Oct. 7: Insanity
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/california-drought-new-normal-1.3789627 This is rather an important story. If a heavily populated state like California – not only with a large population but also an important producer of food – runs…
Graeme Decarie
Oct. 5: the news we weren’t told about.
Just a brief review of the irving press, and what a newspaper should not be.1. There’s nothing in it worth reading. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. 2. The front page headline is…
Oct. 3: The biggest world story in the irving press is that……
Boston might be counted in the same time zone as Monton, New Brunswick.Be still, my heart.____________________________________________________http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/poll-canadians-multiculturalism-immigrants-1.3784194 What a wonderful idea! Of course, make immigrants conform to our ways, speak only…
Liars in our news media
The story is on B6, the Canada &World section of irving press. It comes from The Associated Press, one of the biggest news agencies in the world, and one that…
Sept. 1: Not a good day.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/global-carbon-levels-highest-ever-point-1.3784724 That’s a big story on CBC news. It didn’t make the irving press, and it probably won’t. As it happens, the big, irving editorial is that we just gotta…
Sept. 28: Hold Onto Your Hats!
What was the most important story for Tuesday in the section that deals with Canada and the whole world? Wow! Be sure to read this lead story in section 2…
Sept. 26: No. I will not watch the Clinton-Trump debate.
The item below refers to Canada's impatience in sending aid to Haiti because that country is plagued with corruption. Too bad the story doesn't tell why it's plagued with corruption.…
September 24: No. No word.
No, there's still no word about how we're being robbed of more than forty billion dollars a year by some of our better families. In particular, there's not a word…
Sept. 23: Sometimes it’s all just too vile…..
The front page headline in today's irving press is "NB Power customers owe nearly $5 million in unpaid electricity bills".That's it. It's those damn, lazy poor people that are robbin'…
Sept. 22: Rich thieves.
Today is not a blog day. But there are two items I could not ignore.The first is a huge story that was not important enough to make the irving press…
Sept. 21: The rise of capitalism, and the collapse of Christianity.
Big headline for Tuesday's irving press. Our leading m.p., Dominic Leblanc, expresses hope that the Energy Pipeline will go through - even though there is no study yet to show…
Sept. 19: The Triumph of Greed (if we allow it).
The irving press for today has a fairly decent front page.A professor at Mount A points out that bacteria produced from fecal matter is at dangerous levels at a popular…
Sept. 17: the real meaning of evil
Let's deal quickly with the irving press.The only news item worth reading in section A is that the Irving family has given thirty million dollars to Dartmouth College in New…
Sept. 16: Climate change and mass murder for profit.
Big headline. Moncton is to get a new hotel which will be part of a $100 million dollar project. And it will be right near the new 'events centre'; so…
Sept. 15: Hold Onto Your Hats!
Wow: Section A of the irving press has breaking news under the page 1 headline. Some NB license plates on cars sold in 2009 are showing signs of peeling. And…
Sept. 14: A Touch of Truth
A belief peddled by propaganda rags like the irving press is that private business is more efficient than government ownership. In fact, even the most casual studies prove the opposite.…
Sept. 13: The destructiveness of greed.
My it's hard to get back into form for writing a blog after being off for a week. it's especially hard because I now have such a backlog of material.…
Sept. 12: Not quite back in form yet.
Many years ago, while doing research on the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Canada, I came across a speech by its leader. It was delivered during World War One; and…
Sept. 10: Home again – and the final part of U.S. imperialism
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/what-the-us-bombing-of-cambodia-tells-us-about-obamas-drone-campaign/273142/http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/http://thevietnamwar.info/how-many-people-died-in-the-vietnam-war/T...