Alcohol and testosterone and a 500 horsepower car... what could go wrong?

Out of the blue I got a call from my old pal Barney (not his real name) last night. Gotta say this took me by surprise, as I think I've only talked to the fucker once in the last forty years, which was on the occassion of his 50th birthday. But way back when we were troubled youths, as all youths inevitably are, we were pretty tight. Barney shared my appreciation for a dram of the good stuff now and then, and he was also an early afficianado of the weed 'o wisdom. Unlike me, however, he had true leadership skills, and was forever leading not only me, but the rest of the crew, into one regrettable shit-show after another. I'm not talking about serious crime here. I'm talking about juvenile hooliganism that only gets massively amplified after you've had a few drams. And it takes its toll on the pocketbook. If defending yourself in a Barney-instigated bar-room brawl got you an assault charge, your lawyer fees fucked your beer and weed budget for months! But I have to tip my cap to Barney in the 500 hp department. Anybody who knows anything about the muscle car era remembers the 375 hp Nova SS 396. That was the solid lifter version rumoured to make 500 hp in factory trim. That was a big deal at the time. Barney owned two of them! One was a burgrundy automatic that his wife drove to work every day. That was probably a low-twelve second quarter-miler back in the day. The other was a pure-black four-speed (with a Mr. Gasket back-and-forth shifter) and 4:56 gears in the differential. Given the right tires, that unit could easily dip into the mid elevens in the quarter mile. Today every Tesla on the road can beat them in a drag race. Alas, adolescence doesn't last forever, and we managed to skip the dying young option on life's journey. And here we are, at an age it never occurred to us that we'd ever get to! That's gotta be worth a celebratory dram or two!

Oopsie! My bad! Turns out Epstein was working for Russia, not Israel!

Ya, I obviously got it wrong. Seems all that stuff I read over the years, claiming Jeffrey was Mossad, was Russian disinfo all along! I should have known! Silly me! My face is... not just red, but bright cherry red, or maybe even fire-engine red!... or, God forbid, "red" like Red China! The New York Post spilled the truth today. In hindsight, it's so obvious. All those billionaires and famous people flocking to Jeffrey's island were closet commies hoping to support Putin's rebuild of the Soviet Empire! I noticed traffic to the previous post stopped a couple of hours after posting. Hopefully this confession will fix that.

Epstein; most brilliantly successful Israeli operative in Mossad history

Think about this; anybody who hears the name Epstein today immediately equates it with the sex-trafficking narrative. That's because 99% of mainstream news focuses exclusively on that story. The far more important story is deliberately squashed. The by-far more important story is that the guy who came outta nowhere to rub elbows and whatever else with the global elite for the last fifty years was a star spy for Israel the whole time. There was a Canadian journo based in NYC in the '90s who was writing about Epstein running a massive blackmail operation. Even the most valuable intelligence assets inevitably pass their best-before dates. Robert Maxwell fell off his yacht. Jeffrey Epstein killed himself. The archive of Davos-crowd porn in Epstein's possession obviously went somewhere. No wonder so many A-listers are acting weird, starting with Mafia Don himself.

RCMP busts white supremacist terror cell in Quebec

Last July Canadians were stunned to learn that an armed militia with links to Canadian Armed Forces had been discovered in Quebec. We were told the group of four dudes planned to capture some territory near Quebec City. Using that as their base, a mere 450 km from Ottawa, they then planned to overthrow the Canadian government and install themselves. For better or worse, a media ban was put on the story, perhaps to hide the true depravity of this devious plan, or perhaps to hide the fact that this is just the latest crock-o-shit in a line of terror hoaxes managed by CSIS, the RCMP, and their political masters. (Check out my various Korody-Nuttall "Tards 'o Terror" missives.) A number of media challenged the news blackout and this past week it was lifted. Well, these were a bad bunch of hombres, to be sure. Once CSIS tipped off the Mounties, surveilance teams tracked the scoundrels throughout Quebec and New Brunswick for over two years. During that time the terrorists would sometimes get together for camping trips that involved plenty of guns and booze. They could have followed them for a few more, but fate intervened. The terror mastermind, one Marcc Chabot, the veritable Bin Laden of this would-be terror cell, was apparently suffering from depression, and fearing he was becoming suicidal, his wife made a 911 call. Those calls always include the cops, and rather than risk their star perp offing himself and blowing their case, they decided to pounce. Turns out the land these terrorists were planning to seize was in the Zec Batiscan Neilsen, a "controlled harvest zone," also known as a hunting preserve. The almost 900 sqare km park is the go-to spot for moose and black bear hunting in the province. That's how sneaky these misfits were, knowing the sound of the sniper rifles they were training on would be hidden in the general cacaphony one might expect in such an environment. No terror team is complete without informants, and those employed in this case have come up with some truly damning evidence. For example, one of the suspects is on video making "a hand gesture associated with white supremacists." If that's not bad enough, here's what CBC news revealed today; "... the informant allegedly told police there were derogatory jokes and comments aimed toward Jewish people and that Chabot reportedly mentioned that he didn’t believe in equality between the sexes and used degrading language when talking about women." I'm guessing it was the Jew jokes that got Ottawa's attention. For what it's worth, here's the alleged motivation of the terror mastermind, as reported by the Globe & Mail. "...he expected an impending crisis would unravel the world, either because of economic troubles, an attack by a foreign power, or a zombie invasion." Sounds to me like a few yobs who enjoy the outdoors, hunting, drinking, and hanging with the like-minded. Not only that, it seems they were our first line of defence against zombie invasion! I'll be following the court case with interest.

Europe in decline? Nope! Stronger than ever, claims Dopey Doug at the Globe & Mail

Last year the GDP of the EU grew by 1.4%, but inflation was 2.4%. As long as inflation trumps GDP "growth," your economy isn't growing, it's shrinking. Three countries account for over half of EU economic activity. Germany, France, and Italy all reported GDP growth under 1% last year. In other words, the industrial core of the EU economy is shrinking even faster than the economy as a whole. Globe & Mail columnist Doug Saunders, clearly a glass-half-full kinda guy, calls this "a moment of economic rebirth." According to Doug, the EU is only now emerging from a soft spot caused by "the transition away from Russian energy, a shortage of public investment, and Trump's tarrifs." That transition away from Russian pipeline gas to American LNG means energy intensive manufacturing is no longer competitive. EU's collective 200 billion+ euro commitment to Ukraine no doubt had an impact on public investment at home.Based on the numbers above, it's hard to see European heavy industry "emerging" from anything, except maybe bankruptcy, if they're lucky. Doug sees more good news in the fact that the EU has refined its borrowing rules to permit its members to take on collective debt. He approvingly cites a pending loan of $146 billions to support Ukraine, as if that will strengthen the EU economy. Doug is also thrilled to see freedom of speech being championed in Europe even as it is under attack in America. I don't know about that. Condemning Israel's mass murder and ethnic cleansing is forbidden speech on both sides of the Atlantic. Beyond that, there's a guy on trial in Poland for calling the prime minister a "moron." German Chancellor Mertz has filed hundreds of criminal complaints over the course of his political career against commenters who offended his feelings. Far as I know, insulting politicians remains normal practice across the political spectrum in America. Doug is particularly distraught over Trump's deportation drive. "As U.S. cities have exploded in deadly violence, turning places like Nicollet Ave. in Minneapolis into “no-go” zones where armed officers menace and sometimes kill citizens, Europe has entered a time of profound peace. Last year saw many European countries report the lowest crime figures in at least a decade – and Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Poland and Britain all are now recording the lowest violent-crime and overall-crime rates in their recorded history." In the first place, it's silly to claim "armed officers menace and sometimes kill citizens" as something new in American society, introduced by Trump himself. That's just stupid. Armed officers menacing and sometimes killing citizens is as American as apple pie! Secondly, if Doug acquainted himself with the latest stats he'd add the USA to the list of countries with record declines in violent crime. That would defeat Dopey Doug's purpose, which is not to tell us anything about Europe, but to assure Globe readers that he really despises Donald Trump. Here's another awkward fact, Doug; there were more deportations under Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden than there have been under Trump.

Globe & Mail opinion writers express their Canadian patriotism by calling Trump names

In particular, their glee over Carney's alleged calling out of Trump at Davos doesn't appear to be based on what our PM actually said. A careful reading shows Carney was calling out the "rules-based international order," which he claims has been a fiction "for decades." In other words, long before Trump. Good on Carney for that. The prevailing view, not only in the pages of the Globe but at the CBC, is that the rules-based order was chugging along, happily bringing peace and prosperity, American style, to all who dare to sip from the cup of Freedom, Democracy, and American hegemony, until the wicked and evil and insane rapist and probable child molester Donald Trump got his tiny grubby hands around its throat. As Carney rightfully pointed out, that's been bullshit for decades. Canadian elites, American Empire Loyalists all, believe Trump is the problem, and that absent a Trump victory in '24, Canadians would still be basking in the eternal sunshine of perpetual rule of the Clintons' Democratic Party machine. Grow up! If that's not enough, quite a few patriotic pundits are taking oodles of umbrage at Trump's claim that some of the NATO allies did their best to avoid the heavy lifting in Afghanistan. Does he have a point? All 30 NATO members contributed troops to the International Security Assistance Force, yet only two members, USA and UK, sustained 90% of combat fatalities (Canada had 3rd highest total). On a per-capita basis, Estonia, Denmark, US and UK are the only members with more casualties than Canada's 4.7 per million. Compare that to 1.4 in France, .88 in Italy, .76 in Germany, and a miniscule .09 for Belgium, home of NATO's HQ! Trump is obviously right; many NATO partners have been content to let other's do the heavy lifting.

Carney spills the beans; "Rules-based International Order" has been bullshit all along

Mark Carney made quite an impression with his turn at the pulpit in Davos yesterday. He let the cat out of the bag; the much ballyhooed rules-based order has always been what Russian disinfo claimed, ie Uncle Sam made the rules and the rest followed orders. According to Mark, more powerful nations have always used their relative advantages to get their way over weaker ones. Yup, this has been banal truism numero uno since cavemen invented geopolitics. It's hardly a fresh new insight. The only reason it's remarkable is because it fell from the lips of PM Carney, the ultimate company man, faithful steward of the Capitalist Way and loyal servant to the Billionaire Class. There has never been a more committed champion of the status quo than Mr Carney. From Harvard to Goldman Sachs to Brookfield, he rolled in the biggest of big leagues. If a true believer like Carney is losing faith, what's next?

OH MY GAWD... HE'S GONNA GRAB GREENLAND!!!

Seems like just a few days ago the uppermost question on our minds was, is he gonna attack Iran? Before that, it was, is he going after Maduro? A few days later, nobody talks about Iran, nobody talks about Maduro, and, in case you didn't notice, nobody's talking about the Epstein files anymore either! Trump is the absolute master of burying the last scandal by creating a new one. Trump's latest musings have certainly provoked plenty of fear and loathing amongst the NATO satraps. Whereas mere days ago Micron, Stormer, and Schmertz were debating boots on the ground in Ukraine, they had decided against such a move unless America agreed to provide the military muscle. Now they're debating boots on the ground in Greenland to take on the US military? Really? That's absurd! Absurd or not, some of the bolder vassals have already got boots on the ground. Norway and Denmark have each sent an officer, while the Germans sent 15 special ops guys, who arrived on the weekend and left today, making it perhaps the briefest foreign occupation in Wehrmacht history. Meanwhile, our man Carney is thinking about sending Canadian soldiers to show solidarity with NATO. He's also thinking about Trump's invitation to join the Gaza Board of Peace alongside Trump, Tony Blair, and a gaggle of Trump cronies. Maybe if he stands with Trump in Gaza and against him in Greenland things will balance out!

CBC buries story of Supreme Court Emergency Powers decision

If you recall, on February 14 of '22 Justin Trudeau gifted us a Valentine; martial law, by declaring the Emergency Act. For the next 30 days Canada was officially a police state, all because of a bunch of truck-drivers who, according to Justin, entertained unacceptable ideas. Not only that, the ruckus their children created on the bouncy castles was a life-threatening inconvenience to the tens of thousands of civil servants who were working from their downtown Ottawa condos thanks to the covid shutdowns. Those are Justin's base, and he literally declared war on their behalf. Fast forward a couple years and a lower court finds the declaration of emergency powers was unwarranted and unconstitutional. Of course the government appealed that decision. Fast forward a couple more years and today the Supreme Court was due to render the final judgement on the matter. I was keen to see how that turned out, so this afternoon I checked out CBC News. Top story, in fact the first seven stories, were all related to Carney's China trip. Scroll down... scroll down... keep scrolling... Oh! Here we are, 18 stories in! Only after we are apprised of the latest tidbits about Mountie malfeacance, ICE protests, Kashechewan evacuation, Bo Bichette signing with the Mets for $126 million, and a rogue sea lion taking up residence in Howe Sound, does the CBC see fit to inform us that the Supremes sided with the lower court! Here's something else you might recall. The CBC's coverage of the "Freedom Convoy" was a travesty of journalism and an insult to Canadians. For two weeks their team in Ottawa chased alleged swastika sightings around downtown Ottawa while studiously avoiding any attempt to address the issues. Nobody worked harder to sell Emergency Powers, ie War Measures, than the CBC. I'm not surprised they want to bury their shame.

Red Donald wants to make America socialist again

Say it ain't so, Donnnie! You are a hero of US-style bare-knuckle winner-take-all capitalism, a scrappy street-fighter from Queens who turned a modest inheritance of 14,000 high-rise apartment units into a solid second-tier real estate developer. I've been reading some disturbing reports, Donald, and I believe you got some 'splainin' to do. Firstly, what's this nonsense about keeping hedge funds and venture capital out of single-family homes? "People live in houses, corporations don't," the wise-guy-in-chief recently claimed. Oh really? It is by now a well-established fact in American law that corporations are people too! Did you not get the memmo, Donald? Secondly,as is widely acknowledged across the media spectrum, a majority of Americans cannot make ends meet on their paycheques alone, and must rely on their credit cards to tide them over the tight spots. Yet you have recently proposed to hobble the credit card companies who provide this invaluable lifeline by freezing interest rates at 10%! That sounds more Marxist than Trumpist to me, Donald. Thirdly, who in their right mind outside Cuba or communist China would dream of capping CEO pay in the defense sector to a paltry $5 million per year? Holy heck, Donald, there's a Putin pal playing ice hockey a few blocks from the Pentagon who makes double that. Give your head a shake! Finally, and most distressing, is the executive order freezing share-buybacks and dividends among defense contractors. What? This decree strikes at the very heart of the American Way! This is so egregiously anti-American it might as well have been signed by Joseph Stalin himself! What do you think made America great in the first place? Pull yourself together, Donald. If you care about making America great again, you'd best change course, pronto. Otherwise, where's the next generation of American billionaires supposed to come from?

Trump shoots down protesters in USA; warns Iran not to harm protesters in Tehran!

That would be hilarious were it not for the utterly insane level of hubristic self-absortion on display. While Deadly Donnie's Storm Troopers terrorize American cities, he somehow finds time to threaten Iran. If harm befalls the protesters running riot in Tehran, Trump's goons are gonna go in guns blazing! Oddly enough, our courageous Carney, who strictly observes the omerta code when it comes to Israeli or American crimes against humanity, today joined Trump and Bibi in condemning the Iran government and supporting the violent protests we have long sought to foment. If that man had any balls he would have found them by now.

What up with America's outrage re: law enforcement murdering innocent people in the street?

Judging by how the MSM state-affiliated propagandists are hyperventilating over the death of Renee Good, you could be forgiven for thinking maybe this sort of thing is exceeding rare in America... NOT!!! Law enforcement routinely snuffs over a thousand lives every year, year in and year out, so what's the big deal? Murdering citizens in the streets is an American tradition! I grew up watching Hollywood westerns, and it seems if it wasn't the law killing the outlaw, it was the other way round. Either way, somebody gotta die! America loves war and shock and awe and America loves death. Never lose sight of the fact that Americans killed Americans in the hundreds of thousands in one of the deadliest civil wars in human history. Murder is baked into their DNA. We forget history when we imagine the present day to be particularly grim. Not at all. We're just in shock at how much the coin of "white privilege" has been debased.

December news: Ubisoft workers in Halifax unionize! January news: Ubisoft shuts down Halifax office!

Coincidence? Nah! That's just how the cookie crumbles here in the allegedly socialist utopia of Canada. It ain't no utopia for workers, certainly not if they're gonna get all uppity and unionize. In Canada, socialism is for the corporate sector, not the workers. Recall it was only a year prior that the first Amazon warehouse in Canada, in Laval Quebec, was unionized. Amazon, owned by an insatiable greedbag whose wealth runs into the hundreds of billions, responded by shutting down all seven "fullfilment centres" in the province, throwing 1,700 workers into unemployment. While we're mourning the shabby state of worker protections in Canada, let's not forget the first Walmart to unionize was immediately shut down by the mega-billionaire Walton clan. That was over ten years ago. What has government done since then to protect workers rights? Why, utterly nothing, of course! This is totally unsatisfactory. Employers who violate worker's rights to unionize need to be held to account.

Chrystia Freeland is Zelensky's pick for reconstruction tsar of rump Banderistan

You have to admit Freeland's heritage of Nazi collaboration makes her the perfect candidate for the job. I refer you to page 290 of Agent Frida's best-seller, "Plutocrats." "Many members of the global super-elite have helped me to understand their world and some have become friends." She proceeds to rhyme off 16 names, starting with George Soros and Google founder Eric Schmidt, who have become her "friends." Every name on the list is either a billionaire or billionaire-adjacent. No Ukrainian peasants wondering if their sons will return from the war are on the list. Freeland has made a big hoo-ha about this being a "volunteer" job. With friends like hers, I'm guessing she'll be well looked after. She has announced her withdrawal from Canadian politics to take this position. Good riddance!

Carney misses chance to cut puppet strings

I've noticed a pattern in the response of various countries to Trump's attack on Caracas and the kidnapping of the Venezuelan President. The more dependent a state is on America, the more effusive their praise for Trump's criminal actions. That's why Israel and Ukraine were so blindingly quick off the mark. Israel needs Trump to keep the genocide humming, to maintain the bomb supply and run interference at the UN. Ukraine hopes to convince Trump it is not yet a lost cause, so they see no viable options other than continuing to smother the Orange Ogre's ample arse with kisses. Countries not tied down by bonds of vassalage to American interests, for example the BRICS countries, are more apt to call out US violations of international laws and norms. Even some of our NATO allies are decrying Trump's attack. Spain's PM Sanchez said;"Spain did not recognize the Maduro regime, but neither will it recognize an intervention that violates international law and pushes the region into uncertainty and belligerence." In contrast, Canada "welcomes the opportunity for freedom, democracy, peace and prosperity for the Venezuelan people." Oddly enough, that's pretty much the same buffet of good stuff the American war machine promised Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Somalia, to name a few. For some reason it never seems to pan out. At the very least, Carney could have expressed some reservations, but he's super-keen on not pissing off Trump. Mark Carney doesn't want to be the next foreign leader to get a helicopter ride!

Trump gives up on Nobel Peace Prize

I daresay he's also given up on his goal to be remembered as the "Peace President." Would such a man bomb Nigeria on Christmas day? I don't think so. And then today's historic achievement, one that will forever cement Donny J's reputation as the greatest Commander-in-Chief of all time, the utterly brilliant take-down of world-leading narco-terrorist Maduro. Take note this amazing achievement is all the more amazing in that not a single piece of US equipment was lost! Yup, not a single shot was fired as those American attack helicopters filled the skies over Caracas! Hmmm... doesn't that seem kinda fishy? Do you think maybe the fix was in? Spreading around a few hundred millions to ambitious mid-level apparatchiks, who would just as soon live in Miami anyway, is chicken feed when you just snatched the biggest oil reserves in the world! And how fishy is it that a high-level Chinese delegation was holding meetings with Maduro just hours before the coup? They have a lot of investments in Venezuela. They were likely ironing out the details that would ensure their interests would be preserved. Trump has already expressed interest in joint ventures with Russia, why not joint ventures with China in Venezuela? I suspect we're looking at another exercise in Trumpian razzle-dazzle, like when he "obliterated" Iran's nuke program. Maduro is most likely in on the game. Look for him to walk on those charges on a technicality, and then live happily ever after in Miami!

Happy New Year! Welcome to Annus Horribilis Maximus!

We're not talking about your visit to the proctologist here. I'm thinking 2026 is shaping up to be a watershed year. There is no happiness in the new year for a great slice of humanity. For a lot of them, this is no big deal, because when have they ever had a happy new year? I'm talking about the 3rd world/global south crowd who perpetually get the short end of the stick when it comes to sharing the fruits of modernity etc. But many of us, accustomed to being on the winning side always, are in for a rude shock. This is a good news - bad news story. The bad news, in a nutshell, is 500 years of Anglo-European domination is winding down. The American Empire is visibly wobbling, economically, militarily, and politically. That's also the good news. What has happened in Ukraine is that the entire USA-NATO brand has been exposed as a paper tiger. Great! We no longer have to knock ourselves out to hit those Trump-imposed 5% NATO spending targets! Free at last! Free at last! The good news is the death of NATO frees up a shitload of money to address the many crises Canada faces. On top of that loss of all military cred in Ukraine, the coming year promises the implosion of the AI bubble. For all practical purposes China has already won the AI race. There you have it. Maximum Horribilis for the Empire and its dependencies, like Israel and NATO; happy days for the rest of the world. Happy New Year!