The Liberals seem to be scraping the barrel trying to build their membership numbers. There’s a sense of desperation to it. E-mails from the national, provincial and riding offices in a steady stream over the past few weeks inviting, besee…
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The Disaffected Lib: The Incredible, Vanishing Berlusconi
According to Reuters, Silvio Berlusconi has announced he’ll step down, resigning as Italy’s prime minister as soon as a budget reform bill is passed.”After the approval of this finance law, which has amendments for everything which Europe has asked of…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mitt Romney Must Be Laughing His Ass Off at Herman Cain
It has been part of Mormon scripture that blacks embodied the “curse of Cain.” Early LDS leader, Brigham Young warned against “mingling” with blacks.”The moment we consent to mingle with the seed of Cain, the Church must go to destruction–we sh…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, Yet Another Delay
The overdue, overbudget F-35 will, yawn, be another two years late. A USAF general informed a congressional panel today that the long-delayed aircraft, most recently promised for 2016, won’t be available until 2018.What’s that sound? It’s t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Can Canada Escape Getting F-35’d?
One of the most worrisome aspects (there are several) of the Harper government’s F-35 fetish is the paltry number of them we’ll be able to afford. This deal is already stretched so tight, and getting tighter with each passing week, that we’…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sarkozy to Obama, Netanyahu is a "Liar"
An unguarded moment. They didn’t think anyone could hear. That was when French president Nicholas Sarkozy turned to Barack Obama and said exactly what he thinks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “I can’t stand him any more, he’s a liar.” To whic…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cain Accused of Messin’ with White Woman
At least Clarence Thomas’ accuser, Anita Hill, was also black. Now Herman Cain has a real problem. His fourth accuser has come forward in the company of, wretch, attorney Gloria Allred, and she’s white.Sharon Bialek claims Cain …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Bill Moyers on What America Used to Mean
Bill Moyers looks back to his roots to find the greatness that was his United States of America:Henry and Ruby Moyers were “common laboring people.” My father dropped out of the fourth grade and never returned to school because his family needed …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35, Canada’s Maginot Line?
The Maginot Line. It was a massive, intricate, costly and high-tech line of fortifications the French built along the German border to defend themselves after WWI. The line consisted of fortifications, bunkers, trenches, tank obstacles, art…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Emerging Economies Will Read the Riot Act to Developed West
When it comes to carbon emissions the emerging economic powers – Brazil, South Africa, India and China – have pretty bold expectations of the industrialized West. They’re not interested in major cuts in our carbon emissions. They want us to…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: So How Are We Doing?
Action, not words. That might be the long overdue message our leaders need to hear on climate change. The US Energy Department reports that recent greenhouse gas emissions have increased by a record amount, exceeding even the “worst c…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Noam Chomsky, Occupy = A Decent Future
Noam Chomsky delivered this year’s Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture to Occupy Boston. He stressed that the Occupy movement may be our last, best hope for a decent future and that it’s vital the movement grow within the United States and around the wo…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: He Said What?
Poor Hamid Karzai. The old bugger has to run the assassins’ gauntlet until 2014 when he can step down and di di mau his sorry ass and his loot the hell out of Afghanistan. In the meantime he’ll need plenty of protection, as much as he…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Making Global Warming Official
There has been a lot of reluctance to link global warming to the spate of severe weather events our world has experienced in recent years. Nobody wants to tie specific weather events to climate change because, well because they’re weather e…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – A World Going Mad for Nukes
German built, Israeli Nuclear Missile SubThis is a big reason why our world needs the Occupy and similar movements. A new report from BASIC, the British American Security Information Council, reveals that a multinational nuclear arms race is brea…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Charlie Blow Explodes the American Dream
New York Times columnist Charles Blow has put a match to the powder keg that has, for decades, propped up the American Dream Myth.”We sold ourselves a pipe dream that everyone could get rich and no one would get hurt — a pipe dream that exploded like…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Occupy This!
I’m a bit surprised that there are still some progressives who don’t “get” what the Occupy movement is truly about. Some think it’s just so much street theatre, a bunch of unambitious but greedy kids eager for attention.Bollocks!Quite predictably…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Egyptians Protest in Support of Occupy Oakland
First they got rid of Mubarak. Now Egyptians have returned to Tahrir Square to march on the US Embassy in support of Occupy Oakland. Here are a few photos.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Meanwhile, Turning to F-35 News
Oh the poor F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Harper-MacKay’s sweet fortune’s minion and her pride.Nat Po’s Michael Den Tandt has a telling assessment suggesting that the F-35 project is unraveling.“It just seems like it’s slowly unravelling,” said an i…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Move Along Now – Preparing for Climate Migrants
It’s already happening. Our world is being divided into countries from which people are fleeing and countries to which they’re fleeing. These people doing the fleeing are climate migrants, people forced out of their homelands by…
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