This story is on fire at the Globe site today: “Liberals storm out of House vote on unilingual Auditor-General.” A lot of predictable comments there, irrelevant Liberals, the third party, etc. Whatever the boo bots will bring in typical inflammatory fa…
Continue readingShameful? Only if you believed his promises…
Obama’s Legacy of Shameby Stephen LendmanPromising change after eight Bush/Republican years, Obama delivered betrayal. With congressional Democrats, he exceeded Bush’s harshness, lawlessness, belligerency, and public trust betrayal. He violating ever…
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Are Obama and NATO Plotting a Military Coup in Greece?By Bill Van Auken; 3 November 2011 – WSWShttp://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/nov2011/pers-n03.shtmlThe sudden dismissal of the Greek military’s high command Tuesday night, amid international uproar …
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School of Americas Watch: Occupy Fort Benning, GeorgiaNov. 18 — 20, 2011’NO’ to US torture and militarization Join thousands of solidarity activists, torture survivors, union workers, people of faith, students, immigrants, veterans and others from…
Continue readingThe latest attempt to break the criminal blockade of Gaza…
Freedom Waves to Gaza-A Canadian boat (called Tahrir – Arabic for Liberation) and Irish (Saoirse = Irish for Freedom) boat quietly left a Turkish port Wednesday, bound for Gaza. Democracy Now! first broke the news on our live broadcast yesterday. This …
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Arrest of Chris Hedges
If you advance to the 30 minute mark of this video, you will see Pulitzer Prize winner, author, and activist Chris Hedges, along with other Occupy Wall Street protesters, being arrested by the NYPD for sitting down on the sidewalk in front of Goldman S…
Continue readingDemocracy Now! Fromt the port of Oakland…Occupy Oakland…
if what you’re reading here grips you, holds you, fascinates you, provokes you, emboldens you, pushes you, galvanizes you, discomfits you, tickles you, enrages you so much that you find yourself returning again and again…then link me.if what you’re r…
Continue readingQP: "I’m ignoring that"
With Nycole Turmel off to the CUPE
conference in Vancouver, and Stephen Harper at the G20 in France, only Bob Rae
kept it from being a B-team day in QP. Joe Comartin kicked things off by
railing against Vic Toews’ attack on defence attorneys ye…
Morton's Musings: How to stand as a Delegate
http://convention.liberal.ca/delegates/The Liberal Party’s biennial convention is happening this January at Ottawa’s new convention centre! Learn how to become a delegate here How to stand as a Delegate convention.liberal.ca January 13th – 15…
Continue readingLeDaro: ‘Screaming man’ in testicle scan is talking
Guess who could that be?
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Alert! Episode 193
Roger Rashi discusses the otential political consequences of alleged ties between the Mafia’s involvement in the Quebéc construction industry and provincial political parties. Regina-based political economist and author, John Warner, weights…
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Rape Of Greece
When even Fox News thinks something is unjust, you know it is a fucking catastrophe. This is going to end badly for the everyone, but especially for the Greek people. This is the ultimate example of modern neo-liberalism in action. God save the banks, but to hell with everyone else.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Rape Of Greece
When even Fox News thinks something is unjust, you know it is a fucking catastrophe. This is going to end badly for the everyone, but especially for the Greek people. This is the ultimate example of modern neo-liberalism in action. God save the banks, but to hell with everyone else.
Continue readingThey Call Me "Mr. Sinister": The Rape Of Greece
When even Fox News thinks something is unjust, you know it is a fucking catastrophe. This is going to end badly for the everyone, but especially for the Greek people. This is the ultimate example of modern neo-liberalism in action. God save the banks,…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Good tax, bad tax
News item, The Guardian, November 3, 2011:
“Bill Gates will tell the G20 group of developed and developing countries on Thursday that they could raise an extra $48bn (£30bn) a year to fight global poverty by levying a small tax on share and bond tr…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: NDP MPs to host townhall-style forum with OpenMedia.ca
On Friday, November 18th, OpenMedia.ca’s Executive Director Steve Anderson will be in Toronto with NDP MPs Andrew Cash and Charlie Angus to talk about the Conservative government’s proposed onli…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Woo-hoo!
Today is National Sandwich Day! So get out there and get yourself a Montréal smoked meat on rye! A Ham and Swiss! Salmon salad! Tomato and mayo! PB and J! A sub! A wrap! A Schwarma! Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A litigant is not entitled to continuous postponements to allow for the substitution of counsel
Re Jennifer Hart, 2011 NLCA 64 has some useful language about adjournments to obtain new counsel: [60] A litigant is not entitled to continuous postponements to allow for the substitution of counsel simply on the g…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Misled
Angela Hall makes the fatal mistake of presuming that right-wing spin has anything at all to do with reality:Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to crack down on violent offenders, Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall expressed…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Autumn colours
Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them —
The summer flowers depart —
Sit still — as all transform’d to stone,
Except your musing hea…
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