This is what real media reporting looks like!

Don't look to North American mainstream media for anything like this about the outside world:


Another amazing report by video journalist and foreign correspondent Jesse Freeston!

G20-Toronto public enquiry farce is a national shame - TRN reality check - video

Disgusting behaviour of the cops, their bosses, and the "justice" establishment. And of most of the mainstream media and the civil rights establishment which is soft asleep. Historians take note!

Witness the degradation of Canadian institutions. This is the continued growth of corporate fascism.

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Social activism: Black thug violence must stop (with VIDEO)

Corroborated again at G20-Toronto:

In social activism by far the greatest threat of physical violence against persons is POLICE - dressed in black, faces covered, hard to identify, not answering questions, and bashing people about for no apparent reason.

by Denis G. Rancourt


In our PREVIOUS POST we made the obvious and repeatedly established point that the greatest risk of violence against persons at anti-corruption demonstrations is from police.

Not a single person was hurt or threatened by black bloc demonstrators at G20 in Toronto.

The same cannot be said about police behaviour: See the Real News video below.

They don't make it easy to identify the violent officers either. Here is a picture of G20-Toronto cops with no name tags - No way to identify an individual cop who hits you.


And below is a video with the police chief publicly shrugging off criticism with a suggestion that a bashed journalist can file a complaint... The video shows how small the name tag is when there is one, and there ain't no nice big officer number tag ever.

This video shows a series of disturbing scenes where, for no apparent reason, police run down a pedestrian with their horses, take down a deaf man for not following instructions, punch and throw about several peaceful demonstrators, punch a journalist and steal his microphone, throw back the microphone when other journalists move in, and, last but not least, show the police chief lying to justify the horrendous police behaviour in question.



A nice police state atmosphere with little counter protections: "This is what democracy looks like" - to remix a demonstrator's slogan.

This is the kind of police behaviour that changes one's emotional response to a picture of a police cruiser in flames, especially when it has been made clear that there will not be an investigation.

Partial solution for the immediate danger: The black thugs need big visible reflective officer numbers (front and back), with name lists posted to the web, and all the footage from those surveillance cameras made public every time they come onto the streets with clubs.

Safety first!

BREAKING NEWS June 28, 2010:
Conditions of 900 G20-Toronto detainees illegal, immoral and dangerous - rabble.ca

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Where was the CCLA's Nathalie Des Rosiers in all of this? -Filing an injunction to prevent the use of sound canons and doing a press presentation about the injunction... but clubs, horses, "rubber" bullets and gas canisters fired at close range, and irrational police violence, with no investigations in sight for attacked journalist and peaceful protesters are just part of the decor? Will the CCLA demand an investigation?
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The government needs to be afraid of the people - Canadian democracy?

Another remarkable street-level video report by independent journalist Jesse Freeston.



Canadian civil society flexes its muscles.

What's obvious is obvious. Harper's lie is contemptuous.

War is ugly and it implicates us all. Let's get Canada out of the business of war crimes, and not just in Afghanistan!

Honduras Elections Exposed

The real journalist who made this had this to say to his friends:

"I would love to say that this was some great piece of journalistic effort, but the evidence was sitting right out in the open for anyone to see, the fact that I'm the one to put it out there has less to do with any skills or effort of mine, and more to do with exactly how detached most journalists are from the people and issues that they cover. Hardly anyone writing about Honduras came here last week with intentions to do anything more than just cover another election and report the 'official' data, candidate statements, and tidbits from the international diplomacy circus. The despicable coverage of the situation in Honduras from all the mainstream sources stands as a testament to their disillusionment from reality, and another reason why I get giddy with excitement every time I see another one of them near the cliff of impending bankruptcy."

- Jesse Freeston

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Honduras: An election validated by blood and repression

Some real news from a real journalist on the street and in the face of the occupying army in Honduras. You don't see this on the pro-US-agenda pro-war CBC.