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Ian Verrender, the ABC’s business editor, looked at the Trans-Pacific Pact and concluded – We’ve been sold out by the TPP sham:
Where is Cleisthenes when you really need him?
The man considered the father of democracy would be aghast at the turn of events last week, when 12 countries around the Pacific Rim gathered together and happily agreed to sell out their citizens, to elevate the interests of global corporations above their own sovereign law.
The NAFTA disaster showed the effect of these ‘trade agreements’ – the rich get richer and the poor get screwed.
October 12, 2015 2 Comments
It’s A Holiday
It’s the second Monday in October, so it is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Have a happy one.
The US Federal government has decided to call it Columbus Day, even when it isn’t on the 12th of October which was the second Wednesday in 1492. But it’s okay that the holiday can be on the wrong day, because Christopher Columbus [AKA: Cristoforo Colombo, Cristóbal Colón] didn’t find what he was looking for and identified what he did find incorrectly. The important thing is that a large area of the map got changed from “here be dragons and sea serpents,” to “here be gold and cannibals” and no mention was made of the oppressive heat, mosquitoes, or hurricanes.
October 12, 2015 13 Comments
