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Ian Hannamansingh is a Communist.

Careful Betsy. For a moment I thought you were going to talk about his ....rhymes with Venus.

What is your point. Your thread started is incoherent.

...right his twitter rants sharpen his intelligence..talk about reaching...but hey you claim you're not a Trump partisan...lol.

Ok so according to you I am an asshole not demented...lol thank you..

My people participate in an exercise that engages in beheading of you men. I am o.k with it though. It happened when I was very young. I got over it. I did try explain it, but some people just didn't get the point.

Yes and I already showed you did not once but twice by feeding back your precise words where you suggested I asked you to sin by speaking of Islam in a negative way. Next you do not tell me or anyone else when a discussion is over speak for yourself. Further to suggest its rude to challenge your opinions is silly. No one has used abusive language with you. Finally if you can't deal with the fact you can not bully and control me or others on this forum, then you have two choices, run like a coward or in the alternative have the sincerity to debate people with different views than you,. Your feigned ignorance and circular nonsensical responses only makes a mockery of your presentations. Lol, you talked yourself into a dead end.

Interestingly before you stated the above, and after you stated the above you threw out meaningless questions. Then you claim you don't answer other people's questions (even though you throw out non stop your own questions) because you presume answering them is of no benefit to others. That makes you either clairvoyant or close minded and not interested in what anyone else has to say. You also display hypocracy because you expect other people to answer your questions while you refuse to answer their questions. In fact one could argue that your very answer above manifests two Islamic sins by you on your own free accord the first one being you are engaging in deceit by asking questions you do not want answers for and the second by treating others differently than the way you want to be treated.

Here is the statement you denied in your latest response to me. You suggested I wanted you to sin against Islam to please me by saying something incorrect about Islam. You assumed incorrectly and you were wrong. I do not assume your version of Islam is either correct or wrong. Those are your terms of reference. مسح وجهك ، كنت شخ الريح

I could not be more calm. Erdogan on the other hand has placed himself at war with anyone and everyone who he imagines slight him. One need only read back his constant barrage of insults and threats. What next do you want to tell me I am being culturally insensitive and his style of talk is just a cultural thing... أردوغان هو أحمق آخر مع مرض الزهري في الدماغ https://ahvalnews.com/turkey-foreign-policy/turkeys-erdogan-lost-plot-provoking-three-conflicts-op-ed https://www.cfr.org/interactive/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-between-turkey-and-armed-kurdish-groups Your memory as to who he is in conflict with is a tad selective try: Libya, Syria, the Kurds, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, UAE, on and off with Iran, France, Germany, Netherlands, Russia.

Lol Wes you really have a been counter for that?

Yep on both

Well assuming Biden has been given the Dem job which it looks like, unless he picks some barn burner of a Veep, he may have serious problems offering an alternative to Trump. Given how old both TRump and Biden are VEEPS have suddenly more importance.

You also started a thread worried about people changing their gender. I probably wont' check it out. I am not too concerned. I do not think the issues its dealing with were created by it but it is trying to deal with them as best it can. Rod Phillips does not make the budget. He presents it in provincial Parliament. The budget decisions are the result of numerous consultations and in-put from a myriad of interest groups, policy advisors.

I was quite surprised today to see an announcement from the Ontario Ministry of Health that they will provide free counselling for persons suffering from anxiety and depression. Right now one of 4 Canadians is off work at some time due to anxiety or depression and it costs billions in lost income each year due to work absences. This government has been accused of being harsh, insensitive, etc., but has just done something very progressive and enlightened. Right now if you have depression or anxiety you have to wait months to see a psychiatrist under OHIP. The psychiatrist is usually so over-booked the best he or she does is give you a brief 15 minute interview and sends you back to your your gp who may have to give you anti anxiety or anti depressant medication. The medication itself may or may not help but without adjunct (associated, attached) cognitive therapy the medication in itself may not be as effective as monitoring the medication and also guiding individuals how to identify triggers for negative behaviour. Now for many this will not be noticed but its huge (excuse the Trump word) in terms of implications. It will intercept numerous domestic violence scenarios and prevent them. It will intercept persons who might otherwise act out with violence or driving drunk or skipping work or committing suicide or crimes. In the short term it costs for the counsellors to be funded but in the long term it deals with an actually wide spread issue that costs medical care in the long run more than it will prevent with the short term immediate funding expense. Its something the supposed left wing NDP and Liberals never considered. Very far sighted. Next time someone blasts this government as uncaring it may want to think twice. This government has taken a lot of heat over issues dealing with disability issues particularly the cost of autism programs mainstreaming disabilities in schools that it has not created but is trying to fairly deal with. I applaud this constructive announcement.

True. aLSO TO B E FAIR TO YOU herr Harder, in support of your argument there is this study I found that says energy consumption goes down 12%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988312000059 Here is one that advocates for packing us together in high density areas to reduce energy use: https://www.energycentral.com/c/ec/future-energy-why-power-density-matters However that said I found many that said there is no real energy savings in high dense areas as its offset by inefficient buildings so it depends on what kind of buildings you build. The studies also show population density in itself is not the true issue, its the lowering of carbon emissions when using energy that will be the key issue. Also the key issue to population growth is finding food and water and we must remember the moreepeople are born the more likely they move to cities demanding water and food not to mention an increase in laws and rules to stop them from killing each other if they do not work. So yes I concede you can make a good argument for cities Senor Harder saving energy but they also increase use of energy and create other social issues such as crime, increased demands for control over individual rights, and in the short term air pollution from cars. Most studies will go on to state that unless cities engage in low carbon energy models, they actually simply increase CO2 emissions....but you knew that from many other things I have read from you. So let me pose it this way if I may: According to the UN and most demographers there is agreement that currently, the Earth’s population is growing by give or take 60,000 people every eight hours or two children born every second somewhere around the globe. Now although Slinky Dog has only made one post, I would suggest with a handle like that, he may be responsible for many of those births. That said, most demographers agree with our current population growth we’ll need 50 percent more energy to sustain humanity by 2050 and so of course more food, water and shelter, putting a strain on our renewable resources, as well, keeping in mind i we throw away 1/3rd of the world's edible food supply as waste which is mind boggling and high density populations make huge amounts of garbage and strain the sewer and refuse systems. Now we are told United States has a population of just over 300 million people --or about 5 percent of the people on Earth yet it consumese 20 percent of the world’s energy and cause 19 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases while China with 20 percent of the world's population is responsible for 33 percent of its greenhouse emissions. India the second largest population uses only 5 percent of the world's energy....but with 1.2 billion people, it's responsible for almost 17 percent of the Earth’s population. In the United States, 40 percent of their water resources are already so polluted, they're unsafe for fishing or cannot support aquatic life. What happens when all these mega cities people need to pee and poo? Where does all their garbage go? That alone should tell you that: 1-demand for energy across the globe will increase and contribute to deforestation, global warming and other environmental issues like pollution and acid rain; 2-any energy savings we can get the first world to incorporate will be offset by population increases outside the first world; 3-the key to survival is in recycling or waste and garbage as the world shrinks or it will as it is now, kill us off-the epidemic rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, are lifestyle diseases related to urban living. So are so many other diseases. The sheer concentration of micro-waves and radiation let alone exposure to car exhaust in cities is killing us. I do not want to be reborn living in a mega-city teaming with millions in tiny spaces. Yech. Give me a home where the Buffalo roam and the skies are not cloudy all day with acid raid clouds and surveillance satellites. Mr.H I relish the little time I have left and hope to retire driving about in Canada's vast spaces singing to pine trees and talking to chipmunks (the real monks) about the Mandela effect as well as talking quantitative physics with moose and musk ox (they smell like politicians) or the con's of vegetarianism with Polar Bears or finding the elusive Bigfoot which I know is a relative of Shaq O'Neil.. That said clearly population rise increases energy usage and energy usage increases exploitation of the earth's resources leading to permanent damage and toxic pollution, etc.

I am not American so at one level you know I know its not my phacking business but I agree with you. I think Dems are to fixated on Trump and have paid no attention to policies and issues. They can not win based on moral outrage. No one in the US is going to care if a politician lies or acts like a baboon or rude, etc. They care about MONEY, JOBS. Its about economic policies. Unless the Dems start talking economy and what they plan to do they won't defeat Trump on personality politics not with Smilin Joe Biden. I have not heard one coherent economic statement from a Dem yet. I was hoping at least Bloomberg would say something of substance, but he did not. He was actually quite weak. All the geriatric candidates are. Between Bloomberg, Biden and Saunders it looks like some old age home for my people in Miami cursing each other out over who hid their teeth.

Not true. Where population over-concentrates in density C02 production escalates dramatically. You can check that out yourself. I guess I watch too much of that commie David Suzuki. Its confusing. He also has time to play centre on the Habs. I had no idea he could to both.

Now Mr. Harder. Please be fair. https://blog.arcadia.com/10-key-facts-statistics-overpopulation/ The concept of over-population is complex and ties in to many issues. Its not just an issue of the total number of people on this planet, but how we are distributed geographically and what happens when we are concentrated into specific areas not spread out and how we use the planet when we are "over-concentrated" in specific areas. To say India and China are not over-populated or the same for Nigeria or other countries with populations they can't sustain is pointless. Cairo is a classic example of over-population and Egypt itself concentrates its population along a strip close to the Nile River. Canada is not overpopulated if you are to talk of the entire nation's size, but 90% of its population is in a 200 square mile radius along the US border and please do not tell me Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal do not have high density issues. Mexico City, Calcutta, New Delhi, Mumbai, Rome, Paris, London, Netherlands, have challenges with their population density. Israel is a tiny nation. It may not have lots of people compared to Nigeria or China but its a huge problem where to place people. Likewise in the Gaza and West Bank. Its fine to say the world is not overpopulated but when you cancel out its inhospitable land zones and the ocean, just how much land is left for people to live on and do you think you can move Chinese and Indians there without a problem? How we use our natural resources and how we pollute is directly related to energy consumption which is directly related to where populations concentrate. Just what is the difference between over-concentration and over-population? Does anyone really know? All scientists do know is problems arise with over-concentration of any one life form dominating an ecosphere and that most of the time refers to rats, cock-roaches and homo sapiens or other vermin or pests.

https://www.france24.com/en/20191010-europe-lacks-leverage-over-turkey-amid-erdogan-migrant-threat Turkey is led by a calculating dictator who recently stated he wanted to model his government on Hitler's. This the same dictator who not only has equated Israel with Nazism but Germany and Holland (Netherlands). This is someone who uses his Turks in Germany as leverage to get re-elected back in Turkey posing himself as a populist nationalist, i.e., dictator. This is someone who uses the threat of releasing millions of Syrian refugees into Europe to shut up anyone in Europe questioning his actions in Syria. This is someone who had the F35 contract cancelled for his nation for now due to his instability and decision to purchase missiles from Putin but at the same time challenge Putin and Assad in Syria. This is someone who flips back and forth between( being Iran/Russia/Syria as an enemy/ally)like a Kardashian sister with NBA players. The man engages in mass murder of Syrian and Kurdish civilians and accuses Israel of being a Nazi state. This is a dictator who arrested over 50,000 journalists and political opponents and calls out Holland and Germany as being undemocratic Nazis. German embraced Turkey as an ally in WW1 and 2. They now seem to be suffering from karma for this. Turkey has attempted to invade Libya and control it, has threatened Greece-Cyprus-Israel over their oil deposits half way between Israel and Cyprus thinking a naval alliance with Russia would force them to let him in on the oil-only to be neutralized by of all countries, China who formed a naval alliance with Israel. Not only that so did India. No where in the world can a man like Erdogan get enemies like India and China to agree. In fact the only ally Erdogan appears to have at the moment is Trump but interestingly weeks after Trump praised him for his actions in Syria, and pulled American troops out, Trump did an about face (or at least his military got him under control) and neutralizes some not all Turk attacks on Kurds in Syria. Erdogan at the moment is at war with Russia, Syria, Germany, Holland, the EU, Nato, Greece, Israel, Iran, the Kurds, the Armenians, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Libya. He's a wonderful man.

The irony of this thread is not missed by moi.

This is the only comment I can make. Celine is contagious and I warned all of you to stock up. You know her husband is no longer with us. Think why.

This just in Harry travelled to Scotland to get free sanitary napkins. Living on a budget ain't easy.

Why have you not started a thread proving Buchenwald did not exist? Cowards. You can not finish what you started. Pathetic.