I don't think Harper has the

I don't think Harper has the brains to realize what he's doing, as most of the "faithful" either in religions, or ideologies in history always thought they have been blessed and ordered by the gods for their criminal actions.

We now have a trial going, where some people are accused of murdering their daughters, as a form of "honour killing", going on all over in some societies, by the faithful.

Harper and his followers have the same mindset, based on "faith that conquers all", led by their low intelligence and brainwashed by miseducation.

The question is whether this is bad, or good for the country and all over the world ?

On the long run it could be good, because sooner or later people must wake up and get rid of oppressors, as it has happened thousands of times in history.

I don't think Harper will complete his full turn in office, because he's going crazier by the minute and sooner or later people will have enough of his madness.

I don't believe in violence and the only thing I wish for him is a string of directorships to disappear to, so we won't have to see his predator face in the news, ever again.

In any case, this brings us back to my repeated complaint, that there's no point in blaming the politicians, when the universities are where the legalization of their criminal actions originate, just as the largest destruction and mass murder schemes in history originated with religions.

Ed Deak.

Fiat Lux

Its great that you continue to send the same message and one can only remain hopeful they receive the message and awaken. With so many people coming from their low energies it is helping to breakdown all systems, which we know needs to happen. Most cannot imagine what we could be without these systems, but I think we are not to know and especially not to fear the unknown and just allow for new things to create. The evolution of a new way of being!

Of course

This is why this government needs more jails and more cooperative security with the US...to be able to arrest and jail anyone who wants to fight back....Rome all over again....

Lindi.....It is painfully

Lindi.....It is painfully obvious that the present economic system, originating from universities, is a major failure and tragedy, destroying the Earth and humanity with a crazy, faith based theory of imaginary monetary values.

What I'm advocating has nothing to do with any ideology, but the return to locally based, physically efficient economic systems that have existed for thousands of years.

People using their inborn talents to make things in energy efficient ways, in overlapping circles, using genuine trade for the exchange of resources and products.

Many of us, older people, have grown up in such systems, and in our case we have reached the highest degree of self sufficiency, doing very well on a pension income of about $25,000/yr, which is way below the poverty level, yet giving us a very comfortable life.

E.g. You can make $15. worth of bread with about 15 mins of work, but how many people can do it? It also adds nothing to the stupid GDP, and so economists are against it.

The list of potentials is endless, but burned out of people by fools and crooks, with false beliefs and theories, to enrich a few by making the majority slaves.

Wealth can not be created, only taken......

Ed Deak.

Writer is stuck in the 1960s or 1970s...

Inequality is, I'm afraid, part of the Natural Order of Things.

Man is born into a state of nature in which equality of result is not possible. People able to make finer distinctions than others as to the course of action to take survive. Others fall by the wayside. Those with more savvy, more ruthlessness, more ingenuity or more connections get ahead, while passivity, naivete and sloth have historically been punished. No one can deny this.

The mere existence of the government gun - redistribution of earnings through force - can only mask this temporarily. Human nature - looking out for number one - will not be erased so simply. Only capitalism - LESS regulation, more personal responsibility and caveat emptor - can provide REAL economic growth, jobs and, in the end, an increase in societal wealth.

Stealing the productivity and savings of the successful and handing it over to the failed is only possible because of the irrational and overriding quest for some sort of impossible collectivist nirvana in which everyone is "equal" and can consume equally while riding magical pixie-horses.

It goes against human nature: all this attempting to legislate equality is doing is driving away the few remaining risk takers, savers and investors.

So please QUIT trying to change human nature. Can't be done.

Harper? You can keep him: despicable NDP-lite. On this key question, there is no basic difference between any of these Parties...

Fiat Lux ...It is painfull

I totally agree with the above, as I am one of those people who makes my own breads and many other things and seek out local products that are healthier for me and the environment. For me this is just one step of moving out of the system and creating a better way of life for self. But for me I also believe its about letting go of ego and allowing my internal wisdom navigate all aspects of my life and evolve even higher from doing so. Yes this is my belief and what I believe only matters to me and what others think of my comments does not matter. I totally understand each individual will find his and her truth and as we evolve will learn not to push it on others, as we all know this never works, it only backfires. I think sharing is wonderful but ultimately people have to figure it out on their own.
We live in interesting times and I feel so much change is in the works and I actually feel excited about it and as you perfectly stated it "list of potential is endless."

we need

We will be fighting harpo There was a vote to get rid of child poverty some time ago Harpo voted no keep hungry kids Don't feed them so they won't grow up to fill his new prisons. I believe a large part of what causes crime is a desire to have good life. Many people enjoy what others have and are able to have by the normal method - working There are not enough good jobs - jobs that pay enough to provide a level of comfort that removes the desire to find ways to get this with what ever it takes to get $$
Harpo + gordo has shared udeas create povertry and hardship -- If you face going hungry and loosing your basics you will work for much less right Greedy, emotionally undeveloped or uneducated people what poverty as a method of controlling the masses

Mary...According to Kredit,

Mary...According to Kredit, above, the parents of those hungry children failed, so they deserve to starve.

At least half million here and more millions in the USA and Mexico have lost their jobs and businesses because of the NAFTA, so they're failures, because they should have "taken risks", "invested" and become "successes".

As the then Exec. VP, Edward Neufeld of the Royal Bank said it in a speech in Singapore on Oct18,'91: " It is in the national interest and makes sense for Canadian manufacturers to move to Mexico and cheap labour to remain competitive or perish, and bring back the profits to repay investors"

So they moved to their commie brothers in China, causing unemployment poverty in te 3 countries, destroyed tens of thousands of businesses, wiped out the middle class in Mexico, causing tens of thousands of casualties in the drug wars, the only thing left to them, so that the "risk takers can be successful"

By the same token, why shouldn't we wipe out traffic laws and the police off our roads and let the "successful" rule the roads, by pushing off and wrecking the "failures", who don't deserve to exist.

The question is: What is the definition of "failures"? Those who don't play the stockmarkets, but prefer to work for the living ?

Ed Deak.

Kredit is stuck in the 1890s

Kredit, your ideology is Social Darwinism and was the rationalization used by the predators of the day for stealing the wealth of society and grinding the workers into the dirt. But the heyday of your ideology was about 120 years ago and nobody but far right ideologues believes in it.

Kreditanstalt, you have swallowed the cool-aid.

When Captain Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef he was forced to run his ship up on the beach to keep it from sinking. During the weeks that the repairs required he observed, and recorded in his log, that the aboriginal people seemed happy, had all they needed because they shared everything and that this equality made their survival possible in a meager land.

When he return to England and his log was published all references to equality were removed. Couldn't have the masses getting any funny ideas in one of the most inequitable societies ever created.

And so it is today, ill informed people think that inequality is just the way it is and that in Canada this is as good as it gets so get used to it. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Inequality is not a good

Inequality is not a good thing; I'm just stating the facts.

We are all born into a world where the fittest survive best and having government "redistribute" the earnings of some won't change that.

Kreditanstalt

Kreditanstalt : "It goes against human nature"

Actually human nature tends toward compassion and sharing. Capitalism warps human nature by allowing greed to dominate without the problems that would accompany that greed if we lived in a state of nature.

If you had one tribesman who ate like a king while the others starved you would quickly see that tribe kill the one and feed the many.

Things like police keep us from living in a state of nature. And the 1% are big supporters of police and army.

@Frank

"If you had one tribesman who ate like a king while the others starved you would quickly see that tribe kill the one and feed the many."

We do that already. All political parties do it, and they are all essentially the same.

There are two kinds of people in the country: those few (15%?) who create wealth, earn profits, provide jobs & products and save & invest responsibly...and the vast majority who spend their income on consumables, accumulate debt. Many, many people depend largely on government income, government jobs, jobs with governent contractors or entitlement payments.

The latter group outvotes the former, which is why social program spending never slows, inflation continues, government "services" expand, taxes rise endlessly and there is no incentive to stand on one's own feet financially...

Discouraging the producers of wealth and earners of profits by seizing their assets and redistributing them to everyone else won't create more wealth, will it?

If you are a saver, investor, speculator or entrepreneur with a positive net worth and willing to risk capital to open a job-creating business, you are represented in government by NO ONE.

The takers vastly outnumber the providers and no political party - even the NDP, let alone the Harperite neocons - will change that.

Simple numbers. Coupled with economic envy and "democracy".

Kredit, virtually all of your

Kredit, virtually all of your so-called entrepreneurs depend upon government in one way or the other - corporate law, patents, banking laws, subsidies (both hidden and above board) regulations that crush the small business and aide the corporations etc All capitalism is ultimately state capitalism!

Kreditanstalt

Kreditanstalt : "We do that already. All political parties do it, and they are all essentially the same."

Unfortunately not true. The wealthy are not being killed and their wealth is not being divided among the many.

Instead the wealthy are staying alive and actually increasing their wealth and the level of inequality.

If you were right and all politicians were advocating the killing of the rich inequality would be going down, not up.

Your 15% tend to be people who can't take care of themselves. They don't kill and gather their own food, they don't generate their own power, they don't build their own homes, they don't indulge in do-it-yourself education or medicare.

Instead they are parasites living off your other 85% that do the work and create the wealth. People trading paper don't generate any wealth.

We have social programs because without it the rich would be liquidated. However, they'd prefer those social programs to be as threadbare as possible so they have to educate a coterie of useful idiots to defend their wealth (no offence).

The workers of North America have not seen an increase in their wages for 30 years, all the new wealth being generated by their labour is not being shared, its being skimmed off the top by the rich, those who don't work.

I should add

I'd love to see a few years of society immersed in a "state of nature". It would be very revealing for your top 15% as they tried to trade paper money for food and shelter and protection.

Bring it on.

anarcho, you've got it backwards...

So the governments are on the people's side? And the evil ones are the bigggest corporations?

Problem is, we can always refuse to do business with corporations. Not so easy with governments and their cops, courts, laws, regulations, taxes and guns!

Who's right? And is it important anyway? All I know is that I sure as hell would never consider trying to start a small business in Canada...

Sure sure

Kreditanstalt : "Problem is, we can always refuse to do business with corporations"

You can also refuse to vote for a particular political party. Makes the same amount of difference.

So called conservatives like

So called conservatives like the Harpercons™ and Republicans love low wages and no social safety nets. They are not real conservatives anyway. The Harpercons™ are really just the extreme right Reform Party and the Republicans are just as far right. The federal Libs are really the 'new PC' Party and the Democrats in the US are a conservative Party albeit not as far right like the GOP but still for the rich and are just as much a war monger party. The Harpercons™ and GOP just care about the rich and corporations, hate unions, hate poor people and all social programmes and they do their best to destroy them.

Reality comes in many degrees

There are many valid points being made by the commentators here. One's perceptions are essentially one's reality and it is only through personal growth and experience - or evolution - that change can occur in the way we perceive the world.

A good life is one that fulfills certain needs and for most people those needs (desires in many cases) can be directed by advertisers and others who have a financial stake. It is very easy for humans to be coerced in the name of comfort to just say "YES!" to all that we desire. The same psychology is at play when deniers give us a kernel of doubt to sway our ethical decision-making ability.

We all have choice in absolutely every decision we make. Most, it seems, are choosing the super-comfort of material excess at the expense of future generations. I'll bet that most of us can justify those decisions, at least to ourselves... and really, that's all it takes to keep the cycle going.

But with each informed choice we make, we change our reality incrementally. We can choose big boxes and complain about loss of well paid jobs and reduction in quality or we can support our friends & neighbours and develop a viable local economy that will result in a stronger sense/strength of community. The choice is always ours, but it requires more effort and commitment. As with most things, the return is based on the perceived value.

Wealth is the temporary

Wealth is the temporary control of energy.

Wealth can not be created, only taken from others, the environment and future generations.

Not my invention, but the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.

Our present ecological disasters, climate change, cancer and other epidemics that didn't exist before, are once again, caused by ignoring Newton's laws on Speed and Reaction.

Religions and ideologies have been trying to ignore physical laws since the beginning and always failed, as they are failing now.

Capitalism is finished and on its way to follow its idiot twin, communism, into the grave. They wave different flags and cite different ideologies, but are run by the same gang of collectivizing crooks, as shown in China. The richest people in Russia are now the former communist cadre.

And this is not a theory, but based on lifelong personal experience and research under all of them.

Ed Deak.

Inequality doesn't work; the super-wealthy do not even work

I have yet to see proof that the super wealthy do any work at all, to see if they are capable of actually doing a day's real work. The truth is they inherited most of their wealth or gambled it on the stock market. Who cares? There are so many lazy rich that have never seen a day's work that it's not even funny. Somebody made a comment about high taxes as well. Reality check: Taxes for the wealthy have significantly decreased in the past 20 years and as a percentage of their total income, they pay less than the average working person.

definition

Fraser Institute: Neoliberalism for "confederacy of dunces". "Nuff said.

It's hard to rebut Kreditanstalt ...

because s/he holds tight to so many ideas which are fundamentally wrong. Explaining these errors taught by state, and which have been fattened with 'elite status quo' soundbites, would take days.

So I address only the first post.

Man is born into a state of nature in which equality of result is not possible.

Does this mean equality of result shouldn't even be sought? Do parents feed thier children differently? Do some get rags and the prodigal son the riches?

People able to make finer distinctions than others as to the course of action to take survive.

You are attributing success to one's abilities alone. This thinking is the bait the 'elite status quo' societal paradigm wants us all to feast oncthe most. It's the whole liberty-individuality-freedom shtick bastardized for elite selfish gain. If your economic system wants freedom, why does it insist on hiding behind protective corporate shells? Seriously, nobody thinks they deserve their position quite as much as the self-man kings. The reality is far different.

Cultural anthropological and other sociological studies prove that human survival has been grounded in the collective, not the individual. Look around. You are not an island.

Your survival is dependant upon society. Virtually everything you have learned or had opportunity to experience is directly because of society. If I left you alone in the woods with a hatchet, how long before you could send me an email? Would you even survive in the purest sense?

Others fall by the wayside.

Really? The Canadian collective (at a cost) ensures we all survive (more or less), but it does not allow us all to excel. What you are talking about are those unable to 'use the system' to do better than others.

(cont)

(cont from above)

The mere existence of the government gun - redistribution of earnings through force - can only mask this temporarily.

So long as the history of western civiliation and longer is considered temporary, I suppose.

Human nature - looking out for number one - will not be erased so simply.

Certainly not when the forces dominating society are willing to use their guns and power to keep themselves and the 'elite status quo' look out for number one social paradigm intact.

Human nature is constantly governed by our intellect. We just are not very intelligent about governing this aspect of our human nature, and to our own peril.

Only capitalism - LESS regulation, more personal responsibility and caveat emptor - can provide REAL economic growth, jobs and, in the end, an increase in societal wealth.

We do not need more 'real' growth. We need less of it. We need more sustainability.

There is no more 'wealth' out there, Kreditanstalt. The planetary resources are our wealth. There is nothing else.

What we need to do is manage this finite wealth so we can all carry on, hopefully in a more egalitarian way. What we don't need to do is to allow incessantly hoarding by individuals as we have been doing for 3000+ years.

Prof. Gutstein: Timely & Incisive

Donald Gutstein, BC's own author and journalist, is a welcome voice about truth in politics. If you haven't read it already, his book Not A Conspiracy Theory is a must have.

We need to understand that the 1% remain in control over the rest of us by specific techniques. But just as importantly, WE are the majority. WHY do we remain unorganized? If we band together, even as much as 5%, we will outnumber the rich by a long shot.

In the end, it will be up to us. How can we learn to sidestep the heavy cloak of authority? Start by cancelling your cable TV, a huge source of propaganda, and follow by terminating subscriptions to mainstream newspapers and magazines (more gobbledegook propaganda).

It will be imperative that we learn to think for ourselves, without the continuous cartoon-like media buzzing away in our brains.

Great coverage as always.

The 1% of the world have

The 1% of the world have always ruled and enslaved on the basis of religious theories, empowering them as the "chosen" and the "Will of God".

Monetary economics are a pseudo religion, preached, legalized and enforced by the Priesthood of the Money God, today's so called "economists", enslaving the world with false theories at the intellectual level of Hitler's racial idiocies of "Mensch vs. Supermensch", with certain "Untermensch" nothing more than animals.

They remind me of the SS doctors who examined us when we were taken to Germany for military training in Dec.44.

One of their gimmicks was to carefully examine the hairs on the top of our hands to detect "Jewish blood".

Now look at what the professors of economics, especially the Arnold Block, formerly of the Fraser Inst., types are saying and are brainwashing the public with as the "science of economics".

Hard to say whether they're fools, or crooks, with academic letters behind their names.

Ed Deak.

Kredit......

How do you explain the family unit? How do you explain raising children? How do you explain gangs? How do you explain barn-raising? How do you explain the phrase "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts"?

The first thing necessary for

The first thing necessary for the looking out for number one theory is cooperation with others, or the number one won't last long.

I'm the first in promoting individuality, but that also demands the respect for the individuality of others, which includes help, economic survival and sustainability.

There are 6 families of 4 ethnic origins on our dead end ranch road, all strongly individualistic, but with the highest respect for and cooperation with each other.

The same goes for our whole community. All anybody has to do is to pick up a phone and shout "help" and there'll be a row of trucks and cars on the road in minutes.

One of our calves broke through the ice late yesterday afternoon. I'm not much of a help for such things at my age, except to supply the rope and floodlight, so our partner called a neighbour and he was here in the dark, fighting, sometimes deep in swamp water at -8 C, but they got her out.

Because ou5r friend knew that if he ever needs anything from anybody, the help will come running.

Now, in a real "self interest", capitalist system the neighbour would have laughed and enjoyed our problem, quoting the "invisible hand of self interest" which, the way Adam Smith wrote it, means help and cooperation with others and not the distorted way quoted by professors and economists, or the sick capitalist system is based on.

Ed Deak

Ed Deak. .

An excellent article by

An excellent article by Donald Gutstein who always tells it like it is.

Yes, it's really about "economic freedom" for the 1%, and economic enslavement for the rest of us.

Always important to remember The Fraser Institute is just a name created to sound official, scientific and significant. It is none of those things. Just another marketing ploy to sell the running-on-empty economics of the running-on-empty banksters and privateers.

"The first thing necessary

"The first thing necessary for the looking out for number one theory is cooperation with others, or the number one won't last long." ~ Fiat Lux

Great posts above on cooperation by Ed Deak and also by Rick W.

Lynn....If you look up the

Lynn....If you look up the origins of the Bilderbergers and Trilaterals and a few more of the same cast, you'll see how, where and why the Fraser Inst. originated and how the corporate mafia bought and took over the world's university economics departments, as governments were cutting back funds.

The FI was financed by McMillan of McMillan and Bloedel fame. It is all on google.

Ed Deak.

Consider

Kredit is much closer to reality.

Most on this thread are incorrectly considering how well strong leaders throughout time have lived.

Inequality now or even the relatively free late 1800’s is not even close to most of history…haven’t chiefs/lords etc. always controlled more than capital - basic human rights and interests of those around them has generally been the norm.

Investor

I don't think you have any overarching perspective on what is going on around the world as we march toward a global kleptocratic corporatocracy and the surveillance-security state.