IF this is true :
“Meanwhile in Russia: Sergey Mikheyev says that in light of the Trump administration’s express intent to abandon #NATO allies in case they intervene in Ukraine, Russia should strike Brussels, London and Paris. Vladimir Solovyov wholeheartedly agrees.”
Will the USA stand by and follow through on
Article 5 which provides that if a NATO ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the ally attacked.
Gets to be much when a Conservative leaders spouse starts in on an opposing Liberal leadership candidate.
Interesting CBC reports “On Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s wife, Anaida Poilievre, criticized Carney on social media and claimed the former central banker was “claiming the legacy of a man who has since passed” …“I worked under the Harper government and saw firsthand the exceptional leadership of Mr. Flaherty and Mr. Harper in steering Canada through one of the most challenging economic periods in our history,” Poilievre said. (1/3)“What’s happening right now is not just misleading — it’s appalling.”
Gee Anaida if you are 37 years old now you would have been 26 years old when he passed away (2014). So what exactly was your position under Harper that you experienced all this?
From Wikipedia “After working in retail and customer service roles, in 2008, at 20 years of age, Poilievre was employed as a parliamentary affairs advisor at the Senate of Canada before taking a job in the House of Commons of Canada. In 2013, she began working for then Leader of the Senate Claude Carignan as a parliamentary affairs advisor.”
If you don’t like Carney just say so and leave it at that. You used the word misleading first.
“the future is the time in which we may not be, and yet we must imagine we will have been.”
Gillian Rose
When one thinks of the future do we realize we do so under these assumptions. The way we realize the past, present and future are not the same. They inhabit very different realms.
“Contra Camus, hope remained inside Pandora’s box. It did not get out. In this way, hope might be understood as the antidote to all of humankind’s ills. As a remedy, it is still hidden. It cannot simply be found. It ensures that, despite all the ills of the world, we do not resign ourselves. For Nietzsche, hope is a determined ‘yes to life’, an ‘and yet’: For what Zeus wanted was that man, however much tormented by the other evils, should nonetheless not throw life away but continue to let himself be tormented. To that end he gives men hope.”
Byung-Chul Han
Weaving through some understanding of what “hope” is.
“After a handful of complaints about pro-Palestinian symbols at library branches this summer, leadership enforced the policies and asked staff who were not Palestinian to stop wearing symbols including kaffiyehs and watermelon pins, which show support”
The Tyee.
My kaffiyeh was purchased in Jordan. It is a beautiful garment and very comfortable. Whether it shows support for Palestine will be an assumption of the viewer of my wearing the kaffiyeh. They are welcome to ask me. I would ask the leadership of VPL to visit the Middle East and see that more nationalities wear a kaffiyeh than just the Palestinians. Your conclusion of support hinges on ignorance.
“The president will be implementing tomorrow a 25 per cent tariff on Mexico, 25 per cent tariff on Canada and a 10 per cent tariff on China.”
As a neighbour and long time friend to the USA, with the longest undefended border in the world, why are we treated this way? Does your financial relationship with China mean that much? What did we do to deserve this?
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is calling on her counterparts to consider a new joint Canada-U.S. NORAD base in northern Canada to bolster Arctic security.
I am missing something here. She is a provincial premier. The Federal government is responsible for foreign affairs and the military. She seems to like to be in the deep end of the pool with only her water wings.
Don’t forget she is an admirer of Ayn Rand, John Locke and Margaret Thatcher.
From the White House “Mexico and Canada have never been good to us on trade. They’ve treated us very unfairly on trade and we will be able to make that up very quickly because we don’t need the products that they have. We have all the oil that you need, we have all the trees you need — meaning the lumber. We have more than almost anybody in those two categories,”
Unfair. How many American companies make $$$ profit in Canada? At this point you import a lot of Canadian oil because you don’t have enough. Lumber? You have already tariffed softwoods lumber and given the climate disasters you will need lumber. Have you seen the cost of a 2 x 4 lately?
So if you believe you have everything never ask us for water.
Mr. Trump, Please quit demeaning your neighbours. It makes you the bully in the neighborhood.
One of the most interesting statements about social media.
Digital communication heightens people’s isolation. Paradoxically, social media undermines sociability. It leads, ultimately, to an erosion of social coherence. Although we are extremely well connected, we are not united. Relationships are replaced by contacts. There is no touching. We live in a touchless society. Unlike physical touch, contact does not create closeness. When the other, the thou, becomes a mere ‘it’ that satisfies my needs or bolsters my ego, the relationship to the other withers. The other in whom I see myself reflected loses its otherness, its alterity. Society’s growing narcissism, which leads to the absence of attachment and touch, deepens
fear.
This whole Tik Tok story is confusing. Banned by a law of congress and the senate, the new president can postpone implementation for 90 days but he can’t negate the law. He originally led the attack on TikTok during his first administration, but since reversed himself. A different type of leadership. And we should get used to it for the next 4 years. The dilemma of uncertainty.
David Marks Shribman in the Literary Review of Canada - “Perhaps it’s whether we can mount an offensive for the truth in our discourse and in our politics, cease fighting about the strict definition of words, and make peace with the ambiguities and contradictions of life.” There needs to be an offensive for the truth.
All the Christmas ornamentation is up BUT this is the last year we are dragging out all those boxes. Post holidays is going to be a winnowing process with all this stuff.
Missed todays Micro.blog Analog Tools Meetup. Note to self - setup the alarm correctly by looking at the original notice of meeting. When you assume the time - it is going to be wrong. Have to wait until next year for the next meeting. sigh…
Listening to Pentangle - Sweet Child which came out in 1968 which is 56 years ago. Where did all that time go? It feels like I just played the record yesterday.
Am I dying? Yes, it is old age, steadily advancing, pushing that powerful moment closer. Perhaps it is the physical changes, at times tormenting us, stirring a deep longing for the return of youth.
