ACTION: Stop CPP investments supporting Israel’s military, police, prisons

PLS read and sign petition!.... 

COAT’s research cites data from hundreds of sources to expose 64 corporations that have two things in common:

1. they profit from links to Israeli government institutions, agencies and corporations that hide behind the euphemisms of "defence" and "homeland security," and

2. the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) held shares in these companies, with a market value of $1.4 billion in 2011.

The CPP also holds shares in many corporations that invest their wealth in military and so-called "security" industries that support Israeli apartheid. This is done directly, or through venture capital funds like Vertex, see pp. 50-52.

There are 16 million CPP contributors and beneficiaries who have been forced to invest their retirement savings in corporations with varying degrees of complicity in Israel’s system of apartheid, its occupation of Palestinian lands, its military/"security" industries, and its aerial bombardments of Lebanon (2006) and Gaza (2008-2009).

(via Kathryn Roston )

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Petition: Stop CPP investments supporting Israel’s military, police, prisons

Fascism, Corporatism or Harperism?

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” 

-- Benito Mussolini.

The 14 common traits of fascism, which the harper government has pretty much covered:

 PM ~ Harper Government

[x] Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

[x] Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

[x] Supremacy of the Military

[x] Rampant Sexism

[x] Controlled Mass Media

[x] Obsession with National Security

[x] Religion and Government are Intertwined

[x] Corporate Power is Protected

[x] Labor Power is Suppressed

[x] Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

[x] Obsession with Crime and Punishment

[x] Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

[x] Fraudulent Elections

by NL

Afghanistan massacre - BLAME OBAMA - YouTube

Afghanistan massacre - BLAME OBAMA.... If Obama was a real man, Commander in Chief - he would stand up and accept responsibility.

Why does Obama hate Americans? He already has laws for ordering the death of Americans abroad, being able to imprison and hold without charges and now there's talk of execution of the Staff Sargent  in the Afghanistan massacre?

No excuse and no sane reason could explain the act of the soldier, killing 16 men, women and children in their homes, none.  But how many service men have Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, how many service men commit suicide, it's an epidemic.  I think this soldier will have to be kept under constant suicide watch when he realizes what he did. And what about some compassion for his family?  He has a wife, kids and other family members.

Yes we feel the pain of the grieving Afghanistan people but two wrongs won't make a right.
As for these 'War Hawk's' like Obama will his girls ever face war face to face, stand to defend America or is their privileged place exclude them from that.

I am mad as hell.  I hate war, to many innocent  people die, to many people become killers or are killed.  Just say NO to War.

President Obama said Tuesday, as Pentagon investigators mull charges that could result in the death penalty if the soldier is found guilty of killing 16 Afghan civilians.
"The United States takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens, and our children, who were murdered. We're heartbroken over the loss of innocent life,"

I ask you Obama, 'How many innocent lives have your drones taken?'

Benjamin Netanyahu - Most Dangerous Man in the World - YouTube

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, described the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, as a "liar" in a private exchange with Barack Obama at last week's G20 summit in Cannes that was inadvertently broadcast to journalists.

"I cannot stand him. He's a liar," Sarkozy told Obama. The US president responded by saying: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day."

Israel could attack Iran as early as April: Panetta
Panetta report fuels concerns that Israel will attack Iran‎
Brent steady above $112 on Iran tension
Israel sees narrowing window for attack on Iran‎
US Foreign Policy: War, war and more war‎
ran helping al Qaeda? War "hysteria" builds‎

The world has changed, USA is no longer the king of the castle or the sole super power, Russia and China are now starting to assert their power and influence - Russia signaled a clear intention to prevent any "regime change" intervention in Syria; but Russia's deployment of its flagship aircraft carrier and escorts to Syria's port of Tarsus this month drew a starker than usual line in the sand.
Beijing views Tehran as a useful tool to divert US military force from Southeast Asia. India, too, looks reluctant to play along with the wider western strategy of attempting to strangle Tehran economically to push it from its nuclear program and is also seen as a rising regional player.

War is not an option...