Oops. Turns out that was Oakland last night. UPDATE: Dr. Dawg has the goods on an Oakland cop, annual salary $202K and unbelievably works for the Youth and Family Services agency, who beat down a pregnant woman with leukemia from a bicycle and allegedly beat her as she was being carried away on
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Scene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012
Oops. Turns out that was Oakland last night.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Capitalist Pig and the Occupy Movement
Golly. It looks like that fancy pajama party in Davos, has considered the state of the capitalist pig, and found its condition rather alarming. For decades, this ritzy Swiss resort has hosted an annual celebration of capitalism where luxurious Audis ferry potentates and presidents between lavish hotels so they can bemoan the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: When is Money Good Money?
Several years ago a story in the Readers Digest’s Life’s Like That, was a perfect anthem to the American Dream. The young man who had sent in the story, was attending business school, and in the summer worked at his father’s restaurant, a busy local eatery. With his new found knowledge,
Continue readingMedia’s anti-Occupy stance revealed. More than half of Canadians support the movement.
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape. Seems a majority of Canadians – and most of the world – still do not share the media’s jaundiced view of the mostly young people
Continue readingMedia’s anti-Occupy stance revealed. More than half of Canadians support the movement.
By reading 90% of the Canadian media, you’d have thought the people who Occupied cities across Canada and the world were unemployable dirty fucking hippies intent on violence and rape. Seems a majority of Canadians – and most of the world – do not share the media’s jaundiced view of the
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Lanark County: Newest Canadian Occupy Movement to Hold First General Assembly
As the Occupy Ottawa website reported earlier, on Sunday, December 11, 2011, more than 100 people packed O’Reilly’s Pub in Perth to hear speakers from the Occupy Ottawa movement talk about their collective and personal …Read More
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Occupy Wall Street: The Movie
Soon, we’ll get better understanding of the passion underlining the Occupy Wall Street movement. Via the big screen. But not from Michael Moore or some other leftty big-shot Hollywood film-maker. From film-savvy activists on the …Read More
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: In the US, ‘progressive’ is the king of all political labels
Here is some good news for you progressives in Canada and elsewhere in the world. Americans dig the term “progressive”. A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that …Read More
Continue readingJust in time for Friday
The one and only Pepper Spray Cop Game. Rainy day, spray away…* *(With apologies to Jimi Hendrix)
Continue readingThe "one percent" win another one as health care CEOs clean up
As the Occupy Wall Street Movement campaigns against the unfair distribution of wealth in the United States, the “one percent” they hold accountable just keep on raking it in. According to the latest survey, American CEOs enjoyed pay hikes of between 27 and 40 percent last year. Meanwhile, wages for
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: I Love Time Magazine’s Choice For Person of the Year. Us
Time magazine has chosen “The Protester” as Person of the Year. From the Arab Springs to the “Occupy” movement, those who literally stand up for democracy are being honoured. Time said it is recognizing protesters because they are “redefining people power” around the world. “People power”. What a lovely term.
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– what else? The Pepper Spray Cop meme:
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – It’s bad enough that what’s passing for climate change discussion is an agreement to keep meeting for years on end that doesn’t really advance matters any from the early ’90s. – But lest there be any doubt, the Cons aren’t quite happy enough
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Even Canadian Bankers are Hoping that the "Occupy" Movement is a Success
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report yesterday, showing that Canada’s income disparity is growing faster even than that of the U.S. Low paying jobs and a diminishing middle class, are partly to blame, but also deregulation, that allowed the wealthy to become even wealthier, is a
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More good news for Blackberry! Research In Motion canned a couple of high-level executives who got so viciously, psychotically drunk on an Air Canada flight to Beijing that it had to turn around over Alaska and land in Vancouver so they could be removed and arrested: Two top BlackBerry executives
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Capitalist Pigs and the Cream Separator
Uh oh. I mean oink oink. I see the unrepentant capitalist pig just can’t help itself. Stuffing itself with human misery. While the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. A new report finds that the gap between the rich and the poor just keeps getting wider in Canada.
Continue readingIt’s beginning to look a lot like
Pepper Spray Cop meets Baby Jesus! #Occupy Christmas Sweater!!: How much do you want one of these?
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, Exemplar of Political Corruption
Dan Boren.jpeg Today, The New York Times ran an investigative piece uncovering a thick, multi-layered corruption scene, honing in on one man: U.S. Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK). Boren, many will recall, is one of the original co-sponsors of H.R. 1380, the NAT GAS Act, also known as the Pickens Plan, which
Continue readingOWS gives Luntz The Fear
Scary Occupy Wall Street has given infamous GOP strategist Frank Luntz The Fear: The Republican Governors Association met this week in Florida to give GOP state executives a chance to rejuvenate, strategize and team-build. But during a plenary session on Wednesday, one question kept coming up: How can Republicans do a
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