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Why is Carney spending $8B to upgrade the military bases in Alberta?

Here is a conspiracy theory.
Carney is a manager bestowed on us by the London / Davos elite, to manage Canada, since the Lorentian elite didn't do a good job in the last decade.
Granted, to maintain the interests of his masters in London and Davos, he needs to keep US companies out.
Why his European masters are pushing for net zero? I'm not sure. Maybe it's a method of control. Maybe they are not that smart.

I'm not a fan of professor Jiang. There are many things I disagree with him. But he is smart and there is some merit to some elements in his framework.
According to him, Canada is ruled by the Lorentian elite. They treat Alberta as a resource colony of Ontario and Quebec. But the Lorentian elite have masters as well... The city of London. (corporations via. the crown.) The London elite sees Canada as a resource colony of London.
In the last decade, Canada was not managed so well. So, the city of London bestowed a new Manager. Mark Carney. To manage Canada. Their plan is to replace the populat

Why is the market going down today?

A lot of people, especially on the Left, will support the underdog while ignoring all other inputs.
In their mind, the Palestinians deserve a state on the virtue of being the weaker side in a conflict.

Alberta advance voting is happening right now.
Carney is flying in this week with more pipeline promises and “Forever Canadian” rallies. Those promises have been announced multiple times already—but now, because of the referendum, they are re-announced.
Pool expect over 70% will vote for option 1, to stay, and 22% will vote for option 2.
Meanwhile, the real bottleneck for the AI boom is power, not chips. Alberta has the gas, the cold, and the uranium. Ottawa has the regulations and the taxes.
A strong Option 2 vote doesn’t have to “win” the referendum. It just needs to give us leverage so Carn

GM. What will you be doing today to make the world a better place?

In 1951 Asimov's Foundation a group of scientist built a hi-tech colony on a remote planet, as a hedge against a dark age.
In 2026 the hedge is nearly here: orbital compute, lunar industry, humanoid Robots... Mars.
The people still arguing about UN resolutions or Ottawa policy papers are debating the lobby of a building that’s already on fire.
Build the backup branch of civilization.

Ottawa has promised to maybe build Alberta a pipeline to "bribe" Albertans to vote Oprtion 1 in the referendum.
This is not the pipeline I was looking for.
I prefer a pipeline built in two years by the private sector for $5 billion, not one built in eight yearswith a taxpayer $70 billion funding.
The Liberal pipeline is expected to earn only a 2–3% annual return on our investment. Taxpayers could earn far more simply by investing in the S&P 500.
It’s better to just build data centers in Alberta, powered by natural gas. Forget BC. Okay, okay... Maybe build one pipeline south.

"We seem to outsource more of out sovereignty, transferring our decisions to global bureaucracies, far beyond the reach of out control."
- Marco Rubio, Greece, October 7th, 2026

I voted in the Alberta referendum.
It was about 50 minutes line.

Alberta’s Oct 19 referendum isn’t really about “separation.”
It’s about whether the province with the gas, oil, and uranium will be allowed to power the AI boom—or whether Ottawa will hold us back with overregulations and high taxes.
Power is the bottleneck, not chips.
Hyperscalers are already locking in nuclear restarts and on-site gas plants. Alberta has the resources and the cold. What it doesn’t have is control.
A strong Option 2 vote doesn’t need to “win” the referendum. It just needs to give Alberta real leverage before Carney treats our oil like a bargaining chip.
Thoughts?
#AlbertaRefe

Finally X figured out I'm in Canada.
After I was back from Mexico, it insisted I'm still in Mexico for ~ 2 weeks.

Alberta referendum.
I'm not arguing option 2 has a good chance to win. Most likely option 1 win.
My argument is that if many vote for option 2, it will give Alberta more laverage in negotiations with Ottawa.
i.e.
30% vote for option 2 is better than 20%.

Existential risk (x-risk) is the risk of human extinction or the permanent, irreversible collapse of humanity’s long-term potential.
The concept has become especially prominent in AI discussions, where the probability that advanced AI causes human extinction or an existential catastrophe is often called P(Doom).
The bigger picture:
Humanity faces existential risks from both natural and human-caused sources.
Natural risks include:
- Pandemics
- Killer asteroids
- Supervolcanoes
- Nearby supernovas
- Extreme solar events
- (Extremely low-probability) black-hole or other cosmic threats
Human-caus

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What do you think comes after socialism and capitalism?

Albertans—
If you vote for Option 1 in the referendum, and soon after, Carney will use Alberta’s oil as a weapon in the trade war with the US, causing economic devastation and massive job losses in our economy.
Will it be okay if I say “I told you so”?
Because I’m telling you now.
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Canada tarrifs question...
If the Democrats win in 2028. Do you think they will support good paying union jobs to moving from Ohio and Michigan back to Canada?