Deal? No Deal? Or Stalled Agreement?

Is the present dilema of 'the free (Western) world'
and the less aligned BRIC* countries have to navigate.

As America continues to be misled by its present leader.
Stalled, or more likely frozen, is presently the likely option
 - the most common choice between the USA and Canada,
where late in the deal the framework was altered,
and the alterations were summarily publicly rejected.

Back in the day, how free the freeworld was 
was tracked the same way that trade was measured
 - by the depth of the civility between citizens and nations.
Nothing was absolute, but there was a direction of travel
that was clearly worth going in. On present day trends
few will recognise it when America realises how many friends
it has lost, after it has torn up so many deals it once used to support.

Or how much tearing up the old deals shrinks the world we live in.
But then shrinkage rarely recognises itself through it's actions
as it slices through the world, seeking only to further itself.

I don't know how many countries America is in different stages
of negotiations with who don't knw where their negotiations are at.
Just as America does not know where it with in it's deal with itself

Of the smaller countries many have completed their deals,
according to trackers of how much work has been completed.
Other countries, including the UK and Japan, have frameworks,
which have been oversold of as agreements, where very litttle
is final about what has been settled: whatever has been agreed
can be recinded the following day depending on the days
the president and his ministers have been having.

Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,
which is when the deal might truly be said to be
truly 'locked down', until then little is known atall.

Everything that is not signed up can stall, be disagreed,
or frozen by both parties at any time, and the whole world watches
for future deals to be unravelled in the name of 'freedon of choice.'. 

*Brazil, Russia, India and China 

Wildlife Special (2)

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FalsityAnd Reality Through Data

In the new age of informaton, some would say infotainment,
there is little clear difference between truth, and lies.
Both are deliverd with blatantly evasive advertising, 
so why bother to try to make the distinction?

Many of the lies will illicit truthful responses,
in which the public will be keen to take part,
including venting fits of pique and cynicism,
to work out the rules that make the lies work?

This search changes how we look for truth -
from individual ownership of it to comments
from the public moulded by digital corporations.
This is old news-look at the ownership of the press
and broacasting. What is new is how much less
the individual can own their truth when they it is
a contribution to another corporation's monoply. 

Corporate lies define success so well
we don't know, where or how to start
when we seek to extract some truth
that seems personal to us, from them.   

When Good Fences Make Good Neighbours

Finland has prepared for their Russian neighbours
renewing their agression at the border, by installing
1300 metres of 4 metres high fencing with barbed wire
in big coils along the top, movement sensors, microphones,
and cameras all along the length of the longest border
between the newest NATO country and the Russian Empire.

The Fins have installed one advance that was unxpected:
in this new ground level boundary - monitored animal gates
have been fitted along the fence for the many bears,
and furry quadropeds, who have no interest in passports,
or the nation state. So they may pass through boundaries
that they would otherwise not know how to navigate.

  

The Siren Call For Smaller Government

is an easy call for political leaders to make,
particularly the are leaders whose income
comes from scams that are supported
by lax laws, and broken regulations,
that the public find it hard to ask how to fix.

The leaders' wealth relies upon such informal deregulation.

But when citizens get interested in what size the state should be
and the list of public interests and regulations the state should support,
that are worth retaining to make the future sustainable.

Let the public pose the questions in open media,
and hold their leaders feet to the fire,
to find out what sort of clay those leaders feet are made of.  

The Terrorist President

The more I am led to youtube videos that report
on the latest battle Donold Trump has with the courts
the more I try to avoid them, less for the click bait
(which they are) and less and less because they are repeats
of repeats of the same narrative: hyper wealthy man,
incontinent on hos own wealth decided to by the presidency
because technically it is one thing that should not be up for sale. 

More because of how much Trump's view of the law
reminds me of the IRA's view of M. Thatcher:
you and your government can make us fail many times
but we have to be on target only once for your government
to be radically forced to change tack, whilst in office. 

That the bombs stopped and wiser quieter heads prevailed
was a tough gradual, slow, reform that I am glad of.
I see no such detant reducing Donald Trump's war on the law
or pursuit of infinite wealth at the expense of everyone around him.         

Respite Wanted

How does a wounded heart
escape further self wounding
from pride for turning inward
whilst it looks out, around it,
for where it shoiuld find respite?