Brookfield has extensive holdings in the Chinese economy. Many established when Carney was at the helm. Carney is definitely not anti-China when investments are considered. However, Carney is of his own admission devout Catholic, and it will remain to be seen if the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church’s antipathy and cultural prejudices against the Chinese influence his political decisions.

The entire mess between the Western world and China goes all the way back to when the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church and the Pope in Rome (Roman Emperor) forbade the Chinese to honor their ancestors, in the 17’th century (Qing Dynasty). The Jesuits made good infiltration into the Chinese culture, traveling along the Silk Road, in the early 17’th century, bringing knowledge and scientific discovery to the Chinese. Since the Jesuits predominantly focused on God Himself as a universal deity (not the Pope) there was some acceptance by the Chinese peoples to this socialist religion full of compassion, humility, and humanity. On the other hand, when the Pope and the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church got involved, everything switched from worship of God to fielty to the Pope. , The Pope insisted that the only venue for a Catholic, and thus ‘the people’, to seek solace, comfort, moral guidance, and forgiveness was through him (the Pope). The Chinese had a many-thousand-year tradition of seeking moral guidance, comfort, and personal direction from their ancestors. This fit in well with the Jesuit teachings, but was antithetical to the Pope’s need for personal power and domination. There could only be one master over the soul, and that was the Pope. Therefore, the Pope forbade this practice. The Chinese were not to honor their ancestors, but were to honor the Pope instead. Only through the Pope could there be salvation. Honoring one’s ancestors was therefore heretical and blasphemy.

The Chinese, of course, were very resentful that a foreigner, living in a foreign land, who had absolutely no connection to Chinese culture, could tell the Chinese whom they could honor and in what fashion, and so in the 17’th century the Chinese peoples kicked the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church out of China.

Ever since, the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church has had it out for the Chinese. Not just China, but the Chinese themselves. It became a cultural/racial thing.

As a result of the Opium Wars, the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church re-established a toe-hold in China by virtue of conquest, only to be kicked out again in the 1950’s, when the Chinese peoples firmly and thoroughly purged China of all foreign cultural and identity influences, and restored their traditional culture and identity. The problem was not Catholicism, and even Christianity itself, the problem was that the Pope insisted it be entirely controlled by himself, an outsider to China, a foreigner. The Chinese allowed the Catholic Church in China, as long as the entire leadership of the church were Chinese, living in China, respectful of the thousands-of-years cultural identity of the Chinese. It was to be a made-in-China Catholic religion, recognizing Chinese history and precedent… After all, the Chinese cultural religious background and identify are at least twice as old as Christianity.

Most of the Western negative attitude towards China stems from the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church crusade against the Chinese for refusing to bow down to the dictates of the Roman Catholic (Emperor) Pope, and for the refusal of the Chinese peoples to accept the moral, ideological, and ethical authority of a foreign (non-Chinese) power.

The two Michaels were both American State Department agents, with close ties to both American political parties. This is provable. One was deeply tied to the Republican party. He was the one that was active in North Korea, and helped a Republican agent, Dennis Rodman, to get an inside track with the North Korean leaders. He also worked closely with the Republican party to create back door influence with the North Koreans and the Chinese, facilitating various Republican operative visits to China. The other was a Vice President - Asian operations for International Crisis Group, a (Democratic) George Soros -influenced American State Department extension. They were both operatives for the American State Department in China. They also had Canadian passports, not American, so the Americans could not intervene. Perfect targets for the Chinese regime, in response to our Canadian government co-operating with the American State Department in their feud with Huawei.

https://macleans.ca/news/world/kim-jong-un-meet-the-nhl/

https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/concerns-over-iran-sympathetic-groups-linked-to-george-soros-biden-administration-officials-robert-malley-former-us-special-envoy-iranian-nuclear-deal-fbi-international-crisis-group-quincy-institute-house-committee

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/international-crisis-group-michael-kovrig-china-canada-1.5770575

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2018/06/12/rodmans-transformation-279683

It was absolutely not a ‘random choice’ that China picked the two Michaels.

Sorry, I thought you meant ‘Wayne and Shuster’, the great Canadian comedy duo.

It is all in the 2025 Manifesto, the ‘blueprint’ that Vance is following. The entire concept of the WASPE (White Anglo Saxon Penis Elite) movement has always been for the top 20% , entirely WASPE, to completely rule over the bottom 60%, either through direct slavery or indebted servitude or just plain ‘subsistence-level wage’. The last one has actually gained dominance over slavery and indebted servitude, because on the first two, there is still a sense of having to provide for the worker. Subsistence-level wage - you just fire them and your obligation is over. And paying them subsistence-level wages is cheaper than having to feed and clothe them full time, even when there is no work for them.

A big part of that, is education. Do you know what perhaps the ONLY crime a white person could commit against a Black, in the US Confederate South that would result in the death penalty? Teaching them to read.

Are we talking about the same Schuster?

And he stayed true to Canada right to the end.

Sure they did. That’s what they called it. If you say so. You are the expert. I suppose you were even around then, so you know first hand.

But here is al the history books saying it was called The Great War.

And of course they expected there to be another war. That’s why they also nicknamed it The War to End All Wars.

Historical revisionism, replacing historical reality with a mythical fantasy world.

If Carney gets a clear majority, with close to 50% of the popular vote for the Liberals, PP and Jagmeet will be gone. Any attempt at proportional representation will probably have to be a unilateral process driven almost entirely by the Liberals. The Cons and the NDP will be too demanding of concessions to jurry rig the system entirely in their favor.

Are you old enough to remember the movie ‘Dumb and Dumber’? it was a hit in America. Seems Americans wanted to be just like them. The dumber everyone got, the more brilliant they seemed to be.

A lot of Conservatives in Canada seem to think the same way. ‘Dumb is good, Dumber is even better’. And when you get REALLY dumb, you will be just as brilliant as the Americans.

The support for the Conservatives is at a twenty year near-all-time-high, at 38%. At that level, they have pretty much all the support they will ever get. Their recent 44% polling was not because the population liked the Conservative platform, but because they really disliked Trudeau. Canadians did not want to vote for the Conservatives, but they did not want to vote for Trudeau even more. Once he left, the dislike went with him. The Conservatives have completely taped out the population that their ideology appeals to. The meter just does not go higher than that for them. Unfortunately, the intelligent Canadians have all gotten their act together and have consolidated their support for the Liberals, now that they have a leader that has political traction, all but swamping the Conservatives in seats.

Yet here is PP, thinking that he can convince even MORE Canadians to support him, by being even MORE of what they obviously do not want. 62% of Canadians never liked what he said before, why does he think saying it louder will convince them to like it?

Since when is ‘waking up to social injustice’ an ‘ideology’? I though tit was ‘becoming civilized’.

You mean back when the disabled were ‘warehoused’ in institutions, out-of-sight out-of-mind?

Is THAT your idea of ‘better’?

The only connection between the two (or three or maybe four) movies is to promote Vin D’s public persona as a ‘badass action figure’. The franchise is all about Vin D, not anything related to a plot.

The franchise tag ‘Chronicles of Riddick’, or even the promotion of the character ‘Riddick’, did not jell until the second movie. I tis like ‘The First World War’ only became ‘the First…’ when the Second World War started. Without the second, there would be no purpose for the term ‘First’.

If you had to wear the ‘Necromonger’ costume, you would know why it was impractical to do another movie featuring these creatures.

Like it or not, that was how the original Constitution was written, and enforced. An Oath to God was required, and Human law was not to encroach upon God’s law. What was Caesar’s, was Caesar’s, and what was God’s, was God’s.

The South had absolutely no initial problem with changing the ‘Constitution’ unilaterally. A new Federal union, a new Constitution. I am talking about the complete collapse of the existing Union and building a complete new one from scratch, not a constitutional convention. Like GM going bankrupt, and then restructuring, nothing about the governance carries over except the name and the physical plant. A complete change in ownership and governance.

Incidentally, that is how South Asia is turning America into a branch plant operation - they are buying up the asserts (including the name and branding) of the large (and small) American corporations, and restructuring them into Asian controlled corporations. Trump is just accelerating the process. An American corporation that manufactures all (or most) of their product in Asia and imports it, goes under because they can not bring their own product in from Asia cheaply, so they go bankrupt and Asia buys the assets. That’s why China will not bother to negotiate trade with Trump. They now realize his tariffs are exactly what their long range plans need. The longer they go on for, the cheaper it will be for them to ‘Buy America’. The GE Appliance Division, for example. Bought by Haier, product made in America, profits go back to China.

You seem to have absolutely no grasp of the situation, but instead are just following populist mythology. The only power Trump has, is in the willingness of those around him to obey his dictates. The only direct ‘power’ he has that he can enforce is the power over Federal agencies under his jurisdiction. An executive order applies only to agencies that come under his direct federal control. The citizens of the United States do not, unless they are employed by the Federal institutions, have to obey nor are they bound by an Executive Order, except to the extent that they physically interact with a Federal agent. The Tariff is collected by Federal agents, under Trump’s command. Trump can order them to collect the tariff. At some point, the individual States will by-pass the Federal tax collecting system and start keeping the Federal taxes for themselves. The individual States will at dome point direct State officials and State businesses and corporations to submit ALL taxes paid or collected by them to the State. Trump has absolutely no control over anything, including State laws or the non-federal courts, State troopers, or police) that come under strictly State control, and they have demonstrated that under no circumstances are they going to give Trump control to do so.

Believe me, you will not read ‘optimism’ into anything I say about America. It is doomed, it is finished, it is over. What I am saying is HOW it will end. It will be nothing short of a direct confrontation between individual State and Federal control. And the national Guard is strictly State control, the individual State will never give that up. The command chain in the National Guard will simply ignore Trump’s commands.

There has always been a battle between State and Federal control in America. That is what Civil War 1.0 was all about. Texas, particularly, will never bend to allowing Trump to over-rule the State legislature. Texas is. probably, the most secessionist-prone state in America. “Ignoring the Law” goes in both directions.

Except the news media thinks they are, so we will probably continue to have them, if not just for the entertainment value. They fill in some of the ‘air time’.

Read the headline. Your insulting, demeaning post is not welcome. It is contrary to the rules of Lemmy. If you have to resort to personal insults, you do not seem to have much to contribute.

Pitch Black was indeed shot mostly in Australia. It was the next two that were shot in Canada. I forgot that Pitch Black was part of the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, it had so little in common with them except Vin D. Almost nothing in the story line followed through the next two, it was a stand-alone movie. I should have said ‘both of them’ instead of ‘all of them’. Maybe the next one will be filmed in Canada as well.

You are definitely NOT a military strategist. And you seem to know almost nothing about Canadian Geography. Or wind currents. The predominant wind direction takes all of the radioactivity and dumps in right in the middle of America. America becomes a radioactive waste land. So no nukes. But to use drones? Do you have an inkling of an idea how BIG Canada is, and how small even the largest 500 pound bomb is? There are not enough conventional weapons in the entire WORLD to ‘lay waste’ to Canada.

Canada would survive, the US not so much.

The National Guard most definitely is NOT his. It is absolutely clear that the commander-in-chief of the national Guard is the State Governor. Trump is nowhere in the command chain. Under no circumstances does the National Guard have to obey Trump. Never has obeyed a President, never will.