I’m going to take a very simplistic view on this issue because, I believe, the media and thus the public at large will also take a very simplistic view. It’s about time there was an outright ban on handguns in Canada. In our day-to-day lives, there is absolutely no need for ordinary citizens to carry, …
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Eritrea expels Canadian soldiers… JTF2 soldiers wounded
Canadian Peacekeepers patrolling the border in Eritrea look set to come home “in 10 days”. The BBC is reporting that the Eritrean Government has specifically asked for the troops of 4 nations, Canada, the US, the EU, and Russia to leave their territory. The UN mission monitoring the buffer zone between Eritrea and Ethiopia is …
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US Dollar : Under Pressure from Russia
Yesterday I talked about how the Iranian government was using many different levers to “disrupt and annoy” the United States. Most critically, I mentioned their move to making all their oil transactions in Euros instead of Dolllars, thus forcing any countries using their oil to hold Euros in their federal reserves instead of Greenbacks. Admittedly, …