So What Are Political Parties Good For? This
Posted on Saturday, September 17 at 11:40 by Wayne Coady
The declaration doesn't give the value of the shares or when he bought them, but says they are held in a blind management agreement.
The company hired the former Liberal MP to lobby the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency on its behalf in 2002 and 2003, according to the federal lobbyists database.
The registry shows Mr. Dingwall, who served as ACOA minister from November 1993 to January 1996, was hired to "assist company in securing access to capital."
The company received $1.3 million from the federal government's Cape Breton Growth Fund in 2002-03, $789,000 from ACOA in 2001 and 2002, and $334,000 from Enterprise Cape Breton Corp. in 2002 - a total of $2.4 million.
Mr. Dingwall appears to have taken a benefit from a program he supervised, says John Williamson, director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
"There was a conflict because the minister was in a position to establish how this agency would dole out tax dollars to industry and then a business he had an interest in benefited after the fact," Mr. Williamson said Friday.
"That is a conflict that should raise eyebrows and it should be reviewed by members of Parliament."
Mr. Dingwall shouldn't personally benefit from programs he established or supervised - especially when his former cabinet colleagues were pulling the strings at ACOA, ECBC and the growth fund, Mr. Williamson said.
"I believe he's in the wrong here and it's something that should be looked into by legislators in order to find out if there were any political decisions that were forced onto civil servants or if the process was rigged in a way to provide a benefit to Mr. Dingwall."
Mr. Dingwall did not respond to an interview request Friday. Neither did Rick Beaton, head of Enterprise Cape Breton Corp., which handles the growth fund, or the office of Joe McGuire, the minister for ACOA.
Robert Bobbett, CEO of 4everSports, also did not return calls. The company's website is still up, but Mr. Bobbett's telephone number is no longer working. This summer, the company laid off its 28 workers.
In addition to the money 4everSports received from the federal government, the firm received $200,000 from Nova Scotia's Economic Development Agency last year.
The agency could not provide details of the contribution Friday.
Any benefit Mr. Dingwall hopes to receive from his investment in the company may not prove to be great.
A public progress report released by the growth fund says that the company had export sales of more than $17 million, but the company's website names only four golf courses that have agreed to use 4everSports' system.
The fund described the product this way: "4everSports has developed customized, real-time golf services and Internet-based information systems that consolidate golf activities, such as scoring, tee-time bookings and on-course food and beverage ordering, into a single, economical system that is easily accessible to golfers."
A worker at one of the courses that has the terminals - Arcadian Shores Golf Club, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. - said Friday that the system hasn't been working there for some time, and company representatives who were expected to repair the system this week hadn't shown up.
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 18, 2005]
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Why your taxes are so high.
Why you do without good roads, health care, education opportunities for young people,ETC.
Why isn't this man in court on conspiracy charges for money laundering and theft?
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Good government is not a party government
In other words, nothing ever changes in history, except the colour of the flags and the name of the ideologies, but it is always the same scum who come out on top under every one of them.
The concept of democracy is supposed to take care of this, but every beautiful theory and religion can be twisted around to become tools of oppression and even mass murder, with the majority eagerly marching into slavery to the drums of the rulers. All democracies have turned into dictatorships by the will of their own brainwashed people. Greece and Rome are the best examples and now we're on the way.
I've seen and experienced this under every ideology known in the 20th century, but being an optimist, still am waiting for a miracle of universal awakening. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.
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The Big Con!<br />
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The big con is any kind of a belief that such a concept as democracy exists.<br />
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The two thirds of North America taken up by Canaduh and the Deluded States of America by-in-large fail to see beyond the smoke and mirrors illusion.<br />
Canadians, as usual, lead the pack in adhering to the misconception democracy plays any part as a system of governance while the yanks vehemently deny anything out side of the bipartisanism of their two parties.<br />
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The very rare individual who does expose the greater picture is held in contempt and bleated down by the product of experimental psychology, founded by Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt. <br />
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Wundt was the founder of experimental psychology and the force behind its dissemination throughout the western world.<br />
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In his ” Philosophical Studies” the official organ of a new Laboratory, and the newly redefined “science” of psychology.<br />
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He stated:<br />
“The work which I here present to the public is an attempt to mark out a new domain of science.”..<br />
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Wundt asserted that man is devoid of spirit and self-determinism (free will, ed) He set out to prove that “…. man is the summation of his experiences, of the stimuli which intrude upon his consciousness and unconsciousness”<br />
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Now, one can deny the above with the catch 22 of it or not and the meme worms in….”Yup, that’s pretty much how it works.”<br />
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Now transpose THAT over NOW and what do you see?<br />
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From Wundt’s work, it was only a short step to the later redefinition of the meaning of education. Originally, education meant the drawing out of a person’s innate talents and abilities by imparting the knowledge of languages, scientific reasoning, history, literature, rhetoric, etc.—the channels through which those abilities would flourish and serve. To the experimental psychologist, however, education became the process of exposing the student to ‘meaningful’ experiences so as to ensure desired reactions: “…the situation-response formula is adequate to cover learning of any sort, and the really influential factors in learning are readiness of the neurons, sequence in time,belongingness, and satisfying consequences.” (Rudolph Pintner, et al, An Outline of Educational Psychology, 1934, page 79). <br />
Wundt’s thesis laid the philosophical basis for the principles of conditioning later developed by Pavlov (who studied physiology in Leipzig, in 1884, five years after Wundt had inaugurated his laboratory there) and American behavioral psychologists such as Watson and Skinner…” <br />
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To paraphrase Pogo of Walt Kelly fame, ‘I have seen the enemy!<br />
I is HE!’<br />
And until we get your head around “Dat one” we ain’t going Anywhere”<br />
Expressions of interest welcome <br />
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"The cost to the good people for their indifference to their public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato<br />
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"The cost to the good people for their indifference to their public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato<br />
<p>---<br>"The cost to the good people for their indifference to their public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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Good government is not a party government
Sheep go over there, the shepard shall tend you for the fleecing.
Thinkers?
Ok you lot, on my command!
!,2,3~~ THINK!
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"The cost to the good people for their indifference to their public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato
Sheep go over there, the shepard shall tend you for the fleecing.
Thinkers?
Ok you lot, on my command!
!,2,3~~ THINK!
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"The cost to the good people for their indifference to their public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato