Junior oilsands players receive legislative green lights on projects

Southern Pacific Resources and Laricina Energy get Orders in Council

By Dina O'Meara, Calgary Herald October 18, 2010

CALGARY - Junior oilsands players Southern Pacific Resources Corp. and Laricina Energy have received provincial approvals for their thermal projects in northeastern Alberta.

By Vancouver Media Co-op - October 15, 2010

The October 16-31 issue covers gentrification in the east side...following up the gentrification of heritage houses on Commercial Drive, and the creation of new "affordable" housing in the [Downtown Eastside]. Also, Alex Hundert bail update.

MotorMachineMercenar writes "The Local reports that Julian Assange has been denied a residence permit in Sweden. The WikiLeaks spokesman and Australian citizen applied for residency in August, apparently to gain the freedom of speech protection offered by Swedish laws.

As the world faces recession, climate change, inequity and more, Tim Jackson delivers a piercing challenge to established economic principles, explaining how we might stop feeding the crises an

Anarchists Against the Wall (awalls.org) have a facebook presence though most of the texts
are in Hebrew: "As every Friday, this weekend too we will demonstrate together with
hundreds of Palestinians and internationals in villages of the west bank - want to join?

I first visited the KSL in 1983/1984. I had been around the edges (and probably too involved) of some rather intense disagreements about anarchism ...

Muondecay writes "President Obama will be featured in the December 8th MythBusters episode, "Archimedes Solar Ray," during which he will challenge Adam and Jamie to revisit an ancient and somewhat controversial myth: Did Greek scientist and polymath Archimedes set fire to an invading Roman fleet using only mirrors and the reflected rays of the sun during the Siege of Syracuse?