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@datum@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours ago

Hey Canadians, remember how when you heard about Project 2025, and then saw it being implemented, you wondered why US citizens had been - and continued to be - in denial? Because the propositions were right there? Here's what hawks in the USA are publicly strategizing:

In a strategy of the retrenchment, the dismemberment of Canada becomes a wise decision. Rather than allowing it to continue down a path of anti-American antagonism, the United States could support the Alberta and Quebec separatist movements. A successful secession by Alberta alone would cripple the federal fisc, and drive separatism in other regions due to the resultant decline in their equalization payments which comprises such a substantial part of their provincial budgets. In the end, British Columbia and a unified Maritime province would be admitted to the Union as Democratic states while Alberta and Saskatchewan would be admitted as Republican states; ensuring continued balance in the US Senate.

The rump of Canada, left with only one or two provinces, would finally be able to revise its constitution with ease. Under US pressure, the rump could become a freely associated state similar to Palau, with a new constitution reordering society along American lines. In time, perhaps it too could be annexed.

The United States can no longer afford to dismiss Canada as a benign neighbor

Archive.org link that doesn't give the author traffic or your info:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250914052455/https://defenseanalyses.org/work/our-canadian-problem/

#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #QCPoli #ABPoli #MBPoli #SKPoli

DARC

Our Canadian Problem

Managing an increasingly divergent northern neighbor.
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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 16 hours ago

@datum

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/31/billionaires-added-record-wealth-2025

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-the-new-class-of-billionaires-solidified-outsized-political-influence

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-31/richest-billionaires-added-2-2-trillion-in-wealth-in-2025-led-by-musk-ellison

https://americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaires-1-5-trillion-richer-trumps-first-year/

https://truthout.org/articles/top-15-us-billionaires-gained-nearly-1-trillion-in-wealth-in-trumps-first-year/

The looting & pillaging planned by billionaires for Greenland, along with Canada

This isn't "Investment", it is theft & compulsive hoarding.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa/2026/01/09/these-billionaires-bet-big-on-greenland-after-trump-took-interest/

https://popular.info/p/update-trump-relaxes-venezuelan-oil

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

https://popular.info/p/venezuela-raid-enriches-maga-billionaire

https://davidsuzuki.org/story/its-time-to-loosen-billionaires-stranglehold-on-humanity/

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-01-08/yes-california-should-tax-billionaires-wealth-heres-why

https://theconversation.com/billionaires-with-1-salaries-and-other-legal-tax-dodges-the-ultrawealthy-use-to-keep-their-riches-271714

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/06/david-frum-show-tina-brown-iran-nuclear-program/683320/

The Atlantic

Why Do Billionaires Go Crazy?

Tina Brown on how extreme wealth warps minds. Plus: hopes and fears after Trump’s strike against Iran’s nuclear program.
Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Yes, California should tax billionaires' wealth. Here's why

California is home to more billionaires than any other state. It's time to raise their taxes.
David Suzuki Foundation

It’s time to loosen billionaires’ stranglehold on humanity

Taxing the super affluent at rates that would still leave them with enough to maintain lavish lifestyles could generate enough money to resolve many societal issues, from health to hunger to global heating.
https://www.nytimes.com

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

Truthout

Top 15 US Billionaires Gained Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth in Trump’s First Year

The US has 935 billionaires, roughly a dozen of whom have jobs within the Trump administration.
Americans For Tax Fairness

U.S. BILLIONAIRES GOT $1.5 TRILLION RICHER IN TRUMP’S FIRST YEAR

22% Boost in 2025 Lifted Total Wealth of Nation’s Billionaires to $8.2 Trillion Even as families struggle with unaffordable healthcare, housing and groceries, billionaires are flourishing in Donald Trump’s America: their total wealth jumped by over a fifth (22%) during 2025, rising from $6.7 trillion to $8.2 trillion, according to a new report from Americans …
PBS News

How the new class of billionaires solidified outsized political influence

Many New Year's traditions are meant to bring prosperity in the months ahead, but America's relationship to wealth is complicated. As billionaires' influence has grown, so too has skepticism. In a recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll, 58% of respondents said billionaires' spending on campaigns is bad for the country. Lisa Desjardins discussed the intersection of money and politics with Beth Reinhard.

UPDATE: Trump relaxes Venezuelan oil embargo, benefiting MAGA billionaire

On Monday, Popular Information reported that the U.S.

Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire

The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
the Guardian

Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025

Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page
The Conversation

Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches

The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.
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@datum@zeroes.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

@Npars01 Of those I think I've only read the David Suzuki Foundation article but boosting anyways because those are reputable sources

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@Npars01@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 14 hours ago

@datum

The fossil fuel trade needs to be phased out rapidly & globally.

It's killing democracy & frying the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/jan/09/trump-venezuela-oil-attacks-minnesota-portland-ice-supreme-court-tariffs-latest-news-updates

Republicans market themselves as "free market" & against "big government".

Yet here is Trump ordering oil execs to throw good money after bad, or else.
He sounds a lot like a Soviet-style commissar & a "planned economy".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205dx61x76o

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/09/venezuela-is-uninvestible-for-now-exxon-ceo-tells-trump-in-white-house-meeting-00720198

Imperialist expansion & forever foreign wars
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/trump-greenland-military-denmark-nato.html

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POLITICO

‘Uninvestable’: Trump pitch to oil execs yields no promises

The CEOs heaped praise on the president’s actions in Venezuela but made no firm commitments to put money into restoring the country’s oil production.

Trump's Venezuela oil meeting starts with few concrete promises

"Today it's uninvestable," Exxon chief executive Darren Woods says of Venezuela.
the Guardian

Trump threatens Greenland and Iran at meeting with oil bosses on Venezuela – US politics live

‘We are going to do something on Greenland whether they like it or not,’ president told press during panel
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