Article
"Canada's senior business leaders will urge the Harper government to
lift its "intrusive" visa on Mexican travellers ahead of the prime
minister's own visit there next week, The Canadian Press has learned.
A forthcoming report from the Canadian Council for Chief Executives
calls the visa, imposed in 2009 to curb bogus asylum claims, an
impediment to reinvigorating the Canada-Mexico relationship."
Dear prime minister , we the richest canadians in Canada , the Canadian Council for Cheif Executives , insist that you allow us to continue to hire people from Mexico , because it is a "dollar a day" country , and the workers will be happy to work practically for free , and we can then fire all those Canadian Workers who dare to demand the minimum wage.
PS: We'd love to kick some funding into your election war chest to convince you to help us , but you seem to have made that illegal.
Sincerely , Rich Fat Cats
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Dear Prime Minister,
We the Editers of the CBC , are continuing to persue our policy of publishing only articles that sling mud at you. The above article where someone , anyone (Fat Cat Rich Men) complain bitterly about your actions and no commenting is permitted for people to point out the obvious (Temporary Foreign Workers are stealing Canadian jobs !!!!) is all part of our decision to drown the Canadian public in news about how awful and evil you are , even when you get things right.
Please be advised we don't care if you get things right , we are a large corperation and we want to to partake of the Temporary Foreign Worker pie as well , and like any other corperation we don't give a hoot about the average Canadian. So you may expect that our "dirty tactics" will remain unchanged.
Sincerely , the Management of the CBC
Ps: April 13 ...CBC just got their budget cut again from the federal government. Gee ... I wonder why ?
Saturday, February 15, 2014
U.S. law firm ensnared in NSA surveillance: NYT report
Article
"(Reuters) - An unnamed U.S. law firm was caught up in the global surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA) and its overseas partners in Australia, according to a newspaper report on Saturday.
A top secret document obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shows the firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States, according to The New York Times."
Spying on the lawyers for someone involved in a trade dispute.
Have you ever heard of the phrase "Industrial Espionage" ? It doesn't just cover stealing commercial secrets. Peeking at your opponents hand during trade negotiations is also part of the package.
Apparently , as far as NSA is concerned , winning contracts for american corperations is all part of the fight against terrorism. Isn't that interesting ?
I wonder if anyone (Any non-US person or organization) will be willing to hire a US Law Firm for ... anything , after this ? Knowing that you might as well be turning over everything you say to whatever US firm or government branch you're dealing with so they can spy on you ?
Every action has a reaction. You use US Corperations as the minions of NSA , and you start using NSA and it's minions for Industrial Espionage , they're going to stop doing business with you. They're going to find some other place to cut a deal with, because of Plato.
Who's Plato ?
An ancient Philosopher reputed to be able to talk anyone into anything. Until people decided the solution to that problem was to simply not talk with him anymore, and not have any dealings with him anymore. If you can't get a fair deal , you'll settle for no deal , kind of thing. You'll just go somewhere else.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Is anyone listenning ?
NSA tells Congress: Snowden copied co-worker's password
WASHINGTON -- Former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden
gained access to at least some classified documents he later disclosed
by copying a password from a co-worker who has since resigned, the NSA
reported to Congress. Snowden has previously said he did not steal any
passwords.
Hello , is anyone listenning ?
These guys lied their butts off to congress , the general public , and pretty much every one else in the whole wide world , and you're still listenning to them ? Are you stupid or what ?
These guys purjured themselves right to congress itself. Who knows what they're really doing or what really happened ? The only thing we know for certain is they are prolific liars and they do not hesitate to pile on a few more.
Friday, February 07, 2014
Crystal Ball 2014
My Crystal Ball for 2014
Ingredients
So what am I basing my predictions on ? What is my list of ingredients ?
Predictions
1... My first prediction is that China , which is already spending billions on hacking , will toss in another billion dollars to try and hack this "vault " of information where all the spying records on everyone in the world NSA is gathering will be kept. A billion dollars ? Yeah , I'm basically going to assume they'll succeed. If you gather it , they will steal it , supena it , write laws to let themselves use and abuse it , and all that stuff.
2... I predict , that the chinese will make it standard proceedure to go through their stolen data about every american that they got from the NSA , and look for the weak links to convert and coopt. You know , the ones with the gambling problems, the three mistresses, the cocaine addiction , etc etc.
3... I predict sometime in the next few years this "Vault" of information will be used to try and assassinate the president. Not likely by China or Russia , they don't want a war , but if NSA can't keep it a secret , why would you think anyone else could. Some rich Shiek in the middle east will get ahold of it and use it to conscript the pizza boy down the street , and possibly one of the secret service agents . No prediction on whether or not it will work , just that they'll try it.
4...I'm going to stick with last years prediction that manufacturing is dying and 3D printing will rule the world, though at this point most people would count this as more of a sure thing than a psychic's prediction.
5... This current trend of hiring forien workers on a temporary work permit to replace regular canadian workers will be shut down. Might take a year or two ... but the current outrage by the canadian public , and leaked remarks by Prime Minister Harper indicating he's not in favor of it either , seem to indicate a lot of movement in this direction.
6... I predict our smart phones will become "multi devices" . They all have micro-usb jacks , they all have blue tooth (meaning newly invented devices can be plugged in via these ports) , and we're pretty much at the point where most everyone has a smart phone. Adding an app and possibly a piece of hardware to slip into your cell phone case is pretty much all you need. This nonsense about a special phone for the job just that. Infrared ports to turn it into "TV Remotes" Or any other remote control device , is next on the list. Along with radio controlling toys (like those toy helicopters that are popping up everywhere) . Yes , the blue tooth transmitter is a radio transmitter. Not to mention the whole dang cell phone is a radio transmitter.
7... The internet will be broken into national internets. There may be back bones connecting them, or not , but the USA /NSA abusing it's monopoly on the internet has pretty much guarenteed people don't want nsa listening on their every phone call . This one may take several years though , thats a lot of internet structure to re-wire.
8... New phones, computers , and other gadgets will burst upon the market. And by "new" I mean "Not Made In The USA" . Sorry Obama , but when you publically tell everyone you've coopted every single american company to serve your spy agencies and you have no intention of ever stopping , you did this to yourself. This trend may not be as catastrophic as some people would imagine , since a lot of people don't care that everyone in the world is watching them (yeesh ... hasn't the facebook generation burned their fingers enough ? ) but still , it will have an impact. Microsoft is still going to be king for a little while longer.
9... Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , and most any USA company is going to take a hit on forien sales in 2014 , as contracts begin to run out and security advisors point to recent news articles . Anything to do with security will be the first not to be renewed. Later on , this trend will increase to a massive anti-USA ban . US Companies are already parading to the presidants office to try and get him to assure forieners that their secrets are safe with him , but after his previous statements on the matter , it's a little bit late.
10... There is a prediction floating aorund out there , in a CNET article , that the internet desperately needs to expand capacity by eleven fold to deal with the coming flood of "wearable" devices. I say to this prediction "No Chance" Why ? Because people are already struggling with 100$ internet bills (if you're a bell or rogers subscriber , and being ripped off) , they're not going to pay eleven fold to increase their bandwidth eleven fold.
No , they're going to cut back .They're going to decide I have a smart phone that's connected to the internet. I don't need a smart watch as well. I don't need to pay for my blue jeans to go online and tell everyone where I am. My fridge doesn't need to go online and automatically order groceries on my credit card without my permission , etc etc.
Ingredients
So what am I basing my predictions on ? What is my list of ingredients ?
- President Obama basically giving the world his middle finger and telling them (us ! ) He has no intention of stopping his spying on the whole wide world
- President Obama publically stating he's going to "lock up" all that information his various spy agencies are gathering on every citizen of the world , in one big place to limit access
- "Two People Can Keep a Secret , but only if one of them is dead" , a saying that frequently occurs in Heinlien novels indicating the likelyhood of any secret you're keeping , actually being kept.
- The Usual MIx of 3D printers , Internet , and the fact that even a guy on disability like me now has a smart phone , probably everyone in the world will have one soon enough
- The notion that the internet needs to explode it's capacity by eleven fold in four years to handle all the "wearable" devices coming down the pipe.
Predictions
1... My first prediction is that China , which is already spending billions on hacking , will toss in another billion dollars to try and hack this "vault " of information where all the spying records on everyone in the world NSA is gathering will be kept. A billion dollars ? Yeah , I'm basically going to assume they'll succeed. If you gather it , they will steal it , supena it , write laws to let themselves use and abuse it , and all that stuff.
2... I predict , that the chinese will make it standard proceedure to go through their stolen data about every american that they got from the NSA , and look for the weak links to convert and coopt. You know , the ones with the gambling problems, the three mistresses, the cocaine addiction , etc etc.
3... I predict sometime in the next few years this "Vault" of information will be used to try and assassinate the president. Not likely by China or Russia , they don't want a war , but if NSA can't keep it a secret , why would you think anyone else could. Some rich Shiek in the middle east will get ahold of it and use it to conscript the pizza boy down the street , and possibly one of the secret service agents . No prediction on whether or not it will work , just that they'll try it.
4...I'm going to stick with last years prediction that manufacturing is dying and 3D printing will rule the world, though at this point most people would count this as more of a sure thing than a psychic's prediction.
5... This current trend of hiring forien workers on a temporary work permit to replace regular canadian workers will be shut down. Might take a year or two ... but the current outrage by the canadian public , and leaked remarks by Prime Minister Harper indicating he's not in favor of it either , seem to indicate a lot of movement in this direction.
6... I predict our smart phones will become "multi devices" . They all have micro-usb jacks , they all have blue tooth (meaning newly invented devices can be plugged in via these ports) , and we're pretty much at the point where most everyone has a smart phone. Adding an app and possibly a piece of hardware to slip into your cell phone case is pretty much all you need. This nonsense about a special phone for the job just that. Infrared ports to turn it into "TV Remotes" Or any other remote control device , is next on the list. Along with radio controlling toys (like those toy helicopters that are popping up everywhere) . Yes , the blue tooth transmitter is a radio transmitter. Not to mention the whole dang cell phone is a radio transmitter.
7... The internet will be broken into national internets. There may be back bones connecting them, or not , but the USA /NSA abusing it's monopoly on the internet has pretty much guarenteed people don't want nsa listening on their every phone call . This one may take several years though , thats a lot of internet structure to re-wire.
8... New phones, computers , and other gadgets will burst upon the market. And by "new" I mean "Not Made In The USA" . Sorry Obama , but when you publically tell everyone you've coopted every single american company to serve your spy agencies and you have no intention of ever stopping , you did this to yourself. This trend may not be as catastrophic as some people would imagine , since a lot of people don't care that everyone in the world is watching them (yeesh ... hasn't the facebook generation burned their fingers enough ? ) but still , it will have an impact. Microsoft is still going to be king for a little while longer.
9... Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , and most any USA company is going to take a hit on forien sales in 2014 , as contracts begin to run out and security advisors point to recent news articles . Anything to do with security will be the first not to be renewed. Later on , this trend will increase to a massive anti-USA ban . US Companies are already parading to the presidants office to try and get him to assure forieners that their secrets are safe with him , but after his previous statements on the matter , it's a little bit late.
10... There is a prediction floating aorund out there , in a CNET article , that the internet desperately needs to expand capacity by eleven fold to deal with the coming flood of "wearable" devices. I say to this prediction "No Chance" Why ? Because people are already struggling with 100$ internet bills (if you're a bell or rogers subscriber , and being ripped off) , they're not going to pay eleven fold to increase their bandwidth eleven fold.
No , they're going to cut back .They're going to decide I have a smart phone that's connected to the internet. I don't need a smart watch as well. I don't need to pay for my blue jeans to go online and tell everyone where I am. My fridge doesn't need to go online and automatically order groceries on my credit card without my permission , etc etc.
Creation Debate
I love this cartoon because it sums up the whole Creationism vs Science debate.
If you are a "believer" in science , the guy with the huge stack of documentation and supporting evidence is the winner of the debate.
If you are a "believer" in religion , the guy with his one holy book is the winner.
The interesting point here is that the battle for believers is not won or lost at these debates. It's won or lost in the schools. The only function these debates serve is as a poll to see what each sides standing is, because no one is going to change their mind on a debate.
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