Steve Keen has led the way in the assault of neoclassical economic theory, the model that has caused so much economic, social, and political havoc since at least the 70’s on, reaching its devastating crescendo in the recession that began in 2007 and …
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Politics and Entertainment: Envy and Resentment about DB Pensions: Do Something About It
Pension envy grows as boomers retire
Here we go again. Instead of acknowledging how unfairly to varying degrees workers in the private sector are frequently treated by their employers, how exploited they are in the name of profit since they are the mo…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Once Again the Financial Class Gets Help at the Expense of Ordinary People
Europe Agrees to Basics of Plan to Resolve Euro Crisis – NYTimes.com
This does little for real people. When the EU talks about saving the economy, they really mean of course banks and their investors, those holding the sovereign debt. So the reason f…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Deconstructiing the Binary Opposition of Politics and Policy in the Harper Regime
Where good politics meets good policy :Dan Gardner’s column in the citizen today. I can count on one finger “good policies” from the Harper Regime, and that finger shakes when the wind blows and twitches when I sleep. Yes, no question Harper would se…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The American Dream: You have to be Asleep to Believe It
George at his most prescient, ranting best. How he would have loved the occupy movement.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Progressive Party of Ontario is Fundamentally Unrepresentative of Ontarians
Just about all of the pco seats won in the recent election are in rural ON, and all of those elected seem to be white. How representative of the people of Ontario are the Hudakians when they clearly lack ethnic diversity and are so deeply concentrate…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Challenge of Envisioning Something Other Than Capitalism
Naomi Klein is dead right about our suspicion that we can never imagine our way outside of capitalism since we have been ideologically inscribed in it unconsciously for time immemorial it would seem, both malevolent and benevolent versions – so much so…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Jim Stanford: Out of Equilibrium: The Implications of CETA
Out of Equilibriam from Jim Sadlemyer on Vimeo.
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Simulation of Ontario Vote Suggests Proportional Representation Has Merit
Voting system affects outcome, simulation finds – Ottawa – CBC News
This experiment is fascinat…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Big Media’s Search for the Meaning of the Occupy Phenomenon
#BigMedia ‘s search for coherence, for an articulated purpose or clearly enunciated demand, for the “real meaning” of the #occupy movement is amusing if not characteristic. (“What do they want?” “What are their d…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Global News | Interactive map: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ events taking place across Canada on Saturday
Global News | Interactive map: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ events taking place across Canada on Saturday
“Occupy Wall Street” events across Canada are continuing the movement that began with a small group of people in New York City weeks ago. “Occupy” e…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Ron Liepert, Alberta’s Energy Minister, calls Opponents of Keystone XL Liars
Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert says that those of us who object to the building of the #KeystoneXL are lying. A pretty strong accusation for a government minister no doubt borne of frustration since we’re winning, and their combined 28 c…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The OccupyWallStreet Statement, As Read By Keith Olbermann
Powerful, precise, and comprehensive:
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Much on the Progressive’s Wishlist but much for which we should be grateful
We should be grateful to the occupy wall street folks who may just have started the non-violent socio-economic revolution for which we’ve all been waiting. The democratic character of this movement, the rapidity with which it is spreading, and its brea…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Propagandistic Opportunism: The War of 1812
Great column from Jeffrey Simpson this morning on the propagandistic opportunism of the Harper Regime: Let’s Not Exalt the Folly of 1812. PBS is also broadcasting a documentary on October 10 on the so-called wa…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: U.S. Self-sufficient Oil Production would be a Threat to both the Tarsands and the Keystone Pipeline XL
U.S. Oil Production a Threat to Canadian Oil Industry So let’s say the U.S. becomes relatively oil self-sufficient by 2017, as some argue, and let’s say that self-sufficiency does not fully offset imported oil from Mexico and V…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Bernake Would Seem to Get It. Does Flaherty?
http://goo.gl/CXd0Y Bernake would seem to get it: laying off government employees creates more unemployment. He also knows that any budget deficit should be constricted over a longer term, that cutting spending in the interests of deficit reductio…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Smart Polling from EKOS: No Sign of Ontario Shifting to Tories
HIGHLIGHTS
Click to Enlarge 37.8% LPO
30.6% PC
22.7% NDP
7.3% Green
1.6% other
Direction of province (Ontario):59% right direction
41% wrong direction
Direction of provincial government (Ontario):53% right direction
47% wrong direction
Impact of m…
Politics and Entertainment: Fiscal Austerity: Does it Work?
The Harper Regime is in the process of implementing some severe fiscal austerity measures. But does slashing spending and reducing deficits, as the advocates of such a policy claim, really restore confidence and drive economic renewal? It w…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: The Liberals, NDP, and Greens Should Unite to Form a New Party
On the basis of this week alone, progressives are in for either four or, some have said, twenty years of soulful weeping. It’s downright despairing. I mean what’s the use of following the House of Commons’ deliberations when the outcome…
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