John Oliver has it right. Who “gives a shit” if 1 in 4 Americans are wrong about a fact? The “news” should stop polling to find out what proportion of Americans are wrong, unless they want the rest of the world to laugh harder at them. Do owls exist? Are
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Insufficient Investigation for #RoboCon
A lawyer central to the Federal Court challenge of election fraud in 2011, has made a list of deficiencies in the Elections Canada Commish’s report. #cdnpoli #MUSTread Dancing with Mr. Côté over the Fair Elections Act & PDF assessment of #robocalls case. rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers… #muckreads— Judyth Mermelstein (@GadflyQuebec) May 10, 2014
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Canada PetroState vs. United States of America
Americans hear this on their news last night. “Feds Issue Tighter Regulations For Trains Hauling Highly-Flammable Crude” Canadians are told this of their explosive oil in unsafe train cars. “B.C. municipality chaffs at railways’ requirement for secrecy about dangerous cargos traveling through town” You have to wonder if the Harper
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Insanity Becomes Normal – Venezuela
We are not hearing much about Venezuela at the moment, here is a brief snippet of what life is currently like in parts of that country. Many thanks to Minute Physics for posting this news. Filed under: International Affairs Tagged: Minute Physics, News, Update, Venezuela
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When Insanity Becomes Normal – Venezuela
We are not hearing much about Venezuela at the moment, here is a brief snippet of what life is currently like in parts of that country. Many thanks to Minute Physics for posting this news. Filed under: International Affairs Tagged: Minute Physics, News, Update, Venezuela
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Canadian Election Attacked From America #RoboCon
If Canada’s “SIGINT” (Signals Intelligence) agency doesn’t have records to share with Elections Canada of malicious #robocalls made outside of Canada aimed at disrupting our federal election, then what good is CSEC doing for our democracy? Tracking Brazilian terrorists? Production orders were obtained for records from Rogers, Shaw and Videotron.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Commish Waves White Flag in #RoboCon #elxnfraud Investigation
Despite audio evidence of widespread illegal robocals, the Commishioner of Elections Canada has announced “no offenses committed”! @DonMartinCTV @nspector4 "We didn't find anything because we weren't allowed to find anything"…. oh well. #cdnpoli— Out of Order (@muddywolfking) April 24, 2014 Canadians have had a heaping helping of obvious crime going
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Open Letter: 400+ Academics Demand Withdrawal of Harper’s Orwellian Fair Elections Act
“Free and fair elections lie at the heart of our democracy. The government should not underestimate the commitment of Canadians to defend this fundamental principle.” by: Various | April 23, 2014 Last month, more than 160 professors signed an open letter to express grave concerns about the damage to Canadian
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: PMO: RCMP is Deeply Offended You’re Not Buying Their Crap
“Come on!” – RCMP The Canadian people know when they’re being fed smoke and mirrors, and things taste very smoky and shiny right now. @PierAsselin It almost seems like he just doesn't like the questions being raised.— Stephen Maher (@stphnmaher) April 23, 2014 +1 RT @mdemeny: So the letter refuting
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Ex-US president Jimmy Carter urges Obama to reject Keystone XL Pipeline
“History will reflect on this moment and it will be clear to our children and grandchildren if you made the right choice,” laureates remind President Obama as the world awaits his decision on the Keystone XL pipeline by: Obert Madondo | April 17, 2014 To show leadership on climate change and leave
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Canadian Police and Suicide Hotlines Violating Privacy
It’s mind boggling that Canadian police would think it’s justified in sharing mental health information with Homeland Insecurity in order to help the USA discriminate against people with mental illness. What in the heck made them think it’s okay? Are they crazy? People need to trust that they can reach
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Fair Elections Act could sink Stephen Harper and Conservatives in 2015
by: Obert Madondo | April 12, 2014 This week Canada’s two main opposition parties declared war on the Conservatives’ Orwellian Fair Elections Act. One that could bring down Harper during the 2015 federal election. While falling short of declaring the Fair Elections Act an election issue for 2015, both the Official Opposition
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Flaherty Dies, Canada’s Contemptible Finance Minister
Canada's finance minister Jim Flaherty vows to stay in job till 2015 ca.reuters.com/article/domest… #cdnpoli #FlahertyJobs— Truth Mashup (@truthmashup) November 30, 2012 Most people are quite cautious about what they say, but a few people have said to me, ‘Do you have cancer? … What’s going on? Are you going to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: No Charges Despite New Prescott #RoboCon Information
After giving some immunity to a man who either lied to me, or to Elections Canada’s investigators, Canada’s election agency has no new charges to announce against the perpetrators of 2011′s Guelph or national election fraud robocalls. Andrew Prescott’s information fingers the already charged Michael Sona, and the exiled Ken
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Illegal Spying: Class action lawsuit filed against Canada’s electronic spy agency
by: BC Civil Liberties Association | Press Release | April 1, 2014 VANCOUVER – Today, lawyers for the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) filed a proposed national class action lawsuit on behalf of Canadians whose private communications and metadata information has been collected by the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) in a manner that
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Harper’s abuse of Challenger jets, government resources unacceptable
by: Obert Madondo | April 2, 2014 The Conservatives’ abuse of the Challenger jets and other government resources might end soon if the New Democrats are successful with their latest motion. On Tuesday, the NDP tabled an opposition day motion in the House of Commons that would limit the use of the jests
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Soudas was Resign-Fired #HarperFired #cdnpoli
It happens with plenty of Harperites. They Resign, no wait, they were Fired. Depending on who you are, there’s a different tale of what caused the undesirable to fall under the Harper Omni-Bus. Fired. Resigned. Nigel Wright who worked in the Prime Minister’s Office until last year was also Resign-Fired.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: SaskPower Carbon Capture and Storage Going Online Today, On Schedule
@tingeyd -Construction of the @SaskPowerCCS facility is complete. Currently commissioning and preparing for commercial operation Spring 2014— (@SaskPowerCCS) January 27, 2014 “The government boasted at last week’s Boundary Dam symposium that the project will be up and running this fall and completed by next April, on time and on
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Soudas All By Himself
Soudas @MarkHorseman LOL, don't worry, @PMOharper took care of that too. news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/24/rob… #Anders— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) March 28, 2014 I think Rob Anders would have been a better choice for Finance Minister than Joe Oliver.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Satire and Analysis Becomes Reality in #RoboCon
Ever wonder why Elec Canada didn't raid CPC hq. On robocalls? I know I do. See ipolitics @HarrisAuthor #cdnpoli— Michael Harris (@HarrisAuthor) March 24, 2014 In early March 2012, I asked the same, putting the question to major political parties and Elections Canada. “Why doesn’t Elections Canada just check the
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