Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Another archivist busted for selling stolen documents on eBay

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I am following several stories of runagates this week, most of them thieves or spies, (essentially the same thing) which may become Blog art...
Saturday, February 2, 2008

Ousted Tory M.P. handed Mulroney Cabinet secrets to the Russians

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KGB/SVR agent Sergei Tretyakov speaks at KGB headquarters in 1998. (Putnam photo) Imagine you are a well established book author and you ar...
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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Canadian Runagate - The Basic Bethune

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Last week a university student of my acquaintance launched into an excited introduction of a extraordinary and important Canadian from the p...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Fugue for a Darkening Island

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I read the PAN edition of Christopher Priest's prophetic novel, Fugue for a Darkening Island , sometime in the 1990s, and it made a last...
Sunday, January 6, 2008

LION OF THE DESERT- a DVD backgrounder

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This 1981 bio-pic pits the "lion," famed Senussi guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar against the Italian bull, 6' 4" tall Gene...
Monday, December 31, 2007

Canada's Happiest City - The Tao of Canadian propaganda.

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Those who know me well usually dismiss me as a pessimist. Actually, I am just a garden variety cynic. At my age I find it near impossible to...
Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas comes but once a year...

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One of the greatest thrills of my youth.... earthrise from a lunar orbit, thanks to the Apollo astronauts. From far away... she sure looks p...