This guy is the chief news executive at CNN (a very leftist news organization) and this guy has known for YEARS about Saddam's torture methods.
So, even though he says that he couldn't report those specific incidents, when the preparation for war started, did he get behind the president to try and convince people that liberating the Iraqi people was right? No, quite to the contrary. CNN <B>continues</B> to be biased to the left, to this very day.
This guy didn't even need to share those specific examples that would have gotten his employees killed or tortured, all he would have had to do, is publish a few pieces on the Human Rights issue in Iraq...after all, the president was talking about liberating them, if he knew all this stuff, he should have SUPPORTED the president instead of trying to prevent war.
Since the war in Iraq I have thought alot of how much our military has degenerated into the pitiful thing it is now.
But the Americans have our people to thank for alot of thier greatest achievements , Such as the Apollo missions were many former Avro workers worked extensively on constructingthe rocket prepulsion systems.
Many of canadas acheivements such as the first Military aircraft capable of doing Moch 2.
(also first to use Delta wing design)
It is said the Arrow is infact still pretty much on par with modern Supersonic fighters including F-18 and F-22 in technology and capability , If the Arrow would have been put inservice it would still be in use today.
The canadian goverment started the project as we realized a serious weakness in our defenses as we had miles of Barren north land to defend from a Soviet incurision and missles and regular aircraft would not be capable of defending the artic so we needed to build a highspeed weapon to combat a soviet strike.
Sadly our but kissing PM decided to scrap the project since he feared resent from the U.S goverment as we would have had air superiority and of course mr defen gayer decided to make up some excuss that the program costed to much.
Sadly if we had not scraped the project undoubtingly Canada wouldnt be in such a feeble military state today, also we would also be leaders in aircraft deisgn which could have given us alot of prosperity and a boost in the almighty dollar.
Quote:Nintendo announced today that in March they cut the royalty rates for GameCube development charged to outside developers. Nintendo stated their previous rates were a little too aggressive, and many developers were reluctant to pay them. The new rates make Nintendo more competitive with Sony and Microsoft.
Nintendo cited the success of titles like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as their reasoning behind the move. "The biggest games of the year last year were games like GTA and they came from an independent publisher," said Nintendo's George Harrison. "We need to make sure that we have good relationships with all the independent publishers, because you never know where the next big hit game is going to come from."
Earlier this week Nintendo announced that they had not met their yearly sales goal of 10 million GameCube consoles. In fact, they fell well short of the goal selling only 5.6 million consoles during their fiscal year. Nintendo wants to convince game developers that Nintendo's GameCube is a viable platform, and worth the time and money it takes for them to develop games for it. At this year's E3 show in Los Angeles, Nintendo plans to place more emphasis on third-party titles in an effort to convince developers of this. "Games from Namco, Sega, and Capcom...we think are going to be just as important in helping to sell our hardware system this year as much as our own games," Harrison said. "We are going to sell a lot of GameCube and its our job to convince them that we are."
Just read it. I don't think this is an April Fool's joke:
Quote:Sony leads charge to cash in on Iraq
Julia Day
Thursday April 10, 2003
Japanese electronics giant Sony has taken an extraordinary step to cash in on the war in Iraq by patenting the term "Shock and Awe" for a computer game.
It is among a swarm of companies scrambling to commercially exploit the war in Iraq, which has killed more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in the space of three weeks.
MediaGuardian.co.uk has learned that Sony is set to launch a computer game called "Shock and Awe", having registered the defining phrase of the coalition's military campaign as a trademark in the US.
It registered the term as a trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office on March 2 1 - just one day after war started. It wants to use it for computer and video games, as well as a broadband game played both locally and globally via the internet among PlayStation users.
The phrase, coined by former US navy pilot Harlan Ullman, was adopted by Washington to describe the fierce bombardment of Baghdad on the second night of the war - the military tactic designed to bully the Iraqi resistance into submission.
However, the crassness of the phrase was seized upon by critics of evidence of US arrogance in a war that the UN, and notably France and Russia, refused to support.
A spokesman for Sony PlayStation in the UK admitted the company might not stock the game in Britain and Europe owing to political sensitivities.
"Sometimes registering trademarks does not necessarily mean the product will be launched. But if it was deemed unsuitable then we might not ship it here," he said.
"If indeed it is related to the Iraqi war rather than just using that phrase then, yes, it might well be something we would be very sensitive to," the spokesman added.
However, the Sony game is only the tip of the iceberg as the US market is set to be flooded with goods ranging from T-shirts, toys, board games, train sets sunglasses, mugs and fireworks branded with slogans such as "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and "Battle of Baghdad".
But a British company is also planning a computer game, books, cards and magazines based on the war, called "Conflict Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad".
SCi Games, part of computer games publisher SCi Entertainment, registered the title as a trademark in the US on February 25, having scored a hit with its original PlayStation and Xbox game, Conflict: Desert Storm.
Other goods planned for sale in the US include an "Axis of Evil" board game, "Iraqi Freedom" crockery and clothes as well as "Shock and Awe" trainers and dolls.
After September 11 2001 terrorist attacks, the US PTO was flooded with applications for trademarks for products bearing legends such as "the war on terrorism" and "remember the twin towers".
At the time applications were also been filed for products inscribed with the phrases "Osama, can you see the bombs bursting in the air?"; "Osama, Yo' Mama"; "9-11-01, lest we forget"; and "Operation Enduring Freedom".
The rush to make a quick buck from the attacks attracted widespread criticism from people concerned that companies were profiting from the tragedy.