Update "Trial ballon down in flames:" Under fire from every direction, and faced with every major municipal police force stating they would not use the 'random search' provisions, the Premier backed away from this draconian fiat, a day after announcing it.
In its justifiable plan …
MetaData. It's something of a bad word since Snowden revealed the US NSA was illegally recording it. But the word just means "data about data". For a phone call, a spy agency might log such things as the caller and callee's phone numbers, their cell tower connection (or building location for a …
The United State of America has made many bad decisions:
The state of the world is pretty depressing for anyone who cares about liberty. NSA, GHQ and CSE have pretty much turned the western world into the world of Big Brother (Orwell's, not the TV show). So it's unsurprising that freedom-loving people are attracted to the various "new country" projects. …
I've heard this fallacy a number of times in political discourse this year. People accuse one or another politician of wanting to "take money from medical care and give it to the rich", meaning, to give "the rich" a tax cut. Now the last time I looked, taxation consisted of …
CNN quotes former US Veep Dick Cheney defending the unimaginable trillion-dollar deficit left behind by his administration - much of which was spent on the unwinnable war in Iraq - by saying ""All of these things required us to spend money that we had not originally planned to spend, or …
South of the border, Glenn Greenwald has been doing a pretty good job of showing how mainstream US journalists not only no longer expose law- and constitution-breaking by upper-echelon politicians, but actively support, encourage, condone and support it in their writings. And, about that country's …
Quoted without comment from Sheldon Richman's blog:
When it comes to separatist movements, the American and Russian governments have no principles whatever. They take whatever side advances their political interests at the moment. When ethnic Albanians in Kosovo sought to break from Yugoslavia, the …
Today's rant won't be politically correct. Not that you care, dear readers.
A problem with the Web in Canada is that most corporate and government sites force you to pick a language. Why is that a problem? Because you've already picked a language. If you're in Canada, odds are statistically likely …