More Ammunition for the B.C. NDP
Christy Clark must be feeling just a little crispier today. A CBC Fifth Estate assessment of hospitals across Canada doesn’t speak well of British Columbia’s healthcare. There wasn’t even one…
The Mound of Sound
The Netherlands Parks the F-35
The Dutch already have one F-35 and they’re due to get another in just a few months. They’re the first of what was supposed to be an 85 aircraft purchase.…
Will the U.S. be Wracked by Violence and Riots by 2020? The Math Says So.
Mathematician Peter Turchin has run the numbers and predicts the United States will face a widespread wave of violence and riots by around 2020. Turchin, a U. Connecticut prof, is…
Harper’s Canada Posts Poor Showing on Child Well-Being
Sideshow Steve Harper doesn’t have much time for the plebs, especially the little ones – the dependent-types. UNICEF has just released a report on the well-being of children in the…
"In America truth is offensive, If you tell the truth, you are offensive."
So writes former U.S. deputy treasury secretary, Paul Craig Roberts, in his column for CounterPunch, America, Land of the Lost. Roberts recently published the e-book, The Failure of Laissez-Faire Capitalism,…
Lockheed is Back and Pushing Hard
Now with that cursed Parliamentary Budget Officer safely out of the way, Lockheed Martin has opened a public relations blitz to flog the F-35 to the Canadian Armed Forces. Lockheed…
We Don’t Like Steve. We Don’t Trust Steve. Steve Doesn’t Really Care Because "We" Don’t Matter.
It’s not that a solid majority of Canadians don’t trust Sideshow Steve Harper or find him ethically sleazy. That should come as no surprise. I suppose what is impressive, from…
The Iron Lady is No More
Margaret Thatcher, dead of a stroke, at 87.
Two of Three Canadians Distrust Sideshow Steve Harper
Steve Harper may have ruled us for many years but he hasn’t won our affection or even our trust. Two out of three of us, in fact, still believe Harper…
Of Jet Streams and Rossby Waves and a Political Class That Couldn’t Care Less
There was something strange on U.S. weather/drought maps recently. The northern hemisphere, or “polar” jet stream was shown plunging down into Mexico. It was down where the sub-tropical jet stream…
Defending Democracy in Canada
If we don’t take steps to defend democracy in Canada we may face a huge struggle to salvage it in the future. There’s a price to be paid for inaction.…
Any Other Church Acting Like This Would Have Been Bulldozed to the Ground Long Ago
“I ran home shaking like a dog. I had wee short trousers on and the shite was running down my leg. My mum and my auntie had to wipe me…
Canadian Special Forces Take Third Place in International Competition
Special forces teams from around the world gathered in Amman, Jordan, to strut their stuff. Thirty-five teams representing 18-countries, including the United States, Britain, France and Russia competed. Events included…
A Primer on DilBit Spills in a Corporatist State
If you want an idea of what’s in store for British Columbia if Harper/Redford/Enbridge/Beijing et al manage to drive their pipelines through to the coast, you need only look to…
Bill Maher’s Take on Christianity and Just About Everything Else
Maher, on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and it is hilarious.
Last Call for Tony Blair
I’m gonna miss the New Democratic Party and, by the sounds of it, I’ll be missing it more than they will. At least Tommy didn’t live to see it. It…
LDC’s Are Closing In On Us
It seems they’ve called our bluff. “We” are the First World, the developed countries, the big producers and consumers of fossil fuels, the big emitters. We are also the rich…
"World Class" Oil Spill Recovery is Another Harper Scam
Two officials of British Columbia’s Raincoast Conservation Society have gutted Joe Oliver’s assurances and exposed Sideshow Steve Harper’s “world class” oil spill mechanisms as an utter sham. Misty MacDuffee and…
Americans and Their Conspiracy Theories – Alive and Well
13% of Americans are sure Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ. A similar percentage aren’t sure but think that’s definitely possible. Despite everything their country has endured over the past five…
The United States of FUBAR
Despite everything that has been visited upon them since the “Reagan Revolution” – the stagnation of their incomes; the deliberate and unearned transfer of enormous wealth from the blue and…