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Montreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Con Police State

By Simon, on April 29, 2013, at 1:50 am

He is, after his depraved leader, the most brutish Con of them all.A religious bigot, a ghastly hypocrite, a political thug who has spent a lifetime attacking judges, and jailing Canadians.For he cannot jail enough of them. Or violate our liberties enough. And now he's out of control. Read more »

The Canadian Progressive: Extraordinary Political Interference: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview

By Obert Madondo, on April 28, 2013, at 11:58 pm

[View the story "Canada Police State Confirmed: Vic Toews Nixes Omar Khadr Interview " on Storify] We recommend:Nazanin Afshin-Jam MacKay Said Canada Should Bring Omar Khadr HomeHarper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”Statistics Canada: Crime rate reached its lowest level in 40 years in 2011Confirmed again: “Canada may use information obtained [...]

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Montreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Politics of Terror

By Simon, on April 22, 2013, at 4:53 pm

Well now we know how desperate he is to destroy Justin Trudeau.Now we know how far he will go to use the government of Canada against his opponents.And turn Canada into a police state. Now we know how in pursuit of all of the above, he would play politics with terror. Read more »

Montreal Simon: Why We Should Fear What’s Happening in Montreal

By Simon, on April 7, 2013, at 2:23 am

It's a scene that keeps repeating itself in the streets of Montreal.A few hundred demonstrators set out on a peaceful march to protest against a totalitarian by-law limiting freedom of assembly.Only to be kettled by the riot squad, and then arrested. Like they were again this weekend.Read more »

Politics and its Discontents: Score Another One For Orwell

By Lorne, on March 22, 2013, at 7:54 pm

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever. – George Orwell

As always, the writer had exceptional clarity about where Western society was headed.

H/t Steve Collett Recommend this Post

Montreal Simon: When the Drones Come Home

By Simon, on February 17, 2013, at 5:10 am

We know them as the silent killers of the Great War on Terror.For years they have been killing Al Qaeda terrorists, and hundreds of innocent people, in places like Yemen and Afghanistan.Now the deadly birds are coming home to roost, and if we're not careful we too could end up with no place to hide.And living in a police state.Read more »

The Canadian Progressive: VICTORY: Canadians Killed Harper’s Internet Surveillance Bill C-30

By Obert Madondo, on February 12, 2013, at 8:11 am

by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 12, 2013: Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s Internet surveillance Bill C-30 is dead. The demise of the deceptively christened Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act is a victory for the Internet. For Canadian democracy. For Canadians. Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson confirmed it yesterday when he announced that the Conservatives won’t be pursuing the READ MORE

The Canadian Progressive: Freedom of Press Under Attack in Montreal (VIDEO)

By Guest Blog, on February 10, 2013, at 2:11 pm

During the Quebec student protests against the tuition hikes, members of the press came under attack by the SPVM (Montreal Police). This video aims to raise the issue of press freedom in face of suppressive and brutal tactics by the SPVM to deny access of coverage to members of the media. The Canadian Progressive recommends: READ MORE

The Canadian Progressive: Elizabeth May shares her 2002 hunger strike experience, begs Harper to meet Chief Spence

By Obert Madondo, on January 1, 2013, at 5:58 pm

During my 85-day hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s New Jim Crow-style crime Bill C-10, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, a prominent opposition MP told me hunger protests weren’t part of the process of democratic engagement in Canada. I was shocked and disappointed. First, during our conversation on the steps leading to the READ MORE

Writings of J. Todd Ring: Go Back To Sleep America, At Your Own Peril

By jtoddring, on November 23, 2012, at 3:10 am

I never reprint other people’s writings, no matter how good – but I will make an exception for this. This article is a true must-read. Please, take the time to read it. Then act. Good morning America. It’s time for a new day. Kudos and warm thanks to Jill Dalton at recoveringarmybrat. I will definitely [...]

Canadian Progressive World: Occupy Movement Call for Global Day of Action: Chalkupy the World!

By Obert Madondo, on July 31, 2012, at 8:07 am

via Occupy Los Angeles:

On July 12th, participants in OccupyLA met to raise awareness for unlawful arrests of activists that had been targeting a lobby group with a stranglehold on power over local and state politics. The activists handed out chalk and shared the story of unlawful arrests and police repression. The LAPD responded by amassing in riot gear and issuing a tactical alert effectively shutting down the Downtown LA art walk and trapping many patrons inside of local businesses as a response to chalk art being drawn on the sidewalk. The mainstream media misrepresented the sequence of events,

Canadian Progressive World: NYPD brutalized Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights: REPORT

By Obert Madondo, on July 26, 2012, at 5:38 pm

I spend the last five hours digesting the contents of the report on the first systematic look the NYPD’s response to Occupy Wall Street protests. The report is the product of an eight-month investigation undertaken by law clinics at Fordham, Harvard, NYU and Stanford.

Titled “Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street” (PDF), the report ins’t the easiest document to study for someone who was brutalized by the Ottawa Police as a member of the Occupied Ottawa movement. It paints a “damning picture of an out-of-control and aggressive organization that routinely acted beyond

CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: The Obert Report: Harper and Obama Argue About The War of 1812 (VIDEO)

By Obert Madondo, on June 29, 2012, at 10:52 pm

Co-hosts Obert and Anita dramatize a recent secret conversation between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama. Harper and his Conservative majority government are militarizing Canadian society. They’re re-writing the country’s history to fit their fledgling right-wing worldview. Canada‘s Independence Day is around the corner and Harper has placed the War of 1812 at the centre of all official celebrations. In that war, British loyalist forces and their First Nations allies repulsed numerous American attempts to invade and annex Canada. Harper’s ingenious plan is to trick Obama into publicly confirming America’s defeat on Sun News Network, Canada’s

Trashy's World: George Orwell’s 1984…

By trashee, on June 18, 2012, at 4:26 pm

… was supposed to be a warning about police states. Not an instruction manual on how to set one up! The Canadian Border Services Agency told The Ottawa Citizen that unidentified sites at airports and borders are already equipped with audio-video monitoring to boost security. The audio technology, though installed, is not recording just yet. [...]

CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE WORLD: Harper’s Canada “Making Up Terror Identities”

By Obert Madondo, on June 17, 2012, at 11:14 pm

In Stephen Harper’s Canada, we’re all potential terror threats. Until proven otherwise. So suggests a recent study by Queens University’s Jeffrey Monaghan and Kevin Walby, published in the journal Policing and Society. Welcome to Multi Issue Extremism (MIE), Canada’s new classification of so-called domestic terror threats.

We saw it coming.

In a January letter, Joe Oliver, the Minister of Natural Resources, labeled environmental movements “radical groups” funded by “foreign special interest groups to undermine Canada’s national economic interest.” Oliver believes these groups are also pursuing “their radical ideological agenda”. And their goal is “to stop any major

Rusty Idols: Should Canada start considering EVERY American woman eligible for Refugee status?

By Cliff, on March 20, 2012, at 5:31 pm

Government mandated rape with medical instruments, laws mandating that women be forced to explain to their boss why they are using birth control pills, laws mandating that even if pregnancy will KILL the mother she be forced to carry a pregnancy to term – even if the fetus itself is dead.

At what point should any American woman seeking refuge in Canada start being considered a political refugee? This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House, that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they ‘naturally’ go into labor. In

Driving The Porcelain Bus: List of Toronto G20 Lawuits

By Thor, on March 14, 2012, at 12:31 am

The following is a partial list from The Toronto Star: G20 Summit: Cop Unmasked As Protest Couple File Suit (Read the Star article for all the details)

March 7, 2012: Toronto police settle a human rights claim filed by a paraplegic man arrested during the G20 summit. Terms are not public due to a confidentiality clause.

Feb. 16, 2012: Toronto lawyer Nicholas Wright sues Toronto police for $25,000 for alleged unlawful arrest.

June 24, 2011: Sean Salvati, a paralegal arrested prior to the G20 summit and allegedly strip-searched, assaulted and held naked in a jail cell for nearly an hour

Trashy's World: Why Canadians, ALL Canadians…

By trashee, on February 15, 2012, at 1:11 am

… should fear Bill C-30! Here I am on my morning commute going through downtown Ottawa and reading about how Vic Toews is called opponents to the Bill supporters of child porn. Huh? …here we go again… In case you haven’t been following this (and you should have been!): Bill C-30 includes, as CBC.ca reports [...]

Hellberta: February mid-month round-up: Greece burns, Alberta gambles & Canada trades soul for Pandas

By Richard, on February 14, 2012, at 3:13 pm

Well it would appear that China has finally found a spot to park it’s unwanted USD. That would be here in good old Canada and all it cost them was leasing us two Pandas. What a deal! Back in 2011 I wrote a quick post about why Canada’s economy is good, bad and bullshit. A key portion of this post was that China was dumping the USD – but one year later with multiple countries such as Russia, India, and Iran writing off the USD as well one has to wonder, who exactly is taking it? Well it would appear

Rusty Idols: Delivering a Message

By Cliff, on February 4, 2012, at 3:40 pm

Explain to me the how the interests of public safety are served by a gang of black clad thugs showing up swaggering about and shoving people for a while, sucker punching one person and throwing another to the ground and then getting back in their cars and driving away?

Are the people holding the banner some kind of direct and proximate to safety or public order that I’m missing and if so why, after committing acts of intimidation and violence against these threats to public order, do the police suddenly drop everything and walk away and leave them still standing

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Canadian Progressive World: Chris Hedges: What Happened to Canada?

By Obert Madondo, on January 31, 2012, at 11:31 am

What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the …Read More

Occupy Ottawa: Chris Hedges: What Happened to Canada?

By Obert Madondo, on January 31, 2012, at 2:31 am

Monday 30 January 2012 | by: Chris Hedges, Truthdig What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial …Read More

Scene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012. Rodney Kirkland Sr. edition.

By Jymn, on January 29, 2012, at 12:28 pm

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 a stretcher. Luckily, Anonymous (I’m . . . → Read More: Scene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012. Rodney Kirkland Sr. edition.

Scene from Syria, Saturday January 28, 2012

By Jymn, on January 29, 2012, at 8:05 am

Oops. Turns out that was Oakland last night.

Hellberta: The Great Oil War [Chapter 2] : Iran

By Richard, on January 4, 2012, at 9:49 pm

In chapter 1 of what now may be considered the beginnings of a World-War III we discussed what was then the active military action against Libya. We covered economic hitmen and the typical approach taken by western nations to overthrow or at least get nations to play along with their game.

Of course there are many other skirmishes going on, such as Syria but for me it is Iran which gets a “chapter 2″ due to the clear escalation it represents. Back in 2005 Michael Ruppert described exactly the scene we are seeing play out with Iran today:

I know it is

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