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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Obscure antisemitic blog pegged Bibi as the Messiah in 2012
Neumann
Sep 02, 2025
Netanyahu greatest leader since Moses
At least according to the informal poll I conducted among shoppers at the Beth Ezekiel spring fund-raiser and rummage sale yesterday.
That news should shore up the spirits of the man who has been taking more than the usual amount of abuse lately. Most recently it has been former spy chief and vindictive know-nothing Yuval Diskin grabbing headlines with his intemperate remarks about the Prime Minister.
As spokepersons for both the Prime Minister and Barak were quick to point out, Diskin is a bitter man these days because his reign of error at Shin Bet is over and he was rightfully overlooked for the top spot at Mossad.
So hold your head high and carry on, Mr. Prime Minister. Remember, they grumbled about Moses too.
Crop circles reveal Netanyahu is the Messiah!
Yes, it's true! Right here at Falling Downs the crop circles are speaking!
Wait just a minute, you say. It's April. There are no crops. The crops have yet to be seeded... how can there be "crop circles"?
Ah, that is but the first miracle!
When Jehovah speaks, He careth not for the season!
See?
Crops or no crops, you cannot silence the voice of the Almighty!
Benyamin has been governing his entire career based on the voice of the Almighty.
Matters not a whit that no one else hears that voice.
And that in itself is proof enough for me that Benyamin Netanyahu is indeed the Messiah!
Canada still punishing Afghans because we lost war to Taliban
Had occasion to listen to multiple CBC newscasts on the car radio today. Sunday’s earthquake in Afghanistan featured in every one. Also featured in every one were commentators who stressed the importance of making sure none of our aid, such as it might be, fell into the hands of the Taliban. We want our aid to aid Afghan’s women and girls, not the Taliban.
This is profoundly churlish, stupid, and counterproductive.
In the first place, how do these people propose to help women and girls without helping the men in their lives?
Further, whether we like it or not, the Taliban are the government. The fact that many American Empire Loyalists across Canadian government and media remain in bitter denial about that fact doesn’t make it go away. The Taliban government is asking for international help, and we should do what we can.
It was the “little guy from Shawinigan” who made the decision to put Canadian troops in harms way, and 148 of them paid the ultimate price; in a country utterly irrelevant to any conceivable Canadian interests.
What motivated Chretien had nothing to do with Canadian interests and everything to do with currying Uncle Sam’s favour. Harper deserves some credit for recognizing the obvious. The dumbshits in DC stuck with their Afghan folly another seven years after Harper pulled the plug on our participation. They spent twenty years and a trillion dollars fighting the Taliban and losing.
Within six months of their shambolic retreat they were promising Ukraine “whatever it takes for as long as it takes” to whup Russia. They just lost a war to a bunch of illiterate goat herders and opium farmers, but they’ve got the wherewithal to ensure Ukrainian victory over Russia?
Somebody in Kyiv didn’t do their due diligence before they signed up for that nonsense!
Check out the Wikipedia page on international relations of Afghanistan. The 16 countries opposing recognition of the Taliban are all NATO members or otherwise US vassals like Chile. The current list of countries with de facto diplomatic relations with the Taliban runs to 26, including most of those in attendance at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization shindig just concluded in China, a world-historic event that got scant coverage in Western media.
Oddly enough, our ongoing betrayal of our one-time Afghan allies remains… ongoing. We’ve heard all about the interpreters and assorted “fixers,” rightly seen in their country as traitors for collaborating with the invaders. We promised them safe passage to Canada for themselves and their families. And so we should. I believe we have a moral obligation to these people. Their lives are understandably at risk, as were the lives of the Nazi collaborators in Western Europe after the WWII.
Eleven years after we quit the war, we’re still doing everything we can to avoid our obligations to those Afghans who risked everything to help us.
That’s despicable.
Thursday, August 28, 2025
In both Ukraine and Gaza, US-led peace negotiations are a hoax
From the BBC to CNN to CBC to Fox News, our free press agree the main obstacle to peace in Ukraine is Putin.
Everybody else wants peace, and Bad Vlad won’t even negotiate! Didn’t he hear Marco Rubio? Peace requires compromise.
I’m not so sure. What compromises did Canadian General Charlie Foulkes offer the Germans when they surrendered to him in the Netherlands? None that I’m aware of, yet peace ensued. In war, compromises are made by the losers, not the winners. The pique over Putin’s refusal to negotiate is because Western elites can’t bring themselves to admit defeat.
Instead, they float ever more desperate fantasies about NATO boots on the ground to keep the peace that Trump is so tantalizingly close to achieving - if only his good buddy Putin would cooperate.
Generally speaking, any legitimate peace negotiations require a neutral mediator. How does anyone imagine the Americans to be a neutral mediator in the Russsia- Ukraine conflict? NATO and the USA are parties to the war, not impartial observers. The entire “Trump is trying to broker a deal” charade is an insult to our intelligence.
If that’s a ridiculous farce, America’s pretend efforts to “broker a deal” in Gaza is absurdist tragedy. Supporting Israel’s genocide is a genuine bipartisan project in Washington. Even as American officials profess their “hearts are breaking” at the wanton slaughter of women and children, they continue to veto one UN ceasefire proposal after another.
All the Americans need to do is stop the flow of money and weapons to Israel, and you’d see a ceasefire within hours.
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Canada's clean energy hype long on hype, short on clean energy
In 2022 a different Canadian PM and German Chancellor spawned acres of headlines with the wildly over-hyped ‘Hydrogen Alliance.’ Clean Canadian hydrogen would start shipping by 2025 (checks calendar…) oh! That’s this year!
And how is that going, pray tell? Here’s a telling quote from the trade journal Fuel Cell Works.
Just months before the end of 2024, no green hydrogen facilities in Atlantic Canada have been completed, financial terms with German companies remain elusive and infrastructure in Europe is far from ready.
Hmm… hundreds of billions in loans and subsidies and there’s nothing going on! How is such a thing even possible? Clearly, the loans and subsidies are insufficient!
So, no hydrogen on the horizon, but have no fear; we’re not only gonna be a leader in clean hydrogen, maybe, someday, if we ever get the loans and subsidies right, but we’re gonna be the next rare earths and critical minerals powerhouse too!
And this time around we’ve got serious men in charge; Goldman Sachs alum Carney, and BlackRock veteran Mertz! We have reason to believe that heavy hitters like that will get the handouts right from the get-go!
I’m not the only one feeling the good vibes. Check out this headline from the Globe & Mail today: Canada can, and should, be the worlds elder statesmen in critical minerals.
Yowza!! Take that, Chinese commies!
All we need to do is finish that access road into the Ring of Fire motherlode up there in Treaty 9 country. Of course, to finish it, we would have to start it first. I did a little digging and found some hopeful news. If all goes according to plan, the studies and assessments phase of the project should be complete by 2028.
That’s not the road - just the studies… and then the serious work of applying for construction permits begins, so things are looking good to have that 300 kilometres of road in by the mid 2030s.
A road is not a mine, of course. That will require more studies and assessments. I figure that should take another ten years, and then another ten to actually develop the mine, and by golly, we should be well on our way to untold riches around 2060 or so!
Of course, bear in mind the aforementioned Treaty 9 folks will have de facto veto power every step of the way, and those people have wised up quite a bit since we rammed a railroad across the country in a mere ten years. They won’t be bought with some shiny baubles and a barrel of firewater like in the good old days.
Yup, we’re destined to be a world leader in clean energy for sure!
Sunday, August 24, 2025
More sweet nothings for Zelensky
On PM Carney’s European tour to scare up new trading partners, he stopped off in Kyiv, there to continue the NATO tradition of promising Ukraine unending support of “whatever it takes etc…”
Mark and Zelly had a big hug and the Ukrainian PM pretended to be happy to see him, in spite of Canada’s unbroken 3+ year record of making one promise after another that we cannot deliver on.
Carney announced $2 billions in support. That’s not new money, it’s a drawdown from funds that have been promised several times already.
The money will be spent buying US weapons from that guy in DC who we are allegedly boycotting. Why? Is that the only place to buy weapons? Of course not. Equal or better weapon systems can be had from numerous sources, but… oh, you know… we wouldn’t want to antagonize Trump, because tariffs and stuff.
We will turn those weapons over to Ukraine, and within a week or two max, Russia will have turned our two billion dollars into scrap metal. What the Canadian taxpayers get for our two billions is the satisfaction of knowing we facilitated dragging out the war a few days, and the privilege of paying back the 10+ billions we have thus far committed to this war.
Then again, maybe I’ve got it all wrong. Maybe the next few billions will pull Zelly’s chestnuts out of the inferno, deliver the orcs the final blow, and lead to the glorious triumph of democracy over Putin. CBC for one still believes that’s a possibility. Murray Brewster has high hopes for the new Flamingo cruise missile the Ukrainians will start mass producing this winter.
With its 3000 km range, this could be the gamechanger that finally changes the game, unlike all the gamechangers that have gone before.
Maybe.
Maybe not. A far more likely scenario is that the Flamingo factory will be a smoldering ruin long before the first Flamingo comes off the production line.
By then NATO will have come up with the next pie-in-the-sky plan to prolong the war. Their only option is to admit they lost, and tragically, many more Ukrainians will die before that will happen.
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Carney turns to Latvia and Poland to replace US trade
Yup! We gotta expand our trading partners now that Trump has turned against us. Because no way is that fascist A-hole gonna get away with bullying us!
Elbows up!
So, goodbye US market…
Hello Latvia, the Baltic powerhouse!
Population 1.8 million, shrinking every year since they won their freedom after the collapse of the USSR.
Not sure about this strategy. Can a country with less than half the pop of the GTA really fill USA’s role in our economy?
Obviously not. That’s why Carney added Poland and the zombie state of Germany to his itinerary.
Hmm… Methinks Poland is on the cusp of falling off America’s list of favorite vassals, to join Hungary and Turkiye in the purgatory of “unreliable allies.” Did you notice Poland was not in evidence in that Oval Office capitulation scene last Monday?
As for Germany, I don’t understand the epidemic of wholesale mental retardation that has overwhelmed the volk over the last generation or so. That an abject imbecile like Baerbock can achieve the post of Foreign Minister is a wonder in itself, but here’s what really amazes me.
After she announced that Germany was committed to financing Ukraine forever, whether the German voters liked it or not, there was nary a peep of protest from any media in the Nations of Virtue.
Democracy shamocracy!
On the bright side, looks like Mark put his elbows down and backed off on the retaliatory tariffs. Trump loves it when the vassals grovel, so I’m certain there are happier times ahead!
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Generous Canadian taxpayers creating jobs in Finland shipyard
Good news, Canadian taxpayers! Your tax dollars are finally creating those good well-paying jobs we’re always hearing about. Unfortunately, the jobs are in Finland.
But don’t worry. Once the hulls are complete, they will be towed to the Davie yard in Quebec for outfitting. By then you can bet your bottom dollar the cost will have doubled and the completion date will have been extended multiple times. That’s the Davie way; their motto; Blowing Up Budgets and Deadlines For 150 Years.
Most reporting on this story implies Davie is a Canadian company. It isn’t. It is owned by Inocea Group. Take a look at their board of directors and you’ll find great depth of financial engineering expertise but a noticeable lightness on the naval engineering side.
In 2017 the Globe & Mail published an investigation of Inocea. Here’s a quote from the story:
A Globe and Mail investigation has discovered that Davie is owned by a complex web of companies that can be traced from Canada and the United Kingdom to the tax havens of Monaco and the British Virgin Islands.
The paper’s journalists ran into a dead end trying to trace the beneficial owners of Inocea. They also own the shipyard in Finland where the hulls are being fabbed. Their modus operandi appears to be buy bankrupt shipyards and then lobby hard for government contracts.
We’ve made multi-billion dollar commitments to a concern whose controlling investors hide behind a thicket of numbered companies registered in tax havens. Given their success in squeezing money out of governments, I’m guessing there’s some serious names hiding in those secret documents.
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