There's also the whole other issue thsat the US, when a country refuses to trade with them because they want to impose unfair conditions....the US has often resorted to then imposing trade bans on countries who still trade with the country who refused to trade with them.
Such is the case even to a small level. The band "Manic Street Preachers" were told at one point that they were no longer allowed to tour in the US because they played a gig in Cuba.
I know the Canada/Cuba relationship has always been a strain on Canada/US relations.
I remember there even being some political huffing and puffing about Castro being at Trudeau's funeral.
On another note, is Trudeau known well enough world wide for me to just name drop him like that?
EDIT: that manic street preachers stuff is weird. Are they an American band? Its almost like that Dixie Chicks stuff. Amazing how quickly music and art can become so politicized, and not for like the obvious, "rage-against-the-machine", type reasons.
Originally posted by inimalist
Ha, we really do make no international impact!makes a bit more sense.
Did you hear about Galloway being barred from a speaking tour in Canada recently?
I presume you mean George Galloway? I like his style but not his politics.
He certainly is a force in terms of putting his points across. Politics could do with more people like him on all sides instead of the snivelling politically correct apologists that infest the UK political establishment.
Banned for his war views I take it?
Originally posted by jaden101
I presume you mean George Galloway? I like his style but not his politics.He certainly is a force in terms of putting his points across. Politics could do with more people like him on all sides instead of the snivelling politically correct apologists that infest the UK political establishment.
Banned for his war views I take it?
ya, specifically for supplying food, blanket, and other aide in trucks to Hamas. I think they may have even called him a "security concern"
It is understandable given international politics and stuff, and I'm totally not a supporter of his sort of leftism, but I think it reflects poorly on us.
Ah yeah. I read his weekly article in the paper while his convoy was driving to Palestine. He wasn't aiding Hamas but taking much needed aid to the Palestinians during the last spate of violence. As per usual, no doubt some aspects of the media were demonizing him. His praise and support of Saddam Hussain was misguided and he's made some moronic statements about suicide bombers in the past.
He's actually from my home town.
Originally posted by jaden101
Ah yeah. I read his weekly article in the paper while his convoy was driving to Palestine. He wasn't aiding Hamas but taking much needed aid to the Palestinians during the last spate of violence. As per usual, no doubt some aspects of the media were demonizing him.
lol, fair enough. All the news I saw of it here was about him aiding Hamas specifically.
Originally posted by jaden101
His praise and support of Saddam Hussain was misguided and he's made some moronic statements about suicide bombers in the past.
I saw his debate about the Iraq war with Christopher Hitchens, so ya, I'm totally on the same page with you about that.
Originally posted by jaden101
He's actually from my home town.
lol, does that mean he is your representative?
Originally posted by inimalist
lol, does that mean he is your representative?
Thankfully no. His constituency is a London borough. Bethnal Green and Bow (you might know the name of the place if you're familiar with the Kray brothers)
Ironically one of things he continues to promote is greater racial diversity and more women in the UK parliment yet he ran in a constituency in order to out the only mixed race, female MP in Westminster.
Here's what he did when questioned about it
Wow, once again GM has shown how patriotic and American it is by closing factories in the US and laying off tons of workers, closing factories, and importing products from China instead of auctioning off it's foreign plants and bolstering their domestic labor force. Obama and his government are proving to be such pussies during this whole thing that I think the Conservative South American solution will be eventually carried out (build gated, walled off communities protected by the military, take helicopters to work in the cities, market products to countries who aren't free market and have currencies that are worth something so people can actually buy, let anyone who isn't rich or in the military die, starve, or kill each other off in lawlessness with the occasional police action to thin out their numbers).
Originally posted by inimalist
On another note, is Trudeau known well enough world wide for me to just name drop him like that?
I hope he is.
I remember being stuck in traffic with my mother on a late afternoon when I heard that Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. Hopefully there's a little global consideration behind how well-informed most Americans think they are; despite watching Fox News or CNN.
Originally posted by Ace of Knaves
I hope he is.I remember being stuck in traffic with my mother on a late afternoon when I heard that Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. Hopefully there's a little global consideration behind how well-informed most Americans think they are; despite watching Fox News or CNN.