April Reign

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Stop the sale of CANADARM & RADARSAT

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Radarsat-2 was developed through a partnership between MDA and the Canadian Space Agency, with Canadian taxpayers paying $445 million or about 85 per cent of the total cost. In return for its investment, the Canadian government was promised large amounts of imagery as well as “priority access” to Radarsat-2 in emergencies. These might include floods, forest fires, oil spills — or a suspect vessel entering Canada’s North.

Once Radarsat-2 is sold to Alliant Techsystems, the United States will likely replace Canada as the country with licensing authority over it. I have sought to confirm this with several officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs, including in the minister’s office. All of them claim not to know what will happen to the license.

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Sign the Petition

No to tasers in Canada

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Please take a moment to sign the Petition

Your names on this petition will be included with a letter to the Prime Minsiter along to his hundreds of MP’s demanding an end to the use of tasers and demand answers to our questions.

It is our duty as citizens of this nation to ask Canadian Government to act now with an immediate moratorium on taser use by enforcement agencies in Canada.

Here is the petition:

http://newsnet.ca/phpPETITION/

Thanks to Beijing York for posting this link

Fighting Back or Prince hates Babies

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Apparently Prince, in lieu of a career, spends his time scouring the net for instances of “copyright violation”.

A well-placed source directly involved in the situation confirmed to ABC News that Prince was directly involved in seeking the takedown of Lenz’s video.

“This guy scours the Internet,” the source said of the legendary artist, who once changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol and wrote the word “Slave'” on his cheek until he won back the rights to his music from another publishing company.

“He’s really intense about this stuff,” the source said, adding that Lenz’s video “happened to be one of many” that artist apparently located online and demanded be taken down.

The violation in question involves 29 seconds, yes that’s right 29 seconds of Let’s Go Crazy Baby, in a home video of a baby. Serious stuff.

Prince petitioned YouTube to take down the video, which they did. However, in a classic case of don’t get mad, get even, Stephanie Lenz has filed suit;

“I thought even though I didn’t do anything wrong that they might want to file some kind of suit against me, take my house, come after me.

“And I didn’t like feeling afraid,” she continued. “I didn’t like feeling that I could get in trouble for something as simple as posting a home video for my friends and family to see.”

She contacted a leading cyber rights legal organization called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and filed a civil lawsuit against the music publisher, claiming they were abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by sending out reams of what are known in the industry as “take down notices” to Web sites like YouTube, claiming their artists’ copyrights had been infringed upon — when in fact, sometimes they may not have been at all.

Youtube has put the video back up.

Petition to reinstate My Blagh

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on PB today Scott penned

The year is what the moderators agreed is the minimum time to let pass before hearing an appeal for reinstatement on his indefinite ban. It was agreed to by Wayne.

All further enquiries can and should be sent to Wayne if you dont agree with the moderators’ decision. He is the owner of this site and the final authority.

I believe coordinated efforts are always best therefore I have created a petition which will be sent on to Wayne Chu owner of Progressive Bloggers.

You can sign the petition here

and you can use this image on your site to link to the petition or link here

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