December 25, 2011 | Photo Credit: Agence-France Presse {AFP] LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The paranoia infecting a broad swath of the American right-wing can be comical at times — think about Orly
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From @mtaibbi, a Christmas message from Wall Street | #classwarfare #uspoli
Apparently, we’d all be in much better shape if the poor were as motivated as Steven Schwarzman is to make America a better place. But it seems to me that if you’re broke enough that you’re not paying any income tax, you’ve got nothing but skin in the game.
Continue reading@GraphicMatt dismantles @TOMayorFord on transit | #TOpoli #TTC #TeamFord
via fordfortoronto.mattelliott.ca There’s no shortage of observers willing to blog, analyze, poke fun, and detail all the myriad injuries, both large and small, that Team Ford is inflicting upon the city. Irrational mean-spiritedness, making up “facts” as they go along, sandbagging rookie councillors, and an overall spirit of childish vindictiveness
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Continue reading@GeorgeMonbiot on the subversion of ‘freedom’ | #winningbackthewords
Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in
Continue readingAlberta roadside gunman fails to fit manufactured narrative | #media #journalism #islamophobia
via winnipegsun.com Oy. I wonder how this story would read if this guy had been a Muslim … (h/t buckdog) Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. via en.wikiquote.org Have a drink for me when you get … well, when you get wherever you’re going, you magnificent bastard. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Continue readingThe lobbyists behind warrantless online spying | OpenMedia.ca
via openmedia.ca This isn’t Oz, folks. Pay LOTS of attention to that man behind the curtain … Related posts: A public-service announcement from OpenMedia.ca | #cdnpoli #onpoli Permalink | Leave a comment »
Continue readingDon’t Betray Our Generation. Get It Done. | Common Dreams | #climatechange #kyoto
via commondreams.org And again … … this is where we juxtapose: this speech from a couple of days ago, and today’s announcement that Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. No comment from me necessary. Anjali’s said it all. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Continue reading@joshuahind drops the gloves for a dance with the Gazoo | #hockey #TheoFleury
A Letter to the Managing Editor of The Gazette Posted on December 13, 2011 by admin Ma’am, I write today in response to the opinion piece printed in today’s edition of The Gazette, written by Pat Hickey, concerning Theo Fleury and the Graham James case. While I support a newspaper’s right and
Continue readingFrom @alexhimelfarb on Harper’s omnibus crime bill / #C10 #cdnpoli
This legislation is transformative as it puts punishment and prison at the centre of our criminal justice system. This has never been the Canadian approach; our balanced justice policies have always focused on safety and justice – and the best evidence of what works. Such a change in direction should
Continue readingThe Sun: Demonizing organized labour, no matter what | #cdnpoli #onpoli
Take a guess which bit of birdcage-liner this is from. You don’t even need the facts to know which way they’ll torque it. One can’t help but remember the bad old days of the Harris regime, when picking fights with teachers was pretty much all there was to education policy.
Continue reading@TOMayorFord, the Star, the truth, and maturity | #TOpoli
OK, so if I understand this, Rob Ford isn’t talking to the Star because according to him, the paper is lying about an incident involving him and a football team he was coaching. And he’s going to cut the Star out of all official communications from the mayor’s office until
Continue readingChris Hedges: Zero Point of Systemic Collapse | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
The cultural belief that we can make things happen by thinking, by visualizing, by wanting them, by tapping into our inner strength or by understanding that we are truly exceptional is magical thinking. We can always make more money, meet new quotas, consume more products and advance our career if
Continue readingWhy conservatism needs to be rescued | #cdnpoli
How does that saying go? Save me, Jesus, from your followers? One could argue that the conservative tradition needs the same kind of help. The roots of the current culture war aren’t hard to find. I’ve written previously about a class-based campaign that goes back more than three decades, to
Continue readingBusy Times. Little Time To Post. « All Fired Up In The Big Smoke | #TOpoli #TObudget
via afuitbs.wordpress.com As Cityslikr says, it’s Internet to the rescue. As we buckle down for budget season, I’m reminded of what Val Sears reportedly said as the 1962 federal election campaign kicked off. “Gentlemen, we have a government to defeat.” (The caveat, of course, is that this is coming from
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate on who pays for Canada’s right-wing think tanks | #cdnpoli
… where think tanks and the like are concerned, is that most of these groups routinely put themselves into a conflict of interest when they advocate policies which benefit their large donors (mainly foundations owned by large corporations and billionaires who own large corporations), and compound that conflict of interest
Continue readingWhat @cityslikr said about #TeamFord taking a chainsaw to the TTC | #TOpoli
TTC users can conduct the crusade against the cuts themselves. Call, write their councillors, let them know this will not stand. Here’s a list of the Team Ford members on the TTC board who should hear from you first: Karen Stintz, TTC chair, Ward 16. Peter Milczyn, TTC vice-chair, Ward
Continue readingHow Did Toronto Lose So Much Transit Service? | politics | Torontoist
A draft list of service cuts put together by TTC staff made its way to me in mid-October. At the time, the media and council were preoccupied with Ford’s Waterfront Follies. This list did not find its way to TTC commissioners, councillors, or the public, even though the changes would
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