Concern Trolling
with the CBC!

Cariboo Marijuana Grow Show - NOT!

It's bad enough that we, the mushrooms of BC (we're kept in the dark and fed you know what) are so poorly served by Global, the likes of CKNW, Globe Media and whatever Canned Waste is called now - but even the CBC, so often accused of being a "leftist" organ, is caving in to the corporate agenda of hiding the truth, changing the subject and basically diverting the public interest and scrutiny from the crimes being perpetrated in our names. Of course after years of attacks on its buddget by governments of all stripes, but especially the fact hating Harper government, it shouldn't be surprising if the investigative resources of the Mother Corp can barely fire up a computer to get the latest information from the Canadian Weather Office.

Therefore it shouldn't be surprising if everytiime the RCMP take time out from killing people or kicking them in the face and sends out self serving press releases - if the CBC runs with it as news for a few days. The latest attack on sanity was last week's manufactured crisis of the heinous pollution left behind by rural marijuana grow operations. Yep these major criminals litter the countryside with relatively small amounts of the same nitrate ferilizer, pesticides and herbiides as the agriculture business as usual spreads far and wide through air, land and water. Of course this is just agriculture - let's not even consider outrageous assaults of economic and enviromental rationality as the Tar Sands of Alberta, or Teck Cominco's 100 years or more of using the Columbia River as an industrial sewer. Speaking of sewers, how's flushing yer terlets into the Juan de Fuca going for all you Victorians?

Where the Colorado River used to empty into the Gulf of California, today if any liquid at all reaches salt water it is a toxic stew of residue from fields that produce alfafa and other crops 365 days per year in the Imperial Valley and drain all their waste into the riverbed that has itself been drained to supply water to taps in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The Chesapeake Bay is rapidly becoming a dead zone, along with its once famous shellfish industry due to large scale chicken and pig factories dumping what could be valuble animal waste into the waterways, but the valuable material becomes worthless, and harmful, garbage in such concentrations, with no nearby crops to feed.

I don't know if other media jumped on this non-story or not, I've been on a bit of a media holiday, but unless the CBC is so freaked out by Harper and his cohorts threats, they should reconsider joining the no brainers in the surrounding media wasteland. I did notice that most calls regarding the pieces about this were highly critical of the stated position, or the value of even covering the non-story.