US Tax Evasion & Swiss Banks: Oldest Bank dies
Wegelin bank – tax criminal Swiss financial circles are reeling from the closing of Switzerland’s oldest bank (founded 1741), after it pleaded guilty to assisting wealthy Americans evade US taxes.…
2013
Unless We Act Soon, There’s Not Much Reason To Act At All.
We’re in the battle of our lives and we’re almost as indifferent to it as our adversary, the science of physics. Bill McKibben, writing at tomdispatch.com, says time is not…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Frank Graves’ review of the current state of Canadian politics focuses in on the growing gap between the Cons’ waning interest in listening…
More on Democratic Gaps. . . .
Given the visceral and sometimes racists attacks on the Idle No More movement and its supporters, I think it is important for me to continue to address, in a little…
Spread the word: boycott the NHL for one game.
Our long, recurring nightmare is over … hockey is back! Yes, the National Hockey League and its skating concussion candidates reached a deal Saturday to end the lockout that threatened…
The Investor Is King
If you wondered why the Harper government has gutted Canada’s environmental legislation, Frances Russell provides the answer: The North American Free Trade Agreement was the first of a New World…
Harper Subversion of the Civil Service
That the Harper regime uses a myriad of tactics to exploit, manipulate and deceive the Canadian public through its propaganda, demagoguery, and demonization of those with contrary policy views has…
So the billionaires and millionaires…
…at the NHL and NHLPA have figured out how to the split the billions and millions. And it took these bozos months to come to an agreement. Months of no…
Frankly I Don’t Give A Damn
I’ve abandoned the NHL for the UFC over the past couple of months. No chasing little rubber disks. No cold rinks. Just straight to the punch-ups.
michael moore: we do not "support the troops"
Michael Moore: These young men and women sign up to risk their very lives to protect us — and this is what they get in return: 1. They get sent…
Getting their attention…
Much has been written about the Idle No More movement in recent weeks and I will not attempt to define it here for like the Occupy Movement before it the…
naomi wolf: director kathryn bigelow is our generation’s leni riefenstahl
Naomi Wolf, in The Guardian: Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, two-hour ad for keeping intelligence agents who committed crimes against Guantánamo prisoners out of jail. It makes heroes and…
Idle No More and the Real Terrorists
If Stephen Harper thought his grudging offer to meet with the AFN Chiefs would defuse the Idle No More movement, he couldn't have been more wrong.From Sydney to Cornwall to…
Idle No More Probably Defies Convenient Definition
Idle No More doesn’t speak to a grievance. It doesn’t speak to two or three. What it speaks to is defined solely by how broadly and deeply it resonates both…
Late night
Louis ck does Lincoln. I hadn’t seen this until tonight. Very fun.
Campaign Update: General Overview
Well, now that we’ve entered 2013 to the best of our abilities, I think it’s high time we got the blog rolling again. As promised, we will take a closer…
SATIRE: Stunning Caucasian Female Loves Stephen Harper, Disses #IdleNoMore (Video)
This stunning Caucasian female loves Stephen Harper, disses #IdleNoMore movement and hunger-striking Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence. Please note that this is satire. The writer, director and actor says:…
In Sunday’s Sun: I detest this government
As a political contrasts go, it was stark. It came in the same week, too. In the very same week Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence was continuing a hunger strike, vainly…
TMZ Now on This Blog
TMZ was a blog that turned into a TV show. Well now you can embed TMZ, the TV show, not the blog, on your own blog. That makes way more…