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Blog - Environment

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Oftentimes on a summers morning, I head out to the Sooke Potholes, where I strip off all my clothes and swim naked into a most wondrous whelm of wilderness. Immersed in the crystal clear waters of the Sooke River, and looking up through the lofty boughs of the hoary old fir trees which cloak the valley, the sublimity of nature deeply permeates ones being. Drifting under the ancient trees one slowly sinks out of this world, and on through the realm of hamadryads and satyrs, and beyond. All of the physical conditions for the human being’s most ultimate quest are to be found here. No cathedral, no masjid, no mandir, vihara or synagogue can offer such immersion into that primaeval place from whence we have all evolved. One day, several years ago, while swimming though the Potholes, a sudden flash of fluorescence, a colour unknown in nature, focussed my vision back to Earth, and onto a fluttering piece of flagging tied around an ancient tree.

Blog - Environment

Counterpunch December 10 / 11, 2005

There are some things to look out for to know if a logging road is ‘active’ or not while cruising the backroads of Vancouver Island. Huge, freshly compacted tire tracks with wet streaks from water jets spraying red-hot brake drums on the downhills, and encroaching roadside vegetation vertically clipped to a height of 20 feet, all coated with dust or mud depending on the weather, -these are good clues that rivet one’s attention firmly to approaching blind corners. Even without such signs, one must always assume that these roads are active and that without luck or care, a terrible, crushing death awaits.

Blog - Environment

February 17th, 2006 

By INGMAR LEE

published on counterpunch 

In December 2002, British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell wrote the New York Times to tell Americans that all was well in the BC Forests. A negative article about ancient forest destruction and the impending extinction of the Spotted Owl had appeared in the newspaper, and Campbell wished to set the record straight with American consumers. He wrote that “habitat decisions are made with the best available understanding of scientific and socioeconomic factors affecting species sustainability, not with lumber interests solely in mind.” His final statement in that letter sums up the esurient hypocrisy that has characterized the biggest ramp-up of ancient forest destruction in 150 years of industrial logging in BC under his watch: “There is more old-growth in British Columbia than 100 years ago, amounting to 62 million acres. That total is projected to increase in the century ahead.”

Blog - Warmonger’s Cabal

First Published on Counterpunch, Nov. 25/05

It has become abundantly clear that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal is doomed. It has dug itself into a spider-hole of treachery and deceit it will never get out of. They have set the stage for their historical legacy alongside the most despicable tyrants ever to disgrace the human species. Similarly, if our species survives it, the stupendous American military will be remembered not only as the most brutal organized terror force ever, but also for being twice defeated by determined ragamuffin guerrillas using homemade improvised weaponry.There has been a sea-change during this past tumultuous ‘tipping point’ week. The tide has turned and around the world people are recognizing that the American empire itself is teetering at the brink of collapse.

Blog - Warmonger’s Cabal

Ingmar Lee

published on Dissident Voice

On November 30, an exhausted looking George Bush, “Commander-in Chief,” strutted up to the faux-riveted, banner-emblazoned and Hitleresque war-stump and dictated his latest “Plan for Victory” in Iraq. Apparently, the crotch-strapped President’s famous “Mission Accomplished” victory declaration was a little premature because the slaughtering work of spreading freedom in Iraq will not end on his watch without “complete victory.” So Bush was back before his favorite audience, this time a fawning full-house of sworn-allegiance, duty-bound, invite-only Naval Academy midshipmen, to explain to the increasingly disgruntled “Land of the Free” how he intends to prosecute his on-going atrocity in Iraq.

Blog - Warmonger’s Cabal

First Published on Counterpunch, Oct. 27/05

So there’s maybe a third of all Americans who are still wavering behind George W. Bush and his murderous attack, invasion, occupation and massacre on-going in Iraq. (It never ever was a war) And half of all Americans voted Democrat in the last election, -for a brain-dead, visionless party that’s got no intention of stopping the gruesome, losing atrocity which has slaughtered more than 100,000 people to date. And then there’s the American Peace Movement, currently rallying around the theme, “Support the Troops -Bring them Home!” That pretty much covers the American political spectrum.