Think the F-35 is Dead? Think Again, Think Singapore.
When it comes to America’s looming war in the Pacific, Canada’s in. That much became plain with the announcement that Harper DefMin, “Airshow” MacKay, is seeking to establish a Canadian…
The Mound of Sound
Afghanistan Reset
Our days babysitting Afghanistan’s unresolved civil war are drawing to a close. The big question is “what next”? What will come of Afghanistan after Western forces leave? According to Gwynne…
Breaking a Culture of Corruption
Cops are corrupt and they don’t even try to hide it. They’re liars and cheats who don’t think twice about breaking the public trust and trampling it under their combat…
Arms Race Update – US Space Drone Returns
Drones in space? The US Air Force is preparing for the return of its automated space craft after 453-days and counting in orbit. Here it is, the X-37. The robotic…
More F-35 Troubles Loom
One of the ongoing controversies plaguing the F-35 has been what powers it. There was early backing for two engines to be developed but Congress angrily quashed that in favour…
Legislating Against Sea Level Rise – What Crazy People Do in Government
North Carolina is firmly Republican and its legislature is just as firmly crazy. Crazy as in detached from reality, liberated from reason, unhinged. From Scientific American: “…the meter or so…
Canada’s Age of Glum
Suddenly, Stephen Harper doesn’t seem all that out of place. The latest from pollster Nik Nanos is that many Canadians are pessimistic about the future that awaits our youth. “…the…
Will a Vancouver Island Company Save the Buffalo?
It’s been 23-years since the last de Havilland Twin Otter rolled out of the company’s plant in Ontario. But a fine Canadian airplane isn’t that easy to kill off and…
Former Ministers, PC & Lib, Call Harper Out
They’re challenging Stephen Harper to come clean. An open letter from four former fisheries ministers, two Tories, two Libs, demands some explanations from the Prince of Darkness about just why…
Harper’s Environment Campaign Ad
Stop The Environment from Ed Asner
Does Ottawa Really See Canadians as Useless?
This is directed mainly at the Conservatives but it applies to the Libs too. Tar Sands boosters, which includes most of our MPs on both sides of the floor of…
Germany Nears 50% Solar Record
Germany is going into solar power in a big way. On Friday and Saturday, the country’s new solar grid put out 22-gigawatts of electricity, the equivalent of 20 nuclear power…
Income Inequality – Visible From Space
Looking down on Earth from space, it’s easy to spot where the rich people live and where the poor don’t. The picture below, published at Grist.com, illustrates the point. That’s…
Sometimes a Video Speaks for Itself
Courtesy The Tyee.
The Bean Counter Government
Andrew Coyne has discerned, finally, what the Harper government is all about – of late, anyway – the economy. The government’s agenda thus has three broad objectives: One, curb (somewhat)…
And This is Surprising, How?
Disability claims are flooding in from surviving veterans of America’s failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Associated Press reports that about 45% of these vets have filed claims. The…
Israel’s Race Riots
To us, they’re “refugees.” To many Israeli’s, including Netnayahu, they’re “infiltrators.” In Israel’s Knesset, refugees and asylum-seekers are derided as “cancer.” Demonstrators have attacked African migrants in Tel Aviv in…
An Argument Even Albertans Should Understand
Even today, simply mentioning the Trudeau-era “National Energy Programme” or NEP to an Albertan is putting a match to gasoline. Yet, in yesterday’s Edmonton Journal, the argument was made that…
Amerika Exposed
We can thank Chris Hedges and his colleagues for this. They had the guts to sue Obama and Panetta to challenge the constitutionality of the National Defence Authorization Act and,…