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Corporate cowboys
By Colin Penter
Posted Thursday, 24 June 2010

 "Limited liability is at the heart of this rise of corporate power: it constitutes a blanket exemption of a special interest group from accountability for the actions of their companies". Stephanie Blankenburg and Dan Plesch (PDF 100KB).

 "The ripples of this pressure on civil society travel far indeed. The perception that civil society is uncivil and a source of insecurity contributes to an environment of enhanced regulation of the voluntary sector, strengthened state oversight of voluntary sector activities, and declining confidence in the sector's ability to contribute to the resolution of social problems and the advancement of human security". Mark Sidel.

By Fred Wilson

This week Canada was host to Mexican President Felipe Calderon.  He spoke to our Parliament and was interviewed on CBC television.  He appealed for Canada to lift the new visa requirements and he called for action on climate change.  There was commentary in the Canadian media on the 23,000 victims of Mexico's drug war over the last three years.

In 2005, Vive the Canada published one of my articles entitled: “Big Brother Gets Under Your Skin.” In that article archived on this site I described microchipping technology in 1997 when the ‘Digital Angel’ was developed by Verichip Corp. Since that time many animals and groups of people have been successfully implanted with microchips.

Is Capitalism a ciminal system?  How is this-time-around different from 1929?  What does the work of John Maynard Keynes have to say about present strategies and bail-outs?

[Ed. note - Helene Desmarais, wife of Paul Desmarais Jr., chairs the Montreal Economic Institute. Paul Desmarais Jr. was an attendee at this year’s Bilderberg meeting in Virginia and heads up Power Corporation of Canada. Simon Reisman, head negotiator of NAFTA and uncle of Heather Reisman, also a Bilderberg alumnus, was director of GRANDCo, which has previously advanced ideas for large scale water export. It’s a small world at the top, it seems, and these ideas have been floating around for quite some time. No wonder the Council of Canadians is so concerned.]

"There will, of course, be a universal language, which will be either Esperanto or pidgin-English. The literature of the past will for the most part not be translated into this language, since its outlook and emotional background will be considered unsettling: serious students of history will be able to obtain a permit from the Government to study such works as Hamlet and Othello, but the general public will be forbidden access to them on the ground that they glorify private murder; boys will not be allowed to read books about pirates or Red Indians; love themes will be discouraged on the ground that love, being anarchic, is silly, if not wicked. All this will make life very pleasant for the virtuous." - Bertrand Russell, 1931

Fear and indifference are two of the most powerful and seditious weapons a populace can grant ruling elites and we have been all too generous and uncritical.

The governing Conservatives have discovered something of late: Their modus operandi - politics as war - isn't working as it used to. Their game plan, which served them reasonably well, was simple. Leave the ideas to eggheads, visions to dreamers. Use a superior field commander and bigger tanks to crush the opposition.The politics of destruction was a slice of Karl Rove ...where "deliberation and compromise, elements central to governing, all but disappeared and the  "mentality of political manipulation" operated around the clock...The war mentality of governance can work in the
short term. But, in the long term, something more is needed. With the tides shifting, the Conservatives need a bold new program, something to show the public they can do more than crack heads.
 

Feds 'stealing' from UI fund, Layton says


At what point do Canadians stand together and refuse to hand over a chunk of their labour if it's just going to be stolen?

Come out and help mourn the death of Canadian sovereignty.

There will be an SPP/TILMA Awareness Rally in Edmonton on May 31. Keep reading for details.

Plan Mexico is an essential part of the SPP, and will help the US force Mexico to change its laws, rules, and regulations in order to secure the economic ("prosperity") and political ("security") interests of US government and businesses.

Canadian trade lawyer, Steven Shrybman, has described "Bill 32 [BC implementation bill] and the Agreement [TILMA] it seeks to implement as presenting an unprecedented challenge to the most fundamental principle and norms of Canada's constitutional arrangements". Mr. Shrybman, as a trade lawyer, appears to ignore the international norms that would also be violated. TILMA (Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement) not only violates norms of Canada's constitutional arrangements but, along with NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) and PNWER (Pacific North West Economic Region) , also contribute to the violation of international peremptory norms.

Mel Hurtig, Tough Love Patriot
Hurtig: 'No longer the people we think we are.'

    * The Truth about Canada
    * Mel Hurtig
    * Random House Inc. (2008)

By Michael LaPointe
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May 14, 2008Mel Hurtig might be the angriest man in Canada. He's angry at our "myopic" politicians, he's angry at our "selfish" big business, he's angry at our "continentalist" media -- and if you aren't angry at them, too, then he's probably angry at you. Hurtig has just released The Truth About Canada, which he claims is "one of the most anti-establishment books published in my lifetime" -- no small feat for a man of 75.

But don't call him pessimistic, he'd prefer patriotic. While The Truth About Canada may be the angriest book released this year, Hurtig's aim is didactic. "Canadians are incredibly proud of their country, with justification," he says. "Just look at the space we have, the resources, the people. The main point of my book is to show people that we're losing it."

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