden with 29.8 percent (in Spain: 22.2%, Russia at 20.%, United States at 19.7%, UK 16%, all in 2020).
The British government has given a price guarantee of 11 cents per kilowatt-hour for 35 years to the nuclear power plant project Hinkley Point C. In Germany, feed-in tariffs for onshore wind and solar PV are between 6-7 ct/kwh or, in some tenders, even lower. Offshore wind parks are now being built without any government support.