It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way (K.Marx, Letter to F.Engels on the Indian Mutiny)
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Mad Bull
BSE confirmed in Alberta bull BSE case #9.
Again from Alberta; preliminary findings suggest the bull was born and raised in Alberta.
Which is because of this;The Real Story of Alberta's BSE Crisis
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Anti-Intellectual Tories
Well its the same argument John Baird used in the House yesterday justifying cuts to environmental research in Canada.
Northern Climate Exchange
Mr. Speaker, the greatest impact of climate change in the world is on Canada's Arctic.
The Conservatives have claimed they are now finally concerned about the impacts of climate change, but on March 31 the government will close the Northern Climate Exchange which does important tracking and research both nationally and internationally. Why is the government again turning its back on the north?
There is still time for the minister to reverse his ridiculous decision. Will he commit to do that today?
Mr. Speaker, the government recognizes the importance to act on greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change is having a huge effect not just on Canada, but particularly in our Arctic.
However, this government believes that the time has finished to talk about things, to study things, to reach into promoting things. The time has come to act. That is why this government is taking real action on climate change reduction. We introduced equal energy initiatives, more energy efficiency and more clean energy.
The Reform/Alliance/Conservative party has always had a bee in its bonnet about academic research, along with their pals in the National Citizens Coalition (NCC), Harpers former employer.
When they were in opposition MP John Williams published an annual review of government waste, which often focused on humanities research grants to academics.
And now they are the New Government in Canada they refuse to fund academic research that conflicts with their social conservative agenda.
When the Tories take 'action' it results in cuts to vital ongoing research.
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Correction Child Care For Seniors
Mr. Speaker, as the Leader of the Opposition knows, the government has been investing in areas of core federal responsibility like national defence, international trade, security and direct assistance for Canadian families.
On the other hand, it is interesting to note what the Leader of the Opposition wants to do. He wants to kill pension income splitting for seniors. He wants to repeal our tax cuts, including the GST cut. He votes against anti-crime legislation. He wants to take away the child care benefit from seniors, to scrap the softwood lumber agreement, to rip up military contracts and all the benefits to Canadian firms in all regions. We do not want to go back.
Apparently in Harpers New Canada only seniors are having children. Wow biotechnology sure has come a long ways.
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Tories Promote Lung Cancer
The most common form of cancer associated with smoking is lung cancer. And women suffer from lung cancer more than men.
And women and girls smoke more than men and boys.
Remember this; Oda insists her government will instead fund organizations and programs she says more directly affect women.
I guess that explains why the Tories gave a half million they saved from cuts to the Status of Women to Big Tobacco.
After all cigarette smoking directly affects women.
And they could say they were promoting women in politics;
Sources said the break -- worth about $500,000 -- is aimed at the constituency of Immigration Minister Diane Finley, who is thought to be in some danger of losing the next election.
Yes, I know I could have said this was classic pork barrel politics but Olaf said it so much better.
And the Tories are once again on message;
"It's an issue of tax fairness," said Dan Miles, communications director for Mr. Flaherty.
We all know what that means.
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Firefox 2
Released last October I only just upgraded to Firefox 2 yesterday when Google notified me that an upgrade was available.
And wow what a difference.
It includes spell check, which really helps me out, as folks have commented on my spelling, and it works automatically, in my email, my blog, when I post to Canada Blog Exchange, wow I was impressed.
Then my system shut down and it retrieved and restored my settings, including this blog posting when I opened Firefox again.
It includes a Google search bar, and when you click to open a new site it posts it in the tab bar rather than in a new window. IE7 ain't got nothing on this.
What we do care for, and where IE7 can’t compete, is innovative features. The live bookmarks, which bring Web feeds into the bookmarks folder, now get live titles as well. These add live micro-summaries to previously static bookmark titles, which can show the latest news headlines or blog posts, for example.
Like many of the new features, session restore used to be available as a third-party extension but is now built in. This enables the browser to restore all current tabs should the browser shut down abnormally — a lifesaver with multisite browsing and sadly missing from IE7. As is the integrated inline spellchecking that works in a similar, squiggly underline fashion as Word but is active in Web forms, forums and blog posts. Tab handling has improved in Firefox 2, with all labels now having a minimum size to ensure descriptions are readable no matter how many are open, before becoming scrollable when the screen is full. Also, if you close a tab by accident, you can now restore it with a single click.
The graph shows that, over the last week or two, Firefox 2 uptake has finally overtaken Firefox 1.5 usage. This appears to be quite an accurate assumption since Firefox's user base has traditionally been considerably more tech savvy and, further, the upgrade to Firefox was not forced on users. Hence, user uptake of the new browser appears to be much more enthusiastic than the uptake of IE7,
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Strange Bedfellows
Wal-Mart, Unions Unite on Health Care
This united front of business and labour are calling for universal health care. But it is not Canadian style single payer universal medicare.
Joining Wal-Mart Stores Inc. CEO Lee Scott and Service Employees International Union leader Andrew Stern at a Washington press conference were top executives from Intel Corp., AT&T Inc. and Kelly Services Inc., a temporary staffing agency.
The partnership of business and union leaders laid out four main goals, including universal health-care coverage for all Americans and boosting the value of every U.S. dollar spent on health care. The business and union leaders' coalition, dubbed "Better Health Care Together," pledged to convene a national summit by the end of May to recruit others from the private sector, labor, government and non-profits.
If the environment is Canada's top election issue, Health care is going to be the issue in the next U.S. Presidential election.
But will any of the candidates endorse a single payer system like we have in Canada?
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Nortel Slash & Burn
Since the nineties Nortel has been cutting its workforce and shipping jobs off shore, 56,000 workers cut, and it still has not gotten it out of its fiscal spiral downwards. Why should this be any different.
Nortel to slash 2900 jobs in latest cost-cutting
Nortel Networks Corp.
The layoffs are the latest in a series of cost-cutting moves made by Chief Executive Officer Mike Zafirovski since he took over the beleaguered company in November of 2005. Since the collapse of the telecom and “dot com” markets in 2001-2,
Nortel has cut more than 60,000 jobs.
As usual let's look at how much the guy at the top makes while his company bottoms out and he slashes jobs.
Nortel Networks Corp.(1) | Zafirovski, Mike | $37,429,297 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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And the reason for Nortel's collapse was not productivity nor the crash of the dot.com bubble but criminal capitalism.
Nortel CFO Leaves (Again)
Nortel chief financial officer Peter Currie is stepping down this spring to take on "new challenges."
The company announced Tuesday that Mr. Currie will be stepping down on April 30 of this year, although he will continue to provide advice to the company to ensure a smooth transition.
Currie took over the CFO chair one year ago to help Nortel recover from several years of financial scandals and mismanagement. Between February 1999 and April 2004, two of the three men who held the title of Nortel CFO were fired for cause.See
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Where's Janke Now
I wonder if Steve Janke, Angry In The Great White North, will find some way to link this cocaine bust to Turner crossing to the Liberals and thus to Dion.
Like he did the last cocaine bust of Liberal supporter in B.C.
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Garths New Weblog Banner
Garth Turners new weblog banner which sounds suspiciously like Hillary Clinton's campaign slogan; "Let the conversation begin!,"
Note the Dion green background, not really Green more like pale green. But not teal. Nope definitely not teal.
And he is no longer principled or independent.
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Not PM Material
Here it was the official anniversary of the Conservatives wining the election last year, and the PM was reviewing his accomplishments and announcing his new five point election platform and he gets undercut by Garth and Stephane.
All the news focused on Turner becoming a Liberal. Including in the blogosphere.
Whereas Stephens New Government of Canada Redux speech got lost in the media wash over Turner. Including in the blogosphere.
And Harper was supposed to be the master strategist. To bad it wasn't true this time, so sad.
And Turner did it again today challenging Harper to call by elections. Which will make the news again.
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Gore Quote
Hon. John Baird (Minister of the Environment, CPC):
--Canada, once again providing leadership in the world, fighting above its weight class and showing moral authority to the rest of the world. That's what Canada's known for. |
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Child Care for Seniors
In response to a question from Liberal Leader Stephane Dion in QP, PM Harper rattled off the programs his government has instituted since last year when they were elected.
Which included "the Child Care Credit for Seniors" he said.
See I told you their universal child care benefit was for baba sitting.
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Joined At The Hip
Scary picture at the Canadian Club in Ottawa yesterday.
PM Stephen Harper presents his new election platform, another Five Point Platform.
Beside him, not a Minister, not a Senator, but none other than General Rick Hillier.
These two are like peas in a pod.
Joined at the hip.
Like Roy Rogers and Trigger. Trigger...happy.
Despite the talk about the environment, the fiscal imbalance or even tax cuts we know which priority is number one for our Macho PM; Afghanistan. After all it was his first photo op mission abroad, and war making is not a tough decision for either of these warmongers.
And Harper is calling for an "assertive" foreign policy, by boosting the strength of the military, as well as continuing reconstruction and the fight against terror in Afghanistan. Harper says his government will table a comprehensive report in Parliament summarizing Canada's role in Afghanistan and announcing the next steps in its participation there.
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Free Labour = Free Of Unions
Alberta's highly touted free trade agreement with B.C. is "a wolf in sheep's clothing," says the head of the Alberta Federation of Labour. Gil McGowan is warning other provinces that the Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement, dubbed TILMA, "is not all sweetness and light."
But McGowan says union lawyers fear the deal will give companies the right to sue municipal and provincial governments and school boards that try to bring privatized services under the public umbrella.
He's also concerned the deal will result in a "dumbing down" of Alberta rules for trades training.
Liberal critic Bill Bonko says the deal should have been debated in the legislature if it was so good, rather than being negotiated behind closed doors.
But Jason Clemens of the Fraser Institute raves about the deal, saying the Yukon, Saskatchewan, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces are keen on it.
"This really could be a domino effect across the country to remove or dramatically reduce trade barriers," he said.
Also see: Legal advice on TILMA
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This is a provincial agreement that was drafted to meet the open corridor polices of NAFTA and the new North American Union proposed under the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) which will be discussed by the Three Amigos this summer in Kananaskis.
And it fits in with the agenda of the Harpocrites in Ottawa and their business cronies who are promoting this policy as well as the increased use of temporary workers.
The $10-billion plan to help manufacturing compete globallyAnd let's not forget who Harper put in charge as Minister of Human Resources.
Expand the temporary foreign worker program to make it easier to hire non-Canadians when there are no domestic citizens available.Although governments can only influence manufacturers' success to a certain degree, the industry believes Ottawa could be doing much more to help.
The sector's wish list includes lower corporate income taxes, the elimination of provincial trade barriers, more investment in skills, and broader tax credits for industrial training and corporate research.
And there is a Conservative former MLA and anti-union candidate running in former Conservative MP John Williamson's federal riding here. After all Alberta has the worst labour laws in Canada. And is home to the Right To Work Movement which was once headed by Conservative MP Rob Anders.
As Jean Charest once said, back when he was leader of the Federal PC's, "Alberta sets the agenda for Canada."
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Capitalism Caps Tarsands Expansion
Capitalism will take care of that.....for a while... until oil prices go up again....
Low bids stymie Petrocan oil sands auction
But with the price of oil down more than 20 per cent from a peak in 2006, passion for the oil sands has lessened, in part because of the high cost of developing projects in northeastern Alberta.
Interest in the oil sands can vary from week to week. On Jan. 10, the Alberta government said exploration rights for about 200,000 hectares of oil sands territory generated $134-million. Two weeks later, oil sands rights raised only $500,000 for less than 6,000 hectares. Another sale will be announced Wednesday, which is expected to attract more interest, as are more sales in March.
Another Fire Sale of Alberta's resources, with a 25 year exemption on Royalties!!!
Lougheed was right we need a plan for expansion of the oil sands, but that is not likely to happen as this is the same government that sold off its assets like liquor stores, highway construction, etc. at fire sale prices.
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Where's That Damn Calculator
The session, Ed Stelmach's first as premier, was originally slated to begin in the last week of February. But the date is now being pushed back to March 7 to give the government more time to prepare. The delay comes less than three weeks after finance minister Lyle Oberg admitted the 2007 budget would not be ready until April, rather than March, as is the norm.Apparently the session will be delayed because he is counting all the billions on his fingers and toes.
No big deal they do all the real business in Cabinet. After all the only deficit in Alberta is a democratic deficit.
The May 2006 report Fiscal Surplus, Democratic Deficit by the University of Alberta's Parkland Institute, not only correctly predicts this year's actual surplus, it also points out that the Alberta government has been wrong in its revenue projections for at least the last thirteen years.For more on Alberta's democratic deficit see Daveberta's review of Kevin Tafts new book democracy derailed.
More specifically, the report calculates that in each of the last six years, the government has underestimated revenues by an average of $4.3 billion per year.
This attitude was confirmed by Mr. Klein last fall when he told the media that the unbudgeted surplus was none of the legislature's business. Given Alberta's track record in budgeting, what the premier was saying was that the legislature should have no say in how to spend 20 to 25 per cent of the province's revenue.
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Poll Predicts War On Iran
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
PC=Liberals
Well that settles that. We now know what 'progressive' means when Liberals and Liberalbloggers use it. Small p for progressive, small c for conservative.
The Big Red Tent is home for Red Tory's; Turner, Stronach, Brison.
I look forward to Garth blogging at Liberalbloggers and Progressive Bloggers since he was unceremoniously kicked off the Blogging Tories several months ago.
Of course it won't be the same old principled independent Garth of the past year because he has agreed to abide by caucus and party solidarity, Dion said so. Well maybe, I couldn't see Garths hands he may have had his fingers crossed when he said Yes, when asked by reporters.
And while there are few tears being shed over at the Blogging Tories, well lets just say they are the hardline right.
And while Garth may be a maverick, his sharp knife jabs at Harper and the Conservative party, at the press conference, claiming they abandoned their PC and Reform roots for the politics of fear, well that says a lot.
The centrist politics of the Dion Liberals bodes ill for the Harpocrites. After all as Garth said his choice was Liberals or Green. NDP never crossed his lips.
So folks if ya want to really be progressive and not just PC well then ya gotta move left.
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Groupthink
They suffer from the same kind of groupthink and conspiracy theories.
Its not denial they say, it's debate they want, the facts are not irrefutable, there is evidence to the contrary.
For a long time Bradley Smith has tried to present himself as an honest chap, a champion of intellectual freedom simply seeking an "open debate"about the "holocaust controversy [sic]." But this debate is a sham. The so-called holocaust controversy does not exist. It is the invention of a collection of long-time anti-Semites and apologists for Hitler.
On the surface, Holocaust deniers portray themselves as individuals and groups engaged in a legitimate, dispassionate quest for historical knowledge and "truth."
Dressing themselves in pseudo-academic garb, they have adopted the term "revisionism" in order to mask and legitimate their enterprise. After all, the ongoing challenge to and revision of previously accepted historical interpretation is one of the hallmarks of the professional historian's craft.
Of course most holocaust deniers are right wing kooks that even other right wingers disavow or do they? Not so. Once upon a time they had powerful business backers, and in many cases still do today.
Like Robert Welch Jr. who founded the John Birch Society. Today the Birchites focus their criticism on immigration, legal or illegal and the UN. There are many in a variety of right wing movements, like the Minutemen, whose roots go back to the sixties and the World Anti-Bolshevik Movement which gave succour to post WWII fascists.
The right wing is inundated with conspiracy theorists, holocaust deniers and neo-fascists. And ideological differences aside they are part of the 'mainstream' right, they are backed by private business interests and the tactics they have developed over fifty years of lobbying in the United States remain the same.
Because they are effective. Deny that your opponents have evidence, claim something is a theory, not a fact and viola, their views are challenged for there creditability.
Thus the same argumentative tactic used to deny the holocaust is used to deny evolution and used to deny climate change. It is groupthink on the right. And the argumentative style does not change, the subject of the attack does.
And it is always tinged with conspiracy theory, that the scientific or historical facts are being foisted on us because it is consensus reality, consensus of those in power it is not the 'real thing'.
So all the historians that accept the holocaust are establishment historians not 'real' historians. Scientists that accept evolution or global warming are not 'real' scientists.
The only place that a climate change science consensus exists is in what Essex and McKitrick call 'Official Science', the collective voice of governments and other so-called 'science authorities'. But this is not real science.
The Climate Change Deniers have money and powerful connections they have used to discredit their opponents, in this case other scientists and academics. And sometimes do so to end careers, literally terrifying their opponents into silence. Certainly a form of fascism.
"There is a strategy to single out individuals, tarnish them and try to bring the whole of the science into disrepute," he says. "And Kevin [Trenberth] is a likely target." Mann agrees that the scientists behind the upcoming IPCC report are in for a rough ride. "There is already an orchestrated campaign against the IPCC by climate change contrarians," he says.Many of the IPCC's authors, some of whom asked not to be named, say this is a smokescreen. They claim there is an extensive network of lobby groups and scientists involved in making the case against the IPCC and its reports. Automobile, coal and oil companies have coordinated and funded past attacks on them, the scientists say. Sometimes this has been done through Washington lobby groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), whose officers include Myron Ebell, a former climate negotiator for George W. Bush's administration. Recently, the CEI made television advertisements arguing against climate change, one of which ended with the words: "Carbon dioxide, they call it pollution, we call it life." CEI's past funders include ExxonMobil, General Motors and the Ford Motor Company.
The money trail
Some sceptical scientists are funded directly by industry. In July, The Washington Post published a leaked letter from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA), an energy company based in Colorado, that exhorted power companies to support the work of the prominent sceptic Pat Michaels of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Worried about the potential cost of cleaning up coal-fired power plants to reduce their CO2 emissions, IREA's general manager, Stanley Lewandowski, wrote: "We believe that it is necessary to support the scientific community that is willing to stand up against the alarmists... In February this year, IREA alone contributed $100,000 to Dr Michaels."
The Fraser Institutes response to the IPCC report was a long time in the making, and a coordinated effort between them and the anti-climate change lobby, the flat earthers, in the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. And the organizations, front groups really, are all interconnected.
It was planned years ago, as new front organizations sprung up over the past three years in preparation for the IPCC report. While the Fraser Institute like its American counter-part the Cato Institute have existed since the seventies, groups like Canada's Natural Resources Stewardship Project, and the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition are all relatively new lobbying groups. Even the older Friends of Science. was only created in 2002.
The push was on by the right and their big business backers when they saw the writing on the wall after Kyoto was signed. One faction of capitalism endorsed Kyoto, another was ambivalent, and a handful, but a powerful handful, vehmently opposed Kyoto.
Having lost the war they now engage in a protracted series of battles to attempt to inundate doubt in the public mind, using fronts like Junk Science.com and Fox News, various assorted right wing media mouthpieces in Canada, Europe and America. They know they have lost, but if in anyway they can hold back radical changes required to deal with the heat death of the planet, to save their industries they will. Victory to them is to delay change.
And they will never go away, another issue will come to the fore that they can delay, attack, undermine, and deny. And the consipiratorial politics of denial will once again be used.
The Right Wing exposes the Janus nature of the ruling class. One face appeals to the public as liberal, seeking to ameliorate the worst excesses of capitalism, the other jingoist, nativist, reactionary seeks to dominate through demagoguery and populism. One is enlightened capitalism the other is fascism. Both are false choices.
The alternative is, as it has always been for the past one hundred years, Barbarism or Socialism.
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Echo Chamber
Here we have more of the same echo chamber of the Flat Earth society of climate change deniers quoting each other without referencing they belong to the same old boys club.
For instance we get this right wing column in the London Free Press, a Quebecor/Sun newspaper,
Kyoto penalizes those trying to do good
The not-so-green cynics at the Small Dead Animals blogsite have dubbed Suzuki's tour, Flakes on a Plane, and worry about the amount of emissions-spewing fossil fuels Suzuki himself will burn up by the time his tour wraps up in Victoria.
Cynics? Cynics? Rightwhingnutbars is more like it. But of course this columnist is a member of the SDA fan club so he puts them in a charitable light.
And we have this report published in the Canadian Free (sic) Press
Asking the right questions about climate change
And the folks asking those right questins are
The Natural Resources Stewardship Project (NRSP), a Canadian non-profit group, including a number of leading climate change sceptics, was launched October 12, 2006.
And they quote their pals in the Fraser Institute. As I pointed out here when they quote each other they fail to say they all belong to the same small circle of friends. Which is journalistically and intellectually dishonest, to say the least.
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