The death toll from the Bangladesh factory collapse has surpassed 620. This is in a building which the architect said was not designed to handle industrial equipment. There was an obvious disregard of safety standards for which hundreds paid with their lives. Are the lives of Bangladeshis seen as equal
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cartoon life: Welcome to the secret world capitalist conspiracy
David Brin posts on Google+ about the millions of files cracked to reveal over 100,000 secret bank accounts. This link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/offshore-companies-politicians_n_3008426.html Tony Merchant, one of Canada’s top class-action lawyers, took extra steps to maintain the privacy of a Cook Islands trust that he’d stocked with more than $1 million in
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: PayWatch: The Clash for Cash
. Overcompensated: CEO Pay Rates Show Growing Inequality in Canada By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already pocketed $45,448 – the income that it takes the average Canadian an entire year of full-time work to earn.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Listen to the December 2012 Politics, Re-Spun Panel on Human Rights and Consumerism
December 2012′s Politics, Re-Spun panel on Co-op Radio included Julie McArthur, Alnoor Gova, Imtiaz Popat, Anna Davey, Kevin Harding and Stephen Elliott-Buckley discussing: International Human Rights Day, experiencing “My Voice, My Right, My Voice Counts” Over-consumption, just consumption, Christmas consumption, sexism, quality of life, consumption as a proxy for enhancing our relationships and happiness. And we enjoyed
Continue readingLeft Over: Crusty’s Last Stand….
B.C. seeks ‘fair share’ in new Gateway pipeline deal Province lays out five criteria for all new crude oil pipelines After all the BS, Christy Clark has, once again, shown that the leopard never ever changes its spots…. This was your last and final chance to seriously prove you
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bill Maher on Greed
It is nice to see a little sanctimony coming from the other side of the political spectrum once and awhile. Bill Maher fills that role admirably. Filed under: Humour Tagged: Bill Maher, Greed, Greed is good, Humour, US Domestic Policy
Continue readingLeDaro: Facebook has serious problems
Facebook dilemma. An Exile from the Kingdom of Me -Thomas Beller Whenever I try to sign into my Facebook account it asks me for my phone number and then a government-issued I.D. What is this – airport security? I have given up on the Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg grow up. There
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: How politicians explain the stock market
The stock market — also known as the greed-fear cycle. Alltop prefers the lust-sloth cycle.
Continue reading350 or bust: Heartland Institute: Funded To Spread Misinformation About Climate Change
The Heartland Institute is a right-wing “think-tank” that describes itself as a “devoted to discovering, developing, and promoting free market solutions to social and economic problems.” However, as DeSmogBlog has recently revealed, Heartland is much more interested in promoting the bottom line of its pro-pollution funders than it is about
Continue readingPipelines: Which side are you on, planet or profit?
Since the Northern Gateway pipeline hit the news, the regina mom has read more posts about science than ever before. And it’s not because science claims a place in her higher reading order. Rather, it’s because the HarperCon response to public outrage about the pipeline has forced her to know
Continue readingProtests, Facts & Bedfellows: Northern Gateway Pipeline Actions, Science & Money
They expected 2,000 to attend and, according to police reports, 2,000 people demonstrated their opposition to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and shut down the main street of the small northern city of Prince Rupert, BC. When 15% of the 13,000 who live in any city are marching on the
Continue readingOpposing the Enbridge Pipeline: Saying No to Corptocracy
According to the Earth Policy Institute direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry world-wide amount to half a trillion dollars ($500,000,000,000) annually. That’s a lot of zeroes for an industry that is killing people, plants, animals and whole ecosystems. That’s more than $1.4 billion per day impacting the climate. Fortunately,
Continue readingI’m singing in hell
I’m singing in hell This is a place where my City Councillor invokes UN property rights instead of human rights for the 130 people evicted from a rundown apartment block destined for demolition, where the Mayor, hell-bent on the erection of Pat’s Palace and a domed stadium over social housing,
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