Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Canadians want their government to deal with poverty
Rolling Back the Tide of Extremism, One Post at a Time: Four in Ten Canadians Fear Imminent Poverty
She said Canadians look at Scandinavian and European countries' focus on poverty reduction and say, "Why can't we do that here?"
According to the survey:
90 per cent want the government to take leadership to reduce poverty
86 per cent believe concrete government action can greatly reduce poverty
81 per cent support reducing poverty by at least 25 per cent over the next five years.
Syria invaded by the USA, and the biased MSM reporting of it.
Strong evidence of distortion in media’s portrayal of Syrian invasion « Paulitics
Some of you may have read recently (source, source, source, source, source, source, source)
that the United States broke international law on Sunday by violating
the sovereignty of a UN member nation (Syria) without the necessary UN
sanction and without the appropriate legal and moral criteria necessary to justify such an attack without UN sanction.
Some of you may have read recently (source, source, source, source, source, source, source)
that the United States broke international law on Sunday by violating
the sovereignty of a UN member nation (Syria) without the necessary UN
sanction and without the appropriate legal and moral criteria necessary to justify such an attack without UN sanction.
As an exercise, I decided to look at how the mainstream U.S. media
covered the incident. For the purposes of this exercise, I took
mainstream media to consist of: CNN, FOX News, LA Times, Washington
Post, NPR, USA Today, NY Times¹ and Time Magazine.
Mmmmm, beds.
18 Creative Modern Beds and Bed Designs | WebUrbanist
I like the one with the trees and the bird's nest.
I like the one with the trees and the bird's nest.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Remember this guy in the Harris government?
Peterborough Politics: Rosy Flaherty
Having lived in various parts of Ontario my entire life, I have had the dubious experience of living through the era of the Mike Harris Conservative Government. We are still feeling the effects of those years and their policies to this day. The starved and underfunded school and health care systems, the crumbling infrastructure, the lost fiscal capacity and the growing poverty, all of these things were brought on or made worse by the policies of the Harris Conservatives. Their Neo-Conservative ideology of "tax cuts solve everything" left this province in a terrible mess, with lots of policies that are still doing damage to the bottom lines of the province (also because of the McGuinty Liberals refusal to fix them ie. School Funding formula and refusing to upload Social Services costs from Municipalities).
So after that gang was turfed from Queen's Park, many were justifiably happy. But problem was that some of those Harris Conservatives didn't just go away, they just moved up to Ottawa. Former Harris ministers make up a large part of Stephen Harper's cadre in Ottawa, with the likes of John Baird and Tony Clement taking up big positions there. But in probably the most important Cabinet position is one of the most infamous Harris era ministers, Finance Minster Jim Flaherty. Flaherty was known in Ontario for spending a great deal of his time praying at the alter of his god "tax cut". He was known for downloading things to other levels, trying to defer any responsibility for raising anyone's taxes. He also partook in selling off public buildings and assets, and was big part of the movement towards P3 hospitals (something that the McGuinty Liberals have continued with). Probably the most infamous case of this was the sale of the 407 toll road to a Spanish consortium and using the money to barely balance the books. It was that kind of management that had Ontario deep into deficit by the time they were booted, although they never admitted to those deficits as they were hiding them. Transparency indeed.
Food for thought on the coming recession.
LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Deja Vu
Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty and Mark Carney assured us that the economic fundamentals in Canada are sound,
despite the current meltdown of international finance capitalism.
Wearing Bush/McCain like rose coloured blinders they refuse to admit
that Canada faces a pending recession and the government will likely incur a deficit. Something Harper and Flaherty denied during the election campaign. Instead they say steady as she goes.
Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty and Mark Carney assured us that the economic fundamentals in Canada are sound,
despite the current meltdown of international finance capitalism.
Wearing Bush/McCain like rose coloured blinders they refuse to admit
that Canada faces a pending recession and the government will likely incur a deficit. Something Harper and Flaherty denied during the election campaign. Instead they say steady as she goes.
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Stay healthy, keep farting
The Stink in Farts Controls Blood Pressure | LiveScience
A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.
The unpleasant aroma of the gas, called hydrogen sulfide (H2S), can be a little too familiar, as it is expelled by bacteria living in the human colon and eventually makes its way, well, out.
The new research found that cells lining mice’s blood vessels naturally make the gas and this action can help keep the rodents’ blood pressure low by relaxing the blood vessels to prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). This gas is “no doubt” produced in cells lining human blood vessels too, the researchers said.
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