http://canadapest.com/index.htmlHot News!eneditor@canadapest.comCopyright 2006 canadapest.com.com2006-09-03T07:33:55-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 13 May 2007 08:02:27 -0400editor@canadapest.comBrave New World2006-09-03T07:33:55-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/e408b8a07608a35e20a3642a798c8452-85.html#unique-entry-id-85http://canadapest.com/files/e408b8a07608a35e20a3642a798c8452-85.html#unique-entry-id-85Welcome to Uzbekistan, a U.S. and British ally in the war on terror!]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-09-02T19:53:47-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/3c283747d1e951f185e065ebeda16b76-84.html#unique-entry-id-84http://canadapest.com/files/3c283747d1e951f185e065ebeda16b76-84.html#unique-entry-id-84James Lovelock Says This Time We've Pushed the Earth Too Far
]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-08-27T20:53:02-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/b93afa1b47bfcb3935efb698fb7d0a94-83.html#unique-entry-id-83http://canadapest.com/files/b93afa1b47bfcb3935efb698fb7d0a94-83.html#unique-entry-id-83The new leader of the Green Party of Canada has called on the government to give notice to the U.S. that it wants to end the free-trade deal.]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-08-27T20:50:22-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/d493988cbccf084210deab200ed0c8d5-82.html#unique-entry-id-82http://canadapest.com/files/d493988cbccf084210deab200ed0c8d5-82.html#unique-entry-id-82Despite petitions from environmental groups, the federal Environment Minister will not step in to protect Canada's most endangered species.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-08-23T21:22:22-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/aec9f6c4fc19e2ed4af4c9f61126c5ec-81.html#unique-entry-id-81http://canadapest.com/files/aec9f6c4fc19e2ed4af4c9f61126c5ec-81.html#unique-entry-id-81The president who invaded Iraq without the slightest understanding of the country's ethnic composition or of the volcanic tensions that toppling its dictator might unleash.]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-08-23T21:13:41-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/0dd0fbe3ab9d304253484ae379646c2c-80.html#unique-entry-id-80http://canadapest.com/files/0dd0fbe3ab9d304253484ae379646c2c-80.html#unique-entry-id-80A Saskatchewan-based organic farming co-operative is promoting a North American fair trade initiative, saying Canadian farmers often struggle to earn a living wage because of rising production and growing competition.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-08-23T21:05:37-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/226d538679af315f2cb1560c86cbcede-79.html#unique-entry-id-79http://canadapest.com/files/226d538679af315f2cb1560c86cbcede-79.html#unique-entry-id-79The US-led "war on terror" has bolstered Iran's power and influence in the Middle East, especially over its neighbour and former enemy Iraq, a thinktank said today.]]>editor@canadapest.comHealth2006-06-28T09:11:56-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/444482d9fd85c06368c94ad21ea1177b-78.html#unique-entry-id-78http://canadapest.com/files/444482d9fd85c06368c94ad21ea1177b-78.html#unique-entry-id-78Trans fat is derived from a chemical process known as "partial hydrogenation." That's the process of converting liquid oils to a semi-solid form. It's what allows you to take a tub of margarine out of the fridge and spread it on your toast without ripping it apart, like you would with straight-from-the-fridge butter.
]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-06-15T10:22:18-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/98592020e81aa34c05a6ef7a3da66206-77.html#unique-entry-id-77http://canadapest.com/files/98592020e81aa34c05a6ef7a3da66206-77.html#unique-entry-id-77Another 9/11 `inevitable,' experts conclude - Washington's diplomatic efforts rated 1.8 out of 10

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-06-13T18:40:32-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/1ddc698bc8a0163be47654da546c1c69-76.html#unique-entry-id-76http://canadapest.com/files/1ddc698bc8a0163be47654da546c1c69-76.html#unique-entry-id-76New Adviser Pulled No Punches in His Magazine Pieces.

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-06-12T20:23:15-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/09009035396ca9c8633e30f7d2a1af6b-75.html#unique-entry-id-75http://canadapest.com/files/09009035396ca9c8633e30f7d2a1af6b-75.html#unique-entry-id-75· Bush officials' hard line provokes condemnation

]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-05-03T09:34:46-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/90d50728c2fc00e9179790762cce3792-73.html#unique-entry-id-73http://canadapest.com/files/90d50728c2fc00e9179790762cce3792-73.html#unique-entry-id-73Budget Slashes Funding Devoted to Goals of Emissions Pact

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-04-11T09:09:43-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/ad0dbc62df37b7f58a51c27a90aebc02-72.html#unique-entry-id-72http://canadapest.com/files/ad0dbc62df37b7f58a51c27a90aebc02-72.html#unique-entry-id-72A leaky president run afoul of "Little Rico"

]]>editor@canadapest.comMiddle East2006-04-03T20:40:40-04:00http://canadapest.com/files/418c69ab75846e15855ccbb4c5bbd4a9-71.html#unique-entry-id-71http://canadapest.com/files/418c69ab75846e15855ccbb4c5bbd4a9-71.html#unique-entry-id-71As the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq approaches, the country continues to face challenges in overcoming political instability, rampant violence, and persistent water and power outages.

]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-31T11:21:46-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/244e306c796cc854cc4fbbed71886a95-70.html#unique-entry-id-70http://canadapest.com/files/244e306c796cc854cc4fbbed71886a95-70.html#unique-entry-id-70World's coral reef loss 'an underwater holocaust'

]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-24T15:04:37-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/a54b49ed24f40ea2d807b688349ac6f2-69.html#unique-entry-id-69http://canadapest.com/files/a54b49ed24f40ea2d807b688349ac6f2-69.html#unique-entry-id-69Within the next 100 years, the growing human influence on Earth's climate could lead to a long and irreversible rise in sea levels by eroding Earth's vast polar ice sheets, according to new observations and analysis by several teams of scientists.

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-24T14:55:27-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/0711023a18465a311a3c4059988bf5d6-68.html#unique-entry-id-68http://canadapest.com/files/0711023a18465a311a3c4059988bf5d6-68.html#unique-entry-id-68Answer from Noam Chomsky: Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world, it is right in the midst of the major energy reserves in the world. Its been a primary goal of US policy since World War II (like Britain before it) to control what the State Department called "a stupendous source of strategic power" and one of the greatest material prizes in history. Establishing a client state in Iraq would significantly enhance that strategic power, a matter of great significance for the future. As Zbigniew Brzezinski observed, it would provide the US with "critical leverage" of its European and Asian rivals, a conception with roots in early post-war planning. These are substantial reasons for aggression -- not unlike those of the British when they invaded and occupied Iraq over 80 years earlier, at the dawn of the oil age.

See the full Washington Post "Chat With Chomsky"

]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-23T17:42:04-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/de693bc05a67dc9165768d2a1f92ecb8-67.html#unique-entry-id-67http://canadapest.com/files/de693bc05a67dc9165768d2a1f92ecb8-67.html#unique-entry-id-67Pharmaceuticals that people flush down the drain every day are showing up in our drinking water, says Ontario's environmental commissioner.

]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-20T11:55:53-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/901d585ea335def465840938e2f00de5-66.html#unique-entry-id-66http://canadapest.com/files/901d585ea335def465840938e2f00de5-66.html#unique-entry-id-66Opponents of Canada’s annual seal hunt urged Britain’s big supermarket chains on Monday to boycott Canadian fish and seafood products.

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-19T07:45:17-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/d13c21dc82f8bfd88d8cefb054c71362-65.html#unique-entry-id-65http://canadapest.com/files/d13c21dc82f8bfd88d8cefb054c71362-65.html#unique-entry-id-65US politicians aim for rugged, macho images because insecure voters want to feel that real men are in charge

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-19T07:41:53-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/76dab89b348d52c34eee9a8c7e4311d8-64.html#unique-entry-id-64http://canadapest.com/files/76dab89b348d52c34eee9a8c7e4311d8-64.html#unique-entry-id-64Sandra Day O'Connor, a Republican-appointed judge who retired last month after 24 years on the supreme court, has said the US is in danger of edging towards dictatorship if the party's rightwingers continue to attack the judiciary.

]]>editor@canadapest.comEurope2006-03-18T10:55:50-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/d72fe42b6962c73bffde15cac703d127-63.html#unique-entry-id-63http://canadapest.com/files/d72fe42b6962c73bffde15cac703d127-63.html#unique-entry-id-63Slobodan Milosevic is like a character written by Goethe. The arc of his life, his rise and fall, is Faustian.

]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-18T10:51:17-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/31de716eda1100fd7d55e3bdf34e1da3-62.html#unique-entry-id-62http://canadapest.com/files/31de716eda1100fd7d55e3bdf34e1da3-62.html#unique-entry-id-62Canadians Find the 'Prince of Pot' Harmless. The DEA Begs to Differ.

]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-17T10:20:11-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/ddd1893d593f7e8cca7102c172e5902e-61.html#unique-entry-id-61http://canadapest.com/files/ddd1893d593f7e8cca7102c172e5902e-61.html#unique-entry-id-61A Liberal senator has replied to a family in Minnesota upset about Canada's seal hunt with a letter denouncing the United States for executing prisoners at home and killing people in Iraq.

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-16T11:28:18-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/4832fecc5e915874557f444655e2d97f-60.html#unique-entry-id-60http://canadapest.com/files/4832fecc5e915874557f444655e2d97f-60.html#unique-entry-id-60Washington — Undaunted by the difficult war in Iraq, U.S. President George W. Bush reaffirmed Thursday his strike-first policy against terrorists and enemy nations and said Iran may pose the biggest challenge for the United States.

]]>editor@canadapest.comEurope2006-03-15T17:02:56-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/ee77be86b09f255c7eb4fbf4782a3509-59.html#unique-entry-id-59http://canadapest.com/files/ee77be86b09f255c7eb4fbf4782a3509-59.html#unique-entry-id-59Private schools highlight the gulf between classes in British society.]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-15T15:52:36-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/81f3e255445b15a175b7dcb3e7309a60-58.html#unique-entry-id-58http://canadapest.com/files/81f3e255445b15a175b7dcb3e7309a60-58.html#unique-entry-id-58a harbinger of one of the worst waves of extinction since the dinosaurs.

]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-15T12:39:11-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/16cad8bd2a606a0fa726f44795105e11-57.html#unique-entry-id-57http://canadapest.com/files/16cad8bd2a606a0fa726f44795105e11-57.html#unique-entry-id-57Resolutions approved by five towns to impeach U.S. President George W. Bush are giving several sleepy Vermont communities a new, renegade image.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-15T11:23:49-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/45a3e9a2cf43cb4f82337d0d8184e9f7-56.html#unique-entry-id-56http://canadapest.com/files/45a3e9a2cf43cb4f82337d0d8184e9f7-56.html#unique-entry-id-56WASHINGTON: The approval ratings of President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have fallen below 40 per cent, according to a poll published Tuesday.
]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-14T17:44:20-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/c257723282fc97e1d83a11252757af31-55.html#unique-entry-id-55http://canadapest.com/files/c257723282fc97e1d83a11252757af31-55.html#unique-entry-id-55A survey released today suggests 68 per cent of people in the United States and 54 per cent in Canada would be unlikely to purchase a card to avoid showing a passport at land crossings by the end of next year. About a third of people surveyed in each country who don't have passports said they'd be less likely to cross the border, a sign of an impending blow to tourism that's been estimated at nearly a billion dollars in the U.S. and twice that in Canada.]]>editor@canadapest.comTechnology2006-03-14T11:44:05-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/1391620d6bfd8ebd281d09f04fcf4d30-54.html#unique-entry-id-54http://canadapest.com/files/1391620d6bfd8ebd281d09f04fcf4d30-54.html#unique-entry-id-54SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google faces off against the U.S. Justice Department in federal court on Tuesday as the Internet company seeks to quash a subpoena for search data, including millions of user queries, in a battle over privacy issues on the Web.]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-03-14T09:28:42-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/faa09d6bdaaf2cc619777231a1942f60-53.html#unique-entry-id-53http://canadapest.com/files/faa09d6bdaaf2cc619777231a1942f60-53.html#unique-entry-id-53The combination of nail-biting soccer matches and crowds of beer-swilling males could mean hefty profits for Germany's sex industry.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-13T10:48:01-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/f9a63f3ecafa13c59a61e2e5738f4ae6-52.html#unique-entry-id-52http://canadapest.com/files/f9a63f3ecafa13c59a61e2e5738f4ae6-52.html#unique-entry-id-52PART 1: Why the emperor has no clothes

With its unique privilege of being able to print the world's reserve currency at will and at a cost of nothing but the paper and ink it is printed on, the US would seem to be in a can't-lose position economically. But even the mighty dollar is not invulnerable to the massive debt caused by over-consumption, under-production and the Pentagon's global adventures.

PART 2: The center of the doughnut

There is no doubt that a collapse of the US dollar would have far-reaching effects, even as some are abandoning Uncle Sam's formerly safe haven for euros, yen and even yuan. But while the US-dominated economy gets hollowed out like a doughnut, Uncle Sam marches forward with his global vision.]]>editor@canadapest.comMiddle East2006-03-13T10:40:34-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/a90b47f19d3a409d1980ea3500c71fe8-51.html#unique-entry-id-51http://canadapest.com/files/a90b47f19d3a409d1980ea3500c71fe8-51.html#unique-entry-id-51When the invitation to attend a human-rights workshop in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates came, it was a complete surprise]]>editor@canadapest.comHome2006-03-13T10:34:06-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/a00917c91dd588cf02dfb85408131acd-50.html#unique-entry-id-50http://canadapest.com/files/a00917c91dd588cf02dfb85408131acd-50.html#unique-entry-id-50Uneasy About Tehran's Nuclear Plans, Bush Administration Tries to Build Opposition to Theocracy]]>editor@canadapest.comEurope2006-03-13T10:30:43-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/f01defb5407fa9b1cb03e0723e09e4bf-49.html#unique-entry-id-49http://canadapest.com/files/f01defb5407fa9b1cb03e0723e09e4bf-49.html#unique-entry-id-49Five months after violent riots ravaged France's high immigration suburbs, youths still complain of government failure to take practical steps to tackle the root causes, namely unemployment, marginalization and mistreatment, risking a flare-up of violent protests.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-12T13:10:43-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/a7814bd46accd1bb11f5f8b224c71c4b-48.html#unique-entry-id-48http://canadapest.com/files/a7814bd46accd1bb11f5f8b224c71c4b-48.html#unique-entry-id-48Cheney's influence has waned!

]]>editor@canadapest.comMiddle East2006-03-11T17:01:33-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/b928c4b60153e14f06be404ade65802e-47.html#unique-entry-id-47http://canadapest.com/files/b928c4b60153e14f06be404ade65802e-47.html#unique-entry-id-47The caricatures of Prophet Muhammad first published in the Danish Jyllands-Posten then reprinted in a string of European newspapers have exposed the gulf separating the West from the Muslim world.]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-03-11T16:50:01-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/267684b2dad7056f16d325321a262c7b-46.html#unique-entry-id-46http://canadapest.com/files/267684b2dad7056f16d325321a262c7b-46.html#unique-entry-id-46Free -- and easy-to-read -- help is available at several Web sites!]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-11T16:45:29-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/cbcea3f0fe88593f9dcc98dc2aa10a5e-45.html#unique-entry-id-45http://canadapest.com/files/cbcea3f0fe88593f9dcc98dc2aa10a5e-45.html#unique-entry-id-45The public relations offensive is being launched amid intense concern in the White House about polls showing that a growing majority of Americans disapprove of Bush's handling of the war and harbor growing doubts about the prospects for success.]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-10T08:01:57-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/90aea1912bc7a5af12f62c43cfc82a0a-44.html#unique-entry-id-44http://canadapest.com/files/90aea1912bc7a5af12f62c43cfc82a0a-44.html#unique-entry-id-44
Tim Hortons to open in Kandahar - Move follows call by top soldier!]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-10T07:57:53-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/a49de78e119f124963288545e31453fc-43.html#unique-entry-id-43http://canadapest.com/files/a49de78e119f124963288545e31453fc-43.html#unique-entry-id-43Karl Rove decided to pull the plug!]]>editor@canadapest.comMiddle East2006-03-09T20:31:05-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/f5fc03c1f6cf8160d06858a51a577b98-42.html#unique-entry-id-42http://canadapest.com/files/f5fc03c1f6cf8160d06858a51a577b98-42.html#unique-entry-id-42headed for civil war and blamed the occupation forces for the sectarian violence.]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-03-09T20:22:11-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/2b4fd860be15fa49360eb2e51de54bba-41.html#unique-entry-id-41http://canadapest.com/files/2b4fd860be15fa49360eb2e51de54bba-41.html#unique-entry-id-41Organic foods are expanding beyond the realm of health food stores carrying unfamiliar brand names, as products from mainstream food companies and sales at traditional grocery stores are picking up, executives and analysts said this week.]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-03-08T10:58:03-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/73e9e40858ad4adf798d0b03725e4d08-40.html#unique-entry-id-40http://canadapest.com/files/73e9e40858ad4adf798d0b03725e4d08-40.html#unique-entry-id-40
Not familiar with the French term that comes from the words for flesh (chair) and cooked (cuit)?]]>editor@canadapest.comMiddle East2006-03-08T09:21:36-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/5c3e73780364dc1c861f208fac7968f4-39.html#unique-entry-id-39http://canadapest.com/files/5c3e73780364dc1c861f208fac7968f4-39.html#unique-entry-id-39Warns against pulling troops out of Iraq too soon Country `really vulnerable' to an all-out civil war]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-03-07T14:37:34-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/39f2776eee620205d31503c503fe6ff9-38.html#unique-entry-id-38http://canadapest.com/files/39f2776eee620205d31503c503fe6ff9-38.html#unique-entry-id-38Ottawa — A spokesman for the federal ethics commissioner says his boss will press on with a preliminary inquiry into Stephen Harper, despite opposition from the prime minister's office.]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-03-04T09:18:27-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/c4b62520b561daaaad27407de9fa4793-37.html#unique-entry-id-37http://canadapest.com/files/c4b62520b561daaaad27407de9fa4793-37.html#unique-entry-id-37]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-03T10:29:22-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/d0dca0c4f7d667fccfe47f7d1181800a-36.html#unique-entry-id-36http://canadapest.com/files/d0dca0c4f7d667fccfe47f7d1181800a-36.html#unique-entry-id-36One of the most discouraging morsels of news in recent days is that President Bush was so enchanted by Michael Crichton's novel purportedly debunking global warming that he asked Crichton to the White House to chat with him.]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-03T10:16:56-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/5ede1b60cc22897dc7bc1bcbcd3bd16d-35.html#unique-entry-id-35http://canadapest.com/files/5ede1b60cc22897dc7bc1bcbcd3bd16d-35.html#unique-entry-id-35Tuvalu will soon become a virtual nation]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-03T10:15:18-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/67223901c1100f0ccbcc66cde92a481c-34.html#unique-entry-id-34http://canadapest.com/files/67223901c1100f0ccbcc66cde92a481c-34.html#unique-entry-id-34Bush PR stunt reaches new height of hypocrisy]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-03T06:17:12-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/954483a0ffc3d57e675c80ec4bbe3ac6-33.html#unique-entry-id-33http://canadapest.com/files/954483a0ffc3d57e675c80ec4bbe3ac6-33.html#unique-entry-id-33The Antarctic ice sheet is losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year in a trend that scientists link to global warming, according to a new paper that provides the first evidence that the sheet's total mass is shrinking significantly.]]>editor@canadapest.comTechnology2006-03-02T15:30:45-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/212f3f66fb0d3ce5eb17b16bd41f8794-32.html#unique-entry-id-32http://canadapest.com/files/212f3f66fb0d3ce5eb17b16bd41f8794-32.html#unique-entry-id-32"The future is VoIP, let's be clear," Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT Retail, told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecom, Summit in Paris on Tuesday.]]>editor@canadapest.comEurope2006-03-02T08:05:20-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/5abf9655385e4a9d7ef7bd12b118cecb-31.html#unique-entry-id-31http://canadapest.com/files/5abf9655385e4a9d7ef7bd12b118cecb-31.html#unique-entry-id-31]]>editor@canadapest.comSouth America2006-03-02T08:01:13-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/58b9b7fed241c327cae9953ddb76a8c4-30.html#unique-entry-id-30http://canadapest.com/files/58b9b7fed241c327cae9953ddb76a8c4-30.html#unique-entry-id-30Brazil's Sex Workers Hand Out Condoms, Crossing U.S. Ideological Line]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-02T07:56:31-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/ea8a297a5e3b86a237973177f5d1577f-29.html#unique-entry-id-29http://canadapest.com/files/ea8a297a5e3b86a237973177f5d1577f-29.html#unique-entry-id-29Where Is Iraq After Nearly 3 Years of War?]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-03-01T11:37:41-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/46602ca8009be1e561ae805522f739bd-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://canadapest.com/files/46602ca8009be1e561ae805522f739bd-28.html#unique-entry-id-28
Requires QuickTime and a high speed internet connection!]]>editor@canadapest.comAsia2006-03-01T11:23:49-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/e689c5d4a18251e66094696ca94d3eeb-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://canadapest.com/files/e689c5d4a18251e66094696ca94d3eeb-27.html#unique-entry-id-27The latest fantasy ignores the facts that a nuclear deal with India would violate not just international agreements but also several U.S. laws regulating the export of nuclear materials...... and here is what happened - U.S., India Seal Historic Nuclear Energy Deal - President Bush, Prime Minister Singh agreed today to share data, fuel to help spur economic growth - and for another view see this!]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-03-01T06:15:59-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/f0c5c33e6ce60925f5014c0bd2805a5d-26.html#unique-entry-id-26http://canadapest.com/files/f0c5c33e6ce60925f5014c0bd2805a5d-26.html#unique-entry-id-26Millions of acres of Canada's lush green forests are turning red in spasms of death. A voracious beetle, whose population has exploded with the warming climate, is killing more trees than wildfires or logging.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-28T13:49:46-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/0f996f9454399321ba61392d10d1d2a9-25.html#unique-entry-id-25http://canadapest.com/files/0f996f9454399321ba61392d10d1d2a9-25.html#unique-entry-id-25The Bush administration will oppose a U.N.-backed resolution calling for the creation of a council to expose the world's worst human rights abusers, John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Monday.]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-02-27T21:36:01-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/abecee3e7ae815e99acec39526f1df9c-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://canadapest.com/files/abecee3e7ae815e99acec39526f1df9c-24.html#unique-entry-id-24The Earth's temperature could rise under the impact of global warming to levels far higher than previously predicted, according to the United Nations' team of climate experts.]]>editor@canadapest.comHealth2006-02-26T19:32:45-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/6da60da80959666eb96bf8dbbfa60d9e-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://canadapest.com/files/6da60da80959666eb96bf8dbbfa60d9e-23.html#unique-entry-id-23Find Suggests Disease May Play Role]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-26T16:43:25-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/6b2d4f50bdbc477227629e91bb6d3da3-22.html#unique-entry-id-22http://canadapest.com/files/6b2d4f50bdbc477227629e91bb6d3da3-22.html#unique-entry-id-22A Baptist preacher who calls New Orleans "sin city" and believes gay rights are the biggest threat to America, is questioning his faith in President George W. Bush.]]>editor@canadapest.comAsia2006-02-26T14:03:36-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/9584f71138b10985879878d9e7c3cf29-21.html#unique-entry-id-21http://canadapest.com/files/9584f71138b10985879878d9e7c3cf29-21.html#unique-entry-id-21Washington's recent decison to start pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan this year has only reinforced al Qaeda's belief that it is winning. After nearly five years of avoiding capture or death, every single day that bin Laden stays alive is a day that inspires the extremists who protect him and join his ranks.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-25T11:17:30-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/658712bd79292ac0c7302bcd07942568-20.html#unique-entry-id-20http://canadapest.com/files/658712bd79292ac0c7302bcd07942568-20.html#unique-entry-id-20

David Model BlogSpot]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-02-24T14:29:24-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/ca83f40ff474ff4d7a9bc375add08b67-19.html#unique-entry-id-19http://canadapest.com/files/ca83f40ff474ff4d7a9bc375add08b67-19.html#unique-entry-id-19A Bill introduced in California would require manufacturers to phase out lead, cadmium, chromium and mercury in making cell phones, iPods and other electronic devices.]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-24T14:13:17-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/6246fac5f7cf37d6b1d05ae875f01273-18.html#unique-entry-id-18http://canadapest.com/files/6246fac5f7cf37d6b1d05ae875f01273-18.html#unique-entry-id-18Reality - Bush asks Congress for $75M to politically destabilize Iran!]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-02-24T09:15:29-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/1a62ed552cc2ef4c1735a22a4b60d5b1-17.html#unique-entry-id-17http://canadapest.com/files/1a62ed552cc2ef4c1735a22a4b60d5b1-17.html#unique-entry-id-17Canada's new government hopes to repair relations with the United States]]>editor@canadapest.comMiddle East2006-02-24T08:53:51-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/c3b72947f88d8467c266859f6a53b6f0-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://canadapest.com/files/c3b72947f88d8467c266859f6a53b6f0-16.html#unique-entry-id-16The recent meeting between the US vice-president, Dick Cheney, and Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah confirmed the solid relations between Riyadh and Washington. Most Saudis, however, care more about the situation at home, under a new ruler who claims to want to change society and the role of women, to combat poverty and to promote greater freedom. Read the full article from Le Monde diplomatique!]]>editor@canadapest.comLife Style2006-02-24T08:02:13-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/4399b87ac1d2a0853ac75251f0ab9477-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://canadapest.com/files/4399b87ac1d2a0853ac75251f0ab9477-15.html#unique-entry-id-15After the most homophobic presidential elections in US history, it looks like Holywood is poised to strike back at the Oscars . Read the full story!]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-24T07:59:26-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/b6a56f3a13e6f2300c04ad355d07becd-14.html#unique-entry-id-14http://canadapest.com/files/b6a56f3a13e6f2300c04ad355d07becd-14.html#unique-entry-id-14Hours after a commercial plane struck the Pentagon on September 11 2001 the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to notes taken by one of them. Read the full article in the Guardian Unlimited!]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-24T07:52:24-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/7638908ed871a03b7702aae0079b8d08-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://canadapest.com/files/7638908ed871a03b7702aae0079b8d08-13.html#unique-entry-id-13Foreign operation of US ports is just a taste of what’s to come unless America changes its fiscal policies. See the full article by David Ignatius in the Washington Post!]]>editor@canadapest.comTechnology2006-02-22T16:31:55-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/2cb3cb65af7d8ffb7f011e71188c7518-12.html#unique-entry-id-12http://canadapest.com/files/2cb3cb65af7d8ffb7f011e71188c7518-12.html#unique-entry-id-12The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final rejection of one of five patents at issue in the infringement case against the maker of the BlackBerry portable e-mail device.]]>editor@canadapest.comCanada2006-02-22T11:26:48-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/bac085736b8ebcff838372efa156c32c-11.html#unique-entry-id-11http://canadapest.com/files/bac085736b8ebcff838372efa156c32c-11.html#unique-entry-id-11Over 20 candidates and members of Parliament for the Conservative Party of Canada, including leader Stephen Harper, Justice Critic Vic Toews, Foreign Affairs Critic Stockwell Day and Firearms Critic Garry Breitkreuz, have links to organizations established under the umbrella of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an American group that the New York Times calls a “club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country,” and which Rolling Stone reports has “funnelled billions of dollars to right-wing Christian activists.” Visit http://harperstiestousa.org/ for more on this one!]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-22T10:47:18-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/4e82f815a4783d66b417cafcff7abe06-10.html#unique-entry-id-10http://canadapest.com/files/4e82f815a4783d66b417cafcff7abe06-10.html#unique-entry-id-10
 vital 
By Gore Vidal

Patriots do not like this government. This is an unpatriotic government. This is a government that deals openly in illegalities, whether it is attacking a country which has done us no harm, two countries—Iraq and Afghanistan—because we now believe, not in declaring war through Congress as the Constitution requires, but through the President. “Well, I think there are some terrorists over there, and I think we got to bomb them, huh? We’ll bomb them.” Now, we’ve had idiots as presidents before. He’s not unique. But he’s certainly the most active idiot that we have ever had.
And now here we are planning new wars, ongoing wars in the Middle East. And so as he comes with his State of the Union, which he is going to justify eavesdropping without judicial warrants on anybody in the United States that he wants to listen in on. This is what we call dictatorship. Dictatorship. Dictatorship. And it is time that we objected. Don’t say wait ‘til the next election and do it through that. We can’t trust the elections, thanks to Diebold and S&S and all the electronic devices which are being flogged across the country to make sure that elections can be so rigged that the villains will stay in power.
I think demonstrations across the country could be very useful on this famous Tuesday. Just say no. We’ve had enough of you. Go home to Crawford. We’ll help you raise the money for a library, and you won’t even ever have to read a book. We’re not cruel. We just want to get rid of you and let you be an ex-president with his own library, which you can fill up with friends of yours who can neither read nor write, but they’ll be well served and well paid, we hope, by corporate America, which will love you forever.
So I think it is really up to us to give some resonance to the State of the Union, which will be largely babble. He’s really not going to try to do anything about Social Security, we read in the papers. He has no major moves, other than going on and on about the legality of his illegal warrantless eavesdroppings and other breakings of the law.
I had a piece on the internet some of you may have seen a few days ago, and there’s a story about Tiberius, who’s one of my favorite Roman emperors. He’s had a very bad press, because the wrong people perhaps have written history. But when he became emperor, the Senate of Rome sent him congratulations with the comment, “Any law that you want us to pass, we shall do so automatically.” And he sent a message back. He said, “This is outrageous! Suppose I go mad. Suppose I don’t know what I’m doing. Suppose I’m dead and somebody is pretending to be me. Never do that! Never accept something like preemptive war,” which luckily the Senate did not propose preemptive wars against places they didn’t like. But Mr. Bush has done that.
So this is a sort of Tiberius time without, basically, a good emperor, and he was a good emperor in the sense that he sent back this legislation, which was to confirm anything he wanted to have done automatically. And they sent it back to him again. And then he said, “How eager you are to be slaves,” and washed his hands of the Senate and went to live in Capri, a much wiser choice, just as we can send this kid back to Crawford, Texas, where he’ll be very, very happy cutting bushes of the leafy variety.
You know, it’s at a time when people say, ‘Well, it makes no difference what we do, you know, if we march and we make speeches, and this and that.’ It makes a lot of difference if millions of Americans just say, “We are fed up! We don’t like you. We don’t like what you’re doing to the country and what you have done to the country. We don’t like to live in a lawless land, where the rule of law has just been bypassed and hacks are appointed to the federal bench, who will carry on and carry on and carry on all of the illegalities which are so desperately needed by our military-industrial corporate masters.”
I think a day dedicated to that and to just showing up here and there around the country will be a good thing to do. And so, let the powers that be know that back of them, there’s something called “We the people of the United States,” and all sovereignty rests in us, not in the board rooms of the Republicans.

Gore Vidal is the author of more than twenty novels and five plays. His recent national bestsellers are Dreaming War and Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. His latest book is called Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia.
Democracy Now’s transcript of Gore Vidal speaking]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-02-22T10:43:22-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/f1971b0b9e2971daf8e9f6692f47ea37-9.html#unique-entry-id-9http://canadapest.com/files/f1971b0b9e2971daf8e9f6692f47ea37-9.html#unique-entry-id-9The ubiquitous chemical PFOA, “used to make waterproof clothing, phone cables, building materials and more,” has been detected in 95% of Americans and even in arctic polar bears. The Los Angeles Times reports “In animal tests, it has been found to cause birth defects and has been linked to cancer and immune suppression, among other health problems. It stays in the human body for years and is passed on to a fetus during pregnancy.” Last year DuPont dished out the largest EPA fine in history for its PFOA cover-up ($16.5 million), and the company will pay a $342 million settlement for contaminating residential water supplies in Ohio and West Virginia. Now that DuPont is already scaling back emissions to avoid further settlements, instead of issuing a ban, the EPA has asked the chemicals industry to prevent the release of PFOA into the environment. Will this be the end of Teflon manufacturing?]]>editor@canadapest.comEnvironment2006-02-22T10:22:08-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/4ab3bd3a4bbb576c3d52d41c32a3e479-8.html#unique-entry-id-8http://canadapest.com/files/4ab3bd3a4bbb576c3d52d41c32a3e479-8.html#unique-entry-id-8kahala".]]>editor@canadapest.comUSA2006-02-22T07:46:33-05:00http://canadapest.com/files/745a6bc7b012d091021ecc7821ded080-7.html#unique-entry-id-7http://canadapest.com/files/745a6bc7b012d091021ecc7821ded080-7.html#unique-entry-id-7I am confused by the Bush Administration. It seems really strange to come out with such strong support for the takeover of the major ports in the USA by a company based in the United Arab Emirates (Bush Defends Port Deal With Middle East Firm) on the basis that it poses no risk. Sounds like the special flights arranged to evacuate Saudi friends of the Bush family on September 12. No risk also doesn't seem to be a valid criteria coming from Bush - Saddam was no risk but it didn't stop the Bush Administration from claiming he was. Seems that "risk" is based on personal friendship with Bush - or not. Talk about High School Confidential - and this guy is the Leader of the Free World! - see "Terror fears, stoked by Bush, now bite him" and "President George W. Bush did not know about a deal to hand over operations at six major U.S. ports to an Arab company until after his administration approved it."
For another viewpoint see "Arabs see phobia behind uproar over ports deal". ]]>