Just look at the remnant culture created in the wake of the Great Hurricane in Louisianna; thousands of feckless, "useless eaters," as Henry Kissinger would have, now dependent on the State to be fed and housed.

 

Watch them as they loot and pillage. Watch them drowned, and shot, and imprisoned. Remember their orange couteur, the men released from the prisons after the flood, waiting on highway overpasses as the waters rose again, waiting to be told where they were to be dumped wholesale: Refuse. And where does all the garbage go?

Shelley Bluejay Pierce is an independent journalist whose work appears in the Native America Times, among other places, and she has been following the story of America's federal emergency agency, FEMA, made famous through it's spectacularly inept reaction during the 2005 New Orleans disaster, and their plan to offload toxic trailers, ostensibly to ease the housing crisis on First Nations' reserves. Shelley Bluejay Pierce in the first segment.

And; hurrah! It's Olympian, the changes need be made to create of Vancouver the "world class" venue expected of the attendees to the fast coming 2010 (winter) Olympic Games to be held there. First to go of the old Vancouver of course, is its unseemly under-belly of impoverished; you know the ones to which I refer. As with that other circus, Expo 86, the 2010 frivolity will too exact a toll on those least able to bear it. But, so effin' what?! The new world watchword is clear: "Go with the flow, or be flushed, Buster!"

Geoff Olsen is a Vancouver-based writer whose column appears in the rightfully renowned 'Common Ground' magazine, who argues in the July issue, "the future isn't what it used to be." Geoff Olsen and Vancouver's "human rubbish," a measure of cultural change in the second segment.

And; Jannie Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with all that's good to do in and around Victoria in the coming week. But first, Shelley Bluejay Pierce and FEMA's 21st Century poxy blankets.