Archive for June 28th, 2008
Canada: Internet providers will begin charging per-site fees
Or so it seems: via Blazing Cat Fur: “Reader mail: Canadian ISPs Plan Net Censorship“
A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global.
Bell Canada and TELUS, Canada’s two largest Internet service providers (ISPs), will begin charging per-site fees on most Internet sites, reports anonymous sources within TELUS.
(…) The plans would in effect be economic censorship, with only the top 100 to 200 sites making the cut in the initial subscription package. Such plans would likely favor major news outlets and suppress smaller news outlets, as the major news outlets would be free (with subscription), and alternative news outlets, like AFP, would incur a fee for every visit.
(…)“By 2012 ISPs all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These ‘other’ sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet,” Leysen said.
Even if these are not good news, there are people who have predicted it. In fact, it has happened already… with TV or radio broadcasting:
The introduction of broadcasting not only eroded the number of voices, it actually reversed free speech, placing government back in control of news.
This will mean just the end of the blogosphere as we know it.
Tags Technorati: freedom, internet, blogosphere
The “EU powerful enemies”
WHO KNEW? The French Europe minister, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, has declared that American neo-conservatives bear much of the blame for the Irish no vote to the Lisbon Treaty. Speaking to a pro-European jamboree in Lyons on June 21st, Mr Jouyet (a former aide to Jacques Delors recruited by Nicolas Sarkozy for his knowledge of the corridors of Brussels power), offered the following thought:
“The fight for Europe is not over, Europe has powerful enemies with deep pockets, as we have seen during the Irish referendum. They come not from Europe, but from the other side of the Atlantic.”
(…) The original allegation came from an Irish member of parliament, Lucinda Creighton, in a statement attacking two businessmen, Declan Ganley and Ulick McEvaddy, who had poured considerable time and money into part of the no campaign. In Ms Creighton’s analysis, they were opposed to Lisbon because it would make Europe stronger, which was
against American strategic interests, and would threaten their contracts with the American military.
Instead of blaming anything but the real causes for Ireland to reject the treaty of Lisbon, they should focus on reality: people rejected it because it’s European Constitution no.2, copied from the 1st one… But no, no, it’s all a big conspiracy.
And most people haven’t even seen this video… which shows the real enemies of the EU: corruption and secrecy.
(+) Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler writes about this video:
the journalists, who by the way have special permits to report about the EU Parliament (yes, apparently you need a specific permit to report in the EUrinal), are summarily thrown out by security for the “offense” of showing the EUnuch Overlords in the commission of theft.
Tags Technorati: European Union, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, Lisbon Treaty, Lucinda Creighton, corridors of Brussels power
Iran: whatever is non-Islamic must disappear
Doesn’t matter if it’s Cyrus the Great’s mausoleum or Baha’is (more here) or Christians.
Tags Technorati: Cyrus the Great, Cyrus The Great mausoleum, Islamism, Iran, Baha’is, religious persecution
Pakistani forces attack Taliban stronghold
AP:
Pakistani forces bombarded suspected militant hideouts with mortar
shells Saturday as the government launched a major offensive against
Taliban fighters threatening the main city in the country’s volatile
northwest, officials said.
Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan publicly slit the throats of
two Afghans today after they were accused of spying for US forces
suspected of launching a missile strike in May.
The crowd shouted: “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) when the Taliban held up the severed heads of the victims (…). After the killings, shooting broke down.
The Talibans called the locals to the rally using the loudspeakers of the village mosques.
Related posts:
The Afghan-Pakistani problem.
Catholic Arbishop Rahho’s murder
Was he kidnapped and then killed (more in Wikipedia: “Rahho expressed disquiet at the moves to incorporate Sharia law more fundamentally into the Iraqi constitution“) because he had stopped paying the jizya?
American military officials now say that as security began to improve around Iraq last year, Archbishop Rahho, 65, stopped paying the protection money, one sliver of the frightening larger shadow of violence and persecution that has forced hundreds of thousands of Christians from Iraq. That decision, the officials say, may be why he was kidnapped in February. Two weeks later, his body was found in a shallow grave outside Mosul, the biblical city of Nineveh.
Now just take this into account:
The native infidel “dhimmi” (which derives from both the word for “pact”, and also “guilt” — guilty of religious errors) population had to recognize Islamic ownership of their land, submit to Islamic law, and accept payment of the Koranic poll tax (jizya)-the tax paid in lieu of being slain-based on Koran 9:29. Al- Mawardi notes that:
“The enemy makes a payment in return for peace and reconciliation… Reconciliation and security last as long as the pavment is made. If the payment ceases, then the jihad resumes.”
Related posts:
There is an effort under way to empty Middle East of Christians.
Tags Technorati: Caldean Christians, Archbishop Paul Rahho, Archbishop Paul Rahho’s murder, Jizya
Canada’s fight for free speech
2. Ask the church to get a signed consent form from everyone, parents and children, everyone, stating that they are not forced to attend and are there of their own free will. Later he added that this consent should be drawn up by a lawyer who is familiar with the Human Rights Laws.
4. The church needs to contact the education people and take a curriculum of the program and demonstrate that it is an educational program.
5. The church needs to contact the police to make sure they do not view the program as bordering on criminal activity—need to show them the curriculum so they know what is going on and do not arrive on the scene.
I would like to ask if those same requirements must be fulfilled by any other event or just by those held by a church. For example, what would happen if this was a political party/a gay parade or just a sport association instead of a church meeting? Would they also ask for all these requirements.
The good news are that the complaint against Mark Steyn and Maclean has been dropped. The bad news are for bloggers who are also on prosecution or could be on the following months, as they can’t afford the best lawyers or the publicity Steyn and Maclean were having inside Canada. Of course, Islamic Congress is dissapointed the Tribunal made this decision without hearing the compelling evidence of hate and the expert testimony they recently presented to the British Columbia Human Rights Commision, in the words of Faisal Joseph, the legal counsel to the Islamic Congress.
There are also bad news for people reading books about terrorism in Ottawa’s airport. Someone can even file a complaint about you.
