Kyiv Bentley dealership honoured for outstanding bravery during wartime

Just kidding! It wasn't for outstanding bravery; it was for outstanding sales and marketing! Yup, at the recent get-together of the European Bentley Dealers Association, held in Marbella, the Kyiv Bentley store was showered with honours. Not only has it survived four years of brutal non-stop Russian aggression, it is now number 3 in sales across all 61 European Bentley dealerships! Such a thing could never have been imagined before the Russian invasion! What a testament to the resilience of the Ukrainian people!

A few words out of Trump can move global markets by $100s of billions

We saw that this morning. The markets had baked in the moderate risk that Mafia Don might make good on his threat to destroy the Tehran electrical grid. Brent was bid up to 118 this morning... until Trump declared a five day waiver on his previous ultimatum. Benchmark Brent crude dropped hard. In the derivative markets, fortunes were made or lost in moments. Watching that unfold in real time got me thinking. Trump has become famous for making completely unexpected decisions. Time after time you hear, who coulda seen that coming? Time after time, these way-out-there Trump edicts result in serious jolts to the financial markets. Here's the thing. The astute and/or lucky player can profit equally from an uptick or a collapse. Trump's words have caused huge swings in global markets on a regular basis. Anybody with any insights into what Trump's next words might be is well placed to trouser a few billions as a result of insider derivatives trading. Thank God everybody in Donald's orbit has the moral fibre to resist such temptation!... Ya, I know... who do we think we're foolin' here?

We live in interesting times, and they're moving fast...

It was just a couple days ago a CBC story informed me that we (ie Canada) had signed on to a letter from six NATO allies plus Japan vowing support for "appropriate" actions Uncle Sam might take to open the Hormuz Strait. Make of that what you will, but bear in mind this is largely the same crew that promised Ukraine "whatever it takes for as long as it takes." Between the lot of them, that "support" won't go much beyond a strongly worded letter, or maybe two. Before the ink was dry on that letter, Japan had already signed a side deal with Iran to ensure its ships got through, just in case. Which leaves us on the cusp of economic catastrophe. I had no idea how much vital shit comes out of a barrel of crude or a cubic metre of natural gas. Gasoline and diesel, of course. Home heating gas. Jet fuel. Propane. Cooking gas. Helium. The MRI machine in your local hospital requires helium. Sulphur. Apparently you can't etch high-end computer chips without it. And one third of the world's fertilizer comes out of the Gulf. I had no idea. And "no idea" pretty much sums up Mafia Don's strategy when it comes to this war of choice his blackmailers pushed him into. To be clear, it was Bibi's choice, not Donald's. The Israel connection isn't helpful. As American lives begin to fall in this war, more than a few voices are asking why American soldiers are dying for Israel. That's a question that's ultimately going to cost 47 his career and his legacy. America First does NOT include dying for Israel.

Towelheads o' Terror turn tables on Western Civ

That's quite a shit-show unfolding over there since American Exceptionalism and Jewish Supremacy joined forces to spring a surprise attack on Iran. In the middle of what the Iranians thought were peace negotiations! That worked last time, but apparently the towellers weren't having any this time round. Within the hour of the Boss Mullah's demise, Iranian drones and missiles were on their way to every US base in the Middle East and to Israel. That was three weeks ago. They haven't stopped coming since! And they won't stop anytime soon. Damage to the world economy is already into the trillions. Every US base in the ME has been put out of business. Ben Gurion is closed. Seven million Israelis spent all of last night in bomb shelters. Iron Dome is long broken. And the missiles and drones keep coming and coming and coming... Meanwhile, it's harder by the minute to keep alive the fiction that our marvelous Patriots and David's Sling and Arrow are doing anything at all. The clown show in DC wants us to believe there's a plan... as we reindustrialize and home-shore our manufacturing capacity, we'll eventually be able match the drone and missile production capability of Iran. Eventually!

Trump crime syndicate's Arab Gulf States empire going up in smoke

If you follow this sort of thing, you know there's multiple NYC billionaires with substantial investments in the Arab Gulf countries. Jarrod Kushner spearheaded a lot of this action. Moving the embassy, floating the Abraham Accords, and the Gaza "Board of Peace" were all manifestations of Kushner's efforts to cash in on Mideast Mayhem. Hardly a month ago, Arab Gulf states were promising billions to join the Board of Peace. Might as well be a hundred years ago, just a few weeks later. That scam is over. American news platforms are thus far trying to maintain the fiction that the USA-Israel war criminal combine is obliterating, destroying, devastating, etc etc Iran. Iran, meanwhile, has the economy of the Western world, ie the Israel-USA-EU-NATO universe, totally and entirely by the balls. They haven't closed the Straight of Hormuz at all. Chinese, Russian, and Irainian ships are getting through just fine. There's absolutely nothing Israel, USA, or anyone else can do about it. The pundits all over Western media continue to spew fantasies of victory for American Empire and Greater Israel. The Iranian missiles streaming through Iron Dome day and night are telling a different story.

Western Civ trapped in Biggly Heap 'o Shit

I'm kinda an armchair doom-scroller, who follows international geopolitics because I've lost faith in professional sports. I mean, at some point you can't explain decades of Leaf failures without resorting to conspiracy theories. While I am not at all surprised that, as playoff season rolls around, the Leafs suck harder than ever, it does shock me to read that games are deliberately tossed in order to nab the top draft prospects. That's gotta be Russian propaganda for sure! I don't know about you, but for me personally I'm kinda coming round to the view that, all things considered, what we call "Russian propaganda," tends to be more accurate, more timely, more relevant than the usual same-old from ABC/BBC/CBC/CNN/Fox/etc. According to the Rooskie propaganda, they are winning the war in Ukraine. Ya! And if that's not foolishness enough, some of our adversaries are secretly supporting Iran in their futile defiance of God, America, and Israel, not necessarily in that order. Of course they are, but here's the scary part. I think many of America's traditional allies are secretly rooting for Iran too.

Iran's alleged nuclear program and Canada's support for the criminal Trump-Bibi war

Benyamin Netanyahu has been warning the world of Iran's imminent nuke since at least '92. For at least that long, plenty of well-placed experts have consistently called out that claim as bullshit. In December 2011 I published a post titled "Mossad boss dismisses Iranian nuclear threat." Tamir Pardo is long retired and still calling BS on Bibi's BS. Many other IDF, Mossad, and Shin Bet alum have joined him, but generally only after they retire. In 2007 a US intelligence report came to the same conclusion. Since then, the 18 US intel agencies have confirmed the same conclusion year after year.. Iran abandoned its nuke program in 2003. There has never been any evidence that it has been reconstituted. That conclusion has been reiterated as recently as June '25. In between, the Islamic Republic signed on to Obama's nuke deal which opened Iran to international inspectors. On March 3 the PM of Canada announced on his official website, his "regrettable" support for the absolutley illegal and unprovoked attack on Iran, in the midst of what Israel and the US pretended were negotiations. "Despite more than two decades of diplomatic efforts, Iran has not dismantled its nuclear program." No mention anywhere of the nuke deal negotiated under Obama. No mention of multiple reports from US intel debunking Netanyahu's serial lies. No mention it was Trump himself who kyboshed the nuke deal. Mark Carney prefers the lies of the warmongers to taking a stand. After all, when push comes to shove, keeping Trump happy far outweighs questions of principle.

Fuhrer Doug Ford shows true colours

I recall Doug Ford promoting himself as an everyman populist in his early political career. That was quite a long time ago. Alas, as he clawed his way up the greasy pole of power, his populism morphed into something else by the time he arrived at the top. We've had one dubious shenanigan after another where friends of Douggie, a crowd that includes every billionaire real estate developer Toronto has produced in the last 50 years, would make out like bandits at the expense of that quaint relic "the common good." Ontario Place, the Science Centre, that Greenbelt razzle-dazzle that would have added a few more billions to the accounts of a handful of real estate billionaires... oh Douggie, what have you become? I think the answer is clear. With his drive to exempt himself and his cabinet from Freedom of Information requests, he's become a full-fledged tyrant. If he can pull this off, democracy will be safe from prying pinkos who are forever trying to trip up good, or in the case of Fuhrer Ford, stupendously fabulous, responsible, and ethical governance.

Trump up Shit Creek, no paddle

There are decades when nothing happens; then there are days when decades happen. We're living through some of those days now. The American Empire is transitioning from gradual decline to chaotic freefall in front of our eyes. The biggest loser in this transition is Israel. Once the US is driven out of the Gulf, Israel as we know it, will cease to exist. It will, in the fullness of time, emerge as a single unified state wherein every citizen, Jew, Muslim, or Christian, has the same rights. Same rights to property. Same rights to a gun permit. The apartheid bastion of Jewish supremacy American largess has enabled for the last fifty years will be no more. It looks to me like the billionaires who bought the White House may be starting to have second thoughts. Apparently there was considerable White House lobbying among the hedgies to assure them the Iran war wouldn't disrupt markets for more than a few days, max. As Trump's three day war enters it's third week, Pentagon boss Pistol Pete Hegseth, the cartoonish Secretary of War, is dispatching 5,000 marines to the area. To do what? My guess is they're going there to die. When you listen to the speechifying of Hegseth or Trump, the hubris oozing out of them is utterly nauseating. Off-the-charts misplaced pride... biggly fall soon. Greatest in history!

Iran aims to collapse the US economy

Frankly, I think they could well succeed. Right now they're doing a job on Gulf States oil/gas infrastructure. That means even after Hormuz is navigable once again, it would be months to restore processing capacity. Air defence throughout America's Gulf allies is either exhausted or has been transfered to Israel. Trump claims he can open Hormuz. Even if he could, it wouldn't be anytime soon. Americans don't know or care that their society rots from within, but watch what happens when pump gas hits 7 or 8 bucks a gallon. Revolution for sure! If the oil shipments don't resume within weeks, GOP loses both House and Senate in November. There is also the problem that this war is unsustainable for Israel, and Israel is the only reason America is in this war in the first place. There is no place in Israel safe from enemy missiles. The economy is severely stressed. They goaded, cajoled, manipulated and possibly blackmailed Trump into this war believing American support ensured a quick victory. It hasn't and it won't. The billionaires who own this government will soon enough face a reckoning. Here's a fact they should keep in mind. It is only in the Western sphere that governments operate at the pleasure of the billionaire class. While Russia, China, and Iran all have billionaires, they can find themselves in jail, exile, or the ground if they defy the government. That may seem harsh, but I have a hunch the vast majority of Americans would applaud the reining in of the oligarchs.

They've been bullshitting us about self-driving cars for over ten years. Where are they?

I see where Waymo (short for way more bullshit, apparently) is doing yet another trial of driverless vehicles. These trials, and there have been dozens by various entities over the years, inevitably end the same way. Everything goes great 80 or 90 or 99% of the time, but just before regulatory approval, there's a front-page story about how 12 children on their way to Sunday-school were trapped in their driverless taxi for six hours when the door-locks malfunctioned, and are permanently traumatized. So the magic of driverless cars remains but a dream. Here's what I had to say about the matter more than ten years ago. ************* Saturday, May 31, 2014 Google's driverless car is the public transit of the future. Think about it. A car that doesn't require you to drive it can come to your house empty and pick you up. When it drops you off it can pick up somebody else somewhere else. You'll never have to worry about parking! With efficiencies of scale kicking in, one of these transportation pods will be makeable for a few thousand dollars. Goodbye multi-billion dollar street-car and subway infrastructure projects. The Google-mobile uses surface roads that are already there. Real-time GPS monitoring will make sure you get where you're going, and a vast network of hardware and software will ensure these "cars" are used as efficiently as possible. I think they're on to something! ********** Yup, we're still waiting! Meanwhile, the safety record of "self-driving" vehicles plummets, which doesn't boost confidence in fully autonomous tech. One thing I know for sure is if I'm getting in a car, I want a steering wheel and a brake pedal.

The war Israel and USA started ten days ago now threatens the future of both

I caught a brief CBC News segment where they had somebody on the ground in Israel showing damage from an Iranian missile. It's only in the last few days that Israel's information management system (otherwise know as censorship) has allowed foreign media limited access into the country. The segment still promoted the fiction that a missile landing in Tel Aviv is a novelty, as the vaunted Iron Dome + David's Sling + Arrow systems + Patriots and every other US Air Defense system take down at least 90% of incoming. In reality, ten days into the war on Iran, it has become obvious that AD has collapsed. Things have got so desperate the Israelis have concluded there's no longer any point in pretending. The reality in Israel right now is that both Iran and Hezbolla are raining down missiles and drones at will. The Iron Dome is shooting down next to nothing. Trump called Putin today, and the Russian transcript of the call looks to me like Donald is angling for Putin's help in finding an off-ramp. Meanwhile, we still see Rubio and Hegseth bragging up American greatness. My understanding is that every US base in the Gulf is at this point out of commission. US casualties, officially pegged at 7, are closer to 700. America can survive this. Being humiliated in Ukraine and the ME still leaves it with its usual vassals in the EU and the Western Hemisphere to slap around. But Israel? At least 200,000 Israeli's have left since Oct 7. The ones leaving tend to be from the highly-educated Ashkenazi elite. The ones clamoring for more death, more war, more genocide, are exemplified by the "hilltop youth." When they're not terrorizing the Palestinians, they're studying the Torah. I don't see much of a future for Israel.

Let's take a moment to consider our values

We are constantly reminded that Canada and our allies represent superior values than those held by our adversaries. We've had to struggle over that since the President of the US, the leader of the free and democratic world, has gone a bit nutso-kookoo in his second term. Some of his policies, for example the deportation of undocumented migrants, are an affront to Canadian values, which has motivated our PM to search for more agreeable allies amongst the remaining Nations of Virtue, as "Western Civilization" imagines itself. Not only have we been disappointed in our former Ally Number One, many Canadians have been shocked by the actions of one of our other bestest allies over the past two and a half years; to wit, Israel's holocaust in Gaza and the West Bank. For thirty months Israel has bombed, strafed, rocketed, and starved the captive population of Gaza. Most of the world correctly calls this genocide. On 28 February our two rogue allies joined forces to mount an entirely illegal attack on Iran. Our PM gave his qualified approval, but hinted that Canada would not join in with our allies. But wait a minute - seems a lot of our other allies with whom Carney was hoping to establish an anti-Trump coalition are signing up to support the Bibi-Trump war on Iran. Yesterday a German frigate arrived in Cyprus. Today Italy announced it would stand with the Free World's assault on Iran. France is sending it's aircraft carrier. Starmer planned to send the UK's carrier too, but alas, had to settle for a lesser contribution. Looks to me like all those toadies who were aggressively denouncing Trump mere weeks ago are now busying themselves sucking up to a pair of war criminals. I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before Carney caves and commits Canada to this war on Iran too. So much for "values." Empty talk won't butter our bread, but kissing up to billionaire war criminals just might.

The Peace President has started WW III

I was listening to DefSec... I mean WarSec "Pistol Pete" Hegseth's update on the Iran war. Apparently the good guys are kicking the shit out of the bad guys, unleashing hell, punching them while they're down, devastating them without mercy - as things should be when you're waging a REAL war in the name of God, as opposed to the faggy woke wars America used to conduct under communists like Obama and Biden. Ya, the exceptionalist rhetoric is utterly mind-boggling. I can't imagine God being on the side of warmongering retarded arseholes like Hegseth. But I've been wrong before. Like when I advised my readers to dump their appl back in 2012, and maybe a couple of other times. I've probably got two dozen posts out there over the last 15 years predicting the demise of the wily Erdogan. To my chagrin, not only has the Sultan defied my predictions, he is wilier and more influential than ever. Trump is taking us into uncharted territory. America's loss of every war they've instigated in the past half century hasn't deterred the Orange Ogre from instigating one with Iran, a country far more capable than any of the failed states America has been driven out of over the past 50 years. The American Empire has never looked more precarious.

Fifteen years in, pot-addled hillbilly's blog passes three million views

That's kinda amazing, considering it's only got, according to my dashboard, a grand total of three (3) followers. I figure that's because of the warning that comes up every time I post, to the effect that my musings somehow violate "community standards." That started shortly after I posted my World Trade Center building seven story, way back in year one. For many years Google wouldn't even find me, even though they own the platform. Anyway, here we are fifteen years later, fifteen years older, and firmly into life's final quarter. Barring a few extra seasons for penalty time, I'm thinking the 25 year warranty on my roof shingles (installed how many years ago?) should pretty much take me as far as I'll need a roof. I've also noticed, fifteen years on, that a lot of stuff I always took for granted, like good health, for example, is a gift from God rather than something you earn or "deserve." Fifteen years ago I took great pride in my hiking adventures on the various trails in our area. My hikes these days are much shorter and show a definite preference for flat terrain. My main challenge now is calibrating the correct balance between my pee pills and my sleeping pills. Last time I visited with my GP he upped the dosage for both. Ponder that for a moment and you'll realize why that calibration process is so important. From time to time I think maybe I should look into those community standards and see what I could do to go legit. Then the "Like" button might come back and folks could subscribe, and I'd be able to monetize the blog. Then again, 3 mil views over fifteen years ain't gonna monetize into much more than a case of beer now and again. Three million a day... now you're looking at something... I could upgrade my Toyota! Fuck that. I write because I like writing, and spending time managing a website isn't on the agenda in any way. Those hours are better spent playing with Bruno or visiting with my grand-daughter. Anyway, I'll keep writing as long as there's anything in the tank. Seeing how the greedbags who run things are more out of control than ever, there'll be plenty to talk about going forward.

Canada hated Trump till he attacked Iran; now we love Trump!

Canada's newspaper of record, the Globe & Mail, has relentlessly been anti-Trump since before his first kick at the can. And their American Exceptionalist choir has worked non-stop to alert Canada to the potentially deadly impact of a Trump 2.0. So imagine my shock when I picked up the G&M the other day, only to find an editorial board op-ed celebrating Donald Trump's bold attack on Iran! The ed board at the Globe are 100% American Empire Loyalists. They utterly hated Trump back when he unleashed ICE on Minnesota.But now that Donnie J has unleashed the entirety of USA military might on Iran, the editorial board is all aboard! Canadian airwaves have been saturated, for six days now, with Iranian expats thanking Trump for bombing their country. We closed our Iran embassy in 2012 because our gay twat of a Foreign Minister at the time was hell bent on getting the blessing of his personal rabbi. They coulda been gay lovers for all I know. And of course it didn't help that our Defence Minister at the time was married to an Iranian beauty queen. What's remarkable is that a political elite that took serious umbrage re: Trump's 51st state fantasies, is totally hunky-dory with Trump's utterly unprovoked attack on Iran.

Trump puts Israel first

Exhibit A; America, the country Trump was democratically elected to lead, has gone full in on Israel's war on Iran. Trump puffed himself as the peace candidate to get elected. Now he has embraced the ultra-nationalist factions in Israel who celebrate genocide. I have yet to see any remotely plausible rationale for America's war on Iran. There is no evidence anywhere of any "imminent threat" whatsoever. What we're doing with this fakery is running interference for the genocidal maniacs who, having destroyed Israel, are keen to bring down the rest of the Middle East too. There must be some prime juicy Trump footage on those Epstein tapes to make Mafia Don do a 180 on his entire election platform, just to please his blackmailer.

US missile stockpiles running low on second day of Iran war

That's according to a story on view at the Daily Mail website at the moment. Per traditional DM habits, there's maybe about a 50-50 chance there's at least an element of plausability to the story. So it's probably bullshit. At the same time, it makes you wonder how Trump's team calculated for an operation that might last longer than the 24-hour decapitation attack on Maduro. Missile inventory has been in the news for at least the last three years of Project Ukraine. There has been nothing concrete done to address the missile deficit. Nevertheless, Team Trump has decided this is the right time to take on Iran. If Iran can survive the first week of this war, hypothetical shortages will have become reality. Meanwhile, Iron Dome proved yet again to be a sieve. The entirety of Israeli strategy is predicated on America's military backstop. That stops when the Americans run out of missiles, which they'll have done in a week. Then what?

Most expensive warship in history of warships listing hard due to toilet malfunctions

Yup, true fact! At 13 billions USD the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford is by a considerable margin the most expensive warship in history. It was the core of the mighty armada that vanquished Maduro. At that point the good ship hadn't topped up its black tanks, which must be utterly massive, considering there's like 5,000 people living on this ship and each of them gotta shit at least once a day. At least. So as the good ship is steaming towards the Med, to backstop Israeli defenses in the pending war, all of a sudden, I guess the black tanks were over-full and sewage began spewing out of the toilets and all over the decks. It can therefore be truthfully reported that the USS Ford is only in the area for a mopping-up operation! That's as good as any mental image to roll over in your mind as we await an even more emberassing eruption from tonight's State of the Union.

We'll know within 36 hours if 47 is run by Bibi

Donny J is scheduled to deliver the State of the Union address Tuesday, after the markets close, naturally. While we'll undoubtedly get an hour of self-congratulatory bullshit, eventually Mafia Don is gonna deliver one of two speeches. Option A, prepared by Bibi's team of genocidal maniacs with help from the usual Israel-firsters in US politics, will see a US attack on Iran sooner, not later. Time is of the essence, more than ever! We gotta nuke 'em now! Then there's Option B. This would be the America first option. Since Iran poses utterly zero threat to any "American Interests" anywhere, this option opens the door to disengagement from Bibi's war agenda. In effect, it would signal that American policy still puts America first. We'll know which way Trump's gonna jump by tommorrow night. ---------- OK, it took a little longer, but now we know 100% for sure that Donald Trump's number one priority is serving his Israeli donors.

War Fever at the Globe and Mail

It's $9.45 now for a Globe on Saturday. I alway's make the same lame joke to the Korean; "for that kinda money there better be some good news in there!" The Korean never fails to laugh. I gotta say though, the good news is mighty thin. If you didn't have bad news you'd have hardly any at all. The consensus in the boardroom at the Globe seems to be that job one at this moment in time is to prep the public for an inevitable hot war with Russia. Nobody knows better than Ukraine what it's like to stand up to a fascist bully of a neighbour, so today we were treated to not one, not two, but three reports from Ukraine itself. Mark Mackinnon says hanging out in Kyiv has been a drag, but it's really brought folks together. Jason Stanley says there's nothing like war to create unity. And the head of PEN Canada penned a two-pager focused on how we might convince young Canadians to want to die for their country. PEN Canada is an affiliate of PEN International, which used to be a NGO that lobbied for freedom of speech. It's now given big column inches in Canada's newspaper of record to lobby for war. Apparently there's nothing like bombs and bullets to show what you're made of... if you even deserve such a great country as Canada! Frankly, none of that comes close to the real lesson to be learned from Ukraine, which is this; If you're gonna stand up against a fascist bully neighbour, you'll need more than NATO behind you.

Munich Clown Show: Rubio promises to make EU and NATO great again

Marco Rubio spent half an hour trying to convince the Euro-elites that 500 years of Western domination, so rudely interupted by the post-WW2 anti-colonialism movements, need not be over! Nosirree! Europe and America, united by our commmon Christian heritage, can prevail over the dark forces of communism and Islamofascism. Together, we can ride the glory train of Empire for another 500 years! The Europeans greeted Lil Marco's insights with a standing ovation! This does not bode well for Mark Carney's quest to find "like-minded Liberal democracies" with whom we can form an alliance independent of the US. Looks to me like Stormer, Micron, and Schmertz would like nothing more than to turn back the clock to a time when they found safety huddled under Uncle Sam's nuclear umbrella. Who needs a defence budget when America does 99% of the heavy lifting? Trump's demand that the vassals bump defence spending to 5% of GDP is seen, now, as a small price to pay to keep NATO alive. Whatever "like-minded democracies" Carney thought he saw in Europe are revealing themselves to be nothing more than abject boot-lickers. The leaders of the E3, each of them struggling with single-digit approval ratings, would happily enough trade all their tomorrows for just a little more yesterday, to paraphrase an old Janis Joplin tune. Speaking of Janis, did you know she's in the Epstein files? Yup, Jeffrey was all of nine years old when Janis was born! Also in those files is the bitter old hag who was once expected, at least by the cool kids, to smash the glass ceiling and be the first woman elected president of the world's greatest democracy. Lesser nations have had female PMs and presidents and chancellors for decades, but it remains a bridge too far in America... maybe in the next 500 years! Unlike Janis, Hillary's cadaver was actually on stage in Munich to reveal her plan to force Putin's capitulation by saturating Russian airspace with Tomahawk cruise missiles. That's the kind of fresh new thinking that's guaranteed to get the next 500 years of Western Exceptionalism off to a rip-roaring start!

Queen Ursula promises to turn EU into military super-power!

If you happened to catch her speech at the Munich gabfest you know what I'm talking about. The President of the European Commission isn't content to lead an army of desk jockeys... she wants to command a real fighting force wielding real weapons! And because Ursula's army will be a pan-european force, it will naturally confine procurement of weapons large and larger strictly to EU member countries. While Canada isn't in the EU, we did just join a new procurement plan. The plan is to out-produce Russia in war supplies. To do that we just have to rebuild our manufacturing capacity that we spent the last fifty years off-shoring. This could be a good plan for Canada, because unlike every EU country, we don't rely on American LNG to power our manufacturing sector. Heavy industry is that part of the economy that builds machines of all sorts, including war machines like tanks and war-ships and so forth. The Europeans used to do that stuff back when they had access to low-cost energy, because heavy manufacturing is extremely energy-intensive. Now that they're dependent on American LNG, at 4x the price of pipeline gas, Europe's heavy industries will never be competitive again.

When God needs guns to get His work done, that's when I become an atheist

That's the last line in a post I put up 15 years ago. The title was "only democracy in middle east slides into fascism." The stench of our hypocrisy is exponentially worse fifteen years on. The God of Israel is mightily displeased that after tens of thousands of USA bunker-busters, Amalek remains. The God of Donald Trump and his Christian Zionist pals is pissed too. I thought the reason it's called "Christianity" was because it was named after the Jesus of Nazareth, the guy who delivered the Sermon on the Mount and a whole lot of other hippy-dippy love and peace stuff during his brief time on earth. Never once did he express any interest in slaughtering the Amaleks, or anyone else. Fifteen years on, it looks to me fascism is much closer, and God is a lot farther away.

How did USA amass 6,000,000 files around one dude?

You know the dude we're talking about here. He must have generated thousands of files every day of his life to get totals like that! And in spite of what must have been decades of close surveillance, no sign of the hundreds, if not thousands of innocent teens sex-trafficked amongst the Western World's rich, famous, and powerful. Nor is there any record of his death, the death of America's most surveilled bad guy who died in America's most heavily surveilled prison! Tell me that ain't a little suspicious! Let's not forget another aspect of this unfolding mystery that promises to keep unfolding for decades to come. Epstein was famous for recording the guests in his various homes, even when they were getting a massage from the hat-check girl. At the time, we were told the FBI seized all that stuff. Seven years after his death, Kash Patel's FBI doesn't know a darned thing about any of that! Anyway, rather than one long-shot coincidence after another, it's just as likely that the greatest Israeli spy of all time faked his own demise and is enjoying a quiet retirement in a high security beachfront Mossad retirement home somewhere... surrounded by nubile young girls, of course!

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!