Nobody Talks. Leave No Witnesses. Harper Covers His Tracks.
Nothing says coverup in government than the total absence of the slightest paper trail. When the CBC’s Greg Weston went fishing for documents of the Senate expense scandal he came…
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It Sounds Like a Japanese Sci-Fi Movie – An "Ice Wall" to Sequester Fukushima
The Japanese government claims it will build a wall of frozen soil to surround the Fukushima nuclear plant and, it’s hoped, prevent radioactive cooling water from leaking. Shafts will be…
When You Look At It This Way, Digging Dead Things Out of the Ground Only to Kill Live Things Above the Ground is Madness.
We have become a world obsessed with digging carbon out of the ground and transporting it into our atmosphere just as fast as possible. We say we’re not, but the…
RoboCall Scandal – Breakthrough Imminent? Stay Tuned.
“Hard to imagine how they thought they could manipulate this issue.” “Stay tuned.” Word reaches the island to brace for some breakthrough on the robocall scandal, possibly as soon as…
Russia’s Stealth Fighters Debut at Moscow Air Show
By the time the F-35 ever finds its way into Canadian air force hangars it’ll have this to contend with, Russia’s T-50 stealth fighter. The T-50 is much faster, more…
Does This Sound Like War, Playground Rules?
Anyone skeptical about the wisdom of an American attack on Syria should consider the options sketched out by former Obama deputy assistant secretary of state, Suzanne Nossel. Seriously, this sounds…
Canada Should Follow Britain’s Lead
David Cameron wanted to bomb Syria so badly his teeth hurt. There was just one problem, Britain’s Iraq War fiasco. Because of Iraq, David Cameron had promised to allow parliament…
Grand Theft Data
Gwynne Dyer contends that America is hopeless – and helpless – when it comes down to securing the data it steals on an industrial scale. In a country where 850,000…
Not In Vlad Putin’s Russia You Don’t
Russian artist Konstantin Altunin has hightailed it to safety in France and none too soon. Russian authorities have moved to seize Altunin’s paintings, especially one depicting Vlad Putin, in a…
Archbishop of Canterbury – Homophobes are "Wicked"
Britain’s top prelate, the Archbishop of Canterbury, warns that Christians need to “repent” the mistreatment of gay people and, if they don’t, they’re “wicked.” The Most Rev Justin Welby told…
Canada Should Follow Britain’s Lead
David Cameron wanted to bomb Syria so bad his teeth hurt. There was just one problem, Britain’s Iraq War fiasco. Because of Iraq, David Cameron had promised to allow parliament…
Warning: This May Cause Your Lungs to Collapse. Donald Rumsfeld Accuses Obama of Rushing Into War.
Rummy’s back! Donald Rumsfeld, the architect of not one but two failed American foreign wars, is dissing Barack Obama over plans to possibly bomb targets in Syria. “When you think…
Speaking of Crazies Bursting Into Flames
You may have caught the video of a U.S. embassy staffer in Malta going ballistic at a Maltese motorist with a tirade of threats and profanity. Apparently whatever got to…
A Diplomatic Career Bursts Into Flames
A staffer at the U.S. embassy in Malta is winging his way back to the United States of America, after a video of this career-ending explosion hit YouTube and went…
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Invokes MLK In Call For Mass Civil Disobedience Over Climate Change
Tom Steyer thinks the percentage of Americans willing to resort to civil disobedience to force action on climate change is nearing a tipping point. The billionaire hedge fund manager, a…
I’m Pretty Sure Clicking On This Is One of Them
There’s an ad that’s appearing on news web sites seemingly everywhere. It’s this: Just a warming. Of those “5 Signs You’ll Get Alzheimer’s”, going for the “Click Here” is the…
The Apple Really Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
When it comes to murderous brutality, North Korea’s new despot, Kim Jong Un is proving himself a chip off the old blockhead. Time Inc. reports that Kim just had an…
Depardieu Awarded Belgian Citizenship
There it is. Belgium has a new passport holder, Gerard Depardieu. Cue the Belgian jokes.
"Stay Tuned" – Indeed
“Can’t talk …can’t speak freely …stay tuned.” All I’m getting out of Ottawa Tories is static. It’s as though they’re locked down. Nobody wants to talk Duffy or Wright much…
Four Pictures Worth Many Thousand Words
A Vancouver group is targeting the public conscience with an ad campaign to show what has happened to the Palestinian homeland. Unless you’re a Zionist, it’s a pretty disturbing but…