Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-20
- Gay Marriage Can Wait, says UK Defence Minister (married with three kids). http://t.co/y0VTjxpU #scumoftheearth #
- Going to remove all the fog and headache of yesterday by going on a sunny bike ride 🙂 #yyj #
- Some cogent thoughts on Policing poverty in Victoria @vipirg panel by @sherwinarnott http://t.co/7PeF07sp #yyj #yyjBlogs #
- RT @wicary: Mounties objected to kettling G20 protesters, watchdog finds. http://t.co/k0WDRPf8 #cdnpoli #
- Do We Amuse You? – On South Asians in popular culture, the stupid Ashton Kulcher ad, and more. http://t.co/orBSDaJZ #
- Christy Clark to alter BC's #climate goals to promote BC's liquefied natural gas (LNG) "boom" http://t.co/3sjsHLdJ #bcpoli #
- RT @mgeist: BC Library Association passes resolution urging univs and colleges to reject Access Copyright deal http://t.co/oY627N1Z #cdnpoli #
- RT @mayorgregor: Announcing new @DougCoupland V-Pole idea for #Vancouver and global cities @newcitiesfound summit http://t.co/0bPle6aX #
- True! Tho' sometimes, signalling your book is nice @victriviaqueen RT @lifeasahuman EBooks Brown Wrapper Revolution – http://t.co/TYAbOmOC #
- RT @mikedesouza: Essay contest flunks at Environment Canada. Here's a link to the memo. http://t.co/01l8YYYi #cdnpoli #cuts #morale #
- Wow. @BCNDP support hits 50% in latest poll http://t.co/yyzPbrir #bcpoli #
- MT @susandelacourt: Think Baird just explained why they killed the Nat'l Roundtable on the Envmt. Didn't like its recommendations. #cdnpoli #
- RT @wicary: RT @kady: So the #NRTEE is now on the enemies list because it "recommended a carbon tax"? #cdnpoli #
- MT @jenditchburn: Is mesg to govt-funded think tanks that you're not allowed to draw certain conclusions from your research? #cdnpoli #NRTEE #
- RT @dianemcn: "Why #InSite won: A forum on the community struggle for Vancouver's supervised…" http://t.co/VqmliMLP May 31 Victoria #yyj #
- Clean energy as culture war http://t.co/lgMccg7G Good post as always by @drgrist on the naivete of thinking clean energy is "bipartisan" #
- RT @dave_eby: @bccla presenting some of Canada's leaders on rights including @mgeist on June 1: http://t.co/oGm71H3U #vanpoli #bcpoli #mwci #
- Recommeding a carbon tax cost a research agency its funding, Tories confirm http://t.co/ZnYTEIHx #NRTEE #cdnpoli #
- How the Toews-sponsored Internet surveillance bill was quietly killed http://t.co/7eyDSo78 #cdnpoli #
- Tory rhetoric creates chilly climate for free speech. @globeandmail on charities and radicalism slurs http://t.co/NJto3JQY #CdnPoli #
- Fables of Wealth – "To expect morality in the market is to commit a category error" http://t.co/WhMMORRS Deresiwicz in @nytimes #
- For US Oil Workers, Deadliest Danger Is Driving http://t.co/Kb4rWLZx Fatigue from 14 hour shifts of intense physical work. #
- MT @ezraklein: Filibuster unconstitutional? One of US top lawyers thinks so – and he's suing to prove it: http://t.co/ECm0zRBk #SenateHate #
- RT @billmckibben: Global warming = more, worse forest fires. Scientist: 'we can't be more more direct and explicit…' http://t.co/bLLBsaxm #
- I would remove the qualifiers "sociologists" and "today" 🙂 RT @janniaragon: Sociologists-avoid Wente today. #globeandmail #
- MT @mgeist: Gov Imposes Time Allocation and cuts debate on #C 11, dismiss chance to fix digital lock rules http://t.co/0jhjwMX7 #cdnpoli #
- 76% of Americans Want Clean Energy Instead of Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal http://t.co/W8TGbVAz They should vote accordingly @cleantechnica #
- RT @natnewswatch: BBC News: Viewpoint: Canada's green image tarnished by new policies http://t.co/tCcrQlnq #cdnpoli Image, yes, that's it. #
- After all those threats by airlines about EU's modest carbon "price", >1200 have complied, 10 haven't http://t.co/Dr5nvRBJ #
- RT @tzeporah: Why is transport of #tarsands thru US pipelines exempt from payments into Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund? http://t.co/ouZwhfqF #
- MT @saltspringx: @BCFerries: People and bikes must be included in Fulford ferry terminal redesign. 100 more signatures. http://t.co/SjivaHGt #
- RT @boraz: Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is http://t.co/NsJv1GAH or how to avoid using the P word 🙂 #
- RT @angus_: Woman who made fun of American Apparel contest wins; American Apparel acts like a big baby. http://t.co/cL9s8VQ2 #
- Ottawa locks in outdated infrastructure, emissions with delays in carbon rules: #NRTEE http://t.co/1RBPKdDn #cdnpoli #
- That report will be one of the #NRTEE #039;s last after getting axed by the government http://t.co/1RBPKdDn #cdnpoli #
- RT @milesgrant: NIMBYs hated the Golden Gate Bridge: http://t.co/uTTv6ZRw via @ggwash #
- RT @elizabethmay: #C11 yay! NDP, Liberals, Bloc and independent Hyer are voting with me to stop digital locks! #cdnpoli #
- Wrong man Carlos DeLuna was executed in Texas, probe says http://t.co/lMF9blUj #
- RT @wicary: @GlobeandMail Editorial: Harper's omnibus budget bill has too much baggage. http://t.co/aX1YioQh #cdnpoli #
- The End of Coal Burning in the U.S.: @sciam Cheap natural gas and regulation. http://t.co/m6ukFWAx #
- Hence the frantic push to export coal to China via BC and Washington ports. http://t.co/7r6UrNcl #
- RT @ghoberg: Mulcair waves off criticism from the West http://t.co/Ux1EAOMb #cdnpoli #oilsands #dutchdisease #
- UN food envoy decries 'shocking' conditions in Canada http://t.co/Txw7uDL4 #cdnpoli # #
- Authors of IRPP #dutchdisease reality check recommend "cures" similar to proponents http://t.co/x2dc6okZ #cdnpoli #
- Nothing really controversial about "invest revenue in infrastructure" and "use windfall wisely and widely" http://t.co/x2dc6okZ #
- Anyway, how can a single "theory" like #dutchdisease explain everything? it's one influence among many, like everything else in life. #
- So, breathless media reports of a "study debunking #dutchdisease quot;, are, well, breathless… http://t.co/53C2n77m #
- Surprise, respected authors of US book blaming most of the current US congress mess on republicans can't get on TV http://t.co/hyTY8N5R #
- MT @anitamajumdar: Op piece on experiencing India through an African-American's eyes INDIA IS RACIST, HAPPY ABOUT IT http://t.co/SBlTeG1r #
- RT @bradplumer: Good details on the new cap-and-trade system in South Korea, one of the world's top-10 carbon emitters. http://t.co/eBalQTSf #
- Housing market cooling, but ‘palatial’ homes still strong – @GlobeandMail http://t.co/Fv90WK6U Breaking: Rich still filthy rich. #
- Lagging green standards hamper competitiveness, Ottawa told http://t.co/kN103Fi9 #cdnpoli #NRTEE #ShootTheMessenger #
- And… #DutchDisease goes abroad RT @bradplumer: Canada discovers one downside to being an oil exporter–Dutch disease: http://t.co/1776J7DV #
- +23 RT @drgrist: Crowd purchasing brings clean energy within reach http://t.co/UQpHfLtZ Love, love, love this. #
- MT @lanapopham Will AgMin amend Bill37 or let gag stand? Sec16 prohibits all "persons" from reporting animal disease outbreaks. #bcpoli #
- ‘Too big to fail’ financial firms now bigger than before, study indicates increased risk and few benefits http://t.co/SSQ4ey1A #
- "One aspect of innumeracy is seeing numbers as words, as rhetorical expressions rather than as quantities" http://t.co/zybPC4B1 #
- What the US oil industry wants from government — in charts http://t.co/AVAcgwiA via @bradplumer (And will get, presumably) #
- Tories seek to have @CouncilofCDNs #robocalls challenge thrown out of court http://t.co/Ii5iowPr #cdnpoli #elxnfraud #
- Wow. @whynationsfail has some of the clearest writing on how European colonialism affects the development of the colonised #
- RT @robintosczak: Coleman invokes the c-word (no, not that one). It's still the 50s in the BC Leg right? http://t.co/1js80O1f #bcpoli #
- JPMorgan's Trading Loss Is Said to Rise at Least 50% to 3 Billion, that's $3,000,000,000 http://t.co/RM7X4UaF #
- Enbridge Kicks Off Huge Canada, U.S. Pipeline Expansion http://t.co/QvNniFEn #Tarsands #Oilsands #cdnpoli #
- RT @Tzeporah: Huh. Mulclair on #tarsands Dix piping up against gateway pipeline. I'm gonna have to dust off my old NDP card. #CdnPoli #
- +1 RT @adam_stirling: Can we stop using the terms "Western Canada" and "Alberta" interchangeably? BC is a distinct province #bcpoli #cdnpoli #
- Pretty big drops RT @danpollock: Victoria and #Esquimalt crime numbers drop across the board in 2011: http://t.co/f6uQudwg #yyj #bcpoli #
- RT @ryanchittum: "if US median household income had kept pace with economy since '70, it would now be ~$92K, not $50K" http://t.co/nuyLiGVR #
- Victoria should consider a community bike-share program like the Bixi system: New Report. http://t.co/0suFK6cX #yyj Helmets? #
- If you don't praise "Job Creators" and low taxes, your TED talk may never become public http://t.co/84HYrSRn via @ezraklein #
- RT @pothen: Toronto Police Service: Toronto motorists on multilane streets must not pass cyclists without changing lanes. #yyjbike #
- RT @ElizabethMay: CPC MP yelling at NDP MP "do you have children? You don't have children!" #cdnpoli Wow, speechless #
- RT @borenbears: Job-killing regulations? Study in Science: Safety inspections save lives & companies $355K a firm http://t.co/QmHCi2C8 #
- The @DeepClimate blog has a well researched piece comparing Fraser Institute and @pembina funding http://t.co/D2n5jBke #
- Breaking ground causes erosion RT @alexhimelfarb Tories shut down 'groundbreaking' freshwater research station http://t.co/2KAZU3U6 #cdnpoli #
- Interesting possible side effect of US trade war on cheap Chinese Solar: More manufacturing in Canada http://t.co/BYkYn2CU via @bradplumer #
- |What does it say about things when "polluter pays" is controversial and needs defending? http://t.co/fx3nqsGl #cdnpoli #
- If I've interacted with @Klout in any way except to opt-out, punch me in the face without warning 🙂 @XKCD http://t.co/kNRKmcCE #
- RT @dgardner: So Conservatives believe "underage children" too young be exposed to sex ed, but old enough to be imprisoned in Guantanamo. #
- MT @askessler: Federal Privacy Commissioner: #Robocalls scandal lays bare privacy concerns w/ voter databases http://t.co/fkA0ndvp #cdnpoli #
- The Euromess in <100 chars RT @rodrikdani: Monetary union requires fiscal union, which requires political union. As simple as that. #
- I mean, imagine the #DutchDisease conversation where Ontario and Alberta are different countries… #
- Romney for higher gas price RT @heraldenergy: Romney vows immediate approval of #KeystoneXL on first day in White House http://t.co/UEL00Vyw #
- The US government spends billions on research. Should we have to pay $20,000 more to see the results? http://t.co/cM6xF3zU #openaccess #
- RT @mattyglesias: For every 100 non-Hispanic whites in America there are 78 voters. For every 100 Hispanics there are 44. #
- RT @kreynolds118: BC's liquor distribtion #privatization To understand, you need to read the business press. http://t.co/QDMoMgA2 #bcpoli #
- How Reliable Are the Social Sciences like Economics and Sociology? – @NYTimes http://t.co/Mqr7urbe #
- Holy Mother RT @CBCPolitics: Judge declares 2011 federal election results in Etobicoke Centre null and void. http://t.co/CApO7FYd #cdnpoli #
- Interesting use of time-of-use electricity pricing to offer free night power in Texas http://t.co/StnqVl9T via @cleantechnica #
- How far the right and the press have moved on climate change, this on Romney from 2007 http://t.co/KrIOkMF8 via @kate_sheppard #
- MT @glen_mcgregor: #CPC did NOT today file motion to dismiss @CouncilofCDNs legal challenges in 7 other ridings, as promised #robocalls #
- RT @eric_doherty: Federal #NDP wants Truck side guards to be mandatory http://t.co/u0DbMdfj #cdnpoli #yyjbike #
- RT @pdmcleod: So a government-backed study that found Canada *does* suffer from so-called Dutch Disease is released (at 5pm Friday before… #
- Harper government funded study arguing Canada suffers from '#DutchDisease' http://t.co/1NW2Zcgx #cdnpoli #
- Low Natural Gas Prices Threaten Carbon Capture Projects http://t.co/1Z8ullQK Because they would have been gold otherwise #
- RT @raulpacheco: An Open Letter to the World on the Governmental Destruction of the Environment in Canada http://t.co/1PI2CEVs #
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