14 Replies to “We Need A Famine”

  1. Michael McCallion
    Just now ·
    Soooo? The Liberal Party of canada’s most important propaganda mouth piece outside of the CBC and what ever version on the Laurentien Elite has proposed or directed to be said to Radio du Canada which is also by paid for with Nation of canada Tax -Payer funds.
    Is Paul Wells now being used to establish the Standard process of a brief Belittlement Period of Justin Trudeau for most recent spectacular destruction; ___ of the English Language Culture Nation of Canada ___ West of the Nation of Quebec?__ Yet again using the now familiar –” I am sorry for the cabinet members not telling me everything I needed to know so Gerry Butts & and I were able to make a better plan?”
    Mr. Wells; of the supplicant Macleans journOlism Cult of Central canada Smearedia, breathlessly waiting for the Subsidy promised for Paul being one of the Good Boys & Girls helping to smear the Conservatives for Trudeu/Butts to return as Prime Minister. Please let me help You, Paul. The problem is not with the Trudeau/Butts Coalition.
    The Problem is with the failed coalition of the Confederation of Nine Province & Three Territories being populated by second class Citizens with the Ottawa/Hull Governing colluding cabal of the Privy Council Office — the domination of all Federal Government Agendas by the Laurentien Elite — and ineffective actions of an Indifferent Attitude of the Trudeau willingness to bow to the European Union — One World — Culture.
    The very significant Brexit action finally bringing the Independence instilled in British Citizens with Magna Carta – the Long Parliament – and mainifested with complete disdain for over three years of The Establishment in “The City” of London and the feeble efforts of the conservative Party of the United Kingdom and ignoring the Propaganda of the similar bought off Smeredia long present in English Language Culture. Brexit happened because the inheritance of Magna Carta is the Base of the ‘Human Rights & Responsibilities of the Individual — now beats in the Hearts of All People in the World.
    Mr. Wells; The Confederation of Canada ended with the Bastardization of the [ British North American Act of 1867 ] through collusion of the Liberal Party of canada with the Victorian Era transportation of the Privy Council Office finagled the Supreme Court of Canada to finagle a process of the False Alternative called the [ British North American Act of 1981-1982; while taking away the English Language Cultures legacy of Individual Human Rights.
    Mr. Wells; it is time for some other organization not bound to the never coming Promise of a Tax Payer Funded Subsidy similar to the CBC & Radio du Canada to move forward and insist on the Nation of Quebec to stop Their Threat of Separation and actually put into Place The Fact the Nation of Quebec operates on Its own Agenda and the Federal Bureaucracy under the Privy Council Office facilitates the Fraudulent Situation to continue The Self-Interest of The Federal Bureacracy.

  2. I think the people that put nude veggies without plastic bags on grocery store food belts are completely crazy,
    and hopefully they’re not washing the veggies prior to eating them as that’s a total waste of water as well.

    On a normal grocery store visit for me, I’ll typically take an extra 3-8 of those veggie bags to bag up my muffins that I eat at lunch while at work, or wrap chicken in to freeze, or whatever. I haven’t been verbally assaulted yet in a store, and yes, yes I welcome some idiot taking me on in this regard.

  3. This botany idiot does not appear to have any following. There were no trained seals applauding or any intelligent persons explaining why he’s an imbecile.

    1. I stopped reading once his concern about “the planet” became grating, as it’s clear he’s an overzealous environmentalist.

      The late Michael Crichton was also a concern troll for “the planet”; Crichton was intelligent, talented, patriotic, well-read, and articulate. But it took Crichton decades to admit that the environmentalism he’d been injecting here and there into his books was a fraud. Incidentally, part of his conversion probably had to do with 9/11. Emotion, blood ties and loyalty, are often more convincing motivators than any twisted logic on the one hand or flawless logic on the other, for better or for worse.

      In my experience, people aren’t stupid because they lack intelligence. High intelligence might allow someone to learn faster through better memory and/or pattern recognition, but a person of low intelligence can often learn just as well, albeit slower and needing help with learning blockades.

      “IQ” past a reasonable inflection point (I’d say 80, and IQ can be trained up because “tested” is not quite the same as “actual”) is good enough to teach any programming language (which is easier than any spoken language due to having defined, unbreakable rules) or Quantum mechanics. A higher intelligence MIGHT speed up the learning process for some, but again, this is not the main impediment to real-world learning.

      Rather, the main impediment to learning has to do with “Temperament”, “Social-pressure”, “Ego”, “Saving Face”, etc.

      Try teaching someone who doesn’t want to be taught. Try mentoring someone who gets easily frustrated and quits. Try working with an employee who wants to see his boss fail just to suit his own agenda.

      That’s any teacher’s or mentor’s or employer’s real challenge – and a far greater challenge than any student or apprentice or employee with a lower IQ.

      Bloomberg is wrong, especially when you read between his lines. It’s not just about grey matter. In fact, his use of “grey matter” – which is less about “IQ” than the “conceit and snobbery of IQ” – matters little past an inflection point that 85% of the populace can clear, from Process Engineering to Aerospace.

      Give me an honest, earnest, hard-working American eager to learn – and I won’t care what his IQ is.

      Black people in America, for example, have created an entire culture throughout history due to their embarrassment at being less intelligent than the average white. It began when black slaves rioted over being taught how to read (the white slave owners insisted on it because they thought it their Christian duty to teach the Bible). It continued through the centuries; being a good student was contemptuously regarded as “Acting White”; dressing in slacks and a shirt was regarded as “Dressing White”; knowledge in the sciences, mathematics, literature, etc was perversely looked upon with contempt.

      Of course, this attitude and culture is less a rational response based on logic, than it is an inferiority complex based on race-based emotion. Yes, on average Black people have the lowest IQs of any race. But were it not for their collective egos getting in the way, the vast majority would still be able to function just as effectively as many White people with few exceptions – many black people do function as effectively, but not nearly as many that would due to their racial philosophies and egos getting in the way.

      And it is not just the “Black Culture”, of course, who exhibit this inability to learn.

      Again, Environmentalists (many of whom are White and Asian) are just as stupid and resistant to learning.

      Ask any researcher what the greatest danger of research fraud, and he’ll tell you “Bias” or “Saving Face” or “Funding pressure” – things that have less to do with IQ, and more to do with emotional responses.

      And shall we inspect how this effects exchanges between Canadians vs Americans (well, at least, for those Americans who remember there’s a country north of their border), and why it’s difficult for their citizens to take lessons from each other? (for my part, it’s appropriate and better that they don’t)

      After his revelation, Crichton’s book which tried to correct for his error for upholding the Environmental fraud, “State of Fear”, was probably one of his worst efforts due to ham-handedness (you can tell how awkward his writing is, I think because “mea culpas” aren’t an emotionally enjoyable thing to write – especially “mea culpas” the size of books). Personally, I appreciated the effort nonetheless. He called out Eco-terrorism, what’s called today “Extinction rebellion”, the rebranding and repackaging of “Global warming” into “Climate Change”, etc.

      Every generation goes through the same Spiel – even people as smart, talented and intelligent as Crichton are prone to learn aspects of life remarkably slowly – if at all – regardless of IQ or wealth and access. It’s the reason why Monarchical systems of Kings and the Court, and Communist systems of Philosopher Kings and Bureaucracy (“Remote control”), are inferior to Elective and Representative systems (“Local control”).

  4. The Gang Greenies are insane for freaking about plastics. Plastics have been known to save lives. The proof is in the pudding. People live longer now than ever before. Think of the plastics used in hospitals, grocery stores, etc. These places are germ ridden. Humans have immune systems to survive the dirt that’s out there.
    So, life is messy! What about it?

    Why are we paying for BLUE BOX recycling if they are aren’t reusing the stuff to make toys etc? What about it?

    Hint: Want to waste less food from your fridge? Try this:
    The next time your refrigerator goes on the blink consider buying a counter depth one (23 to 27″) with a bottom freezer. One wastes less food because one can see the contents of the fridge better than a standard depth one (30 to 34″). How about that!

    Yes Marc, those grocery store food belts are gross. The people there should clean them more often than they do. What about that? Yuk. The first thing I do when I come home is wash my hands. How about that!

    1. Indeed, the amount of petroleum product embedded in the processes and logistics of the modern food supply is a fact of life that most environmentalists are ignorant of.

      At least this “Botanyidiot” seems to be colliding with Truth that he wasn’t previously aware of; he’s annoying, but he has potential because he might be willing to learn. The rest of the thread, however, seems hopeless.

      The modern food supply is dependent on oil.

      American technology was developed, in large part, on the manipulation hydrocarbon chains because America had so much oil that its chemists thought “well, we have to use it somehow”. Oil could be broken down easily using a simple distillation tower – the ease (energy and manpower efficiency) with which you could isolate, break down and recombine those carbon chains was remarkable – gasoline was actually a “waste” product” and as with anything Americans thought “waste not, want not” and created products that made use of the waste, too -with Henry Ford and others playing with gasoline-run inventions in the latter 19th century. From seemingly useless precursors to bitumen, the processes and products became more complex with Kevlar and Napthalene.

      The ease of manipulation, and sheer quantity in America, made crude oil omnipresent in American industry as its chemists began to replace everything from Road Tar (at the time, made primarily from Coal) to fabrics (synthetics) to products (polymerized materials like fiberglass and plastics) to – well, EVERYTHING.

      Food products have crude oil embedded throughout its life-cycle in the economy, from the Farm to the Human tract to the waste disposal.

      The fertilizers are made from crude oil. Pesticides are formulated and packaged and necessarily distributed in polymer containers. In fact, innumerable inputs from crude oil are necessary to run a farm, from the Tractor Diesel to the polymer gaskets and tires and tarp to the fiberglass motherboard/PCB that is found in all the computerized equipment that runs a modern farm (all fiberglass is 50% by weight “Resin”, which is derived from oil).

      The transportation system for the food is reliant on oil; the asphalt, the fuel, the very materials that make up the vehicles, the packaging, the preservatives to increase the shelf-life which people ingest, etc, etc, etc. Food that does not make it to the grocery shelf (let alone, “in a timely manner”) will simply rot in the field (Much of what modern farmers grow often go to “waste”).

      The preservatives which are ingested along with the food – like many petroleum products, these are not toxic – either your body will break down some like they would any sugar or fatty acid, or your body is chemically incapable of breaking down the inert or insoluble preservative (like a plastic bottle that can’t be chemically broken down easily in nature), and it passes clean through your tract without entering your bloodstream.

      The electrical grid powering all of this, from irrigation to electronic/financial exchange to refrigeration, is made of oil. To transmit electricity, the transmission system requires two things: a Conductor and an Insulator. Look at all the insulation throughout your world, from your smart-phone charger to the massive amounts of insulation used for the main power cables running under everyone’s street (nevermind the Fiber-optic and copper communication cables running in parallel) in a gargantuan, dense, and interlocking web all over the world.

      It’s made of a polymer, often polyethylene.

      It’s all crude oil.

      Everything from the pumping stations that provide water (to hydrate food that was preserved by first dehydrating it) to grocery store runs on that electrical grid – in fact the pumping stations and grocery store are themselves made with oil.

      The walls in your room or in a hospital are sheathed in a resin of oil – the paint, lamination, enamel epoxy, etc – it’s crude oil. They’re used to maintain and preserve the structure, making it easy to clean, because if they were bare walls, they’d grow mold easily which would be difficult if not impossible to scrub off. But the polymers and binders in the paint and epoxy ensure that they are insoluble to cleaning agents (which are also petroleum products or require petroleum precursors, containers, and distribution methods) and minimize the surface area and methods in which mold and germs anchor themselves into a surface.

      Splatter some tomato juice over some wood, clean it off, and watch the mold grow.

      Now paint that wood (or use a plastic panel).

      Splatter some tomato juice on that painted wood or plastic panel….no mold will grow (well, it’ll grow REALLY slowly because of a slight adsorption of tomato juice nor mold).

      Etc, etc, etc.

      I never take any engineer who follows the climate change crowd seriously, especially the ones who know it’s a scam but “play to the market” (if you don’t have integrity, your “solutions” are worse than useless to me).

    2. NR, recycling is segregated garbage and most winds up in landfills. Twice the cost and twice the work and twice the “carbon footprint” as if that matters.

      1. And the future in jobs are garbage policepeoplekind.
        Right? It’s about the jobs, not the trash.

  5. Considering that Indian (as from India, not natives) population practices tasting of everything, I do not want any produce unwrapped.
    They would routinely take a grape here, a tomato there, and circle around the produce area, munching.
    But they do not only taste: before picking a fruit or vegetable, they will touch many of them, choosing the right texture.
    I do not want my produce groped all over by god knows who from god knows where, who might have last time washed their hands in the Gang river ages ago.
    To be safe from food-born infections, my family had switched to buying boxed produce from the storage area of the grocery stores. This way we make sure that no unauthorized parties groped the goods. For us, who pay attention to what others in our diverse society actually do in real world, there is no going back, unless the decades of rampant, uncontrolled immigration are reversed COMPLETELY.

  6. Hygiene is optional.

    Those who have forgotten the lessons of the past cannot learn from them, and so will repeat the mistakes.

  7. I know THIS much. None of the Costco plastic trays holding my muffins EVER ends up in the … “giant swirling plastic patch, the size of Texas, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean”. The one which cannot be seen, hence the invention of “micro-plastics” being found in fish worldwide. No. Every single bit of MY plastic is deposited in my “recycling” trash … is separated at the transfer station … and then ground up into LEGO blocks or something useful for our society … Right?

  8. James Wong is a a total Nit-Wit sounds like one of those typical screwballs who like to appear on the morning news shows to spew their malarkey to the rest of us

  9. There is no plastic bag when you buy vegetables in a reliable food store. The plastic bag is merely a sanitary method of transporting the vegetables to their destination.

    As for reusable bags. When I’m waiting in line at Safeway, how do I know that the little doofus ahead of me, clutching her cotton bag as if it was Tommy Douglas’ underwear, hasn’t used the bag to transport her fleabitten kittens back from the vet’s clinic after they had been euthanized?? Perhaps she left them in the trunk of her Lada until one day when she couldn’t stand the stench any more. Perhaps she decided to bury the dead cats under a Colorado Blue Spruce in Wascana Park where her and her boyfriend once sat with their transistor radio and listened to the CBC, waiting for the results of the 1968 federal election. Two days later, she’s using the soiled bag to transport her tomatoes home where’s she’ll be making cabbage rolls for the NDP potluck supper on Saturday night. Now you know why I hate reusable bags.

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