The abrupt and the restless
I’ve just come across perhaps the most perfect article that just captures our whole situation in an accelerated nutshell. 80 workers let go after long-time Edmonton company closes Workers at…
Richard
Priorities, Past and Present
When it comes to preparing for our future, the human race which bases preparation off historical events and statistics is at a serious disadvantage especially in the modern day where…
We got ’em! The terrorist non-threat of the non-explosives.
Well look at that, we got dem dere a couple of dem domestic terrrrrorists! Fully fledged domestic terrorists following the “ideology of al-Qaeda“, whatever that means. So… did they hate…
Alberta :(
I’m not sure how to express the remorse I feel for my province and everyone who lives here being affected by it. It’s a devastation which has and will continue…
The Gods among us
The Gods among us have spoken. If you have any doubt that the G8 is a “global government” then ask yourselves exactly what status this entity created out of fiat…
One week of bullshit in a nutshell
It is simply just not possible for me to wrap the news articles I’ll be discussing now in a pretty bow wrapped storyboard with a beginning middle and end. I…
The Banada Republic
So it appears Ottawa has a “solution” to the temporary foreign workers problem (you know, the problem they created by hastily passing policies to allow companies to exploit foreign workers).…
Naked and Transparent
Oh boy, you just have to love the irony of our backwards society; an NSA whistleblower exposé of the global surveillance grid and a new friendlier police-hugs Bilderberg meeting. You…
They say the show must go on
Our current situation is so dumbfounding and stupid I just don’t know where to begin. How have we allowed ourselves to come to this? Arguing over petty politics, propaganda around…
2013: Mid-year review
Well, it’s almost June. I figured we’d review the 2013 trends and see how we’re doing. The biggest result of “going off the cliff” as it were is going to…
UPDATE-1: The bright young things
Let’s say you’re an elite, one of the powerful and wealthy (those who print the currency, not earn the currency) and you want to transform a society from one which…
Of drones and defaults
Hey, remember the “fiscal cliff”? Remember I told you the U.S. was going off of it head first and was going to hit every bump on the way down? The…
The hypocrite guilt mafia
Woah, this whole “crack scandal” about Rob Ford is sure getting attention. Everyone is outraged! People demand a statement, and he gave one! He said “I don’t use it”. Wow,…
The Bottom Line: Cutting off our nose to afford our face
Well I wasn’t sure what to write today, if I was going to write today, I have been feeling completely defeated. Oh look! another news article which is caked in…
The final #yegarena post
Well it looks like this may be the day that Edmonton’s fancy shmancy arena gets pushed through. Thus I’ve decided that this will be the last arena post I ever…
Trapped in thought: The Jim Stone story
We talk a lot here about the group-think and cognitive dissidence the status-quo requires but rarely do I cover the same about the other side, the “conspiracy theorist” side. HEY!…
RE: Fuel Freedom, Ending our oil addiction
A video was sent to me by an organization ‘Fuel Freedom’ which seems like a worthy initiative to break the hold on the oil monopoly. However, in the interest of…
The coming generational fiscal cliff
In the latest example of the pre-2008 economic fumes masquerading as growth the shape of what depleting credit looks like is beginning to form, and I don’t think it’s going…
UPDATE-5: The-the-the-that’s all folks
Update-3 I am doing something I’ve never done before and re-writing my entire post on the Syria explosion, without providing the original. Why? You might be asking. This blog doesn’t…
How do you put a price on insanity, exactly?
There’s an article put out by The Economist a couple of days ago which is causing all kinds of debate. It raises the question of what’s seen as a bit…