There's a very dangerous situation developing in New Brunswick - made worse by the provincial newspapers and a corrupt government - and by the racism distributed by the federal government. (Have you see the Harper pamphlet on native peoples?)

Native people are opposed to the development of shale gas on environmental and health grounds. Shale gas companies are determined to develop it on native land just like all other land. A leader in this is our provincial robber baron who also owns both the newspapers and the government.

The shale gas issue is getting very, very hot down here. The government, bought and paid for by the Irving government and by other big money, is determined to ram through more shale gas exploration - no matter what public opinion might be. And the collusion of the irving newspapers  (which is all of them) is obvious and lying and malicious.

I would not be surprised at violence - perhaps incited by the billionaires. Certainly, we know that the RCMP is spying on environmentalists, and is giving bienniel reports on them to the council of canadian CEOs.

Written by Barry Rieder, Jane Finch Community Minister

Just before Easter in 2007, a young man by the name of Allen Benn was stabbed to death in Firgrove. At first we thought it was gang related but later found out that it was more of a Cain and Abel story.

Harper is not only increasing the number of prisoners in our already overcrowded prisons. He's closing down existiing ones before we have any njew one. Our prisons are, indeed, going to be hell. And they are going to increase the crime rate.

The US, with its massive prison system, is already using torture, cattle prods, etc. the resulting is a rising crime rate.

Is Syria sliding into a sectarian civil war?   The current estimate is that 3,500 people have been killed so far.   Syria has several religious groups: Sunni Muslims, Christians and Alawites (an offshoot of Shiite Islam regarded as heterodox) are the most common.  The government of Bashar Assad (inherited from his father) are Alawite.  The Alawites are coming under attack because of this.

Here is a story from The New York Times,

In a speech today, Mr. Romney, leading candidate for the Republican leadership announced that God wants the US to rule the world. He proposes to dramatically increase the "defence" budget, and cut social assistance.

Canada, as titular leader of the NATO bombing, has almost finished its work in Libya, almost certainly having killed tens of thousands of civilians. (You can't bomb cities without doing that.)

I don't know how to process the horrible events that transpired yesterday in Norway. What thoughts or actions does your theology call you into?

 I am still shocked by any type of killing.  I am particularly disturbed when large numbers of people participate in killing.  I understand that many people support killing in war, without knowing about the details or being directly involved.

But what about http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8347216.stm