Recent content by JLB50

Important history is being made before our very eyes.

I never met him but my mother had a brother-in-law who was a C.I.A. agent and hinted at similar “shenanigans” in Central and South America. The one thing that really struck her was when he said to the effect of: “It must be a coincidence how a revolution occurs in a country shortly after I”ve...

This is undoubtedly the most colossal foreign policy blunder in American history…one that will most likely resonate for many years to come. Things will not end well for the U.S. and will most likely lead to its demise as a nation of influence.

Traitor Trump’s pact with Darth Putin is the most shameful sellout of a sovereign nation since 1938-39 Czechoslovakia. And probably even more so. If Ukraine should fall (which is what I think Trump really wants) then a wholesale slaughter of its intelligentsia will begin. Despite the...

Even if NATO members spent 5%, I wonder if the U.S. could be trusted to fulfill its treaty obligations. Look at the current tariff wars. Also, back in 2018, Fox News host Ticker Carlson made a remark about Montenegro being a NATO member: “Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from...

I saw Trump’s speech he made at West Point the other day. He seemed even more irrational and disconnected than ever before. He hardly smiled. I wouldn’t be surprised if he suffers a significant mental collapse before long. If that happens I wonder how long the White House can keep it a secret...

I wonder if the relatives of the Capitol police who died or those who were injured by the “friendly” crowds got much in compensation.

I remember how, back in the mid ‘70s, Postmaster General Bryce Mackesey got so frustrated with the constant alternating strikes of the two postal unions that he said “Those bastards just don’t want to work.” Very little has changed since then except for the fact that the post office is far less...

Albertans always seem to complain about not being sufficiently represented in Ottawa and they rattle their sabres with talk about separation. They scream how the Liberals have screwed them time and again and fall prey to the rantings of an occasional demagogue . Maybe…just maybe…if they...

Correct me if I’m wrong but France would not allow the newly-independent nation of Haiti to get international recognition unless it paid compensation for the financial losses of slave owners. Those payments left Haiti perpetually broke and continued until very recently for around two centuries...

Otherwise…any loss of vehicle manufacturing intended for the Canadian market should result in…wait for it…the Prime Minister announcing 25% tariffs on all Hondas imported from the U.S.

Currently?

Imagine if all of the major parties had leaders who weren’t so dogmatic about maintaining their usual platforms.

I’m also quite impressed with Kinew…despite him being in the NDP.

Case(s) in point, the two referendums that Quebec had in 1980 and 1990 were both preceded and followed by large exits of capital primarily to Toronto but also to western Canada.