Scotland Yard claims Murdoch’s News International is undermining the investigation into police corruption by Murdoch’s own journalists.NI has orchestrated a “deliberate campaign to undermine the investigation into alleged payments by corrupt journalis…
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The Disaffected Lib: This is the Face of Climate Change And, For Some, It’s Death
There is no way around this sort of completely turning our backs on it. Climate change is consuming lives and it’s becoming voracious. At the moment, Somalia is taking a beating from severe drought.Civil society groups are rally…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: California Republican Wants California to Secede – From California
The Republican clown car just never runs out of gas. The latest RepubliJester is Scientology-backed Riverside County supervisor and lawn cutter Jeff Stone who wants southern California to secede from everything from Los Angeles north.He’s p…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Republicans on African-Americans – Better Off In Chains. Bet Harper Wished He’d Thought of That
Is there anything, anything at all too low for a Republican? It sure doesn’t sound like it.The latest Christofascist Republican gambit requires presidential nomination candidates, like brainstorm Michelle Bachmann, to accept a pledge that include…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: I Guess Now It’s P-I-I-G-S
Until now, the EuroUnion states teetering on insolvency were sometimes referred to as PIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain. Now it appears that Italy, the EU’s third largest economy, may be joining the club.European Council President Herman V…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Now There’s a Clever Thought
Those Japanese are just so damned smart!Taking a page out of the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster, Japanese authorities have decided that other reactors must pass a tsunami test before reopening. Brilliant! Why didn’t they thi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Very Face of Corruption
This is what the Corrupter Incarnate looks like and it’s not pretty. Anything he touches, including the Wall Street Journal, turns to slime. Anything he creates, like FOX News, is fueled on slime. In any legitimate democracy, people …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Rupert Murdoch Slams Into a Wall
“We have more visibility perhaps on what we can see coming our way than you guys can, and look I can only, I’m tied because of the criminal investigation in what I can say, but I think in a year’s time every single one of you in this room migh…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: On Wars Never Lost Nor Won
Did Canadian soldiers win in Afghanistan? No. Did Canadian soldiers lose in Afghanistan? No. How can you lose something you were never sent to win? Our military mission to Kandahar was never about winning so it…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Of Nuclear Power and Hang Gliders
How’s that solar farm coming? How are you doing with mothballing those coal plants? 2015 is just four years away after all. How are you in the East doing about rebuilding your horribly atrophied and unreliable electricity grid?2…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Rupert Murdoch Shutters News of The World
Scaly Aussie media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is shutting down his London rag, News of the World. In what is seen as a desperate bid to protect his News Corporation empire from the fallout of the NOTW telephone hacking scandal Murdock is axing (for no…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What If the Pendulum Won’t Swing Back?
The bastion of today’s far right is unquestionably the United States. Neo-conservatism has insinuated itself into every aspect of the American corporate state and has entrenched itself in American society. It has become so institutionalized…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Climate Models Giving Us a False Sense of Security?
Climate models, those vast computer simulations, seem to prompt inevitable criticism from climate change skeptics and the fossil fuel industry and its paid political pals. It’s easy to attack these climate models because most of them haven’t been…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Brit Climate Secretary Warns Experts – Climate Change Increases Threat of War to UK
Britain’s climate secretary, Chris Huhne, will deliver a blunt message in his next meeting with his country’s defence experts – climate change could reverse the advances in democracy and prosperity we’ve achieved since the advent of the Industrial Revo…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Sorry, But Somone Has to Die
Oh, great! Another report on how science is on the brink of delivering human immortality. If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to …
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Happy Independence Day, Americans. Now, Settle Down.
There are signs that 9/11 fever may have run its course with our southern cousins. A ‘4th of July’ poll conducted by Time Magazine and the Aspen Institute reportedly concludes that Americans are beginning to come to terms with their decline from t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Like It or Not, DSK Reveals a Lot About Ourselves
‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing.’There has been no shortage of supposedly progressive bloggers who were more than ready to assume Dominique Strauss-Khan guilty of sexually assaulting a New York hotel chambermaid…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Nuke News RoundUp
It’s so much more than just Fukushima.America may have dodged a couple of nuke bullets recently. Wildfires still blaze around the nuke weapons lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico where there was fear for the safety of an old nuclear waste dump. &n…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Sobering View on Afghanistan
This past week we were treated to punchdrunk praises of our success in Afghanistan by NewsyDupe scribes from NatPo and TorStar’s own Rosie DiManno. According to them we had the Talibs all but whipped and were standing by to hand over our vi…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If We Don’t Get Progressive Leadership, Then What?
You can’t say we haven’t been warned – again and again and again. Forces of instability are setting in around the world. You name it. Everything from deforestation; desertification; air/land/water contamination; resource d…
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