Download Squad | Often lauded as the ‘CCTV state’ and ‘the most surveilled country in the world’, the UK may soon deliver a killing blow to the Internet as we know it.

Toronto Star | The time for action is now, before the smart grid becomes a fully established part of our infrastructure.

Mail Online | Parents of five-year-olds starting school have been sent an 83-point questionnaire that probes personal details of their lives.

Mail Online | The £1,000 security cameras have been placed inside properties but are trained on the streets to gather evidence of anti-social behavior.

Palm Beach Post | A plan to quadruple the penalty from the current maximum of $250 per day for a first violation is scheduled for consideration.

Dutch News | People caught fiddling the meter can be jailed for up to four years or fined €74,000.

CDC | At the Albuquerque airport for his flight back to Seattle, Mocek politely refused to show his ID to a TSA screener, who called in a supervisor.

Washington Post | Administration officials said the plan will be presented in coming weeks to Congress, which must approve a change in the law.

KSL TV 5 | High-tech surveillance networks are providing police and government with the ability to monitor streets, parks and businesses like never before.

Mail Online | Pregnant women are to be barred from giving birth at their local hospital if midwives consider them to be too fat.

Telegraph | They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to obtain the information, but simply the authorisation of a senior police officer or the equivalent of a deputy head of department at a local authority.

The Confluence | We might as well just call them all Princes and call ourselves the new corporate serfs because we’re going to be paying for our indentured status for some time under what’s going on right now.

Mail Online | Drivers, households and holidaymakers should be hit with a carbon tax to tackle global warming.

Parents will face fines if they remove 15-year-old children from sex education lessons as they become part of the national curriculum for the first time.

Telegraph | Pupils in England will be given classes in sex and relationships from the age of five under Government plans to cut teenage pregnancies.

Überloo International | Überloo International’s commitment to a reduction in the spread of contagious bacteria and viruses is as solid as the World Health Organization’s advice.

James Corbett | The timing of such a photo op must make this propaganda especially welcome to the proponents of the manmade global warming hoax.

Timberjay | Coast Guard officials in Duluth say they’re planning a major enforcement effort on federally-navigable waters throughout the border country.

Jerry Mazza | Bloomberg should be aptly renamed the Wall Street Mayor.

InformationWeek | The National Security Agency will soon break ground on a data center in Utah that’s budgeted to cost $1.5 billion.

Newsweek | The Obama administration, citing the threats of computer hacking and cyberterrorism, is now moving to involve the NSA more deeply in domestic security issues.

Brad Shrum | This account may give readers a glimpse of things to come in America should they adopt “free” health care.

Telegraph | Only council-vetted “play rangers” are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence.

Thomas R. Eddlem | The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people’s telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently.

Jack Williams | We need President Obama to transfer Ms. Tenenbaum to the Federal Drug Administration, so she can put a stop to the “Death Hazards” imposed on our children from the pharmaceutical manufacturers of vaccines.

NBC Chicago | The city is debuting a “tax whistle-blower” plan that could turn neighbor against neighbor in Chicago’s business community.

Reuters | Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak were executed for arson-related crimes committed in Lhasa, the regional capital, in March last year.

Politico | A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans.

John Byrne | Democrats believe they are one or two votes shy of having a filibuster-proof majority to pass a public health insurance option.

Sky News Online | Seven children, including a newborn baby, have been taken from their overweight parents and put into care because of concerns over their welfare.

Elmer Beauregard | The “Global Warming” theory will be the excuse needed to set up a One World Communistic Government.

Times Online | Homebuyers could be forced to provide detailed information about the amount of money they spend on alcohol each month to qualify for a new mortgage under a new clampdown on reckless lending.

CNSNews | Andrew Revkin, who reports on environmental issues for The New York Times, floated an idea last week for combating global warming.

Zero Hedge | The Chrysler debacle was stink enough, but the trend of collateral tampering is an outright stench today.

Washington Post | The bills could put workers under intense financial pressure to lose weight, stop smoking or even lower their cholesterol.

Los Angeles | California regulators are ready to enact the nation’s first ban on energy-hungry big-screen televisions.

Jim O’Neill | The death knell for freedom has been tolling for some time, and only now are people starting to hear it.

News Journal | Hundreds of people are expected to be at the Christina School Board meeting tonight fighting for what many call common sense.

Times Online | Motorists should pay higher taxes in the form of a national road-pricing system to cut carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Government’s climate change advisory body.

Sic Semper Tyrannis | I was told that I could not bring “propaganda” of any kind relating to my own opinions of what may or may not have happened on 9/11/2001.

James Burns | You all can rest easy now that Big Brother is watching out for us.

Christian Science Monitor | Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the goal is to detect terrorism threats and deter pre-operational surveillance.

BBC | Members of the public could earn cash by monitoring commercial CCTV cameras in their own home.

CBC | If random testing were to be adopted, it would be a major change to Canada’s 40-year-old breathalyzer legislation, which stipulates that police may only administer a test if they suspect a driver has been drinking.

USA Today | For the first time, the federal government plans to restrict greenhouse-gas emissions from factories, power plants and other industrial facilities.

Secret Truth Revealed | A West Michigan woman says the state is threatening her with fines and possibly jail time for babysitting her neighbors’ children.

SILive | “People should think long and hard before they do anything wrong, because we are watching.”

Warner Todd Huston | When you can’t even help a neighbor for fear of the fascist state coming down on you like a ton of bricks we have arrived at a turning point for sure.

| The Central Propaganda Department’s main tasks are to control information, instruct the masses and mobilize them when necessary — all in the service of the party.

BBC | Parents in England who regularly look after friends’ children and receive a “reward” for doing so must register as childminders.