Feb 182022
 


Pablo Picasso Portrait de femme au col d’hermine (Olga) 1923

 

Civil Liberties Group Files Court Action Against Use of Emergencies Act (CP)
Ottawa May Euthanize Truckers’ Pets As Punishment (Bexte)
Unvaccinated Truckers Delivering Vaccines, Covid Devices Exempt From Rules (TS)
Canada Reveals the Core Conflict of Our Age (McGrogan)
American Truckers to Drive From California to DC in ‘The People’s Convoy’ (ET)
‘Russiagate’ Is Indeed Worse Than Watergate (Malic)
Australia Starts Vaccine Injury Payouts (RT)
Kulldorff: ‘Science and Public Health Are Broken’ (ET)
RFK, Jr.’s ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Is a Record-Smashing Bestseller (CHD)
Ukraine Invasion Scheduled for Wednesday Canceled (McGovern)
Harris Flies To Europe To Help Secure Ukraine Border, Biden Stays Behind (NYP)
German Central Bank Doesn’t Rule Out Gold Revaluation (GO)

 

 

 

 

Edward Dowd

 

 

 

 

Bank accounts have already been frozen and people have been arrested, under the Emergencies Act. Which the House of Commons and the Senate must vote on first. If they vote it down, it’s null and void. But then the damage will have been done.

Civil Liberties Group Files Court Action Against Use of Emergencies Act (CP)

The federal government faced a constitutional challenge Thursday over its historic invocation of the Emergencies Act, as police began to move on protesters with large trucks paralyzing the heart of the national capital. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said using the emergencies law was a measure of last resort to bring an end to the illegal and undemocratic blockades that had harmed Canadians for nearly three weeks. He made the remarks during debate in the House of Commons over his government’s decision to use the law for the first time since its introduction in 1988. The Conservatives accused the prime minister of failing to try to de-escalate the conflict before turning to emergency powers. Trudeau said using the act was not the first, second or even third choice of the government.

“We did it to protect families and small businesses, to protect jobs and the economy,” the prime minister said. “We did it because the situation could not be dealt with under any other law in Canada.” Hours later, the federal government was told it would face court action over its decision, as the Canadian Civil Liberties Association announced it was seeking a judicial review of the government’s invocation of the act. The group said at a Toronto news conference it did not want to minimize the effects of the protests across the country, but added it was unclear that the demonstrations endanger the lives, health or safety of Canadians so seriously that they constitute a national emergency.

“The government has brought in an extreme measure that should be reserved for national emergencies, a legal standard that has not been met. Emergency powers cannot and must not be normalized,” said Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, the civil liberties association’s executive director. Police deal with complex law-enforcement issues every day and have cleared multiple border blockades across the country without emergency powers, the association said. The group’s criminal justice director, Abby Deshman, said the Emergencies Act orders do not apply only in Ottawa and actually affect the rights of every Canadian. The group believes the measures are clearly unconstitutional and it will be asking the courts to step in to defend the rule of law and the constitutional rights of all people across the country, she said.

“Local police across this country have cleared several highly disruptive border blockades and are successfully managing numerous other protesters in communities across the country, all without emergency powers,” Deshman said. Through the Emergencies Act, new powers have been granted to freeze bank accounts of protest participants and bar people from assembling in specific places or joining protests that threaten trade, critical infrastructure, individuals or property. It is also now illegal to bring children to within 500 metres of the blockades or provide supplies or property to participants. The new powers took effect earlier this week but the House of Commons and the Senate must both vote to confirm use of the emergencies law. The House debate will continue through the weekend and Monday with a vote planned for 8 p.m. ET that day. If the motion fails, the act will be suspended immediately.

[..] Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at a news conference bank accounts had already been frozen and more will be put on hold in the coming days. But she refused to say how many, or even declare if accounts could be frozen for people who aren’t participating in the blockade but who donated to the convoy’s various online fundraisers.

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https://twitter.com/Resist_05/status/1494497012234219523

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Not even surprising anymore.

Ottawa May Euthanize Truckers’ Pets As Punishment (Bexte)

The same day that videos emerged of Ottawa and Quebec police gearing up to go after peaceful Convoy supporters in the capital, the Ottawa government has warned protesters that their pets may be confiscated following their arrest. Moreover, position statements issued by the Ottawa Humane Society reveal that they may unilaterally euthanize any animal that they deem to be “not suitable for adoption.” Arbitrary behavioral and health tests would be used to make the call. These decisions about the life of a trucker’s pet would, thus, be made without their consent or knowledge while they are imprisoned for indefinite periods of time via the Emergency Powers of the Trudeau regime.

“Attention animal owners at [the] demonstration,” Ottawa By-law writes in a Tweet. “If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will [be] placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost. After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.” As anyone with experience in pet care or animal shelters will know, “relinquishment” means that ownership of pets will be handed over to animal shelters, where the pets will be housed while awaiting a prospective owner to adopt them or to be euthanized. As Adopt-a-Pet explains, “When shelters run out of kennel space, sometimes even healthy adoptable dogs are put to sleep.


Some shelters simply don’t have the manpower to spend time with each dog, so they spend most of their time alone in a small cage… What is true at every shelter is that when you surrender a dog, what happens to him is completely out of your hands.” It isn’t clear what length of time Convoy supporters may face if arrested for peacefully protesting, but the government has been clear that it could be up to one year in prison, in addition to a possible $100,000 fine.

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“..this exemption requires a ministerial invitation and had been “rarely used.”

Unvaccinated Truckers Delivering Vaccines, Covid Devices Exempt From Rules (TS)

Unvaccinated truckers bringing COVID-19 vaccines and medical devices into Canada to combat the pandemic are exempt from testing and quarantine requirements at the border, a government order says. The exemption is due to the “urgent public health necessity” of the supplies they are transporting, Health Canada states. The government has given exemptions from testing and quarantine rules for certain people crossing the border into Canada to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. They include unvaccinated and vaccinated people invited by the health minister to help with the COVID-19 “response.”

A spokeswoman for Health Canada said in a statement that this exemption requires a ministerial invitation and had been “rarely used.” She said it had been used, for example, to help with the supply of ventilators. The exemption is one of a number set out in an order-in-council published last month that outlines decisions made by cabinet, such as regulations or appointments. Drivers dropping off students on either side of the U.S.-Canada border at a college, school or university are also exempt from quarantine and testing requirements, the order says.

The order makes clear that unvaccinated truckers are not exempt from the testing and quarantine requirement in other circumstances. They must obtain a pre-arrival COVID-19 test, quarantine and undergo COVID-19 molecular testing in Canada. The restrictions on unvaccinated cross-border truckers have caused much political debate in Canada and are ostensibly a major sticking point for the protesters camped outside Parliament Hill. But the order reveals that unvaccinated truckers can avoid the border requirements if they are transporting medical supplies, including products with a drug identification number, such as medications and vaccines authorized for use in Canada.

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“It is only the state’s power that saves and secures. And since only the state can save, it is the only legitimate source of authority..”

Canada Reveals the Core Conflict of Our Age (McGrogan)

Justin Trudeau’s confrontation with the Canadian truckers may be the single most significant event of the Covid pandemic – not because of its eventual outcome, whatever that may be, but because of what it symbolises. It captures, in perfect microcosm, the tensions between the competing imperatives of the age: freedom versus security; the rule of law versus flexible ‘responsive’ governance; the priorities of the workers versus those of the Zooming bourgeoisie; the need for real-world human interaction and belonging versus the promises of splendid online isolation; the experiences of the common man, who knows where it hurts, versus those of the professional expert class, who know nothing that cannot be expressed as a formula.

More than all of that, though, it gives us a lens through which to view a much deeper, much older conflict of much larger scope – one which underlies not just the struggles of the Covid age, but of modernity itself. On the one hand, the state, which seeks to make all of society transparent to its power. On the other, alternative sources of authority – the family, the church, the community, the firm, the farm, and the human individual herself. For centuries, the state has waged a quiet war against those competitors, and bent them to its will. It has done this not through conspiracy or deliberate strategy but merely through the single-minded pursuit, across generation after generation of political leaders, of one goal: legitimacy. Governments and other state organs derive their legitimacy, and therefore their positions of rulership, from convincing the population that they are necessary.

They do this by suggesting that without their intervention, things will go badly; left to their own devices, ordinary people will suffer. The family, the church, the community, the firm, the farm, the human individual – these are inadequate to the task of securing human well-being. That task, only the state is equipped to achieve, for only the state can keep the population educated, healthy, safe, prosperous and satisfied. Since this is the case, only the state is fit to deploy power – and only those who govern the state are fit to rule. The logic of this argument is writ large, of course, in the Covid response across the developed world. What will keep us ‘safe?’

Certainly not traditional sources of succour, such as the church or the family. Certainly not individual people, who cannot be trusted to behave responsibly or assess risks for themselves. No – it is only the state, first with its lockdowns, then with its social distancing, its mask mandates, its vaccine programs, and lately its vaccine mandates and ‘passports.’ It is only the state’s power that saves and secures. And since only the state can save, it is the only legitimate source of authority – along, of course, with its leaders.

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“I think that the truckers, when they hit the Capitol, may well wake up a large number of our representatives and senators that are kind of a little bit asleep right now,” Malone said.

American Truckers to Drive From California to DC in ‘The People’s Convoy’ (ET)

California truckers fed up with the federal government’s endless emergency powers mandating masks and vaccines are gearing up for what they hope will become a Canadian-style “freedom convoy” to Washington, D.C., and are set to roll on Interstate 40 heading east from Barstow on Feb. 23. A national group, called The People’s Convoy, is organizing the truckers who will hit the road for the nation’s capital city to demand the Emergency Powers Act be lifted, ending the mandates, according to Chris Marston, chairman of the American Foundation for Civil Liberties, a non-profit that advocates for civil liberties issues and is helping coordinate the trucker’s protest. Though previous news reports stated the convoy wouldn’t depart California until March 7, organizers now say the convoy will leave earlier than planned.

“Freedoms can’t wait,” Marston told The Epoch Times. The group said it is calling on the American people to join the “call to freedom” in the spirit of “our brave and courageous neighbors to the north—our Canadian brothers and sisters who led the charge.” The Freedom Convoy in Canada has captured international attention the last handful of weeks as hundreds of truckers have parked in protest outside Parliament in Ottawa, the nation’s capital, demanding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s resignation and an end to mask and vaccine mandates. A map of the convoy’s expected route will be posted to the group’s website, Maureen Steele, a The People’s Convoy organizer, said Feb. 16 on “War Room,” a streaming political talk show and podcast hosted by former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon.

To ensure donations for the truckers won’t be frozen or routed to other causes—a problem the Canadian truckers encountered with the crowdsourcing platform GoFundMe—The People’s Convoy is taking donations directly on their website. Peter Navarro, Trump’s former economic adviser—and a regular on Bannon’s show—praised Canadian truckers for leading the charge against what he called government tyranny. “They are like the Boston Tea Party. They’re the fountainhead of a worldwide movement, which is basically on the right side of both science and economics. And we have to thank those Canadian truckers,” Navarro said. Dr. Robert Malone, a virologist, immunologist, and inventor of mRNA vaccines, who has been an outspoken critic of the federal government’s handling of the pandemic and mandates, also suggested on the show that Washington may soon see a new kind of “woke”—that supporters have called an “awakening.”

“I think that the truckers, when they hit the Capitol, may well wake up a large number of our representatives and senators that are kind of a little bit asleep right now,” Malone said.

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“..Trump-hater John Brennan actually briefed President Barack Obama in July 2016 that Clinton had signed off on a proposal to vilify Trump by “stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.”

‘Russiagate’ Is Indeed Worse Than Watergate (Malic)

On Friday, Durham filed an innocuously-titled Motion to Inquire into Potential Conflicts of Interest in the Sussmann case. The 13-page document pointed out that the legal firm representing Sussmann – Latham & Watkins LLP – previously represented his firm of Perkins Coie, its former partner Marc Elias, and the Clinton campaign, all in dealings with the Durham investigation. So far, so boring – except that the filing also lays out the role of a tech company that exploited access to Trump Tower, another Trump-owned building, a “healthcare provider,” and even “the Executive Office of the President of the United States” (EOP) in order to “mine Internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia.”

While the Durham documents do not name the company or the executive, they have since been identified by the New York Times as Neustar and Rodney Joffe, respectively. Durham says Neustar was hired by the Obama administration to “access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services,” and had access to these servers since at least 2014. Recall that Sussmann was accused of “coordinating” the tech company’s work with the Clinton campaign, including feeding the Alfa Bank story to the FBI. He allegedly also leaked the story to the press, which then ran multiple articles about the FBI investigation – which were promoted by Clinton herself as well as her aide Jake Sullivan, now President Joe Biden’s national security adviser.

According to Durham, Sussmann also packaged the false Alfa Bank story with another claim that came from Joffe and Neustar – that Trump and his aides used “Russian-made wireless phones” at the White House – and fed it to the CIA, on February 9, 2017, almost three weeks into Trump’s presidency. Durham “identified no support for these allegations” by Joffe. Now, the FBI is not supposed to spy on Americans without a warrant, while the CIA is not supposed to spy on US soil at all. So how did these two agencies respond to these attempts to weaponize them for political purposes? Well, we know that the FBI was instrumental in the ploy to pressure Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn to resign over allegedly lying about his perfectly legitimate conversations with the Russian ambassador to the US.

As for the CIA, its then-director and confirmed Trump-hater John Brennan actually briefed President Barack Obama in July 2016 that Clinton had signed off on a proposal to vilify Trump by “stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.” Three days later, the FBI opened a probe dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane” – targeting not Clinton, but Trump.

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Same MO as the adverse effects registration sites:

“..very complicated and very hard to navigate, particularly if you’re suffering an adverse health effect..”

Australia Starts Vaccine Injury Payouts (RT)

Australians who experienced adverse reactions to Covid-19 vaccines have started receiving compensation, local media reported on Wednesday, though the number of people applying to the scheme is far lower than expected. Figures from Australia’s Health Department show that less than 10% of the more than 10,000 people who registered their interest in the government scheme before December have submitted claims. The no-fault indemnity scheme grants people a one-off payment ranging from AU$1,000 (US$720) to AU$20,000 (US$14,400) for lost wages or other expenses if they suffered bad reactions to Covid-19 vaccines. The conditions for application include having spent at least one night in hospital and having suffered at least AU$1,000 (US$720) in economic losses.

Services Australia has received 861 applications – including death claims – as of February 9, a Health Department spokesman told news.com.au. One case has been paid but 11 have already been withdrawn, they added. The authorities have requested further information from 225 claimants. A total of 849 “remain under consideration.” “With the indemnity scheme having only been opened for a short period of time, information on eligible claims and payment amounts is still being assessed,” the spokesman said. Shine Lawyers’ head of medical negligence, Clare Eves, said the number of claimants was “disappointing” and attributed some blame to the complex nature of the scheme’s application process.

The website the government had set up was “very complicated and very hard to navigate, particularly if you’re suffering an adverse health effect,” she said. As of February 6, Australia’s medicines regulator had registered a total of 108,000 total reports of adverse reactions, most of which were minor, believed to be as a result of receiving a Covid-19 vaccine. Nearly 51.2 million total doses have been administered.

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Canceled.

Kulldorff: ‘Science and Public Health Are Broken’ (ET)

Dr. Martin Kulldorff is one of the most qualified public health pandemic experts in the United States. To the narrative-shapers, he’s a pariah. As a prominent epidemiologist and statistician, Kulldorff has worked on detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks for two decades. His methods are widely used around the world and by almost every state health department in the United States, as well as by hundreds of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Kulldorff has also worked on vaccine safety for decades, developing globally used methods for monitoring adverse reactions in new vaccines. His résumé on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website is 45 pages long and includes a list of 201 peer-reviewed published journal papers. His work has been cited more than 27,000 times.

Since 2003, Kulldorff worked at Harvard Medical School, first as an associate professor of population medicine and later as a professor of medicine. In November, Harvard and Kulldorff abruptly parted ways. Kulldorff prefers to keep the reasons private, but it’s hard to ignore that he placed himself in the crosshairs of the pandemic narrative early on in the “15 days to slow the spread” lockdown and has since paid the price. It’s quite something for a public health scientist at the top of his game to admit that “both science and public health are broken.” “For some reason, a public official narrative was established, and you weren’t allowed to question it—which, of course, is very detrimental, both to the pandemic and how to deal with the pandemic, because you have to have a vibrant discussion to figure out how best to deal with these things,” he told The Epoch Times.

The Swedish native said he tried to point out in March 2020 that there was a very steep age gradient on mortality for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Kulldorff said he attempted to publish a paper both in U.S. medical journals and mainstream newspapers stating that while anyone could contract the virus, the focus should be on protecting the elderly and those at high risk. His paper was knocked back from all directions.

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…But Mainstream Media Pretends It Doesn’t Exist

RFK, Jr.’s ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ Is a Record-Smashing Bestseller (CHD)

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s record-smashing bestseller, “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” demolishes the public images — piously promoted by corporate media — of Dr. Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates. Unfortunately, however, you won’t be able to read a review of Kennedy’s book in major media. That’s because the corporate establishment has circled the wagons to censor it — by pretending it doesn’t exist. But it does exist. The book surged to #1 on Amazon.com even before it hit the bookstores, and it swept the bestseller lists of the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly — none of which will even mention that the book was published, let alone review it.


It seems we are witnessing a mind-boggling first in U.S. book publishing history — when the hottest runaway bestseller of the season can’t even get its name mentioned in any major newspaper, TV or cable news program anywhere in the 50 states. Say hello to a new kind of suppression: censorship by oblivion — brazen, vicious, ugly and cowardly. This type of censorship subverts your right to make up your own mind after hearing both sides of a controversy. Instead, it simply labels the side it doesn’t like as “misinformation” and keeps you from hearing it at all. Astonishingly, given how much establishment firepower was lined up to crush this book, it is not working. Against all odds, the disturbing portrait Kennedy paints in “The Real Anthony Fauci” led the book to sell a record-breaking 110,000 copies in its first week. Through word of mouth, sales have reached more than 900,000 copies.

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“Biden made this commitment to Putin during the telephone call of Dec. 3..”

Ukraine Invasion Scheduled for Wednesday Canceled (McGovern)

At yesterday’s press conference, Chancellor Scholz at times played straight man for Putin, calling the announcement of the Russian troop pullback a “good signal” and agreeing that diplomatic options are “far from exhausted”, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had reported to Putin on Monday. Here’s what’s important (and was given appropriate prominence in AP’s reporting). Putin at the presser with Scholz: “… as [Lavrov] reported yesterday, the [US and NATO] responses still contain a number of considerations that we are not only ready to discuss but that we have actually suggested to our partners over the years. I am referring to our proposals on European security, certain weapons systems, notably, intermediate and shorter-range missiles, and military transparency. We are ready to continue this joint work. …


So far, the NYT has omitted that statement by Putin, which, coming yesterday together with the troop pullback, is highly significant. That the Times “forgot” to include it is yet another sign that even the most sensible, rudimentary negotiations on key matters of concern to Russia will be resisted tooth and nail by the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-MEDIA-Academia-Think-Tank) complex in which the NYT is right there in the middle, the fulcrum – the key “M.” Still, some Times editor apparently insisted on slipping in the important acknowledgment by Mr. Biden today that: “Neither the US or NATO have missiles in Ukraine. We do not, do not have plans to put them there as well.” [Emphasis added.] Biden made this commitment to Putin during the telephone call of Dec. 30 that Putin had urgently requested. It amounts to a major concession and enabled Moscow to conclude that at least one or two of Biden’s retinue – or Biden himself – have their heads screwed on right.

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Try not to laugh..

Harris Flies To Europe To Help Secure Ukraine Border, Biden Stays Behind (NYP)

Vice President Kamala Harris set off Thursday on a peace mission to Europe as Russia appeared to accelerate preparations for an invasion of Ukraine — undeterred by her failure to resolve the ongoing US-Mexico border crisis as President Biden’s point person on illegal immigration. About two hours after Harris departed DC to attend the Munich Security Conference, Biden emerged from the White House and said he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will launch an invasion of Ukraine “within the next several days.” As Harris flew east to Germany, Biden traveled west to Lorain, Ohio, to talk about fixing Great Lakes pollution through his three-month-old bipartisan infrastructure law — prompting his aides to insist the jaunt wouldn’t distract him from the potential outbreak of the largest and deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II.

“I doubt [Putin’s] sitting back at the Kremlin right now shaking because Kamala Harris is over there,” Rep Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview with Newsmax TV Wednesday. “She couldn’t pour something out of a boot if there were instructions written on the heel,” Burchett added. “She can’t even find our southern border, much less the Ukrainian border. This is a joke, this is a travesty.” Biden tapped Harris in March to stem illegal immigration across the southern border, but the crisis only got worse, with a record-breaking 1.9 million arrests in 2021. Critics blame lax Biden administration enforcement policies, but Harris defended her work last month in Honduras, saying addressing the “root causes” of illegal immigration wouldn’t have an effect “overnight.”

The vice president’s performance on the US border crisis received bipartisan blowback, including from Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who said in December, “She was tasked with that job, [but] it doesn’t look like she’s very interested in this.”

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“[Banca D’Italia] can also continue to absorb debt, say, an additional €500 billion euros, and then revalue gold times ten.”

German Central Bank Doesn’t Rule Out Gold Revaluation (GO)

When the gold price rises the value of the gold on the asset side of a central bank’s balance sheet increases. At the same time, on the liability side of the balance sheet an equal increase will be recorded in what is referred to as a “revaluation account.” A gold revaluation account, which effectively has no limit, registers the unrealized gains on gold. An example: the German central bank owns 3,359 tonnes of gold, which was purchased for €8 billion euros. Currently the gold is worth €173 billion euros, creating a gold revaluation account of €165 billion euros (173 – 8).*

While researching this subject I asked the German central bank (the Bundesbank, or “BuBa” in short) if it’s possible to use gold’s revaluation account to write off bad debt. I tend to aim such questions at the Bundesbank because they always respond very quickly. I’m aware that Italy’s government debt is the elephant in the room, but these countries are part of the same monetary union and Germany is the main guarantor of the E.U. Recovery Fund (Next Generation EU). BuBa replied that according to the prevailing accounting rules any unrealized gains in gold can only be used for unrealized losses in gold, not for losses in assets such as U.S. dollars or European bonds.

[..] They could have just said no, but they didn’t. They replied that, “at this stage, we prefer not to speculate” about changing the accounting rules and revalue gold to write off bad debt. Meaning, they don’t rule out this possibility. Also note, BuBa writes that “in general” the accounting rules are set “by the ECB Governing council in accordance with the limits set by the European Treaties.” Implying that there are exceptions. Why did BuBa write this to me? Possibly, this was a signal for the market to revalue gold, saving BuBa the hassle of doing it themselves (printing money to buy gold). As a reminder, former Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann wrote in 2018 that gold is “the bedrock of stability for the international monetary system.” A comment that is anything but discouraging investors from buying gold and driving up its price.

Weidmann added that gold is a “major anchor underpinning confidence in the intrinsic value of the Bundesbank’s balance sheet.” If gold is underpinning confidence in BuBa’s balance sheet, why wouldn’t it underpin confidence in investors’ balance sheets? It’s impossible to furnish the Italian government substantial debt relief without revaluing gold. Italy’s government debt is €2.7 trillion euros, of which is €600 billion euros is held by the Italian central bank (Banca D’Italia, or BDI). BDI’s gold revaluation account is currently over €100 billion euros, so the gold price has to be multiplied by approximately five for BDI to be able to write off its domestic government bonds. Though, BDI can also continue to absorb debt, say, an additional €500 billion euros, and then revalue gold times ten.

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  • #101911
    D Benton Smith
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    @zerosum

    I was thinking just now that the police have a right to protect themselves from the rabble just as much as the rabble have the right to protect themselves from the police and the damned kill-shots that the police are helping to enforce by mandate. The right to self defense is a “First Principles” kind of right. Axiomatic.

    So the choice ultimately all comes down to the difference between right and wrong. Which side is protecting the rights of human beings the most & thereby threatening those rights the least, and which side is trying to enforce the “right” of ANY group to involuntarily impose their “will-to-kill” on others . . . against the will of those would-be victims.

    Sure looks like an easy call to me.

    #101912
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @boscohorowitz implored me firmly to . . .”just don’t go talking unsubstantiated smack about a man. . .”

    I ain’t talkin smack, Jack, ( sorry, sorry, sorry . . . I just couldn’t resist) I’m just sayin’ like it is.

    #101913
    deflationista
    Participant

    The trucker win because :
    1. the world has noticed.
    2. The mandates are ending
    3, The ruling snobs will realized that they are standing on quicksand if they pass the “Act” when the convoy has been displaced from “the red zone”

    This mentality is laughable. “The world has noticed”!?!? Here is a newsflash for you: The world laughs at the truckers. The world is dealing with a pandemic. “The mandates are ending” because the global pandemic has gotten to a point where the mandates CAN end in certain places where infection rates have dropped below acceptable levels to “end the mandates”.

    Imagine something. Think of WWII and the years from D-Day until Hitler committed suicide in Berlin in April of 1945. Think of the death and destruction that took place between those two events, all leading to VE day. Imagine now, a group of “Freedom Fighters” entering the streets of Berlin on May 1, 1945 and demanding an end to the war. Imagine they parked their trucks in downtown Berlin in front of the Reichstag holding signs that said “End the War!”, “No More Nazi’s”, etc. And then, on May 8, the war ends and these “Freedom Fighters” claim that because of their actions, the war in Europe is over!

    The fucking pandemic has infected like 75% of the world. People are now moving on. And you dipshits claim that because of some “Freedom Fighters” in Canada, who decided to “stand up for their rights” at 11:59pm pandemic time, when the virus was already loosening its grip on the world, are responsible for the mandates being removed???

    Dumb all over.

    #101914
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    Hmmn, … I think we all (most?) here on this forum recognize tyranny when we see it: … Mr. Socks*) and his encourage. For sure, …

    Canadians in general, however, are submissive bunch, … quite divided. Example:

    Two-thirds of Canadians support use of Emergencies Act and want Freedom Convoy cleared out: poll
    But at the same time, 54 per cent of Canadians say they are ‘ashamed’ of how politicians have let the Freedom Convoy protests get out of hand

    https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/two-thirds-of-canadians-support-use-of-emergencies-act-and-want-freedom-convoy-cleared-out-poll

    … another one:

    Nearly Half (46%) of Canadians Say they “May Not Agree with Everything” Trucker Convoy Says or Does, But …

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    […]The Prime Minister so far has refused to meet with the leaders of the movement, and Canadians are divided on whether this is the right move or not. Half (53%) agree (29% strongly/24% somewhat) that the Prime Minister is right to refuse to meet with the truck protestors to hear their grievances, while the other half (47%) of Canadians disagrees (26% strongly/21% somewhat) that this is the right decision. Liberal voters (81%) are most aligned on this approach, while fewer supporters of the NDP (57%), Bloc (49%) or Conservative (31%) parties endorse this decision.

    https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/news-polls/nearly-half-say-they-may-not-agree-with-trucker-convoy

    … and there is also stuff like this ( opinion bit):

    Please Advise! Now Musk Prefers Hitler to Trudeau?
    And what does Tucker Carlson mean by ‘Canadian-style tyranny’? Trying to keep up!

    Snip:

    I think we all recognize tyranny when we see it. The Toronto Maple Leafs come to Vancouver on a Saturday night and suddenly the game time shifts from 7 p.m. to 4 p.m. so those precious Torontonians won’t have to stay up late to watch their beloved Buds on Hockey Night in Canada. That, my friends, is tyranny.[…]

    https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/02/18/Please-Advise-Musk-Prefers-Hitler-Trudeau/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=180222

    Anyway, … long weekend in Canada this weekend, … we shall see if support for truckers will swell over the weekend as during weekends past. That will be tellin’…

    … fwiw,

    F.S.

    *) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s socks are seen during a session at the Economic Forum annual meeting on Jan. 25, 2018 in Davos, Switzerland. GETTY IMAGES
    https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/socks.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=944&h=708&type=webp

    #101915
    Dora
    Participant

    Dr. Robert Malone. Probably true in more countries than just the US.:

    “There are now two political parties in the USA but they are not the Republicans and the Democrats. They are the Globalist party of Davos/WEF and team USA. And team Davos does not respect the US Constitution. At a minimum they have dual citizenship – USA and Davos/WEF, and their allegiance is to their leader Klaus Schwab. Not to the US Constitution. And that is the problem that is at the root of all of this COVID madness.”

    https://www.gettr.com/post/pvcrkn0d3b

    #101916
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @boscohorowitz

    You’re totally off the mark about Doc and what he wrote about Peterson, and obviously didn’t even understand what he wrote. Re-read it, understand what he wrote, and then apologize to Doc.

    AND IN GENERAL it would do everyone around here a lot of good to cut back on worshipping Sacred Cows. Peterson and Kunstler pull all four legs of their trousers on, one leg at a time. Their pronouncements and public persona are not sacred.

    How’s this for some more mixed metaphor: It is foolish to run off half-cocked without first ensuring that your powder is dry, and checking your load before taking pot shots when you couldn’t hit the side of a barn. Especially you, Boz. You know better.

    #101917
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    https://thepostmillennial.com/debate-on-trudeaus-use-of-emergencies-act-canceled-due-to-police-crackdown-on-protesters”

    Ah. Isn’t that convenient. So parliament’s vote on the legality of the Emergency invokement will be held after “one week to flatten” the curve of protests.

    (Hrm. Is “invokement” a word? It makes sense, but isn’t in the iPad’s dictionary. Oh, well. It is understood. If Shakespeare could make up words, why not the rest of us?)

    #101918
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “I ain’t talkin smack, Jack, ( sorry, sorry, sorry . . . I just couldn’t resist) I’m just sayin’ like it is.”

    Regarding your claim that Kunstler has covertly sold out regarding the truth about vakzines and covidiocy, no you haven’t. You might get a jury to hang him based on the data is charges were pressed, but the judicial process is just slightly better than its predecessor: trial by ordeal.

    Let me know what Kunstler says, or doesn’t say to you about the topic after you’ve addressed him. Until then you’re just another guy hollering Respect the Authoritah of my Belief! That doesn’t seem like the DBS I know.

    I hope you don’t respond with another evidence free damnation of JK per your personal feelings about him. Provide some data or be relegated to opinionated crank status in this matter.

    #101919
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @deflationista

    If you back-pedal any harder you’re gong to pull a tendon.

    #101920
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “You’re totally off the mark about Doc and what he wrote about Peterson, and obviously didn’t even understand what he wrote. Re-read it, understand what he wrote, and then apologize to Doc.”

    Nah. I heard every word JP said, and I vehemently disagree. I wrote a transcription, and may do it again just now since my head’s still not up for crafting imaginary worlds in words.

    #101921
    John Day
    Participant

    Boscohorowitz said: “Well, I transcribed Jordan Peterson’s 2:30 video with arthritic fingers reeling from a fresh parrot bite, edited one eentsy thing, and it’s gone forever.. I’ll do it again when my fingers aren’t so sore (I have a book to write now and need them for that), but I’ll do it again later to support what I say to Doc Day now regarding his claim that JP is urging people to quit and go home: NO.HE.ISN’T. If you diagnosed patients with the level of attention by which you’ve ‘diagnosed’ JP as a traitor, you’d be drowning in malpractice lawsuits, Doc.
    You’re talking unsubstantiated smack, Doc. Slinging your own shit and blaming the mess on others.”

    I had previously said:
    “Jordan Peterson: He advised Canadian protesters to go home with things as they now stand, before getting arrested, and let the political machine work in their behalf, since they have made their point.
    This may be helpful advice for the faint-of-heart, but anybody at the protests already got all the memos.
    I would not look at second order effects right now. The first order effect is to support the tyranny by reducing opposition numbers on the ground.”

    Did I ascribe intent to defraud to Jordan? Did I “talk smack”?
    Sorry your fingers “got blisters on ’em”, Amigo.
    I didn’t do it.

    #101922
    deflationista
    Participant

    back-pedal

    “The narrative is crumbling”.

    Whatever you say, Captain Freedumb.

    #101923
    John Day
    Participant

    @”Deflationista”: As observed by D. Benton Smith, You’re caught in a serious narrative-riptide.

    Are “you” ok? I address the human comonent, but I know you may be constrained in what you are permited to write.
    I speak to YOU, not “deflationista”.
    You are alive.
    🙂

    #101924
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @boscohorowitz

    you erroneously put the following words in my mouth, “Regarding your claim that Kunstler has covertly sold out . . . etc.”
    I did not say that, and I did not imply that either. The leap to conclusion is yours alone.

    You then imperiously demanded , “Let me know what Kunstler says, or doesn’t say to you about the topic after you’ve addressed him.”
    What the hell is wrong with you today? You know damn well you can’t COMMAND me to do anything, so why even say it? You can pick a fight better than that.

    And in conclusion . . .
    If James Howard Kunstler knows something that I don’t know (and he probably does) then I invite him to spell it out. He wrote out loud, “Stand by, now, to find out who has been behind all this deadly mischief.” Okay, Jim, I’m standing by. Who is it?
    Like I said before, put up or shut up.

    #101925
    those darned kids
    Participant

    figmund: read the 1700+ comments below the “poll’ cited in the national post.

    i’d say that 1643/1700 does not equal 66% support.

    fake media, fake government run on fake polls.

    #101926
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I don’t make a habit of getting medical advice from a comedian nor do I go to one for detailed financial advice, I go to my accountant for that (duh). Fill in the blanket for what you don’t go to a performer, comedian or writer for advice about.

    Kunstler is a performer/writer, his gig is entertainment. Don’t expect more than that. Quit overthinking his blog posts. I go for satire, irony, tongue in cheeky, some stage melodrama, a touch of Clarence Darrow, a dash of Mark Twain, maybe even a smidgen of Mae West, and occasionally an iota of Yogi Berra.

    Yogi Berra
    “You can observe a lot by just watching.”

    His latest post, The Unmasking, kind of like hoping that Super Heroes are real. We all like to dream.

    .

    #101927
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wormtongue: take thy lies and fetid breathings and have the courage to tell them to milo’s mother.

    https://nomoresilence.world/pfizer-biontech/milo-edberg-aged-6-pfizer-severe-adverse-reaction/

    no shame. no honour.

    #101928
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    @boscohorowitz

    Don’t even apologize. Sometimes friends just have to let their friends be assholes.

    But I wouldn’t mind arguing some more. Sparring with (nearly) (wannabe) equals is kind of fun in a twisted sort of way, and not-too-innocent by-standers can lay bets and yell “Fight! Fight! Hit him! Hit him ! ” like back in the old school yard days.

    #101929
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #101930
    those darned kids
    Participant

    aged 6.

    #101931
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    After opening remarks summarizing what JP sees as the protest’s major accomplishments, he says:

    “You’re now faced with a difficult choice which is what are your criteria for satisfaction? You need to determine that and so that you can negotiate with the necessary people. You’re also faced with the danger at the moment now, which is that as the political process bends in the direction that you’ve insisted upon so rightly in my estimation, more and more of you who are most reasonable* are going to pack up and leave or decide that this is done sometime over the next week or so, a couple of weeks, that’s obviously up to you but there’ll be a remnant that’s much more committed in some sense to more extreme goals and that’s going to be something very difficult to manage. I’d like to commend all of you for your diligence and work on accomplishing what you have accomplished under trying conditions and also for keeping your heads in a way that’s actually being a model for the entire world. The fact that you’ve been remain peaceful and you haven’t taken the bait, you haven’t responded with violence to quite remarkable denigration and provocation… that’s a sign of tremendous discipline and care. It’s going to get more difficult to maintain as this goes along. So I hope that you’re all in this position to allow a sufficient victory to be sufficient. To move forward without rancor, to be grateful for the effect that you’ve already had and the support that you’ve received, and to move forward to a normative peace and the re-establishment of our country’s economy and our psychological and social well-being. So…”

    Please show me the ‘pack up and go home/give it up’ message in this. He is neither exhorting nor denouncing. He’s sympathizing, applauding, and offering his fwiw opinions on how to deal with the current situation.

    Some of these people HAVE to go home, you know. They have things called lives, I would imagine. But maybe Canadians don’t have lives?????

    (*most reasonable. This is the only aspect where I can even remotely infer, if only slightly, that JP is trying to influence people to do less than their best, and that’s a helluva stretch, since the man is speaking from, at most, notes, primarily from his heart, and we all have difficulty using words to say precisely what we mean even when writing, reviewing, and editing content as we do here.)

    I don’t see anyone here working to organize a trucker protest, btw. We’re just busy judging the Ottawa thing and commentators and gov officials actually involved in what we’re gawking at. Those who will, do. Those who don’t, judge. Forever and whatever amen.
    Incidentally, some recent events in JP’s life:

    “In April 2019, his prescribed dosage of clonazepam was increased to deal with anxiety he was experiencing as a result of his wife’s cancer diagnosis.[192][193][194] Starting several months later, he made various attempts to lessen his intake or stop taking the drug completely,[190] but experienced “horrific” benzodiazepine withdrawal syndrome.[195][196][192] According to his daughter, Peterson and his family were unable to find doctors in North America who were willing to accommodate their treatment desires, so in January 2020, Peterson, his daughter and her husband flew to Moscow, Russia for treatment.[197] Doctors there diagnosed Peterson with pneumonia in both lungs upon arrival, and he was put into a medically induced coma for eight days. Peterson spent four weeks in the intensive care unit, during which time he allegedly exhibited a temporary loss of motor skills.[192][198]”

    #101932
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    We do know that no one is going to fix things FOR us, right? Not someone you elect, not some brave truckers, not… your life is yours alone.

    And that’s humanity: alone together. But alone. Even in a lifelong marriage of deep devotion and love: alone.

    This empty room it fills my mind
    Freedom it leaves me so confined
    Every single bone has cracked
    What in this life, you can’t turn back
    I don’t want to live
    I don’t want to live here alone, alone
    As these words part with my tounge
    I question why they even sung
    I promise but I lie
    I don’t even know myself inside
    I don’t wanna be
    I don’t wanna be here alone, alone
    Today and tommorow have become one
    Every single thing has become undone
    Human nature is a beast
    What ive done the most, to show i have the least
    Please don’t leave me here
    Please don’t leave me here
    Don’t you leave me alone, alone
    Alone, alone

    #101933
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    On that Jordan Peterson thinggie, …“let the political machine work” – Dr. Day:

    … the political machine Peterson meant is this => https://youtu.be/wTBxceB9xgU

    Specifically, the opposition party: https://www.conservative.ca/, … join them, work with them!

    Anyway, … this is just 2/100s of one Canadian Loonie worth of opinion from me. Others may, or may not agree.

    Best,

    F.S.

    #101934
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Well, it’s happening:

    #101935
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    I’ll point out something, Doc Day. Here in USA, you see Tulsi Gabbard as the Big WoMan who might take control through biz as usual: voting booths, campaigns, etc.

    You expect Canada, however, to experience a standoff, possibly probably bloody, for their change to occur.

    I think the world of you, per the Injun nickname I gave you. I hold place high expectations for people I think the world of. Knowing they’re no more perfect than me, I take them to task when I feel they’re betraying themselves or the ideals they live by.

    ***

    “Others may, or may not agree.”

    Sorry, Figmund, but I insist you tell me what to believe. 😉

    #101936
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    Cliff Notes:

    “You’re now faced with a difficult choice which is what are your criteria for satisfaction? You need to determine that and so that you can negotiate with the necessary people.”

    <>

    “So I hope that you’re all in this position to allow a sufficient victory to be sufficient.”

    He is not saying that where things stand are or aren’t sufficient. He says, find your criteria, accept it, and live with it. Not everyone has it in them to stay in the freezing cold forever under constant threat of gubmint shenanigans, likely to be followed by major confrontation/arrest/assault.

    Um, do you?

    #101937
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    8th grade. Leonard Samczyck, our flaming queen, does his over-the-top Hendrix doing Wild Thing impersonation, loud silk clothes and scarves, etc.

    We 8th graders jeered him as a faggot. Ridiculed him in front of everyone.

    Danny Skurbic, the coolest guy in 8th grade, leader of the pack, and mos def NOT a bully, anything but, just a naturally brave guy we looked up to, gets up in front of us and berates us fiercely:

    “Let’s see you get up there and do something, you little chickens!”

    I was blessed to have Danny as my grade-school Coolest Guy role model idol.

    He became depressed in high school: stayed home eating, watching soap operas, etc, around the time I de facto dropped out although I technically couldn’t get free until day 1 of senior year, when I was big enough, so to speak, to Just Say No. I wish I’d looked him up. I think he was dealing with a similar alienation as I was: when did everyone become pod people?

    #101938
    John Day
    Participant

    @Boscohorowitz: Again, I did not mean to bash anybody, just observed the first-order effects of taking advice which I interpreted as “declare victory and get out before things get nasty on you”.

    You said, and I think you answered it right here:
    ” It’s going to get more difficult to maintain as this goes along. So I hope that you’re all in this position to allow a sufficient victory to be sufficient. To move forward without rancor, to be grateful for the effect that you’ve already had and the support that you’ve received, and to move forward to a normative peace and the re-establishment of our country’s economy and our psychological and social well-being. So…”

    Please show me the ‘pack up and go home/give it up’ message in this.”

    #101939
    John Day
    Participant

    Also @Boscohorowitz: When I stated that the ticket of Trump/Gabbard winning would signify victory over the current globalist PTB, I meant that they would have already failed to prevent it, and it would be a flag of opposition mounted upon their hill.
    People have feet of clay and change and stuff, but Tulsi appears to me, over 11 years of watching, to have what it takes to be an American Putin.
    YMMV. that’s just my view, and she has a twinkle of Lavrov in her, too.

    #101940
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    I think many of us will agree that the main thing that the trucker protest accomplished is that it made opposing the covidian cult’s authoritarian agenda into a real thing with a base of support in the population, and not just the province of Confederate flag-waving militia-types and assorted very marginal political types. That’s exactly why you will see the covid cult try to cling very desperately to the idea that these protestors were alt-righters and right-wing reactionaries. They have to keep the perceptual curtain draped over the reality that the covid cultists are the real authoritarians, and that the agenda driving them has very little to do with public health.

    #101941
    John Day
    Participant

    @Boscohorowitz: Your 8th grade Hendric impersonation story reminded me of when Stevie ray Vaughan played our co-op halooween party on a stage I had built. I didn’t know who he was, but he was dressed as Hendrix before the party: “Cool Hendrix costume, Man”, quoth I. “Thanks Man, he replied”. Later I found out who he was. He channeled Hendrix, played the guitar (well) with his teeth and behind his back.
    Google images says Pinterest has a picture from that party
    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/6d/6a/076d6a2fdc81e7b0836c71f834c13f63.jpg

    #101942
    John Day
    Participant
    #101943
    John Day
    Participant

    Yeah, that’s “The Eye” mural on the wall behind him. His feet are on the stage I built.

    #101944
    John Day
    Participant

    Back to “our” regularly scheduled de-programming:

    https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/stand-and-smile.html

    Our economic life support system’s check-engine-light has been on for about two and a half years now. A whole slew of codes come up on the diagnostic port.
    The usual mechanic says we need to sign the title over to him before he can fix it and give us the keys back.
    We are dubious. We have gone to the Auto Zone and gotten the printouts of all the diagnostic codes. We’re considering our options. It still runs poorly, but sports lapsed inspection and registration stickers, so we’re keeping a low profile.

    Rulers govern with the consent of the governed, which consent is lapsing in bits and pieces, for non-performance, for repeatedly violating the “social contract”.

    Politicians in “western democracies” usually serve the owners by talking the people into doing what the owners want.
    There is usually some carrot for the people, but lately it is all-stick, no-carrot and a future which is illuminated by the promise to use the stick on those who don’t go along with the good donkeys.

    Those “Others” are making all the problems. Donkeys are fitted with blinders and are not permitted to converse about insurrection on social-media.

    A bunch of donkeys are milling about in Canada without blinders, presenting an existential threat to the political-economic-life-support-system. They have stopped pulling their donkey carts. People will starve and freeze if the donkeys don’t get their blinders back on and start pulling those carts again, PRONTO!
    Measures are being taken. Donkeys have been given written notice in their inflatable bouncy-castles. Their bank accounts and donkey-cart insurance cancellations are proceeding. Donkeys will starve first. Certainly, nobody wants that? Donkeys are still braying in the streets. You just can’t talk to donkeys. It’s not worth trying. The owners need those carrots themselves. It’s stick or nothing, Donkeys!

    Some people are trying to bring some little carrots to the donkeys, but that’s got to be stopped.
    People and donkeys do not a life-support-system make. The owners are the critical ingredient.
    You understand that, right?

    What if the people and the donkeys refuse to make the life-support-system work?
    Everybody, including donkeys will die. It’s happened before, repeatedly.
    You get it, right?

    This is a critical point in time. The life support system is failing as supply lines are slowed and become hit-or-miss, intermittent.
    The worst of the realization has not yet hit, but the mail is late, regular parts are on back-order for months, and there are no canned black olives at the grocery store.
    Whatever the donkeys and people do now, the crumbling of the political-economy will continue, until…?
    What happened last time? Oh, yeah, World War-2.

    Well, that’s off the list of options now…
    It’s off the list, right?

    The owners need all of us people and donkeys to get back to the creaky carts and sparse stalls forever, no-questions-asked, or we will starve and freeze sooner, rather than later. We’ve always been able to trust them before, so we need to trust them now and in perpetuity. Implanting a remote-controlled kill switch is just an inviolable sign of our complete trust in our elected leaders and the important interests which they serve.

    For people bringing carrots and donkeys playing hooky, the choices are to comply immediately and get a lighter-whipping, to riot in the streets and get killed because it’s absolutely necessary as a last resort, or to stand there and smile and be pleasant and present and unmoving, and just keep doing that, because there are really not enough resources to arrest that many donkeys and people, and they cannot, apparently be recruited from the ranks of other donkeys and other people.

    Seriously, this has got to stop.Donkeys and people have never, ever been able to come up with new economic solutions, ever, all of the times that this has happened in the past. It has always been to beneficent owners and their loyal elected representatives who have solved the life-support problems, and they will do it again, if we will only give them our unquestioning and eternal support; 110%, just like in football.

    If we don’t get back in line right away, our western political economy will pass a point of no-return (if it hasn’t already) and the fault will be completely our own. We will have nobody but ourselves to blame; nobody but ourselves upon whom to rely for food, water, fuel and bouncy-castles.
    We’ll all be dead in five years. Mark my words!

    That being said, I have a few carrots growing, and I planted some bush beans and tomato seeds yesterday, and I’m fixing up the inside of the homestead addition, which will be a good gathering place, sort of like The Restaurant at the End of the Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe

    Cat McGuire in New York and environs sends this article she wrote last weekend as she and some other people enjoyed taking supplies to Canadian truckers at the border. Cat is a real person, who even came and visited our Austin garden and had dinner a couple of times. Cat does things. Cat rides a bike, too.
    ​ ​Morgan said, “It was so exciting that we actually were boots-on-the-ground support for Canada’s freedom fighters. They have been such a personal inspiration to me that I galvanized everyone I know to get on board and support them.” She added, “Our two convoys brought a variety of supplies to the border that the Canadians specifically recommended to bring such as hand warmers, water, snacks, gas cards, hats, washer fluid, gloves, and blankets.” …
    ​ ​It could not be confirmed at this time, but one of the local rally organizers informed the CTSA team that New York Governor Kathy Hochul had established a command control center in Buffalo and was in Buffalo herself the weekend of the rally.

    EXCLUSIVE: UNITED STATES TRUCKERS Support Group Makes Trip to Canadian Border With Supplies! “Boots-on-the-Ground Support for Canada’s Freedom Fighters!”

    ​Cat is from 1:06 -1:37 in this Fox News story. How come it’s all right-wing sources for lifelong liberals like Cat these days?
    “Strange days indeed”.​
    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6297735193001#sp=show-clips

    The People Killing Humanity, a long list of sometimes-obscure, as well as known names, with biographical details about those human beings financially driving the COVID-Pandemic control narrative from before-it-happened, to today. Thanks Oroboros.

    The People Killing Humanity

    #101945
    Figmund Sreud
    Participant

    @those-darned-kids #101925 fake media, fake government run on fake polls.
    ———————————-

    Yes. But the commentariat at the end of any article is not exactly reflective of reality either, since only a specific group is attracted to any specific article, specific topic.

    Anyway, … another indicator: RealCanadianSuperstore: … my son a manager there: the number of bitches in his stores virtually skyrocketed, primarily because of shortages of stuff. Empty shelves. Shoppers there – most of them – openly curse at phlunkin’ truckers!

    fwiw,

    F.S.

    #101946
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “People have feet of clay and change and stuff, but Tulsi appears to me, over 11 years of watching, to have what it takes to be an American Putin. YMMV. that’s just my view, and she has a twinkle of Lavrov in her, too.”

    I like her too, and I’m not at all arguing that it can’t happen or that she doesn’t have the stuff. I’d LOVE to see that happen, although I have no emotional energy to invest in that prospect. I was just pointing out your seeming willingness (correct me if I’m wrong) to “let the process work” (and wait until 2024) but Canada needs to stand their ground and go 1776 NOW.

    This may be a mere messaging issue, but I read pretty carefully, and that is what I infer from your words.

    ***

    ” Again, I did not mean to bash anybody”

    You called the guy a fuckin traitor, Doc. If that’s not bashing, then who needs baseball bats?

    wok

    ***

    Also, I’ll repeat my Cliff Notes:

    Jp said:

    “You’re now faced with a difficult choice which is what are your criteria for satisfaction? You need to determine that and so that you can negotiate with the necessary people.”

    <>

    And then he said:

    “So I hope that you’re all in this position to allow a sufficient victory to be sufficient.”

    He is not saying that where things stand are or aren’t sufficient. He says, find your criteria, accept it, and live with it. Not everyone has it in them to stay in the freezing cold forever under constant threat of gubmint shenanigans, likely to be followed by major confrontation/arrest/assault.

    Um, do you?

    ***

    Calling someone a Trudeau turd is fighting language, Doc, and good or bad, JP is an actual person not a hallucination on the magic screen (that sounds more like Joe Biden;) ). You have shown no factual basis to slander him so, and have not spoken otherwise yet that I saw, other than to claim that calling someone a Trudeau turd is not a mortal insult of the kind that duels were fought over not too long ago.

    #101947
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    What an appalling centralization of power now exists. A tiny tiny tiny cohort simply voices orders outlawing a wide swath of human activities that are essential to life, and the machinery of this so-called civilization makes it so. They ordered the creation, implementation and enforcement of mandatory self harm using their made-to-order poison, and our society as a whole continues to pay them to do so, under the protection of armed “law enforcement.” Just astounding.

    Somethings got to give, and so it will.

    #101948
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “Shoppers there – most of them – openly curse at phlunkin’ truckers!”

    THer4e was a bus driver strike in the Bay Area around 2015-16. A woman I knew on FB, actual former wife of the guy who wrote the Furry Freak Brothers (!!!), a dyed-in-the-silk/wool progressive and Professionally Compassionate, weeps for all the right causes, etc., said, “I understand they want to strike, but how am I supposed to work. Can’t they do it any other way?”

    But she’d quote Howard Zinn on the glories of the labor movement and unionism, yadi ya. Great stuff, just not on her time, thank you.

    Later, when she was All Hillary ’16, Bernie can’t win, We Need A Woman!, and would not hear a word about Hillary’s myriad war crimes and such, she got super-huffy and said, “I wont have you say I’m morally wrong here.”

    It was unquestionable. What she did didn’t matter; what she thought and said was all, and please don’t bother her with contradictions among those two actions. Those thoughts and words were of course supported, yea crafted, by various consensus groups who gave her approval for agreeing with them and joined her in looking down on those wretched deplorables who are of course so wrong and really are the problem.

    #101949
    boscohorowitz
    Participant

    “other than to claim” in effect…

    #101950
    John Day
    Participant

    @Boscohorowitz: I’m not advocating letting political process work in the US, such-as-it-is. It’s broken.
    That’s where we have to do things, seemingly little survivalisty things. If a Trump/Gabbard ticked were elected, and the election sanctioned, we would be in a different world already. I’m not predicting it.

    I’m not calling Jordan Peterson any names, just observing what the immediate of people following his gentle advice would be to the current dynamic class-war power struggle. Going home now and letting the politicians take up your charter-rights cause (when the house of commons opens again) would deflate the power of the messages, which is now in the “then they fight you” stage of progression.
    I get that he had a lot of anxiety and got strung out on clonazepam. That is a really hard issue, “long-term-benzodiazepine-withdrawal-syndrome”. I have dealt with it for decades. You meet the whole family repeatedly for your sincere efforts. He may just be considering how sick he would feel getting shoved to the ground face down and manacled with zip-ties.
    I don’t know. I don’t know him at all.

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