How incredibly sad the plane-helicopter accident was in Washington. It was on the news all day as they initially tried to rescue the people on the plane and helicopter but no one found alive. Prayers for the lost and for their grieving family members continuing. God be with them.
I now have all of the new H11 results into my database and can write the newsletter today. Twenty five new people brings the group up to nearly 500 (499 members). It is amazing really and it is one of the oldest of the H haplogroups dated around 45,000 years ago for its emergence and principally a central-eastern European haplogroup although it is found present day in Scandinavia, western Europe and the British Isles as well as the emigrant countries - namely America (members of the project are American and Canadian) and Oceania (India, Australia and New Zealand also make up some of the members). The updated version of the mt DNA haplotree (Version 17) shows no changes for this haplogroup. The number of name holders though is likely in the million but in a world of billions that is not so many.
No tariff on oil would be a good idea for sure but I still think we need to build refineries and get our surplus oil to market at full price - huge benefits for Alberta and Canada in that and the Northern Pipeline was discussed in an affirmative way. We would have two pipelines to tidewater and our own refineries in abundance once again. As for the auto industry, in the nineties that was pretty much decided on in order for the American companies to be able to hold on to their market here (living in the past is a mistake). In reality these cars passing back and forth across the border is meaningless because they are not finished products and should not even be considered for tariff because no one actually knows where they will end up being sold - for instance my car is made in Canada (Dodge Caravan) but likely it spent time in the United States as well being built. Trying to destroy that cross border activity will only damage the industry here in Canada in terms of sales for those companies - do they want to lose a 41 million customer base. We bought a Toyota during the last debacle over the car industry. Interesting that that period of tariff being commented on at the moment ended with the Great Depression. And who emerged from the Great Depression - some very wealthy people and most of the others poor struggling to get ahead (no one wants to repeat the Great Depression)!
I spent an extra half hour in the grocery store yesterday reading all the labels so that I am ready if tariffs go on (regretfully I will give up all American products - I do love fresh fruit and vegetables and apparently my cookies are made there (bought some lovely cookies made in Quebec yesterday just in case)). Love my American neighbours (and many of them are my cousins) but upsetting the apple cart is not a good way to do business and will wreck havoc in the business world in both countries; it isn't fair to the American consumer either as their prices will go up. Insulting Canada by belittling our exports and saying they are not needed is bully tactics and most Americans are not bullies just the ones that want to impose a plan so that control is in the hands of a few ultra rich who only care about themselves. I said at the beginning of the discussion on the 51st State that being one large continental area is a good thought in terms of preservation of the northern part of this hemisphere. A closer economic union would give us that. Merging our federal police forces so that there is a combined group to protect this part of the continent also a good idea. But we would be the equivalent of 13 new states and that would certainly have an enormous effect on Congress if there ever was a union; that is the only way that we would combine - as 13 new states. A territory without representation as suggested by at least one of the Republican Senators doesn't work and a single state does not give us sufficient representation in the Senate. But I think the present status quo worked very well on the 11th of September 2001 and will always work well in the future for our caretaking. One can depend on Canada to be the best neighbour as we have always been.
More hostages released in Gaza yesterday including the young woman who was not released as promised the last time. It really is time for all the hostages to be released now and immediately as demanded by the ICC over a year ago now. Hamas insults the world along with Hezbollah and the Houthis and there really isn't any place for them in the Middle East. They have been tethered and it is pretty much in God's hands what will happen to them; they do not deserve any better treatment than what was meted out to the Israeli (and other) hostages this past year and a half. Perhaps that is the answer to shove them all into underground prisons until they grow up and stop their bully tactics.
A busy day ahead working on the two newsletters. I definitely do not want to receive requests for money from my party (Conservative and I have been getting them much too regularly) when there isn't any sort of a plan to handle the upcoming year here in Canada in that request. Once bitten; twice shy! We do not need a federal election until we see what happens with the Liberal Party (and I hate the way they throw money around without careful accounting) in March. I also disagreed with prorogation of parliament but the precedent was set by - guess who, the Conservative Party. So let us get to work, check where it is made and on with the show!
I still have to say that the "Gulf of America" is not a bad name considering it is surrounded by South America, Central America and North America (Mexico is part of North America). This is the American continent so a Gulf of America sounds great actually. No problem with that. Too bad no one has taken a poll calling people in all of these countries in the Western Hemisphere. Then there is the name Turtle Island which I admit is growing on me. I wonder what part of the Continent it refers to? Perhaps I will learn that. It refers to the continent of North America apparently so that is very interesting. It comes down as an ancient story in the culture of the First Nations. I do find all of this very intriguing.
I was sorry to see Jamie Battiste drop out of the leadership race but he is young and there is plenty of time to do that in the future. He is a member of the First Nations.
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