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You really want to know?
Go and read Merv Adey's latest post (and this is where I convert to my John Lydon impersonation).
Rrrrrrright....
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You still here?
OK, I guess I'm going to have to give you a teaser from Merv's post:
...(L)et’s deconstruct the bullshit, otherwise known as talking points, first on party fundraising. Some of these points come from the likes of Ben James. Some from pro “status quo” pundits....
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...“There is no quid pro quo” in special access fundraisers. This is Norman Spector’s line. It’s a way of saying campaign finance reform is a solution in search of a problem. To quote him again, “The choice in BC is between a pro-industry party and a pro-union party.” There! It’s solved! It’s not an ethics problem at all. Federal rules and the rules in many provinces were changed in the last fifteen years because of Adscam and other high profile issues. Spector is arguing (unbelievably) that industry players donate to the BCLiberals tens of millions in election years and non-election years because they hate the NDP. It’s not because they want lax regulation , non-existent enforcement, inside tracks on contracts etc. The collapse of government revenue from resource extraction (down about $4 billion annually from 2002, despite increased export volume) has nothing to do with a steady stream of industry cash to the party coffers...
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Go read it all immediately, and then come back and tell me that the inability of our local puffed-up punditry to call a spade a spade is not THE biggest problem with the body politic in this province.
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8 comments:
Both Keef and Vaughn look terrible. Sort of a reverse Dorian Gray. Both are becoming increasingly irrelevant but that won't stop the poison manure they spread over the aquifer of politics in B.C. I look forward to the day they're gone from the scene. I've been watching question period and crusty says nothing, answers nothing even when asked directly . She lets some other schlub take her heat. What do you think the odds of a snap election are? I think they're pretty good because the scandels are out and pilling up just too high.
'Dorian Grey's' Anatomy Chart by Netter:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QlHjBjKxoK8/U06f68hXj3I/AAAAAAAAIuY/m4x62SHOOaU/s1600/varying-ages.jpg
pay to play before you call your MLA?
So did you see the latest "Global TV" ad? First time last night. Chris Galius comes out talking about what a first rate station they are and along the lines of the best for truth, integrity, the only station who reports the truth of the headlines/stories. Well, as he's walking lo and behold right behind him is a framed picture of Christy Clark. Yeah, that's right. Queen photo op in Global's ad. You'd think she was the CEO of Global. Well maybe she is in the picture anyway. Just disgusts me. Time for a new station.
BC liberal media seems like. Not bc media or bc pro media.
Journalists are supposed to shine light where the public cannot realistically go and report to us what they find.
If Vaughn Palmer and the Vancouver Sun are openly contorting the factual workings of our most public of places, what are the chances we would receive accurate reports from dark places if they ever found the courage to go there?
if bloggers werent here ,and twitter,it would be a black hole information ghetto out there not just the dark ages of information access.
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/718602580549640193
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