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the Colonel playing in the Hammer = AWESOME!

Along the same twangy Pink Floyd lines: Austin Lounge Lizards : Brain Damage

Luther Wright and the Wrongs : Rebuilding the Wall The whole album is brilliant!

CANCEL MY APPOINTMENTS!

Nice lineup! Wow! Incroyables! Too bad I'm too old for such a thing. CTMF is much more my sized fester, ability to catch all the bands you want to see without spending half your time running between stages...

Yesterdays protest actions made it onto the Wall Street Journal radar! Wall Street Journal Aboriginal Groups Chastise Royal Bank Canada for OIl-Sands Role March 3, 2010 By Caroline Van Hasselt Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Canada's First Nations peoples chastised Royal Bank of Canada (RY) for not doing enough to prevent "an environmental holocaust," at the bank's annual meeting in Toronto Wednesday. Four aboriginal groups appealed to Canada's biggest bank to use its corporate heft and political influence to stop Enbridge Inc. (ENB) from building a 725-mile pipeline to carry oil from Alberta's tar sands through northern British Columbia to Kitimat, where it would be loaded on tankers for shipment to the U.S. west coast or Asia. They also spoke of rising cancer rates, depleted salmon runs and air and water pollution arising from the Alberta oil-sands projects. "Shareholders are contributing to the ecological disaster of Canada's natural resources," said Vice Chief Terry Teegee of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council of British Columbia. The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, as it's known, is the largest crude-oil pipeline expansion in North America, crossing mountainous terrain, hundreds of rivers and streams, and roughly 22 miles of key salmon spawning waters. Royal Bank lends C$300 billion globally, of which 2%, or C$6 billion, are loans to the oil and gas sector. A "small share" of its energy loan book is lent to companies operating in the oil sands, Royal Bank Chief Executive Gord Nixon told shareholders. Ryan Derange, known as Gitz Crazyboy, of the Athabasca First Nations, called the environmental impact from the tar sands an "environmental holocaust," and invited Nixon to visit his community to witness the fallout first hand. Nixon, who failed to deflect the invitation onto the bank's group head of strategy, treasury and corporate services, Barbara Stymiest, who did visit with various aboriginal communities last year, replied that he appreciated the invitation. "We're a bank, not an oil company, not a government, and we're not even a leading lender to oil companies," Nixon said. "We're not siding with the oil companies, and we believe development has to be done in a responsible way." The bank has in place "stringent" environment-related loan-covenant policies, he said. More than 150 people protested the bank's involvement after the annual meeting. "RBC has a decision to make. They can continue to align themselves with the tar sands, a project that is single-handedly compromising the climate, drinking water and the health of First Nations," said Brant Olson of San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network, which also lobbied the bank at last year's annual meeting. An Enbridge spokeswoman said that the company is in the final steps of preparing its environmental application, which will be submitted to the federal National Energy Board.

Nice day, drop in at the convention center after work, should be interesting!

We own the podium, but thanks to NAFTA regulations, we have no choice but to ship it south... THE AGM IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, if youre in Toronto why not go and CHECK IT OUT!

A living legend!

On March 3rd, the Royal Bank of Canada will hold its annual general meeting of shareholders’ at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. It’s the one time every year that the bank’s top executives, board and other decision makers gather in the same place to hear from shareholders. This year, we want them to hear from you! Since 2007 RBC has backed more than $16.7 billion (USD) in loans to companies operating in the tar sands—more than any other bank. Expansion of the tar sands is trampling the rights of Indigenous peoples, destroying globally significant ecosystems and significantly increasing Canada’s carbon emissions. Representatives from several First Nations impacted by tar sands expansion will attend the meeting to demand that RBC recognize the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent for Indigenous communities and suspend its financial support for tar sands expansion. Join us for a morning of creative, non-violent direct action culminating in a rally outside the Convention Centre at 2 pm to show solidarity with First Nations representatives. When: morning actions, rally @ 2pm, March 3, 2010 Where: Metro Toronto Convention Centre Solidarity actions are happening in the following cities. Please contact the following for more details. Montreal: Contact Cam at holditdownproductions@gmail.com Ottawa: Contact Iain at iain.brannigan@pidssa.ca Kingston: Contact Marie at marie.bencze@gmail.com Lindsay: Contact Ben at bprowse@flemingc.on.ca London: Contact Toban tblack2@uwo.ca Winnipeg: Contact Alon at radishoak@resist.ca Saskatoon: Contact Jeh at jeh.custerra@gmail.com Regina: Contact Levi at levi_cordick@hotmail.com Calgary: Contact Alex at adoukas@gmail.com Edmonton: Contact Keely at kkidner@ualberta.ca Victoria: Contact Justin at justinmoose@ymail.com Vancover: Contact Brennan at brennanwauters@gmail.com Facebook event page for more info

"COL. BRUCE HAMPTON, DIESEL DOG: May 8th @ This Ain't Hollywood" NICE!!!

Are these new episodes not being podcasted? Can't seem to find 'em

Calyx (pronounced KAY-LICKS)

This Note's For You would be classic!

"I AM CANADIAN"

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.†Abraham Lincoln

I hear you Mr. Slippery. A little humility goes a long way to appeasing the paying customer, righting the wrongs, and avoiding these kind of chatroom quarrels.

I have my fingers crossed in hopes you still have 'em. Not that I personally doubt the connection, but I had always thought the 'official line' about Port Radium NWT was: insufficient data to discern a link between the mine work and the cancers? Just in case anybody here is interested in understanding why the Canadian Government at all levels denies the health risks connected to Nuclear Energy, consider this!

Problem is both your sense of timing and your guitar playing suck. Change the guitar player and I would gladly pay to see HPD. Speaking of Col. Bruce Hampton, I hear he's playing 3 gigs in SoON, I plan on catching the show in The Hammer.

In contrast, here's the piece which ran on FOX:

I'm sorry to hear about your Dad's cancer ordeal. Can you get said Federal Studies into my hands or email by any chance?

I find the timing of it to be eyebrow raising... this technology was presented mainstream in the fall of 2001...

There's someone you can trust, and I can help to put you two in touch if you like: Dr. Helen Caldicott