Bosphorus serial murders

2000-2007. The thing about the Bosphorus serial (Döner) murders was that police just considered that Turks killed Turks:

"failure to explore a racist motive and the initial suspicions about the victims' relatives and friends"

link and link and link

and damning the evidence, a proper investigation, witness testimony and or any hints of police members in the National Socialist Underground (NSU) (German: Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund).

In other news, Neo-Nazis Take Wrong Train, Miss Own Rally. Members of the National Democratic Party (NDP) took a Mannheim train in the opposite direction of Freiburg. (Feb 1 2015)

on the dime

Jim Flaherty said he was not aware of friend's tax haven dealings. Oopsie, $3 million worth of gold was sold off as slag — at a fraction of its worth. {to whom?}

The Jims, Flaherty and Love, Chairman of Royal Canadian Mint

Anyway. Following his budget speech last March, Flaherty railed against “people hiding their money offshore and avoiding Canadian taxes.” link

In other news, wow Julian Fantino has four pensions: in addition to getting a cabinet minister’s salary, benefit and pension package, Fantino is pulling in pensions from the Toronto police, the London police and the OPP.

Closure of veterans' offices, Lump Sum Disability Award and veteran suicides.

bangbangbang ... bang bang.. bang bang ... bang, bang

3 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots, 2 shots. That's 9 shots and the other officers just stand around lalalala and then he was tasered.

SY: "You're a fucking pussy." JF: "Drop the knife." Enhanced video of police shooting Sammy Yatim, Saturday, July 27, 2013

James Forcillo and group of police

"The officer who tasered a Toronto teenager after he was shot multiple times on a streetcar is under investigation." theglobeandmail.com

Update. Toronto officer charged with second-degree murder in the streetcar shooting of Sammy Yatim last summer has been charged again with attempted murder "leaving him in an apparent contradiction: prosecutors claim he both murdered and attempted to murder the Toronto teen." thestar.com, Jul 30 2014

best of 2012

There are too many items from which to choose, so here's a list in the making.

1. Tory press statement at midnight. On Friday. It outdoes any other of its Friday media releases. (announcement: 163 words)
2.  Rob Anders. What does he do? And will he get a pension for it?
3. The beautiful game's match fixing. Canadian Soccer League (CSL): organized crime operating from a bar in Berlin and the advantages of avoiding the spotlight in lower leagues.
4. After imposing puzzling visa requirements for Mexicans (link, link and link) in 2009, the 'Harper' Conservative random expensive flipflop bobblehead changes its mind.
5. Shaw Communications learns a difficult lesson. In case of fire, it may not be a good idea to have a backup system in the same building.
6. Zoos: In Calgary, a penguin laid an egg, a dud, and an elephant miscarried. The Price Is Right guy wants to adopt the elephants (or is that Toronto's? or Edmonton's?), because it's too goddamn cold for elephants. It doesn't count as death, unless you're into zygote, fetus, ... er, ... animalhood.
7. Mall roof collapse in Elliot Lake, Ontario. Heavy Urban Search and Rescue was on scene, a program that incidentally received notice of budget cuts. The mall's owner, Robert Nazarian's lawyer with yipyap. How can a mall just collapse.
8. John Baird, Foreign Affairs Minister: Libya and ... Thomas Jefferson? -- not exactly referring to a Canucki, uh, but, uh, okay, at least Baird's not yelling.
9. Mary and Joseph announce a royal pregancy at Christmas time via morning sickness and what can possibly go wrong.
10. Don't worry. Nobody noticed that the 1812 video has the same name as David Orchard's book. (See #8.)
11. Mike Holmes, parade marshal for the 2009 Calgary Stampede, joins David Suzuki as a radical. ("The world is full of shady contractors who take shortcuts, use shoddy building practices or employ a band-aid approach...." hgtv.com (See #7.)
12. Automated, software journalism gains traction!
13. After amendments to the Local Government Act, BC's Jumbo gets a mayor, councillors. Jumbo has no residents. And Premier Christy Clark just cancels the fall session altogether.
14. Jason Kenney canceled an appearance with Nathan Jacobson, whose company in Tel Aviv, Paygea, processed payments for online gaming and adult websites. John Baird was also Jacobson's buddy and yet another dear friend got a bid. I guess the cosmetics dudes and dudettes went home / home. (Wikileaks Dead Sea minerals thingy, the financing of settlers, West Bank resources, scam&spam locksmiths.)
15. Amanda Michelle Todd is harrassed, extorted to death.
16. Vic Toews: the gun registry costs were either a million or a billion dollars.
17. The PM confounds everyone by announcing domestic policy in Davos, Switzerland (pensions) at the World Economic Forum.
18. Niagara is one of the two and final cultural capitals: $1.625m  for 1812 activities. Canadian officials select California-based Hornblower to provide boat tours, replacing American-owned Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company that operated at the falls since 1846. Calgary, the other, celebrates with an Enbridge, Nexen, Cenovus sort of Feel-the-Energy (get it?) orchestra playing a Russian, anti-Napoleonic 1812 Overture (get it? it's a nifty tie-in).
19. Canada's parliamentary budget officer wonders about the government's economic projections and whether budget cuts are even .... necessary.
20. CKUA gets a new building, then loses the news department.
21. Shell blames the whole Nigerian Delta mess on vandals. 
22. Calgary detective, Gerard Brand, of the "God Squad," gets busted for using the police database to sell Manila Capital Limited names, addresses and phone numbers. (more: rottenapples.info and what the HarryHackl is the Professional Standards Division) 
23. The Great Lakes fruit and blossom catastrophe. The US drought. Isaac, Sandy. Another 1 million bees die. First stage of new sarcophagus at Chernobyl’s nuclear power station. (Don't worry about Fukushima or other nuclear plants!) The Mississippi dries up, salt brine sinkholes out of control.
24. Omnibus B.S. http://local949.blogspot.ca/search/label/budget1812
25. Colorado wildfires. 
26. Assassination attempt on Pauline Marois and the participants at a Parti Québecois victory party: Métropolis. "The English are rising up!'yelled the well-armed man in a bathrobe. (Sept 4) “there’s going to be f------ payback.” One dead, one injured. 
27. It was learned that the fellow who beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in 2008 did so because it was an alien. (He's schizophrenic.) Apparently a year earlier, Greyhound announced a plan to enhance security, i.e. video, luggage inspections like airports do.
28. The long-gun registry vote. Gun fans cheer. Murder suicides. a) Not long before celebrations (the demise of long gun registry), a young man from Lethbridge tailed his ex-gf on the highway, killing her, the two male friends and injuring another girl, who crawled away and moved back to PEI, the one who made it home for. b) Family of three found in a ditch near St. Walburg, Sask.
29. The No's. The CRTC rejects Bell's $3.4-billion takeover of Astral Media. Bell says, N-o-o-o-! Dammit! we's a'gonna talk to Cabinet. Budget Rent-A-Car receives an order to stop photocopying customers' drivers licences, so it continues to take photocopies. (Also, Budget-Rent-A-Car has a cool appraisal scheme with itself for windshield and ding "repairs.") An Ontario Superior Court judge orders a by-election in Etobicoke Centre where Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj lost by only 26 votes. Conservative MP/"MP" Ted Opitz to the judge: No, and Supreme Court.
30. The Potato Incident with Calgary Alderman John Mar and 20 of his closest friends & sirens.
31. Machismo? Spanish Minister of Tourism (Balearic Islands, incl. Ibiza, Majorca, Minorca, and Formentera) poses with deer testicles on his head.
32. Oops. Critically endangered leatherback sea turtle nests are destroyed by bulldozers in Trinidad, a popular tourist destination for leatherback sea turtle nests. 
33. Not only does Google charge Project Glass guineau pigs $1,500, but the guineau pigs pay! 
34. Big Ben is re-gifted by the House of Commons Commission to honour the Queen of England's Diamond Jubilee. 
35. Six Italian seismologists and a government official (L'Aquila seven) are sentenced to six years in jail for manslaughter. 
36. Bitchslappin' members of parliament, Greece, on-air debate.  
37. Tom Flanagan waxing idiotic about Canada's founding fathers. (See #10.)
38. In a time of Ozterity, let us... poof! change the name of ... a national museum.
39. John Herrera-Garcia (Jan 19, 1963 - Sept 11, 2012), baptized in honour of American president John F. Kennedy and the eighth son in a family of 11 children, dies after a May 23rd beating and kicking by Neo-nazi 1 (Garrett Elliot Lee Smith), Neo-nazi 2 (Chantelle Tiffany Campbell) and Neo-nazi 3 (Jarod Donald Henry). Update, Jan 25/13 "Last of accused granted bail"
40. Court delays in Alberta lead to sex assault charges dropped. A man charged in the bombing death of a young Innisfail woman was a family friend, her financial advisor and former RCMP.
41. Clark Kent quits newspaper job. 
42. Lost in the harlemhooplas this-1812-cultureCAPwhatnot, CalgaryStampedeNation100 and that-Encanada-Franco-airhead-whatnot is one measly article about Alberta Parks' 80th anniversary, that's all the interwebs wrote. (See #18.)
43. One of the world's creepiest men presents a reward an award to Canada's prime minster, who delights, was recognized, nearly breaks his face grinning. Christopher Hitchens is dead.
44. Conrad Black gets a permit. 
45. A Canadian PM goes up north to have private, exclusive lunches with party faithful, supporters only. Another PM had gonads to walk among protestors, kick up some dust. Oh man, ATVs, vroom vroom.
46. Peter Manbridge's Franklin Expedition propaganda tour. 
47. Suicide nets installed at Apple's Foxconn factories.
48. JP Morgan estimates that €15bn of €410bn aid to Greece went into its economy - the rest went to um, creditors. 
49. In August the Province of PC-Alberta cancels funding for Fort Macleod RCMP training centre, several months after a money's-no-object election campaign. The Solicitor General’s website stated one year ago that the “$122 million training centre will play a critical role in ensuring consistent, state-of-the-art recruit training and ongoing professional development for law enforcement, corrections and public security personnel in Alberta.” Oops, the town spent $3.5+ million running service lines in preparation for the facility. How nice it was.



Proposed design for the Alberta Public Safety and
Law Enforcement Training Centre.

50. After a fake citizenship and reaffirmation ceremony that was broadcast on TV by Quebecor's Sun Media last year, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney blames ... bureaucrats® and Adscam!® and refugees® and
51. Parliamentary secretary to the PM, Dean Del Mastro, is confused about Jeffs.

More to follow!

best of 2011

Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity

It is a three-way tie. There was the priest broom brawl in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity; the Italian seismologists who were charged with manslaughter after the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake; and the two last speakers of Ayapaneco, who don't like each other.

Stephen Anderson, former detective, testifies that NYPD routinely planted drugs on people to meet arrest quotas (eight officers arrested).

So far (2012): Charles Monnett, under investigation about melting arctic ice ('polarbeargate'), was finally reprimanded for forwarding an e-mail and otherwise cleared of scientific misconduct.

That charge should be brought to Ann Coulter, who confuses radon—or who really knows what—with {uranium, cesium, plutonium, polonium, strontium, radioactive iodine, sulphur, tellurium, helium or other fukushima cocktails}.

open letter to vic toews

hey, sorry to read about your messy divorce. that must have been a surprise (the baby). sh*t happ--. during the last election, or was it one of the ones before it, i don't recall, after the 4th election in 7 years, there were all kinds of things floating about ignatieff's first marriage and kids, paul martin's alleged mistress, even learned about DND computers antagonizing critics of an untendered F-35 jet purchase and the 'puters' working its Wikipedia article.

cartoon: source
"either stand with us or with the child pornographers"

now, child pornographers lol, which is almost ironic, but i'm not exactly sure of the unfortunate nanny's age or whether the gay bathhouse story is true. not to mention the resurrection of Jack Layton's decades-old massage and i thought on a dying man yet. besides, you haven't even read the whole bill! [Bill C-30, Section 487.0195: warrantless searches, any police officer] that you tabled. i hope you lose your job, mister family values.

minister of public safety. weird eh?

Dear @ToewsVic, there's a cut in my brake lines :( Any idea how it happened? #TellVicEverything

Fake cops, a masonic apron, smurfs, Murdoch on channel 9/12 and CB & Viennese elephants