Category: Great Moments In Socialism

The Thing I like Best About Harm Reduction Programs

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Is the way they reduce harm.

Police in Kingston, Ont., say they’ve arrested a male suspect after a violent daytime assault left two people dead and one in hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Kingston police say they arrested the suspect without further incident just before 5 p.m., after negotiating his surrender for several hours.

Spokesperson Const. Anthony Colangeli says police received reports that the suspect may have been wielding an edged or blunt weapon, possibly both.

Police say officers were called to an encampment around a safe injection site and Integrated Care Hub around 10:40 a.m. after a report of a serious assault.

Your Phone Is Not Your Friend

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And it certainly shouldn’t be your therapist.

Robert Malone- iPhone Mental Health Assessments

Bottom line- no data is 100% secure, and this is mental health data. Data that might be extremely embarrassing, career-damaging, or has the potential to disrupt family relationships. Remember, no one knows what new laws, regulations, or mores might come to pass years from now. This type of information should not be harvested and stored.

Furthermore, trusting that iPhone will never sell that data or pass it off to research groups is very naive. In fact, mental health data is already being mined.

You Will Eat Bugs, Live In A Pod, Own Nothing And You Will Like It

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I Will Not Eat Crickets – A book review by Rick McGinnis.

There are many recent books that share the same targets as Díaz without his satirical tone, but you have to understand up front that his target—globalism—has had a sea change in its definition and its opponents in the last generation. Back when free trade was an article of conservative political faith, the globalist worldview was embraced by people who wanted to lower costs, broaden supply chains, and – as they sold it in a best-case scenario – export economic prosperity from first to third worlds as they offshored labour.

Like most ideal scenarios, it didn’t quite work out as planned.

Racial Profiles

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After the end of South Africa’s policy of Apartheid, one would have thought that laws sorting people by race would be a thing of the past, right? Well, think again. As the Institute for Race Relations points out, from 1910 to the present 314 racial acts have been passed by their parliament. However, 117 of those acts have been adopted since 1994, and 141 racial acts are operative today.

Almost immediately [after 1994], however, the government began (re)enacting race law and pursuing racial policy. The two most notable instances of this are the 1998 Employment Equity Act and the 2003 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act. Various other pieces of legislation exist among dozens of charters, plans, regulations, directives, notices, and policies that attempt to regulate aspects of society along racial lines and racialise commerce.

 

The Totalitarian Mindset

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If the Green Party ever gets ahold of the levers of government, western civilization will be done like dinner.

“We must stop the spread of anti-human and anti-constitutional content on the internet,” demanded Hofreiter, who serves as the chairman of the European Affairs Committee in the Bundestag. Violations of applicable law must be punished consistently. With regard to social networks, this means that they “will be blocked if necessary,” said the Green politician. This would also include the X platform owned by Elon Musk, which the left views as an imminent threat due to its emphasis on free speech, according to Frankfurter Rundschau.

Average Nonsense

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Economist Frank Shostak delves into the perplexing issue of governments attempting to discern an “average” price level for the economy or calculating GDP “growth”. In a nutshell, the whole idea is nuts.

Suppose two transactions were conducted: In the first transaction, one TV set is exchanged for $1,000; in the second transaction, one shirt is exchanged for $40. The price or in the first transaction is $1000/1 TV set. The price in the second transaction is $40/1 shirt. In order to calculate the “average price,” we must add these two ratios together and divide them by two. But $1000/1 TV set cannot be added to $40/1 shirt, implying that it is not possible to establish the “average price.”

The employment of various sophisticated methods to calculate the “average price” cannot bypass the essential issue that it is not possible to establish an average price of various goods and services. Accordingly, various price indices that government statisticians compute are simply arbitrary numbers. If price deflators are meaningless, so is the real GDP statistic.

 

If It Wasn’t For Government

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Who would leave you stranded on a passenger train.

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Passengers aboard VIA Rail Train 622 on a Labour Day weekend trip from Montréal to Québec City were stranded within sight of the Trans-Canada Highway near Drummondville, Que. due to engine trouble. Travelers were told to stay put for hours without food or washroom facilities as a stench akin to burning rubber filled the cars.

Parliament created VIA Rail in 1978 as a passenger service formerly run by Canadian National Railway, then a Crown corporation. Operating losses in recent years totaled $415.7 million in 2020, $370.5 million in 2021, $354.3 million in 2022 and $381.8 million in 2023.

“Mayor Jyoti Gondek” Is Not A Character In A Tim Burton Movie

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But she should be.

Calgary is dumping over $500 million into electric buses.

There was supposed to be a pilot program starting in 2022 with a handful of community shuttles. The purchase was done, but they still haven’t been delivered.

Meanwhile, the city said to hell with the pilot and committed to blowing half a billion on this. They felt that they didn’t need a pilot program because it worked so well in Edmonton. This was shortly before Edmonton’s electric bus fleet fell apart.

This is the next big boondoggle folks.

Made-up Numbers

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It’s not unreasonable to assume that government statisticians routinely “massage” unemployment numbers in order to allow their political bosses to claim that the economy is in better shape than it actually is. Economist Ryan McMaken delves into the mechanics of this smoke and mirrors game.

The establishment survey report shows that total jobs—a total that includes both part-time and full-time jobs—increased, month over month, in August by 142,000. The establishment survey measures only total jobs, however, and does not measure the number of employed persons. That means that even when job growth comes mostly from people working multiple part-time jobs, the establishment survey shows increases while the total number of employed persons does not. In fact, total employed persons can fall while total jobs increases. For instance, the total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. This is in contrast to a gain of 2.3 million “jobs” in the establishment survey over the same period.

Jobs? What Jobs?

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One possible reason why the marginal consumer is tapped out and reluctant to spend is because he’s no longer employed.

Canada’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.6 per cent in August, Statistics Canada said on Friday, more than economists expected as the labour market added a net 22,100 jobs largely in part-time work.

The unemployment rate is now at its the highest level since May 2017, outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, as job growth has failed to keep up with a surge in Canada’s population.

But not to worry. The Bank of Canada will just slash interest rates and fix everything.

Traders in overnight index swaps boosted bets that the Bank of Canada would need to cut by 50 basis points at its next meeting in October, according to Bloomberg data.

Economic Headwinds

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So much for “normalizing” interest rates. When even the mainstream financial media is picking up on the idea that interest rates are not only going to fall, but fall quickly, you just know that a recession is baked in the cake.

Billionaire John Paulson said the Federal Reserve has waited too long to cut interest rates and expects the central bank to lower them in the months ahead.

By the end of next year, “my best guesstimate would be around 3%, perhaps 2.5%” for the federal funds rate, Paulson, 68, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television.

The City They Voted For

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Vancouver Sun;

A man with a history of mental illness, violent offences and more than 60 police interactions across the region was identified as a suspect Wednesday in unprovoked attacks in downtown Vancouver that left one man dead and another with a severed hand.

Vancouver police said they couldn’t identify the 34-year-old White Rock man as he hadn’t yet been charged.

“What I can tell you is this appears to be a very troubled man who has a lengthy history of mental-health-related incidents that have resulted in 60 documented contacts with police throughout Metro Vancouver,” Police Chief Adam Palmer told a news conference.[…]

Officers found a 56-year-old man nearby who had been attacked with a knife on the steps of the church and bleeding from his head. The victim’s left hand had also been cut off. He was taken to hospital and was expected to survive.

Eight minutes after the first attack, officers rushed to Queen Elizabeth Theatre at West Georgia and Hamilton streets where another man, believed to be about 70 years old, was attacked. He died at the scene.

Eat some eyeballs, apply for a name change and you’re golden, son.

“This is a population rife for Leftist hatecraft …”

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A thread by James Lindsay.

As many of you know, I’m currently reading (when I have time to read) about the historical facts of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, which are shocking. We know our kids are being made into a new Red Guard, but as I learn, I see it far more in the illegal aliens in our countries.

The details about how Mao, together with his general Lin Biao and propagandist Chen Boda, were able to build (1962-1966) and then unleash (June-August 1966) the Red Guard in China, especially Beijing, did not make me think of our brainwashed kids. They remind me of “migrants.”

Aside from the raging Communist hatred and focus on the person of Mao, there are two key forces that created the Red Guard:
1) A “dreamer” population whipped up against class enemies, that’s new to the population (kids in China)
2) A two-tier legal system protecting them.

In China, Mao unleashed relentless propaganda, with the help of Lin and Chen, mostly targeting children, that
(a) extolled revolutionary heroes and martyrs
(b) decried secret class enemies through all the ranks of society.

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