Big orangutan kisses to all of you there for showing your support for the Quebec student movement. You have brought this ape to tears (and this rarely happens). Thank you. New York City Paris Vancouver Toronto
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From Orangutan: To New York, Paris, Vancouver, and Toronto
Big orangutan kisses to all of you there for showing your support for the Quebec student movement. You have brought this ape to tears (and this rarely happens). Thank you. New York City Paris Vancouver Toronto
Continue readingImpolitical: Juxtapose
This is a refreshing political tone: In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was invested Tuesday morning as president of France, the first Socialist to hold the office since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. “We are a single France,
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Yesterday’s Alberta election certainly proved somewhat of a shocker – producing about the best possible result short of a minority scenario that would have allowed the NDP to exercise the balance of power, as the slightly-less-right party won even as its most
Continue readingPolygonic: La France Forte, or Why You Desperately Need Sarko Standing On the Beach
The French presidential campaign is kicking into high gear, and Nicolas Sarkozy has one key message for his ungrateful people: vote him back in, and he promises to spend his second term standing on the beach, like a magnificant granite Colossus, liquifying overseas demons with the sheer power of his
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: 17th Century France in 3D
Hundreds of years before the advent of satellite photography and Google Earth, French monarchs used detailed scale models to micromanage their realm… Not only is it fascinating these intricate models of cities and forts would have been commissioned in the first place, but quite amazing they’ve actually been preserved intact
Continue readingCowboys for Social Responsibility: Thomas Mulcair: He didn’t choose France for you
Thomas Mulcair is French by choice. It’s not terribly difficult to predict the sort of response that a political attack machine could run with this untimely revelation. We’ve seen it all before. A little over five years ago, New Democrats were quick to join the base nativist attacks on Stéphane
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Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Fracking Ohio’s Utica Shale to "Boost Local Economy"? A "Total" Sham
Total Energy Logo.jpg It is a well-known fact that the unconventional gas industry is involved in an inherently toxic business, particularly through hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"), which the EPA just confirmed today has contaminated groundwater in Wyoming. The documentary "Gasland," DeSmogBlog's report "Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens our Water, Health,
Continue readingArt Threat: Controversial adverts orally arouse – Kissing pope and cigarette fellatio among ads causing a stir
Two new ad campaigns launched in Europe have some knickers twisted at the site of political and religious leaders making out and at the reference to oral sex to warn of the dangers of smoking. On the commercial front, Benetton has continued its Unhate advertising campaign with photoshopped images of
Continue readinggay persons of color: French weekly Charlie Hebdo proposes love not war
This image with the caption L’Amour plus fort que la haine (love is stronger than hate) is on the front page of the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo, the French magazine whose offices were fire-bombed in Paris last week after it was announced that the p…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Pte. Thomas Earl Butler: 17 March 1896 – 1 March 1917
It’s been over ninety-four years since my paternal grandmother’s brother, Tom, died on the World War One battlefields of France, roughly five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. Grandma bore his death with pain right up until her ow…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers "Secret Sins" Exposed In Bloomberg News Investigation
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Bloomberg has released a whopping 21-page investigative and historical essay on the many crimes of the infamous Koch Brothers, their company Koch Industries and its …
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Defending the Burqa
The Netherlands is the next country in the domino chain, following France and Belgium, in which it is likely they will ban the burqa in all public places. There are many arguments against such a ban that fall very much in line with typical liberal val…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Things Go Better With Coke (Except Taxes)
People of a certain age will remember the old ad slogan, “Things Go Better With Coke.” Apparently France disagrees, as it seeks to impose a minuscule tax on the sale of sugary sodas. In an unusually bald and public attempt to pervert government policy…
Continue readingRedBedHead: Libya’s Rebels: Yesterday We Tortured Them, Today We Arm Them
There’s no doubt that NATO, primarily the UK, France and the US, inserted themselves into the Libyan uprising as a means of gaining control over the course of the Arab Spring. In the case of France, it’s clear that expanding the control of Libya’s oil …
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: A Pan-European Approach To Banning Unconventional Gas?
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A German member in the European parliament (MEP) is proposing a straightforward way to prevent (or outlaw) exploration and drilling for unconventional gas in the European Union (EU). H…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: France Becomes First Country To Ban Fracking; Gas Drilling Still A Go
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In a major setback for the oil and gas industry, the French Senate last week voted 176 to 151 to ban hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking), the controversial…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Middle powers, Great Powers, and incentives in war
Many, but certainly not all, US led military campaigns share a common element: a widespread international coalition that supports and participates in the campaigns. We will see that it is two motivations – the need for legitimacy among the leaders an…
Continue readingWorld Headlines Review: Egypt Rejects IMF, Revolution Lurches Forward
by Jonathan Rashad Egyptians have evaded a great pitfall in their quest for freedom, democracy and sovereignty in their rejection this week of loan proposals from the IMF. Nations across the world, especially in Africa, have time and again during periods of turmoil been tempted into bailouts and loan deals
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