June 2013
6197…Feminist Conference In Saudi Arabia
You will note in the photo I grabbed from The Daily Mail that there is not a woman in sight. And why should there be; this is Saudi Arabia where…
Big Brother’s power is building, warns George Orwell biographer
Mankind, like the proverbial lobster in the pot, is becoming conditioned to losing rights and freedoms at an alarming rate. ‘Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. He felt that if…
For Canada Day 2013. Images from Facebook and elsewhere; text…
For Canada Day 2013. Images from Facebook and elsewhere; text from rabble.ca: The National Stop Harper Campaign presents….”SAVE CANADA DAY.” Join us across the country as we proclaim our distrust…
TSN NHL draft coverage preview … round 13.
“Welcome back, Canada, to TSN’s continuing coverage of the 2013 NHL entry draft. I’m Gord Miller, and after 13 rounds of this, even I’m running out of droll things to…
We’re all in this together–sort of. The Alberta Flood 2013
Nobody said it better than the Dairy Lane Cafe and the Blue Star Diner in a sunny (literally) little poster announcing that on Canada Day every penny received from sales…
El Nino – Global Warming Link Found
The El Nino – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has, for the first time, been linked to global warming. A team of researchers examining tree ring evidence from the past seven hundred…
The Anglo Tapes: Give us the %$%%$# moolah
The tapes that have started a firestorm this week in Ireland do more than reveal the attitudes of the senior bankers involved in the destruction of Ireland’s financial system during…
A new bilingual national association for co-operatives across Canada
by: Canadian Co-operative Association | Press Release: Delegates to CCA’s Annual Meeting vote in favour of creating a new national organization representing co-ops, credit unions and mutuals. (Photo: Co-operative News)…
June 30: Sunday thoughts……
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ The above is a superb web site for anyone interested in the world of big business, and its impact on our world. Mr. Roberts has been a major figure…
Joe Easingwood-Longtime Victoria Broadcasters Dies of Cancer
Victoria Broadcaster Joe Easingwood dies at 75. R.I.P. Joe Joe Easingwood, one of BC’s and certainly Victoria’s most successful talk show broadcasters has died of brain cancer. He was 75…
Signal to noise ratio
Look at any newspaper, watch any newscast, and compare the amount of space and time given to actual hard news (breaking events, politics, court, natural disaster, policy, war, events of…
Signal to noise ratio
Look at any newspaper, watch any newscast, and compare the amount of space and time given to actual hard news (breaking events, politics, court, natural disaster, policy, war, events of…
Signal to noise ratio
Look at any newspaper, watch any newscast, and compare the amount of space and time given to actual hard news (breaking events, politics, court, natural disaster, policy, war, events of…
I Don’t Know About You …
… but despite our many earth-bound problems, I find this sort of thing absolutely fascinating: Recommend this Post
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Remember all the talk about western forces being out of Afghanistan in 2014? Well, that deal is off now. NATO has quietly decided it will keep advisers in Afghanistan until…
PRISM’s Conduit Into Your Life
The Washington Post has published a series of U.S. National Security Agency slides showing the conduits through which data flows into the American government’s computer banks. The first column, PRISM…
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