Court upholds Hells Angel’s acquittal, despite rude judge, Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun, Apr 30, 2008
The controversial acquittal of an elite Nomad member of the Hells Angels caught with 52 kilograms of cocaine worth $1.56 million has been upheld in spit…
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Northern Insights / Perceptivity: J. Leask: Questions of perspicacity and impartiality
Two Hells Angels called ‘pawns of police’ get short sentences for drug trafficking, Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun, March 12, 2010
Vancouver — Two Hells Angels members received short jail sentences Friday of one year and 14 months for serious drug traffic…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Political action at the grass roots
Inside the Russell Pearce recall, Amy McMullen, Salon.com
A good read about citizen-activists organizing to make Russell Pearce, President of the Arizona Senate, the first state legislator in Arizona history removed from office via a recall election…
Continue reading350 or bust: Remembering the Montgomery Bus Boycott During Occupy Times
It was fifty five years ago today the Supreme Court of the United States of America upheld the decision of the Federal District Court for the Middle District of Alabama “that Alabama’s racial segregation laws for buses were unconstitutional.” I…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: So they arrested the reporter, not the bankers
Truthdig, November 3, 2011:
“Goldman Sachs, which received more subsidies and bailout-related funds than any other investment bank because the Federal Reserve permitted it to become a bank holding company under its “emergency situation,” has use…
Continue readingLarry Hubich's Blog: Court date rapidly approaching
All legal arguments have now been filed in the unprecedented case against the Sask. Party governments’ anti-worker, anti-democratic, unconstitutional labour laws. As reported earlier in this blog, the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour and 25 additional plaintiffs (SFL et al) plus 3 intervenor unions filed their legal arguments in the Saskatchewan Court
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Terror in Sarajevo? Islam in Bosnia & the Rejection of Extremism
It is not customary to begin a discussion about terrorism with a joke but, given the context, I think it appropriate. How else, after all, is one to deal with the idiocy of this recent attack on the US Embassy in Sarajevo? Mujo and Suljo are the two stock characters of Bosnian humour: a sort […]
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Shocking RCMP performance
Documents on tortured Canadian Almalki say he posed no terrorist threat, Andrew Duffy, Postmedia News, October 25, 2011
OTTAWA — Ottawa engineer Abdullah Almalki says new documents show the RCMP’s assessment of his terrorist threat was both wholly…
Continue readingMediabuzzard.com: You know you are a lackey …
Or incredibly naive when… You go along with the Conservatives’ tough on crime bill’ , being a member of an oppressed people & a woman to boot – in this case Inuit. The fact that the so called justice system locks up Aboriginal Indigenous Peoples – Inuit,First Nations & Metis
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Demonstrators and police should be unmasked
The BC Civil Liberties Association, now in its sixth decade, has done important and principled work in our province while advocating for individual rights, freedom and law reform. Their good work continues this week organizing and training observers …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: To every action, expect an opposite reaction
The most brazen disdain for democracy in modern times, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, January 12, 2010
“There will be a tidal wave of rage. Over the next two weeks the executives of the leading British and American banks will announce that some £50bn i…
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Occupy the Church, Occupy Together
Christians. Church. God. Jesus. Occupy. What do these words mean to you? For many, the connotations are negative. Personal experiences with judgemental, rigid, frozen people who identify themselves as Christians have left a bitter taste in their mouths. Memories of being harangued, condescended to and lectured linger long after their encounter. Media and political examples […]
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Taking action when business is slow…
“The FBI has received substantial criticism over the past decade — much of it valid — but nobody can deny its record of excellence in thwarting its own Terrorist plots.
“Time and again, the FBI concocts a Terrorist attack, infiltrates Muslim com…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Killing machines have no conscience
In there irony in America’s rush to deploy drones and remote controlled weaponry around the world?
From Joseph Nevins at the Boston Review, Robocop:
In September 2010 the House Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Caucus held a technology fair. In the …
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: A shout may begin with whispers
“Wall Street’s fear is understandable. If the public is ever given a voice to express its outrage, their party train will have to stop and some people will pay for their crimes. But when Americans can only express their right to free speech after they’…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Finding tax sources that fit today’s economy
Financial Transaction Tax: Making the financial sector pay its fair share
Brussels, 28 September 2011 – Today the Commission has presented a proposal for a financial transaction tax in the 27 Member States of the European Union. The tax would be levi…
Northern Insights / Perceptivity: Party with the plutocrats
From Sister Sage’s Musings
“Local right-wing gadfly and embarrassment to the city, Vancouver’s Paris Hilton, Leah Costello, is hosting war criminal Dick Cheney at her very elite, very right wing Bon Mot book club. It is appropriate however that a …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Sexy Indian Princess Plus Costume
Four years ago, I was writing about HalloweenMart’s Sexy Indian Squaw costume. They’re back at it again this year with another take on being a sexy Indian for Halloween. Is it racist? Is it sexist? Is it offensive on any other level? If you would like to share your opinion of this costume with HalloweenMart, […]
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