“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.” – Michael Moore
The #Oscars and Hollywood also have a great deal of reckoning, starting with sexual assault in the industry. The obvious start is for a powerful man to accept an award tonight — for picture, director, acting or screenwriting — and call out Harvey Weinstein by name. pic.twitter.com/CjwlM45mPJ
— Jack M Silverstein (@readjack) February 9, 2020
Teck Resources’ announcement that it is shelving its proposed Frontier oilsands mine is a political earthquake. It is the capstone of this government’s anti-oil and anti-Alberta policies. It shows that the turbulence of the past three weeks is about to be surpassed by something larger.
The cancellation follows the West Coast tanker ban, the stalled Trans Mountain and the Coastal GasLink pipelines, the rejection of Energy East and the dense thicket of always swelling regulations, assessments, protests and court cases. Teck is the last of a dark chain of projects that have been scrapped or strangled, which has resulted in billions of dollars being chased away from the country and tens of thousands of jobs aborted, while the Trudeau government danced and chattered away with its useless crusade against carbon-dioxide emissions. Rarely, if ever, has folly been granted such total rein, and incompetence a wider playground.
#BREAKING The Alberta Court of Appeal just ruled in a 4-1 decision the federal carbon tax is not constitutional. The court found the legislation that brought in the tax erodes provincial jurisdiction. Previous court decisions in Ontario and SK sided with the feds #cdnpoli #abpoli
Update: The first bill of the [Alberta] spring session will be the Critical Infrastructure Defense Act, creating new “stiff penalties for anyone who riots on or seeks to impair critical economic infrastructure.
That such a law isn’t already in place federally is governmental malpractice.
When electricity comes from wind or solar machines, every unit of energy produced, or mile traveled, requires far more materials and land than fossil fuels. That physical reality is literally visible: A wind or solar farm stretching to the horizon can be replaced by a handful of gas-fired turbines, each no bigger than a tractor-trailer.
Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of nonrecyclable plastic. Solar power requires even more cement, steel and glass—not to mention other metals. Global silver and indium mining will jump 250% and 1,200% respectively over the next couple of decades to provide the materials necessary to build the number of solar panels, the International Energy Agency forecasts. World demand for rare-earth elements—which aren’t rare but are rarely mined in America—will rise 300% to 1,000% by 2050 to meet the Paris green goals. If electric vehicles replace conventional cars, demand for cobalt and lithium, will rise more than 20-fold. That doesn’t count batteries to back up wind and solar grids.
A bunch of @GretaThunberg and @Tzeporah followers have BLOCKED main streets in OTTAWA. Time for military action. They have also blocked Mercier Bridge 132 leaving thousands stranded. Hey @JustinTrudeau are you awake yet 3 weeks later and Eco TERRORIST invade OTTAWA and QUEBEC https://t.co/D5Ry2ICdIG pic.twitter.com/jjXJ9zlX03
— Ms. Kathy Katula (mother) (@courage99peace) February 24, 2020
Update.
@global_ottawa Provincial Police in Haldimand County are reporting that Highway 6 in Caledonia has been closed by a solidarity demonstration.
As has been predicted for weeks, world markets are finally taking a hit.
Shares on Wall Street have plummeted at the opening bell and European markets are also a sea of red, with the Italian market the worst hit, amid reports of rising deaths from the coronavirus in the country.
The high price of conspiring with China: Iran becomes the new epicenter of infection.
Given the number of exported #coronavirus cases from Iran to other countries, coupled with unofficial reports of a far greater number of deaths inside Iran from #covid19, it would strongly suggest that Iran must have a very large outbreak underway. https://t.co/Jqtmkugbmi
— Scott Gottlieb, MD (@ScottGottliebMD) February 24, 2020
Now 600 cases in South Korea, who the hell knows what’s going on in the North.
More: Trump’s fury over coronavirus patients being repatriated may be justified
Canada is presently in the throes of social and political disintegration. A left-leaning electorate has once again empowered a socialist government promoting all the lunatic ideological shibboleths of the day: global warming or “climate change,” radical feminism, indigenous sovereignty, expansionary government, environmental strangulation of energy production, and the presumed efficiency of totalitarian legislation. Industry and manufacturing are abandoning the country in droves and heading south.
Canada is now reaping the whirlwind.
I’ve often said that I wished I owned all the oil companies in the world.
The withdrawal of Teck’s Frontier Mine application is more devastating news for the Canadian economy, especially for Albertans & indigenous people.
This decision is clearly the result of federal regulatory uncertainty & the current lawless opposition to resource development. pic.twitter.com/DXGKC6mCo9
— Jason Kenney (@jkenney) February 24, 2020
I guess they were listening.
What now, Mr. Kenney? Surely you have more than a tweet in response.
PMO told them to withdraw because caucus was revolting. Teck’s mistake was not blowing the whistle. https://t.co/8Ehjp9qLFf
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 24, 2020
This suggests the dam is about to break: The New York Times admitted on Thursday that the Obama administration deployed multiple spies against the Trump campaign in 2016, confirming recent comments by Attorney General William Barr that ‘spying did occur’ during the campaign. (Update — old article. I’m surprised it’s the first time I’ve seen it. )
The Justice Department Inspector watchdog referred FBI agent Stephen Somma for disciplinary review after an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.
Somma, a counterintelligence investigator in the FBI’s New York field office, was identified only as “Case Agent 1″ in Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, released in December. Sources told the New York Times that Somma is that official. The FBI did not comment for the report.
Somma was “primarily responsible for some of the most significant errors and omissions” during the process of obtaining FISA warrants to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016 and 2017, according to Horowitz. Horowitz confirmed the FBI relied heavily upon British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s salacious and unverified dossier when pursuing the secret surveillance.
The DOJ watchdog found 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the FBI’s applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Page, who was under suspicion of being an agent for Russia. He was never charged with any wrongdoing.
Related: What a difference a new acting Director of National Intelligence makes.
Out of windshield washer fluid? A professional demonstrates what to do next.
Thread is open.
This is Trudeau’s mob.
Anti-pipeline lobbyist, Tides Canada, paid $220k to Wet’suwet’en. Sarah Goodman, former VP Tides, is now Trudeau's top climate guru. Even Heritage Minster, Guilbeault, got $100k from Tides for his foundation. Wonder why illegal blockades still up? Retweet. https://t.co/rpDGdQjzLP pic.twitter.com/Zif5sdFgyB
— Canadian Yoda (@Labrie8) February 21, 2020
Update.
Exclusive from CBC's Olivia Stefanovich: Tyendinaga Mohawk Seth Leforth tells CBC that Ontario Provincial Police and CN Rail have told Mohawks they have to clear their camps in Tyendinaga, Ont., by midnight ET or face possible charges. Mohawks have not decided on next steps.
— CBC News Alerts (@CBCAlerts) February 23, 2020
The mindless policies of the Left are out of control. More here.
Never Trumpers learn the hard way.
"But we fought with you against Trump.. WE FOUGHT WITH YOU!"
*get's kicked into the alligator pit.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 22, 2020
…a lesson that the establishment CPC never will.
I sometimes think of Stephen Harper and wonder what might have been…
‘Boris Johnson has privately confirmed that he will definitely privatise Channel 4,’ a Conservative MP told the Sunday Express. ‘He thinks it’s a great idea.’
Shipley MP Philip Davies, who sits on the Culture, Media and Sport select committee, said: ‘I’ve been arguing for years it should be sold off.’
Channel 4’s relationship with Downing Street has been in the deep freeze since the prime minister cancelled a planned interview with the broadcaster at the G7 summit in Biarritz, France, in August, following Ms Byrne’s claims.
Mr Johnson also cancelled a planned interview with the channel at the Tory party conference in October, and snubbed their political debate on climate change in November.
The prime minister was replaced by an ice sculpture at the debate, which gradually melted throughout proceedings.
Related: Read the comments below this pro-BBC tweet.
“The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex”. For those of us who enjoy long form podcasts (and have a little knowledge of genetics) this is a fascinating story. Eric Weinstein can be a pompous asshole, but if you’re interested in stories of scientific malfeasance and the implications of “broken” mice, stick with it. The real meat begins at about 45 minutes in.
Besides, I have lots on my plate and it may be all you get today.
And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.
You heard me right.
Updates
Untraceable clusters alarm US officials.
Infections surge in South Korea.
Italy – Tens of thousands of Italians prepared for a weeks-long quarantine…
8 dead in Iran, which seems to have a abnormally high death rate or an abnormally low detection rate.
2 more young doctors die from coronavirus in China
Your tips thread begins now. (date corrected)
