Arms Race Update – China Goes Zubr, NATO Gets Wet?
It’s the largest military assault hovercraft in existence and China is expected to soon field four of them. It’s also considered China’s “go-to” option for an amphibious landing on Japan’s…
September 2013
John Baird in his Santa’s lap
“I am concerned that there is a little bit too much enthusiasm as a result of the different tone. And what we hope is, the world won’t take the pressure…
LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Kitimat – Oct.4)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics…
Dr. Strangebet is Benched
Little Bundles of Instant Sunshine He’s a full admiral in the U.S. Navy and the second-in-command of America’s nuclear strike arsenal and now he’s been implicated in a casino gambling…
LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Prince Rupert – Oct.3)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics…
LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Terrace – Oct.2)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics…
LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Hazelton – Oct.1)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics…
LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Moricetown – Oct.1)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Afternoon of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics…
LNG: What Does it Mean for Me? (Smithers – Sept.30)
Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition presents: An Evening of Conversation on LNG with Damien Gillis DAMIEN GILLIS is a journalist and documentary film maker who has extensive knowledge of the economics…
"Retail Therapy" – It’s Real. Now Let’s Go To The Mall.
You probably already knew this at some level. Materialistic people experience more stress from traumatic events and are more likely to spend compulsively as a result, a new study suggests.…
Canada is going mobile – but you may be surprised by how much
Canada is going mobile. According to recent forecasts, mobile Internet traffic in Canada will reach a whopping 154 petabytes per month in 2017, up from 16 petabytes in 2012. Source:…
America Urges Philippines to Combat Inequality
Yeah, I know, I know. Me too. Then again, the Philippines is a good long way away from Main Street, U.S.A. American officials are urging the Phillipines to see to…
America Has Already Lost the Battle for Gun Control.
It’s just $750, less than the price of a good hunting rifle. For that you can get a brand new, never fired, AR-15 shown as manufactured in Tacoma, Washington. Private…
Saturday Photo: Dahlias
I used to think that the best flowers were those of early spring. Perhaps that’s because spring is when I’m really thinking gardens. But late summer and fall also have…
Approaching Native Issues and the Language of Decolonization
For the last several years, Native American activists in Canada have been using the language of “decolonize” or “decolonialism” as a part of their rhetoric in advocating for change. I…
Monbiot Reminds Us the IPCC Report Is Very, Very Conservative.
One of the brilliant successes of the Right has been to cast the IPCC as a gang of Lefty alarmists. At that point they skip over how the IPCC has…
Arms Race Update – Turkey Buys Air Defence System from China
Turkey, NATO’s sole member from the Muslim world, has ordered a new, air defence system – from China. A government committee chaired by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, prime minister, decided this…
Standing guard
Daisy the Lab waits for Son Three and his BFF to invade the mainland.
Who’s Afraid of a Peaceful Iran? Why, Israel, Of Course.
The recent chit-chat between Barack Obama and Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has really ruffled the feathers of Benjamin Netanyahu. Benny cannot afford to lose his number one supervillain at…
Sunday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Earlier in the 2013 season, the Saskatchewan Roughriders looked like they could control games with a ruthlessly efficient offence. Two thirds of the way through the season, that theory seems…