Hmm,  I couldn't miss this one, after all I have long believed the Cold War never ended, and that the Soviet Union was simply morphing itself into something darker and more challenging for the West. Twenty years since lunch break, Russia is back, as big and bad as ever, flexing its nukes and squeezing energy hungry America, Japan, and Europe by the ( Read more... )

Our country is fucking pathetic. Since 2001 the Liberal and Conservative governements have been kissing George Bush arse while his administration systematically abuses, imprisons, deports, and tortures Canadians in shitholes around the world (Sudan, occupied western Cuba, Syria). Sadly the vast majority of Canadians don't really care that their ( Read more... )

In an unlikely twist of plot, the beginning of the end for the ANC has begun in neighbouring Harare and not in Cape Town. Mbeki's stupidly blind support of his tribal and political ally Mugabe has resulted in the beginning of a split within the ANC. The ANC is a triparthied alliance of trade unions, political intellectuals, and the South African ( Read more... )

Ciao  Italia!!!

My sleep patterns are erratic, this morning I woke up at 11am, even though I went to bed at 10:30. Of course it doesn't help that ever since my return from Japan I have taken to waking up for a few hours at 1:30 am to stare at the ceiling and curse jet lag. Flying west to east sucks ( Read more... )

Everything starts in Asia, more particularly China, who will be even more brilliantly embarrassed tomorrow in San Francisco than they were in Paris and London.

This summer, just around September, I predict the United States will face the most significant surge in prices since the 1970's. High oil prices in US$ will leave Americans more exposed than ( Read more... )

Mugabe needs to be shot. If I could I would go do the deed myself, as I am sure pretty much any normal Southern African would. Yet Mbeki, and the now hopelessly corrupt ANC would never allow such a thing to happen.

Prediction - something I would never have deemed possible in Zimbabwe - civil war on South Africa's border in the coming weeks.

 
The world’s largest fascist state will be putting on its best face in six months - exactly 18 months before my home city, Vancouver hosts 2010[i].

In 1936 another fascist state, an economic miracle arisen from the rubble of the Great Depression and World War I took the world by storm. Hitler, Goering, Goebels, Himmler, and the Nazis put blinders ( Read more... )

Looks like I'll be owing some money on this one. On the left, President Obama, on the right, Vice-President Richardson.


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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/03/11/bc-granville-streetcar-rebuild.html

It is official, Vancouver will have historic streetcars running through the city centre by the Olympics in 2010!