Bird’s eye view of Texas fracking causes rumble
photo: Amy Youngs – click to enlarge An aerial photo taken on August 3rd of fracking operations in Texas has caused a rumble online, drawing 20,000 views on the photo…
2013
The Hidden Strength Of Red Toryism, Part Two
At this time, just over halfway through Stephen Harper’s first term as a majority government, it’s worth finding out if traditional Canadian conservatism, more popularly known as Red Toryism, is…
Rafe: Gordon Wilson finds religion on LNG…for $12,500 a month
A screen capture from Gordon Wilson’s youtube endorsement of Christy Clark Some years ago I got into hot water for calling a federal cabinet minister of the female persuasion a…
The Tyee Outs Canada’s Corporate Media Cartel
Perhaps the biggest single threat to democracy in Canada is the advent of our corporate media cartel where concentration of ownership and media-cross ownership in the hands of a few…
A thing of beauty
Watch this expert driver back a 50′ trailer into a space that I might have trouble backing into with my car:
The Hidden Strength Of Red Toryism, Part One
It’s common these days to hear the claim that Red Toryism is dead in Canadian politics. Many observers believe that the demise of the older version of Canadian conservatism, popularized…
Ethical Oil’s Troubled Relaunch Runs Afoul Of Fatboy Slim
Slowly, slowly, after many months of inactivity, tar-sands promoting lobbying thingy EthicalOil.org has been trying to reboot. Amanda Achtman has become their media contact, and they’ve attempted a few (guest)…
MSNBC "Leans Forward" Into Running "Native Ads" Promoting Fracking
Three years into its “Lean Forward” re-branding campaign, MSNBC has given new meaning to the catchphrase, leaning forward into running branded content promoting hydraulic fracturing (“fracking). Looking to beef up…
Nov. 4: Cheap and sloppy Monday…
There really is a pattern to the Irving press. Monday is always something thrown together in a few minutes with almost no news about anything, anywhere, and no news ever…
Stories of Love and Geography: One about Linnaeus
Another one of the photos behind Desire Lines: Stories of Love and Desire. This is Sara Elisabeth Morea at the time that she married Carl Linnaeus. Not such a pretty…
Lockheed’s New Baby
Although it’s been gone for 15-years, there still has never been anything like it. The SR-71 Blackbird was unbeatable for speed, altitude, range – just about everything. If you were…
Protestors stage mock fracking on premier’s lawn
photo courtesy of Maryam Adrangi’s facebook page VANCOUVER – Opponents of the British Columbia government’s liquefied natural gas plans set up a three-metre mock fracking rig on the premier’s front…
If we had ranked ballot, Reform party wouldn’t rule the country
Ranked ballot voting is a modest kind of electoral reform that accomplishes a lot. It changes the ballot letting voters rank candidates by number instead of marking one with an…
How science is telling us all to revolt
In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems researcher named Brad Werner made his way through the throng of 24,000 earth and space scientists at the Fall Meeting of the American…
Rather Appropriate, Don’t You Think?
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Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, November 4, 2013
Your news links for today: Bell data collection part of ‘disturbing trend’ (CBC) Bell TV ‘reprehensible’ in violating Nova Scotia man’s privacy, judge says (The Star) Federal Court chastises Bell…
Does everyone really hate environmentalists and feminists, and if so, what can we do about it?
There are various articles I’ve been wishing to write commentary about, but never had time to. One of these is an article at Salon.com about a study on people’s attitudes…
On false promises
Last week, I linked to this story on the cost of prescription drugs under CETA. But let’s follow up on another aspect of the giveaway to big pharma which might…
Being Cyber-Stalked is Damned Annoying
Cyber-stalking is becoming an inescapable part of life for pretty much anybody who uses an electronic device these days from a smart phone to a computer surfing the internet. Case…