A letter from British Columbia!

Allan: Since Canadians have begun boycotting US products, what are some Canadian products we can boycott in return? "A Proud American!"

 Danielle said: Remember, it is your guy that started this and is using falsified data to justify his actions. 

You should be embarrassed to think about boycotting Canada. 

 Your country is the one trying to destroy the country next to you and absorb it into yours. This is the same as Russia invading Ukraine. 

 If you are shocked over Canada rejecting joining what you have been told since birth is "the best country in earth," it is because you have been lied to about this!!! 

 In quality of life for average people... the USA is not even in the top 10 in most things. 

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 Canada is standing up to an unjustifiable act of aggression by the USA. An act that has cost the USA all of its friends and is making it an international pariah. 

 Open your eyes and you will see that in less than a month you new leader has made the USA one of the bad guys in world affairs. 

At the same level as Russia. 

 Now watch as the prices of almost everything in the USA go up... as well as unemployment. 

You will be lucky if the USA does not break up into several countries in the next few years. 

 Danielle... lives in Metro Vancouver!

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DUMP TRUMP!

Q:  To what extent is the United States dependent on Canadian products? 

A:  Are there any comparable American alternatives to these products?

• America imports 60% of its crude oil from Canada, at an average **discount** of 15%. That discount has applied for close to 4 decades, minimum. Roughly 80% of vehicle fuels used in the US are derived from this CANADIAN-SUBISIDIZED oil. The closest substitute your refineries can handle comes from Venezuela. I’m sure the orange stain won’t mind buying from them at all.
• 50% of aluminum consumed in the US comes from Canada. There are few alternatives as aluminum takes a god-awful amount of electricity to produce. Canada has shit-tons of hydroelectric power that we use to make aluminum.
• That same hydroelectric power generation is so plentiful, that we export most of the rest to the US, which keeps the grids along the east coast and into the mid-west humming. No Canadian hydro means rolling blackouts across a third of the US.
• 80% of potash used in fertilizer is sourced from Canada. Canada is the world’s largest producer, having a full third of global production. The next two largest producers are russia and China, and put together, they produce ALMOST as much as Canada does by itself. You could try and buy half the output from both of them, or all the output from one, I guess.
• Canada exported almost 3–trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which helps keep the Midwest and Northeast states warm and generates a significant amount of electricity. According to your own sources, natural gas accounted for 43.1% of your total generating capacity last year.
• A full quarter of the uranium you use annually comes from Canada. The ore is of unusually high purity too. That’s another quarter of your generating capacity going down, and 18.6% of electricity is produced by nuclear.

In order to replace any of these would require a huge amount of work. 

You could build a dozen aluminum smelters to pick up the slack from Canada alone, but you still need electricity to run them. And you can see the problems with that. 

More pressing is finding new ways to heat your houses, fertilize your fields and afford to drive anywhere. 

The “good guy” discount Canada has been giving the US for five decades is going to end... so you can expect your local gas prices to rise by an average of 15%, regardless of what the orange-stain does now.

M Spicer. 

Forget Trump... I'll settle the Ukraine problem in 24 hrs!

 SEE THIS MAP?

O.K. 

By this time tomorrow... Russia gets to keep (?) what they have now... (approximate) and Moldova becomes a part of Ukraine!!!!!!!

Then U.N. 'Peace Keepers' patrol the border!

(You're Welcome!)

A no win situation kids!!!!!!!

 I heard something on TV today that sort of brought up the situation in Ukraine with an amazing amount of clarity!

I have long suspected... but never actually articulated... what the situation over there was all about!

Well... what the woman on the TV said brought it all into "Perspective!" (God I love that word!)

She said: "The West... for their own political reasons... are giving the Ukrainians just enough HELP so that they don't lose... but not enough so that they can WIN!

I guess the number of people killed for political reasons is of secondary importance... eh kids?

Why my parents left Germany after the war!

During World War II, American and British planes mercilessly firebombed the German city of Dresden, leaving an estimated 250,000 (?) people dead, most of them civilians — with bodies piling up so quickly that officials were forced to simply pile corpses in the city square and cremate them en masse for weeks on end. 

 Even after the dust settled, Dresden was largely left in ruins for decades. 

 Though volunteers quickly gathered to clear the rubble after the war, it wasn't until the early 1990s that rebuilding began in earnest. 

 The hard work undoubtedly paid off, and Dresden is now considered one of the most striking cities in the country.

Back by popular demand! WAR!

People need to be reminded of stuff every now and then! 

I'm writing this because things seem to be getting out of hand on the International scene lately and before things get worse... maybe we should have another look at what fighting a war looks like!!!!!!)

The old adage says: “History is written by the victors!”

I would like to add my own saying and it goes like this: The winners always downplay their own sins by a factor of up to ten.. and exaggerate the loser's sins by up to a factor of ten.

One of the misconceptions of WW11 is the death toll of Dresden by Allied bombers and the death toll of Hiroshima by the A-bomb!

First Dresden: It was a culture and art city of 750,000 people with little military value, and there was another approx. 500,000 refugees fleeing the advancing Russian army.

This gave it a population of between one million to 1 1/2 million women, children and old men. (Since the young men were off fighting the war!)

Twelve weeks before the end of the war the Allies fire-bombed the entire city and burned it to the ground as this picture shows:

(Taken from the top of city hall)

Now, although original estimates put the death toll at half a million people.. the allies claimed it was closer to 35,000 and just in the past few years lowered it further to 25,000.

Now Hiroshima:

It was a city of up to half a million and Allied estimates of casualties were a little more accurate since they claimed about 100,000 deaths but you have to remember that after the bomb only concrete buildings remained standing since all the houses we made of flimsy wood and practically the whole city burned to the ground.

To the victor goes the spoils!

There is only one foolproof method to stop any war!

 Allan: 

What would be an "easy way" to end any war?

There is only one foolproof method to stop any war, but I warn you, many will not like this answer.

In 1916, in the midst of World War I, an amendment was proposed to be added to the United States Constitution in which any possible act of war would have to be submitted to a national referendum.

Where is the repellent element for any future war? Well, in the same proposal, it was written that whoever voted yes to the war would have to participate in military service in the US Army too!

(The proposal was rejected for obvious reasons!)

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Why is the U.S. losing the war in Ukraine?

 

Allan: Why is the U.S. losing the war in Ukraine?

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A Russian wife turned to her husband and asked, "What's this special military operation our glorious leader keeps talking about?" Her husband replied, "It's a war to stop America and NATO." "Oh, right,” she says. “How's it going?"

“Well,” he replied, “so far we have lost over 20 generals, 100,000 troops killed, countless injured, 3000 tanks, 300 aircraft, hundreds of helicopters, countless armoured vehicles, artillery and trucks, our flagship along with other naval ships, our army is being defeated in most areas and we have had to resort to conscripting 500,000 Russians including murders and rapists to replace our losses”.

“Wow,” replied the wife, “what about America and NATO”?

“They haven’t turned up yet”

Saturday Morning Confusion: No, this is not Ukraine

This is Chechnya.

In 1999, the Russians erased the capital Grozny. But three years before that, Russia signed a peace treaty with the Chechens. They already lost the war and needed a break. Only to come back and kill up to 300,000 Chechens, 25% of the entire small but proud nation that simply wanted freedom.

This is how peace talks with Moscow always end.

Meanwhile, back in the good 'ol U.S. of A!

Trump is not ‘mentally, emotionally or morally fit to be president’: Conservative lawyer George Conway!

Ukraine Has Experimental Mutant Troops!

Psssst! Wanna know why Russia is losing the war they started against Ukraine!

Nearly five months into its senseless war against Ukraine, Russia has concocted a wild new explanation for why the Kremlin’s plans for a quick takeover fell apart so spectacularly—because Ukrainian troops were turned into superhuman killing machines during “secret experiments” in American-run biolabs, of course.

Never mind the myriad reports of Russian troops refusing to fight by the thousands, sabotaging their own shoddy equipment and even deliberately wounding themselves to abandon the war, Russian lawmakers claim the real setback for Moscow was “drugged up” Ukrainian soldiers.

That claim was made Monday by two Russian lawmakers heading up a commission to investigate “biolaboratories” in Ukraine, Kommersant reported.

Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, and Irina Yarovaya, deputy chair of the State Duma, touted what they described as bombshell findings from the “investigation.”

Testing of Ukrainian POWs’ blood, they claimed, uncovered “a range of diseases” that suggest they were secretly experimented on “for military purposes.”

“And we see: the cruelty and barbarity with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes that they commit against the civilian population, those monstrous crimes that they commit against prisoners of war, confirm that this system for the control and creation of a cruel murder machine was implemented under the management of the United States,” Yarovaya was quoted telling reporters.

How I came to Canada

 This story was told to me by my mother many years after my father had died and it helped me to understand what sort of a man he was.

During WW11 my father was in the Wehrmacht (German Army) and one day the hill he was on was being assaulted by some American troops. The commanding officer ordered his troops to shoot the Americans as they came up the hill but my dad figured this was no more than outright murder so he refused. (He was a telegraph operator and only carried a sidearm... plus he had never shot anyone in his life.)

Dad could have been shot on the spot for this but instead, his commander decided to send him on a suicide mission the next day and let that take care of the problem.

After he was out of sight of his unit he started hiding behind every tree and in every ditch until he made his was to the edge of one of the enemy units which happened to be a Canadian company.

He immediately surrendered!

After a year in a POW camp, dad spent the rest of the war as a driver and translator for one of the officers and when the war was over he immediately applied to emigrate to North America since Germany was in ruins.

The waiting list for the States was too long so he put down our name for Canada and then got us on one of the first immigrant ships coming over here. 

On a side note: He originally wanted to go to the States because he had an uncle in Iowa, but since we went to Canada that was no longer possible.  

All in all, it's a good thing we did go to Canada because if we had ended up being American, I would have been a Canadian by about 1969 anyway! (Vietnam)

The way I see it!

Wouldn't it be nice?