By: David Drews

David Drews — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:34:47 +0000

Hello Dave,Thanks for the post and I do enjoy your emails. Quite delightful.Regards your answers to the greedy executives and foreign ownership of Canadian resources, I would like you to ask yourself if those answers are likely to become solutions. Is there any evidence or history found in Western societies that point toward such things happening? (Other than wars and assassinations, of course.)Enacting these solutions would be simple as you state but the real difficulty lies in building a national consensus of support. That would not be so easy in my view. In the U. S., doing such a thing is quite unlikely given the power of the ruling elite and the apathy of the masses.I’ve found an interesting book within whose pages you might find some causes (perhaps THE cause) for our current world-wide dilemma. It’s titled Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) authored by Tavris and Aronson. It’s a nice followup to Gray’s Straw Dogs in that it helps to explain why things are as they are and are likely to remain so. Thanks for tipping us off to Gray’s book.My take on the human predicament is that the window of opportunity for positive change only exists when one generation passes and the next takes up the mantle of leadership. This means subtely pointing the upcoming generation in the right direction as they develop. And this is a function of proper education and the development of critical thinking skills.Sincerely,David

By: Dale Asberry

Dale Asberry — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:04:46 +0000

and this from yesterday:Marathon to Buy Western Oil Sands for C$5.8 Billionhttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aBkuMo70B.nY&refer=canada

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:45:45 +0000

This is bang on: it’s not the game of capitalism we are playing here; it’s monopoly – and boardwalk has hotels on it.

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