The Great Northern Tax Haven by Linda McQuaig Sun columnist

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/2011/09/26/mcquaig_the_great_northern_tax_haven.print.html

The above URL will enable you to print the whole article. Linda McQuaig a columnist for the Toronto Star has several books to her credit. This column in the Toronto Star on line said something that caught my eye.

" Canada's ultra rich - those in the top 0.01 percent (emphasis mine) - now have a bigger share of the national income than any point in Canadian history, according to data compiled by McMaster University economist Michael Veall. But the median Canadian family income hasn't grown in 30 years; in fact it's declined from $48,800 (in today's dollars) to $46,700.

"This means ordinary Canadians have little buying power, reducing the incentive for business and the wealthy to invest in their substantial cash reserves in ways that create jobs.

"As growing inequality becomes a global issue, the subject is strangely absent from Canadian politics."

My comment is that as long as Governments, they are by and large elected by high finance in spite of so called democracy, continue with the "trickle down theory" that says the more money the goes to the top the more jobs will be created is based on a lie.

Think about it BC voters are you voting for more of the same?

The Right To Change Government - The electorate power.

The Declaration of Independence states:

“To secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness.”

From; www.canadafreepress.com

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Invictus (1875 by English poet William Ernest Henly (1849-1903) To read the full text go to www.canadafreepress.com

I think this is a well thought out article and in an election year, as BC is, voters need to give some thought to the idea of a government becoming destructive of our rights. If you believe government has not been destructive I am sorry for you, blinded by brainwashing that says we must make war for peace, that labour must be deprived of its bargaining, that our once good health act is fast being privatized, that our youth on graduation can not find jobs, that we have to our shame - food banks, people living on our streets, homelessness, that terror is used as a weapon jo justify state terrorism. One could go on and on and on.

While we vote for change let us also begin to dialogue on the need for a new system. The present one is terminally ill with no cure. Through dialogue we should arrive at correct decisions and perhaps a change that will lead to the next system after imperialist capitalism.

John Beeching 

CONFISCATION OF BANK SAVINGS TO "SAVE THE BANKS" - CANADA

The Confiscation of Bank Savings to “Save the Banks”: The Diabolical Bank “Bail-n” Proposal

     By Prof. Michael Chossudovsky Global Research, April 02, 2013

URL of this article: -

http://www. Globalresearch.ca/the-confiscation-of-bank-savings-to-save-the banks/5329411

“It is important that the people across the land, in the European Union and North America, nationally and internationally, forcefully act against the diabolical ploys of their governments – acting on behalf of dominant financial interests – to implement a selective process of bank deposit confiscation.”

A growing number of the major media now have the information in this article. The Canadian public have a right to know its content. Why is there a seemingly black-out in the media? Government orders?

When you watched the agony of Cyprus citizens lose up to 30% of their savings did you think it will never happen here? Think again. The last budget bundle presented by Canada’s finance minister “Economic Action Plan”  including the Bail-in procedure was adopted. The Conservatives have the majority after all. How did you vote in the last national election?

In his concluding remarks the professor said that lower and middle income groups “will not be the main target”, yet according to him Canada’s ‘Economic Action Plan 2013’ acknowledges that the proposed Bail-in will be consistent with reforms in other countries. To quote - “Aye now there’s the rub” [remedy]. He admits that behind closed doors at various international venues the model is “currently a talking point”. So Bail-ins are not finalized. What is final is that Canadians can be sure Canadian government now has the right to use ‘Bail-ins’ to ‘Bail-out’ banks whose parameters are under discussion ergo not finalized.

Clearly it is time to begin now for, across this land, to organize a peoples resistance to undemocratic acts. Canada desperately needs a broad people’s political movement. A movement that will demand the restoration of democracy in Canada. Democracy where people make a difference and not profits.

John Beeching

Harper called the godfther

The poorest indigenous people in Canada asked if they would be able to get essential funding outside of the disputed issue of social assistance if they did not sign. Ian Gray, the regional director general of Aboriginal Affairs, was unequivocal. If the chief and council of Burnt Church First Nation didn’t sign by noon on the Ides of March, Ottawa would not release any funding to the community for April 1, 2013.

They didn’t sign.

When the poorest people in the land say no to the godfather, what is not possible?

To read he whole article go to ----

http://www.ipolitics.ca/2013/03/17/fiscal-blackmail-in-canadas-poorest-quarter/

IT CAN HAPPEN HERE

"Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012, shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed earlier here); and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the banks of depositor funds."

For full article go to -
http://www.globalresearch.ca/it-can-happen-here-the-bank-confiscation-scheme-for-us-depositors/5328954

Political Prisoners USA

Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-political-prisoners/5328329

Read more at URL above.

Political prisoners [USA] are those currently in prison because of their race, religion, political convictions, or care for others. Removed from community because they seek justice for their people, some are branded with inappropriately long sentences and are often in solitary confinement to destroy their beliefs. 

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1,426 billionaires Vs 80% of the global population living with $10 a day!

13 March 2013

While the 1,426 billionaires of the world are celebrating their rankings at the Forbes Magazine’s 2013 List of Billionaires, having gathered a total net worth of $5.4 trillion, an actual $800 billion increase since last year; let us remind ourselves that these riches could not have been accumulated without the most vital means of production: the labour force.

No brilliant idea could have been implemented, no new product could have been produced, no machine could have been built, no means of transport could have moved without the workers. Without the sweat and blood of the workers in the ships, the mines, in the construction sites and the industries nothing would happen.

These billionaires are only appropriating the product of the social work and exploiting the natural resources that belong to the People.

However, while these billionaires are celebrating in their jets and swimming pools, there is an 80% of the population that lives with under $10 a day, with actually 50% of the population living with $2,50! While some many millions of them live in slums, are still illiterate, lack sufficient access to clean water and adequate medical services.

These billionaires and many more millionaires are fighting their part in the class struggle: with their hard efforts to control the governments, the IMF, the World Bank, by organizing wars, by trying to corrupt and manipulate the trade union movement.

Let us fight our part with more determination, strengthen the class oriented trade union movement and grow our struggles for the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of the workers and the popular strata.

THE PRESS ROOM World Federation of Trade Unions