I have begun to believe my mind is full of tiny little topics that act like pimples.

No one can predict the order they start to fester in, or when they’ll get ripe and burst.

Showing posts with label treachery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label treachery. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 July 2014

Harper’s Budgetary Bullshit




 

Post #152- Harper’s Budgetary Bullshit

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
LIES and LIES and MORE DAMNED LIES



An article by Ralph Goodale in The Huffington Post

A government's claims of economic competence must surely depend upon a sound record in certain crucial areas -- such as economic growth, debt reduction, balanced budgets and management of the tax burden.

On all four counts, the Harper regime is a serious disappointment.

Mr. Harper has the worst economic growth record since R.B Bennett. During Bennett's years, the Canadian economy barely grew at all, averaging just 0.16 per cent. Mackenzie-King's average was 5.54 per cent. St. Laurent maintained growth at 5.28 per cent.

Diefenbaker got 3.67 per cent. Pearson achieved 5.97 per cent. Trudeau's average was 3.92 per cent. For Mulroney, it was 2.33 per cent. Chrétien came in at 3.39 per cent. Paul Martin recorded 3.20 per cent.

Under Harper, Canadian growth has averaged a paltry 1.54 per cent and his trend is negative. Economic growth in each year since 2010 has been worse than the year before. Another reflection of these sorry results is stock market values which have stalled for eight year -- today they're only fractionally above where they were when the Harper years began in 2006.

With respect to debt reduction, Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio is also about where it was in 2006 (around 34 per cent).

Mr. Harper has no progress to report. Indeed, his government is adding $169-billion in new Conservative debt -- driving the accumulated total to an all-time record high at $627-billion. His earlier target for significantly reducing his debt-ratio has been postponed for eight years, until 2021.

On the issue of balanced budgets, the Harper record is laughable.

He inherited a decade of surpluses from his Liberal predecessors and surfed on that momentum for a couple of years, while over-spending by three-times the rate of inflation and undermining safeguards in the budget-making process designed to protect against adverse events. By 2008, Mr. Harper had squandered Canada's hard-earned fiscal security, creating a deficit again BEFORE the recession that arrived later that year.

The last six Harper budgets have all been deficits, continuing a long-standing Conservative tradition of red-ink. Before Mr. Harper, the last Conservative to balance a budget for Canada was Robert Borden in 1912 -- more than 100 years ago. He too inherited a surplus from a Liberal predecessor (Wilfrid Laurier) and blew it in just one year.

As for taxes, that's where Mr. Harper brags the most. But check reality!

While claiming they never raise taxes, the Harper Conservatives have in fact increased the net tax burden on Canadians in each of their last four budgets. It happens in dozens of nefarious ways which they hope you won't notice -- like taxing parking fees at hospitals and dinging Credit Unions for an extra $75-million in income tax.

One of their biggest cash-grabs has been constantly escalating Employment Insurance payroll taxes. Starting in 2011, EI premiums have been going up every year by more than $600 million. So to date, Mr. Harper has raked in an additional $3.6 billion. He says he won't force EI rates up any further, but neither will he roll them back to where they were before he imposed these job-killing Conservative payroll tax hikes.

Two other Conservative tax increases are also netting Mr. Harper big revenues.

He has hoisted a broad range of tariff-taxes on imported consumer goods -- everything from tricycles to cosmetic wigs for cancer patients -- which will extract some $333 million more per year from the buyers of such products. And small business owners are going to be paying Mr. Harper some $550 million more, thanks to new Conservative taxes imposed on them.

At the bottom line, it's Canada's middle-class that bears the biggest burden from the incompetence and grinding mediocrity that characterize Mr. Harper's economic record.
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I hope you liked this post
Blaine Barrett

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ralph-goodale/harper-government-taxes_b_3975855.html

 

Monday, 7 July 2014

Observations on a Cesspool






Taking a Stroll Past the Tar Pit
A First Hand Witness Account


by
Kristie Elgersma
This happened for me recently. And I want people to know.
I posted it last week but FB won't let me get back there to reshare it.
I think more people need to know..... Especially considering the Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project as a current topic of conversation....
"...I wanted to see what Desmond Tutu saw. And James Cameron. And Neil Young.
I needed to see too
I haven't been to the Alberta Tar Sands since I was a young girl....
I have lived around industry for most of my life. An asbestos mining community in the early 90's, another community hosting a coal mine and a lumber mill later on in the 90's, Edmonton's East End Industrial in the 2000's... And in the most recent years another coal mine and numerous oil & gas installations.....
25 years later.... I went to see....
And absolutely nothing in my lifetime prepared me for what I witnessed a few kilometres north of Fort McMurray.
I have zero frame of reference to compare it to.
They are truly struggling to keep up with the amount of infrastructure required to accommodate the sheer number of travellers to and from Ft. McMurray.... The highways are being twinned slowly. But, it doesn't make up for the white crosses that line the ditches every few kms.... Some have flowers at their feet, some have hard hats hanging on them.... In one spot there are seven crosses in a row...
People have been saying for more than a decade how dangerous Highway 63 is. And they weren't embellishing the truth at all.
Oil & gas sites start a ways out before the city... Nothing that I am unused to....
What I'm not sure of is the haze..... Is it the Earth sweating because it was so hot? Is it mist? Is it smoke? Is there a fire down where? Is it smog? I never did find out......
The city of Ft. Mac itself is a beautiful city, lots of hills, forests and greenery surrounding it, with a river running through it.
Many people pressed into a small area and it shows with the diversity of housing in place and going up.
Suncor, Syncrude and Shell have taken up a competition of sorts to see who can out best the other at ass kissing to the community they are destroying.... A new arena, rec center blah blah blah..... Patting themselves on the back because they think they've done something fucking decent.
If you continue on North Bound, off to your right you'll see it for a moment: Flashes of metal, flame, smoke, no life, no green... And then it's hidden by hills.... They have screened themselves in very well for the first bit of the road.
If you keep driving, you'll pass boarding residences and tiny matchbox apartments put up by the companies to house their employees.... They reminded me of the jail north of Edmonton. So insane what we condition ourselves to.
Once you pass those, the road gets curvy and winding... You'll see a large beautiful lake in your right, and suddenly you hear the gunshots.... And then you realize that you're not looking at a lake, you're looking at a tailings pond and you realize you are surrounded by them, this toxic killy shit and the gunshots are to scare the birds away so they don't land on it, 2 million birds dead already and the pond liners are leaking and that's what is fucking up the waters up there, and 40 years of waste water byproduct from cleaning the tar sands and they don't know how to clean the water! they don't know how to clean the water! They.Don't.Know.How.To.Clean.The.Water. , and it is the whitest sand you've ever seeeeeeeeeeen....
All over the place in piles....
Because of our need for oil. That's why.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Automated guns firing to frighten nature to protect it.
So I continue on....
The haze is heavier... You can't see the sun. And the keening sound coming from the engine is not the engine. It's me. And by the time I hit the smoke stack you see in the pics below, I am sobbing openly and helplessly and entirely overtaken with grief.
Even in that place there are residences built. Humans live at the foot of that fucking monster.
I stopped at a little learning center. There is bucket there placed in the middle of the concrete. You could park four of my sized cars in that bucket. In the field this thing is attached to a huge crane.... This crane is not on a track. It's on triangular wheels that 'walk', 8 meters per side. 24 meters per complete rotation. The bucket thunders itself into the earth..



 Digging digging digging...

Because of our need for oil. That's why.
Next to it on my left is another machine. This thing looks like a 2D wheel with jagged grooves all the way around it. The grooves protrude outwards slightly, each groove is like a shovel....
Imagine a chainsaw taller than the back fin of a 747 airplane that you turn on and lower into the earth that digs for you and you MIGHT have an idea of the monstrosity I stood before..... 




The Buzz Saw
The build west for the Northern Gateway has already begun up there. They think they have already won.
I came to understand that seeing healthy coyotes was unheard of. Mangy, scraggly, missing fur, sickly looking... Knowing that they are scavenger creatures, preying upon the most vulnerable, the weakest, the sick... Just what are they eating?
I had no idea what the fuck I was walking into.
The rest stops were disturbing.... Women's phone numbers.... 'Emergency turban repair' scribbled above the toilet paper dispenser with an arrow pointing downwards.... 'Abandon all hope ye who enter the Mac'... Swastikas...
I had left all my OpHumanAngels gear at home stupid me coming in for a crash landing unprepared. I don't even know if I would have thought in those moments to reface their energy. Fuck.
I did for a moment see a huge 1.5 ft tall Guy Fawkes mask stenciled to the outside wall of a rest stop. There are those up there that get it. They
know.

It is how they have all said it is.
It is a monstrosity. A blight on the face of this living, breathing planet. Anyone who says it is making zero impact is lying to themselves...
I understand just how many people it is helping to survive, to live.... Every nation up there is surviving and living off of it. White, red, yellow, black. They are all there.
I needed to know what we are supposed to prepare for. I needed to know first hand what we speak out against. I plan to go back there once more. I hope to bring people with me. Emissaries. Reface that whole fucking place with chalk and notes.
As a side note, a friend that pays attention to MSM only, just let me know that Oklahoma has had 200 earthquakes so far this year.... They were stunned I already knew. Their first guess was fracking.
I had a hard time not flipping out.
I am losing my patience.
Maybe I just need to grieve for my mother. She is going to fuck us up right good the great equalizer that she is, I love her so..... </3
There is so much else on my mind but I've kept you long enough.
I love you. Thank you for listening and letting me share this with you...."

And that was a Song worth the Singing

Blaine Barrett


Monday, 10 February 2014

What is an M.D.?




M.D?

Medical Doctor? Mental Defective?
Morally Destitute?

The Profession Has Lost Its Character
Character?

Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility.
Fairness. Caring. Citizenship.
The Six Pillars of Character are ethical values to guide our choices. The standards of conduct that arise out of those values constitute the ground rules of ethics, and therefore of ethical decision-making. 

Doctors! Who are they?

The Canadian Medical Association represents the 67000 modern doctors practicing in Canada. To introduce you to my concept of what Medical Practice should be, I’m simply going to compare the conduct of the majority of those members, to that of just one man of character, a real Doctor, still in practice at the beginning of the decline. His name was Dr. T.W.E. Henry and he was the local physician in Ft. Saskatchewan, Alberta where I grew up. At that time the town was about pop. 250 and we were a community who considered him next to Jesus for his Samaritan conduct, common sense and good advice.

Dr. Henry was the center of our social system, he was trusted above all others and he knew every secret and personal detail about every one of his flock. He was a part of every family in town and often if he happened to make a house call at lunch or tea time he would stop for a coffee or to share a meal and take the time to get updated on the family history. He was a skilled interrogator and asked personal questions in such a manner that he created a desire to answer because he would understand and never condemn.

One evening near Christmas I and my family were visiting and just as supper hit the table TWE got a call and he was needed by a sick child. 10-15 degrees below zero, snowing like hell, winds harsh and gusty, driving clouds of icy particles that skin your face like sandpaper. No bloody way I was going out in that! Not!

Blaine! Get with it! I might need a push and you’re it! Crap: on with all the layers, boots, scarves, gloves! All the bulky crap that make wading though powder snow like wading through a swamp and then the open door and Holy Shit its nasty out here. Naturally the damned car won’t start so I harness the team, hook up his runabout sleigh, load the old fart up grab the reins and off we go into nowhere.

You don’t really drive horses in a blizzard: you just sort of aim them and trust them to figure out where the center of the road is. You just sit there and squint and squint trying to pick out landmarks in the little gaps between white sheets of snow. Fortunately it was a straight 5 mile run and only took about an hour and a half to get to the destination.

Modern people have no idea what kind of rotten conditions a lot of poor farm families lived in the 50’s. This was one such family and they were toughing out the blizzard in a two room clapboards shack heated by two stoves, one in the kitchen and a barrel type wood stove in the main room. Unless you have felt it you cannot imagine the drafts in a shack built of planks, you don’t know how cold the air is inside a house with iced up single pane windows. Stand next to one and suddenly your arm is radiated with cold from the glass.

It was a little guy about three and he was sick, you knew he was simply by looking. I don’t know what was wrong but after a long examination by TWE he was given a tablespoon of some syrup, handed back to his mother and she was told that he didn’t think it was serious but he’d like that fever to break. “Take that goose grease you have on the front stove warmer, warm him up, rub him down with it then wrap him up in that flannel blanket and put him to bed. He’s already so tired he’ll fall asleep quickly. He should feel better in the morning but if he doesn’t give me a call and we’ll take care of it.”

We got ready to leave and the husband came over to TWE and explained they were a little short on cash, would he take a couple of chickens as payment. TWE simply told him “John you’ll need them more than I do right now. Tell you what you’re good with a hammer and saw. Come over when the weather gets good in the spring and I’ve got a back porch that needs some repair. What do you say to an Even Steven deal?” John simply looked at him and I thought he would cry, but he just swallowed hard, nodded his agreement and shook TWE’s hand. We left

That was one example of his character at work: it is also the reason why he represents the best aspects of the generations of his predecessors. His position as a respected and admired man of character made him worthy to bear the title Doctor

Once again to stress: The Six Pillars of Character are ethical values to guide our choices. The standards of conduct that arise out of those values constitute the ground rules of ethics, and therefore of ethical decision-making.
Cannabis has been prescribed by Doctors, Medicine men, Shamans for now 4800 years. For 4750 of those years this medication was freely prescribed by a person of trust who had the best interest of the patient in mind. The witch doctor was trusted because he knew every aspect of his patient’s life. He was part of a tight community that no longer exists, and his reward was not financial gain at patient expense but a position of respect and trust far above that of any other profession. The current crop of medicine men, and I call them that because they do not deserve the title of Doctor, are simply skilled technicians who lack the moral and ethical quality to earn the respect they are granted as physicians.

From that point in the past, we fast forward to the present and it is only men of my age has the knowledge of what the title Doctor Represents in terms of how it is earned and expects little from his current Physician. We knew a Model for Comparison and there is no Expectation of Samaritan acts that demonstrate the qualities inherent in the 6 Pillars of Character: Trustworthiness. Respect. Responsibility. Fairness. Caring. Citizenship. These have been lost by the Profession.

The Destruction of Ethical Medical Practice

The practice of medicine has gradually changed into a commercially structured and oriented system designed to derive maximum profit. This was created from the sheer volume of patients that became available as a result of post WWII urbanization. Instead of a couple of dozen or hundred patients in his community, every doctor had a chance to bag any number of visits from the occupants of the hundreds of tenements surrounding them.

Appointments got shorter and further apart separated by many intruding and competing strangers’ entries into a doctor’s capacity to remember his diagnosis and previous treatment for the new volume of patients. Thus came into being the Personal Medical Record to serve as a reminder when a physician’s memory failed. The natural result was simple neglect to bother to remember Mickey Mouse details: a one minute skim of the patent’s last visit began to serve as the entire content of a physician’s knowledge of his patient. There began the complete lack of empathy now apparent in the profession at large and its absence was accompanied by the eventual loss of all character from the profession. That is simple fact.

A modern day patient with any problem needing medical attention assumes that when they make an appointment with their physician they are going to see a Doctor. They are not: they are making an appointment with an M.D. (Medical Doctor) a university graduate who had the minimal qualification to join a College of Physicians with lack standards and qualify to open an office.

His first act after qualification to practice was not to do Samaritan work at the local shelters, but rather, a call to his lawyer and accountant and to approve the creation of his new practice, Dr. False Front, MD, Inc. Shyster and BeanCounter  Consulting already had the necessary plans approved, the forms got filed and the fees got paid. From this point on the man across the desk; the MD in the modern medical office, presents himself as worthy to wear the honorific title Doctor and expects all the respect and trust due him for a title based on Character. He is actually talking to President CEO of the TYMAR Corp acting as the sucker mechanism for the TakeYourMoneyAndRun machine.

To clarify the difference between a Doctor and President, MD, only one simple comparison is required. Imagine wandering down a deserted wasteland road and encountering a man with a severe wound needing medical help. His wound is not fatal but without treatment soon will be if not helped. How would each react to that situation?
I think:

1.   The Doctor would stop, assess the situation, accept the man as a a patient, pack the wound, stop the bleeding and then arrange for his care until recovery.
2.   The President, MD would stop, frisk the man to see if he had the cash or credit to pay for treatment, if not kick him in the ditch. It would probably never occur to him to call an ambulance to get charity involved. That would take too much time and he already had a cash customer waiting for the sales pitch. “Sorry. I can’t be bothered guy, die in peace.

If I am disillusioned it is rightfully so. The machine has no recognition of the patient, only his symptoms are used to maximize the medical billing opportunities and tap them all. Office visits = Prescriptions benefits = repeat = referral to higher priced care of specialists= over-reliance on technology= excess testing = everybody happy and rich = CMA.

The President, MD across the desk does not know his patents, has no idea how they live, or anything about them beyond their ability to pay and the chart details of the last visit.  They do not want to know or be bothered by their patients outside of Office Hours. They move in invisible circles away from the common herd, superior circles by virtue of greed! Away from the place of business they do not exist and cannot be found. They have no addresses, unlisted home phones, and undisclosed and rigidly guarded e-mail. They long ago abandoned house calla and after hour phone calls are answered by recorded direction to go to emergency.

Suddenly the majority of these 67000 MD’s fly in the face of common sense and are balking at allowing Medical Cannabis, and its benefits, on the basis that they don’t have sufficient knowledge of the long term harmful effects of smoking it.
Bullshit! They discount 4750 years of testimonial evidence passed down by all the preceding generations of real Doctors who freely advocated it for its curative power and lack of risk in its use.

Bullshit!

Today’s Doctors all claim to honour what was the primary tenet of the Hippocratic Oath: “FIRST, DO NO HARM”. Nobody reveals that this guiding principle has been removed from the Hippocratic Oath Modern Version and has not been replaced by an equivalent prohibition.. The Watered Down Oath may be seen in its current form as approved by John Hopkins at

http://guides.library.jhu.edu/content.php?pid=23699&sid=190964

I find it interesting that given the respect they are sworn to hold for their predecessor’s intelligence, in another part of the oath they dismiss all the traditional knowledge that Cannabis has shown no harm from occasional or even lifelong use. They swear: “I will respect the “hard-won scientific gains” of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow”.
To claim harm for a product all preceding generations of doctors recommend is to hold their collective intelligence in contempt. To dismiss all of it in favour of the hard-won scientific gains of last 50 years of billing possibility experts, who don’t even know who their patients are, is probably the grossest display of the lack of simple common sense I could have imagined from any profession. They have completely lost touch with the populace they are supposed to be serving.

I hear no outcry from the medical ethics experts: Where are they? because the ethical deficiency list is horrendous! I could keep on ranting forever but I don’t have to. Following is a simple listing of the components of Character from

Making Ethical Decisions

The Six Pillars of Character


Simply reading the Index is enough to awaken almost anyone to the manifold shortcomings of the Profession. It seems every little word harkens memories of little things noticed that didn’t add up until now

Character:
Trustworthiness
     - Honesty
     - Integrity
     - Reliability (Promise-keeping)
     - Loyalty
Respect
     - Civility, Courtesy and Decency
     - Dignity and Autonomy
     - Tolerance and Acceptance
Responsibility
     - Accountability
     - Pursuit of Excellence
     - Self-Restraint
Fairness
     - Process
     - Impartiality
     - Equity
Caring
Citizenship

Can you smell the rot too?
Blaine Barrett


Sunday, 26 January 2014

The Year Ahead- Bumps and Hazards




( Shotgun Kiss by Megan Allard of Vancouver )




WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING?

Good Bloody Question.


I’m sorry I haven’t been posting more but this New Year poses some real new questions. I’ve been sitting her brainstorming trying to sort the crap out with regard to what I have already got going and what to start looking at.

1. <><><><><><><> Extensions <><><><><><><><><>

We’re only 3 weeks into the New Year and the game is changing again. FB rumor has it that HC is going to start granting extensions for what? Growth? Nobody knows what’s happening or is going to happen. When does the Crime for growing more than six plants take effect? Is Justice going to delay its implementation to help HC defuse the price crisis that is going to happen in April? We know there isn’t going to be any subsidization as long as Mr. Harper is in the Driver’s Seat: The Government he’s driving does have a reverse gear: he’s just too dumb to find it.

2. <><><><><><><> Doctors <><><><><><><><><>

Regardless of what the HC does, what are the Physicians going to do now? It doesn’t matter what HC does with licenses as long as Physicians are the only ones who can sign applications to get them and they refuse and stay on strike. I can’t see them backing off and that is going to cause very severe problems in the not too distant future.

Canadian doctors are totally hung up on their self image as a member of a Brotherhood: a brotherhood worthy of respect and admiration for its dedication to the welfare of their patients. They are not. The Brotherhood is in violation of its Oath.

Members of the Physicians’ brotherhood in ancient times were granted the honorific title Doctor to precede their name. This was more than recognition of the honor and respect due them for their physical sacrifice and service in the care of the community. They were an integral component of a village size pool of patients within which they voluntarily wandered, and lived with as they rendered their medical treatment. As a semi-family member these physicians were privy to all social relationships of the community he serviced.

The title Doctor was granted more in recognition of an individual’s wisdom and guidance as an empathetic counselor and source of comfort and understanding. He alone was intimately aware of all the pressures in play both on the individual patient, and the community dependant on that patient. He knew his patients from birth until death; he knew their contribution and what their loss would mean to every member of the community.

Now I get to criticize our Modern Members of the CMA for their arrogance in demanding the impossible knowledge that is already available and refusing to sign. They have no idea of the damage they are inflicting on the patient pool they are sworn to support and not harm. I think I am going to enjoy pointing their short comings out.

3. <><><>< More Criminal Cop Crap ><><><>

Whatever happens with Harpo, Health Canada and the doctors: it has bugger-all influence when it comes to the CCC (Corrupted Canadian Cops): They’ve got the Blue Brotherhood; the Only Cops investigate Cops restrictions, and the abuse of self incrimination pleas to escape any penalty or incriminate others. They have become callous, arrogant and abusive and now face no deterrent to their violations of law and rights. I will continue to press for prosection of the OPP for Criminal Negligence.That will be a continuing focus over the coming year.

I just sent a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice asking for the complete file of my refused complaint and appeal. That will take 30 days? So I have time to investigate the possibilities of a weapon that will scare the hell out of cops. I think we have one at hand but it is only useful if it results in making all cops apprehensive about their job security and bad conduct penalties TBA.

4. <><><><> Grow-op Bylaw Exemption ><><><><><><>

In regard to my Questions to Surrey City Council about an exemption for Personal and Dedicated Growth in the city Bylaw structure I spoke to a lawyer for the City of Surrey this week and I didn’t get very far with obtaining an answer. I could not get answers to specific questions and I honestly didn’t know if he had read my complaint so I asked him if he had. He said he had so I advised him I wanted a lot more specific answers and I wanted them in writing. He agreed and I am now waiting for that. TBA

5. <><><><><> The Israeli Photo Op <><><><><><><

So Monday, Parliament is back and we get to watch the Circus in motion when they get down to business.
Now we don’t have to wait for Stevie boy to get back and down to business, the break has been business as usual. He just got back from a trip to Israel and Arabville. He did his usual spouting of lies and throwing away of money that should better be spent at home.

He just kissed his buddy President Benjamin’s arse and bought the Israeli public with his show of support and anti- Muslim rhetoric. Then, to deal with a stupid war with no end, dumps a half billion bucks split between Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. He’s handing out money to sworn enemies like a fucking drunken sailor does a whore. One side’s going to finance illegal settlements and the other is going to buy arms. Israel, Palestine, Jordan can now expect a whore’s treatment and get a fucking of some sort sooner or later

That Photo Op pretty much was a sheer waste of money but I don’t think that was the point of the trip. The point of the trip was an attempt to impress the average Jewish voter that should there be an election in Canada, Hanukkah Harpo is the guy to promote. How I think he attempted to accomplish this is another post to look forward to. LOL


6. <><><><>Too Much Shit To List<><><><>

While the foregoing items are the focus of interest at the moment, this year will see the continuance of all the contentious issues that have resulted from the Conservatives attack on our social system with its built in protections of the citizenry. We have problems in almost every area of Government. Stephen Harper has intentionally invaded and corrupted departmental systems to control more and more of the functions of government. Shuffling personnel, changing departmental structures, changing committees to influence their decisions to favor the government: altering deadlines and reporting requirements to restrict or control information flow to the opposition.

No-one knows in what order they will surface but all of the areas neglected by the government are going to fester more in the next two years of King Harpo’s reign. Not much more to say now: we just get to sit and watch and hear what Stevie the Weevil is going to lie about next. On that depressing note, once I hit Publish on this post I’m going into the bathroom to have a little cry.



What a fucked up future!

I know!

“This too shall Pass”

but

NOT SOON ENOUGH!

Friday, 13 December 2013

This is Your Future: Old Age and Loneliness


A Wake-Up Call for the Boomers Kids
Time is Short

I was going to address this to what is called the Boomer generation only to find they are all old farts like me. The Boomers were born in the period 1946 to 1964 and now range in age from 49-67. They’re all too old to benefit from any advice I give because they are now learning the same difficult lessons I have had to absorb. First and foremost, Freedom 55 was a ridiculous idea and its failure revealed our whole generation’s lack of knowledge about how to manage money and plan for the future. If you’ve reached 60 without banking or investing that you can count on for a comfortable retirement, think again, there’s a rough road ahead

If today, you find yourself at retirement and you haven’t got that nest egg in a much protected state, then count on a shortage of yolk down the road. My son was born in 1964 so I guess I’m aiming this at all the Boomers little brats, not the parents. All of you readers who have reached the age of 50 are looking at a future where you will need to take advantage of all the Canadian Social Benefits that the Cons are determined to chop away at knee level. I’m not surprised at where we are in this country. for the last thirty years I have been watching an amoral control freak crawl his way up the political guts of our society to a leadership role. Yes, I’m talking about Harpo the Hypocrite.

A couple of readers have asked me:

Why do I hate Stephen Harper? What do I have against him? Well, here’s the axe I’ve been grinding and have been for 3 decades. I would give a million dollars to have the privilege of being first in line to piss on his grave.

In 1989 we were living in Red Deer, Alberta in the heart of redneck Religious Fundamentalist country with its ignorant belief and prejudices. My son was a homosexual. He was born one, he grew into a talented artist: I knew who he was and accepted the fact. I think it was September when Lee had to go to a dentist and was turned away because he was contagious, he had HIV.

Our leader Mr. Harper was not really into politics as yet but was gathering his base with a thunder and lighting campaign based on religious bigotry and intolerance and somehow he got my attention and I started listening to him. It was not fun hearing my son was being punished by God for his evil ways and perverted conduct but the son-of a bitch would not shut up. It took my son 7 years of hell to die of AIDS when it fried his brain, and we had to watch the process, listening to the vitriol of an asshole on the radio vilifying our son. According to his belief structure my son was a sinner being punished for his perversion and choice of homosexuality and Harpo condemned d him to Hell. I can’t forgive that.

In 1997 my employer went bankrupt and we went through a very tough time when we needed help from the system and actually got it. EI saved our ass. Late that year Mr. Harper, the Great Pretender, gave a speech to a collection of right wing American fundamentalist business tycoons at an event in Montreal. In it he describes his appreciation of the Canadian social network and Canadians inattention, greed, and acceptance of a public dole. That alone displays some of the evil thinking he again needed in designing the MMPR. I quote:

First, facts about Canada. Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States.
In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”
The reality is boys and girls you children are going to experience what remains of our beloved compassionate system of giving a shit about your neighbor. Harpo has a majority and with his bigoted understanding of how to fix shit I will not hazard a guess as to what ruins will remain after his tenancy is ended.


Blaine Barrett

Thursday, 26 September 2013

An Open Letter to Dr. Anna Reid and the Canadian Medical Association


J’Accuse:

“Under Paragraph 1(1)33 of Ontario Regulation 856/93 the Canadian Medical Association and all of its members who refused to sign Medical Marijuana Applications have engaged in conduct and acts of omission relative to the practice of medicine that, having regard to all the circumstances would reasonably be regarded by members as

“Disgraceful, Dishonorable or Unprofessional.”

Dear Dr. Reid:

That is reality!
You, the whole collective body of your followers: every individual doctor following your suggestion (more likely Imperial Edict) to not support Medical Marijuana and refusing to sign applications is betraying his Oath as a Doctor. Oh yeah! I forgot!

You experts in Medical Ethics decided that “First! Do No Harm” was just a suggestion and really old fashioned so it was dropped from the Oath. The oath all of you modern egocentrics swore was not the Hippocratic Oath that entitles a Physician to the Honorific title of “Doctor”!

You are not Doctors. You are Corporations!

You are individual components of the humongous Monetary Sucking Machine which the modern Medical Profession has become with the abandonment of the Doctor/Patient relationship and its conversion to a Corporate/Client relationship based on moral turpitude.

I dealt with the ethical deterioration of the Medical profession in some detail in a guest blog the was published back in January by a fellow blogger and Marijuana Advocate.It was titled


The Profession Has Lost Its Character!

and can be seen at


It asks one simple question:

M.D.?
Medical Doctor? = Mental Defective? = Morally Destitute?

You are a collection of pretenders who assume the title in order to capitalize on the benefit that accrues to the title. You present yourself as a body of men worthy of the respect and the honour that is accorded to a Man of Exemplary Character who has devoted his life to the service of his patients: providing for their physical health and well being. Your bunch of imposters forgot or never bothered to learn the Six Pillars of Character that entitle you to that respect. You all were trying to figure out how to learn and manage the magnificent income that came with the Incorporation of your own little Medical Empire.

The interlocked Monstrous Medical Conglomerate that sucks money out of our extremely profitable system thanks you for your contribution. Providing all the required Medical Services and Materials on an international level and fixing prices by simple understanding is extremely comforting in these troubled times and the times are going to get very troubled for you.

For most of the past, the opposition to endorsing Medical Marijuana by you lot of greedy bastards has been based on fear of future legal liability. The potential risks related to its use in any manner of medical utilization have been exaggerated beyond all belief: You claim that 5000 years of testimonial evidence is not acceptable: (there is no risk in its use and that there are no adverse effects beyond a comforting kick from its THC content). There are no scientifically valid studies that demonstrate its benefit in any medical treatment. End of position!

Well you poor lot of pretenders; the internet and statistical data sharing just blew that all to hell and reveals the base fear that should be infecting you all

“What If the Fucking Stuff Works?”

All of you are willing participants in a farcical pretension that you are actual Doctors and believe in Medical Ethics! You are refusing to sign MMAR and the new MMPR applications for patients you know have a symptomatology that qualifies them for Licensure. That is the intentional betrayal of the Doctor/Patient relationship and intentionally Doing Your Patient Harm. That; to anyone with the intelligence to understand even the smallest concept of human decency qualifies as

Disgraceful, dishonorable and unprofessional

What is CMA Policy?

Canadian Medical Association policy describes the Association’s positions on issues relevant to the Canadian healthcare system, medical education, the practice of medicine, and issues of importance to Canadian physicians and their patients. CMA policy is a key instrument used by the Association to carry out its mandate to serve and unite the physicians of Canada and be the national advocate, in partnership with the people of Canada, for the highest standards of health and health care. CMA policy serves to inform decisions and actions of Canadian physicians, lawmakers, health policy decision makers, other health professionals, and the general public. Canadian physicians value and support advocacy as a one of the most important activities of the CMA.

BULLSHIT!

During the past twelve years since the passing of the MMAR the Canadian Medical Profession has indulged in avoidance of their duty as physicians.

The Canadian Medical Association has proven itself a two faced bunch of liars who under the leadership of Dr. Anna Reid are intentionally advising their members to avoid their responsibility to their patients by obstructing the Medical Use of Marijuana. The Association has taken full advantage of the gross mismanagement of the Medical Marihuana Access Program by Health Canada to lever themselves into a position where they can think they can dictate the future of the new Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations. and the provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons are unanimously following the CMA’s lead into dishonor

How dare I accuse these two honorable Canadian Institutions of doing such a bad nasty thing? Because twelve years ago at the beginning of the MMAR, and its Medical Marijuana Access Program, the CMA was all for the idea and even was proposing further decriminalization in its Journal. Unfortunately the commercialization of the entire Medical Profession resulted not in a concern with their patient’s welfare but rather with the financial consequences and potential for Legal Liability.

In 2011 Health Canada’s tranquility was disturbed by a sudden influx of applications that was entirely unexpected and overloaded their improperly designed system of control. They set out to punish whoever was responsible for wrecking their ill conceived mismanagement of Medical Marijuana. That turned out to be Dr. Rob Kamermans, honoring his Oath, doing his duty as a Physician, and signing as many applications as he could. It was a good but futile effort to mitigate and correct the harm being done by the Canadian Medical Association’s suggestion to Doctors that Big Brother was not in favor of legal signing, it would bugger up the game plan with Ottawa.

Dr. Rob Kamermans and his wife Mary are both Canadian citizens, Medical professionals with excellent reputations who returned to Canada in 2008 to resume Canadian Residency and provide service to the community of Coe Hill, Ont. They did well and he began picking up work as an excellent ER doctor. Using their money as leverage they borrowed a lot more and invested it in the practice, a clinic and the Coe Hill community. Everything was going as planned and the clinic was an asset to a community who needed medical service.

Then in mid-2009 a patient walked in with a Form B application for Medical Marijuana, provided a Certificate of Diagnosis from his Doctor and requested he sign it. This was the first time that Dr. Kamermans signature was requested for an application, and he didn’t know what to do. He thoroughly checked and what he found out decided him to sign the application. He found out it was not a matter of legal risk. By signing he was not “Prescribing”, he was not “Authorizing”, he was “Declaring” that this patient qualified for a License to Possess Marijuana. Dr. Kamermans stepped off the cliff.
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At the time Dr. Kamermans entered the scene, the mismanagement of the Government combined with the duplicity of the C.M.A., was successfully building a backlog of patients desperate to get a license and unable to find any Doctor who would sign their MMAR Form B. He was totally unaware of it but the escalating nature of this backlog created a trap that he with his code of honor could not avoid.

When the time came to make a decision regarding signing, he was compelled to do so by honorable observance of the Hippocratic Oath. He was further compelled to try and mitigate and relieve the harm being done to Applicants by his fellow CMA Members.

Your mass refusal to sign applications was an intentional blockade of the only legal route by which a qualified applicant could get a license. Unlike the CMA he was very aware of the testimonial effects of cannabis and accepted their credibility. He was neither authorizing nor prescribing Marijuana but a close examination of the form revealed that he was simply signing a declaration the patient met Application standards to be furthered to Health Canada for final approval and licensing.

On Jan 26, 2012 the Ontario Gestapo invaded his office, arrested him seized 4100 confidential Medical files containing all the Medical Marijuana Application forms he had signed. Over the course of the past two years he has been publicly persecuted and ruined but has not been convicted of anything yet. The 4100 Personal Private Medical Patient files have been opened and their privacy violated on the basis of one single Search warrant.

What happened to the warrant for each of those files required by CMA POLICY regarding third party access by non-medical personnel?

When the Ontario Provincial Pricks decided not to return these essential Medical Documents back to one of your Members patients you did nothing to help get them back.

I can understand the C.M.A. dismissing Dr. Kamermans as a pain in the ass causing problems and siccing the suckhole College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on him to get rid of the embarrassment.

I cannot understand how you could simply walk away from 4100 of the patients you purport to support and just fucking ignore that they are being made victims of Criminal Negligence by the OPP.

You must be fully aware that all 4100 Licenses have now expired!

Where the fuck do you get off, even now, more bitterly opposing any of your members signing any application including those 4100 renewals? To me that amounts to intentional Secondary Victimization of a pool of patients completely helpless and dependant on you their Doctors. By betraying your watered down Oath you became deserving of another Oath as a title:

RAT FUCKING BASTARD

You will have to admit it is well earned. You deserve it!

There has to be something more critical to the future of Medicine than the imaginary risk factors you regurgitate?

Maybe it’s that damned question again:

“What If the Fucking Stuff Works?”

That unfortunately for you lot is turning into a major possibility.

WHY?

Doctor Sanjay Gupta,

Note I use the honorific respectfully: as it should be if earned.

When Doctor Gupta aired his special “WEED” on CNN he shot a great big arrow of TRUTH into the air and when it came down it hit the Yukon: and it blew up the mountain of frozen Bullshit where Dr. Anna Reid lives. He just threw her Presidency of the CMA as a source of pride into the cesspool of Malfeasance in office. She’s a fucking liar but she has good reason to conceal the truth if it turns out the answer to that damned question, remember

“What If the Fucking Stuff Works?”
is
YES!


The Single Most Obscene, Offensive, Threatening and Feared Word

in the

Medical Lexicon

Is

CURE!

Think of the consequences. Recent research shows a variety of illnesses the marijuana helps relieve: but the biggest threat to the Medical Community right now is its effect on Cancer.

There have been validated reports that in many instances a variety of Cancers have been Cured by the use of Marijuana or its derivative oils and extracts. I have seen documented proof and pictures of a Melanoma shrinking from a ½ inch black pit to a shiny pink blemish in the course of a couple of months. I have Facebook friends and allies who have cured themselves but then they don’t count.

Where have you and the CMA been Dr. Reid? I gather for all your desire to base your medical support of Cannabis on those statistically significant pharmacological type studies you have simply been denying their existence and once again indulging in lies to protect the industry. Here’s some of what you all were missing:


Harvard Study says Marijuana Cures Cancer

National Cancer Institute-Cannabis and Cannabinoids (PDQ®)
 
20 Medical Studies That Prove Cannabis Can Cure Cancer
34 Medical Studies Proving Cannabis Cures Cancer

 

Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers


The damage that can be done to this medical specialty is probably best illustrated by the cost of curing a brain tumor with a couple of drops a day of a cannabinoid extract under the tongue. What does the Medical Money Machine lose if a Cancer surgeon cures his patient with some Happy Oil instead of his usual slice and dice treatment?

The Machine will lose big time from just that one patient:

1.    No fee for surgery for the Doctor
2.    No work for his OR staff- Doctors and nurses
3.    No hospital stay= no need for all the hospital staff providing after care
4.    No business for the contractors providing services
5.    No need for expensive pharmaceuticals on a continuing basis
6.    No need for repeat procedures with chemotherapy No repeat consultation fees.
7.    No Lab tests or x-rays or MRI’s or ultrasounds or any of the extremely overprices services controlled by you all through your corporate status.

I’m going to wind this up on a hopeful note because I think that is coming and all of us, the long time victims of your greed are going to get some payback. I hope we will get to watch you get ruined and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving lot of fakes.

You!
Dr. I. M. Greedy, MD, FRCS, CPSO
  
have a future ahead of you of watching your Turkshead Knot of intertwined Corporate investments dry up for lack of customers. You shouldn’t have betrayed your patients, it’s habit forming. Too bad it bit you back and you betrayed yourself. I love it.

In conclusion it would be nice if Dr. Reid would have the courage to openly address the Canadian public she purports to be protecting and explain hers and the CMA Board of Governors duplicity and deception in representing a profession where truth is supposed to be paramount in the Doctor/Patient relationship.

That will not happen: but, considering their malfeasance in discharging CMA official policy the whole crew should all be chucked the hell out of any control position and replaced by someone with integrity. That will of course be extremely difficult considering the ethical deficit extant in their current membership. In reality given the obscene number of Board occupants, finding that many replacements with any semblance of Character verges on the impossible.

Blaine Barrett