Green Assassin Brigade

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1000594403536105372012-01-12T15:46:00.099-05:00Green Assassin BrigadeThis site follows the evolution of the environmental zealots know as GAB, who’s mission to ridicule and attack the foes of Gaia is changing to one of building sustainability, advocating for food security and localization to mitigate the damage peak oil and climate change will bring.Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.comBlogger2631100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-89366283647834307402012-01-10T14:44:00.005-05:002012-01-11T10:53:51.755-05:00Labelling radicals or creating them?

When the NDP members went to Washington to lobby against Tar Sands their actions were labeled treacherous by our Environment Minster Peter Kent. Funny that, protecting the environment is supposed to be his job, not defending industry.This week Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural resources accuses everyone opposed to the Northern Gateway pipeline of belonging to “environmental and other radical

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-88558015038518450442011-10-06T09:38:00.005-04:002011-10-06T10:04:31.866-04:00Who owns our MPPs? Ontario has an ethical problem

Disinterested, despondent, fed up. All of these can be used describe my feelings at various points in this election. The NDP are pretending they are not socialists, the Conservatives are pretending they aren't evil(and doing a crappy job), the Liberals are pretending they've done a good job the last 8 years and my Greens after being shut out of 98% of all media coverage are pretending they have

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-23913513078298787292011-08-03T09:12:00.005-04:002011-08-03T10:57:08.892-04:00Turmel, No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished

I can't know what went on in Turmel's head, was it simple opportunism to jump ship at this time?, Did she have an epiphany and learn to love Canada? Is her story of supporting a friend true? I don't know and it doesn't matter! While I applaud her for leaving the Bloc the NDP leadership blew this big time, they should have known of her previous status and they should have realized how it would

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-25502920445883453222011-04-19T13:12:00.005-04:002011-04-19T14:45:27.529-04:00Newmarket Debate review #elxn41

Last night was the Newmarket Chamber of commerce all candidates debate, well not quite all candidates as the NDP Candidate was unable to attend and the Animal Alliance Candidate was present but unable to debate.At the big table we had Lois Brown (Con MP), Vanessa Long (Green), Kyle Peterson (Lib) and Dorian Baxter (PC)Some one please email me a picture, my Camera was not charged.For the most part

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-43310299854531825032011-04-14T13:57:00.004-04:002011-04-14T14:14:03.667-04:00Animal Alliance Environment Voters Party of Canada?

Considering we now have an AAEVPC candidate running for Parliament in Newmarket Aurora I figured we should have a quick look at them. First of all they need to come up with a shorter version of their name, AAE perhaps?A quick look at their platform shows that every policy item is about the protection of an animal species not the environment as a whole. The environment is about balance and

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-34761329241489784502011-04-13T09:53:00.009-04:002011-04-14T18:26:17.481-04:00Newmarket-Aurora, the NDP sham continues v2011

I’ve often said that strategic voting is a mistake; I’ve also stated that no vote is ever wasted. I was wrong.I still believe that people should vote their conscience even if there is no chance of winning but what I cannot condone is voting for a candidate that simply does not try. In 2008 I blogged about the NDP and their local sham campaign and while I did hear a little second hand outrage

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-26831376049450222062011-03-13T15:16:00.002-04:002011-03-13T15:24:23.539-04:00Lessons from Japan

We haven't seen the total death numbers yet, we don't know the long term economic impacts and we don't know the true story about Japan's nuclear reactors but we can already make a few observations about these disasters and how they relates to us.1. Nuclear power will never be 100% safe. Sure you can engineer things to the nth degree but humans can't make any building that nature can't take apart

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-20316524313577883092011-01-29T09:48:00.004-05:002011-01-29T10:02:57.544-05:00Holy Shit

There are any number of reasons to say Holy Shit! these days, be it social upheaval in the middle east; dumb ass ethically bankrupt Conservative ads or the coming wave of food inflation, but in this case Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind is a new book all my gardener, farmer and wannabe farmer friends should check out.And before someone else brings it up. Yes, I agree, this was a shitty

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-42696808714681202542010-11-24T18:52:00.003-05:002010-11-24T20:37:44.104-05:00NDP Endorses Green Candidate

Can someone tell me why the press is ignoring the fact that Kevin Bordian, the NDP Candidate in Vaughan endorsed the Green Candidate last night Maybe if Progressives of all flavours supported the best Candidate in each riding we could crush Harper and force the issue on PR .

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-80281090470054649682010-11-21T13:54:00.003-05:002010-11-21T13:59:28.741-05:00Voting Green in Newmarket-Aurora

What a great little program to build animated videosOh and here's the FB links mentioned in video, and here.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-45617251708763453612010-11-07T09:10:00.008-05:002010-11-07T10:06:03.720-05:00An evening with Adriane Carr and Georges Laraque

The Newmarket-Aurora Federal Green Party Association is hosting an evening with Green Party Deputy leaders Adriane Carr and George Laraque, Nov 16 at the Wellington Gallery in Aurora, 7:00pm -10:00Come out and enjoy a great event surrounded by great local art, music, and fellow greens while hearing from Adriane Carr and candidate Vanessa Long. Fresh from the carnage known as the Battle of the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-27219188091637182662010-10-22T10:11:00.004-04:002010-10-22T13:59:43.952-04:00Democracy fail: Where are the local opposition Candidates?

We’ve been under the threat of a federal election for well over a year yet I see that many ridings are unprepared having few of their candidate’s selected, mine is no exception.I’d prefer that candidates were chosen very early on so we have more time to learn more about them, talk to them, judge them and see how seriously they intend to run their campaigns. I want to see dedicated candidates that

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-36162505503768757242010-10-21T13:18:00.005-04:002010-10-22T09:02:29.257-04:00Rare Earths and the not so Free Market

I wanted to call your attention to the growing controversy over export restrictions on rare earths from China.I’ve been on about this topic for about 2 years and it seems that China has finally realized the political and economic clout that arises from being the sole supplier (or at least damn close) of vital minerals that keep the modern economy operating. China has over the last couple of

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-58278867175804460212010-09-26T08:41:00.004-04:002010-10-06T08:30:02.193-04:00Child labour should equal a Commonwealth Games boycott

I think its disgusting that India's Commonwealth game venues have been built in part by child labour. Call me nuts, but I believe that under no circumstances should a 4 year be digging ditches for electrical cables and other menial chores on a 13 hour shift, yet this is happening at the Commonwealth games . This is not some small dark sweat shop hidden from prying eyes but an illegal act

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-18177862368353741502010-09-16T09:05:00.007-04:002010-10-06T08:31:09.220-04:00Speculating in Misery

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard brings us an interesting article dealing with the speculation of agricultural land.Speculators like rich hedge funds and billionaires have been buying up large chunks of foreign agricultural land in order to speculate on the hunger that a growing and more affluent world population will bring. Combine this growing demand with the destruction of existing productive land by

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-34365022120514176072010-07-24T16:46:00.004-04:002010-10-06T08:33:40.942-04:00Transition Town arrives in York Region

Are you in York Region?Do you believe in peak oil?Are you concerned about the impact of peak oil?If so you'll be pleased to know Transition (upper) York Region is born..

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-40665762714662778892010-06-29T13:10:00.006-04:002010-06-29T14:26:26.994-04:00Random angry disjointed protest thoughts

I can appreciate that people are appalled at the damage done by protesters on the weekend but the vast majority of protesters were well behaved and respectful of authority. Despite this fact many in the general public and political circles chastise them all for having the audacity to demand their rights to be heard in a supposed free and democratic society. I’ve even heard comments that people

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-79002818408729063432010-06-16T12:04:00.007-04:002010-06-16T12:11:21.643-04:00Welcome to the Green Party, please leave your red shirts at the door

Dear real progressive liberals, the GPC is open and welcomes new members. I know it will be hard actually getting to vote on each policy and voting directly for your leader but you will adjust. It’s not like you have any choice considering the direction your party has taken with its new policy of continued deployment in Afghanistan.Honestly can anyone actually prove to me that Iggy is a

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-50739750382850960882010-06-08T09:55:00.007-04:002010-06-08T11:26:33.883-04:00Abuse of Power

I am so angry these days I find it hard to blog without immediately breaking into a stream hateful profanity so for the most part I’ve just remained silent. Today however I will attempt a short controlled post about what a fucking idiot Michael Ignatieff is. Damn I’ve slipped up already.What has me bent out of shape today is a quote I saw in this CTV article on the Liberal refusal to support an

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-91360472969387721892010-04-18T09:04:00.006-04:002010-04-18T10:34:22.289-04:00In Praise of Volcanoes

While I know the Icelandic Volcano is spewing out whacks of greenhouse gasses I do see an upside to these disruptive outbursts which might modify human behavior in the region for quite some time. I looked up the history for this volcano and among the 3 previously recorded eruptions from Eyjafjallajokull there was one that lasted from 1821-1823 which makes me question the claims "it will only last

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-8869286272553754542010-04-04T10:19:00.007-04:002010-04-04T11:16:07.472-04:00Baphomet offered GG job

Baphomet Lord of the Abyss, past patron of Templar's , aka the Sabbatic Goat commented today on rumors that he has been offered the position of Governor General . "I'm gratified by the offer, it's great when your work gets noticed in the big leagues" When asked about his intention, the goat headed demon stated, " I really could use change of pace, my most recent job was to tempt priests with

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-13158446624542914792010-03-26T12:38:00.005-04:002010-04-04T10:33:56.169-04:00GPC Policy and Campaign Focus

I’m one of many GPC members who believe we are often too negative and harp too much on Climate Change. It’s not that I don’t believe it’s important but it’s not an easy topic to use while trying to capture someone’s attention at the door or in a 20 second sound bite. (Yeah like most GPC candidates ever get to give a sound bite, bwahahaha!) So why bother trying to sell it? We have lots of policies

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-2959414343858543522010-03-26T10:03:00.003-04:002010-04-04T10:32:17.983-04:00Can the Pope be Impeached?

Let's face it, this man has just lost all credibility as the moral authority for the Catholic Church.It's bad enough that he can get away with the stupid claim he made in Africa that Condoms make the HIV/AIDS epidemic worse but now there is proof he knew a convicted pedophile was once again working with children and yet he did nothing. While his loyal minions are more than willing to take the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-4344530392312934612010-03-16T13:50:00.012-04:002010-04-04T10:35:22.480-04:00Iggy at his Stupid, Out of Touch, Americanized best

Once again Iggy adds another issue to the list of things that don't make him progressive, don't differentiates him from a Conservative and just don't make sense.Great talk to the kids, IggyNo discussion on the costs involved in enforcing laws people don’t support and will continue to ignore.No discussion on the relative harm pot causes vs. legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol. Hint, a UN study

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-23201463131958914212010-03-10T12:34:00.007-05:002010-03-10T18:36:57.466-05:00Citizens Engaging Democracy - event Videos

On Feb 25 the Newmarket-Aurora members of CAPP held their first event as CEDNA , Citizens Engaging Democracy, Newmarket Aurora. The keynote speaker for the function was Doctor Marco Fonseca, Professor of international Studies at York University. Dr Fonseca discussed our democracy, the threats against it and need to make it part of our daily lives not just a blip that shows up every 4 years or so

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-29115591466008777372010-03-04T17:31:00.006-05:002010-04-04T10:35:45.231-04:00Stephen Harper's New National Anthem

Looking into O Canada's history I've found that the song has had several vastly different variations before it was finally set as the one we know with the National Anthem act in 1980, so I guess it's not too shocking or offensive that Harper wants to make a change, it's just damn unbelievable that he gives a shit about the issue. What I would like to know does the line "in all thy sons command"

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-28231527267568445272010-03-03T12:18:00.007-05:002010-04-04T10:36:09.187-04:00Should Greens consider Thorium reactors?

Debate topic for pragmatic GREENsThanks to a tweet by Enviralment I just read an article on Thorium reactor technology that I think people should read. Thorium reactors have been around for quite some time but because of their inability to be weaponized they never received the same funding or hype that conventional (uranium) reactor technology received. I've looked at thorium technology a number

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-82492469609309512782010-02-26T10:56:00.003-05:002010-02-26T11:03:29.349-05:00In honour of Helena Guergis and PEI

Considering her outburst on Feb 19 in Charlottetown I just had to post thisI hope somebody can pull the surveillance tapes for this little hissy fit, that would make a great youtube clip.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-53353440683122243312010-02-17T10:47:00.005-05:002010-02-17T11:48:06.549-05:00Holding the line on our Democracy -Press release-

The Newmarket-Aurora Chapter of CAPP, unwilling to wait to see what the evolution of the mother ship would bring decided to carry on alone and plan their own local, independent pro democracy events. The Group now calling themselves Citizens Engaging Democracy is holding an informational Town Hall meeting in Aurora, ont Feb 25 at Trinity Anglican Church, 7:00 pm, with a realy good guest speakerDr.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-13521430036084868662010-02-15T12:36:00.008-05:002010-04-04T10:34:22.287-04:00I Present Vanessa Long GPC

I haven't been blogging much on this site recently because I've been working on my new local blog, the Jan 23 Newmarket-Aurora CAPP rally, and a second democracy event being planned for Feb 25 in Aurora.In this flurry of activity I've been remiss in blogging about Newmarket-Aurora's newly nominated Green Candidate Vanessa Long.I'll be a bit lazy here and just clip in parts of her bioVanessa

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-24136154170633744462010-01-26T08:11:00.005-05:002010-01-26T09:36:50.792-05:00Newmarket Watch

Hi folks, this is just a small plug for my new blog Newmarket WatchI recently realized that many of us were spending so much time on the big picture that we are neglecting those local issues that impact us each day. In my Newmarket we've tolerated stupidity, dysfunction and graft as normal parts of municipal governments to the point that a know embezzler had the balls to run for office a number

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-90325218512759677172010-01-21T13:14:00.007-05:002010-10-06T08:34:47.735-04:00Happy Raw Milk Day

Michael Schmidt was acquitted on 19 Charges today in Newmarket court.I think it's great news to see that over bearing government interference has been beaten back in the case of Michael Schmidt, charged with the illegal sale and distribution of raw milk and raw milk products.Sure raw milk CAN occasionally produce illness if contaminated but man has lived on this product for 1000s of years and

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-9690849980787146172010-01-19T12:45:00.011-05:002010-04-04T10:36:48.858-04:00Shuffling a Cabinet with Half a deck

It’s quite amazing that the Conservative Party of Canada has such little depth of skills in its caucus that it just keeps moving the same damaged goods from one fuck up to another. Raitt was a total disaster at natural resources failing to handle the Chalk River Isotope Crisis, so is she gone? Nope, just demoted to the wasteland called labour! Ambrose who failed at the Environment (which MP hasn’

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-27465886408818234622010-01-14T12:33:00.002-05:002010-01-14T12:36:29.853-05:00Newmarket Aurora Anti Prorogation/ Pro Democracy Rally

Well it looks like we are going to go ahead with our own rally in Newmarket Aurora despite the powers that be at Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament who originally thought we are too close to Toronto and Barrie to have our own event. I agree that we might pull oh 30-40 people from each of the other events, but I'm sure just as many people if not more will not go to any event if they have to

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-36828419046854762202010-01-04T10:52:00.003-05:002010-04-20T12:36:15.716-04:00Just a thought on resource depletion, emergency preparations and economic resilience!

Most people who've heard of peak oil accept that it is a real phenomenon. Many people also realize that with rising world populations, increased consumption and the growing affluence of Asia that there will be a great many commodities from food, silver, distillates, catalysts, chemicals, rare earths and energy that will come into short term or permanent shortage at some time in our near future.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-13918012093745295412009-12-31T09:32:00.003-05:002009-12-31T09:34:47.718-05:00Questioning our future

I had not intended to blog today but yesterdays proroguing of parliament along with the other issues like thwarting committee work, being in contempt of parliament for withholding documents, outright lying and of course the systematic and deliberate sabotaging of climate change talks brings me to these questions I’ve been refusing to ask greater blogdom because I’m afraid of where the answer

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-11053733892928169992009-12-29T11:02:00.005-05:002010-04-20T12:36:40.427-04:00Food security: Ending the year on a downer

Unlike last year before the crash there’s been little talk about food shortages in 2009 but it's my belief that this will change by spring/early summer 2010. There have been a series of crop failures world wide with China, Australia, and Argentina all suffering long term droughts which have severely damaged grain production. India not only had a poor monsoon season but also heavy winds and rain

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-18381345352647238642009-12-19T09:41:00.004-05:002009-12-19T12:02:41.138-05:00Obama's Billions, all smoke and mirrors

In a grand gesture in Copenhagen the U.S. promised to back a fund that would by 2020, supply $100 billion dollars a year in aid for developing countries so they can adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change. Sounds good no?Well, of course the devil is in the details, the EU had already suggested a fund of 100 billion Euros making the U.S. plan 40% less, that sucksThe plan calls for $100

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-611274549924126782009-12-14T14:41:00.021-05:002010-04-04T10:37:13.640-04:00Conservative Christmas Gifts

For those having trouble buying for their favourite family Conservative this year, here are a just a few of our top choices.Tin foil hats many styles to choose fromLife time supply of Cool aid Yummm!A variety pack of Sharpies I hear Stockwell fans can't get enough of these bad boysPeter Mackay has been very popular and newsworthy with Conservatives this year encouraging a great range of themed

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-74955686227479264522009-12-02T11:53:00.005-05:002009-12-02T12:02:53.966-05:00Canadian Blog Awards 2009, read me please

This year I’ve been somewhat of an absentee blogger yet when I did blog I often found something to write about that was not just malcontent bitching, I guess no election will do that to you. This year I’m nominated for the bestBlog Post Series for my discussions on the doomer movement/mindset/obsession, starting with my post Embracing the Doom: What kind of doomer am I?I don’t know if they are

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-30198365846736981592009-11-22T20:22:00.001-05:002009-11-22T20:24:22.791-05:00My Kingdom for a horse

Or at least of picture of Newmarket Aurora MP Lois Brown being pushed in the run down, sputtering, black smoke belching model T that she was riding for the Newmarket Santa Claus parade. This is just a minor thing yet it seems to mirror the backward, sputtering, ineffectual, planet destroying ideals of the Conservative Party. Mind you MPP Frank Klees was in a horse drawn carriage which I'm sure

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-77837483154206464962009-11-22T10:07:00.004-05:002009-11-22T10:35:26.592-05:00The ROMs new look is Fugly

I have to day I agree with the sentiment of Virtualtourist.com that what they've done to the facade of the ROM is an abomination ranking it the 8th ugliest building in world. I'm all for Modern building forms but why the hell do you have to destroy existing landmarks? Our historic buildings have value as there were. If you want modern design on new builds fine but don't destroy our heritage.I'll

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-32064118104536394342009-11-04T10:09:00.003-05:002009-11-04T12:40:08.281-05:00A good H1N1 story

For all intensive purposes the H1N1 story has been a total clusterfuck.First we have a pandemic that has not presented itself as any more deadly than the normal flu we get every year. Sure it’s very contagious and does not kill only the usual suspects, killing a few people in their prime as well as the young and very old but statistically it just not that deadly. Second we have governments who

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-50028906103308634772009-10-27T13:06:00.010-04:002009-10-27T15:41:12.938-04:00France 1 Scientologists 0

Some days are worth getting out of bed, some not so much. This morning when I rose to find out that the Church of Scientology (stupidtology) was convicted of fraud in France and fined about $1 million dollars I knew this was going to be one of the good ones. (expect appeals)The illegal activities in question included "commercial harassment" and the pressuring of inductees to make large payments

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-60624551372077673612009-10-22T22:28:00.007-04:002009-10-22T22:39:20.662-04:00Final harvests

I'm just getting around to posting shots from my final harvest at the Newmarket Community Garden. I can't say it was a bumper year as I suffered the same horrible blight that destroyed many a urban farmers tomatoes this year but on the other hand the constant rain allowed me the leisure of NOT going to water 3 times a week. Yeah I'm a lazy slob, what's it to you?Next year I will certainly do some

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-22788320793327102912009-10-17T08:41:00.003-04:002009-10-17T08:58:23.753-04:00Planet killing idiots strike again!

I'm just heading out but first I had to share this story which makes me want to pummel certain people with concrete donuts.The Canadian Government aka, the Corporate Self Interest Club wants the EPA to back off on regulations that would stop the burning of Bunker fuel on Great Lake ships. Bunker fuel is the low grade crap left over from oil refining and it burns dirty, real dirty with up to 1.5%

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-62248770635137147652009-09-29T13:46:00.009-04:002010-04-20T12:37:41.959-04:00Things I want to see for Newmarket/Aurora

In light of peak oil, pollution, global warming and those pesky food security issues that are dear to my heart(and belly) there are a great many things I’d like to see happen to make Newmarket Aurora a better and more sustainable place for what I believe will be a harder more austere future.No more irrational development, yes we should increased density but stop building those damn 4000 sq ft

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-14815540549315028102009-09-29T08:35:00.004-04:002009-09-29T09:10:37.572-04:00Conservative Rule one, Never tell the truth

Who failed to see this one coming?Gordon Landon the Conservative candidate for Markham-Unionville has been dumped by the party just days after admitting twice that Markham would get no stimulus money as long as it was a Liberal seat. Landon stepped down yesterday after being asked(told/forced/threatened)by the party for the capital crime of being honest. It's not even a case that the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-84464929391777918702009-09-28T14:04:00.007-04:002009-09-28T15:21:58.923-04:00Stimulus is bearing fruit

Liberals tell us that only 12% of the stimulus money is flowing Meanwhile Harper claims 90% of stimulus is flowing and bearing fruit. That seems like one hell of a big difference, so just what does a promise of funding really mean to the Conservaties?"The cheque is in the mail" or maybe those vague promises of loan repayment by dead beat family members. It might even mean "we jotted it down on

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-27034176095342565022009-09-23T12:51:00.006-04:002009-09-23T13:14:52.325-04:00Climate Refugees, and so it Begins

The 1,700 residents of the Carteret Islands (part of Papua New Guinea) have gained the unwelcome distinction of being the first reported climate refugees created by rising sea levels. So officially this crisis is not in the future anymore, it's here, it's now. It does not matter if Man, the Sun or a Burning Bush caused the problem we have to deal with it. So WTF are we going to do about it?

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-40255542101816766842009-09-16T13:02:00.003-04:002009-09-16T13:51:33.392-04:00A renewal in canning and stealth doomers

A recent Globe article high lighted the return of the canner, those intrepid folks who actually care enough about their food to do their own processing and preserving. "The new breed of canner is driven by politics as much as practicality. A desire to eat locally and regain control over what goes into our food is fuelling a resurgence in farmers' markets and backyard kitchen gardens. Many see

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-12524528476739120992009-07-29T08:50:00.004-04:002009-07-29T09:43:50.160-04:00Make an easy $100k, Prove Obama has the right to be President

There is still a fair bit of fuss going on about the birth status of Prez Obama, as LaDaro posts this morning. A goodly number of these anti Obama wingnut’s don’t believe the Hawaiian certificate of live birth is valid enough proof because it’s the less acceptable short form rather than the longer full birth certificate. The argument being that if this short form is not good enough identification

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-49436375571900282682009-07-28T08:13:00.012-04:002009-07-28T09:25:07.058-04:00Coke plans to market Fizzy Milk

Take some quantity of milk, add sparkling water, fruit juice, a heap of sugar and something to keep it from spoiling unrefrigerated for several months and you've got Coke's newest beverage VIO, which they appear to be marketing as something healthy and natural.This VIO is currently being tested in NY natural food stores and have no doubt that dumb ass people will be pouring this crap into their

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-67999477466649702892009-06-15T15:31:00.005-04:002009-08-20T22:07:04.207-04:00I've been shot by Google Street View

While I don't mind them snapping the town I'm not sure I want to be immortalized schlepping around for the next couple of years even if they do blur the faces.The second pic reminds me that I need to spend a day shooting and posting the license plates of all the assholes around here that run that stop sign every day.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-64537177666840959372009-06-09T11:41:00.005-04:002010-01-28T11:27:41.471-05:00Corporate and Municipal distain for pedestrians

Last night I was on my way home from a local Green Party meeting and dropped in to the Real Canadian superstore at 15900 Bayview Ave in Aurora where I noticed a young mother pushing a baby carriage up the driveway, in traffic towards Bayview ave. (I really gotta get a small camera I can carry around all the time for this stuff.)My first reaction was WTF are you doing? until I noticed that there

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-47628540744496171872009-06-08T14:20:00.003-04:002010-04-20T12:38:30.139-04:00Adventures in community gardening

A number of years ago I belonged to a community garden long before I was aware of all the reasons it should be more widely spread and supported by local governments. Eventually things happened, we both began to commute to the city on a daily basis, the land the garden was on was slated for redevelopment and the garden got move to the other side of town making it just that much harder for us to

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-5146762263057119882009-05-27T14:12:00.005-04:002009-05-27T15:12:32.128-04:00Say it's not so Joss!

As if things were not bad enough, we have a recession/depression, we have absolute morons running the country, we've got a brand new $50 billion deficit and North Korea is theatening to light up the pacific rim, but no it gets worse.Fran Rubel Kuzui the director of the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie (Donald Sutherland/Kristy Swanson) and the holder of the movie rights wants to do a new

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-51875351948507217652009-05-13T10:48:00.003-04:002009-05-13T11:02:59.824-04:00Razing a city to save it

Flint Michigan is a perfect example of a dilapidated rust belt city whose population has dropped from about 200,000 to 110,000 according to recent estimates. This decrease has brought Flint to the point that some neighbourhoods are too sparsely populated to be supported by the tax base. Empty, burnt out or vandalized homes are everywhere leaving garbage trucks, postmen snow ploughs and road crews

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-50733420755061706672009-05-08T11:19:00.003-04:002009-05-08T11:47:22.239-04:00National Day of Prayer

Yesterday was the National day of Prayer in the U.S. but fortunately Obama unlike his predecessor did not make a big fuss about the event.This of course outrages wingnuts who refuse to accept that religion is a personal choice not a national duty, but at least one SANE preacher, the Rev. C. Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance is quoted saying “President Obama is not the pastor in

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-28171824752957539352009-05-01T07:55:00.005-04:002009-05-01T08:21:04.917-04:00The "NAFTA FLU" I like it!

It's not as if we were not warned about this in recent years with millions of birds killed to stop the spread of Avian Flu, or the mistakes that allowed Hoof and Mouth disease to ravage the U.K. or the Mad Cow problem. Don't forget the local Listeria and e.coli outbreaks or the poisoned food and milk in China. We don't treat our animals or our other food sources with the care and respect they

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-71808532483235343582009-04-26T18:14:00.003-04:002009-04-27T09:11:37.913-04:00Famine and collapse coming to a planet near you

An important article from scientific American, or somewhere where they spliced it all into one page making it a little more readable.the content in just a few works amounts totoo damn many of us, consuming to damn much stuff, destroying to much damn land, using too damn much water, with too little damn time to fix it. happy day everyone!

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-8732649128790608542009-04-21T20:08:00.003-04:002010-04-20T12:39:37.072-04:00Top Doomer Accessories

I often see lists of things people like, best electronics or the best cars but what about us doomers? What are the best things we should own to be well prepared? Now I'm not talking about having a weeks worth of food or 10 candles for an emergency because I expect you to already have the basics, rather I'm talking about more substantial items that would be of great advantages for either powering

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-45336206976979075522009-04-20T12:35:00.002-04:002009-04-20T12:38:51.628-04:00Dilbert writer is channeling me

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-56503904876145372182009-04-19T19:26:00.003-04:002009-04-19T20:36:16.754-04:00Green Drag Racing

I'm not a gear head and don't waste my time on any motor sports but seeing a converted electric Datsun kick internal combustion ass is a good thing

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-25653069052765704312009-04-16T09:35:00.003-04:002009-04-16T09:46:11.939-04:00Four Seasons of Green

For a year or two I have been reading the occasion article at Riot 4 Austerity about a challenge where participants attempt to reduce their emissions by 90% in order to prove that Americans can limit themselves to what their fair share of the worlds emission should be if we are to limit the damage caused by global warming. The challenge is extreme yet a large a number of people have taken it up

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-38600365424360554642009-04-09T10:30:00.005-04:002009-04-09T12:53:52.250-04:00Debaptism, what will they think of next?

Have you ever wanted to offend your overly religious, in your face In-laws? Have you ever wanted to get back at your mother for those endless Sunday sermons you were forced to sit through? Well the National Secular Society in the U.K. has just the thing for you!So if someone else made a decision to indoctrinate you as a child into a faith you don't believe in, you now have the option of

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-78722106481530978832009-04-07T12:20:00.011-04:002009-04-15T13:43:08.446-04:00Being your own seed bank

I’ve been shouting at everyone for about 2 years to get off their asses and start gardening as a defence against poverty and food shortages brought on by peak oil and financial crisis. During this time I realized several things1. A very small portion of the population gardens for food 2. A very small portion of the population know much about food or how it’s produced; an extreme example is here

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-79793534860442434162009-04-02T10:33:00.009-04:002011-06-03T10:44:55.714-04:00Embracing the Doom pt 3: Urban Adaptors and food

Spring has sprung De grass is rizI wonder where dem doomers is?Spring or not, no grass will be rising in this part of Ontario for another week or more so this doomer is sitting in the basement sorting seeds, checking the calendar for planting dates and filling planting trays with starting mix in preparation for the season ahead. It’s now only 7 weeks until last frost which allowed me to plant

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-52962900372419859472009-03-25T21:57:00.004-04:002009-03-25T22:30:16.405-04:00We now interrupt our normal programing for this musical interlude

OK I fully admit I've reach my curmudgeon years which can be proven by the fact I've not bought a new album in several years. It's not that I'm stealing music its just I'm either too caught up in what I think are bigger things to go looking for new music or what I hear just does not inspire me. Face it Freddie Mercury is dead, New Wave, Punk, Ska and Rockabilly have been tossed to the curb, Shane

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-12721001092679224562009-03-22T10:38:00.003-04:002010-05-17T10:39:57.209-04:00Fruitless Fall: Book Review

I've just finished Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honeybee and the coming agricultural crisis, by Rowan Jacobsen. I found the book a fascinating look into the rise of Colony Collapse Disorder, Jacobsen explains a good deal about hive development, the life cycle of the Honeybee, the role of pollinators and their importance in the production of food, and of course the ecological and economic

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-22007508104290932582009-03-19T15:18:00.006-04:002009-03-19T15:30:20.091-04:00Bad Bank, Nasty bank, Profitable Bank!

From the almost too stupid to believe category!The FDIC has criticized a Massachusetts bank which has made no bad loans for being to cautious.The bank, East Bridgewater Savings Bank was chastised for neither "lending enough" nor "promoting it’s loan products" enough. We are in the middle of a world wide financial shit storm and the FDIC is complaining because a bank took too little risk, what the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-73879933988195441132009-03-17T08:20:00.003-04:002010-04-04T10:33:24.623-04:00Pope supports the needless deaths of millions of Africans

Once again we see that religion and dumb ass dogma is more important than reality and compassion as the beloved Panzer Pope and Sith Lord Benedict XVI says abstinence and not condoms is the answer against Aids in Africa. "You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms; On the contrary, it increases the problem."What a Moron!This guy can’t keep his priests from diddling the parishioners,

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-41000353383871692472009-03-12T18:55:00.009-04:002009-12-02T14:01:35.585-05:00Embracing the Doom Pt 2: How Doomy, how Soon?

Having arrived at the point were I’ve admitted I’m a doomer and have decided that that the only course of action for me is to adopt an “adapt in place” strategy I must start setting my priorities and start planning. To set my priorities and plan actions I must first analyse the threat, how long do I have to prepare and how bad will it get?As with all survival planning one has to look at the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-59596117321408303092009-03-09T10:06:00.002-04:002009-03-09T10:27:14.521-04:00Stupidity reigns

Like a life long smoker who goes cold turkey on this death bed, the CAW has come to terms with GM over concessions meant to make the giant zombie corporation viable, ROTFLMAO!!!!! Not bloody likely! GM's burn rate will eat up the new money in 2 quarters (at best) and sales are still falling.Even if the CAW ratifies these changes what right does the Federal and Provincial governments have to

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-38558779504570809752009-02-25T14:39:00.004-05:002009-02-25T15:34:34.962-05:00Geoengineering: Coming to a planet near you!

There is an interesting article called Hacking the Planet in the New Scientist talking about the changing attitudes among climate scientist who are beginning to believe it’s too late to prevent climate change by simple reduction and that proactive methods including tinkering with various earth systems are needed. Some suggestions include giant space mirrors to lower the sunlight hitting the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-92173024197377950412009-02-24T14:03:00.011-05:002010-07-27T10:10:52.169-04:00Embracing the Doom: What kind of doomer am I?

Well according to last week’s Star article I am officially a doomer simply because I accept the possibility that the last 50 years of greed, excess and prosperity may come to an end , the result of peak oil. I'm totally comfortable with this label.However unlike classic peak oil doomers I also believe that debt, monetary and fiscal mismanagement, environmental degradation, global warming, and

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-77846388973478662482009-02-15T21:35:00.008-05:002010-04-20T12:40:11.554-04:00Doomers Amongst Us!

An article in the Star today takes a look at doomers and their preparations for what they believe will be a crisis as oil depletes and the modern high carbon society collapses. The story covers a self sufficient farmer/homesteader type , the Bug-Out and start over type and the optimistic urban survivalist who opts the Adapt in Place scenario. (Personally I prefer the first option but will likely

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-57581496025619337672009-02-12T18:28:00.008-05:002009-02-14T08:26:58.166-05:00Bye Bye Facebook, YOU SUCK!!!!

I got a rude awakening this morning when I found my facebook account had been disabled because I was using a fake name (Green Assassin Brigade) I know I’m not alone as many Bloggers and just regular people use an alias or nick name for one reason or another. My blogging name(s) are the largest part of my online persona and between them I'm sure far more people know me for my blogs than my normal

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-44793320940646595532009-02-12T12:30:00.002-05:002009-02-12T13:07:07.618-05:00Economic downturn and collapsing trade equals drug shortages; What’s next?

This article highlights the threat that globalization and inherent interdependency of today’s market can have on the supply of essentials. Like my previous rants about food security here we see yet another example of the risks associated with being too dependant on our trading partners for the basics of life. We should never be in the situation where we risk losing our supplies of medicine simply

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-16178518652865667352009-02-06T10:16:00.003-05:002009-02-06T10:26:40.089-05:00Is Sustainable Sustainable or not?

It would appear that the scientific community is catching on to the idea that all their wonderful techno fixes to reduce carbon emissions may not be adaptable to mass production because of the rarity of the elements required for the various technologies. This article in new scientist reports on discussions from the Financial times energy conference in London which showed that the rarity and cost

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-68989254210132737122009-02-05T15:22:00.005-05:002009-02-05T20:32:19.010-05:00I need bigger boots

A new study claims that not only could melting glacial ice cause much higher sea level changes than earlier predicted but could also change the balance of the planet and alter the axis of rotation, who knows what mannner of chaos that will create.The new study takes into the continental rebound that will take place as melting ice lightens the load on portions of the crust. There is also an

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-86550601591055684752009-02-05T09:56:00.008-05:002009-02-05T10:46:36.187-05:00Lux Interior : RIP

More signs of my faded youth as I read this morning that Lux Interior the cadaveresk front man for the Cramps passed away due to a heart condition. While I was not a huge punk fan(with exceptions) I did love that short 80s revival of Rockabilly which the Cramps twisted into a psychobilly sound both distinct and alluring. I had several Cramps albums and actually saw them at the Masonic Temple when

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-4129449519329093272009-01-28T10:00:00.004-05:002009-01-28T14:21:41.076-05:00Threats to the food supply and the importance of having a personal food strategy

As much as I try to embrace hope and technological fixes for our various problems I don’t believe we can achieve a future that does not include some form of crash and burn scenario. While I don’t expect nuclear winter or alien invasions any time soon there are a number of other issues that could impact peoples ability to feed themselves within the decade if not a lot sooner.1. Economic collapse;

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-9754826418483615132008-12-31T12:25:00.002-05:002008-12-31T12:28:42.795-05:00New Study for UN supports legalization of Cannabis

NewScientist is reporting on a new study by the Berkley Foundation for the UN, that asks how we can minimize the damage to the health and welfare of pot users and society from cannabis use?While many studies seem to be totally biased to one side or the other of the pot argument, this one acknowledges both the harm of the drug's use and the harm to user and society caused by vigilant enforcement.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-73968260071450819582008-12-30T20:08:00.005-05:002008-12-30T20:30:01.023-05:00A tale of two Tilley's

Just feel good story about buying good Canadian products (the few you can find these days)For Christmas I received a brand new Tilley Airflow LTM3 hat, a nice gift no doubt but the model I really wanted to replace my aged and well worn T3 was the cotton T4 which while missing the snaps has a considerably larger brim than the old hat. For the pale spawn of a redhead like me, a large brim is a very

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-50350509151181753342008-12-21T14:15:00.004-05:002008-12-21T14:22:19.586-05:00Happy Solstice

Or what ever else you choose to believe or not believe, Listen...

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-48631639161589437382008-12-03T20:48:00.007-05:002008-12-22T10:24:31.052-05:00Night of the howling ME MEs

Ok I've had enough of this crap about evil separatists. Duceppe knows there is a financial shit storm coming and he also knows that a healthy economy, jobs, the environment, human and labour rights are all just as important to Quebecers be they inside or outside confederation. I'm not scared by the prospect of the Blocs participation because I believe Duceppe is pragmatic enough to know that a

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-35729847605325222702008-11-30T20:28:00.004-05:002008-11-30T20:54:06.638-05:00Canadian Blog Awards

Ok, I know our country is starting to look like a banana republic with talk of plots, spying on phone calls and uninformed gibberish about "coups" but somewhere in the background my little blog about silver, gold, real money and impending financial collapse managed to beat out a bunch of lawyers, teachers and other people who blog about what they do for a living to make the second round of the

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-35460976059090409832008-11-24T08:58:00.003-05:002008-11-24T09:14:09.529-05:00BCE and Capital Gains

It looks like that crazy big bailout of Citigroup will put the wind back into the sails of the BCE takeover which is set to close mid Dec. For those who have been siting on BCE shares for a long time you can expect to take a big hit on capital gains so I thought I'd forward you to a piece on the complexity of the calculations. Hope it's usefull.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-55062826237353818182008-11-23T08:55:00.004-05:002008-11-23T09:11:26.263-05:00Yes, I Have No Shame. Zero, Zilch, None

I hope people will drop by my alternate blog the Canadian Silver Bug and consider it for best Professional/Career blog in the 2008 Canadian Blog awards.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-88112129115425867072008-11-19T09:10:00.005-05:002008-11-19T09:32:32.193-05:00Grand jury charges against Cheney

A Texas Grand Jury has Charged Dick Cheney with organised criminal activity, Bwhahaahahahahahahahahah! General Alberto Gonzales too! Hahahah, stop it your killing me.........all over prison abuse, and not even at Gitmo, snort, it's in regard to a prisoner who died of a beating by other imates in Texas in 2001. While the Judge will probably bend to political pressure and not back the charges,

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-38565947246919676222008-11-17T19:23:00.005-05:002008-11-17T19:45:23.020-05:00Time to bring back the Q-ship

During World War I submarines were much less effective than later models, they carried very few of those expensive new fangled torpedoes and more often than not they would seize and capture, or seize and scuttle ships through the threat or use of their deck guns. Since the British never latched onto that whole convoy idea during the Great War, ships were vulnerable and many were captured or

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-24276723837167719042008-11-13T12:28:00.005-05:002008-11-13T12:53:44.438-05:00Bigger than the great depression

Gerald Celente is one of the worlds foremost trend analysts, a common guest on CNN, CNBC and often quoted in print media as well. Among his previous predictions are the 1987 stock market crash, the dot com and housing bubbles and the current financial meltdown, so he's not the average crackpot "sky is falling" kind of guy, when he sees panic stuff does goes bad. His current vision for the U.S.

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-30064632294351128942008-11-05T13:01:00.003-05:002008-11-05T13:26:34.899-05:00On Obama

When it comes down to it I’m not all that hopeful about what the Obama and the Democratic victory means. I appreciate the significance of Obama’s personal achievement and I’m pleasantly shocked that lies, innuendo, racism, fundamentalism and general redneckery did not triumph; perhaps the U.S. is a slightly better place than I thought. Obama was the smarter, saner, more capable and non senile

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-59402414419314894852008-11-04T14:19:00.010-05:002010-04-20T12:49:26.439-04:00Chickens, Genetic Diversity Crisis

We hear a fair bit about biodiversity and the loss of species in the wild but what about the damage we have done to the genetic diversity within domestic species because of our industrial breeding practices?Everyone knows someone who has had a pure bred dog, horse or some other domestic animal and how their finicky natures, hereditary defects or diseases can lead to great costs and great

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-46107450756171739382008-11-01T15:42:00.003-04:002008-11-01T16:21:50.286-04:00Foreclosure Alley: what madness is this ?

Watch this to see the insanity taking place in the wake of the U.S. foreclosure crisis.I can understand the banks not wanting to be in the used furniture business but the waste and the stupidity of sending the perfectly good contents of thousands of houses to the dump is criminal. Equally disturbing are people who've become so depressed or unstable that they leave their things in these houses to

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-56530172359298913372008-10-27T13:09:00.004-04:002008-10-27T13:36:28.741-04:00Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front

I just finished reading Depletion and Abundance by Sharon Astyk and I would recommend it to anyone who says we “can’t make a difference” or “cutting back on our carbon foot print would leave us living in caves”. This book would be equally valuable to those who are just too scared or overwhelmed to make such major changes in their lives and need reassurance it can and should be done.Sharon is an

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-20907418131236721422008-10-22T13:48:00.005-04:002008-10-22T15:32:35.690-04:00A taste of Sarah Palin’s Presidency

This is just a little Green Assassin policy prediction incase McCain should actually win and Palin accidentally pushes the geezer down the stairs of Air Force One. Economic policy and stimulus20 billion dollar package to turn area 51 into an alien theme park. She thinks it will create jobs and attract Mexican’s for deportation.$100 bounty per carcass for wolves, $200 for bears, $300 for illegal

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-62042496708545439162008-10-16T15:21:00.004-04:002008-10-16T15:39:27.160-04:00Potential good news in the solar industry

The development of Black Silicon could increase PV efficiency by between 100 and 500%, perhaps even reaching the theoretical maximum efficiency of 30-40% conversion of light to energy.Developed in secret at Harvard the technology creates a cone like texture on the surface of the silicon by zapping the surface with an intense short spectrum laser in the presence of sulfur hexafluoride gas. This

Canadian silver bug/Green Assassin Brigadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12537543127195801256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100059440353610537.post-10483336456674404912008-10-16T11:47:00.002-04:002008-10-16T11:57:52.862-04:00The Progressive Adopt a non-voter Challenge

In all honesty I don’t know if blogging (especially the political kind) is anything more than just personal therapy. I cannot measure my impact, I can’t see if I’ve made my point or verify I’ve changed someone’s vote. A great deal of the political blogging is either preaching to the choir or simply taunting the enemy to score a point or get a good argument going. This is all find and dandy but

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