Hump Day Tuesday (oops) mega-link blowout: How Idle No More Could Help Save Canadian Democracy Mounties snooped on Occupy protesters in nation’s capital: documents Police drones raise fears over personal privacy Anticipating domestic boom, colleges rev up drone piloting programs (h/t) U.S. Memo Details Views on Killing Citizens in Al Qaeda Justice
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bastard.logic: Something In The Water
BCL on the chutzpah of Jonathan Kay, junk science enabler debunker: [T]here’s a real lack of self-awareness here. Jonathon [sic], after all, is comment pages editor at the National Post, and under his watch it has for years entertained junk science from Global Warming deniers. Sometimes this nonsense has been confined to
Continue readingbastard.logic: SHOCKING: Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Suppress Democratic Votes
The NY Times: Several recent polls and studies suggest that long waiting times in some places depressed turnout in 2012 and that lines were longest in cities, where Democrats outnumber Republicans. In a New York Times/CBS News poll taken shortly after Election Day, 18 percent of Democrats said they waited
Continue readingbastard.logic: Ron Paul on Murdered SEAL Chris Kyle: “He Who Lives By The Sword…”
You’re all class, Doc: Chris Kyle's death seems to confirm that "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword." Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn't make sense— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) February 04, 2013 Ok, so maybe the 140 is not exactly conducive to nuance. Onward Facebook ho:
Continue readingbastard.logic: Concert of the Day: Straight Outta CBGB’s
Bad Brains live at CBGB 1982: Filed under: music, Uncategorized, video Tagged: Bad Brains, CBGB, CBGB’s, D.C. hardcore, hardcore punk, music, New York, NYC, video
Continue readingbastard.logic: Jessica Valenti on Why Feminists Are So ‘Angry’: “It’s not that I’m angry, it’s that I’m exhausted.”
Preach: Transcript here (h/t). Filed under: Feminism, feminisms, health care, pro-choice, reproductive freedom Tagged: abortion, contraception, Feminism, Jessica Valenti, Planned Parenthood, reproductive justice
Continue readingbastard.logic: Creeping Fascism Like Woah
Business Insider: The AP reports that 5,000 Golden Dawn supporters marched past the US Embassy in Athens, chanting anti-Turkish, anti-US and anti-immigrant slogans. The anti-US feeling was prompted by memories of a 1996 territorial dispute between Greece and Turkey that only ended peacefully after the intervention of the US, and led to three Greek
Continue readingbastard.logic: Big Pharma Cashing In On Global South Vaccination?
The Graun: Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), the Nobel prize-winning organisation working on the frontline in remote and conflict areas, says vaccines bought with UK and other donor governments’ money cost too much and are not designed for the needs of hot and impoverished countries. When the pot of money subsidising
Continue readingbastard.logic: Around the Internets (Your Super Bowl Escape Hatch)
Definitely not the Super Bowl edition (sorry kids, matttbastard don’t do football — that said, go Ravens, because fuck these guys): Boys Christopher Hitchens, David Irving and the Holocaust BDS, Brooklyn College, and the Daily News The Torture Apologists Ignore the 4,000 Americans They Killed Margaret Wente’s “Big Wind”: another
Continue readingbastard.logic: Happy Day-After-MBV-Day (Hmm — Must Polish My Shoes…)
Classic My Bloody Valentine to whet your appetite: Head on over to mybloodyvalentine.org to grab MBV, the LOOOOOOONG-awaited (and oft-delayed) follow-up to 1991′s seminal shoegazer classic, Loveless (assuming you haven’t already been sated, natch). Filed under: music, video Tagged: 1991, 2013, Kevin Shields, Loveless, MBV, music, My Bloody Valentine, new releases,
Continue readingbastard.logic: Observer Leader: “A radical recalibration of capitalism is essential”
The Observer (h/t): Over the past few decades, average families have coped by more women going into employment, by working longer hours and by credit. But since 70% of the US economy is based on consumer spending, a lack of surplus cash means the engine is running out of fuel.
Continue readingbastard.logic: Reopening The Abortion Debate In Canada (Whether You Like It Or Not)
Sixth Estate: I think we’re kidding ourselves if we say that the debate about abortion is now over and shouldn’t be reopened. It may have been closed in the courts since 1988. It may be closed in the Parliament insofar as there is not (currently) any debate proceeding on legislation
Continue readingbastard.logic: Chris Hayes on the Hagel Hearings: “An omnidirectionally embarrassing debacle for everyone involved.”
And how: h/t Digby Filed under: defence policy, US, wingnuts Tagged: Chris Hayes, Chuck Hagel, Hagel hearings, MSNBC
Continue readingbastard.logic: Concert of the Day: Fusion Cooking
Soft Machine & Allan Holdsworth, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1974: Filed under: music, video
Continue readingbastard.logic: Harpercon Tom Flanagan Has An Animal Hide Fetish. Your Argument is Invalid.
Sabina asks: Tom Fucking Flanagan. Why? Answer: Because chicks [sic] dig “the full buffalo”. No, really: “[I]t is kind of a chick magnet. Women are drawn to the coat. They want to come up and feel the coat.” Tom Fucking Flanagan, “icon of Canadian history,” ladies and gents. Filed under:
Continue readingbastard.logic: U.S. Muslim Terrorism in 2012: Almost Nil
Sorry, Mark Levin — American Muslims = worst Fifth Column ever (h/t): Since 9/11, Kurzman and his team tallies, 33 Americans have died as a result of terrorism launched by their Muslim neighbors. During that period, 180,000 Americans were murdered for reasons unrelated to terrorism. In just the past year, the mass
Continue readingbastard.logic: Cosign With Jay Rosen
This: Editing by click rate is stupid and unethical. Chasing traffic is an abyss. The hamsterization of journalism is degrading the work environment for news professionals. Expecting reporters to report, write, blog, tweet, shoot video, sift the web, raise their metabolism, and produce more without time and training is guaranteed to fail. Trading
Continue readingbastard.logic: Around the Internets
The cream in your Sunday coffee, back where it belongs: (h/t) When the drones come home ‘Earthlings, there is no place to hide’ — drone strikes blur the laws of war Mr. Kristof and His Hugs If you repeat a lie often enough … Jonathan Kay Explains Lying It’s Time to “Reopen”
Continue readingbastard.logic: So.
RIP The Agonist 2002-2013. Feels good to be back (in…monochrome). Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Idle No More: Baseless Stigmas Are An Unwelcome Distraction
by Sara Mai Chitty I wanted to let people know a couple things about my heritage as a First Nations woman, about what is being said about the Idle No More movement (and there is much more to be said), and what I feel is EXCEEDINGLY DISTRACTING from the other
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