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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper government to announce more prison expansions |
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Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:36 pm
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper government to announce more prison expansions |
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:17 am
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| Harper is once again following the lead of his Washington bosses where building prisons/incarceration has become a major national industry. An evil that goes with this is the indescriminate use of solitary confinement. At one time it was a selective punishment for the most hardened criminals, now it... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: LEST YOU FORGET � Remembrance Day in Canada |
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 8:29 am
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| Remembrance Day has has become nothing more than a grand hypocrisy. We pay tribute to those who scarificed their lives that we might live in peace and with justice but in the mean time our addiction to war goes on. Worse than ever is that this is continuous warfare and arguably not necessary wars bu... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan |
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Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:01 pm
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| I have long been of the opinion that the US will never leave Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. These phony wars are really about strategic positioning-in other words a permanent military presence to control the region's resources and be in postion to confront both Russia and China. What isn't often me... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Minister of Defense Peter MacKay squanders taxpayer dollars |
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Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:01 am
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Replies: 10
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| The Arrow was so far ahead of its time that had it not been cancelled later versions of it would still be in use today. Note that many of the modern fighters have strong similarities in design to the Arrow. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Minister of Defense Peter MacKay squanders taxpayer dollars |
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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:00 am
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Tories convert Russian-bomber incident into pitch for expens |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:33 pm
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Harper, Obama and the Impossible Fat Albert |
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Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:29 pm
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Replies: 13
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| Sorry to see your comment Dr. Caleb you miss the point of my article entirely. |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: |
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:41 pm
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| We need to be reminded here that views on the 9/11 disaster should have less to do with partisanship- left or right-and more to do with plain old common sense. You don't have to be a physicist, structural engineer or brilliant sleuth to see that too much about the downing of the towers just doesn't ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Left-Leaning Despisers of the 9/11 Truth Movement: |
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Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:15 am
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| Say what you will I have seen the footage of the collapse of WTC7 and there is no doubt in my mind it was a controlled demolition. Like most people I have seen a number of these via the news. Prior to 9/11 I happened to watch a documentary on the building of the towers and when you see the massive s... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti |
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:30 pm
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| It is indeed interesting to see how swiftly and decisively the US responded to Haiti's crisis compared to the new Orlean's faisco after Katrina struck there. Haiti, will no doubt be like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and a hundred or so other countries around the world; the Yanks just won't get aroun... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Jumping through the hoops for America�s imperialist wars. |
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Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:52 pm
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| An interesting statistic from Tomdispatch: In fact, Nate Silver of the website FiveThirtyEight.com recently crunched a few numbers and came up with the following: �the odds of being on [a] given [airplane] departure which is the subject of a terrorist incident have been 1 in 10,408,947 over the past... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Choosing our wars |
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:09 am
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Choosing our wars |
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:07 am
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| As Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power, wrote recently, "Sending US troops to fight interminable wars in distant countries does more to inflame than to extinguish the resentments giving rise to violent anti-Western jihadism." Whatever the Obama administration does in Afghanistan and Pakis... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Paul Kennedy and Robert Dziejanski. The RCMP's William Elli |
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Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:15 pm
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| Both the UN and Amnesty International classify the taser as a form of torture. There have been some three hundred deaths internationally and twenty-four in Canada, last time I checked. What is so wrong with the taser is that it actually agitates subjects rather pacifies them. It is too often used as... |
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