DEATH IN PRISON CANADA STYLE
A prisoner bleed to death while guards did nothing. There was no first
aid administered and prison officials failed to do a comprehensive
investigation. Accuracy of the event was very sketchy at best. The
prison was known for racism from both the staff and the prisoners. But
official’s content there was no cover up, hmm. You’d think this was
Burma or other totalitarian regime with a barbaric and total disregard
for their inmates. But alas this event occurred at the Warkworth
Institution, Trent Hills, Ontario Canada.
An Aboriginal inmate, Martin Blackwind, was successful in
committing suicide by slicing an artery in his arm. He was doing a 17
year prison sentence for manslaughter when this occurred. The guards
stood by as he bled to death and only after 10 minutes did the
ambulance arrive but by then he had already expired. The guards
involved directly with the incident were given time off without pay,
imagine. If it were not for the efforts of Federal Correctional
Investigator Howard Saper this crime would have gone unchecked like so
may other questionable deaths that occurred in Canada’s Gulag. There
was more than just a hint of racial bias reveled in the investigation
of this institution as well.
Sadly this is not an isolated case. Ambivalence to crimes against
minority inmates permeates the system through out Canada’s penal
system. This should be of no surprise since police have allowed
intoxicated Aboriginals to freeze to death in the elements rather than
take them to jail in several communities I know of. The Crown is but a
Crown of Thorns when the concerns of the Aboriginal population are
concerned. The judicial system is bias at best and this event may very
well not lead to criminal prosecution regardless of its discovery.
It still boggles the imagination how this inmate got the instrument to
lacerate his artery in the first place. He was left alone in a cell, or
was he? Did the guards simply watch as his life’s blood spilled onto
the concrete floor? How callous and cruel could a group of guards be to
allow a human being to die before their very eyes without event
administering the basics of first aid? Maybe they just forgot. Then for
the system to bungle reports and exclude important facts of the case
was incomprehensible. But officials said there was no cover up eh.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080522.wdeath22/BNStory/National/Ontario/
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Buffalohair WHILE BURMA STRUGGLES
WHILE BURMA STRUGGLES
Than Shwe and his merry band of thugs have taken full advantage of the chaos the cyclone has left his nation. With humanitarian aid filling the warehouses of his regime he will profit from black market sales of these goods, there is no question. His policy of distributing rancid food stuffs to villages, if at all, is common place. Why should he reward those who oppose him? So the great deception continues as millions continue to suffer. Now he wants 11 million dollars cash in aid. Guess he can’t wait for the revenue from his black market sales of all the goods Burma is receiving at this time.
In the smoke screen of this national tragedy he has found it most advantageous to arrest 12 more NLD members in an early morning raid in the Sanchaung Township. Their fate will most likely be year’s imprisonment as per the fate of most political prisoners. Did you know that military guards were shooting prisoners during the cyclone? It was easier to kill them rather than find shelter and safety for the inmates. He also ordered 8 journalists from The Voice Journal, Yangon Times and 7 Days News Journal arrested. Only after they agreed not to return to the stricken region were they set free and ordered to write only positive news stories.
To the joy of his military regime the cyclone has left many children orphans and the perfect candidates for military service. It has always been common practice for Ole Than Shwe to “recruit” children and there is no doubt these orphans will fill the ranks of his army.
With human carnage clogging water ways, streets and villages throughout the stricken region, only now they are being removed three weeks after the disaster. The epic struggle of 2.5 million survivors has only begun. They faced insurmountable odds to survive the tyranny of Than Shwe before the cyclone hit. Now there is an air of total hopelessness as they ponder a fate with absolutely nothing. When will the world have enough of this holocaust in motion?
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
Than Shwe and his merry band of thugs have taken full advantage of the chaos the cyclone has left his nation. With humanitarian aid filling the warehouses of his regime he will profit from black market sales of these goods, there is no question. His policy of distributing rancid food stuffs to villages, if at all, is common place. Why should he reward those who oppose him? So the great deception continues as millions continue to suffer. Now he wants 11 million dollars cash in aid. Guess he can’t wait for the revenue from his black market sales of all the goods Burma is receiving at this time.
In the smoke screen of this national tragedy he has found it most advantageous to arrest 12 more NLD members in an early morning raid in the Sanchaung Township. Their fate will most likely be year’s imprisonment as per the fate of most political prisoners. Did you know that military guards were shooting prisoners during the cyclone? It was easier to kill them rather than find shelter and safety for the inmates. He also ordered 8 journalists from The Voice Journal, Yangon Times and 7 Days News Journal arrested. Only after they agreed not to return to the stricken region were they set free and ordered to write only positive news stories.
To the joy of his military regime the cyclone has left many children orphans and the perfect candidates for military service. It has always been common practice for Ole Than Shwe to “recruit” children and there is no doubt these orphans will fill the ranks of his army.
With human carnage clogging water ways, streets and villages throughout the stricken region, only now they are being removed three weeks after the disaster. The epic struggle of 2.5 million survivors has only begun. They faced insurmountable odds to survive the tyranny of Than Shwe before the cyclone hit. Now there is an air of total hopelessness as they ponder a fate with absolutely nothing. When will the world have enough of this holocaust in motion?
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
Buffalohair FAREWELL TO THE INDEPENDENT TRUCKER
FAREWELL TO THE INDEPENDENT TRUCKER
It may not seem like much of a loss, the independent trucking industry, but in all reality it is. There is not a shelve in any supermarket and store that is not filled with goods delivered by independent truckers. Fresh produce traditionally has been delivered by independents to warehouses across the US and Canada since time immemorial. Groceries as well as other common household needs also shared this priceless service. Men and women owner/operators have diligently delivered these necessities through rain and snow. Their sacrifice has been well recorded in ballads since they spent much of their lives on the road. The price for many was the loss of family life and in some cases the family itself.
When we are all safe and cozy in our warm beds with our children asleep in the next room independent truckers were burning up the diesel on long and lonely highways struggling to make appointments at warehouses. Through the harsh winter months trucks kept on rolling so the rest of the population could wake up to a fresh bowl of fruit and a glass of milk. The paper on the news paper was delivered by these independents as well as the ink. Dare we mention the toiletries as well as the cloth on the bedroom slippers we wear?
If you were ever to visit Salinas California in the wee hours of any morning you would find it filled with thousands of semi tractor trailers rushing to produce houses. As if they were massive shopping carts these behemoths of the road waltz their way from one produce house to another picking fruit and veggies for markets in Canada and around the USA. Trucks filled with lettuce, strawberries, corn, melons and every kind of produce imaginable rush to fill orders and ultimately the shelves of every supermarket across the America’s. The pride of the independent trucker was to deliver the goods as soon as possible so the consumer would have fresh delicious food at their dinner tables.
Clearly 80% of all goods shipped via truck were delivered by independents. But this will soon come to an end as soaring fuels prices and the cost of operation eliminates this industry. There are other hidden costs to the American trucker many of you don’t know about. Whence these trucks get to the warehouse they are hit with fee’s to load and unload their freight. A driver must hire a lumper at a cost ranging from $60 to almost $200. If they miss an appointment at warehouse they have to reschedule regardless of the circumstances such as weather or traffic.
Regulators, local and state officials have made trucks a target for revenue as they impose more and more rules and regulations in an attempt to cash in on these struggling small businesses. Regulators on the federal level have imposed unreasonable time constraints on drivers almost making it impossible for them to make appointments. Some warehouses simply take their time unloading trucks causing untimely delays forcing drivers to miss other appointments. The rules and regs have cost drivers their family time since they had to keep moving in order to make a profit. Delays on both ends of a trip cost them dearly.
With the price of fuel completely out of control there is little to no profits to glean since the oil companies have it all. Rail Road owned trucking firms simply wait for the moment to take over. They have taken over the lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. and have dealt a fatal blow to the independent trucker with unreasonable regulations. Ah but who cares anyway. These independent truckers have loud trucks and way to many lights on them. Imagine, there was a federal law restricting the number of lights on a tractor trailer. Communities have banned the use of the engine brake for the vanity of the rich. Many people do not realize this noisy device was a break through safety feature designed to slow trucks on steep mountain passes. It has saved lives and brakes as these men and women risked their lives with their 80,000 lbs. rigs on dangerous steep mountain passes. You see the sign in affluent neighborhoods; “Engine Brakes Restricted” Vail Colorado is such a place. Vail Pass has taken its toll on drivers since it was created. The use of the engine brake has curved the fatalities from drivers who could not hold the hill. But someone though it would be nice if these noisy trucks would stop using this safety device and so they did. Ironically it was at the steepest point of the grade. This has become common place in affluent communities who built along the interstates. “It’s just too noisy” Safety has been set aside for vanity. There are other mountain passes across the country that share this act of stupidity. If a driver uses this engine brake they are fined heavily and the community gleans a profit from a drivers concern for safety.
These railroad owned trucking firms have begun recruiting drivers from other countries. Of course they work for a fraction the American and Canadian drivers worked for. I meant a driver from Jamaica one day. He told me he only knew how to drive a bicycle a month ago. Then one of these corporate trucking firms ran him through a 2 week course on driving a big rig and now he is a truck driver. Another person I interviewed came from the Baltic Region and his concern was knowing how to read the English traffic signs. There is a case in Federal Court over one of these corporate firms *(Swift) who simply were handing out drivers licenses to foreign recruits. More and more trucks are burning up their brakes on mountain passes as this trend goes unchecked. But it’s all about the corporate bottom line and there is no doubt the quality of the driver on our interstates will diminish as inexperienced drivers take over the roads. As for the independents that’ve driven these roads with safety, well they will be nothing more than a statistic and a fond memory fore they will have been priced out of existence. It is a sad ending for the rugged individualist who helped forger a prosperous nation. Their sacrifice will have been for not. And another piece of Americana will die from corporate greed. Farewell Big Strapper.
Blink, Blink, Flash, Flash and all that other trucking trash.
*http://mexicotrucker.com/2008/02/25/fbi-raids-swift-transportations-memphis-terminal/
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
It may not seem like much of a loss, the independent trucking industry, but in all reality it is. There is not a shelve in any supermarket and store that is not filled with goods delivered by independent truckers. Fresh produce traditionally has been delivered by independents to warehouses across the US and Canada since time immemorial. Groceries as well as other common household needs also shared this priceless service. Men and women owner/operators have diligently delivered these necessities through rain and snow. Their sacrifice has been well recorded in ballads since they spent much of their lives on the road. The price for many was the loss of family life and in some cases the family itself.
When we are all safe and cozy in our warm beds with our children asleep in the next room independent truckers were burning up the diesel on long and lonely highways struggling to make appointments at warehouses. Through the harsh winter months trucks kept on rolling so the rest of the population could wake up to a fresh bowl of fruit and a glass of milk. The paper on the news paper was delivered by these independents as well as the ink. Dare we mention the toiletries as well as the cloth on the bedroom slippers we wear?
If you were ever to visit Salinas California in the wee hours of any morning you would find it filled with thousands of semi tractor trailers rushing to produce houses. As if they were massive shopping carts these behemoths of the road waltz their way from one produce house to another picking fruit and veggies for markets in Canada and around the USA. Trucks filled with lettuce, strawberries, corn, melons and every kind of produce imaginable rush to fill orders and ultimately the shelves of every supermarket across the America’s. The pride of the independent trucker was to deliver the goods as soon as possible so the consumer would have fresh delicious food at their dinner tables.
Clearly 80% of all goods shipped via truck were delivered by independents. But this will soon come to an end as soaring fuels prices and the cost of operation eliminates this industry. There are other hidden costs to the American trucker many of you don’t know about. Whence these trucks get to the warehouse they are hit with fee’s to load and unload their freight. A driver must hire a lumper at a cost ranging from $60 to almost $200. If they miss an appointment at warehouse they have to reschedule regardless of the circumstances such as weather or traffic.
Regulators, local and state officials have made trucks a target for revenue as they impose more and more rules and regulations in an attempt to cash in on these struggling small businesses. Regulators on the federal level have imposed unreasonable time constraints on drivers almost making it impossible for them to make appointments. Some warehouses simply take their time unloading trucks causing untimely delays forcing drivers to miss other appointments. The rules and regs have cost drivers their family time since they had to keep moving in order to make a profit. Delays on both ends of a trip cost them dearly.
With the price of fuel completely out of control there is little to no profits to glean since the oil companies have it all. Rail Road owned trucking firms simply wait for the moment to take over. They have taken over the lobbying efforts in Washington D.C. and have dealt a fatal blow to the independent trucker with unreasonable regulations. Ah but who cares anyway. These independent truckers have loud trucks and way to many lights on them. Imagine, there was a federal law restricting the number of lights on a tractor trailer. Communities have banned the use of the engine brake for the vanity of the rich. Many people do not realize this noisy device was a break through safety feature designed to slow trucks on steep mountain passes. It has saved lives and brakes as these men and women risked their lives with their 80,000 lbs. rigs on dangerous steep mountain passes. You see the sign in affluent neighborhoods; “Engine Brakes Restricted” Vail Colorado is such a place. Vail Pass has taken its toll on drivers since it was created. The use of the engine brake has curved the fatalities from drivers who could not hold the hill. But someone though it would be nice if these noisy trucks would stop using this safety device and so they did. Ironically it was at the steepest point of the grade. This has become common place in affluent communities who built along the interstates. “It’s just too noisy” Safety has been set aside for vanity. There are other mountain passes across the country that share this act of stupidity. If a driver uses this engine brake they are fined heavily and the community gleans a profit from a drivers concern for safety.
These railroad owned trucking firms have begun recruiting drivers from other countries. Of course they work for a fraction the American and Canadian drivers worked for. I meant a driver from Jamaica one day. He told me he only knew how to drive a bicycle a month ago. Then one of these corporate trucking firms ran him through a 2 week course on driving a big rig and now he is a truck driver. Another person I interviewed came from the Baltic Region and his concern was knowing how to read the English traffic signs. There is a case in Federal Court over one of these corporate firms *(Swift) who simply were handing out drivers licenses to foreign recruits. More and more trucks are burning up their brakes on mountain passes as this trend goes unchecked. But it’s all about the corporate bottom line and there is no doubt the quality of the driver on our interstates will diminish as inexperienced drivers take over the roads. As for the independents that’ve driven these roads with safety, well they will be nothing more than a statistic and a fond memory fore they will have been priced out of existence. It is a sad ending for the rugged individualist who helped forger a prosperous nation. Their sacrifice will have been for not. And another piece of Americana will die from corporate greed. Farewell Big Strapper.
Blink, Blink, Flash, Flash and all that other trucking trash.
*http://mexicotrucker.com/2008/02/25/fbi-raids-swift-transportations-memphis-terminal/
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
Buffalohair IT’S ALL ABOUT EXTORTION
IT’S ALL ABOUT EXTORTION
It does not to matter how the oil executives and President George “Let Them Ride Bikes” Bush tries to hide it. The real game here is the extortion of a nation and the world. I’ve read reams of speeches and statements from oil goons and the prez and the bottom line is their lusting over Alaska’s oil. Their thinly veiled and utterly transparent desire to assault Alaska is all too obvious.
With major discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, the US and Canada you’d think the greed machine would be happy with the untapped resources brimming with oil and gas. Such is not the case since it is pure ego that is fostering this mega fuel price increase. For all intents and purposes the War in Iraq was simply revenge for Pa Pa George’s failure in the first attempt to rob a nation by his son GW. Since the world allowed Georgie to murder his way into the hearts of millions it was a no brainer extortion was next on the list of crimes allowed.
Like a page out of the crime drama “The Soprano’s” extortion has become an excepted means to force a once free nation into accepting corporate rule. Though the fuel crisis is a major hit, the insurance racket as well as loan sharking have become common place with the blessings from the federal government. Now the world will face famine on a grand scale. Food riots are in every continent as human beings are simply being starved to death, all because the oil giants want to drill in Alaska. It is bad enough all the oil being drawn from Alaska does not see American shores. Yup, it’s all about the money Paisan.
Globalization is a world wide cancer. This New World Order is simply a new and elaborate form of thuggery. Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin do not hold a candle to the millions who will die because of this new crime against humanity. Of course this was a green light for the Mega Corporation’s world wide to open the flood gates of extortion as well. The needs of the people such as health care, education and the very core of freedom have been set aside for the bottom line of corporations and this bogus stock market.
It was almost laughable when George Bush made a stand for freedom in Burma though. Sure companies were band from doing business in Burma, well except for the Rockefellers Chevron of course. After all it is oil and gas over human life these days. And what is the deal with French President Nicolas Sarkosy anyway? Since his visit to the White House he declared war on the working class of France as well. Is it all about the money? The main stream media is controlled by the iron fist of corporations. We only hear what they want us to hear. Total Oil, the French shame, drills on in Burma along side Chevron. Ah but who is paying attention anyway.
The talking heads of Congress are questioning oil officials as we speak. Sadly most of them congressmen are invested in the Magellan Fund and Occidental Oil so it is business as usual. It’s only a show for the public’s benefit since the price of fuel will keep going up anyway. Soon millions will simply starve to death from nothing more than greed as oil companies glean a 250% profit margin. It is only a matter of time before corporate ruled countries point rifles at their own citizens to quell this unsightly disturbance. “Let Them Ride Bikes”, and the band played on.
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
It does not to matter how the oil executives and President George “Let Them Ride Bikes” Bush tries to hide it. The real game here is the extortion of a nation and the world. I’ve read reams of speeches and statements from oil goons and the prez and the bottom line is their lusting over Alaska’s oil. Their thinly veiled and utterly transparent desire to assault Alaska is all too obvious.
With major discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, the US and Canada you’d think the greed machine would be happy with the untapped resources brimming with oil and gas. Such is not the case since it is pure ego that is fostering this mega fuel price increase. For all intents and purposes the War in Iraq was simply revenge for Pa Pa George’s failure in the first attempt to rob a nation by his son GW. Since the world allowed Georgie to murder his way into the hearts of millions it was a no brainer extortion was next on the list of crimes allowed.
Like a page out of the crime drama “The Soprano’s” extortion has become an excepted means to force a once free nation into accepting corporate rule. Though the fuel crisis is a major hit, the insurance racket as well as loan sharking have become common place with the blessings from the federal government. Now the world will face famine on a grand scale. Food riots are in every continent as human beings are simply being starved to death, all because the oil giants want to drill in Alaska. It is bad enough all the oil being drawn from Alaska does not see American shores. Yup, it’s all about the money Paisan.
Globalization is a world wide cancer. This New World Order is simply a new and elaborate form of thuggery. Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin do not hold a candle to the millions who will die because of this new crime against humanity. Of course this was a green light for the Mega Corporation’s world wide to open the flood gates of extortion as well. The needs of the people such as health care, education and the very core of freedom have been set aside for the bottom line of corporations and this bogus stock market.
It was almost laughable when George Bush made a stand for freedom in Burma though. Sure companies were band from doing business in Burma, well except for the Rockefellers Chevron of course. After all it is oil and gas over human life these days. And what is the deal with French President Nicolas Sarkosy anyway? Since his visit to the White House he declared war on the working class of France as well. Is it all about the money? The main stream media is controlled by the iron fist of corporations. We only hear what they want us to hear. Total Oil, the French shame, drills on in Burma along side Chevron. Ah but who is paying attention anyway.
The talking heads of Congress are questioning oil officials as we speak. Sadly most of them congressmen are invested in the Magellan Fund and Occidental Oil so it is business as usual. It’s only a show for the public’s benefit since the price of fuel will keep going up anyway. Soon millions will simply starve to death from nothing more than greed as oil companies glean a 250% profit margin. It is only a matter of time before corporate ruled countries point rifles at their own citizens to quell this unsightly disturbance. “Let Them Ride Bikes”, and the band played on.
Your Devil’s Advocate
Buffalohair
_________________
Creativity is the byproduct of a fertile mind
Buffalohair Smooth Show This Weekend May 23rd, 2008
CLASSICAL, JAZZ, R&B, CULTURAL AND SMOOTH MUSIC
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under taking!
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His Magic touch of Smooth makes their Great music stand out even
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THE Magic Is Back!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Branson Guitarist LARRY KENT tribute to Mr. Guitar, Chet Atkins
A Little about Larry:
Jerry Ozee got a job at The Shoji Tabuchi Show and met Larry Kent, who played lead guitar for the show. When the two of them, jammed together accompanied by Larry’s wife, Lori, on the bass, they discovered some magic in their efforts and as they became visible around the Branson area were surprised at how well they were received. Joining with other supporting musicians, they decided to take a run at starting a new show. They quickly contacted some key people in the business and also received the blessings of Chet’s family, and the idea of a show titled “Forever Chet” was birthed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsePsTEgiqU
The Atkins String Company presents a tribute variety show in honor of the legendary Mr. Guitar, Chet Atkins. First on left is Larry Kent.
Larry
Kent
Lead Guitar
Lori
Kent
Bass Guitar, Vocals
Players from Branson that came to Ray's concert.
Larry Kent, Jerry Ozee, Don Holmes, Ray and Dwayne Friend.
Chet Atkins played at Carnegie Hall. Hands down, Ray Cummins is the most practiced and accomplished "note-for-note" Chet style guitarist in the world. He has dedicated his whole life to listening to and emulating his (and, our) great hero Chet Atkins. He also was a personal friend of the late master of finger style guitar, and learned a lot of his playing techniques first hand - with Chet's blessing. And, because of this dedication, Ray has mastered the style, sound, clarity and most importantly - the feel of Chet's music.
My son met Larry Kent in Branson West, Missouri, on their last meeting where Larry was playing, He got Larry's CD and brought it home to me. "Listen to this, what do you think? Maybe you could do a feature on Larry?" But I need more info! :)CD Album:
SLEEPWALK (2006)
1. Gravel Road Rag
2. Sleepwalk
3. Someday My Prince Will Come
4. Nothin' To Do
5. To Lori
6. Strikes Twice
7.Sweet Memories
8. Listen To Her Fly
9. Nuage
10. Great Is Thy Faithfulness
Contact Larry
417 - 336 - 1491
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