Global Issues
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A story on MSNBC caught my eye today. For years now, the residents of Pavillion Wyoming have been complaining about their drinking water. They claim it’s turned black and stinks of gasoline. Many are claiming serious health issues relate to the problems with the water. Why am I writing about this? Well, aside from the…
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Working on catching up on my NaNoWriMo project so not a lot of time for the blog tonight. Serious backlog of writing to take care of. The timing is however quite excellent. I had not idea what to write about tonight. Of course, this is also true of the novel I’m supposed to be writing. …
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In a recent article in Macleans, Jesse Brown was talking about the new Aakash tablet which is being made in India. It’s not here yet, but it’s likely coming soon. The first thing to know about it, is that it’s a bottom end tablet. The processor is slow. The networking is substandard and there’s no…
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Actually, there are more than two, but I don’t feel like writing a twenty-thousand word essay tonight. So I’ll limit this to just a couple, or so. First up of course is the idea of spending BILLIONS of dollars on new fighter aircraft. I’m going to assume that’s because we live in an unstable part…
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Earlier tonight, I was reading an article from the Huffington Post. It talked about a ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals saying that corporations should be held to account for human rights violations overseas. Specifically, the residents of the island of Bougainville in the Phillipines is looking to sue the Rio Tinto for…
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Rare though it may be, I agree heartily with a recent article by Andrew Coyne in this weeks Maclean’s magazine. In it, he argues that the problem isn’t with the super rich one percent. It’s them and the eighty nine percent under them. Here in Canada, we don’t have the same issues as are motivating…
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The more I see of the Occupy This And That crowd, the more they annoy me. One of their most annoying habits is claiming to be the “99%”. Even the most math challenged should be able to understand that this is decidedly not the case. I’m going to be generous (and lazy) and give them…
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Despite the fondest wishes of so many who opposed it, Greenpeace turned forty this year. I remember as a child back in the early ’70s listening to all the talk about this group of “hippies” that were interfering with nuclear testing. Because of the cold war, it seemed pretty obvious to a child like me…
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Okay, you’ve finally got me. I can’t take it any more. Our society is caught in a feedback loop and just like the feedback at a live concert, the whining is driving me nuts. Someone says, “One percent of the population controls most of the money while the other ninety-nine percent struggles.” and a media…
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So our provincial election is over. Dalton McGuinty and the Liberal Party returned for a third round but with a minority this time. That just gives them a handy excuse for anything they promised but don’t deliver on. All of that is irrelevant because so few people showed up to vote. We could have elected…
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