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[ferball]

Here in B.C. we have a stretch of highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert that's referred to as the "Highway of Tears", because so many Indigenous women and girls have gone missing on it.

Highway of Tears - Wikipedia


I think I've posted clips from the N'we Jinan Artists before on here. It's a guy who goes to remote First Nations communities and makes music videos of songs the kids write together. This one is from the Kitsumkalum First Nation, located along Highway 16.








My favourite N'we Jinan song is this one though. I did a spay/neuter trip to Tsay Keh Dene a few years ago. Everyone in that community is a residential school survivor, or descendant. It's a really rough community, with a ton of substance abuse and domestic violence. Doesn't help that on top of the residential schools, the BC government also flooded their ancestral land and burial grounds to build a dam. They've been displaced twice by flooding.

These kids were so great though. And if you said you recognised them from their video, their faces would just beam. But man, they're so isolated. 500 kms north of Prince George (parallel to the Alaska Panhandle!) Terrifying ride in a small plane to get there. Bush pilots are amazing though. Our guy landed the plane on a gravel road like it was glass.

I also got to meet the beautiful Ospika - the yellow lab mix in the clip. (And yes, we did a neuter and vaccination! )

Anyway, I love their song, and remembering them when I watch it. Glad we weren't there in winter though.







Still no talk from our PM about investigating residential school deaths as crimes. The government's court battles with survivors continue, and there is no plan to drop them. All responsibility of "researching" the deaths, and searching for more graves is still being placed squarely on the shoulders of the victims. Imagine having to solve your own child's death. I am angry and heartbroken about my country right now.




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Robert Pickton and his RCMP mates on the highway of tears.

 

[Val Keating]

Cholesterol isn't bad for you, that's the biggest myth of all. It's better to have more than to have too little.

In addition, 85% of the cholesterol you produce is determined by your genetics, not what you eat.

On Pixel 3a using BigFooty.com mobile app

That’s kind of the point Gladwell was making, though he does it through his usual manner where he looks at the psychology of people rather then the actual facts of the topic. Really interesting listen if you can be bothered.

 

[Val Keating]

Robert Pickton and his RCMP mates on the highway of tears.

Now that’s a ****ed up man. I mean seriously cold blooded.

 

[ferball]

About time..
Amazing how many doctors recommend it.

I give it to my eldest kid when she won't sleep.

 

[ferball]

I wonder how many animals are killed for those massive agricultural farms to grow things like soybeans? It’d be way to ironic if animals were killed to feed vegans through agriculture.

I have this discussion with my vegan missus every now and then.

 

[ferball]

Not sure why a vegan would go to hungry Jacks at all tbh.

McDonalds and HJ chips are both sposed to be edible by vegans.








Yeah I know....

 

[ferball]

And then the Americans will “liberate” Mexico

From NAFTA probably....


Wait a minute.


They did that already yeah ... just parts of it I spose.

Most of those cartels had important staff who were trained at the School of the Americas, after Iran Contra. Sus as imo.

 

[Val Keating]

I have this discussion with my vegan missus every now and then.

Monocrop agriculture is one of the most unnatural things people have produced. Terrible for the soil too.

 

[Val Keating]

From NAFTA probably....


Wait a minute.


They did that already yeah ... just parts of it I spose.

Most of those cartels had important staff who were trained at the School of the Americas, after Iran Contra. Sus as imo.

Mexico has a shitload of lithium as well which will be as sort after as oil over the next 50 years. America has (under Trump administration) already threatened to go down there and go after the cartels as ‘terrorist organisations’.

 

[ferball]

Interesting story developing, mob boss dropping bombs on Turkish ruling party..

Side note: pretty sure he was one of the guys helping the US arm rebels in Syria.

Videos grip Turkey as mob boss Peker accuses government

In a series of videos, convicted Turkish mob boss made allegations against leading figures of the governing party.

www.aljazeera.com

Erdogan's organising another purge by the sounds of it.

 

[ferball]

Monocrop agriculture is one of the most unnatural things people have produced. Terrible for the soil too.

It is shitful.

 

[ferball]

Cholesterol isn't bad for you, that's the biggest myth of all. It's better to have more than to have too little.

In addition, 85% of the cholesterol you produce is determined by your genetics, not what you eat.

On Pixel 3a using BigFooty.com mobile app

Its all about the balance between high and low density lipoproteins.

 

[ferball]

I don't eat anything that didn't die under a knife.

There was a famous acid cook called Owsley Stanley. Ended up in Australia and died in a car accident a decade ago. He was a long term advocate of the all meat diet. Didn't help him not die in a car crash tho.

 

[Del191229]

 

[Usayed Givashe]

Workplace relations law across the world is so far behind on this front it's not funny. Remote working is the way of the future and we're refusing to confront it meaningfully.

Because working from home is shit.

There is no other way to confront the obvious

 

[DesertRoo]

Erdogan's organising another purge by the sounds of it.

He closer to the US man, at a guess it’s a destabilise effort..

 

[DesertRoo]

I’m not sure about this Tesla is a bunch of engineers, doing research projects and little to no middle and upper management.

They’ve got a massive market share already, a lot of fan bois and especially if they get into things like HVAC and white goods. Could see profits booming.

 

[ferball]

He closer to the US man, at a guess it’s a destabilise effort..

Erdogan has ties to the Islamics and the far right in Turkey doesn't he? And to the Grey Wolves? Who the US would definitely be pushing into Uyghur groups opposing the Chinese government.

 

[DesertRoo]

Erdogan has ties to the Islamics and the far right in Turkey doesn't he? And to the Grey Wolves? Who the US would definitely be pushing into Uyghur groups opposing the Chinese government.

He’s also vehemently anti Israel and a sufi, which places him against two of the ‘west’s’ major allies in the region.
. Also seen as untrustworthy, turkey is part of NATO and invested in a Russian missile defence system.
Basically like everything else complicated and would be easier if he was out of the way. That’s why they tried to get rid of him a couple of years ago but the people went to the streets.

 

[Del191229]

I’m not sure about this Tesla is a bunch of engineers, doing research projects and little to no middle and upper management.

They’ve got a massive market share already, a lot of fan bois and especially if they get into things like HVAC and white goods. Could see profits booming.

Tryna think of another time when heaps of potential was thought to equal actual real world results.

 

[DesertRoo]

Tryna think of another time when heaps of potential was thought to equal actual real world results.

Same business model as apple before they became a trillion dollar company…

a lot of business types are against it because it makes their jobs effectively redundant in the modern age.. money is wasted where it should be on research and dev rather then ballooned marketing budget.

 

[Del191229]

Trolololol idiot GOP Member of Congress fakes attack on her house by "Antifa", gets busted due to her gross stupidity.

 

[Del191229]

He's simply stating the facts here.

 

[giantroo]

He's simply stating the facts here.

Our own intelligence agency is starting to realise this as well.

ASIO devoting more resources to growing threat of extreme right-wing domestic terror

Department of Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo says ASIO is devoting more resources to dealing with the growing threat of extreme right-wing domestic terrorism and white supremacist ideologies.

www.skynews.com.au

 

[Del191229]

Our own intelligence agency is starting to realise this as well.

ASIO devoting more resources to growing threat of extreme right-wing domestic terror

Department of Home Affairs Secretary Mike Pezzullo says ASIO is devoting more resources to dealing with the growing threat of extreme right-wing domestic terrorism and white supremacist ideologies.

www.skynews.com.au

Oh no I'm reliably informed by folks on here that white supremacists pose no threat and are all just fat dudes who live in their Mum's basements.