Let’s Go Bowling!

Has the state of the world got you down?

Well it’s no wonder.

The rapidly advancing crisis of Climate Change is leading scientists to seriously consider all sorts of insane schemes for planetary control called geoengineering.

And if the recent earthquake and tsunami weren’t bad enough, ten percent of Japan is now contaminated by Fukushima fallout—something that TEPCO refuses to accept responsibility for:

During court proceedings concerning a radioactive golf course, Tokyo Electric Power Co. stunned lawyers by saying the utility was not responsible for decontamination because it no longer “owned” the radioactive substances. “Radioactive materials (such as cesium) that scattered and fell from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant belong to individual landowners there, not TEPCO,” the utility said.

Radioactive golf anyone?

Incidentally, those reactors are still not in cold shutdown—a crisis doesn’t end just because its news cycle does.

Speaking of news cycles, whatever happened to that revolution in Egypt? Remember how excited we were about the exit of Mubarak and the entering of democracy? NATO certainly wasn’t. Egypt is not only a NATO client, it is fully interoperable within NATO military operations in the region. And Egypt controls the Suez Canal—a critical energy and trade route for the EU. The west can’t risk giving that up just because Egyptians want something as quaint as democracy.

That’s why Fox News keeps trying to whip up fears about the Muslim Brotherhood taking over Egypt and the region, even though the U.S. continues to arm and collaborate with Islamic fundamentalists in the execution of its foreign policy—something it has done for more than 30 years.

Rather than work to build a true democracy there, the U.S. continues to send weapons and supplies which are used to suppress the will of the people. Instead of helping Egyptians, NATO decided to set up shop next door in Libya.

Howdy neighbour!

The ratcheting up of rhetoric against Iran under the guise of nuclear belligerence is just more of the same tired old propaganda constructed during the Cold War. The only difference being that the U.S. supported Iran’s nuclear ambitions under the Shah.

The purpose of the endgame is to secure all remaining hydrocarbon reserves around the planet — but especially around the Caspian Basin — before Russia and China can, otherwise they could replace the U.S. as global economic and military hegemon.

Speaking of energy, remember that big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Just this week BP accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence relating to last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Speaking of cover-ups, how is the public supposed to figure out what went wrong when BP whistleblowers die, disappear, or end up in jail? It’s also difficult for news outlets to report on clean-up operations when:

The Obama administration has intensified its cover-up of the BP oil disaster. On July 1 it issued an order barring the public and the news media from coming within 65 feet of clean-up operations without permission from the Coast Guard.

Meanwhile the EU might collapse over a global systemic banking crisis that just won’t quit, and it looks like the U.S. Federal Reseve is backing out of its participation in the IMF-engingeered bailout of the ECB.

So the global economy and our hopes and dreams are up against the ropes, yet the bankers (via their G20/BIS/FSB framework) continue to concentrate wealth and power as they impose their evil austerity upon the public purse while they reap record profits.

Everywhere around the world the social safety net is being dismantled by the same people who got us into this mess in the first place.

Our pension funds (for those still lucky enough to have defined benefits) remain crippled from the volatile stock markets of the last 4 years and they will have long term solvency issues for the foreseeable future.

Here in Toronto the city and its workers are going to have to find another $70 million per year just to keep the pensions afloat – all because of a corrupt banking system that tanked pension investments. Toronto now faces a budget that would slash services, cut 2300+ public employees, and raise taxes (and employee pension contributions).

At least we still have the Occupy Movement. People in the U.S. and around the world are waking up to the fact that they do not live in a true democracy. They are finally grasping that participation is the foundation of such a thing. The long lost Progressive Movement has been revived along with its essential side-kick: The Long Memory.

“Yes, the long memory is the most radical idea in this country. It is the loss of that long memory which deprives our people of that connective flow of thoughts and events that clarifies our vision, not of where we’re going, but where we want to go.” —Utah Phillips

The globalist corporate elites and their state apparatchiks certainly don’t want us getting all edumicated and organized and uppity, and so the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been coordinating an anti-occupy crackdown with the mayors and police departments of several major cities.

Similar crackdowns are happening here in cities across Canada. Perhaps CSIS and the RCMP are involved, as they certainly worked together last year (as the Integrated Security Unit ) during the G20 fiasco. The June 2010 arrest of 1100 people on Breach of Peace was merely an excuse to collect intelligence. Who knows what the ISU did with that info?

Unless they are prepared to get pepper-sprayed, tear-gassed, and arrested, peace and freedom loving people everywhere will have to take their organizing efforts indoors for the time being.

There’s a lot to think about.

People everywhere need a place where they can gather and make plans for the future. We need a place to face our fears and channel our frustrations. Imagine holding the poor and ravaged earth in your hands, taking careful and dignified aim, and then calmly hurling it towards all those pin-striped figures who stand in the way of peace, justice, freedom and 300 points!

I know what we need to do:

Let’s Go Bowling!

1. The Bowling Song – Asleep At The Wheel
2. Let’s Go Bowling – The Arrogant Worms
3. Moving to Florida – Butthole Surfers
4. Gutter Ball – Dayglo Abortions
5. Handsprings - The White Stripes
6. Red Bowling Ball Ruth – The White Stripes
7. Bowling Green – Dehlia Low
8. Take The Skinheads Bowling – Camper Van Beethoven
9. Ordinary Average Guy – Joe Walsh
10. Bowling Green – The Everly Brothers
11. The Bowling Song (Almighty Malachi, Professional Bowling God) – Stephen Lynch
12. Ten Pins In The Sky – Judy Garland