Travel Alberta is not pleased with Andy Cobb and Mike Damanskis, two L.A.-based comedians raising funds to travel to the province’s tar sands, the world’s largest industrial project. Today, Travel Alberta filed an official complaint with YouTube, claiming the comedy duo’s crowdfunding pitch video “Welcome to Fort McMoney” was in
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hippies Threaten Our Coastal Wilderness-Forestry & Mining Corporations Outraged!
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Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Civil disobedience as law enforcement
Historian and author Jeremy Brecher argues that activists who engage in acts of civil disobedience and risk arrest are upholding the law, not violating it. The post Civil disobedience as law enforcement appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingPostArctica: Adrift
I have yet to see anything that so sublimely and elegantly shows how mankind and nature can cohabit this planet, yet we continue to lay a massive pounding on the earth, oblivious to the wreckage, as we struggle blindly through the fog of our own heads and hearts. ADRIFT It
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Distort Things Much?
Over at his blog (where he has conveniently turned off comments), we find Walt Heyer madly scribing away, and getting it horribly wrong. He refers to three cases of what he supposes are gender transition regret: 1) Like the physician who wrote me. He became a “trans woman.” Yes, a physician! Even
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Democracy Now interview: Ladar Levison talks about decision to close Lavabit rather than comply with U.S. government
In a follow-up to the previous entry I’m posting a Democracy Now interview with Lavabit owner and operator Ladar Levison. Levison made the difficult decision to shut down the encrypted email service, Lavabit, after an apparent bid by the U.S. government to gain access to customer data. As mentioned in
Continue readingBuckdog: Sorry, it’s not a ‘law of capitalism’ that you pay your employees as little as possible … IT’S A CHOICE!
By Henry Blodget,Financial Post “One of the big reasons the U.S. economy is so lousy is the American companies are hoarding cash and ‘maximizing profits’ instead of investing in their people and future projects.This behavior is contributing to record income inequality in the country and starving the primary engine of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Supporter Survey
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: These ideas = success
We are constantly amazed, but never surprised, at what the pro-Internet community can accomplish when we work together. With a couple clicks and a few keystrokes, we can share our thoughts across the world at 300,000 km/second. That’s pretty incredible when you step back and think about it. The Internet
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Here There Be Dragons
I take it that metaphors are too subtle a concept for the fundamentalist mind: Recommend this Post
Continue readingNorthern Insight: A Twitter feed for your consideration
Canadian citizen Maher Arar has lived in this country for more than 25 years. He has an undergraduate degree from McGill and a graduate degree in telecommunications, is married and father of two children. Until the infamous ordeal of 2002, he had never been charged with any offence or been
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Canada’s Green Economy needs public investment
While public banks in countries like China, the US, the UK, Germany, Denmark and Brazil are investing billions in renewable energy development, as clean tech expert Will Dubitsky explains, Canada lacks such critical tools for addressing climate change and building a green economy. “Why can’t Canada do similar things via
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Obama reacts to the outcry around NSA spying: What does it mean?
In response to the massive public outcry about the NSA’s blanket surveillance of law-abiding citizens, U.S. President Obama has made a number of commitments to help keep surveillance practices in check. But what do these commitments really mean? Here’s OpenMedia’s own Lindsey Pinto’s analysis for OpenMedia International Article by Lindsey
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: My take on Line 9
Over the last year, there has been a huge amount of debate over Enbridge wanting to reverse the flow of oil in a major pipeline — “Line 9” — from east to west, to west to east. The claim has been made that an already fractured pipeline could become even
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Longtime NDP MLA Corky Evans On Todays BC NDP
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberals scored a surprise upset and were re-elected as the government of BC on May 14th, 2013 Since that time members, supporters and pundits along with some current and former MLA’s have been speaking up questioning the so called middle of the road positioning,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Now the Data-Miners Are Afraid of Being Counter-Data-Mined
The Pentagon seems to have had one of those “oh shit” moments when it dawned on them that data-mining can be a double-edged sword. Apparently some out-of-the-box thinker asked what might happen if a potential adversary chose to sift through America’s mountains of commercially-available data? The doomsday thinkers over at
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: WallAnt audit has opposition demanding PM response
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/14/pol-wallin-senate-audit-ndp-dewar-turmel.html http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/13/stephen-harper-pamela-wallin-video_n_3749071.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The United States Air Force Wants to Go All Nano on China’s Ass
At times it seems the U.S. military is obsessed with finding ways to attack China. They’ve already staged a full-dress rehearsal of a stealth first-strike against China, Operation Chimichanga. That scenario envisioned a wave of F-35 stealth light bombers, protected by F-22 stealth fighters, catching the Chinese napping and wiping
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Inequality for All – Coming Soon, Very Soon, Oh Hell, It’s Already Here!
A trailer for Robert Reich’s new documentary, Inequality for All Reich asks “who is looking out for the American worker?” We need to ask who is looking out for Canadian workers? Harper has been waging a relentless war on Canadian labour since he seized the reins of power. There was
Continue readingIn This Corner: It’s TV’s golden age … except in Canada.
There is no doubt that we are living in a golden age of television. Once looked down upon as a lesser form of entertainment in relation to the lordly world of the ‘cinema’, television has now usurped the movies as the premiere mode of viewing entertainment. I defy anyone to
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