Mark Steyn Hires A Spy
As my readers may know, conservative political commentator Mark Steyn is in some legal trouble, having gotten himself sued by climate scientist Mike Mann. While we should be careful to…
2014
Stephen Harper and the Madness of the Con Regime
In his fragile mental state it must have seemed like a natural transition. The beast within him must have howled.For three days he'd play Mother Theresa or Mother Harper at…
Media Talk is Dead, Long Live Media Talk
The Guardian's Media Talk is the king of media podcasts. And it is dead. As I wrote on The Guardian site in 2010: I love your podcast. It is like…
Financialization and the Collapse of European Social Democracy – Costas Lapavitsas on Reality Asserts Itself 7/8
Financialization and the Collapse of European Social Democracy – Costas Lapavitsas on Reality Asserts Itself 7/8. Filed under: Europe, Social Democracy Tagged: Europe, financialization, social democracy
A blast from the past: Oh, those Tories and their stories!
A postal worker searches for David Climenhaga’s lost letter from the minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ray Speaker. Nope. That’s not it … Nothing’s turned up just yet. Below:…
Conservative Million Jobs Plan ads removed from Google Ads
I had been seeing Ontario Conservative’s Million Jobs Plan adds on websites for weeks. Some times I would even click on them knowing it would mean money would be transferred…
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Big Wreck – Albatross
In Blogs We Trust: Making Money from a Macro-Blog in the Age of Social Media
Google just gave me an other hundred bucks for all the ads on my blog (hosted by Google but written by me). I have to admit I prefer microblogging on…
The real story in the European elections wasn’t the rise of ‘populists and extremists’, but the return of the left-right divide
Originally posted on Greek Left Review: The European Parliament elections saw a number of smaller parties with broadly Eurosceptic or anti-establishment platforms do well across Europe. Jonathan White writes that…
Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself | David Graeber | Comment is free | The Guardian
Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself | David Graeber | Comment is free | The Guardian. Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York’s Times Square.…
Good news: China’s Fracking to reduce its use of Coal
Early China coal mine When it comes to global warming, coal is the biggest culprit in the warming of the earth. China is taking giant strides to reduce its need…
A Quebec man convicted of manslaughter of his daughter gets 60 days in jail.
A Quebec man convicted of manslaughter of his daughter gets 60 days in jail. You’ve read it right and on top of this ‘gentle’ sentence, the man is to serve…
Life Saving Regulations Stalled In Bureaucratic Abyss
There is an unspoken rule in American politics: when you have bad news to deliver, do it on a Friday afternoon. This helps to ensure that fewer people will see…
Harper, bring back my Ecuadorian burger dressers
Five years ago, I thought, my goodness, there must be a large number of Mexicans immigrating into Canada. I was hearing and seeing Spanish speaking people working all over Mississauga…
Groups Say CO Governor Hickenlooper Evading Public Input on Fracking Policy
Eleven grassroots citizens groups are demanding that Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper allow them access to meetings he is holding about a proposed special legislative session to address fracking. Gov. Hickenlooper…
Everything Is So Simple
That is, if you have a fundamentalist cast of mind like Pastor Matthew Hagee, who says this whole climate change thing is ordained by God, and to pay no attention…