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So apparently now, if you lose your job, the Conservatives will just tell you to go suck a tail pond.
Ha!
Redford knocked for missing Mulcair visit
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/05/30/redford-knocked-for-missing-mulcair...
AND MR. MINISTER, WOULD YOU DRINK FROM THEM? (from the 'missed national headline' file)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/05/30/pol-mulcair-oilsands-al...
Well its official. According to Toronto's Globe calling the "oil sands" the tar sands is deriding it. The blatant over the top propaganda never stops in Canada.
Today in his press conference at the Alberta leg he accidentally called it the "toil" sands, then he smiled awkwardly, it was hilarious.
It will be Alberta's newest provincial park in 20 years. I can see the headlines now..
"Come splash in the pristine ponds and take ride through the bituman hills!"
Ah..."Those Old Bitumen Hills Of Home"...
Allison Redford released a video while she's at the Bilderberg meeting (in Virginia) and it's quite rude to Mulcair. I think it'll crap back on her.
Imagine having to share the wealth and protect the environment - what a bunch of whiners.
Thomas Mulcair targets Alberta for his own political gain. And it's working
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Braid+Thomas+Mulcair+targets+Alberta+political+gain+working/6712678/story.html#ixzz1wYMpH1Z3
Farnwide is usually such a hyper-partisan Liberal...I wonder if he's getting ready to throw in the towel and come over the the "sunny" side of the street?
I'm really pleased with how well the tar sands trip went. It's the sort of thing that could easily have been a disaster.
Yes, I was wondering if it was such a good idea, but Mulcair keeps impressing and pleasantly surprising me. He came off as gracious yet confirmed in his convictions, which makes the hysterical overreaction to him appear even more petty and intemperate.
She went to meet with the rulers of the world at an event that is not anything to be concerned about. Only tin hat wearing people could believe that there is anything going on at theses annual meetings so don't look here. Of course since they have been outed in the last few years they now announce the decades old event. Manufacturing consent is also about what gets talked about. imagine a MSM where the talking heads were wondering what the fuck a Premier is doing meeting with the owners of the rights to Alberta's resources as if she was one of them instead of an elected official. That is not the story no its about whether or not Alberta is being targeted for being richer than other provinces.
Here is the list of people meeting at this yearly conference. Like most conferences I am sure there is some subtle "networking" going on in hospitality suites. If these people are not conspiring to rule the world what are they doing?
http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg-2012-the-official-list-of-participants/
Danielle Smith of Wild Rose was really offensive in her reaction to Mulcair last night on P&P. She even criticized Evan Solomon for talking about the 170 square kilometers of tailings ponds in Alberta, saying that number was inflated - and Solomon responded by saying that number comes from the Alberta government's own website!
Smith went on to say Alberta doesn't criticize the eastern provinces for damming and flooding for Hydro projects, so the eastern provinces should butt out of Alberta's energy projects.
If she didn't want to ship it across my province in pipelines I might at least say she has a provincial rights argument. The tar sands require a means of getting their filthy product to market. Neither BC Hydro nor Quebec Hydro is trying to run power lines through the sovereign state oops I meant province of Alberta.
She provides a good talking point for the MSM to make sure Redmond's trip to get her "suggested" policy from the rulers of the world doesn't get reported except in passing, to prove we have a free press.
In some ways, I regret that Wildrose didn't win the Alberta election and Danielle Smith didn't become premier. She would have made a fantastic foil for Mulcair to contrast himself with and she would have fit every conceivable negative stereotype of being a far-right kook who was Canada's answer to Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann. Of course that's easy for me to say since i don't live in Alberta!
Well, it seems to me Redford is doing a pretty good job at playing the "kook". We don't need Wildrose, we have another loney tune instead.
Yeah, Danielle Smith is really extreme. I saw that last night on P&P. But Evan Solomon shot her down quite effectively.
No.... I would not have been glad if she had won.
I get your point, but we don't need any further moves to the right, or any more polarization. And providing an easier target for Mulcair (not that he needs one) would be far outweighed by the damage to her province, to those of us next to it, and to the whole of the country.
Besides, it was a great pleasure to see all those federal Harperites with their chins on the floor for once.
What the headline should say here is that the mainstream press failed. So is there anything new here?
National media coverage of the 2011 federal election was a failure
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1203278--nationa...
We can count on a few things in life - death, taxes, and that Mulcair will be attacked in the msp as long as he is in politics.
Media attacks on Thomas Mulcair escalate as NDP charges aheadhttp://www.straight.com/article-695701/vancouver/media-attacks-thomas-mu...
Interesting article addressing the paucity of real content in the media. what the article seemed afraid to admit is that not only was there little analysis and discussion of the issues -- what was there was so completely partisan that it was worse than the endless poll coverage and superficial crap. Most of what passed as substantive content was in fact packaged propaganda. If you add that idea to the article then it would be complete. The author almost went there in discussing the At Issue Panel but seemed to pull the punch at the last moment and not concede the damage of such biased reporting instead focusing on the vacuous nature of the rest of the reporting. It really was a one-two punch with both aspects being quite equal.
No it is just a list and they had it formatted properly. If you prefer to have it straight from the vultures themselves here is a link for you. The whack jobs on the right at least have their computer skills down. The couple of leftie sites I tried first didn't have good formatting so one could not easily cut and paste.
http://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2012.html
Your laissez-faire attitude to the Bilderberg is concerning. What is the point of electing a government if they just go to Bilderberg conferences and get their marching orders?
Say goodbye to the nation-state
Here we go again.
Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair rejects complaints that his caucus is anti-Israel
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/federal-ndp-le...