Postmedia reporters Stephen Maher and Glen McGregor broke this story on Feb 23. If you want to know how “Racknine” and robo calls work, their article from the Vancouver Sun is posted at: http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4483 You can hear Stephen Maher in the CBC interview on the programme, The House: http://www.cbc.ca/thehouse/ (go to the second listening link). […]
‘Robocalls’ tried to discourage voters http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Robocalls+tried+discourage+voters/6196549/story.html By Stephen Maher And Glen McGregor, Postmedia News February 23, 2012 6:08 AM Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country. Also, the Conservatives are conducting an internal probe. A party […]
Sub-title: The Brave New Academy, The undermining of democracy. From “A Brave New World”: For true blissed-out and vacant servitude, though, you need an otherwise sophisticated society where no serious history is taught. – – – – – – — – – – Leonardo da Vinci: Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority […]
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
Thanks to Janet: Another Annie Leonard treasure (Annie of ‘The Story of Stuff’), & only 8 minutes long! Relevant to ALL the issues we’re all working on – $$$ for war, nukes, incinerators, education reforms, tar sands, green jobs, Occupy Wall St. – you name it! The Story of Broke. It is in the US […]
Rifkin’s most recent books: The Empathic Civilization and The Third Industrial Revolution. The interview makes one painfully aware of the lack of enlightened political leadership in Canada. The back-up plan: we have to become informed ourselves. Drive the change from the bottom-up, if it’s not coming from the top-down. The Third Industrial Revolution — an interview with […]
Status quo at the University is corporate leadership. The University asked for public input to the search for the next president of the University. My submission: we need an agent-of-change president. And be clear: hyped “innovation” is status quo, not real change. Note: This dated June 27th replaces the original which was sent June 24th when […]
Dear Jacki, RE: Where do you stand on improving Canada’s animal protection laws? NOTE: “Tammy” asked the same question; “Emily” asked a closely-related one. This reply to you is an elaboration on my replies to them. The question of how we treat animals is mainly a question of: Culture and Ethics (Values). It is also […]
I am truly excited by this initiative. However, the battle is a difficult one. The reforms will not be accomplished if the corporate role is not addressed (item #2). “We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the […]
– David Korten http://www.davidkorten.org/ “We humans are Creation’s most daring experiment with reflective consciousness. This gift is the source of our distinctive capacity to choose our future as an intentional collective act. For some 5,000 years, we have demonstrated our ability to use this capacity foolishly at an enormous cost to ourselves and to other […]