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[Mia]

For three years, VICE reporter Ben Makuch fought an RCMP production order that sought Makuch's communications with an alleged ISIS terrorist. The CAJ and CJFE consistently opposed the production order, arguing the RCMP should not be allowed to co-opt journalists—who enjoy a constitutional right to press freedom—as simply another branch of law enforcement.

In the Supreme Court's ruling, a majority of justices acknowledged that freedom of the press is "essential in a free and democratic society," but disagreed that Makuch's appeal was the proper forum to "formally recognize a distinct and independent constitutional protection" for freedom of the press. In a concurring report, four justices argued that press freedom was distinct from free expression—and the majority didn't explicitly disagree.

"This ruling is a serious setback for press freedom in Canada. It creates a chill for anyone who wants to speak truth to power or expose government wrongdoing," said CAJ president and CJFE board member Karyn Pugliese. "The country's highest court erred significantly in today’s decision."

Today's ruling offered several modestly positive steps for press freedom. Justices acknowledged that judges "may well find it desirable" to offer media outlets notice before granting a production order. The court also recognized the potential chilling effect when law enforcement agencies slap production orders on newsrooms—but downplayed the influence of the chilling effect in cases involving sources whose identities are already known.

 

[Theta.G]

The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first definitive evidence that the NSA has for years made massive amounts of surveillance data directly accessible to domestic law enforcement agencies. ICREACH [as the search engine is called] contains information on the private communications of foreigners and, it appears, millions of records on American citizens who have not been accused of any wrongdoing. Details about its existence are contained in the archive of materials provided to The Intercept by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Earlier revelations sourced to the Snowden documents have exposed a multitude of NSA programs for collecting large volumes of communications. The NSA has acknowledged that it shares some of its collected data with domestic agencies like the FBI, but details about the method and scope of its sharing have remained shrouded in secrecy. ICREACH has been accessible to more than 1,000 analysts at 23 U.S. government agencies that perform intelligence work, according to a 2010 memo. Information shared through ICREACH can be used to track people's movements, map out their networks of associates, help predict future actions, and potentially reveal religious affiliations or political beliefs.

 

[Theta.G]

6 Astounding Parallels Between Vaccines and GMOs

 

[Mia]

Some products use magnetism in their construction. Magnetic earrings or aquarium cleaning products, for example, often employ two strong magnets to hold parts of the product together, allowing them to cling to the ear or slide up and down an aquarium wall. When permanent magnets become too weak to function, something must be done. Fortunately, there are a few ways to make your magnets stronger.

Test your magnet. Place it on a vertical metallic surface--if it starts to slide down the metal, it is weak. Try to pull it off--if there is very little resistance, it's weak. The harder it is to pull off the metal, the stronger the magnetism. If you have a weak magnet, it has either always been weak or has steadily weakened over time. If it has always been weak, there is very little you can do. Discard it and focus on strengthening any magnets that have grown weak over time.

Place your weak magnet next to a powerful magnet. The stronger magnetic field of your powerful magnet can pull the electrons of your weak magnet back into alignment simply by the weak magnet resting in the field of its powerful counterpart.

Stroke your weak magnet with your powerful magnet. This will help realign electrons that have fallen out of sync with the other polarized electrons. The rubbing will help pull the electrons of the weaker magnet in the proper direction.

Place both magnets next to each other in the freezer. The stronger magnet will continue to influence the weaker magnet, and the cold temperature of the freezer will hinder the movement of the electrons in the weak magnet. This will keep them from turning out of place as they might otherwise do. Heat, radiation, stress and electricity destroy a magnet's magnetic field by misaligning the electrons--the opposite is true in the case of cold--low temperatures preserve a magnet's polarity.

Remove the magnet from the freezer after 24 hours and test its magnetism. It should be much stronger than it was the previous day. This is a temporary fix, but it should keep the magnet in working condition until you can replace it with something stronger--or just continue strengthening it as needed.

 

[Mia]

"The exercise of freedom of expression should not violate the fundamental rights of another person."

 

[Theta.G]

Thus, the scent of a flower, a song, even the
sensation of temperature or of the moving
air, conjure up with vividness and complete-
ness an entire scene or incident which in
itself made no deep impression and seemed
entirely lost for years. In reality it is not the
impression that is repeated, it is the mood that

corresponds to the primar experience,
and it is the mood also that might
recall the conscious state into existence

 

[Destination Unknown]

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