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I think it's tragic what happened, but it's time we moved on. Just resettle the Palestinians out of the Occupied territories, and force them out of Israel. It's not just Hamas, it's most of the Gazans. They are sub-human savages. Palestinians celebrate the 9/11 Attack on America.

You are not intelligent enough to decipher what a lie is. I tried to help you, but as the old saying goes- "you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink it."

Only allow the Indian Canadians that have attained citizenship. The rest (TFW's, international students, etc), most should be deported. We have admitted far too many South Asians in the past 3 years, and it is obvious it is because Trudeau is obsessed with the Indian way of life, and is philo-Indian. These people have no plans to assimilate, and want to make Punjabi the official language. We should deport the non-permanent residents back to South Asia. They have caused nothing but trouble for our country. I am tired of these people suppressing minimum wage by working for peanuts. I am also tired of them causing housing prices to rise, since they are obsessed with buying all housing in Canada, and refusing to rent to non-Indians. Imagine if a Canadian with European ancestry refused to rent to Asians? They would be charged and sued for hate crimes. It is a double standard. Let's cut off Indians from coming to Canada, and deporting the ones who are not citizens. They have caused us nothing but grief and pain.

You remind me of Vidkun Quisling. You sell out your country to the enemy, as Quisling did.

Another off-topic, and horrible post by Nationalist Socialist.

You love Putin's Russia so much that you get an erection when you see Putin on TV. Are you not fooling anyone.

Deport them.

I've often heard Adam Schiff made out to be a modern day version of Hans Litten, which is a great honor, for what Litten did in the face of the Nazis.

I voted for CdnFox. Even though we are rivals, and at opposite ends of the spectrum. I appreciate his contributions, and he is a prolific poster, and has posted more than anyone since joining.

Canada must do it's part, and commit to the 2% GDP threshold for NATO. I have always been in favour of building up our military. Now is the time to do so. We spend 1/30 of thee amount of the Americans. We need to double our contributions by 2030.

It's that time again. Time to select the outstanding forum member. The vote will commence today, for 4 weeks. The winner will be declared in December. Sorry if I left anyone off, but I based my selection on post count in 2024.

In Korea, the fight was between two different powers, who were fighting an ideological war, between Democracy and Communism. Korea just happened to be there. It ended up in an Armistice in 1953, when the country was divided into North and South districts (like Germany). In Ukraine, Russia invaded to conquer the country. There was no battle between proxies. It was one small nation trying to defend itself against a larger nation (Russia). Western countries gave aid to Ukraine to fight off the belligerents. That, in itself, is not a proxy war. references: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/is-the-war-in-ukraine-a-proxy-conflict https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2023/01/ukraine-proxy-war-russia-vladimir-putin-nato https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-08-22/ukraine-its-not-us-proxy-war

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From the Duluth New Tribute (circa 2021). This opinion piece was written by Anthony Nephew and published: Local View: Health care must include care for oft-overlooked mental well-being From the column: "Even in this era where everyone gets equal rights, we have forgotten that all of us at one point or another is a mental health patient." Tony Nephew By Tony Nephew and Chuck Frederick March 18, 2021 at 2:00 P In Amanda Gorman's inauguration poem, she stated that this country isn't broken, just unfinished. One part not addressed is how we deal with the constant mental traumas inflicted upon us and our denial that they even exist. Mental health in this country is stigmatized, ignored, or treated as a burden for the individual to bear alone, with little help and less understanding. Employers carry health insurance for their employees, but how many provide insurance for mental health services? Supplemental insurance provides financial relief when you break a limb and are unable to work, but there are few benefits when your mental health breaks. Some employers give bereavement leave, often only three days; anyone who's been through significant loss knows three days is woefully inadequate to process grief’s complexities. It's time to start building better frameworks for mental health in this country. More mental health specialists are needed because most Americans deny they have mental health struggles. Because they have to, because they're told to, or because they don't realize their mind is broken, they keep pushing forward, incurring one psychic injury after another, trauma after trauma, collecting interest, until finally the synapses overload, and they suffer a breakdown. For most of us, that's the best end result. For millions of Americans, a breakdown leads to suicide — or homicide before suicide. One needed framework would pair police officers with mental health technicians who specialize in crisis-intervention training, with the goal of destigmatizing and decriminalizing mental health issues in police-public interactions. Athens, Georgia, started a program in 2017. Denver rolled out a similar program last year. Perhaps it's time to start one in Duluth. We have the medical care facilities, several colleges that offer courses in behavioral health, and one of the area’s leading law-enforcement training centers. We have the infrastructure in place to become a model for law enforcement and mental health care. A society is judged by how it cares and provides for its most vulnerable members. For much of human history, mental health patients have been stigmatized and denied a voice at the table. They have been objects of pity and scorn, swept under the rug and ignored. Decades ago, they were treated as prisoners, experimented on, subjected to electroshock, lobotomized, and treated subhumanly. Even in this era where everyone gets equal rights, we have forgotten that all of us at one point or another is a mental health patient. Most of us never even realize it. We never get time to work through our individual traumas before our collective trauma compounds our suffering. One unrecognized trauma after another is being left untreated or ignored by a society that has been denying since its inception that it has a mental health crisis. The past century has seen progress in medicine, technology, electronics, engineering, biology, and pharmaceuticals. We have mastered the physical world, and yet the inner world and inner progress have been largely ignored. We looked to the stars and put a man on the moon, yet we are afraid of looking inward, at ourselves. The struggles of the next generation can't only be with our physical world. We need to be inward-focused, too. We have to start repairing ourselves. So many of us are broken and unfinished inside, and we don't even see it. We continue to deny the problem is one that can be fixed. It must be repaired in the psyche and in the spirit. Tony Nephew is a 1996 graduate of Duluth Denfeld High School who has a son at Marshall School. He is currently in therapy after suffering a mental breakdown. He wrote this for the News Tribune because he felt he had been bottling things up. source: https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/local-view-health-care-must-include-care-for-oft-overlooked-mental-well-being ------------------------- Sounds like the guy had been struggling with mental health issues for years. Shame on the New York Post, and any others who are milking this family tragedy for political purposes.

That's the New York Post version. Which is as accurate as my stool sample.

"lie" verb (2) ˈlī lied; lying ˈlī-iŋ intransitive verb 1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive She was lying when she said she didn't break the vase. He lied about his past experience. 2 : to create a false or misleading impression Statistics sometimes lie. The mirror never lies. source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lie ------ Your welcome.

Examples of Proxy Wars in modern history: Korean War (1950-53) Combatant 1 Support: China Soviet Union The Iron Curtain (eastern Europe) Combatant 2 support: United States NATO Countries United Nations ----- Second Indochina War (Vietnam War) Combatant 1 Support: China Soviet Union North Korea Combatant 2 Support: United States South Korea Australia Thailand Philippians Laos Cambodia ----- Lebanese Civil War Combatant 1 Support: Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Iraq Libya Algeria Iran Hezbollah Combatant 2 Support: Israel United States France -----

Here is a more accurate article, that did not come from a garbage tabloid: Minnesota man kills wife, ex-partner and two sons before killing himself "No Motive for killing, according to Police. Guardian staff and agencies Fri 8 Nov 2024 22.07 GMT A Minnesota man shot and killed his wife and son, and his ex-partner and their son, before killing himself, authorities said on Friday. Duluth police have not determined a motive, but the police chief, Mike Ceynowa, said at a news conference that the shooter, named as 46-year-old Anthony Nephew, had a “pattern of mental health issues”. The killings that unfolded on Thursday were consistent with the type of crime that, since the 1980s, has been referred to as a “family annihilation”. Thursday’s killings were the 25th mass murder in the US so far this year, according to the non-partisan Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass murder as one in which four or more victims are killed. Officers were first called to a home just after 2pm on Thursday, police said. They found Erin Abramson, 47, and Jacob Nephew, 15, dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Abramson and Anthony Nephew were previously involved in a relationship, Ceynowa said. Later on Thursday, police identified Anthony Nephew as the suspect and surrounded his home. When they entered, officers found the bodies of him, his 45-year-old wife Kathryn and their seven-year-old son Oliver. Police said Anthony Nephew apparently shot himself. Duluth, a city of nearly 90,000 residents, is roughly 135 miles (217km) north of Minneapolis. There is no centralized database for this kind of crime that could provide insights into characteristics or prevalence. But the overwhelming majority of such cases involve a male killer armed with a gun who kills himself after murdering multiple close family members. The steady reccurrence of mass murders in the US have prompted many in the country to call for more substantial federal gun control. But Congress has been unable or unwilling to implement such measures. The Associated Press contributed reporting source; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/08/minnesota-man-family-killed

You never rose to any significant position in the Canadian Armed Forces (which in itself, is underfunded). Now you try to debate (poorly) on an internet forum, and consider your "wartime" experience (which never included actual combat, and a considerable amount of time peeling potatoes), to render you an "expert" at international affairs. There will be tons of Latino asylum seekers. However, whether Canada grants them asylum is another story. A for what I said in my previous post, I will double down. I WOULD RATHER HAVE LATINOS IN CANADA THAN INDIANS. If you think that makes me racist, so be it. I will wear it as a badge of honor, coming from a low-ranking old man who never fought a war.

The above topic is by definition, false and misleading. Expert Comment: This is no proxy war - Russia really invaded Ukraine In the year since, I have reviewed evidence for the Russian action, such as exists. With hindsight, what seemed like the ramblings of madmen, which appeared before the invasion, seem remarkably prescient. And they can now be perceived as predictors of the invasion – although absolutely not excuses for it. Any ‘excuse’ for the Russian attack on Ukraine – because it felt threatened – should be viewed with the lens of history. That was the same reason given by Hitler, for the invasion of half of Europe. He was only protecting the Germans in the Sudetenland. Austrians speak German, anyway. He was only defending against the Polish attack on the radio transmitter in Gleiwitz… And the suggestion Ukraine should accept ‘terms’ – and Putin be allowed to walk away with a fifth of the country, having laid waste to cities with clear evidence of war crimes – can be viewed in the same way. Imagine, if the Allies had sued for peace in 1943, and agreed Hitler should be allowed to keep what he had conquered to 'stop the killing'. Plus, Ukrainians will never accept to surrender and it is they who have the agency in this war; they decide. This is no proxy war, with NATO and the Soviets pitched against each other behind the scenes in the remote tropics as happened during the Cold War or as is currently happening in Yemen, where different Middle East factions fund the fighting done by others. This is a real war. Russia really invaded Ukraine and it really has bombed real civilians, real hospitals and real infrastructure. Between a third to half a million people have already been killed or maimed, in just 12 months. There is nothing proxy about it for either side. To return to the evidence, three months before the invasion, one of Putin’s longest-standing and closest advisers, Vladislav Surkov, former deputy prime minister, dark celebrity, sometime playwright and novelist, wrote a bizarre article which he published in an online current affairs magazine. It was strange commentary on the second law of thermodynamics, as it applies to nation states. Essentially, Surkov, who has no current official role, used Physics to claim countries have to deal with internal ‘tensions’ through external ‘expansion’, like a gas escaping a closed chamber – ie through war. In doing so, they would transfer internal entropy – disorder and chaos - beyond the nation’s borders. It seemed at the time to be mad ramblings. He repeated this, though, just nine days before the invasion in a further article, talking about how it was necessary to expand outwards, 'For Russia, constant expansion is not just one of the ideas, but the true existential of our historical existence. Russia will expand not because it is good, and not because it is bad, but because it is physics.' Now, the ‘fog of war’ has actually made clear these comments were writing on the wall. Another clear indication of intent came from Putin himself, all the way back in 2016. When presenting a national prize for Geography [he is Chairman of the Russian Geographical Society], he asked one of the youngest award winners to say where Russia’s borders end. The young boy began to answer, when Putin interrupted him with a smile and said, ‘Russia’s borders never end.’ The audience was uncertain whether to laugh or applaud. It was safest to do the latter. A third piece of evidence I have seen is a Russian post-invasion plan – Action plan: to create a system of control over economic and political processes in Ukraine – setting out a rough five page-long sketch of how it was going to happen. The strangest thing about the plan is how insubstantial and very basic it was. Both the Kremlin’s political and military plans have been proved horribly wrong, of course, since the invasion did not go according to plan and now something over 90% of the Russian army is in Ukraine. What is strange, though, is that it is all about controlling the territory and very little about assets. The invasion was not about seizing valuable resources or material gains. There are none left when the Russians reach them. It is more about ephemeral prestige, power, control, even more than a land grab. You do not bomb the largest steel mills to smithereens in order to obtain them. Some claim Russia was goaded into acting by the threat of NATO expansion. But Putin himself said in 2004 that 'Russia has no concerns about the expansion of NATO from the standpoint of ensuring security'. Russia, after all, has a massive nuclear arsenal and has no reason to fear any adversary. What is the purpose of nuclear weapons then? In addition, several countries bordering Russia, including Finland and the Baltic States are already entering the alliance, with not a murmur from Moscow. Plus, with modern hi-tech weapons, no country needs actually to border another, for there to be a threat – as Britain has discovered from the threats of Russian TV pundits, who delight in telling us how London could be wiped out in ten minutes. So where does the war go from here? History tells us, you cannot appease a dictator. History also tells us Russia will not abide by an agreement. In 1994, Ukraine handed over its – third largest – nuclear weapons arsenal to Russia (as a long-term nuclear power) in exchange for security assurances from the US, the UK and…er Russia. Fake pacifists who call for Ukraine to sue for peace, or ‘come to terms’ with Russia, are in effect aiding and abetting the criminal invasion of a sovereign nation and suggesting war criminals go unpunished. But, even were that to happen, there would be no reason for Russia to obey any conditions laid down in a deal and the evidence suggests quite the opposite. After all, who will be there to force the Kremlin to live up to the letter of the law? The war can end in two ways. Western weapons can allow Ukraine to threaten Russia’s continuing war effort to such an extent that Putin is replaced as the leader – effectively a coup. The alternative would be for Putin to declare ‘victory’ now, as it is, and step down quietly, leaving a new administration to negotiate peace. source; https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-02-21-expert-comment-no-proxy-war-russia-really-invaded-ukraine

The Ukraine-Russia War is NOT a Proxy war.

There is no such thing as TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), just as there is no such thing as Trudeau Derangement Syndrome. Horrible thread. 0/5 starts. Would not recommend.

She's not wrong. Biden screwed over the Democratic Party, although I think Jill Biden kept urging him to run, so it's her fault too. If Biden cared about Democracy, he would have announced that he would not be running for re-election by January 2024 at the latesst. Kamala was a affirmative action candidate, and Tim Walz was not a good choice.