The world is poorer for your passing.Canada has lost someone who contributed greatly to the fostering of our democracy, someone who showed that a capitalist society should also be compatible with a society that took collective care of those whose nee…
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CuriosityCat: The Answer to the Tea Party No-Taxes Pledge
The world had just watched in befuddlement as the mighty USA has reeled from the impact on its governance of a large group of members of Congress who have united in a pledge placed before them by Grover Norquist.Norquist’s claim to fame is his mission …
Continue readingCuriosityCat: No to the Euro Bond but Yes to the UK’s Social Bond?
Chancellor Merkel turned aside Sarkozy’s request for consideration of the much vaunted “Euro Bond”, arguing that it really amounted to the stronger EU countries guaranteeing the debt of the weaker ones, but without any commitments by the weaker ones to…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Murdoch’s Man of the Uncompromising Scoops is Scooped up by Scotland Yard
This 13th hacking arrest as part of Operating Weeting was made yesterday:James Desborough, an award-winning reporter at the former News of the World newspaper, has been arrested by officers investigating the phone-hacking scandal.Desborough was arres…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Deep Throat: Who told Murdoch to hack paragraphs from The Letter?
As in hacks paragraphs out, and then James (the junior Murdoch) tells the UK Parliamentary commission that Scotland Yard wanted the changes.
Clive Goodman: The good man who wrote The Letter
But Deep Throat can reveal that a newspaper today claims th…
CuriosityCat: Murdoch’s Lawyers on "Find out what the hell is going on" …
Some interesting comments by Harbottle & Lewis LLP – a law firm retained by News of the World group to do some limited research concerning the firing of Goodman.
Deep Throat in London, UK
Deep Throat, back from vacation after the federal elect…
CuriosityCat: CNN’s Piers Morgan and Hacking
As the News of the World coverup starts to crumble, with fresh revelations of old letters (including two versions of one letter, with NOW issuing one letter with references to senior managers redacted), a well-known face on CNN seems to have his own ex…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama versus Perry: Perspiration versus Cerebalism
Right now the most likely GOP presidential contender to face up to President Obama is a dark haired, Kennedyesque, fast-talking, loud-talking, right wing Texas governor named Rick Perry:
President Rick Perry?
But it is the governor of the great big st…
CuriosityCat: The Murdochs: It’s often the cover up that gets you – just ask Tricky Dick
Murdoch Senior and Junior (and PM David Cameron) are in for a few sleepless nights now that this has happened:
Cameron and Coulson
Phone hacking was widely discussed at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, according to a reporter who was blamed as th…
CuriosityCat: Janus Jack Layton and The Quebec Policy
Recently, having crushed the Bloc in the 2011 elections, there was a flurry of discussion in the media and blogs around the ambivalent NDP policy regarding the right of Quebec to separate under the Canadian constitution, the relationship between the ND…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Krugman loses hope – without cause
The US has just gone through one of its periodic bargaining sessions, involving the President, the House and the Senate. Much ado about nothing occurred, and then a deal was cut and disaster averted.Meanwhile, back at the ranch, progressives are bemo…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama the fox outsmarts the dogmatic Tea Party
The dust slowly settles over the political heart of the great American nation, and dimly through it we can sense the outline of a strategy crafted by a veritable fox of a president.With one party gripped by the throat by an extreme group, and the other…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Massive victory for the Tea Party
Barbara TuchmanLost in all the deadline-brinkmanship taking place in Washington over the past few weeks is the momentous success of the rookie Tea Party representatives in Congress.Almost single handledly, these 80 or so rookies have stared the Democra…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Congratulations to the Tea Party
House leader Boehner has hit a brick wall:The postponement was announced just minutes before the planned 6 p.m. vote. The House instead moved to consider a far less controversial measure — to rename a post office in Peoria, Ill.Republicans had been wo…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Martha Hall Findlay for Liberal President
Martha Hall FindlayI wish to go on record that I would support Martha Hall Findlay for Liberal Party president, should she run / be drafted / be persuaded to run.Findlay has paid her dues in the trenches, and would add youth, experience and vigour to…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: The Cat favours Thomas Mulcair to replace Jack Layton
Thomas MulcairLayton is stepping down as leader of the NDP to fight a new cancer attack, and a temporary leader will be selected by the party, and might only serve until mid-September if Layton returns fit enough to take up the reins again.The Cat re…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Let’s give the Tea Party credit
Americans were plunged into the financial meltdown a few years ago, brought on by the excess and readily available credit that the US has been living on for several decades. And many Americans have now had their wings clipped, and have been stripped of…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Root and branch rebuilding: One tool we can use
Liberals have just had a successful teleconferencing convention that 2,700 members of the party subscribed to, and 2,100 members voted to extend the date a permanent leader is to be chosen.In commenting on the task facing us, Bob Rae had this to say:Li…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Jack Layton’s Plans versus Reality
Right now Jack Layton and the NDP are rightfully riding high, with their newly elected MPs learning the ropes. Layton says repeatedly that the NDP will keep the Conservative majority government honest, by raising issues which it believes the government…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Jack Layton’s balancing pole
In today’s Toronto Sun, Lorrie Goldstein, the Senior Associate Editor, has an interesting article in which he writes about the Layton balancing act, caused by his schitzophrenic NDP party caucus makeup:
Layton is now riding atop a two-headed tiger as o…