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Huh......I always thought the US didn't start military actions or teamed up with any other nations till that bombing thing in Hawaii. Yes I am sure you think the states over reacted by placing sanctions on Japan when it got a savage with the invasion of China. Lord knows the Germans didn't want a fight at the time.lol The U.S is guilty of many things but scolding them for their actions during World War 2 is not really helping your cause. Try as you might to defend the Nazis and Japanese empire these were not very nice people. Both Stalin and Churchill were desperate for the states to get involved. The bombing of Pearl Harbour guaranteed the defeat of the Axis powers.

Montreal Imam: Jews are the most evil of mankind, human demons, quotes kill Jews passage from hadiths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSzSTd3kN3E Different Montreal Imam says "Destroy the accursed Jews" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_6wEZJT9dM Imam and congregation of Toronto Masjid Mosque Call for the Death of All Jews and Christians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13WTFjcZWes

I thought that trolling and baiting was against the forum-rules but apparently not. I'm not going to say who I mean by this and some may guess who but that person should understand it has reached beyond the point of being boring.

Yup, the UK is number two, right behind the USA.

It also saved millions of Japanese lives, civilian lives. Though it could be argued that there were no Japanese civilians.

I have enough logic to know that dropping the bomb saved allied lives

Please put down the bong. Tell me, how many books are there in the average madrassa school library? Answer: one. The Holy Koran. How many computers on site with full Internet access? Answer: none. How do you think even a shitty US school would compare to those numbers?

Nope....China and Vietnam GDP per capita doesn't come anywhere near the USA and many other countries. U.S. "terrorism" works far better....

I think Mercator created his projection for navigational purposes and not propaganda. The projection here sucks for navigational purposes unless one uses a computer to deal with the distortions if one is sailing the equatorial or polar areas. But, with a Mercator chart there is not much problem at all despite the distortions. However, in a classroom it is pretty good for area, though I would suggest an actual Globe would be the better thing. Globes have been around for quite a while.

It turns out that it was an Israeli-American teenager, living in Israel who had sent at least 100 bomb threats to Jewish Centres around the world. His lawyer says it's because of a tumor. Link

Just reported on CTV news. A pro Trump demonstration in California was met with anti-Trump supporters, several of whom used pepper spray against Trump supporters causing a riot and physical confrontation. Several people were arrested. Why is it the liberal anti-Trump people have to resort to illegal, violent confrontations?

You are talking about the war that the US encouraged Iraq to start and then supplied them with chemical weapons that were used on Iranians. Bush the big told Saddam that the US had no interest in regional differences. Then the US flipped, and ended that conflict with a massive war crimes - The Highway of Death.

Why do you think that Americans or Westerners believe anything of the sort? Why wuld anybody spoend one nickel on guns or armies or cops if they though the world was a gentle, kind place. You've been watching too much Elmo on PBS. As compared to the Muslim world, which has been killing each other and infidels for every day of its existence for about 1300 years. The US is achievers, but far, far from that sort of record.

It's not Monday yet.

The quickest way almost always saves lives in the long run. Who do you consider more innocent, the Japanese or the people they attacked?

This is what immediately preceded the atomic bombs being dropped, the Battle for Okinawa. The purpose for the battle from the America viewpoint was using the islands as a base to carpet bomb Japan for many months, to enable a land invasion. This is what happened: It was the final realization by the US of what they faced with Japan- an implacable enemy that would not hesitate to throw every man woman and child into certain death. They knew that many Okinawans killed themselves before being captured or forced to surrender. It was another sobering moment for the American leaders. Any onvasion of the Japanse homeland would take the numbers from Okinawa and increase them dramatically.. By then, they knew they had another option. They took it, and IMO redcued the body count of dead humans by in the process. Proof of the Japanese nature was that they refused to surrender after Hiroshima occurred. They knew with absolute certainty that they were going to lose the war, they were warned of the consequences, and still they would not surrender. Hiroshima is partly on the American soul, but Nagasaki has to be charged to the Japanese leaders.

Nothing says "Religion of Peace" like ploughing a car through crowds of people.....or "just" a car and knife attack. Wow.

Why don't you talk to dog? Animals are not as stupid as human right? You are not so smart stop telling people how to think.

The maps are different projections. Any time you map a spherical surface to a flat rectangular representation, you get distortions. With any particular map, you have to choose what those distortions are to still achieve the purpose of the map. Among other attributes of map projections, map projections can be angle-preserving (useful for navigation) or they can preserve horizontal scaling, or vertical scaling. But not all at once. Given that the standard map projection people are used to seeing (the Mercator) most exaggerates the size of Russia, Greenland, and various other uninhabited arctic and antarctic areas, it seems likely to me that the projection was chosen for cartographic reasons, not political ones. On the other hand, the suggested replacement "decolonized" map is clearly being presented for political purposes. While it may more accurately show the overall area of various countries in comparison to each other, it completely butchers their relative shapes. While the Mercator projection shows northern areas enlarged, it keeps their actual shape relatively accurate. On the other hand, the replacement greatly stretches northern areas in the horizontal direction, rendering Canada and Russia into thin horizontal bands, which they clearly are not. Meanwhile, equatorial areas are compressed in the horizontal direction, making equatorial countries look like thin vertical strips. Overall, without any political motivation, I would say the proposed replacement projection (the Gall-Peters) gives a poorer overall understanding of global geography compared to the Mercator. The Mercator distorts scale, but the replacement distorts angles and shapes far more significantly. If one were to look at a globe (which, obviously, accurately renders the actual size and shape of geographic features since it doesn't have the sphere -> plane mapping problem of a flat map) and then to look at a Mercator projection, one would easily recognize the shapes of all the countries. On the other hand, if one were to look at the replacement, almost every country would look unrecognizable, except for small countries at moderate latitudes (which retain their shapes better) - it is again the US and Europe that are spared distortion in any case, hardly a less "Eurocentric" result than the Mercator. So overall given that the supposed replacement shows a less accurate picture of the world, not a more accurate one, I would say that it's this replacement that is politically motivated, and not the more classical Mercator. Better map projections to show in schools (if for some reason a globe or computer screen with interactive spherical maps is not available) would likely be some of the pseudocylindrical projections. They are not angle-preserving but that matters little unless you're navigating - but they do a good job of preserving shape and scale compared to either the Mercator or the Gall-Peters projections. For example, the Natural Earth projection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

Actually I did read your quote from Blum. But I don't believe all the propaganda you have fallen for. If you believe 9-11 was a conspiracy by the U.S. government, I don't see how we can even get past 1st base or get agreement on anything. It just baffles me why you believe all that stuff. There must be something you're not telling as to why you believe that conspiracy stuff. Each to his own I guess. I think I guessed correctly the other day that you are a young idealist. Probably in university and maybe influenced by other leftist professors or students. Shame that one gets that from a university professor, which should be neutral and not teaching left wing politics and anti west stuff. I bet you like the NDP Leap Manifesto. What do you think is the solution to all the evil U.S. imperialism?

Indeed....U.S. foreign policy and military interventions, before or after WW2, advanced U.S. and allied interests. I've always wondered why some people choose WW2 as some magic line of demarcation in U.S. policies, as if it was OK before then ? Those opposed to U.S. policies past and present are welcomed to stop them them if they can...good luck.

Better still if majority Muslim nations actually cared as much about thousands of dead Muslims, not just 200.

Excellent point....I guess in today's education systems, geography and cartography take a back seat to political correctness.

That decolonised map is still not accurate though. Australia, for example, is too little compared to its real size. So are most African countries.

Your right , i mean who am i to be telling stories, i thought it would add something to the debate i guess i was wrong...it seems it must of hit a chord with you though Dre, and i think i told you this already i really don't care what you think about me, or what i did for a living, or what you think is true or not..... Now i get the impression your not happy with the size of your penis, as you constantly feel the need to whip it out every time you respond to something on one of my posts, you feel the need to put me in my place as if some how the military was beneath your position in life....that am not as Canadian as you are, or i don't pay taxes some how...that some how i work for you, at your pleasure and beck and call....I'll let the rest of the posters here decide, for themselves who i am , I've been here since 2005 , always as Army Guy, even posted on this forum from Afghanistan to let the readers know what was happening before they read about it in the papers....when i retired from the military i received retirement letter and certificates from the CDS and PM , along with something from the Premier of NB thanking me for my service....what did you get again....oh ya a tax return , thanking you for your payment....but then again maybe when you move out of moms basement she'll might give you a little treat.... As to the rest of your remarks, they are your opinions and opinion are like assholes, even arm chair critics like you has one....

Hey man if I terrorize you and say its because in my mind I thought you were a government employee, PRESTO its no longer a terrorst act. I hope you understand that. Also when denying something is a terrorist act its always good to deflect and rationalize the terrorist action by arbitrarily providing lists of other incidents and then arguing this terrorist is only fighting back against those incidents, so you see its not terrorism its just some misunderstood oppressed guy making a statement about bad bad Western people and their colonialism. Now I hope you got that because if you don't I am gonna blow you up but hey it wil be an understandable, rational, moral act because I believe you are a civil servant.

Do you know how many US militants invaded, illegally, Iraq and Afghanisan? Do you know how long this same history has repeated itself?

Actually, with most of your posts here, it's fairly obvious you've already done so.

The threats to Trudeaus longevity are not policies or actions. The threats to him are perceptions of the centrist voters who left the Cons and NDP -and the other threat is himself.. Trudeaus ran a masterful campaign in social media, more accuratey his team did a great job. Now his challenge is to sustain his youthful appearance, convince people again that promises mean something, continue to come up with catchy new memes to repeat in all circumstances, diminish via social media whomever the Cons and NDP elect as leaders, and above all stay on script. All of those things are doable. One of the biggest threats for Trudeau is of course himself. Prior to 2015, far too often he came across as a semi-moron when he went off script. His excellent handlers reminded him of his true calling as a dramatist. Since then he stays in costume(rolled up sleeves, a hint of chest showing) and stays in character in public and in Commons.

Its not about likely hood, one could argue there'd be tourist any and everywhere in London being a tourist city. It is about the target, there are 100 targets better than a bridge sidewalk to run your car into. We seen in the Nice attack, there are alot better places to do it. Especially in London. This was an attack strictly aimed at government with civilian collateral damage. By your logic, any attack on ISIS, would have to be classified as a terror attack from the west. Because ISIS is always near civilians and operates out of government buildings. ISIS issues ISIS passport and currency.

No, there was no way for him to know who was a tourist, the assumption would be this is near government, people in the area are government workers. He didn't jump out his car and stab random people but cops, he was clearly targetting government. Even if he did hit some tourist or was indifferent to it, its not terrorism because the target was government, they were just collateral damage.

For three: Once the war was on, Japan insisted on abusing Allied prisoners and civilians in some of the most inhuman ways possible. Setting the tone for the rest of the conflict re: no quarter given...from either side. That was really really bad.

For one: Japan was willfully breaking the Washington Treaty which it signed. That's bad.

Islam started this particular war. We'll see who finishes it.

What classification does killing half a million Iraqi children fall under? What classification does killing a million Iraqis fall under? What classification does killing three million Vietnamese fall under? What classification does killing 50,000 Nicaraguans fall under when your band of terrorists, the Contras, who are the equivalent of the Founding Fathers, slash off women's breasts, castrate fathers, peel the skin off their faces, put grenades in their mouths and pull the pin, all in front of their children or for variety, switch and do this to the children while parents get to watch?

IMHO, one of the key setbacks to German nuclear research was the loss of the world's entire supply of deuterium. This was the work of several clandestine operations by Norwegian expats, resistance and Brits that destroyed the production equipment, and later the facilities at Norsk Hydro. The remaining equipment at the end could not produce enough quantity or quality to sustain supplies adequate for a reactor to produce weapons grade Pu. Norsk Hydro first gave their existing inventory of high purity D2O to France before the Nazis moved in, and that material was removed from the Curie institute by Brits and move through Dunkirk as the Germans invaded Paris and swept West. That was in turn moved to the most secure location the Allies could imagine - a new plant built in Warfield BC to support atomic bomb development over here. The Americans DID bomb the Hydro Norsk facilities once they entered the war, but by then the bulk of the work to remove material and destroy the equipment was already done, and it was a Brit/Norwegian commando raid that finally destroyed the facilities with hand placed demolition charges. The final blow to the Nazi atomic weapons programme was sinking of the ferry with the last of the poor quality D2O stocks - again nothing to do with the Yanks at all. Project Manhattan was far, far more the result of American initiative than any other country, but that was in making the Allied bomb, not stopping the Axis one.

It's true they do that, and in other M.E. and African nations too. Really when you think of it, no nation outside of western civilization has a good record on human rights, or comparable standards of living and education, and laws that protect liberty. Our culture while imperfect is the only hope for the world, and we are in the minority. We need to them to become like us, not the other way around. If we fail, it will be the Dark Ages all over again.

His target was government, its why he went after police officers. Its why he tried to access government buildings. He knew just driving the car on the sidewalk, there was a good chance he'd hit someone, anyone, tied to government, because that area is full of government workers. Now if he went and bombed a bus in some suburb, or shot up some school (like adam lanza) that would be obvious a much more soft target, he'd probably get away with it or kill alot more people. There was no real logic, to targetting that area, if his job was terrorism. I say this as a person who has been to London, there are areas that are so crowded, in downtown london, where he could pull out a gun, start shooting, and easily kill 200-300 people before a cop could get on the scene.

Many parents don't have this option. Most can't afford private school, and homeschooling is tough when both parents are at work. But I do agree with you that the system is a complete joke.

Another cool story bro! All BS again of course

What's the point of this thread since we already know what you really want to do is bash the USA, regardless of opposing opinions. I have better things to do with my time than provide you a soapbox for your anti-USA rants.

Can you show something to back the following comment you made?

Can you show how you came across this information?

I wouldn't blame Muslims. We have over 1 million Muslims in Canada and over 3 million in the UK. If Muslims were crazy terrorists, we would all be dead by now. I blame mentally ill, unstable people with psychopath tendencies for being okay with killing innocent people. Same with the guy today, who drove into people and started stabbing them, and the Mosque killer in Quebec, the Orlando shooter, the Charleston, North Carolina shooter. I don't blame Muslims. Because that's just stupid.

Believe what? That the mosque killer was a scared little white nationalist who supports Trump?

It is not anywhere close to being a law. It is nothing more a glib observation. It is a silly ploy used by folks who don't understand how freedom of speech works. Along the lines of the woefully ignorant voluminous comments on Islam, Muslims, "terrorism", ... . It's "the commies are coming" recycled, badly.

Maybe what is needed is to stop bringing in so many new immigrants who probably never drove a car back in the country that they came from. Many of those new drivers have peeved me off more than once. Massive Immigration is causing lots of problems for Canada, not just on the roads. My personal opinion.

Liars can only give me negative reps, they cant stand in front of me. Keep calm and say Allahu Akbar

I love a comment that, what seems to be a Swede made on the far right web site, under the article: Jonathan X Lindqvist · Stockholms universitet There's an amazing view on this site. But let me at least inform some information, the Swedish rape laws are the most covering and open in the world: Plus we have a enlightened society where we do not shame or blame the raped; As such we have the most rapes filed to the police. If you'd say that the amount of rapes reported equals to how much actual rape is made, then Saudi Arabia, India, Dubai and other sexist-shitholes should be paradise because there's no rapes reported in said countries. That doesn't mean there isn't a problem with the immigration and the sexism of a lot of immigrants, but quoting 1 communist-leftist politcian and then going rabid over it is border-line nazi proganda.

How did you get any warning points? Despite being wrong much of the time, you are generally civil about it. b.t.w. I don't have any great insight into the hallowed halls of the moderators and their venerable system of warning points, suspensions, public chastisements, and silent post editing, hiding, and deleting.