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Jerry West grew up on a farm in California and is currently Editor and Publisher of THE RECORD newspaper in Gold River, BC. Graduate with Honors and graduate school, UC Berkeley. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Vietnam veteran and Former Sgt. USMC

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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 27, 2009
There Is No Cornucopia Does anyone actually believe that society can expand indefinitely and never run out of the resources necessary to sustain it? Such a belief ranks right up there with belief in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and a flat Earth.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 29, 2010
The New Feudalism The future will depend on whether the trend of increasing corporate wealth and power is allowed to continue. If it does, the ideals of freedom and democracy will be replaced with ones emphasizing compliance and loyalty to corporate will. Reversing the trend will require public pressure, a lot of it, to reduce corporate power and increase the power of the individual.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 27, 2010
Environmental Sustainability - The Core Issue of Our Times Environmental Sustainability is the most important issue of our time
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Who Put Christ In The Solstice? The season that we are celebrating now has deep roots in the history and culture of our species.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 17, 2010
Books Are Not Sacred Life is sacred, but books and beliefs are not. For rational people in such matters tolerance is the civilized approach.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Tea-baggers Are A Riot It has been a riot watching the Tea-baggers on the news, and reading stories about them. Tea-baggers, those are the people showing up at the so called tea parties all over the US. They remind me of the Brown Shirts and other manipulated fools in history who got sucked in to doing the dirty work for people who use them, but also look down on them with contempt.
(17 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Why The Republicans Lost The dust hadn't settled on election night before the Republican Party began trying to find someone to blame for their loss.
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Who Are The Pirates? Looking at it from a Somali point of view, who really are the pirates here....
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 8, 2011
US Extremism Not Surprising It is plain to all but the most naive that the course of political discourse in the US over the past few years was going to lead to something insane like this shooting, and may still lead to even more.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A Budget For The Rich The purpose of government is to direct society's wealth. A socially responsible, progressive government directs it to serve the greatest benefit. A conservative government, by nature, directs it to enrich those who already have it.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 8, 2010
What Did Tony Blair Expect? What is worth getting in a fight over is honest government. Being lied to and misled into needless wars and other questionable adventures is not something we should have to accept. Some people do not, as Tony Blair is witnessing first hand.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A Healthy Environment Requires New Economic Model The governments, their leaders, many economists and commentators who repeat the growth mantra don't get it. The world is in a mess because of too much growth.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Teabaggers: Go Figure In the US the neo-conservatives are being taken over by what has become known as the Teabaggers, those who are part of Dick Armey's Tea Party. These Teabaggers do not like way the government in DC operates. They do not like lobbyists. Of course Dick Armey, the retired House Majority Leader, is now a lobbyist. Go figure.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 10, 2011
One Can Not But Wonder Religious lunacy and the War on Terror
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 23, 2009
A Society Beyond The Limit The bio-diversity of our environment which supports us is being destroyed to accommodate our increasing population and fixation on growth. Our food supply has been industrialized and no longer produces the same healthy food that our ancestors ate.... And the economic pattern that has emerged is putting most of us at the mercy of a few wealthy interests who control the production of food and manufactured goods.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 22, 2009
A Fish Story What remains to be seen is if the government has the ability to follow science and do the right thing, or if it will play politics with our fishery to protect the interests of those who profit from over exploiting it.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Propaganda of War What we should remember most of all on November 11 every year is the terrible waste of life that wars bring, and our failure to avoid them.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, July 7, 2007
Global Sustainability Requires Balance Our ecological predicament, including waning agriculture and climate change, is one caused by too much demand on our system. We are beyond the limits of sustainability and need to regroup. Adopting improved technologies and more efficient practices will help some, but it won't be enough in the long run.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, April 23, 2011
Taxes - Choosing How To Be Gored The HST referendum is the interesting one as the public gets to make a direct decision on something, rather than pick which bag of promises looks better. Unfortunately the decision is limited, and the public only gets to choose between which kind of goring it would prefer.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Entertainment Will Not Save Us The planet that we live on has evolved an intricate web of life forms that make existence as we know it possible. That web depends on a wide diversity of biological organisms to function the way that it does. As the mix of flora and fauna that comprises the web changes, every thing is affected, including humans. There is nothing more important to us than protecting that web, yet we constantly fail to do it.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Bio-Fuels and Sequestering Are Not Solutions Bio-Fuels and Carbon Sequestering are not solutions to the climate problem.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 4, 2010
Solving The Problem of Biodiversity First and foremost building a sustainable society means developing new systems based on the fact that resources are limited and unlimited growth is a cancer.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 19, 2010
Political Smoke and Mirrors We have real problems being evaded by smoke and mirrors for political purposes. Sadly many are taken in by the illusions presented.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Are Mercenaries Suitable For Democracy? Blackwater and the role of mercenaries in a democratic society.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 10, 2009
It Is Time To Abandon Growth We have no choice if we wish to solve the problems that now face us, other than to abandon the idea of growth and reduce our demands on the environment until we reach a point that can be sustainably maintained.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, January 12, 2008
Haves and Have Nots Given the trend in economic development the past thirty years it is no wonder that people are starting to question the power of corporations. A wide gap is opening between the few who control the world with their accumulated wealth and the vast majority of us who are losing ground.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 6, 2010
Climate Change Smoke And Mirrors The climate problem is not the main problem. It is only a symptom of a much more serious one.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Soldiers Deserve More Than Condolences This is not a war being well fought, nor one that serves Canada's best interest. Canadians who are dying there are doing so in vain, and they deserve better than condolent press releases.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, September 5, 2007
The Global Warming Farce What is the farce here is the response to the problem. Global warming, corporate profits and our extravagant modern lifestyle all go hand in hand.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 19, 2009
Copenhagen Climate Circus The aim of the conference is allegedly to deal with global climate change, the aim of the protestors is to demand that this be done effectively. In the bigger scheme of things they are all wasting their time.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, May 11, 2007
Gap between rich and the rest must be narrowed Discussion of the minimum wage, the disparity between incomes and increases in the salaries of elected officials.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Coalition Against An Autocrat Coalition in Canada's parliament blocks autocratic minority government.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 9, 2008
Lest We Forget As we observe this Remembrance Day no doubt we will hear messages telling us to support the troops. We should do that, and we should also remember that supporting the troops is not the same as supporting a war. In fact the two are usually opposed to one another.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Will Obama Change Much? The coming Obama era gives many Americans hope for something better. However, if he sticks with outmoded economic thinking and clings to the country's imperialist policies, the real needed changes will not be forthcoming.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sustainability Means Consume Less The conditions that have supported humans historically are dependent upon a loop of sustainability that provides a certain amount renewable resources through a widely bio-diverse web. When over consumption degrades those resources and bio-diversity shrinks, their provision is not sustainable and the conditions are changed, and if changed enough, they cease to support certain forms of life.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 7, 2009
Path To A Better Future The truth is that we can not continue to expand, increasing our numbers and our collective demands on the system, and hope to make things better. A better future requires that we shift from a mind set of growth to one of reversal of growth. Anything else is futile.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Needed: A Just Accommodation Unlike the old world, however, if the things that were fought for in World War Two, and put into charters and conventions thereafter, mean anything, the people who have been terrorized and displaced by Israel deserve justice just as much as Israel deserves to survive. They do not deserve what is happening to them.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 11, 2007
Justice Denied Comment on Saddam execution with historical background on US involvement with Saddam from 1958.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Carbon Shell Game The new BC carbon tax takes effect July 1.... The question to be asking here is why employ a tax to solve this problem in the first place?
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 17, 2010
A Decent Future Requires Balance There is no escaping the fact that if we do not bring back balance to the planet's ecosystem the grandchildren of our grandchildren will have a world that no sane person would wish on anyone, if they have a world at all.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, June 23, 2007
Climate Change: The Tip of the Iceberg Climate change and sustainability issues
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 30, 2007
Elvis Fruitcakes, NASCAR Nuts and Creationist Crazies Elvis fruitcakes, NASCAR nuts and creationist crazies, if nothing else, provide a rich fodder for social commentators. Too bad that they also vote. It may help explain why we get such bad governments.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Elections North and South The Canadian election drew one of its smallest turnouts in history. Meanwhile, south of the border the election soap opera continues.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 22, 2010
Looking Forward Looking at the year past there are two things that dominate and show us where the future is most likely headed. Those things are the problems with the environment and the so called War On Terror, or whatever they are renaming it now.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 27, 2008
A System Controlled By Profits So, what do acid oceans, pending doom for krill, the BC Chamber of Commerce, and the BC government have in common?
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, May 19, 2008
Focusing On A Symptom Instead of The Problem If we are to maintain our civilization as we have developed it over the past ten thousand years, we need to change our thinking about economics and population
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 13, 2007
Climate Change: The writing is on the wall
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 1, 2007
Pretending To Address The Environment Perhaps getting government and industry to publicly recognize that growth is a cause of the problem is the first step.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 27, 2010
Outdated Thinking Imperils Our Future Everyone needs to be supported, but convincing people to destroy the future of their descendants to get that support is not a sensible way to do it.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Squandering Resources on War The record of western powers invading and occupying Afghanistan has been one of one western defeat after another. It is probably a pipe dream to imagine that this occupation will turn out any better.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, December 1, 2007
Climate Change A Cost of Doing Business One must ask, do the governing parties see climbing death rates and the possible collapse of society as we know it as just a cost of doing business?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 21, 2008
Carbon Tax Charade Environmental organizations, for the most part, understand what the problem is, but don't have the guts to push for real solutions. A case in point is the government's proposal for a carbon tax.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Use Foreign Policy To Advance International Law Canada is party to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Convention, and the International Criminal Court. These are important documents that set the parameters for a fairer and more humane world. Canadians should be asking their MPs and other officials why we do not adhere strictly to these agreements, and why do we ally with and support countries that either refuse to sign them or sign, then ignore them?

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