The 2012 presidential election is so close that the outcome will come down to the undecided voter. Yet it seems this is the group most easily buffaloed with nonsensical claims disseminated repetitively by today’s corporate media. The Sydney Morning Herald has one Australian’s take on the state of the American
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The Disaffected Lib: Will Anybody Demand Peter Kent’s Resignation?
Would someone who didn’t have prior knowledge of this please demand Peter Kent’s resignation? This, of course, is the deliberate dumping last July of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide into the waters off the Queen Charlotte Islands or Haida Gwaii. The Old Massett Village band, scrambling for cover, says the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: NatGeo Sheds Light on Queen Charlotte Iron Dumping
Russ George is a man on a mission to come up with some scheme that will allow him to create, and sell, a fortune in carbon credits. His scheme of choice has been to promote seeing oceans with iron powders. The iron is supposed to promote algae blooms that will
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Scurrying Rat – This Time He’s NDP
NDP MP Nathan Cullen says the federal government should have done more to prevent the experimental dumping of 100-tonnes of iron sulphide in the waters off the Queen Charlottes. Oddly enough Cullen, the MP for that area, acknowledges he knew about the project as far back as last summer when
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: No Woman Dies in Childbirth, Another Republican Fable
This time it’s in Illinois where Republican congressman Joe Walsh attacked the abortion exception for “life of the mother” on the basis that no woman today dies from childbirth. In fact, pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. have been increasing and now stand at just over 15-deaths per 100,000 live births.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Peace? It’s a Dangerously Flexible Concept
The Canadian debate over the F-35 has always overlooked perhaps the most critical issue. We never want to discuss what signing on for the F-35 means for Canada’s defence policy and posture. Yet that airplane, as none other could, will steer our defence policy and posture for decades to come.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Rats Scurry for Cover
Russ George must be wondering where everybody went? The rogue geoengineer behind the dumping of 100-tonnes of iron sulphate off the Charlottes in July suddenly doesn’t have all the friends he had just a few months back. Harper EnviroShill Peter Kent says he only learned about it just this week.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Sanctimonious Rightwinger Explodes in Flames
You might have seen him on Real Time with Bill Maher or the Colbert Report. He’s Dinesh D’souza, radical rightwing pundit, president of an Evangelical college and the guy behind the film 2016: Obama’s America. He’s a weasly sort of sanctimonious, holier than thou little prick and now, true to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Video Shows Plight of Marineland Orca
This is Kiska, a killer whale at Ontario’s Marineland. The video shows the whale swimming alone, a trail of blood coming from her tail. Her former trainer says Kiska has been bleeding since July.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Parliamentary Cyber-Hacker Attacked Quebec Government
Who was Javier Doyon-Tremblay working for when he used a computer inside the House of Commons to launch cyber attacks on the Quebec government? The RCMP says the man, who also worked as an RCMP computer specialist, performed a series of attacks on the Quebec government in April. The press
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Billy Graham Gets His Tits Caught in the Romney Wringer
Evangelist Billy Graham must have thought he was doing Mitt Romney a big favour, inviting the Republican candidate to join him in prayer. That seems to have backfired – on Graham and Romney. “As Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics told the Boston Globe, for an
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Must Read – Greg Palast Outs Romney’s Vulture Perfidy or Why Mitt Romney Really Won’t Release His Tax Returns
Veteran investigative journo Greg Palast has the goods on Mitt Romney and why the Republican candidate doesn’t want anyone looking at his tax returns. “Oh, it’s one of the creepiest stories I’ve investigated in a long time, Amy. Mitt Romney, through Ann Romney’s blind trust—not so blind, they could see
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Paul Ryan’s Greasy Soup Kitchen Stunt
Romney running mate Paul Ryan really doesn’t like the poor or their soup kitchens. In fact, if he had his way, he’d slash the very social spending they depend on. That’s why it was curious when Ryan, with wife and three kids in tow, showed up uninvited at the soup
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: B.C. Conservative Exiles Back NDP’s Adrian Dix
For a good while now, B.C.’s provincial Conservative Party has been a laughingstock. Now with the party’s hopes for renewal in tatters, members of its disaffected wing say they’ll back the NDP leader Adrian Dix. What was that line about politics and bedfellows?
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: He Never Saw It Coming
61-year old Colin Farmer (above) is blind and, due to two strokes, walks at a snail’s pace using the standard white cane. Enter the local cops in Chorley, Lancashire, where Farmer was wending his way to a pub for a drink with his pals. The police were responding to reports
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hey Steve, Guess Who’s on the Security Council? Australia
Well, well, our cousins down under have succeeded where Steve Harper utterly failed. Australia has been given a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Not that it matters to the Harper regime. They’ve been dissing the U.N. ever since they got tossed. Sour grapes but, to you Aussies, “Good
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Fertilizer Tree Catches On in Africa
Researchers in Malawi have found a way to free farmers of dependency on expensive and destructive fertilizers. Farmers there grow maize, corn, and their crops require large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorous from the depleted soils necessitating large amounts of fertilizer. Enter the “fertilizer tree.” The ‘fertilizer tree’ or gliricidia,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why We Must Break Up Canada’s Media Cartel
Once you have a thoroughly corporatized mass media, rife with concentration of ownership and cross-ownership, your democracy is in peril. It’s not a question of if but a question of when and how badly democratic freedoms will suffer. A corporate mass media does not trade in information. It trades in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is America Too Divided to Continue?
Being American these days is becoming something akin to sharing bathwater – it’s no fun if you know the previous occupant is too damned dumb to wipe his butt. A good many Americans today find themselves wondering if they’re wallowing in a human gravy boat. It was the South, today’s
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