When I saw this photo during the hearings into Bill C-51 it sent a chill down my spine.Because that posse is a horrible combination of stupidity and brute force, it looks like something out of a police state, or Pinochet's Chile.And I knew those three amigos would lead us to a
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper The Fascist Part MMXVIII
Remember in 2013, I wrote a rather lengthy post explaining the parallels between the Harper Government and fascism? Yeah, that. In the last week or so, the Harper Government has passed Bill C-51, which more or less turns the entire RCMP-CSIS-CSEC establishment into the PMO’s private police force. It grants
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper The Fascist Part MMXVIII
Remember in 2013, I wrote a rather lengthy post explaining the parallels between the Harper Government and fascism?Yeah, that. In the last week or so, the Harper Government has passed Bill C-51, which more or less turns the entire RCMP-CSIS-CSEC establ…
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Harper The Fascist Part MMXVIII
Remember in 2013, I wrote a rather lengthy post explaining the parallels between the Harper Government and fascism? Yeah, that. In the last week or so, the Harper Government has passed Bill C-51, which more or less turns the entire RCMP-CSIS-CSEC establishment into the PMO’s private police force. It grants
Continue readingLeft Over: The Thought Police: Alive and Well and Ruling in Canada
Ottawa considering hate charges against those who boycott Israel Blaney’s office cites ‘comprehensive’ hate laws for new zero tolerance plans By Neil Macdonald, CBC News Posted: May 11, 2015 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: May 11, 2015 5:00 AM ET ”ll bet Junior Trudeau is so happy he signed off on
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is CBC Hate Speech Story Bullshit?
WK thinks its bullshit, and he’s mostly right. It would be really, really difficult to use CDN hate-speech laws to go after the BDS movement, for reasons he cites. And there is a long chain of inferences leading from the actual facts as stated in the CBC story to the
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The oppressive market
Shorter Cons: Talking about not buying goods is officially a punishable offence.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Shoot to Kill – Anyone, Everyone
Israeli soldiers willfully targeted civilians in last year’s war on Gaza. Testimonies provided by more than 60 Israeli soldiers who fought in last summer’s war in Gaza have raised serious questions over whether Israel’s tactics breached its obligations under international law to distinguish and protect civilians. The claims – collected
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Don’t Eat That, Charlie, It’s Bullshit.
Most of us come with a pretty good “BD” or Bullshit Detector as standard equipment. People lie, so we need it. Not that it always works but it’s still pretty good. The more obvious the lie the better our BD works. White lies sometimes get past us but whoppers rarely
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Did Bibi Spy on Barack? Easy Answer? Of Course.
Israel has never been reluctant to spy on its global benefactor, the United States. Now Washington is accusing Israel of having spied on American negotiations with Iran for a nuclear enrichment treaty. The apparent decision by the White House to leak the allegations is the latest symptom of the growing
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Coming Clean, It’s Good for the Soul.
After half a century of persistent fudging the Pentagon has officially admitted the undeniable – Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons and all the high tech gear to best use them. That revelation might not matter much to most of us but, to the US government, it has serious
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Apartheid State
Benjamin Netanyahu may have won the Israeli election, by using fear and racism to get people to vote for him.Like his good buddy Stephen Harper is trying to do in Canada.But it is tuning out to be a pyrrhic victory.For while he may deny he is a racist. Read more »
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Whacking Iran – Maybe Sooner Than You Might Think – The Warmonger Digest, vol. 2
It’s reported that the Saudis have given Israel a green light to overfly Saudi Arabia should Netanyahu decide to launch an attack on Iran. Jerusalem and Riyadh do not have diplomatic ties, but unconfirmed reports have swirled for years of coordination between them against the common enemy of Iran, a
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Netanyahu’s "Dog Whistle" Might Have Fetched the Hounds
Maybe some day Benjamin Netanyahu will be known as the founder of the state of Palestine. Strange things are happening. From the Sydney Morning Herald:Already the US is hinting that it might support a United Nations Security Council resolution that recognises Palestine along pre-1967 borders. Until now it has repeatedly
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Maroc–We Just Moved Several Meters Closer to the Edge of a Cosmic Abyss
Don Maroc We just moved several meters closer to the edge of a cosmic abyss and no one is calling for a time out. Last year the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) quietly established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as a counterweight to the US/UK controlled International Monetary
Continue readingNetanyahu sabotages U.S. Palestine policy … a good thing?
How much will the Americans put up with from this yahoo? He is the most arrogant leader in the international community, making even Vladimir Putin look modest by comparison. He has the most powerful nation in the world as his country’s best friend and benefactor, so what does he do?
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Netanuyahu’s Win Could Be Israel’s Greatest Defeat
Tossing ideas around yesterday I came to a “What If” moment. What if, I wondered, Israeli prime minister re-elect, Benjamin Netanyahu, has destroyed Israel’s lifeline – the backing of the president of the United States of America. It’s been the American president, who alone controls his country’s veto at the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Benjamin Netanyahu and Stephen Harper’s Netanyahu Moment
Benjamin Netanyahu is as any decent person knows, a brutish right-wing demagogue, a racist, and a war criminal.And his victory in yesterday's Israeli election couldn't be more tragic. Or have left the Middle East and his own country more deeply wounded. Read more »
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Bye, Bye Bibi – Bye, Bye
Israeli Arabs are reported to be turning out in unusually large numbers to vote but, overall, voting is lighter than normal in the Israeli elections. This, according to Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, is a bad omen for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desperate hopes to cling to power. Bibi, sensing disaster in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Netanyahu Promises Israeli Voters – There’ll Be No Palestinian State On My Watch.
With Israelis heading to the polls, Benjamin Netanyahu is running scared. He’s seen Likud’s numbers and all the polls show he’s in trouble. He’s in deep enough that he’s pulling out all the stops and scrambling for the hardliner vote.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to
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