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Police State Canada
by Metanoia Films
"A brilliant, ground-breaking production”.
– Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization
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It Couldn’t Happen Here, It Does Happen There: The Value of American -- and Afghan -- Lives
" Do you do this in the United States? There is police action every
day in the United States... They don't call in airplanes to bomb the
place." -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai denouncing U.S. air strikes on homes in his country, June 12, 2012
It was almost closing time when the siege began at a small Wells
Fargo Bank branch in a suburb of San Diego, and it was a nightmare. The
three gunmen entered with the intent to rob, but as they herded the 18
customers and bank employees toward a back room, they were spotted by a
pedestrian outside who promptly called 911.
Within minutes, police
cars were pulling up, the bank was surrounded, and back-up was being
called in from neighboring communities. The gunmen promptly barricaded
themselves inside with their hostages, including women and small
children, and refused to let anyone leave.
The police called on the gunmen to surrender, but before negotiations
could even begin, shots were fired from within the bank, wounding a
police officer. The events that followed -- now known to everyone,
thanks to 24/7 news coverage -- shocked the nation.
Declaring the bank
robbers “terrorist suspects,” the police requested air support from the
Pentagon and, soon after, an F-15 from Vandenberg Air Force Base
dropped two GBU-38 bombs on the bank, leaving the building a pile of
rubble.
All three gunmen died.
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Breaking '08 Pledge, Leaked Trade Doc Shows Obama Wants to Help Corporations Avoid Regulations
by Democracy Now!
A draft agreement leaked Wednesday shows the Obama administration is
pushing a secretive trade agreement that could vastly expand corporate
power and directly contradict a 2008 campaign promise by President
Obama. A U.S. proposal for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
trade pact between the United States and eight Pacific nations would
allow foreign corporations operating in the U.S. to appeal key
regulations to an international tribunal.
The body would have the power
to override U.S. law and issue penalties for failure to comply with its
ruling. We speak to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global
Trade Watch, a fair trade group that posted the leaked documents on its
website. "This isn’t just a bad trade agreement," Wallach says. "This is
a 'one-percenter' power tool that could rip up our basic needs and
rights."
Guest: Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch.
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This Week on GR
by C. L. Cook
 Last week, representatives from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
held its biennial Public Meeting in Victoria; its chairperson of the
board of directors, Robert Astley, and president and CEO, David Denison
were here discussing the board's annual report, and how well it is
carrying out its mandate.
They also took questions from their bosses;
the current and past working stiffs of Canada.
The Barnard-Boecker Centre
Foundation was there, and addressed to the board for its consideration a
change of direction, one both honouring international treaties signed
by Canada, and taking seriously the board's stated concern for an
ethical approach to our collective investment portfolio that includes
respect for the environment, social justice, and governance factors.
And; Mexico's 'Drug War,' raging since 2008, is less a war against
narco-gangs, as presented, but more properly a perpetual war against the
people; and, it is a war Canada is intimately complicit in. Canadian
freelance journalist, Dawn Paley has been filing stories from south of
south of the border on the abuses of Canadian-flagged mining
corporations, and now she breaks the story of the Canadian dimension to
Mexico's so-called Drug War.
Dawn Paley and "Ottawa's role in the permanent war against the people of Mexico" in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine
Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed
with some of the goings on going on on the streetz of the city and
beyond.
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The Profligate BC Hydro
by Erik Andersen
Most of us,
whether we live in Newfoundland, Ontario or on the North side of Burrard
Inlet, are required to live in the world of financial reality and discipline;
reality as to our incomes and debts. In recent days, a number of articles
in the North Shore News have featured BC Hydro and its proposed increase in
electricity rates. Perhaps it would be useful for readers to have additional
context.
Prior to 2008, most citizens of our developed world participated
in the biggest global credit bubble ever seen. In 2008, that financial fantasy
ended. One of the most dramatic indicators of that event, the collapse of
international dry cargo shipping, was captured by the Baltic Dry Cargo Index.
The BDCI was designed to record international trade volumes in combination
with shipping contract prices. In June of 2008, the index showed a level
of about 12,000 units. A mere six months later it was struggling at about
1,000 units and has not recovered since.
Prudent managers have known of
this index for decades. They should also know it provides a leading indicator
of international trade; not so at BC Hydro or in Victoria.
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Government push to bring in new mines as solution to economic woes rejected by residents
As people in Greece fight austerity in the streets, top officials are
pushing open pit mining as a way out of the country's economic despair.
But just as folks in Greece have taken action against an imposed
economic paradigm, they are taking a stand to protect their lands from
mining.
"State-corporate propaganda claims that the exploitation of mineral
wealth is the only way for Greece to get out of recession and mineral
concessions are very high in the list of assets to be sold off," Maria
Kadoglou of Anti-Gold Greece told the Vancouver Media Co-op by email.
People in northern Greece have organized over the last 17
years to keep the coastal regions of northern Greece free of toxic
mining projects. But the threat of new gold mines has been renewed over
the past couple of years, and this time there is only one company in the
game: Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold Corporation.
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Egypt Moves Towards Outright Dictatorship
by TRNN
Jihan Hifaz: Supreme Court disbands Parliament and brings back emergency powers; Real News crew temporarily detained
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American Narcos: The Real 'Masters of Paradise'
As the body count climbs across Mexico, the drugs continue flowing across the border by the ton. Despite the evident disconnect--a "war" on drugs that increases the supply while lowering the
price, in the best tradition of our reigning "free market"
ideology--the American media regales the public with fairy tales of
heroic "warriors" doing battle with murderous gangsters named "Joaquín,"
"Jorge" and "Amado."
The fact is, more likely than not, the real narcos taking the
biggest cut from deep inside the reeking abattoir of the grisly trade
have far less prosaic names like "Brett," "Ethan" or "Jason."
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Lifting the Veil
by Metanoia Films
"Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully,
definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of
U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a
sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic
change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet.
See this
film!"
- Larry Pinkney
Editorial Board Member & Columnist
The Black Commentator
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Ralph Nader: 30 Million Workers Would Benefit from Raising Minimum Wage to 1968 Level
by Democracy Now!
In 2008, Barack Obama
pledged to raise the minimum wage every year once elected, but the
hourly rate of $7.25 hasn’t increased since 2007. Low-wage workers now
make far less than they did four decades ago. Last week Illinois
Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. introduced the Catching Up to 1968 Act
of 2012.
It draws its name from the idea that the federal minimum wage
would be $10.55 an hour now if it had kept up with inflation over the
past 40 years. While the bill has about 20 co-sponsors so far, President
Obama has yet to endorse it. We speak to longtime consumer advocate and
former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. "The U.S.’s federal minimum
wage is lower than all Western countries," Nader says. "This is
basically an issue that reflects the craven, cruel nature of the
Republican Party on Capitol Hill, but it also reflects the caution, the
cowardliness, the betrayal of the Democratic Party of its core
constituency."
Guest: Ralph Nader, longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate. His latest book is Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build it Together to Win.
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Euro-Crisis Used to Destroy Social Contract
by TRNN
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