The Right Way to Fight Child Porn?
Privacy Watchdog Slams Financial Database and No-Fly List
By Janice Tibbetts - November 17, 2009
Canadians sometimes end up in a federal database that tracks cash linked to terrorist financing and money laundering, based merely on their ethnic origin or other unwarranted grounds, Canada's privacy watchdog said Tuesday...In a separate audit, [she] reported that the federal bureaucrat in charge of Canada's "no-fly list" did not have the information needed to make informed decisions about who should be banned from boarding domestic and international flights.
The Long Gaze of the State
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN - October 30-Nov. 1, 2009
...[C]oncern with sexual behavior has nothing to do with sex but everything to do with policing. American sexual prudery is part of political and social policing within the nominally legal context of supposed individual freedom. People learn to be prudish with sex before they understand anything else in society and this prudery is transferred to other areas later which are even more important for social control and stability.
Canada's Privacy Commissioner Worried About Plan to Share Fingerprint Details
By Mike Blanchfield - August 22, 2009
Calling asylum seekers a "vulnerable group," Canada's privacy commissioner expressed concern yesterday about a new government plan to share fingerprint information with Britain and Australia to combat immigration fraud...A lawyers' group in Australia also raised privacy concerns about the plan, which the United States and New Zealand are expected to join later.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Final Part)
Part 15 (additional part 2 and final chapter)
Chapter 12. The enforcement of psychological self-criticism: suicide.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part 14)
Part 14 (Additional Part 1 of 2)
Chapter 11. Madness and normality.
Even Dracula Had to Have an Invite Before He Could Enter
In vampire lore it is said that a vampire had to have an invitation before it could enter one’s dwelling. What about landlords? How many times have you heard your landlord say, “This is my property and I can come in whenever I want?” Jeez, if you’re going to suck my blood, at least be charming about it.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part XI)
Part 11 of 13
Introduction to the last big paragraph:
PART III: From failure to self-destruction — The realm of psychology.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part X)
Part 10 of 13
Chapter 8: Private life — on happiness and its failure in pleasure and love.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part IX)
Part 9 of 13
Chapter 7: Job — Competition and performance.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part V)
Part 5 of 13
Chapter 4. The righteous person.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part IV)
Part 4 of 13
Chapter 3: Hypocrisy and complaining about the world.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part III)
Part 3 of 13
Chapter 2: The idealism of self-control that pays off.
Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness (Part II)
Part 2 of 13
The bourgeois individual adapts himself to the freedom to compete as specifically defined by his particular place in society. He takes the practical constraints of his position in the world as the unquestioned starting point for all his striving. In so doing, he cultivates the special bourgeois use of the mind: he plots his success within the framework of what is permitted.
Applicants' Personal Information to be Released to Foreign Governments
By Guidy Mamann - 23 February 2009
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and his officials at Citizenship and Immigration Canada are making a mockery of Canada’s privacy laws by forcing foreign nationals, and possibly permanent residents, to agree to the release of their personal information to any and all foreign governments...Last week, immigration lawyers discovered that the form used by foreign nationals for an extension of their stay in Canada...contains some new and disturbing language.