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Dalai Lama's nation. If the continents sinking just as the hollywood fantasy named 2012 showed, Dalai Lama's temple would be on the last high ground.....Maybe that Harper, Bush and Obama kind are so desirous to meet Dalai Lama is just for booking some tickets for their billionaire and billionairess funders. If there is something which should be concerned, it is that in the movie, Dalai Lama's kind even have to be aboard the ship via a gear chamber.....It is a pathetic world, isn't it?

And it can also contribute positive effect if the one who is under the inquisition is faultless and responses the question properly. For example: Maybe there are a lot of people who agree with the writer of the article that the general was humiliated by the reporter, but they are wrong. If the reporter didn't ask the question to General Walter Natynczyk, should anyone suppose that there would be nobody amoung 30 million Canadian having the same question in their minds? If the media question the General, he will have the chance to clarify any misunderstanding on his rule in the incident. If the media avoids to question him, the question among many common Canadian will still exist and the general will not have the opportunity to explain his position to them.

One reason is the same that a capitalist, if his business is big enough, has to pay managers to help him running his business. Theoretically, if the capitalist had enough ability and energy to do everything in his business, there even would be no need to hire workers. But in reality, a single person can't do everything himself like that. Another reason is the same that a doctor can not treat the illness of himself or even his child's in person if the illness is serious. If a doctor could treat himself, sometimes the treatment might be affected by his own emotion and might no longer be objective and correct. For example, if the liberals trusted their money into a conservative government runned bank, how on earth could they have confidence that the government would not invest their money into some irreparable businesses just for getting votes from those voters who worked in these sectors?

Generally I agree with you. Personally, I don't care police using my photo to help them hunting a criminal. Of course, maybe politicians more care to be related to any scandals, especially to an notorious terrorist. In this case, I just think there may be some lazy approach because the forensic artist of FBI borrowed too much from one person. Borrowing some skin from another person to make a 52 years old Bin Laden can not cause problem. But it seems like the artist also borrowed a lot of the facial outline of the spanish, and this is why the photo was spotted out by the spanish. In common sense, if the synthesized photo looks more like the spanish, it is supposed less resembling Bin Laden himself, for the features of the two men are obviously not alike at all.

Spanish MP's photo used for Osama Bin Laden poster FBI was not able to get a photo of Ben Laden, so they got a photo from internet and made up one instead. No wonder old Osama is still at large if intelligence, police and soldiers use this photo hunting him.

Harper would be listed among those great men who changed their country's course in history, though he did that unintentionally , if the concept was abolished due to what he had done. In some Chinese internet political forums and websites, there is a folksay of "ass determines brain", which is mostly used by poor peasants to lash those peasant family born communist officials. It means "how a person thinks depends on where he sits" or "a person's (political or social) position determines his action". But I'm afraid that this method may also suit for Canadian politicians. When one day someone sits on where Harper sits today, the magic chair will also charm his brain and there won't be any change.

Let's assume that there was a businessman named Mr.Khanada, and for somehow he needed some money to improve his business. There were two bankers caming forth. The first one offered him a loan of 3 years without recovery ahead of schedule. The second offered the same amount of loan of unlimited period but with the condition that the bank could recover it at any time. Do you think the two offers were the same to Mr.Khanada? If Mr.Khanada came to you for consultation, which offer would you like to suggest him to accept? If Mr.Khanada's business was to make CD-ROMs, keyboards, power supplies...etc, for HP or Dell, would you think the CEOs or MBAs would still keep in good mood when they received an offer from Mr.Khanada which told them that all these products's prices had to rise 20% than it was three months ago because exchange rate had changed rapidly?

I think foreign exchange speculation isn't like what China has done to the US, its effect is worse than that. What China buys from the US is its public dubts. The action bands Chinese investment with the success of American economy. If American economy fail, Chinese investment will also suffer loss. If China wants to sell these dubts, it has to find another buyer, it is not easy when these debts are devaluing, so China has to help America to re-boom it economy. America has no obligation to buy back these dubts unless they are expired. As to Russian has bought some Canadian dollars, it is totally another matter. If someday they want selling them, what they need to do is to go to the Bank of Canada and demand the bank to repurchase them. Canada's central bank has no rights to refuse the request unless Canadian wants their country becomes another Zimbabwei. Generally, foreign exchange speculation may make Canada Dollars overvalued or undervalued periodically. It is not good for Canada's economy, especially manufacturing sector.

I upgraded my dell755 desktop computer a few weeks ago. Exactly it is not an upgrade. I still kept the old Windows XP in the disk while installed Windows 7 professional 64bit in another partition forming a duel-booted system. According to my experience of using Microsoft Windows for over 20 years, it is the only way to upgrade to a new system without throwing out some hardwares which are not compatible. The first hardware having problem with Windows 7 is a Taiwan made USB blue tooth adapter, which once worked perfectly with my dell 8135 blue teeth keyboard under Windows XP and Vista, and thanks heaven I still have the old usb keyboard in a closet so I can click something into the computer. I have orderd a new Dell brand adapter instead hoping that a pure-blood system might exceed multiculturalism. The second hardware failed under Windows 7 is my Pinnacle USB-700 MPEG video encoder. This time Microsoft kindly prompted me that the hardware is not compatible with Windows 7 and gave me a link to find the solution. I clicked the link and found it was Pinnacle website which told me I should spend hundreds dollars to buy a new encoder... The third hardware is my old Canon BP810 printer. When I first went into Canon's website and found a patch for Windows 7, for a time I though at least I had fixed one old hardware. But when I installed the patch, it didn't work. I searched in Internet and finally found out the patch only supported 32bit Windows 7...Microsoft offered users to choise the 32bit or 64bit system, but once the system is actived, it is unchangable.Unfortunately I activated the system before found this problem. And thanks the CEO/CFO/UFO... of HP, their HP1600 printer fully supports Windows 7, so what I need to do is to exchange the printers between the computer and another computer which uses Vista with HP1600. The fourth hardware is a USB secure key issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which is a security divice the Bank used to identify the true account owner. I searched the internet without finding any solution, and the state-runned business giant showed no intention to offer a solution. Ironically, some posts said the device working perfectly under the pirated Windows 7---it seems like that the Microsoft China Illegal Software Factory has improved the compatibility of Windows 7 I think Microsoft has done a great job on economy which politicians and economists want to do but mostly have failed to do---pulling up GDP and prompting productivity. Just imagine, if every computer owner around the world has to spend hundreds dollars to buy new hardwares and softwares to fit the new system, the effectiveness of the total consumption must exceed any stimulus planned by any government and any economist.

When people deposit their money in a bank, maybe most of them don't realize that they have given the control of their money to the banks----the banks will invest their money in something, that's where the interest the banks will pay them comes from, and their money might totally lose because of the mistake of the bankers---just as we have seen from this financial crisis. But people have to use banks, because not all people have the talent and time to wallow in the stock exchanges of Wall Street. People also need governmental supervising on their food and medicine, because not all of them are doctors or chemists.

I think the flaw of the War on Drugs is the same one of the War on Terror----people hastily goes into a war to solve a problem without knowing what is the real cause of the problem. I have to confess that I have no idea why some people use drugs, I don't mean those who are addictive because of their previous medical treatment, since people could access all knowledges of the harms of drug abuse via TV, newspaper and other media, or "education". Half a century ago, Mao launched a "war on drug" in China by sheer coercion. All drug addicts were sent into "drug rehabilitation centers", which were some kind of "merciful jail" then to force them rehabilitation, and all drug dealers were executed. For a time, it looked like he had succeeded. But just several years after his death, drug abuse comes back.

I think they are doing a great job if what you said is true. The so-called "Chinese traditional medicine" is not a cheaper health solution for patients, though it maybe a cheaper solution for those irresponsible governments and regimes which legalize it, because sometimes it costs people's life. One of my classmate's mother believed in Chinese traditional medicine. Many years ago she was find slight anaemia in a regular blood test. Instead of advising a "western medicine" doctor, she went for a Chinese traditional medicine "doctor" and spent a lot of money for buying useless herbal medicine. A year later she had to go to a "western medicine doctor" for feeling pain in her chest. She was found cancer and died several months later. In China, Chinese was once called "the sick man of East Asia" and most Chinese died before their 40s when this "traditional medicine" dominated China and before western medicine was introduced into China. Ironically, this "Chinese traditional medicine" which was incompetent curing tuberculosis and pneumonia in the past now claims it is capable to treat cancer, AIDS....and of course influenza H1N1. I think it is a shame for China to legalize such cheat and to spend billions of taxpayer's money on paying such useless treatments. Not all traditions are good and cultural. Spitting on floor was once a tradition in China, but it is neither good nor cultural and should not be preserved at all.

About rights, all sorts of rights like constitutional rights, political-correct rights, holy-books-fitting rights.... there is a joke of holy-books-fitting rights which shows how the rights-correctness is wrong: After occupying a theocratic country, the president and other NATO leaders received 48 urgent phone calls everyday from the puppet PM they proped up. President: What's going on? puppet PM: Your soldiers are unhooding our women in the checkpoint they set in streets. President: I know. They are just trying to identify whether the person is the same one in the identity card. puppet PM: According our holy-book, a woman unhood herself in the street is a blasphemy and totally unacceptable. President: But how on earth our soldiers could sort out terrorists from these hooded people? puppet PM: I'll agree anything which is not forbidden by our holy books. Harper: Don't worry. Some brilliant Canadian scientists have invented some high-tech spectacles being able to see through any clothes though it isn't capable seeing through a wall yet to satisfy RCMP's demand for avoiding any unchangeable legal restriction of unreasonable search to a house. President: Then that settles it. Thanks heaven, buddies, now our soldiers are not only being able to see their face, but also being able to see their ass.......

It seems like you interpret a constitution of a democratic country as some holy book's Law in a theocratic country, which is unchangeable because it was written by their gods, not man. Any man-made things can be change by man. United States Constitution has been change 18 times with 27 amendments. Honestly I don't know Canadian legal system very well. Though I think things in Canada may be more difficult than America because some historical reason, but I believe if the overwhelming majority of Canadian wants a change, there will be a change. Exactly I believe it is not entriely impossible to change those holy-book's laws. In 1600s, it seemed like impossible to make church to agree that the earth orbits the sun, but today nobody disagrees with it. I think you, again, has misunderstood the system of your country. Only the legal representative of Canada and Canadian people can demand me like that and you are not the representative, I'm sure of that.

I think it is the politician's and lawmaker's responsibility to set some conditions in law to allow police conducting such deed. Maybe it only needs adding one term in laws allowing a judge to issue a collective warrant for a certain area not only one house in such circumstance. As a man who lives in a developing country, I do feel for your story. Politicians, lawmakers, and of course the voters behind them, always talk about what kind of laws/policies is good and what kind of laws/policies is bad or evil. Stone-aged judges settled a lawsuit by setting a stick vertically in front of the accused then released it, when the stick falled to the accused's side, he was guilty. When I was a teenager, I wondered what on earth was the function of such activities? But by now I think I have understood it. The stone-aged tribe kinds/queens/judges did these at the time not because they were not as smart as nowaday judges, police and politicians, but because they didn't have the resorts the modern police have to discover the truth. I bet the one who designed the stick-judging system perfectly knew what he was doing. He only did that because he also knew that, since the tribe had grown far more bigger than a monkey herd, things might go more worse if there was not a 50%-correct judge system. Maybe in the future, the technology will make police being able to find a missing kid or a criminal by satellites so there will not be any search needed and people in the furture may think how stupid, brutal and future-political-incorrect we are just as we think what our stone-aged ancestors were. But we do live in the present world not furture, why shouldn't we, and the politicians and law makers be pragmatic and make the laws more fitting the circumstance we faced?

If you were a politician and I was a Canadian, I would like to vote you on principle or theory, though there are practical problems I have pointed out years ago that there is not a common acknowledgement on what kind of persons should suit being Canadian. But the fact is you are not politician and I was not a Canadian, so it is not a mistake if he is a citizen.

I remember in one of his posts of "law protect this/that/..." he said he is a Canadian citizen and I think he is not the first one speaking things like that and I bet some of them are not only Canadian citizen but also Canadian born. In any case, your response is irrelative to the thread. For example, would it be decent if an Aferican Canadian or immigrant wrote to Harper complaining "my kids has not got a shot beacuse there is a vaccine lack and the vaccination is badly managed", then Harper replied him "You have not right to complain because the country you come from has not any vaccination yet!"

I believe bjre is a Canadian and according to Chinese law, he has been canceled his Chinese citizenship. Since there also are other Canadians criticized the system with bjre's way and no one mentioned the countries they come from, I think there is no need to introduce caste and untouchable system into Canada to build a second class citizenship of Canadian.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/11/10/mariam-search-police361.html I think you have misunderstood the meaning of the methods. "Innocent until proven guilty" is a method which suits for judges not for police. On the contrary, "guilty until proven innocent" is a method which suits for police and many other professions which are responsible for finding a faulty component among lots of innocent ones. A doctor for one, if a patient comes and tells him he has got a cold becasue he has a fever, he can not prescribe the patient some drug for a cold and simply kicks him out. He must look into every causes which would cause a fever and presume these causes may be responsible for the patient's symptom until he is satisfied by medical examinations and rules them out. In the case you quoted, theoretically, it is no harm to an innocent if he is in the list of police's suspects. Of course, in practice, there may have some harm because some policemen or silly media "writers"(and our neighbours, bosses and colleagues) may also misunderstand and abuse the method. I remember in the 8 years girl Victoria (Tori) Stafford's case, medium prooflessly "reported" her mother was the suspect behind the abduction and some policemen came to her home threatening her mother with words like "we know it is you" even if she had passed the lie detecting test. As a father of a 6 years old boy, I know how harmful those deeds of the police and the medium was to a mother whose girl was missing. I believe in Canada Tori's mother has the legal right to refuse the lie detector. But if she insisted her legal right, I bet we would see more horrible things happened on her.

Though maybe Harper has earned him a reputation of what you said, but I doubt there are any "advisors" who have ever offered him or the PM before him an viable plan to win the war. As the Canadian conservative boss and a well-known long-standing "Bush's war" supporting politician, I bet that his conclusion of "the war is unwinnable" is just because no one, even neither Bush nor Obama---the boss of NATO and the mission, could offer him a practicable plan of how to win the war, though there maybe has a plan of how to avoid to lose the war just as you have been offering here all the time. Nonetheless, I think Karzai-kinds will survive in power after NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan if western countries still economically prop their regime. People should not forget that the regime propped by Soviet had survived many years after soviet troops's withdrawal until Soviet was about collapse. Taliban is a tribal army, their power comes from these tribal areas which support them but also is limited in these areas.

I think she was just commenting on this: If he was a civilian, I would agree with you that he has the right to express his opinion on such issue. Being a soldier, of course he also has the right to express the opinion if it is not in the public. But I agree with American Woman that his superior should investigate into and consider his political and religious inclination and decide whether he still suits being a soldier, or at least they should consider his dispatch and maybe it is better to send him to another region.

Sometimes people are hardly to go to action just for overhearing a person who says something. I remember many years ago I overheard a conversation of two of my neighbour standing just behind me in an elevator. One fat old lady told another that she felt headache and could not sleep last night but not showed any syndrome of catching a cold. I happened just read an article of a doctor said that people should take the "uncaused" headache which was just the same as she described seriously, because it may indicate the sign of cerebral thrombosis. For a time I thought I should warn her, but I barely knew her and I was not in the conversation. Isn't it rude to break into other people's talke and told her what I thought especially I was not a doctor? How many people would end up with stroke after they complained headache? When I was lost in such consideration, the elevator reached her floor and she went out. Several days later, another neighbour told me she was in the hospital and I saw her came back with an armchair a month later, and she had never left the armchair again. Up til now I'm still unsure whether I sould warn her regardless any other considerations.

and I also wish the "freedom-lived people", that's what they call themself, being open-minded on the ideas and knowledge whhich they may not understand at present like the cat in the classroom of an university in the video. It's no harm to listen and know something which is different from what you have known. A Cat MBA

It seems like there are also some wisdom in this event. One cub made a diversion meanwhile another opened the door escaping. Two Panda Cubs Teased Their Caretaker

I think the two events are different and are not comparable. The mediums have suggest that the killer is a Muslim and the killing is related with that he will be dispatched to Iraq. About the volunteer soldiers, it's my mistaken. I also know what the political-juristical-correct answer is, but I still think there maybe has a better way to deal with such religious sentiment or maniac rather than forcing him.