Dec. 27: Halleluja for the irving press!
Well, the local and world news were the usual, brainless trash. And the commentary from The Fraser Institute was disgusting even by the standards of The Fraser Institute. (The propaganda…
Graeme Decarie
Dec. 23: Just a short blog before Xmas….
…because I’m not likely to have time for one on Christmas day. This began with my reading of Saturday’s paper. Ghastly at the best of times, this edition isn’t even…
Dec. 22: The Shame of being Canadian.
So – Canada has wimped out on the UN vote to condemn the US for designating Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Why do you think Canada backed out on…
Dec. 20: On the Brink…
One of the ways journalists create fake news is by using prejudicial language in reporting it. There was the case of western news media referring to a North Korean soldier…
Dec. 13: We need big changes ( that aren’t happening)
Dear voters, Voting Liberals or Conservative is not going to change anything for the better. Both of those parties, for example, are the ones who approved laws that made it…
Dec. 11: Who would have thought it possible?
This past weekend, the irving press of New Brunswick dropped even lower into its gutter. The front page headline was pure sensationalism. “We never thought it would come to this.”…
Dec. 8: The danger gets worse….
Think about this one. Think hard. Think very hard. http://theantimedia.org/daniel-ellsberg-pentagon-nuclear-war/ This is a pretty good source. Ellsberg was well-placed to know what he’s talking about. So you can be sure…
Dec. 6: An Insanely Dangerous Day
The December 5 edition of the irving press took little time to read. The front page headline – about a man killed in a road accident – wasn’t written as…
Dec. 4: The Garbage Press
When I was a child of 12 or so, I got hold of what was called a tabloid. This was a newspaper composed entirely of violence, horribleness – much like…
Dec.1: What a hell of a world!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/brian-mulroney-institute-paradise-papers-1.4425014 In civilized countries, but not the U.S. and Canada, governments pay for universities. Germany, Sweden, Cuba for example do not charge student fees, and the universities don’t have to…
Nov. 29: The Crash of an Empire
I just had an interesting letter from a reader who once voted for a Conservative prime minister – because he was an economist, and so, she wrote, someone capable of…
Nov. 27:
By chance, I came across the White Helmets (Syria) film on Netflix. It’s called White Helmets. And any reporter who watched it should have known this was pure, staged propaganda.…
Nov. 24:Very Dangerous Times in the Middle East and the Koreas.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-crossing-video-1.4413846 You’ll notice that in this story, the North Korean soldier is courageous. Okay. Now let’s suppose he was an American soldier posted on the border (or a South Korean)…
Nov. 22: twas ever thus….
Opening reminders. The U.S. plans to boot Haitians out of the U.S. Why are they there? The US took control of Haiti back about 1920. Since then it was ruled…
Nov. 18: The Deepest Corruption
This is an extra blog since there is more to say about the paradise papers. That ‘more’ is in contrast to the ‘nothing’ that the irving press of New Brunswick…
Nov. 17: Paradise Papers Released to Public!
Yes, the names of those who hid their money in tax havens has been released. It’s available. The story below has the site to look up. The list includes 3,100…
Nov. 15: Thieving Billionaires.
The strike of teachers at Ontario community colleges is attracting surprisingly little attention from most Canadian news media – and what attention there is is largely superficial. The basic stats…
Nov. 13: a slow news day
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/teenage-girls-migrants-dead-mediterranean-sea-women-found-italy-police-investigation-libya-europe-a8041856.html I began with this one because this is just one, small sample about the horror of refugees. The number in the news usually runs to a couple of thousand…
Nov. 11: Our Lies to those Who Served
Our modern newspaper, cheap enough to be available to almost everyone, appeared about 1880. The industry had developed so far by then, it could produce a newspaper for one cent…
Novermber 9: Remembrance Day
I really don’t want to write this one. Nov. 11, Remembrance Day, approaches, and I know that some people will take this as a criticism of our veterans of foreign…