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Meghan Dunphy tells inquiry she believes police officer manipulated evidence after killing her father

Meghan Dunphy tells inquiry she believes police officer manipulated evidence after killing her father:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Don Dunphy’s daughter told a judicial inquiry Monday that she doesn’t believe the police officer who fatally shot her father is telling the truth about what happened on Easter Sunday, 2015.

Meghan Dunphy is suggesting her father reached for a stick that he often carried for protection, and that Const. Joe Smyth, of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC), mistook it for a gun and then shot him.

“That’s what I don’t understand. There’s no reason for my father to take a gun. He would have picked up his stick not a gun,” said Meghan.

Judge Leo Barry asked Meghan if she believes Smyth manipulated evidence after the shooting. She responded “Yes,” and suggested Smyth may have placed the gun beside her father to cover up that he shot a man for reaching for a stick.

Following a break, Meagan’s lawyer Erin Breen asked her, “Would your father cooperate with a police officer if he was asked to produce firearms?” Meghan answered, “Yes.”

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Canada created lots of jobs last year. Almost all were part-time: TD

Canada created lots of jobs last year. Almost all were part-time: TD:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Canada has created jobs in every year since the 2009 recession.

That sounds great on the surface. But TD Economics scratched just a little deeper and found that almost every job created last year was part-time, in a report released Wednesday.

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And they say the recession is over….

What Canada needs is Universal Basic Income.

We should have rolled out Mincome after the successful pilot in the ‘70′s.
[Instead, as often happens with good long term planning in winner-take-all politics, the government fell, and its successor certainly wasn’t about to implement a anything that might make the other guys look good. ]

1984…meet DRMWhat is DRM?Digital Restrictions Management…



1984…meet DRM

What is DRM?

Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. 

When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it. 

This concentrates control over production and distribution of media, giving DRM peddlers the power to carry out massive digital book burnings and conduct large scale surveillance over people’s media viewing habits.

If we want to avoid a future in which our devices serve as an apparatus to monitor and control our interaction with digital media, we must fight to retain control of our media and software.

Defective By Design FAQ: What is DRM

Image Credit:
1984…meet DRM by Josh Bonnain released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence … this work is a remix of the CC BY bond and orwell by Idlir Fida

De-bullshitifying the libertopian Legend of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge #1yrago

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The domestic terrorists occupying the Malheur National Widlife Refuge Building near Burns, Oregon justify their actions with a highly selective – and largely fabricated – history of the federal lands they’ve seized. The truth is a lot sleazier.

In the revisionist histories of Al-Shabubba, Malheur was turned into a useful resource by hardworking smallholders who used pluck and determination to improve the land, until Theodor (sic) Roosevelt seized it from them to turn it into an “Indian reservation (without Indians)” which morphed into a wildlife preserve.

The reality is that the Paiutes who lived there were ethnically cleansed by the US Army, who then sold some of the land to speculators from out-of-state, who were dominated by a couple of crooked megabosses who used trickery, bribery, coercion and fraud to get the land at discount prices and force out their competition. Those welfare capitalists then made a killing by using heavily subsidized US federal infrastructure, such as railways, to get their products to market.

When those cattle-barons ran their business into the ground, they got bailed out by the federal government. The feds bought the land that they’d sold at subsidy prices to rich speculators, and ended up with a big piece of territory that, having been purged of its original residents, and having been worked to ruin through mismanagement and greed by unscrupulous robber-barons, turned into a wildlife preserve.

https://boingboing.net/2016/01/09/de-bullshitifying-the-libertop.html