Definitions of terrorism: “The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” – Merriam Webster “Systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some goal.“ – Free Dictionary “The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.” – Dictionary.com Noam Chomsky clarifies the
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Climate Change Scientist Calls Conservatives ‘Neanderthal’ CBC | Posted: 04/27/2013 8:03 am EDT | Updated: 04/27/2013 9:46 am EDT This message is only marginally redundant..and the Conjobs could care less, or their supporters..after all the tar sands are newer than the dinosaur and plant remains that make up their bulk…what’s that, according to these
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: First He Gagged the Public Service and the Armed Forces. Now It’s the RCMP, the Royal Conservative Mounted Police.
The Harper government seems to have politically captured the RCMP. One of the most astonishing abuses of democracy perpetrated by the Harper conservatives has been the “capture” of Canada’s public service and armed forces and their transformation into partisan political agencies of the PMO. Harper quickly moved to isolate the
Continue readingLeDaro: Peacock: Beauty and Wonders of Nature
Peacock is a stunningly beautiful bird. To me it looks like that someone prepared a design and then in a workshop built it with all those patterns, green and blue dots and then breathed life into it. Nature’s beauty is incredible and it is displayed all around us. “A peacock
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Leading Climate Scientist Responds To Joe Oliver And His ‘Neanderthal Government’ – UPDATED
The other day I wrote a blog post on one of our national disgraces, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. While in Washington recently promoting the proposed XL Keystone pipeline through the United States, Oliver took the opportunity to insult and denigrate one of the world’s leading climate-change scientists, James Hansen.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: George Jones Has Died R.I.P. ‘He Stopped Loving Her Today’
George Jones arguably Country Musics all time greatest singer died in a Nashville Hospital yesterday. I have included a You Tube video of George singing his tear jerker “He stopped loving her today.”
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper Cons Are "Neanderthals" – James Hansen
Take that, Joe Oliver. Retired NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director James Hansen says Harper and his underlings are lashing out at him because they’re getting very worried. Pipeline Minister A (Oliver) recently attacked Hansen, accusing him of making “exaggerated comments” and “crying wolf.” Oliver said Hansen should be ashamed. “I
Continue readingBene Diction Blogs On: A sign of the times at the New York Times
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission A brief correction notice in the New York Times shows that our world is changing. Several others have already noticed a correction to the Times’ story on the Margaret Thatcher funeral service, towards the end of the online story here. It
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: April 27: This is the blog….
….I knew I would have to write some day. The dispute between hothead Hemming and the province’s medical system is only a small part of a much, much bigger crisis we are going through. This is part of nothing less than a revolution and, like most revolutions, one hell of a
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fracking Our National Parks: America’s Best Idea Threatened By Oil and Gas Addiction
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave. Elkhorn Ranch, where the great Republican conservationist sat on his porch overlooking the Little Missouri River and conceived his then-progressive theories of conservation, is at risk of being despoiled by fracking. Now sitting in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, you’d assume that
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fox Snooze: Global Warming Name Game Debunked By Media Matters (Again)
Media Matters put out a video this past week with clips of all the recent FOX News mentions of a global warming name conspiracy. The Fox ‘conspiracy’ is that ‘liberals’ stopped calling it global warming and started calling it climate change. Little did they realize, apparently, that the man responsible
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Revolutionary thought of the day: I can’t stop looking at Rue, smaller than ever, a baby animal curled up in a nest of netting. I can’t bring myself to leave her like this. Past harm, but seeming utterly defenseless. To hate the boy from District 1, who also appears so
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Olive writes that the dangerous effects of long-term unemployment (caused in no small part by gratuitous austerity) are just as much a problem in Canada as in the U.S.: With our persistent high levels of long-term unemployment, Canada is at risk of
Continue readingChadwick's Blog & Commentary: Shakespeare’s Lost Plays
Shakespeare’s canon, as it is known today, is incomplete. The Bard is known to have written several plays that were not, for various reasons, included in the First Folio printed shortly after his death. Other plays, several included in the … Continue reading →
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Signifying Nothing
Michael Harris writes that the Canadian Bar Association does not support Bill S7, the Harper government’s recently passed anti terrorism legislation: The CBA makes the point that the legislation does not give investigators new tools, but merely duplicates, with a few new wrinkles, laws that already exist. So why would
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Painful media scrum for Adrian Dix on his Kinder Surprise
After a BC election radio leaders debate, NDP leader Adrian Dix faced the press, and questions on his Kinder Surprise. And it wasn’t pretty. Between back-dating memos and forward-dating decisions, Dix’s messaging is more difficult to follow than the plot of Inception.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Classy Apology
Regular readers of this blog may be aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for The Toronto Star. I deeply admire its progressive mission, and I find its roster of excellent columnists informative and thought-provoking. I have come to regard it as a trusted source of news and opinion. It was
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Standing Up Against the Systemic Misogyny in our Culture – Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012
Anita Sarkeesian at TEDxWomen 2012 lets the world see that there are people willing to stand up and fight against the misogynistic status-quo. Filed under: Feminism Tagged: Anita Sakeesian, Feminism, Patriarchal Backlash, Video Games
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Repulse Bay
(This is the one in China – not Nunavut)
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