Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Geoff Dembicki interviews Leah Gazan about the need to put people over corporate profits in our political system. – Dale Eisler writes about…
July 2019
A house divided or a leaderless nation?
There was an excellent discussion in Progressive Bloggers the other day by the gentleman who writes under the nom de plume of The Mound of Sound. A very small quibble…
“We are profoundly ignorant about what is going on”
I question why we allow fracking while there are significant knowledge gaps about safety. Authorities will not approve anyone to command flight controls of a loaded aircraft without certainty that…
Your Art, My Art
The New York Times today came out with a list of “the 25 works of art made after 1970 that define the contemporary age, by anyone, anywhere.” What struck me…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
The Decarie Report 2019-07-16 23:02:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/july-on-course-to-be-hottest-month-ever-say-climate-scientists Nah. It ain’t happenin’._________________________________________________________________
This Is What John Lewis Speaks So Feelingly Against
John Lewis spoke from the heart about this: And John Conway 111, husband of chief Trump defender Kelly Ann Conway, has this to say about her boss: Naivete, resentment and…
JJuly 16COMPUTER PROBLEMS…..
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-ambassador-us-iran-deal-1.5211399 This is pure greed to satisfy American oil billionaires. It’s also wildly illegal. And it’s bloody dangerous for all of us. But it’s popular among the Evangelical Christians –…
From The Heart
In light of the rampant racism that seems to be engulfing Western nations, John Lewis utters words we all need to hear. I know racism when I see it. I…
Sears and St. Germaine’s sentencing delayed yet again
Here we are with yet another chapter in what seems like the never-ending saga of the James Sears/LeRoy St. Germaine sentencing hearing. Those of you who have stuck with me…
Another Chilly Day.
The Tories might like to pretend global warming isn’t happening. Tell that to the folks in Nunavit. Not just Nunavit but Alert, Nunavit, the northernmost settlement in Canada. Today Nunavit…
Let’s Talk About Social Cohesion
It’s what happens when political partisans place party ahead of the public. That’s our world today. We live in a deeply fractured society by no means on the scale of…
The Royals Who Wrote
Recently I’ve been in the process of de-cluttering my bookshelves of some of the hundreds of magazines I’ve bought overthe last few years. After keeping a few stacks of the…
Andrew Scheer’s Big Ford Corruption Problem
I don't like to brag, but even before he became Premier I predicted that Doug Ford would lead his government into the swamp of corruption.There was just something about him…
Save the Chateau? Buy it
Several lifetimes ago, when this writer was a Chief of Staff in Jean Chretien’s government – and when the Reform Party was a political force to be reckoned with –…
Liberals use ‘human rights’ to push coup in Venezuela
Photo by Joseph Morris The modern way to overthrow a government the capitalist world doesn’t like is by claiming to do it in the name of supporting ‘human rights’. This…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Alastair Campbell discusses how the latest group of right-wing demagogues has progressed from being post-truth to being post-shame. – IMFBlog examines how…
He’s No Populist. He’s A Racist.
For nearly three years, the conventional wisdom has been that Donald Trump is a populist. His proclamations in the last three days prove that he’s no such thing. Paul Krugman…
When voters can care less.
When we talk about the Ontario voters who now regret their urge to vote for the Ford conservatives last year, we are hardly talking about all. Many of these same…