https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/03/pq_stung_by_jacques_parizeaus_rebuke_of_values_charter_hbert.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/09/budg-o09.html
http://fpif.org/jellification-politics/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/08/president-clintons-close-colleague-joins-us-oil-sands-board/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19287-in-conversation-with-noam-chomsky-on-us-politics-global-affairs-and-capitalist-reform

i would expect this to come up in my feed. it didn't.
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1nxtyb/nuclear_fusion_milestone_passed_at_us_lab/

http://warrenkinsella.com/2013/10/gary-mchale-crowd-sourcing-a-lawsuit/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/09/apec-o09.html
http://fpif.org/nsa-isnt-foiling-terrorist-plots/
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19323-it-is-time-to-recognize-the-national-sovereignty-and-human-rights-of-native-indians

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/sheila-block/2013/10/its-not-just-ontarios-youth-on-minimum-wage
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19296-empire-under-obama-part-1-political-language-and-the-mafia-principles-of-international-relations

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/08/campaign-against-fossil-fuel-growing
http://libcom.org/blog/meaningful-work-appeal-young-08102013
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/brooch-of-tutankhamun-holds-evidence-of-ancient-comet
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-radioactivity-fracking-waste-pennsylvania

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/17/justin_trudeau_taps_toronto_centre_candidate_chrystia_freeland_for_economic_advice.html

this is a far more important event regarding shifts the country may take over the next generation than any election or protest....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/paul-desmarais-remembered-as-visionary-entrepreneur-with-great-influence-1.1931144

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2013/01/16/the-messy-link-between-slave-owners-and-modern-management/

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/what-does-obama-think-they-were-doing-at-stonewall/
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/10/sensible-bc-takes-big-strides-campaign-to-decriminalize-marijuana

brave, but rather foolish.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10846

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/09/pers-o09.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/08-7
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companies-that-use-bribes-abroad-rarely-prosecuted-at-home-1.1929649
http://jacobinmag.com/2012/04/the-politics-of-getting-a-life/

i've seen a few experiments like this recently. good to see that the technology is catching up to the point where we can finally study this properly.
http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-snatch-a-peep-into-quantum-paradox-1.13899?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews

mostly a summary of the higgs ramifications, but also the first article i've seen that hints at what i've been saying: by conforming so perfectly to the standard model, the higgs result is actually essentially debunking it.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=could-the-higgs-nobel-be-the-end-of-particle-physics&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cosmic-strings-cracked-cosmos&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.nature.com/news/two-laser-boron-fusion-lights-the-way-to-radiation-free-energy-1.13914
http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n10/full/nm1013-1204.html

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pamela-palmater/2013/10/defer-deflect-deny-destroy-harper%E2%80%99s-first-nation-education-ac

as somebody who has voted liberal more than once solely because i was concerned about funny ndp economic positions, i have to state that i'm a little confused. linda mcquaig strikes me as a pretty good representative of "modern liberal' economics. strangely, the liberal party's response was to hire somebody that seems to be to her right.

silly conservative rhetoric aside, economics was always the liberals' strong point. people knew better than to listen to the foolishness coming from the conservatives (which always led to tough economic times, and broken budgets), and the naivete coming from the ndp which would no doubt lead to a systemic collapse in ways that maybe people weren't really interested in. the liberals were the only party that made any sense in the economic sphere. it's the reason they won so often.

but, recently, it seems like that's been shifting. nowadays, the liberals seem to be as stupid as the conservatives when it comes to economics, and the ndp have really moved into the place the liberals were in.

the conclusion is that the people that would have previously had the good sense to keep the liberals in power should be voting for the ndp. but, whether that happens or not is another question.

i think the vast majority of liberal voters in that riding, and any other, would prefer linda.

so, what does that say of justin's decision, here? both on the level of his ability to make decisions (this is a very stupid decision) and on his ideological persuasion?

in truth, those are empty questions. he didn't pick chrystia freeland, and the people that did picked her to teach him about a topic he knows almost nothing about.

there's no clothes on this guy.

i missed this back in july, amidst all of the kerfuffle. it's sort of big news.

next step? hopefully? criminal charges, under the war crimes act. this has to be the end point.

a negligence case may get some compensation out to the victims, but this sort of thing doesn't act as a useful deterrent because most of the negligence is actual criminal. what ends up happening is that the companies work the cost of rape and genocide into their analysis. what also happens is that they finish the job. if leaving a survivor behind in the village is going to cost them, there will be less survivors. the cost of being "caught committing genocide" works it's way into whether or not developing this field or that mine is profitable. this is the logic of capital, and if the aim is to find ways to contain and regulate it then we need to move beyond liberal naivete.

i wrote an essay about a year ago explaining that there actually isn't any need to rewrite the laws relating to jurisdiction. the war crimes act (http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-45.9/) has the proper jurisdiction to convict upper management of genocide, rape and the other accusations. it's technically international law, even; that's just the version that was passed as domestic law. the state just isn't using it....

http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/end-impunity/18874

right. but, when the democrats were doing similar things in response to iraq was it not clear it was a ploy? the tea party doesn't like war because it interprets it as a waste of tax money. it doesn't like foreign aid, either, for the same reason. or the united nations. or...

that's not peace, or at least it isn't in a co-operative sense. it's just a type of self-interest. this doesn't offer an actual movement to rally around, it just leaves the landscape littered with the bodies of submerged ostriches. if there's a task for progressives, there, it is to try and pull all of those heads out of their own rears....

(special care should be taken to avoid accidental impregnation, as that may lead to an unnecessary debate. my point is transparent.)

nor is this as new as the article points out, so much as it's a return to historical norms. the architects of america's war have generally been democrats; republicans have generally opposed that worldly vision in favour of a more insular one. the term isolationism may bring to mind ron paul, but the idea is as old as the country. i suppose it's greatest victory was rendering the league of nations useless. and it's a very republican idea. barry goldwater isn't as much fun to rally around as ron paul, though.

....even though they're equally racist. again, that's a debate. should avoid that.

i wouldn't expect this little tea party uprising to be any more formative on the next republican administration than cindy sheehan has been on the existing one.

mr. cameron, likewise, has his own racist reactionaries to pander to, lest the fucking ukip work their way into coalition. they don't like war, either. sooooo many debates...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/09/peace-is-no-longer-a-partisan-issue/

Freeland, I should point out, is no Marxist, and although conceding to him one or two minor points, she is still very much of the opinion that capitalism is "the best prosperity-creating system humanity has come up with so far", as she has said in the financial blog she writes for Reuters.

The bad thing about that is that she will not countenance any kind of socialism (let alone, as I occasionally do in my darker moments, fantasise about the gutters of Mayfair running red with the blood of the plutocrats). The good thing is that she knows how to speak to and about the situation without the red mist descending. It also means she is listened to by these people, and they talk to her unguardedly.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/08/plutocrats-rise-new-global-super-rich-review

"But $1 billion added to the domestic economy through tax cuts to promote personal consumption (like the payroll tax holiday) adds 15,100 jobs."

that never actually happens, though, because most of the money ends up in savings accounts or paid down as debt (and i'd expect the share going to debt is so high at this point that tax cuts are basically banker handouts). to the extent that jobs are created in retail or whatever, it's short term and cyclical....

it's cursory to the argument, which i concur with.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19292-ask-a-keynesian-with-us-borrowing-capped-wont-more-pentagon-spending-destroy-jobs

"In fact, getting liberals and progressives to heartily endorse health care ‘reform’ designed by the right-wing Heritage Foundation with the intent of precluding universal health care ties to the decades old move rightward by ‘liberal’ Democrats under the guise of pragmatism."

i'll never get over this. it may be the pinnacle of the process of brainwashing.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/09/burning-down-the-house-3/