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From the Twitter “fake follower” check, which tells you how many of your twitter followers are real: So it looks like someone has been buying Ezra bulk followers. Anyway, compare this with the report you get for a real journalist–Canada’s sweetest little angel, Kady O’Malley: Or even Hairface, from Lethbridge: So the upshot is Ezra’s fans are mostly among the non-existent. That bodes ill for his “freedom cruise” . Fake people use fake credit. …….. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20….. Do you know what this is? It is a count of the amount of days since my last job interview. A count that is used to monitor a continued hope that employment in my field or a career of some sort will be attainable under the current economy. As I have mentioned in previous entries, my current dilemma is the result of a University education. Look how I capitalize University, making it seem like this important, distinguished and enlightening experience. Well, the capitalization will now end, university is how it will remain forever. I do not expect my university (Read more…) Sometimes I can't help feeling that a lot of Canadians have forgotten the fundamental lesson of the War Measures Act.And that is, it wasn't Pierre Trudeau's finest hour, it was his darkest.It was an October nightmare, that led to the arrests of hundreds of innocent people. It wasn't needed to ensure public safety, or arrest and prosecute the terrorists. And this bill isn't either.Read more » When I lived in the McGill Student Ghetto, I was told that Richie Havens once lived in the building next door.Either shortly before or after Woodstock, when he fell in love with a woman who worked at Eaton's. Or so the legend went.And when I sat on my small rickety wooden balcony, on a hot summer's night, and played my guitar, I would think of him. Because he was amazing.Read more » If we are all over regulating women’s bodies, I’m thinking guns should not be a frakking problem.
What if gun rights were regulated like abortion rights? Here’s a list of just some of the hoops you’d have to jump through before you could own a gun: Only one store in the entire state would sell guns. (See: Mississippi, Arkansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming for states with only one abortion provider.) You’d have to fill out an enormous personal background check including intrusive personal information that has nothing to do with your ability to own or use (Read more…) Scientists in Canada have come under attack and censorship under the federal Conservative government and Canadians want that to change. Science Uncensored is a new organization focused on ensuring that research funded by the government is freely available to Canadians and that the government stop censoring research results. In the past few years, research on the damage of salmon farming to the effects of climate change on Canada have been held back from public release due to alleged political pressure. It’s great to see people who want evidence-based debate on policy standing up against this sort of intervention in scientific . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: Canadians Want Science to be Free Often we hear that spending on experiences make for a happier life than buying into consumerism. In concept it sounds great, but many people think that it’s hard to rejig their life to be focused on doing things rather than consuming things. This TED talk is about breaking free of that passive normality and living life to its fullest. Many academic journals charge a subscription fee that is out of reach for the common person, which means that independent researchers and students are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing information. Elementa aims to make research about the anthropocene era we’re in freely accessible for everyone. Elementa follows the example of organizations such as PLoS, who offers peer-reviewed research to academics worldwide on an open-access, public-good basis. Elementa aims to facilitate scientific solutions to the challenges presented by this era of accelerated human impact on natural systems. It is committed to the rapid publication of technically sound, peer-reviewed . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: Open-Access Science Growing in Reach There is a global war on democracy underway, and if it is not addressed, our future will be bleak. But let us start with the ground work of democracy, and follow from there. Simple majority rule is accurately described as the tyranny of the majority; hence the need for constitutional democracy, where the rights and [...] Been thinking about the people in Fort Chipewan today, and everyone who lives in Northern Alberta near the Tar Sands. Stumbled on this song and thought it seemed like a pretty good way of positively saying no to all the powers that are destroying everything in the name of greed. It sounds good now matter how it’s done. And there is a version for almost everyone here. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Dont+fence+me+in&view=detail&mid=B160E7CB3DDECA21ABD7B160E7CB3DDECA21ABD7&first=421&FORM=NVPFVR http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Dont+fence+me+in&view=detail&mid=66A8ACC3110122756A3E66A8ACC3110122756A3E&first=261&FORM=NVPFVR Guess that’s it for now.
. . . → Read More: Walking Turcot Yards: Don’t Fence Me In The currently popular 40 hour work week is a fairly modern notion and it’s thanks to unions that we don’t have something like an 80 hour work week. Times have changed and now scientists in the field of biodemography have suggested that a 25 hour work week is optimal. It allows people to spend more time living life than working in exchange for working later than the currently popular age of retirement. “In socio-economic terms it makes a lot of sense. The important thing is that we all put in a certain amount of work – not at what point . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: The Ideal 25 Hour Work Week Well today was Robbie Burns Day, the most sacred day of the Old Scottish Calendar.And no doubt all over the world the Tartan Army was drinking heavily, and eating the horrible haggis.But not me eh?Because although I'm extremely proud of my Scottish heritage, I don't drink, I don't touch the awful offal. Read more » What a fairy tale day it was. What an awesome spectacle of democracy. What a great day to be a progressive.A black President on Martin Luther King Day standing up for freedom, justice, and equality.A solemn President Barack Obama took the oath of office for the second time in as many days on Monday, this time before an estimated 800,000 jubilant citizens who cheered on his appeal for Americans to come together and fight for cherished U.S. principles of justice and equality.Read more » Marijuana has been recently decriminalized in a few states in the USA, and based off of data from California the overall rate of youth arrests will drop dramatically. This is good news because now so many young lives won’t be destroyed for participating in using a drug that has negligible health effects (way less than [...] . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: Marijuana Decriminalization Lowers Youth Crime Rate I never reprint other people’s writings, no matter how good – but I will make an exception for this. This article is a true must-read. Please, take the time to read it. Then act. Good morning America. It’s time for a new day. Kudos and warm thanks to Jill Dalton at recoveringarmybrat. I will definitely [...] 
 Activism, alternative, alternatives, American politics, analysis, Authors, banks, Barack Obama, civil liberties, class, consciousness, constitution, context, Corporate fascism, corporate rule, corporatism, corporatocracy, crisis of democracy, democracy, Democrat, Democratic Deficit, ecological crisis, Ecology, economy, election, elite, empire, empowerment, environment, environmental economics, fascism, fascist, feudalism, food, freedom, Geopolitics, globalism, Globalization, Health, Health Care, human rights, Imperialism, Iran, jobs, Liberal, must-read, NDAA, neo-feudalism, Obama, oil, Patriot Act, Peace, Peak Oil, people's movements, perspective, police state, Policy, political economy, politics, popular uprising, pro-democracy movement, Psychology, quotes, Republican, Republican Party, Sustainability, the world's other superpower, truth, U.S, uprising, war, war crimes, war on democracy, wellness, World News LA joins quite a few other cities in North America to ban the sale of animals from puppy mills. Puppy mills are horrible breeding facilities focused on profit at the expense of animal welfare and many people buying a pet don’t realize that pet stores get their puppies from such morally bankrupt places. Bans on puppy mills help cities deal with the vast quantity of rejected animals from people’s homes that need to be taken care of in city shelters. The city council voted 12-2 in favor of a law that would require pet stores to sell only rescued animals. . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: LA Bans Puppy Mills; Pet Stores to Sell Only Rescued Animals This gets my standing ovation: the most honest 3 1/2 minutes of television. You read that correctly, a $259 million (USD) boom in New York City’s economy is thanks to respecting human rights! Changing the law to reflect reality and letting homosexuals marry one another has generated some needed economic growth for the local economy. All of this in just one year! “Marriage equality has made our City more open, inclusive and free — and it has also helped to create jobs and support our economy,” Mayor Bloomberg said in a statement. More than 8,200 same-sex marriage licenses have been issued over the past year, representing more than 10% of the 75,000 licenses Romeo Dallaire, possible the only ex-Armed Forces biggie I could ever have any respect for, is sponsoring this petition to bring Omar Khadr home…it’s well past time for this to happen, and as usual, the CRAPs are acting as though the issue didn’t exist, because it doesn’t suit their agenda to do any thing but let him rot in Gitmo… If you haven’t already (and I’m betting you haven’t) consider signing this petition… As crass as it sounds, our Klown circus may just consider doing this to get their poll numbers back up from the abyss..here’s hoping…in the meantime, . . . → Read More: Left Over: Take a little Time out of Your Busy Schedule…… The use of mobiles in development is nothing new; however, it’s always good to remind ourselves how useful this technology can be. Mashable has a list of five reasons mobile devices are good for international development (and in developed nations too). 4. Preserving the Rainforest Brazil’s Surui tribe, a group native to the Amazon Rainforest, has been subject to the devestating effects of logging on its ancestral lands. Google helped the Surui devise a solution, through the use of Android phones, to monitor one of the land’s most valuable resources, its carbon stock. Carbon offsets are sold to companies to . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: Mobile Devices for Development I don’t much care for the ideologies of either the so called anarchist right (libertarianism) or the anarchist left (a hodgepodge of post- and proto-communist, syndicalist, participatory economic, and other ideologies more common in Europe today). More generally, I don’t much care for ideologies period, especially those determined by a narrow set of axioms. However, if I had to choose between these I would choose the anarchist left over the anarchist right for the former has more internal consistency to its ideology. The central distinction, in my mind, is over the scope to which one objects to hierarchical structures. Libertarianism . . . → Read More: Progressive Proselytizing: Anarchist right vs anarchist left ideologies WikiLeaks continues to bring the world information that would otherwise be hidden from the masses, this time it’s millions of emails and documents from Syria. The Syria Files have been given to some media organizations to filter through (much like the last large release of documents from WikiLeaks). This new release should shed light on the volatile situation in Syria and potential more. Already, it appears Italy was illegal helping Syria, who knows what else will be found. The more open and transparent countries are the more democratically they can function (the irony in all of this is WikiLeaks founder . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: WikiLeaks Releases Syria Files Around the world governments are trying to restrain the ability of people to freely share information across the internet. Bills like SOPA in the USA and Bill C-30 in Canada to the more recent TPP all focus on propping up old media monopolies and curtailing people’s privacy and communication rights. The most effective and extreme example of clamping down on the internet can be seen in the Great Firewall of China. WIth the above in mind, it’s good to see that a group of people have taken up the challenge of creating a universal declaration of freedom for online access . . . → Read More: Things Are Good: Declaration of Internet Freedom Dan Murphy is a cartoonist for the Province newspaper,and here in BC, it is common practice to castigate the corporate agenda of rightwing whackjobs, sometimes in the media, whatever the East may think of the West’s support of the CRAPs.. Now that ability to laugh at, and thus negate the power of, Enbridge and other oil vampires, is being compromised by a weak-kneed publisher who is concerned that advertising dollars will dry up because of Murphy’s vid…here’s a link… http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/26/dan-murphy-vancouver-province-enbridge-pipeline-parody-pulled-postmedia-_n_1629388.html?utm_hp_ref=canada Surprise, surprise, the Provincial Enquirer, the most rightwing rag of all the rightwing rags in BC, . . . → Read More: Left Over: Enbridge Pipeline Spoof is “Revised” |
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