24 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors”

    1. This, or a version of, is coincidentally happening in all western, White countries, accompanied by diversity, accompanied by government instigated/approved racism against Whites that is media enforced and promulgated.

      The Media is the virus, your Government is your biggest threat.

  2. It ain’t happening.
    Did anybody read, heard, see anything close to that in the mass media Canada.
    You can’t blame China for anything lest your neighbor is insulted.
    The media will insist that you refrain.

    Been to a park with son and the family, mentioned something about the Chinese virus, they were horrified that I should say that, then motioned to the family behind me, they were Chinese, I said, don’t care, that is where it is from.

    1. If you want to twist someones mind just mention the UK Variant of the China virus. Watch them try to explain why it’s OK to say UK variant, but not OK to say China virus.

  3. In Canada we can t even get a damned pipeline built without the approval of some supposed first nations or the permission from Quebec. Its a good time to do away with the ceremonial position of Governor General and tell these Commonwealth advisors to mind their own business!

  4. was in china 5 years ago , its a dump and a hole and a smog ridden crap place . couldnt even see the Birds Nest till we were within 100 yards of it

    1. I’ve been in China and region for 15 years (not the tourist spots), and i tell this to everyone who will listen: all who visit there will realize quickly how the Kyoto Agreement, the Paris Accords and the like – that give China permission to continue as usual – are outright scams. Anyone who says different is either a liar or fatally stupid.

    2. When we visited China in 2013 the air was pretty clean. I did get inside the Birds Nest, much to the chragin of our tour guide, and was able to run about a 100 meters on the track against the wishes of the guard.

  6. I’ve long said that people who complain about China and Mexico and other foreign countries stealing our jobs are full of crap, they didn’t steal our jobs, we sold them the jobs. We sold them all the dirty, dangerous, low-wage jobs and in return we got cleaner water and cleaner air, safer and more comfortable working conditions, better pay for the jobs that remained, and the EPA and the Department of Labor sticking their multitude of tentacles into every orifice of the body politic to ensure there’s a continuum of “safer, cleaner, better”. Every time you meet the standards, they up them, for you can never be too safe or too clean. It’s long past time that we question that particular cost/benefit analysis.

    1. If I were to build a home, right now…
      I can expect to receive a minimum 50 different fines or more.
      It was considered survival in our parents age and grandparents age.

      Today, it is so sad to see as it keeps getting worse.

      Now, it’s classed as equity development.

  7. In Alberta we have to report a spill even if a pail of oil is accidentally spilled on a lease and clean up has to be at least as good as prior to the spill. I can’t imagine what level of regulatory and litigation hell would occur if anything remotely like the Weikuang Dam existed here. The green initiatives here are literally killing people elsewhere with the toxic soup from the literally dead end schemes of self righteous stupid rotten hearted progressives.

  8. Thanks to the smug, self righteous Western liberals and “environmentalists” all doing their part to ensure the rich Chinese one percenters get even richer, the environment be damned. And Canadians get to pay higher taxes for the privilege of joining in.

  9. Interesting paragraph at the end of th article:
    “As well as the control over pricing mentioned, far more worrying is the strategic hold it gives China over supply. An article today in UnHerd outlines the control China has over the UK’s power grids, thanks to the take over of distribution companies by Chinese businesses.”

    Isn’t that exactly what Xiden permitted with one of his “day one” Executive Orders?
    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/01/24/a-few-questions-for-biden-supporters/

  10. It’s not polluting to mine and refine rare earth minerals, it is expensive to do so without polluting; that is why it’s not done in the US.

    1. Which is why China is all over Africa mining and refining. Somebody needs to put that info out to the BLM/Environazi cult for the “environmental racism” it is.

    2. It is also not necessarily “polluting” to mine stuff. What are those “pollutants” and how nasty are they? Don’t fall into the trap of the chemo-phobics who exclaim “My God, there are CHEMICALS there”

  11. This would only come as a surprise to people who know nothing about (a) so-called “green power”, (b) rare earth elements, or (c) China. From a paper that I co-authored 10 years ago:

    “One analyst describes rare earths as “an absolute nightmare to refine”, evoking the “rare earth paradox”: that self-styled “clean energy technologies” are so heavily dependent upon “dirty ores.” […] “Baotou also uses open-pit mining (at Bayan Obo), and the Chinese government has thus far largely eschewed remediation.”

    “…the environmental burden of rare earth production in Western countries pales in comparison to the environmental impact of operations in places like China where, in addition to lax environmental regulation and endemic corruption, illegal small-scale mining operations have raised environmental risk and damage to astronomical levels. In Guangdong and Jiangxi, for example, where surface deposits of ionic clays contain the valuable HREE, there were until recently more than 200 small mines, half of which operated illegally, outside even China’s rudimentary environmental controls.”

    “Rare earth mining generates approximately 2,000 tonnes of mine tailings for every tonne of REO extracted, most of which tends to be placed in long-term pit disposal sites rather than being subjected to remediation. Rare earth processing in Baotou consumes large quantities of hazardous and toxic chemicals (e.g., oxalic acid and ammonium carbonate), and produces millions of tonnes of contaminated wastewater per year. Occupational poisonings due to lead, phosphorous, mercury and benzene are reportedly common both at the mine and at refining facilities; and the most common disease in Baotou, according to one report, is pneumoconiosis, or ‘black lung.’”

    “…the enterprises at Baotou combined produce approximately 10 million tonnes of all varieties of wastewater every year (including slurry tailings), most of which is discharged without being effectively treated, and thus endangering local water supplies (and, indeed, the Yellow River system and the 150 million people living downstream from Baotou). In southern China, the pond immersion process strips ground vegetation and top soil, and produces 2,000 cubic meters of tailings for every ton of rare earths. These kinds of industrial practices have created serious environmental problems – polluted rivers, contaminated ground water, destroyed farmland, and a variety of health concerns for those working in REE production or living near the production facilities. The drive to reduce production costs and maximize profits led both producers and governments, at both the local and central levels, to give short shrift to environmental standards and enforcement, and these have, as a consequence, failed to keep up with the growth of China’s industrial sectors – a problem that is by no means restricted to the REE sector. ”

    – D.A. Neill and Elizabeth Speed, The Strategic Implications of China’s Dominance of the Global Rare Earth Elements (REE) Market, Defence R&D Canada, 2012 (https://cradpdf.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc121/p536767_A1b.pdf)

    1. I was about to post … “to be fair, fracking and other fossil fuel mining operations also use containment ponds”. But your post pretty well puts that disclaimer to bed. In America we mitigate and reclaim the land. Landfills, strip mines, and the whole lot of geo-exploitation is mitigated and returned to nature. It’s part of the cost of doing business in America (and Canada) … which is exactly WHY it is NOT Free Market capitalism to “compete” with a filthy, disgusting, unregulated China (or any other hellish system of government that places no value on human life or the environment). That is NOT a level playing field.

      And every Tesla driver must be made to “adopt” an African child cobalt scrounger, err miner. They should be made to pay for that child’s healthcare for the rest of their lives … Right? Effing virtue signaling twits all self-important and haughty because they drive a plug-in car. Pffft. And where do they think the 2,000 lbs of spent, toxic batteries are going when they trade-in their old model for a new one? Just ship it to Bangladesh ? How about a Tesla battery disposal site in Atherton? Woodland Hills?

  13. And then we have our own mess here in the Frozen Wasteland.
    Alberta clean energy shut down and sanctioned. Yet Quebec Hydro glorified and encouraged. Yet the UN itself and Science claims that Hydro Dams cause and produce more CO2 and Methane than coal fired generating plants.
    Why is it none of our Politicians of any stripe are every able to obtain facts and speak up. Quebec Hydro Must Be Shut Down Immediately. Ha Ha Ha Can you imagine an unwiped ass like Trudeau getting up and demanding this or a jerker like Kenney.
    https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7046-hydroelectric-powers-dirty-secret-revealed/

    1. Dear UCP (we know at least some of you are reading this),

      Plenty of ammo here for Kenney to go on the offensive. Where is he? Hiding under his desk again while writing another whiny letter to Ottawa? Or is he waiting for Ezra Levant to do his job for him?

    1. If it was just one article I would discount it, but there are multiple studies claiming the same thing that Hydro is very dirty.
      I am an old retired rancher, no expert. But what I see is Alberta being forced into purchasing power from BC/Manitoba/Quebec and helping pay for the grid. And of course Trudeau will insist on SNC-Lavalin as the engineers on the project. They will also try and force Nuclear power on as well as SNC-Lavlin owns Candu now. They own the profit side and the Canadian Taxpayers own the waste disposal side and the insurance for disaster side. Just my 2 cents

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