House-Republicans-Boehner-Pence-Cantor.jpg The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is playing hardball with President Obama’s proposal to extend a payroll tax cut extension, and now they’ve found a way to use the extension as a means to grant their polluter friends everything on their holiday wish list. According to Reuters, Republicans in
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350 or bust: Durban: Setting The Stage For Climate Chaos
Today’s guest blogger is friend of 350orbust Graham Saunders, who gives us his perspective on the U.N. climate negotiations in Durban: The Kyoto Agreement to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases became toast at the recent world meetings in Durban, South Africa. Yes, there are some damage control with statements
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Toronto’s ‘Emergency’ Warning
Toronto: it’s time to stand up to Ford’s lies.
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada At Durban Climate Talks: Talking Green, Walking Dirty
Fresh from Ani’s blog, this video of the large crowd of people have gathered outside the negotiations room at COP17 to stand with Africa as the negotiations come to a close: Here are other recent posts from Ani, with her observations of COP17: Talking green, walking dirty: a snapshot of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ‘Twas Just Before Christmas in the House
Our clever Grinch of a Prime Minister gets a lyrical beating here. (If Harper is the Grinch, who is the little dog?)
Continue reading350 or bust: Canadian Government Reminded To Stop Their “Fuelish” Ways
Talented Canadian artist and environmentalist (and friend of 350orbust) Franke James has recently come out with a video about her experience of being blacklisted by the Harper government. In it, Franke examines how she got in a “pickle” for asking Stephen Harper to make polluters pay and pointing out the
Continue readingSome reasons why the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
After reading an article on the Huffington Post website about income inequality as represented by an OECD report, I decided I should list a couple of reasons why I think individuals in less than favorable financial circumstances can never truly become wealthy. It’s important to understand first that those in
Continue reading350 or bust: Durban: Youth Turn Their Backs In Response To Canadian Government’s Disregard For Their Future
Here’s another post from Ani, part of the Canadian Youth Delegation in Durban, South Africa where the 10 days of U.N. climate negotiations have less than 48 hours to go, and no agreement is in sight. Here is her account of the recent action by some of the other members
Continue reading350 or bust: U.S. Navy: Climate Change Is A National Security Threat
Here are some more voices from Durban, as the UN climate negotiations continue to the end of the week: Rear Admiral David Titley, Oceanographer and Navigator of the US Navy, discusses climate change at the COP17 UN Climate Talks: **** Wondering what’s going on at the Durban talks? Here’s COP17
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: All is not lost as Conservatives’ omnibus crime Bill C-10 clears Commons
My immediate reaction to the passage of the Conservatives omnibus crime Bill C-10 yesterday was: “See you all in jail!” It’s the worst reaction by an avowed lifelong social-political activist. That’s because, even in the …Read More
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Open Government
A government so open, that it lost its marbles. If we had journalists who uniformly understood that letting politicians get away with flaming lies would lead us into a mess, we’d not be in a mess. We’d also not have to satirize ourselves so much.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Hope As A Gas
What if we could frack for natural gas without polluting the drinking water tables? I don’t think it’s as easy as this article suggests. Your only concern cannot be the material used to cause the fracturing, it has to be the fracturing itself. There are plenty of materials in our
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Economics 101: The Reality of Canadian Capitalism
In More Academic Terms
Continue reading350 or bust: Canada’s Pollution Peddlers Arrive At COP17 in Durban
It’s a busy time for a climate activist; the updates from COP17 are coming in fast and furious, particularly from Canadians as the Canadian Minister of the Environment Peter Kent and his delegation arrived yesterday. Here are some of the articles that were in my inbox this morning: Mardi Tindal,
Continue reading350 or bust: Durban: “Down With Canada”
Concerned citizens from around Africa and the globe have gathered in Durban South Africa to “Occupy Cop17″, as hopes for a global agreement to address the climate crisis fades. As part of Occupy COP17, participants chanted “down with Canada” outside the official U.N. negotiations. It makes me so ashamed of
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-12-06 00:25:00
CANADIAN POLITICS: THE RICH GET RICHER: Oh my, is this “news” ? During good times the rich pull ahead as they manage to grab the fruits of expansion. In bad times guess what ? They keep pulling ahead. Good or bad they will get their paws into the till. Here’s
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Coming recession? Shane Jones at UofR
He was able to take a plane to Spain from Britain for two pounds. I’m sure there will be info that will go over my head at this talk. How do we rescue European banks? China may want to own toll roads in other defaulting countries. He sees a ten
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lies Don’t Matter
There may be no way to get fired from a cabinet job in the Harper Government. Well, unless Peter MacKay takes off his shoes and throws them at a helicopter pilot, that might do it, but we may never see that day. The CTV Question Period journalism crowd was flabbergasted
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