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Friday On Turtle Island
Religion Of Peace News: Why isn’t there a Palestinian state? The other apostates (JW). Jewish students forced to sign a gag order (JW). This week in Jihad (JW). The roots of Jew-hatred.
Dementia Joe’s America: Biden’s phony red line. The corrupt FBI. Conservatives finally get a big win. Coming to America. This week in really big lies.
China Virus News: Starving the old people. The winter death toll.
Blackie’s Canada: Canada’s euthanasia programme. Apparently the Ontario NDP leader isn’t anti-Semitic enough. Today Trudeau burns jet fuel to Montreal, for some great photo-ops.
Your morning meme.
Oddments For The Weekend
Including an attempt to prevent chafing; a child relocation device; trimming with lasers; hipster conkers; and some remarkably thorough guides to the chairs of Star Trek, Doctor Who, and Blake’s 7.
Only 3% Uptake by Americans of the new Covid jab
October 27, 2023: Reader Tips
This evening we present an interesting talk entitled Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols by Rob Henderson.
Your most interesting tips of late are always appreciated.
“Yara Jamal is no longer with CTV Atlantic”
Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
BLINK
The internals must be dripping with blood.
Good catch, there – After years of telling us that most households are getting more money back from the carbon tax than they pay, Trudeau today announced a three year pause of his carbon tax on home heating oil to make life more affordable…
@dantappin – So why not then a natural gas pause also? . Which electoral districts primarily use heating oil?
“I recognize that some of the language I used was reprehensible”
Sorry, guys, I didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
What Church Burnings?
If only they had been mosques, then it would be a different story. NDP/Liberal coalition shuts down discussion about church burnings.
I, Pocohontas
Canadians are so racist people pretend to be Indians.
A Canadian news documentary airing at the end of the week focuses on the Native identity claims of one of the most celebrated performers in entertainment history.
Titled “Making an Icon,” the description for the upcoming episode of The Fifth Estate on CBC News does not mention the name of the subject. But multiple Native people who took part in the documentary process told Indianz.Com that it’s about Buffy Sainte-Marie, whose decades-long career in music, television and education rests on her claim of being Cree from the Piapot Cree Nation, one of the First Nations in the province of Saskatchewan.
“An icon’s claims to Indigenous ancestry are being called into question by family members and an investigation that included genealogical documentation, historical research and personal accounts,” the description for the October 27 episode reads.
The documentary comes at a defining time for a performer whose life has been filled with groundbreaking moments. On August 3, Sainte-Marie, who turned 82 earlier this year, surprised her followers by declaring her “retirement from live performance. The announcement cited “travel-induced health concerns and performance-inhibiting physical challenges” facing the aging musician. […]
But the Native people who participated in CBC’s documentary process believe Sainte-Marie’s decision to step away from the spotlight is directly connected to the questions about her First Nations identity. According to the sources, work on the hour-long episode began more than a year ago and it grew to include interviews with individuals in the United States, where the performer was raised following claims to have been born in Canada and adopted out of Piapot.
Due to the lengthy production time associated with the CBC project, Sainte-Marie would have been well aware of the nature of the documentary — especially of its potential to unravel a career that began in the 1960s, the people said. The award-winning singer and songwriter has largely remained silent about her retirement decision, with no significant interviews appearing in mainstream media since her announcement more than two months ago.
Is Rushing towards WW3 the “current thing”?
Left or Right, things are very much awry in DC and elsewhere.
Is Pierre Poilievre Who Canada Needs Now or Just Another “Politician”?
The public wind has obviously switched – so the man with no principles or backbone feels safe to say what he should have said from the beginning: Bodily Autonomy is a Human Right.
After three years @PierrePoilievre finally decides that the Nuremberg Trials, Medical Protocols,… https://t.co/QS5jpHo7wF
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) October 25, 2023
h/t James MacMaster
Saskatchewan will use the Sask First Act to fight the feds on climate change initiatives
It was a full year ago when the Saskatchewan First Act was introduced and then brought into law. But now the provincial government is going to use it to fight the federal government’s climate change initiatives on Clean Electricity Regulations, Clean Fuel Standard, and an incoming emissions cap for oil and gas.
And here’s why:
Another day of near-flatline wind power production in Alberta on Wednesday. 13 of 38 wind farms produce 1 megawatt, or less (as in zero) for 24 hours. Several of those had capacities in the 100 to 200 megawatt range. And all the got was one, for a few minutes at a time.
And despite renewables clearly failing miserably, as noted above, Canada needs to move faster on renewable energy, Jonathan Wilkinson says.
There were some other energy issues raised in Wednesday’s Throne Speech.
Cashing out
With all the talk of a cashless society afoot, it’s worth exploring what the consequences might be. In short, nothing good can come of this.
Now, let’s say that cash has been eliminated by some legal means and that you have angered the powers that be for some reason—probably for opposing them and asking others to oppose them too. All the banks must do is to freeze your bank account or eliminate it entirely. There are two examples of this very thing happening in the recent past.
First, the government of Canada froze the bank accounts of all those participating in the Canadian truckers’ general strike plus those who helped them. Second, British politician Nigel Farage had his accounts closed for political reasons and found that no other British bank would serve him. Without the means to use money, Farage came very close to emigrating. Just think about that for a moment. You could not fuel your car, buy groceries, pay your rent, or do a hundred other things without access to a bank account.
End Of Oil
From today’s Energy Daily newsletter (Bloomberg);
Look out, shale. Competition from the deep sea is roaring back.
The Big Three oilfield service providers — SLB, Baker Hughes Co. and Halliburton Co. — have said for months the hottest new spots to drill are shifting from the West Texas Plains to the waters off South America and elsewhere. Now this week, Chevron Corp. made a $53 billion bet on the deep-sea oil deposits off Guyana by agreeing to buy Hess Corp.
Meanwhile, Noble Corp., the biggest offshore drilling contractor by market value, is gearing up for explorers to put as many as 10 deep-water rigs back to work next year. Compare that with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ latest survey of shale executives, who said the number of US onshore rigs is apt to remain flat for the next six months.
Guyana and South America, eh? Further down the page…
Siemens Energy AG is in talks with the German government about securing state guarantees as it struggles to shore up its troubled wind-turbine unit. The company is seeking about €16 billion ($16.9 billion) in backstops over two years, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tribalism In America (and Canada)
A multicultural society of diverse, unassimilated, and often rival tribes-historically is a prescription for collective suicide. – Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: How to be a good man. Oregon declares tests are racist. Life in California. A media precision defence. Joe Biden doesn’t believe Israel can take out Hamas. Newsom wants to be buddies with Xi. A lesbian group disinvites Zionists from movie night. Biden is obstructing Israel. Universities celebrate the mass murder of Jews.
Blackie’s Canada: Ontario Law Society refuses to comment. Hamas’s Toronto School Board. China’s bought and paid for Canadian media.
Religion Of Peace News: Our NATO ally (JW). Apparently Muslims hate music festivals (JW). A note found on dead terrorist.
China Virus News: What is behind the rise in heart failure deaths? The Sturgeon lockdown.
Your morning meme. Bonus meme.
Ban All The Things!
Montreal will ban gas-powered systems in new construction starting next fall, with some notable exceptions.
The new regulation, adopted by the city’s executive committee this morning, will apply to new, small buildings — up to three storeys and 600 square metres in area — as of Oct. 1, 2024, and larger buildings starting six months later.
Examples of soon-to-be prohibited systems include residential gas-powered stoves, indoor gas fireplaces, hot water heaters and furnaces that emit greenhouse gases and barbecues and pool or spa heaters that draw from gas lines.
The city says exceptions include emergency generators, commercial stoves in restaurants, gas-powered barbecues with removable tanks and temporary heating devices used during construction work.
Industrial buildings are also exempt, as are combustion heaters in larger buildings that draw only from renewable sources of gas.
October 26, 2023: Reader Tips
Given that I spent wayyyyyyy too much of my teenage years scrounging for quarters to play pinball, I found this video particularly fascinating.
Your two bits, or more valuable, tips are much appreciated!
Sophie’s Choice
Ann Rolle: They separated in January 2020. Remember Christmas 2019 Trudeau was alone in the Caribbean. For years we paid her expenses. Years.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire Trudeau announced in August that they had legally separated, neither offered any explanation as to why their 18-year marriage had come to an end.
But according to allegations in a divorce claim against an Ottawa pediatric surgeon, by the time the prime minister’s breakup became international news, Grégoire Trudeau was already in another relationship.
In the divorce petition, filed April 26, 2023, Ana Remonda alleges her former spouse, Dr. Marcos Bettolli, has “re-partnered with a high-profile individual who attracts significant media attention, and presents significant security considerations.”
That individual is not identified by name in the court documents, but it has been confirmed that Remonda’s claim refers to Grégoire Trudeau.
To be fair, I don’t think he told her he was gay.
And while we’re on the topic of open secrets…
And Canadian media just stumbled on a random rich people divorce filing by accident.
Serendipity!
No. They knew and concealed it, because of Liberal journalism standards.