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The Week of December 9 to 15, 2001
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 Some Day Thoughts- Sunday
December 9, 2001
The speculation of what will happen, how things will turn out, what are the hopes,
what are the dreams and what of reality.
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 The results of giving more power to corporations
rather than people: lack of democracy, more charitable organizations,
and more experts- Sunday
December 9, 2001
Mario deSantis reflects on the domination in our culture of large profit driven multinational
corporations and while their importance rises all other values decline.
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 Steps to Secure Canadian Border Being Ignored- Sunday
December 9, 2001
Joe Hueglin lives in Niagra Falls Ontario and is accutely aware of the serious problems
presented along the border with guns, crime and terrorism as the normal course of
every day events on the South side of that border. Here he tells us what has to be
done.
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 Action Plan for Saskatchewan Health Care:
Listening to health guru Dr. Ken Fyke and undermining democracy- Sunday
December 9, 2001
Smoke and mirrors continue as Saskatchewan's government attempts to mask cost cutting
with supposed health care reform.
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 We Got Mail- Monday
December 10, 2001
Last week we published some pictures of Cassiar B.C. and each successive day more
aerial images of the Watson Lake area. Today we will share with you some of the reader
comments with a few new pictures of Watson Lake, including a QuickTime VR (1MB)
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 The Ultimate Step of the Free Market:
Dollarization- Monday
December 10, 2001
All across the Americas the inflated value of the United States dollar is destroying
the economies of countries from Argentina to Canada. The fear is well founded as
Mario deSantis warns of the self destructive nature of adopting the U.S. Dollar.
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 The Greenwater Report For December 10, 2001- Monday
December 10, 2001
Jerry Crawford is on the beat and tells us about the ice ready for snowmobiles and
ice fishing, well witching, the work on the Cove and this year's owl stories begin.
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 Former Nortel's CEO John Roth:
Free Market and Corporate Mentality- Monday
December 10, 2001
Greed is a serious matter especially when the leadership of a company views the his
world as the only world. Find out more in this interesting story.
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 Night Hiker- Tuesday
December 11, 2001
A journey in time that finds only open, not closed doors.
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 Saskatchewan Health Information Network
(SHIN): Board Chair Grossman and CEO Lipon disagree while fattening
their bellies- Tuesday
December 11, 2001
This operation was established with an expressed purpose but has instead become a
tax absorption operation. Mario deSantis tells of its latest confusion.
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 Its All In the Timing- Wednesday
December 12, 2001
Some morning pictures from Tisdale as we seem to be rushing toward the end of yet
another year.
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 Enron is Argentina as per the Autistic
Chicago School of Economics- Wednesday
December 12, 2001
Mario deSantis points out the parody of Argentina and the seventh largest corporation
in the United States, Enron both of which have for all intents and purposes gone
totally broke.
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 And as the Free Market goes on, so the
media brainwashing goes on- Wednesday
December 12, 2001
All the major papers in Canada now have one editorial policy and they must follow
it. Who says political power flows from the barrel of a gun?
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 Ensign - Time to Re-Evaluated the Process- Thursday
December 13, 2001
We have to take time every so often and wonder if we are on course, meeting objectives
and serving a responsible need.
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 The Big Lie of the Free Market is Against
the Environment:
Environmentalist Dana Meadows versus Statistician Bjorn Lomborg- Thursday
December 13, 2001
Mario deSantis wants us to consider that if the media is pushing the agenda of the
Free Market Globization view point they also may be misleading us about other things
like the environment.
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 Go God Before
Humanity- Thursday
December 13, 2001
Like almost everyone we are appalled at the attitude displayed in the Bin Laden tape
released this morning. Mario was struck by the focus on God. A complete transcript
of the text is available by clicking here.
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 Carpet Bowlers Rolling Along- Friday
December 14, 2001
The Golden Age Centre is now fully operational and every Friday the Carpet Bowlers
enjoy their company and recreation.
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 Media boss David Asper tells his journalists:
"exercise your freedoms to work elsewhere"- Friday
December 14, 2001
With the country relying upon the press to serve and the official opposition we are
in trouble. All papers owned by one company that now demands one opinion, the owner's.
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 Snow cover- Friday
December 14, 2001
Little by little we are seeing the great white stuff building up in the fields, this
is good news. Ten inches of snow give us an inch of rain .
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 Santa - Modern Myth- Saturday
December 15, 2001
Ho, Ho, Ho-ing at the Tisdale Mall and some reflection about the role this character
plays in our modern expression of the end of each year.
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 It is not a joke that corporations hijack
the right to our own language- Saturday
December 15, 2001
Sometimes true stories are much funnier than anything we could make up but we have
to be careful, someone might claim that "funny" is thier property and we
will have to refer a joke as "jocular."
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