I want to discuss UN Women and the hypocrisy that is scattered all over their website and within their principles…. via UN Women…we need to talk — REAL for women
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Dead Wild Roses: Great News for Females in the UK – Gender Recognition Act Not to be Changed!
The UK is not going to change the Gender Recognition Act! The tide of gender ideology may just have broken. Finally some good news for women. Now in Canada we have to get after Bill C-16 and get it changed stat, because both gender and sex cannot be protected
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Political Hate for Bernie Sanders – From Both Side of the Aisle
Systems, whether they be strictly social or political try to maintain a equilibrium, and to threaten that equilibrium results a great deal of unrest and turbulence as one of the first priorities of any system is the preservation of said system. The tenor of so many articles in the American
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Seen – Lesbian Not Queer – At the WPUK
Brings a smile to your face. When two parallel universes collide in one stunning picture. Reality meets fantasy and the clear winner is a life that has been lived. – Dr. Andrew Thorne https://womansplaceuk.org/
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Greed Fuels American Imperial Foreign Policy
The American people do not have an appetite for war and the suffering it causes. The same cannot be said about those who directly benefit when tensions rise and the likelihood of war increases. The arms industry and their associated lobby are firmly on board with the idea that adding
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Shit-Life Syndrome – US Politics
Societies that do not adequately redistribute wealth face the Shit-life syndrome problem. Living on the margins is stressful at best. Living precariously is the reality for all to many Americans and Canadians and unfortunately it can lead to some very self destructive voting patterns. “My state of Ohio is home
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Picasso’s Guernica – Let’s Not Go There
The war drums are beating – again. Quell them.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Lawrence Lessig – On The Tribal Problem of American Democracy.
Lessig speaks to the notion that the media divide in American culture lies near the root of many of the countries problems when it comes to their democratic process. “What is the role of education in a democracy? Must the electorate be informed? What happens when we are operating
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The US Backed Bolivian Coup – Media Manufacturing Consent
The introduction from a non officially approved version of what happened in Bolivia by Jeff Mackler and Lazaro Monteverde writing for Counterpunch: “On Sunday, October 20 Evo Morales was re-elected president of Bolivia with 46.85 per cent of the vote against his nearest competitor, Carlos Mesa, who received 36.74 percent.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The ‘Good Guys’ Wouldn’t Ignore the International Criminal Court
We have to dispel the notion that the US, UK, and Canada are on always on the side of justice and that we can do no wrong. If this was the case, we would happily welcome the scrutiny of the ICC in our wars and international affairs, as we would
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Left?/Right? The Only Winner is the Washington Consensus
Rob Urie takes a good run at explaining some of the problems with the United States polity. The infusion/revolving door of money and politics means that society is being run for the benefit of tiny minority of people. They have two ‘choices’ in the electoral sense, but it does nothing
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Pollution in New Delhi – Nothing New Under the Dim Sun
Listening to the news on the way to work this morning the last story was about the smog problem in New Delhi. The amount of particulate matter in the air was something like ten times the recommended levels for good health. “Part of the problem stems from residents who burn
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Value Added PTSD in the American School System
This of course is anecdotal, but perhaps an concerning insight into the culture that exists for school children for my neighbours to the South. As a school teacher one of touchstones I strive to establish is the idea that the classroom that we are in is a place of safety
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Democrats – Better to lose to the unhinged Right, than the moderate Left.
Paul Street pulls few punches as he describes the US Democrats using Sheldon Wolin’s terminology as ‘the inauthentic opposition’. It must be hard for the Democrats to be in opposition to the republicans when you represent the same set of business interests… “Wolin called it. A nominal Democrat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hong Kong – The Struggle for Democracy
The CBC’s reporting on Hong Kong: “The anti-government protests present one of the biggest challenges facing Chinese President Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012. And with the ruling Communist Party preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on Oct 1, the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Guns and Mass Murder in the United States – Choices Made…
The US has made the choice, with regards to their gun laws, of prioritizing personal freedom over the value of collective security. Is the choice correct? From the view of those outside the US, probably not but it is a path that most American’s seem content to continue to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States – Moving toward Ameri-exit
The fact that the US is still entangled in Afghanistan has all but left the news media in the United States. I certainly hope that powers involved here can keep their agenda focus and actually produce some results. The status quo quagmire needs to end. From the Asia Times –
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Noam Chomsky On Iran the US
The US foreign policy regarding Iran is foolish. Noam Chomsky analyzes the situation: “The most dangerous immediate foreign policy crisis is the conflict with Iran, which has been deemed the official source of all evil. Iran must end its “aggression” and become a “normal country” — like Saudi
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Afghanistan: Where Low Tech Continues to Conquer The Most Advanced Military in the World
In a uncanny sort of way the slow motion failure of the US war effort in Afghanistan is a testament to the fiercely stubborn nature of our species. The US has total control of the air, real-time satellite imagery, and soldiers equipped with the best (and most expensive) military equipment
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