Skookum1 Speaks - comments on BC/world history and politics and other matters

old saying of mine:  "comes the revolution, everybody dance" (said with a Russian accent). Looks like that's what's going down in Ireland.... I've seen lots of great music and dancing from the roundabouts and rallies around France, too. Who needs words when you have music...and can step-dance like that. The British and Canadian and American Yellow Vests are a complete joke, flying the Yellow Vest banner without having a clue what the French are saying and wanting.... they're partisan and obviously so- not a unifying national force as the Yellow vests in France are....  I doubt the Irish Yellow Vests have big support in Ireland (?) though there's an old tradition linking the Irish and French as anti-English and also revolutionaries, so y'never know there may be an Irish Spring as well as a French one (no soap jokes, please)..... but what the Irish Yellow Vests can do is send their support to their comrades in France........ So far Northern Ireland rema

On being from a time when there was more time.... when time was still there to be had, and not everyone in a rush and without any time... time is money, and ever since that became a truism for our culture it means that nobody has any time... other than the very rich, and the very poor.... it's all how you put your time to use that matters in the long run... and where we once thought we had millennia of advanced and advancing civilization to go yet... it not looks like we'll be very lucky to survive the whole century... with untold hundreds of millions dying by mid-century due to climate change and sea-level rise and more. And yet somehow there's still planners here intent on building new bridges or tunnels to make possible ongoing and increasing development on floodplain.... all of which will be underwater in a half a century.... same with Ruskin Dam... 104' high... but sea level rise if Greenland lets go would be 60m... so Stave Lake above Stave Falls Dam would become

Finally got the last few days' playing uploaded including yesterday's session with a drummer for 35 minutes worth of we'll-see-how-the-audio-is but some great takes of certain songs, iffy of others.... many tracks on these session videos need to be edited into separate tracks.... some are the best I've ever sung or played them.  Got my ya-ya's out but good.. and gave my new hip a good shakedown of some boogie and some jive jumpin' knee-pumpin' fun for a while last night... said I was gonna learn hula but I ... have my own ways of movin'.... felt good.  I know I'll be jumpin' and jivin' yet for years to come...

The Christmas Revolution is ON. This video is 5 hours old... this must be this morning, i.e. Christmas Morning, with the people of wherever this is driving the CRS (or is it the CRS or - ?) in fear back into their vans through sheer number. Though my last post was about strategic and set-up/tactical violence intended by the regime to be used to precipitate a dictatorship in the name of Europe and how the violence had attacked famous symbols of the Republic like the giant face of Marianne on some monument (l'Arc de Triomphe?  - I'm not sure) and that the GJ had to be calm in face of the threat and danger of civil war and a military crackdown and many deaths, by a scan of headlines on YT so far it looks like the black bloc types and alt-righters aren't as organized as the unorganized true and  totally pacifist and resolved Gilets-Jaunes....  who don't need organization, only resolve... and leaderless, there is not leader to capture and behead the movement.

Given the cryptic/mystic-political symbols in the opening alluding to the Masons et al. and  the mention of the Rothschilds and George Soros this could well be Kremlin-ite propaganda and alarmist rather than really telling the situation in France as it is... it's so hard to tell from so many different sources and know what's authentic and what's synthetic and what's just spin or nonsense e.g. American coverage of all kinds is dreck.... ... the sound of joy in the revolution in my last post carried a warning of Macron's hammer coming down, this video is warning of a serious civil war by the 7th and calling for calm in the face of attempts to produce and incite provocations and for everyone to remain calm and resolved.... do not be provoked.  The person speaking has seen the wars in Rwanda and Bosnia where it all happened on the first night, the bloodbath was launched, families torn apart, neighbour killing neighbour. Turns out last Saturday there was a lot of black

This is what revolution looks like.  Whether the French Spring turns into another Arab Spring and into another dictatorship like Egypt or chaos like Syria is up to M. Macron..... him standing down would only partly abate the Yellow Vests' demands, which include, and which is now paramount, citizen initiated referenda including votes to remove corrupt politicians and bureaucrats.  The Irish Yellow Jackets have added judges to that list. The French Yellow Jackets are completely hostile to Monsanto and to French military power abroad and to the banks, which like Monsanto and the Big Media they want broken up. They view the community as the building block of fair democracy, not representative democracy which has grown grossly out of touch (and living in luxury relative to the working poor and middle class)... the municipality as the cornerstone of democracy - just as it is in Oaxaca state in Mexico since the APPO revolution there in 2006, and in Zapatista areas of Chiapas. Same as wit

you guys are completely missing the fact that this is a power play, quite possibly no doubt via sleaze as per his Orangeness' usual wont, but in that also a power play by one of the world's greatest historical powers now able to make a move on the ancient chessboard of the Middle East. Erdogan has ambitions of restoring the glory of the sultanate. including its role as the leading state in the "Abode of Peace", which is what Dar-el-Salaam means.... This is not Putin's idea nor intention at all, though convenient to him... And you're also missing that Syrian Kurdistan belongs with Iraqi Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdistan in the united Kurdistan the Kurds were promised by the Treaty of Sevres in 1922, in reward for their aid against the Central Powers in World War I, as likewise was the Sharif (meaning the heir to Mohammed, the Hashemite line of which  now has Jordan only) promised a united Kingdom of Arabia with its capital at Damascus.   Nope, and nix to all tha

I have been intending on starting a Patreon account but you've given me second thoughts... also about using PayPal, which I don't like either nor who they are nor the way they limit the uses for your account, or moving it .... As far as existing folks with Patreon accounts, I hope they're in outside-of-Patreon/Youtube touch with their major backers about setting up; an alternative account somewhere.. and other means of payment.... probably cryptos or maybe credit union credit cards which won't yield to pressure, Thinkin' maybe I'll use Bitcoin now......for whatever other means of funding other than a Patreon account I find. This reminds me of how the BC government shut down political content in the Georgia Straight by strangling them by ending govt advertising with the weekly. But it also points out the too-much-power that Silicon Valley has, and its amoral and exploitive and increasingly corporatist actions... like this censoring of creators who found Pa

Amazing and profound coverage from the inside of the Yellow Jackets movement - uprising -  in France.  Revolution..... Not what little you hear of them in the North American and world major media press, not at all. My French is getting good enough to understand most of this, and has been getting better in the couple of weeks I've been following all this.  This video really needs subtitles for the world community, though it's for the French to rise united.   The colours of the movement are yellow and white.  White for peace and an end to war, and yellow not just for emergency but also as a token of faith, as yellow and white are the colours of the papacy for that reason. But that church choir isn't there at the end to preach Catholicism, only as a symbol of France and its culture and history.   It is a movement of peace and unity - liberty, equality, fraternity once again - and is being met with state violence of the cruelest kind..... and guess what?   It's come out si

why the Cannabis Legalization Act is really the Cannabis Regulation Act and what it really is - a money-grab for conservative money to lockdown control of marijuana revenues just like the liquor companies locked down the booze industry after Prohibition. And why it's such a farce, giving too much latitude to provinces and municipalities to restrict access to marijuana.... and why the black market is more than happy about all this.... and why marijuana liberalization will be, or can be, a huge p;art of the next BC provincial election campaign... and proposal for a Marijuana Normalization Act.

In In this I again call out to American and world media, including Ian Young of the South China Morning Post, asking them to investigate and cover various issues arising from this very curious case... and all that it might mean... and how it's as much about Canada as anyone else... really moreso, as we ar e the chessboard for American and Chinese power and money here in BC... which is now at a crux. "in other news, Meng's home was burgled while she was under arrest".  Now who do you think that would be, hm?   copy-pasting here comments made on FB after seeing updates to the news item commented here earlier this morning. ++++++++++ comment on article on thestar.com  "Top Chinese diplomat in Vancouver went in tirade..." I don't blame the Chinese i.e. China, for being pissed off, and Councillor Fry is way out of his depth if he thinks Canada's extradition treaty with the US mandated Meng's arrest. It doesn't. Especially not for dealings in two

made this this morning, only posting it now. comments on the referendum results numbers as known so far, and requests for data /stats as to who voted, and who wanted to vote but couldn't...and how many new voters there were..... .... and how many actual qualified voters there are - about 4.5 million.. only 1.7 million "took part in" the referendum...of the *registered* voters not ALL voters... I just did a rough calculation given what I could find out/ estimate about the province's electorate, though  I don't have stats on the numbers of foreign residents and I'm not sure they're in the census figures on Wikipedia I sourced... but it looks to be about 420,000 people who should have been mailed ballots had this been a fair referendum... the growth rate in the population and the citizenry vs. those who have voted before and are "on the voters list" that's a lot of people, and I've talked to many who are pissed off they couldn't get to

Skookum1 Street Professor, Vlog 48, but who's counting? Like the previous No. 47 this needs cutting up; into different sections though this one if listene to fully comes back to the orginal point.. about how the Canadian media avoids interviewing Chris Wylie like the plague and why, and the deeper geopolitcs behind the Huawei/MEng arrest which means more for Canada than it does for the US... and why trhat might be a setup; for Justin, and for America's hidden but impliicit suspicion/wariness/hostility to the TMX expansion, and also China's growing interets/influene in Canada. Behind the Granite Curtain once again... as I point out the CBC's failure to be an honest network and not a corporatist drone in reference to their shitty coverage of the end of the referendum,... and how I'm getting tired of the endless spin and muzzling of the Holy Mother Coporation and in this case its active support-by-way of coverage.for the NO side, without any mention at all of their

Starts off about the media blackout on referendum returns and a complete blackout nationwide about *anything* to do with the PR referendum in British Columbia and the nature of the 'debate' and all the lies of the NO side or anything about what the PR side is saying and the refutations of the NO side's incredible bullshit.  More than one commentator/comment I've heard on CBC was without a truth-in-advertising clause attached to the referendum egislation and its campaign's (very and too limited) terms, the whole thing was pointless ... or dangerous is the NO side wins..... This also gets into the dynamic of the non-paticipation of the indigenous nations and also about the Horgan-Morgan finagling that' just come out, and Horgan's so-called climate change policy.... And about the delicacies and vulnerabilities of BC's location i.e. its geopolitical siutaiton... ...and as with the comments about the native vote standing out... the situation of the Unsurrend

Strong talk about the political geography of the incoming returns and why they are the way they are.... and the HUGE problems for many to be able to vote and about how many weren't even told when they easily could have been. That there is NO GOOD REASON to end voting TOMORROW when there are so many *TENS* *OF* *THOUSANDS* of eligible voters who cannot get to Services BC during its few opening hours....relative to how hard people have to work to survive, or deal with poverty or family and all that, or are alienated indigenous nations as I believe to be why the northwest is lowest... and I'll bet Bulkley-Nechako is, too.... Cariboo maybe not, depends on the engagement level of the First Nation and indigenous peoples involved, or not....  Lots not.   The big issue is why?  And that is a much deeper and far more disturbing issue as to "who is not voting". Rich white areas are, that's for certain... start asking who lives in the areas where the returns are low. and so

I've been one busy magic elf... reach for the sky they say... but in Hali some of trhe stars are my friends.....and I decided to send calls for reinforcements from not just Canadian comedians but others like Russell Brand and John Cleese.  We need all the help; we can get... so I'm hopin' my pals from Haliwood and the others I 've sent stuff to will launch their own assault of talent on the BCPR bullshit referendum and its exclusionary and preferentially discriminatory basis and pretense and assumptions. They can make more cut-and-dice of it that I can in all my verboseness so I hope they and Jim Carrey and others I've sent to take up the call for reinforcements and a skewering of the rigged-to-fail PR referendum in BC....... and I get to callin' it like it is about Canada in that one as you'll see/ hear as well as calling on everone to talk to all the 18s and up; and new citizens/minorities... if we've only got til Dec 7 we need to flashmob Services BC

I've just been listening to John Oliver going on about corporate monopoly power and shitty service and retail controls on competitors... he got talking about how Luxotica shut out Oakley from their stores and it brought to mind not only monopoly corporate and crown corp controls in Canada and within BC but also how FPTP politics is really "monopoly politics". As in "we won, so you have to put up with our shit until you can try and get rid of us". "Nyah, nyah, we won, you lose" etc. Time to end the bullshit game and talk to ALL young people you see, even if they're only 17 and 16 as they all have older friends and family, or most of them do.... and you'll see rapidly how many 18 year olds - AND 19 year olds and other 18-30s and also 30-45s who didn't know about it nor were mailed ballots... like those 'preferred voters' on the mailing list. The voters list is unconstitutional as a base for the mail-out, and highly unfair to the yout

Lots of stuff to get done with real life, but I still wound up finishing posts and have some tweets to fix after fixing video titles after uploading this one... about 18 year olds deserving a fair chance to vote, among other things, on a vote that DIRECTLY affects their future and the NDP mail-out of the PR ballot somehow overlooked to even TRY to engage them... .they're waking up; to this fact, and word is spreading, likewise among new citizens and on the street. I've been on Trailer Park Boys (2nd movie) so just wrote Sarah Dunsworth and Bubbles ( via his real name Mike Smith) enlisting the help; of the TPB crew and cast to help us out and wake up the disenfranchised vote.... and Scott Thompson and Russell Peters and others and similar stateside. I don't see why there's a need to rush to close the referendum on Dec 7 and why it can't be open for the whole month for fairness..... do they not want people to vote?  And why would that be ?   The kids 18 and up see wh

I'm very concerned that the very many youth and new voters who have qualified to vote since the last election, plus 18 year olds and other new  voters e.g. new citizens and new residents who did not know about the vote and were all easy to find and mail, like most of the street people and shelter populations - all citizens - were not told of this vote in any serious fashion nor were polling places made more available to them. This is the first time in British Columbia history that 18 year olds can vote in a provincial vote and it's crucial to their future... as all I've spoken to do realize once they know it's about their future and they weren't informed about it, nor even KNEW THEY COULD VOTE IN IT. Those that now know understand why they were not told and will be acting accordingly and ... I hope flashmobbing Services BCs with their IDs to get their ballots and vote..... I hope Mr Horgan's monkeys printed enough ballot for the huge numbers of new youth and ne

Santa's hippie stoner cousin the magic (though reprobate) giant-elf cousin Alf, who's been drinking with the elves, who made him go get more milk..... dangerous little critters especially when they're on the cookies so he was glad to get out of there for a while, but he came to me all the time with the kids tonight, talking about the elves getting drunk on milk ... and saw Santa at the mall letting little kids sit  on his lap so as to feed the reindeer.... do you have any *idea* what magic hay costs these says?!!.  And Santa gave Alf  a message to deliver so the giant hippie elf took it to the parking lot between the vape store and the halfway or rehab apartments above the headshop and whatever behind the Dairy Queen on the way back to the North Pole and the elves.... it has nice light and I can be loud without disturbing anyone.....well, other than the private security firms monitoring the space and/or adjoining construction site and DQ. Santa wants everyone to know how v

ots in this, though most towards the end..I'll see if I can run a voice-to-text from now on and post transcripts. other than the "Star Trek economy" and how economics and ecologics must become the same thing (as policy /planning directions as well a true science, which economics at present is NOT), a bit of a rambling tour of Burdett Street from Government to Douglas until the 5:00 minute mark then the hard political truths start getting laid out, and who's been listening ... please watch and share. Also thanking John Verigin, leader of the Doukhobors, and mentioning the noble youth of the Mennonite Brethren and my hopes they will mobilize their generation to vote for PR for their future...... a bit jumbled as I say Oct and not Dec 7 and also say Cordova Bay instead of Cadboro Bay..... also about the pipeline and the need for a people-movement for PR and a warning to Justin Trudeau if he doesn't bring in PR before the next election. And pointing o