This is all part of a long

This is all part of a long term plan to take over and force BC and Canada under corporate dictatorship.

The powers will allow the NDP/Dix to win the next elections. That will force the BCLibs to go the way of the Socreds and be taken over by the BC Conservatives, set up for this purpose by Harper.

The international controllers of the world then will destroy the BC economy with the powers already given to them by various governments, under the guise of "competitiveness", blato put BC and Canada under a globalized, corporate dictatorship, given to them by our and the world's "conservatives" as the Will of God.

At least, this is the plan, but the plans of men and mice don't always work out and the world is beginning to wake up to the fraud and enslavement.

The important question now is whether the NDP has the capacity and understanding to make use of this inevitable, gradual, worldwide awakening, or sell out to the rulers the way Labour parties have sold out all over the world ?

The communists have worked and are still working under 5 year plans, but their brother capitalists are working on much longer terms, as I've found out, talking to them in my Vancouver days 30-40 years ago.

I wonder what and how much Harper will promise and sell to China in the next few days? How about another "free trade" racket for complete takeover by India, China and the EU ?

For the purposes of "wealth creation" of course.

Ed Deak.

language

when you call ms. clarke liberal it makes me queasy. a better term for her and her associates is rump socreds. you can't fix things until you properly define the problems.

selling out BC and Canada to the corporations

Yes, we're having our province and country sold out from under us to multinational corporations.

In 20 years we won't have countries anymore, at least not in North America. Canada, the US and Mexico will have lost all sovereignty.

Unfortunately global corporations, these soulless constructs, aren't sustainable for Mother Earth. They don't work for ordinary people either, we're mere fodder to meet the needs of billionaire hedge fund managers (US, UK) and criminal overclasses (Mexico, Russia, China).

Liars, liars, liars

Well said, Rafe. This is the worst group of lying incompetents in BC's history. And Ed Deak, based on his many years of observation, explained why this gang are on the way out.

Good one Rafe!

Just imagine if we had a pit bull open-line show host like Rafe today. I guess that is why they had to get rid of him. You can't have this kind of honesty in the MSM these days as the liberal reign would have been over years ago.

The deceit of this government needs to be kept front and center until they are gone. They have squandered more political capital than any group in B.C.s history. Lying has become an art form.

You rock Fiat Lux

Rafe and Ed, thank you for the clear concise perspective on a very difficult situation we are in. The big trade agreements we are bound to have removed our sovereignty. I believe the only method to re-patriate our resources and democracy has to start at the local and regional level; if at all possible.

HST and A Balanced Budget

So, we are going to have a "balanced" budget after all - by election time. So says Mr. Falcon. Great, I guess they really plan to collect enough of the HST by that time. Meanwhile, the construction industry and restaurants, and their customers, take it on the chin. Thank you, Rafe.

"the world is beginning to wake up"

Let's hope so, Ed.

And they used to call us "conspiracy buffs".

Many many more wrongs

Good as usual, Rafe - thank goodness you are among the few people willing to try to "queer" the BCLiberals plans for re-election. But your analysis only scratches the surface.
For example, Campbell should be called to testify at the Missing Women inquiry when "His Excellency" is in town on Feb. 10 to speak to the VBoT - because as young Gordie he was chair of the Vancouver Police Board when Willy Pickton began his serial murders.
There also should be an investigation of Vanoc to see just what kinds of remuneration or kickbacks and other benefits were received by Campbell's and Clark's friends and insiders.
Campbell was arguably the worst Premier in B.C. history and may have been the most corrupt too but we may never know because Christy refuses to answer calls for any inquiries into such matters.

The MSM jump on Dix

No sooner has Adrian Dix pulled ahead of Christy Clark in the polls than the province headline reads: "Dix's priorities come with hefty price tag". And the Globe and Mail bleats:"Get ready for ‘Premier’ Adrian Dix?" - note the question mark and the quote marks around Premier, reminiscent of air quotes.

Rafe's memory is getting a tiny bit short

Here's just a couple of quotes of Rafe's regarding the "worst governments" he's ever seen in BC.

Rafe in 2000
"Bad enough that the NDP has provided the worst government in the history of this province – but to cap it off, as former Premier Dave Barrett … still, thanks to his party on the public tit … has amply demonstrated they’re a bunch of hypocrites to boot."

Rafe Mair discussing inadmissable wiretap information regarding Adrian Dix's partner Glen Clark.
"If this evidence – from what we’re told crucial evidence – is ruled inadmissible by reason of faulty procedure the public will have every right to be enraged. In fact, they have every right to be enraged that it is even an issue."

Do your own searches to read Rafe Mair's actually feelings towards the NDP in matters such as:
The Privatizing of part of BC Hydro for the benefit of NDP insiders using a tax haven in Grand Cayman.
The NDP's payoffs to victims (clients) of Moe Sihota's.
Giving an NDP insider, Jack Monroe a lucrative job running a ship building enterprise (fast ferries)

The list goes on and on and, I'm rather surprised that Rafe could make such a turn around in core beliefs in a such a short period of time.

Ed Deak

All that is is just the end product of being good at what you do. That can take many forms but the creation of wealth (actually the accumulation thereof) is inevitable simply because of the differences in human nature.

The only way to stop it, Ed is for everyone to become followers Karl Marx. That didn't work in the past and probably won't work, ever, in the future. Seems that not all communes are created equal.

Corman

All it shows is just how much worse the liberals are. You think you see something bad and then the masters of corruption and deceit set a whole new standard. I won't mention that all of the claims that you repeat have been revisited and found to be other than what was portrayed by the media. They are also now viewed in the context of the BC Liberals. By that new standard everything you repeat is a mere drop in the ocean in comparison. That is the way most people view it and that is why Christy Photo Op is desperate.

Snert...I have an over 45

Snert...I have an over 45 year record fighting communism, and need no lessons on what it is about.

Marx was a jerk, who let his kids starve to death, while his followers murdered millions.

In any case, even his teachings had nothing to do with communism, any more than the teachings of Adam Smith have anything to do with modern day capitalism.

Cooperation of free people needs no prophets, only a bit of common sense, something ignorant people who immediately associate any questioning of the crime wave of capitalism with Marxism.

Ed Deak.

Throw the bums out . . .

Fortunately for Us informed, we have a forum such as it is - alas the Tyee is much too small and sometimes unfair even to Us (this comment section is closed - no more comments) just when the discussion takes off!

Yes, We the people (in the know) realize this world is going to hell in a hand basket, but We will keep fighting these 'windmills' even IF it does Us in!

Forward and Upward ye mates!

Fiat lux

This is all part of a long term plan to take over and force BC and Canada under corporate dictatorship.

Wow, that ship has long sailed, Ed.

In the simplest of ways, what we see going on is the historic and repetitive power-play for control between a representative sovereignty and private capital.

Representative democracy lost -- or was at least destined to lose if it did not change its course (which it has not) -- before the first sunset over the founding of this nation in 1867.

Canada has never been free from the control of private capital except in words and on paper supported by the national rhetoric.

As you well know, the elephant in the room is 1) the fraud of fractional reserve banking and 2) debt-based money controlled by private power.

Canada has never been free to determine its destiny, always a lick-spittle to Empire and its financiers. We move as a nation where they dictate for at least three clear reasons:

1) we the people do not even remotely understand the law or banking/money;

2) we are propagandized from cradle to grave about our distinct nation, its history and our form of governance. What we learn is so distorted from the truth and so full of omissions that it is effectively a lie; and

3) we are repeatedly extorted to accept any sort of 'expert sounding' plan when times get hard during one of the staged business cycle downswings.

Throughout our history as a nation, I doubt 1 in 500 politicians has understood how they have been fundamentally failing at their job as representatives of the people. It's painfully obvious but not without reason: The imperialism of culture is more powerful than any army, perhaps even more powerful than the truth.

Igby....I've lived under

Igby....I've lived under every ideology and they all were selling "freedom", while enslaving and killing millions.

The nazis invaded the Soviets to "To bring them freedom, Christianity and Western civilization "

And it goes on and on through history, to the present day. The religious and ideological scriptures used for these crime waves, my differ, or oppose each other, but the leaders are always the same predators.

This is why I'm calling the leaders of both communism and capitalism brothers under the skin, as shown in the present asslicking session going on in China in the name of "trade".

In the past the lie was to "spread the word of God", "bringing freedom", now it is "wealth creation" and "trade", all ending up in enslavement.

It used to be done with arms, now with the perceived power of imaginary money used to alter facts, physical laws and dimensions to feed more power into the hands of the same rulers, from day one.

Ed Deak.