Richard Hughes-Political Blogger A relatively short lived term as President was the fate of Mohammed Morsi who outraged millions of Egyptians with his style of governance. Democracy was won in a democratic seeking revolution just two years ago. Guardian reporters Patrick Kingsley and Martin Chulov filed this report from Cairo.(VIDEO)
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happy 4th of July – Oh btw America, Welfare *Promotes* Independence.
“When we see the expansion of the dependency class in America and you add this to the 79 other means tested programs that we have in the United States, each time you add another brick to that wall, it’s a barrier to people that might go out and succeed. ”
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Technology Integration in K-12
I was asked, I’m curious as to what you think the three most important things for newteachers to know about technology integration in k-12? 1. Community – teaching can be a lonely profession, and it’s easy to think you face problems nobody else faces. One of the greatest aspect of
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: A long way from best in class #nlpoli
Cathy Bennett’s leadership launch event was organized as one would expect. Her speech was scripted and, hand gestures and all, well rehearsed. From the start there was the flush of jargon that one expects these days from business people getting into politics. A “decision process’ had led her to this
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Decline of the Fish Regime
Well I can only imagine the scene in the dungeon of the PMO tonight.A desperate Stephen Harper trying to decide which one of his multiple personalities might make Canadians love him again.Only to receive the devastating news eh? An overwhelming number of Canadians don't care whether he plays Nero or Mother
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Northern Lights Animation
I have a few more of these aurora animations to create and upload to YouTube. Here’s a fun one to start with tonight though.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bolivian President Evo Morales Plane Diverted Under US Pressure
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are experiencing a time where bizarre is the new norm. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales flight home from a Russian visit was detained, stalled, diverted. Some say he was kidnapped at the direction and pressure from the United States government. This international event was lamely justified by saying that
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Campaign Diary Volume 2: Mapping St. Albert priorities while my web page dries out
A work in progress … a screenshot from my campaign website, as it emerges… ST. ALBERT, Alberta One of the small ripples and eddies from the disastrous floods that inundated Calgary on June 21 lapped up alongside my city council campaign in St. Albert. That is to say, the web
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 6208…Cooking Kids In Canada
Rick Kaulbars, personal and Facebook friend of mine, posts the following thoughts on FB. In North America, 33 toddlers a year die in overheated parked cars. WIthin 20mins. the car temp. can shoot to 40 or even 50 deg. Now, a second child, an Edmonton girl, has died making it
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: The $55 Billion Private Power Racket and Real Story Behind Hydro’s Debt
The Liberal Government and its private power pals are taking a page out of the neoliberal handbook, which aims to privatize anything of value. Here’s how it works: 1. You saddle a valuable public utility or asset with enormous debt through private sector contracts it doesn’t need (of course, the
Continue readingChristy's Houseful of Chaos politics » Christy's Houseful of Chaos: For a Diversity of Tactics
I went last night to a presentation by two women from Deep Green Resistance. It was an interesting presentation focusing on the question of how we make change in our world. The two presenters critiqued the myth that if we just bring enough awareness out there we can create a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: F-35 Falls Behind Schedule, Again
Testing can become costly and time-consuming when you’re building an aircraft before you know if it will actually work as advertised. It defeats the whole notion of schedules and target dates when you’re working in the dark. Lockheed’s overdue, over-priced and under-performing F-35 stealth light bomber is the poster child
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: They ‘Will Lie, Trick, and Deceive’: Jailed CIA Whistleblower’s Warns Edward Snowden
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It is becoming hard to keep track of all the ‘Whistleblowers’ and the tunes that they are whistling. It is clear that many countries spy, snoop and infiltrate. It has been going on for centuries but accelerated during World War 2 and the Cold War that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: E.U. slashes roaming fees while Big Telecom in Canada tries to delay the implementation of the CRTC Code
Here in Canada, Big Telecom is taking Canadians to court to try to delay the end of expensive 3-year contracts until nearly 2017. Meanwhile, over in Europe, the E.U. has forced cell phone networks to dramatically slash the cost of roaming fees between E.U. members. If you believe Big Telecom’s
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Groups demand that U.S. companies reject Canadian tar sands
by: Sierra Club Canada | Press Release: Corporate Climate Campaign led by Sierra Club and ForestEthics Gains Momentum San Francisco, CA, June 2, 2013 – Fifty-eight organizations, led by the Sierra Club and ForestEthics, released an open letter today demanding that companies take climate action. The letter calls on U.S. corporations with trucking
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Hudak PC candidate: Female voters are "less informed"…including about control over their own bodies?
That’s Wayne Wettlaufer, former PC MPP who served with Hudak and Mike Harris running to win his seat of Kitchener Centre back for the Conservatives. Wettlaufer also must think women aren’t informed enough to have control over their own bodies (also noteworthy a little guy named Tim Hudak as well several
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Jet Stream, The Calgary Floods, And Global Warming
One day I want to do an in-depth post on gradually changing attitudes among climate scientists re attributing individual events to global warming. This is not that post. Instead I’ve just ripped some text from Dr. Jeff Masters at Wunderground that talks about how unusual patterns in the jet stream brought
Continue readingLet Freedom Rain II: How to stop a media bias argument in its tracks, even with a Toronto Star journalist
The big myth in Canada is that there is a liberal media bias in Canada. That belief, honed by Canadian right-wing bloggers based on their southern counterpart’s laborious whine about their own ‘media bias’, is just silly, especially in Canada. Look at our national press. National Post and Postmedia are
Continue readingBuckdog: Wow! Egypt’s President Morsi OUSTED By Military … no fooling around there ..
“Egypt’s military has ousted the country’s first democratically elected leader, replacing him with the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, calling for an early presidential election and suspending the Islamist-backed constitution. Army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, said a government of technocrats
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