Jaime Brockett – Legend of the USS Titanic
Thanks to John Earl for sending this … This is the full version of a song which I haven't heard since it's re-release on Capitol Records in 1970. It was originally recorded for Oracle Records. I was going to do a serious post on the Titanic, the sinking of which, coupled with [...]
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. Gary Rinehart clearly remembers the summer day in 2002 when the stranger walked in and issued his threat. Rinehart [...]
New Canadian film on disability injustice in the works
By Axiom News - Hope is Not a Plan aims to reveal the problem, propose a solution Michelle Strutzenberger When he first met B.C. resident Paul Caune and heard his story of living with muscular dystrophy and the injustices he faced, Colin Ford felt angry and a little helpless. He learned how Paul, though not [...]
Colin Farrell – This just isn’t right
Dear John, The last time you heard from me I was dropping the F bomb — not the one you’re probably thinking of. I was part of ONE’s campaign to declare famine to be the realobscenity. Hundreds of thousands of ONE Members answered the call, took action, and together I think we helped make a [...]
Salvaging the Unsalvageable: The Inside Story of Richard Stursberg and CBC TV
The CBC is one of Canada’s most important cultural institutions – it mirrors and magnifies all the tensions within the country. The Tower of Babble: Sins, Secrets & Successes Inside the CBC, by Richard Stursberg, former head of all English services at CBC, is the first true insider account, from a management perspective, in [...]
Make beats … You can create what you may wanna create
Prior to anyone else believing in you, you need to believe in yourself …. But that's a clear. You hear that everywhere. So how will we break this straight down in more detail? Well.. another thing you absolutely want to define deep into your intellect, is the following way of thinking… All you [...]
Scientists uncover multiple faces of deadly breast cancer
An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated. The journal Nature has just published the team’s findings online in the paper The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple negative breast cancers. The study [...]
China-Based Hacking of 760 Companies Shows Cyber Cold War
Google Inc. and Intel Corp. were logical targets for China-based hackers, given the solid-gold intellectual property data stored in their computers. An attack by cyber spies on iBahn, a provider of Internet services to hotels, takes some explaining. iBahn provides broadband business and entertainment access to guests of Marriott International Inc. and other hotel [...]
HOPE IS NOT A PLAN FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
NEW WEBSITE urbansherpafilms.com/hopeisnotaplan Publishers Note: PLEASE spread this through YOUR NETWORKS & a SMALL DONATION would HELP!!! Please donate to the making of the Hope Is Not A Plan film documentary: www.indiegogo.com/HopeIsNotAPlan This documentary will expose a fact hidden in plain sight: most Canadian seniors and people with disabilities cannot get their civil [...]