Blast from the past... remember the exploding train in Lac Magentic?

The archives at Falling Downs, the precursor of this humble Substack, are chock-full of prescient commentary on the goings on in this messed up world. Looks like Bill Ackman has invested part of his 2 billion $ haul from the rape of CP Rail into taking a position in iconic Canadian asset manager Brookfield. Friday, October 3, 2014 Uber-douchebag Hunter "Hitman" Harrison blasts gov't for overreacting post Lac Megantic You remember Lac Megantic?That was the sleepy Quebec small-town that was literally blown off the map last year when one of Fast Eddie Burkhardt's single-crew oil trains exploded in the downtown.Hardly a year has passed, and CP Rail Boss Hunter Harrison is busy whinging about government over-regulation. Harrison just doesn't get why the busy-body government regulators need to fiddle with the free market, and impose draconian communistic rules about everything from speed limits for trains carrying dangerous goods, to mandating that a mile-long train loaded with dangerous goods should have more than a one-man crew!Well Hunter, let me 'splain it to ya; the reason the government needs to regulate greedy twats like you and your acolyte Burkhardt, is because your logic, your procedures, your unregulated over-weening greed, killed 47 people in Lac Megantic......yet nobody is facing murder charges!The reason Hunter is lobbying for less regulation is obvious. The entire Ackman/Harrison strategy for boosting CP Rail's obscene profits going forward hinges on making trains longer and running them faster with smaller crews!Fuck safety!Fuck sleepy small towns everywhere!Profit uber alles!

Carney and Freeland can't wait to stab PM Fluffy in the back

Most Canadian voters don’t care if the pretenders stab Fluffy in the back - as long as somebody stabs him, soon. Canada is beyond sick of PM Fluffy and his non-stop virtue signaling. Canadians are facing an unpleasant dilemma. We are reminded daily that we are falling down when it comes to standing with our allies. Our NATO spending needs a hundred billion dollar boost, minimum. And that’s before the incoming Major Domo of the free world, the billionaire condo salesman from Manhattan, ups the protection juice from 2% to 5% of GDP. Meanwhile, I hear the Farm Manager complain constantly how in her day job, programs for “disabled” kids are being cut back relentlessly. They’re not disabled, of course; they just have differing abilities, which unfortunately take a pile of public money to mitigate, even partially. And there’s our dilemma; we can invest in warships and F-35s and submarines, or we can invest in our people, but we can’t do both. Do either of the pretenders have a plan to resolve this dilemma? Let’s take a look at their resumes. Mark Carney is the pride of Fort Smith, NWT. Google Fort Smith, and Carney is the only name on their “famous” list. Fort Smith is a hard-scrabble kinda place, so you might expect him to have some empathy for the little people. Unfortunately, he went rogue. Unlike every other youngster in Fort Smith, he ended up climbing through a variety of elite schools and landing at Goldman Sachs, a trajectory all too common amongst elite politicians in the Free World. Then he blew past every previous GS alumni and became, serially, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, and then the Governor of the Bank of England! So now he’s pitching to be our next PM? I’ll just take a wild guess, but my hunch is he will prioritize F-35s over autistic kids. Which leaves us with Chrystia, or “Agent Frida,” as the Rooskies supposedly labelled her when she was fighting for freedom and democracy for the former Soviet satellite states, especially Ukraine. I have Chrystia’s 2012 bestseller “Plutocrats” on my bookshelf. Here’s my favorite quote: Many members of the global super-elite have helped me to understand their world and some have become friends. They include George Soros, Eric Schmidt, Victor Pinchuk, David and Mary Boies, Nikesh Arora, Jeff Immelt… And at least another half-dozen names of the uber-rich. I know I have my prejudices, and one of them is “when you’re in bed with the Plutocrats, you’re gonna put F-35s over autistic children… or the unhoused, or the seniors with inadequate pensions, or the people without a family doctor, or the university grads with crippling student loans, or the this and that out the ying-yang.” The good news is either of these pretenders could replace Trudeau. The better news is that Fluffy has poisoned the well of Canada’s democracy to such an extent that neither of them have a hope of winning the next election. The bad news is, that leaves us Poilievre or Singh. Looks like we’re screwed no matter what. To hell with autistic kids… bring on the F-35s!