800-Million Indians to Receive Government Food Aid
The Indian government has signed into law a scheme to make subsidized food available to two out of three Indians. From The Sydney Morning Herald: Every eligible person will be…
The Mound of Sound
The Heat Turns Up on The Land Down Under
To most Canadians, Australia is synonymous with “hot.” Well it’s going to get hotter a lot more often for the Aussies. A University of Melbourne study predicts that Australia’s devastating…
Can We Trust the RCMP to Investigate Duffy-Wright-Harper?
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson sent a curious e-mail to his senior officers in March of this year. In an email dated March 22 from Paulson to more than 50 chief…
One Lie Too Many for Sideshow Steve?
If the Mike Duffy scandal has shown us anything, it’s how easily – and successfully – Stephen Harper and his minions lie. They’ve almost brought it to the level of…
Forget Peak Oil, Peak Water is the Greater Threat to Mankind
It’s a problem so widespread, so obvious, so immediate and so perilous to so very many people in every corner of the world that it speaks to the paralysis of…
If You Don’t Secure Your Firearms, Don’t Complain When the Police Take them
Harper’s Redneck Society, High River Branch, is incensed that RCMP officers entered their abandoned homes and recovered unsecured firearms left in plain view. Sideshow Steve wasted no time in bitching…
China’s Green Goo
29 thousand square kilometres of coastal green goo is a lot, even for China. That is the size of the algae bloom now blanketing China’s Yellow Sea coastline. Here’s a…
It’s the Greatest Threat Ever to Confront Canada. Why Can’t Our Leaders Rise to the Challenge?
Rulers are a dime a dozen. Leaders are a rare commodity. In difficult times nations need leaders, not rulers. The greater the difficulties that confront a state, the greater the…
Why Rulers Can’t Govern – See: Morsi, Mohamed
WWPD? What Would Pharaoh Do? Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, is out, deposed by his country’s generals for failing to address the Egyptian people’s unrest. It turns out…
F-35 Falls Behind Schedule, Again
Testing can become costly and time-consuming when you’re building an aircraft before you know if it will actually work as advertised. It defeats the whole notion of schedules and target…
Egyptian Government Falls to Coup
The New York Times reports that Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has been ousted by the country’s military. Egypt’s military moved forcefully to seize power from President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday,…
Climate Change 2.0
The denialist community is having a field day sowing doubt over global warming as it was once understood while ignoring that the narrative they cling to has been overtaken by…
A Decade of Global Weirding
The first decade of this millennium was marked by unprecedented climate extremes. That according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization. The World Meteorological Organization says the planet “experienced…
Technology, the Grand Blur, Is Ever Harder to Escape
I’m surrounded by technology and I’ll bet you are too. In an arc around me are a wireless printer, a desktop computer, a flat screen monitor, a speaker system, a…
El Nino – Global Warming Link Found
The El Nino – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has, for the first time, been linked to global warming. A team of researchers examining tree ring evidence from the past seven hundred…
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Remember all the talk about western forces being out of Afghanistan in 2014? Well, that deal is off now. NATO has quietly decided it will keep advisers in Afghanistan until…
PRISM’s Conduit Into Your Life
The Washington Post has published a series of U.S. National Security Agency slides showing the conduits through which data flows into the American government’s computer banks. The first column, PRISM…
They Sell It But They Supposedly Have Nothing to Do With It.
When you buy Athabasca DilBit you’re buying two fuels – a form of synthetic oil and a type of coal. Alberta bitumen contains heavy oil and it contains petroleum coke…
The Enbridge Tantrum, Oliver’s Deceit
When it comes to the merits of the Northern Gateway pipeline, lawyers for the bitumen traffickers almost go apoplectic complaining about the lack of existing pipeline capacity. They come across…
Harper Explores Geo-Engineering to Arrest Global Warming
The Harper cabinet has been meeting to explore options for geo-engineering our way out of climate change.On June 5, 2012, then–Environment Canada deputy minister Paul Boothe convened a meeting to…