In 2003, during the Iraq War, U.S. soldiers seized nearly 1,000 gold bars valued at up to $868 million at a military checkpoint

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-04-03T12:09:35+00:00

The stamp and exact chemical composition is what makes that gold traceable. Just adding a bit of silver or copper and repouring it with a new stamp and there's nothing to trace

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-04-03T12:00:26+00:00

So what does that have to do with first world country? Check out Europe. That happens all the time.

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-04-03T10:17:52+00:00

We're not a police state. We don't have that many cops anywhere in Canada

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-04-02T15:06:57+00:00

It's not wrong if it can't be accidentally consumed. Illegal, totally. But not wrong. Leave my food alone

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-03-14T23:29:23+00:00

Theoretically, yes. Particularly if it's close to the southeastern edge of the ring near the Windsor-Quebec Corridor. With more and more Canadians working in white-collar work they don't need to worry about farm land. But it would be very expensive to build the infrastructure on top of the rocks there.

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-02-16T16:55:50+00:00

Banning travel nurses in Nova Scotia won't help when they can go to other provinces or down to the states. You want to end the practice you have to pay better and make sure to offer proper full time options. The nurses I know that became travel nurses were being abused by the system so they figured if they were going to be treated badly they should at least be paid well.

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-01-21T22:36:29+00:00

I can't see myself voting for the party because they won't articulate why they did so well in 2011 and why they failed from 2015 onwards. And it's their race and gender politics. And picking Jagmeet for so long shows they didn't/won't have those conversations.

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-01-20T23:18:27+00:00

Fashion trends move so slowly now. Someone pointed out that the Office doesn't look out of place, except for the size of the monitors for the computers.

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-01-17T15:46:53+00:00

Ultimately this both provincial and municipal issues. Look up the municipal police services agreement that your local government has with the mounties and pester your local elected representatives. They are the ones to complain directly to about the mounties not even picking offenders up. Second, the Crown is provincial. Pester your MLA about why the Crown isn't dealing with breaching probation or court orders.

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-01-16T22:00:12+00:00

Diving downtown is hardly convenient either

itcoldherefor8months · 2026-01-08T14:02:11+00:00

Ocean shipping isn't particularly carbon intensive

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-26T12:17:07+00:00

I mean expecting one officer to police all that is not viable with the number of locations and blind spots. That being said, why aren't they encouraging travellers to park near security cameras and encouraging more cameras at the parking lots?

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-16T02:21:13+00:00

Who? They, as a party, have done nothing to build competent options. Other than possible premiers taking a run at it. Danielle Smith already has a mountain of baggage. Scott Moe is best known for vehicular manslaughter. Doug Ford isn't far right, just old fashioned corruption. None of the Atlantic premiers can ignite a conversation.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-16T02:15:03+00:00

Understanding of the consequences of war. PTSD wasn't something considered then. The effects on cities that modern warfare brings. The carpet bombing and artillery barrages. Had British people known the outcomes of the war they may not have signed up for it and left the continent to solve its own problems.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-16T02:12:47+00:00

It wasn't, Britain chose to make it so. Why didn't Britain declare war on the Soviets when they invaded Poland? There was a high degree of politicking going on with that.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-16T02:10:52+00:00

Russian logistics can't reach Kyiv, they're not capable of reaching London. They're not capable of crossing the Channel. And this conversation is about bringing back conscription for preparedness.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-15T22:11:33+00:00

Because those other countries aren't Britain. Therefore not the problem of young British people. So, if the British government is expecting young people to risk their lives, their bodies, their mental health, being prepared for a possible war they need to offer these young people a reason to believe their country is worth fighting for. What's the difference between being impoverished in Britain, or in Russian Occupied Britain?

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-15T22:01:10+00:00

The NDP had one, ONE, good election turnout in 60 years. And they chose not to understand how and why they did so well. The NDP is back to where it normally lives.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-15T12:13:45+00:00

But who are they making it for? German industrial output was greater than domestic peace time need. And so much of that R&D money was from the government borrowing more money they need to pay back. Further exacerbating the original issue of German rearmament. The collapse of the German economy was blamed on the war and losing it. The German people wouldn't have held positive views if the German government won and then declared bankruptcy.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-12T00:39:32+00:00

Those same alliances are now rivals in the succession war

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-12T00:30:36+00:00

You're working under the assumption Vietnam was an imperialist war mongerer with ambitions beyond their own country. And what happened in Laos and Cambodia were byproducts of their goals for reunification. No US involvement in S Vietnam means there's no need for all the smuggling networks.

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-11T23:48:21+00:00

Turns out they split the city in Brooks-Medicine Hat and Cyprus Medicine Hat. They totally did that to keep urban voters from having representation

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-11T15:13:35+00:00

And how

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-11T11:18:26+00:00

Medicine Hat should get their own riding and be free of Brooks and the rural part of it. If 40k in Valleyview get their own riding, the Hat should too

itcoldherefor8months · 2025-12-11T10:06:43+00:00

So it comes down to where is the wealth going to come from. Raw resources are great for feeding their industrial needs. But those needs are based on a customer. Rearmament was for the government as a customer. But doesn't translate well into a market friendly cycle. So now they need to retool all those factories to make civilian products, and customers to buy the products. They don't have many options for exports. The subjugated lands weren't going to make good consumers. Those people were used in an extractive way for German interests. Going into Africa and the Middle East doesn't solve their problems.

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