Chronological government Weblog/Links

Canada Needs to Torture People to Stay Safe December 10, 2011 :: More from BoingBoing as well. CSIS needs torture or the world will end. Canada's spy agency was so reliant on information obtained through torture that it suggested the whole...

Government No Longer Testing Nutrition Claims on Food December 02, 2011 :: The Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) apparently stopped doing "surveys" of pre-packaged "food" items to test that their labels are accurate. The Herald says "abruptly" implying this was...

NSA Abilities March 04, 2011 :: Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA's warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations....

PSYOPS friendly fire? February 26, 2011 :: ``The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war,...

Oh, Government Toadies.... July 29, 2010 :: ...you are so obvious and unsubtle. I suspect the Herald is a little over the top in suggesting Harper had anything to do with this; more likely an eager boot-licker trying to please. But...

Government Poisoning Citizens February 25, 2010 :: Via Craig, we get this heartwarming story of the US government adding poison to then-illegal alcohol during Prohibition. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured...

Sad state of affairs November 15, 2009 :: ``Alberta elementary students can now visit provincial parks - without leaving their classroom.'' ...and without fear of lawsuits. Oh joy! What a fucking crock of shit. ...

Poor, poor easily-terrified RCMP officers February 23, 2009 :: ``One of the RCMP officers who confronted Robert Dziekanski the night he died at Vancouver airport testified on Monday that he feared for his safety after Dziekanski took a combative stance.''...

Confidential: NATO report on Afghanistan February 19, 2009 :: A confidential NATO report on Afghanistan's civilian deaths has been leaked on Wikileaks. ``...civilian deaths from the war in Afghanistan have increased by 46% over the past year.''...

Anyone can listen to you via your cell phone February 19, 2009 :: ...at any time, whether you've got it on or not. More (as always) at Wikipedia. If you really want to break out the tinfoil to protect yourself, read about ECHELON.

US Predator drones along Canada border February 18, 2009 :: The US is deploying Predator unmanned drones along the US/Canada border from Ontario through Manitoba to invade people's privacy and take pictures of their naked sunbathing asses. Oh, sorry,...

SmirkingChimp on Sarah Palin September 29, 2008 :: ``Only 21st-century Americans can pass through a metal detector six times in an hour and still think they're at a party.'' [..] ``The great insight of the Palin VP choice is that...

Italian police sentenced over 2001 G8 protests July 15, 2008 :: During the G8 summit in 2001, police were accused of posing as "Black Block" anarchists (among others) and inciting violence. There was also widespread illegitimate arrests of protestors,...

Electro-shock Plane Tickets July 09, 2008 :: The Department of Homeland Security is apparently interested in deploying "electronic ID bracelets" for plane travellers to take the place of boarding passes. One difference: these...

Spanking: Jail. June 19, 2008 :: The Senate is preparing to pass through a bill (which would still need House approval to become law) which would make it a crime to spank your child.

Wilderness Lake to Tailings Pond: Rubber-stamp June 17, 2008 :: Federal Bureaucrats are allowed to redefine lakes and rivers as "tailing containment facilities" (aka toxic waste dumps for mining debris) and are doing just that to a bunch of lakes and...

FBI using terrorism laws to "infiltrate" protest groups May 23, 2008 :: As predicted, so-called "terrorism" laws are really being used to fuck the tender bottoms of protestors. What they were looking for, Carroll says, was an informant -- someone...

Dominion Book Review: Damming the Flood May 08, 2008 :: The coup d'etat that Canada was instrumental in executing (pun intended) you've probably never heard about (and likely told me I was wrong when I told you). Interesting-sounding book about...