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Bryan: Are you going to post any evidence whatsoever to back up your statement?

Again paranoia is not acceptable for foreign policy. To really expect China to fight over some icebergs far away from their supply lines is ludicrous. China can spend up to 50% of the world's military spending and still it would be self-defense, since that's how much the U.S. is spending. The Soviets crashed, because of their overly mliitaristic economy. The British Empire crashed because of their overly militaristic economy. The American Empire is crashing from their overly militaristic economy. The Chinese economy may end up crashing over its overly militaristic economy. Its a pattern. Canada should be beyond the idiocy. Fear and paranoia mongering so that the war profiteers stay rich is unacceptable in the 1st century. The China threat like the red menace before it is simply a way to justify what can't be justified. The real enemy are the war profiteers and the politicians they back who maintain their positions of power and affluence by convincing the populace of some vague yellow or red menace far away while robbing them point blank.

Electric vehicles. Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Hydro-electric (powers 90% of B.C.'s energy) etc.

And yet without Nasa we'd never have a photo of the Earth from orbit, and humankind would be even less conscious than it already is about the fragile biosphere we all inhabit.

Iow Canadian whore to the oil industry appointed as Energy Minister by the Cons tries to ignore science as per Conservative government policy.

How about we call them Petrol Lubricators, Bumper Humpers, or something just as silly?

Ex-Nasa scientist with intelligence vs right wing drool. Hmmm....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/04/26/pol-promo-house-hansen-oliver.html Due to the Canadian Conservatives' onslaught against scientists to support their anti-environmental policies for profit. This should not be surprising.

I never thought I'd see the day, but almost every single lawn sign in my riding is green right now. Andrew Weaver may just be B.C.'s first provincial Green MLA.

The massive Chinese buildup of their military certainly isn't to fight over some stupid icebergs and have their entire economy collapse over it. Its there to defend themselves. That isn't to say they too aren't wasting too much money on military spending as led to the collapse of the Soviet economy.

Makes 0 sense. China isn't going to lose its biggest market, which is North America over fighting over some icebergs. And the last thing China needs to do is fight for our resources. All they need to do is to buy them up from the Conservatives on the 'free market,' like they did the tar sands. Paranoia is one thing, but it shouldn't be the basis for national policy.

There's two ways to approach this really, try to conquer the world through military means (pretty silly and just a cash cow for the war profiteers) or work with the world to alleviate its problems such as starvation and famine (anathema to the same profiteers). The latter can be done successfully through on the ground actions, which include full auditing, as opposed to just sending cash into the abyss (of course nothing approaching the military budget). The truth is, and its obvious. Canada has no real enemies. NATO is a front for neoliberal/neocolonialist policies. It had a legitimate role during the Cold War, but with the collapse of the Soviet Block, its merely become a tool for the neoconservatives to unilaterally and through military force advance their worldwide agenda. NATO acts on the agendas of the big oil companies and not on humanitarianism. That's why it did nothing over Rwanda and Darfur and did everything over oil rich Libya, Iraq/Afghanistan (with some abstaining members) and Uranium rich Mali.

Because millions are starving, and Canadians are spoiled rich in resources, while we spend billions on a military we don't need and bully the world with, in conjunction with the neo-colonial aspirations of Western Europe and the States.

hehehehe! Forget the garbage mon, its the only cure for glaucoma....

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/04/19/ottawa-420-marijuana-parliament-hill-rally-legalization-erb.html Its great to see Canadians demanding to enter the 21st century and to leave the garbage of the 20th century behind. Cheers to the future!

The Libs and the NDP are both dirty as hell in B.C. politics.

Ask Mussolini.

How is making obvious political blunders in a volatile overseas region to the benefit of Canada?

Its obvious the ones here who have never been there. Too much circle jerking with the propaganda. The reality is quite different on the ground. I'll bet most racists against Palestinians have never met one.

The collectivist meme is a new silly right wing mantra traveling around through e-mail groups and right wing blogs. It is totally meaningless to any thinking person. The fact you are on a computer shows what anyone who can get beyond solipsism should realize, that cooperation makes the world go round and without it your ancestors wouldn't have left the Sarengetti.

Kind of ironic I was just thinking about how the cons in Alberta were all about privatizing Alberta's oil then they ave it away to communist China.

http://www.canada.com/Conservative+call+centre+company+granted+bankruptcy+protection/8236958/story.html The conservative's calling center company just got protection from going bankrupt.

Sort of like Mitt Romney's racist Gaffe over Palestine.

Trade policy is one thing. Foreign policy is another. One is a way of trading. The other is machiavellianism.