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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...]

From self-proclaimed former economic hitman himself, John Perkins.In North America we've mostly been ok with this stuff happening to the rest of the world but gradually we are seeing more of it come home to roost. The Gulf spills, Katrina, the tar sands, the G20 fiasco, the increasing gap between rich and poor.My brother just got back from a holiday in the States. The parks are untended, he said, no one is grooming the trails so they're growing back in again, and did I know that in some states schools are open less than six months of the year now to save money? I was just reading about it in the … [Read more...]

Further to Doris' war on invisible crime stats ...Yesterday's Con memo: “Let’s be clear, unlike the Liberals, we do not use statistics as an excuse to ignore Canadians’ concerns about crime. As far as our government is concerned, one victim of crime is one too many.” Quite so. At Tuesday's presser, Doris addressed :"crimes like home invasion with aggravated assault, which has to be one of the most grievous types of crimes you can think of, people’s houses being broken into and people, in many cases, senior citizens, being grievously assaulted"While one senior's home invasion is indeed … [Read more...]

Few things exemplify the brainless white noise of howling human dumbness and tyranny of the majority better than “Proposition 8“, the 2008 ballot initiative that banned marriage equality – by majority rule, no less — in California.  Prop 8 is infamous for many reasons, among them putting a twisted, ironic shit-stain on an election day that was being heralded as a “transformative” civil rights landmark. But not for everyone. So there is much to celebrate in the wake of a scathing decision yesterday by California’s district court to overturn the vicious … [Read more...]

Doris' cheery crime shoppers philosophy on prisons seems to be : If you build them, they will comeAccording to Shockwell Doris and JusticeMin Rob Nicholson yesterday, we're going to need more prisons to deal with the "alarming" increase in "unreported crime" ... that was last reported six years ago.Well, you can see their point, can't you? If more people aren't reporting crimes, then unreported crimes must be going up and we're going to need somewhere to put all the unreported criminals!And why aren't people reporting those crimes? Via The Jurist : "(A Statistics Canada) analyst said the No. 1 … [Read more...]

WikiLeaks' mandate is to make public those documents purposely hidden by information gatekeepers. Their goal is justice through transparency and, as Julian Assange recently put it : "I enjoy crushing the bastards"..At the other end of the scale you have snitch hackers like Project Vigilant - logo on left. According to Andy Greenburg at Forbes, the 600 member organization "monitors the traffic of 12 regional Internet service providers and hands much of that information to federal agencies." Its roster includes members from NSA and DARPA..Project Vigilant Director Chet Uber announced yesterday that … [Read more...]

Rocker and blogger Lindsay Stewart, aka Pretty Shaved Ape of the late lamented Canadian Cynic, has joined the rest of us ink stained wretches at The Galloping Beaver. One of my all time favourite bloggers, PSA's first post at The Beav takes firm aim at the footling Libs and their cold feet of clay.Take it away, PSA ...cheater by lindsay stewart. … [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...]

Frankly I don't think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace "Airshow MacKay" and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we're just going with what David Pugliese reported last time 18 months ago (h/t Maclean's) :"The military officers I was talking to yesterday were full of kudos for Defence Minister Peter MacKay for a move that one described as “playing the media like a finely-tuned fiddle.”The officer was referring to the breathless Canadian news media coverage … [Read more...]

Via Dammit Janet: Crazy right wing lady conbot Phyllis Schlafly, self-styled as America's ''leader of the pro-family movement since 1972,'' exhausted from her travails against gays and lesbians, uppity women, healthcare advocates, liberals, anti-gun activists, etc. etc. etc., has now set her sights on that scourge of western society ... the single welfare mother! Unmarried women, 70 percent of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you've... … [Read more...]

Longtime readers -- and I do appreciate your loyalty and patience during my absence from the blogosphere -- know that I have bitched loud and often about how US/Canada/NATO have used and abused women and their (human) rights as an excuse to continue the war in Afghanistan. Oh, it's never about the oil, the pipelines, the mineral rights, the regional hegemony, or anything like that. No no. It's always about the women. Save the women.... … [Read more...]

If you can make an issue out of the Census, you can make an issue out of anything.  But in the Season of Dumb all things are possible: The Tories’ indulgence in this melodrama shows we have more cause to worry about the ninny state than the nanny state. Indeed.  And what’s next on the Ninny State agenda? Phone Books:  Convenience?  Or naming names?  (Ma Bell:  Agent of the State?) Food Inspection:  Health?  Or an infringement on your right to host the parasites of your choice? I doubt it’s a coincidence that the Harper government went full-metal Freedom Fighter on the Census … [Read more...]

Seriously? The latest statistics show that 29 per cent of men admitted being distracted by short skirts and low-cut tops in the Summer weather, leading to record numbers of accidents on the roads. And according to car insurance company Sheilas' Wheels, the summer smash phenomenon is getting worse each year - in 2009 men made 16.4 per cent more claims during the Summer than in any other month. Behavioural psychologist Donna Dawson explained: "Research shows... … [Read more...]

CNN : WikiLeaks founder may have 'blood' on his handsReuters : WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands, U.S. saysBoth sources quote Admiral Mike Mullen :"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing," Mullen said. "But the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."Guardian : The War Logs :"...the marines opening fire with automatic weapons as they tore down a six-mile stretch of highway, hitting almost anyone in their way – teenage girls in fields, motorists in their cars, old … [Read more...]

Vancouver company The Cheeky.com says their humorous suitcase stickers featuring bags of cocaine, US bills, sex toys and a bound-and-gagged flight attendant will help you find your luggage more easily, but Transport Minister John Baird's spokesy says : ."Joking about potentially trafficking illegal substances, or worse, is not funny, and the government will use the full force of the law to ensure Canadians who travel by air are safe" ....from stickers presumably, and also from any rumour indicating we might not be completely humorless morons. Says The Cheeky.com : "Caution: Some of these stickers … [Read more...]

Pogge notes that last year RCMP Commissioner William Elliott "attended a $44,000 course in Arizona that dealt with behavioural barriers to success.He subsequently acknowledged to employees in a memo that he learned his actions "can and did have unintended, sometimes negative impacts."and generously offers "to explain to him what a dick he is for half that".If the RCMP is reading, Creekside would also like to enter the bidding fray at half again what Pogge is proposing to charge.Oh wait. There were no other bids considered last year in the decision to send three RCMP to Arizona to take "personal … [Read more...]

One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a guided bomb on a building they occupied during the second day of Operation MEDUSA. [bracketed explanations mine].At 030414Z Sept 06 received SAF[small arms fire] & RPGS from sawtooth building. returned fire 1x GBU[Guided Bomb Unit] dropped on it.Sawtooth building is heavily damaged. only 4x sections remain standing. no … [Read more...]

At a "media availability" he called this morning, Taliban Larry was blindsided with questions on the publication of the Wikileaks war logs. Echoing U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones, Cannon said :"Our government is concerned obviously that operational leaks could endanger the lives of our men and women in Afghanistan."Cannon then went on to repeat several times that the "leaked American documents" have "nothing to do with Canada."Ok then.Asked by the G&M if the leaks indicate the government has "misled the Canadian public", Lawrence replied that they have been very "transparent" and … [Read more...]

Julian Assange on Wikileaks release of 91,000 classified Afghan war documents from 2004 to 2009 to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel."This is the story of the war since 2004. Like most of the accidents on the road are the result of cars not of buses, most of the deaths in this war are the result of the every day squalor of war not the big incidences."Among other disclosures, the US gives Pakistan $1-billion a year to help fight the "insurgency" in Afghanistan but these reports indicate that the Pakistani spy service ISI, which works in concert with the CIA, is guiding the attacks … [Read more...]

.Francis Silvaggio : Notes from Afghanistan, July 2, 2010"While I doubt Ipsos would approve of the collection process, the data was interesting. Out of 26 respondents, only 7 thought progress was being made. 18 people marked “No” and 1 person ticked “HELL NO!!!” That means 73 per cent of those polled think the mission is failing.Anywhere else, this may mean very little. But this poll was done in a military bathroom, in the middle of a war zone, by soldiers.". … [Read more...]