In the News

• Glenn Beck and the Yearning for Fascism September 4, 2010
  By Matthew Rothschild, September 4, 2010 His invocations of God and his slamming of universities are in keeping with a fascist undercurrent that we ignore at our peril.read more […]
• Waking Up in the 1930s September 3, 2010
  By Howie Stier In the year 2010, America once again embraced the bread line, and the neatly dressed, solidly middle class, once working folk who queue up are just becoming reconciled to a stark new reality. Related Entries September 3, 2010 The $8 Billion Oil Spill August 31, 2010 Obama: ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over’ (Full Video and Text) […]
• German Military Report: Peak Oil Could Lead to Collapse of Democracy September 2, 2010
  by Daniel TencerPeak oil has happened or will happen some time around this year, and its consequences could threaten the continued survival of democratic governments, says a secret Germany military report that was leaked online.According to Der Spiegel, the report from a think-tank inside the German military warns that shrinking global oil supplies will thre […]
• God unnecessary to create universe: Hawking September 2, 2010
  Physicist Stephen Hawking says God wasn't necessary for the creation of the universe. […]
• Flying the Flag, Faking the News September 2, 2010
  Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the first world war, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a secret government campaign to persuade reluctant Americans to send an army to the bloodbath in Europe. In his book, Propaganda, published in 1928, Bernays […]
• Abdelrazik gets OK to sue Canada September 1, 2010
  Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montreal man who was stranded in Sudan for six years, has been given the green light to sue the federal government and Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon. […]
• Alt Text: Offline Social Network Sites Don't Live Up to Hype August 27, 2010
  I'm always on the lookout for the latest edge-defining interactive trends, so when I read a blog post that pointed to a tweet referring to a Facebook group that referred to a thing called a "get together," I was intrigued. […]
• Activists replace ads with guerilla art August 23, 2010
  Teams of activists spread out through Toronto Sunday to replace "illegal" advertising with guerilla art. […]
• What I Did On Summer Vacation August 23, 2010
       Oh what a mighty spewage of vinyl weighs heavy on this land!     A dark mood spread through the body politic like a septic infection last week in response to bad numbers in employment, housing, and commerce, not to mention unease about the now complete takeover of the stock market by robot traders. But I left it all behind to trip across New England fro […]
• Sooke Harbour House in Pictures (Part 1) August 19, 2010
  by Jo Dickins I’ve just done the math and I’ve spent 30% of my life in BC. I’m still lucky enough to spend vacations at my parents’ house, in one of the nicest spots in Victoria.  For my most recent trip, naturally my first-choice pitch to Good Food Revolution was to visit and photograph Sooke Harbour House, about an hour’s drive west.  Owners Sinclair and F […]

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