statism watch

Sounds as though Mr. Prentice is going to go ahead with another campaign to plagiarize more American legislation. (This hammer has been held over our heads as regards their copyright law as well.) No mention here, however, of whether Canadian citizens would be subject to the same sort of probing, taxing, tracking cadres of ‘green’ inspectors provided for in the fine print of the 1200 page American bill.

Flashback: US Congress Passes the 1,200-page Climate Bill that it was not allowed to read | Climate Cops To Fine “Wasteful” Homeowners & Businesses | Obama targets US public with call for climate action | Obama to stake reputation on fast-tracked climate bill | Ontario unveils cap-and-trade legislation | NRTEE Carbon Market Panel is ‘Round Table on Socialist Planning’ | Climate panel presses for federal cap-and-trade system | U.N. ‘Climate Change’ Plan Would Likely Shift Trillions to Form New World Economy | U.N. Environment Head Wants Global Warming Tax | Time to emulate Roosevelt’s New Deal and create green jobs | Ontario joins continental WCI cap-and-trade scheme | B.C. carbon tax kicks in on Canada Day | They call it cap and trade, but it’s just another fuel tax | Quebec, Ontario sign historic climate pact | Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’, say MPs | CEOs call for ‘aggressive’ action on climate change

Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail
July 1, 2009

Environment Minister Jim Prentice says regulations must be ‘comparable’ to avoid punitive tariffs on oil sands and other big greenhouse-gas emitters

Canada will adopt climate-change regulations comparable to those of the United States – including new rules for oil sands producers and refiners – to avoid punitive “green” tariffs, Environment Minister Jim Prentice says.

In an interview Tuesday, Mr. Prentice said it is too early to predict whether the bill that narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives last Friday will be adopted in its current form by the Senate, where it faces a rougher ride.

But he said Canada will bring in regulations to match new U.S. laws governing greenhouse-gas emissions – and vowed to be as tough on Canadian industry as the U.S. government is on its big emitters.

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The Israelis are not only America’s supposedly ‘democratic’ allies in the middle east, but they have a highly militarized, high-tech economy and a convenient pool of subjects on which to polish their weapons systems and police state techniques. They’re the paragon of a modern police state. And Canada is gearing up as well, militarizing the police forces under the pretext of Olympic security. This is an international leviathan we’re dealing with here.

Flashback: Cynthia McKinney Demands Immediate Release After Her Gaza-Bound Boat is Seized by Israeli Navy | British Army to Police Medicine Hat During Urban Warfare Drills | Israeli troops kill apartheid wall protester | Afghan front lines take mental toll on military and RCMP | Urban warfare drills coming to Medicine Hat | Military may patrol bar zone in Barrie | Military readies reservists for threats to ‘domestic front’ | Military and police practice integration during Olympic security exercises | US Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage | Protests over Israel’s Gaza offensive held in Canadian, world cities | Troops in the Streets: Army Brigades Standing By to Assist in Disasters, Help Quell Dissent | US Homeland Security Keen on ‘Novel’ Israeli Airport Security Technology | Israel startup uses behavioral science to identify terrorists | Canada, U.S. agree to use each other’s troops in civil emergencies | Ontario Police Chiefs travel to Israel to study police tactics

Kurt Nimmo, PrisonPlanet.com
July 1, 2009

A press release buried on the FEMA website, dated June 30, 2009, announces a meeting between FEMA administrator Craig Fugate and Maj. Gen. Yair Golan of the Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command. “I look forward to working with my Israeli counterpart as co-chair of an emergency management work group to improve emergency management practices in both countries,” said Fugate. “These partnerships are critical in ensuring that we are incorporating best practices and also working towards greater public preparedness.”

The Israeli National Emergency Management Authority and FEMA partnership was established under “an emergency management work stream workgroup established under a 2007 Memorandum of Understanding with DHS,” according to the press release. FEMA representatives attended the national preparedness exercise Turning Point 3 in Israel on June 1, 2009, and Israel sent observers to the TOPOFF 4 national exercise in the United States, as well as personnel to participate in FEMA emergency management training.

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This is pretty rich coming from the company behind Fox News. (So sorry that the message has been taken out of your hands – can we get you a tissue?) Recently, Murdoch’s media empire has begun staking out territory in the online domain as well with their acquisitions of MySpace and YouTube, and apparently now he’s decided to step into the fray as an opinion maker, leading the charge against alternative media and the ‘blogosphere’. We’ll likely be hearing that all bloggers are white supremacists or some similar rubbish before too long, and Joe Six Pack will probably believe it, too. So heads up.

Flashback: Should linking be illegal? | Fredericton police arrest well-known N.B. blogger on legislature grounds | Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens | Italian Judge: Blogs are Illegal | Human rights body to consider Internet speech regulation | Blogger arrests hit record high

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
July 1, 2009

A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma.

In a speech to the National Press Club, Hartigan savagely dismissed blogs as, “Something of such little intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.”

“Bloggers don’t go to jail for their work. They simply aren’t held accountable like real reporters….It could be said the blogosphere is all eyeballs and no insights,” barked Hartigan.

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Sure, why not? It’s only the entire purpose and modus operandi of the Internet. But this will sure teach those plebes a thing or two that think they have a right to actually express an opinion on the news. That should be left to the experts. You should shut up and sit down.

Flashback: Fredericton police arrest well-known N.B. blogger on legislature grounds | Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens | Italian Judge: Blogs are Illegal | Human rights body to consider Internet speech regulation | Blogger arrests hit record high

Dan Kennedy, The Guardian
July 1, 2009

In a misguided attempt to aid newspapers, one of America’s most influential judges is suggesting a new copyright law

We don’t believe you, Rwanda.

Flashback: GAVI foundation’s malaria vaccine trial encounters opposition from wary Kenyans | HIV positive women in Africa sterilized, stigmatized | Pfizer to be called on carpet in Nigeria for experimenting on children | Vaccine-linked polio hits Nigeria | Polio Warning Issued for Travel to Nigeria | The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics | Alberta Barren: The Mannings and forced sterilization in Canada

BBC News
July 1, 2009

Rwanda has strongly denied reports that its parliament is considering a draft law which would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled.

Damascene Ntawukuriryayo, deputy speaker of parliament, was responding to a call by US-based activists Human Rights Watch to scrap the proposed law.

He also told the BBC that plans for HIV testing before couples get married are strictly voluntary, not compulsory.

Mr Ntawukuriryayo said the lobby group should check before releasing reports.

He said he had never seen a bill or provision which proposed forcible sterilisation.

Earlier, HRW’s Joe Amon had said: “Provisions in the current bill that increase stigma, rely on coercion and deny… reproductive rights should be removed.”

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Hopefully this fares better than the Merck offering, which “was shut down after those receiving the vaccine contracted HIV at a higher rate than those who received the placebo.” No information was found on the web about CuraCom.

CBC News
July 1, 2009

An HIV/AIDS vaccine developed in Canada has passed safety tests in animals and the researchers are awaiting approval to begin human trials in the U.S.

“It is a very important milestone for us,” said Yong Kang, a professor of microbiology at the University of Western Ontario in London who has been working on the vaccine for 20 years.

Kang said he expects to get the go-ahead soon from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin human toxicology tests and two phases of clinical trials in the United States.

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Happy Canada Day, people. Enjoy, celebrate, and help protect the sovereignty and freedom that we do still have – never lose hope.

By Laurie Schell- Muskoka, NAUResistance.org (via ViveLeCanada.ca)
July 1, 2009

As Canada Day fast approaches I feel a sense of pride and sadness. I am a proud Canadian who loves her homeland and all that it has represented over the years, but those days are disappearing with nary a look back by most. As I think more and more about what Canada is, I come face to face with what it’s not. Canada is no longer a nation making its way in the world for its citizens or posterity. We are no longer the nation of peacekeepers. We are no longer in control of our destiny.

1994 was the year that brought continental governance. It was the time Canada entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA brings us an integrated North American market, yet without the corresponding formal governance for the continent similar to that of the European Union. As with the EU, our leaders make these agreements in small incremental steps, though in North America they bring integration in stealth behind closed doors with no input from the people. By contrast, the EU started with the Treaty of Paris in 1951 establishing a common market for coal and steel. From that time it has grown in a similar fashion of incremental steps to become the European Union we know today, except it was carried out in the light of public scrutiny and by treaty.

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