Happy National Corvette Day!
From your USA Automotive Industry!
P.S. We are in shambles.
Why? Inability to see predict change? Inability to adjust to current change? Reliance on subservient and dedicated servants in Legislatures across the West?
With rumours of Chrysler’s imminent bankruptcy, GM worth what it was worth in 1955, crumbling domestic infrastructure, peak, and systemic [...]
Happy National Corvette Day! (Also, millions will to starve to death) 06.30.08
McCains: Why cut taxes when you can just evade them? 06.29.08
San Diego Country isn’t happy with the McCain family. Turns out, one of the many trusts that administers one of their seven homes hasn’t paid taxes in four years. McCain’s trust scrambled to pay nearly all of the outstanding debt to the county. $1,742 of a total $6,744.42 remains.
If that seems like an [...]
CBC’s Search Engine is awesome; therefore, cancelled 06.24.08
From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:
Last year, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation created a new radio show, Search Engine, to chronicle the shifts being wrought upon global culture and politics as a consequence of technology. It was smart, funny, broke important stories, changed Canadian politics, won awards, and was a global success.
So the CBC cancelled it.
A [...]
Alberta celebrates criminal corporate greenwashers 06.06.08
Well folks, it’s Environment Week! While most of the rest of the civilized world is preparing for post-Kyoto measures we’re doing our own thing here in Alberta.
Our forward-thinking government reports that, in celebration of Environment Week, Premier Ed Stelmach made a personal commitment to plant a tree on the Alberta Legislature grounds. I found [...]
Scientists who think global warming is fake… are fake. [LIES] 05.02.08
The disgusting and criminally irresponsible liars at the Heartland Institute are finding their sinewy nest of lies collapsing beneath them.
A notorious list published by the institute listing 500 scientists with doubts about global warming turns out to be fake. After DeSmogBlog — a blog focused on exposing dishonest corporate-political PR on global warming — [...]
Preparing for Armageddon [Morbid Robot v. Bush Crony Edition] 04.22.08
Never one to be unprepared for unthinkable and grotesque disaster, the Tokyo Fire Department is now using a robotic body collector.
“Robokiyu the Rescue Robot” is seen below in a demonstration of its cadaver collection skills, allowing corpses to be collected and transported from disaster sites.
Having just finished Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine I immediately began [...]
Lifting up mine eyes - finally 04.18.08
“Seasoned sessional” and valued friend and former professor Allison Dube has written an article for the University of Calgary’s Gauntlet. In it, he condemns many of the changes that have reshaped academia in the last two decades, changes in privatization and commercialization, as well as an increasing emphasis on self-interest over public benefit, that have [...]
Doctorow declares his Virgin Media contract void in reaction to CEO’s admission 04.15.08
Reacting to Virgin Media’s CEO calling Net Neutrality a “load of bollocks” Cory Doctorow has declared his contract with them void, canceling his service, and encouraging others to follow his lead.
The CEO admitted he’s already providing some content to people faster than others. If you’re unwilling to pay his company a premium for delivery, he [...]
Currently Reading 04.14.08
With the weather so nice, I hung around outside instead of blogging this weekend. Terrible, I know.
So, here’s an update on some books I’m reading right now.
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software - Stephen Johnson
The New City: How the crisis in Canada’s urban centres is reshaping the nation - John [...]
Politics Has Lost Control of “Rogue Economics” 04.06.08
Loretta Napoleoni, Italian economist and Fulbright Scholar, has a new book that’s piqued my interest. Her appearance on Democracy Now this week finished with me very interested in her book. [Full Transcript] Napoleoni defined rogue economics at the start of her interview with Amy Goodman:
Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find [...]
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