Daily Digest January 22, 2008

The DAILY DIGEST: INFORMATION and OPINION from ST. JOHN'S to VICTORIA.
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EDITORIAL PAGEs

ST.JOHN'S TELEGRAM -
Honourable Members, indeed
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=213688&sc=80

CORNER BROOK WESTERN STAR -
It's a game of silliness
http://www.thewesternstar.com/index.cfm?sid=213621&sc=30

CAPE BRETON POST -
Emotions conflict over RCMP news
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=213487&sc=151

HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD -
Take wheels away from speed demons
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Editorial/1101961.html

MONTREAL GAZETTE -
Obama clears the way to bring Khadr home
http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/Obama+clears+bring+Khadr+home/1204817/story.html

A barefaced violation of protesters' civil rights
http://www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/barefaced+violation+protesters+civil+rights/1204818/story.html

OTTAWA CITIZEN -
Returning Omar Khadr
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/editorials/Returning+Omar+Khadr/1204914/story.html

The coalition must die
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/coalition+must/1204920/story.html
 
We need a national energy strategy
  http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/need+national+energy+strategy/1204919/story.html
 
The limits of fiscal policy
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/limits+fiscal+policy/1204918/story.html

TORONTO STAR -
Enough of Khadr fiasco
http://www.thestar.com/Opinion/article/575071

GLOBE & MAIL -
Anchors to secure the future
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090120.weAnchors21/BNStory/specialComment/home

Research – a public good
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090121.weScience22/BNStory/specialComment/home

Taint from Guantanamo
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090121.weArar22/BNStory/specialComment/home

NATIONAL POST -
Uninvited advice from four unsuccessful leaders
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/22/holder-three.aspx

ST. CATHARINES STANDARD -
 Fighting the stigma of depression in men
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1399561

Practical and reasonable infrastructure request
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1399580

K-W RECORD -
Lax screening raises alarms
http://news.therecord.com/Opinions/article/475414

LONDON FREE PRESS -
Politicians can learn from new president
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Opinion/Editorials/2009/01/22/8108251-sun.html

WINDSOR STAR -
Butting out
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/editorials/Butting/1205690/story.html
 
Seeing the (CFL) light
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/editorials/Seeing+light/1205691/story.html

SUDBURY STAR -
 Obama's election likely to increase chances of another attack on U.S. soil
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1399791

THUNDER BAY CHRONICLE JOURNAL -
Thunder Bay has its wish list
http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories.php?id=159907

WINNIPEG FREE PRESS -
Access to credit should be top budget priority
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/access_to_credit_should_be_top_budget_priority38129869.html

Canadian politics should be civil, not civil war
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/canadian_politics_should_be_civil_not_civil_war38129694.html

SASKATOON STARPHOENIX -
Arar deserves better
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=43b9b2e3-2f39-4eca-a6d7-0b402273193e

Non-profit sector facing tough year
  http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=19d934ea-47c0-40fd-bd0f-614307532980

Lip service paid to pre-budget consulting idea
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=26d8cbca-45aa-4b9c-bf08-cfec801a26c5

Techno-fix only delays move to post-oil economy
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/forum/story.html?id=42716db0-5ca5-49c1-ab03-091fc67c6d46

REGINA LEADER-POST -
Paying more attention to daycare demands
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=d14b158f-5ee5-4492-8214-42f5751b7ae2

The Prez & the PM: a study in contrasts
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/viewpoints/story.html?id=d2c40019-b8c9-4355-a5e4-8720e9ebaab2

CALGARY HERALD -
Bush and LBJ cut from the same presidential cloth
  http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=a48c5aef-a48d-4c42-a8a8-13bdb432e2d9

Flaherty must avoid budget jabs
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/theeditorialpage/story.html?id=5d116ce5-dbb0-4dc9-9859-be028080fb47

EDMONTON JOURNAL -
Obama's New Deal for Khadr
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/opinion/editorials/Obama+Deal+Khadr/1204543/story.html

RED DEER ADVOCATE -
Next week's budget will be memorable 
http://www.albertalocalnews.com/reddeeradvocate/opinion/Next_weeks_budget_will_be_memorable.html

PRINCE GEORGE CITIZEN -
West will fare better than Central Canada in this downturn: speaker
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20090122171281/local/news/west-will-fare-better-than-central-canada-in-this-downturn-speaker.html

VANCOUVER SUN -
Arar affair, resurrected
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=beeeed7b-3749-40fd-8061-0681c17ba63e

Can tax cuts and spending save us?
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=b7e39a74-11fa-45ac-a6ad-93d458f3eb73


ISSUES

AFGHANISTAN -
Kabul's rift with the US widens 
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KA23Df01.html


CANADIAN FORCES -
Canadian military on the hunt for killer drones
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Canadian+military+hunt+killer+drones/1062977/story.html

Defence seeks $1.3B of stimulus funding
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1204020


CANUSA/USACAN -
Canada: The Obama effect
Will a new presence in the White House help kickstart Canada's economy?
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/managing/strategy/article.jsp?content=20090120_082421_44412

How to see Barack as Stephen
http://www.ottawasun.com/Comment/2009/01/22/8105356-sun.html

Obama makes Harper look bad
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/575062

Obama to rescue
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/Weston_Greg/2009/01/22/8105646-sun.html

Don't empty Gitmo into Canada
http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2009/01/22/8105741-sun.html

Globe roundtable: Our political panel discusses the future of U.S. - Canada relations
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090121.wPOLroundtable0121/BNStory/politics/home


ECONOMIC AFFAIRS -
Bank of Canada says recession will be shorter
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/090122/canada/canada_us_economy_bankofcanada_recession

Canada's Debt May Grow by $83 Billion in Six Years, Budget Watchdog Says 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aND2yWgvTNFk&refer=canada

Ottawa set to increase national debt by over $100 billion: reports
http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/investing/news/businessnews/article.aspx?cp-documentid=17018660

Future deficits could erase progress made on debt: budget officer
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/01/21/page-report.html

Tim and Jim climb up deficit hill
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1204036


FOREIGN AFFAIRS -
Israeli troops complete pullout from Gaza Strip
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_palestinians

Travel advisory issued for top IDF officers
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3658823,00.html

Maliki papers some cracks, opens others
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KA23Ak01.html

Deciphering Obama's message to the Middle East
From Baghdad, Leila Fadel joins Gareth Porter to discuss Obama's inaugural message for Middle East ears view

What will Obama do in Iraq? Pt 2/2
From Baghdad, Leila Fadel joins Gareth Porter in DC to discuss Obama's message for Middle-East view

Obama, hope and expectations Pt.2
Bill Fletcher Jr. on the 'heresy' of critiquing Obama and what he wants Obama to do view


HEALTH CARE RELATED -
Hormone therapy fears unfounded, MDs say
http://www.thestar.com/healthzone/yourhealth/article/575362


JUSTICE SYSTEM -



MIGRATION -



POLITICS IN THE PROVINCES -
Ontario backs attempt to convert coal plants for biomass: Smitherman
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090122/national/20090122_coal_plants_biomass


FEDERAL POLITICS -
Elections probe of Tory ad financing back in court
'In-and-out' documents relate to material found in execution of search warrant
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Elections+probe+Tory+financing+back+court/1204883/story.html

Tories aim to gut environmental rules, NDP says
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090122.wPOLenvi0122/BNStory/politics/home

Ignatieff to give rivals key posts in shadow cabinet
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090121.wliberals22/BNStory/politics/home

Ignatieff touts Alberta tar sands
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/575269

Election needed like 'hole in head': Ignatieff
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1204016

Iggy, Duceppe engage in war of words
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200901/22/01-819827-duceppe-accuse-les-liberaux-davoir-obei-a-bay-street.php

Duceppe's trust of Ignatieff is refreshing, but calculated
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Duceppe+trust+Ignatieff+refreshing+calculated/1204826/story.html

Sovereignist leaders crank up the machine
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Sovereignist+leaders+crank+machine/1204723/story.html

Time to put coalition corpse to rest
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1204018


PROGRAMMES -
Ottawa to run huge deficits for two years
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090122.wPOLdeficit0122/BNStory/politics/home

Canada to Seek Power to Inject Capital in Banks If Needed, Flaherty Says 
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=afZjSOXOWWqo&refer=canada

Budget tax breaks 'not permanent'
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/575271


PRESSURE POINTS -
Canada needs a green economic stimulus plan
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/575043

Light bulbs spark safety fears
http://www.thestar.com/healthzone/news&features/article/575275


OPINION AND INFORMATION -
Talk of drafting Hillier stirs the political pot
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090121.wcomartin22/BNStory/specialComment/home

Domestic cars and a national grid
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11927

Time for Reformers to take back their party
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7796

Harper non-committal on deficit, Ottawa looks to deep cuts
http://finance.sympatico.msn.ca/Investing/News/BusinessNews/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=11293541

Beyond the fog of war
Asking yourself these 13 questions about the Israel-Hamas conflict might actually help resolve it
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=1204033

Building the Budget: What Canada Needs (II)
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/01/22/btb.aspx

The unreality of the 'real' business cycle
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090121.wcoecon22/BNStory/specialComment/home


INFOS -
Accès à l'information: vers un désastre à Ottawahttp://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200901/22/01-819829-acces-a-linformation-vers-un-desastre-a-ottawa.php

Omar Khadr: le Canada pourrait réviser sa position
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/200901/22/01-819824-omar-khadr-le-canada-pourrait-reviser-sa-position.php

Ottawa ne bouge pas
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2009/01/22/001-guantanamo-canada.shtml

Ottawa maintient sa position
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2009/01/21/002-Afghanistan-Canada.shtml

Les étudiants canadiens doivent plus de 13 G$
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Economie-Affaires/2009/01/21/004-dette-etudiants-canada.shtml

Crise de la listériose
L'enquêtrice en conflit d'intérêts
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/National/2009/01/21/003-listeriose-enqueteur-conflit.shtml

Coalition de l'opposition
Duceppe y croit toujours
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Politique/2009/01/20/001-Duceppe-Coalition.shtml

Obama s'active tous azimuts
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/01/22/228729.html

Afghanistan: Obama cherchera d'autres appuis que les Canadiens, assure MacKay
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090121/N0121160AU.html

Québec ne peut plus parler de déséquilibre fiscal disent des conservateurs
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090121/N0121136AU.html

Les Canadiens sont divisés sur la pertinence ou non d'un déficit budgétaire
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090121/N0121154AU.html

Un groupe d'experts suggère d'intégrer un train de mesures "vertes" au budget http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090121/N0121196AU.html

Le gouvernement fédéral fait face à une série d'importants déficits
http://info.branchez-vous.com/Nationales/090121/N0121156AU.html

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White House Web Site Lays Out National Security Agenda

"America's traditional alliances, such as NATO, must be transformed and strengthened, including on common security concerns like Afghanistan, homeland security, and counterterrorism," the Web site states. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=52754

A question: do you have "security concerns like Afghanistan, homeland security, and counterterrorism," such that you support the following expenditure:

Project JUSTAS, which could cost as much as $750 million and would give the Canadian military a capability that only a handful of other countries possess, http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Canadian+military+hunt+killer+drones/1062977/story.html

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From: "Peter Robertson"

Joe,
 
                I confess I do not understand what Ms. Gingrich is getting at.  She refers to the Armenian genocide, and says it was done by Jews.  Balderdash!  Any Armenian (including my wife) will tell you that the Armenian genocide was promulgated by the Young Turks, a movement which controlled the Ottoman government in 1915. 
 
                While the Israelis may have much to answer for, let us not descend into those stupid conspiracy theories which contributed to the growth of anti-semitism.  At least get the facts right!
 
Peter Robertson

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From: Larry Kazdan
To: torsun.editor@sunmedia.ca
Subject: Letter to Editor re:  Nanny state clouds our lives, Christina Blizzard,
 Jan. 22

Re:  Nanny state clouds our lives, Christina Blizzard, Jan. 22
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/christina_blizzard/2009/01/21/8093526-sun.html

Christina Blizzard opposes the amendment that will make it illegal for parents to smoke in a car containing a child under 16 because young people have to learn to assess risks for themselves.  Obviously the solution is not for the heavy hand of government, but for six year olds to confiscate the car keys whenever Mom or Dad   lights up.              

Larry Kazdan,
Vancouver, B.C.

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From: "Suan H.Booiman"

Joe,
Reading your comment about economic degrees and those
that don't have a degree. Holding a title is no proof that
one handles the subject well. Leadership often comes
without letters behind a name, carrying the weight of a
past or life directions, which is often larger than the
claimed education. Most of it depends on the person
standing in from of the student, setting the tone and
the example. That can be a parent, friend, teacher or
some one only seen once.
 
Suan

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From: Ray Strachan
Subject: Bliss

DD

Would just like to make a comment to the lady who criticized Ms Gingrich for
saying she was becoming ashamed to be a Canadian.

What I have noticed over the past decade is,that there is not one Canadian
Federaal Politician who can openly critisize Israel for any reason. If they do
they are swiftly dealt with. JUst prior to a Canadian Federal election approx
10 years ago one of our Federal Parties foreign affair critics was somewhere
near the Gaza Strip, He made the statement on live TV that Israel was using
excessive force on the Palestinians. He no sooner had the words out of his
mouth than he was on a plane headed for Ottawa where he was stripped of his
position,yes replaced as foreign affairs critic, yes he had committed the
mortal sin.  The last one who tried it was Ignattief during the last Liberal
Leadership convention. He stated on TV that Israel had committed War Crimes in
Lebanon. Since the day after that, how many times has he kissed and sucked and
whatever else he had to do to survive as a Canadian Politician? Now he is the
Leader of The Liberal Party of Canada.   So who holds his leash now,who owns
him.  A  15 year old kid, caught up in a war. Is accussed of killing an
American soldier. (in a war) Sent to Guantanamo torture house. 6 years in
there.Did our Robotic  Prime Minister Harper give him any help.    NO. Two
American pilots bombed and killed 4 of our young soldiers while flying around
at night playing with their toys.   Did they get charged with Murder,did they
spend one day in jail??    NO.   Anyway lady I dont remember your name but one
thing I can say that I have learned from life, "You are undoubtdly living in
Bliss.

Ray Strachan

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Rubie

America, Bad to the Bone?
http://thetyee.ca/cms/Books/2009/01/16/USHistory/

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From: "Mahmood Elahi"
To:"Letters \(ott\)" <letters@thecitizen.canwest.com>
Subject: Like FDr, Obama has become a transformational figure

The Editor
The Ottawa Citizen
 
Like FDR, Obama has become a transformational figure
 
Re "Revising history," by Anna Everett, "Of fathers and sons," by Allan Thomson and "The power of mere words," by Dan Gardner (Jan. 21).
 
In a letter to the editor published in The Citizen on Jan. 9, 2008 ("U.S. is ready to elect African-American president"), I wrote: "With U.S. Senator Barack Obama's surge in popularity, many analysts are asking: Is the United States ready for an African-American president? Yes, if it is not now, it will never be. ...  It took a civil war to free the African-Americans from slavery and a civil rights movement to end discrimination. ... In Barack Obama, the United states has finally found an African-American leader who can win the highest political office by uniting whites and blacks, making the pursuit of happiness an achievable goal for all."
 
It was clear that Mr. Obama had galvanized African-Americans, Hispanis Americans, Asian-Americans and other minority groups. He had also galvanized young whites, who rarely voted before. Together they represent 60% of the electorate, leaving only 40% of middle-aged whites. As such, an Obama landslide was a foregone conclusion.
 
Now it seems that President Barack Obama has galvanized the entire nation and become a transformational figure like President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)  who was elected for four times. President Obama also faces a bleak economic future similar to the Great Depression faced by President Roosevelt.
 
Then as now Great Depression was the outcome of the freewheeling unregulated capitalism which was thought to be the harbinger of prosperity. But as Pope Pius XI once remarked: "Totalitarian communism and unregulated capitalism are united in their satanic optimism." The "satanic optimism" of totalitarian communism stems from the belief that expolitation of man by man can be eliminated by public ownership of all means of production. And the "satanic optimism" of unregulated capitalism stems from the belief that peace and prosperity can only be ensured by unrestricted market forces. The collapse of Soviet communism shows that the former is wrong and the collapse of such iconic corporations like Enron and Lehman Brothers shows that the latter is equally wrong.
 
FDR dealt the economic collapse through massive expansion of public works. Under his New Deal, the government hired about 60 per cent of the unemployed in public works and conservations projects that planted a billion trees, modernized rural America and built such diverse projects as the Tennesssee Valley Authority, Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh, much of the Chicago lakefront, New York's Lincoln Tunnel and Triborough Bridge complex, the Montana State Capitol and the aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Roosevelt reduced unemployment from 33 per cent in 1933 to 13 per cent in 1936 to less than 10 per cent in 1940 when the U.S. entered the Second World War. In an attempt to stop the collapse of the banking system, he made federal government a temporary shareholder in thousands of under-capitalized banks and refinanced millions of residential and farm mortagages. Facing equally daunting financial collpase, President Obama seems to be following in the footsteps of his worthy predecessor and I am sure he will be equally successful in revitalizing the American economy.
 
MAHMOOD ELAHI 
Ottawa.

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From: "C M"
Subject: Eggheaded Harper minister

Hi, Joe.

Re "Harper minister called 'egghead'"
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/01/18/8060691-sun.html

Peter Kent - wasn't he the one they called the Scud Stud? (Whatever turns your crank, as my flying instructor used to say...)

From stud to studious...all it took was some IOU's.

Carmelita McQuillan

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From: Robert Ede
Subject: Bob Rae on BNN -- about 3:40 into clip re: "Grand Strategy (not)" by Rt Hon S Harper
http://watch.bnn.ca/squeezeplay/january-2009/squeezeplay-january-21-2009/#clip132014
--
Robert (Rob) Ede,

"There is no shame in turning back - when you find yourself on the wrong path"

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From: "Rebecca Gingrich"
Subject: [On-Guard] Is this Canada's path?
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=10057
Gordon Brown brings Britain to the edge of bankruptcy
Iain Martin ­ Telegraph.co.uk January 21, 2009

Subject: Ours to choose the direction our country goes in?  I hope so.
             http://www.rense.com/general84/anarchy.htm

Subject: Re: Israel's hands around our throat is showing
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4251.shtml

Joe--after reading the above article I wrote to the author--this is his reply to me.

From: Peter Chamberlin <peter.chamberlin@yahoo.com>
To: Rebecca Gingrich
Subject: Re: Israel's hands around our throat is showing
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:14:56 -0800 (PST)

Rebecca,
Thanks for the nice note.  You are so right, it is 1939.  We must be brave enough to make our own fate, by not being afraid to name the real terrorists.  The war of terror has taken them a long time to fabricate.  The trail of evidence and desolation that they have left should be more than enough to prove that the centers of terror are in Langley, Tel Aviv and London.

Peter

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Rebecca Gingrich
Subject: Israel's hands around our throat is showing
To: peter.chamberlin@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 8:09 PM

Mr. Chamberlin--thank you for this article.  I am not an American but the same
things are happening in Canada.  Our Prime Minister has stated that 'he
defends the Jewish faith' and that 'Canada stands with Israel'.  I
find it utterly frightening that no one is even bothering to hide the control
that that illegal land occupying bunch of terrorists has over our two nations.
Soon we will all suffer the fate of the Palestinians.  Once the NWO is
instituted we will be totally under the control of those with their hands around
our neck.  How could we get such 'leaders' that are willing to dump our
countries to govern solely for a foreign terrorist group--and I don't mean
al Qaida.  They are already bringing our respective economies to our knees.
This is the same game plan as 1939.  The game plan never changes but our bowing
to our masters just keeps getting worse.
You are so right about Pakistan--Mumbai was Mossad created and carried out all
for the end game, but we were told even before the fires were out that it had
been 'terrorists' from Pakistan.  Sound familiar?.
And yet we are supposed to believe the messiah Obama will save us?  I
haven't had radio or TV on today as the gut wrenching vomit being spewed
here is just as bad as in the US.  Are we really this stupid or do our great
'leaders' just think we are.  Or don't they care--they have been
given their marching orders and we must follow?
Most of us know who the real terrorists are but we are forbidden from speaking
it's name.
becky

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From: Derek Skinner
Subject: Economics of the Unknown.doc

This is intended as a road map against which the various arguments for economic stimuli (Jan 27th budget) can be assessed for probable effect.
Sorry it is so long (9 pages) but there are many aspects to consider, not the least of which are the possible actions by the United States.
Comment and/or criticism will be welcomed.
Derek Skinner

(Available upon request too large for Digest)
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