US and Canadian “old big three” auto industry. It is justified to criticize the management of the US and Canadian “old big three” auto industry, for the lack of foresight, and not to forget the responsibility of their boards. However society should have a problem when the critique comes from the political and government establishment that over the past three decades has had more responsibility for the auto industry’s demise than the industry itself. Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another. I can’t imagine any reasonable thinking person believes that political mocking of the auto Industry’s management for flying private Jets to Washington will solve anything. I trust such populist politics does not set the tone

True knowledge is to know the extent of one‘s ignorance. Faroese traditional hunt of Pilot whales is used as propaganda to criticize Denmark and the EU. If it is not cartoons, it is Pilot whales. Regrettably, supposedly educated people in Canada and the US and other democracies are joining in and fueling the propaganda. If their concern is the Pilot whales, then the collaboration with the propagandists contradicts its own purpose. The propagandists may be beyond reasoning. But perhaps people that support them in Canada and elsewhere are not, and this therefore could help them to increase understanding that could help society and the Pilot whales. Faroe Islands is a Danish jurisdiction but self governed, located in the North Atlantic

In a recent commentary about the Russia/Ukraine/Crimea situation, I concluded my analysis by suggesting, “the crunch reveals an appalling lack of realism and foresight by all relevant Western parties, i.e. the US, Canada and the EU.” To back up just a bit, I remind my readers that the Soviet capitulation after the “cold war” occurred without a shot being fired. Compare this with Germany’s capitulation to the Western alliance in 1918, which ended the First World War. Defeat in “war” in both instances led to economic collapse. The results in both cases were a failure by the subsequent governments to raise the living standards in the broader society. And now, the US, Canada and the EU have utterly failed to

The recent Russian move into Crimea has aroused notable and expected concern in the United States, Canada, and the European Union. But the crunch reveals an appalling lack of realism and foresight by both the US, Canada and the EU. The Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, but EU and US political leaders seem to have forgotten that Russia did not. Nor have historic (and current) geopolitical realities changed with respect to Crimea, which was as strategically important to Russia as it was to the USSR during the USSR’s “brief” time on the world stage (70 years is the wink of an eye in historical context). One should be rightly focused upon and concerned as to how the EU