Most Secret Private U.S. Firm To Add B.C. Gas To Its Portfolio Of War-Profiteeri

&#8220;All of this is thanks to careless and thoughtless privatization policies brought to us by the governing BC Liberal Party. Or is it thoughtless? Recent reports suggest Tony Blair, Labour Prime Minister of Britain, has been offered a position at Carlyle for when he leaves his government post. Former premiers of Alberta and New Brunswick joined Carlyle after leaving their government posts. Does Gordon Campbell, lame-duck Liberal premier of BC, also have an offer on file from Carlyle? He did as much as hand them our enormous and globally-critical gas resources, didn&#8217;t he. In a question to Carlyle about whether Peter Lougheed, Frank McKenna or Gordon Campbell are, or were ever, in any way associated to the Carlyle Group, Chris Ullman, Director of Global Communications, told The Republic, &#8220;We decline to comment on these questions.&#8221; His staff earlier told The Republic, &#8220;Carlyle's Canadian Advisory Board was dissolved more than a year ago.&#8221; Sure it was.&#8221;<br />
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Where was this Kevin Potvin character when Murray Dobbin was reporting on the New Zealand Experiment in 2000? <br />
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<a href="http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/dobbin_murray_new_zealand_analysis.html">http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/dobbin_murray_new_zealand_analysis.html</a><br />
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&#8220;New Zealand's Privatization Push Devastated the Country, Rather Than Saving It <br />
Murray Dobbin <br />
[reprinted from: The National Post, 15 August 2000]<br />
It has been so long since anyone in the business press has praised the New Zealand "miracle," it's almost as if we imagined the whole thing. But, of course, the current silence is really no mystery. The 15-year free market experiment has been an unmitigated disaster. The suffering caused among ordinary New Zealanders is well known: the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world; the proliferation of food banks; huge increases in violent and other crime; the bankruptcy of half the farms in the country; the economic disruption of hundreds of thousands of lives; health care, education and other social services devastated by the mad marketplace scientists. <br />
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But, of course, neo-liberal ideologues don't hold much truck with the human consequences of their experiments. So let's examine those things they do care about. The revolutionaries promised to tear down the "debt wall," unleash spectacular economic growth, spur foreign investment and productivity, create enormous new wealth and new and better jobs.&#8221;<br />
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It has been close to twelve years since now since New Zealanders were conned in to Sir Roger Douglas&#8217; grand experiment for the world, hatched I am told via Ronnie Raygun and the Iron Lady of Britain.<br />
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I laws laughed of off many forums for giving a &#8216;heads up&#8217; on this subterfuge and it is only now the chickens are coming home to roost.<br />
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And, ya know what?<br />
It looks freakin good on ya! <br />
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All this after the fact whining and snivelling don&#8217;t mean shit to a goose!<br />
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I am fed up with dithery old broads bemoaning what they ought to have paid attention to long before Crooked Mouth/Campbell came to power.<br />
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Judy Tyabji Wilson in Daggers Unsheathed, laid out <br />
The whole scam of the RCMP dude and how Campbell came to power<br />
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Y&#8217;all might wanna check this out too<br />
<a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php?story=20040205000538959">http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php?story=20040205000538959</a> <br />
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To late to lock the barn the horse has bolted!<br />
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<p>---<br>The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.... : Albert Einstein

The link has expired or something?

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Yes, I updated it.

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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Reading what these guys are up to really makes me wish that, cruel as it sounds, Gordon Campbell had killed or at least crippled an American citizen* when he was arrested for DUI in Hawaii.

At least we'd have been rid of him permanently, and perhaps we'd have received someone into the premiership who was more moderate in exchange.

* preferable a pro Bush pro Iragi war republican.



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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"

"The Weapon" - Rush