I needed to correct for Puerto Rico.
I watched Justin Trudeau's speech via YouTube and skipped the Vulgarian's speech. Seems to have been wise regarding my mental health.
And there's concerns about the Rich, Sociopathic and Militant...
And this was the front page of the Globe and Mail today:
Simple, right?
And there's concerns about the Rich, Sociopathic and Militant...
And this was the front page of the Globe and Mail today:
Simple, right?
Checking In - 28 January 2023
Jan. 28th, 2023 09:36 amListening to The House on CBC Radio One at the moment. There is a class-action lawsuit intended to bring those who donated to the organizers of the Convoy Siege of Ottawa last winter to account financially for their role in keeping that siege going, and the consequences of it to the people living and working in downtown Ottawa. Listening to James Manson argue against that lawsuit is quietly infuriating me further.
And they move on to the medical consequences of "misinformation"...which certainly motivated some of the Convoy participants. Others were there to promote and enforce disinformation re: masking and vaccines. And we do not forget that "memorandum of understanding" calling for the removal of the Trudeau government, either. Timed to coincide with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, said invasion still underway. (Speaking of which: after the Convoy lawsuit, the show moves on to "how do we properly solve the Wagner group?", referring to the mercenary organization "working" alongside the Russian military against the Ukrainians.)
And they move on to the medical consequences of "misinformation"...which certainly motivated some of the Convoy participants. Others were there to promote and enforce disinformation re: masking and vaccines. And we do not forget that "memorandum of understanding" calling for the removal of the Trudeau government, either. Timed to coincide with Putin's invasion of Ukraine, said invasion still underway. (Speaking of which: after the Convoy lawsuit, the show moves on to "how do we properly solve the Wagner group?", referring to the mercenary organization "working" alongside the Russian military against the Ukrainians.)
Missiles, Politics and Owls
Nov. 15th, 2022 10:20 pmGood evening, everyone.
APutinist missile gone awry from Ukraine struck Poland, killing two people.
DT-45 has declared his 2024 presidential candidacy.
I'm not happy.
And then there's this:
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133260919/an-owl-twice-attacked-a-washington-woman-a-biologist-says-its-becoming-more-comm
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DT-45 has declared his 2024 presidential candidacy.
I'm not happy.
And then there's this:
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133260919/an-owl-twice-attacked-a-washington-woman-a-biologist-says-its-becoming-more-comm
Timothy Snyder on Upcoming "Referenda"
Sep. 3rd, 2022 06:37 pmDepending on where you are, you may need to fiddle with VPNs to read this.
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1560326928787202049
https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1560326928787202049
I am scared of how tomorrow might go. The revelation about Ford's Putinist connections via PressProgress today...
https://pressprogress.ca/top-doug-ford-adviser-sent-premiers-office-backchannel-message-about-meeting-with-russian-government/
I think we needed this a couple of weeks ago. Not the day before the voting concludes.
https://pressprogress.ca/top-doug-ford-adviser-sent-premiers-office-backchannel-message-about-meeting-with-russian-government/
I think we needed this a couple of weeks ago. Not the day before the voting concludes.
More Dot Connections
Apr. 3rd, 2022 04:39 pmOn the "Ru.lag" concept, revising old horrors, being made reality from Ukrainian communities into Putinist Russia:
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/31/putins-gulag-based-empire-of-abduction-deportation-and-modern-slavery/
As at home, so abroad:
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/04/putins-war-in-ukraine-outgrowth-of-his.html
David Brin on the ability to learn from mistakes on past battlefields:
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2022/04/contemplating-historical-perspectives.html
(While I worked on posting these links, I'm listening to Cross-Country Checkup, today focusing on the Papal Apology for the crimes of the Residential Schools in Canada this past week. There will be consequences to that Apology in the times to come - if the fascist movements of the modern world be successfully stopped from preventing them - and I hope they will be all to the good.)
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/03/31/putins-gulag-based-empire-of-abduction-deportation-and-modern-slavery/
As at home, so abroad:
https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/04/putins-war-in-ukraine-outgrowth-of-his.html
David Brin on the ability to learn from mistakes on past battlefields:
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2022/04/contemplating-historical-perspectives.html
(While I worked on posting these links, I'm listening to Cross-Country Checkup, today focusing on the Papal Apology for the crimes of the Residential Schools in Canada this past week. There will be consequences to that Apology in the times to come - if the fascist movements of the modern world be successfully stopped from preventing them - and I hope they will be all to the good.)
Perils in Albertan Politics
Apr. 2nd, 2022 10:12 amI was inspired by this entry by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
autopope on his "home" weblog:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/04/behind-the-ukraine-war.html
As we were (rightly) advised to not centre western - including Canadian - political concerns in our comments on the Russian governance situation as Charlie understands it right now (his blog, his rules)...I'm going to post such comments here at my "home" blog where they belong:
I see Jason Kenney's government in the province of Alberta desperately trying to make sure Canada as a whole falls into the same governance trap as you describe Russia having fallen into. There's still a chance he might succeed with the help of a federal Conservative regime run by, say, Pierre Pollievre, Candice Bergen (not the American actor, the Canadian politician), Leslyn Lewis, or a few others I can think of. But the federal Conservatives first have to get a leader chosen this fall, and then that leader and whatever team they end up cobbling together has to have any hope of breaking up the confidence-and-supply agreement now in effect between the Liberals (led by Justin Trudeau) and the New Democrats (led by Jagmeet Singh).
I do worry that the Conservatives - or Maxime Bernier's "People's Party" or worse - will try to further "Putinize"/"Trumpify" Canadian society, worse than Harper already did despite his own personal antipathy to Putin.
Opinions from informed Albertans are definitely welcome here.
autopope on his "home" weblog:http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/04/behind-the-ukraine-war.html
As we were (rightly) advised to not centre western - including Canadian - political concerns in our comments on the Russian governance situation as Charlie understands it right now (his blog, his rules)...I'm going to post such comments here at my "home" blog where they belong:
I see Jason Kenney's government in the province of Alberta desperately trying to make sure Canada as a whole falls into the same governance trap as you describe Russia having fallen into. There's still a chance he might succeed with the help of a federal Conservative regime run by, say, Pierre Pollievre, Candice Bergen (not the American actor, the Canadian politician), Leslyn Lewis, or a few others I can think of. But the federal Conservatives first have to get a leader chosen this fall, and then that leader and whatever team they end up cobbling together has to have any hope of breaking up the confidence-and-supply agreement now in effect between the Liberals (led by Justin Trudeau) and the New Democrats (led by Jagmeet Singh).
I do worry that the Conservatives - or Maxime Bernier's "People's Party" or worse - will try to further "Putinize"/"Trumpify" Canadian society, worse than Harper already did despite his own personal antipathy to Putin.
Opinions from informed Albertans are definitely welcome here.
Protesting Against Bad Presidents
Mar. 21st, 2022 07:46 pmOkay. This was inspired by someone else's avatar. I resorted to bing.com's translator page again, and I know that it gets things Wrong fairly often. So corrections are likely to be needed here:
What can I say? Any excuse for practicing with design software is welcome these days.
What can I say? Any excuse for practicing with design software is welcome these days.
So this is something to anticipate:
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1504547425683337216
As if we didn't have enough to worry about, right?
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1504547425683337216
As if we didn't have enough to worry about, right?
Who Gets to Define "Treason"?
Mar. 16th, 2022 03:49 pmWe've seen what happens when dictators take the countries under their control down such roads before, haven't we?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-putin-warns-pro-western-traitors-ukraine-1.6386960
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-putin-warns-pro-western-traitors-ukraine-1.6386960
Putin vs Ukraine: Internet Plans?
Mar. 6th, 2022 05:21 pmI think we're about to be deprived of the company of our Russian and Belarusian friends and friendly acquaintances no matter what we decide about internet contact on our side of the Putinist War Against Ukraine.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500553480548892679
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1500553480548892679
