50 Replies to “April 13, 2024: Reader Tips”

    1. CBC news and ABC News (Australian) say police are still considering whether or not the mass murder was terrorist or not (see post below). Goes to show how superior Twittrr is to government propaganda agencies.

  4. Evil oil & gas companies projected (by economists) to collapse within 5 years.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG6QiAB2dsw

    Not much of a fan of the Electric Viking but he really goes off the rails on this one.

    Hint to the Electric Viking – never rely on a government-paid economist for your predictions.

    1. “Evil oil & gas companies projected (by economists) to collapse within 5 years.”

      Along with civil society about 3 months after that…..If that long after.

  5. While coal use in China is predicted to drop substantially over the next 5 years, what is actually happening?

    https://www.iea.org/reports/coal-market-update-july-2023/demand

    “In China, coal demand grew by 4.6% in 2022 to a new all-time high of 4 519 Mt. Demand was higher than expected in last year’s Coal Report for two reasons. First, the calorific value (CV) of coal produced in China was lower, resulting in higher-than-expected volumes. Second, more coal than expected was gasified to produce synthetic liquid fuels, plastics and fertilizers. As a result, we estimate that coal demand for non-power uses grew by 7%, despite economic growth of only 3% and a sluggish real-estate sector.”

    1. The biggest problem with all this infrastructure growth is that Mama Nature don’t like it and making them break quite easily.
      Look at the crap currently built in Canada and just don’t try to fix anything as you might find it’s far more painfully expensive as you need experts to approve everything.
      All these builders themselves have been burned badly when pulling back the materials to check what is under and how safety to the current codes they are. Cracking concrete…oh,oh…
      That newer house that I thought was a good deal don’t seem that way when having to rip it apart to try and fix that structural issue. Unless you get a licensed electrician, your screwed when they rip you off to bring it up to today’s code.

  6. Speaking of bridge collapses ….

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73EScguZZzI

    The video is a comprehensive review of the Florida International University “Sweetwater” pedestrian bridge which collapsed in 2018.

    Group think and incompetence were to blame as the bridge collapsed shortly after the engineer in charge reviewed cracks that had developed at one of the bases and insisted the structure was still fine. The bridge would later fail at those cracks and the design had no redundancy to redistribute the load in the even of partial failure. The entire span then collapsed, killing 6 people and injuring several more.

    Much of the design was ornamental in nature and added a significant weight to the supporting structure with no additional support value. Bridges were becoming art. This one became another engineering lesson.

    1. It defies belief that they didn’t stop traffic when they were putting the bridge in position.

      1. It equally defies belief that an engineer would look at a series of 4″ deep cracks in the concrete at the base of the structure (where 50% of the load is to be carried) and says it’s fine.

  8. Finally, the mainstream media has provided a detailed analysis of the explosive growth in the public sector under the rule of the Dear Leader that has fundamentally re-shaped the economy.
    > public sector employment has grown by over 25% since 2014;
    > private sector employment has grown by much less (15%) over the same period;
    > the self-employed, part of the private sector but counted separately, has not grown at all.

    “The number of workers in Canada’s public sector has soared in recent years, outpacing the private sector, but economists warn the growth of government jobs is not sustainable in the long run.

    In the final weeks of the 2015 federal election that would sweep Justin Trudeau to power, the Liberal leader penned an open letter to Canada’s federal civil servants promising that if he were elected, government workers would be a lot better off than they were under the last guy. “I have a fundamentally different view than Stephen Harper of our public service,” he wrote. “Where he sees an adversary, I see a partner.”

    By the time throngs of cheering, selfie-snapping bureaucrats mobbed Mr. Trudeau days after he was sworn in as prime minister, it was clear the dynamic between the federal government and its hundreds of thousands of employees was about to shift dramatically after years of acrimony and cuts.

    Nine years and one global pandemic later, the full extent of that change has become starkly apparent, and it is reshaping the Canadian economy. The number of workers in Canada’s public sector has soared, led by the swelling ranks of the federal civil service but including growth at all levels of government. At the same time, Canada’s private-sector employment has wilted under high interest rates and a pullback in investment.”

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-economy-public-sector-jobs-trudeau/

  17. Car rental company steals back its own vehicles in Mississauga: police
    https://www.insauga.com/car-rental-company-steals-back-its-own-vehicles-in-mississauga-police/

    …
    Police said they were aided in their probe by various insurance companies, the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council and local municipal bylaw officers.

    Tamer El Gamal, 46, of Mississauga, is charged with:

    possession of property obtained by crime (22 counts)
    trafficking in property obtained by crime
    altering/tampering with vehicle identification number (nine counts)
    fraud over $5,000 (nine counts)

    Mohamed El Gamal, 38, of Mississauga, is charged with:

    possession of property obtained by crime (nine counts)
    altering/tampering with vehicle identification number (nine counts)
    fraud over $5,000 (nine counts)…

    1. Let’s hope Iran has some working nukes they can gift from above onto the promised land!

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