Oct 24, 2011

Keystone XL Pipeline Biggest Tar Sands Protest in History

Keystone XL Pipeline Review Raise More Concerns
More pro-pipeline bias and conflict of interest found - “The further evidence of collaboration between State Department officials and TransCanada that these documents provide should disqualify the unrepentant State Department from playing any role in the new environmental review," Source

Hillary Clinton's State Department Oil Services & Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
by Mark Fiore

Petition: Tell TransCanada: Stop threatening the property of landowners for your dirty, unapproved pipeline. Petition: http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/tc_eminent_domain/ US only
"Even though TransCanada doesn't have a presidential permit to build the pipeline, the company has been threatening to confiscate properties like this from people.."

TransCanada Lobbying Keystone XL Pipeline Half a Million
Lobbyists for TransCanada and the Keystone XL Tar Sands / Oil Sands Pipeline, who have have direct ties to the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton,
spent $540 000 in the 3rd quarter lobbying the State and citizens.  Source

 Update: "Fortunately, our Keystone XL campaign has also shown us that democracy and the right to protest our government can be a path toward accomplishing goals: Just last week, President Obama announced his administration’s decision to delay the permit process for the Keystone XL project and seek a new environmental impact review. This could force the administration to realize what we already know: that the Keystone XL is not in our national interest." Source 

No Keystone XL No Pipeline No Enbridge, No TarSands Expansion!
The Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu along with seven other Nobel Peace Prize winners wrote a letter to the president asking that he block the pipeline. 1253 arrested Source
12,000 pipeline protesters circle White House to protest Keystone XL

http://www.chron.com

Largest Tar Sands Protest in History
From The Sierra Club November 6th The White House 2pm
We need to send President Obama a message he can't ignore about tar sands. On November 6th, the Sierra Club is gathering with allies from around the country to encircle the White House and rally against tar sands.
Sign up here to join our effort to convince the President that tar sands are a huge mistake. We'll send additional details and information about the DC event and how you can help make it a huge success over the coming weeks. Click link for details:
http://action.sierraclub.org


State impact review for Keystone XL Pipeline FLAWED

Tar Sands PR Wizard Ezra Levant spins tar sands crude as “ethical oil” like his tobacco lobbyist days.
With claims of the Non-Profit: Ethical Oil being 100 percent independent of government and industry" the Co. shares the exact mailing address of a prominent tar sands law firm known to be a major client of Keystone: http://www.mnn.com
Obama hires another ex-oil lobbyist as a senior adviser:
http://www.politico.com

No Keystone Pipeline No Tar Sands Protest

From Tarsands Action:
On Sunday November 6 the Tar Sands Action will return to Washington DC to send an unmistakable message to the President. Exactly one year before the election, we want to encircle the whole White House to ask President Obama to reject Keystone XL and live up to his promise to free us from the tyranny of oil. In doing so, we want to remind him of the power of the movement that he rode to the White House in 2008. This is bigger than any one person - President or no - and we will carry on, with or without him.

No Tarsands Pipeline Petitions

Sign ups and Rally Dates 5000 people have already signed up
Update: Over 10000 people gathered at the White House to protest the Keystone XL Transcanada Pipeline.
http://www.tarsandsaction.org


Pipeline Used Substandard Steel:

http://plainsjustice.org/files/SubstandardSteelReport.pdf


Pipeline Made in India:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/economy/16pipe.html?scp=1&sq=illinois+welspun&st=cse

Giant Loophole in the hearings of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline sends 10000 public statements into a virtual blackhole.  No one is obligated to "look" at them, if they choose.
.. "The State Department has lost tens of thousands of submissions and cannot say how the remainder will be handled or will influence the pending decision."
 http://insideclimatenews.org

Oil Spill | Factbox: A Year Of Canadian Oil Pipeline Ruptures
Enbridge, Keystone, Kinder Morgan Transcanada tote Safe Pipelines?
If only follow the facts, the existence of many leaks over the last year should trump all the bells, whistles and bullying and corruption these self interested oil tycoons can muster.

http://www.100breakingnews.com/


Transcanada tries to destroy State environmental concerns as unconstitutional

http://business.financialpost.com

State Departments to review Keystone XL

"...The inspector general's review will be widespread, involving several State Department bureaus and officials "
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com
 

Fact Check: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Isn’t A Job Creator
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/11/04/362056/fact-check-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-isnt-a-job-creator/

.."Pipeline could actually cost jobs by hurting the development of alternative energy and allowing for the export of oil from the Midwest and driving up the cost of gasoline in that region."
http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/07/news/economy/keystone_pipeline/index.htm?source=cnn_bin

"By repeating inflated numbers, the supporters of KXL approval are doing an injustice to the American public in that expectations are raised for jobs that simply cannot be met. These numbers —hundreds of thousands of jobs!—then get packaged as if KXL were a major jobs program capable of registering some kind of significant impact on unemployment levels and the overall economy. This is plainly untrue."
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf

Oct 23, 2011

Why Occupy 1500 Cities Occupy for Real Democracy, Equality, Justice, Peace.

1700 cities worldwide are Occupying. All our political "leaders" make promises never kept, always at the detriment to the people they serve. The problem goes beyond the parties and politicians, it's the system that is protested. All our politicians are in the pocket of a few elite who own, lobby, litigate, bully and bribe their way into every element of our lives. Even single cell organisms unite and fight for survival when their species is threatened.

From what banks have done to the people of the US, to Monsanto's global destruction, to the big oil companies with private profits and public liability. 20 years of litigation was the answer to First Nations dieing downstream from the tar-sands. Average earner salary has dropped while the 1% has made 300% profits in the last 10 years. Our public servants serve these Corps. with bias data, subsidies, lobbyists, litigation and bias media. It's profit for very few, to the huge detriment of every aspects of all our lives. After 9 "secret meetings", presently our Harper Gov. wants to sell our water,  education, health, food, public services, energy,etc... with "CETA" trade deal. Our current monetary systems are broken with virtual bank money being paid back with real money and real interest by real people.

Over 1700 cities worldwide are currently in "Occupation" to bring to light these issues and demand better of the "system" and "leaders".
From what I gather. ;^)

Here is the video I filmed of David Suzuki Speaking at Occupy Vancouver on Oct 22 2011


Support Material to facts added to this video:

David Suzuki speaks at Occupy Montreal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTDxUicSmo


ALL of Canada For Sale
All of Canada will be for sale if Harper has his way with the EU trade deal.
CETA will give EU corps the right to sue Canadian governments if they try to interfere with their "right to profit" above the citizens rights.
C.E.T.A support material:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQPh_YSnkVI

CORPORATIONS MUST NOT MAKE THE LAW
Free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada: October 2011
http://tradejustice.ca/pdfs/EUCAN_DECLARATION_EN.pdf


147 Companies Control the World!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/21/theorists_claim_banks_control_world/

http://www.forbes.com
 

Environment Canada's insufficient funding to monitor our markets.

Clean energy Jobs see significant job growth:
Solar PV rapidly becoming the cheapest option to generate electricity:
http://www.grist.org/solar-power/2011-10-11-solar-pv-rapidly-becoming-cheapest-option-generate-electricity
China has no need for Transcanada Pipeline:
China has alternative energy sources in the works. No need for TransCanada pipeline through our Great Bear Rain Forest to BC's west coast.
http://priceofoil.org/2011/05/19/empty-threats-should-not-be-made-at-%E2%80%98friends%E2%80%99/
 


Harper government fights EU clean fuel:
Canadian government lobby against the European Union's proposed clean fuel legislation:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/10/25/wind-power-revolution-europe/
EU passes clean energy legislation despite Canada's 110  lobby oil sands (tar sands) meeting to stop clean energy legislation:
http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/10/05/europe-oil-sands-gordon-campbell/

Canada's Full Tar Sands Lobby Report: http://www.no-tar-sands.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FOEE_Report_Tar_Sands_Lobby_Final_July82011.pdf 

Unsubstantiated grossly inflated Oil Industry Jobs:
With grossly inflated unsubstantiated job numbers, environmental assessments done by paid advisers.

Inequality and Elitism Rampant:
Income drops for lowest earners while to Corporation make 300% profits:

Sick citizens are good for the economy:
http://www.actupny.org/reports/drugcosts.html 

A balanced taxation system would fund education, health, infrastructure, environmental concerns etc:

Private returns with Public Liabilities:

Monsanto GMO foods cause illness and destroy natural farms and ecology:
Stephan Harper, son-of-a oil baron:

The government also blacked out sections of the email that refer to its "communications" strategy for oilsands issues.:

No Keystone XL / Transcanada Pipelines Data, documents, arcticles, petitions and videos:

Tar Sands Scam: 5,000 Jobs Over 3 Years:

Keystone XL pipeline impact review for the State was a "Major Client" of TransCanada:

Grossly inflated unsubstantiated job numbers, environmental assessments done by paid advisers.
Cardno Entrix, environmental contractor worked on projects with TransCanada and describes the pipeline company as a “major client” in its marketing materials.":

State impact review FLAWED:
Tar Sands PR Wizard Ezra Levant spins tar sands crude as “ethical oil” like his tobacco lobbyist days.
With claims of Ethical Oil being 100 percent independent of government and industry" the Co. shares the exact mailing address of a prominent tar sands law firm known to be a major client of Keystone:

Three U.N. bodies have told TransCanada to cease and desist and respect international covenants as they relate to human rights violations in their own country:

TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline Assessments Are Misleading and based on faulty information: Also see post below regarding Keystone XL.
20 years of litigation was our governments answer to the contaminating and poisoning of The Lupicon Cree Tribe downstream from the tarsands. Amnesty is now involved
http://www.amnesty.ca/lubicon/ 

Oil Unions Say Cut The Keystone Pipeline:
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/22/oil-unions-cut-keystone-pipeline
 


Update: Keystone XL Pipeline Under Review.
...documents via the Freedom of Information Act that indicate department officials allowed bias, lobbyist influence and conflicts of interest to corrupt the review process, resulting in an environmental impacts assessment that independent experts said was deeply flawed. A review in now pending
12 000 people rallied at the White House to protest the Keystone XL and expansion of the Alberta Oil Sands (Tar Sands)

http://www.foe.org/obama-delays-keystone-xl-review
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/17/inappropriately-cozy-u-s-ties-on-keystone-group/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/08/04/oil-sands-canada-eu_n_918485.html
Petition:
Call for an investigation of the State Department's tar sands scandal. Join congressional leaders in calling for an independent investigation of the State Department's tar sands scandal.
http://www.credoaction.com/campaign/investigate_keystone
Update: Harper Government Unprecidented Lobying against EU Clean Fuel Legislation fails, EU impliments clean energy legislation despite the Canadian governments 110 "tar sands lobbying" meetings http://climateactionnetwork.ca/archive/e/news/latest/index.php
http://www.no-tar-sands.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FOEE_Report_Tar_Sands_Lobby_Final_July82011.pdf


Our Public and Private CEOs Payouts
Nothing can justify these inequalities!
CEO of Hydro leaves to work with mogul Jimmy Pattison after cutting 1000 jobs in 18 months:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/bc-hydro-ceo-steps-down-after-18-months-on-job/article2206770/?from=sec431
Parkinson was the highest-paid public sector worker in Ontario, with a salary of more than $1.6 million. He took a $3-million severance package when he resigned.
Hydro CEOs receive massive payouts.
Salary and Bonuses of Hydro CEOs:
Hydro CEO salary of $2 200 000 year received $6 000 000 severance package.
Alberta Health Board squanders millions for payouts.
Chief executive officers in Calgary and Edmonton were paid $4 to $1.5 million in severance each. Jack Davis former CEO Calgary Health Region received $1.7 million severance and $4.028 million supplemental executive retirement plan."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/06/09/f-executive-compensation-severance-packages.html

Harper Squanders Canadians Pensions
Canadian Pensions pay for EU Shopping Mall:
Harper Government uses Canadian's Pension Plan to buy 25%
of London's newest Mega-Mall, Westfield Stratford City.


China is one of the largest investors of clean energy within China. China has bought  2.2 billion dollars for Canadian oil companies: Update:11/16/2011  $15 billion

Community Living BC, a Public company CLBC doles out $300 000 in bonuses while they cut special needs funding in BC.

Enbridge covers it's 800 000 gallon pipeline oil spill with sand, nets with grass and calls it cleaned up.800 000 gallon pipeline oil spills "Cleaned Up" with basically AstroTurf and sand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlnri_scklA
Update:11/16/2011 Spill now estimated at 1 100 000 gallons of oil spilled into the Kalamazoo River. http://www.epa.gov/enbridgespill/

Even a simple bottle of water consumes 1/3 of it's contents in fossil fuels to get into your hand.
Hyde Creek Educational Center & Salmon Hatchery.

If our system was a fair and just, people would have a choice. This small shift in investing back into society could correct most injustices.

Private returns for public liabilities. ; )

GMO in our Foods
Monsanto GMO lab rats saw intestinal bleeding, reproductive and behavioral disorders within 10 days of eating this patented "Foods". GM "foods" studies with rats caused major compromises to the digestive tract including tumors and bleeding (instantly corrected once GM food was removed) Reproductive function of rats was mutated within 10 days. In hamsters, by the 3rd generation, all offspring were sterile when fed Monsanto GM foods. Most people don't know what they are eating in North America were the GM foods are not labelled. The UK must label the GM foods. Making it a consumer choice should be mandatory.
Too many links to post (google search: Monsanto lab rat results):

More Monsanto Horrors:
http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/facts.shtml
http://www.lightparty.com/Health/IndiaCheers.html
http://www.ethicalinvesting.com/monsanto/terminator.shtml

GM Genocide
Hundreds of thousands of suicides in India are being attributed to the destruction of Monsanto:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genocide-Thousands-Indian-farmers-committing-suicide-using-genetically-modified-crops.html

Damage of Monsanto GMO to DNA due to the process of creating a genetically modified organism is far more extensive than previously thought.... Some contamination from field trials may last for centuries. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?aid=3912&context=va
The trouble with Monsanto and GMO – Dr David Suzuki spells it out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

Cure for Cancer Blocked by Big Pharmaceutical
At least three possible cures for cancer silenced. Canada blocks a cure for cancer for profit. "Big Pharma can't allow cancer or any other disease to be cured because they will lose their business of drugs, pills and all the illness.."
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=z1ifXxbxhZc

Man uses oil to cure cancer, cannabis oil shrinks and destroys cancer cells and promotes healthy cell growth. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9ZD9JFo7Vw
Another cancer cure is illegal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAzwr-FIA5Q


Our Broken Monetary System, Banks lend virtual money and are paid real money and real interest by the people: See: Oh Canada - The Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVBDwAuCdPw 

Harper's Crime Bill
With the lowest rates of crime in Canada's history, the Harper Government is fast-tracking a new Crime Bill to toughen laws & build jails.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com
Even Texas thinks it's a bad idea, and they know .http://www.cbc.ca 
Update:11/16/2011 Harper has budgeted HUGE growth in Corrections!? His Crime Bill hasn't even passed yet and crime rates are dropping in Canada!?
 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/conservatives-deficit-plan/article2059411/?from=2077658

Stop Harper's Crime Bill:
100 000+ signatures and counting
Sign the Petition:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_harpers_cruel_crime_bill/?fDwuwbb&pv=8
Just learned MP can't even ask Harper a question in parliament unless it is first submitted for approval by Harper. MPs appealed the new rules but lost. This is a dictator no?In a press release last spring, Harper said "Circumstances Dictate" that the online spying elements be removed from the proposed crime bill. The "circumstance" was a 70 000 signature petition: But yet the Canada still needs to defend it's freedoms. http://stopspying.ca/ 
Save the Internet:
UPDATE
Information is Power. Youtube Avaaz and Wikileaks have been a fundamental tools in giving the global community the knowledge to empower ourselves and take back the reins of our own lives, planet and rights. Click for freedom of information. 635 000 signatures and counting Save the Internet Petition:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet_d/
http://www.vancouversun.com/Canada+forthcoming+surveillance+bill+rein/5521531/story.htmlAt it's peak over 2400 cities were in occupation worldwide in solidarity.
http://www.occupytogether.org/


G20 Sponsored by Corporations and Banks
Our public representatives need to do their job. Globally, the corporate shill of government we all have needs a reality check. When pharmaceutical company's profits legally silence the cure for cancer, and the private gains of a few oil tycoons or Monsanto shareholders trumps human life (including Canada) our government's agenda no longer represents the people. When our MP can no longer speak without first being approved by Harper in parliament, this is no longer a democracy. This is a tyranical dictatorship.

People in, corporate sponsors out 450 000 signatures and counting.
Our leaders - The G20 is  the most powerful summit of world governments. Who is sponsoring the meeting? Banks and corporations! Who will benefit, banks and corporations.
Get Banks and Corporations out of the G20 Petition:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/occupy_g20



Bank Transfer Day: 650 000 to a 1 000 000  people transferred their bank accounts to credit unions for Bank Transfer Day to protest the inequality and corruption of our current banking systems.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzFdworUI0


Avaaz Petition for true democracy in support of the Occupation currently has 800 000 signatures and counting: http://www.avaaz.org/en/the_world_vs_wall_st

Equality, Truth, Justice, Peace, Change

Oct 22, 2011

More conflict of interests for the Keystone XL?

More Tarsands (Oil Sands) Corruption? Conflict of Interest? or just low morals? "Although the group's executive director has claimed that the website is "100 percent independent of government and industry," the Ethical Oil Institute shares the exact mailing address of a prominent tar sands law firm, McLennan Ross LLP. Tom Ross of McLennan Ross and Levant make up the entirety of the Ethical Oil Institute board of directors." - Mother Gregory Jones
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/stories/meet-the-tar-sands-pr-wizard





Small Victory
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/oct/26/democrats-push-investigation-keystone-project?newsfeed=true

But the fight's not over.
Nov 6th 2pm the White House 4000+ have signed up so far to Protest this mess at the White House.
http://www.tarsandsaction.org/
http://www.sierraclub.org/

Oct 16, 2011

Occupy Vancouver - Global Revolution - Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Vancouver Canada
♥ We Just got back from the Occupy Vancouver Global Revolution rally and march. It was amazing. 4000 voices, so many souls standing up for democracy and to make the world a better place. Joining 2200 cities worldwide in a collective outcry for change was really profound. ♥

Enjoy the video I compiled to commemorate the mass awakening of the world.
Most didn't even know of these atrocities our governments subjects us to. To no fault of their own, citizens have been mislead to support these horrors. Consumers now cannot ignore the part they play for the 1%. People can no longer feed the status-quo and fain ignorance. B
ringing to light issues that compromise everyone, in a way I've never seen before in my lifetime was a profound experience.

Get corporations out of our governments. Represent the people, not self interest not the elite.
The corruption of the 1% is compromising our health, our land, our water, our freedoms, and our future. What was hidden is now clear.  

From Keystone to Monsanto, the government's practice of endorsing these atrocities can no longer be hidden. The message has rung out loud and clear worldwide. When people respond with their pocketbooks, this will be the change. Knowledge is power. We are the change.

The World vs. Wall Street Petition
Avaaz petition has hit 800 000 signatures and counting. Knowledge is power. We stand with you in this struggle for real democracy. Together we can end the capture and corruption of our governments by corporate and wealthy elites, and hold our politicians accountable to serve the public interest. We are united - the time for change has come!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/the_world_vs_wall_st

Wow. 436 000 signatures and counting! ♥
G20 - People in, corporate sponsors out
"As citizens concerned about the economic crisis we urge you to clean up the G20 summit. Corporate sponsors have been allowed access and visibility, while people are excluded. Corporate sponsorship of this and subsequent summits must be rejected."

Click to kick the corporate sponsors out of the G20

http://www.avaaz.org


Oct 11, 2011

Keystone Pipeline Report Bias Enbridge Spill Cover Up

State Department Lies about Keystone XL pipeline, calling Environmental Review impartial within the first minute of the public hearings:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/State-Department-Hears-From-Public-on-Canada-US-Oil-Pipeline/10737424635/ 

Serious Conflict of Interest regarding Environmental Reviews pertaining to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. "At TransCanada’s recommendation, the department hired Cardno Entrix, an environmental contractor based in Houston, even though it had previously worked on projects with TransCanada and describes the pipeline company as a “major client” in its marketing materials."
 

With grossly inflated unsubstantiated job numbers, environmental assessments done by paid advisers.
See more: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/678247
  

In a letter to Mr. Obama, leaders of 17 green groups said State officials had shown “pro-industry bias” throughout the department’s review of TransCanada’s application.

Washington - New documents reveal the US State Department was “doing favors” for TransCanada during a government review of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and sheds light on a White House bias in favor of the pipeline.
Read more:
http://digitaljournal.com/article/311996

Enbridge Covers Up Oil Spill with Grass
Taken in Marshall, Michigan, one year after the July 2010 spill into the Kalamazoo River watershed. Enbridge covers 800 000 gallons of spilled oil from a pipeline burst with sand and mesh grass and says it cleaned up. Talk about sweeping it under the rug. When this man cuts the mesh covering the oil, he sinks to his waist in oil.

 

4000 lbs (2 tonnes) of our beautiful Boreal Forest bed must be destroyed for one $60 barrel of oil. Even without expansion, the tarsands are currently the size of England. Please help!?

In March, the Pew Environmental Group released a report stating mining, oil and gas operations in the boreal are having a huge impact on the region’s freshwater supply. The report states 40 percent of boreal habitat being displaced (740,000 acres) for tar sands strip mining are wetlands.
Read more: http://digitaljournal.com/article/311905#ixzz1aWImwr9m

 
http://digitaljournal.com/article/304805

Ethical Oil!? When we sit back, we allow men of lesser honor to rule us. 

We must no allow this massive expansion to destroy us. The Lupicon Cree's plight is our Canary in the coal mine with regards to our son of an oil baron "leader" Stephan Harper's attitude towards collateral damage is to litigate the sick and dying for 20 years:
See:
http://www.amnesty.ca/lubicon

Ethical Oil?? China bids 2.2billion on Canadian company: 
http://www.calgarysun.com/2011/10/10/china-firm-makes-22b-bid-for-calgary-oil-company
 

Asia firms pour billions into Canada resources
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/10/11/asia-firms-pour-billions-into-canada-resources/


Stand up and be heard. Our Corportate... uh, Public Servants must be help accountable to the people and stop pandering to large corporations at the expense of you and I. Below are many unique petitions to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. With links to statistics, rally dates and videos, we are the change.