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On the Essence of Truth

May 6, 2012
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On the Essence of Truth

Share | Bookmark ContentsOn the Essence of Truth On the Essence of Truth By Martin Heidegger | Published here   To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world’s sky.   Our topic is the essence of truth. The question regarding the essence of truth is not concerned with whether truth is a truth of practical experience or of economic calculation, the truth of a technical consideration or of political sagacity, or, in particular, a truth of scientific research or of artistic composition, or even the truth of thoughtful reflection or of cultic belief. The question of essence disregards all this and attends to the one thing that in...

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Canada and the Emergence of a New Global Coalition

April 23, 2012
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Canada and the Emergence of a New Global Coalition

Share | BookmarkContents404 Food for Thought:A German Pirate Party could bring a European coalition 404 Food for Thought: “Canadians use words like: Corrupt, Liars, Untrustworthy, & Criminal to describe Politicians. Yet we allow them to run our Country? #CDNPoli” ~ @Big_Guy_Ty …the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this world, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable,...

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CANADA: Democracy in the Age of Austerity: Beyond the Robocall Scandal

April 22, 2012
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CANADA: Democracy in the Age of Austerity: Beyond the Robocall Scandal

Share | BookmarkContentsCANADA: Democracy in the Age of Austerity: Beyond the Robocall Scandal CANADA: Democracy in the Age of Austerity: Beyond the Robocall Scandal Published Friday April 20 2012 | Global Research by James Cairns A lot of people are angry about the robocall scandal. Even by the low standards of the Harper Conservatives, the covert attempt to block thousands of people from voting in the 2011 federal election is pretty disgusting. In a recent poll, 75 per cent of respondents said they want a formal inquiry into the Conservative Party’s dirty campaign tricks. Anti-robocall rallies have been held in more than 25 cities. At a rally in Saskatoon last month, protestor Nayyar Javed...

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Canada: Learn about CISPA & Stop Cyber Spying Week

April 18, 2012
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Share | BookmarkContentsThe Impending Cybersecurity Power Grab – It’s not just for the United StatesStop Cyber Spying Week – Join EFF in a Week of Action Opposing CISPA When we share information, the authorities call it piracy… yet when Internet companies collect and share citizens’ personal information, that indeed will be legal… reversed piracy? The Impending Cybersecurity Power Grab – It’s not just for the United States  APRIL 18, 2012 | EFF EFF and a number of civil society organizations have declared this to be ‘Stop Cyber Spying Week’ in protest of several controversial U.S. cybersecurity legislative proposals, including the bill currently before Congress and the Senate called CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing &...

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Environment Gets the Austerity Treatment: Oil at Any Cost…

April 18, 2012
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Environment Gets the Austerity Treatment: Oil at Any Cost…

Share | BookmarkContents404 Food for Thought:Meet the ex-Bay Streeter leading Tory charge against oil-sands opponentsEnvironmentalists differ sharply on pipeline proposalEnvironment gets the austerity treatmentEnvironment will suffer most from Tory budgetCuts at Environment Canada mean fewer left to clean up oil-spill messU.S. company plans billion-dollar expansion of Trans Mountain pipelineClimate & Capitalism“Canada’s Oilsands Innovation Alliance” is a public relations gimmick.Feds warned not to ‘cheerlead’ for oilsands   404 Food for Thought: Without any shred of doubt, the Alberta Tar Sands are the world’s largest industrial, capital and energy project. Being the size of England, the Tar Sands are unfathomable in scope in terms of enormity of the devastation currently taking place. It would be logical to assume that...

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