Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein report on the World Meteorological Association’s finding that we’ve just had the hottest summer in recorded history. And Chelsey Harvey highlights how the combination of extreme heat and other climate calamities looks to be a harbinger of worse
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Alberta Politics: Proposed federal clean-electricity rules are ‘unaffordable blackout regulations’? … UCP environment minister floods the zone
“Unaffordable blackout regulations”? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith (Photo: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr). It wasn’t exactly a surprise that Alberta’s United Conservative Party started September by issuing a wildly misleading statement calling the federal Government’s proposed 2035 net-zero electricity generation regulations “unaffordable blackout regulations.” This kind of nonsense is the UCP’s schtick, after
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Grown Man Defeats Proud Boy
Grown man defeats proud boy Originally published by Canada’s National Observer By Sandy Garossino | Opinion, US News, Politics | November 9th 2020 U.S. President Elect Joe Biden. Photo by: Wiki Commons Read more… The post Grown Man Defeats Proud Boy first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Cambridge Analytica – "In the Beginning"
It began as a means to thwart Islamist recruitment. But then… Here is Chris Wylie describing how they built the technology that came to be diverted into the effort to skew Brexit and the 2016 American elections. What many don’t know is that Cambridge Analytica has its origins in another
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Want to know how to deal with Steve Bannon? Oddly enough, Jason Kenney has the answer!
Want to know how to deal with the irresponsible refusal by the organizers of the so-called Munk Debate to cancel their invitation to former Trump election strategist Steve Bannon to come to Canada and spew his racist dreck around our country? Follow the example of Jason Kenney! In most circumstances,
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Thanks to Donald Trump, the post-war American imperium that’s run like a Swiss watch is coming unsprung!
PHOTOS: U.S. President Donald Trump’s inaugural parade makes its way through Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2017, just before the stuff hit the fan and everything went to hell in a handbasket. (Photo: United States Navy.) Below: President Trump, former president Barack Obama, the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Republican Civil War
Once they were America's oddest political couple, the flaming dotard Donald Trump and the grubby boozer Steve Bannon.Five months ago, after he fired Bannon, Trump couldn't say enough nice things about his alt-right buddy.Now he's saying that the day Bannon was fired, he didn't just lose his job, he lost his
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Miracle in Alabama
As you know, I didn't think that Doug Jones, the Democratic candidate for Senator, had much of a chance of defeating the homophobic Bible thumping pervert Roy Moore.Not in backward Alabama, where ignorance is a virtue, religion is a weapon, and inbreeding is a major problem.In fact, I had already
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Steve Bannon and the Death of the Republican Party
I don't know or care how the grubby boozer Steve Bannon managed to burrow into Donald Trump's diseased brain.And only a psychiatrist can explain why Trump believed anything Bannon told him.But now Bannon has granted an interview to CBS' 60 Minutes, and one thing he said did make sense.Read more
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, asking why Justin Trudeau and Gerald Butts are so willing to offer political cover to the Trump administration (including the now-departed Steve Bannon). For further reading…– Ryan Lizza’s report on Bannon’s relationship with Butts is here. And Adam Radwanski had previously reported on the Libs’ strategy of cultivating relationships
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Question Journalists Don’t Dare Ask
It's hard to believe, how time flies. But Donald Trump's "working vacation" is over and he's heading back to Washington.But sadly, although he did little or no work, just played golf, tweeted, and watched a lot of cable TV, his vacation wasn't very relaxing.And I'm afraid we're all going to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Real Steve Bannon
Saturday Night Live likes to portray Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's chief strategist, as the Grim Reaper.And the real president of the United States.But now that Bannon has emerged from the shadows, and outlined his master plan for total Trump domination, I think SNL's portrayal is far too generous.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Real Steve Bannon
Saturday Night Live likes to portray Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's chief strategist, as the Grim Reaper.And the real president of the United States.But now that Bannon has emerged from the shadows, and outlined his master plan for total Trump domination, I think SNL's portrayal is far too generous.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Steve Bannon and the Undermining of Pope Francis
Much has been written recently about Steve Bannon, Donald Trump's closest adviser, and the man many believe is the real president of the United States.The alt-right fanatic who believes that an apocalyptic "cleansing war" is coming, and is obsessed with global destruction.But did you know that Bannon's fascist tentacles also reach
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump’s Horrible Saturday Night
I think it's safe to say that Donald Trump had a lousy Saturday night. And either ended up climbing the golden drapes in his Mar-a-Lago estate, or rolling on the floor and biting the carpet.For he's been ranting and raving and going after another judge for daring to block his bigoted travel ban.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Donald Trump Declared War on the World
I must admit I thought that warnings like that one would ensure that every progressive in America would walk or crawl to the polls, in order to stop Donald Trump from setting fire to the world.But sadly I was wrong. Many progressives didn't bother to vote. Others wasted their votes
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Real President?
If you want to know what is really going on in Donald Trump’s White House, Lawrence Douglas suggests that you take a good, hard look at Steve Bannon: As we now know, the drafting and rollout of the travel ban was largely the work of Steve Bannon, the president’s chief
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Republican Fausts
He's only been in office a short time, but already Donald Trump is setting the world on fire.Along with his grubby adviser Steve Bannon, the man many believe is the real president, he has been causing chaos all over the world, triggering huge demonstrations all over America.And the Republicans in Congress
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Wild Child in the White House
He has unleashed chaos all over the world with his insane travel ban. He is triggering massive protests all over his country. Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travellers
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Very Timely Reminder
In 1984, the Enemy of the State was the elusive Emmanuel Goldstein, likely a contrived figure upon whom the masses could hurl their hatred, while Big Brother, the real enemy, surveilled and controlled the masses. In the noir world of Trumpland, it appears the first of what will likely be
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