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Just heard the author of the book being interviewed and she comes from the economic standpoint and introduces an interesting premise. Article worth the read.
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What? How is it worth the read?
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A decades-long effort by Chinese companies to infiltrate....
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Infiltrate? Are you serious? Does the phrase "
Whacked out psycho white supremacist fundamentalist religious agenda" have any meaning to you?
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...Canadian banking and drilling firms has succeeded in securing Canada's oil and natural gas fields for pillage.
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Pillage? The author is slightly slanted and differently twisted.
What do you call the US infiltration and pillage of Mexican oil and natural gas resources?
What do you call the US infiltration and pillage of Iranian oil and natural gas resources?
What do you call the US infiltration and pillage of Iraqi oil and natural gas resources?
What do you call the US infiltration and pillage of Tunisian oil and natural gas resources?
What do you call the US infiltration and pillage of Libyan (US coup supporting Ghaddafi) oil and natural gas resources?
What do you call the US infiltration and pillage of Syrian oil and natural gas resources (the 1953 coup)?
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At least some money from these deals trickles into Ottawa's coffers, which is more than the government can say for its oil in the Arctic, where Canada has been muscled out of its claims by extraction companies with the backing of the Russian government.
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British, not Russian. Britain wrote UNCLOS, not Russia.
Under the Common Laws of the Sea as promulgated by Great Britain from the 12th Century to the present (with the consent of all sea-faring States), and as codified formally in UNCLOS written by Britain, Canada has no legitimate legal claim.
It's not like we haven't discussed this before....if you remember when Britain violated Iran's sovereignty by trespassing in Iran's territorial waters and then several sailors were arrested and imprisoned until the Iranians could determine the legal status of the sailors under the Geneva Conventions (which is more than what Bush did)...
...Britain backed down.
I explained why. The supposed greatest sea-faring nation in the History of the Universe (including multiple or parallel universes which theoretically may or may not exist) could not correctly interpret the treaty it wrote.
How sad is that?
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A network of Chinese ports has secured the sea lines along the Northwest Passage, circumscribing Canadian sovereignty, and Canada's military, enfeebled after years of reliance on the United States, is powerless to resist. Canada effectively lapses into a vassal state, reliant on neocolonial patriarchs in Beijing and Moscow.
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What, 4th Mech Brigade to the rescue?
Are you kidding?
Don't get me wrong.....I'm not dissing Canadian troops.
At the height of the Warm Cold War, Canada had four mechanized infantry brigades, with three based in Canada and a forward brigade in Germany, specifically to wit: the 4th Mechanized Brigade.
I trained with them at the Sennaläger/Paderborn training area...naturally, since Bill Bailey's Beer Bar is over in Fallingbostel.
No self-respecting soldier walking this Earth would go to Bergen-Belsen without having a beer at Bill Bailey's and then get beat up by II Queen's Infantry and the Green Jackets (formerly based in Celle).
Anyway, I thought the Canadians were well-trained and would rather fight alongside them than the lazy unionized Dutch Army (an oxymoron) or the miserable fat Belgian bastards.
Even so, 30 Million people is not a lot.
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By erasing the border, Canada would gain a military with a stake in protecting its resources from foreign incursions, and the investment capital and people to develop oil, natural gas and other mining projects in the country's undeveloped north.
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Canada has that now....the Chinese military is the largest in the world, and at least the Chinese won't screw the Canadians like the US does.
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The United States, for its part, would have access to an estimated 13 percent of the world's remaining undiscovered oil reserves and 30 percent of its undiscovered natural gas.
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Tar sands is not oil....it's tar....in sand.....high Sulfur sludge that nobody wants, not even the Canadians who are trying to dump it on the US via the Keystone Cops Pipeline that will employ 11 full-time people.
None of the "oil" in Canada is worth the money it costs to run Sulfur Redux at refineries to get the Sulfur down to EPA Tier 3 Standards which are 10 ppm Sulfur.
Eventually, it will be "0" ppm Sulfur....we all know that....if you don't mind paying $6/gallon for gasoline, I guess a US-Canadian merger would be a match made in Hell.
There is absolutely nothing economic about her claims. Canada should follow the lead of Australia and start leaning left....of the International Date Line.
By the end of this Century, the Economic, Cultural and Political Center of Earth will be the Indian Ocean Basin, not North America.
Geo-strategically....
Mircea
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