Letter-to-Editor by Donovan Carter, regarding Labour Force Survey http://www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/opinion/letters/135129418.html Comox Valley Record posted Dec 6, 2011 at 3:00 PM Are Tories getting data via backdoor route? Dear editor, I have been in contact with the constituency office of Vancouver Island North MP John Duncan regarding the receipt of notice from Statistics Canada that the occupants of […]
“Astro-turfing” is a relatively new addition to the English vocabulary. This superb little movie, (Astro) Turf Wars, How corporate America is faking a grassroots revolution, explains it very well. http://astroturfwars.com/ The Americans are astro-turfed in order to keep the money flowing to corporate interests in fossil fuels. Essential watching for anyone who wants to see propaganda in action. […]
Writer Chris Hedges argues that North American culture is dying because it has become transfixed by illusions about literacy, love, wisdom, happiness and democracy. Jim Brown explores Hedges’ ideas about the mechanisms that keep us diverted from confronting the collapse around us. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/11/30/empire-of-illusion/ Broadcast: Wednesday – November 30, 2011
The federal government’s strict new rules on mercury emissions are a pro-life issue that Christians should embrace to protect unborn children, according to a group of Christian environmentalists. Grand Rapids Press, Michigan. http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/12/christian_environmentalists_sa.html (You can also click on the title for this posting)
Kerry writes: By Frank Gardner BBC security correspondent The drone, shown here on Iranian television, appears to be in very good condition Drone captured by Iranians Bat-winged, high-flying and hard to detect, America’s RQ-170 Sentinel plane is the perfect stealth drone for peering into another country’s secret sites without being caught. One was […]
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From Rene re; border jam-up as excuse for border exchanges Demosthenes “There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries; defensive barriers, forts, trenches and the like… But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all and this applies especially to the […]
I posted a comment on the Globe and Mail page in response to Doug Saunders’ article (below). With a few changes here it is: Doug Saunders’ analysis seems to rest on the premise that the context within which military intervention occurred is the same in all the conflicts. That is a stretch. Iraq was an American-launched war. […]
Catch this… http://bit.ly/sHQgkS 5 min. video
Corporate ownership of farmland ” . . allocate a portion of their portfolios to farmland without the need to take on the complex responsibilities of ownership themselves.” The information below is about Canada (Agcapita). CBC Radio, The Current, did an interview some months ago on this same topic – – a large pool of money […]