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I have WHY WE FIGHT on DVD and it is bone chilling.
It shows what the USA is all about, TODAY, and Jarecki did it way better than Michael Moore.
Here are some great quotes from the movie:
"IT IS NOWHERE WRITTEN THAT THE AMERICAN EMPIRE GOES ON FOREVER"
When War is this profitable, you're going to see a lot more of it.
The missing "C" in "MILITARY INDUSTRAL COMPLEX" is CONGRESS.
I've seen it, just not lately. Here's my review: http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/021606Knipp.html
Great review, as always.
That film is one of the best films America has ever produced. It's not malicious, either.
It's even handed- Jarecki doesn't brow-beat the viewer about what's going on- he just lays it all out.
He went to 30-some states and asked people on the street "WHY DO WE FIGHT?"
Most people answered "freedom", but when asked to elaborate, most of them have no answer.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is serious about legalizing marijuana.
So serious that he's taking aim at Stephen Harper, saying not only does Harper's government not protect children on this issue, but it sends the profits to organized crime.
And he's absolutely correct. I have witnessed that practice with my own two eyes for many years.
He's laying out a plan that will legalize it and tax the hell out of it. Which is a PERFECT idea.
Let adults have their vices and protect children from drug dealers, all the while bringing in much-needed revenue to the government.
Giving youth an uneccessary criminal record for pot is insane.
Booze is far FAR worse. Booze destroys lives. Pot doesn't. And if you say that it leads to harder drugs, that it's a gateway drug, I must remind you that that is true DEPENDING ON YOUR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.
Plus your level of 'addictive personality'.
ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST
Remember Dean del Mastro?
The Plump and Portly Parliamentary Secretary to Stephen Harper?
He was told to quit or be fired this week after he was charged with 4 counts of election fraud (stemming from the 2008 election!)
5 years to get any Justice on this? Wow!
Couldn't have happened to a nicer Guido. There are few Tory MP's that I despise more than Dean del Mastro.
Pierre Polievere is probably tops on the list, but after I watched Dean smear the opposition for YEARS on robocalls and how they were "baseless allegations", Dean is at least number 2.
So he "quit". What option did he have?
How bad does this fucking look Dean?
I said you were 'Gon hang like dem low-hangin' Fruit......
And You Did.
Good Riddance.
You fucking fraud.
Finance Minister Jim "THE FLEECER" Flaherty has been living up to his name as usual.
Scandal # 14577:
Minister Flaherty hosted a lavish (TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR) retreat this past August, for rich folks.
Yep. You heard me right: He billed the taxpayers an obscene amount of money for his lavish (and outlandish) retreat.
Early reports are saying the champagne bill ALONE was in the neighborhood of $6000+
It's truly revolting what this Tory government does to the citizens of this country.
It is truly shocking and sickening how shameless they are. They justify it with bizarro excuses.
When is this shitstorm in Ottawa gonna end, O Lord?
Reporters have been asking Harper about Dean del Mastro and his firing from the Conservative caucus, but Steve isn't saying jack shit.
I think Canadians deserve to know why a guy who was Harper's pit bull on ethics was just charged with 4 counts of election fraud- from 5 years ago!
Will we get every dime taxpayers paid Dean back?
Probably not. What a fucking fiasco.
Literally a week after being rewarded by Harper for years of loyalty, del Mastro was shitcanned.
It's AMAZING.
Truly amazing. This was your attack dog on ethics, Harper!
He went down in a blaze of criminal fraud and you are MUM. (!!!?)
Eat a bag of dicks.
And former Conservative Senator Mike Duffy is back in the news, embroiled in a deep RCMP investigation over his horrific abuses of Senate funds:
http://cbc.ca/news/politics/mike-duf...ings-1.1930295
"THERE IS SOMETHING FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG WITH THE JUDGMENT AND THE ETHICAL APPROACH AND THE STYLE OF THIS PRIME MINISTER"- Liberal MP Ralph Goodale
Parliament has resumed here in Canada, after being pro-rogued by Harper for over a month.
The Speech From the Throne was delivered for an hour by the Governor General, and it contained nothing but "political gamesmanship", as NDP Official Opposition Leader Tom Mulcair said it was.
Harper wants Canadians to believe that the Tories are "the party for the middle class" and the whole Throne Speech was lies, delivered and wrapped up directly for the Conservative base, the only group Harper has in his corner, setting the stage and boundaries for the election showdown in 2015 that is creeping up very fast on us all. The Quickening? LOL Maybe!
And Harper jetted to Brussels right after!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He will not be in the House of Commons to face Question Period on all of his 2013 scandals!
What a fucking IDIOT.
Tom Mulcair said "This Prime Minister Can Run, BUT HE CANNOT HIDE"
Here's an article that sums up the situation pretty nicely here in Canada:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/16/s...bedtime-story/
Harper is banking on his "fiscal" stengths to keep him in power.
But what exactly are those fiscal strengths?
He has added $150 Billion to our National debt in record time.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said yesterday that this government hasn't done a damn thing for families who're struggling, which is what Jack Layton was hammering home every single day of the 2011 election.
Do you have a family here in Canada? Ask yourself real hard: "What did Harper do for my family?"
I think you'll find yourself at a real loss for a list.
Don't answer that question if you happen to have money. I'll slap the living shit out of you.
Rich fucks have been enjoying the benefits of a Harper dictatorship for a long time now.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau pointed out that the Conservative "Economic Action Plan" has retarded TV ads (paid for with taxpayer dollars) with blue (Tory color) arrows pointing "UP".
Trudeau said "Whenever I see those ads, I think, YUP, rising unemployment, rising debt, and rising disappointment for Canadians. This Prime Minister has the worst economic record of any PM since Bennett, who served us during the Great Depression".
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2...ng_walkom.html
In the House of Commons yesterday, the NDP were on the warpath, they (rightly) wanted Harper to be found in contempt by the Speaker of the House (Andrew Scheer) for misleading (read: lying) to the House about the Nigel Wright/Mike Duffy $90,000 cheque.
My Man Charlie Angus rose on a point of priviledge to ask that Harper be found in contempt of Parliament (for a record THIRD TIME).
The Speaker didn't make an immediate ruling, but if it is accepted, then Harper will have to answer for the fact that lawyers for Nigel Wright said that 3-4 others in the PMO knew about the Duffy deal, so how could Harper be oblivious to the matter?
THE FACT IS HE WASN'T. Nothing gets by this slimy control freak without his knowledge. ESPECIALLY people in his own inner PMO circle.
Not a single soul in this country believes that Harper didn't know about it, that no one ran it by him.
Here's a link:
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/17...nd-in-contempt
The Conservatives have also been just handed a report that blasts them for not responding to Access to Information requests in a timely fashion.
Some requests don't get answered for over a year!
Info Commissioner Suzanne Legault said that Canada's democracy is at risk. But Harper doesn't give 2 shits about democracy, as we all know.
The Info Commissioner personally called Treasury Goof Tony Clement to tell him ahead of time that the report will expose the "failures" of the Access to Information program.
Clement actually had the balls to tell a reporter that he's "Proud of our record. We have more requests than any government has ever had to deal with, and in consideration, we are doing a great job". (paraphrasing)
Keep telling yourself that, Tony. Keep telling yourself that. Keep believing you're doing a bang-up job. LOL
Intelligent citizens know better. WAY BETTER.
EXPLOSIVE NEWS:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mike...-PMO-1.2128886
HARPER KNEW.
SEND THE FUCKER TO PRISON.
This Senate expense scandal is dwarfing Harper's (choke, cough...sputter....) "legacy" in signing the EU trade deal.
The EU trade deal means zero at the moment. It means absolutely nothing.
What matters right now is the CRIMINAL actions of the Prime Minister's Office.
They swept a GIANT political scandal under the rug and have been running from it ever since.
What will happen now?
How will Harper be held accountable?
He clearly lied to Canadians to our faces.