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2011 in review: The year’s best graphics
The Post’s graphics department is called upon to make visual order out of the chaos that is news. Graphics editor Richard Johnson picks his top ten of the year
I really like the Post, because it gives me both a chance to engage with, for the most part, reasoned and intelligent, rather than reactionary, ideas from the right of the spectrum and to see what good design in newspapers can look like.
Politics as war is exactly what former Harper strategist Tom Flanagan has long advocated. A Globe piece by Mr. Flanagan before the 2011 election was actually titled “An election is war by other means.” Mr. Flanagan also chose to compare the 2008 campaign to ancient wars in which Rome, the Conservatives, defeated Carthage, the Liberals, and “razed the city to the ground and sowed salt in the fields so nothing would grow there again”.
As Alan Whitehorn of the Royal Military College of Canada wrote: “This suggests a paradigm not of civil rivalry between fellow citizens of the same state, but all-out extended war to destroy and obliterate the opponent. This kind of malevolent vision and hostile tone seems antithetical to the democratic spirit, not to mention peace and stability.”
..precisely the conservative approach to bipartisan politics.
Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada - excellent but depressing post by Gerald Caplan.
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May (by clickandclash)
Part of a series of photos depicting hypermasculine men striking pin-up poses.
Note Of Note of the Day: From the Associated Press’ Washington-based Assistant Chief of Bureau for photos, J. David Ake:
A protester handed President Barack Obama a note while shaking hands along a rope line in New Hampshire today. Photographer Charlie Dharapak smartly zoomed in so you can read the note for yourself.
Transcript follows for those who can’t:
Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters / have been arrested / While banksters continue / to destroy the American economy (with impunity) / You must stop the assault / on our 1st ammendment rights [sic]. / Your silence sends a message / that police brutality is ac(ceptable) / Banks got bailed out. / We got sold out.
This rules.
Undercover cop drove anarchists to meetings (Toronto Star)
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Embedded in the meetings in Kingston, Peterborough, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto were two undercover police officers — Bindo Showan and Brenda Carey — whose allegations formed the basis of the prosecution’s case against the accused.
The identity of the OPP officers had been protected by a publication ban, but that ban has now been lifted.
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Carey worked her way into their circles after attending an info-session at the University of Guelph for people interested in getting involved with the Guelph Union for Tenants and Supporters (GUTS).
Soon, she was cooking at anarchist-punk houses and attending anti-authoritarian/anarchist public events, according to the blog.
By the spring of 2010, she was living in Guelph in a house with activists.
For the police task force, this was a major coup, since it sidestepped the paperwork and legal challenge involved in getting a judge’s authorization to plant listening devices in activists’ residences.
Most of the time, she apparently operated without wearing listening devices, the blog said.
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She listened up-close despite the fact they were extremely security-conscious.
Activists refused to discuss actions on the Internet, turned off cellphones and removed their batteries during meetings. They used a vouching system to screen participants.
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This story should prompt insurrectionary anarchists to reconsider the utility and concepts of security culture and affinity groups.
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