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  1. Karlin

    Smog Kills - REDUCE FOSSIL FUEL USE

    Our political leaders have not looked at how much Kyoto will save us in health care spending and lives saved. These 800 deaths in Toronto alone should spark some compassionate political moves to reduce smog. For all the major cities in North America , each having 1000 deaths each year...
  2. Karlin

    Internet Police in China here too

    "The average Internet user [in China] neither sees nor suspects the activities of a force widely estimated to number as many as 30,000 Internet police officers. Experts on China's Internet say the officers are constantly engaged in blocking access to Web sites that the government considers...
  3. Karlin

    Duz Anybody know why I can't post?

    obviously... I can if this got thru But some posts won't work. The topic is internet police on one post that I have tried 25 times. I have tried copy/paste from word pad mostly, instead of writing it all out. That gets frustrating to lose the posts I written out. It could be a bug in...
  4. Karlin

    Reasons why they didn't vote

    I get frustrated hearing the reasons why people won't go vote. otherwise intelligent people seem to get an attack of lazyness or something. Here is some I heard yesterday: 1] "its the system, and until that changes its just no use voting" [- so I said: there is a vote to accept STV, a major...
  5. Karlin

    Advertising needs to be reigned in

    Its time to acknowledge the ability of ads to manipulate our habits and thinking. It IS powerfull stuff, the ads are effective or they wouldn't do them. We are being manipulated into doing things we would not normally, rationally, do. Showing FOOD will stimulate hunger in people. There is...
  6. Karlin

    Raid on potfarm not reasonable

    I am just so angry about this shooting of 4 police officers at a grow op and chop shop take down. It didn't need to happen, it should not have happened over pot. This whole deal is tangled up with the various illegal activities of stolen cars , which is a good crime to enforce, and the grow...
  7. Karlin

    Declaring Canada's soveriegnty - no missle farce for us!!

    When McKenna said Canada was part of missle defence "anyways" due to NATO agreements, he was being the mouthpiece for the Canadian hawks who are in love with America. The PM said we are NOT taking part in missle defence, and he spoke for ordinary Canadians who are 75% in favour of keeping...
  8. Karlin

    "FEEBATE" - Canada's automakers and government deb

    What to do about those gas guzzlers that produce such a huge cloud of greenhouse gases? People won't seem to stop buying them, and industry refuses to stop making them or even modify them to meet the 5.2million tonnes CO2 reduction in the industry [voluntary] plan set out to meet Kyoto goals...
  9. Karlin

    Gas Guzzlers and Fossil Fools

    The government wants to put out ads to disuade Canadians from buying large vehicles with large emissions of greenhouse gases, but the automakers are crying that such an advertising campaign would "hurt auto sales of large trucks and SUVs". Well DUH, Thats the point!! Consumers won't stop...
  10. Karlin

    Better way to spend our Kyoto dollars

    The Canadian govt. has set aside billions to deal with greenhouse gases and our Kyoto obligations. There are two major approaches to this spending. The re-fitting of industry for the way it burns fossil fuels is one way to address Kyoto obligations, and another is setting up new facilites...
  11. Karlin

    B.C. parks - secret plans for hotels

    A report on the morning news today {Feb 22, 2005]said BC govt has been negotiating with foreigners to invest in condos and hotels in BC parks. A wilderness protection group said that Japanese and American investors will build "80-room hotels and condos in the wilderness"... and that...
  12. Karlin

    Kyoto issues: Oil and Coal welfare = $1.2Billion

    CBC reporters used the figure of $1.2Billion as the amount of Canadian government dollars spent on just one very specific type of welfare - "corporate welfare for oil and coal". Of course it is not called that. It is Canadian government money in the form of cheap loans, royalty holidays...
  13. Karlin

    Hockey talk - Player ownership? what about the Cup?

    The Stanley Cup won't be awarded for the first time in a lotta years if we don't get going NOW - or is it too late? 30 games in two months, and away we go for playoffs eh? Maybe some other hockey league could battle it out for the honour of holding Stanley'sCup for one year, like the CHL ...
  14. Karlin

    BioTech crops produce drugs - secret locations revealed.

    Bio-Tech crops are food crops to be engineered to produce chemicals or drugs. There is no way to ensure that these open air labs do not contaminate our food supply. Perhaps the pharmaceutical corporations HOPE THEY DO. Until today, these special crops locations were kept secret. This news...
  15. Karlin

    WalMart - Store closing over unionising, Boycott called

    Is the WalMart store in Quebec being closed in order to make the store profitable, or is it union busting? Most of us think it is union busting, bullying, domination tactics.So do other unions, and they have called for a boycott of all WalMart stores in Canada. More details here...
  16. Karlin

    Sponsorship Program - Will of the People paid for?

    Improper Spending of federal funds, and improper influence over a democratic vote? Those are the big questions, not the actual theft of cash from the sponsorship program, but we will see the focus on the thefts, Chretien is trying to shift it there and the Gomery inquiry will likely let it...
  17. Karlin

    Winter Smog health hazard - climate change suspected

    Winter Smog is new - this is the very first time in Toronto a smog alert has been issued in February, one of the few in winter ever issued. And in Chicago : "Soot pollution trapped over much of the urban Midwest led Illinois officials Wednesday to issue their first-ever wintertime alert for...
  18. Karlin

    Pharmaceutical GMO crops contaminating food supply

    Beyond the GMO [gentically modified] crops that are Round Up ready - modified so "Round Up" herbicide can be sprayed on them - some GMO crops are grown to produce drugs for the pharmaceutical industry, actual drugs growing in the plants. These include protiens, vaccines, and...
  19. Karlin

    Canada safe haven for disgruntled U.S.A. military forces?

    http://www.albasrah.net/maqalat_mukhtara/arabic/0804/canada_270804.htm -------- Article pasted from link: DID YOU KNOW ???? ALL MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY CAN NOW BECOME CANADIAN CITIZENS - AS EASILY AS GETTING UP IN THE MORNING! FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE...
  20. Karlin

    Telus is not allowed to disconnect your phone

    Telus dispute leads to CRTC ruling - disconnect not allowed Telus threatened to disconnect my phone line, a basic 'land line' phone, due to unpaid charges for a high-speed modem that was not returned. The short story is this ruling from the CRTC - Telus cannot disconnect your phone line due...