With advance warning about the swearing, this rant by Styxhexenhammer666 is well worth a listen. It’s a response to Emily Oster’s recent op-ed, “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty”.
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Global Warming Scam News: Greta speaks. Another day, another Just Stop Oil story.
Biden’s America: GOP must call off campaign. A black MAGA terrorist? Paul Pelosi and that man. How to vote blue. The media blames the Right for the attack on Pelosi. The woke Smithsonians. Does anyone actually watch The View? Your morning meme.
Trudeau’s Canada: Another racism story from Justin’s CBC. Outrage that rail blockades would be considered acts of terrorism. Diplomats are having a wonderful time spending your money. Trudeau must ban hateful thoughts. The government worked the media angle. And Meghan teams up with Sophie.
It’s Probably Nothing
Everyone thinks their house is worth a lot until they list it.
Real estate lender Romspen Investment Corp. has cut back on its dealmaking in Canada after rising interest rates caused a spike in non-performing loans.
The firm, backed by New York-based TIG Advisors, is acting “defensively” to match the current economic environment in the country, Romspen Managing Partner Derek Jenkin said in an interview. “We’re being very selective in what we finance at this time in Canada.”
November 1, 2022: Reader Tips
Welcome to a new month of Reader Tips! There will be no single theme this month but rather a mixture of interweaved themes. Hopefully every one of the next 30 days of videos you’ll find enjoyable.
We’ll start with the 1977 epic war movie, A Bridge Too Far, about the failed Operation Market Garden.
May the month ahead be a good one for you and your loved ones.
Please keep sharing your best news tips!
Honey, I Finished The Internet
One building from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order. (lots of images, so give it time to load.)
The Bird Is Turning
Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used for content moderation and other policy enforcement, curbing the staff’s ability to clamp down on misinformation ahead of a major US election.
Most people who work in Twitter’s Trust and Safety organization are currently unable to alter or penalize accounts that break rules around misleading information, offensive posts and hate speech, except for the most high-impact violations that would involve real-world harm, according to people familiar with the matter. Those posts were prioritized for manual enforcement, they said.
People who were on call to enforce Twitter’s policies during Brazil’s presidential election did get access to the internal tools on Sunday, but in a limited capacity, according to two of the people. The company is still utilizing automated enforcement technology, and third-party contractors, according to one person, though the highest-profile violations are typically reviewed by Twitter employees.
San Francisco-based Twitter declined to comment on new limits placed on its content-moderation tools.
Twitter staff use dashboards, known as agent tools, to carry out actions like banning or suspending an account that is deemed to have breached policy. Detection of policy breaches can either be flagged by other Twitter users or detected automatically, but taking action on them requires human input and access to the dashboard tools. Those tools have been suspended since last week, the people said.
Heh.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Speed Of Science
And just like that, race becomes science again.
“The Ancient Knowledge will again abound, and overflow, as water upon the Earth”
Randall Carlson links Day of the Dead to Catastrophe from Pleiades. How do you think Halloween began?
Longer version: The Mysterious Origin of Halloween.
Come Back Pizzagate!
All is forgiven.
Darryl Cooper brings together a short history on the origins of Pizzagate, and it’s as troubling now as it was then. He reviews the case on this podcast interview: On The Ridiculous Belief We Are Ruled By Pedophile Elites, with supporting materials on this Twitter thread.
75 minutes. Highly recommended.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
The Intercept: Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
he Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
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“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. Dehmlow, according to notes of the discussion attended by senior executives from Twitter and JPMorgan Chase, stressed that “we need a media infrastructure that is held accountable.”
“We do not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions, and we independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules,” a spokesperson for Twitter wrote in a statement to The Intercept.
There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
Thread: Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde (fired by @elonmusk last week) met monthly with DHS to discuss censorship plans.
Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit
Opinions you won’t find at the CBC.
2022 = 2008?
Could Canada be heading for the worst economic asset collapse in the world? This market analyst believes we are. He bases his prediction on the similarities between the U.S. housing bubble and the current state of the Canadian real estate market. In 2008, there was a brief drop in housing prices which convinced many American investors that the storm had passed, when in reality it was just getting started.
“In 2006 through 2008 there was a time when housing prices were coming down….20 to 30% in some areas after a sort of mania occurred. Now doesn’t that sound familiar because that is exactly what is happening over the course of 2022 and a lot of people….saw that as a signal to buy because they think that asset prices and debt markets are like a supermarket…So they think they are getting a deal but they are actually sticking their hand out and trying to catch a falling knife.”
SaskPower’s proposed 100 megawatt solar facility at Estevan, plus a bonus up to 10 megawatt pilot project on mined land
Estevan is getting not one, but two solar facilities.
ESTEVAN – SaskPower held a two day open-house regarding at proposed 100 megawatt solar facility on Oct-26-27 at the Estevan Legion Hall.
In actuality, it’s not just a single project of 100 megawatts, but two projects – a 100 megawatt solar facility and a secondary, up to 10 megawatt pilot project.
The 100 megawatt facility is to be built on seven quarters of land approximately 10 kilometres southwest of the Boundary Dam Power Station. While SaskPower has large swaths of reclaimed mine land in the area, this block of farmland was chosen because it was undisturbed. Building on disturbed land would mean the foundations would be more costly.
It’s seven quarters of land in total, 1,120 acres or 453 hectares. The land has been optioned, but has not yet been purchased. It falls within the southwest corner of the RM of Estevan, Township 1, Range 9, west of the second meridian.
And, of course
As for Estevan, when asked “What do you do when the sun goes down?” the SaskPower official said, “You don’t generate any solar power.”
Criminals: 1 Law-abiding Canadians: 0
After two years of psychological oppression, Trudeau has cowered the majority of Canadians into submission. Now he is going to ensure that the rest of the population can’t defend themselves:
The federal government’s promised national “freeze” on the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns takes effect Friday — part of Ottawa’s plan to limit access to firearms to tamp down on a spike in crime.
Under the regulations, people can still own and use their existing registered handguns and sell or transfer handguns to “exempted individuals or businesses.”
Requests to transfer a handgun submitted before today’s date will still be processed, the government said.
Precisely how many criminals is this going to block from having a handgun?
Who Is Actually Causing The Violence In America
Victor Davis Hanson explains the current turmoil in America.
It’s Monday On Turtle Island
Trudeau’s Canada: Drag story hour in Winnipeg. Trudeau wants Canadians to fund the war in Ukraine. Justin’s CBC explains that Trump and the Republicans want a civil war. The unmarked graves industry. The emergency act was planned for days. Marco Mendicino put pressure on police.
Biden’s America: Weekend at Bernies. The Democrat energy crisis. Its all Trump’s fault. Your morning meme.
Today In Islam: Christmas must be coming. Muslims celebrate in Bethlehem. In France Jihadis relatives laugh at victims’ families. And Taliban education.
China Virus News: Never forget the Covid fanatics.
Fight For Socialism News: Trudeau will be so happy. Corrupt communist who hates Israel, becomes President of Brazil.
Some Halloween memes.
Pollspotting
This is Nobel Prize worthy pollspotting.
October 31, 2022: Reader Tips
We end this month of food related posts with the History of Tim Hortons.
Your coffee focused or news related tips are much appreciated!
Update: Marc from Calgary has kindly shared this tweet from Danielle Smith. The whole point of such things is not pointing out when an individual has failed but rather to admit that a person, a neighbourhood, or a community has a severe problem and we all collectively need to address it.
Courage, David. Help Is On The Way
Our own @davidakin is putting up a brave front, but between the lines, we hear his pain.
Help us help David in whatever small way you can. https://t.co/3kqDNzjggq https://t.co/06Ob3IDudV
— Katewerk (@katewerk) October 31, 2022
(For God’s sake don’t donate anything).