The death of the middle class is due to a very conscious, four decade class war, known as neoliberalism. (See Chomsky, Profits Over People, and, Requiem For The American Dream. See also, The Crisis of Democracy, the very first publication of the Trilateral Commission.) Offshoring of production, or corporate globalization,
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper’s War On The Middle Class
Continues apace. A shortage of skilled workers is the biggest challenge many Canadian businesses face today, Employment Minister Jason Kenney told a skills summit Wednesday, warning it could also jeopardize Canada’s economic development in the future. The problem would continue to grow as the population ages, Kenney told the one-day
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Corcoran Misses The Point On Income Disparity
On CBC’s “The House” this weekend, I heard an interview with the Financial Post’s Terrance Corcoran, in which he was basically poo-pooing the very real issue of the growing disparity between Canada’s top earners and the rest of Canadians. He made a comparison between a pensioner pulling in $20,000 a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The American Entitlement Paradox
It makes it easier to run a society when you can get the poor people to fight amongst themselves rather than organize against the real problem. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Class Warfare, funny-sad, US Society
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Chris Hedges Call for Revolt
Writer, war correspondent, religious scholar, Chris Hedges has become increasingly radicalized over the past dozen or so years although he would argue it’s society that has truly changed, particularly through the influence of religious fundamentalism and the capture of political power by the forces of corporatism. Whatever the balance of
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Canadian Class Warfare
Michael Valpy — whose new address seems to be the Toronto Star — writes that Canadians are becoming markedly intolerant of one another — and Stephen Harper is reaping the political benefits: What we have are profound, systemic demographic divisions of age and education that aren’t going to go
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Neoliberal Privatizing of School-yard Play
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into Recess This is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have a class division for families outside the school yard between the haves and the have-nots? Do we have to commodify
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Neoliberal Privatizing of School-yard Play
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into Recess This is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have a class division for families outside the school yard between the haves and the have-nots? Do we have to commodify
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Neoliberal Privatizing of School-yard Play
Capitalism Reaches its Ugly Claw into RecessThis is appalling: capitalist invasion by way of neoliberal privatising of playtime at recess and noon. Isn’t it bad enough that we have a class division for families outside the school yard between the…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Right Will Howl Tonight
Income inequality seems to have sprung up as a hot issue in the American elections. With a consummate rent-seeker, Mitt Romney, carrying the Republican banner, America’s crippling inequality – income, wealth and opportunity – was bound to bubble to the surface. Today’s American Right (no, they’re not conservatives) has reacted
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: North America’s North Koreans
When I see Tea Party rank and file interviewed on television I’m often struck by how thoroughly indoctrinated they are. They’re sort of the white bread equivalent of North Koreans only obviously much better fed. They’ve been taught things that they come to firmly believe and it seems they’re programmed
Continue readingSure. Private-sector involvement in police work. | #areyououtofyourfuckingminds
Via a helpful reader, one of the most disturbing things I’ve seen this week: I don’t know Joe Couto, and I’m sure he’s a perfectly decent guy in real life, but this is on behalf of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police. How many ways do you want this
Continue readingSaskboy and Jymn rub The Globe’s nose in #RoboCon | #cdnpoli
RoboCon: Journalism Failure at the Globe – UPDATED | Saskboy’s Abandoned Stuff: “And what’s the reason that John Ibbitson, a professional journalist for a national newspaper, treats Giorno with so much respect and kid-gloves that he talks him up as some sort of non-lying politician, while a nobody blogger in
Continue readingOnce again, time to play … Let’s hear from another Sun reader!
Source here. Strictly speaking, I have doubts about the authenticity, as this guy can actually spell. Related posts: Electro-Motive: Foreign corporation takes Canadian tax dollars, fucks over Canadian workers | #cdnpoli The Sun’s effect on our national conversation is obvious, but what about the Globe? BCL catches @SueAnnLevy rewriting history,
Continue readingElectro-Motive: Foreign corporation takes Canadian tax dollars, fucks over Canadian workers | #cdnpoli
… while Harper’s thumb stays firmly planted up his ass. Montreal Simon and Owen Gray have already flagged this, so I can’t really add much. But hey, I could be wrong, so please — let me know if I’ve left anything out. Related posts: Liberals, NDP, whoever. I don’t care
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Americans Waking Up to Class Warfare, Find Themselves Under Attack
This could just be what the corporatist Right fears most; the American public realizing there’s a class war underway and they’ve been taking fire. If the American people get in a mood to counterattack, the forces of corporatism and their rightwing political minions could be in a very bad way.
Continue readingLiberals, NDP, whoever. I don’t care what we call them | #cdnpoli
The Tyee – This Year, Put the Country Ahead of the Party: ” … with the election of Stephen Harper, everything changed. No prime minister in Canadian history has come to power with such a ruthless determination to implement an agenda so at odds with the interests of the country
Continue readingOh, and while we’re busy demonizing the #Occupy movement … | #classwarfare #cdnpoli
Daily Kos: I See What Occupy Vancouver Did There…And It’s Brilliant: ‘via Blog this’ At the Daily Kos, Ed Murray shines the light of reason on the corporate media’s theme-O-the-week: The media’s latest attempt to undercut the message of Occupy movements all across the globe is by touting the “cost”
Continue readingFiscal demonization of @OccupyTO continues on CTV | #classwarfare
Like clockwork, the corporate media are swinging into action. Or perhaps like robots. Either way, the narrative is being reinforced and amplified. Just now on CTV a “news” report is pegging the cost of Occupy at something over $714,000. Police, EMS, landscaping, etc. Cue the manufactured resentment and the divide-and-conquer
Continue readingHow The Globe channels the 1 per cent | #Occupy #classwarfare
Managing Occupy protest cost city $1-million, city says – The Globe and Mail: ‘via Blog this’ It’s masquerading as “objective” “news,” but in fact it’s anything but. Note how Canada’s National Fishwrap steers the discourse: the whole story is about how much money the city of Vancouver had to spend
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