Jun 172015
 

2012-04-01  How the Big Energy Companies Plan to Turn the U.S. (and Canada) into a Third World Petro-State    http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4894   2007-05-19  TARSANDS:  Backlash against a whistle-blower  Globe & Mail, Andrew Nikiforuk  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4917    2007-06-06  VIDEO:  Help “Get the Shell Out” of the Sacred headwaters.  (Add to original: call on CPP to disinvest.)  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4897     2009-09-26  […]

Jun 172015
 

Related: (2015-04-18)  Hundreds of Millions of Dollars already paid out to corporations because of trade deals. It’s about to multiply many times over (TPP, CETA, etc.). (2013-11-09)   Contrast: Transatlantic Trade Deals (CETA & TTIP), also TPP vs “We Are Living in the World Occupy Made” (2013-06-11)    CETA (also about GMO’s): Canada ready to raise threshold […]

Jun 022015
 

Banksters: Index For More information than below, see:  Website,  Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER):   http://www.comer.org/ – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Excellent, about COMER:   (2015-05-07)   Rocco Galati, […]

May 272015
 

. . . We’ve gone beyond gross domestic product to more meaningful measures of social well-being, said Anshula Chowdhury, founder of Social Asset Measurements (SAM), a software-as-a-service social impact reporting firm operating out of Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone in Toronto.   The right things http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/power+transparency/11082894/story.html It began over a pint of beer. Brainstorming business […]

May 252015
 
2015-05-21  New Silk Road Could Change Global Economics Forever

Two sources:  Original:  http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/New-Silk-Road-Could-Change-Global-Economics-Forever.html I copied it from:  http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-23/new-silk-road-could-change-global-economics-forever-part-1   By Robert Berke Part 1: The New Silk Road Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road has never ceased to entrance the world. Now, the ancient cities of Samarkand, Baku, Tashkent, and Bukhara are once again […]

Apr 282015
 
2015-04-21  "Free Trade" deals:  Maude Barlow in Conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Huffington Post

  By Sujata Dey Berlin — Yesterday (April 20, 2015),  Maude Barlow, national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, challenged the Canada-European Union Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) and other trade deals in a panel discussion with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. During the panel, Chancellor Merkel presented her G7 presidency priorities. “While the themes […]

Mar 242015
 

A move by Canada to postpone any F-35 buys until 2018 means decisions will wait until after the next federal election. (US Air Force) by David Pugliese VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Canada has told the US government it won’t be in a position to purchase the F-35 fighter jet until 2018, a move that critics […]

Feb 052015
 
2015-02-05  Rocco Galati (COMER) wins another round of APPEAL re Bank Of Canada as funding source for public works.

Banksters: Index UPDATE:  the final appeal of the lower court decisions against the plaintiff was to the Supreme Court of Canada.  The SCC declined to hear the appeal.  The lower court decisions stand.   Thank-you to John Monroe (Comments) for pointing this out. http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/02/05/canadians-sued-the-bank-of-canada-won-mainstream-media-government-blacks-out-story/ February 5, 2015  by  Joe Martino. Recently, constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati won yet […]

Sep 222014
 
2014-09-21  Lesson in economic system,  Gail Tverberg.  Resource prices falling in system built on debt.  What does it mean?  Energy supplies and renewables.

Neil writes: If you’ve never read Gail Tverberg, she’s usually a good read and one smart cookie! Her recent blog looks interesting: http://ourfiniteworld.com/2014/09/21/low-oil-prices-sign-of-a-debt-bubble-collapse-leading-to-the-end-of-oil-supply/   (Sandra speaking:   I recommend you go to  Gail’s blog.   The “comments” are also worthwhile.  As usual,  a back-up copy appears below, “just in case”.)   – – – – – – – […]

Jul 022014
 

“On the Island” this morning, CBC Radio, an opportunity to make a point  about economic indicators: RE:  Salmon fishery, increasing the take from 3% to 15% My experience with DFO and fish quotas is from Nova Scotia where we lived for 15 years.   We arrived in the nineteen-seventies.  The Grand Banks cod fishery supported […]