Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Smith examines how private equity is hollowing out the real economy in the name of profit-taking. And Klaus Schwab suggests a “Great…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Sheila Smith examines how private equity is hollowing out the real economy in the name of profit-taking. And Klaus Schwab suggests a “Great…
First power outage in weeks, and it’s lasted at least 10 minutes as of writing this. There was heavy rain this morning, but it let up quickly. Getting word that…
For extra visual impact. pic.twitter.com/t4CMLHDzbN — Péter — BLM • austerity never works (@96fps) May 31, 2020 Militarization of police forces isn’t just an American problem, it’s a global problem,…
I KNEW there was something wrong there. I just didn't think it was the *Hitler* pic that had been photoshopped XD https://t.co/lp22xJVfO6 — GRRRR, Rant-o-matic Shark (@grrrr_shark) June 3, 2020…
vote This past week saw Americans out on the streets en masse to protest police violence, in particular race-based discrimination practiced by police throughout the nation. Non-white individuals get harassed…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes about the need to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis into a new normal, rather than trying to return to…
ICE T sums it up for people who don’t understand the looting: People are saying.. They should protest like this or demonstrate like that… We tried Taking a Knee… A…
Whenever I post something about racial injustice, I feel some unease. By what stretch can I, as a white person who lives a comfortable existence, truly feel the murderous oppression…
War The Wikipedia section on the history of guns makes it clear that the history of guns and war are clearly intertwined, guns being developed primarily as a means to…
Cops relationship with black people explained in 4 seconds. pic.twitter.com/oHrch32q2t — Dieghoe (@diegheaux) May 24, 2019 Officers should have to watch this, and learn how easily they can serve a…
Was there ever a question that Chicago PD was not good? Smollett, the actor, has had charges dropped. This is following when he was attacked by 2 men. Later the…
Mass surveillance is everywhere in modern cities. Cameras are on every corner monitoring all sorts of activities, which led one person to think about using them to see if traffic…
So far in 2018 a car driver has killed a person every week; if this continues Toronto will see yet another year in which more people die from vehicles than…
This is pretty much how you could imagine things would go wrong if you were caught disarming a crazed gunman before or as police arrive on the scene. Garces and…
There has been a disturbing trend toward increased gunplay in my part of town. These are almost exclusively gang-related incidents where dealers are taking potshots at other dealers if they…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Claire Provost writes about the spread of the private security industry – which now exceeds the size of public police forces in Canada…
DISCLOSURE: I worked as a mainstream news reporter between 2003 and 2012. I see this as a two-fold issue; firstly, actions and secondly, words. I’ll consider both briefly and then…
Everything about this case is disturbing, most definitely the shooting death of Dunphy. Ironically, Dunphy had invited the officer into his house. (The officer, Joe Smyth, showed up unannounced at…
It’s always encouraging to see a woman get a top job, and encouraging also to see a Native person get a top job. With Brenda Butterworth-Carr we get two for…
It’s always encouraging to see a woman get a top job, and encouraging also to see a Native person get a top job. With Brenda Butterworth-Carr we get two for…