That pretty much sums up the Kielburger's "Student Service Grant" scandal, doesn't it? Well, that plus the way-too-cosy relationship between the Kielburgers and the Liberal Party.
We're way past Orwell here, and why should that come as a surprise? It's 2020, after all, not 1984!
On my planet, volunteers are called that because they VOLUNTEER! Look it up if you're not sure what that means.
On my planet, charities used to be charities, and charities didn't have for-profit subsidiaries.
Then again, I never thought that on my planet I'd be turning on the TV to see white kids screaming "Black lives matter" in the faces of Black cops...
It's a fucked-up world!
Friday, July 31, 2020
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Farm life
In the last ten minutes I've seen old Boomer squiggle herself under the fence to get into the barnyard. She likes a taste of cow poop once in a while, and she doesn't mind rolling around in it either. She's fifteen years old. Let her have her pleasures, I figure.
Before she does the fence she'll always cast a side-eye on the stoop to see if she's being observed. She's too close to blind to know whether I'm watching or not, or even whether I'm on the stoop, but it must be force of habit. She knows she's being naughty.
Also witnessed Doublewide prancing proudly up the drive with her latest meal clenched in her jaws, tail still wriggling. She'll make a spectacle of the meal. I've taken to looking away and covering my ears because I find the crunching sounds as she's eating a wee critter alive to be disconcerting.
Just part of country living.
The other morning I was out there doing a little research for my forthcoming best-seller, "New Biblical Scrolls Reveal Xi Jinping is ANTI-CHRIST!" (Mike Pompeo has agreed to write the forward!) when a car pulls in the lane.
"Excuse me, are those your cows all over the road down at the corner?"
Hell no! Cows are way too much work, but I'm guessing they belong to the guy who rents my pastures. I thank the lady for the heads up, and head down to the corner on my bicycle.
Buddy has fourteen cow-calf pairs grazing here, plus a bull. There's a cow and a couple of calves in the meadow, and the rest of the crew decided to make a break for freedom. Now they're loitering in the middle of the intersection wondering how to get back on the other side of the fence.
As I'm leaving the Farm Manager is already on the phone, and in no time there's plenty of help, and between a couple of ATVs and me we herd them up the lane and back into the pasture.
Just part of farm life.
Around here it's mostly cattle country. An acreage like mine is typically about half in hay, because that's what the cattle eat in the winter. We have good hay fields, but other than that there's not a lot of cash-cropping around here. That's why you can still buy a hundred acres with buildings for under a million bucks. Go a little south, and a hundred acre field with nothing on it runs well north of that.
There is the occasional exception though. There's a JD 9630 that hums by on a regular basis. A unit like that is worth more than my farm. You have to be doing a few thousand acres to make that pay. The guys who own it lease up all the open fields between here and Owen Sound that they can get their hands on to get the economies of scale they need.
To my way of thinking, once your farming operation becomes a multi-million dollar enterprise, you're probably making more money for the bank than you are for yourself.
That too is farm life in the modern era.
Before she does the fence she'll always cast a side-eye on the stoop to see if she's being observed. She's too close to blind to know whether I'm watching or not, or even whether I'm on the stoop, but it must be force of habit. She knows she's being naughty.
Also witnessed Doublewide prancing proudly up the drive with her latest meal clenched in her jaws, tail still wriggling. She'll make a spectacle of the meal. I've taken to looking away and covering my ears because I find the crunching sounds as she's eating a wee critter alive to be disconcerting.
Just part of country living.
The other morning I was out there doing a little research for my forthcoming best-seller, "New Biblical Scrolls Reveal Xi Jinping is ANTI-CHRIST!" (Mike Pompeo has agreed to write the forward!) when a car pulls in the lane.
"Excuse me, are those your cows all over the road down at the corner?"
Hell no! Cows are way too much work, but I'm guessing they belong to the guy who rents my pastures. I thank the lady for the heads up, and head down to the corner on my bicycle.
Buddy has fourteen cow-calf pairs grazing here, plus a bull. There's a cow and a couple of calves in the meadow, and the rest of the crew decided to make a break for freedom. Now they're loitering in the middle of the intersection wondering how to get back on the other side of the fence.
As I'm leaving the Farm Manager is already on the phone, and in no time there's plenty of help, and between a couple of ATVs and me we herd them up the lane and back into the pasture.
Just part of farm life.
Around here it's mostly cattle country. An acreage like mine is typically about half in hay, because that's what the cattle eat in the winter. We have good hay fields, but other than that there's not a lot of cash-cropping around here. That's why you can still buy a hundred acres with buildings for under a million bucks. Go a little south, and a hundred acre field with nothing on it runs well north of that.
There is the occasional exception though. There's a JD 9630 that hums by on a regular basis. A unit like that is worth more than my farm. You have to be doing a few thousand acres to make that pay. The guys who own it lease up all the open fields between here and Owen Sound that they can get their hands on to get the economies of scale they need.
To my way of thinking, once your farming operation becomes a multi-million dollar enterprise, you're probably making more money for the bank than you are for yourself.
That too is farm life in the modern era.
Democrats determined to gift Trump four more years
On the face of it, you'd think Trump is toast. Less than 100 days before the election, a pandemic is ravaging the nation and the economy is going down the toilet.
So why will Trump triumph in November?
Because the vast majority of Americans understand the difference between "peaceful protests" and rampant lawlessness in the streets, even if many of the talking heads on TV don't.
America may have a shitty public education system, but it has a superb propaganda system. You can't watch a hockey/baseball/football game or a NASCAR race without a load of patriotic hoo-ha to start it off. Americans are indoctrinated from infancy to revere their national iconography; the statues, the flag, the many symbols of American honour, virtue, and heroism. That indoctrination has been going on since the birth of the Republic.
There is no way that level of brainwashing will be undone by letting a bunch of yahoos pull down statues for a couple of months.
Unfortunately for the Dems, they've irrevocably aligned themselves with the yahoos.
So why will Trump triumph in November?
Because the vast majority of Americans understand the difference between "peaceful protests" and rampant lawlessness in the streets, even if many of the talking heads on TV don't.
America may have a shitty public education system, but it has a superb propaganda system. You can't watch a hockey/baseball/football game or a NASCAR race without a load of patriotic hoo-ha to start it off. Americans are indoctrinated from infancy to revere their national iconography; the statues, the flag, the many symbols of American honour, virtue, and heroism. That indoctrination has been going on since the birth of the Republic.
There is no way that level of brainwashing will be undone by letting a bunch of yahoos pull down statues for a couple of months.
Unfortunately for the Dems, they've irrevocably aligned themselves with the yahoos.
Sunday, July 26, 2020
WEgate scenario III: Meet Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland
Chrystia Freeland is already the deputy PM. If Fluffy steps aside, she's automatically in.
The international billionaire class love her. She spent the entirety of her journalism career sucking up to them. The neocons in Washington love her. She considers guys like Pompeo and Munchin to be her personal friends. She's all in for whatever regime change agendas Washington has planned for the likes of Venezuela and Iran. She's golden in Brussels and Washington.
In short, she's considered a steady hand, whereas Justin Trudeau has always been viewed as a bit of a flake by the warmongers who matter.
As things heat up in the kitchen, Chrystia's star can only rise...
Welcome, PM Chrystia Freeland!
The international billionaire class love her. She spent the entirety of her journalism career sucking up to them. The neocons in Washington love her. She considers guys like Pompeo and Munchin to be her personal friends. She's all in for whatever regime change agendas Washington has planned for the likes of Venezuela and Iran. She's golden in Brussels and Washington.
In short, she's considered a steady hand, whereas Justin Trudeau has always been viewed as a bit of a flake by the warmongers who matter.
As things heat up in the kitchen, Chrystia's star can only rise...
Welcome, PM Chrystia Freeland!
WEgate Scenario II: Bill Morneau has got to go
The Farm Manager imagines that Bill Morneau will take the fall for PM Fluffy, because, to her way of thinking, Bill is disposable while Justin is essential.
I'm not sure about that. Sure, Justin comes from considerable power and money, but take a closer look at Morneau. He's a multi-millionaire who married into a billionaire family. In a world where money talks, I suspect that Morneau's voice may drown out the Prime Minister.
Which brings us to my favorite theory, WEgate Scenario III.
I'm not sure about that. Sure, Justin comes from considerable power and money, but take a closer look at Morneau. He's a multi-millionaire who married into a billionaire family. In a world where money talks, I suspect that Morneau's voice may drown out the Prime Minister.
Which brings us to my favorite theory, WEgate Scenario III.
WEgate Scenario I: Justin falls on his sword
The WE fiasco has been the topic of vigorous debate here at Falling Downs. The Farm Manager figures the Libs can't manage without PM Fluffy. He is so essential to the Party's image that they can't possibly ditch him.
Instead, she postulates a Scenario II.
Instead, she postulates a Scenario II.
CBC uses racial slur to promote programming
It's all over the CBC. They're pulling out all the stops to promote the doc "The Book of Negroes."
Hardly a week ago, this story was all over CBC; Roger Stone calls Black radio host racial slur.
The "racial slur" that Roger Stone used was the word "Negro."
Why is that word a racial slur when Roger Stone uses it, but it's hunky dory when CBC uses it to promote their own programming?
Hmm...
Does anyone else detect a whiff of hypocrisy here?
Hardly a week ago, this story was all over CBC; Roger Stone calls Black radio host racial slur.
The "racial slur" that Roger Stone used was the word "Negro."
Why is that word a racial slur when Roger Stone uses it, but it's hunky dory when CBC uses it to promote their own programming?
Hmm...
Does anyone else detect a whiff of hypocrisy here?
Friday, July 24, 2020
Woke or still snoozin'?
Can't remember exactly when I got woke to wokeness. I think I had a pretty good handle on the phenomenon when I wrote this.
That was two years ago. Things aren't getting any better.
On the one hand, we pretend we want to build resilience in our young people. But God forbid that if, somewhere along life's journey, somebody calls you a bad word...
Nowadays, that's your ticket to 15 minutes of fame on the CBC. And society will excuse you if you're suffering from PTSD the next twenty years.
Well, by all means, let that collapse your universe. Being called a bad word used to be considered part of the cut and thrust of everyday life. Every ethnic group had "bad words" for every other ethnic group. I remember those times. I was one of them foreigners who got off the boat without a word of English.
I learned about the Bohunks and the Kikes and the rest of us soon enough. Those bad words figured large in my introduction to the English language.
We all survived...
We became Canadians. Just like Sikhs and Syrians and Afghans and Nigerians are doing today.
That was two years ago. Things aren't getting any better.
On the one hand, we pretend we want to build resilience in our young people. But God forbid that if, somewhere along life's journey, somebody calls you a bad word...
Nowadays, that's your ticket to 15 minutes of fame on the CBC. And society will excuse you if you're suffering from PTSD the next twenty years.
Well, by all means, let that collapse your universe. Being called a bad word used to be considered part of the cut and thrust of everyday life. Every ethnic group had "bad words" for every other ethnic group. I remember those times. I was one of them foreigners who got off the boat without a word of English.
I learned about the Bohunks and the Kikes and the rest of us soon enough. Those bad words figured large in my introduction to the English language.
We all survived...
We became Canadians. Just like Sikhs and Syrians and Afghans and Nigerians are doing today.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Last call for "Full Spectrum Dominance"
That's quite the call to arms Pompeo made today. A "new" alliance of democracies? What, pray tell, is wrong with the old one? NATO, I think it was called.
The problem with NATO is that a good chunk of our "European allies" are good and fed up with always having to march to America's tune. US interference in Nordstream 2 isn't making Uncle Sam any friends over there. That's in addition to the entire buffet of sanctions against any country that doesn't want to be governed from Washington. The French and the Germans and the EU in general are re-evaluating the costs and benefits of being America's "allies."
So what will this "new" alliance of democracies look like?
US, UK, Canada, for sure. Possibly Australia, but they get more bread buttered by China than by US. Maybe Poland. Ukraine, obviously. Not Israel, because they'll keep doing business with China, no matter what their number one benefactor says. Just because they're funded by DC doesn't mean they're governed by DC.
It's bound to be a rather small club, this new alliance of democracies.
Just maybe, independent sovereign nations will look closely at both the USA and China. They will look closely at things like the standard of living, the overall quality of life for the regular people. We may have "democracy," but in China people have homes!
At a time when America is in flames, deciding whether to follow the Chinese path or the American path shouldn't be a difficult decision.
Great time to ramp up the fear factor and turn up the volume on the warmongering... after all, there's an election at stake.
The problem with NATO is that a good chunk of our "European allies" are good and fed up with always having to march to America's tune. US interference in Nordstream 2 isn't making Uncle Sam any friends over there. That's in addition to the entire buffet of sanctions against any country that doesn't want to be governed from Washington. The French and the Germans and the EU in general are re-evaluating the costs and benefits of being America's "allies."
So what will this "new" alliance of democracies look like?
US, UK, Canada, for sure. Possibly Australia, but they get more bread buttered by China than by US. Maybe Poland. Ukraine, obviously. Not Israel, because they'll keep doing business with China, no matter what their number one benefactor says. Just because they're funded by DC doesn't mean they're governed by DC.
It's bound to be a rather small club, this new alliance of democracies.
Just maybe, independent sovereign nations will look closely at both the USA and China. They will look closely at things like the standard of living, the overall quality of life for the regular people. We may have "democracy," but in China people have homes!
At a time when America is in flames, deciding whether to follow the Chinese path or the American path shouldn't be a difficult decision.
Great time to ramp up the fear factor and turn up the volume on the warmongering... after all, there's an election at stake.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Rule 'o flaw
That's quite a spectacle working itself out there in Ottawa, ain't it?
The Kielburger Kult is in the spotlight as never before. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Kielburgers are cut from the same societal cloth as Fluffy and Payette and the rest of them.
Morneau had no idea he'd forgot to pay back 40 thou in travel expenses till he and his family sat around the dinner table and went through a few shopping bags worth of receipts.
Sure! Because that's how the multi-millionaire Minister of Finance conducts his affairs...
The Kielburger Kult always seemed a little suspect to me. I've seen the boys in action a few times. They know how to put on a show. And that's all it took to persuade school boards everywhere to let them into their classrooms.
Nevermind that their "development model" was just a rehash of the most retrograde aspects of colonialism. Does anybody with a brain really believe that Kenya lacks the brainpower or manpower to build their own schools?
And nevermind that most of those hundreds of schools the Kult built never got built. How about a double nevermind for the mysterious "real estate division" of this charity/sorta charity/non-charity that scored that huge contract from PM Fluffy?
PM Fluffy will grace the investigating panel with his vacuous replies to soft-ball questions sometime next week.
I can hardly wait.
The Kielburger Kult is in the spotlight as never before. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Kielburgers are cut from the same societal cloth as Fluffy and Payette and the rest of them.
Morneau had no idea he'd forgot to pay back 40 thou in travel expenses till he and his family sat around the dinner table and went through a few shopping bags worth of receipts.
Sure! Because that's how the multi-millionaire Minister of Finance conducts his affairs...
The Kielburger Kult always seemed a little suspect to me. I've seen the boys in action a few times. They know how to put on a show. And that's all it took to persuade school boards everywhere to let them into their classrooms.
Nevermind that their "development model" was just a rehash of the most retrograde aspects of colonialism. Does anybody with a brain really believe that Kenya lacks the brainpower or manpower to build their own schools?
And nevermind that most of those hundreds of schools the Kult built never got built. How about a double nevermind for the mysterious "real estate division" of this charity/sorta charity/non-charity that scored that huge contract from PM Fluffy?
PM Fluffy will grace the investigating panel with his vacuous replies to soft-ball questions sometime next week.
I can hardly wait.
Bullshittin' Bill makes front page of Globe and Mail again!
Disgraced "human rights activist" Bill Browder is apparently more than a Russia Expert; he's a China Expert as well!
In fact, Browder's expert expertise is so in demand that he found himself before the House of Commons subcommittee on human rights yesterday, encouraging our parliamentarians to stand with our allies (ie join in Trump's new cold war on China) by enacting Magnitsky sanctions on senior Chinese officials.
Trump, as you know, has been very busy blaming China for his failings vis-a-vis the covid pandemic. He's got an election coming up, after all. What better time to play the Yellow Peril card? The US administration is prepared to warmonger the world to the very edge of open conflict to save itself. Browder is doing his part to promote anti-Russia and anti-China hysteria to further the cause.
What should trouble Canadians is that our national newspaper of record and our parliamentarians still offer deferential treatment to Bill Browder, even after he has been exposed as a fraud and a liar.
In fact, Browder's expert expertise is so in demand that he found himself before the House of Commons subcommittee on human rights yesterday, encouraging our parliamentarians to stand with our allies (ie join in Trump's new cold war on China) by enacting Magnitsky sanctions on senior Chinese officials.
Trump, as you know, has been very busy blaming China for his failings vis-a-vis the covid pandemic. He's got an election coming up, after all. What better time to play the Yellow Peril card? The US administration is prepared to warmonger the world to the very edge of open conflict to save itself. Browder is doing his part to promote anti-Russia and anti-China hysteria to further the cause.
What should trouble Canadians is that our national newspaper of record and our parliamentarians still offer deferential treatment to Bill Browder, even after he has been exposed as a fraud and a liar.
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
The real Rideau Hall scandal
Regular readers of Canada's official propaganda organ, the CBC, will be acquainted with the Payette Scandal. The GG is apparently quite a ruthless bitch and demands a high level of performance from her staff.
That's unfortunate, but hey, shit happens. In the modern era, though, it's a really big deal when the boss hurts your feelings. Is it a "news" story? Well, maybe if you're trying to take the spotlight off something else, but I don't want to get all conspiracy theoretician on you. Suffice it to say that I personally have had my feelings hurt in the course of my career, so I feel your pain, but really?
The hurt feelings mask a deeper scandal. Take a close read of this:
Four members of Payette's communications team have departed during the pandemic period alone. A fifth person is leaving this week and another two have taken leaves of absence.
Looks to me like the GG has a communications staff of at least seven, and possibly more. I would think that someone chosen for this very cushy post would have communication skills to begin with. One independent outside expert as a communication consultant might be a good idea, but a staff of seven?...
If you find that a little extravagant, you'll love this:
In 2019, just over one-in-five of the 126 Rideau Hall employees who responded to the survey reported having been victims of harassment on the job over a 12-month period.
Say what? The GG has a staff of 126?
For a token job, that's a lot of hired help.
The CBC has a story about some disgruntled civil servants. The real scandal is that it takes 126 of them to keep this absurd office functioning.
That's unfortunate, but hey, shit happens. In the modern era, though, it's a really big deal when the boss hurts your feelings. Is it a "news" story? Well, maybe if you're trying to take the spotlight off something else, but I don't want to get all conspiracy theoretician on you. Suffice it to say that I personally have had my feelings hurt in the course of my career, so I feel your pain, but really?
The hurt feelings mask a deeper scandal. Take a close read of this:
Four members of Payette's communications team have departed during the pandemic period alone. A fifth person is leaving this week and another two have taken leaves of absence.
Looks to me like the GG has a communications staff of at least seven, and possibly more. I would think that someone chosen for this very cushy post would have communication skills to begin with. One independent outside expert as a communication consultant might be a good idea, but a staff of seven?...
If you find that a little extravagant, you'll love this:
In 2019, just over one-in-five of the 126 Rideau Hall employees who responded to the survey reported having been victims of harassment on the job over a 12-month period.
Say what? The GG has a staff of 126?
For a token job, that's a lot of hired help.
The CBC has a story about some disgruntled civil servants. The real scandal is that it takes 126 of them to keep this absurd office functioning.
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Don't be shtupid, be a shmarty; come and join the Liberal Party!
Tiffany Gooch is introduced by the Toronto Star as a "Liberal" strategist every Sunday. The capital "L" means she does her strategizing for a certain political party. With a small "L" anybody can be a "liberal strategist." For example, when I strategize about how much beer to buy for the weekend, I tend to err on the liberal side. In other words, I'm a liberal strategist!
See what I mean?
But that's not the kinda liberal strategist we're talking about. Her column today was about what Black Lives Matter can learn from #MeToo. She desperately wants the reader to know that this Liberal strategist for the Liberal Party is fully woke and with it, and therefore all you wokesters will find a warm welcome in that party. There's a lot of woke-speak in those 400 words.
The all-time master of woke-speak is of course the leader of that party, Prime Minister "I'm so woke it hurts" Trudeau. PM Fluffy sprays around the woke-speak at such stupendous volumes that you need to towel down after listening to him for five minutes, and that's just on TV!
And what does all that wokeness get us? Last time I checked, it's getting us a couple of new pipelines being forced through unceded Indigenous territory in BC.
Sure hope that wasn't one of your strategies, Tiffany.
See what I mean?
But that's not the kinda liberal strategist we're talking about. Her column today was about what Black Lives Matter can learn from #MeToo. She desperately wants the reader to know that this Liberal strategist for the Liberal Party is fully woke and with it, and therefore all you wokesters will find a warm welcome in that party. There's a lot of woke-speak in those 400 words.
The all-time master of woke-speak is of course the leader of that party, Prime Minister "I'm so woke it hurts" Trudeau. PM Fluffy sprays around the woke-speak at such stupendous volumes that you need to towel down after listening to him for five minutes, and that's just on TV!
And what does all that wokeness get us? Last time I checked, it's getting us a couple of new pipelines being forced through unceded Indigenous territory in BC.
Sure hope that wasn't one of your strategies, Tiffany.
Toronto activists vandalize SpongeBob SquarePants statue
They actually missed that one, but they got a couple. A chap named Macdonald and another one, Ryerson. Apparently they were the brains behind the residential school system, the experiment in cultural genocide that tried for a hundred years but ultimately failed to eradicate Native culture in Canada.
The "event," such as it was, was called by Black Lives Matter - Toronto, with advance notice to all the local media for maximum photo-ops. Have you noticed that when BLM-Toronto organizes anything, hardly any black folks show up?
That's because the working class black folks in Toronto are too busy working two or three minimum wage jobs to have time for protests, while the middle class blacks are in no rush to be associated with the twenty-something white yahoos who will inevitably show up and start trouble.
I would think that issues around residential schools would be more a Native concern than one for Black Lives Matter, but these people seem to see themselves as natural leaders of the BIPOC coalition. My hunch is that BLM is so flush with corporate money now they have the resources to co-opt the more authentic social justice movements.
There could be a personal angle as well, at least in Ryerson's case. Seems one of the numerous co-founders of BLM-Toronto has a degree in "Performative Dance" from Ryerson. I would imagine he's got ample time for organizing protests, and perhaps harbours some resentment over the fact that Ryerson's guidance counsellors forgot to mention that career prospects in performative dance are not that bright.
Who says parenting is not one endless vale of heartbreak and tears... "So tell me son, have you made a decision about your future?"
"Ya Dad, I'm going to Ryerson for Performative Dance..."
That's gotta hurt!
The "event," such as it was, was called by Black Lives Matter - Toronto, with advance notice to all the local media for maximum photo-ops. Have you noticed that when BLM-Toronto organizes anything, hardly any black folks show up?
That's because the working class black folks in Toronto are too busy working two or three minimum wage jobs to have time for protests, while the middle class blacks are in no rush to be associated with the twenty-something white yahoos who will inevitably show up and start trouble.
I would think that issues around residential schools would be more a Native concern than one for Black Lives Matter, but these people seem to see themselves as natural leaders of the BIPOC coalition. My hunch is that BLM is so flush with corporate money now they have the resources to co-opt the more authentic social justice movements.
There could be a personal angle as well, at least in Ryerson's case. Seems one of the numerous co-founders of BLM-Toronto has a degree in "Performative Dance" from Ryerson. I would imagine he's got ample time for organizing protests, and perhaps harbours some resentment over the fact that Ryerson's guidance counsellors forgot to mention that career prospects in performative dance are not that bright.
Who says parenting is not one endless vale of heartbreak and tears... "So tell me son, have you made a decision about your future?"
"Ya Dad, I'm going to Ryerson for Performative Dance..."
That's gotta hurt!
Friday, July 17, 2020
Quatsch mit Sosse
When I was a wee lad, if my dear mother suspected that I was being less than forthright about something or other, she would accuse me of peddling "Quatsch." If she found my dissembling especially egregious, she upped the ante to "Quatsch mit Sosse," which, roughly translated, means bullshit with gravy.
I was reminded of this by the CBC's most recent bullshit story about the travails of artist, activist, and intrepid Putin foe, Pete from Mississauga. Pete's been on the fringes of fame for about ten years now as a hanger-on of the so-called Pussy Riot activist collective. These would-be revolutionaries, generously funded from the Nations of Virtue, spend their time and their sponsors' money dreaming up anti-Putin publicity stunts, like performing sex acts in public... because that will bring down The Borg, won't it!?
When CBC visited Pete's funky apartment in a "fashionable Moscow neighbourhood," they must have thought he pays the rent with the residuals rolling in from the Pussy Riot back catalogue. The irony of covering "activists" in Russia whose entire claim to fame is speaking out about the inability of Russians to speak out, is entirely lost on the Western media who breathlessly promote this nonsense.
Quatsch mit Sosse indeed!
I was reminded of this by the CBC's most recent bullshit story about the travails of artist, activist, and intrepid Putin foe, Pete from Mississauga. Pete's been on the fringes of fame for about ten years now as a hanger-on of the so-called Pussy Riot activist collective. These would-be revolutionaries, generously funded from the Nations of Virtue, spend their time and their sponsors' money dreaming up anti-Putin publicity stunts, like performing sex acts in public... because that will bring down The Borg, won't it!?
When CBC visited Pete's funky apartment in a "fashionable Moscow neighbourhood," they must have thought he pays the rent with the residuals rolling in from the Pussy Riot back catalogue. The irony of covering "activists" in Russia whose entire claim to fame is speaking out about the inability of Russians to speak out, is entirely lost on the Western media who breathlessly promote this nonsense.
Quatsch mit Sosse indeed!
Thursday, July 16, 2020
Gotta love them 'mericans
Yup, the world is going to line up and condemn the Chinese Communist Party.
Behind the banner of The Exceptional Nation.
Onward Christian Soldiers!
Behind the banner of The Exceptional Nation.
Onward Christian Soldiers!
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Canadians need to ask themselves who we think we're standing with when we "stand with our allies."
It's a common cliche when you read what's written about Canada's foreign policy. At the end of the day, we must always stand for human rights and freedom and democracy, and "stand with our allies."
That's what our "allies" stand for?
"Standing with our allies" simply means saying yes to Uncle Sam. If you think that America's role in the world over the past 75 years has been on the side of human rights and freedom and democracy, you should probably do a little more reading.
Case in point; the China threat. Western media have been pushing the China threat for quite some time. Canadian media are no exception. The anti-China op-eds in our national newspaper of record come fast and furious. Chinese commies oh so vile, blah blah blah...
We will stand up against Chinese bullying. We will stand with our allies for human rights and democracy, yes we will! We are so committed to virtue that today dozens of Canadian politicians called for sanctions against China.
Oddly enough, this twitch of conscience comes at the very moment that our Ally in Chief, one Donald Trump, signs an Executive Order promising fire and brimstone if the commies don't mend their human-rights-hating ways.
We're not standing up to China.
We're sucking up to Trump.
That's what our "allies" stand for?
"Standing with our allies" simply means saying yes to Uncle Sam. If you think that America's role in the world over the past 75 years has been on the side of human rights and freedom and democracy, you should probably do a little more reading.
Case in point; the China threat. Western media have been pushing the China threat for quite some time. Canadian media are no exception. The anti-China op-eds in our national newspaper of record come fast and furious. Chinese commies oh so vile, blah blah blah...
We will stand up against Chinese bullying. We will stand with our allies for human rights and democracy, yes we will! We are so committed to virtue that today dozens of Canadian politicians called for sanctions against China.
Oddly enough, this twitch of conscience comes at the very moment that our Ally in Chief, one Donald Trump, signs an Executive Order promising fire and brimstone if the commies don't mend their human-rights-hating ways.
We're not standing up to China.
We're sucking up to Trump.
Pot-addled hillbilly spots cruise-ship dangers years before pandemic
Why anyone in their right mind would want to go on a cruise, even in the best of times, is something I don't get. Nevertheless lots of folks do it. I hear bookings are up for the winter season, even after the Diamond Princess fiasco and numerous others.
That particular disaster even led to some scientific research.
I guess if you're taking a cruise to further science, that's a good thing....
Otherwise, you deserve what you get.
Carnival of Fecal Matter
There's a few thousand folks out on a Caribbean cruise having second thoughts tonight.
But it's too late.
They're on the cruise from hell.
The Carnival Triumph set sail from Texas a few days ago. Then the onboard generators quit. No lights, no running water, no air-conditioning, and the toilets don't flush.
There's urine and fecal matter all over the floors and running down the walls. That's piss and shit in layman's terms.
From time to time well-meaning friends and relations give me the pep-talk about what a great thing it is to go on a cruise.
At the best of times this strikes me as being trapped in a really big Super 8 for a week with three thousand strangers, except the rooms are way smaller and you can't hop in your car and get away from those three thousand strangers.
People talk about cruises being a "good deal," but I swear if I ever won a cruise I'd pay someone to take it off my hands.
And that's before the generators quit and the shit starts running down the walls.
No thanks!
That particular disaster even led to some scientific research.
I guess if you're taking a cruise to further science, that's a good thing....
Otherwise, you deserve what you get.
Carnival of Fecal Matter
There's a few thousand folks out on a Caribbean cruise having second thoughts tonight.
But it's too late.
They're on the cruise from hell.
The Carnival Triumph set sail from Texas a few days ago. Then the onboard generators quit. No lights, no running water, no air-conditioning, and the toilets don't flush.
There's urine and fecal matter all over the floors and running down the walls. That's piss and shit in layman's terms.
From time to time well-meaning friends and relations give me the pep-talk about what a great thing it is to go on a cruise.
At the best of times this strikes me as being trapped in a really big Super 8 for a week with three thousand strangers, except the rooms are way smaller and you can't hop in your car and get away from those three thousand strangers.
People talk about cruises being a "good deal," but I swear if I ever won a cruise I'd pay someone to take it off my hands.
And that's before the generators quit and the shit starts running down the walls.
No thanks!
Covid headlines completely divorced from data
Daily COVID-19 deaths in USA peaked between the first week in April and the first week in May. Since then, the daily "case" count has gone up approximately 250%, from the mid 20k range to over 60,000 per day. This makes for very scary headlines.
Meanwhile, the daily death count has plunged by almost two thirds, from well over 2k to under a thousand. (Data sourced here.) This fact has yet to appear in any headlines.
Obviously, the apocalyptic headlines we're seeing across the spectrum of news providers are driven by something other than facts.
Politics, perhaps?
Meanwhile, the daily death count has plunged by almost two thirds, from well over 2k to under a thousand. (Data sourced here.) This fact has yet to appear in any headlines.
Obviously, the apocalyptic headlines we're seeing across the spectrum of news providers are driven by something other than facts.
Politics, perhaps?
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Reporting the news or promoting hysteria?
Our news business professionals have been doing a slip-shod job of reporting on this plague. It seems to me that they are far more interested in promoting hysteria.
For example, consider the obsession with case numbers. Due the vagaries of the testing protocols, "case numbers" as an indicator of the severity of the pandemic are virtually meaningless, but it's an impressive-looking number.
What matters is how many people are dying. The media have been whipping everyone into a frenzy about the skyrocketing case numbers in parts of the US recently. Have the death numbers been skyrocketing?
Check it out for yourself, but, with some localized exceptions, not from what I can see. That would suggest that the virus is rapidly losing its potency, and therefore there is less cause for alarm, rather than more.
But you'd never know it from watching the news.
For example, consider the obsession with case numbers. Due the vagaries of the testing protocols, "case numbers" as an indicator of the severity of the pandemic are virtually meaningless, but it's an impressive-looking number.
What matters is how many people are dying. The media have been whipping everyone into a frenzy about the skyrocketing case numbers in parts of the US recently. Have the death numbers been skyrocketing?
Check it out for yourself, but, with some localized exceptions, not from what I can see. That would suggest that the virus is rapidly losing its potency, and therefore there is less cause for alarm, rather than more.
But you'd never know it from watching the news.
Friday, July 10, 2020
Give the people a taste of anarchy, and they'll embrace fascism soon enough
In fact, they'll vote fascist of their own free will.
There's a lot of punditry out there claiming that the recent social unrest is evidence that the status quo is in collapse. I'm not so sure.
I think what we're seeing is the folks behind the curtain giving us that taste of anarchy.
It's amazing, speaking of punditry, how much idiocy is out there proclaiming that BLM is some sort of communist conspiracy. If that's the case, there has never been a communist conspiracy in history so thoroughly co-opted by Big Money.
Seriously, when Citibank and Mercedes-Benz and most of the Fortune 500 are backing a communist revolution, you know somebody's blowing smoke up your ass.
There's a lot of punditry out there claiming that the recent social unrest is evidence that the status quo is in collapse. I'm not so sure.
I think what we're seeing is the folks behind the curtain giving us that taste of anarchy.
It's amazing, speaking of punditry, how much idiocy is out there proclaiming that BLM is some sort of communist conspiracy. If that's the case, there has never been a communist conspiracy in history so thoroughly co-opted by Big Money.
Seriously, when Citibank and Mercedes-Benz and most of the Fortune 500 are backing a communist revolution, you know somebody's blowing smoke up your ass.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Why all the fuss over Trump's tax filings?
Would-be billionaires hire the very best accountants and tax lawyers in the world to hide their financial chicanery. It's an open secret. Remember the "Panama Papers?" Huge story in the mainstream media for about a day or two.
Then it was gone like a fart in a windstorm.
I have a theory about that. Maybe the billionaires who own the world's media weren't too keen on that particular story.
Nothing to see here...
Let's move on to a pandemic or some well-timed social unrest, shall we!
But back to Donny J, or "President Trump," if you insist.
Is there any reasonable person on earth who would assume that there would be a single truthful line in Trump's tax filings?
And this is not a diss on Donald. Would any reasonable person assume that ANY billionaire is filing truthful and transparent paperwork?
I remember when the media reported Mitt's tax picture in the election before last. There was about a two day scandal that Mitten's tax rate on his declared income was less than the rate his housekeepers were paying.
The obvious canard was the word "declared."
At the same time as Romney was generously offering the public a peak into his "declared" income, nobody across the media asked a single question about his undeclared income, at a time when he'd already admitted to having off-shore bank accounts in tax havens.
So I'm of the opinion that the Trump tax returns story will be bullshit from top to bottom and end to end.
But it could well serve as a welcome distraction in these anxious times.
Then it was gone like a fart in a windstorm.
I have a theory about that. Maybe the billionaires who own the world's media weren't too keen on that particular story.
Nothing to see here...
Let's move on to a pandemic or some well-timed social unrest, shall we!
But back to Donny J, or "President Trump," if you insist.
Is there any reasonable person on earth who would assume that there would be a single truthful line in Trump's tax filings?
And this is not a diss on Donald. Would any reasonable person assume that ANY billionaire is filing truthful and transparent paperwork?
I remember when the media reported Mitt's tax picture in the election before last. There was about a two day scandal that Mitten's tax rate on his declared income was less than the rate his housekeepers were paying.
The obvious canard was the word "declared."
At the same time as Romney was generously offering the public a peak into his "declared" income, nobody across the media asked a single question about his undeclared income, at a time when he'd already admitted to having off-shore bank accounts in tax havens.
So I'm of the opinion that the Trump tax returns story will be bullshit from top to bottom and end to end.
But it could well serve as a welcome distraction in these anxious times.
Fattening the curve
When the pestilence descended several months ago, I was in pretty much the best physical shape I've been in the last forty years, with the exception of my eyeball adventures. I was lean and limber. In a side view I was basically a stick figure, except for a gentle curve extending from my upper torso to my midriff, where a modest beer belly resided.
That was then.
Since then, that gentle curve has morphed into something completely different. The word "bulbous" comes to mind.
Yup, the pestilence has made me fat.
I blame the Farm Manager. She loves to cook. I love to eat. In normal times this balanced out fairly well. But in this time of pestilence, with us being home all the time, she has been cooking twice as often as she ever used to, and therefore I've been eating twice as much.
In spite of all the morning walks and the hikes on the Bruce Trail and the bicycle rides, I'm starting to look a lot like Michael Moore.
One of these days I'm going to tackle this problem head-on.
But first, I need to check out that killer pasta dish that just came out of the Instant Pot.
That was then.
Since then, that gentle curve has morphed into something completely different. The word "bulbous" comes to mind.
Yup, the pestilence has made me fat.
I blame the Farm Manager. She loves to cook. I love to eat. In normal times this balanced out fairly well. But in this time of pestilence, with us being home all the time, she has been cooking twice as often as she ever used to, and therefore I've been eating twice as much.
In spite of all the morning walks and the hikes on the Bruce Trail and the bicycle rides, I'm starting to look a lot like Michael Moore.
One of these days I'm going to tackle this problem head-on.
But first, I need to check out that killer pasta dish that just came out of the Instant Pot.
A subtle shift in tone
Here's the lead story on the CBC News home page this morning; Eliminating COVID-19 cases in Canada will exact too heavy a toll on society, health experts say.
Not only that, but right next to it is the unthinkable revelation that there are some health experts who agree with Trump on the issue of sending kids back to school.
Until today the only experts given credence at CBC News were those all-in for the lockdown, and it goes without saying that any experts worth their diplomas would never agree with the narcissistic, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, vile, despicable, moron Trump about anything, because, as we've been told unceasingly for four solid years, he's a liar and an imbecile.
So what has changed? From the very beginning of Coronageddon, there have been experts aplenty willing to challenge the prevailing narrative. Like these people, for example. Here are a few more.
But until today, the narrative managers have chosen to ignore the dissenting voices, instead bombarding the public with a non-stop barrage of fear-mongering. The fact that dissident opinion is now being heard indicates that we are on the cusp of a shift in the prevailing narrative...
After inflicting over 300 billions in new debt on the Canadian taxpayer, our rulers are broaching the possibility that maybe it was just a bad flu after all.
Not only that, but right next to it is the unthinkable revelation that there are some health experts who agree with Trump on the issue of sending kids back to school.
Until today the only experts given credence at CBC News were those all-in for the lockdown, and it goes without saying that any experts worth their diplomas would never agree with the narcissistic, xenophobic, racist, homophobic, vile, despicable, moron Trump about anything, because, as we've been told unceasingly for four solid years, he's a liar and an imbecile.
So what has changed? From the very beginning of Coronageddon, there have been experts aplenty willing to challenge the prevailing narrative. Like these people, for example. Here are a few more.
But until today, the narrative managers have chosen to ignore the dissenting voices, instead bombarding the public with a non-stop barrage of fear-mongering. The fact that dissident opinion is now being heard indicates that we are on the cusp of a shift in the prevailing narrative...
After inflicting over 300 billions in new debt on the Canadian taxpayer, our rulers are broaching the possibility that maybe it was just a bad flu after all.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Fat old white guy at the beach
This is yours truly drinking in the beach breezes this afternoon.
While we're at the beach we noticed some foreigners enjoying the beach breezes not a hundred yards away.
Where do you think they're really from, I enquired of the Farm Manager.
Hmmm... Mississauga?
That was her guess. I figure Brampton.
While we're at the beach we noticed some foreigners enjoying the beach breezes not a hundred yards away.
Where do you think they're really from, I enquired of the Farm Manager.
Hmmm... Mississauga?
That was her guess. I figure Brampton.
How to make America great in ten easy and sensible steps
Listen up, fat-ass greed-bags. Ima give y'all a chance to fix things up before the pitchfork wielding mobs show up in your gated communities. As you well know, when it comes to that, and unless you change your ways it's inevitable, those mobs will be wielding way more than pitchforks.
1. Drop that "global cop" shit you been doing since the WW2. Forget about it. It's made the USA the most hated and the most feared nation on the planet.
2. Close ALL foreign bases. Bring the troops home from Germany, Japan, South Korea. Defense means defending your country from foreign aggression, and if you'd mind your business there wouldn't be any. How did it become America's responsibility to police the planet?
3. Stop screwing with other people's shit. Let the Cubans decide how to run Cuba. Ditto Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran, etc etc...
4. Cut your "defense" budget by 90%. That should leave a hundred billion or so for actual defense, which would be more than enough. Who the hell would want to invade this mess anyway?
5. Use the savings to invest in the American people. You know, shit like education, health care, and housing. Look around you. What you've been doing IS NOT WORKING!!!
6. Get serious about income inequality. When the top marginal tax rate was 90% back in the fifties, the rich still got richer, but the poor had a chance.
7. Make corporate tax dodges a capital offence. "American" companies have trillions of untaxed dollars sloshing around in offshore tax havens. By doing so they are screwing the working people who are left to pay the bills. Enough already! Pass a law, and then string up the first three CEOs who thumb their noses at it. The rest will fall in line right smartly.
8. Bring in a 150% tax on unproductive economic activity like share buy-backs. There was a time when share buy-backs were illegal in America. Who has benefited and who has lost out since they were allowed? The corner-office greedbags have won huge, and everyone else is poorer for it.
9. End for-profit health care now. America leads the world in per-capita health care costs and isn't even close to being on the lead lap in results. It's an outrage!
10. Disarm the cops. Leave the guns at HQ for the SWAT squad to use in emergencies. Make a BSW degree the minimum requirement for any police job. When half the population perceive the police to be their enemy, you should know the status quo ain't working.
There you go, fat-ass greed-bags who have been running America into the ground. America could be great for more than the one percenters and their groupies. The status quo is not working. You can listen now, or you can wait for the armed mobs to come through your gates.
It's up to you.
1. Drop that "global cop" shit you been doing since the WW2. Forget about it. It's made the USA the most hated and the most feared nation on the planet.
2. Close ALL foreign bases. Bring the troops home from Germany, Japan, South Korea. Defense means defending your country from foreign aggression, and if you'd mind your business there wouldn't be any. How did it become America's responsibility to police the planet?
3. Stop screwing with other people's shit. Let the Cubans decide how to run Cuba. Ditto Nicaragua, Venezuela, Iran, etc etc...
4. Cut your "defense" budget by 90%. That should leave a hundred billion or so for actual defense, which would be more than enough. Who the hell would want to invade this mess anyway?
5. Use the savings to invest in the American people. You know, shit like education, health care, and housing. Look around you. What you've been doing IS NOT WORKING!!!
6. Get serious about income inequality. When the top marginal tax rate was 90% back in the fifties, the rich still got richer, but the poor had a chance.
7. Make corporate tax dodges a capital offence. "American" companies have trillions of untaxed dollars sloshing around in offshore tax havens. By doing so they are screwing the working people who are left to pay the bills. Enough already! Pass a law, and then string up the first three CEOs who thumb their noses at it. The rest will fall in line right smartly.
8. Bring in a 150% tax on unproductive economic activity like share buy-backs. There was a time when share buy-backs were illegal in America. Who has benefited and who has lost out since they were allowed? The corner-office greedbags have won huge, and everyone else is poorer for it.
9. End for-profit health care now. America leads the world in per-capita health care costs and isn't even close to being on the lead lap in results. It's an outrage!
10. Disarm the cops. Leave the guns at HQ for the SWAT squad to use in emergencies. Make a BSW degree the minimum requirement for any police job. When half the population perceive the police to be their enemy, you should know the status quo ain't working.
There you go, fat-ass greed-bags who have been running America into the ground. America could be great for more than the one percenters and their groupies. The status quo is not working. You can listen now, or you can wait for the armed mobs to come through your gates.
It's up to you.
Pot-addled hillbilly beats Ruskies to the truth about "Mississauga Pete" by eight long years
And I thought those f@ckers read my blog...
Check this out. Looks like the Ruskies finally cottoned onto Pyotr Versilov, aka Pete from Mississauga, eight long years after this blog spilled the beans.
But what is truly amazing is that Pete has managed to stretch his fifteen minutes of fame this long. A shiftless wanker from Mississauga has been coasting on his stipends from the National Endowment for Democracy way longer than I ever would have thought possible!
That does it... I'm heading to Russia to become a anti-Putin activist. I hear the money is good and the living is easy...
Check this out. Looks like the Ruskies finally cottoned onto Pyotr Versilov, aka Pete from Mississauga, eight long years after this blog spilled the beans.
But what is truly amazing is that Pete has managed to stretch his fifteen minutes of fame this long. A shiftless wanker from Mississauga has been coasting on his stipends from the National Endowment for Democracy way longer than I ever would have thought possible!
That does it... I'm heading to Russia to become a anti-Putin activist. I hear the money is good and the living is easy...
Monday, July 6, 2020
Who elected President Fink?
If you haven't been paying attention, you might not be aware that management of the US economy has been outsourced to Larry Fink.
Yup, Larry's people now run both the fed and the US Treasury Department!
Larry's mission is to buy up all the bullshit paper that banks, funds, pension plans, and his fellow hedgies are stuck with, at face value, ie 100 pennies on the dollar. In the real world, much of that paper would be worth no pennies at all on the dollar.
Larry's buying spree is financed by the unlimited printing of fake money. Well, it's fake now, but it won't feel that fake when the working people of America are busy paying it back over the next several generations.
This is a fabulous strategy for the billionaires and the wannabees.
It's not so great for the rest of America.
Yup, Larry's people now run both the fed and the US Treasury Department!
Larry's mission is to buy up all the bullshit paper that banks, funds, pension plans, and his fellow hedgies are stuck with, at face value, ie 100 pennies on the dollar. In the real world, much of that paper would be worth no pennies at all on the dollar.
Larry's buying spree is financed by the unlimited printing of fake money. Well, it's fake now, but it won't feel that fake when the working people of America are busy paying it back over the next several generations.
This is a fabulous strategy for the billionaires and the wannabees.
It's not so great for the rest of America.
Bring back Nork's Pork
Looks like this is shaping up to be the second summer in a row where Nork's hot-dog stand is absent from Big Bay.
Bummer...
Nork had the most extravagantly expensive sausage-on-a-bun I've ever seen; ten bucks! Are you kidding me?!
She also had an advantage. When you took the scenic route from Owen Sound to Wiarton along Grey Road 1, as thousands of tourists do every summer, Nork's Pork had the only solid food available on that forty kilometre stretch, and it was strategically located right beside the ice cream joint in Big Bay.
And while ten bucks for a glorified hot-dog seems kinda steep, I have to admit you got good value for your money. All top-shelf local ingredients, from the sausages to the condiments. And huge! Me and the Farm Manager could split one and we'd both waddle away satisfied.
Dinner for two for ten bucks is actually not a bad deal.
So where is Nork's Pork?
Bummer...
Nork had the most extravagantly expensive sausage-on-a-bun I've ever seen; ten bucks! Are you kidding me?!
She also had an advantage. When you took the scenic route from Owen Sound to Wiarton along Grey Road 1, as thousands of tourists do every summer, Nork's Pork had the only solid food available on that forty kilometre stretch, and it was strategically located right beside the ice cream joint in Big Bay.
And while ten bucks for a glorified hot-dog seems kinda steep, I have to admit you got good value for your money. All top-shelf local ingredients, from the sausages to the condiments. And huge! Me and the Farm Manager could split one and we'd both waddle away satisfied.
Dinner for two for ten bucks is actually not a bad deal.
So where is Nork's Pork?
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Putin uses Covid to thwart Canadian military mission
Although Canada recently got a slap in the yap when that UNSC vote went down, we've still got a robust presence on the world stage!
You bet! We're still out there doing our part to deter Putin's aggression.
Or at least we were.
Until Putin threw a Covid hex on a plane-load of Canadian military trainers on their way to teach our NATO allies over there in Latvia (how many Canadians can find that on a map?) the ins and outs of resisting Putin's aggression.
From the perspective of the Putin-fearing Latvians, this would have to totally rubbish Canada's reputation as an "ally."
What, the Canadians are all aboard for human rights and democracy, but if there happens to be a virus going round, they'll call in sick?
What kind of ally is that?
Putin must be laughing his ass off.
You bet! We're still out there doing our part to deter Putin's aggression.
Or at least we were.
Until Putin threw a Covid hex on a plane-load of Canadian military trainers on their way to teach our NATO allies over there in Latvia (how many Canadians can find that on a map?) the ins and outs of resisting Putin's aggression.
From the perspective of the Putin-fearing Latvians, this would have to totally rubbish Canada's reputation as an "ally."
What, the Canadians are all aboard for human rights and democracy, but if there happens to be a virus going round, they'll call in sick?
What kind of ally is that?
Putin must be laughing his ass off.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Justin (almost) pulls a fast one
That gosh-darned PM Fluffy got some chutzpah, he do!
According to him, no-one in his entire government could think of a single entity in all of Canada qualified to deliver almost a billion dollars in student volunteer grants other than Justin's pals, the Kielburger boys, and their Free-the-Children/Me to We/WE "charity" empire.
Needless to say, plenty of Canadians outside of Trudeau's government didn't have any problem coming up with alternatives. By Thursday, the CBC and others were starting to take a closer look at not just this no-bid contract, but at goings on at the WE empire in general. Apparently that prospect was enough for the Kielburgers to quickly pull the plug on the project, and by this morning Trudeau announced they'd come up with some fresh ideas and the WE boys wouldn't be involved after all.
In spite of Trudeau's quick climb-down, he has inadvertently provided another insight into the tawdry standards of transparency, integrity, and accountability that prevail in Ottawa.
According to him, no-one in his entire government could think of a single entity in all of Canada qualified to deliver almost a billion dollars in student volunteer grants other than Justin's pals, the Kielburger boys, and their Free-the-Children/Me to We/WE "charity" empire.
Needless to say, plenty of Canadians outside of Trudeau's government didn't have any problem coming up with alternatives. By Thursday, the CBC and others were starting to take a closer look at not just this no-bid contract, but at goings on at the WE empire in general. Apparently that prospect was enough for the Kielburgers to quickly pull the plug on the project, and by this morning Trudeau announced they'd come up with some fresh ideas and the WE boys wouldn't be involved after all.
In spite of Trudeau's quick climb-down, he has inadvertently provided another insight into the tawdry standards of transparency, integrity, and accountability that prevail in Ottawa.
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