Author: The Mound of Sound

It’s enough to make your blood boil.   Alberta Conservatives are bent on meddling in British Columbia‘s upcoming provincial election.   They’re running a campaign to raise Alberta donations to support Christy Clark and her faux Liberals. Rod Love, the chief of staff to former premier Ralph Klein, and Allan Hallman, who

I don’ wanna live like Buddy Guy.   I wanna live like Lance Armstrong. Here’s his house, or one of them any way. And this is the room where he keeps his Tour de France jerseys.   And here’s Lance’s super  eco-friendly Nissan Leaf   That he uses when to get

On Monday there were reports of mid-January flooding in Anchorage,  Alaska.  Now the Polar Vortex has split, apparently the result of massive heating from below. Follow the link above to Daily Kos and check out the animation depicting the current temperature anomalies in the high Arctic.

If the National Rifle Association needed to convince Americans, including staunch Republicans, that it was an extremist and perhaps truly unstable outfit, it could not have done better than it did by releasing an outrageous TV ad questioning why Obama’s kids get security at school and others don’t. Even rank-and-file

By Beelzebub I mean the Prince of Darkness himself, Stephen Harper.   His minions are today’s corporate media cartel outlets – the warlords of information messaging – Sun News, G&M, PostMedia, CTV and Global News. While it may take a while to discover what new favours they’ve earned from their benefactor,

In an age in which messaging has quietly replaced information as the backbone of a corporate media cartel the opportunities for perverting public awareness could just be limitless. Take the venerable American magazine, The Atlantic, for example. Yesterday the magazine ran an advertorial for the Church of Scientology on its

If you were counting on “peak oil” to curb our fossil fuel addiction, forget it.  BP CEO Bob Dudley says the peak oil theory is “increasingly groundless.” It’s not that we aren’t running out of the relatively clean, conventional crude oil.   We are.   It’s that we’re finding ever new and

The outgoing director of the U.S. Geological Survey says Hurricane Sandy demonstrated that cities along America’s eastern seaboard are now sitting ducks. Marcia McNutt, who last week announced her resignation as director of the US Geological Survey, told a conference that Sandy had left coastal communities dangerously exposed to future

We are going to have to accept substantially higher costs for liquid-carbon fuel.   There are some uses, such as aviation, that just don’t suit alternative energy options, at least not those available today. Why should petroleum-based fuels cost two, three, four times what they do today?   Two reasons: we need

Slavery, we were taught, was ended in America by Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.   Southern blacks continued to suffer persecution of almost any sort for decades afterwards but at least they were free. Apparently not.   Apparently slavery was very much alive and well in the southern States right up

Scott Taylor of Espirit de Corps magazine indicts Stephen Harper for repeatedly aiding al Qaeda in Mali and now turning his back on the mess he helped create.

Homeowners in Anchorage are having to cope with a new winter challenge – flooding in mid-January Alaska.   That’s right – Alaska – mid-January – flooding. Some call it a Chinook, while others say the “Pineapple Express”. No matter what you call it, the weather has created a headache for some

This is taken directly from the draft National Climate Assessment prepared by U.S. government scientists for release next year.  It is taken from the introduction to the chapter on water. 1. Annual precipitation and runoff increases are observed now in the Midwest and 18 Northeast regions and are projected to

Here’s the problem.   Population is going up, food supply is heading the other way.   The world is already in a state of permanent food insecurity even though, by some accounts, up to half the food we produce is wasted.   We’ve had decades to rectify that but solutions have persistently eluded