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Hey Charlie: Some issues affecting Canadians

Over the phone you said that it’s up to us average Canadians to point out whats going on in our country when it seems to be overlooked.

I have a few things that bother me about Canada. Sure,  i still hold a great deal of Canadian Pride, but some things just get under my skin. Like the following:

 

Cell Phone Companies

http://www.thomaspurves.com/2007/04/09/canada-worse-than-3rd-world-countries-when-it-comes-to-mobile-data-access/  - Canada worse than 3rd world countries when it comes to mobile data access

http://wirelessnorth.ca/2008/07/02/everyday-the-same-again-2/ - Information about how the world keeps leaping ahead of canada in consumer rights.

http://wirelessnorth.ca/2008/06/30/tens-of-thousands-sign-rogered-iphone-petition/ - Tens of thousands sign iphone petition

http://saveournet.ca/content/competition-bureau-says-net-regulation-must-be-addressed - Net Neutrality… who needs it? Apparently the competition bureau thinks we don’t

 Crime

 

Yes, i understand going after “religion” is a big no-no for a politician. But what if that religion was known for harassment, spying, slander, and even murder? When is the last time you have seen a Religion with a navy?

http://www.skeptictank.org/gen1/gen00587.htm - Scientology In Canada

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Scientology - Leaks Scientology documents. I suggest checking out the following:

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult_leader_David_Miscavige_Wake_Up_Call_-_Sep_11_exploitation_%282001%29 SEPTEMBER 11TH EXPLOITATION!

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_Office_of_Special_Affairs_and_Frank_Oliver

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Church_of_Scientology_collected_Operating_Thetan_documents

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_False_Purpose_Rundown_course

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult_%22Introspection_Rundown%22_as_used_in_the_wrongful_death_of_Lisa_McPherson_%281991%29

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult_Childrens_Security_Check I childrens SECURITY check. Go through that rundown with your child, and i can assure you she will be scarred for life.

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Scientology_cult_contract

 

The State Of The Internet

Take a special look at 4chan…

Interview With Charlie Angus

Spoke with Charlie Angus’ Office today. Might be getting an interview with him regarding bill c-61 (A.K.A: Canadian DMCA, Made-In-America Law, ect ect).

 

As mentioned in the two previous topics, C-61 would shut down this site, as well as others such as 420chan (NSFW), and any other Canadian site (E.G: Anything with .ca, or anything else owned by canadians) would fall victim as well.

Not to mention i would be labeled a Criminal… After all, i REGULARLY move items onto my Blackberry’s memory card (8120, Rogers Wireless Network, moving to the blackberry NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAND in a week or two).

A little bit about Good ol’ Charlie Angus, taken from his website:

In 2006, the Toronto Star chose Charlie Angus as one of the ten most effective opposition members of Parliament. Angus is the spokesperson for broadcast and cultural issues for the New Democratic Party.

He is well known across Canada as a passionate spokesman for working people. As a writer, broadcaster and musician he has championed the resource-dependent communities of the north. The late Peter Gzowski referred to Charlie Angus as the “poet laureate of Northern Ontario.”

Angus was born in Timmins, Ontario in November, 1962, a child of gold-miners who had emigrated to the north from Scotland and Cape Breton. During the 1980s, Charlie and his wife Brit Griffin ran a Catholic Worker house for homeless people in downtown Toronto. In 1990 they moved to Cobalt, Ontario to raise their children.

Angus has been active in a number of musical projects -including the punk DIY pioneers L’etranger and the nationally-recognized Grievous Angels. The group has garnered a number of Juno nominations and other awards

Charlie Angus has been married for 22 years to his wife Brit Griffin. They have three daughters: Mariah 19, Siobhan 17 and Lola 10.

 

 

ALSO!!!! Video with him going head-to-head with the (Evil/corrupt) Industry Minister Jim Prentice

 

To those skilled with audio mixing, here are the audio files:

http://www.charlieangus.net/audio/charlieusacopyrightfull.mp3

http://www.charlieangus.net/audio/charliecopyrightlegislationfull2.mp3

 

Also: Listen to Jack Layton attacking Jim Prentice (not about DMCA, about gas prices)

http://www.charlieangus.net/audio/jackgaspricefull.mp3

Canadian DMCA Summed Up Quite Nicely

Michael Deadder, an editorialist, did a nice editorial about the Canadian DMCA.

The world is coming to an end… George Carlin dead at 71

Sunday, June 22nd, George Carlin died at age 71 in an LA hospital.

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.

Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.

Known for his edgy, provocative material developed over 50 years, the bald, bearded Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television.” A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin’s routine were indecent, and that the government’s broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.

The Grammy-winning Carlin remained an active presence on the comedy circuit. Carlin was scheduled to receive the John F. Kennedy Center’s prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in November and his publicist said Carlin performed in Las Vegas this month.

His comedic sensibility revolved around a central theme: humanity is a cursed, doomed species.

“I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,” he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.

Carlin told Playboy in 2005 that he looked forward to an afterlife where he could watch the decline of civilization on a “heavenly CNN.”

“The world is a big theater-in-the round as far as I’m concerned, and I’d love to watch it spin itself into oblivion,” he said. “Tune in and watch the human adventure.”

AWARDS

Carlin wrote three best-selling books, won four Grammy Awards, recorded 22 comedy albums, headlined 14 HBO television specials, and hosted hundreds of variety shows. One was the first episode of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, when he was high on cocaine.

Drug addiction plagued him for much of his life, beginning with marijuana experimentation as a teen, graduating to cocaine in the 1970s, and then to prescription painkillers and wine. During the cocaine years, Carlin ignored his finances and ended up owing about $3 million in back taxes. In 2004, he entered a Los Angeles rehab clinic for his alcohol and Vicodin abuse.

George Dennis Carlin was born on May 12, 1937, in New York City, where he was raised with an older brother by their single mother. He fondly recalled that the nuns at his school tolerated his early comedic inclinations.

After a brief, troubled stint in the U.S. Air Force, he started honing his comic act, developing such characters as Al Sleet, a “hippie-dippie weatherman.”

Carlin told Playboy that his sensibilities developed in the 1950s, “when comedy stopped being safe … (and) became about saying no to authority.” He cited such influences as Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Dick Gregory and Bob Newhart.

He also dabbled in movies and television, recently voicing a hippie Volkswagen bus named Fillmore in the Pixar cartoon “Cars.”

Carlin is survived by his second wife Sally Wade; daughter Kelly Carlin McCall; and brother Patrick. His first wife, Brenda, died of cancer in 1997. News of his death was first reported by the television show “Entertainment Tonight.”

The future of this site, and possibly 420chan?

Most canadians know about bill c-61 (A.K.A Canadian DMCA) already, an amendment to the current canadian copyright law. This bill, if made into law, will severely restrict the rights of all canadians, including our right to speak freely (exactly like america’s first amendment rights).

If made law, 99% of the content on this site will be illegal because it critisizes, and i will be open to lawsuits galore from every individual, ranging from Hal Turner, to Scientology, and everything in between.

I have therefore setup a program that will nuke the servers content when my mail server recognizes a certain e-mail title. Sites like 420chan (or not420chan), which are devoted to critisizing and, dare i say, harassing, will also fall victim to the industry ministers bill.

If you are a canadian, call your MP. You can find your mp by searching http://www.canada.gc.ca . Make them know that we are not happy with being considered guilty until proven innocent.

Useful tools for next protest

How many of you going to the protests have looked for ways to stream video from your phone to the web? Can’t find any for your device? Well, i have some suggestions. Some are for streaming, and some are for quick-access for all of us to view.
First off, kyte.tv allows you to stream with certain devices…

But the service i would recommend is called Umundo. Just by sending a video file to umundo will automatically upload it to your facebook, hi5, yahoo, google, itunes accounts. But the great part is, it will even send that file to OTHER cell phone users anywhere in the world. Don’t wanna get hit with international MMS? Just use this service to send an email (Great for blackberry users such as myself). No data plan required, but must be able to send e-mails.

Hit up umundo.com or umundo.com/mobi from your mobile phone to try this out. Halifax will be using this (at least i will be).