Lockdowns Forever

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UnHerd- Covid-style controls against disorder are not the answer

John Woodcock, ex-Labour MP and Government advisor on political violence, argued this weekend that reinstating Covid-like restrictions would be the right response to the violent disorder taking place around the country following the dreadful events in Southport last week. At the same time, Keir Starmer has signalled moves that include more Government control of online information and the expansion of state surveillance through facial recognition.

Blog Notes

Blogging 15 Comments

We woke up to this today. Those are the internet and landline cables, and while still live there’s plenty of zapping up at the main line.

So… my blogging activities may be interrupted somewhat by both the mess there is to clean up and the likelihood that I lose connection.

It’s always something.

Did they miss something?

Climate Cult 12 Comments

Alberta government addresses its electrical grid close calls: Digging deep into the report

As Pipeline Online has extensively reported, each time Alberta goes into a grid alert, wind generation has flatlined, and the sun is on the wrong side of the planet. And that over-reliance on wind, especially to perform, when it does not, seems to be at the crux of the reforms announced.
But that’s not exactly how the report saw it. While it recognized low wind power generation was a factor, it largely places the blame on outages in natural gas-fired thermal generation, even though in one of these events wind generation was close to nil, and the second one saw minimal wind.

The End Effect of Wokeism

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Throughout my recent travels, I’ve been listening to the audiobook of this biography of Elon Musk, written by Walter Isaacson. It’s a very interesting listen about a very complex man. I would personally never want to work for Musk but to deny that he has an extraordinary mind and has been mega-successful is stupid, petty, and reeks of jealousy.

This video recently popped up in my YouTube feed. In it, you will hear Joe Rogan ask Elon Musk why he ultimately decided to buy Twitter. He makes an interesting comparison between the Woke mismanagement of Twitter 1.0 and the Woke mismanagement of San Francisco (and California). In both cases, the end result leads to very bad results for humanity. The fact that many NPCs on the Left think that supporting such policies is a good thing should serve as a useful study for historians and psychologists.

Good Proletarians Don’t Need Vacations

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Slumping sales in the accommodation sector will come as no surprise to anyone who has taken note of the soaring cost of all aspects of travel in the past couple of years. The marginal consumer cannot afford any of it.

Airbnb shares dropped 14% in after-hours trading after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed analyst expectations and warned that it’s seeing signs of slowing demand from U.S. customers.

Minding Ottawa

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I don’t think anyone else does as good a job reporting on all of the shenanigans our federal government gets up to as Blacklock’s Reporter.

Blacklock’s- Taxpayers were charged top dollar for Québec-made Covid ventilators later junked as scrap metal, Access To Information records show.

Blacklock’s- The Canada Pension Plan must pull all investments from Israel, says a petition sponsored by Liberal MP Jenica Atwin (Fredericton). The MP also sponsored petitions seeking limits on background checks of Gazans permitted into Canada, and introduction of Arab history into public school curricula.

Blacklock’s- The military is reviewing minimum “medical requirements” for new recruits in a bid to attract more volunteers, records show. Defence Minister Bill Blair earlier told reporters he’d take other measures like cutting minimum enlistment to as little as 18 months.

Blacklock’s- Cabinet’s “two billion trees” program was overrated from the start and will have no climate impact for 50 to 100 years, says the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. The program was launched in the Liberal Party’s 2019 election platform.

Blacklock’s- Legal marijuana is linked to accidental poisoning of small children, says the Department of Health. Data show “significant associations” between Parliament’s repeal of a criminal ban on cannabis and emergency room visits by children, it said.

Blog Notes

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I returned home this morning from a round trip to Virginia last week, where I was offline for much of the time. Many thanks to our guest bloggers here for holding down the fort! I left Salem at 1pm Sunday and made it to Davidson, SK last night around 11pm (over 3,000km in 36 hours) and thus need a few hours to catch up.

The trip was uneventful – save for a minivan that chose to cross my path on US460 in Virginia, forcing a high speed chicane around his front, through the intersection and into the opposing side of the divided highway, where I pulled safely to a stop in their left hand turn lane. If you ever find yourself trying to decide between a Subaru Outback and some other brand of small car or SUV, buy the Outback. Trust me.

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