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Mexico US relations have deteriorated significantly in the last month with Mexico's president calling out the Biden Admin for blowing up Nordstream 2 pipeline. Within 24h of that speech there were US state officials calling for US troops to be sent into Mexico to combat the cartels.
Its unfortunate that diagram I posted above is on the Mercator projection. The scales are way over exagerated in the northern hemisphere. For example, Greenland appears larger than the continent of Africa, when in reality Africa is 14 times the size.Comment
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Nobody is saying the USD will disappear, its role as a reserve currency (and financial weapon) will be diminished over time. Pound sterling is still here, but its a fraction of the worlds exchange.Originally posted by LEP View Post
If China wants a dozen trains of canola and wants to trade in their yuan, are we really going to say no to that.
It only makes sense that the medium of exchange is one of the currencies of the parties involved in the transaction. Thats base financial logic.Comment
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In the map above it appears that North America is larger than Africa when infact Africa is a 19% larger in landmass.
This should be the map used patented 1890, scales are correct and flight paths actually make sense.
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ALL ripe for the picking it seems
while we stand and watch.
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“Courage “ is an interesting concept…Perspective: in the 1880’s my folks took a wagon team to Winnipeg from Edmonton…. To pick up winter supplies as the railroad was not built yet…
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Thanks Tom - this now makes more sense today than it did yesterday. Your forefather's made the same trek you did...it just took a little longer...
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https://www.producer.com/news/cwb-protester-ends-hunger-strike-but-says-action-wasnt-a-failure/
It was 34 days between meals for Tom Jackson.
The self-proclaimed hunger striker, an Alberta farmer with a beef against the Canadian Wheat Board, ended his fast on April 30 in Winnipeg.
He ended it without getting what he wanted, an export licence to ship his grain to the United States without going through the usual buy-back procedures.
But he said in an interview shortly after his decision to start eating again that he doesn’t feel his much publicized protest campaign was a failure.
“I guess what I’ve accomplished is finding out a very disturbing thing about my supposed marketing agency, the Canadian Wheat Board,” he said. “That basically they don’t care if I live or die, which is quite a revelation.”
The end of the hunger strike was greeted with relief by wheat board officials like Bob Roehle. The board’s director of communications said that given how determined Jackson seemed to be, and because Jackson had described his fight with the board in religious terms, there were fears he might follow through on his threat to fast until death.
The decision to end his protest came after the intervention of Ken Beswick, on the same day Beswick resigned from his job as wheat board commissioner.
“He convinced me, along with a few other people, that I should end the hunger strike for the sake of my family,” said Jackson. Both his wife Lucy and 12-year-old son Daniel had recently joined in refusing to take any sustenance besides water and fruit juice. Beswick said in an interview he told Jackson he had made his point, but had to understand the board could not treat him any differently than it treats other farmers.
According to Roehle, some wheat board officials were skeptical of Jackson’s fast, wondering whether someone who hadn’t eaten in more than a month could drive a truck from his home in Ardrossan, Alta. to Winnipeg and spend a day picketing, or would more likely be flat on their back, unable to function normally.
“Our people were very suspicious as to whether this was a legitimate hunger strike, even though I believe in Tom’s mind it was,” said Roehle.
Jackson said he’s accepted the fact that he won’t be getting a no-cost export licence, but added the board hasn’t heard the last of him. “I can come back and fight a lot harder in a different way,” he said. Asked what he has in mind, he said he’d be thinking about it on his long drive home from Winnipeg.
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22 years since Beswick died... I miss him...
I do not miss Roehle...
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Interesting questions!Originally posted by beaverdam View Post
Since Winnipeg was the “centre of the universe” in 1881… and rail service (in 1878) had then become available… (before that Minneapolis was the biggest trading centre…) certain specific items like northern Manitoba wheat seed for instance were least costly by wholesale purchases …and then self transport of these items…. Back to the farm at Edmonton. We were growing oats for the RCMP Fort Edmonton horses… Great Falls Montana had been the oat supply point before local oat production became commercially available … flour in bags being shipped in at that point. Our farm set up grain cleaning equipment… to clean our grain at that point…
A Brave new world it was… in 1881!
My great grandparents would be shocked to see what our surrounding farm land looks like today… that we today…still farm…the changes since even 1960… is truly astounding!
Easter Blessings
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