This evening, thanks to SDA commenter “H.R”, we learn How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works
Your water or earth bound tips are greatly appreciated!
Modern Medicine?
In this intriguing interview, Dr. John Campbell interviews Australian immunologist Dr. Robert Clancy about another drug that was slammed as ineffective and dangerous when used for the treatment of Covid: hydroxychloroquine. As with so many other pandemic measures, it seems to have fallen prey to the politicization of medicine.
As Dr. Clancy says, “I could not understand why there was a reaction against using a drug outside of its normal indications because we never seen Covid before at a time when people in nursing homes were dying [at] five, six, seven percent mortality rate and here we had a drug it couldn’t do any harm.”
“…it fitted the the politics at the time which was we have no treatment, stay at home until
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Who Exactly Is The April Fool?
Canadian taxpayers.
National Post- On April 1, Canadian MPs will earn world’s second-highest salary for elected officials
MPs will get an $8,500 raise on April 1, increasing the base salary to $203,100, ranking only behind the U.S. in political salaries
h/t LC Bennett for the link from the comments below
Mail & Guardian- No perks for Swedish MPs
Without official cars or private drivers, Swedish ministers and MPs travel in crowded buses and trains, just like the citizens they represent. Without any right to parliamentary immunity, they can be tried in a court of law like any other person. With no private secretaries at the door, their bare-bones parliamentary offices are as small as 8m2.
Our Business is Theft
And business is booming.
David Clinton- Using Government Data to Track the Car Theft Epidemic
Canada is experiencing some nasty car theft numbers right now and I’d love to understand the underlying “business” model a bit better. Reports suggest that most of the stolen cars are left to “cool off” for a couple of days to make sure there aren’t any tracking devices (not that the police have time to intervene even if there are) and are then shipped out of the country through the Port of Montreal.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Surprisingly, they found that in human-modified habitats, animal activity actually increased with human activity, by around 25 percent.
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Population growth as an economic driver is the most ponzi of all ponzi schemes.
Non-European immigrants to the UK are far more likely to be long-term unemployed or economically inactive, especially those from the Middle East, South Asia & North Africa. In England & Wales, 27% of working age immigrants from the Middle East have never worked. That is more than 5x the figure for the native-born (5%).
In total there are 707,000 working age immigrants who have never worked, 1.2% of the entire population of England & Wales. All of these figures exclude students.
How were so many duped into believing that the key to economic success was mass unskilled immigration from the third world?
Good Fracking Luck
It seems that the environmentalist movement has come to the conclusion that there is good fracking and bad fracking. Bad fracking is when we drill a well and extract hydrocarbons. Good fracking is when we expend huge sums to stuff a perfectly harmless gas back down those same holes. It’s a variation on Keynesian economics: wherever we find existing holes, we should pay people to fill them in, even if there is no need to do so. The article goes on to point out all sorts of potential problems with this idea, but then Keynesians will likely argue that remediation efforts will “stimulate” the economy.
With support from the Biden administration and billions of dollars in new subsidies and tax incentives, energy companies and others are planning to capture millions of tons of industrial carbon dioxide emissions and then pipe the climate pollutant for underground storage, part of an effort to reduce the nation’s greenhouse gas pollution. Federal and state regulators are reviewing 69 projects or permits to store CO2 underground, with 24 of those in Louisiana. Nine projects have already been approved while one more, in California, is pending.
Carbon tax, round ??? Fight!
Conservatives blast pro-carbon price economists as ‘so-called experts’ It doesn’t cause inflation, didn’t you know? Then why were my groceries yesterday 40% more than 2020?
Meanwhile, the carbon tax fight is heating up as the price is about to go up, again, on April. 1, fittingly April Fool’s. Conservative premiers are lying about carbon pricing: Trudeau, while Moe addresses Commons committee.
Yesterday, the Prime Minister asked Premiers what they would do to reduce emissions instead of a carbon tax.
Today in a House of Commons committee, I answered that question. pic.twitter.com/yldmqjEw0E
— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) March 27, 2024
Sorry I didn’t have time to dig into this one myself. Not enough hours in the day. After all, I had to spend half an hour at Sobey’s on Wednesday pointing out to my 17-year-old son how prices of soup, meat, green onions and the like have gone up 40% in the last four years. In the end, a cart which wasn’t even full cost $300, whereas in 2020 it would have cost closer to $210 or so. I kept asking, “And who do we blame for this?”
What do you think the right answer was?
Also, for your reading pleasure:
The Canada Carbon Rebate puts hundreds of dollars back in Canadians’ pockets every quarter. Oddly, some Premiers are against that – and they want to scrap your rebates.
Here’s what I had to say about that: pic.twitter.com/kJcLGDetIq
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) March 27, 2024
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m training the schnauzers to detect Semtex.
Canada’s Bolsheviks – Who is Behind Canada’s Move to the Left?
Many people have asked why the New Democratic Party (NDP) continue to support Justin Trudeau’s far left policies and tactics? The reason they do so is because for Canada’s Bolsheviks, Trudeau hasn’t gone far enough.
From their beginning in 1932 as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) – now the NDP after a merger with the Canadian Labour Congress in 1961 – has always wanted to turn Canada into a socialist country. The Regina Manifesto was their earliest blueprint for Canada.
The CCF/NDP have always denied their far left intentions, even though they have committed them to paper on numerous occasions. So it is to be expected that they will deny them today. But once they gain power, they waste no time nationalizing the means of production. The NDP in Saskatchewan nationalized the mining, oil & gas, and forestry industries and made move to nationalize agriculture as well, something they swore they would never do.
Looking at the federal politics today, its is obvious that Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are not just supporting Justin Trudeau’s censorship bills and false promises, they are leading the way.
Behind The Lies
The mainstream narrative of the Gaza conflict often obfuscates the truth behind the lies. – Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: The unhappy generation. Old Joe gives a speech.
Blackie’s Canada: Liberal MP compares Poilievre to the Nazis again. A diversity outbreak in Toronto.
The Planet Is Boiling News: Debunking climate alarmism. The Germans are fed up with the Green Party.
Today In Islam: Abuse by Hamas captors. Preparing for a diversity outbreak in Austria. I wonder if Justin has funny allah socks. A moderate Muslim scholar in San Francisco.
Your morning meme. A cartoon.
When The FBI Does It, That Means That It’s Not Illegal
The technical name for this article’s swift and devastating takedown strategy inside the FBI is “Image Cheapening” which we have known since the 1970s via Davidon et al.
We don’t yet know why it was written. We don’t yet know who commissioned it.
We do know that no independent minded health professional who could contradict the public health institutions and czars has been allowed to ascend to @hubermanlab’s level of popularity, power and influence without “Image Cheapening” coverage.
In fact, since Lindbergh used his popularity to sway public opinion on entry into WWII, no independent minded individual has been amassed state-level influence without such FUD (Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt) campaigns. The theory we have advanced behind this is that the State learned the lesson from Lindbergh’s interference with FDR that all charismatic independent minded individuals (like a John Lennon) cannot be allowed state levels of influence and must be preemptively cheapened and harassed. Here it is applied to medical professionals who could interfere with future Anthony Fauci health czars. […]
I have been warning people about this since the 1980s and did so more actively on Twitter 2011-2017. I think I will keep posting this old thread more often to remind our friends in the USG that this has been anticipated.
This was always coming. And it will always take the apparent form of independent voices in places like Nature, The Lancet, The LA Times, Harvard, the NAS.
Everyone you could turn to when you need to question the state will have been preemptively splattered with feces.
Learn the pattern of Seberging. The ‘tells’ are relentless mockery, private life invasion and FUD against independent minded people of influence through ostensibly non state actors.
I know this was long. Thanks for your time.
Are All Vancouver NIMBYs now also Racists?
Something very interesting is happening in Vancouver:
Much like in the US, Canada is experiencing a severe housing affordability crisis, and the country’s indigenous communities, known as First Nations, have long suffered disproportionately from inadequate housing.
But Canada’s indigenous communities are fighting to address the issue. In Vancouver alone, several First Nations are leading a major push to build housing on indigenous-owned land, in some cases partnering with the federal government to build entirely new communities that will house tens of thousands of people, while generating wealth for generations of First Nations members to come.
Ground has already been broken on one of these projects, 11 towers with 6,000 homes being built by the Squamish Nation on a 12-acre piece of land near downtown Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive real-estate market. The Squamish people were forced off of this land in the early 20th century and finally won back their ancestral territory about 20 years ago.
March 28, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening, we travel back to 1966 to enjoy Dan Smoot presenting A Republic, Not a Democracy.
Do you have any good news tips? We want ’em!
RFK Jr. Just Crashed His Presidential Campaign
Unless there’s a sudden surge of blue haired Wokeists who Hate America, RFK Jr. just destroyed his campaign.
Key Bridge Collapse
First, goods that would normally arrive there and be distributed will not. This is going to impact logistics and supplies in the mid-Atlantic region rather significantly. Second, Baltimore is on the ropes financially and otherwise. Right now, I sure don’t have a clue how bad the impact will be to a city already teetering on the brink, other than to say it’s going to be very, very bad.
Easter In Calgary
I wonder if Justin will show up. Celebrate Easter at a church drag show.
Thanks For Noticing
Global- Weak productivity is an economic ‘emergency,’ Bank of Canada warns
The Bank of Canada is warning that waning productivity growth in the country is an “emergency” that can force higher interest rates and limit rising wages for Canadians.
Senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers gave a speech in Halifax on Tuesday in which she sounded the alarm on Canada’s lagging productivity rates.