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Scratches to Sketches
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Quebec, Ottawa relationship should blossom under Couillard's Liberals: Trudeau | CTV Montreal News
Those were the best years..
Philippe Couillard promises change, transparency during Liberal mandate | CTV Montreal News
Die with dignity in Quebec?
China warns it cannot be contained as US defense secretary visits (+video) - CSMonitor.com
History repeats itself? China really has too many problems at home to be thinking of pointless land grabs elsewhere. Something is seriously wrong with these former communist countries and peace does not seem to satisfy a turmoil within that is festering away unseen and unchallenged.
Has America assumed a role it cannot sustain and will the world move towards greater war readiness and augment already massive defence spending.
ZENN Motor Company (V.ZNN)’s EEStor technology fails again after year of excuses-V.ZNN-Stockhouse news
Stay away from z the big zero?
How ADA, a Chemical Used in Rubber, Got Into 500 Food Products - Businessweek
The things we regularly eat can contain stuff that our stomachs wish to reject...
Have you had a food allergen test recently?
Russia's Crimea celebrates 70th anniversary of liberation from Nazi invasion - News - Russia - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video
Nothing like turning the clock back forgetting the secret treaties between Russia and Germany to carve up the map of Europe...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Reuters TV | Breakingviews: Russia would pay heavy price for invasion
In the past Russia might have been able to it alone, but in the modern world, the rule of international law governs most spheres between nations even of those who were naughty in the past. That is the new reality. A new god rules and it is not the almighty Putin....SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED... as Rumpole of the Bailey would say ... Presides over church, dictators, and state law. That IS the new world order. Women's logic rules.... That or death to all ... A new social contract was signed the moment Russia in the 90's went begging for money from the World Community. It's a very real contract with the world community and one that most other major powers will force by fighting and killing if necessary those who would destroy the modern social ethic. So Russia needs to tread very very carefully.....
I will vote no to independence because I love Scotland | Menzies Campbell | Comment is free | The Guardian
Voting no to Scottish independence.....
Ukraine shows restraint even as fightback against Russia begins | World news | theguardian.com
The West / World should not allow Russia to take over the Ukraine by force because Russia is such a backward political economy and lacks the enforcement and rule of democratically achieved law of even a very ordinary democracy. Saying it is a democracy is a farce like the Russian peasantry saying they are free....
Russia lags the world in the farce it calls a democracy.
Ukraine crisis escalates as pro-Russia activists declare independence in Donetsk | World news | The Guardian
Such is treason and punishable by death?
Marois resigns after Parti Quebecois suffers resounding loss in Quebec election - Yahoo News Canada
Toxic independence idea flattens PQ to obscurity once more. Bye, bye Levesque?
Philippe Couillard’s Liberals win majority government in Quebec | Canada Politics - Yahoo News Canada
It's far better to be with your community of economies in such difficult economic and challenging times. Quebec seems to know where it's friends are across Canada... Great idea, Canada....
Monday, 7 April 2014
Don’t replace Alistair Darling – put him in charge - Telegraph
Short term strategy in Scotland overlooks the reemergence of a possible Russian strategy to undermine Europe and grab power away from ....
West! Look out! Russian moves to grab population and territory are conceivably essential for its future economic growth.
My off the wall thoughts are based on the game of Acquire in which players expand their influence until stability is achieved. There are a number of areas in the world that are historically unstable. My focus below is with that of Russia and it's plans for growth of political power with aspirations of future economic stability. It's only one a many scenarios forcing change on the European map by non adherence to principles of peaceful coexistence which Russia has recently shed and may never have had its heart in.
Russian thought is based on the notion of struggle to attain goals that are always elusive...
These aspirations can come by democratic consensus or by force majeur efforts precipitated by economic necessity real or imaginary. In any event, the West needs to be aware of the tightening economic box that is presently the Russian sphere of influence. So expect, Russia to fight wild and risk oriented to attain a form of manifest destiny based on the structural logic of its emerging situation having thrown away the trappings of a socialist state based on communism in favour of something more akin to corporate national socialism, which we know has antecedents in Germany. Russian technology and economic planning is focused on failing fossil based industries and an emerging militarism grounded in nationalism and phoney forms of racism linked to language and proximity to the Russian heartlands.
The developments in the Ukraine are real economic suicide for Russia unless it can capture a critical population mass on which to grow its small concentrated youthful economy and sphere of political influence, which suggests a strategic war / effort to eventually recapture all of former territories and the northern economies so as to take advantage of Western preoccupation with the future / immediate consequences of changes and disruption due to restructuring forced from global warming. Russia is a fossil of an economy and has not embraced the need to engage in slowing down global land and ocean heating from the release of toxic gases into the earth's atmosphere.
What follows is a possible strategic plan for Russia. It could be attained by force or by democratic means, but it is essential if Russia is to maximize its economic potential as an independent influential state, matching Europe, India, China, Japan, Australia / Indonesia, Africa, the Middle East and the two Americas.
That is because the Russian economy can't grow meaningfully unless it joins or steals territory and people from the European economy, or surrounding economies, which together form the largest most advanced economic nucleus in the world. Russia's strategy would be to reduce the size of Europe by acquing the Ukraine and adjacent territories, and by stimulating demands for revolution in the UK, Scotland and Ireland, then isolating the Northern economies of Norway, Sweden and Finland. Invasion of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, Poland, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Slavic nations which would form key parts of this military / economic strategy.
British, Irish, and Scots are well behind the ball on the threat that Russia conceivably poses to the future map of Europe. By invading the Northern areas and the former Russian influence region, Russia would contain European expansion, have warm water ports and gradually be able to divest itself of Muslim countries with which it has associations only pretence in a federalist sense and less substance for a community centred in Moscow.
Conceivably, Russia's move is racially based, reactionary yet futuristic defined from the logic of its territory which directs its efforts along a path of least resistance with the goal of capturing the common racial mix of northern territories. Affinities of Russian peoples with the racial mix of northern economies is possibly a remnant of its past and still highly motivating to the Russian sense of its manifest destiny as a great power and economy.
World war three may not look like a war because it is a need, a need of an economy that is committing suicide before our eyes in order to transform itself violently into a major player in world politics over the next century. The developed of a future map of Europe have already have entered a second stage based on climate change denial, nationalism, Russian cartels / capitalism and an emerging polemic of racism?
It's not that any form of Russian control of the northern economies and a swath of people near Russia is stated, but that it could be a logical sequence of its need to grow as an economy with a sufficiently influential population mass. The breakup of Europe and the UK as envisioned by UKIP and the Scottish Nationalists feeds directly into the new world order that Russian now needs to attain its own sphere of influence.
Russian expansionism is driven by necessity and a belief that it is the only possible path towards sufficient economic influence. It chops away most of Eastern Europe and the non continental northern territories, orienting these towards the cold mass of Russian economic influence.
Inaction by the West feeds on this strategic focus with rail links from Paris via Russia to New York once territory has been acquired and a new economic reality established based on the new climate economy favouring Russia.
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Saturday, 5 April 2014
Friday, 4 April 2014
Putin Points His Finger at Ukraine, But Who's to Blame for Fascism in Europe? – Tablet Magazine
What a man?
Is Putin afraid or just play acting? Possibly, he's the greatest pretender of the modern era copying the youthful leader of North Korea. In his mind, he thrives on being the bully in charge, in his failed marriage, in his failed office, in determining press policy, in dictating military action, in discussing relations with neighbouring countries.
People around Putin are afraid of his unpredictable reactions to threats to his play acting and arbitrary role player. In this Putin vast personal world of deceit, continuously lying to himself and those around him comes as naturally as having morning exercises. He sleeps knowing he will be able to push some around the next day.
What do you think?
George W. Bush’s painting of Vladimir Putin is great. Here’s why.
Long link?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/04/04/george-w-bushs-painting-of-vladimir-putin-is-great-heres-why/?wprss=rss_blogpost&_monetaClick=eyJ3aWRnZXRfaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQiOiIxOTc4N2Q1Ni04NzZkLTQ1MmItYTAxZC03YTVhYTY0MmFlNDUiLCJjb250YWluZXJfaWQiOiJyZXZfYWRfNyIsImVsZW1lbnRfcG9zaXRpb24iOiIwIiwibGlua19pZCI6ImFiOTEyMjk3LTU3YzMtNDRlMy1hZTUxLTRkOGQxMmRkODFhNCIsImFkX2lkIjoiZDg1NWY1MzQtN2IzZC00OGU0LTk4MTAtZjQyNTk3MzBkYmE5IiwiY2xpY2tfaWQiOiIyZjhhMTNmYS01ZGUyLTQ5YmQtYTM5MS00MWVjN2QzNTk4ZDAiLCJ3YXBvX3Zpc19pZCI6IjdmODAzZThhLTM3MmEtNDc4ZS1hOWJkLTI3NTkyYmM0OGRlYyIsIndhcG9fc2Vzc19pZCI6bnVsbCwid2Fwb19sb2dpbl9pZCI6bnVsbCwicHViaWQiOiJ3cCJ9
Why Aren't Americans Taking to the Streets Over Economic Inequality? | Erica Abeel
Deep social ignorance abounds in America, but it is worse in Russia....
IMF Study concludes Oilsands' Economic Impact for Canada Is Not As Big As You'd Think
What benefit there is to Canada almost completely stays in Alberta.... Outsiders to Canada benefit the most, but the net economic benefit is awful.
Russia's Ukraine Invasion Would Be Nobody's Business But Russia's
Not on your nilly .... Russia's past has got them very confused about their future as a peaceful nation whether the present leaders agree or not.
Russia Looks to Skirt Sanctions with Free Trade Zone in Egypt
Trade is good, but Egypt will think twice. Working with Russia is very risky despite close ties when Russia intrigued in Egyptian politics during the last century.
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