Category: disaster capitalism

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April 15, 2009

Ottawa Looking to Fund Partisan Propaganda

The folks in Ottawa have been dying to figure out an ‘innovative’ way to bail out Canada’s biggest media companies (besides the CBC, of course) without creating a massive voter backlash.  With that in mind, another hairbrained scheme has materialized:  spending taxpayer money on advertising (story details are pasted below). The absurdity of this plan is laughable for a number of reasons: I normally try […]

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April 8, 2009

No more bailouts, please

Research credit to Impolitical . There’s really nothing worse than the prospect of hard-line anti-government control-freaks taking over anything, let alone Canadian media. But that seems to be in the cards, anyways, doesn’t it? Rumours have swirled for a while about the CBC being cut.  As early as last fall, folks identified that more than $200 million would be cut.  And they were right.  We’re […]

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March 31, 2009

Cons Paying Defense Lobby to Lobby the Cons?

I was a little confused by the links provided by this site when I first saw them: http://coat.ncf.ca/ARMX/cansec/CADSI-DFAIT.htm After seeing some of the details, it all clicked:  the Cons are paying the defense industry with Canadian tax dollars to finance groups that basically lobby the Cons (and other government stooges) to buy more stuff from the defense industry. I have to admit:  it’s a nice […]

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March 27, 2009

From Avaaz: Save the CBC

OK … let the petitioning and Facebook pages begin, but nothing’s going to change until we get rid of the Cons. Amid several beefs about this situation is the simple fact that the Cons (with the support of the Liberals) are spending billions of OUR DOLLARS on tax cuts and enriching the upper class, but when they promise to create jobs, this is how they […]

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March 26, 2009

The Big Takeover

I’ve been saying/thinking this for a bit, and I feel a little relief to see someone more ‘mainstream’ voice concerns about the level and intent of bailouts, the intended recipients and the ultimate point of capitalism. Yes, we’re at that moment where it’s now time to wonder if we’re entering a game-changing period era (not month, year or couple of days like the Cons might […]