@tbeaudrymellor maybe you've no say in your party's communications, but are you embarased enough to ask them to stop mocking a zero-emission and healthy way to commute in cities? Failing to promote health is bad enough.https://t.co/mqhsbeZfcn#skpoli — Saskboy (@saskboy) July 13, 2019 I had no respect for the SaskPotty before
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: British Political Humour Getting Their Own Trump-basketcase
I will keep bigging up Marina’s impossibly brilliant work until she is rightfully appointed Queen of Everything. The stunning last line here should be beamed into the brain of every living human being https://t.co/uXHyhl1cGJ — David Lewis (@davidclewis) July 12, 2019 “We’d be better off picking someone at random and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Greens Hire a Political Strategist Some Don’t Like
I don’t much care for his strategy most of the time, but the Greens can’t keep doing the same thing when the other parties are playing to run out the clock. We’ve less than eleven years left to maybe, hopefully have enough time to get emissions to a point where
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Make Asthma Great Again
Canadian Cons desperately want to have MAGA as a campaign slogan because it worked so well for the President. That’s why they want to Make Asthma Great Again, and remove fuel standards. Put lead back into the gas, we need more stupid people from brain damage. If you know anyone
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Greyhound Sucks
And the feckless politicians who haven’t replaced Greyhound are sucking too. Officially one full year of stewing about governments ignoring Greyhoundexit! There's literally *no excuse* not to fund public long distance transport in a time of MMIWG, climate emergency, and escalating inequality & I wrote about it here: https://t.co/0qowNrrscw #cdnpoli
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Afghanistan: Where Low Tech Continues to Conquer The Most Advanced Military in the World
In a uncanny sort of way the slow motion failure of the US war effort in Afghanistan is a testament to the fiercely stubborn nature of our species. The US has total control of the air, real-time satellite imagery, and soldiers equipped with the best (and most expensive) military equipment
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: That Can’t Happen In America…
How quickly we slip in barbarity. From Normalizing Atrocity, Ken Orphan writes on Counterpunch: “Thousands of socialists and leftists were marched into stadiums in Chile in the 1970s and gunned down, tortured, or disappeared in a country with a much smaller military than the US. Between 1965 and 1966,
Continue readingAlberta Politics: With Stephen Mandel’s resignation and zero Legislature seats, Alberta Party faces leadership vacuum and bleak future
So long, Stephen Mandel, at least we can’t say we hardly knew ye! Mr. Mandel announced in a news release yesterday he would step down on June 30 as leader of the Alberta Party – which he took over after an internal coup last year and turned from a vehicle
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wall Was/Is Wrong About Coal In China
“China will increase their coal use by 19% over 5 years.” “Vietnam, India and many others Asian nations are ramping up coal to give more of their people electricity. The U.S. is now signalling a return to coal.” -Brad Wall 17 November 2016 · 132,442 views “Canada only accounts for
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: We’ll Always Have Paris
That prediction/lie didn’t work out too well. On Wednesday, Todd D. Stern, the United States special envoy for climate change, who was in Beijing for talks, said that some Chinese officials had expressed concern about whether President Obama’s successor would ensure that the United States was committed to the global
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservative Racist Propaganda Is Beyond The Pale
CPC Racists are at work in Andrew Scheer’s Photoshop department. Why does the CPC still have any support from good Canadians? Here’s what Doug Ford and Scott Shmoe’s federal party posted today about our Prime Minister: If we don’t phase out most of the world’s oil and gas sector by
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chennai’s Water Shortage and Our Hierarchical Structured Society
“New Delhi — Millions of people in the South Indian city of Chennai, the country’s sixth largest metropolis, are facing an acute water shortage as the main reservoirs have dried up after a poor monsoon season. Some schools in the city have cut working hours and dozens of hotels and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thanks UCP Voters #5
So the UCP just passed Bill 9, better known as the we’re too scared to negotiate so we’re going to legislate new wages for our public sector employees. This, of course, is a clear violation of charter rights to collective bargaining and flies in the very face of good faith
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Summarizing Disaster Capitalism – Jason Hirthler
Mainstream 101: Supporting Imperialism, Suppressing Socialism by Jason Hirthler “Yet the corporate use of the word democracy has no relation to the word’s philosophical definition. It is merely a portmanteau for all manner of plunder, the techniques of which include first evicting the wayward socialist in power, by sanction
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Race to the Bottom: US & China
It is a wonderful time to be alive. Our social sphere is a dividedly partisan uncharitable hot mess. Nothing gets done because the status quo recognizes that people working together have the capacity to radically alter society. Internecine conflict and partisan yelling matches are not an accident. They conveniently combust
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Transition From Coal Ignored By SaskParty
Why are @PremierScottMoe and @SKGov doing so little to prepare for the transition away from coal burning?@SaskPower and related workers deserve a #JustTransition to meaningful employment in other fields, or other areas of energy generation like #solar and #wind. — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) June 17, 2019 People who know what
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Conservatives Exceeding Election Spending Expectations
NEW: Elections Canada says it will monitor provincial government interventions in the federal campaign https://t.co/J8UfrINIlR #onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli — Marieke Walsh (@MariekeWalsh) June 13, 2019 What’s that mean? You’ve heard the Con Premiers like Ford and Moe and Kenney are all threatening Trudeau, saying if he doesn’t do impossible things
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Electoral Politics in the United States – Rob Urie
Why would people vote against their own interests? Why do so many people choose not to vote at all? Some of the answers lie with the very structure of the American political system and the ideological rules that are currently being followed. Noam Chomsky has always said that the
Continue readingThings Are Good: 100 Debates About the Environment
Canadians are heading to the polls this year to elect a new federal government and GreenPAC wants everyone in Canada to engage in a debate about the state of our environment. On October 7th, 2019 they’re running non-partisan all-candidates debates in 100 ridings across Canada from St. John’s to Victoria.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Speaking The Truth
CBC and other media need to recognize the following as true if we’re going to advance as a society. It’s likely to make them, and you, uncomfortable. Growth isn’t automatic and easy. – Canada has committed genocide against First Nations people. I wrote for @washingtonpost about the failure of the
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