We’re here, maybe not queer, but you are going to have to live with it. I attended the local “Defend Our Coast” rally this week outside our local MLA’s office. It wasn’t a protest directed at the MLA but a demonstration of our views and determination to stop bitumen trafficking
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The Disaffected Lib: Every Rapist First Subdues His Victim
Stephen Harper has gone to great lengths to subdue the province and people of British Columbia in preparation for having his way with us against our will. It’s been methodical and relentless and every aspect of it has been marked by three telltales – they’ve all been without consultation, without
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America’s Looming Strategic Insolvency.
“A moment has arrived with a great power with global responsibilities is having a crisis of confidence. Its economy has grown sluggish and it is being overtaken by a number of rising competitors. Financial pressures loom, notably the ability to keep a balance between government revenues and expenses. It is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sununu Can’t Walk this One Back.
Romney campaign co-chair, John Sununu, is scrambling to get out from under his imprudent but pretty obviously heartfelt racist comments. When former Bush state secretary and former US chairman of the joint chiefs Colin Powell endorsed Obama for a second term as president, he gave clear and convincing reasons for
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Chilling Face of Greek Fascism
Greek police officers are warning that the brutal, fascist Golden Dawn movement has infiltrated their ranks. The Guardian has prepared this disturbing look into Greece’s spreading fascism.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How to Kill Democracy, the Ultimate How-To Guide
Remember when voter intimidation was considered an outrage, a threat to democracy? That was then, this is now. The oligarchs are moving very powerfully and relentlessly to dismantle democracy and the battleground is the Greatest Democracy on Earth (TM), the United States. From disinformation services that spew outright falsehoods and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: As If You Need Another Reason to Despise the Harper Government
One of the most odious and blatantly theocratic affronts perpetrated by the Harper regime is its fierce opposition to physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. Team Harper is now before the B.C. Court of Appeal seeking to overturn a decision in June that struck down the government prohibition on doctor-assisted
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Even Albertans Don’t Want Chinese Ownership of the Tar Sands
The China Institute of the University of Alberta has released a poll showing that Albertans, by better than a two to one margin, oppose investments in the province’s fossil fuel resources by Chinese state-owned companies. And it’s 64% against and just 15% for Chinese investments that amount to total ownership
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: New York Braces for Frankenstorm
New York City is now squarely in the crosshairs of Hurricane Sandy. The NOAA has updated its hurricane track to predict Sandy may slam into the Big Apple on Tuesday morning. The unique nature of the storm is its scariest aspect. From the National Weather Service : THE HIGH DEGREE
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The End of the Road for Mitch Romney?
A Massachusetts court has unsealed the transcripts of a 20-year old divorce case between the CEO of Staples and his wife that could spell the end of Mitch Romney’s chances to become America’s next president. AlterNet has the transcripts and is poring over them right now. At issue is whether
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Canadian Tests America’s Citizens United Decision
Meet Canadian businessman, V. Prem Watsa. He’s the founder, CEO, Chairman and 45% shareholder of Fairfax Financial, a Canadian insurance and investment management company. Fairfax, in turn, owns a Connecticut reinsurance company, OdysseyRe, where Watsa is also Chairman of the Board. OdysseyRe recently donated $1-million to Restore Our Future, a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Smoking Pot is Really Bad for You Except When It’s Good
Blame UCLA professor Don Tashkin for the confusion. Tashkin, a professor of pulmonology at the David Geffin School of Medicine, has been “the guy” on the perils of pot smoking for decades. He was the lead investigator on studies dating back to the 1970s that identified the compounds in marijuana
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Today’s Chuckles from the Times-Colonist
Big story in this morning’s Times-Colonist headlined “Severed head found in Edmonton alley; link to body probed.” Apparently the Edmonton police are trying to figure out if there’s any possible connection between the head recovered from a dumpster and a headless body found around the same time in a ditch.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Problem with 2C. We Won’t Believe It Until We Break It.
The goal is to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Go beyond that, we’re told, and we risk triggering natural feedback mechanisms, essentially runaway global warming. So why haven’t we reached an effective, international consensus on meeting the 2C limit? A new study shows that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Wait a Minute! I Thought Buddhists Were Pacifists.
Turns out that Buddhists are quite ready to drop the gloves when it comes to Muslims muscling in on their turf. Riots have been sweeping western Burma lately. A few deaths have resulted in the latest unrest, Muslim and Buddhist, and a thousand homes are said to have been burned.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Will this Setback the Future of Altnerative Energy in the U.S.?
Drill, baby, drill. We’ve heard of America’s natural gas bounty realized by extensive fracking. Overlooked, however, is the success of fracking in U.S. oil production. The Associated Press reports the United States may soon become the world’s top oil producer. U.S. oil output is surging so fast that the United
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Impoverishing States of America
Hard times for the working man, indeed. We’re familiar with statistics showing working class wages have stagnated, even declined somewhat, since Reagan waved his wand across the U.S. but it seems the figures we’ve been given are actually pretty rosey. This finding of stagnant wages is unsettling, but also quite
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Colin Powell Endorses Obama
Former Bush secretary of state and former chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, Colin Powell, is endorsing Barack Obama for a second term as president. Powell said Obama is on the right track in winding down the Afghan war and fighting terrorism. Powell criticized Romney’s foreign policy as
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: TMZ Outs the Mormonstrosity
Gossip shop, TMZ, says Mitch Romney may have lied under oath in a divorce trial to help a buddy and screw that buddy’s wife out of big bucks. Mitt Romney LIED under oath when he testified in the divorce of his good friend and screwed the friend’s wife out of
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