Jonathon Chait On Keystone XL
I’ve said it before, environmentalists aren’t focused on Obama regulations re existing power plants because their role in that fight is largely over. They did their bit. They won. Chait…
2014
The Con Regime and the Whale Songs of Resistance
When I was a boy I sometimes used to dream about running away to sea. So the sight of that old sugar boat today, made me dream for a moment…
Humpbacks losing ‘threatened’ status amid pipeline concerns
This is Earth Day? Inspired by this headline. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/humpback-whale-losing-threatened-status-amid-northern-gateway-concerns-1.2617633
Does BC’s Neglect of Poverty Constitute a Eugenics Plan?
There has been a great deal of talk in recent decades about the cycle of poverty, how it’s a vicious circle that children have difficulty getting out of. Human chromosomes…
Leaflet targeting Jews in Donetsk ‘a political hoax’: anti-Semitism as a propaganda tool
Below left: Donetsk synagogue / Below right: Chief Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski holding anti-Semitic leaflet Anti-Semitism has a long and ugly history in Ukraine. During the current conflict between the interim…
Drop-kicking HIV/AIDS stigma to the curb
“This December I found a mass the size of a cantaloupe in my lung…I used social media to express my feelings without having to burden my family and friends. I’d…
Whale of a tale
Now, it could be that the Harper government’s move to take humpback whales off the endangered species list is just a routine change which echoes similar downgrades by environmental organizations…
Building a replacement school in Greater Highlands?
TweetWhen was the last time we talked about opening a new school in the urban core, rather than closing one down? Packed into the gym of the hundred year-old Highlands…
Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out
It seems every other election year, there are murmurs of Quebec’s egomaniacal need to separate from the rest of Canada. And this new election is bringing this idea whole heartedly…
Earth Day, corporatism, fascism and the saving of our future and our home
The only thing worse than capitalism is corporatism: which we have now, and which is a kind of neo-feudal oligarchy in which business and the state are merged – which,…
The Strangelove effect – or how we are hoodwinked into accepting a new world war
The Strangelove effect – or how we are hoodwinked into accepting a new world war. I almost never re-publish articles on my blog that have been written by other people,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Gifted cats.
Alistair MacLoed Is Dead: Far from No Great Mischief
The news this weekend was that Alistair MacLeod, short story writer and novelist, is dead at 77. As it happened, his only novel No Great Mischief was the focus of…
Please Share: 2.7 Million are united to stop the secrecy around the TPP
Our message to #TPP negotiators is making huge waves in Washington. Over 2.7 million people joined our growing chorus to Stop the Secrecy around the TPP. Last night, we projected…
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Merle Tingley 1958 book of cartoons is online
With help of espresso, and the driving drums of Kate, the last few pages have been scanned. The images have had only quick cleanup treatments, but now all 96 pages…
Breaking: $3 Million Jury Verdict in Texas Fracking Nuisance Case
A jury in Dallas, TX today awarded $2.925 million to plaintiffs Bob and Lisa Parr, who sued Barnett shale fracking company Aruba Petroleum Inc. for intentionally causing a nuisance on…
Earth Day Greenwash: API Front Group Iowa Energy Forum Sponsors Pro-Keystone XL Event
The political carnival that is the prelude to the Iowa caucuses has started over a year and a half early. At the center of it this time around: a game…
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
Bertrand Russell