Whither climate change litigation and compensation?
Monday, September 9, 2013 Many people seem surprised when I mention the possibility that greenhouse gas emitting companies may one day be held liable for the damages caused by climate…
September 2013
Union leaders support BC Liberal LNG program
Read this Sept. 9 story fromt he Canadian Press on the decision made by several prominent BC union leaders to work with the BC Liberal Government on developing a liquefied…
Stephen Harper and the Dangerous Senator Duffy
Well I see that the former Law Clerk of Parliament believes that Mike Duffy may have committed no crime. Rob Walsh, who was Parliament's top legal adviser until 2012, says…
Failing the modern Turing test is so vexatious
Here’s a CAPTCHA I just got. As you can see, my attempt was not accepted. Other characters I can see in this captcha, starting from the bottom left and moving…
University of Tennessee "Frackademia" Program Put to Rest, For Now
University of Tennessee-Knoxville’s “frackademia” program proposal – set to transform UT’s Institute of Agriculture into a de facto fracking land leasing agency – has been put to rest for now,…
Globe and Mail: Bell wants to block indie providers from reaching cell phone users
In case you’re keeping count, it isn’t the first time Big Telecom has gone to court in recent months to battle against wireless choice for Canadian cell phone users. If…
New coalition revved up about wake boats on public waterways
Not your grandfather’s lake boat: powerful, modern “wake boats” kick up waves and protest All across Canada, Canadian communities, mostly small, face great difficulties in trying to establish regulations regarding…
CBSC Dings Ezra
Ottawa, September 9, 2013 – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning comments made about “Gypsies” on Sun News Network. During his program The Source, Ezra…
Stand ALL Yr Groundz (UPDATED)
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
George Zimmerman’s wife called police for help
Zimmerman got away with murder of Trayvon Martin and gun has become a little toy for him. Joe Burbank / Pool via AP file “Florida police are investigating a dispute…
Assad of Syria agrees to put chemical weapons’ stockpile under international control
Russia asked Syria to put chemical weapons stockpile under international control and Assad has agreed to that. Will that stop U.S. strike against Syria? “Syria welcomes a Russian proposal to…
Louisiana Governor Jindal Not Buying BP Spin on Gulf Coast Impacts
Have environmental priorities finally trumped extreme right wing politics in the deep south? Louisiana’s Republican governor Bobby Jindal has heard enough from oil giant BP, taking them to task recently…
Stand ALL Yr Groundz (UPDATED)
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
Putin Trips Up Obama
Russia has announced a plan to put Syrian government chemical weapons under the control of international monitors who will then destroy them. The proposal apparently is acceptable to Assad provided…
Bachmann Goes Batshit in Egypt
Michelle Bachmann links Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood with 9/11.
Nothing To See Here. Move Along.
A former parliamentary law clerk can’t see what possible benefit flowed from Nigel Wright’s $90,000 under the table payment to senator Mike Duffy and, accordingly, based on what he can’t…
Will the tax man catch up to the corporate slackers?
Globalization as we have come to know and love it is misnamed. As it advantages corporations while disadvantaging workers and governments, it might more appropriately be called corporatization or some…
I’m Back Online With Windows 8, Sort Of ;-)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks, Like many of you I spend a lot of time on computers, but am not all that savvy in many of the technical aspects.…
Digital Disconnect How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
Robert McChesney, a communications theorist at Illinois, has written previously on the consolidation of American news media, and (more recently, with John Bellamy Foster) the mechanics of global capitalism. Here…
New comment rule
What HuffPo has done has inspired me. Along with my own previously-posted comment rules, here’s a new one: if I see a handle I don’t recognize – and particularly if…