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Category: government
refugees arrive in Parksville
Musa Hodale Ali said he is happy to be working at Parksville’s Tim Hortons while he adapts to his new home and explores options.
He was sponsored by local Tim Hortons owners Ed and Lilian Mayne and the Qualicum Community Baptist Church. 🙂
He spent most of the last six years in refugee camps in Ethiopia. 😦
Completing a six-year journey from Eritrea in East Africa, the first refugees of a recent wave have hit the Parksville Qualicum Beach shore.
Musa Hodale Ali and Mohammed Subhat arrived on Vancouver Island on March 9, and within a week had among the most Canadian jobs possible, at Tim Hortons. …
A high school teacher back home who studied applied physics and economics, Hodale Ali admits he’s looking for more skilled work, but is quick to add that he’s basically just arrived and is giving himself time to adapt. …
Refugees arrive in Parksville
I’ll drop by and welcome him to Canada, myself. Canada needs immigrants.
P.S. How’s the Canadian economy doing under that socialist Trudeau?
Economy off to ‘roaring start’ as Canada sees biggest gain since 2013
Why You Should Care About Nukes
There’s a fairly good chance that you and I will die as a result of nuclear weapons. 😦
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The more egomaniac psychopaths with access to the bomb, the sooner we die.
He’s dangerous.
Donald Drumpf said he would be open to Japan and South Korea building nuclear weapons to deter North Korea, and would consider withdrawing troops from both American allies unless they paid more for their own defence. …
Here’s a list of companies we should be boycotting. They PROFIT from nuclear weapons.
related – Justin Trudeau to join Barack Obama at nuclear-safety summit Thursday
lack of COMPETITION in the USA
One reason I’ve been so disappointed with Obama is that he’s done very little to reduce the rate of rich getting richer, poor getting poorer. 😦
Economist:
AMERICA used to be the land of opportunity and optimism. Now opportunity is seen as the preserve of the elite: two-thirds of Americans believe the economy is rigged in favour of vested interests. …
A tenth of the economy is at the mercy of a handful of firms—from dog food and batteries to airlines, telecoms and credit cards. A $10 trillion wave of mergers since 2008 has raised levels of concentration further. …
Lobbying spending has risen by a third in the past decade, to $3 billion. …
And new regulations do not just fence big banks in: they keep rivals out. …
… the rate of small-company creation in America has been running at its lowest levels since the 1970s. …
Most of the remedies dangled by politicians to solve America’s economic woes would make things worse. …
Modernising the antitrust apparatus would help. …
The second step is to make life easier for startups and small firms. …
A blast of competition would mean more disruption for some: firms in the S&P 500 employ about one in ten Americans. But it would create new jobs, encourage more investment and help lower prices. Above all, it would bring about a fairer kind of capitalism. That would lift Americans’ spirits as well as their economy.
I’m an ANGRY white guy with no College education.
So I’m voting for Drumpf.
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Drumpf was right …
Once.
He blurts out so many wildly conflicting statements that – sooner or later – he’s bound to be correct once in a while.
Donald Trump: “We’ve spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people … and if we could’ve spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we’ve had, we would’ve been a lot better off.
I can tell you that right now. We have done a tremendous disservice, not only to the Middle East, we’ve done a tremendous disservice to humanity. The people that have been killed, the people that have wiped away, and for what? It’s not like we had victory.”
The Man in the High Castle
I watched season 1. The premise of the story is interesting. The technology in 1962 fascinating.
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Not sure I’ll continue to season 2, however.
The Man in the High Castle is an American dystopian alternative history television series produced by Amazon Studios …
The series is loosely based on the 1962 novel of the same name by American science fiction author Philip K. Dick. …
The story is an alternative history of the world in which the Axis powers won World War II. The United States has been partitioned into three parts: The Japanese puppet state of the Pacific States of America, a Nazi puppet state that comprises the eastern half of the former United States; and a neutral zone that acts as a buffer between the two areas, called the Rocky Mountain States. …
A second season of ten episodes has been announced for a 2016 release.
Quantum Night – Robert Sawyer
Rob’s latest. I’ve read most of them.
He says this might be his last. These days he’s more interested in screenplays for TV and film.
As he’s a friend of my brother’s, I drove with Rob to his Calgary book tour stop, a reading at Pages on Kensington.
This might be the first book reading I’ve ever attended.
The session was good. Short. Rob is a likeable and entertaining speaker.
His tour is the biggest put on by Penguin Canada in 2016. They were keen on it as his last book – Red Planet Blues – was his biggest seller, so far.
I won’t bother relating the plot of the book. But here are some of the themes and talking points:
• EVIL
• There are many more psychopaths in our society than we realize. (Not many are as obvious as Donald Trump.)
The lead character in the book discovers a simple test which instantly reveals who is a psychopath. Who is not.
• The GOAL is to change psychopaths into less dangerous human beings.
The book is blatantly Canadian: Winnipeg, Calgary, Saskatoon. Rob says he’s never been pressured to set his stories in the USA.
Set in 2020, Nenshi (NDP) becomes Prime Minister over Trudeau (LIB) during the timeline of the book. 🙂
RECOMMENDED.
related – Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us – Dr. Robert D. Hare (Author)
Time to fire Drumpf
Economist magazine:
The front-runner is unfit to lead a great political party, let alone America
One way to judge politicians is by whether they appeal to our better natures: Mr Drumpf has prospered by inciting hatred and violence. He is so unpredictable that the thought of him anywhere near high office is terrifying. He must be stopped. …
To recap, he has referred to Mexicans crossing the border as rapists; called enthusiastically for the use of torture; hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice, was murdered; proposed banning all Muslims from visiting America; advocated killing the families of terrorists …. This is by no means an exhaustive list. …
If The Economist had cast a vote in the Republican primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina or Nevada we would have supported John Kasich. …
Rick McCharles 