August1991

Too many people in Newfoundland and Quebec misunderstand wealth, value. In their mind, they are rich because they have lots of gold - but it is faraway, on the Moon. The value is bringing the gold to market.

After July 1974, Trudeau Snr - desperate - delayed a general election to May 1979. Nowadays, the federal PM has less power.

1. He got rid of the penny. 2. He changed the seating in the House. 3. He forced Trudeau Jnr to have an election before Oct 2025. ===== Tom Mulcair is talking about Trudeau Jnr proguing Parliament to delay.

Income tax? Americans must pay a federal sales tax, a consumption tax.

What is a bitcoin worth? According to the blockchain people, in a future world, we will transact without money or banks. We will exchange immediately. In such a world. why would I hold a bitcoin?

Bump.

Key point: We need a new way to get along.

Truman dropped not one, two. Apparently Truman wanted to shorten the war, avoid an invasion of Japan. Beforehand, Truman told Stalin about all this in their meeting near Berlin. ==== Truman? What if Stalin or Hitler had had the power of Truman?

Context?

At $62 billion, we're borrowing peanuts compared to GDP. Our situation is doable. At $2 trillion borrowing, the US federal government is not sustainable. ==== Both governments are selling bonds (borrowing) faster than GDP can generate tax revenues: a Ponzi scheme ==== Thank God we have a Canadian dollar.

CdnFox, My point is that it takes three generations of European males (a century more or less) to forget a war. Then, they fight again. ===== We Canadians get along. Since 1865, the Americans seem to get along.

Whatever. ====== After 1985, Gorbachev, there was a period of world optimism - world peace is possible. After 1992, Yeltsin tried a partnership for peace. After 2001, Putin learned and agreed. He was curious about the West ===== The 2008 meeting in Bucharest? No, I disagree.

https://www.cbc.ca/archives/no-place-for-the-state-in-the-bedrooms-of-the-nation-1.4681298 This link needs subtitles.

The State has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. To me, there's a difference.

Imagine this woman's humiliation. Men are not shamed the same way.

I don't think that you guys -male guys?- quite understand how this works. ===== I recall a Christian guy about to marry a Muslim woman. Endless debates. Parents, Ok. All organised, dress, food. Final minute: No way.

Disagree, Groot We Canadians get along. It's cold here. And to succeed, you have to be Catholic.

Thank God that in Canada, we have such leaders as Laurier, Macdonald, Trudeau Snr. Mulroney, a Catholic - married to a Slav. Leaders who cross lines.

His father destroyed Hama in 1982. ==== Americans bombed Belgrade in 1998. They destroyed bridges across the Danube. BTW, they also destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. (The Americans claimed that it was a mistake; people were on training. I suspect this claim is true.)

Différent: https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/824911/sont-dit-trump-trudeau-ce-vendredi?

"... bloodthirsty regime... " I suspect that you know nothing of Syria or Lebanon. Or Jordan, Israel, Palestine. Citizen_2015, Have you been to Canada? Quebec? Montreal? Have you spoke to people in Edmonton about people in Quebec?

RB, all women - without exception - prefer a taller guy. Some guys prefer bigger boobs

S.M.L.XL - I understand XXL - I sorta understand. XLT = you got me.

I agree. But the Le Devoir link does not give the name of photographer. I fear that it is AI.

In Korea.Vietnam, Berlin, Cuba, Chile: You Americans defeated the Marxists - people who wanted to change the world. === We are now back to the usual Kissinger/Trudeau Snr/European world of counterweights.