Taibbi And Kirn
The always entertaining duo of America This Week closes out 2024 with an end of the year live stream. (Begins at 8pm eastern).
Dead Man Skiing
The Children Are Our Future
Trust The “Science”
National Post- Ottawa-funded social justice research isn’t science
The now-widespread practice of requiring researchers to submit statements affirming their commitment to DEI with their applications for jobs and grants incentivizes lying, Prof. Geoff Horsman, a Wilfrid Laurier University biochemist, told the committee in early December. Some grant applications even evaluate socioeconomic and environmental impacts — which is open to the interpretation of those granting the funds.
Unexpectedly
Another 653,000 fake jobs revised away by govt statisticians. They were faking the data during 2023 and 2024 to try to boost Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
In the revisions, they have also admitted to 818,000 fake jobs being removed from the 2023 data.
Now the truth is coming out. Plus as soon as Trump takes office expect the entrenched left wing staff will start portraying the economic data has negative. We won’t find out till much later during the revisions.
It’s A Way of Life
You’re going to love it!
The Food Professor- “As a scientist, the biggest scandal in 2024 was the revelation that Ottawa funded research to convince Canadians that the carbon tax had minimal impact on their food costs. Ottawa used scientific propaganda by academics such as Winter, Tombe, Fellows, and Leach, all funded by Guilbault and ECCC. It was both embarrassing and disheartening.”
Sinking Like a BRIC
It’s doubtful that the Brazilian Real will become part of a new reserve currency anytime soon. Brazil is yet another example of the Zimbabwe solution in action.
The real has weakened almost 22% against the US dollar this year, the worst among 31 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg. Losses accelerated in November after a long-awaited fiscal package underwhelmed investors. Not even a historic intervention by the central bank — spending some $20 billion in reserves in two weeks — has been able to reverse the rout.
Entitled To Their Entitlements
Coming Soon?
David Jacobs- Trudeau can prorogue Parliament before it returns from the winter break. He can extend the prorogation indefinitely by issuing new proclamations or choosing a time of prorogation as long as his remaining time in office.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
This week, the Wall Street Journal released an alarming report on how the Biden administration may have suppressed dissenting views supporting the lab theory on the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Not only were the FBI and its top experts excluded from a critical briefing of President Biden, but government scientists were reportedly warned that they were “off the reservation” in supporting the lab theory.
The chilling suggestion is that, despite the virus ultimately killing more than 1.2 million Americans and over 7 million people worldwide, there was still an overriding interest in the administration to downplay the Chinese responsibility for the pandemic.
The Journal lays out how that unfolded, but the more disturbing question is why.
The article provides many examples of how dissenting views were marginalized and discouraged within the government. After President Trump described the virus as the “China virus” and alleged that it likely came from a lab, dismissing the lab theory became an article of faith in politics and academia.
The problem was that FBI researchers had concluded that the lab theory was the most credible explanation. But their lead researcher, Dr. Jason Bannan, was kept out of the key meeting, and their opposing research was discounted or ignored.
I. Napoleon
The Stupid Party
The Great Fake H1-B Controversy
Sigmund Freud had a term for it—the “narcissism of small differences”.
In this case, Wikipedia explains it well: “… the more a relationship or community shares commonalities, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences.”
We all recognize this pattern that manifests in various ways from the bickering of married couples to successful rock bands breaking up. The most minor disputes explode into major ones that no one wanted in the first place with sometimes disastrous results.
This fits the internal MAGA dispute over H1-B visas to the proverbial T. The only ones who profit from this kerfuffle, or whatever it is, are the left and their fading media allies, desperate for something to latch onto about MAGA and create dissension.
Do we want to give them that privilege at this point? Frankly, I think it’s stupid, especially for a disagreement that would likely work itself out almost automatically and favorably for almost all concerned anyway.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
It’s unclear if the Chinese hackers have been fully evicted from all of the U.S. telecommunications networks. Earlier this month, Neuberger said that none of the providers have managed to oust the Chinese hackers from their networks, an assertion that T-Mobile and Lumen have refuted.
Neuberger explained that once Chinese hackers infiltrated telecommunication networks, they essentially had “broad and full access” to American data, which allowed them to “geolocate millions of individuals” and “record phone calls at will.”
Monday On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: Race based discrimination. The fall of Trudeau’s Canada. Today at the CBC.
Dementia Joe’s America: Biden’s migrants. A black Klansman. The Carter legacy.
Odds And Ends: Worse than fiction. Revenge of the real economy. Elon Musk and Germany.
December 30, 2024: Reader Tips
On this penultimate day of the year, we present World War 2, A Complete Overview [1930 – 1945]
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
Snow plowing in 1939-40
Jimmy Carter, RIP
The New Aryans
When public discourse devolves into an obsession with blood and soil, things never turn out well.
The Supreme Court of Canada, in its 2016 Daniels decision, which declared that Metis persons were potentially entitled to unspecified rights traditionally granted only to Indian Act Indians and Inuits, gave its seal of approval to the application of Aryan race theory in Canada to the situation of Aboriginal peoples generally.
The Court wrote that if a person possesses “sufficient racial and social characteristics to be considered a “native person”, that individual will be regarded as an “Indian”.
The Court defined legal rights based on considerations of “mixed ancestry” and “Native hereditary basis”- race terms.
It even made an uncritical reference to “Indian blood”, as if it were a biological fact, when in fact it is scientifically nonsensical.
Har
Whenever Trump talks about annexing Canada. pic.twitter.com/Olt2BhI9ky
— Just Bins (@JustBins) December 29, 2024