This past week has been a horrific eye-opener for the world and the ugly mess it’s created and allowed to continue in the Middle East. It’s possible that a single image will change the history of this region as the world struggles with the grief and response that should be
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Parchment in the Fire: Portuguese Communist Party on Course for Election Success
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Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 34: One little boy changes everything.
The Syrian refugee crisis has convulsed Europe for weeks now, while making only the tiniest dent in the North American conscience. But that all changed this weeks thanks to one little boy, and one gut-wrenching photograph. All this year, thousands of desperate Syrian refugees have been pouring into Europe in
Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 34: One little boy changes everything.
The Syrian refugee crisis has convulsed Europe for weeks now, while making only the tiniest dent in the North American conscience. But that all changed this weeks thanks to one little boy, and one gut-wrenching photograph. All this year, thousands of desperate Syrian refugees have been pouring into Europe in
Continue readingEh Types: Will To Live
You can just hear the water. It laps against the makeshift pier beating a slow, near silent rhythm in stark contrast to the rapid and seemingly thunderous beating of your heart. Only the smell of fear sits heavier on the air than the salt. You look at what the smugglers generously
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dead Boy In The Sea
Wednesday’s Twitter feeds were jammed with the body of a young corpse of a boy facing down in the sand as an authority stood over the body and soon picked him up to carry his body away. I realized the boy was from a refugee family that didn’t make a
Continue readingLeft Over: No Hope With This Pope…
Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have abortions The Guardian Tuesday 1 September 2015 16.46 BST How condescending can this ‘religious’ leader get? Who cares about forgiveness when there is nothing to forgive? Will the Pope also issue orders to ‘forgive’ the man who didn’t wear a condom, or
Continue readingLeft Over: No Hope With This Pope…
Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have abortions The Guardian Tuesday 1 September 2015 16.46 BST How condescending can this ‘religious’ leader get? Who cares about forgiveness when there is nothing to forgive? Will the Pope also issue orders to ‘forgive’ the man who didn’t wear a condom, or
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: Greek Elections: SYRIZA Keeps Bleeding as Party Youth Withdraw Support | GreekReporter.com
SYRIZA numbers keep dropping in opinion polls. The blows Alexis Tsipras is receiving keep coming from all directions, and they are really strong! Source: Greek Elections: SYRIZA Keeps Bleeding as Party Youth Withdraw Support | GreekReporter.com Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingParchment in the Fire: After Syriza | by Stathis Kouvelakis
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Continue readingIn This Corner: Stuff Happens, week 33: Markets return to normal … whatever that is
The world’s stock markets did what they do this week — go up and down. And as always, investors and the media reacted as if this was something they had never seen before. Following last week’s plunge/freefall/spiral (chose your adjective) in prices, there was more panic on Monday as prices
Continue readingExcited Delirium: A Balanced Budget Isn’t A ‘Left’ or ‘Right’ Thing, Part II
Yesterday, I posted this article showing how NDP governments have been the most effective with respect to balancing budgets over the last 40 years, relying heavily on this article from the Progressive Economic Forum (PEF). Unfortunately, another article on the PEF, inflates the fears of neocons and voters everywhere that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: HarperMan
Not surprisingly, the musician is being investigated by the paranoid and vindictive Harper Government. The Streisand Effect is working though, and www.HarperMan.ca is a hit today. When I tweeted #Harperman last June & you RTed it @saskboy, I did wonder if #cpc thugs would come after Tony. They sure did.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Solar All Over California
On our Amtrak trip through southern and central California, I watched the dry and irrigated fields fly by me at 133km/h. We stopped for the night in Bakersfield (the most conservative city in America, some figures show), and it was 41 degrees even with the sun down. The cement around
Continue readingIn This Corner: The Pain Campaign, week 4: Nothing happens, so I make some stuff up
The interminable Canadian election campaign is now one-month old. In the pre-Harper days, the election would have been over by now, and we would all be celebrating the end of the Harper horror show (let us pray). But thanks to Harper’s shameless manipulation of the system, the campaign has barely
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Addictions and Mental Illness
Watched a TED talk about addiction, and then heard the same concepts being discussed in this Regina news story about a man who committed suicide last week.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Learn About Conservatives
Here’s a fun way to learn about the Conservative Party of Canada. Reminds me of how I speak of Prime Minister Harper while on Twitter, I reference this guy instead: I have been Prime Minister for 10 years. #elxn42 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/75NRMc6HcY — Not Steve Harper (@pmoharper) August 4, 2015
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Stephen Harper Breaches Economic & Political Etiquette
What kind of relationship should a candidate have with the Bank of Canada Governor during unsettling market moments during a campaign? Shouldn’t a process be followed instead of private one-to-one conversations?
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pay To Access Harper
A lot has been said recently about people paying to have access to the Prime Minister. @Justin_Ling @saskboy you are being told what to write?if i an issue with that — shawn d hill (@nbf54321) July 8, 2015 Ling has said: So @KoryCPC asked me to write a story about
Continue readingLeft Over: Powerful Boys Caught With Illicit Toys….
Today (August 24, 2015) no referring back to any specific media stuff…only some thoughts on something in the news that makes me crazy…and no, this time, it isn’t Stephen Harper… I am listening to the news while on the computer, and the story about the Ashley Madison hack is being
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