Montreal Riot

Finally something is taking over the news and replaces the over-advertised Pekin, a riot took place in Montreal during the night of August 11th 2008. However, the population isn’t quite opposed to what happened, surprisingly.

August 10th 2008, young adults are playing dice in a park and a policeman decided to arrest one of them for no apparent reason. The young man of 22 years old asked why he was being arrested and the policeman didn’t reply and threw him to the ground and proceeded to arrest him. Seeing this, his younger brother went toward them and asked why he was arresting his brother. The policeman apparently turned around and shot him.

In reacting to this, the youth of North Montreal gathered in an unstructured manner and started to protest yet young people from other areas of Montreal jumped in and started what soon became a riot. Many cars got set on fire, they broked into stores and stole items, etc…

The population of the area seems to understand what happened and while some are scared, most are requesting that the police and the leaders of the riot sit and discuss ways to calm things down and make it so the police stops beating down the young immigrants and people who have no reason to be arrested.

Of course, we also have the extremist right-wing party (ADQ) that goes and claims like idiots that it’s street gangs and that it’s nothing unusual. -Everyone- even the media, said that it wasn’t related to street gangs.

On tv, all we hear about is how the police didn’t react quick enough to the riot. There were policemen screaming to rush in and they were being held back. There’s also an urge to solve the issue regarding -why- was the young Freddy killed.

It’s not the first time we hear about the police beating down people, arresting them for nothing or adopting behaviors that aren’t to protect the population. However, this time, they managed to kill someone and even worse for them, the young person wasn’t known to be a trouble-maker, was rather calm and shy, he had a project for his life and it was far from criminality. This is not something the population of Montreal, even more on a national level, will see forgotten.

Sadly, I personally don’t expect any apologize from the police corps, to the family of the young man they killed. They will probably pull the solidarity card and throw all the blame on something the teenager did, instead of assuming they did a mistake that took away the life of an innocent and promising citizen.

- Sabbi

Oh dear media

Worshipped in every home, heard and listened to…reaching far more people than any others…precious tool of the elite, supporter of Capitalism, lies and fear. Why oh why can’t you provide us with neutral information? Why is a protest against the mondialisation where the police beat people down and throw at them gas bombs is a good thing while a protest against Chavez who has been repeatedly democratically elected where the police use the same lethal forces against the protesters is not?

You wish to control our mind and I must admit that it works well on most but…but you will not have me. I will never be drinking your words as if they were the truth. Every word you say, I dare wonder if it is a fact, a formulation to corrupt my thoughts, or pure lies.

You went so far to disrupt, that I came to the point of taking everything you say during your “news”, as something wrong. The U.S. wants to get involved in Zimbabwe? It’s not because of inhuman treatment. I look up for independent newspaper from Zimbabwe to try to figure things out but oh so subtle…their website ends with .uk. Am I supposed to be that dumb? Am I not supposed to know that Zimbabwe was a colony of the United Kingdom and fought harshly for their freedom, led by Mugabe?

Why do you throw a fist when China provides Sudan with weapons against Darfur yet you don’t say anything when the U.S. finances the Israeli against the Palestinian? Why can’t you just say things as they are?

Oh dear media, you are doing a wonderful job in your disinformation. I can’t blame you…so much money in the game that it is hard to stick to principles. Don’t you feel dirty to do what you do? Oh, certainly not because I forgot that corporations don’t think about anything else than their pocket.

You have disgusted me, my friend…long time ago.

A brief look at HAARP

The HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), started in 1990, has been under scrutiny and criticism several times in its existence. While some claims are far fetched given current knowledge and come off as nothing more than paranoia (claims such as weather domination or mind control), the most plausible military utilization of the technology is just as frightening. The HAARP facility is designed to research the ionosphere, a turbulent region of the atmosphere that is difficult to study due to the density being too light for weather balloons, but too thick for satellites. The ionosphere is important to communications due to its effect on radio signals and its role in buildup of electricity within the atmosphere.

The HAARP facility was designed to project radio waves into the ionosphere to induce change and study the results. In its current form it certainly has little effect on the environment or electronic systems; however, the research could lead to the capability of world-wide electronics disruption capability in the plausible scheme of things, and possibly weather control (most likely in the form of lightning). The most immediate concern of this is the HAARP research could lead to a SDI replacement that could be slipped in through treaties, as it is not specifically a missile defense device.

The government seems to be fairly open about the facility, with an open house once a year and all documents being unclassified. Still, people should be aware of what their government is doing, even if it is not immediately a concern. By maintaining awareness for things like HAARP when possible, we can monitor our government and keep them to their word about the positive applications of research funded largely in part by two military branches.

Stay aware, and keep thinking for yourself.

-Justin.

And if education was for everyone?

In Quebec, the youth of the liberal party had a congress during the weekend where they discussed how Quebec’s universities had low tuition fees and how that should be raised from $2000 to $6000 through post-school taxes in order to not burden the students with debts on the spot, and one of their main argument for that was to claim that it was the national average fees. Our universities do need more budgets but I cannot accept to see more picked within the pockets of the students. If it doesn’t work elsewhere, why would it work here?

In fact, a study was done in Ontario in the early 90’s where 17.3% of the Medicine school population came from low income families. During the four years of the study, the tuition fees went from $4000 to $10 000. Once they hit the $10 000, it was noted that only 7,7% of the remaining students came from low income families. It went down of more than 50%!

Of course, you keep hearing how the price of tuition fees has no impact on the student population and they claim that the numbers, no matter from which study if it does point in the same direction as those against the raise, are inaccurate and rely on urban legends! Where is the logic, I do wonder.

One of the other things I’ve read was about how education is a right, but free education isn’t. The difference is that low income students must be able to have financial help (loans) to keep on studying. While this is…a good thing in itself considering the current situation, how is it of any help to get out of school, crippled by debts and stressing out because the job you studied for doesn’t allow you to earn that much money, or you can’t find a job in what you’ve studied so you have to work in a Wal-Mart to live? The incomes are too low, you can’t pay back and from there, only stress and worries haunt your life. There is no power of purchase in these cases and they aren’t isolated. It’s just sad and inadmissible to accept that our youth destroy their life for something that should be free. Knowledge.

The system is well-done, I admit. You can’t have the job because you don’t have the diploma. You can’t have the job because you have too many diplomas. You can’t have the diploma because you don’t have the money. You don’t have the money because you don’t have diplomas. That’s how poor remain poor, in knowledge like in wealth. Many study on their own, and are doing quite well at self-education but why can’t they just pass a test and obtain the diploma, without spending thousands of dollars in university?

Why do we need huge universities with the last technology? Knowledge in itself can be found in books, remains in brains, in people. Not everything can be taught in school and most start with the experience of life. I would be really happy to attend a town class, where they would teach me about something I’m interested in… It could be held in a crappy local too, with just a board or a piece of paper to give a visual aspect to those who are more visual than the other.

Knowledge is a gift, discoveries: a blessing. All that should be shared freely to educate others and everyone. Share what we know so we discover even more. We should all be allowed to choose the tools of our future, without having a sign of dollar attached to it. Free market I can deal with to some extend…very little extend, but you can’t put prices on everything. Not on lives, not on knowledge.

Their reasoning is simple, less people understand what we are doing, and less people are going to react to it. That way, we, in the end, get more and more freedom to execute our plans.

So when are we starting those underground faculties? Let’s educate ourselves since the Elite refuses to allow us to learn without making tons of money off our backs! While at it…let’s start our own companies: where we will offer good jobs to people from underground faculties…WE will recognize the knowledge no matter who teaches it; be it you, me or them.

- Sabbi