Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Light cat naps.
2020
COVID-19 COVIDerup In USA
This is a WTF kind of story. How did corruption get this bad in the USA? Emails and interviews show that after the weeks of C.D.C. rejections, researchers in Seattle…
Jake Tapper slaps me around like a circus monkey
https://t.co/PS6V2ZqLMH https://t.co/gg7WPvwp4K — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 11, 2020
March 10: It doesn’t get better.
Despite Trump’s assurances that coronavirus is no big deal, all of Italy has been shut down by it. And NOBODY has even a rough count of how many Americans have…
Connecting Kids With Grandparents – Even Long Distance!
With all the online talk about the Corona Virus, I thought I would be different and blog today about something positive (and it’s also a timely consideration if you or…
Lockdown: Fascism 1, Sanity 0
China and Italy, both with authoritarian governments, are the first to put their countries under lockdown. The Davos oligarchs think that’s wonderful, of course. Divide & conquer, sow fear &…
US 2020 Election: One Choice Only – The Oligarchy
Chris Hedges states there is no choice in the 2020 US election if it is a choice between Trump and Biden: both are a vote for the consolidation of the…
Ended with a Silly Whimper
It’s amazing to think how much things can change in a year. It’s been just 12 months since Ottawa was completely caught up in the SNC-PMO Scandal, the words of…
Global Financial Asset Deflation: Prelude to Next ‘Great Recession’?
Traders and floor officials at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, March 9. The Dow closed down by 2,000 points for the first time ever. Yesterday morning, on March…
The Baby Boosters
According to the Worldometer (the world population clock), at 12:22 p.m. today the planet’s population of Homo sapiens was 7,769,974,138 with a net gain (births over deaths) of 114,862 so…
Globalization: Killed By Coronavirus?
Globalization was already a dying ideology and socio-economic-political order, program, or pattern, by 1999, twenty years ago. The defeat of the MAI and the Seattle World Trade Talks made that…
Report forecasts future of Alberta’s oilsands as more production, fewer jobs, and less spending
Thanks to technological advances and modular facilities, leading oilsands companies are increasing bitumen production while cutting the numbers of people they employ and spending less money, says a new Corporate…
When Is Discrimination Not Discrimination?
Answer: When it occurs in Quebec. Question #2: Where is teaching tolerance, respect and understanding considered contrary to the public good? Answer: Quebec It would seem that in La Belle…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nick Falvo points out the massive cost savings that come from investing in Housing First programming. And Keith Gerein writes that if…
The Factor Beyond Our Control
As the World reacts to Covid-19 and grapples with how to best protect people, we’re seeing a lot of examples of things that should be done. Here at home we’ve…
This Company Pays Everyone 70k and it’s Thriving
A few years ago the CEO of Gravity Payments, Dan Price, decided to change the pay structure at his company to ensure a better and happier workplace. He decided to…
It’s Insanity
You might think that Donald Trump’s denial of reality in the face of the coronavirus is something new. But Paul Krugman writes that denial in the face of a crisis…
My latest: washing your hands is smart politics
A press conference. In the Spring of 2003, the coronavirus variant called SARS was raging, killing many Canadians, making them sick. So Ontario’s health minister, Tony Clement, held a press…
Bigotry is blooming early in Quebec.
It seems to come each year with the spring flowers. Bigotry is the passion of Quebec nationalists. They care less that people recognize them for what they are: small-minded, intolerant,…
NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli
Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute – Hampton Hall The Return of History? Newfoundland and Labrador after the Oil Boom and the…