KOCH INDUSTRIES REGISTERS TO LOBBY ALBERTA GOVERNM

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KOCH INDUSTRIES REGISTERS TO LOBBY ALBERTA GOVERNMENT

By Geoff Dembicki, The Hook

Koch Industries, a powerful American energy conglomerate which helped found the Tea Party movement, has now registered to lobby the Alberta government.

Records show the company hired Global Public Affairs, one of the most influential lobby firms in Canada, to represent its interests.

Read more:

http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Environment/2011/03/24/koch-lobby-government/

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY IS NOT 'REALISTIC'

By Linda McQuaig, rabble.ca

"Greed is good and I love money."

There was a time when such a lip-smacking declaration of personal gluttony would have been dismissed as boorish and anti-social.

Yet today this bombastic declaration by wealthy arch-capitalist Kevin O'Leary is treated as reasonable, even given copious airtime by our public broadcaster. (O'Leary currently figures prominently in two CBC TV programs and is soon to add another.)

Read more: http://rabble.ca/columnists/2011/03/...-not-realistic

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VIDEO: CANADA'S GROWING GAP

From Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The income gap between the rich and the rest of us grew, in good times and in bad. Learn more about it with this video.

Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrjIBbMPQw0

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Re: KOCH INDUSTRIES REGISTERS TO LOBBY ALBERTA GOVERNM

oh no! Will they ever stop!!

[Emperah]

Re: KOCH INDUSTRIES REGISTERS TO LOBBY ALBERTA GOVERNM

Looks like timing is everything, just as dem launch big federal election and de pickings is easier, here they come.