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Out of the many many published accounts of Canada's newest domestic terrorism case, two appear to have disappeared down the memory hole.Last night the Globe and Mail published a story on authorities apprehending the child of the so-called fourth terror suspect, Awso Peshdary. He's the one who was arrested Friday and interrogated for six hours, released, and immediately re-arrested on domestic assault charges dating back to April as a result of police having bugged his house for the last six months. That G&M story read :Authorities seize child of man targeted in terror probe The six-month-old … [Read more...]

Remember that guy who was busted at G20 in June for having all his worldly possessions strapped to the roof of his car? Not even a protester, he was in Toronto to get a car window fixed. Two months later CBC reports he is still in freaking jail!The original G&M booga booga headline : "Police arrest man with arsenal of weapons near G20 zone", with a police officer at the scene calling it "pretty scary stuff", was already downgraded to "nothing to do with G20" by police a few hours later.But by then they had already freaked about his possessions - tools, an axe, a baseball bat, a sledgehammer, … [Read more...]

Bang!  Boom!  Shriek!   Owwwww! Progressive Bloggers exhibits all the signs of a collective nervous breakdown as it spins into a frenzy of partisan rage over the long gun registry, with Liberal bloggers hammering Jack Layton and NDP bloggers returning fire.   Check it out, but keep your head down and don’t get caught in the crossfire! Ironically, most of the people slugging it out on the progressive blogs sort of want the same thing — to keep the registry happening. Layton himself will vote against the bill that would kill it… he just won’t crack the whip and dictate … [Read more...]

Here's what's likely a new term for you: ''Linkbait.'' That's when websites use gimmicks to draw the hits to their content and, hence, their ads. This video, created for Bitch Magazine, explains it very well. It also makes the point that women's bodies are commodified even by progressives to sell stuff. It never changes. Via Feminist Frequency. … [Read more...]

Wow. Just wow. Wow. Wow. A light show marking the anniversary of Ukraine's independence last week. Via Open Culture … [Read more...]

Last October, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott addressed a meeting of security intelligence peeps about Canada's current terrorism environment :"As far as Al-Qaeda is concerned, Canada is the enemy.We recall Osama Bin Laden’s famous communiqué to America’s allies in November of 2002, in which he asked: “Why are your governments, especially those of Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia, allying themselves with America in its attacks on us in Afghanistan? This is injustice. The time has come to settle accounts. Just as you kill, so you shall be killed; just as you bomb, so … [Read more...]

The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP's latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows for far more pants-pissingly terrorfying conjecture than mere straight news would allow.So far, "sources" have told one security expert, an ex-RCMP and CSIS operative quoted at CTV, that the accused :1) "would have targeted the Parliament buildings and Montreal's public transit system with bombs",2) "that the ringleader went … [Read more...]

… didn’t come from Brother Beck the Mad Monk, it came from NAACP president Ben Jealous: “They were told not to bring signs. Can you imagine Martin Luther King telling his marchers not to bring signs?” Amen. … [Read more...]

What are your Dreams for Women? Antigone Magazine C/O WILLA Box 61 – 6138 SUB Blvd Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1 OR antigonemagazine(at)hotmail.com See more postcards here. *Postcards posted between May 1- Sept 4 were created by young women in The Young Women Leaders Program, a mentoring program sponsored by the University of Central Florida Women’s Studies Program. YWLP originated at the University of Virginia, and UCF launched the program in the Orlando community. YWLP promotes middle school girls’ leadership abilities, pairing collegiate women with middle … [Read more...]

A pretty frank discussion on how globalization has facilitated the revolving door between governments, think tanks, the military, arms manufacturers, media conglomerates, lobby groups, and international financial institutions and corporations to build transnational networks. Good guest spots by Christopher Hitchens.The top 1% of the world's richest own 40% of the planet's global wealth and the top 10% control 85% of its wealth. The top 10 corporations generate 60% of the revenues and employ 59% of the workforce overseas.One of the panelists is David Rothkopf, Bill Clinton's Deputy Undersecretary … [Read more...]

Bill C-391, the ''private member's bill'' to scrap the gun registry, has been in the news these past few weeks. That's because the head of the RCMP firearms program Marty Cheliak was inexplicably dumped, the nation's police chiefs had a convention where they unanimously endorsed the registry, emergency room doctors have spoken out and political types finally noticed that the pro-gun government has been suppressing yet another positive report on the registry. Meanwhile, pressure's on... … [Read more...]

Found this on Daily Kos. Feel free to mosey on over there for blogger dhonnig's take and the reader comments, some of which are gut busters. For my part, all I can say is, that this ad in Woman's Day magazine, is for one of those products women can live without but for giant corporations creating needs and then selling crap to satisfy them. I mean, every woman considers her genitals before she weighs her... … [Read more...]

June 30th: The cops are brutal, jackbooted, not-to-be-trusted thugs who abuse civil liberties, make up their own laws, conduct mass arrests and random searches without cause and generally stomp all over dissent and democracy. August 26th: Mr. Policeman is our Friend who has only our very best interests at heart, therefore everything he says must be True. Go on vacation and look what happens:  you come back to discover that Mr. Policeman has undergone rehabilitative therapy of such intensive magnitude as to render him virtually unrecognizable! … [Read more...]

I love doggies. All kinds, even ''pit bulls.'' Which is why I just can't resist blogging this. I think it's brilliant but, I caution you, it's not for everybody. It's definitely not for the kids. It's called 12 Years, and it's four minute, 3D computer animation written and directed by Daniel Nocke and designed and produced by Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Studio Film Bilder. Speaking of pit bulls, about 1,000 people are expected to turn out this... … [Read more...]

Soldiers from the Stryker infantry brigade also allegedly covered up those executions - in one case planting an AK-47 beside the body - and threatened anyone who dared to report them.No, not WikiLeaks this time.It's an internal US military investigation as reported in The Seattle Times :Stryker soldiers allegedly plotted to kill Afghan civilians..Randomly. War crimes. And not really very surprising.But what struck me in the account was this detail about one of those charged who was already suffering from "traumatic brain injury sustained in four separate explosions" :"To help him remain in Afghanistan, … [Read more...]

Too often, sports pages and programming are dominated by men -- men reporters and columnists, men colour commentators, men team owners, men coaches, men players. In fact, if you think about it, you rarely hear the term ''male athlete.'' It's a given. Meanwhile, when it's a woman at play, it's often qualified with ''female'' or ''women's'' or something similar. It's never ''men's hockey,'' except maybe at the Olympics. It's always ''women's hockey.'' But, hey, I... … [Read more...]

Dimitri Soudas, yesterday : "Two CF-18 fighter jets were scrambled to intercept Russian bombers that came within 55 kilometres of Canada’s Arctic territory, just as Prime Minister Stephen Harper prepares to make a high-profile visit to the region."Oh noes ... Steve in danger ... Last year it was Obama who was in danger : "On the eve of Barack Obama's visit to Ottawa, a Russian jet approached Canada's Arctic air space and had to be turned away by Canadian warplanes, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday at a news conference on Parliament Hill.Two of Canada's CF-18 fighter jets were scrambled … [Read more...]

From Pale over at A Creative Revolution, with a little help from her friends, Rev. PaperBoy and Alison at Creekside: We need an independent G20 inquiry. Now. … [Read more...]

Found via Tweep Nullafide, who critiques the Bible from a feminist point of view, is this cynical breakdown of certain verses. It explains how and why women have suffered through ages of ages -- and says something about so-called ''honour crimes'' which, by the way, happen in most religions. Some excerpts: Genesis "She was barren." In the Bible it's always the woman that are "barren", never the men. And when God "opens their womb," the... … [Read more...]

I thought it was just me but, judging from comments on my Facebook page, it's not. There is indeed a lot of victim-shaming going on in the alleged domestic assault case involving Belleville, On. Police Chief Cory McMullan. To recap quickly, two weeks ago, Chief McMullan, whose arm is still in a cast, admitted that she was the victim of domestic violence. The small town was rife with rumours of the incident and, basically, she... … [Read more...]