Author: The Mound of Sound

Too soon?  Thought so, sorry.

In a recent column (that I somehow overlooked) Gwynne Dyer exposes the Israeli prime minister as an absolute fraud propped up by  Canadian and American collaborators. That’s your government, by the way, on both sides of the floor of the House of Commons.

When he wrote Climate Wars, military affairs oracle Gwynne Dyer accepted the Pentagon and Brit MoD take on global warming, namely that it meant war, an awful lot of war, throughout this century. A couple of years later Dyer wrote another book in which he said he had it wrong. 

An unidentified member of Steve Harper’s inner cabinet has apparently defected.  The partly trained monkey was found wandering aimlessly around a Toronto IKEA store on the weekend. Authorities were able to confirm it was a senior cabinet minister on the run by the standard winter coat issued to senior Harper

Canada’s best Tar Sands journo, Andrew Nikiforuk, reveals the rank desperation that drove Stephen Harper into the service of China’s Communist regime on the Nexen takeover.  It’s an ugly story and one that every voting Canadian needs to read.   This is a disaster that could blow up in Canada’s face.

It’s positively stomach churning.  300,000 acres of Athabasca Tar Sands now in China’s hands and Canada’s industry minister has the gall to say he can’t discuss it and it’s up to China to tell us what the Canadian people got out of this. http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/paradis-says-it-s-now-up-to-china-to-explain-deal-to-canadians-1.1072194 Paradis did list two benefits –

From CICERO, Norway’s Center for International Climate and Environmental Research:

The Canadian public, including Conservative voters, think the Chinese takeover of Nexen is terrible, borderline treasonous.  An Ekos poll finds barely 15% of us support it.   It’s a safe bet those miserable numbers would be worse yet if it wasn’t for the strong support given for the takeover by Justin

A cautionary tale of industrial growth gone completely wrong seems to be emerging out of China’s once-promising solar panel industry. Nearly all the “big names” of the industry, including companies such as LDK Solar, Yingli Solar (which sports fans will recognize from its sponsorship at recent international soccer events) and

The U.S. Congress wants president Obama to outlaw the word “lunatic.” Senator Kent Conrad, one of the sponsors of the measure, said: “Federal law should reflect the 21st Century understanding of mental illness and disease, and that the continued use of this pejorative term has no place in the US

The Occupy Movement came and went.   Yet it was never truly confrontational.   It was vocal, a revolving protest, that, in retrospect, seems more of a whiney lament than a drive to compel change. Today’s Gen X’ers and Millennials seem unaware that the change they’re going to need is rarely achieved

Steve Harper says he’s stopped foreign takeovers of Canada’s resource industries but experts from the business sector say that foreign money and ownership will continue. CBC News reports that foreign money will continue to flood in, only “Harper style.”   Steve Harper is the master of incremental change, little baby steps

How about this?  Floor seats.  Centre stage.  Row 5.  Yours for only $24,950 per ticket.  And they’re going fast. That’s for next Saturday night’s Rolling Stones concert in Newark, New Jersey.   Those seem to be the best seats remaining.   The cheapest seats, behind some pillar up in the Gods, will