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Where responsibility really lies.
“The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has “turned a blind eye” to crime and cheated money from the pockets of ordinary Canadians for years, says Ontario Ombudsman André Marin.
In his report tabled Monday, Mr. Marin calls for an independent regulator to oversee the province’s lottery corporation in the wake of “theft and fraud” by ticket retailers.
In just 90 days, the Ombudsman’s office uncovered instances where about $15-million in lottery winnings was paid to “internal fraudsters,” Mr. Marin said.”
“I think the system has been cheated, charities have been cheated, hospitals have been cheated,” Mr. Marin said at a news conference on Monday.”
“Although the pharmaceutical industry claims to be a high-risk business, year after year drug companies enjoy higher profits than any other industry. In 2002, for example, the top 10 drug companies in the United States had a median profit margin of 17%, compared with only 3.1% for all the other industries on the Fortune 500 list Indeed, subtracting losses from gains, those 10 companies made more in profits that year than the other 490 companies put together. Pfizer, the world's number-one drug company, had a profit margin of 26% of sales. In 2003, for the first time in over 2 decades, the pharmaceutical industry fell slightly from its number-one spot to third, but this was explained by special circumstances, including Pfizer's purchase of another drug giant, Pharmacia, which cut into its profits for the year. The industry's profits were still an extraordinary 14% of sales, well above the median of 4.6% for other industries. A business that is consistently so profitable can hardly be considered risky.”
“According to news reports last week, Petro-Canada, the country's fourth largest oil producer and refiner, reported strong first-quarter financial results. Their earnings rose from $486 million last year to $580 million this year. Oil and gas extraction companies' profits exceeded $31billion for the first time ever in 2006, up 2.3% over 2005 levels.”
These snippets from national news sources make it clear, you can steal from Canadians and both provincial and federal governments will do everything in their power to insulate the wealthy and the investor from being held accountable. Held accountable for things like, fraud and theft in a government managed lottery and gaming commission. Placing responsibility for soaring healthcare costs on pharmaceutical corporations reaping unheard of profits.Canadians have become familiar and comfortable with being robbed by the “suits” at the gas pumps, sweeping in enormous profits and salaries in Canada’s energy corporations. Canadians rarely get to see the faces of the people in industry who steal from them, just as surely as they never hear of or see any accountability brought to the board rooms and businesses of these thieves.
People have marvelled at the apparent ease with which gangsters and thieves have manipulated parliaments and the judicial system to protect their “take”…
Of course it’s not the corner grocery store owner or the “mom and pop” operations that the scum of government protects, it’s the multi-billion dollar multi-national octopuses the government of Canada serves to secure from scrutiny and exposure.
Millions upon millions of dollars are spent by the Canadian government in court cases that rarely see a conviction or a return of the booty looted from Canadians at the convenience store counter, the drug store or the gas station pump. Canada after all needs more multi-million dollar lawyers and legal firms much more than it needs justice and accountability.
Our “news” apparati, from newspapers filled with advertising and lies to television where the “truth” was abandoned long ago in favor of ratings, to interviews given by politicians, big business, big government and big business have turned artifice and escape into arts that make the sideshow magician wince with envy.
We’ve become accustomed to lies throughout Canadian and American government. Little lies that promise that our politicians have the interests of Canadians and Americans at heart, only to witness taxpayer money taken from protecting our natural resources and providing aid to the people of Canada and America, and given instead to war efforts of dubious origin and questionable purpose.
Now and then something clean…something simple that doesn’t demand an exhuastive inspection of accounts memos and policies like the Conrad Black case or the Sponsorship Scandal….comes along. Just like the formula of television and movie screen entertainment. A simple “bad guys wear black and good guys wear white” metric that gives the conditioned apathy and ignorance of the consuming public what they want.
Simple easy answers to enormously complex problems.
Blame the gun.
Politicians have learned that overly-complicated accounting structures and pages of legalese and bafflegab have a way of protecting their good supporters at pharmaceutical corporations and petroleum industry from both clarity and legal consequences. That’s why the political systems in Canada and the United States have lawyers and advertising firms on the public payroll. Big government and big business know that if you can obscure the issues sufficiently, the potato-headed people of these nations can be told anything and be convinced they’re just too simple and to stupid to comprehend the machinations of the elite.
This formula applied to “news” boils down to a fervant interests generated in the follies of the wealthy brat children of wealthy entertainment families…the Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith merry-go-round that permits the lies exaggerations and corruption of government to be ignored.
Something simple and straightforward … “guns should be banned” is far more paleteable to the masses than the mire of artfully sculpted disinformation and fraud that passes for government and business….
The extension of this formula thinking isn’t terribly difficult to predict. The individual member of society and his/her rights are declared legal targets in an open season on rights of the person…while the chicanery and fraud of corporations and governments is given a pass….
Just how stupid are the people of Canada and the United States?
When Hollywood box-offices make hundred million dollar openings offering bloody demonstrations of the invincibility of an armed goon, when a video game is won by mass murder and mayhem, when a wave of empathy washes over the newswaves at notice that yet another scam netting fraudmen and scam artists millions from pensioners and get-rich-quick schemes…you tell me who’s responsible?
“The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. has “turned a blind eye” to crime and cheated money from the pockets of ordinary Canadians for years, says Ontario Ombudsman André Marin.
In his report tabled Monday, Mr. Marin calls for an independent regulator to oversee the province’s lottery corporation in the wake of “theft and fraud” by ticket retailers.
In just 90 days, the Ombudsman’s office uncovered instances where about $15-million in lottery winnings was paid to “internal fraudsters,” Mr. Marin said.”
“I think the system has been cheated, charities have been cheated, hospitals have been cheated,” Mr. Marin said at a news conference on Monday.”
“Although the pharmaceutical industry claims to be a high-risk business, year after year drug companies enjoy higher profits than any other industry. In 2002, for example, the top 10 drug companies in the United States had a median profit margin of 17%, compared with only 3.1% for all the other industries on the Fortune 500 list Indeed, subtracting losses from gains, those 10 companies made more in profits that year than the other 490 companies put together. Pfizer, the world's number-one drug company, had a profit margin of 26% of sales. In 2003, for the first time in over 2 decades, the pharmaceutical industry fell slightly from its number-one spot to third, but this was explained by special circumstances, including Pfizer's purchase of another drug giant, Pharmacia, which cut into its profits for the year. The industry's profits were still an extraordinary 14% of sales, well above the median of 4.6% for other industries. A business that is consistently so profitable can hardly be considered risky.”
“According to news reports last week, Petro-Canada, the country's fourth largest oil producer and refiner, reported strong first-quarter financial results. Their earnings rose from $486 million last year to $580 million this year. Oil and gas extraction companies' profits exceeded $31billion for the first time ever in 2006, up 2.3% over 2005 levels.”
These snippets from national news sources make it clear, you can steal from Canadians and both provincial and federal governments will do everything in their power to insulate the wealthy and the investor from being held accountable. Held accountable for things like, fraud and theft in a government managed lottery and gaming commission. Placing responsibility for soaring healthcare costs on pharmaceutical corporations reaping unheard of profits.Canadians have become familiar and comfortable with being robbed by the “suits” at the gas pumps, sweeping in enormous profits and salaries in Canada’s energy corporations. Canadians rarely get to see the faces of the people in industry who steal from them, just as surely as they never hear of or see any accountability brought to the board rooms and businesses of these thieves.
People have marvelled at the apparent ease with which gangsters and thieves have manipulated parliaments and the judicial system to protect their “take”…
Of course it’s not the corner grocery store owner or the “mom and pop” operations that the scum of government protects, it’s the multi-billion dollar multi-national octopuses the government of Canada serves to secure from scrutiny and exposure.
Millions upon millions of dollars are spent by the Canadian government in court cases that rarely see a conviction or a return of the booty looted from Canadians at the convenience store counter, the drug store or the gas station pump. Canada after all needs more multi-million dollar lawyers and legal firms much more than it needs justice and accountability.
Our “news” apparati, from newspapers filled with advertising and lies to television where the “truth” was abandoned long ago in favor of ratings, to interviews given by politicians, big business, big government and big business have turned artifice and escape into arts that make the sideshow magician wince with envy.
We’ve become accustomed to lies throughout Canadian and American government. Little lies that promise that our politicians have the interests of Canadians and Americans at heart, only to witness taxpayer money taken from protecting our natural resources and providing aid to the people of Canada and America, and given instead to war efforts of dubious origin and questionable purpose.
Now and then something clean…something simple that doesn’t demand an exhuastive inspection of accounts memos and policies like the Conrad Black case or the Sponsorship Scandal….comes along. Just like the formula of television and movie screen entertainment. A simple “bad guys wear black and good guys wear white” metric that gives the conditioned apathy and ignorance of the consuming public what they want.
Simple easy answers to enormously complex problems.
Blame the gun.
Politicians have learned that overly-complicated accounting structures and pages of legalese and bafflegab have a way of protecting their good supporters at pharmaceutical corporations and petroleum industry from both clarity and legal consequences. That’s why the political systems in Canada and the United States have lawyers and advertising firms on the public payroll. Big government and big business know that if you can obscure the issues sufficiently, the potato-headed people of these nations can be told anything and be convinced they’re just too simple and to stupid to comprehend the machinations of the elite.
This formula applied to “news” boils down to a fervant interests generated in the follies of the wealthy brat children of wealthy entertainment families…the Paris Hilton and Anna Nicole Smith merry-go-round that permits the lies exaggerations and corruption of government to be ignored.
Something simple and straightforward … “guns should be banned” is far more paleteable to the masses than the mire of artfully sculpted disinformation and fraud that passes for government and business….
The extension of this formula thinking isn’t terribly difficult to predict. The individual member of society and his/her rights are declared legal targets in an open season on rights of the person…while the chicanery and fraud of corporations and governments is given a pass….
Just how stupid are the people of Canada and the United States?
When Hollywood box-offices make hundred million dollar openings offering bloody demonstrations of the invincibility of an armed goon, when a video game is won by mass murder and mayhem, when a wave of empathy washes over the newswaves at notice that yet another scam netting fraudmen and scam artists millions from pensioners and get-rich-quick schemes…you tell me who’s responsible?
