A Glitch In The Machine
Watch the following, and you will understand. The Government™ has made an ad about the global response to the pandemic, and it's surprisingly honest and informative ?? ? We're on…
April 2020
April 30: Yes. It’s worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/30/trump-executive-order-meat-processing-workers-coronavirus________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/brazil-manaus-coronavirus-mass-graves_________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/30/trump-claims-china-will-do-anything-to-stop-his-re-election-as-coronavirus-row-escalates Find people to blame and hate. That was Hitler’s strategy behind his holocaust of Jews. That is Trump’s strategy in dealing with Latin Americans and, almost certainly, with…
Far-Right Organizing in Vancouver Lockdown Protests with Police Complicity
A hotspot for anti-lockdown protests has been Vancouver. Our friend @nolifeneet has been tirelessly tracking and reporting on them on Twitter, and was kind enough to provide a guest article,…
The Conservative Dilemma… Continued in More Tweets
Life can be a crazy thing folks, if 2020 has taught us anything so far surely that must be one of the lessons. Just when you think some things couldn’t…
Apology by Kristin Raworth
Kristin Rayworth is a woman who works for the Alberta government and who used to follow me on Twitter. About two years ago, Rayworth publicly tweeted at me that she…
Will We Repeat the Mistakes of 1918?
One of the costliest lessons to emerge from the Spanish Flu of 1918 is that pandemics often come in waves over a span of 12 to 18 months and the…
Can Eco-Socialism Save the World?
In her latest book, Naomi Klein observes that any serious reaction to the climate threat “involves recovering an art that has been relentlessly vilified during these decades of market fundamentalism:…
The Case Against Bailouts
The Guardian’s George Monbiot doesn’t support government handout/bailouts to corporations, especially airlines and fossil energy giants. No surprise there. That said, he makes a good case. Before I get into…
Rubbing us the wrong way
…Rob Anders is still doing so. I am told this is legit. Any takers?
Cutting through the crap, with Matt Taibbi
Along with John Pilger, Abby Martin, & the handful of honest journalists left standing, I love Matt Tabbi. Here he sums up what’s wrong with politics & the media, in…
My latest: oppositional
Being in Opposition is never fun. Being in Opposition during a pandemic is even worse. Power and no power: in one job, you get to answer questions, and everyone listens…
The end of Bernie, the beginning of the Revolution
I was and am a supporter or Bernie Sanders, like Ron Paul before him, because he truly represents the interests of constitutional democracy, and the rule of the people, by…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maxwell Smith, Ross Upshur and James Downar warn us against mistaking a temporarily flattened curve for a final victory over the spread…
Zen And The Art Of Gorilla-Watching
Try it sometime. You might like it. Recommend this Post
Video Calls: Communication In A Hyper-Connected & Deeply Dissociated Society
Thoughtful commentators to the Smithsonian and BBC recently “recommended limiting video calls to only those that are necessary. Petriglieri adds that positioning the video screen to your side may make…
Too much sadness
Abbigail Cowbrough, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, playing the bagpipes in honor of the victims of the Nova Scotia massacre, just a few days ago on HMCS Fredericton. She herself was…
Disaster Capitalism at Work in Manitoba
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister at the 2017 Canada Summer Games. Photo from Flickr. One misstep from disaster While many will escape the worst health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic currently…
#TBT
#TBT: me and Rockin’ Al, upon my call to the bar in 1989. (The legal bar. Not the other kind.)
Covid Journal, April 30, 2020
Change is coming. Will anxious opponents to lockdown and house arrest push out sooner than the politicians want us to or will we actually be able to push for real,…
We Need Metrics
I’ve been impressed by Doug Ford’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. But Martin Regg Cohn has me rethinking my evaluation. Ford’s Achilles Heel — like the Mighty Moron’s south of…