Hezbollah terrorist Muhammad Mustafa Ayoub, a key operative in the Rocket and Missile Department of the Nasser Unit, had some… car trouble today.
Don Cherry’s Tailor?
Govern Me Harder!
I can vividly recall my frustration at having to see Frances Russell’s and Val Werier’s leftist screeds populating the editorial pages of the Winnipeg Free Press back in the 80s. Fast forward to the present day, where technology continues to level the media playing field, introducing informational symmetry in ways I could not have dreamt of in my youth. But some people remain deeply dissatisfied with that. Apparently, the latest technology is just making us, well, ungovernable.
So, the telephone was great, the postal system was great. Social media is not like those earlier innovations.
They don’t want to see the lion and the Christian making nice; they want the one to kill the other. That’s what Twitter is often like.
I am very concerned that there is no longer any source of authority. There is no trusted authority, there is no way to find consensus on truth. It seems that the truth-seeking mechanisms, including the courts, came up with the answer that the last presidential election in the U.S. was not stolen. But there’s no real way to spread that around to the large portion of society that believes that it was.
Trudeau’s Canada: Political Prisoners & Lawfare Abound
Lawfare Comes to Canada as the Coutts Four Get Their Day in Court | Opinion
A trial is currently underway in Canada, and the rights of every Canadian citizen are at stake. Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert are facing farcical charges stemming from their participation in a peaceful protest against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau‘s COVID-19 response. It turns out, the United States is not the only country where the ruling political establishment is using lawfare to test the limits of the freedoms we all once took for granted. Olienick and Carbert may be average working-class men, but their trial is comparable to that of President Trump’s many legal battles; as in the U.S., the Canadian court system has been turned into a crucible upon which elite warfare is being waged against the masses—or their duly elected representatives.
Olienick and Carbert are the remaining two of a group of political prisoners arrested in Canada and held without bail since the Freedom Convoy in 2022. The Freedom Convoy was a populist revolt against Trudeau’s authoritarian approach to COVID-19 in the form of a mass act of civil protest led by truck drivers. To combat this peaceful protest, the largest of its kind in Canadian history, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to suspend civil liberties across Canada, freezing bank accounts and laying numerous spurious charges against hundreds of peaceful protesters.
Read the full piece by Gord Magill
You’re Confused
Ve Ave Vays
Globe and Mail- Landmark EU nature restoration plan gets green light despite months of protests by farmers
Under the new law, EU countries will be required to restore at least 30% of habitats such as forests, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, lakes and coral beds deemed in poor condition by 2030. This percentage is set to increase to 60% by 2040 and 90% by 2050. The law also introduces specific requirements for measures to reverse the decline of pollinators.
But The Rainbow Crosswalks Look Great
National Post- Millions down the drain: Water tech company says Calgary’s problems go beyond recent break
According to the city’s website, the average water use in Calgary was approximately 350 litres per person per day in 2023. However, Water Online estimates that 20 to 30 per cent of this water is regularly lost due to leaks and aging infrastructure, as per the national average.
A 2019 National Research Council report found that 30 per cent of Canada’s water and wastewater infrastructure is at or beyond its service life, The Globe and Mail reports.
It’s Not a Lie If You Believe It
Zerohedge- We Can Be Lied To About Anything…
Here’s a noncontroversial statement: Joe Biden is unfit to be President of the United States. Democrats know it, Republicans know it, people in the media know it, other world leaders know it, you know it, and I know it.
I know this isn’t just a case of my “lying eyes” or simply taking clips out of context because friends of mine who lean left also notice it and tell me that they wish the Democrats would run another candidate.
While Democrats in my life at least have the decency and presence of mind to realize they would sound idiotic trying to make the argument that Biden is still sharp, the media has no such finesse and no such decency.
In fact, last week, multiple left-wing commentators took to MSNBC to make the argument that the video clip of Biden wandering off from Giorgia Meloni was nothing more than a classic case of misinformation. They argued that it was “disinformation” — stop me if you’ve heard that one before.
If It Weren’t For Fake Hate
There’d be no hate at all.
The Democratic challenger for the Fort Bend County Precinct 3 commissioner in Texas is facing charges for allegedly creating fake social media posts writing racist comments directed at himself.
Commissioner Andy Meyers, the Republican incumbent, requested the Fort Bend County district attorney’s office begin an investigation in October into the social media posts directed at Taral Patel, his opponent, ABC 13 reported.
Meyers requested the investigation after Patel posted a statement last September with screenshots of various racial hate comments. Many of the usernames were concealed, but Meyers said he recognized an account named “Antonio Scalywag” as someone who had attacked him before.
Investigators found that the fake account used a photo of someone else and issued a subpoena to Facebook and Google. They were able to obtain data that matched Patel’s address, phone number, Texas driver’s license number, bank card number and other personal information, the outlet reported.
It Gets Hot In Summer
National Post- Dangerously high temperatures are coming to much of Ontario: Environment Canada
Montreal Gazette- Extreme heat wave to hit Montreal starting Tuesday
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
“Two all beef patties special sauce let us please tickle onions on a Westeel seed bin.”
Y2Kyoto: Billion Dollar Directory
Shortly after my paper Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters” was accepted for publication, I was tipped off to a public but unnamed and well-hidden directory on the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that contained 17 (now 18) of the most recent versions of the “billion dollar disaster” (BDD) tabulation, dating to March 2020.
Today, I reveal the archive and what it tells us about the problematic methods underlying NOAA’s billion dollar disaster tabulation. […]
In the absence of methodological transparency, the hidden archive of the most recent 18 versions of NOAA’s “billion dollar disasters” allows an unprecedented opportunity to reverse-engineer NOAA’s methods that the agency employs for creating and updating its widely cited and highly influential tabulation.1 As you will see below, what the 18 versions reveal is highly concerning.
Coming Soon?
World Economic Forum- Feeding the future: why Renovation and Reinvention are key to saving our food system
Our global food system is in urgent need of transition. At present, one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. At the same time, the global population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050, which could increase the demand for food by 60%. Many of the ways we grow, manufacture and consume food are causing a dual crisis of human and environmental health, and the complexity will only intensify.
h/t Jim
One For The Road
Blacklocks- Drugged Driving’s Common
“There was widespread agreement that cannabis impaired driving is common among those in their social networks,” said the report. “There is also widespread agreement it is more common than alcohol impaired driving. While driving impaired was not condoned, participants typically believed cannabis does not have the same impact.”
“In Canada rates of daily use are high,” wrote researchers. “As an example the 2023 Canadian Cannabis Survey suggested 25 percent of Canadians who reported using cannabis in the last year further reported daily or almost daily use.”
Things To Come
When we hear such things in the months to come, remember that these mythologies are usually a warning: what the left is alleging is, quite often, precisely what the left is already doing. – Victor Davis Hanson
Loud And Proud, You Say?
Atlantic columnist is oppressed by expectations of politeness and basic consideration:
Ms Gonzalez, who repeatedly mentions how “minority” and “of colour” she is, also tells us how she, “just wanted to be around people in places where nobody told us to shush.” Say, when being a late-night annoyance to roommates and neighbours, a thing that by her own account happens repeatedly, or when playing music in a library. Where other people are trying to study:
“One day, when I accidentally sat down to study in the library’s Absolutely Quiet Room, fellow students Shhh-ed me into shame for putting on my Discman… I soon realised that silence was more than the absence of noise; it was an aesthetic to be revered. Yet it was an aesthetic at odds with who I was. Who a lot of us were.”
A bold admission. One, I suspect, that reveals more than intended. Also, the claim that one can sit down in a library accidentally.
Oh, there’s more. And a plot twist of sorts.
Monday On Turtle Island
Blackie’s Canada: Interfaith dialogue in Toronto. I will miss the polar bears. Charge your EV in Nunavut.
Dementia Joe’s America: Old Joe freezes up again. Biden’s terror ambassador.
Today In Islam: Interfaith dialogue in Britain. An Islamophobia professor in California.
Your morning cartoon. Another cartoon.
Say It Isn’t So Joe
This is the Emperor’s New Clothes in real life. But it is not a children’s book or a joke.
June 17, 2024: Reader Tips
Tonight, we present a submarine classic. With Rotten Tomatoes’ ratings of 88%/86%, from 1957, here is The Enemy Below.
Your tips, below or above the surface, are much appreciated!