F-35 Enters USMC Service – Sort Of
The United States Marine Corps has accepted delivery of its very first F-35 stealth light bomber - or some of it anyway."The Lockheed Martin-built plane’s computerized logistical system, flight software…
2012
Breaking: SUNY Buffalo Shuts "Frackademia" Center, Shale Resources and Society Institute
Today, SUNY Buffalo closed the doors of its Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI), what we at DeSmog have described as an epicenter for "frackademia" and a public relations front…
Now Tell Me Why We Need to Push Bitumen on the World?
"Twenty-seven or younger? Then you’ve never experienced a month in which the global temperature has been colder than average, according to the latest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and…
Timelapse Animations Reveal Staggering Water Withdrawals, Industrial Activity for Fracking
Watch these staggering timelapse animations of recent water withdrawals and industrial activity on the traditional territory of Fort Nelson First Nation for natural gas hydraulic fracturing. These short term licenses…
Join Elizabeth May on Politics, Re-Spun Radio Tonight
If you care about Stephen Harper giving China a veto over our democracy for 31 years in the FIPA sellout, tune into Politics, Re-Spun radio on Coop Radio tonight at…
Nothing New Here
In a valiant effort to not be forgotten by a fickle public, Tim Hudak is at it again, advocating a policy that is guaranteed to find favour with the public:…
JimBobby Sings The Ballad of Joanie Crockatt
Whooee! Well, friends an' foes, ol' Jymn over to Let Freedom Rain posted hisself a boog where he sorta challenged ol' JB to come up with a little sing-song all…
JimBobby Sings The Ballad of Joanie Crockatt
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Jymn over to Let Freedom Rain posted hisself a boog where he sorta challenged ol’ JB to come up with a little sing-song all…
JimBobby Sings The Ballad of Joanie Crockatt
Whooee! Well, friends an' foes, ol' Jymn over to Let Freedom Rain posted hisself a boog where he sorta challenged ol' JB to come up with a little sing-song all…
JimBobby Sings The Ballad of Joanie Crockatt
Whooee! Well, friends an’ foes, ol’ Jymn over to Let Freedom Rain posted hisself a boog where he sorta challenged ol’ JB to come up with a little sing-song all…
Enjoying our factory foods
Fruit fiction: Is it blueberry or blue dye? Greenerchoices.org "A hot trend in food labeling these days is labels that boast 'blueberries' and feature images of the antioxidant-rich superfruit, but…
World Bank – Says What Everybody Knows, We’re in Trouble
A World Bank report released today warns the world is heading for 4C of warming this century and that means trouble for everybody but especially if you're one of the…
Gilad Sharon evokes ‘Hiroshima and Nagasaki’ in call to ‘flatten’ Gaza
Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli PM Ariel Sharon has written an op-ed piece for the Jerusalem Post in which he makes reference to the dropping of nuclear bombs on…
Failure to give sufficient reasons an error of law
R. v. A.F., 2012 ONCA 790 is a good source for the proposition that fairlure to give sufficient reasons is an error of law for appeal purposes: We are, however,…
Arms Race Update – Russian Lasers in Space
The Americans spent about 16-years trying to perfect an aerial laser system capable of taking down income ballistic missiles. Russia is now pursuing what it calls space laser counter-measures.The Russians…
Things that I won’t bitch about again…
… until I’m 50. Really. From the Ontario government website: Whether on a city street, highway or county road, and regardless of the speed limit and the number of lanes,…
Not a phone
When’s a phone not a phone? When you’re not using it as a phone. [Insert some pithy argument here in which we talk about Socrates and the Aristotlean ideal or…
ConCalls: Overspend, It’s the Conservative Way #RoboCon
There was an extremely good editorial in The Telegram on Saturday. It highlights a damning list of ethical breaches by the Conservatives, and the growing list of crimes too. –…
Bell makes second attempt at Astral Media takeover
Big telecom company Bell is once again trying to take over Astral Media and gain more control over Canada’s media system. This comes only one month after the CRTC listened…
Thieves of Bay Street
Chalk it up as a point of Canadian smugness: that undiluted avarice sloshing around the American financial sector circa 2008 proved to be caustic stuff, valiantly sniffed out and tempered…