Trudeau’s kid goes trick-or-treating, dressed as a dog whistle.
I suppose it could have been worse. Could have gone as an oven.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The asuang ruse is part of the legend of Edward Lansdale
Hurray For Pallywood!
He’s revived! The actor paid by Hamas, who almost died yesterday in the hospital in Gaza, today praises Allah in the street. An endless soap opera.
“put a chick in it and make it gay!”
“Democrats need to embrace Hollywood because this is where they need to come to learn how to tell a story.“ – Michael Moore
As I reported last Friday, the irreverent and often hilarious show South Park took a swing at the infection of woke culture in the arts and took specific aim at Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy and Disney. The clips of the show alone went viral across the internet, sparking a very unwanted conversation for Disney about the direction it’s gone and the bad will it created with audiences.
But amid all the voices commenting about Disney, Carano’s words were the loudest as her post on X contained an insider’s look at, not just the state of Lucasfilm, but the terrible weakness and insecurity of its studio head, Kennedy […]
Carano revealed that, during her employment with Lucasfilm, she was asked to unfollow certain accounts on Twitter because they’d said some bad things about Kennedy. Carano saw this as an issue because she knew that being in the public eye meant getting haters, but Carano also saw these people as opportunities to win over new fans. Moreover, some of these “haters” were actual fans of Star Wars that felt the universe had gone in the wrong direction, and that their criticisms were worth listening to.
But Kennedy didn’t just ignore them, she actively had these fans attacked, causing one of the worst collapses of a fan base in history.
I Amuse Myself
In Saskatchewan, a GMC diesel slows for a rare Tesla sighting. This one was unfortunately, dead.
The Libranos: Performance Bonus
A government of parasitic incompetents, from penthouse to parking garage.
CMHC admits it must “do better” after building 12 homes in eight years under a federal program to convert surplus Crown lands into affordable housing. “That does take some time,” an executive told the Senate banking committee: “We want to do better for sure.”
Last year, the CMHC gave themselves $27 million in bonuses…
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
“The future is batteries”, they said. “We’re going to store the wind in ginormous batteries the size of Pluto“.
Mining remains a deeply divisive industry, as manifested by the explosion of popular rage that’s paralyzed Panama in recent weeks.
After spending the best part of a decade and more than $10 billion building one of the world’s biggest copper mines, First Quantum Minerals Ltd. now finds the project hanging in the balance.
The country’s president this weekend caved to pressure and agreed to hold a referendum on its future, sending the Canadian company’s stock plunging the most on record.
While Panama’s electoral court has since offered a lifeline, saying such a vote can’t proceed without congress first passing legislation, prospects for development look deeply uncertain.
The drama in Panama highlights a growing global trend. Many people don’t want new mines built, judging the environmental impact to be too great despite the boost to jobs and local coffers.
Yet mining has never been more important. It’s impossible for economies to decarbonize without hundreds of millions more tons of metals such as copper, nickel and lithium being pulled from the earth.
In the past decade, the industry has transformed the way it engages with those on the receiving end of massive mining upheaval. Aware of the need to have a social license to operate, companies have gone to great lengths to win over community leaders and politicians.
But they still often fail to garner wider public support. Some of the world’s most crucial new mines are currently stuck in limbo in the face of local opposition.
The development of Europe’s biggest lithium deposit was brought to a sudden halt last year after thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belgrade, Serbia. In the US, what would be the country’s largest copper mine has been stalled for years.
Give the people more stuff. Ban all the things.
The Power Of No
This is what we’ve been waiting for.
Transcript and more, at Pipeline Online.
Alberta Premier Smith reacts.
Meanwhile, over at NDP Xquarters..
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
The arc of the renewable universe is long, but it bends toward bankruptcy.
Wind companies losing billions, prompting fears a federal bailout could be coming […]
Mounting financial losses in the wind industry over the last few months are taking a toll on the Biden administration’s clean energy drive. Despite the billions in subsidies that came down the pipeline in 2022 before the Inflation Reduction gave away even more money, energy experts don’t expect that the need for more money will deter the nationwide momentum to build more wind and solar farms.
Writing in his “Energy Absurdity” Substack, David Blackmon, an energy analyst with over 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, said that the lobbying for more renewable energy dollars is likely near.
“Everyone should prepare themselves to see an effort in Washington, DC to allocate billions more dollars to bail out Big Offshore Wind developers soon,” Blackmon wrote.
Since the Obama administration, the federal government has been pouring billions into projects to meet environmental goals, only to have the companies go bankrupt.
In 2009, the Obama administration co-signed $535 million in loans to solar panel manufacturing startup Solyndra. Two years later, the company went bankrupt, laying off 1,100 workers.
Climate Of Doom
The Libranos: YOU get a heat pump! and YOU get a heat pump!
We knew the why, now we know the who.
Martyupnorth: Watch this short documentary, and you’ll quickly understand why the Trudeau Liberals want to get a million Newfoundlanders and Maritimers hooked on power by giving them “free” heat pumps.
Desperation In Acapulco
“There is no glass of water, there is no food, every store you can imagine was looted, it’s desperation.”
A thread here, for those without full access. Continue reading
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
No matter how much you hate the media, it’s not enough.
More on the lynch mob that descended on a flight from Tel Aviv looking for Jews.
The Lynch mob has reached Hotel Flamingo in Khasavyurt in Dagestan where a jewish man has checked into. They are threatening him to come out and surrender himself or the mob promises to enter the hotel premises and drag him out.The mob is clearly yearning for the blood of the Jew.
It’s those dirty Russians again: Currently on a @Cornell discussion forum, the kosher dining hall (104 west) is now on lockdown and Jewish students are scared to leave their rooms.
After nearly 80 years denouncing antisemitism and proclaiming it extinct, whole herds are found where the media least expected them.https://t.co/YY7l7CHuKM
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) October 29, 2023
Are We Still A Member Of This Thing?
One must not stand silent in the face of a second Holocaust, the Czech Defense Minister Jana Černochová said as she called on her country to withdraw from the United Nations to protest its failure to condemn Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel.
She spoke of her outrage one day after the UN General Assembly voted 120-14 for a ceasefire for the Gaza War, which focused primarily on the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The UNGA resolution which also had 45 abstentions, did not mention or clearly call for the release of the 230 hostages the terror group took captive on that day.
Safe and Effective®
What would we do without expert urging?
Older adults who received last year’s COVID booster and a high-dose version of the flu vaccine in the same visit may have a potential increased risk of stroke, according to a new FDA-funded study.
Experts urged that the results were preliminary and may be explained by other factors such as the fact that older adults are already at a higher risk for stroke due to their age.
“There is no need for panic, and emphatically no need to stop giving COVID and flu shots at the same time to older adults,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, while he reiterated that more research is needed.
Hide The Incline
Thread here.
This Is My Brother Mohammed And This Is My Other Brother Mohammed
Palestinian Islamic Jihad would like to hire this guy from the Turkish pro-terror protest as head rocket launch commander. He appears to have the right skills.
The Libranos: Saying The Loud Part Out Loud
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Despite a common perception that electric vehicles are cheaper to own and operate than their internal combustion counterparts, a Texas think tank says the true cost is the equivalent of USD$17.33 per gallon — or CAD$6.32 per litre — over the life of the car, after factoring in subsidies and incentives.
The calculations were based on full cycle costs, including charging equipment, associated incentives and both direct and indirect subsidies in the form of avoided fuel taxes, averaged over 10 years and 120,000 miles.
And that’s not even factoring in emissions.
“Setting aside some of the questionable assumptions used in deriving such favorable economics for EVs, no one has attempted to calculate the full financial benefit of the wide array of direct subsidies, regulatory credits, and subsidized infrastructure that contribute to the economic viability of EVs,” wrote Brent Bennett and Jason Isaac on behalf of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
“It is not an overstatement to say that the federal government is subsidizing EVs to a greater degree than even wind and solar electricity generation and embarking on an unprecedented endeavour to remake the entire American auto industry.”
A @MarkGerretsen Poll Goes Horribly Wrong
