Assorted content to end your week. – Stephanie Soucheray discusses new research showing how people with existing health problems are at substantially higher risk of long COVID. And Helen Floersh points out a new study on how different COVID-19 variants are adapting to evade immunity. – George Monbiot writes about
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joshua Cohen writes that the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the first sustained streak of declining global life expectancy in over 60 years – even as governments everywhere attempt to pretend the threat has passed. And the Washington Post’s editorial board offers
Continue readingScripturient: The Talibangelists Are Winning
I imagine what I’m feeling now about the rise of the extremist, pseudo-Christian right (aka the Talibangelists, aka Christofascists) in the USA, Canada, and in other democracies is what my English father must have felt watching the events in Germany from 1934 on. He would have seen photographs and newsreels
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong rightly questions how the U.S. (like Canada) has come to see a large number of preventable COVID-19 deaths as normal. Hannah Rosenblum et al. study the effects of coronavirus vaccines and find that even reported adverse events were largely mild.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Doug Cuthand writes that falsely pretending we’re “back to normal” in the midst of a pandemic does nothing but put people at needless risk. CBC Radio talks to experts about what we should be doing with vaccine passports, and finds that if any
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Last Resort – Eco-Extremism
Sooner or later it was bound to happen. Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that if those holding the reins of power choose to treat environmental activists as extremists then so be it. I suppose we always knew it would come to a fight eventually. The only question was when. First,
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Two Kinds Of Conservatism
E.J. Dionne writes that there are two kinds of conservatism — the “tweedy” kind and the extreme kind. Tweedy conservatism is rooted in an affection for a particular place and its way of life. This conservatism is not always opposed to reform since reforms are often required to preserve the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Are Establishment Republicans Cowering in Their Cellars?
Once he’s sworn into office, could Trump unleash his very own, Republican Reichsmordwoche or “night of the long knives”? That was the week when Adolph Hitler purged his movement of potential threats, such as SA head Ernst Rhom. The number murdered by the SS and Gestapo is unknown. 85 prominent
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Cape Breton Ready To Welcome Americans Nervous About Donald Trump Presidency
If front-running Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump captures the White House in November, Americans are welcome to escape to Cape Breton Island. A new website, “Cape Breton if Donald Trump Wins,” encourages Americans to seriously consider …
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Does RCMP anti-environmentalist rhetoric make us safer?
Monday, March 16, 2015 An RCMP memo blasting Canadian environmentalists, including West Coast, as part of a harmful “anti-Canadian petroleum movement,” does not make Canadians safer. The blatant bias of the memo undermines “the principle of legitimacy” – the idea that fair, credible law enforcement agencies can increase compliance with
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: “Violent extremist Jewish organization” wants Harper to win 2015 federal election
The Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defence League is set to open a Montreal office dedicated to delivering the 2015 federal election to Stephen Harper. The post “Violent extremist Jewish organization” wants Harper to win 2015 federal election appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Environmental Activists “Threat To National Security”: Harper Government
RCMP and CSIS treat peaceful protest actions and questioning the Harper Government as ‘forms of attack’, label activists involved “national security threats”, documents reveal. By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 22, 2013: The Harper Government is intensifying its attacks on environmental and other activist movements in Canada, according to documents released under freedom
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Idle No More protests “have the ability to paralyze” Canada: Ontario Provincial Police Chief
The Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), Christ Lewis, has taken to YouTube to silence self-righteous racists who are urging the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper to apply force against the Idle No More movement’s peaceful protest actions. Only last week, an extremist Ontario Superior Court judge slammed the OPP for
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Of Toronto G20 protests and “abuse orchestrated by fascist states”
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan 15, 2013: Ontario Superior Court Justice Harriet Sachs says police behaviour during the Toronto G20 protests had “the eerie overtones of the worst sort of abuse orchestrated by fascist states.” She passed the harsh verdict while ruling on the case of Eva Marie
Continue readingUnderlooked Stephen Harper quotes P3. Neo-nazis and right-wing extremists
Part three of the underlooked Stephen Harper quotes from the leaked documents.Part one and two here. Neo-nazis and right-wing extremists. He [Stephen Harper] likens the current anti-racism climate to medieval hysteria over witch-craft. ‘We’re talking about fighting unseen enemies,’ he says. ‘It’s getting spooky.’16/04/2001 To provide context, this was commentary
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: The day Canada’s white supremacists saluted Stephen Harper
So far, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s ideology-inspired of project of social and political engineering expresses itself most eloquently as the Conservatives’ egregious assault on civil liberties, the metamorphosis of Canada into a petro-state, and militarization of both Canadian society and foreign policy. We’re yet to acknowledge how this project oppresses
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: London Olympics 2012: What the racist Swiss soccer player said
By now, most of you are aware that a second athlete from Europe has been ejected from the London Olympics for racism. Swill soccer player Michel Morganella got the boot yesterday for posting a racist message on Twitter insulting South Koreans after his team lost 2-1 to South Korea. But most of
Continue readingCANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”
In Stephen Harper’s Canada, we’re all potential terror threats. Until proven otherwise. So suggests a recent study by Queens University’s Jeffrey Monaghan and Kevin Walby, published in the journal Policing and Society. Welcome to Multi Issue Extremism (MIE), Canada’s new classification of so-called domestic terror threats. We saw it coming.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Obama’s Mortal Sin – Normalizing Extremism
Guantanamo remains open. Drones strike far afield. American citizens are being liquidated by their own government without trial or even charge. Is this the legacy of Barack Obama, the normalization of the radical extremism of Bush-Cheney?
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Deconstructing the Wildrose Effect
So what happened in Alberta’s election yesterday, other than people telling pollsters that they want change, then chickening out when it came time to mark an X. The Politics, Re-spun crew deconstructs the Wildrose effect here: Are you surprised that the Wildrose Party did not win? No. Discontent polls well,
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