Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?

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Neil Edmondson;

Guess who owns shares in Enbridge, Pembina Pipeline Corp., Exxon, Cnooc (!), Halliburton, Canadian Oil Sands Trust, Occidental Petroleum, and what appears to be every natural resource company under the sun? Attawapiskat Trust fund, that’s who. They profit from the oil sands while concern trolling about the environment – nice racket.
The blockade that is costing CN $5 million a day isn’t helping the portfolio either since they own shares in CN too.

33 Replies to “Why Is There Always A Big Screen TV?”

  1. I mentioned this last year. I was a “fly on the wall” when Plutonic Power was negotiating a hydro project with the “first locals”.
    They were playing 3 sides and making bank like gangsters.
    Nothing new, they have it down to a science.
    d

  2. So 9.6million in assets and they are too poor or stupid to have a couple of Herc loads of building materials flown in and hire a construction crew for a couple months to fix the existing houses and build new ones? Time to get this band off the public teat, methinks.

  3. Diversifying their investments in a win-win enterprise. I don’t know of anyone else who could play it as well. It has to be big-screen and big status. It’s a throw-back to the good ol’ days of tar-paper shacks with TV towers attached… sometimes a pristine Cadillac in the dirt driveway. Satellite-dishes are another signifier of life’s priorities among the entitled. Size matters.

  4. Related to this,from her biggest supporter,the CBC.
    “the chief called for weekend solidarity protests from all Canadians”
    She is also meeting with a delegation from the NDP,not a few,but a genuine delegation.
    ” The delegation will be led by Megan Leslie and Charlie Angus.”
    My favourite line from the article,this from a group who will be showing solidarity by blocking a highway;
    “so many of our lakes on Crown Land are no longer accessible to us.”
    I will be showing solidarity by sustaining myself on liquids for most of the day,if you truly care you would too.
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/29/can-theresa-spence-aboriginal-harper-protest.html

  5. I will sustain myself on a couple of Molson Canadians (patriotic, yes?) while watching the football game. I can’t think of any way to liquify a bowl of cheezies.

  6. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/12/06/john-ivison-with-millions-pouring-into-attawapiskat-colonial-blame-only-go-so-far/
    An excellent column at NP by John Ivison,that asks where the money is going. Debeers pays into a Band trust 2 million per year,and 100 Indians work at the mine making good wages.
    There are also several services contracts with Debeers paying out big money every year,and I’ll just bet Chief Spence’s partner-for-life,Clayton Kennedy, is the contractor for much of it.
    There is no question that money is flowing IN to Attawapiskat, but where it is being spent,no one has found out,YET.
    In sympathy with Chief Spence’s hunger strike, I am going to eat a smaller moose steak for dinner tonight than I had intended.
    Moose,as you know,is the traditional food of the noble and wily stewards of the land, the Canadian Aboriginals/Natives/Indians.

  7. So, this collection of loosers think we’re not paying them enough. And, they take taxpayers money and buy shares in companies which are slowly sinking into the muskeg and they blame the rest of the taxpaying public because their bad investment went in the toilet.
    How stupid can you be? If you’re dumb enough to buy shares in companies which are going broke, why should the rest of us bail you out?
    We should just stop giving these people money and make ’em get on just like every other Canadian and survive on their own merit. Can’t survive? Well, don’t.

  9. No doubt some of the chiefs are financially savvy. On the other hand, deeply rooted in the culture is a view that grinding poverty for all (or most) is better than prosperity for some. The hostility shown on many reserves to those who have genuinely improved their lives seems visceral and has contributed to more than a few suicides over the years.

  11. The CBC has the names of those visiting the chief today. The delegation consists of the usual suspects.
    Carolyn Bennett, Liberal MP, Aboriginal Affairs critic
    Marc Garneau, Liberal MP
    Megan Leslie, NDP MP
    Charlie Angus, NDP MP
    Robert Chisholm, NDP MP
    Hoang Mai, NDP MP
    Andrew Cash, NDP MP
    Dan Harris, NDP MP
    Raymond Côté, NDP MP
    Ruth Ellen Brosseau, NDP MP
    François Lapointe, NDP MP
    Craig Scott, NDP MP
    Paul Dewar, NDP MP
    Hélène Laverdière, NDP MP
    Jamie Nicholls, NDP MP
    Mathieu Ravignat, NDP MP
    Wayne Marston, NDP MP
    Denis Blanchette, NDP MP
    Carol Hughes, NDP MP
    Senator Lillian Dyck, Liberal
    Senator Jim Munson, Liberal
    Senator, Mac Harb, Liberal
    I am surprised to see Ruth Ellen on that list. I thought that her experience as a bartender would have given her insight into the real world.
    BTW, this island that she is occupying,does anyone know if it is open for camping year round?

  12. From the article at the CBC:
    [We] haven’t heard anything from any Conservatives at all,” [Spence] said.
    Then, in the very next paragraph:
    Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan has offered several times to speak with Spence and form a working group, but she rejected his proposals because she believes he is not the one who should be speaking on a nation-to-nation basis.
    Ah, so Chief Spend actually has heard from the Conservatives, just not what she wants to hear. She’s actually had them agree to meet with her but not the Conservatives that she thinks should be meeting with her.
    Boo-hoo-hoo. What a grandstander. The NDP nitwits are all over this but PM Harper and the GG are right to ignore this blackmail. And, what “nation-to-nation” crap is this deluded dame talking about?

  13. I posted this Comment on Pravada (CBC) at about 11:00 AM Edmonton time it’s 1:30 PM haven’t seen it yet..
    St Theresa is a GLOBAL WARMING DENIER it was revealed that her reserve has Oilsands and Enbridge Stock the question is WHY is she contributing to killing Mother Earth??
    ATTAWAPISKAT TRUST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
    http://www.attawapiskat.org/wp…

  14. This pig in a poke fable stunk to high heaven when it hit the airwaves. Massive fraud in all Indian bands, likely; this is just the tip of the burg. The top down distribution of dollars has enabled the enrichment many Lierers, gument bureaucrates Chief/asses and their pals. Massive fraud!! PMSH called the bluff…Ceebeeceee/ceeteevee, glob and flail, nat post,….are no doubt getting ‘stuffed’ enveloppes from the ‘band’. Thank-you for posting this Kate. Now we know some of ‘the rest of the story’.

  15. Thanks for posting this Kate. Sort of related:
    I’m reading our friend Taiaiake Alfred’s first book, which is available for download here:
    http://taiaiake.posterous.com/pages/books
    Very interesting. Feels like I’m reading the other team’s playbook.
    “The Mohawks are descended from a people who came to present-day New York and the St. Lawrence valley around 1700 B.C….This large group, which included most of the other native nations that came to live in the eastern woodlands section of the continent, have a continuous presence in their present-day residence areas from around 700 A.D.”
    Not exactly since time immemorial. They’re very recent immigrant settlers, just like we are.
    “The geographic territory in which the Mohawks lived had been inhabited by many different native nations for thousands of years”
    All the above from page 26, “Heeding The Voice Of Our Ancestors”.
    Next time he tells someone to go back to Europe, tell him to go back to Ohio.

  16. Good comment by dmorris about Attawapiskat and the De Beers mining company, who have paid millions into the band council and offer jobs and training to any band members willing to work at the diamond mine. There isn’t much media coverage of De Beers and Attawapiskat. Here’s a rare example:
    Attawapiskat and de Beers

  17. I think a good comparison here is with the palistinians, they are kept in the state of VICTUMHOOD for polical and self gain , by their elite,reasons, no one will feel sorry for sucess!!!

  18. FIRST nations??? The oldest human remains found in North America are caucasian, not Indian. They should quit using the “first nations” handle. It is not honest.

  19. Ezra Levant brought this up last year when they had the flood. He told about DeBeers and the contracts, so this is not new. Charlie Angus,MP for the riding that contains Attawapiskat, has said or done nothing to help. He should be held accountable. Also, CN has an injunction against the picketers at Sarnia and according to the story in the TorSun they want to have a peaceful “negotiation” to end the blockage. The court has said what the protesters are doing is illeagle so there should be no “negotiations” just arrests. Ofcourse this puts the police in the middle. Do they inforce the law or do they listen to the politicions and the people that will call them RACISTS for inforcing the law. Maybe wee could start a protest of our own. We could send our MPs a pair of Depends, because we know how scared they are to stand up for the law. Put a little note in with it. Also read that Spence is existing on meat broth. After looking at a picture of her dated 29/12/2012 I think that is another word for soup. If she is starving she has a long way to go.

  20. Great comment, dmorris. The column is beyond excellent. In fact, it reads almost like, you know, an agenda (a voucher system for health care and education?) — which I can see myself supporting: it would need to be fleshed out in more detail.
    I like John quite a lot (despite his appearances on Evan Solomon, which I think diminish him), but I’d be curious as to his, um, sources and methods, as they say: where is it coming from, and did he do all the work on this one? It seems a bit too pat to me at the moment (trial balloon, maybe), but I am prepared to listen.

  21. bogie wheel’s thoughts are worthy of being repeated here.
    “The sound of the tin cup rattling is like chum in the water to the poverty-industry sharks. The truly needy get screwed over twice. First by whatever circumstance or skeeve who ground them into the mud to begin with; and again by the velvet-heeled nabob busybodies, who would be out of their six-figure jobs and 5-star-hotel international conference circuits were “the problem” to be well and truly eliminated or drastically reduced.
    The nabobs enjoy long, cushy careers regardless of most performance outcomes in their fields. Imagine if Jonas Salk had been operating in this kind of environment with the same motivations for guaranteed lifetime sinecure. We would still have kids in iron lungs.”
    http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2012/12/30/the-greatest-show-on-earth/#comments

  22. I had a sister in law who worked for Indian Affairs when Indian Affairs was our affair. All of this corruption would not exist if it weren`t for the Trudeau admistration who opened the door to heaven for them. Time to lock the gate!!

  23. I would like to blame the Indians but the real blame should go to those gutless wimps that give in every time the Indians throw a tantrum. The Neville Chamberlin approach to “peace in our time” didn’t work in 1939 and doesn’t work any better today. Sooner or later someone will have to say “enough is enough” and start treating all Canadians equally. This reverse discrimination which is soaked in politically correct bullship is not doing anything except divide the country.

  24. The oldest human remains found in North America are caucasian, not Indian. Posted by: Dave on December 30, 2012
    what’s the source for that opinion?

  25. the oldest skull found in North America on initial evaluation was found to be caucasian. the USA indians have refused to allow in depth analysis for over thirty years. A little google will give you the details. I can’t be bothered to do your work for you.

  27. As Ive said before. All Indians I know who are successfully or decent people who would never whine for money. That have any dignity. Abandoned the Reservations years ago. Even the ones who are leftist minions for the Band Chiefs never go back to the “Rez”.
    Its a moral sinkhole filled with slaves, who think they are free.
    Haven’t had one Native yet who makes good money on their own deny it.

  28. Dave, there’s no call to get snotty, you’re better than that. Don’t assume for a moment that I support the FN [‘effin natives] claim to be here first.
    The oldest documented human remains from North America are the Arlington Springs Woman discovered in 1959 on Southern California’s Santa Rosa Island. Radiocarbon analysis showed they were about 13,000 years old. DNA analysis, though inconclusive, indicates that she might be most closely related to the Ainu of northern Japan. This supports current theories that initial migration to North America followed coastlines from northern Japan across the Aleutians and south along the coast of the Americas at a time when sea level was 250 ft lower than today.
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627465/posts
    http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0779260.html
    http://www.friendsofpast.org/earliest-americans/california.html
    http://www.duerinck.com/migrate.html
    http://www.unicusmagazine.com/html/13000.htm
    If you have better data please share it.

  29. Dave, there’s no call to get snotty, you’re better than that. Don’t assume for a moment that I support the FN [‘effin natives] claim to be here first.
    The oldest documented human remains from North America are the Arlington Springs Woman discovered in 1959 on Southern California’s Santa Rosa Island. Radiocarbon analysis showed they were about 13,000 years old. DNA analysis, though inconclusive, indicates that she might be most closely related to the Ainu of northern Japan. This supports current theories that initial migration to North America followed coastlines from northern Japan across the Aleutians and south along the coast of the Americas at a time when sea level was 250 ft lower than today.
    the site won’t let me include the links, but you can easily Google it.
    If you have better data please share it.

  30. …or maybe it was Denis that made the snotty comment. In any case try to be objective, it makes for more informative discussion.

  32. clovis points appear to indicate earliest colonization from Spain, make 1400s a reconquest. also there is a genetic signature in algonquin called haplotype X which is European in origin , also likely spanish.
    as for kennewick man , what he definitely is not , is North American Indian.

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