http://enmasse.ca Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:28:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The absolutely stupid harpercon decision to blow $9,000,000,000.00 on new prisons (ostensibly to jail those convicted of the unreported crimes our useless and intrusive national statistics agency said rose by three percentage points in 2004), joined with the $1,200,000,000.00 wasted on the G8 & G20 summits, and the $16,000,000,000.00 that ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=141 And if you ain't got no money nobody gives a shit what you think anyway!Disturbing, disturbing, highly disturbing stuff from Alison at Creekside and the passionately anti-NDP Eugene Forsey. It seems that the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment has decided to shred all the evidence from its past ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=140 Richard Fadden, director of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, fresh from whining about how mean everybody is to his agency of drooling idiots who torture Canadian citizens by proxy, has decided to embarrass himself further by babbling the following to the Canadian news media:Canada's spy agency suspects that cabinet ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=139 I'm calling him "stupid" because as a Harvard trained constitutional scholar and a master of understanding and appealing to his fellow human beings, Barack Obama ought to have been smart enough to know that he's destroying his presidency with each passing day by resorting to the same old, cynical, inhuman, ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=138 Via HarperBizarro, Don Martin on today's expected announcement about the rights of Parliament to see detainee documents from the Afghanistan conflict:The problem with this government is how it's become secrecy personifi ed -- witness the backlog of information access requests, it's document-starvation of the Military Police Complaints Commission ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=137 December 2005 – Amnesty International and the BC Civil Liberties Association file an application in the Federal Court seeking to stop the practice of transferring detainees from Canadian custody to Afghan authoritiesFeb. 6, 2007 – Military officials begin investigation of three complaints by Afghan prisoners that they were abused while ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=136 If I really cared, I could just go over to Brian's stupid blog and get the pro-war spin on NATO plans to bribe "moderate Taliban" to stop fighting. Or, I could go to Terry Glavin's stupid blog, and get the same thing with a load of self-satisfied self-praise and ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=135 The NYT's David Brooks is not one of the towering intellects of our times. If you go to that link you'll find that Glenn Greenwald has assembled a cornucopia of David Brooks' errors, including such gems as: EITHER SADDAM HUSSEIN will remain in power or he will be deposed. President Bush ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=134 Others in the blogosphere point to the even stronger rumours that harper is planning to cowardly prorogue parliament until after the fascist spectacle of the Olympics in order to avoid public accountability for his possible complicity in war crimes in Afghanistan.This is unacceptable.If harper does pursue this detestable course of ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=133 Gotta run. But I'll be back to flesh this out. I think the post title will get people thinking though.Back.There are countries that pretty blatantly torture people and there are countries that at least make the effort to say that they do not torture people. And then, of course, ... http://enmasse.ca/?p=132