this ufo may be full of little green men, methinks.

https://www.smh.com.au/world/south-america/russian-passenger-jet-arrives-in-venezuela-rumours-swirl-20190130-p50uhc.html

if nothing else happens in the upcoming election, toronto needs to get rid of chrystia freeland.

except that we won't - we'll show up five minutes early, looking for brownie points, trying to "mend the relationship".

and, they'll toss us aside like the sycophants that we really are.

mccallum was perhaps the last true representative of the old guard in the liberal party, that argued for multilateralism and saw canada as a middle power that could act as an intermediary. his removal was actually deeply symbolic, which is what i was trying to get at. today, the liberals just want to be the 51st province, just like the conservatives - and he will no doubt be replaced by some american educated sinologist that upholds the cia-backed washington consensus.

we're a client state.

and, canadians need to wake up to this and push back on it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/29/the-united-states-doesnt-have-your-back/

listen.

the way you have to understand the world right now, and this has actually been true for many years, is that you've got kasparov sitting in russia, and all these short-sighted capitalist idiots running amok with their heads cut off everywhere else, bumping into each other, setting off their guns, for their own self-interest.

it's sort of like one of those guys down in central park, that will play 30 games of chess at once and beat everybody.

i don't think that putin is a genius, it's more like idiocracy, in the sense that russia is the only traditional empire left standing. it's easy to win when nobody else plays.

what's killing america is it's entitlement, it's insistence on some concept of manifest destiny. it doesn't think it has to play. so, it's easy to beat.

i considered being quiet; i desperately want netanyahu removed. but, i decided that he probably can't stop it, anyways - and it's probably in everybody's interests that it's transparent.

iran's language is challenging, and it would help everybody if they'd just shut the fuck up. but, russia's interests are not altered by america's withdrawal, no matter how enticing the bear hug.

conversely, america might want to take note of what sane american commentators have been pointing out for decades - that israel is not a reliable ally in the middle east. did you see how quickly they bolted to putin at the smallest sign of moderation? what kind of ally is this?

i don't think the russians are shifting allegiances in syria, i think they're playing netanyahu for the fool that he is.

expect a substantive change in power in israel relatively shortly. and, good riddance.

great!

i'm not a student and haven't been for a while, so i'll be keeping my distance this time. but, i need to point out that this isn't going to be as easy as it was in quebec.

organizers should be looking at the situation as an opportunity to build a movement. the reason the strikes were so large and successful in quebec is that this movement already existed due to years of organizing. there is no parallel movement in ontario.

that's fine. go out and build one. then there will be.

https://www.marxist.ca/socialist-fightback-student/1480-cfs-votes-for-ontario-student-strike-what-happens-now.html

there we go.

that's what i like to see.

maybe there's some hope for this province and this country, after all.

let's shut this province down until ford is defeated.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2019/01/27/hundreds-of-students-protest-doug-fords-osap-cuts-in-toronto_a_23654156/?ncid=other_topvideos_cp1pj3fgmfs&utm_campaign=top_videos