Alberta Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Separatists
A long time ago in an economy far far away… ALBERTA WARS Episode III Revenge of the Separatists In the strange alternative Star Wars plot Emperor Harper and Darth Kenney…
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Alberta Wars Episode II: Attack of the Phones
A long time ago in an economy far far away… ALBERTA WARS Episode II Attack of the Phones The propaganda model for the manufacture of public consent describes five editorially…
Alberta Wars Episode I: Harper, The Phantom Menace
It’s been difficult for me to focus on writing this past month. It might be hard to believe but beneath the cool persona I present for the purpose of political…
Phase 1 of operation ‘fuckwad UCP’ is complete
I actually meant to declare phase 1 of operation fuckwad UCP complete weeks ago but then the US riots happened and well, priorities right? Readers will know that I have…
The real war is the information war and it has very much begun
I think I’m ready to write about these protests or given Donald Trump has invoked the insurrection act perhaps I’ll call this an insurrection now. I must apologize to Albertans…
UPDATE-1: There has been no word from any DC protester since the White House entered creep mode at 1AM #dcblackout
The most intense protests in Washington D.C.’s history just fell silent. At 1AM EST the White House entered creep mode, and all live streams and communications with the protesters there…
George Floyd, the hero that broke the camel’s back
The U.S. has reached the breaking point and where they go next is dependent on it’s citizens. They’re going to need to either go all the way, or give up…
The ethical province that couldn’t
Once upon a time during the Alberta Advantage when the petrosexuals roamed the land freely sticking their drills into wells without protection and residential schools dotted the land where the…
COVID-19 both exposes and provides cover for the precarious nature of western economies
Inside the wall, apartment buildings similar to the one they observed earlier line the streets and there are people everywhere. Sisko explains that the place is a Sanctuary District, but…
The emperor’s new cloak
I haven’t written in awhile as I have been waiting for events to stabilize a bit and allow the inevitable new messaging to take hold. As I wrote in ‘Russia…
Crossroads
Warning: this post contains difficult subject matter. I’ve never felt the need to put a warning about the contents of a post before but at the same time my twitter…
Russia moves for N.A. production and banking death blow while Kenney’s agenda disintegrates over-night
The fuckwad UCP’s social license and benefit of the doubt to do as they please to implement the Kenney agenda just expired. Kenney it would appear is out of time…
Learn To Code Political Edition: Building @WBrettWellson Bot
Yes i can. — Richard Fantin (@RichardFantin) February 14, 2020 A few weeks ago Duncan Kinney of Press Progress asked (possibly half jokingly?) if anyone can build a bot to…
Buffalo Theatre
Well! Alberta’s had a busy few weeks, hasn’t it? It really has become it’s own unfolding disaster everyone just gets to watch in slow motion because Albertans, and Canadians, typically…
UCP doubles down on it’s disaster filled war room, invokes a "foreign activist attack" as cover – and the official C.T. take on F.N. protests
I’ve found over the years that to engage in good analysis you have to be open to all sorts of viewpoints. Some you may disagree with, some you may view…
Albertans’ emotionally abusive relationship with the UCP
Well, Albertans, I’m sorry to say; but according to a random blog I found we may be in an emotionally abusive relationship with the fuckwad UCP. Let’s look at some…
Is the divisive, coordinated, push (and potential rejection) for Teck Frontiers actually designed to justify a quid-pro-quo?
Something has felt off about the coordinated divisive and hyper-focused campaign by the fuckwad UCP and the Harper & Associates IDU aligned CPC on the approval, or rather the threats…
Finally a government (publicly) gets it! New report out of Finland correctly describes the problems that come with peak conventional oil, and the bankers failed attempts at mitigation
One of the worst developments in the past decade in the slide backwards towards information irrelevancy, and a common misconception held by both the left and the right, is the…