By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: We’re invited to join the Hupacasath First Nation’s ongoing fight to delay the ratification of the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) Via WeStandTogetherCanada on YouTube: To learn more about what the Hupacasath First Nation is doing to delay ratification of the China Canada Trade
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The Disaffected Lib: And How Did That Work Out For You?
It’s settled now that Iraq’s oil riches pretty much sealed Saddam Hussein’s fate. The Anglo-American conquest of Iraq was heavily an oil-driven decision. And wasn’t it nice of the Americans to avoid bombing Iraq’s oil infrastructure and to make it the first of the few things they actually secured after
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: China Grabs Ecuadorean Amazon for Oil
A team of Ecuadorean politicians is in Beijing. They bring gifts – more than three million hectares of pristine Amazon rainforest that is to be auctioned off to Chinese oil companies. On Monday morning a group of Ecuadorean politicians pitched bidding contracts to representatives of Chinese oil companies at a
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: Stephen Harper personally asked for the Chinese pandas, memo reveals
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The two giant Chinese pandas, Da Mao, a four-year-old male, and Er Shun, a five-year-old female, jetted into Toronto today to much fanfare. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was on hand to give them the VIP welcome. Did you know that the Conservatives were prepared to keep Canadians
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Rising rhetoric of a new “yellow peril”
The 1921 “Ethnic Outreach” Campaign(Courtesy Past Tense Vancouver) The complaints are familiar – “Asian immigrants are taking our jobs,” “Asian immigrants are buying our property and keeping us out.” Instead of being complaints found in the Richmond Review’s letters-to-the-editor section, however, these are the complaints that were found in a
Continue readingArt Threat: Weiwei-isms: the Coles Notes of an infamous Chinese dissident
A magnitude 8.0 earthquake shook through Wenchuan County in Sichuan province of the People’s Republic of China on May 12, 2008. Official figures listed 69,197 dead, including 5,335 children, mostly killed as a result of shoddy school construction — a horrible tragedy, particularly due to China’s one-child policy, that caught
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Underestimating China
The Chinese keep taking the West by surprise with their technological advancement. We’re pretty sure a fair bit of their knowledge is purloined via the internet. Some, probably, but not all. And, speaking of the internet, it seems China is poised to rock the world with a “next generation” internet
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: When Pigs Float
Shanghai has a water problem. Somehow more than 2,800 dead pigs wound up floating in one of the main rivers that supplies drinking water to the mega-metropolis of 23-million. Local authorities claim the river water is still safe to drink but they are local authorities and this is China. Nobody
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – China’s Anti-Satellite Weapons Tests to Continue
China may soon become the only nation with the hardware to take down high geo-stationary orbiting satellite systems such as GPS. The U.S. is warning that China is preparing for a third anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test. There is now speculation that orbiting debris from a 2007 Chinese ASAT test may
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: China’s Water Woes
China does not seem able to come to grips with the pollution that is inexorably poisoning the country. While Beijing talks about green energy, including 5th generation reactor technology, it brings online a new coal-fired power plant almost daily. The country imports truly massive quantities of coal from the Pacific
Continue readingThings Are Good: China to Build Car-Free City
The Chinese city of Chengdu will be getting a new neighbour, an entire city purpose built city for people instead of cars. China’s capital city Beijing is known for its smog problems and the Chinese government is under more and more pressure to implement environmentally-friendly policies. Creating sustainable urban centres
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Unit 61398 – China’s Computer Commandos
It’s possibly the most successful unit in China’s Peoples Liberation Army. Unit 61398 is believed to have hacked hundreds of terabytes of data from targets in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. The report, by [U.S. security company] Mandiant, identified the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Shanghai-based Unit 61398 as the most
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The China Dream
Prominent Chinese military officers are speaking of an east Asia from which the U.S. has been forced out. And they’re hoping to see that reality within 20-years. Senior Colonel Liu Mingfu, at the People’s Liberation Army’s National Defence University, told Fairfax Media this week that American strategic influence would be
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Oil, China and Why David Emerson Wants Alberta to Start Paying Taxes
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is a thorough analysis and update on the many complexities swirling around energy issues in Canada today. It was written by Kevin Logan and was featured in the Common Sense Canadian. Alberta Premier Alison Redford recently took the unprecedented step of holding a “State of
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The New Blackberry 10 – Time to ditch Apple and Google both
The Blackberry 10 has just been unveiled, and the question returns: Blackberry, iPhone or Google-based Android smart phone? Here are some thoughts, techno-weenie talk aside. We’re talking pure functionality and ethics here, not who has the best gizmo-gadgetry whiz-bang for the buck. Google is a partner in evil, willingly collaborating
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Can You Build in Canada in 90 Days?
A Chinese company has announced plans to build the world’s tallest building which, of itself, would be an enormous achievement. But, from start to finish, they claim it will take just 90 days.
Continue readingEclectic Lip: Douglas, Deng and Diocletian
(originally written May 21, 2012. Part of Great Upload of 2013.) Tommy Douglas I read a bio of Tommy Douglas recently, figuring as a guy with sinister leanings (sinister in the original Latin sense of “left”, that is 🙂 ) I might as well brush up on the father of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Arms Race Update – India Warns Kashmiris to Prepare for Nuclear War
Indian officials are warning residents in their part of Kashmir to dig bomb shelters and gather a two week supply of food and water in preparation for a possible nuclear exchange. The notice, published Monday by the Kashmir police in the Greater Kashmir newspaper, advised people to build toilet-equipped basements
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jacob Chamberlain discusses the all-too-familiar pattern of corporate insiders using their wealth and influence to try to attack basic social supports for less-privileged citizens: CEOs from America’s largest corporations—including its biggest banks, retailers, and insurance companies who helped drive the country into
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