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Media / Re: Media Beast vs. Public Interest
« on: June 18, 2013, 01:56:08 PM »
Susan Delacourt gives the backstory on the PMO leak re Trudeau's speaking fees.


Not The Star's finest moment and her honesty about it is interesting.


http://thestar.blogs.com/politics/2013/06/the-pmo-the-journalists-and-the-whole-off-the-record-thing.html

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 17, 2013, 07:25:34 PM »
Harper's Parade of Perps with Perks #6

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 13, 2013, 06:50:41 AM »
From Creekside to Cyveillance to PRISM

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 11, 2013, 08:44:24 AM »
PRISM : Everyone is a foreigner somewhere

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News / Re: Surveillance
« on: June 11, 2013, 07:02:04 AM »
Dutch security service has received information via PRISM:
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Dutch security service AIVD has also received information on email and social media traffic via US spy system PRISM, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.If the AIVD lists an American address as suspicious, it is supplied all the information within five minutes
NSA 'offers intelligence to British counterparts to skirt UK law'
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The US National Security Agency circumvents UK law by offering, rather than being asked for, intelligence from global websites to their British counterparts, according to David Blunkett, who was home secretary at the time of the 9/11 attacks.

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News / Re: Surveillance
« on: June 10, 2013, 12:53:10 PM »
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That would make any prohibition on domestic intelligence gathering moot.
That's the opinion of Ronald Deibert, director of the UofT Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, at the Star link one post down : What Canadians need to know

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CSEC [Communications Security Establishment Canada] operates very much in conjunction and co-ordination with the National Security Agency. Some have speculated that the reason that these two agencies — in fact, the reason that all the “Five Eyes” as they’re called, New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada — operate in this manner is so they can evade the domestic laws that prohibit them from collecting communications on domestic citizens.

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News / Re: Surveillance
« on: June 10, 2013, 10:42:41 AM »
U.S. online snooping: What Canadians need to know

Data-collection program got green light from MacKay in 2011
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CSEC suspended its metadata-mining program for more than a year in 2008. The documents show that Mr. MacKay signed a new ministerial directive in 2011 to continue the surveillance under new rules – and also authorized other espionage programs, some of which have been completely censored from the Access to Information documents obtained by The Globe.

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 10, 2013, 02:08:16 AM »
The Whistleblower vs Watership Down Syndrome

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 07, 2013, 04:15:14 PM »
Steve has been "very clear"


15 times in 20 minutes in one QP.

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Politics / Re: Stephen Harper's Maj Gov 2011
« on: June 06, 2013, 02:44:24 PM »
Brent Rathgeber blogs his reasons for quitting Con caucus.


His CBC interview



While disagreeing with his SoCon positions, I'm very impressed with both the guts it took to do this and his reasons for doing so. I hope he gets a hero's welcome back home.

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 06, 2013, 12:26:01 PM »
Harper's Parade of Perps with Perks - Part 5

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Politics / Re: Stephen Harper's Maj Gov 2011
« on: June 05, 2013, 09:58:15 PM »
Toe : The assistant deputy minister declined to name the companies but said she would by the end of the day. Many many exemptions to the exclusion rule. For instance it doesn't cover SNC-Lavalin at present.


Check your PMs.

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 04, 2013, 12:09:56 PM »
Steve and the multinational man of mystery

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Write On! / Re: Recent blogposts
« on: June 02, 2013, 07:42:15 AM »
Election fraud falling through the crack(s)

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Creatures great and small / Re: Critters and Pets
« on: June 02, 2013, 07:40:24 AM »
River otters do very well in the ocean here on the west coast, hanging out at the local marina where they are not universally adored on account of the outrageous mess they make. A pair came up the creek and nested under my house one summer. People coming over would say - what's that smell? - and I'd say - I don't smell anything.

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