Blackie’s Canada: Unions for Islamic terrorism. Everything in Canada must have an Indian name (CBC). And the renaming continues.
Dementia Joe’s America: The terrorists of tomorrow. Is it hopeless? A Joe Biden speech.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
January 25, 2024: Reader Tips
Tonight we’re going to delve into one of the most controversial topics in the world today. That’s right, we’re going to talk about Tipping. Here are a trio of videos on the subject: 1 2 3. Do you have any memorable tipping experiences, no matter how uncomfortable, to share?
Your recent news tips are also much appreciated!
Don’t Mess With Texas
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a defiant statement on Wednesday pushing back against President Joe Biden’s attempts to stop Texas from securing its borders against the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the state thanks to Biden’s reckless border policies.
Abbott’s statement comes after the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration earlier this week, ruling that it could remove or cut through razor wire the state has deployed to stop illegal aliens from crossing the Rio Grande into the state.
“The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now,” reads the statement. “President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.”
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Universal Basic Insolvency
If our experience with pandemic “emergency benefits” is any guide, when you pay people not to work, then lo and behold they are unlikely to…work. It will be no different if the magical non-concept of Universal Basic Income ever sees the light of day.
As for the notion that under UBI people will be free to become “care givers” to loved ones, I can foresee a whole lot of youngsters becoming “care givers” to their PlayStation instead.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer produced an analysis in 2021 that concluded that a national guaranteed basic income using parameters of Ontario’s 2017 pilot project could cut Canada’s poverty rate by half in just one year, but at a hefty cost of $91 billion in 2024–25 and $93 billion in 2025–26. That’s nearly double what Ottawa spends, for example, on health transfers to the provinces.
“Trudeau government use falsified evidence to shut down the truckers’ protest”
Public and others have reported on illegal abuses of power by government intelligence, security, and military agencies across the Western world. These abuses of power have included censorship efforts by the US Department of Homeland Security and British military; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) entrapment schemes; and FBI and Secret Service involvement in January 6, 2021 pipe bomb disinformation.
Now, a months-long Public investigation reveals that the Canadian government used disinformation to crack down on the “Freedom Convoy” protest, led by truckers demanding an end to Covid-19 vaccine mandates, in February 2022. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canada’s national police force, then promoted this false information to other “Five Eyes” English-speaking nations.
This discovery is significant because it contributes to a pattern of intelligence agencies from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, which have collaborated on surveillance since World War II, being caught abusing their powers to investigate and persecute the political enemies of elected officials.[…]
On February 14, 2022, Trudeau took the extraordinary measure of invoking the “Emergencies Act” for the first time in Canada’s history. The Act gave the government sweeping powers to arrest protesters, freeze their bank accounts, seize property, and dismantle blockades, which is what Trudeau did.
Central to Trudeau’s invocation of the Act was the alleged threat of right-wing extremism and violence, but new documents that podcaster Jeremy Mackenzie obtained through Canada’s freedom of information law show that this drastic measure was based on fabricated intelligence. What’s more, Canada appears to have shared this disinformation with other members of the Five Eyes alliance. Five Eyes includes Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
h/t Melinda Romanoff
Kamala Vomit Alert
Here is a stellar example of the sad state of modern journalism.
Even more from “journalist” Laura Coates here.
Welcome To Chow Town
Another great Liberal achievement. The homelessness industry in Trudeau’s Toronto.
Up From The Memory Hole
Tucker Carlson Talks to Gord Magill About The Coutts 4
Gord Magill is Canadian trucker and writer for Newsweek. He talks to Tucker Carlson about the Coutts 4.
Blind Faith
These days, South Africa is starting to look like a real-life enactment of the last few chapters of Atlas Shrugged.
Rampant cable theft has damaged South Africa’s railway signalling systems to the extent that train operators are effectively forced to operate “blindly”, necessitating frequent stops at railway transfer stations and manual phone-ins to avoid train collisions.
Pereira said a trip between Ermelo in Mpumalanga and Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal that typically lasted nine hours would now take over double that time.
That is because each stop can take about 20 minutes, provided the machinist has cellphone signal.
On the rare occasion that they are unable to communicate to the CTC due to no reception, the stop could add another two to three hours to the total trip time.
Lithium rights – making sure we all make money
A few years ago I realized that there was serious potential for a big conflict between various rights holders of oil, gas, helium, lithium and geothermal. So I started asking hard questions about it. Last year, the Ministry of Energy and Resources got many of the players in a big room with a pile of staff from various ministries to try to sort it all out. This story is a follow up to that process. Note there seems to have been some movement on the helium front last fall which I was not aware of. It will likely end up as a separate story soon.
Also, apparently the royalty for lithium is pegged at 3 per cent.
Lithium in SK Part 25: Primacy of rights, revisited
A lot more news to come on the lithium front. Keep your eyes peeled.
Who will be Trump’s VP?
With the Republican Presidential Candidates competition quickly coming to an end, the next question is who will Trump choose for his Vice Presidential running mate? Here are some possibilities:
- J.D. Vance
- Kari Lake
- Kristi Noem
- Tulsi Gabbard
- Ben Carson
- Nikki Haley
- Ron DeSantis
- Lee Zeldin
- Elise Stefanik
- ???
What are your top 2 guesses of who it will be?
Today In Islam
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Socialist Europe: This is Canada’s future. Leftists like to rewrite history. Orban and the E.U.
Dementia Joe’s America: Controversial ideas. Globalism: Mascots for the global elites.
Blackie’s Canada: Freeland defends fascism. Jordan Peterson on freedom in Canada. A tax on the tax.
Your morning meme. A Trudeau meme. A cartoon.
January 24, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening we present a 1959 comedy entitled Too Many Crooks.
Your funny, or more serious, tips are always appreciated!
“I stayed with friends…”
New Hampshire Primary Predictions?
Today, New Hampshire provides the 2nd round of opportunities for Republican party members to vote for who they want as their presidential candidate. Here’s an overview. Here’s a video about New Hampshire Primary History. And here’s a video that explains why New Hampshire is a little weird. If you find the state appealing, here’s an overview of some great rural towns in New Hampshire. While you’re waiting for the results to come in, here are some webcams around the state.
What are your predictions for the outcome will be this evening? (candidates and their percentages)
