You Will Learn to Love Big Brother

RFID spy chips -- "TWO U.S. EMPLOYEES INJECTED WITH RFID MICROCHIPS AT COMPANY REQUEST -- Government Contractor Adopts Controversial VeriChip Implant in Workplace" -- "The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access secure areas, link to medical records, and serve as a payment instrument when associated with a credit card." February 9, 2006, posted Feb. 10, 06 by gordholio

Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data center, Network Administrator Khary Williams told Liz McIntyre by phone yesterday. McIntyre, co-author of "Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID," contacted CityWatcher after it announced it had integrated the VeriChip VeriGuard product into its access control system.

The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated RFID tag that is injected into the flesh of the triceps area of the arm to uniquely number and identify individuals. The tag can be read through a person's clothing, silently and invisibly, by radio waves from a few inches away. The highly controversial device is being marketed as a way to access secure areas, link to medical records, and serve as a payment instrument when associated with a credit card. [. . . . ]

[Comment: BCNU2] Technology now allows one group of people, the government, for example, to control another group of people. This hasn't happened yet, but the technology is at the stage where it could be implemented. All the government would have to say is: You have to have this [. . . . ]

Finally, if implemented, Big Brother will have achieved exactly what is necessary to control us ... Resist...Resist...Resist. This comes right out of Orwell, doesn't it?

Up to now, the government has all this information spread over several departments not linked for data mining, it assured us. Of course, we suspect that all along, the government has had certain people with access to all of this and who used it as they wished ... particularly to retaliate against those who cross them. Think of Mr. Beaudoin of the Business Development Corporation. This chip's adoption would render the system legal and perfected for control.



Public Child Care - Build it Right From The Start -- 10 lessons: CUPE child care workers can learn from Australia October 26, 2005, posted on CNEWS Forum by gordholio

1. Major investments have not gone to improve wages and working conditions.

The Australian government has poured money into child care over the past decade – but it has not gone to the overworked and undervalued front-line workers. In some Australian states, child care workers earn the minimum wage of $11.80 an hour – less than $25,000 a year. As one child care worker told the media, “We’re looking after the future of our country and getting paid rubbish.” When a major Australian union surveyed child care workers, they found that for 95 per cent of those leaving the sector “the number one issue was low-pay – far ahead of concerns about working conditions or even lack of recognition” – though both are also major problems.

2. Giant commercial operators now dominate the child care sector. [....]

10. The biggest player has his eye on Canada.

Speaking about Canada’s plans to inject billions of dollars into a national child care program, Eddy Groves told the Toronto Star “It sounds like a great opportunity.” Australian unions and child care experts have a clear warning: don’t go down the for-profit road our country chose. [. . . . ]

I have a better idea; get Big Government's hands off our children. Let parents choose; add the government stipend (Conservatives have promised this.) to what they would normally pay to choose whatever situation they want for their children. Except the situation offers optimal child care circumstances, or if in grave need of help, the last thing a loving parent wants is the use of what someone described as "the last legal sewer in America" for child care -- a bunch of untrained or newly trained children running around, sharing their little germs with the rest ... and we all fall down ... sick. Better a neighbour or relative with only one or two others, who cares about the child.

Besides, who else but a parent or a special someone, who, when a child wants to learn to help, would say, "Okay, you choose how to re-arrange the ... " And, you know something? The mistakes don't matter. Sometimes, a child does a brilliant job of the re-arranging or re-decorating. Even if they don't, they learn over time, anyway, and they learn that chores are part of living. Who cares about a little mess? It is part of the civilizing process. That is how children learn with a parent who loves them, one who can afford to stay at home and do the job chosen when they brought children into the world ... ah, I'm on my soapbox again.




Maybe children would not be so ready to try drugs if they had had lots of talks with caring parents, plenty of parental supervision, the kind of investment of time a stay-at-home parent provides until the other one comes home and helps until the children go to bed. For those who choose, help them. Bring on traditional parenting!

Hundreds of marijuana plants found in police raid -- Markham CTV.ca News Staff, Feb9-06

Police raided a Markham home on Thursday and found an elaborate marijuana grow operation that was producing approximately $800,000 worth of the illegal crop every year.

[....] 600 plants per year [....]

"It brings … the organized crime element into our neighbourhoods," Cardwell said. "We've had home invasions and a number of homicides and we don't want them in our communities."

Investigators think the grow-op is connected to criminal drug organizations from south east Asia.