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Thanks mate ! that upvote made it possible for me to post this gem !

http://videosift.com/video/Dean-and-Terrys-take-on-the-Oilsands-Solid-logic

About Kathryn Marshall -- married to Harper's former strategic planning manager: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/canada-in-afghanistan/real+foreign+interests+oilsands/5982437/story.html (see paragraph 13).

*Howto seek real justice!

The majority of crime isn't committed by people who grew up saying "when I grow up I wanna sell coke and go to jail!"

Crime is a clear demonstration of the lack of purposeful employment opportunities as well as the inequality between rich and poor.

But I guess the takeaway is that the state has to be in financial trouble before it realizes it cannot lock every nose picker and pot smoker up, and Canada isn't going to be in financial trouble until the oilsands dry up. Perhaps what the conservatives don't quite grasp is how many Canadians smoke pot and work 9-5 jobs...

The $5.5-billion Enbridge pipeline project is all about sending Alberta bitumen in huge oil tankers to China. Beijing’s own state enterprises are among the project’s major backers, and Beijing has been buying up Alberta’s oilpatch at such a dizzying pace lately it’s hard to keep up. In the spring of 2010, China’s state-owned Sinopec Corp. took a $4.65-billion piece of Syncrude. Then the China Investment Corporation, which is run by the Chinese Communist Party, took possession of a $1.25-billon share of Penn West Petroleum. Last summer, the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation gobbled up Opti Canada for $2.34 billion. And so on.

Then, last month, Sinopec spent $2.2-billion to take over Daylight Energy Ltd., and last week, Petro-China, with the final push of $1.9 billion, became the owner and manager of the MacKay River oilsands project. This is what Ottawa doesn’t want you noticing.

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It turns out that two can play this sort of game. B.C.’s environmentalists are now making great sport of it, pointing out that Ottawa’s “ethical oil” branding exercise was begun by Conservative party gadfly Ezra Levant, who was succeeded at the Ethical Oil institute by none other than the otherwise intelligent Alykhan Velshi, who parked himself there between his term with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and his new job in Stephen Harper’s office. Bonus points: Ethical Oil dial-a-quote Kathryn Marshall is married to Hamish Marshall, Harper’s former strategic planning manager.

While it’s all good fun to play Spot the Freemason, something very serious is going on here. Last summer, John Bruk, the Asia Pacific Foundation’s founding president, warned that Ottawa was ignoring the rapid emergence of Chinese government interests “in sheep’s clothing” taking over Canada’s natural resource industries. Bruk told B.C. Business magazine: “Are we jeopardizing prosperity for our children and grandchildren while putting at risk our economic independence? In my view, this is exactly what is happening.”

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/story_print.html?id=5981230&sponsor

I went horseback riding once at a small ranch alongside the Athabasca River during a visit to Alberta back in 2005. As we passed along the trail I looked down the steep cliff to the river below, it was blue, so blue, like it was dyed that way. When I asked our guide about it, she explained that the River was already this polluted because of the papermills upstreatm This was still in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, far closer to that source of the River than the mouth at Lake Athabasca, considered to be the twentieth largest lake in the world. The cool Rocky Mountain waters had not yet reached the Oilsands projects, but were already undrinkable.

Your arguments are invalid and you occupy your time reading propaganda. Fossils fuels only outshine renewable energies because they are highly subsidized. Do you even know what the oilsands are? No, of course you don't, but its where your GD gasoline comes from, and its only affordable because Albertans subsidize it with their tax dollars, and watch as their northern Boreal forests are leveled.

Furthermore, despite the fact that I have never heard of Flavor-Aid, it sounds delicious and If I had access to it I would drink some right now, because apparently the flavour-aid drinkers are the only ones who give a shit about anyone other than themselves. Realize the truth, the consumption of fossil fuels is an ego-centric individualistically self satisfying activity that necessitates a blatant disregard for the other, and future, human beings who have just as much of a right as you do to dwell on this planet and enjoy its natural bounty.