Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz announced Wednesday his centrist National Unity party has introduced a bill to dissolve the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, which would trigger an early election....
Foreign affairs usually don’t play a role when it comes to voting in Canadian federal elections. But the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is having an effect on religious voters in this country. That’s the finding of a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute that shows low support for the federal Liberal party among all...
I don’t think you can blame Gaza for this, the Liberals have spent the least eight years sitting so hard on the fence on every issue that they’re unappealing to everyone.
What’s the express: “stand for nothing, fall for eveything?” Well, in this case it’s “stand for nothing, fall in the polls”.
Gaza is just the latest thing the Liberals aggressively tried to not take a stand on either way in hopes they could “lead from behind”, but it’s kind of hard to drum up support when you don’t support anything.
(not that CPC is much better; they’re neoliberal tools, too, but instead of french vanilla milquetoast flavour, they’ve got a dusting of spicy protofascism)
This isn’t going to stop until the rich are afraid.
In case you’re wondering why fascism is on the rise, it’s seen by the wealthy as a safe way to manage populist rage; get people angry about out- groups and they’ll ignore the rich picking their pockets.
The wealthy don’t think they’re a line in Niemoller’s poem.
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
This had better not be a “well, we waited to fill these until the election year so that we can use it to mobilize the base”.
One, because it’s terribly cynical and self serving.
Two, because it doesn’t work on progressives nearly as well as they think. It runs the risk of alienating voters because they don’t feel respected for 3.5 years out of 4.
Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable....
They shoot people who point things at them. They’ll simply say they "feared for their life” when someone tries to take a picture of them at a distance.
Canadian real estate prices have surged in almost every market, with a typical home price doubling in many regions. A median household in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver would need to save over 20 years for just the down payment, more than 3x the historic average. Seems absurd? The outlandish scenario was apparently a...
Since LTC was privatized, the cost of care has skyrocketed, and the LTC industry and it’s hangers-on are salivating at the idea of soaking Boomers for every cent their house equity is worth.
This isn’t poetic license on my part, either. I’ve been in board meetings with executives who say exactly this: their five- and ten-year plans amount to “suck the Boomers dry”. The former premier of Ontario, for example…
Trudeau and his government are just the latest in a long line of neoliberal tools that started with Mulroney: killing unions, watching as companies’ pension funds were underfunded, destroying bonds as a viable savings mechanism, allowing the stock market to become a lottery of quarterly price-inflation: all of it because the market values next quarter over next-quarter century, and each government was convinced that somehow, some way, it’d all work out, or at least that by the time it crashes they’ll be out.
Not their problem. They, and especially their backers, expect to be well out of it by that point. The rich don’t really think about the future; they think about how things were in the past, and how to keep it going, but they don’t really plan or fret about the future because they don’t have to.
If you want this problem to be fixed sooner, the government and their backers need to start being afraid enough for their bank accounts, if not their lives, to do something now.
That’s how we got the modern welfare state: the rich and their pets in government were afraid they’d get Russia-in-1917’ed and begrudgingly put in the supports needed to prevent people from being that pissed off. After all, we’d just had a world war and there were millions of vets returning with PTSD and training and an informal support network, and they weren’t going to put up with a repeat of the 1930s.
Every action since then is the rich trying to claw back the New Deal and it’s equivalents in other countries.
Because by that point, the Boomers will have been soaked for trillions by the LTC industry. The investors will have already be rich and will have moved on to the next victim.
This is what the rich are really afraid of: that support for Palestine acts as a catalyst for left-wing radicalism in general.
The wealthy know they’ve pushed it too far, that people are sick and tired of being exploited, from the jobless recoveries of the mid 90s, to the dotcom crash where we bailed out the wealthy, to the '08 crisis where we bailed them out even more only to have them piss it away on their own compensation, to the '10s where we rolled out the red carpet for them and let them party on cheap money for decade, to the pandemic where we shovelled money at them only to have them whine and cry about how we wouldn’t work hard enough and how dare get off of our knees and ask, maybe, not to be ground so hard.
They know that this is a flashpoint, and they’re scared, but despite that fear, they can’t help themselves and despite ebing able to fix things by just not being so egregiously greedy, they’re going to try to flex more and take more because, well, they’ve been able to since at least 1980. They think that because they escaped OWS, they’re get off scott-free here.
So yeah, this is significant. If organized labour is getting off it’s knees, and if the message sticks, there’s a real cascade that could happen. We haven’t seen labour do this since the mid-90s, if not the late 60s. It could, with momentum, result in some serious change.
Israel War Cabinet member Benny Gantz files motion to dissolve parliament (www.semafor.com)
Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz announced Wednesday his centrist National Unity party has introduced a bill to dissolve the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, which would trigger an early election....
Liberals' response to Israel-Gaza conflict puts off religious voters: poll (www.canadianaffairs.news)
Foreign affairs usually don’t play a role when it comes to voting in Canadian federal elections. But the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is having an effect on religious voters in this country. That’s the finding of a new poll by the Angus Reid Institute that shows low support for the federal Liberal party among all...
Report: Institutional Investors Will Own Over 40% of Single-Family Rental Homes by 2030 (medium.com)
Biden pledges to name progressives to the Supreme Court, suggesting he expects vacancies (www.cnn.com)
President Joe Biden promised Black voters Wednesday that he would appoint progressives to the US Supreme Court if elected to a second term, suggesting he expects vacancies on the high court over the next four years....
New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances (apnews.com)
Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable....
Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives (cultmtl.com)
A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.
Canadian Home Prices "Need" To Be High To Pay For Retirements: PM - Better Dwelling (betterdwelling.com)
Canadian real estate prices have surged in almost every market, with a typical home price doubling in many regions. A median household in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver would need to save over 20 years for just the down payment, more than 3x the historic average. Seems absurd? The outlandish scenario was apparently a...
Trudeau says housing needs to retain its value (www.theglobeandmail.com)
In case anyone still wants to somehow debate whether the Liberals will deliver affordable housing....
‘We will be your human shields’: Why unions are showing up in force to support the U of T pro-Palestinian protest encampment (www.thestar.com)
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