rabbit
May 26, 2011
circa 1993
chew
March 19, 2011
circa 1995
daddy, what did you do in the war?
February 21, 2011
Savile Lumley. commissioned by The British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee. 1915. Victoria&Albert Museum. UK.
jump
February 15, 2011
circa 1995
voice of fire: Barnett Newman
January 27, 2011
Voice of Fire. Barnett Newman
cockelshells
look up, wonder
January 1, 2011
from "The Mole Sisters and the Moonlit Night". Roslyn Schwartz
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jesus wasn’t white either.
December 25, 2010
taste, picture this. No5
December 19, 2010
“…it is impossible to sow seed on rock and harvest its fruit.”
from gospel of Judas (43:25 to 44:2)
Spent Shells
December 14, 2010
"Spent Shells" photo by Chris Jordan
In a flurry of Leaks
December 9, 2010
For the past week or so, we have been in a flurry raw tidbits of evidence.
Wikileaks has been releasing its 250,000 “diplomatic cables”. Prominent politicians and their advisers have been openly calling for murder of Julian Assange (who, as head of WikiLeaks, they blame).
With credit to a caller on a CBC’s “Cross Country Checkup”… It is remarkable: An amazing amount of public attention is being paid — encouraged by a riot of governmental blustering — to this pile of documents. This is well and good, but we are allowing this current mega-leak to overshadow previous Wikileaks releases. Especially the Iraq/Afghanistan “War Logs”, are much more important than the embarrassing, but rather obvious, babble of diplomats and other bureaucrats.
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Here in Ontario, a bit of raw evidence has been thrown into our own works.
A fantastic (disturbing) new video-clip has turned up… dating from this summer’s G20 protests
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Police officers have been refusing to help identify their fellows who were involved in assaulting protesters. Investigations have been called off because without this co-operation, they could not proceed… Even with video evidence, it has been impossible to identify offending officers since their faces are hidden behind riot-gear face-shields.
Yesterday, all this changed.
A new video has been turned in by another bystander. This one shows an officer repeatedly slugging an already detained protester. When the thug stands up, he has forgotten to hide his face.
the face of one thug
Certainly this officer should be fired and charged with assault. But I fear he will become a solitary scapegoat…
An entire province of officers have disgraced themselves by refusing to co-operate with investigations into many well established cases involving “excessive use of force”. We should all be revolted by this obstruction. It should not be legal, in fact it already is.
The chief of Toronto Police has promised that, if any evidence makes identification possible, offenders will be disciplined. At the same time he has refused to order his officers to co-operate with investigators by providing such identifications. He has also been caught lying about a key video (claimed that it was doctored by editing). Chief Blair is an embarasment, continuing to damage any respect for the police… without respect, we can have no effective policing.
A great day for those who love raw evidence. A great day in a week buried in the stuff.
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