What’s Wrong With Old White People Anyway?
In the United States, angry old white folks are the backbone of the Tea Party. In Canada, they’re Harper Conservatives. In Britain, angry old white people have the UKIP movement.…
The Mound of Sound
I Don’t Have to Visit Japan – It’s Coming to Me!
America (you know, the country that hasn’t outlawed science) is finding some curious critters that have been carried across the Pacific on Japanese tsunami debris now arriving on our shores.…
Emissions Heading in Wrong Direction – Fast
2012 saw the second greatest annual increase in greenhouse gas emissions, bested (or worsted) by 1998. Carbon dioxide levels measured at at Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii jumped by 2.67…
Disaster Capitalism + Climate Change = Wealth Beyond Imagination
The company is called Water Asset Management. Surely the name speaks for itself. It has to be about water, right? Or the management of water surely. Well, in reality, it’s…
Canada’s Massive Glacier Melt
70-billion tonnes a year and accelerating. That is the amount of ice Canada’s Arctic glaciers are reported to be losing annually. A peer-reviewed report, Irreversible Mass Loss of Canadian Arctic…
About that Blind Spot. Don’t Worry, Be Happy.
Lockheed’s troubled F-35 is attracting criticism due to pilot complaints that they can’t see what’s behind them. They can’t “check their six” man, bummer. Who cares? If you’re piloting an…
Australia’s "Angry Summer"
It might have a lot to do with pre-emptive politics but Australian government climate scientists have issued a report directly linking their nation’s summer of extreme weather events to climate…
Vermont Voters Say "No" to Athabasca Bitumen
The people of Vermont want nothing to do with Athabasca bitumen being piped through their state. 29 towns, including Montpelier and Burlington, have passed resolutions opposing the proposed transport of…
Pentagon Report Slams F-35
U.S. defence officials are beginning to have disquieting thoughts about the F-35 light attack bomber that include its survivability in air combat. A 68-page report dated 15 February, 2013, addresses…
This Is About as Blunt a Warning As We Can Get
It comes via The Royal Society, a scientific body that has been around since the 1600s and is considered about the most prestigious on our planet, you know, Earth. It’s…
Why Has the Arab Spring Failed to Bring Peace?
Unrest continues throughout the North African countries supposedly liberated in the “Arab Spring.” Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed writes that there is no peace because these uprisings have failed to address the…
Did Washington Create Iraq’s Death Squads?
The carnage in the wake of the American conquest of Iraq was horrific. Iraqis were being murdered at rates of over 3,000 a month. A documentary from The Guardian now…
When It Comes to Steve, There Is No Bottom
Our mendacious prime minister, Sideshow Steve Harper, was practically bursting with glee yesterday over the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Harper, true to his vile form, issued a statement.…
Hugo Chavez Has Left the Building
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is dead, age 58.
Somebody is Making Money, Just Not the People Who Work to Create It
For the second straight day, the Dow Jones hit an all-time record high. Happy days are here again provided you’re one of the rentier class for whom happy days never…
Fresh Concerns About Harper’s Dilbit
It seems there’s dilbit and there’s dilbit and nobody, including the federal and Alberta governments, Big Oil and the pipeline companies really knows much about it. Diluted bitumen, the tar…
Christy Clark’s Stealth Government Exposed
And I was hoping she’d survive long enough to run the B.C. Libs on the rocks in the May elections. Having thrown most of her closest advisers under a good…
Elementary, Doctor Watson
Gwynne Dyer explains the Chinese government’s announcement of plans to introduce carbon taxes. The motivation is the most powerful of all, fear. Under the direction of the World Bank’s top…
Wringing More Life Out of Canada’s CF-18s
The Harper government has decided to upgrade Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18s to buy a little time while it tries to sort out its blunder over the F-35. Sources said…
What George Carlin Knew
George Carlin knew plenty when it came to lances and tigers and he made that plain in the opening of his final concert before he died in 2008.