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Tonight, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Bryan Dawe interviews eminent Australian economist John Clark, who brings A Fresh Perspective on a variety of economic issues including the surfeit of prognosticating economists such as himself and the cultural roots of Northern and Southern Europe’s differing views of austerity.
h/t Adrian
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  1. Toronto Star, Sunday, Aug. 18.
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/06/06/jack_layton_to_be_honoured_with_statue_and_ferry_terminal.html
    “A statue featuring a tandem bike with one open seat and Jack Layton on the other will be placed as a whimsical tribute to the late NDP leader.”
    Unfortunately they forgot to add the limo driving behind him with his briefcase and his papers.
    “Kids and adults will be not only allowed but encouraged to sit on the front seat and ‘take a ride with Jack.'”
    If they take a ride to 787 Dundas West, that’s probably child abuse.

  4. And some old straight couples will be ignoring gay parades and will be contently canning Red haven peachesand feeling badly for anyone with the scrambled genes!

  5. On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress created the first whistleblower protection law, stating “that it is the duty of all persons in the service of the United States to give the earliest information to Congress or other proper authority of any misconduct, frauds, or misdemeanors committed by any officers or persons in the service of these states.”
    http://www.whistleblowers.org/storage/whistleblowers/documents/WPEA/continental%20congress%20journal%20july%201778.pdf
    Two hundred thirty-five years later, we see Obama renege on his campaign promise to protect whistleblowers and we see people like Ed Snowden hunted down while CIA and IRS agents who destroy evidence of crimes promoted.
    ONWARD!

  6. Occam, I am not convinced that Snowden and Assange are exactly heroic characters. How exactly did these individuals and their wikileaks help vulnerable people overseas who were named and called out. When a person like Assange receives an award from a group like Amnesty International the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  7. No child should ever take a ride with Jack. We’re not entirely sure where he’d take them or that their safety, health, and well-being would be guaranteed. The NDP are just as much on the sexually explicit, age-inappropriate sex ed curriculum as the Wynne/Levin Liberals.

  9. Nold – How did the NSA, the whitehouse, the CIA and all thr other quasi military spook agencies help the Benghazi dead, or SEAL team six in the ‘stan? i’m not convinced the “good guys” are good any more.

  10. He’s hilarious, but has the narrative down well.
    Understanding the cultural myths that drive productivity.
    Northern Europe has always had to deal with winter, which means if you are productive and manage resources efficiently or die.
    It was the ever present threat of freezing and starving and being eaten by wolves that produced tales of the Brothers Grimm, Little Red Riding Hood and Peter and the Wolf.
    Now the great threat to Europe is the rapacious wolf of Brussels.
    The E.U., the latest European utopian fantasy, is about to wolf down grandma and her sovereign nation-states.

  11. Watch/wait for the uproar/blathering/screeching from Media
    Party as Liberal McGuinty “resigns, prorogues”.
    …-
    “McGuinty resigns, prorogues legislature | 680News”
    …-
    “Harper to prorogue Parliament until October,” (NP)

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