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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Third Part. "The New Fascism" in Canada and the We |
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:14 pm
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| I have just finished reading F. A. Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom. Hayek, an advocate for traditional liberalism, argued that the direction socialism was taking with its centralized planning threatened both freedom and respect for individualism and could lead to fascism as he believed it did in Ge... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Hillary: 'Global competition' hurting rural America |
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:28 pm
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Replies: 14
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| One of Hillary Clinton's biggest problems is that her positions are usually based on what appears to be an anti-Canadianism rather than facts (remember that she blamed Canada for 9/11!!!!). I just returned from a trip across Canada and discovered that I could not buy in season Canadian produce in an... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Keeping Canadian Terror in Perspective |
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Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 12:23 pm
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Replies: 38
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| It is evident from some of the comments here that extremism takes many forms. While the entire situation does raise questions, extremism and prejudice does not reflect my Canadian values. This kind of irresponsible language reflects what drives the angry, immature, and unstable to commit acts of vio... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Jean Told Not To Visit Troops In Afghanistan |
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Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:13 pm
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Replies: 5
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| The security required for such visits to the troops cost a great deal. There is no political advantage for the government to have the Governor-General visit. They are concentrating on their photo-ops with the troops to try to win political points. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Troops Told Geneva Rules Don't Apply To Taliban |
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Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:55 am
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Replies: 50
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| This seems to be setting a dangerous precedent. The Taliban were the governing faction in Afghanistan when the coalition invaded. Since one of the purposes of the invasion was "regime change" the Taliban government, or at least some of it, was replaced. Now the claim is being made that the... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Barlow’s Canada |
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 7:51 pm
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| There is no ideology more "statist" and elitist than 21st century right wing ideology. In this form of capitalism which goes by many names, one being corportocracy, the state is operated by and for the capitalist. Our lives are controlled by a series of oligopolies: in industries such petr... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: U.S. interests with their collaborators seek to take over Ca |
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:07 pm
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| Do you think that the powers behind such an idea would post the question in those terms? Look how we fell for the so-called "free trade deal" thinking that all it meant was an abandonment of tariffs. Did we know what we were accepting? This idea fits perfectly with the deep integration tha... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: U.S. interests with their collaborators seek to take over Ca |
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:20 pm
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| It seems to me this concept is anti-democratic because its purpose is to place the power to control laws and regulations in the hand of unelected bodies whose objectives are self-interest. It is just another example of the push towards a system of corpotocracy. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Is The Media Picking on Our Prime Minister? |
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 6:13 pm
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Replies: 20
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| I certainly have not been one to accept the media uncritically. In fact, there is no doubt that those who work in the media have the same kinds of biases as the rest of us. Someone once told me that most dislike all politicians and are biased against politicians in general. The question with Harper ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Reporters Boycott PM's News Conference |
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 5:58 pm
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Replies: 16
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| "Harper is just refusing to give them ammo by not letting them have the opportunity to trip him up. I feel most here facing a hostile reporter would do the same, were the shoe on the other foot." The problem is that no one here is the Prime Minister. If he could't stand the heat why get in... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Public-Private Partnerships |
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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:16 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 158
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| In many ways a public private partnership is the privatization of public infrastructure through a partnership arrangement between a company and government. The private partner becomes the owner while the government gets to use it for public purposes at a specified cost. For example, a private develo... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Public-Private Partnerships |
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:12 pm
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| Ed, my first reaction to this was similar to yours. However, when I read it through much of it reflects my own thinking. While he apparently looks at the issue from an anti-government bias much of what he presents could be used as an anti-corporate tirade as well. Whether the blame should fall on go... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: South America Moves Left |
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:21 pm
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Replies: 9
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| This is not a "racial" issue and to reduce it to that is a distortion. Disadvantaged minority "racial" groups have been a focus of the left making them more visible but there are huge segments of the racial majorities that have been just as marginalized economically. It is an eco... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canada At War.... |
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:06 pm
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Replies: 3
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| You are right it is selfish. I don't like to see my money being spent to enrich the military supply industry. Those who support these wars are advocates of self-interested individualism so I am not sure why they should see anything wrong with my opposition. Freedom, peace, and liberty are all empty ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Games Harper Plays |
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Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:48 am
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Replies: 17
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| Harper is constanting working to redefine the question. He has a low opinion of the intelligence of the public and believes that they will buy the concept that we live in a military dictatorship where it is the generals who make the decisions not the politicians. While dishonest, it does work on tho... |
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