Mythbusting the mythbusting: Our response to Vic Toews' email to Canadians. This blog entry was written with notes, files, advice, and care from Vincent Gogolek of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association. Thanks Vince. The government is on the defence. Fresh from being outed on CBC radio as unfamiliar with his own bill, asked to resign in the National Post, and generally berated via social media, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has been emailing those who signed the Stop Online Spying petition with the same washed up talking points that have been debunked again and again. We’ve decided to go point-by-point through his misleading ‘myth-busting’, and make sure it’s clear how ridiculous this bill—not to mention the force attempting to pass it—truly is. If you're upset by Toews' unwillingness to listen to Canadians, consider submitting a letter to your local paper. Here is Toews’ message (formatting not preserved): Thank you for contacting my office regarding Bill C-30, the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act.
Sincerely, Stop Sea Turtle Farming - WSPA International. Music, Copyright, & YouTube | HypeGenius. By Lynsey Posted on August 22, 2010 YouTube has been under fire recently for allowing uploads of videos that utilize unauthorized music. How easy is it to find a young teen singing into a hair-brush, performing a cover of some popular piece in his/her bedroom? Right – very very easy. I came across this article and decided to share just a little bit of this insight. Users are supposed to get permission from the copyright holder before uploading their videos, but we all know there are a great deal of users out there who do not go that route either because they don’t know any better because they ignored the YouTube instructions, they don’t know how to go about doing so, or they simply think it doesn’t matter.
Additionally, YouTube provides the necessary incentive for most rights holders to agree to let their property be used. Of course there are arguments on either side of the spectrum and perhaps I’m just easily impressed by this information. Tags: copyright, legal, music, uploads, YouTube. How Microsoft Lost Its Mojo: Steve Ballmer and Corporate America’s Most Spectacular Decline | Business. To the saccharine rhythm of a Muzak clip, Steve Ballmer crouched into a tackling stance and dashed across a ballroom stage at the Venetian Las Vegas. A 20-foot wall of video screens flashed his name as the 55-year-old Microsoft chief executive bear-hugged Ryan Seacrest, the ubiquitous television and radio host, who had just introduced Ballmer’s keynote speech for the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 techies and executives were swarming the city’s hotels last January in the annual bacchanalia of cutting-edge gizmos and gadgets.
Attendees ran from one vendor to the next, snapping up fistfuls of freebies, inhaling flavored oxygen, and rubbing elbows with stars such as LL Cool J and Justin Bieber. But this night, an air of discomfort filled the Palazzo Ballroom, where Ballmer was about to give the show’s opening presentation, one delivered by Microsoft’s C.E.O. for 14 of the previous 17 years—the first 11 by Bill Gates and the rest by Ballmer. No, really. 07-29 Canadian government determined to send Abdullah Khadr to the US. In a completely predictable move, the Canadian government has appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada to fight their earlier two losses in a bid to extradite Abdullah Khadr to the US.
Abdullah Khadr was captured and tortured by Pakistani forces who were paid $500,000 by the US for their efforts. He was held for fourteen months in a Pakistan prison without charges, and arrested again within a week of his return to Canada. He was then held without bail, pending extradition to the US, from December 2005 until his release last August 2010. In response to the application brought by Khadr's lawyer Dennis Edney , arguing that the US government's evidence against Khadr was inadmissible because it relied on information gathered under torture in Pakistan, the Ontario Superior Court's presiding judge called his treatment "both shocking and unjustifiable.
" Canada's government predictably appealed and in May, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the verdict unanimously . Man Used a Loophole in the Law to Pay 16 Bucks for a $330,000 House. Fed passes China to become largest U.S. creditor. The Truth About The Economy In 2 Minutes. Exposure Of Information v. Exposure To Information - Ombudsman. By Mark J. PrendergastPublished: June 17, 2011 The government’s recent declassification of the Vietnam-era Pentagon Papers corrects a 40-year mistake. But the motive may have had more to do with defending a current wrong than righting an old one. Several months ago, the White House directed federal agencies to warn employees and contractors that viewing classified documents made public via WikiLeaks violated “applicable laws and…policies.”
After it was pointed out that this notice could be equally applied to the Pentagon Papers – long available on public bookshelves and a staple of modern history courses despite their continued “secret” status – the government announced that they would be declassified. (Most Americans probably didn’t even realize the Pentagon Papers still were officially secret. There is a certain irony in the government’s choice of June 13 for the anti-climactic release of the “official” version of the nation’s best-known secret documents. PROOF! PUBLIC LAW 105-85, bio warfare or population reduction funded by the Dept. of Defense Save the Wolves. The Rockefeller Plan - "Tricky" Dick Nixon and Trickier Rockefellers.
Richard Nixon took office at a time of national crisis. Along with the Vietnam morass, the economy was in trouble after the "golden age of capitalism" peaked in 1965 and corporate profits were declining. The globalization phenomenon began at this time when American companies and the nation's wealthiest families found investing abroad more profitable than at home because more opportunities were available outside the country. Food was one of them and was about to be renamed "agribusiness. " Engdahl called it "a paradigm shift" with one man having the most decisive role - former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller "who deeply wanted to be President" but had to settle for number two under Gerald Ford. He and his brothers ran the family's Rockefeller Foundation and various other tax-exempt entities like the Rockefeller Brothers Trust.
Nelson and David were the most influential figures, and their power center was the exclusive New York Council on Foreign Relations. Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com - Bombs, tear gas during Greek protests. The simple image sharer. Investigation into prof's call for Assange's assassination dropped. NEW FOOTAGE Norway Spiral Swirl Is A Black Hole Planet X Nibiru The Destroyer Is Close.flv US Soldiers Tell The Truth THEY PLANTED WEAPONS & Killed innocent people! Love Is Energy -- Pay It Forward Bitly | Basic | a simple URL shortener. Lexington attorney sues Clay Co. officials over strip search at jail | Madison County. Jail employees in Clay County strip-searched a Fayette County woman without justification and made racial slurs after she was arrested at a public pool with a biracial child, the woman has charged in a federal lawsuit.
One female guard subjected Jennifer C. Philpot to a rough, painful rectal and vaginal cavity search even though there was no cause to suspect she was hiding contraband, the lawsuit said. When the first guard found nothing, a second female officer said, "Well I think we better check this n----- lover one more time just to be sure," then roughly searched her again, Philpot swore in the complaint. Attorneys representing Philpot filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court in London. The defendants are Jailer Kenny Price and the two guards, whose names were not known; former Judge-Executive Carl "Crawdad" Sizemore and six current or former magistrates; and a former police chief and two officers. Price was not available for comment Tuesday.
Ireland Says Not In This Country: Bans Genetically Modified Crops. Ireland has taken the bold step of banning the cultivation of all GM crops. Photo by ellievanhoutte via Flickr.Prince Charles has called it the "biggest environmental disaster of all time," while Monsanto and others maintain it's safe for humans and the environment. Genetically modified foods are a contentious issue, but Ireland is erring on the side of caution, placing a ban on growing any genetically modified crops.Ireland will ban growing of GM crops, and a voluntary GM-free label can be placed on all animal products--such as meat, poultry, eggs, fish, crustaceans, and dairy--that are raised with GM-free feed, according to a GM-Free Ireland press release.
Ireland joins Japan and Egypt as one of the few but growing number of countries that have banned the cultivation of GM crops. Smart Move for Irish FarmersThe agreement, signed by the government's two coalition partners, declares Ireland a "GM-free Zone. " It wouldn't be the first time Monsanto took on a nation. The Federal Reserve: History of Lies, Thievery, and Deceit. Two Senators Accuse Justice Dept. of Misinterpreting Patriot Act. How To Recover Lost Files In Dropbox. But what happens if you accidentally delete a file? Will it be gone forever once the changes are synced to Dropbox? Yes, the file will disappear from your Dropbox folder. However, it won’t be entirely gone just yet. So is there a way to recover lost files from Dropbox after it was deleted? What Dropbox does behind the scenes is to keep a record of every saved change in your Dropbox folder for 30 days. Recovering Files Online The way it works is straightforward. Clicking this button will reveal all files that were deleted during the past 30 days.
When you hover over any other file and click the arrow, you can also access a list of previous versions, through which you can preview and restore any of the backed up versions. Recovering Files From Dropbox Installation On Windows Likewise, you can open the above list of previous file versions via the Dropbox folder on your computer. Generally, the restore feature only works if the files you’re working on were uploaded to the Dropbox server. BC to Pay for Anti-Smoking Drug that France Finds too Risky. French government strikes controversial varenicline off its list as Premier Clark puts it on PharmaCare's. Better ways to snuff a habit? Varenicline is an anti-depressant with a serious safety warning.
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark recently came through on a leadership campaign promise to have the government pay for prescription drugs and other products to help people quit smoking. While reducing tobacco use, which causes cancer, is good public policy, some of the drugs the province will now be funding are controversial. France last week said it would stop paying for varenicline because of the questions around it, a fact Health Minister Mike de Jong said he hadn't yet heard when The Tyee asked him about the decision. "Every year tobacco-related deaths rob us needlessly of friends, family and loved ones," said Premier Christy Clark making the May 9 announcement. Safety warnings The U.S. Risk of self-harm, suicide France quits paying for drug Asked about the French decision, B.C.' Higher Carbon Dioxide, Lack of Nitrogen Limit Plant Growth.
Press Release 06-062 Higher Carbon Dioxide, Lack of Nitrogen Limit Plant Growth Stunted plants may not soak up excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere April 12, 2006 Earth's plant life will not be able to "store" excess carbon from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as well as scientists once thought because plants likely cannot get enough nutrients, such as nitrogen, when there are higher levels of carbon dioxide, according to scientists publishing in this week's issue of the journal Nature. That, in turn, is likely to dampen the ability of plants to offset increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide. "We found that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels may rise even faster than anticipated, because ecosystems likely will not store as much carbon as had been predicted," said Peter Reich of the University of Minnesota, lead author of the study, which was conducted at the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Minn.
Week of Rage: Protests Spreading Worldwide Sucking carbon dioxide from air too costly, say physicists. Mopping carbon dioxide directly from the sky costs too much be an economically viable way to mitigate global warming, a two-year study by 13 physicists has found (press release). One method, using reactive chemicals, would cost at least $600 to remove each tonne of CO2 from the air – around eight times more pricey than capturing the gas from the industrial flue stacks of power plants, the report [pdf] concludes. The study – published by the American Physical Society on 9 May – doesn’t put a figure on the costs of innovative technologies from researchers and private companies who claim to be able to capture CO2 from air more cheaply. “They proved that one specific way to capture carbon dioxide from air is expensive,” says Klaus Lackner, at Columbia University in New York, who has developed one of the new technologies. But that, he says, does not mean other methods are not worth pursuing.
“If you study penguins, you might jump to the conclusion that birds can’t fly.” Torrentfreak. In what appears to be a memo sent to ISPs by the regulator of Internet industries in Malaysia, all service providers have been ordered to completely block various file-sharing sites including The Pirate Bay, MegaVideo and other hosting services.
The move follows an April statement by the country's Prime Minister in which he promised his administration would never censor the Internet. The regulation of the communications and multimedia industry in Malaysia is handled by SKMM – the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. Under a 1998 Act of the same name, the Commission is empowered to carry out a range of functions, several of which are law-related. According to SKMM’s website, the Commission has the power to “implement and enforce the provisions of the communications and multimedia law”, “regulate all matters relating to communications and multimedia activities not provided for in the communications and multimedia law” and to recommend reforms to existing law.
Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It. Collier County, Florida -- Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank? Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank. Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff's deputies foreclose on the bank.
It started five months ago when Bank of America filed foreclosure papers on the home of a couple, who didn't owe a dime on their home. The couple said they paid cash for the house. The case went to court and the homeowners were able to prove they didn't owe Bank of America anything on the house. In fact, it was proven that the couple never even had a mortgage bill to pay. A Collier County Judge agreed and after the hearing, Bank of America was ordered, by the court to pay the legal fees of the homeowners', Maurenn Nyergers and her husband. The Judge said the bank wrongfully tried to foreclose on the Nyergers' house. So, how did it end with bank being foreclosed on? CBS News / WINK. » Bill Gates pushes for 90 percent vaccination rate worldwide Alex Jones. Jonathan BensonNatural News May 22, 2011 The infamous Bill Gates is on a crusade to vaccinate the entire world.
In a recent speech, the Microsoft guru-turned-humanitarian put pressure on the governments of the world to “prevent four million deaths by 2015, [and] … ten million deaths” by 2020. He believes this will happen by vaccinating at least 90 percent of the world’s population. Gates has been an outspoken proponent of vaccinations for years. His organization, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is constantly promoting vaccines anywhere and everywhere it can. The group’s website, in fact, says one of its goals is to vaccinate every single child on the planet, claiming that vaccines are “one of the most effective health interventions ever developed” ( Among his many speeches, however, Gates has given conflicting information concerning the agenda behind his vaccination push. So which is it? Sources for this story include: Print this page.
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