in fascist russia, oven cook you.

it's a country full of paradoxes. putin is, in fact, the only person that can save it from falling into a dictatorship.

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/12/russian-television-star-says-gay-people-should-be-burned-alive/

http://fpif.org/george-kennans-prescience-military-industrial-complex/
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/12/pers-d12.html
http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/twenty-years-too-long/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/12/the_anti_apartheid_underground_ronnie_kasrils
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/yves-engler/2013/12/canadas-duplicitous-economic-policies-supported-apartheid-south-a
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20572-mandelas-greatness-may-be-assured-but-not-his-legacy
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11167
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/12/from_marxism_to_neoliberalism_ronnie_kasrils

i'm very much in favour of punishing motorists.
http://www.wheels.ca/news/hudak-blasts-5-cent-a-litre-gas-tax-hike/

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11161

may was a vocal supporter of the registry. it's confusing that she would accept hyer into the party. well, until you realize her rank opportunism, anyways. sadly, the green party are oh so very similar to the other parties.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/13/green_party_doubles_caucus_as_former_ndp_mp_bruce_hyer_joins.html

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/the-two-mandelas/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/polaroid_apartheid_inside_the_beginnings_of
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/14/jang-d14.html
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20564-the-transformation-of-americas-energy-economy
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/13/our_red_lines_and_theirs_hussein_chemical_weapons
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/shooting-at-queen-subway-station/article15969116/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/8834-israel-opens-dam-flooding-gaza-strip-with-rainwater

this is another one of those things where it's just a bit of a shrug.

in a truly free society, prostitution wouldn't exist. really, i'd go so far as to suggest that you can measure a society's level of oppression pretty well by observing how prevalent prostitution is. not how strict the laws are, but how often it happens. like wage work, prostitution is a type of slavery with invisible chains.

on the one hand, we think of this kind of work/slavery as being a little extreme. i mean, it's one thing to shovel ditches but to put out sexually? not everybody's going to see it like that. and the reality is that the higher price that can be demanded would, for some people, offset the discomfort. so long as we're forced into market relations on one level or another, it's arbitrary to restrict what kind of labour is allowed and what isn't. it follows that laws against prostitution are explicitly misogynist.

on top of that, there are reasons to think that decriminalization would lead to safer conditions. so we should be approaching this the same way we approach abortion, which is decriminalization followed by social programs designed to eliminate the conditions that lead to prostitution - poverty, drug addiction, lack of child support, etc.

ultimately, though, this isn't a solution to anything. the solution lies in the programs designed to minimize the prevalence of prostitution.

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/feminist-current/2013/12/supreme-court-canada-to-make-decision-on-prostitution-law-de

ok, so that's the tactic - table off the wall legislation, uphold the constitution by voting it down and declare it a victory for democracy.

meaning you protestors can go home, now.

what they'll also do is pass the legislation they want in one bill, while debate is occupied by something absurd.

so, we'll see how that plays out. usually, even simple tactics work against mass movements - for a while.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11173

art cannot produce change; rather, it is a product of change that is occurring. marxists have never understood this properly. plato, on the other hand, understood it perfectly.

it follows that art is an end, and not a means. when we see movements of creative art, we know something has already changed and it is too late for reactionary forces to reverse it. it's celebratory; gloating, even.

but, it also represents the phase where the movement becomes decadent. every art-based counterculture movement has been co-opted. artists inherently seek to go beyond struggle and merely exist. so, it's not just a failed tactic but we can understand why it's a failed tactic. let's learn from this, not repeat the same mistakes again.

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/12/art-in-the-age-of-fatalism/