Canada/Kanada

...on a trip to Alberta Diana met up with her daughter Sara who took a break from University...USA, California, Berkley..Diana who is quite an artist found herself sketching , watercolor the laundryline...

AMERICA

worldconcerns
after Hitler, these two changed the world forever..

..the effects of the so called Potzdam conference are with us today, have played a role of the direction all our lifes have taken since 1945 and have essentially changed the world forever.

It was decided to split the world in two. The communist controlled by Stalins USSR and the Capitalist...American controlled.Truman....who must in my view be considered one of the worst mass murderer of all times managed to control Stalin to a degree by the senseless use of the atom bomb over Japan.

Britain at that point had lost their status as the world power, but Churchill somehow managed to do his own revenge thing in Dresden.

China emerged as a future World power...remember this was 1945 and along with Russia,Britain and the USA China obtained a seat at the UN permanent security council one of the only 4 seats with vito power.

How can we forget chinese participation in the Korea and Vietnam conflicts?
pirmasenser - 16. Sep, 19:45

AMERICA.....Dear Hillary:-

it's the economy stupid....remember those Clinton era sounds...well, it is true. The economy is what it is all about..The Boston tea party...no taxation without representation..what it boils down to is the economy, why send taxes to to England when we need the money...resources..etc.

The senseless north/south civil war...same thing, the economy. The war had little or nothing to do with slavery, in fact the capitals that is Washington and Richmond are about 100 miles apart..the southerners felt rich enough to control their own destiny rather than sending resources to the Yankees. Again economic circumstances.

The absolute worst situation ( yes worse than the civil war in many ways) was the depression..the great depression combined with the drought of the Western region of north America. The new deal, by the then president did not change much .

Entry by the US into the second world war stopped all that...commitment to Russia for billions of dollars of goods and war materials,and the incredible support of Britain to cripple and stifle the German war materials production, the almost total obliteration, bombing of the Reich and finally the invasion of German controlled Europe as a second western front...All of this contributed to the economic well being of the USA. Hard to believe that war, as horrific as was boosted the US economy to a level never seen before.

The Marshal plan aid to Europe ( often mistaken for aid to Germany)..further insured an ever growing economy of the USA.
The cold war with the USSR, the communists, Korea, Vietnam and the absolutely horrendous arms build up in Germany by the US as well as the senseless colossal production of war materials further assured a somewhat stable economy in the USA.
Finally...the personal computer can be thanked for a boost in the economy...and just as the computer had reached a somewhat useful level...glitches came along like millennium related screwed up programming..new computers were needed and marketed.
The USA ( and Canada for that matter) desperately need to replace or rebuild the rapidly decaying infrastructure. Bridges are collapsing, highways deteriorating, sewer and garbage disposal systems are in dire need for repair and replacement. Instead of wasting billions in Iraq and playing with star wars technology a way must be found, finally to fix up things at home.
it's the economy stupid..., if someone has the intelligence to recognise it and the guts do something about it.