http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-22/flawed-f-35-fighter-too-big-to-kill-as-lockheed-hooks-45-states.html (Note: I captured the text below because links sometimes become invalid.) By Kathleen Miller, Tony Capaccio & Danielle Ivory The Pentagon envisioned the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as an affordable, state-of-the-art stealth jet serving three military branches and U.S. allies. Instead, the Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) aircraft has been plagued by a costly redesign, […]
Dear Sandra, Military spending is out of control. Globally, governments squandered $1.73 trillion on militaries in 2011, and still the weapons corporations want more. How would you better spend the money wasted on weapons and war? Share your ideas and let’s build a “word cloud” on Ceasefire.ca. How many lives could be saved if […]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/04/12/mb-lockheed-martin-fighter-jet-winnipeg.html Officials with Lockheed Martin stopped in Winnipeg Friday to promote their F-35 stealth fighter jet, part of a national campaign to promote the jet in Canada. The U.S. defence contractor is in the midst of a cross-Canada publicity blitz to convince the federal government to purchase the jets. The contractor wants the jets […]
‘This airplane — despite what the air force says, or Lockheed Martin or Canadian generals — this aircraft will come close to costing a quarter of a billion dollars apiece.’—Washington defence analyst Pierre Sprey http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/07/pol-lockheed-martin-f35-pr-campaign.html Lockheed Martin, the giant U.S. defence contractor, is launching a cross-Canada publicity blitz to convince Canadians to buy its […]
(written in 2006, but remains valid) CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC-PRIVATE-PARTNERSHIPS AND CORRUPTION The false idea of Public-Private-Partnerships has been embraced by different political parties: – the Conservatives (Michael Wilson, Federal Finance Minister in Government of Brian Mulroney was one of the early promoters of the idea in about 1982). – the Liberals under […]
Minutes ago I sent the following to the University Secretary, a request to make a presentation to the Board of Gov. It is the work of a number of University Senators. On Friday (April 5th) I spoke about the legality of Susan Milburn’s position on the Board of Governors with the offices of the Deputy Minister of Justice and […]
Students and staff peppered members of the University of Saskatchewan’s board of governors with questions about uranium development and transparency. In one exchange, the board was asked about the role of a new board member – Grant Isaac – who is also a senior vice-president and chief financial officer at uranium mining company Cameco. Isaac […]
RE: the G&M article below a toxic smorgasbord of buildings, tailings ponds and a quarter-million tonnes of arsenic stored underground . . . before large amounts of arsenic start escaping from collapsing buildings. … The poisoning from the Giant Mine has been known for a long time. Now, a billion dollars — ALL from tax-payers. […]
http://www.orilliapacket.com/2013/04/03/opposition-parties-to-join-forces Opposition parties to join forces ( 6 Comments) (Please go to the link to see the Comments) By Roberta Bell, Orillia Packet & Times Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:10:15 EDT PM ORILLIA – Members of the local federal opposition parties are going national with a joint effort to unseat the Conservative government and bring about […]
http://cooperate4.ca/national-poll/ Canadians would vote for cooperation candidates, support electoral reform according to new national poll Toronto, ON — April 4th — A new national Environics poll shows that Canadians think our democratic system is broken, overwhelmingly favour proportional representation, and are willing to vote for cooperation candidates to defeat Conservative MPs […]