Saturday, April 30, 2011

CN, Bill Gates or The Colours of War (Matt Cohen)

Now that Bill Gates is the biggest shareholder in CN (Canadian National Railway) at 10.04%, a percentage that he's been working on increasing since 2006 and like Warren Buffet who ventured into (coal?) rail in the USA and formerly did Boystown in Omaha - the two of them took a fly-over at the tar-and-oil sands in 2008 - or, even like Gordon Campbell's BC Rail [redacted], it makes The Colours of War seem like SPP or SP or CCEE and Fraser Amero soft-sell, soft war backwash, at the moment.
"Every day it seemed there were new declarations of emergencies and martial law. Not exactly a new law; things being the same as always but carried one step further."
The map of the train, John Boy Bush Harper (Johny Crackle Sings), Theodore Beam (the light at the end of the tunnel), Christopher Columbus Perestrello.
I was reminded again of old stories of the depression and the vast armies of the unemployed crisscrossing the country; when nothing else is possible, motion promises to fill the stomach"
The quiet revolutionaries in executive councils. He wasn't kidding. You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it.

True, there are coaches where bona fide travelers, unaware of the real purpose of the journey, are crowded together and give an appearance of ordinariness to the train. But there are also sealed vans, and these are filled with arms and ammunition, and are in the control of a group of guerillas. Armies Moving in the Night: The Fictions of Matt Cohen, George Woodcock

It's a supply chain management story, from helmets to hard hats, from freighters to box cars with a lot of teddy jam and ammo, or make that ordinance, from sea (Vancouver) to shining sea (Montreal Port Authority).

Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
Guess who's coming to dinner.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Who's Gary Mar?

Alison Redford is much better.

These jerks just ride back in from the lobby farm and think their bed's still made.

Alberta's lobbying pitch was not merely being sold in Washington though. Wherever a clean energy law targeting the oil sands was proposed in states across America, the province's former U.S. representative, Gary Mar, intervened.

He did so with the help of Canadian consulates across the country. Those satellites of northern influence helped him gain access to state legislatures and their representatives, Frazer says.

Mar -- who's now running for Alberta premier -- spoke out against clean energy laws in Wisconsin, Maryland, Pennsylvania and at least nine other states.

Nice.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

ebate-day (Sheila Fraser, the "proper quote," cops, airports and more prudent spending) français 2Day (retiring)

“The comments attributed to me in the [Conservative] report are completely unrelated to G8/G20 spending,” Fraser writes in her letter. 

Tories used praise for Liberals to defend summit costs: Fraser
Day apologizes, says 'proper quote' will be added to Tory dissent report
Last Updated: Apr 12, 2011 2:55 PM ET

Canada's auditor general has rebuked the Conservatives for recycling an unrelated quote by her about a previous Liberal government's security spending in a parliamentary report on the costs of the G8/G20 summits in Ontario last summer, CBC News has learned.

The Conservatives' report, presented as a dissenting opinion to the Commons the morning Parliament was dissolved last month, quotes Sheila Fraser giving high marks to the Harper government for prudent spending on the summits.


 

Saturday, April 2, 2011

mister canada gov - $26m economic caption plan

Clearly, ... Friends
Holy mcLuntz-and-disruption-manuals Jobotomy bobblehead meme! Now, after the $26m 3 month radio and TV campaign for the party, a record-breaking $1.2b G20 summit, and even a dispute with the Pentagon about the double cost of 200 F-35 jets (or their not often talked about Mulroney Winnipeg's Bristol Aerospace 1986 expensive maintenance contract)(and... no engines...?) and $300m prorogue, 2008, which all of course are someone else's fault like a wife batter's alibi, there's a new caption in TV town.

Friends. Listen. It's probably better, let me be clear, for the time being, and abandon the fact of the matter. Luntz's current company, The Word Doctors ("It's not what you say, it's what they hear"), specializes in message creation and image management for commercial and political clients.

on Fokus Pokus groups
Lemme guess: Harper is finger-pointy synonymous with "government of canada" (see:  "re-branded" "harper" "canada" "government"), which is reverse synonymous with Adanac (see: satanism or reverse speech or libtards or Taliban jackoffs, Ali Kaida, green terrorisms), which is synonymous, no antonymous, with TheTeaPotParty (see: perpetual campaigning), which is
reverse speech/ hceeps esrever
synonymous, maybe, with contempt (just made-up)(see: parliament), which is synonymous with canlit, no, hockey lit or water bottles for kiddies, which is synonomous with [insert US president] Administration and harmonization... (etcetera).(ca 2003: "National myth? Hockey?? -  write a goddamn hockey book!"} New logo for Canada? Forward-moving font, momentum, "on-the-move" parallelogram, Go-team,-go!

And from the University of Pennsylvania, no less.

the caption plan - cost: $26m
Read on to find out how Environment Minister Ambrose is using Frank Luntz's tactics almost to the letter these days ("Bush's Chief Climate "Spinmaster" Tells Harper How It's Done"). New Conservative Party of Canada logo? Canada logo? Hard to no, it's mixed up. Strong Staples government, and oops, PM know longer taking questions on local campaigns. It's the Klein Public affairs bureau, all over again.
A manual of "key messages" produced exclusively for Alberta Progressive Conservative MLAs by the Public Affairs Bureau verges on propaganda, is a partisan misuse of taxpayers' money and provides the governing party with an unfair advantage, a panel of political scientists says.

"This manual is a straight-up abuse of taxpayers' money because it is money that is being used to communicate what the Tory party is doing, not what the government is doing," said Jonathan Rose, a Queen's University professor.
Leader with PeoplePaper
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear. It seems they can't tell the difference, just don't get it, mister fixed election dates. Kind of like national debt (up) and a GST reduction, lollipops for the kids, like Ralph Klein's election bucks when the deregulation fiasco didn't reduce consumers' energy bills and things got hot. Presto! The Prosperity Bonus! public pacifier. It's getting kind of funny: "the world will go wrong if I-me-me don't get majority. We need STABILITY! Luntz frequently tests word and phrase choices using focus groups and interviews.

party promo, former canadian government
Martin gained an important ally in GOP pollster Frank Luntz, whose polling revealed that "death tax" sparked voter resentment in a way that "inheritance tax" and "estate tax" couldn't match. Brampton whistle stop (March 27 2011 - the 4th federal election in less than 7 years!), where another booger drops out of the body politic. Giulio Maturi, who was a top official in the campaign of disgraced former Montreal mayoral candidate Benoit Labonté in 2009, was listed as late as Wednesday afternoon as the campaign manager for a Montreal Conservative candidate. [Agop Evereklian, Pierrefonds-Dollard riding]  The other: Sebastien Togneri, former aide to Christian Paradis, was helping with Ryan Hastman's campaign.[Edmonton-Strathcona] There is no consequence for Contempt of Parliament.

prorogue olympics 2010

This StrongStableLeadergets a new fucking sign The Olympic jacket. Jesus Christ. True North Sports and Entertainment.

"... they cannot, apparently, cope with Parliament's deliberations while dealing with the country's economic troubles and the challenge of hosting the Winter Olympic games. This was the argument put forward by the spokesman for Stephen Harper." from The Economist, walking and chewing gum at the same time.

Post cards from Wisconsin - one or 2 crazy people


This is quite a large large demonstration! And... what have we here:
The Kansas-based company has hired Canadian lobby firm Global Public Affairs and consultant David Keto, a former project manager with Alberta Finance. Keto was also executive assistant to cabinet minister David Coutts from 2001 to 2003, Livingstone-Macleod.
Sam Livingstone and Colonel James Macleod. David Coutts represented Livingstone-Macleod in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2008. Hm. Industry stakeholders and public officials.

Keystone XL - Piplyme oilive oylsands

{inter}national {pipelyme}trea$ure: {oilive oylsands} applethorn flesheye, {keystone}jewelapple eyecrown, {ogallala aquifer}thornjewel crownflesh

Olive Oyl - *eminem(t) doe main*
Debut: Thimble Theater (comic strip) (1919)
Animated Debut: Popeye the Sailor (1933)

http://wolfsong.1colony.com/oliveoyl.html

KEYSTONE: ca. 1717 el muerto grande lodge casa avec colombian flea trade

Dog House Arch

So if Keystone XL is bad for farms and bad for cities, and the Texans definitely don't want it, who is it supposed to be good for?