Warning, the results of this may scare you — it might be better if you didn’t know. From Mozilla:
Collusion is an experimental add-on for Firefox and allows you to see all the third parties that are tracking your movements across the Web. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers.
Surveillance cameras are now so powerful that they were able to zoom in on individual spectators at the Rugby World Cup and read their text messages.
Details of police monitoring used for the first time during the tournament were discussed at a privacy forum in Wellington yesterday, at which it was revealed that the average person is digitally recorded about a dozen times a day – and even more if they use email and social media frequently.
Superintendent Grant O’Fee told the forum how one incident at the Rugby World Cup “tweaked in my head” a concern about possible privacy breaches.
Tonight on The Front: “In a time when freedom is outlawed, outlaws become heroes” ~ Equilibrium
Agenda 21 News – Farmers in Michigan forced by armed state officials to immediately shoot their pigs as the state looks on. This is the Project for Sustainable Development otherwise known as, Agenda 21.
Big Brother News – Senate Bill 1813 states that all new vehicles are equipped with a black box described as “Mandatory Event Data Reorders”.
Police State News – Yet ANOTHER government agency is arming themselves with urban assault weapons, Dept of Energy.
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** CORRECTION: Dr Wakefield is heard in the opening clip not Dr Blaylock as I had stated.
The mayors of eight British Columbia cities have added their voices to the growing chorus of prominent figures calling on the provincial government to legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana. In a joint letter last Thursday to provincial elected officials, the mayors said it was time to “tax and strictly regulate marijuana under a public health framework.”
The letter was signed by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, as well as the mayors of suburban Burnaby and North Vancouver and the mayors of the interior communities of Armstrong, Enderby, Lake County, Metchosin, and Vernon.
The letter was posted on the web site of Stop the Violence BC, a coalition of public health officials, academics, legal experts, and law enforcement officials. The group has been calling for the development of and implementation of marijuana laws that reduce social harms, such as crime and gang violence.
Despite “an endless stream of anti-marijuana law enforcement initiatives,” the herb remains easily available to young people, the mayors said. “Based on the evidence before us, we know that laws that aim to control the marijuana industry are ineffective and, like alcohol prohibition in the US in the 1920s, have led to violent unintended consequences.”
None of this is surprising in a province where 66% of the population supports marijuana legalization, according to an Angus Reid poll cited by the mayors. But it runs directly counter to the direction of the Conservative federal government, which not only opposes legalization, but recently passed crime legislation that for the first time imposes mandatory minimum prison sentences for some drug offenses, including the cultivation of as few as six marijuana plants.
Egypt’s political transition has proven to be a major challenge – with a sharp increase of violence less than three weeks before the country’s historical presidential election. Friday rally has descended into fierce clashes between the protesters and security forces in the capital Cairo – leaving at least one person dead and scores injured. RT’s correspondent in the region Paula Slier, has the details.
With the wave of bombings still engulfing Syria, many fear that the job of UN observers to the country will not be as effective as it should. The UN peace keeping chief has accused both the government and armed groups in Syria of violation the UN-Arab League peace plan. In this edition of the show we ask: Was Kofi Annan’s plan dead upon arrival?
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