US dumps Ukraine file on hapless patsies in EU

It's beyond obvious that Ukraine has become a liability to the "Nations of Virtue" in their war on Russia. The US-led war on Russia has hit a dead end, and Washington want to wash its hand of it. And here’s the funny part; America’s EU bumboys are picking up the hot potato and running with it! How retarded is that? What we’re witnessing here, is the real-time dissolution of the mighty US Empire. There’s a lot of so-called “elites” all over the EU who have tied their wagons to the grandiose promises of the American Empire. “We are today and will always be the LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD!” Yup… as Clueless Joe pointed out in that disastrous “debate” last week, the USA remains the "indispensable nation” with the greatest military in history blah blah blah… And while it’s difficult to comprehend, well-educated elites in countries like Sweden and Finland still fall for this bullshit! Meanwhile, even as Putin is almost out of tanks, missiles, drones, and every other implement of battle, he nevertheless succeeds in demilitarizing not only the Ukraine, but all of NATO! While US proxies flail and fail in Ukraine and the Middle East, our legacy media continue to bullshit us with tales of democratic derring-do. On Canada Day, the Globe & Mail’s editorial committee treated us to a lecture about how Canada can regain the respect of our allies if only Canadians could make some sacrifices. Specifically, we need to move the Canadian economy to a war footing. That’s right! Fuck healthcare and education and housing and potable water in indigenous communities… we need to massively upgrade our military to face down those authoritarians trying to mess with our democracies! All Canadians must make sacrifices to preserve “our way of life.” I’m not buying it. If you ask me, we’d be way better off distancing ourselves from Uncle Sam and the NATO gang. Instead, we should invest the hundreds of billions slated for F-35s and obsolete warships into housing, healthcare, and education. It’s time we had a government that put the interests of Canadians ahead of the interests of politicians sucking up to Uncle Sam. After all, “democracy,” as last week’s debate revealed, ain’t what it used to be. No wonder the Canadian Armed Forces and virtually every other military in NATO can’t meet recruitment quotas. Who would be foolish enough to die for the “values” NATO espouses today?

Justin Trudeau must resign and his advisers must be fired

The past year and a half has not been kind to NATO, nor to Justin’s role within it. In spite of the triumphalism expressed by the likes of Jens Stoltenberg over NATO’s expansion to Finland and Sweden, the 18 months of war with Russia has revealed an unfortunate truth; the military manufacturing capacity of the combined NATO countries, USA included, cannot produce the munitions Ukraine needs to remain viable on the battlefield. “Everything you need for as long as it takes” was a PR jingle and nothing more. Trudeau’s reputation within that paper tiger was already in tatters. It was Trump who called Canada out as one of the free-loading member states, and this is as true now as it was then. What then must be the opinion of the senior members of the alliance when the bushy-tailed loudmouth Fluffy creates an international incident with India? And such an unnecessary incident. When the hit went down three months ago, informed observers would have pegged the odds at least 50-50 that India was behind it. Countries have long eliminated “terrorists” on foreign soil. Israel does it all the time. The USA killed bin Laden in Pakistan. The problem is, as always, that one man’s terrorist is the other guy’s freedom fighter. From the Indian perspective, advocates for an independent Khalistan are terrorists, and they have the same right to rub out Hardeep Singh Nijjar as the American’s had to dispatch bin Laden. The fact that neither Trudeau nor his team appreciated the gravity of what they have unleashed reveals that our foreign policy is in the hands of inept buffoons. It’s time to shut down amateur hour and bring in some grown-ups.

In praise of double standards

Thank goodness we in the West enjoy the blessings of a free press and unfettered TV news coverage. Unlike in Russia, where the benighted masses have access only to state propaganda, we are privy to the truth.

And the truth can be ugly, as the 24/7 saturation coverage of Putin’s war in Ukraine makes plain. Who can even imagine the sub-human barbarity of killing civilians, even women, children, and most shockingly, babies! If there was ever any doubt who are the good guys and who are the bad guys in this world, is has been definitively put to rest for all time.

The people of Afghanistan must be relieved they spent twenty years occupied by USA/NATO, and not the barbaric Russians. We don’t talk about civilian deaths (100,000+) because, as Stalin once said, when you cut down a forest there’ll be a few wood chips. “Collateral damage,” we call it.

Last we heard, and we’ll hear nothing more while Putin hogs the news cycle, is after the good guys left, we seized Afghanistan’s gold and cash reserves from UK and USA banks. Afghan civilians, women, children, and yes, even babies, face certain starvation.

The ongoing Saudi war on Yemen, aided and abetted by UK/USA, has some collateral damage too. (100,000 +)

The carnage continues in Iraq, where US troops remain on the ground two years after the democratically elected government demanded they leave. (200,000+ civilian deaths)

Let’s not forget Syria (350,000 + civilian deaths) in a “civil war” that wouldn’t have lasted a month without the lavish support of the Nations of Virtue. American forces remain on the ground protecting Syrian petroleum resources from Syria.

So let’s not forget who is good and who is evil. NATO officially announced today that Ukraine can stop waiting for actual military support, because this war has nothing to do with it. After engineering the 2014 coup, after 30 years of vague promises of EU and NATO membership, after coddling and encouraging the most belligerent and reactionary elements recklessly and relentlessly for many years, the long-sought disaster unfolding today is not our problem.

That’s how we roll, here in the Nations of Virtue!

We'll make it to the Promised Land any day now

Looks like Sleepy Joe got his 1.9 trillion bailout package through. About half the .9 is for the little people. The rest is for the fat cats. The party donors, in other words.

The national debt is up to who-knows-what, but in these perilous times our leaders feel empowered to keep piling more on, the morons. There is no plan re: how these debts will ever be paid.

But let's not lose sight of the big picture! We're whuppin' that virus, so we are! Big Pharma is pumping out hundreds of millions of doses for hundreds of billions of dollars. Odds are, COVID 19 will turn out to be one of those gifts that keep on giving. The scientists are this very moment discovering that to truly keep the virus down, we will need a booster shot once or twice a year!

So you probably won't go too far wrong if you invest your bailout cheque in Big Pharma stocks.

It's also been discovered by a research team led by famed economist Greta Thunberg that less economic activity means less pollution. Therefore, in order to save the planet, when we build back better, we will have to do so with less economic activity. I know that sounds impossible, but this is where blockchain and crypto come in.

Bitcoin is way too complicated for most folks, me included, to understand. That's why we have to put our faith in the experts, the really smart people who get how it works. And they promise it's gonna be a really great thing. It'll allow governments to tackle corruption, because every transaction is archived in those special egalitarian data cloud-banks.

Bitcoin will also come in handy to pay off that scary national debt. As long as we build enough bitcoin-mining computer networks, we'll be able to pay everything off with bitcoin, and nobody will ever have to work again!

But to unleash its full potential, we have to get going on our 5G networks. We must get over our 5G hesitancy. People are still fretting about brain cancer. Cancer shmancer; that's been studied to death already. Time to stop studying and double down on getting those 5G networks up and running!

Besides, it'll allow AI robots to do remote brain cancer surgery, plus give you faster download speeds! 

What's not to like?

Since the great Julian Assange treason scandal of 2010, mainstream media has been remade to more reliably reflect the views of experts who decide what's good for us. Those titles who collaborated with Wikileaks, like the New York Times and The Guardian, have been brought to heel. News is now more consistent, at least if you keep away from the so-called "alt-news" sites, but there's good news on that front as well. Between 5G and AI, those alt-news sites will be a thing of the past in the near future.

So overall, things are looking up! Paradise is just around the corner!

Trudeau more dangerous than Trump - professor

Professor Hamid Dabashi doesn't hold back in this take-down of PM Fluffy. Trudeau's pseudo-progressive fakery is possibly more damaging than the buffoonery of Trump, he says. You'd almost think he's been reading this blog!

Every other day another apology... but what changes? What gets done?

Precious little, that's what.

Trudeau is the perfect pol for the modern era. All optics, no substance. What with our Feminist Foreign Policy, our newfound commitment to Native Rights and Oil Pipelines, and our obsequious toadying to Uncle Sam, we are one Nation from Sea to Sunny Sea, labouring under an utterly massive case of cognitive dissonance.

Called out on the arrest of the Huawei CFO by Canadian officials, Trudeau responds with a load of hokum on how this nation has an independent judiciary, blahblahblah, and oh yes, he did happen to know about it three days before it happened, but what the heck, just because it's independent doesn't mean it ain't leaky!...

This is the response of the leader of a supposedly independent country which just made an arrest on behalf of the US, because a Chinese company isn't obeying America's orders that they refrain from doing business with Iran.

How is it America's business to dictate to China who they do business with?


As an aside, Trudeau is lying when he says no decision has been made about whether Huawei will be part of Canada's next generation internet.

The decision HAS been made, and no, Huawei will NOT be a part of it. That decision about Canada's future was made in Washington, not Ottawa.

Canadian media blame Trudeau for Harper's Saudi arms deal

When the Canada-Saudi armoured car deal was first announced over two years ago, there wasn't a whole lot of squawking about Saudi Arabia's abhorrent human rights record in our media. Virtually all of the coverage focused on what a glorious win this was for our export sector.

So Harper gets voted out, POTHEAD gets voted in, and poof!.. the moral ambiguities saturating this deal suddenly rise to the surface!

I like to brag about the fact that the think tank here at Falling Downs was all over this story from the get-go. Ya, that's satire at that link. Nobody here really thought that the armoured war wagons were gonna be used to ferry the fairies home when the underground gay clubs closed. Nevertheless, the controversy missed Harper but has landed on Trudeau.

There's quite a crowd that thinks Trudeau needs to establish his human rights bona fides by cancelling this deal. It's an appealing argument; virtuous Canada will not trade with egregious human rights abusers like Saudi Arabia. Case closed.

It's not that simple.

First off, Canada has no right to finger-point at the alleged human rights abuses of other states so long as we haven't remedied the open wound that is our relationship with our native peoples. A cursory survey of incarceration rates, poverty rates, suicide rates, and so on puts the lie to the claim that we are a nation of virtue. We're not.

Secondly, why single out the Saudis? Our biggest trading partners are Mexico, China, and the USA. Any human rights issues in those countries? Will we continue to do business with them? Of course we will! And didn't the Harper government enter into a free trade agreement with Israel? Is anyone clamouring for Trudeau to abrogate that deal because of Israel's wanton disregard for the human rights of Palestinians?

Of course not!

So lets get off the high horse on this Saudi deal. Business is business. Where government had a chance to do something was when GM Defence was sold to General Dynamics in 2003. Canada could have blocked that sale. It was, in case you've forgotten, a Liberal government that let it go through. Getting sentimental about the 3000 Canadian jobs at stake today is more than a little disingenuous.

When a story begins with "the US says", is there any reason to believe anything that follows?

This is on my mind because I'm trying to make sense of this story.

The US says it has evidence that Russia has been firing artillery into Ukraine.

I don't know if they have, but the point here is, if the Yanks claim it to be true, does that claim make it more or less likely to be true?

Given the sheer volume of American lying that's shaped history over the past couple of decades, should we give them the benefit of the doubt?

I think it would be prudent to doubt the benefits of giving them the benefit of the doubt.