Peak Oil Will Kill Neoliberal Globalization: More Support
A year ago today, I wrote about how a few years earlier at lunch with friends I was thinking that peak oil will kill neoliberal globalization. Last year, there was a piece in Report on Business about just that, making me feel mighty vindicated. It’s nice to see corporate media affirming your views. A few [...]
Obama Is Not Anyone’s Economic Jesus
It’s time to get over ourselves with thinking of Obama being any kind of economic Jesus. Eric Margolis reflects many people’s hopes, but it is time to leave our naivety back in 2008 because its best before date has expired: “The axis of sleaze between Wall Street and Washington’s politicians has to be broken. Time [...]
Olympic Ad Pollution with Building Condoms and Commercials: Vision Vancouver’s Vision
Honestly, it’s bad enough that every billboard will be literally monopolized by VANOC for its corporate johns during the Olympics, but now we are going to get dozens of buildings wrapped in ad condoms and “celebratory images …including video imaging and projections on walls” to Blade Runner proportions for about 5 months. That’s almost as [...]
Coining Phrases for Fun and Profit: “Paradigm Mechanic” and “Peak Clutter” Are the New Ones
First there was “The Four Horsemen of Structural Adjustment,” which showed up in my MA thesis on Canada’s squandering of an authentic human security agenda as our neoliberalism has made an economic colony of Haiti. I googled it and it was nowhere to be found in the context I determined. It’s all about how the [...]
Why the BC NDP Lost the Election
The BC NDP hasn’t joined the 21st century. Because of that, we missed a chance to pivot British Columbia into a healthy social, economic and political future. The BC NDP entered an existential crisis 6 days ago. This election loss, a voter turnout shamefully below 50%, the loss of meaningful electoral reform: all these things [...]
Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, 5.18.09, an Election Post-Mortem Vista Video Podcast
On Monday, May 18, 2009, Politics, Re-Spun met Coop Radio on “The Rational”, a Monday evening issues program. This is the my fourth election-related visit to the show. Imtiaz Popat and I talk about the BC election: poll numbers converging, the carbon tax, Wally Oppal is toast, 2009 is a carbon copy of the 2005 election, ironies [...]
The Sick Government BCers Just Re-Elected
$2m is less than 50 cents/resident of BC. Matt Good’s profound review of contradictions in, around, during and after Woodlands will pummel your soul, but in a good way, unless you’re a heartless misanthropist. And this first bit is just emblematic of how this government views its social responsibilities: In 2005, Stan Hagen, BC’s Children [...]
Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, 5.11.09, an Election Eve Vista Video Podcast
On Monday, May 11, 2009, Politics, Re-Spun met Coop Radio on “The Rational”, a Monday evening issues program. This is the my third visit, on election eve, with the next scheduled for Monday, May 18th, for a debriefing of the BC provincial election. Tonight we were joined by Damien Gillis of SaveOurRivers.ca. Imtiaz Popat talked with Damien [...]
Even Cats Think 8 Years is Enough!
Three pieces of wisdom, one for each of the last 3 full days of the campaign: on condescension in the debate, Liberals hiding from democracy at all-candidates meetings, and Carole James’ solutions. Originally from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ but nothing I can take credit for. Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg [...]
A Sad “Vision” of Billboards
Vision Vancouver is going to suffer from billboards for quite some time to come. “The Olympics are prime time advertising and the city might be offering it to Vanoc at the regular market rate,” the Richmond mayor said. “But all of this has been discussed at closed meetings, so I really can’t go into the [...]
Bill Bennett: King of Plausible Deniability!
The ad reads, “You want someone who pays taxes and is concerned about how the money is being spent,” underneath a photo of Bennett and his family and a slogan that reads, “He’s one of us.” So Kootenay East Liberal Party candidate Bill Bennett did it again. First his campaign planned to host a beer [...]
Regrets? Super-Human Gordon Campbell Won’t Tell
If we have learned anything about new higher expectations of politicians in the 21st century, it’s that they have to acknowledge they aren’t perfect. Obama gets it, Bush and Campbell clearly don’t. It was astonishing to watch Campbell interviewed on the CBC tonight. When asked at the end if he could do anything over from his [...]
Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, 5.4.09, a Vista Video Podcast
On Monday, May 4, 2009, Politics, Re-Spun met Coop Radio on “The Rational”, a Monday evening issues program. This is the second visit, with the next scheduled for Monday, May 11th, the night before the BC provincial election. Imtiaz Popat and I talked about the leaders debate last night, how horribly condescending and unprofessional Gordon Campbell was, [...]
Gordon Campbell Fires Himself During the Leaders Debate
I was thoroughly astonished at how effectively Gordon Campbell maimed his political career during the leaders debate. But really, I shouldn’t be because of his utter inability to have any meaningful breadth of vision as a leader. I can understand why the Liberals are hiding out and not attending all candidates meetings. Their record is [...]
Alcohol Privateer Fear-Mongerers, With Flaky Arithmetic
In what the industry is calling the NDP’s “six-pack attack,” private store owners are warning an NDP win on May 12 could increase the price of a half-sack of suds by three dollars The NDP’s promise to increase the minimum wage from $8 an hour to $10 would have a disproportionate impact on the food-service [...]
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