Laws for a Country That Holds Itself Above the Law
America has increasingly been turning itself into an outlaw state. It practices indefinite detention without charge or trial. It resorts to torture. It violates foreign sovereignty to kill as it…
The Mound of Sound
They Have Re-Elected Their "Liberal" Lapdog – Now They’re Coming For Our Coast
It will probably be sooner rather than later before we find out whether Christy Clark will become British Columbia’s Judas Goat to the Northern Gateway and Kinder Morgan pipeline/supertanker fiascos.…
Could You Become a Victim of Car-Hacking?
It’s not carjacking. Nobody with a gun jumping into the driver’s seat and speeding off with your ride. It’s car-hacking. A cyber criminal hacking into a car’s computer systems to…
Of Bitumen and Pirates
The Harper government never ceases playing up the terrorist threat that Canada faces. They’re here, they’re there, they’re everywhere. Supertankers heavily laden with bitumen. How vulnerable are they to terrorism…
Follow the Piggy – He Might Lead You to Sussex Drive
So, let’s run this scenario, Mound’s favourite passtime. How might the timeline of Mike Duffy’s expense woes play out now that we know a few more details. It begins (for…
Duffy Campaigned on Taxpayer’s Dime
This could explain why the Prime Minister’s Office told Duffy to refuse to cooperate with the forensic audit into his expenses. Not only was Duffy pocketing tens of thousands of…
The North Pole – It’s a Moving Target
The north pole is on the move and, according to scientists, it’s moving because of climate change and the loss of Arctic ice. From 1982 to 2005, the pole drifted…
Oh, To Be a Fly On the Wall
CBC’s Kady O’Malley sums up the Duffy audit/expense controversy quite nicely. Why did Stephen Harper’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, cut a personal cheque to repay Senator Mike Duffy’s controversial…
On Rare Birds and New Democrats
BC NDP leader Adrian Dix is a rare bird. Or at least he would have been a rare bird if he’d actually won last night. For that would have been…
One Anonymous Might Not be Enough
Any politician knows that information is power. Digital information is power on steroids at the speed of light. Privacy is the best possible defence you have against enslavement and oppression.…
Britain Backs Bitumen
Sideshow Steve Harper and his British counterpart, Austerity Dave Cameron, may be widely disliked by their citizens, but they are taking care of business. Cameron, according to documents leaked to…
What Does Tonight’s Disaster Say About the NDP?
It was the New Dems’ election to lose and that’s just what they did. They lost to a government that was roundly despised with a record rich in corruption, scandal,…
WIPEOUT
Canada learned a lesson tonight on how fiercely negative campaigning can salvage the electoral fortunes of even a dishonest and corrupt government. The British Columbia NDP, by everyone’s assessment, was…
Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You – "Rumsfeld’s Rules"
He’s back. Donald Rumsfeld has written a leadership guide entitled Rumsfeld’s Rules that is being released today. Wired has a review. Who better to impart life lessons than the only…
It’s No Wonder the Beijing Politburo and our Harper Parliament are Best Friends Forever
It turns out that the Chinese Communist leadership and the Canadian Conservative leadership believe in a lot of the same stuff. They both want economic liberalism but political conformity and…
Today’s Global Outrages
There doesn’t seem to be a day that passes anymore that doesn’t bring some but today we have two outrages to pass along courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald. First…
An Old Brit War Vet Laments the Death of the Democracy He Fought to Preserve
Harry Leslie Smith says he’s too old to fight those who today would wreck the civilization he and so many others fought and in too many cases died to protect.…
Spectacular Video – Nature at Work on the Saskatchewan River
The Saskatchewan Water Security Agency recorded this amazing video of a massive ice surge along the Saskatchewan River.
Maybe There’s More Sarah Palin Than We’d Like to Admit in Our Own Politicians.
An eye-opener in today’s Guardian reveals that, before she jettisoned the Alaska governor’s office to join John McCain’s presidential campaign, Sarah Palin was actively involved on the climate change front.…
Is This Our Civilization’s Obituary?
From the New Yorker. Nicholas Thompson, on the crossing of the 400 ppm marker, tries to put our civilization’s future in perspective, to show the moral collapse that we work…