#and that’s the overlapping reverberating theme of critical role

[yashley]

the gods of calamity not even bothering to speak to avalir on the threat of asmodeus, the gods of downfall not even bothering to speak to aeor about the dangers of their weapon, the gods who once as lights RAN from their home from this devouring force, spending a century creating life, toying with eachother, deciding things for their bleeding heart children. these gods of stiff morals and relentless vengeance look to see one of their own little ants has woken up the terror they’ve run from since before they were gods, staring them down, and suddenly they’re back in tengar and they’re about to finally witness their family torn apart before it’s their turn. they are prey and they are powerless.

[tranquilglobal]

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[newstfionline]

For Belfast, ‘America First’ Amounts to ‘Northern Ireland Last’

By Patrick Kingsley, NY Times, Oct. 10, 2017

BELFAST, Northern Ireland--When President Trump championed his “America first” trade policy during the election campaign, George Burnside could not have known that he, a veteran aircraft fitter, would be among the policy’s first potential casualties.

Yet now that fate looms over Mr. Burnside and around 4,200 other Belfast-based employees of Bombardier, a Montreal-based airplane maker, after the Trump administration, under pressure from Boeing, proposed a nearly 300 percent tariff on imports of Bombardier’s newest plane.

That has not only endangered the company’s operations in Belfast, where the plane is made, but set off political and diplomatic shock waves that are reverberating far beyond the airplane market.

What started as a trade war between the United States and Canada has quickly taken on several unanticipated dimensions. It poses an economic threat, potentially stalling the growth on which Northern Irish peace is so dependent and upending an established American policy of supporting that progress.

It also is rattling Britain, undermining claims of those who support the country’s withdrawal from the European Union about the ease of negotiating trade agreements after it leaves the bloc. At a time of stagnating incomes and growing evidence of an economic slowdown in Britain, that could play a role in clashes over the direction of Brexit, as the withdrawal is known.

Most immediately, if the Bombardier decision is upheld next year, “America first” is being interpreted in Belfast as “Northern Ireland last.”

“It’s really shocked people,” said Mr. Burnside, 56. “People are saying: Do I still go ahead and get married? Do I buy a car or buy a house?”

Bombardier, with 66,000 employees worldwide and 21,000 in Canada, is the single largest employer in the Northern Irish manufacturing sector and a buttress to several other local industries through its extensive supply chains. Its demise could eventually raise local levels of unemployment and poverty.

That in turn, politicians and researchers said, could undermine recent economic progress in Northern Ireland--one of the critical buffers against renewed unrest in a region where over 3,600 people were killed in the last 30 years of the 20th century during a sectarian conflict between Catholic nationalists who sought unification with southern Ireland and Protestant “unionists” who wanted to remain part of the United Kingdom.

It also would represent a departure from established policy in Washington, where Mr. Trump has shown less of an interest in Northern Irish stability than did his predecessors.

Previous American presidents have been “relied upon to encourage the kind of economic development and direct investment that is so important for a society moving out of conflict,” said William Crawley, the presenter of a daily talk show on BBC Radio Ulster, and one of the province’s best-known voices.

Now, some Northern Irish politicians have interpreted the tariff decision “as a clear signal that Northern Ireland’s future is no longer given the importance it once had in Washington,” Dr. Crawley added.

And in the process, said Stephen Farry, a lawmaker who represents the Alliance Party in Northern Ireland’s regional Parliament, “We are seeing a coming together of a lot of themes and concerns and fears that have been expressed individually, but have now coalesced around the one single Bombardier issue.”

Before it became an emblem for this web of overlapping political challenges, Bombardier had long held a deep cultural resonance for many residents of East Belfast, the mainly Protestant area where the company is based.

In the 19th century, the area housed the world’s largest shipbuilders, Harland and Wolff; the largest rope-maker, Belfast Ropeworks; and several major distilleries and linen factories. It was in Belfast that the Titanic was constructed. And by the 1930s, the city was home to Short Brothers, the world’s oldest airplane manufacturers, and the builders of one of the first long-range British bombers.

Today, that era is all but over. Many of these factories have shut. The two huge yellow cranes of Harland and Wolff--nicknamed Samson and Goliath--still tower over the city’s harbor, but the company no longer makes ships. Bombardier is one of the last vestiges of the city’s storied industrial past. Ever since Bombardier absorbed the Shorts brand in a 1989 merger, many residents have considered the company to be the natural successor to the Shorts legacy.

“People still call it Shorts,” said Aidan Campbell, a historian and author of 14 books about East Belfast. “Everyone knows someone who works for them.”

That is partly why some are so fearful about what might happen should Bombardier leave Belfast.

Challenges to Northern Ireland’s peace deal, signed in 1998 and known as the Good Friday agreement, have increased in the last year. Brexit may force the reintroduction of formal border checks between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the removal of which was central to the agreement.

Since Britain’s Conservative government lost its overall majority in a general election in June, Prime Minister Theresa May has had to rely on informal support from Northern Ireland’s biggest unionist party to remain in power--leading to questions about the government’s ability to remain neutral in the Good Friday process.

The loss of one of the province’s biggest private employers would constitute a third challenge to the agreement, the success of which has always been partly reliant on a strengthening of the local economy.

“A lot of politicians think that the Good Friday agreement is done and dusted and that’s it, but it’s under threat the whole time from unemployment,” said Jimmy Kelly, the regional secretary for Unite, the trade union that represents Bombardier workers. “You need jobs to keep young people away from dissidents and paramilitaries.”

In parts of the London news media, some have expressed fears that a tanking Northern Irish economy might even galvanize support in Belfast for a united Ireland, especially when contrasted with the improved economic situation south of the border.

That particular point seems far-fetched, said Paul Bew, an independent member of the British House of Lords and a politics professor at Queen’s University, Belfast. Ireland’s finances are not as rosy as they may seem, while unionists are unlikely to abandon their long-held beliefs, Lord Bew said.

But in general, anything that roils the local economy “cannot be good for peace,” Lord Bew added.

For some, the Bombardier dispute also exposes the vulnerability of a post-Brexit Britain. Brexit’s supporters have long argued that any damage caused by leaving the European Union, the world’s largest trade bloc, will be tempered by new trade agreements that could then be forged with close allies such as the United States.

Mrs. May is perceived to have resisted criticizing Mr. Trump on several occasions this year in order to secure his support for a favorable Anglo-American trade deal.

Though “Brexit itself wasn’t the direct cause of this dispute,” said Mr. Farry, the lawmaker, “it does show the dangers of the U.K. relying on a fresh trade relationship with the U.S. that can replace the current relationship the U.K. has with the E.U.”