Time for a change?
I launched Canadian Trends almost 3 full years ago which in itself was to address the adaptive nature of the topics I ended up discussing on my previous blog Hellberta.…
Richard
Closing thoughts on Sun News (and a warning to other news media)
It’s official, at 5:00am this morning the Sun News channel went black. No report on it’s closure, no goodbye to it’s 8000 loyal viewers, just gone with barely a whimper.…
"Anti-Terror": The art of misdirection and manufacturing consent
The Globe & Mail released a poll a few days ago titled “Stephen Harper’s Canada: Better, worse or unchanged?“. I really wish I had taken a screenshot of the results…
A call to arms. We’re going head first and at full speed down the slippery slope.
My blood is absolutely boiling. Some days, I have hope, today is not one of those days. Today I am sick to my stomach, getting sicker and sicker with each…
The terrorist in you
Oh yea, this is great. Great great great. Look at Canada now eh? The bill is expected to include provisions to allow “preventative arrests” and criminalize the “promotion of terror”…
Greece, central banks, and the real life idiocracy
I love the movie Idiocracy it was simply brilliant. If you haven’t seen it you really should. One aspect of the movie really marks a parallel to the events happening…
Silly citizens, NAFTAs are for corporations
NAFTA probe of Alberta’s tailings ponds blocked Representatives of the Canadian government, along with Mexico and the United States, on Tuesday passed a resolution behind closed doors to stop the…
Sorry folks, "the recovery has been delayed until the end of next year"
Another year of non-recovery now 7 years on from the “great recession” which it seems few remember was caused by a combination of Wall-Street and financial elite exuberance and hubris,…
Trends and forecasts for 2015
I’ve been really unmotivated to write any posts as of late. The barrage of lies coming from the establishment media is just overwhelming, where to even begin? The most dangerous…
Questions for Danielle Smith and the #WRP
The Wildrose party of Alberta wants to better define their image, so I have a few questions for Danielle Smith or any other representative of the Wildrose. I’ve posted this…
Oil price and the economic recovery pendulum
Something I’ve been noticing ever since oil (WTI) entered it’s rubber band like pattern with constant support at $80 (to support lower EROEI extreme energy development) and it’s upper resistance…
#C36
An anonymous woman offers sexual serviceson the popular application Whisper I hadn’t really been paying attention to C36 throughout the year, generally bills of this nature fall outside the scope…
Poloz advocates "adult children" take "unpaid work" and "wait for the recovery to take hold"
Having trouble finding a job, especially one that can pay for the exorbitant and ever-increasing cost-of-living in Canada? Well Stephen Poloz has some advice for you: simply take some unpaid…
RE comments on Infinite Exponential Growth.
I’ve received a comment by ‘Ron Weller’ on my previous post on infinite growth, this is my response. The anti-growthers are barking up the wrong tree. Whether or not a…
Infinite Exponential Growth: The religion of modern "economics" and blowing steam up your ass
Perhaps one of the most difficult aspects of writing about the obvious limits to growth we’re encountering is trying to clearly describe the difference between infinite exponential growth, and limited…
Say goodbye to the "employee’s market"
The ’employee’s market’ was perhaps one of the last saving graces of the middle class and workers in general. It was always inevitable that when wages stagnated allowing businesses to…
Change at last? Not likely. Pretentious Prentice is just another industry owned insider masquerading as a public servant
Well it seems Pretentious Prentice is the winner of the Albertan leadership race for the top position of Premier CEO though this should be no surprise as it was clear…
When it comes to #oilsands a stable price is a low price no matter how high it is
Alberta’s oil industry is having a serious cash crunch and the problem doesn’t look to be reversing any time soon with the price of oil continually hitting a ceiling of…
The stench of western hypocrisy is becoming hard to ignore
Another day, more western endorsed Gazan deaths. “Self defense”, “Rockets”, and “Human shields” are really getting old fast in terms of the excuses Israel is using to justify it’s slaughter,…
Running Orders, by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
They call us now.Before they drop the bombs.The phone ringsand someone who knows my first namecalls and says in perfect Arabic“This is David.”And in my stupor of sonic booms and…