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Letter to Senator Chambliss (R-Ga) who voted yes to bailout
This letter was mailed from U.S.-Canadian Libertarian and Ron Paul supporter Heather Saarela to Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga) Who Voted Yes to Bailout. I believe this bill is NOT treating a symptom of the problem as you say. This bill is more of how we got into the problems we’re currently in. It is applying the same band-aids to an already gushing wound postponing an even greater threat to our economy and the dollar and Congressmen like you seem not to…
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A spoonful of tax-cut sugar makes the bailout medicine go down
A few minutes ago the US congress passed what may be the biggest swindle in US economic history. The bailout of the US finance sector comes to even more than the $700 billion previously announced. Some estimates put it closer to $800 billion when factoring in additional corporate and personal tax cuts. The bailout comes after days of debate about the proposed nature of the plan, with some on the libertarian right claiming meddlesome government intervention caused the crisis, and other…
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25 Reasons to defeat Stephen Harper: Add your own now
Partial and revised list from Don Weitz. Add your own reasons or make up your own list and circulate far-and-wide a.s.a.p.: 167,500 jobs in Canada lost since Harper in power 2 1/2 years ago. (source; Toronto Star) 2 Initiated & passed huge tax cuts for Canadian corporations. Refused to eliminate the GST, cut by only 2 percentage points. Refused to sign Kelowna Accord that would provide $500 million dollars + for First Nation reserves - flush toilets, new affordable & decent…
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Lesley Hughes audio interview
(Alert #98, October 2nd, 2008) Lesley Hughes fights back, defending herself against charges of anti-semitism. Roger Rashid (Montreal) and Dennis Pilon (University of Victoria) provide election insights from the Left. Dennis Howlett, executive director of the Make Poverty History Campaign looks at how poverty is being addressed in this election. Music is the Weapon profiles The Duhks. Download this episode (27.3 MB)
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In Defence of Lesley Hughes
“I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Evelyn Beatrice Hall Liberal politicians and journalists would have done well to remember these weighty words of enlightenment philosophy when they dismissed and attacked Lesley Hughes. Instead, political pillars of free speech and debate have been replaced by narrow electioneering and name-calling. Lesley Hughes is a brave and honest woman. She is a thoughtful and respected journalist and someone who has spent…
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Pakistani refugees pour into Afghanistan
(NYT. By John F. Burns. Sept. 29, 2008.) KABUL, Afghanistan — United Nations officials said Monday that fighting arising from a Pakistani military crackdown in one of the semiautonomous tribal districts on Pakistan’s tense border with Afghanistan had driven 20,000 Pakistanis to flee as refugees into Afghanistan. The exodus from the Bajaur tribal agency into Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan echoed earlier waves of war-driven migration across the border, but in the opposite direction. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in…
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Lesley Hughes responds
(By Lesley Hughes) Six years ago, I wrote a column which examined evidence that the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan may have been motivated by the drive for oil and drug profits. As background, I reported that the intelligence agencies of Germany, Israel and Russia all warned the CIA that the attacks of Sept. 11 were coming, a fact also reported in the London Telegraph, the Jerusalem Post, and on Fox News. I noted that the U.S. disregarded the warnings, but Israeli…
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Shawn Brant Freed, Mohawks Still Waiting
Statement from the Tyendinaga Support Committee Today, in a Belleville court, a conviction for three counts of mischief was entered against Mohawk spokesperson Shawn Brant for his role in the CN rail line and Highway 401 blockades which took place in April and June, 2007. Brant has been ordered to stay on the Tyendinaga reserve for three months and to be on probation for one year. Originally, the Crown had been asking for 12 years in jail for Brant. While Shawn…
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The Subprime Primer
Click HERE to see one person’s hilarous take on the financial crisis. (The link is a legitimate PowerPoint download, so not to worry.)
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Let’s play “Wallstreet Bailout”
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