Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew MacLeod writes about the importance of patience in the face of astroturfed demands to put more workers’ lives at risk in…
2020
Plague Update: Masks and Memes
Protests continued: Over 2,000 people attended an event formed by San Franciscans called themselves 'THE ANTI-MASK LEAGUE,' denouncing the mandatory masking ordinance The gathering was of "public spirited citizens, skeptical…
Tek Manhas Efforts To Resume Logging In the Municipal Forest-What Short sighted Nonsense
Originally published by https://www.sixmountains.ca North Cowichan council on Wednesday rejected a dubious motion by councillor Tek Manhas that would have resumed logging in the Municipal Forest Reserve despite the fact…
Digital Dystopia & The Killing of Cash – and – Advice For Hard Times
Here is another aspect of the unfolding fascist power grab we are seeing globally in 2020 – along with sweeping powers for governments, suspension of all constitutional rights and freedoms,…
Covid Journal, April 19, 2020
Food security rises to the top of the issues exposed by Covid. This time it’s a pork producing plant in South Dakota.
11 things you should know about u.s. presidential elections
Here are some facts about US elections. There are mountains of evidence to support each of these. If you have doubts, do some homework. This is merely a summary of…
No Question: We Have Returned To The Dark Ages
Witch burning, anyone? Suspicion equals proof. Indefinite detention on suspicion alone. Maybe we should break out the rack, the Inquisition, and a little Hieronymus Bosch, and really get this…
Build That Wall!
It is our only hope of keeping out citizens of the Benighted States of America such as these: Recommend this Post
Getting People To Do Difficult Things
The last two months have provided a crash course in how — and how not — to communicate with the public. Robin Sears writes: With the exception of powerful communicators…
“Are we there yet?”
That man-child in the American White House reminds me of taking the kids on a road trip. How soon they would tire of their prison in the back seat of…
Virtual Idiot?
Unless an agreement is reached before Monday, the House of Commons will resume business as usual with all 338 MPs along with their staff, clerks, interpreters, security and cleaners, returning…
“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
Dr. Connie Harris Did you hear the story about the middle-aged ex-hippy gal from Vancouver Island who went swimming in the surf in Melaque, Mexico, decided it would be fun…
Strange bedfellows: UCP and Tzeporah Berman both praise Justin Trudeau’s oilpatch bailout!
Tzeporah Berman, the high-profile Vancouver environmentalist, on Friday lauded the oil-sector provisions of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s COVID-19 bailout package as a sensible way to begin winding down the Canadian…
No, Theresa Tam did not mislead the Canadian Public.
Share this: Far right, anti-science fanatics have been claiming that Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, has been lying to the public on a few key issues surround Covid…
Laugh and the world laughs with you
Joe Biden could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot Donald Trump and I would still vote for him — doug wiser (@MyBigRedTruck) April 18, 2020 If you…
Sparky returns to save the world
Born in the pages of The Charlatan in the Summer of 1982. Champion of existentialism and other stuff. BF to Scamper, also a rat. He’s back, he’s bold, he’s bright.…
If He Wasn’t So Stupid, He Might Be Demonic.
Donald Trump is not demonic. He’s stupid. He’s also ignorant, psychopathic, sadistic, utterly incapable of telling the truth, and in all things unhinged but he’s just too damned dumb to…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amadeus Narbutt discusses the uncertain effect of the coronavirus on the global balance of power. And Adam Tooze notes that the U.S.’ damaging…
Something New from Magpie Brûlé
We’ve all been living in strange times over these past weeks as we’ve been going through Covid-19. We’ve all been trying to deal with the new constraints on our lives,…
The Bridge of Montaigne; and The Roots of Our 21st Century Crisis
What a delightful bridge Montaigne has been, and is: not only between the present modern world and the Renaissance, which is stupendous treasure enough, but also, in another short span,…