Notices by Francisca Sinn (fsinn@mas.to), page 2

“On Friday night the trade talks collapsed. On Saturday morning, the 50 percent tariffs kicked in on about 20 billion dollars of Canadian goods, everything from beer and cheese to hockey sticks, under Section 338 of a 1930 tariff law nobody had touched since 1949. Trump went on Truth Social and posted that Canada wants the benefits of being a state without being one. Mark Carney stood up in Ottawa, got asked why it sounded like he was going to war, and said, “Because we were attacked.” Dollar-for-dollar retaliation starts September 8. Steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper, electronics.

Angus Reid polled the country over the weekend. Seventy-six percent of #Canadians say walking away from the table was the right call. In a country that can’t agree on whether milk goes in a bag, three out of four of us just agreed on a fight.

I want to explain to our #Americans friends, and I do mean friends, what that number means.”

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/you-have-no-idea-who-youre-dealing?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#TradeWar

“You Have No Idea Who You’re Dealing With

Trump just declared economic war on the one country that has never, in two world wars, learned how to quit or lost. A BRUTAL history lesson for MAGAmerica, written with love, from Canada.”

https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/you-have-no-idea-who-youre-dealing?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Canada #Trump #USA #TradeWar #Tariffs #ElbowsUp #Never51 #Antifa #Resistance

“I keep hearing Americans describe Canadians as nice. We are. We’re the nicest people you’ll ever meet right up until the second you put your hands on us, and then something switches over that took the German General Staff two wars to properly understand. We’re a 40-million-person battalion in Bermuda shorts. We shovel your driveway at -4°F wearing a T-shirt; we say sorry when you step on our foot; and we went to war in September 1939, two years and three months before Pearl Harbour made it convenient for Washington to show up. We were at Dieppe when nobody else would go. We were farthest inland on D-Day. We pushed through the Scheldt in water up to our chests so Antwerp could open and Patton could get gas. We buried 45,000 of our own in that war from a country of 11 million and never asked for the credit, which is why the credit tends to get forgotten.“

“… You’d think that would break a division. Instead, by August, the commander of the First Canadian Army, General Crerar, had to issue a formal order telling his men to stop taking revenge on German prisoners. You don’t write that order for troops who need encouragement… there’s no doubt that we did this, and they did. The difference was that the SS did it cold, hours after the battle, with a pistol. Canadians did it hot, in the fight, and then kept coming. The Hitlerjugend was the most fanatical formation Hitler had in the West, and the Canadians ground it into the mud between Caen and Falaise anyway.

That’s who Trump just decided to tariff. A country that answered the worst Hitler could send with a division that had to be ordered to show mercy, and then liberated Holland on the way home, feeding starving Dutch kids out of their own rations. The Dutch still send us tulips every spring. Both things are true. Both things are us.”

“I want to explain to our American friends, and I do mean friends, what that number means. To do that, I have to tell you who we are, and the honest version isn’t the one on the postcards. Because Canada is coming. And we are relentless.

In the First World War, the Germans learned to dread one thing on the Western Front: finding out that the Canadian Corps was moving into the line opposite them. Lloyd George wrote after the war that the Canadians were marked out as the storm troops of the British Empire, and that when the Germans spotted the Canadians arriving, they braced for the worst. During the last hundred days of that war, four Canadian divisions engaged and beat something like a quarter of the entire German army on the Western Front.

Here’s the part the postcards leave out… Canadians in the Great War frequently killed Germans who were trying to surrender… Not once. Not one bad unit. Cook found it ran through almost every battalion in the Corps, from privates to generals.”

“Politically, this country has been a bar fight for a decade. That’s over. There is no Liberal or Conservative position on being annexed. Doug Ford, a Conservative premier, stood next to a Liberal prime minister this weekend and said he was glad Carney didn’t sign and promised to cut off electricity to the entire US eastern seaboard. David Eby in B.C. is already drawing up lists of ways his province can help Ottawa inflict pain. Canadians have done 22 billion in Damage to the US economy this year alone by pretending it simply doesn’t exist. The 2025 boycott of American goods never ended. It’s been a year and a half, and the shelves still have the little flags on the Canadian products. We are not a political coalition anymore. We’re a country, and countries with our history don’t negotiate the terms of their own disappearance.

That’s what Trump is dealing with here. Mark Carney is 40 million of us. And when we’re not nice, we are fucking AWFUL.“

Some blunt talk for our American neighbours at the Halifax International Security Forum

https://open.substack.com/pub/theline/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-fucking?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

#Canada #Never51 #ElbowsUp #Trump

“Having failed to complete a deal by the midnight deadline, the U.S. said it was going ahead with new 50-per-cent tariffs on US$20-billion worth of goods.

The Prime Minister said Friday night in a statement that Canada would “match those tariffs dollar for dollar to protect our workers and businesses.”“

“The Prime Minister said Canada is preparing retaliatory measures, which would be revealed in the coming days and will take effect Sept. 8.
 
Mr. Carney was asked about the tone of his remarks, which suggested that Canada was at war.
 
“You are at war when you get attacked. We got attacked,” he said. “That’s fine. We’ve got the reserves. We’ve got resilience. We’ve got the plan. We’ve got the focus. We’ll respond – we are going to focus on what we can control. We are going to build.”“

“Prime Minister Mark Carney said his team walked away from trade negotiations Friday after the American side made unacceptable requests that would have infringed on Canadian sovereignty.

Speaking with reporters Saturday morning on Parliament Hill, Mr. Carney offered several examples of U.S. demands that Canada could not accept, including the fine print related to potential agreements on steel, aluminum and autos, and language that he said would have restricted Canada’s trade negotiations with other countries.

“There were some things we wouldn’t do. We were not prepared to compromise Canada’s sovereignty or to undermine key industries,” he said. “In short, they asked too much, and they offered too little.””

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-us-trade-deal-tariffs-mark-carney-donald-trump-august-22/?utm_source=Shared+Article+Sent+to+User&utm_medium=LinkCopy&utm_campaign=Shared+Web+Article+Links

#Canada #CUSMA #Trump #USA #Tariffs #TradeWar #Economy #TrumpTariffs #ElbowsUp #Canadians #Never51

“The tariffs announced last night by President Trump on many Canadian goods are being imposed under s.338 of the so-called Smoot Hawley Act. They have not been used in 96 years in this way.

They have been imposed by Presidential proclamation, which is how Trump rolls and rules these days.

As the Canadian comes home this morning, they can hold their heads high. Canada couldn’t sign a deal the Americans tried to change at the last minute. Ask anyone who has done business with Donald Trump. That’s how he does it.“

https://bobrae48.substack.com/p/trumpian-bad-faith-revealed?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#Canada #CUSMA #Trump #TrumpBadFaith #USA #Tariffs #TrumpTariffs #TrumpTradeWar #ElbowsUp #Never51

“Prine Minister Mark Carney said in a statement that while important progress was made during the trade talks, he said he has decided to suspend trade negotiations and directed Canada’s negotiators to return to Ottawa.
 
“They have worked hard, in good faith, to defend the interests of Canadians throughout these negotiations up until the very last minute. However, last-minute changes in the U.S. proposed terms were unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal,” he said.”

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f3d6096fceb1ffaea4f7c251d5656078f7a4e8a4d6ae6b777aa0c542a4568ade/7VDZXXXWW5CK7BSH26MTDBHP2A/

#Canada #CUSMA #Trump #USA #Tariffs #TradeWar #ElbowsUp

RE: https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/117025998819133435

“Rebranding rebellion is nothing new. Americans take it for granted that the war between the Confederate states and the Union was always called the Civil War, but it was not. During the war and in its aftermath, it was primarily called an “insurrection” or a “rebellion.” Its current name is a result of decades of lobbying by Confederate heritage groups and white Southerners committed to rejuvenating the South’s image and ignoring its treason and slaveholding.

As Mr. Trump and his allies try to whitewash the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, we should return to an older and far more accurate name for the Civil War. We should once again call it the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy without deploying equally forgiving language?”

#Trump #Fascism #Treason

Every Republican who signed this letter, and every single person who endorsed it, is a terrorist. This is nothing less than US government sponsored terrorism intended to intimidate and coerce people investigating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

When Rubio and Trump are trying to gut the #UN and shut down the #ICC, that tells us everything we need to know about their understanding of their criminal actions and complicity, and of their intentions.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3msazih2zrc2e

#Israel #Gaza #USA #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw #UN

“Canada has stated Netanyahu would be arrested if he lands on Canadian soil. Same for Spain, Ireland, Austria, Slovenia, the Netherlands. Germany is hemming and hawing on the issue, stating they are looking at their legal options.

Netanyahu bragged to Fox that if he were arrested in any country, there would be a special military team ready to invade and free him.

It brings to mind when Hitler sent Otto Skorzeny to free Mussolini. Floating the notion of invading a European country to free an indicted war criminal shows how far Israel has gone in its defiance of law and sovereignty.“

#Netanyahu #WarCriminal #Genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #ICC

https://open.substack.com/pub/charlieangus/p/shot-across-the-bow?r=2m1hl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Following your reasoning every opinion piece about every conflict should be extrapolated and applied to every other conflict in every other unrelated country and argued with for the sake of argument.

I am supposing you must be new here.

Read the article, or don’t.

Understand the point being made by the author (who, you might have noticed, is not me), or don’t.

But replyguy for the sake of argument, and you’re blocked. Next.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116932520918796697

Boosting again.

Do not miss this.

#Rubio #Trump #Fascists #Fascism #StateViolence #HumanRights #USA

We always knew this was coming.

https://mas.to/@fsinn/114096387983049657

#Trump #Elections #ElectionInterference #ElectionIntegrity #USA #Constitution #Fascism #Democracy

RE: https://hcommons.social/@fgraver/116928256648200353

“The transformation element and the poster design appear to reference the politically charged sci-fi film They Live (1988), in which the main character encounters a pair of sunglasses that not only expose the extractive messaging of advertisements but reveal that humanity is being controlled, subdued, and exploited by a secret population of aliens masquerading as people. In the film, it’s later revealed that some humans have accepted monetary bribes to collaborate with the aliens.“

Brilliant.

#Bravo #Advertising #Activism #Meta #MetaGlasses

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116880975629003849

It bears repeating that federal agents are not allowed to kill people for attempting to evade arrest. Or for evading arrest. Or for being an undocumented immigrant. Or for being Mexican. Or for being a man. Or for being.

#Homicide #ExtraJudicialKilling #Criminal #ICEAgents #Fascism #StateSponsored #Terrorism #RuleOfLaw