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This year marks the 10th anniversary of Canada and Mexico as trading partners under the North American free-trade agreement. Within NAFTA, Canada has become Mexico's second largest export market and Mexico has become Canada's sixth largest, a statement from the two leaders said. [snip]
The two countries, meanwhile, will also create new programs for university academics in the two countries. Currently, nearly 10,000 Mexicans are studying in Canada every year and there are more than 400 agreements between Canadian and Mexico academic and research organizations. It does not matter where you’re calling from, only where you’re calling to. Sitting in London and calling your friend next door costs the same as sitting in Beijing, New York or Moscow and calling your friend in London.
Mexico €0.080 (€0.092)
If I'm reading the chart correctly the first rate is for all of Mexico and includes cell phones where as the second rate is for the Ciudad and is land lines only. .< 12:13:50 PM  >:: Sonic Studio :: AES Announcements The next generation of SonicStudio, code name [base "]X,[per thou] is an upcoming OS 10[^]native version of our leading PCM product. With portable FireWire hardware providing massive DSP and support for Sonique[dot accent], our native format, along with Audio Units and VST plugins, SonicStudio X brings all of the Sonic goodness you expect, now with portability, big track counts and complete bussing and mixing capabilities. Finally. Here's hoping they can deliver soon. Other info on other projects. Looks like there's a Philips partnership in the works and that SACD will play an increasingly important roll. .< 11:42:02 AM >D-Day Dodgers revisit Italy, country they liberated 60 years ago (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - ROME (CP) - Dozens of Canadian veterans of the Second World War were greeted by Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson and Italian officials as they returned to Italy for the first time in 60 years on Monday. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 11:37:15 AM >Canada's week to wax poetic Look out for poets on the loose likely to burst into verse [Via The Globe and Mail: Arts] "If it all sounds wonderfully weird, well, the event's genesis is even weirder. It all began when Morton, an insurance investigator by day, was caught speeding on her way home from a poetry reading last year. Morton offered to read the police officer a poem. He liked it, and told Morton he wasn't going to give her a ticket, but warned her not to drive so fast. "See what you can do with poetry?" Morton says. "That was my first random act."
Morton, a 64-year-old poet with incredible chutzpah, had already convinced the folks at WestJet Airlines to sponsor her as their "poet of the skies.""
Opener (AKA Renepo-A) is a shell script that can't be installed without admin privileges. It isn't spreading. Forgot about the WMD Saddam had dismantled. More incompetence. .< 9:13:35 AM >Fotolog about Montreal There's now a group Fotolog to showcase "the essence of Montreal" (one part poutine gravy, one part Labatt 50, diluted with eau du canal Lachine...?) [Via montreal city weblog] .< 1:48:41 AM >"The Baghdad Blogger goes to Washington: day one" Ultimately, the conversation turns to Iraq. We all seem to agree that even if John Kerry gets elected as president it is too late for a drastic change in policy. I am surprised at how much everyone here seems to have bought what the Bush administration has been selling them - especially the line about a well-educated Iraqi middle class that will take over and transform Iraq into a democratic paradise.
To tell you the truth, I bought into that as well - and boy were we wrong. That educated middle class was everywhere around the world, but not in Iraq. What it decided to do was to shut its mouth or turn religious. Yippee! I finally have a way to record skype calls on the mac. I'm still testing and hope to do a Trade Secrets with Dave today for the final stress test. It looks like I finally have an app that records all audio output on the mac and uses some native quicktime encoding that utilizes almost no cpu power. In the past this would always affect the quality of the skype connection. Once I'm happy with the setup I'll post details and pointers. [Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 1:11:43 AM >Des Moines Register : "Yes, Kerry is... Des Moines Register: "Yes, Kerry is liberal. But what's to fear from a liberal president? That he would run big deficits? That he would increase federal spending? That he would expand the power of the federal government over individuals' lives? Nothing Kerry could do could top what President Bush has already done in those realms." [Via Scripting News] .< 1:04:03 AM >US Washington Post backs Kerry US candidate John Kerry's presidential bid is boosted by the backing of the influential Washington Post newspaper. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 12:59:17 AM >Kerry for President We do, however, fault Mr. Bush for exaggerating to the public the intelligence given him privately and for alienating allies unnecessarily. Above all, we fault him for ignoring advice to better prepare for postwar reconstruction. The damage caused by that willful indifference is incalculable. There is no guarantee that Iraq would be more peaceful today if U.S. forces had prevented postwar looting, secured arms depots, welcomed international involvement and transferred authority to Iraqis more quickly. But the chances of success would have been higher. Yet the administration repeatedly rebuffed advice to commit sufficient troops. Its disregard for the Geneva Conventions led to a prison-torture scandal in both Iraq and Afghanistan that has diminished for years, if not decades, the United States' image and influence abroad. In much of the world, in fact, U.S. prestige is at a historic low, partly because of the president's high-handed approach to allies on issues ranging far beyond Iraq.
These failings have a common source in Mr. Bush's cocksureness, his failure to seek advice from anyone outside a narrow circle and his unwillingness to expect the unexpected or adapt to new facts. These are dangerous traits in any president but especially in a wartime leader. They are matched by his failure to admit his errors or to hold senior officials accountable for theirs. The emphasis is mine. The endorsement of Kerry for president comes from The Washington Post. .< 12:42:29 AM >CIA 'took detainees out of Iraq' US intelligence officers have taken detainees out of Iraq for interrogation, The Washington Post reports. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] Law specialists say the memo "amounts to a reinterpretation of one of the most basic rights of Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which protects civilians during wartime and occupation", the Washington Post says. The treaty prohibits the "individual or mass forcible transfers", the newspaper notes. The Justice Department memo allegedly permits the CIA to take Iraqis out of the country for questioning for a "brief but not indefinite period". It also says intelligence officers can permanently remove persons deemed to be "illegal aliens" under "local immigration law". The Bush administration continues with it's arrogance and disrespect for international treaties. These guys should be up for war crimes. .< 12:38:04 AM >Beyond the Call of Duty A whistle-blower objected to the government's Halliburton deals--and says now she's paying for it [Via TIME's Top Stories] As for Halliburton, it has faced alleged cost overruns, lost profits and seen at least 54 company contractors killed in Iraq. Greenhouse, meanwhile, has requested protection from retaliation. But her career—and reputation—are on the line. Cheney's license to print money. .< 12:25:46 AM >Massacre of 50 Iraqi soldiers Extremist group claims mass executions. [Via Guardian Unlimited] George brings democracy and freedom to the Iraqis. .< 12:24:15 AM >Carter: Bush exploits 9/11 suffering George Bush has exploited the suffering of 9/11, says former president in an interview with the Guardian. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] '[B]ecause of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, [there is] massive Islamic condemnation of the United States."
American media organisations, he adds, "have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved". |
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