From China to South America to Texas.
GB News- Darién Gap difficulty | Mass migration through one of ‘the most IMPENETRABLE jungles in the world’
DW News- Record half-million migrants crossed the Darien Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama
Yes, But They Didn’t Steal *My* Car
Perhaps it would be ungentlemanly to wish on dear Nora some first-hand experience of the crimes she so merrily diminishes when inflicted on someone else, someone who isn’t her. Though it is, I think, tempting.
Habitual car theft is a “victimless” crime. Says Nora the socialist.
The Libranos: ArriveScam
Follow the science.
It seems the reason ArriveCan ended on Sep 30, 2022 had nothing to do with science, nor safety. It had to do with a time-limited *privacy impact exemption* that the Treasury Board/ Privacy Commissioner granted to Public Health Agency of Canada back on May 4, 2021.
Why would an App that collects data about folks’ names, addresses, cell, email, jab status, etc.- developed by a mysterious group of expensive consultants- need an exemption to a Privacy Impact Assessment? Why didn’t it want typical oversight? How & with whom was it sharing info?
Here is a link to the full ATIP, where the Treasury Board/Information Commissioner granted PHAC a time-limited Privacy Impact Assessment waiver… ending on, yup, *Sep 30, 2022*.
Once PHAC would have to account for privacy issues, it abandoned the app.
And more: Corruption, Cover-Ups, and the Battle for Accountability
Missing And Misappropriated Aboriginal Money?
If your reserve was sitting on substantial oil and gas deposits you’d have to have pretty lousy management to lose track of $120 million, but accountability is probably an outdated artifact of the colonial mindset anyway.
Public financial reports for Frog Lake First Nation show the band is short $120 million in net assets over a five-year time period between 2013 and 2018.
The records show the band-owned business called Frog Lake Energy Resources has been losing millions of dollars since 2015.
APTN reached out the current Chief Greg Desjarlais and initially agreed to an interview but later cancelled.
In a virtual meeting with community members he says that an audit is unnecessary.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
The future is bipartisan.
Bomb Norway
An Norwegian parliamentary official said that he nominated the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for the Nobel Peace Prize this week, after Israeli intelligence alleged that UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel.
At least twelve UNRWA staffers participated in the attack, an Israeli intelligence dossier revealed last week, and 1,200 of UNRWA’s 12,000 staffers in Gaza have ties to Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Several countries, including the U.S., have since suspended funding for UNRWA.
Labour MP Asmund Aukrust said he nominated UNRWA “for its long-term work to provide vital support to Palestine and the region in general,” and added that “this work has been crucial for over 70 years, and even more vital in the last three months.”
When they tell you who they are…
[Åsmund Grøver Aukrust] served as deputy leader of the Workers’ Youth League from 2010 to 2014.[5] He originally ran for the leadership, but narrowly lost the vote to Eskil Pedersen in a closely contested race,[6] although the election committee overwhelmingly favored him.[7] On 25 April 2011, he was elected vice president of the International Union of Socialist Youth.[8]
One For The ‘Everything It Touches’ Pile
Apparently, San Francisco’s elementary-school children are expected to have, or at least regurgitate, strong opinions on the Israeli military.
Many young children are of course accustomed to being given a “word of the day,” though I would guess that such highlighted words don’t usually include “strike,” “ceasefire,” and “protest.” Nor, I suspect, would third-graders often be tasked with “disrupting whiteness,” which seems somewhat ambitious and just a tad question-begging, or with imagining “a world without police, money, or landlords.” Yet here we are.
The Young Elites
A good description of the elites in Canada as well. They are protesting against their own best interests.
Beware The White Robots
A professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh recently expressed concern over the lack of diversity among the robot population.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
Hello darkness, my new friend.
Researchers have been raising general alarms about AI’s hefty energy requirements over the past few months. But a peer-reviewed analysis published this week in Joule is one of the first to quantify the demand that is quickly materializing. A continuation of the current trends in AI capacity and adoption are set to lead to NVIDIA shipping 1.5 million AI server units per year by 2027. These 1.5 million servers, running at full capacity, would consume at least 85.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually—more than what many small countries use in a year, according to the new assessment.
We’re gonna need a bigger solar panel.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
DEI: How Canada’s professional colleges are weakening our medical, legal, and physical infrastructure
What Happened To All My Free Stuff?
No doubt all the Keynesian court economists will tell us that the solution to this problem would be to forgive the loans in their entirety.
Last month, small businesses faced a deadline to repay interest-free loans of C$60,000 ($44,676) made available to each of them during the pandemic. Of the 900,000 who had taken the government support, a fifth have not yet repaid their loans, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday.
The Doctor Will Kill You Now
Honk, Honk!
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
A Guide To Which Statues You Can And Can’t Tear Down
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Trucks
Depopulation Agenda: “Truckers need proven technology, because if technology fails, the entire supply chain will be dead in the water. Failure is not merely inconvenient, it’s catastrophic. And this is not an option, especially for the food supply chain of America.”
History agrees.
The Part I Like Best
… about cannabis decriminalization is how it forced violent drug dealers out of business.
“The violence is getting worse. The stakes are getting higher,” said dispensary owner Jerred Kiloh, who also heads the United Cannabis Business Association, a Los Angeles-based trade group. He said many of the organization’s members have seen their dispensaries robbed one or more times, sometimes by the same thieves.
“The Last Refuge of the Pointless Politician
Spiked- I ban, therefore I am
Beware a politician in search of a legacy. Rishi Sunak, in a desperate attempt to find something, anything, to point to as an achievement, has taken to banning things that this teetotal, straight-edge prime minister has probably never tried and clearly doesn’t understand.
The Bad Argument Contest Winner Is….
While John Ivison starts out with a sensible premise, that the Trudeau liberals are sending the Canadian economy off the rails, he can’t seem to resist sending his own op-ed off the rails by attempting to associate a discredited Keynesian nostrum with libertarian Argentinian President Javier Milei.
At the same time, Milei’s invocation of the animal spirits of wealth creation is all but absent from the collectivist capitalism pushed by Freeland and Justin Trudeau.
It gets even worse when Ivison blames the 2008 financial collapse not on inept monetary policy driven by a failing fiat currency system but rather on the leftist boogeyman of “deregulation”.
What about the crash of 2008, which was the product of too little regulation, rather than too much?
Mortgage Market Blowup?
I’ve been expecting an implosion in the mortgage market for some time given the rise in interest rates relative to the debt that has to be supported, but so far that isn’t happening. It seems our friend Ron Butler has become privy to information that indicates a black swan event may not be far off, however.
Mortgage Investment Fund Blowing Up Soon: What Investors Need To Know About Mortgage Related Funds
We will read about a multi-million dollar Mortgage & Promissory Note Fund blowing up in the coming days & weeks
I will let big media with lots of lawyers name names
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— Ron Butler (@ronmortgageguy) January 30, 2024