Category: Surveillance State

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

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And of course the we need to hear from Tamara and Big Red on the only Canadian news source with any integrity.

War On Beef

You will live in a pod and eat bugs.

…the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is moving forward with expanded identification and traceability regulations that will require farmers and ranchers to report livestock movements in significantly greater detail. These rules were first proposed in 2023. Conservatives opposed them then, and they oppose them now, because they add new regulatory costs at a moment when households are already being asked to absorb higher food prices and producers are operating under documented financial strain.

(A point repeatedly missed by commentators who write on food prices: commercial beef is sold at auction. Like most western Canadian commodities, there’s no mechanism for producers to recover expenses because they don’t set the price, and their regulatory costs aren’t passed along to the consumer directly.)

John Barlow, the Conservative agriculture critic, released a statement warning that these regulations add yet another layer of red tape onto producers who are already being crushed by higher fuel costs, higher energy prices, labour shortages, drought, and regulatory overload. These aren’t large multinational corporations. These are family farms, ranchers, and community-based agricultural groups trying to survive.[…]

Indeed: The same dysfunctional @liberal_party that has ‘misplaced’ millions of TFW’s, Int’l students, uninvited immigrants etc., and DON’T CARE about finding & sending them home …. Now wants to pinpoint & track EVERY f*kin cow in the food chain??

Farmers would be required to track and report routine livestock movements that were previously informal or community-based, including movements tied to agricultural fairs, 4-H events, rodeos, and local exhibitions.

Those groups have been very clear about what this means. It means more paperwork, more compliance costs, more liability, and fewer events. It threatens youth programs, rural traditions, and the local economies that depend on them. This isn’t theory, these organizations told regulators directly that they may not be able to continue operating under the new rules.

More detail from Alberta Beef Producers: Proposed Part XV of the Health of Animal Regulations

The House Always Wins

David Clinton- What Do Loyalty Rewards Programs Cost Us?

Every time you participate in such a program, the data associated with that activity will be collected and aggregated along with everything else known about you. It’s more than likely that points-based data is being combined with everything connected to your mobile phone account, email addresses, credit cards, provincial health card, and – possibly – your Social Insurance number. The depth and accuracy of your digital profile improves daily.

Just Say No

Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms- Digital ID Petition

Digital ID programs equip governments to access your personal information.
The government should not know about your interests, beliefs, behaviours, transactions, performance, personality, or preferences.
The government should not know more about you than your friends or family.
We, the undersigned, call upon provincial and federal governments to ban digital ID programs that violate the privacy of Canadians.

h/t Scott

Papers Please

Armstrong Economics- The EU and Canada Collaborate on Digital IDs

The danger here is obvious. Mutual recognition means a unified framework. They’re building a foundation to establish a GLOBAL digital ID. Once these systems talk to one another, you have created the architecture for a worldwide database controlled by the political elite. This is precisely what the EU has been pushing with its Digital Services Act and the infamous “digital wallet” proposal. Now they are exporting it, just as they exported their disastrous ideas on Net Zero and financial regulation. Canada, collapsing economically and politically, is following Brussels into the abyss.

Keir Starmer’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and the sun never sets on the Censorship Industrial-Complex Empire.

Very early into the COVID-19 pandemic, ZeroHedge suggested that a little-known Chinese lab in Wuhan might know something about the novel coronavirus sweeping the globe. As a result, and as you know, we were subject to an intense demonetization / deplatforming campaign that included getting kicked off of Twitter, PayPal, Facebook and other platforms, dropped by our advertisers, and targeted by MSM hit pieces which colluded with foreign ‘watchdogs’ to inflict maximum damage.

These same groups also targeted outlets including The Federalist and Breitbart over various reporting, which suffered similar fates.

Now, thanks to a new book by investigative journalist Paul Holden that builds on reporting by Matt Taibbi, Paul Thacker and others, we learn that the origin of these campaigns, launched years before the pandemic, was none other than UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s political machine, which began targeting left-wing outlets speaking critically of Starmer such as The Canary, and then went after conservative outlets in America – just in time for the 2020 US election.

Related.

Tony Blair’s Britain

Recommended by a reader, via email; I have said to all and sundry for the last 20+ years that history will eventually finger Blair for the destruction of Britain a feat he accomplished without a foreign military just a subversive army of fabian professionals.

England is under attack, from all sides, and within

On the election of Tony Blair in 1997, what remained of our constitution was pasted over by a nu-constitution; a series of key acts and treaties ranging from The HRA, Constitutional Reform Act (2005) to the signing of the Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon Treaties with the EU. The Blairite constitution accepted all aspects of the post-war consensus, from its Never Again-isms to the necessity of closer union with Europe – it attempted to give legal permanence to every millennial assumption about a globalised world, at the zenith of the globalist moment. To do so, it impliedly repealed many of our key constitutional documents and weakened Parliament’s influence, shifting responsibility away from it, in three directions. The nu-constitution essentially castrated our sole lawmaking body – balls, shaft and head – a procedure which nobody has dared to reverse.

Grab a coffee.

“Minority Report”

Sam Cooper- “Fear or Freedom”: U.S. Lawmakers Warn CCP’s Digital Authoritarianism Is Going Global

Beijing’s one-party rule, enforced through “social stability maintenance” and mass data collection, is now being grafted onto global systems of communication, finance, and infrastructure. “What the CCP is doing will not stay confined within the PRC’s borders,” the report warns. “Its authoritarian practices are spreading outward, shaping a world increasingly hostile to America’s values and strategic interests.”

Hell To The No

Blacklock’s- Ask MPs To Permit Digital ID

“To modernize and support enhanced passenger experience we ask that the government endorse system-wide border and screening modernization including immediate regulatory changes,” Toronto’s Pearson International Airport wrote in a committee submission. It recommended amendments to Secure Air Travel Regulations to “enable digital ID to be recognized.”

Regulations currently require that domestic passengers over age 18 carry government-issue photo ID like a passport or driver’s license. Pearson Airport managers sought “a comprehensive set of regulations to enable digital ID and biometrics.”

Dispatches from the Maple Gulag Truck Stop

In 2 minutes Gord Magill explains every problem with the trucking industry and why 80,000lb+ missiles are being launched into school buses and minivans.

 

Keir Starmer’s Britain

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch and what does Britain’s collapse teach us?

It’s not just tweets. People are being punished for peacefully marching, for petitioning the government, and even for displaying the British flag.

It’s not that much better elsewhere. France prosecuted its leading opposition figure, and Germany is doing its best to outlaw the main opposition party. (And the suspicious deaths of that party’s candidates just before an election aren’t inspiring confidence either.)

These nations are supposed to be democracies. Yet while “democracy” may not mean that the people get an unmediated fulfillment of every wish, it should at least mean that things that are heavily opposed by the populace don’t happen.

It also teaches us “always listen to Kate”, who set the foxes to caper under “Tony Blair’s Britain“.

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