Planning your demise?

The Rockefeller Foundation and Global Business Network have come up with some pretty interesting 'ideas (pdf)'. I'm reading these 'scenarios' where the future is spoken of in the past tense and wondering to myself, are these really speculation, or are they action plans? I generally do not speak of events that have not happened in the past tense unless I am mapping out the phases of a plan in which event 2 cannot begin until event 1 has been successfully completed. For instance if I am planning to migrate a server or network things must follow a specific order of operations like an 'OS is installed prior to software' and other such logical progressions. True, I do not insert contingency plans, but why would I write down all that could go wrong and how I'd work around that knowing full-well I would be giving away the only resource which is uniquely mine? Especially given my manager's affinity for telling me I can be replaced by some wet behind the ears punk who's diploma's ink has not yet dried.

Well, a very similar logic can be overlaid on this manifesto as it does not expose the how or why in the progression of the planning, but relies on known triggers that must occur to get there.

The Agony of Victory and the Thrill of Defeat

Elizabeth May of Canada's Green Party seems to think that massive numbers of Canadians knowing about the Harper Government™ pushing through a whole bunch of sketchy legal amendments to a wide range of things under the guise of 'a budget bill' is somehow a victory... I think she's taken the G.I.Joe motto of 'knowing is half the battle' far too literally, because, really, it's too late to do anything about it now.

Some dogs do go to heaven

Whistleblower: Government didn't care about my corruption report, so I leaked it

To add some contrast, and prove my venom is not directed at all police, everywhere, forever, and ever, amen, I would like to show my appreciation for the former Montreal Police Chief: Jacques Duchesneau. After noting the complete disinterest of then-transport minister Sam Hamad in his corruption finding (which he'd been hired by the transport office to investigate), he leaked his report to the press which "caused a media sensation, and such intense political pressure that, after two years of resisting, Premier Jean Charest finally called a public inquiry.".

Thank you for taking a stand, having a conscience, and hopefully for making the world just a little better than it was.

-DIrtyKID©