Some of the people in Calgary, Alberta feel that their fundamental rights and freedoms are being taken away from them. (Excerpts from cbc.ca) “Hundreds marched through downtown Calgary on Saturday to protest against mandated masks and other public health measures intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the same day
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cartoon life: Can Art Survive the Internet? | TVO.org
Can art survive the internet? Can artists make it in the world of free that’s enabled by it? Author William Deresiewicz explains why those are urgent questions, before, during and after the COVID-19 era. — Read on www.tvo.org/video/can-art-survive-the-internet
Continue readingpolitics – Christy's Houseful of Chaos: A Biblical Story of the Concentration of Wealth During a Disaster
Today I find myself thinking about a story in Genesis 47:13 – 26. It is the story of a famine in Egypt. I’ll share the text from the Bible, and then I’ll write my commentary underneath it. 13There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Saskatchewan Descends As Faithful Cheer On The Coming Darkness
Saskatchewan has COVID-19 getting out of hand. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/27/canada-prairies-coronavirus-alberta-saskatchewan-manitoba In light of the shocking, disturbing behavior of a former politically-appointed chair of Sask health region, compounded by fact it's being directed at healthcare professionals, please check out bios & politics of our current SHA board: https://t.co/DoIdtViJp5 #demandbetter — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert)
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A State of the World Address (In under two minutes)
It seems to me that the ecological crisis is at a critical stage, as is the war on democracy, with the billionaires and corporations having taken over the planet, and Davos, or the New Palace of Versailles, as John Ralston Saul called it, effectively ruling the world. It would be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Newsflash – Man Discovers The Left is Hostile to Traditional Leftist Ideals
The bullshit has finally start to overflow the gunwales. Lefty dudes that are not directly part of the high trans-inquisition are feeling – all at once – perturbed and miffed that they are not being heard and even villified for believing in what was once considered the ideals of the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe Lied, People Died
In short, they lied. Premier Moe is a damned dirty liar, and people are dying as a result.#COVID19SK https://t.co/X6jyZPjgKP — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 26, 2020 Yet his death didn't deserve mention at your press conference today in the official statistics? — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) November 26, 2020
Continue readingScripturient: We’ve Seen It All Before
“[They] are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy… Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Moe More Restaurant Dining
While skirting the household gathering limit, the Sask Premier was exposed to COVID-19 in PA. The irony of Scott Moe being exposed to covid at a restaurant days after encouraging all of us to go out to restaurants is….really something. — Laura Ant (@LAChampAnt) November 23, 2020 We can now
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A New Social Contract: The Parable of the Happy Kingdom
A brief preamble: The old social contract, the last social contract, has clearly broken down. That was the New Deal, which was a compromise between the business elite and the 99%, which lasted between the late 1930s until the 1970s. The business elite, with increased global powers, decided in the
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Compromise or Collapse
The elite always do the same thing. They have repeated the same failed patterns for millennia. They never learn. They could be wealthy and powerful, virtually in perpetuity, or at least, for a very long time – if they were willing to compromise. They are not. Instead, they fall into
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Are We Serious About Human Health? The Rhetoric and Gestures Say Yes, But The Evidence Says No
The government pretends to care deeply and profoundly about human health, using police state measures in a time of crisis, justified by their supposed great concern for health. Yet, the federal government has repeatedly slashed health care funding for the past 40 years. The blatant and extreme hypocrisy and deceit
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Sociopathy Of Contemporary Conservativism
A certainly level of sociopathy has become endemic to the conservative movements throughout North America and I think it is based on a lot of pent up anger that their individualist views conflict with the neoliberal reality. https://t.co/TjO5xiApLf — Kon Stolz (@Cdn_Dissident) November 14, 2020 Take away my pants, but
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Without Air Farce We Have To Make Our Own
SK Doctors: sign letter with 400 of their colleagues begging the government to do something to stop the spread of COVID-19 Sask. Party: Okay, we’re listening. No more hookah lounges. — Eric Bell (@eric_bellMB) November 13, 2020 New SK Covid Guidelines:– no more than 27 in a phone booth– no
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Plague Update: Sask Government Refusing To Slow Pandemic Down
It's a sowing of lies by the government. It's obvious, and needs to be called what it is. It's reckless disregard for lives, and policies that worked 8 months ago to slow the #pandemic in Saskatchewan. #CloseTheSchools, bars, and return to Stage 1 or 2 of #ReOpenSK. #skpoli — Saskboy
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: US Election 2020: Time For Secession
I think the people of the United States should immediately secede from Washington, Wall Street, and Langley – whether Trump or Biden or any other corporate-fascist poster-child is in office – and start the revolution again: this time, with the methods of Martin Luther King Jr. By the way, I
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Reflections On 2020: Bye, Bye Bernie
Bernie could have beaten both Biden and Trump. But Bernie wasn’t up to it. That leaves one choice: revolution. Bernie failed the people in the end, in 2020. Some predicted that to be inevitable. I had held out a slim hope – knowing fully that no one person can bring
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Shocking Rumours of US Election Fraud
Speculations of vote fraud? That sort of thing could never happen in the USA. The US elections are such a clown car show that I don’t follow them much. The Dems cheated Sanders out of the nomination, have staged coups in multiple countries, have lied and cheated for decades, and
Continue readingThings Are Good: In Denver, Defunding the Police Resulted in a Better City
The city of Denver was already planning to limit the scope of the police before the calls for defunding gained momentum the start of this year. Denver accelerated their plans though, and the results are already so promising that other cities should start copying what Denver has done. Instead of
Continue readingScripturient: Post-election musings
Media reports suggest that, like me, most Canadians breathed a large sigh of relief when Joe Biden won the US election and ended the proto-fascist regime in the USA. Not that I think he’s some sort of saviour of American politics: for all the rhetoric the Trump campaign spewed at
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