The waves of mobilization underway are incredible! This is American based. Just a small sampling. Most of them are new to me. I have particular interest in Reset The Net (you’ll see it below) because it’s related to the Edward Snowden leaks and thereby to Lockheed Martin’s participation in Statistics Canada. Excerpts from http://www.nationofchange.org/waves-nationwide-actions-planned-key-historic-moment-1396532177 Tim DeChristopher, […]
In follow-up to: 2014-03-24 Snowden, Vancouver, TED Talks From Popular Resistance, DAILY MOVEMENT NEWS Reset the Net, seeks to restore privacy to the Internet by our own actions rather than waiting for the government, which seems to put the security state ahead of our privacy. People are taking action now to push Internet providers […]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/marc-nadon-appointment-rejected-by-supreme-court-1.2581388 Marc Nadon cannot take his seat on the Supreme Court of Canada, the court’s justices said Friday, in an unprecedented move that blocks Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s latest appointment to the top court. In a six-to-one decision, a majority of justices on the top court ruled that Nadon doesn’t qualify to join them […]
Edward Snowden made a surprise visit on TED Talks March 18th in Vancouver. More than 100,000 people are watching the video every day. http://on.ted.com/j07uc Just watch the video, if you haven’t already. If you have time for more, read on. But not at the expense of watching the video! Cheers! Sandra = […]
From: Pascal V. – Avaaz.org Sent: January-29-14 1:07 PM Subject: Internet Apocalypse? Dear friends, The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the right to control what we […]
I was asked for my thoughts on today’s news report (appended): Janet Churnin was found guilty of not filling in the 2011 Census form. Note that the CP coverage does not even MENTION the leaks by Edward Snowden. Small wonder that Europeans know about the NSA surveillance of them, but Canadians don’t. MY REPLY: (edited July 2014, […]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/02/edward-snowden-un-investigation-surveillance?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 Nick Hopkins and Matthew Taylor UN’s senior counter-terrorism official says revelations ‘are at the very apex of public interest concerns’ Ben Emmerson: ‘The Guardian has revealed an extensive programme of surveillance which potentially affects every one of us.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The UN’s senior counter-terrorism official is to launch an investigation […]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/26/nsa-surveillance-europe-threatens-freeze-us-data-sharing?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 After Edward Snowden revelations, EU executive underlines US compliance with European law and ‘how things have gone badly’ Ian Traynor in Brussels European Union justice and rights commissioner Viviane Reding is negotiating with the US on the fallout from the NSA scandal. Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP/Getty The EU executive is threatening to freeze crucial data-sharing […]
There are trade deals to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific! Pacific: Canada and the U.S. are in the same trade deal, the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) – – news of leaked text is below. Atlantic: see 2013-11-09 Contrast: Transatlantic Trade Deals (CETA & TTIP) vs “We Are Living in the World Occupy Made” Leaked Asia trade […]
With most people, unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another. –Lichtenberg Unbelief in Islam, Blind belief in ourselves. A police state WILL come to be, as it did in Nazi Germany, if we are unable to deal with the complexity of putting our collective ego aside. If we are blinded by […]