Secular protesters retake Tahrir Square after Islamist’s depart. They chant
for a secular state and against the military leadership.
While outside commentators have repeatedly suggested that Egypt’s revolution has stalled or gone backwards, it seem…
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RedBedHead: Could Ontario NDP Pull A Layton?
This is interesting:
The Forum Research survey found Hudak’s Tories at 38 per cent — down from 41 per cent in June — to McGuinty’s Liberals at 28 per cent, up from 26 per cent. NDP Leader Andrea Horwath jumped to 24 per cent from 22 per cent an…
RedBedHead: Republocrats Agree To Sodomize Americans, Fund Israel
…and I don’t mean sodomy in the fun frolicky sense of the world. What I mean is that they’ve agree that the deficit will not be “fixed” by raising taxes on the wealthy – whose tax breaks (along with multiple unwinnable and expensive wars & a defe…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ross Perot, the Tea Party: Why Are Third Party Politics In the US So Crazy?
As radical as they think that they are, the Tea Party follows a pattern of attempts to create a third party in the US political duopoly – which, let’s face it, is a one party state with two factions. The constant pressure to put aside “partisan” politi…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Could US Debt Debate Fragment The Republicans?
Tea Party Republicans: ready to go all the way
Republican House Speaker John Boehner must be wondering at this moment what to do with his rather large embarrassment of riches – with the emphasis on embarrassment. The mid-terms swept Republicans into …
RedBedHead: Global Warming Solved: Fire The Scientist
Remember how Obama said all that stuff about the importance of whistleblowers to keep government honest? Yeah, well, you might want to ask Bradley Manning the punchline to that particular joke. But it seems that the persecution of anybody who says anyt…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Pits Of Hell Not Deep Enough For Murdoch’s Crew
You could almost be forgiven for thinking that the scumbag hacks & corporate puppetmasters couldn’t possibly sink any lower than what had already been revealed. I mean, Murdoch’s crew of despicable skinbags hacked the phone of a murdered teenage gi…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Afghanistan In Disarray? Blame Iran Even If It’s B.S.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that at the end of a bad month for the client regime in Afghanistan and the NATO colonial project in general, that the US made the discovery that Iran was supporting al Qaeda and needed to announce it. I also believe ot…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Ethical Oil? Tory Scum Polishes Turd
There really is no lie too big, no corporate filth too odious that there isn’t some Tory bagman who isn’t willing to try and sell it to us as a golden egg, when it is in fact toxic poison. Alykhan Velshi, a former aide to the seriously disgusting Immig…
Continue readingRedBedHead: "Saturated Fat Is Bad": The Lie That Never Dies
Go ahead & eat it: you know you want to
I came across this article in Health & Fitness section of today’s Globe & Mail. A reader asks Leslie Beck, a dietician, whether eating a medium rare steak is bad for him, as his wife suggests. Now, …
RedBedHead: Child Obesity: Abuse Or Moral Panic
A number of articles were sent my way today about the phenomenon in the USA and Scotland – and probably in Canada – of charging parents with child abuse if they “allow” their children to become obese. I’ve discussed in previous posts here, here and her…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Debt crisis: Boehner’s Boner
The US debt crisis has escalated after Republicans were forced to rewrite their proposal to lift the debt ceiling, because they miscalculated how much the original plan would cut spending.In an embarrassing development for John Boehner, the Republican …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Taliban Makes Itself Popular By Killing NATO-Backed Crooks
I’m sure there will be paeans of praise for the now late mayor of Kandahar, particularly in the North American median. The Globe & Mail, for instance, suggests that Mayor Ghulam Haidar Hamidi was a reformer who was trying to root out corruption. Ho…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Are The Ford Brothers Cartoon Characters?
One day it’s Rob Ford lying about labour costs on the radio, then his brother is lying about the number of libraries vs Tim Hortons in his ward. This week it’s Doug Ford talking about shutting down libraries “in a heartbeat” and his pugnacious sibling …
Continue readingRedBedHead: US Debt War Will Lead To Recession
Hate to say it folks but there’s about a snowball’s chance in hell that the world won’t have returned to recession by the end of this year. There are many factors involved that make this likely – the necessary slowing of China’s growth, the defaults an…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Mayor Ford: User Fees For Everyone…But Him
You probably don’t need me to tell you that Rob Ford is a hyprocrite and a liar in addition to being a mean-spirited prick. All that is apparent every time he opens his mouth. Nonetheless, it is useful to see the many ways in which he brings himself in…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Norway: Terrible Side-Effect of Islamophobia
The horror, tragedy and seeming madness of the killing spree in Norway are almost impossible to imagine. There is a temptation to focus on the mourning and solidarity with people in Norway and to resist analysis as something cold and foreign to the hum…
Continue readingRedBedHead: KPMG – Helping Tax Dodgers & Corporate Fraudsters Everywhere
The Ford Bros Circus of Stupid decided that the best way to figure out which services we ought to toss on the bonfire was to hire auditing firm KPMG. Well, that’s not quite true. Doug Ford has said that they want to “outsource (privatize) everything t…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Mayor Ford Says: Come To City Hall Thursday, July 28, 9:30AM
Well, well, well, normally an invite from Rob Ford would end up in my garbage quicker than a brochure to take out a subscription to the National Post. But sometimes when opportunity knocks, you just have to listen. And this, I think, is one of those mo…
Continue readingRedBedHead: BMI & Other Lies
Went out last night for a drink with a friend of mine and we ended up in a conversation with a professor from the University of Western Ontario who teaches in the Women’s Studies Dept and specializes in Medical Sociology or the sociology of medicine,…
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