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To: d:oug who wrote (94349)	4/3/2003 8:05:42 AM
From: Sam	Respond to of 116815

You are right Doug Few realize that although North Korea has the bomb they will not use it themselves ,because the powers would make a dust bowl of their country. but they would sell it to the likes of Saddam who was trying to buy it ,then no one would know who planted it. if it came to Toronto or LA or even Parris .So the best way is to stop the terrorists before they get it .Thank you G.bush and Tony Blair sam

To: d:oug who wrote (94349)	4/3/2003 9:16:31 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116815

We must never forget to disbelieve our own propaganda as well as the enemies in equal doses. Make up your own truth, if necessary, and never adopt that of governments. The Hew Hess of Hay was founded so to speak on citizen's truth. It should try to continue that way as much as possible. We are brainwashed to believe people in many so called third world countries really live in dire poverty and eat dog turds with smiles. In fact, while dire conditions do exist in many parts, mostly due to war, the inequity of the US dollar, and US economic control has led many to believe that we are the only people in the world who know about mirrors and toothbrushes. Soap admittedly is still a worldwide rarity, as is the quaint US affectation of toilet paper, but people in most third world countries, except for being not so voracious energy and auto users, are probably markedly better off than most Kentucky and Tennesse trailer trash or Georgia sharecroppers. Their clothes are better made, usually their food is as good, and their homes and land are decidedly more their own than their US counterparts. They have no more relatively poor per capita than the US. I am talking here about Asian and African countries, never mind south America. European middle class are better off and better educated than counterpart Americans. There are fewer poor by far in Europe, less social inequity and more government assistance at all levels. Illiteracy rates are far lower, than in most states. The US by its sheer wealth has created a second nation within its borders of have-nots, as assuredly dispossessed of politcal power, wealth, and hope as any so called illiterate savage of the interior of the dusty, rainy or monsoon soaked continents. I am remined of my counterpart in East Africa, an artisinal gold miner with simple left-over colonial equipment. He has speaks English, Swahili, and some other African dialects. His education is O-levels British, about on par with mine. He shows a camera his gold production from his rustic, hand-operated mine and mill. His chart, quite neatly drawn, shows some months of 400 grams, some of 900, some of 1100 grams gold total. He mines a claim without government interference, selling his gold to the same people. He has no environmental restrictions, no labour problems, and hardly any tax. In a country where one labours for bread, and makes a living on one dollar an fifty cents US a day, he makes perhaps 700 grams of gold a month. How much is that? 22.51 Troy ounces, or 7,426 dollars US per month. 89,122 dollars per year. The salary of 162 labourers. I wish I had his poh-boy problems. We ought to look a bit closer at these poor countries. They have their problems. But one thing they don't have is high costs. Their parity and opportunity in many cases makes us look like the hidebound state, the no-future place. EC<:-}