Commerce: Canada hi-tech Two Canadian hi-tech companies serve China's suppression of its population, join Microsoft

Kudos to Gary Reid blogger, Canada Free Press, for his item today exposing two Canadian corporations reaping big hi-tech profits thru deals with the goverment of Communist China to suppress its population in a total info and censorship régime strait out of a scifi nite-mare. First, Reid refers to Nortel Networks; then to Nexus. In both cases, we see free-market capitalism of a very specific sort at work, according to the trade relations set-up and defended by Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government with the help of his junior partner in the current coalition, the New Democratic Party, led by the anti-democratic Jack Layton. In the States, it's MicroSoft who serves in the same despicable capacity as the two Canadian companies.

Nortel is a player in China’s Golden Shield project.

Golden Shield is a plan for the "comprehensive management of social security" (a.k.a., political oppression), through "the adoption of advanced information and communication technology to strengthen central police control…" Golden Shield will be a data-base driven remote surveillance system that will provide instant access to records on every Chinese citizen and will be linked to a vast network of cameras designed to increase police efficiency.

Nortel is assisting the Chinese government by developing speech recognition technology that can be used to automatically provide surveillance of telephone conversations. It is also promoting technology that will allow images from video surveillance cameras in remote locations to be processed in a centralized public security location. It offers another technology that will allow Chinese security authorities to centrally monitor individual Internet communications. Additionally, it is developing firewall technology that could be used to prevent dissidents from communicating with the outside world.

Nortel is not alone.

Nexus, a Burlington, Ontario company is assisting the Chinese in the development of the integration of voice and face recognition technology.

It is the goal of the Chinese government to issue every citizen a smart card that will contain all the personal records on each individual imbedded in a microchip and to have remote technology sensors that will be able to surreptitiously read the data on that card from several meters away.