RandAlThor @ RandAlThor @lemmy.ca

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Happy cake day!

yes thank you for that.

I found this part interesting: ""We were unprepared for that kind of response," Philippine navy spokesperson Roy Trinidad said in a phone interview on Thursday. "We stuck with the rules of engagement. They were not allowed to use guns except for self defence.""

So China created the conditions for this kind of confrontation by including non-use of guns in confrontations, similar to its border with India. And then proceeds to create this aggression with swords and spears. Philippines was too naive. China is escalating tensions there, taking things to the edge of sparking a hot war without having one.

Here are some pics of Chinese boarding Philippine vessels with axes swords and pointed weapons: (https://x.com/TeamAFP/status/1803423024449986581).

This kind of tactic is reminiscent of the Chinese style of combat on the border with India.

SMH. Is it any surprise how they got to be rich?

The interesting is that it was Pentagon and not CIA or NSA.

These people have lived all their lives on the seas for thousands of years roaming the seas in Southeast Asia hopping from island to island. Nobody's restricted their movements till now.

CBC has a MUCH BETTER article on this. This is just the conservative and PBO slant attempting to deflect a VERY SERIOUS error in their own report on economic impact of carbon pricing and carbon emissions.

https://lemmy.ca/post/22611036

TLDR: PBO issued a report (due to an "error") that suggested carbon pricing has a negative economic impact than doing nothing. This error was discovered by third party experts and public critics only upon its release. The premise of "doing nothing" having lower economic costs is false because increased carbon emissions have economic costs, and Canada in breach of global carbon reduction agreements it signed up to has trade and economic costs. None of which PBO accounted for in its erroneous analysis. PBO further states that the government has its own analysis of carbon pricing but he doesn't have the authority to release it.

This sounds to me like PBO is sabotaging the government on this policy issue, 1st by attempting to show that carbon pricing had negative economic impact, and 2nd by suggesting government is withholding its own analysis.

One reason an analyst explained to me is that modern farming has become capital intensive. It takes larger and larger farms to make things more profitable.

This started way back in the 2000s and has snow-balled the last 10 years. And it's not just farmland. There are investment funds of the rich who are buying up forests and vast tracks of land around the globe as investment properties for long term holding.

If you think you're outraged, wait till Serbia becomes a member!

Most people in the Burmese community refers to the country by the name Burma as well since the name change was done by the military junta.

Pulp and paper has been a dying industry. Any foreign investment is good. They don't own the forests nor the land. There are low barriers to entry. If there is demand and higher margins someone can start up or invest more. This is one sector I wouldn't worry about.

I don't have a dog in this fight. I see wrongs being done by both sides in this decades-old war. The self-censorship I am seeing taking place at all kinds of institutions and organizations in the richest democracies is quite alarming. This is the kind of atmosphere people under authoritarian rules live in - speaking as someone who's lived in those types of places. Not a democracy.

Yeah it's not just Canada. It's done in every industrialized country. They do this in Europe including Scandinavian countries where they import African labor for agriculture (for instance they bring in African pickers for blue berries, etc). Same in Japan and Korea I believe.

What kind of exploitative capitalism do we have in Canada? And how is this allowed? This is utterly ridiculous!

About time.

Yeah let the great deflation begin.