Canada and the U.S. have signed an agreement that paves the way for the militaries from either nation to send troops across each other's borders during an emergency, but some are questioning why the Harper government has kept silent on the deal.

Neither the Canadian government nor the Canadian Forces announced the new agreement, which was signed Feb. 14 in Texas.

I guess thats cos the NSA are part of a governmental body along with the likes of MI5 etc who also do the same sort of thing, usually picking up on keywords used in mails floating around (I have no idea how they do it), to be honest though unless your a terrorist or a murderer etc whats the harm in having someone in authority checking you out?

Double edged sword, our right to privacy went out the window a fair while ago and i guess its something that we've either got to accept or be frowned at by our "peers" cos the more we do to try to cover our steps even if we are straight laced and the only crime we've ever committed is.

Try cleaning up after a car crash where a marijuana smoker misjudged the distance and obliterated 2 other cars at 70 mph. 3 dead people, 4 badly injured and the ONLY abnormal thing in his system was LOTS of THC.

they aren't in control of their drugs, the drugs are In Control of Them.

It's not like blacks are getting disproportionate sentences.

and find out how many of them are PRIVATELY owed by corporations and such!!!

This is a money game!!!

III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

I believe Obama is a muslim and that chosing him as a president would be the biggest mistake in the history for US.

He is a muslim with a disguise trying to seem christian but I doubt any muslim would convert

This videotape is one example of something that all people, including Police Officers, find quite disgusting. Nobody likes a dirty cop; including other cops.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/15/bae.armstrade

Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.

He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.

Lord Justice Moses, hearing the civil case with Mr Justice Sullivan, said the government appeared to have "rolled over" after the threats. He said one possible view was that it was "just as if a gun had been held to the head" of the government.

The SFO investigation began in 2004, when Robert Wardle, its director, studied evidence unearthed by the Guardian. This revealed that massive secret payments were going from BAE to Saudi Arabian princes, to promote arms deals.

Yesterday, anti-corruption campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case. They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had caved into blackmail.

The judge said he was surprised the government had not tried to persuade the Saudis to withdraw their threats. He said: "If that happened in our jurisdiction [the UK], they would have been guilty of a criminal offence". Counsel for the claimants said it would amount to perverting the course of justice.

Wardle told the court in a witness statement: "The idea of discontinuing the investigation went against my every instinct as a prosecutor. I wanted to see where the evidence led."

But a paper trail set out in court showed that days after Bandar flew to London to lobby the government, Blair had written to the attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, and the SFO was pressed to halt its investigation.

The case officer on the inquiry, Matthew Cowie, was described by the judge as "a complete hero" for standing up to pressure from BAE's lawyers, who went behind his back and tried to secretly lobby the attorney general to step in at an early stage and halt the investigations.

The campaigners argued yesterday that when BAE failed at its first attempt to stop the case, it changed tactics. Having argued it should not be investigated in order to promote arms sales, it then recruited ministers and their Saudi associates to make the case that "national security" demanded the case be covered up.

Moses said that after BAE's commercial arguments failed, "Lo and behold, the next thing there is a threat to national security!" Dinah Rose, counsel for the Corner House and the Campaign against the Arms Trade, said: "Yes, they start to think of a different way of putting it." Moses responded: "That's very unkind!"

Documents seen yesterday also show the SFO warned the attorney general that if he dropped the case, it was likely it would be taken up by the Swiss and the US. These predictions proved accurate.

Bandar's payments were published in the Guardian and Switzerland subsequently launched a money-laundering inquiry into the Saudi arms deal. The US department of justice has launched its own investigation under the foreign corrupt practices act into the British money received in the US by Bandar while he was ambassador to Washington.

Prince Bandar yesterday did not contest a US court order preventing him from taking the proceeds of property sales out of the country. The order will stay in place until a lawsuit brought by a group of BAE shareholders is decided. The group alleges that BAE made £1bn of "illegal bribe payments" to Bandar while claiming to be a "highly ethical, law-abiding corporation".

would not be suprised if RJ Morris the big tobacco company is bankrolling anti marijuana legislation because its so easy to grow pot and people would choose cigarettes over marijuana thus maybe never even experiment with smoking period in future generations when pot is readily available.

Basically, it states that everything is horrible, doom gloom and wasteland, etc., but in the end it will all be good, for

Walmarts workers could really benefit from a union.

Which of these do you think is the greater threat to the "institution of marriage" - 1) the possibility of gays getting married or, 2) the phenomenally high rate of heterosexual divorce?

As far as bigger systems are concerned, the cut-off is indeed the equator.

You mean, All Hallows Eve (eve of All Saints Day)? :-P

I do not see any misconduct...UNLESS this woman was falsely arrested.

What you have is a media anxious to grab ratings and an angry husband who wasn't at the scene and can hardly be construed as an independent witness.

It is quite possible that the woman in question, knowing that she was being filmed and anxious to profit by the incident, was putting on the performance of her life.

For what it is worth, December 25th was most likely NOT the day or even the time of the year that Jesus was born and that doesn't confuse the celebration of his birth

Police Officers are held to a much higher standard than are private citizens; including when they are NOT on duty. Try living your life under a microscope

I have to disagree Mr Bad .. a pentagram is just a 5 pointed star, in a circle its a pentacle. The 5 points refer to the 4 elements and spirit the circle references the divine. Never come across one with points outside the circle unless you mean a circle within the central pentagon, that could be used for summoning. 2 points upwards indicates the Horned God, but its also the symbol for a second degree witch.

Several pagans have both stated that the term 'warlock' is offensive and offered their perspective on the term and its origins. That should be enough.

"I know that in common usage the word 'warlock' means 'male witch', but for many in my circle it has become an offensive term and we prefer just plain 'witch' for both males and females".

And this one in particular has no problem making unsupported claims about Christianity and it's sacred texts and words.

has been pointed out, a warlock is by definition a male witch, and that's a fact, not an opinion

There are other things that participating in sports can teach families/children that don't depend on the outcome of the game.

The Loss of 17000 jobs is a blow for sure,

but it is a liberal lie that we are losing more jobs than we gain.

Dont you ever listen to Paul Harvey?

Can you explain this better?

I'm a bit lost, but intrigued

Yeah, wormswood (a hallucinogen) They don't distill it with wormswood anymore in the modern age though, so the effects are no longer the same; therefore I have no idea why it's illegal...

here is a fake absinthe called Absente on the market at most high end liquer wearhouses,

I think that was sort of the point. It wasn't supposed to look like a professional film, but the recordings of a single, random, amateur camera that happened to catch a lot of footage.

still, he says, the study of 92,000 women showed those with large breasts and were otherwise thin did exhibit a statistically significant propensity to develop diabetes.

I think Mr Bush talked the talk,