From Al: Please sign the petition and send Duff $10.00. It surely is time that the Conflict of Interest and the Ethics Commission should have air tight rules and the power to enforce them and strict, large fines that will stop eliminate the present shenanigans for a long, long time. Thanks. Take care Al ================================================================================== […]
NOTE 1: Many of you know Joyce Nelson from her book, “Beyond Banksters“. Put “Joyce” into the search button on this blog (upper right corner) for more of her work. NOTE 2: 2018-01-15 Input to Govt: How can the Criminal Justice system be changed to better suit Canadians? (Thanks to Janet E for making the […]
To maintain my calm and good nature (ha ha!), I wrote after listening to – – – (CBC, The House) Montreal NAFTA talks could signal beginning of the end (9 minutes) RELATED POSTINGS: 2017-11-01 NZ joins the trend for countries to say no to ISDS (NAFTA and other trade deals) 2017-07-28 A monster payday in […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-banker-jail-financial-crisis.html By JESSE EISINGER (INSERT: Eisinger is an investigative business reporter with ProPublica. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that led to the financial crisis. Eisinger was interviewed in July 2017 on U.S. National Public Radio. I posted a couple of excerpts from that interview at […]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/19/jill-stein-trump-russia-investigation-documents Stein says she’s cooperating with investigation into Russian interference 2016 presidential hopeful attended 2015 dinner with Putin sponsored by RT Jill Stein ran against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the candidate of the Green party and received about 1% of the vote. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/Reuters The Senate intelligence committee has asked for documents […]
The Minerva Initiative (American Dept of Defence (DoD)). My original source of information, an American Dept of Defence (DoD) URL, no longer valid. (for the record – the old URL – – http://minerva.dtic.mil/overview.html) But keep reading. Minerva was re-branded, it has a new website. From the old one: The Minerva Initiative is a Department of […]
RELATED: The Minerva Initiative https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements The Pentagon is funding social science research to model risks of “social contagions” that could damage US strategic interests. Photograph: Jason Reed/REUTERS Nafeez Ahmed A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme […]
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-21-2017-1.4410676 stories from this episode 94-year-old podcaster Harry Leslie Smith says he’ll ‘drop dead’ before he stops fighting for equality Harry Leslie Smith says he’s seen humanity at its best — and worst. The 94-year-old has lived through poverty, war and the Great Depression and warns a younger generation to heed his message: Don’t […]
View this email in your browser Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University Restoring Public Control of Public Goods: Reconstruction, not “Deconstruction” Conference October 2017 On October 5-7, researchers, policy makers, and activists gathered for a conference on “Restoring Public Control of Public Goods”, sponsored by GDAE and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). The […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/13/bilderberg-2015-guest-list-invited_n_7576766.html by Jennifer MacMillan, The Huffington Post Canada (There’s a good video at the top of the Huff Post article. Please go to the URL if you wish – – the following is a copy of the text only.) It’s likely the most exclusive gathering of powerful people in the world, and you’ve […]