Religion & Multiculturalism: the last refuge of... -&- Keeseekoose $ -&- Spies, ICAAN, OSM

BUSAN, South Korea — Prime Minister Paul Martin warned the three opposition leaders today that they could offend religious and ethnic groups by forcing an election over the holiday season



Layton wavers on vote Stephanie Rubec, Toronto Sun, Nov. 16, 05

But he said late yesterday his caucus will back a non-confidence vote Nov. 28 at the earliest -- late enough to allow a first ministers' meeting with aboriginal leaders to proceed on Nov. 24.

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Competing for aboriginal votes? Watch for announcements of giveaways and/or promises.



Weston: Keeseekoose reserve school $$$

. . . Conservative MP Jim Prentice was kind enough to share with us his 24 photocopied pages of St. Philips school bank statements

[. . . . ] Casino Regina.

In one day, the bank statements show withdrawals at the casino -- remember this is the bank account to run the local Native school -- for $500, then $300, then $600, then another $600. [. . . . ]

Hansard: QP Nov. 16, 05 excerpt

Keeseekoose First Nation

Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, CPC): . . . . I ask members to listen to this list of money taken from the Keeseekoose school account: $1,200 for Sea World, $158 for Zorro Jewelry of Santa Monica, $125 for Universal Studios. In total, this is over $3,000 stolen from the children on the reserve to pay for a California vacation.

Why will the minister not stand up for the schoolchildren of the Keeseekoose reserve? . . . .

Mr. Tom Lukiwski (Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, CPC): . . . . the Liberals knew about this theft before they nominated the candidate who is at the heart of this controversy. . . . .





Report: Grits took cash from mutual fund firm CP/TorSun, Nov. 16, 05

MONTREAL -- The embattled founder of a mutual fund company under investigation for irregularities, reportedly paid a federal Liberal Party organizer $10,000 per month [. . . . ]

Search: 9,200 people , $130 million , Norbourg , Lacroix's



Illicit : How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy Moises Naim Doubleday ISBN: 0385513925 -- 4 1/2 stars -- Publishers Weekly review excerpt

[Foreign Policy editor] Naím provides a detailed tour of the major globalized criminal activities—drug production and distribution, illegal arms dealing, human trafficking, counterfeiting, money laundering and so on—and introduces a host of criminal networks that profit from them. . . . such activity is inextricably linked to legitimate commerce and directly affects all of us. In Naím's view, globalization's "diffusion of power to individuals and groups" and away from sovereign states has created a "smuggler's nirvana," . . . .

I also noticed another author: "China, Inc. : How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World by Ted C. Fishman". Do you buy books for Christmas gifts?



Article by Moses Naim: Globalization: passing fad or permanent revolution?(Endpaper) : An article from: Harvard International Review [HTML] (Digital - March 22, 2004)

Bill Gertz: Trio held in L.A. as spies for Beijing WashTimes, Nov. 17, 05

A Chinese intelligence-gathering ring in Los Angeles provided Beijing's military with [. . . . ]

The Dragon Eye [. . . . ]

The document was among thousands of pages of sensitive but unclassified documents found at Mr. Mak's residence.

A preliminary review of the compromises indicates that the Chinese have learned extremely valuable details about U.S. weapons systems, from submarines to aircraft carriers, that could give China's military a strategic advantage in a conflict, the officials said. [. . . . ]

Search: involves sensitive technology transfers



'Massive empire of surveillance' -- All cellphone, Blackberry, Net subscriber info available without warrant David Carrigg, The Province; with files from News Services, Nov. 16, 05

[. . . . ]a sweeping surveillance bill introduced in Parliament yesterday.

[. . . . ] The government says . . . privacy safeguards.

For instance, only designated police or the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service. . . . have to record the reasons and make the files available for audit.

Critics said the protection regime is weak because it occurs after the disclosure has been made. [. . . . ]

I'm so relieved; my government says. . . so everything is just hunky dory. Would you believe . . . ?



Atlas Shrugged on the OpenSourceMedia (OSM): "All of the Masters of the Blog Universe were present....." -- photos and comments from bloggers on this last supper for Pajama Media and the first for OSM -- Trackback URL


OSM: Blogroll . . . I recognize a few

ICAAN, for now --

"There's mounting evidence that the Internet's good old days as a global cyber-zone of freedom -- [. . . . ]

An agreement was reached at Tuesday's UN-convened World Summit on the Information Society that will [. . . . ]

OSM -- Open Source Media -- has links to more.



Everybody Wants to Rule the Web Dec. 17, 03, by Adam Thierer and Wayne Crews

Adam Thierer is director of telecommunications studies and Wayne Crews is director of technology studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. They are the editors of "Who Rules the Net? Internet Governance and Jurisdiction" (Cato Institute, 2003)

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shifted from largely private management to the United Nations
implications for online commerce
subjected yourself to the laws of
current unregulated Web environment has
geo-location technologies
overcome artificial restrictions on trade or communications at traditional geographic boundaries
it undermines members' authority

Cato Institute Book: Who Rules the Net? Edited by Adam Thierer and Wayne Crews August 2003. ISBN: 1-930865-43-0

[. . . . ] Who is responsible for setting the standards in cyberspace? Is a "U.N. for the Internet" or a multinational treaty appropriate? If not, who's [sic] standards should govern cross-border cyber disputes? Are different standards appropriate for cyberspace and "real" space? Those questions are being posed with increasing frequency in the emerging field of cyberspace law and constitute the guiding theme this book's collection of essays.

Contributors include: Vinton Cerf, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Adam Thierer, Rep. Christopher Cox, Jack L. Goldsmith, David G. Post, Jonathan Zittrain, Michael Geist, Dan Burk, Bruce H. Kobayashi, Larry Ribstein, Robert Corn-Revere, Kurt Wimmer, Michael Greve, Fred Cate, Harold Feld, Eric P. Crampton, Donald J. Boudreaux.