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Crane goes up across the street

This is the house next door that has been declared unfit for habitation due to it falling over into the excavaton pit.

Note that you can see daylight between the bricks in the picture below.

And here are some pics of the crane going up last night. They started last night at 7PM. Not impressed with the city on this. I got the notice from Tega Homes on Thursday that there would be overnight construction. When I phoned 311, they told me that no permit had been filed for a noise exemption. It wasn't until I phoned again on Friday that I was told that they had received a noise exemption.

Now they turn on the lights for the night. The first piece is up ( behind the Gingko tree).

Second piece getting attached.

And when I woke this morning, the crane was complete.

Centropolis excavation

Some pics of the construction cater corner from my home.

Michael Geist - The Conservatives Commitment to Internet Surveillance

This post, which focuses on the Conservatives commitment to pass lawful access legislation that would fundamentally reshape the Internet in Canada within the new Parliament's first 100 days if it wins a majority, requires two caveats. The first is to emphasize that I believe digital policies are not a partisan issue. Developing a digital economy strategy, introducing balanced copyright, addressing cybercrime while preserving privacy is not a left or right, Liberal or Conservative, issue.

via www.michaelgeist.ca

The art of dissent

cool stuff

Happy new year, and decade

Hope the next year and next decade are better than the last for you and your lobed ones. Onward and upward!

Happy solstice festival!

Whichever one you celebrate.

More Wikileaks

Ellsberg: “EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.”

Currently released so far... 1112 / 251,287

They've now managed to cut off Visa, Mastercard and Paypal payments to Wikileaks, as well as their Swiss bank account.
and anonymous is pissed

December 6 post

A quick link:  

"One more time just for clarity: Sex you have with someone without their permission is rape"

And I'll say one more thing on the subject. Assange may be doing very good work on Wikileaks. That doesn't mean that I'll defend him if the charges are true. Whether or not the charges are true is not relevant to whether WikiLeaks is a force for good or bad. There are sexist dirtbags in every single organization on the planet, from the Pentagon to Earth First!.

I've said from the start of this thing that the remarkable thing isn't that a famous person may have committed a sexual assault. The remarkable thing is that the women are getting listened to. That a sexual assault of this nature gets the accused put on top of Interpol's most wanted list.

The sad part is that, assuming the charges are true, Assange may not even realize that he is guilty of sexual assault. Far too many men still don't get the idea that sex you have with someone without their permission is rape, and that a sexual partner can remove their permission AT ANY POINT. Period. Full Stop.

Wikileaks

http://46.59.1.2/ is the actual location of wikileaks. Spread it around. Now that their DNS is down, this is the best way to reach them.

No more Amazon for me

So, I've just deleted my Amazon wish list. I won't deal with a book seller that won't fight censorship. Period. Their cowardice on the wikileaks file makes them dead to me.