This is insane...
Whitney Webb exposes the history of Palantir.
Palantir started as a DARPA project. It was going to completely destroy our constitutional protections so it was quietly taken out of government and rebranded as a private company to do the EXACT same thing.
Today marks a troubling moment for civil liberties in Canada.
Under the guise of combating hate, the federal government has enacted legislation that expands state powers over protest and public assembly.
From the labour movement to Indigenous land defenders, from the fight for queer and trans liberation to the movement for Palestinian freedom, social progress has depended on the ability of ordinary people to organize, protest, and speak out.
A democracy that fears protest is a democracy in decline.
Today marks a troubling moment for civil liberties in Canada.
Under the guise of combating hate, the federal government has enacted legislation that expands state powers over protest and public assembly.
From the labour movement to Indigenous land defenders, from the fight for queer and trans liberation to the movement for Palestinian freedom, social progress has depended on the ability of ordinary people to organize, protest, and speak out.
A democracy that fears protest is a democracy in decline.
Trump is fuelling a new McCarthyism that is both delusional and dangerous. It’s clearly intended to crack down on Americans who are resisting his anti-democratic agenda: including deadly ICE raids and endless wars of aggression. It’s also a serious escalation of violent authoritarianism from our next door neighbour.
Canada’s participation in this spectacle puts progressive Canadians at real risk. It’s outrageous, and the Prime Minister owes Canadians an explanation as to why he’s involving our country in this ugly episode.
The "Middle Class" was a 50-year fluke designed to prevent a communist revolution during the Cold War. Now that the threat is gone, the elites are systematically dismantling it. You aren't "falling behind"; you’re being pushed back into the peasantry.
$40 billion for the pipeline, $10 billion for the port.
$50 billion to export tarsands bitumen from the mouth of the most important salmon river in the country. Not many sets of priorities could make me feel more alienated than this.
@avilewis Agreed. We just be investing in the future, in health, in green energy, and not spending public funds on pipelines that make private profits and pollution.
Today’s announcement shows what this federal government will protect above all else: the profits of Big Oil.
As we mark the five-year anniversary of a heat dome that killed 619 people in British Columbia – and as many communities across the country are facing extreme weather right now – Canadians deserve leadership that protects us. Instead, this government is doubling down on yesterday’s failed solutions and dragging us into further danger, risk and insecurity.
The opaque and confusing public-private partnership ownership structure means it's very likely that we, the public, will not only bear the risks and the damages, but also the lion's share of the costs.
Canada’s New Democrats unequivocally oppose this pipeline proposal. If anything, this is a pipeline to the courts. It ignores the federal government’s legal responsibility to meaningfully consult Indigenous nations, including Treaty 8 nations in Alberta, threatens endangered species, and accelerates climate change. It will sow the very divisions the Prime Minister claims he wants to avoid.
We do not achieve unity or prosperity from projects that pit communities against one another, all while a handful of oil and gas CEOs walk away with enormous profits.
While we're stuck fighting yesterday's battles over pipelines, and the Prime Minister openly admits that our emissions will rise, the rest of the world is racing ahead on renewables. We cannot afford to fall behind while other countries build the industries of the future.
Canadians deserve better than being told our only choice is another fight over another pipeline. This country needs an alternative to the Liberal-Conservative consensus that is doubling down on a future of climate-wrecking corporate welfare.
New Democrats are ready to build something bigger, safer, and better – a Canada that is a renewable energy superpower, with an east-west clean electricity grid and good green jobs in every region. Lower costs for families with home retrofits and heat pumps for all. Investing in the care economy as a nation-building project.
That’s what it looks like to build big things that actually unite this country.
- Canada Day -
Today is the 159th anniversary of the Canadian federation—a country built on stolen Indigenous land by two colonial powers.
Today Canada is run by a multibillionaire banker who says that the way forward is to deregulate markets, invest one-third of the federal budget in the military, and that fighting climate change and environmental destruction are unworthy causes that must not interfere with capitalism, consumption, or greed. He says that our future lies in fighting wars over issues that many Canadians neither understand nor care about. He uses fear to divide and war to make money.
These 159 years have come with many ups and downs. From stealing Indigenous children from their communities to refusing to participate in the Iraq War. From playing a leading role in the fight against acid rain and pushing for environmental treaties, to actively obstructing climate action. From challenging United States global hegemony to actively participating in it.
Despite all this, Canada is worth fighting for. It is one of the only countries in the world where two colonies formed a single state—a plurinational country rich in diversity and home to many cultures, both Indigenous and from around the world.
Canada can be a voice for peace in the world. Canada can rebuild our crumbling public institutions—hospitals, schools, daycares, long-term care homes, and universities. Canada can tax the rich and redistribute wealth to the working class. Canada can meet its GHG reduction targets and become a model of sustainability.
For all this to become a reality, Canadians need to step up and take political action. If we remain silent, the banker will bankrupt us all.
If you care about Canada, it’s time to speak up.
Alex Tyrrell
Leader of the Green Party of Québec
Canada banned Kneecap from performing in the country - but allowed Kristi Noem to immigrate and have a cushy job in a BC mining company post her fascist run of being part of an administration threatening to annex Canada
Hasan Piker: “Israel is the actual terrorist. Hezbollah would not exist if Israel had not invaded and occupied Lebanon. Right now it is the only force in Lebanon that is actually fighting back against the alien invaders that are illegally blowing up villages. I don’t care about your fucking feelings. I care about the truth. The truth is Hezbollah in Lebanon right now is not only fighting a just war, they’re fighting a moral one. Israel’s actions in Lebanon are war crimes. Facts don’t care about your fucking feelings”
1. I went to Jewish school from kindergarten to 12th grade
2. I come from a deeply Zionist family
3. I’ve been to Israel on a number of occasions, including to places that border the West Bank.
I’m an anti-Israel Jew. It’s a genocidal apartheid state. Sue me
İsrail’in Gazze’de kullandığı soykırım silahlarının üretildiği yazılım sistemlerini çökertmek için “operasyon çeken” 5 aktivist Almanya’da yargılanıyor.
Gizli kahramanlar ve insanlığın yüzakı güzel insanlar onlar.
In my lifetime, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, while the US created one trillionaire. It is clear as day that socialism is the key to our future.
A nazi becoming the first trillionaire off taxpayer subsidies mergers and apartheid mine inheritance isn't an anomaly. It's showing you what the system rewards.
Capitalism is a death cult
@AnitaAnandMP NOT ENOUGH. YOU ARE COMPLICIT IN DEATH THEFT AND TORTURE (AND GENOCIDE). NOT GOOD ENOUGH. END ALL RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL AND SANCTION THE ENTIRE STATE
Maybe if Canada's Jewish community at least ACKNOWLEDGED that Israel is committing war crimes, it would bring down the tempature.
Calling any criticism of Israel or Netanyahu 'anti Semitism' is just going to make people angrier.