Random thoughts occurring to a random bloke…
I’ve written about the radio show The Ongoing History Of New Music here, in the past, on my way to a more relevant point. And, ever since that post, I can’t say I’ve spent too many Sunday morning’s not listening to Alan Cross do his thing. Even though his interpretation of certain events and circumstances seems flawed, to me at least, but what do I know. It isn’t often I find too much to gripe about.
Then there was this morning…
With The United Nations Climate Change Conference, quickly approaching, and the situation growing more and more dire with each passing day, stories like the one I heard on Tuesday’s Democracy Now broadcast are going to become much more prevalent;
“In Canada, about 200 young people staged a protest inside the House of Commons Monday forcing lawmakers to shut down the question period. The activists were calling on the Canadian Parliament to pass a bill setting out deep cuts in carbon emissions. Six people were reportedly detained, and the police beat at least one protester.”
Or, at least, it’s my hope it becomes more prevalent. The protests, I mean, not the brutality. Even if it is the inevitable, not to mention expected, knee-jerk reaction from a lethargic government hoping to quell civil disobedience…
Least of all freedom of speech. In what would seem to be a “better” report this year, versus years past at least, my country (Canada), shockingly, managed — under Conservative rule, no less — to slip  a number of positions to 19th, in the Reporters Sans Frontières, annual Press Freedom Ranking.
Label me impressed…
In what is truly the very definition of the absurd, Barack Obama, won the Nobel Peace prize, today. For merely talking his shit, and not acting on any of it? Have I got that right? But that for which he has done, and continues to do — which isn’t all that different from a former incoherent needle-dick’s killing, maiming, and oppressing — gets recognized as his efforts towards “peace,” as well? What the hell is going on?
We’ve got problems. And stunts like this, mark my words, only serve to exacerbate ’em…