Strong evidence of distortion in media’s portrayal of Syrian invasion via Paulitics
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What’s in a name? via Paulitics
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It’s a beautiful day! The sun is shining, birds are singing, a powerful Neo-Nazi is dead via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Multiple new polls: If Tories continue to collapse like this, they won’t form government via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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A little advice to the capitalists on Wall Street [pic]… via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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More proof that liberal economics is a radical right-wing ideology via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Propaganda in Action: Toronto Star uses weasel words to distort NDP story via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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What capitalism does to workers when it thinks it can get away with it via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Grits and Tories much more similar than is commonly assumed via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Shame on Layton, Duceppe & Harper: May should be in the debates via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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NDP in first place in Atlantic Canada, Prairies: poll via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Tories not as popular as media would have you believe via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Tories recover on eve of election, but still down from 2006 via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Sponsored Read: Got Milk? via Lipstick Powder N Paint
Cleopatra loved her milk. She acted like one of our modern day celebs would by constantly pampering herself with exclusive treatments. Her favourite – bathing in a tub filled with milk. These days, milk should still be part of your daily beauty routine, but it doesn’t have to mean immersing yourself in gallons of it.
Containing nine essential nutrients, including calcium, vitamins A, D and B12, protein, potassium, riboflavin, niacin and phosphorus, this “super drink” does more for you than just build strong bones. Here are just a couple of reasons why milk is going to make you a more gorgeous gal:
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Milk promotes a better night’s sleep. Everyone knows that you need eight to 10 hours of fabulous shut-eye a night. And what could be better to help you fall asleep... Just how big is Quebec’s shift away from the right wing? Pretty big via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Paulitics wins a 2007 Unofficial Blogging Dipper Award via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
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Updates galore via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
For those of you who are interested, several of the Paulitics resources have been updated in the past couple of days.
•I’ve updated the Quotes Resource by adding a new section for atheist and other deliciously sacreligious quotations. →
•I’ve also updated the Ontario 2007 Polling Resource to include three new polls (two of which I had previously missed, and one that is very recent).
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•There have also been updates made to the Marx-to-English Dictionary Resource. Some of the new entries in the dictionary include “bourgeoisie”, “petite bourgeoisie” and “proletariat”. ↓
a...... Conspiracy theories, a North American Union, and other B.S. via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
My mother enjoys torturing me by e-mailing me the incoherent rants of right-wing malcontents from time to time. I suppose it’s part of a game she plays with me which I claim to hate but actually in reality secretly don’t mind. But I guess, on the other hand it could also be because maybe she believes that angering up the blood and having your face turn red with frustration periodically is somehow therapeutic.
Either way, she stumbled across this gem of a video and decided that I should have to share in her pain and so she passed it along to me today. (And I’m in an apparently sadistic mood today and thus feel that you, my reader, should also suffer along with me as well… it’s a vicious cycle, it really is.)
(The original link to the video was...
Marc Andreessen scores with Opsware sale via mathewingram.com/work
In case you were wondering where Marc Andreessen got the material for his continuing blog series on startups, it looks to me like a lot of it probably came from his experience with Opsware — which has just been bought by Hewlett-Packard for a whopping $1.6-billion in cash. As Marc describes in his post, the deal is the culmination of more than seven years of toil, from starting the company formerly known as Loudcloud in 1999, to going public just as the tech sector peaked, to almost going under, to rebuilding the business and making it a leader in the industry. If anyone has paid their dues, it sounds like Marc has — and he just turned 36. In case you’re keeping score at home, it looks as though Andreessen will make about $165-million on the sale.
Share This... Newspapers need to work with aggregators via mathewingram.com/work
Authoritarianism is NEVER progressive: Scott Tribe should resign via Paulitics: Paul's Socialist Investigations
For those of you who don’t follow Canadian blogging drama, ProgressiveBloggers.ca, a blog which, as the name implies, bills itself as “progressive” has recently expelled a good progressive comrade, Joanne from Marginal Notes for making sense and not being pliable enough for chief moderator/El Presidente Scott Tribe.
Now, far more eloquent discussions of the problems with ProgressiveBloggers.ca in general and Scott Tribe specifically have been made by other bloggers, so I will not attempt to re-invent the wheel too much here. Specifically, I recommend Joanne’s (the person at the centre of the controversy) posts on the subject here and here as well as Scott Neigh’s post available here.
Rather, what I would like to talk about here is what I see as the...
Read what other socialists think via Paulitics
There is a new Paulitics resource that has been added to the sidebar which I would like feedback on. Right now I’m calling it “Read what other socialists think”.
This resource arose out of discussions which occurred on this blog here and here about the need for a ‘hard left’ feed aggrigator. Now I tried using feedbite a few weeks ago and I reported that it was not filing the blog entries chronologically. This seems to have been fixed (although how, I haven’t the slightest clue).
The virtues of this system, as I see it, is that it allows comments on the sidebar and it allows voting which seems to address Red Jenny’s concerns (although I don’t know if it’ll show how many comments each post has received). Also, there is a voting... When does it start? via Paulitics
Instead of asking “where does it end” as Conservatives are want to do when confronted with some new social change like gay marriage today or second-wave feminism 40 years ago or the science of Galileo 400 years ago — true progressives ought to ask:
“when does it start?”
Howard Zinn gave a fantastic speech on Alternative Radio in which he concluded with this poem by Marge Piercy entitled “the low road” from her work The Moon is Always Female. This explains why “when does it start” ought to be the battle cry of progress.
What can they do
to you? Whatever they want.
They can set you up, they can
bust you, they can break
your fingers, they can
burn your brain with electricity,
blur you with drugs till you
can’t walk, can’t...
Update: the ongoing saga of the “hard left” feed aggrigator via Paulitics
Okay, for those of you who missed the drama at Progressivebloggers.ca or my original post on this topic, here’s the deal:
1) We’ve decided (and this shouldn’t be taken as a small accomplishment - it may sound like a small accomplishment merely to decide something, but for those in doubt, just check the progressivebloggers thread linked to in the original post) that it may be a good thing to have a far-left feed aggrigator for a wide range of people on the far left who don’t quite fit in with existing feed aggrigators like vast left wing conspiracy, progressivebloggers.ca or the blogging dippers.
2) I’ve imagined this feed aggrigator as being in a simple “river-of-news” format akin to vast left wing conspiracy simply due to the fact that: a)...
New Poll Released: NDP up, Greens down via Paulitics
A new poll released by Decima which puts the federal parties as follows:
Lib: 33, Con: 32, NDP: 15, Bloc: 9, Green: 8
This is now the fourth poll in a row to show a dead heat between the Liberals and Conservatives and the data is now so close that less 1/10th of one percent separates them on the rolling average trend line.
I suggested when the last poll was released that the NDP appeared to be starting a slow climb back up to their former heights and this poll seems to validate my prediction. This is now the 7th poll in a row in which either the New Democrats’ rolling average trend line or weighted avereage trend line has increased. While Layton and the New Democrats will certainly be happy with this, there’s serious doubt in my mind whether the NDP will be... New Poll Released: NDP continue their rebound via Paulitics
A new poll was released by SES which puts the federal party standings as follows:
Lib: 33, Con: 33, NDP: 17, Bloc: 10, Green: 7
This poll demonstrates some interesting results which blog pundits everywhere are interpreting in a variety of manners which I feel are important to correct with the Paulitics rolling and weighted average long-term trend lines.
#1) Steve V from Far and Wide writes (here) that, with this poll, Dion’s honeymoon is over. Actually, the polling trend lines suggest that Dion’s honeymoon was over a month ago in mid-January.
#2) Lizt on Scott Tribe’s website (here) comments (in retort to somebody who presented my polling data) that SES is the most accurate polling firm. Lizt is correct, SES would appear to be the closest single polling...