best of 2016

Canada doesn't have solitary confinement, because luckily it's called administrative segregation.

Adam Capay has spent 1,560 days in solitary.
www.macleans.ca

• In the hole for 52 months.
• Youth justice system.

dustup at jails & fires

Calgary Prison Guards Rally At Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Calgary Constituency Office on Sat/September 15, 2012 -- "Mallette says the union has been trying repeatedly to meet with Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, but hasn't had any success." (After various protests at Harper's office, like Prorogue and Idle No More, no more of that youse... and Shoppers Only.) Calgary prison guards corrections officers protest at Solicitor General Jonathan Denis' office in Fri/ February 01*.

Grass fire - Calgary, Alberta

Edmonton officers are now on a wildcat strike with lockdown and riot police after the suspension of 2 union executives who on Fri/ April 26 relayed 'health & safety concerns' to management.

Fish Creek Park, dry & windy on Fri/April 26

*Russian student kicked into coma/ permanent brain damage by other inmates, Calgary Remand Centre.

Full moon: Thurs, April 25, 2013 1:58 PM

UPDATE: Associate Chief smartAssinine Justice John Rooke about the $100,000+ fines for province-wide strikers: "Banks are open tomorrow, last I checked." (Monday, Apr 29)

Amnesty ends strike.  Strike ends. Redford confirms pledge but

stehpen hapner, um, itspose2 bee-a-bout ... 1867

That's when confederation happened. Not, like,1812.

Reminder: Canada Day. Hey, you must really like acid rain and stuff. Your pal, Rob Anders, is so upset about the dance troupe. I don't think the Chinese government likes those Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) people.

Shen Yun Performing Arts

What's with their prisoners' black market organs, eh? and corruption in China's death penalty system.

We the Kochs

Ian Murphy of Buffalo Beast calls the big guy, WI Gov. Scott Walker, pretending to be David Koch, pronounced Coke, not cock or even Kochsucking Bros. Fun, fun, fun.

Koch: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.
Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that —because we thought about that. The problem—the, my only gut reaction to that is right now the lawmakers I’ve talked to have just completely had it with them, the public is not really fond of this […]

As Wisconsin anti union busting protests spread to Missouri and Sarah Palin weighs in with her well-considered gravitas, brother and sister, à la solidarity soirée, up close & personal, on Facebook, some juicy story about {{nurses and teachers--->}} 'shared sacrifice' (see: the Sarah-name and Bristol-name, as trademarks), the kochsuckers, yes bros. It's hard to know what all gets funded: American Legislative Exchange Council and Americans For Prosperity and standwithwalker.com and Joe the faux populist and what was that climate channel with the "trickle down" crowd.

There seems to be a lot of 'faux' going around... pretend Facebook fans - and/or pretend social consensus - and/or pretend hordes of supporters:

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other--- source

Or denier-bots, similar to Conservative DND (Department of National Defense) CFB Cold Lake based F-18-35 opposition bashing wiki cadets or other Party edict chat soldiers of the fading public sphere, but really software programs. And "Leaked emails from Aaron Barr, CEO of a federal subsidiary for HB Gary" are just part of it. It gets worse.

But what does the US military use those same networks for? Well, we can't tell you: That's "classified," a CENTCOM spokesman recently informed Raw Story.--- source

In 2009: Koch Industries Inc. slashed 25% of workers in Greenbay, Wisconsin while Koch Bros. joint net worth increased by $11b. That's the main thing.

UK Uncut, the new protest group against austerity measures in the UK spreads to USA

UPDATE: Private prisons, Wackenhut and faux assailant - Carlos F. Lam, a Johnson County deputy prosecutor, resigned Thursday [March 24, 2011] after acknowledging he sent an email last month urging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to discredit labor union protests by orchestrating a fake assault on himself. Possibly, Lam suggested, the pretend assailant might even use a firearm.

Faux the plumbers.