Fix for Windows XP not updating on Windows Update
I recently reinstalled Windows XP SP2 on a Dell Vostro laptop, and Windows Update wouldn’t work. I knew malware wasn’t the cause, it’s a bug in Microsoft’s Windows Update and…
January 2014
The Rise of Finance [1/4] – YouTube
http://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLhiXBRrj94Pclgi3CCOg3_1j5jAV0yEik&v=sMmNVA-90NE&feature=plpp John Peters on unions, pensions and the rise of finance. Filed under: Uncategorized
January 2014 Bits and Bites
This past Friday the "Toronto Star" published a story about the discovery of Klan documents dating to the 1920s that were found in an old barn. The journalist who wrote…
Band of the Month: The Nursery
Happy New Year! This months band is The Nursery. Riddled with unforgettable guitar and synth driven hooks, in an impeccably well organized fusion of soulful, oddball pop-rock and dreamy folk,…
2014 The year of spending, saving or paying down debt?
Polling indicates that the number one issue for Canadians is paying down debt, (STORY HERE). While it was the choice of only 16% of respondents, if you add in the…
2014 The year of spending, saving or paying down debt?
Polling indicates that the number one issue for Canadians is paying down debt, (STORY HERE). While it was the choice of only 16% of respondents, if you add in the…
2014 The year of spending, saving or paying down debt?
Polling indicates that the number one issue for Canadians is paying down debt, (STORY HERE). While it was the choice of only 16% of respondents, if you add in the…
Minister Bhullar’s Revelation: 741 Children Die in Government Care
Last week Human Services Minister Manmeet Bhullar made a shocking announcement—741 children died in government foster homes or other forms of government care since 1999. This is 13 times higher…
Some Fights You Can Never Give Up
Climate change threatens to undermine our very way of life. Doing anything effective about climate change also threatens to undermine our very way of life. After mulling this over for…
Europe’s left has seen how capitalism can bite back | Leo Panitch
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/12/europe-left-capitalism-social-democrats-reforms Filed under: Europe Tagged: Capitalism, Socialism, the Left
The Music of the Templars
For the past 25 years, I have had a mysterious page in Latin, held in a cheap picture frame, and stored in a closet for many years. It’s a two-sided…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that to end your weekend. – Paul Luke comments on the general stratification of workers into three groups: professionals facing extended hours and stress at a single job,…
Disney abandons educational tour promoting fracking to kids
Ohio TV station NBC 4 is reporting that Radio Disney has decided to back out of a controversial partnership promoting fracking to elementary schoolers, labelled “Rocking in Ohio”. Disney’s participation…
We get letters: “I am an economist”
Oh, and Warren should join the Taliban. Just proof that fucking idiots are not exclusively on the Right: From: daniel stevelman danecoman@yahoo.ca Date: January 12, 2014 at 2:26:07 PM EST…
Disney promotes fracking to elementary schoolers
Read this Jan 8 story from Aljazeera America on Radio Disney’s controverisal participation in an educational tour of Ohio, promoting fracking to kids. An educational program funded by Ohio’s oil…
On consensus positions
I won’t break down in detail the bevy of reviews of the current position of Tom Mulcair and the federal NDP – including pieces by Bruce Stewart, John Ibbitson and…
An Unspeakably Sad Picture
But this photo of materials tossed in a dumpster upon the closure of the Fisheries and Oceans Canada library in Mont-Joli, Que. also speaks volumes about the Harper contempt for…
Oklahoma Law’n Order – Harper Style
Two activists go to the headquarters of Oklahoma Tar Sander, Devon Oil, unfurl a couple of protest banners and are promptly nailed by the cops and charged with ‘terrorism hoax’…
Ending homeless deaths in Canada
The following statement was published by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. We follow the statement with a powerful poem by Don Weitz. A homeless man named Richard Ian Kenyon was…
Climate scientists demand radical change
“Today, after two decades of bluff and lies, the remaining 2°C budget demands revolutionary change to the political and economic hegemony.” That was in a blog posting last year by…