The Australian government is set to impose Chinese-style Internet censorship by enforcing a universal national filter that will block websites deemed “controversial,” as part of a wider agenda to regulate the Internet according to free speech advocates.

A provision whereby Internet users could opt out of the filter by contacting their ISP has been stripped from the legislation, meaning the filter will be universal and mandatory.

People have misconceptions not because they’re ignorant or they love big government, but because they’ve heard no alternative system proposed. Many areas of our lives have lots of government intervention and many areas have none. Are the areas where government involvement exists better off for it? Perhaps there are areas that aren’t regulated that could use regulations?

We should not take the world the way it is presented to us as a given. As humans that reach for the stars and try to better our lives and the lives of those around us, we need to consider the alternatives - if they exist.

A great mix of people go to Movies 10 theater to catch a flick at a good rate. Both those from the city and those from its surrounding suburbs flock to W. Henrietta Rd. to see all kinds of films, from horror to animated. Hey, how can you beat two bucks?
But, just because it happens to be $2 or less for a movie, that doesn’t mean it’s an excuse to take the family on a cheap outing if the movie is not actually appropriate for the entire family.
Last night, my friends and I decided to see a horror film at …

WALL-E: Economic Ignorance and the War on Modernity
Daily Article from Mises.org by Gennady Stolyarov II | Posted on 7/4/2008

The Disney-Pixar film WALL-E has been adoringly received by the majority of the theatergoing public. This adoration is unjustified. The film blatantly conveys environmentalist, anticapitalist, and antitechnological propaganda — and aims it at an audience of children, who still lack the critical faculties and intellectual sophistication to evaluate all relevant aspects of the issues presented.
But I will not focus here on how egregiously unrealistic the …

It looks like the dangers of cell phone use may be more severe than we ever imagined. I wonder how long this will be downplayed in the mainstream media.

2 Billion May Suffer from Cell Phone Cancer by 2020
 
ANI/Business Wire India
June 22, 2008

The fatal and volumetric effects of electromagnetic radiation is emitted mainly by mobile phones, mobile phone antenna, tower, mast, transmission tower, microwave oven, wireless devices, system and equipment.
 

NEW DELHI: The studies and survey conducted by Australian Health Research Institute indicates that due to billions of times more in volume electromagnetic radiation emitted by billions of mobile phones, internet, intranet …

I am scared that legislation and policy like this is beginning to be passed around the country while we sit back and yawn. Rochester, Monroe County and New York State need to move quickly to pass legislation that bars corporations, schools, the government or any entity from forcibly microchipping people for any reason. If we don’t block this now, by the time it arrives it will already be too late because it will arrive with a massive propaganda campaign by our local newspapers, radio stations and TV stations. We must act now to protect the liberty and dignity of every …