Wow. All these secret deals being made with the United States and the CopyRight Mafiaa. Turning Canada into nothing more than the 51st State of the United States Union.
Our Constitutional Rights are supposed to protect us, the people, from being treated a criminals, but we are so totally screwed by ignorant governments who do not care for 'free thinkers' and people who are so damn pissed off about how innocent people are being treated as prisoners in a medium security prison(maximum security prison if you use an airport).
Oh looky. The United States will call us(yet again) a safe harbor for terrorists, in order for the U.S.'s servants(Canadian government and police) to do the U.S.'s bidding over and over again and again.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5986/135/
New Wikileaks Docs Show Ex-Minister Bernier Offered To Leak Copyright Bill to U.S.
Saturday September 03, 2011
Copyright, U.S. lobbying, and the stunning backroom Canadian response gets front page news treatment today as the Toronto Star runs my story on new revelations on copyright from the U.S. cables released by Wikileaks. The cables reveal that former Industry Minister Maxime Bernier raised the possibility of leaking the copyright bill to U.S. officials before it was to be tabled it in the House of Commons, former Industry Minister Tony Clement’s director of policy Zoe Addington encouraged the U.S. to pressure Canada by elevating it on a piracy watch list, Privy Council Office official Ailish Johnson disclosed the content of ministerial mandate letters, and former RCMP national coordinator for intellectual property crime Andris Zarins advised the U.S. that the government was working on a separate intellectual property enforcement bill.
The disclosures are particularly relevant since Parliament is set to resume in several weeks with the reintroduction of a copyright reform bill slated to be one of the government’s top priorities. The bill is expected to mirror Bill C-32, the previous copyright package that died with the election in the spring.
WiKiLeaks. One of the most hated publications according to Fascist governments and other Tyrants and dictators who ignore the peoples wishes in order to profit over 100% surveillance of innocent people in the name of the 'all mighty dollar'..
http://wikileaks.ch/
"Could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act."
Too bad the freedom of information act's released documents, is getting to have way too many blanked out portions to protect the Corporations that rule the peasants of the land. Or in some cases, the government is refusing to release details.
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And yet again, we are all criminals, according to the totalitarian governments who refuse to respect and enforce the Constitutions of their home countries(including Canada).
Some highlights in regards to Canada and their omnibus bill at turning all innocent peoples into automatic suspects in regards to non-existent crimes. All Internet data will be logged for a rolling two years worth of storage, in order to collect information on users should the government need it for whatever reason(and apparently without any warrants needed to identify users, which removes judicial oversight over the Fascists called government and Fascists called police forces).
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/cybercrime-treaty-pushes-surveillance-secrecy-worldwide
August 25th, 2011
Dangerous Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance and Secrecy Worldwide
As part of an emerging international trend to try to ‘civilize the Internet’, one of the world’s worst Internet law treaties--the highly controversial Council of Europe (CoE) Convention on Cybercrime--is back on the agenda. Canada and Australia are using the Treaty to introduce new invasive, online surveillance laws, many of which go far beyond the Convention’s intended levels of intrusiveness. Negotiated over a decade ago, only 31 of its 47 signatories have ratified it. Many considered the Treaty to be dormant but in recent years a number of countries have been modeling national laws based on the flawed Treaty. Moreover, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom are amongst those who have ratified within the last year. However, among non-European countries, only the U.S. has ratified the Treaty to date, making Canada and Australia’s efforts unique. The Treaty has not been harmless, and both Australia and Canada are fast-tracking legislation (Australia's lower house approved a cybercrime bill last night) that will enable them to ratify the Treaty, at great cost to the civil liberties of their citizens.
Leaving out constitutional safeguards...............
..............Bills proposed in Canada (read here and here) are also affected by the Convention’s flaws as they adopt the lowest possible standard of protection against many of the invasive powers they grant. The bills provide law enforcement access to sensitive data on the mere suspicion it might be useful to an investigation. Indeed, at times they leave out the safeguards altogether, as noted in a letter from Canadian privacy scholars and civil society organizations:
[the legislation] will give state agents the power to access ...highly sensitive personal information, even where there is no reason to suspect it will assist in the investigation of any offense...What [this] facilitates, simply put, are unjustified and seemingly limitless fishing expeditions for private information of innocent and non‐suspicious Canadians.
Gag orders in place of oversight: Cultivating a culture of secrecy
In the U.S. and in Canada, for example, there have been cases where preservation powers have been misused to proactively compel service providers to retain data such as email or text messages that are not yet in their possession or control. Proactive preservation force service providers to record data they would never have otherwise retained, effectively bypassing legal protections in place for real-time electronic interceptions......
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Apple employee, loses another Prototype cell phone(iphone5) and then sends their private police force of San-Francisco to attempt to retrieve it in what could be called ILLEGAL. Well Apple did not file any stolen phone complaint/charges and the people at the suspects home(identified by GPS of the missing phone?) were 4 police officers(without warrants) and two "Apple thugs", err," Apple private security members". No warrants and the resident were threatened with being deported for their brown color(Mexican heritage) in order to put the fear of "the corporation" into their souls.
Always remember if the police(or goon squad) shows up at your residence or business or vehicle or on the street, to always demand a warrant before allowing them to search your possessions. And you can refuse to let non-police personal from entering, according to privacy laws(remember that old show "to serve and protect" from BC, which someone denied access to the cameras resulting in cancellation of the show?). But you will still be threatened for denying entry to the non-police.
excerpts.
http://www.baycitizen.org/technology/story/sf-police-helped-apple-track-down-next/
Four San Francisco police officers aided two private Apple investigators in tracking down a missing iPhone prototype last month, San Francisco Police said Friday.
Sergio Calderon, 22, told the SF Weekly that six officers with badges showed up at his house to search for the missing phone and even threatened his family with deportation, though they are all citizens. "One of the officers is like, 'Is everyone in this house an American citizen?' They said we were all going to get into trouble.'"
“The two Apple employees met with the resident and then went into the house to look for the lost item,” Dangerfield said. “The Apple employees did not find the lost item and left the house.”
Isn't it lovely when corporations order the police around like a private police force...
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Federal court in the U.S. says you can record the police... But the police will still threaten you and try to destroy your camera anyways.
http://gizmodo.com/5835723/federal-court-says-you-can-record-the-cops
"[I]s there a constitutionally protected right to videotape police carrying out their duties in public? Basic First Amendment principles, along with case law from this and other circuits, answer that question unambiguously in the affirmative."
"Glik filmed the defendant police officers in the Boston Common, the oldest city park in the United States and the apotheosis of a public forum. In such traditional public spaces, the rights of the state to limit the exercise of First Amendment activity are 'sharply circumscribed.'"
"[A] citizen's right to film government officials, including law enforcement officers, in the discharge of their duties in a public space is a basic, vital, and well-established liberty safeguarded by the First Amendment."
"Gathering information about government officials in a form that can readily be disseminated to others serves a cardinal First Amendment interest in protecting and promoting 'the free discussion of governmental affairs.'"
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Pakistan bans 'encryption' on their Internet to more easily record everything that their people do online. Is it coming to Canada as well? And the hackers will love it, as it probably bans encrypted connections to your bank accounts and other 'secure online transactions'. But we are all criminals, aren't we.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110830/02133315734/pakistan-officially-bans-all-encryption-online.shtml
that the Pakistani government has issued orders to all ISPs in the country, telling them to block any user from using any "technology that would allow them to privately browse the internet."
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Interesting details on how Israel is living the good life on the United States money, while people in the U.S. are on food stamps and sleeping in the streets. And some of Israels neighbors are being treated, as if in a torturous prison. Countries like Greece sure would love that U.S. money for their own spoiled brats who refuse to cut some costs to balance out the incoming taxes in proportion to the outgoing Socialism programs.
http://original.antiwar.com/alison-weir/2011/08/31/american-taxpayers-subsidize-israels-prosperity/
Israel’s Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel “The New Golden Country” for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts an ever-increasing GDP, a strong currency, and “a lower unemployment rate than the U.S.”
The article fails to mention the well over $3 billion a year that American taxpayers have given Israel for years, nor the fact that some of this money has been used to develop industries that compete with U.S. companies, costing thousands of American jobs and adding to the American unemployment rate.
The story also omits the fact that Israel has periodically stolen U.S. technology, hurting the U.S. economy still more, and fails to note that support for Israel has cost Americans in the range of $3-$6 trillion and that these costs continue to escalate.
The article reports that many young Jewish American singles “are realizing that their future is in Israel. Since 2002, over 7,000 students and young professionals have made aliyah from North America and the UK … bringing with them their skills.”
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This world sure is a Prison Planet, where corporations are the owners and your own governments are the wardens.
