An Australian Take on the American Voter
The 2012 presidential election is so close that the outcome will come down to the undecided voter. Yet it seems this is the group most easily buffaloed with nonsensical claims…
The Mound of Sound
Will Anybody Demand Peter Kent’s Resignation?
Would someone who didn’t have prior knowledge of this please demand Peter Kent’s resignation? This, of course, is the deliberate dumping last July of 200,000 pounds of iron sulphide into…
NatGeo Sheds Light on Queen Charlotte Iron Dumping
Russ George is a man on a mission to come up with some scheme that will allow him to create, and sell, a fortune in carbon credits. His scheme of…
Another Scurrying Rat – This Time He’s NDP
NDP MP Nathan Cullen says the federal government should have done more to prevent the experimental dumping of 100-tonnes of iron sulphide in the waters off the Queen Charlottes. Oddly…
No Woman Dies in Childbirth, Another Republican Fable
This time it’s in Illinois where Republican congressman Joe Walsh attacked the abortion exception for “life of the mother” on the basis that no woman today dies from childbirth. In…
Peace? It’s a Dangerously Flexible Concept
The Canadian debate over the F-35 has always overlooked perhaps the most critical issue. We never want to discuss what signing on for the F-35 means for Canada’s defence policy…
The Rats Scurry for Cover
Russ George must be wondering where everybody went? The rogue geoengineer behind the dumping of 100-tonnes of iron sulphate off the Charlottes in July suddenly doesn’t have all the friends…
Another Sanctimonious Rightwinger Explodes in Flames
You might have seen him on Real Time with Bill Maher or the Colbert Report. He’s Dinesh D’souza, radical rightwing pundit, president of an Evangelical college and the guy behind…
Video Shows Plight of Marineland Orca
This is Kiska, a killer whale at Ontario’s Marineland. The video shows the whale swimming alone, a trail of blood coming from her tail. Her former trainer says Kiska has…
Parliamentary Cyber-Hacker Attacked Quebec Government
Who was Javier Doyon-Tremblay working for when he used a computer inside the House of Commons to launch cyber attacks on the Quebec government? The RCMP says the man, who…
Billy Graham Gets His Tits Caught in the Romney Wringer
Evangelist Billy Graham must have thought he was doing Mitt Romney a big favour, inviting the Republican candidate to join him in prayer. That seems to have backfired – on…
Must Read – Greg Palast Outs Romney’s Vulture Perfidy or Why Mitt Romney Really Won’t Release His Tax Returns
Veteran investigative journo Greg Palast has the goods on Mitt Romney and why the Republican candidate doesn’t want anyone looking at his tax returns. “Oh, it’s one of the creepiest…
Paul Ryan’s Greasy Soup Kitchen Stunt
Romney running mate Paul Ryan really doesn’t like the poor or their soup kitchens. In fact, if he had his way, he’d slash the very social spending they depend on.…
B.C. Conservative Exiles Back NDP’s Adrian Dix
For a good while now, B.C.’s provincial Conservative Party has been a laughingstock. Now with the party’s hopes for renewal in tatters, members of its disaffected wing say they’ll back…
The Have Binders and Binders and Binders
From TruthDig:
He Never Saw It Coming
61-year old Colin Farmer (above) is blind and, due to two strokes, walks at a snail’s pace using the standard white cane. Enter the local cops in Chorley, Lancashire, where…
Hey Steve, Guess Who’s on the Security Council? Australia
Well, well, our cousins down under have succeeded where Steve Harper utterly failed. Australia has been given a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Not that it matters to…
The Fertilizer Tree Catches On in Africa
Researchers in Malawi have found a way to free farmers of dependency on expensive and destructive fertilizers. Farmers there grow maize, corn, and their crops require large quantities of nitrogen…
Why We Must Break Up Canada’s Media Cartel
Once you have a thoroughly corporatized mass media, rife with concentration of ownership and cross-ownership, your democracy is in peril. It’s not a question of if but a question of…
Is America Too Divided to Continue?
Being American these days is becoming something akin to sharing bathwater – it’s no fun if you know the previous occupant is too damned dumb to wipe his butt. A…