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Singapore is really something which is to some people a paradise when as for others it is a repressive dystopia.
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On 3/6/2024 at 5:14 AM, August1991 said:
I was in Singapore in the early 1980s.
Then I travelled to Hongkong, and Shanghai.
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Modern China is following the Singapore model.
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I thought your username is the month and the year of your birth but apparently not.
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Some people say that if you call the capital of Ukraine in its English name as Kiev you're pro-Russian. Nowadays you must call it Kyiv.
What a load of absolute bollocks! I am absolutely against Russia but names are names.
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Putin is desperate to blame Ukraine for the concert-attack. That would give him the excuse to step up the war to the next level.
Not everybody in Russia wants to live under the Russian rule. This attack is most probably somethiong to do with that.
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Singapore is totally dependant on Malaysia regarding fresh water.
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So if the 1995-referendum had gone just a bit the other way round there would be a totally alternative history?
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Macron is the president of the surrender-monkeys. His word is worth nothing.
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It seems to me that it tells something about the effect of the sanctions that Russians seem to be extremely pissed off for not being able play international hockey or they are banned from other international sports.
I mean if the sanctions had their desired effect of ruining the economy of Russia and bringing down their society absolutely nobody would care about hockey or sports.
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Ukraine is not a military superpower but yet Russians are struggling there.
Even if the Russians manage to somehow get over the war by somehow claiming as their victory they have no resources to start another war somewhere else.
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How exactly can you remove Biden without getting Kamala to replace him? After all Biden has no chance of lasting 5 more years, which he should if he gets re-elected. Looking at him you wonder if he lasts until next week.
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It is a problem in the political culture that when the man of your own party is the President and he wants to get re-elected challenging him from within his own party is considered somehow traitorous behaviour. Hence an incumbent, however incompetent he may be, does not have to worry about primaries that his upcoming opponent in the general election does.
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Those of you who know the Bible is there anything in it which supports the idea of establishing the institution of papacy?
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Don't they have guided tours for tourists in the White House? Perhaps Trump will be allowed to go on one of such tours but that is the closest Trump is going to be allowed to have anything to do with the White House.
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YouTube is nowadays full of clips how Canada is losing its appeal for immigration. Well, there will always be more immigration than emigration for Canada.
However, when you look at the map you see that Canada is not on the way to somewhere. I mean you don't end up in Canada unless that is where you absolutely want to go to.
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I'm glad Finland finally joined NATO but the reason we joined was a bit embarrassing since obviously Russia wasn't going to attack other countries after it thought the job was done in Ukraine.
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I watched the interview. Very interesting. A very teacher/pupil-vibe about it though.
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This kind of makes me think how we in Finland had this party-princess called Sanna Marin as our Prime Minister and she caught even international attention and many people here in Finland were amazed what a super PM we had.
Then we had elections and her party lost and boring adults took charge again and nobody now knows outside of Finland who the Finnish PM is.
It is very much the same with you in Canada. Justin Trudeau is well known across the world. His predecessors weren't and most likely his successors won't be either.
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I'm glad that Finland joined NATO because I never understood why we didn't belong there earlier but when we joined it looked like as if we were running away from the Russian threat when as Ukraine was always the thorn on Putin's side but we were told that Putin was going to restore the pre-1917 borders of Russia and after Ukraine it was going to be Finland's turn to be returned to the cosy arms of mother Russia.
There's propaganda on both sides of any conflict but it is a mistake to believe your own propaganda. That is directed at the enemy to make them believe it.
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If the Democrats want to stay in power they really must dump Biden.
Unfortunately, it is the political custom that if the incumbent President wants to get re-elected he doesn't get challenged from his own party.
There has never been a need to break that tradition more than now. Biden belongs to some white house which is a nursing home. Not the White House.
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People need to realise that there is a difference in the sense that if you follow the media you could be fooled to believe that all this woke and trans-stuff is something completely mainstream but if you actually go out to the real world you very rarely encounter these people. It is a very marginal group of people bigged up by the media.
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Do many Canadians think that it is a small country since they always compare the size of the population to the southern neighbour?
Of course Canada is not a small country. It has the second largest land-mass in the world and a country of 40 million people is not a small country populationwise either. Perhaps a middle-sized country but not small.
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17 minutes ago, CdnFox said:
In the case of canada - it's vastly out of control AND unfortunately it is absolutely the gov'ts fault almost entirely and it's pretty easy to see how it happened.
Some of the provincial gov'ts played a supporting role, but the big mistakes of the feds were
1) out of control spending.The current gov't in 7 years has borrowed more money than ALL PREVIOUS GOV"S IN OUR ENTIRE HISTORY COMBINED. When you dump that much unearned dollars into the economy you get massive inflation and cost increases. I mean obviously that's the case. THe scotia bank calculated that if gov't spending had been cut back 3 percent, there would have been no need to raise interest rates to fight inflation.
And of course we have tax issues. Payroll and other taxes have gone up and then there's the carbon tax, which is a tax on everything. And unfortunately because its a cumulative stacking tax and not an end user tax (meaning business pays for it, charges it to the next business who pays for it, who charges the next etc so it gets added to the mark up) the consumer often pays for it several times.
And that drives up costs.
But - the biggie is probably immigration. In 2015 immigration was somewhere around 250 thousand a year. Now it's close to a million and it's been growing every year.
THe fact is we do not build enough homes or even come close to cover that kind of increase. We don't train doctors fast enough or nurses etc. And while our supply chains have been decent when you start adding an additional MILLION consumers a year there's no way for food or other producers or importers to catch up or keep up, and that means prices go up
So sadly - we should have been cruising through this with no inflation and good cost of living but sadly we're doing worse every year, and our gdp-per-capita is nosediving which means our quality of life is going down as well.
Bad times.
I don't live in Canada so I'll take your word for what you have said since I don't know better.
However, despite all what you have just said there will never be more emigration out of Canada than immigration into Canada.
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The cost of living-crisis is really going on everywhere in the western world. Even though we like to critisize governments for such things it is really out of their control in a free-market economy.
Unless, of course, if Trump was in charge. Then all of it would be his fault entirely.
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Too bad that things seem not so good for you these days but Canada is a country alongside with countries such as the USA, the UK and Australia where things will never get so bad that there would be more emigration than immigration.
NZ, having the same unsustainable immigration problem as in Canada, decides to tighten visa rules
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NZ is at the bottom of the world far away from everything. Unless aeroplanes become faster in the future, or some other forms of transport, the idea of living in NZ is just out of the question.