Alberta’s premier, Alison Redford, complains that public policy is shaping Canada’s energy future. Well Alison, so what? What’s so damned toxic special about Alberta bitumen that it should be exempt from public policy? Now that the Keystone XL pipeline proposal is temporarily delayed, Alison is foaming at the mouth for the
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The Disaffected Lib: The Goldman Technocrats Take the Throne in Europe
Did Goldman Sachs play a key role in Europe’s fiscal meltdown and are Goldman Sachs alumni now moving into top positions in the most unstable Euro nations? Apparently so. This one’s a true eye-opener. “According to its detractors, the European network of influence woven by American bank Goldman Sachs (GS)
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Danube Runs Dry
The UN recently issued a report warning of the effects of global warming on the world’s major river systems. Increased evaporation, drought and irregular rainfalls are expected to leave water levels chaotic. Even Europe isn’t immune. Drought this summer hit the Danube, Europe’s second biggest river system, and closed much
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Father Knew Best – Not Really.
It seems our European cousins are coming to grips with the utter madness of the past. Along the Atlantic coast and in the Baltic sea thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons littering the seabed are close to corroding through. “Nobody knows exactly how many discarded chemical weapons are hidden in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Few Good Men
Canada may be a Pacific Rim country just not, perhaps, to our corporate news media. There’s a lot happening in the South-Asia/East Asia arc involving China, India, the United States and, most recently, Australia. Too bad Canadians hear so little of it. Washington has now reached a deal with Canberra
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Did a Fanatic Fire on the White House?
There’s a warrant out for Oscar Romero Ortega, suspected of firing a couple of shots at the White House Friday evening. According to BBC News there is evidence one round hit a White House window and two bullet casings have been recovered on the grounds. Evidence links Ortega as the possible
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35 In Free Fall?
Look, It’s a Turkey – Sitting in Front of a Turkey The way things are going, the F-35 may save Canada from getting F-35’d. Every couple of weeks I Google F-35 to harvest the latest litany of gaffes, setbacks and blunders surrounding Lockheed’s vaunted Joint Strike Fighter. The U.S.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Guardian Exposes Harper’s War on the Environment
Steve Harper said he’d put Canada on the map and he has, in spades. Harper has drawn plenty of world attention to Canada. Regrettably, it’s uniformly bad.The Guardian has chronicled Harper’s devious schemes to gut environmentali…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: How America’s Greatest War Correspondent Remembered
From Chris Hedges’ “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning””When Ernie Pyle, the American war correspondent in World War II, was killed on the Pacific island of Ie Shima in 1945, a rough draft of a column was found on his body. He was preparing it for re…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Couple of Thoughts on Remembrance Day
On this day I sometimes thumb through my dog-eared copy of Barry Broadfoot’s “Six War Years, Memories of Cahadians at Home and Abroad (1974).” Broadfoot used the same technique as he did for his earlier Depression-era work, “Ten Lost Years.” &nb…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Atmospheric Rivers
That’s right, high level rivers of moisture crossing the globe. Some are thought to carry more water than the Amazon. A report in New Scientist claims it was an Atmospheric River (AR) that caused the UK’s worst floods.”Atmospheric riv…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cop Who Infiltrated Occupy Oakland Denounces Police Violence
Meet Oakland police officer Fred Shavies who infiltrated the Occupy Oakland movement. He says the police violence against the Occupy protesters could be their “Birmingham moment.” It’s a rambling commentary but you can skip forward to 4:30….
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hilarious (or Scary) Anti-EPA Campaign Video
Bette Grande, a North Dakota Republican running for Congress, says she’ll “padlock the doors” of America’s Environmental Protection Agency. Watch her bizarre campaign video:
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is John McCain Turning Progressive – Again?
If you want to know which way the political winds are blowing, watch John McCain. He was noticeably moderate, even a tad progressive, when he first ran against George w. Bush for the Republican nomination. Then he turned hard right when he …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Global Weirding Settles Into Oklahoma
It’s been going on since January – record winds, an earthquake, floods, drought, tornadoes. Call it “global weirding” Oklahoma style.”Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy,” said Rick Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is America Finally Coming to Its Senses?
According to Salon’s David Sirota, America is coming to its senses. He attributes it to a recent awareness of just two things – his country’s burgeoning wealth gap and its collapsing social mobility.When even the most local of television jou…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America’s New Strategy for Fighting Iran and Everybody Else
It’s called the “Air-Sea Battle” concept and the US military has established a separate agency to put it into operation. Reading the Marine Corps concept summary the unmentioned name “Iran” leaps out at the reader, again and again.”… In th…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Shutting Down the Tar Sands
We have no defensible choice but to end the development of the Athabasca Tar Sands.The ‘best case scenario’ International Energy Agency analysis released a few days ago warns we’re on course to exhaust our atmosphere’s safe carbon-carrying capacity by …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Thanks, But I’ll Pass
That seems to be the attitude of the world’s political leaders today in the face of warnings that our civilization’s last best opportunity to avert devastating climate change is slipping through their fingers. “Thanks but I’ll pass.”The dire and …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Hey Guys, Is This Warning Clear Enough for You?
By “guys” I’m referring to the ‘day late, dollar short’ Liberals who seem intent on taking a well-deserved dirt nap.It’s a warning. From the International Energy Agency. It couldn’t be clearer.”The world is likely to build so many fossil-f…
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