KEN CHAPMAN IS BACK and WILL POST AGAIN on A REGULAR BASIS
Hello neglected readers. This was a very popular blog site at one time. I went into a job based out of Fort McMurray with the oil sands industry that made…
January 2014
KEN CHAPMAN IS BACK and WILL POST AGAIN on A REGULAR BASIS
Hello neglected readers. This was a very popular blog site at one time. I went into a job based out of Fort McMurray with the oil sands industry that made…
Puzzle or Misreading? Stagnation, Austerity and Left Politics | The Bullet No. 920
Puzzle or Misreading? Stagnation, Austerity and Left Politics | The Bullet No. 920. That the many attempts to theorize the crisis of 2008, the deepest crisis since the Depression, have…
Some Good Environmental News For A Change
Let’s hope this is the beginning of a trend. Recommend this Post
Finance’s hold on our everyday life must be broken | Costas Lapavitsas
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/01/finance-hold-everyday-life-broken-capitalism Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Austerity, Capitalism, crisis, finance
Happy New Year
Happy New Years greetings to Progressives all across Canada!!
2013 Ideas in Review
Facebook bombarded me with everyone’s highlights of 2013 this morning, and I was struck with the urge people have to track the value of time spent by listing stuff they…
2014: Year in Preview
We don’t know what will make headlines in 2014. After all, most political predictions are about as accurate as a Forum poll. So I won’t try to guess how 2014…
My persons of 2013
If Time Magazine can choose a person of the year, I can choose two: a man and a woman. The woman, of course, is Malala Yousafzai, the courageous young Pakistani…
Hedges Calls for War on Speculators
Chris Hedges taps into a vein of widespread anger to call for the overthrow of America’s malignant speculators. Money, as Karl Marx lamented, plays the largest part in determining the…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Polly Toynbee discusses how the public shares in the responsibility for a political class oriented toward easily-discarded talking points rather than honest discussion:…
Collingwood: 2114
I had one of those odd dreams recently; a crazy mix of future and past, where rotary dial phones and smart phones co-existed, where past and future intersected. A retro-future…
The Sun in 2014!
The sun is shining on the snow on this New Year’s morning 2014. Best wishes to you all. If you missed this, here’s the blog with our holiday news.
Revolt Down On The Farm
Chris Hedges has a suggestion for anyone searching for a New Year’s resolution: overthrow the speculators. His targets are the big banks, whose reach is global and who brought the…
Smart-Shifting Road Costs: Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Imagine your municipal property tax bill being reduced by almost 25%. Impossible? Not if we shift one of our biggest municipal costs off of the backs of taxpayers, and pass…
Did We Get It All Wrong?
An Australian-led team of researchers reports that we’ve underestimated the heating effect of carbon dioxide emissions which suggests we’re heading for a 4C future. Report authors Steven Sherwood, Sandrine Bony…
Some political thoughts on 2014
You don’t need a crystal ball to guess, That 2014’s gonna be a political mess. Those city, province, federal hopefuls, Will make promises by the bucketfuls. Years of campaigns don’t…