Here is an excellent interview with Kathy Gannon, Canadian author and journalist with Associated Press. To understand the current state of affairs in Afghanistan it is important to take a look at how it arrived to this point. Kathy Gannon Interview Download it in MP3 format. It was recorded from CBC Radio Ottawa March 2006. 

Buy her book "I is for Infidel" published 2006. The Canadian military and its political masters and advisers would be wise to read her accounts of having lived in Afghanistan for 18 years.

What Are We Doing in Afghanistan?

Like many other Canadians, I am waking up to the seriousness of our part in the "war on terror" 
in Afghanistan. Some of the questions for which I and others seek specific answers include the 
following:

1. Has the Canadian government accepted the American definition of "War on Terror?" 

2. If so, is our government defining what we are doing in Afghanistan as such a war?

3. Again, if so, does that mean that Canada will pursue that war anywhere the US does?

4. What are the objectives of this war:
a) to kill as many Taliban and its allies we consider to be enemies? 
b) to bring about a "surrender"? Of whom, and to whom?
c) to reach a ceasefire agreement? with whom?
d) to rehabilitate the political economy of the country?
e) others?

5. Who determines who are the "enemy Taliban",or are they all "enemies", including women and 
children?

6. Do the "rules of international war" come into play (humane treatment of prisoners, no torture, 
etc.)? If so, who is monitoring this?

7. How should the "war" be terminated?

8. To what extent has the UN sanctioned this "war"? Who, exactly? And has the International Court 
had anything to say? Which UN agencies are involved in seeking to resolve it, and what steps are 
they taking?

9. What is the other side's formal position on the "war"?

10. Which of all the actions now taking place are "peace-keeping" and which "war making?" Who 
makes that definition and the decisions, which follow?

Charactures of Mohamed 

Without question, the Islamic leadership is on track with turning Islam into a theology of liberation, replacing the secular socialists, communists and nationalists. Gwynne Dyer writes in the New Edition of WAR that Bin Laden, while highly successful in goading the Americans into aggravating the discontented Islamic majority further by invading Afghanistan and Iraq, has until now not been able and maybe never will, get Muslims by the millions on the street to overthrow their western dependent governments. We'll see. The story of Hamas and its founder Ahmad Yasin (assassinated by Israel) accurately reflects the path by which a religiously motivated movement became the dominant political force - not to mention Iran and Afghanistan.

We will all be with you one day Jupi!

Peace

March 19 2003

I see some of parallels  between
the Third Reich and the direction in which the US administration is
heading. I see how  George Bush's corporate supporters are getting him as
wrong as Germany's corporations got Hitler. The US corporate elite backs
George Bush because it believes that George Bush is their paid instrument,
serving their purpose, under their direction. The Germany corporate elite
thought the same about Hitler.  For a while this turned out to be true
after Hitler got into power. However, it did not last long. Soon it became
apparent that Hitler was more at home in the mythical world of Richard
Wagner than in the day to day world of Germany's establishment. Hitler's
mythical reality made sense to a sufficiently large section of  the
German people, so he could carry them along. Whatever control the German
corporate elite and the establishment had over Hitler was soon lost in the
rush toward the 1000 Years German Empire.

I wish the peace movement would pay less attention to George Bush's well
known links to corporate interests and pay more attention George Bush's
imaginary world. We could have a greater impact if we were to bring to bear
our keen perception and formidable communication skills on the belief system
and the script which seems to inform George Bush - and large parts of his
administration. 

When U.S. Foreign Policy Meets Biblical Prophecy By Paul S. Boyer, AlterNet February 20, 2003

In the Name of God by Jack Beatty The Atlantic Online March 5 2003

Bush's Armageddon Obsession By Michael Ortiz Hill, AlterNet October 23, 2002

Fundamentally Unsound by Michelle Goldberg, Salon August 2 2002

CARE SHEETS

UPDATE NOTE: I have added to this page a list of links to sites that have some of the best husbandry and care information. Otherwise these pages are written by myself unless otherwise stated. I have compiled the information from my own experience, research and contacts. Here is a handy Imperial/Metric Converter.

PLANS for CAGES

More plans to come one of these years.

Doomsday Theology a Ticking Bomb The End of Days

Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount

by

Gershom Gorenberg

Negotiations over a disputed Jerusalem holy site are failing to take into account its central role in the end-times prophecies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike - or to calm those who want to see the prophecies played out, an Israeli author warns...

Read the book review printed in the Ottawa Citizen on Feb 3 2001

Globalization Section

OPINION: Tax-Cutter's Guide to the Class Structure of Canada

by Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers

THE TOBIN TAX

A 0.1% - 0.25% tax on each cross-border currency transaction will also help stabilize currencies in developing countries as well. 

Here are some interesting facts.  

 THE TOBIN TAX INITIATIVE

Cambodian Links

Cambodia Today

Cambodia Journal

Consumer Section. The Good the Bad and the Ugly

The Banks!

           Why pay service fees when ALL normal banking can be done for free with Presidents Choice Financial

Amazon.com

           Canadian Retailers take heed. Amazon.com does it better!!! Amazon.com

Asus Motherboards

           New Motherboard is impossible to repair; no video. Read more here... My ASUS issue

Lexmark Printers

          Expensive unreliable cartridges and crappy paper feed. NEWS Lexmark actually called me regarding this notice. The rep left a message, I replied and they failed to return my call. I should have been more persistent.

Brother Fax Machines

        Complicated and unreliable settings. Unknowledgeable Teach support! Bad Manufacturing.

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