Dementia Joe’s America: An interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Good riddance to John Kerry.
The Planet Is Boiling News: The case of EVs. Woke Britain: A tranny statue for London.
Blackie’s Canada: Canadian professor of renewable energy charged with rape. Lawyer blacklisted by mainstream media.
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This evening, we present a documentary entitled Love & Sex in Scandinavia.
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In February 2021, millions of Texans lost power, and the state’s grid came within four or five minutes of a total failure that would have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.
Guilbeault’s proposed Clean Electricity Regulations have been slightly modified. This is the Canadian Press story. I’ll be working on this to have a lot more in depth next week.
In my editors note, I point out: Pipeline Online will have extensive coverage on this early next week, including reaction from the Saskatchewan government. The “Clean Electricity Regulations”, if implemented, will be one of the largest and furthest reaching policies in recent Canadian history, impacting almost every aspect of our society and economy.
I should point out the most important lesson I ever learned about government communications came from a first season episode of The West Wing, called Take out the Trash Day.
This announcement from Guilbeault came out early Friday afternoon. Imagine that.
https://twitter.com/s_guilbeault/status/1758547663958483250?s=20
Also:
Peter Zeihan makes some sense, kinda sorta, out of Biden’s LNG export approval pause.
And who needs small modular reactors when we can apparently just jump to fusion? Hasn’t fusion power been just 30 years away for something like 60 years?
So what was the White House Vegetable up to this week?
Blackie’s Canada: Church burnings continue in Justin’s Canada. Ontario’s union controlled schools. Diversity outbreak in Toronto.
Dementia Joe’s America: What is next in the psyop? A Christian church in New York. A Biden catastrophe.
Big Brother News: Peace through censorship.
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The corruption revelations are getting worse:
In September 2020, as Ontario’s real estate rocketed higher, a Toronto realtor with ties to Beijing claimed a fake Chinese income of $763,689 in order to secure HSBC mortgages for two properties, bringing her personal portfolio in Greater Toronto up to five homes.
What makes this realtor’s case politically explosive is not just that her network allegedly laundered money from China into Toronto real estate, nor the forged Chinese employment records they used to obtain massive mortgages from Canadian banks, or that they became Ontario landlords by leveraging criminal underground banks servicing Chinese diasporas in Vancouver and Toronto.
h/t James MacMaster
A few hours drive south of DC is Williamsburg, Virginia. I’ve been there a few times and enjoyed walking around the preserved historical village. The community is also the home of William & Mary College, founded in 1693. The name got me intrigued so I did some research to learn more about William and Mary of Orange.
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It’s rather stunning how rich some homeowners thought they were when interest rates crashed to near zero and the real estate market began to soar. Today, though, at least a few of them don’t feel so rich anymore.
I have two questions: Firstly, why did the bank approve this inflated mortgage in the first place? Secondly, how many more like this were also approved?
At the time, the property was listed for $465,000, but Hartmann says she paid $200,000 over the asking price.
“It was quite ludicrous, there were bidding wars and it was just really stressful,” said Hartmann.
But just seven months later, she was laid off from her well-paying job at Microsoft and at the same time, soaring interest rates nearly doubled her mortgage.
Hartmann said she tried to sell her house through two different realtors and ended up handing the keys over to Scotiabank in November.
It appears the Democrats will not be satisfied until they destroy Trump and his family. Is putting him in jail next? Judge fines Trump 354 million dollars.
Fani Willis MELTDOWN!
Day 1 Motion to disqualify Recap.
Fani Willis is a woman. pic.twitter.com/AIIeBfVuCn
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) February 16, 2024
You can watch Day 2 of the Corruption Circus here!
Kaitlan Collins is employed by CNN but is nothing more than a Deep State UniParty apparatchik. In this interview with Elise Stefanik, carefully watch the pro-Democrat stance that Collins frames every single question. If she were interviewing Biden, the hardest question she’d ask is “What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?” Kudos to Stefanik for not backing down to this corrupt hack.
Douglas Murray on leftists. Diversity outbreak in Germany. Muslim family life in Britain. And hating Fido.
Dementia Joe’s America: Climate cultists deface constitution. Biden embraces indigenous knowledge. The hockey stick forever? Don’t upset the pronoun people. The axis of evil.
Blackie’s Canada: Justin’s CSIS is monitoring parental rights activists. Is Canada finally seeing sense on trans?
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Ontario’s deputy premier and former solicitor general has come to the defence of the federal government after its unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act was ruled to be a violation of constitutional rights.
Speaking in Burlington, Ont., Sylvia Jones — now the province’s health minister — said people in Ontario should not be “held hostage” by invasive and disruptive protests.
On Tuesday, the Federal Court ruled Ottawa’s use of the Emergencies Act to end to so-called “Freedom Convoy” in 2022 was “unreasonable.” The government used the unprecedented and wide-sweeping law to help it break up a weeks-long demonstration that was set up in downtown Ottawa.
It’s too bad Ms. Jones never bothered to educate herself about the Nuremberg Code. Even just the first of the ten points would be useful:
The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, over-reaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion, and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.
h/t James MacMaster
Tonight, we explore having Fun with Magnets.
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Robert Bryce: The Deindustrialization Of Europe In Five Charts
Germany is once again, the “sick man of Europe.” But it’s not just Germany. All across Europe, industrial capacity is shrinking. Last month, Tata Steel announced it would close its last two blast furnaces in Britain by the end of this year, a move that will result “in the loss of up to 2,800 jobs at its Port Talbot steelworks in Wales.”
In January 2023, Slovalco announced it was permanently closing its aluminum smelters in Slovakia after 70 years of operation. The company, Slovakia’s biggest electricity consumer, said it was shuttering its smelters due to high power costs.
Europe drove itself into the ditch. Bad policy decisions, including net-zero delusions, the headlong rush to alt-energy, aggressive decarbonization mandates, and the strategic blunder of relying on Russian natural gas that’s no longer available, are driving the deindustrialization. How bad is it? Mario Loyola, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, wrote a sharp January 28 article in The Hill about Europe’s meltdown. According to European Commission data, industrial output in Europe “plummeted 5.8% in the 12 months ending November 2023,” he wrote. “Capital goods production was down nearly 8.7%. Investment in plants and equipment has plummeted.”
The result of all that lousy policy: staggering increases in electricity prices. Loyola notes that European electricity prices “have settled at triple their pre-pandemic levels.” Energy analyst Rupert Darwall recently reported that large businesses in Britain now pay up to five times more for juice than in 2004.
National Post- CBC lawsuit against Conservatives cost $400K, but cost was shielded from Parliament for years
“The Trudeau government has just given up on its promise of openness and accountability,” Plett told the National Post. “In this specific situation, we had to go around roadblocks that were set by the government to get an answer to my questions three years ago.”
“Somebody needs to be held accountable for this because we have the right to have these answers,” he added.