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  1. SpankyMcFarland
    Yes. Apparently FDR even used the term 'concentration camp' himself for a similar project in Hawaii. I'm just saying that such practices pre-date the Nazis.
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    As has been asked today, when ICE is rounding up migrants who work in meat factories, are the owners being arrested? You'd think their culpability would be considerably greater. Such action against employers would have an immediate effect on illegal immigration but has been conspicuous by its rarity.
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    In their modern form, concentration camps go back to the 19'th century and were used, for example, in Cuba, the US and South Africa. You'd expect Americans to know their own history at least and prepare for an earful if you ask any Afrikaner about them. The most infamous concentrations camps, like Auschwitz, were an unusual subtype that developed out of the Nazi concentration camp system in 1941. They are more accurately termed extermination camps or death camps and differ significantly from the others.
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    Canadians in China might disagree there.
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    This is the thing the skeptics don’t understand. Most people who believe in man-made Climate Change don’t want to be proven right - it is going to seriously complicate our lives - but unfortunately that is where the evidence points ever more strongly.
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    How much more? 1% in this report: https://www.pewresearch.org/topics/hispaniclatino-vote/page/2/ And that was before he actually governed. I predict a swing among non-Cuban Hispanics against Trump and his party in the 2020 election now that they’ve really had a taste of what he is like.
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    What’s the alternative to the UN?
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    Republicans are going to have a much tougher job winning over Hispanics during and after Trump.
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    Good to see Trump mentioning fentanyl as a major problem with China.
  10. SpankyMcFarland
    A vital quality for any politician is the ability to take criticism, often unfair, and avoid lashing out. Like most of us, MacLeod seems to lack the temperament required for this stressful line of work.
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    Not everyone is cut out to live in ‘communist’ Canada.
  12. SpankyMcFarland
    Canada is in the position of any small country outside the EU these days. It’s at the mercy of the great powers. Scheer would be in the same spot. The one thing we could have done is let Meng escape. Now we’re stuck in the middle of this mess getting no thanks from the Yanks either.
  13. SpankyMcFarland
    You mean hasn’t seen a new war.
  14. SpankyMcFarland
    The fact that McConnell won’t even allow votes on gun control and election security shows how abnormal US politics has become. He knows most people want reform so he just protects his own senators from having to discuss the measures and casting a vote.
  15. SpankyMcFarland
    Tariffs and sanctions are all part of Trump’s playbook. No country is safe and thus every country needs to prepare for a sudden downturn in relations.
  16. SpankyMcFarland
    Between denying the very existence of man-made climate change and claiming nothing at all can be done about it lies a whole range of strategies to combat its effects. If that’s virtue signalling, count me in.
  17. SpankyMcFarland
    Now that the evidence for climate change is overwhelming, some other reasons for inaction have to be found.
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    No, I am quite happy to have the same expectations of Canada as I do the US but the US is much bigger and has more influence on other countries. In places like Canada, Belgium or Ireland, the argument from some fossil fuel enthusiasts is that we are too small to matter so let’s do nothing. The US can’t say that and it could bring Canada and Mexico along a more stringent path, and then the rest of the world. Fertility rates have fallen dramatically in some developing countries, e.g. Bangladesh. It can be done.
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    The Americans say they want a new deal but sanctioning the Iranian Foreign Minister doesn’t sound like a step in that direction: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/imposes-sanctions-iranian-foreign-minister-zarif-190731203547531.html
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    No, not at all. I want the US to START the heavy lifting. You live on this planet too, I presume? Europe and North America were the first to cause this problem so it is fitting that they should be the first in to tackle it.
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    I imagine most of us agree that what really matters is global GHG production. Unfortunately, countries are the units we have to sort this problem out.
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    Obviously, this is not an exact science, and I’m not sure how the whole issue of changing national borders etc. was managed here, but, by one estimate, the US has been responsible for something like 26% of cumulative global CO2 emissions since 1750, China 12% and India 3%. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions Many factors will have to be considered for the future including dramatic increases in population in the developing world. However, by region, Europe and North America have contributed far more of the existing excess burden of GHG than India or China however you slice it so it’s hardly unreasonable for us to be asked to take the lead, particularly as we have more resources to address the problem.
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    Because you have people in many smaller countries like Canada claiming that their greenhouse gas output does not matter because their particular country is too small to affect the overall figure. If the US took the lead it could at least force North America to follow. Then we could see a coalition build to put pressure on the developing world to follow suit. Otherwise we are all headed for climate catastrophe.
  24. SpankyMcFarland
    To answer the question, the evidence seems to point that way ever more conclusively: It is now a matter of urgency that the US provides leadership in a program of global action against anthropogenic climate change.
  25. SpankyMcFarland
    Johnson is a man who is unwilling to answer a simple question regarding how many children he has. He’s an entertainer and should never have been given the job of PM.
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