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Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Monbiot Backs Scottish Independence

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Guardian  enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that the U.K. government is " politically dead from neck down " and Scots would...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Who Says Progressive Values Defy Definition.? Oh Yeah, that Guy.

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For a guy who doesn't hesitate to self-identify as a progressive, a certain outspoken Liberal doesn't seem to have a clue what th...
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Holy, Holy Shit.

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You might find this a bit unsettling. The latest thing in nuclear war is cyber warfare, hacking an enemy's control systems to either ...
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Why Fareed Sees Putin, Not Trump, as the World's Most Powerful Man.

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America's economy dwarfs Russia's. America's military might eclipses the Russians' except, perhaps, in nuclear warheads. ...
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The Great Arctic Raincoast, Coming Soon.

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All my life I came to think of the Arctic as a place of ice and snow. It appears that's about to change . The Arctic is set to get dr...
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When You Put It That Way

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She's a legend, Tracey Ullman.

It's a Dam Shame

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Get this. More than 4,000 dams in the United States are now rated unsafe because of structural and other problems. It's a safe bet ...

It's "Put Up or Shut Up" Time on Climate Change - and "Shut Up" Has a Big Lead Going Into the G20 Summit

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Is the G-20 about to kick climate change to the curb? Apparently so, at least according to Bloomberg . Finance ministers for the U.S.,...
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Oh Dear, About Those Pipelines.

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The history of the Athabasca Tar Sands reveals an on-again/off-again project. In the postwar years there was massive support for developmen...
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Monday, March 13, 2017

About Televisions That May Be Spying on You. John Oliver's Perspective

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In domestic spying, perspective is everything. No, you don't have to ditch your Samsung flatscreen.
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The Biggest of Big-Tent Moments

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Chances are you've read at least a couple of them: Sinclair Lewis' " It Can't Happen Here," George Orwell's ...
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Sunday, March 12, 2017

And So, I Told My American Friends Who Used to Mock Obama. Oh, Here, Just Read the Email.

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Hi guys: Just days away from two months of Trumpland. How’s that going anyway? It doesn’t seem to be going too well for el pr...
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Saturday, March 11, 2017

Check Please! America Wants Cambodia to Pay Up.

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In the course of America's ill-fated war in Viet Nam, U.S. forces lavished half a million tonnes  of high explosives on the territor...
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Elections B.C. Calls In the Mounties

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The Trump administration isn't the only regime under investigation. Now you can add Christy Clark's B.C. Liberal cabal . Electi...
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That Big Blue Marble, She's Getting Hotter

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One of the lesser known aspects of climate change is the role played by oceans as a "heat sink." Oceans absorb a lot of heat f...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

EPA Woes. Scott Pruitt is a Believer.

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Trump's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is a believer. The attorney and Republican hack from Oklahoma "beli...
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Thursday, March 09, 2017

It Does Seem Like They're Closing In on Donald J. Trump

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Some pretty top notch journalists and columnists see the writing on the wall for Donald Trump and his presidency. The  Sydney Morning ...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2017

WikiLeaks Under a Cloud. First Things First.

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WikiLeaks  is in the news for dumping thousands of documents allegedly detailing CIA techniques for hacking and surveillance . The do...
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What Dave Said...

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My parents generation had Jack Paar, Steve Allen and Johnny Carson. My generation had Letterman and Leno. Today it's Kimmel, Corbin, ...
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Monday, March 06, 2017

Murmurs From the Asylum.

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This must be just a horrible dream. Listen as Trump's housing secretary, Dr. Ben Carson, explains how his own ancestors, who arrived in...
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