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Mona Mazigh, Maher Arar, William Samson and US President George Bush |
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Nipawin - Friday - November 14, 2003 - by: Mario deSantis | |||||||
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As usual I feel puzzled and impotent to the widespread morale corruption. I felt very disappointed to hear that our own Canadian government was of no assistance to Canadian citizens Maher Arar and William Sampson while they were wrongly imprisoned and tortured respectively in Syria and Saudi Arabia. | ||||||
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Tonight I listened to know-it-all Lou Dobbs on CNN lamenting that corporate America is exporting good jobs abroad. Is it a surprise? What else can you expect from an economic culture which worships the ever increasing numbers of the Gross Domestic Product and Stock Markets at the expense of people's employment and economic sustainability? It is not by chance that Wal-Mart, with its lowest paying jobs, has become the world's biggest corporation. | ||||||
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In the last few days I have noticed to the point of it being something that seemed to be a part of every reference to the American President Bush as he appears to be incapable of even show the most remote awareness of the truth. Everyday I receive an e-mail from misleader.org reporting the daily mislead of the Bush administration. Today I read the article "Bright Shining Lies, Blistering Truth" by USAF Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski and as a consequence I have come across a study by USAF Colonel Sam Gardiner (right) identifying 50 more false news stories of the Bush administration. Last week in a bold speech hailing the export of American democracy all over the world, president Bush stated
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In the meantime more soldiers and civilians are dying everyday in Iraq in the name of Bush's democracy. |
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In the meantime the US trade deficit has widened in September to $41.3 billion and we have the mind-boggling news that developing poor countries made a net transfer of some $200 billion to richer countries in year 2002. We have crony capitalism in the U.S. and related induced political and economic corruption in the rest of the world. |
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Pertinent articles published in Ensign | |||||||
CTV.ca News Staff Arar calls detention 'beyond human imagination' November 4, 2003 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1067948182033_43 | |||||||
CTV.ca News Staff Sampson slams Canada's 'soft diplomacy' November 7, 2003 http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1068118822766_67 | |||||||
Wal-Mark charged with racketeering, (PDF) November 11, 2003, Toronto Globe and Mail | |||||||
Hightower, Jim How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World April 26, 2002 Hightower Lowdown, http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=12962 | |||||||
Kwiatkowski, Karen Bright Shining Lies, Blistering Truth November 12, 2003 http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski49.html | |||||||
Scheer, Robert In a Democracy, Liars Can Never Be Liberators (PDF) November 11, 2003 Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-scheer11nov11,1,6081358.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions | |||||||
CBC News U.S. GDP
shows strongest growth in 19 years October 30, 2003 http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/30/USecon_031030 |
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Chavez, Gertrude RPT-FOREX-Dollar falls as US data fails to impress November 13, 2003 Reuters, http://www.forbes.com/markets/currencies/newswire/2003/11/13/rtr1146753.html | |||||||
Yashim, Emmanuel Third World Loses $200bn Through Capital Flight - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan November 5, 2003 All Africa, http://allafrica.com/stories/200311050296.html | |||||||
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