January 2012
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The #EthicalOil meme is pathetic PR bullshit |...
Yes, I said it, the whole concept is brilliant. This is a fantastic way to change the debate to an issue that doesn’t really matter. Has anyone seriously thought that we would not be able to sell our oil? Come on. This is much ado about nothing. Actually, I’m sure the outrage has more to do with the fact the claim is based on the carbon footprint reasoning than anything else. ...
December 2011
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Preparation
Odd customs these people have …
@wicary rules. That is all. | #tarsands
via storify.com
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Bullshit – Marco.org →
H/t @mathewi.
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About The Finger →
parislemon:
Last night when I posted about my outrage over Google taking down my middle finger profile picture I was being a bit facetious. It was a little annoying, sure. But I found it more humorous because it seems to be a silly policy with a lot of gray area that will be hard to enforce (and time shouldn’t be wasted enforcing it). I also didn’t like that Google removed my picture without...
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Chris Hedges: No Act of Rebellion Is Wasted |...
We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we are not. We have a power that terrifies the corporate state. Any act of rebellion, no matter how few people show up or how heavily it is censored by a media that caters to the needs and profits of corporations, chips away at corporate power. Any act of...
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Income inequality, the 99 percent, and the...
Income inequality is a symptom, not the disease. People realize that now. They see the symptom erupting in all directions, but, at a visceral level, they can sense the deeper pathology at work in their lives. The disease is a lack of accountability, a failure of the responsible institutions, political and otherwise, to do their jobs as a check on the inebriate gluttony of the financial sector...
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The cruel reality of the American class system: We...
There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we imagine the world should be, that nobody can accept them. Here’s one: It is obvious that a class system has arrived in America — a recent study of the thirty-four countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that only Italy and Great Britain have less social mobility. But nobody wants...
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Far-right wackjobs: they're not just tedious -...
December 25, 2011 | Photo Credit: Agence-France Presse {AFP] LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The paranoia infecting a broad swath of the American...
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From @mtaibbi, a Christmas message from Wall...
Apparently, we’d all be in much better shape if the poor were as motivated as Steven Schwarzman is to make America a better place.
But it seems to me that if you’re broke enough that you’re not paying any income tax, you’ve got nothing but skin in the game. You’ve got it all riding on how well America works.
You can’t afford private security: you need to depend on the police. You...
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“Shit heads. Wow. Sounds like the same ol’ girl hate to me. Of course I...”
– http://sodisarmingdarling.tumblr.com/post/14511994735/on-shit-girls-say-and-girl-hate-from-everyone
Well said, Emma. When I started this blog I never thought it’d reach an audience of over 200 followers - and counting. Might be time for a name change. Suggestions, anyone?
(via shit-girls-say)
OK,...
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@GraphicMatt dismantles @TOMayorFord on transit |...
via fordfortoronto.mattelliott.ca
There’s no shortage of observers willing to blog, analyze, poke fun, and detail all the myriad injuries, both large and small, that Team Ford is inflicting upon the city. Irrational mean-spiritedness, making up “facts” as they go along, sandbagging rookie councillors, and an overall spirit of childish vindictiveness — everything they do...
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she was disarming: On Shit Girls Say and girl hate... →
sodisarmingdarling:
I’ve been mulling this whole Shit Girls Say thing over for a while now and I think I’ve finally figured out what it is that bothers me about it: Everything. And that includes you, other people who hate it.
If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, Toronto dudes Graydon Sheppard…
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@GeorgeMonbiot on the subversion of 'freedom' |...
Modern libertarianism is the disguise adopted by those who wish to exploit without restraint. It pretends that only the state intrudes on our liberties. It ignores the role of banks, corporations and the rich in making us less free. It denies the need for the state to curb them in order to protect the freedoms of weaker people. This bastardised, one-eyed philosophy is a con trick, whose...
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Alberta roadside gunman fails to fit manufactured...
via winnipegsun.com
Oy.
I wonder how this story would read if this guy had been a Muslim …
(h/t buckdog)
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Christopher Hitchens on religion and our...
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Christopher Hitchens - 1949-2011
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Christopher Hitchens - 1949-2011
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. via en.wikiquote.org Have a drink for me when you get … well, when you get wherever you’re going, you magnificent bastard.
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The lobbyists behind warrantless online spying |...
via openmedia.ca
This isn’t Oz, folks. Pay LOTS of attention to that man behind the curtain …
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Don't Betray Our Generation. Get It Done. | Common...
via commondreams.org And again … … this is where we juxtapose: this speech from a couple of days ago, and today’s announcement that Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol. No comment from me necessary. Anjali’s said it all.
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@joshuahind drops the gloves for a dance with the...
A Letter to the Managing Editor of The Gazette Posted on December 13, 2011 by admin Ma’am, I write today in response to the opinion piece printed in today’s edition of The Gazette, written by Pat Hickey, concerning Theo Fleury and the Graham James case. While I support a newspaper’s right and duty to print columns from a broad variety of viewpoints, on this issue...
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From @alexhimelfarb on Harper's omnibus crime bill...
This legislation is transformative as it puts punishment and prison at the centre of our criminal justice system.
This has never been the Canadian approach; our balanced justice policies have always focused on safety and justice – and the best evidence of what works. Such a change in direction should never happen without a vigorous debate – a good fight.
That’s all the more important...
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That Doug Ford - always full of surprises ... |... →
Just when you thought … ah, never mind.
The Sun: Demonizing organized labour, no matter...
Take a guess which bit of birdcage-liner this is from.
You don’t even need the facts to know which way they’ll torque it. One can’t help but remember the bad old days of the Harris regime, when picking fights with teachers was pretty much all there was to education policy.
Such a great plan, that. Let’s go out of our way to antagonize the people who spend eight hours a...
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@TOMayorFord, the Star, the truth, and maturity |...
OK, so if I understand this, Rob Ford isn’t talking to the Star because according to him, the paper is lying about an incident involving him and a football team he was coaching. And he’s going to cut the Star out of all official communications from the mayor’s office until the Star apologizes. Petty personal vendetta and inappropriate use of official communications channels...
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Watcholdjewstellingjokes:
Lou Charloff, “Sex to the Church Bells”
Lou Charloff is credited as “Mean Man” in the 2008 film, “An Immigrant Girl’s Journey.” Having met Lou in person, we are certain this role was a big stretch for him. (He’s the exact opposite of mean.)
OK, so maybe that last post citing Chris Hedges was a bit of a downer. Here’s something for a cold rainy Friday.
(I love this...
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Chris Hedges: Zero Point of Systemic Collapse |...
The cultural belief that we can make things happen by thinking, by visualizing, by wanting them, by tapping into our inner strength or by understanding that we are truly exceptional is magical thinking. We can always make more money, meet new quotas, consume more products and advance our career if we have enough faith. This magical thinking, preached to us across the political spectrum by Oprah,...
