Far-left Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler is pushing new legislation that would require Mr. Softee and other Big Apple ice cream trucks to stop powering their soft-serve machines and freezers with generators that use fuel.
The bill would require the vendors to switch over to environmentally friendly alternatives like electric or solar power — likely at a cost of $5,000 or more.
Seeing the other side’s playbook – Project of the Century
Ever want to see the other team’s playbook? Project of the Century (report link)– the most comprehensive discussion of energy transition we’ve seen to date, was published by the Public Policy Forum. It’s principally about doubling the electrical grid, or more, but doing so without increasing fossil fuel emissions. The dollar figure is up to $1.7 trillion – with a ‘t’ – mostly from federal taxpayer dollars.
Here’s the story on it: https://pipelineonline.ca/project-of-the-century-the-most-comprehensive-discussion-of-energy-transition-weve-seen-to-date/
This is the closest I’ve seen to what the federal Liberal government is trying to accomplish with the “energy transition.” Some of Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s speech and discussion in Regina and Kipling at the end of June was almost word for word from this paper, before the paper was published.
This has huge implications for Saskatchewan and Alberta. Part of the interview focuses on how net zero by 2035 is impossible.
I spoke to the CEO and one of the authors on July 26. Here’s the in-depth interview. I’ll next be posting an analysis by Jim Warren on this, then likely one of my own.
Editor’s note: Pipeline Online has requested permission from the Public Policy Forum to publish the entire Project of the Century report, in serial form. That permission has not yet been granted, despite the Public Policy Forum’s webpage copyright notice stating, “The Public Policy Forum encourages interested parties to use, in whole or in part, its publications, data, images and other content to further dialogue on public policy in Canada. We require that the PPF is properly cited and acknowledged. In all instances, the PPF would like to be notified of the use of its publications and data.”
They won’t give me a straight answer as to why they won’t let me publish it, when that is clearly their policy. Wonder why that is?
Update Aug. 8, 2023, 10:30 a.m. Since Pipeline Online made the above request, Public Policy Forum has updated its copyright notice. It now states, “Copyright – The Public Policy Forum retains copyright of our publications. For permission to publish a report excerpt, please contact us at: ppforum@ppforum.ca“
China Recruits BLM to Protest for Slavery
Remember how Russia supposedly elected Trump using only the television ad budget of a failed congressional race in Amish country?
The Senate intelligence report actually found that “most of the videos” put up by Moscow “pertained to police brutality and the activist efforts of the Black Lives Matter organization”.
The Russians had created their own Black Lives Matter groups, activists and protests. Their favorite ‘Black Russian’ hate groups included Marxists who under their “gender non-conforming” leader marched through Atlanta shouting, “Kill the police! To get free, you’ve got to kill the pigs.”
Not to be outdone, the People’s Republic of China decided to join the fun by paying black nationalists to organize rallies against a ban on solar panels produced by its slave laborers.
In a historical irony, black nationalists went out to protest in defense of slavery.
h/t Reader
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Alex Jones should produce his content in quatrains. https://t.co/9VnXTabKB7
— Katewerk (@katewerk) August 8, 2023
And more Jeff Goldstein;
When free speech-absolutist David French paints the spectacle of trannies twerking for toddlers a “blessing of liberty” — as a grand and glorious paean to the righteousness of Enlightenment thought distilled to its perfect essence — he is happily, and he believes properly, exploiting the paradox in classical liberalism that seems to justify its implied mandate that any and all ideas be accepted in the intellectual marketplace. Failure to follow such a rule is to run afoul of the implied universalism inherent to that philosophical paradigm. It is impure. And so ungodly.
[…]
The Frenchian idea that we welcome materialist poison into our universalist fields as some kind of intellectual equal, is wholly arrogant. It wishes to claim our philosophy is pure and perfect and capable of defeating even those ideas specifically intended to introduce paradox into the system — to destroy it from within using its own machinations and conceits as the impetus.
That’s a game of chicken we need not play.
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Slowly, Then Suddenly
BREAKING: US credit card debt has now passed $1 trillion.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) August 8, 2023
Elections Have Consequences
Be sure to read the comments!
You get what you deserve. pic.twitter.com/4RA4A1XDuj
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) August 8, 2023
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Trudeau’s Canada: A South Pacific junket. NWMP and the Blackfoot. Where’s Waldo? Trudeau still hiding. Your morning meme.
Biden’s America: Support the alphabet people or else. San Francisco is disgusting. The case for classical schools. Democrats have a history of election denial. Tucker Carlson interviews Devon Archer. Can the left be evil and hilarious? A morning cartoon.
Global Warming Scam News: Leftist logic. Destroy the environment to save the environment.
Today In Islam: Diversity is our strength in Australia (JW). Some Muslim outreach in Sudan (JW).
Y2Kyoto: The Tides Turn
Orkney Council to spend £150k to dispose of £1 wave device
A wave energy converter bought by Orkney Islands[Scotland] council for £1 is expected to cost £150k to decommission.
The council purchased the Pelamis wave device in 2017 for a nominal sum in the hope of saving it from destruction, given its heritage value to the island.
But it has failed to find a use for the 180m (591ft) long wave machine and is now looking to dispose of it.
The council received £45,000 at the time for any disposal costs, but has spent almost all of it on maintenance.
The power to waste money knows no bounds.
Reader Tips
I didn’t mean it, Robert. Enjoy your time off.
Shirker.
Again, wind power in Alberta drops to 0.8% capacity, three days after province puts brakes on development
Sunday morning, Alberta’s wind generation dropped to 0.8 per cent, again. It’s actually around 2.5% at noon on Monday, but I don’t think I’m going to write that story. It was at similar levels on Saturday, too, so three days in a row, if you’re counting. On Thursday, the Alberta government put a six month pause on approvals for new wind and solar projects. There are still plenty in the works already, but does anyone think there’s finally a realization at the highest level these things don’t actually work?
Also, if anyone here has seen any other media reporting on this (wind power collapsing, again), I would love to see links in the comments. As far as I’ve seen, I’m the only media doing so in Western Canada.
Would I Lie To You?
Yes, you would. And you did.
Brownstone Institute- CDC Altered Minnesota Death Certificates that List a Covid Vaccine as a Cause of Death
As we shall document, the CDC is concealing references to a covid vaccine on Minnesota death certificates (that are exceedingly rare to begin with because of widespread medical establishment denialism of vaccine adverse side effects). In almost every death certificate that identifies a covid vaccine as a cause of death, the CDC committed data fraud by not assigning the ICD 10 code for vaccine side effects to the causes of death listed on the death certificate.
h/y Scott
Real estate woes
Why worry? There’s no problem here that can’t be solved with infinite amortization.
“…he owns 8 condos in toronto. half of them he told me are negative geared.”
one of the biggest problems we face in is the damage RE participants caused because of a belief in an INFINITE UP market.
very few have mitigated downside risk by simply paying off debts or leveraging more safely.
last night i attended a party where a 35 year old so called…
— daniel de melis (@d_demelis) August 6, 2023
A Radical Revolution
While Trudeau has been busy remaking Canada, Victor Davis Hanson explains how the Democrats are remaking America.
Monday On Turtle Island
Happy Lord Simcoe Day!
Biden’s America: Old Joe is upset with Hungary. The gender cult and Satanism. NASCAR suspends driver over George Floyd meme. The Obama factor. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Destroying jobs in socialist British Columbia. Justin’s CBC trashes the history of our national parks.
Woke Europe: Porsche airbrushes out Jesus. Woke Britain: Students told to read queer Dracula.
Book Review: A moral reckoning. Today In Islam: Muslim outreach in Mozambique.
If It Were Straightforward, Anyone Could Do It
Transgender Reddit, where the fun never starts:
Trans men are getting their posts deleted for saying “guys.” It’s insane.
Reader Tips
Hope you’re enjoying Europe, Robert, you damnable Reader Tips shirker.
I’m so tired of doing my own work.
Boys Night Out
We’re team Barbie. pic.twitter.com/bdwhuTUHxM
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 6, 2023
Where Giants Walked
Paul Cooper’s Fall of Civilizations: How everything they told you about Easter Island was wrong (1.5 hrs).
In this episode, we take a look at one of archaeology’s most enduring puzzles: the mystery of Easter Island. Find out how this unique community grew up in complete isolation, severed from the rest of the world by a vast expanse of ocean. Discover the incredible story of how it survived for so many centuries, and examine the evidence about what happened to finally bring this society, and its statues, crashing down.
Confucious Classrooms
one of the surest ways to lose a game is to play against an opponent who can think more moves into the future than you can and who orchestrates a deep game on timescales that are in excess of your consideration. you’ll see small moves and fail to grasp their significance. you may even think you’re gaining advantage when, in fact, your one move look ahead is about to get you into serious trouble against someone who has already mapped out the next nine. […]
from ideas like the “hundred year marathon” to the deliberate penetration of universities, companies, and government to extract knowledge and intellectual property, the chinese government thinks in timeframes and order of magnitude past those of the west. they think of themselves as “the middle kingdom” below heaven but above the barbarous “rest of humanity.”
they too have a belief in a kind of “manifest destiny.”
and they too play nasty, subtle games.
so do other asiatic nations.
now imagine you wanted to play this same “alien long-game” with another superpower who you desire and feel duty bound to supplant as global hegemon.
how do you weaken them?
how do you lock them in pace and render them unable to progress or compete with you?
because it sure seems like “destroying the fidelity of their education and educational systems” would be a fine place to start. so too would be “destroying their faith in sound technologies and convincing them to chase absurd, malfunctioning ones.”
there is a fascinating confluence of “green” parties, especially anti-nuclear activism, and funding from various communist sources.
Belated Oddments
Including a lesson in patience; a feat of flanging; London’s foxes; cliffhanging scenes; some unhappy expertise; and how to clean your particle accelerator with a ferret.