Besides monitoring the Yes Men, Amnesty International, and a swath of international media and activist organizations, Stratfor fancied itself as a superior intelligence agency, better than the FBI anyway. Here’s their Glossary entry for FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used car
Continue readingThe World Famous Dan Shields: 4276…Robocalls To 27 Ridings
That is the number. 27. It was in the Sunday Toronto Star today. One of the ridings was Etobicoke Centre where Borys Wrzesnewskyj, a sitting Liberal, lost by a mere 26 votes to a Tory, Ted Opitz. Mr. Wrzesnewskyj is quoted as saying that “That should never happen in Canada…I
Continue readingelementalpresent: The Feminization of Pinterest
Pinterest, I’ve discovered, is something you learn by doing. And by “doing”, I mean getting sucked in to the site, like Alice going down the rabbit hole, picture-by-picture, pin-by-pin, only to emerge, feeling hungry and lazy (yet inspired), wondering where the last two hours of your life went. But when
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Bright Side of the RoboCon Scandal
As the RoboCon scandal grows bigger and bigger. And our country begins to look more and more like a fascist state run by criminals. Even BEFORE they start reading our e-mails. I thought I’d try to look on the bright side eh? And that is, in no particular order: (1) Great
Continue readingMusic for a Sunday: Let’s exchange the experience
Tell me we both matter…don’t we?
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Not far from the truth.
Continue readingAnother Step to Take: A Plan to Strengthen What???!!
Today I was surfing the internet when an advertisement caught my eye. It was an ad for a contest put on by the Manning Center for Building Democracy. (http://manningcentre.ca/conference/?page_id=379) The Dragon’s Den style contest offers a $10,000 prize for the best plan to “strengthen conservatism, free markets, or democracy.” Yikes! I should
Continue readingkirbycairo: The Reagan Legacy, The GOP and Harper. . . .
I very seldom comment on politics in the US. I grew up there and left in 1990 because I just saw no future in the country. It is a dying neo-colonial power that I thought would, like most colonial powers, fail to cope with its decline in a constructive way.
Continue readingI Googled some guy’s name from the paper, and I shed more light than the newspapers themselves.
Some economists say Ontario should remove the HST exemptions on food and other things! Yes, two of them say it! Jack Mintz and Michael Smart say it! They have prestigious positions, and they’re saying it! They actually are saying it! Look, these two economists say we should do this! The
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Volkmar Says Many Intellectually Disabled May Be Excluded from DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis
When I first pointed out that the DSM-5 New Autism Disorder would exclude intellectually disabled I was ignored by most, insulted and mocked by others. Some were annoyed. When Catherine Lord confessed that the intellectually disabled were the real target for exclusion very few mentioned the exclusion of the intellectually
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Harper is now in a hurry
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” ~ Winston Churchill Harper denies Conservative link to fraudulent election ‘robocalls‘, By Glen McGregor and Stephen Maher, Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia News …In response to a Postmedia News-Ottawa Citizen
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Amp Up The Hype – Stratfor Spy Emails Exposed #gifiles
Now I can hardly wait until Monday (now in the UK), with a series of promotional tweets going up today. And I don’t have to wait any longer! Stratfor emails are being exposed, for public review. @wikileaks: Over 25 media organizations working in silence for months ahead of tomorrow. How´s
Continue readingcmkl: Train drivers and bus drivers
So there are three train engineers dead after their train derailed in Burlington, ON today. It’ll be a year before we know the how and the why of what happened.
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Impressions and Analysis from the Winnipeg NDP Leadership Debate
The following is my impressions of the candidates and discussion of various issues raised in the Winnipeg NDP Leadership Debate. Past debate coverage: Ottawa | Toronto | Halifax Brian Topp: I believe that Brian Topp won this debate. I don’t say that lightly; in every other debate thus far I have
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Dirty Deeds…
Apparently not done dirt cheap. In fact, as the Postmedia reporter indicates, whoever was responsible for attempting to suppress the vote for the benefit of the Conservative candidates in tightly contested ridings required money, organization and voters lists. Doesn’t exactly sound like a formula for some obscure “rogue” now does
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to close out your weekend. – Erica Alini points out that the effect of the Cons’ lobbying on behalf of the tar sands has been solely to make sure that the absolute worst polluters force the public to pay the cost of their activities, as anybody actually operating
Continue readingA much feistier debate in Winnipeg
Today’s NDP debate, brought to from Winnipeg, Manitoba, was under the rather vague theme of “connecting people and the regions.” Judging from the questions asked, it was more of a veneer of a theme rather than an actual one given it didn’t extend beyond the first two questions, which were
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: New Generation of Thinkers Link Inequality, Innovation and Prosperity
<em>This guest blog was written by Mike Marin and Anouk Dey. It originally appeared in the Toronto Star on February 24. The authors are part of a team that produced the report Prospering Together (in English http://bit.ly/z4GQx5 and in French http://bit.ly/yabiK2) </em> <em></em>What do the Occupy Movement and Canadian software
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: You Know The Conservatives Are In Trouble When
….they start losing some of their biggest cheerleaders. Recommend this Post
Continue readingOn Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind's Eye: The Good, the Bad and the Meh about the WWE Elimination Chamber PPV
I finally got around to watching the Elimination Chamber PPV and here are my thoughts: The Good…The first elimination chamber match was excellent, despite Chris Jericho getting knocked out too easily. People have taken much worse than a kick to the head and gotten up from it. On the other
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