Voter Suppression
Posted by David Nash Voter suppression is not just done with telephone calls. Another major factor in it is negative advertising. Nobody denies the CPC used negative advertising. And anyone…
March 2012
So, what’s in Anonymous’ bombshell Toews video?
Early this morning, Anonymous dropped its Toews bombshell via youtube. I tried to follow the narrative but my hearing (Menieres/tinnitus) was not up to Anonymous’ echoed audio. I gave up…
To Hell with Democracy. . .
Here’s something to think about – the palestinians in the Gaza Strip elected Hamas with 45% of the vote (a victory well over most electoral victories in Canada) in an…
Peak Everything and a Perpetual No Growth Economy
Many heterodox economists and post-carbon researchers – most notably Richard Heinberg in several books but particularly in his seminal The End of Growth and Chris Martenson in The Crash Course…
Limbaugh- America’s Sweetheart
All over Canada and I suspect in the US as well, there has been much talk and speechifying about bullies…. Limbaugh has just said some unforgivably stupid and ugly things…
Roboscam: Where’s Poutine? Follow the map!
Hat tip to Saskboy for this fascinating post which hints that it might be possible to physically track exactly where the mysterious Pierre Poutine was when he made those voter…
We’re So Screwed
What’s most infuriating about the fierce debate over global warming is everything that’s left out. The denialists act as though the fact and severity of warming is the issue instead…
Vote-rigging, surveillance–and more torture
I have to rub my eyes when I realize I’m writing about Canada. Since July of last year, CSIS has had the official go-ahead to share information with torture-states even…
Washington Post ribs Iceland’s planned adoption of Loonie: "Step one in Canada’s quest for world domination"
The Washington Post isn’t too optimistic about Iceland’s plan to adopt the Canadian dollar. In fact, it finds it all a bit of a lark. More seriously, Iceland wouldn’t be…
4299…More Useless Cocktail Party Chatter
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nick name is Bibi. The Ottawa Senator’s captain, Daniel Alfredsson’s wife’s nick name is Bibi. Coincidence? I think so. WFDS
Roboscam: Ten Things You can do to protect Canada’s democracy
Elections Canada has finally thought fit to let the public know the extent of Canadians’ concern about voter suppression actions during the May 2011 federal election. It says it has…
4298…Bibi Snarls Traffic In Your Capital
Love him or hate him enough of you hate him to make security uber tight in Ottawa’s downtown core today. He, of course, is the boss of bosses in Israel,…
Time away is temporary
Posting of new items will be light for the next short while as I focus my time on others things. Typical of one person blogs, output occasionally suffers because life…
OpenMedia.ca Supports Call to Stop Internet Price Hike
openmedia_logo.jpg 500,000-strong group behind Stop The Meter campaign supports a reexamination of the costing in the usage-based billing decision March 2, 2012 – Today a group of independent ISPs, the…
Is This Just Too Hot For Any of You to Touch?
Anonymous dropped its Vic Toews bombshell today. It’s a very serious allegation of abuse of power which, if it stands, goes to the heart of the Harper government. I did…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Crisis Hits the General Consciousness – 50 years late.
Could this article in The Guardian be the mainstream media finally using the language that scientists and authors have been using for decades? This is the language that I have…
Hey, I’m #68!
Okay… it’s a special, obscure category. Arts and Architecture. Not even in the pop-up menu in iTunes. Of 184 top free books in Art and Architecture. Number 68 and number…