Iran Pipeline to Pakistan. Next stop, China?
Despite pressure from the United States, Pakistan has reached an agreement for the construction of a pipeline to import natural gas from Iran. Perhaps not entirely coincidentally, the gas pipeline…
The Mound of Sound
It’s Still Fossil Fuel
The Japanese have successfully tapped seabed methane clathrates, also known as “flammable ice.” Deposits of compressed and frozen methane are fairly common in northern waters. British Columbia has looked at…
Underestimating China
The Chinese keep taking the West by surprise with their technological advancement. We’re pretty sure a fair bit of their knowledge is purloined via the internet. Some, probably, but not…
Shhh. Don’t Tell Harper
With his authoritarian bent, this might just appeal to Sideshow Steve. And, of course, when thinking of Ruler Harper who doesn’t think of Albania? Wired.com has a neat item about…
Well, That’s That Then.
In an upset, Falkland Islanders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of flipping the bird to Argentina. Despite near zero temperatures and flurries of snow and rain, the turnout was 92%…
In Papal News
Let the Conclave begin! Wait, what’s that? There’s already a snag? Frontrunner Papal would-be, Cardinal Angelo Scola’s diocese has just been raided by Italy’s anti-mafia cop squad. Anti-mafia detectives swooped…
Manila the Miners’ Canary of Climate Change
The Philippines are now being thought of as the “miners’ canary” of climate change. The archipelagic state has reeled under the impacts of sea level rise and typhoons of increasing…
When Pigs Float
Shanghai has a water problem. Somehow more than 2,800 dead pigs wound up floating in one of the main rivers that supplies drinking water to the mega-metropolis of 23-million. Local…
How Twisted was Tony Blair?
That Tony Blair lied Britain into war with Iraq is obvious and more than a bit creepy. What’s truly creepy, however, is what Blair aides now describe as the evangelical…
Dear Alberta
Fossil fuel is crazy stuff. It’s addictive and, like most things addictive, it can be very harmful and that goes for users and traffickers alike. As easy as it is…
Kabul Kold-Shoulder
Hamid Karzai is acting like he discovered Taliban lipstick on Chuck Hagel’s shirt collar. Oh, for shame. America’s freshly-minted defense secretary called off a joint press conference with Karzai after…
Preston Pouts Over Tory Perceived Weakness on Environment
Preston Manning, former Reform Party leader who now heads a Conservative Junior Achievement Academy/Komsomol to indoctrinate train and churn out “right thinking” Conservative leaders criticized the Harper Cons today for…
Herring Here, Herring There, Herring Everywhere
A harbinger of Spring where I live is the annual herring run through the Salish Sea. The herring in their countless millions migrate south as they spawn, the females attaching…
It’s Time Science Deniers Were Driven Out of Office
The Harper government is full of them and, judging by their policies, the other parties have their share too. They’re science deniers, those who find it politically expedient to either…
Arms Race Update – China’s Anti-Satellite Weapons Tests to Continue
China may soon become the only nation with the hardware to take down high geo-stationary orbiting satellite systems such as GPS. The U.S. is warning that China is preparing for…
But They’re Not Alone. U.S. Politicians Overestimate Their Constituents Conservatism
Republicans and even Democrats have been found to think their constituents much more conservative than they are in fact. It’s no surprise, therefore, that they govern according to false perception…
Walkom Almost Gets it Right
Tom Walkom writes that Alberta made a sucker’s bet on bitumen and so, thanks to Ottawa, did the rest of Canada. The Toronto Star columnist adds that, thanks to both…
Can Your Grandma Do This?
What a darling. As the tune dies down, 88-year old Nana explains: “I could dance all f***ing day.”
Rob Ford a Groper and Dirty Old Man???
Former Toronto mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson says bad boy Mayor Rob Ford hit on her and grabbed her ass. Here’s a picture Thomson posted of herself an an apparently happy…
Conrad Black Stands Up for Tom Flanagan
It seems Connie Black got to know a few guys slammed up for possession of kiddie porn while he was in prison and he says that, like Tom Flanagan, they…