Share | Bookmark By Richard Fantin | Canadian Trends A new report has been released today slamming G20 police for “excessive force”. While damning, this report is a whitewash. It continues to play the “few bad apples” routine spewed after Bill Blair’s “vast criminal conspiracy” ended up being full of holes. This report makes ludicrous claims such as “the Toronto Police had trouble tracking the black bloc”, even though there is plenty of video evidence showing walls of riot police looking on while the “black bloc” destroyed property without interruptions with police screaming “disengage disengage” in the background. At the bottom of this post I will link a documentary of the G20 and you can decide...
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Nick Hanauer: TED Talks
Share | Bookmark TED and inequality: The real story Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality The Inequality Speech That TED Won’t Show You BREAKING: You Know That TED Talk You Weren’t Supposed To See? Here It Is. Here’s The Most Embarrassing Part About TED Silencing That Report On Inequality Share | Bookmark
The IMF on what caused the UK’s debt
Share | BookmarkBy Duncan Weldon | October 2011 | TouchStone Earlier this week the IMF released its Regional Economic Outlook for Europe. The press picked up on the fact that it was reiterating its call for some countries (including specifically the UK and Germany) to slow the pace of cuts if growth falters. They made the same call in the most recent World Economic Outlook and Director Christine Lagarde urged policy makers not to ‘slam on the fiscal brakes’ in an FT article back in July. Given that this isn’t a new call I thought the chart below was perhaps the most interesting bit of analysis in the report. And something I’ll be returning to in a future blog. It...
Out-of-Touch-With-Reality Politics Failing to Serve the People
Share | BookmarkContentsLiving on Welfare Tests Politician’s EnduranceHow can we, as a society, solve problems such as poverty and hunger when our government officials deny their existence? Ahead of De Schutter’s presentation, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney lashed out at De Schutter and suggested he wasted both his time and the UN’s resources by spending 11 days here. “It would be our hope that the contributions we make to the United Nations are used to help starving people in developing countries, not to give lectures to wealthy and developed countries like Canada and I think this is a discredit to the United Nations,” Kenney said, noting that Canada sends billion of dollars in food aid...
404 Diary: On Quebec’s Student Protests
Share | BookmarkContents404 Diary: May 14 2012Isn’t an Unlimited General Strike a disproportionate means of action? Online chatQuébécois authentic testimony of a student participating in the demonstration yesterday in Victoriaville, Saturday, May 5The FireFighters Association of Montréal supports the student strike404 Diary: May 14 2012 How does one start making sense of what is happening globally? Demonstrations. Protests. Occupations. Strikes. Police. Dissent. Violence. Mainstream media. Citizen media. Livestreams… Where does one begin? If we begin with the mainstream media news, the narrative is often carefully constructed to “tell a story.” Often this narrative is characterized by the identification of different, most often, conflicting sides: protesters vs. police, labour vs. management. This media framework is...