ZNet |Science | The Attack on Science
–The attacks on science and the institution that is buikt up around science have continued and are getting worse. The only way to combat this is to have more education.

Seven Oaks Magazine.
–Paul Martin assurs the US that we are doing our share for the US empire.

rabble news
–The Rabble.ca staff sends its greetings.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Coming next from Michael Moore: Sicko, the film
–Michael Moore might be doing a film on Big Pharma. It can only have a poisitive effect for the people who are going without or paying too much for drugs…

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Ghost of apartheid returns to farmlands
–White farmers in South Africa still not wanting to work with the black population. It is not a surprise since you have to do more than just change laws to change a culture. However, there needs to be social action on this.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Blair visit secures London talks on Middle East peace
–No details, only promises. Blair is up for re-election soon. I wonder if that has anything to do with his visit now that he has made the middle east more dangerous for Israel.

CBC News: Iraqi polling stations to be set up in Canada: Ottawa
–I see. The people in Iraq who see how the occupation is going do not get to vote on it (or get shot at if they try)but people who are outside the country (people who could afford to leave and people who were kicked out) are allowed to vote. Yessiree, that is the way that democracy works…

CBC News: Offshore royalty offer a ’slap in the face’: Newfoundland premier
–Williams is not the kind of person the people of Newfoundland should have at the negotiating table. He is not doing his job of fighting for the people in any way that is ogin to produce results. There is also no analysis on this worth reading at the moment. Just reporting both sides in such a debate without asking why is not going help the situation.

CBC - New Brunswick
–Some good news for Nackawic? We can only hope at this point.

Sold! - Goodbye, Bill G. Hello, Don G. By Jacob Weisberg
–Slate has gone to the Washington Post. Does this mean that Slate will shift back to the left… a little… or is this a way for the “liberal” Washington Post to move right? Only time will tell.

ZNet |Korea | Nuclear Threats Against North Korea
–Some history. An interesting view point.

Canada NewsWire
–CAW to charge CN for threats to whistleblower. Without whistleblower protection there is no way that the public can have trust in these industries.

rabble news
–Murry Dobbin writes about how you should never elect someone who is looking for the top job as much as Paul Martin. I would tend to agree.

rabble.ca - in his own words
–Some ramblings about this time of year and a little rant about how Christmas has nothing to do with Christ (its history goes much farther back than 2000 years). I would say that it doesn’t matter if it started that way. What matters is that the nutos of that religion have taken a literal translation from the advertizers.

POLITICS-US: Hawks Plan ‘Peaceful’ Regime Change in Iran
–Peaceful regime change in Iran. There is nothing like the empire trying to change the world using underhanded techniques. So this is what “US Democracy” looks like? You have to wonder if they do the same thing to their own people.

News
–10 years in Iraq for the British. Blair says they “do not give up”. I say that he forgot to say “on our empire”.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Quiet, or I’ll call democracy
–The plight of “democracy” in Iraq. The people do not want this kind of “democracy”. The people want to have a say in their country and they want to be free… of the US and the other crazies.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Memos show FBI agents complained about abuses at Guant�namo Bay
–When the FBI complains about things being too rough on the prisoners I start to worry… a lot.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Writer held as China turns on intellectuals
–Oh dear. What a shock. China has clamed down on dissent. Again. For the penultimate time. Just one more and that is it, they promise. The idea that we are going to have any say about human rights in China just because we are trading with them is as nuts as thinking that we have any effect on the US and its abuses of human rights.

CBC News: Newfoundland legalizes same-sex marriage
–One step closer to equality in this country. It is too bad that it needs to be a fight.

CBC News: Nfld., N.S. to meet Ottawa in ‘do-or-die’ oil talks
–It is all fun and games until someone discovers oil or natural gas. It is the time of year that is supposed to be about giving (especially for social conservatives like Williams here)… so spread a little warmth this season Premier Williams, and give a little gas.

CBC - New Brunswick
–Those sneeky conservatives are trying to put through a measure that is going to give them the ability to ignore their own laws. Since when did the conservative government want to protect us from the rich’s lawsuits? Part of the Conservative’s plan is equalized tax across income levels instead of the progressive tax system we have now. People need to know this kind of Machiavellian thing is going on.