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Author: Chom NoamskyChom Noamsky
Date: May 19, 2008 22:30
...when TeeWee dropped off the radar so did Len McLaughlin and Stella
Pigeon?
This loss of moral support must have been too devastating for them.
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Author: The ToadThe Toad
Date: May 19, 2008 22:14
On 2 May 2008 00:44:40 GMT, ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Karen Gordon)
wrote:
>(K): And here it is..... a Stats Canada report that the incomes of the
>middle class are stagnant or dropping greatly, and the gap between rich and
>poor is expanding. And Ontario? ... for all its job losses?.....
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>>CBC - May 1, 2008
>Middle class stagnant, rich and poor increasing in numbers
>StatsCan study on 2006 census shows stretching at both ends of economic
>spectrum
>...
>Now more than ever, Canada's rich are getting richer while the poor get
>poorer and the middle class stagnates, according to 2005 census data
>released May 1, 2008, by Statistics Canada.
>...
>Median earnings among those in the middle remained status quo, registering
>a mere 0.1 per cent increase over 25 years....
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Author: OLD BOB PEFFERSOLD BOB PEFFERS
Date: May 19, 2008 21:57
Angus Reid Global Monitor : Polls & Research
Canadians Still Oppose Afghan Mission Extension
May 13, 2008
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Many adults in Canada believe the House
of Commons should not have extended the country’s military mandate in
Afghanistan until the end of 2011, according to a poll by Angus Reid
Strategies. 54 per cent of respondents disagree with the decision.
When asked if the Canadian government should actively negotiate with
the Taliban if this helps the peace efforts led by the elected Afghan
government, 48 per cent of respondents reject the idea, while 37 per
cent are open to it.
Afghanistan has been the main battleground in the war on terrorism.
The conflict began in October 2001, after the Taliban regime refused
to hand over Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in the 9/11 terrorist
attacks in New York and Washington. Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked and
crashed four airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000
people.
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Author: OLD BOB PEFFERSOLD BOB PEFFERS
Date: May 19, 2008 21:54
Harper under fire for delaying Mulroney-Schreiber probe
May 11, 2008 06:25 PM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA–Six months after Prime Minister Stephen Harper first promised a
public inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber affair, he has yet to name
anyone to head the probe or even set an official mandate for it.
That has opposition critics growing increasingly impatient.
"It confirms what I always thought," says Liberal MP Robert Thibault.
"He has no intention of having an inquiry, and if there's any way he
can stop one, he will."
Thibault contends that Harper's game plan from the start has been to
support an inquiry in principle but procrastinate in practice, in the
hope that a federal election will pre-empt the need to make a
decision.
"Then he doesn't have to call one until we get back, and if he wins a
majority, he never will," Thibault contends.
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Author: JJ
Date: May 19, 2008 20:42
http://nukegingrich.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/31000-scientists-reject-global-warming...
Who: Dr. Arthur Robinson of the OISM
What: release of names in OISM "Petition Project"
When: 10 AM, Monday May 19
Where: Holeman Lounge at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., NW,
Washington, DC
Why: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) will announce
that more than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of
human-caused global warming. The purpose of OISM's Petition Project is to
demonstrate that the claim of "settled science" and an overwhelming
"consensus" in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and
consequent climate damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science
exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large
number of American scientists reject this hypothesis.
It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science -
including 9,021 PhDs, are not "a few." Moreover, from the clear and strong
petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072
American scientists are not "skeptics."
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Author:
Date: May 19, 2008 19:24
A cross-party attempt to ban the use of hybrid human-animal embryos for
scientific research was rejected by the Commons tonight. MPs voted 336 to
176 (a majority of 160) against the move led by Tory former minister Edward
Leigh.
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MPs vote against ban on hybrid embryos
PA
Monday, May 19, 2008
A cross-party attempt to ban the use of hybrid human-animal embryos for
scientific research was rejected by the Commons tonight. MPs voted 336 to
176 (a majority of 160) against the move led by Tory former minister Edward
Leigh.
The Commons then rejected a cross-party bid to ban the use of so called
"true hybrids" using the sex cells of a human and an animal. Voting was 286
to 223, majority 63.
It was the first in a series of critical votes on emotive issues in
committee stage debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - the
biggest shake-up of law in this area for 20 years.
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Author:
Date: May 19, 2008 19:24
The U.S. State Department has issued an alert, warning travelers that the
"equivalent to military small-unit combat" is taking place across the
southern U.S. border in Mexico and that Americans are being kidnapped and
murdered there.
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US Warns Tourists of 'Small-Unit Combat' at Mexico Border
Penny Starr
CNSNews.com
Monday, May 19, 2008
The U.S. State Department has issued an alert, warning travelers that the
"equivalent to military small-unit combat" is taking place across the
southern U.S. border in Mexico and that Americans are being kidnapped and
murdered there.
"Recent Mexican army and police force conflicts with heavily-armed narcotics
cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat
and have included use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades," said the
State Department alert.
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Author:
Date: May 19, 2008 19:24
As the first Director of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation), Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) wrote a paper
entitled UNESCO Its Purpose and Its Philosophy (1946) [1] in which he
outlined his vision for the newly created international organisation.
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World Evolutionary Humanism, Eugenics and UNESCO
Brent Jessop
Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
Monday, May 19, 2008
"That [fundamental] task [of UNESCO] is to help the emergence of a single
world culture, with its own philosophy and background of ideas, and with its
own broad purpose. This is opportune, since this is the first time in
history that the scaffolding and the mechanisms for world unification have
become available, and also the first time that man has had the means (in the
shape of scientific discovery and its applications) of laying a world-wide
foundation for the minimum physical welfare of the entire human species. And
it is necessary, for at the moment two opposing philosophies of life
confront each other from the West and from the East, and not only impede the
achievement of unity but threaten to become the foci of actual conflict.
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