Another good article from Canada

<div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;The futile war on smoking&rdquo; by John Robson, published by the Ottawa Citizen highlights very well the reasons why smoking is no longer declining. People <b>want</b> to smoke, and they consider the <a href="https://www.forces.org/Scientific_Portal/category.php?section=34">real benefits of smoking</a> to be greater than the never demonstrated dangers.</div>

Life in the Hive

<div style="text-align: justify">The quest to homogenize the masses while eradicating national cultures reaches a fever pitch in the European Union.&nbsp; Sexual allure is now in the cross hairs.</div>

UK disaster: now prohibition kills 36 pubs a week

<div style="text-align: justify">&ldquo;One in six pubs will close by 2012 &ndash; hit by the credit crunch, the smoking ban and drinkers turning to cheap supermarket booze. Thirty-six are already shutting every week, with thousands of staff losing their jobs and many communities losing long-established focal points&rdquo;, says The Publican.</div>

4,000 minorities to be hired by Federal Civil Service

<div style="text-align: justify">I read with interest the other day that the Clerk of the Privy Council has ordered the Canadian Federal Civil Service to hire 4,000 minorities for positions. It doesn’t matter if in doing so they use quotas, if such exist, or fair representation of the population, whatever that may be, it’s just a case of &quot;do it.&quot;</div>