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Athletics is the only interesting event at the summer-olympics.

It speaks volumes that it has been speculated that if she has to withdraw not even then there couldn't be Sanders but instead people are coming up with nonsense such as Biden being nominated as a dark horse.

Could Hillary still be toppled by the email-gate?

Japan is a very isolationist country.

Canada is such a vast country that I guess it is by no means uncommon that someone from Toronto has never been to Vancouver, or vice versa.

I understand that the intention is to start playing this tournament a bit more regularly than every 12 years, once every 4 years perhaps and the next time the tournament is going to be arranged there are proper countries filling the spots of the 7th and the 8th teams.

Russia has announced that the KHL will not take a break during the tournament. Does that then mean that they are going to send a second class team to the tournament. To me that kind of seems like they are scared of having their asses kicked by the Canadians again and are resorting to the obvious excuse; not having the best team in the tournament.

How seriously do you Canadians take this tournament: http://www.nhl.com/ice/eventhome.htm?location=/worldcup/2016 In my opinion the old Canada-cup should be resurrected. In that world cup those compilation teams are just rubbish.

Me too. Or is the current seemingly uncontrollable invasion into Europe another Zionist conspiracy as some quarters have suggested? Nah, I don't think so. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible.

Perhaps you're right. I was thinking more of the summer olympics which have grown in size over the years.

The world cup probably was profitable but Brazil being Brazil that money has gone into better pockets. With olympics it's the same story every time; an economic disaster for the host-country and the city. Only the 1996 Atlanta olympics came clean economically but those games are remembered as probably the most soulless sporting-event imaginable.

If you use the word assasination when killing somebody don't you then elevate that person to a position of importance?

FPTO-system works when the combined vote of the two largest parties is over 90%. When below that it becomes capricious. In Britain there have been elections where the largest party has received 35% of the votes and that has translated into 55% of the seats. That is hardly representative.

Russians meddling in Chechnya is another example.

He's a jackass but what does his success tell you about the republican voters or more importantly the quality of his opponents? I feel a bit sorry for Jeb Bush because, unlike his brother, he's a smart guy but people justifiably decided that enough with Bushes.

It seems that any thinkable Democrat-candidate has a good chance of beating Trump, anyone except Hillary, but yet the Democrat-voters cling onto Hillary. If the current e-mail scandal crushes her dreams of becoming a nominee it could be a blessing in disguise for the Democrats as it seems that people in large don't want Trump but they want Hillary even less.

It would be a nice turn of events but he's too old.

We in Finland get told time again that we are such a sparsely populated country that we can afford to accept new people living here. Let's look at that claim closer; About 40% of the world's resident population north of the 60th degree latitude are Finns. The population in Canada in corresponding latitudes is tens of thousands, in Finland it is 5.5m. Simply speaking living this north is simply unecological. The sheer survival is unecological and in order to maintain a high standard of living is bordering on environmental crime. If I were a dictator of the world I would simply ban people living in places such as Finland because of its wastefulness. Ok, perhaps I wouldn't be that harsh on people who were born in such places such as Finns or the Inuits but moving from a more temperate climate north of the 60th would be an absolute no-no. It never ceases to astonish me how the Green Party who are supposedly environmentalists are in favour of importing people from countries of better conditions for human inhabitation to move into Finland. If they were logical they would be anti-immigration as hell but they aren't logical. Last year we had 35,000 Iraqis moving to Finland. That just doesn't make any sense. People in the present-day Iraq were living in houses and farming land when people in Finland were living in trees and starved and froze to death. I'm glad to say that soon our welfare-state will collapse and most of the people who don't belong here will pack their bags and move elsewhere and as the Finnish society will also collapse most Finns with means and opportunities to move will follow. Mark my words; in the 2020's the news you will hear about Finland will not be about hockey but about mass-poverty, civil unrest, state of emergency and a collapsed society.

I'm not British, I'm Finnish but I'm extremely interested about the prospect of Brexit because that could set off an avalanche as Britain, unlike Finland, is a major important country.

I don't agree with your anti-national sentiment but I can understand where you are coming from and that is totally acceptable. The thing which I really don't understand is that people who bang on about how nationalism is a bad thing support a corrupt structure such as the EU which is little more than extension of German and French national interests and the EU itself has ambitions of its own to become an empire. I'm not sure how much you people in Canada know about the EU and if you don't know about it might be fooled to think it is some peace-loving gathering of nations against nationalism which has wreaked havoc across the European continent. The EU is the project to bring our continent under totalitarian rule once again and history is repeating itself. The EU is kleptocractic and corrupt to the core. I can't for the world understand how anyone who hasn't vested interests in that system should support it.

It does feel like politicians are puppets and unfortunately the puppet-masters are never up for election.

As Britain is due to have a referendum on whether to stay in the EU or leave the union Barack Obama visited Britain a couple of weeks ago and lectured to them that they should stay. Not only was that interfering in another country's internal affairs but also hypocritical. Namely, let's imagine that there was an American union consisting of all the countries of North-,Central- and South-America and that union would have the power to override the internal legislation of each country. Could you imagine the USA would ever accept that? In other words Obama demands others to do something he would never do himself. On the exit-referendum of Britain it must be said that it is somewhat ironical that the main party advocating for the exit is called the United Kingdom Independence Party as the United Kingdom itself is an artificial country but has become a functional one in three centuries of its existence.

I know this is not relevant on your continent but I must still say that even though I agree to some extent with your analysis of how nationalism when taken too far is detrimental do you think that what we here in Europe are being spoon-fed is any better? I mean the EU which is a kleptocracy of the highest order and a horrendous bureaucratic system the purpose of existence is only for itself and its dreams of federalism are nothing short of the lebensraum-ideology that many people accuse nationalism of.

I must say that I have never in my adult life have been as sceptical about democracy as I'm these days. I used to poke fun at those people who never vote and who say that voting is just a waste of time and politicians are all of the same ilk. I used to spurn those people by thinking whay ignorant oafs they are. I think the turning point for me came last year when the True Finns had another electoral success on the bandwagon of anti-EU and anti-immigration campaign and were allowed into the government. In the government those bastards probably broke all the records of turning coats. All of a sudden the EU is a necessity and immigration is just something we have to live with. I know that in coalition-politics you give and you take and policies are bound to be lame compromises but despite that self-evident truth they went too far and have betrayed their voters.

What's that noise? Oh, it's the noise of the can of worms opening.