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New World Order part 2

Interesting evening; Dyer who was last here 2 and half years ago started his talk where the last one left off --- as if in mid sentence

Here is good synopsis of his talk from UBC’s student paper

As USA under Bush moves to Unilateralism, (post United Nations – multilateralism) – what should be Canadian response? Dyer seems to see this post 9-11 world unilateralism as a conspiracy by Neo-Cons in Washington to assert US global domination – especially vis a vis  China (and India) in mind (powers that will challenge US hegemony within a generation). Assumes a static ‘purpose’ for UN (to make wars illegal, thus preventing nuclear holocaust). With US rejecting the UN as ‘broken’ world now left with a ‘rogue state’ to deal with.

Central to this view is that Islamist terrorism is more spin than reality ---- again a very contentious view. Here is a Canadian think tank scholar who has written a recent book taking the opposite view – that US Unilateralism is necessary in post 9-11 world

Catch 22? --- the cure becomes the problem

Quotas and small community livelihoods

Ecotrust has tried to make sense of how DFO’s approach to ‘too many fishers chasing too few fish’ has now become cause of small coastal communities being depopulated while Banks and capital end up controlling the fish.

Their report (2.4 megs as pdf) has numerous tables showing numbers of quotas and estimation their present ‘market value’ --- idea is that now simply costs too much to buy quota and most either excluded or turned into a new ‘feudalism’ where all the profits go to ‘armchair’ fishers

Scott Simpson in SUN has an article along similar lines Friday May 20^th

In NFLD (crab) quotas are at least held provincially and rationalized as socially fair

Wild Salmon vs Farmed 

 Local groups gather in Terrace to discuss the threat sea lice and disease incubated by fish farms at entrance Skeena river pose to wild stocks -- here is good summary