At noon today I received word of a Canadian-relevant petition that I felt I should sign.
I will let you read its details for yourself so that you can make your own decision, but I will tell you that it involves an effort to persuade the Canadian government that Canadians absolutely do not want the deadly pesticide cholrpyrifos approved for use and distribution in our precious nation.
The notification I received via E-mail was mistitled where I was concerned, for I had indeed heard of the chemical before ─ the heading in the message I received was:
"the most dangerous pesticide" you've never heard of
You can find the petition and its details here: Canada: No more toxic chlorpyrifos in our food.
A concern that gnaws at me is that the petition is going to be directed at Health Canada.
This is the very same department whose obtuse and / or corrupt decision-makers earlier this year re-approved the toxic herbicide glyphosate for broad use throughout Canada for another 15 years because they deemed it harmless ─ and any other judgments elsewhere in the world that have found otherwise concerning it are apparently somehow blatantly wrong.
Only the unparalleled geniuses at Health Canada ─ and of course, the benevolent Bayer / Monsanto giants in the Pharmaceutical Industry advising Health Canada ─ have the enlightenment to see beyond the worldwide hysteria around glyphosate.
It is utterly sickening to me.
We can't even be free of this poison in our wilderness areas because the government commonly sprays the chemical all over the damned place ─ as a couple of examples, see:
- 'It blows my mind': How B.C. destroys a key natural wildfire defence every year
- Governments say glyphosate is safe, but some say 'poison' is being sprayed on northern forests
The government always lies to protect itself, so we cannot believe them when they profess small-scale usage of glyphosate.
I expect that they hope to rain down chlorpyrifos all over Canada with the same imbecilic liberality.
Please, if you don't want the pesticide chlorpyrifos approved and used here in Canada, then at least sign the petition ─ it likely won't do any good where Health Canada is concerned, but anyone who is cares should at least do that much.
On to something different now.
I watch a lot of T.V. via our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box, and I wanted to comment on the disappointing finales of a couple of series my younger brother and I finally got around to watching.
The first finale I want to cite is that of the series Travelers.
Season three was its finish, from what I have read. However, I found the finale to be unclear.
This is Wikipedia's synopsis of that episode that was titled "Protocol Omega":
Protocol Omega means the Director is no longer intervening in this timeline as either the Traveler program succeeded in its mission or it has totally failed. When Jeff visits Marcy to offer his condolences, she realizes he has been overwritten by 001 and eventually kills herself to prevent him obtaining Ellis' backdoor code from her brain. 001 uploades his consciousness to the internet, enabling him to exist into the future and ultimately gain control. He sends the consciousnesses of his followers into world leaders, provoking the Russians and Chinese to launch nuclear warheads against the US. Yates blames MacLaren and his team for hastening, rather than preventing, the end of mankind. MacLaren uses 001’s machine to send his mind back to the August 2001 day when his host first met Kat. He tells her to give John a second chance, later drops off a warning about Helios, then on September 11 arrives at the same office high in the World Trade Center a few minutes before 001's expected arrival, meant to kick off the Traveler program. MacLaren sends an email, knowing the Director will find it, stating: "Traveler program failed. Do not send 001." MacLaren stays in the office – as 001 was supposed to do in the original plan – to await the attacks. The non-Traveler Marcy, showing no signs of hydrocephalus and working as a nurse, happens to sit beside David on a bus, and he strikes up a conversation, renewing their inevitable connection for a third time. The Director decides that Traveler program version one has failed, and begins version two...
Until actually reading that, I did not understand exactly how 'FBI Agent' MacLaren was supposed to have prevented Traveler 001 from ever being sent back in time by the Director.
I also didn't realize that MacLaren was supposed to be standing at a window in one of the World Trade Towers just before the first of the deadly airliner strikes, watching for that first plane.
Was he, then, giving up his life because he would never have one with Kat after he sacrificed his relationship with her by encouraging her to give her betrothed a second chance after 'John' had stood her up?
I found a somewhat more amplified recap of the episode at PopBuzz.com: Netflix's Travelers season 3: Ending explained.
The other series finale that has me somewhat bothered was the second season of True Detective ─ each season of True Detective is an entirely different storyline independent of anything involving the others. Basically, each season is a series in itself.
Wikipedia has an unusually long synopsis of the season two finale that was titled "Omega Station."
It still didn't clear up everything that I didn't understand, but I guess nothing can ─ we can only surmise. I am led to that conclusion by various recaps I have now read ─ here are three examples:
- TV.AVclub.com: True Detective: “Omega Station”
- IndieWire.com: Review & Recap: ‘True Detective’ Season 2, Episode 8 ‘Omega Station’
- Variety.com: ‘True Detective’ Season 2 Finale Recap: Three Shootouts and a Baby
The most annoying thing for me after the deaths of some of the main characters was that the corrupt police Lieutenant Kevin Burris who himself personally killed or help kill two of the heroic 'good' cops seems to have gotten to live happily ever after.
But my younger brother is home now and watching T.V., so I must join him ─ only I understand how to operate our Android TV Box.
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