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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 04:06 AM Sep 2012

Britain and Canada to share embassies abroad

Source: Guardian

Britain and Canada to share embassies abroad

Britain and Canada will establish joint diplomatic missions and share embassy offices abroad, William Hague is to announce

Press Association
guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 September 2012 02.47 EDT

Britain and Canada will establish joint diplomatic missions and share embassy offices abroad, the foreign secretary, William Hague, is set to announce.

Hague will reveal more details of the plans when he meets his Canadian counterpart, John Baird, in Ottawa on Monday, a Foreign Office spokesman said.

The proposals involve "co-locating" embassies and sharing consular services in countries where one of the nations does not have an embassy, the spokesman said.

Hague and Baird will sign an agreement and hold a press conference on Monday afternoon to explain the plans in further detail.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/sep/24/britain-canada-share-embassies

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Britain and Canada to share embassies abroad (Original Post) Judi Lynn Sep 2012 OP
Well that makes sense in smaller countries davidpdx Sep 2012 #1
The Empire Strikes Back OSPREYXIV Sep 2012 #2
Well, if you refer to the 1% (or fewer) Ghost Dog Sep 2012 #4
It seems you have posted an unrelated US political screed in thread about Canada & the UK embassies. Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2012 #6
Rebuilding the Empire one former colony at a time. Ford_Prefect Sep 2012 #3
What are they saying? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #7
Like Rutland for example dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #8
Well, they do speak a different language there ... muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #9
It makes sense Franker65 Sep 2012 #5

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
1. Well that makes sense in smaller countries
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:13 AM
Sep 2012

They'll save a bundle having joint space depending on how many locations they do it in. It's also worth noting both countries now have conservative governments. Coincidence?

OSPREYXIV

(74 posts)
2. The Empire Strikes Back
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:29 AM
Sep 2012

This is alarmingly unsubtle if you comprehend the situation now confronting us. We've been sleepwalking while the Leviathan that FDR had
nearly destroyed sprang up from dragon's teeth. The "economic royalists" FDR castigated are alive and well. They are literally pirates who are hidden in plain view. They've corrupted our laws and are bringing about a return of slavery, continuous war, corruption and the willful starvation of their intended vassal subjects...us! They will make our
country into a wasteland and call us barbarians.

We the People are the sovereign rulers of these United States of America, not those zombified
wooden-headed henchmen of an Empire that
not only seeks to destroy us but also wants to reduce our entire planet to a smoking hellhole.
They will cut down every tree in the Amazon to
grow soybeans and cattle to make McDonald's,
drill through the Arctic Ice until it disappears and if they could charge a fee for breathing, would poison the air and pass laws making it illegal to be seen without a gas mask.

Wake up people! This is no game. We are under
assault by some extremely ruthless, selfish and quite possibly hereditarily pathological people.
There's a reason Romney parks his money in Bermuda, the Caymans and similar climes as well the Swiss alps. (That is truly disgusting. Someone is running for OUR Presidency while utilizing the completely amoral banks that hid the Nazi gold bullion and looted art works. Nauseating.)

Our future is very nearly out of our hands. Will the President be re-elected? Probably (unless the electronic voting machines aren't jury-rigged and the absentee ballots are accurate...then we are well and truly finished.) But if we were to upset the odds, regain the House and Senate, it would not be the end but the beginning of our fight.
Obama will be a figurehead unless we succeed.

We have been coopted by our former masters in a subtle and long-legged con game. Corporations are not people. If they are, why then can they not be brought to justice for criminal fraud, wrongful death or negligence? Why do we hear nothing at all about the LIBOR rigging outrage? Why is the US Treasury not slamming down on the US banks that collaborated in turning our beautiful land into one huge cage fight in an ugly, tawdry casino where people beat each other's brains out in a desparate amphetamine-fueled rage and stock cars race around while we remain numb to the fact that the oil came from a place where those people are dying of thist and starvation while the world's leaders ignore their suffering?

Would a Roosevelt or even an Eisenhower have tolerated that kind of grotesque spectacle? Why do we? This is simple. We are ignoring the truth because we have been conned into thinking we depend on a Leviathan that"ll shrivel up...if we wake up.

 

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts)
4. Well, if you refer to the 1% (or fewer)
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 06:13 AM
Sep 2012

with establishment power, especially financial power, in UK right-wing conservative and nationalist circles (by no means representing a majority), then you might be on to something here. But this kind of loose financial 'conspiracy', which so deeply corrupts democratic politics and ruins our life-support (eco)systems has long been led out of both Wall Street and the City and is now, surely, thoroughly globalised.

This is why war and revolution will likely arrive before the "grotesque spectacle" ends.

Ford_Prefect

(7,901 posts)
3. Rebuilding the Empire one former colony at a time.
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 05:40 AM
Sep 2012

My friends in the great white north are just as worried about this as they are being swallowed up by the lunatic hypocrisy to their south.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,319 posts)
7. What are they saying?
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 08:11 AM
Sep 2012

It seems to me to be a chance for both countries to save a bit of money on consular services, in the quieter countries.

Franker65

(299 posts)
5. It makes sense
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 06:20 AM
Sep 2012

Well, they do have the same head of state so I guess it does make sense. It should save a huge amount of money.

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