Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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Up until now there have been complaints and accusations but the bald
face lie in the State of the Union address has changed the tone of
concern as Americans are beginning to realise that maybe something
should be done about the warrior president who lacks fiscal
responsibility. 
Guilt by association, at least motivation by association seems to be the
underlying theme as Mario reports on the cozy association Saskatchewan's
government has had with one of the world's leading arms dealers and
developers.
The motivation behind the policies advocated by some of the "experts"
needs to be questioned. Mario suggests that the way of thinking may even
be a problem as the problem may not even be the problem.
American politicians are struggling with what constitutes the truth and
what to do about apparent deliberate attempts to give the public
impressions of things that are not even close to reality. This story
includes some outstanding references and needs your full attention.
Three years ago we figured out that the provincial insurance company was
using the University of Saskatchewan to create some evidence for their
no fault scheme. Now the research has been declared invalid by the
University's ethics committee but the fools are still circling the
wagons and the University's credibility and ability to attract research
is history. 
Mario deSantis developed this remarkable story over a week ago but we
were unable to get it to you until now. Sometimes, and this is one of
those times real events are much wilder than anything anyone could dream
up as fiction.
Prior to the US invasion of Iraq there was no terrorism in the country
now it is an everyday occurrence, as the country is still almost entirely
without power, unemployment is the norm and now even the UN attempting
to bring aide to the place has taken a serious hit as the man who had
been expected to succeed the Secretary General is a victim with many
others including two Canadians. Mr. deSantis leads us to consider some
of the underlying issues, be sure to check out the references.
Californians got seriously burned in the ENRON scandal which was partly
to blame for the energy crisis their state experienced. The campaign is
on to oust the governor but Professor Paul Krugman suggests that the
truth may be getting in the way of a good campaign. This one you have to
read the references to get the story.
Mario deSantis wrote this story Wednesday, it is important to note this
fact because today several world economists in an international meeting
in Calgary reported their extreme distress at the US economy which
appears not only to be in serious trouble but is also running up the
biggest deficit in recent history. Several US politicians referred to the
growing unemployment and rising debt yesterday while the Dow dropped 84
points today. 
If you think you understand what is going on in this world you just
haven't been paying attention. Strange things and even stranger
reasoning seems to propel the world and its people, though it would nice
if this were forward, the evidence is that regression is now the norm
An analytical explanation of the divided world through the understanding
of the exponential curve in the Free Market. Noted author, with several
books online Dr. J. W. Smith is quoted in this story with references to
the important issues which he and his institute are so deeply concerned.
In this story Mr. deSantis gives you the broad strokes of something that
seems ironic and that is that China is doing well by maintaining peace
with its neighbours. To fully appreciate this concept be sure to look
over the references he has provided you.
You must read this story carefully because both in Geoffrey Heard's
explanation and in the references for this story is the basic conditions
that are allowing the United States to muddle along deeply in debt and
still considered the world's strongest economy. 
This brief story summarises the underlying issues that affect the
development of the third world which is supposed to be one of the goals
of these American dominated institutions. Check out the references as we
have included some actual news stories from Dubai with a viewpoint from
that part of the world.
Mr. deSantis has spotted an interesting inversion both criminals being
placed in power and dogmatic imposition of economic formats that are
site specific. What works in America is not necessarily what will work
in Iraq, Afghanistan to Venezuela. The references on this story are
exceptional and give you an opportunity to explore this topic much more
fully than an interpretive summary.
The devolution of the third world continues largely orchestrated by the
United States as it sells more weapons than any other country and the
gap between rich and poor widens. Perhaps its time to think of this
problem some other way.
The evidence is piling up and the extent of the cruel lies and the
consequences are coming home to roost in the American government's
leadership. This story includes a link to a streaming video by John
Pilger that documents what is really happening.
It seems that to increase profits, the goal of business, is resulting in
a never ending search for lower and lower wages that increases the
widening gap between extreme wealth and extreme poverty, world wide. To
add to this exaggerated devolution the United States has reintroduced
warfare as a business strategy.
The Global television network and most of Canada's newspapers are
controlled by the Asper family from Winnipeg. Yesterday, Leonard wrote
an editorial in which he spells out what he thinks about things and it
is implied that his employees if they wish to remain employees had
better agree. Mario deSantis has provided you with a link to this
interesting document and gives us his impression of the implications.
We are so often told that there is only one way to success and that's
the American way. This story and the referenced material it relies upon
suggests that quite the contrary is true. There are many ways for a
country huge or tiny to find success in its own way unique to its
culture and traditions.
Economists and political commentary on television love to use number to
support their arguments and points of view. Ultimately, this practice is
truly misleading and ignores so many contribution factors which, had
they been considered, would have lead to quite different conclusions.
The United States is in financial trouble and blames China for its woes
when it is the cause of its own problems. This story explains the
missing parts that CNN's Lou Dobbs should have been able to explain, but
could not. As always, Mr. deSantis has provided you with some amazing
references that deal with this issue and what it means for the world
economy.
The intention by United States and Israel to push for a regime change in
Syria is now taking shape and at the same time the economic forces are
festering in the United States as that country has identified the
Chinese Yuan as the culprit that is hurting its self abused trade
deficit world position. This story gives you the facts and the sources
that will allow you to much more fully understand the economic basis for
this problem.
The United States Deputy minister of Defense is an active General in the
United States Special Forces yet claims that God put the US president in
power and that he is confident because his God is bigger than the
enemy's God. This is not a joke.
Once more the oppression of colonialism and exploitation by the
developed world has been sorted out as Bolivia changes presidents and
the pro-American former president flees to Miami. This story is
accompanied by borrowed images from various news sources taken yesterday
and some outstanding references that document the story.
Throughout the world the economic situation for all developing countries
has been a failure for the past twenty years, since the prominence of
the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund with one single
exception, China. This very well researched article with its references
exposes the deep set cause for so much resentment and hostility toward
the world's only remaining superpower.
Based on the decision by the government to continue to waste money on
the SHIN project and use a United States military contractor SAIC while
still failing to do anything about the mess within the justice system,
Mr. deSantis does not want to see the NDP government re-elected. 
A University of Saskatchewan Professor has spotted the problems that
stem from political leaders assuming a role as authoritarian know it
alls and what happens when they mislead their followers. This story has
some fascinating ramifications and you owe it to yourself to find out
about Leo Strauss and Professor Drury.
A loop develops whereby the financial industry and industry itself
begins to hold the debt of the government and so holds the governmental
structures accountable to their interests. This twist in democracy
explains the politicians inclination to serve business rather than
voters.
Ontario and Alberta have private insurance, astronomical rates and
governments determined to reduce coverage to protect the motorist from
high rates and the insurance companies from their own investment
stupidity, so much for the natural consequences of the free market.
Congress and Senate have approved the $87.5 billion in funds to rebuild
Iraq as American corporations harvest the profits from the process and
the US president is now talking as though he wants to do the same thing
for China.
There is a climate that is arising and even though we share in the pride
of the high thoughts of our former and new Prime Minister they come in
the light of the sad betrayal of Maher Arar and William Samson. It is
this divergence of reality that confounds us and Mario really only hints
at the widening gap between what is really happening and what we are
being told. The United States has created a mess and is about to make
more mess by abandoning the country they destroyed over the lies they
have told. Similarly their economy is crumbling while we are told they
are recovering. This short story has some powerful references that give
the exploring reader a chance to see more clearly what is indeed
happening.
Weapons of mass destruction, regime change, freeing the people of Iraq
from a dictator all of these excuses to go to war seem so hollow now as
it becomes increasingly apparent that none of those things were the
objective. Now they flail away with rhetoric about terrorism when they
themselves define terrorism as attacks upon civilians while their forces
are the only forces attacking civilians and the people of Iraq are
fighting back against soldiers and they call that terrorism. You would
wonder how they can go on day after day telling these tales, tales that
even they can not believe.
This story just gives you a hint of the very disturbing political issue
that is endangering our little planet. Mr. deSantis has provided you
with an outstanding list of references that go far beyond supporting the
points he makes but gives you an opportunity to research the serious
problem that faces mankind. 
The arms financiers and weapons dealer company the Carlyle Group is not
a matter of fiction but a real corporation and this story shows you who
is in that company. Their latest project is to sort out one of their
fellows, Lord Black and his Hollinger company. 
This story and its references is hinting at a disturbing problem with
human nature. It seems that like leopards humans are pretty much the way
they are if raised in a specific mindset and culture there is little
chance of them being able to alter their perception and means of dealing
with the world.
The family that capitalises . . . These Texans have a grip not only on
their country but are gravely involved in attempting to do serious
damage to the world. 
Though the Americans preach the wonders of the free market system yet at
every turn they do everything possible to undermine and conflict with
that same system when it is not to their advantage. This story has
outstanding references that illustrate the points made. 
We all chuckled at the convolutions of the American Secretary of
Defence's responses but it now is official his "unknown knowns"
recitation has been rewarded with the "Foot in Mouth Award". 
This dramatic series of quotes points out the dangerous cross over the
world's remaining superpower has taken as it now considers only it to be
able to judge what is right and unless the issue is in that country's
interest it will carry out whatever action it chooses. 
Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont seems to be taking the lead
in the American Democratic nomination process and further gathered
momentum this week when the Democratic candidate from the last
presidential election Al Gore endorsed Dean because of his appropriate
attitude toward the Iraq mistake. 
The American press and news media are now beginning to take some hard
shots at the American President and what his policies are doing both to
the economy and the credibility of the country in general. Ultimately
the Americans have to accept the contempt that they as a people are
going to be viewed for their conduct during this first part of the
century. This story hurls out the points you must ask yourselves and the
references provide you with some unpleasant answers. 
It appears as though the government of Quebec like that of British
Columbia has begun a process of reducing the numbers of public workers
and reducing the earns of those still employed while moving more
government services into the private sector. The unfortunate facts are
that there is no evidence to support the economic positive affects of
such action while at the same time the public will be subjected to
strikes and the kinds of problems that brought Ontario situations like
Walkerton and the inability of Toronto to deal with a medical crisis. 
Something is very rotten in the state of Iraq as Vice President Cheney
who still gets $400,000 a year from his company Halliburton each year is
charging many times more than a reasonable profit for services and
products while the Iraqi Army looks to be very suspicious. Can anyone
say "Vietnam?" 
A message of peace and hope. 
Mario is a regular serious contributor to this site and today he is
bringing us a little humor. We all know how intense Mario and his fellow
country-men can get but it is equally true that a fine sense of the
idiosyncrasies of Italians and their way of life. 
The trial is over and the judge has ruled that the prosecutor, the
police investigator and a therapist all worked together to maliciously
prosecute a number of people sending one person to jail for a crime that
not only did the accused not commit but a crime that never ever
occurred. This story gives some insight into the thoughts that went into
the judge's decision. 
This story and its wealth of references point out the
peculiar and
conflicting conclusions that the economic gurus have drawn about the
negative economic conditions that are engulfing the world as a result of
the selfish behaviour of the United States. 
This story is just a brief summary of the research that went into its
conclusions. It is clear that there is something very rotten in the
republic to the South of us as the wealth of that nation is
consolidating in only the smallest minority of people. This is not just
an American problem because a similar trend is occurring here, it is
simply unavoidable because of the integrated economy that has evolved.
The equation that determines who is being served by governmental action
is something that so often seems much less apparent than it should. The
assumption that we have government and authority to serve and protect
the over all good for all people is so often discretionary and sadly
sometimes just plainly self serving by the elected official.
As part of his election strategy the US president is promising America
to return to the moon and put Americans on Mars. Here is a practical
look at these promises. 
The astonishing refusal of the Saskatchewan Government to accept the
overwhelming decision by the court on malicious prosecution of the
Klassen family really calls into question the whole point of government.
The ruling was completely and totally in favour of the Klassen family
and the idea of rule of law should be the guiding principle but
apparently there is a lesson to be learned here. 
It is a pretty long stretch to imagine the United States acting as
former Prime Minister Chretien once suggested "be nice". But this story
suggests that the country that most threatens peace on the planet has to
re-evaluate its behaviour if things are going to improve. Martin Luther
King was murdered in that country but he was leading at the time of his
death a crusade to make the changes needed. 
This week when the Governor of the Bank of Canada announced the
reduction in the Canadian interest rate he asked Canadian businesses to
"increase the productivity". Indeed, he like so many present day
economists worship a false god called "GDP" and when the Free Market
deals them a natural consequence their response is to fiddle with the
economic monster they have themselves created. 
This is a very complex article as Mario deSantis explains that private
and public good can be extraordinarily confused and this should not be
the case. Read this story carefully and check out the wealth of
references the help to explain the problem. 
Logic is an unforgiving thing and we are being asked to forego logic so
that new situations do not make the past the lie that it most surely
was. If there were no weapons of mass destruction then what possible
reason was there for a war with Iraq. It is now established, there were
no such weapons.
There is no surprise that Americans are about to look a little deeper
into the actions of their government as it relates the Iraq War and the
attempt to blame it on faulty intelligence is the latest gamble to
deflect the hard and serious finger pointing that is going on as the
United States is into its election year.
It seems impossible for the American dream to have much of a future as
the simple logic that Free Market and democracy are incompatible
concepts.
When its dog eat dog, a level of merciless develops, everything is a
fight and everyone loses. Democracy is not about economic cannibalism,
but the economic forces that are at the root of the dog fight are less
than human. 
The economic woes of the individual citizens of the United States are
far more concerning in this election year than foreign wars and
security. There are so many Americans out of work and so many who have
simply quit looking and this is what makes the president's statement
last Sunday seem nasty to the point of being malicious. 
Living in the approach of World War II George Orwell wrote about a
frightening world where the official line was accepted even thinking
against the government was a crime. As thing seem to spin further and
further beyond what could possibly be considered a real world it looks an
awful lot like the world George Orwell was describing in his novel. 
The frightening reality is that Orwellian thought, so much a part of the
1930s, that George Orwell dramatised in his novel 1984, seems like the
environment of today. War is peace, freedom is slavery and as this story
points out the power of "doublethink" is becoming common place. 
What is so hard to confront is the realisation that if we listen to what
the US president and his government say it not only doesn't add up it
doesn't make any sense either. 
The
black art of deception takes many forms and it seems that trimming and
crafting the terms used to describe things and events has taken the lead
in this never ending struggle to keep ahead of the truth. No part of a
society is left unaffected when the words are the weapons.
While in the short term there is economic ruin with more problems
expected in the spring but there now is hope. Senator John Kerry will be
the Democratic candidate to face Bush in November and it may be harder
this time for him to fix the election. 
Though many question the appropriate use of images from the 9/11 tragedy
it is far more disconcerting to take into account the actions of the US
government that may or may not have been linked to the event. The
commission looking into the event is not getting much administrative
cooperation and there may be a good reason for that.
The American presidential election is now in full campaign mode and
already the two leaders are decidedly different in their approach to
things. Kerry thinks about things Bush deals with all things in his
standard Texas way, brash, bold and boisterous. 
The president of Haiti says he was forced out of office by the Americans
and the US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he wasn't but then Mr.
Powell thinks every truck in pre-war Iraq was a weapons factory.
International law is real but the United States has chosen over and over
to ignore any responsibility to the world and how things are legally
done. 
Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry was overheard
muttering that Bush and his associates were crooked and scary. Mario
deSantis points out that this has become an increasingly more crooked
and more scary world each passing day with polarised ideologies even
more dangerous than the days of the Cold War. 
The use of the term "demented" is not to slur mental health issues but
rather to describe a way of thinking that would not be considered sane.
It is very important to realise that the courts define sanity as having
an understanding of the rightness or wrongness of an act. It appears
that many decisions are made today as though there were no right or
wrong and certainly no awareness of those conditions. 
The US president and his team are attempting to debunk the highly
critical allegations made against the administration by a senior retired
official, Richard Clark, who will testify Wednesday in the 9/11
hearings. That war and the president's command of credibility have
become a matter of ridicule and humour. 
A towering
catastrophe is not something built in a short while but
accumulates its instability until band aids and duct tape will no
longer hold together what is essentially an unstable structure. The
United States economy is based on the mass of its size and ignoring
warnings low interest rates, tax cuts for the wealthy and a growing
massive trade deficit are compounding to produce inherent instability
that when it collapses will devastate the world economy. 
This web site has expressed extreme concern over the Government of the
United States and its behaviour leading up to and after the attack on
September 11, 2001. Most of the truth is buried in attempts to blind the
voters of that country from what happened and it has taken a long time
for a commission to be established to even look into the problem. This
story and its extensive references gives you a chance to sort some of
these issues out for yourself.
The real conflict of our age is an ancient one as the struggle continues
between selfishness and selflessness. The Saskatoon Emergency room
doctor who warns of the dangers in his ER get fired and politics
continues to be about power and not about the well being of people. 
The recent Bush press conference was intended to put the president in
the active leadership role as the commission investigating 9/11 hearing
grip the news. What the conference did was reveal the fuzzy and perhaps
quite lost thinking of the American president while the latest offensive
by Iraqi resistance has moved to a new phase by holding cities but also
taking mercenaries as hostages.
One of America's most respected journalists has said in his book what
Mario deSantis has been saying in this web site since 9-11 and now the
added feature of the Saudi's manipulating fuel prices. I guess that's
what friends are for. 
The built in features of the Free Market: corruption in politics and
business, corruption in research for the purpose to maintain the status
quo. Rather than an ever ending war against terrorism we need a never
ending war against poverty, hunger, injustice. 
The Saskatchewan Justice minister and the minister in charge of social
services decided to send a letter from the both of them to the Saskatoon
Star Phoenix in an effort to correct what they felt were inaccuracies in
a story. Many wonder if their published opinions may have influenced the
outcome of an ongoing court procedure. 
The
role of the citizen seems to be increasingly confusing as we get sucked
into discussions that seem to rely upon pseudo-scientific polling while
at the same time matters of serious importance to us all are
fluffed over as high salaried officials cut vital programmes or the
fundamental right to medical care is undermined by political and power
struggle conditions in the country. 
There is no feeling of victory in saying "we told you so" as you have
read repeatedly on this site about privatisation and the misuse of
language. Torture is now defined as "abuse" and one in every ten
Americans in Iraq carrying a gun, is a mercenary, there are more of them
than British soldiers. Sadly, this tragic and for want of a better term,
"stupid" situation, must play out as the United States has plodded its
way while being warned, into a point of no return and they have no exit
plan. 
This article is a summary of a series of articles and material that
paints a very unfavourable picture of our American neighbours. The Iraqi
prison torture story is disturbing, but even more disturbing is the
death of an American in Iraq, which has the timing, that suggests this
was a sacrifice rather than execution, as it provides Americans with
justification for their war crimes. 
The Iraq expedition is definitely losing its popularity with the
American public but it must be viewed in the context of other world events
and when seen as part of the whole there is a realization that the
world is a dangerous place as a result of American policies. 
This is a simple concept but one that needs to be thoroughly examined.
Just like people who want to purchase an electric drill really don't
want a drill, but want holes. So it is that once we get a handle on what
the world is about we are in a better position to make changes. 
This story makes the point that perhaps what is at the root of the
seemingly endless trouble we see occurring is the belief by leaders and
the acceptance by the public that if all things were run like businesses
all would be well. 
Ronald Reagan's death has brought back memories and the experiences of
his two terms in office, Saddam Hussein's buddy as he was called in the
Asia Times today. All of this brings us back to the present and the
willingness we all have and seem to continue to accept rather large
doses of hypocrisy. 
It might be called stirring the pot as the President of the United
States desperately wants to hold on to his role. It is negligence to
blame he alone for the woes of America for indeed his followers must
themselves accept responsibility for a never ending ever escalating
cycle of violence. These people seem bent on murder and destruction and
they are succeeding. 
The anger and disturbing direction of the United States government and
the people of that country needs to be closely watched as things go from
very bad to much worse. 
The appalling division among the people of the United States is
something that affects people around the world as "we - they" teams are
joined and there is no compromise. 
An impressive list of performers are going on tour campaigning against
their president. The enormity of the inappropriate action taken by the
Bush administration defies any explanation as to why he has any support
at all. 
How could the most powerful nation on the planet blunder time after time
and then claim it wasn't a blunder? The answer is remarkably simple, if
a group of people with similar opinions consider a problem they may rely
upon formulas and not bother to look at the facts or relevant
information. 
Prince Albert & Montreal : "Don't leave home without it!" No, we are not
talking about a credit card, but something far more valuable, your
camera. Those special once in a lifetime events can be shared with
others if you have your camera along. In this story Mario and his
brother Romano had their cameras with them and you get to experience the
moment with them. 
Absurd as it seems that NBC and the US president consider an interview
as copyright material. Mr. deSantis suggest that this is the mentality
and attitude that presents a serious threat to the people of this
planet. 
An American book has been published listing the reasons why Bush should
not be elected and among the more than a 1,000 reasons is one very well
explained statement by Mario deSantis. 
The American public has perhaps one of the most stark choices for a
democracy like theirs. The polarization and confrontational attitude is
wider and deeper than seen during my lifetime and the consequences will
affect the whole world. 
The worship to the god of "productivity " can lead some economists to
draw conclusions and make suggestions that are simply not rooted in
empirical evidence. Now that's a problem.
The catch word for modern politicians is "reform" it seems that they
believe that the public will buy a major overhaul of a programme rather
than funding or supporting the programme the way it was originally
conceived. 
: It is almost a matter of religious faith that if you are able to do
more in less time with less resources then you are on your way to
profits and economic heaven. This concept is a myth and this article
shatters that myth. 
The release of the two Italian aid workers by Iraq fighters suggests
that there may be much better ways to solve problems then fighting and
killing. 
Television commentators would not voice their comments about the success
or failure of each candidate in last week's debate until they got the
poll results to tell them what to think. That one factor tells you
almost all there is to know about the American intellect and their
powers of reasoning. 
At the heart of this complex story Mr. deSantis is concerned at the
awarding of the Nobel prize for economics to two rather mundane
professors, one in California and the other in Arizona. The issue of
what is better for the world is really what this is about and with many
outstanding references you have the opportunity in this story to find
out some truths for yourself. 
Though many herald the official opening of the synchrotron as a major
and significant development in this province and for all this country.
Here is quite a different take on this project. 
SaskTel's 2003 annual report goes on page after page dealing with
changes to its accounting procedures and as customers we can see and
notice the changes as charges and the way they are applied seem to alter
from bill to bill. 
This story deals with a very serious matter, the whole way in which the
world is presented to us and what is so often done with the basic facts
so that we will accept the unacceptable. The whole story is included in
the extensive references. 
The excuses for waging war seem pretty trivial in all wars when weighed
against the loss of human life. This past week the battle for Fallujah
against Iraqi resistance fighters seems only another page in the
continuing shambles that is American foreign policy.
The law of the jungle seems hardly appropriate in a time such as our own
and French President Jacque Chirac and member of parliament Carolyn
Parrish are on the record denouncing the might makes right folks. 
Though Canada's health care system, the falling American dollar and the
reliance of Canadian universities upon money from private business seem
to be completely different topics Mr. deSantis is pointing out that this
is our world and we have to accept responsibility for thinking things
through and we need to object when the appropriate compromise between
"need and greed" goes unchecked. This story needs some careful
consideration and you will have to refer to the references to grasp the
complexities of these inter-related issues. 
Saskatoon lawyer, Don Ching moves from the Saskatchewan Crown
corporation, SaskTel, to become the CEO of a French government operation
Cogema, one of the large uranium mining companies in the province. 
Emotions run very high about this topic but we need to step back from
the noise and check the facts. The proponents of this industry gloss
over the glaring and utterly overwhelming dangers of the past, all of
which avoided the ultimate disaster which is not just possible, but is
inevitable. 
Things are not going economically as one might like but certainly they
are consequences of very bad management and advise. Mario's story today
gives a whole new meaning to the term "go long". 
Last week the Administration of the United States government held a
conference on the economy and came up with some amazing decisions as
they completely ignore the decline these same policies have already had
on both the US and world economy. 
The is a dramatic need for perspective so that we see things over the
long term and grasp the basic concepts of consequences that do not
necessary occur simply because some other circumstances may have had
some similarities. 
Without paying attention to some fundamental issues we can very easily
come to some very confused conclusions. This story attempts to point out
some of those issues. 
If there was ever a need for proof that the country to the south of us
is sinking into the past, the head of one of their most elevated
universities demonstrated an attitude toward woman that is insulting to
half the people on this planet. 
This is indeed a glimpse of a much larger problem than it would seem at
first. The process of turning everything into "property" of some sort
was originally intended to benefit the few who produced what ever
property they were intending to "own". The problem is this process has
backfired and is resulting in intellectual, economic and social
stagnation choking the life out of the society it was intended to
protect. 
There is a perverse reality that exists south of the border where
excuses become facts and evidence is irrelevant if it does not suit the
political agenda. 
Excuses and half truths mask the underlying motivations of much of the
power base in an ever growing single big brother government of this
world.