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November 29, 2004

A Canada Divided. The Anti-US Faction (majority) is Losing: "Something is happening in this country that is unprecedented not only in our nation's history but is likely unmatched in any other country in the developed world. I am referring to the fact that a large portion of Canada's economic and political elite is rushing headlong in the direction of abandoning the nation altogether in favour of being assimilated by the U.S.; and the rest of the country is rushing headlong away from the U.S. and its imperial minded president." Full Story

Activists Will Do Their Best To Make Our Position Towards Bush Clear: "Protest plans are in the works for U.S. President George W. Bush's visit as Ottawa officials are asking residents to be ready for travel disruptions during the two-day visit" Full Story

Portugese Child Sex Trials: "The trial of seven people accused of forming a child sex ring in Portuguese care homes has begun in Lisbon. The accused include a TV presenter, a former top diplomat, and a former director of the Casa Pia children’s home network. " Full Story

Iraq Patent Laws Altered By US Influence: "For generations, small farmers in Iraq operated in an essentially unregulated, informal seed supply system. Farm-saved seed, agricultural experimentation, and the unrestricted exchange of planting materials among farming communities has long been the basis of Iraq’s cultivation practices. All this is rendered illegal by the new law. The seeds that farmers are now allowed to plant—“protected” crop varieties brought into Iraq by transnational corporations in the name of agricultural reconstruction—will be the property of the corporations." Full Story

The Chinese Dislike Children More Than I Do: "A man broke into a high school dormitory in central China late Thursday and killed eight students with a knife as they were sleeping. The attacker entered the dormitory just before midnight and stabbed twelve students, killing eight and injuring the other four..." Full Story

November 22, 2004

They Used to Be censored, Now They Can Say Whatever the US Says Is Okay: "Under Saddam, Iraqi artists were forced to produce works that glorified the leader and put him at the centre of everything. Now they are less constrained - and the subject they most want to depict is the violence all around them..."The art of satire is something new in our country," said Jalal Kamil, the leading Iraqi actor and director who is behind this series, "and the potential is great. For the first time we can work without fear of the censors." He went on and on about this great potential, the great drama that can be found anywhere in Iraq these days. Then, as he left he turned and said, "What I have learned, however, is that I am not allowed to make jokes about the Americans or to criticise the occupation." Full Story

What Happened to the Good Old Days of Crusades? Children Being Sent Out To Slaughter Muslim Infidels... "About 312,500 of the faithful, the curious and the nostalgic attended during the course of the four-day crusade, which marks the 55th anniversary of the Los Angeles revival that propelled Graham to national fame in 1949. Almost 13,400 people made a religious commitment to Jesus Christ, including 3,400 on Sunday, according to crusade officials. The crowd on Sunday nearly filled the 92,000-seat stadium, the largest U.S. venue ever booked for a Graham crusade." Full Story

If By Voting He Means Mass Killings, The Jews Will Be More Than Willing To Help Out! "U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said he is satisfied Israel will take the necessary steps to enable Palestinians to vote for a new president, saying that the death of Yasser Arafat provides a new chance for peace efforts." Full Story

Atmosphere Doesn't Sty Over A Single Country? "A new study suggests more than 800 people in northern Sweden developed cancer as a result of the radioactive fallout caused by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986. Swedish scientists at Linköping University said radio active emissions were carried by the wind to Sweden and heavy rain caused a large amount of Cesium-137 to fall on northern and central Sweden." Full Story

November 18, 2004

CIBC In League With American Policy: "According to this link, provided courtesy of Ontario Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish's website, there are a few Canadian companies that we need to keep an eye on. The vital excerpt from CIBC's new privacy policy: ...information may be processed and stored in the United States and that United States governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of my information through the laws of the United States. ( Patriot Act)" Full Story

And TV is Another Step In Our Evolutionary Cycle: "The thousands of runners who step up to the starting lines of marathons each year may be following in the footsteps of our earliest human ancestors. Scientists in Utah and Massachusetts suggest in a new study that the act of long-distance running made us into what we look like today. In a sense, humans were born - or at least evolved - to run." Full Story

Keep Them Drugged, Keep Them Quiet: "Children throughout the world are increasingly prescribed antidepressants and other drugs designed to calm or stimulate their brains, according to two studies published in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Researchers found ``significant'' increases of pediatric prescriptions of antidepressants in all the nine countries surveyed between 2000 and 2002, except Canada and Germany. In Germany the increase was 13 percent, the lowest recorded, while the U.K. had the highest with 68 percent, the researchers said." Full Story

When Common Sense Doesn't Work, Try Control: "Schoolgirls should be given contraceptive injections to cut the rising number of teenage pregnancies, according to the children's minister, Margaret Hodge. The minister said if young people were going to have sex, "you don't want them to have babies". She said the idea of contraceptive injections for sexually-active young people was "really interesting". Mrs Hodge also called for teenage mothers to go into schools to tell youngsters how you "lose your friends and your freedom" if you have children too young." Full Story

Keep Buying Those SUV's! Polar bears, the biggest land carnivores on Earth, face extinction this century if the Arctic continues to melt at its present rate, a study into global warming has found. The sea ice around the North Pole on which the bears depend for hunting is shrinking so swiftly it could disappear during the summer months by the end of the century, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ICIA) says. Full Story

November 9, 2004

Breeding Completely Out Of Control: "A NEW York career woman is scheduled to deliver twins today, just days short of her 57th birthday." Full Story

Intelligent: 1. Having intelligence. 2. Having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute. 3. Showing sound judgment and rationality: an intelligent decision; an intelligent solution to the problem. 4. Appealing to the intellect "In Cobb County, Ga., controversy erupted this spring when school board officials decided to affix "disclaimer stickers" to science textbooks, alerting students that "evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things." Full Story

Still Not Getting It? You're ALL Too Fat! "Ohio ate its way onto the top-10 list this year, climbing to become the state with the 10th highest percentage of obese people in 2004. Last year, 23 percent of the population was obese, compared to nearly 25 percent this year. That's more than double the percent of overweight residents in the state in 1990, according to the report." Full Story

Arctic Warming Trends: "The four million inhabitants of the Arctic will have to change their way of life if warming trends in the region continue apace, leaders have warned. A four-year scientific assessment of climate change in the Arctic has been published, and says the area is warming at nearly twice the global average." Full Story

November 7, 2004

And For Delivering Flyers To My Door...Crucifiction! "Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison and Jessica DeGroot was fined $7,500 (£4,075)...DeGroot was convicted after prosecutors proved she had used her credit card to purchase domain names for the purpose of sending spam." Full Story

And, You Can Use The Glasses Later To Watch Spy Kids 3-D: "Donning 3-D glasses, doctors at a medical conference in India resembled an audience at an IMAX movie Monday as they watched the live broadcast of a Henry Ford Hospital doctor performing prostate surgery." Full Story

Drugs Can Cure Anything! "Britain's largest drug company drew up a secret plan to double sales of the controversial anti-depressant Seroxat by marketing it as a cure for a raft of less serious mental conditions, The Observer can reveal today. ..The contents of the 250-page document have alarmed health campaigners who accuse the firm, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), of putting profit before the therapeutic needs of patients by attempting to broaden the market for the drug which has been linked to a spate of suicides." Full Story

Canada Rates Highest: "The University of Toronto is one of the most coveted places in the world for scientists to work, as are four other Canadian schools, according to a survey by The Scientist magazine." Full Stroty

Theo Van Gogh Murdered: "A Dutch filmmaker who had received death threats after releasing a movie criticizing the treatment of women under Islam was slain in Amsterdam on Tuesday." Full Story

November 3, 2004

US Post-Election Update:

Voting In the US Is Very Different In Than In Canada Peek At the Issues And Vote Options

Bring Out the Bush Supports With Gay Marriage on the Ballot: "In nearly a dozen states yesterday, voters sent the loud, clear message that they think marriage should be reserved for unions between a man and a woman. Reacting to recent court rulings allowing same-sex marriages, voters from Oregon to Georgia passed state constitutional amendments banning such unions – often by sweeping margins." Full Story

No More Excuses. You Really Voted For Him: "If this doesn't add up to a mandate, it is hard to know what the word means. Increased turnout. Narrow but decisive wins on all fronts. What more can you ask for from a single campaign? Bush and his party won fair (well, probably) and square." Full Story

"Barring a challenge from Democratic lawyers in the tightly contested battleground state of Ohio, George Bush will remain in office for another four years. Election day was a rollercoaster ride for left-leaning Kerry hopefuls, many of whom had resigned themselves to a lesser-of-two-evils position on the 2004 election. “Anything to get Bush out of office” ran the familiar mantra. And for a moment yesterday, there was even a glimmer of hope that Kerry would take the White House in a definitive electoral victory." Full Story

In Other News:

Shouldn't the US be Cleaning This Up? "Despite assurances from the U.S. military that depleted uranium from exploded munitions does not pose a significant health threat, Iraq’s provisional government is asking the United Nations for help cleaning up the low-level radioactive, metal dust spread across local battlefields by U.S. and British forces during the Persian Gulf wars." Full Story

If Bush Doesn't Destroy The World, the Corporations He Sucks Off Sure Will: "A new study conducted by an international team of 300 researchers from the Arctic Council, which is comprised of the eight nations including the US with Arctic territories suggests that the northern ice cap is warming at twice the global rate." Full Story

American's Don't Have Enough Sense To Remove Bush, How Could They Understand That Children Require Exercise? "Children are supposed to play, run, jump and be active for at least two hours a day, but most aren't doing even half that much at preschool, says one of the first large studies to examine physical activity in children ages 3 to 5." Full Story

November 1, 2004

US Election Update:

Beta Testing Technology: "Votes cast Tuesday will not only determine the next president of the United States, they could also go a long way toward determining the future of ballot machines in America. Nearly 30 percent of registered voters are expected to use computerized ballot systems, according to Election Data Services--making this election the biggest test yet for the controversial technology in the United States." Full Story

Not in the Courts...In the Streets in a Bloody Battle: "With thousands of lawyers from both camps poised to pounce at any hint of the voting irregularities that tainted the 2000 election, both candidates said it was vital that the outcome of the election be known by Tuesday night. "I really think it's important not to have a world of lawsuits that will stop the will of the people from going forward," Bush said in an interview with NBC. Kerry said he was confident the election would not be decided in the courts." Full Story

UberGeek Leading the Protest: "Stephen Hawking, Britain’s most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election. Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 5pm on Tuesday, where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women and children known to have died in the conflict. The full death toll was put last week as high as 100,000." Full Story

In Other News:

Face Transplants Soon To Help The Horribly Ugly, Saving the Rest Of Us Having to Look Away in Disgust: "A medical clinic in Ohio will soon start screening patients for what is being described as the world's first face transplant. The Cleveland Clinic received approval from a review board on October 15, to perform the controversial procedure...Doctors at the clinic said finding a donor cadaver might be more difficult than choosing a patient." Full Story

New Troops Set to Iraq, But None Sent Home: "U.S. troops clashed with Sunni insurgents west of the capital Monday, and gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy governor as fresh American soldiers arrived in the capital reinforcements that will push U.S. military strength in Iraq to its highest level since the summer of 2003. American artillery pounded suspected insurgent positions in Fallujah, witnesses said, where U.S. forces are gearing up for an offensive if Iraqi mediation fails to win agreement to hand over foreign Arab fighters and other militants." Full Story