U.S.-BASED DEFENCE FIRM HIRED FOR CANADA’S CENSUS--New WMW

[Gloria]

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WORLD MEDIA WATCH FOR OCTOBER 10, 2003

1//TurkishPress.com, Turkey--PRESS SCAN (Following the adoption of the motion on Turkish soldiers' deployment in Iraq, the eyes are on the negotiations which could last between Turkey and the U.S. until the end of the month…first units will start to be sent to the region on November 15…The United States which welcomed the motion on dispatch of soldiers to Iraq which was adopted by the parliament said that it would shoulder all costs of Turkish army.)



2//Turkish Daily News, Turkey--TROOP DECISION SPARKS PROTESTS ACROSS TURKEY(Protestors across Turkey took to streets Wednesday to protest parliamentary approval for dispatching troops to Iraq. Demonstrators, mostly from leftist groups and labor unions, chanted slogans against the government and the U.S. occupation of Iraq…The decision came despite strong public opposition. Opinion polls have shown more than 60 percent of Turks are against any deployment in Iraq, fearing casualties and amid opposition to U.S. occupation of Iraq…A significant proportion of the protest has come from Kurdish groups.)



3//Islam Online, Qatar--BUSH WAR ON IRAQ DRIVEN BY ‘HIDDEN AGENDA’: GORBACHEV ("I do believe there is some other agenda, other than weapons and Saddam Hussein…What kind of hidden agenda, well, that needs to be understood," Newsday.com quoted Gorbachev as telling a press conference on the sidelines of an environmental gathering at the City University of New York…Gorbachev asserted the U.S. had only achieved a pyrrhic victory in Iraq, adding that Washington paid dearly for that war, in reference to mounting U.S. death toll since May 1, when Washington declared the war effectively over. "The question is what do you do with that victory?" He asked. "We are seeing the results of that.”)



4//Daily Star, Lebanon--ARABS, WESTERNERS CLASH AT DUBAI MEDIA SUMMIT (Hundreds of international media heavyweights traded charges over coverage of the US invasion of Iraq and haggled over Arab and Western visions of “responsible” media as they wrapped up a two-day conference in Dubai…“I would like to ask Western journalists, and especially the Americans, to stop giving us lessons in freedom of the press,” complained Hamdi Qandeel, an Egyptian TV presenter…“This was supposed to be a meeting of the minds. Instead it’s like a tennis match,” lamented Janine Di Giovanni, a Times of London correspondent who covered Iraq and sat on a panel analyzing the performance of Western journalists.)



5//The Toronto Star, Canada--U.S.-BASED DEFENCE FIRM HIRED FOR CANADA’S CENSUS(Lockheed Martin has been hired to help gather information about Canadians for the 2006 census, Industry Minister Allan Rock acknowledged today…One opposition critic said he found the idea chilling. "This goes even deeper than anything I would have imagined in my worst nightmare," said New Democrat MP Bill Blaikie, who raised the issue in the Commons. "Which wing of the Pentagon is this information going to be stored in?")

[ConcernedCanuk]

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"OTTAWA (CP) — They make attack missiles, spying equipment, ballistic-missile defence systems, and now this U.S.-based defence contractor will help produce Canada's census."

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"A long list of weapons and computer products is listed on the company website, along with the corporate slogan: "We never forget who we're working for!"

Eighty per cent of Lockheed Martin's business is with the U.S. military and American government agencies, the site also notes."

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GeeGollyWhiz

This is getting VERY Scary

Is there NO refuge from the BFEE ?

(sigh)