"Meanwhile many in Mexico also lost out; some 1.5 million campesino farmers lost their farms and livelihoods, real median wages in Mexico dropped 20 percent since NAFTA and food prices jumped. Hunger in Mexico increased, as has the number of people pushed to make the dangerous journey to the United States to seek work here. Thus, Latino groups, including the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's largest Hispanic membership organization, the Central American Resource Center, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the Salvadoran American National Network all oppose CAFTA, call it anti-Latino and exclusionary."
CAFTA adds six Central American nations (Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua) to the original NAFTA. And it also expands the power of foreign corporations to put their profit interests above the people's interest in the U.S. and the six Latin nations. Olé!
Full article: First NAFTA, now CAFTA
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on June 18, 2005]
Note: CAFTA came one step closer
First NAFTA, now CAFTA
Stumble It!
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Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-
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Is your concept of reality, like so many here, so skewed by anti-isms, that you don't bother to look at the declining status and influence of the region currently called Canada? Corruption enshrined in government. Canada. Softpower (what an oxymoron!) Canada. Ah, but the healthcare is free, right?
I do support you on one thing: NO Deep Integration! Shut down the border, now.
Really?
Ya wuz wuz ya? Ya wuz really honestly and truely wonderin that wuz ya?
Tell it like it iz Buddy!
Tell us how the evil corrupt Canadian governmet is any different than corrupt governments the world over.
Corruption is the stock and trade of government, alway has been and unless individuals the world over waken, corruption will continue to rule.
But Hey Pilgram, ya knew that dinja?
Luv ya ;-*
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So, Canadians like you are comfortable wallowing in the lowest form of corrupt filth, and yet want to smugly advise the rest of the world on how to improve themselves? How are you any different, if you refuse to take responsibilty for correcting it?
If that is your answer, then no, Canadians are beneath contempt. Grow up. I really don't think that will happen before you have an eqivalent of a Bali bombing. This is one reason why Ameicans favor Australians over Canadians: Aussies have demonstrated honor in answering those that wish to destroy them.
Instead, the world believes you Canucks may just respond as the Spaniels did, to their Madrid bombing: appeasement at all costs.
Corruption, appeasement. Des are de Canadjun Values, eh!
Shut Down the Border NOW! Keep the bastards out!
Our corrupt government would have to become competitive itself too, deliver services more efficiently etc. So there would be less opportunity for wasting or stealing our money.
Canadians are a very timid and scared bunch - so they believe government marketing schemes that tell them the sky will fall if they don't vote the same thieves back into power. Canadians are being played for suckers by their own government and loving it - that's brilliant marketing!
"...I really don't think... "
I do SOOO luv your imbedded confessions. You are so sweet!
We just now that you really just want is a group hug
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Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-
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Frankly, it would be a Very Good Thing if all Canadians crossing the border to the USA voluntarily wore a Canadian flag. Preferably as a T-shirt. Just a Canuck license plate will do, though.
Besides serving as positive id, those funny leaf flags make good targets!
Not that anyone would ever wish the Great Smug Ones any harm, of course... the unfocussed weight of the Great Soft Power might smother them.
Of Americans <br />
By Kirwan<br />
kirwanstudios@earthlink.net<br />
6-16-5<br />
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CONGRATULATIONS America: It seems that we have succeeded where no one else would ever want to go! This nation took a settled Republic and dismembered its form of government turning this democracy into something that looks a lot more like Dumbocracy - and then has had the temerity to wonder why the world thinks we,re crazy. <br />
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Many writers, including this one, have been trying to figure out why Americans do not react to what this nation is doing in the world today, both at home and abroad. Perhaps the answer is much simpler than many of us imagined. Initially it appeared that Americans were either just asleep or were willfully blind to all that is and was being done in our name. It appears that the population is behaving like a herd of dumb animals, slavishly following orders from a certifiable "leader" who has no qualifications, no leadership skills, and no accompanying track record that could ever have justified the failures of GWB in the office that he now occupies. His "cabinet" has been filled with equally unqualified people who collectively have no experience in military matters, or in the administration of anything meaningful or real. So why does this nation credit this spoiled offspring from a truly criminal family, this AWOL coward who ran away on 911 instead of doing anything at all to interrupt the attacks of that day? WHY has Bush not yet explained himself to the nation or the world? <br />
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In the mid nineteen-thirties Sinclair Lewis wrote "It Can't Happen Here" and in that novel he concluded: " where in all history has there ever been a people so ripe for a dictatorship as ours!" Even today the US Senate cannot bring itself to apologize to the victims of lynching - 4,743 people killed (illegally) between 1882 and 1968," and we call ourselves a civilized nation! We have taken a dire situation and intensified the risks, destroyed the impediments that might have slowed the rise of anarchy, and all the while we have remained deaf, dumb and blind to what we are creating - WHY? <br />
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If the dead of all those wars we entered into - to "Make the World Safe for Democracy" <br />
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were to be heard on this subject the chorus would be deafeningly opposed to our present course of action. Yet the public in its bubble world of profits and power continues on the one sure path that will bring death and ruination to all the Outlaws say they represent. <br />
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These men and women who died in our wars would not applaud what has been done with the sacrifice they did not really choose to make. In WWII 50 million died, for this? <br />
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In the two wars we have going now, there are officially over 1700 dead, and there have been over a hundred-thousand exposed to Depleted Uranium and the malignancy of that disease that continues to kill long after the guns have been silenced: this affects not only the GI's but their families as well - yet the public is still not concerned enough to demand real answers from those who got us into this situation. <br />
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How many more must die before we begin to scream ENOUGH? What's the magic number here 2,000, 10,000 - 20,000 dead? Who decides what that weighty number will be, who will stand against this injustice, not just for our dead but also for all the people that have been maimed or displaced or killed because of our belligerence? Why is it so hard for Americans to understand that the people we kill for the OUTLAWS all have families, dreams and would have had futures, had we not slaughtered them, too! <br />
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Why do we seemingly not want to know who is responsible for pulling the strings on our homegrown Outlaws - the thugs who sign the orders - then lie about the facts of what they have done and continue to do hourly? One reason that seems to hold a lot of sway is that Congress no longer makes our laws, they,ve sold that privilege to the highest bidders. <br />
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The Government of the United States of America is now of, by and for the Corporations. These are the same corporations, the Corporatocracy, to whom the people of the USA have bequeathed a literal and legal eternal life, while at the same time allowing their own corporate "best interests" to over-ride the needs and interests of the very citizens who made all that largess possible. All the terms of any agreements that the workers for such companies signed on for - are now subject to nullification at the whim of the corporations. The retirement funds, the health-care, and the long-term interests of those who made the profits happen, now represent nothing but "excessive costs" to the corporations that are failing on all fronts, because they have destroyed any incentive for anyone besides the upper-level managers to profit from their existence. <br />
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But it gets worse. Americans gave the newly minted outlaw corporations the legal right to exist - now those corporations have no further need for working Americans, because now they have foreign markets to buy their outsourced products, so the public here is overripe to become nothing more than a wage-enslaved herd of animals to be directed and controlled by what suits the corporations - at each and every turn in their corporate schedule for hegemony. <br />
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The answers to the above questions are not pretty, but it goes something like this. War is GREAT for business and it's especially good for stockholders, people with jobs at those corporations who hold the SECRET no-bid contracts, and for insiders. Normally Wars are good for the initiating country for the profits that are generated by that action. In this case, since the jobs have been outsourced, down to and including the manufacture of American Flags in China - this nation has actually lost millions of jobs because of the war, and its demands upon our outsourced corporate legions whose profits have never been greater. All this while the public was told to "just go shopping!" <br />
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<a href="http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2003/art9.htm">http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2003/art9.htm</a> <br />
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Perhaps it is understandable if the above is the real reason why so many refuse to "know" what's going on - this could explain many things. For instance if the above is true, then it would definitely be understandable that many would indeed fear for the loss of their jobs, or the loss of the income generated in their 401K's, or their stock portfolios - IF they were to publicly demand accountability from those who created 911 and then started these wars to cover-up their crimes. No wonder all the little lambs chose silence over protest: that is what the "smart-money" always does! <br />
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Congratulations are in order - it took real perseverance to turn this democracy on its head, and to learn to worship Outlaws while we are killing everything that we have always professed to "believe in." Welcome to the Dumbocracy of the New United States of the Corporatocracy. We have created a prison of the mind that will destroy any rational thoughts we ever had of being human. Maybe, we have become nothing more than pod people without the capacity for critical thought. We have abdicated all that we would each have brought to being viable beings, opting instead to live as footnotes in the margins of the lives of faceless, soulless corporations. In the final analysis we are destroying all that makes each of us valuable - to ourselves or to others. <br />
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Think about it - do you really want to be the excuse given for the USA to continue to live as the world's sole Dumbocracy? Break the Silence - NOW! <br />
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kirwan <br />
<p>---<br>Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-<br />
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jobs and human lives. But then, that's "competition", isn't it, to feed the profit demands of multinational gangsters, while 850,000 Canadians line up at the foodbanks and soupkitchens. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.
A positive id is a good thing, Sweetie.
counter-balances yer negative ego
and advocating using humans a targets, very much in keepin with the behaviour of chicken hawks
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Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-
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"Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, ALL TALK OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF PARLIAMENT AND OF DEMOCRACY IS IDLE AND FUTILE.”
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- William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874-1950) Prime Minister of Canada
Now what part of that are you NOT getting?
What part of this is the public not getting?
Where-ever a nation looses control of it currency to the banksters democracy and soveriegnty vanish.
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Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-
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Your country is imploding, there is talk of impeachment, yet another American puppet to the banksters president.<br />
The national debt controls you. <br />
The majority of the worlds people fear and do not respect you. So attack away, Worlds only superpower, <br />
and Know full well the majority of the worlds people hold you in distain.<br />
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Rather than self introspection and the fear of the undeniable truth you will discover you have allowed your heroes to hi-jack the constitution you are so proud.<br />
and you are angry <a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski113.html">http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski113.html</a><p>---<br>Always be tolerant with those who disagree with you. After all, they have a perfect right to their ridiculous opinions-<br />
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And on that note (thanks Dio for the money talk), I ask our American buddy: Agree with it or not, do you actually believe you had *anything whatsoever* do do with the history that has unfolded recently? Do you really believe that what your administration is doing on behalf of your nation has anything whatsoever to do with you? Here you are thumping your chest and pretending you voted for it. You didn't. This project preceded your vote and pre-empted your opinion, the evidence is clear and damning. Those spreading "freedom and democracy" around the world are trying only to detach their wealth from the fiat dollar U.S. economy, and private domestic sources of influence like pension funds, whose investors-in-trust actually operate so as to give a crap about the overage person, and who have thus been getting plenty of loud-mouth from the kleptocracy.
Next to watch: lots, lots of corp. bankruptcy protections, with the pension fund first on the chopper. And watch how that works: you'll only end up with half your pension, and that half will be paid for *again*, by *you*, from your own tax dollars!
Go team!