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The time is now. A call to action.

Don't say "No one ever told me".

I know that it's not "politically correct" to actually express an honest observation or point of view, but I want it to go on record that many people, different people in different ways and organizations, have been trying for a long time now to wake up the average person to the reasons for their ever-declining standard of living. So, for the record, there have been lots of attempts to warn the average person that they are being driven off a cliff.

Take last night as a typical example of well intentioned people who simply refuse to accept the facts. A local screening of the documentary "Poor No More" at a community health centre with lots of "grassroots" organizations and groups, lots of kindhearted and sincere individuals, but totally hardwired into the current system, and still operating under the misguided notion that "political involvement" and "political action" is going to make a lick of difference to influence the power/financial elite to share in their profits. Profits and the corporatocracy that has overtaken the planet. Yet these naive fools want to do more of the same, and hope to get different results. I believe that is the textbook definition of "insanity".

Yet, they don't see the obvious even though it is screaming in their faces.
MONEY IS THE PROBLEM!! The monetary system isn't just "out of whack" or "misaligned", IT IS CORRUPT!!

It's the old adage about changing the system from inside. Never seen it happen yet. Not in politics, not in finance, not in law, nowhere. So I don't know why people insist on pursuing these tried and failed methods. Same goes for marches, demonstrations and the rest.
You want to have an impact on the system that it won't be able to ignore?

STOP FEEDING IT!!

Stop buying up all this crap you don't need and can ill afford. Quit driving your gas-guzzling truck to the corner store for a carton of milk. Cease consuming and discarding without thought to the planet. Have some consideration for others and the planet at large when deciding on whether or not to purchase/consume something. But most of all, stop and think about how you spend your time, energy and money/resources.

Democracy - this has to be the biggest crock to be sold to the masses since the "pet rock". Before you get all defensive think about this critically. There is this propagated notion that we live in a "democracy" and that our voice is heard through the electoral process. Riiiiiight. Did you vote for the wars? Did you vote for the GST? Did you vote to have your salary frozen? Did you vote to have the "special needs diet" cut for welfare recipients? Did you vote to have the richest 1% of the population pay next to no income or corporate gains tax? Noooooo?????!?!?! WOW!! Guess we don't live in a democracy after all. Shocking, no? Stop wasting your time with voting. It is ineffective. Want to have a real impact? If you insist on undertaking this fruitless process, at least spoil the ballot before casting it. Think about the impact and the message it would send to The Powers That Be if 80% of the population rejected them and their voting. If only 10% of the population turned out, do you think TPTB might take notice? You think perhaps the corporate backed mass media might report on it? It's worth finding out I say. Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for different outcomes is insanity.

Education - As someone once said "Don't let school get in the way of a good education". This is especially true today where the masses are being dumbed down to the point of being drooling idiots. Turn off that damned television, there is little worthy of your time on it. Between the psychotic commercials and the "reality" shows and the general stupidity that passes for entertainment, is enough to transform the average person into Forrest Gump.
Stay informed by the alternative media outlets like The Real News Network. Get information from somewhere other than the power elite with a vested interest in keeping us ignorant and maliable. Teach the next generation to think and be critical of what they see and hear and read.

Mostly, take back control of your life and don't ever say "No one ever told me". It's your life, it's your responsibility. Don't be a victim.

What will it take for people to wake up to reality?

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It's not what we're protesting, it's what we're promoting.

The G20 Protest that was Stolen from the Peaceful Majority and Never Told - June 26, 2010 - Toronto, Ontario from Michael Napiorkowski on Vimeo.

Now maybe whitey will wake up to reality.

First they came for the blacks, and I said nothing, because I wasn't black.
Then they came for the gays, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't gay.
Then they came for the Jews and I stood by and did nothing because I wasn't a Jew.
Now they come for whitey, who will be there to stand up for whitey?

So? I ask again? Who is going to stand up for you? Who is left to say "NO"?

There is no question now, no debate about exactly what kind of society we live in. George Carlin was a genius, not to mention funny and dead on, when he said: "For those of you that believe that you have "rights", go home and Google - Japanese Americans 1942. There are your rights. We have none, we have privilidges, and those only at the will of the state."

My friend Charlie Veitch was arrested for the second time since coming to Canada last week, on trumped up charges. Here are some other stories of "Toronto PD gone wild".

‘I will not forget what they have done to me’June 28, 2010 00:06:00

Lulu Maxwell, 17, Grade 12, Rosedale Heights

Maxwell and a friend were hanging around near Queen and Dufferin Sts. at a convergence centre for protesters on Sunday afternoon when police started making arrests. “My friend was blowing bubbles and I was scribbling peace signs on the sidewalk.”
Within minutes, her friend was grabbed and Lulu was put up against a wall. Her backpack was searched and Lulu says an officer said she could be charged with possession of dangerous weapons “because I had eyewash solution in my backpack.”
She was taken to the detention centre and almost 12 hours after her arrest was allowed to call her parents. She was released, without charges being laid, at 5 a. m.

Natalie Logan, 21, U of T student
Logan was taking photos at The Esplanade on Saturday evening when she was arrested.
“I was documenting the protest when the police started encircling everyone,” she said. She was taken to the detention centre at 3:30 a.m. “Before they handcuffed me, I peed in a bottle because I knew I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.”
She wasn’t charged and suddenly released at 3:30 p.m., more than 14 hours after her arrest. “I am embarrassed for my city, embarrassed for Toronto Police and embarrassed that this could happen.”

Selwyn Firth, 59, Toronto mayoral candidate
Wanting a better view of a protest outside Queen’s Park on Saturday, Firth walked to an elevated U of T building. When police told him to leave, he identified himself as a mayoral candidate. He refused and was forced to the ground, his cheek lacerated. He was arrested for obstruction.
“I wasn’t obstructing anyone, I was asking questions,” said Firth, who was taken to the Eastern Ave. detention centre where he needed insulin for his Type 1 diabetes. Sunday morning he was taken to the Finch Ave., courthouse and again needed insulin, so was sent to hospital. He later returned to court and was released on $1,000 bail. He is considering suing the city and police.

Erin Boynton, 24, London, Ont.
She was arrested at The Esplanade early Sunday morning after police boxed dozens of protesters in.
“I was with a protest marching peacefully down Yonge from Dundas Square,” she said. “When the cops came at us, many people scattered and those who were left in front of the (Novotel) got arrested.” She said police came from all sides and “squished us in. They didn’t give us a warning to leave…. just announced that we are arresting all of you.”
She said a lot of people at the detention centre were innocent bystanders. “The police violated all our rights . . . there was police brutality. Quite frankly, it was quite disgusting.” Boynton wasn’t charged.

Cameron Fenton, 24, journalist with Dominion in Montreal
“A bunch of us were peacefully protesting (near the Eastern Ave. detention centre) at about 2:30 a.m. when police told us that it was an unlawful assembly and we had to leave,” said Fenton. But they were boxed in and couldn’t leave. Some time later, about 30 of them were walking about two blocks away when they were boxed in again by police.
Everyone was arrested. Fenton said he was never read his legal rights or allowed to make a phone call. “It was cold, there was barely any food or water… there was no place in the cages to even sit,” he said Monday. “That detention centre was tantamount to torture.” He was released on Sunday afternoon, after more than 17 hours in detention.

Emily Berrigan, 23, project manager for a local non-government agency
Berrigan spent her 23rd birthday Saturday night in a detention centre on charges of obstruction and unlawful demonstration.
She was with Oxfam Canada for the labour march in the morning, protesting peacefully. She went to Queen’s Park around 8 p.m. for her bike and within 10 minutes was arrested. She was taken to the detention centre at 9 p.m. and got nothing to eat or drink until 5 a.m., when she was given a sandwich and some water, she said. “The cage I was in had been pepper-sprayed and it stung our eyes and skin,” she said. At about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, she was taken to the courts at Finch Ave. and released by 7 p.m. “That’s inhumane,” she said.

Adam MacIsaac, P.E.I.
MacIsaac, an independent journalist in town for the G20, took out his video camera to document police search methods and says he was aggressively thrown to the ground. Police began kicking him in the ribs and stunning him with a stun gun. “I have a pacemaker!” he screamed repeatedly, but says they didn’t listen.
MacIsaac was eventually taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital where he was handcuffed to a hospital bed. He says officers harassed him; one repeatedly asked if his pacemaker battery was nuclear. He was later taken to the detention centre and left alone in the back of police cruiser. When police let him go seven hours later, they said they had no idea where his $6000 worth of equipment went. They told him to file a complaint.

Amy Miller, Montreal
Miller, an independent journalist, was on her way to the jail solidarity protest Sunday around noon with fellow journalist Adam MacIsaac. She stopped at Bloor and St. Thomas Sts. where she saw police officers searching a group of young people carrying backpacks. She says police attacked her.
“I was throttled at the neck and held down. Next thing you know I was being cuffed and put in one of the wagons.” She says she was threatened and harassed by police at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again.”
She also says she spoke to numerous young women who were strip-searched by male officers.

Steve Cruikshank, 28, Newmarket
Cruikshank was among those boxed in by police “without warning” at the Queen St. and Spadina Ave. intersection Sunday evening. Officers kept yelling at people to “Move” but there was nowhere to go. Cruikshank said he asked where they should go and was hit in the face with a riot shield.
He was arrested for breaching the peace and, with 50 others, taken to the Eastern Ave. detention centre.
“I asked for medical attention and they said ‘No’, that I was ‘barely bleeding.’ I asked for a lawyer and wasn’t given access. I asked to make a phone call and they laughed.” About three hours later, he was released without charge.

Stefanie Roy, 21, Joliette, Que.
Roy said she was arrested early Sunday evening “for nothing.”
“We were sitting in front of a bank, talking and wanting to go home, when two big cars came up and police came out of them,” she said. They searched her car and found a hammer and a hatchet that happened to be there from a long time ago, Roy said. She was charged with possessing weapons. Police seized her laptop, boots, and a key-chain photo of her son.
The charge was dropped on Monday, but she is still missing her boots. “I’m not going back in there,” she said, standing in her socks and staring at the detention centre.

Jean-Christophe Martel, 21, Granby, Que.
Martel was arrested on the subway at 11 a.m. Sunday after police searched his bags and found something they considered to be heroin in his emergency medical kit. Police charged him with trafficking heroin.
Martel says he was not involved with the violence in any way.
After 24 hours, he was released from the detention centre Monday afternoon and the charge against him was dropped.
“I’m going back to Quebec,” he said. “I’ll never leave that province again.”

Guillaume Lemarron, 24, Montreal
Lemarron came with friends to the protest, and acted as a street medic on Saturday. They were arrested on Sunday while heading to the Greyhound station to leave town. Lemarron said the bandages and supplies he used in his work were misconstrued as bandanas. He was charged with wearing a disguise.
During the arrest, his glasses were broken. Lemarron said he was protesting for “a better world” and a new democracy. “It’s in the past,” he said of his detention. “But I will not forget what they have done to me and others.”

Gabrielle Neveu, 21, Montreal
Neveu came to Toronto to raise awareness for better health care in developing countries. Neveu had a bandana around her neck. She agreed to let police search her bag but her boyfriend didn’t. The tension escalated. “I don’t think I would have got arrested if I was alone,” she said.
Police charged her with wearing a disguise. She was placed in the back of a police van that soon filled with other people. The van was taken to the detention centre where she stayed until Monday afternoon. Some people were strip-searched. “People were exhausted. No one had the energy to scream,” she said. The charge was later dropped.

Sasha Morrison, 28, Toronto
On Sunday, Morrison was talking to a friend on Queen St. when police searched her bag and discovered an air filter mask. She was charged with wearing a mask with intent. “I’m wearing a mask?” she said “It’s a bogus charge.”
Morrison, a graffiti artist, sometimes works on projects with police. As she stood talking to media, an officer came by and said “Good to see you,” not realizing she had been arrested. She was seething after a 19-hour detention. “I’m vegan. I haven’t had anything to eat until three hours ago.”

David Breed, 34, Toronto
On Sunday, Breed and his girlfriend had stopped to watch the bike rally and were planning to get something to eat before going home to change for his shift as a security guard. “I was not involved in the protest,” he said. “I was standing on the sidewalk.”
Breed was wearing black. Police searched him and found a retractable screwdriver and a Swiss army knife. He was arrested and charged with having concealed weapons. He’d had the knife since he was 10. Breed’s girlfriend, Jennifer Booth, had a legal number scrawled on her arm, but said she didn’t intend to get in trouble. “I’ve been to a lot of these things and he hasn’t,” she said after his release Monday. The charge against Breed has not been dropped.

Philip Dwek, 25, Toronto, medical student
On Sunday evening, Dwek was headed home after studying in a coffee shop when he ran into a crowd at the corner of Queen St. and Spadina Ave. He found himself surrounded by riot police.
“We were in the rain and it was freezing cold, I was trying to hide my medical book, trying to cover it under my shirt,” recalled Dwek, adding police eventually gave him a plastic bag for his book. He was arrested for conspiracy to cause mischief, put in a van and taken to 43 Division, then later released. It cost $60 to get back by taxi.
Dwek understands police were trying to prevent a repeat of the Saturday violence but wishes they were able to tell the protestors and bystanders from the “rebels without a cause.”
Joshua Enns, studying to be math teacher at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo
Enns was arrested during a prayer vigil on Sunday. Police took him behind a bus and searched his bag. He forgot about the “dollar store pocket knife” in his backpack he uses to cut fruit. He was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
“I don’t endorse violence personally,” he said. “I didn’t come down for the show.” Enns was strip-searched at the detention centre. He couldn’t sleep with the fluorescent lights. He still faces the weapons charge. “Hopefully this will be cleared up so I’ll be able to teach.”

Matthew Beatty, 32, Ajax high school teacher
A volunteer legal observer with Movement Defence Committee (MDC) for the G20 weekend, Beatty was following a protest march down The Esplanade on Saturday evening when he was arrested. “I was on the sidewalks, never jeered or chanted with the crowd,” he said.
He was handcuffed and put in a “cage” with 20 others at the Eastern Ave. detention centre. “There were 40 people in one cage — it was brutal, and it was cold.” People were asking for toilet paper to wrap their arms and legs because of the cold, he said. During 18 hours in custody, he was given three cheese sandwiches, three cups of water and a cup of flavoured juice.

Tim V. Wight, 23
Wight says he was at Queen’s Park participating in a peaceful protest all day Saturday. “I was there . . . to protest my concerns about the stripping of human rights within the city and the blatant waste of a billion dollars.”
When police entered the park , Wight began to ask questions about why they were entering a peaceful protest zone. Police told him to move and said they would hit him if he didn’t back up. He prepared to leave but then officers grabbed him, knocked him down and kicked him twice in the face with heavy boots. He was treated for a concussion and had to have his forehead stitched.

Maryam Adrangi, 24

The spokeswoman for the Toronto Community Mobilization Network was arrested Sunday outside activist “convergence space” at Queen and Noble on Sunday afternoon. She said she was driven around the city in an unmarked police van for four hours, taken to the detention centre for about 30 minutes and released without charge.
Adrangi, who was born in Iran, said she endured racist and sexist comments from police, who made fun of her name and the photos they took of her. “I was really angry and frustrated that the cops felt entitled to do that to people,” she said.
“One cop said to me, ‘If you were my daughter I would slap you in the mouth.’ ”

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You just know that these cctv cameras are never coming down.

Calgary police came prepared with their own coffee trolley. Now they're ready to fight terrorists.

For a billion dollars spent on "security" you think they'd be able to afford the best.

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Don't let the facts scare you, allow them to wake you up and motivate you into action. Don't let the fear mongers scare you into continuing to sit and take their lies and propaganda.
While Michael Rupert speaks of scary things, he also grants us time to gear into action to avoid repeating our errors. Or for the younger generation, think of him as Morpheus, and you get to be Neo. Which pill will you take Neo? Time to choose.

I refuse to be terrified!!

Simple enough that even an adult can understand it.

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Be the Change You Want to See In the World.

That famous quote from Mahatma Gandhi has been running in my head for some time now. Over and over like a broken record or a dripping faucet, just when I think it has stopped or gone away, POP! it reappears. So, I figured that must be for a reason, and have been giving it a great deal of thought. Simply, what does that phrase mean, what does it mean to me? Simply understood, I take it to mean, behave like you have already arrived at your destination. Become the person you want to be, simply by "being so".

After all, who would we be waiting for to make us who we want to be? Do we leave it up to someone else? The ones that are only interested in knowing us so they can better market their products and services to us? They are not going to look out for us. We have to look out for ourselves and each other.

Let's not sit back and wait for others to do. To those in the Zeitgeist movement with me, both internationally and locally, let's start being the change we want to see. Let's start implementing the Venus Project ideals today. Here and now, let's start living the dream. We can't sit back and wait for Jacque, Roxanne and Peter to do all the hard work and hand it to us ready to go. They are but three people, they can only do so much. Not to mention that Jacque is nearing the century mark.

You know what needs to be done, you have the brains and resources to start doing it. Time is our biggest "enemy". Let's commit to working together to provide all of humanity an alternative for when the excrement interfaces with the rotating blades, and it has already started to, so that we're not left at the mercy of the power elite. They will create a void in order to come along and offer a "solution" to fill that void. We can be an alternative, but in order to do so, we must be as organized and committed as those that would seek to keep us on our knees.

To those that are not in the Zeitgeist movement, I say, do whatever you can to educate yourself in order to be better prepared for what is coming. Shortages, long lines, hyper inflation, job loss, uncertainty and instability. The more reliant you are on your purchasing power to attain the basics of life, the more you will be at the mercy of those that control those commodities. If you're mostly self reliant, living primarily off the grid, or very low maintenance and upkeep, good for you, now go out and help teach others. We will need to work together to not only survive, but thrive our way into the Venus Project.

Therefore, before we can start focusing on the machines and how they will build this and that for us, and how a resource based economy is the only real future alternative we have, we need to start changing how we think and therefore how we conduct ourselves and how we work together. We can't afford to sit around and wait for "government" to do this or that or really, to make any meaningful changes to our lives. Nothing in a positive realm anyway, historically speaking, the only direction government takes the people, is down. But that doesn't have to be the case this time.

It's like George Carlin said, "what if they declared war, and no one showed up?" Well? What if we just ignore the powers that be and their agenda, and start living the life we all agree is the only sane way to go into the future? What are the powers that be going to do then?

There was the French revolution, what a bloody mess that was. There was the Russian revolution, another costly uprising. The Velvet and 1848 and Matrix revolution. We've tried them all, but notice one thing they all have in common? They all just basically shift power and money, from one group to another. But the fundemental structure remains. They are all monetary based.

I guess that might be the biggest challenge for most of us, how to start thinking about getting things done without money. We first need to change our hearts and minds and how we feel about money. What it really means to us, and how we will deal with not having it as a means to and end.

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2 - De-stabilization

3 - Crisis

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There are alternatives to oil consumption.

I have a feeling...

and depending on one's point of view, it might be good, or not so much.
I think I figured out how the collapse is going to happen. I have been pondering the question, "how do you reset the system?" In essence, how would a worldwide, collective, massive, "do-over" happen?

Well, you're sure not going to get the "haves" to give up anything they have. You can't expect the "have-nots" to have the energy or resources in general, to force the "haves" to share nicely. So? How else can it happen? How can it be forced on everyone? How indeed.

And then, a bit like the discovery of displacement, it hit me while watching the news about the latest natural disaster, this one in Chile. Ding!!! It's forced on us by nature.
What happens to the status quo, in this case the monetary system, when you have millions upon millions more people homeless, jobless and basically undergoing a life "do-over' due to natural geological events? Like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and so on. What happens to the monetary system when it can't keep up with the overwhelming demand of the people on this planet?

Never mind (and by that, I do not mean to diminish the plight or suffering of those already greatly impoverished) but think about it, never mind those already barely making it, what happens when you add millions upon millions more? How will an already shaky monetary system, keep up with the demands of millions or billions more people needing food, housing and the basics of life?

The US treasury is already up to it's eyeballs in debt to China and Japan. The US is spending endless resources fighting two very costly, losing wars. The Euro and the entire European Economic Union is being threatened by Greece's debt and deficit. Basically, from every corner, the monetary system is starting to collapse under the weight of it's own inherit fault lines. A house of cards build on a pile of rubbish, it's coming down on its own, but Greece, Italy, Portugal and others will help speed that process along.
That's two of the three of the world's biggest economic systems, as for the east, well, China will only tell you what suits its agenda and Japan would rather fall on its collective sword then admit that its teetering on the brink. Considering how interconnected all three are, when you have 2/3 fail, the third cannot maintain integrity. It's basic physics.

So....that's the current state of the monetary system in and of its own. Now add to it Haiti's rebuilding, Chile's reconstruction, Hawaii's damages and the rest of the pacific damage left behind. Then there will be others. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and all intensified by climate change. Add these two things together and what do you get?

Perhaps I am wrong and the monetary system can prevail through all of these challenges. Time will be the judge. But it appears the signs are already visible.

Now here's a winning idea!!!

Thank goodness there's Bill Nye to explain things to US politicians.

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The definition of insanity...

...doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results. That's what seems to be the way of things on Wall Street and in halls of power. But there are those of us that see that we need a fundamental change in our socio-economic systems.

It's not about doom and gloom or "chicken little" crying "the sky is falling" but having our eyes wide open and seeing things that way the are. If they are faulty, we need to fix them. Unfortunately, those in power, ie. those that have brought us to this point, are the ones that are benefiting from the meltdown THEY caused.

Here is a great article on how the U.S. economy is anything BUT recovering. As we all know, the way the US economy goes, so goes the rest of the world economies.

The Nieman Watchdog is the conscience of many in the media and for others a haven for the public's right to know. Watchdog economists declare the recession may get much, much worse, and the press has a duty to warn citizens.

Let's give Peace a chance....we've got nothing to loose.

I mean really, strictly from a logical perspective, we've tried everything else imaginable. Everything that is negative, destructive, counter-productive, wasteful, counter-intuitive to most of us. Yet, we don't go for the the simplest, most obvious answer, peace.

Again, thinking about it logically, from a "household" perspective, you, your significant other, perhaps a child or children, perhaps a pet(s), even plants if you have 'em. When you are in harmony with all of the above and are in harmony with your neighbours, are you not better able to think and function? To say nothing of happiness, joy or all other positive emotions. Just on the simplest level, you can function in your everyday life more efficiently.

If you live in a constant state of chaos, disharmony and conflict, you wouldn't get anything done. You'd be sleep deprived, financially strapped, bloody and stressed out. Right, so you strive for balance and harmony within your own little world. So, let's expand on that shall we? Now let's spread this to our neighbouring provinces/states and environs. "Oh how lovely to take this drive on a sunny Sunday afternoon to County X". Not bad, now we're getting the idea. Let's continue on across the border to the east, followed by the west, north and south. "Isn't that grand? Travelling through the airport like a worthwhile human being, with just my passport and luggage. No need to search me or stress me out with silly rules, because no one is here to do harm to anyone else."

Sounds a tad far fetched? Idealistic? Perhaps, given the current state of affairs, but there is no logical reason why it can't be as such. Like John says in "Imagine", "you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one." No John, you weren't and still aren't the only one. There are lots of us who simply can't see the point of all the wars, hunger, depravity and general human suffering. Perhaps it is because we can't stomach the thought of profiting off of the misery of others. Perhaps we're just naive and idealist, or just perhaps, we're just a little bit further ahead on the curve. We've perhaps seen in our minds what CAN be and find it difficult to let go of that ideal.
What does give me hope though is that the numbers of those that are starting to turn the corner in their own human evolution, is rapidly growing. When this number reaches "critical mass", it will indeed be the dawning of a new age in human development.

As for the video below, I think it speaks volumes in it's simplicity and message. I think it's interesting that of all the places John and Yoko could have picked to hold their "love in" was a hotel room in Montreal, Canada. Yeah, I am proud of what my country stands for. Take it away John and Yoko and a bunch of half naked hippies! :D