There's an old folk proverb to the effect that "he who pays the piper calls the tune." There's a lot of truth in that.
Mark MacKinnon's byline appears above a story in yesterday's Globe and Mail that was passed along by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, with perhaps a little help from Bill Browder. The story attempts to link Canada's Bombardier to payments allegedly made by shady organized crime figures supposedly in Putin's orbit, a topic on which Browder regards himself the world's leading expert.
The OCCRP home page includes the logos of its sponsors; USAID, Open Society Foundations, ICFJ, and the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
USAID is the "humanitarian" arm of the US government and as such, is used as a tool to advance US interests world-wide.
Open Society Foundations is a George Soros philanthropy. Soros' "philanthropic" interests tend to overlap to a remarkable degree with the interests of the US State Department.
The International Center For Journalists is funded by US government "ngo" National Endowment for Democracy as well as Soros' Open Society Institute, among other foundations.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network gets its money from Google and the Open Society Foundations, among others.
With respect to paying the piper, I think it's rather obvious why the OCCRP fights corruption primarily where and when said corruption can be pinned on America's "adversaries," such as Russia and Venezuela.
I'm not claiming the corruption being investigated by OCCRP isn't real. What I am saying is OCCRP is first and foremost a political tool deployed against perceived enemies of the US ruling class.
That's why they'll never investigate American corruption... or Bill Browder.
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Friday, March 8, 2019
Monday, April 3, 2017
Canada's big biz boffins show their utter contempt for Canadian workers and taxpayers
Couple of news stories caught my eye over the weekend. Seems Bombardier big dog Alain Bellemare backed away from the 50% pay hike granted to Bombardier's senior management team, not because 50% pay raises for the brain trust behind a failing company is an obscenity, but because they were getting bad press over the issue.
The rationale behind granting a 50% pay raise to the wankers who have run Bombardier into the ground is this; you have to pay top dollar to attract and retain top talent.
Huh?
Top talent?
How does it take "top talent" to mismanage a company to the point where they can't deliver streetcars to the TTC within two years of the contractual due date?
Ya, you gotta pay big bucks to keep that talent! Not to mention that C-series jet that's what... four years behind schedule and four billion dollars over budget? The C-series is the biggest boondoggle this side of the F-35. Compared to Lockheed-Martin, our Bombardier buffoons are mere babes in the woods... meaning there's probably tons of headroom left in the bamboozle-the-taxpayer file at Bombardier.
The other story came out of CIBC. Seems the bank that cleared 1.4 billions in profit last QUARTER is gonna save a few bucks by shifting Canadian call centres to India.
Of course it's got nothing to do with screwing the workers.
CEO Dodig spells it out for you; "companies that stand still don't stand the test of time."
Huh?
What the fuck is that? Keeping jobs in Canada is "standing still?"
Both these greed-bag CEOs are million-a month guys more or less. A Canadian working full time at minimum wage won't hit a million bucks even if she works from age 18 to 65.
Too bad for the workers.
At least our companies aren't standing still.
And the million-a-month CEO types aren't standing still either.
The rationale behind granting a 50% pay raise to the wankers who have run Bombardier into the ground is this; you have to pay top dollar to attract and retain top talent.
Huh?
Top talent?
How does it take "top talent" to mismanage a company to the point where they can't deliver streetcars to the TTC within two years of the contractual due date?
Ya, you gotta pay big bucks to keep that talent! Not to mention that C-series jet that's what... four years behind schedule and four billion dollars over budget? The C-series is the biggest boondoggle this side of the F-35. Compared to Lockheed-Martin, our Bombardier buffoons are mere babes in the woods... meaning there's probably tons of headroom left in the bamboozle-the-taxpayer file at Bombardier.
The other story came out of CIBC. Seems the bank that cleared 1.4 billions in profit last QUARTER is gonna save a few bucks by shifting Canadian call centres to India.
Of course it's got nothing to do with screwing the workers.
CEO Dodig spells it out for you; "companies that stand still don't stand the test of time."
Huh?
What the fuck is that? Keeping jobs in Canada is "standing still?"
Both these greed-bag CEOs are million-a month guys more or less. A Canadian working full time at minimum wage won't hit a million bucks even if she works from age 18 to 65.
Too bad for the workers.
At least our companies aren't standing still.
And the million-a-month CEO types aren't standing still either.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Canadian business to be shut out of Iran's rebuilding bonanza thanks to John Baird
Executives from companies across Europe, from Asia, and from the US are preparing for a business bonanza as sanctions on Iran are lifted.
But thanks to the buffoonish reign of error of former Foreign Minister Baird, it's unlikely Canadian companies are going to be getting a significant piece of the action. Baird never missed an opportunity to slander and antagonize the Tehran government, culminating in the abrupt shuttering of the Canadian embassy three years ago.
Look at the areas in which Iran plans to invest billions: oil and gas infrastructure, rebuilding the country's airlines, mining and steel-making infrastructure - all sectors in which Canadian companies have considerable expertise. And with the Canadian economy in the tank, Iran could have been a lifeline for companies from Bombardier to SNC Lavalin to dozens of mining and energy contractors.
Billions of dollars worth of contracts will instead go to countries that maintained a civilized dialogue with the Iranians and kept their embassies open in spite of their differences.
That's called "diplomacy," and it is something most countries expect of their Foreign Ministers.
But thanks to the buffoonish reign of error of former Foreign Minister Baird, it's unlikely Canadian companies are going to be getting a significant piece of the action. Baird never missed an opportunity to slander and antagonize the Tehran government, culminating in the abrupt shuttering of the Canadian embassy three years ago.
Look at the areas in which Iran plans to invest billions: oil and gas infrastructure, rebuilding the country's airlines, mining and steel-making infrastructure - all sectors in which Canadian companies have considerable expertise. And with the Canadian economy in the tank, Iran could have been a lifeline for companies from Bombardier to SNC Lavalin to dozens of mining and energy contractors.
Billions of dollars worth of contracts will instead go to countries that maintained a civilized dialogue with the Iranians and kept their embassies open in spite of their differences.
That's called "diplomacy," and it is something most countries expect of their Foreign Ministers.
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