August1991

I understand the hand (in plastic bag) to mouth. But why no knife? ===== I reckon that this is a vestige of colonialism.

America, Reagan, NATO won the Cold War. The wall is no more. ===== We need a new Kissinger structure of peace. We need Trudeau Snr counterweights.

Mostly men. Older. They have alcohol/drug addictions.

Free trade, agreed. West/East Canada -No, not at at all. American politics -Standard PBS, useless.

With Trump, you leave us alone. If the Dems win, I fear that you will inflict your nonsense. ====== You Americans won the Cold War. Let us be free to choose.

In these 2020s, we need a new order of peace. There must be a sit-down.

IMHO, no - not at all. Guys like Putin and Xi want power/control/stabiliity. Unlike Lenin/Mao, they don't want to change the world.

Disagree, sorta. Trump is still here. Biden is gone. Trudeau Jnr is still here.

At issue: Population growth? The world does not lack children. It lacks educated children.

In the parliamentary system, when the PM loses support of the caucus. In the US system, when the President loses support of his party's Senators. ==== Mulroney wisely kept his caucus happy. Nixon resigned when he lost Senate support.

In Dec 1968, in anticipation of the collapse of Bretton Woods, Trudeau Snr let the Canadian dollar float. Note that this was after Nixon's election in Nov 1968 but before the changes of Aug 1971. https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/1962-70.pdf **** Stanley Kubrick famously said, I paraphrase: World politics is all about gangsters and prostitutes. I disagree. Ordinary people live better when they can freely trade and travel.

The IMF stats refer to real GDP - not real GDP per capita. If I am wrong, I stand corrected. **** If Canada has more people, more people are doing things, GDP goes up overall. But on average, are people in Canada better off? And here's a thought: that hesitant voter in the middle?

Let me add these points. When Eisenhower chose Nixon, Nixon was famous in the federal arena as a remarkable courtroom lawyer. Vance is famous because he wrote a book. **** Born in the 1910s, Nixon and Kennedy, like Trudeau Snr, their significant memory was August 1914.

I don't know why McKinley chose Roosevelt. I can guess why Eisenhower chose Nixon. Kennedy is the outlier. I have only read excerpts of Hillbilly Elegy (I saw the movie). Since I am travelling now (forced to wait/sit), I downloaded the audiobook version (free on the Internet; look) and I've started to listen. But I have listened/watched to numerous interviews/speeches of JD Vance from the past few years. Rachel Maddow has a neat backgrounder/take down. My general conclusion is twofold; that is, at 39 years old, Vance has drawn two major conclusions from his life so far: 1) As a young kid in the military, he learned that the supposed smart thinkers in the DoD/Pentagon are often wrong. 2) As a student at Yale Law (he studied polisci/philo at OSU), he felt out of place. *** If I were President Trump in 2025, I would send VP Vance on several world tours. Let Vance arrive as a US VP (pomp/protocol) and then have a sit-down with the various local leaders. Let Vance suss out the situation.

These numbers are based on projections of population growth. Note that the IMF does not refer to real GDP per capita. The economies of Canada and the US are growing because we have more people. Government leaders typically don't care about GDP per capita. They care about total GDP because this represents how much they can tax. When Xi sits down with Trump or Biden, the question is the waterflow they can divert through the hydro generators. They don't care about the height of the falls, their beauty or even the overall volume of water.

Heck, I even question the CO2 measurements from Hawaii upon which all this is based/

We people in Canada get along. Trudeau fils may be like his mother - but his father was not.

Pre-Note: I am not religious. The universe is huge. Our planet is weird. We have internal magnets protecting ourselves against radiation. We have a moon - causing tides. We suffered a catastrophic meteor and then mammals survived. I reckon that this is chance - and an indication of random.

Putin is neither a bully nor a coward. IMHO, he is a typical Slav - stubborn. ==== After 1998, I was not surprised when Yeltsin chose someone like Putin - but I was surprised how well Putin did. Tony Blair flew often to Russia in the early 2020s. These were times of great potential.

Bump. This NATO meeting in Washington DC is a perfect occasion to do as his mother did. And his father.

Our TFSA is a direct copy of the US Roth account. They copy from us, we copy from them. ==== IMHO, the US federal government, and the EU, must copy from Canada's federal government: Our GST In Canada, we have a standard consumption tax across all jurisdictions, Friedman-fair, yet collected by lower levels.

Chinuts? Some people are allergic to peanuts. ====== As I travel, graffiti (urban bombing) is typically male -and proof of a rich society.

Years ago, I lived in Colombo: Clarke's house had a huge dish on the roof. I met Arthur C. Clarke in person, once. In retrospect, it is now obvious to me.

Predictions: I was dead wrong about cameras in cellphones. At the time, I wondered why anyone would want to use a phone to take a picture. A real estate agent?

I am travelling abroad now so this may seem a strange OP. In almost every international airport arrival, there is the machine that moves up/down to take our photo. Note: No one cares about green/red lines baggage/customs. Other note: When you leave Canada or the US, whatever your destination, there is no check whatsoever. The governments of the US and Canada do not register/check when you leave. But then, when I go to Ontario - nobody checks either. ==== In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke/Kubrick made many accurate predictions about the future. But they seriously got wrong how computers would get much, much smaller. ==== I reckon that DNA identification will radically change the way that people in the future live. At present, touch DNA is hard/costly to decipher. (Touch DNA is when you drink from a McDo cup.) It is used in criminal trials but costly to verify. In the future, I predict this cost will dramatically fall. AI is designed/trained to recognize patterns and our individual DNA is a perfect data pool.