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Comment on BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria! by Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 19 May 2013 04:31:40 +0000

Greens a false front organizations being funded by the Liberals provincially and the Conservatives federally to split the NDP vote and allow Libs and Cons to take key districts. Comox Valley BC Liberals even urged their members to donate to the Greens prior to the latest provincial campaign!
Green voters duped and sucked in by Sterk and her emerald impostors. And the rest of the voters will eventually get to watch oil spills on the North Coast.
Not too surprising that with all that money, the Corporate parties can buy another party for their advantage. Democracy is a joke for the psychopaths in the boardrooms.

Comment on BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria! by MoS

MoS — Sun, 12 May 2013 12:28:03 +0000

I think you’ve probably hit on it, Matt. The sitting government has given centrists plenty of reasons to defect and, for us, the Green Party has been a natural place to “park” our votes. I certainly arrived there, federally and provincially, with that intent. In short order I came to realize that was where I belong at least until the LPC embraces Green policy.

However, given the importance of this supertanker issue, Harper’s other outrages against our coastal ecology and our deserved distrust of the provincial Liberals to stop it, we are driven into the arms of the NDP in this election.

Comment on BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria! by bluegreenblogger

bluegreenblogger — Sun, 12 May 2013 02:19:57 +0000

Hmm, I do not know much about BC Provicial politics. I would guess those ridings with a Grenn candidate will be where those ads are intended to reach. If the second choice of Greens is overwhelmingly NDP, then the Liberals are right to advertise the merits of Sterk

Comment on Liberal Party open contested nominations: Awesome plan, but Pro-Life is the fly in the ointment. by Bryan Crockett

Bryan Crockett — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:14:15 +0000

I’m also concerned that nomination races could have the potential to be hijacked, it gives us motivation to organize better.

Comment on BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria! by MoS

MoS — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:59:45 +0000

Hey, Matt. The Greens aren’t running a candidate in my “too close to call” riding. I assume it’s because the NDP has a chance of finally stealing the riding from the Lib/SoCreds. That assumption has been reinforced by the appearance of Green candidates from other ridings showing up here in support of the Dipper.

I suspect most of the Green vote in my riding will go to the NDP on the pipeline issue alone. That said I think the Green membership roles aren’t dominated by former Dippers but include plenty of environmentally-aware former soft-supporters of the Liberal “coalition.”

Comment on Whither the Green Party? Probable Strategy for 2015 by bluegreenblogger

bluegreenblogger — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:54:56 +0000

I thought it was 35%? At 50% they are making some pretty large money. based on what I did back in the old Green Party office on Gerrard street in Toronto.

Comment on Whither the Green Party? Probable Strategy for 2015 by John Shavluk

John Shavluk — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:59:03 +0000

The sad thing is they give the fund raising company 50 % of what they gather Matt
And I am sure members have absolutely no clue
I stand by my views
Cheers

Comment on Actually, jury is still out on efficacy of Attack ads against Trudeau by The Keystone Garter

The Keystone Garter — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:07:10 +0000

…but with Trudeau you can look FW to a more scientific generation than the boomers. Petro and geothermal funded my carbon sequester idea. I do think we will have to “pick favs” in the future as too many risks to civilization grow over time under flatter taxes. The growing Big Brother oversight only works to a point before you get administrative problems like Bible Thumper foreign policies and Neocon finance policies.

Comment on Actually, jury is still out on efficacy of Attack ads against Trudeau by The Keystone Garter

The Keystone Garter — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:03:41 +0000

For miracles, I ascribe to hallucinations, aliens, parallel universes using interference technologies, and only then some sort of interefering god at base. Here, you might want to promote happy religions for the young, the dying, the dumb, the even-worse-human-capital-individuals-than-literally-religious…but we will need some rational people for a while and they can’t do things like stop AGW with so many brainwashed. But you start from this world and the religious groups do some good charity. I view gaining progressive individuals as a ladder and the religions provide some good bottom rungs. But they can’t do things like fund bed bug killing R+D, so are inefficient a bit as an NGO.

Comment on Actually, jury is still out on efficacy of Attack ads against Trudeau by The Keystone Garter

The Keystone Garter — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:31:27 +0000

I was thinking about my own motivations in my early 20s. Reading Chomsky depressed me a bit (now some of his lefter foreign policies and economics depress me the other way); learning some politicians in developed world don’t have utlitarianism as a mean or ends. I was fine after figuring out for myself technologies and time issues that tent towards utilitarianism.
People do need to believe in something better. I suggest a better world for kids or grandkids rather than our grandkid’s grandparents or Literal interpretations of holy texts. God wouldn’t be able to give stupid historical times educated people a sound enough grounding in engineering and philosophy to give perfect 21st century advice, back thens. He could’ve if he greatly altered a person’s personal identity. And spoken word averted some prosecution. We need some change to get safe robots that can make a few town-sized colonies; enough to make Earth a bit redundant. The best quality-of-living tends to be moderation of a diversity of enjoyed states, and we will need engineers. Here, Trudeau’s message is more positive. I like the NDP tax corporate tax rate rise as it can fund all Party Platforms and it gives corporations some negotiating space on a carbon tax/cap.