See what you’ve started?Wish I’d been around for this gig.
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Massive Attack – Dissolved Girl
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The Common Sense Canadian home page: Oceans in Peril: Radical Action Needed to Avert 90% Sepcies Extinction
The oceans of Planet Earth currently contain about a quarter million species of marine organisms, which together constitute the Marine Food Pyramid and the Marine Food Web. If we do not change our ways, radically and fundamentally, immediately or…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Oceans in Peril: Radical Action Needed to Avert 90% Species Extinction
The oceans of Planet Earth currently contain about a quarter million species of marine organisms, which together constitute the Marine Food Pyramid and the Marine Food Web. If we do not change our ways, radically and fundamentally, immediately or…
Continue readingcmkl: Replacing a hard drive in a Macbook Air: in over my head
Well that was a drag. I ordered a hard disk to replace the defunct one in Irene’s Macbook Air several weeks ago. It finally arrived and I spent much of the evening trying to install it. I must say I was very impressed with the innards of the thing and …
Continue readingTerahertz: On the Oslo blasts
By now you’re probably aware of the explosion and subsequent shooting that happened today (yesterday there?) in Oslo, Norway. If not, go read then come back. Going off the details that are undisputed as of now, a bomb was set off in downtown Oslo, near the government buildings and later a man dressed as a […]
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Dumb dumb dumb
A US debt default is totally unnecessary — and becoming increasingly likely because of a game of political chicken. http://bit.ly/omwsef "The unthinkable could happen," said Mr. Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat. "The 80 million bills the f…
Continue readingImpolitical: Friday night
Loooove this one, Goodwill & Hook ‘n Sling, Take You Higher. It kind of cuts off at the end, that’s because it’s not officially out until next week.Other tunes for the week…a Kaskade remix, of course! Also, fun new Red Hot Chili Peppers for thos…
Continue readingAmericans can’t seem to apply Greek style austerity measures to stave off default, while Republicans flush their country down the toilet
If I was in U.S. House Speaker John A. Boehner’s shoes I would have agreed to President Obama’s terms in raising the country’s debt ceiling.Why? Well I think it’s because the proposals which Mr. Obama presented to Mr. Boehner were actually very…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: It takes effort to ignore the truth so rigorously
New Statesman, July 25, 2011 speaking of Scotland Yard and the British PMO's lack of interest in investigating the phone hacking scandal until forced to by stories in the Guardian.
Continue readingAnders Behring Breivik: a Norwegian Timothy McVeigh?
Michelle Malkin et al. have been screaming “Jihad” all day over the bombings in Norway.Oops.A right wing nationalist with an animus towards Muslims?
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alberta tories video on demand.
All the candidates for Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party, save Alison Redford and Rick Orman, have used online videos to promote their campaign. What do their videos say about how their campaigns are going so far? Doug Griffiths: “I’m standing out in the rain” (an unfortunate metaphor for his campaign) or “My name is Doug Griffiths […]
Continue readingPeace, order and good government, eh?: Friday night
Tonight’s offerings are all guitar instrumentals though we’ll work our way up to a good-sized band in support. This is Sonny Landreth flying solo in a television studio on Zydeco Shuffle….
Continue readingTrashy's World: WTF…
… Is this new military logo for the Winnipeg Jets? Did the Harperites provide funding only if the owners adopted a warlike symbol for the new team?
Crap. I really don’t like the direction to which this once proud but humble country is head…
Environmental Law Alert Blog: “No ‘elsewhere’ to go”
Friday, July 22, 2011
The Dene Tha’ First Nation has sought an order from the B.C. Supreme C…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Criminal Eyes: Is Toronto Sun Using Stock Photos on Its front Page?
This fellow seems to think so. Don’t know what he’s talking about re page 2, but that sounds interesting as well:So with Sun Media not being part of the Ontario Press Council anymore, does this mean I can’t complain about the fake news picture on…
Continue readingThe collapse of the moral universe of amerikkka…
from infoshop news…The Dark Future: America’s DisappearedBy Chris HedgesDr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a mili…
Continue readingMorton's Musings: It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness
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Continue readingOur "world class" tarsands PR monitoring plan
This week saw our federal, provincial and territorial energy ministers, minus Ontario, trot out a joint communique describing the tarsands as "sustainable and responsible", even as the Cons were simultaneously slashing the federal Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency budget by 43% and its staff by…
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