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The majority of those in America who have lots of kids are brown people. White America's birthrate is 1.52. Hispanics are 1.92. Neither group has a birth rate sufficient to replace those who die.

Intelligence does not equate to wisdom.Trump is the result of the bad decisions made by the Obama administration and others before them.

As a realist? That's what the European elites have been saying for the last ten years. And the voters have responded by throwing increasing support to the far right, even as the elites gleefully continue to import millions of young Muslim men who despise them and rape their women.

If he thinks there's a path forward away from the emerging power blocks of the US, China, and EU, then he's not only not realistic, he's a fantasist. China is making a fortune selling renewables to the West. Meanwhile, it's industry - which includes a huge chunk of what used to be OUR industry - is powered by cheap, reliable coal power.

Churchil's words had a lot more gravitas than Carney's. And Churchill actually meant what he said. Carney does not. Small minds are easily impressed.

I was making a comparison with Canada. At the start of the war, Ukraine's military, including the national guard, was about 300k. Canada's is currently stated as about 60k, but is actually closer to 50k. Ukraine had a lot of reservists. It had mobilized between 700k-800k people by 2023. Canada has about 30k reservists. And the US military is, of course, much more powerful than the Russian military was. Yes, everyone assumed the mighty Red Army would overrun them quickly, before they had a chance to activate reserves. But the mighty Red Army was run by incompetents appointed due to their loyalty to Putin, and its equipment was often not working or obsolete due to corruption and neglect.

The Ukrainians had been preparing to stand up to Russia for years, and had a massive and well-equipped military compared to Canada.

Why Muslims Hate You (by Raymond Ibrahim): This little known doctrine is the root source of all hostility. Its first part (al-wala’) commands all Muslims to be loyal and helpful to one another; its second—and much more problematic—part (al-bara’) commands all Muslims to disavow and even hate all non-Muslims. It is, in fact, what fuels jihad (warfare) and jizya (mistreatment on conquered infidels). Although there are many Koran verses that support this doctrine (3:28, 4:89, 4:144, 5:51, 5:54, 9:23, 58:22), Koran 60:4 is its lynchpin. Allah informs Muslims that: "You have an excellent example in Abraham [Ibrahim] and those with him, when they said to their people, “We totally dissociate ourselves from you and what you worship besides Allah. We reject you. Enmity and hatred has arisen between us and will last until you believe in Allah alone." The hate is intrinsic; it is so final and so total that even if a non-Muslim is genuinely good and kind to a Muslim, the Muslim must still hate him, or her.

Dan Burmawi on Islam I’ll publish a longer article on this tomorrow, but here is the simplest way to explain what makes Islam fundamentally different from every other major religion, and why it is uniquely destabilizing. Judaism, Sikhism, Christianity, and Islam are monotheistic religions, which means they preach belief in one deity. Islam adds a second, inseparable layer, and that is exactly what makes it problematic. In Judaism, Sikhism, and Christianity, you are only required to believe in one God to be considered a monotheist. You can believe in God while living under any number of political arrangements without ceasing to be Jewish, Sikh, or Christian. In Islam, you are required to believe in one God, Allah (monotheism) and one governing authority, Sharia (mono-cracy). If you believe in one God but reject one governing authority, you are not considered a Muslim, even if you believe in Allah, this is called (Alhakimiyya). To be Muslim is not only to believe in one God (Allah), but also to affirm one governing authority, sharia. Belief in God without submission to God’s law as governing authority is insufficient. A person may believe in Allah, pray, fast, and still be considered outside Islam if they reject the idea that only divine law should rule. In that sense, Islam is not just monotheistic, it is mono-cratic. Under this framework, Muslims who reject the rule of sharia, Kurds, secular Arabs, or “moderate” leaders, can be declared apostates or unbelievers. This is also why figures like Mohammed bin Zayed can be labeled infidels despite being Muslim: political sovereignty, not personal belief, is the dividing line. Most Muslims believe in one God and accept sharia as the ideal governing authority. What separates them from jihadists is not theology, but strategy and timing. They may not seek to impose sharia themselves, but they accept its legitimacy, which is why jihadists are frequently rejected tactically while being defended ideologically. This mono-cractic principle is not a fringe interpretation. It is what the Qur’an commands “And whoever does not rule by what Allah has revealed, they are the disbelievers” (5:44) and what Muhammad, his companions, and the Islamic caliphates practiced throughout history.

How Canada came to lead the G7 in food inflation. Yes, some of Canada’s food inflation reflects global factors — climate volatility, energy costs, and supply disruptions. But most of it is now policy-induced. Regulatory drag, interprovincial trade barriers, poor logistics, rising compliance costs, carbon pricing embedded throughout the supply chain, and a sluggish macroeconomic environment all compound one another since 2008, at the very least (see Figure below). These are not temporary shocks; they are structural weaknesses. https://agrifoodanalyticslab.substack.com/p/how-canada-became-the-food-inflation

They lie, of course.

And you are welcome to talk about things that you know nothing about.

Dude, don't quote me some entry from Wiki as if you know or even care what you're talking about.

Islam is a complete societal guide, from religion to law to social behaviour to government. Or to quote Gad Saad, "Islam is 10% spiritual, 90% political". Do you think it's a mere coincidence that being openly gay is illegal in all Muslim countries across the globe? That no Muslim country, out of 50, treats men and women equally under the law? Tell me about the lotteries and casinos in Muslim countries. There aren't any. Tell me about the great corporations and banks of the Muslim world. There aren't any. Do you know that more books are translated into Spanish every year than have ever been translated into Arabic? A bright young man in the West goes to university and studies law, or commerce, or medicine, or science. A bright young man in the Muslim world goes to university and studies Islam. Islam and all its prohibitions and demands on social behaviour, on commerce, on morals and criminality has had a massive impact on culture in Muslim-majority countries.

What 'experts' were these? The people who guide Ford are people who slip money into his pockets. The people who guided Trudeau were people able to spin tall tales and promise him money after he left power. Experts? You mean like the Century Initiative? Those experts? Those are the people you want the government to be guided by? The corporate hacks? Like Florida was?

One of the big reasons for China's success is the idea of net zero, which the West enthusiastically embraced without a single government ever explaining the cost to its citizens. Hands up, those of you who knew Trudeau had spent $200 billion on net zero to no effect before Carney said so? The West has spent trillions to make its energy more expensive, while putting hefty taxes on industries that pumped out CO2. This has helped drive manufacturing and industry away from them and over to China and others like China, where electricity is fed by cheap and plentiful coal power, and there are no carbon taxes. China has thrived and Western economies have stagnated since the obsession with global warming took hold. Yes, outsourcing to cheaper manufacturing in China started its rise, but net zero added rocket fuel to that.

Would you rather live in rural China or rural Alberta? From what I know, the life for the average Chinese, whether urban or rural, is vastly inferior to that of the average Canadian, not just in terms of human rights, but in terms of lifestyle, comforts, housing, free time, etc.

How does this negate anything I said? Harper wasn't the dictator of the nation who could give orders to everyone not do stupid crap. There were and still are a lot of useless twats in office across this country. Hell, the statue of Sir John A was torn down off its pedestal at Queens Park while Doug Ford hid under his desk. Then it was boarded up and left boarded up for years because Ford pissed himself every time he thought of the OPP pushing away native or pro-native protesters trying to tear it down again, or of those people succeeding and demonstrating yet again that he had no balls.

As someone who was living in Ottawa at the time, the lack of law enforcement infuriated me. This all could have been handled quite easily had the Ottawa Police Service not been run by a completely incompetent DEI hire who had no idea what to do and so did nothing. Action only started after he was booted. The imbecile of a mayor who had him appointed didn't run for re-election. I believe everyone on the police services board was gone soon after, as well. Of course, it also would have helped if we'd had a conservative in power in Ontario. But instead we had and still have the ham-handed, ham-faced Doug Ford, who spent most of that time hiding under his desk.

All the Liberals who were in power then are in power now except him. They all supported this. By what metric? Is it the good job they're doing at running up a massive debt? Is it the good job they're doing with the economy, where unemployment continues to rise and investment continues to flee while Canada gets poorer and poorer? Is it their complete failure to crack down on violence and disorder in the streets or on those groups harassing Jews? A good job at what, exactly?

Have you ever actually BEEN on a large forum? Because what you say is nonsense.

Hey, Michael, can you tell me what the road to hell is paved with? Small Boost, Not a "Magic Key": Being a legacy can improve your chances, but you still need to be a qualified candidate. Highly Selective vs. Public Schools: Legacy status matters most at private, highly selective universities (e.g., Ivy League) that want to maintain donor relationships. Public universities, especially in Canada, rarely consider legacy status and tend to focus almost entirely on grades.

If the people who worked and continue to work so hard to shame us with our history had any integrity or honesty, they'd have a look around the world that existed during those times and be forced to admit that, for their times, our ancestors were a lot better than almost everyone else's ancestors. What warts we have are tiny compared to those of other countries. As for changing history. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution". - Thomas Sowell