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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (515)	8/29/2002 9:11:28 PM
From: Gulo	Respond to of 1293

the fault there is ours, not the legislators' - we elect those idiots to do a job for us Who was it that said "democracy is the one form of government where the people get what they deserve"? There may have been a "damn well" after the "they". Once again we agree on essentially all points. You save me a lot of time I would otherwise spend posting my opinions. Lewis MacKenzie is one of the few "canadian heros" that actually is a hero. I had the honour once of sitting down with him after a dinner at which he was the guest speaker. For an hour or so, we trotted over the entire canadian and foreign political landscape, especially the issues surrounding the Balkan crises. I wouldn't dare try to paraphrase him here, but suffice it to say, he understands realpolitic much better than the bureaucrats. Like a true hero, he comes across as an ordinary bloke. He seems genuinely unaware of how rare his combination of courage, wisdom and depth of character are. That said, I don't like spending on the military because the money is generally not well spent. In my opinion, we need better paid, trained and equipped soldiers, we need more subs, and we need better intelligence. If additional money went to that, I'd support it. We don't need 1000 chiefs for 1000 warriors. We don't need to spread our capacity around the globe so thin that we have no reserve. We don't need the military industrial complex telling us what weapons we need. And we don't need a 19th century military culture. A degree entitled one to officer status, which was fine so long as a degrees were rare, because there were plenty of talented people to join the ranks of the enlisted men. However, since anyone with ability can now get a degree, we have too many that expect to be officers. The way to fix this is to pay a soldier a decent salary so that more talent and potential will be attracted. We don't have to recruit cannon fodder anymore. -g

To: marcos who wrote (515)	9/1/2002 1:40:54 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

OT:<GGG> Softwood move blocked Agence France-Presse Saturday, August 31, 2002 – Print Edition, Page B2 GENEVA -- Canada asked the World Trade Organization yesterday to set up a panel to examine U.S. duties imposed on some softwood lumber, but the move was immediately blocked by Washington, trade sources say. Canada told the WTO's dispute settlement body that consultations with the United States had failed to solve the matter and it was reactivating a complaint it had originally withdrawn earlier this month. But the United States rejected the attempt as without merit, trade sources said, effectively imposing a temporary veto on the Canadian move. Under WTO rules, the complaint would be accepted automatically if there is a second Canadian request. The U.S. Commerce Department decided in late March to invoke anti-dumping measures and to impose countervailing tariffs of nearly 29 per cent on Canadian softwood lumber used principally in construction. At the time, Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew called the tariff "obscene." ( Don't quite understand this blocking/veto move yet.This is the only info I've seen regarding this action today. So much for consultations outside the WTO I guess. Too bad.Was really hoping they could come to some agreement in principle at least, but this looks terminal on that front. ) Ok...back to the invasion of Canada <G>