Category: Politics

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January 4, 2009

Iceland: More from the economic ‘canary in the coalmine’

A couple of days ago, the traditional meeting of Iceland’s prime minister and other leaders was interrupted by protesters to the point where the PM cancelled the annual review on TV. Full AP story here . For me, Iceland feels like it’s the economic canary in a coalmine.  They have experienced a crushing economic defeat and will likely have to cave to a broad range […]

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December 28, 2008

CBC To Be Cut By $200 Million?

We know the Harpercrites hate the public and we know they hate public broadcasting even more.  Maybe it was Peter Mansbridge and his ‘daring’ questioning of our repugnant leader just a few weeks ago. "Is a coalition really such a bad thing?" "Die Peter, Die".  (Could it be that he really meant to say "The Peter, The"?). Anyways, this broadcast spells out that the CBC […]

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December 28, 2008

Al Qaeda joins ranks of Peter Pan, Zeus

According to this official , there is no Al Qaeda.  The truth about the war on terror becomes more obvious:  identify who benefits and you identify who causes / caused the problems. "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in […]

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December 26, 2008

Canada’s Political (Colour) Spectrum

Is a Green just a yellow Blue? Is an Orange just a yellow Red? No. The Greens in Canada are substantially better than the Blues and the Reds can’t hold a candle to the Oranges. In 2009, Purple will be the colour of Parliament. With the help of Red, Blue become the furthest right on the spectrum (see below). The Reds under Ignatieff have merged […]