Because context no longer matters…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Occupy protests must find a way to politicize while dodging rubber bullets
UC Davis campus police pepper spraying protesters. A second wave of evictions and police violence is being unleashed upon Occupy protesters across North America, and the resiliency of the movement will be determined in the coming days as protesters must find a way to work around court injunctions and police
Continue readingStupid Sex Tricks: Occupy WHAT?
As if Occupy Oakland didn’t have enough shit going on, what with two badly injured war vets (at last count) and a fascist mayor. Now this? New York-based homosexual smut peddler Dirty Boy Video put out a video called “Occupy My Throat” in which two hippie-ish twinks, who look like
Continue readingcmkl: Facebook cuts off blog feeds: making me feel sad
I must say for the near constant dribble of bad news about privacy, its galloping commercialism and all that I’ve always liked Facebook. It’s allowed me to reassemble and in some cases reconnect with the diaspora of people I’ve known over the years. So I haven’t minded being the product
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Outrageous rhetoric from Clark Government
Hyperbole is an intentional and often outrageous overstatement, or exaggeration. This clips provides an example.
Continue readingTransPacific Partnership is wrong for Canada
This week’s Spin Doctors topic was on Prime Minister Harper’s plans to have Canada join the Transpacific Partnership. “With the U.S. delaying its decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that Canada will apply to join the TransPacific partnership. Is this the right decision for
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Rhetoric of Pepper Spray
The Rhetorica Network offers analysis and commentary about the rhetoric, propaganda, biases, and spin of journalism. This site features the Media Rhetoric Journal web log, comprehensive news media links, a rhetoric textbook, a primer of critical techniques, and information for citizens. The character of Rhetorica represents the purposes and canons
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Real ‘Climategate’ Scandal: UK Police Spent Measly $8,843 In Failed Attempt to Identify Criminal Hacker
shutterstock_6710920.jpg Richard Black at the BBC points to the real 'Climategate' scandal that needs further investigation – why the UK police have done such an astonishly poor job investigating this criminal hacking, as evidenced by their tiny expenditures to date this year. From Climate Emails, Storm or Yawn?: I have it from a very good
Continue readingFive of Five: Amazon Gift Giving
Amazon’s product page for Pepper Spray is getting seriously owned right now. I didn’t know Amazon sold Pepper Spray. It’s not really funny, but it’s good to see people react to such a poor recommendation for Christmas shopping. via the Political Carnival
Continue readingIn the words of Lester Pearson.
“This concentration of official power [in the Cabinet Ministers] is, I think, inevitable and up to a point desirable, but it must be kept under parliamentary control if political and personal freedom is not to be intolerably diminished.” How true. How true.
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Montreal Book Launch: CAPTIVE GENDERS: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex (November 24)
[please post and forward widely] [français ci-dessous] [facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272424856132486] ———- Prisoner Correspondence Project, Certain Days, Kersplebedeb Publishing & QPIRG Concordia invite you to the Montreal book launch of: Captive Genders: trans embodiment and the prison industrial complex Thursday November 24th, 6:30pm QPIRG Concordia1500 de Maisonneuve O. suite 204 metro Guy Concordia Featuring:
Continue readingThe Harperian base: QOTW
“They tend to be anti-intellectual, anti-science and with little interest in debating the evidence or listening to expert opinion. Many simply want people who do bad things to be severely punished whether it makes streets safer or not.” —EKOS pollster Frank Graves 70% of Canadians favour the decriminalization of marijuana.
Continue readingwmtc: in which i begin my first library job
It’s finally happened: I’ve been placed as a page! I begin my training this Thursday at the Central Library in Mississauga. This is a huge, beautiful library, a five-minute drive from our house, and right next door to YMCA that Allan and I belong to. I’ve been waiting for this
Continue readingQP: Scattershot questions on the AG report
With the Auditor General’s latest report having been released earlier this morning, one would have imagined that whatever the biggest piece of scandalous news from it would have led off QP. And yet, Nycole Turmel got up and asked about…the health accord renegotiation process, and what kind of public input
Continue readingWhen An NPA Candidate Lies Down With Swine…
…They Love The Smell Of The Poo. As long as they think they might win. **** And if they don’t? Win, I mean. Well…. You get stuff like this from ‘former’ candidate Sean Bickerton: …the voters have spoken, decisively rejecting a Mayoral campaign based on puerile, sophomoric, gotcha-style attacks and
Continue readingCarbon49 - a blog on sustainability for Canadian businesses: Sustainability Reports: Separating Green Heroes from Green Washers
Most corporate social responsibility reports look great on the surface. But how do you read between the lines to separate the green heroes from the green washers? This article looks at reports from Merck, Procter and Gamble, De Beers, Ferrero and shares 16 tips on how to read sustainability reports
Continue readingMichele Bachmann theme on Fallon: ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch’
Somehow I think Fallon, his producer and especially song chooser and band leader ?uestlove are in big trouble. Aside from the obvious sexism of the title, Bachmann and her aides, rightbloggers, and conservative pundits are bound to jump on this as a sign not just of a ‘liberal bias’ but
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: Update on Online Spying
By Katitza Rodriguez and Maira Sutton for the Electronic Frontier Foundation The Canadian national anthem proudly honors “The True North strong and free!” Yet Canadians face an imminent round of frightening online spy proposals that threaten long held civil liberties and privacy rights. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has insisted
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: That Annoying Twitter Access
I’ve seldom seen a journalist whine so much about politicians who are too accessible to the public. Look no further, you can find them in the Calgary Herald. Mayor Nenshi has even replied to a tweet from me, and I don’t even live in Calgary, so obviously he must be
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