What’s that awful sound? Could it be empty bellies – or is that the clarion call of war?Oxfam is warning that the already record-breaking price of staple foods could more than double by 2030. It says we’re embarking on an era of perma…
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The Disaffected Lib: Afghanistan Mission – A "Great Success"
We have to look at this missionas a Great Success At least that’s how Furious Leader wants us to see the hapless campaign in Afghanistan. Our Ruler showed up in Kandahar with Mutt MacKay at his side to pronounce Canada’s mission to Afghanis…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "A Risk Any Sane Person Would Seek to Drastically Reduce"
That is the assessment of Lord Stern of the London School of Economics after reviewing the latest International Energy Agency figures on carbon emissions in 2010. The report shows that the global recession had only a minimal effect on carbon emis…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Threat to Renewable Energy
The world is poised on the brink of a “cheap gas” era that may undermine the viability of renewable energy options. Not gas as in gasoline but as in natural gas, shale gas released by fracking.”More gas [power plants] than wind and so…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Big Win for American Corporatocracy
The other shoe drops. A federal judge in Virginia has leapfrogged the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and ruled that a century-old law barring corporate contributions to political candidates is unconstitutional. Let the buying b…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada About to Lose 400,000 Sq. Kms.
A study released today warns that Canada will lose access to 400,000 sq. kms. of northern territory by 2050 and that’s due to global warming. The report by scientists at UCLA that a lot of northerners, dependent on ice roads for their survival, w…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Rational View on Nuclear Power
Like George Monbiot or James Hansen and James Lovelock, I don’t think we’re going to be able to free ourselves of our fossil fuel addiction without embracing every non-carbon energy source currently available to us. What that means in the short t…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Think of Them As "Terrorists In Training"
Another screwed up NATO airstrike in Afghanistan. 14-dead, reportedly all women and children. Six others wounded. The Talibs are busy signing up new recruits.Karzai’s beating his chest. Says this is his “last warning…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Reconfiguring Democracy
Even when I was a kid (and, yes, they had indoor plumbing back then) I understood that democracy, as we embraced it, was something of a work in progress. It was never truly complete. It was something that should advance and expand. Ev…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Foreign Diplomats Surrounded by Gunmen in Yemen
Gunmen said to be loyal to Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh have surrounded the Emirates embassy in Sanaa. Inside a group of foreign diplomats have convened awaiting a decision from Saleh whether he will accept a deal they proposed to le…
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