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Massive, disturbing implications for control of your online activities by jurisdictions outside of your home state. This is how global ‘governance’ expands. Read on…

Related: EU wants ‘Internet G12′ to govern cyberspace

Cynthia Wong, Centre for Democracy and Technology
July 11, 2009

In March of this year, a Belgian court entered judgment in a criminal case against Yahoo! and fined the company for refusing to hand over user data to Belgian law enforcement authorities under Belgian law.

The catch? Yahoo! has no subsidiary, employees or localized website in Belgium. The request — sent via email by a Belgian prosecutor to Yahoo!’s U.S. offices — was for user data held in the U.S. and associated with Yahoo! Mail accounts. Yahoo! Mail users sign up for this service under an agreement governed by U.S. law. The prosecutor did not allege that the specific Mail accounts were actually used by Belgian residents. Instead, the prosecutor’s sole theory for jurisdiction over Yahoo! Inc., and user data held by the company in the U.S., seems to be that Belgian residents can access Yahoo! services through the global Internet.

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Holdren’s co-author Paul Erlich, of course, is the infamous author of The Population Bomb, which similarly agitates for a Malthusian final solution. Except Malthus wrote that egalitarian societies would have us starving in the streets in the 1800s. Didn’t happen. Ehrlich thought we’d be starving in the streets in the 1970s. Didn’t happen. The problem with this fascist ideology is that population growth in advanced industrial societies levels off and begins declining naturally since we’ve all got better things to do than have sixteen kids to work the farm. In Canada, the average birth rate is 1.5 kids per couple. And with the horrifying history of eugenics in North America, not to mention the recent scientific revelations about declining fertility and its links to chemicals in our water supply, it’s extremely disturbing that the calls for population reduction keep coming. So where’s the fire?

Flashback: Rwanda denies sterilisation plans | HIV positive women in Africa sterilized, stigmatized | Billionaire club in bid to curb overpopulation | David Attenborough becomes patron for population reduction | BC Court Tells Ottawa to Amend Status Rules for Natives | UK population must fall to 30m: Optimum Population Trust | Don’t blame right-wing thugs for eugenics — Socialists made it fashionable | Do Swiss parents need a childrearing licence? | Computer scientists revive eugenics tool to spot brain damage | Population control thinktank to Britons: Have less children | Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established | The Legacy of Native American Schools | The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics | Alberta Barren: The Mannings and forced sterilization in Canada

Paul Joseph Watson, PrisonPlanet.com
July 11, 2009

In 1977 book, John Holdren advocated forced abortions, mass sterilization through food and water supply and mandatory bodily implants to prevent pregnancies

President Obama’s top science and technology advisor John P. Holdren co-authored a 1977 book in which he advocated the formation of a “planetary regime” that would use a “global police force” to enforce totalitarian measures of population control, including forced abortions, mass sterilization programs conducted via the food and water supply, as well as mandatory bodily implants that would prevent couples from having children.

The concepts outlined in Holdren’s 1977 book Ecoscience, which he co-authored with close colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich, were so shocking that a February 2009 Front Page Magazine story on the subject was largely dismissed as being outlandish because people couldn’t bring themselves to believe that it could be true.

It was only when another Internet blog obtained the book and posted screenshots that the awful truth about what Holdren had actually committed to paper actually began to sink in.

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First it was surveillance cameras. Then armed officers patrolling the schools. Now, TAVIS – the ‘Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy ‘is further aping the Met by demanding ID on the street and taking little notes and running the names. Is there any doubt left that TAVIS is a threat to the civil liberties of Torontonians? Toronto officers, you’re being inducted into a pan-national initiative. You know that this isn’t how peace officers are supposed to act. You know that the Charter protects us from unreasonable search and seizure. Please, take this to your unions and get it turned around before it’s too late. Don’t let yourselves become corrupted like the RCMP. Foot patrols are one thing, great, but that’s where it really ought to stop. Just remember, if this is going to be your MO going forward – you were loved and trusted once.

Flashback: RCMP pipeline bomber hunt draws harassment compliants, comparisons to secret police | 50 Toronto high schools to have armed police presence | Illegal Victoria Transit bag searches reinstated under new policy for Canada Day | Toronto police board challenges chief on CCTV deterrence, demands ‘phase-in’ | UK Big Brother police to get ‘war-time’ power to demand ID in the street | Ontario Police Chiefs travel to Israel to study police tactics

Melissa Leong, National Post
July 11, 2009

On a bad stretch of Eglinton West, police walk a fine line

Wednesday night on Eglinton Avenue West: no other neighbourhood in Toronto has seen more violence this year than the square mile centred around Keele Street, but tonight it is quiet as seven officers walk the hilly, concrete landscape.

Const. J.C. Tremblay, a husky 28-year-old officer with an earnest, congenial demeanour, greets a young black man in a hoodie slouched at a table inside the Coffee Time at Keele and Eglinton. He asks, cheerily, for his name, his address and phone number while filling out a small form that will serve as a record of their conversation.

“How tall are you? How much do you weigh? What is that scar on the side of your neck? A tattoo? Is that your street name?”

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