If 🍊 believes that blockading ports is a legitimate measure to pressure rogue states, then I suggest he start with Russia; which is a much greater threat to world peace than Iran right now.

🍊 bombed Irak, Koweït, Venezuela, Iran, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan and Syria so far. Can we please give him another fake peace prize before he bombs us all?

Ending extreme poverty in the world would cost $318B a year or 0.3% of GDP. Annual worldwide military spending in 2024 was $1.7T; five times as much. It has grown since. That there are still people living in extreme poverty now is a policy choice.

Will someone please tell 🍊 that the « NA » in NATO stands for « North Atlantic » and that the middle-East is not in the North Atlantic?

Residential urban planning has become a tool to protect the rich from having to live next door to the poor; protecting them from the awful sight of the effects of concentration of wealth. It’s easy to be indifferent to the plight of the poor if you never have to see them from your luxury home.

There seems to be only one thing on which the military leadership of Russia and Ukraine agree; both believe that the lives of Russian soldiers are worthless.

Knowledge is one of those rare things in life one can give and still have. So, there’s no reason to share it parsimoniously, unless the aim is manipulation and control. After all, the more people know, the more they are empowered as independent thinkers. Such people are a threat to despots.

There are not many countries that are both important exporters of fossil fuels and politically stable. The conflict in Iran makes clear the risk to the world of dependence on those countries. Hydro, solar, wind, nuclear do not carry those risks. Time to change our energy sources for good.

Discreetly, a new trading block is rising. EU + Canada + Mercosur + Asia Pacific + India. Conspicuously absent are the US, Russia and China. This may be how the new world order will look.

Somehow science proceeding from educated doubt and critical thinking as been taken by some to mean that all knowledge is relative; that online opinion is equivalent or better than demonstrated fact. It has taken us centuries to move past our biases and we have lost our way in a flash.

The STU speech is meant to ensure the POTUS is accountable to Congress and reports to it on the evolution of the country. It has become a partisan show and, especially on 🍊’s watch, a tool for propaganda and manipulation of public opinion. The next POTUS should bring it back to it’s intended meaning

Whether passively, out of fear or self interest or actively in democracy, people always habilitate power. What is given can be taken away. No regime can sustain itself before an entire populace in revolt. If America is slow-walking into fascism, it has only itself to blame and can stop anytime.

Our failure to come together to stop climate change would be a textbook example of our incapacity to collectively resolve humanity’s worst problems, if there were to be more textbooks. Unfortunately, we have lost the fight and face unavoidable collapse of the earths ecosystem and extinction.

How would the US government react if one of its allies was openly plotting with American separatists for a State to secede from the Union? Why is it ok for the 🍊 Whitehouse to be doing the same with Alberta separatists?

🍊 reversing scientific findings feels like the Church telling Galileo that the sun orbits the earth all over again.

I say we appoint 🍊 the most bigly emperor and super supreme exalted leader of Devon Island for life, remade the island Orangeland, and grant him all the fake trophies in the world, on the condition that he moves there permanently to rule over the bestest beautiful country on earth. Who’s with me?

Canada just experienced a horrific mass shooting. They are rare here, but still do happen. Hopefully, the current ban on assault guns and hand guns being implemented will reduce the occurrence of such events. Peace doesn’t come to society through the proliferation of instruments of death.

To improve the Olympics: select one site for all games to be held possibly in Greece and stop the corruption with awarding of the games. Have all athletes participate individually, not under national banners. Make the games amateur again. Stop junk food sponsorships.

In a show of defiance and unity, Canada should amend its English writing to “favour” the British form over the American.

Epstein trafficked young girl to people in positions of power, that’s on him. No of those people were forced to go along. Those who did, that’s on them…and shame on them for doing so.

The sun, wind, water, geothermal and nuclear are forever. Fossil fuels are one-time use and finite. It makes sense to move away now from energy that will inevitably go away. Better focus on perpetual sources of energy and spare ourselves the turmoil of a sudden energy crash when all oil is spent.

The Roman republic had an official function called “dictator” that could enacted in times of crisis. It was temporary and rarely used. It worked until Caesar abused it and caused the fall of the republic and the rise of the empire. Absolute power in any circumstance is a threat to freedom.

If you aimed at cobbling together a group of the least peaceful people on earth, you could hardly do worse than 🍊’ “ Peace Board”.

A few decisions Canada should take: leave the F35 program and buy Grippens or Rafales. Refuse so sit on the Peace Board. Offer the UN to relocate its headquarters to Canada. Send troops to Greenland. Send garrison troops to Ukraine along with European partners. Offer refugee status to ICE victims.

1. The PM of Norway has nothing to do with the Nobel Fondation. 2. Crying about not receiving the Prize confirms that you are not worthy of it. 3. Norway doesn’t own Greenland; Denmark does. 4. Both countries are your allies; you shouldn’t threaten them. 5. There is Russian threat in Greenland.

Putin, Lukashenko, Orban and Trump on a «Peace Board »; the irony is strong with this one!

Putin has been invited to sit on the Board of peace. If there was any doubts that this was a sham, there should be none now. Leaders of democracies need to stay away from it.

I have to ask, what is now the value of an alliance with the US? What’s the purpose of being allies if the US can threaten to take your territory, to deprive you of your right to self-govern and slap sanctions/tariffs on your economy?

Taking someone else’s Nobel medal does not make you the recipient of the prize.

I have a feeling that a number of US allies have not yet walked away from the F-35 program for fear that the President of the US is somewhat unhinged and could react by attacking them.