Sunday Linkblast - Nov 18

• The UN's terrifying new climate report
  If anything, too rosy a picture.
  
  
• 'It's all in how you look at it.'
  The RCMP ask us who were gonna believe: them or our lying eyes. It reminds me of the rant by the late great Bill Hicks about the Rodney King case. 'If you play the tape backwards, you see us help Mr King up and send him on his way.'
  
  
• The Saskatchewan NDP weren't left wing enough
  Challenging the mainstream narrative Kyall Glennie suggests it was the kick the base tactics that sunk them, not resurgent conservatism.
  
  
• The sub-prime mess
  Krugman delves into the shortsighted greed heads hacking away at the base of the house of cards.
  
  
• The Boss voice
  The media elite smugly insisted that Mulrooney's reputation had been rehabilitated. The Canadian people, on the other hand, had the bad grace to continue hating the fucker.
  
  
• CanWest newsroom cutbacks violate CRTC regulations
  Do you care that news gathering is getting more and more centralized?