Domtar To Close 4 Mills, Over 900 Jobs Cut

It's good to see deep-throat integration at work.

I wonder why they announced the layoff notices so early -- usually they wait until Christmas............

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"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

I'm working on something and have reached despair so thbis is what I got so far ...<br />
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"The closures are primarily due to the pressure of higher timber costs and lower demand for both lumber and wood chips, the company said.<br />
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Domtar said the closures will take out about 400 million board-feet of lumber production."<br />
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Well, That's certainly got my antennae twitchin&#8217;!<br />
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And so close after the softwood dispute was settled.<br />
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&#8220;My, My , Do Tell Miza Dog-Bone!<br />
Wah choo say?, <br />
Not the Ray Charles &#8220;Wah-Choo-Say&#8221;<br />
See the moma with the diamond ring, <br />
She know how to shake dat thing.<br />
Hey Hey , Wah-Choo-Say<br />
No not that &#8216;what do you say?&#8217;<br />
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&#8220; The cuts include: <br />
&#8226; 100 workers at the Matagami sawmill (Que.), which will close Oct. 27. <br />
&#8226; 125 workers at the Val d'Or sawmill (Que.), which will close Oct. 27. <br />
&#8226; 125 workers at the Lebel-sur-Quevillon sawmill (Que.), which will close immediately. <br />
&#8226; 140 workers at the Nairn sawmill (Ont.), which will close Oct 13.&#8221;<br />
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Now think of the manipulated economic terror these four hundred-ninety workers are experiencing.<br />
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Where is the &#8216;Solidarity&#8221;? The &#8220;esprit de Cour&#8221;? <br />
Well I&#8217;ll tell ya where it ain&#8217;t!<br />
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We today in north America are fragmented peoples.<br />
Everything form education to immigration fragments, no matter how much anti-prejudice campaigns&#8217; are mounted our mindset is set to such a high degree and the String-pullers will continue to do what ever it takes to hold their positions.<br />
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Blame will be assigned along the lines fed us, fingers will be pointed, labels tossed and little will be solved, changed or lest of all revoked.<br />
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The &#8220;hands in your pocket&#8221; guys own us.<br />
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In support of my thesis I offer the words at free Canada radio dot ca <br />
<a href="http://www.freecanadaradio.ca/randy-haveyouhadenoughyet.html">http://www.freecanadaradio.ca/randy-haveyouhadenoughyet.html</a> <br />
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<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."

<blockquote>We today in north America are fragmented peoples</blockquote> Is that like, "divide and conquer"?<p>---<br>"Son, if you wanna get ahead in this world, never work for another man as long as you live."

that would be only one in the bag of endless tricks!

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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."

While the Softwood Lumber Agreement may be seen as good short term politics for the Republicans it seems to me to be terrible economics with intermediate and long term implications that are anything but positive.

To bring in an agreement in restraint of trade as the U.S. faces a recession makes no logical sense. While it serves to protect certain special interests in the softwood lumber industry in the U.S. the artificial price it creates ends up slowing the construction industry even more.

The argument that the recession in the housing market will be temporary is nothing more than speculation. This is because of the declining income of the majority of Americans caused by globalization of production in consumer goods. The problems developing in the U.S. economy are structural and will not be easily resolved until either personal debt is decreased or incomes rise. The problem has been caused by the rapidly increasing inquality where the top 10 per cent have had their incomes snowball while the rest have seen their incomes stagnate and decline. To this point the economy has been fueled by increasing personal debt and war construction but it is possible that this effect is reaching its maximum.

In corporatist societies the merger of corporate and government power results in governments making bad decisions. It seems that the modern right wing, so eager to apply the "free market" principles advocated by Adam Smith, have ignored his words when he wrote: "the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers... neither are, nor ought to be the rulers of mankind...."

Corporatism destroys "free" market mechanisms yet it is the most avid "free market" advocates that fall prey to corporatism.

Just a note to everyone - the Softwood lumber agreement has not been signed yet. The deadline has been extended to Nov 1, and there is still time to threaten your MP's job if they stand in the house to support that sell out agreement.


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"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden

Two quotes from a site devoted to banking quotes.<br />
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<a href="http://www.worldnewsstand.net/money/money_quotes.htm">http://www.worldnewsstand.net/money/money_quotes.htm</a> <br />
Knowledge is Power, BUT ONLY IF USED<br />
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." <br />
Frederic Bastiat, The Law<br />
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity, and was born in sin. The Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create deposits, and with the flick of the pen, they will create enough deposits, to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and the great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But if you wish to remain slaves of Bankers, and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits." <br />
Sir Josiah Stamp, (President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain)<br />
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&#8220;Has the wake-up call become nothing more than the boy who cried &#8220;Wolf!&#8221; (Me)<br />
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Good suggestion DC<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."

My understanding is that the agreement has been signed and that it has passed in Parliament but the implementation date has been changed (at least twice so far). Meanwhile, U.S. builders are seeking new sources for softwood lumber imports.<br />
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<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061011/dcw043.html?.v=68">http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061011/dcw043.html?.v=68</a><br />

It passed a 'ways and means' motion, first reading. So, there is committee and two more readings still to go.<br />
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I believe the deal has been delayed once, and that is all the US will allow.<br />
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<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybp7kx">http://tinyurl.com/ybp7kx</a><br />
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<p>---<br>"I think it's important to always carry enough technology to restart civilization, should it be necessary." Mark Tilden<br />

According to the following the agreement was implemented today.<br />
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<a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/12/2008704-cp.html">http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/10/12/2008704-cp.html</a><br />

Let us also remember that when old Josiah Stamp said those words the world was still on gold standards, which restricted the banks' loaning powers and the potential of overcapitalization, the deadliest economic mistake any government can permit.

Now, with bank deregulation, since 1991 in Canada, banks can create unlimited amounts of imaginary money by using the possessions and resources of other peoples and nations for collateral, and now we're in a state of huge inflation of capital, worthless until it is converted into resources.

And this is where governments are making the biggest mistake and crime. Instead of stopping the irresponsible creation of worthless money into the hands of conmen, they're busting their own and their people's asses to provide the resources into conversion, to maintain the value of the imaginary money.

But then, this is what economics are about and this is why economic theories usually only last relatively short periods. The sooner this present one collapses, the better the hope for the global survival of humanity. Unfortunately, the peoples of the world will pay a horrible price for this error, or rather crime wave, and the perpetrators, as usual, will walk away once again to start some new scheme to defraud.

Ed Deak.