Canada and France? Governments Griped as Well in Chaos

If we thought the USA and its government was the only country that was under duress, think again. Canadians have about had it or at least making noises about their freedoms, and France is not far behind with their confusion. Here first with Canada.

Embattled Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came under even more pressure to resign on Tuesday after his Liberal Party lost a “safe seat” in Montreal to the Bloc Quebecois.

Current polling suggests Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party would obliterate the Liberal Party if the election were held today. The Liberals fear a vote of no confidence could knock Trudeau out of office long before the next scheduled election in October 2025.

Lametti said he was “surprise[d]” to get booted from Trudeau’s cabinet. In January 2024, Lametti announced he would resign his Montreal parliamentary seat “with some sadness,” in part because was still hurt from losing his position as justice minister, and his confidence had been shaken.

The Montreal district of LaSalle-Emard-Verdun was considered one of the safest Liberal seats in the land, handing Trudeau’s party a hefty 20-point victory as recently as 2021. When the last ballots were counted on Tuesday, however, the Liberals lost a tight three-way race to the Block Quebecois.

Montreal delivered the second cataclysmic loss to the Liberals in three months after the astounding victory by Conservative Don Stewart in Toronto. Stewart took a seat that the Liberals held for three decades, prompting a great deal of anxiety that Trudeau had become an albatross for his party. 

France is having its problems too.

Macron decided to have “snap elections” in June and it all went bad after that.

Impeachment proceedings against France’s Macron pass first hurdle
The bureau of France’s National Assembly has validated an impeachment procedure brought by hard-left MPs against President Emmanuel Macron.

NFP won the most votes in snap parliamentary elections in July, though it failed to secure an outright majority.

LFI has accused Macron of carrying out an “anti-democratic coup” after he ruled out choosing its pick for prime minister, naming veteran conservative politician Michel Barnier instead.

petition, signed by more than 300,000 people, refers to Macron’s “unprecedented authoritarian drift … in the system of representative democracy”.

 

And that is what is going on in other’s governments swamp.

Source: (WP is acting up with embedded links today)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/09/18/justin-trudeau-under-pressure-as-canadas-liberals-lose-crucial-montreal-election/

https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20240917-impeachment-proceedings-against-france-s-macron-pass-first-hurdle

 

 

Alberta Canada Removes Regulations for Standards of Care in Nursing Homes

 
The Health Minister says the regulations have not been updated since 1985. It looks more like removed. Coming to the U.S. soon? A sad commentary on our so called Progressive neighbors to the North.
Here is the story:
 

Alberta’s new continuing care regulations come into effect April 1, but critics are questioning why the new rules do not prescribe how many hours of care residents of a facility should receive. 

The Nursing Homes Operations Regulation said each resident of a facility should get a minimum 1.9 hours of nursing and personal care each day, but the new Continuing Care Act Regulations are silent on the issue. 

“Until now, if an Albertan wanted to be assured that their loved one would get a minimum standard of care, it was in the law,” NDP Leader Rachel Notley said at a news conference Tuesday. “Now there is no guarantee.”

The new regulations were approved by cabinet in a closed-door meeting. They were published online at the end of February.

Questions about the new continuing care standards come as the government continues to face criticism over the case of Blair Canniff, an Edmonton stroke patient who was taken to a motel in Leduc by a contracted service provider after he was discharged from the Royal Alexandra Hospital earlier this month. 

Canniff is paralyzed on one side and uses a wheelchair. He says he was told he was going to a long-term care facility. Instead, he was dropped at the motel, where he was given fast food meals and struggled to get into the bathroom and the bed. He was moved back to the hospital a week later. 

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A portion of comments from the Tweet below:
 
“New rules do not prescribe how many hours of care residents of a facility should receive.” “The vulnerable in our world are supposed to be taken care of, and now the government is making it so that isn’t even a thing anymore. 
 
 
Basically, now what this means is if you have not set yourself up for retirement, which the majority of the population has not because who are we f****** kidding? In this day and age, it’s hard enough to put milk and eggs in everyone’s fridges. It means that you’re not gonna it’s not funded.
 
 
 The regulations do not mention a minimum number of required hours of nursing care. “We are moving to zero hours of care. This is extremely dangerous,” said Heather Smith, United Nurses of Alberta president, in a statement. Smith said while that was clearly inadequate, at least there was a minimum legal standard.” United Nurses of Alberta Says “New regulations eliminate all nursing care requirements for residents of continuing care homes in Alberta”
 

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War Cry from Macron Over Ukraine – The Coming Conflict

All of a sudden Europe is concerned about Russia and especially Ukraine. The nervous nellies are thinking that their nemesis Trump might just win the election this fall thus the U.S. might not be as willing to step up and bail them out like last century. Just in case Putin decides to go big or go home… Putin threatened Nukes. It doesn’t hurt also, that Congress is making it clear that the U.S. is not the endless piggy bank and we are getting cranky about the whole thing.

It doesn’t hurt that Europe’s farmers are not a bit happy in having their farm confiscated or at the least restrictions that insure their bankruptcy. Attention elsewhere never hurts.

They sure laughed last time around with Trump and his advancing theory that Europe might just be on their own… because as he says, they should be.

At the least, the U.S. not contribute the lion share of their defense.

U.S. Paying 68% Percent of NATO, Increased 6 Percent Since 2021

The U.S. is by far the largest contributor to NATO’s budget. In 2023, the country accounted for $860 billion spent by the organization, representing 68% of the total expenditure. This amount is over 10 times more than that of the second-placed country, Germany.

Country 2023 Defense Spending (USD, Millions)*
🇺🇸 United States $860,000
🇩🇪 Germany $68,080
🇬🇧 United Kingdom $65,763
🇫🇷 France $56,649
🇮🇹 Italy $31,585
🇵🇱 Poland $29,105
🇨🇦 Canada $28,950
🇪🇸 Spain $19,179
🇳🇱 Netherlands $16,741
🇹🇷 Türkiye $15,842
🇳🇴 Norway $8,814
🇷🇴 Romania $8,481
🇫🇮 Finland $7,325
🇬🇷 Greece $7,125
🇧🇪 Belgium $7,076
🇩🇰 Denmark $6,775
🇭🇺 Hungary $5,036
🇨🇿 Czechia $5,033
🇵🇹 Portugal $4,167
🌐 Other $12,400

*Expected spending in 2023, based on July 2023 data from NATO.

Who knew? None of the press here in the States are reporting what’s going on. Only the foreign press.

Here are a couple of clips…

Hindustan Times: March 14, 2024

Then we have DW News- German Public Broadcasting Service

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė was in Berlin Thursday for defense and security talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Support for Ukraine’s war with Russia and German plans to station troops in Lithuania were on the agenda. After the meeting DW News spoke to Prime Minister Lithuanian Šimonytė.

Three weeks ago, The Guardian news out of Great Britain:

Four western leaders – the European Commission president and the prime ministers of Italy, Canada and Belgium, arrived in Kyiv on Saturday to show solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion.

Ursula von der Leyen, Giorgia Meloni, Justin Trudeau and Alexander De Croo travelled to the Ukrainian capital together overnight by train from neighbouring Poland, the Italian government said in a statement.

Two weeks ago, – that should do it… Opec watch out . All those Euros can be confiscated anytime politics deem fit. Wreck the Euro..just like Biden wants to do to the dollar here in the States.

Just like Biden wants to do here with confiscating Russia’s stuff too.

Biden’s Plan to Fund Ukraine – Confiscate Russia’s Sovereign Assets

Let me cut to the chase: “There has also been concern among some top American officials that nations around the world would hesitate to keep their funds at the New York Federal Reserve, or in dollars, if the United States established a precedent for seizing the money.”

We are not talking freezing assets, but rather confiscating them. Something third world countries have done. The U.S. has never done this before.

The De-dollarization of the dollar could likely be the result if countries lose faith in the security of their funds. One step closer losing the dollar as the world’s currency.

Well, if all else fails, we have Canada with some good ideas too….this should lower the temperature.

Global News:

By now you have the drift. More countries are considering sending troops, if not to Ukraine, into the surrounding countries.

Well played Orange Man.

Canada on the Way to Offer Assisted Suicide to Mentally ill People

Canada is set to offer assisted suicide to Canadians with mental illnesses, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. I cannot think of a more evil proposal than for depressed people, perhaps contemplating suicide to have a Doctor supporting “offing themselves.” One way or another surely we can get our population decreased apparently. Who possibly can think this way? Congrats to Schwab for infiltrating the Canadian government and no doubt a supporter of this true madness. He of course would prefer countries to simply starve themselves to death.

The law would make Canada one of the few countries that allow individuals struggling with mental illness to seek assisted suicide through a doctor, according to the NYT. It is set to go into effect in March, and has drawn condemnation from lawmakers and mental health professionals, the latter of whom fear it will undercut their efforts to help their patients and prevent them from committing suicide.

“I’m trying to keep my patients alive,” Dr. John Maher, an Ontario-based psychiatrist, told the NYT. “What does it mean for the role of the physician, as healer, as bringer of hope, to be offering death? And what does it mean in practice?”

Defenders of the new law argue that it would be inhumane not to offer assisted suicide to individuals who struggle with severe mental health issues, according to the NYT. Some psychiatrists and doctors argue that an individual will only be eligible for assisted suicide after they have consulted with multiple doctors, who must deem their mental health complications irreparable.

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This is what Schwab and the WEF has brought to Canada. Schwab brags he has infiltrated half of the cabinet.

 

Earlier I reported:

Canadian Children’s Book Indoctrinates Kids Into Euthanasia

Children are introduced into the medical killing fields by Canadian Virtual Hospice with its Medical Assistance in Dying Activity Book, described as being for children ages 6–12. In it, the child is taught how a person is killed during euthanasia:

The three medicines work like this: The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep. They may yawn or snore or mumble.

The second medicine causes a “coma.” A coma looks like sleep but is much deeper than regular sleep. The person will not wake up or be bothered by noise or touch.

The third medicine makes the person’s lungs stop breathing and then their heart stops beating. Because of the coma, the person does not notice this happening and it does not hurt. When their heart and lungs stop working, their body dies. It will not start working again. This often happens in just a few minutes, but sometimes (rarely) it can take hours.

And there are activities for the child preparing them for witnessing the event.

 

How are the Netherlands doing with this euthanasia business? From four years ago:

A 17-year-old girl who wrote a book about her struggle with mental illness after being molested and raped has died after requesting to be legally euthanized in the Netherlands, according to reports. Initial reports claimed Noa Pothoven chose to end her life Sunday with the assistance of an end of life clinic, which has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002.

What has our world come to?

Trudeau Threatens Grocery Stores With Tax Unless they Stabilize Food Prices

How are our neighbors to our North faring? Not much better and perhaps worse than the U.S. Trudeau throws up a “hail Mary” going after large grocery stores and telling them its time for them to pony up and solve his problem with food costs. Since it may be not enough to save his precarious sinking political fortunes, he throws in the oft quoted “affordable housing” and has additional offerings in that department to sure up is sagging poll numbers.  

It’s classic communism Price controls for businesses Then state seizure when the business fails The state then owns the business.

The old price controls… sound familiar? The grocery stores argue that they are not making record profits.

Here is an idea what could be causing some of Canada’s problem. Add the high energy costs as Canada too moves to the Green economy and this is what you get,

Sylvain Charlebois, director of Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss PM Trudeau announcing he will be asking grocery companies to come up with a plan by Thanksgiving to stabilize food prices in Canada.

Take heart fellow citizens….

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rejected the notion of stepping down amid plummeting poll numbers when asked whether he would resign as the Liberal leader during a news conference on Wednesday afternoon. Speaking in English and French to reporters in London, Ont., to address housing affordability, Trudeau said he had “more work to do” as head of the Liberal party.

 

OTTAWA, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday brushed aside the idea he might quit due to poor polling numbers, saying he still had plenty of work to do, but acknowledged public grumbling about the cost of living.

Polls show that after nine years in power, the left-leaning Liberals are badly trailing the official opposition Conservatives and would lose power if an election were held now.

Although Trudeau has a deal with the smaller left-of-center New Democrats that will allow them to govern until October 2025, the agreement is non-binding, and could collapse earlier.

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Biden blocks U.S. mining rare earth projects – Yet Cuts deals with Canada, Japan

A century of iron mining has barely scratched the surface of Minnesota’s mineral wealth. Thousands of square miles of Minnesota encompassing promising greenstone belts, sedimentary basins and intrusives await exploration.
 
 
 

Biden admin blocks mineral mining on 225000 acres of land

(The Center Square) – President Joe Biden’s administration says electric vehicle adoption is key to curbing climate change but blocked mining of rare earth minerals on more than 225,000 acres of federal land for more than 20 years.

 

The Biden administration banned mining near the Boundary Waters on the Duluth Complex in Minnesota, which Twin Metals says contains 95% of the nation’s nickel reserves; 88% of the cobalt; 51% of the platinum; 48% of the palladium, and ​34% of the nation’s copper.

 

Those rare earth minerals are vital for electric vehicle production and lithium-ion batteries. Without domestic rare earth mineral mining, the nation must rely on countries with few labor or environmental laws, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 75% of the supply of cobalt is mined to make lithium-ion batteries and EVs.

 

By now you probably know where this is headed. But we are not done. Nevada last week.

Biden blocks mineral mining his clean-energy goals require

The federal government owns huge chunks of America’s West, home to critical minerals like lithium essential to technologies like electric-vehicle batteries — yet Biden blocks their development beneath federal lands.

Biden banned access Tuesday to nearly 514,000 acres of public lands, including adding a new national park in Nevada just for good measure.

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo says Biden failed to consult him before this designation, though the Silver State contains massive lithium deposits.

U.S. offers cash to Canadian critical minerals projects …

CBC.
4 days ago — There was a pot of gold at the end of President Joe Biden’s jaunt to Canada. It’s going to Canada’s mining sector. 

 

The U.S. is desperate to reduce its reliance on its adversary for materials needed to power electric vehicles, electronics and many other products, and has set aside hundreds of millions of dollars under a program called the Defence Production Act.

Which Canadian companies? The leaders didn’t say. Canadian officials have provided the U.S. with a list of at least 70 projects that could warrant U.S. funding.

Biden also said Canadian semiconductor projects would be eligible for access to another Defence Production Act program.

The Pentagon already has told Canadian companies they would be eligible to apply. It has said the cash would arrive as grants, not loans.

On Friday, before Biden left Ottawa, he promised they’ll get some.

“Our nations are blessed with incredible natural resources,” Biden told Canadian parliamentarians during his speech in the House of Commons.

“Canada in particular has large quantities of critical minerals that are essential for our clean energy future, for the world’s clean energy future.

“And I believe we have an incredible opportunity to work together so Canada and the United States can source and supply here in North America everything we need for reliable and resilient supply chains.”

Better yet?

Biden Smuggles Corporate Green Welfare Scheme …

House.gov.
 
8 hours ago — Biden Smuggles Corporate Green Welfare Scheme Through New Critical Minerals Agreement with Japan. March 28, 2023 — Press Releases — 

WASHINGTON, DC – Without any notice to the American public, the Biden Administration announced today they have entered into a critical minerals agreement with Japan that would send tax dollars to foreign corporations that produce electric vehicles (EVs) and open the door to future payouts to other countries.

Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement:

“The Biden Administration is clearly happy to hand out U.S. taxpayer dollars to foreign nations and risk American jobs solely to advance its radical ‘green’ energy agenda. This so-called ‘free trade agreement’ with Japan does nothing to shift critical mineral supply chains away from China. Equally shameful is the fact that the Biden Administration is distorting the plain text of U.S. law to write as many green corporate welfare checks as possible.

The Administration has not been transparent with the American people and has ignored major concerns raised by Congress, including failing to provide an analysis of the effects this agreement would have on American workers. Rather than rushing to complete legally dubious agreements at the behest of lobbying campaigns by foreign governments, the Biden Administration should work with Congress to develop meaningful trade policies that improve the lives and livelihoods of America’s working families.”

The last hearing I caught of her, she got notes from the gal sitting next to her. With this camera angle, no luck this time.

For more displays of her knowledge base from an earlier post.

Manchin Attacks Interior Sec Haaland in Energy Hearing: ‘It shuts Everything Down!

Interior Sec. Haaland Confronted On Anti-Energy Memo Released During Hearing: “This Shuts It Down” Manchin rocks-

The law required her to announce new oil leases by June 30, here is how it went.

The best of the swamp. Here are a a few more blocked earlier…

Earlier I posted in May:

EPA Blocks Critical Major Mining Mineral Project

Within a week of the memo shutting down Oil and Gas Leases, the Federal government moves to shut down the Pebble Mining Project in Alaska of the very minerals that Biden just proclaimed essential under the Defense Emergency Production Act. Its location is in a 24,000 sq mile area in Alaska. Largely undeveloped.

Copper and molybdenum for green energy technology like electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Gold. Not for us. Possibly one of the largest mines in the world.

Ioneer Ltd.’s lithium mine in Nevada, which could supply 22,000 metric tons of lithium annually—enough for about 400,000 electric cars, is being held captive by environmentalists, who claim the mine threatens Tiehm’s buckwheat, a rare flowering plant. The Trump Interior Department had refuted that after an extensive analysis, indicating that the culprit of the buckwheat was hungry squirrels.

The Resolution copper mine in Oak Flat, Arizona, which can meet about 25 percent of U.S. copper demand, is currently under federal environmental review. In September 2021, the House Natural Resources committee voted to include language in the reconciliation package to block the building of the Resolution copper mine.

Recently, regulators suspended a right-of-way for a road in Alaska, previously granted by the Trump administration, which provided access to one of the world’s largest mineral deposits including zinc and copper.

 

Canada’s New Euthanasia Laws Echo Nazi-Era

 

A chilling report out of Canada that has failed to get the attention it deserves. Assisted Suicide is gaining more acceptance here in the States as well, and who is included as a potential participant has become a horror in Canada. Mental health now will be included as well as children without parental consent. Laura Ingraham had a disturbing report and is included..

Already Oregon, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Washington state and Washington, D.C., have approved assisted suicide all with residency requirements.

Anything to lessen the values of a a civilized society. A reminder during the halcyon days of Obama when the “death panels” were so aptly described. Otherwise known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

George Bernard Shaw: Justify Your Existence

 

 

 

Here we go:

Tim Stainton director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia said the country’s uniquely permissive euthanasia laws were, “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

 

Canada’s extremely liberal euthanasia laws, which, next year, are set to be extended to include people suffering from mental health conditions and potentially minors, have been slammed for being reminiscent of the way the Nazis dealt with people with disabilities by a leading academic in the field.

As Adolf Hitler consolidated his power at home in anticipation of war, he moved not only against Jews, Sinti, and Roma but also against those Aryans whom he considered “unworthy of life”—people with epilepsy, alcoholism, birth defects, hearing loss, mental illnesses, and personality disorders, as well as those who had vision loss or developmental delays or who even suffered from certain orthopedic problems. Hitler viewed them as “marginal human beings” who had to make a case for their own survival at a time when the nation was preparing for war.

The first to be eliminated were too young to speak on their own behalf. In fall 1938, the parents of a severely disabled infant petitioned Hitler for the right to kill their child. He granted the petition and saw in the request an opportunity to encourage what he called “mercy killings” or “euthanasia.” 

Read more Forbes

 

Earlier this year I reported:

Canadian Children’s Book Indoctrinates Kids Into Euthanasia

Children are introduced into the medical killing fields by Canadian Virtual Hospice with its Medical Assistance in Dying Activity Book, described as being for children ages 6–12. In it, the child is taught how a person is killed during euthanasia:

The three medicines work like this: The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep. They may yawn or snore or mumble.

The second medicine causes a “coma.” A coma looks like sleep but is much deeper than regular sleep. The person will not wake up or be bothered by noise or touch.

The third medicine makes the person’s lungs stop breathing and then their heart stops beating. Because of the coma, the person does not notice this happening and it does not hurt. When their heart and lungs stop working, their body dies. It will not start working again. This often happens in just a few minutes, but sometimes (rarely) it can take hours.

And there are activities for the child preparing them for witnessing the event.

 

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has been available in Canada since 2016

Bill C-7 would allow individuals seeking MAID to apply solely on the basis of a mental disorder. Prior to the bill’s passage, MAID eligibility was based on having a “grievous and irremediable medical condition,” according to a report from the Canadian government on the practice. 

Creighton School of Medicine professor Charles Camosy said Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” the bill would allow “mature minors” to be euthanized by state doctors without the consent of their parents. 

Camosy argued that the MAID practice exists for several groups already. 

“We’ve got the homeless, we talked about that last time. The poor. The disabled. Those with chronic pain. And then right before coming on, I researched the physicians group in Quebec that wants to kill newborn infants. That’s what’s coming next,” he told host Tucker Carlson.

The medical humanities professor said health care has been “hyper-secularized” in recent years and is based on “cost-benefit analysis.” 

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One can be assured that Seniors will be next on the list. The Cost-Benefit Analysis that is being taught now in medical schools.

The Netherlands?

 

 

A refresher from the past of what our Marxists are about here is the USA. Be especially concerned with the so-called Inflation Reduction Bill. The cost reduction in pharmaceuticals is fraught with the potential abuse in denying expensive drugs with a new “Independent Drug Advisory Board” being set up. Earlier posts:

April, 2011 NY Times Paul Krugman cheers inclusion of death panels in Obama’s Budget Plan

The main thing, though, is the strengthened role of and target for the Independent Payment Advisory Board. This can sound like hocus-pocus — but it’s not. You have people who actually know about health care and health costs setting priorities for spending, within a budget; in effect, you have an institutional setup which forces Medicare to find ways to say no.

Recall our earlier post: Kidney Patients being told to accept death and forgo dialysis

”It was meant to keep young and middle-aged people alive and productive. Instead, many of the patients who take advantage of the law are old and have other medical problems”. Take advantage?

 

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35 Percent of Canadian refugees on Welfare after 10 years

A Statistics Canada study has found that 72% of government-sponsored refugees still rely on welfare programs two years after arrival, and 35% are still dependent after ten years. I doubt this should come as a surprise to anyone.  Add to that the enormous cost for their healthcare as they age out. The local schools. Here we go:

The report comes as the Trudeau government plans to bring in record-setting numbers of immigrants and refugees in the coming years. The federal Liberals have overseen the acceptance of over 25,000 Syrian refugees, primarily government-sponsored, and plans on accepting 40,000 refugees from Afghanistan.

Overall, the feds are looking to admit over 75,000 refugees in 2022.

With the acceptance of more refugees, questions regarding Canada’s growing backlog of applicants of future citizens, permanent residents, international students and more have reached more than 1.8 million.

Previously, the 1976 Immigration Act had made it mandatory for newcomers to demonstrate they had work skills and the ability to be economically independent. The Chretien government disposed of the requirement, so refugees no longer had to prove they were unlikely to rely on social assistance.

The report showed that compared to the 35% rate for government-sponsored refugees, 23% of privately sponsored refugees relied on welfare ten years after coming to Canada.

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Afghan refugees struggling to adapt living in US

How are things going here? May 23, 2022.

It is doubtful any study like this will be found in the U.S. Our little spot of heaven where I live has the largest NGO centers for “immigrants” in the U.S.  Local news often leads with stories needing “living arrangements” for the influx.

So they overwhelm the healthcare systems, apartments and schools.  No one cares.

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Canada’s Reign of Terror Coming to the USA?

Most of us watched in horror these past weeks as Canada’s Justin Trudeau morphed before our eyes into a fascist dictator or as he prefers the second China’s Xi Jinping. His role model according to him.

We have gone from “Wash your hands” to freezing your bank account in just 2 years. It’s been quite a journey to keep us all safe. 

More concerning we see the shades of what’s to be here in the United States with the DOJ and FBI being used against regular citizens attending school board meetings as a start.

Now the headline from Reason should send a chill

DOJ, FBI Will Investigate Companies for ‘Illicit Profits’

Elizabeth Warren’s bizarre theories about corporate greed driving inflation have made their way into federal law enforcement, it seems.

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will begin investigating companies for earning what it believes to be excessive profits amid surging inflation and ongoing supply chain issues.

Department of Justice Announces Initiative to Protect Americans from Collusive Schemes Amid Supply Chain Disruptions

In a press release:

the department said its antitrust division would begin to “deter, detect and prosecute those who would exploit supply chain disruptions” to earn what the department calls “illicit profit.” .. is to prevent companies from “overcharging customers under the guise of supply chain disruptions.”

But this announcement from the DOJ is more than just a fishing expedition. It suggests that the mighty law enforcement apparatuses of the federal government are following Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) into the fantasy world where the profit motive is responsible for inflation. That cockamamie conspiracy theory becomes less funny when the FBI is empowered to charge companies for “illicit profits” as they try to keep shelves stocked in an environment of scarcity.

Warren has been trying to blame corporations for inflation since last year. She’s lobbed attacks at big oil companies and small grocery stores—a famously low-margin business—for trying to take advantage of supply chain issues to screw customers. As if businesses suddenly became more greedy within the past year after previously not caring about profits, I guess?

This week, Sanders climbed into the clown car too, tweeting that “Gas prices are at the highest level in 7 years” due to “corporate greed, collusion & profiteering.” 

Read more at Reason

Biden and the Left must be salivating:

Of course it was corporate greed Senator Sanders.

According to a new analysis published earlier this month by the Joint Economic Committee Republicans, the Biden administration is exacerbating soaring energy prices by cracking down on the oil and gas industry with new regulations that limit production and discourage investments in traditional energy infrastructure.

In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S., like other oil-producing countries, shut down production and canceled new investments in expanded capacity, leading to the lowest level of oil and gas wells in the U.S. on record in the summer of 2020. But while demand has rebounded since then, production capacity remains about 13% below pre-pandemic levels, the JEC report shows. 

Liz Warren? She has her spin. Yet she enjoys the good life.

All of this comes after she made her millions flipping houses.

Fauxcahontas Warren flipped houses, was a GOPer, became a multimillionaire first

In her 2006 book All Your Worth, co-authored with her daughter, Amelia, Warren lists as a top myth the idea that “you can make big money buying houses and flipping them quickly.” She has made a career out of telling people how to behave in financially responsible ways, and out of creating laws that will make it illegal for them to do otherwise.

…..The home’s new owner: Elizabeth Warren, today a Massachusetts senator who has built a political career on denouncing the sort of banking titans and financial sophisticates who make a buck off the little guy. Five months after purchasing Veo Vessels’ old home, Warren flipped the property, selling it for $115,000 more than she’d paid, according to Oklahoma County Property Assessor records.

That means we’ve got to be willing to do things, for example, like regulation. By 2028, no new buildings, no new houses, without a zero carbon footprint.”

And she’s coming for your car and electricity bill, too.

“By 2030, trucks — light-duty trucks and cars, zero carbon footprint. By 2035, all production of electricity, zero carbon footprint,” Warren said.

Oh, and there was also talk of some vague idea of social justice — because schemes like this always need to be undergirded with some such vague idea-

“We also need to make environmental justice really at the heart of our climate plan,” Warren said.

Think it cannot happen here? It already has.

Inflation? This is how it is done.

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Biden Vs. Truckers

by Mustang

On 18th December 1972, Neilia Hunter-Biden pulled out of an intersection in front of a tractor-trailer driven by Curtis Dunn, traveling north on Route 7.  The broadside collision killed Neilia and her infant daughter and inflicted severe injuries on her other two children, “Hunter” and “Beau.”  It was one of those horrific American tragedies where an inattentive driver pulls out in front of another vehicle and is killed.

Mr. Dunn did nothing to cause the accident, nor was there anything he could do to avoid it.  He was not impaired while driving his rig, which was traveling at or below the posted speed limit.  Police never charged Mr. Dunn for any moving violation.

The fact that Curtis Dunn was not at fault in the accident didn’t stop Joe Biden from publicly claiming that at the time of the accident, Mr. Dunn was driving under the influence of alcohol.  It wasn’t true, of course.  Worse, though, knowing that the claim was false made Joe Biden’s assertion more than merely incorrect — it proved that Joe Biden is a liar.

But lying is what Joe Biden does for a living, and he does it with such frequency that people begin to suspect Joe of being a pathological liar.  He lies all the time … but in this case, his lie is malicious and, therefore, unforgivable.  One may certainly understand Biden’s anger at the death of his wife, even when it was her fault.  What Joe did was direct his angst at an innocent man, Curtis Dunn — and there it remains even now, long after Mr. Dunn has passed away.

Even though this tragedy happened 49 years ago, Joe Biden has never hesitated to use the incident to gain sympathy points during an election year.  That’s the kind of person Joe Biden is.  Very low class.  So then, why is this even relevant today?  It’s relevant because Biden himself continues to state that a drunk driver killed his wife.

Again, it is a malicious lie … and it is malevolent because Dunn’s family has had to endure the widespread rumors and reports propagated by Joe Biden that Curtis Dunn was drinking before the collision that Nelia Biden caused.  Biden has made this claim on more than a few occasions.  CBS News reported Biden’s lie in 2007 — and, to my knowledge, has never retracted it.

Curtis Dunn’s daughter, Pamela Hamill, has stated that her father suffered from the accident; it tormented him for years — this is the reaction to a tragedy that we might expect from a decent human being.  He didn’t cause it; he couldn’t avoid it, but he felt terrible about it for the balance of his life.  Mr. Dunn died in 1999, but that hasn’t stopped his family’s suffering, particularly since Joe Biden keeps repeating his hateful lie.  Pam Hamill argues that her father had not been drinking.

The police reports “have been lost,” but a Delaware Judge named Jerome Herlihy investigated the crash, and he states that Hamill’s claim is true: there was never any evidence or suspicion that Curtis Dunn was driving while impaired.  In 2009, a Biden spokesman announced that Joe Biden “fully accepts” the Dunn family’s word that “the rumors” were false.

Fast Forward to 2022

Okay … yet Biden keeps the rumor fresh in everyone’s mind — so we cannot claim that this is all water under the bridge.  Biden’s somewhat bizarre involvement with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Canadian “freedom convoy” demonstration may keep the incident in the present.  For some underlying reason, Joe Biden has no love for truckers of any nationality.

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Biden urged Trudeau to use his federal powers to suppress the demonstrations.  Trudeau’s heavy hand hasn’t worked so far but bless them … the statists keep trying.  Of more immediate concern to Biden and his fascist cabinet heads, if American truckers get involved, it might interfere with the (gasp) Super Bowl and Biden’s State of the Union Speech … God forbid.

According to USA Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has received “reports” of truck drivers planning to potentially block roads in major metropolitan cities in the United States in protest of, among other things, vaccine mandates for truck drivers.  DHS recently put out a bulletin to its “local law enforcement partners.”  Notice the over-use of the words potentially and possibly.

The DHS notification continues, “While there are currently no indications of planned violence if hundreds of trucks converge in a major metropolitan city, the potential exists to severely disrupt transportation, federal government operations, commercial facilities, and emergency services through gridlock and potential counterprotests.”

What makes this an international issue is that Canada has decided to block commerce by refusing admission to Canada any truck driver who cannot prove that they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19.  The irritation exists equally among Canadian and American truck drivers.

Last month, the DHS began requiring all non-U.S. individuals seeking to enter the United States at Canadian and Mexican borders to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 — and provide proof of vaccinations, as well.  [Okay — except for several hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens flooding across the U.S. southern border who are NOT required to have any vaccinations whatsoever.]

I’m also not making this up:  “Citing unspecified law enforcement sources, the DHS memo warned that the protest group intends to start in California, including Los Angeles, where, it said, Super Bowl LVI and accompanying events ‘are expected to draw approximately 70,000 attendees to the game and millions of people to the Los Angeles area’.”  [To clarify, that would be 70,000 attendees and millions of people who may or may not be appropriately inoculated for COVID-19.]

Is any of this making sense to anyone yet?  Me either.  But DHS is worried that those damn Canadian truckers may join up with the American truckers to block off Washington, D.C., and interfere with the U.S. President’s State of the Union speech on1 March 2022.  So far, DHS has not detected any “domestic violent extremists” calling for violence related to the event, and no one (so far) is trying to EXPLOIT their first amendment rights.

Question: how does one exploit their rights?

As expressed to Justin Trudeau, Joe Biden’s concern is that Canadian protests are blocking commerce between the U.S. and Canada.  Didn’t Trudeau do that when he blocked American truckers from entering Canada?  Didn’t Biden do that when DHS blocked Canadian and Mexican truckers from entering the U.S. without vaccinations?

Final Question: Are we living in an alternate universe where only weirdness seems rational?

Mustang also blogs at Fix Bayonets and Thoughts From Afar

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