We Can’t Pretend Any Longer
The tundra is burning. Coupled with retreating glaciers and loss of Arctic sea ice, we now have three global warming feedback loop mechanisms that are plainly visible to the naked…
The Mound of Sound
ICH BIN EIN BEIJINGER !!!
Too soon? Thought so, sorry.
Is Beef a Danger to Human Health?
This is going to be hard to get your head around but it’s claimed that 80% of the antibiotics used in the United States is used in meat animals. And…
Kabul Willing to Hand Taliban Control of South and East Afghanistan
There’s apparently a deal afoot to have Pakistan negotiate an odd peace treaty/capitulation deal between Kabul and the Taliban that is said to include giving the Talibs effective control of…
Ask the Guy Who Never Inhaled – the War on Drugs is For Losers
Wild Bill Clinton, America’s favourite bad boy ex-pres, says his country’s war on drugs is not working. Quelle surprise! “As the legal limbo surrounding the Washington and Colorado laws continues,…
Gwynne Dyer – Netanyahu is a Fraud and So, Therefore, Is Harper’s Middle-East Policy
In a recent column (that I somehow overlooked) Gwynne Dyer exposes the Israeli prime minister as an absolute fraud propped up by Canadian and American collaborators. That’s your government, by…
It Is As Bad As It Seems – Ask Gwynne Dyer
When he wrote Climate Wars, military affairs oracle Gwynne Dyer accepted the Pentagon and Brit MoD take on global warming, namely that it meant war, an awful lot of war,…
First Defection from Harper Inner Cabinet
An unidentified member of Steve Harper’s inner cabinet has apparently defected. The partly trained monkey was found wandering aimlessly around a Toronto IKEA store on the weekend. Authorities were able…
Steve Harper, the Manchurian Candidate
In the course of but one week Steve Harper deals a massive blow to America’s biggest and plainly distressed defence contractor and approves the transfer, to America’s biggest geopolitical rival,…
Harper’s Athabascan Desperation or How Stephen Harper Became Beijing’s Bum Boy
Canada’s best Tar Sands journo, Andrew Nikiforuk, reveals the rank desperation that drove Stephen Harper into the service of China’s Communist regime on the Nexen takeover. It’s an ugly story…
Harper’s Industry Minister Says China Can Explain What We’re Supposedly Getting Out of Nexen Deal
It’s positively stomach churning. 300,000 acres of Athabasca Tar Sands now in China’s hands and Canada’s industry minister has the gall to say he can’t discuss it and it’s up…
The History of Climate Change Negotiations in 83 Seconds
From CICERO, Norway’s Center for International Climate and Environmental Research:
Who Likes Nexen Way Better than the Canadian People? Liberals
The Canadian public, including Conservative voters, think the Chinese takeover of Nexen is terrible, borderline treasonous. An Ekos poll finds barely 15% of us support it. It’s a safe bet…
China’s Solar Panel Makers Teetering on Bankrutpcy
A cautionary tale of industrial growth gone completely wrong seems to be emerging out of China’s once-promising solar panel industry. Nearly all the “big names” of the industry, including companies…
Taking the Real Measure of Netanyahu, An Arab Woman Speaks Up
There’s a new name being given to Benjamin Netanyahu’s newest illegal settlement crime. It’s being called the “Doomsday Settlement,” a term coined by the Israeli founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, Daniel…
But How Will They Describe Inhofe?
The U.S. Congress wants president Obama to outlaw the word “lunatic.” Senator Kent Conrad, one of the sponsors of the measure, said: “Federal law should reflect the 21st Century understanding…
40 Years On, Meadows Revisits "The Limits to Growth"
In 1972 professor Dennis Meadows published “The Limits to Growth” in which he predicted the world was on a path to economic collapse. Now, in an interview with Der Spiegel,…
Are We Becoming Subdued?
The Occupy Movement came and went. Yet it was never truly confrontational. It was vocal, a revolving protest, that, in retrospect, seems more of a whiney lament than a drive…
Don’t Believe Harper’s Post-Nexen Tough Line on Foreign Ownership of Canada’s Resources
Steve Harper says he’s stopped foreign takeovers of Canada’s resource industries but experts from the business sector say that foreign money and ownership will continue. CBC News reports that foreign…
Out of My League
How about this? Floor seats. Centre stage. Row 5. Yours for only $24,950 per ticket. And they’re going fast. That’s for next Saturday night’s Rolling Stones concert in Newark, New…