There is no end to human greed, health care in Canada

There is no end, no boundary, to human greed. For instance, take Doctors in Canada. They have very good incomes through the public health care system and yet, recently you see many of the family doctors leaving the system and starting private businesses in laser and beauty therapy or adding these businesses to their health care clinics.

Conservatives in Canada show their true colors

(Doris... Ooops) Day, the minister of public safety, said today that he is against banning handguns in Canada. This is said while there has been a surge in murders committed using handguns in different cities in Canada recently. NRA should be proud of it's Canadian compatriot. It yet proves again that Harper conservatives are no different than Bush people in USA.

Read the article HERE.

Hot Pot Sign in Spadina Avenue, Toronto

I shot this picture in July 07 in Spadina Avenue, the main China Town of Toronto.

Human Brain and the Evolution

First, there were single cells. For billions of years earth was inhibited only by single cell organisms. Then, there came multi-cell animals. Entities with a higher consciousness, aware of the world around them but acting more or less like machines. The brain in animals works more or less just to keep the community of cells they are made of; alive!

The third stage in evolution happened just recently, the human brain, with a consciousness totally separate and free from the community of cells it is made of. A brain that can think thoughts alien to the cells it is made of, thoughts that don't have anything to do with the day to day survival of the cells it is made of.

The fourth stage of evolution started 200 years ago, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. We are still at the beginning and nobody can say what a new consciousness will arise out of the totality of the human brains that comprise the industrial societies.

That consciousness might be close to what we think of as GOD.

Contradictions in US

People always wonder why there is such a huge contradiction in US. On one hand they are so advanced in science and technology, on the other hand the general public, apart from a small educated minority are on average ignorant, backward, still in 19th century when it comes to religion and their other beliefs. It seems you have cut an advanced part of a European country and pasted it on a background of 16th century Europe, with all the fundamentalists, etc. The explanation is simple.

US is a land of immigrants. The huge mass of the immigrants during the 19th and 20th century were composed of the poorest most ignorant groups of the socieites they immigrated from. Wealthy and educated citizens of European countries don't need to escape to another country for a better life. It is the most downtrodden and desperate and poor groups that escape to another world for a better life. So this huge mass emigrated to US and they brought the whole backward beliefs and social structure with them to the new country.

On the other hand, because of the riches of the country and its democracy, top scientists like Einstein and writers like Salman Rushdie are attracted to the the land. So here we have the root of this contradiction, a general public who are still pretty backward and ignorant, still behind the average industrial European or Asian countries, and a minority elite, who are the top brains of the world in science and literature and arts.

I am disappointed with Toronto

Again Toronto showed it does not have the courage and the will it takes to be a great city. Again at the last moment the city council wavered and voted no to the new taxes to save the city from bankruptcy. When we can't help ourselves, how do we expect federal and provincial levels of government to care for us? Just by ONE vote, city hall voted to defer the final decision about the taxes. Shame on the councillors that sided with capitalist fat cats in voting no to tax raises while they knew that the city is on the brink of bankruptcy.

Saving Toronto is not difficult. Just raise taxes for the fat cats, not the average joe and the middle class. Squeeze the fat cats, dont' be so timid. They make money in this city and out of the people of this city, why shouldn't they return some of that money to the city that has been so generous to them?? Why should they live in huge mansions with 40 rooms. Tax huge houses, they won't die living in 30 rooms instead of 40. Tax big cars, tax big consumption. But......... who dares to do that. Not half of our councillors. They won't bite the hand that feeds them, do they?

Please click here and here and here and here to read the articles about tax cuts(from Toronto Star)

Is this is a country to live in?

Imagine an industrialised country where even middle class families have difficulty sending their children to college and university because they can't afford it. They have to borrow, they have to save from when the child is born, and yet still some can't afford it.

Then imagine an industrialised country where 40% of the population don't have absolutely any medical insurance. It means when the disease and sickness comes, which it hits everybody at last once in their life, the main worry of these people is not their illness, but how to pay for it and lots of them avoid going to doctor and hospitals until they die.

IS THIS COUNTRY A GOOD PLACE TO LIVE IN?

Now a questions: What is this country?

Yes, you were right: The Great United States of America

Please Support the New Taxes in Toronto

The city hall is going to decide about adding a very little extra to home and car buying taxes and already the huge and powerful capitalist coalition and lobby is raising rabble about it. Please write letters and emails to your councillor supporting the new taxes. These taxes will save the city from bankruptcy when the federal and provincial governments have downloaded all the expenses to the city. You can find your city councillor's email address here:

http://app.toronto.ca/im/council/councillors.jsp

New Pearl of Wisdom by great philosopher Jin Tao

This one was discovered recently:

If these men of cloth, these great clergy, really believe in god and life after death, then why do they do their best to prolong their life and delay death. From Pope to Khomeini, they cling to their dear lives up to the last day. They don't show any willingness to rush to meet their god. They use the latest medical techniques and inventions and drugs to live one day more. Khomeini loved life after death so much that he had made a rather large hospital in his residence. The sole purpose of that hospital was to take care of his ailing body and prolong his life. The hospital was so advanced and large that after his death it was turned into a general hospital for the public. The former pope also the same, despite all his ailments, he was not willing to leave this world of sin and squalor and join his god in the heavens.

These men, just by their acts, prove that we human beings know instinctively in our bones that there is no life after death. Despite all the teachings, and in their case despite a lifetime of teaching, still they know deep down that it is all a child's story and death if final and full and complete destruction of life.

Break Dance in Harborfront

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibtion and Women Artists

My friend was visiting the marvellous Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition this weekend. Visiting all those stalls with some very good art work, he noticed one thing: Most women artists were more beautiful than their art work. It was more pleasing watching them than their work, although some of the works were amazingly good.

Is it true what he noticed there? Women artists are more beautiful than the average woman?

This is just a thought that occurred to him. Take it just as a light hearted musing if you want.

َA Warning to Al Gore

Al Gore is veering too much to the left especially with his latest book. He knows it and the corporations know it and the whole American capitalist system knows it. He has turned so much to the left that now his election might be a danger for the inherent capitalist interests in US. On the other hand the pressure is mounting heavily on Gore to be a candidate in the elections.

His son's arrest is the first warning to him, beware, don't even think of standing as a candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. We have much more for you where the arrest came from.

The message sent to him by that arrest is simple and easy: "DON'T FORGET BOB KENNEDY AND MARTIN LUTHER KING."

And he knows it. I am sure he knows it. That is the reason he has steadfastly denied any and all demands for his candidacy. He knows that American capitalism is a no holds barred system. They kill if it is necessary to protect their billions.

Public Accpetance of Evolution in Different Countries

Source: Scince Magazine and the New Scientist. Read the article HERE

Look at the position of US at the bottom of the chart. It is shocking, isn't it? I am often stunned by the public ignorance in the US.