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PSA: Elections in Ontario & Referendum
Today, we Ontarians get to pick a new premier. Lets hope its someone who can actually deliver to help the majority of people, instead of just promising. The more pressing issue is a referendum. The question is whether we stick with the current system. Or do we go the “mixed member proportional system”. The current…
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25th Anniversary of Martial Law in Poland
December 13, 1981. General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared Poland (then still part of the Warsaw Pact) under martial law. The Communist secret service arrested hundreds of Poles. Many died for a free Poland. 25 years later, things have changed slowly. Though many ex-members of the Communist Party, secret service and collaborators still walk freely and some…
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Viva Pinochet!
Yesterday General Augusto Pinochet died at the age of 91. (BBC article) I never met the man, nor am I any way connected to Chile. Yet I admire his resolve and daring. He stood up to Communism and the Soviet Russian empire. He did this at a time, when no one except the superpowers dared…
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Stepping Mania
Life has been pretty hectic recently. I guess basically it always was but I was too busy gaming to notice it. Talking about gaming I bought my first new game recently, HL2 Episode 1. Excellent game and loads of fun. Strangely very re-playable and Valve has worked hard on making the game believable with good…
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Drifting in the Ether for While.
…just passing by partner. Funny how I have been missing my daily dose of Internet recently… Busy at home is my excuse, but it is a bad one. So I am back for a short while… mainly to grab a look at a few things. Recently I have had that awful mix of boredom and…