Seriously??? I received an email from Stephen Harper endorsing Pierre Poilievre. It almost prevented me from voting for him, except that the other candidates are all so dismal.
Trudy-the-feminist may decide she can defeat Poilievre and get a majority by calling another early election, but I doubt it. After the last 2 attempts, Canadians will punish them if they try.
Posted by: Opport Knocks | Sep 1 2022 17:41 utc (in another thread)
And have you seen Polievre making a big deal out of Harper’s desperate “please let me be relevant again” endorsement? Nope.
Recent polls showed that Harper’s “endorsement” was a not a positive, so you’re not alone. So Harper appears to have been given a “don’t call us, we’ll call you” position. Harper is just trying to gain control of the cash box where 300,000 Canadians paid $10 to support Poilievre, with Baber and Lewis in tow to the tune of another 100,000 or so new members. Charest has been kicked to the curb like Lib/Con flip-flopper fossil he is.
But Trudeau doesn’t get to “decide” if the NDP and THE CONSERVATIVES win a non-confidence vote as soon as Parliament reconvenes this fall. He didn’t regain his hoped-for majority in 2019 or the 2021 snap-election on the eve of the Plandemic, ya think even he’s dumb enough to try it again post Trucker Convoy?
My guess is that the 2021 plan was for the Trudy/Chrystie cabal to get a majority so they could implement the WEF Plandemic agenda without having to face the electorate until 2025, when the Great Reset would be beyond being stopped. But the minority forced Singh to reveal his actual WEF allegiance.
Sunlight, the best disinfectant.

Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 1 2022 19:31 utc | 3

Here is a picture of the barge used in the “mini- D-day”, grounded and burning. So it’s true.
https://twitter.com/mdfzeh/status/1565373473693868035

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 1 2022 19:41 utc | 5

Soooo…. Is the US strong enough to withstand an arrest of a former POTUS?
Posted by: erichwwk | Sep 1 2022 19:37 utc
Or perhaps, given Hunter’s laptop is the debacle that can’t be contained, can the US withstand the arrest or genuine impeachment of a sitting president and his influence/corruption peddling son?

Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 1 2022 19:49 utc | 7

Western support for dictators like Nicolae Ceausescu also was not unknown to people like Gorby or his successors.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 20:23 utc | 9

Soooo…. Is the US strong enough to withstand an arrest of a former POTUS?
Posted by: erichwwk | Sep 1 2022 19:37 utc
Or perhaps, given Hunter’s laptop is the debacle that can’t be contained, can the US withstand the arrest or genuine impeachment of a sitting president and his influence/corruption peddling son?
Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 1 2022 19:49 utc | 7
The only thing crazier than Ukraine is the Republic In Name Only Amerika! I’ve given up trying to figure out what is going on let alone trying to imagine what might happen later. Why anyone in that country bothers to vote is beyond me. But then why anyone believed the silly stories they trotted out to explain the JFK hit is also beyond me, and of course so much more.
Salvador Dali is reported to have said on leaving Mexico after his first visit that he never planned to return because he disliked any country more surrealistic than himself! A great remark worthy of the great artist. Amerika, though, has gone beyond surrealist to the Realm of Nightmare one peopled by endless parades of smiling villains broadcasting their latest feel-good narratives whilst their hidden lower bodies wade through pus, blood, gore and excrement, the true ground of their current cultures. A real shit show …
A friend just reported from Puerto Vallarta that many apartment buildings are going up to handle the influx of Americans moving in. Similar stories in various choice neighbourhoods in Mexico City. The locals aren’t happy since rents are being driven up and small businesses pushed out to be replaced by rental units for estraneros. In PV, along with well-heeled retirees who presumably just cashed out some of their high-priced US real estate are also poorer senior citizens on their pensions, now in Mexico presumably because their income isn’t enough for living in CA and so they are wandering around PV looking to our friend like abandoned lunatics. Many Americans do not travel well.
Amerika is falling apart. Food factories being burned down, gas refineries too. 4,900,000 broke immigrants since Biden’s inauguration except most are not broke: they are given debit cards with $800 USD a month income. Who is paying this? What for? Very strange. Brown-skinned criminals, many of them illegal immigrants, released after theft or violence without bail. White political dissidents are labelled ‘domestic terrorists’ and fired or jailed. Several states allow theft if under $1000.00 so of course many small stores are closing. Tens of thousands of small businesses closed during covid never to reopen. Nobody cares about these people. Nobody tells their story. They are now unwelcome in the country their ancestors founded and passed onto them. They are regarded as the inheritors of criminal theft and violence, people who deserve only to suffer and be rejected from the human race. Yes, Amerika is falling apart. And this is being done deliberately, but nobody is allowed to talk about it, nobody is even sure if this is true or not.
The media, even conservative media, keeps pretending that everything is going to be alright as soon as the November elections roll around and then corrupt officials from Biden on down will get impeached (though not convicted). But after 2020 election, I doubt that anything will ever be settled by elections again and even if the Republicans do win and do run a few committees and impeachments it will end up being no more than empty drama which doesn’t change a thing. It’s a Republic In Name Only after all….

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 1 2022 20:34 utc | 11

4,900,000 broke immigrants since Biden’s inauguration except most are not broke: they are given debit cards with $800 USD a month income. Etc.
Scorpion | Sep 1 2022 20:34 utc | 14
why are you posting here and not in arms w/your soul mates in the Azov battalion?

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 21:01 utc | 13

Scorpion no section of the US population has made a bigger contribution, in terms of labour, that the descendants of African (and often native American) slaves.
The nonsense that “..Brown-skinned criminals, many of them illegal immigrants, (are) released after theft or violence without bail…” Is, if intended to contrast dramatically with the treatment of criminals of European ancestry, laughable.
Within the last two weeks an 80 year old black socialist has been arrested after a no-knock police raid on his home, on the grounds-much to laugh about today- that he and his party were Russian agents.
So far as white fascists are concerned, they have as much right to free speech and freedom of assembly as anyone and those rights, often breached, should be respected. Unhappily these various ‘right wing’ factions refuse to understand that they treatment that they are getting is based on police treatment of black people and that there is a tradition, as old as the Republic, of poor people being violently deterred from acts of dissidence, from strikes to civil right marches.
That is the basic political problem in the USA: the ruling class- as Jay Gould boasted- can always hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. What it finds even easier is to convince poor politically powerless white people that cops are doing them a favour by killing black people and that black people protesting against state neglect are, in some unfathomable way, depriving them of something. The spectacle of the lynching perhaps?

Posted by: bevin | Sep 1 2022 21:08 utc | 15

Lukashenko on Soros during an open lesson for Belarussian schoolchildren:

Soros was the first to visit me, he brought funding for “historical truth”, the textbooks and so on. I told him frankly, sincerely: don’t come to us [to Belarus] anymore. I won’t be implementing this policy.
That’s when I became a “totalitarian dictator”, reviled, and so did our country. Why? Because we wanted to write our textbooks ourselves, to build our life ourselves, to be sovereign and independent. And look what happened with Baltic states and the Ukraine.

Posted by: S | Sep 1 2022 21:26 utc | 17

“The nonsense that “..Brown-skinned criminals, many of them illegal immigrants, (are) released after theft or violence without bail…” Is, if intended to contrast dramatically with the treatment of criminals of European ancestry, laughable.”
I take it rjb and bevin deny there is a campaign in the US to demonize, demoralize, deracinate and disempower white people.
I might have agreed with you up to a few years ago. But now I don’t and suggest you read other than socialist journals for you are behind the times.
(And since I live with and greatly love a brown-skinned, part black woman, I know for a fact that I am not writing any of this from an anti-brown-skin perspective. I don’t have a racist bone in my body – like most people.)
I believe that PCR is correct when he points out there is a definite anti-white agenda at play in the US these days. Decrying an anti-white agenda is not anti-black.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/09/01/the-acknowledged-and-proclaimed-purpose-of-western-universities-is-to-destroy-the-west/
The anti-white campaign is not essentially racist per se. It’s about marginalizing the majority of the country so they can take it over with minimal resistance. Most white people believe they are evil and deserve to be marginalized. Most white people now believe that black and brown people need to be empowered and given preference. Many white people believe the world would be a better place if they were no more. This is the result of a concerted propaganda campaign that has been ongoing for some time. And again: pointing out that there is an anti-white campaign has nothing to do with being anti black or brown. However, part of the anti-white campaign is deliberately favoring black and brown over white in various jurisdictions whose AG’s have been put there thanks to Soros funding.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 1 2022 21:41 utc | 19

There is a good discussion here on how US elites have used divide-and-conquer strategies to keep poor Americans of different races from joining together to promote their common interests.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Sep 1 2022 21:44 utc | 21

i see the folks who voted for harper, trudeau and etc. etc. – in the very same light, so don’t be discouraged when you knight in white armor doesn’t pan out like you think he is going to..
Posted by: james | Sep 1 2022 21:41 utc | 23
It’s like dems and repubs, basically. Since Canada is not as badly locked into a 2-party system as is the US, perhaps Canadian voters will be adventurous enough to try other options at some point.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Sep 1 2022 21:48 utc | 23

rjb1.5 | September 01, 2022 at 21:57
nothing could please the French more than Shakespeare being banned for how racist he is.
it’s astonishing how people accept this kind of stuff as an attack on “white people.”
Dear Chaucer, what is a ‘white person’? are Normans white?
the point is to poison people’s minds. Well done Scorpion and PCR. we’ll not let the Tories steal our white culture from us!

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 22:02 utc | 25

rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 22:09 utc | 29
sorry, someone is abusing i.d.s, incl perhaps also Scorpion’s, definitely pretzelattack’s. someone who probably got tired running his Ford F2500’s engine and terrifying the squirrels and birds and decided to pollute another environment.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 22:17 utc | 27

Cont’d from S | Sep 1 2022 21:26 utc | 19
And what are the results of Soros funding the teaching of “historical truth” in the Ukraine?
Putin says he was shocked by a story about teaching of history in the Ukraine (RIA Novosti, September 1, 2022 — in Russian)

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about teaching of history in the Ukraine, he said that children from Donbass did not know that the Crimean Bridge existed and thought it was a fake.
“Yesterday I talked with the Minister of Education, Sergey Sergeyevich Kravtsov, he was in Donetsk and other territories. He told me yesterday—excuse me, I opened my mouth [in disbelief — S]! Schoolchildren did not know the Crimean Bridge exists. They thought it was a fake,” Putin said at Talking About What’s Important open lesson.
He also noted that many schoolchildren in those territories didn’t even know that Russia and the Ukraine had been part of the same state. “They didn’t even know that the Ukraine and Russia had been part of a united state—the Soviet Union. They simply don’t know about it. That’s how everything was taught to them,” Putin said.

Posted by: S | Sep 1 2022 22:29 utc | 29

From anti-spiegel.ru reported in August but worth the time to consider.
Is Putin in the same boat as Schwab’s WEF & Co?
This is a methodical response to Ernst Wolff who considers Putin to be part of the club. And it is much more than that.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 1 2022 22:39 utc | 31

Whether there is any concerted “anti-white” movement of any importance I will leave for someone else to prove rather than simply assert.
However, as bevin alludes above, the systems in place that are only (relatively) recently being turned against lower middle class and poor whites are those same systems designed from the outset to marginalize, criminalize and eliminate blacks, Hispanics and the larger working class including poor whites. This has been going on since slavery and the early union busting days. The War on (some) Drugs, which didn’t just start in earnest with Nixon, and the War on Terra, have given the ruling class the tools they need in the modern age to surveil, catalog, infiltrate and criminalize what can only be described as what’s left of the Left in the USA and UK. That is to say, the real working class – the gig workers, the Starbucks baristas, the Amazon warehouses, and those propertyless indebted and unhoused individuals who have the gall to show their faces in public to the capitalist bourgeoisie. A colony in a nation, if you will. One to be subjugated but more importantly turned against one another along culture war schisms and other useless nonsense, which is the very crux of the so-called war on white people.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2022 23:19 utc | 33

rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 23:25 utc | 36
PCR doesn’t even believe in public education! oh god, what a retard. racist moron needs something to fight about.

Posted by: rjb1.5 | Sep 1 2022 23:33 utc | 35

One to be subjugated but more importantly turned against one another along culture war schisms and other useless nonsense, which is the very crux of the so-called war on white people.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 1 2022 23:19 utc | 35
Well said. The ‘war on white people’ is a manufactured ‘culture war schism.’ (The most interesting question, therefore, being who is waging that war and why?) But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a war. Also it’s working! Because if you even point out that it’s happening it’s regarded as proof that you are a ‘white supremacist.’ And that article by PCR – the bottom part of it – listed many different universities deliberately marginalizing or essentially burying traditional western/white culture and civilization.
People can’t think straight about this stuff. Not saying I can either. The entire US landscape is so gonzo-loco at this point I don’t know if straight thinking is possible any more.
When Dubai was being developed as a special economic zone, something which in only 25 years has greatly succeeded they realized that Sharia law wouldn’t work so they researched and determined that British Common Law was best, hired several British judges to train their own judges, and then enjoyed great success. Singapore and Hong Kong use similar law I believe.
For an interesting and not too long interview about this and other issues (involving colonization) I recommend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH63RABGK6w in which Jordan Peterson interviews a fascinating African woman who is well up on all these things.
Ironically now we have people living in Common Law jurisdictions in which things like democracy and freedom of speech were developed, in which slavery was finally outlawed are now being attacked as racially evil thanks to many of those same things they created namely freedom of speech and respect for all as equal.
It’s fine. When a people become weak they also become prey. But I betcha if all the horrible white people and their ghastly ‘fascist, colonialist’ culture has been destroyed in Amerika that it will not be a much better place. I am glad I will not live long enough to see it but I fear for the future of my son and grandchildren. Hopefully they will wise up and move to somewhere in the Russian Federation where white people are not demonized and where most of the countries are doing well and don’t have all these manufactured self-destructive issues to deal with.

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 1 2022 23:51 utc | 37

Posted by: james | Sep 1 2022 21:41 utc
I don’t trust politicians any further than I can throw the lot of them, BUT politicians like to get re-elected. Trudy’s crowd won’t be. Going forward, Poilievre’s Cons better take the lessons from Joe Who and how
Canadians regard the most hated PM’s in Canadian history, Harper and Mulroney.
Did you miss the part where if the Trudeau/Freeland/Singh cabal is defeated, the WEF IMMEDIATELY LOSES THE CONTROL OVER CANADA THEY NOW HAVE? That is an INTERNATIONAL as well as domestic issue, so of interest to other MoA readers.
I’m not going to do the math for you, but all it takes is 15 NDP (or Lib) MPs to decide to vote non-confidence with the rest of the non-Liberal House. The Senate has no impact in a non-confidence motion.
I think Singh is already on thin ice with the NDP grassroots and backbenchers, and he thought handing Trudy these Demands was a nothing gesture (nudge nudge, wink wink), stalling the NDP upstarts and knowing Trudy would order the MSM to not even acknowledge it. It won’t save him from being turfed soon, especially if we get the prompt election we deserve.
15 out of 183 to change sides(one seat is vacant).
I have no illusions that the Cons, even under Poilievre, will keep all their promises. But it costs them exactly ZERO to ensure the Trudeau Mandates never return in any form, for any reason. In fact it will keep the economy stronger by any measure, a plus for eventual re-election. The post-Trudy/Freeland Libs will have to convince Canadians that THEY will never do it again… sure, right… pull the other leg.
And soon the full cost to Canada and the world of Trudy/Freeland’s part in the Ukie-nazi debacle will be on full display, a sticky mess that any sane politician will avoid being tarred with.
I personally would ban political parties period, but that’s another rabbit hole for another day.

Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 0:05 utc | 39

@17 bevin
Your immediate assertion that browns have contributed more than any other section of the population to labor is an incredibly moot and misleading declarative.
Browns until recently were always relegated to labor because they were not capable of contributing to higher callings in professions. It took generations of bringing Africans along through homebound education that they have been able to contribute to western civ in more specialized professions.
Basically, you are just saying that cats have the most kittens.
Utterly meaningless.
But it does show that you are interested in typical Bolshevik-fashion of instigating racial animosity.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 2 2022 0:06 utc | 41

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 2 2022 0:06 utc | 43
Sorry to say, but this is utter nonsense without providing sources:
Browns until recently were always relegated to labor because they were not capable of contributing to higher callings in professions. It took generations of bringing Africans along through homebound education that they have been able to contribute to western civ in more specialized professions.
There were no specialized programs or generations of anything needed to bring African-American (that is, Americans who emigrated from Africa in the modern era) up to speed as contributors to society. They are, in fact, equal to or higher than Asian Americans in terms of family income and other metrics that I’m sure underlie what you’re talking about.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 2 2022 0:09 utc | 43

@Scorpion,
I’m sure you’d like the documentary (as bizarre as it is – and the director’s sense of humor is both endearing and off-putting in equal measure) that I linked above. Regardless of your stance on any of this, it’s a crazy story. Here’s a user review from IMDB that I think provides a decent summary, although I still encourage watching it if you’ve got some time on your hands one evening.

While his reporting sometimes comes across as performance art, journalist Mads Brügger (“The Saint Bernard Syndicate”) has gone beyond satire in his searing documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld. Winner of the best directing award at Sundance, it is a powerful film that conveys an important and disturbing message about the extent of colonialism and racism in Africa. Described by Brügger as “a project of titanic proportions, full of doubts, questions and moments of desperation,” the film is an inquiry into the death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, killed in a plane crash in 1961 in the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) on route to the Congo.
Willing to take on powerful interests in Europe who stood to gain economically from colonialism, the Secretary-General, known in Sweden as “the lord of peace,” was attempting to negotiate a cease-fire between UN forces and the breakaway state of Katanga, widely considered a front for Belgian mining interests. The cause of the crash was attributed to pilot error but is considered by many to have been an assassination. The first part of the film deals with Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl as they examine the circumstances surrounding the crash.
A cross between Michael Moore and Werner Herzog, Brügger tells us at the outset with tongue-in-cheek that Cold Case Hammarskjöld could either be “the world’s biggest murder mystery or the world’s most idiotic conspiracy theory” (though it may actually be a little of both). Separated into sections announced by yellow stickies plastered on the wall, Brügger dictates his story to two different Congolese secretaries who record it on a vintage typewriter. The two investigators initially discover from photographs that Hammarskjöld’s bloodied corpse had a playing card: The ace of spades, wedged into his collar, which someone tells them is the calling card of the CIA, but that is the last we hear about it.
Ludicrously, Brügger and Björkdahl attempt to dig up the wreckage of the plane with supplies that include two shovels, a metal detector, pith helmets (a symbol of 19th century Western imperialism), and two cigars, ostensibly to celebrate after completing the job, though Björkdahl claims that he does not smoke. Brügger undertakes the project “dressed all in white like some fair bride,” mimicking the appearance of a mysterious man from South Africa later deeply implicated in events. The diggers have to cut the enterprise short, however, because Brügger says that he feels nauseous but it soon dawns on us that we are being played.
The play turns deadly, however, when a man by the name of Keith Maxwell surfaces as the one who ordered Hammarskjöld’s plane to be shot down by a Belgian mercenary. When a video from South Africa’s post- Apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission is discovered, we hear about “Operation Celeste,” a nine-page memo detailing plans for executing Hammarskjöld that may or may not be legitimate. On the memo’s letterhead, however, is the name of the South African Institute of Maritime Research (SAIMR). Apparently, Maxwell (said by his wife to be insane) used the organization as a cover to carry out his clandestine mission.
During a period of six years, Brügger and Björkdahl interview former members of SAIMR to little benefit, but are eventually rewarded when they locate a surprisingly talkative witness, Alexander Jones, who claims that SAIMR was a mercenary group supported by the CIA and Britain’s MI6. The story becomes even more chilling when Jones tells the investigators (without any evidence other than his word) that the goal of SAIMR was to eradicate black people in Africa by injecting them with the HIV virus. Though, in a New York Times article by Matt Apuzzo from January 27, 2019, we are told by scientists that this was not possible, the fact that some thought it was desirable is in itself deplorable.
In 2015, the UN reopened the Hammarskjöld investigation and a United Nations panel concluded that there was “persuasive evidence that Hammarskjöld’s aircraft was subjected to some form of attack or threat.” Given what we know about Western involvement in regime change such as the overthrow of Socialist President Miguel Allendé of Chile, Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, and Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala, Cold Case Hammarskjöld raises serious doubts about the official story. In discussing the film, Brügger said, “I want the audience to feel: I’ve never seen anything like this before!” My feelings exactly.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 2 2022 0:14 utc | 45

@45 tom
Sorry, I don’t understand your post.
@48 bevin
You are a slippery one, bevin, that is for sure. But I am here watching you.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 2 2022 0:28 utc | 47

Most white people believe they are evil and deserve to be marginalized. Most white people now believe that black and brown people need to be empowered and given preference. Many white people believe the world would be a better place if they were no more. This is the result of a concerted propaganda campaign that has been ongoing for some time. And again: pointing out that there is an anti-white campaign has nothing to do with being anti black or brown. However, part of the anti-white campaign is deliberately favoring black and brown over white in various jurisdictions whose AG’s have been put there thanks to Soros funding.
Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 1 2022 21:41 utc | 21
Sorry, Scorpion – I just don’t see it. If indeed there is such bias going on in universities, well, stay away from it, the way we should stay away from mainstream media till they get their priorities straight. Shun them! We don’t have to patronize them, and most people (now I’m saying it) don’t, because they can’t.
But they can pick up a book; they can go see children perform Shakespeare — in the US that is. I know because with just home schooling my grandkids are memorizing whole plays and performing them, have been for years! And if they are doing it, so are many other kids who are being homeschooled these days – there’s a whole lot of that going on!! I wouldn’t say ‘most’ but it could be!
As to whiteness, I think that’s poppycock; it has no reality. Everyone’s mixed race, everyone! If you believe evolutionary science, and even if you don’t. I can trace back, and I love it, to one of the first tribes to paddle their way down to New Zealand – through my grandmother who looked pakeha but was raised maori, spoke maori, and was the sweetest human being it has been my privilege to know!
Sure there’s discrimination but also there isn’t! Saint Paul says hold fast to the good — whatever has goodness. We are getting very negative here, and I’m not just thinking about the death of Gorbachev, but it’s right in the midst of this traumatic time that his death arouses the same unreal negative animosity. Right or wrong – he’s no longer among us! He’s facing what comes next, let him go in peace!
And if the so-called white person is being discriminated against, well let him or her recognize that many have faced such discrimination nobly and been the better for that. We shall not lose our culture – it belongs to all of us – read a bit of Walt Whitman for that! Our culture is to delight in all our antecedents for what good they were able to do, each man, woman or child! Amazingly, most have done something good in their lives; celebrate that!!!
Sorry to rant.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2022 0:53 utc | 49

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2022 0:53 utc | 51
“Sorry, Scorpion – I just don’t see it. If indeed there is such bias going on in universities, well, stay away from it..”
Did you read the article? Do you think it was fake news? If not, how can you not see it? And of course there is evidence of similar demoralizing stuff now for decades. Including things like toxic masculinity courses and so forth. Endless examples. I don’t understand why you are telling me to ‘stay away from it.’ My comment was about why Amerika is not going to survive. I don’t go to universities and nor do I live in Amerika. I am away from it! The comment wasn’t about me.
“As to whiteness, I think that’s poppycock; it has no reality.”
Of course. However, if a large number of people start hating white people then it is a real phenomenon whether or not it should be.
“And if the so-called white person is being discriminated against, well let him or her recognize that many have faced such discrimination nobly and been the better for that.”
You are voicing spiritual advice – and with the sort of good heart you always bring to these discussions. But I was talking about a widespread political phenomenon involving deliberate sabotage not personal spiritual stuff. Biden’s speech tonight was empty theater on the one hand but he is trying to get tens of thousands of people arrested this summer most likely and ruin their lives. At which point maybe they should practice forgiveness and renunciation but that doesn’t make the intention to break the country apart and ruin many lives a good thing.
“Sorry to rant.” I don’t know what the barfly business is all about apart from the website description, but seems to me a certain amount of ranting is fine as long as it makes some fellow barflies think and enjoy responding.
All best and as always thank you for your lovely post!

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 2 2022 1:45 utc | 51

Bevin,
I grew up in the white working class in the Bronx. The one time there I was held up and had to surrender my wallet was at the demand of a black criminal.
Later, when I was a graduate student in the Boston area, another black miscreant demanded I surrender to him what valuables I was carrying. This time, because I wasn’t sure what a graduate student was carrying would satisfy him, I chose to run away. Fortunately, I escaped with my life.
Those are the two times I have experienced that threatened my life, in both cases from blacks.

Posted by: Lysias | Sep 2 2022 2:23 utc | 53

@ farm ecologist | Sep 1 2022 21:48 utc | 26
thanks! i fully concur! see my next comment to oc..
@ Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 0:05 utc | 41
thanks oc… i am considering voting for max bernier…. at this point its the best i can do short of not voting… as for the wef – they are just a front for the ongoing kleptocracy as represented by the financial system we presently live under… to get rid of the wef, we need to see what a nightmare the folks who are in control have already made of canada… checked r/e prices lately?? you want to blame that on wef?? the narcissists and pychopaths, etc have been embedded long before we heard about the wef… we have a problem and it extends beyond the boundaries of canada.. the plague on the so called countries of the west – nato and etc is brought to us by these same financial ponzi scheme players… i think wef is a latecomer to the game, or it is another name for these same pychos.. trust me.. your poohleyay fellow ain’t gonna be any different…. another pretty face and empty cheap suit…

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 3:30 utc | 55

And soon the full cost to Canada and the world of Trudy/Freeland’s part in the Ukie-nazi debacle will be on full display, a sticky mess that any sane politician will avoid being tarred with.
I personally would ban political parties period, but that’s another rabbit hole for another day.
Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 0:05 utc | 41
Sane politicians. Like buffaloes, there were times when they were crossing the continent in huge, thundering herds. Like buffaloes, now they may be tourist attractions that you can see driving toward signs like “Welcome to Vermont, home of the last 2 living sane politicians” with 2 slashed and handwritten 1 written next to it (I do not keep good track on the recent events on American political scene, so the sign and the existence of the one last sane politician in Vermont is a hypothetical to make an example).
Not so long time ago, I was younger, more naive and less jaded, so I had thoughts like “When Biden comes, he may restore JCOA and free Assange who rots on American request because it would be an opportunistic, sane thing to do. And even if he is in deep neurological decline, he has advisors who are not”.
Nevertheless, Canada has some freely roaming buffaloes, so perhaps there are few sane politicians there as well…

Posted by: Piotr Berman | Sep 2 2022 6:20 utc | 57

In other news.
It appears that a majority of Tesla car owners. Are incapable of reading the handy car users’ owner’s operating manual.
Either that. Or, the hired dumb&dumber Norwengish translator omitted key chapters. On how to winterize your Tesla. For use in Northern subzero winter temperatures.
Reading is a luxury/s
Bonus points: Have you too read your new car/truck owner’s manual?

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Sep 2 2022 7:20 utc | 59

For all those still enjoying the British Monarchy and its imbecile government. Some cheery advice from the aussies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyt3Op2dTc0

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 2 2022 8:33 utc | 61

What a mess! I have no intention of entering into any of the tired old debates, especially when the dialog consists of a mixture of evidence free assertions and/or irrelevant personal anecdotes.
However this thread should be preserved in aspic as a classic example of the risks associated with jumping into a melding of ‘left’ and ‘right’ without carefully consider potential pitfalls.
In backward cultures such as amerika’s this melding between a few well-informed lefties and mobs of indoctrinated from birth, believe whatever convenient bulldust they’re told fascists, can only end up down one cul-de-sac, the one which A Hitler’s nazi party finished up on The Night of Long Knives.
We can easily observe in this thread where some avowed leftists tread too lightly when discussing matters that comprise some of the basic tools which our rulers have always used to oppress workers, lest the relationship between two vastly differing modes of thought be put at risk. So what, surely this is a position that no left-leaning amerikan individual can ever sacrifice since ruling class’ indoctrination has brainwashed orders of magnitude more amerikans into following self defeating/sabotaging ideals than amerikans who resisted that indoctrination to develop a view of life which emphasises the rights of all humans.
Remember that the ‘night of the long knives’ happened when the leadership of the Nazis, under pressure from its aristocratic donors, decided to appease those donors whilst ridding themselves of a pesky problem whereby working class party members who by way of their long term membership and concomitant suitability for leadership roles within the party kept causing problems for the Nazi Party elite by embarrassing them by raising issues about policies that advanced socialist ideals that were ‘still on the books’ long after the nazi party elite had eschewed ’em.
Remnant of leftist thinking who held senior positions were butchered and their followers were tossed into concentration camps by the ‘anything for power’ nazi politicians.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Sep 2 2022 9:22 utc | 63

Australia and NZ are in chaos and are broken. Things have changed forever for the worse.
Posted by: Paul | Sep 2 2022 9:33 utc | 67
Indeed, Paul, from a distance it does seem so. I have family both places and covid has hit them hard as they attempted to follow the US lead instead of isolating as they ought to have done and taking the best course – but being broken, there can be a way forward if the countries can do so with the courage they have shown in the past.
They don’t have to cut ties with the US and/or Britain. Plenty of sympathetic voices both places. I had respect for their leadership (I’m speaking of NZ now as my home country) through the non-nuclear years, but came to a parting of ways with family there on discussions about the US only ‘recently’ – that is, as this ceentury began.
I made the distinction then between the good public school education my youngest children were receiving when we were down there in the ’90s and what we returned to in the US – vastly better for them down there, so that I often thought I had been mistaken to return here. Still, what little they received stood them in good stead – I am glad they had that opportunity; I know it has been critical for them. And it taught me that kids are resilient, that as long as there is a ‘next generation’ there is great potential.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2022 9:54 utc | 65

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=24221
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=33419

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Sep 2 2022 10:32 utc | 67

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 2 2022 2:53 utc | 54
I haven’t yet read Biden’s speech, NemesisCalling, but if it was as bad as you say, there will be a backlash on all fronts. Thinking persons do exist in this country, and many of them have been hardened by the realities we discuss here. It will not matter if things get appreciably worse; there is an inner core, educated or not, that eludes folk not living here, just as there was in that great country, Russia. Diverse as can be in ideology, but feet on the ground folk who long ago came to grips with cruel realities in this country. We may look foolishly optimistic but we have been in survival mode for a long time; we can bear with adversity. Sure, it’s still a new place as regards tradition but it will be better off for being humbled, forced to start anew.
Biden is old. He had to lean on his wife even at the inauguration. With age, even the best of us falter, and I don’t consider his youth to have been well spent. Still, I saw what happened to Eugene McCarthy as his mind faltered – and there are stronger influences today that are aging as well, the plutocrats among us. If there are any with good minds I don’t know of them; I hope there are one or two.
I will differ with you on one thing: for citizens, guns are not the answer. But I like your list; we need more of that. We have had enough guns; plowshares is what we need more of as well.

Posted by: juliania | Sep 2 2022 10:37 utc | 69

#BaerbockRuecktritt the twitter tag in Germany for #ResignBaerbock has been the top hashtag on twitter since yesterday with over 41.5K Tweets. The German mainstream media is attempting to cover for their golden child claiming it is a Russian disinformation campaign. The 30 second video says exactly as the 2 minute video regardless of the media claiming otherwise. Because this statement was given in English, I assume that many Germans would be uncomfortable in their English and would believe what the media says..
The paint is off: (In German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1WbI3in6r4

Posted by: rmml | Sep 2 2022 10:55 utc | 71

Watched the whole Biden speech. You should try. Even a quick look will give the visual setup and the tenor.
Heavily edited and produced. It happened on a soundstage, not live in Philly. There is no audience. The cuts from soundstage to location shot are blatant and amateur. Biden is drugged to the gills. The man is not capable of giving an energetic half hour speech but we are asked to believe this happened.
The Gates of Hell/Third Reich imagery is over the top and completely off the rails. This was result of long planning and major production work, no accident. The entire team who did this is completely.deranged.
The gist of the speech is very simple. “MAGA Republicans” are evil and destroying America. If you are not chapter and verse with Brandon you are a MAGA Republican and deserve to die. We are going to take steps to make that happen.
Biden is not an actor. The only note he has is angry old Irish man shaking his fist. It would all be pathetic were it not backed by the zombies of the Deep State. Five years back I’d have said rank and file Democrats would look at this, shake their heads, say it is time to send old Joe out to pasture. We will see a reaction to this, God only knows.

Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 2 2022 11:18 utc | 73

Watched some belligerent bitch from Germany telling Germans to go fuck themselves; Germany will back Ukraine 100%…..leaving Germans hungry and frozen in the cold. You guys are fucked. Like, Really Fucked.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 2 2022 11:34 utc | 75

Medvedev: “It’s time to limit the price of Russia pipeline gas supplied from Russia to Europe” said auntie von der Leyen. It will be like with oil. There will simply be no Russian gas in Europe

Posted by: rk | Sep 2 2022 11:42 utc | 77

Find ways to avoid paying taxes so your money doesn’t end up in the assistance of the war machine. Read the Bible and the Tao Te Ching. Sorry, in a mood tonight because the writing is on the wall and Biden’s speech is the priming event for a coming crackdown.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 2 2022 2:53 utc | 56
The thought crossed my mind on listening to it was that it follows on nicely from the recent raid of Mr. Trump’s home and the FBI rifling through his wife’s drawers.
Impeachment 1: nothing happened, no widespread response.
Widespread election theft: nothing happened apart from whining.
Impeachment 2: nothing happened.
Labelling Deplorables as Domestic terrorists: nothing happened.
Arrests of Deplorables put away without due process, some in solitary for more than a year: nothing happened.
Raid on Ex-President’s and current GOP Party Leader’s residence: nothing happened.
Speech by Biden labelling MAGA Republicans as enemies of the republic: we’ll see but I betcha nothing happens.
This is frog boiling in real-time.
What is most amazing to me – amid a period of many such amazements since 2020 – is just how easy it seemingly is to get people to accept these things as a new normal, not to even question them. Even MAGA people are accepting them; they don’t like them but they accept them. Stunning.
I have no idea what could or should be done. When a country is led by evil cabals bent on taking it over – or whatever it is they are bent on, I really don’t know – there isn’t all that much that the masses can do apart from revolt in confusion and despair once they have problems putting food on the table, which will be happening soon possibly it seems given all the foreshadowing of fertilizer shortages (and fires) and food processing facility fires and even petroleum processing fires not to mention no end of supply chain disruptions and perhaps even permanent deficiencies once Chinese sanctions kick-in with Taiwan hostilities now building this week.
And then if they protest, paid thugs will turn it into a riot as per Jan 6 template and they will find themselves getting shot at and arrested by their own sons and daughters in military uniforms. And then the evil people succeed in establishing a new form of authority. Or something.
If that speech had been given pre-covid the President would have had to resign or be impeached immediately. But it is post-covid so all bets are off. It seems that the mass formation stuff is essentially correct although the reality is more subtle and insidious than the good Professor’s dry list of criteria; for the people who are making it happen have been tinkering with such things for decades now, so they know the subject matter far better than he.
I hate to write this, let alone think it, but am beginning to suspect that some of the depopulation stories have heard over the years and discounted as too silly are beginning to sound like they just might be true. Because what is ongoing is clearly demented, divorced from human sanity and goodness.
How far such mentalities can go is hard to say, but I have thought for decades that periods in the past where 20-40% of the populations have died through disease, famine or war are not something that we in the modern era are beyond experiencing and we are collectively far too arrogant and complacent about such matters. It is hard to know which is more powerful – for both are clearly to blame: the ruthlessness of various people wielding great powers largely in secret; or the complacency of the masses in meekly accepting such rulers and their own thralldom.
The bad guys want to turn our beautiful lives into a living nightmare because that is what they do, they feel the pull of Hell and are addicted to bringing it into being. So has it ever been and so will it ever be. Perhaps the best form of resistance is maintaining a sense of humor. Nobody laughs in hell! But humor might not be enough…

Posted by: Scorpion | Sep 2 2022 12:23 utc | 79

i am considering voting for max bernier
Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 3:30 utc
So throwing what could be a useful vote away, virtue signalling all the way. Got it!
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This is a methodical response to Ernst Wolff who considers Putin to be part of the club. And it is much more than that.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Sep 1 2022 22:39 utc
It would seem the object of both China and Russia’s actions are to ensure the EEF/Rothschild/Blackrock-class do not end up in charge of their countries and their “friendly” international partners.
Is China misusing draconian lockdowns and social credit systems? If the “news” can be believed even a bit, probably. But that doesn’t mean they are in league with the WEF. Is Russia a far different culture to US/ZATO, and unwilling to tolerate their illegal incursions and sanctions any longer? Absolutely, but it is up to the US/ZATO crowd to make peace within their own borders, not blame Russia and China for the problems the Rothschild/Blackrock-class created.
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Nevertheless, Canada has some freely roaming buffaloes, so perhaps there are few sane politicians there as well…
Posted by: Piotr Berman | Sep 2 2022 6:20 utc
It’s not like Poilievre decided to break from the herd last week. He was one of the few MPs that actually went out into the Truckers Convoy, literally on the doorstep of Parliament. He knows the peaceful reality of working Joes and Jills that fed the homeless, cleaned the streets and reduced the crime rate by 95%.
Is he or his entire platform “perfect”? Far from it, but as long as the disrupters can keep like-minded people from even rationally discussing the situation before us and possible beneficial actions, the Trudeau/Freeland/Singh Cabal wins.
That’s why this so many threads here devolve into non-sequitur noise. But notice that once the thread time-out or gets very long, the trolls depart and some very good comments appear unmolested. Squirrel!
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Posted by: Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 12:34 utc | 81

New German domestic rules…..lights out by 10pm, going look like Norf Korea from space, brrr……and yes I’m splitting my sides laughing….German politicians are funnier than cross dressing perverts, passing themselves off as President….and yes you can included Bill C and Boris J in that schmata confused psychosis.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Sep 2 2022 12:49 utc | 83

“The G7 announced its intention to ban services for the transportation of Russian oil by sea if it is sold above the ceiling set by the West.”
https://t.me/azmilitary11/18225
So a Chinese company buys a shipment of Russian oil. Chinese company sells the oil to another intermediary company claiming to be Saudi or Iran company. That company resells the shipment to a western trader or end user or shipping company.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 2 2022 13:01 utc | 85

I haven’t watched the fascist Biden’s speech, I know ahead of time whatever comes from his mouth has been spoonfed to him by his handlers. the US elites have made war on lower classes for 50 years or more, they don’t care how much destruction they cause at home and abroad as long as they stay in power.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Sep 2 2022 13:21 utc | 87

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 2 2022 13:01 utc | 87
This is peak clown world stuff. The only interesting part, buried in the lede, is the possibility of restricting western shipping insurance (oh, were they already breaking their own sanctions? spoiler, yes, in many ways) .. but it’s another big opportunity for Asian insurers to step up and end Euro shipping insurance dominance. Thus boomeranging once again.
You can’t fight the oil market for long… what if RU and OPEC both call a production cut? Oil close to 200, and once again revenues go up while shipping less product.

Posted by: dask | Sep 2 2022 13:44 utc | 89

@Paul Greenwood #62:

Ukraine spends 7% GDP on consequences

That is an absolute bullshit figure. Whoever told you that is a liar.

Posted by: S | Sep 2 2022 13:47 utc | 91

“They really don’t seem to grok that western economies are leveraged 100:1 on cheap energy, and sellers of vital commodities have the power to refuse..”
Posted by: dask | Sep 2 2022 13:46 utc | 91
The funny thing about this is that as this results in a rise in oil, it will shrink the western economies due to it all being based on cheap energy. Which will then result in a significantly weaker position for them to bargain.

Posted by: unimperator | Sep 2 2022 14:03 utc | 93

Posted by: rk | Sep 2 2022 14:15 utc | 95
This is proof of economic illiteracy and explains why The West is decadent and at the end.
You can influence Price OR Quantity but NEVER both.
It depends on Price-Elasticity of Supply and whether it is subject to a reverse curve – in a world where oil is in physical short supply – and where Urals Crude for which European refineries are configured – is subject to Stupid Political Games by Western Dimwits – it will be as the Oil Traders predicted – Oil will surge to $380/bbl
Watch Saudi Arabia have technical difficulties and reduce supply.
This is the 1978 Oil Shock to 10th Exponent

Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Sep 2 2022 14:20 utc | 95

@ Paul
Which empire or countries suffers most when oil hits $380? Could that be the goal?

Posted by: dfg | Sep 2 2022 14:33 utc | 97

@ Old canadian | Sep 2 2022 12:34 utc | 83 quote :
So throwing what could be a useful vote away, virtue signalling all the way. Got it!
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you don’t get much and display an arrogant, know it all attitude as well… i could easily say the same of your political ambitions here… i resent your response.. cheers..

Posted by: james | Sep 2 2022 14:44 utc | 99