[michou]

Excellent posts all. I will be short (not like some of us here <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'> ) and just post a quick link to a recent commentary made by Dr. Gilo Muirragui, a retired senior economist from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). <br />It supports Calumny's reflexion on differences between Cuba and Canada. We in the rich westernized world have a tendency to compare our situation within an east-west line, forgetting the north-south axis, the south being the real source of our high standard of living. <br />According to Dr Muirragui, the road to success suggests control over what is produced, how it is produced and for whom. <br /> <br />Link : <a href="http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/8540/">How 10,000 misrule the world</a>

[Calumny]

How tall are you? <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'> <br /> <br />Excellent link(s). Glad to see so many jumping on board with my way of thinking (LOL, as we web denizens apparently say.

[michou]

[QUOTE BY= Calumny] How tall are you? <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/wink.gif' alt='Wink'> <br /> <br />[/QUOTE] <br /> <br />As tall as Carole Laure.

[Calumny]

Okay, you win. <br /> <br /> <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/eek.gif' alt='Eek!'>

[Milton]

Michou, that was a great article. We should get the names of those 10,000 individuals and start posting them all over the net and everywhere else. Shed some light on them.

[michou]

Milton, you may find what you're looking for here at <a href="http://www.corpwatch.org/">CorpWatch</a> and here at <a href="http://ww.doublestandards.org/">Double Standards</a>

[Kory Yamashita]

Calumny, that entire post of yours had me on the edge of my seat waiting for the mention of advertising. <br /> <br />I don't know why we let advertisers make ANY decisions. These are the people who are dumb enough to want to put giant mile-wide signs in outer space, so we can see Nike and Pepsi logos when we look up towards the stars. That's almost as stupid as BMD. <br /> <br />Imagine if, instead of bombarding us with propaganda, there was a directory referring you to specific stores based on the type of product you look up. Then it would be the consumer's initiative that starts every transaction. <br /> <br />Just a thought...

[michou]

[QUOTE BY= Kory Yamashita] Calumny, that entire post of yours had me on the edge of my seat waiting for the mention of advertising. <br /> <br />[/QUOTE] <br /> <br />If you like the feeling of the adrenaline pumping Kory, do a google search for <a href="http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php/category_id/1/subcategory_id/82/article_id/202">"neuromarketing"</a>. <br /> <br />Advertising, you say ? <br />(So Orwell got it wrong by 20 years.)

[Calumny]

But, not stupid from the seller's point of view (Wish upon a Pepsi?). <br /> <br />I personally like the idea of banning all advertising. What have we to lose...TV? <br />

[xdeathx10]

there is nothing in it for Canada and eventually it is going to shoot us in the foot. Everyone knows it, noones even trying to prevent it.

[N Say]

[QUOTE BY= Calumny]Given that foreign trade is presented as such a critical matter for Canada, I thought I'd check out available stats. Canadian import/export stats are available at the links below. <br /><a href="http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/gblec04.htm">Export</a> <br /><a href="http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/gblec05.htm">Import</a> <br /> <br />These links won't surprise anyone. We largely import manufactured goods and export resources. <br /> <br />The following link is from International Trade Canada. It provides an explanation of how foreign trade benefits all of us Canadians. <br /><a href="http://http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/gblec05.htm">Why Trade Matters <br /></a> <br />According to our government, trade enhances our lives. <br /><b>But</b>, as Michael Moore might ask, <b>does it?</b> <br />.... <br />Just wondered what others thought.[/QUOTE] <br /> <br />have a look at the following paper: <br /><a href="http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/ineas-aes.nsf/en/ra01707e.html">Intrafirm Trade of Canadian-based Foreign Transnational Companies <br /></a> <br /> <br />roughly HALF of all our trade is internal to US corporations!! so it isn't much of an exagerration to say that our "exports" are really US corporations taking our resources