Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Trudeau's Canada Approaching Melt-Down
National Post:
Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are
Right from the get-go, the report authors warn that whatever Canada’s current situation, it 'will probably deteriorate further in the next five years'
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A secret RCMP report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation.
“The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations,” reads the report, entitled Whole-of-Government Five-Year Trends for Canada.
“For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live,” it adds.
The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of “special operational information” to be distributed only within the RCMP and among “decision-makers” in the federal government.
A heavily redacted version was made public as a result of an access to information request filed by Matt Malone, an assistant professor of law at British Columbia’s Thompson Rivers University, and an expert in government secrecy.
Describing itself in an introduction as a “scanning exercise,” the report is intended to highlight trends in both Canada and abroad “that could have a significant effect on the Canadian government and the RCMP.”
Right from the get-go, the report authors warn that whatever Canada’s current situation, it “will probably deteriorate further in the next five years.”
In addition to worsening living standards, the RCMP also warns of a future increasingly defined by unpredictable weather and seasonal catastrophes, such as wildfires and flooding. Most notably, report authors warn of Canada facing “increasing pressure to cede Arctic territory.”
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Another major theme of the report is that Canadians are set to become increasingly disillusioned with their government, which authors mostly chalk up to “misinformation,” “conspiracy theories” and “paranoia.”
“Law enforcement should expect continuing social and political polarization fueled by misinformation campaigns and an increasing mistrust for all democratic institutions,” reads one of the report’s “overarching considerations.”
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Sunday, March 17, 2024
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Emotion Crime
To judge by the actions of the government he leads, Justin Trudeau is now entering the Kim Jong Un phase of megalomania, such that it will surely soon be illegal in Canada to speak of our Supreme Leader except in terms of the highest flattery acknowledging his divinity. In the meantime, driven apparently by a sense of unlimited power and authority, his government is now intent on the criminalization of emotion: specirfically, the emotion of hate.
As for penalties, we're not talking a slap on the wrist. If this, let us not call it hateful legislation, so, um, insane legislation, the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63, is enacted, the penalties for the willul promotion of hate will be two to five years imprisonment.
So yes, under this legislation Canadians will live in fear. Think carefully before calling for "Death to Hamas," be aware that saying "fuck off" may be an imprisonable offense, and be sure that saying "Fuck Trudeau" surely is an imprisonable offense. And will it be illegal to speak hatefully of rats, rapists, warmongers or thieves? Will it be considered criminally hateful to say that Justin Trudeau is an insane dictator wannabee? A megalomaniac? An idiot?
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Oh Canada: Parliament Moves To Impose Potential Life Imprisonment For Speech Crimes
Monday, March 11, 2024
When Self-Defense Is Racist Hate Speech
A right-wing British activist (citizen) has just been handed a two-year prison sentence for “intending to stir up racial hatred.” Source
His offense? Sharing stickers with anti-immigration mottos such as:
“We will be a minority in our homeland by 2066,”
Which is probably true if by "we" he means white British people.
“Mass immigration is white genocide.
Which may be true, depending on the color and quantity of the immigrants.
“Intolerance is a virtue”
Which depends on what it is of which one is intolerant. But tolerance of those who would destroy one's own nation looks like aiding an abetting in self-genocide.
and
“White Lives Matter.”
Which, though subjective, likely seems a legitimate claim to most white people.
Poor Princess Kate
Pretty certainly, when photographed, she was wearing mascara, and definitely eye shadow, and most likely a lttile blush, and maybe some powder and a touch of lipstick. Nobody complains about that, so why the fuss if she improved the skin tone in a photograph?
Or better still, lets just recognize the Daily Mail for the rubbish it is and not worry about such nonsense.
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Lying Chatbots: AI Outdoes Humans at BS
Your Destination Now, March 10, 2024: Google’s Gemini AI continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons, with an author revealing that the tool created fake book reviews in order to defend the search giant.
When author Peter Hasson asked the AI program questions about a book he wrote in 2020, The Manipulators: Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Big Tech’s War on Conservatives, he found that the chatbot actually concocted a series of fake reviews attributed to real people in an effort to discredit it.
The book, which was about the political biases of Google and other tech firms, was thoroughly researched, and Hasson drew from leaked documents and inside sources to inform his writing. It apparently struck a nerve with Google as its AI program told lie after lie in an attempt to smear it.
As part of Google’s description of the book, the chatbot wrote that it has been “criticized for lacking concrete evidence and relying on anecdotal information.”
As someone who has followed the reception of his own book very closely, Hasson could not recall such a criticism, so he asked the AI who made those comments.
It then supplied him with summaries of four negative reviews that were allegedly from the New York Times, Wired, Washington Free Beacon and the New York Times Book Review.
The blurbs were very convincing. For example, the AI wrote: "Book review by Matthew Continetti in The Washington Free Beacon: This review criticizes the book for relying on ‘anecdotal evidence’ and ‘cherry-picking examples’ to support its claims."
While the Washington Free Beacon did indeed review the book, the reviewer was actually Charles Lehman, and his assessment was incredibly positive.
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Friday, March 8, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
Germany's Very Stupid Generals: Or Were They Trying to Head Off WW3?
Russia learned of a German proposal to use long-range Taurus missiles to destroy the Kerch Bridge (linking the Russian mainland with the Crimean peninsula) by bugging a conference phone call among German generals. The Germans, Zero Hedge reports, were using "off-the-shelf and apparently non-secure video phone technology" to discuss highly sensitive matters of national security. One general on the line reportedly "dialed in from his hotel room."
The Kerch Bridge |
The implication is either that Germany's generals are very stupid people, or that they deliberately used a highly insecure method of communication for the purpose of informing Russian intelligence of what they considered an insane plan that could result in all out war. In the latter case, their hope, presumably, being that a Russian warning of retaliation, a promise for example to take out, say, London Bridge (upon which billions in tourism revenue depends) or Germany's Hohenzollern Bridge (upon which billions in industrial production depends) would stop the madness.
Anyhow, even if you can strike it, how do you destroy something that's 20 kilometers wide.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Tucker Carlson Erasing Ukrainian Nazis Out of Existence
These are the guys Zelenski sent to Eastern Ukraine to take control of the autonomous Donbas republics. Remember them? Donetsk and Luhansk, the Donbas republics granted autonomy within the Ukrainian state under the terms of the Minsk agreements.
But the Minsk agreements, former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, recently stated, were merely a ploy to allow time to arm Ukraine for war with Russia.
Nazism is a racist form of nationalism and there have been Ukrainians Nazis for a long time. Since the 19th Century,at least. That was when Otto Von Bismarck, Chancellor of Germany promoted Ukrainian nationalism to undermine the Russian Empire. How well that worked is evident from the enthusiasm with which, during WW2, the UkroNationlists, under the leadership of Stepan Bandera, collaborated with German occupying forces in murdering hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles across the nation.
So now we know it. Carlson is just another mouthpiece for the US Empire. Like his Dad, Dick Carlson, one-time Director of the Voice of America.