Urban Vancouver

+1 The federal government is giving Vancouver a bunch of cash to fix up some junkies, but not actually fix up fix up, and definitely not down at the safe injection site. Fuck no, they hate that thing. Drugs are bad.

±0 Now it’s an iPod, not a flaming helicopter that’s to blame for killing that pedestrian that got hit by a flaming helicopter in Cranbrook. Throw yours away now, or you could be next.

+1 And why isn’t Translink at that little taser thing about pamphlets, anyway? Go, run to the alter at the Southern tip of the Forbidden Peninsula (atop Cancer Mountain) and shake the eye from the dove’s corpse, they will come. They will open the portal.

+1 The Arbutus Club wanted to make more parking lot, and the local joggers were up in arms because of all the missed jogging opportunities, and now some folks don’t even feel like playing squash at all. It’s a tragedy.

±0 Some teenager is running for Surrey City Council, the poor little guy.

Today: +3 This Year: - 193

DJ
There’s a bit of decent electronic music to check out tonight, but where you have to go to check it out is such a bad trade off that it’s basically unbearable and not even really worth talking about. The first option is DIM with Paul Devro, but they’re partying at Caprice. Nope. The other option is Holy Ghost, but again, Republic. So, tough choices, but really? No, not really tough choices. Because obviously it’s Thursday and everybody with a beating heart should be glued to their TVs at 10pm watching Lost. What, you think some DJ from wherever is going to be better than that? Grow up.

Bush visits Iraq Veterans

As we come to understand that stockpiling of oil by various world powers is for more than domestic use, and also to the realization that as oil is the most essential element of modern warfare and that this is a strong indicator of a huge and virtually all encompassing global struggle, Noami Wolf details how we are and will be kept in control.

She compares the Bush Administration’s anti-terrorism “watch list” to citizen surveillance tools used by authoritarian governments.

In the spring of 2007 a group of 8 Iraqi women – and a six year old child – participated in a unique creative event. Using digital photography, the women set out at considerable risk to make deeply personal and emotional photo stories of their lives in Iraq, now.
http://www.openshutters.org/index.htm

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis10-26-07_detail.asp?picnum=13

In Artnet, October 26th, Ben Davies wrote on the work of Shirana Shahbazi, recently shown at the Swiss Institute in New YorK.

A Democratic congressman accused AIPAC of having “pushed” the Iraq war.

“AIPAC is the most powerful lobby and has pushed this war from the beginning,” U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said in this month’s Tikkun magazine. “Because they are so well organized, and their members are extraordinarily powerful—most of them are quite wealthy—they have been able to exert power.”

An Iranian diplomat said in New York on Wednesday that Hamas as a party with deep popular base among the Palestinian people, cannot be excluded.

Ahmadinejad stated that he had generally no objections to Oliver Stones’ proposal for making a biopic about him. However, Iran’s president in a news conference explained that the Iranian officials should be aware of this documentary’s framework.

In a dispatch posted on its website Saturday, Quds Press reported that the head of the Union of Tribes of Western Iraq in the area of the Upper Euphrates near the Syrian border had disclosed that the “Israeli” Mossad had increased its presence in those areas, beginning two months ago. He said that US forces are extending protection to the Mossad’s cars and headquarters in the area.

Radiation levels in selected regions of Iraq’s southern province of Basra warn of imminent danger to thousands of local residents who might be more prone to cancer and birth deformities, according to Khajak Vartanian, an environmental radiation measurement specialist from the province.