Too Much Money Not Enough Education

King Ralph is musing over the idea of giving Albertans more Ralph Bucks come the fall. Right now however both Edmonton School Boards, Catholic and Public, could use a few million bucks to balance their budgets, let alone bucks to build new schools as promised and a half billion for school upgrades. School board demands 'urgent need' school funding

Awash in money is the province. While the Edmonton Catholic school board goes cap in hand to the province having to put its property for sale just to clear a $10 million dollar shortfall because of Provincial government UNDERFUNDING.

Meanwhile the complaints are no different in Calgary, home of the ruling class in Alberta. CUPE has challenged the government to tour crumbling schools. Any takers?



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Impeach Bush.....Over Peak Oil

Really. Thats what this article says.

George W. Bush and Peak Oil: Beyond Incompetence While it would be difficult to create an airtight legal case for impeaching George W. Bush based on his ignoring the very real threat posed by Peak Oil, nevertheless I believe that his actions—and inaction—in this regard constitute dereliction of duty on an unprecedented scale.




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Headlines We Would Like To See

Beans, beans, are good for the heart.
The more you eat, the more you.....
Putin Promises to Send Gas to China





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Timmies We Can Hardly Afford Ye

Barely out with its share offering of Tim Hortons, Wendy's the U.S. owner of our esteemed Canadian Insititution is rrrolling up their rim a big cash winner. Wendy's Hits Year High on Tim Hortons IPO

Not satisfied with rrrolling in dough from Timmies now they want to gouge Canadian investors. Tim Hortons raises IPO price range

And Timmies is not even a socially responsible corporation. It does not support in purchasing Fair Trade coffee, nor is it unionized, unlike Starbucks the coffee company everyone loves to hate.

Which is why Monte Solberg will probably be investing in Timmies faster than you can say rrrroll up the rim.




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Clintons War

I have blogged about Canada's current 'humanitarian' war in Afghanistan being linked to the ideology of War to End Oppression which began with Bill Clinton and the attack on Serbia over Kosovo.

Blogger Let Freedom Chime, also notes that without that involvement the war in Afghanistan and Iraq would not have been possible.

Recently, I came across an old WSWS article, 'Pentagon strategy for nuclear strikes revealed, Iraq--a testing ground for US militarism', from March 1998. It shows how, in the Clinton era, the US Military was already planning for the aggressive style of first-strike wars that Bush/Cheney are presently practising.

The current sabre rattling over Iran's use of nuclear energy for domestic power, and the contradictory Bush India Nuke alliance bodes ill for the future.

Whether under Bush or a new Clinton regime.

Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle




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Why is this blog popular

That's the question that my personal right whingnut fan club asks. So I thought I would reply. First I have something to say. That's important. This blog does not care about how my hair looks, I have none, nor does it care about my teenage angst, cause I got through that when I was thirty. Nor is it because I am a dogmatic pundit of either the Right or Left.

It's because I am a damn fine writer with something to say.

It's 'cause of articles like my obituary biography of Anarchist author Ba-Jin, which is now listed in Wikipedia. And has been the basis of other printed and online biographies on the the author.

It's my contrarian dialectical analysis and tribute to Peter Drucker, who also passed away last year. Where those in the know have commented on my balanced as well as insightful perceptions of Drucker.

And the very many other articles I have written that are original. Not just comments on others writings, though I have done those too.

It's because I am an alternative journalist who gets his stuff published online as well as in print. And I am shameless in cross posting aritcles I think are of interest.

I use tags!

It's cause I am currently the #1 site on Critical Acclaim

I have over 1000 hits a week. Modest. But obviously enough to drive my fanclub nutz. Though he needs no help there.

And while I don't have lots and lots of comments, I don't have lots of trolls and rightwhingnutbars ranting here either. I say it, you read it, like it or leave it.

Which is probably why this guy is always ticked with me. Besides the fact he doesn't use Firefox, lacks a high speed connection (in Alberta, home of the High Speed connection services of Telus or Shaw), fails to use a pop up ad blocker.
Sorry folks but its the Libertarian Left link from Braveheart that keeps doing that. Which seems to be his biggest complaint.






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Contracting Out is a Virus

Once again hospitals that have contracted out their cleaning staff have been hit with another viral infection.

Contracting out=Norwalk virus reported at two BC hospitals



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Is God A Cosmonaut

Before there was intelligent design there was the cosmology that the universe is alive, and that it is a holographic memory of itself, therefore the origin of the original I think, therefore I am paradigm.

Since we are alive and think and we are part of the universe, the universe is always in the process of self becoming; Gnosis.

In other words the universe is god, and man being part of the universe is god. Deus est Homo. Which of course is heresy.

The gods of cosmology

Questions about why we and the universe exist are worth asking even if there are no answers

Tim Radford
Tuesday March 21, 2006
The Guardian

For the third year running, a physicist has won the Templeton prize. This is the one that is not just bigger than the Nobel - it is worth £795,000 - but also more imprecise: it is awarded for "progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities".It went on Wednesday to the cosmological polymath John Barrow at Cambridge; last year it went to the American Charles Townes, who discovered the maser; the year before it went to the South African George Ellis, whose big research theme was the large-scale structure of space and time.

Barrow made a name beyond astrophysics 20 years ago by co-authoring an argument known as the anthropic principle: that the universe looks as though it has been tailored for the emergence of intelligent life. This frames two huge riddles: is there something special about the universe that means intelligent beings will inevitably emerge to understand it? Or does it just appear like that because we look back down the long tunnel of time so of course it would seem to point exactly towards us?

Einstein put one version of the same question when he observed that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe was that it was comprehensible. The Nobel prize winner Steven Weinberg put another version when he said, in a 1977 book called The First Three Minutes, that the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. Most science involves taking a large subject and reducing it to ever smaller, more precise questions. Physics seems to start with precise questions about atomic particles or strong nuclear forces and end up with very big, imprecise ones such as: why are we here? No wonder even physicists who don't believe in God tend to invoke Him. Einstein famously claimed that God did not play dice. Stephen Hawking ended his most famous book by claiming that humans might one day read the mind of God. Leon Lederman called his book on the Higgs boson The God Particle. Others leave the divine question open; yet others overtly believe in God. This is not quite what anyone expects from science, which got where it has by firmly excluding the supernatural and following the evidence of the natural.

True but most scientists were/are deist, that is they believed/believe in Natures God. Hence Newton was an alchemist, not looking for Gold, but rather the metaphysical expressions of natures god in the elemental world.

Also see: Heresy

For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing

Intelligent Design

Dialectial Materialism

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The Voice of Reason

The Archbishop of Canterbury steps into the debate on Creationism on the side of the Angels, well the Darwinists anyways.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying that he does not believe that creationism - the Bible-based account of the origins of the world - should be taught in schools. "I think creationism is ... a kind of category mistake, as if the Bible were a theory like other theories ... if creationism is presented as a stark alternative theory alongside other theories I think there's just been a jarring of categories ... My worry is creationism can end up reducing the doctrine of creation rather than enhancing it," he said.



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Are Income Trusts Money Laundering

In an interesting article on Terrorism and money laundering, the old Hot Money contradiction of capitalism is exposed by Prem Sikka in the Guardian. Before the world worried about Bin-Laden Inc., the various American franchise states that got monies from the IMF and from drug running, and being clients of the CIA would ship their funds offshore, to banks in the Caribbean and Switzerland. Canadian banks have a reputation for having been early money laundering operations in the Caribbean. Today billions in hot money transeverses the globe and guess who profits?

What is interesting is that in all the debate in Canada about Income Trusts their role in money laundering was never brought up. Nor has the hot money/money laundering connection been made between mutual funds, international loans, or the infamous mutual fund IOS scandal that has become the modern model of both these.

The corporate scams that aid terrorist money launderers

With the advance of electronic money transfers, easy formation of companies and deregulation, money laundering has escalated to an estimated $2,500bn each year. The laissez-faire US washes about half of this laundry and Britain probably accounts for over $300bn. Secrecy is the key ingredient for this trade.

Banks have technologies to trace suspicious transactions, but profits always come first. Following a US Senate inquiry, it was alleged that General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, used British banks to launder money. There is silence from the British authorities. Of the billions stolen by General Sani Abacha, the former Nigerian dictator, at least $1.3bn turned up in 42 accounts at 23 UK banks. The British government has refused to name these banks and warn the public about their standards. Unlike Switzerland, it has failed to return any of the loot to Nigeria.

Almost every money-laundering scam reveals the use of shell companies: firms that have virtually no assets, employees, physical presence or trade, though large sums of money pass through their bank accounts. These can be formed for a few pounds and are fronted by banks, accountants and lawyers to disguise true ownership. As with other corporate vehicles, they can be owned by foreign and domestic trusts with post-office-box addresses. A recent US treasury report noted that trusts are key vehicles for disguising illicit funds. Yet there is no regulation, registration or public accountability of trusts in the UK and it is impossible to know their beneficiaries.

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Income Trusts
Corporate Welfare Bums
Criminal Capitalism
Crime



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