Friday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s Canada:    Saving democracy.    A shadow looms.    White House decor.

China Carney’s Canada:    An accusation.    Our strategic partner.    Apparently good enough for soldiers.    Leniency for MP.    Higher carbon taxes.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media:    Coming soon to Canada.    Our schools.    Paul Joseph Watson – The worst I’ve seen, culturally enriched and more culturally enriched.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.

Hitting A Wall?

That’s a pretty steep drop in stock value by any measure. Why don’t they just use AI to develop a trading algorithm to overcome such annoying problems?

Alphabet is one of the most influential stocks on Wall Street because it’s one of the largest, and its loss of 12.3% had it heading toward its worst day since it began trading more than 20 years ago. It was under pressure to at least meet analysts’ expectations for growth amid concerns about how much it’s spending to invest in AI.

Update. (from Kate)

Saskatchewan’s growing helium industry

I’ve been writing about the growth of Saskatchewan’s helium industry for five years now, and it is on the cusp of a major development and move up the value-added chain. Here’s the in-depth story about what’s going on. And nearly all of it is because of one single company.

North American Helium’s new Stewart Valley plant paving the way for liquefaction facility

All of this is because of technology and companies from the oilpatch. You can have an MRI because someone drilled a well and found helium.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

At WUWT;

Without enormous cash subsidies, few if any practical entrepreneurs would invest in wind energy. According to Professor Gordon Hughes, a former political economist at the University of Edinburgh and senior energy adviser to the World Bank, green subsidies now account for three quarters of the price of electricity in the UK, while “the cost of Net Zero to the public is much higher than politicians are willing to admit“.

In a recent paper co-authored with Dr Lee Moroney, Associate Director of the Renewable Energy Foundation, it is noted that the British consumer has been forced over the last two decades to pay a staggering £274 billion (at 2025 prices) to support electricity generated from renewable sources. The numerous direct and indirect annual subsidies for the unreliable breezes and beams have risen from £0.2 billion in 2005 to £22.6 billion last year. That sum, suggest the authors, is expected to grow rapidly under current Government plans and could exceed UK defence spending by 2030.

Lifelong Democrat Finally Wakes Up

Related: Gad Saad has more.

Strange Story Out of Point Roberts, Washington

A Canadian citizen named Paige Adamson has been living as a U.S. Permanent Resident in Point Robert, WA and recently died. For those not aware, Point Roberts is a unique peninsula that is part of Washington State, but is not connected by land to the rest of the state. It’s about a 50 kilometre drive south of Vancouver, BC.

Somehow it came to light that Adamson had elected to vote in American elections. As her immigration attorney said here, it was revealed that she had indeed voted in a past election. Given that she had illegally voted, she was scheduled to attend a deportation hearing.

Of course, this is a tragic situation, for which I assume everyone feels heartbroken for her and her family. But imagine if a foreign national was found to be voting in a Canadian election and was being deported because of it. Then this person unexpectedly died while still in Canada. Would the Canadian authorities be in the wrong for demanding this person’s deportation?

Of course, the usual suspects are blaming President Trump for her death.

Update: Brandi Kruse weighs in.

Thursday On Turtle Island

The Democratic Party’s America:    Coming attractions.    Realist voting.    A Dearborn man.

Carnival Carney’s Canada:    Liberals on the honour system.    Stumbles over memo.    Another genocide.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media:    Moderate Muslim in Serbia.    The last redoubt.    Christmas.    Picking up roadkill.    Moderate Muslims in France.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.

Nites Ov De Rod

Days after this story broke in Quebec, there’s still no coverage to be found in English language news media. (Translated)

To better understand the trade in Quebec’s fake driver’s license, our Investigation Bureau commissioned it on the Chinese website IDCACA.

The operation was disconcertingly easy.

We created two fictional identities, generated two identity photos using artificial intelligence, and provided the address of a P.O. box for delivery.

A few minutes later, the order was placed for the small sum of $120 per permit.

For the purposes of the survey, we paid in bitcoin. But the site also accepts more common payment methods, such as PayPal, Apple Pay and credit cards.

Over the course of the exchange with the seller, we asked him to add to the licenses the classes 1, 2, 3, 4A and 4B required to drive trucks, rather than the only class 5 normally intended for passenger vehicles. The change was made without any verification.

Then, radio silence.

Four weeks later, the package arrived at a Montreal sorting center, where we went to pick it up in person.

I found it on Facebook.

Netanyahu Defies The Pollsters

NY Post;

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in the lead following a pivotal election Tuesday — making a third act for the Iran war almost certain.

The prime minister’s coalition was in the lead Wednesday with 53 seats after Gadi Eisenkot’s Change bloc failed to deliver a knockout blow following the highest election turnout in decades.

Eisenkot had 49 seats with more than 90% of the vote counted. Both sides were notably well short of the 61 seats needed for a majority.

More: why Netanyahu is right to recognize the Arab parties within Israel as dangerous.

Ben Shapiro explains the results.

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