I don’t get it but apparently German scientists managed to stop, or I suppose “arrest”, light for one full minute. In light speed, that’s about 18-million kilometres. While light normally travels at just under 300 million metres per second in a vacuum, physicists managed to slow it down to just
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: That Cold Lake Bitumen Spill – It Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
The 10-week old Cold Lake bitumen spill is expected to stop – basically whenever it stops itself. The company, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., says there’s nothing it can do to staunch the leak other than collect whatever bitumen it can from the surface and haul out the dead animals. On
Continue readingTrashy's World: Some of the PCPO MPPs are being just plain ol’ scumbags today…
Like this guy, for example: I’m pretty sure that no one has been convicted of an offence. I guess Mr. Bob Bailey MPP doesn’t really care about stuff like “charges” and “due process”. (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cobble Hill-Cowichan Bay Gravel Pit Proposal Has Residents Up in Arms
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Few things get residents worked up more than hearing that a gravel pit is destined to commence operations in their neighbourhood. In the Cowichan Valley like so many areas the feuds sometimes have gone on for decades. This summer residents attention soared as they became aware
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Look at How Extremists Have the Republican Party in a Death Grip
Two prominent Democrats have decided to dig into the rotting corpse of the Republican movement to get a look at what lurks inside. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg and political strategist James Carville have announced what they plan to do about that pressing problem: namely, “The Republican Party Project,” which will
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It is known as the Canadian Special Forces Command, or CANSOFCOM. It commands a secret army, comprised of four units: the Joint Task Force-2 (JTF2), the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR), the Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit—Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CJIRU-CBRN), and the 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron (427
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: August 1: Norbert criticizes the CBC…
but loses it. It’s funny, really. Norbert has a magnificent vocabulary that is an echo of nineteenth century rural life. CBC editors, he suggests are “nervous nellies” and “sourpusses”. Boy. And they talk about Shakespeare. The CBC, it seems, is also superficial, with minimal research. He even compares it to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Russia Grants Snowden Temporary Asylum
Edward Snowden gets to leave Moscow airport, finally. The Russkies have given Snowden a one-year temporary asylum to their country. Anatoly Kucherena, Snowden’s Russian lawyer, told the media he handed Snowden asylum papers Thursday and that Snowden’s whereabouts would be kept secret for reasons of security. Snowden would choose his
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Bystanders to Calamity
Once while visiting remote Rivers Inlet I took shelter an old logging cabin that was apparently undergoing renovation. The inner walls had been stripped bare to reveal newspapers that had once formed the cabin’s insulation. They were old copies of the Vancouver Sun from the 30’s. As I waited for
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Break From The Grimness
The last few days, with all of its bad news, have left me feeling just a little depleted, so I offer the following both as a change of pace and to lighten the mood. Enjoy: Recommend this Post
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Why is Canada-based Ting not available for cell phone users in Canada?
Access to new affordable Canadian startup telecom providers is what OpenMedia.ca and its supporters have been pushing for for years – and it’s what Big Telecom is afraid of. That’s why Big Telecom is preventing independent service providers from accessing the digital roads they require to reach Canadians. Let’s not
Continue readingwmtc: when it rains, it pours, or, welcome to my roller coaster
Tala is not doing well. You may recall, she has a chronic and degenerative spine condition. After a long rest and rehab process, she has been doing wonderfully – truly better than I ever expected. But this week she took a downturn. She was suddenly not able to sit. She
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: CBC: Spy agency CSEC give the okay to share info that could lead to torture
The ultra-secretive Canadian spy agency CSEC has government approval to share information with foreign partners even if it may put someone at risk of torture – despite recommendations by a federal commission in 2006 to the contrary. Article from CBC.ca: The Harper government has quietly given Canada’s electronic eavesdropping agency
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: We Emit, These People Get the Tab
Across south Asia there are more than a billion people whose livelihood and lives are utterly dependent on the annual Monsoon rains. The severe impacts of climate change on their hydrological lifeline has left them reeling. This week Pakistan was hit by massive flooding that took their own weather services
Continue readingLeDaro: Kristin Chenoweth: Sings Anthony Weiner parody song on Jay Leno show
“She crooned: ‘They’ll think you’ve become a monk, though they’ve seen your junk, now you’ll play a different show. So let’s start because you’ve got an awfully long way to go…long, well, hmmm.’At the end of the song, Kristin addressed Weiner’s wife Huma Abedin, a longtime personal aide of Hillary
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: What Bruce Livesay said
Rabble.ca has picked up a piece from The Progressive Economics Forum by Bruce Livesay that discusses, among other things, the large amounts of money in uncollected taxes resulting from corporations and the wealthy taking advantage of tax havens. Not to mention the way governments, including our own, are trying to
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Class War: US$11.5 Trillion Hidden in Tax Havens
Which tax haven is right for you? Class war is alive and well. I have this rose-coloured, nostalgic dream of history. Once upon a time we emerged from feudalism with a democratic revolution. All were equal. Well, most. But the hope of democracy was to rid the world of the
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Economist
It started with a car accident in February, and the total loss of our 2004 Prius, which had only been ours for less than a year. We were quickly compensated for its market value and were in a position to buy another car, but we held off due to a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Christy Clark’s Giant Methane Fart – Part Deux
British Columbia premier Christy Clark has visions of our province becoming an energy superpower in its own right thanks to massive reserves of shale natural gas, methane, in northern B.C. just waiting to be fracked. The stuff’s not worth much in Canada. North America has a glut of methane thanks
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, August 1, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, August 1, 2013: Ontario woman, 85, charged with stunt driving in fatal crash U.S. government fights to keep domestic spy powers A Home for Our Legal Technology Relics 20-Week Abortion Bans and the Pathway to the US
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