Trump Canada - The 51st State - Make America and Canada Great Again!

[Luce NDs]

Reserve the sin a' Gouges for later constructs of pyretic ... kerygma ... and metaphorical tongues of plasma? Bloody red things supported by venomous critters ... that would eat you alive?

Political representatives regarding the appearance of mediums? Tis an interim fence or temporal inhibition ... meant for foiling polity ... wahl's of whitewash or just debriefing ...

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Interesting Anti-Nazi propaganda from Walt Disney. Did you notice that it seems that they supposedly burned churches, not synagoges?
Americans still like to get their education from Hollywood.

Why Jordan Peterson Thinks "Frozen" Is Propaganda

He’s being rather deceptive. Subverting a positive message and calling it propaganda.

 

[BetteTheRed]

I think that Canada is less like the U.S.A., and much more like the EU, than we realize. Discuss?

 

[Ritafee]

June 2018 Weekly press review | Estonia and Canada to cooperate on digital solutions — e-Estonia

Canada and Estonia have signed a digital cooperation agreement

The Estonian international cooperation in the digital field has marked another important step this week. President of the Treasury Board of Canada Scott Brison and Minister of Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Urve Palo have signed the agreement between Canada and Estonia primarily concerning the development of e-governance and artificial intelligence (AI).

Canadian strength in AI sector has been recently remarkable. Only in 2017, Canada has invested more than $300 million in new funding for research and $260 million raised by Canadian AI startups. Moreover, the government is carrying out a modernization of its e-state and is interested in developing X-Road data exchange layer, already used by all the public institutions in Estonia. “Our cooperation agreement sums up the mutual interests determined in the past year,” Palo explained. “We want to continue with joint projects as well as the exchange of ideas and experience in the field of e-governance and artificial intelligence. […] “The X-Road would enable Canada’s residents to use public e-services similarly to how it’s done in Estonia,” Palo said. “Thanks to the X-Road, state databases can interact with each other and Estonians can use, for example, pre-filled out tax returns and our population registry can gather necessary data without people having to submit these separately,” Palo concluded.

This article was originally published in The Baltic Course. Read the full article here.

Give us convenience or give us death?

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

I think that Canada is less like the U.S.A., and much more like the EU, than we realize. Discuss?

Yes and no. When we look at individual countries in the EU, they are far more nationalistic, have a stronger tendency to be anti-immigrant, and are contending with a rise of far right parties and ethnonationalism on a scale we haven’t seen and hopefully won’t, in Canada. Yes, in that they tend to favour more socialist-type institutions like public healthcare.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

And there are extreme differences in sociopolitical attitude and governance between countries like Poland and Sweden. Far more stark than even the most different provinces in Canada.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

“Hopefully won’t” means we can’t ignore it here as it pops up in its guises de jour.

We’re like the US and the EU in that Russia would like to weaken our democracies.

 

[Ritafee]

Technological city of the future, where all services and processes will be entirely automated, food will be grown in the desert, drones will fly in the skies, and there will be a full-scale e-government.

At this initial stage it is unclear what Neom will look like, but we may get a taster thanks to another “future city” project to be built in Canada albeit on a much smaller scale.

Credit: sidewalktoronto.ca

Sidewalk Labs, owned by Alphabet has committed $50 million to develop 12 acres in the Quayside area of Toronto in a public-private partnership with the city. The plan is to build a mini digital city, using a range of smart technologies, sustainable energy and autonomous cars, that will eventually become the home of Google’s Canadian headquarters.
Saudis unveil $500 billion plan to develop new industrial zone

 

[Ritafee]

When we look at individual countries in the EU, they are far more nationalistic, have a stronger tendency to be anti-immigrant, and are contending with a rise of far right parties and ethnonationalism on a scale we haven’t seen and hopefully won’t, in Canada.

• Canada and Estonia enjoy strong bilateral relations, owing in part to the fact that Canada did not recognize the Soviet occupation of Estonia after the Second World War and was one of the first countries to recognize Estonia’s restored de facto independence in 1991. Canada accepted thousands of Estonian refugees in the post-1945 period, and there are now approximately 24,000 Canadians of Estonian origin, representing one of the largest Estonian diasporas. The excellent relations between Canada and Estonia are based on these strong people-to-people ties and cooperation in international organizations, including NATO, the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Canada and Estonia relations

 

[Delightful Life]

one big positive
is that we Canadians will stop whining aboot how "we're not Americans" lol

I can see the Canadian rifles: in poutine and maple syrup
"i lurve bacon" will b our Statez anthem ("blame Canada!"?)
our state will b called "its effin cold here" or "great White North" or "Hoserhood" or just plain "Eh?"

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

• Canada and Estonia enjoy strong bilateral relations, owing in part to the fact that Canada did not recognize the Soviet occupation of Estonia after the Second World War and was one of the first countries to recognize Estonia’s restored de facto independence in 1991. Canada accepted thousands of Estonian refugees in the post-1945 period, and there are now approximately 24,000 Canadians of Estonian origin, representing one of the largest Estonian diasporas. The excellent relations between Canada and Estonia are based on these strong people-to-people ties and cooperation in international organizations, including NATO, the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Canada and Estonia relations

I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

The AI stuff is something the whole world is moving into too quickly, imo, however.

 

[Luce NDs]

The X-road (rode-on) is the unknown we rest our laurels upon … being the best religions are based on not knowing … supported by excessive will and desires … although such love may be nothing …

Can nothing be known definitively? Some are surely determinate about it as they go round ...

 

[Ritafee]

or just plain "Eh?"

E(h?)-Estonia ... seriously Luce seems to understand what I am getting at here. Never mind the 51st state of the US ... looks more like we are well on our way to becoming a state of the E-World Order - EH?

 

[Ritafee]

I don’t think that’s a bad thing.

The AI stuff is something the whole world is moving into too quickly, imo, however.

Are you saying you are not ready to get your E-ID Card yet?

Like the Estonian ID-card that is much more potent than our passports. Apart from being a legal travel ID, it is also their national health insurance card, their banking login and their digital signature to vote, heck medical records, submit tax claims, use prescriptions, etc.

This level of integration of government and administration on a flexible digital system has reduced government expenditures by the equivalent of 2% of their GDP. And if you’re not sold yet: Estonians fill out their tax returns in 3 minutes.

The first reaction to the Estonian e-identity card

People can’t live without their e-Identity cards in Estonia. And after hearing all of this, you would assume the Estonian people were delighted to be the first to have such a streamlined system — but no, the nobody saw the point at the beginning. In our exchange with Cybernetica we learned that people have completely forgotten how unpopular the idea of yet another card was:

“People didn’t want another card. They didn’t see an advantage over their passport. It was thought to be a huge waste of public funds when the e-ID was introduced in 2002. They were called “ice scrapers” used to defrost windshields on chilly mornings.
5–6 years later, a life without e-identity cards is unimaginable in Estonia. This is because the flexible system offered so many functionalities so quickly. But Estonia also has some good lessons on how to include the public in benefiting from this new world of connected data. The Estonian Genome Centre (The Estonian Biobank) gathered large amount of personal data, medical history and current health status for research. Participants took active part in recording this data by joining the Estonian Biobank and in turn, received their gene map.

Getting public support means finding ways to let people directly see and benefit instead of just optimizing processes.

No Innovation without tenacity and resilience
So despite the groundbreaking role Estonia took, the process was by no means smooth. Cybernetica reminded us of that. Estonia today is one of the most technologically progressive places in the world — but it wouldn’t have happened if the government hadn’t pursued their vision with tenacity.
Estonia’s innovation story of tenacity and resilience.

 

[Ritafee]

Estonia Is Embracing Personalized Medicine With Its DNA Biobank - The Atlantic
Over at the Broad Institute, the institute’s president and MIT biology professor Eric Lander also believes Estonia is a model of what the future might look like, despite its imperfections.

“Everyone should have the right and ability to donate their data,” Lander said. “We owe it to our children to not let medical experiences go to waste, at least for the people who want to contribute.” Lander argues that the Estonian system’s technical infrastructure, the core of Estonia’s entire e-government, is what makes the Estonian Genome Project “a model system for how the world should do things.”

 

[Luce NDs]

Human volition (power of will) can separate some people from the nature of collectiveness … a funny state to be in considering how we share so much info in our innate DNA! The mark of the collective civilized base except where humans are determined to be isolated … thus a singular place for them in the cosmos … down in the dirt?

Some believe they are perfectly clean regardless of the duster bunnies … these may be seen on the Terre … dashing …

Being late sometimes bothers them ...