Increase other workers' salaries, don't decrease the 3 giants' salaries

Thanks George Bush. The salvation package for the 3 big auto giants came with strings attached: reduce the salaries of their workers to the level of the salaries foreign owned manufacturers pay their workers. How about asking them to pay their workers Indian or Chinese salaries???

Instead of asking the foreign owned companies to increase their workers salaries to the level of the union workers, the US government expects the big 3 to reduce their workers' salaries. Now that is the government of people for people and by people. How about asking the management class in these big 3 to cut their salaries to the level of their workers' salaries and then distribute the huge amount that is gained through that cut through the workers??? But no, of course, that is sacrilege. The only way to save the big 3 is to cut the meagre salaries of union workers.

Wall Street Saved by poor taxpayers money, business as usual

Well, well, well, Republicans and Democrats both voted to save Wall Street firms again. Did we expect anything else? Not me. It is business as usual in the heart of capitalist world. Taxpayers money is used as usual to foot the bill for saving the bungling big firms. They are allowed to gamble with other people's money, to lose billions of dollars, to pay themselves hefty bonuses, and whenever they push the firms over the brink and into the abyss because of their intense greed, the government is there to save them. So, why should they care? Why do we expect them not to repeat the same mistakes again and again. When there is no punishment, when there is always government waiting there to be called to save you, why should you care how much money you lose through your greedy acts, especially that it is other people's money, not yours.

Will the American government ever put a penny into public health care or free education in the university? NO, of course not. It is a free market man! Government is not supposed to help the public in a free market, it only helps the fat cats. But when the fat cats need money, yes, we are there to pay you a trillion dollar out of the same poor people's money. So it is only free market for the poor people, who are left to drawn without any help.

Buy, Buy, Buy ... to save the capitalist system

A recession is looming, and what does Mr. McGunity tell us to do? To buy! Two days ago he advised all Ontarians to go to malls and buy, buy cars, buy houses, buy stuff.

This is capitalist system. Pure and simple. A system based on consumption, not on taking care of real human needs. Buy, buy, buy until you consume the whole planet, and turn it into plastics and metals and junk. Like a virus that attacks the body of its host and destroys it. This is a system that is based on planned obsolescence, a system that loathes merchandise that last for a long time. Any product in this system should not last more than a few years, otherwise the whole system will crash. They have the "Fashion" in everything, in clothes and cars and computers, etc. They change it every year so that the last year's merchandise is ugly this year and you have to replace them.

Is a system that will collapse if people stop heavy consumption a reasonable and rational system? Of course not. The production system should not be based on greed, but on real human needs, without excesses of totally unnecessary consumption.

And remember: George Bush told Americans the same thing after 9/11. People were scared and not shopping, and he told them to go and shop, otherwise the system will collapse, and right now he is going to legislate laws to pay every American some money to go to the store and buy stuff.

Don't they see how crooked and unstable the system is? Of course they see it, but greed is a stronger motive than reason in human beings.

Warning by Warren Buffet about low taxes for the rich

Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world, has warned against repealing estate-tax in US. Tax cutting by Bush and cronies has reached to a point that even the rich are complaining:

Read the article here

Bush, Stem Cells and Iraq

Bush did it again. He vetoed the stem cell research bill for the second time. He is a really great man. He is so much worried for the life of cells, single cells. Who cares if millions and billions of people are going to benefit hugely from this research that needs these cells. Who cares if this research is going to save people from miseries and pains of cancer, Alzheimers and many other diseases.

On the other hand, why on earth should he worry about the death and destruction in Iraq??? The life of a single cell is much more important than the life of millions of Iraqis. On one hand he is protecting these cells, and on the other hand he does not give a damn about more than 100 people being killed each day in Iraq.

That is what I call a consistent humanitarian conscientious policy.

200 killed and scores injured in Baghdad today, the surge is really working

Thanks to Mr. Bush's surge policy, just today 190 people got killed in Baghdad in separate incidents. When is the time to say enough is enough? Who can tell this knucklehead that he is defeated in Iraq. Please, somebody save us from him. UN people, can't you take over and run Iraq for the sake of sanity and its poor people?

Virginia Tech and Americans

NRA will definitely start with: " if all students had each one gun with themselves, the guy could not kill anybody, they would have killed him first" ! Oh, yeah, sweet wild west movie. I am stunned that these people are even allowed to pretend to be reasonable human beings with such crooked reasoning. Constitution giving us the right to carry guns? The fathers of the nation could never imagine a crazy guy in VT in their wildest dreams. Or guys buying automatic guns from every corner store. If they were living now, they would definitely have the guts to cross this items out of the constitution, not like current spineless politicians. These guys, just to keep the campaign donations flowing, don't dare to ban the guns, something that every sane American expects them to do. The gun lobby is much too powerful.

And the people are completely and scientifically brainwashed to the point that they can't see the harm of this policy. The same way they have been brainwashed for a long time to loath the government and the taxes. And, it works unfortunately. Capitalism is strong.

If this guy had just a knife, what could he have done? At most stab one or two and then stopped by the same people that he managed to kill by his "guns". When a crazy guy went into a school in England several years ago and killed innocent children with a handgun the government introduced very strict gun control laws instantly. Why can't American government do the same, after all these tragedies? What is wrong with American democracy? Why is it so paralysed? Why can't it even change their measurement units into metrics, something all the world except US is now abiding by. US is the only country in the world still measuring things by feet and yards and gallons and pounds and miles. Why are politicians in the US so afraid of introducing big radical changes when it is necessary?

But one has to admit there is also something wrong with the culture, with the whole social structure of this society. Even in societies that people carry guns freely, like Somalia, Afghanistan, etc, this sort of killings never happens. This never happenes in Europe, or China, or India, or Japan. What is wrong with American culture?? Why people kill so easily there when they go stark mad, and not in other societies? Americans need to sit down and think about it long and hard.

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This can't happen in this world, but the power of money and greed in US let people act and talk like this, read on:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1611939,00.html

Toronto Star article about gun availability in the US

http://www.thestar.com/article/205619

Why Invade Iraq?

As one wise old man said, the invasion of Iraq is just for these three reasons:

OIL

O: stands for oil. US needs the middle east oil and Iraq has the second largest oil resources in the world



I : stands for Israel. The very powerful Israeli lobby used the American military to get rid of one of its staunchest enemies in the region.



L : US needs "land bases" in the middle east to guard the flow of oil and it will now have it in Iraq.



But the real victor in all this tragedy has been Israel. The long term goal of the Israeli government is to split up the large countries in the middle east into small feuding states. It is better to have three small weak feuding Kurd, Shiite and Sunni state in Iraq instead of one powerful central government that can be a force against Israel.

Israel has the same plan for Iran, and the other larger states in the middle east. Let us hope it can't be as successful in carrying out the plan as it was in case of Iraq.

Alcohol and tobacco worse than pot, and yet they spend billions prohibiting the pot while these two are freely available!

Saturday March 24, 2007

Alcohol and tobacco are more dangerous than illegal drugs like marijuana or ecstasy, according to a new classification of drugs published in The Lancet medical journal yesterday.

The table, drawn up by a group of leading British scientists, ranked heroin, cocaine, barbiturates and street methadone as the most harmful drugs, closely followed by alcohol in fifth place.

Tobacco was assessed to be the 9th most dangerous drug behind ketamine in 6th, benzodiazepines, which are prescription tranquillizers, and amphetamines.

Cannabis was said to be the 11th most harmful. LSD was ranked 14th and ecstasy 18th among the 20 drugs classified.

And yet our stupid governments, following the lead of the US government, spend billions of dollars fighting pot use, while drugs worse than that, like alcohol and tobacco are freely available. In the prohibition era in the US, they spent billions trying to stop people drinking. Not only did it backfire and alcohold was freely available the prohibition turned into a joke, but it also caused lots of unnecessary pain, and created huge criminal gangs that their sole purpose and sustenance was providing alcohol for the population.

Most people know how to use drugs in moderation not to harm themselves. Banning any drug is like banning knives in kitchens because a few people don't know how to use them and harm themselves or others. There are people in high places who use cocaine on a regular basis without harming their careers or life or families, and yet there are people in the street that are alcoholics and damage their lives and ruin their families. The rational way to deal with drugs is not banning them. Banning drugs just creates crime and corruption resulting from the crime. The solution is educating people how to deal with the drugs and how to use them in moderation.

An Iraqi man comforting his mother in their house while American invaders watching. He is still handcuffed. Is this the way to win the hearts and minds of these people?

Maher Arar

Maher arar is compensated for 10 million dollars. Well, it was time the government did something to compensate for its unbelievable stupidity and cooperation in giving him away to the Americans. No person in his sane mind will give information about one of its own citizens to a government like US who is kin on torturing people at the fall of a hat. Thank goodness Canadian government is still not as corrupt and distant as the US government. The empire south of the border is getting a bit rotten, even we can smell it here in Toronto!

I have to admit I feel a little bit proud to belong to a country that its prime minister himself takes the time to appear on TV and apologize to an ordinary citizen because of his mistreatment. I also notice that Harper still insists on calling himself and his government “the NEW government” of Canada. I think somebody has to remind Mr. Harper that it is past the one year point with his government already and he is not totally NEW anymore. Anyways, I can’t see Dubya ever do the same to an American citizen and apologize for anything.

Interesting article about Bush

http://www.thestar.com/article/169988

George Bush's new old policy

I saw his pathetic picture last night on the TV talking to the American people. He is going to send more and more and more and more troops there. Why don't dictators learn from history? Is Vietnam now such an old story he has forgotten it?

More troops in Iraq will kill more innocent civilians and create more hatred.

I have no doubt this is no way out of the quagmire. Not that I know what to do. He has dived into such a mess by his own free will, it seems there is no sure way out. It is not Vietnam because there is no big empire helping the other side, but it is no Panama either. He has managed to destroy the country. The middle class has escaped and Iraq is turning into another Afghanistan bit by bit.

There is no depth to human stupidity when it is bred by arrogance.