"The Canadian government is dismissing calls for a public inquiry into the alleged torture of prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.Click here to read the full story/. Recommend this post
Defence Minister Peter MacKay defended his government Thursday in light of allegations that detainees were routinely abused.
"There has not been a single, solitary proven allegation of abuse involving a transferred Taliban prisoner by Canadian forces," MacKay said in the House of Commons.
His comments came a day after Richard Colvin, a former senior diplomat with Canada's Afghan mission, dropped a political bombshell on Parliament, alleging that suspects handed over by Canada to Afghan authorities were tortured."
He is showing a few dance moves to the President of China, Hu Jintao. It is not clear what the mission of this visit is. One thing is for sure, China is an economic and military power to reckon with. It may be the super power in the world down the road. China has shown the US that unbridled capitalism could fail and does fail miserably. Also, China is the biggest lender to the US government – a sum of $800 billion. And it may be that it owns a lot of Wall Street too.
The US has shown that unchecked capitalism can bring disastrous results. The US or the West cannot and should not copy China for the central control; but extensive regulations are needed to keep off the Bernie Madoffs of this world. Bernie Madoff was one of the many symptoms of the failing US economy. If all humans were angelic then we would not need regulations and unbridled capitalism may work but unfortunately the reality is quite different. As a matter of fact, if humans were angels then we wouldn't even need government, police and laws. Since humans are humans we need government, we need police and we need good regulations to control and guide capitalism and markets.
The event is closed to media but through our efforts we found out what she will be saying ;)
我可以从我的后院俄罗斯 (和中国了。我是一个傻瓜。(I can see Russia from my house and China too. I am a goofball).
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Stockwell Day has no problem visiting China now. Not long ago, he and his boss Harper were harping about the poor human rights record in China. Now, suddenly, it looks that the violation of rights slate has been wiped clean in order to increase trade with China. After all, China has over 1.5 billion population and is the largest country in the world by population. Also, it is a fast growing economy. For Harper and Day, now that there are hard economic times, it is time to set aside the human rights facade.
Who are they kidding? Does anyone believe that Harper and his underlings believe in human rights and that they are champions of human rights? It was some ego problem Harper had when he first ran into the Chinese leader. Yeah they are "spreading human rights in Afganistan" and if you believe that I will sell you the CN Tower. Sorry Flaherty is already selling that, so I will sell you Confederation Bridge which links New Brunswick and PEI.
Then of course when Harper was Right/Wrong Honourable leader of the opposition, he full-heartedly supported the Iraq war. That must be a record breaking human rights promotion, over 100,000 Iraqis killed and the mayhem has not ended yet. Then more recently Harper backed Israel to carry on murder and mayhem in Gaza. If they are champions of human rights, then who needs humanity. I suppose if the Tar Sands continue to develop at the current speed then Harper, and now Iggy, have contributed towards ending humanity. Yeah human rights in abundance – talking about charades.
One of these days Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will shake hands with the Chinese official Dai Bingguo and US relations with China will be normalized. Until such time we must all hold our breath?
The sooner the US realizes that it is no longer the financial and military power it once was, the better it will be for the world. Once the US learns to deal with the Asian countries at an equal level as partners, we may have better world. Until such time, US hands may be open and extended but they will remain empty.
...and sold to Hu Jintao of China. The way China is buying American companies and lending money to the Bush administration, it can own the US in the foreseeable future. China can conquer the US without firing a single bullet, it's called the financial nuclear bomb.
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