CNN’S Paula Newton explains what measures Canadians are taking to flatten the curve as countries continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic. YOUTUBE.COM See how Canada crushed the curve while the US struggles CNN’S Paula Read more…
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Things Are Good: Collision: Shaquille O’Neal Wants Your Life to be Steady
“Invest in things that are going to change people’s lives” – @JeffBezos advice to @SHAQ & why he invested in @thesteadyapp #CollisionfromHome #SteadyApp pic.twitter.com/I1yG2RNWtp — Aoileann Ní Chuilleanáin (@Aoils) June 23, 2020 Today at Collision conference Shaquille O’Neal made an appearance to promote Steady, a company that wants to help
Continue readingIn-Sights: Words to die by
This comes from a person who got it from a person who got it from a place unknown. Apologies to the original creator but I think it’s worth a look.
Continue readingWe Pivot: Open Letter to the Burnaby School District on #BLM
Hello, I was disturbed to see yesterday’s retweet of the Burnaby RCMP video greeting: This is a messed up world. White supremacy has been rampant for generations and with the deep inaction in BC and Canada about the TRC and … [Read more]
Continue readingThings Are Good: Protesting Works
Democracy is messy and in order for it to function many voices need to be heard, when some groups can’t be heard they peacefully take to the streets. Despite a history of protesting for a good cause resulting in beneficial societal change there are people who doubt the efficacy of
Continue readingThings Are Good: Ways to Reduce Police Violence
vote This past week saw Americans out on the streets en masse to protest police violence, in particular race-based discrimination practiced by police throughout the nation. Non-white individuals get harassed more, suffer more violence, and are treated worse by the judicial system than white people. This has been proven time
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Karen Greenberg on Covid-19 and the Trump Administration
Very happy to be in Canada for this particular emergency. The US administration was all over the map has the pandemic started and is paying the price now for having a doofus as head of state. Long-Simmering Realities In many ways, the current crisis has, of course, just
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: COVID-19 COVIDerup In USA
This is a WTF kind of story. How did corruption get this bad in the USA? Emails and interviews show that after the weeks of C.D.C. rejections, researchers in Seattle decided to defy regulators and test anyway. They ended up finding and reporting the first case of community-transmission in the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar Step Back and Support Joe Biden-Video
BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar & Pete Buttigieg Are Out BREAKING: Amy Klobuchar & Pete Buttigieg Are Out Posted by The Young Turks on Monday, March 2, 2020
Continue readingThings Are Good: How One Person Exposed Republican Attacks Against American Democracy
As a Republican President in the states is undergoing an impeachment trial the Republican Party is also going under many trials. For the last few decades the Republican Party has engaged in gerrymandering to ensure that their party wins instead for the Democrats (or independents). This modification of electoral maps
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Poll: Sanders surges in early states as Warren falters
Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sen. Bernie Sanders is starting 2020 in a three-way tie for first place in Iowa, joining former Vice President Joe Biden and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg at Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sanders and Khanna Introduce New Bill to ‘Stop Donald Trump From Illegally Taking Us to War Against Iran’
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speak during a press conference following a vote in the U.S. House on ending US military involvement in the war in Yemen, on Capitol Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sinatra’s birthday today: We remember when “Old Blue Eyes” was red
December 12, 2019 1:19 PM CST BY GERALD MEYER Frank Sinatra | AP This article first appeared in Science and Society in the Fall of 2002 and was run later in Political Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela & Killed Over 40,000 Since 2017
The MSM has pretty well been the PR arm for CIA’s attempted coup in Venezuela. You really have to wonder about the talking heads who spew the party line without balance and that quaint Read more…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Wikileaks: Assange Arrested in London
Assange has been a political prisoner for most of a decade and he still is one today, not a criminal hacker. Note that Ecuador revoked asylum, nationality 24h after we exposed illegal spying on Assange, his lawyers and doctors, and just days before the UN Rapporteurs on Torture and Privacy
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Leaving the US Military – Danny Sjursen
A soldiers exit essay on leaving the US war machine. What I Won’t Be Missing “It’s time to wave goodbye to a litany of absurdity that I witnessed in the institution to which I dedicated my adult life. Some peers, even friends, may call this heresy — a disgruntled
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Turd Blossom Stinks Up Canada
Preston Manning is a joke. Karl Rove is a war criminal. Imagine living in a world based on the ethical standard of Rove. Could be that we are there now. A world where war criminals like Bush and Blair are heroes. — ed wood (@edwood3) March 22, 2019
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Testimony In USA and Canada
An amazing bit of questioning in the USA by AOC of Trump’s former lawyer, Cohen. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/watch-rep-aoc-gets-michael-cohen-admit-oath-trump-committed-insurance-tax-fraud/ pic.twitter.com/cAahvSg28c — StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) February 28, 2019 Has a single GOP rep tried to defend or explain the president writing a check to reimburse an illegal hush money payment? — Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The US Military – Winning by Not Losing – Nick Turse
The need for security actions and endless wars is a self-justifying feature of the US economic and political landscape. The military industrial complex (MIC) is invested in all levels of American society and within the political realm. The MIC is not only good for business, but often it *is* the
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