Fact checking Chief Escalade's hunger strike. The "financials" begin at the 20 minute mark.
Sun media is a bias conservative wannabe Fox News Network. ROFL
It's a well known fact they are a conservative bent news. So is it really news? Or propaganda dressed up like a news media.
Does any one point out the fact that Mother Theresa ate everyday.
Many an anti poverty organizer is wealthy.
So , even if she is rich, what of it?
If she was poor and desolate she would not be Chief.
Harping on the fact she is receiving water and a liquid nutrient so she can talk doesn't take away from the fact she is on a hunger strike.lol.
People that fast have tons of energy,and can appear healthier than most.
There is this bias going around and well, you either feel that way or like me you say these people need a huge hand up.
Some of the posts in this thread are nasty as hell. It's "Bigot's are us", behind an internet connection.
Wanting to see the bad in what Chief Spence is trying to do, and doing, says a lot about your politics, and your person.
People just don't get the effect abject poverty, oppression, abuse,has on a people over hundreds of years.
The whole paradigm needs to be shifted from corruption to viable help.
In the sixties there were Native schools that were run like concentration camps , in Canada.
You can't have that , so close to our time and not have a huge swath of people lost.
These movements and protests, like the occupy wall street movement, are not necessarily Kosher.
They sure as hell are a barometer of our society.
Now just so you know , I'm not some NDP make the rich pay communist.
Nor am I satan lives in Harper's trousers and we need to unzip them and let him die.
Nor am I impressed at all with the present Liberal conundrum they call a party.
As for the Greens,nice talking sweet looking group of go nowhere any time soon crowd.
I'm more interested in Grass Roots movements and people that try to make a difference by volunteering in hospitals or food banks.
Something , anything that actually ignores the corruption of politics and a media bent on lobbying one particular party.
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