I have a busy morning ahead, so for now I take the liberty of reproducing two letters from this morning’s Star that make some excellent points as to how to apportion blame for the outrageous corporate practice of outsourcing Canadian jobs, most apparent in the current RBC imbroglio. As well,
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Politics and its Discontents: On Corporate Propaganda and Tax Avoidance
It is the fashion among our corporate overlords and their rabid right-wing courtesans to utter a trite phrase that, because it is repeated so frequently, is taken as truth by many: We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. Like the magician who relies upon misdirection to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Progressive Voice In The Mainstream Media
Although her views are not radically different from those found at alternative news sites such as The Raw Story, Truthdig or Alternet, jounalist Linda McQuaig is always a treat to read, if for no other reason than the fact that her views make it into…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Food Banks: The Art of Enabling
Few rational people would deny the contemporary need for food banks. Begun in Canada largely as a temporary anodyne to recession-induced job losses in the 1980’s, they have grown in size and scope, becoming a seemingly permanent fixture on our socio-economic landscape. The annual study by Food Banks Canada reports
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: If They Won’t Spend It, Perhaps We Should Tax It Back?
That is the question I am left with after reading this article in today’s Star on the over $500 billion (the article erroneously describes it as $526 million) corporate Canada is sitting on, in part thanks to generous tax cuts, rather than investing some of it and creating jobs. Recommend
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Folly of Corporate Tax Cuts
Part of the orthodoxy of right-wing ideology is that corporate tax-cuts are an unalloyed benefit to the economy. The argument goes that the lower the tax regime, the more jobs that are created. While that ideology has been proven patently false in Canada, for those seeking some well-reasoned arguments the
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Sage Observation
Paul Kahnert of Markham has an uncommonly apt observation in this morning’s Star, one that I’m sure the ideologues leading us both federally and provincially will choose to ignore: Re: Canada’s idle threat, Business Aug. 25 It’s time to reverse corporate tax cuts. David Olive’s article was proof positive that
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: One Day Without Brains – Guillible people Shilling for a Shoe Company
April 10th, One Day Without Shoes (or Comprehension) Today is a day in which a company encourages you to go barefoot for a day (this years site has been mostly scrubbed of overt branding, criticism and backlash against this cynical corporate venture must be growing) of in order to ‘raise
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
Just in time for Easter: Hallelujah Corporations:
Continue readingSee How Austerity Will Really Pay Off Canadians in the Long Run
Step right up, boys ‘n’ girls, see what you’re forced to sacrifice for! Tell me again how these mega-low corporate tax cuts and austerity for the rest of us is supposed to benefit Canadians in the long run? H/T deBeauxOs who also wrote some lyrics. I don’t think they’re white
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Caterpillar, Inc. – A Reprehensible Corporate ‘Citizen’
When I think of caterpillars (which, until recently, I have to admit, has been rarely), I think of a slow-moving yet determined creature on its way to metamorphosis, often into something quite beautiful. Unfortunately, that gentle imagery must be cast aside when considering Caterpillar Inc., an ugly corporate entity intent
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More Good News For the Corporate Sector
While corporations continue the arduous task of union-busting and contract-gutting, their efforts are being amply rewarded. Not only has a beneficent and ideologically-driven Harper government cossetted them with a record-low tax rate, but the captains of industry who lead these voracious job-destroying entities are also prospering quite nicely thanks to
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Our Prime Minister’s Great Economic Plan Seems To Be Working …. For the Corporate Sector
In light of the ongoing dismantling of our industrial base by our corporate ‘masters,’ coupled with the latest reduction in the corporate tax rate engineered by the pseudo-economist Stephen Harper, this video is worth viewing: Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Power of the Documentary
Although traditionally avoided as a rather staid and boring genre, the documentary has enjoyed a real resurgence in popularity over the past couple of decades, no doubt in part do to the important and provocative work by people such as Errol Morris, Michael Moore, and Velcro Ripper. A good documentary,
Continue reading350 or bust: Now For The Real Scary Stuff
All Hallow’s Eve is over for this year and tomorrow, in many countries, is the Day of the Dead or All Souls’ Day. So today might be a good day to focus on what is really alarming: the Climate Zombies that hang around year-round in Washington an…
Continue reading350 or bust: Occupy Movement Continues To Grow, Highlight Corporate Corruption of Democracy
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders Explains How Corporate Greed Is Ruining America: ****************
Continue reading350 or bust: Cold Prairie Winds Not Enough to Drive Winnipeg Occupiers Out of Memorial Park
I happened to be in Winnipeg this past weekend, and so was fortunate enough to be able to participate in the initial Occupy Canada events in that city. The turnout for the Saturday march was 300+, which was great, but it’s the folks who have brou…
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Great Start to Occupy Ottawa Protest
Occupy Ottawa started as a solidarity movement in support the Occupy Wall Street movement. On Sunday, the movement defined itself as truly Canadian. More than 750 Occupy Ottawa protesters marched through Ottawa’s downtown core. The protesters’ sang…
Continue reading350 or bust: The Occupy Movement Goes Global
Yesterday the Occupy Wall Street movement, sparked by a call from the Vancouver-based Ad Busters magazine, started sparking occupations in Canada. From five thousand people in Vancouver, to three hundred in Halifax, and dozens of other “occup…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Funny, But True
Enjoy this satire that really isn’t a satire about the 1%:Recommend this Post
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