Stalin, a product of Lenin! Lenin, a product of the Tsars!

I am reading a book titled "Young Stalin". It is by Simon Sebag Montefiore. I have found within the book's pages a totally different man from whom I thought Stalin was. On the one hand most biographies of Stalin are written by his enemies in exile, so can't be impartial. On the other hand, the only biographies with a positive attitude towards this dictator were written only in his lifetime in Russia and are wildly partial and off the mark. We should not forget that after his death Stalin was denounced by his own party so there were no biographies about him published later in Russia. Therefore it is hard to find an impartial book about him. Fortunately this book tries to be that, although it is more negative than positive. The author exhibits all the symptoms of a person who has not lived through similar times and is writing about a man and a time he can't FEEL anything about. I can, however, understand every word, since I have lived through similar times and can feel every moment of the young Stalin's life. I can understand why he did what he did, at least before he became the blood-thirsty dictator he was.

It is fascinating to think what would have happened to Stalin if he had lived in a different time. I try to imagine him in Canada in our time. At most, he would have been a Jack Layton, leader of the NDP. If the Bolshevik coup had been crushed and defeated, he would have been a martyr, or at least an old revolutionary émigré with lots of stories to tell about his adventurous life. He would never have become the Stalin we know now. His life would not have been much different than the life of all the Russian revolutionaries deported after October, or the life of Spanish Civil War heroes after the defeat of the Spanish government by Franco.

What made him STALIN, the worst dictator in history, was the October Revolution. Without Lenin, there could not be a Stalin. Stalin is the natural product of Lenninism. He is the legitimate son of Lenin's brutal Civil War and dictatorship. But we can't understand Lenin without understanding the suffocating dictatorship of the Romanovs and Tsarist Russia. Without that dictatorship, Lenin could not have succeeded in bringing about the October coup. The population would not be ready to tolerate so much brutality. Other parties have tried, after the October, to copy it in other countries, but where the situation was not ready, they were all defeated. German communists tried hard to have their own revolution in 1918 and 1919 but were defeated because German society was more advanced and less brutal at the time. Even British communists tried their hand at revolution in the 1920s, but it was a farce because people would just not accept a bloody revolution.

So, I believe, if we trace the roots of Stalinism, at the end of the day the blame rests with the Tsars and their stupid, backward regime. The same thing can be said about the Islamic Republic in Iran. Yes, they are brutal. But you can't blame it all on them only. Without the brutal, murderous dictatorship of the Shah, Khomeini could not have achieved success and come to power.

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I agree that Stalin could not do what he did without Lenin, but I also believe it was not necessary to be so brutal. There is no logical reason for the necessity of Stalin's extreme brutality. Russia would still become an industrial country, no matter what political system it had. Many other countries went through the same phase without any blood. IT WAS NOT NECESSARY. It was illogical and evil. It can only be explained by Stalin's personality. I believe if other members of the Bolshevik party had ruled Russia instead of Stalin there would not have been such blood bath. Even if Lenin had survived and ruled, he would not expose his fellow contrymen to such a brutality and at least not killed his own party members. Mao was a brutal communist, but he killed much less of his own party members than Stalin did, in a much larger and more populous country.

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CAPITALISM, OR GOVERNMENTAL CORPORATE WELFARE SYSTEM

Bear Stearns downfall and purchase by JP Morgan proves again the hollow claims of capitalists about Laissez-faire economy and the rule of government in it. At times of prosperity when the greed rules supreme, their economists claim that the government should be as small as possible. It should not interfere in the affairs of the market and must let capitalists shave the public as much as they want to fill up their pockets and own 10 estates instead of only 1. Any attempt at wealth redistribution is faced by hollers of interference. NO, it is not good for economy. NO, the government should not interfere at all and should let the economy run its course.

But look at Bear Stearns comedy now. The moment the excess greed turns into the economic storm and the ships start sinking left and right and centre, then the same capitalists turn to the government, with caps in hands, for survival. The same government which was "BAD" and was not supposed to touch their pockets, now has to save them out with "tax payer's" money. The same people, who were not worthy enough as human beings to share in the prosperous times, are now expected to pay out of their pockets and through their taxes to save out the capitalist's companies and corporations.

Women and Men

I watch the pigeons on my balcony. I always used to think these are real romantic birds. Look how deeply they kiss each other. Then I watch more closely and the reality sinks in. They are not kissing, what happenes is as simple as this: The female is getting food from the male. Exactly like how a chick gets food from the parents, she pushes her beak into the males' open beak, and the male regurgitates the food to her. Instantly after she gets some food, she lays down and lets the male have his way and f... her. So no food, no sex, as simple as that. No kissing, just a simple payment.

But when you look deeper into why they do that, you understand the evolutionary reason for this behaviour. In pigeons, it is the male that feeds the chicks once they get older. The female stops feeding them when the chicks are a few weeks old, and it is the poor male that has to feed the chicks. And by getting food(or begging food) from the male, the female is actually TESTING him. She wants to know if this guy is "giving" enough to be willing and ready to share his food. The line of thought is: if he feeds me, then he will feed my chicks too.

Do the females in our species act differently?
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It is not only men who love porn? Women enjoy porn. But porn for women is different from men. Women's porn are the romantic novels and movies consumed by them in huge quantities. For them, it functions exactly as visual porn functions for men.

HUGE MARKETS BEGET DICTATORSHIP AND CORRUPTION

In a country with a huge population, the market is huge. In such a country, the capitalist system can reach the height of its power because of the size of the market. The money and consequently power tends to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands and in the long-run the political system becomes a corrupt plutocracy and democracy dies. In Such a society the gap between rich and poor becomes wider and wider until the system collapses from within. A very good example of such a system is ancient Rome, or the successive empires in China built on the back of millions of peasants. Each empire ruled for a few hundred years and was thrown into anarchy and chaos and fell in a peasant revolution. A modern version is US, where the capitalist and corporation lobby has become so powerful that the legislature just can't pass any laws to narrow the gap and the poor become poorer everyday despite the huge wealth of the country.

If a country is small and has smaller population, the market in not large. As a result, the capitalists in that country can never gather enough money to be able to influence the political system at will. An example of such a country is Canada, or Scandinavian countries, or Switzerland. Democracy in such countries lasts longer and is more vibrant because there is not enough concentrated money to influence it. The lobby power of small capitalists can never compete against the will of the people. These countries tend to have a more just and socialist system and the gap between rich and poor is smaller.

McCaine Killing Innocent Vietnamese

Everyone these days mentions Senator McCain and his heroic spell in Vietnamese jails. But nobody, not even one person that I know, not even one journalist, asks the very simple question: ‘Senator, why did you end up in Vietnamese prisons in the first place????’

Did they come to the US and snatch you from your cozy big house? Did they invade your country and arrest you while you were fighting against their invasion? Did they kidnap you from your military base? Or were you bombarding innocent civilians—Vietnamese children, women and men, when they shot your plane down and captured you as a war criminal? What were you doing over Hanoi? Were you defending democracy and human rights against fascism, or were you expanding American imperialism by bombarding the civilian population in Hanoi?

If I were present at one of the campaign speeches, I would stand up and ask these questions, instead of asking about what happened to McCain in the Hanoi Hilton.

I would pick up the mike and ask him, ‘Senator McCain, would you please explain to me what you were doing at the time they shot you down? Senator McCain, what were your feelings when your bombs burnt, maimed and killed innocent children and civilians? Senator McCain, as a practicing Christian, have you ever asked for God's forgiveness for the crime of killing these people? Senator McCain, have you ever, even once in your life, woken up at night sweating and thinking of the innocent people who were killed with your bombs? People who had not attacked US, who were sleeping and working in their own country, while you had invaded theirs!

Why we should not expect intelligent beings in the universe

One of the latest books I have read was “A Brain for All Seasons” by William H. Calvin (University of Chicago Press- 2002). It is about the evolution of humans. I want to share some reflections on this book,

It is interesting that in 4 billion years of history of life on this planet, intelligent beings, humans, have only been around for not more than 100,000 years, which compared to that long history is just but a second. By intelligence I mean the grasp of language and the production and understanding of concepts like Arts and Philosophy and artefacts and machinery.

Bipedal apes appeared in Africa around 5 to 6 million years ago, but up to 100000 years ago they were not much more advanced than chimpanzees and gorillas. Intelligence and a big brain with capacity for thinking, memorizing the past and planning for future, appeared in one small and isolated group of these mammals only by chance. Life can and could have gone on this planet for the remaining billions of years without any intelligent beings appearing on the scene. We humans are just a chance event, not a necessity.

Some say higher intelligence is necessary for the survival of the species. But that is nonsense. In the battle of survival, bacteria and cockroaches have been much more successful than most bipedal apes, bacteria have been around for more than 2 billion years, and cockroaches for around 300 million years, and nobody could consider these animals as intelligent and thinking. Even our closest siblings in animal kingdom, chimpanzees and gorillas, have been around as long as the humans and very successful in adapting to their environment.

What I want to point out here is that higher intelligence is just a chance win in a lottery and not a necessity in evolution. And from that I conjecture that intelligent life in universe must be extremely rare and sparse, not as some sci-fi fans believe, abundant. Even if by any chance another intelligent being has appeared in another remote corner of this universe, how successful can it be in the game of survival. Apart from all the environmental changes that can bring about the doom of the intelligent animals; in the millions of years before they achieve a civilization through a slow start, at the end, even if they survive and build a civilization, they themselves can strike the death blow. In our case, who knows how longer we human beings are going to survive on this planet. By piling up weapons of mass destruction(and I am not talking about one saddam Hussein here, but the real culprits, the sole superpower ) we might very possibly annihilate ourselves in a world war(and not only ourselves, but perhaps the whole planet), because our animal brains are still ticking wrapped in a tribal and herd level, while our weapons have come a long way from sticks and stones, and will be deadlier and more advanced by the day. We might destroy our own civilization and our own race in a world war, and this destiny can befall many other intelligent beings in other planets; if there are any out there at all. Higher intelligence, the one we humans own, most probably, is just a very rare by-product of evolution, a dead-end alley, a one in a million lottery win, and not a necessary stage or a tool for survival. Life has managed without it up till now and can manage to the end, when our planet is going to perish in the formidable glow of a dying sun.

Buy, Buy, Buy ... to save the capitalist system

A recession is looming, and what does Mr. McGunity tell us to do? To buy! Two days ago he advised all Ontarians to go to malls and buy, buy cars, buy houses, buy stuff.

This is capitalist system. Pure and simple. A system based on consumption, not on taking care of real human needs. Buy, buy, buy until you consume the whole planet, and turn it into plastics and metals and junk. Like a virus that attacks the body of its host and destroys it. This is a system that is based on planned obsolescence, a system that loathes merchandise that last for a long time. Any product in this system should not last more than a few years, otherwise the whole system will crash. They have the "Fashion" in everything, in clothes and cars and computers, etc. They change it every year so that the last year's merchandise is ugly this year and you have to replace them.

Is a system that will collapse if people stop heavy consumption a reasonable and rational system? Of course not. The production system should not be based on greed, but on real human needs, without excesses of totally unnecessary consumption.

And remember: George Bush told Americans the same thing after 9/11. People were scared and not shopping, and he told them to go and shop, otherwise the system will collapse, and right now he is going to legislate laws to pay every American some money to go to the store and buy stuff.

Don't they see how crooked and unstable the system is? Of course they see it, but greed is a stronger motive than reason in human beings.

Death and Man

Life is a stupid, aimless, chemical compound, like water, like salt, like any other crystal. It is inherently tragic, because it is meaningless and it ends in death. Every life is tragic, but human lives are more, because we are the only animal who knows that it is going to die and yet tries to live like there is no death. We go around our daily business with great enthusiasm, we battle for better life, for money and riches and love and sex and pleasure as if we are eternal. We deny death to ourselves. Death is always for others. Even if we try to understand death, our cells deny it and push us forward in this journey. Like a computer that is programmed to work endlessly and can't escape it's program, we run endlessly on the path to death and often forget to enjoy the beauties of the road.

And yet, at the end of the day, even Rockefellers and Genchizes of this world die and don't carry any of that wealth and power with themselves to the other world. Even they get the same as the next homeless guy at the corner of the street, a few feet of land 6 feet under for their bones. So why do they heave and try so hard and put so much stress and fear and anxiety and sorrow upon themselves while they know it is all useless? Why don't they take it easy like a fakir in India? What do they get out of all this anxiety and stress at the end of the day?

And yet.....

EUROPEAN SOCIAL DEMOCRACY PAYS

Linda McQuaig article in Toronto Star about the benefits of social democracy

Reflections on church and Christianity

A few days ago, a friend invited me to their church and I sat through the whole mass. These are some of the thoughts that passed my mind:

1. How much cruelty and tribalism resides underneath the bible. The sermon was about Moses and how he let the Israelites pass through the red sea "and then the sea came together and drowned hordes of Pharaohs soldiers". Didn't those soldiers have wives and children like Israelites? Shouldn't they be pities, left to their own resources after the death of their fathers and brothers? No, god does not care about that. God is a "tribal" god! He only cares for the Jewish tribe. For him, like any other tribal guy, people from other tribes are not considered human, they are subhuman, even less than their own sheep and cattle and can die in anyway.

2. I look around, see some disabled people there. Why are you, of all people, here??? To thank god who has created you like this, who has inflicted perpetual pain and suffering on you? What is there to thank him for? One of my friends used to wonder about gay people who try hard to be accepted into the church and wage lengthy campaigns for that. He used to say: For what? To go to church to thank god to have created them as homosexuals and denied them one of the greatest pleasures of life which is the love and touch of the opposite sex?

3. they line up to have the wine and bread. Isn't it a totally tribal custom? The tribe's witch giving all sorts of strange things to people to eat and telling them it is the blood of that deity and this god? Weren't the Romans, and actually all prmitive tribes also, practicing these ceremonial sacrifices and drinkings of blood and flesh? Christianity has just changed it by a thin veneer of a religious story. Funny thing that Mormons have changed the wine into water and have water in their churches.

4. Thank goodness I don't need to accompany everybody else in singing the silly songs and standing and sitting every few minutes. Why can I do this, because millions of people have sacrificed their lives in the past hundreds of years so that I can sit there without having to follow the crowd and pretend that I believe and not afraid for my life.

5. The building is large but deserted. It has definitely seen better times, when everybody used to attend the chruch or at least pretended to believe and attended. There are a miserable small number of people here. I think of the power and glory of the church before. Alpha males at that times, used to be attracted to the church because of it's power and money, and as usual, wherever alpha males are, you can expect cruelty and deceit and war and torture and churches did not leave anything to imagination in that department. But now that they can't attract people and money, they are devoid of alpha males, here I can just see some weak soles smiling perpetually. Boy, I can smell the minister's smelly breath from here in the first row.

Immigration and Democracy

Most immigrants do it for financial reasons, not democracy and freedom. Give them enough money in their autocratic countries, and they won't move one step out. It is a rare immigrant that does it to flee dictatorship. When they come to the new democratic destination, they just strive for money and prosperity, they don't take part in the political process. That is sad but true. The risk the target country takes is that if it accepts too many of these immigrants, it might get flooded with people who don't care who rules them and what system is in power, as long as they can make a living. This will put democracy at risk.

Power of brainwashing, Christmas tunes in Dec

Don't you find yourself whistling and repeating the Christmas carols melodies and tunes in Dec? Aren't you irritated by these tunes that run endlessly inside your brain? Well, what is this except the huge power of brainwashing. If something is drilled again and again and again into you, it becomes part of your brain circuits and you can't get away from it.

In Christmas time anywhere you go, from the malls to the stores to the streets, you hear these same carols endlessly. In a short time, you find yourself repeating them endlessly in your brain.

Well, this is the simplest and easiest brainwashing. We human beings are very susceptible to this. Now imagine how a newborn kid living in a cult family environment can escape from incessant indoctrination in the family? It is just impossible. The "tunes" drilled into his impressionable brain are going to be played there forever. But same can be said about grown up human beings in many dictatorships.

First Nations(Indians) poor and begging in their own land

Many times in downtown Toronto you can see poor Indians, inebriated, dirty, homeless, begging for a cent. It is so sad to see these scenes because you know that if this land has an owner, it is the Indians not us new immigrants. They have been here for thousands of years and it is so unfair to see them begging from us newcomers on their own land, which has been conquered by us.

Warning by Warren Buffet about low taxes for the rich

Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, has warned against repealing estate-tax in US. Tax cutting by Bush and cronies has reached to a point that even the rich are complaining:

Read the article here

Capitalism, immigration and alienation

Capitalism in North America needs immigration and feeds on it. Immigrants, especially uneducated non-skilled immigrants are willing to do the dirtiest jobs, with minimum wages, without any complaints, and actually are thankful to be in North America. They are the epitome of the slave labour which is a necessary requirement for capitalism. The native labour force can never be treated as badly as immigrant labours and stay quiet, they know more about their rights, feel more secure in their "own" country and unionize and object to the abuse.

The alienation of the immigrant labour force brings about another outcome. Immigrants never feel attachment to their new homeland, as much as a native. They don't demand better services. Hundreds of years of experience with capitalism proves beyond doubt that a capitalist system never delivers services without pressure by masses. In countries like Switzerland and Japan, which have a lower level of immigration, and most people are natives with generations of entitlement to the country behind them, the level of services are much higher, because people are not alienated, they feel they belong and they demand better services. In countries like US or Canada, as a large number of people are immigrants, the demand for better services is lame and weak and as a consequence, the services are only provided for the upper classes and not for the masses of the populations.

A polish man and a Taser

There are two very separate issues in the event of the murder of the innocent Polish man in the Vancouver aiport:

1. Irrespective of what he had done, the reaction of the police guys was too aggressive and over the top. Taser is usually left as a last resort, but the video taken there shows that they use it as a first resort, without even asking him a question.

2. Now that his background in Poland is being known, we notice that he has a record of robbery and other criminal acts. It is strange how such a person with such a criminal record is allowed to enter the country as a legal immigrant while thousands of clean educated applicants have to wait for years to be granted immigration.

Canada has to have a complete overhaul of its immigration policy.

Human Beings Sane? Why do we think we are any better than other animals?

Human beings think that they are advanced and more reasonable than other animals. I always think 6 reasons are enough to prove how stupid and unreasonable we "hairless apes" are:

1. smoking: Despite 50 years of heavy campaign against smoking, and despite extensive research that proves beyond doubt that smoking is a serious health hazard, there are still millions and millions of human beings that smoke. Each time I see somebody opening a pack of cigarettes with those nasty pictures of wasted lungs and teeth on them and the warning that smoking is hazardous to your health, each time I see near death patients on wheelchairs outside the main door of hospitals smoking in the cold windy day, I ask myself: “do you need any other proof that we are just another primitive primate with a primitive brain”?

2. Religion: Despite all the scientific advances we have made, right in the middle of the so-called most advanced society in the world, in US, large groups of people still believe that humans are created by god 6000 years ago, refuse to accept evolution, accept that all sorts of miracles are true, and lots of other false outdated beliefs. They go through boring 2000 year old books believing them word by word and fight tooth and nail to stop scientific advances like stem cell research.

3. War: Are we different from any small tribes of chimpanzees when they fight the other tribe and kill their young and adults just because they are “different”? How can we boast we are different, more advanced, and reasonable when we still fight as ferociously and every day “invent” better ways to kill and annihilate each other?????

4. The British Royal Family: Can you find any group of people as useless as this family? What is the rason de etre of this family? Just because you have dropped out of the vagina of a certain woman you are entitled to all these privileges? You own vast tracts of lands, palaces, wealth and power just because you are one of them? What is the difference between prince Charles and any other man on the street? The only difference is that the passage that guy passed through to come to this world was not located between the legs of a certain person! Why on earth is any of them entitled to all those privileges and wealth? As long as there is such a thing as a royal family in this world that thinks it has the gods approval to be different and is blue blooded, and worse than that, is “loved” and “approved” by its own people, I will always doubt the sanity of human beings.

5. The existence of countries and borders: We are all one species, we are not Americans or Bangladeshis or Japanese. Why borders? Why countries? Why draw a line on the sand and say I, at this side of this line, have the right to be prosperous and powerful and happy, and you just on the other side of the line have to be poor and oppressed and illiterate? Can any sane and reasonable person bring up just one reason why we need to have borders and countries?

6. LOTTERIES AND CASINOS: We all know chances of winning big in a lottery is statistically less than being hit in the street by a meteorite, yet still hordes of people buy lottery tickets every day. And if casinos were going to pay more than they made, there wouldn't be any casino around and yet still millions of people go to casinos everyday to "win". Shall I go any further??

These are just 6 reasons why we are not sane, why we are no different than gorillas and chimpanzees, why we are animals like any other animals, and why we don’t have any rights to boast about our special place in this world and this universe. I can go on and list a thousand other reasons, but do you think it is necessary???

Harper the tax cutter bribes me and you with another GST tax cut

Harper the tax cutter did it again and cut more taxes. By just cutting 1% of GST, the government will lose around 6 billion dollars a year, and who will benefit, only the rich who are conspicuous consumers, not the poor that only buy food and some very low price items.

Instead of cutting the GST, why doesn't he invest the money into health care, education, housing and other social programs? Are all Canadians so well off that they don't need any of these social programs? How about the crumbling infrastructure of this country, and cities like Toronto that are on the brink of bankruptcy and can't even run their libraries and community centres and public transport? Who is paying for this tax cut? Certainly not the rich, but the poor who have to pay more for the transport tickets, day care, health care, their children's university education, etc. How about freezing the madly rising university tuition fees Mr. Harper??? Or a National Medicare or dental care program???

On the other hands the corporations are rewarded generously with huge tax cuts, really this is a government of corporate welfare, not people's welfare.

And of course, the idiots that can be bribed with a 1% GST tax cut are going to vote for him again, happily pocketing a few dollars more, and losing hundreds and thousands of dollars in healthcare and education for themselves and their families.

The greatest political act

As Jesuits used to say: give your newborn child to us and we will guarantee that we will make a true Christan out of s/he for life. They knew well. What we are, our habits and personality is formed by the time we are 6 years old. Insert good habits in these first six years, and the person will always follow and be a good one. Ruin him/her during these 6 years, and there is nearly no possibility of reform.

The greatest act of political reform and change by any government will be to introduce good education for these first 6 years, but alas, the governments let these first critical years totally in the hand of the parents. Parents who could be drug addicts, alcoholics, uneducated, crazy, etc. And then when the kid has already acquired the mechanism that is going to shape his/her personality, they try to change it! Isn't it stupid?

Canada deserves long term thinking

A very interesting article in Toronto Star which is not good only for current vote seeking situation in Canada today, but for all times in a democracy.

Canada deserves better

Conservatives wasting the surplus on tax cuts again

Stephen Harper is at it again. "Bribing" simple minds among the masses with tax cuts to vote for him again. I can't find a better word to explain his tactic. Wasting the hard earned surplus that belongs to all of people, on a wealthy few. This surplus must be used to build new infrastructure for the country, renovating the faltering existing infrastructure, helping the near bankrupt cities, etc. Why not help Toronto out of the hole they put it in in the first place. Toronto is a virtually bankrupt city that can't even keep it's libraries and community centres open, and then Harper wastes the surplus in that "bribe". This surplus should be used for health care, for a free medication plan for all, free dental care, free higher education, all of them, if well looked at, are "human rights". But no, Mr. Harper wants to rule another four years, and so what does he do, he wastes "Our" money by giving tax cuts to the wealthy or upper middle class.

what does being a Canadian mean?

Multiculturalism was good when Canada opened its doors to the world at the beginning of the 70s. It was good in that it stopped racism. But now, Canada is being inundated under the waves of immigration and there is no Canadian identity left. I think now Canada has to have a revision in the ideal of multicultrualism and instead look more into the "melting pot" idea. The newcomers to Canada have to adhere to a minimum of "Canadianness" and not be totally separate from the larger community and living in their own tiny communities.

How to create New Humans

Communists in Russia tried to create new man. Their endeavour ended up in Russian mafia. By studying communities like Mormons or Mennonites we can learn what is the effective method of creating the new man according to any blueprint for humanity. You don't enforce and impose your model to a whole society, it is impossible. People are different and for any ideology there are always just a minority of the whole society who believe in it. The method is to separate these people from the larger society and build up your own little community, comprised only of people that believe in the ideology. In this small community, 100% of people believe in the ideology of their own free will. But that is not the end. This community needs constant weeding. The creators of such societies must be on constant watch for disbelievers and the ones who lose the faith. These sort of communities need constant "weeding". Every new generation will be weeded and non-believers dropped out and rejected by the society. That is the only way to preserve the purity of the community, the ideology and the faith. If they are strict in this, they can last for generations.

The modern election bribe

In the simpler times of yore, they used to bribe people directly to vote for a candidate. They took them to lunch, paid a small amount, etc, and got the vote they wanted. Nowadays, it has become a little more sophisticated, now they promise you a "TAX CUT". If you look at it closely, it is no different then the other bribes they used before.

Hijab

With all the fabric she had wrapped around herself, you could cloth 5 people and still have some to cloth her. What a waste of fabric and human energy.

Death and Evolution- Why should we die for the species to exist

If death was not programmed into our cells, we living things could not adapt to change so fast and would be a gonner by now. Without death evolution can't work its magic and the species that does not let it's individual members die will not last long. Death is a unique "defect" in genes that has actually resulted in the survival of the species and life on this planet.

What an irony that DEATH, which is so "traumatic" to any individual member of the species, is so good for the survival of the species.

How hard we try to live together

I am at the training centre for elections Ontario for the 10th of October elections. I listen to all manners of fraud that could happen in elections, even in this civilized country of ours, and I think:
How hard we try to live together, despite the selfish animal within each of us that wants to have everything for itself and does not care for others. It is like putting wolves or tigers in a tight cage and expect them to be fair and kind to each other. But try we do, and we are at it for the past 100,000 years. But; we are still so far away from real social animals like bees and ants, or even the society of cells in our own bodies, where there is really a social motto that is followed by everybody without question: One for All, and All for One.

Pearl of Wisdom by Jin Tao

Some women are not good for your health. You wonder what I mean? I mean, women are like food. Some are good for your health, like vegetables, but you rather not touch them. Your mama says it is good for you, and your doctor says it is good for you, and your brain says it is good for you, but your heart is not into it.

On the other hand, some are very bad for your mental health and peace of mind, but like chocolate and fatty foods, you crave them all the time. These women should carry this warning on them: "Handle with care, might be hazardous to your well being despite very sweet on the outside".

Shame on Toronto Councillors who voted down the tax increases and now tax the poor

TTC had to increase it's fares yesterday amid fierce campaign by right wing cabal in Toronto Council to stall the tax increases.

WHAT IS A FARE INCREASE? Is it anything else than a TAX on the poor who don't have a car and no other choice than taking the TTC? Also a tax on people with an environmental conscience who don't use cars and don't want to pollute this planet more!

Who was the sole beneficiary of the tax increase blockage? Rich people without a conscience about our planet who drive their SUVs on our highways and choke the planet.

Shame on you capitalist cronies. Shame on you Minan-Wong. Where is the "budget efficiencies" you were promising so as the fares are not increased and the services are not cut? Isn't it an oxymoron? How could you have a functioning world class city without paying for it?? Can you deceive people forever by promising tax cuts and at the same time offering better services?? Is it possible? Who will vote for you except morons who still believe in fairy tales?

Intelligence and death

If there was a god, it was not fair to give us intelligence, and then give us death!

Why.... among all the animals on this planet, we became the only ones to understand that we are doomed to end and to death and decay?