The Water Wars

Canada has never been a pro-nuclear weapons country but it's been too long since long term planning has been done. If we do not get a strong and effective grip on climate change, Canada should put safeguards in place against US invasion intended to gain control of the supplies of fresh water.

The USA is blind to its own environmental crimes. For generations they have been emptying a massive and critical South-Western aquifer in large part to maintain golf courses growing in a desert. The standard answer to "why" (do this) is "because we can." All's fair in love, war and greed. Just imagine spraying a desert continuously for decades to keep unnatural lawns growing where they should not exist and then bleating out "why me?" when you complain that the faucets of LA are dry. Self awareness is not an American strength. Science has been warning about the draining of that great aquifer for a long time. It took over 100,000 years to create and yet humans have managed to bring its end into view in (very) approximately 100 years.

Back to Canada and the coming Water Wars. That Canada could not prevent a US invasion is obvious. The only way to prepare for an attempt to divert Canadian fresh water supplies southwards (where they would still be watering golf courses in oceans of sand) would be to make the water undesirable. Nuclear weapons, big ones, should be placed at intervals throughout the Great Lakes and sunk into the glaciers that provide meltwater from north of Vancouver and down through the interior of BC. If the US armed forces come for the water of The Great White North, at the push of a button, there will be no water left that would be worth the name.

Ain't the future, or at least speculating about the future, fun? I'm sure that all kinds of plans already exist on shelves in deep locked rooms. This one (which I name "H2-No") is merely one more and it doesn't even call for any technology that doesn't already exist. Simple yet effective.

Real (Israeli) Estate

When you speak about Israeli internal and foreign policy, you don't have to look very deeply to see that the Israelis learned a lot from their WWII oppressors in Europe, the Nazi Party. Israel treats the Palestinians as Jews were treated by the Nazis, though not to the same extent. Yet. And for every injustice that Israel commits against a Palestinian, behind them stands their "silent partner," the USA, keeping Israel flush with funds and the materiel of war. The first step towards peace in the Middle East is closing the tap on the bottomless well of US instruments of death that Israel has been satiating itself on for far too long.

The British were in large part responsible for creating Israel in ancient and partly mythic land in the Middle East when the most logical and reasonable location for Israel would have been on land carved out of Germany. That would have been justice for the Jews and it would also have been a wiser solution for the problems poorly resolved by the Treaty of Versailles. Israel would have been built on fertile soil taken from those who would have murdered them all and, the Middle East would never have been turned into a bomb with a very short fuse.

(Addendum)

Israel should not exist, at least not in the Middle East. After WWII, Israel should have been carved out of Germany. Today Israel should be treated like South Africa while the sanctions were in place to try to end apartheid. And make no mistake, Israel treats the Palestinians like the South Africans treated their black population. The US should stop arming the Israelis and enabling their crimes against humanity. Germany was (arguably) an atheist nation under the Nazis. Israel is a state run by Jewish Nazis. And every time the USA has a Republican administration they are in the same condition. Do the Democrats behave any differently? Time has blurred the line between the two parties making the topic suitable for very juicy debate. Something that cannot be argued is that the Palestinians got buggered in 1949 when Israel was shoehorned into the Middle East onto land they had a mythical connection to, destabilising the entire region. They may just as well have established Israel in Atlantis.

New World Christianity

The US isn't a loony bin it's a loony zoo. One of the major developments in our conception of government was the separation of Church and State and that is how most of the Western world operates. But not America. Watch their news, their rituals and especially their Presidential inaugurations. You still see that hand on/swear by the Bible thing. Becoming President while being a Catholic is still very newsworthy. Politicians at any level reveal in interviews that when they had a major decision to make, they first spent time in intense prayer (no doubt while shedding tears of blood). That doesn't even make THEOLOGICAL sense! If the Universe runs according to the plan of an invisible old man in the sky, future events are already set. What do you think your prayer will accomplish? Do you expect to CHANGE GOD'S MIND?? Puh-Leeeze! Still, praying politicians get their airtime, especially if they're Protestant Evangelicals. It wasn't a ship full of Hindus who landed at Plymouth Rock seeking freedom to worship as they would. It was a ship full of adherents to one particular sect of Protestant Christians. There were piles of these sects who often only differed on the interpretation of one sacrament. Their time was one of the greatest expressions of Christian anal-retentiveness since the 3rd century. No wonder that their concept of democracy was as bent as it came to be.