Revisionist History

There Goes The Narrative We Are All Treaty People 27 Comments

All my life I’ve had doubts about the notion that the white man killed all the buffalo.

Some wildlife groups state the professional buffalo hunters decimated the bison. However, simple math may prove otherwise. Holt explains that a study by Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 1889, reveals records of animals shot and hides traded show the number of animals killed has never exceeded the natural increase. “Estimates show bison numbers of around 65 million. Every year hundreds of thousands of buffalo were harvested. If they were fossils or statues and you took hundreds of thousands from 21 to 88 million every year, then in 21 to 440 years you’d get rid of them all. But what do tens of millions of bison have every year? They have millions of calves,” Stoneberg Holt explains.

This led her to become very curious as to why bison numbers plummeted in the late 19th century when research shows professional hunters’ extermination of all buffalo was a myth with no factual basis. She discovered two candidates for a death-by-disease theory: Texas tick fever in the Montana area and anthrax in the Nebraska area.

Safe and Effective®

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Alex Berenson;

Yale University scientists have found Covid spike protein in the blood of people who received Covid mRNA shots – up to two years after they received the jabs.

The people were never infected with Covid, antibody tests show, and our immune systems rapidly destroy newly produced spike proteins. The finding suggests some people who took the shots may be making the proteins on their own.

A possible reason is that genetic material delivered in the shots has integrated with human genes and is continuing to activate protein-making structures in our cells. If found to be correct, this explanation has serious implications for mRNA vaccine safety and the more than 1 billion people who received mRNA Covid doses.[…]

They researchers discussed publishing the findings with at least one major peer-reviewed journal, a person with direct knowledge of those discussions said. The journal declined.

The scientists now plan to publish the findings very soon on a unreviewed “pre-print” server so that other researchers and members of the public can see them and discuss their implications. They also intend to send samples to an independent lab for validation, though they do not believe they’re mistaken.

FAA Bans Drones Over New Jersey

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I can hardly wait to see how this turns out.

After a large number of mysterious drones have been reported flying over New Jersey and across the eastern U.S., sparking concern, on Wednesday the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily banned drone flights in 22 areas of New Jersey where critical infrastructure is located.

FAA officials said the flight restrictions were requested by federal security agencies.

The ban is in effect from December 18 at 4:30 p.m. EST until January 17, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. EST.

The NOTAM says the government may use “deadly force” against the drones if they pose an “imminent security threat.”

Tales From The Shady Acres Nursing Home

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WSJ (archived);

To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.

Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and National Economic Council head Lael Brainard and her predecessor frequently in the position of being go-betweens for the president.

Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race. […]

This account of how the White House functioned with an aging leader at the top of its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly 50 people, including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of the operations.

‘Swamp on the Run’

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Roger Simon;

Together [Musk and Ramaswamy] seem to have put paid to yet another egregious, multi-billion dollar CR (continuing resolution) filled with enough pork — some of it written in tired woke phraseology, if you can believe it, with Republicans signed on — to stock every barbecue joint from Atlanta to Bakersfield and have enough left over to supply South Korea (they love their barbecue too).

It was Mr. Ramaswamy who broke it down for us on Mr. Musk’s X. Read the whole thing, if you haven’t but here’s the wrap up…

Clean Electricity Regulations are actually a bait and switch; Weyburn Wind Part 2

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Great Plains Power Station, Moose Jaw, on Dec. 17, its grand opening. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

Here’s the story on Guilbeault’s updated Clean Electricity Regulations, and it includes an at-length discussion with SaskPower Minister Jeremy Harrison explaining why Saskatchewan is rejecting it.

Here’s the key thing: Other media are acting like this is a win – that the deadline has simply been punted to 2050. Well, I actually read through the regulations and realized it’s a bait and switch. In fact, the regulations include an impossible to meet emissions standard for anything that burns anything by 2035. Even if you put carbon capture on every single natural gas and coal power plant in Saskatchewan and Alberta, if the CCS behaves anything like Boundary Dam 3, you won’t get anywhere close to the new standard of 65 tonnes CO2 per gigawatt-hour. So the federal government slyly let people think they’ve punted, when really they haven’t punted at all. Like Lucy, they’re pulling the football away in 10 years and 12 days. (That’s the amount of time we have to build carbon capture on everything. And even if we do, it won’t be good enough. Good luck with that.)

Enbridge’s Weyburn wind project open house, Part 2: Enbridge’s opening statements

It’s as if I should change the name of the website to SaskPowerOnline.ca. Jeepers – this week is almost all power related.

Y2Kyoto: Going Green Coal

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Will Wade, for Bloomberg;

Something strange is happening with utilities.

For decades, electricity usage in the US has been mostly flat. Even with more people starting to use more power for more things, much of that has been offset as buildings, factories and appliances become more efficient.

But suddenly that’s changing, and the industry isn’t ready. Big tech companies need lots of electricity, for data centers and especially for artificial intelligence. Homes are using more electricity for heating and cooling. Factories need more electricity to shift away from fossil fuels.

And when faced with this sudden increase of load on the power grid, utilities are going to rely heavily on natural gas, and even coal.

“It will be a struggle to meet load growth,” said Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, a Washington-based research company that’s been tracking this trend. He expects US demand to for electricity to climb almost 16% over the next five years, more than triple his estimate from a year ago. Utilities are expecting customers to need as much as 128 gigawatts of new capacity in 2029.

That’s really going to disrupt the green transition. Power providers that have made pledges to cut back or eliminate carbon emissions are now starting to reverse course. Duke Energy Corp. plans to extend the life of its largest coal-fired power plant, which would push aside its goal to exit coal by 2035. Duke has said that its resource plans are not final decisions and are revised regularly.

FirstEnergy also will operate a pair of coal plants, stepping back from an earlier pledge to stop using the fuel by 2030. And energy companies in the US are planning new gas plants at the fastest pace in years.

And all of that is before Donald Trump returns to the White House next month. The president-elect is well-known for his support of fossil fuels and his skepticism of climate policies.

Housing Bust

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As Ron Butler informs us in a recent commentary on X, the Toronto condominium market is looking a little shaky these days.

Here are the highlights:

Call yesterday about a $920K Pre-Con Condo purchase…

20% deposit & the Buyers instinct is to walk away. Value of that $920K purchase today at BEST $800K at worst $725K but FALLING…

What they really wanted was to walk away from the Pre-Con Purchase because even if they went ahead & closed on the unit they estimate they would lose $1500 month on what rent they could get versus their monthly costs…

The Developer would sue & would win & also win “Costs”. These Buyers would pay a chunk of the Developer’s legal fees…

These are calls happening all over the GTA daily….

Unroll here.

Weyburn wind open house, Part 1

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Enbridge’s Weyburn wind project open house, Part 1: Setting the stage

It was a contrite Enbridge which presented a second open house in Weyburn for its planned 200 megawatt wind project, to be located east of the community. The project has seen several revisions, and Enbridge representatives repeatedly spoke about correcting mistakes and working with people affected by the proposed project.

Note: This story ended up being so massive, it needed to be broken up into several parts just to make it manageable and yet still allow a great deal of depth on a topic very important to Weyburn.

On top of that, there is a LOT going on in the power space right now, with the Tuesday release of the revised Clean Electricity Regulations and on the same day as the grand opening of the Great Plains Power Station at Moose Jaw which Pipeline Online attended. There’s a lot of catching up to do, so please bear with me. Here’s Enbridge’s Weyburn wind project open house, Part 1: Setting the stage.

I’ve never seen a multi-billion behemoth like Enbridge be so apologetic for wanting to spend around a third of a billion around a community.

Enbridge folks said “apology” or “apologize” five times, and “sorry” twice. I checked my transcript.

I expect they still feel sore about losing Northern Gateway, where First Nations claimed Enbridge spoke to them like they owned the place. It was clear this was an entirely different approach.

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