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This week I learned of the new movie WON'T BACK DOWN, which they are saying is anti-union and anti-teacher. It's (apparently, because I hae not yet seen it) propaganda in a wide release Hollywood movie, against the public school system, which would mean further promotion of "voucher" and "charter" schools that benefit business and spell the slow eroding of public eduction, which is essential to a democratic system, last I heard.
And who are the stars of this film? Maggie Gyllenhaal, who comes from an old leftie family, and the African-American star Viola Davis. And how do they justify being in such a movie? That I do not know, but they have been working up a rap, for sure.
There is money to promote this as a controversy the "people" will join with the film on. Outside the Regal Union Square, one of NYC's biggest cinemplexes, they had flacks asking people who'd seen WON'T BACK DOWN to mail off postcards they obligingly provided to show their support -- of fighting against teachers unions.
Granted, US teachers' unions may not be great engines of progress, but smashhing the unions means one thing: opposing the interests of working people in favor of "free enterprise", or in other words, profit over human needs. And after several documentaries which covertly undermined the teachers' union cause, now comes a big feature film.
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Thanks for that.
In Canada, education is under attack in all kinds of ways.
Better news:
Omar Khadr returned to Canada this past Saturday, after a decade in Guantanamo Bay.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird basically said Canada had no choice but to take him back.
Well DUH!
I hope President Obama told you to do it over the phone last Friday!
Fuck what idiots these Tories are...
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Better late than never.
Man's inhumanity to man is on full display in the 21st century. Where is the human progress?
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Speaking of man's inhumanity, guess what Conservative MP Rob Anders let fly out of his filthy sewer?
He said that Thomas Mulcair helped to kill Jack Layton.
Yes, you heard right.
You remember Rob Anders? The Tory MP who likes to doze off and nod out in the House of Commons?
The one who was removed from the Veterans Committee because he fell asleep at a meeting in Halifax and slandered homeless veterans?
Rob issued a quick written apology to Olivia Chow, Jack's widow. She told Anders he should sponsor her in the race for cancer. (PEREFCT!!!!)
Why Stephen Harper will not fire this shithead Rob Anders is beyond me. Actually it's not.
Anders is cut from the same arrogant and oblivious Calgary Cloth.
Anders said he watched the opposition front benches before last years election (a lie- fucker was never awake) and he noticed that Tom Mulcair was pressuring Jack not to run in the election, that he should step aside. Anders said Jack ran in the election, and died.
All because of Tom Mulcair.
RIGHT.
And John Baird was in New York yesterday, at the UN, barking about how the UN never gets results.
Neither do you John.
Neither do you or your retarded corporate con-men friends.
With assholes like Baird and Anders, who needs an enemy? I'm utterly embarassed that turds like those two are Canadian. And are in a Majority Government.
Wake me when the nightmare is over.
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Canadians who are switched-on should know that Stephen Harper has a few "tactics" that he employs when he is in deep shit.
One of those tactics is "stay out of the newspapers".
He never reads them anyway, but his name has not been in the papers much lately, and not because of the summer break that just happened.
Canadians should notice this.
Harper knows what it means to "be in power but never be seen wielding it".
His reputation as a control freak is tempered with this eerie desire of his to seem aloof and teflon-Don.
He wants total control over anything that he cannot control, and when it suits his needs, he'll appear to relinquish that power, all by staying out of the papers and off the nightly news.
His pesky Conservative caucus members on the other hand....THEY are in the papers every damn day.
How much of a mindfuck is Harper's government?
You can't even calculate it. It's like Tipper Gore on meth, Mitt Romney without his awesome charisma. LOL
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RE: Omar Khadr
Tongues are wagging long and lean here in Canada over the return of Omar Khadr from Gitmo.
So many people who think he belongs in a U.S. jail indefinitely. After all, it was the Americans who arrested him, who saw him throw a grenade that killed an American soldier.
It's a little more complex than that.
If anybody looked at his case for more than two seconds they would see that his background is tragic.
He is pulling out all the stops to be educated and to become a contributing member of Canadian society.
I've discussed this with friends, and some feel that his "rehab in Gitmo" is a sham, a ploy, just another terrorist detainee who's grasping at freedom's straws. Some think that Khadr would no way on earth be "rehabilitated" from his crimes as a child soldier and that he would in fact be digging his heels in with his Jihad.
Maybe, if he was Osama bin Laden.
But he's not.
He's a fucking KID.
Who, largely through his parents' terrible and inhuman child-rearing, got caught up in War.
Canadians hate a case like Omar Khadr.
Because he doesn't look Canadian, because he did things that are clearly un-Canadian and because our Government has painted him like a boogeyman. Canadians somehow have got it in their heads that the Government is always right, that Harper should be trusted 1000%.
It makes me sick to my stomach.
Nobody THINKS anymore.
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I hope somebody thinks up there. Did anybody watch the Obama-Romney debate last night? I didn't; I went to a revival of WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF with Tracy Letts, the Steppenwolf Company from Chicago.
Nobody should ever be put in jail for ten years for involvement (putative) in a war. It's unheard of. That's over. And he was a kid. Some of the young Gitmo victims were safely returned to England. Mabe Canada has picked up some of the jingoism of the USA?
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Justin Trudeau, Liberal MP and son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, officially announced his bid to be Leader of the Liberal party.
This is interesting, but I wonder where he was while Ignatieff was busy being a disaster?
This bid to be Liberal Leader is very smart for the Liberal party.
Their party simply will remain in third unless they can Hulk-Out with a Titan candidate for Leader.
Trudeau is that man.
He has proven that he is not to be underestimated.
(See the boxing match THRILLA ON THE HILLA- he beat Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau).
The only problem is that he's never held power in any capacity. But he has his father's Legacy to draw on and Trudeau is a very likeable guy.
He would be a Prime Minister who would restore dignity and honor to Parliament.
But the NDP are full-steam ahead, and I've cast my lot in with them.
The Liberals had me and they lost me with their chickenshit. They did robo-calls too.
The NDP did not. The Liberals had Ontario disaster Premier Bob Rae be the interim Leader, all the while gaining no traction.
Public opinion hasn"t changed on the Liberal party. People still remember the sponsorship scandal and LOTS more...
Trudeau could ignite something Revolutionary here in Canada, but I'm not sure he can pull it off.
He needs to have a campaign of stellar planning.
This is his time to make History.
But I think it's too little too late.
Tom Mulcair will be our next Prime Minister.
I can feel it in my Bones.
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Canada has picked up U.S. jingoism.
Our government is REPUBLICAN.
Mitt Romney would win in Canada.
WITHOUT all his money.
The Khadr case is a great example of how a government can show it's true colors.
He languished in Gitmo for almost two years after the Canadian Supreme Court told Harper's government to get on it.
I'm certain President Obama himself called up Harper and told him to shit or get off the pot.
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Trudeau sounds like an unknown quantity, but a promising one. Your government certainly needs a new lease on life.
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Just found out that Harper's Government approved spending millions and millions of dollars this year on ads for their "Economic Action Plan", the biggest slice of propaganda since The Third Reich.
Imagine that!
Spending the taxpayers money on your own political agenda with no one to stop you.
Well, it's a REALITY here in Canada.
In a sane world, they would be charged with fraud and charged with criminal negligence causing debt.
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Joe Shithead is running for provincial government in British Columbia for the New Democratic Party.
I hope that man wins, because he will sort out shit in government REAL QUICK.
He's been the guitarist/vocalist of D.O.A. for 35 years, and I witnessed their final farewell show in Ottawa on Saturday night.
(video is up on Facebook).
Joe said:"If I win, I can't play in D.O.A. for 4 years. If I win a second term, it's 8 years. If I don't win at all
I STILL OWN MY GUITAR.
FUCKING AWESOME JOE.
Get those Liars For Hire up against the WALL.
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Google Images pictures of Pierre Poilivere.
His visage should revolt you, without hearing a single word from his arrogant prick mouth.
It's obvious his daddy never laid a hand on him, as Pierre probably would have called child services on his own parents for disciplining him.
He's THAT slimy and slick.
He's just got an attitude and face that I want to deck at full throttle.
I would PAY GOOD MONEY to slap Pierre around. I hate him that much.
He never worked a day in his life and never earned a single dollar.
This is the same guy who took a limo to Parliament Hill and told his driver to bypass security because he is Pierre Poilivrere.
I'm 5 years older than him with a helluva a lot more life experience.
All he ever did was sit in his seat at school and then sit in his seat in the House of Commons.
Achieving ZERO for anyone or anything except himself.
That's why all the Google Images of Pierre are of him smiling like a doofus.
He's knows what a scam he's running on Canadians and he can't believe his luck.
Give me 15 seconds alone with him.
Please God Please.
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Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has resigned.
That's what happens when you piss off every single teacher in the Province.
Good riddance.
Let NDP Andrea Horvath take over, like she should have IN THE LAST FUCKING ELECTION!!!!!!!
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