https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrysler-auto-loan-canada-account-write-off-edc-bailout-taxpayer-wudrick-milke-1.4871648
Aren't you proud of how nice our governments are to billionaires?
Funny - irving press didn't have this story.
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Thanks to a reader who sent me this superb and very, very true item.
Aren't you proud of how nice our governments are to billionaires?
Funny - irving press didn't have this story.
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Thanks to a reader who sent me this superb and very, very true item.
The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Either Tyranny or Revolution
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Donald Trump is a constant liar.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/22/fact-check-trumps-claims-migrant-caravan
But his lying isn't the problem. The problem is that very large numbers of Americans believe his lies. And that's a problem for the whole world.
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In our increasingly dangerous world, the storm that is hitting Mexico is an important warning of the storms that are increasing in violence all over the world. But it hasn't made the irving press. (Is that because it's owned by people who don't want to discourage gas sales?)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/hurricane-willa-mexico-prepares-extremely-dangerous-storm
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/honduran-migrant-caravan-crosses-into-mexico-through-river
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Another story our irving press is unlikely to follow.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/climate-change-is-exacerbating-world-conflicts-says-red-cross-president
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We have never been closer......
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/23/trump-nuclear-cold-war-russia-arms
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Another story that is not likely ever to appear in New Brunswick's irving press.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/23/judge-upholds-landmark-monsanto-verdict-slashes-punitive-damages-211-million
Hey! Chemical sprays are good for you.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/10/22/arena-full-richest-americans-would-own-much-wealth-70-world
For the last forty years and more, we have witnessed the greatest shifting of wealth from almost all of us to a tiny number. It amounts to a revolution. And it is going to mean one hell of a lot of economic chaos - soon.
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The irving press has not shown much interest in this story. Anyway, it needed the world news space for a more important story that a local cop killer has asked to be released.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/inf-nuclear-treaty-bites-dust-181022104406151.html
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Gee! Here's (another) story that our irving press missed.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-provides-safe-haven-to-white-helmet-terrorist-factions/5657536
Muslim terrorists are evil, of course - except when they are working for the U.S.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50485.htm
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Another story that will not make the irving press.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50487.htm
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It's an old story. Most societies have produced a hierarchy of the extremely wealthy. Typically, they give themselves titles as though their wealth were something ordained - then pass it on to the descendants as though it were something they had owned by their own efforts.
The British Empire was a sort of comic book version of that. (I'm addicted to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot stories - and most of them deal with the British 'ruling class'.)
The world is now facing the greatest idiocy of this myth it has ever seen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50477.htm
Yes. We fought world war two so we could be ruled by an absurdly powerful but not very bright economic ruling class.
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/10/22/news/trudeau-impose-climate-change-policies-provinces-have-not-shown-leadership
Note that governments and scientists have said we have 12 years, at most, to get climate change under control. (But don't tell that to the irving press.)
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/10/22/news/trudeau-impose-climate-change-policies-provinces-have-not-shown-leadership
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https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/migrant-caravan-honduras-guatemala/
Remember, too, that many of these people are fleeing poverty and abused imposed on them by American corporations with the full support of American governments.
________________________________________________________________
“ “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
These are the words on the statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. Of course, when it was built, American corporations were looking for cheap labour. But now they have lots of it.
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https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/
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https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/23/the-earthquake-in-international-alliances/
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This story is a year old. But this week, Monsanto lost to a California court on charges it's spray, the one used on mr. irving's forests in this province, causes cancer. I note that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives in this province have mentioned it. And Mr. Irving's newspapers haven't. And won't.
Care to stand up for the people Mr. Higgs? No. I didn't think so.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gylphosate-herbice-new-brunswick-california-1.4182805
And the people of New Brunswick? They didn't have the guts to defend their chief medical officer when she was dumped for warning about the spray.
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https://truthout.org/articles/were-not-migrating-were-fleeing-hondurans-perilous-journey-north/
"Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...." God bless America. Yeah.
______________________________________________________________
And New Brunswick?
Probably the biggest problem facing the world is climate change. We have, maybe 12 years to deal with it. Maybe not.
And what has our provincial Conservative party had to say? Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Not a word. Boy! New Brunswickers sure know how to pick the big issues. In fact, the only Conservative idea has been to encourage fracking. Oh, Mr. Higgs, - be sure to wipe your mouth after kissing Mr. Irving's caboose.
The Liberals were slightly better with a promise to deal with a carbon tax. But the Conservatives with no plan at all and the Liberals with just a modest beginning of one are the parties that got most of the votes in this province.
Indeed, it would be a stretch to say that any of the parties seemed to understand the urgency of this.
And the irving press? It has shown no sense whatever of how great the problem is and how little time we have. As usual, the last few days have, as always, been almost without anything newsworthy in them. The October 23 issue, though, has a quite decent commentary column by the province's commissioner of official languages - (0ur desire to live together is stronger).
For those who want change, there is no point whatever in reading the irving press. For those who want to know anything in the world - or even in New Brunswick - there is no point in reading the irving press. But ignorance suits the Conservatives and the Liberals - and their corporate bosses - just fine.
If the smaller parties hope ever to get bigger, they need to provide the public with the information the irving press isn't giving them. They need to be out every day. Starting now. We have a public that has no understanding of the issues at all. And the irving press isn't going to do the job.
And the big issues are?
1. The extent of irving control over almost everything in this province - the cost to us of it's non-payment of taxes - the cost of financial gifts we offer up - the corruption of government by irving control - the abuse of news media....
2. The pace of climate change and what, however impossible, must be done if we are to deal with it. What needs to be done provincially? at the federal level? What do municipalities have to do?
3. The lack of informed and honest discussion and debate.
4. Make universities available to all social classes, not just the rich and those who become heavily indebted. As a part of that, make the universities into really serious learning institutions by training their professors to teach, and organizing their programmes more productively. Get them out from under the thumbs of corporate bosses.
5. Get serious about corporate poisoning of our forests and of us.
Donald Trump is a constant liar.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/22/fact-check-trumps-claims-migrant-caravan
But his lying isn't the problem. The problem is that very large numbers of Americans believe his lies. And that's a problem for the whole world.
______________________________________________________________
In our increasingly dangerous world, the storm that is hitting Mexico is an important warning of the storms that are increasing in violence all over the world. But it hasn't made the irving press. (Is that because it's owned by people who don't want to discourage gas sales?)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/hurricane-willa-mexico-prepares-extremely-dangerous-storm
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/honduran-migrant-caravan-crosses-into-mexico-through-river
____________________________________________________________
Another story our irving press is unlikely to follow.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/21/climate-change-is-exacerbating-world-conflicts-says-red-cross-president
______________________________________________________________
We have never been closer......
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/23/trump-nuclear-cold-war-russia-arms
_______________________________________________________________
Another story that is not likely ever to appear in New Brunswick's irving press.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/10/23/judge-upholds-landmark-monsanto-verdict-slashes-punitive-damages-211-million
Hey! Chemical sprays are good for you.
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/10/22/arena-full-richest-americans-would-own-much-wealth-70-world
For the last forty years and more, we have witnessed the greatest shifting of wealth from almost all of us to a tiny number. It amounts to a revolution. And it is going to mean one hell of a lot of economic chaos - soon.
______________________________________________________________
The irving press has not shown much interest in this story. Anyway, it needed the world news space for a more important story that a local cop killer has asked to be released.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/inf-nuclear-treaty-bites-dust-181022104406151.html
_______________________________________________________________
Gee! Here's (another) story that our irving press missed.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/canada-provides-safe-haven-to-white-helmet-terrorist-factions/5657536
Muslim terrorists are evil, of course - except when they are working for the U.S.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50485.htm
_______________________________________________________________
Another story that will not make the irving press.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50487.htm
_______________________________________________________________
It's an old story. Most societies have produced a hierarchy of the extremely wealthy. Typically, they give themselves titles as though their wealth were something ordained - then pass it on to the descendants as though it were something they had owned by their own efforts.
The British Empire was a sort of comic book version of that. (I'm addicted to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot stories - and most of them deal with the British 'ruling class'.)
The world is now facing the greatest idiocy of this myth it has ever seen.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50477.htm
Yes. We fought world war two so we could be ruled by an absurdly powerful but not very bright economic ruling class.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/10/22/news/trudeau-impose-climate-change-policies-provinces-have-not-shown-leadership
Note that governments and scientists have said we have 12 years, at most, to get climate change under control. (But don't tell that to the irving press.)
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/10/22/news/trudeau-impose-climate-change-policies-provinces-have-not-shown-leadership
______________________________________________________________
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/migrant-caravan-honduras-guatemala/
Remember, too, that many of these people are fleeing poverty and abused imposed on them by American corporations with the full support of American governments.
________________________________________________________________
“ “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
These are the words on the statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. Of course, when it was built, American corporations were looking for cheap labour. But now they have lots of it.
_____________________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/22/review-unprecedented-crime/
_______________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2018/10/23/the-earthquake-in-international-alliances/
_________________________________________________________________
This story is a year old. But this week, Monsanto lost to a California court on charges it's spray, the one used on mr. irving's forests in this province, causes cancer. I note that neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives in this province have mentioned it. And Mr. Irving's newspapers haven't. And won't.
Care to stand up for the people Mr. Higgs? No. I didn't think so.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/gylphosate-herbice-new-brunswick-california-1.4182805
And the people of New Brunswick? They didn't have the guts to defend their chief medical officer when she was dumped for warning about the spray.
______________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/were-not-migrating-were-fleeing-hondurans-perilous-journey-north/
"Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses...." God bless America. Yeah.
______________________________________________________________
And New Brunswick?
Probably the biggest problem facing the world is climate change. We have, maybe 12 years to deal with it. Maybe not.
And what has our provincial Conservative party had to say? Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Not a word. Boy! New Brunswickers sure know how to pick the big issues. In fact, the only Conservative idea has been to encourage fracking. Oh, Mr. Higgs, - be sure to wipe your mouth after kissing Mr. Irving's caboose.
The Liberals were slightly better with a promise to deal with a carbon tax. But the Conservatives with no plan at all and the Liberals with just a modest beginning of one are the parties that got most of the votes in this province.
Indeed, it would be a stretch to say that any of the parties seemed to understand the urgency of this.
And the irving press? It has shown no sense whatever of how great the problem is and how little time we have. As usual, the last few days have, as always, been almost without anything newsworthy in them. The October 23 issue, though, has a quite decent commentary column by the province's commissioner of official languages - (0ur desire to live together is stronger).
For those who want change, there is no point whatever in reading the irving press. For those who want to know anything in the world - or even in New Brunswick - there is no point in reading the irving press. But ignorance suits the Conservatives and the Liberals - and their corporate bosses - just fine.
If the smaller parties hope ever to get bigger, they need to provide the public with the information the irving press isn't giving them. They need to be out every day. Starting now. We have a public that has no understanding of the issues at all. And the irving press isn't going to do the job.
And the big issues are?
1. The extent of irving control over almost everything in this province - the cost to us of it's non-payment of taxes - the cost of financial gifts we offer up - the corruption of government by irving control - the abuse of news media....
2. The pace of climate change and what, however impossible, must be done if we are to deal with it. What needs to be done provincially? at the federal level? What do municipalities have to do?
3. The lack of informed and honest discussion and debate.
4. Make universities available to all social classes, not just the rich and those who become heavily indebted. As a part of that, make the universities into really serious learning institutions by training their professors to teach, and organizing their programmes more productively. Get them out from under the thumbs of corporate bosses.
5. Get serious about corporate poisoning of our forests and of us.
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