Posted by: wordbeeps on: June 17, 2009
Years from now there will be more news museums like this one in Washington. City newspapers and community newspapers are dying, but their legacy is journalistic integrity, worth far more than the yellowing paper on the shelves of newspaper morgues and museum shelves. The legacy is an honourable, but thin one. New news consumers don’t [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 24, 2008
The web page of the New Democrats is enough alone to inspire me to vote for them. The page has a faller on the front- not a model or actor, but a real faller with a real chain saw slung over his shoulder, the blade with its stilled, but dangerously sharp edges ignored as the [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 24, 2008
I somewhere read that the colour orange can inspire a restaurant customer to order more food. It is, apparently, the colour of hunger. Perhaps the New Democrats have sensed hunger in the land. Who knows why the grand old party of Tommy Douglas of bygone days has chosen the prominent orange colour backdrop for their [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 23, 2008
The leader of the Green Party arrived in Edmonton about 5:00 today on her short campaign whistle-stop aboard a VIA rail train. I missed it, being at work. If I had known the location and time would I have made the effort to go out and wave at her? Sure, why not. She’s intelligent, articulate, [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 19, 2008
Lee Zalosfky, a United States armed forced deserter from the Vietman era, has been giving radio interviews on an organization he is coordinator of, the War Resisters Support Campaign. He is asking Canadians for support for American war resisters, including deserters, coming to Canada. I first heard of Mr. Zalosfky today, about two hours ago, [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 17, 2008
If you really want a very good article on the financial troubles in the United States and how it may favour Obama’s bid for the presidency, I link you to David Callaway of Market Watch, who has coined a new term, the “Paulson Doctrine”. Worth a read. Link here. Thank you for indulging in AardvarkCola
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 17, 2008
Scribe Allan Fotheringham (in Canada all who write are writers; Foth is our only scribe) described his fellow Canadians as people who will, as pedestrians, stop on a sidewalk intersection in the middle of the night, no traffic coming, no one looking, and wait politely until the “walk” light comes on before crossing the street. [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 17, 2008
It’s 4:00 a.m. As I skim the news trying to wake up to some sort of alertness, here’s one interesting article. I’ve never before linked to a post from Pravda. Until now. The writing style is rather gloating. It’s a piece on the U.S. debt. Link here. And now a link to Bloomberg on the [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 15, 2008
Looking for a video lead for this post. Found the best one on Aljazeera, of all places. Fed moves to deal with financial crisis, from Associated Press From Bloomberg.com http://www.bloomberg.com/news/index.html Headlines from Reuters include “Struggling to Survive” and “Wall Street mauled by Lehman bankruptcy, AIG fears” “Problems at Lehman spill over into several Canadian companies” [...]
Posted by: wordbeeps on: September 15, 2008
Great story on the bank industry meltdown in the United States by Bill Jamieson of The Scotsman, filed today at 11:38. The head honchos of the American banking giants were called in by United States Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke for a meeting. How does a newspaperman from Edinburgh write such a rich I-can-see-it-happening, on-the-spot [...]
