No GOTV, no ID = no big V
This writer started hearing about CPC problems with voter ID and GOTV efforts well before voting day. In a tight race, there is simply no excuse for that. Akin, naturally,…
October 2019
Stinking Albatross
Despite lots of hype, their first album flopped. Not sure the second one is going to sell any better, either.
Be Mundane this Halloween
こども専用写真スタジオのカメラアシスタント #地味ハロウィン #DPZ pic.twitter.com/AI1WoPOYiq — デイリーポータルZ (@dailyportalz) October 27, 2019 Today is halloween and, if you’re like many others, you still need to create a costume. Thankfully there’s a Japanese…
Behind Chile’s political crisis
More than one million people marched in Santiago on October 26 to protest the Government’s security response to Chile’s current political crisis and to demand structural economic reforms to reduce…
California fires
The LA Times fire coverage is free today. Very scary fires all over the state. Here are some stunning tweets from the California fires: Here’s every fire burning in Southern…
Peter MacKay. Let the Feeding Frenzy Begin.
Having sold out the Progressive Conservatives to Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay is looking to climb over Andrew Scheer’s moribund corpse to capture the Tory throne. And he has the gall…
Canadian Taxpayers Federation commentary on nurse salaries isn’t research so much as an echo chamber
Has anyone noticed how the propaganda produced by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation seems to be growing more inept of late? Misleading arguments and anti-union bias have long characterized many of…
Conflicts-The Common Ground With the Cowichan Citizen and NC Mayor Al Siebring
The (Black Press) Cowichan Citizen has just registered a new low by endorsing Mayor Siebring’s specious effort to overturn the majority 5-2 vote of North Cowichan Council to reject the…
Proud
I’ll always be proud to work with those who oppose racism and anti-Semitism and homophobia and misogyny and Islamophobia. Always. I’ll always be proud to help those who have a…
Women and the racist Right
Important and lengthy CNN report, here.
Google’s secret plan to privatize everything – and spy on you
This Globe report, by Josh O’Kane and Tim Cardoso, is just extraordinary. In essence, the US-based multinational wants to privatize cities and turn them into profit centres. Everything. Along with…
Global Economic Volatility and Socio-Political Reactions
Trade and currency wars, financial volatility and economic turbulence are now the most important features of the world economy. The elements of a new international financial crisis are in place.…
A Golden Age for Despots and Thugs
Some, such as the king of Thailand, are more blatant than others such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban, but despotism is staging a comeback worldwide. From Egypt’s el-Sisi, Turkey’s Recep Erdogan,…
Breach of trust, not contract: Why politicians are allowed to lie
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson shakes hands with Justin Trudeau. Photo from the official photostream of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Flickr). “How can you tell when a…
A Murder of Convenience?
It’s the stuff of conspiracy theories. Did perverted multi-millionaire, Jeffrey Epstein, really commit suicide in his jail cell or was he murdered? Celebrity pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, says the autopsy…
Good News for The Donald
It’s obvious now that Donald Trump is averse to reading. He may be the first functional illiterate to receive a degree from Wharton. There’s a story there that we still…
Roubini – When the Next Crash Comes
Economist Nouriel Roubini skyrocketed to fame as the first to foretell the crash of 2007/2008 (a claim that overlooks the even earlier warnings from Stiglitz and Krugman). In 2011 Roubini…
And Nobody Listened
It’s Kurt Vonnegut. The year is 1988. Vonnegut wrote a letter to the citizens of Earth in 2088. He wrote of future perils that, in some ways, have already come…
Facebook Is Not Our Friend
I wrote a blog entry over four years ago about Facebook tolerating hate groups. I won’t repeat the post here, other than to say it became apparent after I lodged…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Christopher Ingraham reports on the reality that extremely wealthy Americans are now paying lower systemic tax rates than workers. And Andrea Germanos writes…