This is the final straw.
Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas. https://t.co/cpWUDgBWFe
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
Blacklocks- Freight Costs Way Up: Report
“the average end to end container transit time as measured from Shanghai through the Port of Vancouver to Chicago increased from an average of 25.4 days in 2019 to 29.1 days in 2020 and 33.8 days in 2021.” All customers paid,
“The price of maritime container shipping rose 385 percent or more than fourfold from November 2020 to September 2021,” wrote the department. “Delays at ports mean that goods must wait on ships longer which causes prices to increase but also reduces availability of shipping
When you send out the message that a mass murderer is about to take power, unless…….. – Victor Davis Hanson
Come to think of it, I’m not entirely sure what loving one’s body might mean, beyond the obvious off-colour jokes. But apparently, it’s something that one is supposed to proclaim as an accomplishment, a credential of progressivism. I have, however, noted that it tends to be announced by people whose declared triumph in this matter is not altogether convincing, and whose basis for doing so is generally much slimmer than they are.
Next to FDR, Woodrow Wilson stands out as my least favorite President. Wilson ushered in the era of a meddlesome federal government and countless violations of individual rights. It’s not surprising to find that he was motivated by the collectivist philosophies that long dominated the field of education and consequently took root in our political systems.
“Wilson attended lectures about how history could be theorized in systematic terms that describe a progressive improvement of the human condition. He became absorbed by the philosophy of Georg Hegel. … In Hegel’s works, personal freedom was framed as a national ideal — only achieved when each individual fit a hierarchy that served the larger whole. Hegel’s ideas from the early 1800s aligned with an idea emergent in intellectual life in the early 1900s: applying biological principles to social and political conditions. Wilson … began to view individuals as cells or cogs within a living organism, which he analogized to the nation. As Wilson’s worldview solidified, he came to believe that the individual rights described in the Constitution, championed by Jefferson and Madison, were not immutable triumphs, but were instead subservient to transcendent ideals of national order and societal hierarchy.”
Globe and Mail- Staff shortages, larger case loads causing Alberta medical examiner’s office to fall far behind
The annual report, which covers April 1, 2023, to March 31, concluded that a steady increase in cases since 2020, driven in part by COVID-19 and record-high drug poisonings, has created the backlog. Death investigations are now taking, on average, nine months to complete. Any case that has not been completed within nine months is considered part of the backlog.
Driving- ‘Speed assist’ now mandatory on new vehicles in Europe
The system was a requirement on all newly-designed models starting in July 2022, but now it’s mandatory on all new vehicles registered in the E.U. as of July 7, 2024. The regulation allowed automakers to employ in their cars any of four options, all of which meet the requirements. Two of them are only warning systems, known as “informative” or “advisory” ISA — they make a warning sound, or a vibration through the steering wheel.
Serious question.
Global- How many doctors does Canada have? Feds to fund research to find answer
The federal government has answered years-long calls from doctors and nurses to tally and research the number of health workers in Canada with a $47 million funding announcement.
The money is being divided among research groups that aim to collect and study data on Canada’s health workforce, which has been difficult to gather across provincial health systems.
The largest sum, $22.5 million, is being given to the an arm of the Canadian Institute for Health Information to figure out where gaps are in the workforce.
About drug legalization is how it enables small prairie cities to reproduce the Hastings Street success story.
This new strategy of perpetuating hate against seniors wasn’t on my Liberal policy bingo card, but here we are.
Juxtapose!
Government of Canada, July 2021;
The Government of Quebec confirms a $30-million loan for Taiga Motors, while the Government of Canada plans to grant a loan of up to $10 million to the business. These financial contributions will support Taiga Motors’ project to industrialize the manufacture of personal watercraft, snowmobiles, electric motorization systems and battery packs. This initiative valued at $125.17 million will lead to the creation, by the end of 2023, of at least 370 well-paying jobs in Montréal and Shawinigan.
Taiga Motors Corp. says it has obtained an interim court order for creditor protection as well as one authorizing the company to launch a formal sale and investment solicitation process.
The Montreal-based electric snowmobile maker also says it has secured a line of credit from Export Development Canada — already a creditor — for up to $4.4 million.
The company says the money will be used to finance it and its subsidiaries’ capital requirements for restructuring under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
The company says it expects it will be placed under delisting review on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Eugyppius- Disorderly “refugees” turn Erfurt commuter rail line into a daily hell
The problems are especially acute on a route between the state capital in Erfurt and a mid-sized town 50km to the south called Suhl. The reason is that Suhl is home to Thüringen’s initial refugee reception facility. At any given time, hundreds of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey are housed in these flats, and they’re constantly taking the train to and from Erfurt, and terrorising everybody else who is doing the same thing.
Anti-Taxxer- I watched this entire 34 minute video so you didn’t have to. It starts with the usual land acknowledgment blah blah blah and is rather boring. There is a lot of newspeak which confuses home equity with housing equity. But at the 19 minute mark Justin Trudeau drops this bomb.
We can wait.
Globe and Mail- Ottawa recommends timelines for access to historical records
On Wednesday, the Treasury Board announced that it was introducing “sunset clauses” – which establish a date at which sensitive records can be released, often 20, 25 or 30 years after their creation – for federal records. These clauses are common in democracies around the world.
We need more administrators with higher salaries that should be paid for by higher taxes on primary health care providers. Easy peasy.
Canadian Press- Nova Scotia emergency department deaths hit six-year high, doctors point to ‘bed-blocking’
Retired doctor Robert Martel, who worked in Nova Scotia ERs for decades, says many beds in emergency departments are blocked because they are occupied by patients who can’t get a spot in long-term care or who need community services. He says patients are also showing up at emergency rooms far sicker than they should be, because they don’t have a regular doctor who could have detected their illness earlier.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
In the pantheon of fellow travelers who visited the Soviet Union over the years, few stand out more in their abject appeasement of that totalitarian nightmare than American socialist John Dewey. In 1928, he wrote a series of articles concerning Russia for the “progressive” magazine The New Republic, which are still accessible in their archives. His ability to produce pages and pages of such tripe without a hint of critical thought is nothing less than stunning.
For there was a time when the whole industrial structure of Russia was so disorganized from the World War, the blockade and civil war, that the government practically took over the management of the cooperatives. (even of this period it is important to know that the latter jealously safeguarded in legal form their autonomy by formally voting, as if they were their own independent decisions, the measures forced upon them by the government.) This state of affairs not longer exists: on the contrary, the free and democratically conducted cooperative movement has assumed a new vitality –subject, of course to control of prices by the State.
It seems that “misinformation” was even a term back then, and, like today, was used as a device for diverting attention away from the excesses of the state.
For there is reason to believe that the misinformation I received about the status of cooperative undertakings in Russia was not only honestly given, but was based on recollection of conditions that obtained several years ago.
It’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy;
On Monday, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to a criminal fraud conspiracy charge. If a judge approves of the agreement, the Boeing company will somehow become a “convicted felon,” according to Reuters. Boeing will also pay a fine of $243.6 million.
Two Boeing planes crashed in a five-month period between 2018 and 2019. One was in Ethiopia, and the other was in Indonesia. The combined disasters killed 346 people.
Here is the fun part. A commie judge in New York City fined Trump $354 million — more than $450 million with interest — for allegedly overvaluing his Mar a-Lago home to secure a loan, which he paid back on time. There were no actual victims of Trump’s supposed “crime.” Flames did not engulf and burn 346 people to death. But this is the
Soviet Union in 1935United States of America in 2024, and those things don’t matter. The pinkos in charge decided Trump’s “crime” was worth roughly $111 million more in fines than Boeing’s for killing of hundreds of people.