Adam's Ideas

As Harper continues to insult Canadian democracy, Canadians conitue to insult Harper. It’s a fair deal.

The best part is that they’re doing it in a fun way. They simply ask can an onion ring be more popular on facebook than Stephen Harper?

I think the answer is yes. The group stared Feb 02 and two days later, well check the screenshot I took at 3:20.

Onion ring FTW

As of this writing the number is at 25,696 at 3:30.

5pm update: Onion wins!

The Toronto Women’s Bookstore has run into some problems due to the economy and a recent internal shakeup; now it is on the brink of shutting its doors for good.

It’s a great bookstore that I have visited many times and has been a great resource for a lot of my readings for school.

A Facebook group has been created to spread the word and Torontoist has a post on the current situation and a bit on their history:

One of the last and largest non-profit feminist bookstores in North America, the thirty-six-year-old TWB has weathered its share of troubled times: in 1984 the store was firebombed along with a then-attached Henry Morgentaler abortion clinic, in the 1990s it pulled itself out of the red in a time when most of North America’s feminist bookstores went under, and in the early years of this decade it resisted a post-9/11 wannabe boycott waged in response to the sale of politically controversial buttons.

Keep reading at Torontoist.

Perhaps the best 5 second film I’ve seen.

This stuff makes me sick. The USA continues to disappoint me in how it deals with dissenting views to those of the elite. Good thing Obama brought chan- wait a second.

Here the police use an arrested protester as a trophy in a photo-op:

The moral of the story: never go to Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile, here in Canada we have police officers dipping into victims’ cash.

It’s a good thing I forgot I had this blog during the London G20 get-together because that would’ve kept me busy blogging too.

This post exists because I saw the following video from the G20 gathering in Pittsburgh. It shows an unmarked vehicle take somebody off the streets and shoved into a car without any notice as to why the individual was kidnapped by people in military uniform – not police.

New-ish tactics used by the police force are a great way to use force to contain people without leaving evidence of what they did.

From the Guardian’s article on the use of the sonic cannon:

Sonic weapons or long-range acoustic devices have been used by the US military overseas, notably against Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents.

But US security forces turned the piercing sound on their own citizens yesterday to widespread outrage. Pittsburgh officials told the New York Times that it was the first time “sound cannon” had been used publicly.

[Warning: the video below contains very loud audio from the start]

BoingBoing has even more on the sound cannon:

Click here to see more footage from the BBC on police intervention and peaceful protesting.