A Canadian voice: Peace with China! Peace with Russia!
Posted: 9th August 2024
Hello everyone,
I just want to say that I completely agree with Koohan that “we should cut bait now and house and feed our people.”
In Canada, we have homeless tent encampments all over the country. I go regularly to the encampment in my city to bring supplies. We have increased food bank use and more poverty.
I have been telling everyone that Canada should partner with China on building public transit and high speed rail. Canada and the US do NOT have even one kilometre of high speed rail. China has approx. 40,000 kilometres. China is the lead producer and exporter of renewable technologies. At the climate summits, China is recognized as a positive, constructive force in the negotiations. The last two climate summits, the US got the dishonour of receiving the “fossil fool” award for being obstructive and negative during the negotiations from civil society groups. If we are serious about the climate crisis, we have to cooperate with China on a just transition.
However, instead of partnering with China, Canada is doubling down on being hostile and moving our warships into the South China Sea etc. Canada and Australia just signed a new defence agreement: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2024/08/joint-statement-on-strengthening-the-canada-australia-defence-relationship.html
We have no Member of Parliament, elected official, in Canada calling for peace with China and Russia.
The two groups that I’m with, the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace and the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom Canada, recently sent a joint letter to the Chinese Embassy in Canada welcoming the new Chinese Ambassador to Canada, applauding China’s for its international peace and climate leadership, and expressing our desire to have friendly relations with China and asking for a meeting. No reply yet. It is something that you all could consider doing – reaching out to the China Embassy in your country to express solidarity, show civilian diplomacy and request to meet. We have been doing this with the Russian Embassy in Ottawa and they replied and we have met three times (we also tried with the Ukraine Embassy and US Embassy but they never replied). Our feeling is if our government will not use diplomacy and make peace, we will!
It’s really terrible what is going on. Peace with China! Peace with Russia!
Tamara
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Koohan Paik-Mander
Sent: August 8, 2024 3:29 PM
To: Robert L Anderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Savage Lisa <[email protected]>; GN Keep Space4Peace <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: On track to be the most expensive industry in human history
CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie.
Yes, I saw that. So much of this is being driven by the race for hegemony. China will win. We should cut bait now and house and feed our people.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 9:24 AM Robert L Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
Great, Koohan, when I get a moment I will dig into this. Did you see the story of all the satellites China is launching…. big
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On Aug 8, 2024, at 1:18 PM, Koohan Paik-Mander <[email protected]> wrote:
For all those interested in more about this graphic, here is the source:
https://medium.com/space-impulse/a-new-space-economy-is-emerging-7685cc9e7982
Because there is a paywall, I have pasted the article here:
A New Space Economy is Emerging
Published in
CAGR of 5.6% between 2018 and 2026, according to Morgan Stanley.
Thanks to NewSpace companies and start-ups, the commercial priorities of agility and efficiency have come to the fore, driving further innovation and development as new offerings come on the market specifically to support faster deliveries, greater flexibility, and more robust collaboration across silos.
Space Impulse aims for leadership in the NewSpace era by applying key advantages of blockchain technology to an online B2B marketplace specifically for the space industry. B2B marketplaces have become a huge part of the modern global economy on the sheer merit of bringing businesses together at an unprecedented scale, covering any distance and permeating all borders and barriers at the speed of light. But the problem of trust and verification remains, and is all the more acute in industries like the space industry that are adding new participants daily.
Unique features of blockchain present a revolutionary opportunity to facilitate trust and verification processes and transactions with an unprecedented level of certainty and confidence at any appropriate or desired level of transparency.
With the blockchain engine at its core, Space Impulse will offer its member companies industry specific tools for finding, evaluating, and engaging relevant suppliers and service providers from introductions to negotiations, and from contracting to securely transacting. Transactions on the platform will run in an Ethereum-protocol “utility token” called Plasma that was developed specifically for the Space Impulse platform. Combining the blockchain engine with these tools will solve key issues of security, verification, coordination, and privacy that bind the highly interdependent exchanges of value along the path from Earth to space. This will result in greater agility and lower costs for both customers and their suppliers.
The Space Impulse vision is a thriving and expanding space industry ecosystem supported by an efficient and robust online marketplace dedicated to the industry.
Find out more at:
· Website: https://www.spaceimpulse.com
· Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpaceImpulseCom
· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/space-impulse
References:
· The space industry will be worth nearly $3 trillion in 30 years, Bank of America predicts: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/31/the-space-industry-will-be-worth-nearly-3-trillion-in-30-years-bank-of-america-predicts.html
· Morgan Stanley predicts space industry will triple in size: Here’s how to invest: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/12/morgan-stanley-how-to-invest-in-1-trillion-space-industry.html
· Relaxed ‘munitions’ rules pave way for aerospace exports: https://bizwest.com/2015/01/23/relaxed-munitions-rules-pave-way-for-aerospace-exports
· State of the Satellite Industry 2018: https://brycetech.com/downloads/SIA_SSIR_2018.pdf
· Space Investment Quarterly Q2 2018: https://www.spaceangels.com/post/space-investment-quarterly-q2-2018
· SpaceX just launched two of its space internet satellites — the first of nearly 12,000: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17016208/spacex-falcon-9-launch-starlink-microsat-2a-2b-paz-watch-live
· Ethereum project: https://ethereum.org