December 6, 2022: Reader Tips
This evening we get a glimpse at some of the world’s Best Christmas Towns.
Your best recent tips are much appreciated.
Bankrupt banks?
“Canadian banks are priced too richly given where Canada stands in the debt cycle. Canada now has a private debt to GDP ratio of 230%. For reference, before the American financial system melted down in 2008, the United States had a private debt to GDP ratio of just 170%.”
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
What’s the Difference Between Yoel Roth and Joseph Goebbels?
Born 90 years apart, they clearly grew up in very different times but yet bear striking similarities. Both are well educated. Both were absolutely convinced of their own righteous causes. Neither believe in free speech. Neither believe in free elections where the proverbial scales are not severely tipped in favor of their beloved political parties. Goebbels was the Chief Propagandist for the German Nazi Party. Roth is a de facto propagandist apparatchik for the Democrat Party of America.
Much more here about Roth’s anti-free speech reign at Twitter.
One Flu Out Of The Wuhan Nest
Down The Primrose Path
It’s a “done deal.”
Congressional sources tell The Dossier that there is a strong enough appetite in Congress, given the unanimously pro-war Democratic voting bloc, and the significant amount of Republicans who support the perpetual funding of the Zelensky government in Ukraine, to pass a bill by the end of next week that will deliver tens of billions of dollars into Kiev’s coffers.
Let That Sink In
Twitter’s Largest Advertiser [Apple] Returns to Platform, Has Now ‘Fully Resumed’ Spending
Honey, I Finished the Internet
This is culled from a recent Struggle Session at the Carleton University School of Journalism in Ottawa.
Enjoy.
Here’s my 2-minute summary of last night’s ridiculous woke seminar, “Journalists and Online Hate”. 🤡
How can normies, like us, deal with this Woke Ideology Cult?
Laugh at them …Mercilessly. 😂 pic.twitter.com/UFFQnwOBnd
— Adam Beis (@adambeis) December 2, 2022
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
He Admires His Basic Dictatorship
Blacklocks “evicted” by the Trudeau press gallery.
Parliamentary Press Gallery executives accompanied by armed police on Friday evicted Blacklock’s. All questions were referred to a House of Commons employee. Blacklock’s said the eviction, first of its kind in the history of the National Press Building, was clear reprisal over its continued protests against media subsidies.
Eviction followed Gallery president Guillaume St-Pierre’s threat to “terminate” Blacklock’s membership. The eviction letter stated Blacklock’s managing editor Tom Korski was “impolite,” “disturbs the journalists around him” and “streams parliamentary committee hearings on his computer.”
The complaints were made by three reporters: Emilie Bergeron and Michel Saba of Canadian Press and freelancer Hélène Buzzetti, a former Gallery president. Fourteen other reporters assigned desks in the National Press Building did not sign the complaint.
“Failure to observe these prohibitions could result in further and potentially more serious sanctions including further and potentially permanent prohibitions,” wrote President St-Pierre, correspondent for the Journal de Montréal.
The Gallery refused to permit Blacklock’s to speak to the board of directors regarding reprisal complaints. “The executive did not invite oral representations,” said the eviction notice.
“We will now see the Press Gallery in court,” Blacklock’s shareholders said in a statement. “Our subsidized competitors met in secret, plotted punitive measures over petty grievances and served an eviction notice accompanied by armed police. Their conduct is outrageous.”
Blacklock’s is the only Press Gallery member eligible for federal subsidies that neither solicits nor accepts government funding. The eviction came one day after Blacklock’s published Access To Information records detailing a private meeting between 35 unnamed publishers and the Canada Revenue Agency on distribution of $595 million in subsidies.
Subsidies for oil and gas? Really?
Some people think the oilpatch is blessed with all sorts of federal subsidies. Here’s Pipeline Online’s brief to the House of Commons Natural Resources Committee on the topic, which the committee is working on right now.
No Covid Amnesty … Until Sincere Mea Culpas are issued!
Some of the usual suspects are shouting a little too loudly that the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario didn’t suggest that unvaccinated people are mentally ill and in need of psychiatric medication. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, but what is clear is that over the past 2.5 years, medical associations across the Western World have destroyed their credibility with misleading statements, and outright lies, and their friends in the media, such as Politifact and the Associated Press, have done the same.
Once all of these organizations admit that they have been wrong about most everything around Covid and agree that their actions have helped to hurt, and even kill, millions of people around the world, then we can start a real dialogue. Until then, EVERYTHING they say must be judged through a skeptical lens of Stupid or Liar.
If you’d like some reliable information, from a medical professional whose judgement has proven to be correct more often than not, then listen to what Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has to say.
It’s Monday On Turtle Island
Today In Islam: This week in Jihad. Paying the Jizya.
Woke Britain: Fulani is a complete hypocrite. Apparently crime is legal in Britain.
Biden’s America: Bishop Joseph Strickland did not kill himself. Guns, fire, and knowledge. Musical re-imagines Jesus and Judas relationship. The role of James Baker in the laptop scandal. Journalists attack Matt Taibbi. Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Carey Price slams Trudeau over new anti gun legislation. Today Climate Justin burns jet fuel to Ingersoll Ont. There he will rant about electric vehicles. Marco Mendicino states he will end gun violence. Next week, he will announce his cure for cancer. Justin goes full fascist. Lawyers must report on their clients. And park police can search cars and buildings without a warrant.
The Media: Victor Davis Hanson explains corruption in the media. Trust The Science News: Post Faucist America.
Bonding In Adversity
Following this lengthy declaration of innate racial wrongness, the panellists begin to ruminate on “how best to confront the corrosive force of online hate targeted at journalists.” Being a journalist on Twitter, where the public can talk back, sometimes bluntly, is equated with surviving in an active warzone and other “hostile physical environments,” with women, the majority of the panel, apparently hardest hit. Journalists, we’re told, are “exposed to danger in the digital world” and consequently suffer high rates of “anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic distress.” As a result of being mocked or disagreed with on Twitter. “We don’t want our journalists to be killed,” says Catherine Tait, the president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The term “hate” is used often and expansively – not only to cover threats and vividly abusive emails – “violent messages” – but also mockery and brusque corrections of factual and logical error. Even being referred to by the public as woke is presented as a basis for weeping, a form of psychological torture. Indeed, almost any kind of demurral is framed as an attempt to “silence” the journalists’ self-declared heroism, to deny them their cosmic destiny. And hence, it seems, the imperative to shut down reader-comment sections on national newspaper websites, on grounds that readers are no longer content to confine their feedback to the polite correction of typos. Throughout, the air is heavy with self-elevation, and claims of being scrupulously unbiased and “speaking truth to power” are deployed entirely without irony.
Stars of Canadian news media huddle together, weep, congratulate selves.
Expiry Date: Best Before … Monsieur Blackface Came Into Power
Spotted in rural Massachusetts this past weekend. Technical explanation
December 5, 2022: Reader Tips
At this time of year, I like putting store bought egg nog into my coffee. Here’s a recipe to make egg nog from scratch.
Your best recent tips are most welcome.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The Berezka Dance Ensemble perform the floating dance “Birch Tree”
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 40 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car
A random violent attack on the Bus in Mississauga, Ontario! pic.twitter.com/Km0Rj4LaZY
— DatsRobin (@DatsRobin) November 24, 2022
These Boots Were Made For Talkin’
“It’s deeply concerning for me that Albertans have a premier who doesn’t understand the real risks that Canadians and Albertans are faced with”.
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Bumped, for an update from @CoryBMorgan on a “fight for Democracy” protest at the Alberta leg today;
Now this is hilarious.
The anti-Sovereignty Act protesters only amounted to 20. That’s why Gil McGowan is having temper tantrums. He embarrassed himself with that turnout
So this guy films the pro-Sovereignty Act demonstrators and implies they are part of the opposition
Levy, Borax, and Kroc
In 1834, Commodore Uriah Levy bought Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello for $2,700. In the 1880s, the Harmony Borax Works paid Chinese immigrants $1.30 per day to mine borax in the often-brutal heat of Death Valley, California. In 1961, Ray Kroc strong-armed Mac and Dick McDonald into selling their restaurant chain, later worth billions, for $2.7 million.
The shock-and-awe these isolated facts elicit are off-kilter, thanks to the perceptual distortions of inflation and altered standards of well-being. The effect is to generate spurious narratives of villains and victims.