Protestors get to Harper undetected during pipeline speech
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You can boil every single company in the world down to "they exist to make money", but that would be a pretty simplistic way to view the world. A more useful question is "what do they do to make money"?
For private news organizations, they sell advertising(and subscriptions) by attracting readers/viewers and they attract readers/viewers by getting the stories that the public wants to read/watch.
Not every citizen can spend their entire day watching what is going on in our government and investigating what is going on, so a niche has been carved out for people to do this and report back to us.
Harper: Obama 'punted' Keystone XL decision
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says U.S. President Barack Obama has "punted" a decision on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, but he's still confident the long-delayed $5.4 billion project will eventually be built.
Harper made his remarks during a question-and-answer session with Vancouver Board of Trade CEO Iain Black. When Black launched into one question by saying Obama had rejected the pipeline, Harper interjected.
"No, he's punted," the prime minister said of Obama. "He said 'maybe.'"
"It is my hope that the administration will in due course see its way to take the appropriate decision, but that's obviously a political process in the United States," Harper continued.
Harper: Obama 'punted' Keystone XL decision, confident pipeline will be built
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says U.S. President Barack Obama has "punted" a decision on the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, but he's still confident the long-delayed $5.4 billion project will eventually be built.
Harper made his remarks during a question-and-answer session with Vancouver Board of Trade CEO Iain Black. When Black launched into one question by saying Obama had rejected the pipeline, Harper interjected.
"No, he's punted," the prime minister said of Obama. "He said 'maybe.'"
"It is my hope that the administration will in due course see its way to take the appropriate decision, but that's obviously a political process in the United States," Harper continued.
Harper: Obama 'punted' Keystone XL decision, confident pipeline will be built
Everything is a political process or should be... except for Harpo. He just pushes his Big Business agenda ahead and screw what the people want or need or the consequences to the environment and other life forms.
Your right Cliffy we should halt all oil and mineral extraction and go back to living in caves . Hey didn't you try that once .
How did that work out for you?
The reason Obama is holding out has zero to do with enviro. US wants a larger percentage of Bakken kerogen to flow down the pipe so they don't have to look bad building their own.
Do you really believe you can run a D9 Cat on sunshine?
Or you could ask, "do we really need D9 Cats?" Do we really need all those military jets and transport planes, tanks and other petroleum product consuming behemoths? If people didn't drive to the corner store, how much would that save? People have become fat, lazy and stupid because of petroleum and need weapons of mass destruction to protect their decadent lifestyles while most of the world's population starves. Western civilization is an oxymoron and people who mindlessly support it are, for the most part, brain dead.
Awesome idea. Also we can all hoild hands, sing Kumbayah and frolic in the meadows as Gaia intended.
Probably. Wouldn't run that great, but you could run one.