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Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
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This is not a joke.
The Russian biological war research should have us all concerned and stopping ALL flight from Russia, and all Russians from entry.
The longer this goes on the more countries we will have to stop flight from.
FYI: the Russians were working on a plague that is resistant to antibiotics
Russia's plague outbreak is getting worse, now with 5 hospitals in Irkutsk quarantined, universities canceling classes and accusations from healthcare workers that the government is attempting a media cover-up.
Nearly 200 contacts of a 28-year-old anti-plague laboratory worker who died last week are reportedly under isolation or medical observation.
Irkutsk universities are canceling classes citing a “case of pneumonic plague,” while an aluminum plant introduced mandatory masks. A local government warning advising residents not to travel to Shelekhov was published and later deleted.
Healthcare workers claim doctors are discussing plague internally while avoiding the diagnosis in official documents.
Russian health authorities continue to deny any plague outbreak, attributing the woman's death to “pneumonia of unknown origin.”
Pneumonic plague is far worse that it's Bubonic cousin as its transmitted directly between humans.
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How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States
The most corrupt president in American history has been preparing his entire life to co-opt the government for personal gain
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I see some of my Conservative friends are trying to make this empty potash threat about Canada’s industrial carbon tax, rather than about the President trolling Canada.🤦♂️
It’s just embarrassing.
I’m not a fan of that tax, but it is perfectly irrelevant to what’s going on here.
85% of US potash imports come from Canada *despite* the industrial carbon tax, because Canada is the lowest cost, most proximate, and most reliable supplier!
US buyers would rather deal with our great producers, some of whom are vertically integrated through the whole US ag supply chain, than a distant tin pot dictatorship which has no potash available for sale!
Skill testing question: would a farmer from North Dakota rather buy potash / fertilizer coming off a one hour rail shipment from friendly, reliable Saskatchewan right next door; or would he rather pay to transport it to Russian Baltic ports, then across the Atlantic, and then inland across North America?
And that assumes Belorus has available supply, which it doesn’t!
Even the dictator Lukashenko has called out the absurdity of today’s latest threat from the President. So why can’t the @CPC_HQ?
To fellow Conservatives: why is it so difficult for you to call this for what it is? A ridiculous, empty threat by the President to continue his well established strategy of trying to divide and demoralize Canadians in the context of trade negotiations.
1) Saskatchewan has the world’s largest potash deposits, producing twice as much potash as Belarus. 85% of US potash imports come from Saskatchewan, efficiently and reliably shipped by rail.
2) Belarus is a brutal dictatorship and puppet state for Vladimir Putin under international (including American) sanctions for gross human rights abuses.
3) Belarusian potash production has been fully contracted to Asian buyers (eg China and India) since the imposition of western sanctions. Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has already said "Even if we wanted to supply somewhere else, Western markets, we just don't have those volumes, everything has been contracted."
4) The US Government does not buy potash. US fertilizer companies and ag producers do. Those private sector buyers have consistently demonstrated their preference for Canadian potash.
5) President Trump tariffed Canadian potash early in 2025, then backed off days later following loud protests from American ag producers and their Congressional representatives.
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Ontario is investing $154 million to add nearly 80,000 square feet of new acute care space and support 200 good-paying jobs in Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
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Michelangelo hated painting. He considered himself a sculptor.
Yet, he created one of the world’s greatest masterpieces out of sheer, unyielding spite.
Believe it or not, the commission to paint the Sistine Chapel was actually a TRAP because - 🧵1/
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Today VP Vance said Canada and China are "the two worst countries" on trade policy. That's an opinion, his right. But because Vance specifically complained about Canada's super-high dairy tariffs (which, again, only kick in above a quota), here's some interesting WTO data via @trevortombe:
96.7% of US agricultural exports to Canada are duty-free compared to...4.5% of US agricultural exports to China.
wto.org/english/res_e/statis…
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Mr Secretary, please stop embarrassing us. I served in Kandahar Afghanistan in 2009-2010 alongside Canadian Soldiers. They were skilled, courageous, and effective. We were lucky to be on the same side with them.
Sean Duffy on Canada: "It's a country that doesn't have a military ... they have record high euthanasia rates. And so to think that they're gonna go to war with Donald Trump and actually win that war with the US, I think it's foolish on their part."
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Canada does have a military. The Canadian Armed Forces has over 67,000 regular force personnel.
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The more detailed list of each of the extraordinary demands that the US inserted, apparently at the last minute. This is subjugation if not outright annexation. The US wants a veto on any Canadian infrastructure from ports to telecom/power grids.
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“Canada since Mark Carney became Prime Minister in March, 2025, has outperformed everyone in America, the Eurozone and anywhere else in the world.” - Bloomberg Editor-In Chief, Matt Winkler
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A little Monday morning puffin video for you!!
Cape Bonavista, NL
Aug. 3/26
#ShareYourWeather #Newfoundland #Canada
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
