*The Fucker Truckers are the law-violating hate-filled racist fake truckers and others (previously yellow vesters, paid by oil and gas) hired by dark money (largely from USA and Europe) to try to overthrow Canada’s democratically elected gov’t and to divide and spew hate, copying the USA Jan 6 insurrectionists (many now in prison), their lawyers at the Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (but only for them and theirs, not any of the rest of us) and their leaders. Most real truckers at the time of the “convoys” were working with some trying to work but blocked at borders blockaded by the Fucker Truckers. Hateful cruel bullying bunch with some filthy idiots shitting and pissing on steps to ordinary family homes; too many violently assaulting kids and health care workers heeding public health protections; some pissed on the war memorial; others ran rigs 24/7 poisoning communities with toxic sperm altering diesel fumes and blared their horns preventing families from sleeping, and terrifying kids.
The Axe the Tax’ers stupidly are protesting the Carbon Tax which is rebated to ordinary Canadian families, most get back more than they pay. I get back three times what I pay; I’d rather not get any back. I don’t mind paying it. Humans must start reducing greed and fossil fool pollution, if we want earth to remain a livable home for us and the many other species we’re wiping out.
It appears the Fucker Truckers (now morphed into Axe the Tax’ers) don’t care about much more than hanging out being mean, partying with Nazi and Confederate bling, invasive noise, drugs and booze, hating everything Trudeau, public health care and environment.
On scumbag lawyer John Carpay, who is still listed as a lawyer by Alberta’s law society, self regulator of lawyers. The law society I expect will do everything possible to protect his slimy piss on the rule of law ass. Just vile how easy bad lawyers avoid appropriate punishment. If they were not lawyers, not old white men, and instead were Indigenous women, they’d be rotting in prison for years. Wanna bet Carpay gets KC?
2023 10 27: Two Alberta lawyers agree to plea bargain for having Manitoba judge followed
Two lawyers will not be able to practise anywhere in Canada for three years after admitting to having a private investigator spy on a Manitoba judge.
John Carpay and Randal Jay Cameron have agreed to a peace bond which also forbids them from contacting Chief Justice Glenn Joyal of the Manitoba Court of King’s Bench.
In exchange, the Crown has stayed charges of obstruction of justice and intimidation of a justice system participant. …
Is Big Oil Putting Microplastic in Your Testicles? And if they are—should someone do something about that? by Kate Aronoff, May 22, 2024, New Republic
There is no limit to the amount of plastic that can legally be deposited into human testicles. Presumably there are crimes an individual can be charged with if they inject polypropylene, for instance, into someone’s balls without their consent. Yet if that plastic is deposited over several decades into the air and water, finding its way to untold scrotums, there’s no reason to believe that the companies responsible for doing this will ever be held accountable.
This isn’t a theoretical scenario. A recently published study of 23 human and 47 dog testes found that all of the testes contained microplastics. The study, published in the journal Toxicological Studies, also suggests a correlation between microplastics contamination and lower sperm count. It’s not the first of its kind, either: Plastic particles are widespread in food, water, blood, and placenta; their presence in certain blood vessels has been linked to higher rates of strokes, heart attacks, and death.
In the United States, environmental regulations protect against toxins and pollution in the air and water, often quite successfully. Rules around certain kinds of plastic pollution are relatively new, though; it was only last month that the Environmental Protection Agency finalized limits on six “forever chemicals” frequently found in plastics owing to their potential to cause kidney and liver cancer. As regulators start to crack down on plastics’ seemingly ever-larger footprint, will there be any reckoning with the harm that’s already been done?
It’s a question that pertains not just to plastics—a broad umbrella of products overwhelmingly derived from oil and gas—but to the fossil fuel economy and its well-documented tendency to harm and kill people. One 2021 study found that air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels is responsible for a whopping one in five premature deaths worldwide. Big oil and gas producers, like Shell and ExxonMobil, are also some of the world’s top plastics producers and see it as a promising growth industry over the coming decades.
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Court challenges against fossil fuel companies have picked up over the last decade. More than 40 states, municipalities, and tribal nations across the U.S. are suing polluters for damages, and a Dutch court sided with the climate group Milieudefensie in its 2021 ruling that Shell needs to reduce its carbon emissions 45 percent below 2019 levels by the end of 2030. Aaron Regunberg and David Arkush have made a compelling case for trying fossil fuel on criminal charges, including homicide. In a recent book, Spanish economist and environmental adviser David Lizoain makes the case for bringing fossil fuel executives in front of the International Criminal Court, and understanding rising temperatures—and the resulting mass deaths—as climate genocide.
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@KateAronoff:
Not to be annoying but this is the best lede I have ever written
Alberta You See Pee @youseepeeYYC:
There is no limit to the amount of plastic that can legally be deposited into the balls.
And “there’s no reason to believe that the companies responsible for doing this will ever be held accountable.”
@DcrInYYC May 22, 2024:
Freedom Plasticles.
Danielle Smith, Alberta’s Premier but in reality a big oil Lobbyist, sucking on plastic.
Refer also to:
2014: Benzene Exposure Near the US Permissible Limit Is Associated With Sperm Aneuploidy