Wrong, wrong, so very wrong
Apparently people respect Vito Tanzi. At least, that’s what an article in the Globe and Mail tells me, and their journalists must be impartial right? Tanzi apparently believes that because…
September 2011
The Eurozone Crisis
There is a cogent commentary from Martin Wolf in today’s FT. It is scary indeed that averting financial collapse demands structural changes in the euro area which seem to be…
Bob Dechert
This coverage of his emails is ridiculous. Can it stop now, please. Thank you. This is not news.
Solyndra Solar Panel Corporation Scandal Ablaze – ThinkProgress Sets Record Straight
Obama:Bush.jpg The ongoing scandal continues to blaze at Solyndra. Solyndra Corporation, a San Francisco Bay area solar panel start-up company, is under fire in the immediate aftermath of its Aug...
September 26, the strike’s back on – Tortured SHU Prisoners Speak Out: “The Struggle Continues”
For the past 10-40 years thousands of California prisoners have been confined in CDC-SHU units indefinitely based on status [E.G., a gang label – active gang classification, based on innocuous…
Hudak still intends to make sex offender registry public
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/provincialelection/article/1053495--hudak-still-intends-to-make-sex-offender-registry-public?bn=1LEAMINGTON, ONT.—Ontario’s police don’t like the idea but Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak is st...
Battle for Fracking Public Perception Lost, Says Gas Industry Insider
Hide Yo Kids Fracking.jpg The gas industry has not done itself any favors by downplaying the risks associated with fracking, something the industry is apparently just realizing. Labeling affected...
To Grunfeld
I’m proposing a new word for the internet lexicon: To Grunfeld: To carefully omit a portion of a person’s statement so that your version of the statement is the polar…
Escalation of political repression at Red Onion State Prison (Virginia: United States)
From http://signalfire.org/?p=14129:Over the years long standing organizing efforts by class conscious prisoners in the Virgina state system’s two maximum security facilities (Red Onion and Wallens Ridge) have been met with…
Where is Barry Goldwater When we Need Him?
"I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass." Barry Goldwater Many American Neoconservatives claim to have become politically active, after the trouncing of Barry Goldwater…
On comparative advantages
At least a few Canadian commentators have looked to Australia's process for selecting party leaders - with the party caucus rather than its membership making the choice - as a…
George Carlin was so right…
they'll use any excuse to keep fighting. They're a warlike people. They like war. They're good at it! Why are they good at it? Because they get a lot of…
Refreshing
No, there's nothing particularly surprising in the NDP strategy reported by Laura Payton. But isn't a pleasant change that the official opposition actually has such a thing?
Libertarian Hypocrisy
In the Republican “Tea Party Debate” earlier this week, when Ron Paul was asked whether or not a healthy, uninsured 30-year-old man should be left to die if an unexpected…
The Arrogance Factor #nlpoli
Can Len Simms be far behind your humble e-scribbler asked back in June when deputy minister Ross Reid quit his job to run the Tory campaign. Simms – a former…
Unethical oil
…and unethical allies in the academy. With Friends like these, does science need enemies? An outrageous tale of corporate and academic deception at the University of Calgary. ...
Oil Illiteracy. University of Calgary paid to deny climate change.
When a university takes money from an oil company to build skepticism for climate change, you not only have a dishonest higher educational body but also one that goes against…
The NDP bang on in Opposition
The role of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons seems to be misunderstood by some media and others. From the House of Commons website has the following definition…
Libya: What Was Canada’s Role In This Crime?
Libya. What a mess we've made.