Tonight AK-47 are playing Nanaimo . It'll be fun playing Awkwardfest with 18 million other bands, and I'm sure it'll be a packed house.....well, we'll see.
CALL THEM OUT IS OUR NEW ALBUM. LPs WILL BE HERE EVENTUALLY, BUT IN THE MEANTIME WE HAVE CDs. 25 SONGS IN 41 MINUTES. GET IT PLEASE.
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Friday, 9 October 2026
SYMPATHY
There are friends whose pain and loss you feel as if it was your own .
These are the people who you keep in mind always , and you should .
Connections like that are rare in this world of immediate gratification
constant shallow stimulation .
Take care of each other .
Thursday, 8 October 2026
WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS ?
My doctors appointments went great by the way . I should be back at work next month .
And awaaaay we goooo !
Who is the biggest killer and criminal in the Middle East ? Who invades who ? Who has killed the most civilians ? How many children lay buried under rubble due to fascist israel's indiscriminate bombing ? Actually , it's not as much indiscriminate as deliberate . Fuck the fascists and their supporters in the west .
Israel Invaded Syria 453 Times, Killed 69 People since 2024 – Report
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Israeli forces carried out 453 incursions into Syria, killed 69 people and left 35 detainees unaccounted for, a rights group reported.
Key Developments
- The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented at least 453 Israeli ground incursions and 69 killings between December 2024 and October 2026.
- Israeli forces detained at least 162 people, releasing 127, while the fate of another 35 remains unknown to their families.
- The report also documented home demolitions, land-leveling operations and hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across several Syrian provinces.
Israeli forces carried out at least 453 ground incursions into Syrian territory and killed at least 69 people between December 8, 2024, and October 6, 2026, according to a human rights report.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the incursions and other Israeli violations following the fall of Syria’s former government, Syrian broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya reported on Thursday.
The incursions were concentrated in the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Daraa, with additional operations recorded in the Damascus countryside.
The report also documented arbitrary detentions, civilian home demolitions, land-leveling operations and extensive Israeli airstrikes across Syria.
Detentions and Killings
The Syrian Network for Human Rights recorded at least 162 cases of arbitrary detention by Israeli forces.
Of those detained, 127 were subsequently released.
The fate of the remaining 35 detainees remains unknown to both the organization and their families.
The report did not provide complete details concerning the identities or circumstances surrounding the deaths of the 69 people killed during the reporting period.
Israeli incursions have repeatedly involved raids on villages, temporary checkpoints, searches of civilian homes and the detention of residents in southern Syria.
The operations have taken place amid an expanded Israeli military presence inside Syrian territory beyond the occupied Golan Heights.
Homes Demolished, Land Leveled
The rights organization documented the demolition of at least 15 civilian homes after Israeli forces entered the village of Hamidiya in the Quneitra countryside.
It also recorded extensive land-leveling operations inside the Jabata al-Khashab Nature Reserve in northern Quneitra on October 17 and 18, 2025.
In late January, Israeli forces sprayed grazing land in Quneitra with an unidentified substance, according to the report.
The network said it was unable to determine the nature of the substance or its potential effects on the land, livestock and local communities.
Israeli forces resumed land-leveling operations on October 4 west of Al-Asha village and Al-Rafid town.
Such operations have intensified concerns that Israel is attempting to consolidate a long-term military presence and alter conditions on the ground in southern Syria.
Hundreds of Airstrikes
Beyond the ground incursions, the network documented hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across Syria.
The attacks targeted Damascus, the Damascus countryside, Hama, Latakia, Homs, Tartus, Sweida and Idlib.
The organization did not provide an exact number of airstrikes in its public data.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Syrian military facilities, airports, infrastructure and other sites while expanding its ground occupation in the south.
Its forces have maintained positions inside the UN-monitored buffer zone and surrounding areas since December 2024.
Violation of 1974 Agreement
On December 13, 2024, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force said Israeli forces had entered the buffer zone and remained at several positions there.
UNDOF said the Israeli movements constituted a violation of the 1974 disengagement agreement between Syria and Israel.
A UN report issued in September 2025 also documented Israel’s continuing military presence in the buffer zone and neighboring positions.
The report pointed to Israeli measures aimed at consolidating its presence in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and in additional Syrian territory entered after December 2024.
The 1974 agreement established a separation zone monitored by the United Nations following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.
Damascus has repeatedly demanded that Israeli forces withdraw from Syrian territory and comply with the agreement.
Tuesday, 6 October 2026
NOT EXCITED
I'm going to Vancouver tomorrow to see two of my doctors .
I truly appreciate that they saved my life , but I just don't feel like going .
I know , what a fucking baby . I'm hoping they'll tell me I can go back to work soon.
It may seem weird , but I'm eager to be an active janitor again .
Geez , I actually kind of look like this guy.....
Monday, 5 October 2026
THESE ASSHOLES JUST DON''T FUCKING GET IT
Fuck the kkkanadian government for saying that anti-zionism is racism . There are many Jewish people who disagree with that . zionism is the ultranationalist ideology that says the Jewish people have a right to a homeland in Occupied Palestine over anybody else, including the Palestinian people . Which justifies the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinian people from their ancestral homelands . Perhaps the kkkanadian government supports this because it is somehow similar to the history of this country ?
And elizabeth may can shut her drunk ass up . Just another stupid useless lying fucked up politician.
Greens label Zionism “a form of racism”
A half century after most of the world labelled Zionism racism, a major Anglosphere party has finally echoed the call. The Greens’ resolution is a significant blow to Tel Aviv, Ottawa, supremacist lobbyists and Elizabeth May.
On Sunday, the Green Party of England and Wales adopted an anti-Zionist resolution. Echoing the 1975 UN General Assembly motion, the Greens’ motion labels Zionism “a form of racism”. It also calls for a “single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine” and to de-proscribe Palestine Action.
Zionists are panicking. The Israeli government immediately banned the (Jewish) leader of the Greens from entering the country and opposition leader Yair Lapid posted a long denunciation, concluding, “It is not Zionism that’s racism, it is the Green Party.”
Following in the footsteps of his beloved supremacist state, Liberal MP Anthony Hausefather posted, “the UK Greens have crossed the rubicon. Anti-Zionism (the complete denial of Israel’s right to exist) is antisemitism plain and simple. I am disgusted.”
Housefather is especially angry because he just convinced his government to explicitly label opposition to Jewish supremacist colonialism racism. A Public Safety Canada report released last week stated that antisemitism “includes anti-Zionism.”
More than any other Canadian political leader, the resolution should embarrass Elizabeth May. Instead of accepting members’ desire to challenge Jewish supremacist colonialism, May tanked the Green party in no small measure due to her philosemitism and Anglican Zionism.
In 2016 May threatened to resign as leader of the Greens if the party didn’t organize a special convention immediately after members strongly backed a partial Boycott Divestment and Sanctions resolution in a pre-convention online poll, convention caucus and full convention vote. In response she forced the party to spend over $100,000 to organize a special convention five months later in a bid to overturn a single resolution. As part of her stunningly undemocratic bid to reverse members’ BDS vote, May fired the sponsor of the resolution, Dmitri Lascaris, and two other shadow critics who defended the members vote.
While May expected the backers of the BDS resolution to give up in the face of her control of the party apparatus, Palestine supporters out organized May in the lead-up to the special convention. As such, May was forced into agreeing with a resolution that deepened the boycott call but withdrew the BDS formulation. But through her control of the party’s megaphone May spun a false narrative of the consensus resolution, claiming the party did not support BDS. In 2019 May told the Canadian Jewish News “We have nothing to do with BDS. We repealed it. We are not a party that condones BDS. We would never tolerate anybody in our party who violates our core values, who are anti-Semitic.”
On multiple occasions May has insinuated that pro-Palestinian members, notably Lascaris, were antisemitic and during the 2020 Green Party leadership race she smeared Lascaris. It was part of why Lascaris was barred from running (he ultimately overturned the ban). As she worked to undermine anti-apartheid voices, May threw her weight behind the little-known Annamie Paul, securing her victory in the leadership race. Deeply anti-Palestinian, Paul destroyed her leadership and severely damaged the Green Party by pushing racist positions during Israel’s 2021 slaughter in Gaza.
Amidst Israel’s holocaust in Gaza and violence across the region over the past three years, May has continued to make statements that prioritize Israeli victims and Jewish feelings over oppressed Palestinians.
Unlike the Canadian Greens which has one MP, 10 000 members and two percent in the polls, the UK party is in ascendance. They have five seats, 200,000 members and over 10% in the polls.
If May had heeded members will a decade ago, the Green party, progressive Canadians and Palestinians would be better off. Elizabeth May should be ashamed.
Sunday, 4 October 2026
LET IT FUCKING GO
There are some well meaning people who are quietly smug in their kkkanadian nationalism .
There is a lot of ugliness there , and a simple fucking apology seems worthless.
And it takes over 80 years to get that worthless apology .
New monument to Japanese Canadians reminder of dark period in B.C.’s past
The names of more than 22,000 people sent to internment camps during the Second World War are etched into the curving wall of panels.
Henry Shimizu was a carefree 13-year-old, working in his parents’ hotel and restaurant in Prince Rupert, fishing with friends and attending school, when his life was turned upside down.
It was 1942, and government agents arrived with orders that all people of Japanese descent had to leave.
Henry’s parents, Shotaro and Kimiko Shimizu, were told to pack up suitcases and gather their four children. They were loaded onto trucks for a long, miserable ride to Vancouver, where they stayed in animal stalls in Hastings Park.
They were issued woollen, numbered blankets, which they could use for either privacy or warmth in barns that reeked of cattle and horse dung.
The Shimizu family was later transferred to an internment camp at New Denver, in the Kootenays, where they spent four years living in shacks with another family — 12 people in total stacked in bunks in two bedrooms with a common cooking area. It was more than 1,600 kilometres from the home and life they had built on the coast.
The shiplap walls of the shacks in the internment camps were built with green slabs of wood, which separated the first winter, letting in cold wind and drifts of snow.
This week, Shimizu — a month shy of his 98th birthday — saw his name etched into one of 100 half-ton slabs of granite that form a 300-foot-long wall and ornate garden at the new Japanese Canadian Monument.
Dozens of survivors, their families and dignitaries gathered on Saturday to officially open the monument at Academy Close, between the north end of Beacon Hill Park and St. Ann’s Academy.
The curved pattern of stone slabs hugged an audience of hundreds as they gathered to honour the monument’s dedication.
Geri Onishi Kraus travelled to Victoria from London, Ont., to attend the ceremony, searching for her name and those of many of her family and friends.
Kraus was born in Hamilton after her parents were removed from the west coast of B.C. and said it wasn’t something they spoke about growing up.
“I didn’t know until my father was in his 80s.”
Etched into the curving wall of panels are names of more than 22,000 Japanese Canadians who were forcibly removed from the west coast and sent to internment camps during the Second World War.
More than 3,000 Japanese Canadians were moved off Vancouver Island, including more than 300 from the Victoria area and 79 from Mayne Island.
Each name is listed by the region where they were torn from their homes, their possessions and properties confiscated and later sold in weekly auctions by the provincial government. Homes, businesses, farms, boats, household items — even pets — were sold off.
Properties were sold for cash at a fraction of their value, and the Japanese Canadians were forced to accept it, some taking the money with them to camps and using it to survive and to eventually start over.
Paul Kariya, president of Japanese Canadian Legacies Society, said at the ceremony that while the memorial can’t bring back homes, fishing boats and businesses, the stone etchings mean “the names of those uprooted will endure.”
More than 90% of Japanese Canadians living in B.C. were detained under the War Measures Act, even though most were Canadian citizens, including members of Shimizu’s family.
“They assumed we were enemies, but we were born in Canada,” said Shimizu, whose father had come to Canada in 1907, working hard to save enough to open a hotel and buy rental houses with a partner.
“They ignored that. They said, ‘You are from Japan.’ ”
Eventually, he said, “the government did feel a little guilty because they realized that most of us were born in Canada and they were putting us in jail with no wrongdoing. I think they realized they had done us a lot of harm and wanted to do something for us that’s positive.”
The monument project is part of a $100-million redress package announced by then B.C. Premier John Horgan in 2022 in recognition of wrongs committed by the province against Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The money was earmarked to support heritage and education initiatives, and the monument in a Japanese-inspired garden is the centrepiece.
The process of researching and collecting the names inscribed on the memorial walls spanned more than seven years and was done by the University of Victoria’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre in partnership with the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society.
Thousands were forcibly removed from a 160-kilometre exclusion zone from the coast and sent to hastily built camps at former mining sites and farms in the B.C. Interior. Others were sent to road-building camps or to sugar beet farms in Alberta, as well as camps in Ontario and Manitoba. About 4,000 were exiled to Japan, a country many had never even known.
The camps in B.C. were around places like Greenwood, Kaslo, East Lillooet, Hope and in the Slocan Valley, where one of the largest was near New Denver, with hundreds of shacks built in open farm fields.
In 1949, Japanese Canadians were permitted to return to the west coast, but they were still subjected to racist policies and treatment for years, and many communities never recovered.
After their internment, the Shimizu family moved to Edmonton, where Henry worked weekends as an “elevator boy” in a hospital, living in the basement with other orderlies and maintenance staff.
He kept his memories of internment to himself for many years, determined to continue working hard to improve his life without remorse or anger, and studied hard for a career in medicine.
He eventually enjoyed a long career as a plastic surgeon and clinical professor at the University of Alberta Hospital, training new generations of medical practitioners.
Shimizu’s daughter Yoshiko Shimizu, the youngest of his four children, said the new memorial will go a long way toward educating Canadians about what happened to her family. “When I was in high school, only Japanese descendants knew internment camps ever happened,” she said. “It was the secret shame in Canada that nobody would talk about. But it’s changing now.”
Another section of the monument has the names of 3,113 children born to families after the uprooting began and before the restrictions were lifted on March 31, 1949.
Among them is Tony Ibaraki. His father lived in Kelowna and owned property and wasn’t sent to the camps, but his mother was moved from the coast to Hasting Park and then to a camp in Greenwood in south-central B.C.
In 1945, Ibaraki’s father was given paperwork to pick up his bride-to-be.
“They didn’t talk about any of this until after 1949,” said Ibaraki. “They didn’t want to identify themselves as Japanese for a long time. It was hard.
“But I think a lot of people who were interned would be in seventh heaven to see this.”
The monument was both a challenge and inspiration for Hamilton, Ont.-based architect Bruce Kuwabara, whose parents and relatives were forced inland from the coast.
The idea was to create a naming wall similar to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., but in a more accessible form, as opposed to a long continuous wall.
“We made panels that were the size of a door. It scaled well to the individual standing in front of it. We wanted an intimate monumentality,” said Kuwabara, who expects the wall to become a pilgrimage site. “People will come to the wall, see the name and touch it.”
The 100 granite panels are placed in a wave pattern, depicting the 100-mile or 160-kilometre exclusion zone, he said.
None of the panels touch — they’re separated with uniform spaces that allow the panels to “curve” over the distance and let light and air through.
“I’m paraphrasing Leonard Cohen, who said there’s a crack in everything — that’s how the light gets through. It represents rupture and struggle. The air and the light gets through to represent healing,” said Kuwabara. “This wall breathes.”
Kuwabara’s parents were also sent to Hastings Park animal pens and later moved to Sandon, near New Denver, where his mother raised the children while his father and some of his brothers were sent off to work camps clearing forest and building parts of the Trans-Canada Highway.
When the war ended in 1945, the federal government offered interned people the choice of deportation or relocation east of the Rocky Mountains.
Kuwabara said the federal government offered some $3,000 to go to Japan, but many had never been to the country. “So a lot started to migrate because they never had anything to go back to,” said Kuwabara, noting strong communities were formed in Steveston, Vancouver and Victoria, though many, like his family, settled in Ontario.
Deportation was later cancelled due to public protest, but not before about 4,000 people were sent to Japan. On April 1, 1949, Japanese Canadians were given the right to vote, and the legal restrictions to control their movements were removed.
The episode is now acknowledged as one of the worst human rights violations in B.C.’s history.
In 1988, the federal government formally apologized and offered compensation to Japanese Canadian survivors and their families.
Architect Jack Kobayashi of Whitehorse-based Kobayashi Zedda worked with Susanne Tabata, chief executive of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society, on the first pre-design of the monument, which formed the scope and scale of the project. The province then selected Toronto-based architecture firm KPMB, led by founding partner Bruce Kuwabara, who worked with Vancouver-based landscape architect Kelty Miyoshi McKinnon of PFS Studio. Chandos Construction is the general contractor.
Quebec-based Premier Jet engraved the walls. Interpretive boulders, including a dedication by the Songhees First Nation, were engraved by Victoria’s Mortimer’s Monumental Works.
At the ceremony, architect Kuwabara said the curved design for the monument was chosen by community members because of how it emulates a ripple of water. “In that, was a metaphor of change,” he said. The ripple creates three smaller bays for reflection, and each slab resembles a large door.
For Kuwabara, the design was rooted in a strong personal connection. “My entire family on both sides are on the wall,” he said.
dkloster@timescolonist.com
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