Monday, March 31, 2025

The Trump Putin Phone Call

 Trump:

     Privyet Vlad

Putin: 

    Hey Don

Trump:

    Enjoy the dumplings in Odessa

Putin:    

    Enjoy the duck hunting in Nunavut

Trump:

    All agreed then?

Putin:

    Absolyutno

Impeach Trump

Trump wants to annex Greenland

    he is prepared to do it by armed force.

Greenland is more than twice the size of France, 

     four times the size of Britain,  

     almost six times the size of Japan.

Trump has also mused openly about taking Canada, 

    Canada is five times the size of Greenland,

    and even larger than the United States itself.

Trump is looking at the World as Hitler did:

     what to steal next?

     who to smash next?

Trump, is a maniac,

Which is to say, insane.

A great power with an insane leader risks starting a world war.

A world war today would likely end in a nuclear conflagration.

The United States Congress should act now to prevent catastrophe.


Thinks armed force will be unnecessary ... Greenlanders will just submit. 

Thinks the same with Canada.

Rightly so unless Carney negotiates something with the EU better than a trade deal. 

As for the planes, what use is there now for a license to build-your-own planes over the course of the next ten or twenty years.

Meantime,


Which would take him to a super-senile 86th year. 

And if Trump lived that long, he'd no doubt demand another four years. 

As Trump reveals, power is a highly addictive drug.

America is ruled by a senile, overweigh, paranoid, drug addict.

Friday, March 28, 2025

The European Peoples Are Committing Suicide

 Authored by Paul Weston via X:

A few harsh realities to consider: 

1) The hard-left has infiltrated all Western institutions and actively seeks to undermine and subvert all Western nations - regardless of which particular puppet politician is in power. 

2) Most countries within Western Europe will see their native young become a minority well before 2050. 

3) Western countries currently operate on the principle that foreign people and foreign cultures are intrinsically good, whilst European culture and people are irredeemably evil. 

4) This sets up the neo-Marxist agenda of the oppressed and the oppressor which copies the early 20th century revolutionary ideology of Marxist-Leninism where the working class was designated as the oppressed, and the bourgeoisie the oppressor. 

5) The result of this was the murder of 100 million people deemed the "oppressor" in Communist Russia and Communist China. 

6) Islam is currently designated the "oppressed" by all Western institutions, regardless of the fact that Islam is a supremacist ideology with a 1,400-year history of imperial expansion and warfare. Europeans are designated the "oppressor" even as they yield to every edict of "diversity" ladled upon them. 

7) Islam will politically control much of Western Europe before 2050 as a result of rapidly declining native demographics, coupled with rapidly expanding Islamic demographics and single-minded bloc voting for Islamic political parties. 

8) Few politicians or journalists (none in England...) will talk about this, let alone state what should be done to halt the overthrow of Western Europe. People who do talk about it are liable to be arrested for Hate Crime and imprisoned. 

9) This represents an existential crisis which threatens our very survival as a people, a culture, and an entire continent. We are a dwindling demographic deemed the oppressor by our own Traitor Class, even as a growing demographic with a supremacist belief system is forced upon us by the Traitor Class - which maintains our potential future masters are the oppressed. The history of Lenin, Stalin and Mao with regard to the oppressed and the oppressor does not bode well for the European people. 

10) We have little time left, but most people cling to the naïve belief that we can somehow vote our way out of this terrible situation. I don't entirely discount this possibility, but I do believe that should the AfD in Germany or Marine Le Pen in France threaten to win an election in a landslide, they would never be allowed to take power. The EU criminals in the Commission - and they really are criminals - have already intimated they will ban "far-right" parties capable of winning elections - and recently did just that in Romania.

All in all then, not good, as Jerry Seinfeld might say. I'm sorry if people find this depressing, but I do think it is a matter of crucial importance that our situation be properly understood. After all, if we don't realise how bad things are, we will be unable to plan any possible salvation.

White British now little more than one third of London's population, or how European governments are destroying their white population to the benefit of migrants. Naturally, it's the same in Canada, the US and Oz. 

Meantime, in South Africa, the government openly promotes the murder of white people

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Canada: Where Bureaucrats Rule

Canada would be a great place to live if the people had a choke-hold over government. Sadly, it's the other way around. For example, fish. With over a quarter of a million kilometers of coastline on three oceans, you'd think Canada would have fish. In fact Canada does have fish. Trouble is, it costs. It costs a lot. Two small pieces of sockeye salmon, eight to ten bucks. But that's only half of it. You already paid that much in Federal Government tax. Canada's Fisheries Administration spent $4.7 billion last year almost as much as the national fish harvest is worth. So first you paid for your fish in taxes at the rate of $45.00 a pound, then you paid about the same again at the supermarket fish counter. 

Which could make one wonder: do we need the luxury of so much government? For example, the Treasury Board Secretariat, which is said to provide "advice and support to ensure government spending is efficient, effective and aligned with priorities." Well nothing wrong with spending efficiently, which is to say spending that achieves maximum productivity with a minimum of wasted effort or expense. But at an annual cost of $9.3 billion, or around a thousand dollars per family of four, is this monitor of government efficiency itself efficient? The price of fish, when the cost of Fisheries Administration is taken into account, suggests not.

The case of the Treasury Board Secretariat indicates the need for a review of all Federal Government expenditure, which totalled $449 billion in 2024, an amount that exceeds revenue by $49 billion, thereby generating a yearly addition to public debt of a cool $1,225.00 for every man, woman and child. So yes, in addition to taxes to cover ongoing expenditures, a family of four is on the hook for the cost of servicing the additional $4,900 per person in Federal Government debt incurred just last year. But not to worry. The Feds will just add last year's debt to the $90,000 the Feds have already borrowed in the name of every living Canadian, including the old, the sick, the panhandlers, and the young, the babes in arms, and those remaining until their late 20s or early 30s in publicly funded so-called education. And yes, if you're in the work force, you're one of the noble minority shouldering the service cost of that monstrous debt. 

To some this may seem a time for tumbrils and guillotines. But for the most part, Canadians are not a sanguinary people, moreover a bloodless way to deal with a spendthrift elite is easily to be found. First, enact a balanced budget law. Second, eliminate the Canada Revenue Agency and the income tax. Third, triple the GST to 15%. The result?

Eliminating the income tax would save Government the $18 billion a year now spent on tax collection, but reduce revenue by $200 billion. This would spare citizens both the time and the misery of an annual tax filing, plus those hefty tax deductions from every pay cheque. As for the loss of Government revenue, it could be largely made up by raising the GST to 15% -- well below Europe's average rate of 21%, but delivering $96 billion a year in additional revenue. 

In accordance with these measures, annual government revenue would fall short of the current total by $84 billion. This however, would be offset by eliminating the Treasury Board Secretariat, for a yearly saving of $9.3 billion (For providing that so valuable advice, remember.). The remaining deficit of $75 billion could surely be eliminated by deleting, in addition to the Treasury Board Secretariat, a few other grotesquely expensive advisory bodies to whose advice, one suspects, no one pays the slightest attention.

Monday, March 24, 2025

Donald Trump, American Totalitarian

By 

It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to show his true colors.

Trump won a landslide election last November primarily on the promise to STOP America’s “stupid” wars. It is now obvious to everyone that, while Trump might be able to negotiate a deal to stop the war in Ukraine—a war that Russia has already won—he is decidedly intent on accelerating and expanding U.S. wars in the Middle East.

But as soon as I tell the truth about the morbid duplicity of Trump’s mind and the moral derangement of Trump’s heart, evangelicals ferociously respond with examples of the “good” things he is doing, as if any of that erases the evil he is inflicting on both America and the world.

Evangelicals are eaten up with the disease of Prophetic Dispensationalism and see Trump as a harbinger of their eschatology. Prophetic Dispensationalism is a moral and spiritual cancer that befalls the brain and hardens the heart. And it is an epidemic among evangelicals.

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

Canada Foils Trump's Hitlerian Plan for a North American Anschluss

The term "Anschluss" applied to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria on March 12, 1938 and it applies as well to Trump's insolent, Hitlerian, and as it turns out, stupid attempt to make Canada, a country somewhat larger than the USA itself, America's 51st state. 

Happily for Canadians, Trump's scheme was adroitly defeated by Canada's abrupt realignment with Europe by way of the Canada-Europe Trade Agreement (CETA). This agreement joins Canada with a large, technologically advanced, and highly diverse trade association that provides access to advanced weapons technology. That means access to the Swedish-designed fighter aircraft, the Saab Viggen, which Canada will build for itself in place of the US-built F-35 of which Canada had intended to purchase 88 copies, at a cost of almost C$20 billion -- or two thousand dollars for every Canadian family of four. 

So much for Trump's dumb decision to impose a tariff wall obstructing trade with America's Northern neighbor and largest trade partner.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Canada Defects from the US: Will Build Swedish Designed Fighter Aircraft While Growing Trade Relations with the European Union

Ha ha! Tired of insults from a demented American President, "The Fifty-First State" has cancelled its order for American built F-35 warplanes. Beyond 16 of the American aircraft already paid for, Canada has opted to equip the Royal Canadian Airforce with the Swedish designed, Saab Viggen. 

The Saab is designed for operation in a cold climate, can land on a dirt track -- in the Canadian Arctic, for example, and will be built in Canada, creating 6,000 well paid jobs. 

In trade, Canada will pursue closer ties with the European Union under the terms of CETA, the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

 The Saab Viggen:
 SAAB JA 37 Viggen 

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Greenland: a Natural Fit For the Canadian Confederation

 Greenland is just twenty-two kilometers from Ellsmere Island, Canadian territory inhabited by the close relatives of Greenland's indigenous Innuit people. 

But Greenlanders are said to be interested in joining the United States, a land with which they have no ethnic or cultural connection, and at its nearest point -- the town of Pohenegahook, Maine -- one hundred times more distant than the closest Canadian territory. 

Well if Greenlanders were to choose union with the US of A, then good luck to them. But you'd think they'd give the Canadian option consideration. Canada, in the meantime, might make them a serious offer. 

Sure Canada wouldn't flood the place with money to the extent that the Americans could. But it is also the most unlikely that Canada would turn the place into a military base, and hence a prime target in war -- something the US of A could hardly refrain from doing. 

While militarization would bring investment to the island, it would also, in the event of a global conflict, bring the risk of anihilation. A remote Canadian island of no military significance, on the other hand, would have an excellent chance of surviving untouched in the tragic event of a world conflagration.

Canada's enfeebled Liberal Government should focus for a minute on Greenland and consider making the islanders a friendly invite.  

Greenland's Pro-Independence Election Winners Brush Back Trump, Who Asserts Annexation By US "Will Happen" :

... the center-right Demokraatit party just won Greenland’s parliamentary elections this week, and Greenland’s likely new prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, has surprised many by quickly coming out so strongly against Trump's rhetoric on Greenland:

"We don’t want to be Americans. No, we don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders, and we want our own independence in the future," Nielsen, 33, told Britain’s Sky News. "And we want to build our own country by ourselves."

Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister No One Voted For

The Parliamentary Liberal Party in Ottawa has made the unelected banker, Mark Carney, Canada's Prime Minister. 

Carney seized the day by seizing the Conservative Party's platform. Specifically, he "Axed the Tax", which is to say the carbon tax, which is a tax on energy: oil, gas, coal, etc. What, then, is left for the Tories to run on? 

Easy peasy: AXE THE TAX. The income tax, that is. 

And let the Liberals steal that too. After all, it will be obvious by then that the only intelligence in Ottawa is coming from the Tories, albeit their ideas are being implemented by brain-dead Liberals. 

Some, will immediately raise the objection that we need the income tax to run the government. But that is quite untrue. There are plenty of other taxes. The GST, remember. And all sorts of fees and licenses that people must pay while going about their business. 

What's more, Ottawa can and should massively cut expenditure. 

How?

(1)  Axe the bureaucrats, a large proportion of whom do little more than sit at a desk waiting to qualify for a pension. (I know. I worked in Ottawa as a Public Servant. I was given an assignment, which I completed in eight months. After that, there was nothing obvious to do but join with colleagues in sitting at a desk for decades waiting for a pension -- so I quit.) 

(2) Install a DeepSeek type computer system that not only speaks with members of the public but give them instant access to whatever government information they require, for example, about their taxes, pension or other matters.

Yup, go for it Pierre. Continue the call to Axe the Tax.

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Fat Lady From the State Department Named in Trump Assination Plot

Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has ...

Former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn accused former Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland of being a central figure in an alleged plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, suggesting a broader conspiracy involving multiple individuals both within and outside the government. 

Nuland played a central role in the launch of the Ukraine war and must hate Trump for seeking to end it. Presumably, therefore, she much regrets that Thomas Crooks' bullet only nicked Trump's ear. 

Nuland in 2014, at the launch of the Ukraine war: "Fuck the EU"

Nuland might more realistically have said "Fuck Ukraine" where the war resulting from her diplomacy has killed close on a million Ukrainians.

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Trump Is Ending Nato's War on Russia That's Been Conducted at Ukraine's Expense

Via The Last Refuge

The media have not, and in most cases cannot, factually discuss what President Trump has just done without opening up a major can-of-worms about the motives behind the Ukraine war.

When President Trump stopped “intelligence sharing” with Ukraine, what he technically did was stop allowing Ukraine to use exclusive USA targeting systems controlled by U.S Intelligence, the CIA, the National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

These terrain mapping systems, the missile and drone targeting systems, are what military forces inside Ukraine need to carry out offensive drone and missile attacks against Russian forces.

Some elements in Western Intel are leaking to media that Trump only cut-off the targeting system that would permit Ukraine to hit deep into Russian territory, including in Russia proper.  However, the ‘Russian territory‘ as seemingly defined by the National Security Council includes most of Eastern Ukraine now.

In essence and material reality, the elements in Ukraine who are conducting war, and this includes U.K and U.S special forces, the CIA and various NATO allied military operators (not Ukraine military) can no longer effectively hit long-range Russian targets, without the U.S. targeting system that identifies it.

The real-time sharing of military grade GPS encryption keys has been stopped by the U.S. Commander in Chief, President Trump.  Effective immediately without targeting system access, ATACMS, HIMARS, Storm Shadow and Taurus missile systems are no longer functional to those Ukraine operators (remember, those operators are not necessarily Ukranian).

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

No Indigenous Children Were Murdered at Canada's Residential Schools

Having spent five of my younger years at a residential institution for boys, I have some understanding of the potential horrors of life for those of Canada's indigenous children sent to residential government schools. But it should be remembered that, as in my own case, those children were separated from their families and consigned to the care of strangers with good intentions. The objective in the case of indigenous children being to remove them from the tribal world of a hunter-gathering people and equip them for survival and potential success in the vastly more diverse world of the Canadian national community. This meant teaching them either the French or English language, plus the three R's, something deemed possible only through a residential school training. And for many indigenous children attending a residential school, such training was indeed achieved.  

The moral validity of transitioning indigenous peoples from their ancestral culture to that of the settler Canadian nation is a matter of debate. However, the decision having been made to bring about such a transition, the residential school policy was the only means conceived of to achieve it. The downside to this decision is the fact that children are always at greater risk of abuse by strangers than by their own kin. And thus it was that children removed, sometimes forcibly, from their native home to a residential school were the victims of deviant members of residential school staff. Tales of such abuse have naturally been told by former residential school students, as well as by others without personal experience but who claim to have investigated the matter. Such tales are in many and perhaps the great majority of cases surely based in reality. Some stories, however, and these not necesssarily based on any claim to personal experience, are horrific. Of these, some making claims of mass murder, are so horrific as to prompt government inquiry. The results of this inquiry, which involved radar inspection of alleged mass burial sites are now in. What they show is that claims of mass murder at the Indian Residential Schools are almost certainly entirely false. 

As Reported Here: 

The Canadian government has halted an inquiry into claims of mass burials of children at former Church-run residential schools – after not one grave was discovered.

Claims of the abuse and murders of hundreds indigenous children have triggered arson attacks, vandalism and the desecration of about 120 churches across Canada amid an outpouring of national grief.

The hysteria even reached the Vatican with Pope Francis using an Angelus address to lament “the shocking discovery of the remains of 215 children”.

The Canadian government set up the National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools, Missing Children and Unmarked Burials to investigate the claims and the full extent of the alleged abuse and murder of Indian children by Christians of European extraction.

But after three years of searching for bodies, at the cost of $216.5 million, not a single set of human remains has been found.

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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Trudeau's Failed Diplomacy Will surely Bring Canada a Recession or Worse

Canadian firms shift production to America to avoid 25 percent Import Tariff

Trump’s proving he’s got the winning hand once more, and it’s paying off big for America. Canadian businesses are eyeing a move south to dodge those hefty 25 percent tariffs he slapped on, and it’s all about bringing manufacturing back where it belongs. CTV News Canada’s spilling the beans—companies up north, from all sorts of trades, are packing up, looking at states like Ohio and Texas to set up shop. Trump’s tariffs are doing exactly what he said—making America the place to build again.

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As we said some time ago, Trudeau should have sought Canada's inclusion within a continental tariff wall. This is what US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, has also said. As it is, beginning tomorrow, March 4th, Canadian exports to the US, by far Canada's largest export market, will be subject to a 25%  tax. That's a tax collected by the US Government. As a consequence, Canadian manufacturing companies dependent on the US market will have to either accept a large loss of income or sales, move to the US, or quite possibly go broke. Many will surely move to the US, as have many before them, for example, Boeing whose founders, the Boeing brothers, moved to Seattle in 1916. Or currently, Brookfield Asset Management, and in the near future, TFI, Canada's largest trucking company. 

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Trump Seeks End to US Instigated Ukraine War to Hurt Russia

Here's Canadian People's Party Leader and former Minister of External Affairs, Maxime Bernier, on the Ukraine tragedy:

The Americans and the Russians are finally talking to each other to end the war in Ukraine.

I said when that pointless war began almost 3 years ago that the West was shooting itself in the foot with sanctions against Russia that would backfire, that we were stupidly pushing the Russians in the arms of the Chinese, and that Russia would win in the end.

Three years later, all of this has come true, but tragically only after immense destruction and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives.

If you listen to the media, they all repeat the globalist propaganda that this is a war of aggression started by Putin in 2022.



In fact, if was started by the murderous neoconservatives in the US and their NATO lapdogs in Ottawa and European capitals.

They are the ones who engineered the regime change in Ukraine in 2014, and who for years worked to encircle, provoke, and weaken Russia instead of developing friendly relations.

Fortunately, President Trump is going to make a deal with Putin to end this US proxy war against Russia.

Canada wasted $20 billion on that foolish foreign adventure. And it would have been even more if Pandering Pierre and his fake Conservatives had been in power. He said that Trudeau wasn’t doing enough!

The PPC was the only party that did not fall for the propaganda and advocated peace.

ZELENSKY – THE ISRAELI CITIZEN WHO DESTROYED UKRAINE

11 Years Ago TODAY, The US, EU Lead a Coup d' Etat in Ukraine - they've been fighting ever since

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Canada's People's Party Years Ahead of Musk in Calling For an End to PC Government Waste

By Maxime Bernier

 Did you know that the Canadian government is spending $143,000 to help the African country of Senegal implement a “sectorial gender strategy” in its armed forces?


Or $46,793 to improve healthcare for intersex people in the Chinese province of Shandong?

What about $4,6 million to develop programs promoting a “positive masculinity” in Cuba?

There are hundreds of such crazy programs costing Canadian taxpayers billions of dollars every year to fund the Liberals’ woke ideology in other countries.

Many people on social media just found out that these programs exist last week, after they started looking for them on the website of the Government of Canada.

They were inspired by similar crazy programs that Elon Musk has unearthed with his DOGE team in Washington.

The DOGE – or Department of Government Efficiency – was created by president Trump and has already cut tens of billions of dollars in frivolous spending after only a few weeks.

I’m being asked if I support having the equivalent of a DOGE in Canada.

Not only do I support it, but I didn’t wait for Trump and Musk to do it to propose one. I did years ago!

In 2020, I stated that a PPC government would have a Minister of Government Downsizing to examine every federal program and cut or abolish everything that is inefficient, wasteful or not essential.




Vice President J.D. Vance’s on Europe's Tyrannical Censorship

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Freedom or DEI Tyranny

 A Fight to the Death Is Underway

Paul Craig Roberts

Some people will regard my title as hyperbole. It is not. Trump, I believe, understands he is in a fight to the death. The American establishment tried to discredit and ruin him, to imprison him, to assassinate him. They stole his 2020 reelection from him. They tried to steal his NY properties. It is not possible for Trump to have illusions about what he is up against. He is up against evil.

Trump knows that the fight is not just about him. It is about America. For decades a corrupt American establishment has been running the government for their benefit at the expense of the American people. Trump says he intends to take government out of the corrupt establishment’s hands and put it back in the hands of the people. That is the last place the establishment wants it. For them the struggle Trump began in 2015 is existential.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Trump's Great Idea

The average tariff on imports to the United States during the 19th and early 20th century was around 33% on manufacted goods. US imports continued to be taxed from the end of the First World War unti 1942 when the US adopted a policy of free trade. Until the beginning of the 21st Century US industrial production continued its exponential growth, but has since flatlined. 

The reason for this pattern is simply that the second world war devastated the economy of every major American competitor, namely, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Japan. But those countries have long since recovered from the ravages of war, while China, India, South Korea, Indonesia and many other countries have rapidly industrialized to provide the Western nations with massive cheap-labor economic competition.

Trump's big idea? To restore a tariff wall on manufactured goods. The consequence? Companies now exporting to the US from cheap labor countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Bangladesh will establish manufacturing facilities inside the US tariff wall. The price of goods no longer made by sweatshop workers in Bangladesh, Vietnam or wherever will be much higher. But then American workers will have plentiful high wage job opportunities in manufacturing. Just as in the good old 1950s. 

Sounds great. Even better would be to invite Canada to join within a shared tariff wall. As an abbreviation MNAGA does not make for a great slogan, but, if adopted, it would make all of North America great again. 


Trump As Hitler

 As Karl Marx wrote, "history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce."

Confirming this, we have just witnessed  President Trump's attempted emulation of Hitler's 1938 Anschluss, or annexation, of a neighboring state. 

In Hitler's case the neighbor, Austria, was a mere one eighth the size of Germany. Trump, in comparison, has displayed far grander ambition. He seeks to acquire Canada, a territory larger even than the United States itself, and more than 100 times larger than the Austrian territory occupied by Hitler's Germany. 

Oh, and while he's about it, Trump demands control of Greenland, with its abundance of ice, oil and fish and an area 25 times that of Austria. Plus he intends to take back the Panama canal. 

As yet, no one seems to be taking Trump entirely seriously. Still I worry. Canada is not a perfect society -- far from it. Still after more than sixty years since arriving in my early twenties, I'm used to it and would hate to see it become merely a rather cool part of the United States of Aggression.

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Granddaughter of a pro-Nazi Newspaper Editor, Seeks to Lead Canada

 Chrystia Freeland’s family connections to Ukrainian Nazis revolve around her maternal grandfather, ‘Michael’ Mykhailo Chomiak.

Chomiak was an editor of a Ukrainian-language Nazi propaganda newspaper called Krakivski Visti, published in Nazi-occupied Poland and later in Austria. It promoted anti-Semitic views and supported the German war effort against Jews and other groups.

Like so many other Ukrainian Nazis, Chomiak immigrated to Canada, where he reportedly became a ‘prominent member’ of the Ukrainian Canadian community. Source

But then Freeland is probably no more Fascistic than Justin Trudeau, the man who liked to wear blackface and wear a Nazi uniform. Fortunately, it probably won't matter who leads the "Liberal" Party of Canada during the next few years as it is not likely to regain power anytime soon, if ever. 

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Britain's Woke, PC Government of DEI Fanatics

Far Left UK Government Proposes Banning "Controversial" Conversations

Yet:

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words shall never hurt me
An old English saying

I learnt those words at my mother's knee around seventy-five years ago. My mother, born in 1911, was raised on a farm. Folks were evidently harder-headed in those days, country folk, anyhow. Perhaps because, for most, life was harder then than it is today. My mother left school at 13 to earn a living. She took a job, arranged by a rich aunt, to work as a cashier at William Whiteley's department store in London's West End. 

 
William Whiteley's Bayswater store. Built in 1911,
    it was claimed to be the largest store in the world.   
The building was destroyed by German bombing
during the the Blitz of World War II.

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Rise in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Is No Delusion. And It Matters

 Below, I have reproduced, copied, copyright-stolen, whatever, part of an editorial by Wall Street Journal opinion columnist Holman Jenkins, Jr. in which he suggests that efforts to limit, human-caused  increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration are basically pointless. 

True, efforts to limit human-caused increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration are effective only to the extent that they are designed in such a way as to be effective. But limiting the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is not impossible. Here's one way that would work. 

Impose a carbon capture charge (CCC) on everything the production or use of which results in the release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. Then use the revenue generated to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide and sequester it underground or convert it to mineral form.

So what of the cost? The lowest estimate of the cost of large scale direct air capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide is around US$100 per ton, or 10 Cents per kilogram. That means a carbon capture charge for gasoline, for example, would be US$0.23 per litre or US$0.89 per US Gallon.  

Other products, meat, wool, cotton, lumber, etc., mostly generate less carbon per kilogram consumed than gasoline, or other fuels, including natural gas, diesel, and coal. What that means is that most or all human caused atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions could be recaptured without bankrupting the world. 

How would governments deploy CCC revenue to achieve sequestration of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions? By inviting tenders and placing contracts with multiple bidders. In this way a variety of technologies could be evaluated at scale, until the best methods are identified and deployed. 

Simple, really. So no need for Homan Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal to shrug off the problem of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. A clear and simple path exists that allows mankind to end the transformation of the chemical composition of the air we breath. 

True, not all governments will adopt such a program at once. But for those who take the lead, the cost of free riders can be eliminated by applying a carbon capture charge to goods from countries that fail to impose their own carbon capture charge, or other means to eliminate net carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. The charge on imports could then be applied to the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide, as with the carbon capture charge imposed on domestic goods and services. 

Related

Canspeccy:
Rising Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration, Part I: Carbon Dioxide Is Not a Greenhouse Gas

Canspeccy:

Canspeccy
About Carbon Dioxide: We Got One Thing Right

End of a Climate Delusion

Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2025:  Carbon dioxide, or CO2, emitted into the atmosphere is rapidly and, for all practical purposes, uniformly distributed around the planet.

I may be stating the obvious but it needs to be pointed out. Voters and even political leaders are surprisingly poorly informed on this point. Emissions cuts in California don’t have any significant effect on California’s climate. They also have no global effect. California’s cuts are too small relative to the global whole; they also are largely illusory.

Emitting industries leave the state. They don’t stop emitting. If California imports Canadian hydro to charge its electric vehicles, consumers elsewhere have to burn more coal and gas. If Californians drive EVs, more gasoline is free to be burned by others, releasing more CO2 that influences climate change in California and everywhere else.

Green-energy subsidies do not reduce emissions. This will be news to millions of California voters. It contradicts a central tenet of state policy. It isn’t news to the actual enactors of these subsidies. A National Research Council study sponsored by congressional Democrats in 2008 concluded that such handouts were a “poor tool for reducing greenhouse gases” and called for carbon taxes instead.

Unfortunately, the incoming Obama administration quickly discovered it favored climate taxes only when Republicans were in charge. Backers would later engage in flagrant lying to promote Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, knowingly citing bogus predictions that its trillion-dollar spending profusion would reduce emissions.

A 2019 University of Oregon study had already revealed the empirical truth: Green energy doesn’t replace fossil fuels, it enables more energy consumption overall. That same year the EPA calculated that the potential emissions savings from subsidizing electric vehicles had been offset five times over by the pickup truck and SUV boom Team Obama facilitated to assure the success of its auto bailout.

Last year, the premier journal Science put a nail in the question: 96% of policies supported worldwide as “reducing” emissions failed to do so, consisting mostly of handouts to green-energy interests.

Monday, January 13, 2025

The Cheapest House in Victoria, British Columbia

The Cheapest House for sale in Victoria British Columbia today (January 13, 2025) is listed at:

That's 13.2 times Victoria's 2020 median household income of:



The total population of Victoria on July 31, 2023 is reported to have been precisely:


In 2024, Victoria is reported to have received 


Of whom


Migrants to Canada in 2024 included 471,771 permanent residents, adding 1.08% to the population

Canada's fertility rate in 2024 was 1.483 births per woman, the lowest ever recorded

The population replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per woman

Canada is a dying nation, continually replacing its population with people from elsewhere

Sharply reducing the influx from elsewhere would give Canadians couples a better shot at finding affordable housing while they are still young and optimistic enough to have two, three, maybe even four, or five, or more kids. 

But for that we need intelligent political leadership which has been sadly lacking during the Trudeau years. Will the Poilievre Tories do better? If so, they will have to slow the influx of migrants to boost housing availability at affordable prices, and to reduce labor availability so as to drive up wages.

There are plenty of big, rich, powerful interests that will push back against any such changes. The transition required will be a true test of Poilievre's metal. 

As for the migrants to Canada, yes, for the most part, they are good people. But it is national suicide to pursue the Trudeau's policy of ever higher immigration rates that are driving the historic Canadian nation to extinction.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Why Elon Musk Loves Britain But Hates Keir Starmer, by David Starkey


Or to summarize: Musk champions Britain, or at least Britain's tradition of democratic freedom, because that is what gave rise to the world of incredible opportunity that Musk found on migrating to the US from South Africa (via Canada). That seems likely. And if so, it explains Musk's apparent intent to undermine Starmer who he must regard as a reactionary threat to the cultural tradition that, since the 1600s, has made Britain a transformational force throughout the World

Friday, January 10, 2025

Canadian Commandos Slaughtered in Ukraine



Why is Canada's participation in the Ukraine war never discussed in either Parliament or the national media?

Short answer: because democracy in Canada is a fraud. Or as remarked by British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George during the course of World War 1:
"If people really knew what is happening on the battlefield, the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know. The correspondents don't write and the censorship wouldn't pass the truth. What they do send is not the war, but just a pretty picture of the war with everybody doing gallant deeds. The thing is horrible and beyond human nature to bear and I feel I can't go on with this bloody business."
Needless to say, Lloyd George went on quite happily with the bloody business, remaining Prime Minister for as long as he could, as is the case with our very own wartime leader, Justin Trudeau whose multiple financial contributions on your and my behalf helps finance the ongoing bloody business in Ukraine.

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Robert Jenrick, UK Conservative Shadow Justice Minister: Britain's Unpunished Rape Gangs & Their Enablers

To sustain order in multicultural Britain, the state considered it necessary to apply the law selectively.

For decades the most appalling crimes from predominantly British-Pakistani men were legalised and actively covered up to prevent disorder.

The rule of law was abandoned to sustain the myth that diversity is our strength, destroying the lives of thousands of vulnerable white working class girls in the process.

This appalling affair is the final nail in the coffin for liberals who still cling to the argument that Britain is an integration success story.

The scandal started with the onset of mass migration. Importing hundreds of thousands of people from alien cultures, who possess medieval attitudes towards women, brought us here. And after 30 years of this disastrous experiment, we now have entrenched sectarian voting blocs that make it electoral suicide for some MPs to confront this. This scandal shows why we must end it.

The foreign nationals responsible must be deported - no ifs, no buts. And the officials that covered up must be sent to jail for their appalling cowardice.

Even that won’t be enough for the victims.

Los Angeles Now: A Fitting End to Biden's Feckless Administration

  

Meantime, Biden pisses away another half billion in Ukraine to hurt Russia.

Bill Gates Calls for ‘Death Panels’ to Euthanize Citizens Not ‘Worthy of Healthcare’


Source: Slay News

Bill hardly looks to be a citizen "Worthy" of a whole bunch of Healthcare.

So come on Bill: lead the way. Off yerself now.