[Diogenes]

Thanks for this <br />

[rearguard]

The freaks who are in charge can't keep the net the way it is, look at what we're saying in here! <br /> <br /> We're poisoning too many minds with the truth.

[Brent Swain]

Why should so much worldwide power be left in the hands of one government, one which the rest of us have no power over. Isn't it time the EU and other countries took over a larger role in this matter? They have done so with the GPS system , for the same reasons.<br /> Brent

[rearguard]

[QUOTE BY= Brent Swain] Why should so much worldwide power be left in the hands of one government, one which the rest of us have no power over. Isn't it time the EU and other countries took over a larger role in this matter? [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Just a reminder that the people of Europe have little to no control over the EU. The EU is part of the same globalist problem many of us are opposing. <br />

[Tigana]

Most "Canadian" internet providers lease their services through US-based<br /> companies. <br /> If you are with Bell, your tech calls may be routed to Arizona - which means your info is already in Bushland. <br /> "Bell: Answering Your Call" now means that 5% of their representatives are speaking to you from India.

[Diogenes]

Outsourcing.<br /> <br /> <br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing<br /> <br /> <br /> “ This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.<br /> Please improve this article if you can<br /> Outsourcing became part of the business lexicon during the 1980s and refers to the delegation of non-core operations from internal production to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation. Outsourcing is utilizing experts from outside the entity to perform specific tasks that the entity once performed itself.<br /> The process of outsourcing formalizes the description of the non-core operation into a contractual relationship between the client and the supplier. Under the new contractual agreement the supplier acquires the means of production which may include people, processes, technology, intellectual property and assets. The structure of the client organization changes as the client agrees to procure the services of the outsourcer for the term of the contractual agreement.<br /> The decision to outsource is often made in the interest of lowering firm costs, redirecting or conserving energy directed at the competencies of a particular business, or to make more efficient use of labor, capital, technology and resources.”<br /> <br /> I know that you know, ya know? <br /> ‘You’ being the reader on this thread <br /> Outsourcing and or off-shoring have become, especially the former, non-words or more precisely soft language to describe harsh realities of the quest for profit at the expense of local the local worker. To my mind this is the viciousness of vampire capitalism, <br /> Here in British Columbia logs are shipped out of the country thus skipping over the local worker for the sake of profit and lowering the standard of living on the home front.<br /> Capitalism of this nature is theft!<br /> To believe otherwise only goes to prove how slick language is used to make palatable right wing morality at the cost of, or to local economies. <br /> <br /> Although I cannot make a direct connection to the working poor, homelessness and the general disintegration of society only goes to show, not my handicap of thought, but my handicap of expression.<br /> To my way of thinking, to-day’s morality is determined by Mammon<br /> Here is an example of the kind of what passes for “thinking” by some of the locals in the Okanogan Valley when it comes to the dispossessed.(not all of who may have had their livelihoods stolen by vulture capitalists)<br /> http://forums.castanet.net/viewtopic.php?t=9166 <br />

[Dr Caleb]

Google 'Net Neutrality' for the pros and cons of this. Well, the cons. You won't find 'pros'.

[rearguard]

"You won't find 'pros'."<br /> <br /> Not unless you're one of the privileged few who disparately want to retain their ability to modify, restrict, and control the flow of information to the masses, as well as make an extra few $billion through a mass communications & entertainment stranglehold.

[MrPrax]

[QUOTE BY= rearguard] Just a reminder that the people of Europe have little to no control over the EU. The EU is part of the same globalist problem many of us are opposing. <br /> [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Perhaps on some level you are right...but no control?<br /> <br /> How then do you explain the elected representatives of the European Parliament? If Europeans aren't really in control, then how did the wiley EU capitalists manage to stick themselves with a much tigher regulatory control over information, food and pharmaceuticals, stronger human rights commissions, etc. Um...last time I looked the Chinese-made kill toys that US laws allow to be made and imported are not even ALLOWED in for importation to European.<br /> <br /> The EU is much farther ahead on laws maintaining 'net neutrality' for instance. Here of course the backbone of our Internet (BCE) is in the process of being purchased by 'teachers in Ontario' in conjunction with American hedge fund managers for about 50 billion dollars. Of course to pay for that (or repay for it again and again), the current standards of <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2006/11/02/tech-neutrality.html">"net neutrality"</a> would have to vanish.<br /> <br /> So it's conceivable that if you want to go to Viva Le Canada, you might be blocked because you didn't 'buy' that IP range. <br /> <br /> That type of thing is not really possible under EU guidelines -- so they don't have to worry.<br /> <br /> Are you sure that a supra-national, fully elected body that could run parallel and oversee supra-national corp agreements like SPP or NAFTA couldn't be a viable solution? <br /> <br /> They of course it would be better. <br /> <br /> People need to go beyond the monopolies of 'nation-state' bondage because where it is because of that monopoly outrageously anti-democratic and treasonous shit like the SPP and NAFTA get signed in the first place. Those people especially include Americans who still want to delude themselves that a piece of paper written nearly 250 years ago by slave owners has any more relevance to modern political society and international relations than Genesis has to science.<br /> <br /> We need solutions in this country -- not crackpot libertarian xenophobia which seems to manifest itself anytime the RePuke's in Amerika get into trouble electorally.<br /> <br />