Humberto DaSilva

Not Rex: The coming dark age of Trump

rabble staff — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:00:20 +0000

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January 19, 2017

Not Rex delivers an alternative poem in the epic style on the coming dark age of Trump.

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Not Rex delivers an alternative poem in the epic style on the coming dark age of Trump.

Not Rex: Hacking away at Hydro One

rabble staff — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:59:53 +0000

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January 12, 2017

Russian hackers planted malware in Hydro One computers, but the best of Ontario's electricity systems had already been hacked away by a government a little closer to home.

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Russian hackers planted malware in Hydro One computers to use them in zombie attacks, but the best of Ontario's electricity systems had already been hacked away by a government a little closer to home.

Not Rex: Farewell to Fidel Castro

rabble staff — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:08:41 +0000

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November 30, 2016

Fidel Castro dedicated his life to fighting imperialism that reduced South American nations to banana republics run by U.S. corporations.

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History is not over, but a major player has passed on. Fidel Castro dedicated his life to fighting imperialism that reduced South American nations to banana republics run by U.S. corporations.

Farewell, Fidel.

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Not Rex: Peel Children's Aid Society workers fight for caseload cap

rabble staff — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:46:04 +0000

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November 16, 2016

The Peel Children's Aid Society is paying scabs $85/hour while their workers strike for caseload caps virtually everyone else already has. Why?

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Peel Children's Aid Society workers have been forced to strike for more than two months. They're on the streets fighting for a cap on the number of cases individual workers have to take on. Workload caps are a standard provision in most children's aid society contracts, but the Peel Children's Aid Society is resisting such caps at all costs. Scabs are being paid $85/hour while Children's Aid Society workers strike for caseload caps virtually everyone else already has.

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Not Rex: Hail Wallonia!

rabble staff — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:10:20 +0000

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October 26, 2016

The Canada-EU trade agreement has met its Waterloo in Wallonia. Turns out CETA, which the Harper regime said was a done deal, may indeed be done.

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The Canada-EU trade agreement has met its Waterloo in Wallonia. Turns out CETA -- the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement -- which the Harper regime said was a done deal, may indeed be done. Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's dream of a done deal has been laid to ruins by Wallonians.

Thanks, Wallonia. Canada owes you one.

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Not Rex: Revolution on!

rabble staff — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:25:16 +0000

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October 12, 2016

The airwaves and wires are full of circus debates, so the revolution is not being televised!

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Never mind the U.S. election circus... the struggle is getting so real, it's a revolution! Not Rex takes stock of revolutionary actions breaking out in the U.S. and around the world -- even as mainstream media fixates on American election mayhem.

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Not Rex: Orlando shootings product of homegrown hate and gun culture

rabble staff — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 13:12:23 +0000

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June 22, 2016

LGBTQI hate is the point at which American Christian fundamentalists and Islamic extremists find their common ground.

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Orlando is red with the blood from people who aren't even allowed to legally give blood.

We need to look at how the homegrown hate and out-of-control gun culture in America is fuelling these crimes and do something more than just declaring these attacks tragedies.

Not Rex: Elegy for Fort Mac (and humanity)

rabble staff — Wed, 11 May 2016 13:59:38 +0000

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May 11, 2016

Humberto "Not Rex" DaSilva decides to ask the big questions about the Fort McMurray fire be it "too soon" or not.

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Fort Mac Town is burning down.

Did a hot spring and a dry winter create this? Or perhaps a spark of dry lightening? Or was it the winds of climate change? Or is it too soon to ask any of these questions.

Humberto "Not Rex" DaSilva decides it is time to ask the big questions.

Not Rex: Panama Papers outrage can make fair taxes possible

rabble staff — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:06:19 +0000

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April 20, 2016

It's the battle of the taxes! While the rich avoid taxes and stash millions off shore, the rest of us are wondering what gives and what can we do?

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Inequality is so top-heavy it's teetering. Public debt levels are at the tipping point. And, the planet itself is unstable.

The world's richest continue to evade taxes by stashing millions in off-shore accounts. Will the revelations from the Panama Papers finally make the rich pay?

Let's hope it's the final pinch of outrage needed to flambé this upside-down cake.

Not Rex: Trudeau needs to start moving on electoral reform promise

rabble staff — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:55:22 +0000

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March 10, 2016

Trudeau promised to "make every vote count." If he wants true representation in Canada, he should probably look to proportional representation.

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During his election campaign and at his Throne Speech, Justin Trudeau promised to make every vote count. However, lately on the news of electoral reform it has been crickets.

So what did Trudeau mean when he said "make every vote count": proportional representation, mixed-member proportional representation or ranked ballots?

The Liberals seem to love the last option, which could be a recipe for disaster.

Not Rex: On the Flint Michigan water crisis

rabble staff — Thu, 11 Feb 2016 15:15:36 +0000

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February 11, 2016

The Flint water crisis is right up there with some of the most egregious crimes of capitalism.

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After taking office in 2011, Governor Rick Snyder decreed tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy and cuts pensions and "other efficiencies" to pay for them.

One of these efficiencies was to force residents to drink out of the Flint river instead of Lake Huron. Ever since, Flint's tap water has been loaded with lead.

Not Rex: Journalists lose their jobs while the bosses get millions

rabble staff — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:57:09 +0000

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January 26, 2016

Ninety journalists at Postmedia papers lost their jobs. The bosses got a million in bonuses. Wait, what?

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Ninety journalists at Postmedia papers lost their jobs. The bosses got a million in bonuses.

Oh Well! Creative destruction was kind of a poetic ending for capitalist hacks.

Not Rex: On Canada's hypocritical relationship with Saudi Arabia

rabble staff — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 15:24:58 +0000

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January 6, 2016

Saudi Arabia, our Middle Eastern allies, just killed 47 people deemed "terrorists" in a single day. And Canada just sold Saudi Arabia $15 billion in weapons.

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Saudi Arabia, our Middle Eastern allies, just killed 47 people deemed "terrorists" in a single day. But, Canada has "no intention" of cancelling $15 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau really wanted "real change" perhaps he should consider nixing this arms deal.

Not Rex: Paris calling

rabble staff — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 18:35:35 +0000

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December 22, 2015

At the Paris Climate Conference world leaders figured out it will take a lot of money to make the world sustainably green. Not Rex looks at the faint hope from Paris.

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At the Paris Climate Conference world leaders figured out it will take a lot of money to make the world sustainably green. Not Rex looks at the faint hope from Paris.

Not Rex: On the road map to the Third World War

rabble staff — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 16:01:22 +0000

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December 4, 2015

Anybody else get the feeling like you want to duck and cover?

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Anybody else get the feeling like you want to duck and cover? Humberto "Not Rex" DaSilva tells us why.