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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:27

Refuse Media Garbage

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Newspapers, and Cable TV were the first things I refused.  It was too confusing listening to Democracy Now and reading Canadian Council for Policy Alternative's MONITOR (www.policyalternatives.ca) while trying to figure WTF the newspapers and TV were saying.  For example, although I'm sure this readership doesn't need one; my daughter brought home a Vancouver Sun, April 14th with the front page headline and half-page picture: MARINE LIFE IN SALISH SEA RETURNING TO FORMER GREATNESS. Actually our oceans are 30% more acidic having absorbed carbon released by our activities in the past 200 years.  Oceans are in  Peril with dead zones just down our coast the size of Texas.


Underneath this picture in the Vancouver Sun of a breeching Humpback Whale  is a pictured Pipeline, stretching across the mid-line in a supposed unrelated story about the purposed Kinder Morgan quadrupled export of tar-sands oil from Vancouver.  the 2 pictures mean.  Everything is OK.

The twinning of KM's pipeline, the expansion of storage containers on our Burnaby Mountain, the closing down of current storage tanks on the Burrard islands  because of leakage into the ocean, the huge Supertankers coming and going (through the fog) through newly dredged waters of 2nd narrows and beyond  and... no accidents because they're super safe.... but I  have nearly run into a tanker in the fog while paddling in Burrard Inlet.

So no garbage into the house, REFUSE the newspapers' information that the Salish Sea is OK.  Everything is OK.

REFUSE cable with its advertising and slanted news meant to kill me with consumption; not to mention the attack on my nervous system by the reported increasing crime, that you're not spared a single detail of and it's repeated 100 times. This necessitates more policing, not, more social programs. ....umm 2 new very grand RCMP offices and this year alone, 3 new Pharmacy buildings...

I don't put out garbage for the burgeoning disposal business, I'm refusing plastic on my food, refusing any meat with bones, but especially refusing garbage coming into the house via Media.
 
Mary Kay Wyman

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