An Alberta MP, Tory naturally, thinks it’s high time the Harper tyranny put an end to opposition questions. A supposed million dollar cost of responding to a few hundred written questions from opposition MPs is “absolutely ludicrous” says Harper shill, MP Brian Jean. Mark Eyking, a Liberal MP who represents
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Nuclear power is probably mankind’s only real hope of weaning our civilization off fossil fuels in time to avert runaway global warming. By nuclear power I don’t mean the first or second-generation reactors, the type that you might associate with Fukushima or Chernobyl. I’m referring to fourth and possibly fifth-generation
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Winter Tornadoes Rip the US Twice This Week
Waves of tornadoes at this time of year? The U.S. doesn’t get tornadoes until much later in the year or at least that used to be the case. But that was then, this is now. It can’t be climate change, that’s a hoax. Why, just ask the folks of Marysville,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: We’re So Screwed
What’s most infuriating about the fierce debate over global warming is everything that’s left out. The denialists act as though the fact and severity of warming is the issue instead of the larger issue of our persistent refusal to live in harmony with the only life support system we have,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is This Just Too Hot For Any of You to Touch?
Anonymous dropped its Vic Toews bombshell today. It’s a very serious allegation of abuse of power which, if it stands, goes to the heart of the Harper government. I did a post on it this morning but, beyond that, nobody but nobody is touching it. The allegation is that, while
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Putting Harper In Perspective
Steve Harper used the Chretien-era “sponsorship scandal” as a springboard to power. Even though Paul Martin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Gomery Commission, Harper didn’t hesitate to smear Martin anyway. It’s also helpful to recall the actual scope of misappropriation calculated by Gomery. In the end the Commission
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Netanyahu Comes Shopping
Israeli prime minister Benny Netanyahu is in town and his visit makes plain that he’s not interested in friendly countries supporting Israel, it’s their obedience he’s after. No problem with Steve Harper. The radical fundamentalist religious right is already onside. And when the radical fundamentalist religious rightwinger also happens to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Anonymous Update on Toews
Did Vic Toews reward one of his mistresses with an appointment to the Manitoba Court of Queens Bench? That’s the allegation and, it’s claimed, the reason Harper removed Toews as justice minister to protect his government from scandal. It’s an interesting, even plausible claim but if Toews was instrumental in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Anonymous Fail?
A week ago someone supposedly representing the activist group Anonymous began posting youtube vids promising to out Vic Toews for unspecified perfidy today (Friday). This is the latest posted on youtube just four hours ago. If this is it, well…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Federal Judge E-mails Racist Joke About Obama
When it comes to racist, this rings all the bells: “A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’ His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!‘ US District Judge Richard
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Vic Toews or Shit On a Stick, What’s the Difference?
As long as the turd is painted Conservative blue, apparently there’s very little difference. Or at least that was the message that seemed to come through from reading this assessment of Vic Toews by one of his constituents from the Red River Valley Echo: “…Vic is in no way responsible
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Breitbart RIP
Rightwing loudmouth Andrew Breitbart is no more. The 42-year old died last night apparently of natural causes. Salon.com chronicles Breitbart’s descent into the hardcore radical right. Or, if you want to know just how vile this creep was, watch this:
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: It’s On. Anonymous Under Attack.
The battle to disrupt the Anonymous collective is underway. The latest campaign has been directed at Spanish-speaking activists. Spanish cops arrested several suspects earlier this week and further arrests followed in South America. The group now says it wasn’t police technical sleuthing that got them but infiltration of one website
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Attention Rick Santorum, You’ve Got Mail
This should play neatly into the hands of nutjob Republican candidate, Rick Santorum. As a devout, even rabid Catholic, Santorum draws a lot of flack for his extreme social conservatism and the hyperbole in his arguments against everything from same sex marriage to abortion. Now a couple of British medical
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: In Defence of Dalton
Weighing the respective merits of the Athabasca Tar Sands and Canadian manufacturing is a hot button issue. Ontario premier McGuinty found that out when he state, quite rightly, that one of the impacts of the Athabasca bitumen is to strengthen the Canadian dollar which, in turn, undermines competitiveness in the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Anonymous Strikes Deep
If only we didn’t have the attention span of house flies. Some 50-groups are now wading through over 5-million e-mails obtained from the self-proclaimed ‘shadow CIA’ intelligence company, Stratfor. The documents were distributed by WikiLeaks on behalf of Anonymous. One recipient was the Yes Men, a loose collaboration of some
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Heartland Institute Associate Got Inside Carleton University
A prominent associate of the US based Heartland Institute managed to teach a climate change course at Carleton University from 2009 to 2011. An audit found the course, taught by Tom Harris, contained 140 “false, biased and misleading claims about climate science.” A team of scientists, who reviewed the videotapes
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Could Irish Voters Scuttle Europe’s Austerity Madness?
The Irish public may be charting the next round in the battle over European austerity politics. The coalition government in Dublin reluctantly yielded to overwhelming public pressure demanding a referendum on the latest Eurozone fiscal treaty. Former Citibank senior international economist Michael Burke writes that angry Europeans are turning on
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Doctors Don’t Always Get to Bury Their Mistakes
One question – who allowed this to happen? “This” is the oxycontin addiction plague that has swept through northern native communities and may leave enormous suffering in its wake when the drug is abruptly removed from distribution next month. Oxycontin, the so-called “hillbilly heroin”, drug of choice of addicts like
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: And I Thought Harper Could Only Blow Hot Air
It seems Steve can blow cold air too. He’s quick to talk big about his commitment to the Arctic but talk is cheap, even big talk. It’s when it comes to things like climate change and money that Harpo’s true colours come through. Take, for example, Canada’s most northerly research
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