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Clarington, Ontario punishes hosts of Liberty Summer Seminar

SilenceMeansConsent.com What price liberty? Up to $50K (www.thestar.com, 18 August 2010) “The municipality of Clarington is clamping down on a studious celebration of Canadian liberties, charging its rural hosts with a zoning offence carrying a hefty fine…. “Marta Jaworski, 57, said she and her husband, also 57, are “devastated” by the charge, which she called [...]

Smart meters and smart grid means data collection, privacy invasion and ultimate control

Smart meters, an Electronics Weekly guide (www.electronicsweekly.com, May 19, 2009) This article is about U.K. plans and the potential applications of smart meters: “It is a meter with two-way communications, a consumer display, and generally a disconnect as well… “In addition to displaying the instantaneous tariff, a smart meter might, for example, list the power [...]

Definition of “serious offence” expanded, threatens marijuana users and others

New ‘Serious Offence’ Language Includes Marijuana (Students For Sensible Drug Policy, www.cannabisculture.com, August 8, 2010) “The ‘Regulations Prescribing Certain Offences to be Serious Offences’ came into effect July 13, 2010, and was publically enacted by the Federal Government early in August 2010…” “The new regulations expand the definition of ‘serious offence’ under the Criminal Code. [...]

Government and mining company (same thing) confiscate Quebec hero’s home

SilenceMeansConsent.com Man ordered from home on Quebec gold mine (ca.news.yahoo.com, August 4, 2010) “Ken Masse’s childhood house is the last obstacle standing in the way of a multibillion-dollar mining project in the town of Malartic. But he has refused to budge.” “Masse, 35, balked at lucrative offers for his mother’s home and stared down an [...]

Genetically modified crops

From February: reuters.com, Feb. 5, 2010 – Bayer to pay $1.5 mln in 2nd lawsuit over GM rice ” … ordered by a jury in the United States to pay $1.5 million in damages to three farmers for losses they incurred because of contaminations of Bayer’s genetically modified rice, the second in about 500 similar [...]

July 29, 2009

Big Brother – Privacy Invaded SIN BINS FOR WORST FAMILIES (£400million plans to put 20,000 problem families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes) by Alison Little, express.co.uk,  July 23/2009 “Family Intervention Projects”.   “…monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals.”    Youth Crime Action Plan.    Behaviour [...]