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Not Waiting For The Asteroid

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CTV’s “markets reporter” Bridget Brown – your moral and investment superior!

“Some investors aren’t confident with what gold is backed by – or if its backed by anything at all, as compared to something like the US dollar.
Investors are comfortable that the US dollar is backed by the American government, so that no matter what is happening to the US economy, something like the US dollar is backed by the Federal Reserve, that’s going to be around a year from now. That’s a much more comfortable investment for them.

Watch, and wonder. (h/t Jason)

Not Watching For The Asteroid

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Normally when a few dozen people show up on Parliament Hill to protest this, that or the other thing, news editors can’t be bothered to cover it, let alone play it up as a top news story. But when it’s a small group of environmental extremists—between 200 and 500 according to conflicting reports—protesting a U.S.-bound pipeline that could deliver billions of barrels of ethical oil to American markets? That’s top news, according to the CBC, the Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star, among others.

Murdering Your Way to the Top

Sleeping With The Enemy 23 Comments

Though it be a largely symbolic post. From the intelligently progressive Nick Cohen:

Martin McGuinness’s candidacy is an affront to decency
How can the former IRA man be considered a serious candidate for the Irish presidency?
…
Jim Cusack of the Sunday Independent and a few other Dublin reporters are doing what journalists are meant to do and spoiling the party with awkward questions. McGuinness says he never killed anyone with gun or bomb. All right, they say, you may not have pulled the trigger but how many “spectaculars” did you organise? Whose deaths did you order? Which families are still grieving because of your commands?…
…[the] war was futile because the power sharing and cross-border institutions the IRA settled for in 1998 had been on offer since 1974. All the people the IRA, Protestant paramilitaries and the British army killed in the intervening decades died for nothing…
…Ireland may soon be welcoming a president who cannot be honest with the electorate, cannot be honest with supporters and cannot be honest with himself. He will use the presidency as a megaphone to boom out the myths he has to believe. As always, the surprise is not that the politician lies, but that so many in Ireland and beyond want to be lied to…

The Irish electorate is hardly singular in that respect (h/t Norman’s Spectator).

Incompetent Liberal Journalist “Interviews” Mark Steen [sic]

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In Canada, if one wants to see Far Left Activists posing as professional journalists, just tune into CBC News. In America, like-minded zealots tend to conglomerate at MSNBC. To see an example of a Leftist apparatchik working for the state broadcaster in the UK, watch this interview with Kirsty Wark:

It would be beyond fascinating to have a noted economist like Thomas Sowell interview Ms. Wark, simply asking her b-a-s-i-c economic questions. I’m convinced the answers she uttered would be in the realm of stupendous. Here’s some more of her “great” work. So incredibly prepared each time, isn’t she?!

Ontario’s ‘No Real Discussion’ Election

My Editor Hates Me 48 Comments

In just 39 days the voters of Ontario will decide whether to return Dalton McGuinty to power or to give Tim Hudak a chance at running things. Too bad there’ll be little of substance discussed with the voters. Don’t blame the politicians though, this is entirely the fault of the media for turning modern-day elections into shallow popularity contests where the only thing that matters are those “gotcha” moments.

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