During these troubling times, we thought it appropriate to try to make you laugh so present Take the Money and Run (1969).
Your humorous or more serious tips are always appreciated.
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Related, from Chris Selley: If you can’t handle being dressed down by Pierre Poilievre, journalism is not the field for you.
The Emperors Have No Clothes
The recent events in Ireland clearly illustrate the global elites’ modern playbook:
- Introduce policies that do not benefit the best interest of most citizens.
- When, as a direct result of these policies, something very bad happens:
- Don’t accept any responsibility.
- Refuse to blame the actual culprits.
- Instead cast aspersions at anyone who dares point out the obvious connection.
- Be sure to make use of any/all of these terms when squelching your opposition: far-right, hater, Nazi, deplorable, extremist, denier, conspiracy theorist
- Encourage your legion of “journalists” to support your narrative.
- Fine and/or jail anyone who dares to keep complaining about your incompetence/corruption.
- If/when you kicked out of office in a future election, move onto another job provided by your fellow global cretins.
We saw this throughout the pandemic, throughout the Ukraine war, and now once again with the recent stabbing of little children in Ireland. But Connor McGregor is not letting Irish PM Leo Varadkar off the hook. Even more from PJW.
Update: Commentary from the Lotus Eaters. h/t Marc from Calgary
Enemies of the State
Strange times during the reign of the “Conservative” party of the UK.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
In bone-dry language, the report “Inquiry into Bulk-Power System Operations During December 2022 Winter Storm Elliott,” explains how the gas pipeline network in New York nearly failed last Christmas when temperatures plummeted during the bomb cyclone. Freeze-related production declines, combined with soaring demand from power plants, homes, and businesses, led to shortages of gas throughout the Northeast. The lack of gas, as well as mechanical and electrical issues, resulted in an “unprecedented” loss of electric generation capacity totaling some 90,000 megawatts. While the lack of electricity was dangerous, the possibility of a loss of pressure in the natural gas network should send a bone-chilling shiver through the sacroiliac of every politician and bureaucrat in Washington, D.C., New York and the Northeast.
The report explains that if the gas pipeline system had failed, the recovery process in New York City would have taken “months.” In addition, the property damage due to damaged water pipes in homes and buildings would likely have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
Left unsaid in the report is that the collapse of the gas grid during the period in which temperatures in New York City stayed below freezing would have caused a calamity unlike any other in U.S. history. The cold that lasted from December 23 to December 28 could have resulted in thousands, or even tens of thousands, of deaths. The damage from burst water pipes would have rendered untold numbers of residential and office buildings in New York City unusable.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
The New Deplorables
Since October 7, I have experienced a significant shift in my political beliefs towards the right. I am not alone.
Don’t All Rush At Once
Do you know of any “artists and visionaries,” or people “good at spreadsheets”? Because there may be a job going, come the revolution.
Sunday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: A book review. Jewish teacher hides in high school. The complexity of idiocy.
Woke Britain: Another protest to support Hamas. Christmas parties cancelled.
China Virus News: Masks linked with Covid infections. Vanity Fair exposes Fauci.
Religion Of Peace News: Here to stab white people. I will be haunted forever. Diversity is our strength in Austria (JW). Diversity is our strength in Britain (JW).
Global Warming Scam News: Net zero fantasies in Britain. Your morning meme.
Blackie’s Canada: Of course they will need money to do their own investigations. The push for evs. The Chinese colony of Canada
CBC Fiction
I just spent 2 weeks “back home” in Vancouver. There was an elevator I frequently used which had one of those Information Monitors in it. The following ad kept appearing:
CBC News
Get the news you need, without restrictions.
The news you can trust.
Do you see anything wrong with this ad? How about everything?!
It refers to this event. But this story, as just one of countless examples, is written in such a way to spin a narrative that is palatable for both those who run CBC News and the Trudeau regime. Yet it undoubtedly works perfectly to fool all of the unquestioning NPCs across our once great land.
November 26, 2023: Reader Tips
Tonight, we present A Twist of Sand (1968).
Any news tips with a twist are always especially appreciated!
“Lets All Say, What We Came To Say”
This Ain’t Black Lives Matter
The Telegraph- BBC bans Jewish staff from marching against anti-Semitism
BBC staff have accused the corporation of double standards after they were told not to attend a march against anti-Semitism this weekend.
They have told bosses that “racism is racism”, and that if the BBC believes racism is not acceptable in any form it should allow staff to show their opposition.
They point out that BBC staff are allowed to take part in marches supporting other causes, such as Pride, which are not seen as controversial by the broadcaster.
“Good Faith”
Politico- Pfizer is suing Poland over vaccines. This is how we got here
Pfizer is presenting Tusk with a salty bill, which could reach as high as €1.2 billion based on a price of €19.50 per dose as reported by the Financial Times (the exact details of the contract remain secret). It also comes at a time when Poland’s usually muscular economy is in the doldrums; for Pfizer, however, it’s a clear signal to any countries that may want to wiggle out of paying what they owe.
The Pfizer spokesperson said the decision had been made “following a prolonged contractual breach, and a period of discussions in good faith between the parties.”
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Why the public isn’t buying electric cars
I also suggest you consult the experts on this matter: automotive journalists. A quick scan of car publications might give the impression that journalists unanimously adore EVs – that battery power is the best thing to happen to cars since heated seats – and that the only question left is which of these wonderful machines you should buy.
But beneath the glowing reviews and breathless prose that mark the launch of every new EV SUV, a different picture can be glimpsed. And it’s one that can be unveiled by asking any car journalist a simple question: do they have an EV themselves?
The “Appeal to the Noble Savage” Fallacy
The “Appeal to Authority” fallacy holds that experts are infallible: if a credible source believes something, well then, that thing must be true!2 The fallacy is not only that even truly knowledgeable people can be wrong, but also that many so-called authorities are not, in the end, all that knowledgeable.
If that’s the “Appeal to Authority” fallacy, let’s call this new thing the “Appeal to the Noble Savage” fallacy. It holds indigenous people to be the most worthy among all peoples, and incapable of engaging in human acts of cruelty. It holds them on a pedestal. The Appeal to the Noble Savage fallacy imagines indigenous people to be, well, not exactly human.
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
On the afternoon of March 31, 2019, Canadian health bureaucrats watched nervously as Air Canada flight AC031 took off from Toronto Pearson International Airport, headed to Beijing.
The passengers on board had no way of knowing about the plane’s hazardous payload: a box with 24 vials of Ebola virus from 12 different strains, and six vials of highly lethal Henipaviruses, nestled amid 33 pounds of dry ice. The samples had come from the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Canada’s only BSL-4 facility, and were bound for the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Reminder: Michel Chrétien, the brother of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, carried out research studies on deadly viruses with a Chinese-Canadian scientist removed by the RCMP.
Spending Freeze? What a concept!
As a Canadian, I have to wonder what it’s like to live in a country where the courts actually enforce the constitution instead of making endless exceptions for obvious violations of it.
The previous German government declared an emergency in 2020 and created a coronavirus relief fund that was outside the envelope imposed by the debt brake.
It decided to put 60-billion euros (about C$90 billion) of the COVID fiscal room into encouraging electrified home heating and transport. But opposition politicians naturally saw this as an unconstitutional swindle and an abuse of emergency powers. The constitutional status of the debt brake allowed them to sue in federal court — and last week they won. Pretty resoundingly, as it happens.
This punched a huge hole in German finances, and on Tuesday a humiliated Lindner announced an immediate freeze on federal spending.
Our Chinese-Installed Governments… Everywhere
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Any wonder why the press gallery has been in full on attack mode against Pierre since Trudeau’s Fall Update? He’s giving out another $30,000 per journalist in tax-funded media bailouts. Expect them to do whatever the PMO says.