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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-225684412014-10-22T17:55:30.373-06:00BuckdogNipping Right-Wing Butt Across This Great email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-77344553990692861082014-10-22T10:00:00.000-06:002014-10-22T17:55:30.395-06:00Shooting On Parliament Hill In Ottawa !!! UPDATED

 - There have been 3 separate shooting incidents in and around the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada. Details are sketchy. Early reports that Soldier at War Memorial has died from attack.
- At least two people were shot after multiple gunmen opened fire on Parliament Hill and the nearby cenotaph.
- An arrest has been made.
- One victim appears to be a soldier. Several people were seen performing CPR.
- Another body is reported to be on the ground just outside the Library of Parliament. Dozens of shots were heard.
- Two men were seen jumping from a Toyota Corolla, followed by dozens of shots.
- Veteran Affairs Minister Julian Fantino told QMI Agency at least one of the shooters was shot and killed inside the building.
- Journalists reported police were trying to keep them away from the scene. Those inside Parliament reported they were told to stay inside rooms with the door locked.

UPDATE:

Parliament Hill came under attack today after a man with a rifle shot and fatally wounded a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, before seizing a car and driving to the doors of Parliament Hill's Centre Block nearby.
 The slain soldier is Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, 24, a reservist from Hamilton.

Watch Prime Minister Stephen Harper address the nation live

Mobile users, watch CBC News live coverage of the attacks

 Moments later, MPs and other witnesses reported 30 to 50 shots fired inside the main Parliament building.
 It was confirmed later the gunman was shot dead inside the building, felled by the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms and RCMP, according to MPs' accounts.
CBC.caemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-37036113942926210312014-10-01T10:30:00.000-06:002014-10-01T11:21:27.808-06:00Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums Sitting On $575 BILLION Hoard Thanks To Harper Conservatives Tax Cuts ....

Corporate tax freedom day continues to get earlier with each passing year thanks to generous government tax cuts, the Canadian Labour Congress says in a report issued Tuesday.
While most individual Canadians don't earn enough to pay off their taxes until sometime in late June, the labour group says the country's businesses will have reaped sufficient revenue to pay their year's share by Jan. 30.
The calculation is for 2011, but the CLC says that was two days earlier than in 2010 when it came on Feb. 1, and notes that it was not long ago when so-called "corporate tax freedom day" came much later in February.
It was likely even earlier in 2012 and will be again this year, since in 2011 Ottawa had not as yet reduced the federal corporate tax rate to 15 per cent. That was accomplished in January 2012.

Cash hoarding
The new report, released Tuesday, attempts to make the case that Canadian firms have benefited greatly from years of Conservative and Liberal government tax policies, which have cut business levies more aggressively than personal taxes.
But in response to a question in the House, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty accused the CLC of supporting higher taxes for firms and failing to acknowledge the country's record in creating jobs since the recession. He added that business investment had increased by 6.2 per cent since the 2008-09 slump.
"Our Conservative government is focused on leaving more money in the hands of investors, entrepreneurs and ultimately, growing the work force," he said.
In the new analysis, the labour group says business taxes represent only 8.3 per cent of the federal and provincial revenue in 2011, down from 8.8 per cent in 2010 and around 11 per cent in the 1960s and 1970s.
It attributes most of the change to a steady reduction in the federal corporate tax rate, from 28 per cent in 2000 to 15 per cent today. Provincial rates have also declined, but not as dramatically.
But while the rationale for reducing corporate taxes is to encourage investment and job creation, the CLC says most of the money has gone to fatten corporate bank accounts and to pay the high salaries of executives.
Quoting Statistics Canada data, the labour group notes that cash reserves held by private non-financial corporations in Canada ballooned to $575 billion in the last quarter of 2011 from $187 billion in the first quarter of 2001 — despite three of those years being deep in recessions.
Between 2010 and 2011, corporate cash reserves grew an extra $72 billion, while the federal government was reporting a $33 billion deficit.
CBC firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-50103367715027830952014-09-26T14:35:00.001-06:002014-09-26T14:35:18.131-06:00Under A Harper Conservative Government, When Canada Talks To The World ... No One Listens Anymore ...

Stephen Harper Mocked Over Empty UN General Assembly For His Speechfirstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-145134586535087632014-09-24T11:04:00.001-06:002014-10-06T09:04:53.549-06:00Andrew Scheer Is The WORST House Of Commons Speaker In The Entire History Of Canada's Parliament!!

 Speaker Scheer and the death of Parliament
By Montreal Simon
For years Stephen Harper and his Cons have been slowly killing our Parliament.
They have have debased it, they have rendered it impotent.
They have reduced it to a scripted horror show, where every question is answered with an attack on the opposition.
But yesterday with their ghastly leader out of the country they practically finished it off.
For this is what happened when Tom Mulcair rose to ask this question about Canada's mysterious mission in Iraq:
"Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has failed to answer clear questions about his ill-defined military deployment in Iraq," Mr. Mulcair said by way of preamble. "Yesterday Conservatives refused, once again, to answer in this House, but the member for Selkirk—Interlake stated on CPAC that the mission will end on October 4. Will the Conservative government confirm that the 30-day Canadian commitment in Iraq will indeed end on October 4?"
Instead of any kind of answer, he got Paul Calandra, Stephen Harper's Parliamentary Secretary.
You know the Con clown . . .

And this:
"Mr. Speaker," the parliamentary secretary said in response, "there is a great deal of confusion with respect to the NDP position on Israel."

Which as Aaron Wherry points out, was absurd enough.
For all the theoretical intents and purposes of this particular moment in the daily democratic life of our country, he might as well have stood and told the Speaker of his grocery list or read aloud from the collected works of Edgar Allan Poe. He might've stood and made farting noises with his left hand and his right armpit. Indeed, that might've at least entertained the kids watching at home.
But what happened next, when Mulcair continued his questioning, and appealed to the Speaker Andrew Scheer to ask Calandra to follow the rules of democratic decency, turned our Parliament into a cheap FARCE . . .
Yes, believe it or not, rather than ask the clown Calandra to answer the questions, or to stop turning Question Period into some kind of Con cabaret, Scheer punished Mulcair.
Removing his two remaining questions, and moving on to Justin Trudeau.
Even though Mulcair had every right to keep trying to get a serious answer about a very serious issue. He was merely asking Scheer to stop allowing Calandra to turn the House he looks down upon from his throne, into a bad joke or a fascist circus.
Or the death of our democracy. Wherry:
We might, for instance, insist on expecting that if the government of the day commits the men and women of our military to a conflict that that government should grace us with straightforward explanations for that commitment. That if our democratically elected representatives stand in the House of Commons and ask specific questions about that commitment, that those questions — questions ultimately asked on our behalf — deserve answers, not merely responses.
This is not quite rocket science. These are merely the hopey changey principles on which we aim to govern ourselves.
And who can blame Mulcair for questioning Sheer's neutrality? When he has made so many dubious decisions.
And has from the moment he sat on his throne acted and sounded like a Con robot…

Or his master's voice.
And all I can say is, before we have to hold a mirror up to the cold blue lips of our democracy, to see if it's still alive.
When we fire his maniac master . . .

 ... However, the Right leaning political columnist with the Regina Leader-Post runs to Scheers defenseemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-32444857419721938892014-09-23T19:30:00.000-06:002014-09-23T19:38:51.179-06:00Harper Refuses To Answer ANY Questions On Iraq Mission - Partisan House Of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer Refuses To Follow Rules Of The House!!

Speaker Andrew Scheer is so completely in the pocket of the Prime Minister's Office, he will not follow the Rules of the House and require the Conservative Government to adhere to some sane relevancy when answering questions in Question Periond. SHAME ON SPEAKER SCHEER!!!

Tue, Sep 23: "NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair wanted to talk about Canada's military mission in Iraq. Conservative MP Paul Calandra wanted to talk about a NDP fundraiser's inflammatory comments about Israel. What followed was an utterly bizzare exchange which ended with Mulcair questioning the Speaker of the House's integrity."
Global News

CTV Newsfirstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-66404595569984036452014-09-22T22:30:00.001-06:002014-09-23T00:00:58.414-06:00"Coming up next .. Are ISIS terrorists hiding under your bed waiting for you to fall asleep? Our experts say 'It's possible'! '

Tom Tomorrow ...

Harper condemns Isis threat on Canadians .. email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-74935279439735952292014-09-19T17:45:00.001-06:002014-09-19T18:04:48.660-06:00The New Democrats Get It Right On Iraq - Walkom

By backing Barack Obama's ill-considered war, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau have signed onto a fool's errand.

America's latest Middle East war is a fool's errand.

U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria is hastily conceived, relies on uncertain allies and risks further inflaming an already volatile region.

In Canada, the only major political party with anything resembling a sensible position on this war is Tom Mulcair's NDP.

After days of dithering, the New Democrats have decided to oppose Canadian involvement. Mulcair made that clear Tuesday night in a Commons debate.

Few noticed, so he announced it again Wednesday.

He said, correctly, that the Conservative government is committing Canadian commandos to the conflict without being clear as to what they can plausibly accomplish once they get there.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper initially said Canada would send "several dozen" special forces as "advisers" to Kurdish irregulars fighting the militants. On Tuesday, he said the number of Canadian soldiers in Iraq will be 69.

While the prime minister has said he will review the deployment in 30 days, his government's commitment to Obama's war is, to all intents and purposes, open-ended.

If Obama had a coherent strategy, this might not matter. But the U.S. president does not.

He promises to miraculously "destroy and degrade" the militants without sending U.S. troops into combat.

Yet even his top military chief, Gen. Martin Dempsey, has said that American ground forces may be needed.

The U.S. president has gathered what, on paper, appears to be an impressive coalition.

But when it comes to specifics, few members of that coalition — including Muslim states — are willing to commit themselves to much.

Their reluctance is understandable. The region in which the U.S. wants to operate is a quagmire characterized by shifting alliances among actors with dubious aims.

Turkey, for instance, has no love for the Islamic State. But it also opposes the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad (which the Islamic State is fighting).

As well, Turkey is deeply suspicious of Western efforts to arm and train Kurdish militias, some of which it views as terrorist.

The U.S. is pinning its hopes on the training and arming of so-called Syrian moderates. But it is not clear that there are any moderates left in the bloody, sectarian Syrian civil war.

Indeed, Washington's approach to Syria is reminiscent of its strategy in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

American support of allegedly pro-Western militias there helped to tip the country into anarchy and, ultimately, paved the way for the Taliban to take power.

Meanwhile, Obama's Western allies are careful to play to their home audiences.

French President François Hollande, deeply unpopular at home for his handling of the economy, is trying to burnish his image by authorizing air strikes against militants in Iraq. But he has ruled out taking this air war to Islamic State bases in Syria.

Australia, like Canada, is sending commandos to Iraq. Like Harper, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott claims that these 600 battle-tested soldiers will act as advisers only.

In Canada, the Afghan experience has made the politics of war particularly difficult.

Harper can gain advantage with some voters by portraying himself as a serious international player willing to wage war.

Yet it is best for him if the details and contradictions of this particular war — including any casualties — are obscured.

Justin Trudeau's Liberals take pride in the fact that it was their party's government that, officially at least, refused to take part in the last Iraq war.

But the Liberals are also reluctant to be seen as soft on jihadists who cut off heads.

From this comes Trudeau's somewhat confused position. He says he will support the current mission "as designed," as long as "we continue to have parliamentary oversight."

Yet no one outside government knows the exact design of the current mission. And there is no parliamentary oversight.

Harper has made it clear that as far as this war is concerned, the government will do as it wishes, regardless of what MPs think. Parliament be damned.
Thomas Walkom The Staremail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-81837350942616488482014-09-17T00:54:00.001-06:002014-09-17T00:54:26.509-06:00Scotland Aye!!

Aye!!
email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-89908389510060597152014-09-16T10:17:00.002-06:002014-09-16T10:31:47.793-06:00Saskatchewan Taxpayers Cough Up Millions To Open Doors For Premier Brad Wall With American Republican Lawmakers

 By: Les Whittington Star Ottawa Bureau reporter, Laurent Bastien Corbeil Staff Reporter,  Published on Mon Sep 15 2014

OTTAWA—When it comes to rubbing shoulders with movers and shakers in the halls of power in the United States, few governments are better represented than that of a place many Americans have never heard of — Saskatchewan.

Since 2009, Premier Brad Wall's government and Saskatchewan agencies have paid more than $3 million to a U.S. law firm to fund an ambitious lobbying onslaught in Washington, D.C., on the long-stalled Keystone pipeline proposal and other energy and trade issues.

The law firm Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough has helped the premier work the halls of Congress, hobnob with the cream of U.S. policy-makers and introduce himself to the American media-government establishment. In some cases, members of the U.S. Congress who met with Wall received political contributions from Nelson Mullins before or after their contact with the premier, according to U.S. government documents.

Public records filed under the U.S. Foreign Agents Registration Act sketch the lobbying campaign. In April 2009, the law firm reported: "Outreach to CNN producer Michelle Jaconi suggesting she keep on file the biography of Premier Brad Wall and consider him for guest booking for CNN shows" on climate change and trade issues.

A key member of the Nelson Mullins team is David Wilkins, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada.

In May 2009, staffers at Nelson Mullins were busy with "outreach to (U.S.) Western Governors' Association to promote Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall for speaking opportunity at Western Governors' Association meeting in Utah."

A month later, the law firm reported it had contacted several major U.S. newspapers to disseminate an opinion piece co-written by Wall and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer on a joint carbon-capture-and-storage project.

Since then, Nelson Mullins' efforts to advance Saskatchewan's interests have covered a wide range of activities: Obtaining media coverage for Wall on his visits to China and India as well as the U.S., arranging speaking engagements in the U.S. for the premier and helping him pressure U.S. President Barack Obama to approve Keystone. The latter strategy included a letter signed by Wall and the governors of 10 U.S. states urging Obama to give Keystone the go-ahead.

While the Keystone pipeline would carry oilsands-derived crude to the U.S. from Alberta, Saskatchewan also stands to benefit if the project goes ahead. Petroleum producers in Saskatchewan are losing $2.5 billion annually because of depressed prices resulting from a North American oil surplus, Wall's office says. This costs the provincial government $300 million a year in lost revenues. Opening a new export pipeline would push up prices for oil producers in Saskatchewan and other provinces.

Wall has always been open about his province's lobbying contract with Nelson Mullins and believes Wilkins and others there have performed well on Saskatchewan's behalf, a government spokesperson said.

In the past five years, the law firm has used its connections to throw open the doors of some of Washington's most sought-after lawmakers and White House officials for Wall and other Saskatchewan cabinet ministers.

And U.S. Department of Justice documents show lawmakers who met with Wall were in some cases the beneficiaries of political contributions by Nelson Mullins.

There is no indication any of the money donated to members of Congress lobbied by Nelson Mullins came from the Saskatchewan government. The law firm was working for other clients while it worked for Wall. Nelson Mullins regularly makes political contributions to dozens of lawmakers in the U.S. and such political contributions are legal under U.S. election financing rules.

Wilkins declined repeated requests for interviews about his relationship with the premier and the Saskatchewan government. However, he has said in the past, in relation to political contributions to a member of Congress, that he has never expected any recipient of a political contribution to take any particular action in response. U.S. lawmakers contacted by the Star also did not return the Star's requests for comments.

Nelson Mullins was particularly active on behalf of Wall when he visited Washington in the first week of March. At that time, there was a peak in the high-stakes struggle in Washington over Keystone. With Obama's long-awaited yes-or-no decision on the $7-billion pipeline thought to be imminent, Wall made another of his regular visits to the U.S. capital and as usual turned to Wilkins to set up his lobbying contacts.

Nelson Mullins arranged for Wall to meet 10 members of Congress to discuss Keystone, according to records collected under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Among those with whom Wall met to talk about the controversial pipeline project was John Boehner, the powerful Republican speaker of the House of Representatives. A smiling Wall posed for a photograph with Boehner and Wilkins that subsequently ran in a Nelson Mullins newsletter. The following Monday after the Wall-Boehner meeting, Wilkins' law firm provided Boehner with a $2,000 political donation, according to the U.S. records.

Boehner, a longtime supporter of Keystone, had presided over several House votes meant to pressure Obama to approve the pipeline's construction. And in April when Obama again postponed a final yes-or-no ruling on Keystone, Boehner labelled the move "shameful" and vowed to keep pressing the administration to "move forward" on a decision.
...Star article continues ....email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-52264165233380345902014-09-16T06:00:00.000-06:002014-09-16T07:44:01.545-06:00Can We TRUST The RCMP's Warning On Threats To The Oil Industry?

Environmental extremism a rising threat to energy sector, RCMP warns!
September 14, 2014

RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign

Jan 30, 1999

#STUFFtheMSMwontASKtheRCMP
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-15811061417075115702014-09-15T21:00:00.000-06:002014-09-15T21:26:54.444-06:00I Agree With Willie On The Issue Of Scottish Independence !!
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Free Scotlandemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-7600718275145518602014-09-14T08:12:00.001-06:002014-09-14T08:22:20.276-06:00World Shocked At ISIS Beheadings ... while our ally Saudi Arabia continues to whack heads off routinely as part of their justice system!

"In the space of two weeks last month, according to the rights group Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia executed as many as 22 people. At least eight of those executed were beheaded, U.N. observers say. It appears that the majority of those executed in August were guilty of nonlethal crimes, including drug trafficking, adultery, apostasy and "sorcery." Four members of one family, Amnesty reports, were beheaded for "receiving drugs." [...] last year, a reported shortage of trained swordsmen led to some hope that the practice could wane, but recent evidence suggests otherwise. It's an uncomfortable irony given that the United States' current military mobilization was triggered after the Islamic State beheaded two American journalists."Beheading as a form of execution is cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and prohibited under international law under all circumstances," said Juan Méndez, a U.N. special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, at a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday. "
Washington Post

Editorial note: This post in no way is intended to be defensive of ISIS and its abhorrent practices. It is intended to show that we traveled  'down the rabbit hole' a long time ago in our dealings with the oil rich Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as our 'ally'.  According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), at least 69 people were executed by beheading in 2012firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-35035704166794643562014-08-29T09:30:00.000-06:002014-08-29T09:41:24.527-06:00Canada Slips From Most Developed Nation In The World To 11th Place Because Of Stephen Harper And The Conservatives .. Shame!!

Canada has slipped out of the top 10 countries listed in the annual United Nation's human development index — a far cry from the 1990s when it held the first place for most of the decade.
The 2013 report, which reviews a country's performance in health, education and income, places Canada in 11th place versus 10th last year.
A closer look at the trends shows Canada actually did better than last year, but other countries such as Japan and Australia improved at a greater rate.
When the numbers are adjusted for gender inequality, Canada slumps to 18th place. The United States fares even worse -- sinking from third to 42nd place.
"I think it's really sad to see that we've dropped so far under the Conservatives," said deputy NDP leader Megan Leslie.
"And I think it reinforces what the NDP has been saying, but also what organizations like the Conference Board of Canada have been saying, about the fact that there's a growing income inequality gap in Canada.
"That gap creates serious problems, and I don't think the Conservatives have been taking it seriously."
The Prime Minister's Office did not respond to a request for comment on the rankings.

Southern nations on the rise
The main finding of the report, entitled "The Rise of the South," is a positive one on a global scale. It says that countries that had previously struggled with poverty and inequality are now on a steady developmental climb.
It says Brazil, China and India's combined gross domestic product is now about equal to the combined GDP of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States.
"When dozens of countries and billions of people move up the development ladder, as they are doing today, it has a direct impact on wealth creation and broader human progress in all countries and regions of the world," says the report.
Even the countries at the bottom of the development list, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo, are among those who showed the greatest improvement.

 The UN Development Program credits three factors for the developmental gains. It says southern nations are being proactive and pragmatic in developing policies for their private and public sectors. The countries are also tapping into global markets, and investing in social programs.
Maurice Kugler, head of research and analysis for the UN Development Program's report, said the gains in human development do not signify an end to inequalities in these countries. The gap between the rich and poor is stubbornly resilient — Kugler says only in Latin America has it shrunk.
"If inequality persists, that engenders social and political instability, and it's very important to address this issue of inequality to be able to have sustainable human development in the future," said Kugler.
The report goes on to suggest that multilateral, international organizations should be reformed to include better representation from the southern hemisphere.
"If they are to survive, international institutions need to be more representative, transparent and accountable," said the report.
"Indeed, some intergovernmental processes would be invigorated by greater participation from the South, which can bring substantial financial, technological and human resources."

 CBC News email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-80590455935422691342014-08-28T19:00:00.000-06:002014-08-29T10:31:20.226-06:00Stephen Harper's Deranged Thought Process Is Based On Highly Flawed Right Wing Ideology

 By: Jakeet Singh

Tue Aug 26 2014

Stephen Harper really seems to have it out for sociology. In 2013, in response to an alleged plot against a VIA train, Harper remarked that we should not "commit sociology," but pursue an anti-crime approach. And last week, in response to the death of Tina Fontaine, Harper argued that an inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women is not needed, because this is not a "  sociological phenomenon  " but simply a series of individual crimes.

Of course, not only is  all crime a sociological phenomenon  , but also without a broader sociological analysis we can't begin to understand why the rates of missing and murdered indigenous women are tragically high compared to non-indigenous women. Furthermore, it's clear that if rates of violence against non-indigenous women climbed as high as those of indigenous women, this government (even with its woeful record on women's issues) would be more likely to announce not only a public inquiry but a full-scale national strategy. (This double-standard in how we value human lives is what sociologists call "racism.")

Harper's two disparaging comments about sociology, however, also need to be understood alongside his gutting of the long-form census in 2010. It is widely accepted that this action fundamentally undermined Canada's ability to understand its own demographics, long-term social trends, and inequalities — in short, its sociology.

So what does Harper have against sociology? First, Harper is clearly trumpeting a standard component of neo-liberal ideology: that there are no social phenomena, only individual incidents. (This ideology traces back to Margaret Thatcher's famous claim that "there is no such thing as society.") Neo-liberalism paints all social problems as individual problems. The benefit of this for those who share Harper's agenda, of course, is that if there are no social problems or solutions, then there is little need for government. Individuals are solely responsible for the problems they face.

This ideology is so seductive not only because it radically simplifies our world, but also because it mirrors the two social institutions neo-liberals actually believe in — the "free" market and law and order. Everything is reduced to either a simplistic market transaction or a criminal case. In the former, you either have the money to buy stuff, or you don't and it's up to you to get more. In the latter, a lone individual is personally responsible for a crime and is punished for it. Easy peasy. No sociology needed.

But there's yet another reason this ideology is so hostile toward the kind of sociological analysis done by Statistics Canada, public inquiries and the like. And that has to do with the type of injustices we can even conceive of, or consider tackling, as a society.

You see, sociologists often differentiate between "personal injustices" and "systemic" or "structural injustices." Personal injustices can be traced back to concrete actions of particular individuals (perpetrators). These actions are often wilful, and have a relatively isolated victim.

Structural injustices, on the other hand, are produced by a social structure or system. They are often hard to trace back to the actions of specific individuals, are usually not explicitly intended by anyone, and have collective, rather than isolated, victims. Structural injustices are a result of the unintended actions of many individuals participating in a social system together, usually without knowing what each other is doing. Whereas personal injustices are traced back to the harmful actions (or inactions) of individuals, structural injustices are identified by differential societal outcomes among groups. Sociologists call these "social inequalities."

And therein lies the rub. Perhaps the key difference between personal and structural injustices is that the latter are only clearly identifiable through macro-level societal analysis — that is, sociology. This is because a) there are no clear perpetrators with whom to identify the injustice and assign responsibility; and b) while structural injustices do generate concrete harms and victims, we often only learn about the collective nature of the injustice through statistical inquiry, or by identifying social/demographic patterns over time.

What should be clear, then, is that Harper's seemingly bizarre vendetta against sociology is actually an ideological attempt to prevent Canadian society from being able to identify, and tackle, its structural injustices. Without large-scale sociological analyses, we can't recognize the pervasive, entrenched social inequalities that these analyses reveal. And because structural injustices are actually generated by our social systems, both their causes and solutions are social.

Thus, when we paint all social problems as individual problems with individual solutions, we also lose any sense of the social responsibility, rather than personal responsibility, that we need to address them.

The payoff in all this for Harper and other neo-liberals is that the kinds of injustices this ideology is particularly good at creating are precisely structural injustices. Indeed, one of neo-liberalism's greatest capacities is to generate systemic inequalities that are not easily identifiable, in fact are rather difficult to discern, on the level of personal interactions and isolated cases. Harper's attack on sociology, then, should be viewed not only as an attempt to further his ideology, but to cover the social damage that is left in its wake.

  Jakeet Singh  is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics & Government at Illinois State University.
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-65318250083126226632014-08-22T08:05:00.004-06:002014-08-22T08:05:44.346-06:00Remembering Jack ....
No One Had More Fun Doing Segments On 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes' Than Jack email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-13073561035256085652014-08-21T18:30:00.000-06:002014-08-21T20:57:23.295-06:00Federal documents show Harper's Conservatives are thwarting scientists' efforts to keep Canadians informed on Arctic ice levels

Federal scientists who keep a close eye on the Arctic ice would like to routinely brief Canadians about extraordinary events unfolding in the North.
But newly released federal documents show the Harper government has been thwarting their efforts.
In 2012, as the Arctic ice hit the lowest point ever recorded, scientists at the Canadian Ice Service were keen to tell Canadians about the stunning ice loss.
"Less ice doesn't mean less danger. In fact the opposite is true and there is greater need for ice information," Leah Braithwaite, the service's chief of applied science said in an August 2012 memo to Norman Naylor, a strategic communications adviser at Environment Canada.
Braithwaite and her colleagues — aware of the national and international interest in the shrinking polar ice — wanted to hold a "strictly factual" technical briefing for the media to inform Canadians how the ice had disappeared from not only the Northwest Passage but many normally ice-choked parts of the Arctic.
The briefing never happened. Nine levels of approval — from the director of the ice service up to the environment minister's office — were needed for the "communication plan," according to the documents released to Postmedia News under the Access to Information Act.
"Ministerial services" — the sixth layer — cancelled the briefing, the documents say. And the ice service scientists ended up watching as the Canadian media and public got most of their information from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), where scientists were quick to give interviews, hold briefings and issue press releases as the ice shattered records as it melted from Baffin Island to the Beaufort Sea.
Environment Canada did not immediately respond to written questions sent on Monday about the cancelled briefing. The Privy Council Office (PCO) said any response would come from Environment Canada.
Observers say the case is further evidence of the way the Conservative government is silencing scientists.
"It's suppression through bureaucracy," said Katie Gibbs, executive director of Evidence for Democracy (E4D), an Ottawa-based non-profit pushing for open communication of government science.
"Why is it that we need nine levels of approval for this sort of thing, what's the justification," said biologist Scott Findlay, a co-founder of E4D and member of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa.
He said the government's "Byzantine message control" is not only wasting time, money and resources, but having a "corrosive" effect on the public service.
He said federal scientists are professionals and the government should trust them to interact with the media and release information that is in the public interest, such as conditions and changes in the Arctic ice.

The government has repeatedly said it is "not muzzling" or silencing scientists, but the federal information commissioner's office is investigating a complaint filed by Democracy Watch and the Environmental Law Centre at the University of Victoria that the government has been obstructing "the right of the media — and through them, the Canadian public — to timely access to government scientists." The commissioner's findings are expected later this year.

The Canadian Ice Service uses satellites, aircraft and ships to monitor the vast expanse of northern ice and water. It warns of icebergs and navigation hazards and collects data on ice conditions that can have a big impact on the weather.
"What goes on in the Arctic has implications for all Canadians," says one document explaining the rationale for the proposed 2012 briefing.
"(The) goal of the media tech briefing is to accurately report what occurred this past summer in the Canadian Arctic and not just report on the American National Science and Ice Data Center information, " says another email, noting that the media coverage had been "missing the Canadian details."
Braithwaite recommended that "we seek approval to provide Media Tech briefings" on the Arctic ice every spring and fall on a "routine basis similar to the Hurricane Centre," which regularly holds briefings.
"We are 'weather' too!," Braithwaite said, a sentiment echoed by Sheena Carrigan, a communication manager at the Meteorological Service of Canada.
"If the Hurricane Centre can do media tech briefings, then so should (the) Ice Service," Carrigan said.
Such briefings do not take place and the documents show the one planned to mark the record ice melt in 2012 was cancelled after weeks of preparation.
The 449 pages of documents are heavily redacted and don't say why the briefing was cancelled. But they do show the scientists trying to open the lines of communication.
In mid-August of 2012, a month before the ice hit its low, David Jackson, ice service's director, sent a "heads up" to the Environment Canada's communications branch alerting them that it "seems to be shaping up for a potential record low this year."
Environment Canada's communication branch began working with the ice service to plan the media briefing and prepare "media lines."
The "media lines" needed approval from not only the department's communication branch, but also the office of then-environment minister Peter Kent as well as the PCO, an arm of the prime minster's office, the documents show.
As the scientists waited for approvals, the polar ice continued to melt away and their colleagues at the U.S. NSIDC sprang into action. They held a briefing on Aug. 27 to announce the Arctic ice had shrunk to the smallest size since tracking of the polar cap began 30 years ago.
The Canadian Ice Service scientists had plenty to add, but the documents show they could not even issue a statement without clearance from PCO communications.
"We won't get a statement approved by PCO Comms today," Carrigan informed the ice service after the Americans had briefed the media. The polar ice had passed previous melt records in August, the NSIDC said, and would shrink even more before it hit the low for the year.
Then, on Sept. 19, as the Canadians continued to plan and seek approvals for their briefing, the Americans announced the ice had hit the 2012 minimum, shattering previous records.
"This story is breaking news today based on the NSIDC's news release," Canadian ice forecaster Trudy Wohlleben said in an Sept. 19 email, pointing to 420 news articles that had popped on Google News and Canadian media outlets, including the National Post and Montreal Gazette.
"Next week's tech briefing will be too late, I think," said Wohlleben said of the Canadian briefing.
Her colleague Claude Dicaire was asked by the CBC to do an on-camera interview, but approval didn't come through in time. Instead, as he noted a Sept. 21 email, the U.S. NSIDC and its "big logo" made a big splash on the national TV news.
Braithwaite also lamented the "missed" interview opportunity. "Sometimes the best laid plans just don't pan out the way we hope," she said.
Even though the news had already made headlines around the world, Environment Canada's communication branch continued to work on plans and approvals for the Canadian briefing, before it was cancelled on Sept. 25 by ministerial services.
A week later, on Oct. 3, Kristina Fickes, a senior communication adviser at Environment Canada, was looking for approval to tweet that the "Canadian Arctic ice reached record low in summer 2012." By then, the ice was already freezing up again for the winter season.
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firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-43561389166585864722014-08-04T17:27:00.001-06:002014-08-04T18:01:05.487-06:00World War One ... historical stupidity that seemed like a good idea at the time

I see that the Canadians are being brainwashed into thinking that World War One was a great and glorious moment in Canadian history. You are being told that Canadian soldiers died for Canada's 'freedom' during the First World War ... to 'protect and preserve our nation'. Nonsense!!!

Any one with even a fleeting knowledge of history will struggle with this interpretation of the pointless, meaningless conflict known as 'the First World War'.

Stop any citizen on the street and ask them what the reason for the First World War was ... and see if they know. Essentially, three Royal 'cousins' ... England's King George V - Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II - Russia's Czar Nicholas II (all three were grandsons of Queen Victoria) ... had a royal 'family feud'.

Here is what triggered World War One:
-In June, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated by a Serb.
-The Austria-Hungarian Empire retaliated against the Kingdom of Serbia.
-The Russian Empire told Austria-Hungary to keep hands off Serbia.
-Austrian-Hungarian Empire said 'screw you' ... declared war on Russia.
-The German Empire joined with Austia-Hungary.
-England joined with Russia and France... Canada was automatically at war because Britain was in a state of war.
-All hell breaks loose ... 20 million people DIE.

In all of this, I am not sure how Canada was threatened as a nation. I am not sure why 67,000 Canadians died (4000 from Saskatchewan) in mud filled trenches in Europe. It seemed like a good idea at the time. In reality, it was an idiotic bloodbath.

Canada's victory in taking Vimy Ridge from the Germans was a moment of great pride for a young nation that found itself at war automatically because of it's almost colonial ties to Britain. Thirty-six hundred Canadians died at Vimy Ridge and almost 10,000 were wounded. Courage? Absolutely! Worth the sacrifice? In a conflict involving European royal families, corporate interests and imperial spoils ... I'd say no. Again, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

A century later, our government has been struggling to bring meaning and reason to the death of Canadian soldiers in the pointless war in Afghanistan. Our Conservative government has a record of praising our troops while they are in uniform but promptly ditching responsibility for them when they arrive back in Canada as 'veterans'.

I do NOT doubt the courage of Canada's armed forces. I doubt only those who continue to propagandize the 'need' for armed conflict and the death of young men and women who get caught up in feelings of patriotism.

War is primitive. It is neanderthal. Shame on those, in the modern era, who jump to war as a first option, without any attempts at alternate resolution.

firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-16132035936912617922014-07-19T12:38:00.001-06:002014-07-19T12:38:09.713-06:00How Stephen Harper AND The Conservative Party LIE To You Every Day And The MSM Backs Up Their Bullshit ....

REGINA — So much of what many Canadians consider conventional wisdom is what Henry Ford used to call 'history': mostly bunk.

I'm talking about statements like the Harper Conservatives are the best party to manage the economy, or that internal trade barriers are costing the Canadian economy $50 billion a year, or that carbon taxes are killers of investment, economic activity and jobs.

Each of these statements has been widely circulated in the media recently, so much so that they appear to be self-evident truths. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.

Let's look at the first proposition: That the Harper Conservatives are the best party to manage the economy. This assertion is based on the assumption that Canada is doing well, economically speaking, and that the Conservatives deserve much of the credit for that.

The Harper government has repeatedly boasted that Canada has the best job creation record in G7. Recently in Calgary, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated: "Since the recession, the Canadian economy has created almost 1.1 million net new jobs, … overwhelmingly full-time, high-paying, private-sector jobs …"
Unfortunately, recent job numbers cast doubt on that assertion. Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey reported the economy actually lost 9,400 jobs in June and the unemployment rate increased to 7.1 per cent. But let's look at the bigger picture.

In the past year, Canada's economy added just 72,000 net new jobs — most of that in Alberta. That compares to the average level of job creation of 214,000 per 12-month period dating back to 1977. In other words, Canada is creating jobs at one-third the average rate of the last four decades.
What kind of jobs? Looking at January's job numbers, of the 99,000 jobs created in 2013, 95 per cent were part-time jobs. Hardly the "full-time, high-paying jobs'' of Harper's description.

What about the statement that internal trade barriers cost the Canadian economy $50 billion a year? Industry Canada recently used the figure in a press release. Premier Brad Wall gave lip service to the number in a recent story in the Globe & Mail. But where does the number come from?

Well, Canadian Press reporter Julian Beltrame recently tracked down the source of the $50 billion figure to some off-the-wall comments in 2006 by former Conservative senator David Angus. "It may be $50 billion,'' Angus told a senate committee, but later admitted he was "taking high numbers out of the air" to make a point. In other words, it's pure, 100 per cent baloney, according to Canadian Press's Baloney Meter.

Likewise, comments last month by Harper and his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott about "job-killing carbon taxes'' are also based on purest thin air. Last month, Harper praised Abbott for promising to cut Australia's carbon tax, which was brought in 2012, but met with widespread consumer resistance because of disinformation campaigns by industry, public misconceptions about the cost of the tax (they thought it was twice as costly as it was) and steep increases in electricity bills by utilities investing in infrastructure.

But closer to home, B.C. has had a carbon tax since 2008, which has successfully lowered fuel use by 16 per cent, while actually lowering B.C. taxpayers' income tax bill by $760 million a year, thanks to personal and corporate income tax cuts to offset the carbon tax revenue.

In fact, the revenue-neutral carbon tax has done exactly what economists predicted it would: reduced the burning of fossil fuels and shifted economic activity away from carbon consumption and production. Since 2008, B.C.'s economy has slightly outperformed the rest of Canada. "The idea that a carbon tax hurts the economy is a myth,'' said Stewart Elgie, a University of Ottawa law and economics professor and chair of Sustainable Prosperity.

Yet whenever anybody, like Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, talks about the need for carbon pricing, the Harper government comes down on them like a tonne of GHG emissions. Recently, Finance Minister Joe Oliver called Trudeau's call for carbon pricing a "multi-billion tax on everything'' that will undermine Canada's competitiveness.

This is an exact echo of Harper's demonization of former Liberal leader Stephane Dion's carbon tax as a "tax on everything.''

But just because somebody repeats something doesn't make it right.
Bruce Johnstone
Business Editor
Regina Leader Post

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-84650956177259070502014-07-18T13:49:00.001-06:002014-07-18T16:26:41.745-06:00As Bad As Things Are For Mike Duffy ... They Look Even Worse For Stephen Harper

 Stephen Harper, without public consultation or election, hand picked and anointed Mike Duffy to be a Canadian Senator. No matter what Mike Duffy did .. Stephen Harper committed the undemocratic actions that set this whole sorry mess in play.

He should bear considerable responsibility.

'Mike Duffy's defence could put Harper on hot seat' - Kady O'Malley, CBC News

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-54837812101299668402014-06-10T13:08:00.003-06:002014-06-10T13:09:20.476-06:00Tax Revenues Up - Crime Down in Washington and Colorado With Pot Reform ..

Too bad that Stephen Harper doesn't take note ...

Colorado

Washington

email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-6843477692934781762014-06-05T13:11:00.002-06:002014-06-05T13:30:50.239-06:00Thoughts On The Murder Of RCMP Officers In New Brunswick ...

I live within two blocks of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Academy in Regina, Saskatchewan. Every single member of the RCMP has received their training here at the RCMP Depot. The history of this facility and location dates back to the days of the old North West Mounted Police and the Riel Rebellion.

Living in such close proximity to the training academy, it's a routine sight for me to see the raw, short haired recruits jogging their daily quota of kilometers as part of basic training. I own two dogs and we walk twice every day along the banks of Wascana Creek beside the RCMP property. It's been 19 years that I have been waving to these energetic young trainees. Some say hi .. some stop for a moment to pet my dogs .. all give a nod of the head or some other acknowledgement.

On days like today, when Canada mourns the tragic murder of three RCMP officers in New Brunswick, I always feel real sorrow. Seeing and interacting with these young dedicated recruits, i know well what has been lost.

I don't know the names of the three murdered RCMP officers. I don't know if we've ever waved or nodded. But I lost three old neighbors today. email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-80373097164666895652014-06-01T22:50:00.002-06:002014-06-01T22:52:56.390-06:00Leader Cam Broten Receives Massive Endorsement At Sask NDP Convention

Saskatchewan NDP gives leader 98.7 per cent approval at party convention

MOOSE JAW, Sask. – The leader of Saskatchewan's Opposition has received an overwhelming endorsement at his party's convention in Moose Jaw.
NDP delegates voted 98.7 per cent to approve Cam Broten's leadership on Saturday.
The leadership review by secret ballot was required by the party's constitution.

Broten says the party will continue to focus on what is important to Saskatchewan families, including health care and education.

A detailed platform will be released closer to the next provincial election expected for 2016.
The Saskatchewan NDP currently has nine seats.

"I'm very happy to have the strong support of the party in the vote that we had," said Broten.
"I feel we've made a lot of progress over the last year."

Broten said in addition to health and education, the party will focus on what he called a "sense of entitlement" that has taken hold with the Saskatchewan Party government, pointing to expense scandals in the recent spring sitting.

He said people raise those issues to him as he travels throughout the province.

"Members are excited and looking forward to carrying on the work in local communities," he said. "It's been a really good time for us as a party here this weekend reflecting on the hard work that we've done last year, the building that we've done and really looking ahead to the work that we have to do."
iPoliticsemail@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-68733334923648533562014-05-30T08:42:00.000-06:002014-05-30T08:42:26.379-06:00'Holding Brad Wall Accountable' - Sask New Democrats Meet In Annual Convention

Saskatchewan's New Democrats are holding their annual convention this weekend in the friendly city of Moose Jaw. Party Leader Cam Broten has signaled that New Democrats are ready and able to hold Brad Wall accountable for the fact that his so called 'boom' has busted for many citizens of the province. The hype built up about the prosperity simply does not match with reality.

The following letter to the editor appears in the Yorkton News Review:

 May 28, 2014

 To the Editor:This spring session, the Saskatchewan NDP's focus was on the government's neglect of the basics in health care, seniors care and education.I believe people should be benefitting more from our province's strong economy, but the reality for far too many hardworking families right now is that extra costs just keep piling up while the services we should all be able to count on are getting worse because of this government's dismissive approach.The government's own statistics show that health care is getting worse under its watch. With more and more concerns being raised about the quality of seniors care, the NDP pushed the government to fix the basics in health care and seniors care, instead of investing well over $100 million into its Lean pet project.As a positive step toward fixing the seniors care crisis, the NDP introduced legislation that would have required the government to establish minimum quality of care standards and a residents-in-care bill of rights. The government voted unanimously against the NDP's bill, despite its own Law Reform Commission recommending such legislation.The NDP also pushed the government to fix the basics in our education system, like overcrowded classrooms, schools that desperately need repairs and students that are not getting the one-on-one attention they need.The NDP called on the government to reverse the "Lean initiative claw back" – the government's new plan to rip education funding out of classrooms to force teachers and students to do more with their already stretched budgets.The government's growing sense of entitlement was also on display during the spring session. The NDP exposed inappropriate travel expenses of Deputy Premier Ken Krawetz and Social Services Minister June Draude.Throughout the spring session, we worked hard to bring forward the important issues we've been hearing about from Saskatchewan families. Over the coming months, we will continue reaching out across the province, listening to concerns and ideas, and holding the government to account, not only for what it does but also for what it neglects to do.Cam Broten, Leader of the Official Opposition, Sask. NDP.email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-83103558679539908272014-05-22T11:16:00.001-06:002014-05-22T11:16:07.609-06:00Conservative Governments AND Soiled Diapers Should Be Changed And Thrown Out Often ! (for the same reasons)

... just sayin' ... email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-22568441.post-52637113011692533362014-05-05T19:27:00.001-06:002014-05-05T19:27:30.829-06:00On this day - May 5, 1877 - Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux Cross Into Saskatchewan To Escape Genocide By American Troops

On This Day (May 5, 1877) Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux Sitting Bull refused to surrender to genocidal American troops and led his band across the border into what is now Saskatchewan, Canada.

Chief Sitting Bull remained in exile in Saskatchewan (then part of the Northwest Territories) for many years. His band lived near Wood Mountain, Sask. Sitting Bull refused a subsequent pardon and the chance to return to the USA.

In 1881 hunger and cold eventually forced Sitting Bull, his family, and nearly 200 other Sioux in his band to return to the United States and surrender.

Chief Sitting Bull is notable in American and Native American history for his role in the major victory at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment on June 25, 1876, where Sitting Bull's premonition of defeating the cavalry became reality.email@example.com


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As the preferred supplier for Tower Hamlets, Randstad Education are proud to be working in partnership with a beautiful nursery school which has been accredited by Ofsted as being Outstanding.
The school is an ethnically diverse nursery that due to its success is heavily over subscribed. The community ethos at the school is evident from the moment you walk through the door. The staff turnover is minimal however they require regular supply teachers to cover pre planned and sickness absence. The nursery is 3 form entry which has up to 100 pupils at any one time, split equally between morning and afternoon sessions.
The school has a unique out door area which is used in rain, wind and shine so any one wanting to teach there must be willing to stick on a pair of boots and get stuck in with the outdoor area being used as an additional classroom. This is a nursery school which believes in educational play and although pupils are assigned to a 'class' they have the run of the 3 specially designed classroom which have technology, science, reading and home areas.
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Robin Lake will be presenting in this session on the role of charter schools in overhauling school districts.
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Robin Lake is Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, at the University of Washington Bothell. She is internationally recognized for her research and analysis of U.S. public school system reforms, including charter schools and charter management organizations; innovation and scale; portfolio school districts; school turnaround efforts; and performance-based accountability systems.
Ms. Lake has authored numerous studies and provided expert testimony and technical assistance on charter schools and urban reform. She is the editor of Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs (CRPE, 2010) and editor of the annual report, Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools. She co-authored, with Paul Hill, Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education (Brookings 2002). She has provided invited testimonies to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee as well as various state legislatures. She presents regularly at conferences and summits around the United States, and has advised on charter school implementation in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Lake serves as a board member or advisor to various organizations, including the Journal of School Choice, the National Center on Special Education in Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and the National Charter School Resource Center.
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Lockheed Martin named new leaders for its Fort Worth-based aeronautics business and its F-35 fighter jet program as the company faces pressure to cut the plane's costs.Orlando Carvalho, 54, becomes executive vice president in charge of aeronautics, Lockheed said in a statement Monday afternoon. Carvalho, who has run the F-35 program since 2012, replaced Larry Lawson, 55, who is retiring.Lorraine Martin, 50, who was Carvalho's deputy, takes over responsibility for the fighter jet program, becoming the fourth manager for the program since President Barack Obama took office.The estimated cost for a fleet of 2,443 of the fighters has climbed to $395.7 billion, a 70 percent increase since 2001, and Pentagon officials have been critical of Lockheed's management of the program.Air Force Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, the top defense official overseeing the F-35, said at an appearance at an Australian air show last month that the company was trying to "squeeze every nickel" out of the Defense Department. In subsequent comments, Bogdan said Lockheed got the message."What you should have inferred from my comments" was that "I need everybody" connected with the program "to worry about affordability," Bogdan said March 5 at a defense industry conference in Arlington, Va. "That was a shot across the bow because I have been slightly frustrated with real results, real actions that need to happen to reduce costs."Carvalho, who will head the division that also makes F-16 jets and C-130 cargo planes, is well-regarded by the Pentagon's F-35 program office, said a defense official close to the program who asked not to be named. He is seen as someone outside the company's traditional aeronautics unit background who will instill disciplined business processes in the program, the official said.The official also said Carvalho brings a more personable approach to negotiations with the Pentagon.Asked if Lawson, who has worked at Lockheed for 26 years, left because of differences with the Pentagon, Jennifer Allen, a spokeswoman for the company, said he departed for personal reasons.About 14,000 people work at Lockheed's west Fort Worth facility, including 6,000 directly involved in the F-35 program.
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So I needed something a little bit special to round of this 5 of the best series on properties under £300,000, and having soaked in an urban vista with the previous post, I felt that number 5 should offer a complete contrast. And here it is: Creag Dearg, which has a stunning setting on the Applecross Peninsula on Scotland's west coast. This area is well known for its natural beauty and the cottage is just a short walk from the spectacular coastline with its sheltered harbours and pristine sandy beaches. If you were ever looking for a spot to get away from it all, this is it.
Needless to say perhaps, this location is also known for its wildlife, and you'll find a seal watching area just 100 metres from the house. Creag Dearg has been in the same family since it was built in the mid-1950s, and the cottage has recently been refurbished and also extended to create a comfortable and modern home.
The layout was reconfigured to form a spacious new dining-kitchen along with an en-suite shower room for the master bedroom, and the attic bedrooms have been opened up to create a bright open plan area that's currently used as an office (although there could be potential to create a third bedroom here). The house was re-insulated in the floors and walls and new double glazing was installed along with underfloor heating in the bathrooms and porch, while the sitting room features a wood burning stove - exactly what you'd want after arriving home from a chilly coastal walk.
The cottage also has open views out to sea, so you don't even have to step outside to appreciate the vista. Can you imagine escaping here for a week or two - Creag Dearg would make a great holiday home after all - and waking up to this view every day? Beautiful.
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Pfeffer, Fabian T. 2011. "Status Attainment and Wealth in the United States and Germany." In Persistence, Privilege, and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility edited by T. Smeeding, R. Erikson, and M. Jäntti. Russell Sage. Abstract.
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The Friends of Wood County CASA® in collaboration with the Wood County Park District will be holding the annual "Karen Swartz Memorial Walk for CASA®" at the WW Knight Nature Preserve, 29530 White Road, Perrysburg, on Saturday, May 31, 2014 from 9:00-11:00 a.m.
The walk is to raise community awareness about child abuse and neglect in our community and promote volunteer opportunities through the Wood County Court Appointed Special Advocate/Guardian ad Litem (CASA®/GAL) Program. The Wood County Park District will have stations throughout the walk with activities for young and old. This family friendly event offers outdoor fun for everyone.
The Wood County CASA®/GAL Program provides trained community volunteers appointed by Juvenile Court Judge David E. Woessner, to advocate for children whose abuse, neglect or dependency cases are being heard in the Wood County Juvenile Court. The CASA volunteer's main responsibility is to serve as the "eyes and ears of the court" by gathering information about the children's lives, reporting this information to the court, and by speaking for the child in court. They are also required to monitor the needs of the child during the case. These volunteers advocate for the best interest of the child.
The walk is in memory of Karen Swartz who was a coach and athletic director with Rossford Schools prior to making a ten-year contribution to the Wood County CASA®/GAL Program serving as a Volunteer Coordinator. As coordinator Karen mentored volunteers and advocated for many abused and neglected children in Wood County as a CASA®/GAL volunteer. The walk will not only help to raise awareness but to remember the significant contribution that Karen Swartz made to the Wood County CASA®/GAL program and abused children.
The event is open to people of all ages. Juvenile Court Judge, David E. Woessner will speak at 9:00 am. The event is open to people of all ages. Check in begins at 8:30 am with Juvenile Court Judge, David E. Woessner, speaking at 9:00 am. There is no registration fee to participate. A donation of $20 or more is requested to receive a commemorative t-shirt. Pre-registration is available, but you may also register the day of the walk. Availability of t-shirts is limited and availability cannot be guaranteed for those who do not pre-register.
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On behalf of the Southern African Vinyls Association (SAVA), we are delighted to invite you to Johannesburg, South Africa for the Vinyl SA 2014 Conference on 22 October 2014.
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Vinyl SA 2014 will focus on presenting a full and varied programme of original papers covering all aspects of PVC, from formulation through to recovery and recycling with approximately 14 papers (both from national and international speakers) and over 150 delegates from at least 10 countries! Emphasis will be given to how PVC continues to develop, meeting the challenges of business and sustainability and aiming to inspire innovation across its vast applications!
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The Southern African Vinyls Association (SAVA) is the representative body of the Southern African vinyl industry. SAVA is ideally positioned within the local plastics industry with representation on the Recovery Action Group (RAG), the Packaging Council of South Africa (PACSA) and the Plastics SA Sustainability Council to ensure that its members are represented on a broader platform. SAVA also participates in knowledge transfer activities with the Australian Vinyls Council, The Global Vinyls Council, Vinyls Plus and other international organisations.
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