@TheAliceSmith Hitler was far-right:
❌ anti-socialist (executed actual leftists)
❌ racial supremacist (rejected worker equality)
❌ pro-privatization (sold state industries to corporations)
❌ crushed labor (banned trade unions and strikes)
❌ hyper-nationalist (driven by military conquest)
The first of 5 regional telephone town hall meetings, on the Alberta Pension Plan, was held on Monday by a provincial panel. Questions were taken from northern Alberta for 90 minutes. Perspectives in favour of the APP and perspectives against leaving the CPP were expressed.
Some of the questions expressed:
1) Two callers pointed out how the UCP survey was focused on how the Alberta pension plan should be set up rather than clearly asking Albertans whether or not they even want to leave the CPP in the first place.
2) Some callers questioned the math and how a province with 12 per cent of Canada’s population deserves 53 per cent of the pension fund.
3) Would the fund maximize returns or would it become a government slush fund to invest in boutique programs or oil and gas ventures, another queried.
4) One caller asked how Old Age Security factored in.
5) Callers sought answers on how an Alberta stand-alone pension would handle the issue of portability, death benefit issues, disability issues, de-indexing, management structure and management investment mandate.
No clear answers were given.
Dear Muslims,
THINK: When has any Islamic leadership ever served you or your ummah?
Look what Hamas has done to Gazans
Look what the Iranian regime has done to Iranians
Look at what the Taliban have done to Afghans
Look at what ISIS has done to Iraqis and Syrians
Look at what Pakistan has done to Pakistanis
How long does this list need to be before you see what’s in front of your face?
We need to get good and pissed off, Canada. Between the mafia boss conservative Premier and the mendacious leader of the climate change denying federal Conservatives who runs about making stuff up with impunity, we need to come together and clean the crap out of our politics.
Here’s an incomplete list of athletes with the same height and weight as Donald Trump who said he was 6’3 and 215 Pounds.
A thread. 🧵
First up is quarterback Aaron Rodgers who is 6’2, 223 pounds.
I didn’t want to comment on all this because Oliver Anthony seems like a genuinely great guy, but Matt Walsh’s sanctimonious word vomit forced my hand.
There was nothing authentic about this song’s rise to popularity.
Jason Howerton seems to be the key player involved in the astroturfing campaign.
He’s the CEO of Reach Digital, which helps “media companies and political influencers grow their social media footprint exponentially.”
Jason was one of the first accounts heavily promoting this song as he provided a background on Oliver Anthony and his faith.
Jason indicates that Oliver Anthony had been contacted to record the song. Jason also admits he even covered the cost to produce the record.
So who wrote the song? And how did so many big right wing-accounts have the video ready to post simultaneously?
You can like the song, and like it’s message without gaslighting us into believing this was an authentic viral hit by a simple country man with a mic and a guitar.
“Launch a product, get over 1.3 million hits” overnight was the article Mr. Howerton shared on LinkedIn.
This was another Conservative Inc AstroTurf campaign.
Embrace it.
@David_Moscrop Nah, like most emergent forces they're going to successfully push for the franchise and then get bogged down in the give-and-take of parliamentary politics
The rest of Alberta’s carbon emissions are taxed by the Trudeau government and the revenues go to the Trudeau government and the money is spent by the Trudeau government …in Alberta.
I am not making this up.
You’d think Alberta-first types would rather keep that money here.
Almost three quarters of carbon emissions in Alberta are taxed by the Alberta government and the revenues go to the Alberta government and the money is spent by the Alberta government.
It seems trite to point this out.
And yet.