Updated March 6,2024
The Republican Party in a bold unifying reveal has selected a number of key members to model their retro fashion drag for all the world to see! Because there were so many eager models to choose from the choice was made by picking names from a hood!
Mitch McConnell endorses Trump for president/March 6,2024
Mitch McConnell endorses Trump for president/March 6,2024
In a new statement sent to CTV News late Sunday night, the minister says he used “unclear” language when he referred to people and online channels being subject to federal regulations as part of the government’s updates to the Broadcasting Act.
In the interview on CTV’s Question Period that aired on March 9, the minister said more than once that while the CRTC isn’t going to be regulating everyday user’s content, the regulator could have powers related to the discoverability of online content for people whose channels have “millions of viewers,” are “generating a lot of money on social media,” and are “acting like broadcasters.”
March 10
MPs on the House of Commons heritage committee agreed today to pause a detailed review of the federal government’s broadcasting bill while the Department of Justice looks into whether recent amendments violate the free speech rights of social media users.
Conservative, Liberal, Bloc and NDP MPs all voted in favour of asking for a revised “charter statement” on Bill C-10. Such statements are issued by the justice minister to examine the potential impact new legislation may have on Canadians’ rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The motion also requests that both Justice Minister David Lametti and Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, along with a panel of experts, appear before the committee to discuss the implications of recent amendments to the bill and take questions from committee members.
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The struggle in social media is not among competing messages on a web site. It’s between people and the big companies that would colonize us, mine us for data, and program our every online move. The medium is indeed the message here. And the medium, which is in dire need of regulation, is Facebook.
Poor intelligence gathering on COVID-19, faulty risk assessments on the spread of the virus, and a Public Health Agency that lacked enough scientific expertise all helped make the pandemic worse in Canada than it should have been, a parliamentary committee heard Friday. Globe & Mail May 8/21
Meeting No. 35 HESA – Standing Committee on Health ,Friday, May 7, 2021
Emergency Situation Facing Canadians in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Michael Garner Witness comments begin 14.14.29
From 2006 to 2019 Michael Garner worked as an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist at the Public Health Agency of Canada, beginning as a Field Epidemiologist, and working primarily in research and control of emerging infectious diseases – which COVID-19 is one.
Excerpted from Globe & Mail article of May 8/21
Harper Government installs bureaucrat as president of Public Health,Trudeau Government keeps in place.
Gustav Dore Illustration from Milton’s Paradise Lost:The battle of the angels
Court Painter has freely distilled from an article by Matthew Dowd political pundit & analyst in Medium: Truth and Democracy: The Dividing line in America today
Today, the gravest threat to the globe is the attacks on fragile and frayed democracies combined with a major segment of citizens and leaders who no longer consider telling the truth a fundamental value.
This battle for democracy and for truth is the most pivotal and crucial crisis facing America and the world today. It is absolutely imperative that leaders understand this, and focus their time and resources in a way that shows they know the issue of democracy and truth is the most important task to be done in this moment.
The great dividing line today is: on one side the belief in a common set of facts, the common good, and a vibrant active expansive democracy, on the opposing side of this is the exact opposite.
It is time to realize party labels and platforms are ludicrous if we lose democracy and the ability to tell the truth and trust that facts matter.
A Court Painter Series of Twists on Dore based on Gustav Dore’s illustrations for Milton’s Paradise Lost
There’s something happening here
What it is is exactly clear
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What we need are not more energy-efficient cars or self-driving cars or, as president of Lyft, John Zimmer fantasized, privately owned fleets that are available for hire, but fewer cars entirely. We need people biking, walking, taking buses and trains and subways, or otherwise riding in something besides a free-ranging, 3,000-pound metal exoskeleton with an error-prone operator, digital or human. If safety is often cited as a prime reason for developing autonomous vehicles—about 36,000 Americans die in car accidents every year—then perhaps a better way of saving lives is to have fewer cars on the road, replaced by mass transit and other public options.
In contrast to all the hype and expense of autonomous vehicles—along with the regulatory and technical and economic uncertainty—bicycles, sidewalks, and public transport work exceedingly well. They are known quantities that can be strengthened and made more accessible with a fraction of the resources that have been poured into A.V. research. They are safe and enhance the urban experience. They contribute few, if any, emissions and don’t enrich a handful of oligarchs at the expense of the common interest.
Excerpted : Jacob Silverman/May 3, 2021 The New Republic
Court Painter, in a fit of lockdown inspiration, undertook a series of wildflower paintings. He remarked that wild flowers are much like him….wildly temperamental and pleasing to the eye!
Isn’t that wild!?
Asked during an interview with Sky News Bill Gates was asked if he thought it “would be helpful” to have COVID vaccine recipes be shared, Gates quickly answered: “No.”
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In response to this “No”the following is excerpted from April 29 The.Ink post with Anand Giridharadas in conversation with Megan Tompkins-Stange
MTS: As the former CEO and largest shareholder of Microsoft, you might think that Bill Gates is a capitalist, but that’s not exactly the case. In the classical definition of capitalism, private actors accumulate and exchange assets through the free market, at prices determined by supply and demand. Gates’ version of capitalism would better be called monopolistic. He has consistently sought to distort free markets in order to advance his own corporation’s accumulation of wealth, power, and preeminence.
Microsoft achieved its dominance by using intellectual property laws to prevent its competitors’ products from running on its Windows operating system, creating a proprietary monopoly in the software industry. Gates’ wealth is a direct result of the patents that codified Microsoft’s intellectual property.
As such, it isn’t surprising that one of Gates’ core beliefs is that intellectual property needs to be protected at all costs — and that eliminating patent restrictions for vaccines violates this guiding principle.
Even though Gates sanctifies intellectual property rights, surely he would be willing to override this view in order to protect poor countries from Covid. Indeed, given that his foundation prominently proclaims that “all lives have equal value,” one might expect this — even more so given that Gates is a self-identified utilitarian, someone whose moral values elevate the ends (saving lives) over the means (compromising a principle).
But this is where it gets more complicated. As a philanthropist, Gates is a founding member of a cohort of benefactors who believe that pursuing profit is not incompatible with social good. This philosophy has been on the rise at least since 1970, when Milton Friedman famously argued that “the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits,” and is now best described as “MarketWorld,” as Anand Giridharadas coined in Winners Take All, or “doing well by doing good.”
MarketWorld marinates prosocial values in market-based flavors, preferring “social impact” to “charity” and “investments” to “grants.” Gates’ alignment with this cohort means that he is far more likely to advocate for patents, even in a crisis like Covid.
Megan Tompkins-Stange teaches public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!). She is the author of “Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence.”
Anand Giridharadas from The Ink <anandwrites@substack.com>author of Winners Take All
Not to just pick solely on Bill Gates ,two other billionaire monopolists of note are Jeff Bozos of Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. Court Painter took special care to render their images in the best possible light.
