@DoubleEph I have no interest in the “injustice” argument btw, I think it’s juvenile. My focus here is on proper education. We shouldn’t have to be explaining to adults why Algeria is bigger than Central Europe despite what the map says.
This is an incredibly ignorant statement. Mercator is a specialized map, it’s inadequate for general geography education. There’s no reason why the maps in schools shouldn’t correctly depict Africa as 13 times larger than Greenland.
Africa’s lack of development is so confounding we are now at the stage of looking under the sofa for ‘injustices’ that might spark joy.
You cannot flatten a 3D sphere into a 2D rectangle without creating distortions. It’s really disturbing that the UN is now a place for gimmick votes like this.
@DoubleEph It’s a generic example. A kid learning general geography should be able to look at a map and accurately deduce that the Nile is much longer than the Mississippi. No one teaches integration to elementary school to calculate the area under a curve, so why Mercator?
These ones are just cultists. Zero original thoughts. If tomorrow, Chairman Orange Pedo tweets about another country, they’d all line to start talking about it — positively or negatively — depending on their dear leader’s stance. Clowns 🤡
Prime Minister Carney is facing a big decision: should he trade with Communist China or the U.S.? His choice will have serious consequences for Canada's future ⬇️
Choosing Communist China as a trading partner over the U.S. isn't just a bad idea – it's a trap. Xi doesn't do trade deals in good faith. He lies, he cheats, and he steals while everyone else pays the price.
Every inch of market access Canada hands Beijing is another inch of access for Xi's hackers, his state-backed "companies," and his thugs to embed themselves inside Canadian industry and Canadian systems – until they're positioned to gut Canadian production, kill Canadian jobs, and make Canada dependent on China for everything from steel to semiconductors to medicine.
That's the endgame. Need convincing? Look at what happened in America! Bill Clinton‘s big plan to normalize trade with China didn’t democratize China or help American workers. Instead, we’ve lost 5 million jobs and 90,000 factories since 1994 as a direct result of countries like Communist China dumping their low-quality, subsidized crap into the U.S. market. Meanwhile, Chinese political prisoners and religious minorities are still putting that same crap together in sweatshops as slave labor.
Ottawa has to ask itself whether it's really willing to hand a hostile, genocidal regime the keys to its own economy. Because when – not if – Xi decides not to honor a deal, Canada doesn't just get burned on that one contract. Canada gets left holding a hollowed-out industrial base and the unmet aspirations of millions of families who will wonder why their government has forgotten about them.
And it won’t stop there. Every dollar and every ounce of trust Canada pours into Beijing is a dollar and an ounce of trust it's pulling out of its relationship with its most important, most powerful partner and ally: the United States. You don't get to have it both ways. Cozy up to Xi, and you degrade the most productive, most integrated economic relationship Canada has ever had.
Here's what people keep ignoring. Canada ALREADY has the best tariff treatment of any country in the world. Prime Minister Carney has said that himself, more than once. The new Section 338 tariffs only apply to 5% of goods coming in from Canada – a mere 0.19% of all U.S. imports. Meanwhile, Canada keeps tariffs and quotas on U.S. cars and dairy, while slashing tariffs on Chinese EVs from 100% to 6.1% – rolling out the red carpet for the very regime that wants to hollow Canada out from the inside.
The facts speak for themselves. America's track record is mutual prosperity – strengthening good, dependable partners while standing against dictators, bullies, and thugs. Communist China's track record is blackmail and extortion that serves Communist China and its extraordinarily wealthy leaders, especially Xi Jinping.
America has allies. Communist China takes hostages. Don't sell out Canadian sovereignty for 30 pieces of counterfeit silver.
EXCLUSIVE: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was recently sent by Donald Trump’s Board of Peace to ask the Palestinian Authority to replace any mention of the word “Palestine” in schoolbooks with the Jewish designation “Samaria”, Middle East Eye has heard. 🧵
None of these options move the needle in 20 years. Stop focusing on short term gains. Focus on education, healthcare and other macro-economic services. You CANNOT subsidize your way to prosperity.
Enzo Maresca on his defensive setup: “With Leicester we conceded the least goals in the league. First season at Chelsea we were the first best defensively. Last year when I left we were the fourth best defence.
It’s a way that gives us results. This is the reason why we believe a lot in that.”
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Israeli official speaks to Australia's ABC about the strike he ordered on World Central Kitchen that killed Jacob Flickinger and 6 other aid workers.
Says he's not sorry, that WCK has Hamas links and is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."
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How is Canadian tax actually something we still debate? A friend of mine is a surgeon and despite making >$500,000 yearly on paper; goes home with ~$200,000
in what world is taking almost 2/3rd's of a surgeon's salary considered respectable, or sane?
I know Trump doesn't know nor care but I'd like to remind everyone that the name Lake Ontario is the Haudenosaunee word for the lake. Ontario, the province is named after the lake, not the other way around.
Gvardiol is talking about rest defence here and it’s got to do with the 3-2 base (with an inverted fullback) that Maresca is employing right now.
The same thing he did at Chelsea & Leicester.
If you’ve watched our games you’ll see how we’ve suffered a bit when our press gets bypassed (Arsenal, Bournemouth), so the counter press and rest defence are the things that have been different from what Pep used to do in his time here.
So the positioning/automatisms, recovery runs and spatial coverage in negative transitions are what’s affecting him (Gvardiol).
It’ll take a couple of games for him and co to fully get used to it. It’s not bad.
Trump: "Lots of 'bluster' from Doug Ford, who is the Premier of the Canadian Province of Ontario, but who is better known as the less charismatic, intelligent, and overall unimpressive brother of the late, great, Rob Ford. America has been carrying Canada for decades, but no longer! The U.S.A. will always be far bigger, richer, and stronger than Canada. Without the United States, Canada couldn’t survive — It’s where they get all of their money and, because of their current bad leadership, primarily Governor Carney, and his Flunky, Ford, they will not be allowed to keep taking advantage of the United States — Their key to survival. Remember, much of the Electricity, Oil, and Gas that Canada gets is transported through the U.S.A. Someone should get these clowns to 'fall in line' or, the consequences for Canada will be far WORSE! Canada’s Unemployment Rate is now at 10%, and rapidly rising. Their businesses are fleeing for the United States, and it’s all because of their failed policies, and inept leadership! The days of ripping off our Farmers, and other Businesses, are OVER! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"