Power struggle

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So your main political party spent decades promoting plans to “nationalize the mines, banks and monopoly industry”? How’s that working out for you these days?

South Africa has reached an unprecedented level of rotational power cuts.

According to Mantshantsha, South Africa’s total demand at 19:25 on Tuesday evening was 30,480MW, while the available generation capacity was 23,289MW.

Virtual Energy and Power director Clyde Mallinson noted that only 40% of Eskom’s coal fleet is currently operational. Based on current performance, he said there could be stage 7 power cuts in February and stage 11 by June or July.

A nation run by “comrades” whose main concern seems to be the fate of the Lumpenproletariat.

Newfoundland will continue to get screwed by Quebec for another nearly 2 decades, just watch

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Story: Ahead of Quebec premier’s visit, provincial panel recommends new Churchill Falls deal

The notion that Quebec will change this deal one minute before 2041 is laughable. Quebec locked in a fixed price, with no escalator clause for inflation, in the early 1970s. And then they were able to extend it until 2041, despite Newfoundland’s protests to the Supreme Court of Canada, which backed Quebec. It is perhaps the most lopsided, unfair deal in Canadian history. Quebec gets rich, Newfoundland starves.

Churchill Falls Hydroelectric Generating Facility, with 5,428 megawatts capacity, has more power generating capacity than the entire province of Saskatchewan, combined, if every single coal and gas turbine, every wind turbine are running at 100%, and every solar panel is entirely lit at noon. If Newfoundland actually got a fair deal from its power sales over 50 years ago, it would not have been a have-not province for the last five decades. However, numerous court cases, up to the Supreme Court of Canada, have locked Newfoundland into the deal until 2041, selling power to Hydro Quebec for $2 per megawatt-hour. In New York (which buys power from Hydro Quebec), “Higher fuel costs have led to higher average wholesale electricity prices as well. In February 2022, the average year-to-date wholesale electricity cost was $118.36/Megawatt-hour (MWh), according to NYISO data.” Where do you think they buy wholesale power from?

The Chinese Installed Government Of Justin Trudeau

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This is our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posing with Dr. (Morgan) Gongbo Li.

Dr. Li was the former overseas chair of Zijin Mining – the Chinese state-owned company that has been permitted to acquire four Canadian mining assets without national security reviews since 2018.

He questions your patriotism: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today says giving Canadians reasons to distrust the results of the 2021 election is playing into the hands of foreign governments.

It’s Probably Nothing

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Not every Obama policy came to naught.

Inspectors from the UN atomic agency discovered uranium enriched to 84-percent purity in Iran last week, closer than ever to weapons-grade levels, Bloomberg reported Sunday, citing two unnamed senior diplomats.

Iran has been known thus far to have enriched uranium to 60%. A purity of 90% is needed to produce nuclear weapons.

International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors are trying to determine whether Tehran deliberately made the move or if it was an “unintended accumulation within the network of pipes connecting the hundreds of fast-spinning centrifuges used to separate the isotopes,” the report said.

h/t Dumb Biker

Wednesday On Turtle Island

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Biden’s America:  We were right about masks.  Lying woke teacher fired.  The first guy to ever report the news.  Politics in California.  Education in California.  And Democrats are the worst people.  Life in Portland.  Old Joe goes to Ukraine.  Your morning meme.

Pervert News:  Gender affirming health care.  And grooming in schools.

Trudeau’s Canada:  Health care in Ontario.  Are Nazis running rampant in Canada?  Its Trudeau’s fault.  Our Dear Leader is still in York Region. After a wonderful night at taxpayer expense, he poses for a couple more photo ops today. Then Trudeau burns jet fuel to Quebec for some more fun.  Victoria debates banning gas stoves.  A Trudeau success story, as young people become terrified of global warming.  A Liberal MP defends China’s interference.

Today In Islam:  Sweden embraces blasphemy laws.  Next door, Norway will fight Islamophobia.

Money for nothing

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I’m not sure who’s worse: the ones that undertake these studies, or the cheerleaders who breathlessly report only those details which promote the narrative.

For companies that rolled out the shorter work hours — whether it was one less workday a week or longer hours in parts of the year and shorter hours the rest of the time to make an average 32-hour week — revenue wasn’t affected, the findings show.

Revenue grew 1.4 per cent over the course of the trial for 23 companies that provided adequate data — weighted for the size of the business — while a separate 24 companies saw revenue climb more than 34 per cent from the same six-month period a year earlier.

Just a few questions: were these employees getting the same wage, or less? How did a shorter work week cause an uptick in revenue or is this just an unacknowledged coincidence? If revenue went up, what about expenses? Inquiring minds expect more than this drivel.

Rise of the Bean Counters

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Financial Post- Beware the warrior accountants

The goal is to unveil these first two blocks in a few months, with implementation in fiscal year 2024. The standards are being designed by accountants and will be overseen and audited by accountants. In effect, governments are weaponizing accountants to disrupt and transform the global economy, and the government of Canada is fully on board — though without having bothered to ask Canadians if it’s something they really want.

Last March, the ISSB issued draft standards for sustainability and climate-related financial disclosures with a comment period that closed at the end of July 2022. The big four accounting firms and the big corporate groups that want ESG accounting and actually helped draft the standards also provided comments — which, circularly, the board has cited to demonstrate support for the proposals. Since July, the ISSB has been working at breakneck speed to revise the standards for implementation.

h/t Scott

Universities should be promoting truth, not fiction

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Professors William McNally and David Millard Haskell have written an important editorial directed at all Canadian universities:

It’s one thing to make unsubstantiated claims of systemic racism, but making claims that fly in the face of the evidence is tantamount to propaganda. But false claims are precisely what a diversity administrator adduced last month at the University of Waterloo.

On Jan. 27, the university’s vice-president of equity, diversity, inclusion and anti-racism, Dr. Christopher Taylor, issued a public statement condemning the death of Tyre Nichols. Like George Floyd, Nichols was a Black American who died at the hands of police. Also, like Floyd, there was graphic video evidence.

But a key difference was left out of Taylor’s account — he failed to mention that Nichols’ assailants were five Black police officers. This first omission was a hint of what was to come: Taylor did not intend to let “truth get in the way of a good story.”

Your Competence Is Problematic

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We’ve gone through endless challenges to, and jettisoning of, entrance exams for police and firefighting in this country on disparate impact grounds. In New York City, there were decades of litigation brought against the firefighters’ exam, which expected firefighters to be able to read instructions on their gear, to be able to understand the chemical components of various firefighting foams and whatnot, and blacks failed that test of reading and cognitive skill at much higher rates than whites. So, the test had a disparate impact on blacks, even though the test was not discriminatory… But it was thrown out because it had a disparate impact.

On “diversity” versus competence, and the stupefying effects of “disparate impact” ideology.

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