This evening, we present a 1959 movie with two names: Four Desperate Men and The Siege of Pinchgut
Whatever you decide to call it, we do hope you enjoy it! And please leave your most interesting tips of the past 24 hours.
“That Day I’ll Always Remember…”
The Investment Landscape in Canada
Faster Please
Telegraph- The radical new Dutch government is the canary in the EU coal mine
It will scrap many of the net zero policies. It will cut taxes for business. It will put limits on net migration, it will switch to nuclear power, and it will make sure farming receives the support it needs.
Details are still emerging of the programme of the new coalition government assembled by the leader of the Freedom party Geert Wilders following his surprise victory in the elections last year.
One point is already certain, however. Wilders will issue a radical challenge to the ruling orthodoxies of the European Union, and indeed of the big state, high tax policies across most of the developed world.
Telegraph- Europe’s right-wing revolt has begun – only Britain will miss out
The Netherlands is just the most recent example of this kind of movement. The size of the populist upsurge and its spread across most of the EU will almost certainly be confirmed in the European Parliament elections in June. According to polls, Right populist parties will make gains in every country, at the expense of Greens and the Left. They are projected to come first in nine countries (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, and Slovakia) and come second or third in another nine (Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and Sweden).
“Democracy”
Daily Sceptic- ‘Global Majority’ is Just Anti-White Propaganda
This phrase is a fancy way of referring to all the non-white people in the world, and then arbitrarily lumping them together into one giant, supposedly homogenous whole as representing around 85% of the planet’s population – in direct opposition to white folk, who make up only under 10% of all the world’s people. (I don’t know what’s happened to the missing few percentile of humans there, by the way: maybe they’re just unacceptably ‘white adjacent’, like Jews or Moomins?)
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Major EU ports are almost full to capacity with Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) that no one wants to buy. A slump in sales across Europe has caused parking lots at the Belgian ports of Antwerp and Zeebrugge to fill up with the Chinese imports.
The parking lots are each able to accommodate about 130,000 vehicles and are crammed full of MGs, BYDs, Nios, XPengs, Lynk & Cos, Omodas and Hongqis, among others.
Chinese EV companies have aggressively targeted European markets as they look to take advantage of the EU’s green agenda.
The Best Healthcare System In The World
Toronto Star- Patients are ‘routinely’ being diagnosed with cancer in busy Canadian emergency rooms
On a recent 12-hour shift, Dr. Kyle Vojdani diagnosed three patients with cancer.
Like most evenings, it was busy in Michael Garron Hospital’s emergency department:A crowd of patients waiting to be seen. Physicians and nurses rushing between cases. Sick patients, some critical, waiting in hallways for a hospital bed.
Amid the bustle, Vojdani, chief and medical director of the department, had to find the time — and the words — to tell each of the three that their tests pointed to cancer.
Stranding Capital
The worst aspect of central planning is not just that it misallocates capital, but that it actively destroys it. Centrally planned economies, from the Soviet Union on down, remain littered to this day with stranded assets existing in a largely unrecoverable state. EV subsidies are doing the same thing by wrecking the profitability of companies trying to cash in on such schemes.
The energy unit of Panasonic Holdings missed its operating profit guidance for the past business year due to lower electric vehicle (EV) battery production in Japan and a fall in sales of consumer products, the company said on Thursday.
Operating income for the key segment, which makes batteries for Tesla and other automakers, totaled ¥88.8 billion ($570.18 million) in the year that ended in March, missing its own ¥113 billion forecast, Panasonic said.
Canada Is Back!
I present the ‘quality of life index’. We were ranked #5 in the world in 2013. (h/t Marc)
Tales From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
So what was the leader of the free world up to this week. And some Biden tunes.
Saturday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: The Left is a hate group. Creating a poultry panic.
Blackie’s Canada: Nuns vs Natives. A tale of two fake genocides.
Woke World: Decline is a choice.
Today In Islam: Islamic justice in Pakistan. A diversity outbreak in France. The Sharia police.
Your morning meme. A cartoon. Have a great Victoria Day weekend!
A Simple Thing, Made Worse
May 18, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening we present the 1949 film, A Letter to Three Wives. It has very high Rotten Tomatoes rating of 100%/86%.
Do share your best tips so far this week!
Here Comes The Sun
Grab a beverage.
Climate etc.- How we know that the sun changes climate (II). The present
The IPCC is ignoring a large body of evidence that the Sun affects climate in ways that cannot be explained by these energy changes alone. We have space to review only a few of these unexplained effects. Let’s start with the surface.
Gradually, Then Suddenly
Credit card balances that were 30 days or more past due rose to 8.9% in Q1.
In 2019 the rate was about 7.0%. Before the Great Recession, it was between 8.5% and 12% (red line).
“Other” consumer credit balances – personal loans, payday loans, and Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) loans, etc. – that were 30 days or more past due inched up to 7.6%, a tad above where it was in 2018 and 2019 (blue).
Dave’s Not Here
Real life is not a Cheech and Chong bit.
Driving- More and more Canadians on drugs are crashing cars.
Based on traffic fatalities, driving while stoned is now a bigger problem than speeding, alcohol, and even distracted driving.
One striking difference noted by the TIRF, however, is that while the young tested positive for cannabis, those 65 and up were usually under the influence of central nervous system (CND) depressants which, according to the National Cancer Institute, includes anything that slows the brain, relaxes the muscles, or prevents anxiety (essentially everything from benzodiazepines to barbiturates and even some sleeping pills).
Read the whole thing.
Diversity Is Our Strength
You Want Budget Cuts?
I’ll give you some budget cuts.
Globe and Mail- Trudeau government cuts budget of Information Commissioner
Ms. Maynard told the House of Commons committee on access to information, privacy and ethics Thursday that the Treasury Board department reduced her budget by $700,000.
“In concrete terms, this represents a significant portion of my overall IT budget or money to cover the costs of defending my orders in court or funding for a full team of investigators,” she said. “Basically this reduction in my budget will spell long delays for complainants who are seeking information from government institutions.”
Visit The Washington Monument While You Still Can
Hate us harder, daddy: Parks Canada on Saturday is reopening John A. Macdonald’s historic Kingston, Ont. home with “racism and sexism” tours. Admission is $9.
The Part I Like Best
About drug decriminalization is how removing the “stigma of illegality” is drawing addicts into recovery.