“Jack’s Dream”, by Ontario NDP candidate James Gordon (Guelph). Jack’s famous last letter gets a country sound.
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Payola: Not just for $ and P anymore!
A while back, I posted about how a certain ratings agency takes payola. Now, it looks like another one also does: A former senior analyst at Moody’s has gone public with his story of how one of the country’s most important rating agencies is corrupted to the core. The analyst, William J. Harrington, worked for […]
Continue readingPutin asks a pertinent question
Does anyone have a pertinent answer for him? I think someone does: As usual, it’s the OIL, stupid! Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald summarizes why no decent person should support what NATO is doing to Libya: No decent human being would possibly harbor any sympathy for Gadaffi, just as none harbored any for Saddam. It’s impossible not […]
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Torontonians remember their man Jack. Full size version here.
Continue readingDear Jack…
Dear Jack Layton: I don’t know if you remember me, but I will never forget you. We met in the mid-1990s, briefly, during the city council elections in Toronto. I was a journalism student at Ryerson University then. We were encouraged to take an interest in local politics and report on those issues. And since […]
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Maxine Waters
She tells the teabags where they can go (hint: it’s the same place they’re trying to drag their entire country.) You may also recall her from this opening scene in Fahrenheit 9/11: This is the kind of fighting spirit that’s needed the world over, as the banksters try to hook us all into virtual slavery. […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: And do you feel scared?
I do. But I won’t stop and falter:
And after a day like the one I just had, things had BETTER get better.
Continue readingFun With Photoshop: Somehow, I always did suspect…
…that Rick Perry had a skeleton in his closet, dancing the Watusi in a pink tutu and high heels:
Adam, on the other hand, looks like he’s had better.
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Children of the Corn
Oh, Basement Cat. You didn’t! Crappy weekend, everyone! Are we enjoying fairground season yet? No? What, all those windstorms knocking down shoddily constructed stages and killing people getting you down? Shoot, that ain’t nothin’ but that global warming that we all know doesn’t exist. And if it doesn’t exist, then those people must be undead. […]
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: LOLChe
Maradona meets his idol.
Continue readingAugusto Pinochet: a bigger bastard than originally thought
I know…how is this even possible? (Well, I have an idea, but we’ll get to that in a moment.) While we’re on the subject of all things Chile and Chile-related today (a sheer, strange coincidence), how about this little item from the Beeb? A Chilean commission investigating human rights abuses under the former military leader […]
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: Another horrible trapped-miner story
Yes, this is satire. But it has a very large, uncracked grain of truth in it. Can you spot it?
Continue readingCarmen Quintana: still protesting against neoliberal dictatorship
Chilean high school and university students are currently involved in a mighty struggle against their government’s unfair and inequitable privatized education policies, which date back to the neoliberal “reforms” of the Pinochet era, and their struggle has been going on for a very long time, as this woman’s own struggle makes clear. After all, she […]
Continue readingAn icky, creepy (yet strangely apt) similarity
Separated at birth? On the left, “Dr.” Marcus Bachmann, spouse of a certain US Republican presidential aspirant, and professional homophobe who always sets my gaydar bleeping. On the right, John Wayne Gacy, psychopath, serial killer of young men and repressed homosexual. No respectable, accredited psychologist or psychiatrist would call homosexuality a disease, much less attempt […]
Continue readingIs the LAHT a bunch of Koch-suckers?
I’ve always had my suspicions about a certain crappy “news” outlet pretentiously calling itself the “Latin American Herald Tribune”. I never did trust it; there was something of a rightist stench about it. And today, I received this in my e-mail. I think it tells us something about who may in fact be behind them, […]
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Never mind the bollocks
What could be better than this song for Merry Old England right now?
Okay, maybe this one:
And after all this, won’t you give me a smile?
Continue readingWankers of the Week: London Burning
Crappy weekend, everyone! Well. How about those riots in Merry Old England, eh? Looks like London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down…and not just in London, my fair ladies (and gents). Shit is hitting the fan all over the place. And here are some of the choicest turd-nuggets of the past week, goin’ […]
Continue readingEconomics for Dummies: Mike Ruppert on provocateurs and the British riots
Mike Ruppert, a former drug-enforcement cop from Los Angeles who helped expose the CIA’s role in drug smuggling to the US, analyzes the London riots. These riots have an economic root, and it’s NOT what the conservatives of the British parliament would have us believe. This is actually global in nature, and the Arab Spring […]
Continue readingFestive Left Friday Blogging: Who is this?
Anybody recognize this skinny kid? Here’s a hint: 40 years ago as of August 8, he entered the Venezuelan military academy as an officer cadet. His original hope was to become a big-league baseball pitcher. (He’s a southpaw.) Baseball took a backseat to a passion for history and eventually politics, though, as he read up […]
Continue readingShort ‘n’ Stubby: Ms. Manx looks at London
If the Stumpy Cat is meowing and pawing at my leg, I know there is something she wants me to address. And sure enough, our cyber-kitty friend has found several links of interest regarding the London riots… First up, Cort G. sent this Marxist link which gives the best summation so far of the root […]
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