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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Christopher Michael points out the real problem underlying the News of the World’s scandalous demise:The Sun is either clairvoyant at predicting the results of British elections, or instrumental in determining t…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: New Market Models
As the US prepares to default on its debt, the resulting economic spiral will punish a lot of people. We need to start thinking about how we can avoid this and take matters into our own hands.
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: How low will Rupert go?
Former British PM Gordon Brown has gone on the offensive against Rupert Murdoch. He stated today that while both PM as well as Tony Blair’s Chancellor, his banking records and e-mails were hacked by the more reputable of Rupert’s publ…
Continue readingeaves.ca: The End of the World and Journalism in the Era of Open
For those not in the United Kingdom a massive scandal has erupted around allegations that one of the country’s tabloids – the News of the World ( a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation) – was illegally hacking into and listening in on the voicemails of not royal family members and celebrities but also murder […]
Continue readingArt Threat: CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his reasons and his criticisms of the state of mainstream news in Canada on his blog Freedom 24 . His bold truth-telling hits to the core of how Canadian […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Metro Morning, Return Engagement
I was invited back to serve as guest economics columnist all last week on Metro Morning, CBC Radio’s drive-in flagship show in Toronto, to substitute for the vacationing effervescent libertarian Michael Hlinka. I did this once a couple of years ago (blogged about it here), when Andy Barrie was still the host. Now he’s retired […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Kai Nagata’s post on why he quit his job as a reporter is well worth a read in full. But let’s particularly note his observations which may apply just as much to many other jobs as to positions in the media (eve…
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Good riddance to one Murdoch newspaper, but here comes another …
The ever so controversial Sunday paper News of the World, which defies even the vilest of descriptions, is finally folding this weekend after 168 years after it got caught up in even more phone hacking scandals. The paper has raised eyebrow…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Facebook: A Giant Snitch?
While Facebook may not tell on you, your use of Facebook will be disclosed to others.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Uh-oh…
The CBC license approval has been delayed by the CRTC.
My spin, for what it’s worth: this gives the Cons some time to spin the benefits of privatizing / gutting the MotherCorp. Mark my words.
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Ledge – Movies I want to see.
Hmmm… a mainstream movie that has an atheist hero? What next? A politician that does not have to believe in fairy tales to be elected? Filed under: Media Tagged: Atheism, Movies, The Ledge
Terahertz: Canada Day Canada.com article
I almost completely missed a chance at some shameless self promotion. For Canada day I was asked to submit an article to a renewal of their “Real Agenda” issue that ran gathered bloggers opinions during the recent election. I came up with a shorter piece on our country’s need for a vision to replace the […]
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Thoughts on the Clement Pic and the Parliament Hill Farce
If you haven’t seen it yet, there is no reason to read about the media’s self-created ridiculous prefab controversy over whether corrupt Treasury Board president Tony Clement should or shouldn’t have snapped a romantic photo of William and Kate watching the Parliament Hill fireworks. Maybe he shouldn’t. But then, maybe he shouldn’t have siphoned tens […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: The NDP and “Big Labour”
Rob Silver, a sharp guy I first met through university debate, has written a rather disappointing piece entitled, “Would NDP be neutral were it in power during a labour dispute?” This question is interesting and significant. On the one hand, the NDP’s political philosophy is strongly supportive of working people. Compared to Liberals and Conservatives, […]
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Rationalizing Corporate Canada’s Cash Stash
Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign currency). Including short-term paper would bring this total to half a trillion dollars, enough to pay off the national debt (i.e. accumulated deficit). Cash hoarding […]
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: WikiLeaks – What Media Should be Like
Upset about troop movements and diplomatic cables being exposed to the public? Accountability and public oversight is *such* a pain. Notice how much coverage Wikileaks has been receiving from the media as of late, close to zero-ish, by my accounting and it is not accidental. Reporting actual news and happenings is dangerous and requires […]
Excited Delirium: The Cause of Colony Collapse for Bees?
This story’s dated (Dec 2010), but it’s a reminder that there seems to be something more at hand than just a simple ‘mystery’ about why we’re getting what’s called ‘Colony Collapse’ in bee colonies.
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World Headlines Review: Tahrir Square: Tantawi picks up where Mubarak left off
Cairo’s Tahrir square is once again tonight the scene of ordinary people making extraordinary efforts to free themselves from the militarist rentier regime still in power since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in February. Earlier today in Tahrir began a protest by families of “martyrs,” which in this case refers
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Banking Blockade
You’ll probably want to watch this short ad about WikiLeaks. It’s “priceless”.
What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
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