Political Junky

nationalpostsports:

Here are your 2011 Hockey Hall of Fame inductees: Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe, Joe Nieuwendyk and Ed Belfour. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Cassese

(via nationalpost)

nationalpost:

Photos: Brazilian troops invade Rio de Janeiro slum
On Sunday, three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armored cars occupied Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum. It is seen as the first step in cleaning up the notoriously dangerous favela which has been run by violent drug gangs. (Photo: Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images)

nationalpost:

Second female Mountie slams RCMP with sexual harassment claims
Former Mountie Krista Carle says she was constantly sexually harassed by male colleagues during the 20 years she was on the force.

Carle, a former RCMP constable, is speaking out after Catherine Galliford, a former spokeswoman for the RCMP in B.C., said on Tuesday that she suffered sexual harassment from senior officers for years.

Carle said she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder in 2004 after being sexually harassed by colleagues for 19 years. She applied for medical discharge in 2009 due to stress.

“I got paranoid, I wasn’t sleeping properly, I lost a tremendous amount of weight,” she said on Wednesday. “I was not in a good place mentally, psychologically or spiritually.”

Trade not aid. 

serendippity:

(via The Map Scroll: Human Development and the US-Mexico Border)

My favorite map, showing that the poorest county on the US border is still higher than any of the counties to the South.  Until this is addressed, no immigration policy will keep people from trying to seek a better life.

In addition, how many drug killings in Mexico can be attributed to the US war on drugs?  The substance of evil is not in words, but in actions.  To wade through the issue on abstinence, seems ridiculous when so many lose their lives to feed a demand.  Follow the money, and you will see we can’t fence away our problems.  It didn’t work in Berlin, it doesn’t work in the West Bank, and it is farcical to think we can mask the underlying problem with concrete, chain link and barbed wire.  GET REAL.    

(Source: hdr.undp.org)

He’s very observant. 

kimjongillookingatthings:

looking at coal

And so it begins. 

theeconomist:

The Economist first put Silvio Berlusconi on the cover in 2001, when we ran an investigative story looking at his business dealings. Ten years and several libel suits later, he is standing down. Our slideshow remembers this long relationship.

George Papandreou would be kind of a badass if he didn’t resign. 

theeconomist:

KAL’s cartoon: this week, dominoes.

There’s something about the Grand Old Party that makes me shiver. 

(via theeconomist)