The Conservatives won a majority and will have it for years. Harper will have enough time to wreck the country, and, in particular, the health care system. It appears that fear of an NDP, i.e., socialist, government convinced normal Liberal voters to vote Conservative. Stick a fork in it - Canada as we know it is finished.
Canadian election - hell
The Conservatives won a majority and will have it for years. Harper will have enough time to wreck the country, and, in particular, the health care system. It appears that fear of an NDP, i.e., socialist, government convinced normal Liberal voters to vote Conservative. Stick a fork in it - Canada as we know it is finished.
fascist centrism (blairism) on the march again
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Labour MPs announce their resignations from the party RT.com, Feb 17 2019
Chuka Umunna announcing his departure from Labour Photo: Simon
Dawson/Reuters A g...
Counterpunch Shadowboxes and Loses
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By Edward Curtin | February 17, 2019 In a fair boxing match, opponents
enter the ring with similarly padded gloves and battle under the bright
lights for t...
Sunday 'National Emergency' Toons
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Butterfly refuge in south Texas files restraining order to stop border wall
construction Abuse of Faith: Investigation reveals 700 victims of Southern
Bapt...
Nothing Would Sleep in That Cellar
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- If we *were* looking to buy near Chelsea Michigan - we are not looking
to buy near Chelsea Michigan
- we are doing reconnaissance for if an...
Laughter for All (Financial) Times
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While the political class dismisses the sensational press, they are avid
readers of the ‘prize winning’ propaganda newspapers and their columnists.
Read es...
Saturday
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*Trump*
GET OUT OF THE BOAT
*"Electing Trump president was pretty much the same thing as electing
Dennis Rodman president, i.e., a washed-up celebrity fro...
YOUR SATURDAY CARTOONS: FEBRUARY 16, 2019
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Now I remember another reason I left the East: SNOW. Slippery footing. A
cold that requires actually sealing shut my windows! Hopefully this
morning's off...
Headlines for Feb. 15, 2019
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*Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio.*
*Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted time
slot.*
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طحن فروج النساء بين رُحى الصراع
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فروج العديد من نساء شمال العراق تُباح بين فحول داعش (دينياً، كما يدّعون)
وفحول التشكيلات الأمنية وميليشيات الحشد اللذين يستبيحون نساء لهن علاقة مع
عناصر “...
Update for Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad says the U.S. and Taliban have agreed on the
"draft of a framework" for a peace accord. While there has been a lot of
excitemen...
Merry Christmas
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1. Merry Christmas to all and let’s hope that our troops really do pull out
of Syria and Afghanistan. Have no idea if I’ll post at all in 2019, but I
have ...
Merry Christmas
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1. Merry Christmas to all and let’s hope that our troops really do pull out
of Syria and Afghanistan. Have no idea if I’ll post at all in 2019, but I
have ...
Midterm Results
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In past years, I have closely monitored TV and web coverage of the returns
and posted here in real time, which some people really appreciate--I
presume fol...
I Heal The Unquiet Spirit
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*I see spirits everywhere*
*In the trees, the night sky*
*Spirits flashing by *
*Of those once held dear*
*And always, near.*
*~Naseer Ahmad*
Arriving ...
Beyak Full Of It On Residential Schools
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Last month, Senator Lynn Beyak harshly criticized the findings of the Truth
and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on the impacts of the residential
schools o...
بصمات أصابع
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حبيبتي
رُغم أننا في نفس القارب
نهاياتُ القصصِ أخذتْ تختلف
أسبقُكِ ربما
أو نُواصلُ معا
طرقٌ يتحسّسُ الجسدُ فيه
المزيدَ من الجسد
قصدتُ الأرميني العجوز في م...
back door men
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back door men Almost two months after releasing details of 23 different
secret CIA hacking tool projects under Vault 7 series, Wikileaks today
announced ...
On Fetish
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God creates Adam and immediately—sooner than we thought—He speaks to him.
This first address, according to the midrash, is a seduction:
*“And the Lord ...
EU Hypocrisy
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EU Hypocrisyby Stephen LendmanEuropean countries subordinate their
sovereign independence to Washington. It's what the CIA's formation of the
EU was all ab...
Honduran Supreme Court defies CIDH
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The government of Honduras, specifically its Supreme Court, has chosen to
willfully defy an order by the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights (CIDH in
Spani...
More often than not
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This should be the last post here on my own hand-coded pages, and I'll be
delighted to wave good-bye to Echo comments. So, it's off to Blogger, with
a slig...
General Walker and The Murderof President Kennedy
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I have begun reading a long-awaited new book on the JFK assassination, *General
Walker and The Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New Evidence of a ...
Habeas Coca - Bolivia’s Community Coca Control
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*Linda C. Farthing and Kathryn Ledebur*
*Executive Summary *
When Bolivian President Carlos Mesa challenged vocal U.S. opposition in
2004 and legalized t...
I'm Back
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Hello, friends.
I'm back, after a very long hiatus, some of which I spent, more recently,
blogging out of the closet, if you will, on Facebook (yes! of all...
Surging
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*We're Number One*
*"A major military-led surge in U.S. aid to fight"* Ebola in West Africa
will soon begin. 3000 soldiers and probably more than $500 mill...
CHILD ABUSE NETWORKS - PART TWO
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*Frits Salomonson (left) and Prince Claus*
In 1998, in Holland, the authorities were investigating the* Rolodex *case
which involved top people and pedoph...
THE RIVER, Part Nine
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We rowed on in anxious silence. I could not take my eyes off the light
beyond the trees. I hoped the light belonged to the Highway 67 bridge, but
it seemed...
Stan VanDerBeek
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Stan VanDerBeek. "...A pioneer in the development of experimental film and
live-action animation techniques, Stan VanDerBeek achieved widespread
recogniti...
Tsarnaev Banned from Group Prayers Under SAMs
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TMO
On October 2, 2013, Boston marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s
defense team submitted a request that the Special Administrative Measures
(SAM...
Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians
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Over the past 30 years, I have owned about a half dozen copies of A Field
Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians. One of the books with the
greatest in...
Quote of the Week: Eric Hobsbawm
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"What exactly could 'being Jewish' mean in the 1920's to an intelligent
Anglo-Viennese boy who suffered no anti-Semitism and was so remote from the
practic...
Service Interruption notice
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You may have noticed rigorousintuition.ca is currently down. We're moving
servers. Drew informs me it shouldn't take too long. Perhaps tonight or
tomorrow....
The Blog Has Moved
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You can find all my recent writing on +972 Magazine. The direct link to the
Promised Land Blog is: http://972mag.com/author/noams/ See you there, Noam
Are You Still Here?
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I’m surprised to see people still looking for this blog and some of the
older entries. Regulars to my writing will know that I’ve moved to the more
neutral...
The New Worldchanging Is Coming
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Cameron SinclairAfter a long hiatus we are coming back. In September my
organization, Architecture for Humanity acquired Worldchanging and all its
assets. ...
FRIDAY COMEDY
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I think this falls under the heading of "you couldn't make this stuff up"
Introducing ‘Judoku’: Sudoku for Jews
Instead of simply lining up the numbers...
Let's play a little game...
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It's called "Who haz Teh Stoopid about Venezuela?" Our first contestant:
The Miami New Times. In spite of their posing as a liberal alternative
paper, they...
Peddling Peril, Peddling Lies
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David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and International
Security (ISIS), has a new book out (which I haven't read) about AQ Khan
and the n...
Israeli Values
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Here is an interesting summery of the illegal organ trade and Israel, which
is a center for it due to a shortage of organs and apparently little moral
comp...