It was without a doubt the most grotesque spectacle the Davos Cozy Capitalist Club had ever seen. As they sat there in their silk leather pajamas watching Stephen Harper pose as an economist. Bragging about the stability of our banking system, while forgetting to tell them that if it had
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Rafe Mair On The Northern Gateway Pipeline
I oppose violence with every remaining sinew in my body but I’m saying to Harper and Oliver that violence is what their policies will bring. I haven’t had a fight since about Grade VII and I lost that one but I can tell you that I’m prepared to stand in
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: American Magazine Calls Canada a Jingoistic Petro-State
Blogger Scott Tribe shared a link yesterday to an article that appeared in Slate magazine, which is owned by the Washington Post. Saudi Arabia. Nigeria. Venezuela. Canada? Is our neighbor to the north becoming a jingoistic petro-state? We think that Stephen Harper is only our problem, but like it or
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Corbella Story Collapses Utterly
In a story a week or so back, Licia Corbella intimated that someone in the environmentalist camp was signing fake names to the list of people asking to make oral presentations to the NEB panel holding hearings into the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Never mind that this doesn’t make sense as part
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How’s That Ethical Oil Thing Working For You? Part II!
Actually, a bit better than it was. Mind you, WK says discount anything Forum Research puts out.. h/t
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Did Keystone Kill Off the Northern Gateway Pipeline?
According to Andrew Nikiforuk, the Keystone XL pipeline may have only sustained a flesh wound but it was a killer blow to the Northern Gateway pipeline. The best analysis of all things related to the Athabasca Tar Sands is plainly that of Andrew Nikiforuk. Formerly an author and freelancer, Nikiforuk
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Newt Gingrich Thanks Harper for Being a Pro-American Conservative
Rick Santorum may get his fashion tips from Stephen Harper, but Newt Gingrich likes the whole package. The first truly pro-American prime minister of Canada. What’s not to love? What Newt doesn’t understand is the power of the people, who are just as determined to stop the Northern Gateway Pipeline,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Paul Wells On Northern Gateway
Sure, he’s recycling the work of bloggers without giving acknowledgement (mostly DC; maybe me a bit). Sure, some of it is unintentionally funny: a Conservative insider insisting that there is no collusion between the Ethical Oil Institute and the Harper government…but doing so anonymously. Nevertheless, Paul Well’s piece on Ethical
Continue readingThings Are Good: USA Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
Yesterday saw two very effective protest movements in the USA, one was in regards to SOPA/PIPA and the other saw the Obama administration reject the Keystone XL pipeline. There are also concerns about carbon emissions from oil sands production in Alberta, a western Canadian province. Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org,
Continue readingdeSmog Blog: Enbridge chair and six of 12 directors are American
Talk about your foreign influence! But according to a secret source (okay: it’s the company website), Enbridge Chair David Arledge and six of the 12 Enbridge directors are (everyone get ready to gasp in unison): AMERICANS!
Continue readingChatty Kathy Marshall doll debuts
Just pull the ring. You never know what she’ll say next. Kathryn Marshall. She’s no puppet. She’s a doll!
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: The Enbridge Board: A foreign Special Interest Group
Joe Oliver.jpg If Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is looking for ideologues and "foreign special interest groups" who are trying to interfere with the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline hearings, he need look no farther than the Board of Directors of pipeline proponent Enbridge Inc. Oliver got his lapels all flecked
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Oil Pimp and the Dalai Lama
He’s always been an oil pimp, but I thought I better give him a new costume eh? Because these days that’s ALL he ever talks about. “When you look at the Iranians threatening to block the Strait of Hormuz, I think that just illustrates how critical it is that supply
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Fascist State of Alberia
Uh oh. Duck and cover. It looks as if Great Oil Pimp Leader is trying to whip us into a nationalistic frenzy, by demanding that the United States stop treating us like a national park. Any decision on developments such as the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline should be left to Canadians,
Continue readingIt’s our ‘giant national park’. Let’s keep it that way.
Canada is not the exclusive property of Stephen Harper, the Conservative party or the oil companies. We share this land and we want to preserve our coastlines, lakes and rivers. We will not sell our soul for a buck. We want to keep this land pristine. Listen to us. It is not
Continue readingThe Conservative Communist Manifesto: Keystone pipeline edition
fixcas So Obama may balk at the KeystoneXL pipeline, primarily over environmental concerns. How does Harper respond? Without blinking an eye, this leader of ‘ethical’ everything and champion of ‘human rights’ will deal instead with a country rife with human rights abuses and unethical everything. Not only that, China is
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fake "Supports Northern Gateway Pipeline" Facebook Pages
These can be found here. Identical news feeds, and all started in late October. H/T Joe in the comments.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Proponents Play Dirty!
Since hearings into the Northern Gateway began last week, there have been accusations of misconduct on the part of pipeline/route opponents. These have been shown to be false, as even the folks at Ethical Oil seem to realize (see “update”). However, people on the pro-pipeline side of the issue seem clearly to be
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Just Sayin’
Now imagine this was a supertanker filled with bitumen. Only imagine it’s a supertanker full of diluted bitumen wrecked off the proposed tanker port of Kitimat. Okay, there are differences. This is a cruise ship, fairly benign as wrecks go. The supertanker would be disgorging tons of
Continue readingHuffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall has meltdown on Power & Politics. Goes viral. UPDATED
When I looked yesterday afternoon at the now famous Kathryn Marshall Ethical Oil freakout on youtube, the hits were just 6,000. It’s now well over 26,000 and quickly rising. Word has been blazing around the web, snaking its way into the States where amused commenters are comparing Marshall’s clueless and belligerent approach to
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