the more i learn about anonymous, the less i like it. "we don't forgive"? what are you, a jihadist group? it just seems like another kind of right-wing populism.

you know, it seems to me that it's been clear that all phone communications (all. everything. yes, your conversation with your mom the other day. everything.) have been sucked in by the five eyes since the echelon agreement was exposed upwards of fifteen years ago, and that the archives (apparently held in australia) go back to the second world war.

all of it. every second. every word.

Molly Mason
Mr Piketty's solution has been tried (and has failed) before. Tinkering about with the Capitalist system is simply a short term, stick a plaster on a gaping wound response - It's time to CHANGE this system to a system which caters for the majority in every respect - the environment - equality and security

CryptedSky
His solution is basically a reboot of John M. Keynes New deal which has worked spectacularly well in the past. When keynesian solutions to keep the economy in check were replaced Friedmanian neoliberal ideology is when the economy started to fail.

deathtokoalas 
keynes requires a mostly closed economy with high tariffs and is consequently not compatible with the modern world and it's irreversible open trade reality. we need new ideas to reflect the existing realities, not old ones that no longer make sense.

the left will continue to fail until it understands this.

CryptedSky
screw you koalas are awesome

deathtokoalas
koalas need to be destroyed due to their subversive cuteness.

the idea of a shop owner reinvesting in the business next door has been replaced by walmart reinvesting on the other side of the world. i suppose an actual world government could do something like keynes suggested, but implementing these sorts of policies in the united states is just going to drain the wealth out of the country.

SoundHysteria
Today another UA military helicopter was shot down with a general on board. All crew and passengers died. Considering how few working aircraft the Ukrainian military has and how many it lost so far. Give it another month and the skies will be deserted.

deathtokoalas
i think i'd be more concerned about what the russians decide to try out to try and get around their air superiority. they've been talking tough about this. i don't have any ideas, though - i understand the political aspect, but military matters are something i have no understanding of. that being said, you can bet they're not going to just sit there for the next ten years shooting down planes amidst heavy casualties. they're going to look at the situation, say "this is impossible" and do something else.

i don't know why they don't just go occupy the winning team's stadium.

the problems of growing...

you know, i wasn't sure what was going to follow after that. it turns out it was the economy. that's probably for the best.

the government is not going to change anything. the entrenched policy for well over a hundred years has been slow assimilation. there have been minor changes - trudeau tried to make the process more transparent, mulroney tried to speed it up with blood quantum rules, harper has been pushing for the enforcement of property rights - but there has been no wavering from the purpose of the policy, and no reason to think there will be unless or until the social, political and economic systems in canada change at a systemic level.

in other words, canada is a colonial state and will continue to act like one until it is not one.

so, the bad guy puts a special face mask on and your grandmother gets zapped. it's a symptom of a bigger problem...

it also depends on the industry. a lot of these same arguments apply to corporate taxation, and are really tied to how mobile the business is.

a call centre can get up and move fairly easily. a mcdonald's isn't going anywhere if it's successful, but the burger king across the street might in fact shut down. a mine or a forest is tied to the geography and couldn't move regardless of consequences. & etc

also, you'd expect low unemployment to have a causal effect on increasing wages.

this sucks.

wow.

well, in the end, they get selected out and the world keeps spinning. hey, look, a spider...