I became who I am because of who my father was. You have no respect for your father?
You will build a pipeline to the east eventually once you get tired of dealing with Americans.
Salty rich guy offers bribe to remove Notley
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I became who I am because of who my father was. You have no respect for your father?
You will build a pipeline to the east eventually once you get tired of dealing with Americans.
OPEC is my ideological crap?
Are you a truck driver too?
- Iran is determined to raise its oil output as planned as soon as sanctions on its oil industry are lifted, Mehdi Asali, its representative to the OPEC producers' group, said on Saturday.
The international sanctions were expected to be scrapped later on Saturday as part of a landmark deal between major powers and Iran to curb Tehran's nuclear program.
Asali appeared to strike a defiant tone, contradicting earlier comments from other senior Iranian oil officials that Iran would not flood the market at a time of global oversupply and an oil price crash. Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said this month Iran would not seek to distort markets but would make sure it regained its market share.
But the state news agency IRNA quoted Asali as saying: "We have not moderated our plans regarding increasing output when sanctions are lifted. It will be increased by 500,000 bpd (barrels per day), and by another 500,000 bpd shortly after that."
He said Iran had no intention of entering an oil price war with rival producers.
But a full return of Iran to the international oil market could put it on a collision course with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf members, who have been resisting trying to shore up prices by cutting output.
The world is now producing 1.5 million barrels a day more than it is consuming, with Iran promising to add another million bpd over the next 12 months.
Saudi Arabia was instrumental in getting OPEC in 2014 to maintain high production levels to defend its market share, rather than reducing supply to support prices.
At a meeting on Dec. 4, OPEC members failed for the first time in decades to agree a production ceiling. But they are increasingly divided over the merits of the shift.
Gulf oil sources have expressed doubts that Iran can raise production as swiftly as it says it can, and have said it is not likely to increase production by more than 200,000-300,000 bpd by the end of this year.
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN0UU111?irpc=932
Mr.O'Leary doesn't sound like a Conservative,a little too soft for Albertan Conservatives if anything,Mr.Oleary should familiar himself with Conservative ideologies,Kevin O'Leary: 'I am not Donald Trump'
OTTAWA — Both of them are business titans, authors, and TV personalities — one actively running to lead the U.S. political right, and the other thinking about doing the same in Canada.
But if Kevin O'Leary does indeed decide to go into federal politics, it won't be because he's trying to be Donald Trump, the brash Canadian businessman said Thursday.
"I understand what he is doing with the media, and you can certainly claim I am trying to do the same, but I am not Donald Trump," O'Leary said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"I'm a Lebanese-Irish, I don't build walls (and) I am very proud of the society we're building in Canada, I think it is the envy of the planet."
O'Leary, a Canadian entrepreneur who became known outside business circles thanks to his stint on CBC's "Dragons' Den" and its American equivalent "Shark Tank," said he's got nothing in common with Trump on social, foreign or domestic policy.
He said he thinks Trump's surprise success in vaulting to the front of the Republican leadership race is a reflection of a populist movement underway in the U.S.
It could happen in Canada, he added, but it's not what he's trying to do.
"It's an interesting observation; I can see why people would say it, but that's not what motivates me."
Rather, O'Leary is contemplating politics for two reasons: Canadian graduate students are telling him they think they need to leave Canada to make their fortunes, and he has strong objections to the job done so far by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.
Earlier this week, he offered to invest $1 million in Canadian energy companies if Notley would step aside as premier. Notley fired back, saying a Toronto businessman had no business telling Albertans how to vote.
"She said, 'Bring it on,'" O'Leary said. "I'm bringing it on."
No matter what people may think of it, the energy industry drives the Canadian economy and if it is suffering, it's the company CEO — in this case the premier — who is to blame, he said.
"You should not be allowed to manage (the Alberta economy) or be the premier of that province unless you have made payroll for two years in a company with sales of over $5 million," he said.
"...I say the same for the prime ministership, I say the same for any leader of any province. If you haven't made payroll, you have no right to sit in that seat."
That, he acknowledged, would disqualify many past prime ministers, including former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper — someone about whom O'Leary seems to have mixed feelings.
"I think Stephen Harper was doing a good job in terms of policy for the private sector and he enjoyed a long period of success there; however, you also have to be compassionate," he said.
"Canadians are that way — they just are — and they are very inclusive, and the minute you go off the rails on a topic like that, it costs you immensely, and I think he found what the price of that was.
"I don't think politicians should dabble in social mores, in religion — their job should be to stabilize and grow an economy."
That point of view reflects the beliefs of many Conservatives when it comes to the role of government, as does O'Leary's philosophy that higher corporate taxes and a carbon tax would hurt Canada far more than help.
Asked whether he thought Canada should continue bombing Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, however, O'Leary suggested a different route.
"We are the best peacekeepers in the world," he said. "I would like Canada to be very involved in peace initiatives, not war."
O'Leary, who calls himself politically agnostic, said he's eyeing a run for the Tories because of timing — it's the only party actively seeking a new leader.
Political leadership is the only way to create the change Canada's economy is demanding, he added.
"I am looking at this saying, like everybody else, 'This is interesting, 18 months from now the country is going to have make a decision about who should be the opposition, I think I could be very effective there,'" he said.
"The question is, 18 months is an eternity in politics, so this is very early days."
Meanwhile, Alberta MP Rona Ambrose is serving as interim Conservative leader. The party has yet to set formal rules or a date for the leadership vote, though it's not expected to take place before next year.
source: Kevin O'Leary: 'I am not Donald Trump'
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I'd vote for him, because he's a business man.. I think a country should be run in a similar manner, to bring in jobs and grow an economy.. Then Maybe the Budget will Balance itself.
Calling the man a Canadian Trump.. guess the Liberals will stoop to any low to shut up a critic. I don't recall O'Leary suggesting we toss out Muslims.
if he is going to be a Conservative,he should at least attend Conservative school and talk like one,there's a talk of a "uprising"revolution"here in Alberta,(I find this talk hilarious as I do Mr.OLeary),so he needs to get the lingo right.
Little boys with big toys,I wonder what Mrs.Oleary has to say about all his silliness.
People are comparing him to Trump because of his vacuous claims. All talk, no substance. He offers that Alberta is in trouble because of the NDP (not low oil prices) but offers no solutions to the demise other than to "put an Oil man in charge" which would do what?
The following was sent to me from as friend in Alberta.....
NDP Derangement Syndrome
Social media nowadays is a zone where New Democrats are routinely excoriated as “communists” and readers are warned to beware agents of “United Nations Agenda 21” conspiring with the NDP to enslave Albertans by encouraging them to eat locally grown food.
I am not making this up!
Then there is George Clark the construction contractor who acts as if he’s concluded he’s Alberta’s answer to Joan of Arc, and has persuaded a surprising number of social media users this is so.
Mr. Clark stands ready to save the province through a divine, or perhaps magical, “100% effective” intervention on the day the Legislature reopens that will remove the premier from office “legally, peacefully and democratically if she denies our petitions for plebiscites.”
In other words, a legal coup d’état. This became a mocking social media meme – #kudatah – after a comment by one of Mr. Clark’s supporters who couldn’t spell.
Anyway, in the snap of a finger, the #kudatah will remove the NDP from power, Mr. Clark insists. “I will make the announcement at 12:15, we will be back in control of the government by 12:30,” he said in a Facebook post on Jan. 3, reported by Vice.com after it had been deleted.
Exactly how this deus ex machina is supposed to work, Mr. Clark won’t say. However, thanks to an indiscreet post by a supporter, also swiftly deleted, we have an idea: he seems to think that if he can get Albertans to sign a petition demanding a binding plebiscite on a government bill, and if the government says no to the plebiscite, and if a commissioner of oaths agrees the premier therefore isn’t doing her job, then the Lieutenant-Governor must remove the government. Or something.
This doesn’t suggest a comprehensive understanding of the workings of Parliamentary democracy on Mr. Clark’s part. However, it seems to be keeping him and his “Albertans First Plebiscite Warriors” busy trying to get people to sign a petition against the NDP’s controversial farm safety legislation, which was passed on Dec. 10.
According to the National Post, Mr. Clark “is an avatar of an angry Alberta.” Well, that’s one theory. Judging from what he is saying, he seems more like someone who has drunk the ideological Kool-Aid served by the likes of the Duck Dynasty.
More seriously, this foolishness also points to the problem with Alberta’s mainstream conservatives.
As for the Wildrose Opposition, they may have very little to say about this in public, but, when no one’s around, their MLAs are helping constituents find and sign Mr. Clark’s petition. That means they’re endorsing this craziness, by omission and commission.
So if the Wildrose Party is a mainstream conservative party in Alberta, it’s hard to say Mr. Clark and his allies aren’t part of the mainstream too
Yes your ideological crap.
You shouldn't let BOOMer take up so much space in your head.
Thanks for proving...
... to be true.
Aaah geeze, I see you're still mad at me for making a fool of you. You should probably see somebody about your pent up anger and how long you hold on to it. It's not healthy.
There seems to be a lot of empty space in Cannuck's head, you'll probably be moving in next.
thanks,the mass hysteria in Alberta has reached epidemic boundries,i cannot believe what i hearing,and more so when you start laughing the producer of such wierd ideologies becomes mad and angry and starts to call you names,such as "apathetic"socialistic","trader".It does not matter how much reason,facts,science into the topic at hand,it always ends up the same.
i call it a bad case of denial,like in a grief process or something,individuals do not want to believe their beloved Conservatives manipulated and used them,Albertans do not want to believe the "Conservatives have no loyality to anything but Conservative policies.
Alberta Conservatives would ***** their mother if they could,denial is a difficult emotion to barter with.
i use to have respect for the Conservative Party,but when i realized they placate nuts and groom weird ideologies so that they distract,i lost that respect.
i want these naysayers to be really attracted to the Conservative party,if it takes Mr.Oleary then i fine with this.
i also have problems with the "christian" in the bigger scope of the argument,as i know millionaires which are christians,and really believe a carbon tax in going to be their doom,or syrians do not belong here,or supporting bill 6 is the biggest betrayal a christian can do to their fellow man,I have big problems with these "christians"
Alberta is dangerous right now,i have had situations which i fear speaking my beliefs and opinions,
the other day when i was supporting bill 6, and my reasoning behind so,the body language of the individual was threatening.
i have always feel intimidated and threatened flying my beliefs,this is because where i live,I have always been known as a Liberal,therefore my conversation has never mattered,labeled crazy,labeled a socialist,but in truth noone really asks about the depths of my convictions,I have always been known as a trader.i have lived in a hostile enviroment which seems like forever,but these days it is crazy,even talk about revolutions and "people will be killed"
i hope the Conservative party takes all these nuts with them,Kevin O'Leary or not,they need a leader to lead them into this wierd revolution.
my husband signed that petition,he felt intimidated to do so,I am so embarassed,i told him it better be in the middle somewhere,he said there was no saying no,the pitch is very persuasive.
he was encouraged to put my name,or sign my name
let's put it this way,if my name is on that petition,i never consented,and if my husband put my name on that petition,i will be mad.
he denies doing same.
hello grumpy,it is one thing to insult me,but you have crossed the line when you insult my husband,i can call him weak minded (but i wouldn't because he is not),but you can't.
it looks like it is between you and I gerryh,
why don't you share your perfect life with us,
let me a judge of your partner,
but i doubt with all your misery you have one,
possibly two or three,
what's up gerryh?
You don't want him discussed, then don't bring him up in your posts. You don't want him to come across as weak minded, then don't tell us all how he was unable to do anything aside from what someone else told him he had to do.
There is also nothing between you and I. You are an idiot, it wouldn't be a fair "fight".
chicken,yellow belly,you can dish it out when you have the upper hand,but play yellow belly when you don't have the upper hand,
poor little chicken.
You will never have the "upper hand" with me. I'm not stupid enough to give you the upper hand. You are the idiot. Not me. I am your intellectual superior. Deal with it.
we are having a discussion,you are talking like i have weird powers to control you through this pretend site,just chill my intellectual superior, be kind to yourself,way too much stress.Dialogeis not about winning or losing,either is it about upper hands or lower hands,you need a holiday gerryh.
do me a favor,don't read my blogs and more so don't respond to them,we have nothing in common,i am tired of your petty,spiteful responses.thanks ahead of time.
do me a favor,don't read my blogs and more so don't respond to them,we have nothing in common,i am tired of your petty,spiteful responses.thanks ahead of time.