Uh-huh. Now contrast that with Canada, where we still have universal government-funded health care for all citizens...but...where recent governments, both Liberal and Conservative, have mounted attack after attack upon the health system, eroding it away bit by bit, closing hospitals right and left, privatizing this that and the other thing which used to run great (but is now limping badly) while bleeding to death the municipalities at the same time...

And get this: the # 1 concern of the Canadian public is that our public Health system should be MAINTAINED!!! Every poll confirms that. It is only because of that very strong public voice that the fat cats at the top (who get their marching orders in Washington) have not completely dismantled our protections.

Now contrast that with Cuba, where there is 100% free and modern health care available everywhere for not only citizens but even visitors...and where the main problem in health care is an often critical lack of medicine and equipment due to the American embargo but there is no lack of highly trained and motivated doctors and nurses...

Now contrast that with Russia, where people used to have free medical care, but are now free to freeze to death in alleyways and apartments where they can't afford to pay their heating bill...unless they happen to be among the rich or in the mafia gangs...

And you will begin to grasp just what is afoot in the World today. The New World Order is a very old world order indeed, called: Feudalism. It is based on the very antithesis to sharing. It's based on hoarding and amassing wealth in the hands of a few, and hiring trained killers in uniforms to keep the rest at bay. It's main method of distracting the people while it robs them is to focus their fear and anger on some other group of people....divide and conquer tactics.

If it triumphs it will initiate a dark age of terror, poverty, and privilege in this world which even Hitler might have envied. Any your vote can't change it, because all the major political parties have been bought out some time ago. What shall we do?

Remember...the average North American has far more in common with the average Cuban or Iraqui than he does with the billionaires at the top who run the IMF, the CIA, the Pentagon, WalMart, Exxon, and the World Bank, to mention a few of their bigger franchises. Count on that.

Each one of us is indirectly under the gun...it's just a question of where the gun happens to be pointing at the moment. Right now it's pointing straight at Iraq. And after them, who? Iran? Venezuela? Lybia? Cuba? Canada? Albuquerque? Wes Ginny?

Hell, even Schenectady could be somewhere down that list eventually... (I can never resist mentioning Schenectady.)

- LH