How the Anti-Carbon Tax Cons Were Made To Look Like Idiots
Some in our bought media have called them The Resistance, as if what they are doing is brave even heroic.When they are just a grubby gang of Con climate change…
April 2019
On Connectivism and Scale
Image: Sui Fai John Mak – https://suifaijohnmak.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/bubblus_pln_ple_rev1.png Martin Weller makes some excellent points in his recent post on connectivism and scale, and they merit a short response. Weller is writing…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bob Hepburn discusses how Doug Ford has turned a populist campaign into government solely for the benefit of the privileged few. And Paul…
The Unkindest Cut Of All
Devolution. Debasement. Depraved Indifference. Apply whatever term you like, but the cuts coming furiously from the Ford government in Ontario surely bespeak a state that no ruling body, and by…
A Confirmed Knuckle-Dragger
Doug Ford announced this week that his government would no longer cover the cost of health insurance for Ontarians who travel abroad. The coverage, as of now, is pretty flimsy.…
Trudeau Must Shift From Climate Delayer to Climate Champion
The following first appeared in print and online in The Sudbury Star on Saturday, April 20 2019 (see: “May: Trudeau must shift from climate delayer to champion“). Please allow me…
Ford finds friends.
Politicians always claim that they represent the people. Doug Ford ran a successful campaign in Ontario last year with the slogan: Doug Ford – For the People. But the truth…
Justin Trudeau: it’s not a lie if you believe it
Read these two paragraphs. https://t.co/u5nuu83O1h #cdnpoli #lpc #cpc #ndp #ThanksForYourDonation pic.twitter.com/GjLlby9S9h — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 26, 2019
Decolonization-Decoloniality-Marxism (repost)
I am not a marxist-leninist, nor a marxist-leninist-maoist, nor a trotskyist. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Decolonization-Decoloniality-Marxism
Une organisation criminelle créée de toutes pièces par la police (repost)
Des trafiquants pensaient bien avoir mis au point un plan infaillible pour importer illégalement, et à grande échelle, du tabac au Québec, en 2015 et 2016. Read the rest of…
Outsourcing Exploitation to Europe’s Periphery (repost)
Yes, the main sources of our study were interviews with workers. As for the difficulty of approaching people, it is very contextual. For instance, more militant or organized workers are…
CIA Docs Shows UK, France and West Germany Wanted to Bring “Operation Condor” To Europe (repost)
SANTIAGO, CHILE — A recently declassified CIA document has revealed that members of the intelligence agencies of France, the United Kingdom and West Germany discussed how to establish “an anti-subversive…
Apologies for the massive monopolization of posts on the site.
Hi folks: Iv’e been away and absorbed with personal matters the past 2-3 days and did not notice until I checked my email now (and saw the last 2-3 pages…
When Jason Kenney kills Alberta’s carbon tax and emissions cap, What Will Justin Do?
When it comes to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finds himself on the proverbial horns of a dilemma. There are serious political consequences for his…
The Bill for Thawing Permafrost? Try 70 Trillion Dollars (USD)
This is one we’re not going to be able to duck. We can’t kick this can down the road. It’s already underway, one of the knock-on effects of existing global…
April 25:
Great news from our freedom and democracy loving allies in Saudi Arabia. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/saudi-execution-prisoners-un-amnesty-human-rights-1.5109158________________________________________________________________ Climate change is real. It is happening. Virtually all scientists who deal with this have warned us.…
Tomorrow in courtroom 504: the real Nazis learn their fate
MEDIA AVAILABILITY 10:00 AM, Friday April 26, 2019 Toronto – Standing Against Misogyny and Prejudice (STAMP) will respond to the sentencing of hatemongers James Sears and LeRoy St. Germaine, which…
Andrew Scheer and the Big Oil Conspiracy
I always knew that there were dark forces working to make Andrew Scheer Prime Minister, and take this country to a very bad place.But now we know it's a sinister…
Ford Says Ontario Has Done Enough.
At least there’s something Doug Ford can thank his Liberal predecessor for – cutting Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions. He’s positively boastful about that, to the point where he’s shining an…