One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest

Gain of Function It's Probably Nothing Science 2 Comments

Yuri Deigin:

Wow, a curiously similar case of “frozen evolution” of an RNA virus to the 2021 Ebola outbreak: a 2015 outbreak of the bluetongue virus in livestock caused by a strain “frozen” since 2008.

Demonstrating admirable intellectual honesty, the authors (@davidandthebees et al.) suggest that accidental release is the most plausible hypothesis right in the title: “Frozen evolution” of an RNA virus suggests accidental release as a potential cause of arbovirus re-emergence”.

Ominous Parallels

Freespeechers nannystate 24 Comments

Bill Maher provides some timely criticisms of the current woke revolution in this enlightening and humorous clip.

“The problem with communism and some very recent ideologies here at home is that they think you can change reality by screaming at it; that you can bend human nature by holding your breath. But that’s the difference between reality and your mommy.”

“Yesterday I asked Chat GPT “Are there any similarities between today’s woke revolution and Chairman Mao’s cultural revolution of the 1960s?” And it wrote back “How long do you have?””

“These journalists knew what fate would await them if they helped debunk a sacred narrative…”

Media There Goes The Narrative We Are All Treaty People 35 Comments

Canada’s Grave Errors

I would like to report that I was one of those few wise owls who knew, right from the start, that the story didn’t add up. But I wasn’t. Media figures, government officials, and First Nations leaders all seemed certain that these were indeed actual graves that had been discovered — and not just any graves, but graves of murdered children.

During the height of the ensuing social panic, in late May and early June 2021, mainstream media sources even repeated urban legends about babies thrown into furnaces and clandestine midnight burials. Surely, I thought, all of these public figures wouldn’t embrace such claims if real proof weren’t about to be sprung from the soil. After all, the GPR data indicated exactly where the remains of these supposedly murdered children were lying. All that was required was a forensic examination, something one might expect to occur within weeks, perhaps even days.

The Sound Of Settled Science

Let Them Eat Taser Unsettled Science 16 Comments

el gato malo;

i have long been fascinated by the manner in which so much of what we “know” simply “isn’t so.” grand myths and misperceptions proliferate through our culture, our models of the world, and even in our scientific understandings. someone does a bad study, makes some wild claims, and decades go down the tubes as whole fields get led astray into rabbit warrens and the consciousness and belief set of the populace gets wedded to some form of compelling crackpottery or other.

there’s always “data.”

there’s always a loud proclamation.

and because it’s some simple seemingly telling claim, everyone jumps on board. mostly, they want to. people love stuff like this. they love “big, simple facts.”

but a shocking amount of it is just plain bunk generated by slanted study. this is sometimes unwitting, sometimes deliberate, but the effect is always the same:

you get told a big simple fact that is just plain wrong.

This US power line is a big deal for Saskatchewan

Climate Cult youmightbeinsaskatchewan 23 Comments

Some people are not happy about the idea of being replaced by imported, carbon tax-free coal and natural gas-fired power, while we move to shut down our own coal mines and power facilities. Op-Ed: Saskatchewan Coal Transition Centre: Sabotaging our future: How SaskPower’s $1 billion scheme to import power from the U.S. will devastate Estevan and leave Saskatchewan’s economy vulnerable

New World Order

Alternative Subsidy Climate Cult Ethical Energy 11 Comments

Terry Etam: The axis of the world is shifting.

Here in the weird West, where we set aside our vast wealth, bountiful resources, technological prowess, best-in-history medical/safety establishments, and other assorted existential victories to get into fistfights about whether more racism will eliminate racism and who can go to the bathroom where, we are used to watching ancient conflicts take place on the other side of the world, shaking our head, and wondering either “Why can’t they all just get along” or “Well that’s unacceptable, better step in.”

The weird west has long gotten involved in many of these conflicts because of, well, o-i-l. It’s been that way since the 1950s, probably longer; the west’s insatiable thirst for hydrocarbons has driven a lot of international shenanigans and weird relationships. Recall that after a gang of terrorists hijacked four planes and flew them into the US’ most fundamental landmarks on home soil, and that more than half of those terrorists were from Saudi Arabia, the US promptly and expectedly retaliated – by invading two other countries, and going for tea with Saudi Arabia. Kind of transparent, that one.

But that established hydrocarbon-based camaraderie is fading fast, and it doesn’t look like the West has a game plan in response. That’s about as far as I’ll wade into geopolitics because the whole mess is grossly complicated (who hates who again this week?), other than to point out how rapidly things are changing and how that is impacting the energy world.

More: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MbS) is no longer worried about pleasing the United States as his relationships with other global superpowers including China and Russia have strengthened.

Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa

Chinada 16 Comments

Two Canadian politicians promised in a letter to the Chinese government to support “the great motherland”…

Canadian Senator Victor Oh (胡子修) and Ontario former MPP and current deputy-mayor of Markham Michael Chan (陈国治) signed their names in a letter to a Chinese local government, pledging their continued support to the “great motherland”, according to a Chinese-language website in Canada.

As reported by CCmedia.news, the letter was written on April 10, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic as a reply to a sympathy letter (‘sympathy letter’) from two governmental officials in P.R. China’s Jiangsu Province (江苏省) two weeks earlier (on March 27, 2020).

The reply letter (‘reply letter’) was written on behalf of all the members of the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada (JCCC,加拿大江苏国际商会), a non-profit in Canada where Victor Oh and Michael Chan serve as honorary chairmen.

Thus, there are two letters involved here: the sympathy letter from the Chinese government to the JCCC; and the reply letter from the JCCC to the Chinese government. Below are the summary of the sympathy letter and the English translation of the full text of the reply letter. The translation was achieved by DeepL Translator and Google Lens with minor editing.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 19 Comments

Biden’s America:  Digital blackface.  The transgender community.  Destroying black heritage sites.  The White House isn’t interested.  The pervert country music awards.  The Democrats have no restraint.  A manifesto destiny.  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Liberals and Indians prepare for when Canada becomes under UN control (CBC).  The renaming continues.  Rex Murphy writes about Trudeau’s carbon tax.  The decriminalization of drugs in Toronto.  Apparently Islamophobia is running rampant at the border agency.  Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Toronto, for some sort of photo op.  Once Justin’s censorship laws come into effect, the only thing you will be able to get on the internet is Trudeau’s new Youtube channel.  Hans Gruber wants to re-educate Canadians.

Today In Islam:  Ramadan in Canada (JW).  More Muslim outreach in Sweden (JW).

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