Iran’s religious leadership learned the lessons from the Cold War that using proxies to achieve their strategic objectives was the way to go. They are probably the reason that there is continuing strife and a major driver to why Israel has continued to be increasingly extreme. Effectively they have been winning the game as Israel is now ruled hardline religious nuts.

That’s why the Open Market Committee is the most important organ of US government. It adjusts the rules to maximise shareholder value. It’s great if you are a billionaire.

Sounds like a win for Canada!

So now there is only one old guy running and who has been found to be a rapist, a fraud and an adulterer.

Looks like a lot of banged legs walking through that collection. The lot appears to be designed for those big machines too. More hectares of carpark or fewer spaces.

What a surprise. I don’t think that you have to grow up with him to know that!

Well it looks like he owes Putin, big time, so it’s payback time.

Sounds reasonable if you think of the country as big. Attracting migrants is necessary as the birth rate in most educated countries is negative so the population, if left to itself, is declining. Migrants will mostly want to live in cities and probably the bigger ones with more opportunities. The infrastructure will mostly be needed to expand the big cities which will make them a lot less inviting. That might be less of an issue as everything electrified on the way to a low carbon economy, the smog will reduce as will some of the noise.

Isn’t the world’s population supposed to peak by 2070 and then decline? Sounds like a capitalist going on about the need for endless growth to make him billions. Has anyone thought about what Canada would be like to live in if there were 70 million extra people?

Isn’t Trump supposed to be a billionaire? Surely a billionaire can pay his own bills! Maybe he isn’t the billionaire he claims to be.

How sad. A supposed billionaire force to mortgage for a piddly $450m. I suppose it will teach him that honesty is the best policy🤭

Grounds to have her replaced? Most people know that top secret means security clearance.

No doubt his mate Putin will find a obligarch to loan him the cash.

I really don’t understand this bloke. He’s on his deathbed and wants Trump on his tombstone.

You need to vote both.

First pass the post says a vote for anyone other than Biden is a vote for Trump. Sadly that’s how the system works. You need preferential voting to send a message of displeasure.

Ahh, Mike Johnson and the Russian GOP.

Some humans exhibit more traits than others.

Not absolutely sure that he is a human being. Narcissists and psychopaths have been variously described as monsters.

We still use disinformation when, given the seriousness, we should be calling them what they are, lies.