Well we've known this for a while, sure. But they who are so desirous of a united global entity are no longer trying to hide what they are doing...
PM launches internet safety program
Friday August 10, 2007
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a $189 million program to improve internet safety.
The Net Alert initiative would provide free internet filtering programs to households, appoint internet safety officers and conduct a public awareness campaign.
The government will enter into a partnership with internet service providers to deliver a filtered internet service.
Mr Howard also said the Australian Federal Police (AFP) would receive increased resources to deter, detect and investigate criminal behaviour on-line.
The program aims to prevent the spread of harmful material online to children and crack down on predatory behaviour.
The prime minister made the announcement at a Christian forum in which he and Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd spoke to churches across Australia via a webcast.
Fantastic, let them watch over us and have greater control of what we can (and can't) access!
10-finger exercise for ID cards
Will Woodward, chief political correspondent
Friday August 10, 2007
The Guardian
The government expects to take and record all 10 fingerprints from people receiving identity cards, the head of the ID card scheme revealed yesterday.
Details emerged when the Home Office started the bidding process for the computer and management contracts, which amount to more than a third of the estimated 5.7bn cost of the scheme.
Two of the contracts, worth up to 500m each over 10 years, include one to produce the fingerprint recording database and another to enrol people on to the scheme.
James Hall, chief executive of the Home Office's identity and passport service, said the agency planned to issue the first ID cards to non-EU nationals living in the UK in 2008, and to the first Britons at the end of 2009. The government hopes that ID cards will be issued as passports expire, leading to at least 80% of the population holding cards within 10 years of that time.
The government expects to use fingerprints and photographs as identification, but has rejected for now using images of irises. Mr Hall said: "Our current plan is to capture 10 fingerprints and record those. They won't all necessarily be on the card but we will have a record of them. I say 'current plans' because we are continuing to review every opportunity to reduce cost and risk."
David Davis, the shadow home secretary, said the scheme was a "costly white elephant" that would "do nothing to improve our security" and claimed it could collapse within two years of its being introduced.
Loss of identity, the first step (and they are so blatant about it!)
Health authorities play down fears of flu epidemic
Posted Thu Aug 9, 2007 8:32am AEST
Related Story: Lab investigates suspected flu death Related Story: Flu cases on the rise Health authorities are playing down fears of a flu epidemic in Victoria after the death of a four year old Berwick boy.
The boy died at his home on Tuesday morning after contracting a strain of Influenza A.
It's the fifth flu-related child death in Australia this year.
Victoria's chief health officer, Doctor John Carnie, says there has been a small rise in flu cases in Victoria but that is to be expected at this time of year.
Yep, they're playing down the fears alright, only to put the term 'fear' into our vocabulary again!
In saying all of this, I really am glad that society appears to be waking up to this sort of thing. If we resist, they cannot win. They will not control us!
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