More grim news from financial sectors.

If you want a feel good story, do not read this. The closing lines are:

If you did not know it before, you do now. The entire US banking system is insolvent.

Visit here for the how & why.

Support the Beaver Lake Cree!

Regardless of where you fall on the political/economic barometer, you can't ignore the fact that the AB tar sands are the single largest pollution-generating project on the planet. It uses more natural gas in a single day (to heat & separate the oil out of the sand) than the entire city of Calgary would use to heat homes for a year. It uses and destroys water to the extent that SK and AB farmers may soon not have any for irrigation. And, it is a massive environmental disaster in waiting: the largest dam in the world (China's 3 Gorges is not yet completed) is one that holds back tailings outside Ft. McMurray. If any one of a dozen of these earthen structures were to leak into the water supply, the Peace and McKenzie basins (the latter drains into the Arctic Ocean) would be doomed of wildlife and water unfit for human use.
In light of this, please see what the Beaver Lake Cree are doing, in the form of a law suit against the project. Industry and short-term economic gains be damned; it's time to save our country and planet.

Canada: a test case for ISP utilities model

The end of free internet, thanks to TELUS & Rodgers? Read the story.

Bio-fuels to blame

Bio-fuels - with questionable value to the oil supply/demand equation (it takes as much to produce as it saves or replaces) - hurt food production and supply in exactly the way you'd expect.

From a recent World Bank report:

... at least 75% of the recent price rises are due to land being removed from agriculture — mainly maize in North America and rapeseed and corn in the EU — in order to grow crops to be burned for vehicle fuel.

Read about the secret report and decide for yourself if the fuel and food crises are related to 'population reduction.'

New look Canucks - possible lines

Forwards

D.Sedin------H.Sedin---------Bernier

Demitra------Kesler----------Raymond

Pettinger----Wellwood---------Pyatt

Burrows------Johnson---------Cowan or Hordichuk


Defense

Ohlund------------Edler

Mitchell----------Bieksa

Salo--------------Krajicek or Baumgartner


Goal

Luongo (Sanford backup)

OK, we've got Wellwood; now please hand over Sundin.

Wellwood in at centre, must mean goodbye to Pitt Meadows' Brendan Morrison. Rumour is the Canucks are hot after Marian Hossa, which would be grand. I'd also like to see Mats out here with the Sisters.

Runaway global warming

Here's piece of the GW discussion I was unaware of --> trapped methane in Arctic and Siberian permafrost. Pretty stark - says 4.5 billion people could die from global warming related causes by 2012 (twenty-twelve!).
Link to the article.

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act (George Orwell).

GC and the American Dream - RIP

George Carlin passed Sunday. His humor and legacy remains. Video here.

Stranger than fiction: CDN gov't plans to 'reclassify' 16 lakes for toxic dumping

16 Canadian lakes are slated to be officially but quietly "reclassified" as toxic dump sites for mines. The lakes include prime wilderness fishing lakes from B.C. to Newfoundland.
The story here. Get angry. Please get very angry.

Custom Vans!

Check out this footgear - you provide the art.

Does the internet curb thinking?

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

From an interesting piece by Nicholas Carr in the Atlantic, which used to be a hold-in-your-hands news magazine.
Click here to read it all (you know you want to!).

It's official --> Coach Wilson in TO

It's a done deal! More here.